FALL 2010 ISSUE NOVEMBER 3 TUTOR PROGRAM ....... 2

ZOMBIE WALK ............ 2

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

UPCOMING EVENTS

HONORS SEMINARS

“LET’S SING TO BEAUTY” Infinite Wisdom

UWF Student Community Garden

Did you know we have a UWF

Student Community Garden?

The UWF Student Community

Garden Club started the garden last

semester with the help of the honors

students from the Politics of Food seminar.

The garden is located between parking lot

SP2 and the Varsity Soccer Fields. The

parking lot you would park in to volunteer

is just down from Pelican Park baseball

fields. As of now the garden consists of

four raised beds with various herbs and

vegetables, a flat bed of peas, drip irriga-

tion system and rotating compost bins

courtesy of Asa Furman.

The garden requires constant

attention to thrive, so dedicated volunteers

are necessary for its success. I have visited

the garden a few times since its creation. I

finally was able to get my dose of dirt last

Friday, October 29 for the first time this

semester. I met Anne Swisshelm, the

Garden club president, and Kyle Bush

with the overdue task of erecting trellises

for the bed of peas that were already tan-

gling themselves trying to grow and climb.

Since the garden is completely

organic, our materials consisted of bam-

boo and hemp twine. You may not think

so, but gardening requires somewhat of an

architectural mind at times. The garden is

based on the square-foot gardening tech-

nique. We also harvested some radishes

and turnip greens that were ready to eat.

I am not new to the gardening

fever, but every time I volunteer at the

garden I leave with more knowledge.

Upcoming Events

Monday, November 16: T-Shirt Surgery @7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 18: Pancakes for Parkinson’s Saturday, November 20: Adopt-a-Highway Saturday, December 4: Decorating at Creekside Honors Council meetings every Thursday @ 6 p.m.

By Alison Darcy

” “ A society grows great

when old men plant trees whose shade

they know they shall never sit in

GREEK PROVERB

These couple of hours on Tuesday and Fri-

day mornings will be the easiest and most

enjoyable volunteer hours you will ever do,

especially with the cool weather quite

evident at 9 a.m. It was very lucky that

many vegetables were ready to harvest for

the Sustainability Expo and Farmer’s

Market the Garden Club participated in on

November 4. I was not able to volunteer but

was happy to visit in between class and buy

some fresh food. Dr. Tomso is the faculty

advisor for the Garden Club and his honors

seminar, the Politics of Food, is making a

come back Spring 2011 with hopefully a

new set of recruited loyalists to the garden.

The Garden Club meets the first and third

Monday of every month in building 13,

room 191 at 4:30 p.m. and welcomes new

faces to the meetings! The UWF Student

Community Garden is now listed on the

American Community Gardening

Association website. You can also follow

the garden on Facebook and get invites for

special workdays when many volunteers are

needed. Join the Garden Club on ArgoPulse

and visit the UWF Community Garden

website at uwf.edu/uwfgarden.

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Honors students

volunteering for the

Adopt-a-Highway

program

University of West FloridaUniversity of West Florida

Honors NewsletterHonors Newsletter

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Tutor Program a Success

Stressing out over classes? Eve-

ryone does, but the Honors Tu-

tor Network can help lighten

your load. Over thirty Honors

tutors are available to help stu-

dents in subjects from Japanese

to Zoology. These students are

the ultimate nerds in their sub-

jects and know a

thing or two

about acing a

course. Tutors

receive commu-

nity service

hours for their

assistance and a

shiny medal at graduation.

So far the students re-

ceiving the help have enjoyed

greater confidence in the class-

room and most

importantly, more flattering

grades.

“I would have never

survived if it wasn’t for the hon-

ors tutors network,” said Victo-

ria Glass, an honors freshman.

“My tutors helped me gain con-

fidence and my grades in Chem-

istry and Great Books dramati-

cally improved. I aspire to be-

come an Honors tutor when I

am an upperclassman!”

The Honors Tutor Net-

work is here for the students and

provides a diverse

network of tutors to

help foster better

grades. By serving

the academic needs

of students, the

Network facilitates

relationship build-

ing between Honors and the rest

of UWF.

With exams quickly

approaching, keep the Tutors

Network in mind. The help is

absolutely free, so email

honorstutor@yahoo.com for

help! Good luck with finals!

I would have never survived if it wasn’t for

the honors tutors network

VICTORIA GLASS

By David Tatem

Zombie Walk

On October 29, Zombies invaded

the University of West Florida campus.

The Honors Council hosted a zom-

bie walk in the spirit of the Halloween sea-

son. Almost twenty people participated in

the walk from building 58A past building

10, the president’s office, and through the

commons ending at Pace Hall. Along the

way, they paused for Dr. Jane Halonen, Dr.

Greg Tomso, and Anita Schonberger to

judge the best zombie. Nathan Smith, the

winner of the contest, truly embraced his

zombie personality; at one point embodying

a zombie model posing for the judges.

Near the library, an ambush team

successfully took down several zombies

before being over taken themselves.

Students from the University Thea-

tre department provided makeup for the

zombies. Cory Stano, Lisa Eash, and

Marquez Linder did a wonderful job apply-

ing realistic burns, bite marks, and gunshot

wounds to the innocent victims.

By Kelcie Lloyd

If these be our last moments,

Then let everything we are be burnt in them,

A picture framed on the walls of eternity,

That time may not forget we live!

So let's sing to honor,

Let's sing to power,

Let's sing for glory,

In triumphant victory,

Told in fate's cruel story.

Win or die, we fight for a twisted justice,

That fierce law that can never lose,

So here we stand; we fight to fight.,

While we kill and as we die,

Let’s sing to the beauty of it.

Let’s Sing to Beauty By Michael Willman

HONORS SEMINARS for Spring

2011

The Politics of Food

with Dr. Tomso

Abnormal

Psychology

with Dr. Belter

Remembering

the Holocaust

with Dr. Jans-Thomas

Women in

Science

with Dr. Koppes

Science &

Technology in the

21st Century

with Dr. Huggins

◄ Volunteers at the

Ronald McDonald

House

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Honors students

giving back at the

Creekside Senior

Village