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Vol. 76 No. 22
March 19, 2010
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St. Leo Coach Quits After Using Racial Slur
3 Sigma Phi Epsilon Wins Regional Excelsior Award 4 P.E.A.C.E. Takes Two Alternative Spring Breaks
By Kyle Bennett
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9 Tiësto’s New Kaleidoscope of Sounds Hits Airwaves 12 Breaking Bad: An Addicting Series Worth Watching
COMMENTARY 13 With Heartbreak Trust Your Friends to Help Mend The Pieces 14 When It Comes to Interracial Dating How Blind Is Love?
SPORTS 17 UTampa’s Offensive Onslaught 19 Bracketology of a Mad March
UT Freshman Charged with DUI in Davis Island Crash By Sarah Gottlieb DAVIS ISLAND - Tampa Police arrested and charged the University of Tampa student who crashed a vehicle into a wall on Davis Islands, seriously injuring a fellow student last November. Michael Louis-Fernand, a freshman accounting major, was arrested Thursday, March 4 and charged with driving under the influence with the result of serious bodily injury, a third-degree felony. According to reports Louis-Fernand’s blood-alcohol level results were between .139 and .140. The legal limit in Florida is .08. Jorge Jimenez, a sophomore marketing major, and Michelle Sams, a sophomore exercise major, were also in the vehicle at [See 2]
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Seeing the Invisible P.E.A.C.E. raises awareness for Ugandan suffering with Invisible Children speakers and documentaries By Cara Marzilli TAMPA - Worlds away and far from the palm trees of The University of Tampa, there are children being abducted and forced into fighting and attacking villages in Uganda. Just before spring break, students got a glimpse of who these children really are and what they can do to help. “I am representing the voices of people who are suffering,” said Norman, a 71-year-old Ugandan man, addressing a crowd of UT students in the Martinez Gym. “I am so honored to be here in the U.S.,” said Norman, speaking clearly and calmly. P.E.A.C.E. (People Exploring Active Community Experience) hosted the Invisible Children organization on Tuesday, March 2. Two speakers and two documentaries were presented to the audience of more than 100 students and faculty. For more than two decades a violent rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has attacked the villages of Northern Uganda. Among the ranks of the LRA rebel army are child soldiers as young as five. The LRA abducts children to indoctri-
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LASER Team Carts Fixed, Running Full Shifts By Rob Stephenson
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nate them as soldiers as a tactic to grow in size. The rebel group trains them to destroy villages, fight the government’s army, and kill civilians. This brutal war caught the attention of three American students visiting Uganda in 2003, who began Invisible Children Inc., a non-profit organization to raise awareness and bring aid to the wartorn areas affected by the LRA. “We decided to come here and tell you of the 24 years of war. My country remains so devastated; there is no hope for life,” explains Norman. The first film documented the story of Emmy, a 14-year-old Ugandan. The engaging and charming boy lives in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp with four siblings, two grandparents, an aunt, and his mother who is infected with HIV. “The love your mother gives you is different. If your mother isn’t there…it isn’t good,” Emmy said to the camera. During the course of the film, Emmy’s mother succumbs to her illness and Emmy joins the statistic of 12 million children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. “I blame God for taking my mom and
Editor’s note: This article contains a racial term which may be deemed as derogatory to some readers. For this article an email interview was conducted with two former Saint Leo softball players. One source has asked to remain anonymous, thus she will be referred to as ‘she’ throughout the article. The second source will be referred to by her name. TAMPA - One former student-athlete at Saint Leo offered her personal testimony about her experience with the SLU coaching staff. Amanda Patrick spent only her freshman year at Saint Leo before she transferred to continue playing college softball. “Christi Wade without a doubt ruined my softball career,” Patrick said. Wade is the former Women’s Associate Athletic Director and softball coach at Saint Leo University. At the brink of numerous verbal and physical harassment allegations Wade has sent in her letter of resignation on March 2, according to The Lions’ Pride Online, Saint Leo’s student newspaper. The final straw that ended her career at Saint Leo was her using a racial epithet against a team member. “ [ Wa d e ] called a player a lazy n—– ,” she said. Although acknowledging this is a Wade terrible thing, the same SLU alumnae said, “Of all the things she has done over the years, this really does not seem half as bad as other things.” Francis Reidy, Athletic Director at Saint Leo, said that he asked her to resign and she did so with no questions asked. Although declining to go into detail, Reidy said, “We have some core values here at Saint Leo and she did something that was not in line with those values.” The former player whom asked to remain anonymous drew a parallel to playing for coach Wade. [See 18]
After parking the carts early due to mechanical issues, the LASER team carts have been fixed and are scheduled to run during the scheduled times. For several weeks, reports came in that the carts weren’t running as late as they should be because they were running out of battery power. This increased calls for UT security rides, decreasing their presence on campus during regular LASER Team hours. The worn out batteries on the carts crutched the service, making them unable to last the full hours of operation.
“Each of the carts have eight batteries, but both carts also had two bat-
teries that needed replacing so that not to drain the other battery’s power. So the Golf Cart Depot came in and made the minor repairs, and the next day the LASER Team was running on time and all hours.” - Rachel Rollo Rachel Rollo, Coordinator of Student Programs and Events and LASER Team was aware of the issues and called to make the repairs. “Each of the carts have eight batteries, but both carts also had two batteries that needed replacing so that not to drain the other battery’s power,” said Rollo. “So the Golf Cart Depot came in and made the minor repairs, and the next day the LASER Team was running on time and all hours.”
Two weeks after the battery replacements Rollo continues to encourage students to take advantage of the secure and safe transportation service. Derek Hockenberry, student coordinator of LASER Team said they will be running back to normal. “LASER Team will be running during the scheduled times unless an unforeseen event occurs. As stated in the previous article, the two golf carts [See 6]