Issue #3

The Seminole Scribe

Issue No. 3

Seminole State College of Florida

October 18 , 2012

The scene outside of the exit of The Walking Dead: Dead Inside/Photo credit: Ashley Crooke

Panic in the Theme Park: Halloween Horror Nights 22

By: Kimberley Lewis After more than twenty years of horror and gore, Universal Studios in Orlando kicks off the fall season with this year’s installment of Halloween Horror Nights. Event creators are returning with old favorites and all new ghoulish attractions including stage shows, street performances and pop-culture themed haunted houses. This annual event opened on Sept. 21, 2012 for its twenty second anniversary, and continues on select nights through Oct. 31, 2012.

Since 1991, Halloween Horror Nights has been Central Florida’s premiere destination to see original characters like Jack the Clown, SINdy, and the Caretaker; as well as Hollywood favorites like Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. The event is also armed with catchy phrases to predict the terror from “Horror Comes Home” to “Choose Thy Fear.”

MAIN ATTRACTIONS: MAZES/HOUSES This year’s HHN holds a new cast of attractions and houses, many adapted from popular films and television series. Possibly the most anticipated is AMC’s The Walking Dead, Dead Inside house, where guests can walk the streets amongst undead “walkers” while they feast on human flesh. Adam Piercy, a Sanford/Lake Mary student,

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said the house stays true to the television series.

“The walkers are so realistic, and (the house) uses great references to the show like the RV and Hershel’s farm.”

Mr. Piercy said.

The Silent Hill house, also based on a highly popular series, follows the famously abandoned town shrouded in the mystery of a prolonged mining fire. Home to gruesome characters like the pyramid head butcher and disfigured nurses, this attraction promotes the eerie and ominous sense of an alternate dimension.

Magic and trickery have emerged in this year’s interactive maze, Penn and Teller, Newkd Las Vegas 3D. Illusionists Penn and Teller take park guests through the toxic ruins of Las Vegas, dodging disfigured black jack dealers and hazmat zombies, all captured in vivid 3D. As in many of his performances, rock star Alice Cooper attempts to terrify fans on the HHN circuit with a house created from his 1975 concept album Welcome to my Nightmare. Inside the dreams of Cooper’s infamous character Steven, the house features Coopers numerous hits from the album accompanied by undead strippers, psychotic surgeons and grotesque groupies.

In addition to the four leading houses, there are additional mazes unique to the HHN experience. Universals House of Horrors brings back Hollywood originals to scare and

Overcoming Obstacles in October By: Danielle Wiebe

Along with breast cancer awareness, the month of October also celebrates disability awareness. Students with a learning disability make up 10 percent of students enrolled in a four-year college within two years of graduating high school, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Seminole State College of Florida has Disability Support Services (DSS) for students who need help in order to succeed in college; all campuses have a DSS office. The office serves approximately 1,000 students with disabilities to ensure that every student with a disability has an equal chance to succeed in school, ranking the college as number eight out of all the state colleges for population of students with disabilities.

“Having a disability doesn’t mean that we are not able to do something,” Dr. Geraldine Perez-Turner, DSS director at the Sanford/Lake Mary campus, said.

“Having a disability means we need to do it in a different way or find different resources to get to the goal we want to accomplish.”

Seminole State College is not the only school that provides services for students with disabilities. Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with

torment guests in a stormy cemetery. Inside Gothic, set in the Cathedral de Caementum Animus, vicious gargoyles keep a watchful eye for intruders; and in Dead End, visitors flee the cursed Hartford mansion that has taken so many before them.

STAGE SHOWS Live shows for this year’s affair include HHN veterans Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure accompanied bynewcomers 20 Penny Circus. Bill and Ted spin off their renownedfilm series with a satire themed stage show featuring pop culture films and icons from 2012, while new arrival 20 Penny Circus is masked in mystery as a modern and vibrant carnival themed performance. Laurren Lawlor, a performer at HHN for the last two years, said she always enjoys the Bill and Ted show.

“The Bill and Ted show has been awesome every year I’ve seen it, last years was especially hilarious and I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.” Ms. Lawlor said.

SCARE ZONES Along with the traditional haunted houses and side shows, “scare zones”, made famous for the unsuspected spooks on the street by various creatures and ghouls, has expanded into “free range scare zones” to include all areas of the park.

Disabilities Act of 1990, higher education schools cannot discriminate on the basis of disability. Because of these acts, any postsecondary schools that are receiving financial aid, whether it is federal or state aid has to obey by these rules and provide accommodations.

Based on each student’s disability, accommodations may be provided and the two most common disabilities served are learning disabilities and mental disabilities. Types of disabilities range from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to visual or hearing impairments to physical impairments.

Accommodations are provided on a case by case basis.

“One of the most common accommodation is extended time on quizzes and exams,” Saba Akram-Scales, DSS assistant director, said. “They can range from note takers, being able to tape record a class, sign language interpreters, any specialized equipment.... it is all based on the type of disability.”

Regardless of a disability, Regardless of a disability, students should not be afraid to ask for free help to overcome their obstacles.

“We have dreams, we have goals, we want to become successful, we just happen to have a disability. We can reach any goal we set out to,” Dr. Perez-Turner said. “[A disability] is not a limitation; it’s just a different ability.”

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Sanford/Lake Mary Campus

Office location: A-101 Hours Monday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday: 8:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Phone: (407) 708-2110 To celebrate Disability Awareness Month, DSS will be showing the movie “Beautiful Mind” on October 25 at 12:30 p.m. in room C-0110B

The Students with disabilities office at the Sanford/Lake Mary Campus.

Photo credit: Danielle Wiebe

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Hardcore Parkour By: Austin Rogers

Most people in American know about football, baseball and basketball, but a sport that is gaining popularity is parkour.

Parkour was popularized in France by David Belle in the 1990s and early 2000s. Belle believed that parkour was an art form and that the “moves” were all up to the individual and participants could come at the obstacle in their own unique way. He would try to make a run from one spot to another and would try to make his movements flow, but he would try to do this in as little time as possible.

Gymnastics coach Hunter Ty said, “Parkour and gymnastics have a lot of similar attributes.

They both demand lot of muscle and physical fitness.

You actually can burn more calories than any other workout I can think of. Every last muscle in your body is used in parkour and that makes it incredibly rigorous.”

When Mr. Ty does parkour/ gymnastics, he said he is often so sore afterward that he has to wait a while before driving home.

Eighteen-year-old member of Team Zoic Nation Cameron Wesenberg said, “I have been parkouring for about four and a half years now and it’s so much fun. It’s also a great workout!”

Mr. Wesenberg also said that he started out by going to gyms to practice but after he got to a point where he felt comfortable he started to go outside and parkour at local parks and around school.

Also different countries have their own adaptations to Parkour. In Japan for the last 14 years, the show Ninja Warrior, which features a four stage obstacle course for participants using parkour style movements to reach the other side, has become an international hit.

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Falling for Fall Fashion: Spice up your wardrobe this season

THE SEMINOLE SCRIBE The Seminole Scribe is the student newspaper of Seminole State College of Florida.

MISSION STATEMENT

By: Taryn Martin

Although it still feels like summer outside, the first day of fall was actually Sept. 22. But as Central Florida prepares for cooler weather, Seminole State College students are readying their wardrobes for the coming fall and winter seasons.

Seminole State freshmen Tocosha Wilkins, was wearing a solid brown tank top and animal print skirt from Forever 21 and lace-up booties from Charlotte Russe.

Ms. Wilkins, who draws her style inspiration from singers Ciara and Keri Hilson, said she looks forward to sporting coats, boots, heels and scarves this fall. She accessorizes with pearls, which she said are “classy but casual [and] not too flashy.”

Bold colors and prints were spotted on many of the major fall runways during Paris Fashion Week. Such designers as Anna Sui, Rebecca Minkoff and J. Crew paired tailored statement pants with boxy, neutral colored cable knit sweaters and even mixed them with contrasting prints. Mixing similarly colored prints can make this trend more wearable off the runway.

But muted colors and ladylike, vintage-inspired silhouettes are also popular this season. Warm neutrals such as blush, nude, tobacco and French roast are sure to warm up skin tones all winter.

At Paris fashion week, trendsetters Tory Burch and Zac Posen showcased vintage-inspired peplum dresses which, by accentuating a woman’s waist, can give the illusion of an hourglass figure. Meanwhile, the Louis Vuitton and Fendi runways presented dozens of 1950s-esque structured handbags.

But fall fashion is not only for women. Seminole State student and personal shopper Richard Watchman looked trendy in a classic black Ralph Lauren polo shirt, distressed Dolce & Gabbana jeans, Ray Ban Wayfarer sunglasses, a canvas Diesel messenger bag and patent leather Zara loafers.

“I make up my own style. I’m a personal shopper, so I tend to know what’s appropriate for whatever season,” Mr. Watchman said.

Menswear designers also turned to the past for inspiration, with Lanvin favoring more relaxed trousers over last season’s tapered, skinny pants.

Iconic fashion houses Burberry Prorsum and Valentino featured such classic menswear materials as velvet and black leather, respectively.

Even in warm weather, fashion blogger (jeangreige.blogspot.com) and California native Madeline Pendleton Hansen said fall trends can still be wearable.

“Living in California, I do a lot of layering.” Ms. Hansen said in her email. “I buy lightweight jackets and coats [that] will give you that winter look without being too heavy. I also pair my cutoff denim shorts over black tights with boots, which gives you the look without the heat factor.”

Her favorite fall trend, she said, is “definitely strong patterns! I love the abundance of brights and symmetrical psychedelic bold allover prints.”

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Gun control: How much is too much?

By: Michael Santagata

With the election approaching, many topics are on the table for debate and one of which is gun control.

There are different extremities to gun control, ranging from banning all guns, to banning only automatic rifles, to instead of placing bans, simply enforce slightly harsher laws. It’s a controversial topic, because listed in The United States Constitution, are 27 amendments (the first 10 known as the Bill of Rights). The second amendment, “The right to keep and bear arms”, states “In a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Many people would agree that the idea of ‘gun control’ directly violates the second amendment, because it openly infringes the people’s right to keep and bear arms.

“Some people feel that guns kill people, and that they should all be banned, and that anyone with a gun will face a heavy penalty. This radical idea of gun control is absurd.” Jason Bornheimer, a former United States Marine, said. “People who use guns to kill innocent people are criminals, and a criminal doesn’t necessarily follow laws as it is. Banning guns will simply disarm law-abiding citizens, as a true criminal will most likely refuse to turn over their guns, and they can always get more through illegal arms deals.”

Florida’s gun laws favor personal ownership of guns. There is no special license (other than a verified State ID) needed to purchase any rifles, handguns or assault rifles. Age restrictions do however apply; you must be 18 to purchase a rifle, and 21 to purchase a handgun. In order for an individual to carry a handgun, the weapon must be fully concealed, and the individual must obtain a Concealed Weapons Permit. In order to obtain this permit, the individual must be over the age of 21, and not a felon. Next, they would have to take gun safety courses with a certified instructor, and have their fingerprints run through an AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) which matches ones fingerprints against known, or unknown fingerprints. Only after they are verified, will an individual in the state of Florida be allowed to carry a handgun. (A concealed weapons permit is not required to purchase a handgun, only to carry it.)

Some Seminole State College students don’t think eliminating ownership of guns is the proper solution.

“I don’t feel it’s appropriate to ban any guns really,” Seminole State Student Roxanne Molina, said, “I think a better solution is to make people take classes before they purchase a gun. You know, make sure they know who to operate a gun the right way.”

Some may argue that Florida’s gun laws aren’t very tough. However, many citizens are unaware that if an individual over the age of 21 attempts to purchase a handgun, they have to wait at least three days from the time of purchasing the weapon, to the time of picking up the weapon. This hiatus is known as the “cooling off period,” which is

used to run background checks, and allow an individual time to ‘cool off’ or calm down, if they bought the weapon in a ‘heat of the moment situation.’

Founded in 1871, The National Rifle Association is one of the largest advocates when it comes to defending the constitution, and the rights granted to us by the second amendment. Anyone can join the NRA, but must contribute. A one year membership costs $35, a two year membership will cost $60, a three year $85, five year $125, and a life membership costs $1000. The cost of your membership will go towards the organization defense of second amendment freedoms.

Some employees of the Shoot Straight Gun range feel that making guns harder to obtain won’t help either, and will only harm civilians. They feel, joining the NRA is the best way to keep people safe.

“I own eight handguns,” John, a Shoot Straight Employee said, “and I keep one in every room of my house, and another on me at all times.

The people that do use guns to do wrong are criminals. They lie, steal, and kill, but they don’t follow laws. Overturning the second amendment, would only disarm people like me. People who only want to protect their family, and what’s rightfully theirs. I urge people to stand up for themselves, and stand up for the constitution. Fight for what you believe in!

Every day the NRA (National Rifle Association) takes a stand against anyone wishing to take our guns…Go on, and stand up with them. Join the NRA. I’m a life member myself. ” “Banning ownership of guns, in terms of Gun control isn’t the answer.

Not everyone who owns a gun is a criminal, or plans to use guns to commit a crime, but sometimes these weapons do end up in the wrong hands.” Matt, a second Shoot Straight Gun Range employee said, “In case people don’t know, or have forgotten, allow me to remind them that if they purchase a gun for someone who legally cannot, they will be dealt with severely.”

Women: How do they want to be approached?

By: Kyle Yeoman

The question of how women prefer to be approached depends on the woman, and also depends on what men want too. Some women could prefer the bad boy or the nice guy, but it is the first impression that counts.

For Seminole State College student Damaris Koo, who said that guys have become more disrespectful; a good way to start is by a normal conversation and humor.

“I like it when a guy makes me laugh, and calls me beautiful,” Ms. Koo said. “I don’t like it when a man calls me names like ‘shorty’ or whistles at me.”

However, she said likes a man that is respectful and romantic, “but not too mushy,” Ms. Koo said.

Seminole State College human sexuality professor, Rebecca Padilla, said that she would want a man to treat her equally when

approaching her.

“If a man wanted to approach me, then he should realize that I have a mind and a spirit that’s important,” Ms. Padilla said.

“However, I don’t like when a guy uses pick-up lines, or sees me only as a sexual object.”

Yet, Ms. Padilla said, she thinks women are treated more equally than they were in the past.

For males like Harold Noel, a Seminole State College student, said when approaching a woman it’s important to be yourself.

“I would just walk up to a woman to say hi, introduce myself, and ask how they are doing,” Mr. Noel said. “I wouldn’t just call a woman hot when just meeting them.”

In addition, Mr. Noel said, when men approach men, it depends on what they want.

“There are some guys who only want sex,” Mr. Noel said. “There are also guys who really want a relationship.”

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Seminole State student Abriana White applies this technique, because is something she has learn from her college succes class.

“Make sure to write down everything because is going to come back,” Ms. White said. “You are going to have to remember it, and you think you will remember it and have it in your head, but is not going to work because that one thing that you wrote down may be the one thing that’s going to be on a test.”

Seminole State College counselor Rosa Alvarez said that the sooner students get help the better.

“But even before, you don’t want to wait for tests to start showing up. You have a sense, ‘Oh am I caught up?

Do I understand what the teacher is saying? Do I feel good about what’s going on? Am I up to date with my reading assignments?’ ” Ms. Alvarez said.

If not, Ms. Alvarez said, students should seek out counseling, tutoring and career.

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Many students do not understand why they don’t get an A in a class when they work so hard.

At Seminole State College of Florida on the Sanford/Lake Mary campus, Student Services recently held workshops for students seeking study tips.

So, if a student is not getting a good grade in a class, changing their studying habits could make a difference and one technique for students is doing the hardest assignment first, instead of the easiest one.

At the College, Success Coach Tanya Fritz said students should “eat that frog.”

“You do the most challenging task first, you eat that frog. It may be the last thing you want to do but you want to just get that terrible thing done first, ‘cause after that the rest would come easy.” she said.

This technique seems to work, she said, and can be very effective for students.

“After that, all your tasks won’t seem as heavy,” Ms. Fritz said. “If you leave all of the easy stuff after that, that’s just a walk in the park from that point.”

Another technique a College Success teacher at Seminole State Debbie Warfield, said is that taking notes during class and focusing on what the teacher is saying throughout the class period is another good study habit that will help students succeed in college.

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Thinking Outside the Box Set:

HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS

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Theater season starts with ‘The Glass Menagerie’

Anne Semmons, a Sanford/ Lake Mary student, said she was excited about the new “free range” system.

“I love that you can be scared at any moment,” she said.

“Some performers will follow you all around the park, because there are no rules!”

The Dark Legions, underworld demons that have escaped from the graves, are the creatures that chase and taunt park-goers through the streets as vampires, beasts, warriors, prisoners and others.

Although the Orlando event has always been popular, Amusement Today, an amusement industry new source, confirms the occasion as the Best Halloween Event with the Golden Ticket Award, granted to HHN the last five years consecutively. Ms. Lawlor, a HHN performer, expressed her enthusiasm for this year’s features.

“This is my second year being cast, and so far it’s a lot of fun,” she said. “It’s probably the most fun you can have at a job.”

By: Sabira Mawji (@SabiraMawji)

Sold out on opening night, the theater dimmed down the lighted audience and spotlighted on the projected platform where shelves filled with glass animals twinkled in the stage lighting. A fishing net, woven with shards of glass about two-feet wide, hung from the ceiling and glared onto the dining room stage set where a round, wooden table and a booth-like sofa waited for the actors’ arrival to begin the first show of the season, The Glass Menagerie.

Cast from left to right: Sally Dakin, Ryan Sutter, Amethyst Gonka and Daniel Carriero “I was amazed how close the play was In a previous edition, the above photo was incorrectly inserted with a story about The Petrified Forest. to the actual script,” Victoria Greene, This photo represents a zombie seeking flesh outside of The Walking Dead: Dead Inside.

Photo credit: Ashley Crooke alumni at Seminole State College, said after everyone huddled in the lobby during intermission. “In the play, Williams wrote to project an image of blue roses behind the scene and I was surprised when they actually did that.”

Bobbie Bell, a director at Seminole State since 1983, said he wanted to Sally and Amethyst act as Amanda and Laura start the season with a little twist and, thinking outside of the box, he did not fancy a traditional box set stage.

“We went back to the original In a previous edition, the above photo was incorrectly inserted with a story about The Petrified Forest.

This photo represents a zombie seeking flesh outside of The Walking Dead: Dead Inside.

Tennessee Williams script where he Photo credit: Ashley Crooke asked for real projections.” Mr. Bell All Information on Halloween Horror Night features gathered from Universal Studios Orlando website.

Universal Studios declined to comment on the Halloween Horror Night events. said. “But very few people do it that way with a box set. I would like to do the play the way the play writer did it and see if it works.”

“Our goal is to facilitate students succeed in college,” she said, “We know things The doors for auditions unlocked after Labor Day weekend and students that students don’t know about that will help make college success easier.” at Seminole State, community members along with a teacher from Pine “If you need to write a To Do list, write it, follow it, and do checks,” Ms. Alvarez said. “Make it manageable and break it down, this week I will accomplish this, the Ridge High School were welcomed to try out for the characters in the play. following week I accomplish this.”

For the first time since the 1970s, The Glass Menagerie followed the stage Seminole State Students like Brittney Jackson say that being successful in script, which Ryan Sutter said was amusing to do something eccentric this college takes self-will. season.

“For me the hardest part is that in college you are doing it on your own, no one is “It was different doing the play this way because it was not a usual box set forcing you to do it, is not like high school,” Ms. Jackson said. “To be successful like we do on most of our plays here,” Mr. Sutter said. in college you need a mindset of not thinking of it as I have to go to college like Seminole State theater majors, Amethyst Gonka and Daniel Carriero four times a week, just think of it as I only have to go for a few months and class played the roles of Laura and Jim. Ms. Gonka said she was excited to be is done.” cast in a lead role in her first college production and it was Mr. Carriero’s A reason to do well in classes is that students could lose financial aid if they do not. first act at Seminole State.

“You have a lot more to be coming here for, you messed up things when you are Memorizing each line of the Williams script took hours of practice for the coming for the money, it gets harder to come back in and get register again,” Ms. actors, crew and backstage members; from Sunday through Thursday for White said. four weeks. Yet, the cast and crew were not graded on the performance Financial aid is not the only reason to do well in classes. In the end, Counselor or paid but did receive college credit in the theater production and Ms. Alvarez said that effort students put in school will pay off. performance class offered at Seminole State College and proceeds from “The time that you invest in yourself, in preparing to be a professional, it will pay off,” she said. “It will come back to you, you need to look at this as an investment, the cost of admission tickets were sent directly to school for general funding. you are as student investing in yourself, and you invest in your education, and the quality of your investment Mr. Bell said, years ago, in the Seminole State theater, sitting in the will also give you a quality of second row in the last seat on the end was Tennessee Williams. Who results, meaning the better and knows what other famous play writer might step foot into the Seminole more time you invest preparing State theater. for a class and preparing for a test, the better results you going to get, the better grade you going to have, the better job you going to have.”

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News You Can Use: Announcements around Student Life ATTENTION: PTK letters have been sent out. Please stop by the

Honors office (V004) and speak with Tina Woode if you are not sure you are on the list. There are certain requirements that need to be met to become a member: minimum 3.5 GPA and a minimum of 12 college credits completed.

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The Mighty Have Fallen: Upsetting sports fans By: Joseph Chalbaud

Upsets in sports have a sort of magic to them that can make the most diehard fan crumble and the downand-out fan find their mojo.

When one team runs off the field with their week made, another may fall off the wagon and never find its path again. In the first weeks of the college and NFL football season, we saw top tier organizations lose to teams that did not belong on the field with them.

The Florida State Seminoles and Green Bay Packers were both slated as championship caliber teams going into the season.

Recently, the Seminoles were ranked third in the country and were traveling to face the North Carolina State Wolfpack in a game that FSU fan and Seminole State student, Ali Jaffer, called “a cake walk”. After the surprising upset one question remains; did NC State win this game, or did Florida State lose? Florida State carried a 16-0 lead going into halftime of the game. While the Seminoles’ offense began to struggle even their defense held on and only allowed a field goal in the third quarter. Then the levy broke. NC State found its footing connecting three of their four fourth down attempts late in the game.

Along with their conversions, a timely punt block set up the Wolfpack with ideal field position and a chance to shock the world. As a result, unless something drastic happens and every team in the top five loses, this game has seriously hurt Florida State’s chances to play in the National Championship Game come season’s end.

Fast forward to a recent Green Bay Packers matchup against the Indianapolis Colts.

The Packers flew into Indianapolis expecting to dominate. With the Packers’ offense setting records in the previous season and quarterback Aaron Rodgers throwing for four touchdowns and 300 yards just seven days prior, this mediocre Colts’ defense was not going to be a problem. And with Aaron Rodgers long history of dismantling defenses in dome games, this one was all but written.

Indianapolis, having just lost their franchise player and possibly the best quarterback of all time,

Peyton Manning, is in a state of rebuilding. With the Colts offense ranking in the bottom third of the league, all the game was meant to be was good practice of the future for rookie quarterback Andrew Luck.

Local football coach Buck Gurley from Lake Mary Prep said “These are the types of games that can trap good teams. You get into the flow of your season and you make assumptions about your opponents and sometimes it can get you away from preparing the way you need to.” As all upsets seem to go, the Packers dominated the first half while Rodgers threw for more than 200 yards and two touchdowns as the Packers jumped out to a 21-3 lead. Every expectation seemed to be falling into place. Chris Ross, a Packer fan and Seminole State student said, “From the opening drive of the second half, the game went downhill and the powerhouse offense that we all love watching, could not produce. All that we saw was ugliness.” The Packers were outscored 27-6 in a second half that led to a last minute touchdown by Colts star wide-out Reggie Wayne. The Packers had a chance to send the game to overtime tied at 30-30 but kicker Mason Crosby missed on both of his two field goal attempts on the day, the last one being from 50 yards as time expired.

The biggest surprise of the upset was a chemistry the Colts offense seemed to have found. Andrew Luck and Wide Receiver Reggie Wayne hooked up 13 times for 212 receiving yards and a game clinching touchdown. The Colts were ranked 30 of 32 teams going into the game and the Packers fifth.

What recent weekends showed was that no matter who is playing, what game it is, what day it is, anyone can come out victorious when the clock reaches the zeroes. Heart is always talked about in sports as the x-factor. The team that has the most heart can win at any moment no matter if they are the best team anybody has ever seen or a bottom of the barrel squad that miraculously pulled out a victory. In the end, teams take out what they put in and recent upsets across the board show that slackers might not ever be granted the top spot.

Passing Time: Fall baseball at Seminole State By: Michael Tennant (@mtennant71)

On a grassy field tucked away next to the planetarium and across an empty parking lot, a few fans gathered on the bleachers to watch the Seminole State Raiders play a double-header on against the Orlando Scorpions. It is just one of 20 games the team is scheduled to play this fall and while baseball season begins in spring, these fall exhibition games still have value.

“We’ve got some tremendous talent out there on that baseball field,” Chris Hayes, baseball coach at Seminole State, said. “We’ve got some tremendous young men who give it their all every day.”

Coach Hayes said the players can learn a lot during the fall and the coaches can use these games to discover who they have on the roster, because winning a conference championship and representing Seminole State in state and nation tournaments are important goals for the team. Ultimately it is another step in the journey these players are on.

“There is a bright future for this group.”

Coach Hayes, a former college baseball and Toronto Blue Jays minor league player, in his fifth year coaching at Seminole State, said.

The first goal of the baseball program is graduation, but after that the coaches want to place these players in four year institutions.

“On last year’s team we had 14 guys placed at four year universities. In the four years that I have been here we have 40 guys end up moving on to play at four year universities,” Coach Hayes said.

While the future is bright, not many students actually see the team perform. Nicholas Bullocks, intramural supervisor for Seminole State, said there is a lot of family support but “not much of student involvement.”

For Mr. Bullocks who runs the concession stand, the crowds are mostly comprised of family members, friends of the players, but very few students, even though games are free to students with a valid student ID. Some of the player’s families come a long way to see the games. Nancy and Mac McColligan drove more than two hours to see their grandson, Kyle Stoller, pitch.

Ms. McColligan said they have been watching Kyle play “since he was in t-ball.”

Another parent, Scott Marabell has been watching his son Connor play since he was five.

Still it remains difficult to get students to come to the games, because many students come for class and then leave to go home or work with Seminole State being a commuter campus. John Scarpino, director of athletics and intramurals at Seminole State College since 2002 said he recognizes the challenges to get students to come to the games. During the fall, the Raiders play other junior college and travel teams and most games are held during weekday afternoons.

During last spring however, student government partnered with athletics for Spirit Week promoting the baseball and softball teams, which helped with attendance.

“We have a good product,” Mr. Scarpino said. “I think we can do a better job marketing ourselves.”

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