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After parking the carts early due to mechanical issues, the LASER team carts have been fixed and are scheduled to run during the scheduled times.

For several weeks, reports came in that the carts weren’t running as late as they should be because they were running out of battery power. This increased calls for UT security rides, decreasing their pres-ence on campus during regular LASER Team hours.

The worn out batteries on the carts crutched the service, making them unable to last the full hours of operation.

Rachel Rollo, Coordinator of Student Programs and Events and LASER Team was aware of the issues and called to make the repairs.

“Each of the carts have eight batteries, but both carts also had two batteries that needed replacing so that not to drain the other battery’s power,” said Rollo. “So the Golf Cart Depot came in and made the mi-nor repairs, and the next day the LASER Team was running on time and all hours.”

Two weeks after the battery replace-ments Rollo continues to encourage stu-dents to take advantage of the secure and safe transportation service.

Derek Hockenberry, student coordina-tor of LASER Team said they will be run-ning back to normal.

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4 P.E.A.C.E. Takes Two Alternative Spring Breaks

9 Tiësto’s New Kaleidoscope of Sounds Hits Airwaves

12 Breaking Bad : An Addicting Series Worth Watching

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St. Leo Coach Quits After Using Racial Slur

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17 UTampa’s Offensive Onslaught

19 Bracketology of a Mad March

13 With Heartbreak Trust Your Friends to Help Mend The Pieces

14 When It Comes toInterracial Dating How Blind Is Love?

TAMPA - Worlds away and far from the palm trees of The University of Tampa, there are children being abducted and forced into fighting and attacking villages in Uganda.

Just before spring break, students got a glimpse of who these children really are and what they can do to help.

“I am representing the voices of people who are suffering,” said Norman, a 71-year-old Ugandan man, addressing a crowd of UT students in the Martinez Gym.

“I am so honored to be here in the U.S.,” said Norman, speaking clearly and calmly.

P.E.A.C.E. (People Exploring Active Community Experience) hosted the Invis-ible Children organization on Tuesday, March 2.

Two speakers and two documentaries were presented to the audience of more than 100 students and faculty.

For more than two decades a violent rebel group known as the Lord’s Re-sistance Army (LRA) has attacked the villages of Northern Uganda. Among the ranks of the LRA rebel army are child soldiers as young as five.

The LRA abducts children to indoctri-

nate them as soldiers as a tactic to grow in size.

The rebel group trains them to destroy villages, fight the government’s army, and kill civilians.

This brutal war caught the attention of three American students visiting Uganda in 2003, who began Invisible

Children Inc., a non-profit organization to raise awareness and bring aid to the war-torn areas affected by the LRA.

“We decided to come here and tell you of the 24 years of war. My country remains so devastated; there is no hope for life,” explains Norman.

The first film documented the story of Emmy, a 14-year-old Ugandan.

The engaging and charming boy lives in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp with four siblings, two grandparents, an aunt, and his mother who is infected with HIV.

“The love your mother gives you is dif-ferent. If your mother isn’t there…it isn’t good,” Emmy said to the camera.

During the course of the film, Emmy’s mother succumbs to her illness and Emmy joins the statistic of 12 million children orphaned by AIDS in Africa.

“I blame God for taking my mom and

Editor’s note: This article contains a racial term which may be deemed as de-rogatory to some readers. For this article an email interview was conducted with two former Saint Leo softball players. One source has asked to remain anony-mous, thus she will be referred to as ‘she’ throughout the article. The second source will be referred to by her name.

TAMPA - One former student-athlete at Saint Leo offered her personal testi-mony about her experience with the SLU coaching staff.

Amanda Patrick spent only her fresh-man year at Saint Leo before she trans-ferred to continue playing college softball.

“Christi Wade without a doubt ruined my softball career,” Patrick said.

Wade is the former Women’s Associ-ate Athletic Director and softball coach at Saint Leo University.

At the brink of numerous verbal and physical harassment allegations Wade has sent in her letter of resignation on March 2, according to The Lions’ Pride Online, Saint Leo’s student newspaper.

The final straw that ended her career at Saint Leo was her using a racial epithet against a team member.

“ [ Wa d e ] called a play-er a lazy n—–,” she said. A l t h o u g h acknowledg-ing this is a terrible thing, the same SLU alumnae said, “Of all the things she has done over the years, this really does not seem half as bad as other things.”

Francis Reidy, Athletic Director at Saint Leo, said that he asked her to resign and she did so with no questions asked.

Although declining to go into detail, Reidy said, “We have some core values here at Saint Leo and she did something that was not in line with those values.”

The former player whom asked to re-main anonymous drew a parallel to play-ing for coach Wade.

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UT Freshman Charged with DUI in Davis Island Crash

By Sarah Gottlieb

DAVIS ISLAND - Tampa Police ar-rested and charged the University of Tam-pa student who crashed a vehicle into a wall on Davis Islands, seriously injuring a fellow student last November.

Michael Louis-Fernand, a freshman accounting major, was arrested Thursday, March 4 and charged with driving under the influence with the result of serious bodily injury, a third-degree felony.

According to reports Louis-Fernand’s blood-alcohol level results were between .139 and .140. The legal limit in Florida is .08.

Jorge Jimenez, a sophomore marketing major, and Michelle Sams, a sophomore exercise major, were also in the vehicle at

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Robert Nolan Hall

The suspect involved in the armed robbery of a student in front of Martinez Sports Center on Sat-urday is still being held without bond and has been charged with two felony counts.

Robert Nolan Hall, 21, pistol swiped University of Tampa stu-dent Jared Griffin at approximate-ly 5:15 a.m. and has been charged with one count of robbery as first degree felony and one count of possession of a firearm as a sec-ond degree felony.

According to the police report, one of the two suspects that ap-proached Griffin asked, “What do you have on you?” and then hit him in the face with the gun. While Griffin was on the ground, Hall and 15-year-old Christopher Castro took his wallet, keys and lighter.

The two suspects ran down North Boulevard where UT Cam-pus Safety and Security caught the suspects.

According to the report, Hall

Suspect Swipes Two Chargesstated that he had the gun and bul-lets for protection and threw the weapon in the bushes.

Hall is not allowed to carry a gun because of his previous crimi-nal record.

In March 2007, Hall was ar-rested and charged with a felony for possession and delivery of co-caine within 1,000 feet of a school, burglary of a structure, grand theft and possession of cocaine with in-tent to sell.

In November 2006, Hall was also arrested and charged with a felony for burglary of a structure and grand theft of a dwelling.

Hall is currently being held without bond in the Faulkenburg Road Jail. A $7,500 bond has been set for the possession of a firearm, but no bond has been set for the robbery.

According to Hillsborough County court records, a public defender was assigned to Hall on March first.

This armed robbery came al-most six months after Ryan Mc-Call, a UT senior and Cross Coun-try runner, was found dead less

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than a mile down North Boulevard after he was robbed and shot while walking back home.

Two other incidents of armed robbery also happened off-campus last semester in the early-morning hours.

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the time of the crash. Sams suffered critical injuries

including a lacerated liver and broken vertebrae. She was later released from Tampa General Hospital. Jiminez was treated and released from TGH the same day as the crash.

The crash occurred around 3:20 a.m. on Nov. 24 when Louis-Fernand, traveling westbound on

W. Davis Boulevard, lost control of a 2009 Volkswagen GTI and struck a concrete wall in front of a home at 523 Erie Ave., accord-ing to a Tampa Police report. The Volkswagen was registered to Jiminez’s father.

When police arrived at the scene, Louis-Fernand stated he had gone to the Double Decker Lounge (formerly known as the Study Hall) earlier in the night.

He said he met with Jiminez and Sams there and drove to see

friends on Davis Island, though he could not provide an address of where those friends lived.

Louis-Fernand stated that he hit the wall on Erie Ave. when he swerved in an attempt to miss a cat in the road.

According to the police report, however, the tire mark left on the roadway was not consistent with a skid mark.

UT students received word of the crash the day it occurred

through a global message. The news was especially un-

settling because it came during a series of bad events last semester including a fatal hit-and-run and a fatal armed robbery.

Louis-Fernand has not yet been given a date to appear in court.

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The University of Tampa’s Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter was the recipient of the Excelsior Award for their vast improvement during the 2009 fall recruitment.

The Nationals of the fraternity recognized the chapter at the Carl-son Leadership Academy (CLA) last month.

Will Reilly, Sigma Phi Epsi-lon president and UT junior psy-chology major, explained the new methods for recruiting.“We used Facebook a lot in the fall. We had events planned and tables already set up in Vaughn even before classes started,” he said.

He also said that the new fresh-man orientation sessions this year aided their recruitment plans.

In past years, student organiza-tions would each have their own table or kiosk set up in the Cass

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In fall 2009, each organiza-tion, categorized by interest, held sessions during specific times all around campus.Reilly said that his fraternity set up a table along the flow of freshman traffic.

He laughed and said, “We real-ly weren’t supposed to be apart of it, but I guess we kind of were.”

Last semester, Sigma Phi Ep-silon recruited 19 new members.Sharing similar stories and ideas, Reilly and his brothers met other chapters from the Southeast, from Virginia to Florida.

The awards were given out during a dinner. Reilly explained that the Excelsior Award was the best one for a chapter because the rest are given to individual re-cipients. “I was really surprised, but we’ve definitely come a long way,” said Reilly, who joined in 2007. “We’ve made such a huge

turnaround and we’re headed in the right direction.”

He describes his chapter as a non-traditional fraternity that does not use a regular rushing program with pledges.The use of pledges, Reilly explained, is designed to give a person the opportunity to “pledge” to the chapter and pro-mote respect.In terms of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s non-pledge program however, Reilly believes that “as a brother, this bond already exists.”

Almost halfway through his term as president, Reilly has high hopes for his brothers. “I’m so proud to see how far we’ve come,” he said.When asked what his vision is for the future of Sig-ma Phi Epsilon, he said, ”I hope no one ever stays idle. Okay, so we’ve won awards, but we’ve got to continually look ahead. We can always do better.”

The members of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Brett Pollack/ The Minaret

The University of Tampa Spar-tan ID cards is the next step to making every student on campus a little bit safer after one UT student saw another university’s ID card and decided to make the change happen here.

Ricki Goldsmith, a junior in-ternational business and market-ing major saw her brother’s ID card from Boston University and noticed some emergency numbers and others contact information lo-cated on the back of it.

Goldsmith came back to UT and told Chris McCarthy, SG vice president about the idea and now students that get new Spartan ID cards will have the direct lines for Campus Safety and Security,

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LASER Team, Health Services and the UT mainline on the back of their card. All new incoming freshmen will also get the updated version.

“It’s so students could benefit as a security measure,” McCarthy said.

Several SG members and UT officials decided on which num-bers they should include on the card.

Current student would have to pay a fee to get their original card replaced but McCarthy said he is looking into the fees.

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cries. Compelled by Emmy’s cir-cumstances, the Invisible Children volunteers returned home and raised funds for Emmy to attend a secondary school.

The second film is an update on Uganda’s current status, which is more stable than during the filming of Emmy’s story in 2005, but still remains shaky due to the decades of violence. Norman, who addressed the crowd after the film, identified himself as Emmy’s grandfather.

“I have seen human beings chopped up and cooked, things beyond human imagination,” Nor-man explains. “Emmy, he is in sec-ondary school now. With Invisible Children, we are using education as a tool to end war, to reconstruct our country.”

The organization offers do-nors the opportunity to pay $35 each month, which supports the secondary education and mentor guidance of one student in Ugan-da.Comfort, a young Ugandan woman, spoke to the crowd after Norman.She was also orphaned by AIDS at a young age, and dur-ing the height of the war was “run-ning for her life” each night.

“I would think ‘I don’t want to go to school, it’s useless because maybe I’m the next target of the

rebels,’” Comfort explains.Comfort’s Uncle was able to

supply her with enough money to attend secondary school, where her education allowed her to avoid the dangers of the war.

“If I gave a kid money today, it’d be gone soon. But if I put it into school, this remains in him. My education remains mine, a wealth that they cannot take from me,” Comfort explains.

UT political science professor Kevin Fridy has made close to 10 trips to various African coun-tries, and seen similar devastation throughout the poorest countries.

“The poor community is eas-ily exploitable; there, if someone offers you food…you might do something that we wouldn’t do for thousands of dollars here.”

Fridy is aware of the preva-lence of child soldiers throughout African countries, citing the eco-nomic and socioeconomic diffi-culties. “You need to understand there’s a total disenchantment of the youth. Those villages are bor-ing places with a lot of drug and alcohol addiction along with teen-age pregnancy. It’s not difficult to see how so many join rebel forces. They supply food, money, power.”

Fridy agrees that groups like In-visible Children are raising aware-ness of an issue that people will

care about, but results are harder to come by. “It’s not easy to mea-sure the results, it is not a straight line from education to measurable outcomes. If it were easy, people would have done it by now.”

Although the experience is challenging, Fridy says he has seen an increase in student involve-ment with African affairs, and he credits groups such as Invisible Children and STAND for raising awareness.“It gets people to care about something,” said Fridy.

For students interested in be-coming involved with service projects in Africa, Fridy recom-mends speaking with a profes-sor who has contacts there.There are various outlets through UT to become involved with a trip if students are interested, and there are many chances to donate to the causes.

Pauline Hill, R.N., MSN, and Professor at UT, has visited Ugan-da in its most dangerous areas.

“I’ve seen people coming into the triage with ears, lips or a nose cut off. Depression, HIV and mal-nutrition run rampid through those IDP’s. The war is not over, and we have to continue to educate,” said Hill.

For more information on how to donate through Invisible Chil-dren Inc, visit invisiblechildren.com.

The Beta Alpha Psi Chap-ter at The University of Tampa came home winning two awards from their Regional competi-tion, beating out many larger universities.

At the Deloitte Best Practices Speech Competition in Orlando, Florida this year the Accounting Honors Organization won first place in both the Best Chapter Sustainability and the Service Learning categories of the com-petition.

“It’s a really big accomplish-ment,” Andrew Argue, UT’s Beta Alpha Psi Chapter presi-dent said. “It’s great for us.”

Other schools that competed were University of South Flor-ida, Florida Atlantic, Georgia State, University of North Caro-lina Greensboro, FIU, Belmont, University of Mississippi, Elon University, Mississippi State, Valdosta State and LSU.

It took several months and a lot of preparation from the two UT teams with the help of their advisor and other accounting faculty.

This was the second year that the organization took home first place in Best Chapter Sustain-ability.

Both Teams will go to San Jose, California for Nationals in Aug. 5-7.

The Chapter Sustainabil-ity team consists of Andrew Argue, Patrick Campbell, Lisa Reale, Rob Mainelli, Stephanie Gorospe and Valerie Bryan.

The Service Learning team is Jenna Scinta, Max McQuirter, Roman Cowan, Meridith Klein, Jingming Ma and Janell Gar-guilo.

Beta Alpha Psi is an honor-ary organization for Financial Information students and pro-fessionals.

Their goal is to promote the study and practice of account-ing, finance and information systems.

They want to provide oppor-tunities for self-development, service and association among members and practicing profes-sionals.

They encourage a sense of ethical, social and public re-sponsibility.

The organization’s activities are designed to supplement a student’s education.

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There are over 300,000 members of the organization.

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Poetry about AIDS, native dances from Trinidad and the Virgin Islands and Caribbean ac-cent mocking--this isn’t what you typically think of when you hear “beauty pageant.”

Nothing typical of a beauty pageant happened Saturday night at the Miss Caribbean Student As-sociation

International Pageant. After all, the winner was representing an African country.

The University of Tampa’s CSA hosted the first annual pag-eant in Falk Theater after eight months of planning.

Pageant coordinators Neasha Hodge and Stephanie Dubuisson began preparation in July 2009.

“The Florida Caribbean Stu-dent Association actually has a big pageant at the annual conference, and The University of Tampa has never participated in it...this year’s board took the initiative to get it started,” Dubuisson said.

Posters, flyers and advertise-ments were plentiful on the school campus, but the avenue that really drew the crowd in was Facebook.

Reaching a broad audience quickly and giving a constant re-minder to guests, it was “simply the ideal medium for global ad-vertising” according to the coor-

UT’s Miss CSA Stacy Vieux moves on to Florida Pageant

dinators.They were denied any fund-

ing from Student Government, but several CSA members banded to-gether and raised enough through sponsors and personal funds.

Five contestants representing the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Is-lands, Trinidad and Tobago, Ni-geria and Cayman Islands show-cased their homeland through two categories: culture and talent.

Michelle Douglass, a junior from the Cayman Islands, recited the poem “Phenomenal Woman.” “…the poem represents strong, confident, intelligent women,” said Douglass. “Maya Angelou, who is a successful and indepen-dant black woman, is known for her amazing voice in contempo-rary literature. Her poems portray a strong, remarkable, and elegant woman which is the image I want-ed to exert.”

After the women gave their performances, the Latin dancers danced, UT Drummers drummed and the audience won prizes, the moment everyone had been wait-ing for came.

Stacy Vieux, representing Ni-geria, was crowned Miss CSA In-ternational 2010.

Vieux, a Haitian-Nigerian ju-nior, explained her decision to represent Nigeria instead of Haiti in her cultural presentation.

She found her Nigerian father

through the web after growing up with her single Haitian mother. After a tearful reunion with her fa-ther and his family, Vieux used the pageant as a way to embrace her Nigerian heritage.

“I am humbled because I real-ize I am the first winner in UT’s history. It feels fantastic to be a part of our school’s history.” When asked to give advice, Vieux added, “Never let someone else take your beauty away. Never forget the gifts you possess.”

Vieux will move on to repre-sent The University of Tampa at the Florida CSA Pageant on April 10.

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Proceeds, made possible by sponsors such as Mary Kay and the Caribbean Jerk and Allen Grill, were donated to Habitat for Humanity’s mission trip to Haiti. Habitat for Humanity will rebuild homes and give aid after the tragic Haitian earthquake in January.

For a video recording of the pageant, contact Media Services at (813) 257-3810.

More information on Habitat for Humanity’s mission trip can be obtained by contacting the Hills-borough County, Florida chapter at (813) 239-2242.

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are five years old and main-taining an older vehicle is not un-common.”

As for student use, “records are kept and the service reports indicate that it is still being used often,” said Rollo.

The Team of drivers includes five students who cover fourteen shifts. Among them they transport students to a wide range of loca-tions, sometimes during unsafe hours.

“We have noticed the higher occurrence rate of single riders, which makes us happy because it tells us that those individuals are using the service strictly for per-sonal safety,” said Rollo of the fre-quency of LASER Team.

“We tend to get most calls from Thursday through Saturday. The repaired carts will reduce the number of rides that security needs to give before 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. depending on which day of the week,” Hockenberry said.

With the service having plenty of employees willing to work into

the late night of their weekends; seems more like a privilege than a security risk. Rachel Rollo spoke about reminding students of the convenience.

“Don’t just walk around alone if you don’t have to. You don’t need to so don’t. Drivers have business cards and we want to boost student involvement among campus.”

The number for LASER Team is (813) 257-4514.

No future plans on purchasing new carts, and no later operat-ing hours are in sight for LASER Team. But fall plans for student employment will be opening up.

“With additional funding from Student Government, we will have a deeper pool of selection for bet-ter quality drivers,” Rollo said.

Currently there will be three new positions available next se-mester.

“We’d love a third cart, and it’d be a great luxury to be able to extend hours even later more of-ten but right now the want doesn’t match the need. We have no need for another,” mentioned Rollo.

Stacy Vieux, Winner of the Pageant

LASER Team Powers Up

The LASER Team cart Abby Sanford/The Minaret

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Hit and runAt 6:15 p.m. on Feb. 5, a stu-dent reported his vehicle was hit on the second floor of Thomas Parking Garage.

Revenge on Laser TeamA golf cart’s tire was cut while parked on campus at 8:40 p.m. on Feb. 25.

Potty ProblemsAt 1 a.m. on Feb. 26, security responded to a call of dam-ages to the men’s restroom in Vaughn.

You got Punk’dAt 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 27, secu-rity responded to a call about a stolen television from the fourth floor of Straz Hall. Dur-ing the investigation, it was found to be a prank and the TV was returned by the victim’s friends.

By Cara FetzerThe Minaret

Drive faster next time...On Mar. 1, a faculty member re-ported that the entrance gate arm to the Stadium Parking Lot low-ered while he was entering, caus-ing damage to his vehicle.

Ramp Wrecks At 12 p.m. on Mar. 2, a student reported a motor vehicle accident that occurred on the fourth floor of West Parking Garage.

UT’s very own HamburglarAt 7 p.m. on Mar. 2, security es-corted a Tampa Police Department officer to the second floor dining services office to serve a warrant.

That took some deepinvestigating…

A staff parking permit was dis-played from the rear view mirror of a student’s vehicle in riverside lot on Mar. 3. The student was re-ferred to the judicial board.

What the....?At 5 p.m. on Mar. 3, a detective

from New Hampshire called in reference to a possible sto-len vehicle on campus. The case is pending further inves-tigation.

The Cold KleptoOn Mar. 5, a student reported her coat stolen from the Spar-tan Club food area in Vaughn.

Missing MusicOn Mar. 5, a student reported her ipod stolen from River-side.

“I swore this was my floor…”At 11:45 a.m. on Mar. 8, a for-mer student was found tres-passing on the ninth floor of Austin Hall.

Vicious VerandaAt 11:30 a.m. on Mar. 13, a visitor slipped and fell at the Plant Hall Veranda.

From the reports from 2/25/2010 to 3/14/2010

The University of Tampa Cha-bad Jewish Student Union will be hosting two community Seders.

The Seder is a ritual feast wherein Jewish families and friends gather together to celebrate the beginning of Passover and re-inforce their ties to Judaism.

On Monday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m., the Seder will be held in the

Passover Seder to be Celebrated By Charlie HambosEditor-in-Chief

The Minaret, your University of Tampa News Source since 1933 received two Best of Show awards at the Associated Collegiate Press National Media Convention in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 25-28.

The Minaret Online placed first in Best of Show in the small school website category.

The Minaret also placed third in Best of Show in the four-year weekly newspaper category.

Three staff members: Char-

The Minaret Recieves Awards at the 2010 ACP

National Media Convention

Brevard Community Room. If you can’t make it then, join

them on Tuesday, March 30 at 7:45 p.m. at the Bais Temple David on 2001 W. Swann Avenue.

For reservations or more infor-mation regarding the Seders, the Passover holiday or any Jewish topic, visit our comprehensive hol-iday website at www.ChabadUT.org or call Rabbi Levi Rivkin at 813-504-4432 or email him at [email protected].

lie Hambos, Editor-in-chief; Mel Steiner, assistant Editor-in-chief; and Alex Vera; Online editor were panelists in separate panel discus-sions on topics such as college newspaper management, contro-versial news coverage and online managers while attending the con-vention.

Last year, The Minaret placed seventh for Best of Show website in San Diego, Calif. The Minaret was also named an ACP Newspa-per Pacemaker Finalist.


The University of Tampa’s Alpha Epsilon Delta chapter got the opportunity of a lifetime to help organize the national con-ference come to Tampa, Fla. on March 19-21.

Planning began several months ago for the conference that will bring members of the Pre-medical Honor Society from across the country to the Hyatt Hotel in Downtown Tampa.

UT’s chapter in coordination with Skull and Bones, UT’s pre-professional health society has organized different aspects of the event which include a large volunteer activity day on Fri-day, March 19.

They also made pink rib-bons which will be sold at the convention to raise money and awareness for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

AED members will have the opportunity to help out with a Blood Drive, Metropolitan Ministries, Hyde Park Method-ist Church, Potter’s House and New Beginnings which are all locally based here in Tampa.

Members are also collecting dental supplies to give at these locations.

Students will meet members from across the country and hear many dynamic speakers and attend several sessions.

“It’s a great opportunity for

us as students to get out there and network,” said Aylin Saner, UT’s AED president.

Besides the break-out ses-sions and volunteering activi-ties, Rear Admiral (RADM) David Rutstein, the Deputy Surgeon General will speak to convention delegates on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Hyatt.

Dr. Christine Laronga, Head of the Breast Cancer Program at Moffitt will also be speaking at 10 a.m. on Saturday as well as a Moffitt cancer screening work-shop.

Other on-campus activities will be the Practical Anatomy Laboratory from St. Louise in Lecture Hall B on Saturday, March 20 from 2-4 p.m

Alpha Epsilon DeltaAlpha Epsilon Delta is the

largest Honor Society that spe-cifically serves premedical education, and has a member-ship exceeding 144,000 in 186 chapters.

It began as a small group of fifteen premedical students and Dr. Jack Montgomery at the University of Alabama in 1926.

Membership is open to undergraduate students who achieve at least a 3.2 GPA, three semesters of credits or pre-pro-fessional health word, a good standing with their University’s chapter, and, according to the chapter, a certain number of volunteer hours sometimes.

They are affiliated with the

American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of College Hon-or Societies.

UT’s chapter has about 4 members.

The Skull and Bones Chap-ter has about 50 members.

Rear Admiral David Rut-stein

Rear Admiral (RADM) Da-vid Rutstein is the current Depu-ty Surgeon General.

Deputy Surgeon General is a post dedicated to aiding the act-ing Surgeon General in convey-ing to the public the information of their respective office and overseeing the USPHS (United States public health service commissioned corps).

Rutstein has a BA in psy-chology from Hamilton College, in Clinton, N.Y. He attended Morehouse School of Medicine; obtained his MD degree from Brown University Medical School.

He later earned his MPH de-gree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

He completed residency training in family medicine at the University of California - San Francisco’s Natividad Med-ical Center in Salinas, Calif. and is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine.

He further trained for 13 years as a family physician in the Federated States of Micro-nesia with the national health


Alpha Epsilon Delta Helps Hosts this Year’s National Conferenceservice corps, and was in charge of many health initiatives taking place there.

He has been adorned with many awards and honors, the majority of which are, also, in the public sector, but there are private honors (such as an honorary medical degree plus a distin-guished alumnus award from the Morehouse school of medicine.)

While serving as the Deputy Surgeon Gen-eral, David Rutstein also is an instructor of Advanced Trauma Life Support at the Defense Medical Readiness and Training Institute.

He continues his service as an instructor of Tropical Medicine/Public Health at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science.

Rear Admiral David Rutstein

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Aries (March 21-April 19)Make today all about creativity. Your partner starts out with an unusual idea that includes healing potential. Get practical

without losing mystique.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Imagination carries you through the day as you strive for comfort as well as the acceptance of others. Choose simple

remedies for complex issues.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Dig deep into earlier research to find support for your conclusion. You become more comfortable with peculiar dream

images.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) Circumstances put exactly what you’re looking for in your path. You don’t even

have to think about it. Enjoy.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Get into creative mode early by having coffee with a favorite family member. Once you’re both comfortable, ideas flow

without effort.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Get creative with whatever you have on hand in order to put the finishing touches on your work. Make sure a female is comfortable with the tone or

appearance.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Imagination” is the key word now. Look beyond ordinary desires to find higher meaning. Let a dream guide your

actions.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Soften the colors in a room to create a tranquil mood. That way, everyone can relax and think through problems, or

simply sink into peace.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Write that science-fiction script now. Put those ideas into a practical format. Or try mystery or romance. An intriguing story

develops.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Use your ideas and talents to fit pieces of the puzzle together. Flip things around for

a different perspective.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Bring your imagination to work today. Your mind provides exactly what you need to create a comfortable environment

and get the work done with flair.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You’re at your persuasive best now. Expand on specific points to clarify your position. Give others time to absorb these

ideas.

HoroscopesBy Linda C Black / Tribune Media Services

Stephen Koch / The Minaret

A car window is captured after last weekend’s heavy rain.

by Austin Daniels

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Born in Darkness by Calvin Barfana

I was born into darkness, the deepest fathoms of the abyss.Upon arrival, my world was abysmal and obscure,No prior knowledge of existence, I perceived a bodiless spiritIn disparity to a peripatetic oblivious mind.These sunglasses, these demeaning spectacles In which I was forcibly restrained, As if such a burden be ridden on such an unsuspecting soul.A soul publicly denounced In the goggles of those with insight,But I might add, the bright is with dire error; woe is the victim.With pride I wear my Sunglasses, in the dark and in the light.I’m the forever incarceration of this world, but I do not despair,For better are the shades I portray as if garments of my face.For this unaltered anti-curse is the pride in me,The inescapable partition that separates me and you,You can see, but far more than you I see ever more clearly,This protruding darkness, Left me a virgin to the views,To the images and tools that I am not accustomed. But it is my world, this is what I know, no matter the scenario,These eternal orbs are welcoming, I’m familiarized with my sunglasses,So affiliated, joylessly none the less, light may never pass through these lenses.Its innate to me, my natural being. I welcome the black without it’s ends,I am no lesser, or an object of points, I’m a native of darkness.

“Miss Sixty Studded Trench” ($118), also avail-able at Nordstrom.com.

There are many different options to consider when buying a trench coat, including fit, length, and style. Try on a few and see what works best for you.

There are many different options for a trench coat including fit, length, and style. Try on a few and see what works best for you.

Dust off your denim shorts and search for those long lost sundresses; spring weather has finally arrived.

The Sunshine State is reclaiming the weather it is known for, so let’s shed our cold weather gear and reclaim our favorite fashions.

Floral patterns:Typical, I know: floral for spring. But

the variety of apparel you have to choose from gives florals a whole new vibe. You can wear this pattern in thigh-skimming dresses, short skirts, and trendy shorts.

For a casual dress, try Forever 21’s “Fab Rose Knit Dress” ($11.50), this dar-ling short-sleeved dress is perfect for warm weather. Or, for an evening outfit, pair the “Floral Cocktail Dress” ($28) or the “Eight Sixty Ruffled Silk Dress” ($98 on Nord-strom.com) with Coach’s “New Stefanie Heel” ($188) in black.

Try floral in other pieces as well. The “Silence and Noise Floral Zip Back Racer-back” ($28, urbanoutfitters.com) is a fabu-lous tank-top blouse that has the allure of innocence with flowers, but becomes edgy with an exposed zipper running down the back.

This shirt can be dressed up with skinny jeans and heels or paired with shorts for a daytime look.

Ruffles and Tiers:Tiered dresses, skirts, and shirts are

fashionable and flattering. Tiered dresses are versatile in their range of edgy vibrant colors and elegant lace pieces.

For a sleeveless black dress, check out the “Rumor Mesh Tiered Dress” ($24.80, Forever 21), which is simple, but edgy. Or for a sweeter and lighter style, look at the “Swept Away Dress” ($38, lulus.com), which, with sandals, would make for a beautiful daytime outfit.

Ttiered shirts go fabulously with sleek black pants or jeans. Victoria’s Secret has a great sleeveless option for $48: the “Tiered Silk Georgette Shell” comes in black, very berry or citronella.

The “Silence and Noise Lace Tiered Zipper Tank” ($38) from Urban Outfitters is classic because of the lace, but updated with an exposed zipper.

Another option is JCrew.com, which carries a lovely t-shirt version in sandstone or wild blackberry, called the “Tulle Tiered Blouse,” on sale now for $60.

The tiered style in skirt form is avail-able with variety on JCrew.com as well.

The “Tiered Brique Skirt” ($128) or the “Whisper Chambray Tiered Skirt” ($138) are both very elegant and classic skirts that would look perfect with black pumps and a tucked in blouse.

For a more vibrant option, look at the “Hanna G Layered Skirt” ($68), available at Nordstrom.com in cobalt, black or pink.

Sequined and Studded Tanks and Tees:Liven up that plain old tee with some-

thing a bit more rebellious. Studded tees add an edgy look to your plain jeans and cut off shorts.

Three options from Victoria’s Secret include: (the loose fitting t-shirt version) “Studded Tee” ($48.50) in tropical tur-quoise; (a tank top version) the “Studded V-Neck Tank” in black or “jazzberry” ($68.50); or (a fancier version) the “Em-bellished Cotton and Cashmere Sweater,” which has jewels and studs across the neck.

Studded mini skirts look great paired with a plain t-shirt. Bluefly.com’s “Romeo and Juliet Couture Black Studded Stretch Mini” ($68) or the “Silence and Noise Studded Menswear Waistband Skirt” (ur-

banoutfitters.com, $68) are both great choices.

Other options for adding studs in a subtle way are through shoes and accesso-ries, such as the Report Signature “Malin Platform Pumps” ($117), Matiko “Ashley Platform Wedges” ($98), Hype “Taylor Studded Clutch” ($90), or Priorities “The Loraine Boyfriend Blazer” ($117), all available at Bluefly.com.

Tribal prints:The key to wearing tribal prints is to

downplay the rest of your outfit.If you are going for intense tribal in-

spired jewelry, wear a subtle shirt and plain bottom.

When wearing them as a shirt or dress, downplay your accessories and the rest of your outfit.

For a top you can wear with cut-off shorts and flip flops, look at the “Tribal Foil Tank” (Forever 21, $12.80), the “Trib-al Scoopneck Tank” (Forever 21, $12.90), or the “Truly Madly Deeply Heart Tribe Tunic” (urbanoutfitters.com, $28).

For a dress in this style, try the “Woven Tube Tunic w/ Belt” (Forever 21, $15.80) or two options from Lulus.com: “Sweet by Miss Me Orleans Iris Day Dress” ($80) and the “Color Theory Dress” ($35). All three dresses can be worn casually with sandals or flip flops.

Shoes are also a great option for adding a touch of tribal pattern to your wardrobe. Nordstrom.com has a few great sandals to choose from, including, the “Fergie ‘Es-cape’ Sandal” ($100), “L.A.M.B.

‘Vail’ Sandal” ($299), the “Vince Ca-muto ‘Emily’ Platform Sandal” ($118), or “REPORT ‘Calla’ Sandal” ($60).

Light weight trench coat:Every season calls for a new jacket or

coat to invest in. For spring, a lightweight trench coat is essential.

The ability to dress this kind of coat up or down makes it that much more appeal-ing.

Try to buy a cream colored trench; this is a good color because it is light for spring, but not overpowering with lively outfits.

Michael Kors has a great coat available at Nordstrom that hits the thigh and has a hood, updating the classic cut.

“Michael Kors Belted Trench Coat” is $138. With a coat like this, the best choice is to go for a durable designer brand.

If the classic look isn’t exciting enough for you, add some spunk to it, like the

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Spartan Special!

Minaret Style contributor,Daniella Fusari,gives tips to UT’ mostfashion forward women.The Stylist Emerging Spring Looks

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Tiësto’s New Kaleidoscope of Sounds Hits Airwaves

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Album Artwork

It’s hard being the best.Constantly being in the spot-

light and critiqued by the media tends to take its toll on artists.

As a result, many musicians find their time in the limelight cut short as they fail to live up to the hype.

This is not the case for Dutch DJ Tiësto (formally known as DJ Tiësto).

Tiësto has managed to be named best or second best DJ in the world for the last six years run-ning.

On top of this, he’s managed to release four studio albums, per-form at the opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympics and tour the entire world.

Not too bad, huh?With the release of his fourth

album, Kaleidoscope, Tiësto looks to continue his reign as one of the world’s top DJ’s.

Kaleidoscope has the potential to alienate the most loyal Tiësto enthusiasts.

The radio-friendly sound of Kaleidoscope shows “The King of Trance” taking on new endeavors with vocal based tracks as opposed to his usual instrumental sound.

Comparable to the route David Guetta took with his last album, Kaleidoscope features an A-list assortment of cameos.

Tegan and Sara, Nelly Furtado and C.C. Sheffield are just a few of the artists that appear singing choruses on the album.

Songs such as “Escape Me,” “Who Wants to Be Alone” and “Feel It in My Bones” all have their “pop” feel to them, but none-theless carry the signature Tiësto sound.

While Kaleidoscope does have a more mainstream sound, it still demonstrates the trance vibe that has made Tiësto arguably the most well-recognized name in the genre of trance/house/dance.

Kaleidoscope opens with a haunting synth. sound, while sing-er Jonsi eerily hums, “One and two, three and four, come through Kaleidoscope.”

As most trance followers

would expect, the humming fades, and the beat drops and as anyone who has listened to Tiësto can at-test, when the beat drops on one of his songs, it hits you hard, really hard.

And that’s the way it works on Kaleidoscope.

Sure, it has a more mainstream appeal, but it has its trance side to it.

So grab a Red Bull, turn the bass up and just dance, because that’s what this music makes you want to do.

Zach Fraser can be reached at [email protected].

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Your guide to the upcoming flicks hitting theatres this weekend.

“The Bounty Hunter”Rated: PG-13

Time: 110 minutesGenre: Action

A bounty hunter getsthe chance of a life time

when he is asked to track down his ex-wife.

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”Rated: PG

Time: 120 minutesGenre: Childrens

Based on Jeff Kinney’sbest-selling book, followone kid through the most

frightening time of hislife: middle school.

“Repo Men”Rated: R

Time: 111 minutesGenre: Action

When a futuristic societyforgets to pay for theirmechanical organs,

The Union will take themback however they can.

“The Runaways”Rated: R

Time: 105 minutesGenre: Drama

Two Southern California girlsrise to become famous

rock stars, paving the wayfor all future girl bands.

The 2010 Oscars: Will YouRemember Them Next Year?

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Well, the 82nd Academy Awards came with a bang and went with a surprise ending, in my opinion, anyway.

But will anybody even remem-ber this one? Will it stick out from all the other Oscars over the years? I’m guessing not.

Neil Patrick Harris started off the show with a fast-paced musi-cal number.

Really, Academy? I actually found myself flipping the channel to see what else was on because I had no idea why Harris, of all people, was in the spotlight at the Oscars, nor did I really care, to be perfectly honest.

Who doesn’t love Harris, but it’s the Academy Awards, not Har-old and Kumar.

The producers of the event should have picked a better way to start out the evening.

Perhaps they could have start-ed out with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin doing a spoof on all the nominations for best picture.

Martin and Baldwin were un-questionably funny and clever throughout the night and I would have liked to have seen more of them.

I thought their ten minute roast of the nominees was spot-on.

The roast did, however, be-come a bit awkward when the camera decided to continue pan-ning over to a grumpy-looking George Clooney.

I couldn’t figure out if his stern look was part of the joke or if he was just not enjoying himself.

The Academy wasted no time giving out some important awards. Cristoph Waltz took home the Os-car for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of a Nazi Colonel in the movie Inglorious Basterds.

The Best Animated Feature Film went to Up; a win that was fully expected.

Up was nominated not only in this category, but for Best Picture as well.

If Up was nominated for Best Picture and was the only anima-tion this year to hold that honor (an extremely rare occurrence for any animation at the Oscars), then why even have an Animated Fea-ture Film Award?

I hope the other animation

nominees weren’t expecting any-thing but for Up to win best ani-mation, because clearly no other scenario could have played out.

Moving along through the Os-cars night, I felt it was the same old routine.

Awards for categories that the average audience member doesn’t really care about were handed out; my apologies to all the nominees for Best Makeup.

Additionally, awkward and seemingly endless acceptance speeches were recited and some winners even tried doing the whole “inspire the audience” thing. It happens every year.

Steve Martin and Alec Bald-win made a few more appearances here and there, adding some much needed comedy to the evening.

They did a parody on the movie Paranormal Activity, which went over quite well with the crowd. If only there were more of those bits throughout the night.

Another piece that got some laughs was Ben Stiller’s appear-ance on stage in blue as a creature form James Cameron’s movie, Avatar.

He drew many laughs from the audience, especially from me, with his comedic timing and his entire “I look stupid, this is stu-pid” attitude.

The part of the show that par-ticularly stood out to me was the acceptance speech by the winner of Best Documentary Short.

While director/producer Roger Ross Williams, of the winning short, Music by Prudence, was giving his thanks, producer Elinor Burkett took control of the micro-phone out of nowhere and started giving her speech as if Williams didn’t even exist.

Come to think of it, she did ac-knowledge Williams, briefly.

She complained about him be-ing a typical man, never letting the woman talk.

The situation only got more awkward from that point, as Wil-liams just stood there dumfounded while Burkett rambled on. Con-gratulations, Kayne. You’re off the hook.

Highlighting some of the win-ners of the more well-known cat-egories, The Hurt Locker won Best Writing for an Original Screenplay and Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire was awarded Best Writing for an

Adapted Screenplay.Mo’Nique may have taken

people off-guard with her win for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Precious, while Sandra Bullock of The Blind Side took home the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

The Best Actor in a Leading Role went to Jeff Bridges for his performance in Crazy Heart.

Then came the final two awards of the night: Directing and Best Picture. Kathryn Bigelow was deemed Best Director for her movie The Hurt Locker, becoming the first woman to ever win in the category.

After her acceptance speech, she didn’t have time to go far, as Tom Hanks announced, quite abruptly, that The Hurt Locker had won for Best Picture.

The show went over its desig-nated time by about half an hour, which must be the reason for Tom Hanks’ quick and anti-climatic an-nouncement of the most important winner of the night.

While everybody most likely knew all the nominees already, it would have been nice to have had a brief recap, since there were a total of ten.

The Hurt Locker seemed like an underdog compared to more popular movies like Avatar, Inglo-rious Basterds, and Up in the Air.

Stealing the show, The Hurt Locker won six Academy Awards before the end of the night, prov-ing that blockbusters don’t always win it all.

Looking back at the 2010 Academy Awards, no major mal-functions occurred aside from the aforementioned Kanye West mo-ment from Burkett, so I guess that means all went well.

Maybe I have been too harsh on this year’s event; after all, it wasn’t particularly boring and it didn’t feel like it was drudging along.

On the other hand, nothing all that spectacular or even entertain-ing happened, either. It just came and went and we’ll have another one in a year from now.

By then, most people will probably have long forgotten all the events that went on during this year’s Oscars, maybe even the winners.

But for now, let us enjoy and anticipate all the movies that 2010 has to offer.

By Daniel Feingold A&E Columnist

Jorge Quinteros / flickr.com

The Minaret | March 19, 2010 12 Arts & Entertainment

By Daniel Feingold A&E Columnist

By Ben Fritz The Los Angels Times

Breaking Bad: An Addicting Series Worth Watching

More Moviegoers Expected to Wisit Wonderland Than Green ZoneBreaking Bad series poster

Screen capture and movie poster for Alice in Wonderland

Screen Capture from Green Zone

I take pride in the television shows that I watch. I would say the few that I religiously follow are intelligent, thought-provoking, and intense.

I don’t waste my time with the teen soap operas or the supposed non-scripted reality shows that are all over the place these days.

Taking that into consideration, believe me when I tell you that I am thrilled about the return of one of my favorite television shows, Breaking Bad.

Breaking Bad follows the life of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a harmless passive-aggressive high school chemistry teacher.

Walter lives somewhat of a dull life as a family man struggling to support his pregnant wife and son who suffers from cerebral palsy.

While worrying about an un-expected baby on the way that he has no savings to support, Walter is told he has inoperable lung can-cer.

How will he leave his family with any financial stability? Cook-ing and selling crystal meth, of course, with the help of his former no-good student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

The show returns for its third season, and while it may not be as widely watched as such main-stream shows as Lost and 24, it has been recognized for its great-ness.

MCT CAMPUS - Moviego-ers would rather escape to Won-derland, it appears, than visit the Green Zone this weekend.

The costly action drama Green Zone, which reteams Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass from the last two movies in the Bourne Identity franchise, looks to be the latest film about the Iraq war to underwhelm at the box office.

Tim Burton’s 3-D Alice in Wonderland is likely to be the No. 1 film again this weekend follow-ing last week’s $116 million de-but, as relatively soft results are expected for three low-budget pic-tures opening Friday: the romantic comedy She’s Out of My League, the romantic drama Remember Me starring Robert Pattinson, and the comedy Our Family Wedding.

Universal Pictures and its fi-nancing partner, Relativity Media, invested about $100 million to make Green Zone after tax credits, but pre-release surveys of poten-tial moviegoers suggest the film will sell between $15 million and $20 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada this weekend.

That would make it a financial disappointment and particularly tough for the movie companies coming after a weak 2009 box of-fice run and a disappointing return from the recent release The Wolf-man.

Audiences have shown little interest in films that tackle politi-

Bryan Cranston, who you may remember for his role as the goofy father in Malcolm in the Middle, won an Emmy in 2008 and 2009 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Cranston’s side-kick in the show, Aaron Paul, was also hon-ored with an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

The show was also nominated at the Emmy’s in 2009 for Out-standing Drama Series.

These nominations and awards are only a few out of many, may I add.

Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, certainly has devel-oped a masterpiece.

Breaking Bad is by far the most intellectual and profound show I have ever watched, yet somehow it also has an eerie and dark humor at times.

The direction and cinema-tography is eloquent, but takes a backseat to the brilliant acting of each cast member.

Bryan Cranston does an amaz-ing job at depicting the trans-formation of Walter White, a reserved and helpless individual who progresses into a fearless and confident man through the first two seasons.

Additionally, Anna Gunn, who plays Walter’s wife, wonderfully portrays a woman in growing dis-array as she sees her husband be-coming more and more distant as the days pass.

Much has happened on Wal-ter’s journey through the drug world.

He has learned to bargain with the craziest of drug dealers and evade being discovered by his family, including his brother-in-law, the best DEA Agent in town.

Walter’s plight as a loving family man struggling against his own good morals evokes all kinds of emotion from viewers.

You will quickly learn to ad-mire the entire group of charac-ters.

Each has their own story to

tell and all of them seem likeable, aside from the big time drug deal-ers.

So, I ask you to change the channel from the aforementioned mindless reality shows and tune in to a program that will get your brain thinking and your heart pounding.

The season three premiere of Breaking Bad airs this Sunday at 10 p.m. on AMC.

For more on Breaking Bad, visit amctv.com.

Daniel Feingold can be reached at [email protected] Screen Capture

cally thorny issues in Iraq and the Middle East.

Body of Lies opened to only $12.9 million in 2008 despite fea-turing two major stars, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The action-heavy drama The Kingdom, with Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner, debuted with $17.1 million in 2007.

Despite its critical acclaim, the low budget Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has grossed only $14.7 million in the U.S. and is not expected to see much of a box office bump from its recent Oscar win for best picture.

Summit Entertainment was only able to book Hurt Locker, which is already on DVD, in 35 additional theaters this weekend despite the film’s multiple Acad-emy Award wins.

In hopes of avoiding the same fate, Universal has emphasized the action elements of Green Zone in its marketing, as well as the “Bourne” pedigree of its director and star.

The film, which has received decent reviews, is tracking best with older men.

Green Zone may perform a bit better overseas.

Initial returns from Great Brit-ain, where it opened on Wednes-day, were solid.

It debuts in 14 foreign markets this weekend, including Spain, Russia and Australia.

After its huge domestic open-ing, several people who closely follow box office results expect Alice in Wonderland to decline

about 50 percent this weekend, meaning it will likely collect be-tween $50 million and $60 mil-lion.

The Walt Disney Pictures re-lease starring Johnny Depp should perform similarly abroad after opening to $100 million in 40 for-eign markets last weekend.

Summit’s Remember Me is pri-marily generating interest among young women who know Pattin-son from the Twilight movies, and should open close to $10 million.

Paramount Pictures’ She’s Out of My League, which was made by the studio’s former subsidiary DreamWorks SKG, appears to be more of a date movie and should attract between $6 million and $8 million.

The Family Wedding, which is being distributed by specialty film label Fox Searchlight, appears to be getting very little interest and may struggle to open to more than $5 million.

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I ’m sure a l l of us have experienced a broken heart, either by having one or breaking one. What do we do when someone breaks our heart? How are we supposed to react or act?

I don’t know if I have the answers, but several weeks ago my heart was officially broken and a lot of things in my life have been put into perspective.

The man I still loved began a relationship with someone new. The worst part of all of this is that he avoided me like the plague and it had been only two weeks since we last talked where he asked for my forgiveness, wanted to be my friend and told me he would be here for me.

When I found out through friends who saw a relationship change on Facebook I was shocked (We had always promised we would have enough respect for each other to let each other know before it went public on Facebook or through friends.).

I immediately called my best friend Frank (a mutual friend) and probably had the biggest melt down of my life. I about passed out from hyperventilation and was just an overall hot mess.

Many of you might think that

With Heartbreak Trust Your Friends To Help Mend the Pieces

By Heather GromleyColumnist

this reaction was unnecessary, it’s just a guy right, he’s clearly just a jerk for doing this to me, and he is. But if you’ve ever had your heart truly broken, it’s the emptiest feeling ever.

Plus our three year roller coaster relationship didn’t help, especially with all the promises and our ambiguous future left to be solved.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs puts “belonging and love” in the third tier of our five essential needs. Now when my third level was rocked, it really affected all the levels and the balance of my life was gone.

My self esteem plummeted, I felt no accomplishment, I couldn’t eat because the entire situation made me sick to my stomach, I didn’t feel safe anymore and I maybe slept a total of five awful hours of sleep.

So what are we all supposed to do when our heart is broken?

I thought about revenge and I was angry, but how would that help? Would that make me just as awful as him, probably.

We all have different ways of coping with loss and sadness. For me it was the much needed love and support from my friends and attempting to stay busy.

Because of my friends I know I’m going to be alright. If your friend has had their heart broken, please be there for them, it’s the thing they need most.

I still at times feel a little lost because not only did I lose someone I loved, but I lost one of my best friends, and I know we can’t be

friends now.Iris from The Holiday defines

a broken heart perfectly: “I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside you. And it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends...you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood.

“And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he’ll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.”

A f t e r a f e w w e e k s o f contemplation after writing this article and time to get my life back in perspective, I feel extremely blessed to have had this experience. Yes some nights I still wonder why he didn’t pick me, but I know I now have a ton of new options in my life.

I am excited and nervous about graduation in May, but for once I feel confident that I will be choosing a path for myself, not someone else.

I was ready to throw away my entire future to be a military wife and to love a man I thought loved me too.

It will be hard and for all of those who have had their hearts broken, know that there are a lot of us out here. I hope you can move on in a healthy way and learn to be whole again as I have.

Find things that really make you happy, I’ve been working out with friends, searching for jobs I actually want, spending countless hours laughing with my roommates

and just living life to the fullest.Yes, waking up is the hardest

part when you’re heart is really broken, but you’re going to be alright. It may take a little time, but you’ll make it, I did.

Remember everything does happen for a reason, just like my little Kristin reminds me daily, you all are wonderful people and I know we will all be fine.

Heather Gromley can be reached at [email protected].

Everyone suffers heartbreak; we’re never alone. Ryan Gallet / MCT Campus

The Minaret | March 19, 2010 14 Commentary

LETTERTO THE

As the supervisor of the LASER Team, I would like to follow up on the article entitled “Late-Night Student Safety Service Running Low on Battery Power.” The LASER Team golf carts occasionally have mechanical issues, and unfortunately, it takes a lot of time and money to repair them.

There was recently a problem with the golf cart batteries, but the carts have been repaired and are fully functioning now. LASER Team exists for the safe escort of students across campus, and the LASER Team drivers work hard to provide excellent service.

UT is committed to the LASER Team, and I urge students utilize this very beneficial and important service.

LASER Team operates Sunday-Wednesday from 7 p.m.-1 a.m. and Thursday-Saturday 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Call (813) 257-4515 for a ride. As stated in the article, if for any reason LASER Team is not running and you do not feel safe walking across campus, you are welcome to contact Campus Safety and Security at (813) 251-5133 for an escort.

Rachel RolloCoordinator of Student Programs and Events, Student Leadership and Engagement

It is almost impossible to turn on the news without hearing of the string of natural disasters around the world, namely the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. This may seem a bit late, but I am not writing to cover the countless lives lost within both countries nor am I writing to report on conditions of the people of Haiti and Chile.

The United States is one of the top contributors of foreign aid in the world whether it is food, clothing, medicine, money, humanitarian workers, and so on and so forth.

Yet, there seems to be a pattern forming underneath the surface of these fairly recent tragedies.

The pattern that can easily be seen is that throughout history and with these two cases especially, the United States has been highly selective in giving aid in times of extreme need. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe that as a world superpower, we are morally and internationally obligated to help out other countries in times of crisis.

However, now we are only putting a mere bandage in terms of humanitarian efforts on a deep and near-mortal blow we once helped cause by ignoring the people of Haiti and Chile in their dire times of need. In 1957, the United States supported the brutal regime of infamous Haitian dictator, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who, with

American financing, created one of the most notorious organized death squads since the S.S. in Nazi Germany: the secret police force, the Tonton Macoutes (the name originating from a Haitian Creole boogeyman myth). According to the CBS News, it is reported that the Tonton Macoutes were responsible for 30,000 deaths during the reign of Duvalier.

The United States government turned a blind eye to this early form of state-sponsored terrorism because it felt that Duvalier provided “stability” in an increasingly left-wing Caribbean.

To make matters worse, the United States had already allowed the suffering of Haitians to go on at the hands of Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, who began a campaign of genocide against the

The US Avoids Certain Humanitarian Crises Despite A Charitable History

By Conner McDonoughSpecial to The Minaret

Haitian people in 1937, claiming the lives of an estimated 17,000 to 35,000 people. Where was the United States’ support for the people of Haiti then?

The same events were repeated in Chile in the 1970’s when the C.I.A. allied itself with the far-right Chilean military and Augusto Pinochet in the overthrow of the democratically-elected president, Salvador Allende.

According to the National Security Archives, the C.I.A. willfully acknowledged an active role in the military junta of Chile, often taking part in and supporting human rights abuses and oppression of the Chilean people.

The American government also knew of Pinochet’s secret death squad, Caravana de la Muerte, or the Caravan of Death and the torture

and deaths of at least seventy-two Chilean civilians.

Where was America’s support for the Chileans while 60,000 were being tortured by the new dictatorship, 3,197 dying at the hands of police and military and several hundred waiting for death in the Santiago soccer stadium (which had been converted into a concentration camp)?

If we as Americans want to avoid future mistakes such as the costly ones in Chile and Haiti, then we as a united people must make sure to apply pressure on our government to heed the call to all humanitarian crises, not just the ones that will make us look good in the press.

Conner McDonough can be reached at [email protected].

When It Comes to Interracial Dating How Blind Is Love?

In a recent Essence magazine article, one reader expressed her disdain about the magazine selecting Reggie Bush to grace the magazine’s cover. In a long argument, she explained her reasoning in great detail. The root of her outrage? That Reggie Bush did not appreciate black women.

She went on about why it hurt her to see someone who did not like black women be glorified and put on a pedestal of adoration by readers. She went on about why it hurts black women every time a black man dates a white woman.

Unfortunately, I could not see eye to eye with this Essence reader to any significant extent. While I understood the pain that she suffered when a black man who she encountered (who happened to hear her problems with interracial

relations) sent her an e-mail on all the reasons why he did not like black women for all the stereotypical reasons.

I do not feel some burning hole in my heart each time I see a black man walking hand in hand a white woman.

What I believe we are failing to see is a much larger issue than black/white dating.

While it is incorrect to attack individuals who date from another race, this passion should be directed towards attacking how society determines who is beautiful or desirable.

Also the issues of believing that one knows everything about another person solely because of the color of the other’s skin are at play.

The man that the Essence reader encountered for example is part of the problem. This man was under the assumption that all black women were the same. All uneducated, all angry or whatever else he ignorantly believed. This is stereotyping, which has been best described as “shortcuts in thinking” by Stephen L. Franzoi.

Those who decide not to push and use their minds to their fullest capacity I cannot entertain in this discussion. If I encounter someone who cannot fathom that all black women (or any group for that matter) are not the same, simply aren’t ready enter into the more complex conversation of what is really going in on with this issue.

What is going on is that from a very young age we are bombarded with images of what we are supposed to think beauty is.

Fortunately for me, my parents taught me that being black is just as normal and beautiful as being any other color through my reading materials and having dolls that reflected my skin color along with those that represented other races.

On the other hand, just as these same images of skinny dolls, etc. can lead to body issues or anorexia for some people later in life trying to achieve the “ideal” 36” 25” 36” body; so does the issue of skin color and desirability become engraved in the minds of us all.

It is up to us to defy that only one type of beauty is desirable. We are all old enough and hopefully

By Nicole Robinson Columnist

complex enough to rise above what Playboy or Cosmo or even Essence tells us is beautiful if these images exclude beauty in any group of people.

We must recognize also beauty is not by any means all external (as sappy as that seems).

Rather than saying one person is dateable only because they’re b londe, because they wear expensive clothes, because they have green eyes or because their skin is light, dark or purple; perhaps we should hold each other to higher standard. All I know is that I want to be able to love someone completely even if I’m struck blind.

We all should all be able to want to hold someone in our company because they make us smile or think even if yes, sometimes we do first approach someone because we think their looks imply that they are a desirable person to be around.

Just as I don’t someone to rule me out completely because of some false knowledge they believe they have of my because I’m black; I also don’t want them to believe they can like me only based on my skin color. The same logic applies.

You do not know everything about who I am from a first glance. I’m sorry people are deeper than that.

I challenge you to get to know someone that you made assumptions about based on any range of things (skin color, dress, braces, and leather jacket etc.) and see if they don’t change something about the way you think about that group.

Even I learned the hard way that not everyone with black skin who attends UT is African American and gives a crap about BB King or bell hooks.

It is not my duty to single out every interracial couple and assume that one of them must have their own kind and thus have embarked upon this relationship. It is my duty to try and get to know individuals the best I can or at least not assume that just because I have looked at someone, I know anything about them. Get to know people before you make assumptions and surround yourself with people you can love even if you’re blind.

Nicole Robinson can be reached at [email protected].

15The Minaret | March 19, 2010 CommentaryIslam Cherishes Mothers and Venerates Motherhood

By Carolina MedellinColumnist

I decided to change my article topic at last minute for a very special reason. My mother came to spend Spring Break with me, and that gave me the idea of writing about the way Islam views mothers.

I consider it is a must to acknowledge the importance mothers have in Islam in order to better understand the women position in general.

I have always had a special connection with my mom. That’s why when I first learned about Islam, I started asking questions about how mothers are viewed from a religious perspective. What I found fascinated me.

In Islam, mothers have a very important role. In various verses in the Holy Quran, it is mentioned how mothers should be respected and cherished.

For instance, in Chapter 4, Verse 1, it can be read: “Reverence God, through whom ye demand your mutual rights, and reverence the wombs that bore you. For God ever watches over you.”

Here we can see how the reverence to the mother follows immediately the reverence to God. This illustrates the importance of mothers in Islam.

It is also interesting to note that the Holy Quran acknowledges the difficulties that carrying a baby brings. Chapter 31, verse 14:

“And we have enjoined on man to be good to his parents: in travail upon travail did his mother bear him, and in years twain was his weaning. Hear the

command: Show gratitude to Me and to thy parents: to Me is thy final Goal.” This same idea is mentioned later on, in Chapter 46, Verse 15: “We enjoined the human being to honor his parents. His mother bore him arduously, gave birth to him arduously, and took intimate care of him for thirty months.”

I found those verses particularly appealing, as I once had one of my friends from high school asking me if Islam considered pregnancy as a punishment for women. The answer is simple: no. In Islam, pregnancy is not considered as something denigrating for women, but rather as something that gives her great value.

I’ve always have had problems believing that women are physically weaker than men. Well, maybe men can lift heavy boxes or more weights at the gym. But giving birth to a baby takes much more courage and strength.

What those verses attempt to convey is the idea of how important mothers are to our existence. They went through a lot of pain just to have us, and pain did not finish there. But they did it with love, and therefore they deserve all our love and gratitude.

Islam encourages children to recognize the value of their mothers, and to behave accordingly. The Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) addressed this subject many times:

“A man came to the Prophet and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Who from amongst mankind deserves the most love and affection from me?’

He replied: ‘Your mother.’ The man asked: ‘Then who?‘

So he replied: ‘Your mother.’The man then asked: ‘Then

who?’ So the Prophet replied again:

‘Your mother.’ The man then asked: ‘Then

who?’ So he replied: ‘Then your

father.’” (Bukhari)This is a very well-known

Hadith (narrative) that pretty much summarizes the status mother holds in Islam.

It is clear how mothers should be the most important person in the world for their children. One more time we can see how Islam stresses the fact of loving and respecting our mothers.

Yet another beautiful Hadith expresses the importance of mothers: “A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I want to perform Jihad in the way of Allah.’

The Prophet then asked, ‘Is your mother alive?’

He replied, ‘Yes.’ The Prophet then said: ‘Cling

to her feet, because paradise lies there.’”

Mothers are not only recognized and uplifted by the pains they suffered when carrying their children, but also they are given the huge importance of having Paradise lying on their feet.

Islam gives the women credit for something that can be viewed as “natural.” By being mothers women reach an importance that no men can reach. I’ve never read a Hadith saying that paradise lies under men feet or even close to that.

I think it is time to start understanding Islam further from

what the Media can say about it, or from what you can hear. Going deeper can show you things that would surprise you.

As I said before, it is very important to know about the place mothers take when looking at the vast topic of women in Islam. I personally think that being a good son or daughter derives from everything else.

For instance, a man who knows how to treat well his mother, is going to be able to treat well his

wife and his daughters. And if he acknowledges all that his mother has gone through, he would easily understand his wife’s feelings.

In Islam motherhood is not something that places women under men. It is rather something that gives women a very important place in the family and in the society in general.

Carolina Medellin can be

reached at [email protected].

The Quran respects the joys of motherhood. Carolina Medellin / The Minaret

The Minaret | March 19, 2010 16 Commentary

Margaret Mitchell

Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”

All Saints’ Day

Red VelvetCake

Betty Crocker

Ezra Pound

Gypsy Skirts

Margaret Atwood

Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”

St. Patrick’s Day

The Velvet Underground

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Ezra Pound Cake

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Editorial: Safety Continues to be a Priority for Us

Humanitarians Don’t Raise Money; They Recognize Our Mutual Humanity

Try this out: pin up a map of the world mindlessly throw a dart. You’ll land on a country plagued by genocide, a country destroyed.

It’s hard for some to fathom the concept of 21st century genocide. To this day I run into people unaware of such crimes against humanity. I remember sitting in bed talking to my roommate and we heard a group of girls giggling down the hall way. One stumbles into my door somehow, looks up at a poster, and says “Darfur? Ha-ha, what is that? It sounds stupid!” How this woman managed to call something she cannot comprehend “stupid” is beyond me, but it merely informs me how I am living in an ignorant society.

Simple tasks like knowing the location of Sudan or naming more than three countries being affected by genocide seems inconceivable. It’s depressing how these truths are unknown to even the supposedly educated.

However, we have all read Night or The Diary of Anne Frank sometime throughout our grade school career, but you don’t have to be a victim of genocide to

understand it.Elie Wiesel, the author of

Night advises, “Don’t limit your knowledge to the past of the Holocaust, for that’s only one example of mass genocide.”

No matter how cliché, the past tends to reproduce itself and societal ignorance employs the act of being unaware or even careless. I realized how genocide is possible within the minds of leaders because it has already succeeded on numerous accounts.

To me, such a mass destruction, whether in part or the whole, is basically survival at the cost of others. It makes me question if there is still tangible belief in humanity.

There is this idea of collective guilt and innocence. This mind-boggling quest of knowledge is problematic because it considers the moral responsibilities of individuals and plays with the faux idea of “innocent bystanders.” By keeping the consciousness quiet, we can all be indirectly seen as cruel.

Like John Prendergast states, “Through one’s inactions does he become an accomplice.”

My advice, advice that I take myself, is to turn off MTV and VH1. The cold reality is we take human rights for granted.

We complain about our coffee table wobbling at Starbucks and computers moving too slow for Facebook while we tolerate modern day massacres.

By Narisa ImprasertColumnist

We put the idea of innocent deaths and corruption on the back burner because we’re often late to class. Or the newest club is opening two days from now and we just can’t miss an event like that.

American apathy comes into play because I would think it would be in America’s interest to combat genocide.

Like Prendergast and Wiesel explain as the main mission, we must collectively work on countering and preventing genocide, accepting its existence, and then continue to work on preventing such an immoral display.

Indefinitely, it is not a matter of placing blame and responsibilities, but instead a focus on progression. Defining world views on genocide, war strategies such as child soldiers and rape utilized as a weapon bolsters the idea of savagery.

Wi t h i n t h i s s e e m i n g l y unbearable hell on earth, human destruction and a position of lost hope allows the powers of evil to consume and appear contagious.

Over at Eckerd, a neighboring school across the Howard Franklin Bridge, two girls took the roles of activists and made their school a “conflict-free campus.”

A plethora of programs are available to educate and allow personal contributions to fighting the cause.

Enough, Erase Genocide, Eckerd’s “The Plight and Promise of Africa,” and even UT’s very own UT Stand are easy ways to

get involved within the Tampa community to promote an anti-genocide era.

Wiesel, the writer of Night, teamed up with John Prendergast in St. Petersburg to deliver an inspirational speech on genocide. Their discussion entitled “From the holocaust to Darfur. If we had only learned our lesson,” basically exposed the melancholic reality of reoccurring tragedies.

Their portrayal of an “ancient story of the now” reveals how genocide affects al l people everywhere. Wiesel, whom endured the transformation from journalist to victim, often personifies knowledge because “knowledge won’t help if it is alone.”

Not too long ago, President Obama made a promise to be the “voice of the voiceless.” By defining genocide, the world acknowledges such far-away tragedies, but will the world ever learn?

Overall, the persuasive power of moral conviction allows me to think about something bigger than myself.

Agreeing with many anti-genocide activists, the underlying concept is change and fully understanding the powerless. I admit to being affected by today because today possesses the impossible, yet necessary obligations to do something for this world.

Often I feel the need to make a change, learn, educate, and realize that modern day genocide exists. It is not just a thing in the past that Anne Frank had to endure.

Like the admirable advice of Wiesel, “Don’t give in, never give in. Everything is dust. Sometimes you must take dust and turn it into hope.”

Narisa Imprasert can be reached at [email protected].

Protesters rally outside Eckerd College for human rights. Colleen Itani / UT

Safety can never be taken for granted. If there is anything that we haven’t taken advantage of, it would be safety. In the fall semester of this year we couldn’t have a break. First was Ryan McCall, then another armed robbery in the same area, Erik Nicoletti and several other assaults on campus and off campus.

This semester started relatively quiet but yet again we had a wake-up call early Saturday, Feb. 27. A UT student was pistol whipped. Thanks to the quick response and dedication by UT Campus Safety and Security, Robert Nolan Hall is still behind bars with a court date yet to be set.

Safety is a rather large concern for colleges and universities across the country and UT is no different. When these events occur, UT administration is always trying to

educate us on what we can do to stay safe on campus.

There are only so many security officers on call at a time. They can only do so much. Their job is to protect us but we have to learn the necessary steps to protect ourselves.

Although it was rather risky that the LASER team was not properly for several weeks, the problem has supposedly been solved.

Students need to use the LASER team for their safety not necessarily to take them over to Stadium Center for an ice cream cone.

Even after several incidents along North Boulevard since the shooting of Ryan McCall and even this most recent incident, students still continue to walk back to campus or back home along the same route.

The UT student body does not

need to suffer another loss. We have suffered plenty already. Students need to use common sense and follow the path that is right. Get a ride home, don’t walk. Call a friend. Call security, call LASER team or call a cab but take someone with you. If you went with a group stay with your group. Communicate as a group and have a plan.

Our surrounding community is not the best and we have seen evidence of that.

Its like a hot stove. We know it is hot yet we still touch it. We know that bad things happen at night and they have happened only feet off our campus. Why do we continue to play with the fire?

We are here at UT to get an education. As we increase our knowledge in the books let’s increase our knowledge of what surrounds us.

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By Arturo Uzcategui Sports Writer

Spartans Earn No. 7 National Rank

Nationally Ranked Tennis Team Set Take on Palm Beach Atlantic

By Kyle BennettSports Editor

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Recently ranked at No. 37 in the nation in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division national poll, the University of Tampa tennis team will be facing two extremely hard opponents this weekend as they will challenge Palm Beach Atlantic (5-6 Overall) and Lynn University (10-1, 2-0 SSC), both on the road.

Regarding the ranking the Spartans now have, Coach Al DuFaux stated that al-though it is the first time the team is ranked this season; this is a pretty typical position for the Spartans to be in since they usually rank between 35 and 40 nationally.

“This is one of the toughest conferences in the nation, the Sunshine State Confer-ence, which is composed of nine private schools in Florida and of those nine; seven are ranked Top 25 in the nation. With that said, our record looks dismal but you have to realize we’re playing some of the best schools in the country. If we were in anoth-er conference or another state we’d prob-ably be the conference champions, here in Florida [it] is a different story.” DuFaux

said.For DuFaux,

who’s half way through his 11th season as head coach for the ten-nis team (80-135 overall) the team is pretty firm so far and proof of that is the fact that

they are nationally

ranked. “That’s always a good spot to be in. I

mean, anytime you are nationally ranked you have a pretty solid team no matter where you fall in the conference.” The Coach said.

On Saturday the Spartans will take on Palm Beach Atlantic looking to improve their record and accommodate themselves better in the conference. As for Sunday, the UT Tennis team will challenge Lynn on the road. Both teams will be hard for the Spartans since the PBA Fish have always wanted a spot in the SSC and as for Lynn; the Fighting Knights are currently ranked No. 2 in the country and that promises to be a hard match.

“Palm Beach will be a real battle. We always have close matches with them every year even though they are not in our conference. Palm Beach Atlantic tried to get into our conference but couldn’t get in so they’re always looking to play schools in the Sunshine State Confer-ence and we always have close battles with that school." DuFaux said.

With the second half of the season running, the Spartans look better and claim to be ready to

finish even better than how they started.“We’ll finish stronger than we started. If

you look at who we played the first half of the season, we played a lot of those Top 10 – Top 15 schools in the nation. But, coming up in the last half we’re going to play some of those lower-end schools so we’ll finish stronger which is what you always want to do, finish strong.” The Coach added.

The Saturday match will be played at 2:00 p.m. at the PBA campus and Sunday the Spartans will face Lynn at their campus at 10:00 a.m.

Al DuFaux

Year Team Record2000 Tampa 0-102001 Tampa 1-162002 Tampa 7-92003 Tampa 9-132004 Tampa 10-132005 Tampa 8-142006 Tampa 8-132007 Tampa 15-102008 Tampa 10-152009 Tampa 10-14Totals 10 seasons 78-127

DuFaux’s Resumè

Abby Sanford/The Minaret The Spartans are riding an 11 game-winning streak. They have outscored opponents by over 100 runs.

Following a 7-0 week, which included a win over No. 13 Grand Valley State Uni-versity, Tampa moved up nine sports in the latest poll from No. 16 to No. 7.

With the new ranking Tampa defeated the University of Nebraska-Omaha Maver-icks. The win for Tampa is the 11th straight and moved the squad to 23-5 on the year, while the Mavericks fall to 11-5.

Dating back to March 5 Tampa has out-scored its opponents 161-54 during its 11-game win streak.

In a 37-1 route of conference rival Eck-erd College, UT set school records with the most runs scored in a game and the most runs scored in a single inning, 17.

Six Tampa batters went yard during the

contest.On the season Mike Schwartz (pictured)

hits in the three hole and leads the team with a blistering .440 batting average. He also ranks tops in doubles, 14, on base per-centage, .610, runs scored, 43, and walks, 34.

Jared Simon is the clean-up hitter hold-ing the team lead in homeruns, 9, runs bat-ted in, 42, total bases, 80, and slugging per-centage, .825.

Brad Roberts hits second in the lineup and leads the squad with 42 hits.

The Spartans are set to host the confer-ence rival Lynn University in a three game SSC showdown.

The series will play heavily in deciding the conference champions.

Kyle Bennett can be reached at [email protected].

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Collegiate Breakdown

Pair of Spartans Named to All-SSC Squad

Wins Losses Appearances Starts ERA Innings HIts Walks Strikeouts

Freshman (UCF) 1 2 8 4 4.97 25 28 16 28

Sophomore (UCF) 3 3 16 5 8.92 38.1 54 24 45

Junior (UT) 5 1 17 8 6.15 45.1 52 33 54

Senior (UT) 2 1 5 3 2.38 22.2 18 5 25

said Giardina. “I just felt that it was the best bet for me to come over here and not worry about the new coaches over there.”

In his ju-nior year, as a first time Spartan, Giar-dina set down nine hitters through sev-en innings of work against Saint

Anslem. At NCAA South Region-

“I imagine it to be similar to coming home to an abusive par-ent,” she said.

Going to practice daily for the Lions was a nightmare. The mem-bers of the team had to guess her mood and plan accordingly. “One day she would be the happiest per-son and the next day you would have thought her world was crum-bling down and she was taking it out on us, “she said. “It sucks go-ing to practice everyday wonder-ing if she is going to be in a good mood or if you made one error were you going to have to run the entire practice.”

Of the numerous violent acts committed by Wade, one of the most prevalent was when she physically put her hands upon one of her players. “Coach [Christi] Wade has been known to pick players up by their chest protec-

tors and shake them while swear-ing at them,” she said.

Her assistant, and now the head coach at Saint Leo was anything but helpful. “I have a physical de-formity on my face,” said Patrick.

“[Fields] thought it might be a good idea to make fun of my eye multiple times in front of other players and then laugh like it was hilarious, when it was not at all [funny] to me.”

The team has a time limit on its practices; the players have to sign off on the hours stating that they had not gone over the allot-ted time.

“Her assistant coach Jana Fields has the official paper work for our hours we have to sign off on complying with the amount she has written down. If one of us does not sign the hours, we were practically forced in there to do it, so they did not get in trouble for going over,” she said.

Another former player Aman-da Patrick added to this allegation. “If we refused to sign them, then we practically were never going to see [playing time on] the field.”

As a recruiter Wade was very good at convincing her potential players they were coming to play at a program based on strong, strict values.

“When I was recruited as a freshmen with a full ride to SLU I was told verbatim by coach Wade that she liked to recruit good peo-ple and turn them into great ball players,” she said.

“We have a handbook that says this is absolutely no drug tolerance; there was major drug use going on by a multitude of ball players who tested positive a number of times. Coach Wade allowed players to test positive before dropping out of school for a semester to go to rehab then come back because she was a ‘homerun hitter’.”

One of the same players al-lowed back on the team also com-mitted another frowned upon act. “[She] stole an engagement ring from another player. Coach Wade knew about it and did nothing,” she said.

On top of verbal and physical harassment, Wade delivered false promises to the SLU team.

“We had to work numerous Sundays in our off season at Ray-mond James Stadium concession stands in order to raise money for the team,” she said. “Supposedly, we were going to go to Hawaii. That never happened.”

The women’s softball team also earned side money (tips) while working the concession stands at Raymond James Stadium.

“We had to give them straight to Jana or coach Wade,” said Pat-rick. “They were supposedly go-ing to be split up at the end of the year between everyone, that also

never happened.”Another fallacy delivered by

Wade was that the team would purchase sweatpants for working an event.

“We worked the kids Gaspa-rilla parade and never received them,” Patrick said.

Saint Leo is in the Sunshine State Conference along with The University of Tampa Spartans. UT will host the Lions’ softball team on March 31 beginning a three-game conference set.

The opening line on Wade’s biography on Saint Leo’s athletic website states, “Hard work, hon-esty and integrity are the prin-ciples in which Christi Wade has lived by.”

“I am so glad my years with her are over. I am so glad she can not ruin the game of softball for future players,” she said.

Kyle Bennett can be reached at [email protected].

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Forward Tiara Cook and guard Gianna Messina both made the all-SSC first team. The duo also reached the Daktronics All-South Region second team.

Senior Caitlyn Mitryk took home SSC Defensive Player of the Year honors. The honorable mention all-SSC guard/forward led the Spartans with 57 blocks and tallied 39 steals.

Kamari Smith made the SSC all-freshman team. She was the only UT freshman to start a game, earning two starts while averag-ing 3.8 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Tampa finished the season holding opponents to a .327 shoot-ing percentage, which is likely to hold up as the best field goal per-centage defense in the nation. No opponent reached 50 percent suc-cess against them.

Cook goes down in the Spar-tan record books as the fourth

player to amass 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 100 blocks in her career. She is the first to accom-plish this since former teammate and All-American Sheena Walton did so in 2008.

The senior class – Mitryk, Cook and guard Angela Guiu – leaves the program with more wins than any other class at UT, finishing their careers with 99 vic-tories.

Stephen Koch/The Minaret Gianna Messina working against conference rival Florida Southern.

Carmine Giardina

al, he struck out the side in a 21-8 win versus Stillman.

After his junior year in Tampa, Giardina was once again drafted, this time in the 22nd round by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Giardina did not feel comfort-able leaving UT to finish his de-gree at a public school like the Pirates wanted him to do.

“I really felt like I wanted to get my degree in Tampa,” Giar-dina said. “Last year, we didn’t finish well. We didn’t make [an NCAA Championship], so this

year [I wanted to] get back and [win the championship]. It’s one of my goals.”

Returning for his senior cam-paign, Giardina threw eight score-less innings against the Bentley Falcons on March 8th, picking up his second win of the season.

Coach Urso is pleased with Gi-ardina’s performance thus far.

I just think he’s showing a tre-mendous amount of confidence right now on the mound and he’s had some great outings for us this year,” Coach Urso said. “He’s just

done really good for us this year. He’s throwing really well and commanding three pitches right now.”

Giardina says he and his team-mates fully expect the Spartans to win it all this season.

“That’s the expectation every year I guess here at Tampa, when everybody signs here. I know when I signed to come to school here, that was my expectation- to get a [National Championship] ring. I definitely think that’s our team’s expectation,” said Giar-

dina.As far as Giardina’s profession-

al baseball career after college, he said he grew up a New York Mets fan and has converted to a Tampa Bay Rays fan, but has no prefer-ence of team when it comes to the next MLB draft.

“It doesn’t really matter to me, as long as I’m getting an oppor-tunity,” Giardina said. “Whoever drafts me, I’ll become a fan of that team.”

Daniel Feingold can be reached at [email protected].

By Sam GerbSports Blogger

Sports 19 The Minaret | March 19, 2010

1 Kansas 1 Kentucky

16 Lehigh 16 E. Tenn. St

8 UNLV 8 Texas

9 N. Iowa 9 Wake Forest

5 Mich. St. MIDWEST EAST

12 N. Mex. St. 12 Cornell

4 Maryland 4 Wisconsin

13 Houston 13 Wofford

6 Tennessee 6 Marquette

11 San Diego St. 11 Washington

3 Georgetown 3 New Mexico

14 Ohio 14 Montana

7 Okla. St 7 Clemson

10 Ga. Tech 10 Missouri

2 Ohio State 2 W. Virginia

15 UCSB 15 Morgan St.

1 Syracuse 1 Duke

16 Vermont Play-in winner

8 Gonzaga 8 California

9 Florida St. 9 Louisville

5 Butler 5 Texas A&M

12 UTEP 12 Utah St.

4 Vanderbilt 4 Purdue

13 Murray St. 13 Siena

6 Xavier 6 Notre Dame

11 Minnesota 11 Old Domin.

3 Pittsburgh 3 Baylor

14 Oakland 14 Sam Hou. St.

7 BYU WEST SOUTH 7 Richmond

10 Florida 10 St. Mary’s

2 Kansas St. 2 Villanova

15 N. Texas 15 R. Morris

5 Temple

1 Kansas

1 Kansas

1 Kansas

9 N. Iowa

5 Mich. St.

4 Maryland

6 Tennessee

3 Georgetown

7 Okla. St

2 Ohio State

1 Syracuse

9 Florida St.

5 Butler

4 Vanderbilt

6 Xavier

3 Pittsburgh

10 Florida

2 Kansas St.

10 Florida

6 Xavier

4 Vanderbilt

9 Florida St.

7 Okla. St

3 Georgetown

4 Maryland

1 Kansas

3 Georgetown

1 Kansas

4 Vanderbilt

10 Florida

10 Florida

1 Kansas

1 Kentucky

8 Texas

12 Cornell

13 Wofford

6 Marquette

3 Mexico

10 Missouri

2 W. Virginia

1 Duke

8 California

5 Texas A&M

4 Purdue

11 Old Domin.

3 Baylor

10 St. Mary’s

2 Villanova

2 Villanova

3 Baylor

5 Texas A&M

1 Duke

2 W. Virginia

3 New Mexico

12 Cornell

1 Kentucky

1 Kentucky

2 W. Virginia

1 Duke

2 Villanova

1 Duke

1 Kentucky

1 Kentucky

1 Kansas

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Blogger Studies NCAA Bracketology on

Madness has officially struck March and it’s time to drive your-self crazy filling out your brack-ets. It has been quite some time since the league has had this much parody during the regular season, which of course should make for some great drama.

So the question that everyone is asking is who should I pick here? Will this be a class 12-5 upset? Who is going to be my Cinderella team? Who is going to win it all?

Well, of course I am asking my-self those same questions, but af-ter diligently following this year’s college basketball season, I hope to make the right deductions about the upcoming matchups and fill out the most a c c u r a t e

bracket.When it comes to the first

round games, those are always the hardest to pick. You look at the matchups and can usually see the game going either way. But there a couple of games that I think I can pick locks for. The first one that stands out to me is the BYU vs. Florida game.

BYU is a lock to win this game. Florida should not even be in this field of 65 when it comes down to it. They snubbed out Missis-sippi State, who was much more deserving, and who would have subsequently posed a much great-er threat to BYU. Florida will lose based on their inconsistent play. They were 1-8 vs. top 25 teams, went 5-5 on the road, and finished

6th in a top heavy SEC conference.

They resume shouldn’t have earned them an at-large bid and

with BYU’s po-tent offense scoring 83

ppg. the Gators will be going down the river early.

The biggest upset in the first round will come from a 13-4 matchup, Siena vs.

Purdue. I was a huge Pur-due fan all season and it was

so unfortunate to see the sea-

son ending injury that sidelined forward Robbie Hummel. I just can’t see Purdue going anywhere without this key component to their team; his productivity is ir-replaceable for that offense. Hum-mel averaged 15.7 ppg and 6.9 rpg. And the team has won games without him, but after facing a recent clobbering by Minnesota, losing 69-42, I just don’t see how this team is tournament tough. The 13th seeded Siena is no stranger to the tournament either. Siena ac-tually beat Louisville in the first round of the tournament last year, so they definitely have experience in tough games against big confer-ence schools.

Look for Siena to advance here, but they will definitely have a tough time beating Texas A&M in the next round.

I look at this bracket and unfortu-nately I am not seeing a George Mason like Cinderella team this year. An interesting team that I’m going to keep my eye on is Richmond. Richmond has a semi-difficult game with St. Mary’s in the first round, but I think they will get the job done, but

when it comes to the second round they will be facing the 2nd seeded Villanova Wildcats.

Villanova has been a potent team all year long, but has seri-ously fluttered down the stretch. I want to pick Nova to win the game against Richmond, but from the lackluster play that I have seen lately, I just can’t make that pick. When it comes to tournament plain and simple, you need to be going in hot.

Nova has lost their last 5 of 7 games and that is just about as bad as you can get before the tourney begins. Richmond is somewhat of a juggernaut for me, but has a good chance of winning against these battered Wildcats.

And now it’s time for the big prediction. Who will be the 2009-2010 NCAA champions? And the

winner is the Kansas Jayhawks. It may be true that they have

the hardest overall region to go through, but I think that this team is ready to handle any team that comes their way. I think Kansas only has two real obstacles to go through, Ohio State and Kansas State.

I really like Ohio State and soon to be player of the year Evan Turner, but Kansas is just more balanced all-around. I wish Ohio State was in another bracket be-cause I would put them in the final four for any other region.

Four players in Kansas aver-aged double digit ppg during the regular season and scored almost 82 ppg. That type of offense is just too hard to contain. But I do think Kansas does have to sweat about Kansas State.

These teams have met up twice already and in the first game K-State lost to Kansas in an overtime thriller 81-79 and in the second matchup K-State only lost in a close game by eight. Kansas State is definitely has a chip on their shoulder, but in the end I think Kansas will have too much mo-mentum going into the game.

I predict the championship game to between Kansas and Duke and Kansas coming out victorious as the 2009-2010 champions.

Bracket by Sports Editor Kyle Bennett

TheRecord4

Swimming NCAA Championships:

Canton, Oh.

Men finished 11thWomen finished 12th

History: UT finishes 2010 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships with its third straight top-15 finish by both teams.

Abby Sanford/The MinaretCarmine Giardina tossed five innings of seven hit baseball vs. No. 16 Mavs.

Baseball[2-6, 0-2]March 19 at Lynn [9-14-1,

1-2] 3 p.m.

Coach Urso on Lynn: “[This] series will be big in making a run at a Sunshine State Conference Champion-ship.”

Sean Bierman on Lynn: “If we hit the ball like we did the past couple weeks, all we’re gon-na really need to do is play a little defense and pitch. We should be able to come out of there success-ful.”

History: Tampa leads the all-time series between the teams with a 48-19 record. The teams met four times in 2009 with UT going 2-2.

Softball [9-8, 1-2]March 19 vs. Lynn [15-12,

1-2] 7 p.m.

History: Tampa leads all-time series 19- 18. The teams met once in 2009 with Tampa taking the game 4-0.

Heather Van Landing-ham earned her seventh win by pitching a complete game against SSC foe Nova South-eastern and allowing just two hits.

Tennis [2-8, 0-5]March 20 at Palm Beach

Atlantic [6-6] 2 p.m.

Coach DuFaux on Palm Beach Atlantic: “Palm Beach will be a real battle. They’re always looking to play SSC teams since they want to be a part of the conference.”

Nikol Williams on Palm Beach: “I think it’s gonna be a tough match, we’re all gonna fight and try to have fun.”

History: Tampa and Palm Beach met one time in 2009 with UT falling 5-4 to the then ranked 38 Palm Beach squad

Tampa Knocked Out in Second Round of Tourney

Arkansas Tech (26-2)

Benedict (21-8)


Tampa (22-4)

Barry (18-8)

Tampa (22-4)

Fort Valley St. (26-2)

Valdosta St. (18-8)

Lynn (16-10)

Delta St. (24-3)

Valdosta St. (18-8)

Delta St. (24-3)

Delta St. (24-3)


First RoundMarch 12

Second RoundMarch 15

Third RoundMarch 23

SemifinalsMarch 27

By Brenton BurkettSports Writer

Son of a Sunshine State Conference Rival

Just one point separated UT women’s basketball from its first ever trip to the NCAA regional finals.

The Spartans lost 69-68 to No. 4 Arkansas Tech on March 14, making this their second straight year to end in the second round of NCAA tournament play.

The game was a back-and-forth battle that saw several momentum swings.

Catriana Messina made two free throws to put Tampa up by one point with 43 seconds left. One more free throw widened the lead to two.

Arkansas Tech quickly drove down their home floor and closed the door on the Spartans’ season.

Jenny Vining hit the game-winning three-pointer with 12 sec-onds left. Tampa never got off a game-winning attempt of its own.

Taja Green led UT with 24 points as the team came up just short of advancing farther than it had before.

The 2009-10 women’s basket-ball season was not short on its bright spots.

The Spartans tied last year’s mark of 26 wins for the most in program history. They finished 26-5 (14-2 SSC) and captured the regular season Sunshine State Conference championship.

The SSC named UT coach Tom Jessee Coach of the Year.

Though he has now been a Spartan since the 2008-2009 season, this University of Tampa baseball player grew up around a Sunshine State Conference ri-val.

“My dad was the Head Base-ball Coach at Lynn University, so I used to always be around baseball growing up,” said Car-mine Giardina, senior pitcher for the Spartans.

Giardina was born in Long Island, NY, but moved down to Boca Raton, FL when he was three. He moved to the Tampa Bay area when he was eight, and played high school ball at Durant High School, located in Plant City.

He also played club ball for Chet Lemon’s Juice, a national 18 years and under team. Dur-ing his time with Coach Chet Lemon and the Juice, Giardina got a chance to play with ath-letes who are now playing pro ball.

“[It was] fun to play with that caliber of players,” said Giardina. “It was a lot of fun; it

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was a good time.”Giardina has a list of accom-

plishments and awards that he earned during high school, name-ly being a two time first team all-state selection and a St. Pete Times first-team all-Hillsborough County selection. He was also ranked the top left-handed pitcher in Florida as well as a top 50 prospect in the nation.

After his senior year of high school in 2006, Giardina was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 28th round. He had to decide whether to forgo a college educa-tion for professional baseball, or start looking into colleges. Af-ter the Red Sox didn’t match his asking price, Giardina decided to continue with his academics.

“I just felt like the education was more important. They didn’t really meet the dollar number I was asking for, so I decided to go to college,” said Giardina.

Joe Urso, Head Coach for the Spartan baseball team spoke of how highly talented and recruited Giardina was out of high school.

“Out of high school, we had talked with his family. He was one of the highest recruited ath-letes in our area; just a tremendous

left-handed pitcher who originally had signed with the University of Texas,” Urso said.

University of Texas is known for its consistently dominant Di-vision I baseball program, which Urso said exemplifies how talent-ed Giardina is. However, Giardina had a change of heart and decided to attend and play for the Univer-sity of Central Florida.

“He ended up changing his mind [and went] to UCF,” Coach Urso said. “We were hoping to get him at that point too but it didn’t

work out, but we’re just happy to have him [now].”

Giardina spent his freshman and sophomore years at Central Florida, where he was coached in his first year there by Head Coach Jay Bergman. After an overhaul on the coaching staff at UCF, Giardi-na decided to transfer to Tampa.

“There was a coaching change over there. The coaches that I had played for, they got fired and then [UCF] brought in new coaches,”

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