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Educating educatorsMICHAEL TRIMBOLICONTRIBUTOR

On April 5, Dennis Burnham stood outside the College of Education building to protest Senate Bill 6, a subsequently vetoed piece of legislation that would have tied teacher pay to student performance. The exceptional student education major expected more than 100 students. He got one.When no one else showed up, the two moved inside and began speaking to indi-vidual students in the hallways about their future career. Burnham found that his peers knew little about the po-litical ramifications of legislature like Senate Bill 6 and even less about the economic state of Palm Beach and Broward Counties’ kindergarten-through-grade-12 education systems.“I realized more needed to be done to inform education majors about their future profession,” said Burnham, a senior who wants to get students more “actively involved beyond their field experience and student teaching.”The next month, he decided to found the FAU chapter of the Student Florida Educa-tion Association (SFEA) to keep future educators graduating from FAU informed about how the legislative process, both national and state, will affect their career. Burnham said he wants to promote “teacher quality, political action and community outreach” among the members.“There is only so much a professor can do in the classroom,” said Burnham. “Students will be educated about the current political issues surrounding education and decisions being made today and how these decisions will affect them as a teacher. They will be encouraged to vote, send letters/emails to their congressman or state representative, and/or protest if necessary.”The organization’s founder wants his peers to become politically active and become aware about legislation that could affect their career. He wants his fellow education students to join in the fight against bills like Senate Bill 6.The chapter will bring in teachers and ad-ministrators from Broward and Palm Beach Counties to speak to the students, giving

them something that relates to the real world. For example, one of the speakers scheduled for the fall will be a Boca Raton elementary school principal who will speak about what he looks for when hiring new teachers.Burnham, who will be substituting next semester in Palm Beach County, got help starting the chapter from University of Florida student and SFEA state president Laura Roberts.“He was so politically charged for the fight against Senate Bill 6,” said Roberts. “We don’t have any other chapters down south.

I was really excited to start a chapter at FAU.”The members of the FAU SFEA chapter have not officially met yet, according to Burn-ham. Only the officers have come together to plan for the fall semes-ter. But club officials have watched their membership grow since May. As of August,

there were 42 members, said Kim-berly Mallard, the chapter’s vice president and one of its first members.“I knew immediately that I wanted to be involved,” said Mallard, a junior elemen-tary education major. “In the long run, I hope to get resources and contacts within the education field to use when I’m looking for work.”The FAU chapter of the Student Florida Education Association is the branch of a national umbrella organization, the Na-tional Education Association (NEA), which advocates for teachers and other profes-sionals in the education field. Burnham explained that education students need to stay informed about the state of their industry.“By the time we graduate, if things don’t turn around its going go to be very difficult for us to get a job,” said Burnham, referring to the layoffs of more than 500 Broward County teachers in June.According to Roberts, the SFEA state presi-dent, the education industry is a very politi-cally charged environment filled with poli-ticians that feel very strongly about how the state should handle public education. She said that students need to get more involved

so that they can have a voice. To find out what they have slated for the fall, keep an eye on their website: www.fausfea.com.Students who join SFEA get the opportuni-ty to network within the education industry, which is key in an industry plagued with cutbacks, explained Burnham. He added that students will be able to make a name for themselves in the field of education by meeting with professionals already work-ing in the field. Students will be able to advertise themselves and possibly land a job once they graduate.

By joining, students also become members of four other organizations, including the NEA and the Broward Teachers Union.The FAU chapter is affiliated with the BTU, but Burnham stressed that the chapter is not a union. Ultimately, the goal in that partnership is to help dis-seminate “important informa-tion to our members, allowing them to make the decision to take action or not.”

That affiliation has proved fruitful. So far, the BTU has done a lot of the chapter’s marketing, helped them create their logo and helped put together a school supply drive that will benefit two failing-grade, low-income elementary schools — Rosen-wald Elementary in Palm Beach and Sun-land Park Elementary in Broward.According to principal Shawn Allen of Sunland Park Elementary School — which was graded “D” last year, and “F” for three years previously due to poor FCAT scores — the supplies help because most of the parents are on welfare.Burnham explained that the chapter is looking for any types of donations that will lessen the burden on the students, their families and the teachers.“I’ve gone in too many a classrooms, where halfway through the year, the teach-ers were buying the students supplies,” said Burnham. “You take a teacher, especially a first-year teacher making $38,000 a year, trying to support themselves and their fam-ily and yet now they’re turning around and having to support and purchase supplies for 25-30 odd students. It’s not right.”

Club encourages future teachers to learn

Laura Roberts

CORRECTION: In the Sept. 7 issue, the photo of the cross country head coach, Alex Smolka (covered on page 7), was inadvertently mislabeled as the men’s soccer head coach, Kos Donev (covered on page 12).

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So long, legacyFAU’s research vessel Seward Johnson is shipping out

The Seward Johnson is the only ship in the world capable of deploying the Johnson Sea-Link I and II, manned submersibles that are used to collect data for marine research.

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FAU’s northernmost campus, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI), is getting rid of its only ship and its only manned submersibles — small submarines with various at-tachments that allow for underwater data collection. Without them, the campus will have to find a new way to collect underwater data.

This has caused controversy between scientists who are dismayed by the selling of the ship and administrators who see it as a way out of financial trouble.

This ship is called the Research Vessel Seward Johnson (RVSJ), and it will sail away from Harbor Branch later this year for the last time.

Its two submersibles are the Johnson Sea Link I and II (JSL I and II) and were responsible for discovering wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. They can only be deployed into the ocean by the RVSJ. Both will sail with the ship to its destination in Brazil, where they will officially be the property of Cepemar, a Brazilian environmental agency with offices at FAU and abroad.

The RVSJ was named after the founder of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI), Seward Johnson, then heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. Johnson started the insti-tute in the ‘60s, which led to the construction of the submers-ibles in the ‘60s and ‘70s, according to HBOI’s website.

Due to the ship’s failure to meet costs consistently over the last decade, it was sold in May to Cepemar, according to officials at HBOI. The company agreed to let the ship stay in Florida for the recent July-August trip it made to the Gulf of

Mexico in search of oil damage.The RVSJ will be sailing to its new home in Brazil some-

time in November. Although the contract to sell the ship is final and the decision cannot be reversed, HBOI is divided as to the effects this will have on the campus and on FAU.

Goodbye, government In order to sell the ship to Cepemar, or to work with

Cepemar in the first place, Harbor Branch had to cut its ties with University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). The federal organization coordinates ship-time between its fleet of vessels and scientists around the country who need that time. Most of the ships that UNOLS manages are owned by the government. RVSJ is an exception.

UNOLS used to arrange for the RVSJ to be used by either HBOI scientists or scientists from other participating organi-zations. Decisions on who got which ship — a pick from all the ships in UNOLS’ fleet — were based on annual proposi-tions sent in by scientists.

According to Peter Tatro, an executive director at Harbor Branch, the separation from UNOLS was a long time com-ing.

“When the feds have a limited amount of money, they don’t eliminate you. They just don’t fund you,” he said. “We left UNOLS because it was that or sell the vessel.”

In other words, UNOLS wasn’t providing enough funding for the ship to stay operational.

A funded day at sea refers to a cruise, or a research expedi-tion, that is paid for by either HBOI or UNOLS.

Tatro said that, had HBOI stayed with UNOLS, its 2010 agenda would have been almost empty, with only 16 funded

days at sea. “That’s a nonsustainable operation. We would have had to

sell the ship immediately,” he explained. “There isn’t some-body that comes behind it and says, ‘Here, let’s give you the money to do that.’”

For RVSJ, about 250 funded days were needed for it to break even with its costs of operation. According to a graph made by HBOI, in 2005, the ship got 275 funded days, well above its requirement. In 2006, that number fell to 225 days, and by 2007 it only had 147 funded days. The next two years, 2008 and 2009, were not on the graph.

Shirley Pomponi, HBOI’s ex-director and now its execu-tive director for the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Explo-ration, Research & Technology, said that there is another reason for the separation.

“Factually, Pete’s answer is correct, that UNOLS only scheduled 16 days on the Seward Johnson for 2010. But the reason they only scheduled 16 days was because Harbor Branch didn’t participate in any of the scheduling activities,” she said, explaining that these are meetings between scien-tists and UNOLS where research priorities are discussed.

It then became clear to UNOLS that HBOI was looking elsewhere for funds. UNOLS is a government entity and can only support vessels that are public, like the RVSJ used to be. But UNOLS cannot support vessels that work with private companies like Cepemar. UNOLS’ executive secretary, Jon Albert, said that according to federal law, “you can’t do commercial work and govern-ment-sponsored work at the same time,” adding that

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news newsthe government “simply doesn’t allow it. We had hoped that they would stay as part of the fleet, but that

was their decision.” HBOI had intentions to sell the ship even before the separation.Pomponi explained that “UNOLS only scheduled 16 days [in 2010] because they were told the ship

would be sold, and they didn’t want to be in a position where they scheduled time and then had to look for another ship because it was sold.”

According to Tatro, the final push to sell was inevitable.“We’ve been losing money on the ship and the submersibles for years now. This didn’t just happen,”

he said. “The question was: “How much money were we having to subsidize?” We were, over the past several years, losing anywhere from one-plus million dollars to close to two million dollars a year on the enterprise.”

Losing the legacy, gaining Cepemar The RVSJ could have been sold to many different companies, according to Peter

Tatro, but HBOI saw a unique choice in Cepemar.“We wanted to find a way to sell the ship by also creating science and

educational opportunities,” he said, pointing out that in the next five years, according to the contract, Cepemar will make the RVSJ and the JSL available to HBOI for an average of 30 days a year — a three million dollar value.

Craig Ash, Cepemar’s Boca Raton general manager, said that the ship will continue to serve as it has for the past two decades.

“Essentially, it will be an extension of what the ship was doing at Harbor Branch Oceanographic [Institute],” he said. “It will be used for oceanographic studies at Brazil. Primarily, it will be based out of Brazil.”

But according to Tamara Frank, an assistant research professor at HBOI, the move to sell the ship will not be beneficial.

“It’s going to have a huge detrimental effect on anyone doing benthic work,” she said, referring to undersea research. “We’ll just have to scramble to find a way to do the work that we need to do.”

Shirley Pomponi echoed Frank’s sentiments.“It’s a disappointment. That ship and the submersible provide very unique

capabilities to the state and the region and the nation,” she said, adding that she is “one of the people who’s very disappointed that we are losing that capability.”

The ship and its submersibles, according to Peter Tatro, are not as important as the scientists behind them.

“At the end of the day, it’s a ship, a submersible — anything — they’re tools that allow people to do the work,” he said. “Like anything, there are different tools that can do different kinds of jobs well, not just the one you happen to have in your toolkit.”

According to the contract between HBOI and Cepemar, the total price for the RVSJ is $6,038,664. The contract also details that Cepemar is responsible for storing the JSL and making it available annually to HBOI.

According to Pomponi, there is still hope of keeping the JSL itself.“The submersible is still owned by FAU,” she said “I’d like to see it stay in the

States, at FAU.”Frank said she’d tried to keep the submersibles here by petitioning FAU’s ex-

interim president John Pritchett and others.“We tried. We wrote letters to Dr. Pritchett and [former dean of FAU’s College

of Science] Dr. [John] Wiesenfeld, expressing our dismay, expressing our opinion of what was going on,” she said, explaining that “they simply weren’t interested. I think they had been convinced that the ship was just too expensive.”

Frank said that the controversy over whether or not to keep the submersibles was kept under wraps.“The way things are around here, there are just some things that we are not allowed to talk about,” she

said.Pomponi said that “the decision to sell the ship was a bottom-line decision.”“It was costing us money, but that’s an expense — it’s part of the operation of this very unique research

institute,” she said.adding, “We don’t have anything to replace that now. The plan is to use other [research] vessels. As far as I know, there are no plans to replace the manned submersible.”

ShiplessHBOI will now be moving in the direction of finding new technologies for marine research. A remotely

operated vehicle (ROV), a submersible that is unmanned and controlled remotely by a technician, is its top choice. ROVs can be deployed by ships that are chartered when needed for operations. This way, HBOI can continue providing the same service it always has, according to Peter Tatro.

“Harbor Branch was founded and spent the last 37 years as an oceanographic exploration and research capability. And we had a particular set of tools to do that,” he explained. “But the reality is, we were being committed to that legacy. We’re not getting out of the business because we’re selling the ship.”

According to Shirley Pomponi, unmanned submersibles have a place in marine research, but the inability to use them when needed will impact HBOI’s potential.

“The disadvantage is, for example, when there’s a catastrophe like the oil spill. If you own the ship, you have more flexibility,” she said. “When the Challenger exploded, we were able to take our ships and schedule our people on it. If you don’t own a ship, you’re at the mercy of the schedulers.”

Tamara Frank pointed out another flaw in the chartered use of ROVs.

“It turns out that the remote-operated vehicles that can do the collections that the submersibles can do are more expensive than the Johnson-Sea-Link,” she said regarding the daily rate of an expedition.

Since the ship was originally built as a research vessel and not expected to be used as a freighter or a cruise liner, its safety rating, which is dictated by the Coast Guard, was lower than the rating on other vessels its size. In order for Cepemar to agree to buy it, the RVSJ had to be outfitted for Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which included changes ranging from fireproofing cabin doors to getting a rescue boat built into the ship. To oversee these changes, HBOI picked Bill Baxley, director of operations.

Baxley is also behind the development of the ROVs and would be responsible for managing them. Baxley has worked with the Navy and taught the logistics of ROVs at a Broward County high school. He also owns a private company that develops and operates ROVs called Baxley Ocean Visions, Inc. The company’s website, www.bovinc.com, boasts that “a wide range of services are available which incorporate cost-effective, reliable, and innovative solutions to ocean-related problems.”

According to Baxley, however, his private company does not pose a conflict of interest with his position at HBOI.

“It is a conscious decision that I keep the two separate,” he wrote in an e-mail, adding that HBOI can actually benefit from his side job. “HBOI benefits from my knowledge and contacts since I use both to further HBOI work when possible.”

Baxley said that he annually reports to FAU about BOV as part of FAU’s outside employment policy. However, his resumes, posted on both the Harbor Branch website, www.fau.edu/hboi, and BOV’s website, do not match.

In the one posted on FAU’s website, BOV is not mentioned. And on BOV’s website, FAU is not mentioned.

According to Peter Tatro, HBOI’s move toward using ROVs is solid.

“We do have a remotely operated vehicle that we have spent a fairly considerable level of effort and are nearing completion on, that will provide a deep scientific capability,” he said. “The reality is, we’re sitting here where the era is changing. It didn’t end. It’s

changing, it’s evolving.”

Unless otherwise noted, the following has been paraphrased from an interview with an FAU employee who spoke under the condition of anonymity.

Scientists and administrators at FAU’s Harbor Branch disagree about a ship that is being sold to a Brazilian company. Almost no one, however, has agreed to discuss George Gunther, the ship’s ex-captain who quit in May.

The Seward Johnson, a research vessel owned by the Harbor Branch campus and FAU by extension, spent a short time in the Bahamas in May. It was being repaired in anticipation of its sale later this year. On its return, Gunther decided to leave the ship, and instead returned to the States by plane. He claimed that abandoning the ship was the right and legal thing to do. The ship’s chief mate, or second-in-command, sailed it back instead.

In an e-mail to the UP, Gunther wrote, “You may include my story and set the record straight,” referencing the reason why he left the ship: obeying the law.

When Gunther requested tax forms and signatures from Harbor Branch for the Seward Johnson, as is routine when returning from abroad, he was denied his request. After a second attempt and a second refusal, the tenured captain stepped off, but not before alerting customs to the issue, which stopped the ship at bay and kept it under investigation for a week, according to an anonymous source.

“I was not derelict in my duties,” the ex-captain wrote about why he decided to leave the ship. “Rather, I chose to do what was right and legal, as I always had during my 17 years at Harbor Branch.”

Peter Tatro, an executive director at Harbor Branch, refuted details of the story.

“It has representations of the truth, it has portions that are accurate, but not all,” he said.

After Gunther got back to Florida, he was summoned to Harbor Branch and given one of two choices: either resign or be fired, according to Tatro.

Asked about why Gunther is no longer captain of the Seward Johnson, Tatro said that he knew “in intimate detail why he resigned. And the issue has little, if anything, to do whatsoever with the customs issue, other than after the fact.”

Later, Tatro confirmed that Gunther had been given the choice mentioned above, refusing to cite the exact reason for it. And although he had earlier said that Gunther’s resignation was not connected to the customs issue, Tatro later contradicted himself when referencing the customs arrest of the ship.

He said that he understood why the investigation occurred, “given [Gunther’s] assertions after his separation that caused customs to get involved.”

Tatro maintained that Harbor Branch did nothing wrong.

“[The customs investigation] lasted all of about a week. Everything got comfortably resolved,” he said. “We were on Dateline News for eight minutes [on Aug. 1] with remarkable science and achievements of this institution. I’d prefer that be the focus [of the article].”

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Peter Tatro Bill BaxelyGeorge Gunther shirley

PomponiTammy Frank

Above: The Johnson-sea-Link I (JsL) is 27 feet long and rated to dive down to about 3,000 feet. It can hold four people, two in front and two in back. The JsL is known for its contribution to discovering wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. It has been part of Harbor Branch for almost 40 years.

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FRANCO PANIZOSPORTS EDITOR

FAU hosted its first home game of the 2010 season against Michigan State on Sept. 11, but the Owls had to travel 1,120 miles to Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., to do so.

The Owls made the trip to Michigan to make amends to the Spartans after having initially promised them to play the game on its pending on-campus stadium in Boca Raton. Complications in funding changed those plans, so the Owls decided to host the game at the home of the Detroit Lions, where FAU suffered a 30-17 loss in front of an announced crowd of 36,124.

As anticipated, the Owls were outmatched by the superior Spartans and fell to 1-1 on the season. What was not expected was how FAU would make a comeback attempt in the second half — a comeback attempt that was marred by questionable coaching decisions.

With the score 30-14 in favor of MSU, FAU had a chance to pull within one score as it reached the Spartans’ one-yard line. For some reason, however, head coach Howard Schnellenberger opted to kick a field goal on fourth and goal instead of attempting to score a six-yard touchdown.

Ross Gornall’s kick was good, but the Owls had nothing to lose in attempting to try to score and get a two-point conversion to bring the game within eight. Had they not

scored at all, they would have lost 30-14 as opposed to 30-17. Big whoop.

The questionable decision by Schnellenberger and his coaching staff notwithstanding, FAU actually put forth a performance worthy of some recognition.

Forcing two turnovers (an interception and a fumble), seeing tight end Rob Housler catch for 75 yards on 7 catches, and the continued stellar play from quarterback Jeff Van Camp and wide receiver Lester Jean should give FAU faithful enough confidence to think that this team is capable of putting together a strong season.

Another encouraging sign for FAU was seeing its offense sustain long drives. On two separate occasions, once in each half, the Owls managed to put together drives longer than seven minutes, and both ended with FAU’s only touchdowns.

In the first quarter, the Owls marched 77 yards before running back Alfred Morris capped the 15-play drive with a two-yard touchdown run. In the third, FAU went 80 yards on 16 plays. The scoring play on that drive was a two-yard pass from Van Camp to tailback Xavier Stinson.

As many positives as there were, there were also negatives. Despite forcing two turnovers, the defense could not avoid conceding a big play when, in the third quarter, it allowed MSU running back Edwin Baker to run loose for an 80-yard score.

On offense, the offensive line was dominated, as evidenced by Morris’ paltry 54 yards on 20 carries. Also, besides Jean, who caught six balls for 99 yards, FAU lacked a wide receiver capable of shouldering the load. Avery Holley was second in receiving among wideouts, with three catches for 23 yards.

Those are areas of concern for FAU as it heads into its first bye week of the year, but the Owls likely won’t see competition of such a high caliber again during its remaining 10 games.

That’s not to say that being complacent with what they have will be enough for the Owls down the road. The offensive line still needs to keep on growing and gelling together, Housler must continue to emerge as a go-to guy, and the defense needs to force turnovers just as it did against MSU.

FAU gets a chance to fine-tune those aspects for two weeks before it plays its next game, an actual home game at

Lockhart Stadium against North Texas.

owls can draw positives despite being outgunned by stronger Michigan State

If you want to go:

- What: FAU vs. North Texas- When: Saturday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m.- Where: Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale - For more info: www.fausports.com

Respectable result

Below: Linebacker Michael Lockley and FAU’s defense may have surrendered 30 points, but the unit’s ability to force turn-overs was one of several positives for the owls.

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In the week before school started, the now-enlarged playing space was used mostly as a storage area while the final touches were being done to complete the rest of the studio. Now, since the second week of classes, students in the commercial music ensemble class have room to practice and record music.

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After two years of fundraising, the commercial music program finally has equipment to brag about.

Of the three studio spaces that FAU has, the room referred to as “Studio A,” on the first floor of the Arts and Letters building, got the most impressive overhaul. It has a new mixing room, practice space and recording area.

The conversion from old to new in Studio A started in the summer of 2009, with major construction to the space that included knocking down old walls and creating new ones. The second stage of the project, which took place this past summer, dealt with setting up the new equipment.

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“Now the students are going to be able to work with top-notch equipment,” said Sanchez.

Senior commercial music majors Dante de Paoli, Jason Hester and Andres Beuses helped professor Sanchez throughout the process. Now they get to enjoy the results when Sanchez holds classes in the mixing room and when they participate in recording student music with artists signed to the student-run record label Hoot/Wisdom Recordings.

“Getting to unpack the boxes and unwrapping everything was the best part,” said de Paoli. “It was like Christmas on steroids.”

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