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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here’s what FAU is doing to get involved. By Emily Bloch
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BREAST CANCER
FAU students are honoring National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with different activities. Here’s how you can get involved Story by Emily Bloch
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Rally at the Alley
Patricia Le. Photo by Ryan Murphy
What: Bowl for Boobs: A Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser Where: Strikes @ Boca Bowling Alley 21046 Commercial Trail Boca Raton, Fl 33486 When: Oct. 24, 2013 from 8-10 p.m. Tickets are $10, first 100 people who arrive receive a free swag bag
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FAU’s American Medical Student Association is holding an event that gives students a reason to break out their bowling shoes. The first annual “Bowl for Boobs: A Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser.” We talked to AMSA’s Co-Director of Fundraising Patricia Le, who coordinated the event, to let students know what to expect: UP: How did you guys think of the event? PL: “For a period of time, I frequently went out bowling with my friends. No matter which circle of friends I was with or what city I was in, everyone was always down to bowl. I wanted to propose a fundraising activity that would be fun and lucrative at the same time, so a bowling fundraiser seemed very appropriate. We thought ‘Bowl for Boobs’ would be really catchy and funny among college students, so we stuck with the fundraiser and the name.” UP: Where is the money going to? PL: “Net proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society for their ‘Making Strides Against Breast Cancer’ campaign… We wanted the money raised to be in the best hands possible.” UP: Do any AMSA members have specific ties to breast cancer? PL: “A few members in our club have family members who are breast cancer survivors or currently have breast cancer. We have an officer doing breast cancer research with a professor at the medical school. Personally, my high school mentor was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. My heart dropped when I found out, as I can only imagine what her and her family are going through.” UP: What does the event mean to AMSA? PL: “AMSA as a whole has not always been very active in participating in fundraisers for local charities. With this fundraiser, we are hoping to change that and be a significant impact in the ongoing battle against breast cancer. Also, we hope to build solid ties with the local community as well as ties among members of our club.” UP: Are you guys aiming to raise a certain amount? PL: “Our goal is to raise at least $1000. Wish us luck!” UP: What are your ultimate hopes for “Bowl for Boobs”? PL: “Ultimately, we hope for this event to stay for years to come — to make it an annual thing and to make it bigger and better every year. You see at different universities how Dance Marathons for the Children’s Miracle Network bring student organizations and tons of local communities together in a fun way. We want to be like that eventually, but with ‘Bowl for Boobs.’ UP: So how good of a bowler are you? PL: “I don’t know really! Most of the time I suck, but more recently, a few times, I’m on a winning streak!”
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BREAST CANCER FAU alumni Mike Buonaiuto (left) and Nate Frankoski. Photo courtesy of Mike Buonaiuto.
Biking For Boobies To donate to BikingForBoobies, or buy a t-shirt, visit: bikingforboobies.com
It was late August in Boca Raton when two FAU alumni started to take action against breast cancer — action across the country. “BikingForBoobies is a cross-country bike ride,” Mike Buonaiuto, who rides with his teammate, Nate Frankoski, said. “We started in Boca Raton, Fla. on Aug. 24 and 75 days later will arrive in Los Angeles, Ca.” The BikingForBoobies campaign consists of Buonaiuto and Frankoski riding 75-100 miles a day (depending on weather conditions) in order to raise money to support breast cancer. “We chose breast cancer because we like biking and we like boobies,” Buonaiuto said. The pair also had a friend, Christina, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 23 while pregnant. She and her
baby survived. “We are riding for her too.” All proceeds Buonaiuto and Frankoski raise are being donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Their goal is to end with $37,000 and to dance with Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen Show. So far, they’ve collected a little over $2,300 through donations made on their website, bikingforboobies.com. As the bikers travel, they document their rides with short video clips that they post on their website. The videos tell viewers where they are, what mile they’re on and what they’re doing — which is usually something silly, like singing “Sweet Home Alabama” to each other with mouth-guitar solos as they ride their bikes through Alabama. “Each day, Nate and I are blessed
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This event, sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women will feature free food, music and information to promote breast cancer awareness. What: Kiss Breast Cancer Goodbye Where: Traditions Plaza When: Tuesday, Oct. 15, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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with free lodging and free meals,” Buonaiuto said. “Occasionally we have incredible four-star rooms and $300 four course meals. Occasionally we sleep in mobile homes and eat Mr. Ease [pain-ointment].” But sleeping on floors and eating small meals doesn’t stop the two bikers. If anything, they’re used to it. Last year, Buonaiuto and Frankoski rode from Key West to Toronto for the Wounded Warrior Project. They raised $10,000 in 55 days. “We cycle every day by faith. We don’t always have a place to eat or a bed to sleep in, but we believe that God provides for us. And by faith we ride.” “Next summer,” Buonaiuto said, “we would like to bike to the moon.”
Photo courtesy of Tijuana Flats.
What: Add Fire to the Fight at Tijuana Flats Where: all Tijuana Flats locations — here are the closest Tijuana Flats locations to the Boca campus: 22191 Powerline Rd or 20401 SR 7 When: All October
This month, if you go to grab a taco at Tijuana Flats, you’ll still be asked if you want a soft or hard shell, but there’s a third choice that’s a little less conventional. In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, for $1 extra, you can “make it pink,” — “it” meaning your taco shell — with proceeds going to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Students can even purchase a bottle of Tijuana Flats’ Add Fire to the Fight limited edition hot sauce for $5 to spice up their dorm food microwavables.
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Women’s Rights And
Sexual Freedom In
The Middle East WOMEN’S RIGHTS Country Egypt
Travel Restrictions % Illiterate (Require husband’s or % of Women in (Age 15 and older) male relative’s consent Labor Force 61.2% women YES 21%
Iran
34.2% women
YES
12%
Iraq
55% women
YES
18%
Jordan
21.6% women
YES
21%
Libya
37% women
YES
21%
Palestinian Authority
23% women
N/A
11.4%
Saudi Arabia
49.8% women
YES
13%
Syria
44.2% women
YES
19%
Israel
7% women
NO
45% (same as US statistics)
SEXUAL FREEDOM Country
Egypt
Homosexuality Legal
Legal Protection for Gays from discrimination and hate crimes
Honor Killing* Outlawed
YES
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
N/A
(But gays are prosecuted under lewd conduct laws.)
Iran
NO (Gays are put to death.)
Jordan
YES (But reports of gays seeking asylum elsewhere)
Lebanon
NO
Libya
NO
NO
N/A
Palestinian Authority
YES
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
Saudi Arabia
(But no protection from hate crimes)
NO (Gays are put to death.)
Literacy Sources: A Gap Analysis report on the Status of Palestinian Women Prepared by Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, www.wclac.org. CIA Factbook (2000) at www.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
Syria
Travel Restrictions: US Dep’t of State, 1999 Human Rights Report, at www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm
Israel
Work force: UN Stats unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/ww2000/tables.html
NO (3 years imprisonment)
YES
* “Honor killing” is when a male kills a female family member who has had sex – or is rumored to have had sex – outside of marriage, either by choice or because she was raped. Some countries have no or only light penalties for this kind of killing. Sources: Amnesty International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Division at www.ai-lgbt.org; on PA, The New Republic, 8/19/02, Yossi Klein Halevi, “Refugee Status,” www.tnr.com. Honor Killings: The Star (Amman) 11/30/99; MEMRI Special Dispatch no. 63 at www.memri.org; U.S. Department of State, 1999 Human Rights Reports at www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm.
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First Come, First Served It’s nearly impossible to find parking at FAU during the day because there are more than three times as many students as parking spots Story by Olivia Sheets and Kathryn Wohlpart Contributors
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AU’s enrollment numbers have been swelling, adding at least 750 students a year to its roster, yet the number of parking spaces for students have not been ajusted to keep up with the growing student body. With over 30,000 students and less than 9,000 student parking spaces, parking is “first come, first served,” according to freshman Pre-Med major Michael Laing. “I saw this guy walking out and I said ‘hey do you know where you parked? Do you mind if I take your parking spot?’...I circled around waiting for him to back out and [as] I was waiting and this guy just pulled in. I said I was waiting for [the spot] and he said ‘that sucks,’” Laing said. The number of student permits released for the past several years has vastly outnumbered the total number of students enrolled at FAU. “The permit sales included replacements, students who purchase a second permit, paralegal students, continued education
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students,” Tracy Hardy, the FAU Parking and Transportation Office manager, said. In the last year 35,091 student permits were released to 30,301 students, according to Hardy. The number of students attending FAU compared to the number of parking spaces allotted for students show two trends going in completely opposite directions. From the data provided by FAU’s parking and transportation services, it was noted that from 2011 to 2012 over 1,000 parking spaces campuswide seemed to have disappeared and then reappeared in this year’s parking figures. The phenomenon of disappearing student parking spots is a continuing trend. With FAU growing in size, it’s necessary to keep up with the demand for class and on-campus living spaces, often causing parking lots to be closed off for construction. This expansion causes a decline of parking spaces followed by an increase in the next
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year. FAU’s Capital Improvement Plan — which shows a breakdown of future construction projects and their costs on FAU’s campuses — shows preliminary plans for a hotel project replacing a new student dorm and another parking garage. This hotel is being considered to open on-campus internships for hospitality and business majors according to press releases made by FAU. “It sounds like they’re just being greedy,” Travis Ellis, a junior communications major and business administration minor, told the UP. “[Administrators are] not thinking of the students, they’re thinking of themselves. This is a learning institution and we don’t need a hotel on campus. They should be pushing carpool, but then people still need to line up their schedules and it’s just a struggle to get to school. They should be focusing on parking.” FAU has made some strides to help alleviate the parking pressure, such as a carpool program that sets students up with other students who live in
the same area so they can ride to campus together. 50 spaces around campus are reserved for cars with a carpool permit. The goal of the program is to cut down the number of cars trying to find parking on campus. This program is free for students and faculty: students can register for it online and the website matches students to each other based on when they’re on campus and where they live. The Campus Master Plan — the long-term strategies that have been laid out for the growth of the university — states that parking spaces in the lot south of the library will eventually be eliminated to help with the flow of traffic through campus. However, Facilities Planning Director Robert Richman said, “It’s doubtful that the library lot will be eliminated any time soon.” Another provision of the CMP from 2009 stated that for every parking space only 2.25 student permits would be released to settle the overflow of parking needed on campus. The plan was never acted upon and has not been followed since the CMP was approved: this
“I saw this guy walking out and I said ‘Hey do you know where you parked? Do you mind if I take your parking spot?’... I circled around waiting for him to back out and [as] I was waiting this guy just pulled in. I said I was waiting for [the spot] and ” he said
‘That sucks.’
-Michael Laing, freshman Pre-Med major
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How Other Universities Compare: UF:
FGCU:
-24,000 spaces -11,090 student spaces -Total Students: 50,086
-3,992 commuter spaces -Total Students: 12,655
UCF:
FIU:
-17,735 total parking spaces -34,991 total parking permits -Total Students: 57,292
-14,763 total parking spaces -9,365 student spaces -48,980 student parking permits -Total Students: 50,394
Photo by Ryan Murphy Source: the Parking and Transportation services department at these respective universities.
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past academic year showed four permits were released for every available student parking space. When asked what FAU Parking and Transportation followed to restrict the number of permits released, the department refused to comment. A deal with Palm Beach State College allows FAU students to park in PBSC’s lot 40: any student
with a blue permit can park there from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. However, PBSC students are also allowed to park on FAU’s campus in lots 19 and Garage 1: if a student has a permit for both FAU and PBSC then they must adhere to the parking rules pertaining to their FAU parking permit. Facilities Planning has laid out plans for additional parking at
FAU, but these plans will not be acted on until enrollment grows. Any additional parking plans made will only be met with an increase in demand; no additional parking structures are being considered for FAU’s current enrollment numbers. Parking Garage III, which is due to be completed in January, is the only parking plan made to supplement the recent
growth in FAU’s population. According to freshman Studio Art major Marck Mendoza, there’s a simpler solution to finding parking: “It’s up to the students. If they really want to find a parking spot they should just come early. It’s that simple.”
Pissed about parking
Patricia Le, junior Biology major:
“I usually find [a parking spot] within a few minutes. In the middle of the day there’s no parking, once it hits 9 [a.m.] there’s no parking. I usually come at 8 [a.m.]. When I was parking here I waited for an hour for a spot to open up, including other places too, I missed my class.” Marck Mendoza, freshman Studio Art major:
“I come really early because I usually go to the gym in the mornings. So it takes me like five minutes. Later in the day, probably like after [9 a.m.], it’s really hard. I go to my car and put [my gym bag] back, this guy asked [if I was leaving] and he just flicks me off and drives off. It’s really up to the students. If they really want to find a parking spot they should just come early, it’s that simple. You can add as many parking spots as you want.” Luke Miller, junior Biomedical Engineering major:
“To find a spot, typically, I go to the parking garage, two to three minutes. Maybe we could use some more parking, at the same time I think too much parking would be too much space, it’s good but it’s just first come, first served.” Jenna Henderson, freshman Nursing major:
“It’s hard, you look a lot; I always try [Glades Park Towers] then [Indian River Towers]. It depends on what time it is — at night it takes a long time — sometimes there’s no parking spots you just have to wait for someone to leave. I feel like they should have more parking spots, definitely, because there’s not enough.” Ashley Satinover, junior Social Work major (not pictured):
“Sometimes it can take me 15 minutes, sometimes even longer. Once in the library parking garage, I drove around for 45 minutes up and down trying to find a spot.”
Gatien Laurol, junior Multimedia Journalism major:
“I hate the parking situation here. I hate that I leave my house an hour early and I’m still late to class because I have to look for parking. It is ridiculous that the university is not accommodating us more.” 12
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ECNEICS
TIME TRAVEL pt. 2 In a weekly UP series, Physics major Andrew Fraieli explains scientific concepts in simple terms. This week, Fraieli talks about traveling backward in time
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ello I’m Dr. Fraieli. Last week I talked about traveling forward in time, which is surprisingly the easier concept. This week I’m talking about traveling BACKWARD in time. Imagine if you could travel to a time before you were born and see how the world was before you existed — pretty cool stuff. There are many different ways to travel backward in time but most of them are theories, nowhere near as concrete and factual as traveling forward in time. These theories are amazing nonetheless, so I will explain them, but they aren’t describing time travel as you may think. One of the most simplistic — and not as impressive — ways to travel through time is with wormholes. Last week I described how the faster that something goes the slower it moves through time. We are going to use this concept to our advantage again. First, we need to have two wormholes that are connected to each other — two doors in space that when you walk into one you come out the other. Next, accelerate one wormhole away from the other at speeds near the speed of light (670,200,000 mph!) and then bring it back to where we are now. Now we have a time machine! How so? We accelerated one wormhole to the point that it’s traveling slower in time than the other wormhole that’s connected to it. One is older than the other and is connected to a different time, because it didn’t go through time at the same rate as its twin wormhole when it was accelerating. This means that when you step through one wormhole and come out the other, not only will you be traveling through space, but also time! The only problem with using this tactic for
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traveling to the past is that you can only go back in time as far back as when the wormhole was made. The second theory that I’m going to explain for traveling to the past is far more interesting; it’s called the Many Worlds Interpretation, but I am only going to talk about how it may lead to time-traveling to the past. The whole theory is pretty complicated and not all of it can be taken advantage of for the amazing sake of time travel. According to the Many Worlds Interpretation, there is a parallel universe for every possibility. This means there are an infinite amount of universes where you’re alive and an infinite amount of universes where you’re dead. There are an infinite amount of universes where you are reading this and an infinite amount of universes where you never bothered and just flipped the page, skipping the article telling you how to travel through time. Every single variation you can think of in how you feel, think and perceive the world exists in the Many Worlds Interpretation. This is all awesome, but we don’t really have any idea how to get to any of these other universes. If we could figure out how to visit them, then we might be able to time travel in a sense. We wouldn’t be moving backward in time — or moving in time at all — but rather, we’d be traveling to a parallel universe where maybe everything has happened exactly the same as in our universe, but it’s 1985. With an infinite number of parallel worlds, we could possibly find some that are in a different time period than ours, travel to those and essentially travel in time. Time traveling is complicated stuff but the concepts are actually quite simple. The problem always arises in the technicalities. Someday we might even be able to do this, though it will be extremely difficult and not for a long time. As E. E. Cummings has said, “Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.” Who knows, maybe we’ll travel to a parallel universe and bump into some dinosaurs.
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FEATURES
SWIMMING
“By never backing down, by persevering in the face of adversity, her resilience has driven her to achieve.” -Talisa’s Mother, Shelina Popat
Sophomore Talisa Lanoe practices her backstroke in the FAU swimming pool. She became a member of the Kenyan Swimming Federation at 16 years old. Photo by Max Jackson 16
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Laps and Losses
FAU swimmer Kenyan national competitor, Talisa Lanoe, uses swimming to help cope with losing family members in the Nairobi, Westgate mall attack Story by Miranda Schumes Multimedia Editor Talisa Lanoe stands at the edge of the FAU pool as terrorists hold her aunt and cousin captive in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Surrounded by 51 of her fellow FAU swimmers, Lanoe pulls her goggles over her cap as she talks with friend and teammate Kelsea Yarnell — who does not know. It’s Saturday, Sept. 21 and the swimmers are preparing to dive into the water to warm up for the FAU Alumni Meet. But if Lanoe were at home in Nairobi — where she holds six national records in all of the backstroke events — she would’ve probably been at Westgate, the local mall, just two minutes from her home, having a pastry at Artcaffe, a coffee shop and bakery. Almost 8,000 miles away — about two hours before Lanoe dives into the pool — 10 to 15 members of the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab enter Westgate Mall from the second floor of a parking garage. They fire their rifles at terrified shoppers, regardless of whether the mall patrons are surrendering or running for safety. [Visit upressonline.com for more information about the Westgate terrorist attack]
The al-Shabaab members make their way to the top floor of the mall, where a children’s cooking competition is taking place. They open fire again and start taking hostages. Lanoe’s 15-year-old cousin, Nuriana Merali, and Nuriana’s mother, Salima Merali, are among those taken. Later, they were among the dead. Back at the meet, Lanoe had no idea about the attack. She did not know that her father, Erwan Lanoe, drove away from the mall just minutes before the gunmen entered, his car loaded with groceries from the Nakumatt supermarket. She did not know that the terrorists took her cousin Nuriana and her aunt Salima. She did not know about the attack at all until after the Alumni Meet. While Lanoe stood in the locker room — water still dripping from her hair — teammate Frida Nilsson read through news headlines on her phone, stopping at one in particular. “Talisa, look at this,” Nilsson said. “There’s been a shooting in Kenya.” FAU swimmer Iwona Lefanowicz watched Lanoe stand in
Talisa Lanoe laughs with best friend Jade Howard, who swam with Lanoe in South Africa. Photo by David Matthewman
Westgate mall was attacked on Sept. 21 by terrorists and later caught fire. Photo by Anne Knight made available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported shock as she read the article. Tears such a cruel thing,” Lanoe said. “I filled Talisa’s eyes as she realized mean, human life is precious. You that the attack happened just min- just can’t go around shooting peoutes from her home, at the mall ple. It’s just not right and so many that she would go to at least five people suffered because of it.” times a week. Lanoe found herself para“At first, I didn’t know anyone lyzed by the shock and glued to that died,” Lanoe said. “I didn’t her friend’s couch on Saturday know how bad the situation was, night while others went out. She but I felt horrible. Just the fact that couldn’t pull herself away from something was going on like that the reports describing the event. in my own country, it brought me Tears streamed down her face as to tears.” she read article after article, feeling As most FAU students enjoyed as if there was nothing she could the Owls’ first home football do to help her people. game of the season on Sept. 21, “That’s one thing I hated, that Lanoe sat on the bleachers, des- I couldn’t do anything from [the perately trying to contact her mom U.S.],” Lanoe said. “I couldn’t and dad. physically help, which killed me.” In Nairobi, Lanoe’s mother, Some of those feelings subShelina Popat, frantically called sided when Lanoe’s cousin made friends and relatives to make sure a webpage (alyssapopat.wix.com/ that they were safe. Popat tried to peace-for-kenya) with a donation go to the mall, but the roads had link to raise money for the Kenbeen barricaded. Lanoe finally ya Red Cross Society. The donamade contact with both of her tions help victims of the attack parents, who were safe. and family members that have lost Of the 67 people that died as loved ones. Lanoe posted the web of publication time, Shelina Po- page on Facebook and Twitter. pat lost 10 friends and two family Still, that wasn’t enough for Lamembers in the attack. noe. She personally called many of “I just couldn’t believe that any her friends and asked them to person could be capable of doing CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 OCT. 8, 2013
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Talisa Lanoe prepares to do a backstroke start. She has competed in over 11 different countries. Photo by David Matthewman donate. Soon after, the website received over $500 in donations from people in four different countries. “I’m so patriotic when it comes to my country that something going on just brings me to tears and brings so much sorrow and anger because I just don’t understand how someone can do that to my country and my people,” Lanoe said. FAU head swimming coach Steve Eckelkamp heard about the attack late on Saturday and immediately thought of Lanoe. Eckelkamp later realized that his biggest fear had come true –– the Kenyan swimmer had family involved in the attack. The FAU coach of 24 years lent his support to Lanoe at practice, acting as her family far away from home. “We reached out to her and just said, ‘You know what? We’re here for ya’.’ It’s a terrible thing, a tragedy,” Eckelkamp said. Although several teammates showed their support and tried to reach out to Lanoe, she felt a special connection to the compassion that her coach had shown. “When I went to go see Steve, he was really understanding and he just listened,” Lanoe said. “Hearing it from your coach just makes you feel that much better.” It wasn’t until swim practice on Monday, Sept. 23, that Lanoe was able to finally distract herself from the news. Lefanowicz, who had tried to distract Lanoe before, 18
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noticed that as soon as the Kenyan backstroker dove into the water, her painful thoughts dissipated and Lanoe was finally able to relax. “Swimming is like, a little bit, our getaway,” Lefanowicz said. “All our problems or worries that we have ... we just come [to the pool] and that helps.”
Staying Afloat Lanoe has been competitively swimming since age 6, so it’s no surprise that immersing herself in the 50-meter pool and propelling through the chilled water helped ease her heartache. “I’ve always loved the water,” the 19-year-old said. “I loved training… so swimming practice was really fun. I loved it as much as people hated it.”
The first sight of Lanoe’s potential for swimming happened at the Grand Royal Hotel pool at age 4. It was Shelina Popat’s birthday, and the little girl and her father decided to surprise mom, who’d never seen Talisa swim on her own. As soon as Shelina Popat arrived at the 20-meter pool, Lanoe dove into the water and swam an entire lap on her own. Shelina Popat was so ecstatic about her daughter’s achievement that she bought her a Little Mermaid Barbie. “It was at this point that I knew that she had God-given talent and a star was born,” Shelina Popat wrote in an email to the UP. Combining hard work and sheer talent, Lanoe qualified for the Kenyan Junior National Swim team by age 13. Even at that point, Lanoe had pride in her country. During a meet in South Africa, a swimming official couldn’t believe that a Kenyan swimmer was the top in an event and told Lanoe that she didn’t belong in the fastest lane. The official made a snarky comment and insulted Lanoe by commenting that Kenya will never take a medal. That remark set off an emotional charge in Lanoe. Aided by the utmost of determination, Lanoe took home the gold in 200 meter backstroke and broke her first Kenyan Junior National record. “[The comment] really tormented Talisa, but it gave her the drive to prove [the official]
wrong,” Shelina Popat said. In less than a year, Lanoe realized that she couldn’t receive the training she needed in Kenya. Despite her mother’s initial concerns about her young daughter attending school in a dangerous country, Lanoe made the decision to go to a school to focus on swimming. The school, TuksSport, was specifically for athletics and associated at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Praised for its swimming program, TuksSport produced seven swimmers who went to the Olympics in 2008. It was a complete contrast to the training that Lanoe had received in Kenya. In Nairobi, Lanoe often swam in a cold, run-down pool that wasn’t well maintained. “Sometimes it was green and you couldn’t even see the bottom [of the pool],” Lanoe said. When Lanoe first arrived at TuksSport, she didn’t have any friends and was not prepared for the intensive training. Yet even after training over 20 hours a week at Tuks, Lanoe would still spend Sunday, her day off, in the pool having her best friend, Jade Howard, critique her backstroke starts. “As soon as we moved to that sports school, she became really passionate about [swimming],” Howard said. While attending the University of Pretoria, Lanoe became determined to train in the U.S. one day. The U.S. is known for having rigorous training schedules, amazing
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help the Kenyan swimmer make a decision regarding where to spend her next four years. The two rented a car and drove to FIU first. Immediately after seeing FIU’s campus, Lanoe determined that it didn’t fit the image that she had in her head. Lanoe wasn’t attracted to a school that had two main campuses, as it would mean driving back-andforth to train in the typically hectic Miami traffic. She then went to check out FAU, which she immediately fell in love with, moving into the dorms that same day and majoring in international business and trade. Soon after Lanoe settled into her new home at Glades Park Towers, it was time for Lanoe to focus on swimming. She wasn’t sure how the university’s recruiting process worked and hadn’t received a response from any coaches that she’d written to. Staying persistent, Lanoe went to a practice to speak with Eckelkamp. “She kind of just popped up and walked onto the pool deck,” Eckelkamp said. “I thought, ‘Nothing to lose here. We’re going to give her a shot.’” Lanoe took the shot –– a walkon spot on the team–– and swam with it.
Kicking for the Gold One year later, Lanoe is a sophomore and continues to compete in FAU meets as well as international competitions. Traveling is not foreign to Lanoe, who is now part of the Kenyan Swimming Federation, has attended events such as the 2012 Fina
Talisa Lanoe began swimming for FAU in 2012. Photo by David Matthewman World Championships in Turkey. “She’s trying to balance both appeasing the Kenyan Federation and the NCAA,” Eckelkamp said. Lanoe is currently training to compete on the ultimate stage –– in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. After just barely missing the cut for the 2012 Olympics, Lanoe is working even harder to secure her spot on the 2016 Olympic team. “This year I’m not going to let anything get in my way,” Lanoe said. “I’m going to make sure that I make a cut so I’m definitely going.” Kenya’s swimming association only takes the top swimmer out of both males and females as well as swimmers that get a specific qualifying time. This
means it’s imperative for Lanoe to meet that time to make it in 2016. Lanoe continues to get stronger and improve her stroke every day at practice. Her teammates have taken notice and know that she’s destined for bigger things. “I believe in her 100 percent,” Lefanowicz said. “She just needs to work hard, as much as she does right now and she will go [to the Olympics].” While Westgate collapsed due to a fire during the attacks, Lanoe’s admiration for her country still burns. If Lanoe wears her Kenya cap and jacket at the 2016 Olympics, she won’t be carrying the sorrows of a country that has been faced with tragedy, but the pride of a country that stands united. “By never backing down, by persevering in the face of adversity, her resilience has driven her to achieve,” Shelina Popat said.
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he number of students elected in Student Government’s fall legislative elections is higher than ever, but the number of students electing them into office remains low. Despite having more seats to fill than previous elections and a lower-than-average turnout, FAU’s SG managed to fill the Boca, Jupiter and Davie Houses of Representatives and the university-wide Student Senate during the recent legislative elections on Sept. 24 and 25. Though voter turnout was a dismal 3.2 percent, the number of candidates running in the Boca House Rep. Christopher Ferriera
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contestation was filed this fall. election was comparatively high, “This election went very with 64 candidates running for smoothly,” Elections Board the Boca House, 13 running for the Jupiter House, seven running Chair Mike Brown said. “It’s not unusual for the fall.” for the Broward House and 12 As of Thursday, Oct. 3, the running for nine seats in the results of the fall legislative university-wide Student Senate. elections have been made official. Of the 28,279 students on the With the campus Houses of Boca campus, 901 voted. That’s Representatives and the Student one tenth of a percent lower Senate at nearly full capacity, than last year’s fall elections and expectations are high for what slightly lower than the average the legislative bodies will be able turnout for 2007 to 2011 fall to accomplish. elections. “I’m excited about it. I’m Unlike last spring, where excited that we’re going to have the SG elections were settled a lot of people to do things and months after voting closed get involved,” re-elected House due to contestations filed by Rep. Christopher Ferriera said. “I multiple candidates, not a single Boca House Committee Chair Rebeca Sosa
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“I didn’t know who was running, I didn’t know what the election was for,” junior social work major Tanisha Prince said. Prince was not even aware of the elections on Sept. 24 and 25. Prince was not even aware of the elections on Sept. 24 and 25. Knowing about the elections was not a deciding factor in voting, as students who were aware of the elections also chose not not fill out a ballot. “I just got too busy,” junior architectural major Devon Clarke said. But the low voter turnout
did not surprise many of the candidates and Elections Board members. “I would have liked it to be more,” Ferriera said. “It’s always great that students come out and vote, but three percent is not enough. There should really be a lot more students actively participating in this because Student Government affects almost everything in a student’s life.” Some candidates think the reason for the low turnout is how much attention the elections can get, but the solutions to this
are not agreed on. “We haven’t put ourselves out there, marketwise,” Ian Dunne, the re-elected Boca House parliamentarian, said. “I would like the marketing director for the Elections Board to start using social media… any kind of technology we have, just to put it out there.” The Elections Board chair had something different in mind. “As far as turnout goes, I’ll say a lot of it depends on how hard the candidates campaign,” Brown said.
Campus turnout comparison This year’s fall legislative election turnout: In Boca, 901 people out of 28,279 voted, for a total of 3.2 percent In Jupiter, 139 people out of 692 voted, for a total of 20 percent In Broward, 48 people out of 2,380 voted, for a total of 2 percent
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Goal line stands FAU’s defense has played its best in difficult situations, backed up against their own goal line. During the season-opening loss to Miami, Owls’ defenders made an impressive stand, stopping the Hurricanes on a fourth down play from the one-yard line. In the Owls’ win over South Florida, the defense led a game-changing event. With USF clinging to a 10-7 lead, the Bulls were looking to build momentum. On second and goal from FAU’s two-yard line, USF was stopped short. On third-and-goal, they again failed to score. USF went for it on fourth-and-goal from the one, but Owls linebacker Randell Johnson dropped the running back for a 6-yard loss, forcing a turnover on downs.
Emergence of Quarterback Jaquez Johnson vs. Middle Tennessee State After rotating quarterbacks through the first two games of the season, the win at South Florida entrenched sophomore Jaquez Johnson as the starting QB. It was the Middle Tennessee game in which he really claimed the position, though. In perhaps the most exciting play of the Owls’ season to this point, Johnson found wide receiver Lucky Whitehead in the endzone with three seconds remaining in regulation, forcing the game into overtime. The 21-yard reception was Whitehead’s only catch of the contest. Although the Owls would eventually lose in overtime, Johnson accounted for 355 total yards, including three touchdowns through the air and another two on the ground. Defensive TDs vs. South Florida FAU’s only win of the first half of the season was keyed and preserved by exceptional defensive plays that resulted in points. In the first quarter of their game against USF, Owls defensive end Cory Henry recorded a sack/fumble, scooped up the ball and took it in 10 yards for the score, giving FAU an early 7-0 lead. Then, with three minutes left in the game, the Owls’ victory was cemented by cornerback D’Joun Smith’s 75-yard interception return for a TD. This put FAU up 28-10 and ended any hopes that USF had of mounting a comeback.
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Lowlights FAU rush defense As well as the Owls defense has played near the goal line, they’ve had their problems along the rest of the field. The Hurricanes sliced through the Owls run defense for 303 yards on the ground, with 186 yards coming via UM star running back Duke Johnson, who played less than three quarters of the game. Middle Tennessee also had their way with the Owls on the ground, gashing them for 296 yards. This included 154 yards and three touchdowns on only 10 carries from MTSU running back Reggie Whatley. Susceptibility to the big play has been the main problem for the Owls on the rush defense side. Quarterback Greg Hankerson’s last five minutes vs. Rice Subbing in for the injured Jaquez Johnson, freshman quarterback Greg Hankerson played almost flawlessly for the first 55 minutes of FAU’s game against Rice. But with under five minutes remaining and FAU clinging to a 14-6 lead, everything fell apart. The disaster started when Hankerson was sacked and fumbled the ball at the FAU seven-yard line. Rice recovered the fumble and took it in for the score, cutting the FAU lead to 14-12. On the very next play following the ensuing kickoff, Hankerson inexplicably dropped back to pass and was intercepted in FAU territory. Rice would go on to score what would be the gamewinning touchdowns and take an 18-14 lead. Hankerson had time to lead a comeback, but was picked once more to ensure FAU’s fourth quarter collapse and third loss of the season.
Jaquez Johnson spike on fourth down The most embarrassing play of the Owls’ early season happened in the opener against Miami. Following a 16-play drive in the final stages of the game, QB Jaquez Johnson spiked the ball to stop the clock. There was only one problem –– it was already fourth down. At the postgame press conference, both Johnson and Pelini took responsibility for the clock mismanagement. However, television cameras caught Pelini signaling for the QB to spike the ball from the sideline. The ball was turned over to Miami on downs and they ended the game with a kneel down. The blunder wasn’t quickly forgotten, either, as it was publicized nationally by Deadspin.com. CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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Saturday, Oct. 26 at Auburn: FAU comes into this game a bit outmatched on both sides of the ball. Auburn is Gus Malzahn’s first head coaching job, but Malzahn is a former offensive coordinator at the school (as recently as 2011), meaning his personnel will fall back in line with his system with relative ease. The Owls will face a bigger, more talented team and should take its lumps here. The issue of how the FAU receivers seek to beat the Auburn 4-2-5 defensive scheme will be interesting to see. Saturday, Nov. 2 vs. Tulane: Tulane’s offensive line was historically bad in 2012 and seems to have made no real improvements, only getting younger and more inexperienced. Look for the Green Wave to falter on the road, as QB Nick Montana (son of NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana) will be overwhelmed by FAU’s strong front seven. Saturday, Nov. 16 at Southern Mississippi: USM won a grand total of zero games last year, giving them the distinction of the only winless team in major college football. First year coach Todd Monken walks into a tough situation and an even tougher schedule. While this team will not be as bad as the record may indicate, they are no doubt worse than FAU. Expect the Owls’ receivers and running backs to exploit USM’s porous defense on their way to a road win.
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Saturday, Nov. 23 vs. New Mexico State: An offense lacking depth and a defensive unit that has yet to play much together has resulted in an 0-5 start for the Aggies, who have surrendered over 50 points a game thus far this season. FAU should beat them handily, partly helped by the inevitable effects of jet lag and humidity on a battered New Mexico State team. The Owls’ offense, if they find any consistency, won’t have problems putting points on the scoreboard.
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Friday, Nov. 29 vs. Florida International: The Panthers have been outscored 187-23 in their first four games. The staggering 72-point shutout loss to Louisville and 34-13 loss to FCS club Bethune-Cookman reveal the inexperience of new head coach Ron Turner’s team. Expect a worthwhile effort from FAU who, in a quest to avenge last year’s Shula Bowl loss, will be much more disciplined than their longtime rivals.
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Saturday, Oct. 12 vs. Marshall: Marshall quarterback and reigning C-USA MVP Rakeem Cato looks to be well on his way to having another noteworthy season. Cato, a Miami Northwestern product, is arguably the best quarterback FAU will face all year, and is at the helm of a pass-heavy offense that is likely to wear down the Owls secondary. Marshall’s defense has some soft spots, but FAU’s offense may not find enough of them to win this game at home.
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