The Sandspur Vol 112 Issue 6

THE OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN FLORIDA SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

In Brief Holt School Honors Scholarship Recepients The Hamilton Holt School honored almost 150 students who received undergraduate and graduate scholarships from many generous individual donors and organizations. Over the past 16 years, the Holt School Scholarship Fund has provided more than $2.3 million in scholarships to 1,783 students.

New Director of Community Engangement Micki Meyer, director of the Office of Community Engagement, joins the Rollins College team from neighboring college University of Central Florida. A graduate of the State University of New York College at Fredonia and of Bowling Green State University, she brings her extensive experience in the arena of community engagement. Micki has been assisting in the LEAD Scholars program at UCF since 2001 and assisted in residential leadership and Greek affairs at Bowling Green until 2001.

In This Issue UCF Officer Killed Undercover UCF officer shot by retired Orlando Police Officer. page 3 Blame for Katrina Read our columnists go head to head about who is to blame for the Hurricane Katrina debacle. page 8 Healthy Realtionships See if your relationship matches to those considered “healthy.” page 16 Charlie Weis Grants Last Wish Notre Dame Coach respects final wishes of dying boy by calling the play the boy wanted. page 18

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City of Winter Park Declares Sept. 23 “Rollins College Day”

Leaders proclaim the strong bond between Rollins and Winter Park as Rollins presents a check to the Red Cross.

by Dani Picard

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The City of Winter Park officially proclaimed September 23 as "Rollins College Day" to commemorate Rollins' ranking as the number one regional university in the south in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges." More than a 100 members of the Rollins and Winter Park community turned out to celebrate the first "Rollins College Day." President Lewis Duncan introduced Mayor Kenneth "Kip" Marchman who read the official proclamation. The proclamation cited a number of

achievements, including the college's rank of #1 among regional universities in the South according to the annual rankings of "America's Best Colleges" in U.S. News & World Report; its ranking as first in the South in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category, which recognizes schools offering the best value, which relates academic quality with the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of financial aid; and the national acclaim Rollins' Crummer Graduate School of Business received by Forbes magazine, listing it among the best business schools for return on investment.

During the event, Student Government President, Cat McConnell presented a check worth $6,724 to the American Red Cross. SGA had raised DANI PICARD / The Sandspur the money in the wake of TWO GREAT LEADERS LOOK BACK: Lewis Duncan and Hurricane Katrina.

Winter Park Mayor Kip Marchman celebrate the town bond.

Protesters March on Washington Against U.S. Action in Iraq Grassroots effors unite as popular support for the war continues to slip.

by Issac Stolzenbach the sandspur

With the first permit issued in over a decade, protestors converged on Washington, D.C. in the largest anti-war demonstration at the capital since the Vietnam-era.

The subways were packed to capacity, overflowing with tie-dye, pigtails, pins, buttons, and stickers. Drumbeats kept the crowds in cadence and songs from the 60’s and 70’s filled the air, “Hey, Hey, What’s that sound . . . .”

The events found no shortage of mottos: From blatant dissent “Impeach Bush!”; to mild spoonerisms “Buck Fush!” Two slogans competed for best in show between the most liberal to the most conservative partic-

ipants: “Stop Bitching Start a Revolution,” and “Make Leeves Not War” respectively.

One Rollins student, Kimberly Hartman ’07, organized a carpool and drove students to the protest.

When asked what seemed the most notable aspect of the events Hartman replied, “The thing that stood out to me was the diversity of people attending; it wasn’t just a bunch of college kids. This weekend’s rally is only the beginning of a nationwide grassroots movement. There is a protest currently in the works for downtown Orlando on November second.”

Participants represented a broad cross-section of America that one might not expect to share similar

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“Eastern Influence” Art Show

by Sophia Koshmer the sandspur

On Monday, September 19, The “Eastern Influence” Opening Art Show was held in the Cornell Campus Center. All in all, it was a very impressive showcase of Rollins student, alumni and local Orlando talent. Aside from the amazing art displays were jewelry tables selling well-crafted pieces, a food table with an Easterninspired cuisine and a henna table where free henna tattoos were being offered.

The art ranged from oils on canvas, bronze casts and acrylics to uniquely themed photography. All of these artists showed incredible talent and creativity, even in portraits or photographs meant to simply portray everyday life or to freeze a period in time. Some of these phenomenal works included

a trio of oils on canvas by artist Ricardo Manzo. These oils were very beautiful and detailed renditions of such figures as “Buddha” and “Foo Dog.” The contrast of onyx black accompanied by a mix of bright and subtle golds leave a dark and mysterious aura surrounding the enlightened figures. Shadows are cast softly across passive, and in one case very alarming, expressions.

Another highlight was the photography, which included a series of very unique portraits by Lesley Silvia, of male and female figures with sushi laid across their skin in a simplistic yet arresting manner. These were so interesting in that they at first cause a slight state of bewilderment in the viewer at how out of the norm they ap-

ibly detailed and equally revealing of very exquisite craftsmanship. There was also a set of anime artwork by different artists which was filled with color and fantastical characters. All of the pieces in this art show are worth mentioning and are individualistically beautiful, creative and completed with incredible artistic valor.

A few events accompanying the art show included, as before mentioned, a table filled with Eastern inspired cuisine including such delicacies as sushi, chicken wrapped in a fried pastry-like dough and humus with SOPHIA KOSHMER/The Sandspur flatbread. It was a very dirather silly if viewed in the versely chosen set of tastes real world, which is of from the Eastern cultures. course, the truth of surrealis- The jewelry tables were covtic artistic expression. The ered with beautiful and elebronze casts were all incred- gant pieces being sold to pear. However, soon after, the beauty of the forms and patterns and the very concept itself shows through in what might otherwise look

those attending and were enjoyable to just walk around and look at. However, the popular event seemed to be the free henna tattoos which allowed you to pick from many different symbols and tribal designs. The results were detailed and lovely and the craft was completed quickly as lines formed for much of the night at the table. This was art in itself and was something I tried during my attendance of this event. I was highly pleased with the results and the week and a half to two weeks in which it lasted.

The event was both enjoyable and educational, a very unlikely pair, but it made the night delightfully entertaining. I highly recommend that those interested go and see the artwork which is still displayed in the Cornell Campus Center.

Holocaust Survivor and Activist Simon Wiesenthal Dies Simon Wiesenthal, who devoted his life to pursuing Nazi war criminals, dies at 96.

by Erika Batey the sandspur

Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, who dedicated his life to pursuing Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice, died in his sleep last week in Vienna at the age of 96.

For the past 60 years Wiesenthal’s tireless efforts and investigations led to the arrest and trials of over 1,100 Nazi war criminals. Despite death and kidnapping threats again him, his wife, and daughter, and a firebomb attack on his Vienna home, he refused to give up his work. He tracked down the locations of former death camp commandants, cataloged lists of stolen property transported by the Nazis from death camps to Berlin, traced escape routes of SS criminals, and documented Nazi underground networks. He prided himself on being called “the bad conscience of the Nazis.”

Wiesenthal’s work earned him numerous prizes and decorations from many European countries and resistance movements. The Simon Wiesenthal Center based in Los Angeles and dedicated to the investigation and reporting of antiSemitism and prejudice around the world was

named in his honor in 1977.

In 1967 he published his memoirs in a book entitled “The Murderers Among Us,” on which an HBO movie was later based. “Justice, Not Vengeance,” was published in 1989. In this second volume of his memoir he writes, “Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.”

This philosophy was Wiesenthal’s driving force.

By bringing the Nazi killers to justice he would immortalize the memory of the 6 million murdered Jews. He insisted that it was justice and not vengeance that he pursued, and strived to ensure that the crimes would be “brought to light so the new generation knows about them, so it should not happen again.” He continued to do this until the final years of his life.

Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in Galicia, part of the AustroHungarian Empire, and present day Ukraine. As a schoolchild he endured antiJewish pogroms by the Cossacks. After being denied admission to the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov, as a result of new Jewish quotas placed on academic admission, he attended the Technical University of Prague and graduated with a degree in architectural engineering in 1932.

In 1936 he married Cyla, his high-school love, and took a job in an architectural office

in Lvov.

Three years later Germany and Russia partitioned Poland, and Lvov was purged of Jews by the Russian army. Wiesenthal’s stepfather was arrested and his stepbrother shot. Wiesenthal was forced to leave his architectural job and work as a mechanic in a bedspring factory. He narrowly avoided deportation to Siberia by bribing a Soviet secret police commissar. In June 1941 he was lined up to be shot by the invading German army, but was spared.

Wiesenthal and his wife were first sent to Janowska concentration camp, and then to a forced labor camp where they worked on a new railroad. In 1942 the Nazis began their “final solution,” the policy that resulted in extermination of almost the entire Jewish population in Europe. Wiesenthal’s mother was sent to Belzec death camp where she was killed.

Within the next few years, Wiesenthal and his wife lost 89 family members.

Obtaining false papers from a Polish resistance movement, Cyla Wiesenthal was able to leave the labor camp and hide in Warsaw.

Simon escaped in October 1943, but was recaptured.

Back in the labor camp he attempted suicide twice, but was revived by the Gestapo for interrogation. As the Russian Red Army advanced, the SS guards removed prisoners from the camp and marched them west to a camp in Austria.

Few survived the journey.

When the American army liberated the camp in Austria on May 5, 1945 the 6 feet tall Wiesenthal only weighed 97 pounds.

Following his liberation, Wiesenthal chose not to continue his work in architecture. Instead, he immediately began collecting evidence for the War Crimes Section of the U.S. army. He also headed the Jewish Central Committee in the U.S. occupied zone in Austria after the war, and opened the Jewish Historical Documentation center in Linz, Austria. At the end of 1945 he was reunited with his wife.

Wiesenthal continued to hunt down Nazi criminals tirelessly in the following decades. He played a crucial role in the arrests of Franz Stangl and Gustav Franz Wagner, the former a commandant at the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps.

His investigations led him to Brazil and Argentina, where many former SS guards and Nazi officials escaped after the war.

Wiesenthal has been challenged by some critics because of his false claims of playing a role in the capture of Adolf Eichman who was responsible for the transport of the Jews to death camps.

His leads on Mengele, the doctor who performed horrendous medical experiments, also proved to be false sightings. Nevertheless, he has been acknowledged worldwide for leading the trail in the quest for

justice.

An interviewer once asked him why he chose not to pursue his career after the war. “You’re a religious man. You believe in God and life after death,” he said.

“I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, ‘What have you done?’ there will be many answers. You will say, ‘I became a jeweler’…Still another will say, ‘I built houses,’ but I will say, ‘I didn’t forget you.’”

Simon Wiesenthal will be remembered for his compassion and for his dedication to justice. “I’m the one who can still speak. After me, it’s history,” he said in a 1993 interview. As time passes and more and more Holocaust survivors pass away it is increasingly important that their stories are preserved and remembered.

Wiesenthal was buried on September 23 in Israel.

Terry Davis, chairman of the Council of Europe, made the following statement after his death, “Without Simon Wiesenthal’s relentless effort to find Nazi criminals and bring them to justice, and to fight anti-Semitism and prejudice, Europe would never have succeeded in healing its wounds and reconciling itself... He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.” He is survived by his daughter Paulinka who lives in Israel and 3 grandchildren.

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Economic Terrorism: An Emerging Threat Brett Kingstone, head of Super Vision, explains the treat of economic terrorism.

by Angela Gonzalez the sandspur

During these times of heightened terrorism alerts and threats to national security, we in the U.S. have failed to notice a breed of terrorism that is threatening our nation’s safety within our borders and extending out worldwide. That threat is economic terrorism, when other countries around the world steal American ideas and refuse to abide by copyright laws which are supposed to protect inventors.

On Wednesday the 22, Brett Kingstone, the President and CEO of the locallybased company, Super Vision International Inc., came in to give a lecture on Economic Terrorism: Defending Intellectual Property Rights.

Super Vision is a relatively small business which is responsible for lighting the AT&T sign in Times Square, the Pepsi globe in Caracas, Venezuela, airports in Moscow and much more.

The LED & fiber-optic lighting that they sell was an idea that Mr. Kingstone and some colleagues came up with in a garage while in college. He has built his company from the ground up but a few years ago, he found something was threatening all that he had built.

A family from China, notorious for counterfeit Bulova watches and other intellectual property theft, had been paying off a few of his employees $20,000, even $1.2 million to get a hold of the information and blueprints about his product. After hiring a private investigator and spending around $1.5 million on legal costs, Kingstone was able to seize the $2 million in counterfeit products, outfitted with his company logo and everything, from a Miami warehouse.

While it may seem that Kingstone had won his battle, he did little to end the war over intellectual property. The problem is that U.S. patent laws are worthless overseas and U.S. court rulings cannot be enforced outside of U.S. borders. In

China, specifically, it is estimated that 1 out of every 3 people is involved in some form of counterfeit.

The United Nations has done little to confront this problem and according to Kingstone, “The U.N. as an organization is corrupt and does nothing”. It also doesn’t help that the U.S. was such a huge advocate for China admittance in the U.N. Every year the U.S. loses $750 billion dollars due to intellectual property theft, which doesn’t add to the growing $27,000 deficit we each have looming over our heads. The former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Don Evans, experienced a loss of around 5 million manufacturing jobs due to the effects of economic terrorism.

It may seem that this is an inevitable risk of business these days, but Kingstone offered some solutions to help protect your ideas and your future success. First, when hiring employees, it is advised to run a nationwide background check instead of just a regional one because quite often prior offenses will only show up within the state in which they were committed.

Next, only patent what is common knowledge and keep what isn’t obvious a “trade secret”. There’s a joke Kingstone mentioned that says “What do you call a Chinese blueprint? A U.S. patent,” so it’s good to keep your ideas as secret as possible. If in fact you discover you’ve become a victim of intellectual property theft, it is best to hire a private investigator to get concrete evidence otherwise you might end up spending a lot of money on litigation only to walk away with nothing.

That’s another tip of advice, enforcing a patent on just one item costs an average of $1.5 million, so make sure you have a solid case and a lot to lose before involving legal teams.

With the world becoming smaller by the day, aspiring business leaders need to protect themselves from global threats because U.S. regulations won’t always protect them and there’s a world of people out there competing for your dollar.

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UCF Officer Killed

by Jean Bernard Chery

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Dennis Smith, a 25-year retired Orlando police officer shot and killed Mario Jenkins who had been with the university police for four years, said authorities. Following the standard procedure of the department involving all police shootings, Officer Smith has been placed on administrative leave after the deadly shooting awaiting the outcome of the investigation.

The incident occurred on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, preceding a UCF pre-footballgame festivity at the Florida Citrus Bowl, where students are usually tailgating, drinking, and partying. A student was also wounded during the incident and was taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Apparently, the incident started when a group of students rebelled against the undercover, Mario Jerkins who confronted them for underage drinking. Witnesses’ statements are not as clear as authorities would want them to be. The Orlando Sentinel reported, “Witnesses said Jenkins pulled out his badge and his gun and fired the weapon. Some said he fired

the gun into the air, and one person who claimed to have seen the incident said Jenkins shot a student in the leg.”

Officer Mario Jerkins was working that night with “six other UCF officers and seven agents with the state Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco to cut down on underage drinking, reported the newspaper. The incident prompted the need for an investigation on the way the university dispatches undercover officers in such operation in their attempt to stop illegal drinking. The university president, Dr. John Hitt believes that the incident would definitely change the way the university conducts its undercover operation in the future.

Police Sgt. Troy Williamson of the University of Central Florida who announced Jerkins’ death, expressed the mood of the undercover officers at his department succeeding the incident as follow: “You’ve got about fifty police officers and beverage agents who are in complete shock.”

This incident raises the question about the basic protocol governing the relations of any undercover operation

and the Police Department where the operation is taking place: the local police department must be aware of all undercover operations within its jurisdiction. As the investigation proceeds, authorities would be looking into what went wrong which led to the incident. At the same time they will be looking at ways to improve cooperation between the two departments in an attempt to prevent another similar incident from happening.

Police at universities throughout the state of Florida and perhaps the country create special task force with the objective to hold back the underage drinking in on and off campus events. Members of these universities’ task force work closely with their respective state agents in dealing with the same problem.

Despite their constant efforts to cooperate those undercover operations with the local police department, things do not always work as smoothly as they would want them to. Sadly, the death Officer Jerkins by Officer Smith remind them of the difficulties they still have to tackle in their quest for better cooperation.

Relief As Rita Passes

by Nancy Aguirre the sandspur

Thousands of hurricane Rita evacuees began heading home this Sunday to the city of Houston, the first residents being allowed to return. As cleanup begins, residents are grateful that the damage caused by Rita, who came ashore Saturday as a Category 3 storm with 120 mph winds and warnings of up to 25 inches of rain, was significantly less than that caused by Katrina in early September.

The worst flooding occurred along the coast of Louisiana, with floodwaters as deep as nine feet. About 500 people were rescued from the high waters by helicopters just south of New Orleans. The people of New Orleans, devastated by Hurricane Katrina just three weeks ago, had to endure another full day of flooding.

Many residents that had moved to Houston because of Katrina were forced to move again as Rita approached. There may be some good news for the city however. Areas of the flooded city may be pumped dry

again within a week of the levee being repaired, which is much sooner than predicted.

The Corps of Engineers has estimated that the city’s system of levees will not be completely repaired until June. With a month left in the hurricane season, there’s no guarantee that another storm will not undo the next round of hard work to bring New Orleans back to life.

In contrast with Katrina, which had a death toll of over 1,000, only one death as a result of Rita had been reported Saturday night. This was in Mississippi, when a tornado overturned a mobile home, killing one person.

According to Center Point energy, over 460,000 customers in Texas were without power after 8 PM Saturday night. Counting all four affected states, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, 813,544 customers were without power as of 8 PM Saturday night.

These power outages include new outages due to Hurricane Rita, as well as remaining outages from Hurricane Katrina.

Eighty-three nursing

home residents were moved via helicopters and buses by authorities after being stranded at an elementary school without power for almost two days.

On a different note, the largest oil refinery in the US, along with 200 other refineries and chemical plants along the Houston ship channel connecting the port of Houston with the Gulf of Mexico, seem to have weathered the storm without any major damage. Among these, the Exxon-Mobile refinery, the largest in the US, suffered no damage either.

As many have noticed, gas prices did go up due to the fear of damage to these refineries, which were shut down in advance of the storm and are expected to reopen within a week.

On the whole, most citizens are sighing in relief as Rita passes without significant damage. Houston residents especially are relieved to say that despite the fallen tree branches and power outages, there was no major flooding to the city. “We came out pretty well,” mentioned one resident.

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North Korea Nuclear Talks Continue North Korea has agreed to denuclearization, despite continued doubts.

by Chris Winsor

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Though many remain skeptical, the six-party talks centered on North Korean denuclearization have finally reached a mild agreement towards the goal that they set to accomplish back in August of 2003. In theory, the document that North Korea has been pressured into signing effectively scraps all traces of a nuclear arsenal and allows for the reentry of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA). In

return for these demands, China, Russia, the U.S., South Korea and Japan have agreed to finance humanitarian aid and energy assistance.

The other key factor is the retreat of certain U.S. armed forces on the South Korean border as well as assurance that the U.S. does not maintain any kind of militarized nuclear presence in the pacific waters surrounding the region.

Despite the progress made thus far, there are still many obstacles barring the way to solving the North Korean nuclear crisis. Accounts of the meeting reveal that many of the more problematic issues have been left to the next scheduled round in November.

Among the agenda items

Dr. Clarke’s “Excavating Obscenity” Speech Packs the Auditorium

by Ana Maia

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On Monday, Sept. 26, the Bush Auditorium was packed for a lecture on erotica and humor. “Excavating Obscenity: Pompeii, Victorian Patriarchs and the Invention of Modern Pornography” was intricately crafted

by Dr. John Clarke, Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of the History of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Clarke not only presented ancient sexual images, but he discussed differences between ancient views and our current vision on pornography.

Dr. Clarks began the presentation by talking about the origin of pornography. A German archeologist, Müller, coined the modern term in 1850 after excavating ancient objects he considered obscene. His influence was so strong that erotic sculpture and paintings that excavated up to the late 20 century were only shown to upper-class males.

By using poignant and graphic slides, Dr. Clarke was able to demonstrate how pornography used to be culturally integrated into Roman daily life. The ancient Romans actually sanctified sex; they believed it was a gift of the gods. The Romans even romanticized sex in order to decorate rooms.

Dr. Clarke showed images of paintings containing sexual acts that were discovered in Pompeii. These im-

ages were found in family rooms and public areas around the house. Contrary to common belief, these two paintings do not show prostitution, but were placed in juxtaposition to illustrate the perfect bride: one contained a passionate and explicit sexual woman and the other illustrated a modest bride.

There was also an incredibly interesting painting found in the entrance of an ancient Roman house. The god of Roman fertility, Priapus*, is illustrated with an enormous penis to ward off evil by inserting humor in the household. This painting is a direct contrast between modern and ancient cultural view of sexuality. When this painting was excavated it was locked up in a tiny room behind an iron door to insure that women or children could not see it.

Dr. Clarke continued the lecture by explaining how our view on sex has changed. The dominant culture, white males, used to decide what we were allowed to see but now we are able to see this picture.

Why? Because the media has had too much impact on popular culture that images like these ones are barely even obscene compared to the ones available on cable T.V. Overall, the lecture was extremely interesting and entertaining. Sexual context in art has definitely evolved since the Roman Empire ruled European soil.

for this next meeting is the North Korean demand for the construction of a civilian nuclear power plant. U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill fell into line with the rest of the five nations declaring that this topic would be discussed "at a more appropriate time," despite the adamant American position that a Communist nation should not have any kind of nuclear capabilities. North Korea has taken this demand so far, even just 24 hours after the talks last Monday, that noncompliance, they say, will result in a total scrapping of all agreements.

As well as the added issue of the demands for "peaceful nuclear facilities," the talk in November will also go over procedures for disarmament: a discussion

that will inevitably give way to numerous controversies and difficulties. In the recent talk, there was no mention of what happens to North Korea's existing nuclear facilities, and neither was the issue of future verification made clear. All these topics lie waiting to be discussed in November, making the potential for great success/failure much higher here than that of last Monday. North Korea also announced that they plan on terminating all humanitarian aid put forth by the World Food Program because they feel that the U.S. may view it as an unmentioned bargaining chip in the denuclearization talks.

While they claim that the aid is no longer needed thanks to a good harvest this year, humanitarian observers state

that the continued reliance on WFP assistance (since 1995) has left the domestic agricultural capabilities overestimated.

With new issues such as the famine crisis arising all the time, political analysts maintain that the most important point for the five persuading nations is continued unity in policy and practice. So far the five appear to be on the same page. Washington, Tokyo and Moscow have told Pyongyang to stick to the Beijing agreement.

South Korea has said it is ready to moderate and China has asked all parties to abide by their promises.

We can only hope that the five negotiators remain unified in their willingness to bring about regional peace and harmony.

Washington Protest CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 views, but last weekend they all shared a common voice, “Bring our troops home!” Parents handed down Woodstock-gear to their children and instructed them on the ways of peaceful protest with homemade signs held high.

Many of the speakers were experienced in arguing publicly against war.

Participants included, Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, actress Jessica Lang, Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Cynthia McKinney, and the catalyst for the recent anti-war

movement, Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq. Sheehan protested in front of President Bush’s Crawford, Texas home while he was on vacation, requesting to speak with the president about the death of her son.

The one-woman protest gained national attention when the president continually declined to speak with the grieving mother.

When asked why he was so adamant in protesting the war in Iraq, Rev. Jesse Jackson replied, “This is a war based on lies and misinformation . . . there is

no correlation between the war in Iraq and the attacks on September 11 . . . the American people are beginning to see that we are losing lives and money and honor, so we must go another way.”

The cross-section of Americans participating in the protest shared a common goal—to bring our soldiers back home—but it remains to be seen whether their actions with excitd the desired effect. President Bush stands firm that the soldiers will not withdraw from Iraq “on my watch.”

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UNITED FRONT: Jesse Jackson of the Rainbow-Push Coalition and anti-war mother Cindy Sheehan field questions from the media.

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Keep Going; The Goal Is Within Reach Maintaining the balance between parenthood and academics while finding success.

by Monica Sawdaye the sandspur

As you drive to get to Rollins, do you feel guilty for taking time away from your family to attend evening classes? Do you get the impression that you are all alone in the world of marriage and family when you step onto campus? As the younger crowd passes you by on the path, does it seem as though you are invisible?

Well, I am here to remind you that you are not the only one! Hamilton Holt students are here to look out for one another, to encourage our fellow students, and to challenge each and every person we meet to expand their own knowledge. You are on a mission. You must push through all of the guilt and the pressure that weighs down on your brain and KEEP GOING! In order for you to remember that you are not alone, I will share personal insights with you. I decided as I was jumping tandem out of an airplane on my 30th birthday, that I was going back to school. I had been

by Linda Carpenter contributing writer

Dave Richard, associate professor of psychology, moved from cold Ypsilanti, Michigan in July to become the director of the organizational behavior and psychology departments of the Hamilton Holt School.

“I fell in love with Rollins,” said Richard. “I heard it was good, but I did not know how good. Since I grew up in California, I had not heard much about colleges in the east. This is a wonderful place to pursue scholarships.”

Before joining Rollins, Richard was coordinator of the clinical-behavioral track at Eastern Michigan University for four years. Prior to that he held a teaching position at Southwest Missouri State.

The professor and his wife and children are anticipating more warm Florida weather so they can enjoy the pool at their new home in

absent from college life for ten years.

My husband thought it was bizarre.

“Why do you want to go back to school and have homework and exams when you have already been out in the world? You don’t have to prove your worth!”

I knew what I was worth, but something strange was tugging at me. I needed to finish what I had started years before. But how could I achieve this goal without jeopardizing the happiness and well being of my family?

I started out slowly. Due to the demands of full time work as an assistant to a special needs classroom and my own family obligations, I had to tip toe into school with one class the first semester at a community college.

The next semester I took two classes to see how much I could handle. Awkward moments became the norm.

Two instances stand out.

The first was the day I realized that my political science professor was younger and had a Ph.D. The second and funniest moment was when I realized that my niece and I had enrolled in the same economics course.

Despite the urges to run back to my previous life, I kept chiseling away at obstacles in my path. I began to

realize that unless I wanted to be in school for ten years, I had to sacrifice some financial security. I let go of the full time job. My husband took on the heavy load. Although we won’t be able to buy a Lexus or a new house anytime soon, we are content. It is not like we need those material possessions anyway.

The running joke between my husband and I is that we will switch places.

When I finish my educational goals and get settled in my career, he will stay home and iron my clothes. I will be happy to oblige him.

And so here I am. I am a senior determined to finish my bachelor’s this spring in International Affairs. (Let’s hope that is the outcome.)

I still have twinges of guilt as I leave my family to attend classes. I panic sometimes when I have to worry about both home and school.

Do my kids know that they are loved? Did I need to pick up milk from the grocery store? Did I put that check in the bank? Did I send in the money for the twins’ field trip next week?

Do I need to read for my classes? Is there a paper due soon in one of my four courses? When is the next test? Did I do what I said I was going to do as a senator in the Hamilton Holt SGA?

COURTESY OF MONICA SAWDAYE

ENJOYING THE JOURNEY: (From Left) Hayleigh, Monica and Penny Sawdaye at Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica.

Did I really have time for that charity event this weekend? Do I have time for all of this? Have I lost my mind? AM I DOING THE RIGHT THING? Does this sound familiar?

Yes, you are doing the right thing. Take in a deep breath, then let it out slowly and stand proud. Hang on tightly to your motivations for attending Hamilton Holt.

You are in the right place.

Don’t give up.

Spend time with your family without interruptions from work and school.

Make an easily accessible and reliable schedule of all of your activities and deadlines. Try to do assignments sooner rather than later.

Schedule quiet times. On your way to class, instead of spending your time on the

phone wheeling and dealing or rescuing your best friend from their own misery, just listen to yourself. Are you OK? Take a few minutes before class or during breaks to talk to other students. This is your time.

Only students will understand what you are going through. Join a student organization on campus. It only takes a couple of hours each month to attend gatherings and it may help you to remain focused and sane.

Take care of your health. Go on. You can do it. You can succeed. You can finish. You can create harmony at home and at school. For you not only have your friends and family behind you, but also everyone you encounter at the Hamilton Holt School.

Peace and Safe Journeys.

Meet The New Man On Campus: Psychology Professor Dave Richard Oviedo. “The winters in Michigan really bothered us,”said Richard, who grew up in California. His wife, Tere, a native of Hawaii, also enjoys warm weather.

Richard has a cordial Web site with a wealth of information for students.

Linked to page one is a section on Research Opportunities, which notes interesting projects—such as the Virtual Reality Grant project and the Behavioral Assessment and Personality Disorders project—that need student assistance. (Check it out at web.rollins.edu/~dcrichard/.)

“I would like to help students who want to go to graduate school to begin doing research projects now so they know what they need to do to be competitive.”

Richard supports a teaching philosophy that gets students involved in their own learning. “The best teaching is hands on,” he said. “I

would like students to become proficient in content areas of course, to know what we are reading, but they also need to be actively involved in research projects.” He added that most psychology majors already have an intrinsic interest in research , so it is not difficult to excite them about these projects.

“I hope to engage them in active problem-solving to keep alive that spark of interest they had when they declared their major. I hope not to have many passive learners.”

Richard is impressed with Holt students. “They are motivated and really want to be in class. There really are a lot of bright students. I think it is an engaging experience for everyone, including me, when students are as involved as Holt students are.

They have life experience and they are engaged with the material so it is not difficult to

get them motivated.” He added that an important part of the teaching experience is learning from the students.

Richard has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California at San Diego (1986), a master’s degree in counseling and consulting psychology from Harvard University (1988), and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii (1999).

He also completed a clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

The professor’s hobbies include reading, sports, enjoying the beach with his wife and three children, and creative writing. He has completed a novel, Knights of the Shadow Wood, which he described as a cross between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.

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Several Thoughts About China...And All That U.S. Citizens Don’t Get About It Responding to propaganda and misunderstandings about China in the United States.

by Tom Trasente the sandspur

There is a lot of junk written about China, and I would like to correct them.

Know that the “largest potential market” of 1.3 billion people does not exist.

Dumb Western business people have been salivating over these sugar plums dancing in their heads for several hundred years. It did not exist then, it does not exist today, and it will not exist tomorrow.

Reject the out of date idea that China is a communist country. Chinese don’t say they are capitalists, they say they “have a free market.” Irregardless

of whatever you call it, everything in China is profits, development, growth, markets, and getting rich.

In several aspects China is more capitalistic than America since they lack fair labor laws, minimum wages, social security, government provided health care, or the other trappings of the safety net that have swept over the Western world in the last hundred years.

Understand that several hundred million Chinese people are willing to die, and kill, for Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet. Short of wiping out the entire Han nation, nothing will ever change this.

Recognize that Mao is popular in China not for propaganda reasons but because he killed a lot of Japanese during World War II and stood up to for-

eign powers who had spent the last few hundred years plundering China. Deng Xiao Ping is worshipped for opening China to the outside world, and starting the free market. Jiang Ze Min is regarding as a bit of a clown, and the jury is still out on Hu Jin Tao. Realize that Chinese, like many developing and ancient countries, do not want to be like us. They do not want their wives, daughters, and women showing off their bodies and seeking abortions.

They do not want their husbands, sons, and men abandoning their wives and children.

Liberals will not want to hear this, but China does not want human rights (why would you want something you think you already have?), and least of all, foreign aid; they want to learn from us, so they,

too, can be rich.

Know that the Cold War is long over and China merely seeks to ensure its territorial integrity, especially Taiwan, and that the boogey man of the Chinese military build up to threaten America is a farce created by those seeking office and U.S. weapons manufacturers.

Memorize that the Chinese government understands America a lot better than the American government understands China.

Dump the hopeless notion that China has any kind of practical or useful influence on North Korea.

Americans like to think that if the Chinese did something, the nuclear weapons problem will somehow go away.

The problem here is that China has no influence because, any collapse of North Korea will mean sev-

eral hundred thousand North Korean refugees streaming over into China, which is the last thing they need. They have enough desperate people, thank you. Not only that, why would they pressure a government that has been a traditional friend? Naturally, the North Koreans know this and understand their northern back is covered.

Having said this, the Chinese wonder why the North Koreans have not gotten with the program, and become believers in the free market like the Chinese have become in the last 25 years. They truly shake their heads in amazement.

Finally, and most importantly, know that there is just as much malarkey about China in America, as there is about America in China.

The Facebook Face-off: Faculty, Staff, and Rollins Very Own Orwellian Tyranny A response to the on campus fallout regarding The Facebook as a “Big Brother.”

by Max Remer the sandspur

Last year students of Rollins College finally were given the opportunity to participate in an online interactive website known as The Facebook.

Most people know exactly how this website works. For those who do not know, students are allowed to freely sign up under their respective school and place a picture of themselves as well as information about who they are. Students can also join clubs for people with common interests and other students can post messages on their respective “walls.”

Facebook is extremely open forum for students to express themselves any a manner of their choosing.

However, recent developments have put quite a damper on the freedom of expression at this school.

Recently Rollins College faculty members and

staff members have been joining Facebook. To date there are 23 faculty members listed on Facebook. As this has been happening, there have also been many reports of students getting in trouble with the college over pictures placed on Facebook and another website called Webshots.

It should be noted however that in no way am I blaming the Faculty joining Facebook for the reason that students have been getting in trouble. When I first found out about such actions taken against the students, I was outraged.

The entire situation of Facebook begs for debate.

Students’ right of privacy seems to be under fire by an overzealous Residential Life team. If these events are true, it shows a desperate move by this institution to try to clean up. I feel however, this is the wrong move. Searching through personal pictures and reading statements or clubs made as jokes can have dire consequences.

First, it destroys any level of trust between the students and the college.

The college comes out as the “bad guy”, who looks

as if it is hunting down students and trying to entrap them.

Second, students who gave no consent to have pictures placed online are not discriminated against when punishments are handed down. Residential Life needs to stop playing internet police and concentrate on actually catching students in the act rather then simply finding incriminating evidence on internet websites. What happened to actually having credible evidence to convict people?

The other side of this argument has a strong case as well. Although Residential Life still seems somewhat overzealous, they are doing it for good reason.

Rollins has a reputation as a party school. We are looked at as an institution of rich kids at a country club and not academics at a liberal arts college. This reputation is trying to be changed by the current staff. Thus, a crackdown on policies is enviable.

Students who break policies need to be punished; there is no way around this. Thus, Residential Life is simply doing

its job in finding students who publicly disobey policy. The way in which Residential Life is doing this is through online anonymous reports placed through their website. Thus, someone is snitching on students, finding their pictures and turning them in.

I applaud this school for trying to change a negative reputation. However, I do not applaud snooping on students. Yet, students with pictures of themselves breaking policy are just as much at fault.

If you are going to break a law and/or a policy why publicly display yourself doing it? That is simply not a smart move. I beg the student body to take some responsibility and accountability for your own actions.

I would like to state that I am quite sympathetic to individuals who are simply in other people pictures. It is completely unjust to punish students who gave no consent for their pictures to be on websites. Although what the college might be doing is not desirable, it is what might be happening. When signing up for Facebook you represent Rollins Col-

lege, as it is tagged to your login name and your page.

Thus, the school has some right to monitor how its name is used.

I also call out to the college to think carefully about which roads it chooses to pursue. Although a picture is “worth a thousand words”, it is not proof that a cup holds anything alcoholic.

The college needs to be very careful not to start an “us vs. them” mentality with the students. It also needs to stop jumping on students who turn up in pictures on internet websites doing crazy things.

Students should only get in trouble when caught by an RA, CA or member of Residential Life.

I am in no way condoning breaking policy and getting away with it, rather I am fighting for a fair system relaying on eyewitness testimony rather then internet hearsay. Hopefully Residential Life will reexamine its policies, notices and ethical flaw with its current activities. Until that happens, students of Rollins: be warned, your privacy is not as safe as it once was.

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation And North Korea’s Relations Fallout

by Brett Heiney

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The recently concluded six nation talks in Beijing concerning the future of North Korea’s quest for nuclear capabilities ended on a positive note with North Korea agreeing to terminate its nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid.

However, Pyongyang promptly dashed the hopes and positive attitude the next day by demanding nuclear power plants be built for them before making good on their side of the deal. I see it as a positive that North Korea, begrudgingly or not, is even willing to discus civilly with the US, China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan. I simply do not understand how this country expects to be the dominant figure in these discussions.

It is smart of Pyongyang, and Iran for that matter, to begin anew their pursuit for nuclear arms now. While the US is committed to operations in Iraq our military strength is somewhat diminished throughout the rest of the world; we do not pose as immediate a military threat to North Korea.

While we are bogged down

in other areas, North Korea sees its chance to get a capability that will make it a threat that the rest of the world will be forced to contend with.

I can understand why the North Korean leaders may believe they have the upper hand, but even though we may be too involved elsewhere to be able to invade North Korea if they do not comply with our agreements, they are clearly not in the position to be making all the demands.

None of the other five nations who partook in the Beijing talks are prepared to go to war on the Korean peninsula, but their patience, and ours, could wear thin if Pyongyang continues to resist a compromise that is reasonable to all parties.

North Korea is not a great power; it does not possess the same kind of sway that they seemingly believe they do. I do not understand how they think they can get away with taking advantage of our diplomatic and militarily non-confrontational approach.

When in 2002 the Bush Administration accused Pyongyang of having a covert nuclear program, how did

North Korea respond? It denied the claims, threw out weapons inspectors, and withdrew from the Non Proliferation Treaty. The latter two actions really seem to support their denial.

I acknowledge that it is unfair for the nuclear powers to say to the rest of the world that we are committed to keeping the world safe from nuclear arms by not letting anyone else have them, but we can and will keep ours. Sure we are decommissioning nuclear warheads, but not all of them.

This seems very hypocritical and I wish no one possessed the ability to destroy lives on such a scale, but if we are to work towards eliminating nuclear arms it may be necessary to keep ours at least for a time.

To get others to stop trying to produce nuclear weapons we may need to use ours as a deterrent. I hope some day nuclear weapons will be something discussed only in the past tense. We are a long way from that unfortunately.

Until we reach the point where we can safely remove all of our nuclear capabilities, we will need to know for sure that none others

exist in the world.

Our government has a responsibility to protect us, and as long as there is some kind of nuclear threat, it will remain necessary for our government to have the ability to appropriately defend our interests with hopefully overwhelming force.

I believe that if any governments were to have nuclear arms, North Korea should not be counted among them. Kim Jong-Il is a dangerous man whom I believe would have little or no qualms about using warheads on other nations. He may not use them unprovoked, yet his reasoning I doubt would be sound enough to rationally warrant the use of nuclear weapons. I also believe that he could be a possible dealer in nuclear arms to those terrorist organizations that would love to be able to do some serious damage to us and our allies.

North Korean nuclear weapons should be considered a viable threat and we should exhaust every diplomatic resource to thwart it.

We may be hypocritical in our logic, but North Korea should never have nuclear arms.

This Is What We Are Pledging...

by Gordon Kirsch

contributing writer

This is an article written in response to the article titled “What Are We Pledging Again?” found in the Sept. 23 issue of the Sandspur.

Yes, a federal judge has in fact ruled that being forced to recite the pledge of allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional. Is it offensive to the non-religious minority?

Maybe. However, it is unconstitutional because it violates the establishment clause which has been repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. Are atheists and agnostics the only people who want the words “under God” removed? Nope. There are in fact many people of faith that want the words removed because they respect the constitution and some of them feel it just belittles their faith when people are made to say

it every day.

Children specifically are easily confused by being told one set of values at home and a different set at school.

Imagine parents wanting to bring their child up atheist and teaching that child that there is no God. Now imagine the same child’s teacher and the rest of his classroom saying the pledge with “under God” included.

What is the child to believe, his friends and teacher, or his parents? This tension between home values and school teachings can cause children to become social outcasts and can make them victims of bullying, or worse.

The answer to this is very simple. Keep your faith in your house or your place of worship, not in our classrooms.

The case of the constitutionality of thePledge of Allegiance was brought on by

Dr. Michael Newdow, a physician with a law degree.

Not Mr. Newdow, as the previous article referred to him as. The fact that Dr. Newdow’s first case against the pledge of allegiance was dismissed from court due to a legal loophole does not in any way lower his credibility, contrary again to the previous article. Just because a person is atheist does not mean the religious majority can blatantly insult them.

Are baseless character attacks not against your religion?

Finally, the United States of America was not founded on Christian principles. That might be hard for some of you to believe because of hardcore conservative brainwashing, but it is true. Many of our nation’s founding fathers were Deists. They believe that God created the universe and then promptly excused himself from it. No

miracles, no son of God, and no great flood. Among these Deists were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, James Madison and James Monroe.

Furthermore, many of these deists actually detested Christianity and did their best to keep it out of the Constitution. To this day, the constitution of the United States of America does not contain the words “God”, “10 Commandments” or even “Christian”.

In summation, please respect our constitution. Please respect the non-religious minority. Please respect the secular standing of our public schools and the established wall between church and state. This is not a nation founded on religion, it is founded on the idea that we should be free and can choose to be free of religion.

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The Right Left

The “Right” Answer

by Jami Furo

by Joshua L. Benesh political columnist

FAILURE BLEEDS THROUGH FEMA’S WHITEWASH Recently, former FEMA director Michael Brown placed his head on the chopping block of public opinion and opened himself up to questions regarding the botched FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina. What emerged was a picture of politics in the Bush administration, one in which nothing is out of the realm of possibilities to be done or said in order to avoid any shred of blame in the direction of the executive.

Brown, a political appointee, demonstrated his ineptness in FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina and opened himself up to a deluge of controversy and questions not only in regards to what went wrong but also what qualified him to be FEMA director. A lawyer by trade, Brown, like most of the Bush appointees to FEMA, lacked any sort of crisis management training and came to the job with a resume bulked with untruth. His hurried resignation from FEMA in the wake of the storm’s fallout cannot be interpreted as anything but the administration’s attempt to save face in the wake of extreme criticism.

Saving face as a concept also traveled to Capitol Hill where Brown was grilled by members of a House select committee regarding his response and actions taken both in preparation and in the aftermath of the storm. The select committee, hastily set up by House Republican leadership, is an attempt to whitewash the administration’s role, using Brown as a sacrificial lamb who was asked to resign in order to shield blame from reaching higher up the chain of command and then paraded before a House committee in an attempt to seek closure.

The tactic did not work as well as planned with House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi asking that her Democrats boycott the committee in an attempt to seek an independent and non-partisan investigation. House Republicans and two Democrats from states impacted by Hurricane Katrina continued the destruction of the Republican charade by causing Brown to pass the buck back to the states and localities, an utterly ridiculous response which will foster more political fallout than it will do good.

All too clearly, the red of blood and unnecessary sacrifice of thousands bleeds through this attempt at whitewashing, as not only does Brown refuse to accept blame for his failure to coordinate a response to the storm but went so far as to point fingers to the botched local response, citing New Orleans Mayor Nagin and Louisiana Governor Blanco as at blame for the

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mistakes of Hurricane Katrina.

There is, in short, demonstrative of the fundamental failure in Brown and the federal government’s capacity to understand the preparation and response situations and merely a political ploy to protect the sleazy cabal that exists in the upper-echelons of the federal bureaucracy. With the ever-expanding federal government and the scaling back of state and local response systems, budgets and personnel the response capabilities of states and localities is significantly limited, especially when faced with a disaster of this scale.

Both Nagin and Blanco made repeated pleas for the federal response to be stepped up before and after the storm, each time falling on the deaf ears of Brown and FEMA, even when a disaster declaration was approved by President Bush. Instead, Brown contends that Blanco and Nagin could not see eye-to-eye, even though both are Democrats and went so far as to call Louisiana “dysfunctional,” a realization he went on to call his “biggest mistake.”

It becomes clear that Brown and the Republicans within the executive branch are fast to sidestep the fundamentals of FEMA’s role, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a coordinating agency that must take an active role in management of emergency situations, something not done in response to Hurricane Katrina. The state and local level were not asking solely for federal resources, merely that the reigns of response be taken up and centralized by FEMA in order to best use the assets at hand.

While federal assets were necessary in the response, even these were slow to reach the areas impacted by the storm, leaving Louisiana and New Orleans to do what it could with the collapsed asset and organizational management structure it had in a situation that seemed to worsen by the minute.

What emerges as clear from all of this is that a fundamental failure did occur, partially the result of circumstance but also partially the result of a botched response and lackluster leadership within FEMA and the executive branch. While the political fallout is far from over, I can only hope that the American people will not allow the assignment of arbitrary blame in order to whitewash and find a scapegoat to end the search for answers. If it does, the lives of thousands have been ended or reduced to shambles in vain; with nothing to show for it in terms of assuring such a tragedy never happens again, only the assurance that political careers and legacies remain intact.

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THE GOVERNOR, THE MAYOR: INEFFECTIVENESS It has been nearly a month since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast. However, the ordeal is far from over. There is still much work to be done.

People cannot help but feel that more could have been done and that rescue efforts could have gone smoother. Names have been flying and fingers have been pointing. The president has been near the top of the list, of course, as the commander in chief typically is. The director of FEMA was another source of concern, and he took it upon himself to correct that situation by resigning.

However it is perhaps the leadership of Louisiana that should receive some of the blame if it is to be given. Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans publicly and angrily criticized President Bush for not responding quickly enough. He was unpleased with the response that the city got from FEMA, the Red Cross, the police, the military, and others.

But what was Nagin doing in the meantime? He was telling 1500 police officers to stop their rescue efforts and to combat looters instead. While looting was a problem in trying to maintain order in the city, and the looters did become hostile as time passed, what was the priority? These people were lost and desperate. They were hungry, and they had lost everything that they had. The city was underwater, and the buildings were unsalvageable. Who and what was Nagin trying to protect from looters? And what is more important—stolen televisions or starving, dehydrated, frightened people stuck in their attics and on their roofs?

It was also Nagin who told New Orleans citizens that they could come back to the flooded, bacteria-infested, desolate city mere days before Hurricane Rita was projected to hit the Gulf coast. It took serious dissuasion from President Bush and others to convince the mayor otherwise. This man, who supposedly cares so much about his city and its residents, would allow them to reenter their already unsafe city with, as an added danger, a large hurricane approaching.

This is not even including

what could have been done ahead of time. While the wind damage from Katrina was significant, it was not nearly as bad as it could have been. The absolute devastation of the city came from the flooding. It is already known that New Orleans is in a sensitive situation being positioned below sea level. Flooding was a major concern going into this catastrophic event. However, again, as the storm passed through, citizens and media personnel were hopeful, and so far, the city had remained relatively dry, or at least, not flooded.

Then, it happened. The levee broke, and the water cascaded through the streets. Thousands drowned, and thousands more were stranded because of that levee. The truth later surfaced that the levee was only designed to handle a category two hurricane at the most. Katrina, as everyone knows, was a strong category four.

New Orleans is positioned right along the Gulf of Mexico— a perfect place for hurricanes to bathe in warm water, intensify, and then strike land. This was inevitable, given the location of New Orleans. The city knew that the levees were inadequate. So why did they not fix them ahead of time? Why, if Nagin is so concerned and so eager to direct blame, were the levees not updated before this happened?

Many lives—even if you don’t begin to consider money— would have been saved.

While it was Ray Nagin’s uncontrollable mouth and impulsiveness that has gotten him in trouble, it is governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco, is overwhelmingly ineffective in her reticence and lack of action.

She hardly speaks, and what she says does not seem to amount to much. I have very little to even comment on when it comes to Blanco. I cannot comment on what she does not do.

I am not much for pointing fingers—especially after the deed is done and there is nothing that anyone can do about it.

However, many are looking at blame, and if you are, I think it is important to consider a couple of leaders right within the state of Louisiana who cannot, or will not, even care for their own people.

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Astrology for many is simply a myth, something that silly and uneducated people believe in. For others it is a way of life, consulting horoscopes everyday while watching The Weather Channel. So who is right? Where does the truth lie? Can it all really be found in the stars? Perhaps.

What is true is that astrology uses birthdays to describe twelve different personalities.

Whether you fit your own astrological sign’s description or not can get more complicated as one begins to study where different planets fell on your birthday, where your moon laid down, and what was peeking out of the horizon and setting back in. Complicated?

Most definitely. So lets keep it simple.

When it comes to dating in astrology there is one basic rule. This rule is based on the collective personalities of the signs. Those signs that fall under the fire or air category should mostly avoid those in the water or earth categories.

Think about how those four elements work in the natural world and it will make sense.

Fire signs can be rather selfish. They tend to believe that their use of brute force and a lot of yelling can get them to control everyone revolving around them. Air signs are the definition of flighty. These are the ones that will play logic games forever, or at least until you agree with the one side of their ever changing personality that they choose to show you at the moment. Earth signs can be stubborn and greedy. They will simply sit on their viewpoint and refuse to budge, while

their minions childishly jump around you taking all your money, jewelry, and perhaps even your soul. Water signs are the moodiest of them all.

One second they are a calm reflective lake, the next second they are vicious hurricane waves out to destroy anyone in their paths.

The signs are also split into “Cardinal,” “Mutable” and “Fixed” signs. This is called a sign’s polarity. Cardinal signs are those that tend to always want to lead. They meddle in everyone’s affairs and then proceed to take control. The Mutables are usually said to be rather flexible and accepting. This really means that they are the shift-shapers of the signs and one can never really tell what “personality” they will choose next. The Fixed signs are more reliable and stable. That means they tend to be rather boring and will reliably always do whatever they choose to do.

Lastly the signs have a Masculine and Feminine polarity. A better way to describe this is by replacing masculine with outgoing and feminine with intuitive. Thus, masculine signs tend to be aggressive bullies and feminine signs are evil manipulators.

So is there anyone worth it out there? Of course there is. It all just depends on what you prefer to put up with. Taking a closer look at them might reveal certain oddities that at first sight one cannot see.

Next week, each individual sign will be looked at with a magnifying glass so that no peculiarity or misbehavior will occur. Thus, perhaps, we shall see how screwed up each sign is and how annoying this dating business can become.

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Physical Comedy and Sexual Confusion

by Brooke Harbaugh the sandspur

Director Patrick Flick’s production of Twelfth Night, the first play of the OrlandoUCF Shakespeare Festival’s season, is a memorable adaptation of Shakespeare to the contemporary stage.

Its playful yet provocative nature and engaging visual stimulation make it a satisfying theatre-going experience for the spectator, whether or not he or she has an intense love for or aversion to the Bards’ work.

The clever direction, carefully selected production concept, and overall seamless acting meet the challenge of portraying one of Shakespeare’s more pop-

ular plays.

Directing and acting aside, Twelfth Night in itself is an entertaining comedy.

It revolves around Shakespeare’s signature use of mistaken identity, genderrole confusion and ambiguity, fickle love and hate, and his repeated commentary on the overall foolishness of human nature.

It begins with Duke Orsino pining passionately over his love for Olivia, who we learn does not return his feelings. As happens often throughout the play, the scene quickly changes and directs the attention onto another group of characters.

In the second scene, we learn there has been a shipwreck that has resulted in

the sad separation of Sebastian from his twin sister Viola. Both thinking the other is dead, the two have come ashore the foreign country of Illyria, an ancient region of what is now the Balkan Peninsula along the Adriatic coast.

Left to her own resources, Viola must now find a way to support herself in this foreign land and chooses to disguise herself as a young man and find work at Orsino’s court. The action ensues with a drunken sort of quality, as various characters become irrationally enchanted with love and giddily play mischievous pranks on others.

Such playfulness, cloudy-vision love, and what Olivia refers to as pure “midsummer madness” make Twelfth Night strikingly reminiscent of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed roughly five years before the original presentation of this play in 1602.

In the OSF portrayal of Twelfth Night, the production concept (or unifying idea of how to portray a play artistically) took a specifically unique turn from the expected. As OSF productions tend to do, this play was taken out of the original historical context and made to reflect a completely different era and geographic locale.

In this rendition, the action takes place in 1930s Hollywood. According to Rollins professor and OSF actor Eric Zivot in his enlightening guest lecture for a Shakespeare Studies class last week, some of the actors have based their roles off of particular film stars from the 1930s era.

Zivot, who plays a memorable version of Malvolio in this production, says he based his character on Basil Rathbone. Also as Zivot pointed out, Andrew Shulman’s Feste bares a notable resemblance to the intriguingly somber and entertaining persona of 1920s film star, Buster Keaton.

Other allusions to the time period can be seen, such as the final allusion to the imminent Second World War. Director Flick’s version uses the highly stylized production choices that are so characteristic of early Hollywood films, such as over-the-top character acting appropriately hammed up with equally dramatic

sound and music cues. In this Brechtian fashion, the spectators of Twelfth Night are constantly reminded that they are watching a play.

The fourth wall is barely, if not at all, there. As the OSF habitually enjoys doing, at one point one of the characters, a drunken Sir Toby Belch, approaches an audience member directly and casually hands him a bottle of wine as if in an invitation to join in his foolish, silly revelry.

Through such interaction and shortening of the audience’s aesthetic distance from the actors, we are not only reminded that we are watching a play but we are also somewhat forced into more actively engaging in the spectacle before us.

This feature is an important decision, for it is crucial in expressing the play’s theme about reality. In blurring the line between the stage and the audience, this production captures the possibility that life is illusory, an idea lodged in many of Shakespeare’s plays.

It is reminiscent of his lasting quote from As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

This thought, complicated by endless philosophizing, is elegantly and subtly captured in the opening scene of Flick’s production.

In the very first image we see is an unidentified character enter and sit in a chair that has been waiting for him on an otherwise empty stage. He picks up a box of popcorn invitingly placed on the chair and sits, full back to the audience.

He sits in front of a large screen, on which the introductory credits of a 1930s style film are projected.

The film he starts to watch soon takes on elements that are obviously related to the play’s plot, leading up to a clip of a scene about the shipwreck, the inciting action in Twelfth Night. This scene, however, soon spreads from the screen to the stage, as actors onstage scramble around in the manner reflecting the movie’s action that is still projected above. The still unidentified, onstage viewer becomes disoriented and confused, but soon takes part in the action as the character of Feste, the fool.

And once this action has transitioned from the screen

to the stage, it soon takes on the frenzied, exciting, fun, and foolish vibe that constitutes the world of the play.

While not having neglected the critical, provocative elements at work within the script, Frick throws the audience into the dominantly playful side of Twelfth Night.

The direction of certain comedic scenes is clever enough to keep up the pace with Shakespeare’s quick, witty repartee. The scene when Malvolio finds the forged letter in the garden is deliciously entertaining.

However, there was at least one scene that lagged: a scene between Feste and the drunken Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch. Although propped up hugely by the help of the other actors on stage, the one too many songs sung by the not particularly mellifluous voice of the actor portraying Feste became a little tedious and distracting.

The actor’s imaginative representation of the characters allows the audience to grasp and experience Shakespeare’s words and their comedic potential. One of the most memorable performances onstage is that of the dim-witted Sir Andrew Aguecheek, played by Brandon Roberts.

His physical comedy alone is brilliant: from the moment he first steps onstage, without having even said a word, the audience was already laughing at and delighted with his funny presence. Roberts has great chemistry with Michael Daly, who also captures Sir Toby Belch in the way most people imagine this popular character when reading Shakespeare’s script.

Olivia, played by one of the strongest actresses of the area, Mindy Anders, is equally as enjoyable. Anne Hering, who plays Maria, is another of the audience’s favorite on-stage presences.

These actors, among the others, and the director have succeeded in portraying the truly captivating world of this funny and provocative play. It is a fine production, well worth your time.

Showtimes are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm.

The show opened September 16 and runs until Sunday, October 9. Call the Box Office at 407-447-1700 ext. 1 for ticket information.

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WEEKLY H OROSCOPES A r i e s (March 21-April 19): If it’s excitement you’re looking for this week then you’re in luck.

You’re about to be bombarded with new people, new experiences and perhaps a new romantic twist on life. If you’re single then run with all the new happenings you’ll experience and go looking for a new love. If you’re attached then try new things this week with your loved one to make your relationship feel new again.

Ta u r u s (April 20-May 20): This will be a difficult week for the strong and sturdy of astrological sign. You should be especially careful of making too many plans for yourself on the same day. Be sure to schedule time for number one all this week or else you might find yourself sinking under the weight of all your accumulated responsibilities. If you’re looking for love this week then don’t forget to finish all your own work first!

Gemini (May 21-June 21): This is another difficult week for you.

Those around you will be so busy dealing with their own issues they may forget to have time for you too. Try to find one especially calm friend to help you weather the storms this week. If you’re looking for love this week then you’re looking in all the wrong places. If you’re single then love isn’t just under your nose. Go out partying to find it. If you’re attached then your love may be that special someone you need to help you get through all the trauma this week.

Find some time to spend a little quiet time with them.

C a n c e r (June 22-July 22 It seems like you’re days are finally going to quiet down this week. It might be best just to keep a low profile from any nearby drama. Don’t start any drama and don’t stick around for it. In the meantime, love is right next to you

just waiting for you.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Try not to start any more drama this week. The people in your life are trying to give you the benefit of the doubt but they can’t if you won’t be reasonable in return. Try to keep an open mind towards new ideas, new people, and most especially a new love interest. If you’re attached then make sure to let your love know how you really feel about them.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): Love is stalking you this week.

Everywhere you go you’ll be reminded of that special someone. Instead of agonizing over the lack of love in your life you should just confront it and give yourself a chance for happiness. If you do it’ll make all the other parts of your life fall naturally into place. Good karma is coming your way.

L i b r a (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Did you catch up with any old friends lately? If you did then you’re bound to have good fortune coming this week.

This is a week for interactions between the past and the present. Try mixing social groups this week and see what interesting results you get. Don’t forget to make the love in your life a part of your daily activities to make them feel great.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t you think you’ve been a little hard on some of your friends lately? Take this week to make the friends around you remember how special your friendship is. Do something nice randomly or just tell them what you think about your friendship. Honesty is key to having a successful friendship. Oh, and don’t forget to smile.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Life is good. You’ve got a lot of potential building up in your

life just now. A perfect opportunity will be coming your way this week in an academic or professional arena of your life. Don’t let this one pass you up like some previous offers. Jump at any opportunity you get and you’ll be sure to succeed at any venture you undertake.

Don’t forget your loved ones on the way to success, though. Be sure to stop and tell everyone you love in your life how special they are to you and they’ll be there to back you up.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Someone is out there missing you right now if you could just remember to pick up the phone and call. On the professional side of life you’ll experience a relatively dull week. This is actually good because it means you’ll have more time to focus on your social and romantic life. Go looking for love, or cherishing love you already have, this week. Spoil someone special and they’ll be sure to return the favor.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Love is following you around like a lost puppy. Be a pal and at least pat it on the head. If you won’t recognize how many good things are blessing your life right now then you won’t be keeping them in the future. Love is especially important to cherish this week. Recognize the people in your life who care about you and be sure to return the sentiment. Oh, and give that special someone a chance.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Love is transient. As a water sign, you too are a mutable force in the world. Try to understand how love and your own nature are intimately related this week. You can’t be boxed in by love or it will break you. Explain yourself to others in clear terms to avoid confusion. Above all, don’t let love make you feel claustrophobic. Enjoy your transient nature and revel in it.

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word on the street

by Jackie Tuchten and Max Remer the sandspur

Word on the Street interviewers set out to investigate what students think about horoscopes.

“Horoscopes are life. I read my horoscope every day. ” Phillip Ileto ‘06 Scorpio

“I think horoscopes are a generalization of personality types.”

Maria Petrakos, ‘07 Virgo “I think they are self-fulfilling prophecies that are vague enough to seem plausible.”

Rob Hoffman, ‘09 Virgo

“I have my astrological sign tattooed on my ankle.”

Michelle Bernier, ‘08 Pisces

“They are as good as you are willing to believe they are.”

Bill Rockwood ‘07 Aries

“Are they like kaleidoscopes? No really, they are always shockingly similar to life.”

Joesph Ribas, ‘07 Scorpio

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The Thing About My Folks: A Touching and Exciting Story This is a movie that reminds people that little things are vital.

by Nancy Aguirre the sandspur

Peter Falk and Paul Reiser. Though some may have been skeptical, this collaboration of skill produced a truly amazing movie. The chemistry between the two actors, with the help of an insightful script, allows The Thing About My Folks to flow wonderfully through scenes so believable you forget the characters aren’t real.

Before saying anything else, it is important to note that this is not your average box office blockbuster. You will find no violence, no murders, no action scenes, and believe it or not, no sex.

It is a movie marketed

for adults, something you don’t see very often in an industry that has spent so much time marketing to teenagers and preteens.

The Thing About My Folks is a “grown up” film about grown up children with aging parents. The issues explored are pretty weighty, but the movie is so much fun that even the younger audiences will love it. It is a film that makes us laugh, while making us contemplate the way we misunderstand the ones we love, as well as the consequences of these misunderstandings.

Reiser, who wrote and starred in The Thing About My Folks, calls it “a fictional story based on real Jews.” In an interview, Reiser stated that the script took him “twenty years and six weeks” to write. He found an old draft from when he was twenty seven, his father

fifty-five, and in six weeks, he wrote a new script and began shooting.

Essentially, this film is the story about the confusing relationships that exist between father and son, and the childhood misunderstandings that can haunt an entire lifetime. Sam Falk, plays the father of Reiser and the typical man from his generation. He came back from WWII with a strong work ethic, and did everything necessary to succeed— sometimes at a high price.

Sam spent his entire life building up a carpet business with just “two guys and a clipboard” into a thriving company. As a result, Ben, Reiser, and his three sisters have been able to have the best of everything as well as attend college.

Then when Sam’s wife of 47 years leaves him, he does not understand what could

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have driven her away. By his standards, he was an exemplary husband, not a drinker or gambler, and never a womanizer.

Though by this description the movie might sound serious and dull, it is full of hilarious dialogue and scenes that have the audience laughing delightfully, such as the fishing and camping trips Sam and Ben go on after Ben laments that they never did the usual “father/son bonding.” Sam is a gruff character, but he does

not fit into the typical “grumpy old man” stereotype. His gruffness is entirely humorous, and it makes him much more human as a character.

This is a movie that reminds people that it is the little things that make a difference. It is also a reminder that it is never too late to make up for past mistakes.

The Thing About My Folks is a beautiful movie that manages to wildly entertain while touching the hearts of all viewers.

Rollins Improv Tag Success Once Again Why stay in and watch TV when you can come see Rollins Improv?

by Madeline Obler

the sandspur

Players, or “R.I.P.” as they’re more commonly spoken of on campus, are a group of students who do script-less acting. On Sept.

21, they had an abbreviated version of their most recent show, RIP Tag, to help students with the stress of midterms. Five of the thirteen players were present, but despite that, the five ac-

tors managed to keep the small audience entertained for the full forty-five minutes.

Dr. David Charles, the artistic director of R.I.P., is the conductor of the entire show. He began the show by explaining to the audience how it would work. He asked the audience questions to use as prompts for the games the actors would play.

He also signaled when a game began and ended. In his ability to host the show, he was able to make the audience laugh and kept them very entertained, while at the same time keeping the show clean and suitable for all

ages.

However, the most impressive part was the five actors. They faced a small, unenthusiastic crowd and had only five of their 13 members and still managed to put on a great show. The players warmed up with a game in which an object is anything other than what it appears to be. For example, a colander was used as a helmet and a toilet seat. By the third game of the evening, the audience was laughing and participating whole heartedly.

Some of the audience favorites was Slides, a game in which one of the players tells a story, while three of the

other players freeze in different positions. The audience participates by closing their eyes in between “slides”, as does the player telling the story, to add surprise and more laughter to the game.

Another was Paper, where Charles threw pieces of paper on the floor with random phrases written on them, of which the players had to pick up randomly during the scene and make relevant to what they were performing.

Fans of the show “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” will love the Rollins Improv Players.

Why stay in and watch a show on television with peo-

ple you don’t know, when you can have the same thing two minutes away from where you live and for free?

The players are hilarious and obviously have a great time making others laugh. They have great chemistry together, and it adds to the humor of the show. All of them work so well together and compliment each other greatly; it makes the audience very comfortable and able to have a great time. These students deserve a much larger audience than they had. The Rollins Improv Players are recommended to all students, no matter what your taste in humor.

A Going out of Business Sale for CBGB This infamous club played host to the first hint of the punk world.

by Jami Furo the sandspur

On Wed, Sept. 21, the lease of the infamous club CBGB in New York City’s Bowery ran out after 32 years of service to the punk community. The club’s landlord, the Bowery’s Residents’ Committee, has decided that it was time to part ways.

Since the Bowery is the home to many of the poorest and neediest citizens of New

York, BRC executive director Muzzy Rosenblatt says that it is “in the best of our clients…to sever this relationship.” The club is the only commercial tenant under the Bowery Residents’ Committee, which is an agency that helps the homeless. The building itself, of which Rosenblatt holds a 45year lease, houses about 250 homeless people above the club.

Although the landlord company is confident in their decision, many fans of the club were not happy because CBGB has become an icon in the punk rock world and is

claimed as the birthplace of American punk. While it may seem like a seedy little club to some, to others it is the birthplace of punk legends such as Blondie, the Ramones, and Public Enemy.

Fans were and still are protesting outside the club, wearing “Save CBGB” Tshirts, along with a plethora of piercings and brightly colored hair. Artists that got their start in the club, including Blondie and Steven Van Zandt, have staged performances in the club to show its importance to them and to the punk rock world.

However, the club’s

owner and 1973 founder, Hilly Kristal, does not intend to give up that easily. He remained in the club until he was forced to leave, and has not yet given up on the survival of CBGB. Even New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg got involved in the conflict.

He offered to mediate between the club and the landlord. When he was unsuccessful in resolving the conflict, he offered to find another location in the city for CBGB’s new home.

However, the rent for CBGB in the Bowery is currently $19,000 a month.

Under any new lease that number would be expected to at least double.

Earlier in the month, the landlord tried to evict Kristal saying that he was behind in his rent. However, Kristal won in the Manhattan civil court when it turned out to be a bookkeeping error that made it appear that the owner was over $100,000 behind in his rent payments.

Kristal is determined to stay, and will fight to keep it that way. “We intend to stay,” he said. “This is not a eulogy. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t come to an understanding.”

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History in the Making: First Face Transplants

by Rochelle Siegel the sandpsur

The operation of a face transplant offers new hope to those who suffer from severe burns, cancer, or gunshot wounds. The surgery attaches facial tissue and blood vessels from a cadaver to a new patient. Recent successes in multiple tissue transplants, such as on the hands, have led surgeons to consider attempting the face transplant procedures.

The transplant cannot be performed on children because the risks are too great .

Cancer patients cannot go through this surgery because anti-rejection drugs will likely raise the risk of recurrence of cancer.

The transplant takes place in a total of five steps. First the recently deceased skin donor with matching tissue, gender, race and approximate age to the recipient is selected by doctors. Then the donor's facial skin is removed, along with the blood vessels and nerves. The third step takes a total of 3-4 hours; the recipient's damaged skin is removed for uniform coverage and the blood vessels are clamped off. The fourth step is the longest, taking 8-10 hours, when a team of surgeons

will align the flap with the recipient's eyes, nose, and mouth and reconnect the nerves and blood vessels, followed by muscles and skin. The final step is recovery.

Unlike the transplant of solid organs, such as hearts and kidneys, which have been routine for many decades, procedure such as hand transplants require multiple types of tissue, including skin. The actual chance that it will work is around 50 percent.

It is hard to predict exactly what the person would

look like after a face transplant. Due the fact that the underlying skeletal structure of a recipient would differ from that of the donor, meaning the recipient's face would look much different than the way the original donor's face has looked. One possible procedure would

use a skin envelope of fat, skin, and blood vessels transplanted onto existing bone, leaving patients with their own features. A more complex procedure would transplant bone as well, so the patient might end up resembling the donor.

Some computer modeling even suggests that the new face would neither resemble the donor nor the recipient's pre-injury.

New technology and better anti-rejection drugs have made possible the transplanting of skin, muscle, and bone from a dead person to another person. The main roadblock of the procedure may be the ethical questions surrounding the issue.

Will people be willing to donate their faces to someone else when they die?

It is also not known how well the individual and their loved one

would be able to adapt psychologically to a completely new face. Also, a transplanted face that does not work right, looks strange, or reminds people of someone who is dead would pose very difficult challenges to anyone who receives it.

The recipient should be able to eat, drink, and communicate again through a wide variety of facial expressions and mannerisms.

Complications can always occur and could include infections that turn a new face black and require a second transplant or reconstruction with skin grafts. Drugs to prevent rejection will be needed lifelong, and they raise the risk of kidney damage and cancer.

There are apparently many volunteers willing to undergo an 8-10 hour face transplant. In the next few weeks in Cleveland, OH five

men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland

clinic to interview for the chance to have this major operation that has never been tried before in the world.

This is a medical frontier being explored by a doctor who wants the public to understand what she is trying to do. She is trying to give people who have been horribly disfigured by burns, accidents, or other tragedies a chance at a new and better life.

While some people who have endured facial disfigurement learn to adjust, others do not. They would gladly take the risks involved in such a surgery for a chance to regain the normalcy that, in our appearance-conscious society where people undergo multiple surgeries just to look younger, is difficult to achieve with a severely deformed face. There are treatments out there today that still leave many of the people's faces with scar-tissue masks that do not look or move like natural skin.

This new procedure will hopefully help people who have lost their identity to find it.

When a person has to live with a scar on their face it can cause them to become depressed, this operation will help heal some of their emotional and self-esteem issues.

Urban Dictionary: The Dictionary of Slang Get up to date with all of the hippest slang and new phrases by visitng UrbanDictionary.com

by Juan Bernal the sandspur

The other day I was playing pickup basketball and someone accidentally bumped into me. I said "You straight co". He looked at me like I had just said some derogatory remark, but obviously he had no idea what I was talking about.

So before anything else occurred I told him that it was fine, it was no problem, it's just a way of saying that everything is all good. He said he was terribly sorry, and that he wasn't inclined to the modern vernacular.

In modern lingo, many people confuse or give words multiple

meanings, or some people just don't know what you are talking about half the time. Some call it black talk or ghetto talk. Others just generalize it as the way every teenager or young person talks. Whether it's a rap song saying "Bar sippin, car tippin, still woodgrain rippin" (Mike Jones featuring Paul Wall and Slim ThugStill Tippin) or a friend asking you to go to the beach because he "wants to mack some dimepieces", there is one place where you can go to find out what these words mean and how they are used, it's www.urbandictionary.com.

Urban Dictionary's slogan states that it is "a slang dictionary with your definitions". But you can find more than words on Urban Dictionary. You can look up 210 different definitions for George Bush, 21 definitions for the word party, 79 definitions for gangsta and a staggering 240 definitions for the f-word.

Many of the definitions that you find on Urban Dictionary are highly opinionated, but what do you expect from a website that receives about 1,000 definitions daily?

But don't just think that you can post anything on Urban Dictionary. Typically, a submission takes about 2 days, but some can take up to three weeks. Also, the editing panel dislikes most long definitions and examples, and as a user you can suggest that any term be removed for whatever reason.

Everywhere you go, anything you see, or anyone/anything you listen to, chances are that you'll find some form of slang. Some people say that they can't listen to a song, because they don't want to waste their time trying to understand it.

Or, when you get acquainted with people, many people will say "that's my dawg", "my co", "my homes", when referring to a friend; or some guys refer to their girlfriend and vice-versa as "my boo".

Or when you go into a fast food joint, chances are the person that is attending you will greet you with a "Watup dawg" or a "What it do?" instead of a " How can I help

you" or a "How are you doing?"

Part of this has to do with how hip hop music and clothing has transcended our culture, and that everyone is just trying to sound cool.

Whether you're bar sippin, car tippin or woodgrain rippin (sipping on a drink in a bar, cruising in your car, or being comical or highly energized about the material on your dashboard, respectively), going to the beach to try to mack some dimepieces (going to the beach to try to pick up some beautiful women) or just chillin at your crib (your house watching TV) and you happen to run across the Snoop Dogg commercial saying " Fo shizzle my nizzle, it's the big Snoop-d-o-double gizzle it's hard to avoid and understand.

So in case you are not up to date with today's hip way of talking, a few minutes on Urban Dictionary could catch you up in no time.

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Morse Museum Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

by Jennifer Walchok the sandspur

Located in historic downtown Winter Park, the Morse Museum of American Art celebrates their 10th anniversary in its current location on Park Avenue, by opening its newest exhibition, Windows and Wonders: Tiffany from the Morse Vaults.

The museum is nationally recognized, thus regularly brings in visitors from around the world to experience the collections of American art dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. The museum is home to the most comprehensive and beautiful collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany windows, door panels andthe Tiffany chapel, in addition to many more three dimensional glass artwork pieces.

Some pieces are so extremely large in size, they are installed in the gallery to be viewed from ceiling to floor length. The artwork features vibrant colors and shapes, with amazing designs and images.

Museum visitors can view the new exhibition with free admission to the museum from Tuesday, October 11th through Sunday, October 16th, in addition to

the museum's regular free admission to the public every Friday between the months of September and May. The museum also has planned several events open to the public to celebrate its anniversary including live music in the galleries by the Harpist Bizarre Quartet, from 5-8 pm, October 14, which features a harp, flute, guitar and bass quartet.

Also scheduled are Fall Family Tours, which include special tours of the exhibition at 7pm on Fridays: Oct. 21 and 28, Nov. 4 and 11. Another family friendly event is the Gallery Demonstration on Friday, Nov. 11 at 6 p.m., featuring stained glass window fabrication with take-home activities for the kids.

The museum has currently been providing more family oriented programs in order to invite parents and grandparents to expose children to the arts. The museum has gone to great lengths to invite families by including another highlight of the museum's anniversary, with a first ever-family day on October 15th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

The museum invites everyone in the public to join in the celebration of their 10th year anniversary and

over 50 years in the Winter Park community.

"We have been in this location for ten years and many people in the community still have not visited.

This is our chance to tell our story with an exhibition with national recognition and validation by the Metropolitan Museum of what Jeannette McKean started over 50 years ago," Catherine Hinnman, Morse Museum, Director of Public Affairs and Publications, said.

The Morse Museum, formally named Morse Gallery of Art began on the Rollins College campus in 1942, by Jeanette Genius McKean who was inspired to name the museum after Charles Homer Morse, honoring his contributions to the Winter Park and Rollins College community. McKean filled the museum with art by Louis Comfort Tiffany after rescuing the collection after learning his estate, Laurelton Hall, had burned to the ground. Although, the collection at that time was not considered a treasure worth saving in the American art community, McKean and her husband decided to save the art and create the most comprehensive collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the world.

The 10th anniversary special exhibition features magnificent Tiffany works that have never been exhibited in the gallery, along with many that have not been featured in years. The collection includes a dozen windows, some designed for the country's most elite homes; breathtaking four leaded glass-door panels and a seldom seen, three-panel window. All works have been extensively conserved for this presentation dating back since the early 1800s.

The exhibition will also feature Tiffany enamels, lamps, art, glass, pottery, not only representing Tiffany's astonishing versatility in different mediums, but also Hugh and Jeannette McKean's comprehensive vision in building their collection for the Morse Museum. According to Hinnman, many people are aware of Tiffany lamps and windows, but this display offers the public a wide variety of works by the artist.

"The artwork is very approachable and pretty. Since the museum is small, it has intimate galleries to display and view the artwork," said Hinnman.

Also on display is the teaching exhibit, Secrets of Tiffany Glass Making, which

lets the public view the basic ingredients used in making glass and the glass design process used to create the famed leaded-glass windows and lamps. The exhibit features some of the various tools used in glassmaking as well as window fragments, glass fragments, preliminary drawings and a model for a window.

The exhibition will be installed in galleries formally devoted to windows and furnishings from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island estate, Laurelton Hall.

More than 100 objects from the museum's collection will be loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whom organized in collaboration with the Morse Museum an exhibit to be open in November 2006.

According to Hinnman, "We have evolved a lot in the last ten years, the galleries have never been so beautiful."

Museum hours are as follows: 9:30 am-4 pm Tuesday through Saturday. 1-4 pm on Sunday. Closed on Monday. Additional Friday hours 4-8 pm September through May. Admission is $3.00 for adults, $1.00 for students and free to children under twelve. Contact Info: 407-645-5311.

How to Plan Ahead for an Important Interview

by Nicole Fluet the sandspur

After the perfect job catches the eye, and after submitting the resume that Rollins Career Services helped to fix and make acceptable, the interviewing process begins.

However easy it may seem at first, the closer an interview date comes, the more the nervousness sets in. Luckily, there are some insights from various professionals into how to be successful in an interview and do everything possible to get the perfect job.

Research! Professionals at AOL have found that doing research on a job and the company history in which you are hoping to get is a sure-fire way of impressing the interviewer.

Knowing background information on what the company stands for, what the job you’re applying for constitutes, and what is expected of you as an employee is very important to know.

Then, any question regarding the company itself can be

answered successfully.

Dress the Part! It’s important to remember that the interview is your first impression on the company.

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“The Truth About My Freshman Year” The Real Stories Behind Starting College To those of us upperclassmen, freshman year seems like so long ago. Really, I'm a third year student, so it was not so long ago at all. But it seems like an age away.

Freshman year is a time when we discover things about ourselves. It is your first time away from home and away from your parents, so you have the freedom to find yourself. Or lose yourself. The choice is yours.

My freshman year was probably different than many others. I never went to a single party. I've never had a drop of alcohol. I dated exactly one man to whom I am now engaged.

These choices were the right ones for me-I am absolutely sure. Sometimes, however, you don't need to make detrimental mistakes to learn. You just have to pay attention.

I learned that you do not have to try to be someone's friend in order to have a social life. Your true friendships are the ones that just develop when you are hardly paying attention. Your best friends, the ones that stick around, came to like

you because of who you are.

They are the ones that have seen you down and out, and they love you anyway. They are the ones with whom you share a lot of common interests, and those interests include more than just club memberships and classes.

You share values and important opinions that are fundamental to your nature and personality. They are the ones that talk to you about

I was so nervous about starting college. On August 20, 2003, I arrived at 9:45 in the morning to Rollins College. As I was checking in everyone told me it was normal to be a little nervous and excited.

The moment came when my parents had to say goodbye and all I wanted to do was jump in the car and go home with them. That night I barely slept at all. I was in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by strangers. I was also a freshman the year the internet system was down for most of the first semester, which for someone who is addicted to American Online was pretty devastating.

I soon learned to adjust to my new surroundings and I did make a lot of good friends in my hall. I also realized how beautiful Rollins truly was and I felt privileged to be where I was.

During my senior year of high school I had taken a forensic science course that I found incredibly interesting and I was also a fan of C.S.I, so on my application for Rollins I marked Biology as my major. College I soon

found out was much different than high school. I tried so hard to keep up with the workload, but no matter how many hours I worked on my homework nothing ever seemed to get done. I was spiraling into a never ending nightmare.

Then one day in September my body decided it had taken too much and as I was getting ready to take a fourth hour trip with my RCC class I stood up and everything around me be-

more than homework, gossip, and professors. They talk to you about life. They talk to you about what's real.

I learned about starting new chapters in your life.

College is not high school. It does not pretend to be. No one will hold your hand. No one makes your schedule for you. You can't get involved in too much, because everything takes a lot more of your time than it did in high school. Most importantly, the people are different, and so are you. On the other side of high school waits more school. On the other side of college waits the real world.

You learn that you have to grow up. Some learn that faster than others. Some learn that they are not in high school, and that life that they knew is gone, and that they have to look at the academics, moral decisions, relationships, work ethic, and self-awareness like adults, rather than like children.

Some do not learn that until it is too late, and then they are forced to learn to handle the consequences.

Most importantly, I learned that I have not learned it all. I have learned that I am, in fact, still a child in many ways, even though I have to think and act like an adult. I don't know it all, and this is not all there is. Growth does not stop with college. There is no end to building maturity. I learned that I can't act like a child if I want to be treated like an adult. I also learned that if I act like I'm more mature than I am, it's childish.

I did not make a lot of the mistakes that many freshmen make. However, there was still a lot to learn about my experience. I guess there is still a lot to learn about being a college student.

College is an experience that is hard to forget. It is the time in which many of us go through changes and transitions that mold us into the people we are going to be tomorrow; the time between the drama of high school and the scariness of the real world where we have to actually apply what we have learned in the four or five years we went to college. But it is in the first year where the real changes take place, when you have to leave home and go completely out of your comfort zone in order to make new friends and to enjoy the last bit of your childhood. So here are a few truths about freshman year that you may know, you may not want to admit to, and that you will laugh about in a few years.

You will probably gain 15 pounds…and it only goes downhill from there. I know, it sucks, but it is a fact. Sometimes you know you should get that salad, but instead you go for the deep dish, extra cheese pizza-and who gets pizza without breadsticks and cinnasticks? Then there's t h e probl e m of the

to the next, which had a great affect on my school work.

After many visits with many different doctors I found out that the reason I was fainting was because of low blood pressure and that ended up causing seizures which may have had an effect on my memory. I soon shut myself off from most of my friends because I was confused and depressed. I didn’t know what to do and the doctors didn’t seem to know what they were doing either. I was in pre-med courses, taking pre-med tests with no memory.

Of course my grades dropped which caused me to become even more depressed because I was unable to control them.

I still don’t remember my freshman year, I only know what others have told me or what I wrote down in a journal. Sometimes I am really glad I don’t remember any of it because it was a nightmare for me. I was so stressed out and not myself at all. I am doing much better now. To me my freshman year was a wasted year, but at least I am able to move on.

Grille, with the ever so tempting curly fries, double cheeseburgers, and smoothies. No matter how hard you try, it is hard to eat healthy in college.

My first semester I would get cookie dough ice cream every night and dip my spoon into my own container of peanut butter-not the healthiest, but certainly good. But maybe what they didn't tell you is the memories you will gain along with that weight: Long conversations in the Down Under about life and whatnot with your friends, maybe that infamous baseball game where the Red Sox kicked the Yankees' hinnies and won the championship. I know that I will never forget the Special K diet I went on (P.S. it doesn't work) and then consuming an entire thing of those Danish cookies with one of my best friends who ended up transferring. Sometimes you may worry too much about that weight gain. I promise you, a couple pounds in the derriere will not change your life too dramatically.

Another thing that I learned my freshman year is that it is hard to keep those high school relationships con-

Rochelle Siegel came black and the next thing I knew I was lying on the floor and the whole class was standing around looking down at me. That was the first of many times I found myself on the floor with others looking down at me wondering what had happened. I had no idea what was wrong with me, all I knew was that I kept passing out and the more I passed out the more of my memory I would lose. My memory became so bad that I was having trouble remembering things from one day

tinuing through college, especially if you are far apart. Of course it's do-able, but maybe in the long run you have to think about whether it is worth it or not. My first couple of months I isolated myself in my room talking on the phone to my boyfriend instead of going out and meeting new people and experiencing new situations. It is really hard if you go to college and your significant other does not, because they cannot understand or sympathize with all the emotions you are going through. I've found that as I've become more accustomed to the college life, it has become easier to balance out relationships that span the entire country and keeping the friends I have here.

As my AP teacher Mrs. Metke told our class everyday, "the number one reason why students flunk out of college is because of time management," and she was right. It is hard to keep up with the rigors of going out to all the parties that happen on campus, and there are a lot, all while keeping that GPA u p .

But it i s i m portant. Not only because most people don't really want to hang out at college after all their friends have graduated (for those that do, more power to you), but because when you apply to graduate school they probably are not going to want someone who couldn't even pass their 100 level classes. If you don't go to graduate school, and instead decide to go into the work force, you will need recommendations.

Teachers won't give good recommendations to those who don't do their work or come to class.

I'm not saying not to have a good time, but remember to always do your homework and get a good night sleep, because it's not a lot of fun waking up two minutes before your 8am class. I'm just saying that balance is key to every college student.

Freshman year at college is truly an experience. Drama will occur, classes will be missed, and new experiences will be tempting. Just remember to manage your time and to be open to new possibilities, because what good is trying new things if you don't get out of your comfort zone.

Enjoy college!

Kelsey Field

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Ask The Fox!

The Reality of Love: Keys to a Healthy Relationship Are you seeing through rose-colored glasses or is your relationship in top shape?

by Nancy Aquirre the sandspur

Dear Fox, My girlfriend and I have been dating since high school. I love her very much. We were in a fight a couple weeks ago, so to make myself feel better, I got really drunk with my friends. I called her while drunk and said really mean things to her that I wish I hadn’t said. Then, the next morning, she broke up with me. She says the truth comes out when you’re drunk. I don’t believe that.

I was just angry and stupid.

I’ve tried apologizing, but she doesn’t care. She told me never to speak her to again. It’s been a week now and I miss her like crazy. I can’t live my life without her in it. I know I was wrong, and this isn’t the first time this has happened, but I’m sorry. What can I do to get her back? Is this a lost cause?

~Drunken Idiot Dear Drunken, This is complicated.

You said hurtful things to her and probably broke her heart. But, on the other hand, you didn’t mean them. However, you can’t take back what is said, only do your best to reverse the pain you caused.

I’m sure if you’re this upset, your ex girlfriend is probably very upset as well. I would give this some time to cool down, so reality can set in. Normally, after a break up, the first week or so is spent being mad at the other person.

Then, when the anger dissolves, one or both parties usually gets very lonely and begins to miss their ex. If you want her back, this is probably the best time to apologize and plead your case. I’m not saying to take advantage of her vunerablility, just try to convince her that you were wrong and that you are very sorry.

A good idea would be to buy her some flowers, preferably her favorite kind, and leave them at her door. Send her a card in the mail, or leave a little note for her when she gets home. Tell her you love her and you’re sorry. Write lyrics from your song (if you have one), and email them to her. Tell her you miss her.

If she doesn’t respond right away, wait a while.

Don’t come on too strong.

If she is still angry at you for what you did, which she has a right to be, then bugging her to no end isn’t going to do any good. If you really want her back in your life, you have to be very patient.

Also keep in mind that if you get back together, it’s going to take her a long time to trust you again.

Once trust is broken, it takes a while for it to be built back up. It’s just a bridge you two are going to have to cross. But if you’re patient, and persistant, you’ll be able to do it.

Good luck.

~Daisy Fox

The Fox returns to answer this weeks social and relationship questions from Rollins students. If you have any questions that you would like The Fox, to answer, then send an email to fox@thesandspur.org

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It is so hard to find a person that is "right" for you and who thinks that you're right for them too. But thank goodness, it does happen now and then. And when it does, you're usually so happy and excited that it's easy to forget all the negativity in your life a n d focus on this wonderful new relationship.

Most people do tend to look at the world- and their relationship- through rose colored glasses in the excitement of those first few months. It's important, however, to not let those turn into blinders that won't let you see the signals that your relationship may not be as healthy as you think.

But what is a healthy relationship? We hear the term everywhere, and we all have some notion as to what makes up a healthy relationship.

However it doesn't hurt to step back now and then and make sure everything is in order.

When talking about relationships, one of the most important aspects is respect-mutual respect. This simply means valuing who the other person is and understanding and accepting any differences that may exist, whether it is in beliefs, values, or even actions.

Communication is right up there on the list of important criteria for a healthy relationship. Though it may seem at times that men and women don't speak the same language, communication with your significant other is possible and extremely important. Within communication, it is important to both

express yourselves and respond to each other. As with so many things, balance is the key.

Honesty and openness fits right in with communication.

You should never be afraid to sound silly or stupid when speaking to your significant other. The worst thing you can do is to keep feelings or thoughts bottled up inside.

Though compromise is extremely important in relationships, it is even more important to maintain individuality. You both had separate identities before you met, your own families, friends, interests, hobbies, etc., and this should not change.

Neither of you should have to drop an activity you love or stop seeing a friend.

You will develop new friends and activities that the two of you will enjoy together, without having to sacrifice the old.

Do you still make each other laugh? Scientific research has found that one of the best predictors of longterm relationship health is the ability to laugh together. You should be laughing together at least once a day. If you're not, you may need to step back and think about what it was that "tickled

you" about this person in the beginning, whether it be his impersonation of your parents or the way he sings in the shower.

And last but not least is flexibility.

Flexibility in a relationship is a key ingredient. The ability and willingness to change, listen, and put aside your own needs to accommodate the needs of the others will truly make a relationship strong. It is basically the willingness to do "whatever it takes" that can ultimately make the difference between relationships that last and relationships that do not.

When in a relationship, it can get difficult to remember these things through the stresses of life.

Remember to step back and make sure the relationship is on track.

Happiness is very important.

Without happiness, the relationship can lose its meaning or purpose, and the couple can get bored or restless.

Keep up communication and romance, and happiness will remain in tact. Relationships can be hard work, but they have to be fun as well. When bad times hit, remember your reasons for being in the relationship, and the happiness from better times, and use that to pull through.

Advice to Remember: Communicate! Talk to each other and share your feelings!

Be honest and open! Don’t keep secrets inside!

Compromise. It’s about give and take.

Be an individual. Don’t lose yourself in your partner.

Keep friends outside of the relationship.

Be flexible. If you’re not, your partner won’t be either!

LAUGH! Have a good time. Enjoy your relationship!

T S 17 L &T Abroad Australia: Planning, Worrying, and Having Fun SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

Following the stress and excitement of orientation to a completely new environment (quick recap: huge city, huge university, and Aussie homestay), everyone was quick to settle into a routine.

I will not linger on the mundane details of adjusting to student life, a topic all readers are sure to be well aware of, so I will quickly summarize: some classes, lots of traveling by public transportation, considerably less homework than at Rollins, but still enough homework to remind us that we are not on vacation, some sketchy meals in the homestay, and then various activities on weekends to temporarily forget all of the above.

However, much as I might complain about my accomodation and lack of personal transportation, I am having the most interesting and exciting semester of my college career! One particularly fun way I livened up the middle of each week was by joining in an activity on campus--salsa dancing. This began as a way to meet some Australians, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago there are none in my courses and the clubs are all during my class times.

At first, learning to salsa simply seemed like a great plan--learn a new skill, have fun, meet new people, plus, I am already proficient in Irish dancing so how difficult can it be, right? Well, by the time I was supposed to start my

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first class, the "what was I thinking" moment sank in. I mean, I will more than likely be the only American in the class, salsa dancing is completely different from Irish dancing, what if everyone else brought a partner to the class, and then the basic "Oh no, I think I'll just go home instead" thoughts.

In the end, I dragged myself to the class, and within one hour I had fallen in love with the instructor and made up my mind to drop out of college and become a professional salsa dancer. Luckily I have some slightly more s e n s i b l e friends who reminded me that I need to take more than one dance class before this can happen. I guess that means another three more semesters at Rollins then.

Much as I am sure this all fascinates everyone, I will skip forth to the tale of the Urban Backpacker (cue slightly mysterious sounding background music)...

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Karina (weird coincidence, right?).

After being in Sydney for one month ( I swear, still a coincidence), Karina came across a fascinating discovery: since the seasons are reversed here, she would have a two-week, sunny spring

break from September 23October 9. With this delightful information in mind, Karina and her credit card rambled across campus to the Backpackers store to find some means of making it to a beach for this period (note-our heroine does not recommend booking anything before arriving in Australia if venturing here for study abroad, be-

c a u s e you will miss out on some great options).

Karina had many considerations before planning her trip though: time, cost, most important activities, whether to visit supposed "must see" places such as Uluru (Ayer's Rock) and, more importantly, compromising on plans with her friends since our character is definitely not brave enough to travel alone for two

weeks.

Four hours later--after completely overwhelming herself and her unfortunate travel agent with brochures-she came up with an itinerary: 1. Two days in Cape Tribulation, an area where the Daintree Rainforest (oldest in the world) meets the Reef, including hikes, a crocodile cruise, and horseriding.

2. One day white water rafting on the Tully River 3. An afternoon quad biking (ATV) in the rainforest 4. Three days on Fitzroy island, a place devoted entirely to beaches and water sports.

5. Snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef.

6. Three days sailing around the Whitsunday Islands 7. Two days on a FourWheel-Drive camping safari on Fraser Island.

8. A very, very long coach ride back to Sydney.

For the first week, Karina decides to be a true Aussie student traveller and reserves rooms in youth hostels that look like they at least have lively bars if not good beds (note to the reader--even though our heroine has seems to have no concept of reversed seasons, ecetera, this shows she does not completely lack good

sense).

Unfortunately, though, Karina's bank account looks rather ill after booking this plan (vacation donations can be made to campus bo 2014), so she decides that it is a good idea to stay away from the mall for a little while.

Well, after she first buys a new beach bag to go with the new, living-on-a-beach plan that is.

Now, the story is called the "Urban Backpacker" because Karina, a city and suburb raised girl, is entirely unaware of how backpackers survive. Always the optimist though, she has begun a packing list: 1. Beach Bag 2. Towel 3. Bikini 4. A keychain to hold hostel room keys that also contains a mini-lipgloss and mini-credit card (the brochures did say think minimalist...perhaps this is not quite what they had in mind).

The rest of the packing may be a problem, but Karina still has weeks until her vacation begins. So, hopefully, the urban girl will figure out how to be a backpacker by then.

The tale of the Urban Backpacker, including the most likely failures of the Urban Backpacker will return in a few weeks. Next week: the weekend snow trip, and getting to know the rest of the study abroad group better.

Week One: Update from London, England

by Lara Bueso and Jessica Estes

the sandspur

Have you ever woken up at 3:30 on a Saturday afternoon wondering where your entire day went and how you even got home last night? Or have you ever tried to show up to an 8 am class after a long night out involving drinks? We simply write off wasted days and plastered nights to a sort of rite of passage in college. But there may be another way.

Instead of starting your evening at midnight, why not try what the blokes across the pond do? Don't laugh and hear us out first‌ We found it shocking our first night out searching for an open bar at 11 pm. We walked around looking for a traditional English pub and failed miserably. Locals stared at us oddly when we asked for a good pub to go to

in the area. "The bars around here close at 11 love," a young English man told us.

Mind you, we were shocked and immediately questioned what was wrong with London, the so called party capital of the world.

But then we got to thinking, perhaps our English mates have had it right all along and we Americans are the ill-advised. The next night we decided to test out this new English drinking method and headed to the bars after work at around six.

The findings of our experiment were astonishing.

The English bar scene isn't about chugging six shots with your friends, competing with who is the most drunk, and trying to take home a stumbling, incoherent girl. (Well, at least at the bars we have visited thus far.) It seems to be a much more mature drinking envi-

ronment, possibly because alcohol isn't this forbidden fruit dangled before you until the age of 21. The English are legally allowed to drink at 18, and often drink wine at home with their parents even before then.

The advantages of this alternate drinking schedule are obvious.

First, you can start enjoying your mornings without the dreaded hangover.

Going out at six means you are home in time to catch the rest of the Tonight Show and still get eight hours of healthy beauty sleep. Second, your bar tab may be half as costly due to Happy Hour drink specials and student discounts.

And finally, you can enjoy conversations without screaming over the loud music in a dark and smoky bar.

The going out look also differs. Women don't attempt to increase their confidence with the popular cleavage-boosting halter tops and stiletto heals.

There is a much greater emphasis on comfort and practicality. Women securely go about their day with minimal make-up, flat walking shoes, and an "anything goes" attitude with regards to fashion.

I have yet to see a popped collar. Instead, fashion is less about following the latest trend and more about personal expression.

When our sacred "CHI" fell victim to 220 volts of pure English power, we almost had a near death expe-

rience. P.S. that is hair iron for the unaware. But we soon realized that natural hair is far more the norm.

Girls still rock the side ponytail, frizzy waves, and messy bun‌ and look absolutely brilliant doing so.

Though we hate to generalize, the results of our findings are clear - in one week the English system has won us over. Let's start a revolution! Weekdays are no longer about late night binge drinking to prove you're "too cool for school," and more about having fun with who you are drinking with if you must drink during the weekday. Now the weekends, that's another article. Stay tuned.

Disclaimer: we in no way condone or encourage drinking. This article is only an observation and comparative piece. We only advocate a safer drinking environment.

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Dying Boy’s Last Wish Granted With Pass Notre Dame coach grants boy’s last wish by calling first play as “pass right.”

by Juan Bernal the sandspur

For any 10 year old that is dying of an inoperable brain tumor, Notre Dame Football is one of the last things on that persons mind.

Not MontanaMazurkiewicz.

Montana was told by doctors last week that there was nothing they could do to stop his brain tumor.

Notre Dame Football coach Charlie Weis visited Montana and his 10 year old sister Hannah, who suffers from a rare form of autism called global development delay.

While Weis was telling Montana about pranks he played on former Irish legend and NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Joe Montana, for whom Montana was named after and who Weis roomed with when he was a student at Notre Dame.

Among things Montana was able to talk with the coach about was the Irish’s overtime loss to Michigan State, Weis’ first as a head coach. Weis also bought a football so that Montana could try to throw it.

Montana tried to throw it, despite being paralyzed from the waist down just 24 hours earlier because of the effects of the tumor. Weis helped Montana complete the pass to his mother.

Weis signed the football

today, tomorrow is always another day.”

Unfortunately for Montana, Saturday would never come. He died Friday at his home in Mishawaka, which is just 10 minutes east of South Bend.

Weis called his mother Cathy and told her that the play that Montana called would still stand. Before Saturday’s game, Weis told the team about MonCouresty of Notredame.edu tana and dedicated the game to him, despite the for Montana.

Weis, who usually will notion that he does not benot let anyone but himself lieve in using individuals as call plays on offense, agreed inspiration.

He also made his team to let Montana call the first offensive play for the Irish aware that they are reprewho played Washington senting a number of people that they may not become this past Saturday.

Montana called “pass aware that they are repreright”. Weis’ last words to senting.

However, calling the Montana were: “live for before leaving, and before he left he asked if there was anything that he could do

play during the game would be a problem. The Irish who fumbled away the opening kickoff, were pinned on their own one yard line.

Weis, Cathy and Irish quarterback Brady Quinn were aware that passing with the ball on your own one yard line is not the smartest thing to do.

So Weis lined most of his receivers on the left side, with tight end Anthony Fasano the only receiver on the right. Quinn rolled right and as he was about to be sacked, dropped it off to Fasano who ran for a 13 yard gain and a first down.

After the game, in which the Irish won 36-17, the team gave Cathy an autographed football and thanked Weis for calling the play despite the extreme circumstances.

Steroids or Idols? What’s the Real Issue?

by Tanisha Mathis the sandspur

It was six months ago when the House Government Reform Committee conducted an unproductive hearing on steroid use in Major League Baseball (MLB), which was subsequently followed by hearings involving the National Football League and the National Basketball Association.

The Committee is currently investigating whether Baltimore Orioles’ veteran, Rafael Palmeiro, lied during the hearings.

The politicians said it was being done for the kids.

I, for one, am sick and tired of people using kids as an excuse to promote their agenda. The only thing that makes people afraid to oppose a position, more than the fear of appearing to not care about children, is fear of appearing unpatriotic.

If Congress truly cared, they would do more than hold hearings about what adults are doing. The fiasco was nothing more than a show of incompetence: half of the members asked the same questions members had previously asked and the other half looked as if they hadn’t read the documents they requested from MLB. In 2003, 300,000 kids in the 8th through 12th grades admitted to taking steroids.

The foremost problem is

not professional athletes, its accessibility. I have rarely, if ever, heard what should be the most important question: Where are kids getting steroids?

I’ll tell you where they aren’t getting them.

Palmeiro and Jose Canseco aren’t passing them through the playground fences.

Steroids are illegal, but simply making them illegal and taking no further action is like a league banning steroids and then not bothering to test players. The MLB was not the only one

to turn a blind eye to the steroid problem.

Congress has demanded that professional athletics become proactive in the fight against steroids. As Congress continues to investigate, the real question isn’t what has baseball done since the last hearing, rather, what has Congress done to prevent kids from using steroids.

It may be somewhat taboo, but the light has to shine on the parents as well.

Grief doesn’t absolve an individual of their responsi-

bility. Where were they, and their kids’ coaches for that matter, as their kids bulked up in size and went through dramatic mood changes, to include at times, violent fits of rage?

It has been too easy to blame professional athletes for the dangerous, and at times, fatal decisions kids make to experiment with steroids. They must take responsibility, however, they are only one on a long list of culpable parties.

These atheletes aren’t deserving of the majority of

blame.

Last week before his game against Washington, San Francisco Giants slugger, Barry Bonds, said there were more important things than steroids to worry about, such as displaced and dying Americans.

When told of Bonds’ comments, Dave Marin, a spokesman for Committee chairman Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) mockingly stated, “Members of Congress, particularly Tom Davis, can walk and chew gum at the same time.” What a feat.

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Possible Conflict of Interest in Lance Armstrong Tour Doping Scandel Armstrong accuses ASO and L’Equipe Tour de France of conflict of interest.

by Philip Hersh chicago tribune

In Lance Armstrong’s most recent media teleconference, during which Armstrong, his agent and attorney alleged far-reaching conspiracies behind a newspaper’s report that Armstrong had tested positive for a banned drug at the 1999 Tour de France, the seventime Tour champion threw out a red herring about conflict of interest.

“My question is how ASO can own the paper and the race,’’ said Armstrong, referring to Amaury Sport Organization. It owns the newspaper in question, L’Equipe, and the Societe du Tour de France, which manages the race.

The possibility of conflict of interest, of course, is implied, even if that apparently never bothered Armstrong until the Aug. 23 L’Equipe stories alleging six of his urine samples at the ‘99 Tour had been found to contain erythropoietin (EPO) after being thawed and retested.

Any perception of conflict involving the French entities pales in comparison to the appearances of conflict of interest involving Armstrong and three of the USA

Cycling officials who have rushed to his defense. In both cases, though, perception does not necessarily mean reality.

First, the ASO-L’EquipeTour de France issue. It is no different from the relationship among Tribune Co., the Chicago Tribune and the Cubs.

Certainly, all of us who write for the Tribune about the Cubs or Wrigley Field or the ownership of other teams wish the Cubs and their ballpark were not owned by our parent, Tribune Co. But there is no changing reality, which is disclosed frequently in these pages. It becomes an issue only if Tribune Co. appears to be trying to influence the writing.

Former Chicago Tribune Editor Jim Squires claimed that had happened. In his 1993 book “Read All About it! The Corporate Takeover of America’s Newspapers,’’ Squires said former Tribune Co. top management complained weekly about the “tone’’ of coverage, though Squires said he paid no heed to the complaints.

Anyone who read my Tribune colleague Rick Morrissey’s verbal bulldozing of Wrigley Field during the falling-concrete controversy last season_a column that began, “Wrigley Field is a dump’’ _ would find it unlikely such attempts at influence were having an impact, if any still are being made.

The nexus of overlap-

ping interests in the U.S. cycling federation related to Armstrong , which are outlined in the Sept. 7 issue of a San Francisco publication, SF Weekly, seem equally troubling on their face.

San Francisco financier Thomas Weisel owns the company, Tailwind Sports, that employs Armstrong as a rider. Weisel also created and bankrolled the U.S. Cycling Development Foundation, an arm of USA Cycling.

The foundation used some of its funds to help USA Cycling get out of debt, which made Gerard Bisceglia’s job easier when he became the federation’s chief executive officer in 2002. According to USA Cycling’s 2001 tax return, the federation paid Tailwind Sports $87,417 in sponsorship sales commissions.

Weisel’s longtime friend, Steve Johnson, is executive director of the foundation and chief operating officer of USA Cycling _ and his having the latter position owes something to the relationship with Weisel. USA Cycling President Jim Ochowicz works for Thomas Weisel Partners. Armstrong’s agent, Bill Stapleton, is president of Tailwind.

Johnson, Bisceglia and Ochowicz backed Armstrong against L’Equipe for reasons that ran from rational (Bisceglia cited lack of due process) to knee-jerk emotional (Johnson dismissed the newspaper’s work as tabloid journalism). None is-

between them or their organizations and Weisel, who has stepped down from the USA Cycling board of directors but remains on the foundation’s board.

In an ideal world, such relationships would be taboo in Olympic sports. The reality is some federations are such shoestring operations they must be wary, as Bisceglia told the Tribune, “of throwing out the baby with the bath water.’’

The cycling case is complicated by a line in Weisel’s authorized biography, “Capital Instincts,’’ that says Weisel’s team is “in charge’’ of the federation.

Weisel told the Tribune that statement meant only that he wanted “a hand in running the place to make sure the money is safely spent.’’

“These arrangements may well be perceived as conflicts of interest, but we are a small family of people interested in trying to support a sport,’’ he said. “When there is a real conflict, (such as a contract or logo dispute involving a Tailwind rider and the federation), we will recuse ourselves.

“You are not going to be able to have a total separation of what people might perceive as interests and the governance of [national sports federations].’’

Having Johnson as the organization’s COO as condition for Weisel’s establishing the foundation “might have been something we ne-

pen, but I didn’t insist on,’’ Weisel said.

Weisel said the federation paid Tailwind to organize Tour de France trips for big donors to the foundation, an arrangement he said ended when Stapleton took over Tailwind and no longer wanted to manage the trips.

“In a small federation, we have to fight the incestuous nature of interests in the sport but balance that against the contributions many of the people involved can make to our federation,’’ Bisceglia said. “At no time in my tenure has Mr. Weisel attempted to influence me in any shape or form.’’

Having seen its leadership shamed into resignations and its image scandalized by conflict-of-interest troubles two years ago, the U.S. Olympic Committee plans to look at potential problems in each national sports federation. That is part of the USOC’s mandate for internal restructuring of the federations, an ongoing and lengthy process.

Armstrong and USA Cycling would have been better served now had the federation at least disclosed these entanglements when its top officials backed Armstrong unequivocally well before having all the facts to bulwark that position. It would be too easy to trap the truth in such a spider web. (c) 2005, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

Volleyball Team Bounces Back To Top Tars rebound impressively on road after loss to the Florida Southern Mocs.

by Juan Bernal

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The Rollins Tars Ladies Volleyball Team was riding a huge high going into their match with their nationally ranked arch rival: The Florida Southern Mocs.

The Mocs came into the match ranked 15th in the nation and had only one loss to their impressive record on the season.

The Mocs showed who was boss early on in the match, and never stopped putting it to the hosts.

The Mocs forced the Tars into both mental and physical errors, and the Tars did not show the poise, perseverance or the resilience that they had possessed all season. However, the Tars did show a flash of promise in the third set. Unfortunately , it was all for not as the Tars dropped their second consecutive conference match

19-30, 19-30, and 24-30.

It was clearly the worst match of the season for the Tars, and they would look to rebound two days later against fellow conference rival Florida Tech Panthers.

The Tars traveled to Melbourne as a team that had some soul searching to do.

They had their backs against the wall, and needed a win of any kind to raise their confidence.

More importantly they needed to get over the eventthat happened 48 hours prior to the opening of the match against the Panthers.

The Panthers were clearly crunk and amped for the match, as the raucous crowd gave the Tars problems early.

The Tars had one of their best starts of the season, leading by as much as six points, but they were unable to hold on, and dropped the first set 28-30.

On the verge of a potentially dangerous start to the conference slate of the season, the Tars had to find their inner strength and perseverance to succumb the Panthers. And respond they

did.

In the second set Coach Sindee Snow made adjustments against the Panthers’ outside hitters, and the Panthers were not able to figure out the Tars’ new alignment for the rest of the match. The Tars were able to regain their consistency from earlier in the season and go on to win the next three sets handily, 30-26, 30-15 and 30-19.

Julia Caner and Allison North led the Tars with 17 and 14 kills respectively.

Stephanie Nichols added 13 kills. Lacey Malarky added another 50-plus assist game to her résumé by providing 52, to lead the Tars fast paced offense. The Tars improved their record to 15-4 and 1-2 in the Sunshine State Conference.

Coach Sindee Snow was ecstatic about the way her team rebounded from such an anguishing defeat. “In the game against Florida Tech, we regained our composure as a team by playing well. We played with a sense of togetherness. Our reserves played well, and our team played with consistent

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I CAN’T HEAR YOU: Members of the volleyball team yell and get pumped up beforea big weekend of play.

intensity. The effort really influenced the team camaraderie.”

This week the Tars will hit the Sunshine’s state’s west coast for a pair of conference matchups. They face the 7th ranked Tampa Spartans on the 28th, and on the 30th they visit St. Leo.

After their trip, they will come back to their stomping grind, the Alfond Sports Center for seven straight home matches which includes key conference showdowns, and the pivotal South Region Tournament on October 14-15.

Men and Women’s Soccer A True Success

by Angela Gonzalez the sandspur

There was a good sized crowd that attended Saturday’s Men’s and Women’s soccer games against longtime Sunshine State rival, the Barry Buccaneers.

Maybe it was the game itself or the tantalizing smell of the grill food during the tailgate, but either way, both games were great to watch.

The women’s team took the field at 4:30pm to take on the #16-ranked Lady Bucs.

The first goal of the game belonged to Barry, coming in towards the end of the first half, when a shot was put in past goalkeeper, Francesca Nicoloso.

A short time into the second half, Barry got another point on the board after another shot past Nicoloso.

Rollins was finally able to put one up on the board when sophomore Cristina Saenz scored the first goal of her Rollins career with an assist from Alison Tradd in the 76th minute.

Shortly after, however, Barry answered back with their third goal of the game and managed to keep their hold on the Tars until the match’s end.

The women now have a season record of 5-3-0 (SSC 0-2-0) and they look to take on Nova Southeastern next in Ft. Lauderdale.

ROLLINS

The men improved their overall season record to 5-20 (SSC 2-0-0). The first goal of game was from Ryan Dodds, with an assist from junior Tres Loch and goalie Frazer Siddall only 7 minutes into the first period.

Loch made a long pass back to Siddall, who booted the ball down the field to Dodds and put it in past Barry’s keeper.

Freshman Jon Gruenewald owned the second goal of the game with an assist from freshman Dennis Chin. They closed out the first half with a score of 2-0.

Three minutes into the second period, Dodds headed in a goal after receiving

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another assist from Gruenewald, who got a long pass from senior Daniell Robertson.

Then in the 59th minute, Juan Kusnir took a cross from Dodds, leading to the fourth Rollins goal of the game. For the fifth and final goal of the game, Chris Cerroni caught a pass from Leslie Osei and dribbled past the defenders, eventually knocking one past Barry’s goalkeeper.

The score when the final whistle blew was 5-0. Rollins defense managed to keep Barry from putting in a single goal the entire game.

Rollins goalie, Frazer Siddall, had 3 saves, making

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this game his second shutout. Overall, the men had 11 shots.

Before the men’s game commenced, Rollins awarded men’s coach, Dr. Keith Buckley, win an award as the All-Time Wins Leader in Rollins history. Dr. Buckley has seen the Tars win a total of 160 games during his career as the Men’s soccer coach.

Luckily, one of those wins came from the men’s game versus Barry.

The Rollins men will look to continue their winning streak at home on Wednesday when they take on #1 ranked Lynn University.

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