The Pulse A Student Run Publication OF LYNN UNIVERSITY BOCA RATON, FLORIDA VOLUME V ISSUE III THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1994 CHECK YOUR Women's Soc~er Team Wins Championship PULSE ... Number 1 In The Nation Boasting An Impressive 24-0-1 Record By: Frank Aliaga determined and they one because it's our last worked so hard." year," said Otte, "this is by INSIDE THE far the best team we ever There was. never With everyone had." That means a lot, DECEMBER any doubt, it was only a gunning for no. 1 Lynn, ISSUE: matter of time. !fLynn they outscored their· considering that all the University's women's opponents 16-2 in the Lynn seniors have . soccer team would have FAREWELL To national tournament. They appeared in four straight been on the betting cards started off the tournament final fours, with two rings PEDRO ZAMORA in Las Vegas, not a soul beating Incarnate Word 1-0 and one runner-up trophy. PAGE 2 would have bet against despite outshooting them Another senior, Melissa them. From the preseason 30-5. However, in the Budney closed out the UNIQUE LYNN ~ ~ ranked .Jl\Wllx:t ~TUDENTS AND 1 1e co ntry an was goals from eight different Lynn a 3-0 lead. They A TRIBUTE TO favored to win the national players on their way to the went on to win 3-1, while Kicking Some Grass ••• c championship. Sure tournamentrecord9-0 outshouting their MICHAEL & ALEX Knights began the year with a enough, they didn't drubbing of Midway. opposition 27-5. Junior PAGE 3 Number 1 ranking nationwide and proved to everyone in the disappoint anyone - except Lynn then defeated second forward Hanne Nissen was NAJA that they were indeed the the 25 teams that got seed Georgian Court 3-1 in named tournament MVP. STUDENT LIFE barreled while trying to the semifinal setting up a She led the Knights AND THE stand in their way. Not date with Park (Mo.) in the throughout the season with GREEK SYSTEM only did the lady knights last dance. a record 37 goals and 27 PAGE4 win their second national assists. Nissen, along with championship in three To no surprise, Parson-Roth, Line STUDENT years, they went Lynn took the early lead Christensen, and freshman when freshman Kim PROFILE AND undefeated with a near sweeper Kristine Graves flawless 24-0-1 record. Brown scored on an assist w~re all named to the STUDENT The only team that even from Heather Otte in the tournament team. OPINION POLL challenged Lynn was closing minutes of the first PAGE 5 defending division 2 half. Coincidentally, As for the seniors, national champions Barry goalkeeper Joyce Parson­ their farewell was a tearful TURKEY TRAIL University, who barely Roth made a great save on yet joyful one. "The TROT AND salvaged a 2-2 tie. "This a penalty kick to keep the seniors played such a vital LYNN SPORTS was a perfect season," said . opponent scoreless. In the part in the game, not to PAGES }:;..O:~~E ~ coach Jim Blankenship, second half the lady mention their four years . ~ . whose team shattered knights opened up the here," said Blankenship. :; almost all of the school floodgates. Senior They have compiled an HOLIDAY AND ::c records, not to mention a defender Heather Otte amazing 79-8-4 record. FINAL EXAM t ~ tournament record for most broke through again, this Like Blankenship has said FEATURES if goals in a game with a 9-0 time blasting her own shot all season, "it's not where PAGE 7 Reaching Their Goal •.. Lyrui _ win over Midway College. into the back of the net you start - it's where you Women's Soccer team had an "It was just remarkable," giving Lynn a 2-0 fmish," and for the L.U. FOR YOUR unbelievable and perfect season said the ecstatic coach advantage. "This seniors, the end of their and their desire to play and win · Championship is much college careers could not INFORMATION paid off with their second recapping the season, "the PAGES national title. kids were so focused and more special than the last have been any sweeter. didn't like, he said, "I Her second was the friend the rest of the way, would like it if Lynn A Tribute To she had said she was going watching four-year-old offered some more honor Michael And to visit wasn't expecting Michael struggle for a way news level classes to offer her. In fact, he wasn't even out. Fourteen-month-old students more of a Alex home. The third Alex remained strapped in challenge." inconsistency was when his car seat as the car filled Along with taking By: Heather West Smith said that she had with water. The children 17 credit hours this gone to Walmart earlier were buried together in one semester, Michael interests On the night of that day to do some coffill because when their include; karate and October 25, 1994, Susan shopping with the boys. bodies.were found, they weightlifting. However, Smith murdered her two No one remembered seeing were still holding hands. Michael passion lies in sons, Michael and Alex. them at the store. It was Susan Smith will nature. "We have gone 01;1 She claimed that a car time for a polygraph test. be indicted for two counts nature walks, sponsored by jacker forced her from her Susan Smith failed of first degree murder on · Broward County for the car and drove away with the lie detector test when December 12, 1994. She past five years, and taught her sons as she pleaded for police asked her, "Do you sits in jail without bond, Freshman Plans you how to survive out in him, "not to hurt my know where your boys but is no longer under a To Graduate the wild. Michael has babies." are?" Smith was also suicide watch. really enjoyed them, and Seventy-two hours becoming vague with A recent student In Three later, the police had no he can te~l you about · details and information opinion poll at LU various plants and animals suspect, no car, and no within her story. Experts indicates the following. A By: Jane Anne Mathison that live in the wild in kids .. .it was time for some began to watch her body ·majority questioned South Florida," said more questions. The language and her choice of · believe this crime was pre­ On Wednesday, Yolanda McKee. police had Smith, who was words very closely. meditated. Som~ students November 2, reporter Lisa Basketball is Michael's ironic;ally voted Suspicions against Smith think she will be found A. Stemles' article favorite sport and plans to "friendliest" in her senior grew higher. guilty and receive life profiling an L U student ran try out next year for the year of high school The local chief of imprisonment. Some in the Sun Sentinel LUteam. according to Prime Time police called Smiths bluff hopes she will receive the Newspaper. This was no ' Currently, Michael Live, repeat her story to when he took Smith to a death ·penalty_and one ordinary college student has his sights set on them over and over. nearby church, and told her student suggested, profile about their life, medical school after They qiscovered several that he had evidence that that she be strapped into career goals or aspirations. graduation. From there he inconsistencies. she killed her two sons. It the same car and pushed Instead, this was a piece woul<:llike to study to For instance, Smith was then that Smith · down into the lake and that profiled L U freslunan become an osteopath, and said that a man had gotten eon er experi ence f1le same terror Michael McKee, who relocate up north. Michael into her car at a red light sons. She stated that she that her children did. intends in completing enjoys the change of on her way to her friends drove out to an area lake Michael and Alex Smith did not deserve this college in three years, seasons, rather than the house, but there were no with Michael and Alex fate. However, we know majoring in hist-ory. The constant heat of south witnesses. At the specific strapped into their car that they both are now in one thing that sets Michael Florida. Michael is a . intersection, the light does seats. She had intended to apart from the rest of the perfect example for not not tum red unless there is drive the car into the lake heaven. God bless you student body at LU, is that giving up on your goals another car coming from with herself in the car as both. he is 95% deaf in each ear. and giving it your all, no the opposite direction. well. At one point, she got two years ago. I have been at Michael wears hearing­ matter what type of . Hence, there should have out of the car and asked aids in both ears and also limitations that come your been at least one witness. herself why. She then L)'IUl for one year, and I'm reads lips, to compensate way. Qood luck Michael. That was her first flaw. pushed the car into the lake six month pregnant," stated for his disability. Balancing A Rosanel Hernandez, Michael was born Communications major. "I'll in Tampa but moved to Family And have to skip the Spring south Florida with his School semester because our baby mother, father and brother girl will be born on March, Jimmy soon after. At age but I'll be back for the three, he was diagnosed as By: Velda Albuquerque houses will be built for for ten years, and .has a seven summer session," explains profoundly deaf.