To: Dean Pendakur Cc: Provost Pritchett May 1, 2009 The undersigned professors tenured in the Philosophy Department at Florida Atlantic University 6 www.upressonline.com | Vol. 12 Issue 12 | fau’s student newspaper | november 9, 2010 are in agreement that the Department of Philosophy requires experienced leadership to meet the demands of the University and the Department at this time. We respectfully inform the Dean that the current Chair has not earned our confidence and his actions and attitudes do not sustain a belief that time will improve his ability to do so. We believe that the Department needs as Chair: a. a senior Philosopher, b. an individual who has experience as Chair of a Philosophy Department, c. an individual who does not have conflicts of interest in serving in the role of Chair, d. an individual who will lead through consultation. The undersigned profesTHE UP INVESTIGATES: HEADLEY sors holding tenure inCLEVIS the Department are unified behind this request that the Dean authorize an Outside Chair Search. Such a search should have taken place in 2004 when the then Chair retired but is essential at this time. In the meantime, the Department needs AS CHAIR OF THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT -8an Interim Chair who meets the above-
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KARLA BOWSHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The College of Engineering and Computer Science could be in trouble — for trying to go green. FAU claimed their new building earned the highest level of environmentally friendly ceritification, but that’s not true yet. It’s a fuzzy situation that varies depending on who you ask. According to a national independent organization called the Green Building Certification Institute, the college may have committed copyright infringement that could be reported to their legal department. According to their sister organization, the U.S. Green Building Council, the situation is “kind of a misunderstanding.” It all started with one word in “Engineering a building,” an article the UP published last month about the college’s new environmentally friendly building on the Boca campus. We reported that the building was “certified platinum by the Leadership in Environmental Energy and Design program — a national program that rates buildings on their energy consumption and environmental impact.” The news of the platinum certification, the highest level that the LEED program awards, was all over FAU’s website and even College of Engineering literature. The “Explore FAU Video” webpage (www.fau.edu/explore/Video. php), for example, shows off “FAU’s LEED Platinum-Certified Green Building.” The “Sustainable Construction” webpage (www. fau.edu/facilities/sustain/campusOps/construction.php) boasts that FAU is “the first university in the state to be a certified LEED platinum building.” After our article was published, however, College of Engineering Dean Karl Stevens admitted otherwise. “Thanks for the great article,” he told UP reporter Chris Persaud by e-mail. “We do have one problem and that is the building has not yet been certified green; that is in the works. Brenda Coto will discuss this with you.” A couple of hours later, Coto—the college’s managing director of technology and innovation—e-mailed Persaud herself and confirmed FAU’s mistake. “We are not allowed to say that we are a certified,” she wrote. At that point, I gave Coto a call myself to further discuss the matter. When I explained that FAU’s official website was our source on the certification, she simply retorted that the College of Engineering’s webpages don’t use the word. When I e-mailed her screenshots of official FAU webpages that still used the word “certified” as of press time, she never replied. That’s when I decided to investigate for myself. I called the U.S. Green Building Council. Their customer service rep told me told to call the Green Building Certification Institute. She explained that while the Green Building Council developed the LEED program, the GBCI actually administers LEED certificates. I still don’t understand why this LEED thing requires two organizations or how exactly the two are connected, but GBCI customer service rep Noe Flores told me I was better off talking to
the Green Building Council. I told him they told me the opposite, and he was happy to answer my questions anyway. He explained that the process of LEED certification is actually all remote. An entity like FAU registers for LEED certification online and then submits third-party documentation like utility contracts and architectural drawings to prove a building is sufficiently environmentally friendly. No one ever comes out to examine a building that’s vying for LEED certification. At the same time, he told me that “achieving LEED certification is a pretty strenuous task.” I didn’t follow his vague logic, but GBCI apparently takes it seriously. When someone falsely claims LEED certification, Flores said GBCI considers it “infringement” on the LEED program’s trademark. “From there, the legal department takes over.” He couldn’t tell me, though, whether FAU’s new College of Engineering building had yet achieved the certification FAU already claims. He couldn’t even tell me why he didn’t have the info: All he could say was that it meant either FAU wanted it kept “confidential” or GBCI had an “error” in its system. After 20 minutes of details that left me more confused than when I started, Flores finally admitted that I could have contacted GBCI’s press inquiry department—but only by e-mail. The company functions largely by e-mail, he said. Frustrated, I decided to try the Green Building Council’s press department. Their communications manager, Ashley Katz, is the one who called the situation “kind of a misunderstanding.” At first, she confirmed that the College of Engineering building had not yet achieved LEED certification, explaining that the Boca campus’s College of Nursing building, which earned gold-level certification a couple of years ago, is FAU’s only LEED-certified building. But when I asked her to confirm that false claims to certification are considered infringement and referred to the legal department, she hesitated: “Well, I mean I, I just, I, I don’t think that, I mean, I don’t, I , I really don’t know how to, how to, how to phrase this because I’m not entirely sure that the project isn’t actually certified. I just, it could be listed under another name.” After our conversation, she looked into the matter further and e-mailed me almost immediately. “I just took a look at the FAU Engineering building website (www.fau.edu/facilities) and see that it mentions that the project is designed to LEED Platinum, which isn’t the same thing as being certified,” she wrote. “I think that’s the caveat here — it doesn’t say that it’s certified.” I replied with links to FAU webpages that do say it’s certified, along with a link to a Sept. 2009 New York Post editorial that criticized the LEED program, calling it “phony” and part of a green fad that “isn’t so much a movement as a highly lucrative regime of payouts and misinformation.” I specifically asked for an official response from the Green Building Council regarding the links. As of press time, she had not responded.
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Bast went on to explain that the new brewing equipment is located in the kitchen of the Lounge, and the original beers made at the Buddha can be found on tap and purchased there exclusively. “We have always been known for our beer selection,” he said. Along with being a lounge, the Buddha is a social and musical venue as well. “During the week it’s a really chill, easy atmosphere. You feel like you’re in a homey place,” said Amber Tutwiler, a senior psychology major who works at the Buddha. “The weekends it’s pretty crazy, depending on the show.” With the combination of hookah, beer and music, the Buddha offers “great entertainment, great crowd, great beer, great food, good atmosphere,” said junior communications major and regular Buddha patron Mark Marazita. The relaxing atmosphere of the Buddha offers students a change of pace. “I go to the Buddha because it’s relaxed,” said Blake Erikson, a freshman psychobiology major. “The mood set by the lounge makes it a great place to unwind.”
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Designing for freedom Students design and build wheelchair ramps for the disabled
Architecture students from FAU are working free of charge designing ramps and making landscaping additions for handicapped people, most of whom they’ve known less than 24 hours. These students are heavily involved in the nonprofit organization Freedom by Design, and though they’ve had to overcome some struggles, they still love their job. “We don’t feel like this is a job for us because we love helping out [handicapped] people with the skills we have as students,” explained Pablo Terraza, a sophomore architecture design student and the elected captain of FBD. FBD’s primary purpose is to build and design layouts for ramps, obtain work permits, and make other landscaping additions to disabled people’s homes. Students who plan on obtaining full-time jobs in architecture upon graduation benefit from working with other students in FBD to gain experience. Projects are funded solely by separate businesses throughout Broward County that make donations. “We’re grateful to have the help to fund our own projects,” said Terraza. “We’ve been lucky enough to have help from government organizations such as Broward Housing Solutions and the Center for Independent Living.”
Brett Reeve, a sophomore architecture design student, is the co-captain of FBD. He met Terraza through the organization, which he joined because of his love of architecture. “I just have an incredible interest for architecture,” said Reeve. “They [FBD] had elections, I ran for the position and was lucky enough to be selected.” Senior architecture student Alex Parsons has been a volunteer for FBD for the past two years. He describes the previous leaders prior to Terraza and Reeve’s involvement as being undedicated and explained one challenge they had with a previous client’s home they tried to work on. “The past two FBD captains haven’t done a great job with getting people more involved,” said Parsons. “There was one lady we weren’t able to help because we couldn’t get inside her bathroom to take measurements.” Terraza mentioned one disabled individual in particular who was very grateful for the help he was receiving from students to improve his home. “This guy Victor was describing how, for the past year, he’s been crawling into his house from his car,” said Terraza. “He was overwhelmed when he saw people were willing to help out and volunteer their time. He wanted us to come in his home to cook us dinner.” Not only do students gain experience as architects, but they also face challenges as a team when working
on separate projects throughout the city. One particular obstacle they faced was having to re-work their designs for a ramp they were building for a disabled individual, in order to obtain a work permit from the city to start the project. “Sometimes we have to go back and redraw the ramp and make changes,” said Terraza. “It takes us two to three weeks to get a work permit, which costs us about $150.” A larger, more complex project is currently in the works for students involved in FBD. Both Reeve and Terraza described it as their biggest project to date. “We’re working on a pavilion, which is more complicated than building a ramp,” said Terraza. Reeve added that the octagon-shaped pavilion they’re working on is a joint project with an organization called Tomorrow’s Rainbow, an outreach for children whose families have passed on. The project will serve children between the ages of 3 and 18, who will be able to interact with one another as well as with animals. Students who want to become involved in FBD, regardless of their major, can sign up on the third floor of the Fort Lauderdale campus in room 313, where there are sign-up sheets, as well as on the fifth floor by the hallway bulletin board. They can also contact Pablo Terraza at freedombydesign.ftl@gmail.com.
Freedom by Design is holding a fundraiser dinner and talent show on Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. at the Courtyard just outside the Fort Lauderdale campus in order raise money to fund upcoming projects. It will feature a dinner and talent show for students, by students, and will also showcase some of FBD’s previous work.
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two years to forget chair demotes himself, now equal to those who had wanted him to leave
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“I guess I’m going to be a celebrity now,” Clevis Headley muttered to a student on Thursday, Nov. 4, as he walked out of the existentialism class he teaches. The philosophy chair of two years resigned on Oct. 27 — two weeks after a lawsuit by another philosophy professor alleged that his promotion to the position was the result of favoritism. The lawsuit was directed at Manjunath Pendakur, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, and accused the dean of anti-Semitism, ageism and fraud. The lawsuit is riddled with Headley’s name and that of his wife, Marina Banchetti, who happens to be the assistant to Dean Pendakur. “I’m highly appreciative of his gracious offer to step away from the chair position to help the department,” Pendakur wrote on Oct. 28 by e-mail to the faculty. “I am accepting it in order to assist the department. He will return to his regular duties as an associate professor.” Although Headley described himself as a celebrity, he is reluctant to accept the role. The UP attempted to speak to Headley three times by e-mail, once by phone, and once in person. He had not replied as of press time. Attorney Marc Reiner, who represents professor Carol Gould in her lawsuit against Pendakur, said that Headley’s resignation doesn’t change anything — it’s too late. “His resigning is in line with some of the allegations that they may try to deny,” Reiner said. “He wasn’t a good-confidence chair.” Lester Embree, an eminent scholar and professor of philosophy, thought the move should have come sooner. “I think Headley should have resigned when he found out he had lost the confidence of his department qualitatively and quantitatively,” he said. “He stuck it out, I don’t know why.” The loss of confidence Embree is referring to came in the form of a May 2009 letter that was petitioned by four out of five tenured philosophy professors — including Embree — that called for Headley to resign. “We respectfully inform the Dean that the current Chair has not earned our confidence,” the letter read. “And his actions and attitudes do not sustain a belief that time will improve his ability to do so.” [To read the letter in its entirety, see page 10.] Ethics professor Robin Fiore — who left FAU this past summer and moved to the University of Miami — wrote by e-mail that the letter, which she had also signed, was an “extraordinary action.” “At any other University, this would have been taken quite seriously,” she wrote. “As an ethicist, what I found morally deficient was that the administration refused to take up any instance of malfeasance or particular grievance (and so perhaps answer the question of effectiveness) because the administration found all to be in order simply as a matter of whose judgment about the Chair mattered to the administra-
to do research or be teacher assistants tion. The faculty apparently had no say Read the no-confidence letter to pay their way through their studies. in such matters and according to the administration, no rightful claim to have that four philosophy professors Though Headley helped him get one sea say.” wrote against the chair of their mester’s worth of funding, the stipend cut his federal financial aid and the She finished her e-mail writing that department. PAGE 10 money soon ran out. Lunsford’s studies the matter became less about the chair cost him more than they saved him. for her at that point and that she had lost “I was basically working twenty hours a week and makher confidence in the university’s administration itself. So she ing the same amount of money as I would if I didn’t work, left. which took away from my studies,” Lunsford said of the There was another reaction to the letter, however. It began $3,000 he had to earn to pay off the semester’s debts. “He’s a string of meetings between administrators and the philososupposed to provide graduate students with a list of what phy faculty. During these meetings, the faculty was told to funding is available. I was only ever offered one.” support Headley and cease complaints, according to Gould’s The program that Lunsford mentioned is called the Maslawsuit. ter’s Liberal Studies program, which offers master’s level “The first meeting, soon after that petition — it was all discredit in different fields, like philosophy or English. It was cussed around and it was more or less that we were urged to shut down last summer. find a way to get along,” Embree said. “This is something that Dr. Headley had direct oversight Gould confirmed that this meeting occurred in May, 2009. of,” Lunsford said. “When they closed it down, they didn’t Over a year later, in July 2010, there was what Embree inform any of the senior faculty, they didn’t inform any of called a “more serious” meeting during which the faculty was the students. I found out basically overhearing a conversaasked what it wanted to do. tion.” Three models were proposed: Lunsford recommended that undergraduate students not 1. Keep calm and carry on sign up for the major until an ethics professor was hired and 2. “Diaspora” — a term proposed by Gould — a dispersal a replacement found for outgoing Jari Niemi— a social-powhere each professor would be assigned to a different departlitical philosopher who claimed he was terminated halfway ment. through the tenure process. 3. Receivership — an outsider would be assigned to admin“You can’t graduate without those classes,” he said, addister the department. This could work by either bringing in a ing about FAU’s replacing these positions: “It doesn’t seem new chair or attaching the entire department to another, like that there’s any emphasis to do that at the moment.” the English department, and its chair would supervise both. Jenny Mantoni, another graduate student, was also disapEmbree said that the faculty that met “very much agreed pointed that her department’s chair was Headley. that the department should find a way to stick together, probGraduate students use committees of faculty to help them ably in one form of receivership or the other.” write thesis papers. The committee members are usually “But for a while,” Embree continued, “[Provost Diane Alpfaculty within the department of the student’s focus. The erin] thought the dispersal model was still on the table — she members advise the student on the paper itself and help said we should find departments who would take us.” guide it. The faculty resisted this, as they believed a dual-departWhen Mantoni approached Headley about being part of ment head would need a “helicopter” to do the job, as Embree her committee, he was not very helpful, nor was his wife. recalled the then-joke. “Since there’s not that many teachers — philosophy While ideas were thrown around and discussed by the facteachers — that teach graduate courses at the university, I ulty, Marina Banchetti and Clevis Headley rarely spoke at was very limited to the amount of people I could ask,” said such meetings, Embree said — they just “sat there.” the graduate philosophy student. “Getting a no from a pro“They are partners,” Embree said. “My guess is that Headfessor, it left me with no other options. I was declined by Dr. ley very much resented the vote of no confidence, and even Banchetti and Dr. Headley.” though a year had gone by, he hadn’t gotten over it. And his Mantoni did finally get two professors to be on her compartner was sticking by her man.” mittee, one of which was an anthropology professor. The Dean Manjunath Pendakur didn’t bring much to the table other, Robin Fiore, quit her job before summer. She was either. left with one committee member who was not part of the “Interestingly enough, Pendakur repeatedly said he would philosophy department. not be involved in solving this. He wouldn’t find a place for She asked Headley for advice. In August, Headley adus to go,” Embree said. vised Mantoni to abandon her search for a committee and Even graduate students like Cecil Lunsford and Jenny focus on her paper. Without a committee to help her, ManMantoni had their own problems with Headley. toni realized she wouldn’t be hitting her goal of graduating Lunsford had asked Headley to help him get funding for his this coming December. graduate studies. Such funding is given to students seeking
On Sept. 6, Mantoni e-mailed Headley, claiming that if she didn’t find committee members, she might be forced to “inform President Saunders of the situation.” On Sept. 7, Headley called Mantoni three times before 10:30 a.m. She e-mailed him that she preferred to communicate by e-mail. Headley continued calling, refusing to email Mantoni with an “appropriate response.” Eventually, Mantoni contacted an office in the Graduate College, which oversees all graduate programs regarding processes like accreditation and deadlines for thesis submission. A day later, On Sept. 8, Headley contacted Mantoni and told her that two different professors had agreed to be part of her committee. Though Mantoni got her committee member, it was too little and too late — she wouldn’t be graduating this fall. The solution to all these problems, from professor Gould’s to Lunsford’s, came more than a year after the letter of no confidence was submitted. On Oct. 28, the philosophy department met. Provost Diane Alperin reviewed the development of the issue and announced that an outside professor would be brought in — Headley would resign. As of Nov. 1, political science professor Jeffrey Morton had become a “receiver,” or the interim department chair of philosophy. “I know Jeffrey pretty well,” Embree said, “He’s a very kind of — he believes very much in following rules, and I’m optimistic.” “Jeffrey may find out that he made a mistake. I think the receiver will be under pressure to do things like to control me because I’m rather outspoken about things,” Embree smiled. “He may be under pressure to get Lester [Embree] to behave himself.” While Morton is no philosopher, his academic experience will help him with his new position. “He is an academic — he’s a researcher, a teacher,” Embree said, adding that Morton’s experience will translate well “for what he needs to do.” “I’m hoping it will improve morale,” Carol Gould said of Morton. “We can breathe a sigh of relief in that we’re not going to be dissolved, at least for a while. We’ll be looking forward to a healing process with Jeffrey.” Cecil Lunsford is concerned that a political scientist will not do justice to the philosophy department. “I have no qualms against this guy, I don’t know him, but political science is nothing like philosophy in any way, shape or form,” He said. Gould, however, couldn’t stop saying nice things about Morton. “He has a great deal of respect for and appreciation for what philosophy is,” Gould said. “He is a person who knows that a good university needs a philosophy department.” According to Dean Pendakur’s e-mail, Morton agreed to be the interim chair until the end of the academic year.
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Franco Panizo Sports Editor BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – When Western Kentucky running back Bobby Rainey scored on the Hilltoppers’ opening drive, it appeared that FAU was in for a long day against its Sun Belt Conference foes. Thankfully for FAU, that wasn’t the case. While Rainey enjoyed a strong performance against the Owls, it was WKU that grew frustrated as the Owls’ ever-improving defense came up big time and time again in a 17-16 victory on a frigid night at L.T. Smith Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 6. On a day when the Owls’ offense struggled mightily – despite scoring a pair of nice touchdowns – the defense proved its worth, limiting the Hilltoppers to 268 yards and 14 points (the other two points came courtesy of a safety). “This was a masterpiece for our defense, who played an outstanding football game against a very determined offensive unit,” said head coach Howard Schnellenberger. “It’s good to see the defense play winning football even when the offense isn’t.” FAU’s offense played anything but winning football. In one of the worst performances of its season, the offense put up just 140 passing yards and 75 rushing. To make matters worse, the unit coughed up the ball twice in its own territory, once off a Jeff Van Camp interception and the other off an Alfred Morris fumble. The defense held tight, however, and did enough for the Owls to squeak by with a one-point victory. “If we would have did this in the beginning of the year we probably would have won a couple more games,” said linebacker Michael Lockley, who finished the game with a team-high 11 tackles. The win improved FAU to 3-5 on the season and 2-3 in conference games, leaving the Hilltoppers (1-8, 1-4) as the lone cellmates in the Sun Belt’s dungeon. The victory was also the second consecutive for the Owls, who enjoyed a special visit from a familiar face. Former Owls quarterback and current Tennessee Titan Rusty Smith visited FAU at the team hotel when it arrived in Bowling Green, and was also on the sidelines
FINAL SCORE: 17-16
rooting on his former teammates on Saturday. “That was a pleasant surprise, seeing Rusty Smith taking time [away] from his busy schedule in the NFL to come see us play,” said Lockley. “We definitely like to see him around.” For Smith, it was likely tough watching the Owls’ offense sputter, especially considering the numbers he put up when he was the focal point of the unit. But Smith surely must have enjoyed both of FAU’s scores, scores that were as impressive as they were vital for the Owls. Having fallen behind 7-0 early in the game, FAU responded late in the first when Morris detected the rare opening of a big gap before making a cut and running into the end zone untouched from 19 yards out. “I kind of predetermined the cut because I knew they was overflowing a lot,” said Morris, who had 25 carries for 68 yards and became the second leading rusher in FAU history with his performance. “I walked in. That was probably the easiest touchdown I’ve ever had.” In the second quarter, after the Owls had given Western Kentucky the lead through a botched snap that resulted in a safety, FAU hit back with a 62-yard pass from Van Camp to wide receiver Lester Jean to make the score 14-9. “I thought [Van Camp] threw a meteorite,” said Schnellenberger of the pass. “He threw it out of the stratosphere and it fell back to earth right into [Jean’s] hands.” Kicker Ross Gornall tacked on the game-winning field goal from 26 yards out in the fourth quarter, and FAU’s defense took care of the rest. The Owls not only stymied Rainey and company from getting much penetration, but they also came up with a critical turnover when cornerback Tavious Polo intercepted a deep pass from Kawaun Jakes in the end zone. That was good enough to preserve the win, and should be reason enough for Owls fans to feel confident that this team can close out the season on a positive note. Of the four games remaining, two are winnable, and an upset of Troy – while unlikely – may not be out of the question. Not as long as this defense continues to improve on its play from the past two weeks.
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