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them something that relates to the real so that they can have a voice. world. For example, one of the speakers To find out what they have slated for the scheduled for the fall will be a Boca Raton fall, keep an eye on their website: www. elementary school principal who will speak fausfea.com.

On April 5, Dennis Burnham stood outside Students who join SFEA get the opportunithe College of Education building to protest about what he looks for when hiring new teachers. ty to network within the education industry, Senate Bill 6, a subsequently vetoed piece Burnham, who will be substituting next which is key in an industry plagued with of legislation that would have tied teacher semester in Palm Beach County, got help cutbacks, explained Burnham. He added pay to student performance. starting the chapter from University of that students will be able to make a name The exceptional student education major Florida student and SFEA state president for themselves in the field of education by expected more than 100 students. He got Laura Roberts. meeting with professionals already workone.

“He was so politically charged for the fight ing in the field. Students will be able to When no one else showed up, the two against Senate Bill 6,” said Roberts. “We advertise themselves and possibly land a moved inside and began speaking to indidon’t have any other chapters down south. job once they graduate. vidual students in the hallways about their I was really excited to By joining, students also future career. Burnham found that start a chapter at FAU.” become members of four other his peers knew little about the poThe members of the organizations, including the litical ramifications of legislature FAU SFEA chapter NEA and the Broward Teachers like Senate Bill 6 and even less have not officially met Union. about the economic state of Palm yet, according to BurnThe FAU chapter is affiliated Beach and Broward Counties’ ham. Only the officers with the BTU, but Burnham kindergarten-through-grade-12 have come together to stressed that the chapter is not education systems. plan for the fall semesa union. Ultimately, the goal in “I realized more needed to be ter. But club officials that partnership is to help disdone to inform education majors Dennis Laura have watched their seminate “important informaabout their future profession,” Burnham Roberts membership grow since tion to our members, allowing said Burnham, a senior who wants May. As of August, them to make the decision to to get students more “actively there were 42 members, said Kimtake action or not.” involved beyond their field experience and berly Mallard, the chapter’s vice president That affiliation has proved fruitful. So far, student teaching.” and one of its first members. the BTU has done a lot of the chapter’s The next month, he decided to found the “I knew immediately that I wanted to be marketing, helped them create their logo FAU chapter of the Student Florida Educainvolved,” said Mallard, a junior elemenand helped put together a school supply tion Association (SFEA) to keep future tary education major. “In the long run, I drive that will benefit two failing-grade, educators graduating from FAU informed hope to get resources and contacts within low-income elementary schools — Rosenabout how the legislative process, both the education field to use when I’m looking wald Elementary in Palm Beach and Sunnational and state, will affect their career. land Park Elementary in Broward.

Burnham said he wants to promote “teacher for work.”

The FAU chapter of the Student Florida According to principal Shawn Allen of quality, political action and community Education Association is the branch of a Sunland Park Elementary School — which outreach” among the members. national umbrella organization, the Nawas graded “D” last year, and “F” for three “There is only so much a professor can do in the classroom,” said Burnham. “Students tional Education Association (NEA), which years previously due to poor FCAT scores advocates for teachers and other profes— the supplies help because most of the will be educated about the current political parents are on welfare. issues surrounding education and decisions sionals in the education field.

Burnham explained that education students Burnham explained that the chapter is being made today and how these decisions need to stay informed about the state of looking for any types of donations that will will affect them as a teacher. They will be their industry. lessen the burden on the students, their encouraged to vote, send letters/emails to “By the time we graduate, if things don’t families and the teachers. their congressman or state representative, turn around its going go to be very difficult “I’ve gone in too many a classrooms, and/or protest if necessary.” for us to get a job,” said Burnham, referring where halfway through the year, the teachThe organization’s founder wants his peers to the layoffs of more than 500 Broward ers were buying the students supplies,” said to become politically active and become County teachers in June.

Burnham. “You take a teacher, especially aware about legislation that could affect According to Roberts, the SFEA state presi- a first-year teacher making $38,000 a year, their career. He wants his fellow education students to join in the fight against bills like dent, the education industry is a very politi- trying to support themselves and their famcally charged environment filled with poliily and yet now they’re turning around and Senate Bill 6. ticians that feel very strongly about how the having to support and purchase supplies for The chapter will bring in teachers and ad25-30 odd students. It’s not right.” ministrators from Broward and Palm Beach state should handle public education. She said that students need to get more involved Counties to speak to the students, giving MICHAEL TRIMBOLI CONTRIBUTOR

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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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.

GIDEON GRUDO MANAGING EDITOR 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 attachments 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 institute in the ‘60s, which led to the construction of the submersibles 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 sometime 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 organizations. Decisions on who got which ship — a pick from all the ships in UNOLS’ fleet — were based on annual propositions sent in by scientists.

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

“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 expedition, 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 somebody 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 executive director for the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, 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 scientists 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 government-sponsored work at the same time,” adding that

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the 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.”

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.”

Losing the legacy, gaining Cepemar

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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 exinterim president John Pritchett and others.

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

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HBOI 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 costeffective, reliable, and innovative solutions to oceanrelated 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.

Above: The Johnson-Sea-Link I (JSL) According to Peter Tatro, HBOI’s move toward is 27 feet long and rated to dive down using ROVs is solid. to about 3,000 feet. It can hold four “We do have a remotely operated vehicle that we people, two in front and two in back. have spent a fairly considerable level of effort and The JSL is known for its contribution are nearing completion on, that will provide a deep to discovering wreckage of the space scientific capability,” he said. “The reality is, we’re shuttle Challenger in 1986. It has been sitting here where the era is changing. It didn’t end. It’s part of Harbor Branch for almost 40 changing, it’s evolving.” years.

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Leave or get out Seward Johnson’s captain forced to choose 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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Respectable result FRANCO PANIZO SPORTS 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’ oneyard 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 3017. 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.

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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.

Assistant director of commercial music Alejandro Sanchez-Samper has headed

In the week before school started, the nowenlarged 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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“Now the students are going to be able to work with top-notch equipment,” said Sanchez.

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

Sanchez works with Dante de Paoli (not pictured) unpacking boxes of equipment for the new recoding console, the SSL AWS 900+ SE. Now that it’s complete, Sanchez holds classes in the mixing room like Sound Recording I and II and Live Sound Reinforcement.

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