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The Next Step in Manned Spaceflight
Orion to Launch Aboard Delta IV Heavy in First Test Flight Richard Weakley Advertising Manager NASA’s Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 4 will be NASA’s most ambitious test flight since Ares 1-X in 2009. EFT-1 will test Orion, America’s next generation spacecraft that will take our astronauts beyond low Earth Orbit for grand expeditions into space. Orion will launch atop a Delta IV Heavy from the storied Space Launch Complex (SLC) 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Before SLC 37B was transformed to begin launching Delta IV rockets in
2003, the launch complex served as the launch site for the Saturn IB. The Saturn IB was the vehicle that launched the Apollo capsules on their first test flights. Just like the Apollo capsule launched from SLC 37B atop a Saturn IB during its flight testing phase before moving to the Saturn V at Launch Complex 39, the Orion spacecraft will launch from SLC 37B on a test flight before moving to the Space Launch System at LC 39. The launch window for EFT-1 begins on Dec. 4 at 7:05 a.m. EST and extends until 9:44 a.m. EST. This windows opens four minutes after sunrise for a spectacu-
lar launch silhouetted by the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean. The flight test will last four hours and 23 minutes, encircling the Earth twice. The Orion spacecraft will reach an altitude 3,600 miles and re-enter the atmosphere at 20,000 miles per hour at maximum temperatures of 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The 78,010 lb weight of the Orion spacecraft and all associated equipment required the use of America’s most powerful launch vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy. This flight test will evaluate the Orion Crew Module, Service Module, Launch Abort System and Orion-to-Stage Adapter. Illustrations Courtesy: NASA & United Launch Alliance
An Interview with the Editor
Reflecting on The Avion’s Shutdown Trey Henderson Editor-in-Chief As many of you may have heard, The Avion was temporarily suspended from operation eariler this semester. Though the cease operations lasted a mere 23 hours, the impact on the campus, the SGA, and The Avion staff was noted. In the wake of the shutdown, it gave us a great
incentive and opportunity to review the policies and proceedures we have in place to ensure that we continue providing you with the best news on campus, in the industry, and around the world in the best manner possible. Resuming operations, we are instituting new and more strict policies to ensure more effective and better documented internal operations and training.
Michael Nisip Managing Editor After the events of the shutdown, I had the opportunity sit down and talk with Trey to learn more about him and The Avion. How did you get involved with SGA? I got involved in the SGA my very first semester at Embry-Riddle through what was then TFO, or
Task Force One, and what has now been restructured into FYI, First Year Initiative. When I got started, all I knew was that I wanted to be involved with SGA and the University’s newspaper, but I had no idea they were connected. For two years, I was the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for my high school’s yearbook, where I learned my love of print publication. After my first semes-
ter here at Embry-Riddle I proved my worth with Peter Tan, the EIC at the time, and he appointed me as Photo Editor. In just one semester, my goal of involvement with the SGA and the newspaper was achieved with my appointment as an executive board member of The Avion and an SGA official. What is the mission of The Avion?
The mission of The Avion is to provide a voice to the student body. It allows the students a way to speak openly and freely about student life on campus, events happening in the aerospace industry and news happening here in the Daytona Beach area and around the world. The Avion gives its members an outlet for their creative juices, if you Continued on A03 >>
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Adam Joseph Ilteris Demirkiran ERPL Pres. & Advisor The Experimental Rocket Propulsion Lab is currently under management by Dr. Ilteris Demirkiran as a faculty advisor. Student administrative positions are currently held by Adam Joseph (President) and Gia Donatella (Vice-President). The current location of the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Lab (ERPL) is in room 130 of the Lehman College of Engineering. ERPL is a student organization on campus involved in the research, development, and production of rocket engines. In addition to producing advancements in rocketry and increasing industry understanding, ERPL is centered around providing students with critical project experience. By working on projects relevant to the industry, students are advancing their education by implementing
their classroom knowledge as well as learning independently from the classroom about systems, integration, feasibility, and other industry critical knowledge that isn’t covered in course material. The Experimental Rocket Propulsion Lab simultaneously works on a multitude of projects spanning across many disciplines of rocketry with students from different engineering and science majors offered on campus. Students are given the option to utilize the lab in the design and construction of liquid and hybrid rocket engines, along with the ground support systems that go along with them. The lab is also utilized as a plasma testing center where students are developing methods for creating an ion thruster. In addition to designing and building engines, ERPL also devotes a large portion of human resources into learning and utilizing computation-
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Photo Courtesy: ERPL ERPL team members and advisor stand by the Aquila liquid rocket motor and test stand in their lab in LB 130.
tation via the manipulation of magnetic fields and data acquisition and analysis. Students are also given the opportunity to publish the results of these projects and attend conferences. Because all of these projects taking place in the same lab and with a strong tie between leadership and project memberships, infrastructure and knowledge is commonly shared. Many engines are designed to utilize the same ground support and design methodology. Regardless of what project students are working on, every member gains handson project experience that is often the center of discussions with industry experts and recruiters. ERPL provides educational and practical experiences otherwise not gained in normal university studies. When moving from academia to industry, having project experience is substantial evidence of the implementation of knowledge. The projects ERPL is involved in and the utilization of the club’s lab space not only enhances students’ knowledge and adds another layer to a student’s degree, but also provides a benchmark of experience and industry readiness students would otherwise lack. Dr. Demirkiran says “Our school teaches students about the current technologies being used in industry, where the club prepares the students for the challenges of the future.”
EcoCar Team Awarded Mike Shekari Staff Reporter
The Avion is produced weekly during the fall and spring term, and bi-weekly during summer terms. The Avion is produced by a volunteer student staff. Student editors make all content, business and editorial decisions. The editorial opinions expressed in The Avion are solely the opinion of the undersigned writer(s), and not those of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the Student Government Association, The Avion, or the student body. Letters appearing in The Avion are those of the writer, identified at the end of the letter. Opinions expressed in the “Student Government” and “Student Life” sections are those of the identified writer. Letters may be submitted to The Avion for publication, provided they are not lewd, obscene or libelous. Letter writers must confine themselves to less than 800 words. Letters may be edited for brevity and formatted to newspaper guidelines. All letters must be signed. Names may be withheld at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. The Avion is an open forum for student expression. The Avion is a division of the Student Government Association. The Avion is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press. The costs of this publication are paid by the Student Government Association and through advertising fees. The Avion distributes one free copy per person. Additional copies are $0.75. Theft of newspapers is a crime, and is subject to prosecution and Embry-Riddle judicial action. This newspaper and its contents are protected by United States copyright law. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, in print or electronically, without the expressed written consent of The Avion. Correspondence may be addressed to: The Avion Newspaper, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, Florida 32114. Physical office: John Paul Riddle Student Center, Room 110. Phone: (386) 226-6049. Fax: (386) 226-6727.
al fluid dynamics systems in order to analyze and optimize engine designs. Due to the makeup of ERPL being primarily undergraduate students, a large portion of activities that go on in the lab are focused towards education of members. Students can choose which educational experiences to be involved in, each of which providing a unique learning experience. Students working in the hybrid division gain understanding of the design process and real world considerations that go into engine design. With multiple hybrid engines being developed in different stages of the development process students also learn about the subsystems that go into the rocket firing along with the test equipment design and implementation in order to gain data from the engines. The goal of the hybrids research is to analyze current problems in the field and develop solutions that can be applied in industry. In the liquids division, students gain similar understanding of subsystems. However, liquid engines provide a much higher focus on material science. In addition to experimenting with new materials not commonly used in rocket engines, regenerative cooling systems are being used in certain engines. Students working towards the ion thruster are gaining knowledge of plasma experimen-
The EcoEagles team was presented with a $20,000 check from the General Motors Company last Thursday in their garage attached to the Leman Engineering building. The presentation was attended by members of the team, a GM representative, and Dr. John Johnson, president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The donation was awarded to the team for their continued participation in the EcoCar competition, which is a four year competition where the team must take a factory production model vehicle and make it eco-friendly. Before the check was presented to the team, they showed off their
outstanding handiwork from the last iteration of the EcoCar competition. Two innovative features that they put into the car were an electrical plug-in spot at the front of the vehicle hidden by the front bumper orna-
ment, and the vehicle is able to charge itself by the driver simply releasing off the gas pedal and collecting the energy as the car begins to slow, before the driver even pushes on the brakes. The vehicle for the
next rendition of the EcoCar competition is a Chevrolet Camaro. It should be exciting to see what this team comes up with next to bring eco-friendly features into the muscle car category.
Jack Taylor/The Avion Newspaper An EcoEagles team member talking about the Ecocar with one of her fellow students.
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Continued from A1 >> will. Photography, writing, graphic design, all that is the sort of stuff that you don’t typically see at Embry-Riddle. We’re very much a technical based school, so a lot of math and science, the physical and structured skills, but not necessarily anything that is open ended or free, like design and photography as a form of art. It gives students the ability to do that. You don’t get that at many other places on campus. What does the EIC position entail? What responsibilities do you have? The Editor-in-Chief’s responsibility is to make sure The Avion operates smoothly, that it produces a paper and all of the Executive Board members are working together to do their respective jobs. I work closely with the SGA President and the rest of the SGA Executive Board to better the SGA and The Avion. I oversee all of the administrative things in The Avion. I oversee communications with University officials, with departments and other organizations. I’m essentially the figurehead of the organization – if there’s any contact that needs to be made with The Avion on an administrative level then I’m your guy. The Avion was shut down earlier this term. Can you tell us what happened? There are certain details that I can and cannot divulge. It involves primarily one incident, one not related to anything that we’ve printed. As a newspaper, we’ve had errors in the past with things such as grammar and bylines. But those issues are expected for a newspaper like ours – one on such a tight schedule and driven primarily by a volunteer effort. However, there was an internal event that occurred and that made us realize the need to review our policies. I heard the news of the cease operations order directly from the Student Activities’ office, who is under the umbrella of the Dean of Students. The cease operations directive was delivered to me by the Director of Student Activities after consultation with the Dean of Students office. Despite the shutdown, we were fortunate enough to be reinstated after 23 hours, practically to the minute. After hearing the news from the Director of Student Activities that The Avion was shut down, what were your initial thoughts and reactions? When I first came to the meeting, I was already going to consult our advisor about something and I walked into the office being playful as usual with our advisor.
After walking in I was then informed that the Director of Student Activities would be joining us. I then thought to myself, “Okay, that’s interesting, maybe something big is happening.” Well, something big was certainly happening, I just wasn’t expecting something on this scale. The Director started explaining what was happening. The first words out of her mouth were, “The Avion has to cease all operations immediately.” As the leader of this organization for over a year now, as this is my second term as EIC, it was overwhelming. I had no clue what was happening, I had no clue where the future of the organization laid and I had no clue what was going to happen to me, to our executive board, to all of our staff members, everything we had planned for
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just the next weeks for Issues 6 and 7. At first I was just dumbstruck as I was trying to comprehend it all, and after it really hit that it was really official, I broke down in tears. It felt very much like a personal thing; I’ve been working in this organization for a long time, almost two and a half years since I got started in The Avion and I felt really connected to it. The Avion is like my baby and now it was taken out of my hands indefinitely. When The Avion was directed to cease ops, were you informed as to why, or were you left wondering? At the time of the meeting, there were still a lot of questions that didn’t have answers, on both the Student Activities’ side and our side. There were questions I was asking that neither our advisor nor the Director of Student Activities had answers to. (As everyone knows, Wings & Waves was just around the corner at the time) and we had been working tirelessly with the University for the past two years getting things lined up what happens to that relationship and the incredible effort by so many? What happens to all of our advertisements that we have contracts for? What happens to our national advertising contracts – things that go through a third party company? We’re under contract with those people, so what happens there? Those were some questions that neither I nor the Director of Student Activities knew the answers to. After you were first delivered the cease ops order, you had to disseminate that information to those affected
by the order. Can you recall the initial thoughts and reactions of other members within The Avion? I can certainly recall them – after the meeting with our advisor and Director of Student Activities, I wanted to have an emergency executive meeting right then and there, but it was a lot of information for me even to process. I had to take a break and go somewhere and do something to get my mind off this to process how I would tell the other members. I have members in the organization who have been there longer than I have, and they’re just as attached as I am. I have members who have been there for just five or six weeks now, and they’re already deeply dedicated and devoted to the organization. I knew it would impact them just as strongly as it did me. I got out of that meeting at 5:30 p.m. and I called the emergency executive board meeting for 7:00 p.m. It was hard for me to say it, but I explained it to them and you could just see the shock and disbelief in their faces. I believe their reaction was very similar to my reaction because of the processing time required for an order of this caliber. You don’t really think something like this can happen, but it just did. At first there were no words from anyone, just deafening silence. After it started clicking for people that this was actually happening, they started to take it much like I did, although there were some different reactions. Some were very calm and collected and saw the next steps that we needed to take, and there were others that thought things could have been handled better. There was a wide gamut of reactions because I have a diverse board of people. After your staff was informed, I’m sure the information flowed out to Eagle Nation – to students, alumni, faculty, and staff – people beyond the borders of SC110. Are you familiar with those reactions? The Avion has a very close knit community of alumni and previous executive board members, EICs, and staff. It was prematurely made public the next day on the SGA’s Facebook page that The Avion had been shut down for an indefinite amount of time. At the time, we didn’t know how long we were going to be shut down. It could’ve been shut down for the 23 hours that it was, or it could’ve been shut down for the remainder of the semester. After the post was made public, there were swarms of commentsand multiple people shared news. People were concerned about what was happening, wondering why we were shut down, angry that we were shut down and people cracking jokes. It’s actually funny, I came to
my door the day it went public and there was a sign on the door that said “Office Space for Rent by Student Activities” and it had their phone number. For having one of the worst days of my time here, that was actually really funny. In the most part, the public reaction was really more of “What? What happened?” There was some concern and anger from the public, but they were predominately curious as to why this had happened. How did other divisions within SGA, such as Touch-N-Go, WIKD, and even the SGA office react to this order? The entirety of the SGA was extremely supportive. Our neighbors in WIKD were there to do anything they could, offering their emotional and organizational support in any way. I would also walk through the hallways and get countless hugs from SGA members understanding what the organization is going through. When you saw that outpouring of support, were you comforted or reassured or justified in your reaction of disbelief at all? Yeah, I’d say so. I come in to the office every day and I love what I do. But, there are the occasional times where I wonder if people even care what we do. I’ve had this thought before, “If we stop the paper today, what would people’s thoughts be tomorrow?” And I guess we found out what people’s thoughts would be. We really are an integral part of the University and campus culture, and people do care; it makes me take even more pride in the job that I do and the work of my entire executive board. Coming back from this shutdown and consequently reviewing your policies and procedures, it seems that The Avion will come back with a more unified directive and exist as a stronger organization. Do you agree? Yes, every setback is an opportunity to step back and revaluate how we can improve as an organization. This was a great opportunity for us and it really solidifies the fact that something was wrong. There are a lot of policies and things that are either outdated or not explicitly stated as clearly as they should be. The proces that took place after the shutdown was a great opportunity for us to step back and review those issues. Part of the requirements set before us by Student Activities include that we would need to work with the student court and determine what policies we have, what policies we don’t have, and what policies need to be improved. For the remainder of the semester, we worked along-
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side the student court to ascertain what needed to be stronger. Reviews such as this is what they do – they review bylaws, constitutions, policies, procedures, and guidelines – to make sure that an organization is operating at its fullest potential. Do you think the shutdown was unavoidable? Was there an alternate path that didn’t include the shutdown of The Avion? I think the shutdown was unavoidable because we did need that stronger set of policies. It was just a matter of time until something like this happened – we didn’t have all of our “i’s” dotted and “t’s” crossed. And like I said, this was a great opportunity for us to review what needed to be in place, and to set those things in place. Serving as EIC for your second year now, what would you say is your greatest achievement? Though it’s still in its infancy, I would say my greatest achievement is digitizing The Avion. In 2014, news content is not limited to paper. We still print 1,000 copies every week and inform 1,000 people every week using the traditional printing press method. But today, the majority of people want to go on the iPhone or Android device and browse the internet and scroll through their news list. They want to lounge on the couch and read news articles from their iPad, tablet, or laptop. Digitizing
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The Avion allows so much flexibility with delivering news. Clearly, it’s difficult to print videos, as they don’t print so well onto paper. Going digital opens another dimension for us where we can employ interactive content such as video, audio and maps to inform the public. We’ve got a lot of ideas in the works for possible future opportunities and we’re diligently working
towards making those feasible ideas a reality. Recently we started putting videos on our website, which is something we’ve never been able to do, we have extensive photo galleries on our website which gives us unlimited flexibility, whereas the size of the paper used to limit us to just a few images. The website offers us the ability to be very dynamic and swift with reporting news. Seeing the digital aspect of The Avion currently is and most likely will be the biggest achievement of my EIC term. You’ve gone through a lot in this semester and you seem to hold The Avion very near and dear to your heart, but what does The Avion really mean to you? For me, “near and dear” is definitely an understatement – it’s just about everything to me. Ever since I’ve known Embry-Riddle, I’ve known The Avion and it’s what I love doing more than anything. Going from general member to Photo Editor to EIC – I love where I am and what I do and everything about the organization. The Avion is what I look forward to when I get out of class. I walk out after class and head to the office because I want to work on The Avion, where I usually end up doing paper work, but on occasion I’m taking pictures or writing or doing something to contribute to the paper. What’s a fun fact about you that you would like to share with anyone reading this? Believe it or not, I’m colorblind, more specifically I have mild deuteranomalia. I’m a professional photographer, graphic designer, and the Editor-in-Chief of a newspaper and I’m colorblind. Yes, I can distinguish colors. If you point at something that is red, I can tell you that it’s red, but if you pick two really close shades of red or green I actually can’t tell them apart. I’ll never forget this time in high school that I was using a green screen to Photoshop backgrounds into photos, and my advisor pointed out that I had missed an entire chunk of the picture because I was colorizing the green background a shade of pink.
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Reflections From the Student Representative Board Todd Stubblebine SGA Representative
End of an Era... Richard Weakley Advertising Manager I completed my Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering here at Embry-Riddle in May 2012. This semester I will graduate with my Master of Business Administration. I have also worked for the Information Technology Department assisting in event support and other projects since January 2008. During my time at Embry-Riddle, I have had my best memories thanks to being a member of The Avion Newspaper and the Student Government Association. I joined The Avion in Spring 2010 as a staff photographer since I have been passionate about photography from a young age. I served as the Photo Editor in the summers of 2011 and 2012. I served as the Business Manager for
Fall 2013. For Spring and Fall 2014, I have served as the Advertising Manager for The Avion. During my time at The Avion, what I have enjoyed the most has been covering launches and air shows. The Avion has presented me with amazing opportunities in aerospace photography. I was fortunate enough to be able to cover the historic last Space Shuttle mission as well as the departure of each of the Orbiters from the Kennedy Space Center on their journeys to their final resting places. I’ve enjoyed covering over 20 unmanned rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Setting up remote cameras and watching the launch from a press site never gets old. Watching launches from the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy
Space Center was a unique experience as was donning bunny suits to view spacecraft in cleanrooms. I also have had great opportunities in aviation photography including covering air shows through interviewing show pilots and photographing their aircraft. I have done air to air photo shoots of aerobatic planes over campus and military helicopters over the beach at an air show. Through these experiences, learning to design a newspaper and attending an Associated Collegiate Press conference in San Francisco, I got to know a great group of people while learning what goes into making a newspaper. I highly encourage everyone to get involved in what they are passionate about during their time at Embry-Riddle. Counterclockwise: Space Shuttle Atlantis begins its all day journey to the KSC Visitor’s Space Center by leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building just prior to sunrise on Nov 5, 2012, an Extra 300L flies in front of the Daytona Beach sunset prior to Wings & Waves 2014, Mars Science Labratory (Curosity Rover) is launched aboard an Atlas V 551 on Nov. 26, 2011, a Delta IV Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-6 to space at sunset on May 17, 2014. All Photos: Richard Weakley / The Avion Newspaper
Hello Eagle Nation, let me introduce myself. My name is Todd Stubblebine, and I’m a junior here at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University majoring in Unmanned Aircraft System Sciences, with a minor in Human Factors. As we head towards the finish line of the semester, take a look back to reflect on all of the memoires and accomplishments you achieved during this time. For me, my reflection was joining the Student Government Association. During this fall semester, I wanted to be more involved with students and campus life, so I applied for a Student Representative Board (SRB) position within the Student Christina Alford SGA Representative Hello! My name is Christina and I’m a representative for the College of Engineering, the Student Representative Board Secretary, and the Academic Committee Chair. I am a first-semester sophomore pursuing a Civil Engineering degree and this was my third semester as a part of the Student Government Association. I would like to start off by saying that I couldn’t be any more thankful and appreciative of the SGA. I am so glad that this student organization was one of the Carson Gedeus SGA Representative Hello ladies and gentlemen. I’m Carson Gedeus, your College of Aviation Representative at Embry-Riddle. Since becoming involved with the ERAU Student Government Association (SGA), I’ve acquired a great deal of leadership experience, while having fun. The
Government Association. I barely knew what the Student Government Association was all about. When I started learning about SGA, I was completely shocked to all of the divisions and branches they had, ranging from Touch-N-Go, WIKD, The Avion, The Student Representative Board, The Student Finance Board (SFB), The Student Court, as well as the Executive Board. I didn’t realize all other opportunities and possibilities that are within the Student Government Association. I got elected as a College of Aviation Representative, the Campus Safety and Parking Liaison, as well as serving as a committee member on the Progress and Blue Bike Committee. I couldn’t be happier with joining the
Student Government Association. While holding these positions, I have learned so much about campus and this school. I am now able to represent all students to enhance student life. I have learned about all of the student life, and how we, the SGA, can make it better for everyone. Having the ability to help other students is what makes me extremely happy and positively motivated to do my best job with the jobs I hold within SGA. Lastly, I urge everyone to GET INVOLVED on campus, because being part of an organization will open endless possibilities and opportunities for you and your future self. “Knowledge is the only thing that grows when shared” – Andres Trisko
first organizations that I joined as a freshman. In it, I have learned and met so many students, faculty, and administration. The experience has been great! The purpose of this article is to reflect on the few of the many things that the Student Government has taught me. The main thing that I’ve learned is that I am not by myself. I learned that Embry-Riddle is filled with so many diverse people; more people than I thought share the same values, opinions, and hobbies that I do. In the beginning, fresh out of high school, I’ll admit that I was a little
scared being out here on my own. That is definitely not the case anymore. I am now a part of a university where I feel at home, this is my second family. I’ve also learned how much power and potential students’ voice actually holds. Speaking from experience, I know that working together can get so many things accomplished. It is just up to us to get together and work together. If you have any questions or would like to join SGA, feel free to send me an email at alfordc1@ my.erau.edu.
SGA allowed me to create a positive impact on the student body, by providing me with resources to create programs, and add new features on campus for the Embry-Riddle community. In addition to serving as a representative, I was chairperson for the Environmental Awareness Committee, and Student Wellness liaison. I enjoyed
every role I played a part of, and enjoyed being surrounded by the positive atmosphere of the SGA. If you are a student at Riddle, and you want to gain leadership experience, I advise that you join the Embry-Riddle SGA. It is an opportunity that allows you to develop you talents as a leader, while working with peers that share the same common goal.
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Mockingjay Ignites Theater Box Office Himani Parekh Staff Reporter
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If you are looking for an easy, sugar-coated movie for the weekend, I would tell you to reconsider. You don’t want to miss The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. The first of the two-part movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay finds Katniss immersed in a full-scale rebellion. The movie opens abruptly and rapidly, not waiting for the audience to get comfortable with the back-story. Though this may seem unfavorable, the choice is, in fact, quite clever. Katniss herself has no time to recuperate and adjust to her shattered life, and the cinematography and script reflect that; they pull you straight into Katniss’s world, Katniss’s mind, revealing her emotions, her trauma and her strength. The movie, as a whole, tri-
umphs in this aspect, taking the audience into Katniss’s perspective. One of the biggest losses when translating a book into a movie is the reader’s awareness of the protagonist’s emotions and thoughts. However, Mockingjay successfully overcomes that separation between the viewer and the characters. A large part of that success must be attributed to Jennifer Lawrence, who plays Katniss Everdeen. Lawrence’s ability to convincingly portray the complex array of emotions running through Katniss is crucial; she draws the audience into Katniss’s mind with an ease and openness that erases the line between viewer and character. Just as skillfully does the movie handle the messy morals of rebellion and war. Anyone who has read the book knows that Suzanne Collins tackles the individual and social effects of
war through her characters and addresses the duality, cruelty and poignancy of rebellion. The movie, I am pleased to say, does not shy away from confronting these difficult topics with the same forthrightness. Whereas previous installations were slightly sugar-coated, panning away from the actual moment of violence when one tribute kills another at the Cornucopia, for example, this movie inches us closer to the horrifying truth. The audience is exposed to the pain and the power, the moments of triumph and the lingering regrets, the imperfection of fighting for freedom without losing track of one’s identity in the mess. So no, this movie is not conceptually easy. But it is beautiful, not only in its success in handling the heavy emotions but also in its
aesthetic choices. The color scheme is somber, playing with deeper blues and whites along with the prevalent slate gray. The music melts into the background, not noticeably wowing but providing fitting emotional undercurrent to the movie. The camera predominantly sticks to capturing Katniss’s point of view, employing a little bit of the shaky camera effect seen in previous movies that reflected her disorientation at times. And if, by now, you’re still feeling uncertain, remember Haymitch Abernathy: this movie will make you laugh, too. Mockingjay Part 1 is absolutely worth the watch. The acting is impressive, the visuals lovely and fitting, the plot captivating, and Haymitch is hilarious. What more could you want?
InSight to Take off Soon Cassandra Vella Correspondent NASA’s InSight Mars lander spacecraft has started its final assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) under Lockheed Martin. InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The InSight Mission will record the very first measurements of what lies under Mars’ surface. This mission will allow scientists to observe possible evidence of Mars’ evolution and that of other terrestrial planets. The InSight Mission is said to launch in March 2016. The ATLO stage is where the spacecraft begins its official assembly. Then, the spacecraft is set to move through environmental testing and finally its launch. Technicians will install subsystems in the spacecraft over the next six months. Some of these subsystems include avionics, power, telecomm,
mechanisms, and thermal systems, along with guidance, navigation and control. Lockheed Martin will also be responsible for integrating science instruments into the spacecraft. The spacecraft’s protective aero shell capsule and cruise stage components are also going through the ATLO stage as well. These components provide communications, power and propellant during its journey to Mars. Once the spacecraft is done assembling it will endure environmental testing throughout summer 2015. The spacecraft is said to have a lot of similarities to the Phoenix and Viking landers with adjustments for science studies and Mars’ climate. The physical appearance of InSight is said to be very much like the Phoenix lander with electrical components that are similar to what is involved with MAVEN. This NASA Discovery-class mission is a terrestrial planet explorer that will be put to work in
finding out what processes shaped Mars and the other rock-based planets of the inner solar system. The two-year InSight mission is being led by Bruce Banerdt of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The rest of the crew includes both United States and international co-investigators from universities, industry and government agencies. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French space agency (CNES) are also contributing instruments to the mission. JPL performs project management for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. While providing an onboard geodetic instrument to determine the planet’s rotation axis, a robotic arm and two cameras used to deploy and monitor instruments on the Martian surface, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama manages the Discovery Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
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New Years Eve in Times Square Mark Fetters/The Avion Newspaper
Mark Fetters Staff Reporter The ten second countdown starts and everyone joins in yelling at the top of their lungs before you know it: THREE, TWO, ONE… HAPPY NEW YEAR! While the end of the semester comes to a close ,this also means most of us will be going home or various places over winter break, and next time we are at school it will be a new year: 2015! To bring in the 2014 New Year, I went to what is called “The Crossroads of World,” Times Square in New York City. It is one of the most iconic places to see on televsion around he world for New Years. My journey started at 4 A.M. on Dec. 31st in Atlanta where I traveled up to New York with as many jackets and hats as I could carry to make sure I would stay warm as possibile.
After arriving in New York, we made our way into the city where we stayed warm in Grand Central Station before walking to Times Square. Upon arrival around 11 A.M. the crowds had already formed. You are required to be searched by the police before they put you in a pin. Once you are in the enclosed pin you are unable to leave until it is over. If you do need to leave they will not let you back. We finally get into a pin around noon, and the waiting game begins. Every hour there is a countdown and everyone goes wild, as the cities that just hit the New Year are shown, but it also marks another hour closer till the ball drop. The famous ball that is dropped consists of 2,688 crystals panels, is twelve feet in diameter and weighs 11,875 pounds. Around 3 P.M. all the television stations
have go through a dress rehearsal where all the artists that will be preforming also get a chance to practice. Finally, at 7 P.M., the live show starts where we get to see the live performances of Rodney Atkins, Icona Pop, Melissa Etheridge, Blondie, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Miley Cyrus. As it was very cold dancing was the best way to warm up. Finally, Melissa Etheridge came back on stage to sing Uprising of Love and has the honor of singing John Lennon’s Imagine, a tradition since 2005. Finally, the 60 second countdown started and the ball begins to drop. When the countdown hits 0, more then one ton of confetti is dropped with the song New York New York playing in the background. No matter how you spend winter break, take time to reflect on this year and look forward to the upcoming year.
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Christchurch, New Zealand Dayton Drugovich Staff Reporter Christchurch, the largest city on the South Island and the third l argest in the country, has suffered through some hard time in the last decade. The earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, measuring as high as a 7.1 magnitude, devastated the city with much of the damage and after-effects still viewable today. Nowhere is
the damage more prevalent than the icon of the city: the Christchurch Cathedral. Located in the centre of the city, the church has suffered massive damage. The spire has collapsed due to the quakes and is in a sad state. Stroll around city centre and the outlying streets, and you begin to see just how damaging the earthquakes were. Some streets are still closed off for entire blocks and there are condemned
buildings which gives you the feeling of strolling around an apocalyptic city. The business process is holding up the rebuilding process more than the political process. Insurance companies are making it difficult for the citizens to rebuild by making the process to scrap or salvage complicated and thereby holding up the payment of claims. There are, however, ini-
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tiatives to get the city back on track, including project Re:START, which is a shopping area not far from city centre that uses shipping containers as the brick and mortar out of which local businesses operate. Even though the city has damaged parts and is rebuilding, there are still interesting things for visitors to see. On a day when I really had nothing planned, I decided to go for a drive and stumbled upon a really interesting place. Just south of Christchurch lies Banks Peninsula containing many coves and harbours and some good beaches. Akaroa on the southeast side of the peninsula is a small town on the water and has a certain Riviera feel to it. The peninsula formed from an extinct volcano and a drive up to the top is in itself worth the trip down there especially to watch the beautiful sunset. It is a shame that the earthquake did so much damage to the city of Christchurch. Everyone
I have talked to from this country has said it was one of the best cities in the country before the earthquake and you still see remnants of what was
once there. The rebuilding process that is taking place is helping to restore the beauty of the city that just has a few bruises. In time all wounds will be healed.
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Upcoming Games: Tuesday Women’s Basketball vs Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Daytona Beach, Fla. - 7 p.m. Men’s Basketball at Nova Southeastern Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - 7:30 p.m.
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Saturday Softball at University of South Carolina Beaufort Bluftton, SC - 12:00pm Men’s Basketball at Berea Berea, Ky. - 1 p.m. Women’s Basketball at Florida Southern Lakeland, Fla. - 2 p.m.
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The top-ranked Embry-Riddle women's soccer team will be making its fourth straight trip to the national tournament final site when play in the 31st Annual NAIA Women's Soccer National Championship presented by the Sports Medicine Center at the Orthopedic Group, P.C. resumes on Dec. 1. The Eagles advanced courtesy of a 5-1 defeat of Reinhardt in the NAIA National Championship Opening Round, Saturday at the Embry-Riddle Soccer Stadium. The ERAU Eagles (171) were led by their top scorer Andrea Froshaug who, for the second year in a row, scored two goals against Reinhardt in Opening Round play. The Blue and Gold will face Hastings in the round of 16 at 1:30 p.m. (CST) on Dec. 1 at the Orange Beach Sportsplex in Orange Beach, Ala. Hastings registered a 1-0 upset of Olivet Nazarene to advance. Embry-Riddle got off to a furious start, scoring early and often and recording the first three goals in the first 8:34 of the contest. The first score came In the fourth minute when Emmie Johansson com-
Reinhardt: 1 pleted a short pass to Froshuag making the diagonal run and Froshuag powered past her marker before slotting home her 14th goal of the year to give ERAU the early lead on the first shot of the evening. Less than 40 seconds later, the Blue and Gold struck again. This time it was Isabelle Haaranen who found an opening on the right side and dribbled into a 1-v-1 situation with Reinhardt goalkeeper Taylor Asher before depositing her 12th goal of the season in the back of the net. Four minutes later, Katherine Ebbs sent a corner kick to the far post where it was settled and finished by Helena Hansson for a 3-0 ERAU lead. "Overall, we were pretty pleased, especially with the start," ERAU Head Coach Samantha Bohon stated. "We knew that the start was going to be really important for us tonight and we put a special emphasis on that and to score three goals in the first nine minutes, I think that was outstanding." As the half progressed, the Embry-Riddle Eagles found themselves with plenty of room to work in the midfield and, as a result, dominated the possession. The constant pressure paid off again in the 41st minute
when Haaranen took the ball into the right corner before sending a cross to the top of the 18-yard box. An unmarked Khyla Brangman collected the pass and hit the ball into the bottom right corner of the net to give the home team a 4-0 advantage at the half. The start of the second frame saw Reinhardt take away some of the space in the
attacks of their own. Their efforts paid off in the 82nd minute with Megan McCall found the back of the net to help Reinhardt avoid the shutout and break ERAU's streak of 451 minutes without allowing a goal. "One of the things I loved about our goals was that they were all very different," Bohon observed. "They weren't predictable; differ-
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midfield, but Embry-Riddle continued to pressure the Reinhardt defense and the effort paid off in the 60th minute. Playing on the right side, Froshuag, whose pace proved difficult for Reinhardt to handle throughout the contest, outmatched her defender and raced into the box where she made a shot from a difficult angle look easy by rocketing her 15th goal of the year across the goal into the upper 90 on the far side to cap the Eagles' scoring. As the half progressed, the Reinhardt Lady Eagles began to enjoy a little possession and mount a few
ent players were scoring and I think that's going to be an important factor for us if we want to try and advance deep into nationals. We had some really good stretches today. We fell off a little bit at the end and let in that late goal, but overall, I was pretty happy with the performance, especially with having two and a half weeks off after our last game." "We look forward to going to Orange Beach. We're excited to be able to return there in our last year in the NAIA and we know Hastings will be a good game that we have to make sure we're ready for."
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ERAU Men’s Basketball Claims Daytona Mitsubishi/Kia Shootout Crown with 60-57 Win Over Briar Cliff vs ERAU: 60 Alison Smalling ERAU Athletics The 13th-ranked Embry-Riddle men's basketball team captured its eighth Daytona Mitsubishi/Kia Shootout title on Saturday night, holding off upset-minded Briar Cliff, 60-57 in the 2014 tournament's finale. The Eagles overcame a one-point deficit with 90 seconds left to preserve their unblemished record, moving to 6-0 on the year, while the Chargers dropped to 6-2. Cesar Pastrana, the tournament's MVP, scored 20
Briar Cliff: 57 points and grabbed seven rebounds for the Blue and Gold who will head to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Tuesday, Nov. 25 for a 7:30 p.m. game agaisnt NCAA II Nova Southeastern. After a slow first half, the Eagles and Chargers were locked in a defensive battle with neither team leading by more than eight during the contest. The hosts saw their 46-38 cushion at the 10:45 mark dissapear when Bryan Forbes made good on two free throws with 4:35 left, tying the game at 48-48 The Eagles countered
with a pair of freebies from DeForest Carter to retake a two-point lead, but a triple from Clay Harreld ignited the BCU bench and gave the Chargers their first lead since late in the opening period. Trailing 51-50 with less than four minutes, the Eagles pounded the ball inside to Pastrana who traded layups with BCU's Matt Berg before Carter threaded a pass on the baseline to the Cartagena, Colombia native who stuck it in for a 54-53 ERAU lead. Forbes connected on two more free throws with 1:30 left after Carter committed a foul, and the pair from the charity stripe again gave Briar Cliff a lead, prompting a timeout from BCU's bench. Dalton Barnes drove to the hoop on the ensuing ERAU possession, making the layup before
Carter came up with one of the biggest plays of the night, blocking Harreld's trey with 48 seconds left and sprinting behind the Chargers' defense as Barnes fed him the ball for a one-handed dunk and a three-point lead at 58-55. Forbes was given another trip to the free throw line when Daniel Kiesling was whistled for a blocking foul in the lane and after the Charger made both the visitors forced a turnover out of the inbounds play. However, both Harreld and Forbes missed layups that would have given the Chargers a lead and Kiesling grabbed a defensive rebound before being fouled with 16 seconds left. Kiesling connected on both free throws and Forbes forced an off-balance three-pointer with seven seconds left that Pastrana corralled for his
seventh reboun of the night, sealing the game for the Eagles. Both offenses struggled in the early going with the Eagles held scoreless for the first four minutes of the game until Reed Ridder hit a three to cut the BCU lead to 5-3. A couple of back-and-forth minutes led to a 9-8 ERAU lead with 11:24 left before Joseph Gonzalez buried a long ball to move the ERAU cushion to four points. The Chargers answered quickly with six straight to take a 14-12 lead, and led until Pastrana's layup with just over four minutes left in the half, which gave the Blue and Gold a 22-19 lead. A strip and steal by Carter ended in a dunk for the senior from Big Cypress, Fla. on the next BCU possession and the Eagles ended the half on a 6-0 run to take a 31-27
lead into the break. Embry-Riddle maintained a two possession lead for most of the second period until Forbes' free throws with under five minutes left knotted the game at 48-48. Embry-Riddle held BCU to 33 percent from the floor and 26 percent from three-point range, but the Chargers made 17-of-23 at the line to stay in the contest. ERAU shot 44 percent and just 18 percent from deep, managing 13 assists and seven blocks with six steals. Joining Pastrana on the All-Tournament team were Carter (16 points, 8 assists) and Barnes (10 points, 8 rebounds) for the Eagles and Forbes (8 points, 7 rebounds) and Berg (11 points, 4 rebounds) for the Chargers. Talladega's Brandon Peters was also named to the All-Tournament squad.
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As the last issue of the Avion for the 2014 semester, there will be no crossword contest this week. Have a wonderful break!