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TuesdayMarch 8, 2011

Volume CXXXIssue 7

During winter break, the Facilities Department com-pleted installation of the solar powered water heat-ing system on the roof of the Student Center.

The construction went with-out a hitch and the fully com-pleted system includes 28 solar panels, connected to two 500 gallon tanks. These tanks feed into a gas-powered water heater tank which then supplies hot water to the kitchen and wash-rooms of the SC.

As part of the construction effort, the roof was also re-insu-lated, accomplishing two con-struction projects at one time and ensuring the SC remains energy efficient.

The solar panels on the roof are rated for 130 mile per hour winds, so students don’t need to worry about them blowing off and causing danger to the people below.

The feeding system has fail-safes that shut it down when the water is too hot and mixing valves that pump hot water into the system when it is too cold, to prevent thermal shock to the equipment. These measures protect the $150,000 investment.

All the systems are moni-tored from a computer in the Facilities Department, mean-ing that this system requires almost no maintenance as sensors will inform them if anything is a miss.

A set of four panels can

raise the water to tempera-tures exceeding 180 degrees Fahrenheit (the required temperature for dishwasher hygiene) in just one cycle, making this system highly effi-cient. With seven banks of four panels, large amounts of water can be heated up quickly.

Ward Mead of the Facilities Department has said that there have been a few days where the water exceeded 180 degrees Fahrenheit and that they had to mix cold water in, to lower the temperature for usage. Considering that their aim was to heat water to around 1 4 0

degrees Fahrenheit, this system has exceeded expecta-tions by a long shot.

This water then flows through copper pipes that are heavily insulated with PVC, preventing heat loss. The piping system also includes pressure relief valves in the event that the water vaporizes

on extremely hot days.The facilities depart-

ment has already noticed a drop in the gas consumption of the water heating system in the SC, but will need a full year’s worth of numbers to come up with a report that will advise the school admin-istration on whether to deploy this sys tem

e l s e -where as well.

Depending on the success of this system, the Housing and Residence life department might choose to implement the same system in the student village where it will store hot

water from the day to sup-ply to almost a thou-sand students.

On Thursday, Feb. 24, between 2 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., suspects allegedly vandalized various areas within Embry-Riddle, which caused departments to make several fast repairs as part of a safety concern.

Among the vandalized areas were Wood Hall and the bridge that connects the Housing build-ing to across Richard Petty Boulevard.

According to Kasi Bartsch, ERAU Crime Prevention Coordinator, McKay/Doolittle trash cans were kicked over, a part of the bridge that leads to Adams second floor was “yanked and ripped off,” eleva-tor wires were interfered with and it is believed that the sus-pects then proceeded to Wood Hall where three fire extinguish-ers were stolen and exits signs were tampered with.

Bartsch also stated that the suspects continued to destroy hallway creations made RAs/RDs. Tree branches were pulled down, trash bags full of garbage were also found thrown around as well as vomit outside of the footbridge that leads the Safety Department to believe that the suspects were intoxicated while vandalizing ERAU’s property.

The primary concern to

ERAU’s Housing and also the Safety Department are the life-safety issues. “Someone could have been hurt, for example, if someone was making popcorn in the microwave and it burned and there was no fire extin-guisher available, someone’s life could have been at risk,” the Assistant Director of Housing and Residence Life stated.

Housing also stated that over 500 students use that bridge per day, amounting to over 2000 times and the railings that were snapped, are designed to catch someone’s fall while people are walking or skateboarding over.

Likewise, Bartsch said that when the elevator wires were tampered with, it could have “posed danger for any person inside wanting to use it.”

According to Bartsch, the Student Village contains several cameras, however, they are at “vulnerable” areas that did not capture the scene due to their placement. It is not yet decided whether more cameras will be installed or not.

Safety is beginning their investigation by questioning students that reportedly entered the upstairs bridge entrance to the Student Village, which is gathered by the Eagle Card access reports that tells one when and where each per-son swiped his card to enter a building on campus.

Bartsch also stated that the individual[s] found responsible would be subject to a judicial hearing and/or to the Dean of Students and a collective panel.

According to a representative of the Housing Department, if no one confesses of the vandal-ism, the cost of expenses made for repairs and replacements will be evenly divided for all residents in Wood Hall who will have to pay the fine, whether innocent or not.

Kevin Mannix, Director of Campus Safety, said he was extremely upset over the vandal-ism, especially after the SGA Respect Campaign. “This is very serious, there was damage to our facilities, trees and there’s a cost incurred to repair, it also com-promises safety,” Mannix said.

“Fortunately, it does not hap-pen a lot in our campus,” Mannix said when asked if ERAU wit-nessed vandalism often.

According to Bartsch, on the day of the crime-scene, Safety was short staffed and the person who was supposed to monitor the Village area was covering somewhere else.

So far, fire extinguishers, ele-vator wires, and the bridge have had temporary fixes made to them due to safety concerns.

Anyone with more infor-mation regarding the van-dalism is advised to contact Housing or Safety.

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Touch-N-Go Productions pres-ents comedians Kyle Dunnigan and John Bush for Friday Night Laughs. Dunnigan and Bush will be on stage at 8 p.m. on Friday night in the Student Center. For more information on future events or getting involved with Touch-N-Go, visit their website at touch-n-go.org.

Friday Night Laughs

Embry-Riddle investigates vandalismPriyanka Kumar

Copy Editor

Solar panels keep ERAU “Going Green”Peter Tan

Staff Reporter

EaglesFM is following in the spirit of April Fools Day by pre-senting musician jamming on the Flight Deck. If you would like an opportunity to showcase your talent, listen to EaglesFM on 99.1 FM or visit their office, SC 111, or online at www.eaglesfm.com.

EaglesFM Open Mic April Fools

Event

Touch N Go Productions will be hosting an Animal Show on the Flight Deck today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Animal Show will consist of a monkey, chincilla, boa, turtle, possum and others to pet and hold. Visit touch-n-go.org for more infor-mation on upcoming Touch- N-Go events.

Animal Show on Flight Deck

The Honors Program Distinguished Speaker Series will host Fabien Cousteau on Wednesday in the IC Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Cousteau is the star of the PBS series Ocean Adventure and gandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. He will be presenting on “The Great Ocean Adventure” will contain ample video footage and is free and open to the public.

Ocean Adventure Star

to speak

Career Services will be hosting a Lockheed Martin Information Session tonight from 5:45 p.m. until 7:15 p.m. in W 308. Recruiters will be present at the event and will be available to answer questions.

Lockheed Martin Info Session

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Executive BoardEditor-in-Chief ....................... Tim KramerManaging Editor ................... Aaron CraigNews Editor ...................... Costas SivyllisBusiness Manager ............... Matt StevensPhotography Editor .............. Austin CoffeyAdvertising Manager ...... Alena Thompson

Editorial StaffFront Editor ............................ Tim KramerCampus Editor ................. Ainsley RobsonSGA Editor ............................. Bhakti PatelStudent Life Editor ......... Alena ThompsonOpinions Editor.............. Lanie WagenblastAutomotive Feature ........... Darick AlvarezSports Editor .......................... Aaron Craig Comics Editor ................. Tilford Mansfield

Editorial Staff Cont.Entertainment .................... Nick Candrella Copy Editor....................... Priyanka Kumar

Staff AdvisorAaron Clevenger, Director of Student Activities and Campus Events

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Game Show Night features Greeks

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, STARTING at 8 p.m. in the John Paul Riddle Student Center, Touch-n-Go Productions presented Game Show Night for the Embry-Riddle student population. The theme this year was “Survey Says,” similar to Family Feud. Students participated for over the night for different cash allotments of five, 15 and 50 dollars. The big winner of the night was team Phi Delta Theta who bet out all others. In total, the team members of team of Phi Delta Theta each earned the 50 dollar per player top prize.

NICK CANDRELLA/ AVION

Eco Car prepares for competition

STUDENTS OF THE ECO-EAGLES, an Embry-Riddle student organization, continue preparations for the “EcoCar The Next Challenge.” The Eco-Eagles have been continually working on these preparations for the past three years. In total, the competition has 16 entries including Embry-Riddle’s vehicle, from Universities from across north America who are all trying to create the most fuel efficient car, while keeping its initial performance, safety and consumer appeal. The Eco-Eagles were donated a Chevrolet EcoCar, that they have since transformed. The vehicle is currently powered by a biodiesel engine and two electric motors combined to a powerful Li-Ion battery. The car will be sent to Ann Arbor, MI to participate in a last round of competitions before the conclusion of the overall competition that will take place during the month of June ending in Washington D.C.

ANTOINE DAUGNY/AVION

Greek Life gathers for some competitionEach Spring, the Social

Greek Community gathers for some friendly competition between chapters. This year, Greek Week took place the week of Feb. 28. Each of the chapters showed up for a week of events that started around 5:30 p.m. each day.

A listing of the events includ-ed a chariot race, a cardboard boat race in the campus pool, a relay race, Tug-o-War, and several different mini chal-lenges from the NBC show “Minute To Win It.”

The Greek Community also participates in a Philanthropy event that would benefit the local chapter of the American Red Cross.

Campus participation and spirit was also calculated through the attendance of the week’s Touch-N-Go movie on Thursday Night.

According to Shane Ghivizzani, the organizer of this year’s Greek Week, “ERAU Greeks raised 4,275 items for the American Red Cross.” The items were a com-bination of non-perishable food collection and a clothing drive. All items will be used by the American Red Cross to help individuals in the local community that are struck

with a personal disaster.The week showed to be a

success, “It seems that all the Greek’s thoroughly enjoyed the Greek Week events,” Ghivizzani add.

The changes in the planning from last year allowed for the Tug-o-War event to continue after last year’s incidents. The changes that were made to the event was that there would be no digging of placement holes prior to the pull and that fraternities would pull against fraternities and like wise the sororities would be pulling against sororities. This change in the event planning resulted in no injuries according to Ghivizzani.

The showing of organiza-tional pride of each respec-tive chapter, pointed out by Ghivizzani, led to the enjoy-ment for the Greek commu-nity.

Of the events, “everyone always has their favorite event but most people enjoy the classic events such as the chariot race and boat race which involves the competi-tors to build their own chariot and boat to compete with,” Ghivizzani added.

For the weeks events, the overall winning fraternity recognition went to Phi Delta Theta, while the overall sorority winner was Sigma Sigma Sigma.

Ainsley RobsonCampus Editor

THIS PAST WEEK THE Greek community gathered to celebrate chapter pride and friendly competition through a week long event of different competitions each day. In the end the big winners of the week were Phi Delta Theta for the fraternities and Sigma Sigma Sigma for the sororities.

NICK CANDRELLA, MAY CHAN, AINSLEY ROBSON/AVION

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A3The Avion, March 8, 2011 Student Government

Shalom! My name is Jonathan Rauch and I’m a junior here at Embry-Riddle. I’m cur-rently studying Business Administration, with a concentration in Air Transportation and minors in Aviation Law and Flight. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, but my hometown is Oyster Bay Cove, New York, a suburb of New York City. I’m the oldest of three boys (all with first names starting with J!) and grew up in a house that was both Jewish and Catholic (yes, that means Hanukkah & Christmas!). Although I have been flying since I was 13 and have a private and instrument rating, my dream is to go to a prestigious law school following my studies here at Embry-Riddle in aspiration of becoming an aviation lawyer. Outside of school, I love ice hockey, tennis, lacrosse, fly-ing, skiing, spending time on vacation (I love the Hamptons!), sushi, and watches!

Before coming to Embry-Riddle as an undergraduate student, I came here twice for Summer Academy and had the opportunity to have my flight experience and solo in an Embry-Riddle aircraft.

Currently in my fourth semester, I have had the privilege of serving on the Student Finance Board in the Student Government Association. Although I’ve only been in this position a short time, I have learned so much about various aspects of the school. I’m proud to represent the College of Business on the Finance board, as I’m the only board member from the COB. In addition to contributing my skills as a business major, I really wanted to be on the Finance Board because I felt I could make an impact specifically for the club sports I represent on the Club Sports Council. From student organizations, to divisions, to commit-tees, to forums, being in the SGA has given me

so many opportunities to expand my knowl-edge and understanding about the great things Embry-Riddle has to offer. I’ve met so many great people and have made friendships that I know will extend past our responsibilities as members of the SGA.

Outside the SGA I am a member of many stu-dent organizations. I’m currently the treasurer of the Ice Hockey Club, which has become a huge part of my life here at school. I’ve been playing hockey since high school; playing in front of a packed crowd of our amazing fans and playing every game with passion is moti-vation for not only me, but the whole team. I’m also the Vice President of the Student Alumni Association and Treasurer of both the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and Club Sports Council. In school, some of my accomplishments include being a three-time Dean’s Lists recipient, a member of the Honors Program, a finalist for the Embry-Riddle College of Business Freshman of the Year 2010, and a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

Being in the SGA, I realize that we are in the position to best serve the students. And the best way for us to get a better understanding of the way you feel is to tell us! Whether you see me in my SGA polo, or whatever I may be wearing, please don’t hesitate to come ask questions or make suggestions. I urge you all to get involved on campus, in any way you can. It’s the best decision I’ve made in my time here at Embry-Riddle, and it has opened the door to so many opportunities, friends, and experiences I’m grateful to have had. I leave you with a quote by “The Great One,” Wayne Gretzky who said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Jonathan Rauch

Student Finance Board

JuniorAviation Business Administration

Get to know your SGA

The SGA/ERRSA Residence Life Forum was held on Wednesday, March 2 in the Student Village Atrium and was a resounding success.

The Student Government Association sponsored refresh-ments. It had the highest atten-dance for an ERRSA event in over a year, with 114 stu-dents, Embry-Riddle Resident Student Association and SGA Representatives in atten-dance. Students were given the opportunity to direct ques-tions and concerns to the Housing and Residence Life Central Staff panel, which consisted of: the Director of Housing and Residence Life, Tom Hilgers; Associate Director of Administration and Operations, Noel Fegumps; Associate Director of Residence Life, Kristen Getka; Assistant Director of Residence Life, Meagan Elsberry and Monica Saldarriaga; Campus Safety Officer Jamie Gonzalez; ERRSA President Peter Aguero

and SGA Representative Jay Palicha. Some of topics of dis-cussion included the prospect of a new residence hall where McKay Hall currently stands and the possibility of Greek Housing.

The Housing Department also discussed future plans and improvements. For example, the department is inquiring into incorporating cook tops in O’Connor and changing the flooring in Stimpson. Due to insufficient funds for a computer lab, the old exercise room in the Village will be transformed into a game room before the start of next semester. To help com-pensate for such improvements, Housing costs are expected to increase by 1.5 percent.

In regards to housing arrange-ments, co-ed housing is available only at the Chanute Complex at this time, single housing is only available in Chanute and O’Connor Halls, and Summer Housing will be in McKay Hall. As for the pet policy, residents can have fish in a tank no larger than ten gallons in volume.

Safety is a continued prior-ity of the Housing Department.

The restricted access to Residence Halls is a tradeoff of convenience for security. To help reduce the threat of theft, Housing will be installing cam-eras and will also be providing free locks to students During Bike Week.

The ERRSA office has added 121 new DVDs and will soon purchase an X-Box 360 along with more board games for resi-dents to enjoy. In addition, there is now a printer available in the ERRSA office for residents to use. Although there is no print-ing limit, residents should not abuse this service.

ERRSA and SGA have been working on projects together such as getting a new volleyball pit behind the Student Village and constructing an outdoor lounge on the Doolittle lawn.

Evidently, the forum was a great success: in addition to learning more about ERRSA and SGA and the services they provide, residents had their questions and concerns addressed by the Housing and Residence Life full-time staff, and had a platform for sharing their suggestions.

Looking for a way to get involved on campus? The Progress Committee of SGA is a committee of students who work on projects geared toward improving the campus. The projects we work on come from student suggestions as well as brainstorming within the committee.

The students on the Progress Committee have a passion to better the Daytona Beach cam-pus, and work with different university departments to plan and fund projects.

Participation in the Progress Committee is not limited to just SGA representatives; in fact we highly encour-age anyone and everyone to get involved. Anyone can attend our meetings, which are held Thursdays at 12:45 p.m. in the Endeavor Conference room.

You can also contribute by dropping suggestions in the Suggestion Boxes found around campus. We are always looking for new ways to

improve student life and the Daytona Beach campus.

This semester the Progress Committee has many different project goals. The projects are of all different sizes, and some take longer than others. Here are some descriptions of projects we are currently working on:

•Improving Dining Services: The goal of this project is to bring student concerns to Sodexo to improve dining ser-vices. This semester we have had suggestion tables out on multiple occasions to collect student comments.

•Midnight Café: The goal of this project is to bring back the Midnight Café at Propellors, which re-opens Propellors from midnight till 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.

•MATLAB: MATLAB is a programming application used by many engineering students in their higher-level classes. The goal of this project is to integrate MATLAB into the engineering curriculum earlier on so that students will be bet-ter prepared for their upper level classes.

•Increase Awareness of

Smoking Areas: The goal of this project is to increase awareness of smoking areas, and eventually have covered smoking areas.

•Outdoor Lounge: The goal of this project is to build an outdoor lounge by Doolittle with a gazebo and garden area for students to enjoy.

•Storage Space for Student Organizations: The goal of this project is to get storage space for student organiza-tions either on-campus or in the vicinity.

•24-Hour Lab: The goal of this project is to find a 24-hour lab aside from the C-lab, which offers all software that students could possibly need. As a result of upcoming con-struction on campus, C-lab is going to be demolished with alphabet soup, possibly in the next year or so; hence a new location is needed for a 24-hour lab.

•COB Professional Advertisements: The goal of this project is to increase awareness of the COB televi-sion as a means of advertise-ment to professional business organizations for their events.

Jay PalichaResidence Life Rep.

SGA Progress CommitteeEmily Cook

College of Engineering

Residence Life Forum huge success

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On Saturday, Feb. 26, the Lambda Mu Chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity teamed up with the Heritage Preservation and Trust of Volusia County to restore the first building ever built on the Daytona Beach peninsula: the Lillian Place. The Lillian Place has most recently served as a Bed & Breakfast, and was first constructed in 1884 by Laurence Thompson.

Upon first constructing the Italianate High Victorian house received a lot of criticism, due to the home’s unstable loca-tion, no more than a sand dune

at the time. It was later con-verted into a Bed & Breakfast, but, for the last couple years remained abandoned.

The Pi Kappa Alpha worked hard alongside other volun-teers to clear the water front property which was illegally serving as a homeless camp-ground. Bag after bag was brought up from the trashed shore and, after hours of work, the beach was finally clean.

But the work was far from done. The trails leading around the house had been long since overgrown. The Pikes spent the rest of the day tearing down trees and re-carving the paths.

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Beach Ave. It is amazing what a fresh coat of paint, a revitalized landscape, and a clean yard can do for a building.

From now on this build-ing will serve as museum for Daytona Beach’s early history and will also feature a room for rent by the night for those history buffs who would like a luxurious stay in a piece of Daytona history.

Pike has helped spread a positive image of the students at Embry-Riddle and will con-tinue to work alongside this agency on future projects.

Thanks to the Gentlemen of Pi Kappa Alpha, this piece of history, as well as many more to come, has found a new life.

Pi Kappa Alpha takes a hand in history

Mitchell SadlerPi Kappa Alpha

THE PI KAPPA ALPHA Fraternity at Embry-Riddle partnered with the Heritage Presentation and the Trust of Volusia Country to restore the first house ever built on the Daytona beach Peninsula. After cleaning, painting and landscaping, the house is now a museum of Daytona history.

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A7The Avion, March 8, 2011 Automotive Feature

“It’s just a car,” some people would say, but for some, what is just a car is what defines a car enthusiast’s life. For them, being able to see and learn about certain cars in person is like a child meeting his/her all time favorite hero. Although some car enthusiasts are con-tent watching and/or learning about different cars from a dis-tance, others have the extreme urge to drive them.

Although there seem to be lots of car enthusiasts who have the urge to drive, there are only a select few who can actually take these high-speed machines to their limit, and even fewer who are given the opportunity to do so on a track in a com-petition. Even if you are one of the lucky few who, either can afford to race or have been given a chance to race, there are even fewer racecar drivers who are female. Even though there are few people who can ever professionally race, one aspect of becoming a racecar driver is mutual; you must first learn how to race.

Collete A. Davis began her journey for competitive racing when she was about 14 years old driving karts. At her first competitive race in Dacono, Colorado, she out drove all the guys as she placed first place and she has not slowed down since then.

Davis graduated Fountain-Fort Carson High School in Colorado at the age of 16 deter-mined to continue pursuing her dream of entering into a profes-sional racing career. February of last year, her grandfather, an Embry-Riddle alumni and retired Army colonel, sparked the idea for her to attend this university.

After deciding that she was interested in Embry-Riddle, Davis began speaking with Elaine Larson, driver of the Embry-Riddle jet dragster, through emails to learn more about the university. Davis set the date to tour the school, meet with Elaine, and watch pro-fessional racing driver, Danica Patrick’s first stock car race in Daytona Beach, to make her final decision about attending.

Beginning Fall 2010 semes-ter, Davis is currently pursu-ing a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on high-performance vehicles. She believes that by getting the degree she hopes to either obtain a better edge on being a better racecar driver or become a racecar engineer. Regardless, she is determined to end up on the track, “preferably the driver,” she excitingly states.

She began speaking with Dr. Charles Reinholtz, Professor and Department Chair for Mechanical and Civil Engineering, about her ambi-tions to becoming her own manager soon after begging her semester. She searched for ideas and ways to work with the school and how to represent the school, like Elaine Larson, for her to pursue her racing career. Dr. Reinholtz helped her arrange a meeting with Maurie Johnson, the wife of university president, Dr. John P. Johnson, to give Davis a chance to pro-mote her ideas.

After many meetings, lots of work, and discussions, the decision was made for Embry-Riddle to sponsor Davis. As the student ambassador, she now represents the school and seems to keep herself focused on studies and advancing

in her dream career. Being sponsored by Embry-

Riddle, on February 11-13, in her custom race-suit and helmet sporting the Embry logos, Davis was given the opportunity to race at Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, Florida. She drove a Pro Challenge Mustang, a three-fourths scale version of a normal Ford Mustang, belong-ing to Ron Stanley for the three days she was there. She would be racing two races on Sunday in a car she had never driven up until Friday.

Being a petite 5 feet and 3 inches tall, weighing about 104 pounds, in a car designed for a full size man, there were some light modifications that she was forced to improvise in order to drive Ron’s racecar. She stated she had about 6 inches of pad-ding in the seat (the seat is bolted to the frame), beneath her, and behind her so that she could reach the pedals. One interesting tool she had to use was a wrench that she stored in the radio pouch, which she used to be able to reach the starter button, so she could turn on the car once she was strapped in.

Additionally to this being her first time driving that specific vehicle, this was her first time to be racing in a sports car of this type with her previ-ous experience being in open wheeled karts and a f2000 car. Every car is different and sim-ply jumping into a car you have never driven and expecting to make it safely around the track at it’s limit is nearly impos-sible; with coaching from Ron Stanley and racecar engineer, Larry Bueler, she learned her way around the car.

On Friday, she was given the chance to learn the car and

how it handled. As she gained confidence in the car’s abilities, Davis’s time around the track became faster and faster.

Saturday was her qualifying run where she would be placing for her two races on the next day. Through out the day, other classes of cars were running on the track until it was her car’s classes turn for their qual-ifying run. She drove fast but still holding back as she was also continuing to gain more confidence in the car she was driving. Regardless she placed fourteenth place and was ready for the next day’s races.

On Sunday, for her first race, to show respect for the other drivers, Davis started from last place out of about 40 other rac-ers. On a thirty minute race she managed to pass all the racers passing the lead person on the last turn. Being a timed race instead of a set number of laps to accomplish, she had no idea the amount of time that had passed during the race. When she passed the lead guy on the last lap, on the last corner, she had no idea she had won the race.

The second race went just a good only that she started four-teenth, where she had original-ly qualified, and finished first place in the eight lap race.

Although it is still uncer-tain as to when she will be racing again, the chances for Embry to sponsor her to race again are very high consider-ing her recent performance on the track. She hopes to con-tinue with her passion while attending Embry, gaining a degree and making a name for herself to where someday, she may have a chance to race Danica Patrick.

It is a calm morning; the sun has come up past the horizon as a cool breeze gently flows throughout. For most people, this day is nothing out of the ordinary or special. But for one, today special as they have a chance to fulfill one of their dreams; they are walking towards a racecar. Their heart rate seems to be increasing with each step knowing what they have been waiting for is just a few feet away.

They are about to climb into a car much faster than most cars you may see driving down the street. You can see the excitement only in the person’s eyes as they are wearing a helmet required for protection. This is not going to be a normal drive down the street, this is much more dangerous, where speed is the name of the game, and where normal seat belts would not help in the case of a collision.

The person stands at the car’s side; lightly trembling within, they climb inside. In an unfamiliar car, the seat seems to be inviting as the driver begins

collecting the safety harness that will attach them to the seat. Tailoring the harness to their specification, the driver pulls out the excess slack on the harness which straps their body onto the seat; the car and driver are now one.

The ignition sequence differs from car to car, but for this one, a switch is closed to connect the battery to the car’s various circuits; lights that indicate to the driver the vehicle’s status light up on the dash. The fuel pump switch is closed next; the driver hears a high pitch whine from behind as the fuel pump comes to life transferring fuel to the engine.

The driver’s stomach feels tingly like the anticipation one would feel as they are boarding a rollercoaster they have never ridden before. The driver looks towards the switch labeled ‘Starter’ knowing that pushing it is the last step needed to bring the engine to life; the button is pressed.

~ Darick Alvarez

Collete Davis races to be number one

Questions for Collete DavisQ: What is your favorite class?A: “Racecar vehicle dynamic and world philosophy.”

Q: Favorite place to be at Embry?A: “The gym and Starbucks.”

Q: What is your dream job if racing driver does not pan out?A: “Just to be involved in motor racing; to be around fast cars.”

Q: What if you do end up being a racecar driver?A: “It would be a dream come true, to travel the world racing.”

Q: What is you favorite affordable street car?A: “I would like the Nissan 370z.”

Q: What is your favorite non-affordable street car?A: “Definitely my dream car, the Bugatti Veyron SS.”

Q: What type of car do you drive now?A: “05 Dodge Durango, and on occasion, my grandpa’s Dodge SRT10 Truck, with the Viper engine.”

Q: What is your favorite type of food?A: “My favorite food is healthy food and ice cream.”

PHOTO COURTESY DARICK ALVAREZ

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Head Coach Randy Stegall earned his 150th win at the helm of the Embry-Riddle baseball team in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader, and the Eagles managed a come-from-behind victory in game two to sweep the conference series from Southeastern, three games to none. With the pair of victories, ERAU is now 16-2 overall and a perfect 12-0 in Sun Conference play, setting the program record for the best conference start in history; ERAU also remains unbeaten at Sliwa Stadium while running their winning streak to seven games. Southeastern falls to 8-10 overall and 3-6 in TSC. It was the Eagles’ fourth confer-ence sweep of 2011 and their fifth sweep overall.

Tucker Jensen pitched yet another gem for the Blue and Gold in Saturday’s opener. Jensen threw his second com-plete game of the year to earn his fifth victory (5-0) tying teammate Ryan Vigue for the second-most in the nation.

Jensen held the Fire score-less in the first two innings, but gave up his first and only run of the contest in the third when Brandon DeRepiris singled up the middle with two outs to score William Glessner from second base and give SEU the 1-0 lead.

The advantage was fairly short-lived for the visitors as the Eagles knotted the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth off Steve Sabins’ double to right center that brought Aaron Glaum home from second base. Glaum led off the frame with a single to the gap in left center. The double ran Sabins’ hitting streak to 15 games.

With the score tied at one apiece, Jensen worked quickly in the fifth, stranding a Fire base runner at bring the Eagles back to the plate in the bottom of the frame.

ERAU wasted no time blow-ing the game wide open, strik-ing for six runs on six hits and an error to take a com-manding 7-1 lead. Jeff Lemon and Frankie Arias kick started the offense with back-to-back singles to right field to begin the home half of the fifth, and with the two Eagles on first and second Greg Smith sac-rificed the pair over to sec-ond and third with a nice bunt. Catcher Adam Cellini singled in the next at-bat, plating both Lemon and Arias and record-ing two RBIs. Glaum doubled to left field to put runners on the corners for J.T. Warmoth and the junior second base-man delivered with a two-run

single to left field. After Sabins reached on a throwing error by a Southeastern infielder, SEU starter Justin Mauldin was relieved by Kyle Young. Ben Kline accounted for the final two runs of the inning with a hit to center field, scoring Sabins and Warmoth.

Jensen was nearly untouch-able the rest of the way for ERAU, giving up just two hits the rest of the game. The senior

from Ormond Beach, Fla. threw 122 pitches in his nine innings of work, surrendering one run on six hits while striking out four Fire batters.

Glaum finished 2-for-4 with a pair of runs, Cellini had a nice game for the Eagles, 2-for-4 with three RBIs. Warmoth and Kline added two RBIs each for the Blue and Gold.

Southeastern used four pitch-ers on the mound, but it was

Mauldin who was tagged with the loss, moving his record to 2-3 on the year.

In the get-away game the Fire looked to finally find an answer for ERAU’s starting pitching, scoring three runs off of Embry-Riddle’s Kevin Maloney. However, the sopho-more buckled down and fin-ished strong for the home team, eventually pitching his way to

his third victory in 2011.Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of

the second the Eagles cut the deficit in half when Cellini col-lected his fourth RBI of the day on a double to left center that allowed Smith to score stand-ing up after he singled up the middle with two outs.

The Fire answered with their third run in the top of the third when Shane Casey collected a hit off Maloney to bring in Tyler Ruehlman from third.

The hosts used another explo-sion of six runs, this time in the third inning to take the lead 7-3, before tacking on a run in both the fifth and seventh innings to account for their nine total runs.

In the third the Eagles got to reigning Sun Conference Pitcher

of the Week Grant Porter early, recording five straight singles to begin the inning, plating two runs and loading the bases for Ian MacGeorge. MacGeorge saw four consecutive balls go by to earn an RBI walk, fol-lowed by a Smith single through the right side to score one more Eagle runner. Cellini capped off his career day with a single back up the middle to plate two runs and bring the score to 7-3 in favor of ERAU.

Maloney pitched into the sev-enth inning, getting stronger as the game wore on, before giv-ing way to senior Steve Ortman with two outs recorded in the seventh. Ortman pitched the final out of the seventh and the entire eighth inning in, not allowing a base runner, throw-ing just 13 pitches.

Fire third baseman Hecor Echemendia homered in the top of the ninth inning with one out to score two runs and bring the Fire to within 9-5, but Barrett Bruce wrapped up the game with a ground out and fly out to give the Eagles the win.

Maloney (3-0) pitched 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on nine hits and two walks while fanning eight SEU hit-ters. Porter (2-2) earned the loss for Southeastern.

Every single Eagle starter recorded a hit in the contest as the Blue and Gold tied their season-high mark of 16 hits in the game. Sabins was a per-fect 4-for-4 with a run scored, Cellini drove in three runs in game two on two hits, giving him six RBIs for the day.

Ryan Vigue pitched the full nine innings, not allowing a run to score in the sixth-ranked Embry-Riddle Eagles’ 6-0 victo-ry over the visiting Southeastern Fire on Friday night. ERAU improved to 14-2 and 10-0 inside The Sun Conference while the Fire slipped to 8-8 and 3-4. The Blue and Gold have won seven straight contests and has kept their conference and home records perfect.

Vigue earned his fifth win of the season under the lights at Sliwa Stadium (good for second in the nation), compared to no losses. The senior left-hander tossed his first complete game of the year while dropping his ERA to 2.54 in 39.0 innings of work.

Southeastern starter Dimitri Nunez was impressive in his first two innings, going three-up, three-down in both the first and second frames to keep the Eagle offense off the board. However, a hit-by-pitch led off the home half of the third when sophomore Jeff Lemon wore a 2-1 pitch to become the first Eagle base-runner. Lemon moved to second on a J.T. Warmoth sacrifice bunt, then scored on Aaron Glaum’s RBIs single up the middle, the first

ERAU hit of the contest. The Eagles did the majority

of their damage in the fourth inning, plating four runs to take a commanding 5-0 lead that Vigue never surrendered. Steve Sabins began the frame with a walk after battling the count full before racing to third on a Chris Page single down the right field line. Junior shortstop Ben Kline singled down the left field line to score Sabins from third and put runners on first and second with no outs. Ian MacGeorge hit a chopper over Nunez that none of the sEU infielders could reach to

load tha bags. Lemon picked up his second RBI in 2011 with a scorcher through the left side that brought home Page, and the Eagles got another single up the middle, this time from Warmoth that allowed Kline to touch home. Catcher Adam Cellini drew a four-pitch walk to earn his fourth RBI as an Eagle to make the score 5-0.

Josh Estridge replaced Nunez before he could record an out in the fourth, and did a fine job getting out of the bases-loaded jam, not allowing the Eagles to score another run in the frame.

Vigue worked meticulously

through the rest of the game, getting an additional insurance run in the eighth off a double from Glaum that scored David Belardes and account for the 6-0 final. But one run was all the Merritt Island, Fla. native needed, at one point retiring 10 consecutive batters before giving up a hit in the seventh. He found himself in a little bit of trouble in the top of the ninth with the bases loaded and two outs, but would get out of it unscathed for the complete game shutout. Vigue tossed nine innings, giving up four hits and one walk while fanning 10 Fire

hitters. Friday’s contest marked the second straight game Vigue has had double-digit strikeouts.

Embry-Riddle made efficient use of nine hits, as seven Eagles collected a base knock, includ-ing Sabins who pushed his hit-

ting streak to 14 games. Glaum finished 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs, while Warmoth went 2-for-2 with an RBI as well.

Nunez received the loss for Southeastern, dropping to 1-2 on the season.

MEN’S BASEBALL

Tuesday, March 8: vs Tennessee Wesleyan Daytona Beach, Fla. 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 9: vs Tennessee Wesleyan

Daytona Beach, Fla. 3 p.m.

Friday, March 11: vs South Carolina-Beaufort* Hardeeville, S.C. 2 p.m.

Saturday, March 12: vs South Carolina-Beaufort* Hardeeville, S.C. 1 p.m.

Monday, March 14: vs Indiana Tech Daytona Beach, Fla. 6 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS

Tuesday, March 8: vs Eastern Kentucky Daytona Beach, Fla. 3:30 p.m.

Monday, March 14: vs Auburn Montgomery Daytona Beach, Fla. 3:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Tuesday, March 8: vs Eastern Kentucky Daytona Beach, Fla. 3:30 p.m.

Monday, March 14: vs Auburn Montgomery Daytona Beach, Fla. 3:30 p.m.

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Eagles extinguishes Fire, 9-1 and 9-5

Eagles run conference mark to 10-0

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TUCKER JENSON KEPT THE Fire at bay with four stikeouts and only six hits. Both of Saturday’s games the Eagles fought the Fire with a fire of their own scoring a major amount of run-ners in the fifth and thrid inning respectively for each game.

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Fifth-ranked Lynn won all three doubles matches on the way to a 6-3 victory over a short-handed Embry-Riddle men’s tennis team on Saturday. The win improved the NCAA Division II No. 5 Fighting Knights to 5-2 on the year, while the NAIA third-ranked Eagles, playing without their first and third doubles teams and their No. 3 singles player, fell to 6-3 overall.

Benji Kendall and George Laffey registered the first point for the Fighting Knights with an 8-4 win over Patrick Besch and David Spennare at the third

doubles position. Willi Wolfer and Luca Pavanelli made it 2-0 with an 8-5 decision against Adrian Bayh and Simon Felix at No. 2. At No. 1 doubles, Chris Freeman and Peter Francis, playing just their second match at the top spot, went ahead 4-1 but they were unable to sustain the advantage as Alessandro Sarra and Vlad Cirla came back to take the match 8-6.

Felix was the first to finish his match in a move up to No. 4 singles and walked away with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Pavanelli. Francis, who moved up to the No. 3 spot due to an injury to the Eagles’ regular No. 3 Jan Hoekzema, followed with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Sarra. At the No. 2 spot, Cirla topped Besch in the first set and held off the Embry-Riddle freshman 7-6 (8-6) in the second to increase the Fighting Knight advantage to 4-2.

The match at No. 5 singles saw Spennare take the first set 6-2 against Voirin. The ERAU sophomore went up 5-4 and was serving for the match but Voirin battled back to win the

set 7-5 and took the match with a 6-2 decision in the third to score the clincher.

Embry-Riddle’s third win of the day came at sixth singles position where, Bayh, playing his first singles match since sus-taining an injury in the summer, bested Kendall in three sets 4-6, 6-1, 10-8.

The Embry-Riddle women’s tennis team suffered its third loss of the 2011 campaign, fall-ing to NCAA Division II No. 3 Lynn 8-1, Saturday at the Crotty Tennis Complex. The Eagles fall to 7-3 with the loss, while Lynn remains unbeaten at 8-0.

At No. 3 doubles, Jessica

Yannoff and Andrea Berkova registered and 8-5 win over Kristina Márová and Paola Montero and Magdalena Ekert and Isabell Raich topped Rocío Frej Vitallé and Ekaterina Kamendova by the same mar-gin at the second position. At the top doubles spot Eleonora Iannozi and Ianona Ivan pulled out an 8-3 win over NAIA No. 1 Yi Ching Chen and Josefine Ström to give the Fighting Knights a 3-0 advantage head-ing into singles.

The first singles match off the court was at the No. 3 spot where Ivan topped Frej Vitallé 6-0, 6-4. At No. 2 singles, Kamendova dropped the first set 6-0 and maintained a lead for much of the second, but was unable to hold off Iannozzi who won 6-4 to clinch the match for the Fighting Knights.

Chen got the only point for the Blue and Gold at the No. 1 singles position, downing Ekert in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4.

The Eagles’ next match will be at home at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday against Eastern Kentucky.

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CHRIS PAGE ATTEMPTS TO tag a Southeastern out at first base. Page recorded one run and one strikeout during Friday’s game while putting out nine Southeastern players. The Eagles after a double header on Saturday improved to 12-0 in The Sun Conference.

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The NCAA D II No. 10 Concordia (N.Y.) men’s tennis team snapped a seven game los-ing skid against Embry-Riddle, edging the NAIA third-ranked Eagles 5-4, Tuesday at the Crotty Tennis Complex. The win moved the Clippers to 3-0 on the year, while the Eagles drop to 4-2 overall.

The first doubles match off the court was at the third spot where Adrian Bayh and Simon Felix rallied from a 4-1 deficit to top Andreas Lindell and David Tesserand. Andrey Boldarev and Daniele Piludu pulled the Clippers level with an 8-4 win over Jan Hoekzema and Patrick Besch at the top flight.

At No. 2 doubles, Peter Francis and Chris Freeman went up 6-5 but then fell behind the Concordia duo of Tamas Dobrotka and Gaza Bazula, 7-6. Freeman held serve to pull the Eagles level at 7-7 and then Freeman and Francis broke to go up 8-7. With the Eagles serving for the match, Dobrotka and Bazula broke back to force a tie. The Eagle tandem was unable to sustain an early lead and fell 7-5 in the tie-breaker to give the Clippers a 2-1 edge heading into singles play.

The Clippers extended their lead to 4-1 after Felix Missal downed David Spennare 6-3, 6-0 at No. 6 singles and 14th-ranked Boldarev held off Freeman 7-5, 6-1 at the top spot. The Eagles narrowed the gap to 4-2 when Felix battled back from being down 4-1 in the first to win his match against Lindell, 6-4, 6-4 at the fifth flight.

Besch also fell behind early

in his first set at the second spot when Piludu raced out to a 4-0 lead in the first set. Besch fought his way back into con-tention and forced a tie-break-er, which he won 8-6. Riding the momentum of his first set comeback, Besch took the sec-ond 6-4 to make the team score 4-3.

At No. 4 singles, Francis took the first set 6-4, but dropped the second to Dobrotka 6-1. Both players battled hard in the third set that needed a tie-breaker to decide the outcome. In the end, it was Francis who overwhelmed Dobrotka 7-1 in the tie-breaker to knot the team score at 4-4.

The deciding point came down to the match at the third singles spot between Hoekzema and Tisserand. Hoekzema held off Tisserand in the first set 7-6, but the Concordia fresh-man fought back to take the second set 6-4. The third set also required a tie-breaker and in the end, after a four-hour bat-tle, it was Tisserand who edged seventh-ranked Hoekzema 8-6 to clinch the Clipper win.

The Embry-Riddle women’s tennis team posted a strong showing on Sunday, but it was not enough to get past the top-ranked team in NCAA Division II as the Lady Pirates of Armstrong Atlantic State bested the Eagles 6-3. The Lady Pirates remain undefeated at 7-0 on the year, while the Eagles, ranked fifth in the NAIA, move to 6-2 overall.

Coming out of doubles play, the Eagles held a 2-1 edge. AASU’s Kathleen Henry and Tina Ronel score the Lady Pirates’ first point with an 8-4 win over Kristina Márová and

Paola Montero at the No. 3 dou-bles spot. Ekaterina Kamendova and Rocío Frej Vitallé leveled the score with an 8-5 defeat of Aleksndra Filipovski and Joanna Szymczyk at the second position.

The contest at the top dou-bles spot was a rematch of the 2010 USTA/ITA National Small College Superbowl between ERAU’s Yi Ching Chen and Josefine Ström and AASU’s Alide Muller-Wehlau and Barbora Krtickova. Back in October, the Lady Pirate duo got the better of the match-up, topping Chen and Ström 6-4, 6-0. Going into Sunday’s match-up, both tandems were ranked No. 1 in their respective divisions and this time it was the ERAU duo that emerged with the win topping the Lady Pirate pair, 8-6.

The Lady Pirates quickly took over the lead in singles play as Filipovski defeated Frej Vitallé 6-0, 6-0, Krtickova downed Kamendova 6-2, 6-1, Szymczk topped Marova 6-2, 6-2 and Ronel bested Ström 6-1, 6-3.

Caroline Nilsson recorded the only singles point for the Blue and Gold battling to a three-set win over Henry, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 at the sixth flight.

The match at No. 1 singles was also a three-set affair between top-ranked Muller-Wehlau and NAIA No. 2 Chen. Chen took the first set 6-3, but Muller-Wehlau came back to take the second 6-2 to force a third stanza. Playing a 10-point tiebreaker, both play-ers battled hard to the very last point and in the end it was the AASU senior who squeaked by with a 10-8 decision.

Embry-Riddle improved to 3-0 in league play with a 5-1 victory over St. Thomas in an abbreviated Sun Conference match at the Crotty Tennis Complex on Friday. The Eagles are now 5-2 on the year, while the Bobcats drop to 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the conference.

The Eagles were able to take an early 3-0 lead as all three doubles teams registered wins for ERAU. An injury to Jan Hoekzema in Tuesday’s match forced ERAU Head Coach Dave Paschal to make slight alterations to the dou-bles lineup. For the first time this year, Chris Freeman and Peter Francis played at the top spot and walked away with an 8-3 win over Adrian Escarate and Nicolas Etienne. At No. 3 doubles, Patrick Besch and David Spennare teamed up for the first time this season and that partnership resulted in an 8-0 shutout of Andrew Rifkin and Arturo Romero.

The last doubles match off the court saw Adrian Bayh and Simon Felix register a come-from-behind 8-4 win over Jeremy Bache and Gonzalo Gayoso.

The first singles match to be completed was at No. 3 singles where Peter Francis topped Andrew Rifkin in straight sets. After taking the first set 6-3, Francis fell behind 5-1 in the second. The junior battled his way back to tie the score at 5-5 and held serve to move ahead 6-5, before breaking Rifkin to win the match.

The tennis officials were forced to call a halt to the remaining matches on the court

due to rain. At No. 5 singles, Spennare took a 6-2 first-set win over Etienne before play was suspended. Following the delay, Spennare was able to quickly dispatch Etienne and clinched the Eagle victory with a 6-1 decision in the second frame.

The Embry-Riddle women’s tennis team extended its unbeat-en streak in conference play to 3-0 with an 8-0 win over St. Thomas in Sun Conference action on Friday. The win improved the Eagles’ overall record to 7-2, while Bobcats move to 6-3 overall and 3-1 in the league.

The Eagles swept through doubles starting with a Kristina Márová /Paolo Montero shut-out (8-0) of Lauren Lightfoot and Rye Hewett and the third spot. The top-ranked duo of Yi Ching Chen and Josefine Ström topped Gabrielle Bongiovanni and Emilia Vuorela 8-2, and Rocío Frej Vitallé and Ekaterina Kamendova completed the sweep with an 8-4 defeat of Manuela Gil and Ydsia Quintero at the No. 2 position.

Kamendova and Frej Vitallé each registered quick 6-0, 6-1 victories at the second and third singles positions, downing Gil and Quintero, respectively. Frej Vitallé clinched the team win for the Blue and Gold and was fol-lowed off the court by Márová, who bested Vuorela 6-0, 7-6 (8-6) and Ström, who downed Hewett 6-0, 6-3. Chen, ranked second in the ITA/NAIA poll, sealed the win for the Eagles with a 6-4, 6-1 win over No. 23 Bongiovanni at the top singles spot.

The singles match at No. 6 was not played due to rain.

Two Eagles were crowned National Champions in their respective events on Saturday at the NAIA Indoor National Championships.

Crystal Bardge, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., took home the gold medal in the women’s 60m hurdles, breaking the NAIA National Meet record that she had set during the semifinals with a time of 8.34 seconds.

Sam Vazquez, a local product from Palm Coast, Fla., won his first national championship, win-ning the men’s 1000m run by nearly three seconds, finishing

with a time of 2:24.61, which is also a new school record.

Bardge still had enough left in the tank to claim fourth place in the women’s 200m dash in a school-record 24.45 seconds, giving her the distinction of earn-ing All-America status in two events.

The Eagles continued to rack up All-America honors as Leon Robinson finished sixth in the men’s 200m dash with a time of 21.72 seconds, which estab-lishes a new school record for that event.

Evans Kirwa nearly grabbed the third gold medal of the day for Embry-Riddle, finishing second in the men’s 5000m run in a race that had to utilize the photo finish

to officially determine the win-ner. Kirwa and Shorter’s Oscar Ogwaro both crossed the line at 14:23.99, but it was determined that Ogwaro narrowly edged out the win, giving Kirwa the silver medal.

The final competition for the Eagles was the men’s 4x400m relay, where the team of Reagan Beal, Kevin Bray, Odwani Thomas and Vazquez finished sixth in 3:16.15, earning the sixth All-America distinction of the day for ERAU. The Eagles nar-rowly beat out the team from Langston, who finished the race in 3:16.16.

In terms of the team scoring, Embry-Riddle enjoyed one of the best national meets they’ve had

in school history. The women’s team scored 20 points to fin-ish 11th overall, their best finish ever. The men also scored 20

points, finishing 12th, which is an improvement over their 18th-place finish in 2010.

The Eagles will now set their

sights on the 2011 Outdoor sea-son, which kicks off at home March 18-19 with the Spike’s Classic hosted by Embry-Riddle.

THE FLOCK EVENTSFLOCK 50 TASKS and EVENTS

Task 4: Grow a playoff beard or mustache Thursday, March 10, 1 p.m. ICI Center game televised in gym Basketball vs. McPherson (Kan.)

Task 39: Catch a foul ball Tuesday, March 8, 6 p.m. Silwa Stadium Baseball vs. Tennessee Wesleyan

Task 49: Attend one game for each sport Tuesday, March 8, 3:30 p.m. Crotty Tennis Complex Tennis vs. Eastern Kentucky

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Badge and Vazquez capture nationals

Tennis teams top St. Thomas

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Tossing its hat into the ring of night of mayhem comedies is Take Me Home Tonight, directed by up and coming director Michel Dowse and written by Jackie and Jeff Filgo (“That’s 70’s Show”).

Stepping out of their pre-vious decade and into the

1980’s, the writers make this transition smoothly with the help of fantastic art direction by Elliott Glick and costume design Carol Oditz. Creating a humorous and glossy, in such away that it is over glamor-ized the remembrance of the decade. The only location that didn’t quite seem to fit with this otherwise excellent set decorating was at the video store. Like how a rendered computer image always looks worse when placed on a real photo rather than a rendered background, the video store was the one location where I could not suspend my dis-belief that it was the 1980’s again.

The story is set in 1980’s suburban Los Angeles, revolv-ing around recent MIT gradu-ate Matt (Topher Grace anoth-er “That’s 70’s Show” alumni) his twin sister Wendy (Anna Faris) and Matt’s high school buddy Barry (Dan Fogler) and Matt’s old high school crush Tori (Teresa Palmer). Admittedly the set up is cliché but the execution is not. Each character has their own obsta-cles to over come during the

course of the night’s events with the central issue being Matt’s overcoming his fear the drives his post graduation list-lessness. While it not explor-ing themes that haven’t been seen before. Parallels could be drawn between this and films such as “Ferris Buhler’s Day Off” and “Superbad”, but “Take Me Home Tonight” does manage to leave it’s own mark.

The film offers an interest-ing glance at the dichotomy of the “between two worlds” life of the recent collage graduate that is visible by the various charters at the parties visited, as aptly described as being too old to be young and too young to be old.

Amidst all this underly-ing seriousness are genuine laugh out loud moments. An excellent dressing up for the night on the town montage with enough hair products to propel a rocket. A cameo by the comic Dmitri Martin, a hysterical dance off, failed pickup attempts and romantic hi-jinks all coated with the fine vinyl gloss of a decade in retrospective.

Sitting comfortably in my seat at the theatre I wait, not paying attention to the advertisements my mind wondering back to the days of my youth. Remembering

“Dumb and Dumber”, “Stuck on You”, “There’s Something about Mary” and “Fever Pitch” all joyful comedies that brought a smile to my face, hoping that “Hall Pass,” directed by the Farrelly Brothers, could deliv-er the same pleasure. Jumping ahead two hours in time leaving the theatre I had a smile on my face and not at the least disap-pointed to let it show.

Staring Owen Wilson as Rick and Jason Sudeikis as Fred, the two best friends are “happily” married men. Each character is unique to that father or father of a friend that would always talk about their days of youth.

Rick is the more conservative of the two while Fred talks a lot about how they could, at a moments notice get with any lady they see. As luck would have it the wives of Rick and Fred, Maggie and Grace find the marriages are struggling. Upon getting the idea from a friend to let the men run ram-pant with a hall pass the women give in hoping it will help their

marriages. Being granted one week off of marriage Rick and Fred let the fun begin.

Without giving away too much about the movie watch-ing married men trying to pick up women without almost any style brings tears of laughter.

With the two men trying again and again, it is easy to sympathize and cheer them on in their efforts, as lame as their pick up lines may be, to live the pass to the fullest.

Granted I have not been mar-ried but the idea of a hall pass in a marriage is a great idea. Wait, before you get upset about views on “faithful” marriage watch the movie it’s ending is the true nature of a good relationship and you’ll under-stand through the laughter what I mean. Although for a macho guy its a slightly sappy ending the success of the two friends makes for a good happy ending. If you are looking for a good comedy to go see with friends I will give “Hall Pass” a 4.5 out of 5 airplanes.

Hall Pass

Aaron CraigManaging Editor

The Eastern chill

Released way back in 1999, this was the first album of a long series of lounge, down-tempo, and dance tunes that would become known as the Buddha Bar collection.

The brainchild of DJ and entrepreneur Claude Challe, who also owns and runs the restaurant/bar/nightclub of the same name in Paris, France, the Buddha Bar series of music is a com-pilation of “world music.” The setup of the establish-ment is normally a two-floor design, with the restaurant and bar below, with the club on top.

The Buddha Bar establishment has since spread around the world and the closest to us would be the one in New York, now known as Ajna Bar.

This “world music” stems from the fact that the album draws from a huge variety of music that comes in different languages and styles. From fast Spanish gui-tar, French vocalists, to Arabic lyrics, to Chinese zithers, and Indian sitars, you never quite know what comes next with

this album.Split into two separate disks,

“Buddha’s Dinner” is the first of the two and is pleasant, and soothing, meant to accompany the dining experience that one might have at the establishment. The second disk, “Buddha’s Party”, contains more dance-like tunes and contains tunes that will be found on the upper level of the establishment.

As such, the mood and tem-pos of the two disks vary great-ly and for reviewing purposes should really be taken indi-vidually.

“Buddha’s Dinner” contains the softer beats with less focus on the bass instruments and more emphasis on strings and winds. Track number four on this disk “Anni Rose” is a pleasant blend of strings with soft staccato beats preventing the song from being monoto-nous.

DJ Challe has said that music is his passion and it that he “in the music” when he mixes up the albums. Every track flows

into the next track flawlessly and at times, you don’t even realize it is a new track until the vocals start.

My favorites on the first disk include “Anni Rose”, “The Merciful One”, “Une Table A Trois” for its cosmic sounds,

and “El Fuego.” One impor-tant thing that should be noted is the high price tag on this album. Amazon sells this for about $36 right now, which is more than double most other albums. This is tempered by the fact that you are essen-tially getting two albums for the price.

I highly recommend this album for practitioners of yoga as the music from “Buddha’s Dinner” makes great accom-paniment, with tracks from “Buddha’s Party” complement-ing the high paced exercise sets.

I have had friends wonder what alien music I listen to when I put this on, mainly due to the many foreign languages they use. If you are the type of person that needs to have lyr-ics in your music, this album might not be for you.

However, if you are into ambient and lounge, you should definitely give this series a try.

The second disk starts out slow but it quickly picks up.

By about a minute and a half into the first track “68”, you clearly hear the faster paced hi-hats ramp-ing up the beat.

The sec-ond track “Touareg”, might not sit well with everybody as it sounds like some-one singing prayers. My advice is to have an open mind and appreci-ate the musi-

cal qualities of it rather than let external factors affect you.

Worthy listens on “Buddha’s Party” would be “Drifting Away”, for its excellent piano solo, “Eshebo” for the vocal-ist and “All By Myself” for its excellent dance beats.

Buddha-barClaude Challe

Peter TanStaff Reporter

HALL PASS, STARING OWEN Wilson and Jason Sudeikis as two married men that are granted a week off their marriage by their wives. Hilarity ensues as these two make their way back into the dating scene as single guys for one week.

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‘Hall Pass’ big laughs

Totally eighties again

Take Me Home Tonight

Nick CandrellaEntertainment Editor

WITH ENOUGH HAIR SPRAY to cloud the skies over the city of los Angeles and more popped collars than you can you can shake and AmC delorean at the film “Take me Home Tonight” is glossy retrospective look back at a night of mayhem that is not out of place in any decade.

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