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News Robert Seltzer is the new associate vice president for enrollment management. Seltzer has been working in college admissions for 20 years at other schools, and his job now is to recruit students and keep them at FAU. Last year, FAU had a 21 percent increase in admissions. Seltzer beat out four finalists for the job and will start at FAU on April 2.

Features Jeff Atwater, Florida’s chief financial officer and the former president of the Florida Senate, is visiting FAU to give a talk entitled, “We the People: Self-Government & Personal Responsibility.� The event is on Monday, April 9, at 6:00 p.m. in the Queen Palm Room of the Student Union. It is free and open to the public.

Sports FAU played a three-game home set with LouisianaLafayette over the weekend and won all three games. The Owls now have an 8-1 record in conference play and a 1910 overall count. With the weekend success, the Owls became the first Sun Belt team to sweep Louisiana- Lafayette in 25 years. *Stats as of 4.2.12

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G President Ayden Maher goes to football games, makes speeches and hands out free T-shirts. But it might not be enough.

The Broward House of Representatives issued a vote of no confidence on Maher at its meeting on March 15. The next day, Jupiter’s House also passed a vote of no confidence. One week later, so did Boca’s. There are now three campus houses who believe Maher is doing his job poorly. The Broward House accused Maher of not going to any of their meetings in nine months and only one Jupiter meeting this year, which is against the SG constitution.

Maher is supposed to give a weekly report to each campus House, either in person or in writing, according to the SG constitution. The president said he sent a report at least once a month, but that has yet to be confirmed.

Besides the Broward meetings, Maher missed four Boca House meetings and one Senate meeting this year, according to Boca House Speaker Boris Bastidas. He has been to two Jupiter House meetings and sent two reports in his term, according to Jupiter House Speaker Amrita Gopaldas.

Maher declined an interview with the UP. “I think they want to see the executives’ faces more, and that doesn’t just go for myself, it goes for the university,� Maher said at the Boca House meeting on March 23. “I think there needs to be better communication between all campuses.�

Broward House Speaker Alex Newton declined to comment.

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out above the 20 hours that I get paid a week,�

Maher said. “I bust my ass for this university.�

Since Maher has about five weeks left in his term, the chances of him being impeached are slim, according to Bastidas. “It’s really nothing more than a symbolic vote,� he said. (see the sidebar for the impeachment process) Because of this, House Rep. Alexandra Scully thinks the vote of no confidence won’t solve anything. “This is kind of redundant at the moment,� Scully said at the meeting. “Especially because he’s almost done with his term and I think we should just move on.�

Gopaldas mentioned that this should set an example for the next president. “A vote of no confidence will not only send a message to current President Maher,� Gopaldas said “but to President-elect [Robert] Huffman for their inattentiveness to the constituents and Student Government representatives on the Jupiter campus.�

SG Vice President and President-elect said these votes won’t affect his future. “I’ve learned a lot from Ayden, from his mistakes and from his strengths,� Huffman said. “With or without the votes of no confidence, I think that I understand what the students want.�

Although Maher isn’t likely to be impeached based on the time he has left, it’s still possible.

Back in 2006, former SG President Dan Wilson was impeached by two campus senates five weeks before his term was over. The main reasons: delaying SG elections and missing meetings. Wilson’s term ended in the very first steps of impeachment and he was never removed from office. Tiffany Weimbar was president before Maher and also got a vote of no confidence for violating the constitution by taking weeks to sign bills. “We voted no confidence on the last president, and it looks like that didn’t really help with this president,� SG Rules and Policies Committee Chair Amanda Phillips said. “So maybe this isn’t an effective way.�

Before the House passed the vote, Boca Gov. Ryan Ebanks encouraged the representatives to look into what policies Maher has and hasn’t been following. “I’m not saying President Maher is the most perfect president in the world, or he’s the worst president in the world,�

Ebanks said. “I’m asking you to objectively, all of you – including the speaker – talk to each other about his job function. Is he actually doing all of his job?� upressonline.com

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Breaking the mold This semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only graduating Master of Fine Arts student displays her thesis in Ritter Art Gallery

By Michelle Ferrand upress@fau.edu

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abitha Pennekamp spent days on end working on her 12 ceramic vessels. After all, she would be the only graduating Master of Fine Arts student. That meant getting a solo show as part of her thesis exhibition.

So Pennekamp went to work. And now she is showcasing her art in an exhibit called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gaze to Discoverâ&#x20AC;? in the Ritter Art Gallery, where each of her vessels stands for a letter that will ultimately spell out a 12 letter phrase. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the viewer to decode the secret message, all while their perception is played with. Pennekamp told us how she managed to play with the viewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perception, what inspired her work, how the audience can interact with her art, and what happens when the show is over.

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UP: HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR YOU TO CREATE ALL OF THIS? Pennekamp: In total I spent 665 hours and 30 minutes. I started in August and I decided to do one piece a week. I did 12 vessels and a semester is 14 weeks. I was able to get them all done last semester, which is a real big accomplishment because if I spend around 60 hours making a piece, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on top of my school work, my teaching and eating and sleeping time. I pretty much lived at the studio. But it was all well worth it.

WHEN DID YOU DECIDE YOU WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST? I was in the first grade. My teacher was really into arts and crafts. And I just remember always staying after class, helping her with projects and helping her get ready for other art projects to do for the whole class. And that was it.

HOW DID YOU GET CHOSEN TO DISPLAY YOUR ART AT THE RITTER ART GALLERY? You have to do a features exhibition. Typically there is more than one person graduating at a time, so you have a collaborative show, but because I was the only one accepted for my year, it was a solo show.

This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually the case.

WHAT WAS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND YOUR EXHIBITION? Well, I chose ceramics as a medium because I really like my work to be for the person using it or viewing it. And ceramics is so hands on, making [it] like functional work. Anybody can use it and it can be part of your daily life. But I realized in a gallery setting, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that interaction or expect that kind of interaction, with the actual touching or feeling or just embracing ceramics. So I was trying to come up with ways for the viewers to interact with my work just the same, but not actually touching it.

HOW DOES IT WORK WHEN SOMEONE VISITS YOUR EXHIBIT? When you first walk in there are show cards with the puzzle on them. As you look at the pieces and as you go along, each piece will represent one letter. Like all of the imagery on one piece will start with

the same letter. And then you go to the next one. All the images will start with a different letter. And all the pieces spell out the phrase.

WHY

DID YOU TITLE YOUR PIECES WITH THE NUMBER OF HOURS YOU

WORKED ON THEM?

I titled them that way because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to give the phrase away if I just titled it after the letter all the imagery on a specific piece started with. So I decided to give them arbitrary numbers, hoping that the numbers would serve as a catalog, like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, this is this one.â&#x20AC;? The viewer wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to necessarily know thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how many hours I spent working on them, but if you really did want to know, it would be right there.

SO BACK TO THE SECRET MESSAGE. HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT IT IS IF YOU

GET CONFUSED OR SOMETHING?

If you get confused and you go through the entire exhibit, you could just go all the way down to the right. Behind that wall thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a key there. So if the viewer gets really confused, they can just look at the key.

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DID YOU CHOOSE THE SECRET MESSAGE THAT

YOU DID?

I want the viewer to look at art or to look at anything in life. The title of my show is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gaze to Discover,â&#x20AC;? because I think, too often, people just pass by everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s around them, and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay attention to what something can be or what something is, and we just take the beauty of life for granted. What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to do is call attention to those little moments, and get excited about all the things you can see or recognize.You can relate to something that surrounds you.

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November when they started

Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skeleton; his skull is currently on

students, Zepeda and Kenneth Bryan (who

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are very few complete chimpanzee

digging up Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skeleton. That

display in the anthropology department, and

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of liver cancer, according to his necropsy. Not

is, before they got stopped by

his arms are being used for research in Arizona.

body. The students chose to not disclose the

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of primate brains, including humans and

within two years in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s. Nolan was originally

having been denied a permit to

decomposed completely, staff planned to dig up

on the Boca campus.

chimps, he spends much of his time studying

a lab animal; he was used to test possible cures for

go back and keep digging, the

his bones and use them as intended.

chimpanzeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; skulls.

hepatitis, a life-threatening disease that makes its

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rumors have been going around the campus

voice mails.

bad publicity â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or with animal testing,

for that matter. Nolan died on Nov. 27, 2002,

of the chimp being there, and there has been

He went on: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you think about it, there are

talk of students going to dig it up,â&#x20AC;? Dier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If

only a certain number of chimpanzees in all of

From 1970 to 1972, Nolan lived in a cage in a

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honestly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to do it that way,â&#x20AC;? Tiara

anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to dig it up, I would prefer that it

the museums in the world. People who want to

New York state lab. He only ever interacted with

Zepeda said, a double major in sociology and

was dug up by someone who would ensure that

study chimp morphology and anatomy really

the masked scientists who studied him, never

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end up travelling to all of the museums that

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Terry Wolf, the wildlife director at Lion Country

if we had another chimp to add to the mix.â&#x20AC;?

Safari.

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anthropology. She is one of the few students involved in the digging attempt willing to unearth Nolan without campus permission.

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of Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remains. Key word â&#x20AC;&#x201D; trying.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went in to ask about it,â&#x20AC;? Dier said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it was about 2 o'clock,â&#x20AC;? Dier said.

Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body is still buried, and the

we need the experience, we were told everyone

they told me that I needed to go over to

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone stopped by from [Facilities] and told

administration is still denying permission to

leaves at 5. If after 5, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s around, why

Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)

not?â&#x20AC;?

and talk to them. They told me that they were

Nolan was a chimpanzee. He came to FAU

worried about zoonotic diseases [like rabies

at the end of 2002 when Lion Country Safari

that can transfer from animals to people] and

donated his body for research. It was kept in

anything that could still be living in the carcass.â&#x20AC;?

cold storage for a year and a half; the professors

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who study primate anatomy didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to

professor coordinating the students â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was

work on it. They were under the assumption the

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be a massive issue, and that I needed to apply

reaching out to Darlene Ward, the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

students arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready to give up

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dig. Even though, according to Tiara Zepeda,

apply for a permit.â&#x20AC;?

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us we needed to stop, or there was going to

exhumation.

and freezers were going on and off,â&#x20AC;? Amanda

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In arguing about it, I felt that the primary

Dier, a senior double majoring in anthropology

reason really was publicity, and not the other

and criminal justice, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The chimp was

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thawing and refreezing, so by the time they

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realized what had happened, it was basically

publicity, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not experimenting on

in a block at the bottom of the freezer, partly

chimps. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cause the death of the chimp;

decomposed.â&#x20AC;?

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home in the liver.

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FIELD NOTES

Nolan was born in Africa and moved to upstate New York at a very young age where he was put to work helping to cure hepatitis.

Nolan spent 1970 to 1972 in a cage. He was drugged 52 times and underwent 65 liver biopsies.

In late 1975, he moved to Lion Country Safari where he quickly became the alpha male of his troop.

Nolan the chimpanzee died on Nov. 27, 2002.

He was found lying face down in a pool of water.

The necropsy revealed that he had died of liver cancer, most likely a complication from his childhood spent as a lab animal.

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since Dierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permit was denied.

But after two weeks, there was still no response from Engineering and Utilities. <PM -0 ; WNĂ&#x2026;KM[ LMKTQVML IV QV\MZ^QM_ NWZ an explanation on the matter, but suggested biological safety coordinator. As of press time,

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Ward had not responded to three calls and two

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t was a muggy afternoon last

The staff salvaged what they could from

Last November, Dier and fellow anthropology

November when they started

Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skeleton; his skull is currently on

students, Zepeda and Kenneth Bryan (who

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are very few complete chimpanzee

digging up Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skeleton. That

display in the anthropology department, and

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skeletons that can be used for research,â&#x20AC;?

of liver cancer, according to his necropsy. Not

is, before they got stopped by

his arms are being used for research in Arizona.

body. The students chose to not disclose the

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surprising, considering he had 65 liver biopsies

maintenance workers. Now, after

They buried the rest of Nolan. When he had

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of primate brains, including humans and

within two years in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s. Nolan was originally

having been denied a permit to

decomposed completely, staff planned to dig up

on the Boca campus.

chimps, he spends much of his time studying

a lab animal; he was used to test possible cures for

go back and keep digging, the

his bones and use them as intended.

chimpanzeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; skulls.

hepatitis, a life-threatening disease that makes its

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rumors have been going around the campus

voice mails.

bad publicity â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or with animal testing,

for that matter. Nolan died on Nov. 27, 2002,

of the chimp being there, and there has been

He went on: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you think about it, there are

talk of students going to dig it up,â&#x20AC;? Dier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If

only a certain number of chimpanzees in all of

From 1970 to 1972, Nolan lived in a cage in a

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honestly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to do it that way,â&#x20AC;? Tiara

anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to dig it up, I would prefer that it

the museums in the world. People who want to

New York state lab. He only ever interacted with

Zepeda said, a double major in sociology and

was dug up by someone who would ensure that

study chimp morphology and anatomy really

the masked scientists who studied him, never

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end up travelling to all of the museums that

another member of his species, according to

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Terry Wolf, the wildlife director at Lion Country

if we had another chimp to add to the mix.â&#x20AC;?

Safari.

just yet.

anthropology. She is one of the few students involved in the digging attempt willing to unearth Nolan without campus permission.

N

ow, anthropology students like Dier are trying to get permission to dig up the rest

of Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remains. Key word â&#x20AC;&#x201D; trying.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to give us a choice and

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went in to ask about it,â&#x20AC;? Dier said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it was about 2 o'clock,â&#x20AC;? Dier said.

Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body is still buried, and the

we need the experience, we were told everyone

they told me that I needed to go over to

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone stopped by from [Facilities] and told

administration is still denying permission to

leaves at 5. If after 5, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s around, why

Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)

not?â&#x20AC;?

and talk to them. They told me that they were

Nolan was a chimpanzee. He came to FAU

worried about zoonotic diseases [like rabies

at the end of 2002 when Lion Country Safari

that can transfer from animals to people] and

donated his body for research. It was kept in

anything that could still be living in the carcass.â&#x20AC;?

cold storage for a year and a half; the professors

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who study primate anatomy didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to

professor coordinating the students â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was

work on it. They were under the assumption the

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freezer wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fail. Then Hurricane Charley

were worried about backlash concerning animal

hit in 2004, throwing the chimpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frozen body

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attract unwanted publicity, since animal rights

work on it.

groups could possibly take offense to Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hurricane was causing power outages,

$%&'()"*)#+!#

be a massive issue, and that I needed to apply

reaching out to Darlene Ward, the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

students arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready to give up

!#

dig. Even though, according to Tiara Zepeda,

apply for a permit.â&#x20AC;?

By Chris Hamann

I

us we needed to stop, or there was going to

exhumation.

and freezers were going on and off,â&#x20AC;? Amanda

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In arguing about it, I felt that the primary

Dier, a senior double majoring in anthropology

reason really was publicity, and not the other

and criminal justice, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The chimp was

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thawing and refreezing, so by the time they

donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why they would be afraid of

realized what had happened, it was basically

publicity, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not experimenting on

in a block at the bottom of the freezer, partly

chimps. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cause the death of the chimp;

decomposed.â&#x20AC;?

it was dead already when we got it.â&#x20AC;? !"#$%%&'()'$*+&,

home in the liver.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The worst part, for the chimp, is being locked up alone in a cold, sterile environment with no

continued on page 14

FIELD NOTES

Nolan was born in Africa and moved to upstate New York at a very young age where he was put to work helping to cure hepatitis.

Nolan spent 1970 to 1972 in a cage. He was drugged 52 times and underwent 65 liver biopsies.

In late 1975, he moved to Lion Country Safari where he quickly became the alpha male of his troop.

Nolan the chimpanzee died on Nov. 27, 2002.

He was found lying face down in a pool of water.

The necropsy revealed that he had died of liver cancer, most likely a complication from his childhood spent as a lab animal.

$%&'()"*)#+!#

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chimps to look at, no one to talk to, no one to

the leader of his troupe –– the undisputed alpha male –– and all of the test chimps had successfully integrated with the normal chimps.

touch,” Wolf said. "If you were to do this with

Nolan was a part of two experiments in his

human children, none of us would question if

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they were to grow up retarded or with quirks."

second as a regular chimpanzee. He helped

This was Nolan’s life. He never got to see his

prove that lab animals can be rehabilitated.

mother, never got to socialize with other chimps.

Terry Wolf was working at Lion Country

He was constantly drugged while scientists

Safari when Nolan arrived in 1975, and it

perfomed on him. And seven other chimps at the

was his decision to donate Nolan’s body to the

lab went through this too.

anthropology department.

After six years of experimentation, most

“[Nolan] lived a good life, liked people,” Wolf,

chimps would be euthanized. After all, they were

admiting to having a soft spot for chimpanzees.

no longer viable testing subjects, and scientists

“I like to see them treated with respect. There is

believed they would not be able to socialize with

very little known about the anatomy of chimps,

Nolan, the chimpanzee, died and was donated to FAU for

other chimpanzees.

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research by Lion Country Safari in 2002. Parts of Nolan's

Science is all about testing, though, including

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the testing of preconceived notions. Linda

to the human understanding of chimpanzees.

Now, anthropology students are trying to dig up what's

Koebner, an animal behavior specialist working

Only time will tell if his gift was in vain.

left of him.

skeleton were buried in a field at FAU’s Boca campus.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LION COUNTRY SAFARI. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ELENA MEDINA

LIVED IN NEW YORK

DIED IN FLORIDA NOLAN WAS BORN IN AFRICA

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Sports Former FAU head baseball coach, Kevin Cooney, and current players speak up about the lack of amenities at FAU Baseball Stadium

House of

shame T

he good news: FAU baseball is currently on top of the Sun Belt Conference standings with an 8-1 record in conference play.

The bad news: Its 21-year-old stadium has hardly changed. Players, coaches and fans are forced to use Porta-potties because of the lack of restrooms.

“It sucks,” senior second baseman Mike Albaladejo said. “It smells sometimes. You could only imagine 35 people sharing one Porta-potty. The stench that comes out at the end of the weekend. The only rule that we have is nobody does the number two in there.” ±(YHI [I´ZI KSX E 4SVXE TSXX] ERH MX WXMROW ² WIRMSV SYX½IPHIV %PI\ ,YHEO WEMH ±1ER it smells bad. That’s disappointing. With baseball down here, and having the reputation of a winner, just looking at other Sun Belt Conference schools and schools around the REXMSR ]SY WLSYPH LEZI FEXLVSSQW ,STIJYPP] XLI [MRRMRK XVERWPEXIW XS WSQI FEXLVSSQW ERH I\XVE HSPPEVW - HSR´X XLMRO FEXLVSSQW GSWX XLEX QYGL 8LI]´ZI KSX XLIQ IZIV][LIVI right?”

Current players aren’t the only ones with concerns, either.

The UP WTSOI [MXL JSVQIV LIEH GSEGL /IZMR 'SSRI] [LS [EW MRHYGXIH MRXS *%9´W ,EPP of Fame earlier in the year) to get his take on the stadium, his struggles with the athletics department, and why baseball is overlooked at FAU. Thoughts on the baseball stadium: Cooney: “It’s a disgrace. It’s an absolute disgrace. It’s embarrassing. I’ve felt that way for a long time and have been very vocal about it with the administration. It’s a battle I lost. It’s one of the things that made it easier for me to leave.”

On how former pitcher Steve Taylor (graduated in 1990) felt upon returning to visit the stadium last month: ±,I [EW XEPOMRK XS GSEGL ?.SLRA 1G'SVQEGO ERH LI PSSOIH EVSYRH ERH LI WEMH ³-X´W XLI same place.’ There’s more trees around it. We’ve got those banners. The banners that you see hanging around are a replacement for the ones I bought the second to last year I was there with our own fundraised money, just to make the bleachers look a little bit more attractive. The seat back chairs were put in in 2002. Those are the only things that are different than when the kid was there as a player over 20 years ago.”

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,MW TVSTSWIH TPER JSV VIRSZEXMSRW “Our pleas for help in that area really fell on deaf ears. I had drawings made up, used SYV S[R JYRHVEMWIH QSRI] WTIRX [MXL ER EVGLMXIGX XS HVE[ YT E WXEHMYQ ,I´W XLI same guy that did Auburn and Troy. It would have cost about $4 million dollars to do it. I asked the athletic director — we don’t have money, obviously — but could we borrow the money, and go after naming rights for it, and pay it off over 15-20 years. I was told that you can’t borrow to build athletic facilities, but during that time they borrowed $70 million dollars for a football stadium. [Ed. Note: FAU Stadium cost $70 million, but the university took out a $44.5 million loan with Regions Bank.] I wasn’t told an accurate fact.”

On why he retired: “I felt that things weren’t going to be done for the baseball program that were necessary to take us to a higher level. In 2002, we were two wins away from the College World Series. We won a regional on the road against Alabama and we lost in the super regional XS +ISVKME 8IGL 8LEX [EW E HI½RMRK QSQIRX JSV YW FYX [I WXEPPIH FIGEYWI RS[ ]SY LEZI EPP XLMW REXMSREP VIGSKRMXMSR ERH ?XLI XIEQ MWA WIIR EW XLMW YT ERH GSQMRK TVSKVEQ FYX [I LEH XS XEOI XLI RI\X WXIT ;I HMHR´X HS XLEX ² ,S[ XLI TSSV UYEPMX] SJ XLI WXEHMYQ EJJIGXIH VIGVYMXMRK “We ended up losing very good players in the recruiting process. We still got good players, but we lost some really good players because of our facilities.There was one young QER MR TEVXMGYPEV JVSQ E NYRMSV GSPPIKI MR 8I\EW *SV YW XS KIX E KY] JVSQ E NYRMSV GSPPIKI MR 8I\EW MW YRYWYEP ERH YRLIEVH SJ ,I [EW E KVIEX XLMVH FEWIQER ;I [IVI WYVI LI [EW KSMRK XS WE] ]IW ,I GEQI JSV LMW ZMWMX ERH LMW EVHSV JSV XLI TVSKVEQ GSSPIH *MREPP] LI WEMH RS XS GSEGL 1G'SVQEGO 7S - GEPPIH XLI OMH YT - WEMH ³;LEX LETTIRIH#´ ERH LI WEMH ³'SEGL - XLSYKLX ]SY [IVI WIVMSYW EFSYX FEWIFEPP ´ ,I WEMH ³2S SJJIRWI MX´W E FIEYXMJYP ½IPH FYX XLI JEGMPMX] XLI PSGOIV VSSQ GEKIW MX´W RSX XS XLI PIZIP XLEX - [ERX MX XS FI EX ´ ,I IRHIH YT KSMRK XS &E]PSV [LMGL LEH E RI[ QMPPMSR WXEHMYQ 8LMW [EW MR ³ SV ³ ²

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Sports Continued from page 16 On the comparison between FAUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stadium and others across the state: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unbelievable. If you take Florida A&M and Bethune Cookman out of the picture, because Bethune Cookman plays in a minor league ballpark, we are the only program [in Florida] that has not either upgraded, done a renovation of the facility or built a new facility. Central Florida did a new facility and renovated it. FIU has a new facility and added onto it after they started building it.

Stetson built a new one in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;98. Florida re-did theirs. Florida State re-did theirs. Miami re-did theirs.

North Florida had a better facility than ours when they came into the conference. They added a LYKI MRHSSV LMXXMRK JEGMPMX] FILMRH XLI SYX½IPH JIRGI )ZIV]FSH] ?VIRSZEXIHA =IX SZIV E ]IEV period, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve won more games than any other other Division I school in the state of Florida. We were on such a good track to be a national power, and it stalled because of that. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have a roof for our batting cages, in the state of Florida, where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s either deadly hot and sunny or it rains.â&#x20AC;?

On the lack of bathrooms: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for the public or the players. The big upgrade that I got for that facility was, I talked them into putting porta-johns behind the dugouts. I used to go to the bathroom underneath the grandstand against the wall, hoping that people walking down the steps didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see me.â&#x20AC;?

What the new athletic director needs to do in order to make baseball relevant: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I were brought in as the athletic director, I would sit down and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Alright, your marquee TVSKVEQW EVI JSSXFEPP QIR´W FEWOIXFEPP ERH FEWIFEPP ´ -R TIVGIRX SJ YRMZIVWMXMIW EVSYRH XLI GSYRXV] XLEX´W XLI TIGOMRK SVHIV 0IX´W PSSO EX ]SYV JEGMPMXMIW =SY´ZI KSX E KVIEX JSSXFEPP JEGMPMX] ]SY´VI MR KVIEX WLETI XLIVI =SYV FEWOIXFEPP JEGMPMX] MW TEWWEFPI -X PSSOW VIEPP] RMGI FYX MX´W FEWMGEPP] E KPSVM½IH LMKL WGLSSP K]Q &YX ]SYV FEWIFEPP WXEHMYQ MW EXVSGMSYW - PMZI HS[R XLI VSEH JVSQ Stargate, Tenn. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got one of the best high school baseball programs in the country and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a better facility than Florida Atlanticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m embarrassed when I drive past it.â&#x20AC;?

How he built the stadium from scratch: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a shame. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame that those kids come back for alumni games and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the WEQI SPH HYKSYX - TEMRXIH XLSWI FPIEGLIVW - LYRK EPP XLSWI žEKW JSV STIRMRK HE] WXSSH SR XST SJ the railing on top of the press box and painted it. I planted a lot of the palm trees that are there and XLI FYWLIW FILMRH XLI HYKSYX -´ZI GYX HS[R XVIIW JVSQ FILMRH XLI SYX½IPH JIRGI EJXIV LYVVMGERIW Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an inch of that facility that my hands havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in.â&#x20AC;?

Conversations with former Athletic Director Craig Angelos: Âą%RKIPSW EP[E]W YWIH XS WE] XS QI Âł/IZMR ]SY LEZI E TVEGXMGI ½IPH LS[ QER] WGLSSPW LEZI E TVEGXMGI ½IPH#´ - XSPH LMQ Âł'VEMK [I RIIH E WXEHMYQ ´² The lack of respect for the baseball program: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baseballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great there for a long, long time but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been the redheaded stepchild thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always had to do things on its own. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fair to the student athletes.â&#x20AC;?

How football usurped his power to build baseball into a dominant program: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately for me, when we had a great season in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;99, that was a year after they decided to start football. In â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;99, Schnellenberger had a radio show, but he had no team. Half the time he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have anything to talk about. During baseball, I was on the radio show everyday that they had it, because we were the national story. But then the whole football thing snowballed and just eclipsed SYV RIIHW 8LEX [EW XLI WLEQI SJ MX )ZIV] HMQI LEH XS KS XS JSSXFEPP ² His thoughts on the baseball program when he returned to be inducted into FAUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall of Fame: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I felt really bad â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when I was back down there for the Hall of Fame induction, - [EPOIH TEWX GSEGL 1G'SVQEGO´W SJ½GI SR XLI [E] SZIV XS XLI K]Q SR XLI PEWX HE] - [EW XLIVI - TIIOIH MR XLI SJ½GI HSSV ERH XLIVI MW XLI EVXMWX VIRHIVMRK XLEX - TEMH XS LEZI HSRI EPP XLSWI years ago. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still trotting out the same dog and pony show with no real promise thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever going to come to fruition. I felt bad for John [McCormack]. I felt bad for all the players and all the alums. There are more former baseball players than any other sport at that school. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re grown men now, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d write checks if they had a reason to do so, but they all feel that the university doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about them or the baseball program. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the general consensus for years.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for the public or the players. I used to go to the bathroom underneath the grandstand against the wall, hoping that people walking down the steps didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see meâ&#x20AC;? - Former head coach Kevin Cooney

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Despite a 3-26 record in the fall, FAU volleyball starts its beach season with high hopes

By Rolando Rosa upress@fau.edu

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all season was disappointing for the Owls. FAU played all of its matches indoors, going 3-26 overall and 0-16 in Sun Belt Conference matches. Yet, players believe their fortune is about to change with a shift to the sand.

Beach season is on the horizon, and the squad is ready to erase the bad memories from autumn.

Dressed in FAU shirts and dark shorts, teammates Darija Sataric, Chandler Hatton, Sara Stoll and Lauren Jones gathered on an 80 degree Wednesday afternoon, on campus, for an optional practice at the IRT courts near Algonquin Hall.

Sataric looked around at her teammates afterwards, proudly saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all know each other more,â&#x20AC;? as they heaved over laughing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have more team chemistry,â&#x20AC;? Jones, a freshman, said of the difference for the spring season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Optional practices] are bringing the team together.â&#x20AC;?

One by one, they explained the differences between indoor and beach volleyball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indoor is a lot more specific to your technique, and

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where the ball is going to go,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can be a lot more scrappy [in outdoor matches],â&#x20AC;? redshirt sophomore Stoll said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to rely on our other teammates. We have to trust them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more fun because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re constantly moving the entire time.â&#x20AC;?

Sataric, a sophmore, says the playing surface and natural elements have an effect as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harder to move in the sand, to jump or go after a ball,â&#x20AC;? Sataric said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Being] in the sun, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different with the wind.â&#x20AC;?

Only two players are used in beach volleyball, as opposed to six in indoor volleyball. This places added accountability on the tandem to make smart plays. Head coach Jody Brown will be present for the matches, but will not be able to give advice during the action. Because of this, the team has been working in practice on communicating effectively on the court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been helping us a little bit here and there, but he wants us to figure out stuff on our own,â&#x20AC;? Stoll said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to figure each other out on our own.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be in beach. We call the timeouts and he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t coach us in the game,â&#x20AC;? freshman Hatton added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, we have to figure everything out ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

Hatton said she enjoys the beach season because it gives her an opportunity to display her versatility. It allows her to maneuver her lean 6-foot-2 frame across the surface to dig when the opposing team bats the ball over the net and also to pass to her teammate to set up points. These are things she did not get the chance to do in the fall while playing right side. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out here itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more fun because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing things that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally do,â&#x20AC;? Hatton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing everything.â&#x20AC;?

The players practice every day from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and lift weights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. They insist last season is behind them, and that taking part in optional practices like this only helps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important, for sure. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working hard this whole spring,â&#x20AC;? Stoll said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been taking up all our time practicing as much as we can, and I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready.â&#x20AC;?

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