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University Press January 24, 2012 Vol. 13 Issue 17

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Around the world with Maria Fadiman Meet the professor (and explorer) who brings her adventures in the rain forests of Latin America and the wilderness of Africa to your classrooms PG. 11

FAU researchers discover babies can read lips to learn how to speak.

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Two bands signed to FAU’s record label play a free show on campus XSKIXLIV JSV XLI ½VWX XMQI PG. 10

Women’s track is tired of being left behind, wants better facilities.

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January 24, 2012 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mariam Aldhahi MANAGING EDITOR Ryan Cortes ART DIRECTOR Phaedra Blaize WEB EDITOR Andrew Alvino BUSINESS MANAGER Michae Henry COPY DESK CHIEF Michael Chandeck NEWS EDITOR Regina Kaza CRIME EDITOR Monica Ruiz FEATURES EDITOR Carolina Fernandez PHOTO EDITOR Charles Pratt SPORTS EDITOR Rolando Rosa SENIOR EDITORS Rachel Chapnick Gideon Grudo WEB DESIGNER Tyler Krome SENIOR REPORTERS Karla Bowsher Sergio Candido SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Christine Capozziello REPORTER Jordan Robrish STAFF DESIGNER Elena Medina COPY EDITORS Jessica Cohn-Kleinberg CONTRIBUTORS Jessica Calaway, Chase Kennedy, Wadreama King, ADVISERS MICHAEL KORETZKY DAN SWEENEY COVER Photo courtesy of Maria Fadiman

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Recently hired Executive Marketing Director wants to help students learn what SG does

By Regina Kaza upress@fau.edu

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tudent Government thinks you don’t know enough about them.

So they hired someone to fix that.

Junior communications major, Aneal Ramkissoon is the first SG Executive Marketing Director at FAU. On Nov. 18, 2011, the senate passed a bill to add this position to the SG Executive Cabinet, and after holding a series of interviews, Ramkissoon was hired on Jan. 18. His new job is to work with other FAU campus marketing directors in order to help advertise SG’s programs and events — and to make SG more popular.

Ramkissoon is a 20-year-old new student at FAU. When he transferred from PBSC, he needed a part-time job, and as an international student from Toronto, Canada, he can only work on campus because he can’t work off campus with a student visa. He was SG president for two years at PBSC, and the Communications and Marketing Director for the Florida College System Student Government Association.

“I want to say that my experience is what got me the position,” said Ramkissoon.

Because of FAU’s growing enrollment, SG needed to add this position to keep students updated on how they can get involved on campus, according to SG vice president, Robert Huffman.

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“And by having an Executive Marketing Position in Student Government, this dream can become a reality,” said Huffman.

Freshman psychology major, Alexa Jones, thinks SG doesn’t need this new position since they already promote their events.

“Maybe they’re not very well known around campus, but that does seem kind of pointless,” Jones said.

As an RA in GPT, sophomore public management major Jeremy Ward tries to get students to go to events happening on the housing lawn and around campus.

He said this new position might help get more students involved. “I guess, if you think the advertising now isn’t working, then why not? More advertising might help,” Ward said.

Part of his new job is telling students what their Acitivty and service (A&S) fees are used for. The $11.96 fee that is included in all students’ tuition. That fee is then divided between FAU’s campuses, and funds SG programs like Night Owls, free student events and SG salaries.

“People are paying these fees but they’re not coming to the events where there’s free food and great things that they’re benefiting from,” said Ramkisoon.

Even though all of this information is available online, Huffman thinks

students don’t know about it.

“In the past, students have not been aware of where their A&S fee dollars are being spent,” he said. “This position will help market and advertise to the students the purpose of [SG] and how they can get involved.”

Ramkissoon on the other hand, thinks students simply don’t care.

“Not a lot of students even care. I don’t think a lot of people even look at their tuition break down, they just have mom and dad write a check or their scholarships pay it.”

If students knew where their money is being used, they might come out to more events and use more SG programs, like Night Owls, according to Ramkissoon.

“If we really brand SG and get our name out there like, ‘this is what we’re doing for you. This $QHDO 5DPNLVVRRQ is where your 6* ([HFXWLYH money is going.’ I feel like students will 0DUNHWLQJ 'LUHFWRU be more appreciative of all the things SG does.”

In the Jan. 17 story, “Say it with your chest,” there was an error in the photo caption. Sherrika Mitchell was the student pictured. The UP reported otherwise.

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Baby talk

By Rachel Chapnick upress@fau.edu

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AU psychology professor David J. Lewkowicz has been studying babies for about 30 years, and he recently made a breakthrough discovery.

Since 2009, Lewkowicz and graduate student Amy Hansen-Tift have observed over 200 babies — one at a time — in a gray, cubicle-esque lab inside room 117 of the Boca campus’ Behavioral Science building. The duo’s work has led them to discover what could potentially be a research breakthrough — babies try to “lip read� when they’re learning to talk.

Specifically Lewkowicz has been trying to figure out how babies use their senses to understand the world around them. He teamed up with Hansen-Tift and the pair’s experiments suggested infants between eight to twelve months old stare at the the mouth. Both younger and older babies have a tendency to stare at the eyes.

In this experiment, babies were seated in a high chair facing a video screen and shown four videos — two in English and two in Spanish — of two different women saying phrases like “Good morning� or “Buenos dias.� A soft headband was put on the baby’s head to monitor his or her focus. The equipment revealed that older babies exposed to new languages stared at the mouth, even if

FAU professor and graduate student’s study shows babies learn to talk by lip reading they had begun looking back at the eyes.

While parents were present during the experiments, they were not told what their babies were tested for until the end. Hansen-Tift explained she did not want the babies influenced in any way. At the end of the experiment, she said parents “leave with a feeling of accomplishment, because they feel like their baby helped science.�

The experiment began when Lewkowicz realized “There was no literature on what older babies do when someone is speaking to them.� In spite of a fascination with the subject, the study got off to a slow start. The testing of babies began in 2009, but Lewkowicz crafted the idea and bought the equipment five years earlier.

The delay mainly revolved around equipment glitches.

When Hansen-Tift arrived at FAU from Ohio State University, the equipment was barely working on adults, let alone infants. It was not until the summer of 2009 that the problems were ironed out, and the lab was ready to recruit babies.

According to Lewkowicz, obtaining babies was pretty

easy. The psychology department has access to local birth records, which meant getting a baby was often possible via a quick phone call. He estimated that the lab normally receives about 12 to 15 babies per week and Hansen-Tift mentioned many babies were children of FAU alumni or former psychology majors.

The babies selected for this study were typically developing — or learning at a normal rate — and raised in an English-speaking home. This was a one time experiment, but Hansen-Tift says she and Lewkowicz would like to bring some of the infants back. She confided, “We’ve been talking about it quite seriously.

It’s a matter of working out the manpower to call all of these parents.�

Both Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift expect their experiment will have an impact in the field. Lewkowicz explained the discovery “puts focus on paying attention to not only auditory cues, but visual cues as well.�

Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift’s data has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift’s experiment has received a lot of attention because the data shows there may be a way to diagnose autism earlier.

Lewkowicz admitted, “we may have stumbled on a way to diagnose the onset of autism six months earlier than usually possible. Six months may be nothing for us adults, but six months for early development is a huge amount of time.� Currently, experts cannot identify autism in an infant younger than 18 months.

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Aroundthe After years of blistered feet, daylong flights and unforgettable memories abroad, the world geography professor and globe trotter tells us her story.

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r. Maria Fadiman was there when an African medicine man tried to heal a crying baby by tying a necklace made of baobab tree bark around her neck. She was there when the Amazonian indigenous people were drinking potions to throw up (because it was a cultural tradition) –– and she had to stick a plant down her throat to join them. She’s had to trudge through mud, and down to a river in a rain forest, just to wash her face –– all in the name of ethnobotany. But when she’s not studying plants and making friends in far away countries, she teaches world geography at FAU. Dr. Fadiman spoke to us in her WNÅKM IUQL PMZ LQ[[MZ\I\QWV IVL \PM JWWS[ [PM¼[ _ZQ\\MV IJW]\ NWZMQOV plants, with the football stadium outside the window. We got to hear the stories, and see the spunk that keeps students captivated in the classroom.

UP: In addition to your work at FAU, you’re an ethnobotanist.

Can you explain what exactly ethnobotany is?

Fadiman: “Ethno” is people and “botany” is plants. So ethnobotany is really the relationship between people and plants. And that can come in all kinds of forms. A lot of people think of it in terms of OWQVO [WUM_PMZM NIZ I_Ia ¸ NWZ UMLQKQVIT NWZ ÅJMZ[ NWZ NWWL NWZ spiritual reasons. And we’re also connected to plants all the time here. [Points to desk] This is plastic, but there’s probably some wood smashed up under here. Whatever you had for breakfast was probably something that came from plants. So we’re all really connected to plants. I do tend to do my work way out in ‘the boonies’, but you don’t have to.

Dr. Fadiman did research in Tanzania with the Masaai indigenous people.

Some of the foreign children she met would tell her to “let her yellow hair down.” All photos courtesy of Maria Fadiman unless otherwise noted. upressonline.com

What kind of work do you do out in ‘the boonies’?

What I concentrate on is the use of plants and sustainability. So I try and look: are there ways for people to use their plants and keep the plants growing, so they don’t have to use them up? And part of my particular interest is when people really use a plant and really get connected to it — whether it’s utilitarian or spiritual, or whatever it is for them. The idea of maintaining the ecosystem in which that plant grows. So for me, the ultimate goal is overall conservation through people’s connection with plants. But then also, people are losing their allure about plants. This information is being lost with every generation, so I’m partly trying to record it, so it’s not lost. I used to work a lot more with medicinal plants – now I work more _Q\P ÅJMZ[ · J]\ _PI\ 1 _W]TL LW \PMV _I[ LZI_ \PM XTIV\[ _ZQ\M Q\ put it in their language in Spanish, and give them back a book of their own information. And then they could choose! continued on page 12

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D r. M a r i a F a d im a n h a s t r a v e l e d t o s o m e o f t h e m o s t e x o t i c p l a c e s i n t h e w o r l d s t u dy i n g e t h n o b o t a n y — h o w p e o p l e f r o m d i f f e r e n t c u l t u r e s i n t e r a c t w i t h p l a n t s i n their ever yday lives. Here are some of the highlights of her global adventures.

Did you know?

Dr. Fadiman had to work as a bartender and

E CUADOR Did volunteer work with a shaman (medicine man) from the Quichua indigenous people. Made a book of medicinal plants for them.

C OSTA R ICA Worked as a guide again, and made a book of medicinal plants for them.

B ELIZE Interned at a tropical medicinal station as the apprentice of a Mayan shaman.

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waitress to pay for most of her early trips C OSTA R ICA Worked as a tour guide at a rural lodge taking tourists through the rain forest

throughout college.

She has more than 35 papers and articles under her belt, but she is also writing a book about her

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lifelong travels and work.

M ASTERS AT T ULANE U NIVERSITY IN N EW O RLEANS Masters research in the Yucatan. Worked with Mayans, studying weaving palms and collecting information on sustainability.

Before she became a world geography professor, she hadn’t taken more than one geography class in her life.

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In class, Dr. Fadiman likes to get into character. Sometimes she makes high-pitch noises. Other times she runs or dances across the room. “She’s different than other geography professors,” said senior accounting major Paul Basco. “She’s actually been to these places, and she’s like a walking, human National Geographic.” Photo by Carolina Fernandez

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M EXICO Presented one of her papers about how Ecuadorian people use palm trees at a conference of Latin American geographers.

Dr. Fadiman did a research project where she studied coffee in the Galapagos in 2008.

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When did you decide you wanted to do this long term?

I was in college and I always wanted to work with conservation, but I LQLV¼\ _IV\ \W LW [KQMVKM 1 ÅO]ZML [KQMVKM _I[ [KIZa ;W 1 _I[V¼\ []ZM PW_ to make that all work, but I was taking a class and I learned about the word “ethnobotany” –– people and plants –– so I realized I can put that together. ,]ZQVO Ua R]VQWZ aMIZ WN KWTTMOM 1 _MV\ \W ;XIQV Ua ÅZ[\ [MUM[\MZ IVL the second semester, I spent a quarter in Mexico and a quarter in Costa Rica, as a guide. I didn’t know anything about the rain forest because I was LM\MZUQVML VW\ \W LW [KQMVKM J]\ 1 KW]TL [XMIS ;XIVQ[P ;W 1 _I[ PMTXQVO translate for rail guides, but while I was there, I learned about the plants and bugs. I’m like, ‘That’s science? Well, that’s cool! I can do that!’

When you were studying, where did you want to work? What was your dream job? ?PMV 1 ÅZ[\ [\IZ\ML IVL _MV\ NWZ Ua QV\MZ^QM_ NWZ Ua 8P, 1 _IV\ML to work for a non-governmental organization. And then when I was a TA (teaching assistant) and started teaching lab sessions, I loved teaching and thought it was really fun. And then I realized, ‘Oh, I do want to be a professor!’ And I also get my summers where I go do my research, and go to the Amazon, or to Africa or somewhere cool.

What are the most exotic places you’ve been to, and some memories from those places?

Well, the Amazon is certainly exotic, although I’ve been to Latin America so many times, it doesn’t change that it’s still really exotic. And I was in Tibet two summers ago, and we were riding on this motorcycle all the way to the top of this mountain, and I mean, it’s just like in the movies or the posters. You just see these mountains going off and off, and there are TQ\\TM ÆW_MZ[ OZW_QVO M^MZa_PMZM IVL aIS IZM _ITSQVO IZW]VL IVL \PM[M nomadic people who move their tents every few months are greeting me and giving me yak milk. And it’s just these moments where I’m like, ‘Am I really here?’

Do you incorporate some of these stories in your classes?

Yes! Absolutely. Every time I come back from a trip, I look at my pictures, and I look at what can I incorporate where. [There] are lots of my own stories, too. I try to make it come alive when I’m in the classroom.

Students are fascinated by you, and they love your style of teaching.

Some even rated you as “hot” on RateMyProfessor.com.

You know, I didn’t even go on there earlier, but now I know — I’ve got the chili pepper. Cool beans!

What do you think it is about your style of teaching that students like?

Well, besides the chili pepper aspect, I think one thing is — I really like doing it. And I like when students respond and I get their take on things.

In a big lecture class, it’s hard to be inclusive but I try as much as possible.

But also, I really try to make it real, and that’s my biggest thing. When I say, ‘Here’s the [European Union]’or ‘Here’s the environment in Latin America,’ and then I say, ‘And here’s my experience when I was there and [WUM\PQVO \PI\ PIXXMVML \W UM ¼ ;W \PMa [Ia »?W_ \PI\¼[ I ZMIT XTIKM IVL those are real people and it matters.’

In 2006, the Hadza (a hunting and gathering group) taught Dr. Fadiman how to shoot a bow and arrow in Tanzania.

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In 2006, National Geographic named you one of their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Emerging Explorers.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; How did this all happen?

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With softball season approaching on Feb. 10, Senior Heather Barnes has gone from a walk-on to team leader

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he softball team’s best hitter did not have the easiest school. She jokes that her hitting streak last season was path to FAU. halted due to a jinx.

Senior Heather Barnes, the 5’9” brunette second “I said if [media relations] put this on the website then it’s baseman, came here last spring from a community college, going to ruin my hit streak, I know it,” Barnes said. with merely a chance to make the team as a walk-on. Head The next game, she went hitless. coach Joan Joyce issued no guarantees of playing time.

Being one of the best players on the team, though, it So, Barnes earned it. would be easy for Barnes to be loud and confident. Instead, Last season, she led FAU with a .318 batting average, she lets her play speak for itself, and at the same time she but she does not take her talent for granted, not after two attempts to inspire her teammates vocally. shoulder surgeries — one in high school at Avon Park, “She’s a great leader, she motivates you,” Wilson said. “I’m the other during her freshman year of college playing for the captain of the team but I feel like she’s my co-captain.”

Stetson University.

“She leads by example of her work ethic on the field,” The shoulder still jumps out of place every once in a Joyce said. “She will voice her opinion. Some kids are shy while, according to coach Joyce, but Barnes is determined about that. Heather has no problem with doing that, which to push through the injury. It’s one that initially had her is a good thing.” doubting whether she’d ever play again.

According to Joyce, Barnes is a testimony that hard work “She’s definitely the toughest person I know,” teammate pays off. and roommate Quincy Wilson said. “I know how much “If I had 19 more Heathers then we would know exactly pain she goes through because I go through the same what we’re doing out there,” Joyce said proudly. amount (Wilson has been through multiple knee surgeries).

Barnes was inspired to play the game by her father Ronnie, She’s tough as nails.” a sergeant, and her twin brother Heath. Growing up, she “I get work done on [my shoulder] 24/7,” Barnes said. admired Heath and wanted to follow in his footsteps.

“We’re just trying to make sure it lasts for another year.”

“I thought, well if he’s going to play baseball,” Barnes This past off-season, instead of relaxing, Heather decided said. “then I want to play baseball.” to work on her swing, while rehabbing her shoulder every The workaholic senior will miss not just softball and her week. teammates, but something else that comes with the college “Her dedication with hitting is over the top,” Joyce said. experience.

“When she was on break over the Christmas holidays, she “This sounds really funny, but, I’m going to miss not was out constantly hitting at home.” having free time,” Barnes said, “I’m not going to know what Coming from Avon Park, Fla., Barnes transferred to FAU to do with free time. Not having someone say, ‘Okay you’re from South Florida Community College. waking up at this time, you’re going to class, you’re going to “The pitching between community college and here workouts, then study hall.’ I’m not going to have is totally different,” Joyce said. “The movement any idea what to do with this free time.” on the ball in Division I is much greater.”

Barnes, a sociology major, is That didn’t stop Heather from interested in working with special racking up a 15 game hitting streak needs kids. A friend of her last season. Not that she wanted family is an ESC teacher to be reminded of it while it that works with special FAU WOMEN’S SOFTBALL was going on. needs kids in elementary BEGINS ON FEB 10.

“It’s one of those things school. Knowing Barnes that you know about but wanted to be a teacher, she VS UCF IN THE NTC you don’t talk about,” Barnes took her into one of her ELITE INVITATIONAL IN said. “Kind of like when a classes one day. pitcher is throwing a perfect “I made my mind up CLERMONT, FLA. AT 5 game, you don’t go and within the first 10 minutes P.M. say, ‘Hey, by the way, you’re in there that I want to work throwing a perfect game.’” with special needs kids,” Barnes Heather calls herself a “stat said. “I absolutely adore them. It’s nut.” She keeps track of her statistics, the most rewarding thing I can do. even claiming to this day that she can Even if I just work with them for an hour remember her numbers and totals from high or so, I absolutely would love working with them.”

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The road to respect Despite having the makings of a talented team, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track feels unrecognized

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a couple breakthrough performances,â&#x20AC;? t FAU, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had one new is trailing the field of school record established other sports when it in the triple jump with comes to attention, according Ashani. We have a number to the players and its coach. of freshman and new people Its resources are limited. to run track, so we had very Despite having a track onnice performances.â&#x20AC;? campus which it practices on, Roberts now has the the team has no home track school record for the triple meets, which contributes jump, both indoors and to a minimal fan base and outdoors. Last year, she following, according to finished second in the triple sophmore sprints/hurdler jump, and also qualified for Danielle Aromashodu. The the NCAA Regionals. team also has to travel on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt good, I know that I road as nomads from meet to could have done a lot better, meet. but we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really practice Head coach Alex Smolka indoors that much,â&#x20AC;? Roberts says it is not the track itself said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an that is the problem, rather the indoor facility, [but] I felt lack of sufficient facilities. like I did fairly well for my â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the track,â&#x20AC;? Smolka first track meet.â&#x20AC;? said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fact thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Distance runners have to no stands, no bathrooms, run 60 miles a week to be no scoreboard. The track is competitive at a divisional actually a very well built track level, according to Smolka. in terms of the surface and He says sprinters do lifting circumference.â&#x20AC;? three days a week and Smolka estimates the cost practice five days a week. of a concrete, top of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very, very intense line facility, with bathrooms commitment for a race that 6SULQWV KXUGOHU 'DQLHOOH $URPDVKRGX ILQLVKHG IRXUWK LQ WKH PHWHU GDVK DW WKH -LPP\ &DUQHV ,QYLWDWLRQDO LQ *DLQHVYLOOH )/ and a concession stand to takes just under 12 seconds,â&#x20AC;?

3KRWR FRXUWHV\ RI )$8 DWKOHWLFV cost roughly hundreds of Smolka said of sprinters. thousands of dollars. He says Knowing this, Aromashodu the school would like to improve the conditions, but simply cannot afford it at this time. trained vigorously during the off-season to gain an edge. To prepare for the 400-meter â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot of discussions but the biggest issue is money,â&#x20AC;? Smolka said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, hurdles, she worked out her key muscles to the point of exhaustion. the only issue is money. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just finding a donor, finding money to put everything together.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;With track youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to feel uncomfortable and some days youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to feel fatigued, Once a quality facility is built, Smolka hopes, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track will flourish at FAU. like you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do it anymore,â&#x20AC;? Aromashodu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the process of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having a home track meet will certainly help a great deal,â&#x20AC;? Smolka said of what it will strengthening your body. The pain comes along with it, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine.â&#x20AC;? take to get more people interested in the sport. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being on campus will definitely add a The Owls, with a 30-athlete roster, (half of which are of walk-ons), are considered to be great deal to having people come out and watch us without having to go down to Miami short-handed. Smolka says that for the conference championship, FAU brings around 22 [or other venues that it competes at]. So it would help a lot as far as recognition goes.â&#x20AC;? athletes, while a school like Western Kentucky will bring closer to 40.

In the meantime, the athletes understand the reality of the situation, but still want to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a very small team compared to some of the powerhouses in the conference,â&#x20AC;? noticed for their efforts.

Smolka said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But our goal is to make up what we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have in quantity with quality by â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it, of course, but this school isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really a track school,â&#x20AC;? senior track athlete being able to push everybody we have to really contribute.â&#x20AC;?

Ashani Roberts said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay that much attention to track. But I feel like we Unlike other sports, in track, there is no opponent to focus attention towards. This makes should get more attention like every other sport.â&#x20AC;? it an individualistic task for the player to prepare for. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even aware of the type of talent we have,â&#x20AC;? Aromashodu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re running against the clock and not anybody else,â&#x20AC;? Aromashodu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The race is In addition to Roberts, she lists sophmore sprinter Dana Cannon, and freshman Tatiana really only about you. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re competing against yourself and the clock.â&#x20AC;?

David (who got third place in the triple jump last week, her first collegiate event) as athletes Her goal is to defend her title for the outdoor 400 hurdles. Her goal for her team is even that will be key contributors. bigger.

Nevertheless, head coach Alex Smolka is excited for the way his squad opened the season â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to show other schools and teams that FAU can be put on the map too,â&#x20AC;? in Gainesville at the Jimmy Carnes Invitational.

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