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FAU mAy be lying about its age to garner more donations.

The university boasted its 50th anniversary a few weeks ago in an e-mail from President Mary Jane Saunders. But she should really wait to order the cake — another three years or so.

Fifty years ago, in 1961, according to FAU’s official website, the state legislature approved the building of FAU.

“Just one hitch remained,” the site reads on. “While the state had approved building a new university in Boca Raton, it had provided no funding for planning, architectural design or construction.”

Next, a bank threw in some money and a donation pool was started (through the “Endowment Corporation”—what today is called FAU Foundation) under a campaign called “Open the Door in ‘64.”

Then everyone wondered what to call the university. According to the website, a local newspaper was juggling some ideas: Palm State, Peninsula University, Gulfstream University, Kennedy University of Florida, and Bryant State.

Out of this list, the “Board of Control”— today’s Board of Trustees, a committee that makes FAU’s biggest decisions — chose the name Florida Atlantic University. That was in 1962.

1963 saw the passing of legislation for a $75 million bond to help FAU expand itself.

1964 brought political favors, one of which was getting then-U.S. President Lyndon Johnson to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony. He did. And it was grand. Doors were finally supposed to open on Sept. 8, 1964, but a nasty hurricane struck the university.

“Hurricane Cleo swept its way up Florida’s east coast, causing $100,000 in damage to the campus and delaying the start of classes by six days,” the site reads. “FAU’s charter class of 867 students arrived to begin their studies on a treeless campus marked by a flagpole that was bent like a used pipecleaner.”

I checked out the website for University of Florida, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006. Its doors opened a hundred years earlier in 1906. The state approved its construction in 1903. Then I checked Florida International University. FIU’s doors opened in 1972, but I found anniversaries celebrating 1965, 1969 and 1972 birthdays. There may be no right way to celebrate a birthday.

So, why do we celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2011 if our doors didn’t open until 1964? Should we celebrate it again in 2014?

Ex-President Frank Brogan would probably think so. His “message from the president” website for FAU’s 40th

anniversary came out in — wait for it — 2004.Brogan wrote that the anniversary is “dedicated to

the dreamers who saw a great university rising in a place where others saw only weed-choked landing strips and buildings that had long stood empty.” He continued, “And it is dedicated to the 867 students who brought the dream to life when they arrived for the first day of classes on Sept. 14, 1964.”

I tried calling Brogan and asking him about it. I got as far as his chief of staff, who wrote in an e-mail

that he was busy but offered Brogan’s statement about the anniversary.

“The 50th anniversary of Florida Atlantic University is an opportunity to consider the incredible advances FAU has amassed

in a relatively short timeframe,” his message began. Short timeframe, indeed, since the 40th anniversary happened only seven years ago, according to Brogan’s website.

Next, I tried getting in touch with President Mary Jane Saunders.She was busy in meetings, but a spokesperson was able to get me “a

brief quote from her.”

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During Lyndon Johnson’s presidential campaign in 1964, he was in close competition against rival Barry Goldwater. So, according to www.fau.edu, he was made “an offer he couldn’t refuse: [He was asked to] make the keynote address at the ceremony that would mark the opening of Florida’s newest public university. And that is why the President of the United States was on hand when Florida Atlantic University was dedicated.”

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“We take tremendous pride in all that Florida Atlantic University has become in a comparatively short period of time and the positive impact it has had on generations of students and entire communities in South Florida,” she wrote.

These statements didn’t answer my questions. So I moved on and found the co-chair of FAU’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Lynn Laurenti — she happens to be one of those 867 students who came to FAU in 1964.

She said that the reason FAU is celebrating now is the 1961 state legislation that gave money toward funding FAU. In the 1990s, under FAU President Anthony Catanese, the year 1961 was added to FAU’s seal.

“That truly was the founding date of the university,” she said and laughed. “We discovered we were born earlier than we thought we were.”

I asked Laurenti if we were going to have another birthday in 2014.“I don’t know what plans might be made,” she said. “Possibly there’ll be some sort of celebration,

but that hasn’t been discussed. Nobody’s saying we’re going to celebrate two anniversaries.”Laurenti said, “There will not be a very big budget.” She explained the anniversary will be mostly

celebrated in conjunction with other events, like homecoming. There is one event, though, that is solely sponsored for the anniversary.

It is a fundraising gala.

“We discovered we were born earlier than we thought we were.”

FAU’s anniversary logo claims that the university is at its 50th year. Ex-university President Frank Brogan celebrated the 40th anniversary in 2004, only seven years ago.

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The meaning of musicNeuroscientists at FAU say Chopin is guiding them toward understanding our brains

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More than 20 students donated their brains to science for a day to help

unravel its structure by listening to classical music.

Over the past decade, the Music Dynamics Lab on the Boca campus has been using an fMRI machine — a huge magnet that uses radio-frequency radiation to create images of the body — to peek inside FAU students’ brains while making them listen to Chopin. They used the results to try to determine how music affects the brain.

The research team, led by psychology professor Ed Large, developed a new method for studying human emotions last year by looking at what music does to your brain, while you’re listening to it and long-term.

Until now, emotion research has

tended to only allow scientists to show subjects single pictures, but the FAU researchers created a way to use long samples of music while analyzing their brains.

“Human performance nuances cause emotion — it’s something assumed by musicians, but this is the first time it’s been shown what areas of the brain are responding,” Large said.

He went on to explain that they chose to study music not just for its own sake but for what it can show us about emotion in general: “The reason it’s a good stimulus is we can control it. We’re using music as a model for the experiences people have every day.”

“Even if I could put a portable brain scanner on you while you walk around all day,” he suggested, observing your reactions to everything you encountered, the stimulus would be too complex. “What we need to do as scientists is control the stimulus.”The supplementary motor

area responded to changes in the tempo of the “expressive” version of the music.

The primary motor cortex also responded to changes in the tempo of the expressive version of the music; is involved in the perception of pulse and “movement” in music; and is responsible for body movements.

The premotor cortex is involved in rhythm perception, especially in the brains of “experienced” listeners.

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The amygdala, buried deep inside the brain, is an important emotional center. It seems to be involved in our reaction to rhythms we didn’t expect.

The ventral striatum and the nucleus accumbens are part of the brain’s powerful subconscious “reward” circuits. They’re also responsible for the chills you get from the climax of your favorite song. This, according to lead researcher Ed Large, is an example of why we can use music as a window into the more fundamental operations of our minds.

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The Music Dynamics Lab, which conducts neuroscience research, uses studies like this one — published in December in the online journal PLoS ONE — to serve as a basis for trying to understand why the brain is shaped the way it is.

Large said MRI scans normally cost up to $1,000 each, but the cost of this study was cut significantly because of a partnership with University MRI. Dr. Fred Steinberg, the owner of the company, provided the researchers with free usage of its MRI equipment and was credited as an author of the study.

Some of the lab's projects are specific, focusing on finding out how individual brain cells connect with each other. Others, like this one, try to break down the function of whole regions.

Large, who coordinates the labs' projects, explained, "When you think about the development of species on this planet ... why is it that we like music?" Why do professional musicians, he added, spend so much time on their craft, perfecting their technique?

After all, music performance doesn't just consist of playing notes — any computer can do that. What makes music meaningful to us is how it makes us feel, with variables such as the volume, duration and force of each note, according to the study.

To answer the question of why music even exists — and why every culture creates and enjoys music — the researchers set out to design an experiment in 2001 that they hoped would provide some clues. Over the next 10 years, they experimented on FAU students to see what goes on when music enters the brain.

The resulting images show what different areas of the brain are doing by highlighting how much blood and oxygen are being consumed by each area. Using what they already knew about the functions of each area, they were able to draw out several correlations.

The study explains how the team compared several variables. First, two versions of Chopin's "Etude in E major" were used, differing only in interpretive performance: One, called the "expressive" version, was played by a real musician, while the other, called the "mechanical" version, was generated by software to eliminate variations in volume, tempo, and use of the sustain pedal.

Second, two types of listeners were examined. To investigate the effect of long-term experience with music on the brain, some of the participants were chosen because they were amateur musicians. The rest of the subjects didn't have experience performing music, but they were still considered "deep listeners" — people who spend a lot of time actively listening to music, rather than just casually hearing whatever is popular.

As they expected, the areas of the brain that manage emotions, like the amygdala (see sidebar), lit up for all subjects when the researchers played the expressive version. But, contrary to their expectations, those areas, instead of continuously fluctuating in response to changes in the music, remained relatively constant.

What surprised the scientists was the part of the brain that actually did vary: the mirror neuron system.

Large explained that when we see someone doing something, our mirror neuron system attempts to replicate the same condition in our own mind. This enables us to empathize with someone else on a very fundamental level.

The discovery that mirror neurons are involved in hearing music shows that when we listen to music, the same cells that are active in motor actions are part of the response to the music.

As opposed to non-musicians, musicians who participated in the study showed unique emotional patterns in response to the music. This raised another question for the researchers. If music is culturally universal, are we genetically programmed to desire it?

"I actually believe that it's mainly biologically based," said Large. "The cultural influence can only really tweak" the brain's natural response to music. However, he admitted that many in the field think the cultural factors are more influential.

Music has often been compared to language for its ability to communicate, but Large believes the similarities might be more than superficial. "Like language, music is made of complex, temporally structured sequences of sound," he explained, adding that if music is biologically based, it probably has a "universal grammar," referring to the rules in the brain hypothesized to underlie all human languages.

Another unresolved question this raised is whether those with more pronounced brain responses to music naturally seek out more musical experiences, or those who spend a lot of time listening to or creating music develop more intense brain responses.

Heather Chapin, a doctoral student at the time the study was done who ran the experiments, commented on the difficulty of trying to understand the workings of the brain from the outside: "I'm a black and white kind of girl, and human neuroimaging was much more gray than I was prepared to handle."

Large didn't know how much the study cost in total, but said that the only real cost went toward funding a research position for Chapin.

The Music Dynamics Lab is part of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, an interdepartmental research program.

To read the study and see a video of its results, you can go to the Music Dynamics Lab's website at www.ccs.fau.edu/~large/Music_Dynamics_Lab/Music_Dynamics_Lab.html. The lab will be publishing another study next month, analyzing tempo expectation violations.

[Source: Ed Large: "Dynamic Emotional and Neural Responses to Music Depend on Performance Expression and Listener Experience," PLoS ONE, www.plosone.org/articleinfo%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013812]


Psychology professor Ed Large designed the experiment that used FAU students’ brains to learn about our emotions.

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Pitcher Paul Davis coulD be getting ready to play minor league ball in the hopes of eventually playing for the historic Boston Red Sox. But he passed on that opportunity to come play for FAU, which began its first-ever title defense on Feb. 18.

Having won the Sun Belt Conference title for the first time in school history, the FAU baseball team heads into the new season with its head held high. The Owls finished the 2010 regular season 33-20 (23-9 Sun Belt), and although the team’s stint in the regional playoffs was cut short, head coach John McCormack expects nothing less than to return to Regionals this season.

“Of course I expect it,” said McCormack. “We have a lot of the same players returning from last season in addition to the depth of new talent, which makes us an even stronger team than last season.”

The team’s confidence and talent is what compelled Davis to come pitch for FAU. Hailing from Pensacola Junior College, Davis’ sophomore season in 2010 saw him go 10-3 with a 3.33 ERA and 88 strikeouts. This caught the attention of the Boston Red Sox, who drafted him in the 29th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft.

Davis didn’t sign.“He’s always wanted to pitch for FAU,” said pitching coach Jason Jackson. “That says a lot about where we

are as a team.”With a few exceptions, the Owls have the same team returning from last season. The big losses include

pitchers Mike Gipson and Ryan Bernal, both of whom were drafted to MLB — Gipson to the New York Yankees and Bernal to the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Owls who are returning this season will be playing with three captains, whom the team voted for. Infielder Raymond Church, outfielder Colby Gratton, and catcher Eddie Cassidy, all seniors, will lead the team.

With a .329 batting average last season, Cassidy was third best behind infielder Dan Scheffler (.371) and outfielder/pitcher Andy Mee (.378). Cassidy was also named to the All-Gainesville Regional team.

Gratton led the team in stolen bases with 12 and finished last season with a .286 batting average, five home runs and 27 runs batted in (RBIs). Gratton was also responsible for hitting the game-winning walk-off home run in game 2 of the three-game series against FIU that sealed the Owls’ conference title in 2010.

Church was one of four Owls to appear in all 61 games last season, along with Mee, Scheffler and shortstop Nick Delguidice. Church finished 2010 with a .392 batting average, 10 home runs and 46 RBIs, and he led the

Sun Belt Conference with 45 walks. On day 3 of the Sun Belt Tournament against FIU, Church recorded nine RBIs, which tied an FAU single-game record and broke the Sun Belt Tournament record for most in one game. He was also named to the All-Sun Belt Tournament team and the All-Gainesville Regional team.

“The players look up to all three of those guys,” said McCormack. “Cassidy is impeccable at fighting off injury and is inspirational to all of us. Gratton is very vocal and the pulse of the team. And Church is the quiet steady Eddie. When Church speaks, everyone is quiet and listens.”

Another of the team’s biggest assets is Scheffler, who made a big impact on the Owls’ success last season. He led FAU in most offensive categories, including home runs (15), RBIs (65), runs scored (67), slugging percentage (.696), on-base percentage (.482), and bases (156), and he led the Sun Belt Conference in doubles with 22. He was also a first team All-Sun Belt selection and a first team All-South Central Region selection.

On the mound, junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Garton was statistically the best pitcher behind Gipson. Garton went 7-3 with a 4.87 ERA and he threw 70 strikeouts while only walking 27 batters in 81.1 innings pitched. He also struck out 11 batters in a 12-3 victory over Troy last season, the most in one game by any FAU pitcher during the 2010 season.

Alongside Garton, junior right-handed pitcher Hugh Adams stands as another top pitcher for FAU. Adams, a relief pitcher, finished last year at 6-1 with a 7.09 ERA. He recorded 23 strikeouts and 16 walks in 38.1 innings. His six victories were tied for the most among FAU relievers alongside Bernal. At one point in the season, Adams had six consecutive appearances without giving up an earned run.

“Gipson is a big loss, unfortunately,” said Jackson. “However, pitchers like Garton and Everest are experienced players who can fill Gipson’s shoes.”

Newcomers to the team, their nerves may have settled a little as the Owls play the majority of the first half of their season at home. The team will play in Florida for the first two months of action and won’t make their first road trip until April.

“In college baseball, statistically the home team wins 66 percent of the time,” said McCormack. “We didn’t ask to have our schedule set up this way, but we’ll surely take it.”

Last season, FAU won 68 percent of its home games, going 21-10. On the road, the Owls went 11-10. Including postseason play, the Owls finished with 37 victories, their most since 2005.

With a plethora of returning seniors and the season already underway, FAU will look to build on that number in the hopes of claiming a second consecutive Sun Belt title.

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Sun Belt Conference with 45 walks. On day 3 of the Sun Belt Tournament against FIU, Church recorded nine RBIs, which tied an FAU single-game record and broke the Sun Belt Tournament record for most in one game. He was also named to the All-Sun Belt Tournament team and the All-Gainesville Regional team.

“The players look up to all three of those guys,” said McCormack. “Cassidy is impeccable at fighting off injury and is inspirational to all of us. Gratton is very vocal and the pulse of the team. And Church is the quiet steady Eddie. When Church speaks, everyone is quiet and listens.”

Another of the team’s biggest assets is Scheffler, who made a big impact on the Owls’ success last season. He led FAU in most offensive categories, including home runs (15), RBIs (65), runs scored (67), slugging percentage (.696), on-base percentage (.482), and bases (156), and he led the Sun Belt Conference in doubles with 22. He was also a first team All-Sun Belt selection and a first team All-South Central Region selection.

On the mound, junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Garton was statistically the best pitcher behind Gipson. Garton went 7-3 with a 4.87 ERA and he threw 70 strikeouts while only walking 27 batters in 81.1 innings pitched. He also struck out 11 batters in a 12-3 victory over Troy last season, the most in one game by any FAU pitcher during the 2010 season.

Alongside Garton, junior right-handed pitcher Hugh Adams stands as another top pitcher for FAU. Adams, a relief pitcher, finished last year at 6-1 with a 7.09 ERA. He recorded 23 strikeouts and 16 walks in 38.1 innings. His six victories were tied for the most among FAU relievers alongside Bernal. At one point in the season, Adams had six consecutive appearances without giving up an earned run.

“Gipson is a big loss, unfortunately,” said Jackson. “However, pitchers like Garton and Everest are experienced players who can fill Gipson’s shoes.”

Newcomers to the team, their nerves may have settled a little as the Owls play the majority of the first half of their season at home. The team will play in Florida for the first two months of action and won’t make their first road trip until April.

“In college baseball, statistically the home team wins 66 percent of the time,” said McCormack. “We didn’t ask to have our schedule set up this way, but we’ll surely take it.”

Last season, FAU won 68 percent of its home games, going 21-10. On the road, the Owls went 11-10. Including postseason play, the Owls finished with 37 victories, their most since 2005.

With a plethora of returning seniors and the season already underway, FAU will look to build on that number in the hopes of claiming a second consecutive Sun Belt title.

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You almost pulled it offTop 10 evil plans that almost worked

You know those edge-of-your-seat moments in movies when the hero is about to bite the

bullet? Or when the crazy villain is moments away from pulling off his master plan?

Those plans never quite work out.

The hero ends up thwarting the villain, unless he shows up in a sequel where the entire process will repeat itself.

To pay homage to the hard work that went into these dastardly plots, here is the UP’s list of the top 10 evil plans that almost worked:

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The Death Star — Star Wars IV, V, VIThe Death Star, the evil plan to top all evil plans. Why? Because Emperor Palpatine pulled enough resources to build a freakin’ spaceship planet ... two of them. The Death Star was literally a star of death— a giant space station that shot a giant laser beam, which caused entire planets to explode. If it weren’t for that pesky rebel alliance, he would have gotten away with it, too.

02A tale as old as time: Man creates national defense robots, robots become intelligent, robots annihilate man in a massive worldwide nuclear war. If it weren’t for John Connor and the resistance, Skynet would have ruled earth. Connor was such a big threat that they sent three different Terminators to three different points in time to ensure that he dies. Even then they couldn’t pull it off.

Skynet’s Terminators Terminator Trilogy

03This is a scenario that has been played out in movies since the golden age of the sci-fi flick in the ’50s. But none did it better than the aliens from Independence Day. An organized global attack on every major city worldwide was a good plan to destroy humanity, but you’d better check up on what happened with your recon ship 40 years ago. It may just come back to screw up your plans.

Aliens destroying EarthIndependence Day

04Tom Riddle was a bad seed. And when he went completely postal on a wizard-killing rampage he was on the cusp of complete domination. If only it weren’t for a baby named Harry Potter who would continue to be a thorn in his side for the next 17 years. And for all that time He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named would beg the question “What is love?”

Voldemort and the Death EatersHarry Potter Series

05After stealing the Ark from Indiana Jones, Belloq and the Nazis believed they would have complete power over the world once they opened it. It was no secret that Belloq was a big rival of Indy. He constantly stole treasures that rightly belonged to Jones — or a museum. Little did Belloq and the Nazis know that opening the Ark would melt their faces and cause Belloq to explode. Oops.

Dr. Rene Belloq opening the ark Raiders of the Lost Ark

06Although it is actually Gru who steals the moon, Victor is the evildoer who kidnaps Gru’s daughters and pilfers the shrunken moon from Gru. But what shrinks must grow back, and the moon eventually grew inside Victor’s ship, foiling his misguided plan.

Victor stealing the moonDespicable Me 07

Goldfinger has an obsession with gold, hence the name. So much so that he painted disobedient women with gold to kill them by skin suffocation. But his master plan was to smuggle gold out of several countries by disguising it as parts of his Rolls Royce. If it weren’t for James Bond and the “Grand Slam” sting operation, Goldfinger would have been the world’s richest man.

Auric Goldfinger’s gold smuggling operationGoldfinger

08A plan to intercept a nuclear warhead in transit from a breakaway Russian republic to the United Nations and hold the world ransom for $1 million sounds like a foolproof plan. But when Austin Powers is on the case, you can forget it. Powers managed to best Dr. Evil’s fembots with a striptease, and this in turn allowed him to get into the room where the Doomsday device resided. However, it was nice to see that Dr. Evil finally got his wish of sharks with laser beams on their heads in Goldmember.

Dr. Evil holding the world ransom Austin Powers 09

Jafar successfully took over Agrabah but, like most villains, got too greedy. The Genie turned Jafar into the most powerful genie in the universe. However, Aladdin bested him by making him a slave to the genie pot, and thus Agrabah was saved. Not sure how Jasmine’s father came to trust a guy with a glowing red eye snake scepter. Never trust a man with a scepter.

Jafar taking over Agraba Aladdin 10

Every night these genetically enhanced lab rats were bent on world domination. But every night they failed pretty miserably or ended up getting into some sort of strange predicament. But you’re a lab rat with a brain, what else do you have to do? Running on the wheel and cheese mazes 24/7 gets a little redundant. Then again so was the show. However, their persistence was impeccable and, had the network given them enough seasons, they may have very well ruled the world.

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In a marathon three-hour-long debate, candidates running for student body president and

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The six students answered questions from the UP, the audience and each other at the Tuesday, Feb. 15, event.

The rules were simple: three minutes to respond to most questions. According to Assistant Dean Terry Mena, the debate had one of the highest turnouts ever, with close to 100 people showing up.

Here are some questions the UP asked and the answers from the presidential candidates — current Student Body President Ayden Maher, current Boca campus Gov. Allison Gentry, and Christopher Puchferran.

UP: Chris, you mentioned that you want to improve transportation between and around campuses. How do you plan to achieve this and how much will it cost?

Puchferran: “I asked my friends, I went on the Breezeway and said: What would you change at FAU? What would you do to make it better? And a lot of people, you know, for the past fall and the spring before that semester I commuted to Davie and students said: How can we make it easier for students to get from the Boca campus to the Davie campus? Or wherever they have to be, you know, there’s a lot of different ideas. I would love to work with the Florida Department of Transportation to see if we can figure out a way to make it cheaper for students to take the Turnpike, to have the Sunpass registered as student, you know, those are just ideas. As far as cost, I can’t tell you how much it will cost … ”

UP: Ayden, last year you told the Palm Beach Post that you supported the 15-percent tuition and fees increase. But now you are saying

that you want to go to Tallahassee and lobby against the same thing you supported one year ago. Could you explain this?

Ayden Maher: “Florida Atlantic University is one of the cheapest institutions out of all 11 in the state. I thought the 15-percent increase would help us especially because especially at the end of this year, the federal stimulus money runs out, so what happens when you have that shortfall? That’s what the 15-percent increase was able to provide. Applications grew by 20,000, we are doubling the number of incoming freshmen from last year, and as part of the Board of Trustees I’ve been able to see the strategic planning and how we are hoping to expand the university so we needed that increase. Typically you can only increase from five to 10 percent, so I think it’s terrible if we would have continued and say, ‘We need another 15-percent increase’ — it would be too much of a burden for the students. I oppose all increase in fees because that 15 percent was just too much … ”

UP: Allison, in the recent University Budge t and Approp r i a t i ons Committee meetings, the ones that allocated millions of dollars to different organizations, you were mostly absent. How do you think this reflects on your current position and how do you think this reflects on the potential of being the next

student body president?

Allison Gentry: “It’s not part of the governor’s role to be a member of that committee, that’s why we have our senators and our campus treasurers that are in that committee and that’s their job. I knew a lot about what was being presented, like the agenda and everything like that, I talked to different people, like I talked to Bobby [Peterson] after he presented the Program Board budget, but it was not my responsibility to have to be there. During the day Saturday I was there because my schedule allowed for it, I also had family things going on that weekend as well.”

Did you see the debate?Candidates for the upcoming Student Government elections answered questions from the UP, the audience and each other.

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What: UnpluggedWhen: Tuesday, Feb. 22Where: Coyote Jacks Patio, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 12 to 1 p.m.Cost: FreeDetails: A live band will play original songs.More info: Devin Sieck, [email protected]

What: Spring FlingWhen: Tuesday, Feb. 22Where: Majestic Palm Room, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 6 to 10:30 p.m.Cost: FreeDetails: Lambda United hosts a spring dance on campus.More info: Christina Vosilla, [email protected]

What: Comedy ShowWhen: Tuesday, Feb. 22Where: Barry Kaye Auditorium, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 7 to 10 p.m.Cost: FreeDetails: Program Board hosts the monthly comedy featuring three well known comedians.More info: Carey Jones, [email protected]

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