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University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 9-8-2011 Sandspur, Vol 118, No 02, September 08, 2011 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol 118, No 02, September 08, 2011" (2011). The Rollins Sandspur. 1939. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1939 hW CENTERSPREAD f+i Thefit: m SandspuThursday, Septemberr 8, 2011 Volume 118, Issue 2 • • Thursday, September £ thesandspur.org Florida's Oldest College Newspaper, Est. 1894 ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rollins community weighs in on the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks. ARTS ASSOCIATED PRESS Katy Perry accepts her awards at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28. Annamarie Carlson nity needs and opportunities on campus will host the 9/11 the anniversary of 9/11 by vol News Editor and to promote progress, jus National Requiem of Remem untarily pledging to perform tice, learning and growth. brance at 3 p.m. on Sunday, good deeds, support charitable Ever since 9/11, the month During the weekend of the Sept. 11 in Knowles Chapel. causes, volunteer and engage in QUOTABLE of September has had a unique 10th anniversary of 9/11, two This concert is being performed other acts of compassion - hon i€ They claim that they connotation in the minds of service projects — both on Sat. nationwide at hundreds of dif oring the 9/11 victims and sur do this in the name Americans. No longer just sym Sept. 10 — are offered to stu ferent venues. Members of the vivors, as well as all those that of Islam, but nowhere bolizing the beginning of a new dents, staff, faculty and their Rollins Concert Choir and Bach rose in service in response to the in the Prophet school year and the end of sum families: Festival Society will be singing attacks, including first respond- Muhammad's teachings mer, September is a time of re At Fern Creek Elementary Mozart's Requiem. There will be ers, recovery workers, volun did he ever claim that it membrance: a time of sadness, a School participants will set and another memorial on Monday teers, public safety personnel, was okay to kill any time of hurt, a time of anger and lay the brick foundation for the at noon at the flagpole outside and members of the military, innocent people." a time of pride in what it truly school's centralized flagpole of the Warren building. Both are and all of their families." Q& A, PAGE 3 means to be an American. as well as participate in a mi free and open to the public. Last summer, OCE was rec This year, Sept. 11, 2011, is nor beautification project in its OCE will also offer 30 other ognized on national levels for the 10th anniversary of the day vicinity. Fern Creek is a Title I events throughout September its achievements, with Rollins that shook the entire world. At school that serves roughly 350- of Service, including the In- receiving the President's Higher the same time, 2011 is also the 400 students of whom 23 per tercoastal Cleanup on Sept. 17 Education and Community Ser 10th anniversary of one of the cent are homeless. At Paragon and the Habitat for Humanity vice Honor Roll's President's most successful offices at Rol School, volunteers will take part Immersion Trip to St. Peters Award, the highest federal rec in an early afternoon of bowling burg over the last weekend in ognition a college can receive Want to see how last lins, the Office of Community Engagement (OCE). In recog with some of its students. The September. Please look out for for its commitment to service. week's centerspread Rollins also received recogni should have looked and nition of past tragedies and in Paragon School serves a student a campus-wide email with a cal tion from USA Today as one of read the full article? celebration of 10 years of service population with Autism Spec endar of all of these dates. at Rollins, OCE, in partnership trum Disorder and Asperger's Assistant Director of the Of the top 25 Colleges/Universities Check out the PDF of the with Rollins Cares, presents the Syndrome. All interested par fice of Community Engagement in the United States committed paper (118 Issue 1) at Rollins community with Sep ticipants need to contact OCE to Meredith Hein is proud of the to service. To learn more about issuu. com/thesandspur tember of Service. RSVP for either project, as space month-long service experience. the Office of Community En The month will include a is limited. Transportation will "In conjunction with the mis gagement and upcoming events number of events to further in be provided to both locations. sion for the national movement, visit www.rollins.edu/commu- tegrate Rollins students, faculty In addition to the above ser the OCE and Rollins hopes to nityengagement or stop by the and staff with pressing commu vice work, various constituents inspire people to pay tribute on 2nd Floor of the Mills Building. this day in HISTORY New College, New Controversy most noticeable of these chang quirements of the International be "seamless for students," as Monica Mayer the faculty in these majors work The Sandspur es has been the addition of the Business program's accrediting College of Professional Studies. agency. to improve the curriculum. "We had an excellent and A new school created from three The Association to Advance Numerous faculty mem distinct program in Internation existing departments within Collegiate Schools of Business bers have expressed dissatisfac al Business," said Professor of the College of Arts & Sciences (AACSB) assesses the business tion with the divisons. Profes English Socky O'Sullivan. "Its Communication, Education and programs under its accredita sor of History Barry Levis feels strength was a number of the International Business, it has tion every few years, and Roll as though the college's creation faculty was superb and it was led to the addition of another ins was struggling to find a way was "poorly handled by the distinctive in that it was inte branch to the Rollins under to meet its standards for the fol administration" and "not well grated with the liberal arts stud graduate program for the first lowing spring. thought through." Other profes ies." For O'Sullivan, the great time since the creation of the In response to the conflict, sors expressed a similar senti est issue is how the change will Hamilton Holt School in 1987. President Duncan decided to ment. "The A&S faculty had not affect the student population. Although this change af create a separate school for the been informed of [the creation of the new school], so there was "I'm concerned about the effects fects only a specific group of INB program, along with the a lot of surprise and some con on students in separating it into Rollins students, it has led to Communication minor and sternation," said Associate Pro ASSOCIATED PRESS its own program," he admitted. numerous logistical changes the Education program, which fessor of English Jill Jones, who September 8,1892: Upon arriving at Rollins within the college. According also face accrediting issues. Al also serves as this year's presi The Pledge of Allegiance is this year, returning students to Debra Wellman, the dean of though Rollins' undergraduate dent of the A&S faculty. first published in a Boston-based may have noticed a few of the the new college, the College of program is now split into sepa youth magazine The Youth's structural changes to the in- Professional Studies was cre rate colleges, Dean Wellman em continued on • Companion. nerworkings of the college. The ated primarily to meet the re phasized that the change should PAGE 2 News 2 | life and Times 3| Opinions 6 | Features4&5 | Arts 7 | Sports 8 September 8, 20111 The Rollins College Sandspur NEWS What in the World is Going On? Annamarie Carlson AccordinArcnrc g to the Pakistani News Editor army, the Pakistani Intelligence! Service has arrested a senior all Qaida leader, Younis al-MauJ Fierce wildfires rentani, as well as two al-QaidJ near Austin, Texas associates in the suburbs ol destroyed over 300 Quetta, Pakistan. Al-Mautenl homes and scorched tani was involved in planning! thousands of acres multiple attacks on European across a 16-mile area countries as well as plans to hil on Labor Day morn targets of economic importance ing. These fires were to the United States, Europ| among more than and Australia. 35 across the state, caused by low hu midity and strong i Over 38 percent of the pop winds made from ulation of Europe is plagued b] tropical storm Lee. The fires in Bas mental and neurological illnessl trop County, near Austin, were by es, according to a new study. Ol far the largest, not only destroying the almost 165 million people! the 300 homes but threatening over only a third of the cases arl 1,000 others and forcing 5,000 resi 'receiving the therapy or medil dents to evacuate. cation needed. The increasl in mental illness has caused I In Winter Park, Fla., during the week of Aug. 28, Dwight Howard was seen using the Rollins gym.