ISSUE 12 SPRINGMAY 5 2016

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Sustainable initiativeSPRING GRADLISTSPORTS : Gabe to Miami Dolphins

New university budget means cuts in athletics, staffThe Board of Trustees

and Administration met to talk about the future of Florida Tech on April 21 and 22, staying in a room from morning until nine at night, pondering the bud-get, the plan for the next five years and the mission.

During those two days, they approved a smaller university budget than many had hoped for, made decisions for reductions in personnel and decided to cut the athletics budget and other departmental budgets.

“Make it in the top 100 in the United States,” is what Executive Vice Pres-ident T. Dwayne McCay is planning to do with Florida Tech’s status as an engi-neering university during his presidency. Students, faculty and staff are start-ing to feel the transition on campus as he takes his step into his role as president, though the official day has not come yet.

“I think one of the things I used early on is Tony has, Dr. Catanese, has built this nice house. We’ve been expanding and building on this house. But we haven’t completely furnished it. A few of the rooms are not as furnished as they need to be,” McCay said. “So my focus is not on growth, but on deepen-ing the university.”

With about 5,300 students at the university and only about a 5,500 capacity in the university’s classrooms, there will be no more building outwards — only focusing on what we already have.

The same goes for Ath-letics.

McCay said his philoso-phy is to focus on a handful of things and be really good at those.

“Choose a certain number of sports that we’re going to invest money in to be even better,” McCay said. “And there are others we’re going to have to run on a shoestring.”

With 22 varsity sports at Florida Tech, McCay said we’re “overstretched.”

T. Dwayne McCay at a Town Hall Meeting hosted by ResLife. He was speaking about budget issues in athletics at the time. Photo by Ebube Ubochi.

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Many seniors have awo-ken from the same night-mare in the weeks before graduation.

They’ve submitted their petition, and word comes back that they still need one more class that no one told them about. They won’t be walking this semester.

Tension and stress run high when it is time to reg-ister for classes, and poor advising can mess up a student’s schedule or even affect their expected gradu-ation date.

It is this time of the year in the school of business that rumors fly about less than desirable advising.

“It was hard for him to schedule to meet with me because he was hardly in his office,” said Birchel Ralph, a senior graduating this summer with a degree

in business administration with sports management. “His overall knowledge of the classes that I have to take wasn’t very good. I feel like it could have been better.”

Ralph said he has also had issues with his adviser not knowing what classes he had to take and in what order. He had even been placed in the wrong classes at some points.

“Basically, I had to be on top of him to make sure I was taking what I needed to take,” Ralph said.

Margo McClintic, a business administration with sports management major, said she is good friends with the trolley driver, Oscar, and that he always talks about how people complain on the trolley about how advisers

are not doing their job.McClintic is a work-

study student that works in the front office at the busi-ness building and has close relationships with all of the professors.

She said that while there are some issues sometimes with adviser availability and flowchart knowledge, the bigger issue is when students show up demanding to see their ad-viser without having made an appointment.

McClintic said that when students show up without appointments, they will always try to see if the adviser is available for walk-ins but that there is no guarantee.

“There’s a few who are regulars at lunchtime who are begging to see people — but it’s lunch! No one

is going to take time out of their lunch to come see you,” McClintic said.

Thomas Haynie is a business administration major who also works closely with professors in various fields as a work-study student at the center for entrepreneurship. He has heard complaints from students who have trouble knowing what classes they need to take.

“I think it's more an issue with the students themselves,” Haynie said. “They expect the advisers to do everything instead of understanding what their path is.”

McClintic often runs into this issue with stu-dents. She said she does her best to provide students with their flowcharts and explain how the prerequi-

sites work for their major but the days before regis-tration are the busiest and it gets hectic.

“There are course catalogs to look at with prerequisites in the office,” McClintic said. “It needs to be the student’s responsi-bility to keep track of their schedule, as well. Advis-ers each have around 40 students and they can't keep track of every single one.”

McClintic suggested that the online major de-scriptions should be written more efficiently, clearly listing what the prerequi-sites for certain classes are. That way, students will have a clear online source

//AUDREY GANGLOFFSPORTS EDITOR

Students discuss need for academic advising improvementsPhoto by Nathaniel Ashton

OPINIONS 2ISSUE 12 MAY 5

CAPS PSA Summer SafetyYou made it to the tail

end of the semester! Finals, papers, assignments and group projects are all com-ing to an end.

Hopefully, you are plan-ning to take some time to relax and enjoy your break from school. Whether you are visiting family or going on a trip with friends, you plan to have a great time. Read the tips below to en-sure that your vacation time stays fun and safe. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES:

There are some help-ful tips you can follow for staying safe outdoors. If you are going to the ocean, make sure you avoid days with strong currents. Strong currents can pull you out and make it hard for you to swim, which can be really dangerous. For any outdoor

activity, make sure to check for thunderstorms and chances of rain. Excessive rain can cause terrain to be-come slippery and flooded. Thunder and lightning are also not safe conditions for swimming or any water ac-tivity. So plan accordingly and always have a backup plan.

It’s also important you wear sunscreen. Sunburns are a real bummer and you definitely do not want to get stuck with one. Sun-burns can also lead to more extreme problems like sun poisoning and health problems later in life, like melanoma. It is important you take preventative mea-sures now.

Also, make sure you are wearing the proper attire for where you are going. You do not want to wear sandals hiking, or a

jacket at the beach. Final-ly, make sure you protect against mosquitoes and stay hydrated. It is import-ant to have water on hand wherever you go. Staying hydrated will help prevent headaches, low energy and a pesky dry mouth.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:

With school being done, it is likely you’re going to be a lot more socially in-volved. It is important you get out and spend time with the ones you love and care for. It’s a great way to take a break from all the stress-ors. When returning home to family, remember to be patient as they haven’t seen you and may have a lot of questions. Just remember they are not with you ev-eryday and want an update

because they care. Also, when spending more time with friends or family al-ways remember your limits and make sure you have a designated driver. It can be really easy to lose track of time on long summer days too, so make sure you keep track of how much you are drinking, especially if you are planning to be out all day. One drink can quickly become many more if you don’t pay attention. Also, when traveling make sure you stay in contact with your friends and family to let them know you are safe or if you need help.

SELF CARE:

Summertime can get really busy and it is im-portant you do not forget to take care of yourself. This

means letting yourself rest and relax. Listen to your body. Time off should not be stressful, so it is import-ant you do not let it become stressful. Eating, sleeping, and even staying in to read a book or watch a movie are just as important as get-ting out and being active.

Also, try to stay on track with exercising and other healthy lifestyle choices you made during the school year. It can be really easy to slip into stay-ing up late and sleeping all day, but keeping yourself healthy is going to be key to you summer fun.

The student counsel-ing center (CAPS) wishes you a relaxing, happy and healthy summer!v

// KENDRA BARTELCAPS OUTREACH COLUMNIST

I'm graduating and this is the last issue, so I’d like to say bye. I’ve never writ-ten a letter from the editor before, or an opinion piece, mainly because it’s scary to tell you what I’m thinking rather than just give you the facts.

I’d rather just give you the facts.

But, the facts are that I joined the Crimson as a shy freshman that never spoke up. I’m leaving this organization a more confi-dent graduating senior that has absolutely no trouble speaking my mind when I need to. I also stand up for what I believe is right, get myself into a little trouble and write some pretty good journalism, along with the

help of other student jour-nalists to back me. Each one of them touched my life in some way.

The School of Arts and Communication, along with Dr. Heidi Edwards, is always a constant support of the Crimson, as well.

Dr. Ted Petersen, our adviser, has been nothing but a joy to be around ever since I joined, and he’s been a constant mentor to all of us. I’ve spent hours throughout my career at Florida Tech in his office, ranting, stumbling, stutter-ing and navigating my way through my roles as writer, campus life editor and then EIC. He’s a valuable asset to Florida Tech’s commu-nication program, and to

Florida Tech in general, and I’ll miss him as I continue on after college.

I also couldn't have done this without my friends and editors, Alex Coultrup, Ebube Ubochi and Nathaniel Ashton. They've truly been helpful to me this year.

Nathaniel will be taking over the position as Edi-tor-in-Chief next year, and I know he's got the passion and the heart to do this job the justice.

It’s been a privilege to see the Crimson grow and evolve over the four years I’ve been here, and I’ve loved being a part of it.

So I’ll end with this.To every reader of the

Crimson: keep picking up

this paper and keep reading it.

Student journalism is one of the most important things at a university. I’ll argue that. Because we watch the administration, we’re the student body’s voice.

Student Government representatives say they’re the student body’s voice, but they still have to work directly with administra-tion officials. They’re still bound by the relationships they keep and the duties they fulfill.

The sole purpose and the duty we fulfill it to be the voice of the student body, and to find the truth in what we’re covering. So read the paper. And if we’re

printing crap, tell us. Get mad at us and tell us we’re printing crap. Hold your student newspaper account-able. Because our job is to hold SGA, the adminis-tration, and everyone else accountable.

I’ve tried to do that the best I could while being a student and a human being. I hope the next few people do as well.

I hope the Administra-tion and Security officials can see what we’re doing as well, and see that at the end of the day, the truth is the truth, no matter what side you’re telling it from. v

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Letter from the Editor: Goodbye! Let's hold people accountable

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to help them understand their schedules.

“The system is a little engineering-like, it’s very technical and it doesn’t lay it out nicely for you to see,” Haynie said. “I’m sure there’s a couple students on campus who have the perfect ideas to improve it. It’s just getting the school to realize it’s worth doing.”

As a University Innova-tion fellow, Haynie works to change how Florida Tech teaches so that the curricu-lum is more innovative and students get real world ex-perience. He suggested that the issue of not understand-ing program flowcharts be addressed in the first year experience class that is required for freshmen.

“If those advisers can teach the students how to read the flowcharts and un-

derstand what classes they should be taking — or even if they could sit down with the students and plan out what their entire time here would look like — that could be great,” Haynie said.

In Ralph’s experience, the confusion is not always the students’. Many oth-er students feel that their advisers don’t understand the flowcharts either, but are unwilling to talk about it on-the-record.

“I think it’s an issue that students have but they are scared to bring it to light because a lot of these advisers are professors that control your grade in the classes that you take,” Ralph said.

McClintic thinks there is just a handful of advisers who do need more training

in how the program plans work for different majors. But then there are advisers who have been here for a while and still just can’t seem to get some things done.

Enrique Perez is the as-sociate dean in the College of Business, and he said that the ambiguity is more inherent to the process than to the advisers, although some advisers probably handle it much better than others.

This year alone, the College of Business gained seven new faculty mem-bers. Perez did hold several training sessions for them and said that they each at-tended at least one of them.

New advisers are ex-pected to have to learn the ropes a little bit. McClintic said that with new advisers,

other business professors and administrative employ-ees try to help out with the process.

But what about advisers that have been around the bend?

Perez said that the College of Business is currently in the process of switching their advising tools over to the same pro-gram used by the Registrar and available to students on PAWS.

“I think it will help students better understand where they are in the pro-cess and it will help faculty have a clearer picture of what’s really missing or not,” Perez said.

Most students are not aware that they have access to their degree program process through PAWS.

“It would be great if

they taught it in university experience,” Perez said. “But it may be better if colleges set up something for once students are first semester sophomores, which is something I may try to do.”

If anyone ever does have a problem with their adviser and wants to switch, for whatever rea-son, McClintic said come to the business office and talk to either herself or one of the other ladies that work at the front desk.

“For the most part I think advisers are willing to sit down with students,” McClintic said. “I think it’s a student’s responsibility and an adviser's responsi-bility to at least know the basics so they can help each other.” v//AUDREY GANGLOFFSPORTS EDITOR

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“We just can’t afford 22. Not fully funded,” Mc-Cay said. “Not if you look at the coaching salaries, the travel, the facilities.”

He went on about the facilities, especially.

“That’s why we rent Palm Bay stadium, and we rent MCC, and we lease this and we lease that,” he continued. “We don’t have sufficient facilities to sup-port all these things. Facili-ties cost money.”

He posed the question, “if you had to pick the most important sport at Florida Tech, what would it be?”

Wes Sumner, the uni-versity spokesman, inter-jected with a smiling drawl: “Come on, you’re the editor of the Crimson, you can pick that.”

So, what is the impor-tance of sports at a univer-sity?

McCay let Bill Jurgens, athletic director, grapple with that decision.

“I’d say, Bill, you need to take this much funding out of your budget. I won’t tell you how to do it,” Mc-Cay said. “But based on the size of your budget and the mission criticality of what you’re doing, here’s how much you need to reduce your budget for next year, and he as the athletics di-rector made that decision.”

McCay used this strat-egy across the board. So in any other departments with budget cuts, the vice president would have to decide and therefore the hard decisions didn’t fall

just with him. “We had to look at how

to restructure the university a little bit to reduce some of our costs, and some of those costs were person-nel,” McCay said.

“And it’s staff, Dr. Mc-Cay is making that clear, it’s not faculty,” empha-sized Wes Sumner, univer-sity spokesman.

The employees that are supposed to be protected from being laid off due to these budget cuts are “mission-critical” employ-ees, meaning those doing research and teaching.

But there are exceptions to this, such as adjuncts, who are hired on a year-to-year basis, or simply those whose job could be com-bined with another.

“In some cases, if there was a job that we could combine, or, take three jobs and combine them into two, so even if it were mission critical. So it’s not a very large number of people,” McCay said. “It’s a number of staff. But we try to avoid the mission critical areas, which is teaching and re-search.”

The administration now has to make sure it watches the adjunct budget for sum-mer, because last year it overspent the adjunct bud-get by $100,000, according to McCay.

Graduate student Justin Blackman thinks McCay is doing his best to make sure the organization survives, and it’s normal for any business.

“There’s always this cycle where businesses will go through these blooming times, and then they’ll go through rough times, and unfortunately this is our time,” said Blackman.

McCay talked about his job and all the upcoming responsibilities on his plate.

“Sometimes I wonder, why does anyone want this? But I want to be so unbelievably proud of our graduates,” McCay said. “It’s not an easy job, and it’s not even fun. I wouldn’t call it fun. But it’s very fulfilling.” v

//REBEKAH DUNTZEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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4ISSUE 12 MAY 5 CAMPUS LIFE

During the move out process at Florida Tech, clothes, new electronics and working appliances are seen not in suitcases and boxes but overflowing in dump-sters.

Unwilling to see per-fectly good items go to waste, the Florida Tech Residence Life Sustainabil-ity Committee, in partner-ship with the University, has created the Leave Green initiative to collect usable, unwanted items to benefit

the community. “We had a dumpster

right next to Campbell Hall and I remember it was full of stuff,” said Pulkit Ag-garwal about his move out experience last year. “There was a computer and lots of electronics. Some people even threw out their com-forters and everything.”

To combat the waste in previous years, each residence hall will feature a centralized donation location in high traffic

areas such as lounges and common areas said Alexis Miller who helped start the project. Here students can drop off items such as lin-ens, home décor, electron-ics, books and clothing into labeled boxes. The items are then collected after finals week and picked up by a chosen charity.

This year, all contribu-tions made by Florida Tech students this year will be donated to the CITA Res-cue Mission’s thrift store to fund the organization’s work with the homeless. CITA exists to help the lo-cal homeless of Brevard get back on their feet through a residential program. Home-less men are provided a place to stay while search-ing for work, saving money or recovering from personal issues such as substance abuse and addiction.

Leave Green is not the University’s first “green move out” initiative. Last year, Miller conducted a collection program for a class project in in which over 1800 pounds of items

were donated. This year, Miller is expecting at least twice as much.

Daniel Sutton, Florida Tech’s sustainability officer hopes the initiative will be successful due to the ac-cessibility of the donation stations.

“If you have to walk off the beaten path, you are less likely to make the best decision so we’re trying to make it as easy as possi-ble,” Sutton said.

To help gauge student interest, a campus-wide sustainability survey was disseminated to students. Out of 190 student re-sponses, 95 percent said they would be interested in a green move out. Sutton hopes “to extrapolate that number across campus,” and see everyone get in-volved.

To encourage students to donate items, roll out dumpsters, which have become a move out staple, will not be present in front of campus residence halls.

Melissa Bramble, a key organizer for the project,

hopes that Leave Green will become, “a permanent part of the FIT sustainabil-ity culture,” and will help students live a more plan-et-minded lifestyle through-out their college experience and beyond.

Other ways students can get involved in the campus sustainability movement include making the effort to recycle plastics, cans and other items. In addition, a new initiative, called Shut the Sash, will be take place in all campus laboratories during the fall semester. The program will aim to decrease energy usage on campus.

“Sustainability is mind-fulness in your day to day,” Miller said. “It’s honestly not a huge change in your life. It’s thinking ahead rather than doing what’s easy.” v

Initiative seeks to make moving out sustainable

// SKY MORRISONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Donation location in Robert’s Hall. Photo by Sky Morrison.

CAMPUS LIFE 5ISSUE 12 MAY 5

Students’ health was a focus area this past year with the addition of several staff members and pro-grams.

Dietician Linda Sul-livan joined the Holzer Health Center’s staff in late April to provide nutrition-al counseling to students regarding weight control, enhancing strength in ath-letic performance and other issues students may have.

Sullivan has been work-ing as a clinical dietitian in hospitals for 30 years. She also started at Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach 10 years ago.

“I really think where medicine needs to go in the future is toward maintain-ing health and wellness and nutrition is a super import-ant aspect of that,” Sullivan said. “And what better place to do it than at a col-lege education with young, motivated, bright, excited, goal-oriented and awesome students?”

To avoid gaining the “Freshman 15,” Sullivan advises students main-tain a healthy diet, which includes fruits and vegeta-

bles, whole grain breads, and low fat dairy and high fiber products.

“Watching fat grams is a real helpful strategy,” Sullivan said. “You know, fat has nine calories per gram. Carbohydrates and protein, the other two mac-ronutrients, only have four calories per gram.”

Portion control is also a way of upholding a healthy weight. In 2011, the United States Department of Ag-riculture replaced the food pyramid with MyPlate; MyPlate visualizes the appropriate amount of food per food group.

Although Sullivan has just started, she is excited to expand her reach across campus.

The Health Center is not the only one looking toward the future. Head Athletic Trainer Jay John-son is interested in adding a nutritionist to his staff in the next two years.

According to John-son, the athletic teams are pushed to their limits on the field and in the class-room and their efforts leave them “emptied out.”

“To provide a nutrition-ist, dietician, someone who can maybe help the student athlete replenish a little bit I think would be good,” Johnson said. “We see a lot of overuse injuries, we’ve had some eating disorders, certain situations like that where a dietician, nutri-tionist would help out at as well and have more exper-tise than we have.”

While Johnson and Sul-livan are looking the future, Dining Services started making progress months ago with “My Nutrition Calculator.”

Dining Services devel-oped a health tool in the fall

that provides the nutritional value of meals from Crane Creek Pizza and four eater-ies on campus.

“Dining Services has always had the nutritional information for most of our recipe prepared foods, but we never had a good way to disseminate it,” Director of Dining Services Tom Stewart said.

“My Nutrition Calcu-lator” will continue to see updates as Dining Services plans to add allergen infor-mation this summer and a potential app next year. The tool is available on Dining Services’ Website.

Students find many

ways to stay healthy on their own. Mechanical en-gineering major Phil Malo-ney does his own grocery shopping in order to eat the appropriate amount of carbs, proteins and fats for his body.

“You can do zero ex-ercise like walking around and stuff and not really trying to do anything extra, and it’ll still work out for you,” Maloney said. “But, I do believe exercise is abso-lutely important, not neces-sarily with a diet.” v

Students talk about exam stressRed Bulls, Starbucks,

bad foods and late nights studying are many college students’ lives when prepar-ing for final exams. Some college students struggle with managing stress in preparation for final exams for various reasons.

Time management, peer pressure, sports and work are a few examples of the things college students have to juggle in a toss-up with making it to class-es, doing homework and studying for exams. So how do college students choose to manage stress when pre-paring for test-taking?

Natalie Miller, busi-ness major and graduating senior is a student-athlete who recognizes stress is inevitable in college. “Ac-knowledging that it’s going to be stressful, being orga-nized and dressing comfort-ably helps,” said Miller.

She noted her coaches and professors for always being there to help in the most respectful way. “They put a lot of stress on you that they know you can handle,” Miller said.

Graduate student and biotechnology major Jacob Johnvedakumar remem-bers his previous years of undergrad, staying up late nights studying be-fore finals exams. Today, he acknowledges his old studying habits weren’t the best and only caused him to stress more.

“Exam preparation is stressful,” Johnvedakumar said. “I do panic a little, but if I have a prior system-atic study I would take the exam without fear.”

Johnvedakumar reaches out to his friends who have prior knowledge in the sub-jects he is taking for help. He attributes his friends for being a solid support group to help alleviate stress when preparing for exams.

Lauren Mazur, CAPS therapist and outreach coordinator, said, “Even if students don’t know where to start, they can always come in and get pointed in the right direction.”

CAPS is Florida Tech’s on campus counseling and psychological services. Stress counseling is free, but students have to be cur-rently enrolled in classes to receive services.

Group therapy meetings are offered weekly for stu-dents and are confidential. Mazur recommends devel-oping a plan to manage the stress using practical things like a planner, to do lists or preferred medium for students to help keep track of things.

“Make sure you are using coping skills,” Mazur pointed out. “Doing things like eating healthy, get-ting proper sleep, taking a breather and using social support.” v

// SHANTEL HANNACONTRIBUTING WRITER

//ALLIE WOOD CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Meals at the SUB are on “My Nutrition Calculator.” Photo by Allie Wood.

IN REVIEW: Florida Tech places emphasis on health, wellness this year

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Florida Tech tight end Gabe Hughes will not have to travel far to begin his professional career. On Saturday, Hughes signed as an undrafted free agent with the Miami Dolphins, becoming the first player in Florida Tech’s history to sign an NFL contract.

Hughes, a standout at Highland Christian High School in Lighthouse Point, Florida, grew up approxi-mately 30 minutes from the Dolphins’ stadium, for-merly known as Sun Life Stadium.

Hughes played for three seasons in Crimson and Gray after transferring from Western Michigan. Over the course of his career he racked up 1,244 yards

and 10 touchdowns on 74 receptions and snagged all-region honors each of the past two seasons. He was named Honorable Mention All-American by D2Football.com following his senior season.

The tight end has prov-en to possess exceptional breakaway speed, taking the two longest receptions in school-history to the end zone. Hughes housed an 80-yard score against Valdosta State in the Pan-thers’ regular season finale in 2014 and replicated the feat this past season against West Alabama. v

Gabe Hughes making record 80-yard touchdown Photo By Nathaniel Ashton

Tight end signs with Dolphins as free agent

Many fight for gender equality, but have certain ideological pressures on females, such as the num-ber on the scale, blurred the lines of equality?

Florida Tech’s athletic rosters, along with those at many other schools, in-clude the weight category for men’s teams but not women’s.

Ryan Jones, assistant athletic director for athletic communications said that generally women’s rosters don’t include a weight category.

“It’s a tradition at the college level not to include the weights of women, and that's just what we have carried over throughout the years,” Jones said.

Female athletes are sometimes seen as role models when it comes to accepting and loving your body, yet they are still sub-jected to society’s pressures when it comes to their weights.

“I think it’s just the stig-

ma behind exposing wom-en’s weight,” said Ciera Misner, a student-athlete of Florida Tech soccer.

To be a college-lev-el athlete on a men’s or women’s team, it requires a certain level of physical fitness, but the female ath-letes still either oppose the idea or are content with the current category difference.

“The number means a lot to us even if it shouldn't,” said Natasa Vukovic, a student-athlete on the tennis team.

Some female athletes expressed their neutrali-ty to the subject, yet still mentioned how their other team members would not be comfortable with the weight category being listed.

“It really depends on who you talk to, because I think it’s a touchy subject for some people,” said Kaitlin Buchholz, stu-dent-athlete on the softball team. “It could cause more motivation for some peo-

ple and for some people, it could cause hindrance that is not needed.”

Sierra Gipson and Celi-na Pou, student-athletes on the soccer team, said they personally do not mind their weights being on the roster, then chuckled as they mentioned that they are still glad it’s not listed.

Even though not listed as a category wom-en’s teams still keep track of the athletes weights for health monitoring purpos-es. “What we look at is major fluctuations during the season and keeping track of that and making sure that nobody has un-healthy weight gain or loss throughout the season,” said Adam Thorstad, wom-en’s rowing head coach.

When looking for pro-spective student-athletes, coach Adam Smith, head coach of women’s soccer, said that they utilize a num-ber of other criteria before looking at weight.

“We don’t really asso-

ciate weight with being fit and what we’re trying to do is to make sure that they are, what we call our match fitness,” Smith said.

With that in mind we still see a difference in categories between men’s and women’s rosters. “I think basically there is more pressure on women in our society with regards to their weight so I think that they have the right to that privacy,” said Eli Ginsburg, student-athlete on the base-ball team.

Rachel Tobin, a mem-ber of women’s the track and field team, also feels that females face greater pressure when it comes to weight. Tobin said that it’s a physiological and self-confidence issue.

Vukovic said “I’m sure it shows that we’re all equal if we put it on, but then the negatives would be that a lot of people would be even more concerned that someone would make a comment about it and their self-confidence would go

even lower.” Women are subjected to

a great deal of pressure by society about their weight that in this case most athletes and members of the athletic department are more concerned with the psychological effects on the athletes rather than the equality issue.

“As a support staff member in our athletic department we tend to take into consideration signifi-cantly how our student athletes feel,” Jones said, “Is it fair? It’s probably up for discussion but it’s just kind of something that has just always been done that way.”

Is it fair or important? Everyone seems to have their own opinion on that, but should we allow soci-ety’s ideologies rule us and let numbers on a scale de-termine how we feel about ourselves?

Weight category a potential pressure inducer for female athletes

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