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TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL. 83

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

COVER

Habitat for Humanity begins on campus

Lettuce eat vegan in Tampa

BY JENNA MANTO PAGE 3

OPINION

New student creates recycling app for Amazon Alexa

BY SARA CASARETO PAGE 4

Faculty senate opposes travel ban

BY ARDEN IGLEHEART PAGE 4

Student victim of car accident advocates for safe driving

BY NINA QUIGLEY PAGE 5

Music-themed Greek Week raises $9,560 for Relay for Life

BY LIZ MACLEAN PAGE 6-7

A+E Spartan’s ready for Spring Break

BY VERONICA SANSUR & JESSICA CAVALIERE PAGE 8

Gasparilla Music Festival returns for rockin’ Spring Break

BY ANDREW FOERCH PAGE 9

Movie remakes, franchise installments of 2017

BY JACOB TRASK PAGE 10

Three Tampa chefs nominated for James Beard Award

BY MEGAN MYERS PAGE 14-15

Murder in the family: Kim Jong Un’s thirst for power

BY INDIRA MOOSAI PAGE 17

Milo Yiannopoulos: The real Donald Trump Jr.

BY MADHURA NADARAJAH PAGE 18-19

Pipeline Projects: Trump’s environmental neglects

BY BILL DELEHUNT PAGE 20

SPORTS Spartan basketball shines on Senior Night

BY ELENA DE ALFREDO & MAURICIO TARASCHI PAGE 22-23

The winners, losers of trade deadline

BY FRANK CALO PAGE 24-25

Spartans softball extends winning streak to five

BY DEVON CONWAY PAGE 26

Kew wins lax SSC Player of the Week

BY KIMBERLY CONROY PAGE 27

BY NEVA WARREN PAGE 11

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Habitat for Humanity begins on campus Jenna Manto Contributing Writer jenna.manto@spartans.ut.edu

At Habitat for Humanity’s first meeting as a new campus chapter, Vice President Pierre Valverde, a sophomore prelaw political science major, did not expect a big turnout, so he rented a small room on campus. They ended up with such a large turnout that people were sitting on the floor and standing wall to wall, cramped in the small room.

President Patryk Klimek, a junior pre-dental biology major, and Valverde co-founded the seventh Habitat chapter in Florida at UT. Habitat for Humanity, also known as Habitat, is an international organization that helps build houses for those in need. For Klimek, working with the nonprofit is nothing new. He worked with Habitat for five years before coming to UT. While the process of applications and approvals to move forward began in the Fall, the chapter was not officially chartered until this semester.

The chapter’s four main goals are fundraising, recruitment, service and education.

In terms of education and advocacy, the chapter works toward educating people about Habitat and what they do.

Many people approach UT’s Habitat chapter without an understanding of how it works, according to Klimek. It’s not a free house that people are receiving; they must help build the house in order to receive it.

The chapter’s main goal for this semester is to recruit more members so they can do more service work over the summer and during the fall semester. They currently have about 25 to 30 members.

To be an active member, the chapter expects members to complete around four to five hours of service a month. By attending meetings or contacting Klimek, members can find out what service opportunities are available.

“The chapter is for people who really want to direct their service to habitat,” Klimek said.

To become an official general member, one must pay $20 dues each semester for which they will receive a t-shirt; the rest is donated to Habitat for Humanity. Meetings are held every other Monday at 8 p.m. in Vaughn, either room 212 or 219, for general members. The executive board meets every Sunday at 8 p.m. If members cannot attend the general meetings, they are welcome to attend the executive board meetings. The next general member meeting will be the

Photo by Sideya Dill The Minaret HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: Pierre Valverde, left, and Patryk Klimek, right, are the vice president and president of Habitat for Humanity, a new club that builds houses for low-income families.

Monday following spring break, March 13.

UT’s Habitat chapter also works with the Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County, with Volunteer Services Manager Victoria Richards. She works as an extension between UT and Habitat for Humanity, helping to establish their chapter status and coordinate members’ schedules for build days where students can build houses on site.

“Members of our campus chapters are vital volunteers for Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County,” Richards said. “The effort that we get during those build days and the experience that they get with forming relationships with our staff, and having that extension there from the University of Tampa toward the Habitat affiliate, it really does form lifelong commitments to community service.”

For two weekends in a row, on Feb. 11 and 18, the UT chapter helped build two houses, one in West Tampa and one in Gibsonton, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. About 8 to 10 members volunteered those two weekends helping with the building process doing interior work such as installing cabinets, cleaning, and working on framing.

Richards mentioned that in a fiscal year Habitat for Humanity builds about 12 homes, and about three at one

time, each in different stages of being completed.

While any organization on campus could directly volunteer with Hillsborough County’s Habitat for Humanity in the past, they should now contact UT’s Habitat chapter first to be able to volunteer. Richards stated that while organizations can still contact her directly, it is more efficient to go through UT’s chapter as they will be given priority status for a volunteer opportunity.

In the next year or two, Habitat hopes to get a sponsorship, which would enable another Habitat chapter, preferably from out of state, to come help UT build houses in Hillsborough County, and UT’s members would travel to help the other Habitat chapter build houses in their county.

The chapter will also be searching for passionate leaders to take over once Klimek and Valverde graduate.

“One of our big goals is to make sure that when we leave that there is somebody that would take over this kind of group because we want this to continue where in 50 years people are still doing this,” Klimek said.

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On Feb. 20 at 9:10 a.m., a boot was placed on a freshman’s vehicle after he didn’t comply with parking policies.

On Feb. 23 at an unknown time, a student riding a bicycle struck a golf cart.

On Feb. 24 at 3:00 a.m., an intoxicated student entered another student’s room, urinated on the floor, and took one of the student’s keys without permission.

On Feb. 26, Campus Safety responded to the report of an injured student at the basketball courts. The student had left by the time they arrived.

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UT student creates recycling app for Amazon Alexa Sara Casareto Contributing Writer sara.casareto@spartans.ut.edu

Living in a digital era, there are apps for everything, from managing your taxes, watching movies, meeting up with that special someone or sharing your adventures with online friends. Now, UT student Connor Zazzo, a senior communication and advertising and public relations major, has developed a skill (an app that is used with the Amazon Echo device) called Tampa Green Can, which helps users to properly dispose of recyclables. This app enables Tampa residents to communicate with an Amazon Echo device from their phone.

“I usually try to base my class projects here at UT around the theme of recycling,” Zazzo said. “So I thought it would be useful and exciting to have an app on a new device with an upcoming market that can help those who want to recycle on campus and in Tampa, but just don’t know how.”

The app is designed to work with Amazon Echo, a “smart” speaker that syncs with a smartphone and then accepts a variety of commands, so a user can ask the Echo device any recycling questions. There will be a variety of materials to ask about, and the Echo device will then tell the user where each item can be properly disposed. If an item cannot be disposed of at home, the device, using the app downloaded onto the phone, will provide the nearby locations and directions on how to get there. Amazon Echo’s popularity has been growing drastically the past two

years, according to Business Insider. The projected sales of the Amazon Echo device for 2016 was about 5.2 million worldwide.

“Connor has used his time in the class to research recycling policies and facilities in the area, research the kinds of questions people typically ask about recycling and to program the Alexa skill,” said Stephanie Tripp, the chair of the department of communication. “Connor is interested in encouraging people to recycle, but he noticed as a UT student living off campus that it can be tough to figure out all of the city’s recycling rules.”

Zazzo is creating this current app in his course, COM 475: Seminar. He began working and producing apps with Amazon Echo in the summer of 2016 while interning as a digital producer with J. Walter Thompson, an advertising company in New York City.

“This skill could absolutely be beneficial to students at the University of Tampa,” said Conrad Polys, a senior criminology major and Zazzo’s sound board for the project.

“Having an easy to use means for finding the nearest applicable recycling service would eliminate the excuse of not knowing how or where to discard recyclables.

Eliminating ignorance is always a step in the right direction when it comes to modern issues, and ‘Tampa Green Can’ certainly fills the role.”

Zazzo’s goal for this app is to make it easier for Tampa residents to recycle materials more effectively. Zazzo plans on having the app released and accessible on the Amazon Alexa Skill Marketplace by March 13.

“I would like to let everyone to know if they use this Alexa skill to please let me know what they like or dislike about it in a review on the marketplace,” Zazzo said. “The

Photo by Julia Albini/The Minaret REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE: Connor Zazzo created a skill for Amazon Alexa that enables it to tell users where they can recycle a variety of items.

more feedback I get, the better the skill will become and the easier it will be to recycle any waste.”

Faculty Senate Opposes Travel Ban Arden Igleheart News Editor arden.igleheart@spartans.ut.edu The faculty senate voted to oppose the travel ban on Feb. 24, with a motion that condemns the travel ban as against the values of higher education. The faculty senate is a body of professors from each college and employees in the library elected to represent the faculty to the administration of UT. The vote was passed with 64 percent of senators in favor, 27 percent opposed, and 9 percent abstaining.

Emilio Toro, associate professor of mathematics and faculty senator, proposed this motion as he believes the travel ban could prevent students or professors from coming to UT. “The university advocates that they have students from near 100 countries, and they also have faculty from a huge number of countries working here,” Toro said. “So, potentially it could affect the students that come here to visit, the faculty that come here to teach, or the students that come here to study.”

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Toro doubts that the passing of the motion will affect any policies UT will put in place, but said that it has symbolic importance to show that the faculty supports the free exchange of ideas, and recognizes that the travel ban is detrimental to that.

The motion reads in full, “The majority of the Faculty Senate of the University of Tampa rejects and opposes the recent travel restrictions imposed by the White House under executive order as being injurious to the free exchange of ideas and detrimental to the aims of higher education.

Furthermore, we resolve that this motion of the Senate be provided to The Minaret and the Office of Public Information for dissemination to the community at large.”

Arlene Acord, assistant professor of business law, voted against the motion. She supports the motion’s intent, but said she believes that the faculty senate cannot speak for the faculty on a political issue. Acord said that the wording of the motion is partisan and that a motion that doesn’t mention the travel ban, but instead says that the university values a diverse student body, would be better.

“I feel we could have issued a much more appropriate and

positive message, accomplishing the same purpose but in a much more dignified way,” Acord said.

Toro, however, does not believe the motion is partisan, and said that the faculty senate is taking a stand specifically against the travel ban because it could directly affect UT. “The senate is simply endorsing the free exchange of ideas. The political decision was made in Washington. This has nothing to do with a political decision. It’s just, for the university, this type of decision may not be good. It’s not a political statement in any way.”

Ziyad Ashukri, a graduate finance student, supports the motion. He is from Libya, and believes that the ban is against American values of being open to immigrants.

“Such a ban hit one of the core American values very bad,” Ashukri said. “Not only me but everybody who has empathy should be disappointed.”

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Photo by Hannah Hughes/The Minaret STRIKING BACK : Emily Ennis was hit by a driver who ran a red light on the corner of West Kennedy Boulevard and North Boulevard last spring. She was able to return to UT after taking a semester off, having to deal with PTSD, shock, surgery, and mononucleosis (mono).

Student victim of car accident advocates for safe driving Nina Quigley Contributing Writer nina.quigley@spartans.ut.edu

The life of UT student Emily Ennis, a sophomore international business management major, was almost taken on the corner of West Kennedy and North Boulevard in April 2016. Ennis, on her way to pick up milk at the Metro Market, was patiently awaiting for the cross signal when a vehicle struck her.

Two drivers were involved in this accident. They both ran red lights and collided, which redirected one of the vehicles towards Ennis. The vehicle that struck her was traveling at 50 miles per hour before crashing into the oncoming vehicle, who was turning left onto North Boulevard from West Kennedy. The impact of the vehicle left her on the concrete ground unresponsive, with a bone in her left arm protruding out of her skin, and road rash on the left side of her body.

“I remember waking up, because initially I had blacked out when I saw the cars coming towards me,” Ennis said.

“My arm was completely shattered. I could see the bones sticking out of my left arm, and all the flesh, it was very unnerving for me.” ]This was the aftermath of distracted driving.

“When thinking of distracted driving I automatically think of texting and driving,” Jaylen Bean, senior math major at UT, said.

One of the most common examples of distracted driving includes the use of smartphones, but other methods involve playing with the radio or climate control, consuming food and beverages, window gazing, and focusing on others in the car. “‘I should be dead; why am I here?’ That’s all I was able to say,” Ennis said. Ennis survived, but the process of recovery was a long journey that took the rest of the spring 2016 semester into summer, during which she took a leave of absence from UT. She was able to return for the fall semester after dealing with shock, surgery, PTSD and mononucleosis (mono).

Today, Ennis hopes to impact the future of distracted driving by sharing her story along with the consequences of this action. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the largest group of offenders for distracted driving involve young, less experienced drivers.

Ennis’s goal is to educate and make the student body aware of this ongoing issue, because it involves and impacts college students. She has begun this education process early this February at a Live Well UT meeting by presenting her story along with introducing statistics on distracted driving

from distracted.gov and the US census.

“This topic correlates with Live Well UT, because it’s overall wellness and open dialogue between students about things that could affect their wellness or health status,” said Carlina Adame, area coordinator for Watch Your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). Adame explained that while Watch Your BAC focuses on distracted driving in terms of drinking and driving, Ennis is focusing on other forms of distracted driving, such as texting while driving.

“I was asked to speak to first year experience classes by someone at the Live Well UT meeting, so I’m going to be doing that next month. I also want to work with Live Well UT to begin speaking to all Greek Life organizations as well,” Ennis said.

Through use of communication Ennis’s future plans are to present her story on distracted driving, by giving statistics along with the consequences, and bringing forth methods of prevention.

“I think the best part about first year experience classes is that they’re supposed to be educating on experience not just a text book level class,” Adame said. “It’s more about what do you really need to know in life aside from your career and how to benefit from life itself in college.”

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Music-themed Greek Week raises $9,560 for Relay for Life

Photo by Kate Beeken/The Minaret YOU ROCK: Team Rock performs numbers such as “I Love Rock and Roll” on Feb. 25 for the Greek Variety show. Groups of fraternities and sororities formed teams, each representing a musical genre for Greek Week.

Liz MacLean News Editor liz.maclean@theminaretonline.com Greek Week is a battle of the Greek letters, but it’s also a time when fraternities and sororities work together to raise money for Relay for Life. During this competitive season, Greek organizations are divided into seven teams and must earn points in various challenges for the coveted trophy and title of Greek Week Winner.

“The main focus of Greek Week is to raise money for Relay For Life and to donate items to area resource centers such as the Tampa Bay Crisis Center,” said Ryne Burds, the coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Life. “It also creates a friendly and healthy competition for the chapters.”

This year, the theme for Greek Week was MTV music genres and was held from Feb. 19-25. Each team was made up of three or four different Greek organizations and had a music genre, such as jazz, country or pop. The first event asked Greek organizations to attend the UT baseball game and answer trivia questions about music and baseball. The second event was Don’t Forget The Lyrics, where contestants had to sing the lyrics perfectly to songs like Hallelujah by

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Rufus Wainwright and Crazy in Love by Beyonce.

“I think it was a fun beginning for the whole week; everyone was laughing,” said Amanda McAneney, junior marketing major and co-captain of Sigma Kappa’s team.

McAneney was excited to participate in Greek Week for the first time, as this is Sigma Kappa’s first year on UT’s campus.

Team Alternative won first place with 40 out of 50 points for correctly reciting the lyrics.

“I love going to all the events and meeting new people and getting close with the other fraternities and sororities and campus, as well as your own,” said Ana Santana, sophomore advertising and public relations major and member of Sigma Delta Tau. “Participating in new things I haven’t done before is something I look forward to.”

On Feb. 21, a fashion show was held in Reeves Theater, during which the different teams displayed outfits of Greek letters, formal wear and music genre attire. Contestants then had to answer questions about Greek life. The fashion show raised money for the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, which provides sexual assault victims with clothes and shoes.

“We give victims forensic exams and tell them what their rights are,” said Sascha Cherry, a victim advocate from the Crisis Center. “We can help walk them through the legal process of sending kits to the lab, and can help them get

restraining orders.” The fashion show raised a total of $309 and 186 of donations of flip flops and deodorant for the Crisis Center.

The fourth event was Race to the Red Carpet, where team members had to use their problem-solving skills to get from one end of the Cass gym to the other, only using a tiny square scooter, a couple pieces of cardboard and a rope. They also had to complete a Wipeout-inspired obstacle course. The game got intense as teams yelled from the stands to become the fastest to complete the challenge.

“It was fun cheering on teammates, and there were a lot of strategies put in place, so it was cool to see how different people think,” said Bobby Mairone, sophomore visual arts major and member of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Team Pop won with 100 out of 105 possible points.

Although the week is full of competition, many said that they got closer to the other Greek chapters on campus.

“What I like most about Greek Week is the fun times bringing people together,” said Anthony Davis, senior marketing major and team captain for Theta Chi. “We’re all competing against each other, but we’re all at events together and making friends.”

The fifth Greek Week event was organized by Career Services and featured a presentation from representatives

NEWS from WilsonHCG, a talent acquisition solutions partner, whose headquarters is in Tampa.

Cynthia Cancio, the Vice President of Employee Engagement at WilsonHCG, explained how members of Greek Life can enhance their resumes and Linkedin profiles to appeal to employers. She gave tips like having a neutral background in a profile picture, writing a resume in first person, and taking a targeted approach to each resume so that it suits the job that one is applying for.

Friday’s Greek Week event was a chalk-drawing competition, where each team got a certain amount of chalk and a limited time to create a colorful masterpiece in Vaughn Courtyard that represented their team music genre.

Team Rock won with a total of 91 points out of 100.

The Greek Week finale consisted of the Greek Variety Show, which was held on Feb. 25 and involved each team performing numerous songs and dances relating to their MTV theme. Team Pop came in first place with a score of 200 out of 200 possible points. The overall Greek Week winner was Team Country, which included Sigma Kappa, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Greek Week concluded with a revealing of how much money was raised for Relay for Life, which came to a grand total of $9,560.69.

“I am very proud of all of the hard work the students put in to make it successful this year,” Ryne said. “We are going to continue to build on this success to make Greek Week 2018 even better.”

Photos by Liz MacLean/ The Minaret CHALK ON: Top, Tam Rock works on their cesign for the chalk drawing competition at Greek Week. Bottom, the team waits for the judges to grade their chalk artwork in Vaughn Courtyard after drawing for more than three hours. They won first place in the competition on Feb. 24.

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Spartans ready for Spring Break

Photo by Regina Gonzalez/The Minaret VACATION TIME: Although we go to school where many spring break, it doesn’t stop UT students from venturing to other destinations. Popular travel choices this year include cruises, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and even going home to see the family.

Veronica Sansur & Jessica Cavaliere Contributing Writers mvsansurzapata@spartans.ut.edu jesssica.cavaliere@spartans.ut.edu

An entire week of relaxing, forgetting about homework and zero stress is almost here. While some students plan to spend spring break with friends, traveling to a destination, others plan to be more calm and go home to visit family.

Daniel Triana, a sophomore international business major, said he is going on a spiritual, but adventurous journey to Spain along the St. James route.

“This route is also a Patrimony of Humanity that travelers from all over the world walk from different points in France, Portugal and Spain to reach Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where the relics of the apostle Santiago are venerated,” Triana said.

Triana said that he has done this trip in the past in 20 days and walked a total of 383 miles starting in Lisbon, Portugal. He wants to repeat the experience but make it

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shorter this spring break, starting from Northwestern Spain with his cousins.

“We plan to walk 64 miles in six or seven days, it is going to be so special, a connection with nature, God and yourself,” Triana said. “We are going to start in a place call Siarra, a route that has the minimum miles required to get ‘La Compostela,’ a certificate from the church to any pilgrim who has made the Way of St. James for spiritual reasons.”

Paola Duarte, a sophomore international studies major, said she is going to travel on her own to the big apple to study by herself and develop a personal project.

“My passion is photography, so I plan to capture the other side of New York City, people always only pay attention to Manhattan or Times Square, but little do they know about the beauty of the secret places,” Duarte said. “There are amazing places that tourists commonly don’t go, like the Eagle Street rooftop farm, or the community gardens, which are the true gardens of New Yorkers.”

Other Spartans are planning to spend their spring break with sun, sand and the beautiful ocean.

“I am going to Hawaii with my sister, we plan to go hiking and relax in the beautiful beaches,” said Shay Donaldson, sophomore history major.

Some students remember the fun they had last spring break and wish to repeat the experience this year. Victoria

Brown is a film & video major. She went on the Holy Ship! Cruise last year. Brown said that she met celebrities like Brody Jenner and Lil’ Dicky as well as other DJs, The Chainsmokers being her favorite.

“I also met a lot of people from around the world, I would most definitely suggest the cruise to people interested in EDM,” Brown said. “It was an incredible and stress free experience.”

Other Spartans preferred to spend their time working with social issues rather than vacationing. Twenty students are going to the Alternative Break program, organized by the PEACE volunteer center.

Jessie Beckett, a senior psychology major and PEACE co-director, said that this year there are going to be two alternative breaks happening simultaneously. One is in Cleveland, Ohio, working with community engagement, and the other in Knoxville, Tennessee with the social issue of housing development.

“That means that we are going to visit nonprofits agencies all over Cleveland and working with different social issues to better understand the Cleveland area, community, history and culture,” Beckett said “With Knoxville, we are going to work with individuals who cannot afford to fix their houses, because of any disability the may have.”

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Gasparilla Music Festival returns for rockin’ Spring Break

Photos courtesy of Gasparilla Music Festival/ Facebook JAM OUT: The Gasparilla Music Festival is the perfect opportunity to let loose and dance around to some of the great hits local artists have to offer. For those that may not want to dish out the money on tickets, volunteer opportunties are being offered in exchange for admission.

Andrew Foerch Opinion Editor andrew.foerch@theminaretonline.com On March 11 and 12, Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park will play host to 40 diverse bands and performers at Tampa’s sixth annual Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF). Students staying local for spring break next week will have the opportunity to catch headliners Cage the Elephant, Ryan Adams and Ghostface Killah, among others, right across the Hillsborough River.

Organized since 2012 by community nonprofit group Gasparilla Music Foundation, the festival aims to promote Tampa’s local, organic arts efforts and to bring the community together through music performance.

The Foundation has tapped young, independent talent from the Tampa Bay area that contributors feel deserve recognition for their craft. The festival’s four riverside stages will represent a wide range of genres; emerging indie reggae-rockers Parrotfish might play a set next to St. Petersburg’s Mt. Zion Gospel Choir (the official set schedule has yet to be released).

In addition to supporting local music, the festival is a major proponent of local cuisine and typically brings

neighborhood eateries and foodie-favorite food trucks to serve concertgoers their zaniest, most adventurous recipes.

The diversity of the cuisine matches that of the music; this year’s vendors haven’t been announced publicly, but dishes like gator sausage sandwiches, gourmet popsicles and chicken and waffle cones have been huge hits in years past.

GMF’s first-ever exclusive beer sponsor, Tampa’s own Cigar City Brewing, is supporting the event with a “Gasparilla Music Festival Pilsner.” The brand new Germanstyle brew was created specifically for the occasion and will be available for purchase on location during the festival.

GMF is offering both single-day and full weekend passes; Saturday tickets are $40, Sunday tickets are $30 and two-day general admission passes are $60. Though they aren’t sold out quite yet, tickets are vanishing quickly, according to the Foundation’s twitter page.

Volunteer options are available for those who might not be able to shell out the extra cash for tickets. Volunteers can spend one four-hour shift on either March 9 or 10 (the Thursday and Friday before festival weekend) helping to set up stages and vendor booths. In return, they’ll receive a single-day admission ticket free of charge.

Since it’s a non-profit, the Foundation doesn’t keep the festival’s ticket sales for itself. Instead, the event’s earnings will finance the group’s independent music education and support programs throughout the year. For example,

a monthly initiative called “Streetcar Live” sees different bands perform on historic Tampa trolleys. A “Recycled Tunes” program provides public schools in the area with new and refurbished instruments – people can exchange a used instrument for a free ticket to next weekend’s festival.

In a recent interview with Pledge Music, executive director of Gasparilla Music Foundation David Cox said, “It will take more than a year or two, but our goal would be for us to have a big hand in ensuring that every kid in the Tampa Bay area that needs a musical instrument has access to it.”

This year’s festivities will include a number of wellness events as well, including a yoga and meditation station hosted by Dubb Tenn Yoga and a stationary bike ride called “Ride the Park,” endorsed by SOHO Cycles.

For more information on the 2017 Gasparilla Music Festival, visit https://gasparillamusic. com.

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Movie remakes, franchise installments of 2017 Jacob Trask Contributing Writer jacob.trask@spartans.ut.edu Each year, the film industry thrives on remakes of classic films and the continuation of franchises in the form of summer blockbusters. This often means summers full of superhero epics, odes to late 20th Century pop culture, and late installments of Pixar movies that sop up all the revenue in Hollywood. Last year, classic films such as Ghostbusters, Independence Day and Ben Hur were all remade. The top two grossing films of the year, Captain America: Civil War and Finding Dory were a franchise installment and a sequel. Other notable remakes and installments included The Jungle Book, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and Star Wars: Rogue One. Hollywood relies heavily on these kinds of films to bring returning audiences to the theater. Many people often aren’t open to seeing a movie they know nothing about, so they will settle for something that they are relatively familiar with. Production companies have recognized this pattern and have been taking full advantage of it.

This year will be full of remakes and installments. It seems that every month will bring new titles that we’ve seen in the past. Upcoming superhero movies include the highly anticipated Logan (X-Men), Guardians of The Galaxy 2 and Marvel’s third attempt at the classic webslinger, Spider-Man: Homecoming. The summer will also bring us new additions to classic franchises. World War Z 2, Transformers: The Last Knight and Cars 3 will all be released in June. We will also see remakes of some classic movies such as Alien, The Mummy and It. Some remakes and installments are generating talk around Hollywood, and could prove to some of the best films of the year. Here are a few that are expected to turn heads in 2017.

favorite English actresses. She’s the perfect actress to play Belle, considering her relevance with the generation who fell in love the the cartoon classic.

The film is set to release on Mar 17. Early tracking predicts it will make $100 million in its opening weekend, and some publications predict it will make as much as $120 million.

War for the Planet of the Apes

This year, we will see the third installment of the Planet of The Apes series. After it began development in 2005, the reboot series finally began with its release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes in 2011. The film received positive reviews and served as a promising first movie for the new series. Three years later, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was released. Its extreme action and realistic feeling combat between ape and man left fans wanting more, and with a cliffhanger that suggested even more battle, fans should be incredibly excited about the third film.

With director Mark Reeves and screenwriter Mark Bomback returning, we will likely see much of what we saw in the previous film. In this chapter, we could see the fall of the ape race, as our hero Caesar will take on the Human forces for what seems to a battle with high stakes. “I did not start this war. I offered you peace. I showed you mercy. But now you are here to finish us off for good,” Caesar’s voice is heard saying in the movie’s official trailer.

“The trailer looks pretty intense. Looks like there’s gonna be some serious warfare going on,” said junior marketing major Ross Dressler. “It’s a good series. They’re definitely different than the old ones. I like what they’ve done with it.”

Andy Serkis will be returning in his role as Caesar, and he will be accompanied by a strong antagonist in Woody Harrelson, who plays an angry military officer who is out with a vengeance to kill the apes. The film will be released on Jul 14, and could be one of the highest grossing films of the summer.

Blade Runner 2049 After 16 years of development, the sequel for the 1982 classic Blade Runner was finally confirmed in February 2015. It will be released in the fall, giving it one the largest gaps between sequels in film history. Arrival director Denis Villeneuve was hired to direct the film and the original writer, Hampton Fancher, was hired to write the screenplay. The film will be titled Blade Runner 2049. It will take place in Los Angeles and is aiming for an R-rating.

Harrison Ford will be returning in his role of Rick Deckard, and Ryan Gosling will co-star. The supporting cast is full of well established actors including Ana De Armas, Robin Wright, Lennie James, Barkhad Abdi and Jared Leto.

A trailer for the movie was released in December. In the trailer, it is clearly established that Ryan Gosling’s character has taken Ford’s place as the protagonist cop, and could be mentored by Ford’s character. The trailer is dark and mysterious much like Villeneuve’s previous work. Arrival is currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and this will be his first film since. Fans of the original should be extremely excited about his partnership with the original writer to continue the story. The film will appeal to just about everyone, from generation x to millennials.

“It’s gonna be a nostalgia trip for hardcore fans. Jared Leto, Harrison Ford, and Ryan Gosling in one movie. It’s gonna be sick,” said senior advertising and public relations major Tyler Okkonen.

Among other remakes and franchise installments coming in 2017 are Kong: Skull Island, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and Friday the 13th. Like most years, movies like these will prove to be the meat of the market come summertime, when school is out and movie theaters across the country are packed. But this year, they are looking quite promising. All three of the films listed above could be Oscar contenders in the beginning of 2018, which only says good things about how this year could play out in Hollywood.

Beauty and the Beast During the summer of 2014, Walt Disney Pictures began developing the plans for a live-action version of The Beauty and The Beast. Bill Condon would be directing the films and Stephen Chbosky, the author of “The Perks of Being A Wallflower,” would write the screenplay. Early the next year, Emma Watson announced that she would be playing the role of Belle, garnering a large buzz around the movie. Two years later, this film is soon to be released and is one of the most anticipated films of 2017.

Although we will be seeing real faces on the screen, the film will be quite like the original, but will also have elements from the Broadway production. Although Condon planned on only drawing inspiration from the original film, he also included most of the songs from the Broadway side, with the intention of making the film a straight-forward, live-action, large budget movie musical.

The film has a talented secondary cast, made up mostly of English actors including Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Ewan McGregor and Ian McKellan. Other popular actors such as Stanley Tucci and Josh Gad are also in the film. Watson will definitely bring viewers to the theater. Since her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter series, she’s been one of America’s

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Photos Courtesy of War for the Planet of the Apes/ Flickr REMAKES: War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter, will release this July. Along with the apes, some favorite classics have a more modern spunk for 2017.

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Three Tampa Chefs Nominated for James Beard Award Neva Warren Contributing Writer neva.warren@spartans.ut.edu Three chefs in the Tampa Bay area are nominated for a nationally competitive award in the restaurant industry: the James Beard Award. Richard Gonzmart, Ferrell Alvarez, and Christopher Ponte have all been nominated for the award that is often called “The Oscars of Food”.

The three chefs nominated are Richard Gonzmart of the Columbia restaurant group, Ferrell Alvarez of the Rooster and The Till restaurant and Chris Ponte of Ponte Cafe.

Gonzmart was nominated this year for the “Outstanding Restaurateur” category; he owns and operates several restaurants in the Tampa Bay area, including the Columbia restaurant, Ulele and Goody Goody Burger.

Alvarez and Ponte were both nominated for the award category “Best Chef: South.” Alvarez opened the restaurant Rooster & The Till with chef Ty Rodriguez in 2013. Their menu is constantly changing with wild and varying dishes that are hard to fit into one category.

Ponte founded his namesake restaurant Ponte Cafe in 2002, and recently opened a new restaurant called On Swann with his wife, Michelle Ponte. Cafe Ponte is fine dining on Ulmerton Avenue, but prices don’t exceed fifty dollars a plate.

The James Beard Awards, established in 1990 and distributed by the James Beard Foundation, are voted on by more than 600 culinary professionals each year. Nominees are selected from distinguished chefs and restaurants from across the United States. The winners will be released on May 1st.

All of the chefs are happy that so many restaurants from the bay area getting recognized.

“Chris Ponte is a legend, if you will, in terms of being a chef in our area,” Alvarez said. “Richard is a legend in Tampa for what he does for the city as well as the restaurants he’s operated, so to be mentioned in his company is a true honor for somebody that’s in my shoes.”

Their reactions to being nominated ranged from surprise to pride for their team.

Alvarez said that he was initially surprised by the news that he had been nominated, but was very happy and excited by the opportunity to win.

This is the second time Gonzmart has been nominated for the Outstanding Restaurateur category, his first time being in 2012. Still, he is grateful for the nomination.

“Truly humbled,” Gonzmart said. “The efforts of our entire team were recognized, as a restauranteur that doesn’t happen by itself.”

Ponte could not be reached for comment.

Gonzmart told a story of how when he was a young child, he walked into the freezer at the Columbia Restaurant and saw a frozen fish and was scared by it. That was what prompted his grandfather teach him how to cook, to recognize fresh fish and how to cook them. This led to his passion for cooking.

“My earliest memories were on friday evenings when we went to the Columbia,” Gonzmart said.

Alvarez wasn’t in the restaurant family business, but was

Photo by Regina Gonzalez/Minaret The Casa Columbia Restaurant, owned and operated by Richard Gonzmart is known for bringing authentic, savory Columbian flavor to Ybor City. The place is a hot spot for parties, but Gozmart feels closest to tables that are there for the loss of loved ones.

working for one when he realized he wanted to become a chef.

“I come from a family that always cooks,” Alvarez said. “Half colombian, half Italian, food has always been a prominent thing for our family, to come around and sit around the table when I was a kid.”

He was discovered by a restaurant owner washing dishes as a teen, and “never looked back”.

Three nominees from Tampa is extraordinary, and each chef has an idea of why the Bay area is getting so much recognition.

Alvarez said that Tampa is in a growth spurt right now, and that’s supported by economic data. Leisure and hospitality employment is up 1.7 percent in December of 2016.

“Whatever you think that you’d dislike the most is what I want you to order,” Alvarez said. “Because we like to push people outside of their box and expose people to new things, we change the menu very often.”

The restaurants range greatly in style and theme. While Gonzmart likes to keep the family tradition, Alvarez is all about experimentation, and Cafe Ponte serves up cuisine with French, Asian, and Italian influences.

“We don’t do safety dishes, you’re never going to find a steak or a chicken breast in my restaurant,” Alvarez said. “We push the envelope more than that.”

On the other hand, Gonzmart said he likes simple and

classic food. Ponte just likes playing around with contemporary American cuisine.

All of them are grateful and happy just to be nominated.

They all reflected on why they believe their restaurant was selected.

“I think it’s my time, I’ve been working for 23 years full time plus plus,” Alvarez said. “I cut no corners, I give 120 percent 100 percent of the time. I wouldn’t say it’s luck because I don’t believe in luck; it’s based on skill and your output.”

Alvarez was humble in the face of nomination, and appreciated the fact that 19 other restaurants had been nominated for his same category. In a dog-eat-dog world like hospitality, Alavarez’s modesty was refreshing. “I’d be honored to move on to the next round if that’s possible,” Alvarez said.“But the probabilities aren’t in our favor.”

Gonzmart said that the most meaningful tables he gets are ones of families coming to the Columbia to celebrate the loss of a loved one. “When they come to celebrate the life of somebody that’s passed,” Gonzmart said. “It’s a responsibility I have, I realize.”

Winners of the award will be announced online at https:// www.jamesbeard.org/awards/winners, but in the meantime you can judge for yourself who should win by visiting the restaurants in question! Cafe Ponte, from nominee Chris Ponte,

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BEING VEGAN IN TAMPA Photo by Bianca Lopez/The Minaret KEEPIN’ IT FRESH: (Left to right) Freshmen Linzy Canyock, Josh Franklin and Hope Renner enjoy their dinners at Fresh Kitchen. With their assembly line-style serving, Fresh Kitchen offers dairy and meat-free foods like sweet potato noodles and kale slaw perfect for vegans, those with allergies, and the health-conscience.

Megan Myers Contributing Writer megan.myers@spartans.ut.edu Finding somewhere to eat while having food limitations can be tough. Luckily for Tampa residents, the city is filled with food locations that have a lot to offer for those who are vegan or have food allergies.

These four food shops will not be a let down for those in search of an indulging yet healthy vegan meal free of additives and unnatural ingredients.

SOHO JUICE 500 S Howard Ave There’s nothing like a cold pressed juice to kick your immune system into shape. The juice shop offers freshly made juices, immunity shots, acai bowls and vegan snacks.

“Soho Juice has quickly become one of my favorite places to eat”, said junior communications major Emma Payne, who is vegan. “Not only do they cater to my lifestyle, but

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they promise great quality products to all their customers.”

Their popular acai bowls come in plenty of variations.

They can be made with coconut water or almond milk and toppings can be adjusted. Toppings range from cocoa nibs and coconut to fresh fruit such as pineapples and bananas.

It can be difficult to find a sweet treat that is organic and vegan in a food world filled with additives.

At Soho Juice, you can find sweet treats made from all natural ingredients. Their Almond Butter Cups are made from almond oats, coconut oil, maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla, cocoa and sea salt. These tasty treats resemble a classic Reese’s candy.

If your immune system needs a boost from a long week or you are looking for a quick energizing snack, Soho Juice is open Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-7 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

INTELLIGENT GOURMET 4245 Henderson Blvd The shop offers homemade nut milks that can be flavored with ginger, chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla or cinnamon.

Breakfast and lunch options are a tasty treat at this café.

Many of the breakfast bowls and lunch entrees can be ordered regularly or as a separate vegetarian option. Raw and Vegan food has its own section on the menu. A few of the vegan specialties offered include Lentil Meatballs, Stuffed Peppers, Coconut Curry Vegetables and Cauliflower Rice.

Intelligent Gourmet does not lack mouth watering sweet vegan treats. Chocolate brownies are made from three all natural ingredients: cocoa, coconut and hemp seeds.

Intelligent Gourmet is open 9 a.m.-7 a.m. MondayFriday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The allergy and vegan friendly food shop is also available to order via Uber Eats.

FRESH KITCHEN 1350 S Howard Ave They are known for their healthy yet delicious food options. For Fresh Kitchen lovers, being vegan is no problem when it comes to choosing what to order.

“I always get double sweet potato noodles because they’re amazing”, said junior public relations major Brianna

COVER Aboyoun. “I get mushrooms, buffalo cauliflower when they have it, teriyaki tofu, and I top it off with avocado salad, beans and corn salsa, and holy kale sauce.”

Fresh Kitchen has a list of ingredients behind the food counter that go along with each of their food items. This way, if someone is unsure if a dish contains dairy, gluten, soy, or any other ingredient one is trying to avoid, workers can quickly list the customers off each and every ingredient.

Fresh Kitchen offers bases such as kale slaw, vegetable quinoa, brown rice, and sweet potato noodles. For protein, those who are vegan have the option of getting tofu or can simply add an extra base or vegetable serving in exchange.

The vegetable selection ranges from sesame green beans to roasted mushrooms. To add an extra touch of flavor on top, four of their five freshly made sauces are vegan friendly and free of dairy.

“I love [Fresh Kitchen] because they have so many dairy free options that are healthy and their employees are really helpful with letting you know what is vegan and what isn’t,” Aboyoun said.

If you want to get your daily vegetable intake in while also enjoying the food you are eating, Fresh Kitchen is open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

toppings. Artichokes, fresh garlic, sun dried tomatoes, fresh spinach, and black beans are a few of the topping choices presented.

Of course, an ice-cold beer is a wonderful addition to a hot slice of pizza. Gluten intolerance is not an issue for customers of this pizza shop.

Gluten free beer and gluten free cider are both an option to order.

Those who are vegan or lactose intolerant and have been craving pizza are in luck that this pizza shop is open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

GOURMET PIZZA COMPANY 610 S Armenia Ave, Tampa, FL 33609 You may be thinking there is no way pizza can be both dairy free and gluten free. Gourmet Pizza Co. has made the impossible possible at their pizza shop.The restaurant offers freshly made vegan pizza dough as an ordering option. Over 25 vegetable options are available that can be chosen as

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Murder in the family: Kim Jong Un’s thirst for power

Indira Moosai Contributing Writer indira.moosai@spartans.ut.edu

On Feb. 13, Kim Jong Nam, the brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, was assassinated. His execution seemed to be quick, planned, and effective. Kim died at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia after coming in contact with a highly-toxic VX nerve agent.

The attack was carried out by two women, Doan Thi Huong and Siti Aisyah, who forcefully held a cloth up to his face and mouth, according to CNN. It is suspected that this cloth was soaked in the nerve agent that killed Kim. CNN reported that he died “within 15 to 20 minutes,” according to Malaysia’s health minister, Subramaniam Sathasivam. The suspiciousness of the incident points to his brother, Kim Jong Un, given his aggressive character and the choice of weapon.

VX is considered a weapon of mass destruction, as stated by the United Nations. It paralyzes the nervous system and suffocates the victim within half an hour, either through direct contact or inhalation. VX itself is a colorless, odorless liquid, similar to the consistency of motor oil, according to NPR. It is among the rarest and deadliest chemical weapons ever created. Because of the nature of the weapon, it is questionable why Jong Nam would be put to death so cruelly and painfully. There are other discrete weapons that don’t cause nearly as much suffering. He suffered a “very painful death,” according to Subramaniam. This means whoever did this must have a cold heart, and it could even be considered a crime of expression - a crime motivated by rage or extreme emotion. However, the person must’ve been sneaky about it, as it was a planned assassination. This raises the question, why be sneaky about it? Who is this person that can hire two hitmen? Also, who exactly has access to this rare poison? Well, North Korea does.

Because of its extremely harsh nature, the Chemicals Weapons Convention bans VX, - few states even possess it.

But unlike most developed states, North Korea’s government has an active chemical weapons program, making them a very, very likely suspect in this assassination. And the person with connection to Kim Jong Nam as well as the entire state of North Korea is Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un is known for his thirst for power in North Korea. It isn’t as if his power is limited, as is that of the U.S. president. Rather, he is a dictator, wanting complete and boundless control. We can see this from the propaganda that laces the streets of North Korea and the heavy internet censorship imposed on the citizens. With this in mind, it Photo Courtesy of thierry ehrmann/Flickr makes sense that Kim Jong Un would do whatever he needs FAMILY MATTERS: Kim Jong Nam, the brother of infamous North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, was assassinated recently. The to do to maintain power.

What’s scary is that a situation similar to Kim Jong Nam’s circumstances surrounding his death are questionable and lead many to believe his own brother ordered the hit to maintain his power. death has happened in the past; this time, it was Kim Jong alive this long. Scarily, he may have somehow expected a It is clear at this point that Kim Jong Un will do anything Un’s uncle. According to The New York Times, Jang Songdrastic measure like this. According to the South China he needs to in order to stay in power. It is also questionable thaek was convicted of treason and executed; it is speculated Morning Post, he confided to friends that he “felt he was why Kim Jong Nam seemingly predicted his own death, and that he was “torn apart by ravenous dogs.” This puts a lot living on borrowed time.” how exactly he felt that way. From the looks of it, it seems into perspective, considering Kim Jong Nam was exiled So if that isn’t enough to convince the public that Kim that more relatives are going to be “mysteriously” killed. and openly didn’t agree with the current political regime of Jong Un’s power is overwhelming, I don’t know what is.

Something needs to be done to stop “mystery murders.” It North Korea. It also makes sense that Kim Jong Un would Interfering with a state’s sovereignty is wrong, but a power isn’t a mystery anymore, it’s unjust, state-sponsored killing. order his death because Kim Jong Nam was actually the hungry killing machine is also wrong. first in line to become ruler, but he didn’t want to; it may What’s disturbing is the question of why these relatives be sibling rivalry, which makes it surprising he even stayed are getting killed, and aren’t getting protection of any sort.

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Milo Yiannopoulos:

The real Donald Trump Jr. 18

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Photo Courtesy of Milo Yiannopoulos/Facebook (left) Photo Courtesy of Donald J. Trump/Facebook (right) DADDY ISSUES: Milo Yiannopoulos has gained viral attention for his inflammatory alt-right comments and unconditional support of President Donald Trump. The two political celebrities have distinctly similar social ideas and share a cult-like following from extreme right-wing America, as well as a mutual passion for Tweeting while distressed.

Madhura Nadarajah Contributing Writer madhura.nadarajah@spartans.ut.edu For many people, Donald Trump is a rare combination of conservative and celebrity. There are a handful of conservative celebrities, such as Rob Lowe and Stacy Dash, but none of them possess the actual political reach and international influence that Donald Trump commands - hence his title as the President of the United States of America. Donald Trump, unbeknownst to him, might have a new protégé in the making — Milo Yiannopoulos, who also refers to Donald Trump “daddy,” as seen in article written for Breitbart News on Trump’s birthday. British bred Milo Yiannopoulos, like Donald Trump, is a celebrity (of sorts), a Twitter troll, a wealthy conservative, a provocateur, and a vivid hate speech perpetrator. These younger Trumpsin-the-making only reveal that we still have a lot of obstacles to overcome in regard to human rights, despite the progress made throughout the past years.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a 32-year-old public speaker and former editor of Breitbart News — an alternative right wing newspaper that publishes deliberately misleading stories.

Like Trump, Yiannopoulos’ “political” career is supported by individuals who are fascinated and impressed by his blatant and casual assault of human rights. Yiannopoulos started his career in technological journalism. However, it was his public femur against gay rights that provided him with a platform to broadcast his extreme conservative support. In 2010, in a conversation with Boy George on a talk show Ten O’Clock Live, Yiannopoulos proclaimed that he opposed SoHo masses — these masses were led by a Roman Catholic

Church in England that particularly welcomed gays, lesbians, transgendered, and bisexual individuals.

The most ironic thing about Yiannopoulos, who believes homosexual rights are damaging to society, is that he himself is openly gay. In an article he wrote in Breitbart titled “I’m Soo Bored Being Gay,” Yiannopoulos stated that he chose to be gay when he was 15 and brought back a black drug dealer to his room. According to Yiannopoulos, his homosexuality is an act of rebellion against his parents.

Additionally, Yiannopoulos proclaimed that his rebellious acts are inclined to that of the slang version of coal burners.

Moreover, Yiannopoulos stated that in conjunction to rebelling against his parents, he liked being gay because he liked being oppressed by the media and by social constructs.

According to him, when he realized that being gay did not create the same distress it once had, he came to the senses that he was already part of an oppressed group — heterosexual white males.

Yiannopoulos’ outlandish comments do not stop here.

Similar to Donald Trump, Yiannopoulos is a Twitter troll. In 2015, Buzzfeed eradicated Yiannopoulos’ verified identifier from his profile following his tweet claiming he was Buzzfeed’s “social justice editor.” In 2016, Twitter suspended Yiannopoulos’ comments when he criticized the Islamic faith following the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando.

Later that year, after the release of the film Ghostbusters, Yiannopoulos made lewd comments about the one of the film’s stars, Leslie Jones. Some of the tweets Yiannopoulos made about Jones included calling her a man and illiterate.

Twitter subsequently banned Yiannopoulos from having a Twitter account. There are countless similarities between Yiannopoulos and Trump. However, while Twitter rightfully bans Yiannopoulos, it had a glitch that made 560,000

users follow Donald Trump after the 2017 inauguration, according to a statement released by Twitter.

One might assume that Yiannopoulos’ crude comments would make him a widely and intensely disliked individual.

For instance, many colleges successfully held protests to ban Yiannopoulos from speaking. However, this opposition was not universally shared. The prime example is the highly respectable publishing company Simon and Schuster, who gave Yiannopoulos a $250,000 contract to get his autobiography published. Many writers were upset over the publishing house’s decision; in fact, bestselling author Roxanne Gay (who spoke at the University of Tampa on Jan. 8, 2015) pulled her book from the company stating that she did not want her name associated with an individual like Yiannopoulos. However, after a video of Yiannopoulos surfaced in which he made pedophilic comments, Simon and Schuster dissolved the deal and distanced itself from Yiannopoulos’ name.

While Yiannopoulos’ social and political upbringing is different than that of Trump’s, they still share similar political views and growing cult-like influences. Granted, Donald Trump has a far wider influential reach than Yiannopoulos, given his presidency. Still, it is scary to think that Yiannopoulos is widely popular and that a significant portion of the public listens to his hateful judgements. The scary part is not that there are individuals like Trump and Yiannopoulos who exist in 2017, but rather that colleges invite them to speak to student bodies, and that highly respectable publishing companies will provide a platform for these peoples’ unsettling social claims.

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Pipeline projects: Trump’s environmental neglect

Bill Delehunt Contributing Writer william.delehunt@spartans.ut.edu

There has been quite a bit of talk over the last three years about the construction of oil pipelines in the United States most of the conversation have revolved around the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The proposed pipelines are unnecessarily duplicative. They will not make America more energy independent but merely increase oil companies’ profits while further endangering the environment. With the protest by local residents apparently defeated by the Trump administration, it would be helpful to take an indepth look at the issue.

The existing Keystone Pipeline begins in Alberta, Canada, and travels across Saskatchewan to Manitoba.

There, it takes a sharp turn south across North and South Dakota to a juncture in Nebraska, where it splits, with a spur going to refineries in Illinois. This entire system covers about 2,150 miles.

Another section of the pipeline continues south out of Nebraska, flowing to Kansas, Oklahoma and finally to Texas, covering about an additional 775 miles.

The Canadian company TransCanada, which owns Keystone, has proposed a new addition to the pipeline building down from the original starting point to the juncture in Nebraska. Although called XL, it may as well be known as Keystone Hypotenuse, since the proposed line would complete a right triangle. It would not significantly increase the flow of oil to refineries in Texas and Illinois, since the original end line pieces would remain in place. It would, however, greatly reduce the chance of a major oil spill in Canada while increasing the risk of a spill in the U.S. American environmentalists opposed the pipeline for exactly that reason.

Scientific American summed up the debate over the pipeline this way: Keystone XL would have no major impact positively or negatively on the US economy; it would be the most efficient method of transporting Canadian tar sand oil to the American refineries; tar sand oil is roughly 17 percent higher in greenhouse gas emissions (the ones which lead to global warming) than conventional oil or natural gas.

Because TransCanada is a foreign company, the United States Department of State had to make a recommendation to the president on whether construction of the pipeline should go forward.

Back in 2008, under oilman George W. Bush, the State Department gave Keystone the green light and construction began. An additional report came from the State Department in 2013, which was challenged by the Environmental Protection Agency. Both these reports weighed heavily in Barack Obama’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL by executive order in November 2015.

When he became president in January 2017, Donald Trump appointed longtime oilman and former CEO of ExxonMobil Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. Pruitt is perhaps best known for suing the EPA 13 times since 2011, attempting to

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Photo Courtesy of Elvert Barnes/Flickr PIPIN’ HOT: For months, protestors and environmental advocates have inhabited makeshift camps along the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. Oil pipelines are prone to major spillage, which impacts water purity and can kill vegetation.

limit the agency from regulating air and water polluters.

With these two men now overseeing the agencies which had previously ruled against the pipeline, Trump felt comfortable signing an executive order which has allowed TransCanada to once again begin construction of Keystone XL. The second pipeline, DAPL, begins in northern North Dakota. Although the shale oil field it services is only a few hundred miles from an existing portion of the Keystone pipeline in Saskatchewan, the owners of the oil field would prefer to build a new, 1200 mile pipeline. The proposed route would have it go southeast towards the terminus of the current Keystone’s pipe in Illinois. Not only does DAPL start near Keystone and end in the same location Keystone ends, but DAPL would actually cross paths with Keystone in South Dakota, going directly beneath it (DAPL will be a buried pipeline). Trump’s executive order allows government law enforcement to evict Native Americans who have been protesting from the site and allows construction to begin anew.

Why are these two pipelines so controversial? Mostly because transporting oil in pipelines is dangerous to the environment. Between 2010 and 2015, pipelines spilled over 7 million gallons of crude, including one single leak of 840,000 gallons in North Dakota in 2013, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration, part of the US Department of Transportation. In the last 20 years, there have been over 11,200 leaks, large and small, in America’s pipeline system. With less than 150 inspectors covering 2.5 million miles of pipeline, future spills are guaranteed.

Many, if not most of these pipelines move along river and stream beds, as that is the easiest terrain to follow. An oil spill will immediately contaminate the local aquifer, making the drinking water completely non-potable.

When that happens, you’ll know who to thank.

SPORTS

Osbourne powers way to SSC Player of the Week

Vincent Perstad Contributing Writer vincent.perstad@spartans.ut.edu From a Canadian-grown hockey player to UT baseball catcher, Jason D. Osbourne has been impressive as he clinched SSC Player of the Week for Feb. 13-19.

“I played hockey in the winter seasons up in Canada and then played baseball in the summer-time,” Osbourne said.

“When I got selected to play for the junior national team around the age of 17, I realized that I had a chance to play at a collegiate level or potentially professional level.”

Osbourne is a junior human performance major who recently transferred from Polk State College in Lakeland, FL. As a freshman at Polk State College, Osbourne saw action in 53 games with a .292 hit score and as a sophomore he increased it to .354.

“There have been a lot of influences that have got me to the point where I am at today,” Osbourne said. “Friends, family and coaches have all been a big part of my life as I

continue this journey, but my father had a huge influence in my life regarding sports.”

It was Osbourne’s performance against University of Southern Indiana on Feb. 18 that secured him the SSC award. Osbourne led the team into a 2-1 victory for UT as he hit .615, scored three runs, three runs batted in (RBIs), a homer, and a walk.

“Osbourne has been great for us so far,” assistant coach Jose Jimenez said. “He is off to a good start at the plate providing some power and leading the team in RBIs and he has also played great defense with bouncing around from third base to first base depending on the lineup we use.”

Jimenez adds that of all of Osbourne’s personality attributes, his sense of humor is most sought after next to ability as a team leader who keeps everyone loose and laughing at all times.

The key to Osbourne’s success, he says, is his understanding of the key aspects to weightlifting and training. Osbourne started baseball as a shortstop, but as he grew and got stronger, he was moved to third base in his senior year of high school.

“I was told that if I could learn the position of a catcher, my chances of playing at the next level would prolong,” Osbourne said. “I began catching when I was 13 and loved it, so now I have a little bit of versatility in my arsenal.”

With a season that began Feb. 20, the UT Spartans are off to a 9-3 overall record. So far, the Spartans are only nine games into their 44 game season, but Osbourne is very hopeful as to what the season has in store.

“We always try to come in with a good attitude and coach Urso has very high expectations every year and expects us to produce a good record,” Osbourne said. “The ultimate goal is to win a national championship as well as to continue working hard and figuring out what we need to do to accomplish that goal.”

The UT baseball team were national champions 92’, 93’, 98’, 06’, 07’, 13’, and 15’.

“JD is our biggest power threat in the middle of our order,” head coach Joe Urso said. “He is one of the best power hitters in our league who hits for average, which is rare for a power guy and so far he has done a great job defensively at third base.”

Photo Courtesy of Tom Kolbe OFFENSIVE PRODUCTION: Sophomore infielder J.D. Osbourne smokes a base hit against Souther Indiana University. Osbourne has been red hot out of the gate for the Spartans and will remain a critical part of the middle of the lineup the rest of the season.

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Spartan basketball shines on Senior Night Elena De Alfredo & Mauricio Tarasachi Contributing Writers elenadealfredo@spartans.ut.edu mauricio.terch@spartans.ut.edu

Athletic senior nights are a way to commemorate graduating players as they finish their final matches on home turf.

The UT women’s basketball team honored their seniors on Feb. 25 at 2 p.m. at the Bob Martinez Athletics Center after a 63-41 victory against Lynn University’s Knights, and the men’s basketball team celebrated their seniors just before they overtook Lynn University with an 87-64 win later at 4 p.m. the same day.

Guard Elena De Alfredo was one of the three graduating seniors for the women’s team. She has the all-time threeshot point record in UT history and she is the first player to have a .858 average on free throws.

The Spanish-born transferred from University of Toledo as junior and played 33 games scoring 387 for the Spartans in her first season. De Alfredo and her team won the Sunshine State Conference (SSC) title last season scoring 14 points in the final against Florida Tech. Not only did she win the conference, but she was also awarded the all-newcomer team This season, she became the fourth player in UT history to win the all-academic district honor, which requires a GPA of 3.3 or higher and constant athletic performance. She

has made 108 three-point field goals, which makes her ninth in UT history to do so. De Alfredo is the fifth Spartan to have a 34.2 minutes average.

“This was the best time of my life,” De Alfredo said. “I am so thankful for the opportunity of being a part of the Spartan family and I will really miss Tampa. It is the best decision I have ever made.”

Senior guard Jenny Horvatinovic has played and started 22 games for the Spartans. She has a 7.4 score average per game this season, 1.8 assists and 4.3 rebounds. She is a twoyear senior who transferred from Monmouth University in 2015.

Horvatinovic believes that the two most significant factors that she will miss are the campus and her teammates.

“I have gotten very close to a lot of my teammates because those are the people that I spend most time with,” Horvatinovic said. “The school is beautiful and the campus is not like most other campuses.”

Senior forward Teresa Kucera started her college and basketball career in Seton Hall University. The Germanborn became a Spartan as a junior and appeared in 19 games her first season, scoring 32 points.

This season, Kucera has played 17 games with a 3.2 score average, 1.5 rebounds and 0.3 assists. She will try to make several different activities after her graduation. “I want to go home and spend time with my family that I haven’t lived with the last seven years,” Kucera said. “I’m going to have an internship at home. Then, I would love to travel and keep playing basketball too.”

Spartans’ head coach Tom Jessee says that it is very hard

to say goodbye to his graduating players after two and three years of coaching them and winning the SSC tournament last year. “We built a family here,” Jessee said. “You work hard to build that relationship, but we are proud of all of them, they go on to work and get jobs so that is the silver lining.”

The Spartans culminated their regular season No. 5 in the standings with a 11-7 record in SSC tournament after the win against Lynn. After this result, the Spartans will travel to Fort Lauderdale to face Nova Southeastern Sharks, who finished No. 4 in the standings, for the SSC quarterfinals on March 1.

The men’s team honored their seniors, point guard Matt Johnson, small forward Austin Rettig and center Marcelo Ruediger, with a small celebration prior to their 4 p.m. game.

“Our seniors are looking forward to the conference tournament,” assistant men’s basketball coach Justin Pecka said. “All three seniors are great kids and great teammates— we are going to miss them greatly.”

Johnson averages 3.5 point per game (ppg), 1.6 rebounds per game (rpg) and 5.2 assists per game (apg). He has been the facilitator of Tampa’s offense, ranking fourth in all-time assists (428), and fifth in assists average (4.3) in UT men’s basketball program history.

The 5’9” point guard spent his college career at UT as he arrived in 2013. His college career brought him the opportunity to play in front of loyal fans who supported him no matter what, Johnson said. For him, wearing a UT uniform was very special and is something that he will miss

Photo by Harsh Rokad/The Minaret

STILL ALIVE: Men’s basketball congratulates their seniors during a pre-game ceremony against Lynn University. With the victory, the Spartans are still alive to clinch a birth in the NCAA Division II tournament.

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Photo by Harsh Rokad/The Minaret

SMILES ALL AROUND: The Women’s basketball team walks off the court after a victory over Lynn University on Saturday afternoon. The Spartans will look to keep rolling when they play in their SSC conference tournament on Mar.1. the most.

“UT means the world to me—it’s my second home and a place that will forever be in my heart,” Johnson said. “It gave me the college experience that young student-athletes dream of and I am forever grateful for them and for that.”

From his hometown Dallas, Texas, Rettig made his way to UT where spent his college career. The senior small forward came to Tampa in 2012 and he sat out the 2013-2014 season with a medical redshirt due to a shoulder injury.

Rettig’s athleticism, combined with his ability to score, made him an important component for the Spartans’ playing system. The fifth-year senior is averaging this season 12.9 ppg, 3.1 rpg and he is also dishing 1.4 apg.

The 6’5” small forward is also ranked fourth as an all-time three-point field goals made in UT history (176), fourth in three-point field goals attempted (483), sixth in three-point field goal percentage (.364) and eighth in minutes with a total of 3286.

Outside of basketball, Rettig found UT a way to share

common experiences with his friends to bond and unify underneath. Also, the university slogan, “stand as one”, unifies everything that Tampa mean’s for him.

“The people is what I am going to miss the most, no doubt,” Rettig said. “I have been blessed to have met so many people through school, basketball people through school and Greek life—this environment has been great to be a part of over the years.”

Ruediger, born in Natal, Brazil, transferred from Utah State University Eastern. The 6’10” center has brought size to the program along with rebounding capacity.

Even though the Brazilian native didn’t get much playing time this year, he has been very important part for UT’s preparation for opponents, Pecka said. Ruediger is averaging 1.0 ppg and 1.7 rpg in a total of nine games played.

For Ruediger, the two things that stand out the most out of his years at Tampa are the friends he made and the college life. “UT was one of the best times of my life,” Ruediger said.

“I had great two years here and I am going to miss it a lot—I

am thankful for the opportunity I have had.”

The Spartans finished their regular season with a 10-8 conference record, after pulling out this last win on their senior night. UT is looking forward to playing Palm Beach Atlantic University on March 1, for their first game of the Sunshine State Conference (SSC) Tournament. Prior to the SSC quarterfinals game, the Sailfish swept the Spartans over regular season games, both home and away. Playing defense and rebounding along with executing the offense better are the things the Spartans will need to do to beat this team, Pecka said.

Even though the results are not exactly the ones expected throughout the season, the Spartans are ready to take onto this SSC tournament match-up. “Either way when we get into a tournament setting, we know we are capable of winning three games,” Pecka said. “It is definitely our goal to win the conference tournament—if we don’t win our season is over, we need to win to advance to the NCAA tournament.”

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The winners, losers of trade deadline

Photo Courtesy of Luke BlackshipJ/Flickr BLOCKBUSTER TRADE: Center Demarcus Cousins waves to the home crowd during a pre-game ceremony. The Sacremento Kings sent Demarcus Cousins to the New Orleans Pelicans for guard Langston Galloway, forward Tyreke Evans, guard Buddy Heild, a protected 2017 first round pick, and a 2017 protected second round pick.

Frank Calo Contributing Writer frank.calo@spartans.ut.edu On Feb. 23 at 3:00 p.m., one of the busiest days in the NBA ended. It was the official end of the trade deadline. It’s the last day for franchises around the league to trade with others to improve their team, gain future assets or dump some salary.

This year was a relatively quiet deadline, but per usual there appear to be clear winners and losers after the deadline. You never know how a trade will end up, but you have to go with what it looks like on paper.

Oklahoma City Thunder While point guard Russell Westbrook is having an MVP caliber season averaging a triple double on the season, and if he stays on track will be the first to do it since point guard Oscar Robertson did it in the 1961-62 season for the Milwaukee Bucks. However, Westbrook doesn’t have much of a supporting cast around him. He has center Steven Adams, guard Victor Oladipo and power forward Enes Kanter (who is injury prone), and a few other role players. The Thunder desperately needed shooting around Westbrook as they are second to last in three-point percentage and they also

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needed another defensive-minded big man as the Thunder are also second to last in points in the pain allowed. They addressed that by picking up a few nice pieces in F Doug McDermott and F Taj Gibson from the Chicago Bulls, while giving up point guard Cameron Payne, forward Joffrey Lauvergne and guard Anthony Morrow. Payne is a good player, but the Thunder definitely upgraded their team and addressed two of their biggest weaknesses as if there is one thing McDermott can do it’s shoot the basketball and Gibson is a very tough, rugged big man to help guard the paint and will be a nice pairing next to Adams. While the Thunder still don’t have enough to beat the top teams in the West, they added a few nice upgrades to make it interesting come playoffs.

New Orleans Pelicans The Pelicans shocked the NBA world when they acquired center DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings over the NBA All-Star Break, and got him relatively for nothing.

Cousins is a top 10, maybe top five player in the league and all the Pelicans had to give up were guard Buddy Hield, forward Tyreke Evans, guard Langston Galloway, a protected 2017 first round pick, and 2017 second round pick. For arguably the best big man league, that deal is a straight up heist. Not only do the Pelicans get Cousins for nothing, they get to pair him with the man he’s against in the argument

for best big man in forward Anthony Davis. These two players together easily make the best big man duo in the league and their games complement each other as Davis likes to work on the perimeter more and Cousins likes to work in the paint, but can take it outside. If Cousins keeps his head on straight, look for the Pelicans to make a push for the eighth seed in the Western Conference.

The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers Neither of the top teams in their respective conference made a deal at the deadline. The Warriors made no trades and the Cavaliers did their damage in January when they stole guard Kyle Korver from the Atlanta Hawks. So, even though they didn’t make any deals at the deadline, they are the biggest winners of the deadline. While teams like the Rockets, Thunder and Raptors all made moves that certainly improved their teams; they’re still not even close to topping the top two teams in each conference. It’s still hard to see any team barring a massive upset besting the Warriors or Cavaliers in a best-of-seven series. It still looks like we are heading for round three of a Warriors-Cavaliers in the NBA finals.

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Photo Courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr I.T TIME: Boston Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas drives the lane in a road game against the Washington Wizards. It will be up to Thomas to lead the Celtics to a potential NBA Finals, as the Celtics did not make the important trade at the deadline like they needed too.

Sacramento Kings and DeMarcus Cousins The Kings are losers for reasons mentioned why the Pelicans are winners. The Kings gave up a top superstar in the league for a bag of chips. There hasn’t been another deal like this , where a team got so little for a superstar, other than maybe the Pau Gasol trade in 2008, where he went from the Grizzlies to Lakers for Kwame Brown, who was the centerpiece of the deal. Fortunately for the Grizzlies, the Lakers threw in a throw away guy in the trade named Marc Gasol, Pau’s brother who is now an All-star player. It doesn’t seem likely that will happen for the Kings unless Hield ends up being the next Steph Curry.. Cousins is a loser simply because he’s getting jipped a huge chunk of change in this deal.. With the Kings, if he were to sign the max contract extensions, he would have made $210 million. With the Pelicans, if he signs the max contract extension, he will make $180 million. He loses at least $30 million because of this deal.

Boston Celtics The Celtics have been gathering assets for the last couple years now, gaining a bunch of picks, expiring contracts and young talent. They seemed poised with those assets to make a blockbuster move to acquire a superstar, which is really the only thing the team needs. The rumors were all around acquiring superstar players like Cousins, forward Paul George and guard Jimmy Butler. Any one of these players would make them actual contenders and a real challenge for

the Cavaliers. They decided to stand pat because they didn’t want to give up the first round pick they got from Brooklyn, which has a chance to be the number one overall pick and they didn’t want to give up some rotation pieces. While the Celtics are a very good team, have very good chemistry and it’s very hard to trade a pick that has the best odds being number one. It seems they missed an opportunity to pick up one of those players. It’s not like they are relatively young.

Their window to win is smaller than most people think.

Their top two players in guard Isaiah Thomas and forward Al Horford are close to 30 and are getting close to the end of their primes. The Celtics would be ecstatic if the top pick next year ends up like Cousins, George and Butler, but even if that player ends up that good, it’s most likely that it will take three to four years when Thomas and Horford will be past their primes. The Celtics had an opportunity with the Cavaliers injured and looking less invincible than in past years to make a big splash, but they didn’t. If they were able to get George and add him to that team and one of the best coaches in the league in Brad Stevens, the Cavaliers would definitely have to worry about them come playoffs. They didn’t however, so the Cavaliers are still on top and it’s not remotley close.

Eastern Conference It wasn’t just the Celtics, though. It was the Eastern Conference as a whole that failed a chance to catch up to the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers have been injured all year, have some depth issues and look very beatable at times.

The teams of the Eastern Conference all had chances to get better and close the gap, but they either didn’t do enough or didn’t do anything at all. The Celtics did nothing, while the other top teams like the Raptors and Wizards made small but insignificant moves. The Raptors got a few nice pieces in forwards Serge Ibaka and PJ Tucker and the Wizards acquired SG Bojan Bogdonovic from the Nets. While those moves were upgrades, they are not game changers like a Cousins or George deal would be. It’s hard not to think that the Wizards or a team in the East in contention could have made a deal with the Kings for Cousins like the Pelicans did.

The teams in the East seem to be waiting out the Cavaliers dominance in the East instead of trying to beat them. Right now, it looks like that dominance will continue for a while.

Waiting it out might be the wrong move for the other teams in the East.

It was a very quiet deadline. Some teams improved and a lot just stayed put on this NBA trade deadline. It seems teams are looking toward the future. Other than the Cousins deal, no other superstars were traded. There were a lot of rumors, but nothing came of them. As of right now, again, barring injury or a major upset, the NBA remains the status quo, and when it comes toward June, we are most likely going to see a third straight Warriors-Cavaliers NBA Finals.

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Spartans extend winning streak to five Devon Conway Contributing writer devon.conway@spartans.ut.edu

to a minimum,” Dooley said. “Of course a huge goal for us would be nationals, but for now we’re taking it game by game, just trying to get better everyday.”

The Spartans are set to take on the Lynn University Knights next weekend in Boca Raton, Florida in a three game series.

The Spartans took on the Florida Tech Panthers in a three game series on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 at home. The Spartans ended up sweeping the three game series.

In the first game of the series, the Spartans came out with a spark. Sophomore Makaleigh Dooley pitched, striking out five batters and allowing just one hit and a walk. In the second inning, the Spartans scored as freshman Corynn Miner doubled to left field then moved to third by a single from junior Elly Pillers. Freshman Maddie Farrell drove Miner in after hitting a sacrifice fly out to left field. In the sixth inning, Dooley booted the offense into action, reaching first by an error from FIT. Sophomore Lauren Pascoe came in as pinch-runner and scored all the way from first base from Miner’s single. The Spartans came out swinging, beating FIT 2-0 with a strong start to the series.

The second game hit off with an early lead by Florida Tech. At the top of the first inning, the Panthers scored two runs, giving them a short-lived 2-0 lead. The Spartans fired back, as junior Taylor Farrell singled. Shortly after, senior Bree Setree tripled down the left field line to cut the lead in half. Dooley tied the game with a sacrifice fly to left field, allowing Setree to score. The rest of the game remained scoreless, leading to extra innings. At the bottom of the ninth inning, Miner walked to start the inning. Minner moved to second from a single by junior Elly Pillers to eventually put the winning run in scoring position. Junior Shelby Press saved the day with a single, allowing pinch runner junior Alex Walton to round the bases and score.

Minner pitched all nine innings, allowing just two runs with three hits and four strikeouts. The Spartans ended the second game strong with a win 3-2.

“The offense did what they have been doing consistently and used one big inning to break open the game and give their pitcher room to work with,” said UT softball staff member Felipe Tellez.

In the final game of the series, Dooley pitched, allowing only a single run in 6.1 innings of work. Press opened the third inning by bunting for a single. Following the lead, Junior Sahrina Cortes bunted to the third base line to allow Press to score, followed by an error on the Panthers. Farrell brought in Cortes on a double to right field. Freshman Brooke Stiles came in as a pinch-runner and scored on a double by Setree. Setree advanced to third by a double from Dooley to score, giving UT a 4-0 lead. At the bottom of the fifth the Spartans added another run as senior Jennie Sittloh hit a double, allowing Dooley round the bases and score.

At the bottom of the sixth, UT added their final run of the weekend as Stiles singled, allowing Setree to score. During the seventh inning, the Panthers scored a run, but fell 6-1 to the Spartans.

Dooley has high hopes for the Spartans this upcoming season. “I know some goals for my team would be to play our hardest every single game and to keep the mental errors Photo Courtesy of Tom Kolbe DOMINATING THE MOUND: Sophomore right handed pitcher Mikaleigh Dooley throws a pitch during a Spartans home game. Dooley once again earned an SSC Pitcher of the Week award thanks to her dominant performances against Florida Tech this past weekend.

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Kew wins lax SSC Player of The Week Kimberly Conroy Contributing Writer kimberly.conry@spartans.ut.edu Sophomore Andrew Kew, attacker, has been named the Sunshine State Conference Offensive Player of the Week for men’s lacrosse. The award was announced on Monday, Feb. 20th. Sunshine State Conference Athletes of the Week are chosen from a pool of nominees for their performances during the week of February 13 - February 19, 2017. Athletes are nominated by Sports Information Directors of member institutions.

Attacker Kew is being recognized in regards to his performance against Lindenwood University and Maryville University.

With the loss against Lindenwood University (5-6), Kew assisted freshman Bryan Wright (attacker) with the first goal for both teams. Then with just seconds left in the first period, Kew scored his first goal of the game. He picked up his second goal to give Tampa a lead of 4-3. Later on in the third period he scored his third goal with an assist from senior Sean Giampietro (midfielder). Tampa held Lindenwood until the final minutes of the game, but a flag-down situation gave Lindenwood an advantage. Lindenwood ended up taking the game.

Against Maryville University, Kew scored two quick goals from the get go. Then, he scored his third for the first period with 3:47 left on the clock. The team went on to the second period leading the game 7-0.

The second period held 4 goals from sophomore Vetter (midfielder/attacker), freshman Trammell (midfielder), freshman Wood (midfielder), and freshman Pugliese (attacker). Kew scored his 18th

goal of the season with an assist from Vetter in the third, and ended the third period with another goal assisted by Vetter.

He scored the highest amount of goals, five, for the team that day, and Tampa took the game 16-2. This game was not only exciting for Kew, but head coach Rory Whipple as well. This win marked his 299th career win. The all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division II history has 71 Spartan wins in his six seasons with the team.

Over weekend in total, Kew had eight goals and one assist. In just the last four games, he has had 19 goals for the season. Plus, there are still many more opportunities to score with a full schedule of games for the Spartans.

“Andrew is our leading goal scorer, and has a great work ethic. If he plays well this year he will be an all American,” Whipple said.

This past weekend isn’t the first time the young player has been recognized for his achievements. In fact, in February of last year, Kew also received SSC Offensive Player of the Week. He posted six assists for 68 points last season and he is tied for the school record of goals scored in a game with eight, against Adelphi University last February.

“Andrew is an excellent goal scorer, he’s good with carrying the ball, is excellent with angles and is a great team leader,” said senior attacker Conor Whipple.

Last season, he scored five goals in the NCAA Championship semifinal game against No. 1 ranked Limestone, who defeated the Spartans 13-10. After his semifinal debut, he ended his freshman collegiate season with 62 total goals. This ties the single-season record set by All-American Jake Rooney back in 2014.

In his first season with the Spartans, he played in all 18 games, and started in 17. Out of those games, he

scored goals in 13 of them.

“He is a great player for the future of the program, I’m a senior so once I’m gone he’ll be taking over the future offense,” Conor said. “[In that semi-final game] he definitely stepped up in big way for a big game.”

At the end of his freshman year, he received SSC Freshman of the Year, All-SSC Second Team, and AllSSC Freshman Team. He led the Spartans in scoring, and finished second in the SSC scoring for 2016. Kew finished fifth in SSC Points per Game (3.71) and Shots per Game (7.57).

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3-2 WOMEN’S LAX Photo Courtesy of Tom Kolbe SOPHOMORE SURGE: Sophomore attacker Andrew Kew(right) congratulates his teammate after a goal. The Spartans went on to win the game 15-8, and Kew recorded a team high five goals in the home opener.

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