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WHAT DO YOU THINK? We want to know what YOU think so send in your comments and see your name in lights, well at least in The Sandspur. APRIL FOOLS EDITION VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 www.thesandspur.org April 02, 2007 SOME NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT, MOST OF IT THAT'S NOT
Construction! Goodbye to Mills Lawn
OODBYE MILLS: Students will not longer be able to play or trking tuation at the College, they thought it best to pave the lawn. a few added cross walk moun- tains. McKean got a facelift last its decision to finally solve tne lMicoie riea er year, when the dorm received parking space issue by providing Amanda Bynes is filming a movie tne slantspur layers of fresh paint and an addi more parking! on campus or when the "fox" tional entrance to the front of the While visitor and faculty during Fox Day is nestled in the mental expansion will be a vast, ' building as well as a larger lobby parking seemingly dominant the well manicured lawn. And what beneficial improvement for all ni a f - although much of the allergy campus' limited parking space a solution it is during this time students and employees. Con inducing carpet and ventilation and while the Fine Arts museum where south Florida is experienc struction begins tomorrow, and tious renovation projects. The system, and bathroom interi has recently devoured about six ing water restrictions: Mills lawn ALL campus parking will be projects are endless and tiresome ors stayed, much to our disdain, or so addition very sparse park will be one less acre or two that closed. Indefinitely. Even the to count but here are a few of the relatively the same. It seems the ing spaces, the Rollins communi needs excess everyday watering. parking garage. So don't drive latest installments on campus: Rollins staff is always working on ty has finally lent an ear to all the Not only that, the landscape and to school. Ever. Bike. Enjoy the Recently the Cornell Fine Arts providing updates to improve the complaints of unsubstantial park maintenance crew will have one coming summer-esque weather Museum was refurbished. Basi lives of students, faculty, staff and ing. The solution is so simple that less lawn to mow and replant and partake in environmentally cally the pre-existing and non visitors. many faculty and staff are won from year to year. activities such as commuting to functioning museum was com While all of this construction dering why that had not come up Senior Jordan Dunlap raves, campus minus a gas-guzzling pletely leveled and replaced with and renovation has been much with it sooner: Mills Lawn will "Yes! I am so ecstatic that there machine. On another note, con a replica. Fox Hall received gen needed and helpful, Rollins has be mowed down and filled with will finally be enough parking struction .and renovations for erous interior decorating refine a new development which will asphalt to increase the parking spaces to accommodate the cam Ward will begin soon, and con ments and this summer, a layer provide a solution to an age old availability by over fifty percent! pus community. It's too bad I'm tinue into the summer. Oh wait, of brick got spewed onto the Holt annoyance on the college cam- What a brilliant solution it is in- graduating while this is being that's for real. main road, with the amenities of ARE YOU CONFUSED? THE REAL NEWS BEGINS ON PAGE 5 THE SLANTSPUR -APRIL 02, 2007 APRIL FOOLS EDITION VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 Hollywood
Rollins. A Rollins student agrees with them and wonders "why hasn't Rollins been portrayed in more movies," Alaina Smith '07. Directors have finally caught ter ra on and plan to make this little on the Ro school in Winter Park and big star. major nw With its blossoming scenery, aged
the campus can become the per the Rolliri! fect backdrop for any movie. M. Not only are these movies In the { bringing the stars to Rollins, but has been 1 this also gives some Rollins stu* jor motior hosted th< und the Re Each weei portunity mous and iecided to le, muc Holly vv< planned b loliins ca
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SPIELBERG'S STAR: Steven Spielb pus and was the first to receive a sta fall, and a movie premiere will be tier held on campus the week before winter break. they have never seen such a beau- Britney Spears in Coma for Cascade Overdose after only a week Spears was are devastated by this bizarre so troubled that she needed an but tragic event for the pop out. She most likely snuck into princess. There has been an the kitchen in search for a sharp overwhelming amount of tears object. However, it is policy to shed for Britney. Her music has keep sharp objects locked up. been an inspiration to many Britney Spears was found with young girls. There is talk about an empty super-sized bottle of a strike on Cascade dish soap. Fresh Scent Cascade. People have been pouring, the A nurse found Spears uncon remainder of their dish soap scious on the floor of the kitchen down the drain and taking their and immediately sought after frustrations out on their empty more help. Spears was rushed Cascade bottles. to a hospital immediately. The Britney Spears has been Cascade dish soap done consid acting a little strange lately to erable damage to her immune say the least. After her recent system. Doctors reported that strange activities people are not Nicole Hogan at lower doses the dish soap finding it hard to believe that the slantspur would have simply caused nau Britney would take on such an sea. However, since Britney outlandish stunt. Her recent Britney Spears, after being Spears ingested such a high shaving of her hair and getting readmitted to rehab, has been amount of dish soap it caused numerous tattoos has put many hospitalized and is in a coma a disintegration of some of her people on edge about what she COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS due to an overdose of Cas vital organs. will do next. TAKEN HARD: The recent coma of the pop-idol is devastating the cade dish soap. Apparently, People around the country entire country. VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 APRIL FOOLS EDITION
Learn to be a Real Man Through the Zen in the Art of Manliness
Cup Series. Turn your televi This years classic was held out Daniel Travis sion to these events on the side of Birmingham, Alabama, the slantspur weekend and you will receive on Lay Lake. The tournament a dose of testosterone so potent was won by an Alabama native and relatively unknown angler, Boyd Duckett. Duckett's final weight beat a much more prov en angler, Skeet Reese, by less than half a pound. This was all just as exciting for the armchair viewer as an late December overtime game between wild card hopefuls. If you are a man and want the world to know it, Your oth er television choice for Sunday afternoon viewing is NASCAR. Watching cars zoom around in circles at 150 mph while being serenaded by the sweet sounds of a stock car and Darrell Wal- trip's voice for hours on end can induce a heightened mental state which I refer to as a man- trance. Whereas bass fishing is man vs. wild, the struggle here COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS is man vs. machine. It takes RELAX AND FISH: A real man can find true peacefulness in Bass some cajones to tame the mass Fishing. The quiet outdoor and the thrill of the catch is a real sport. of twisted steel underneath the COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS logo. Another manly choice is doing now, which is probably hood for hundreds and hun ZEN BELIEF: A real man doesn't worry about football being over Clint Bowyer who drives the something stupid like talking dreds of laps. It is very easy because they know there is Bass Fishing and NASCAR. no. 7 Jack Daniels car. A more about college basketball (not to choose a driver to support sophisticated man might give even a real sport), and pick up Every year, a few days into as their sponsors reveal more that you may just vomit motor his allegiance to Jamie McMur- tournament bass fishing and the cold empty month of Feb about their character than one oil. Only the NFL can rival the ray driver of the no. 26 Crown ruary, a painful realization hits would assume. I like Martin NASCAR. Maybe you'll finally every man who spends Sunday manliness that is Bass fishing Royal car. grow some hair where you've and NASCAR. Truex Jr. His hood is adorned mornings sinking into a La- with a giant Bass Pro Shops So basically if you claim to always wanted it. Z-Boy. No more football. No Bass fishing is the ultimate be a man, drop what you are more bone crunching, teeth exercise in man vs. wild. The rattling hits. No more exces keen intellect of the largemouth sive endzone celebrations. No bass is pitted against a man and more news about T.O. No more his rod. The bass is armed with reasons to dodge responsi his primal knowledge of sur bilities on Monday nights. No vival, the professional angler more real reason to wake up on armed with his ability to locate Sunday. a bass by just tasting the wa Some men turn to the ter. Professional bass fishing Sports Illustrated Swimsuit is now covered with extreme (which is released in mid Feb detail by the ESPN family of ruary to curb male suicide networks. The final weigh ins rates) for comfort. Some start on Sunday to determine the prematurely following their fa winner include fireworks and vorite baseball team. The sad angler specific theme music. dest and most desperate of the Also, through watching the bunch turn to college basket elite series of tournaments, ball for unprofessional sub-par you will gain knowledge to sports entertainment. These increase your bass fishing suc forlorn football fans are look cess rate, and we all know that ing in the wrong place. there is no quicker way to a ladies heart than the ability to I tell you true men to turn land that lunker bass. your tear-filled e"yes to the glo COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS The Bassmasters Classic, ry that is the Bassmaster Elite THRILL OF A LIFETIME: Watching as men race other men down a track is probably one of the most the yearly kickoff of the bass Series and the NASCAR Nextel exciting sports out there. Just be ready for a head-on-collison. fishing tournament season. Division I Football Comes to Rollins be available to Rollins by either Justin Dottavio being fired by Alabama or run the slantspur ning further away from pressure, and I hear his wife likes Winter Okay football fans... get Park. ready for this one. Rollins Col Rollins has had to over lege will be playing Division I come adversity along the way in football starting in May of 2008. this quest to have a D-I football This is Rollins College's first D-I program. The residents of Win team in the history of the school. ter Park have been complaining The Tars will begin construction about possiblejncreases in noise on "Don Shula Stadium" this and traffic, and a decrease in summer. The location of the sta available parking. However, the dium will be on the current site parking problem may be easily of the Annie Russell Theater. solved. With the near $400 in The 45,000-person stadium will crease in tuition for the Hamilton feature luxury boxes, interactive Holt MHR students, a parking gaming zones, and one of the garage is now affordable. How fifteen flat screen TV's from the ever, the reason for the increase Bush Science Center's technol is still unknown. A NEW SPORT AT ROLLINS: Football pushes its way onto the Sandspur field. No longer will soccer be ogy classroom. You might be asking your the popular sport on campus. The Head Coaching search self what to expect from the team with popped collars, backwards has begun, and includes ex-Dal in their first few years? The an ble expectations would be incon cot" contest over the next com venient yet pricey parking, and a visors, and the Rollins parking ing months. Please submit your las Cowboy and Miami Hurri swer is a lot of things. I expect TT slow team website. decal will have a DMB logo. Ru if)p?ic to- nlpasebp-^orecreative- cane ny John- good end zone dances, a lot of In Rollins quest to become mor has it Jack Johnc^*~ .ill 1 '1jns.edu, and , ^?.ch Nick theatrics, and if you've ever been the next UF, 60,000 more stu the ^M ! Light _d fo? eat inaugural Dan, ana Rollins M ("hair to the Crummer School Cafete dents will be admitted in the fall. And the moment you've all season of Rollins Tars Football. Don Rogers. If Nick Saban has a ria, you'd be safe to expect over It will also be required for every been waiting for M \e Sandspur sub-.500 season in 2007, he will priced concessions. Other possi- one to start wearing polo shirts will be hosting name the mas APRIL FOOLS EDITION VOL. 113 ISSUE 23
How Did This Holiday Begin? For Real joking, as it is the first April Fool's from April 1 to January 1. ing "April Fool's" when the per literature. Day since Sept. 11. More so than Because communications son realizes he or she has been He said notable American Gerald Ensley other recent national tragedies, were slow in the 1500s, it was tricked. examples were fashioned by Knight Kidder Newspapers the terrorist attack cast a somber years before many people found McGregory said families and Mark Twain (the Duke and the pall over Americans. There has out or believed that the New friends often have long-standing King in "Huck Finn"), Joel Chan The French started it. Great been an unofficial moratorium on Year had changed dates, and April Fool's gags: A colleague's dler Harris (Br'er Rabbit), car literary figures like Herman Mel gallows humor regarding the at those people continued to hold mother calls every year to tell her toons ("Bugs Bunny is Br'er Rab ville embraced it. Radio stations tack and a muting of many forms traditional New Year's celebra daughter it's snowing, a gag that bit reincarnated") _ and Herman live for it. of frivolity. tions on April 1. That led others worked when the colleague was Melville. Though the 19th centu And right now, your shoe But with the official sanction to ridicule them as "fools," send a child. ry author is known best for seri lace is untied. Ha! April Fool! of April Fool's Day, the restraints them on a "fool's errand" and try The media often participates ous works such as "Moby Dick," Yep, it's today: April 1, may loosen. Which wouldn't be a to make them believe something in April Fool's Day. For many Melville also wrote "The Confi known as April Fools Day. The bad thing. false was true. years, the FSU independent news dence Man," a novel about a con day you check the sugar bowl "People need some sort of Eventually, the ridicule paper, Florida Flambeau, pub man on a Mississippi River boat. before you mistakenly sprinkle release from shock and sadness," evolved into a tradition of prank- lished an entire issue of fanciful The novel is set on a single day _ salt on your cereal. The day you said Jerrilyn McGregory, a profes playing on April 1, and by the stories on April 1. In 1985, Sports April 1 _ and was released by the check in the mirror for a "Kick sor of folklore at FSU. "When the 18th century the custom had Illustrated published a cover publisher on April 1,1857. Me" sign if someone pats you on Challenger crashed, jokes began spread to England, Scotland and story about Sidd Finch, a pitcher The popularity of April the back. The day any story that circulating almost immediately. the American colonies. who could supposedly throw a Fool's Day is part timing, said seems too fantastic to be true But we haven't had anything like Scotland turned the obser baseball 168 mph. Tallahassee ra McGregory, as it comes at the probably isn't true. that with 9-11, except for a few vance into a two-day event, with dio stations almost annually try end of winter and "allows people The day when lame jokes, Osama bin Laden jokes. the second day devoted to pranks to one-up each other with hoaxes to get in a more jovial mood." But elaborate pranks and oddball "Perhaps it's been too soon involving the human posterior _ and pranks: On April 1, 1994, a it persists as a custom, she said, events are not only expected but to interact on that level. But there which many credit for the "Kick local station broadcast a story because people need an official welcomed with childish glee. may be a letting down of the hair Me" sign prank. In France, the that Bobby Bowden was going to day to be silly. Even when the joke's on us. (today)." day is known as Poisson d'Avril be replaced as FSU football coach "Our other lunatic time, Hal "There is a human fascina April Fool's Day is not so ("April Fish," which is the term by Jimmy Johnson. loween, has been taken away by tion with being tricked," said much a holiday as it is a custom yelled when a person is tricked), Bickley sees April Fool's Day tricks that are more dangerous Florida State University English and no one is entirely sure how it and a common prank is to tape a as part of the great literary tradi than the traditional tricks and professor Bruce Bickley. "As long got started. paper fish to a child's back. tion involving "trickster" charac treats," she said. as we don't get hurt too badly, The generally accepted ex In the United States, there ters, whose ability to dupe others "But April Fool's is still cen and as long as it's well done, we planation is it started in France are common April Fool's Day is celebrated. He said the trick tered around harmless fun and admire being tricked." in 1582, the year the Gregorian gags: Substituting salt for sugar, ster tradition in literature can be pranks. It's a release valve in our Some speculate today's ob calendar was instituted to cor setting a friend's clock back so found in Biblical stories, Bud contemporary world." servance may yield a bountiful respond more closely to the solar the friend is late and presenting dhist teachings, Homeric verse harvest of tricking, pranking and year and moved New Year's Day tall tales as the truth _ then yell and African, European and Asian The Richest Girls of Rollins College
jackpot of $70 million last year college and two of the Rochelle Siegel and $130 million this year. most popular girls on the slantspur They still kept their promis campus. Keeping the es and split the money. Last year, news quiet is impos Nicole bought a house in Gaines sible to do on a small Two years in a row The ville and Rochelle bought herself campus like Rollins. Sandspur staff has come into a summer home near the beach. Both girls plan large amounts of money. The two will receive pay on staying at Rollins Just like last year Nicole ments for the rest of their lives.. and finishing up their Fluet and Rochelle Siegel went Nicole told The Sandspur schooling and have on their weekly grocery store trip that she never watches the news, no plans on taking and as a joke the two bought a but stayed up late doing her time off. lottery ticket. They made a deal homework the night the lottery The future plans are to spend the sum mer over in Europe touring the coun tries of Italy, Greece, France, England, Sweden, Ireland and Germany, to name just a few. Rochelle is planning on buy ing her own jet to make the long trip overseas a bit more comfortable for her self and inviting all of her guests to join her aboard and along the four week trip. Ni cole will be setting up • ROCHELLE SIEGEL/The Sandspur a private chauffeur service RICH GIRLS: Rollins Millionaires are living the life of luxury to take them to each desti now. nation in Europe. Once they return, Ni the money for the rest of their boost of income, the girls may cole is going to begin construc lives and how much of it they are have two feet in the door and tion on her four bedroom, three going to save. be just one step closer to their bathroom weekend apartment As of. now, Nicole plans on dreams. near Disney which she will share opening up a children's book The best part of winning the with her boyfriend Dave. The store in which she will contact lottery is that they never have to two spend a lot of time at Disney, guest writers to stop by and do struggle for money, and instead so the closer the better. weekly reading for local children. live their lives in the ways they According to many, the best Rochelle's plans are to pursue a always dreamed. thing to do when a person wins career in journalism. With this the lottery is to get away from ROCHELLE SIEGEL/The Sandspur anyone who may have influence over you. Plan alone what you The first four pages of this weeks paper represents the that if they won anything, even numbers were announced and will do with your own money one dollar, they would split the thought she was either dreaming and do not worry about what Sandspur (or Slantspur) version of April Fools. All winnings equally. And then or just overly exhausted. But after anyone else thinks. articles are completely made up and do not reflect truth when the winning numbers were checking over 20 times, she real Both Nicole and Rochelle in any way whatsoever. Please do not take offense and announced it turned to be them. ized she held the winning ticket. have planned on spending some Nicole Fluet and Rochelle The newest millionaires of time out of town deciding on simply enjoy reading them! -The Sandspur Staff Siegel, won the Florida lottery Rollins become the talk of the what they are going to do with TheO ROLLINandspuS COLLEGE • WINTER PARK, FLORIDrA
THE STUDENT VOICE OF ROLLINS COLLEGE SINCE 1894 VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 www.thesandspur.org April 2, 2007
I think that upperclassmen should get first choice of whatever dorms they want. Ward should not be all fresh man, and neither should any other dorm. -Allyson Ostwalt '09
I think that it makes more sense for upper- classmen to be able to live in Ward as well be cause the people who have experienced Ward before would obviously appreciate the reno vations more. Like any dorm, I'm sure that people wouldn't respect it like they should, but if upperclassmen lived in it, I feel like. they would value the improvements enough to keep the building in good shape. -Elyse Moore '09
NEWS 2 HOLT NEWS 4 ENTERTAINMENT 6 LIFE & TIMES 10 OPINIONS 13 SPORTS 15 THE SANDSPUR -APRIL 02,2007 NEWS VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 College Sees Light in Students' Campaign
Kevin Spear met campus
It's a modern version of a campus anti-war protest. Rollins College students called for real action from school administrators to help put a chill in global warming. What they got was expensive solar equipment and a build ing to put it on. Without pay or college credit, Rollins students then helped install the equipment, which will generate roughly 1.6 kilowatts for fluorescent ceiling lights in a science labo ratory. When the juice flows in the next week or so, Rollins will join colleges and universities COURTESY OF MCT CA3MPUS nationwide where students are leading efforts to shine a thing like this." "The payoff is in decades adjustable to squarely face the gest issues of our generation," light on energy alternatives The payoff after countless _ 50, 60, 70 years or more." sun during changing seasons. Veazey said about climate that don't increase air pollu meetings and presentations, Hemphill said. "It's built to last "Next year's freshmen are change blamed in large part tion and climate change. but not confrontations or de that long, like our buildings going to come in and assume on power-plant emissions of "It's not like we're out pro mands, was nearly $40,000. are built to last 100 years." this is standard stuff here," carbon dioxide. "If we don't testing with bullhorns," said- Roughly half paid for the pan Environmental studies Siry said. do the right thing within the Sara Shaw, 21, an environ els and the remainder bought professor Joe Siry said solar That's rapidly become the next 10 years, there's no going mental studies major. "This is steel framing and other mount panels don't incur the hid norm at other schools, said back." a generation that would rather ing materials. den health and environmental Liz Veazey, regional coordina Fiona Harper, assistant bi do something than just talk That's significantly more costs of strip mining and long tor for the Southern Energy ology professor at Rollins, said about it." expensive than a homeowner distance hauling by trains that Network, which encourages the eight solar panels on the Shaw and other students might pay for a housetop sys come with the nation's top en Southeastern schools to col science-building roof should started their quest nearly three tem. But the Rollins solar as ergy choice: coal. laborate on alternative-energy only be a start. years ago. They searched for sembly is highly exposed to WTiat's more, the panels strategies. "What better way for a col grant money, but that went winds and required stronger will make an impression that When she started in 2004, lege to make a difference in this nowhere. So they turned to anchoring hardware. classroom lectures can't con only about five universities community," she said. "There's Rollins officials, who said they To Kirk Hemphill, Rollins vey. Siry said future courses had student-driven energy a lot of flat roofs on campus. would try to find funding. College maintenance manager, will use the panels as a teach programs. Today, students We get all this sun and I see no "We definitely had to be the array was relatively cheap ing tool. They are mounted are pursuing energy efficiency solar panels on them." persistent and let them know and is in keeping with an insti on a second-story roof of the and alternatives at more than we were serious," she said. tution that plans to stay in one Bush Science Center and have 30 schools, she said. "Rollins has never done any place for a long time. eight separate panels that are "I think it's one of the big-
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Skating Comedy Gives Ferrell a Chance to Sparkle WWF-style televised brawling ditor who realizes his humdrum he was going to do all his skating be because of all that _ you can't Terry Lawson after they tie for the gold at the life is being appropriated by a himself. I just smiled secretly to resist it. Just try to walk by a TV World Championships. novelist in last year's "Stranger met campus myself. On the second day he was when skaters of that caliber are Three-and-a- half years later, than Fiction," providing the voice like, "What did I get myself into?' in the groove. You're hooked and Chazz is a drunken has-been do of the Man in the Yellow Hat in You get really sore really quick, They call it the Paul Newman amazed by it every time." ing third-rate ice shows, and lim the adaptation of the children's not to mention black-and-blue." Syndrome: An actor takes a role, Ferrell says that in his relent my is selling skates at a sporting book "Curious George" and play as, say, a race car driver, and then As for all the real-life Olym less quest to "appear in a parody goods store when Coach _ played ing a depressed guitar-strumming develops a lifelong love for the pic skaters who have cameos in of every sport played anywhere by TV's "Coach" Craig T Nelson go-fer for a reclusive novelist in the film, including Nancy Ker sport. on the globe," he is filming "Semi- _ discovers a loophole that would "Winter Passing" rigan, Brian Boitano and Peggy Will Ferrell, who plays a Pro," a comedy about the former allow them to compete as part . "As cliched as this might Fleming, Ferrell says they were American Basketball Association, competitive ice skater in his new ners. It turns out the official by sound, it's really more about the well aware of what they were once a stepping stone for NBA comedy "Blades of Glory," does laws failed to designate that part characters than the genre for me getting into when they agreed to hopefuls. not have that syndrome. ners meant male-female. at this point," says Ferrell. "I'm lampoon the sport they love. "I have not had my feet in a Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, the "There's obviously something like every other actor out there, pair of those diabolical torture de "You know, it would be pret owner-coach-player of Michigan's inherently funny in the idea," says looking for good characters to ty hard to do what they did if vices since the day we wrapped Flint Tropics. The comedy costars Ferrell. "The question is whether play." they didn't have a sense of humor Woody Harrelson, Andre Benja the movie, and I feel I can state it's funny enough to fill up a fea Will Speck, who co-directed about themselves. The costumes, min, recent Oscar nominee and with some certainty I never will ture film. About halfway through "Blades" with losh Gordon, points the routines and the whole spec one-time "Bad News Bear" Jackie again," he says. "Unless, of course, the script, I realized that wasn't a out that "Will has been creating tacle _ it's completely over-the- Earle Haley and Andy Richter. this is some kind of monster hit problem." characters for years," starting with top. and the public demands the se And unlike most films set in The script also came highly "Saturday Night Live" and con "And yet there's this hushed quel. But maybe if that happens, Michigan, the cast and crew will recommended from Ferrell's tinuing in Jilm. "He is an amazing atmosphere of seriousness when be in Flint "soon, very' soon," ac I can be the coach. In fact, I'll just longtime friend and fellow afi performer who is so good at what they are on the ice, with the an cording to Farrell, for about five throw that out there right now." cionado of absurd comedy, Ben he does that you forget that, as the nouncers whispering and otter days of location shooting. Ferrell hadn't been on ice Stiller, who is one of the produc saying goes, comedy is hard." ing this academic commentary skates in years _ "like, why would "It's all about authenticity," ers of the movie, which Stiller had Made harder yet with compe about every minute flick of the he says. "To be a Flint Tropic, you I?" _ when he was offered the role developed for himself. tition skates, which Ferrell points wrist. And yet for all that _ may got to live like a Flint Tropic." of the uber-macho egomaniacal, "Once again, taking Ben's out are more ankle-challeng hard-rock, hardcore and soft- table scraps," says Ferrell. Stiller ing than recreational or hockey bellied Chazz Michael Michaels ultimately decided against do skates. in "Blades" which is, roughly to ing the movie because he felt the Though Ferrell gives credit to skating what "Talladega Nights" character was too similar to the the choreographers and skating was to stock-car racing, "except male model he played in 2001 's pros who helped him get through with sparklier uniforms," says the "Zoolander." Ferrell also appeared his ice time, he was all too happy actor. in "Zoolander," as fashion mogul when the stunt doubles and the Ferrell plays the swaggering, Mugatu. effects team attended to the heavy belching, lifelong rival to beloved "Yeah, but I have no problem lifting _ including when he hoists one-time child prodigy limmy repeating myself," jokes Ferrell. Heder over his head in the rou MacElroy, played by Ion Heder "My standards aren't as rigorous tines. ("Napoleon Dynamite"), who, as Ben's." "Jon was so funny. Be with Chazz, is ba3nned for life Ferrell has branched out far fore we started he told me about from singles competition when ther than Stiller _ playing the up how he was going into traii3iing, their antipathy boils over into tight Internal Revenue Service au- and was really getting into it and Photos Courtesy of Dreamworks Pictures Crossword New CD by The Fratellis ACROSS 12 3 4] •:: 6 7.8 9 j M-o i"i n 13 1 Golfer Karrte 5 Audible kiss lib 1:6 the Backstairs, Baby Fratelli, and chance The Fratellis have to crack 10 Skater Upinski Nicole Fluet personal favorite Whistle for the the US top 10, but it's going to be 14 Throw hard i9 the sandspur Choirs. almost impossible with our appe 15 Paddle craft Further US exposure, includ tite for Fergie, Justin Timberlake, 16 Vivacity 1" _l 17 Location %< at mm The Fratellis first full length ing a March 23rd appearance on and Gwen Stefani at an all time 18 Furious LP, Costello Music, has produced Conan O'Brien, a newly released high. 19 Privation wmL : " Mm 5 Top 100 singles in the UK, but music video of scantly clad pin Previews of Costello Music, 20 Old-time up girls, and a limited live tour tour dates, and music videos can newsman 25 28 27 1 flp: •;?$ •30 ' 31 32 thanks to wide release, their sin 22 Experiments gle Flathead is currently #76 on of the US, will surely move Flat be found at www.thefratellis.com 23 Lebron James' 33 34 •flps flJ35 flla?; 3S the US Billboard charts. 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Ben Folds Launches Joss StonB Introducing Joss Stone Concert Tour met campus Randy Newman had an Somewhere between Mary Len Righi awesome point in "Red J. (sans the drama) and Amy met campus necks.' I have no point in Winehouse (without the at my song." Ben Folds is between records, titude) fits sassy soulful Joss Folds' most recent does on the wailing "Girl They and that, says the pop-rock sing- Stone, the very nearly 20-year- studio album, "Songs for Won't Believe It." But through ler-songwriter-pianist, means his old Brit vocalist. There's a cheer- Silverman," a ballad-heavy out this collection, Saadiq takes concerts are likely to be one of iness to Stone that doesn't usu disc about growing older, her gruff joviality and lines it up two things, "a greatest hits show ally exist within the 3funky-girl came out in April 2005. proper-like with authoritative or something really bizarre." framework, something gleeful However, last Octo melodies, girl-group harmonie "Usually what happens in in her phrasing and shiny in her ber, he released the com and slick grooves, especially these interim periods, it ends up choice of new material that el- pilation disc "Supersunny- on the big tunes like "Put Youi being a free-for-all," he says over vates "Introducing" above her speedgraphic," a collection Hands on Me" and the cunning the phone from his Nashville, revious CDs. Raphael Saadiq of previously released vintage sound of "Baby Baby Term., home, after being asked j(Tony! Toni! Tone! singer, TLC material from three EPs Baby." You just wish Stone got what to expect at his new show. producer) helps Stone pursue released in 2003 and 2004, more intimate more often. But "There's no real agenda _ no pro that lightness of being. She can the Internet and a movie maybe getting cozy comes after mo, no pressure." itill go dark and hard, as she soundtrack. the "Introduction," hmm? But will he perform his hilar While "Supersun- ious, deadpan-geek cover of Dr. nyspeedgraphic" smartly Dre's gangsta rap track "Bitches showcases Folds' edgier "Whatever and Ever Amen," Ain't Sh-t" that made it onto the songwriting and impressive ar which included the hits "Brick," •Mika: Hot 100 as well as the Hot Digital ray of musical influences, Folds a ballad about abortion, "Song for Tracks chart? ife in Cartoon Motion is somewhat self-conscious in the Dumped" and "Battle of Who "Of course," he says of the discussing it, perhaps because in Could Care Less." Folds went solo song, which in his hands becomes Dan DeLuca some quarters it was slammed as with 2001's widely praised "Rock- a swipe at suburban hip-hop cul a marketing ploy. in' the Suburbs," playing nearly met campus ture. "That (tune) breaks my rule "All I can really do, months all of the instruments himself. for covers _ I use a song one, two after having released something, These days, his name is al tours at most. I feel I helped write "Grace Kelly," the first sin- is just criticize it," he offers. "My most invariably invoked whenev it, that it's my hit, too." le on the debut album from attitude is, "Let's just get the next er a writer needs a handy point of And does he feel uncomfort lika _ born Mica Penniman to record out.' ... comparison to describe a new pi able using the n-word? ebanese and American par- "A lot of the songs were In ano-playing pop-rock artist. And E "When we were in the studio nts in Beirut _ starts off with ternet-only releases that I decided how does Folds feel about that? doing it, people were stopping sample^pf the former Princess needed to be on a real piece of "That's as flattering as it by saying, "Have you lost your ... Jof Monaco opining that "getting plastic. They were very successful •**^ets," he replies, "but I take it with mind?' I knew We had a hit then," (angry doesn't solve anything." poised to do the same Stateside on the Internet, but I didn't think a grain of salt. When I was start says Folds. jAu contraire. "Grace Kelly" is a He's certain to win the hearts they would last. I was surprised ing out, it was very, very frustrat "Of course, there is some eked-off flipping-of-the-bird and minds of devotees of glee how well they held together." ing hearing (himself compared to) discomfort level (about using the •to a record company foolish ful high camp, from Queen to Folds, 40, a Winston-Salem, Billy Joel Over and over again. ... n-word). But I talked to (bassist) enough to not sign the poper- Elton John to the Pet Shop Boys N.C., native, came to national It was insulting because people Willie Weeks, a black man who atic, piano-playing big-star-to- At this early stage, Mika is at attention in the early 1990s as making the comparison didn't played on Randy Newman's be when they had the chance. times guilty of brandishing his jfrontman for Ben Folds Five. The mean it in a nice way. And that (song) 'Rednecks' (which also •Their bad. The song, which is influences too openly _ though guitarless alt-rock act released was doubly insulting for Billy jused the n-word) and he said, ^ thoroughly fabulous account "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" a self-titled debut disc in 1995, Joel, implying that he was washed "That Randy's crazy' He told me of one 23-year-old Londoner's is a fairly hilarious update of but broke through with 1997's up in some kind of way." efforts to make it to the top, no "Fat Bottomed Girls." You can after what it takes, has already forgive that copycatism because topped the UK charts, and the his talents are so abundant. •23-year-old Londoner seems
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"Drums and Guns" opens with quietly buzzing feedback and Alan Sparhawk proclaim chords in "Violent Past," the las ing, like a doomsday town crier, of "D&G's" meditations on ou "All the soldiers, they're all go bellicose times. These brief, un-| ing to die. All the little babies, settling, stately songs burn wit they're all going to die." This is bitter, understated intensity. not a 3fun album, but it's a re warding one. Low diverged from their spartan slowcore aesthetic with 2005's Dave Fridmann-pro- duced "The Great Destroyer." For "D&G," guitarist Sparhawk and his wife, dnimmer Mimi arker, enlisted a new bass Elayer, Matt Livingston, and ridmann returns _ although the aggressive rock riffs don't. ^Instead, martial rhythms haunt 'Sandinista," and eerie electron ics rumble and click through out, gently propelling "Always JFade" and "Dragonfly." "All I can do is fight, even if I know you're right," sings Sparhawk atop churchy organ THE SANDSPUR VOL. 113 ISSUE 23
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sorts of reasons. Some say it's Richard Sevens about the art, or self-expression, "The general public Seattle times, mctcampus or protest against a corporate lacks the recognition that there ownership, or society's imbal is a certain segment of society for Tom Dobrowolsky, a Uni ance, or all of the above. They say whom there is no real means of versity of Washington graduate government-gray blank walls are self-expression," he says. "Pro student rapt by how we commu oppressive and public advertis test was certainly a part of it. I nicate in, and with, public space, ing is manipulative. was a child then, and I needed stops to regard a metal door in Ultimately, they say, approval. But after a while (fac Seattle's Bohemian-hippie Fre tagging means I exist, I'm here, ing constant governmental eras mont neighborhood. Set back in a and I've got a place in the public ing and the threat of prosecution) foot-deep alcove, it has become a forum. I, too, can advertise. it no longer was worth the risk." temporary bulletin board, a chat This vandalism matters Assistant Seattle City room of sorts, of spray-painted because how a place is structured Attorney Edward McKenna scribbles we call graffiti tags. determines how we relate to and has handled many graffiti cas ALAN BERNER / Mctcampus These marks can't be behave in it, sociologists say. es, charging one suspect with 26 counts. Another defendant confused 3^vith graffiti art. They Graffiti is one of those unsanc of cement-gray paint. Twenty the various graffiti types: tags, found tagging so addictive that are labels, brands, and unread tioned layers that adds context. minutes later, they meet in the bubble and shadow letters, two despite losing a leg while paint able to those outside the subcul How we react to it varies widely. middle and the slate is wiped dominant pieces of mural qual ing a train, he kept doing it, after ture. It's a private conversation in Some of us fixate on it, burning clean. ity, and simple declarative state up the city's anti-graffiti hotline getting a prosthetic. public, like that cellphone yakker It will be marked up ments like, "freedom is free." several times a week, if not daily. on the bus. "From my experience, within a week. The rangers will Like Dobrowolsky, Iri- Others find it too mundane to Who left marks on the in Seattle, it appears to be mid return to buff it clean. Taggers na Gendelman and Giorgia Ai- even notice. door? Which came first? Do they dle-class males under 25," says come back. Rangers buff again. ello are graduate students and reply directly to one another? Dobrowolsky says McKenna. They often have sub A tit-for-tat conversation, you co-directors of Urban Archives. Are they part of the same group? studying and noting it does not stance-abuse problems. They might say. They peruse the 25-yard-long by How long have they been there, mean you like it. Just that it's all have low self-esteem. They "Prompt removal is the 15-foot-tall wall and regard the and why are they still? happening in the public square. all seek positive reinforcement key," says Frazier. "They will test space, styles and intents. "The city is a library," Once you start looking, however, from others who recognize their you over and over again, but we Gendelman, herself a says Dobrowolsky who co-di it seems to be everywhere. piece." keep it up, letting them know muralist whose master's thesis rects the UW's Urban Archives We have been writing Perhaps no Seattle tag we'll be back. Hopefully, they'll was titled "Communication Out project, which catalogs examples on walls since cave-dwelling ger was as prolific (or as caught) get bored someday, grow up and laws: Graffiti Control in Public of ephemeral street communica days, and literal texts from "Eat as Max Dornfeld. He was ex find something else to do." Space," points out evidence that tion. "Buildings are like books. the Rich" to "Kilroy was Here" pelled from high school for graf The rangers work pri straight-edge tools and per We annotate with addresses and have shown up on walls ever fiti in 1995, when he was 15. At marily on the city property the haps an aide or two were used signs. Graffiti, well, that's like the since. Modern American graffiti last count, he had tagged in three agency manages. Calls collected to make one of the big pieces. It scribbling you maybe shouldn't began on the streets and in the countries and four states. He had on its hotline (206-684-7587) are strikes her as a possible practice put in the margins, but do." subways of New York and Phila been arrested 48 times, charged routed to the appropriate agency. wall, a secluded place where the Like it or not, the mar delphia in the late 1960s. Almost 74 times, convicted at least 29 The school district and various talented have time and the begin ginalia we call graffiti is a fact of immediately, it became a subject times. He caused thousands of other governmental agencies ners can improve their style. She city life, and academics like Do of extreme polarization and seri dollars in damage. He picked a must buff their own property. can imagine kids working away browolsky and his partners be ous sociological study. tag particularly hostile to police. The north end of the city gets hit amid the smell of animal dung lieve it's worth documenting for The subculture speaks Sometimes they had to chase hardest _ or at least that is where and roar of Aurora Avenue traf research. of "bombs" and "bites" and him. Once, he jumped out a bus most of the calls come from. The fic below. It is human nature to "burns" _ to write, to copy, to ex window trying to escape. state Department of Transporta "A wall like this is a kind want to be noticed somehow, cel. It purports to possess a code He finally got sentenced tion cleans up 10,000 of communication that reveals so somewhere. We have some of rules and a hier square feet of graf cial relationships that couldn't be thing to say sometimes. Why archy of sorts that fiti a day in the Seattle seen or heard in any other way," else would bumper stickers ex separates "toys" area. she says. "As scholars, we look at ist? Or vote-for-so-and-so yard (know-nothings, Just as graffiti this and gain some understand signs? Ever notice those stickers punks, beginners) encompasses a range ing about people trying to inter on the backs of street signs? The from "kings" (tal of effort and ability, act. Here, you can see the artists, odd stencils? It all washes on the ented artists). It the spots the rangers the imitators and beginners. It's sea of official street texts point has its own way have to buff _ usually an open discussion on a secluded ing you here, warning you not of hurling insults in direct response to wall that no one would otherwise to park there or nudging you to and dismissing. citizen complaints _ use." ward what to buy. Holly vary between big and The three grad students Unofficial street signs wood and Madi . small. After erasing united from different disciplines are part of the public conversa son Avenue have the West Seattle piece, but the same interest in unoffi tion, and graffiti represents a par co-opted graffiti Frazier and Bradley cial communication. They began ticularly heated debate. Seattle designs for cam cruise through the the archives project in 2004, and city government, other agencies paigns that com Central Area. They in addition to amassing images, and private property owners re municate both hip mop dark brown paint they direct students who work ply to it with millions of dollars and slightly dan on tagged wood poles. for academic credit by docu worth of erasing through paint, gerous to sell just They spray and wipe clean vari menting all sorts of public com power-washing and simple hu about everything from movie to a year in jail before apparently ous markings on utility boxes. munication, including yard and man scrubbing. Private property tickets to expensive sneakers. In leaving town. They obscure stickers on a trash car art. One student study sur owners get fined if they don't the real world, most street graf Graffiti writers use the can by painting it a new coat of veyed bathroom-stall texts. buff the damage done to them. fiti consists of tags scribbled on side of a West Seattle overpass as dark green. One complaint turns The project's site is Mayor Greg Nickels es poles, walls, trash cans, doors a constant canvas. It gives them a out to be about a one-inch crayon www.urbanarchives.org, which pecially hates it. He subscribes and railings. Even a tree gets hit measure of night-time seclusion, scribble on a residential street contains a link to a searchable to the "broken windows" theory, once in a while. a good surface and a display for hydrant. database of images. Graffiti ac which essentially says a graf There is very little gang their finished products from a "If you don't remove counts for about half of the site's fiti tag left unbuffed invites more graffiti in Seattle, authorities say, stretch of Alki Beach below. the tags, it sends a message to 4,000 images from here and else graffiti, and a lot of graffiti even but it all involves, to a degree, Each week, the 50-foot- the vandal that it's not important where. Many would just like it tually tells the public the affected marking territory. Taggers use long, 8-foot-tall wall is plastered enough to respond," says Vic all to disappear, but Aiello em area is unsafe. property, both public and pri with work representing various Roberson, a Seattle Public Utili phasizes that their task is not to Despite the constant, vate, as a medium. It's part politi styles, abilities and maturity lev ties manager who oversees the judge whether graffiti is good or buffing and aggressive prosecu cal statement, but ultimately they els. The grassy shelf on which city's graffiti hotline and cleanup bad but to consider it and other tion, graffiti remains ubiquitous. want to be respected by peers they stood is littered with aerosol crew. unofficial street signs as part of It is vandalism _ the act meaning and noticed by the public. and beer cans. "Ignore it and you in the dialogue. as much as, if not more than, the A 30-year-old Seattle vi Stacy Frazier, painter vite them to come again. We're "We think it is impor writing on the wall. The major sual artist, who sprayed elaborate crew chief for the Seattle Public telling them you come and we'll tant as historical record," Aiello ity resembles the scribbling of a pieces in California until he was Utilities' Graffiti Rangers, and co wipe you out." says. "How do people out of the 2-year-old wielding a crayon, but 25, says he began as a teenager as worker Houston Bradley make If it is all about being mainstream communicate and some shows stunning creativity a way to literally and figuratively no artistic judgments as .they ar seen, what do you make of a shape culture? It's important, be and talent. leave his mark. He could com rive early one morning to erase it tree-shrouded wall along the east cause where does a researcher go Mostly teens and 20- municate and find acceptance all. They start on opposite ends, edge of the Woodland Park Zoo? to find an alternative record?" something men, writers give all from others who thought like he each toting a roller and a bucket If nothing else, it's a sampling of VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 LlFE&TlMES APRIL 02, 2007 -THE SANDSPUR
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His wife, Gertrude, 41, mean treatment and sympathy rather Timberline Knolls, a Chicago- Rob Johnson, 45, of Oak Julie ueardorff while, found she had a soft ad than dismissal. based women's residential treat Park, 111., found he was became mctcampus diction to shopping for adorable Technology can cause ad ment center. "It's easy to confuse too emotionally invested when but overpriced baby clothes that, dictive behavior "partly because an addiction with a compulsive he watched televised sporting When Rich and Gertrude ultimately, her children didn't each potential response required behavior. An addiction involves events. But rather than cut sports Lyons first admitted they were want to wear. She also had a bad for a cell phone message or an deception, denial and dishon out of his life altogether, he add powerless, television was the first habit of paging through mail-or e-mail doesn't always seem so esty. A compulsive behavior is ed more time with his wife and thing to go. Then they weaned der catalogs when she had better large, so why not mow some of more apparent such as repetitive three sons and began coaching themselves from mail-order things to do. them down now?" said Jeff Da behaviors and is a way to cope youth hockey teams, something catalogs, electronic gadgets and "It wasn't an overspending vidson, author of "Breathing with anxiety." he finds much more rewarding. sugar. Space: Living & Work Unlike a bad habit, a soft ad Suddenly, he didn't have time to Today, the Chica ing at a Comfortable diction also has an identifiable watch 15 hours of televised hock go couple is still grap Pace in a Sped-Up Soci cost of money, time, energy or ey a week. pling with their "soft ety" (BookSurge, $14.95). intimacy associated with it, ac "It took making a deeper in addictions," or ordi "The megalomaniac pay cording to Wright. Feeling numb, quiry into why I was watching so nary behavior that, if off of believing we can high, buzzed or in a trance when much," he said. overdone, can wreak stay on top.of it all can, you're doing an activity could Rich Lyons, president of Ly havoc on your life. Un intermittently, feel quite mean you have a problem. ons Consulting Group, realized like hard addictions, satisfying." "If you can't remember what that his trouble with electronic which are usually re Though there is still you did, ate, saw or bought, that's gadgets stemmed from his need lated to a chemical controversy over wheth a sign," she said. "But if you're to feel connected. But when he substance, you don't er compulsive Internet doing the activity and feel more was lost in the world of technol die from soft addic use and video-game alive and vital, and you're learn ogy, he didn't have any contact tions. playing merit a medi ing, growing, clear, grounded with his family. "But you don't re cal diagnosis, treatment and present, that's a passion. We The electronic connection, he ally live, either," said centers have opened up shouldn't confuse the two." realized, "is not nearly as nour self-help guru Judith around the world, in The first step to beating a ishing as connecting with my Wright, who labeled cluding Korea, China soft addiction requires making wife and kids," he said. "If I can the phenomenon more and the Netherlands. a commitment to higher quality understand the underlying need, than a decade ago. The Priory Clinic in Lon of life, said Wright, whose next the computer won't do it. I need People have al don is treating "texting "One Decision" weekend seminar connection with human beings." ways had ways to zone addicts," or those who begins April 13. Then you have The bad news is that soft ad out, but experts such might spend up to seven to recognize the deeper need or dictions never really go away. At as Wright say soft or hours a day writing and hunger under the soft addiction. one point, The Lyons family had mild behavioral ad receiving text messages "Make the distinction between ousted sugar, but it has crept back dictions are escalating, on their cell phones. what you want and what you into their lives. Even 10-year-old partly because there One of eight Ameri hunger for," Wright said. "You Morgan Lyons is working with are so many new things to get issue as much as it was buying cans exhibited at least one pos might want a new designer dress, her parents to eliminate the ad addicted to, and many have the stuff you knew you didn't need," sible sign of problematic Internet but you're really hungry to feel dictive substance. disposable income to do it. But Gertrude said. "It was like buy use, a Stanford study showed. good about yourself." "You get rid of one and a identifying and treating a soft ing" something felt like it would Psychological symptoms include Finally, use what Wright new one creeps in," Gertrude Ly addiction are difficult. Because make me feel better." an inability to stop using it, crav calls the "Math of More." Instead ons sighed. "The best you can do whether it's watching the NCAA The affliction strikes men ing more time online, neglect of of depriving yourself, add things is lessen them and put in systems tournament, checking e-mail, ed and women of all ages and races. family and friends and feeling to your life to crowd out the be to help cope." iting Wikipedia entries or walk A poll conducted for the Wright depressed and irritable when not havior you want to change. ing into Starbucks, the activities Institute, found that 91 percent at the computer. Physical signs are seemingly harmless behav of us have a soft addiction that can be carpal tunnel syndrome, iors. The problem is that when keeps us from feeling satisfied. sleep deprivation, backaches, eye even healthy habits such as exer "And the other 9 percent of peo strain and increased agitation. cise are used too often or for the ple are in denial," Wright said. "Job loss, financial loss and wrong reasons, they sap our time, Procrastination, watching marital loss can all be associated money and energy and prevent too much television and over with the disorder," said Kimberly us from living the life we want, working are the top three. But Young, founder of the Center according to Wright, founder of a new study shows college un for Internet Addiction Recovery, the Chicago-based Wright Insti dergraduates might be" addicted who has seen eveiything from tute, a personal development and to ta3nning under UV lights. The young children who withdrew training center and author of "The Internet, meanwhile, is being from life for online gaming to Soft Addiction Solution" (Jeremy blamed for a host of compulsive couples who divorced because of P. Taracher/Penguin, $16.95). behaviors. online affairs. Rich Lyons, 41, for example, In one recent high profile But others say spending habitually zoned out in front of case, James Pacenza of New York, large amounts of time behind the television at night, staying up who was fired for visiting an the computer doesn't necessarily far later than intended and wak adult chat room at work, is suing constitute an addiction. "It's more ing up crabby the next day. That IBM for wrongful termination. of a process of control and losing control," said psychologist Chris resulted in another soft addic Pacenza claims he has an addic DEAN HOLLINGSWOR Stout, an executive director at the tion, he said, to a-grumpy mood. tion, a disorder that deserves THE SANDSPUR: VOL. 113 ISSUE 23
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students and those who must bor-^ grams. walked away with significant de row money, they may qualify for Consider taking general edu Rebecca Rhodes posits made into my educational more subsidized loans. cation requirements at less expen contrib uting writer bank account—the Hamilton Holt Students should look for sive colleges. Students should School always met, and exceeded speak with their advisors before Everyone chooses a college my expectations. registering with other institutions for different reasons. For me, the Although I paid for all tuition to ensure the credits can be trans deciding factor was class size—I on my own, the increases im ferred. Students early in their wanted to attend a school where posed no inconvenience. Today, studies should "test out" of a re classes were small enough to en I continue to support them even quirement by taking advantage of gage the students in the educa as a Crummer Graduate School CLEP tests. It can not only save tional process student. money, but decrease the number through the Why, you of courses needed during the se interaction may ask? mester. between pro Through Students shyould also look fessor and my in ing at going part-time whether learner. volvement it is for the duration of their de H 6 w - with the gree or for a semester until they ever, this Rollins can adjust to the new costs. No may not be College matter what, students should stay the reason campus, I involved in their academic pur you chose to connected BE CREATIVE: When financing your suits. attend Ham with a education, sometimes students must Do not be allergic to loans. If ilton Holt. C e n't r a 1. think outside of federal financial aid. a $5,000 loan can make the differ There has Florida ence between earning a college been some leader degree and not finishing school ongoing con whom of the choice should be obvious. troversy this fered me No one wants to take out a term over the job loan, but anything worth having the Hamilton of my comes at a price. For some people Holt tuition Courtesy of Rebecca Rhodes dreams. WORTH THE COST: As a Holt alumna who the price is time, for some the sac increase. You Upon may be inter paid for her tuition out of pocket, Rhodes rifice is money and for everyone graduat ested to hear feels the tuition rates are well worth the edu else the price is both. ing this a Hamilton cation and opportunities she received. Whether it was an Economics past May, Holt Alum's course of the school of life, every- I walked perspective on this current topic. one knows: there is no such thing away with far more than simply as a free lunch. During my four years en an education. I was given the key rolled at Rollins College, I experi to unlock more doors to my future enced three tuition increases. This than most individuals can hope never seemed to bother me too from a degree at another insti much. Why you ask? Most likely tute. Today, I would pay that cost my indifference to the increase many times over again to have Financial Mistakes Students Make...at least what Tanisha Thinks Anyway was based upon the response I what I gained with my Hamilton would get every time I told some Holt experience. 1. Lack of planning/budgeting. Flying by the seat of your pants may be fun if you're skydiving one where I was enrolled, "Oh, What is your future worth but anything that involves your financial well-being should have a well-thought out plan. Plan you attend Rollins College?" or to you—knowing the reputation "That's an incredible school with for increases and additional academic resoures such as study aids. This may mean cutting back Rollins College has, what you are a solid reputation—you are very on your luxuary spending. getting from your education, and fortunate!" the doors that will open by simply The quality of professors at having this school listed on your 2. Assuming. Don't assume because you have a full-time job you can't receive financial aid and Rollins College was another fac resume? grants. Sure, you're in college but you don't know everything. Before you were told, did you tor for my disregard of the tuition The cost of an average car is know the FRAG was available to anyone regardless of their income? Of course you didn't. Fill increases. Not Only was I continu the price of a four year degree at out the FAFSA and speak to a financial aid counselor. _ ously praised for my choice school Hamilton Holt. The difference is of attendance, but I was also expe found in the value of each pur 3. Scholarships are for kids. This falls under assuming. Not all scholarships are limited to riencing the greatness of Rollins chase—while one depreciates the College first-hand every time I high school students. In fact, not only can you receive a lot of the scholarships they can, but other increases in value. stepped foot into the classroom. there are some scholasrships that high school students can't apply for~they are meant for you, Let's face it—you know when the nontraditional student. Check out www.fastweb.com a Professor is good. Each term, I
Going for the jackpot. Maybe its me, but I don't know anyone who wouldn't accept $500 with no strings attached. So don't turn up your nose to a "measly" $500 or $250 scholarship. Put it in perspective—that is a semester of books. Great Leaders Don't Sit On The Sideline. Accepting unneeded loans. Taking that extra $2,000 a semester even though your tuition is covered seems fun and fabulous but you should not take more than you need. If the money will be used as an investment in your future, to supplement your lost income to maintain your household (see #1 again) then okay. But if at the end of the semester, you only have more Who: Hamilton Holt Student Govern clothes and entertainment to show for that money then, how should I say this, that's a pretty ment Association (HHSGA) stupid move. Even non math majors should be able to figure out this equation. If Sally accepts What: Holding HHSGA Week $2,000 in loans for eight semesters how much does she owe once she graduates? When: April 2nd-5th; from 6pm-7pm Where: There will be two informa 6. Listening to the Know-it-alls. That means me too. Though I would like to think I'm dish tion tables. One between Crummer ing out some good advice, I'm not a financial aid counselor. Don't believe everything "they" say. Rollins College Financial Aid Office can be contacted at (407) 646-2173. Their Web site is: and Bush and the other in front of Cornell Social Sciences http://www.rollins.edu/finaid/ (CSS). Why: Simple, to recruit new senators for the upcoming Fall semester How would you feel if The Sandspur did not have a There will be tons of fliers, brochures and information $5 Holt News Section? Stay tuned for next week's issue as about what the organization does and how even busy we discuss why it is a strong possibility the Hamilton Holt students can get involved. We'll have free beverages Holt School will no longer be represented in the Rollins and snacks for students. Ll M College newspaper. VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 HOLT NEWS THE SANDSPUR -APRIL 02, 2007 Dean: Tuition Increase to Close Gap Between
the increase for Holt School. Tanisha Mathis and beyond." faculty in 2006-2007. students have been (1) to create a Institutions such as VCC and The issue of course availablity, Some full-time Rollins faculty new deferred payment system the sandspur UCF are state-funded and can variety and majors that need taught on "overload" status. This for those students who receive receive, depending on the state, reassessment was mentioned status means a member teaches an tuition reimbursement from their The decision to increase the up to forty to sixty percent of the Hamilton Holt School's tuition by when students were asked to additional course than the regular companies; (2) to implement a actual cost of students' education submit their initial reaction load of six courses a year. new payment plan for students twenty six percent this month left from state appropriations many students uncertain of the regarding the tuition increase. In 2006-2007 academic year, who wish to pay their tuition according to Carrier. Last year the Hamilton Holt School thirty-four percent of the Holt monthly over the academic year; implications, if any, it would have "Out of on their immediate and long- conducted the undergraduate courses were (3) to communicate with students state residents Noel-Levitz "onload" -meaning they were about opportunities for financial range academic and financial attending public ti well-being. Try to Offset Some of th Adult Student a part of the faculty member's aid and scholarships; and (4) institutions Priorities regular six-course teaching load. to make fundraising for Holt The prevailing question Anticipated Financial Hardship actually pay Survey which Many students felt the scholarships a high priority. regarding the increase has been for Students: closer to the real showed reasons in the March letter The main focus of the Holt "Why?" Over the past few weeks (1) a new deferred pay men cost of education those issues regarding the tuition increase did School, says Carrier, is to "increase the dean of Hamilton Holt School, system for students receiving in contrast to were areas of not adequately explain the tuition the learning opportunites for Sharon Carrier, has held group ottB state residents, concern the increase, and in fact, had nothing students through close interaction and individual question and companies who, as state school needed to do with the tuition rates, with high-quality faculty and answer sessions with students in (2) a new payment plan for taxpayers, get to address particularly the Honor Council peers, leadership and community an attempt to provide additional students who wish to pay thei the advantage immediately and the Cornell Cafe renovations. engagement activities, research, information. tuition monthly over the academi of the state- "I am "We pay for the products field studies, international travel, Over the years presidential appropriation (3)communicate financial aic eager to in the cafe anyway, its not like peer mentoring, and internship candidates such as John Kerry, benefit." she explore ways tuition has anything to do with experiences." Op-ed columnists such as the goes on to say. and scholarships opportunities (4) make fund raising for Hoi of better it," says a Holt student. The Holt School hopes to New York Times' Bob Herbert Several scholarships a high priority. jmeeting The letter, states Carrier, develop an online degree-audit/ and magazines such as TIME students have Istudents' was meant to express the need tracking system to help students have all covered the rising costs commented they scheduling for an ongoing evaluation and as an additional advising tool and subsequent debt of higher felt blindsided needs with improvement of the school's and establish tutoring and education. by the increase and other simply the appropriate curriculum and programs while listing the writing assistance during the At a time when Congress felt students should have been faculty for the Holt School," says "various priorities and actions summer terms while enhancing is debating how to make college notified earlier. "The draft Carrier. "As the College undergoes taken over the past two years that the services that provide the most more affordable, Rollins' increase Proposed Operating and Capital a review of its curriculum in the benefited our students." value to students. came as a shock to many of its Budget Assumptions report was coming year, it will give us the Carrier acknowledges the Dean Carrier encourages students. reviewed by the Business and opportunity to examine the Holt Cornell Cafe is a small step, but it students to think about the "The steep adjustment was Finance Committee of the Rollins School's curricular and staffing shows the "College's willingness opportunities and benefits of needed this year," says Carrier, College Board of Trustees in needs." to listen to and act on student high-quality education. "Being "to help close the gap between October of 2006," states Carrier. Hamilton Holt courses are suggestions." a Rollins College graduate will the Holt School's value and what "At the Business and Finance taught by both full-time Rollins Due to the sensitivity of the open doors for you and will the Holt School charges per credit Committee's meeting on February faculty and adjuncts faculty. data discussed regarding the be well worth your effort and hour." 22, 2007, the committee reviewed Adjunct faculty members are planning and budgets, students investment," she says. "It is Which is why waiting for and recommended approval of part-time and are often full- have not been a part of the of possible to get a degree for less, the tuition to eventually reach the operating and capital budget time professionals in their fields. the group of administrators and but with a degree from Rollins, the $309 per credit hour rate and tuition rates for the 2007-2008 They bring real-world expertise faculty representatives. you can be sure that your future through the usual ten percent academic year." to the theories in the classrooms, "Representatives from the employers will take notice." increases would not have been The following day, February something many - students Committee have offered, and have She also encourages students the answer to what the increase 23, 2007, the Board of Trustees appreciate. made presentations, however, to not underestimate the personal is meant to achieve. "Further approved the budget and tuitions According to data from to various constituent groups experiences they achieve from delay would have only prolonged rate. After the approval the Holt the Holt School, in the 2006- interested in knowing more about actively being a part of the Rollins the inevitable need to adjust for School notified the students with 2007 academic year, fifty-three the College's budget and related community. "As I listen to Holt the market," says Carrier, "and a letter mailed to their homes. percent of the undergraduate matters." says Carrier. students and alumni, who share to account for the value that the Students should not expect to coures taught at Hamilton Holt Dean Carrier assures the extraordinary stories of how Hamilton Holt School provides to see major changes as a direct result were taught by full-time Rollins impact to students was, and their lives have been transformed students." of the tuition increase. However, faculty. continues to be, considered through their Rollins education," During research of "the College is committed to Of these courses, 13.7 percent by those who are involved recalls Carrier, "I have reason to comparable institutions in the strengthening the Hamilton Holt were cross-listed with the Arts in the decision-making and believe we are living up to [our] area, the out-of-state rates for School." Carrier says. "The value and Sciences School. In the Holt implementation of those mission." Valencia Community College of a Rollins degree from the Holt School's graduate programs, fifty- decisions. (VCC) and the University of School will continue to increase three percent of the courses were To try and offset some of the Florida (UCF) were used to gauge in the Central Florida community taught by the full-time Rollins anticipated financial hardships for
Holt Undergraduate Tuition Per Credit Hour Undergraduate Tuition Market Comparison: Fiscal Year Rate Increase (%) 2007-2008 $309 26.1% College Fall of 2006-2007 $245 10.9% 2005-2006 $221 10.8% 2004-2005 $200 12.1% UCF (non-Florida residents) 2003-2004 $178 5.3% DeVry Nat'l Louis *Holt classes are 4 credit hours Barry Nova ****************** Phoenix This chart explains the rise in cost (per credit hour) of a Holt Webster School course over the past five years. FLA Metro Ana G. Mendez Metro Orlando Univ Ctr (Bilingual) Valencia (non-Florida resident) 216 for a fantasy evening in the "City of Light." Rollins 178 125 Friday, April 13, 2007, at 6 p.m. Troy St. Harold and Ted Alfond Sports Center 94 UCF (Florida resident) Rollins College Valencia (Florida resident) 58 Cocktails, Hors d' oeuvres, and Silent Auction Gourmet French Dinner by Arthur's Catering Live Auction and Entertainment This table represents, in dollar value, the cost per credit hour for higher learning institutions Casual Attire — Dancing — Open Bar in the Central Florida area and their increase over the last four years. *Note: Not all institutions are four-credit classes. UCF and Valencia's standard courses are The Rollins College Hamilton Holt School serves Central Floridians through exceptional 3 credit hours. undergraduate and graduate evening degree and community outreach programs. Proceeds from Starry, Starry Night fund scholarships for students with academic and financial need.
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concerns in the field about the va underestimate the effect of free Journal of Medical Ethics, a group they do not always benefit the pa lidity of the findings. It seems to food. of obstetrician-gynecologists were Samantha Marsh tient. me that a pharmaceutical compa Although the lunches at these surveyed concerning receiving Medical costs are too often the sandspur ny that pays the bills could exert pitches are often inexpensive per gifts from pharmaceutical com huge burdens; they shouldn't be undue influence over the results person, they represent a huge fi panies. compounded by using more ex For some, it seems like a no- of a study where one of its own nancial investment by the com Even though the majority of pensive products. Doctors have brainer. Pharmaceutical compa products was involved. pany overall and are recognized the respondents felt it was okay a primary responsibility to their nies make certain brand name The main motivation be by the companies themselves as to receive a free luncheon, prod patients, and that means choosing drugs. Doctors have the respon hind researching and prescribing very effective. Giving out small, uct samples, or a consultant po drugs and equipment that does sibility of deciding what drug, in drugs should be the treatment of inexpensive gifts like sandwiches, sition from a company, about a the best job for the best price. cluding these same brand names, the patient. I find it highly ques pens or paperweights may not third thought that their prescrip Therefore, financial relationship to prescribe to their patients. tionable that financial interests have the dramatic ummph of tion decisions would be affected between doctors and pharmaceu Therefore, financial ties between enter this equation at all. For as a trip to Hawaii or a new Lexus by this marketing and even more tical companies need to be strictly pharmaceutical companies and we all know, no human is perfect but it can work on a subconscious thought that other doctors would scrutinized by unbiased groups, doctors present a conflict of inter and greed has a powerful pull on level,, influencing doctors to pre be affected. A third also felt that such a patient advocacy groups. est. the human conscious. scribe brand names. such marketing should be more And the process of intro For example, if Dr. Jones is Doctors can receive a lot of In other words, how many strictly regulated. ducing new products to doctors being paid as a consultant by the money for speaking up on behalf times have you reached for a bot I agree. should not be an exercise in adver company the produces Drug A, he of a certain drug, even if it is more tle of Tylenol rather than a generic Although free drug samples tising, but in clear medical evalua might be more likely to prescribe expensive and no more effective solely based on good marketing? and marketing are smart business tion of the uses of the product. At Drug A rather than a cheaper than a generic alternative. Even In a study published by the for pharmaceutical companies, least to me, it's.a no-brainer. generic option. According to a though it is technically legal for lawsuit filed earlier in 2006 in doctors to be employed by phar Milwaukee, several doctors were maceutical companies it creates accused of exclusively promot an ethical dilemma, a question of ing a pharmaceutical company's motivations. products in exchange for consul Personally, I would want to tant work. Doctors get mixed up make sure that my doctor's loy in marketing, promoting certain alties lie with me, that his sole drugs, and pharmaceutical com concern is finding the course that panies get mixed up in research. is best for me and not for his wal On March 20, the New York let. There is also another, subtler Times ran an article concerning fi side to these dangerous liaisons. nancial ties between an influential Pharmaceutical companies often kidney specialist and a pharma market their drugs directly to ceutical company which produces doctors, holding large luncheons expensive drugs used in treating during which they introduce new kidney disease. The company products. was 3funding research conducted As we've seen at many Roll by this doctor, which has raised ins college events, one must never The War on Body Image ;Part Two
of being insecure. Megan Schutz I seem to have forgotten that Courtesy of MCT Campus the sandspur it is not just us females who are in secure. Truth is, guys are not im I asked another question. miss. However, my constant at because for the most part, I feel One that I've heard countless tempts to reassure him with "you over the whole feeling of insecu I hadn't originally planned mune to the insecurity,they just times when friends come to me look good today", apparently are rity. It hits me here and there, but on writing this, I had figured that seem to play it off differently. So for advice with their boyfriends, not enough. not often enough to really cause everything I had said in my ear after a week or so of being around but instead I asked him instead When he feels that annoy me any problems. lier article a few weeks back was my ex, I was pretty tired of hearing of a female who would just give ing need to tell me that some I've come a long way to fi enough. I'm sure you understand "that girl was checking me out" or me her Sex and The City educat stranger was checking him out, I nally be happy with myself, and that feeling. But then, over spring "Yea, I'm downstairs hanging out ed response, I ask why am I not get stressed out about myself, and to hear other people maybe not break, I started dating an ex-boy with a bunch of girls". I'll admit, enough. The response I got? A kiss then my insecurity kicks in. What come right out and say they aren't friend who I had been somewhat it got really annoying, sometimes and a somewhat devilish looking is worse about him doing so, is secure about their body, annoys serious with about three years to the point of real anger. grin. Talk about way to give a girl him saying it only about girls that me. I think everyone is great look ago. When asked why he feels the a case of temporary insecurity. are attractive or have great bod ing or beautiful in some way. The During that three year pe need to tell me things like that, This whole insecurity thing is ies. Then I become worried that way he has gone.about making riod, I must have forgotten a lot, things which I find unimportant, a horrible cycle. It hits you when my body isn't toned up enough sure I know he's insecure has in because I realized over the past he answers with stuff like "cause you least expect it. The guy I'm or that my face isn't flawless and turn, made me feel somewhat in week or so just how little he seems it makes me feel good to know dating has no reason to be worried I'm again hit with a blunt case of secure myself. And what's worse, to have changed. One of his big girls look at me and find me hot". about his looks, seriously, he is a insecurity. is the fact that I have no idea how gest flaws then is still hanging Ok, not really what I had been well built person whose constant I won't lie though, part of th to help others cope with their in around, and it's gotten a little looking for, but I figured the re smile is one you wouldn't want to reason this annoys me so mt is security. worse. He's just got this huge case sponse answered the question, so
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©Doits EDITOR: JUSTIN JB BRAUN [email protected] Ala s kan Legend Grows... Mackey Wins Iditarod Back-to-Back That summit had been surpassed by Mackey, among others. But to Lew Freedman win both in the same season, with MCT CAMPUS many of the same huskies, no one believed it could, or would, be done. And in such style. CHICAGO _ The greatest The Quest, run between sporting achievement of 2007 Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon came and went beneath the Territory, is considered the second national radar a week ago. Lance most significant long-distance Mackey became the second sled-dog race in the world. coming of Lance Armstrong by Mackey set the time record and a winning the 35th annual Iditarod record for three straight victories. Trail Sled Dog Race. All of which is pretty notable. If you are a sports fan you It is even more remarkable for should know his name _ and a guy who was diagnosed with remember it. Lance Mackey throat cancer in 2001 when he still did the impossible, did it with was regarded only as an up-and- flair, with gumption and with coming musher. After undergoing a backstory that left many extensive surgery and still weeping. receiving radiation treatment, he The. 1,100-mile Alaskan dog started but didn't finish the 2002 sled race from Anchorage to Iditarod. Today he is considered Nome, across frozen terrain, over cancer-free. harsh wilderness, in minus-30- In the closing days of the COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS degree weather seasoned with Iditarod, when Mackey was Lance Mackey and his lead dogs, Larry and Lippy, celebrate CLASSIFIEDS 50 mph winds and the occasional nursing his 2{-hour lead, he said after winning the 2007 Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Nome, blizzard, is regarded by many as he wanted to finish on Front Alaska, March 13, 2007 the toughest endurance event on Street in Nome at night so the FOR RENT the planet. thousands of fans lining the wore No. 13. When his brother Juneau to Anchorage, was So wi3nning the gold medal street leading up to the legendaiy Rick won the title in 1983, he, too, shuttled to.Kotzebue above the CLOSE To CAMPUS" in the world's premier sled-dog burled arch finish line would not wore No. 13. Arctic Circle, and finally landed race is always a praiseworthy see him crying. Dick Mackey, 74, a partner in Nome on the Bering Sea Coast, 2/1 HOUSE FOR RENT IN accomplishment. For Mackey, 36, Instead, when he completed of race founder Joe Redington only to arrive 30 minutes after WINTER PARK; NEAR WP of Fairbanks, Alaska, it was much his run in 9 days 5 hours 8 minutes Sr. in jump-starting the Iditarod Lance. VILLAGE AND CLOSE TO in 1973, is the family mushing more. Not only did Mackey, 41 seconds, it was midday and the At the finish, Lance searched ROLLINS; $900/MONTH; 407- throng cheered him and he waved inspiration. He was present when for his father, peppering his wife the son and brother of past 467-9895; IMMEDIATE MOVE champions, win for the first time, to the people, laughing, smiling, a Lance won the Quest and at the Tonya with the question, "Where's IN AVAILABLE. but he also did so on the heels of jumble of emotions. start in Anchorage. But then he my dad?" They rendezvoused at capturing his third straight title The finishing chute, where went home to Arizona. Fat Freddie's restaurant, in the in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest Mackey spoke over a loudspeaker, When it became apparent middle of Lance's steak dinner. HOUSE FOR RENT two weeks earlier. That is akin was bedlam. He stomped around Lance was going to win, Dick They hugged, cried and laughed. NICE AND QUIET 3/3 WINTER scrambled for flights that would to winning the NCAA basketball pumping his fist and repeatedly "It took me forever to get PARK HOUSE FOR RENT, bring him to the old gold rush here," Dick Mackey said. tournament and NIT in the same saying, "Unreal. Unreal." 1,800SQ., CLOSE TO ROLLINS season. In one of those quirks of town before his son. However, "Yeah, me too," Lance Mackey COLLEGE, F/P, CENTRAL It was not many years ago history no one can explain, he it was proved that long-distance said. when mushing experts believed also banged his hand against his Alaskan travel remains more AIR/HEAT, APPLIANCES, it was beyond human and canine chest to show off his No. 13 bib. reliable by dog sled than FENCED BACKYARD, $2,300 cooperation to finish the Iditarod When his father, Dick, won the airplane. MO., 407 644-5882/407 921- and Quest in the same season. Iditarod by one second in 1978, The elder Mackey became 1723 the closest race in history, he also stuck in Seattle, diverted from
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Oregon MTHE SANDSPUR -APRIL 02, 2007 SPORTS VOL. 113 ISSUE 23 Goliaths Cause Madness in March and mid-major Wichita State hasn't had its share of dramatic North Carolina in a come from in order to peak in March. Florida in their improbable run to the finishes. The first round had behind overtime victory in order has defeated all it's opponents Final Four. This year only five only five games decided by less to secure their berth in Atlanta. by at least eight points due. to Juan Bernal lower seeded teams won in the than six points, but only five The Hoyas opponent and precision offense and shaTp the sandspur first round, three of those being out five games in the regional winner of the most dramatic shooting by Lee Humphrey and #9 seeds (Xavier, Purdue and finals, regional quarterfinals and road to Atlanta belong to the Corey Brewer and timely stops Michigan State). The others were regional finals were decided by Ohio State Buckeyes. Led by on the defensive end. Florida will 11th seeded Winthrop, who beat more than nine points. freshmen sensations Greg Oden have a rematch from the national March Madness is a time Notre Dame and The Colonial Georgetown the # 2 seed and and Mike Conley along with championship and face the UCLA for college hoops. For the entire Athletic Association's Virginia winner of the East Rutherford senior sharpshooter Ron Lewis, Bruins. month of March and part of the Commonwealth came out of Region is the hottest of all the the Buckeyes won the Big Ten The UCLA Bruins, winners first week of April, many people nowhere to beat Duke 79-77 on a Final Four teams going into the Conference Tournament and of the Pac 10 regular season and across the United States tune into last second shot. Both VCU and tournament. They Hoyas are led were co-champions of the Big the San Jose regional are making the NCAA Division I Basketball Winthrop would fall in the second by Big East MVP Jeff Green and Ten. Winners of the San Antonio their second consecutive and Tournament. It has been round. Xavier was seven seconds 7'2 big man Roy Hibbert. Winners regional, the Buckeyes were NCAA record 17th appearance speculated that March Madness away from, knocking off Ohio of the Big East Regular season title seven seconds away from losing in the Final Four. UCLA lost the is the greatest sports spectacle State, Michigan State and Purdue and conference tournament, the to cross-state rival, the Xavier most talent out of any of the Final that the United States has to offer, hung around with top seeded Hoyas have made there return to Musketeers and were down 17 Four squads from last season, but even bigger than the Super Bowl North Carolina and Florida national prominence in 2006. The at halftime to Tennessee before managed to defeat Weber State, or the NBA Finals. respectively in their second round Hoyas have won 19 of their last coming back and pulling out a Indiana, Pitt and Kansas in order games, before being victim's of The 2007 version of March 20, the Hoyas have has a dramatic one point victory. to try to capture their first NCAA late game runs. This year there Madness has been dominated road to Atlanta. With seven The favorite to win their title in 12 years. The Bruins are led were many tournament trends by the Goliath's, instead of the seconds left and Georgetown second consecutive national title is by sophomore point guard Darren in which "bracketologists" could country's casual onlookers of down one in the Regional the winner of the St. Louis regional, Collison, Pac 10 Player of the Year take comfort in didn't happen in. college basketball being able to semifinal against Vanderbilt, Jeff the Florida Gators. Florida won Arron Afflalo and Luc Richard For the first time in 15 years, a put their hearts in the fate of a Green hit a turnaround hook the SEC regular season title and Mbah A Moute. The Bruins will #12 seed did not defeat a #5, and Cinderella team. Last season, the shot to give the Hoyas the last it's second consecutive conference focus on their defensive discipline #10 seed didn't pull out a victory whole nation fell in love with second victory. However, the tournament. Led by MVP of to try to lead to the promise land. against a #7. George Mason who defeated jump shot had its controversy, the 2006 NCAA Tournament powerhouses Michigan State, Even though Goliath has as replays showed that Green Joakim Noah and frontcourt North Carolina, Connecticut dominated the brackets so far, it appeared to have shuffled his mate Al Horford, the Gators have doesn't mean that the tournament feet. Georgetown would defeat recovered from a late season funk A Look at the American LeaoLue West from a broken leg injury, pitchers could give this team even more might as well intentionally walk power. Guerrero. The Cause for Concern: The Prediction: 1st place, with 96 final three members of the starting Daniel Paulling wins rotation are no one's idea of a the sandspur Oakland Athletics strength. Horacio Ramirez and The Reason for Hope: Both Miguel Batista all had ERAs in Rich Harden and Bobby Crosby the high 4s, while Jeff Weaver put have stayed healthy through up a 5.76 mark in that category. spring training, and if they can There's always the chance that The smallest division in the keep taking the field, there's the one of these overpaid pitchers will major leagues, the American potential for great production. earn their paycheck, of course. League West, has not been a Given the ball every fifth day, Prediction: 3rd place, with 86 big force in the postseason the Harden could win 17 games, wins previous few seasons. It has been while Crosby could hit 25 home Texas Rangers five years since they even had runs at the shortstop position. The Reason for Hope: Over a team in the World Series. The Remember: Peter Gammons the past few seasons, the story race to October should be good, picked Crosby as his preseason in Arlington was the offense. however, because these four AL MVP candidate just last year. Long gone are the days when the squads feature plenty of talent. The Cause for Concern: Rangers will put up 5 or 6 runs, Los Angeles Angels of This past offseason, the A's lost but the duo of Mark Teixeira and Anaheim Barry Zito, their staff ace, and Michael Young both drove in over The Reason for Hope: No Frank Thomas, their designated 100 runs last season. Oh, and the team's starting five runs as hitter. That kind of production is new and improved Sammy Sosa deep as this one. The Angels difficult for any team to replace, has'arrived. have assembled a very strong especially one that doesn't have The Cause for Concern: The rotation, featuring the likes of any money to spend on offseason entirety of the Rangers' rotation John Lackey and Kelvim Escobar. acquisitions. features five guys who would Once opposing teams get into the Prediction: 2nd place, with be middle-of-the-rotation talents bullpen, things get even better 88 wins on the other three teams. The for the Angels. This is how World conditions of The Ballpark in Series Champions are built. Seattle Mariners The Reason for Hope: A look Arlington make it difficult for The Cause for Concern: up and down the Mariners lineup pitchers, but the personnel is at Other than Vladimir Guerrero, reveals several strong hitters. fault, too. Kevin Millwood just there isn't much to like on the Ichiro Suzuki remains one of the isn't an ace, and Vicente Padilla is offensive side. Howie Kendrick better leadoff hitters in the majors, too lazy to work, even though he is the second best hitter on the COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS while Adrian Beltre was insane in has some of the best stuff in the team, but he doesn't have any Francisco Rodriguez celebrates. the number two slot last season. American League. power. Until Juan Rivera comes From there, potential comebacks Prediction: 4th place, with 82 back around the All Star Break from Jose Vidro and Jose Guillen wins