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SPORTS

SCIENCE & TECH

Technology, art merge in WU lacks school spirit student time-lapse video

Imagine your first semesgames as possible to supter at Winthrop. Freshman port the athletes and to readers, bear with me. just get out of my dorm As you became accusroom. tomed to your new surIt was a great place to roundings and your somemeet new people, espewhat new freedom, you cially when you are new most likely had incredible Shelby Chiasson to campus as a freshman Sports editor school spirit. or transfer student. Soon As you found your new I caught myself yelling at group of friends to hang the games even louder out with and joined organizations on than I would for a South Carolina campus, you began to go to games all football game. Eventually I joined the decked out in your Winthrop gear. pep band and began to attend even It’s okay to admit this; we all were the away games.

Please, spare the horrible band a part of the WU crew at one point, which we still should support and be jokes; they’ve lost their grandeur. a member of no matter what our year The point of this column is to try and help you realize when you lost your is.

I remember my first year at Win- school spirit. throp and how I attended as many see SPIRIT pg. 10

see SCIENCE & TECH pg. 5

‘Gangnam style’ rules YouTube see ARTS & CULTURE pg. 9

Social media spurs ‘art’? see OPINION pg. 7 NEWS

Federal gov, WU linked

NEWS

Occupy movement spurs documentary

By Jacob Smith Special to The Johnsonian

Hiding in plain sight? Take another look around and you’ll find that Winthrop is full of forgotten and interesting history — hidden in plain daylight.

With all the plaques, posters and signs adorning Winthrop’s walls, a busy student may not notice an obscure vestige history hanging from the walls of Thurmond or Tillman. In both of these buildings hangs a small certificate that reads ‘’Emergency Building Temperature Restrictions.”

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NEWS

Where am I Wearing? author to visit WU

By David Thackham thackhamd@mytjnow.com

ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA

By Katie Schallhorn schallhornk@mytjnow.com

Students use fingerprints to create art. Photo by Jacob Hallex • hallexj@mytjnow.com

By Frances Parrish parrishf@mytjnow.com Last Friday, junior graphic design major, Amanda Moore, took her project for VCOM 358 out of the classroom. With 30 volunteers and forty-five minutes of free time, Moore completed a part of her typography project. The project is called “What the Font?” The prompt for the project was to form letters out of objects. Moore said that some people chose tea-leaves or nails.

“I wanted to get people in-

volved,” Moore said. “Fingerprints are the most human thing.”

She used fingerprints to write the letters of the alphabet. She video-taped the entire event of people painting their fingerprints in the stenciled letters. She is planning on using the footage in a time-lapse video using Final Cut, a program designed to edit and create movies/videos.

To watch the video showcasing the making of the project visit youtube.com and search for “What the Font?”

For Bryan Wright, the thrill and cause of the Occupy Wall Street movement reeled him in. But with four jobs and five children, he simply did not have enough time to dedicate to the protests. Wright decided to reach out to the world in another form that he describes as “inventing something beautiful and putting it behind a camera”-- making a documentary.

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved film, especially Charlie Chaplin’s silent films,” Wright said.

Wright’s passion for documentaries took off with the Occupy movement. He began attending rallies in Charlotte, N.C. and quickly became horrified at the media attention the protesters were garnering.

“The media was really involved in the protests,” Wright said. “They were giving a different face to it. It was nothing like I had seen.”

Wright recalled looking around

at the protest and taking in all of the people present. “These were teachers, professors, real people with real jobs,” he said.

“I have a firsthand account,” said Wright. “All of these guys pull up in their big news trucks. I’d watch them point out the homeless people and interview the homeless.”

And with this injustice that Wright felt, his project “Protest This” was born.

“The point is to give a face to the protesters,” Wright said.

“Protest This” is not Wright’s first or only project. Previously Wright has worked on other cinematic projects, including adding some editing work to his resume.

Wright was also involved with the documentary “The History of Music in the United States” for the Artists Music Guild (AMG).

see OCCUPY pg. 4

ARTS & CULTURE

Kelsey Timmerman Kelsey Timmerman, author of the book “Where Am I Wearing?”: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes, has travelled the world, telling the stories of the people he meets as he learns and educates others on where many of America’s most common clothes are made. The Johnsonian was able to speak to Timmerman Tuesday evening, ahead of his upcoming visit to Winthrop on Oct. 2 , where he will address the student body at large.

see TIMMERMAN pg. 3

American culture big change from Swaziland Winthrop has a diverse campus, including a student from Swaziland, a small African country bordering South Africa and Mozambique. The country is very unique in that their king has more than 10 wives.

Muziwakhe Simelane is a graduate student studying finance. He often goes by Muzi because his first name is a bit of a mouth full for most Americans. He came to America in 2000.

Simelane’s father worked for the United Nations so he spent a great deal of his life in Ethiopia before coming to the United States.

He has an older sister who came to high school near Buffalo, New York, so when he got old enough he followed in her footsteps.

At the age of 14 Simelane embarked on an

18 hour flight to a new country. As if high school isn’t hard enough, he was on a new continent with no one that he knew.

He immediately noticed the differences in cultures and people.

“People are very friendly, very open over here,” Simelane said.

Simelane made friends and tried his hand in sports. In Swaziland they have soccer but not too many of the sports that are played in America. Baseball is one of those sports that he wanted to give a try.

“I tried playing baseball for my first time ever. I played left bench,” Simelane said.

Baseball wasn’t his thing, and neither was cold weather.

see SWAZI pg. 8 A traditional Swaziland wedding. Photo courtesy of Muziwakhe Simelane.

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Nevada 14.2% I am even more wet than before.

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Intramural sports and social networking join forces

I think I’m just going to settle for a quiet evening tonight; maybe hit up the strip club.

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CONTRIBUTE Girl 1: Canada is America’s hat, and Mexico is its beard.

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LATINO VOTE CRUCIAL TO PRESIDENTIAL RACE Graph shows percentage of Latinos among eligible voters.

Sixty-eight percent of Latinos currently support Obama, while 26 percent stand behind Romney, Maria Elena, anchor of Noticias Univision, a Spanish language speaking channel, told Yahoo News. In an effort to gain crucial Latino voters, both presidential candidates recently participated in forums with Univision, according to Yahoo News. “We have to remember since Ronald Reagan,

every single candidate who has 33% of the Hispanic vote or more wins the White House,” Noticias Univision anchor Jorge Ramos told Yahoo News. Romney, who is not Hispanic though his father was born in Mexico, admitted a Spanish heritage may have given him a leg up in the election. “I think for political purposes, that might have helped me here,” he told Yahoo News.

Disease kills millions of bats Tennessee’s Nature Conservancy cave specialist Cory Holliday faced her biggest fear as the Conservancy’s bats started to die last winter, according to the New York Times. White nose syndrome, a fungal disease that kills hibernating bats, finally reached the Bellamy Cave. There is no treatment or cure for the disease, which first made it to New York in 2006.

Since the disease has spread, more than five million bats have died.

While the disease does not directly affect humans, the increase in pests would cost farmers billions in pesticide use, according to the New York

Times.

Bellamy Cave houses 270, 000 endangered bats. “This is a species that could wink out in a few years,” Holliday told the New York Times.

To combat the problem, the conservancy built an 80-foot long artificial cave buried in the ground.

The disease can take a while to infect a whole colony. “White nose finds its way into a cave,” Mr. Holliday said, “and by Year 3 you’ve got mass mortality.” The conservancy hopes the new cave will help protect the bats, according to the New York Times.

Student released from hospital after Pi Kappa Alpha incident A student at the University of Tennessee has been released from the hospital after an alcohol related incident at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, according to WBIR Knoxville.

Alexander Broughton, 20, was hospitalized after being given an alcohol enema using rubber tubing, according to investigators.

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After conducting interviews, it was determined that there were at least three other men involved in the incident.

University of Tennessee investigators stated they are trying to determine if Broughton was assaulted, and if any hazing was involved.

No charges are pending in the case at this time, according to WBIR.

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Author talks college, food and future projects TIMMERMAN • from front The Johnsonian: Who did you want this book and these projects to speak to? Who were you reaching?

Kelsey Timmerman: “The motivation of the book was not the motivation of the journey. I wasn’t looking to go out and write a book and tell the world about this. It was really an excuse to travel.

I was contributing to radio and news magazines sometimes, some people would publish the things I would write them. But I became obsessed after meeting one garment worker in Honduras that I was able to track down. It ends up in me meeting people who make clothes that I wear and that got me really interested in a new life.

I went into it with an open mind; People ask me what my thesis was going into it. I just tell them, “I wanted to meet the guy who made my underwear!”

TJ: What do you attribute your appeal to the college age audience?

KT: “One of the things I do when I’m speaking to college students is that I imagine myself as I was in college. I wasn’t one of the most engaged students in the school. So I’m writing and talking to freshmen like me in college. The subject matter is a great introduction into globalization. I want people to

GOV • from front Associate vice president of facilities management Walter Hardin shed some light on the subject.

“Starting in the 1970’s, America became aware that national oil reserves were no longer self-sufficient … there was a steady rise in the cost of crude oil via a reduction in supply. This had a worldwide economic backlash as everything in our modern world is dependent on oil” Hardin said. “Man-made fibers, car tires, asphalt, medicine and plastic are all made from oil.”

The resources to create one of America’s most dependent resources — electricity — became scarce and expensive.

“In 1974, I drove a Plymouth Duster that had a six cylinder engine and got a mere 16 miles per gallon. My dad drove a Lincoln

engage in their local and national community. It’s the way we interact with the world everyday. If you just get up everyday and look at the label on your pants and shirts, as college kids who are starting to embark on an intellectual journey, it really helps you understand. A lot of times in [grade school], you don’t tackle those complex issues and look at them like you should.

In college, you start to have opinions about the world, and they aren’t black and white. Most people, without thinking about them, think they’re black and white, like child labor and sweatshops. The reality can be difficult and ugly.

College students really need to get into learning about that.

No matter which side you are on the issue, you can’t deny a personal experience. You can start at a story and find the common connection.

Then, when you get back out, there are things you can start a discussion about.”

TJ: What can you tell us about your new project, “Where Am I Eating?”

KT: “Essentially, I’m doing a very similar thing to what I was doing. I’m following foods like bananas, coffee, chocolate, apple juice and lobster back to their sources. I recently completed all the travels for it. I went to Costa Rica, to work with banana workers on the plantation, worked in Colombia, where the coffee they make goes to Starbucks, the Ivory Coast,

Continental that got about seven miles per gallon,” Hardin said.

“And he thought it was good.”

The federal government responded and the lives of 20th century Americans were drastically altered by a number of regulations and conservation laws.

“Speed limits on the national interstate road systems were lowered to 55 miles per hour…public buildings were mandated to turn back (or up depending on the season) the temperatures and to turn off lights not in use,” Hardin said. “Although people think that autos use the most energy, buildings use more by far (about 70 percent).” Hardin says every building on campus was affected under this mandate. Today, buildings

off of West Africa, Ghana, where I got to visit cocoa farmers. I wasn’t able to do too much in terms of real work with these people. It turns out I’m pretty crummy with a machete. But it was a good little taste and experience for what they do. Then, I went to China, where most of our apple juice comes from, right from Chinese apples.

A few years ago, I went to Nicaragua and met some untrained scuba divers, who were searching for a declining population of lobsters.

I don’t think people realize just how international our food really is. 95 percent of our clothes are imported, but maybe people don’t think it’s that much. With food, the labels are hard to find. In the past, not all of them were required. We import 85 percent of our seafood, 15-20 percent of our vegetables and it’s growing more and more everytime.

So I wanted to find out, ‘What does that mean for the people who pick and grow our food and connect our lives and our health?’, because it’s all about finding the connection, how their lives impact us.”

industry, so I’d love to learn the shift it had on them. I’d really love to talk with students and encourage them, to be the student I wasn’t.”

Books by Kelsey Timmerman • Where Am I Wearing?

• Where Am I Wearing? (Revised and Updated) published April 2012 • Where Am I Eating? (to be published in 2013)

Timmerman will stay on Winthrop’s campus from Oct. 2-4 to speak to Winthrop students about globalization and his studies from around the world.

Photo courtesy of Kelsey Timmerman media kit.

TJ: What are you looking forward to in your visit to Winthrop?

KT: “I’m really looking forward to coming, I know that neck of the woods was a big cotton country at one point. Some people might have had family in

use an automated system to remain efficient.

The Clean Air Act, storm water runoff, hazardous waste handing, air emissions, asbestos and lead paint are just a few federal conservation goals.

According to Hardin, Winthrop has seen instances of federal intervention in the past.

Hardin explained that during World War II, there were severe shortages of raw materials and resources such as gasoline, oil, rubber, textiles, metals and glass that were all rationed.

America’s industrial power was converted to war-time production, said Hardin.

“Most American car manufacturers changed over from building autos to war machinery,” he said. “Americans respond best to incentives. As the cost of energy rises, technology has responded with more efficient systems of producing heat and air, Photo by Jacob Smith • Special to The Johnsonian more efficient automobiles

and control systems…the more you conserve, the more dollars you save.”

He further explains that South Carolina has many laws including the 20/20 plan, requiring state agencies to reduce energy intensity by 20 percent in 20 years. According to Hardin, Winthrop has reduced its energy intensity by over 12 percent, a mark which is halfway to its federal goal.

“Any new building over 10,000 square feet must meet LEED Silver (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). The West Center is a LEED Silver facility.

We also have a state goal to reduce landfill waste by 20 percent, which we have pretty much done.”

“Winthrop did her part in this effort,” Hardin said. “Many of the old decals are still in place.”

WUPO laptop theft program C.L.A.W. chalks up first success

By David Thackham thackhamd@mytjnow.com

The Winthrop women’s basketball team woke up on Monday, Sept. 10 to find that a Macbook laptop computer worth around $1,500 was stolen from their conference room in the Coliseum.

Thanks to the help of Winthrop’s campus police, however, the team had their computer back in approximately six days.

Winthrop police attribute the success to Operation C.L.A.W., or the Computer, Laptop, Anti-theft Watch, which promotes a free software that can be downloaded onto any personal or Winthrop computer to assist campus police in recovering the technology, should it ever be stolen. Since Operation C.L.A.W., police say computer and laptop theft has decreased by 77 percent.

“I can tell you this was the first case we had to use the C.L.A.W. program, so we are one for one,” said police chief Frank Zebedis. “We would like to attribute that to the fact our community is aware of the C.L.A.W. software and our ability to

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locate and prosecute.”

Five days after the Winthrop women’s basketball team reported the theft of their own techology, Winthrop police received a message from the stolen computer, which gave them the IP address, GPS coordinates and a photograph of the person using the computer, according to an email sent out to all students on Sept. 17. Campus police were then able to trace the computer to a Rock Hill address, where they then apprehended the individual while he was using the computer.

Zebedis says that at least 512 computers have been registered with campus police.

Graphic by Zach Greenway • greenwayz@mytjnow.com

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S.C. superintendent implores Winthrop students to vote

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prising nearly 50 percent of votes in elections, Rex posed the question, “What if college students voted in the same Jim Rex, S.C. Superintenpercentage as senior citident of Education, came to zens?” campus Monday evening and “You will determine out discussed the importance of any group of people, what of voting and its impact on kind of century this will be,” today’s educational system. he said. “It’s important to get Registering to vote should involved.” not be the last step one takes Currently, our political in the political process, he process is being challenged, said, but voting in primaries Rex said. and general elections is a “More and more people must as well. want what we had and more “It doesn’t help to register and more people want what if you don’t vote,” Rex said. we have now.”

“Volunteer, vote in primaries Some place “down the line,” and general elections.

Jim Rex talked to Winthrop students in he feels more people should Rex said that it is crucial the Plowden Auditorium this Monday. “step up and be citizen legisthat one gets involved with Photo courtesy of Clemson Univerlatures.” current politics. By getting sity “It’s not where you sit that involved and learning matters, it’s where you about candidates and MORE FACTS ABOUT JIM REX stand,” he said. other political figures Leaving students with helps eliminate the a few hypothetical quesnumber of “blind ballot Former work in education: tions to ponder, Rex completers” that com• Dean of Education of Winthrop University asked “What if students’ prise the nation. party affiliations aren’t According to Rex, • Dean of Education of based on their para former dean of the Coastal Carolina University ents?”

Riley College of Edu• President of Columbia College “What if we had more cation, “blind ballot than two dominant parcompleters” are those • Vice President for Development and ties?” he asked. “Two who feel the need to Alumni Relations and Vice President of choices is one more complete an entire ballot without actually University Advancement at the University than a dictatorship.”

Each student at Winhaving knowledge of throp should be at least each category or candi- of South Carolina a double major, accorddate listed.

• State Superintendent of Education for ing to Rex. Regardless “Please don’t be South Carolina of what the student’s a blind ballot comcurrent major is, an pleter,” he said. “Just sense of what works and what vote for those you care about does not work in politics, Rex additional “universal major” should be added. and know about. Don’t vote said, therefore decreasing “That major is America,” for things you know nothing the amount of “blind ballot he said. “Study her.” about.” completers.”

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OCCUPY • from front Currently Wright is working on a second documentary called “America’s Dream.”

Wright’s inspiration for this project stems from watching people attempt to achieve the all-important “American Dream” and seeing the definition inevitably change.

“Through my experience, people strive and work so hard for this grand dream,” Wright said. “By the time they define it, it changes on them.”

Wright discovered already that the American Dream appears to be more about survival now than simply getting rich.

“The American Dream has changed a lot.

People’s views have changed a lot. I want to touch base on that,” Wright explained.

That same concept seems to inexplicably hold true for Wright himself who says that his own dream fits right in with seemingly everyone he has interviewed. Wright says he wishes to provide the best education to his children in what he describes as an already failing system. He also believes that as a hardworking father and taxpaying citizen, he should be rewarded.

“We just want change,” Wright said.

This leads to the elusive question which Wright hopes to answer with “America’s Dream”: Is the American Dream actually real or is it simply a fabricated illusion to tie people to the machine?

Outside of the two documentaries, Wright owns his own business (BeWright Productions) and works for the AMG. Wright also spends his time working for a construction company delivering the message to Americans struggling in the current economy that it is okay to rent homes. Wright is also a chef at the Fish Market in Fort Mill.

Despite all that Wright currently has on his plate, his main passion has always been documentaries. However, Wright only re-

A Winthrop student’s car has approximately $420 worth of damage, according to a Winthrop police report. The report says that a 19-year old Courtyard resident called campus police to Legion parking lot in regards to damage discovered to the passenger side door area of a 2012 Ford Focus. The officer met with the student and she explained that she parked the vehicle in Legion Lot on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. She then said that on Sept. 21, around 2:30 p.m., she left the lot and drove to

By David Thackham thackhamd@mytjnow.com

The Council of Student Leaders unanimously chartered a new club on campus, which aims to bring together Winthrop students with athletes with special needs around Rock Hill. The Special Olympics Club, headed by president Grant Field, a sophomore business major, was the first CSL charter of the academic year. Field says his work for the past six years with Special Olympics events spurred him to create the club.

“Rock Hill prides itself on its Special Olympics community,” Fields said.

Fields said he wished to contact varsity Winthrop athletes to have training camps with Special Olympic games participants, as well as help volunteer at state-sponsored Games throughout the year. Their first official event will be on Oct. 20, which will focus on volunteering at a Special Olympics event in Greenville, S.C. “It’s a good way to get a taste of what we have to offer,” he said.

According to Field’s Winthrop University Special Olympics Club (WUSOC) group on Facebook, the club has the “main purpose of unifying the Winthrop community with the surrounding Rock Hill special needs community through

sport and... other activities. Not only will friendships with persons with intellectual disabilities be formed, Winthrop students will join the greater cause of furthering the global Special Olympics movement.”

Smoking initiative for campus A faculty and staff committee has been formed to abolish smoking on Winthrop’s campus, according to campus safety representative Marcus Allen. Now, he says, is the time to reach the students’ perspective. CSL’s campus safety committee has begun an initiative to hear from a cross section of the student body about their views on smoking.

“We want to be able to talk to students and ask, ‘Do you agree with this?’” Allen said. “Yeah, smoking is unhealthy, a danger, but we wanted everyone’s opinions to make sure everyone’s happy with the direction we go to.”

The committee will host an open discussion at the Oct. 29 CSL meeting at 7:30 p.m.

“Anyone who wants to make their voice heard, they can come in and discuss it with the council,” Allen said. “We want to make sure we’re going toward something the students want.”

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The Johnsonian DiGiorgio Campus Center Room 114 cently got back into film making.

“Life happened,” Wright said. “I grew up, put my dreams on hold.”

With the birth of his daughter, that all changed for him. “As I held my daughter for the first time I thought, ‘How am I supposed to teach my child to chase her dreams limitlessly if I don’t do it myself?’”

And so Wright’s journey in film making really began. He started attending classes at York Technical College, graduating in 2011 with a television production diploma.

Even with the diploma, Wright essentially taught himself the majority of what he knows. Wright prides himself on being able to do it all. From writing, directing, shooting and editing, Wright refers to himself as

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People strive and work so hard for [the American Dream]. By the time they define it, it changes on them.

a “one man show.”

“I learned everything I know by error,” said Wright.

It’s Wright’s eye for stories that fuels his drive for making documentaries.

“Everyone has a story,” he said. “These are stories people are living everyday. Somehow if you can capture that, tell that they way it’s told, you can really impact people’s lives.”

Ultimately, his goal is to influence people’s lives with his work.

“People can see other people out there going through some of the same stuff,” Wright said. “You draw that line of revelation. It’s all worth it to me.”

As far as future generations are concerned, Wright strongly encourages any Winthrop student who may share his passion to pursue it.

Wright warns that the film industry is not one that a student should expect to just jump into. “It takes a lot of hard work and dedication,” Wright said. “You have to love what you do. If you have a passion to tell and create and capture stories, you will do really well.”

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Damage of personal property

CSL charters Special Olympics club

the Ford dealership in Rock Hill. Upon arriving at the Ford dealership, the report says she observed damage to her vehicle. The student said the vehicle had been parked and secured in the lot before driving to the dealership. She reported that the car was secured and that no items were found to be missing. The report says there was damage to the paint in the door frame area, the molding at the base of the window on the passenger side door, the door gasket attached to the door frame and the door gasket, attached to the door.

There are no suspects at this time.

POLICE BLOTTER 9/20/12

Grand larceny ($2,001 or more) of motor vehicle Police were on the lookout for a chrome 2006 Saturn Vue after an 18-year old Winthrop student told campus police that her car was missing. On Friday, Sept. 21, a reporting officer was dispatched to Richardson Hall in reference to a stolen vehicle. The officer then met with the 18-year old Richardson resident, according to the report, who says she last went to her vehicle the night before with her roommate.

The student and roommate then returned to their room and put her keys on the bed. The student told police she left the room with her keys in the bed and did not return until 12:47 a.m. on Friday. The student said she checked her room, but was unable to find the keys. She also added that her roommate was gone and she was unable to contact her. The student told police that her car was missing from campus after the roommate had taken the car without the student’s permission to pick up her boyfriend from another college.

The two roommates had a roommate contract stating that the roommate was not to drive the vehicle since the incident, according to the report.

Later on Sept. 21, a reporting officer contacted Limestone College’s Department of Public Safety and requested that they inspect their property for the vehicle. Shortly after, the department says they found the Saturn Vue on their property. After talking to the victim, she declined to pursue criminal charges and did not want any further law enforcement action taken against the offender.

The vehicle was then towed and impounded. The reporting officer had the victim complete and sign a “Victim Declines to Cooperate/ Prosecute” form. Due to the offender’s behavior and actions, the officer is referring her to Winthrop University’s Judicial Affairs for violating the Winthrop University Student Conduct Code. The case is closed due to the victim declining to prosecute.

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SURE student summer research poster showcase

By Jordan Lent lentj@mytjnow.com Last Friday, 37 students participated in this year’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Poster Showcase in the DiGiorgio Campus Center. Students presented their research they conducted on scientific projects over the past year or more from the SURE Summer Program. Students participated in the program from the math, chemistry and biology departments.

The research program was held over the summer in which faculty were mentors to students doing research.

Students got experience working in a research lab.

Some of these students hope to go to grad school and many plan on continuing their research.

There was a wide array of topics and a large turnout at the event. Students ranged from freshmen to seniors.

The majority of the research was chemistry orientated, with a couple projects focused on biology and one project focused on mathematics.

One student geared her reserach toward genetics. Lauren Rhodes, junior biochemistry major, is researching DNA binding in cells--specifically how the Nickel Uptake Regulator would have its binding process changed by excess nickel. She found that it did not appear to affect it.

Her research will continue this summer.

On the other hand, Tyler Couch, senior biochemistry major, is researching the effectiveness of conventional therapies against cancer and how to improve upon said therapies. He studied E. coli in a lab in the hopes that he could study its structure and eventually improve the

ability of the cancer treating sphingosine kinase 1 (SK1) molecules to better bind with cancerous cells. As of right now there is no structure on which to base SK1 inhibitors.

Couch worked on the project last summer and continued his research this past summer. He plans to continue his research which he is for a class.

“One of the hardest things about research is trying to not get frustrated when the results don’t come up how you think they should,” said Couch.

One student has been working on her research since before the program. Laura A. Wilt, senior biochemistry major, has been working on her project since January. Her project focuses on finding peptide inhibitors that will bind so that protein that destroys crops thinks it has found its target but will later be forced to shut down. In the future, she plans on beginning crystallization trials as she continues in this research.

Some students focused their research toward the environment. Kenisha Barber, sophomore biochemistry major, Sarah White, sophomore chemistry major and Justin Waller, sophomore chemistry major, spent eight weeks working on finding a way to use hydrogen gas as energy in order to combat global warming and have a cleaner form of energy. To get an idea of how eco-friendly and powerful such energy would be, one just has to realize that the energy contained in one hour of sunlight is enough energy for one year. The group plans to continue with this research.

The students put their research on large posters with photos to illustrate their experiments. They displayed their research that they worked on over the summer to students and faculty.

Thirty-seven students participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program. The postor showcase was held in the DiGiorgio Campus Center. Photo by Jordan Lent • lentj@mytjnow.com

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One of the hardest things about research is trying not to get frustrated when the results don’t come up how you think they should.

Tyler Couch

Biochemistry major

Tyler Couch presented his research on the subcloning and expression of the Catalytic core domian of Human sphingosine kinase 1 in E. coli. Photo by Jordan Lent • lentj@mytjnow.com

Want to get involved? Interested in doing research?

Talk to your professors about doing research and what you need to do to get involved.

Lauren Wilt presented her research on expression, purification and crystallization of the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria avirulence protein AvrBs1.1. Photo by Jordan Lent • lentj@ mytjnow.com

New way for students to register for intramural sports

By Frances Parrish parrishf@mytjnow.com There are no more crazy unorganized sign-ups for intramural sports. Students listen closely, there is a new way to register and sign up for intramural sports.

Bryan Mery, graduate student of sport and fitness administration explained that intramural sign-ups is through a website called imleagues. com, creating a personal player profile, that keeps track of how many games played and win/loss statis-

tics. Students register on the website, one time and one time only using their Winthrop email.

“It’s like a Facebook page for intramural sports,” Mery said.

There was a team of three people working on uploading all the information into the website and making their web page,personalized with Winthrop colors.

Neil Ostlund, program director of intramural and club sports, and his two graduate assistants, Lisa Citro, graduate student of teaching in physical education and Bryan Mery

worked on the website.

He explained that the account on the website is private, and that only students can log in to the website and see other profiles and schedules of the games. A community member of Rock Hill can only view the sports offered, not the schedule or any of the profiles.

For the administration of intramural sports, “the website makes scheduling the season a lot easier on us,” Mery said.

He described the process of scheduling a season using the website. The

information includes which days of the week dedicated to a certain sport, the field dedicated to a sport and blocked off for a certain time. The website does the work for the coordinators.

For the students, it is easier to register and find a team. There is an option to act as a free agent. The free agent option is for someone who does not have a team to play on and is looking for a team. The individual can send a request to be on a team, or the captain can send a request to the individual to be on their team.

The website is easy to navigate.

There is also a little something for the fans as well, Mery explained. They still have to have an account, but they do not have to play.

They can “follow a team like you would on twitter,” Mery said.

Fans can view the player profiles, upcoming and past games of the team. After an account is made, students can continue to use that same account through the years at Winthrop. Every year that the individual wants to play on a team, they just request it through the website.

To eat or not to eat? That is the question A guide to better dining choices in Thomson.

Attention all Thompson Hall diners: Help is here! The Student Dietetic Association (SDA) wants to help you avoid the notorious “freshman 15” or for that matter, the “sophomore, junior, senior or super senior 15” by teaching you to eat right.

We get it, we hear ya … the situation is less than favorable.

You have a ton of freedom and an all-you-can-eat paradise at your fingertips. Seriously, who is going to stop you from starting dinner with ice cream first?

Uh, yea, that’s right, NO ONE. With all this junk food temptation, it is no wonder college students gain weight and jeopardize their health. In addition, the stressful course work and the jobs with nominal paychecks also contribute to the health plight. But, despite all of the

excuses and “disadvantages” college students are educated and able.

So instead of becoming a victim, conquer your health!!!

Here are some tips for conquering the buffet.

1. Take a lap or two before you grab a plate.

Instead of erasing this belief system, try adjusting it.

Fill your plate with more expensive ingredients, a.k.a. fresh produce!

Carly Donelson

Human Nutrition major

Survey the area and get a good look for healthy foods you enjoy.

Then, make a plan and make a plate. Eat smart!

2. Get your money’s worth in ingredients, not calories.

Sometimes eating at a buffet leaves you with the “I must get my money’s worth” attitude.

3. Monitor your portion sizes.

You can still eat pizza and ice cream! Just try to be reasonable. Try one slice of pizza with a salad and limit your desserts to every other day.

4. Drink at least one cup of water.

Before you guzzle down 3 cups of Fanta, try drinking a cup of water first. Quench your thirst and then slowly enjoy less of your sugary drink.

Red flag: 12 ounces of Fanta (orange) contains approximately 190 calories and 52 grams of sugar!!!

5. Pay attention.

Look at and record what you are eating. Every station has a nutrition breakdown (Thank you Aramark)! So take advantage and add up your calories as you go. Listen to your body and stop eating when you’re full.

If you crave more nutrition insight and info, send us an e-mail at winthropsda@ gmail.com and we will do our best to guide you in the right direction!

What to eat Try these foods Try to stay away in Thomson: from these foods in Thomson: • mustard • oil and vinegar • fruit • hummas with carrots • grilled cheese • vegetables • wheat bread • turkey •wheat toast with peanut butter •water with cucumbers, oranges, limes or lemons

• mayonnaise • ranch dressing • pizza • ice cream • fried foods • fries • ham • white bread • bagel with cream cheese • sugary drinks

Frances Parrish | Science & Technology Editor Parrishf@mytjnow.com

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New professor to begin research at Winthrop

By Frances Parrish parrishf@mytjnow.com Winthrop has gained a new faculty member and researcher. Michelle Parisi is the newest addition to the human nutrition department.

Parisi came from Clemson University where she received her Ph.D. in food technology while teaching some nutrition courses.

Parisi’s research at Clemson involved how estrogen compounds traveled through the food supply chain and how it had an impact on health. She has been focused on this research for three to four years.

While she is continuing her research at Clemson, she is branching off from chickens and estrogen here at Winthrop. Her research involved chickens because they are a good model for the female reproductive system. Parisi found that altering diet for them made changes.

She looked at the estrogen compounds in soy based chicken feed and how they transfered from the feed to the chicken eggs of laying hens.

Her results yielded that higher soy content in feed will definitely increase the amount of estrogenic compound equol in the eggs after the chickens eat the feed. She measured isoflavone equol in the resulting eggs.

Parisi organized her experiment by feeding different groups of chickens different types of feed depending on their soy content. Soy isoflavones have two different roles on health: promoting estrogen activity as an agonist or inhibiting estrogen activity as an antagonist.

Parsis explained that the soy isoflavone equol seems to promote the positive effects of estrogen such as decrease risk of uterine cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease and improve

bone health. Measured bone strength of chickens fed higher soy based feed and found that they had stronger bones than the other chickens fed a low soy diet.

There is a sustainable farm at Clemson that houses about 85 laying hens for research. They got the chicks at four days old and raised them to a year, before they collected data and eggs.

Parisi has some chickens in free range in Clemson. This pertains to small farms who use free range farming. Some farmers will put chickens in the crops to clean up the field. Another question Parisi would like to answer is if chickens have salmonella, and those chickens have access to the crops, does it transfer to the fresh produce?

“How long do we have to have chickens removed from environment before the fields can be replanted?” Parisi asked Parisi has some colleagues at Clemson looking after the chickens. They all collaborated on the research at Clemson. They visit each other when they have collected samples.

“That’s what it is in a nutshell. Chickens, eggs and estrogen,” Parisi said.

Parisi is also interested in food safety in sustainable agriculture practices. She did work on salmonella and campylobacter, a type of bacteria that can be found in livestock and humans, and free range egg production versus conventional egg productions systems.

“The big picture [of her research] is food safety and all the different things that we have in our food,” Parisi said.

Her research here at Winthrop branches off of her research at Clemson and will involve determining the best methodology for extracting, detecting and analyzing estrogen compounds in livestock feed and in chicken tissues and organs. She will bring in samples, store them in her lab and determine the

amount of estrogen in the feed.

She wants to trace how the estrogen transfers from the feed to the different parts of the chicken, and through the waste of the chicken and the egg and then how it will affect the environment.

Parisi’s lab is equipped to explore chemistry and microbiology pertaining to food.

“It’s unusual. Usually a lab either does chemistry or microbiology, not both,” Parisi said. Winthrop supplied most of the lab equipment for Parisi.

Some equipment includes a new rotovapor and centrifuge which helps extracts compounds Michelle Parisi is a new fauclty memeber at Winthrop with a new lab and a new from food. High performance liq- line of research. Photo by Frances Parrish • parrishf@mytjnow.com uid chromatography. She hopes to work with the Chemistry departest with nutrition and food. Her family had some ment using their (HPLC). health conditions, and it interested her that diet and Parisi became interested in research in general food could help make a change in a person’s health. while she worked at Pennington Bio-Medical ReShe received her Master’s degree in clinical search Center in Louisiana. She also worked in a nutrition from Rush in Chicago and a Bachelor’s clinical dialysis clinic and a hospital in which she degree in dietetics from Eastern Illinois University. had the opportunity to work with students. This ex“I came to Winthrop because I loved the philosoperience inspired her to become a professor. phy of the school being student focused. Also, I “They challenged my knowledge. I like that. like research, but I am happy that it is not the priKinda inspiring really,” Parisi said. mary focus,” Parisi said.

She explained that when teaching at the college Parisi has just started moving forward in her relevel, it helps to have a Ph.D. search at Winthrop. She is looking for students in“As I began teaching I just wanted to learn more terested in researching thesis projects in a similar about food composition.” Parisi said. line of work.

Parisi moved to South Carolina about eight years ago. She had relatives in Greenville, S.C., and Clemson happened to be conveniently close to her residence in Easley.

Ever since she was young, Parisi had an inter-

Winthrop hosts S.C. Blackboard users meeting

By Frances Parrish parrishf@mytjnow.com Last Friday, Winthrop hosted the S.C. Blackboard Users Group meeting. In attendance were representatives consisting of faculty or administrative faculty from Clemson University, University of South Carolina, Gardner-Webb University, Winthrop University, North Greenville University and Limestone College.

“It was a great way to network and get together,” said Suzanne Sprouse, director of instructional technology center.

Also in attendance were representatives from companies geared toward college students.

A representative spoke from Blackboard about the program’s updates, and other vendors presented information including Wiley Plus, a textbook publishing company, Internships.com, an internship search engine, Wiley Plus, a textbook publishing company, Course Smart, an e-book company and Calutra, a video company that helps universities to control and distribute

educational videos to students.

What does this meeting mean to Winthrop? Kimarie Whetstone, online learning coordinator explained that Winthrop will be updating Blackboard come winter break.

“Winthrop will receive Service Pack 10,” Sprouse said.

Blackboard offers service packs that release the newest Blackboard system and corrected problems that were reported in the older version. These service packs are released between every 3-6 months. Winthrop updates twice a year during every major break between semesters because there are the fewest users in the system during that time, Whetstone said.

Sprouse explained that Blackboard uses five different sources to decide which problems need to be fixed or any other improvements are needed for Blackboard based on feedback, reported problems and surveys, nationally and internationally.

Blackboard cannot release or promise that all the services presented at the meeting will be in the

service pack. Sprouse described some of the services mentioned

by Blackboard. One such service is Internships.com having its own tab in Blackboard. Internships. com allows students to search the database for internships categorized by criteria, hours, location, etc.

Another service mentioned at the meeting is a new calender system that can link to a Google calender.

“There is also a new social aspect to Blackboard,” Sprouse said. Students can create an avatar with their photo and a short bio of the student.

Even though Blackboard is upgrading its program, it is also working out some issues. Blackboard can fix some problems immediately but others require more time, and the problem is fixed in the next service pack.

Some of the problems experienced by Winthrop faculty include issues loading media to their class homepage. The videos are too big and are creating a longer download and upload time.

Whetstone said that another

History of the Week October 1, 1920: Scientific American reported that the radio, an invention rapidly developing, would soon be used as a medium to broadcast music. By 1919, experiments were being conducted on transmitting informatioin through the radio. Some of the experiments were conducted by the National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. After World War I, became practical technology instead of scientific research. Eventually, radio became one of the most popular mediums of music.

Information complied from history.com.

Winthrop hosted the S.C. Blackboard Users Group meeting. Photo by Rachel Wyatt • special to The Johnsonian problem professors frequently have is uploading test/quizzes to Blackboard.

From the student side of Blackboard, the most frequent problem they experience are complications with the chat tool. The chat

tool requires the latest Java plugin, and not every student-owned computer has the latest Java plugin.

“We worked with IT to install the Java update on the campus computers, so students can have

access to the chat tool,” Whetstone said.

Even though Blackboard hinted at things to come, “we don’t know what will be in the service pack [until we get it],” Sprouse said.

Tech Tip of the Week I always love shortcuts, shaving a few milliseconds off here and there can really add up. So here are some of my most useful tips for improving your computer skills, all of these are for PC and perfect for that last minute paper writing in Dacus.

Save: Ctrl+S Cut: Ctrl+X Copy: Ctrl+C Paste: Ctrl+V Go to Desktop: Windows Key+D Open ‘My Computer’: Windows Key+E Find a Word: Ctrl+F Refresh Page: Ctrl+R or F5 Bold: Ctrl+B Italicize: Ctrl+I Underline: Ctrl+U Switch Between Windows: Ctrl+Tab Close a Window: Ctrl+W Close and Application: Alt+F4 Information complied by Jacob Hallex • halexj@mytjnow.com

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Editor uses sound to promote better sleep I grew up in a Yet, soon I became acclimated rather isolated area. to these sounds and slept through When I say isolated, I them like a baby; however, there mean so far removed seemed to be something lacking in from society that the equation. There were sounds there was literally that I longed for, sounds that ofno light pollution fered comfort and safety, like fan around my house. blades overhead or those crickets I Jacob Wingard took for granted.

Nestled in a little Opinion Editor clearing where the These were sounds that I grew up woods used to be, with, that were in the background I could look up on just about any every time I laid my head down. given night and see more stars than See, sounds are so much more most people will see in their lives. than just that. Each one can have Some people called it the boonies, an effect on the body that is either others said it was just the middle of beneficial or harmful. When one nowhere, but to me it was home. becomes used to these sounds, it beHome was also a place that procomes an integral part of their lives. duced its own little symphony every In my case, it was the insects that night. Between the whip-a-wills, the continually aided me. I lost that barking of dogs and crickets chirping coming to Winthrop this year and it was a wonder that I ever slept. it just began to affect me. I never So when I came to Winthrop, I thought I would miss the sound of didn’t exactly know what to expect chirping more than I did recently. in this suburban district so close to a Suffering from insomnia for the hospital. second night in a row, two weeks Initially, I was worried that I back, I decided to take a walk and would never get any sleep. At times, clear my head. I really didn’t know this happened to be true. It became what this was going to accomplish, a habit of mine to count the number but it seemed to be a better idea of sirens that went rushing by on a than lying restlessly in bed. nightly basis; my record is around As I walked alone through that twenty-two. dreary night, I heard something that

I hadn’t heard in a while--the sound of crickets chirping in the night and other insects singing their own little tunes.

At first, I didn’t think much of it.

It was just background noise for my thoughts, something to give the night a life beyond the routine passing of cars.

I was almost floored moments later by how tired I was and how easy it was to fall asleep. The sounds of those insects were probably the sweetest lullaby I had heard since I was a baby; returning to my dorm and opening the window, I collapsed.

The dead don’t sleep like I did and when I got up, there were no aches, pains or anything needed to get going. It was like being remade.

My sleep cycle had grown to be dependent on those noises, noises that I realized help comfort me from unnatural silence.

If you can take anything out of this article, it is this: Sound isn’t just background noise; it has a lasting effect on the mind and body. Back home, out in the middle of nowhere, I sleep like a rock with no trouble at all. Here I’m lucky if I get more than five hours of solid sleep in.

Graphic by Zach Greenway - Greenwayz@mytjnow.com There is just too much going on.

Between the cars going by or someone shouting, it’s difficult to find a good night’s rest.

I’ve turned to playing ambient

sounds off my laptop for the time being. It helps a lot, but I’ve found there isn’t quite anything like the sounds of natural insects to put me out for the night.

Weighing in on Burger Studio Don’t stress, just do I love burgers as nient. I like being able to choose much as the next what options I want without being American. There’s misheard or having an order just that special satmixed up with someone else’s. isfaction that comes The curly fries are heavenly, and from biting into a the cheese they use on the burgers good cheeseburger, is also very delicious. It’s definitely akin to waking up Deborah Crocker better than trekking all the way to from a really good Special to the John- McDonald’s across the street for sonian nap or finally getfood that may or may not be good. ting that new phone you’ve always The Cons: I am not a fan of the wanted. bread they use. I know that there Nearly everyone adds cheeseare different types of burger buns burgers to their menus for custombut….the ones they use at Burger ers who prefer the simple pleasures of life and for parents with children who only know that the words ‘chicken parmesan’ and ‘noodles alfredo’ sound more like alien planets than appetizing dishes.

But Winthrop University has brought to us Burger Studio, located in the ground floor of the DiGiorgio Student Center. This restaurant has a unique feature – instead of telling the nice men at the counter what we want, we fill it in on the computer screens.

It’s easy and convenient, and it’s also good for people who simply don’t like to do a lot of talking.

Students line up at Burger Studio in DIGS. The Pros: For one thing, the selfPhoto by Jacob Wingard. ordering is very quick and conve-

Studio almost seem as if they take over the burger itself with bread.

Sometimes the meat seems to be undercooked, and the regular fries don’t seem to have much flavor in them at all.

The prices, however, stand out to me the most – $10 for a burger, fries and a drink seems a bit much considering what I could get at another restaurant for the same price.

I imagine we’re paying for the use of the computer when we order, but considering our status as poor college students with café cash, I believe the prices are rather steep.

This is in no way saying, “don’t go to Burger Studio,” because it certainly has its nice points. Honestly, I think that it’d be better to go for one of the cheaper options in Digs simply because it’s better to save your café cash (not that I’m one to talk) for Starbucks and Eagle Express.

But whatever option you choose to go with, think about how bad you really want that cheeseburger. Will getting a cheeseburger from Burger Studio change your life?

If so, Godspeed, comrade. Godspeed.

Students practice religious tolerance Thomas Alvulture Music education major

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What they believe isn’t so much as important as their intentions for using it.

Gong Ruixin

Senior accounting major

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It’s ok, it doesn’t matter what someone else believes.

Daniel James

Freshman digital info design major

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It doesn’t bother me, as long as you’re a good person, you serve Christ’s message.

Our Say

Yes, these last couple of weeks have been a true test of patience, willingness and sanity as all of us start to get a real taste of what this semester is going to be like.

The last couple of weeks mark the beginning of tests that need to be studied for, papers and projects that need to be turned in and the realization that time is speeding up while your workload grows.

For many students, this is the time of the year that truly puts them to the test (no pun intended).

This is the time when every teacher decides to give their first tests, demand their first glimpses of how much we pay attention and what we put into being good students.

As the tests start piling up, papers start getting finished and your eyes start blurring from all that reading, just remember why you are here.

There is a reason your teachers push you the way they do. They want you to leave Winthrop feeling good about what you have done and ready to go into the real world.

Yes, it seems that all your teachers sit down in secret meetings waiting

to plan their tests and papers for the same time, but that’s not the case.

We are all stressed but the only way you are going to feel better is if you sit down and get everything done.

Once you get that paper or test out of the way, then you will feel that lift taken off your shoulders (at least until the next thing is due).

While it may seem impossible to balance everything going on in your life, you have to stay positive and stay on top of things the best you can.

Complaining helps too. Tell your friends about how your teacher is out to get you (not really). I’m sure they feel the same way.

Whether it’s the old-fashioned way or on your iPad, keeping a planner is a good way to stay organized and will help you stay afloat in the sea of work your professors will have put on you this year.

So try not to get overwhelmed.

Rather than sitting in your room stressing over everything, sit down with your laptop, books and a box of Oreos and get it done. I promise you’ll feel much better.

Social media spawns mediocre artists

As an artist, getting your work out for people to see is easier said than done, but it’s a cinch compared to 15 or 20 years ago.

Zach Greenway Before the dawn of Art major digital technology, visual artists, musicians, writers and directors had to expend much more effort to find an audience for their creations.

Now, it’s a breeze to release art of almost any medium upon the world.

With all the video, music and image hosting websites out today, any person can create an online presence for his or her art. I wonder though, is this actually good for art?

If you googled the word “art” or “artist” you could probably spend the rest of your life sifting through all the insignificant images and pages that would surface. Regardless of skill level, any individual can bombard the web with material. Unfortunately, this material is usually rather mediocre. For example, I’ve seen plenty of “professional photographer” Facebook pages boasting

nothing but a few hundred “likes” and a Nikon.

This brings me to the “like” button. Many social networking sites have one, whether it takes the form of a little heart or a “thumbs up” symbol. This sounds like a nice positive feature and all but it doesn’t promote critical thinking or analysis whatsoever.

The reason movie, art and writing critics exist is to uphold standards.

With the internet, everybody has the power to critique and many times this is achieved through clicking the “like” button. Anybody who fancies his/her self a critic can start a blog to comment on movies, art or music.

I say, for the most part, leave this to the professionals.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that people can share art, music and videos online but if there are no standards for the things posted then there is nothing to stop mediocre material from flooding the internet. There are millions of people out there with internet access, but only a few with great talent.

Jacob Wingard | Opinion Editor wingsardj@mytjnow.com

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Firewater 110 gets new name, new outlook

Firewater 110 not only has a new name, but a new look as well. Photo by Rachel Wyatt • special to The Johnsonian

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn schallhornk@mytjnow.com The seasons are changing and with that, a popular bar across the street from Winthrop University is also changing.

What used to be The Money has transitioned quite smoothly into Firewater 110, according to Haley Wortkoetter, sophomore special education major by day and shot girl at the bar by night.

Besides new ownership, Firewater 110 has remodeled much of the interior. “It has physically changed to

be a more suitable party bar,” Wortkoetter explained. “The atmosphere is cleaner.”

But Firewater 110 has not just transformed physically. According to Wortkoetter, the bar is frequented by a different type of regulars. “You don’t have to worry about dangerous people at the bar anymore,” Wortkoetter said. “Everybody knows everybody.”

With good music and decently priced drinks, Wortkoetter recommends the new Firewater 110 as a place where Winthrop students can easily go to hang out with friends.

“You can even bring schoolwork,” Wortkoetter said. “It’s a relaxed environment but also a good place to party.”

“We have a bigger parking lot which is an issue at Pub House,” Wortkoetter said. However, Firewater 110 is located directly across the street from Wofford Residence Hall, which is considered perfect walking distance by Wortkoetter.

A majority of the staff has changed as well. Wortkoetter was one of the few employees who stayed on through the transition from The Money to Firewater 110. Wortkoet-

Winthrop’s lone Swazi student speaks

SWAZI • from front In Swaziland it gets cold but doesn’t snow. Simelane said he had the worst winter experiences living in Buffalo. He saw snow for the first time and he said he was “completely unprepared.”

“In Swaziland the worst wintertime experience is maybe freezing,” Simelane said.

Weather isn’t the only difference between Swaziland and America. The culture in America is different from that of Simelane’s home country. Swaziland is about the size of New Jersey, with a population of 1.1 million and an abundance of national pride, he said.

Swaziland has a parliamentary government and kings practice polygamy. The previous king had between 12 and 15 wives and the current king has 12. Simelane was quick to point out that most citizens don’t practice polygamy.

“It’s not common per say, but it’s something in our culture for certain people who choose it. I don’t know anyone who has more than one wife. You rarely come

across people who are even divorced,” he said.

People in Swaziland have lots of respect for their country and they show it often. There are festivals to celebrate celibacy among women, pay homage to the Queen, to thank God for the past year and to celebrate the new year, just to name a few. It’s events like these that bring the country together.

“I associate America as the land of opportunity and Swaziland as the land of culture. We have our own set of issues, but culture keeps us hoping for better,” Simelane said.

Similar to America’s economic issues, Swaziland has high unemployment. There are also high poverty rates and problems with getting education to lower income children. There are three main universities but the waiting lists are lengthy.

A better education is one of the positives for coming to school in America.

English and Siswati are spoken in Swaziland so knowing the language made coming to the U.S. a little easier.

After graduating high

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ter explained that most of the lower level staff were replaced because “the old people didn’t want to deal with the changes being made.”

Wortkoetter says that the staff at Firewater 110 wants to appeal more to Winthrop students. “The managers are wanting to host more frat parties since it is a college town,” Wortkoetter said.

When asked if the bar had any issues with underage drinking, Wortkoetter replied, “No, not anymore.”

Wortkoetter began work at the former Money six months ago. She hung out with the other employees

outside of the bar before deciding to seek employment there as well.

A typical night for Wortkoetter includes her coming into the bar, getting a tray and pouring out shots.

Wednesday and Saturday nights are the busiest but Wortkoetter looks forward to getting to walk around socializing with customers.

Firewater 110 is open Tuesday through Sunday 8 p.m. to 1:45 a.m.

Culture Club features Costa Rica

By Chequira Harris Special to The Johnsonian

With Winthrop’s Global Learning Initiative, students are taught to open up to all the cultures.

“We’re becoming a global economy and a global nation,” said freshman English major Linh Tran.

On the third Thursday of every month the Culture Club meets and explores a different country together with fun, games and food. A major focus a global perspective. “[A global perspective] allows you to see what goes on in different cultures and how different people live,” said Anita Harris, sophomore broadcast major.

The first meeting of the year was held in the DiGiorgio student center.

This month’s country was Costa Rica.

The meeting started out with Reneé Rountree, president of the Culture Club, leading introductions and ice breakers.

Rountree has had the opportunity to visit Costa Rica. She brought along things that she kept from

Costa Rica such as snack wrappers, a water bottle and a photo album so that she could remember her journey. An important lesson that Rountree said she learned was in “cultural relativism.”

“We are all citizens of the world, we are all interconnected ... [things that happen in the world] does matter, it does affect you. It might not be directly, but it expands your horizons and it makes you grow as a person.”

“It’s important to build a global perspective because we live in such an international community...I feel like you’ll be left behind if you don’t start that exploration now,” said freshman history major Rachel Burns.

In the near-future, the Culture Club will be visiting the Indian Festival and the International Festival.

They meet on the third Thursday of every month at 11 a.m. Contact president Reneé Rountree at cultureclub@mailbox.winthrop.edu for more information.

Piece of the week ‘All Tied Up’ by Rhiannon Bode

Top: City shot of Simelane’s hometown of Mbabane in Swaziland. Bottom: Simelane’s sister and nephew enjoying a meal. Photos courtesy of Muziwakhe Simelane school, Simelane came south for college. He spent a semester and a half at Queens University in Charlotte before coming to Winthrop.

He finds many differences between living in the north and the south. In the south the people are different.

“Everyone feels like they know you after they meet you,” Simelane said.

Simelane will be finishing up graduate school in December and says he’s excited to graduate. He just got married about a year ago and his wife and he plan on staying

in the United States for at least the next few years.

He says that maybe if the economy back home improves then he might move back but for now he’s happy where he is.

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I don’t know anyone who has more than one wife.

Muziwakhe Simelane

Photo courtesy of Colin Rupp Rhiannon Bode is a graphic design major who spent over 52 hours working on her alphabet font project. The piece is made with wood, nails and dental floss. Bode spent eight hours doing research and prototyping for the project.

Every week, in the Arts and Culture section, an artist’s work will be featured. To get your work featured e-mail the section editor at irizarryz@mytjnow.com.

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Gangnam style hits Winthrop

K

orean rapper Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video Sarah Auvil was released in July of this year and Arts and Culture Editor is now the most liked video in YouTube history, with more than two million likes.

Meanwhile, every time Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” gets played on the radio, Western pop continues to die a slower, more painful death.

With our King of Pop’s death in 2009 and in the past 10 years in general, there seems to have been a decline in the quality of mainstream American music. Dubstep, autotune – how come so many talented people can’t make it in music, but many of the people who’ve made it have no talent? Americans actually

seem more entertained by non-talent, as seen

by Rebecca Black’s “Friday” and every song by YouTube rapper Krispy Kreme.

And then, seemingly out of nowhere, came Psy from South Korea with the oh-so-catchy “Gangnam Style.” With more than 200 million views on YouTube, Psy has been on Ellen, Saturday Night Live and even recently taught Brittany Spears how to do the famous and silly dance from his song, which resembles riding an invisible horse.

Psy is not the only extremely talented Korean pop artist by any means. Many other artists like Wonder Girls and SNSD produce great English singles, which have been slower to catch on here – and then somehow the most eccentric and awkward Kpop song ever hits it big. To prove my point, ask most Kpop fans which artists they like, and you will probably hear Super Junior, Big Bang, or SNSD. From my experience, many Americans don’t really like listening to music not in their language because they’re not used to it, so that this would be “the song” to bring Kpop to

Western audiences has really surprised me.

So what does this mean for Winthrop? As a school striving to learn more about globalization situated in a region known for being a little slow to catch onto world trends, I think Psy’s song will dispel a lot of myths.

Many people think of rap as solely a subset of African American culture and think of Asian music only in the traditional sense, while in actuality, the Korean music industry is extremely competitive and often innovative.

When you make it big in Korea, you’re not chilling and rolling in your cash. Their artists are constantly practicing better dance routines and being pushed to their limits by their entertainment companies.

Americans apparently feel threatened by this, the thought that we could actually be importing most of our music very soon from people who speak English as a second language and being schooled dance styles which we invented, as seen by the new movie “Battle of the Year” starring Chris Brown, who heroically takes the Koreans on in street dancing

and wins one for America.

These fears are a bit late, though. The radio song “Like Money” featuring Akon is by a Korean group, Wonder Girls, who now have their own show on Nickelodeon. That American Adidas commercial you thought was starring Nicki Minaj and Jeremy Scott? It features 2NE1, a Korean girl group about to debut in the U.S. with an upcoming English album produced by wil.i.am. Oh, and Jeremy Scott also designs their clothing.

Music is already global and many don’t even realize it. You can still enjoy a song that’s not in your language, as we’re starting to learn.

But good news: another country producing good music is nothing to freak out about.

Other countries listen to our music, why is it so bad if it’s the other way around? The global market gives all music artists a challenge to be better, which I think is good – and will hopefully mean that substandard music will be put to rest by a new wave of talent and higher quality in the mainstream.

A day in the “slippers” of a WU dance major

What goes into a play

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn schallhornk@mytjnow.com

The final curtains close, the houselights come up and the audience erupts in applause. The play has finally ended.

No more late night meetings or last minute rehearsals. This should come as a relief to theater majors, right?

Wrong. “The last performance is actually heartbreaking,” said Allison Zobel, senior theater education major.

That relief is missing due in part to the countless hours of behind-the-scenes work that goes into directing a play.

Zobel, who is directing her first show this semester, has been planning for the past year and a half.

The first step for Zobel was choosing the play. She eventually chose “The Laramie Project” which is based off of hate crimes committed against a gay student in Wyoming in 1998, inevitably leading to his murder.

“I chose this play because I personally believe in gay rights,” she said. “In my opinion, we as people can be who we want to be. Hate crimes equal telling somebody they can’t be who they are.”

Next she had to research and write a proposal to submit to the theater department. Zobel had to include her vision, script and budget.

Her proposal granted her suggestions on how to run her show as well as a team, including a faculty and tech advisor.

“I read the script over the summer about five times,” Zobel said. Not only did was she infinitely familiar with her own script, she needed to have a concrete vision set in place before auditions were held.

The first day of school finally arrived and for Zobel, it was not just about the beginning of a whole new set of classes.

Auditions for “The Laramie Project” were also held.

Zobel looked for actors who were genuinely excited to be a part of her work as well as were versatile in the

roles that they could play. According to Zobel, each actor is cast as a minimum of eight characters.

“I had to make sure [the actors] could play different roles and take direction,” Zobel said.

But the actors were not the only ones who had to come prepared. Zobel created a list of the types of actors she was looking for in advance. She also broke apart her script, memorizing sections of it herself that she could assign to actors during callbacks. Overall, Zobel saw more than 50 auditions.

Although Zobel had the help of her faculty advisor and her stage manager to decide who to cast, ultimately it was her sole decision. “I needed to see that they were able to play totally opposite characters,” said Zobel.

Audition challenges do not end with figuring out who was the most qualified for each part. Zobel also had to have backups as another show was casting at the exact same time.

Zobel is flanked with a production team which includes set, lights, props, costume, projection and two sounds designers. Those students, along with a stage manager and assistant stage manager, are all assigned to Zobel.

Everyone meets once a week for at least an hour to make sure everything is up to date with the play.

“Everyone has a long list of things they have to do,” Zobel said tiredly.

“They bring it to me to make sure it fits in with my vision and schedule.”

For example, the lights designer must decide which types of lights to use and what kind of mood he wishes to set with the lights. Then he must plan out the placement of the lights on a board to submit to Zobel ensuring that his vision and hers align. “It’s a very detailed job,” Zobel explained.

Zobel herself works with the actors making sure the characters are beginning to come to life.

“The most difficult thing for me personally is trying to effectively com-

municate with so many different people clearly,” Zobel explained.

During tech week, everyone will run through the show just as though it is a real performance. All of the design elements must be added to what the actors and Zobel have already been creating.

“We’re all doing homework and tests and schoolwork but we’re all at the theater from six to eleven,” Zobel said.

Finally, it will eventually be time for the actual performances. Everyone performs each night, and then on the last night, the props come down and taken into storage.

About a week after the last show, the cast and crew of the show will attend “talk backs.” Everyone is welcome to attend, but it is mostly for feedback for the cast and crew.

And finally, that is where the play ends for Zobel. It begins with a vision yet as the rehearsals go on, Zobel is able to learn more about herself and just what she is capable of.

“It’s a challenge to make it all create one cohesive performance,” Zobel said.

Even though all of the hard work and late nights in Johnson will be over, Zobel is not looking forward to the day when she will not be working on “The Laramie Project.”

“Every show you do, you really do become a family with the cast and crew,” Zobel said. “It’s a close setting and powerful show. You really do become close.”

Zobel describes the feelings after the end of a show for the cast and production crew as “post-show depression.”

“It’s hard to let a show go,” Zobel said. She laughed.

But for Zobel, her plans do not end when the final curtains close. She plans to work in children’s theater after graduation before eventually moving to Chicago, a city big on theater. After that, Zobel plans to become a teacher.

“I have a plan and when one thing fails, I’ll move on to the next,” she said.

A dance major like Myah Manuel, above, often has to balance performance rehearsals with classes for many different forms of dance and general education. Photo courtesy of Myah Manuel.

By Rachel Richardson Special to The Johnsonian Academics, ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap classes, then rehearsals. This is what a typical week sounds like to sophomore dancer, Myah Manuel from Beaufort, S.C. Manuel is a dance performance major and has been dancing since she was 10-years-old. She aspires to become a cruise ship dancer for Royal Caribbean. Cruise ship dancers often get the opportunity to travel with cruise lines with free room and board for six months out of the year. There is musical theater dancing, contemporary partner work and “Ariel” work on these cruise ships and that Manuel would enjoy the most.

After her career as a dancer, Manuel sees herself opening her own dance studio. She would like to open a studio in New York City, Florida, California or

even Charlotte.

While still at Winthrop, Manuel works hard for her dance diploma.

“I have five classes a day and half of them are dance,” Manuel said. Dancers have ballet classes and modern classes twice a week, rehearsals every day from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. or from 8 p.m. to 9:15 p.m., and required conditioning.

After all of her hard work, on top of her other academic classes, Manuel admits that she is, “mentally tired... [and] physically exhausted.”

She explained how often times people think that art majors have it easier and they don’t have to do as much work, but she set the record straight by saying, “you almost have to do twice the work as everyone else because you still have to have all of those educational classes and dance on top of that, so yeah it can be really exhausting and tiring.”

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SPIRIT • from front

At what point did you become so disillusioned that you did not care how the soccer, volleyball or basketball team beat a fellow rival this past weekend?

I’m sure a number of you are now thinking, “Why does it matter?” I can’t imagine not having a sense of pride about my school.

What’s the point of earning a degree if you can’t proudly say that you are an alumnus of Winthrop University? Supporting our athletic teams should be a priority.

We should support all organizations and teams that represent Winthrop, if it’s a sporting team, the Wind Symphony or GLOBAL. Not only is our individual support relevant, it is important.

I find that we can all bond as a student body if we all have pride in our school.

Athletes have commented about how a fuller stadium or coliseum affects their performance positively. Amelia Anderson of the women’s soccer team comments that “It is awesome having a huge crowd for our games. It builds our energy

hearing the crowd roar when we are doing well.” I attend a good amount of Winthrop games not because I have to, but because I enjoy them.

I have noticed student attendance slipping in the past few years, but the stadium is normally packed when it is important games such as the playoffs or against our biggest rivals.

What many fans need to realize is that you stick by your team regardless of the game or opponent. It doesn’t matter if it is a blowout game or the Big South title game. Make an appearance!

Kjersti Traaen, also of the women’s soccer team said “There is an indescribable feeling about playing on Eagle Field under the lights with the stands filled.”

I can say from a band member’s perspective that a full stadium or coliseum energizes even me to get into the game and play for the athletes and fans. Again, keep the band jokes to yourself.

I encourage all of you, regard-

wearing a Winthrop shirt and showing your fellow students support. Get loud, be vocal!

Freshman students, if you are already pumped about going to games and supporting Winthrop, don’t ever lose that momentum!

Be proud that you are an Eagle; it’s something that we all should remember. It really beats sitting around debating with your friends about what to do or where to hang out, or if you are in the mood to drive to Charlotte to find something to do.

Plus, there is nothing more exhilarating than being in an arena full of cheering fans and students when a Winthrop team

pulls a win. I remember when the men’s basketball team won the Big South conference title in 2010. Seeing the joy in the athletes’ eyes and feeling the pride I had for my school was awesome.

So if you take anything from this column, just think. The more students make it out to the games, the more pumped the athletes will be. This will lead to more wins and better records, which will lead to conference titles.

This is your school. Be proud of not only our athletic teams’ accomplishments but what any team or organization representing Winthrop succeeds in.

“”

Graphic by Zach Greenway • greenwayz@mytjnow.com less of your academic status to attend more games. There is

Upcoming Games Men’s Soccer

September 25th - USC Upstate at Eagle Field, 7 p.m.

September 29th - UNCA at Asheville, 12 p.m.

October 6th - High Point at Eagle Field, 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer

September 27th - High Point at Eagle Field, 7 p.m.

September 30th - Campbell at Campbell, 2 p.m.

October 4th - Longwood at Longwood, 5:30 p.m.

nothing humiliating about heading out to the coliseum or field

There is an indescribable feeling about playing on Eagle Field under the lights with the stands filled.

Kjersti Traaen

Women’s soccer team

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September 28th - Presbyterian at Home, 7 p.m.

October 5th - UNCA at Home, 7 p.m.

October 6th - Gardner-Webb at Home, 2 p.m.

Cross Country

September 29th - Charlotte Cross Country Invitational (Men’s and Women’s) at UNCC

Women’s Tennis

September 29th - ITA Women’s All American Championship October 5th - Wake Forrest Invitational

Women’s Golf

September 30th - Starmount Fall Classic October 5th - Winthrop Intercollegiate

A chat with women’s basketball head coach Kevin Cook

By Casey White whitec@mytjnow.com Over the summer, Winthrop announced that Kevin Cook would be taking over as women’s basketball head coach. Cook was the assistant coach during the 20112012 school year and is “very pleased” with the promotion to head coach.

Before taking the coaching position at Winthrop, Cook coached at Gallaudet University. Although Cook’s stint at Gallaudet was successful he felt that he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to coach at Winthrop.

“I saw what a treasure and what a gem of the south that Winthrop is,” Cook said, “so I knew I wanted to be a part of Winthrop.”

Although this year will be Cook’s first year as head Coach at Winthrop, he has had prior experience in head coaching for many years on a number of teams. To Cook, the transition from assistant coach to head coach will not be too difficult and will just be a matter of “getting back on the saddle.”

Cook not only plans to bring his experience in head coaching to the team, but he hopes to bring consistent energy and excitement

about basketball as well.

“I want most every practice to be the kind of practice that our players have when they first picked up the game,” Cook said.

“That’s the kind of excitement and passion that I want our players to look forward to everyday in practice. I don’t want them to dread coming to workout.”

Cook believes that if his players bring energy to practice they will be able to improve on an individual level and that will allow the team to improve as a whole.

Cook hopes that improving the team, as individuals, will allow them to play their best basketball in March in the Big South Conference Tournament. Cook feels that the effort the team puts into this goal and each game will be the deciding factor in how far they get.

“If we, everyday, give it our best effort the wins and the loses will take care of themselves,” Cook said. “I don’t think that there is a program in the Big South that is practicing to finish second. We’re no different.”

Cook believes that his team has a good chance to make it far, because the chemistry between players has been really strong so far this year. Cook will take that

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strong chemistry and work on building up the team’s defense positioning and effort in order to make them even stronger.

Cook appears to have an extremely strong connection with each member of the team and feels that they will all play important roles on the team this year.

“I’m excited to work with everybody on the roster,” Cook said. “I think that each one of them has the potential to contribute to the success of our program.

We’re going to play an up tempo style which will facilitate playing time for a lot of people.”

In past years, Cook has worked with both WNBA teams as well as teams on a national level, but he enjoys college athletics because he has a chance to impact the players in a way that he isn’t able to at higher levels. Cook believes that working at the college level will provide him with the opportunity to build a solid foundation in the player’s lives and have an impact on their lives after basketball.

While Cook seems to enjoy working with the women’s basketball team, his players appear to feel just as strongly about him being coach.

“He’s my favorite coach by far,

hands down,” said senior Diana Choibekova. “He’s a great guy. I look up to him, and he’s awesome all around.”

Pat Kelsey becoming the men’s basketball coach this year at Winthrop has had an impact on Cook as well. Cook feels that Kelsey is bringing a spirit and an energy that is much needed to Winthrop basketball.

Kelsey has been trying to get students interested in basketball at Winthrop and Cook hopes that fans will take note of this and show up to the women’s basketball games. Cook noted that all women’s practices are open to the public and anyone who is interested in coming should call or email the women’s basketball offices to find out practice times.

Cook hopes that this effort will increase the amount of fans in the stands at games as well.

“We want as many students at the game that are able to make it,” Cook said.

“I know every student’s schedule is busy. When they come out, I just want them to know that they are appreciated.”

While Cook seems to be excited about the upcoming season at Winthrop he made sure to note that nothing would be possible

Women’s basketball head coach Kevin Cook Photos courtesy Tim Cowie/winthropphotos.com without the hard work of his fellow coaches and staff.

“I’m very proud of our staff,” Cook said. “They work at a championship level everyday.

With that kind of effort from our staff and our players, good things

are going to happen and we’re going to be a program the Winthrop community can be proud of. “

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Big South Standings Men’s Soccer 1. Longwood 2. Coastal Carolina 3. High Point 4. Liberty 5. Presbyterian 6. Radford 7. Gardner-Webb 8. Winthrop 9. Campbell 10. VMI 11. UNC-A

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Panthers need an identity

By Sam Kmiec Special to The Johnsonian

Through three weeks of the regular season, we have seen two different Panther teams. There is the high flying, high scoring team that showed up week two and there is the stagnant, slow paced team. It seems like this team will only go as far as Cam Newton will take them, which is not a good sign.

The NFC South is up for grabs this year, as the Saints have looked abysmal in their first three games and many experts have been picking Carolina to take over the division. In the opening game against division rival, Tampa Bay, the Panthers came out flat and put up an embarrassing 10 points. Newton could not get anything going, both in the air and on the ground. Once an opposing team can contain Newton, the Panthers have no weapons to lean back on.

Their number one running back, DeAngelo Williams, has only rushed for 118 yards on 31 attempts this season. With the Panthers being a team that is sup

posed to put up a lot of points, they are hindered by the fact that they have no rushing attack after Newton. Now Cam is a great leader, but he is still too young to put an entire offense on his back. He needs some protection if the aerial assault is not working during a game.

Okay, it’s not like the defense is shutting down the opposition. After giving up only 16 points to Tampa Bay in week one, they have surrendered a combined 71 points to the Giants and Saints. Opponents average 139.3 rushing yards against the Panthers, which makes them ranked 26th in the NFL in rush defense. They even gave up 184 rushing yards to Andre Brown of the Giants, who had not gotten game action since 2010.

The defense needs to step up for the remainder of the season because Newton and the offense cannot be in a shootout every game.

The Panthers head to Atlanta on Sunday. The Falcons have been impressive so far this season and Matt Ryan has made them an offensive powerhouse. It will

Game Time- 1p.m. Sunday at Atlanta

What’s going on in the wide world of Winthrop sports?

Sports Briefs Men’s soccer defeats ETSU in overtime

Women’s Soccer 1. Liberty 2. Longwood 3. Winthrop 4. High Point 5. Radford 6. Campbell 7. Charleston Southern 8. Gardner-Webb 9. Coastal Carolina 10. Presbyterian 11. UNC-A 12. VMI

be a huge test for the defense and we will see if they can contain Julio Jones and the rest of Atlanta’s elite receiving core. Cam should not have too much of a problem this week because the Falcon’s defense is among the lower ranks of the NFL. He will need to make better decisions in the air though. He has already thrown for five interceptions compared to just two touchdowns. He tries to force a lot of passes that do not need to be thrown, but he is still very young and decision making will come with maturity.

Carolina cannot afford to lose another interdivisional game this early in the season. They have already lost to the Buccaneers and with the Falcons playing at a high level, the Panthers need to have the upper hand on head to head matchups. The Panthers are 7-15 against the Falcons over the last 10 years, but Newton may have something to say about that. Atlanta is a heavy favorite in this game due to the inconsistency of Carolina.

This past Saturday the men’s soccer team won in an intense match against ETSU ending 3-2. This win raises Winthrop’s ranking to 3-4. It was Marc Segarra’s winning goal in the last three seconds of the first overtime that made Winthrop the victor. ETSU took the lead in the 73rd minute, but Winthrop’s defense pushed further to tie up the game and go into overtime.

Tom Banfield finished the match with three saves, as well as Ryan Coulter.

Winthrop finished with a 14-11 advantage in shots. The team will play this Tuesday against USC Upstate at home at 7p.m.

Volleyball defeats Coastal Carolina, falls to Charleston Southern

Women’s golf accepting awards at the 2012 Highlander Invitational Photo by Rachel Wyatt • Special to The Johnsonian

Volleyball 1. Liberty 2. High Point 3. Gardner-Webb 4. Winthrop 5. Charleston Southern 6. Presbyterian 7. Coastal Carolina 8. Radford 9. Campbell 10. UNC-A

In the conference opener this past Friday, the Lady Eagles overcame a difficult match against Coastal Carolina to open the season 1-0. Kristin Cruse led the team with a personal best career high of 18 kills, with Rachel Lenz adding 11. Winthrop fell slightly behind in the first set, but took its first lead of the set at 15-14 to give them a lead and take the first set 25-22. The Eagles took charge of the second half, though they did work through some challenges from the Chanticleers. The match ended 3-2. Head coach Julie Torbett commented “I’m proud of the team for delivering a loss to Coastal on the grand opening of its new arena.” Coach Torbett, I couldn’t agree more. The next day the team traveled to North Charleston to face Charleston Southern. Though they finished with double digit kills, the Eagles fell in five sets against the Buccaneers. The loss left the team with a record of 1-1. The team will host Presbyterian at 7p.m. on Friday.

The golf teams’ fall season begins This past weekend the golf teams began their season at the 2012 Highlander Invitational in Draper Valley, VA. Meagan Wallace got her Winthrop career off to a good start with a one-stroke victory that put the women’s team to a second place team finish. Sophomore Rachel Wyatt claimed third place right after Wallace. Head coach Jodi Wendt commented that the invitational was a great start to the fall season. The women’s team will host the Winthrop Classic on October 6-7 at the Rock Hill Country Club.

Men’s Tennis 1. Campbell 2. Charleston Southern 3. Coastal Carolina 4. Gardner-Webb 5. Liberty 6. Longwood 7. Presbyterian 8. Radford 9. UNC-A 10. Winthrop

Women’s Tennis 1. Campbell 2. Coastal Carolina 3. Gardner-Webb 4. Liberty 5. Longwood 6. Presbyterian 7. Radford 8. UNC-A 9. Winthrop

Rachel Wyatt and Meagan Wallace holding scores Photo by Rachel Wyatt • Special to The Johnsonian

Women’s soccer defeating Charleston Southern Photo by Shelby Chiasson • chiassons@mytjnow.com

NFL’s replacements are not holding up to standards

By Shelby Chiasson chiassons@mytjnow.com If you don’t live underneath a rock or on a secluded island, you have heard about the NFL scandal that occurred this past Monday during the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers game. I’m sure your Facebook home page is plagued with terrible memes depicting the replacement referees as much as mine has been. Regardless of which team others support, football fans are outraged at the blatant disregard for rules on the field, and I have to agree. After a ruling that a Seattle receiver caught the ball in a tangle of players, the referees deemed the Seahawks the victors against the Packers with a final score of 14-12.

After much deliberation from the NFL, they still upheld the Seattle victory even though they admitted the referees should have called pass interference. Senior Edward Granger commented, “As a fan, I am frustrated. Its not like they are not making enough money. What kind of rules and regulations could the NFL be putting in their contracts to make them this upset?” The officials became locked out in June after contracts had expired. Since the preseason and regular season began, replacements have been taking overthe jobs. Not only has this game affected the opinions and respect of fans, but it has messed over their checking accounts as well. It was estimated that $150200 million was lost in bets on the game. You know a story has reached scandalous proportions when the President tweets about how the referee lockout needs to end soon. I’m sure we all hope the lock out will end soon, so all of our favorite teams will have a fair opportunity to play. Until then, terrible jokes and memes will plaster the Internet. Have fun while it lasts!

Referees call the fated pass by a Seattle receiver, leaving the final 14-12

Photo by Associated Press • Special to The Johnsonian

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