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Finally, even if everyone consented to SG doing what they do with A&S money, administration has the final say. All House and Senate legislation must be approved by the Vice President of Student Affairs. The VPSA is an unelected administrator, and SG is a department of Student Affairs.

If the VPSA vetoes legislation, SG can’t override that veto. No SG statute gives them the power to override the VPSA’s veto.

Student Body President Ayden Maher’s opinion on that is, “I think SG should be autonomous, but SG should be held

in check. That way, no corrupt leader misallocates student money. [VPSA Charles] Brown doesn’t interfere that much. He’s made that quite clear.”

Boca House Speaker Boris Bastidas said, “It’s like we’re given this funding and authority, but we don’t have it … Like any SG official, I wish it was different, but it’s a waste of time to try to fight them.”

Well, the VPSA recently vetoed several bills that would’ve put a few interesting questions on the fall ballot, like whether or not parking fines should be lowered. So, thanks to the VPSA, you don’t even get to pointlessly vote on that.

It’s arguable that SG statutes 407.313

and 458.312 allow SG’s president and campus governors (respectively) to make legislation official without the VPSA’s approval. However, no known SG official has tried this.

You can cast your vote next week if you like, but remember this: It’ll have almost no effect on the outcome.

Go to fau.edu/sg to learn more about SG’s budget and their rules. On the left side, click either “Constitution & Statutes” or “SG Accounting & Budget Office.” Email the UP if you’ve got questions about their rules or budget, and we’ll look into them for you.

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By Chris PersaUd

A lmost everyone r u n n i n g f o r s t u d e n t

government office next week will win. One vote won’t make a difference.

The election on Sept. 13 and 14 is for members of the campus House of Representatives and Student Senate. Each campus has a House that votes on legislation affecting that campus, while Senate legislation

affects all campuses. Altogether, they help decide how over

$8.4 million of our money is spent every year.

But no matter what you do and no matter who you vote for, nearly all candidates will win a seat.

In SG legislative elections, candidates with the least amount of votes don’t win a position.

46 Boca House of Representatives seats are up for grabs. There will be 54 candidates, according to the SG elections chair

It’s similar with other Houses. Jupiter’s has 7 seats and 11 candidates. Treasure Coast’s has 6

seats and 8 candidates. SG doesn’t bear all the blame for this.

While FAU tends to have a small number of SG candidates, the pointlessness of voting is common in all democracies.

Your vote only decides an election if it’s a tie. Ties have a 50% chance of happening with two candidates and two voters (excluding yourself, the tie-breaker). The chance of a tie decreases as more voters and candidates are added.

When a few thousand voters are added, the chance of a tie happening goes below 1 percent.

Voting is pointless, especially at FAUSG elections are characteristic of democracy

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“Even if you don’t like any candidate, you have to pay their salary and anything else

they want to spend your money on.”

VIOLENT DEMOCRACY

One counterargument is that even though there is a small chance of breaking a tie there is still a chance. That’s true, but even so, democracy itself is a system where a few people spend everyone’s money without everyone’s consent.

Even if you don’t like any candidate, you have to pay their salary and anything else they want to spend your money on.

In case you’re wondering, you give SG

$11.96 per credit hour each semester in Activity and Services fees. So, if you’re taking a full-time course load of 12 credits (usually 4 classes), you give $143.52 to SG.

At most, 6,748 Boca students out of an eligible 21,351 cast a ballot last fall. That was about 1 in every 3 Boca students.

The other 2 didn’t explicitly consent to their A&S money being spent on things like the Student Body President’s tuition ($4,938), SG’s reserved parking spots ($3,415), the Greek

Life Office ($175,844)and the University Press ($81,178). Those numbers come from the 2011-12 A&S budget, which SG decides on every spring.

Even though some students didn’t vote, their money still went to that stuff whether they liked it or not

This is how democracy always works. Politicians take everyone’s money, with the help of the voting majority — a small fraction of people.


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Don’t ask questionsThe student body president and an FAU administrator helped kill four fall ballot choicesBy Chris Persuad

Thanks to Student Government’s top man and a top university official, students won’t get to vote on their opinions on Sept. 13 and 14

about parking fines, campus marijuana policy, gay rights and online course registration.

In July, the Boca campus’ House of Representatives passed four bills to put six questions about those issues on the campus’ fall election ballot (see box).

In August, Student Body President Ayden Maher vetoed those bills.

Student Body VP Robert Huffman told House members Maher did it because he thought the questions were a university-wide issue.

The Boca House votes on legislation that affects only its campus, while the Student Body Senate votes on legislation that affects all campuses. Therefore, Huffman said, Maher wanted the bills to go through the Senate.

The House overrode Maher’s veto, and the bills went to Vice President of Student Affairs, Charles Brown, who has the final say on SG legislation. SG is a department of Student Affairs, and Brown is the unelected administrator in charge of SA.

At the same time, the Senate passed three bills to put the questions about parking fines, gay rights and online course registration on all campus’ fall ballots. No marijuana bill was proposed.

Maher approved the bill about parking fines, but vetoed the rest. Brown vetoed the Senate’s parking bill and the House bills. There is no way to override Brown’s veto.

Maher told the UP that this time, he vetoed the bills because administration was already working on improving online course registration and adding sexual orientation to FAU’s anti-discrimination policy.

According to an email Maher received from FAU’s Chief Technology Officer Mehran Basiratmand, FAU will switch its email service from MyFAU to Gmail on Sept. 12, making MyFAU run faster. Basiratmand is FAU’s top computer technician.

As for sexual discrimination, Maher said “I vetoed it because SG isn’t in the business of writing [university] policy.”

He also thought it would be a “quagmire” if students voted against adding sexual orientation to university anti-discrimination policy, and it would “pit students against each other.”

Plus, he said FAU General Counsel David Kian sent an email saying administration will change the policy to include sexual orientation. Maher said he’d share the email with the UP, but hasn’t as of press time.

At a Sept. 2 Boca House meeting, Associate Dean of Students Terry Mena spoke on behalf of Brown on why Brown vetoed the bills. He repeated Maher’s reasonings.

House Speaker Boris Bastidas disagreed. “I was here

when Student Affairs said we should put a question on the ballot to say whether we should be a smoke-free campus, pitting smoking students against non-smoking students. So it seems like when they like the question … they use the results of the poll to justify changing the policy.”

The UP asked Brown what the consequences would be if the bills were passed. He said, “I asked the SG president to reconvene on this specific legislation based on the information I provided to him. It is my understanding they are moving forward in that regard.” He didn’t elaborate.

Mena said FAU’s Board of Trustees would vote on adding sexual orientation to the anti-discrimination policy at their next meeting. The BOT votes on university policy. Mena said there was no guarantee they would approve it.

He added that students with up to 20 grams of marijuana will no longer be permanently expelled from campus housing. Instead, they’ll be suspended from it for a year.

Bastidas said the House will bring up the questions in the spring, and they’d continue to be vetoed. “The [student body] president talked about making these university-wide, and he still vetoed it. And then Dr. Brown was talking about the same thing, and ... He still vetoed it. Next they’ll have a new reason. I promise you.”

Bastidas said the House brought up the bills in spring.

Fall elections starts Sept. 13 at 12 a.m., and ends 11:59 p.m. on the 14.

Over the past two months, the Boca House of Representatives and Student Senate passed several bills that would have asked students’ opinions on things like gay rights and lowering parking fines. However, Student Body President Ayden Maher and Vice President of Student Affairs Charles Brown vetoed the bills. Maher is student government’s top official, while Brown is head of the Division of Student Affairs, which oversees SG. Here are the yes/no questions students would’ve voted on if the House and Senate bills passed:

1. Do you support the lowering of parking fines?2. Do you support a warning system for parking citations in which a first violation would be cited without any fee charge?3. Do you support the technology fee being used to improve servers for class registration?4. Do you support changing FAU’s policy on Anti-Discrimination and Harassment to include sexual orientation as a protected class along with race, religion, and gender?*5. Do you agree that the sanctions imposed by Florida Atlantic University for the use and possession of marijuana should be no greater than the sanctions imposed for the use and possession of alcohol?*6. Should students face immediate suspension or removal from student housing for the use and possession of up to twenty grams of marijuana?*These questions would only be on the Boca campus ballot if the bills passed.

SG President Ayden Maher vetoed six fall ballot questions (see box). Photo by Christine Capozziello

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Only five students showed interest in being

FAU’s next mascot.

Three survived the application process.

Two won’t have to worry about paying for

classes, since the students of FAU will foot

their bill. The remaining “junior” will only have to

worry about paying for half of his classes, as he’ll be

working less hours than the two “senior” mascots.

The money’s coming out of student government’s

traditions account, according to Heather Bishara,

director of student government. The idea of this

unofficial account is to take student A&S fees, the

dollars students pay for each credit hour, to create

traditions at FAU.

A (paid) mascot, argued Bishara and student body

president Ayden Maher, makes tradition.

John Saxton didn’t know he would lose seven pounds when he volunteered for the job in Nov. 2010. He had little time to work out. He had little time for anything.“I was always exhausted, so I didn’t want to go to the gym,” he said. “I wanted to go to sleep.”It ended for him in March of this year, the end of the basketball season. And when Heather Bishara, director of student government, asked him to try out at the end of the summer, he decided against it. Saxton wanted to focus on his volunteer work, his 13 credits and being a resident assistant in the dorms.The new mascots will work as they’re needed, the seniors mostly covering athletic events and the junior sometimes working off campus and student

events. Non-FAU entities might have to pay for the owl’s appearances. Cheerleading Coach Heather Henderson said that she and Bishara, the two who are in charge of the mascots, have not discussed new rates. “The junior mascot idea was to have more opportunity to serve the FAU community and student groups,” Bishara said. “You have multiple opportunities to make it happen.”On-campus appearances will be free of charge, and the two Heathers are expecting many requests, hence hiring three mascots.But to be a great mascot, some responsibility is required, according to Bishara.“You want someone who knows what they’re doing, who’s engaged with the community, who’s

consistent,” she said, adding that a mascot has to maintain a 2.5 GPA. “They have to be responsible for being at events. They need to represent the university properly.”Henderson’s requirements are not as stringent.“[The mascots] have to be able to do certain things on their own,” she said. “They need to be able to dress themselves.”She didn’t mean the basics, either. The mascot suit is composed of: a head, lower body, upper body, arms, feet, boots, camel back and a mask. There is no air conditioning or fans in it, either, since “fans don’t help. They just blow hot air around,” according to Henderson.

Owl’s DemanDs

Until Fall 2011, FAU athletics has had to scramble to find a mascot to dance at events. Now, three students have been hired to be Owlsley all the time Photo illustration by Gideon Grudo

Continued on page 12

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By GiDeOn GruDO

Tails of owls and dollars


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SHAKING FEATHERS

Out of the three chosen, two get full tuition reimbursements in December, at the end of the football season. They are the senior mascots. The third dancer only gets half the prize (six hours’ worth), and will work part-time. He/she is the junior mascot. Saxton estimated that he worked about three hours an event, three events a week during busy weeks. Based on the two Heathers’ predictions, it is possible the mascot will work about nine hours a week.

John Saxton didn’t get paid when he did it, though, nor were the other, random dancers who volunteered throughout the years. In the past, an off-campus event would sometimes run $150, and sometimes not. If there was a fee, a chunk of it would go to the cheerleaders’ funds and another chunk would go to the mascot.

Henderson has been working with the mascot since 2004.

“FAU is slowly trying to make itself more traditional,” she said about having to pay for mascots, a situation she

hopes will change as the university grows in the future. “That’d be great, but for right now, that’s just how it is.”

Saxton didn’t mind. He said he never demanded or wanted any money. He’s “fine with it.”

Henderson said that demand for the mascot will be high this year with the new stadium opening.

“People ask for the mascot day in and day out,” Henderson said. “They don’t understand that it’s a kid sweating and working hard — he should be compensated for that.”

Here’s an estimated breakdown of the Owsley compensation:

Student Body President Ayden Maher leaned in and smiled after being

asked the names of the new mascots.

“The whole point is to keep it confidential,” he

said.Heather Henderson said she takes “a lot of pride in the secrecy of it. It’s very traditional for the mascot to be a secret.”Heather Bishara

said the power of the mascots lies in

their anonymity.“The mascot should

encourage spirit, should encourage tradition. These

people won’t be known, but they’ll make events memorable,”

she said. “They’re going to build tradition. That’s what gets me excited. That’s what makes me pretty optimistic about the program.”

FAU is creating tradition with the

new stadium and a record number of incoming freshmen. So the UP contacted the University of Florida, one of the state’s older and more traditional universities, to get a take on the matter of mascot secrecy.

One of their spirit coordinators explained that UF has six mascots currently: three

Alberts and three Albertas, the mascot duo. In the past, he said, there were five and five — a goal he hopes to meet again soon.

And, indeed, the identity of the mascots is kept secret, a mystery that the coordinator likened to Santa Claus. But there was one difference between the two schools’ representative dancers.

UF doesn’t pay its mascots.Maher argued that before setting up

for payment, no one wanted to be the mascot, “no one took pride in it.” He added that no one knew the mascot’s name, mistaking it for Mr. Owl and other misnomers.

“We had no pride,” he continued. “We had no pride in a lot of things.”

Like Henderson, Maher also hopes to

see the m a s c o t be a vo lunteer chalk-full of school spirit one day.

“I would hope a lot of the positions in the university would be volunteer,” he said. Asked about volunteering himself, he said, “I could not do this position without being paid. Being a mascot is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity — I think that’s pretty cool.”

John Saxton seems to already agree with that sentiment, having never received payment for his own work.

“You feel like you are the spirit of this school,” he said. “You’re at the steering wheel, deciding where that spirit goes.”

Owl’s pride

Owl’s benefits

Owlsley will sometimes crash the cafeteria or hop down the halls in an effort to raise school spirit. Photo by Gideon Grudo

Continued from page 11

Two Senior owSleyS get $2,208.70 in reimbursement. They each work 9 hours a week for 13 weeks. That’s $18.88/hour (rounded up to the nearest penny)

one Junior owlSey gets a $1,142.80 reimbursement. He works 4.7 hours a week for 13 weeks. That’s $18.88/hour (rounded up to the nearest penny)

To book Owsley for your own event, email Heather Bishara at [email protected]. Let her know the time, date, place and name of the event in which you’d like the angry owl to appears.

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SHAKING FEATHERS

FAU hopes to change campus culture — by paying a mascot

see the m a s c o t be a vo lunteer chalk-full of school spirit one day.

“I would hope a lot of the positions in the university would be volunteer,” he said. Asked about volunteering himself, he said, “I could not do this position without being paid. Being a mascot is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity — I think that’s pretty cool.”

John Saxton seems to already agree with that sentiment, having never received payment for his own work.

“You feel like you are the spirit of this school,” he said. “You’re at the steering wheel, deciding where that spirit goes.”

Owlsley has a new costume for 2011, chosen by student government and complete with a full body piece. Check it out at the next student event. Photo by Christine Capozziello

To book Owsley for your own event, email Heather Bishara at [email protected]. Let her know the time, date, place and name of the event in which you’d like the angry owl to appears.

[Chris Persaud assisted in reporting this article]Email GidEon Grudo

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opinion

Riots can be intense. Especially when they are about something ridiculous, like a sports team losing a championship (really, Canada? Is Hockey

that important?).Then there’s Los Angeles, who riots after the Lakers win (sorry, Canada).

Real riots are caused by political and social issues and can spark change in our society. Throughout history, there have been violently insane riots that led to war and political shifts. To highlight the craziest in our nation’s history, here’s the UP’s Top 10:

Get your riot gearTop 10 craziest mobs in American historyBy Mark GiBson

Thousands of unhappy political protesters gathered in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Then, on Aug. 28, a fight broke out between a protester and a police officer. That’s when things got real and a riot ensued.

10Democratic National Convention riotAug. 28, 1968Result: Seven people charged with conspiracy

It all started with students protesting the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Things got out of hand when the National Guard fired 67 rounds in over 13 seconds into the crowd. Some of the students shot were just walking past the protest to observe it.

Kent State MassacreMay 4, 1970Result: 4 killed, 9 injured

It was a small riot, but it eventually led to the American Revolution, which could be considered our greatest riot. It started with a civilian allegedly throwing a rock at a British soldier. In turn, the soldier fired into the crowd and thus — America was born. (Eventually.)

Boston MassacreMarch 5, 1770Result: 5 dead, 11 injured

Anarchist group, The Direct Action Network, led a group of activists to essentially take over Seattle and shut down the meeting of The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference. The conference was to decide the future of global capitalism, and some people just weren’t too happy about it.

The Battle in SeattleNov. 30, 1999Result: 600 people arrested

43,000 World War I veterans and protesters gathered in Washington D.C. to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. In a fit of panic, President Herbert Hoover sent in the military, which included 500 infantry, 500 cavalry, and six battle tanks. What started as a protest, looked more like a battle zone.

Bonus ArmyJuly 28, 1932Result: 4 killed, 1,017 injured

Police arrested a black man for improperly passing them on the highway. People who lived across from the precinct reportedly saw an unconscious man being dragged into the building. Rumors circulated that that man died in the jail, and sparked a week long series of race riots.

Newark RiotsJuly 12 - 17, 1967Result: 26 killed, hundreds injured

Attica prison was no walk in the park. Prisoners were allowed one shower a week and one roll of toilet paper a month. With more than shoddy living conditions and mistreatment, the inmates became violent. After a prisoner was killed trying to escape, the inmates revolted in demand for better living conditions.

Attica prison Sept. 9-13, 1971Result: 48 inmates and 9 hostages killed

Rodney King, a black man who was on parole, led police on a high speed chase through Los Angeles. Once he was captured, the officers beat him severely. It was captured on camera — the whole thing. The officers were charged with assault and excessive force, but were all acquitted. The verdict caused an uproar in the Black and Hispanic communities and led to extremely violent riots across the city.

Rodney King riots April 29 - May 4, 1992Result: 53 killed, 2,000 injured, $1 billion in damages

A highway patrol officer arrested a black man for drunk driving. A crowd began to form around the scene, and once the officer arrested the brother and mother, who were also in the car, a riot ensued. Five days of riots in the Watts section of LA broke out between the races and police. It would be the biggest riot in LA until the Rodney King incident.

Watts RiotsAug. 11- 15, 1965Result: 34 killed, 2,000 injured, 4,000 arrested

During the Civil War draft, men could pay $300 to be removed from the list. But, due to poor economy during war time, the growing lower class couldn’t afford to pay. When the draft lottery began, extremely violent riots shortly followed. For three days, New York was a war zone as a Civil War broke out during the Civil War.

New York City Draft RiotsJuly 13 - 16, 1863Result: 2,000 killed, 8,000 injured01

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Illustration courtesy of MindfulWalker

Illustration courtesy of Marion Doss

(http://www.smithsonianmag.com)

(http://www.kentstate1970.org/)

(http://www.bostonmassacre.net/)

(http://www.pbs.org)

(http://www.npr.org)

(http://www.thirteen.org/)


(http://www.time.com)

(http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives)

(http://www.press.uchicago.edu)

Email Mark GiBsonat [email protected]


opinion

Riots can be intense. Especially when they are about something ridiculous, like a sports team losing a championship (really, Canada? Is Hockey

that important?).Then there’s Los Angeles, who riots after the Lakers

win (sorry, Canada). Real riots are caused by political and social issues and can spark change in our society.

Throughout history, there have been violently insane riots that led to war and political shifts. To highlight the craziest in our nation’s history, here’s the UP’s Top 10:

Get your riot gearTop 10 craziest mobs in American historyBy Mark GiBson

Thousands of unhappy political protesters gathered in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Then, on Aug. 28, a fight broke out between a protester and a police officer. That’s when things got real and a riot ensued.

10Democratic National Convention riotAug. 28, 1968Result: Seven people charged with conspiracy

It all started with students protesting the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Things got out of hand when the National Guard fired 67 rounds in over 13 seconds into the crowd. Some of the students shot were just walking past the protest to observe it.

Kent State MassacreMay 4, 1970Result: 4 killed, 9 injured

It was a small riot, but it eventually led to the American Revolution, which could be considered our greatest riot. It started with a civilian allegedly throwing a rock at a British soldier. In turn, the soldier fired into the crowd and thus — America was born. (Eventually.)

Boston MassacreMarch 5, 1770Result: 5 dead, 11 injured

Anarchist group, The Direct Action Network, led a group of activists to essentially take over Seattle and shut down the meeting of The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference. The conference was to decide the future of global capitalism, and some people just weren’t too happy about it.

The Battle in SeattleNov. 30, 1999Result: 600 people arrested

43,000 World War I veterans and protesters gathered in Washington D.C. to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. In a fit of panic, President Herbert Hoover sent in the military, which included 500 infantry, 500 cavalry, and six battle tanks. What started as a protest, looked more like a battle zone.

Bonus ArmyJuly 28, 1932Result: 4 killed, 1,017 injured

Police arrested a black man for improperly passing them on the highway. People who lived across from the precinct reportedly saw an unconscious man being dragged into the building. Rumors circulated that that man died in the jail, and sparked a week long series of race riots.

Newark RiotsJuly 12 - 17, 1967Result: 26 killed, hundreds injured

Attica prison was no walk in the park. Prisoners were allowed one shower a week and one roll of toilet paper a month. With more than shoddy living conditions and mistreatment, the inmates became violent. After a prisoner was killed trying to escape, the inmates revolted in demand for better living conditions.

Attica prison Sept. 9-13, 1971Result: 48 inmates and 9 hostages killed

Rodney King, a black man who was on parole, led police on a high speed chase through Los Angeles. Once he was captured, the officers beat him severely. It was captured on camera — the whole thing. The officers were charged with assault and excessive force, but were all acquitted. The verdict caused an uproar in the Black and Hispanic communities and led to extremely violent riots across the city.

Rodney King riots April 29 - May 4, 1992Result: 53 killed, 2,000 injured, $1 billion in damages

A highway patrol officer arrested a black man for drunk driving. A crowd began to form around the scene, and once the officer arrested the brother and mother, who were also in the car, a riot ensued. Five days of riots in the Watts section of LA broke out between the races and police. It would be the biggest riot in LA until the Rodney King incident.

Watts RiotsAug. 11- 15, 1965Result: 34 killed, 2,000 injured, 4,000 arrested

During the Civil War draft, men could pay $300 to be removed from the list. But, due to poor economy during war time, the growing lower class couldn’t afford to pay. When the draft lottery began, extremely violent riots shortly followed. For three days, New York was a war zone as a Civil War broke out during the Civil War.

New York City Draft RiotsJuly 13 - 16, 1863Result: 2,000 killed, 8,000 injured01

04

05

03

02

06

07

08

09

Illustration courtesy of MindfulWalker

Illustration courtesy of Marion Doss

(http://www.smithsonianmag.com)

(http://www.kentstate1970.org/)

(http://www.bostonmassacre.net/)


(http://www.npr.org)

(http://www.thirteen.org/)


(http://www.time.com)

(http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives)

(http://www.press.uchicago.edu)

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By Ryan CoRtes

Most of FAU’s athletes don tattoos — lots of them. The point guard on the basketball team, for example, got his first tattoo when

he was 14 years old. Since then, Ray Taylor’s gotten 14 tattoos, which cover most of his arms and stomach. And on his chest is a word bubble with his trademark saying: Oh!

Defensive end Jamere Johnson, from FAU’s football team, believes that nearly 75% of his teammates are marked. His teammate, safety Demetrius Williamson, has a mural of an entire city inked onto his body. And wide receiver DeAndre Richardson has so many tattoos that he’s lost count.

The UP combed the locker rooms in order to find the best and baddest tattoos that the athletes of FAU sport.

To see all the tattoos mentioned, go to: upressonline.com.

Tat,tat,tat it upInk on the field

INKOLOGYFAU has studied tattoos since Fall 2010 — here’s the latest:

The popularity of ink isn’t unique to the FAU’s sports department, according to a campus study about tattoos.

Assistant professor of art history, Karen Leader, is the principal investigator in a study on tattoos. According to Leader, nearly 1,200 students answered questions about their tattoos — students of different gender, race, religion and political leaning.

“We had people respond from every major in the university,” Leader said. According to the study’s website, a deeper meaning could be found behind the tattoos. “With the survey and the events leading up to it, we started a conversation about tattooing as something much more than a fashionable trend.” One of the main questions Leader and her study will attempt to answer, is what the perception of tattoos will be in 5, 10 or 15 years. “I think young people are getting bigger tattoos than, say, people like me. But, I mean you watch a basketball game and you can’t get away from it,” Leader said. [source: storiesontheskin.org]

Ray TayloR:He lifts up his shirt and shows off his favorite tat. On Taylor’s stomach are the words “Hungry and Humble,” outlined in red ink and smoke, with a basketball in the middle, linking Hungry to Humble.“Basically, that’s how I live my basketball life,” Taylor said about his favorite piece of ink. “Because humble, that’s how you have to stay if you wanna get better, and playing for coach Jarvis, you don’t have any choice but to be humble and hungry.”On his chest is a tattoo of a word bubble, with “Oh!” inside of it. He says it all the time when he plays, so it’s kind of a trademark.“If I had a mic on while I was playing, anytime I beat somebody, I’ll say it,” Taylor said. “Oh! I say it a lot.”

Email Ryan CoRtEsat [email protected]

Red Shirt Junior Demetrius Williamson has a tattoo of a globe on his right shoulder. Photo by Charles Pratt

DemeTRius Williamson:The world is on his shoulder — figuratively.At the top of Williamson’s right arm is a globe tattoo, symbolizing the weight of the world burdening his shoulder at all times. Of his 11 tattoos, it’s not even his favorites. That would be the one on the inside of his arm, a memorial of Daytona Beach where he came from. Behind a slate of smoke are the words “Daytona Beach,” with the city’s area code, 386, inside of it, next to buildings from the city.“Every time I look at it,” Williamson said as he admired the art on his arm,“It just takes me back.”

DeanDRe RichaRDson:There are so many tattoos on his body that he can’t remember how many there are. And, for a while, his teammates didn’t even know he had any.“I had all these tattoos before I came here, so most people didn’t know but as soon as I took my shirt off, [they were] like ‘dang, you’re tatted up,’” Richardson said.His favorite tattoo is of a cross intertwined with praying hands on his right arm. The names of his two sons, Drayvon and Jayden, are on the bottom of it.“After I got this tattoo, well, the rest of my body looked plain,” Richardson said. “So I just started adding more.”

JameRe Johnson:Even though he’s 6’4” and 270 pounds, Johnson answers every question with “Sir” or “Ma’am.” He even waited until he was 21 years old, respecting Mom’s wishes, to get his first tattoo.Now 22 years old, he hasn’t stopped getting inked up. Catching up for lost time, he now has 11 tattoos.His favorite is a pair of guns on his left arm, Texas six shooters, which represent home for Johnson.


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P I Z Z A & P L A YWhere: Student Union Lobby, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 12 to 3 p.m.Details: Students are invited to enjoy free pizza and games.Lauren Adamo [email protected]

U N P L U G G E DWhere: Coyote Jacks, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 12 to 1 p.m.Details: A live band will perform original pieces.Alicia Keating [email protected]

T H E M E LT I N G P OTWhere: BBQ Pitts, Housing Lawn, Boca campusWhat time: 6:30 to 11 p.m.Details: Students are invited to enjoy free food at the BBQ pitts.Felicia Falden [email protected]

M OV I E N I G H TWhere: Majestic Palm Room, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 8 to 10 p.m.Details: Multicultural Programming hosts a screening of Inferno Affairs.Marie J Dumas [email protected]

DJ HERO: BATTLING SICKLE CELLWhere: Recreation Center, Boca campusWhat time: 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.Details: Alpha Phi Omega hosts a late night party.Raven Davis [email protected]

SUSHI ROLLING WORKSHOPWhere: Live Oak D, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 12 to 2 p.m.Details: Multicultural Programming will host a workshop to teach students how to roll sushi.Carlton O’Neal [email protected]

STATE OF UNIVERSITY ADDRESSWhere: Lifelong Learning 139, Boca campusWhat time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.Details: A guest speaker will speak on current issues and propose solutions for the University community.Joelle Hutchings [email protected] Rattler [email protected]

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HURRAY FOR LITERACYWhere: Majestic Palm Room, Student Union, Boca campusWhat time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.Details: Alpha Nu Omega will host a presentation on literacy and Christianity.Theresa Etienne [email protected]


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My name is Adam Zalka, and I am a FAU Alumni who wants to celebrate the opening of our new stadium by raising $1,000,000 in Federal Student Aid for at least 700 deserving FAU students and families before FAU’s first ever HOME GAME on October 15th! This ALUMNI HELPING FURTURE ALUMNI PROGRAM will provide students and/or parents with an extra form of much needed student financial aid.

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We look forward to providing students and par-ents with this additional financial aid resource by spreading love and awareness throughout the FAU community.

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