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ALYSSA STUBBSBUSINESS MANAGER & STAFF WRITER

The future of Jacksonville University’s smoking policy is up in the air.

In an online survey released Tuesday, Oct. 7, the Jacksonville University Student Alliance (JUSA) asked students, faculty and staff for feedback on a proposal to make JU tobacco-free. Respondents were also asked to evaluate JU’s current policy, which restricts smoking to designated areas around campus.

The conversation continued on Tuesday, Oct. 21 with a panel discussion in Gooding auditorium. Providing a variety of perspectives were Luke Morrill, director of residential life, associate professor of nursing Lynnette Kennison, Ph.D., philosophy professor Scott Kimbrough, Ph.D., Director of Campus Security Gordon

Bass, the director of campus security, and Patrick Wilkins, junior communications major and smoker. Kennison estimated that 100 students attended the discussion.

“I thought it was a great turnout for such short notice,” she said.

According to Kennison, the idea of making JU a tobacco-free campus has been “a visible issue” since approximately 2007, when the university established designated areas for smoking. An online survey conducted some years ago revealed that more than half of the student population favored banning tobacco on campus, but because the overwhelming majority did not support the change, no action was taken.

Approximately 1200 people took the survey created this semester, 82.4 percent of them students.

Approximately three-fourths of respondents reported not having used a tobacco product within the last thirty days. Of survey-takers,

64 percent said they would support JU’s transition to a tobacco-free campus.

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Public Policy Speaker SeriesRepresentatives Ander Crenshaw and Corrine Brown Speak Page 5 JUSA President Keith Taylor leads a discussion on the question of whether or not JU

should become a smoke-free campus Tuesday Oct. 21 in the Gooding Auditorium with panelists Associate Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life Luke Morrill, Director of Campus Security Gordon Bass, Associate Professor of Nursing Lynnette Kennison, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Scott Kimbrough, Ph.D., and Junior Communications Major Patrick Wilkins.

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BRITNEY BROUSSARD GUEST WRITER

Before the race began, the JU Marching Band started the event with a performance of the “The Star-Spangled Banner.” As the music played, the attendees fell quiet in respect.

Following the anthem, guest speaker Mike Fleming, chief government community and relations officer, shared a few words about the SVA, who made the event possible, as well as the details of the run.

“I’m here responsible for the military efforts in supporting the run, but the real work and praise goes to the Student Veterans Association who are continuing to look for ways in supporting the veterans on campus,” Fleming said.

A veteran himself, Fleming served 30 years in the Marine Core

and National Guard and earned a B.A. in Science from Jacksonville State University, M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College, and a M.B.A from the University of North Florida.

After the guest speaker, runners lined up to start. As soon as the gun was fired, they were splashed with colored powder and took off down the track. The race was a 5k run, approximately three miles, that started at the Dolphin Green and weaved through the campus.

As they dashed through JU, runners were blasted by more color stations along the course before being greeted back at the finish line with cheers and water.

Participants, covered head to toe in color, gathered at the finish line taking pictures, talking and catching their breath.

The first runner to cross the finish line was Lieutenant

McDonner David, who described the event as “outstanding.”

“I hope I can do this next year,” David said.

During the race, there was a bounce house for children, a rock

climbing wall, music, and a food truck called “Rolling Dogs and More.” Additionally, organizations from throughout the city reached out to event attendees in booths on the Green. The National Guard

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FEATURES

Fresh Food Comes to CampusFarmer’s Market Promotes Local Produce Page 9

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Aquarian Release PartyShowcases Student’s Writings and Works 2

SPORTS

Dolphins Continue to RollFootball Racks up 651 Yards at Limestone College Page 16

JU Debates Tobacco-Free Campus JUSA Gauges Campus Opinion with Survey and Panel Discussion

“Show Your Colors” JU SVA Hosts Second Annual 5K Color Run

A stormtrooper watches as several decorated runners jog passed.


EDITORIALINTRODUCTION

Special Events, Visitors & PatientsEmployee

North Campus

Commuter

South Campus

CAMPUS PARKING KEY

Emergency Blue Light Phone

Designated Smoking Area

Sodexo Eateries

Parking Garage - Permit Only

Currents

Nellie’s

Einstein’s Bagels

The Riverview Café

Waves

CAMPUS CRIME LOG10/26 - 3:06 AM

Oak Hall - Alcohol ViolationBeer pong table confiscated by

RA’s in Oak Hall.

10/24 - 2:51 PMOak Hall - Theft

The Sigma Chi pledge books were reported stollen.

10/22 - 3:55 PMPhillips Fine Arts Bld - Grand Theft

A french horn was stollen from a student’s locker.

10/13 - 10:30 AMAlumni Drive - Theft

Unattended lawn equipment was stollen from maintenance.

10/13 - 1:52 AMVillage Apts Bld 8 - Trespassing

An intoxicated visitor was disturbing resident students.

GABRIELE HICKMAN COPY EDITOR

High School Freshman Opens Fire Jaylen Fryberg, 15, opened fire on five students in Marysville-Pilchuck High School’s cafeteria Friday, according to an Oct. 27 LA Times article. Two students, Gia Soriano, 14, and Zoe R. Galasso, 14, died in the shooting. Fryberg died after shooting himself in the head, according a medical examiner. The incident has caused Washington voters to weigh the merits of two opposing gun measures on the November ballot.

Florida-Georgia Game, Come Early Officials urge those who plan to attend the Saturday Florida-Georgia game to come early, expecting more than 83,000 people to show up at EverBank Field. Fans should arrive at least five hours before the 3:30 p.m. kickoff. Gates will open at 1:30 p.m., according to an Oct. 28 News4Jax article.

NHL Players Dress as Frozen CharactersDuring their annual visit to Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Bruins players wore costumes from the movie “Frozen” and gave young patients gifts and signed autographs. To put smiles on the patients faces, Torey Krung, who dressed as Olaf, and Matt Bartkowski, who dressed as Sven, sang the film’s popular song “Let It Go,” according to an Oct. 28 NHL article.

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JU CAMPUSBEAT

Members of a new organization on campus,

Cuties with Curls, hosts a game night Oct.

4. Cuties with Curls will also host a

scary movie night Oct. 30 at 6:15

p.m. in Usen Auditorium.

The JU Percussion Ensemble and

Brass Quintet present Pandora’s

Box, directed by Professor Tony Steve

on October 18th, at 7:30pm in Terry

Concert Hall.

Senior mathematics

major, Chris Harring, dominates a minute to win it game during the

Dolphin Leadership Retreat on Oct. 25 and 26, at Camp Montgomery in

Starke, Florida.

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KENNETH PASLEYJUSA DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Coming off of a wonderful week of events, we at JUSA knew that our work didn’t stop there. With most of our efforts being put towards the Tobacco Free Campus Panel Discussion last Tuesday, the student body was able to hear varying views on what direction future campus smoking policies should take.

As the director of public affairs for JUSA, I felt as though it was needed to have each and every possibility discussed. With a touchy subject of this caliber, students have the right to know what is being conversed with this policy.

The background work leading up to this event reminded me why I loved my job so much. As a communications major, putting events together is always a fun, yet challenging task for me to do.

Since the closing of the Tobacco-Free survey, JUSA’s marketing focuses were set to promoting Fright Night, to be held on Thursday Oct. 30. Fright Night is an event that will be produced by Dolphin Productions, JUSA, Campus Outreach, as well as the River House. It will consist of a haunted trail behind the River House, along with a JUSA sponsored costume contest inside of the River House with a live DJ. Other features include pumpkin carving with Campus Outreach, and specialty drinks in the Pub.

Promoting this event, I wanted to do something a bit further than a banner and flyers. I decided to film two commercials to share through social media in order to get the word across.

In this day in age, with visual art being an important medium, I felt that this was a wonderful time to utilize it. By producing two commercials, the event will be promoted secondarily through word of mouth. I credit the Dolphin Channel for giving me some of the knowledge that was necessary in creating these commercials.

The next event that JUSA will be focused on is the upcoming Autism Walk, taking place on Saturday Nov. 8 at the Jacksonville Landing. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and the walk will commence at 9:30 a.m..

BRITNEY BROUSSARDGUEST WRITER=

Writing was always an outlet, a way to express my feelings through poetry. I never thought that writing could lead to a successful career. Ted Simendinger, a guest speaker in my English Exposition class, changed that perception after he described how he made a career out of writing.

Ted is also a well-known author of novels such as “12 Miles to Paradise” and “Jurassic Trout: An Ensemble Comedy” among other well-known books. He is also a Jacksonville University alumnus of the class of ‘76 and named one of the Most Distinguished Dolphins for JU’s 75th Anniversary.

I had the pleasure to sit down with Simendinger and have a conversation from one writer to another. He shared his knowledge of how to become a great writer.

“These days, anyone with a computer can be a writer. But to be a great and successful writer, you need three main things. First, you need a voice because voices sell. Second, you need quality work that can speak for itself. And most important, you need a natural curiosity which can’t be taught; you either have it or you don’t.”

Simendinger started out writing jokes. He loves creating laughter which led to routines which led to characters and developed into stories. He also shared with me to be a greater writer you have to read great writers to broaden your vocabulary and knowledge.

One of his favorite writers and a genius in saying more with less is Hemingway.

Simendinger says the first step to writing is downloading, which means getting the words out of your head onto the paper which is your first draft. Your second draft is finding a story out of the mess of words and taking out 15 percent. Your third draft should be 10 percent less than your second draft, shortened, compact and shaped into what you’re going to say.

He described one time where he had to take a story that he felt was perfect and cut it down to size. He likened it to cutting into himself and losing blood. Might sound extreme, but I can relate.

I once wrote an article on the band The Katz Downstairz and it was 1,056 words of what I thought was some of my best writing. But the publisher wanted me to cut it down to 500 words to fit with the picture which crushed. It couldn’t be done until I started shortening questions and answers while making changes in certain spots, and in the end it was exactly 500 words. It still had the same message I wanted to get across. That is when I learned you can say more with less but it takes discipline.

See for me, I started out with poetry, which led to short stories, then movie reviews, then articles. But it took time and patience to get to where I am, just like it did Ted Simendinger. But most of all, to be a great and successful writer it takes believing in yourself and your work.

Writer to Writer Say More with Less

The Corgi Conundrum

JUSA VoiceOn Upcoming Events

CHRISTINA KELSOEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

I met the love of my life on an old dirt road. Approximately a foot tall, two feet long, and covered in dust from her wet nose to bob tail-, she trotted unexpectedly into my world on what was, before this moment, an average summer day. Twice before, I had seen her roaming the neighborhood’s roads from my car window, but this was the first time that I came face-to-face with the corgi that would become my Kira. It was an encounter that would result in both of our lives being changed simultaneously for the better. She was walking on the road leading to my house, when my family, figuring she was a stray or lost, decided to take her in, feed her, give her water, and wash her up. That same afternoon, we found that she her owners lived a few roads down. We took her back, dropped her off, waved our goodbyes and thought that was the end of our Corgi tale. Then she came back. She came back every

single day for three months. Her owners had no fence or way of keeping her in their yard and no intention of doing so. Each day she would show up in our yard and each day one of my siblings or I would bring her back, only to have her return within a few hours. I found her outside my door before work, after work, on weekends, in two rainstorms. To summarize a long story in second, we realized that she was being mistreated. A number of the days that I returned her to her owner’s yard, I saw no access to food or water or shade from the Florida heat. I began feeling that I couldn’t bring her back there anymore so I stopped. I wanted her to have a better living situation, but I had no legal right to keep her. And so the debate began. Should we steal her? Should we ask to adopt her? If we ask to adopt her and they say no, does that mean we couldn’t steal her later?

The point is, we had to act. Gathering our thoughts and the best of our civility, my boyfriend Kyle and I finally decided to approach the owners and ask permission to adopt her after she had been at my house for three weeks day and night with no sign of them. The back-up plan being, of course, to say we had no idea where she was and smuggle her away. Luckily for our criminal records, the owners informed us that they didn’t want her and were happy to have us adopt her. Kira is now freshly spayed, vaccinated, micro-chipped and soon to be on her way to receiving a fine education in puppy training classes. This twist-of-fortune and her presence in my life brought me more happiness than I ever could have imagined, something that never would have occurred had I not acted. If you feel in your gut that something is wrong, think and act, even if it means you have to almost steal a corgi.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF KENNETH PASLEY

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Nathan Rousseau, Ph.D., and associate professor of sociology, opened the door of his Oregon home in 1993. When he did, an FBI agent offered his greetings.

“Hello,” he said. “You were hard to track down.”

Rousseau, known to the FBI agent as another “Nathan R.” was questioned in his home after being a possible suspect for the Unabomber, a man who was later found to be Ted Kaczynski and made infamous after mailing bombs to universities and airlines, killing three people and injuring 23.

“Here’s a guy who goes all the way to Montana and lives in a cabin to get away from society, but he still feels society is all around him,” Rousseau said. “Society is still in his head. No matter where you go, society is there with you.”

It was connections and collisions with his life and sociology, such as this case of mistaken identity, that inspired Rousseau to write the book, “Society Explained.”

“I’m unhappy with the format of a lot of textbooks today,” Rousseau said. “They’re very formulaic and so you have an idea and you have a picture and I don’t think that they encourage students to really think about what it is that they’re reading, so I wanted to develop an intro book. I wanted to develop a book that I felt comfortable using.”

Rousseau uses the book in his Social Theory class. Many students in the class cite specific experts of the text when asking questions or sharing insights.

“[Society Explained] has more of a personal component,” said Melissa Jackson, senior sociology major. “It makes it better because you’re interacting with the person who actually wrote the book so you get a

better understanding of it.”Jackson believes she would still be able to

enjoy the book without the ability to interact with the author.

“I have questions about it, as you should have questions about anything, but for the most part, I think it’s pretty spot on and I think that’s what makes it interesting,” she said.

Rousseau wanted to create a title that was inviting and conveyed the idea of people.

“What the book is really about is relationships,” he said. “It’s really about how communication that occurs every single day between real people makes up the society we get. [Society Explained] kind of captures it.”

To go along with the welcoming title, Rousseau wanted the cover art to reflect a similar tone as well. The cover shows hand-drawn faces with bright and bold typography.

“The cover faces were drawn by my son who was eleven at the time,” Rousseau said. “I actually proposed the idea to the publisher and I didn’t think they were actually going to go for it, so I told my son to draw a bunch of faces. He said ‘I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna.’ I said they might end up on the cover of the book, and he said ‘okay, I’ll do it.’ And there you have it.”

After the book was published, Rousseau’s son expressed that he would have done a better job had he known they were actually going to be on the cover. Rousseau used the opportunity for a lesson.

“See, that’s why it’s important to always do the best you can, ‘cause you never know.”

Rousseau believes that too often, people become passive with what is important to their lives. He spent three years writing “Society Explained” to help students understand their ability to change society.

“What I wanted to convey in this book was that people are the choices that people make every single day in their relationships with others,” he said. “They are constantly making the society the way it is. If people would make slightly different choices, it would reflect that.”

Though the Unabomber could not escape society, Rousseau believes that by using their “own inner resources,” people can affect change in the core things that affect them.

“People will choose technology over relationships, yet all the research shows all the stuff in the world will not make you as happy as being able to connect with someone,” he said. “People are unhappy about schools or disease control, and yet, I would say most people feel unable to really know what to do.”

“Society Explained” is Rousseau’s third book. He is working on a proposal for a fourth book, which he hopes will be out by no later than 2016. He hopes his books and classes reflect the appreciation of different teaching and learning styles.

“It’s not what you learn that counts, but how you learn that counts,” Rousseau said. “It’s how you think about things that matter. What they need to learn is not an ‘A.’ What they really need to learn is how to be intrinsically motivated so that the ‘A’ is a consequence.”


Chance, Choice and Society ExplainedNathan Rousseau, Ph.D., Publishes Sociology Book “Society Explained”

Located at 7001 Merrill RdPhone: (904)-524-8429In the Publix shopping center

Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JU MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONSLeft: Nathan Rousseau’s new novel. Right: Nathan Rousseau, Ph.D.

“What the book is really about is relationships.”

Nathan Rousseau, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Socilogy

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Kimbrough said that he has heard feedback from students who oppose the proposed change. He takes the same stance, seeing the issue as one of personal rights.

“I am not a smoker and I don’t think anyone should be a smoker,” Kimbrough said. “But I don’t believe it is the place of the university to tell people what to do.”

Non-smokers have the right to not be

exposed to secondhand smoke, Kimbrough said, and that is why designated smoking areas are easily avoidable. Banning tobacco outright is “unduly coercive” in his view, particularly since the university takes no steps to curtail other unhealthy behaviors.

“We’re an educational institution and we should educate people, teach people to think critically and manage their own affairs, perhaps through educational sessions through Student Life about smoking, or something like that,” Kimbrough said.

Kennison said it is wrong to frame this discussion as a debate over personal choice.

“Nowadays our privacy has been invaded on many fronts, and I think people are concerned about losing rights, but I would ask people to consider that this is a health issue,” she said. “If I had a friend who was a smoker, I wouldn’t be worried about protecting his right to smoke. I’d be interested in helping him quit.”

According to Kennison, the potential benefits of establishing a tobacco-free campus extend beyond current tobacco users, who are more likely to pursue quitting when their addiction becomes inconvenient. Most smokers start as teenagers, she said, and if people have not used tobacco by the age of 30, they are not likely to start.

“The small percentage of people who start smoking after their teens start in college or the military, where they’re exposed to it,” Kennsion said. “So if we become tobacco-free, we’re potentially helping lots of people not start and struggle the rest of their lives.”

Hundreds of campuses nationwide now prohibit tobacco use. In Florida, Edward Waters College, the University of Florida, Florida State College at Jacksonville, and Florida State University have all adopted a tobacco-free policy. In August 2014, the University of North Florida became tobacco-free.

JUSA vice president and senior nursing major, Prince Gyau, said that JU is not currently transitioning into a tobacco-free campus, only discussing the arguments for and against the change.

“Our agenda is to pursue the will of the JU student body who elected us to represent their interests,” Gyau said. “Therefore, input from the JU community will be vital in deciding whether or not this campus becomes tobacco-free. It is important to note that at this moment, the Jacksonville University Student Alliance is not in favor of a tobacco-free campus and we are not against it either.”

Gyau’s words come in response to claims that JUSA favors a tobacco-free policy, and some students are concerned that the survey the organization produced reflects such bias.

In a letter to JUSA representatives and Dean Kristie Gover, Ph.D., junior biology major James Trebilcock and sophomore

chemistry major Steven Pietrusza drew attention to what they called the bias of questions 4, 6, and 7 of the survey. They said that respondents who voted “no” to the fourth question (“Would you support Jacksonville University adopting a campus-wide tobacco-free policy?”) should not have been asked to explain their answer if those who voted “yes” were not. In their view, questions 6 and 7, which ask about resources for those looking to quit smoking as well as mechanisms to enfore compliance, presuppose adoption of the tobacco-free policy and are therefore biased.

Following a meeting with Gover and Keith Becklin, director of student involvement, Trebilcock told The Navigator that his biggest concern was also his first: The survey’s platform, SurveyMonkey, allows users to take a survey more than once, and there are no controls to ensure that only JU students, faculty and staff take the survey.

“It occurred to me there was something really wrong with this when I could take it multiple times,” Trebilcock said. Of JUSA’s multiple methods for gauging opinions, he said, “the survey is the most quantitative. It should definitely represent the student opinion and it shouldn’t be able to be skewed.”

Trebilcock called his meeting with Gover

and Becklin “very productive.” He said that they planned to address SurveyMonkey’s shortcomings, but they did not see the survey as biased.

“We’ve basically agreed to disagree,” Trebilcock said. “I urge the student population to consider the questions and inform their JUSA representatives if they believe the questions are biased or not.”

According to Gyau, the survey was the product of multiple meetings with JUSA representatives, Gover, faculty, staff, and President Tim Cost, Ph.D. He said that SurveyMonkey has been used extensively for past surveys, but its lack of a cap on votes from a single voter is a problem.

“This raises a lot of concerns about the validity of the survey, but we trust the JU community and believe that individuals in an institution of this caliber will not purposefully take it multiple times just because they feel strongly about the topic,” said Gyau. “It would be very unfortunate if that happened and it is something we must condemn as a university. Also, it’s quite refreshing to know that the recently conducted tobacco-free survey is not the final word and it’s just one of several mediums we would use to gauge where the JU community stands on the issue.”

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JU Debates Tobacco-Free Campus Continued from Page 1

““I am not a smoker and I don’t think anyone should be a smoker,” Kimbrough said. “But I don’t believe it is the place of the university to tell people what to do.”

Scott Kimbrough, Ph.D.Philosophy Professor

Public Policy Speaker SeriesCongressional Representatives Ander Crenshaw and Corrine Brown Speak ISABEL MARIDSASTAFF WRITER

An assembly of people in business attire filtered into the Davis College of Business for a brief social hour before a panel discussion began in the conference room. Journalists snapped photos and representatives and philanthropists responsible for changes in Jacksonville mingled as JU’s Public Policy Institute held the first of its four Speakers Series events for the fall semester.

Congressional Representatives Ander Crenshaw, a republican, and Corrine Brown, a democrat, were the guest speakers for the event. Also in attendance were Bob Shircliff,

a philanthropist and supporter of Vincent’s Memorial Hospital, Gary Chartrand, executive chairman of Acosta, and Ben Warner, president and CEO of Jacksonville Community Council Inc.

The first students to graduate from JU’s new Public Policy Institute, founded in 2012 by Director Rick Mullaney, attended the event to ask the Representatives questions. Questions ranged from the war in the Middle East, EPA measurements, and dealing with Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

The full calendar of events for the JU Public Policy Institute’s Speaker Series can be found online at www.ju.edu/ppi.

Jacksonville University Tobacco-Free Campus Survey Results

Out of 1,200 people took the survey:

82.4 percent identified themselves as students of JU

75.1 percent stated that they had not used a tobacco product in the last 30 days.

16.5 percent stated that they were not aware of the current JU non-smoking policy.

64 percent of the people who took the survey would support JU becoming a Tobacco-Free campus.

Left: Representatives Brown and Crenshaw answer questions a JU’s Public Policy event. Right: Andrew Barth, a JU student pursuing a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, asks Representatives Brown and Crenshaw their views on IS.


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SUSIE BRYAN GUEST WRITER

Being the first to accomplish something is an honor, and senior Brion Youngs did just that. Youngs is a member of the fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi. Every semester, each different province of Kappa Alpha Psi recognizes and gives an award to the member of the province with the highest GPA. Youngs was given the 4.0 Achievement Award for the 2014 spring semester for having the highest overall GPA of every member of the Southern Province of Kappa Alpha Psi.

This honor marks the first time a JU student has received the award. It is an accomplishment that Youngs said he does not take lightly. His chapter Omicron Delta was chartered at JU on March 27, 1999. It has taken 16 years for a member to be recognized for such a high grade average.

Youngs is humbled by the award and its meaning.

“It means a lot,” he said. “I’m very blessed. It’s one of the things where hard work does pay off. But it doesn’t mean I can settle. I want to go further, and try to get it again.”

Most people would be satisfied to have earned the 4.0 Achievement Award once, especially if it marked the first time a student from their university had won it, but not Youngs. Every area of his education and extracurricular activities at JU can be characterized by pushing himself to go further.

Youngs is studying kinesiology, the scientific study of human movement, and would like to work in the field of physical therapy.

He is the vice president of the Kinesiology Student Society. The society includes students in the kinesiology and exercise science program and is designed to help them find connections in the community and internships in physical therapy offices or athletic training facilities, as well as get involved with races around the city. He has also been involved with the football team since becoming a student at JU.

From the classroom to his personal life to the societies he is a part of, Youngs prefers to be involved and to keep himself busy. He describes his work ethic in one word: determined.

“Determined, as in I see what I need to do

and try to get it done in any way possible,” he said. “I’m a visionary; I’m not a huge procrastinator.”

He works towards being efficient in time management and works hard to be better each day than he was the day before. A native of Athens, Georgia, Youngs chose JU because of the sense of community and the ability to build relationships with the faculty due to the small classroom sizes.

In addition to Youngs winning the 4.0 Achievement Award, the entire chapter of his fraternity also won an award. As a whole, the chapter also had the highest GPA out of the entire Southern Province. The members of the JU chapter include Youngs, Evan Dudley, Chris Herring, DJ Howard, Angel Buckmire, Darrell Smith, and Elton Snowden. Their chapter adviser is Charles Malpress.

Neither Youngs, nor the entire chapter are satisfied with winning one time, he said.

As Youngs demonstrates in his life, people must keep striving to be better and not get complacent. This academic achievement has only been won once by a JU student, but Youngs said that he wants to change that number and win again before he graduates. PHOTO COURTESY OF BRION YOUNG

Brion Young smiles as he holds his award.

Brion Young Wins 4.0 Achievement AwardFirst Time Honor For a Jacksonville University Student

Open Hours with President CostJU Presidet Tim Cost Listens to Students’ Feedback

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DJESSIKA BEZERRY GUEST WRITER

John Enz, Ph.D. has been teaching biology at Jacksonville University for four years. He teaches a wide variety of subjects within the biological field including anatomy and physiology, histology, entomology and herpetology. Enz went a long way in order to complete his undergraduate studies. He moved around frequently, passing through three different universities, including the University of Texas at El Paso, where he graduated. He comically justifies this by saying the FBI kept tracking him down. He continued his studies at the same institution and obtained his master’s degree in biology. Additionally, Enz earned his Ph.D. at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Enz loves the creepy crawling part of the biological sciences, including dragonflies. He has been studying various dragonflies over the course of his career. His research has taken him to Kentucky, West Virginia, Central America and he is now continuing his research in Florida. Enz is currently doing research at several sites on the Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve in Jacksonville. He is mainly interested in two specific families of dragon flies known as the Pond Skimmers (family Libellulidae) and Darners (family Aeshnidae).

“Dragonfly fossils date back to 300 million years ago and have intrigued humans throughout history,” Enz said.

Dragonflies’ flight patterns, life cycles and diverse colorations have fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike for thousands of years, and Enz is no exception.

Enz initially chose to do research with dragonflies because of his interest in these creatures.

“Dragonflies are tremendously important predators in the ecosystem,” Enz said. “They eat a variety of other insects, including lots of mosquitoes.”

These keystone predators are vitally important to any ecosystem in which they inhabit and each unique species have different pollution tolerance levels. Enz hopes that he will be able to determine the level of pollution in the Timucuan area by determining the mercury levels in dragonfly larvae.

The purpose of his research is to get an accurate count of the different species of dragonflies at the Timucuan Preserve, Enz said.

Another goal of the project is to analyze larvae specimens in order to determine a baseline for mercury levels in the Preserve, and compare the counts to the mercury levels recorded across the nation. Enz said that these findings will help indicate the pollution levels in the wetland areas around

the preserve.Enz has teamed up with Citizen Scientist,

an educational group that gets the general public involved in scientific studies. Dr. Enz hopes to get the Jacksonville community involved and interested in the dragonflies around the area.

“I love seeing the fascination on the students’ faces as they learn about the dragonflies,” Enz said. “Not only working through with them through the basic science process and experimental design, but also teaching them about the amazing attributes of dragonflies.”

The dragon fly research is a year-long project that will be completed December. He will be presenting his findings at various biological events across the states including the Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve’s Annual Science Symposium, the Jacksonville University Symposium, the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research in Spokane, Wash. as well as the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Biologists in Chattanooga, Tenn. this spring.

The Dragonfly’s Place in Our EcosystemAssistant Professor of Biology John Enz, Ph.D., Studies in Jacksonville


TAYLOR MONTGOMERY GUEST WRITER

Jacqueline Maxwell, a senior biology pre-medicine major, is working on a research project that could make the audience’s skin tingle, since the focus of her study is on various species of Vibrio. Vibrio is a genus of gram-negative bacteria that cause diseases such as cholera and the flesh-eating bacterial disease. Maxwell is working with Anthony Ouellette Ph.D., of the biology department to determine what kinds of Vibrio may be lurking near Jacksonville University.

“The main purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of our local environment,” Maxwell said.

One of the bacteria Maxwell is studying, Vibrio vulnificus, more commonly known as the “flesh-eating bacteria,” is native to brackish waters, like all Vibrio. Even though Vibrio infections are not that common in Florida, Maxwell believes that it is still important to know if these bacteria are present in our community, namely, the St. John’s River.

Using oyster meat, Maxwell has been attempting to extract bacteria from the

tissues in an attempt to determine what types and what amounts of Vibrio may be living in the St. John’s.

“Oysters are filter feeders,” Maxwell said. “So bacteria are absorbed into their tissue.”

Jacqueline chose to begin this research because she has always been interested in microbial pathogens.

“[I’m] fascinated at how something far too tiny to see without a microscope can drastically effect how the human body performs,” she said.

Maxwell’s favorite part of her research has been getting to see the results. She says she has really enjoyed being able to watch the bacteria grow and that she is amazed at how a single colony of bacteria can end up covering an entire plate after only one day of incubation.

Although Vibrio may sound scary, we really have nothing to worry about, Maxwell said. She is not fearful of contracting a Vibrio infection, and as long as people practice proper precautions, such as not eating undercooked seafood and avoiding swimming with open wounds, then there is little to fear.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JACQUELINE MAXWELL Bacteria on a TCBS (Thiosulfate Citrate Bile salts Sucrose) plate

Vibrio Bacteria in the St. John’s RiverSenior Biology Major Jacqueline Maxwell Researches Microscopic Flesh Eaters

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Big Man on Campus: Keith PittmanA Man With a Plan


On Saturday, Oct. 4, Tyra Davis, senior pre-med biology major, was crowned Miss Dolphina at the homecoming football game alongside Big Man on Campus, Keith Pittman.

As a self professed “girly girl,” the North Carolina born, Jacksonville raised senior loves pageants. She heard the process was going to be more formal this year and thought it would be exciting.

“I’m as prissy as it gets,” Davis said. “I like hair and make-up and all things girly.”

She’s been a loyal and spirited student right from the start at Jacksonville University. After she applied before her freshman year, they sent her a postcard and offered her a scholarship and free housing. As a first generation college student it meant a lot to her to be able to attend a university.

Right away she became heavily involved in campus activities. She joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first sorority founded by African American women. She is now the president of the JU chapter, a position which has opened up “thousands of doors” for Davis. She has had opportunities to travel, meet distinguished role models

in the community and in the professional world, and has had job opportunities opened up for her.

She was on track to attend a different university, but believes that she would not have been as outgoing or involved if she had not attended JU.

Davis entered the biology major despite not being “big on dirt or grass.” She is pre-med and aspires to be a plastic surgeon in the future. She would like to treat children with birth deformities.

“Everyone deserves to feel pretty,” she said. “Feel good, do good. Self-esteem is really important in girls; it’s important to feel pretty.”

The driving force behind her life’s goals is her mother. Davis described her mother as a hard-worker, despite a chronic illness. It was her mother that served as the motivation and inspiration for her going into medicine.

In addition to her major, she is also minoring in sociology. Initially, she pursued it because she thought it would set her apart in the medical field. After taking several classes, sociology has opened her eyes to the kinds of daily struggles rampant not just globally, but locally. She hopes to bridge the gap between medicine and sociology.

Davis is a vivacious personality. She is

passionate about life and compassionate about people. She loves new people and will joke with strangers. She loves concerts, even if they’re for a genre that she doesn’t enjoy. She loves to get dressed up, dance and meet new people.

She loves to read but doesn’t get much time for it anymore and she has a real thing for earrings. She can sleep anywhere and considers it a talent. She fears failure and loves summer and names inanimate objects. The way to her heart is through food, but

don’t make the mistake of getting her a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day.

Davis believes that everything happens for a reason and that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and be the best that they can be.

“My big thing is, if you want to do something, do it right then and there before you think about it,” she said. “The worst thing is regret. You want to have memories. Don’t look back on your life and say ‘one time I was gonna.’ Say, ‘one time I did.’”

PHOTO COURTESY OF JU MARKETING AND COMMUNIATIONSTyra Davis reacts in pleasant surprise at the annoucement of her crowning.

Miss Dolphina: Tyra DavisA Crown to be Proud Of


On Saturday, Oct. 4 Keith Pittman was elected Big Man on Campus alongside the new Miss Dolphina, Tyra Davis.

Pittman is majoring in sports management and on track to graduate in December.

He moved to Jacksonville from Wilmington, Delaware with his dad in high school. Growing up in Wilmington with his two brothers and two sisters, he spent much of his time with his grandparents. The time spent with them greatly affected him. He particularly identifies his grandfather as an inspiration for him.

“The guy’s my hero,” Pittman said. “What I am and what I believe in all comes from him.”

Growing up in a “not-so-good” neighborhood, Pittman often found his way into trouble. It was his grandfather who encouraged him to stay in school and get an education, telling him regularly that he would be great and he would be successful.

Pittman’s family is his strongest motivation.

“I want to be a good role model and show them that hard work pays off,” he said.

When it came time to declare a major, he found sports management immediately popped out to him

His television rarely leaves ESPN sports center except for the occasional sojourn over to cartoon network, he said. He played football all through high school and college.

Recently, he’s become interested in stars and space. Briefly, he toyed with an idea to “derail completely” and go the “astronaut route,” saying that would be cool to leave the planet.

He let it go, though, upon the decision that working for the NFL seemed more attainable.

Pittman is employed with Pepsi as an ambassador to JU. He works with merchandising, but hopes to advance within the company and possibly one day make the switch over to Gatorade in order to gain more experience on the sports side of business.

Down the line, Pittman hopes to be able to travel more.

Over the summer, he attended a mission trip to Costa Rica and fell in love with the slow paced family oriented culture there. He plans to return in summer of 2015 and is learning Spanish in preparation.

Pittman also enjoys reading. Malcolm Gladwell is his favorite author but he identifies the Bible as his main source of reading material.

His favorite quote comes from Martin Luther King Jr: “When your character is built on spiritual and moral foundation, your contagious way of life will influence

millions.”“For me it’s just something that reminds

me to keep God first, stay humble, stay grounded, stay positive, don’t get ahead of myself, don’t take yourself too seriously,” he said. “If you can’t laugh at yourself, you can’t laugh at all. Live, learn, enjoy life, love life.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF JU MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Keith Pittman poses with Tyra Davis as Big Man on Campus and Miss Dolphina.

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ISABEL MARIDSA STAFF WRITER

On Oct. 22, Jacksonville University hosted its second annual Farmers Market outside the Kinne Center.

Two guitarists played live music at the small gathering of booths from both local farmers and organizations on campus, including fraternities and sororities.

Kristin Alberts, Ph.D., director of the student counseling center, was present working with Active Minds, a non-profit organization that informs and empowers students on campuses nationwide speak out for mental and emotional health. Alberts and Active Minds were working together to distribute information about relationship abuse, domestic violence, and free HIV testing.

Behind those two booths was Tony Sansone, math and education major, who ran a booth at the market selling honey.

“I own the ranch, 2 million bees, my house where the satellite’s at; so I own everything,” Sansone said. “All the way from the bee to the extracting equipment to the advertising to the website. I own it all.”

Next to him was Matt Rogers, the owner of Palmetto Organics and a chef by trade.

Palmetto Organics is a company that delivers fresh organic fruits and vegetables from local farmers to homes and dorms around the city of Jacksonville.

“We also buy some fruits that aren’t necessarily accessible to Florida so Florida residents can have access to them year-round,” Rogers said.

He was also present to announce to the JU community that Palmetto Organics is acquiring some farmland to grow food of its own.

“We’re building a small school-farm that’s permaculture based on some private property in Atlantic Beach,” he said. “Our goal is to grow some food for ourselves and also teach the children at the school how to grow food and where food comes from.”

Both Sansone and Rogers frequently visit JU’s campus with their food products and are more than happy to help and serve the students who may have little access to healthy and whole foods.

“We’re here every Tuesday, so [for] students in dorms that may have access to cook their own food, we deliver it. I went to college and I know how tough it is to get food,” said Rogers.

Sansone will also be attending JU’s upcoming Crafts Fair.


Fresh Food Comes to JU CampusFarmer’s Market Promotes Local Produce and Personal Health

MATTHEW MARTINWEB EDITOR

As the men and women of the Jacksonville ROTC filtered in to the auditorium Friday morning, there were already individuals in clean pressed uniforms waiting on stage. These were the men and women who serve in our armed forces with the Blue Angels, the elite flight demonstration team of the United States Navy and Marines. They travel across the country performing for audiences at air shows, giving the public a glimpse into the maneuvers that not only the F18 soldiers fly, but also what the pilots are capable of. They perform to showcase the pride and professionalism of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by inspiring a culture of excellence and service to the country.

But there would be no flying over Jacksonville University that day, because the Angels have a second part to their mission. Community outreach in schools and hospitals is the reason that Lt. Mark Tedrow, also known as Angel 6 “the opposing solo,” spoke Oct. 25.

At the end of Tedrow’s freshman year, the Blue Angels flew over as he was walking down the street. That is where it all began,

he said.As he told students of the moments of

inspiration that drove his life along, his experience in turn reflected on the audience

Kevin Barth, a JU alumnus of airline management and flight operations, saw potential for students.

“Seminars like these help inspire students to reach for the stars and achieve what they have thought was unattainable,” Barth said.

More of the Lt.’s story unfolded as he recollected his career, slowly pacing back and forth across the stage.

“My friends sat me down and said if you want to be a Navy pilot, you can’t just be middle of the road,” Tedrow said. “You have to have really good grades and be competitive.”

Some students who attended were able to think about their futures and the importance of perseverance.

“It really gave me new perspective about my career,” said Kevin Carr, senior marine science major. “Just because you have achieved what you planned to do does not mean you will be able to take it easy. If anything, you will most likely have to push harder.”

The seminar was not just about school.

At the end, they informed the crowd that Blue Angels do not wear G-suits so they can perform their maneuvers.

“They perform what’s called a Hick maneuver where they flex their leg muscles to force blood back to their brain,” Carr said. “That maneuver requires each of the pilots to be in great physical condition so they can withstand high G-forces.”

Two NROTC students volunteered to learn and perform the Hick maneuver.

Following their day at JU, the Blue Angels spent the weekend performing at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville’s 2014 NAS Jax Air Show, a brilliant two-days of pristinely polished blue and yellow aircraft thundering through the air with high precision and skill as close as fourteen inches.

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Entrepreneurship DayIt’s “Not So Much About Business”GABRIELE HICKMAN COPY EDITOR

A small group of communication students laughed as Matthew Killen, JU communication alumnus and CEO of Killen Media, compared entrepreneurs to to the Marvel Comic character Iron Man on Thurs. Oct. 23.

“You know how he takes everything and just, blah, and it’s all over the audience? Everywhere? That’s exactly what we have to do.”

Entrepreneurship Day began during the lunch hour hosting eleven panels from eleven different disciplines. Approximately 40 speakers and moderators shared advice, anecdotes, and answered students’ questions to promote a dialogue of entrepreneurship at Jacksonville University. Approximately 140 students attended the event.

“The idea was to open up the discussion for questions and answers so students would be able to start asking about possible career opportunities, rather than just worrying about the immediate issue of a grade or assignment,” said Martin Luyjtes.

The event was hosted by the Davis Entrepreneurship Organization. Jared Mickler, president of the organization, saw

the panels as an opportunity for students to see how successful men and women were able to think beyond a step-by-step plan.

“I think the problem of higher education is it kind of has you in this mindset where you have to do this to get this job with this degree,” Mickler said. “We’re trying to say you don’t have to stick with this path. You have all this opportunity.”

The greatest advice Mickler has received from an entrepreneur is the idea of embracing failure. Several panelists shared their own stories of accepting failure to encourage students to not get discouraged during their own journeys in entrepreneurship.

“There’s always things that go wrong and you have to keep a sense of humor,” said Liz Morgan, president of Liz Morgan PR.

Morgan shared with the students that the toughest but most rewarding lesson she learned was to resist fitting into the expectations everyone had for her.

“Whenever I wasn’t myself, things just never were right,” she said. “Don’t think you have to fit a mold because you see other people doing it. Be who you are.”

The lesson furthered Luyjtes’ hope that students would learn to “think outside the textbook.”

“When I’m teaching class, I try to get

students engaged by saying ‘have you ever had an idea’ and ‘what would you like to do’,” Luyjtes said. “They come up with it and I say, ‘okay, that’s what you’re going to do this semester.’ It’s about turning your dreams into realities, and the students enjoy that much more than a typical textbook assignment. It’s a great experiential learning tool.”

Luyjtes was happy to see that during the event, many students were able to walk away thinking that entrepreneurship was something that was within their reach.

“This was meant to enrich the students’ JU experience and make the whole learning process balanced between theory and practice,” he said. “We want to break down the silos and bring out great ideas wherever they may come from.”

Students who are interested in entrepreneurship are encouraged to complete the entrepreneur certificate, Luyjtes said. The certificate is comprised of three classes that can be taken at any time and is meant to compliment a student’s study in their discipline.

“Students write a business plan and get a feel for their ideas and how they might work,” Luyjtes said.

The entrepreneur certificate and DEO hosted events strive to demonstrate an

interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurism that ties in with the University’s Entrepreneurism Policy Innovation and Commerce Initiative, EPIC.

The DEO plans to create a second Dolphin Pitch event in the spring of 2015. The first Dolphin Pitch event gave students an opportunity to express their visions, concepts and ideas.

“We’re hoping to make it a larger event than it was last year with more students and a better event all around,” Mickler said. “I think it was a great success last year, but we can further it.”

Students interested in learning more about the DEO can email Jared Mickler at [email protected] to be put on the mailing list for updates on future meetings and events. The group is also on DolphinLink and Facebook. Students from all disciplines and career plans are welcome to join the organization.

“Entrepreneurship isn’t so much about business,” Martin said. “The mindset is more about a set of tools that you have and thinking outside of the box. It’s a new way of looking at the world. It’s about thinking how can we do things and not how do we do things.”

and the Student Nurses Association took vistors’ blood pressures and handed out water. The JU Marine Science Research Institute sponsored a touch tank for visitors, containing marine animals caught in the St. John’s River such as sea pansies, sting rays, southern flounders, sea robins, silver perch and spot fish.

Volunteers helped to register participants before the race as well as offer them water and cheer them on as they ran.

“I volunteered because I felt this was a

good event for charity and my friends were doing it,” said Roland Stan, volunteer.

JU President Tim Cost and his wife Stephanie Cost arrived to show their support.

“This is the best part of the job, to come out to campus events and meet new students,” Stephanie Cost said.

After the race ended and the participants returned home, remnants of colored powder coated the campus sidewalks, leaving a bright symbol of the day behind for passersby.

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Let’s just start by giving Dolphin Productions a round of applause. They pulled off something for the history books this year.

If for some reason you were living under a rock in Zimbabwe for the last month and a half, Jacksonville University hosted JoJo and Mario! Shocked? Here’s a moment of silence to contain your emotions for missing out on a great night. You’re welcome.

Let’s set the stage. The Strom Amphitheater on the Dolphin Green has never seen that many people at one time (It’s opinion an opinion piece so I didn’t know if I could change it, but I’m not sure if it’s correct. FLA GA Line had tons of people). The opening acts included a group of music students steered by lead singer Jacobe King; they performed well with crowd participation in both the songs they performed. Next was a rapper by the name of Yung Tragic, who played upon his moniker.

JoJo performed all the crowd favorites. She even sites the song Too Little, Too Late as the song that changed her life. It’s crazy to think

she was only in her late teens when that song came out. She also performed Leave (Get Out), the song that started her career. A song that she said that when she first heard it and recorded, she hated. It wasn’t till after it came out that it became a favorite for her, and is now one of her favorite songs to perform. She also performed three cover songs that are from mixed tapes she released over the years. All in all, JoJo’s set was filled with her big voice and an amazing amount of support from the crowd. So much support that a young gentleman from the crowd came on stage and hugged her, to which JoJo was slightly astonished by. But she played along with him and joked with the crowd.

Mario may have ended up stealing the show. He went from slow to upbeat and back to slow. He had everyone’s emotions everywhere. The crowd finally lost it when he took off his shirt. He might have even started a fight among the girls, when he picked one to come up on stage with him while he performed his hit Crying Out.

“The concert was great. I wished he would’ve picked me to go up there with him,” said Kailyn Nacoste. “But I had so much fun. I didn’t want it to end.”


Fall Fest Concert ReviewJoJo and Mario Wow the Crowd in Strom Amphitheatre

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Fall fest Q & A with Mario

Q: Thinking back to your childhood, what was your first experience with music? What song do you most remember from your childhood?

A: My mom played the piano. Mom playing the piano, she loved it. She introduced me to music. My Karaoke machine was my best friend. Whenever I was going through something at home, I’d put it on and play all day long. Most remembered song, “Mary Had a Little Lamb” because me and my mom would sing it all the time.

Q: Do you have other talents or interest?

A: I have so many other interests. As I’ve traveled the world my interest range is so wide, from animals to geology, to science, color in clothing. Really a little bit of everything.

Q: How do you like to enjoy your relaxation time away from music?

A: Me? I have a dog. A Blue Nose Pit-bull and other pets I won’t mention. My friends. Reading. I love to read. Self-help books. Books that are psychological in nature. That can help in bettering yourself. Love to watch Psychological thrillers. I don’t want to be able to figure it out to easily.

Q: What image do you think your music conveys and why did you choose this type of image?

A: I think I’ve grown over the years. I think I’ve always conveyed someone that was relatable and classic. General music that’s universal that everyone can relate to. Music that can travel across the oceans. Beyond borders.

Q: What is the most bizarre thing you’ve had thrown at you on stage?

A: The most bizarre thing I’ve had thrown at me? That’s a bizarre question, but I like it. I would say that this is bizarre because I don’t understand why this person didn’t think this would hurt. Remember those lip-gloss bottles that used to be poppin’? I had a girl throw one, she must have been a softball player because that [expletive] thing was coming at 120mph. Luckily I saw it coming, so I was able to move out the way, but it was going so fast I heard the wind as it passed by my head. I’ve also had a towel, a house towel that had holes in it. A box of those fake nails, the French tip kind. But besides that, the usual things earrings, panties and bras.


ALEXIS HUBNERGUEST WRITER

On Oct. 22, art was given voice. Captivatingly clear, each piece read aloud transported its listener into a world of the creator’s making. Art was given life as the “Aquarian,” Jacksonville University’s literary and art’s magazine, celebrated the release of both its 2013 edition and the artists and writers who contributed their work.

For the first time, literary submissions were read by their writers to an assembled audience. Junior animation major Khadijah Glover considered this to be her favorite part of the event.

“It was a pleasant experience to get a better understanding of some of the featured readings,” Glover said. “The speakers gave life to the pieces and were able to transport me into the world of the readings.”

Lexi Quinn, senior English major and member of the “Aquarian” editorial staff, said that her favorite part of the evening

was seeing everyone come out and enjoy the artwork.

“Seeing them appreciate it,” Quinn said. “That means a lot.”

“Aquarian” editor-in-chief, senior Ashley Rodriguez, worked on the 2013 edition as an assistant editor. The “Aquarian” staff really stepped up their game in comparison with previous editions, she said.

“We refined layout; we focused more on type,” Rodriguez said. “We included literary works a lot more, so I think we did a really good job on combining both literary and visuals together in one magazine.”

All in all, she hopes that students can take away much from the Aquarian.

“I hope they see it as a professional piece of work they can have their artwork exhibited in,” Rodriguez said. “That they’re proud their artwork is in our magazine.”

Any student looking to submit his or her artwork to the Aquarian” should visit aquarian.ju.edu. The deadline for submissions is January 8, 2015.

“My hope is that we just get better and better,” Rodriguez said. “That we continue

to improve our magazine and make it better and better.”


“Aquarian” Recreates A Creator’s WorldA Release Party Showcases Student Writings and Artwork

LOVELY VALBRUN STAFF WRITER

A-Line: slightly touching hips and thighs, broader at the hem, narrow on top to make it look like an “A”

Circle: made in a circular shape. It’s very fitting at the waist, and flows away from the hips. Made with lightweight fabric.

Accordion: a skirt with narrow pleats. It can be a circle skirt with pressed-in ridges or edge-stitching.

Knife Pleated: skirt with one or more pleats that face one direction.

Draped: skirt with additional fullness, pleated gathered or draped on one side; also called the sarong skirt if wrapped.

Gypsy: there are different lengths on this category such as- full, knee length, and mini. They usually come as a patchwork of bright colors.

Layered: this skirt is composed of several superimposed layers of fabric.

Mermaid: the design similar to a mermaid’s tail by fitting from waist to knee. It flares out from the knees to the floor.

Ruffled: A skirt made up of layers of fabric, usually to create the illusion of curves.

Tube: Tube skirts are very similar to pencil skirts. The main difference is that they are made with stretchy material and usually reach just below the knees.

Pencil: this skirt hugs your body. It hits from the waist to beneath the knees or down to mid-calf.

Mini: miniskirts are shorter than knee length. They are just right to reveal a pair of

beautiful legs. This one is inappropriate for the workplace or highly formal meeting.

Wrap: these skirts can wrap around the waist and the leg part. It can be fastened by a button or tie.

Asymmetrical: asymmetric skirts come in a variety of shapes and suit a variety of figures. In this the hem moves and curls in a pattern at different levels.

Bubble: it creates a bubble effect at the bottom of its hem being tucked back under.

Godet: a triangular piece set into a skirt gore seam to give added fullness to a flared hem edge.

T u l i p : t T h e fabric of the skirt is pleated and folded to create the look of tulip flower on the skirt.

Paneled: skirt with vertical seam lines. Most designs are fitted at the waist with a flare toward the hem. Skirts may have four or more gotes.


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The Lovely One Fall OrchestraAn Eclectic Evening of MusicSARAH JURKOICARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Tuesday October 21 took Terry Concert hall back in time. Starting in the contemporary time period, the Jacksonville University Orchestra in along with alumni, faculty and members of the Jacksonville Symphony played a program highlighting the nuances of music.

The first piece was a well known classic: Bolero by Maurice Ravel. It’s an extremely taxing, repetitive piece which crescendos from beginning to end gradually introducing new instruments culminating in a thunderous gong.

“One of the challenges was Ravel. It calls for a repeated use of muscles which are not for day to day use but are specific to the instruments. I’m sure everyone feels like they just ran a marathon.” said conductor and Associate Professor of Strings, Marguerite Richardson, Ph.D.

Although very demanding some musicians still find enjoyment in it.

“Sick trombone solo, thanks Ravel.” Scott Bates, a JU alumni trombonist said.

After the Bolero, the orchestra performed a world premiere of a piece by Michael Olson called Beneath the Frozen Lake. It’s written for chamber orchestra and electronics. Instruments were prerecorded and modified to be played simultaneously with the live orchestra to create a juxtaposition of a “cold, detached, synthetic wasteland” conveyed by the electronics, and a warmer, livelier, lake-

in-summertime feeling conveyed by the orchestra.

Because the musicians have to be perfectly in sync with the recording, Richardson had to conduct while listening to a rhythmic beat in head phones. She had never conducted with a “click track” before.

“I really enjoyed it, it’s different from what everyone’s used to hearing. The rise and the fall takes you to a different element.” Mamie Lue Small, sophomore performance commercial music major said.

The finale, Symphony no. 45, better known as The Farewell, by Joseph Haydn, took the audience by surprise when all of the musicians started to leave the stage. Eventually even Richardson left leaving only two violinists who played briefly and poignantly off each other until finally, abruptly ending with an extinguishing of the lights leaving the audience in a hushed darkness.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT THE NAVIGATOR • OCTOBER 29, 2014 • 13

SUSIE BRYANSTAFF WRITER

At Jacksonville University, students often have opportunities to see their professors outside of the classroom active in their crafts and demonstrating how the subjects they teach can become a career.

Oct. 25, students were able to see Tiffany Leach, assistant professor of visual arts, and Lily Kuonen, assistant professor of 2D art, in their element at the fall Open Studio Night of their co-owned Riverside art studio, Clay and Canvas. This event is put on twice a year to display their work. The fall open studio also featured local artist Madeleine Peck-Wagner.

Each of the three artists had a distinct section of the studio to showcase their work. Leach’s work was the first seen upon entering. Leach works primarily with ceramics and has been creating art since she was in her teens.

She describes her artistic point of view in her Artistic Statement as exploring the vessel and its use as “means of containment.”

“My images and vessels are often a hybrid of figurative shapes, animal traits, and

horizon lines reminiscent of the southern landscape,” she said.

Fellow Clay and Canvas operator, Kuonen, had many of her “Playntings” out for guests to see. Playntings is a term she created to describe her signature combination of paint and other forms. She deconstructs then reuses many items from her past work, never knowing what she will end up with when she beings working on a new piece. One of her most talked about pieces from the night was a large painting that depicts different pieces she has made, when she made them, and lines coming from one piece to another showing the parts from one piece she used to create the other.

Several of her new art at the open studio had a special signature. They each left some part of the raw canvas exposed. Her uncovered pieces further demonstrated her stated interest in exploring and working with unconventional materials.

Guest artist Peck-Wagner took advantage of the open night to put her concept of the myth of beauty on display. She uses animal shapes, the female form, and expressionism to show others her idea of changing the “notion of body appropriateness.”

Her drawings almost verge on sculptures as she continues to press the limits and address issues like consumerism.

Guests were intrigued by all three artists and their individual sense of style. Leila Griffith from the Cummer Art Gallery called Leach’s pieces “charming, and lovely,” and was intruded by Peck-Wagner’s take on beauty and forms.

The night illustrated how Leach and Kuonen use their expertise outside of school, moving fluidly from teaching in the classroom to creating in the art studio with clay and canvas.

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Pieces, Paintings and Playntings Riverside Art Studio, Clay and Canvas, Hosts Open Studio Night

SARAH JURKOICARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

The lights were dimmed. Anticipation was thick. Lexi Inks as Rona Lisa Peretti carried the trophy in to set up for the 25th annual spelling bee. Passing the microphone at the front of the stage, she paused to remember her shining moment when she won the third annual spelling bee on the word “syzygy.” Thus begins the Jacksonville University musical theatre department’s production of the “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”.

On Thursday, Oct. 23, Swisher Theatre was filled with the emphatic and emotional song of adolescents enduring the trials of a highly stressful, highly sarcastic spelling bee. The “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is an acclaimed musical comedy rife with ridiculousness and whacky physical and verbal humor, peppered with surprising moments of real and poignant drama.

As an improvisational musical four attendees at every show are invited on stage to compete in the bee and be subjected to the none-too-subtle insulting commentary by the official word pronouncer, Doug Panch.

After the show, the foyer of Swisher Theatre was alive with the chatter of a wowed audience.

“It was my first JU musical and it left a good

impression about the theatre department here.” said Jackson Buddenhom, a senior at Bishop Kenny High School.

The cast was extremely lively and energetic. They bounced and danced and went completely nuts all over the stage.

“Definitely one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen here,” said Brandon Groves, senior biology major.

The cast acted with their whole bodies and moved in conjunction with chaotic lighting which contributed to the overall feeling of pandemonium.

“This show allowed us to be able to find our inner child and be fearless working with the audience,” said Rachel Romo, junior musical theater major. “My part specifically is not written out as very funny. Olive is the straight child. I had to dig deep and find the awkward humor in Olive, and then dig even deeper once her story got really sad.”

Perhaps the most pandemonious aspect of the show is the dichotomy of comedy and drama. The lion’s share of the show is a witty repartee of puns and quips and intensely sarcastic humor. But slipped in almost jarringly between the jokes and the melodramatic physical comedy, is an exploration of the human experience.

The introductory scene with Rona Lisa Peretti addresses the struggle people experience with the passing of their glory days. The hits keep coming with the

parental negligence that Olive Ostrovsky deals with, the pain of low expectations that Leaf Coneybear triumphs over, and the extreme stress of overbearing parents with unrealistic pressures that Logainne SchwartzandGrubenniere and Marcy Park learn to cope with and, in the case of Marcy, defy.

Director and Assistant Professor of Voice and Music Theatre Jay Ivey, Ph.D., highlighted the “juxtaposition of the zany gut busting moments and the heart wrenching moments” as an aspect of the show which really “brings out the humanity of the kids discovering themselves.”

“I really love the ‘I Love You’ song,” he said. “It paints a very somber and real picture of the life of a lot of kids with absentee parents. It’s nice to see how Olive learns to cope with that through the show and the competition.”

Life Is Pandemonium25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee


Cast lines up to sing about the magical spelling powers of their camarade’s foot.

SPORTS

PATRICK WILKINSSPORTS EDITOR

MenThe men’s soccer team is still having

trouble finding their identity on the playing field. The Dolphins gave it their all against Stetson, who lead the Atlantic Sun Conference, but fell short in their efforts losing 1-0 to the Hatters on Oct. 24.

Although the men’s team wasn’t able to pull out a victory against Stetson, they were able to pull out some positives from their loss.

The Dolphins were able to match every shot on goal that the Hatters took with 11 total shots on goal. With every shot attempt, it was evident that the Dolphins were able to match the intensity of the Hatters step for step. Although the intensity was matched, the Hatters were able to get the decisive goal in the 56th minute.

Giving credit where it is due, the Dolphins’ defense was able to hold the top scoring offense in the A-Sun to just one goal, but that goal just happened to be the deciding goal. The Hatters, who came into the game with 29 goals, were held to just the one goal.

The setback puts the Dolphins at 4-10 on

the season and 1-3 in conference play. They hit the road again on Nov. 1, when they will play USC Upstate.

They return home to close out the season against Lipscomb on Nov. 8.

Women

The Lady Dolphins on the soccer field dominated the University of North Florida to win the River City Rumble 3-0 on Oct. 24.

The annual battle between the two Jacksonville schools is not just for bragging rights, but it is also a conference game which makes the win that much more meaningful for our Lady Dolphins. The win, paired with the three goals that the Dolphins scored, bumped the women’s soccer team to third in the conference with 12 points and a 4-3 conference record.

“Very pleased with the team effort tonight,” said head coach Brian Copham. “The movement, energy and pace in the attack was fantastic.”

Freshman Sope Akindoju got the scoring underway early when she connected from close range in the fourth minute. After junior Lindsay Forrest put one in the back of the net in the 49th minute, Akindoju scored her fifth goal of the season in the 68th minute

From the beginning of the match it was clear that the Dolphins controlled the tempo and the final shot count, which was 19-12 in favor of the Dolphins.

Because of the dominate performance, the Lady Dolphins will host Kennesaw State in the first round of the A-Sun tournament. The game time has not yet been determined.


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PATRICK WILKINSSPORTS EDITOR

Jaguars’ fans knew that the growing pains of a rookie quarterback would be tough to watch, but they didn’t know that it was going to be this tough. Jaguars’ fans were not pleased as they watched the home team from Jacksonville lose to the Miami Dolphins 24-13 on Oct. 26.

Just a week after the team’s first win of the season against the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 19, in which rookie quarterback Blake Bortles threw three interceptions, the Jaguars and their fans had a sense of hope

heading into their week eight matchup with the Miami Dolphins.

Instead, the Jags’ fans inside Everbank Field were treated to two more interceptions from the rookie and a disappointing loss at the hands of their in-state rival. Both interceptions were returned for touchdowns which spotted the Dolphins 14 points. Bortles added a fumble to his list of turnovers which led to a Miami Dolphins field goal.

Although Jags’ fans knew that Bortles was going to make mistakes, they didn’t realize that the mistakes would be a constant occurrence on Sundays. Rookies are

expected to make mistakes, but when there isn’t a learning process that follows, the fans start to get a bit restless.

The positive points that Jags’ fans can take away from the loss to the Dolphins only highlight the mistakes made by the rookie quarterback.

The defense played lights out in the first half, holding the Dolphins’ offense to minimal yards. Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill was forced into dealing with a Jaguars defense that was stout up front and tight in the secondary

Denard Robinson became the first Jaguar

to have back-to-back 100 yard rushing games since Maurice Jones-Drew accomplished the feat in 2011, another bright spot that was overshadowed by Bortles’ mistakes and highlighted those mistakes that much more.

It’s always tough to lose, but to lose in the manner that the Jags did against the Dolphins is maddening. Jags’ fans are hoping that Bortles is able to learn from his mistakes and keep them to a minimum as they hit the road for their week nine matchup with the Bengals in Cincinnati.


Bortles Still Learning, Fans Still SufferingBortles Throws Two Costly Interceptions in Loss to Miami Dolphins


Jacksonville University’s men’s golf team came home from Morganton, N.C. with the first victory the program has had since 2010. The Dolphins claimed a 14 shot victory in the 10-team event that was held at Mimosa Hills Country Club. The men posted rounds of 278, 2 under par, and 276, 4 under par.

The event was only the second of the season thus far and the men have finished in the top two in both tournaments.

Led by junior Franck Medale, the Dolphins posted a 554 team score, which is the second lowest score in school history. The record score of 553 was set just earlier this year, proving that this current team is able to play with the best of competitors.

Medale is the newcomer on the team, but that hasn’t slowed him from playing at an elite level. He opened with a school record 63, 7 under par, and then followed it with a

66, 4 under par. His combined total of 129 is a school record for 36 holes.

Medale’s performance was enough for him to take the individual medalist award at the event, given to whomever has the lowest individual score in the tournament. His individual medalist honor is the first by a JU golfer since Matt Kleinrock brought one home in 2007.

Freshman Raul Pereda brought home his first career top 10, placing tenth in the event with an even par score of 140. Pereda had first and second round scores of 72 and 68 respectively.

Senior Brett McKinnon placed 15th with rounds of 68 and 74.

The Dolphins return to action for their third tournament of the year when they head to Vero Beach, Fla. for the Quail Valley Invitational Oct. 27-28. The tournament takes place at the Quail Valley Golf Course.

Men’s Golf WinsFirst Victory Since 2010


Battling the flu is hard. Battling the flu and leading your team to victory while setting school records for individual low rounds is something only the nation’s top golfer can attest to.

Junior Franck Medale, who led the Dolphins to victory at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate Invitational and set school records while doing so, was also battling the flu. “After signing the scorecard and handing it to coach [Mike Blackburn], I apologized for being sick and couldn’t play better for the team,” Medale said. “I went to the van and just crashed. I had to sit down.”

Medale hadn’t the slightest clue of the round he had just put together when he handed coach Mike Blackburn his scorecard, but what he handed over was a school record seven under par. It also served as the launching point for the Dolphins

tournament victory.His hard work and determination to

finish was rewarded when Golfstat.com announced that he is the top ranked golfer in the country. He is followed in the top five by Maverick McNealy of Stanford, Ollie Schniederjans of Georgia Tech, and All-Americans Lee McCoy of Georgia and Charlie Danielson of Illinois.

He has been the driving force behind his team and a huge influence on his playing partners, said head coach Blackburn.

“Franck was the first to go to the campus bookstore and buy a JU belt,” Blackburn said. “The next day everyone on the team bought one.”

If his most recent play battling the flu is any indication as to how the rest of the year will turn out for the Dolphins, they should be in great shape.

“When the bell rings and it’s time to compete, his focus narrows,” Blackburn said. “He’s a gamer.”

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On Friday, Oct. 17, the Jacksonville University Dolphins defeated the Spartans of USC Upstate at home in the Swisher Gymnasium, claiming all three sets as theirs. The win makes the Dolphins 10-10 on the season, while the Spartans are 9-10.

Freshman Olga Nushtayeva was the highlight on the defensive side, racking up five kills and two aces while Junior Sammie Strausbaugh led the offensive end with 17 kills.

The Dolphins showed no mercy in the first set providing kills in back to back points which ended the set with a score of 25-16.

The second and third sets also ended in victorious fashion for the Dolphins, leading both sets in their entirety and finishing with final scores of 25-15 in the second set and 25-20 in the third set.

The Dolphins continued their winning streak the following day by defeating the Kennesaw State Owls with a score of 3-0.

The first set, which started off a little shaky for the Dolphins, ended with a 25-19 JU win. The second and third sets proved to be a test for the Dolphins as well, but the Dolphins

were able to pull out both sets with scores of 29-27 and 25-20, respectively.

Strausbaugh once again proved to be unstoppable, leading the offense with a game high 20 kills. Junior Ana Gabriella Nieto-Gomez added seven kills and five blocks while Nushtayeva added six kills of her own.

The second win moved the Dolphins to 11-10 on the season and 3-4 in conference play.

Weekend SweepVolleyball Wins Two in A-Sun Conference


The Dolphins continued their road stretch of the schedule Saturday, when they traveled north to Gaffney, S.C. to play Limestone College and, like the previous seven weeks, they walked away victorious, beating the Saints 61-10.

Redshirt junior Kade Bell and the offense continued their explosive performance from the previous week by racking up 651 yards of total offense and 61 points, which was the most the Dolphins have scored since 2013 and is tied for the fourth most in school history.

Bell and the offense started the onslaught just 52 seconds into the first half when Bell connected with junior running back Frantz Caudio for a 35-yard touchdown pass. The play capped a three-play, 79-yard drive to open the game and that was just the start of the scoring for the Dolphins.

Bell threw another touchdown pass to junior running back Orlando Thomas for a 58-yard score and then followed it with another touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Andy Jones for an 11-yard score, making it 21-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The Dolphins didn’t allow the first quarter lead go to their heads, instead they kept the

pressure on the Saints in the second quarter.Caudio added another touchdown, this

time on the ground from nine yards out and sophomore Ulysses Bryant added another touchdown on the ground from three yards out.

The defense wasn’t going to be left out of the scoring. In the second quarter, junior rover Andrew Hooks intercepted a pass from Limestone quarterback Jonathon Clark and returned it 95 yards for a touchdown. The return was the second longest in school history. The interception marked a total of 17 by the Dolphins for the year, which is a school record.

Hooks’ touchdown return made the halftime score 42-7, a lead that the Dolphins would never relinquish.

“I’m a little tired,” Hooks said. “But, it’s a great way to break the record.”

The Dolphins added another interception in the second half which brings the season total to 18, which leads the nation.

The second half allowed a lot of the starters to get some much needed and deserved rest from contact. Caudio added his third touchdown of the game in the second half and redshirt freshman backup quarterback, Rylan Wells, got his first score of his career when he scampered 31 yards into the end zone.

“We played well and executed at a high level,” said Kerwin bell, head coach. “It was a big win. They have some athletes and are going to be good.”

The Dolphins are now 7-1 on the season and 5-0 in Pioneer Football League play. They get back to league play Nov. 1 against Marist, which is the start of a three game push for the PFL title.

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The Jacksonville University Dolphins shut out the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats on Oct. 21 in Daytona Beach, FL for their third straight victory. The 3-0 victory marked a season-high of nine straight winning sets for the Dolphins.

JU took the lead early in the first set and never relinquished it to the Wildcats, winning the set 25-20.

The second and third sets proved to be

more of the same for the Dolphins, who dominated both sets and won them both in succession with scores 25-14 and 25-15 respectively.

Junior Jizzian Gesualdo had a game high in aces with 6 and she added an additional 30 assists. Junior Sammie Strausbaugh records her 15th double-double of the season with 12 kills and 13 digs. Junior Ana Gabriella Nieto-Gomez had seven kills and five blocks. Sophomore Kelly Koop had seven kills and four blocks.

Dolphins DominateVolleyball Defeats Wildcats 3-0 in Daytona

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