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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 HERE WE GO AGAIN... Page 8 J.T. Townsend Men’s tennis provides the foundation scorches competion // page 12 // page 22 INSIDE 2 Wednesday, March 21, 2012 SPINNAKER // UNFSPINNAKER.COM news 8 expressions 12 sports 19 10 13 19 // students diG for artifacts // Professor or author? // Hammer Fist UNF dig for a Spanish mission Four UNF professors talk about UNF’s bats ignite as the team turns up nothing but unrelated the books they’ve written in their scores a storm of runs and pottery. spare time -- some used in their grabs impressive wins during classes and some not used Spring Break. in classes. 9 14 20 // red Party wins SG SPrinG // Inside the tarGet Car // Roller coaster ride Presidential election Big record deals may not be in UNF softball begins Spring Break Carlo Fassi and Mike Naughton store for this Jacksonville punk on a losing streak but ends on won the 2012 spring presidential band, but that won’t stop Inside top of cloud nine. election with 74 percent of the Target Car from touring. the votes. WEB EXclusive IN each issue Cover NEED MORE VISUALS WIth YOUR 02 INDEX 08 NEWS GRECIA VALENZUELA NEWS? CHECK OUT OSPREY TV'S 03 HODGEPODGE 12 EXPRESSIONS indeX Photos NEWSCAST AT UNFSPINNAKER.COM 04 OPINIONS 19 SPORTS ANDREW NOBLE, SEAN MURPHY, KERI WEILAND HODGEPODGE SPINNAKER // UNFSPINNAKER.COM Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3 POLICE BEAT Check out more Police Beats online at unfspinnaker.com A suspicious message was found written on the inside of the fourth floor bathroom wall stall. The message read, “You shattered my heart to be with her, I said I have moved on, but it’s a lie. Every night I long for your attention, knowing it will never come again. This world is no longer bright and sunny. My life has no value. So, as I leave here, I say goodbye, my love. I am sorry I was not enough to make you happy any longer. Though I might be carrying your child. Do not assume you will never see us again, no one will.” The message was signed by “a heartbroken pregnant woman.” A canvass of the area was not conducted because there was no one there. Janitorial staff removed the message before pictures could be taken. There is no identifiable suspect or victim. March 2 Possible Theft (Lot 2) - An of- lot between two suspects and the victim. ficer met with the complainant, whose ve- The witness said one of the suspects hit hicle was parked in a legal parking place the victim with a handgun, causing him with a UNF Parking Services boot attached to fall to the ground. The suspect picked to the left rear wheel. A UNF premium up the gun and ran toward campus. The parking pass, which had been reported other suspect left the campus in a vehi- lost September 2011, was attached to cle and drove toward Kernan Boulevard. the front windshield of the vehicle. An in- The victim said the suspects approached vestigation revealed the complainant and him from behind and tried to take the another individual had purchased the pass cash in his hand. A fight between the jointly. The two had been in a relationship, suspects and the victim ensued, and one and the complainant retained possession of the suspects pointed a long barrelled, of the pass. However, the pass being iden- black handgun at him. The victim said he tified as missing resulted in the placement was unsure about the complete chain of of the boot on the complainant’s vehicle. events because it happened so quickly. He The officer removed the boot and confis- said the suspects stole the nearly $100 cated the pass and returned it to Parking that was in his hand, and he suffered a Services, along with the paid receipt for knot on the back of his head where he the fine associated with the boot. was hit with the weapon. The victim re- fused medical attention. March 5 Missing Purse (UNF Drive) - An officer noticed a purse sitting next to a March 6 Drug Investigation (Osprey planter on UNF Drive at the city bus stop. Crossings) - The resident assistant for The officer found an orange and yellow the building and the Residence Life glass pipe and a mint can containing a Coordinator said they were conducting a small amount of a plant-like substance, af- Health and Safety Inspection of Building ter conducting an inventory of the purse. S when they found marijuana and drug The owner of the purse, a Chartwells em- paraphernalia on both bookcases in the ployee, later came to UPD to report her room. The residents of the room were not purse missing. She identified the purse as present during the inspection. Both stu- her own, but was unable to identify the dents were referred to Student Conduct. glass pipe and metal container containing The marijuana and paraphernalia were the plant-like substance. She said she had placed in the JSO Property Room. taken the bus to a friend’s house, where she reached into her backpack to retrieve March 8 Theft (Building 58) - The com- her purse and discovered her wallet was plainant said she had placed her club missing. She identified nothing was miss- Greek letter in the courtyard near Building ing from her purse. The glass pipe, mint 58 with two other letters. She later re- can and plant-like substance were placed turned to the area and found the letter in the JSO Property Room. was gone. She contacted other sorority members to see if one had removed the Hundreds of birds swarm trees with red berries near the Student Union, evok- March 6 Armed Robbery (Lot 15) - An letter, but none of them had any informa- officer met with a witness who said she tion. There are no identifiable suspects. A ing scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s famed movie about these winged creatures. was walking to her vehicle when she ob- canvass of the area was conducted with It’s possible the March 20 spring solstice brought upon this fowl frenzy. served a confrontation taking place at negative results. the front of the University Center parking COMPILED BY LINDSAY MONTGOMERY AND MAGGIE SEPPI Source: University Police Department Compiled by Maggie Seppi DISCOURSE 4 Wednesday, March 21, 2012 SPINNAKER // UNFSPINNAKER.COM 4 discourse SPINNAKER // UNFSPINNAKER.COM Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Editorial The BOT joins the state in piling budgets on students’ backs ere we go again. The state, and now the university, has Hdumped all the responsibility of keeping higher edu- cation in Florida relevant on the students. At the seemingly annual UNF Board of Trustees tuition hike meeting March 20, the BOT did it again. Next year, UNF students will pay 15 percent more in tuition. Just as they did last year, and the year before that and the year before that. It’s starting to get old. This year, the BOT had extra pressure on it to raise tuition by the full 15 percent because the state of Florida decided not to mandate a tuition increase, with the assumption that each university would ask its students itself. So UNF felt its hands were tied. And to be fair, it would have been tougher to cut money from elsewhere in the university than ask the students to up the value of their electronic checks. But with a pay cut here and another year with an old computer there, the money surely could be found. Unfortunately, the BOT and UNF administration have made it clear that they don’t value the students. To his credit, Student Body President Matt Brockelman was as persistent and forward as could reasonably be ex- pected of a student representative in a room full of wealth and power. He prepared a lengthy powerpoint detailing the tuition increases for the last four years, and exactly what that meant for students’ budgets. He asked numerous ques- SPENCER GOLDBACH | SPINNAKER tions of the administration, asking them to specifically de- tail for the board what they would do if they didn’t get ad- those tuition hikes. And as Bright Futures goes down, and Commitment Scholarship or travel funding for certain re- ditional revenue from students. He even proposed another Pell grants become harder to come by, the times get more search projects on the chopping block. option for the board when they seemed ready to pass the and more desperate for those aspiring to be educated. But Delaney said soon after getting this job, that part tuition with ease, an amendment that would only increase Besides, students aren’t asking for a decrease in tuition. of UNF’s value as a university focused on undergraduate tuition by percent. We are simply asking for less of a hike. programs and teaching. But they wouldn’t budge. It seemed the board made So what would happen if the university was forced to “Each university has their own mission, and we want their decision long before the afternoon meeting. cut that 15 percent from their budget, rather than push it to zero in on teaching,” he told the Jacksonville Financial They probably didn’t expect the presence of eight stu- off onto students? News and Daily Record in 2005. dents, pleading with the board to reconsider. Several stu- UNF President John Delaney said they would have to But again, the university has chosen these programs dents even provided personal testimonies of financial cut around 20 faculty. But nearly all of UNF’s 16,000 stu- over the students.

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