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After FAU communications professor James Tracy doubted the Newtown massacre three months ago, he sparked administrative action. Now, he doubts the Boston bombings and tries to clear his record.

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ames Tracy sits comfortably in the chair across from me — different place, different time, same old conversation.

Three months ago, the communications professor made media headlines for publishing a blog post on his personal blog, memoryholeblog.com, stating that the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn. didn’t happen the way the media portrayed it.

Now, he’s doubting the recent Boston bombings.

The only difference is, last time around, Tracy feared losing his job over the controversy as an investigation was launched into him on Jan. 18. The outcome: FAU administration reprimanded Tracy for the blog. Now, he’s attempting to wipe his record clean and completely remove the reprimand.

There’s only one thing in his way: the same administration that reprimanded him the first time around.

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By Lulu Ramadan Contributor In a meeting on Jan. 18 with Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Letters Heather Coltman, Tracy agreed to stop mentioning FAU on his blog, according to a letter sent to Tracy from Coltman.

He was reprimanded on March 28 for including information that related to FAU on his blog anyway.

“Despite the understandings and requirements set out at our meeting, you chose to continue posting references to FAU and its administration on your personal blog,” Coltman wrote in the letter reprimanding Tracy.

Coltman refers specifically to three letters addressed to Tracy that mention FAU published on his blog from documentary filmmaker Adnan Zuberi, the American Association of University Professors and Jim Fetzer, a professor from the University of Minnesota, in support of Tracy after the

controversy.

Since the reprimand, Tracy has mentioned FAU on his blog in four different posts, including one on April 6 where he states the “spirit” of the freedoms in the First Amendment are not being supported by FAU. Coltman also claims that Tracy did not comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Board of Trustees — the 13 highest ranking officials at FAU — and the university’s chapter of the United Faculty of Florida, — a faculty union that advocates for the rights and needs of faculty members.

According to Coltman’s letter, Tracy violated the rule that states “a faculty member shall make clear when comments represent personal opinions and when they represent official University positions” because a disclaimer was not added when he first created his blog.

Tracy claims this fact is not true. In a letter to Coltman on Feb. 2, Tracy wrote, “No evidence has been provided by you to substantiate this allegation.”

“You may, of course, blog in your personal time. You must stop dragging FAU into your personal endeavors. Your actions continue to adversely affect the legitimate interests of the University and constitute misconduct,” Coltman wrote.

Tracy continued blogging.

On April 18, Tracy published a blog post claiming that the Boston bombings could have been part of an “elaborate emergency drill.”

“A multitude of evidence has already emerged in just the past few days suggesting government involvement in the Boston bombing,” the blog post reads.

Within days of the post, local media outlets covered the controversy dawning headlines along the lines of “James Tracy does it again.”

Tracy received mixed responses from faculty following the incident.

“The way we as a society progress is we have people who ask questions and raise objections,” philosophy professor Simon Glynn told WPTV in an interview.

In a letter to the Palm Beach Post signed by political science professor Jeffrey Morton, history professor Patricia Kollander, and sociology professor Thomas Wilson, the professors called for Tracy’s resignation, stating he was not an academic.

“Academics build on a rich intellectual tradition, people like James Tracy spin tall tales out of nothing,” the letter reads.

According to Tracy, the three professors “serve at the pleasure of the dean” and don’t speak for the faculty.

“I think what they’ve stated in the letter are the sentiments of administration,” Tracy said. “I don’t know what the sentiments overall of the faculty are.”

A little over a week after his post about the Boston bombings on April 26, Tracy filed a grievance to have the reprimand removed from his record with FAU’s faculty union.

The grievance process is part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and provides faculty with a way to challenge administrative decisions when they feel their “rights have been violated,” according to the the Faculty Union website.

Once Tracy decided to challenge the reprimand, it was brought to the union’s Grievance Chair Doug Broadfield.

Broadfield decides if there are grounds for a grievance and whether to toss it or pass it back to administration.

According to Tracy, Broadfield approved the grievance and turned it into administration on April 26.

Broadfield did not respond to voicemails or email requests for interview as of publication time.

According to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the grievance must be turned into the department head (in this case Coltman) with evidence that the reprimand was a violation of the faculty member’s rights.

According to the agreement, Coltman must consider the evidence and issue a written decision to clear the reprimand from Tracy’s record by May 21.

Tracy leans forward in his chair sitting in the Anne Boykin Healing Garden in the College of Nursing. The man enveloped in controversy surrounds himself in tranquility.

He talks about his blog and the trouble he’s gotten himself into by posting on it.

“There was no concern at all about the blog for 10 months,” Tracy said. “They didn’t even know I had a blog until January.”

Tracy feels personally targeted by administrators for the content of his blog.

“If I had a blog where I talked about the history of French cuisine or about how great the Free Syrian Army is or how wonderful the state department is under Obama or something like that, it wouldn’t matter,” Tracy said. “Because these things are not controversial.”

“What it gets down to is a matter of academic freedom and freedom of speech.”

[Dylan Bouscher contributed to the reporting of this story.]

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cean engineering graduate student Edoardo Sarda is fiddling with his latest prototype for an underwater robotic vehicle. He’s constructing it on FAU’s desolate campus in Dania Beach.

The goal is for one of his robots to be able to deliver or retrieve a payload from another Automated Underwater Vehicle without any human interaction.

“I love what I’m doing here,” Sarda says. There’s only one other person in the room full of machines.

Sarda arrived at FAU last fall, after finishing his undergraduate degree at Lake Superior State University in Michigan. Sarda transferred there from Italy, where he was born.

“I wanted to do more ocean engineering,” Sarda says. “Here they had SeaTech, a campus just for engineering.”

The SeaTech Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering is the full name, pasted on the side of the only building at FAU’s seaside campus, just 28 miles away from the Boca campus.

After the state legislature cut $300 million from the 12 public universities in the Florida State University System in 2012, FAU lost $24.7 million from its annual budget.

Then, administrators surveyed the university’s 1,275 faculty members about where to make the cuts. At the time, many of the 210 faculty members who responded suggested closing SeaTech.

Ocean engineering graduate Edoardo Sarda finishes Instead, the university canceled classes on the campus and saved screwing in the latest addition to his underwater robotic $239,000, as reported by the Sun-Sentinel last December. vehicle prototype. Photo by Dylan Bouscher.

Dennis Crudele, the university’s senior vice president for financial affairs, explained the reasoning behind defunding the campus months before the cuts hit. “If there’s a lot of research going on there, and that’s all you’re doing,” he told the UP in February 2012, “then the research has to pay for the campus.”

At the time, there were 61 senior undergraduates taking 13 classes at SeaTech and working on projects. Since then, no undergraduate One year after the multimillion dollar cuts, faculty is still classes have been offered in Dania Beach. negotiating with administrators to start offering classes in Dania Robert Coulson, a coordinator of research programs, who Beach again so students can return to the research facility and graduated from FAU with a master’s in Ocean Engineering in 1991 receive the ocean access and hands-on experience their career after transferring from London, now works on a campus that did paths demand. not exist when he attended the university. Coulson is among many “We need to have the graduate program back here,” Dhanak faculty members who miss the “senior design” class. says. “Personally, I would also like to see the seniors back here …

“Hopefully if the seniors come back in the fall, it’ll be more when you have some wacky research ideas to explore, you bring hopping,” Coulson says as he flicks the light switch in a corrosion in the seniors.” laboratory, where seawater is pumped in from the surrounding One of the “wacky” ideas to come out of SeaTech around 2006 ocean to test new solutions on samples was generating clean energy from the from aging bridges in Florida. “It’s Gulf Stream — an ocean current that runs been a bit of a ghost town the last two along the east coast of the United States semesters.” before crossing the Atlantic — by placing Since losing all state funding, the underwater turbines in a leased 17,000campus is limping along. Some staff has acre space about 12 miles off the coast of been laid off; others resigned without Fort Lauderdale. being replaced. “I’m not sure the whole “Six years, and we’re still waiting,” closing of this place had to do with Dhanak says. money,” Coulson suggests. “No one is Last May, the UP reported FAU was sure why they want to close us or shut closer to testing the turbines than ever us down.” before. This May, the turbines are under But the research survives. construction at the Harbor Branch Provost Brenda Claiborne “When I came here, I was told this Oceanographic Institute, another campus was closing,” Edoardo Sarda says, as he almost 115 miles away from SeaTech. The finishes screwing in the next part of his researchers are waiting on permits to prototype. “So I was pretty disappointed.” approve the turbine testing from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Now, students like Sarda take classes in Boca two or three days Management, the federal agency “responsible for offshore a week, and commute to SeaTech other days to work on their Renewable Energy Programs,” according to its website. research.

“That is frustrating, because it means you have systems ready SeaTech Director Manhar Dhanak, who has been in charge of the but you cannot test them,” Dhanak says.

Dania Beach campus since 2003, is not okay with that.

In 2007, the UP reported the underwater turbine proposal won “That’s a real problem, and something we’ll need to address,” $5 million in research grant money. That was the single largest Dhanak says, in an office so quiet the sound of waves crashing grant for SeaTech, even though between 1999 and 2009 (the first against the building fills the room. ten years SeaTech belonged to FAU), the campus pulled in $5

To close, or

“There are no plans to offer any undergraduate courses at Dania Beach.”

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No undergraduate students have stepped foot in the Hydrodynamics Lab or taken classes on the SeaTech campus since Spring 2012. Photo by Ryan Murphy.

Sink, SeaTech, Sink A Brief history of FAU’s SeaTech campus in Dania Beach, by the numbers and over the years.

1965

FAU introduces the first Ocean Engineering program in the country.

1967

FAU graduates the first class of Oceaneers, in the first institution teaching Ocean Engineering anywhere in the world.

1985

The City of Dania Beach opens SeaFair, a waterfront shopping mall.

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The State of Florida helps FAU purchase the rundown SeaFair property with $13 million. Ground is broken at the site that will become SeaTech on January 22, 1999.

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not to close million on average each year, according to Dhanak.

The SeaTech Director also claims the turbines cannot be tested in Harbor Branch, because the ocean acres leased for the project are so much closer to Dania Beach.

“The work we do here is of innovative type, of smaller scale, and driven by our engineering faculty” Dhanak says. “The engineering at Harbor Branch is typically in support of science and they can support large scale projects.”

And after the state legislature passed a budget that restores most of the money cut from the State University System last year, the plan is still to move research projects to Boca.

Yet, after the university saved less than $240,000 by moving classes up to Boca and laying off staff, it would need to spend more than $2 million to relocate remaining faculty and research to Boca as well, according to Dhanak and University Architect Tom Donaudy.

That estimate covers the cost of renovating existing buildings on the Boca campus to accommodate research already underway at SeaTech. Donaudy explained the cost more thoroughly in an email to the UP: “We are in receipt of the Guaranteed Maximum Price Proposal (GMP) from Turner Construction for the work required to relocate programs at Sea Tech [sic] to the Boca Raton campus; the base GMP is in the amount of $1,899,727.00. The base GMP does not include relocating the wave tank or the corrosion lab. The costs to include these two brings the total cost to $2,296,879. We are in discussion as to the best way to proceed.”

And in the past, when administrators found it more expensive to move the architecture program on the Fort

Gov. Jeb Bush visits SeaTech to launch a “Center of Excellence in Biomedical and Marine Biotechnology,” with a $10 million grant from the state.

2006-2007

The Ocean Engineering department receives $11.5 million total in research grants, of which $5 million comes from the Gulf Stream energy turbines grant.

2008

FAU accepts the first of four consecutive years of budget cuts.

After an $11 million cut, faculty and administrators discuss closing SeaTech and moving to Boca. At the time, there are 35 employees serving 70 students on the campus. SeaTech stays put.

2009

The Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments in the College of Engineering and Computer Science merge into the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department.

2011

State Senator Maria Sachs visits SeaTech to propose creating a “Silicon Valley” between Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University. “This idea has to revolve around universities, centered with research and academic excellence,” Sachs said.

2012

The Florida state legislature passes a $24.7 million budget cut.

Administrators cancel classes at SeaTech after the spring semester, and begin negotiations with faculty to relocate the campus to Boca and save $239,000. SeaTech’s Director Manhar Dhanak pulls in $1.5 million in research grants.The City of Dania Beach, which owns the SeaTech property, starts charging FAU $1 rent.

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SeaTech faculty members are still negotiating with administrators to start teaching classes in Dania Beach again or move to Boca for $2.2 million. The Florida state legislature passed a budget restoring the $300 million it cut from higher education last year.

There are six faculty and five staff serving graduate students.

Sources: FAU Department of Ocean Engineering website, FAU Budget Office annual operating budgets, the Sun-Sentinel

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FAU’s 14-year-old campus in Dania Beach is located on the Florida intracoastal, 28 miles away from the Boca campus.

Photo by Ryan Murphy.

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Lauderdale campus to Boca, they decided to keep the program in Fort Lauderdale.

“The School of Architecture has unique space requirements and [it] was concluded that it was more expensive to duplicate identical space on another campus,” Dennis Crudele told the SunSentinel.

But Dhanak is not convinced moving to Boca would solve SeaTech’s problems.

“All of that still does not make up for the loss of access to the ocean,” Dhanak says. “The opportunities that come along when you see the access here increase.”

But this isn’t the first time SeaTech has faced closure. In 2008, after the university accepted a $11 million budget cut from the state, SeaTech was on the chopping block.

When FAU wants to close a campus, it falls to the respective college’s dean to send notice of the closure to the school’s provost, who is in charge of academic affairs, according to University Regulation 2.006.

In SeaTech’s case, faculty has been negotiating with administrators to keep the campus open since the cuts last year. Provost Brenda Claiborne did not sound as optimistic about the negotiations as Dhanak in an email to the UP: “There are no plans to offer any undergraduate courses at Dania Beach. Currently, some graduate students are working individually with faculty in their research labs at Dania Beach. ” But the administration did not ask the faculty for their input before making decisions as drastic as shutting down an entire campus.

“At the beginning, they could have done better,” Dhanak says.

Dean Mohammad Ilyas from the College of Engineering and Computer Science did share some good news about the campus with his faculty members in an email he sent on April 10: “I am pleased to share with you that we will continue to have presence (in one form or the other) at SeaTech. Dennis [Crudele] has graciously agreed to come to one of the Departmental faculty meetings and share his views on this. I will arrange a meeting as soon as possible.

I know that prolonged uncertainly [sic] about SeaTech has impacted us. I also know there may be several thoughts going through your mind about this development. However, my suggestion is not to dwell so much on the past. Let us make plans for a better future. You may start, once again, writing research proposals knowing that SeaTech as a research facility will be available for our use. ” Faculty at SeaTech, however, never stopped writing research proposals. Through the cuts and possible closure, the Ocean Engineering department has written 40 proposals since April 2012. Of those, 13 belonged to Dhanak, 11 of which were awarded about $1.5 million.

“This program has always faced adversity,” Dhanak says, “But we have to rise above it.”

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The woman appointed to fill the open spot on FAU’s Board of Trustees turned down the offer.

By Cealia Brannan News Editor

Photo courtesy of Ron Johnson

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AU’s Board of Trustees — the 13 highest-ranking officials that make important academic and financial decisions — has one empty chair and no one to fill it.

Elizabeth Fago was appointed to the BOT

by Gov. Rick Scott on March 27 and backed out on April 26. In her letter to Scott, Fago — a principal partner at Palm Health Partners, a healthcare facilities company — explained she backed out due to her “company’s ongoing business deals” with FAU. “There is not any conflict of interest, however I wish to avoid any appearance of impropriety,” she wrote.

According to FAU’s BOT Policies and Procedures, the governor appoints six of the BOT members, the Board of Governors (a 17-member board that governs Florida universities) appoints five of the members, and the last two positions are held by the student body president and the president of the faculty senate — a group of faculty members that represents the faculty as a whole.

The applications for appointment by Scott

Sheridan Plymale Donations to Republican Party: $3935 from 1996-2012 Appointed by: Govs. Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush Lawsuits/allegations: 0

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are on the governor’s website, FLGov.com, which also lists the boards that have open positions. The Florida State Senate must approve anyone Scott appoints to the BOT, the Policies and Procedures states.

Fago was one of the five total applicants for the position – four of whom were listed as Republican, according to the applications.

The depth of the relationship between Fago and FAU President Mary Jane Saunders is still unclear.

“I know Ms. Fago Smith because she was co-honorary chair of our scholarship gala.

But I did not nominate her. The governor’s office does that,” Saunders was quoted as saying by Miami Herald columnist Jose Lambiet, on his blog Gossip Extra.

However, chairman of the National Investment Company in West Palm Beach and former BOT member E. Llwyd Ecclestone wrote Scott a letter in November that read, “Elizabeth has a close working relationship with Mary Jane Saunders, both personally and through her involvement with Scripps Palm Health Partners.”

The controversy over Fago’s appointment did not stop there; she also received media attention for her financial background.

According to Lambiet’s blog, she owes the IRS $75,000 in “unpaid taxes” going back 15 years. Fago is the overseer of 59 healthcare facilities yet, while she lacked the funding for her employees’ benefits, she donated

“hundreds of thousands of dollars” to the Republican Party, Lambiet wrote.

Also, after she donated $1 million to the Scripps research center, Fago resigned her position as the Scripps overseer in 2005, Sun Sentinel staff writer Mike Clary wrote.

If approved by the Florida Senate, Fago was going to replace BOT member Sheridan Plymale, whose term ended in January.

According to the UP’s yearlong investigation of the BOT members’ financial histories, Fago would have fit right in.

Over half of FAU’s BOT members have had financial problems in their pasts, including bankruptcies, lawsuits, tax liens, evictions and foreclosures, as reported by Karla Bowsher in a 2012 UP article.

The UP found that Plymale donated hundreds of dollars to each of the references — who were Republican politicians — listed on her term applications for the BOT. Plymale, a Republican, was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush for her first two terms and

by Gov. Charlie Crist for her last term, the UP reported.

Other than the donations, Plymale doesn’t have the spotty financial background that Fago would have made up for.

The potential BOT member decided not to add more of the “appearance of impropriety” to the board, leaving one empty spot.

Elizabeth Fago Donations to Republican Party: $112,200 from 2008-2012 Appointed by: Gov. Rick Scott Lawsuits/allegations: at least 35

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From Old Navy to new heights Indie rock band The Vogans got their start at an Old Navy, two years ago, as high schoolers. Now, they’ve just released their debut EP.

By Emily Bloch Features Editor Photos by Ryan Murphy

Who: The Vogans Genre: Indie rock For Fans Of: The Strokes, Tokyo Police Club, Foster The People, Passion Pit Website: www.facebook. com/thevogans

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wo years ago, a band of two 15-year-olds, two 16-year-olds and one 18-year-old were trying to be heard. It was the summer of 2011, and five boys who went to West Boca High School and would jam together, had found their first gig. And so The Vogans were born, outside a Boca Town Center Old Navy.

Drummer John Paul Morrissee had just landed a job at a new Old Navy, and the manager wanted bands to play their grand opening.

“We thought we were so fucking cool,” says Andre Heizer, the band’s guitarist and vocalist. “Everyone would stop to watch us and it felt like the world was saying ‘welcome Vogans, you rule’ — but in reality to them we were just little boys playing some covers.”

At the gig, on July 16, the band covered songs by The Strokes and Radiohead for a group of about 40-50 friends and family members. The gig was outside of the store, in the middle of summer heat and didn’t pay. But to the boys, their first taste

of fame was better than any dollar amount.

“A picture of us is still hanging on their employee refrigerator,” says synth player Nick Palmieri. “If that’s not payment, then I don’t know what is.”

“It felt sweet,” says Heizer looking back on that day. “Part of me wants to believe that [the crowd] was for us, but the day we played at Old Navy was the day “Deathly Hallows: Part Two” came out and Old Navy is literally right next to the theater. But screw Harry Potter, The Vogans stole the show.”

Now, two years later, The Vogans still haven’t quit — and they don’t need Harry Potter premieres to supply an audience either. Three of the members are studying at FAU and two are about to start their senior year at West Boca High. They’ve just released their debut six song EP — a music release with more songs than a single and less than an album — and their manager, fellow FAU student Gena Rumble, is making sure they get their music heard (see sidebar). Here’s a look at who makes up The Vogans, what they’ve done and what they’re doing next.

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The origin of a name Synth player Nick Palmieri sat down with the UP to tell us how The Vogans got their name The Vogans had already played a few shows without a name.

“I believe it was the Old Navy one and then another at that same Old Navy, where we debuted three original songs,” says Palmieri. “And were about to play another show and absolutely needed a name.”

So the boys all met up at Palmieri’s house to brainstorm.

“I went to get a dictionary so we could get ideas for words to use, but I couldn’t find one so I got ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’”

That’s where the group saw the word ‘Vogon.’ Drummer John Paul Morrissee went to look the word up and find it’s meaning.

“He made a typo and said ‘Vogan,’ which we all liked,” says Palmieri.

“And that turned out to be an alien from ‘Doctor Who,’ so it got bonus points from me.”

“The Vogans” has stuck ever since and the entire band now watches the popular sci-fi series “Doctor Who,” much to Palmieri’s satisfaction.

Listen To The Album Name: Nick Palmieri School: FAU Grade/Major: Freshman/film Age: 18 Instrument: Synthesizer and auxiliary percussion First started playing: Two years ago Favorite band: Vampire Weekend and Sea Wolf Biggest influence: “It changes by the day, because different people/ things always have a unique influence on me depending on where I am at that point in life. But right now, Donna Troy, the first Wonder Girl in DC Comics, as well as Abed Nadir from ‘Community.’”

Hobbies: Comic books, learning, film, and theatre Something no one else knows about you: “Something nobody will ever find out. Or something they could decipher from my lyrics, if they looked hard enough.”

Name: Nick Jamshidi School: West Boca High Grade: 11th Age: 17 Instrument: Lead guitar First started playing: At age 12 Favorite band: Arctic Monkeys Biggest influence: My dad Hobbies: Video games and percussion Something no one else knows about you: “One time in elementary school, I peed in the class bathroom when it was really quiet and when I walked out everyone laughed because they heard me pee.”

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On Saturday, May 4, after a year of recording and production, The Vogans debuted their first EP to a crowd of about 140 at The Beat Cup Cafe in Delray. “[It was] by far our most energetic and best show to date,” lead guitarist Nick Jamshidi says.

“Yeah,” Palmieri adds. “The crowd was almost every person who has ever been to a show, plus more. Lots of fun.”

The self-titled indie rock EP features six tracks with influences ranging from The Strokes to Passion Pit to Foster the People. The uptempo songs feature catchy synth repetition, bouncy guitar riffs and poetic slurring vocals that sound like what would happen if the Arctic Monkeys got a bit groovier. “[This album] is special because we have spent the last two years creating and performing this stuff, and it will be really nice to share it with the rest of the world,” Palmieri says. “And people can listen to songs as many times as they want and disassemble and analyze every part, every musical line, every word.”

It was important to the band to play its album release show this month because drummer Morrissee is studying abroad in Madrid for six weeks.

“It’s going to be a great experience, but the timing is unfortunate,” Morrissee says. “But we’re just gonna have to wait another month and a half to get back to work.”

“Our big thing was the EP release show, so we’re only just about to get started on the next step,” Palmieri says. “We will definitely be sending out the EP to more places, spreading the word and all that while John Paul’s away.”

And once their drummer returns from the bullfights and tapas, it’s back to business with a ‘welcome back’ show. “It’s going to feel awesome,” says Heizer of the expected return. Though the date is yet to be determined, The Vogans have already confirmed a late summer show at the Green Room in Fort Lauderdale to mark the return of their drummer.

Name: Andre Heizer School: West Boca High School Grade: 11th Age: 17 Instrument: Guitar, vocals First started playing: Guitar at age 13, singing at age 15 Biggest Influence: “All the wonderful people I meet.

Everyone is so interesting and fun in their own way, and I just love talking to them. I have learned many things by just simply talking to random people. I have learned what I don’t want to be, and what I should try to be.”

Hobbies: Collected coins when younger Something no one else knows about you: “I secretly listen to Ke$ha when no one is around.”

Name: Paul DeFilippis School: FAU Grade/Major: Junior/ criminal justice Age: 20 Instrument: Bass First started playing: “About two years ago at our first practice but I played guitar previously.”

Favorite band: Right now, Pink Floyd, but of all time, Bayside Biggest influence: Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto Hobbies: Netflix Something no one else knows about you: “I was head butted by a goat when I was a child.”

Name: John Paul Morrissee School: FAU Grade/Major: Freshman/undecided Age: 18 Instrument: drums First started playing: In high school band, four years ago Favorite band: “It’s complicated.”

Biggest influence: Batman Hobbies: Finishing entire TV series on Netflix in one week.

Something no one else knows about you: “I used to watch ‘Gilmore Girls.’”

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She’s the man(ager) FAU student Gena Rumble juggles school and managing The Vogans at the same time.

What’s your grade and major?

Graduating! BAs in Philosophy, Psychology, and a certificate in Women, Gender, Sexuality — scandalous, I know.

How did you get into managing bands?

The people closest to me have always been involved in music, art, and business. In 2010, I fell in love with a band called Lavola and started doing PR for them. My life became inextricably intertwined with maintaining functional music-business relationships. Then I interned with 3J Hospitality (a private party and catering company that works with Revolution, Green Room, and America’s Backyard), and attended two of the largest marketing conferences nationally last spring-summer.

How long have you managed The Vogans?

Almost a year now.

Are the Vogans your only management project?

Absolutely, The Vogans were a perfect storm for me. With a combination of intelligence, discipline, potentiality, and skill — I had to do it.

How did you meet The Vogans?

Nick Jam [Jamshidi]’s optimism and chance. He sent a low quality cell phone video to the band I was doing PR for, and it was game over.

I found out the boys were almost all in high school and immediately started strategic maneuvering on how to get them on bigger bills in more legitimate venues. I was so excited.

What’s it like balancing school and band management at the same time?

Taking 21 credits (the university max of 18 credits plus a graduate class), managing The Vogans, participating in philosophy symposiums, and trying to do PR for Lambda [United, FAU’S gay-straight alliance advocacy group] all while being a real person isn’t actually possible.

So how do you do it without going crazy?

At times during this semester, there was so much information coursing through my brain that I lost the ability to speak coherent sentences.

That’s a bad sign.

How does/doesn’t band managing correlate with your college major?

I love fractals — understanding a system allows you to be able to anticipate its moves and plan your own more effectively.

Any words of advice for other people taking on your workload?

Don’t. I wouldn’t do it again. It’s hard if you’re like me, and care about a lot, but I know now it’s better to pick a few of the most important things and give them your all.

Do you see yourself going into this professionally?

Funny you should ask! I’m actually looking for a way to do that. If anyone knows of a job in booking, event planning, or marketing, let a sister know.

Who’s your biggest influence/inspiration?

My Gran Sue — she’s a completely unintentional existentialist, and the most honest, clever, hilarious, benevolent, driven person I’ve ever known.

Any last words?

I love a challenge.

Reach out to Gena @ www.facebook.com/RumbleSouthFlorida

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College students, I know your money is valuable. Summer is here and if you’re like me, you’re not doing anything exciting other than working your summer jobs and saving up for the fall semester.

Thankfully, this summer has some awesome new movies coming out, where you can escape from your incredibly bland life for a couple hours. There are giant aliens from the sea, monsters going to college, and a bunch of stoners trying to survive the apocalypse.

Here’s a list of movies that I plan on seeing this summer, and here’s why you should, too.

The East (May 31)

It’s not just a direction. The East is an “ego activist” group that targets the leaders of companies harming the environment. These are not your regular hippies – these people mean business; they break into people’s houses and poison corporate leaders. “The East” has undercover agents (Brit Marling) and some really good-looking activists (Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård).

The Bling Ring (June 12)

Fame obsessed teenagers rob celebrities’ homes while they’re away in Sofia Coppola’s new movie, “The Bling Ring.” Sound familiar?

That’s because this movie is based on the actual break-ins that were perpetrated by the “Hollywood Hills Burglars” from October 2008 to August 2009. Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Orlando Bloom are a few celebrity victims whose houses were broken into and robbed by the teens in 2009. In the movie, these self-absorbed teenagers (Emma Watson, Katie Chang, and Israel Broussard to name a few) get what’s coming to them: fame.

The Hangover part 3 (May 24)

The “Wolf Pack” (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis) is back for their third, and hopefully last, adventure together. Seriously, how do these guys keep getting into trouble? Back in Vegas and with Doug (Justin Bartha) taken as a hostage, the three must find Chow (Ken Jeong), and the money he owes John Goodman. Yep, John Goodman is in this, too. From Las Vegas, to Mexico, to Vegas again, it’s sure to be a wild ride.

The Heat (June 28)

Oh Melissa McCarthy. We loved you in “Bridesmaids.” Now you are showing us just how outrageous you can get with Sandra Bullock in “The Heat.” Bullock plays Sarah Ashburn, a no-nonsense FBI agent who is sent to Boston to bust a dangerous drug lord. There she encounters tough cop Shannon Mullins (McCarthy) who is not afraid to do or say anything for her job. There’s just one problem — the two have never had a partner, let alone any friends. These funny females kick ass and take names, and I’m glad to see it’s not just a man’s world when it comes to action/comedy movies.

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Star Trek: Into Darkness (May 16)

Two words: Benedict Cumberbatch. This British actor, from the BBC series “Sherlock,” looks badass as the new villain and is already receiving rave reviews from his co-stars and critics. The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, captained by the ambitious Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), will be back in this action packed J.J. Abrams movie. There will be lots of action, lots of special effects, and hopefully lots of phazers.

Man of Steel (June 14)

Marvel isn’t the only one with a superhero movie this summer. DC has its new Superman movie, “Man of Steel,” and it looks to have better potential than 2006’s “Superman Returns.” You’ve got Russell Crowe as Jor-El, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, and Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel himself, Clark Kent. This movie looks like a winner. It’s not all about how physically indestructible Superman is, but his inner struggle to hide or find out his true potential.

Monsters University (June 21)

Your friendly childhood monsters Mike and Sully are back, only in this Pixar prequel we get to see how their friendship all began. Billy Crystal and John Goodman return as the dynamic duo along with Steve Buscemi as Randall. A few new voices will be heard from Helen Mirren, Nathan Fillion, Aubrey Plaza, and John Krasinski. Expect to get hit in the feelings, as Pixar has a way of bringing out the tears (“Toy Story 3,” anyone? “Up”? Better bring the tissues).

Despicable Me 2 (July 3)

Gru (Steve Carell) is leaving his villain life behind and becoming a good guy in the sequel to 2010’s “Despicable Me.” Agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) recruits a reluctant Gru for The Anti-Villain League, a group of good guys whose job it is to stop the bad guys. Gru’s adopted daughters Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith and Agus are along for the ride as well as those adorable, gibberish-speaking yellow Minions.

The Conjuring (July 19)

Set in the 1970s, a family moves into a new house when freaky stuff starts happening. Doors slam and children’s whispers are heard, but no one is there. So the family seeks two “ghost hunters” to try and figure out why all this weird stuff keeps happening. There are paranormal bumps, frights, and creepy flashes of a woman in a dirty, torn nightgown. This is the movie to see if you want to sit in a dark movie theater and get scared—really scared. Won’t sleep that night scared.

World War Z (June 21)

This action/thriller is about the beginning of World War Z – the outbreak of a virus that turns people into zombies. Not just any zombies, though, these are ridiculously fast movie zombies that come at you like a tidal wave. And Brad Pitt is there for the whole thing. I’ll be taking mental notes on how he survives this thing. The world is at war, and the more people they save, the less dead people they’ll need to fight.

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Previewing the upcoming Germany versus Ecuador international friendly match at FAU Football Stadium.

By Mohamed Abdihakim Contributor

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or the second time in five months, FAU Football Stadium is playing host to a marquee soccer matchup, as Germany and Ecuador will battle in an international FIFA friendly match on Wednesday, May 29 at 2:15 p.m.

Last December’s match between the U.S. Women’s National Team and China PR featured a bevy of goals and solid showing of students and fans of the game.

This David versus Goliath showdown between two international powerhouses promises to provide the same.

Ecuador (6-2-2) has been in good form coming into the friendly, having lost just two of their last ten matches. They’ve also been making a push towards World Cup qualification, now second place in their group of qualifiers and ranked 11th in the FIFA World Rankings.

South American soccer has witnessed an Ecuador team that plays second fiddle only to a dominant Argentina club. They boast some of their own star power, with Manchester United winger Antonio Valencia playing a key role in the Ecuador offense.

Meanwhile, Germany (5-1-0) is as strong as ever in the world of international soccer. They are ranked just below top team Spain in FIFA world rankings, and haven’t lost a game in their last five matchups, defeating opponents by as many as five goals, a wide margin.

The Germans hold a distinct advantage over Ecuador with their overwhelming talent, including goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who is among the world’s top three shot-stoppers.

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World Rankings Key Players: Mesut Ozil, Sami Khedira, Thomas Mueller, Marco Reus, Manuel Neuer.

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stars Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira. It doesn’t get any less intimidating at the frontline, where the starting strikers scored a combined 36 goals in their respective domestic leagues.

This match is a friendly, meaning there’s nothing for either team to lose in terms of national ranking or points in their respective qualifying groups. For Germany, this is the first friendly of a two-game U.S. stop, with the second coming in Washington, D.C., on June 2.

Nevertheless, both sides have shown they aren’t just going through the motions by playing their regular starters in a match that’ll be aired live in each country’s respective markets.

Each club will feature the same highly-touted talents that any pivotal game would. Fans will still be treated

to the midfield tactics of Ozil and Khedira, the adept wing play of Valencia, and the purist’s delight that is the German defense.

Most analysts, experts, and even fans have Germany comfortably winning this match.

Despite the prognostications, the German defense will be dealing with an Ecuadorian club that is free of the pressure of loss. That should make for a team that lets the shots on goals fly early and often. If that’s too much freewheeling, the Germans promise to play their usually conservative — yet creative ­— ­­brand of soccer.

Ecuador’s defense has proven that it’s no pushover, but facing – and largely dominating – South American offenses is one thing; however, stalling a front line like Germany’s is a challenge that should prove too daunting.

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Corner kick: When a ball is hit out of bounds behind either goal by the defending team, a “corner kick” is taken from designated points at the corners of the field.

Winger: Offensive player who takes position on

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Friendly: A match where there are no points or rankings at stake.

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