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StudentMediaatUSFSP.comVolume 44 • Issue 8 Monday, November 2, 2009

Reap: the Environmental Un-sustainability of the American Food Machine is the newest exhibit at the C. Emerson Fine Arts Gallery in downtown St. Petersburg. The artist, Lee Lee, is an established Ameri-can painter who focuses on the abstract and occasionally sur-real to convey her grim mes-sage on the declining state of the American food industry. From gigantic oil refineries to abandoned slaughterhouses, her vision scans our indus-trial expanse in a morose yet strangely beautiful manner. I recently got a chance to talk with Lee Lee about her new exhibit, the state of the Ameri-can food industry, and shooting her paintings with shotguns, amongst other topics of inter-est.

Let’s start with the basics. When did your journey into visual art begin?While I was always encour-aged to express myself, it was in high school that I became aware that one could pursue art as a professional career.

As a writer I have faced the dreaded “writer’s block” when trying to create. Are there days where you sit down and become plagued with your own “painters block?” If so, what course of action do you typically take? I go outside and get blood flow-ing through my brain. There are uncountable works in pro-cess in my studio at any one time. I explore overarching themes, many of which surface over the years even as they are not consistently worked. Out of these explorations there are

inevitably works that are re-jected. I take those and recycle them, transforming the surface to build rich textures. I have enough under way that I can return to works as the inspira-tion arises while letting dor-mant ones lay. Also, I do not prepare a new surface until I know what I’m going to be painting on it.

In terms of inspiration, which artists, past or present, have made the most significant impact on you and your own work?San Francisco based Siveya Ethersmith (duplicious.com) instigated our mission into the missile silo. Denver pho-tographer Rhy Jouett (rhy.un-clesteve.com) takes beautiful macro photos of industry in decay and led a group of artists into the abandoned slaughter-house. Both the slaughterhouse and the missile silo have amaz-ing acoustics which led to mu-sic making that helped mani-fest the haunted quality of the places into the source images I gathered while there. Other landscape artists hanging on my dash during the creation of Reap include Jill Hadley Hooper, Judy Pfaff, Sharon Feder, Robin Reynolds and James Cook’s refinery paint-ings.

Some of your work in Reap has this juxtaposition between these seemingly drab, cold industrial objects (oil refiner-ies, telephone lines) and these scattered paint blotches and brush strokes. What inspired the marriage of these two ele-ments?

The scattered red paint blotches were made using a silkscreen of blowtorched plastic. I felt like the toxic quality of melted plastic reflected the toxicities inherent in oil production, so echo the environmental im-pacts of our consumption. You also utilize a lot of natu-ral, earth tones in many of the Reap pieces, yet industry, be it food or anything else, is so un-natural. Maybe I’m read-ing too much into it, but was this intentional? If so, why?My work explores the inter-connection of all things. Ev-erything is of this earth, even if it was living hundreds of millions of years ago, as in the case of fossil fuels. Aside from the working oil refiner-ies, the industrial structures I portrayed in this exhibit are in various states of decay; melt-ing back into the earth from which they arose. I feel it was important to portray them in a state of decay because we sim-ply cannot continue living our current lifestyle. Our food ma-chine is a crumbling institution which will run itself into the ground at one point or another. Perhaps it is just a matter of how many of us it takes down with it.

On some of your painting de-scriptions you mention they were done on “shotgunned collage” or “shotgunned wood.” For the somewhat art-ignorant like myself, what does a painting being “shot-gunned” entail?It entails shooting the painting with a shotgun.

So, wait, you actually take these things out back and blast them with a shotgun yourself? Not out back, but I do take them up to a friend’s ranch and shoot them. Like any mark making tool, there are ways to manipulate the marks made. In this case, pellet size, distance and angle of the shot all have an effect. It is fun to do.

You watch cable news for an hour today and you will prob-ably run out of fingers and toes to count the ills of soci-ety they point out. Out of all these, what motivated you to choose the “American food machine” as a focal point for your exhibit?My son, Thatcher Gray, was born 15 months ago. As I started feeding him solids, I took a hard look at how Ameri-cans produce food. It struck me how the industrialization of food production parallels the explosive growth of degen-erative illnesses. According to the Weston A. Price founda-tion, illness like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and even mental illness were relatively rare a century ago. Now we see huge out breaks, even in children, which was unheard of just a generation ago. As most parents, I would like my son to thrive. I feel like offer-ing good nourishment not only provides a strong foundation for his physical and mental strength, but also has less of an environmental impact which will affect the world he and his peers inherit.

Between exhibits like Reap and movies like Food Inc. and Fast Food Nation, it really

seems like the American food industry has been under some fire. Do you see any health-ful change coming any time soon?Absolutely. We are fortu-nate to live in northern New Mexico where there is a high concentration of small farms who grow a range of suste-nance food. It is inspiring to see what people can do with a couple of acres of land. There are wonderful subcultures of seed savers and raw milk pro-ducers here. Awareness and movement towards local and sustainable food is nationwide. Whether its individuals, in-cluding the first lady, “getting’ their plant on” by transform-ing their yards into vegetable gardens, organizations which build urban garden plots and bring school kids in to learn how food grows, or the pro-liferation of Community Sup-ported Agriculture, people are demonstrating a deep concern about the state of our food pro-duction.

What can we do to avoid, I guess you would call it “bad nourishment” from the food industry? Especially in tough economic times like now, is it even possible without increas-ing the grocery bill?Ideally, government would stop giving “farm subsidies” to large machines that produce things like corn to make addi-tives for processed food. This makes unhealthy food the most affordable option, but in the long run, it will cost us all more through addressing the health problems that are arising even now. Instead they should be

By Andrew Silversteinasilvers@mail.usf.edu

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Campus & Beyond

By Sara Palmerslpalmer@mail.usf.edu

Hidden fees make campus budget

USF St. Petersburg students have an opportunity to shake the dust off their legs and get their blood pumping – all for a good cause.On November 14, Student

Government will be participat-ing in the American Heart As-sociation’s Heart Walk at Ray-mond James Stadium. They encourage all students to join and hope to see a large USF St. Petersburg turnout.“This will give us an oppor-

tunity to show that every level of our campus is committed to helping out those that help the world,” Student Government President Jon Ellington saidEllington and the rest of SG

are hoping to raise $1000 for the event. Students can donate

money in a collection box in CAC 138 or by signing up to walk at the event.According to a 2004 study at

Arizona State University, the majority of college students are uninformed about preven-tative measures for heart dis-ease. Many were not aware of the daily risks they takeFor example, heavy drinking

in college can result in heart disease later in life, according to research by the AHAAccording to the Journal of

American College Health, oth-er risk factors include tobacco use, a sedentary lifestyle, high-fat diets and high stress levels, all of which can be found in many students’ daily lives. “Students should be con-

cerned about heart disease because it can affect anyone

and everyone, even if you have perfect health,” SG Vice President Nichole Crankshaw said.Heart disease is the number

one killer in the United States, according to the AHA’s Web site. Money raised by the walk will help fund heart disease research and education, which has helped to yield important discoveries such as pacemak-ers, bypass surgery and CPRAs of Oct. 22 the total dona-

tions for the Tampa Bay heart walk was $846,000, but SG wants to do its part to help the AHA reach its goal of $1.8 million. “Our team goal is to raise

$1000 for the charity, but I know we students can come together and excel beyond this number,” Ellington said.

SG battles heart disease with one foot in front of the other

Student fees paid by the USF St. Petersburg student body makes up 42 percent of the campus budget. According to the university

controllers office cash account-ing document, the Activity and Services (A&S) fee is $5 for each semester. The money is used for maintaining an updated operating gym, access to the pool and for kayaks rentals. Each student pays the A&S fee,

which means that they are not required to pay to use the gym, pool or kayaks. According to Julie Jakway, the

Regional Assistant Vice Chan-cellor for Financial Services, the auxiliary enterprise fees are used for things that are related to the institution but not directed toward the mission.“An example of an auxiliary is

the bookstore, parking or park-ing fees,” Jakway said. “It does not have to do neces-

Scary StatiSticS

Heart Disease is tHe LeaDing cause of

DeatH for BotH men anD women in tHe uniteD states.

in 2009, Heart Disease is projecteD to cost more tHan

$304.6 BiLLion.

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These are activities that we do here at the institution to support your education.“

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sarily with instruction are things that are related to the institution but not directed toward the mission.”Jakway continued by saying

that it does not have to do nec-essarily with instruction, but

they are the things that are of-fered. “These are activities that we do

here at the institution to support your education,” Jakway said.According to the 2009 – 2010 USF St. Petersburg budget sum-mary by revenue Sources, the (A&S) fees make up 2 percent, the Auxiliary Enterprises makes up 11 percent, and tuition makes

up 29 percent of the budget.According to Jakway, the gen-

eral fund is made up of tuition, state appropriations, which comes from tax dollars for the university as a whole and lot-

tery, which comes from lottery earnings and it is used for every-thing throughout the institution.“It is used for everything from

faculty salaries and benefits to paying utilities and maintaining the grounds,” Jakway said. “Tu-ition is not pulled out separately and used for separate things.” Although every student pays

the (A&S) fee, not every student

uses the facilities that the fee pays for, which leads some stu-dents to question the (A&S) fee. “I think it should be more of

like an option of whether or not you want it,” Jessica Barker, a sophomore majoring in crimi-nology, said. “I never use any of those things so it does not help me even though I am paying for it. I should get something out of it.” “I guess it is my own fault

though I’m not taking advantage of it,” she said.Some students are not aware of

what they are being charged in their student fee.“I usually look at it at the be-

ginning of the semester and see where my money went, but I do not really pay attention to the random little fees,” Baker said. “I figure there is nothing that I can do about it.” Anthony Patterson, a fresh-

man, said that he was com-pletely uninformed about being charged the various fees.

“I am worried about what costs a lot if no one essentially is pay-ing for it,” Patterson said.“I have Bright Futures,

some school scholarships, and they cover all of my expenses,” he said.A few students believe that the

fees help the university stay or-ganized and developed.“I think that it is important that

we as a school support the up-keep of the buildings,” Deanna Sharp, a junior majoring in edu-cation, said. “If we need more parking, I guess we need more parking.”“I think that it is important for students, as a whole, to support the school,” Sharp said.To find out more about the

various fees charge by the university, go to the website http://usfweb.usf.edu/control-ler/cashaccounting/tuition and select the current year and the semester you started attending USF.

By Amy Blantonablanto2@mail.usf.edu

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Campus & Beyond

By Marisa Barbosambarbosa@mail.usf.edu

By Kelsie McClainContributing Writer

Students and faculty members were invited to submit chili, soup, dip or salsa to the Chili Cook Off, hosted by Harborside Activities Board (HAB).

Each entry was tasted and judged at the event, with a winner in each cat-egory. Although there were 10 entries submitted, only seven dishes were brought to the cook off and of those, four consisted of chili.

Forty-three students and faculty members signed up for the opportuni-ty to taste and judge his or her favorite dish. Though the vote was close, ad-vising staff member Solitaire Kelly’s Sweet and Sassy Chili was the winner. USF St. Petersburg senior Christine Uphoff’s White Chili came in at a very close runner up.

An interesting dish that did not place was the Homestyle Chili, which

The real winner? Our taste buds

“Anne-painted here in Florida. Not made in China,” said a sign at Anne Castle’s booth, emphasising one of the main reasons for Art in the Park - to promote local artists.

Art in the Park has returned for its third season at Williams Park in downtown St. Petersburg, located at First Avenue N. between Third and Fourth Streets every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until May.

According to event organizer Christine Silvia, the event began with eight artists about three years ago. Last year about 20 artists rent-ed booths and this year the event started with 40 different vendors. Silva, who calls herself a “successful starving artist,” said there was a lot of pressure to do something to revitalize Williams Park.

Silvia sees the event as a way to benefit all forms of art and all kinds of artists. Vendors pay $20 a week, and if they attend three weeks in a row, the fourth week is free.

Dance Academy Soulful Arts, at 290 Martin Luther King, is a non-profit organization that has benefitted from fundraising at Art in the Park.

“We almost closed recently, but we finally got new sponsors that kept us open,” Administrative Director Charlotte Quandt said.

Center for Arts and Education’s PinkCricket recently joined the Arts in the Park lineup. It is Tampa Bay’s first non-profit youth arts center, which focuses on literary, visual and theatrical arts. PinkCricket will be organizing events during the season, such as a sidewalk art competition for adults and children and a featured artist every month.

The artists have all sorts of reasons for coming to the park. KT Wear, for example, is a booth that sells mostly handmade jewelry. Kelly Wil-liams and her daughter make them together to help raise money for col-lege.

Judie Barry is on her second season at the market selling knitted and crocheted items. She does not just sell traditional handmade items, but also crocheted silver jewelry. “There are so many interesting things here,” Barry said.

Rebecca Heck, Nin McQuillen and Leslie Tinnaro are all silver jewelry artists. They have been supporting the market since its first season.

“It’s a good way to meet other artists,” said Kim Windham-O’Leary, who sells vintage as well as her own handmade jewelry, combined with hand cut shells.

Places like Art in the Park provide unique and cultural alternatives to shopping. “Why buy gifts in a mall when you can go to a park?” Silvia said.

Crocheted jewelry revives Williams Park

Saturday mornings until May

10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Williams Park1st Ave. North

Between 3rd & 4th St. Downtown

St. Petersburg

was made with semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Sophomore Tara McCarty enjoyed the Homestyle Chili. “I could have it on any cold day,” McCarty said. “It’s so amazing! I wish it was colder out-side so I could eat it properly.”

The soup, salsa and dip categories each only received one entry, automat-ically making them winners. The soup category winner was Chris Pfriem, the maker of Stupendous! Corn Chowder. The winning salsa entry was Fiesta in Your Mouth, by Tiffany McEachern, and the best dip was Tantalizing Tex-Mex Dip, brought in by Linnea Fisher.

HAB is in charge of organizing vari-ous events on campus throughout the year. One of their upcoming activi-ties includes “Movie in the Pool.” For more information about HAB events, please visit their Web site, http://www.usfsphab.org/.

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Campus & Beyond

subsidizing farmers who are growing diverse crops – even if they are grown conventionally. This would make whole foods more accessible. One step is to let your voice be heard. Despite this overwhelming flaw, there are daily steps we can take. Plant a small garden. Seek out and get to know local growers. Many of the small farmers in our area prefer to trade instead of deal in cash. Eat in season: produce which is in season not only tastes bet-ter but is often on sale. Buy from the bulk bins. Become a label reader, and make sure you understand the full in-gredient list when you buy pre-packaged foods. There is a fantastic little book by Ellis Jones called The Better World Shopping Guide, which rates producers of everything from oil to flour based on things like environmental impact and the treatment of workers. It is small enough to fit in your bag. Eat less meat: never be-fore had humans consumed so much meat, and frankly we are less healthy for it. Start by re-

The new fountain, situated between Nelson Poynter Li-brary and the new Science and Technology building, was paid for by The Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) trust fund. PECO is a Florida based

trust fund; they pay for the construction of educational buildings on public college campuses.“The State of Florida has

a variety of trust funds that they use to put tax money in,” said Julie Jakway, the re-gional assistant vice chancel-lor for financial services.“The money that is gener-

ated from these funds is allo-cated to different things.”According to Jakway, the

fountain and the construction of the Science and Technol-ogy building and other build-

By Amy Blantonablanto2@mail.usf.edu

The cost of

Industrialized food continued from page 1

Rain-II by Lee Lee

placing one meat based meal a week with a vegetarian meal. Take time to prepare food in-stead of falling into the habit of convenience foods, not only for the sake of physical health, but to build bonds with your loved ones. I have spent a lot of time abroad where I have found immense amounts of strength in commu-nity and family as people express their love through nourishment. It does not have to be elaborate, and it provides platforms for rich con-verse or vibrant celebrations.

Besides painting, what else keeps you occupied these days?We are rounding out the har-vest season, so I am putting up produce for the winter. My son keeps me on my toes as well. Together we are setting up a little studio for him to be able to make interpretations of his own discoveries of the world.

What are your plans for the future? Any new ideas, exhib-its in the works?In November, we are heading to Guatemala which interests

me because it is a culture that is deeply steeped in a traditional reverence for the land and the crops she offers as nourish-ment. In the spring I am plan-ning to work with Happy Goat Productions, which is a local farm owned by a doctor of Asian medicine. She provides herd shares so people have ac-cess to raw milk. Along with her ancient orchards, the farm has be-come a strong community builder. I would like to create work which provides inspiration and solutions to our current food problems by portraying people who are taking a sustainable approach to agricul-ture by returning to various tradi-tions. I am also very interested in exploring seeds. One of the tremen-dous dangers confronting us now is big corporations, like Monsan-to, placing patents on seeds. This has the capability of jeopardizing our future food security.Reap: The Environmental Unsus-tainability of the American Food Machine is showing from now un-til November 21st at C. Emerson Fine Arts Gallery located at 907 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Admission is free.t

ings on campus were paid for not by students, but by PECO. “This is one of the funds that just so happens to be allocated to education construction facilities,” Jak-way said. “So you cannot use it for other stuff. It has to be used for just that because [of] the statute.”Although the PECO paid for

the fountain, some students With all of the budget cuts and economic crunching, stu-dents want to make sure that the new fountain it pumping water and not their money.“If they are just re-using the

same water and they are just pumping the water, I am ok with that,” said Allie Wal-lace, a junior education ma-jor.“We are on a water restric-

tion,” Wallace said. “I do not think that [the fountain]

should be running 24 hours a day, seven days a week [or] all year long.”The water that flows from

the fountain is recycled water from the city of St. Peters-burg. “[The fountain] continu-

ally circulates and it is using the same water.” said Joseph Pembo, project manager with

the facilities planning con-struction for campus.According to Pembo, the

fountain runs during the late hours at night to operate the system and keep the chlorine levels up and make sure ev-erything is running correctly. Pembo continued by saying

that there is a valve that con-trols the water level, which

keeps the water in the foun-tain from evaporating.Some students like Vita

Revega, senior business fi-nance and management ma-jor, believe that the fountain will also help the university aquire new students. “It is nice to have and it

is great for advertising the school,” Revega said.

Photo by Zach Hall / CN Photographer

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Entertainment

By Andrew Silversteinasilvers@mail.usf.edu

The newest trend in American dining seems to be the growth of eateries revamping a classic style with their own modern, gourmet twists. St. Petersburg has Diner 437 tak-ing the 50’s diner concept, add-ing its own dash of modernity and pan-frying it till near golden perfection.Diner 437 is the brainchild of Greg Pugh, owner of historic Ringside Café on Fourth Street. He opened the restaurant in ear-ly June after Grillside Central skipped town and left the 437 ad-dress an empty shell of building space on Central Avenue. Re-nowned bay area chef Domenica Macchia hopped on board to craft the menu and helm the flat top as head chef of the restaurant. After a few weeks of preliminary plan-ning, Diner 437 opened.About a week after, when the figurative dust kind of settled, I decided to check out Diner 437. It was smack dab in the middle of a dinner rush and, man, the place was hopping; every table occu-pied, servers dashing fervently across the restaurant floor, the cooks, in the open-style kitchen, each juggling multiple cooking duties sweating, yelling, curs-ing, doing what cooks normally do. Before we sat down we were warned by Pugh himself that it would probably be about 20 min-utes before we could order food, his frank honesty was admirable in a strange kind of way. Besides, something inside me said it was worth it.Low and behold, it was. Be-ing poor, a college student, and incredibly cliché, I ordered the chicken breast sand-w i c h

Delicious dimensions atwith fries. Typ- i -cally I would ex-pect a grilled chicken breast on a bun, let-tuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and, occasion-ally, a slice of Swiss cheese; the seem-ingly universal standard for restau-rant grilled chicken sandwiches. But, Diner 437 prides it-self, at least some-what, on original-ity. Their version as described in the menu is, “sautéed spinach & on-ions, grilled tomatoes, mozza-rella cheese, roasted garlic mayo, baguette.”When presented, next to a gen-erous helping of golden fries, it looked as beautiful as it was de-scribed. Wilted, oil-tinged spin-ach peeking out of the baguette sitting atop a thick slice of real mozzarella with ample, hearty slices of roasted chicken down-stairs…and that was just what I could see. Biting into it just opened another delicious dimen-sion. The baguette was slightly crunchy on the exterior but soft on the inner, making a nice little bread mattress for all the good stuff inside.My only gripe about the chicken was its luke-warmness in contrast to the otherwise hot sandwich. The mozzarella was actually the soft, fresh kind most can only find at a deli or Italian market. The tomatoes were vibrantly red

and sweet, and the s p i n a c h /

o n i o n combo

was the perfect salty yin to the tomatoes sweet yang. Then there was the roasted garlic mayo to top it all off, my god, as if roast-ed garlic is not heavenly enough in and of itself. Macchia really knew her stuff and it definitely showed.Notice I said “knew.” About two months ago Macchia left Diner 437 for another head chef spot at Bella Brava down the street. Diner 437 still trudges on, now open only for lunch during the week and lunch and dinner on weekends. I stopped in during the lunch hour last week to see just how Diner 437 is standing up, now Macchia-less.It was a hell of a lot less busy than the first time I went, which is fine, more relaxing if anything. This time, since I am still poor, collegiate, and cliché I got their interpretation of the basic steak sandwich. It came out insanely quick, like McDonalds quick, which is awesome for anyone seeking a quick lunch in the downtown area. Like before it was served on the same crunchy baguette with a gi-normous helping of fries. Instead of the cheaper steak typically used in a sandwich, Diner 437 goes all out, utilizing sliced filet mignon. While good, it almost feels like filet mignon is over-qualified for a sandwich job. You

lose a good amount of the juice and fat, the key components of a good steak, when you slice the steak thin and grill it. Neverthe-less it was still enjoyable. And that roasted garlic mayo? Back again on this guy, and, man, I have to say it tastes even better oozing through the tiny folds in the juicy steak slices. I’m calling it right now. If Diner 437 ever decides to bottle this stuff, they will make a killing. Just watch.For the typical college student the prices are a bit on the hefty side. The steak sandwich meal and a drink was about $14 with tax and tip; definitely worth it, just some-thing most will not be able to do multiple nights/days during the

week. In the end, Diner 437 is consistent, concise, and incredibly creative in their food execution. The ap-pearance on the inside, although acceptable when I initially went, is still pretty drab save a few shoddy paintings of 50’s style pin up girls on the walls. My high-top table was supported by a few stacked Budweiser coasters, and the only light provided seems to be that emanating from the win-dows in the front. But, the food’s the focus and Diner 437 makes no qualms about it. It is not like American diners were really the pinnacle of restaurant design in the first place. Good work, Diner 437.

Photo by Zach Hall / CN Photographer

A delicious hamburger from diner 437.

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The OutlookBy Erica Hamptonehampto2@mail.usf.edu

By Nikeya Williamsnswilli6@mail.usf.edu

As a Virginia native, I nev-er expected to turn on the radio in St. Petersburg and hear about the Homecoming Queen at Hampton Univer-sity. Hampton University, or HU as it is most affectionately referred to, is a historically black university that is usu-ally not the topic of conver-sation for a radio station in Tampa Bay. However, the in-stitution has recently received national news coverage for selecting its first non-black homecoming queen.

Nicole Churchill, a Chamor-ro and French nursing student from Hawaii, was selected by a panel of five judges who decided that she was the best candidate to represent the uni-versity. Her beauty, brains and talent are among the reasons she dons the crown of home-coming queen.

Students at HU experienced a variety of emotions from the crowning, anger being one of the most prevalent. Students felt that her lack of involve-ment on the main campus and the fact that she is not African American should have prevent-ed her from being crowned.

For a university that is big on heritage and tradition, this incident can be internalized by the campus community as a blow to all that the univer-sity stands for.

Though it is a hard pill to swallow, race has always been an issue in America. Sure, we have taken strides to eliminate prejudice beliefs within soci-ety, but indifference remains a huge part of the world we live in. I can imagine that the students at HU are feeling afraid. Perhaps they fear the unknown or maybe they fear of losing what their ancestors fought so hard for.

But what about looking at this event through another lens; a bifocal if you will. What if what our ancestors fought so hard for is slowly becoming reality? What if Churchill’s decision to run for queen will make her an ex-ample for breaking down the walls of prejudice? Shouldn’t this be embraced and not frowned upon? I strongly be-lieve that any sign that times are changing should be viewed as victorious, not as a setback.

For decades predominately white institutions have been expected to open their doors to diversity; HBCUs should

Use diversity as a bifocal lens

Recently, I received a let-ter to donate money to help further the awareness of the genocide in Darfur, Africa. The contents of this letter mentioned the number of lives lost in Darfur since the incep-tion of genocide. There have been roughly over 400,000 lives lost in Darfur.

Still no one seems to be moved or concerned about this issue. We all know about the genocide in Darfur, but we still hold-on to our own worlds, not mused or con-cerned about the world around us.

Some of us would argue that this genocide in Darfur is not our problem since it is not in our country, but what about the children and fami-lies that are being murdered? The people in Darfur are hu-man like us--shouldn’t we be concerned about them?

As I reflect on Darfur’s situ-ation, it seems as though it was yesterday that this same atrocity happened in Rwanda, Cambodia and Germany with the Nazis and Jews. When will we as a human race real-

ize that we must take meticu-lous notes to avoid the same mistakes as before? You see, genocide doesn’t happen overnight, but it takes a while to permeate in souls of peo-ple, and it needs unnoticeable places to grow and fester like a nasty sore.

In the Rwanda genocide, there was an estimated 800,000 Rwandans killed in 100 days. This genocide start-ed after the Rwandan Presi-dent Juvenal Habyarimana’s airplane was shot down in April 1994. However, long before the killing of Habyari-mana, there was a racial ten-sion between the majority group Hutu and the minority group Tutsis. This racial ten-sion developed during the colonization of Rwanda. The Belgians colonized Rwanda in 1916; they produced iden-tity cards classifying people according to their ethnicity. The Belgians believed that the Tutsis were more superior to the Hutus. For years the Tutsis were given more opportunity for jobs and education. This inequality between Tutsis and Hutus caused 1994 genocide.

As this genocide in Rwanda

developed, the world seemed to be oblivious to the cries for help from the Rwandan peo-ple. But after 100 days and the death of 800,000 people, the world eventually realized that genocide happened again.

Then in Cambodia during

1975-1979, the Communist party (Khmer Rouge) killed 2 million people in efforts to promote communism in Cam-bodia. The genocide in Cam-bodia was considered to be the genocide of the 20th cen-tury. Will we continue with

Where is the love?

be held to the same expecta-tion. To see these universi-ties with minority students on campus is a step towards the ideal--accepting the differ-ences of others and respecting it, not just tolerating it.

In an attempt to find an ally, Churchill wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to come and speak to the campus about race. Her deci-sion to run for Homecoming Queen came with an issue that it seems she was not ready to accept -adversity. An ally will not solve this issue, only thick skin will.

this trend of deafening our ears to the cries of the help-less? If we do, then Darfur will be the next genocide for this generation.

7The Crow’s Nest • Volume 44 • Issue 2

VarietyARIES (March 21 to April 19) A

long-sought workplace change couldbe happening soon. Consider rework-ing your ideas and preparing a presen-tation just in case. A personal relation-ship takes a new turn.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Yourpersuasiveness doesn’t really start tokick in until midweek. By then, youcan count on having more supportersin your camp, including some youdoubted would ever join you.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Yourworkload is still high, but — goodnews! — you should start to see day-light by the week’s end. Reserve theweekend for fun and games withfriends and loved ones. You deserve it.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)Regardless of how frustrating thingsare, keep that “Crab” under control. Acutting comment you might think isapt right now will leave others hurtingfor a long time to come.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Be moresensitive to the emotions of loved oneswho might feel left out while you’restalking that new opportunity. Be sureto make it up to them this weekend. Anice surprise could be waiting.

VIRGO (August 23 to September22) The gregarious Virgo rarely has aproblem making new friends. Butrepairing frayed relationships doesn’tcome easily. Still, if it’s what you wantto do, you’ll find a way. Good luck.

LIBRA (September 23 to October22) A misunderstanding with a partneror spouse needs to be worked outbefore it turns into something reallynasty. Forget about your pride for nowand make that first healing move.

SCORPIO (October 23 to Novem-ber 21) Communication dominates theweek. Work out any misunderstand-ings with co-workers. Also get back intouch with old friends and those fami-ly members you rarely see.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 toDecember 21) As busy as your weekis, make time for someone who feelsshut out of your life. Your act of kind-ness could later prove to be more sig-nificant than you might have realized.

CAPRICORN (December 22 toJanuary 19) Congratulations. Yourbusy workweek leads to some verysatisfying results. Sports and sportingevents are high on your weekend activ-ities aspect. Enjoy them with familyand friends.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to Febru-ary 18) Your generosity of spirit reach-es out once again to someone whoneeds reassurance. There might beproblems, but keeping that line ofcommunication open eventually paysoff.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20)You are among the truth-seekers in theuniverse, so don’t be surprised to findyourself caught up in a new pursuit offacts to counter what you believe is aninsidious exercise in lying.

BORN THIS WEEK: You believein loyalty and in keeping secrets. Allthings considered, you would proba-bly make a perfect secret agent.

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• On Nov. 22, 1718, Edward Teach,also known as Blackbeard, is killed offNorth Carolina’s Outer Banks during abloody battle with the British navy.Teach was the most infamous pirate ofhis day, winning the popular name ofBlackbeard for his long, dark beard,which he was said to light on fire dur-ing battles to intimidate his enemies.

• On Nov. 17, 1869, the Suez Canal,connecting the Mediterranean and theRed seas, is inaugurated. When itopened, the Suez Canal was only 25feet deep. Major improvements beganin 1876, and today an average of 50ships navigate the canal daily, carryingmore than 300 million tons of goods ayear.

• On Nov. 16, 1907, Indian Territoryand Oklahoma Territory collectivelyenter the United States as Oklahoma,the 46th state. The name “Oklahoma”is derived from the Choctaw Indianwords okla, meaning “people,” andhumma, meaning “red.”

• On Nov. 20, 1945, in Nuremberg,Germany, 24 high-ranking Nazis goon trial for atrocities committed dur-ing World War II. The Nuremberg Tri-als were conducted by an internationaltribunal, and charges ranged fromcrimes against peace, to crimes of war,to crimes against humanity.

• On Nov. 19, 1969, Brazilian soccergreat Pele scores his 1,000th profes-sional goal in a game, against Vasco daGama in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanastadium. Born Edson Arantes doNascimento in Tres Coracos, Brazil, in1940, Pele scored 1,282 goals in 1,363games during his career.

• On Nov. 18, 1978, People’s Templeleader Jim Jones leads hundreds of hisfollowers in a mass murder-suicide attheir agricultural commune in remotenorthwestern Guyana. U.S. Congress-man Leo Ryan, who had traveled toJonestown to investigate, was mur-dered the day before as he attempted toleave.

• On Nov. 21, 1980, more than 350million people around the world tunein to television’s popular primetimedrama “Dallas” to find out who shotJ.R. Ewing, the character fans loved tohate. The episode identified KristinShepard, J.R.’s wife’s sister and hisformer mistress, as the culprit.

© 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Along-sought workplace change couldbe happening soon. Consider rework-ing your ideas and preparing a presen-tation just in case. A personal relation-ship takes a new turn.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Yourpersuasiveness doesn’t really start tokick in until midweek. By then, youcan count on having more supportersin your camp, including some youdoubted would ever join you.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Yourworkload is still high, but — goodnews! — you should start to see day-light by the week’s end. Reserve theweekend for fun and games withfriends and loved ones. You deserve it.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)Regardless of how frustrating thingsare, keep that “Crab” under control. Acutting comment you might think isapt right now will leave others hurtingfor a long time to come.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Be moresensitive to the emotions of loved oneswho might feel left out while you’restalking that new opportunity. Be sureto make it up to them this weekend. Anice surprise could be waiting.

VIRGO (August 23 to September22) The gregarious Virgo rarely has aproblem making new friends. Butrepairing frayed relationships doesn’tcome easily. Still, if it’s what you wantto do, you’ll find a way. Good luck.

LIBRA (September 23 to October22) A misunderstanding with a partneror spouse needs to be worked outbefore it turns into something reallynasty. Forget about your pride for nowand make that first healing move.

SCORPIO (October 23 to Novem-ber 21) Communication dominates theweek. Work out any misunderstand-ings with co-workers. Also get back intouch with old friends and those fami-ly members you rarely see.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 toDecember 21) As busy as your weekis, make time for someone who feelsshut out of your life. Your act of kind-ness could later prove to be more sig-nificant than you might have realized.

CAPRICORN (December 22 toJanuary 19) Congratulations. Yourbusy workweek leads to some verysatisfying results. Sports and sportingevents are high on your weekend activ-ities aspect. Enjoy them with familyand friends.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to Febru-ary 18) Your generosity of spirit reach-es out once again to someone whoneeds reassurance. There might beproblems, but keeping that line ofcommunication open eventually paysoff.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20)You are among the truth-seekers in theuniverse, so don’t be surprised to findyourself caught up in a new pursuit offacts to counter what you believe is aninsidious exercise in lying.

BORN THIS WEEK: You believein loyalty and in keeping secrets. Allthings considered, you would proba-bly make a perfect secret agent.

© 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.

—21—

• On Nov. 22, 1718, Edward Teach,also known as Blackbeard, is killed offNorth Carolina’s Outer Banks during abloody battle with the British navy.Teach was the most infamous pirate ofhis day, winning the popular name ofBlackbeard for his long, dark beard,which he was said to light on fire dur-ing battles to intimidate his enemies.

• On Nov. 17, 1869, the Suez Canal,connecting the Mediterranean and theRed seas, is inaugurated. When itopened, the Suez Canal was only 25feet deep. Major improvements beganin 1876, and today an average of 50ships navigate the canal daily, carryingmore than 300 million tons of goods ayear.

• On Nov. 16, 1907, Indian Territoryand Oklahoma Territory collectivelyenter the United States as Oklahoma,the 46th state. The name “Oklahoma”is derived from the Choctaw Indianwords okla, meaning “people,” andhumma, meaning “red.”

• On Nov. 20, 1945, in Nuremberg,Germany, 24 high-ranking Nazis goon trial for atrocities committed dur-ing World War II. The Nuremberg Tri-als were conducted by an internationaltribunal, and charges ranged fromcrimes against peace, to crimes of war,to crimes against humanity.

• On Nov. 19, 1969, Brazilian soccergreat Pele scores his 1,000th profes-sional goal in a game, against Vasco daGama in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanastadium. Born Edson Arantes doNascimento in Tres Coracos, Brazil, in1940, Pele scored 1,282 goals in 1,363games during his career.

• On Nov. 18, 1978, People’s Templeleader Jim Jones leads hundreds of hisfollowers in a mass murder-suicide attheir agricultural commune in remotenorthwestern Guyana. U.S. Congress-man Leo Ryan, who had traveled toJonestown to investigate, was mur-dered the day before as he attempted toleave.

• On Nov. 21, 1980, more than 350million people around the world tunein to television’s popular primetimedrama “Dallas” to find out who shotJ.R. Ewing, the character fans loved tohate. The episode identified KristinShepard, J.R.’s wife’s sister and hisformer mistress, as the culprit.

© 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.

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8 • The Crow’s Nest Volume 44 • Issue 2

Sports

By Greg Lindbergglindber@mail.usf.edu

Let there be light on the USF St. Petersburg recre-ation field.

Plans are in order to add outside lighting to the open field across from the park-ing garage where several intramural sports hold their games. Aside from street-lights around its perimeter,

B.J. Daniels was anointed the starting quarterback of the USF football team this season when he took over for injured senior Matt Grothe. But foot-ball may not be the only sport Daniels will play this year.

Last season, the multi-sport athlete played in 19 games as a point guard for the Bulls’ bas-ketball team. Assuming USF goes to a bowl game, Daniels would likely hit the hardwood again for USF in January. At 6-foot-1, he is one of the shorter guys on the team, but still offers quickness and ath-leticism that can only benefit a struggling hoops squad.

The Bulls tip off their men’s basketball season this week with an exhibition game

against Florida Southern. Other in-state matchups will be against Florida Atlantic and UCF. Stan Heath embarks on his third season as head coach. Heath, who took a Kent State team to the Elite Eight in 2002, looks to improve on his first two seasons at USF. The Bulls finished 9-22 last season and 12-19 two years ago. The school’s last NCAA tourna-ment appearance was in 1992.

The Bulls will have several new players to keep an eye on this season. Center Jarrid Fa-mous, who transferred to USF from Westchester Community College in New York, stands at 6-feet-11 and could be a dominant force on the court. Ohio State transfer Anthony Crater is also expected to see playing time at point guard.

Jordan Dumars, the son of former NBA star Joe Dumars, will start his USF career as well. If the like-father-like-son logic is true, the 6-foot-6, 250-pound small forward could be a significant addition to the Bulls’ roster.

Arguably the team’s biggest star over the last two years is guard Dominique Jones. He enters his third season with the Bulls after averaging 18.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game last season. With two years of experience un-der his belt, Jones is poised to produce some impressive numbers in the Big East. Gus Gilchrist, a towering 6-foot-10 center, will likely find his rhythm as well this season.

To get the season underway, the Bulls will compete in a

few non-conference tourna-ments, including the Charles-ton Classic and the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic. In these games, the team will face Davidson, the University of San Francisco (the other major “USF” in the country) and the University of South Carolina.

USF will play 18 conference games against Big East op-ponents with the conference schedule tipping off Dec. 30. At the Sun Dome, the Bulls will host Connecticut, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and St. John’s. Their road schedule will also be a challenge. USF will play at Syracuse, George-town, Cincinnati and Louis-ville. Several preseason polls rank five Big East teams in the Top 25. The Bulls clearly have

their work cut out for them to make some noise in one of the toughest conferences in col-lege basketball.

Exposure is always good for recruiting in any college sport. The Bulls will receive plenty of time in the spotlight with six games on national televi-sion across ESPN’s family of networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU). Several games will also air locally on Bright House Sports Network.

As with all athletic events, USF students receive free ad-mission to all regular-season basketball games. But unlike football that requires students to use the online Student Ticket Zone, students must only present their student ID at the Sun Dome to receive a free ticket.

Daniel’s a multiplayerBy Greg Lindbergglindber@mail.usf.edu

Light it upis to bring in either stadi-um lights or solar-powered lights.

Haas said several people had input on coming up with the plan to brighten the field.

“It was a collective idea [we had] last year,” he said. “We are in the first steps of

there is currently no direct light source for the field.

Christian Haas, chairper-son of the Student Govern-ment grounds committee, oversees recreation issues on campus. Haas and Reu-ben Pressman, SG market-ing director, are working with Progress Energy to purchase lights. Their idea

the project so we don't have an estimated time of com-pletion yet.”

He said solar lights are preferred because they are energy efficient and would reflect the green initiative on campus. But the cost is significantly higher than more conventional alterna-tives. If SG can not afford solar, “we will take the more traditional route because the need for the lighting is quite extensive,” Haas said. An estimate from Progress Energy should come shortly, which he hopes will match a price SG is willing to pay.

One reason SG is moving forward with the lighting initiative is because there has been a great response to intramural sports on campus this year. “We’ve had very positive feedback. Partici-pation is way up, which in-creases the need for lights,” Haas said.

Marty Dempsey, intramu-

ral and fitness coordinator, said discussions about in-stalling lights are still in the “initial stages,” however he hopes they will be in place as soon as possible.

“The benefits of having them out there will allow us to have a better program,” he said. A dark field “limits some of the things we can do.” He also hopes players who had to forfeit games this semester because of scheduling conflicts will have more opportunities to play sports later in the eve-ning when the field is ade-quately lit, or when the new lights become installed.

Dempsey noted that cam-pus officials also intend to build a second residence hall down the road. By hav-ing field lights and the abil-ity to offer students more times to play, he hopes this will only foster more inter-est in intramural sports.

Photo by Zach Hall / CN Photographer