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Same-Sex Marriage Speaker Draws Controversy

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Weather Breaks; Falcon Flies Richard Weakley Advertising Manager SpaceX lit up the night sky on Sept 21 at 1:52 a.m. EDT with a thunderous roar lifting the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Launch was originally scheduled to take place on Sept 20 at 2:14 a.m. EDT but was scrubbed due to continuous heavy rains at the launch site. The vehicle was fully fueled but launch controllers called off the countdown before the final polling.

The Falcon 9 is a two-stage liquid fueled rocket. The first stage of the vehicle is powered by nine Merlin engines generating 1.3 million pounds of thrust at sea level and 1.5 million pounds of thrust in space. This is more power than five 747’s operating at full power. The Merlin

engines are fueled by liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1). The fuel tanks of the Falcon 9 vehicle are built with aluminum-lithium alloy, the same lightweight material with which the Space Shuttle’s fuel tanks were constructed. Continued on B3 >>

Tatiana Ivanova Correspondent Jo Becker, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist for The New York Times was on Embry-Riddle soil Sept. 16. In that short time, she took part in a Mark Benier’s talk show, the “President’s Speaker Series.” Her talk drew controversy from a number of attendees, while also receiving a warm welcome from other members of the community. In recent years, gay and lesbian Americans have taken a big leap forward

asking the Supreme Court permission for legalizing gay marriage. For the previous four and a half years, Jo Becker followed the California Court issue known as Proposition 8, the state ban on same-sex marriage. Jo remembered how she was spending all vacation time researching this case on the side along with her main job for The New York Times. Investing around $6 million, the couples fighting Proposition 8 finally won the trial and now their issue will be considered in the Supreme Continued on C3 >>

Fallen Eagle Tim Englehardt

I always pondered what went through Tim’s mind as a media meteorologist when I would watch him talk to open air about his seven day “wethah” forecast in front of our apartment wall, or a McK’s back deck, or pretty much any flat surface he could stand in front of. I wondered how he could stare at a blank screen and create through words and visuals an image that many can understand; with a personal touch that reaches out individually to every viewer. For those three minutes (or sometimes what seemed like thirty), he would create a special moment with each person on the other side of the “camera”; an opportunity to express himself in front of his audience. Tim knew the secret to this question. You can call it a God given talent; you can definitely call it the benefits of hard work and dedication to a craft, but one thing we know: Tim had it down. We all know that Tim was a star in front the camera. We know that he took so much care with his passion and turned it into an art form: a graceful display of brilliance that made him appear as to have broadcasted weather for decades. But we also knew him behind the camera, and nothing was different in how he affected our lives. Trey Henderson Editor-in-Chief The Avion would like to formally apologize for the original information published in Issue 4 regarding Mr. Englehardt’s passing.

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You see it’s hard to differentiate Tim’s character on screen from when he was off it. We all recognize his smile; we all recognize his strong Bostonian accent despite how hard he tried to hide it. We all witnessed his love for his passion, and likewise embraced the same love he had for everyone he knew in our own separate way. We appreciated how he could be so personable and relatable, and even though he could talk off a storm (literally) he would also be willing to lend an ear to listen or an arm to lean on. Tim created for all of us a picture of memories though the green backdrop in his life. Although he had only one canvas to work with, through the lens, each one of us cherishes our own special image created by the times we spent with him. Some of us will look through that lens and see a roommate, a best friend, a weatherman, a real life Kraymer, an wild O-teamer, a closet professional singer, a son, a brother, and one of the most optimistic, realistic, and positively energetic people around. With one life, one blank screen, each one of us remembers him for something different, something individually touching and close to our hearts, something that only we can see by taking a peek in the camera. Just as his brilliance lives on with the countless

We understand the sensitive nature of events like this and our intention is never to publish misinformation. Based on the information we had available during the original authoring of Issue 4, we stated that Tim’s death

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times we will re watch his videos of him broadcasting away, his memory will likewise remain close to us all. We recall our own looping moments with him today; we reflect on them tomorrow. When time passes and we come back and try to replay it in our heads but fail to remember clearly, we will know that we are a close group of people, from his hometown to this university, both active and alumni, who were and continue to be bonded together by the love that was Tim. We mourn a life cut short, but we smile and maybe even laugh at the countless moments that he created for us. We all gather over the next couple weeks, and will continue to remember deep in our hearts, how one man through his words, actions, and personable character with only a brief but special moment in life did so well to change each of ours forever. For Tim, we thank you for the laughs, for the tears, for the hugs and the joy all these years, because you were one in a million, and no one can ever replace the image you created in each of our hearts, and “that is the way we see it”.

was due to suicide, but it has since come to our attention that this is not a confirmed fact. The investigations surrounding his unexpected death are still ongoing. At the request of a close friend of Tim’s, we have retracted, to our best ability, all

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Love you Tim, always have; always will. -Christian Shirra original copies of Issue 4 of The Avion. To more accurately tell about Tim’s life and his passing, we have included the above article. Our deepest condolences go to Tim’s friends, family members, and colleagues.

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