Issue 11 Fall 2011

Tuesday November 22, 2011

Volume CXXXII Issue 11

Peter Tan

Level 25 Thief

I am playing the PC version of the game, so your experience with graphics and controls might differ if you are a console gamer.

The blackness slowly fades away as I am awoken to the sight of three other men sitting on a cart. Our hands are bound, and we are obviously prisoners. The thief opposite me is crying out that he is not a rebel, and he does not want to die. I look down at my feet and go along for the ride.

After a rebel is beheaded, my head is the next to be placed on the executioner’s block, but an ominous rumble is heard in the distance.

As the executioner raises his ax, a huge dragon appears behind him and makes the ground shake. I seize the opportunity to run, and with the help of an Imperial Legion Soldier, I follow him into the keep to seek shelter from the dragon.

Having spent the last five years playing and modding The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, to say that I have been anticipating this game is an understatement. I have also played both The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, and this is without a doubt the most polished release of an Elder Scrolls game Bethesda has given us.

Having had Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas in these last years to learn from, and having had success with their console versions, Skyrim has an interface that while console friendly, is also PC friendly, unlike that of Oblivion’s.

The whole setup is sleek and minimalistic, perhaps reflecting the trend the entire digital world is moving toward today. Everything is easily navigated via the keyboard with helpful tooltips at the bottom of the screen for hotkeys. While this is most definitely a console feature, I liked being able to do everything with my keyboard.

Without a doubt, this is the most beautiful game on the market right now. On maximum settings, the quality of detail is almost photorealistic, and objects in the world blend together so well you might forget that this is just a video game.

Perhaps my only criticism is that with such vibrant graphics, the hyperrealism could cause eyestrain, especially with a game like this, where you will spend hours a session.

The improved graphics truly shine in

the new inventory system where the only statistics now are the damage/armor rating, the weight and the value of an item.

About three-quarters of the screen is now occupied by a full 3D model of the item, which you are free to spin around and admire.

The Legion Soldier, Hadvar, is a Nord by birth, and he cuts my binds, urging me to look around the barracks we are in for armor and weapons. I find some Legion Light Armor, and a sword. These will have to make do for now. Suiting up, I follow him deeper into the keep, hopefully finding a way out that will avoid the dragon above.

As we venture deeper, we encounter some Stormcloak rebels, people from the same faction that I was about to be executed with moments before. Seeing Hadvar and I clad in Legion armor, they instantly attack, and I am forced to draw my sword to defend myself.

True dual wielding is finally seen with Skyrim featuring a staggering amount of possible combinations. You could have any combination of two one-handed weapons, a spell in one hand and a sword in the other, a shield in your left hand and a fireball in your right hand, or both hands wielding fireballs for a truly explosive result.

The slow-motion deathblow scenes were definitely lessons taken from Bethesda’s experience with Fallout 3.

When an enemy is close to dying, your last swing becomes a flourish, and the one I like the most so far is a quick shield bash to the head exposing your opponent’s neck before plunging a sword in with a visceral piercing of meat sound effect.

Escaping the keep, Hadvar and I make our way to Riverwood to seek out his Uncle Alvor, a smith, who might be able to help us.

Parrying the rebel’s warhammer, he is momentarily stunned as I circle around him and execute a quick swipe to his chest. Blood splashes all over, before Hadvar, already finished with his opponent, stabs my enemy from behind in a deathblow.

The combat system and interface in Skyrim is totally revamped with the three main bars of Health, Magicka, and Fatigue hiding when not in use.

It is evident that many of the new combat changes were derived from the mod Deadly Reflex for Oblivion.

Features like timed blocking, shield bashes and flourishing deathblows were all introduced by the dedicated modding community to Oblivion as early as 2007. The fact Skyrim contains all these features show Bethesda’s commitment to the community and their willingness to learn.

The new magic system is definitely inspired by Bioshock’s Plasmid system. Whereas magic once used to be a spamming of fireballs, the same flame spell now can be shot as a fireball, shot as a stream of fire, or laid down as a trap. Rather than specific spells like in the past, you now have a type of spell and can manipulate it to your desires.

Alvor gives us some supplies and asks if I would like to learn some smithing. I take some leather straps, and a few iron ingots to the forge. In a matter of minutes, I craft a simple iron dagger that Alvor lets me keep.

Crafting was introduced to Oblivion with Martigen’s Monster Mod, and Skyrim takes the idea of crafting to a whole new level.

Practically any weapon or armor can be created provided you have the right materials and the required skill. Combined with the enchanting skill, you have the ability to forge some powerful items.

After spending some time at the forge, making armor and a sword, my smithing skill increases and triggers a level up. Selecting the level up button takes my view skywards as I observe the constellations in the sky, each representing a different skill.

The smithing skill is just a small part of the massive revamp of the entire skill system. Attributes like strength and agility no longer exists and only the core statistics of Health, Magicka and Fatigue remain.

You now have the ability to select perks in skills each time you level up, rather than have a generic perk given to you when a skill hits a number. This allows you to customize your play style exactly to what you desire. You could

end up with a lightning shooting, axewielding thief in the shadows.

The gameplay and interface overall has changed a lot, and most of it is for the better. I find that the removal of certain features like item durability takes away from the immersive-ness, but I am confident there will be a mod for it in the coming weeks.

The new interface makes navigation easy as the hotkeys in the various menus make navigation a breeze. The combat system makes every battle feel like life or death as each swing you make might leave you unable to defend.

Crafting and enchanting will provide hours of distraction as you travel the landscape combing for materials, and the each of the three main paths of Warrior, Mage, and Thief have their own crafting skill of smithing, enchanting and alchemy respectively.

As with all Elder Scrolls games, there are Daedric Shrines that provide quests, you can become a vampire and new with Skyrim is the ability to become a werewolf as well.

The biggest addition to the game is the Dragon Shout power. Being a Dragonborn, you have the innate ability to use your voice to do things. In practice, the powers function quite like Jedi powers like a force push or force sprint. I have only discovered a few powers already, but they greatly add to the dynamics of the game.

At the end of the day, this is a huge game that looks to take at least a hundred hours to see everything, and is not for the faint hearted.

This is a game for the dedicated RPG player, and if you loved Fallout 3 or Oblivion, you should already be playing this game. For those looking to try the genre, this is not a bad place to start, as it is a lot more polished than previous games in the series.

If you are a fan of shooters or strategy games, I suggest you give this game a miss because the appeal of this is exploring the world and discovering new things, characteristics not shared with other games.

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ERAU flight team takes Send some holiday first again in regionals cards to our troops Oleg Sendzyuk Flight Team

The Embry-Riddle Eagles Flight Team members are the 2011 National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) Region IX Champions.

The 2011 Region IX Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference (SAFECON) took place at Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne, Florida. The conference was hosted by the Florida Institute of Technology.

This victory continues the Eagles Flight Team’s 25+ year legacy of winning the NIFA Region IX SAFECON. In an e-mail to the university faculty, head coach and College of Aviation professor Charles (Les) Westbrooks stated, “The university can be proud of the team’s performance on the field of play. These young women and men displayed outstanding character and were exceptional ambassadors of the university.”

The competition held host to schools from various parts of the southeastern United States.

These colleges included: Embry-

Riddle (Daytona Beach), Auburn University, Florida Institute of Technology, Jacksonville University, Miami Dade College, Broward College and Florida Memorial University.

The schools competed in an assortment of ground and flying events. In the end, Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach was acclaimed as the overall champion. This was

the team’s first regional competition with their new Cessna Skycatcher.

Our university took first place trophies for the ground and flying events.

With this achievement, EmbryRiddle (Daytona Beach), along with Auburn University and

Florida Institute of Technology will represent Region IX at the 2012 NIFA National SAFECON (May 2012) in Salina, Kansas.

The Eagles Flight Team would like to thank the university faculty, staff and students for their continuous support.

For more information on the Eagles Flight Team, visit www.

EaglesFlightTeam.org where you can learn about the flight team.

For more information about NIFA, visit www.NIFA.us.

First place winners for EmbryRiddle: • Computer Accuracy

Annie Smith • Preflight Inspection

Benjamin Ingraham • Aircraft Recognition

Phil Rademacher • S i m u l a t e d Comprehensive Aircraft Navigation

Caesar Yuen • IFR Ground Trainer

Sebastian Chruszcz • Navigation

Luis Terrazas

Matthew Kehr • Message Drop

Amanda Sorensen

Benjamin Ingraham

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Karissa Hewitt

Staff Reporter The season of turkeys, Christmas trees and beautifully wrapped presents is approaching and, as we prepare to enjoy our winter break, troops overseas are experiencing a Thanksgiving and Christmas in the Middle East.

As numerous units withdraw from Afghanistan, men and women in foreign countries are left with their brothers/sisters-in-arms over the

News Editor On Friday, Nov. 18, graduate students in the HFS615 Sensation and Perception class were treated to a special guest lecture given by ERAU President Dr. John Johnson.

Johnson covered his favorite topic of audition (the sense of hearing) for just over an hour in Dr. John French’s class.

Johnson started off the lecture with a heartfelt statement of “I really appreciate the opportunity to come back and teach.”

Starting with a brief history of his background, Johnson recalled how he ended up in the University management track.

“I walk out of a faculty meeting one day to use the washroom, and while I’m gone, they vote me the department chair, and it has been downhill ever since,”

said Johnson to the laughing students.

Johnson carried on talking about his teaching career in various other universities and how he missed teaching. French offered up a quick response to that, “Teaching is preparing well for your lecture and executing it and feeling this great sense of accomplishment.”

Going further into his history, Johnson explained how he was in pre-med school before switching over to bioengineering.

While he was in school, a professor noticed he was more interested in figuring out the functions of the human body and the symptoms, rather than actually treating patients. The same professor recommended that he look into doing biomedical research for his post-graduate studies and that was it for him.

Before starting on the course material, Johnson gave a dis-

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claimer on the risks of guest lecturing.

“With guest lecturing, the danger is either repeating known information, thus boring the class, or going way over the head of the students,” said Johnson.

On the whiteboard were some sketches of the human auditory system, going from the outer ear all the way into the inner ear.

Alongside these sketches were diagrams showing how neural impulses travel from the ear to the brain and the path they take.

Doing a quick review of the human body’s auditory system, he explained how what we hear starts out as acoustic energy (sound waves) before becoming mechanical energy on touching the eardrum, before becoming hydraulic energy inside the cochlea.

To get an idea of how sensitive the human eardrum is, Johnson

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sacrifice their lives to be separated from their loved ones and to fight for our country deserve kind, loving words this holiday season.

If any student or faculty has the chance, please write a letter or card and bring it to the Avion office before Dec. 2, or send it directly to: Holiday Mail For Heroes P.O. Box 5456 Capitol Heights, MD 207915456 Have a fantastic holiday season!

Students Speak Out Branden Siegle ERRSA

The Embry-Riddle Resident Student Association hosted their ever popular Open Mic Night last Sunday. The performances were spectacular. There was everything from great singing to spoken word. There was so much talent and ERRSA hopes to host another Open Mic Night next semester.

Also, the Residence Life Forum was informative as always. Questions of all types were answered from issues with laundry rooms to residence hall security.

Finally, the Acafellas will be having a fall concert in the Student Village Atrium on Dec 2 at 7 p.m. The Acafellas always sound great and this concert is going to have the added bonus of being opened by the Acabellas. Be sure to join us for an evening of great music.

Have an awesome and safe

Dr. John Johnson gets back into the classroom Peter Tan

holidays.

With the inability to be in their homeland during the wonderful winter season, civilians in the U.S. are being kindly asked to spend a few minutes of their day to write letters or send cards to troops deployed over seas.

Holiday Mail for Heroes is an American Red Cross organization stationed in Maryland. They receive bulks of cards from across the states and send them overseas for the troops away from home.

The men and women who

said that if you cut a postage stamp into 14 equal pieces, and cut one of those pieces into a 1000, the eardrum would still be able to detect that tiny piece falling on it.

Johnson had the attention of all 15 students as they listened to every word he said. Speaking in great detail about the vestibular system, he explained how differential pressures between fluid levels in our ear give us our sense of balance.

Despite not teaching on a daily basis, Johnson still taught well, as student Anne-Claire Blondeau commented on his lecture, “I liked it, I think he should be teaching more.”

“There were a lot of good questions from my students,” said French. “I think that is indicative of interest. He peppered it with funny anecdotes and interesting facts. I’ve had lots of good comments already.”

Thanksgiving break and we will see you next week. For more information about ERRSA, come down to a general board meeting in the Fountain Room on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., visit their ERAU Connection page, ‘like’ their Facebook page: Embry-Riddle Resident Student Association.

Stand Up! Rev. Melynne Rust

Interfaith Chaplain One of the goals of the Chaplains Office is to foster a healthy interfaith community on campus, encouraging and providing support for students, staff, and faculty to respect people from diverse religious traditions. How can we respect people who hold vastly different religious beliefs, oftentimes contradictory to our own deeply held religious beliefs?

With relig i o u s diversity, it is helpful to look at what respect means.

Respect can be both a belief and a behavior.

We can treat someone with respect (behavior) without having to believe that they are worthy of that respect (belief). To exhibit the behavior of respect without the belief of respect is nothing more than being “politically correct” (or, in other words, behaving in a way that meets certain expectations). Behavior of respect without belief of respect is what often leads to “political incorrectness,” or inappropriate language and unethical behavior.

Belief of respect is about recognizing people as human beings rather than identifying them as categories, whether it is religion, race, gender, disability, or sexual identity. Belief of respect is about valuing people as human beings. It is about believing that human beings

have fundamental, or sacred, worth, regardless of what they look like, what they believe, or how they behave. It is about remembering that before someone is anything else, he/she is a human being, and that humanity is a community we all belong to. If we believe human beings have value, then it goes a long way in enabling us to treat them with value.

When our belief of respect matches our behavior of respect, it is called integrity. We have integrity when our ethical behavior stems not from others’ expectations or requirements, but from our own ethical beliefs. The belief that all human beings have value and should be treated with value is at the core of most religious and philosophical traditions. Therefore, when we treat people with value because we believe humanity has value, we are not just being respectful; we are also often being faithful to our own particular religious tradition. In this way, we can hold onto our deeply held religious beliefs and at the same time respect people who believe differently.

Diversity, respect, integrity…. these three words are part of the STAND UP campaign. You can STAND UP for integrity, diversity, and respect by recognizing people from diverse religious traditions as human beings, valuing their humanity, and treating them with respect because of it.

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Women’s Soccer gets opening round win with 1-0 decision against Judson took place in the Embry-Riddle half of the field, but in the 10th minute Krizzy Menez took a shot that went over the b a r and that

JUDSON EMBRY-RIDDLE

attempt swung the momentum in favor of the

were looking for in the 15th minute. Valerie Obita collected the ball in front of

deep into the corner, she completed a pass to Tova Torstensson just outside

unable to find the back of the net again and

took the one-goal lead into the halftime break.

Coming out of the intermission, it was Judson that had the better chances to score, including Jenna Steffensen’s shot that was saved by Kara Haack off the line in the 47th minute and a shot by Angela Bianchi in the 53rd minute that was turned back by ERAU goalkeeper Lauren Gallant.

The Eagles withstood the pressure and began to create scoring chances of their own.

In the 55th minute, Martine Olsen rifled a shot from about 25 yards out that had Judson keeper Sara Hoffman beat, but the ball banged off the post to deny ERAU a chance at increasing their lead. Near misses turned out to be a theme for the Eagles for the remainder of the second half as, in addition to hitting the post, they had shots go cleared off the line by the Judson defense or bounce off the cross bar or miss the goal by inches, resulting in the 1-0 final score.

For the game, ERAU held a 20-8 shot advantage over Judson who ended its 2011 campaign at 16-3-2.

The games at the NAIA National Championship Final Site will take place Nov. 28-Dec. 3 at the Jack Allen Recreation Complex in DeCatur, Ala. ERAU will take on Olivet Nazarene who topped Hannibal LaGrange 3-1 in their Opening Round match. The Eagles and the Tigers will square off at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

for the game, including a 58.6 percent (17-29) clip in the second half, but ONU’s 18 field goals in the first half compared to 11 by the Eagles, proved to be the difference as the Blue and Gold fell to 4-2, while the Tigers improved to 4-1.

The scoring started with a three-point basket by Touchard, but the Tigers answered immediately with a pair of jumpers and a free throw to take a 5-3 lead. Ray Graham tied things up for the Eagles at the 17:39 mark, but once again ONU had an answer and a three-pointer

by Ben Worner sparked a 13-0 run over the next three minutes that gave the Tigers a 20-7 lead.

The Tigers, who shot 52.9 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes, maintained

a double-digit advantage until the midway point of the first half. With 9:25 left in the frame, Touchard hit back-toback free throws to pull the Eagles within eight (30-22). A trey by Billy Serle and a layup by DeForest Carter made it a three-point game (30-27), but the Tigers, paced by nine points each from Hasselbring and Antonio Marshall, quickly built the lead back up to 13 points and took a 44-35 cushion into the intermission.

Early in the second stanza, the Eagles went on another run, outscoring the Tigers 13-5 to cut the lead to four (15:40) with 15:40 left to play.

ONU was able to withstand the Eagle surge and over the next seven and a half minutes, the Tigers bested ERAU 24-12

and extended the cushion to 16 points (76-60).

Despite the deficit, the Eagles continued to battle and their tenacity paid off as they began to chip away at the lead.

Graham started the rally with a lay-up and a free throw and after five straight Eagle trips to the free throw line made it a nine-point (76-65) game, ONU head coach Ralph Hodge called a timeout.

The short break slowed the Eagles momentarily and allowed the Tigers to go back up by 13 (80-67), but the Blue and Gold refused to give up and steadily cut into the lead once again. The Eagle defense forced turnovers on seven of ONU’s next 13 possessions and the offense countered by connecting on six of their next

eight shots to make it a fourpoint game with 1:04 remaining.

Following a Graham lay-up, Carter forced Ben Worner to cough up the basketball, but the Eagles were unable to convert the miscue into points as a three-point attempt missed the mark and was rebounded

by ONU’s Jake Boyce, giving the ball back to the Tigers with 41 seconds left. The Eagles then resorted to fouling in the closing seconds, but ONU was up to the challenge as Marshall went 6-for-6 from the charity stripe in the last 34 seconds to seal the win.

Touchard was 11-of-20 from the field and a perfect 7-for7 from the free throw line to go with two assists and six rebounds. Graham also made

all seven of his free throw attempts to finish with 25 points.

Marshall was the leading scorer for ONU with 23 points.

The Tigers had four players score in double figures, including Worner (15), Boyce (14) and Hasselbring (13).

Marshall was named the tournament MVP and was joined on the All-Tournament team by teammates Boyce and Worner, along with ERAU’s Graham and Touchard and Warner Pacific’s Sean Gaines.

The Eagles will travel to California for a pair of games during the Thanksgiving break.

ERAU will take on Cal State San Marcos on Wednesday and Azusa Pacific on Friday. Both games are slated for 7:30 p.m.

Pacific Standard Time.

Austin Quinn

Opening Round with a tough loss to William Carey University at Crusader Field.

The 14th-seeded Eagles (135-2) battled back from a 2-0 halftime deficit, but it wasn’t enough as the 13th-seeded Crusaders (14-3-3) came away with the victory, 3-2.

The 21st-ranked Eagles and 20th-ranked Crusaders were two evenly matched teams coming into and throughout the contest as the game proved to be a battle until the final whistle.

Play in the first 20 minutes of the contest was fast paced and went back and forth between ERAU and WCU. In the 15th minute of play Embry-Riddle nearly came away with an early lead when Viktor Gudnason took a great touch on a ball that came from midfield. The Njardvik, Iceland native was able to beat a defender, and get off a shot. His shot, however, was saved masterfully by William Carey’s keeper, Carl Goody.

The Eagles kept the pressure on the Crusader defense as Gudnason was also able to fire off two more shots in the next two minutes, but they were both blocked and the score remained tied at 0-0.

William Carey was finally able to strike in the 31st min-

ute when Luis Trude received a ball from Francois Navarro about five yards outside of the penalty area. Trude gathered the pass and was able to get off a shot that beat Eagle keeper Nils Carlson in the bottom right corner of the net and put William Carey up, 1-0.

Less than a minute later, WCU was able to score again when Johannes Forstpointer played a ball to Navarro on the left side of the field. Navarro got off a pass to Trude on a run in the middle of the pitch as Trude was able to take another shot that was just out of the reach of Carlson. The goal put the Crusaders up 2-0 and gave them the momentum going into the second half as Embry-Riddle was unable to answer in the remaining 13 minutes of the first half.

Embry-Riddle came out of the locker rooms at half with a resurgence of energy and immediately controlled possession, pressuring the Crusaders half of the pitch.

At last, in the 52nd minute, the Eagles got on the board. ERAU was given a free kick when WCU’s Daniel Gudmundson was given a yellow card for taking down Gudnason just outside the box. Ally MacDonald elected

to take the free kick for the Blue and Gold and blasted it past Goody in the top right corner of the net to make the score 2-1 in favor of the Crusaders.

Embry-Riddle continued to pressure the William Carey defense and nearly tied up the game just a minute later when Antoine Ndiaye got off a great left footed shot on goal. Again, however, Goody was there to make another fantastic save and punch the ball over the net.

Possession remained with the Eagles and finally, in the 62nd minute, ERAU was able to score the equalizer.

MacDonald sent a beautiful ball that found Gudnason on a run down the left side.

Gudnason collected the pass and sent a cross towards the back post that found Ndiaye.

Ndiaye was able to get off a shot, Goody was unable to make the save and the Eagles had made a brilliant comeback and tied the game at 2-2.

The momentum was back in the hands of the Eagles, but they weren’t able to capitalize as both teams went back and forth after ERAU tied the game at two. It was William Carey who answered in the 69th minute of play.

The Crusader’s got their goal scoring opportunity when they earned a corner after Ryan Weir’s shot was deflected by Carlson. Trude, who had both of the Crusader goals, took the corner from the right side of the pitch and lofted a ball into the box that found the head of Jonny Fairbairn. Fairbairn’s header got past Carlson and gave the Crusader’s the lead once again, 3-2.

The Eagles battled until the very end, but were unable to answer this time. ERAU’s offense struggled to find another chance to score, only getting off one shot in the final 21 minutes of the contest and falling to the Crusaders by way of a 3-2 final.

With the win, the Crusaders advance to the sweet 16 and the final site of 2011 Men’s Soccer NAIA National Championship, which will be held in Orange Beach, Ala. Nov. 28- Dec. 2.

Embry-Riddle’s season ends here, but the Eagles had a successful year. They became the 13th team in ERAU history to record double digit wins and eighth team to win a conference title. The Eagles will look to be strong next year as they return all but three players on the roster.

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Eagles from Daytona Beach.

After controlling the possession in Judson’s defensive third, the Embry-Riddle Eagles finally got the breakthrough they

the Judson bench on the left side of the field and lifted the ball high into the air toward the 18-yard box. Menez ran onto the ball after it bounced i n t o the box and after taking it

Ryan Mosher

ERAU Athletics The Embry-Riddle women’s soccer team advanced to the final site of the 2011 NAIA Women’s Soccer National Championship with a 1-0 victory over Judson (Ill.) in their NAIA National Championship Opening Round match, Saturday at the EmbryRiddle Soccer Stadium.

Saturday’s win was the Eagles’ first in NAIA National Tournament play since 2004 when they defeated Spring Arbor 3-2. In addition to improving their overall record to 17-21, ERAU set a new record for team goals scored in a single season with 70 on the year.

At the start of the contest, both teams tried to find their rhythm, but it was Judson who registered the first shot of the game as Angela Bianchi’s shot missed to the right of the goal. Much of the action

the penalty area. Torstensson took one touch before launching a shot across the face of the goal into the left side netting, giving ERAU a 1-0 lead.

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Touchard posts career night in Eagle’s 83-88 loss to Olivet Nazarene EMBRY-RIDDLE 83 OLIVET NAZARENE 88 Alison Smalling

ERAU Athletics Senior Blake Touchard recorded a career-high 32 points on Saturday night, but it was not enough to get the Embry-Riddle men’s basketball team by Olivet Nazarene as the Eagles fell to the Tigers 88-83 in the championship game of the Daytona Mitsubishi Shootout.

The Eagles shot 51.9 percent

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The 21st-ranked EmbryRiddle men’s soccer team’s season came to an end Saturday night in the NAIA National Championship

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Friday, Nov. 25:

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Thursday, Dec. 1:

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Women’s cross country places 24th at NAIA National Championships Ryan Mosher

ERAU Athletics The Embry-Riddle women's cross county team ran to a 24th-place finish at the NAIA National Championships on Saturday afternoon, their thirdbest place in program history.

Karina Coelho paced the Blue and Gold harriers, running a 19:22 mark to 64th overall.

Following Coelho was sophomore Ellie Staker with a time of 19:47, good for 97th place.

Coelho's 19:22 was her secondfastest of the season.

Coming in third and fourth on the Eagles' squad were

senior Julie Mayfield (19:51) and junior Nicole Bonk (19:57), while freshman Aleiyah Ross (20:05) rounded out the Eagle scorers. Mayfield placed 114th and Bonk was 128th and Ross finished in 135th place.

Baleigh Hyatt (20:07) and Bailey Eaton (21:17) were the other Eagles who participated in the 323-runner event.

ERAU's 538 total points put them just three behind 23rdplace Park (535). California State San Marcos (82) won the 2011 national title, while Azusa Pacific (91), British Columbia (171), Northwest Christian (172) and Friends (192) finished in the top five.

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Kirwa finishes sixth, Eagles 28th at NAIA National Championships Ryan Mosher

ERAU Athletics The 2011 NAIA Men's Cross Country National Championships were held on Saturday afternoon at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Vancouver, Wash., and the Embry-Riddle Eagles finished 28th out of the 32 total teams in the event. Junior Evans Kirwa earned his second AllAmerican honor with his sixthplace finish, Kirwa was also an NAIA All-American in 2009.

The Eagles, who earned an automatic bid to the National Championships thanks to their seventh straight Sun Conference title on Nov. 5, got Kirwa's second-fastest time this season and fourth-fastest time in ERAU history to pace the squad. Kirwa ran the 8K event in 24:16, edging out Greg Montgomery of

College of Idaho for sixth overall.

Senior Alex Frazier, running in his final cross country event as a member of the Blue and

Gold, ran a time of 26:25, his third-fastest of the season, and good for 121st overall.

Freshman Jacob Dordick, the Eagle most responsible for

sending ERAU to the National Championships because of his personal-best time at the conference meet, shattered his twoweek old time with a 26:48 mark

at the NAIA meet. Dordick's time put him 151st of the 312 total runners at the event.

Rounding out the Eagles scorers were junior Josh Guerrero

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(27:23) and freshman Alex Hernandez (27:32), while Zach Kraus (27:49) and Patrick Clare (28:12) also ran for Head Coach Mike Rosolino.

The Eagles totalled 652 points to place 28th, Oklahoma Christian put five runners in the top 50 and tallied 93 points to claim the 2011 title.

California State San Marcos (188), Southern Oregon (206), Lewis-Clark State (228) and Wayland Baptist (254) rounded out the top five teams.

Kirwa becomes ERAU's first two-time All-American in cross country, as well as earning the highest individual finish at the NAIA National Championships. He ends the 2011 season with six individual meet titles (eight total races), the Sun Conference Runner of the Year Award, first team AllSun Conference honors and All-America accolades.

Eagles top Talladega 94-85, advance championship TALLADEGA EMBRY-RIDDLE

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Alison Smalling

ERAU Athletics The Embry-Riddle men's basketball team scored 53 points in the second half to take a 94-85 victory over Talladega (0-5) in the second game of the Daytona Mitsubishi Shootout on Friday night. The Eagles improved their overall record to 4-1 and advanced to the

championship game of the Shootout on Saturday.

The Eagles got off to a fast start as DeForest Carter's four points, two rebounds and a block helped the Blue and Gold to an 11-1 lead just four minutes into the contest. The Eagles led by as many as 13 points with 13:42 remaining in the first half, but the Tornadoes, led by 13 points from Christopher Hyche, cut into that lead and at the halftime break, ERAU led by just three points (41-38).

Blake Touchard started the second half with a three-pointer, but Talladega's Kerry Harvis answered with a three-pointer of his own to keep the Tornadoes within striking distance. The trey was one of Harvis' seven scores

from beyond the arc in the second half and his accuracy from long distance helped Talladega take an eight-point (68-60) lead with 9:36 left to play.

Looking for an answer, ERAU Head Coach Steve Ridder turned to his bench and brought Billy Serle onto the court. The junior transfer had a quiet first half, going 0-4 from the floor, but the second half was a different story for the Father Lopez graduate.

He hit a three-pointer to pull the Eagles within three (68-65) and his second trey of the night tied the score at 72-72 with 5:46 left to play. Realizing that he had the hot hand, Serle's teammates got the ball to him on the perimeter and he did not disappoint, totaling 15 points on five treys in the second half.

Despite shooting 61.3 percent (19-31) in the second half, the Tornadoes managed just 10 points in the last four minutes, while the Eagles' Ray Graham, who was 12-of-14 from the free throw line, converted on his free throw opportunities down the stretch as the Eagles pulled out the nine point victory.

Graham paced the Blue and Gold with a career-high 34 points on the night with 23 of those points coming in the second half. Touchard (15), Carter (10) and Jeremiah Applin (11) rounded out the Eagles' double-digit scorers with Touchard and Carter dishing out five assists apiece. Carter was also the Eagles' blocks leader with five and Graham recorded his third double-double of the year

with 10 rebounds.

Harvis led all scorers with 28 points, while Christopher

Tanzy and Hyche totaled 15 points each for the Tornadoes who fall to 0-5 on the year.

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Need For Speed The Run

Angelina Smedley Staff Reporter

This past Tuesday, “Need For Speed: The Run,” hit game stands across the country so gamers can experience the adrenaline rush going crosscountry on a competition to be the best racer there is.

You start out in San Francisco in a red Porsche 4S Carrera dangling in a salvage yard.

Your character’s name is Jack

Rourke and you are in trouble with some people known as The Mob. As you are trying to get out of the car, you have to press a series of buttons to get yourself loose and escape the car before the equipment in the salvage yard smashes it.

After you escape the car chase scene you find yourself walking into a Chinese restaurant where you have a meeting with a red head businesswoman named Sam Harper.

She gives you the choice of going into the race and having a clean record or not going in and suffering the consequences.

Obviously, you this once in a life time opportunity to race across the country to win big bucks.

After your talk with Sam Harper, she tells you to choose a car to start out with and to get going. You can choose any car in that garage that you want. Some cars handle easy, normal, challenging or very difficult. Pick the one that best fits your needs.

You start driving on the streets of San Francisco racing to get to the starting line. Cops noticed that a bunch of street

racers are speeding throughout the city and they decide to investigate the problem.

Before you know it, you find yourself running from cops, trying to get out of the city, wrecking police cars in the process.

As soon as you are out of the city, the true race begins.

In each race you have to gain a certain amount of positions to move on in the game. After you do that, you may have to catch up by getting to checkpoints by a certain time. Some races will have you try to pass opponents and keep the lead for a certain amount of time so they can be eliminated.

When you are racing across the country you will experience the streets of Las Vegas, with all the lights and cops trying to chase you down in the process. As soon as you get out of Vegas you will be in the deserts with sand blowing in the wind.

During your time across the country, you have the option of changing your cars. While on the road, you have gas station alerts that pop up on your screen. Pulling into a gas station allows you to switch your

car to something better suited for the next race.

There are a lot of picturesque scenes in the game where you go through snowstorms and blast through the mountains tops, dodging rocks and falling snow.

The game is endless with graphics and scenery. The detail the game designers put in to the roads, sky, cities and cars is astonishing.

Once you hit Chicago, you experience more of The Mob. The Mob will crash into your cars and Rourke will be running the streets of Chicago dodging bullets from helicopters and running from cops.

For the first time in a Need for Speed game, your character can actually get out of the car.

Rourke steals a cop car and tries to escape both the cops and The Mob, but later finds himself crashing onto a train track with an incoming train.

You have to respond to quicktimeer event button presses to get him out of the car before the train comes to save your life.

As the game goes on, the racers get more aggressive with faster cars. You have to hit

that nitrous button quite a few times in order to win some of the later races.

When you finally get to New York, you find yourself up against the final guy named Marcus, who has been trying to get you out of the competition the whole game. He is very aggressive and will stop at nothing to win the race.

The last stretch of the game is where you find yourself racing through a warehouse where there is a bottleneck between two walls. Only one car can fit in the spot at a time and hopefully, you are the one out first and this cues a cutscene where Marcus crashes as he is going between the walls. You race to the finish line and you are the sole winner of the biggest race in the country.

You approach your sponsor Sam Harper and she wipes your record clean and gives you your cut of the money, saying you are free to go anywhere with that amount of cash.

Need for Speed: The Run is a game that can glue you to your seat as you burn through one race after another.

However, the game is quite

short, which can be disappointing. Once you finish, the thought crossing your mind is, “Is that it?”

Need For Speed: The Run is a very fun game to play by yourself or even with friends.

I personally thought the game was entertaining to play. Any racing game I think is fun to play because it gives a rush of adrenaline. The graphics and the game play in this are beyond any other racing game that is out right now.

The graphics are unbelievable in my opinion. The detail in the mountains and the building are phenomenal.

The cars have fine detail. The developers of the game really paid attention to the detail this time around and they certainly delivered.

While Need For Speed: The Run won’t give you as many hours of game play as previous installments, it still manages to keep you thrilled with an unbelievable experience.

If you are looking for a game that has you on the edge of your seat the whole time you are playing, Need For Speed: The Run is definitely worth a look at.

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Firearm Of The Week Eastwood Bores Pilgrims

J. Edgar

Cristopher Heale Guest Reporter

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Ben Failer

Guest Reporter For over two decades, Italian firearms manufacturer Pietro Beretta has supplied the United States Armed Forces with their signature sidearm, the 92FS, also known as the M9.

When I set out to buy my first handgun, I decided upon the Beretta 92, trusting in my familiarity and military training with the weapon platform. After some research, I picked the latest iteration of the 92 series, the 92A1.

Released in 2010, the Beretta 92A1 is based upon updates introduced in the militaryspecification M9A1, which is currently being fielded by the United States Marine Corps.

The pistol is chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum (Luger), but a 96A1 variant has also been released, chambered in .40S&W. I selected the 9mm due to low cost of the ammo and high capacity.

The 92A1 comes with three 17-round magazines, an improvement over the 15-round magazines issued with older Berettas. The new magazines are also specially coated to protect against dirt, sand, and other desert hazards.

The most noticeable improvement to the design is the under-

barrel Picatinny rail, which makes accessory mounting much easier. Any number of lights, lasers, pistol-bayonets, or even cameras can be attached to the rail system.

The pistol grips have also been redesigned for a more secure grip with or without gloves.

The squared trigger guard introduced on the 92F and 92FS has been deleted, in favor of a rounder 92SB-style guard. The larger trigger guard is ideal for use with protective gloves.

Internally, the 92A1 is a brandnew weapon, taking many design improvements from the 90-Two series pistols. The recoil spring has been captured, making disassembly far easer.

An internal buffer reduces recoil almost entirely. The takedown lever now resets itself automatically, so any user (even a novice) can take apart and reassemble the weapon in seconds.

On the range, the 92A1 performs admirably. The weapon is highly accurate at close and medium range. Lethal hits can even be scored as far as 100 yards, twice the rated effective range of the pistol.

There is almost no recoil whatsoever thanks to the new internal buffer. Like its Beretta 92 predecessors, the weapon is double/single action, with a very light single-action trigger pull.

The 92A1 provides good peace of mind as a self-defense weapon with its 17+1-round capacity, but being a full-sized pistol it can be difficult to conceal, especially in the Floridian summer weather.

It is also reasonably priced, with a new pistol costing approximately $650-$700. Each new weapon comes with three magazines, a speed-loader, a cleaning kit, a hard-sided case and a gunlock. Any number of relatively inexpensive modifications can be made, including the addition of wooden grips, extended magazines, night sights, or a skeleton-hammer for faster cycling time.

Completely reliable in any environment, temperature, or weather, the 92A1 has never jammed or malfunctioned on me.The new high-capacity magazines take a few weeks to break in and are slightly difficult to load, but the included speed-loader allows for rapid reloading with ease.

As an owner of two antique Beretta firearms, I can testify that with proper cleaning and care, a Beretta will last for decades. If you are looking for a reliable full-sized 9mm, I strongly recommend the Beretta 92A1.

The views in this article do not represent the views of The Avion.

Clint Eastwood, the one-time cowboy and prolific director, is back with his latest film, J. Edgar.

His newest cinematographic endeavor features Leonardo DiCaprio as the controversial and obsessive creator of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.

The movie follows J. Edgar’s career as a young employee of the justice department in the 1920s until his death in 1972.

J. Edgar charts the foundation and rise of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Throughout the film, J. Edgar is depicted as a paranoid, intimidating and determined man who veered towards the grey side of legality and bullying to achieve his goals.

DiCaprio transforms onto the screen as a strong performance portraying his character’s obsessive hunt toward pursuing radicals, gangsters and activists.

The narrative is told from the point of view of an old J. Edgar who recalls his life to various FBI staff members writing a biography. The story jumps through different periods of his life, but two main memories are heavily trotted: Charles Lindbergh’s son abduction investigation and the implied intimate relationship between J. Edgar and Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), his associate director.

Viewers who wish to get a perspective on historical controversies might be disappointed since the film only briefly examines the FBI’s infamous activities during J. Edgar’s reign. The film only slightly touches the wire tapping of President J.F.K, the intercepted

letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and damaging tapes of Dr. Martin Luther King. Instead the movie prefers to focus more on J. Edgar’s personal life and ideologies.

Although fascinating and watchable, the movie never reaches any real crescendo or displays much dynamism. It tends to feel long and drawn out.

The narrative can be confusing and further dilutes the historical significance of some of J. Edgar Hoover’s actions. For a man whose career spanned 42 years, many of the sequences feel rushed to fit into the 2hr 17min running time.

The strength of the movie comes from DiCaprio’s performance which highlights the discrepancies between his outward actions and his personal desires.

This is a movie to watch if you wish to know more about the person behind the enigma of the FBI and it is by no means a bad one.

Yet, after such well crafted films such as Gran Torino, Million Dollar baby and Mystic River, J.Edgar feels like a bit of a letdown.w

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