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The 2012-2013 Tidal Tribune

Editor-in-Chief: Kyree Whitehead

Arts&Lifestyles: Madison Beard

Sports Editor: David Roberts

Columnists: Ian Stier,

Brackin Lambert - Sports,

Ashton Bowns,

Allie Jones,

Paul Lawerence,

Annastacia Harsh

Ellza Hines

Calendarist: Cameron Thomas

Pick-Up Artist: Taylor Johnson

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USCB Anime & Games Club

The USCB Anime & Games Club successfully completed their fall food drive. They sold brownies, cookies, cupcakes, homemade lol-lipops, and triple chocolate cherry cake in front of the library. The club made over $215 and took a weekend trip to Atlanta. The club attended AWA (Anime Weekend in Atlanta) at the Renaissance hotel. Sophomore Vice-President Aaron Palmieri believes “the sale was re-ally exciting and got a much bigger turn-out than expected.” The AWA convention was incredibly enter-taining and it was fun to see all the different costumes!”

Ghouls &Jewels

Ghouls & Jewels is the annual event of a lifetime that is guaranteed to entertain.

USCB’s 3rd Annual Charity Drag Show’s theme this year is Ghouls & Jewels. The GSA Club hosts and the participants will be some of USCB finest dancers, actors, and friendly faces here on campus.

There will be dinner and a show and plenty of grub and performances for the night. Every year there is always an excitement of nice & naughty acts to share with friends from all over.

The drag show is held in memory of Sean Kennedy, a kind-hearted angel who was killed in a hate crime for being homosexual.

In remembrance of Mr. Kennedy the drag show donates to the Sean Kennedy Foundation every year at the drag show. The Sean Kennedy Foundation was founded to raise awareness against hate crimes in the gay community, as well as other hate crime for global awareness.

Ghouls & Jewels will take place in the Sand Sharks Dining Hall @ 7:30 p.m. on October 26th. A ticket provides dinner & the drag show for 1 person. They are $6 in advanced or $7 at the door.

For good entertainment, plenty of laughs, and a few scares make sure to be there on time for Ghouls & Jewels.

Sea Islands Center

USCB recently purchased the old Beaufort Chamber Welcome Center on the Bellamy Curve in Beaufort. It is now called the Sea Islands Center, and functions as a gallery, student studio space, and visiting artisit residence. The grand opening of the Sea Is-lands Center will be on Wednesday, November 7th, from 5:30-7:00. During this time, the new gallery will be exhibiting an international traveling miniature book series, and is free for everyone to attend. USCB art professor Jon Goebel is one of the artists in the exhibit.

-- Contributed by Emily Yaden, Advancement Intern

RAD Classes

- Cameron Thomas, Calendarist

Starting on November 5th, USCB will be offering a self-defense class. The class is called "Rape, Aggres-sion, and Defense” (RAD), and will be lead by USCB's own DPS Offi-cer Bruce Oliver. Only females can attend the class. It will cover practi-cal real life self defense and protec-tion techniques. Space is limited.

Ladies, if you are going to attend this class you must commit to it. You cannot skip classes in order to pass the class. This class is only ac-cepting the first 8 females that sign up. The dates for the classes are as follows: November 5, 7, 12, 14. For more information visit Miss Lind-say in the Student Center.


Coastal Carolina Medical Center

- Doriatte Johnson, Contributors

Coastal Carolina is now offering health care services to students attending the University of South Carolina Beaufort - Hilton Head Gateway campus. Students must first complete the registration docu-ments and turn the forms in at the Hargray Building, room 124. The parent or guardian must then pay the enrollment fee at the beginning of the selected semester. The pro-gram covers the co-pay and cash pay price. Also, the ER up front registration fee that can range from $100-$150 will be covered. There is also an Emergency Room Clock App for iPhone/iPad, Android smartphone, and Blackberry. Users have access to a physician finder, wait times, maps, GPS, turn-by-turn directions, and more.

Coastal Carolina has two top-notch physicians. Dr. Michael Platt is an Internist who graduated from the College of Medicine at the Uni-versity of Arizona. Platt also has

over 30 years of experience. Mary Ellen Groff is a nurse practitioner. Groff graduated from the Univer-sity of Maryland, and later went on to complete her master's degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Like Platt, Groff also has 30 years of experience in outpatient internal medicine.

Enrollment Period & Cost

- Full academic year (August 1 - May 31) - $300

- Fall (August 1 - December 31) - $150

- Spring (January 1 - May 31) - $150

- Summer (June 1 - July 31) - $100

1000 Medical Center DriveHardeeville, SC 2992

(843)784-8293

Are you in the mood for a good, suspenseful, mind-bending thriller?

“ Prometheus” may just satisfy that craving for you. “Prometheus” is directed by Ridley Scott (director of “Gladiator”, “Alien” & “ Blade Runner”) and stars; Noomi Ra-pace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Guy Pearce. If you enjoyed “Alien” and the Alien franchise, “Prometheus” is sure to interest you as well. While it isn’t a prequel, it does give some important background information.

Digging into mankind’s past has unearthed some very dire ques-

“Prometheus” Movie Review

- Allie Jones, Columnist

tions about where the origin of man comes from and along the way questioning religions beliefs.

The crew aboard the spaceship, “Prometheus” attempts to discover mankind’s origins and save the human race while taking a journey from Earth to Alien planet.

For more details about whether or not they find the answers they were seeking, take a deeper look into “Prometheus”, which is now located at the local Redbox, or you buy it at Wal-Mart, Best Buy or any movie store around.


- Contributed by Tory Tims

Sand Sharks at NACA

On the weekend of September 27th through the 29th, five of the execu-tive board members of the Sand Shark Activities Board (SSAB) as well as Paige Madrid went to Winston-Salem, North Carolina for a conference called NACA (National Association for Campus Activities).

The members that went include Chip Jenkins, Josselyn Campos, Ellza Hines, Michael Alexander, and myself. This is a huge gath-ering of colleges in the southern region such as: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Caro-lina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

We did many different things dur-ing our time in Winston-Salem. There were many different activi-ties that we went to and attended while we were there. We watched multiple showcases that included everything from bands to solo art-ists, comedians to slam poets, and magicians to lecture speakers.

Although, were not in these having fun and enjoying the many differ-ent shows we were in educational sessions. These helped us gain information on different topics; for example, retaining members, hav-ing events in the cafeteria, working with a small budget, and advertis-ing.

The other part of the conference included CAMP or Campus Activi-ties Marketplace. This is where all the performers had booths and where venders had other things that schools could bring onto campus.

There was one other process that Paige, Chip, and Josselyn participat-ed in and that is “Block Booking”. This is a process where schools start to show interest in different per-formers.

This is an opportunity to try and find others schools around you that may want the same performer and you can block book them and get them for a lower price. We got a few different performers this way.

At the end there was a banquet where the activity boards had chances to win awards. Some of the awards had to be entered before a school came to the conference so the winner could be determined.

We entered for 3 different awards. We won one of the awards we ap-plied for and then won another that was determined at the conference. The one that we won that we ap-plied for was for late night program. We submitted the Haunted Forest from last year.

We also won the CAMP Award, which we won for being the most active in CAMP and being the most knowledgeable about our calendar, budget, and school.

After a long full weekend we all had a great time, enjoyed our trip to Winston-Salem and brought back knowledge to help activities on our campus.


Absentee Ballots

- Allie Jones, Columnist

Two-thousand and twelve is a Presidential Election year. Ameri-cans have the right to vote and it is the duty of the college student to do so. After all, men and women have died to protect your right to vote.

In many parts of the world vot-ing is seen as an honor, making it unwise to be indifferent towards it and politics. In fact, the person elected to office can have an exten-sive impact on your daily life.

“Elected officials make important (life and death) decisions about how our society will spend its collective resources and the re-straints it will place on individual behavior. The drinking age, the age at which you can get a driver's license, and the amount of money your teachers receive are some of the decisions made by elected of-ficials.” (Congress Online, 2012)

This November, President Barack Obama is running for a second term against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

In 2008, President Obama received over two-thirds of the youth vote. In 2012, there are over 40 million youth eligible to vote, but sadly only half will register. Remember: the more students that vote, the more important the student vote is viewed to be.

Also, women’n s rights have be-come a talking point in this year’s election. Coretta Scott King, wife of the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said,

“If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefit-ing women and children.” So, ladies, get out there and make your voice heard!

Rock the Vote is an organization dedicated to rallying young Ameri-cans to get out and vote.

The Student Government Association

Get Out and Vote on November 6th!

- Paul Lawerence, Columnist

There are plenty of ways to vote for the upcoming election besides standing in line on November 6th. But don’t forget you can only vote if you’ve registered beforehand. You can register in South Carolina by mail through the National Mail Voter Registration Form or visit any Department of Motor Vehicles, Armed Services Recruitment Cen-ters, State/Local Voter Registra-tion offices and many other places. Just check your state guidelines. In South Carolina the last chance of obtaining a voter’s registration is 30 days before the election or by October 6th.

Absentee voting is a method of vot-ing for US citizens who are away from their home voting area. Each state has their own requirements, so be sure to check your states rules. People who qualify range from col-lege students, military personnel, overseas citizens, people who are 65 years or older, those working during the election, the disabled, people who have jury duty, and many more depending on the state you reside in.

Your absentee voter’s application must be received by your local county’s registration office before November 2nd for you to be eligible to vote. When you receive your application complete the applica-tion and ballot, signed with a wit-ness; then place those inside of the return envelope and return to your local county’s registration office. Your absentee vote will be counted toward the election at 7 o’clock on Election Day.

of USCB will be holding a Rock the Vote event on Friday November 2, 2012 from 6PM-8PM. There will be a number of feature political speak-ers, student performers, music and refreshments. Be sure to come out and learn more if you are an unde-cided voter, or if you would just like to hear more on your favorite candi-date! Empower youreself, take part in Democracy, and rock the vote, because your vote counts!


- Taylor Johnson, Pick-Up Artist

The Mystery Method by Mystery

A1 (Open): The man approaches a set, runs an opener, and immediately earns the set's acceptance.

Example: "Hey, let me get your opinion on something. I can't stay long. My friend and I have been arguing back and forth about [an engaging topic] . . . What's your take on it?"

A2 (Female-to-male interest): The man demonstrates a higher value by telling an engaging story that demonstrates pre-selection, that he is a leader of men, supporter of loved ones, and socially intelligent. He will show a lack of interest in the target by negating the target with a statement that, without insult, disqualifies himself from being perceived as a potential suitor. She should respond with interest.

A3 (Male-to-female interest): The man will bait the woman so she becomes more invested, and he rewards her with indicators of inter-est.

Example: "Where are you from? Oh my god! I love L.A!"

C1 (Conversation): The couple shares in friendly dia-logue. A sense of comfort and trust develops. He should already be ex-ercising "Kino Escalation," slowly increasing the amount of physical contact between two people.

C2 (Connection): Kissing occurs. This phase may last over the course of several dates. It generally takes approximately seven hours of interaction for someone

to get comfortable enough to sleep with a new person.

C3 (Intimacy): Now at a location prime for seduc-tion, heavy making out ensues and the couple moves into the bedroom.

S1 (Foreplay): The couple begins a physical esca-lation towards sex. If this begins too soon, it can cause "buyer's re-morse," meaning that it felt right at the time, but regret later sets in.

S2 (Last Minute Resistance): The point of no return before sex

occurs. This is often a freak out moment for the woman.

S3 (Sex): It is necessary to have intercourse several times to ensure a sexual relationship.

Tip of the month:Just as women look for men with the most power, respect, and means, men look for women with the most attractive physical features. This relates back to the basic human functions of life: to survive and to reproduce. Women spend their lives looking

for men who can help them survive. Men spend their lives looking for women who appear to posses great beauty, a sign of fertility and sur-vival of the best traits.

It is from this fact of life that men have developed the 1 to 10 rating system when describing a woman's appearance. Yes, there is also another reason for this system. It allows a man to categorize women in such a way that he can mentally map out how he will engage them.

Nines and tens absolutely love it when you act cocky and challeng-ing, but hate it when you try to engage them by seeking rapport.

However, sevens tend to respond favorably to engagements based on seeking rapport. Maybe this will save you from getting a martini in the face.

You're welcome.

Don't say thank you. Mystery

Author of “The Mystery Method”

Truths Behind the Mystery

- Annastacia Harsh, Columnist

Worried about the correct way to "get a girl?" Well close your eyes, sit back, relax, and take a trip with me. On this trip our tour guide will be a rabbit who leads us down a hole. At the bottom of the hole the rabbit gives you a choice. The first choice being a pink pill and the second being a purple one. If you choose the pink pill you will be lead


- Ian Stier, Columnist

“The Four Agreements”Book Review

The self-help book entitled The Four Agreements is a lesson ulti-mately on happiness from famous author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book is split into several chapters but focuses on four main points.

The four agreements are: be impec-cable with your words, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions, and finally, always do your best.

The first agreement entitled be im-peccable with your words, is often ignored by most people throughout the course of the day. We often un-derestimate the power of words. We throw insults around without think-ing of their damaging effects to others. The sticks and stones saying is bull, we just use it in the moment and thus everyone knows it by hear.

Truth is, words can be damaging. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography of 13 virtues he lived his life by. One of them was “Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversa-tion.” We as a society need to begin to understand the power of words. Hitler moved a whole nation with just his words. He alone proves that the “Pen is mightier than the sword.”

The second agreement is that we should not take anything person-ally. Of course, don’t follow this to extremes but we need to recognize that most of the things people say to us are their own issues they are try-ing to solve. They are called opin-ions for a reason.

Everyone has their own, don’t let it take you off your track to happiness. When you live without fear and be-gin to love everything, you will start to see drastic changes.

An example of the second agree-ment is a story of Buddha. Buddha was known for his peacefulness and tranquility. There was a man who knew about this and traveled a long distance to test Bud-dha. Once the man got in front of Buddha he verbally abused, challenged, insulted, and did everything he could to offend Buddha. Buddha was unmoved.

He simply turned to the man and said: "May I ask you a question?"

The man re-sponded: "What?"

Buddha: If someone offers you a gift and you decline to accept it, to whom then does it belong?

The man said: "Well it belongs to the person who offered it."

Buddha smiled: "That is correct, so if I deny your abuse then doesn't it still belong to you".

The man was speechless and walked away.The third agreement is that we

should not make assumptions. There’s a saying that goes some-thing to the lines of when you make assumptions you make an …enough said. The key is to ask questions, don’t assume. How could you know unless you hear it from their mouth.

Let people know how you are feel-ing, chances are they cant read your

mind.

The fourth and final agreement is a reminder that we all need to do our best all the time. You have to understand that your best changes as your life changes.

Nevertheless, give it your all in every situ-ation and you will begin to reap benefits you weren’t

expecting. Doing less than your best leaves you to regret your deci-sion while over exertion wears you down.

Don Miguel Ruiz reaches to all of us in an easy to read, short book on simple advice that few take to heart. Take risks and enjoy your life. Be you and do your best while loving everything open heartedly. Practice these agreements and see for your-self the changes unfolding before your eyes.

back up the hole and asked to exit because that means you don't care about relationships, or you think you know it all in which case this article is not for you. However, should you choose the purple pill the rabbit will stick at your side and lead you down the wonderland of love.

You choose the purple pill I see, then let's begin. Before you get too far into wonderland we need to make one thing clear. You are on this earth to do more than survive and reproduce. Common Sense, right? Well, you'd think but some do not feel that way. It has been said that there are three phases in a relationship: attraction, comfort, and seduction. Yes, the phases do exist in most relationships, but not always, and not the way one is thinking. First look at attrac-tion: Men, you need to realize that not all women are attracted to the sterotypical "Taylor Lautner", extreamily built-type. Just because you are not as ripped as another guy does not mean he's getting the girl. Some girls actually prefer the exact opposite from that sterotype. Now at comfort. I agree, every woman, and man for that matter, should be comfortable in their relationship but it should not feel as if the comfort was forced. As far as seduction goes, that is a subject that just does not always work.

Ok time for a rest. Men please remember this is just the beginning of the world known as “how to get a girl.” Stick with me and I'll lead you down the right rabbit hole where we'll seperate the truth inside the mystery.


Sand Shark RedemptionCatch Them If You Can

As the first sport at USCB, cross country has had a tremendous amount of success. Since 2007, Coach Kimball has sent nine run-ners to nationals. The men’s team has never finished lower than third in the Sun Conference, and the women’s never lower than fifth. The women’s team was even recognized as Academic All-Americans, estab-lishing a 3.0 average GPA for the 2011 year.

Both the men’s and women’s teams are having a rebuilding year, with the men having lost seven of their top eight run-ners last year. Two key run-ners for the team this year are Anthony Vecchio and John Stanas. Vecchio is an All-Conference runner and has run a 4:19 minute mile. Stanas is the team’s captain and has been a two-time All-Conference, as well as a two-time Academic All-American.

The women’s team, also very young, has added six freshmen to their roster. Jessica Brown, a senior from Mt. Pleasant, is the captain for the women this year. Brown was the

team’s second overall runner last year, and is currently seventeenth in the conference. In the first meet of the season at the Gamecock Invita-tional the women came in third.

For the second meet only the women competed at the College of Charleston and they placed second overall with runner Melissa Carder

finishing first. Coach Kimball has two distinct goals for the teams this year. The first being to finish in the top three of the confer-ence for both teams. The highest the women have been is third, and the men have placed second. The other goal is to

send runners to na-tionals in Vancou-ver, Washington.

These goals are very realistic and hope to be met. Kimball says, “We have pretty competitive teams this year. The kids must first mature as runners, and that is when we will see our best results.” We wish Coach Kimball and both teams good luck on the rest of their sea-son.

John StanasCross Country Runner

- Ashton Bowns, Columnist - Brackin Lambert, Sports ColumnistThe sting from last year’s season finale loss to St. Thomas University during the Sun Conference tourna-ment can still be felt by the return-ing players of Sand Shark Softball. However, once school began again in August, last season was last season. With a talented group of incom-ing freshmen and transfers, Coach Rietkovich and company are looking to improve on the previous season’s successful 37-11 (12-5 Sun Confer-ence) record.This past weekend proved to be the start of another successful season as the Sand Sharks took down two NCAA Division I teams from Geor-gia Southern (6-4) and East Georgia (3-2) in a day-night doubleheader. These wins could provide the con-fidence needed for the upcoming season, in which they will be playing a much more competitive schedule. With a strong pitching staff anchored by ace Kristy Cook, returning start-ers at every position, and a powerful offense, this upcoming season can be one to remember for the Sand Shark Softball program.

Come out this weekend and support the Sand Shark Softball team as they wrap up their preseason scrimmages when they take on Savannah State, Middle Georgia, and Truett McCon-nell. Game times are at 10 a.m., 5 p.m., and 8 p.m.

Intramural Events

- Cameron Thomas, CalendaristWe have a winner in the singles 8 Ball Intramural Pool Tournament. Congratulations to senior Jamey Schulz on winning this semester's championship. When asked how he felt about winning the tournament he said, "It feels great, and I plan on winning more."

There is also a winner in USCB's intramural Kickball tournament. Congratulations to "Split Team #2" on their win over "Team YOLO".

USCB Intramurals is now allowing sign ups for the following sports: Slow Pitch Softball, Double Ping Pong and Double 8 Ball Pool, and Flag Football. There is a sign up sheet on a bulletin board in the Student Center or you can contact Miss Lindsay Logue in her office in the Student Center. There are a lot of spots left open in all of the sports, except Flag Football, which is USCB's biggest intramural sport.

There are currently 9 teams signed up to play so far which is the big-gest turn out yet. The Flag Football games will be played on Friday af-ternoons at Finland. These are re-ally fun and competitive games to attend. Reigning champions "Team Back That Pass Up (BTPU)" will look to defend their title against more and better competition.

BTPU's quarterback, Junior De-latorre, said this about his team, "We're gonna do work."


Soccer Profile: Pascale Rocca

She hails from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, has a South Carolina wom-en’& s soccer state championship un-der her belt, and is one of the sixteen new freshman faces of Sand Shark Soccer. She is Pascale Rocca.

“I chose USCB because they were the only college that offered me a scholarship to play soccer,” Rocca said. A good choice it has been, too. Rocca has been a key component to the success of the Sand Sharks this season. Her most notable achieve-ment thus far would have to be her over the shoulder kick that scored the first of three goals against St. An-drews University.

“I love it here and I’m very happy with the progress made this season by Sand Shark Soccer,” Rocca said of how she feels about the school and the program. And she should be happy as the Sharks currently have a 9-7 record with two more regular season games left.

- Brackin Lambert, Sports Columnist

Vecchio Keeps BHS Legacy Running at USCB

- David Roberts, Sports Editor

Since the program’s inaugural sea-son in 2007, the University of South Carolina Beaufort Cross Country team has seen nine runners compete for the Sand Sharks after graduating from Bluffton High School. An-thony Vecchio is the latest Bobcat to run for Larry Kimball’s Sand Sharks. Running on a team in 2011 that had four other Bluffton High School graduates, Vecchio is the only Bobcat left—aside from senior, John Stanas—and is perhaps the last of a generation.

Vecchio, a Biology major at USCB, did not waste the opportunity to learn from former Bluffton runners Marshall Meyer, Tommy Reeves and Frank Tinsley. In fact, that’s the main reason he chose to come to USCB and run. “Back in their junior year, when I was going to come here, they were doing really well and I felt that we had an opportunity to do something decent,” Vecchio said of his decision to enroll at USCB.

Although the Sand Sharks have fallen short of the standard set by previous teams at USCB, Vecchio has not let that affect his perfor-mance. With a first place finish at the Southern Wesleyan Invitational, multiple top ten finishes and a Sun Conference Runner of the Week award under his belt, the sophomore from Bluffton has made the most of his season thus far. Not to men-tion the eighth place finish Vecchio had at the Gamecock Invitational where he faced the top runners from schools such as South Carolina, Georgia Southern, UNC Pembroke and two familiar foes now running for College of Charleston.

“ It was good,” Vecchio said of the competition. “Manning Miller [an-other runner from Bluffton High] was there and Mackenzie Johnston from Hilton Head High was there as well.”

While the success Vecchio is hav-ing is apparent, he knows he has not done it alone. “Mostly Coach Kimball and the determination to succeed and follow in Marshall and Frank’s footsteps,” Vecchio said when asked who was behind his accomplishments this season. “I’m trying to follow the model of everyone from last year’s team.”

Looking to the future, Vecchio and the Sand Sharks will head to Lake Wales, Florida on November 3 for the Sun Conference Champion-ships; a meet that Vecchio hopes to impress in. “Hopefully I will place in the top five at our Sun Confer-ence meet at Nationals, just go as best as I can—it’s a hard course.”

Anthony Vecchio Cross Country Runner

Pascale RoccaSand Shark Soccer

When asked about the upcoming Sun Conference tournament and what the Sand Sharks need to do to be able to compete, Rocca had this to say: “We need to play the best soccer that we are capable of during the tournament. We've earned this spot in the conference tournament and now it’s time for us to prove it.”

New Shark in the Tank

Melissa Carder, sophomore, trans-ferred from Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Carder was a part of the women’s cross country team while at Arm-strong. Melissa says, “Coach Kimball’s experience of the sport and dedication to the team was the deciding factor on picking to come to USCB.”

In the first two meets Melissa has finished third in the Gamecock Invitational and placed first at Col-lege of Charleston. Carder’ s goal for this year is to erase a minute and ten seconds off of her time, which would have her finishing a 5k in the time of 18 minutes, 40 seconds.

Welcome to the team, Melissa, and good luck with all that lies before you!

- Ashton Bowns, Columnist

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HARDEEVILLE, S.C. - Embry-Riddle swept the team and individ-ual titles, as Evans Kirwa and Ellie Staker set school records Saturday morning at the sixth annual Asics Sand Shark Cross Country Invi-tational presented by Mortgage Network. Kirwa won the 8-kilometer men's race in 24 minutes, 5 seconds, finishing 39 seconds ahead of team-mate Vincent Bett to help lead the Eagles to the team title by 11 points over Spartanburg Methodist. Sophomore Anthony Vecchio led host University of South Carolina Beaufort in the men's race, finishing in sixth place with a time of 25:22. The Sand Sharks finished 14th in the team standings. Freshman Matthew Harper was second across the line for USCB, placing 85th with a personal-best time of 28:47. Senior John Stanas wasn't far behind, finishing 96th in 29:08. Juniors Avery Singleton (130th, 31:44) and Isaac Miles (149th, 39:40) rounded out the Sand Sharks' lineup. Staker completed the 5K women's course in a blistering 17:18, 18 seconds faster than runner-up Han-nah Lieberman of SCAD Savan-nah. Embry-Riddle narrowly edged Milligan by one point for the team title, as each team had all seven of its runners place in the top 27. The host Sand Sharks placed 12th in the team standings led by sopho-more Melissa Carder, who finished 13th in 19:00.

Embry-Riddle Sweeps Titles At Sand Shark Invitational

- Contributed by: Justin Jarrett, Sports Information Director

Senior Jessica Brown was the second USCB finisher, placing 60th with a time of 20:58. Freshman Cassie Beato finished 79th in 21:47, freshman Rachelle Toth was 105th in 23:20, freshman Sarah Milisci was 122nd in 25:27, and sopho-more Rebekah Herty (127th, 26:19) rounded out the lineup. A total of 151 male and 141 female runners completed the race, making it the largest ever hosted by USCB. MEN'S TEAM RESULTS 1. Embry-Riddle 47; 2. Spartan-burg Methodist 58; 3. Emmanuel 75; 4. SCAD Savannah 111; 5. Webber 187; 6. Montreat 211; 7. Southern Wesleyan 225; 8. Truett-McConnell 236; 9. Savannah State 247; 10. Loyola-New Orleans 255; 11. Palmetto Running Club 319; 12. Southeastern 336; 13. Auburn Montgomery 338; 14. USC Beau-fort 352; 15. Belhaven 407; 16. Co-lumbia International; 17. Johnson & Wales 470. WOMEN'S TEAM RESULTS 1. Embry-Riddle 57; 2. Milligan 58; 3. SCAD Savannah 74; 4. Emman-uel 171; 5. Brenau 171; 6. Spartan-burg Methodist 173; 7. Southern Wesleyan 181; 8. Loyola-New Orleans 184; 9. Savannah State 252; 10. Truett-McConnell 293; 11. Southeastern 294; 12. USC Beau-fort 314; 13. Webber International 326; 14. Morris 409; 15. Colum-bia International 411; 16. Auburn Montgomery 428.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The University of South Carolina Beau-fort women's soccer team closed out the regular season Sunday with a 5-0 loss at No. 7 Embry-Riddle, which clinched the Sun Conference North Division title.

The Sand Sharks (9-9, 4-5 Sun Conference) now wait to learn their seed an first-round opponent in the Sun Conference tournament, which begins Nov. 1.

USCB managed just four shots against the strong Eagles defense.

Krizzy Menez scored a pair of goals for Embry-Riddle, and Valerie Obita added a goal and two assists.

Sand Sharks End Regular Season With Loss To Eagles

The Eagles (13-4, 8-1) took a quick 1-0 lead on Ange Durston-Ryan's goal in the fourth minute, and Obita added a goal in the 29th minute for a 2-0 advantage.

That's where it stayed until Menez scored two goals in a three-minute span in the second half. Brianna Zangara capped the scoring in the 86th minute.

USCB goalkeeper Chelsie Mum-mert made seven saves.

The Sand Sharks will be either the No. 6 or No. 7 seed in the confer-ence tournament and will open the postseason on the road Nov. 1, at SCAD Savannah or St. Thomas.

Sarah Grace StubbsSand Shark Soccer



Brackin Lambert, Sports Columnist

Sand Shark Soccer Build On Strong Season

Sand Shark Athletic Events

- David Roberts, Sports Editor

Men’s Cross Country:

Sun Conference Championships Lake Wales, FL

November 3, 2012

NAIA National Championships Vancouver, WA

November 17, 2012

Women’s Cross Country:

Sun Conference Championships Lake Wales, FL

November 3, 2012

NAIA National Championships Vancouver, WA

November 17, 2012

Women’s Golf:

Lady Flames Fall Shootout Cleveland, TN

October 29, 2012

Women’s Varsity Soccer:

Sun Conference Championship TBD

October 31, 2012

TSC Quarterfinals TBD

November 1, 2012

TSC Semi-Finals TBD

November 3, 2012

TSC Finals TBD

November 9, 2012

Last year's women's soccer season could be summed up in two words: learning experience. And that is exactly what it was. This time last year the Sand Sharks' season had just concluded with only one win in the fledgling program's history. As soon as the 2011 season ended, the 2012 season began. With nineteen new freshmen joining this year’s squad, the USCB soccer program seemed to be heading in the right direction.

In most cases, the firsts of a pro-gram happen during the program’s first year. True to form, last season there were some firsts: the first game ever played, the first goal scored, the first shutout, and the first win. Yet in the team’s second season there have been plenty of firsts as well: the first winning streak, the first time above .500, the first con-ference win, and most importantly, the first trip to the Sun Conference post season tournament.

As of October 16, 2012, the Sand Sharks have compiled a 9-7 (4-3 Sun Conference) record with two more regular season games to be played this weekend. Regardless of the outcome of this weekend’s games, the Sand Sharks have se-cured a spot in the post season for the first time in the program's two year history.

Whether or not they will be able to host a home playoff game will be determined by the outcome of this weekend’s games against Thomas University and conference power-house, Embry-Riddle.

“It’s been exciting to be a part of an inaugural team and to watch the players grow. Not only have we grown as a team, but individually as well,” said Kathleen Kent, one of the three captains to be named this season by Coach Ed Heber-ling. “With the new talent joining the returners, we have been able to come together and mold into a solid team. This is a tough conference and I believe we will be even more competitive every year.”

Kent is also one of the four seniors on this year’s team. Along with her sisters, Blair and Becca, and fel-low senior Soledad Bucaram, they have been leaders both on and off the field through experience gained from playing college soccer for four years.

Leadership was something that needed to be a big factor if this year’s team wanted to achieve suc-cess. The leaders Coach Heberling chose have done their job, too. Along with senior Kathleen Kent, sophomores Chelsie Mummert and Stephanie Moldenhauer have been given the responsibilities of cap-tains.

With Kathleen’s experience, Stepha-nie’s keen attitude on the field, and Chelsie’s aggressive play in goal, these three have been the perfect combination for leadership on and off the field.

There have also been huge improve-ments this season. Not only those that are reflected in the win-loss column, but in everything that this season has become.

“There’s resilience to this team, even after a tough loss. The next day at practice, the girls bring everything they've got. And then, at the next game we've come out on top.” And that they have. After los-ing the conference opener to SCAD, they came back and won a con-vincing game against St. Andrews University.

Followed by a loss to Webber In-ternational, USCB picked up their first ever conference win in dra-matic fashion against Warner. Once more with another loss to confer-ence powerhouse Northwood, they were able to pick up the win against Johnson & Wales on Senior Day, which was the last regular season home game.

The winning has not stopped since. Another first occurred with their most recent victory over Ave Maria. This marked the first three game winning streak in the program’s history and their first postseason appearance.

With the regular season coming to a close, it’s safe to say that USCB soccer is heading in the right direc-tion. And Coach Heberling agrees, “The biggest difference this year has been the commitment level of our girls. They have the desire and the drive to be successful.”


Art Viewing Opprotunities in Historic Beaufort, SC

Basketry Combinations & Continuations with Kim Keats @

ARTworks

For ages 16-adult, on Tuesdays, November 6 through December 4, 6 to 8pm, $55 for the series, or $15 per class.

Explore new approaches for creat-ing both utilitarian and sculptural forms using imported and locally collected indigenous materials, and a variety of basketry techniques. Great for beginners and the ex-perienced; discover methods for developing your own original style. Keats' work is in the SC Contem-porary Collection, and has been honored with a SCAC Craft Fel-lowship; her new work will be on display October 26-28 in the FAB Show at Tabby Fabric & Studio in downtown Beaufort. Register for the classes with the artist: 843-384-2435 or [email protected]. ARTworks is located in Beaufort Town Center, 2127 Boundary Street 29902. 843-379-2787, www.art-worksinbeaufort.org, @artseensc.

A Not So Silent Night Christmas

Because storytelling is a gift, on Thursday, December 6, the Un-called For Trio will be back in Port Royal with their 2012 “A Not So Silent Night Christmas” storytell-ing tour. Storytellers Bil Lepp, Kim Weitkamp, and Andy Irwin will share new stories and songs, and all the ho-ho-ho hilarity you can stand.

Bil Lepp is a nationally renowned storyteller, a five time champion of

the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, and the headliner at the 2013 BIG Story Fest & Liars Competition in Beaufort. Kim Weitkamp is a recipient of two Storytelling World Awards, and graces the stages of theaters and festivals throughout the continent. A recipient of numerous awards, Andy Offut has toured with the Kandinsky Trio and performed with the comedic troupe SAK The-atre at Walt Disney World.

All is chuckles, all is bright, and all the tickets are at the door only .

$8 for adults and $4 for students (to 21) and children. 7:30pm, at The Shed on Paris Avenue in Old Village Port Royal.

This merriment is sponsored by the Town of Port Royal and produced by ARTworks, www.ArtWorksIn-Beaufort.org, 843-379-2787, @artseensc. ARTworks is the com-munity arts center of Beaufort, the coolest arts council in the Carolinas, and applies the many creative tools of The Arts to strengthen artists, and enrich audiences, collectors, and visitors through high quality arts experiences and arts education pro-grams 365 days a year. ARTworks is located at 2127 Boundary Street, in Beaufort Town Center, SC 29902.

Betsy Chaffin at the Charles Street Gallery

November 16-December 8, 2012; opening reception on Friday, No-vember 16, 5:30 to 9pm.

Betsy Chaffin creates her abstract art work, which she often refers to

as “markings,” from her studio on Spring Island. She has a synergistic relationship with the Lowcountry: she worked to ensure that Spring Island was developed smartly to preserve the pristine environment, and in turn the environment fills her canvases.

“The abstracted forms and mark-ings are distilled from my natural surrounding— the river, the marsh, trees, the sky,” Chaffin explains. “The work is an expression of a point of view, a state of mind. Is the work about reality, memory, energy or landscape? Maybe a measure of each, though there is not a specific recipe.”

A lack of clear directions has never been so wonderful. Her markings are vigorous, with just enough color, to bring the mysterious to the familiar.

The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, November 16 from 5:30-9pm, and the show runs through December 8. The Charles Street Gallery is an established source for Lowcountry and inter-national art, presented within a carefully reno-vated house surrounded by a lush garden in the middle of Beaufort’s historic district. 843-521-9054, http://www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com, 914 Charles Street 29902.

New works & a Christmas party at the Charles Street Gallery in

Beaufort

Friday, December 14, 5:30-9 ~ the public is invited to view new work and enjoy a holiday reception with the artists of the Charles Street Gal-lery: Joan Templer will fill the first floor gallery with glad tidings, and upstairs the halls will be decked by Lynn Brown, Sharon DeAlexan-dris, Carol Henry, Jim Rothnie, and Nancy Sturgis. Together, they form a formidable reason to be merry and bright; individually, these artists of-fer colors and skills hung with care, in this gallery year-round.

The Charles Street Gallery is an established source for Lowcoun-try and international art, presented within a carefully renovated house surrounded by a lush garden in the middle of Beaufort’s historic dis-trict. 843-521-9054, http://www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com, 914 Charles Street 29902.

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- Ellza Hines, Columnist

USCB Upgrades Professor Rating Process

Towards the end of every semester professors, inform their students that they have the opportunity to do a course evaluation, where the students can reflect on the positive and negative aspects of whichever course they took and that these forms will be used as a way for the school officials to track the profes-sor’s progress or regress.

This process has always been done in the classroom and on a paper form; this semester will be the first time that these evaluations will be online. When the time comes for students to start these evaluations, they will get a separate email for each class they are taking and a pass code for each evaluation, students will have a link to follow and they simply put in the pass code and fill out the evaluation and hit submit.

Surprisingly enough, this is a big step for USCB. Changing from a paper form to an online form will save the school money. USCB has roughly 1,900 students, and each student takes on average 4 classes, that's approximately 7,600 forms that go out to all of the students. The school has to pay for printing, paper, labor, packaging, distribut-ing to classes, more labor, and lastly distributing back to professors. Those are many steps that have been cut out, which has to be ben-eficial to USCB's wallet. This also means that the turnaround time for professors waiting to see their re-views will be much less than before, but before we write this off as a win for the college, let's discuss all the possibilities of this change.

When discussing this with USCB students, there were many good points brought up. For example, how is the school going to prevent random people from taking the eval-uation? What if students just don't fill out the evaluation? What if there are technical difficulties? If we're entering a pass code given only to one student, how are the evalua-tions remaining anonymous? What if students don't take these serious? All of these are great questions, so I got in touch with Jodi Herrin and asked her those same questions. For those of you who don't know, Jodi Herrin is the Director of Institu-tional Effectiveness & Research and her office is located on the Historic Beaufort campus.

This change to online evaluations seemed to be a very exciting thing for Jodi Herrin, and these are some of her answers to my questions.

How is the school going to prevent random people from taking the evaluation? Each student will get an email with a passcode for each class. The pass codes are simply to track and see if they've been used so USCB knows if students are taking the evaluations.

What if students just don't fill out the evaluation? There is no way of making the students fill out the evaluations. Even if the evaluations were required to be filled out before students could get their grades, does not mean that they will be honest or take the evaluations seriously. Jodi also informed me that the first 8-week classes are currently doing their evaluations, they had 50-60%

response rate already, and the stu-dents still had a week left to submit them.

What if it's unsuccessful? Hopefully the students see the importance in filling out the evaluations and if the results were terrible, there could be a chance of going back to the paper evaluations. However, like stated in the previous comment, the response rate has been over half.

What if there are technical difficul-ties? It has not been tested for our students, but other USC campuses have been using online evaluations for years and we are using the same system as the other USC campuses.

If we're entering a passcode given only to one student, how are the eval-uations remaining anonymous? The pass codes that are emailed to the students are only used to see whether or not it has been used. Professors will never have access to those pass codes.

Why these change in the first place? The idea of online evaluations was brought to Jodi by the academic council, which is made of all the dif-ferent department heads at USCB, so it was looked into and implemented.

Whether people realize this or not, it is a big step for USCB, It can go either way for the campus. Students should really be aware of the impor-tance of filling out the evaluations honestly; these evaluations can either hurt or help a professor.

Since these evaluations have every-thing to do with the professors, it

seemed necessary to get a pro-fessor's opinion of this switch to online evaluations. I talked to El-len Malphraus, and asked some of the same questions and really just listened to how she felt about the change.

When we met to speak on the subject, one of the first things she said was that she was hesitant on moving to electronic evalua-tions. Students do not take them as seriously as they should and it's going to be another thing that students will have to check and finish. When your professor tells you in class that you're going to be given an evaluation and what it means for them, you might take it a little more seriously. Of course, this change is saving the school a lot of money, but these evalua-tions can be a deciding factor on whether or not a professor gets tenure or a promotion. If students are not doing them or taking them seriously then spending the money and time to do paper evaluations might be the better choice. When Jodi brought this change to the professors, she told them that she doesn't know how this will affect them. Ellen's biggest fear is that students just won't take the evalua-tions seriously. The seriousness of these evaluations should really be stressed to the students.

This change will be either a hit or a miss, some are bound to not like the idea of online and some are likely to think this was the best choice. How does this affect the students? We will all find out come November 26.


State of the Senate:Student Government Association Updates

- From Staff Reports

With the start of every new semes-ter, new student leaders rise to the occasion and begin to further the agendas of our students and staff here at USCB. This year’s recently elected Student Government Asso-ciation Senators are no exception to this clause.

Senators Bryanna McCain, Reggie Gaymon, Josselyn Campos, Devin Mock, Phillip Kriby, Jalen Manor, Paris Bloomfield, Tyler Cobb, Kiaundra Berry, Chavis Wilson, Sa-mantha O’Donnell, and Michael Al-exander have begun work this year that will forever label this Senate as a productive and visionary group.

To kick off the semester, the Student Government Association promoted student voting through the hosting of voter registration tables, on both the Bluffton and Beaufort cam-puses, with the help of the League of Women Voters and various other community organizations.

On that same September 17th, the Senate also hosted a Constitution day Forum, moderated by Profes-sor James Duffy of the English and Theatre Department, and openly discussed the importance of our constitution in the United States, in particular, those rights that pertain to on-campus students living in

Palmetto Village, and what rights they have lost by living there.

The following week, on September 25, 2012, the first Sen-ate Meeting of the term was held. SGA President Erica Moore started the session off with two proposals to expand the Sand Shark identity (please see the next issue of The Tidal Tribune for full details, pending approval).

In addition to this, Bryanna McCain was voted to the position of Senator Pro-Tempore, while Reggie Gaymon was selected for the position of Clerk of the Senate. With commit-tee assignments and sub-roles filled, the

structure of the Senate was com-plete.

On Tuesday October 2, 2012, the Executive Board of the SGA, ac-companied by a number of Sena-tors, hosted a mini-Sharkapoolza event on the Historic Beaufort Campus. Gamma Beta Phi, the Na-tion Honor Society organization, the Environmental Club, as well as the Anime and Games Club attended this event in order to gain members on both campuses.

With voter registration, live music, and a free dinner offered, a crowd of about 30 students attended in and out.

Since the meetings are hosted every two weeks, the next meeting took place on Tuesday October 9, 2012 at 7PM.

Treasurer Ian Stier was the focus of this meeting as he surveyed Sena-tor opinions in an effort to further the university initiative of having a “spirit mark” for our clubs, orga-nizations, and athletics. For nearly 45 minutes, Senators commented and critiqued various designs, often inserting suggestions of their own to the project that would better repre-sent the student views of USCB.

Later in this meeting, the Sena-tors also discussed the future plans of university housing in Palmetto Village, and the problems currently facing students, in specific, the lack of spaces in the parking lot, due to a proposal by Senator Phillip Kirby. While there was no vote to continue a project toward rectifying

this issue (in large part because the parking lots were already slated to be extended in conjunction with the constructing of additional dorms), the introduction of the first proposal from a Senator challenged the rest of the Senate to begin proposing reccomendations they would like to tackle on campus. The next meeting would then take place on Tuesday October 23, 2012 in SCI 222.

At this final meeting to date, three Senators, Devin Mock, Jalen Manor, and Phillip Kirby all pro-posed new initiatives for the SGA to consider. With the passing of all three, committees were formed to explore the possibility of continuing said projects.

While the information pertaining to these proposals is still unknown, The Tidal Tribune hopes to explain them in our next issue.

For more information on the Stu-dent Government Association at USCB, please visit them at their of-fice in the back hall of the Campus Center directly adjacent to the office of Student Life or visit meetings which are on Tuesday Nights (the next being Tuesday Nov. 7, 2012) at 7PM. All meetings are open to students!


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