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KENDAL KALISHStaff Writer

CLUTCH Magazine, a student-run fashion magazine administered by the Collegiate Mer-chandising Association at FSU, held its Spring 2011 release party this past Tuesday night at the Midtown Filling Station on Thomasville Road. CLUTCH was celebrat-ing the publication of its 10th issue since CMA

founded the magazine in 2006.

“CMA saw a void on campus for an outlet for fashion students inter-ested in the industry, so they decided to create a place to express this passion and utilize the knowledge they learn here on campus,” said CLUTCH Managing Editor and President of CMA Colleen Herrera.

The 10th Birthday Bash was co-hosted by

CollegeCandy.com, an online lifestyle maga-zine for college women, along with the members of CMA. After view-ing CLUTCH’s online magazine editions, Col-legeCandy approached CLUTCH with dona-tions for VIP goodie bags, which were given to the fi rst 50 guests, raffl e prizes such as an HDTV and CollegeCan-

TURNER COWLESSenior Staff Writer

The Florida State Uni-versity Offi ce of Govern-mental Relations, Alumni Association and Founda-tion cooperated to create

a new website known as “Advocate for Florida State.” The website, ad-vocateforfloridastate.fsu.edu, offers students, alumni, friends and fac-ulty the ability to keep up-to-date on current

happenings at FSU.In an e-mail, Florida

State University Presi-dent Eric Barron said this new tool will “enhance the way Florida State University alumni and friends share views with

legislators and key deci-sion makers.”

“We really discovered that we were a bit behind in capability to contact alumni and assist them in advocating for FSU,” Barron said. “We decid-

ed we had to do better. Fortunately, a group of our alumni gave us the money to help set up the system.”

In a separate e-mail,

Photos by Bryan Vallejo/FSViewLeft: At the Midtown Filling Station, Dave Panton (left) Sarah McClure (middle) and Vinny Printy (right) enjoy the party atmosphere of the ‘CLUTCH’ 10th Issue Anniver-sary on Tuesday, March 15. Right: Sarah Lukacher and Danielle Sanchuz pose with free cupcakes given out at the party.

Student magazine hosts release party

CLUTCH celebrates 10th edition with cupcakes and prizes

Grassroots advocacy takes hold at FSUGroups join forces to create ‘Advocate for Florida State’ website

CHAD SQUITIERIContributing Writer

On Tuesday, March 15, and Wednesday, March 16, Florida State University students held two opposing demonstrations on Lan-dis Green. Both dem-onstrations focused on the currently tense relations between Is-rael and Palestine. The original demonstration denounced radical Is-lam, and included a multiple-feet-tall ban-ner referred to as the “Palestinian Wall of Lies.” A counter, silent demonstration referred to as the “Palestinian-Is-raeli Coalition Against Hate,” also took place on Landis Green, call-ing for more tolerance.

The “Palestinian Wall of Lies” contained a list of several things that the demonstrators considered to be un-

true statements such as: “Lie number 6: the Arabs want peace and a state on the west bank.” Each statement was followed by a de-scription that aimed to prove why that par-ticular claim was a lie. Individuals who were part of the opposing si-lent demonstration, the “Palestinian-Israeli Co-alition Against Hate,” expressed concern with the “Wall of Lies.”

“I feel that the ‘wall of lies’ is unnecessary on a campus that is mostly apathetic to the Palestinian-Israeli con-fl ict and does not pro-mote healthy dialogue between students with opposing views,” said Ilana Goldenberg, president of ’Noles for Israel.

Seven different or-ganizations joined to-

Students take sides on Israel, PalestineOpposing student groups share their views on Israeli-

Palestinian confl ict

Photos by Simon Lopez/FSViewLeft: Students representing a coalition of organiza-tions sit peacefully, sharing their views with passers-by as part of the Palestinian-Israeli Coalition Against Hate: A Silent Demonstration on Landis Green, March 15. Right: Senior & VP of Students United for Justice in Palestine CJ Canton explains the purpose of the demonstration to graduate student Sabrina Islam.

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Barron said the website creates a direct link be-tween students and leg-islators.

“The site provides a way for you to stay con-nected to the issues that affect your university and provides a direct link to elected offi cials,” Bar-ron said.

Once registered for the service, members auto-matically receive an e-mail from Vice President for Governmental Affairs Kathleen Daly. The e-mail emphasizes the necessity

of student and alumni in-volvement.

“As a volunteer, your efforts will help Florida State University advance its role as a top research institution in the State of Florida,” Daly said in the e-mail. “Your involvement is particularly important in this time of severe budget cuts to higher ed-ucation […] The voices of The Seminole Nation can make a difference. YOUR voice can make a difference.”

The site lists some

of the major concerns brought about by not-so-recent, as well as more recent, budget cuts to higher education in Flor-ida. FSU’s budget core is down “25 percent since 2007-08.” This fi nancial nose dive caused FSU to suspend 37 majors/programs, reduce tech-nical staff by 20 percent and clerical staff by 12 percent. The cuts also affected the student-to-faculty ratio; there are now 125 fewer faculty for the same number of

students. Barron said that this

website will create a more effi cient way to keep in contact with alumni and friends.

“It means that, when we have a big issue and need the support of our alumni and friends, we can get the information to them quickly and pro-vide them with the issue and the legislator con-tact information,” Barron said. “We know our alum-ni care deeply about our success, so we believe

they will appreciate our advocacy Web page.”

In the “President’s Message” to the site’s visitors, Barron said that, despite these huge chal-lenges FSU is confronted with, our institution still remains a bargain.

“Despite these budget challenges, FSU contin-ues to rank among the best public institutions in the country, recog-nized by national publi-cations as a ‘Budget Ivy’ and a ‘best value,’ ” Bar-ron said.

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dy iPhone covers. Raffl e tickets were free for all guests and other prizes included a $250 Global-FashionBrands.com gift card, dinner for two at the Filling Station, a gift basket from Envy Salon and more. While special guest DJ Ben Danner en-tertained the crowd, each attendee received a copy of the issue, enjoyed all-night drink specials and indulged in an assortment

of 400 cupcakes baked and delivered from Lucy & Leo’s Cupcakery.

“We work all semes-ter up to this point, and working on this maga-zine takes up much of our spare time, so it’s really nice now that we have something in our hands as proof that it was all worth it,” said CLUTCH Editor-in-Chief Ashley Wilson.

Jacqui Wahl, a CMA publicist, said they were

very lucky to have Colleg-eCandy co-host the event. This was the fi rst release party in the history of the magazine to have a spon-sor like CollegeCandy.

“This is our way to thank everyone who’s worked on the magazine, celebrate all the effort everyone has put into the making of it and highlight what a great magazine we’ve produced,” Wahl said.

CLUTCH releases an issue once a semester. There are 17 magazine staff members, but about 60 people contribute to the publication through CMA or local businesses in Tallahassee.

“CLUTCH wouldn’t be possible without the help of our local vendors and advertisers,” Herrera said. “All the local con-nections the magazine has used and relation-

ships that we’ve built in Tallahassee, that essen-tially is what makes our magazine come out.”

To pick up a free copy of this semester’s CLUTCH Magazine, visit their table on Market Wednes-days in the Union.

“I table every Wednes-day passing out CLUTCH,” said Wahl. “We want peo-ple to see the magazine, because we know, once they do, they’ll love it.”

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Photos by Bryan Vallejo/FSViewLeft: Vladimir Vicenty (left) and Jake Taylor (right) treat themselves to some cupcakes at the ‘CLUTCH’ 10th Issue Anniversary Release Party at the Midtown Filling Station on Tuesday, March 15. Right: Michelle Aguirre (left) and Emeri Lewkowicz (right) enjoy the party.

TURNER COWLESSenior Staff Writer

After the devastating 9.0 earthquake that occurred just 80 miles off the coast of Sendai, Japan, admin-istrators and teachers at Florida State University are getting involved in as-sistance efforts.

Despite mainstream television, print and ra-dio media coverage, Uni-versity Vice President for Research Kirby Kemper believes that the most im-portant point of this disas-ter has been missed.

“You got two to three mil-lion people right now who are totally traumatized,” Kemper said. “How do you recover your life? When did you hear about Haiti last? When did you last hear about Christchurch? People won’t go up in the buildings [in Christchurch]; they’re that terrifi ed. You’re dealing with what I will call post-traumatic stress disorder of a mag-nitude we’ve never seen. That’s the real story.”

When asked about the threat of radioactivity, Kemper said that’s only a temporary problem.

“The reactors? They’ll be brought under control, but you’re going to have half a million to a million people that are getting af-tershocks,” Kemper said. “They don’t know what to do. They’ve got no food, no water; it’s cold.”

Three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima nuclear facility are in stress. Work-ers are pumping seawater into them—a process that will render them useless in the future—in order to cool the fuel rods to avoid a total meltdown.

“Nobody knows [how

Japan will rebuild from a disaster like this],” Kem-per said. “Simply because you haven’t seen this much localized destruction since the Second World War. And after WWII, we didn’t pay attention to the shock of the civilians. I don’t think the world commu-nity knows the answer.”

Les Beitsch, the asso-ciate dean for health af-fairs at the FSU College of Medicine, agreed with Kemper, saying that Japa-nese and Floridians have much in common, despite the contrasts. Floridians have long dealt with hur-ricanes, Beitsch said. The Japanese have dealt with earthquakes for a long time, as well.

“They tend to be a very inter-cooperative soci-ety,” said Beitsch. “You’re seeing some elements of

that because people there tend to work in a very collective, cooperative way to help one another. Americans tend to em-phasize our rugged indi-viduality, which has some very important benefi ts in terms of innovation, but it’s often not as helpful in responding to something like this. This is about groups collaborating with one another to work. For [Americans], that would be more of a learned be-havior.”

Japan is one of the most, if not the most pre-pared nation for this type of disaster—much like Florida is one of the best-prepared states in the U.S. for hurricanes.

“To think about and layout advanced plans is very important,” Beitsch said. “One of the things

that I think has been good in the U.S. is the sugges-tion that families should have their own individual disaster plans. Things like a rendezvous point in the event of a mass casualty event; in the tsunami there were a lot of people who were separated from their families. If they had a fam-ily disaster plan, they may have had a few locations that ‘if this place is still here we’ll meet there.’ ”

With international aid pouring into the small, yet powerful island nation, Beitsch offered words of caution about the relief and rebuilding efforts.

“I think the Japanese are very, very good at mount-ing a very organized mass response, but it’s going to be extremely challenging even for them,” Beitsch said. “The public health response there is going to be quite robust and good but there’s still a need for surveillance for dis-eases.”

While agreeing with Kemper, Beitsch added that there is another ele-ment than just PTSD. The 24-hour television news network, while depend-able for unfolding and

breaking news, focuses in on the one developing portion of this story. The earthquake is over; the tsunami has passed. What is left for the 24-hour cable networks to cover? The re-actors.

“There’s an added ele-ment here too: A nuclear catastrophe that looms in the background is a great story that’s fabulous to play,” Kemper said. “It’s an ongoing stressor on top of all the other things, which adds to the psychological impact. When people feel most vulnerable is [when they do not have con-trol].”

Beitsch used an ex-ample of a smoker being more concerned of mos-quito-borne illness than the threat of smoking. He said that the smoker can “control their smoking, but they can’t control the mos-quito-borne illness,” which has a higher psychological concern to that smoker.

“You’ve got both of these things happening here,” Beitsch said. “There’s that external event that’s con-tinuing to be ongoing and unfolding even as you had a catastrophic event that already occurred.”

Teachers talk Japan tragedyEarthquake and tsunami prompt open forum at FSU

Nobody knows [how Japan

will rebuild from a disaster

like this]. Simply because you

haven’t seen this much localized

destruction since the Second

World War. And after WWII, we

didn’t pay attention to the shock

of the civilians. I don’t think the

world community knows the

answer. Kirby Kemper

University Vice President for Research

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gether to create the “Pal-estinian-Israeli Coalition Against Hate,” including ’Noles for Israel, the Mus-lim Student Association and the Jewish Student Union. The seven groups involved released a unifi ed message illustrating the goal of the coalition.

“Our goal is to spread an idea of healthy dialogue, tolerance and respect be-tween students and organi-zations with opposing opin-ions,” read the pre-written statement. “We realize that disagreements are inevi-table; however, incivility stemming from these dif-

fering views should not be tolerated. We hope that today will be the fi rst step toward considerate co-existence between Florida State students, and student organizations.”

Those who organized the “Wall of Lies” event publicly shared their own reasons for the demonstra-tion.

According to the Fa-cebook page behind the “Wall of Lies” event on Landis Green, “The wall is designed to draw atten-tion to the threat that radi-cal Islamic groups pose to our nation and the world,

and in particular the geno-cidal intentions of radical Islamic groups such as the Islamic Brotherhood, Hezbollah and Hamas.” The event page claims that the demonstration is not denouncing Islam, but rath-er radical Islamic groups.

According to the the “Wall of Lies” Facebook page, they are “preaching tolerance to all but those who want to blow us up.”

To learn more about ei-ther side of the argument, visit either the “Wall of Lies” or “Palestinian-Israeli Coalition Against Hate” on Facebook.

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Photos by Simon Lopez/FSViewLeft: Freshman Nina Guzman explains her beliefs as part of the Palestinian-Israeli Coali-tion Against Hate: A Silent Demonstration on the Landis Green. Right: Junior Terry Rydz and sophomore Sara Garber discuss the points of other protestors during the event.

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JOSHUA LEVINContributing Writer

The Faculty Luncheon Series continued this past Tuesday, March 15, at Florida State Univer-sity, featuring Assistant Professor of Biological Science Steve Lenhert, who presented on the in-tegration of biology and nanotechnology.

Lenhert spoke to an au-dience from a variety of

disciplinary backgrounds at the Presbyterian Uni-versity Center. According to Lenhert, speaking to such a diverse audience requires a bit of creativ-ity in order to ensure his message comes across.

“There’s something about having to explain [my research] to people who have never seen it before that forces me to be creative,” Lenhert said. “Something that’s very

important for this in-terdisciplinary subject is communication. The limit for these types of research is that we all speak a different lan-guage and even the same words can mean different things. That’s why it is so important to keep up the conversation.”

Lenhert’s lecture was the third in a four-part series this semester, all presented by the Pres-

byterian University Cen-ter, the FSU Faculty and Friends Club and the FSU Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. James C. Smith, professor in psychology, and Dennis Moore, an associate professor of English, organized the whole lecture series.

“The topics this year have been very current,” said Presbyterian Uni-versity MinisterBruce Chapman. “We’ve had great attendance.”

Between 35 and 60 people have attended the luncheons this se-mester alone.

The final lecture of this semester’s series will be held on April 12, followed by even more this fall. The April 12 lecture will be on

“Team Play and Strategic Thought,”presented by Professor David J. Coo-per.

Individuals interested in making reservations

for the upcoming lecture can reserve their spot by calling the Presbyte-rian University Center at 222-6320 or e-mailing bac4259@fsu.edu.

KARLANNA LEWISStaff Writer

Florida State Universi-ty’s forensics team, totaling 25 members, defeated the Gators and other Florida schools to win the state competition for the fi fth straight year.

The forensics team (not to be confused with the crime-scene science) prac-tices the art of speech and debate.

Lena Tsaoussis, speech and debate president, planned on joining the FSU Forensics Team after meet-ing the team at state com-petitions in high school. However, she encourages even those new to public speaking to consider join-

ing.“It’s a good opportunity

to learn speaking skills,” said Tsaoussis. “If some-body is more of the shy type, it’s a good way to get out of that comfort zone, get out of that shell, and become more comfortable with speaking in public.”

The team welcomes students from all majors. Rachel Fernandez, team webmaster, joined in her second semester and has since seen the team grow.

“We’re 25 strong this year,” said Fernandez. “It’s one of the biggest squads we’ve ever had.”

Those interested in join-ing should visit the website for information at foren-sics.comm.fsu.edu, and

then attend the weekly practices and coaching sessions. Each individual signs up for one-on-one coaching to work on his or her own speech.

For Graduate Assistant coach Scottie Branton, the transition from participant to trainer was a natural way to stay involved and to preserve the program.

“Our director left, so I and two other people keep the program going,” Bran-ton said. “We keep it alive and have built it up to be the best it’s ever been in our forensics history at FSU.”

Events are divided into categories of public ad-dress, limited preparation and oral interpretations.

Public address includes persuasive, informative, rhetorical criticism and after-dinner speeches. In any event, a fresh topic is an asset.

“Informative is taking something that’s never been done before and giv-ing a 10-minute speech about that, like technology, a new movement in social media—anything that’s on the cutting edge of the way we process things,” said Branton.

The most diffi cult events may be the impromptu and extemporaneous speeches, in which participants have either 30 or two minutes to prepare a speech on an assigned topic. Tsaoussis, though, prefers the oral in-

terpretations.“Interpretative events

are like acting, the inter-pretation of literature,” said Tsaoussis.

This year, her prose piece was a condensed version of Joe Meno’s short story, “What a Schoolgirl You Are.”

For interpretative events, performers select a work of published litera-ture and place it in a black book to be read. This year, Fernandez did a poetry compilation on the theme of bilingual children and the assimilation of English language.

So far, the FSU team, which is part of the com-petitive D6 district, has been holding its own at na-

tionals. Last year, the team ranked 16th in the country.

While forensics is fun for participants, who can choose their own topic and speak on anything from God in sports to mental health facilities, the team has more than a purely ac-ademic purpose: Branton considers participation in speech and debate to have changed his life.

“It’s probably the most infl uential academic activ-ity you could do outside of academics in your life,” said Branton. “So many people are not good at public speaking because they’re afraid of it, and we do it competitively and we love it. Some people do it all their lives.”

Speech and Debate team takes fi fth state titleFSU Forensics polishes communication skills in recent debate competition

KATHERINE CONCEPCIONStaff Writer

A Florida State Univer-sity doctor has been hon-ored as the 2011 Champion Endocrinologist by the Ju-venile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Dr. Nancy Wright, a pe-diatric endocrinologist with 26 years in practice, will be highlighted as the spokesperson for the up-coming “Walk to Cure Dia-betes,” the signature event for JDRF.

Wright serves as the Clinical Assistant Profes-sor at FSU and the Uni-versity of Florida. She has written a number of manu-scripts focusing mainly on human growth hormones.

“As a pediatric endo-crinologist, Dr. Wright is trained in treating diseases and conditions of the en-docrine system,” said Lau-ren Setzer, development coordinator for the JDRF. “Specifi cally, Dr. Wright is heavily involved with the treatment of young patients with type 1 dia-

betes, an autoimmune dis-ease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin.”

Wright will engage in multiple speaking events that will lead up to the main event. The Walk to Cure Diabetes will be held on Saturday, April 16 at Tallahassee Community College. Food, music and other activities will be available for participants in the three-mile walk to enjoy.

Last year, JDRF raised over $12,000 in Tallahas-

see through the event. “Over 300 community

members are expected to attend, including families, schools, and corporate partners,” said Setzer. “While the mission of JDRF is to fi nd a cure for type 1 diabetes, all proceeds of the event will directly ben-efi t diabetes research.”

Wright is a graduate of Wake Forest University and completed her resi-dency at University of Cal-ifornia at Irvine School of Medicine. Her children’s clinic is located at 1804

Miccosukee Commons Drive Suite 210.

Children with type 1 dia-betes require daily doses of insulin, sometimes mul-tiple doses per day.

According to the Ameri-can Diabetes Association, about one in every 400 children and adolescents has type 1 diabetes. Of the 30,000 Americans diag-nosed with the illness an-nually, more than half are children. Warning signs for type 1 diabetes include extreme thirst, frequent urination, sudden vision

changes and weight loss, and a sweet or wine-like odor on the breath.

Founded in 1970, JDRF has become the world’s leading charitable funder of type 1 diabetes re-search. Since its inception, more than $1.5 billion has been funded for diabetes research. Over 80 percent of JDRF expenditures go directly toward research and education.

To sign up for the Walk, visit walk.jdrf.org. For more information on JDRF, visit jdrf.org.

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Self-proclaimed music afi cionados alreadyknow about Diplo and recognize his ability to stay current in an ever-changing music scene.

Though once known solely as a DJ, Diplo, a.k.a. Wesley Pentz, ex-panded his talent and became a renowned pro-ducer, having worked on some of the most popular chart-topping tracks and remixes in recent years. On Monday, March 21,

the genre-bending DJ/producer will be perform-ing in Tallahassee at 20/20 Nightclub’s Elektroball, hosted by Evil Genius Records and promotional company Party Degree with additional help from local promoter and entre-preneur Brandon Kovacs.

As fans of Diplo, the or-ganizers recognize his tal-ent and shared a desire to bring him to Tallahassee as a chance for students to experience a night with one of the most currently talked-about performers.

“I think the show is go-

ing to do really well,” said Evil Genius Co-founder Marcel Katz, who mostly does bookings and net-works for his label. “Party Degree did Steve Aoki in January and that show was really awesome. Steve is a great performer and now we’re all work-ing on this show, which I think is going to be one of the biggest electronic shows [to reach Tallahas-see].”

As for the process of booking such a well-known DJ/producer to perform in a not-so-big

town, Katz admits it wasn’t entirely easy, but through the help of a friend and an agency, it became possi-ble. The payoff, however, surpasses any diffi culties, according to Katz.

“What’s tight is, when you do bookings and stuff, you actually get to meet the artists and learn something about them,” said Katz. “With what we’re doing, we’re learn-ing a lot from someone who is successful in the industry.”

In addition, events like this one, according to Ko-

vacs, give students in the area a refreshing experi-ence.

“In a party school where kids go out consistently, they eventually get bored of the same thing and spending the same $10 to get into [clubs],” said Kovacs. “They can spend those $10 on a Monday night, instead, and see a big DJ. It allows students to experience different musical talent than they wouldn’t have experi-enced [otherwise].”

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RYAN RABACStaff Writer

On March 18, legend-ary writer, director, art-ist, journalist and per-former John Waters will present his unique “one-man show” at the Union Ballrooms. “This Filthy World: An Evening with John Waters” will de-light both diehard fans of his cult classics and surprise those who may be less familiar with his work.

In what has been de-scribed as a “vaudeville act,” Waters will cover his various fascina-tions with film, trash culture, crime, art and more in stand-up and monologue form. The show will reflect heav-ily on Waters’ own film career. It is hard not to be familiar with a

man with such a long resume. The Baltimore native is most famous for writing and direct-ing Hairspray, which has since been adapted into a Broadway mu-sical and re-adapted into two films in 1988 and 2007—the latter starring John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer and Nikki Blonsky. Waters’ cult classic Pink Fla-mingos is one of the most notoriously con-troversial movies of all time.

The show was brought to campus through the efforts of Union Produc-tions, PRIDE Student Union, the FSU Film School and the ASLC. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., the event begins at 8:30 p.m. and is free for ev-eryone 18 and up.

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1. Adult Swim’s Ea-gleheart

The newest show in Adult Swim’s nonstop non sequitur lineup is Ea-gleheart, a Chris Elliot-starring Walker: Texas Ranger-ish parody that tends to spin off the rails into something all its own. The show airs on Thurs-days at midnight—the time slot into which Adult Swim typically shuffl es its weirdest and most uncomfortable entertain-ment, like the transcen-dent Xavier: Renegade Angel—and each episode is 12 dense minutes of stream-of-consciousness plotting, punny one-liners and violence. Eagleheart is around halfway through its fi rst season; highlights so far have been “Death Punch” and “Master of Da’Skies.” (“Sky crime!”)

2. Rebecca Black, “Friday”

If you’ve been online anytime in the past week, you’ve likely encountered one of three inevitable “news” items: Charlie Sheen’s ongoing antics, Japan’s quake disaster and the “fun, fun, fun, fun” that is 13-year-old Rebecca Black’s equally tragic viral music video, “Friday.”

Cranked out by some creepy L.A.-based record label where teen dreams of pop stardom go to die, Black’s auto-tuned anthem to “fried egg” educates lis-teners on the days of the week while, upon waiting for her bus to arrive, mus-ing the profound: “Which seat can I take?”

One must grudgingly concede this song will fi nd a way to live on, if only be-cause some ironic DJ will no doubt fi nd the nerve to spin this on one fateful “fried egg” night, so club at your own risk.

3. Celebrity Appren-tice

Celebrity Apprentice kicked off this month with its eleventh season. The show features a motley crew of characters—Gary Busey, Real Housewife of Atlanta’s NeNe Leakes, Survivor’s Richard Hatch, Playmate Hope Dworac-zyk and lawyer and author Star Jones to name a few. The celebrities will be playing the game for their philanthropies of choice. As the fi rst project man-ager, Star Jones brought her team to victory and won over $115,000 for her philanthropy, The Ameri-can Heart Association. This was also the largest amount of money raised in Celebrity Apprentice history.

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Most people know how valuable some applica-tions can be to keeping track of our daily lives. As a busy college student, we may not have time for organization—so calen-dar applications can come in so handy. That said, both iPhones and Android phones have apps to keep track of a girl’s “monthly gift,” called “My Days” on the Android operating sys-tem and “Period Tracker” on the iPhone. Bonus: the application will even show you what days you’re ovu-lating!

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COLLIN MIRANDAStaff Writer

In all honesty, I had never played any games in the PixelJunk series until the beginning of this year, when my friend had purchased PixelJunk Eden. It didn’t take long

for an addiction to form. I found myself fascinated by the beautiful, minimal-ist art style, the sexy, am-bient-electronic sound-track, and, most of all, the deceptively simple “minute to learn, lifetime to master” gameplay me-chanics, whose surpris-ing depth and complexity continues to astound me.

It’s no secret that devel-oper Q-Games is known

for their success in creat-ing unique, quality games, and PixelJunk Shooter 2 is no exception to this excellent track record.

For those new to the Shooter games, Pix-elJunk Shooter’s plot sounds quite a bit like a simplifi ed version of Dead Space. Basically, earth’s resources have been drained, thus caus-ing humans to travel

space in order to har-vest precious materials from other planets. Sure enough, corruption and greed leads to the ex-ploration of a strange, restricted planet that dooms the unfortunate crew. The player was then tasked to explore the planet’s caves and mines and rescue all surviving miners and scientists. PixelJunk Shooter 2 be-

gins where the fi rst one left off, which saw the player’s ship devoured by a large creature. Once again, your mission is to explore your environ-ment in order to fi nd sur-vivors and treasure.

In contrast to the fi rst game’s setting of caves, there is much more va-riety this time around.

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ERIC JAFFEStaff Writer

Students may not know it, but at some point over this past semester, they have probably had at least one random encounter with Sam Andrews or Spencer Showalter. Col-lectively known as The Freakniks, Andrews and Showalter can be found all over Tallahassee, per-forming everywhere from Landis Green to Sheesha Nights, as well as Rail-road Square’s monthly First Friday Gallery Hop. One place you may not see them, however, is in class.

“We do the minimum amount of studying and use our time to live more than anything,” said Showalter. “Both of us be-

lieve that sleep is wasting time. We choose to be up and going as long as our bodies allow.

“We’re out in the middle of the night while every-one else is getting their beauty sleep. Good thing for us, we don’t need to be beautiful.”

Andrews and Showal-ter’s talents extend beyond the music. Showalter is a student at Florida State’s prestigious fi lm school, a program that Andrews, too, hopes to enroll in this fall. The Freakniks see themselves as artists, not just musicians.

“The arts are the most sacred and respected things our culture can cling to,” said Showal-ter. “Art is whatever you want it to be; it not only changes the artists’ lives,

but [also] the lives of the people who witness their art. The timeline of art is inspiration; we need more artists to inspire more art-ists. Each new generation produces more and more art that keeps our world running and meaningful.”

In spite of their ambi-tion, The Freakniks do not, however, intend to be successful musicians.

“The mainstream can burn in hell,” said Show-alter. “I don’t say that in terms of trying to be a cool indie guy but, as I see it, most of the main-stream consists of music with no point, no drive, no soul and no talent. Most of these pop artists have nothing important to say and just want to dance around and get paid. They are using music as a job,

not as an art. We’ll play music until we die but we never intend to [make it our career].”

So what’s in the future for a band that never in-tends to be successful?

“The Freakniks will stay just the same,” said Show-alter. “We plan to continue playing local venues and maybe have a self-funded tour through the south-east this summer.

“No matter what, we will keep making our mu-sic in hope that people will keep listening. As long as one person listens then we have accomplished our goal. A new EP entitled Happy Candle Move-ment will be released in April and we’ll be passing out free copies wherever we go, so people should look out for that, as well.”

Get freaky with The FreakniksLocal independent music duo prepares to release new EP

Photo Courtesy of the Freakniks Freakniks members Sam Andrews and Spencer Showalter are releasing a new EP this April, called ‘Happy Candle Movement.’

Students interested in learning more about The Freakniks can fi nd the duo on their offi cial Facebook page.

Andrews’ solo work is

also available at samuel-curtis.bandcamp.com.

Both members will be performing at Railroad Square on April 1 for First Friday.

Levels include the insides of the aforementioned creature and a factory. The game contains three different worlds, and fi ve huge stages, each with multiple sections, as well as a ridiculously awesome boss battle within each world. As with Eden, the intention seems to be for each level to be played in one sitting, as each can take upwards of 45 min-utes to complete and can be somewhat tedious to play in a marathon. This isn’t due to any fl aw in gameplay, but rather the mentally exhausting chal-lenge the game provides, coupled with somewhat sparse checkpoints and the frequency of dying and starting over from the beginning of a section.

Gameplay has re-mained mostly the same in this 2D side-scrolling shooter, aside from a few changes.

The ship controls somewhat like Geom-etry Wars; the left stick is used to move and the right stick is used to aim. Right shoulder buttons are used to fi re missiles, which can be charged to fi re homing missiles. Left shoulder buttons activate a grappling hook, which is predominantly used to rescue both survivors and dying co-op partners, pull switches and grab items.

Rotating the right stick allows you to spin, which draws in items and de-fl ects bullets. New to Pix-elJunk Shooter 2 is a spin dash, performed by press-ing R3 after a spin, which functions as an effective attack, a quick way to dig and other uses.

Aside from the old envi-ronmental gimmicks such as water and lava, there are some welcome new tricks that keep the game feeling fresh the whole

way through. These in-clude a substance that poisons your ship, forcing you to search for the cu-rative properties of water, and a darkness that has shadow creatures waiting to destroy you. As with the old substances, each new one displays unique, and entertainingly sophis-ticated physics. There are also new power-bestow-ing suits, which can range from something as simple as giving players a magma gun, to something that will completely change the genre of the game.

What’s more is that some of these genre al-terations are intentional homages to other game series, such as Dig Dug and Galaga, which will no doubt excite players. And these homages don’t feel like cheap, easy rip-offs either, as Q-Games has done a commendable job of mashing them to-

gether with the signature PixelJunk Shooter game-play style.

The game looks and sounds fantastic. While the visuals are admittedly simple, the distinct, col-orful, almost cartoon-like art style is both function-al and aesthetically pleas-ing. The soundtrack, a blend of hip-hop, jazz and some electronic music is , unsurprisingly, awesome.

If you have yet to dis-cover the PixelJunk se-ries, do yourself a favor and try one out for no more than $9.99. They serve as a testament to how far downloadable games have come in terms of quality, rivaling or outright besting many big budget titles that can set you back $60.

I could recommend PixelJunk Shooter 2, but honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of their titles.

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Along with Diplo’s per-formance in Tallahassee, Evil Genius also organized his performance in Orlan-do on Sunday, March 20. The next morning, Katz and co-founder/cousin Alex Gruenberg will drive Diplo from Orlando to Tal-lahassee for his appear-ance at 20/20, which offers them a chance to interact with Diplo the person, versus Diplo the brand.

“We get to talk to the guy and kind of, like, see the man behind the mask,” said Katz.

Gruenberg, who produc-es tracks for his label, also views this as a chance to learn from a pioneer in the production industry.

“You learn a lot from these guys—how they handle themselves and how they handle other people,” said Gruenberg. “You learn from experi-ence and, luckily, we have that opportunity.”

Born in Tupelo, Miss., and raised in the South, Diplo grew up being ex-posed to a wide variety of music. Following a brief enrollment at the Univer-sity of Central Florida, Diplo transitioned to Philadelphia, where he

studied Film and Music at Temple University. During this time, Diplo also began experimenting as a DJ. In later years, he would begin throwing nightclub par-ties with fellow DJ Low Budget under the joint moniker Hollertronix.

Following several suc-cessful parties, the two quickly gained notoriety and further expanded their talent by releasing both individual and combined mixtapes, namely 2003’s Never Scared, which made its way onto The New York Times’ list of top 10 albums of that year. Prefi x Magazine also praised Hollertronix, rav-ing “the word ‘genre’ has no traction as Hollertronix deejays Diplodocus [as he was then known] and Low Budget blast across the musical spectrum on this tour de force that is sure to rock any party. From old school booty rap to ’80s rock, Never Scared celebrates the excitement that music can create. [...] No matter what you’re in the mood for, the chances are good that this album can deliver.”

Following the release and subsequent success

of Never Scared, Diplo went on to debut his solo mixtape, the aptly-titled Florida, the following year, in addition to host-ing parties with big-name guests such as M.I.A., for whom he later produced the smashing Grammy-nominated hit, “Paper Planes.” In time, Diplo built what he calls “The Mausoleum,” a gallery/event planning/record la-bel offi ce and video/re-cording studio, which has housed a range of artists from Christina Aguilera and Shakira to Santigold and Spank Rock. Follow-ing the release of “Paper Planes,” Diplo catapulted to superstardom—from being a DJ in Philadel-phia to a producer work-ing amongst some of the biggest names in the industry, with a fl ourish-ing label (Mad Decent) and landing on Rolling Stone’s “40 Reasons to be Excited about Music” list in April 2010. Diplo also has another collabora-tive project on the side, Major Lazer, with Switch, a U.K.-based DJ, which focuses on lesser-known subgenres.

Not one to take an ex-

tensive break from work, Diplo continually tours around the nation and across the world. On Mon-day, Diplo will be able to add Tallahassee to his al-ready lengthy list of per-formances.

“I’m looking forward to the event,” said Katz. “I think it’ll be something nice to bring to Tallahas-see and I think a lot of kids are going to enjoy themselves.”

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GRACE NORBERGSenior Staff Writer

Mark Lew, founder of Florida College Kids Ca-tering, came up with the idea for his business after cooking for a friend who was on the heart trans-plant list.

“I started cooking some specialty foods for him,” said Lew. “His wife asked me to because they were just going crazy with the doctors and everything they needed to take care of. So I started making salt-free and diabetic-friendly meals.”

The fi rst company he started out of this was Eat Well Home Catering in October, but then a friend showed him Grandm-asChickenSoup.com , which sends homemade

chicken soup marketed to college students. In December, Lew started FlaCollegeCaterers.com, a website geared toward getting the parents of col-lege students to send his healthy meals to their chil-dren.

The meals can be or-dered individually, but it is a better value to order “care packages” or multi-ple meals due to shipping costs. The meals them-selves are mostly $7 each, but the shipping starts at $28, making these prod-ucts more affordable for parents rather than strug-gling college students.

“The idea behind this is as follows: People gener-ally associate healthy with wheat bread, juice and raw carrots,” said Lew. “My idea is a variety of

stuff that’s good for you and that you’re going to continue to eat. The idea behind the menu choices, specifi cally, is basically what is good enough [to] order it more than once.”

One of the most popular meals is Lew’s take on ar-roz con pollo, which is a Cuban dish of chicken and rice. Lew makes his arroz con pollo with brown rice and customers come back for seconds.

There are fi ve catego-ries of food on the web-site: poultry, seafood, beef and vegetarian entrees, as well as soups. The catego-ry with the most variety of meals is poultry, with chicken cacciatore, chick-en Florentine, ground chicken chili and more.

The seafood section offers salmon, snapper

for those who like mini-mal fi sh fl avor and perch for people who like a bit more.

“I have a standard Jew-ish fare, which is the brisket,” said Lew. “I’ve got beef stroganoff. I’ve picked very popular menu items and really set about making them uniquely tasty and healthy.”

The menu also includes vegetarian items such as multigrain spaghetti and marinara sauce with ra-tatouille and chili bean stuffed peppers. Both veg-etarian and non-vegetari-an soups are available.

Lew boasts that he nev-er uses ingredients out of a can, and his meals are all low in salt, high in fi -ber and contain no white starch. He makes every-thing himself from scratch

in a commercial kitchen.“As for convenience:

There’s no messy clean-up; they don’t have to do shopping; they don’t have to worry about what’s for dinner tonight,” said Lew. “It’s boil in a bag or microwave it. Between four and 10 minutes, you have a full meal that will remind you of the fl avors of home, except there’s no white starches, it’s all low sodium and it’s good for you.”

The meals are shipped either UPS or FedEx and arrive within two days still frozen, thanks to a Styro-foam cooler and gel ice packs.

So why not go buy a meal from the frozen sec-tion of a local grocery store in town? According to Lew, frozen diet meals

do little to truly satisfy one’s appetite. The “food chemists” behind these meals try to come up with a way to make the calo-rie numbers work while maintaining the taste of the food, which can result in smaller portions.

For parents concerned about their college-bound kids piling more work than nutritional foods onto their plates, Lew’s service just might be the ideal brown-bag alterna-tive.

“If truth be told, the en-tire thing is geared toward the parents who want to make sure their kids are getting the right kind of food,” said Lew. “A lot of parents are concerned that their kids are going off to college and eating McDonald’s every day.”

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SCOTT CRUMBLYStaff Writer

Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the brackets are set for the 2011 NCAA champion-ship tournament.

The Florida State men’s basketball team drew a No.10 seed in the Southwest region and will tip off its third consecutive trip to the “Big Dance” on Friday afternoon against the seventh-seeded Aggies of Texas A&M in Chi-cago, Ill.

After making the tour-nament in each of the previous two seasons, Florida State (21-10) will attempt to advance from round one for the fi rst time since the 1998 season when it took down TCU. The Semi-noles enter the tourna-ment having lost two of their last three games, with both losses com-ing in dramatic fashion.

FSU lost to North Carolina on March 2 when Harrison Barnes’ 3-pointer with three seconds remaining lift-ed the Tar Heels to a 72-70 defeat of the ’Noles in Tallahassee.

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HARRIS NEWMANContributing Writer

After a steep drop in the rankings, with three of those losses coming in the deciding point, the No. 45 FSU men’s tennis team came into Tuesday’s match with more than something to prove. En-ter the third-ranked USC Trojans (13-2, 2-0 Pac-10), who came to Tallahassee with fi ve straight wins and the top singles player in the nation in Steve John-son.

Florida State seemed unfazed at the start as they stormed out of the gates in doubles play. The domi-nant singles play from USC proved far too much to overcome, though, as the Trojans won 5-2 and extended their win streak to six.

Unlike their matches of late, the young guns of Florida State (6-8, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Confer-ence) came fi ring on all cylinders in doubles. Clint Bowles was rested for his singles match, so courts two and three saw duos of two sophomores, in An-derson Reed and Andres Bucaro, and a sophomore and freshman, in Jordan Kelly-Houston and Blake Davis.

The Trojans fi lled all three courts with ranked tandems, who were thwarted by the Semi-noles’ strong double play. Reed and Bucaro raced to a 6-1 lead over the No. 43 team of Jaak Poldma and JT Sundling, then fi nally closed their match at 8-5.

Blake Davis had two aces for the fi nal two points against USC’s No. 51-ranked team, as he and Kelly-Houston notched an 8-5 win for the second upset of the day and for FSU’s fi rst point of the match.

FSU’s top tandem of Vahid Mirzadeh and Con-nor Smith were down 6-1 to the 30th-ranked team. The resilient duo won fi ve straight games to tie the score, then dropped two games to give USC their lone doubles win.

“I thought the doubles was maybe the best we’ve played all year at two and three,” said head coach Dwayne Hultquist. “[Mirzadeh and Smith] came back to hang in the match and made it a little bit easier for us to fi nish off the doubles point.”

Events took a turn for the worse, though, as the savvy singles play from USC, their bread and but-ter, so to speak, pummeled that of FSU’s.

No. 1 Steve Johnson played even beyond his ranking, as he sent No. 26 Mirzadeh off the courts fi rst with a 6-3, 6-0 win.

Anderson Reed went down early on court six, then strung together a couple wins to tie the set score at 5-5. USC’s Mi-chael Grant persisted, though, winning 7-5 and then 6-3 in the next set.

Freshman Blake Davis fed off his strong doubles play as he defeated JT Sundling 6-1, 6-3 to tie the score at 2-2.

The rest of USC’s top-heavy singles roster took care of business, though, to ensure the 13th win for the Trojans. Connor

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NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor

In the second match-up of the season be-tween two top-ranked programs, No. 4 Florida State traveled down the road to take on No. 1 Florida in their home ballpark on Tuesday night.

In a raucous atmo-sphere that saw McK-ethan Stadium fi lled to a record 5,930 capacity, the Seminoles (15-2) fell 5-4 in 10 innings, the fi rst extra inning game between the two inter-state rivals since 2004.

“When emotions get into a rivalry game like that, it’s exciting,” said clean-up hitter James Ramsey. “It’s defi nitely something I feel a whole lot better about even af-ter the game. We didn’t have anybody with their heads down. We know we’re going to lose sometimes, especially to good ballclubs.”

The Seminoles jumped out to an early lead after an explosive third inning. Mike Mc-Gee singled off Florida starter Alex Panteliodis and Ramsey quickly gave the ’Noles a 2-0 lead after hammering a ball over the right fi eld fence.

After Jayce Boyd grounded out to the third for the fi rst out of the inning, Rafael Lopez ended Panteliodis’ night with a double that rat-tled around in the left fi eld corner. UF coach Kevin O’Sullivan then handed the ball to Greg Larson who retired Stu-art Tapley for the in-ning’s second out.

But with Lopez still on second, sophomore Justin Gonzalez took a home run cut that sent the ball fl ying over the left fi eld fence, giving Florida State a 4-0 lead. It was Gonzalez’s sec-ond home run of the

season. “I was just going up

there trying to hit the ball hard,” said Gonza-lez. “I got a pitch to hit and I hit it. Thank God it went out.”

After the big away half of the third, the Gators started to slowly chip at FSU starter Hunter Scantling, earning runs off the right-hander in both the third and the fourth innings.

After Scantling went 3 1/3 innings, head coach Mike Martin used eight more pitchers in an ef-fort to preserve the

Seminoles lose in dramatic fashion to

rival GatorsFlorida State unable to withstand

late charge by UF

ERIC ZERKELStaff Writer

On the heels of a dis-appointing fi rst round exit in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Florida State looks to respond in their opening round contest against fourteen seed Samford.

The ’Noles (23-7) en-ter the tournament with higher expectations than usual, having made a deep run into the fi nal eight of last year’s tour-nament. The tournament bid marks the seventh consecutive year that the Seminoles have made the Big Dance, winning at least one game every year since 2004.

Samford (25-7) enters the tournament in a much different state of mind. The Bulldogs earned their fi rst ever NCAA tournament bid after they took home the Southern Conference title crown, upsetting top seeded Ap-palachian State in dra-matic fashion. With just 18 seconds left to play, Samford’s Paige Johnson drained a 3-pointer to give the Bulldogs a 67-64 win.

While the seeding may lend the casual observer to write off the Bulldogs, Florida State won’t be overlooking the under-dogs. The contest will provide a classic clash between offense and defense. The Seminoles enter the match ranked twenty-ninth in scoring offense averaging 73.9 points per game behind a balanced scoring attack.

Four players average in double fi gures for the ’Noles led by Cierra Bra-vard’s 14.6 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game. Guards Alexa

Deluzio and Courtney Ward lead a potent Semi-nole’s backcourt, averag-ing 12.2 and 12.1 points per game respectively. Natasha Howard rounds out the frontcourt scor-ing, averaging 11 points per game, with Chelsea Davis and Chasity Clay-ton supplementing the attack off the bench with their 7.2 points per game.

Meanwhile, Samford is a team predicated on defense. The Bulldogs hold their opponents to just 55.9 points per game, good for 36th nationally in scoring defense. That’s not to say that they don’t possess a scoring threat of their own.

Samford senior guard Emily London enters the game on a hot streak. Lon-don is the reigning South-ern Conference Player of the Month, earning All-Southern Conference Tournament team honors en route to her team lead-ing 16.1 points per game.

London’s scoring threat likely means she will be pitted against Florida State’s defensive stop-per Christian Hunnicutt. Hunnicutt was recently named the ACC Defen-sive Player of the Year, holding her defensive assignments to 18-for-84 shooting in ACC victo-ries.

Samford and Florida State share three com-mon opponents—Clem-son, Western Carolina, and Vanderbilt—and have faired similarly against these opponents. Both Florida State and Samford defeated Clem-son and Western Carolina earlier this season. Only Vanderbilt posed a prob-lem for the Bulldogs, as

Time to shineWomen’s basketball set to square off with Samford in

fi rst round action

Melina Vastola/FSViewMichael Snaer and the Seminoles will start with a fresh slate in the NCAA Tournament after a handful of heartbreaking defeats to close out the season.

Virginia Tech, 52-51, after Derwin Kitchen’s game-winning, fade-away jump-er was waved off. After a review, offi cials ruled that the ball was still on Kitch-en’s fi ngertips as time ex-pired.

Despite two devastating losses for his ball club in a span of just nine days,

FSU coach Leonard Ham-ilton likes his team’s busi-ness-like approach as they head into the tournament.

“I think we have a very mature approach,” Ham-ilton said. “I’m not real sure we are as [giddy] as we were last year. I like the attitude, their focus. […] It was [a] look, let’s-

go-get-this-done type of attitude.”

FSU comes into the tournament as the best defensive squad in the 68-team fi eld. The Seminoles have been the toughest team in the country to score on this season, hold-ing their opponents to just 36.4 percent shooting.

From a scoring per-spective, FSU may have received a favorable draw despite being the lower seed.

The Aggies (24-8) have struggled to put the ball through the hoop at times this season, and rank

Simon Lopez/FSViewSophomore Justin Gonzalez hit a two-run home run in the top half of the third to put the Seminoles up 4-0, but it wasn’t enough to secure the victory for FSU.

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No.165 in the nation in scoring offense. Forward Khris Middleton has led the way offensively for A&M, averaging 14.3 points per game.

After racing out to a 16-1 start this year, the Aggies lost seven of their fi nal 15 games, scoring 60 points or fewer in six of those losses. That kind of inconsistency on offense fi gures to play right into the hands of FSU’s athletic and aggressive defense.

The offensive outlook could get worse yet for the Aggies if the ’Noles have reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year Chris Singleton on the fl oor to

defend Middleton.Singleton has not played

since Feb. 12 against Vir-ginia, when he fractured a bone in his right foot, but Hamilton said that the 6-foot-9 junior probably could have played against Virginia Tech last week if necessary.

The Seminoles have faced struggles of their own on offense, averag-ing less than one point per game more than the Ag-gies on the year. Getting Singleton’s 13 points per game back would be a big boost, but this game ulti-mately could come down to FSU’s ability to knock down open looks from the

perimeter.For this reason, shoot-

ing guard Deividas Dulkys could be an X-factor for Florida State, as the ’Noles are 9-1 this season when the sharp-shooting junior scores in double digits.

FSU has an all-time re-cord of 12-12 in the NCAA tourney, with its best showings coming in 1972 (Final Four) and 1993 (Elite Eight).

The Aggies are 9-12 all time in the NCAA’s, with six of those wins coming during A&M’s current fi ve-year tournament streak.

Tip-off is set for 4:10 p.m. EST and the game will be broadcast on TBS.

Seminoles’ slim two-run lead.

After Scantling, Mar-tin brought on Robert Benincasa, Connor No-lan, Tye Buckley, Mack Waugh, Daniel Bennett, Robby Scott, Jack Posey and Mike McGee. Flori-da stranded a season-high 13 runners against the ’Noles.

“I probably used more pitchers tonight [...] I don’t know when I’ve used nine, but I’m going to tell you one thing, if they pitch like that we’ll use 10 one night to win a ballgame,” Martin said. “I’m very proud of this ballclub. It was a good game.”

After their hot third inning, the Seminoles struggled against the UF bullpen, with O’Sullivan making his share of pitching changes as well.

The ’Noles threatened again in the eight, but a Seth Miller single was scooped up by UF out-fi elder Preston Tucker and Lopez was tagged

out sliding into home by UF catcher Mike Zu-nino.

With runners in scor-ing position and no outs in the ninth, the FSU bullpen once again weaseled their way out of a tough situation, af-ter Posey recorded a strikeout and McGee got a pop-up to end the inning.

But after battling for six innings, the bullpen was fi nally overcome by the Gator attack in the fi rst and fi nal extra in-ning.

Nolan Fontana tripled to right off McGee to lead off the inning, and Daniel Pigott sent ev-eryone home, driving in Fontana from third with a single up the middle.

The Seminoles will have to move on quickly after this tight loss. Up next, Florida State will send ace Sean Gilmartin to the mound on Friday to kick off a three-game ACC series against the Virginia Cavaliers in Charlottesville.

the Commodores topped the Bulldogs 70-60 in their second game of the season.

Samford holds a bit

of a home court advan-tage in the contest. The Birmingham, Ala., based Bulldogs have a short two-hour trip to the

game’s site in Auburn, Ala.

The game will tip at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, March 20.

Smith had USC’s No. 24 Dan Nguyen in a tiebreak-er in the fi rst set, then lost and let the momentum slip away as Nguyen won 6-1 in the second set to notch the match clinching point.

In the fi nal match of the afternoon, No. 76 Clint Bowles battled with No.

41 Jaak Poldma well be-yond everybody else.

Two tiebreakers went into effect, including a third-set tiebreaker going 11-9 in Poldma’s favor, who eventually won the match 6-3, 6-7 (8), 1-0 (11-9).

“There were some turn-ing points in the match,”

Hultquist added. “We got off to a pretty good start [...] and had a chance to close it out.”

The Seminoles struggled yet again with closing the door on their opponents, but will have ample time to regroup. Their next match is March 25 against Virginia Tech.

ERIC ZERKELStaff Writer

Much like millions of other sports fanatics, “March Madness” holds a special place in my heart. After 30 regular season games, conference tour-nament drama and selec-tion Sunday snubs, there isn’t much in the world of sports that satisfi es more than the feeling of a freshly printed bracket between my fi ngertips.

And, of course, I’m not the only one. All around campus, students drown out the monotonous roar of professorial rhetoric with fantasy upsets and bracket science.

Yet, despite the mass participation, no one seems to be fi lling out brackets for the women’s

tournament. In some regard, this

lack of fandom is under-standable. The NCAA Women’s tournament has only been around since the 1981-1982 season, 42 years after the fi rst men’s tournament in 1939.

Also a contributing fac-tor here at Florida State has been the success of the men’s basketball team. Coach Leonard Hamilton and crew are dancing in March for a school record-tying third consecutive year, earn-ing a 10 seed in this year’s tournament.

But if success encour-ages fan support, where’s the love for the Seminole women? The women just earned their seventh straight trip to the NCAA tournament. While the la-

dies were making Cinder-ella runs toward a fi rst-ever national title from 2004-2008, the men were taking part in second-rate festivities at the National Invitation Tournament, a consolation prize for those who just couldn’t quite make it into the 64-team NCAA tournament.

Meanwhile, lost some-where in the shadow of Selection Sunday, Selec-tion Monday cast the women’s team as a No. 3 seed for the third con-secutive year. The men’s team’s highest seed dur-ing the last three years was a fi fth seed in 2009’s edition of the big dance.

Seeding only tells one side of the story; the women have far and away enjoyed more suc-cess. While the men are

an unconvincing 0-2 over the past two years, the women are 4-2, including a run to the Elite Eight in last year’s tournament. In fact, the Seminoles have won at least one game in the NCAA tournament since their streak of sev-en straight berths began in 2004.

The point here isn’t to pit the Florida State men against the Florida State women, but to question why students and Flori-da State fans alike aren’t showing more support for a nationally ranked women’s basketball team with a successful track record.

The lack of support goes beyond missing brackets; the home at-

Where’s the respect?Making the case for women’s basketball

in college

Joseph La Belle/FSViewCourtney Ward and the Seminoles will take on the Samford Bulldogs on Sunday.

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Melina Vastola/FSViewAndres Bucaro and the Seminoles are having trouble closing the door on opponents late in matches this season, most recently falling to the University of Southern California.

Melina Vastola/FSViewDerwin Kitchen and the Seminoles will try and earn their fi rst NCAA Tournament victory since 1998 despite having earned a selection three years in a row.

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tendance numbers don’t lie. The women’s basket-ball team has an average home attendance of just 2,666; the men enjoy an average of 9,327.

Don’t tell me no one watches women’s bas-ketball.

Other top women’s basketball programs put our men’s attendance to shame. Powerhouse Connecticut averages over 10,000 fans a game, and the Tennessee Lady Vols average over 13,000.

Don’t tell me that there is no pandemonium in women’s basketball. Just because Tennessee and Connecticut have combined to win 15 out of the 29 women’s cham-pionships doesn’t mean that the men’s game pos-sesses a fl air for the un-derdog.

Top seeds have won 16 out of the 24 64-team editions of the men’s NCAA tournament, and have taken home the title in each of the last four seasons. Not since third-seed Florida won it all in 2006 has a lower-seeded team took home the title, and Villanova, an eight-seed in 1985, was the lowest seeded team ever to cut down the nets.

Basketball enthusiasts almost never associate the tournament with this sort of monarchical reign. Instead, we be-come enamored with the magical runs of teams like 11-seeded George Mason to the Final Four in 2006.

The tournament is a perfect catalyst for tur-moil, which is why we continue to watch. The women’s tournament is no different. In 1998, Harvard became the fi rst 16 seed ever to defeat a No. 1 seed when they upended Stanford. No 16 seed has ever defeated a top seed in the men’s tournament.

Closer to home, Flor-ida State’s women have exhibited a particular fl air for the upset. In 2007, as a 10 seed, the Seminoles advanced to their fi rst ever Sweet 16 with victories over sev-en-seed Old Dominion, and fi fth-ranked and sec-ond-seeded Stanford. In 2008, as an 11 seed, the ’Noles continued their fl air for the dramatic with an upset of six seed Ohio State.

As cliché as the say-ing goes, the proof is in the pudding. The NCAA women’s basketball tournament is compara-ble to the men’s, and the Florida State women are

comparable to the men. If anything, as Florida State fans, we’re lucky to have both a men’s and a wom-en’s team that can partake in the glory of the NCAA

Tournament. So do me a favor: Please, go print off a women’s bracket and support the Seminoles as they continue to make history.

NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor

With the mid-March sun bearing down on Tal-lahassee, members of the Florida State football team took to the fi eld to impress pro scouts in the 2011 Pro Day.

Participants included linebacker Mister Alex-

ander, fullback Matt Dun-ham, defensive back Dar-ren Edwards, offensive lineman Rodney Hudson, defensive back Ochuko Jenije, defensive back Dennis “Bo” Johnson, center Ryan McMahon, quarterback Christian Ponder, running back Ta-vares Pressley, linebacker Kendal Smith and defen-sive end Markus White.

While Ponder elected to keep his times and me-saurements from the NFL Combine, which occurred from Feb. 24 to March 1, other participants per-

formed a variety of drills that are measuring sticks for one’s ability to transi-tion from the college to the pro game. Drills in-cluded the 40-yard dash, the bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, three-cone drill, 20-yard shuttle and 60-yard shuttle.

With a lockout looming over the NFL, the Draft will proceed as sched-uled. The fi rst round will take place April 28. The second and third rounds take place on April 29, and the last day of the draft is April 30.

Seminoles work out for scouts’Noles look to improve draft stock after Wednesday’s drills

Bryan Vallejo/FSViewDefensive back Darren Edwards was one of 11 participants in FSU’s Pro Day. Edwards performed 14 repetitions of 225 pounds in the bench press.

Riley Shabber/FSViewRunning back Tavares Pressley runs through catching drills as scouts from around the NFL look on. Pressley ran a 4.62 40-yard dash, bested only by Ochuko Jenije (4.52).

Bryan Vallejo/FSViewFSU’s Markus White lets his hands do the talking for NFL scouts at FSU’s Pro Day, held at Doak Campbell Stadium on March 16.

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ERIK EMBREYStaff Writer

I was initially planning on doing a fun article this week in honor of St. Pat-rick’s Day, but the calamity that happened over Spring Break in Japan has taken solemn precedence this week. Unless you some-how don’t have any con-tact with mass media at all, you know that the country got hit with an incredibly strong earthquake and tsu-nami.

I want to speak on some-thing I found really peculiar

and unexpected through-out the coverage of the event. The question: Why is there no looting or cha-os going on in Japan right now? Actually, maybe this is better: How can there be a lack of looting and pan-icking in that country?

Many different news or-ganizations that are cover-ing the event seem to be scratching their heads to-ward this question, as well. There isn’t chaos, but rath-er a sort of stoic calm that has blanketed Japan. In the hardest-hit areas, people are making do with emer-gency supplies without re-sorting to ransacking par-tially destroyed shops or homes. In other areas that were minimally impacted,

people are still helping out by voluntarily cutting back on electricity consumption so that emergency person-nel and services can do their jobs effi ciently. There has been virtually no loot-ing to speak of. The entire country seems to be com-pletely civil, albeit with an air of silent misery.

That shocks me, and it depresses me that I have to be shocked about it. I can’t even fathom a minority of people acting like that in the U.S. if a similar event hap-pened. Just thinking back to what happened after hurricane Katrina in 2005 paints the picture of what occurs in the U.S. during catastrophic events. Stores are sacked, homes ravaged

and people steal from oth-ers what small amount of emergency supplies they have. People watch out for themselves only, and yet there is mass panic. Very few are able to think ratio-nally or for the good of the group as a whole.

None of that seems to be an issue in Japan right now. Is it just a cultural thing unique to that coun-try, or is there something more to it? It really made me step back and consider for a bit. Comparatively, they are not too different from the U.S. They’re a fi rst-world nation that is technologically advanced with a democratic form of government. The country has more of a propensity

for earthquakes, but they are not unknown here, es-pecially on the west coast. Both there and here have high standards of living. So why is it that, whenever some sort of large-scale disaster strikes here, loot-ing and disorder become practically expected here, whereas there they are able to face disaster with quiet dignity?

There is more of a feel-ing of unity and belonging to the group in Japan that doesn’t exist in the U.S. America has a fi erce indi-vidualistic streak that the country is largely accus-tomed to, which, in itself, isn’t a bad thing. There’s a fi ne line to be drawn, how-ever, between acting for the

benefi t of oneself and act-ing toward the detriment of others, which, I think, does not have a strong enough distinction in our culture. We could learn something from all of this on how we should act when faced with life-altering situations, and really any other time in life. You can look out for your-self while not acting to the detriment of others; they aren’t mutually exclusive. And actively helping oth-ers isn’t much of a jump from that.

Here’s to the people of Japan being able to pull through from all of this and recover. You all are an inspiration for the rest of the world to follow in your darkest hour.

Japan’s stoic calm after the storm Retracing Our

Steps

BRIAN PETRITIStaff Writer

The word “retreat” is not part of a politician’s vocabu-lary. The revisionist back-tracking that goes into cor-rective press releases and semi-apologetic “tweets” are more forced marches than advantageous retreats.

This is something that’s become more and more ap-parent in recent times with the gaffe-prone crew on the right side of the aisle. From

Huckabee’s comparatively mild “Kenyan” comments to Bachmann’s baffl ing se-ries of fumbles, there’s been a slew of errata coming by way of bully pulpit. When-ever a Bachmann says that the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought in New Hampshire, there is a sort of errata issued not solely to correct the errors she committed but also ex-plain why, in the end, she was right.

As Jason Linkins of The

Huffi ngton Post rightly points out, for someone who is home schooling her children, Bachmann doesn’t

seem to know a lot. She is not a very good example of what to do in case one’s made a mistake, either. And this is precisely the prob-lem. Both sides of the aisle perpetually make it harder to admit to mistakes be-cause they redact so much. This is part necessity and part political strategy.

It is abhorrent that a member of the House of Representatives would have to be corrected time and time again on mistakes directly involving her line of work. Realizing this, the Representative qualifi es his/her erroneous statement by

reasserting a grand theme—in Bachmann’s case, it was, “Well, New Hampshire is still an OK state”—that will conceivably make people focus on the grand scheme of things and not the minu-tia of errors one should not commit in the fi rst place. While Bachmann may give New Hampshire the thumbs up, thinking people add this incident to the other ones—Framers abolished slavery, New Hampshire caucuses and clandestine nobles given to Intelligent Design proponents—and deduct exactly what level of intellect and knowledge our

elected offi cials possess. These forced marches are

counterproductive, not only because they are philosoph-ically despicable, but also because they end up fi xing little. Bachmann’s brand of American exceptionalism tends to ignore its original foundation: history. For a policymaker, this is espe-cially disturbing since law-making needs to account for precedence. If Bachmann doesn’t know legislative history (Google “Bachman Hoot-Smalley Tariff”), how can she do her job right?

This problem plagues most politicians. The past

administration has hardly reassessed its invasion of Iraq, and during war, this was especially strategic. Justifying the war in the aftermath of eight years of invasion would be a tough task. Saying “we made mis-takes” would cost too much political capital, even though the Tea Partiers claim to be small government propo-nents.

The political arena unsur-prisingly does not allow re-treating maneuvers, but we should be holding our poli-ticians to a higher standard and make them own up to their mistakes.

Two step forward, no steps backComing to America

HEATHER MCQUEEN Staff Writer

Even though I am quite reluctant to mention his name—mainly because it could potentially cause a mo-mentary surge in “tweets”—to not discuss Charlie Sheen and his accompanied media sensationalism would be an even greater disservice.

As I’m sure many of read-

ers are aware, willingly or not, the ex-star of Two and

a Half Men and pop culture icon has been the center of news coverage for the past few months, follow-ing his stint in rehab. His downward spiral has been covered all too closely by news outlets, and it is dis-concerting that weeks after the excessive media frenzy, and what some consider now as “old news,” pictures and headlines of Sheen are still consistently appearing across the mediums of com-munication and media.

While the backstory is just as extensive and in-tricately woven as every other fallen actor or actress in Hollywood, the issues that arise from Sheen’s life are uncomfortably familiar to many of us outside the realm of celebrity-dom.

The media has success-fully downplayed the under-lying themes of Sheen’s ac-tions—that is: drug abuse, violence against women, overall disregard for wom-en and what seems to be ap-parent mental illness(es).

Yet, in a society whose

media often glamorizes and romanticizes the ce-lebrity, hedonism and over-indulgence, as well as the concealment of gravely de-structive practices, it is un-fortunately not surprising at all that the fascination with Sheen is so widespread.

Even more, the fascina-tion with his story in par-ticular, and further, the em-phasis placed on it, rather than other current events in the world, seems to reveal a long-developing trend with-in our society.

To ignore the atrocities

and destruction within our own country and abroad, and to instead focus on the downfall of one man, is telling of our own escapist mentalities.

After logging onto Fa-cebook one afternoon last week, the majority of status updates were Charlie Sheen quotes and re-tweets. Grant-ed, it is only Facebook, but when I see the same quotes on the other news sites I fol-low, I can’t help but wonder what is truly going on.

There have been recent articles that suggest Charlie

Sheen is simply a distraction for us, to “make ourselves feel better.” But is that really what is going on? Does the majority of this nation need someone to suffer in order to ease our own suffering?

Whatever the case may be, I do hope that, while many obsessively check celebrity Twitter accounts (and, more than likely, Sheen’s Twitter account) and other forms of escapist media, we remem-ber to check into reality ev-ery once and a while, too.

And with that, stay #win-ning.

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On March 17, 1861, Victor Em-manuel II was proclaimed the fi rst king of a united Italy.

On this date:In A.D. 461 (or A.D. 493, de-pending on sources), St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul.In 1762, New York’s fi rst St. Pat-rick’s Day parade took place.In 1776, British forces evacu-ated Boston during the Revolu-tionary War.In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt fi rst likened crusad-ing journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.In 1910, the Camp Fire Girls or-ganization was formed. (It was formally presented to the public on this date two years later.) The U.S. National Museum, a precur-sor to the National Museum of Natural History, opened in Wash-ington, D.C.In 1941, the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.In 1950, scientists at the Uni-versity of California at Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive element, “cali-fornium.”In 1966, a U.S. midget subma-rine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Medi-terranean off Spain.In 1970, the United States cast its fi rst veto in the U.N. Security Council. (The U.S. killed a resolu-

tion that would have condemned Britain for failure to use force to overthrow the white-ruled gov-ernment of Rhodesia.)In 1992, 29 people were killed in the truck bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argen-tina.Ten years ago: OPEC decided to curtail its offi cial output by four percent, or one million barrels of oil a day, in an effort to halt a re-cent slide in oil prices, a decision the Bush administration called “disappointing.”Five years ago: Federal regula-tors reported the deaths of two women in addition to four oth-ers who had taken the abortion pill RU-486; Planned Parent-hood said it would immediately stop disregarding the approved instructions for the drug’s use. Fashion designer Oleg Cassini died on Long Island, N.Y., at age 92. Former Federal Reserve Chairman and former treasury secretary G. William Miller died at age 81.One year ago: Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter became the fi rst state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passed health reforms requir-ing residents to buy insurance. Michael Jordan became the fi rst ex-player to become a majority owner in the league as the NBA’s Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan’s $275 million bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats from Bob Johnson.

Today in History

Jazz/New Age musician Paul Horn is 81. The former national chairwoman of the NAACP, Myr-lie Evers-Williams, is 78. Rock musician Paul Kantner is 70. Singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly is 68. Singer-songwriter John Se-bastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful) is 67. Rock musician Harold Brown (War; Lowrider Band) is 65. Actor Patrick Duffy is 62. Actor Kurt Russell is 60. Country singer Su-sie Allanson is 59. Actress Lesley-Anne Down is 57. Country singer Paul Overstreet is 56. Actor Gary Sinise is 56. Actor Christian Cle-menson is 53. Former basketball and baseball player Danny Ainge is 52. Actress Vicki Lewis is 51.

Actor Casey Siemaszko (sheh-MA’-zshko) is 50. Writer-director Rob Sitch is 49. Actor Rob Lowe is 47. Rock singer Billy Corgan is 44. Rock musician Van Conner (Screaming Trees) is 44. Actor Mathew St. Patrick is 43. Actor Yanic (YAH’-neek) Truesdale is 42. Rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur is 39. Soccer player Mia Hamm is 39. Rock musi-cian Caroline Corr (The Corrs) is 38. Actress Amelia Heinle is 38. Actress Marisa Coughlan is 37. Rapper Swifty (D12) is 36. Actress Natalie Zea (zee) is 36. Actress Brittany Daniel is 35. Actress Eliza Hope Bennett is 19.

“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”

—Bertrand Russell, British philosopher (1872-1970).

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Aries(March 21-April 19)Today is a 6 -- The trail’s bumpy today. Make sure your

equipment is correctly tuned, and that you stretch well before launching. They just might make the ride more fun.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 6 -- In-nocent pleasures tempt: ice cream,

sharing the news, creating and playing with someone fun. Get lost in daydreams, but don’t fall for delusions.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)Today is a 5 -- Your ancestral anchors to home may seem

invisible, when you indulge fan-tasies and delusions of gran-deur. Don’t be tricked. Be proud of your roots.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is a 6 -- Fan-tasies and false promises may

tempt today. Watch out for the ones that cost money. Handle your deadlines for best results, and then go play.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 5 -- Don’t gamble with love or money today. Some

might see you as an easy mark. Play your cards close to your chest, and give up being attached to the outcome.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 5 -- Fan-tasy may be a nice place to hang out,

but it doesn’t produce results. Take a brief mental vacation, and then take action toward ful-fi lling a specifi c goal.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 6 -- Emo-tions are high to-day. Don’t be too

harsh on yourself. Everything will look better in the morning after some good well-deserved rest. Avoid making big deci-sions.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 7 -- Your dreams are not fi rmly grounded

in reality yet. Perhaps you’re avoiding committing to a par-ticular direction. Imagine your-self already there. Seek hidden options.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 5 -- Ever feel like you’re going nowhere?

Maybe you’re playing a game that’s too small for you. Choose trusted friends to support new directions, and then take action.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 7 -- Read the fi ne print thor-oughly today. Ask

people you trust to show you your blind spots. Your own think-ing might delude you. Take care with fi nancial decisions.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is a 5 -- Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Make

the best of challenges by discov-ering new abilities. Rather than getting defensive, own any mis-takes to make them only once.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 7 -- No matter how hard you try, you can’t

please everyone. Take it easy to-day. Put your own oxygen mask on, before helping others. Your body will appreciate a good rest.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most chal-lenging.

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