Volume 121 Issue 6Thursday, October 23, 2014

Student respondsto spiraling change

Writer Peter Ruiz offers critical insight on the ramifications of the Student Affairs realignment.

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Page 2 • News Thursday, October 2, 2014Page 2 • NEWS Thursday, October 23, 2014

Cover Art Designed By:Kayla Powers ‘17

Dallas, TexasTwo health care workers

who handled the Ebola patient in Dallas have been diagnosed with the disease. The fi rst diagnosed, Nina Pham, was put in isolation almost immediately after regis-tering a fever on October 10 and subsequently tested positive for Ebola. She was transported to a National Institute of Health fa-cility in Bethesda, Maryland. The second nurse, Amber Vinson, was transported to Emory Uni-versity Hospital just days after her coworker was diagnosed, having already taken a com-mercial fl ight from Cleveland to Dallas. Texas Health Presbyteri-an and the Centers for Disease Control have been criticized for not having a strict enough pro-

tocol in place to prevent further spread of the disease. Those who had possible contact with any of the infected are under close watch by the Centers for Disease Control for 21 days since their initial contact. Nigeria

Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badeh announced last week that Islamist militant group Boko Haram had agreed to a ceasefi re and a release of the more than 200 abducted school girls. The girls were taken from the northeastern state of Borno six months ago. Negotiations have been going on for a month, with the Nigerian government having met with leaders of the terrorist organization twice. Boko Haram has killed more than

5,000 civilians since June of 2009 and killed an estimated 2,000 just in the fi rst half of 2014; the Nige-rian government declared a state of emergency multiple times in response to the violent acts of the group. Hamilton, Bermuda

A category two hurricane by the name of Gonzalo slammed into Bermuda last week, down-ing trees and power lines, scat-tering debris far and wide. Wind speeds reached 110 mph and the top power provider, Belco, esti-mated that 40 percent of the is-land was without power. Roads across Bermuda are blocked off from debris, making it diffi cult to impossible for damage repairs. Gonzalo is the strongest Atlan-tic hurricane since Igor in 2010.

The eff ects of the hurricane were felt throughout portions of the southeast in the United States as it created swells and life-threat-ening rip current conditions. Seoul, South Korea

At least fourteen are dead just south of country’s capital city after a ventilation grate col-lapsed at a concert. About a thou-sand people were present at the pop concert in the new Pan-gyo Techno Valley, a sort of Korean Silicon Valley. Concert-goers on top of the raised ventilation plat-form fell 66 feet into the parking structure beneath them. At least ten more were injured in the inci-dent, and a fi re offi cial remarked that the current death toll could rise as some remain in critical condition.

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Page 3 • OPINION Thursday, October 23, 2014

I am someone who has been actively involved in diversity and inclusion work on this cam-pus since my freshman year. I am a multiracial, multi-ethnic, queer, homeless, Wiccan, femi-nist and cisgender male.

Yeah, I realize that is a lot. I also realize that this is intrinsi-cally who I am. My journey here at Rollins is intertwined with the exploration of these identities, which is intertwined with my ex-periences with the Offi ce of Mul-ticultural Aff airs (OMA).

I came into the idea of the merger with an apprehensive but open heart. I was apprehensive because, as a minority student, OMA was my space to be my au-thentic self. This offi ce gave me the strength to be my authentic self in all facets of my life. I felt that somehow in the merger I was losing the place that allowed this opportunity.

I was initially open to the idea because I thought it would be wonderful to have all the stu-dent leaders on campus in one place. I was hopeful to see new collaborations between groups. I wanted others to receive the same tools of identity explora-tion provided to me in my time here at Rollins.

What I have found is that my home, my anchor if you will, has been stolen from underneath me. I no longer have my safe space. The Center for Inclusion and Campus Involvement (CICI)

feels hostile and foreign. I go into work—I am a work study for Diversity and Inclusion ini-tiatives—and hide in the offi ce of Zakiya Brown, my last remnant of OMA. I do this because of the hostility created over micro-ag-gressions heard around the of-fi ce. The hostility ranges from students discussing whether or not they fi nd an entire minority group of people unatt ractive, or staff members making uneducat-ed and hurtful statements about Indian people.

One of the results of our cli-mate survey last year was that minority/marginalized students feel like they are not welcome at Rollins. So how does taking the offi ce meant to combat that ex-act feeling and making it a small part of a larger offi ce help with that? I do not think it helps, and I am not the only one who feels that way.

“Before [the merger] we had a place where all diff erent minorities and identities had a place to be, feel safe and be heard. I am never there. Not be-cause I don’t want to be, but be-cause it doesn’t feel like the place I used to work. I feel fi ne going to Abby’s offi ce and interacting with her, but the merger made the issue seem smaller and less important,” Camilo Garcon ’15 said.

I think safe spaces are vital for individuals who are con-stantly told that their value is less. When that safe space is di-minished, it signifi es that while we think it is important to talk

about these things, we do not think the issue needs its own physical space. Eff ectively, the merger brought the majority into the one space on campus that was carved out for the minority.

Other students do have a two-sides-to-the-coin point of view.

“In one aspect, I think it’s bad because there is this loss of space that is completely devoted to minorities on campus. It was a good way of having a place where everyone could come and be unifi ed. However, I do think that it was important to combine all these places. It showed that it wasn’t a place just for minorities of skin color. It is a place for any and everyone who is interested in becoming a stronger lead-er and submerging themselves in diversity and social justice, which is beautiful in itself to have on campus,” Rayshaun Wagner ’17 said.

I am a student in mourn-ing. I am mourning the loss of my home on this campus. I am mourning the loss of my sense of safety and security. I am mourn-ing over the fact that there is a Peter Ruiz in the class of 2018 searching for his OMA who will not fi nd it. He will fi nd this tiny offi ce cramped with minori-ty students who feel like this is their only space. This merger has offi cially ghett oized the minority student population.

But even as I feel this loss, I realize that this change is happening. I, and others like me, must not only adapt to the

changes, but bring the others to the space where we all feel com-fortable. Growth can only hap-pen when one is uncomfortable. This is an opportunity for all of us involved in the merger to learn from one another.

What I bring to the table is a lot of diversity, social justice and cultural competency experience. This is a valuable skill when talking about global citizenship. To be a global citizen, one has to be able to analyze and tackle the gross inequities in our world.

“I think merging the two ar-eas is intentional and allows [for] diversity and social justice [to be] everyone’s issues,” Director of CICI Abby Hollern said.

But I also realize there are skills I am lacking. Yes, I am able to discuss social justice issues, and I do in my everyday life, but how do I convey it in a way that is palatable to a wider audience?

I think having individuals in Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL), for example, within the CICI to talk to can help me with that. If there is one skill that can be gained from FSL on this cam-pus, it is marketing.

These individuals know how to be marketable and visible. FSL makes up about one-third of our population, but I hear students often saying that FSL makes up half our campus. This is due to their visibility—a skill I wish to develop.

This was the intent of the merger. Both groups have things to learn from each other.

“This is a vision that

emerged from students. In lead-ership spaces they thought there wasn’t enough awareness of diversity and social justice hap-pening. In spaces where diver-sity work was happening there wasn’t necessarily leadership growth. We were siloing two dif-ferent pieces,” Vice President of Student Aff airs Dr. Mamta Acca-padi said.

The process of combining these spaces is a way for diver-sity to be infused in all parts of campus. The realignment was brought forth by students, and students really can take hold of the merger to shape it to what we want it to be.

“Anytime you have two fam-ilies coming together, there are going to be growing pains,” Dr. Accapadi said.

This is very true. We are still in an awkward adjustment phase within the offi ce.

Training needs to be held and cultural competency needs to occur. But overall this merger is meant to make diversity and inclusion an issue for everyone, not just the issue of marginalized students.

We as students who were formerly part of either offi ce must begin to engage one anoth-er in order to create comfort in the offi ce. We have to move past the fact that the offi ces we origi-nally joined are gone and move into a future, even if this means uncomfortable conversations or having to call one another out. Our success is based on our abili-ty to grow with each other.

Peter RuizWriter

The opinions on this page do not necessarily refl ect those of The Sandspur, its staff or Rollins College.

Student responds to spiraling changes

By Daniel Martinez (staff illustrator)Campus theft stories keep reappearing in the Rollins community. In this week’s panel, the bike thief returns!

Peter Ruiz ‘15 provides a fi rsthand account on how the CICI merger has a� ected his life and the lives of other minority students on campus.

Bike Thief & Co. return

Sitt ing on a bus stop bench in the midst of a cold, Kingston night between a hospital and a cemetery—do you silently brood personal miseries, or do you allow the teenager wearing a Green Day shirt next to you babble on about choosing to live life? That is precisely the incit-ing incident of the Fred Stone Theatre’s fi rst show this season: Hamish Linklater’s The Vandal, directed by Rollins student Re-becca Kleinman ’15. The play in structure is quite simple—the script is a one-act of 40 pages, the runtime is approximately 80 minutes, and there are only three characters—but this darkly exis-tential dramedy has a truly en-gaging substance that Kleinman ’15 and her cast have excellently brought to the stage.

The Vandal explores how in-dividuals behave in the bleak aftermath of a loved one’s death. Each character has lost some-one—whether it be mother, a friend, a wife, or a husband. The show pays homage to the fi fteenth century morality play Everyman in the sense that the characters are simply referred to in the script as the Woman (Ana

Suarez ’16), the Boy (Jake Teixei-ra ’15), and the Man (Alexios Ve-nieris ’16). The namelessness is an overt clue that the characters are intended to be interchange-able with the viewer. All mem-bers of the human race have ex-perienced the passing of a loved one at some point, each one re-acting in slightly unique ways, dispelling the notion of universal stages of grief. What is universal, though, is that it is easier to han-dle the despair following death with a companion to lean on, or even just talk to.

The characters of The Van-dal convey this perfectly. The Woman and the Man are both withdrawn and bitt er characters in stark contrast with the Boy’s loquacious, ever-pondering per-sona. Good exists in both of the adults, but the walls they have set up require much coaxing in or-der to fall away. For the Woman, it takes the Boy comparing her to a sexy aunt and a once depressed AP French teacher for her to fi -nally crack a smile and journey to the liquor store on his behalf. For the Man, it takes the Woman admitt ing her pain and question-able acts of last resort in order for him to peacefully let her leave his store with her alcohol purchases. In either case, death acts as its

own sort of vandal, branding a permanent mark on each passer-by it touches. Others surround-ing the affl icted can tell, and the overcoming pain sets them apart in an obvious and tragic manner. In the words of Kleinman ’15, “Death kind of vandalizes your soul.” The characters of this Fred Stone production convey this in a way that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.

Kleinman ’15 not only spoke with me about the metaphorical nature of vandalism within the play, but also about the process that took place from conception to opening night. At the end of last year, she had to submit a plea of sorts to direct The Vandal; to her surprise Theatre Professor Thomas Ouellett e approved her request. Student-directed full-length plays are usually granted to Theatre Majors with an em-phasis in directing, but Kleinman ’15 has her emphasis in technical theater. She had previously par-ticipated in various roles of the stage, but never directing. She fi -nally took Directing I for her ma-jor in the spring of 2014 and con-fessed that she was disappointed she had not taken it sooner. Di-recting was slightly intimidat-ing for her at the outset, but ev-erything quickly “snowballed”

from there. She soon found that she was sort of good at directing, and it was actually fun. “I had a gut feeling that I had to do this my senior year or I would regret it,” said Kleinman ’15.

She has loved directing The Vandal every step of the way, her favorite part being watch-ing the actors have “brain blast moments” with connecting the text to the stage. Finding the right way to guide each actor to successfully create the character was the most time consuming, but also the most rewarding. The dark and straightforward humor defi nitely called out to Kleinman ’15 when she fi rst read the play. She also feels that the message of just needing someone to listen is important to bring to the Rollins community. Students need to know that even though it is hard to ask for help, it is still okay; hu-

man companionship is what gets us through the rough patches.

Technical Theatre Emphasis Kleinman ’15’s “crackpot” team of toilet-humor-heavy cast and crew are anything but special-ists—her stars being English, Philosophy, and Economy ma-jors—yet that does not in any way detract from the talent and genuine connections seen on stage. In fact, the melting pot of backgrounds epitomizes what Rollins’ liberal arts programs are all about: gett ing ourselves out there, experiencing everything the world has to off er, and be-coming our own sort of renais-sance men. The Vandal opened on Oct. 22 and continues from Oct. 23 through Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. with additional showings on Oct. 25 and 26 at 2 p.m., so do not miss out on witnessing such an inti-mate and human experience.

Page 4 • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Thursday, October 23, 2014

Alex MarianoHead Copy Editor

Dark dramedy: ‘Vandal’ opens at Fred Stone

“Cast and crew are anything but

specialists—her stars being English, Philosophy, and Economy majors—yet that does not in any way detract

from the talent and genuine connections seen on stage

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Original Art by Kayla Powers, ‘15

Two weeks ago, on Oct. 9, the Spanish Department hosted the Hispanic Short Film Festival (HSFF) in the SunTrust Audito-rium of Crummer Hall. Heritage is crucial in all cultures, but in a time heated with debate and, with October being Hispanic Heritage Month, this festival was timely and fascinating.

Some fi lms had specifi c things to say, such as the fi lms Immersion and A Place to Call Home, while others brought to light the talent of Hispanic fi lm-

makers, from Spain to Argenti-na, such as The Same Old Story and Lo Llevo En La Sangre.

Honestly, I was surprised by how instantly engaged I was in these fi lms. I do not speak Span-ish, and I was concerned this might leave me feeling left out. However, the language of the fi lm had no impact on my con-nection to the characters. Partic-ularly in Immersion and Ten Min-utes, I was fully immersed in the stories and sad when they were over. Foreign fi lm is such an un-appreciated thing in American audiences for a few reasons, such as a lack of understanding of the

language or maybe just being too lazy to read subtitles.

However, as indicated by the impact that the HSFF had on me, foreign fi lms are something we should pay att ention to, espe-cially when they deal with some-thing so current in our lives, such as young foreign students having diffi culty integrating into an English education system and the touchy and important sub-ject of immigration. Hopefully this festival becomes an annual event, and maybe we could get some other foreign fi lm festivals, as this type of opportunity to connect to our world is so rare.

Summer is a time to relax

and enjoy some fun in the sun with friends, it is also the best time to be annoyed by over-played songs on the radio—es-pecially if their annoyance fol-lows you into your fall semester.

1) Meghan Trainor – “All About That Bass”

“Yeah, it’s prett y clear. I ain’t no size two, but I can shake it (shake it) like I’m supposed to do...”

The catchy melody, the re-petitive “I’m all about that bass” hook line, its uplifting message to thick girls promoting body ac-ceptance using the “fl aunt what you got” tagline… It was bound to be a hit. After all, it has held the position of #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for various consecutive weeks. In this day and age, who would be against catchy tunes that make them feel bett er?

2) Katy Perry feat. Juicy J – “Dark

Horse” “So you wanna play with

magic? Boy, you should know what you’re falling for…”

You cannot deny that you have bopped your head to this one. Perry’s powerful vocals mixed with a heavy bass, which lean towards an adrenaline rush sounding of trap music, and Juicy J’s anticipated and catchy rap verse claiming his “shawty’s so bad.” You cannot lie. You have heard it so much that you could

probably sing this song front to back while you sleep.

3) Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz – “Talk

Dirty” “All I really need to under-

stand is when you talk dirty to me...”

I do not think we need to re-state what Jason demands from us. We get it. He wants us to talk dirty to him. Of course, just like any other mainstream song, you cannot resist the beat, the hook, and the urge to dance to it in a provocative manner. The hook line is catchy, but then again you can only listen to its repetition so many times before jumping off of a bridge begins to sound like a tempting idea

4) Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki

Minaj – “Bang Bang”“She might of let you hold

your hand in school, but I’mma show you how to graduate…”

The pop-star dynamic trio fi lled with Grande and J’s pow-erhouse vocals. It was sure to be a bang-bang on the radio sta-tions, all right. Sassy-fi lled verses and divas—of course you cannot exclude Minaj from the picture. Melodious, but overplayed. Al-though, truthfully, chances are that if we were to consecutive-ly replay the song on vinyl (the same amount of times you have heard it play on the radio), it would break.

5) Sam Smith – “Stay with Me”

“Oh, won’t you stay with me? Cause you’re all I need…”

Some might call it his one hit wonder. Others might call it the birth of a baby bird just hatched out of his shell. His soulful voice hits us as a sweet-sounding type of pleasure to our ears. The man holds virtuosity with a mix of simplicity in both his personali-ty and his voice. It is no wonder the song is his #1 hit single. Al-though, I like to think the ability to enjoy a song diminishes once you hear it so. many. times. (Sor-ry Sam Smith!)

I can accept radio airplay and publicity as contributing fac-tors of a single’s success. Artists aim to have their music thrive in the Music industry. It is basic math. You can even describe it as “the Domino Eff ect.” The more airplay/spins equals the more your song is heard, therefore more publicity generated and more exposure to both non-en-thusiasts and fanatics.

If you hate hearing a song that is overplayed on the radio, then all you have to do is change the station. It is as easy as that—but my larger point lies around the fact that it would not kill pop radio stations to have some vari-ety in their playlists. Their claim to be “alternative” to appeal to broader audiences diminishes their credibility. Yes, pop songs are supposed to be made for pop radio stations, but it would not hurt some of them to fl ash to the past every once in a while and play some old tunes. Throw-backs for the win, maybe?

Popular songs the radio loves to overplay

Foreign fi lms delight students

Summers usually consist of a few annoyingly popular yet catchy tunes. Discover the top 5 most overplayed summer tracks everyone found themselves unwillingly jamming to.

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Georyana SantosWriter

“Foreign fi lm is such an unappreciated thing in American audiences for a few

reasons, such as a lack of understanding of the language or maybe just being too

lazy to read subtitles.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, Rollins College hosted The Hispanic Short Film Festival. Nicholas D’Alessandro

Staff Writer

Theater has a bewitching nature. It has the ability to trans-form the actors onstage as well as its audience: captivating and making them pay close attention to the message being given. This is why theater is such an import-ant platform to deliver a social message. Whether it is on Broad-way or Off-Broadway, the mean-ing is just as impactful. “There is something transformative about entering into a dark room with a bunch of strangers, turning off the lights, and sharing an expe-rience with a group of actors up on stage. The whole experience is a lovely social exercise. I think theater teaches us all to be better people, regardless of the context; we are human beings sharing social cues and responding to each other,” remarked Lauren Worsham, Tony Nominated ac-tress starring in the 2014 Tony winner for Best Musical A Gentle-man’s Guide To Love And Murder. “This can be difficult for those of us glued to our phones all the time. Theater teaches us to laugh, smile, relax, be attentive and re-ally listen.”

So what makes the audience passionate? Theater tends to re-vive shows as well as produce entirely new ones. Has the broad social message changed in our re-cent, biggest, stage productions? Andy Karl, Tony nominated ac-tor and star of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Rocky, believes so: “Many things have changed. The spectacle is much bigger every year. Video screens are a huge part of telling the story now. The boxing ring in Rocky was an incredibly inter-active and diverse piece of scen-ery. As far as content, musicals, I think, have become much more self aware.” But at the same time, he agrees that theater is also ca-pable of revolutionizing: “Musi-cals can transform your emotions and mind when they strike deep into what matters about our hu-man journey. The mission to find love and joy with life is what musicals should always try to ac-complish. I mean that in the least sappy way possible.”

Theater has become more bold and challenging with its subject matter. In 2009 the mu-sical Next to Normal, music and lyrics written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, focuses on sev-eral issues including suicide, drug abuse, and grieving. In Oct.

2014 the play The Curious Inci-dent of the Dog in the Night-Time opened on Broadway after much success in the West End of Lon-don, England. The play centers on the character of Christopher, described as “a brilliantly tal-ented mathematician with some behavioral difficulties.” This play’s clever set design and stage directions allow the audience to see the world through his unique perspective. Newer shows like these mentioned invite the au-dience to reflect on its poignant messages while giving these hu-man characters a voice and spot-light on stage.

In the revival play You Can’t Take It With You, written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, there is a theme of the im-portance of family and how life should not be ruled by money and greed. Will Brill, a film and stage actor currently starring in the aforementioned produc-tion, reflects on the significance theater can have to expand a person’s capacity for empathy: “When this play was written in the wake of America’s first huge financial disaster it seemed to be saying, ‘How fulfilling can it be to constantly struggle for mon-ey alone? Find what calls to you and pursue that, and let the rest fall into place.’ And now today, even when the millennial gener-ation is independently striving to pave their own way through life, Wall Street and corporate greed constantly are making headlines, and money is on everyone’s minds. As long as people strug-gle with money and some people own the vast majority of it—and as we continue to see how unsat-isfying that pursuit can be—this story will be relevant.”

According to Dr. William Boles, English Professor at Rol-lins College, the ability to influ-ence and inform an audience can become complex: “There can be an immediacy to the theater that allows the writers, producers, directors, actors, etc. to respond to events and transcribe them to the stage. This is extremely pow-erful. At the same time, it is ex-tremely problematic. If the play has political leanings, then the audiences for these productions are going to be heavily tilted to the politics being depicted. If you are against gay marriage, are you really going to go see a play that supports gay marriage? Not like-ly.” This important argumenta-tive point provides support to how theater has a responsibility

to attract audiences with more than its message, but by immers-ing theatergoers in a night of magic and wonder.

Are there still stereotypes of what an actor should look like in the theater world? Mr. Brill comments that he does not believe so. “I think there’s an old idea and goal that’s shared among many actors—the desire to be transformative, to play as wide a range of roles as one’s physical instrument allows. But the myriad of human bodies that the world’s offered up allows for endless variation. Some peo-ple will play a wider range of characters, some narrower, but even that speaks little to one’s ability and the depth of soul or humor they’ll exhibit.” Dr. Jenni-fer Jones Cavenaugh, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, feels that when theater deals with old stereotypes, it depends on the genre: “There is more vari-ety when dealing with realism. A lot of people are trying to re-flect the world as we see it. The more traditional the piece, the more it harkens back to the era of the Mid-Twentieth Century. Dr. Boles indicates the potential for future acting roles to be en-tirely gender free: ‘While there

are still numerous problems with casting, especially when it comes to color blind casting, the door is slowly opening on the possi-bilities for women to play roles that used to be off-limits, which makes it, for some, an exciting time.’”

This spring Rollins Col-lege is producing the 1928 play Machinal by female playwright Sophie Treadwell, which fol-lows the story of a woman who becomes a cog in the gender conformity machine. Dr. Cav-enaugh emphasizes the impor-tance of female playwrights in theater: “The 1920s was a radical time for feminism, and some of those female playwrights are still extremely relevant today. They wrote about struggling with the emerging sense of the woman, forced in and out of choices, and conforming to an established vision of womanhood that they don’t want.” This past fall sea-son the Annie Russell Theatre presented the musical Working, which showcased a variety of people from all spectrums of the social ladder. Dr. Cavenaugh theorizes that the social structure of a community is an issue that a student audience would be most challenged by: “I find that college

students are more comfortable talking about gender and race because they can see the pow-er dynamics and issues. Class makes people very uncomfort-able. America is a place where we are so invested in the idea of ‘All men are created equal’ that we are not comfortable looking at social and economic oppres-sion.”

Our unique experiences, how we view the world and who we are as individuals ultimately decide how we interpret a the-atrical play or musical. Mr. Brill considers the excitement in a dis-parate audience: “In a comedy, the show is built to be tethered to the audience’s laughter. In a show where laughter is not the primary goal, it’s still about mak-ing an audience witness to a tru-ly human experience—person to person.” If we are more inspired to write to begin bringing about change in our communities, just as we are to attend a theater pro-duction and listen to what it has to say, then we can shine a spot-light on the issues that are most dear to us. Theater is not only a culturally enriching experience, but a means of social change and awareness. Perhaps, in that way, you really can take it with you.

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Theater brings social changeWriter Danielle Del Pico shows how theater helps shine light on important issues.

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Page 8 • SPORTS Thursday, October 23, 2014

Last Wednesday was an epic night for Rollins soccer with both the men’s and women’s teams posting big wins over their Sun-shine State Conference rival, No-va-Southeastern.

The women’s team secured a dominant 2-0 victory over the Sharks with goals by Brenna Mckee ’15 and Mora Johnson ’17. Goalie Mary Spring ’15 also contributed to the win, record-ing five saves and making this her fourth shut-out of the year. The win bumped Rollins to first

place in the SSC standings by 15 points.

Riding the momentum of the women’s victory, the men’s team followed up with one of their most exciting games of the season. After finding themselves down 3-0 at halftime, the Tars came back big and strong in the

second half, forcing an overtime period. With the score tied, Sky-ler Russell ’15 knocked in a one-touch pass from Grant Black-hurst ’16 to secure a 4-3 win over the Sharks.

Women and men will each face off against the University of Tampa this Saturday, October 25

at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., consecu-tively. Both games are crucial if Rollins wants to maintain their current standing in the Confer-ence. Make a road trip out of it and come out to support your Rollins Tars as they shoot for a clean sweep against Tampa this Saturday.

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