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FAU’s seventh president

By Christopher Massana

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The 2013 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition gives you a taste of your professors’ wild side

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enior computer engineering major Jason Immerblum stares up at the black and white painting of a Hawaiian girl wearing a pink lei on the wall.

His eyes soon trail from the painting to a red rope. The rope is coming out of the painted girl’s hand and turning into a threedimensional red sculpture of a pig sitting in front of the painting.

“Everything seem[s] very modern,” Immerblum says.

While looking at this piece of artwork, he has to constantly remind himself that the artist is not a student. Diane Arrieta, who paints under the moniker “Birds are Nice,” is a faculty member affiliated with FAU’s MacArthur campus library.

Arrieta created this painting and sculpture to spread awareness of the dangers of Hawaii’s nonnative feral pigs. Her artwork currently sits in FAU’s Ritter Art Gallery.

Artwork from 25 FAU faculty members is featured in both the Schmidt Center Gallery and the Ritter Art Gallery for the 2013 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition.

The exhibit opened on Friday, Sept. 20 at 6 p.m.

“It’s a great way for students to see what their professors are working on,” Jeanie Geibel, a gallery assistant, said. “And for, not just art students, but all of the students to see what faculty are doing with their art practice.”

Both art and non-art teaching faculty members submitted artwork to the exhibition.

Almost 200 students and faculty flooded the Schmidt Center Gallery and 250 filled the Ritter during the opening, viewing a

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wide variety of faculty artwork — from clay sculptures of alien-like creatures to mixed media, such as a set of mail barcodes going across the wall while piano plays as background music.

“My second favorite piece there was a key, piano keys on the wall,” Erica McGriff, a junior theater major, said. “That one was awesome.”

The piano keys — which was actually an IM barcode piece — was created by Tammy Knipp, associate professor of art from the department of visual arts and art history.

“When you look at the barcode, the new one they came out with, it starts looking like these piano keyboards, the black notes,” Knipp said.

Sixty-five vertical black bars stretch across the gallery’s wall.

The bars are all different heights, resembling the new barcode for the postal service’s Intelligent Mail, or IM codes. To the side of the sculptures on the wall, stereos play a piano melody composed

by Pouya Pourtahmasbi, an FAU post-graduate student from the department of music.

“Their old bar code is all in one line. Now they have what they call a bass line. So I collect them. And so obviously, different zip codes, different pattern. And I was looking at them and was like, ‘Oh this is an interesting composition,’” Knipp said.

The exhibition features paintings, photography, music, sculptures, video and sound.

And the variety of media used becomes a recurring theme throughout the exhibition.

“I was expecting a different type

Art fans browse the works of the 2013 Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition during the show’s opening on Sept. 20 in the Schmidt Center Gallery. The exhibition runs through Dec. 7 in the Schmidt Center Gallery and Nov. 9 in the Ritter Art Gallery.

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WHAT’S THEIR AGE AGAIN? We showed students pictures of some of the pieces on display right now, and had them guess the artist’s age. Spoiler alert — they were incorrect:

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Gina Marie Schriefer - freshman, criminal justice: “[I think the artist is] 19. They have a young mind.”

Arrieta requested not to disclose her exact age, but put herself in the 40+ group.

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Vanessa Mccalla - junior, public management: “[I think they’re] like 19.”

Knipp is 55.

of art, mostly like pictures, one medium,” Immerblum said. “I’m surprised to see that there’s … different approaches to the artwork for each of the professors that work in here.”

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innovative pieces being created by the same people that are usually lecturing in a classroom. “It’s interesting,” junior public management major Vanessa Mccalla said. “It shows the realm of what people can do.”

“If you didn’t tell me that this is artwork

from faculty, I would’ve thought it was work from students, from a younger group of people,” Immerblum said. “I can’t tell.

They’re really good.”

For artist statements on the artwork at the exhibition, visit FAU Galleries’ website.

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Two FAU College of Business grads started a hip hop label, and signed artists now performing alongside T.I., 2 chainz and Pusha T Story by Cari Giard

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ollege of Business graduates Jahmal Fahie and Akeem Washington are trying for success in the cutthroat music industry. And despite all of the work they are putting into it, they won’t be the ones in the spotlight.

No Gravity Records, a student-run record label, was founded by Fahie and Washington in fall 2011. Washington was studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain at the time and — despite the distance — put together a business plan with urban regional planning major Fahie via Skype. During his time overseas, Washington was also able to discuss business with and eventually recruit their first artist, Miami rapper Ivy League.

Ryan Breault, better known by his stage name Ivy League, has been a close friend of Fahie and Washington since their college years began.

“I’ve known them since freshman year here at FAU. I went out to the basketball courts and that’s how we met,” Breault recalled. It wouldn’t

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They decided on the name No Gravity Records.

“It fit so well with everything. No Gravity kinda just means to rise above anything that’s holding you back,” Washington said.

In spring 2012, No Gravity Records began taking responsibility for the non-musical aspects of Ivy League’s career.

“He was gonna worry about the music and [Washington] and I would take care of the rest,” Fahie said. That meant they would take care of registering copyrights, reviewing contracts, marketing the music to an appropriate audience and any other tasks besides writing and recording.

“If you feel as if this tape is good for ninemonth old babies, I will find a nine-month old baby crowd and that’s who’s going to download

this,” Washington said.

While there may not be any nine-month old babies looking for the latest and greatest hip hop album, there is certainly no lack of interest on a college campus. Fahie and Washington, who were familiar to many on campus for being Resident Assistants for Glades Park Towers, took Ivy League’s new album to the streets and began passing out promotional copies to students.

“That’s one of our advantages. A lot of people try to be entrepreneurs. With us we had so much face value on campus to where when we really started reaching out saying ‘Hey, we’re starting this,’ people really bought into it because they knew us and were already familiar with us,” Fahie said.

“It’s about planting a seed at some point and letting it grow,” Washington said.

No Gravity dropped Ivy League’s first mixtape, “Before the End,” on Feb. 29, 2012 — which earned over 3,000 downloads within

“If you feel as if this tape is good for nine-month old babies, I will find a nine-month old baby crowd and that’s who’s going to download this.”

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-Akeem Washington, No Gravity Records CEO

The NoNo Grav Gang returned toto FAU to to film scenes The Grav Gang returned FAU film forscenes Ivy League’s latest music video. video Photo by for Ivy League’s latest music “Ivy League Austen Erblat Royalty”. Photo by Austen Erblat the first week of its release. The average number of first-week downloads, from the top-30 independent hip-hop mixtapes released on datpiff.com, an online mixtape distribution website, is 173, making Ivy League’s mixtape quite impressive for a self-released album. But the cultivation of their local fanbase isn’t even the most notable of No Gravity’s contributions.

In October 2012, Ivy League and No Grav artist Kooley Jones were presented with the opportunity to perform in Washington, D.C. at Howard University’s 2012 Homecoming with T.I., 2 Chainz, Drake and Pusha T. “It can be regarded as the number one homecoming in America,” Breault said. “It was crazy!”

Besides playing alongside Billboard-topping artists, they performed in front of their largest crowd to date

— 30,000 people — successfully putting the artists and No Gravity on the map.

The No Grav Gang has even more up their sleeve for the future, including a performance at FAU’s Freaker’s Ball concert, a radio show hosted on their website, new videos and releases by Ivy League, Kooley Jones and hip-hop act Darwin Leron and the return to Howard University for the second consecutive year, which they anticipate to be better than ever. (see sidebar below) “We know what to expect. We know how to hit the crowd. We know how to market when we’re not on stage,” Breault said.

On Aug. 22, while many freshmen were moving into their dorms for the first time, No Gravity made an appearance on FAU’s Boca campus to film scenes for Ivy League’s newest video in hopes of meeting new students and stirring up interest. This isn’t the only way they plan to reach new students — they are currently negotiating with administration to implement a new segment to orientation that offers advice and answers questions from incoming freshmen.

“We can come to specific orientations and as alumni, we’ll be able to give our experiences plus show people how we’ve been able to transition from the college to the real world with the business that we started actually in college,” Fahie said.

This opportunity will not only allow for No Gravity to spread the word about their label, but also allow new students to hear about the college experience from successful FAU graduates and be inspired by true entrepreneurs from their generation.

“For anyone attempting to start a business, the best advice is to become the business,” Fahie said. “As long as you don’t give up on yourself and progress in life, your business will begin to flourish in a positive way.”

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THE SEARCH FOR FAU’S NEXT PRESIDENT The job isn’t posted online anywhere — there isn’t a final description of the work involved — there isn’t even a concrete timetable for when FAU wants the position filled, but a search committee is actively looking for the university’s seventh president.

On Wednesday, Sept. 25, a 15-member board met for the first time in the recruitment room of FAU’s football stadium. After its first meeting, the group agreed its ideal candidate is someone with “leadership, vision, passion, versatility, innovation and openness.”

The search starts four months after former FAU President Mary Jane Saunders resigned from her position to return to the faculty in the College of Science, amid a series of controversies involving a car accident where she hit a student protester on the Jupiter campus, drove away without being charged and later demanded an apology from the victim.

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and 23 more rising up the ranks of the university’s administration.

But Crudele says he’s not interested in sticking around, is not on the committee and is also a member of the state’s Deferred Retirement Option Program.

The Start The first meeting of the Presidential Search Committee — which is four members larger than the group that selected Saunders and is made up of five Trustees, endowment board members, administrators, faculty, staff, community members and a single student — ended with little more than a rough outline of their ideal candidate. Their desires were jotted down by Laurie Wilder, the executive vice president and managing director of Parker Executive Search, the company being paid to find job candidates.

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“The pool is the pool, I don’t create it, but I have to fish in it,” Wilder said Phil Smith, FAU Foundation Board as she listened to the committee members list their hopes for candidates. member Similar qualifications came from the Dean of Students Corey King and the Faculty Senate President Ronald Nyhan, who both emphasized a willingness to let the students and faculty have a say in decision-making.

“A candidate that is student-centered, that sees students as a core value to the academy,” said King. “That student voices are heard, that students are engaged and that there is a shared governance in the university community.”

King and Nyhan’s desire are in line with the Search Committee Chair and Board of Trustees Chair Anthony Barbar, who told the UP what he wanted out of FAU’s next president when Saunders resigned in May. “We’re looking for somebody that’s going to build on the trajectory that [Saunders] started,” Barbar said. “We’ll be looking for somebody with vision, somebody that’s able to deal with the various stakeholders in the university: students, faculty, administrators, community, donors. And somebody that’s decisive, able to make a decision and have a clear vision of what the future is for Florida Atlantic University.”

King emphasized a candidate who could communicate well with the Parker Executive Search is an Atlanta-based executive students specifically. search firm, which has a 29-year history of finding leadership “We need someone who will be able to come in and bring a sense of meaningful conversation and dialogue to that diverse community [the candidates for academic institutions, athletic and health science organizations and corporations. In the past year alone, Parker has student body],” said King. conducted six searches for the university president positions at Building off of King’s suggestions, Associate Dean of the College of Medicine Dr. Julie Servoss acknowledged the role of good communication other universities; Parker’s higher-education clientele in the past four years have included the University of West Georgia and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, among others.

Laurie Wilder, the executive vice president and managing director for the company, outlined the strategy of the search at the first committee meeting which included advertising, contacting potential candidates already employed at other institutions and bringing the best candidates to FAU for tours of the campus and evaluations.

“We believe in a very proactive approach,” Wilder said.

Parker Executive Search, as part of its contract with FAU, is Thomas Workman Jr., receiving up to $90,000 as payment. While Parker will locate the FAU Board of Trustees, candidates for the presidential search, its involvement begins Vice Chair and ends with the candidates. It does not have a say in the actual selection process.

“My job is to aggressively recruit, facilitate and advise,” Wilder Patricia McKay, FAU Foundation Treasurer said, regarding the company’s level of involvement in the search, “but we do not have a vote in this process.”

Parker Executive Search was selected to conduct the search during the August BOT meeting after the Board grew dissatisfied with the search company that hired Saunders, R. William Funk & Associates.

“I don’t think we should go with the same company that gave us,” Trustee Jeffrey Feingold said.

Parker was selected as part of a “clean slate” that Trustee David Feder spoke about. But Parker was previously implicated Jay Weinberg, FAU Corey King, Associate Vice President of in controversies surrounding candidates for positions at Rutgers Foundation, Vice Chair Student Affairs and Dean of Students University, failed background checks on according to USA Today.

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skills, but singled out two other qualities for an ideal selection candidate: “We all talk about excellent communication skills, but I think beyond that a president will need to demonstrate adaptability and the ability to understand the culture of FAU at all levels,” Dr. Servoss said. “What is the environment? What is the cultural ambience and the strengths at the student level, the faculty level, and the administrative level. What is FAU and who are we?”

Other committee members, however, focused on good public relations judgment, referring to the controversies of the spring 2013 semester, like the botched $6 million stadium naming rights deal with the private prison company, the GEO Group, as well as the academic freedom debates and protests concerning Communications professors James Tracy and Deandre Poole, which Saunders presided over.

“Because we are a diverse university, should be and want to be, that doesn’t mean that we tolerate bigotry or prejudice. You have to draw a keen distinction between free speech and hate speech,” FAU Foundation Board Vice Chair Jay Weinberg said. “I think that [in light of] recent events at this university, we need a president that understands that and who will act decisively with respect to it.”

Looking and Looking The committee didn’t determine how long it will take to find a president who can distinguish free speech from hate speech in its first hour-and-a-half meeting.

“That timeline has not been finalized yet, but will be shortly,” Wilder said. She later clarified, “I’m not a believer that these processes have to take forever.”

The search committee, with its eventual decision, will hire someone who will be in the position to employ several other administrative posts, including provost and two associate provosts.

“Whoever comes in here is going to have the fortunate opportunity to be able to pick their own provost, amongst other positions,” said Student Body President Peter Amirato, the only student on FAU’s Board of Trustees — the 13 appointed officials who will approve the President’s contract when the search committee narrows its list of candidates. He is not sitting on the search committee.

“I’m not on the presidential search committee because we thought it would be best to get two students’ voices instead of one,” Amirato said. “I already get to vote at the Board level and it doesn’t hurt to diversify the opinion a little more.”

Amirato also wants someone who understands the university.

“We need someone who understands FAU, understands our demographic [and] what makes up our student body,” Amirato said.

“Someone that can leave a strong presence in the community and maintain the vision of FAU… We need someone [who] has an idea of how they’re going to help us reach that goal.”

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Two Students, One President Andrew “AJ” Einbinder, a senior communications major, is the sole student sitting on the FAU Presidential Search Committee. The UP asked Einbinder how he was chosen: “I was asked by BOT Chair Anthony Barbar,” Einbinder said of the decision made about a month ago. That was after Einbinder was recommended by the Senior Vice President of Student Affairs Charles Brown.

“I would like this person to be friendly, creative, approachable, honest, committed,” Einbinder said of his ideal seventh president. “The ability to inspire the university and unlock its growing potential.”

He was satisfied with the first meeting and believes the other search committee members are all looking for the same things.

“It explained everything perfectly. Everyone on the committee explained what they are looking for and, while it was phrased differently by each member, we are all on the same foot and understand what we are looking for which is what is most important,” he said.

“So it is because we have this direction and are on the same foot that we will be able to move forward… This will be a great experience in finding a new leader for our university.”

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TIME TRAVEL pt. 1 In a new UP series, physics major Andrew Fraieli explains scientific concepts in simple terms. This week, Fraieli talks about traveling forward in time

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ello, I’m Dr. Fraieli and this week’s topic is visiting the future. Time travel is something everybody has dreamed about some time in their life, including myself of course and I’m here to tell you how to do it. It’s actually very simple and there are two main ways of doing so.

First, you have to go fast — ridiculously fast. Take an average car that travels 60 mph on the highway.

That’s pretty fast, right? Nope. A jet moves at the speed of sound which is about 770 mph. We have to be getting close, right? Not at all. The space shuttle Atlantis went about 17,000 mph to get off the Earth’s surface. Almost there, right? ERRRRRT. Wrong. The speed you have to go to actually start seeing a significant difference in the way you are seeing time pass compared to others that are not moving is 209,860,000 mph, or the speed of light. Yeah. This is why no one is time traveling right now. I mentioned I’d say how to, but I didn’t say that you’d be able to. So the faster you go, the slower you move in time — essentially traveling to the future. It’s not as easy as sitting in a DeLorean and punching numbers in a keypad, but it’s still time travel.

Another way to travel to the future is to walk next to the Great Pyramid of Giza.

How does a pyramid help you travel in time? Because the pyramid is such a massive object, it slows down time near it; it’s not a significant difference at all but still there. A larger example is the Earth itself: the mass of Earth affects the way time works around us the same way as the pyramid.

Imagine a bowling ball on a mattress: there’s an area that’s warped near the bowling ball because of its weight.

It’s the same idea for Earth and the pyramid — their incredible mass warps space and time around them. More time crumples up so it moves slower.

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Astronauts — being farther away from the Earth than us — actually travel faster in time because they are less affected by Earth’s warping of time and space. GPS satellites have to be reset regularly because of this, otherwise your GPS would be incorrect by about 10 kilometers a day. We can exploit the idea that time travels slower near massive objects, like planets, by orbiting a black hole. Black holes are the most gravitationally intense objects known to exist. Their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape their grasp if it gets too close.

By having a ship orbit a black hole, it will travel through time immensely slower than anything on Earth. The trick is getting close enough to a black hole to orbit it without falling in, without even considering actually finding one nearby and then finding a way to get to it in our lifetime.

Chris Beetle, a professor from the physics department, describes the idea by saying that the “amount of time [that passes] depends on the path.”

This means that because everything has gravity, then everything affects how time passes for everything else.

So the path taken by the Earth would affect time in a different way than a path that passes the Earth and the moon.

With all things considered, traveling to the future is a simple concept, the problem is just being able to actually do it. Sometime in the future we may discover the technology to travel vast distances in space and travel near the speed of light, but for now we are stuck in the boring present. Sigh.

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However, when cell reception is completely blocked off from us in certain buildings, safety can’t be assured. Roughly one year ago, the UP wrote a story on the poor cell phone reception on the Boca campus and what measures administration was putting in place to fix it. In the story, the example of a young student who fell to 20

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the floor and started convulsing in her History and Appreciation of Music class was brought up. Her professor, Daniel Copher, was unable to pull out his phone and call for help; due to the poor reception in his classroom, he had to rush outside and make the call. While life-ordeath situations are the exception rather than the rule, the poor cell reception on campus still annoys students.

“In the places where I want to chill and relax and text some people, I can’t,” sophomore Chris Vosburgh said. “Or if I need to talk to a parent or friend about

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books and what I need, I can’t do that right away.”

“There’s not really [a] signal here, especially by the breezeway,” freshman film major Daniel Martinez said. “There’s no way in hell you’ll get a call there.”

Later in 2012, students complained about the poor reception, even going so far as to introduce legislation into the Boca House of Representatives in an attempt to remedy the poor reception situation. The nascent legislation was tabled indefinitely last fall and hasn’t been brought since.

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A residence hall composed of two towers connected by a large common area and lobby.

IRT is located south of the Breezeway, next to the Culture & Society Building and Glades Park Towers. Verizon gets good service here, with AT&T coming in a close second. Sprint, however, gets quite poor reception.

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Parliament Hall A large eight-story residence hall with a spacious lobby and various common areas scattered throughout. Parliament is located across the lake from the Culture and Society building, southeast of the Breezeway.

Reception here is mixed between the 3 services with Verizon providing the best and Sprint the worst.

A regular hangout for many students who can often be found participating in all sorts of social activities, the Union is located west of the Breezeway’s southern entrance.

Verizon and Sprint get good service here, with AT&T getting only middling service.

College of Education

Food court A first floor eating area usually occupied by a very large amount of students. The food court is located at the south end of the Breezeway.

Reception is very poor with all tested providers, with AT&T getting no coverage at all.

The College of Education is located to the northwest of the Breezeway, near the entrance to the Tortuga Trail. Coverage between all three service providers is mediocre here.

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Composed of many hallways, large classrooms, and encompassing several individual buildings, the College of Business is located at the north end of the Breezeway.

Verizon, Sprint and AT&T all get mediocre service here.

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Library Four-story building with open study areas, usually has large groups of people throughout the day. The Library is located across from the computer center and next to the Breezeway.

Signal in the Library is good between the three services.

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A study lounge and connecting offices usually occupied by several students at once. The Hillel Center is centrally-located on the Breezeway and has below-average reception from Verizon and AT&T, with Sprint getting slightly better reception.

Bookstore Small store located in Traditions Plaza. The bookstore is located across from General Classroom South in the Breezeway and has poor reception for all three services.

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Gym A glass and concrete structure located at the north end of the Breezeway, often crowded with students. The Gym has poor overall coverage, with AT&T getting the worst.

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More bars in [hopefully] more places: Currently, the cell reception problem on the Boca campus remains, but there is a possible solution on the horizon.

Technology proposed last year to fix the problem, called a Distributed Antenna System, would mean that wireless service providers will be able to install what amount to miniature cell towers around

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campus to enhance the signal of larger cell towers.

This system already has a proven track record: it was implemented at UF’s football stadium in September 2012 and increased the signal strength dramatically. The system was later expanded to several facilities in April, and is expected to be implemented

on a larger scale around the UF campus on Oct. 1.

According to Jason Ball, the vice president of the Office of Information Technology, FAU’s DAS system is, at present, still in the works. “Stay tuned for an announcement that will occur in early October, where these issues will be addressed,” said Ball.

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n recent years, the “Dirty Birds,” the “Owl Rangers” and the “prOWLers” have been names for FAU’s various student fan groups.

Now the “Hootigans” are born.

On Sept. 16, FAU’s Athletic Department announced the creation of the Hootigans, which they say are “FAU students who support the Owls by attending FAU athletic events and sitting in the student section.”

For the duration of football season, the Hootigans’ student section is located in the south end zone of FAU Stadium. They made their first official appearance during FAU football’s home opener against Middle Tennessee on Sept. 21, with the first 1,000 fans receiving Hootigans promotional items, like T-shirts.

Jessica Halbert, an exercise science major, works at the FAU Stadium ticket booth and believes that the moniker could add cohesion to the Owls fanbase.

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something lame,” Halbert said.

“The name [Hootigans] could bring unity to the student body.”

FAU Student Body President Peter Amirato agrees with Halbert’s sentiment.

“I feel like it’s a nice initiative and a neat little name for our student section and fans,” Amirato said. “It gives people a sense of pride.”

In its press release, the FAU Athletic Department said, “there is no better time to be an Owl.” But that statement isn’t exactly representative of all student fans, some of whom took umbrage with their newest title.

Daniel Smith, a freshman nursing major, is unsure if he’s comfortable with “Hootigans,” saying, “I don’t know if I would call myself that.”

Political Science major Peter Birkett had a bit of a stronger take. “[The name] sounds like a fiveyear-old came up with it. Just plain Owls would be better.”

Lance Lilly, a sophomore Architecture major, denounced the name completely. “[Hootigans] sound like something you would call a team of scrubs,” he said. “If we are going to be called that, we had better win some damn games.”

Hootigan is an obvious play on the world “hooligan,” which Merriam-Webster defines as someone “who does noisy and violent things as part of a group or gang.”

Michael Brown, a finance major who graduated from FAU this past spring, thinks the name is complete overkill and could send a negative message.

“Everything doesn’t have to do with Owls and hooting,” Brown said. “It’s just too much.

[Hootigans] could give the school a bad name.

I feel like you could have left the name as it was. People may want to

actually act like hooligans.”

Regardless of some students’ discontent, the name is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and its goal will be to directly help FAU athletics.

“It’s mutually beneficial,” Amirato said. “It’ll help athletics because they’ll have more diehard fans. But at the same time, it’s even better for the fans to say, ‘I’m not just a regular fan, I’m a Hootigan.’”

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AU ice hockey starting defenseman Andrew Mulkern stood outside the team’s locker room, visibly dejected after getting blown out by UCF in the Owls’ season-opening game.

It was a glaring reminder that the outcomes have changed for the worse since 2011, when FAU earned a berth in the National Championship Tournament.

Despite their prior success, Mulkern knows fans aren’t flocking to watch losers. Still, the team’s fan support –– or lack thereof –– brings out an emotional response in him. “I think we deserve more respect, hell yeah. No one even fucking knows there’s an ice hockey team.”

FAU’s ice hockey club –– one of the university’s 26 clubs –– has faded into relative obscurity. Few people know of their existence and even fewer attend their home games at Saveology Iceplex in Coral Springs, which are free of charge for Owl card-carrying students.

Sarah Noga, an FAU alumnus, was one of about 100 people in attendance for the opener on Sept.

20. While watching the game, she couldn’t figure out why the club receives so little publicity.

“They have a great rink here and it’s a great sport, but they need more advertisements,” Noga said. “I get emails too many times a day from FAU and never see anything about ice hockey.”

Scott Grosky, the club’s assistant coach and general manager, said they promote themselves using social media, flyers around campus, tables in the Breezeway and old-fashioned word-of-mouth to garner interest.

But they simply can’t do it all alone and would like FAU to step in with additional funding.

“If [FAU] can help us a bit financially, it’d give us the opportunity to travel to outside tournaments, to be seen at other facilities and by other ranking members of the rankings committee,” Grosky said. “When we travel, we like to be safe, so it’s expensive. We need money for buses or for airfare.”

Unfortunately for them, more funding seems unlikely to happen. Other universities’ hockey programs, such as at FSU and UF, receive upwards of $100,000 annually. FAU’s club is working with a budget of just $15,000.

To Grosky, it’s bordering on disrespect.

“The way the school has structured their funding of clubs, it really doesn’t contribute too much to our needs,” Grosky said. “It’s just lack of recognition and understanding. I think if they

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really knew what we were doing, we would gain their respect.”

Even though FAU has bumped the ice hockey club down the figurative totem pole, the team is keeping its collective spirit high.

The team boasts a tight-knit and experienced staff, including Head Coach Peter Worrell, a former NHL player for the Florida Panthers and Colorado Avalanche. Their goaltending coach, Erik Bentley, played for the Owls from 2004-2009, and has seen the club “come a long way.”

“We’ve had our great years, we’ve had our

FAU battles UCF for the puck at the Owls’ season opening game.

bad years, but the team is great and I’m very happy with where we’re at,” Bentley said.

That brand of positivity is shared by the players.

“We’re really building a new foundation and showing what we’re capable of by playing some of the best ice hockey teams around,” forward Alex McCain said.

McCain, speaking between the second and third period, was impressed by the fan turnout for the season’s first game.

“It’s great, triple what we had last year at this time,” he said. “From the way we will be playing, it’s only going to build.”

“It’s just lack of recognition and understanding. I think if they really knew what we were doing, we would gain their respect.”

Mulkern, however, wants more. “I don’t want to see these walls, I don’t want to see through the glass,” he said.

For that to happen, word needs to continue spreading about the ice hockey club. In the meantime, Grosky can give you a few reasons why you should make the trek to Coral Springs.

“You’re not going to get rained out, you’re not going to sweat bullets or get burned in the sun,” he said. “It’s a very pleasant experience.

It’s exciting and fast-paced. The sounds are incredible and the music is incredible. If anyone hasn’t tried it, they really need to.”

FAU lost to UCF 8-1 in the 2013 ice hockey season opener on Sept. 20.

Scott Grosky, assistant coach and general manager

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