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Jason Jaigobin was stabbed by former Beta Chi Theta brother Jasneel Singh, outside the Hookah Hut on N. Federal Highway on May 24.

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Monica Ruiz Senior reporter

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urns out Jasneel Singh, the FAU alum who turned himself in to the Boca Raton police for stabbing a former fraternity pledge brother, has a criminal past dating back 10 years.

On May 24, Singh, a founding member of fraternity Beta Chi Theta, was out with friends at the Hookah Hut in Boca. According to Broward New Times, police reported he thought Jason Jaigobin, a former Beta Chi Theta pledge, stole marijuana from him. After hanging out at the Hookah Hut, they went to Singh’s car to get high. When they went to say their farewells, Singh stabbed Jaigobin with a Swiss Army knife and fled the scene. According to the police report, Jaigobin “didn’t feel any pain initially but then noticed that his shirt began to grow dark.”

The wound was two and a half inches up and to the left side of his navel, which is equivalent to the size of an average finger. He and a friend tried to stop the bleeding outside the Hookah Hut with towels until he was taken to Boca Raton Community Hospital.

Charles Brown, vice president of Student Affairs, stated: “We understand that no current students/fraternity members were directly involved in this unfortunate situation. We value the local chapter of Beta Chi Theta Fraternity and will work closely with its national officers to provide any appropriate resources required by the chapter.”

The UP broke down Singh’s criminal history and found that Singh has had a long history of crime involving drugs and violence.

The following information was gathered from Boca Raton PD and FAU PD.

FAU alum arrested for stabbing had legal problems since 2001 2001 June 10: Singh caused a scene at a local Mobil gas station after he tried to pay for a car wash with a company credit card and didn’t want to show his ID. He wasn’t arrested, but he was given a trespass notice.

2006 April 20: Two Hispanic males smashed Singh’s Navigator’s rear window and took two silver cases containing about 200 records worth $2000. Police were unable to find out who burglarized his car.

able to find and arrest him for simple battery.

Dec. 9: Ashok called Boca PD on his son again after he received threatening text messages saying, “Dad u are done.” Earlier that day, Ashok got into an argument with Singh for not taking responsibility for his legal problems.

Singh got upset, destroyed his room and then left the house.

Aug. 11: Singh got pulled over for running a stop sign when the arresting officer noticed the smell of marijuana. The officer found pot on the driver’s side floorboard. A square aluminum package, which had four white tablests of Seroquel, a drug used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was found in a briefcase.

Singh was arrested by Boca Raton PD and charged with possession of marijuana under 20 grams, unlawful possession of a prescription drug and driving with a suspended driver’s license.

Dec. 10: Boca PD was back at the Singh residence because he pushed his mother, Suvinder, down to the floor after an argument.

Singh came home looking for his father because of the domestic dispute the day before, and Suvinder told him she was going to call the police. He became angered and broke the house phone and Suvinder’s iPhone. He then pushed her, making her hit her left arm on the corner of the wall. After, he threatened to take all her credit cards for ransom. When Singh was arrested, he threatened the officer. He told the officer that he could find out where he lived, the type of car he drove and everything else about him. He also threatened the officer’s family. Singh was charged for domestic battery, petit theft and corruption by threat against a public servant.

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Oct. 31: Singh was banned from attending fraternity functions after he was caught soliciting narcotics at a Greek Life function.

The Beta Chi Theta president at the time, Ryan Mohammed, received threatening text messages from Singh. He received seven text messages saying: “You shouldn’t have put me out there, I’m going to mess you up next time I see you.”

Aug. 14: Singh called Boca PD because someone smashed the window of his car and took his wallet and paperwork from the center console.

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Nov. 11: Singh’s father Ashok called Boca Raton PD because Singh was acting violent and broke a telephone. The fight started when Singh came home and wanted to get into his room, which was locked. His father couldn’t open the door quickly enough and Singh became upset.

Nov. 26: Singh’s car was broken into at Complete Car Care overnight. His car was left unlocked and a CD player was stolen.

Dec. 7: Boca Raton PD was back at Singh’s house because he slapped Ashok in the face.

Ashok noticed Singh was acting weird and may have been under the influence of drugs. His father told Singh that he was concerned about him, and five minutes later Singh slapped his father. Then he fled the scene. Boca PD was

2010 July 23: Singh was arrested for possession of marijuana. He was sitting in his car smoking outside Homestead Village Hotel when an officer noticed him. The officer could smell marijuana coming from the car and when he approached Singh, his eyes where glassy. He told the officer he was waiting to meet up with a friend at the hotel.

Oct. 20: Police arrived at RadioShack because Singh threatened to shoot the place up.

He wanted to exchange his old iPhone for a new one, but when the RadioShack employee told him the price, he became upset and took both phones.

2011 Currently, Singh is being held on a $10,000 bond.

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s the door cracks open to Chloe Dolandis’ room, she receives an enormous welcome from her collection of pigs.

Dolandis, an FAU graduate, receives these little stuffed pigs for every accomplishment in her musical career. When Dolandis played Piglet in her first production, Winnie the Pooh, her family presented her with a small pig. Since then, it has become tradition for her family members and friends to give her toy pigs after big accomplishments. She just received one of the biggest pigs of her career so far, as her first album, Bring Back the Fever, was finally released last April.

“All of those pigs, they’re indicative of how much support I’ve had throughout my career,” said Dolandis.

According to Dolandis, Bring Back the Fever is its own type of genre, which combines jazzy soul with pop. The album is channeled toward the adult contemporary audience; however, the album’s wide range of sound makes it relatable to many audiences.

After seven years of perfecting this album, Dolandis is finally ready to share it with the world.

According to Dolandis, the time span has been beneficial to the final product.

“Giving it that room to breathe really helped us to create the best product we could,” she said.

Dolandis has been dreaming of this album ever since she was 16. She claimed that after the title track, Bring Back the Fever, was written, the rest of the album fell into place. When she was a teenager, however, she had no idea how to go about making an album.

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an option,” she said. “I didn’t know how we were gonna go about doing that, cause there’s no particular way of doing it, so you kind of have to forge your own path and figure it out for yourself.”

This album is a book of memories for Dolandis. Each song is written from a previous life experience. Some songs harness the emotional journeys of breakups, while others inspire self-confidence. Each verse of Bring Back the Fever is general enough to be relatable, but also specific enough to still be personal.

“I think that’s the best way to make music,” she said. “If you connect with it, other people will as well.”

The album captures several emotions, and the songs range from fast upbeat tunes like “New Suit” to slow, meaningful melodies such as “Learning to Let Go.” Dolandis’ parents continue to help her develop hooks and chord progressions in order to create the best possible songs.

“Each of us on the writing team for “Bring Back the Fever” brought their own outlook and experience to the table, and I could not be happier with the outcome,” said Mindy Gars Dolandis, Chloe’s mom and manager.

These outlooks allowed her album to explore many different themes, such as female empowerment and selfconfidence.

“What’s interesting about the modern music is ... people are crossing borders and crossing genres that were so set in stone for so long,” said Dolandis. “But it’s a different world now and I think people are going to adapt to this new change and embrace it because you know what, at the end of the day good music is good music.”

FAU-grad-turned-songwriter Chloe Dolandis jots down lyrics daily in her journal.

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Maher, reloaded Re-elected Student Body President Ayden Maher talked one-on-one with the UP about his previous term, the road to the re-election and his plans for the future.

SERGIO N. CANDIDO NEWS EDITOR YDEN MAHER LOOKS TIRED, ALMOST WORN OUT. He has been in and out of meetings all day — first with Dean of Students Corey King, then with Florida International University’s student body president and after that he still had to figure out how to spend the last $36,000 from last year’s budget.

He has had practically no vacations. On May 11, roughly a week after classes for the spring semester — and his first term as SG president — had ended, he was raising his right hand to get sworn in for a second term.

Unlike the first time around, when he won the presidency after a swift run-off election, this time the battle for the top student leadership spot dragged on for almost two months and involved several election board meetings, a student court hearing and accusations of bribery over which Maher might get sued.

In the end, his contender for the run-off election withdrew and Maher became the second person in FAU’s history to be consecutively re-elected student body president.

The UP talked to the re-elected president about that and his plans for the future.

Here’s what he had to say:

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Do you feel that you’ve lived up to your campaign promises and done everything you set out to do for your first term?

We didn’t accomplish everything that we said we would do because you run into a lot of roadblocks working at the university. There were some projects that were not accomplishable, whether it’s financially — or, for example, hammocks, there were so many safety issues that the university was concerned about — people falling out of the hammocks — that we couldn’t get that done. But we tried, and that’s what matters, going and trying to do what you said and trying every avenue to accomplish the goal that you set out to do.

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What are you most proud of? What’s your biggest accomplishment? And your biggest regret?

We really want to change the culture, help create a tradition and really show students that SG is there to care for them, and I think that’s the biggest accomplishment that we’ve had over the year. I ran again because people asked me to run again, people encouraged me to run again. We did a lot of events, we did a lot of things for the students in programming and I think that really changed what the students perceived of FAU. My biggest regret is that being student body president, you only have a year to do so many things, and luckily I’ve been granted another year to do so. I really wanted to work on hopefully getting banners on Glades Road — I did meet with the mayor so I did try to. But when you only have a year there are just so many things that you can do.

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What are your main duties as president as you see them?

The main role of the student body president is to be an advocate for the students and I think that I’ve done that.

I’m a commuter student, I’m a first-generation student and I think I understand the needs of the students at FAU. I think that as student body president you can’t have any preference to any clubs or student organizations, to any type of person. I advocated for the creation of an LGBT resource center and we got it. Even if I were to disagree with the LGBT community, which I do not, I think that you need to put yourself aside and make sure that you are advocating for everyone that’s a student.

this term to create tradition and stuff that we can leave a legacy by. We also hope to get a new outdoor study space, where students can have events, shaded, where students would want to be outside; we have a beautiful campus but we don’t take advantage of it, so we would like to create a park, some sort of SG-sponsored park where students can come and enjoy, where there’s activities going on. We have a lot of Union renovation and one of my main objectives is unifying Student Government — we need to break down “we are the Boca Raton campus” or “we are the Jupiter campus.”

We are one FAU; although we are separated by distance we all are part of one big organization.

How’s the Ayden from the second term going to compare to the Ayden from the first term?

Do you have any legislation lined up to send to the Senate for consideration?

After going through a year of anything you learn to listen more, you learn to not make decisions off the cuff, you learn to respect people more, you learn to check your ego and you learn that our time is short, not just on the university or any position, but on earth, and I think that you learn to appreciate what you have and you really work harder to make sure that you have an impact on your world. I’ve learned not to take anything for granted and I’ve learned to push myself as much as I can to accomplish something. I think I was pulled in a lot of directions my first year and I did really focus on just the health of Student Government and the health of doing long-term projects that live on past my term here, and that’s what it’s about — leaving something that students can have for years to come. I hope to do more of those projects instead of using funds just for T-shirts or giveaways.

Currently right now, no.

What are your commitments and priorities going into your second term?

We already have a lot of things that we are doing right now, although it’s still the end of my fiscal year for the first term. So we have new bike parking lots on campus, and we are also encouraging students to use bikes to and from their class; it’s environmentally friendly and it eases us on the parking issue. We are bringing a statue on campus which will be in conjunction with our 50th anniversary. We are trying to revive a time-capsule project from three years ago since we are having our 50th anniversary; we’ll put mementos from FAU from this point in time, and after 25 years it’ll be cool to come back and see something that you wrote or a project that I worked on. We are so young and I think it’s important

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During most of your first term you supported the 15-percent tuition increase. When election time was around the corner you said you were against it. Why did you change your mind?

I supported the increase last year because we have one of the cheapest tuitions in the nation, I believe, and when we have a budget shortfall there’s only one way that the university can make up for it, and that’s through student dollars. So I supported it and I thought that we needed this, otherwise we were going to have a great shortfall.

We were going to lose out on stimulus dollars because they were going to run out in the federal government and then we also had a shortfall from the state legislature, so what are we going to do? Are we going to cut majors or are we going to charge more money? Seeing that we already had a cheap tuition, I supported it. Now what I didn’t support was an additional increase, I want to make that clear because the state under Gov. Scott vetoed $4 million of funding to FAU for building repair. We face such hard cuts from the state that I don’t support another increase. I think we need to pressure the government to realize that higher education is not spending, it’s an investment.

the most amount of votes, I received over 1,500 votes, my opponent received over 900 and the third opponent received less than 600 votes. I received the most amount of votes, I received an overwhelming outpour of support.

If it were to go to a run-off I do believe that candidates Gentry and Peterson (the ones with the lowest votes who were not part of the run-off) would have endorsed my ticket and their supporters would have supported us as well. I think that students overwhelmingly supported us. I think that the reason the Puchferran campaign conceded was a little strange, I think they should have stayed in the race and I would have loved to have won it and there be a run-off. I wouldn’t say that I didn’t win the election by the student vote, I think the students voted overwhelmingly for myself.

Do you think you played dirty politics during your campaign by accusing Puchferran of bribing students for votes?

Puchferran stated in his letter of resignation that your tactics were part of his decision to withdraw from the race.

I believe in what I did. I believe there are other ways that I could have handled it. I believe I could have allowed it to go to a run-off, but there’s avenues to contest the election and I believed that I had grounds for contestations. If I truly didn’t believe in my grounds for contestations, I would have given up and went directly to a run-off. I feel confident that if it would have gone to a run-off election, we would have won the election. I think that it’s not dirty politics, it’s just politics, and it’s the avenues that I have to work in the election.

Last, is there anything you want to say to the students as you start your second term?

You didn’t win the election by the student vote, you won because Christopher Puchferran, the other presidential candidate for the run-off, conceded. How does that make you feel?

I would like to thank the students for the opportunity to serve as student body president. Opportunities are endless at FAU, and it’s really what you make of your college experience. FAU’s offered me so many things and opened so many doors for me and I felt like I need to give back to the university. As you go in life, especially as you go through your college experience, make the most out of it, get involved with something that you truly enjoy and appreciate. Take that in throughout your life, know that when you are involved in the community and your family it makes not only your personal life better, but the world around you a better place.

I disagree with you. I think that the students, although per the statutes it requires 50 percent plus one [of the votes to win], I do believe I received 49.7, I received

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ichael Baldino walked into a gym two years ago. He had a purpose that day. He was going to bench press, and he was going to do it using a new method that would allow him to lift more weight than ever before.

Baldino planted his legs on the floor and drove with them, attempting to use his legs to generate force while benching.

He had read about this technique in an article online.

As he pushed off, his back couldn’t maintain its position.

He slid upwards, his head going beyond the cushioning provided on the machine. He looked around sheepishly, his face unable to mask his shame, and he hoped no one had just seen this. The article didn’t warn of the slipping and shame.

The new method had been a failure. He decided it was time to create his own workout shirt.

Ever since, Baldino has poured his efforts into creating a workout shirt that would allow him to bench without slipping.

The then-21-year-old physics major told his friend Robbie that someone, anyone, should invent a shirt that made sure no one would ever slip again. The friends went to the gym together two weeks later. This time Robbie attempted the leg method — only to slip.

“We were doing incline chest presses and he’s pushing up on his feet and he slips on the bench and he started cursing, he was really pissed off,” said Baldino. “And then I go, ‘Hey, Robbie, wouldn’t that shirt be a good idea right now?”

Robbie always had something to say — not this time.

The silence was all Baldino needed to know he had a product worth his time. Robbie had said nothing. And that said everything.

Now, Baldino claims he’s on the verge of making millions.

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Push off normally — now there’s added strength.

With the extra force generated from the legs, you will now be able to lift more weight.

Brad Day, junior exercise science major, wears the ROIZO shirt while using the leg press machine in the FAU Rec Center.

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“You push with your legs, you’re not going to slip because of the shirt, you put tension in your body and that makes you lift more weight. Boom.

That’s it.”

lHe went all-in

Since 2009, Baldino spent more than $4,000 trying to perfect his workout shirt.

He also bought more than 200 books on business models and purchased 50 different types of rubber and silicone materials to place on the back of his shirt, before settling on Spandesol, a little-known material made by Rutland Technologies.

The Spandesol material allows the shirt to “catch” on the bench press and ensures that a user won’t slide while pushing with his or her legs.

Ever the businessman, Baldino got his start-up money from a prior business in which he would purchase gold and sell it to refiners. He found too much competition in the field and left to focus on something he was passionate about.

Baldino also recognizes how important the product is to his future. He said he has enough discretionary income from his past business to last him through the summer.

After that, however, he’ll need his product to become profitable to reward the hours of time and thousands of dollars he threw at his company or he risks failing and having little money left.

It’s not something he’s fearful or bashful about, though.

“I think the projections, depending on the how the market accepts it, anywhere from 2 to 4 million dollars if it’s in a select niche market,” said Baldino about the financial vision he has for his shirt. “I see the potential, tangibly, going to 40 to 60 million in the next 3 to 5 years if it’s able to get into the mass market.”

The difference between a niche market and a mass market is the difference between becoming Under Armour and becoming a company that few have heard of.

It’s the difference between millions of dollars.

Baldino has also had to deal with family pressure.

“My dad, he’s been hard on me because the company hasn’t produced any money.

He’s not sure whether to give it the stamp of approval as a hobby or a legitimate job.”

To top it off, spending every second thinking about his shirt has drained Baldino emotionally.

“It’s been incredibly stressful,” said Baldino. “I’ve been having to actually focus on forcing myself to stop working when I get home at night. I just feel like it’s a time crunch. It’s actually a challenge just to manage that stress.”

Three months ago, he went on a trip to Las Vegas and met a girl. What was supposed to be a two-night trip turned into a six-night trip because of her. Despite living in London, that girl is now in a relationship with Baldino. Months ago, they were able to talk for multiple hours every day. He admits now, though, because of the strains of the business, it’s down to 20-minute conversations — every few days.

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On Aug. 4 of last year, Baldino filed with the state of Florida to create his company, naming it RoIzo. He had no reason behind the name, other than it sounded cool.

The proposed name of his T-shirt? The RoIzo Shirt. There’s a certain simplicity to Baldino. He specifically registered his company as an LLC, allowing him to be the president, founder and CEO of the company, and not need partners. He says “we” a lot and then, always, corrects to “I.” He’s not lacking confidence, either. He admits the perfect person to run his company was ... him.

“I thought about it a while back, I said, ‘I really need someone to take this company to the next level,’ ” said Baldino. “I was thinking of the perfect person, I was like, ‘He’s gotta know physics, he’s gotta be smart, and he’s gotta have a passion for working out.’ I’m like, ‘oh, that’s me!’ ”

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After he started his company and finished creating his shirt, Baldino wanted to make sure other people tried it. He wanted to be certain the shirt worked, and if not, he wanted to hear people’s doubts, disbelief and distrust. So far, he’s heard none.

“About 100 people have already tried it,” he said. “Every single one of them lifts more weight.”

Among those users is a junior exercise science major at FAU, bodybuilder Brad Day. Day remembers hearing of the shirt and thinking it would be a great help. His intuition was correct, and Day plans on using it to help train for his upcoming bodybuilding competition in July. In addition to helping him prepare, Day noted he likes something else about the shirt.

“It can prevent injury,” said Day. “If you’re on a bench and you try to roll back into position and you slip while you have a bunch of weight, you can screw your shoulder up and drop it on you.”

Baldino understands that 100 people are not statistically significant, but they certainly didn’t hurt his cause. one of those 100 that Baldino took the shirt to even went so far as to attempt to purchase the shirt. And not just one — hundreds.

“I went to Coach [Brian] Remington, and he’s the strength and athletic coach at FAU,” said Baldino. “I showed him the shirt, within five minutes, he goes ‘I want 450 of them for all the athletes in the school.’”

Remington is a former power-lifter, and the concept of the shirt excited him. He remembered, years ago, trying techniques that would keep him from slipping on the bench. Now there is a shirt that does it for him.

“When I was power lifting we would buy stick-em spray,” said Remington of his power-lifting past. “We’d put stick-em spray or chalk on our backs to keep from sliding.”

Despite his enthusiasm and encouragement for the shirt, Remington ultimately recognized he couldn’t purchase them. FAU is an Adidas-sponsored school, and as such, the athletic department cannot purchase non-Adidas apparel.

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Formulas, numbers, science. Baldino is a business major now, focusing on how to sell his T-shirt, but he’s got a physics background and it shows.

Baldino even wrote out a physics formula for the shirt. He couldn’t help himself.

“This is classical physics, Newtonian physics,” said Baldino, scribbling furiously on a piece of paper. “Force total equals MG, Sine theta, plus mu of static friction, times MG cosine theta equals force total. OK?” “I have to somehow teach people Newton’s theory of law and stuff like that without being too technical.” He paused, then added, “That’s going to be a challenge.”

It’s a challenge he’s ready for, though. Baldino wants his shirt in the mass market and has even prepared a sales pitch for most amateur potential users.

“You push with your legs, you’re not going to slip because of the shirt, you put tension in your body and that makes you lift more weight. Boom. That’s it.”

The RoIzo Shirt is available currently at Fitness Now, a gym located in Boca, for $34.99, and Baldino is currently in talks to have the shirt sold at the FAU bookstore and inside the FAU Rec Center.

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The silent, deadly assassin Pitcher Paul Davis turned down the Red Sox — only to have his best year ever ZACK DUARTE CONTRIBUTOR

MORE THAN JUST A HOBBY Davis was born in Brandon, Fla. and grew up without a local professional team to root for.

At the age of 12, Paul began playing competitive baseball. “It was the first thing I really fell in love with, outside of family,” said Davis as a sudden excitement took over his voice. “I didn’t care too much where I played when I was a kid, I just had to be out on the field helping my team win.”

Davis quickly excelled at the sport, as he played high school baseball for Treasure Coast High School.

Davis was an all-conference, first team all-area and an honorable mention all-state selection.

Although now he is the Owls’ go-to guy when the team needs a win, he was not always a pitcher. Spending time all around the diamond, Davis first honed his baseball skills in various positions, specializing on the left side of UPRESSONLINE.COM

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The aspect of Davis’ game that grew the most playing baseball as a teenager was his competitive edge.

“I get it from my family,” said Davis. “My dad motivated me to be better and still does every day.”

Davis also has a younger brother who pitches at Pensacola Junior College, where Davis played his first two collegiate seasons. He constantly credits his brother with giving him an extra edge.

“We push each other to do the best we can,” said Davis about his brother. “We compete against one another but in a way that motivates us to be the best.”

Although Davis has been wildly successful on the field, and is always fired up when the ball is in his hands, a different side oozes out of him off the field.

“I really enjoy fishing and I have a daily routine of food on Saturdays, when I take the mound. Other than that, I am pretty laid back,” smirked Davis, as he jokingly added, “Yeah, I’m really superstitious.”

EARLY SUCCESS As a freshman at Pensacola Junior College, Davis tasted mild success, going 6-3 with a 4.29 ERA. “From my freshman to my sophomore year is probably when I learned the most about myself as a pitcher,” said Davis.

This was evident in his performance as a sophomore when Davis posted a 10-3 record with a 3.33 ERA and was voted the team’s most improved player. More accolades were bestowed upon him as he earned first team all-conference and second team all-state honors.

Davis then earned a spot in the Junior College AllStar tournament in the summer of 2010. He traveled to the Netherlands and he represented the U.S. in a tournament against other countries such as Cuba, Japan and the Netherlands.

Following the All-Star tournament, Davis was drafted in the 29th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft by the Boston Red Sox, although he chose not to sign a contract with the team, instead accepting an invitation to pitch for FAU. “I want to get drafted higher, so I decided to go back to school, finish my degree and improve as a pitcher,” said Davis. “My goal is to be drafted in the top 15 rounds.

Then I may decide to sign a contract with whatever team decides to give me that chance.”

While Davis has Major League aspirations in mind, he is currently the Owls’ standout pitcher and hopes to lead them to postseason success. June will be a big month for him, as he not only looks to take out more of FAU’s opponents on the field, but to get drafted in Major League Baseball’s annual draft and sign a contract with a professional team.

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The Owls will have to wait to put the finishing touches on their victory over UALR until Sunday, as play is suspended due to the passing storm.

After throwing 121 pitches in almost seven innings of work, Owls starting pitcher Paul Davis sits in the dugout impatiently and watches as another flash of lightning paints the sky in the far-off distance.

The next day, the Owls bullpen recorded the final six outs. After waiting more than 16 hours, since the game was postponed, Davis earned another victory, as he has often done this year, creating his 10-1 record.

Although Davis finished strong, the threat of a rain stoppage endangered his chance of earning the victory.

“I am the most competitive guy you might ever meet.

I can’t lose. I don’t know how to deal with a loss,” said Davis, as his hands began rubbing up against one another.

“I can’t even think about losing.”

After a game in which Davis dominated his opponent, the mere thought of losing a game stirred such an intense passion in him that he had to pause mid-sentence to gather himself.

“When the lights go on, Paul really is a different player,” said Davis’ coach, John McCormack. “He’s the quintessential player, the one that every coach hopes to have on their team.”

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t’s no secret that the majority of movies based on video games really suck.

There are some that weren’t so bad, like Mortal Kombat or Prince of Persia. But then there are the ones that were just flatout horrendous, like Super Mario Brothers.

However, video games based on movies are usually pretty lame as well.

After years of suffering through sub-

10. QUAKE

Before there was Halo, there was Quake. The franchise seemed to die off after the latest release of Quake Wars a few years ago, but it’s still a franchise that gamers hold close to their hearts. The plot is simple: Marines fight human cyborg creatures who want to kill everyone. Of course, the plot is actually more detailed and complicated than that, but that’s what screenwriters are for.

5. HALO The Halo movie has been tossed around in Hollywood for some time now. The closest they came was a 10-minute test shoot that you can watch on YouTube.

Currently, Dreamworks holds the rights to a Halo movie, and claims that it is working on a screenplay based on the Halo novels, which will not have Master Chief.

That’s a little disappointing, but it still stays on our list because we support the creation of a kick-ass action movie.

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9. GRAND THEFT AUTO 8. GEARS OF WAR

par movie adaptations of video games, we deserve at least one that is epic and satisfying.

To help Hollywood get their heads on straight and to stop them from making movies like Candy Land and Rollercoaster Tycoon (I’m not making that up; it’s a scary reality we all have to live with), we’ve compiled a list of what we believe would be the best candidates:

7. LEFT 4 DEAD

Rockstar is known for making games that have really awesome story lines, with Grand Theft Auto being its most prominent.

If we had to pick one specific GTA title as a movie, it would have to be Vice City, simply for the awesome soundtrack. If we could choose an actor to star in the movie, it would have to be Mister Action Movie himself, Jason Statham. He even kind of looks like Niko from GTA IV … just saying, Hollywood.

The fact that this isn’t already a movie is a little surprising.

However, judging from the failed attempts at making a Halo movie, the budget for Gears of War would be pretty high. But the game holds all the qualities of an awesome sci-fi action movie. Aliens, blood, gore, big guns and a lot of war. Sound enticing? Yeah, we think so, too.

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The second game in the franchise has won more awards than you can even imagine, but what’s really exciting is that a Mass Effect movie may be closer than we think. Legendary Pictures currently holds the rights to the movie and has teamed up with the producers behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man. The movie is still in its very early stages and always has the possibility of falling through, but the fact that we are so close to getting our wish is very exciting, but also scary. We know what you do to video-game movies, Hollywood. If you care at all for the sanity of the human race, don’t screw this one up ... please?

Since we don’t seem to be getting many new versions of this game anymore, a movie would be the next logical step. Right? If The Hobbit gets to be a movie, we don’t see why Zelda shouldn’t be one. In fact, this should be Peter Jackson’s next project. He would do justice to the Zelda franchise.

Orlando Bloom as Link, anyone?

Out of all the zombie games out there, Left 4 Dead is one that would actually be a fantastic addition to the zombie movie world. It has something for every horror fan: lots of guns, lots of zombies, weird zombie puke and scary witch zombies that sound like screaming babies on fire. Who wouldn’t love that?

This was almost a movie, but the budget got to be uncomfortably high for Hollywood. We say, screw it. Make the movie anyway.

The world of Bioshock is insanely awesome. The concept of an entire city underwater filled with insane scientists, doctors and people who are addicted to genesplicing drugs is an awesome plot.

What video game do you want to see made into a movie? Tell us at upressonline.com.

6. WORLD OF WARCRAFT Okay, so the budget on a World of Warcraft movie would probably be astronomical, but it would be totally worth it. If made right, this movie would destroy at the box office. As of March 2011, WoW has 11.4 million subscribers.

With $10 being the average price for a movie ticket, do the math … yeah. Of course, if the movie sucks, you’ll have 11.4 million angry diehard fans, it’s a gamble.

1. ASSASSINʼS CREED This franchise has one of the most intriguing plots ever found in a video game. Instead of making shoddy side games for the Nintendo DS, Ubisoft should be working on a movie — and it might be doing just that.

Ubisoft recently announced it is opening a movie studio to create films out of their most popular video game franchises. While a Rayman movie would be quite the acid trip, an Assassin’s Creed movie would hopefully be as amazing as the game.

Keep your fingers crossed, gamers. The announcement is hopefully just days away.

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