Jon ShortWeb Editor

At its April 6 meeting, the Student Government Association set the fee amount for the Student Green Energy Fund Proposal that students will vote on in an upcoming referendum at 75 cents.

The Student Green Energy Proposal is a grassroots, student-led initiative seeking to create

a fund for campus energy effi-ciency and renewable energy projects at the University of West Florida, according to the Student Environmental Action Society website.

Since its introduction, students have shown support for the proposal. In a referendum held on Nov. 2, 560 out of 823 students voted for the fee.

The proposal has also been approved by the Board of

Trustees and, most recently, the Board of Governors in March.

At the SGA meeting, members had difficulty reaching agree-ment on the desired fee amount.

Finance Chair Keldrick Averhart made a motion to set the fee at 50 cents. The motion failed on a vote of 8 to 10.

Sen. Jonathon Williams then moved for the fee to be set at 75 cents. The motion failed again on a vote of 8 to 10.

After the two failed motions, Chief of Staff Amy Bueno stressed the importance of the vote, noting that if students, approved it in a referendum, the fee would be put into place for the next three years.

“You have the opportunity to set the stage for the next three years,” Bueno said.

President Josh Finley said SGA members should take the bill seriously. He said the vote

would set a precedent for the future, as well as the number of projects that could be carried out at the University over time.

Sen. Katie Hudon suggested passing the bill on to the new members of SGA.

Finley said it should not be passed on to the new SGA Senate since the current Senate had more knowledge of the bill and its history.

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University of West Florida President Judy Bense held a town-hall meeting in the Commons Auditorium on March 29 to discuss the non-recurring budget cut to the University of $11.9 million for the 2012/2013 fiscal year, passed by the Florida Legislature.

Bense said, “I will tell you that the 11 presidents of the State University System are going to do what we can in the legislature next year to make sure that the legislators keep their word that this is a one-time non-recurring cut.”

The cut comes as part of

a $300 million reduction in state funding for Florida’s State University System. UWF received the eighth largest cut out of the 11 universities.

The legislature used a formula for determining the cuts based on how much state funds each university had in its reserves.

Bense said, “They decided that they were going to force the universities to spend their carry forward.”

Bense announced that the University will be exploring ways to make up for the budget cut and outlined three possible models for dealing with the reduction in funds.

The first was to use the approximate $30 million UWF has in leftover state funds, known as carry-forward funds, to fill in the budget holes.

The next option announced was for each university division to come up with its own ways to cover the reduction. The

third option was a hybrid of the first two.

A “listening team” has also been appointed to seek other ways to deal with the cuts.

The listening team consists of: Susan Stephenson, UWF’s chief budget officer; Colleen Asmus, UWF’s controller; Betsy Bowers, UWF’s audi-tor; Associate Provost George Ellenberg; and John Todorovich and Richard Hough to represent the faculty chairs and Faculty Senate respectively.

Kim Brown, Bense’s chief of staff, said in an email to The Voyager, “The listening team’s job is to seek other models and hear what people think about the models.”

Bense addresses budget cuts at meeting

Haley Chouinard Contributing Writer

Inclusion Services and Programs presented the third annual Common Ground Skits, Dance, Myths, and Dialogue this past Tuesday, April 2, in the Commons Auditorium.

The Common Ground Inclusion and Diversity Training Program is a group of students and faculty members that are committed to providing a platform for people to talk about issues of difference. This group is open to all students who are interested in promoting inclusion and diversity on campus.

Common Ground hosts this event every year in hopes that it will give students an opportunity to start a dialogue about diversity.

Associate Dean of Students & Director of Inclusion Services and Programs Dr. Lusharon Wiley hosted this year’s event.

Members of Common Ground asked students to complete a survey as they came in. The survey questions focused on socio-economic backgrounds and attitudes toward people with different ethnicities and sexual orienta-tions.

The night really got going when members of the faculty and staff performed a flash mob to Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror."

Following the flash mob, author Jack Beverly was intro-duced and read one of his short stories, “Learning Black."

The story chronicled one of Beverly’s first encounters with African Americans, which led him to meeting accom-plished jazz singer, Nancy Wilson.

“I was living in a small, all-white community in Kansas,” Beverly said. “We didn’t have any racial issues but we only had one race.”

The message of Beverly’s story was that he had learned as a young man that “black is only skin deep."

A particularly heartwarming moment followed when Melody Smith, a fourth grade student, stood up and sang Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable." At one point, Melody forgot the lyrics to the song and members of the audience joined in and sang the rest of the song with her.

The evening became serious when a video made by members of Common Ground was shown.

The video opened with a moving song by Student Activities Office Specialist Patricia Hartley about stop-ping hate. The video explored a variety of tough issues including sexism, preju-dice, ignorance and feeling different.

After the video, Dr. Wiley prompted the students in the audience to share their personal experiences with the topics addressed in the video. Many students opened up about their encounters with racism, sexism, and being treated differently because of sexual orientation.

The evening came to a close with the announcing of the survey results. The results proved effective in driving home the message of the night, which was that we all share common ground.

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Students perform at the third annual Common Ground Skits, Dance, Myths and Dialogue in their attempt to end hate and ignorance on campus. Race and socio-economic backgrounds were two of the issues faced.

n The Common Ground group performed at its third annual educational event on diversity

Event celebrates diversity

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❱❱ RundownAt a town-hall meeting held in the Commons Auditorium on March 29, President Judy Bense discussed the non-recurring budget cut for the 2012/2013 fiscal year. She said she plans to ensure that more cuts do not occur.

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Terry StricklandContributing Writer

On any given day, a crowd stands by the entrance to the John C. Pace Library, puffing cigarettes and chatting. Angela Hahn is concerned.

“It’s sort of the face of the University to the population,” Hahn said. “I worry a little bit about the image we project when you have to walk through five or ten smokers who are right in front of the door.”

Hahn is an adjunct instructor in the School of Allied Health and Life Sciences. She and fellow professor Patricia Malley co-chair the Tobacco Task Force, which is drafting a policy to prohibit smoking within 35 to 50 feet of campus buildings.

The work is one requirement of a Florida Department of Health grant the two received last year.

They will present their recommenda-tion to the administration by the end of the semester and hope it will be adopted and implemented by year’s end.

If they are successful, Hahn said they would next pressure the University to prohibit on-campus smoking altogether.

“We’re not exactly leading this trend,” she said.

According to Americans for Non-Smokers’ Rights, at least 648 American universities have banned smoking on campus.

Among these are at least 13 Florida schools.

If UWF follows suit, there will be no more smoke breaks in front of the library for Marion Summers.

Summers, a sophomore advertising major, is a transfer student from the University of Florida.

UF recently implemented a tobacco ban. However, Summers said that few people abide by it.

“If people want to try to implement that (here), that’s cool,” she said “But I don’t know if anyone’s going to follow that rule.”

Karen Cravero, a member of the task force and president of the anti-tobacco student group STRIKE, said the response to the proposal has been mostly positive.

The task force has started a petition for more restrictive policies, which has already garnered about 300 signatures.

UWF currently follows state law in banning smoking in buildings, and smok-ing is prohibited within 20 feet of resi-dence halls. Violators of the latter rule are subject to a $50 fine and a possible cleaning fee.

However, Hahn said this is not suffi-cient. She used to work in Building 58, where smokers often congregated near the air intake vents.

“It’s pumping it straight into the offices,” she said. “You can smell the cigarette smoke in your office.”

She said Building 36, the post office, and the campus bookstore had similar issues.

Aside from concerns about public health and image, Hahn said that banning tobacco use made fiscal sense.

“There are significant costs to the University to allow smoking on campus,” she said.

She said a ban could reduce property and group health insurance rates.

Hahn said weak tobacco policies also jeopardized the much-lauded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified buildings on campus.

“One of the LEED requirements for

academic institutions is to have breathe-easy zones,” she said. “The architects say ‘we’re gonna have breathe-easy zones,’ but we can’t enforce them because there is no policy to back them up.”

UWF Project Manager Jessie Mayo said the University had been aware of this deficiency for some time. However, he said he didn’t feel it was urgent because the U.S. Green Building Council, which developed the LEED system, did not perform follow up inspections once a facility was certified.

“It basically operates on an honor system,” he said.

Cravero recently spoke to the SGA Senate about the group’s goals.

Student Relations Chair Linzy Browne

said she and another senator were researching the issue and drafting a bill in support of the task force’s recommen-dation.

Hahn has already presented the proposal to the Staff Senate, where she said it was positively received, and she said she planned to present to the Faculty Senate soon.

“We’re not here to fight smokers,” Hahn said. “We’re really here to help them and to help them overcome this addiction.”

“I understand that everyone has rights,” Cravero said, “and I understand that it’s your right to smoke if you want to, but your rights can only go as far as not causing harm to others.”

Stephenson said in an email to The Voyager, “All of us, the president, faculty, and staff, remain committed to finding the best way to handle this reduction from the legis-l a t u r e w h i l e continuing to provide high-quality education for our students and services for our region.”

Bense a lso announced a 15 percent rise in differential tuition costs to be approved by the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees and a 2 percent salary raise for UWF faculty and staff members.

“We need to reduce our reliance on carry forward,” Bense said. “What we really need to do

is continue our purposeful growth and develop new sources of revenue. That is going to be our formula

for success.”Besides the

proposed hotel and conference center, Bense announced other new sources of revenue such as displaying advertisements by constructing a large digital billboard near

UWF’s east entrance and installing flat-screen TVs to be placed across campus in high-traffic areas.

“I believe in listening to other people’s ideas,” Bense said. “If you have ideas or suggestions please give them to us.”

Ideas and suggestions can be sent via email to budgetsuggestions@uwf.edu.

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Linzy Browne, student relations chair, said a resolution needed to be reached so the matter could be voted on by students.

“This referendum needs to go out to the student body as soon as possible,” she said.

The bill was brought back to the table again at the amount of 75 cents. It passed on a vote of 14-to-3.

If students agree with the 75-cent amount,

the proposal would add 75 cents per credit hour to student fees. If students disagree, the proposal would go back to SGA to determine a new monetary amount between 25 cents and $1.

Details of the upcom-ing referendum will be released as more informa-tion becomes available. For more information on the Student Green Energy Fund proposal at UWF, visit uwf.edu/SEAS.

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Recently, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” and the traditional wisdom from the talking heads in the world of punditry seems to suggest a negative prognosis, suggest-ing that the justices look likely to either strike down the law or at least find the individual mandate portion of the bill to be unconstitutional.

I agree that, based solely on oral arguments, it seems as if the death notice of the ACA may be all but certain. However, my cautious prediction is that the justices will ultimately uphold the healthcare law in a 6-3 decision with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion.

Obviously it’s impossible to predict these things with any scientific metric of accuracy. My prediction is really based mostly on a hunch — but perhaps an educated hunch.

When the individual mandate portion of the bill goes into effect in 2014, it will require employers and individuals to purchase health insurance or face a fine. This was a way to provide univer-sal health insurance coverage without resorting to a single-payer system or a government-run health insurance agency option.

The exact origins of the mandate idea are murky, but most people agree that some form of the idea started in conservative circles such as the Heritage Foundation, and healthcare legislation that contained a form of the mandate was drafted by Congressional Republicans in the early ‘90s but failed to pass.

Conservatives originally supported a mandate as a way to keep free loaders (those without insurance who wind up in emergency rooms) from benefitting from a system without paying into it. Even Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney

supported this notion at one time.The mandate contained in the ACA

attempted to accomplish this, but it was also a compromise to the healthcare and insurance industries to keep a private system in tact in lieu of a European-style single-payer system.

It can be safely assumed that the liberal wing of the court—Justices Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kagan and Breyer — will vote to uphold the mandate, and the conservative wing—Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito — will vote to strike down the mandate. This seems to only leave Justice Kennedy.

Most observers think the fate of the ACA in the Supreme Court will hinge on whether swing-voter Kennedy will find the individual mandate to be in violation of the “Commerce Clause” in the Constitution that gives Congress the author-ity to regulate commerce that crosses state lines.

At question are both whether the sprawling healthcare industry consti-tutes interstate commerce that Congress can constitutionally regulate and whether punishing people for the inac-tion of not buying insurance falls within Congressional powers.

The Commerce Clause is an enumer-ated power in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that states that the Congress shall have power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

Without going into a lengthy doctri-nal history of how this power has been interpreted over the years, there

certainly has long been a debate as to what constitutes interstate commerce and what falls within the purview of Congressional regulation authority.

Many conservatives with an original-ist view of the Constitution believe that the Commerce Clause has been used in ways over the years that the framers did not intend.

However, as an article in “The Atlantic” recently points out, even ultra-conservatives, such as Robert Bork, have acknowledged the problem with overturning federal legislation under a strict originalist interpretation of the Commerce Clause.

Bork and Daniel Troy wrote a paper in 2002 stat-ing: “There is no possibility, today, of adher-ing completely to the original constitutional design. Such a daring plan would require overturning the New Deal, the Great Society, and almost all of the vast

network of federal legislation and regu-lation put in place in the last two-thirds of the twentieth century. It appears that the American people would be over-whelmingly against such a change and no court would attempt to force it upon them.”

But even under a strict originalist viewpoint, I don’t think anyone can disagree that the healthcare market is certainly a form of commerce with spillover that crosses state lines. The question is whether the market and its various components can be regulated as a whole by Congress via a mandate.

Supporters of the bill suggest that the mandate is necessary regulation in

order to pool risk together by forcing everyone to buy into the market — even those least likely for major health risks — in order to offset the costs of high risk individuals and keep premiums at a reasonable rate.

Kennedy seemed to agree with this notion, stating during oral arguments that “in the insurance and health care world….the young person who is unin-sured is uniquely proximately very close to affecting the rates of insurance and the costs of providing medical care in a way that is not true in other industries.”

While the healthcare industry may be unique in this context, this mandate has led many to wonder what limits there are to the Commerce Clause, such as when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia asked during oral arguments whether Congress could mandate that people buy broccoli.

The Commerce Clause has typically been seen as only applicable in cases in which an industry has spillover issues that cross state lines and present regu-latory problems generally viewed as outside the reach of individual states and that substantially affects commerce.

And I don’t think anyone could reasonably argue that the broccoli industry falls under this category.

So, for these reasons, I think at the end of the day Kennedy will likely not find the individual mandate to be in violation of the Commerce Clause.

However, Roberts is known to not be fond of 5-4 decisions and to have concerns with the court’s legacy during his tenure. Because this issue is of such importance, I think if Kennedy votes as I suspect he will, then I think Roberts will follow suit and want to write the majority opinion so he can control the language in it.

That’s my prediction, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see the court’s decision in June.

Courtesy of Andy Marlette/amarlette@pnj.com

“My cautious prediction is that the justices will ultimately uphold the

healthcare law in a 6-3 decision with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the

majority opinion.”

I think Supreme Court will likely uphold ‘Obamacare’

The Earth is in need of our help; she has been desperately been trying to get our attention.

We have become selfish with the precious gifts like fossil fuel, coal, natural metals, and other non-renew-able resources she willingly has given us.

Non-renewable resources take millions of years to produce, yet we use them up like the air we breathe.

Even resources like water have become polluted and damaged because we are unaware of our ecological footprints.

This is a big problem and must change.

Unlike most, I am a realist; I am aware that drastic and immediate changes to people’s lives will make them unwilling to help Mother Earth.

Instead, we must slowly make changes to our lives, and this will allow people to conform and adapt.

There is no way we can change thou-sands of years of damage we cause on the Earth in a short period of time.

Taking small steps like recycling or

buying organic foods from the grocery store is the perfect way to start your journey to sustainable living, which will consequently help save our Earth.

I am hopeful that you will choose to publish my short piece in the hopes that it will make at least one person

aware of how easy it can be to become more green.

I am a member of Students Environmental Action Society at UWF.

At first, I felt overwhelmed about how much

damage we have done to the Earth, and I felt that the damage could not be changed, but eventually, I realized by taking small steps, you can easily do your part to help the Earth.

— Jessica McClendonUWF student

“The Earth is in need of our help; she has

been desperately been trying to get our

attention.”

We can each take small stepsto reduce our ecological footprint

Letter to the editor

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Emily HalesStaff Writer

The History Department of UWF is bringing a piece of European culture to campus.

UWF will host its second Labyrinth event from April 15 through 18 in the University Commons Auditorium. The event is open to all students, staff, faculty and community members at no charge. The last time UWF hosted this event was in 2009.

The event, designed b y M a r i e - T h e r e s e Champagne, assistant professor of history, will demonstrate to attendees a Christian practice from Medieval times.

A l a r g e c a n v a s , b o rro w e d f ro m t h e Episcopal Diocese of the Gulf Coast will be rolled out onto the audi-torium floor, covering it

completely. Painted on the canvas is a labyrinth pattern. Its spiral design is uniquely structured for people to walk in it from start to finish.

It may look like a maze, but the design has one route with no dead-ends.

The pattern on the canvas is an exact replica of the labyrinth laid out on the stone floor of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres in France in 1200 A.D.

Walking the Labyrinth in Gothic cathedrals s y m b o l i z e d C a t h o l i c pilgrimages to Jerusalem. In the Middle Ages, laby-rinth designs were also created outdoors, using stones. The spiral design provides a set path for a symbolic spiritual pilgrim-age.

The design starts with zigzags until it opens up to a circular space in the center of the design. This

space symbolizes the arrival in Jerusalem. Only one way leads a person out of the design, ending the journey.

Although it was used for religious practices in the past, “The Labyrinth Event” can also be used for relaxation and medi-tation. Healthcare insti-tutes and churches today are re-creating labyrinths to use as a tool in both, Champagne said.

“ I r e a l l y enjoyed the event last time, because not only was it great hands-on learning , but it was also a quiet, contem-plative place to escape end-of-semester stresses,” said office administrator of the history department, Katie Asbell.

The auditorium will be relatively quiet with

incense, candles and French music from the thirteenth century to give participants the full effect of the history and the journey. More than one participant will walk the Labyrinth at once, but people will be far enough apart from each other to be able to experience the Labyrinth peacefully.

Champagne said, “I hope people will see the

value in history, if nothing else.”

It takes 30 minutes to walk the labyrinth, but chairs will be provided in the auditorium for participants who want to take

longer. Everyone who walks the labyrinth is required to either take their shoes off or wear shoe covers.

On April 15, the event will run from 6 p.m. to 9

p.m. On April 16 and 17, it will run from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. On April 18, it will run from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A special presen-tation that explains the

history of the design based on carvings will be made on April 18 by Champagne and Jane Halonen, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Christienne CloutierStaff Writer

“The Laramie Project,” a documentary play chronicling the murder of Matthew Shepard and its aftermath in 1998, will be performed April 12 to 22 by University of West Florida theater students.

The play was written by Moises Kaufman in response to the hate crime against Shepard, an openly gay man studying at the University of Wyoming .

“In a way, we’re tell-ing the story instead of performing it,” said Christopher Frazier, a junior musical theater major.

The play takes the audi-ence through the town of Laramie after Shepard’s body was found outside the rural area. The news of the attack and death of Shepard spread rapidly across the country.

“ T h e story is real,” Frazier said. “ K a u f f m a n conducted over 200 interviews with the resi-dents of Laramie and made this brilliant work.”

The play addresses many of the issues that the residents of Laramie were forced to face: homophobia, intolerance, hate crimes, faith and forgiveness.

Frazier said that his fellow cast mates and him do not have singular roles. The play documents over 60 characters, and there are only nine performers.

“I cover around nine different people,” he said. “So it most definitely requires avid research into

the way people move, act and speak.”

“The Laramie Project” is also a UWF Common Read

assigned to incoming freshman students. In an essay titled “Kaufman’s Moment Work: A Technique T h a t I n v i t e s I n t e r p r e t a t i o n , ” Sarah Ray who appears in the play, writes, “Kaufman created moment work

rather than compose theatrical scenes like those that appear in traditional scripts.”

“Unlike traditional forms of theater perfor-mance, which engage the audience as passive view-ers, moment work solicits a provocative and socially relevant dialogue, allowing the audience to be active creators in the meaning of the play.”

The cast of “The Laramie Project” said that the play’s director, Sam Osheroff, has pushed them to bring the story to life through passion and hard

work.“He and his wife, Kris

Danford, have made pivotal strides in our education as theater students,” Frazier said, “They expect us to work and be passionate with what we do, and it’s been a privilege working with both of them.”

He also said that most of the work he and the other castmates do comes from observation of the characters’ traits and the creativity to make each individual both distinct and different.

“These are real people dealing with a real crime,” Frazier said. “I think each name in the script was treated as such.”

Osheroff said he thinks the cast is really strong and that they all work together as a very tight ensemble.

“They use a lot of physi-cal and vocal variation to change characters at the drop of a hat,” he said.

For more informa-tion visit, www.uwf.edu/theatre.

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The Labyrinth event at UWF will be an exact replica of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres in France, pictured above. The historical monument boasts more visitors yearly than the Eiffel Tower.

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UWF’s newest theater production, “The Laramie Project,” is about the 1998 murder of a gay man in Laramie, Wyo. and its effect on the small town.

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Local seafood spot gets makeoverMariah WhittakerStaff Writer

Pensacola’s Crab Trap has gotten a total make-over — even a brand new name: Nick’s Boathouse. Located at 455 W Main St., the restaurant has a totally new atmosphere, new entertainment and a completely different menu. It’s open Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and it stays open an extra hour on Friday and Saturday.

General Manager Brian Bishop said the changes were necessary and that for the most part, custom-ers have been receptive to the new direction of the restaurant.

“We have some Crab Trap regulars who’ve been very skeptical when they come in and see how the place has changed,” said Bishop. “But then they try the food and taste the quality, and they love it. We have a great chef in the kitchen who’s creating great things.”

Crab Trap was known as an ideal place for tour-ists to stop in to have a taste of what the “beach city” had to offer. Bishop said they wanted to move away from that image and try something more upscale, but still afford-able, with a family atmo-sphere.

“We have all types of drink specials on certain

nights,” Bishop said. “We’re thinking about maybe adding a college night so that we can increase that crowd, as well.”

The decor is very cozy, dimly lit with sounds of light pop music filling up the dining area. The aquarium and beach art give the place a relaxing feel. The outside patio had a calm vibe with live music. University of West Florida alumni John Wheeler provided acous-tic guitar melodies while patrons dined by the water.

“We needed a new start. The music scene around here will be a little more upbeat. Even the new name signifies a new start for us,” Bishop said.

My view of the food was a bit different, however. My waiter was absolutely wonderful. He was famil-iar with the menu and offered what he thought were great suggestions for dinner. The presenta-tion of the food was great. It reminded me of what I see on “Martha Stewart” o r “ R a c h a e l R a y . ” Unfortunately, the rest of my experience didn’t follow suit.

The prices were not college-budget friendly.The most affordable items on the menu are sand-wiches, and even those average about $13, with full entrees starting at

around $20.Aside from options

such as grouper, mahi mahi, and seafood maca-roni and cheese, there were quite a few items that included red meat. I was surprised because I would never pair the two, and because so many estab-lishments are steering away from it and opting for healthier choices.

I ordered the tilapia sandwich with fries and cole slaw, and my fiance ordered the blackened mahi mahi with Spanish rice, and white cheddar- cheese grits. The sand-wich was okay but not great, and the fries were soggy (which was okay to me because I love soggy fries, but I don’t know anyone else who does). The cole slaw was liter-ally the worst I’ve ever had. Luckily I was able to replace it with more soggy fries.

The mahi mahi and Spanish rice were average. The fish was so spicy he had to take sips of water between bites. The best part of the meal was the cheddar-cheese grits.

The total bill came to about $40 — too much for me not to be pleased. I’ve always felt like when it comes to food, you get what you pay for. But in this case, I paid for a well- dressed “what I thought I was going to get.”

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The Crab Trap in Pensacola is now Nick’s Boathouse. The restaurant’s location has not changed, but the menu has expanded with more options. There will be also be more live entertainment. The restaurant’s general manager, Brian Bishop, said he is thinking of adding a college night with drink and food specials.

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Recent discoveries at the University of West Florida suggest a secret society exists among us.

“XII UWF’s Oldest Secret Society” has been found spray painted in gold letters on the concrete bench outside the UWF library. The number “XII” can also be found spray painted in various locations on campus, including in front of the Argo Galley, the Commons and the Nautilus Market.

This may be a case of vandalism, but the University Police did not respond to question-ing. Finding out infor-mation on the culprit may be near impossible. The Lead Archivist Dean DeBolt, at UWF’s library has no history of the soci-ety in his records.

Vandal i sm i s the number one motivation at the moment, according to most UWF students.

“I think it’s an eyesore definitely,” said UWF student Anna Trawick, while talking to her sorority sister Danielle Sanford, who also disap-

proves.“If it’s so secret, why

are there markings?” Sandord said. “I don’t know, its weird.”

A n o t h e r sorority sister, Logan Rhoten, h a d s i m i l a r comments.

“I have no idea, I think it’s a cult,” said Rhoten. She said if she was asked to join, she would turn down the offer. “No secret societ-ies, my mom wouldn’t be happy.”

Another student had a brighter outlook on the situation.

“I started seeing them about a month ago and I was pretty clue-less about it, but it looks l ike a pretty cool soci-ety,” said Alfredo Ramos, student, when asked what he knew about it. “It’s like the oldest at UWF.”

“Maybe a little bit of both. Maybe like an expression of art though,” said Ramos when asked if he feels the writing is an expression of art, or just

vandalism.More students though,

still believe the spray-p a i n t e d w o r d s are just a work of vandalism.

“ T h e y j u s t appeared out of nowhere, it kind of seemed to happen overnight ,” said Heather Edelman,

student, when asked where the writing came from. “If I was part of an organization and wanted it to look good, I wouldn’t want to vandalize the school with that.”

When asked who she think wrote the words, she said, “I think it was probably just a student, someone, maybe part of

an organization who just wanted to get their name out there.”

Whether XII U W F ’ s O l d e s t Secret Soc ie ty is real is still a mystery waiting to be solved.

However, with this much attention and secrecy about the vandal-ism, answers and the culprit might be hard to find.

Photo by Max Nadsady

UWF student Demarcus Horne looks over mysterious grafitti outside the library. The graffiti is supposedly done by UWF’s secret society.

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“TAGGED 2012: Student Art Exhibition” is open to all UWF students and provides an opportunity to exhibit artwork in a professional gallery environment.

The Art Gallery, located in Building 82, is open Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.

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April 13

The Department of Anthropology will cele-brate Dr. Terry Prewitt, who will be retiring at the end of this semes-ter.

Dr. Robert Philen, associate professor of cultural anthro-pology, will present an overview of Dr. Prewitt’s career and accomplishments in an introduction entitled “Adventures in and around Anthropology with Terry Prewitt,” followed by a talk by Dr. Prewitt entitled “Becoming Human: The Evolution of Anthroposemiosis.”

The talks will begin at 9 a.m. with a reception to follow at 11 a.m. in Building 58A, room 105.

This event is free and open to the public.For more information, contact presidentsof-fice@uwf.edu.

April 14

Canoe and camp along the Blackwater River and learn skills like fire making and water procurement with Recreation and Sports Services.

The cost for the all day trip is $35.

For more information, contact Ray Piconeat 474-2808 or rpicone@uwf.edu.

April 14

The University of West Florida will hold its Second Reverse Sprint Triathlon on the UWF campus at 7:30 a.m.

It starts with a 5K run that will take participants from the HLS Facility to the East entrance of campus and back. Registration is open

for students and community members at active.com.

The price is $35 for UWF students and $50 for community members.

April 14

The 2012 University of West Florida African American Student Association’s Night of Excellence: Recognition and Awards Gala will be held at 6 p.m. in the University Commons Auditorium.

The program will fea-ture a keynote address by Rick Outzen, Publisher/Editor of the Independent News of Pensacola. Q of Still Black See will perform several poems.

Tickets are $10 and include your meal and entry for door prizes and other giveaways.

Stop by the AASA office for tickets, or email President-elect Pearl Mansu, pdm13@students.uwf.edu

April 15

The Gathering, UWF’s Magic Club, will host Cards 4 Kids, a ben-efit tournament for the Ronald McDonald House at 2:30 p.m. in the University Conference Center.

Registration begins at 2 p.m. The event will feature free food and raffle prizes for partici-pants.

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April 17

UWF Earth Day Festival and Farmer’s Market will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Cannon Greens.

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UWF wins series at UAH

Softball team moves to 2nd in GSC standingsFrom staff reports

UWF snapped a 10-game winning streak with an 11-1 loss to Alabama-Huntsville on March 31 before going 4-2 against Gulf South Conference opponents in three doubleheaders from April 1-7.

UWF swept North Alabama at home and Christian Brothers on the road before being swept by Delta State. The Argonauts improved to 27-17 (11-7 GSC) and sit in second place atop the GSC stand-ings. They are ahead of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association No. 21-ranked team, UAH (29-12, 11-7), and behind No.1-ranked Valdosta State (37-2, 20-0). North Alabama

UWF won game one of the doubleheader 5-2 against UNA on April 1 at home.

Jordan Ratliff (7-6) went the distance, giving up two runs on eight hits. UWF cut into a 2-0 UNA lead with a

Tiffany Duncan RBI-double in the fourth inning. The Argos tied things up in the fifth on a Crystal Thompson RBI-single.

Kaley Kania gave UWF the lead with an RBI-double in the sixth before Sarah Scott hit a bases-clearing two-run blast to give UWF two insurance runs.

In game two, Lauren Correia hit a game-winning RBI-single to left-center to drive in Thompson in the eighth inning as UWF won 3-2. Thompson was pinch running for Kasie Buckley, who led off the inning with a double.

Victoria Harvey started the game for the Argos but went three innings before running into trouble in the fourth. Scott (9-6) came in to pitch the final five innings of the game and pick up the win.

Harvey gave up one run on four hits with two strike-outs, and Scott gave up one run, unearned, on two hits with four strikeouts.

Christian BrothersAfter falling behind 3-2

to Christian Brothers in game one of the double-header on April 6, UWF tied things up on three consecu-tive singles in the seventh inning to send the game into extras.

Scott doubled with two outs in the eighth and scored on fielding error on the next

play as the Argos picked up the win, 4-3, at Bland Field in Memphis, Tenn.

Jordan Ratliff (8-5) got the win for UWF, going 4.1 innings and allowing one run on two hits with a pair of strikeouts. Ashliegh McLean started the game but lasted just 2.2 innings. She gave up one run on three hits with a strikeout.

UWF scored two runs in the first inning on a pair of two-out RBI-singles by Buckley and Correia.

Game two was a slugfest, to say the least. UWF blew out CBU, 15-4, to sweep the doubleheader.

Buckley was 2-for-3 with three runs, three RBIs, a walk and a homer. Duncan also homered for UWF, going 2-for-3 with two runs and a walk.

Scott and Correia had three RBIs apiece as every UWF starter picked up a hit. Scott (9-5) got the win, going five innings and allowing four runs, one earned, on seven hits with six strikeouts and a walk. Delta State

UWF saw its four-game winning streak snapped as it fell 4-0 to DSU on April 7 at University Field in Cleveland, Miss.

UWF was held score-less while the Statesmen scored two runs in each of the first two innings off of Ratliff (7-6). She went 1.2

innings and gave up four runs on seven hits with one strikeout. Scott came on to finish the game, pitching 4.1 innings of three-hit ball and striking out two.

DSU got runs in the first inning on two RBI-singles. The Statesmen scored on another RBI-single in the second, and Ratliff walked in the fourth run of the game before being replaced by Scott.

In game two, DSU outslugged UWF, 7-2.

DSU scored three runs on one hit and three errors to take the lead for good. UWF got a run back on a Kania RBI-double down the left field line in the top of the third, but DSU scored in the bottom half of the inning to go up by three again.

The Statesmen added three more in the fourth, and UWF scored one in the sixth.

UWF will be back in action at noon on April 14 when it hosts West Georgia in a doubleheader.

Photo by Bill Stockland

Lauren Correia (center) celebrates with teammate Jordan Camp (left) after her walk-off RBI-single in game two against UNA on April 1. UWF won 3-2.

Senior golfer ties UWF record at home inviteFrom staff reports

Carlos Rodriguez won his third tournament of the season on April 3, tying a school record for most tournament wins in a season. Orjan Larsen and Kyle Scott are the only other Argonauts to achieve the feat.

Rodriguez won the University of West Florida’s home invitational, the Argonaut Invitational, with a 7-under par performance. The next-closest golfer, Tyler Chandler, finished at four under.

UWF, ranked No. 7 in the latest Division II poll, finished second behind No. 6 North Alabama.

UNA finished nine under as a team. UWF finished eight over.

UWF’s Juan Miguel Heredia tied for seventh overall with a 3-over perfor-mance. Thomas Guste-Pedersen was third for UWF, finishing tied for 14th overall at 5-over.

Ryan Black and Gary Buffington III finished tied for 20th and tied for 43rd, with 7-over and 17-over performances, respectively.

The win for Rodriguez was the fourth of his colle-giate career. Last season, he won the Gulf South Conference Tournament. This season, he won the McLaughlin on Sept. 16 and the UNO Mardi Gras

Invitational on Feb. 28.He is now tied for second

with Matthew Galloway on the UWF all-time career wins list with four. Larsen holds the record with seven career wins.

Three other UWF athletes competed unat-tached. Rafael Rodriguez Larreta finished tied for 20th at 7-over. Adam Whipp tied for 39th at 14-over, and Robbie Van Riper fnished 41st at 15-over.

UWF will head to the GSC championships at the Timberline Gulf Club in Calera, Ala., on April 23.

UWF is ranked the second-highest GSC team in the nation. Valdosta State was unranked but the only

other GSC team to receive votes in the poll with 10. Women

The UWF women’s golf team finished sixth at the Agnes McAmis Memorial on April 3.

Camila Sevillano led the Argos, finishing eighth with a 5-over performance. She was followed by Aimee Paterson, who finished tied for 31st at 14-over, Jenny Lines, who finished tied for 43rd at 18-over and, Agustina Cocha, who finished tied for 51st at 20-over.

UWF finished 57-over as a team. Tusculum College, the host school, won the event, finishing 17-over as a team.

Photo special to The Voyager

Senior Carlos Rodriguez tees off at the Argonaut Invitational at the Pensacola Country Club on April 2. He won the invite with a 7-under par performance.

From staff reportsAfter getting swept

by Delta State and fall-ing toward the bottom of the Gulf South Conference standings, the University of West Florida baseball team got back on track on April 6 and 7 with a series win over Alabama-Huntsville at Charger Park in Huntsville, Ala.

The losses to the Statesmen dropped UWF from the College Baseball Newspaper top 25. The Argonauts fell to the No. 10 spot in the College Baseball Lineup poll.

UWF improved its record to 24-12 (6-8) and sat in seventh place in the GSC as of Monday. UWF played Tuesday, but results were not available when the paper went to press. Game one

Josh Tanski (3-3) shut down the Chargers’ offense on April 6 as the Argos won 4-2 in game one of a double-header. Tanski pitched a complete game while allow-ing just two runs on three hits with seven strikeouts and four walks.

UWF got off to an early lead in the first inning when Taye Larry scored on an Eric Sauls RBI-single to left field. Larry led off the game with a walk and stole second before advancing to third on a groundout to shortstop.

The Argos got one more in the second when Korey Domenick scored on a Blake Barber RBI-single. Domenick got on base on a double down the left-field line before scoring.

Larry finished 2-for-4 with two runs, and Domenick finished 2-for-4 with a run. Game two

Defense and poor pitch-ing plagued the Argos in game two as the Argos fell 8-2 and committed four

errors.Jordan DeLorenzo (3-2)

took the loss for UWF. With the Argos up 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning, DeLorenzo gave up a double down the right field line before hitting back-to-back batters with pitches to load the bases. He then walked in the game-tying run before being removed from the game.

Brian Ellington gave up

two consecutive singles that drove in a run apiece before getting out of the inning. Ellington gave up a single to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning before watch-ing his defense commit two consecutive throwing errors on a sacrifice bunt attempt that allowed both runners to score.

Both UWF runs came in the fourth inning off of a fielding

error and passed balls. Game three

Josh Huggins hit a solo homer in the top of the 10th inning to give UWF the go-ahead run as the Argos won 3-2 in game three of the series.

Drew Bryson pitched seven strong innings for the Argos, but closer Bobby Parker (1-0) got the win after pitching three hitless

innings for UWF. Bryson gave up 10 hits but just two runs on the night.

UWF took the lead, 1-0, on a throwing error by UAH that allowed Larry score in the third inning. The left fielder had singled with two outs, stolen second and advanced to third on a field-ing error that allowed Dustin Saulmon to reach safely to set up the run-scoring play.

UAH took the lead back,

2-1, on two RBI-singles in the bottom of the third.

Leo Lamarche led off the fifth inning with a triple to right field and scored on a fielder’s choice double play to tie the game.

UWF plays North Georgia today at home at 2 p.m. before hosting West Alabama in a doubleheader at 2 p.m. on April 14. For up-to-date results and more informa-tion visit www.goargos.com.

Photo by Bill Stockland

Drew Bryson pitches at a game versus Rollins on February 11. Bryson leads the Argonauts with a 2.66 ERA this season. Working primarily as a reliever, Bryson has a 2-1 record and a .266 opponents batting average against while striking out 30 in 47.1 innings pitched this season.

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Sonnervig twin gets back on the court

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more information visit goargos.com

Will IsernContributing writer

From the bleachers, it can be difficult to tell them apart.

Mariana and Luiza Sonnervig are twins. Three years ago, they were recruited from Sao Palo to play tennis for the University of West Florida.

Watch them play long enough and you’ll be able to tell: Mariana is the more aggressive of the long-legged Brazilian twins throughout the match, and can be found shout-ing in Portugeuse while she plays. Luiza is the one with a wrapped elbow and has recently returned from a surgery in January.

“It’s tough because they’re all so ready and have been practicing all season, so I’m having to do extra work to catch up,” said

Luiza, lifting and twisting a long bronze arm.

Luiza had been forced to sit out most of this season following an operation in January to remove splin-ters of bone from her right elbow.

Luiza, who posted a stellar 28-10 record last season, first returned during matches over spring break. Since her return the twins have been playing No. 2 and No. 3 in singles, said Head Coach Derek Racine.

Last fall they played doubles together, and there was speculation as to whether to not they would play together again upon Luiza’s return.

“They did play together in the fall, but that was the first time ever really,” Racine said. “They prob-ably won’t end up play-ing doubles together this

season.“We were going to

try it out this spring, but (couldn’t) with Luiza getting injured and us having to play basically the first half

of the season without her. Plus Marianna and Barbera (Olivera) have gotten their record established,” he said.

“She feels good, she’s hitting the ball really well.

We want to take it slow with her though, not throw her into too hard of competition too soon.”

As match time draws nigh, a personality first counted carefree becomes intensely focused.

Mariana, who plays No. 2 singles in most matches, attacks the ball, actively seeking killshots, and is the more fiery of the players. Though, a shared competi-tive fire is present in both personalities.

The two marketing majors have been raised playing tennis since the age of eight when they joined the Paineiras Morumby Sports Club in Sao Paulo, as is the custom in South America as opposed to the American tradition of play-ing for one’s school.

The twins excelled with Paineiras, earning numer-ous titles and Athlete of the

Year accolades.What time they have off

the court is rare the two say, and most of it they spend studying and doing home-work.

“I like watching movies and going to the theater, and she likes going out,” said Luiza.

The twins have an older sister, Carolina, who also attends UWF.

They said to make the decision to move from Sao Palo, with its millions of inhabitants and danger-ous areas, to a small city in the United States was a big step, but one they had to make.

“When you turn 18 in Brazil, you either turn pro or you quit playing . . .,” Mariana said.

“ . . . and we didn’t want to stop,” said Luiza, finish-ing her sister’s sentence.

Photo special to The Voyager

Luiza Sonnervig prepares for a serve at a match earlier in the season. Sonnervig has won 10 out of 15 matches since returning from a shoulder injury.

Tennis teams continue successFrom staff reports

The University of West Florida men’s tennis team is on an 11-match winning streak and the women’s team has won nine of their last ten with their only loss coming against No. 1 BYU-Hawaii.

Both teams are in first in the Gulf South Conference and ranked in the top ten in the nation.

The men (20-2, 6-0 GSC) were ranked No. 2 in the latest International T e n n i s A s s o c i a t i o n Division II poll, and the women (18-5, 7-0) were ranked No. 9.

The men are coming off of a homestand in which they defeated eight top-25 teams.

The duo of Kevin Ducros and Bruno Savi are ranked No. 1 in doubles in the South Region in the latest ITA rankings while Andrey Pozhidaev and Leandro Ferreira are ranked No. 6. Domenico Sano and Mike

Lue are ranked No. 10. UWF is the only men’s

team in the South Region with three doubles teams in the top ten.

Lynn and Barry are the only other teams with more than one. Lynn has duos ranked No. 2 and 8 while

Barry’s are ranked No. 5 and 9.

Ducros and Savi are ranked No. 2 in the nation in doubles and Pozhidaev and Ferreira are ranked No. 1.

Ducros is ranked No. 4 in singles in the South and No. 9 in the nation. Savi is

ranked No. 6 in the South and No. 12 in the nation. Pozhidaev is ranked No. 9 in the South and No. 21 in the nation.

The women’s only loss this season to a team not ranked in the top three in the nation came on Feb. 26 against No. 12 Columbus State.

The Argonauts have defeated noteable oppo-nents including No. 16 Georgia College and State, No. 21 UC San Diego and No. 13 Grand Canyon.

The duo of Caitlyn Baines and Sheila Smiley is ranked No. 6 in the South and 18 in the nation Barbara Olivera and Mariana Sonnervig are ranked No. 9 in the South.

Olivera is ranked No. 11 in singles in the South and No. 29 in the nation. Baines is ranked No. 19 in the South and Mariana Sonnervig is ranked No. 20.

Both teams play New Orleans on the road on April 13.

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Mariana Sonnervig returns a serve at a match earlier in the season. Sonnervig has improved to the No. 2 spot for UWF toward the end of the season.