Will IsernStaff Writer

On Sept. 15, the University of West Florida Student Government Association Senate again tabled revisions to the Student Body election code, on an 11-2 vote, after conflict-ing language and typographical errors were identified.

At issue were two codes concerning the elections process 503.1, which stated that candidates for the SGA spring elections may campaign after filing with the elections

commission and should put campaign mate-rials up the last Sunday of spring break. The other, 503.2D, stated campaigning could only begin after a candidate had filed and attended a mandatory candidate meeting.

The election code was the subject of much controversy last year when it was discovered that much of the code had accidentally been deleted.

“We need to do this right the first time,” Academic Committee Chair Ron Ramsey said. Voting to table the bill was held twice,

failing 1-12 at first and then passing 11-2 after more significant errors were discovered. Ramsey raised the motion to table both times. The author of the bill, SGA Senate President Dwayne Manuel, is charged with making the necessary corrections so that the bill can be brought before the senate again.

The Senate also voted 13-0 to make amendments to the Activity and Service Fee Manual. Changes to the distribution of orga-nizational grants brought the total number of organizations eligible to receive grants down

from four per semester to three per year, and no more than $3,000 total can be given.

Added to the manual was the provision that only student organizations that have been in good standing, as defined by the Student Activities Organization Manual, for one year can apply for the yearly budget process.

Another addition to the bill stated that activity and service fee funds may not be used for fundraising purposes or the direct genera-tion of revenue. The bill was authored by Finance Committee Chair Keldrick Averhart.

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Helen Back opens a pizza pub that is the newest addition to downtown Pensacola. There are drink and food specials nearly every night of the week.

This year’s UWF Showcase of the Arts promises something for everyone with students displaying their musical theater, visual art and dance skills.

Pensacola adds new pizza pub

Contr ibut ing wr i te r Freedom Whiting discusses and tries to debunk false stereotypes associated with black people.

Columnist John Strickland discusses going bald and the importance of practicing selflessness.

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Jade HoyStaff Writer

After Tropical Storm Lee blustered over the University of West Florida, and brought along with it a tornado watch, some students expressed concern about how prepared their resi-dent assistants are to handle emergency weather situations.

“All of the RAs in general were not too concerned about the storm or tornado watch,” Emily Breuer, a sophomore marine biology major, said. “I am guessing that this was because they were trained to remain calm during this type of situation.”

RAs spend a lot of time train-ing for tropical weather situa-tions during the Hall Director

and Resident Assistant Training in August before classes begin, said Krista Boren, associ-ate director for Housing and Residence Life.

“For tropical weather they are trained on what their role would be in the instance of the campus being impacted by a storm,” she said.

RAs are trained to inform students of dangerous weather and the campus status by going door-to-door and calling hall meetings, Boren said. RAs utilize

student check-in and initial community meetings to prompt residents to make plans in case the campus goes into closure mode.

“I had to keep myself updated because I’m assuming the RAs didn’t want to get the entire build-ing into a panic with minute-by-minute updates,” Breuer said. She said she wished RAs would have given more updates on the situation of the weather.

Jane Plummer, a sophomore history education major, lives

in the Argo Hall dorm. She said she was cooking dinner in the common area when the tornado watch was in effect.

“My RA instructed us that there was a 40 minute hold on the building, and we were not allowed to leave,” Plummer said. “If our ears were to pop, we were to book it to the bathroom or a place without windows. She said we were in a danger zone but to remain calm.

“Her remaining calm helped me to remain calm.”

This was Plummer’s first encounter with a tornado threat.

“I did feel safe in the dorm,” Plummer said.

However, she said if she could ask for one thing, it would be that the RAs be provided with a weather radio for current news updates.

RA preparedness questioned after Lee

Garrett SpencerStaff Writer

Although the University of West Florida Aquatic Center was just reopened in April of this year, it may be closing again soon.

“We have two expansion joints in the pool, and they are leaking, which means we are losing water,” Aquatic Director Nancy Quina said. “We are going to have to have a small closure. I don’t have any knowledge of when, but they are going to have to do something about it.”

Quina said she could not comment on when or for how long the pool would be closed.

Joe Schmid, a senior English major, said he swims a mile a day and has been doing that since his sophomore year. He was here when the pool closed before and is not looking forward to its possible closure a second time.

“It would be terrible if the pool closed again because it’s been closed before,” Schmid said. “Hopefully, they can close the pool after my last year.”

Quina said the original reason for closing the pool was for renovations, and the major renovation was updating the filtration system.

“We had to close the pool because the filtration system quit,” Quina said. “If we wouldn’t have closed the pool, the

Health Department would have.” Quina said the other major renovation is the addition

of constant ambient temperature. This means the air and water temperatures are being controlled.

“It was worth the wait,” Quina said. “I just wish it would have happened during the time period we had planned for.”

The pool was closed for renovations in December 2009 and was scheduled to reopen in April 2010, but did not actually open until April 2011.

Since the pool reopened, the student body is taking full advantage of the facility.

“The current student body uses the facility more than in the past,” Quina said. “We are open different times, and the statistics for just the recreational swim this semester are averaging about 50 people, but we have had up to about 160 people.”

Community members also enjoy using the UWF aquatic center.

“We see a lot of business from outside of UWF,” Quina said. “Especially now, because the fall is also the high school competitive season. We have three high school swim teams and two high school springboard diving teams, plus a contractual agreement with the local club team GPAC.”

General admission for community members is $3 per person, per day. Pool memberships are $60 per person, per semester or $80 for family memberships. The pool is free of charge with a valid UWF Student Nautilus Card or a current pool membership card, and to the disabled or handicapped users, and for ages 2 and under.

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The University of West Florida’s pool was reopened in April after being closed for more than a year. The main reason for the closure was the filtration system, which was not up to the Health Department’s code.

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Pool re-closure possible

❱❱ RundownUWF strongly urges students to stay informed through ArgoAlert, 88.1 FM (WUWF) radio station and the emergency update website, UWFemergency.org. RAs are meant to be direct resources for the residents. UWFemergency.org also indicates many other ways that students can keep informed in case of an emergency situation.

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Suicide prevention program receives grant to expandNicole YeakosStaff Writer

“Ask. Listen. Get help.”These are the haunt-

ing words students at the University of West Florida are seeing on posters all across campus. Engaging as they may be, the message on the posters goes much deeper for those who have lost a loved one to suicide.

Andrea Cooper knows that heartache all too well. On New Year’s Eve of 1995, she said, she and her husband found their only child, Kristin, dead from a self-inflicted gun-shot wound.

Kristin Cooper was a sophomore at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan. She was an elemen-tary education major and an active member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.

“We never dreamed we would lose our daugh-ter, and certainly not to suicide,” Cooper wrote in a

blog at www.kristinsstory.com. The site was created to share Kristin’s story and to help spread suicide awareness among college students, much like the new efforts to boost suicide prevention at UWF.

UWF received more than $100,000 in grant money this August from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

This money is meant to aid the UWF Suicide

Outreach and Support program ( S O S ) . T h e program has recently begun its poster campaign p r o m o t i n g suicide aware-ness.

April Glenn, a therapist at UWF Counseling and Wellness Services, said she hopes the six-poster series will “dispel suicide myths, reduce stigma regarding mental health treatment, promote help seeking and

provide brief educational tips on how students can help a friend in crisis.”

The newly funded program may help ensure that Kristin’s story is not repeated.

Cooper has spent the last 13 years traveling across the country, telling her daugh-ter’s story on campuses and sharing presentations on what every student is capable of doing to prevent suicide. She spoke at UWF in February 2009 and said she is very eager to return.

“Students get so wrapped up in the world of college,” she said in a telephone interview. “We just need to be more aware of how the person next to us is feeling and be ready

to be good listeners.”For months, no one

knew what sent her spiral-ing into a depression. She had been raped, but as an avid writer, retreated to the pages of her journal rather than confiding in others.

When Kristin finally did tell a friend, the friend did not take action. A few weeks later, Kristin took her own life, and it wasn’t until her mother read her journal that anyone else knew why.

“When someone is in that really dark place, he or she is not thinking logi-cally,” Cooper said of her daughter’s depression.

She said the SOS program at UWF, coupled with future advancements

in the suicide prevention program with the help of the grant money, has great potential to prevent other students from reaching that same dark place.

T h e A m e r i c a n Association of Suicidology estimates that there are more than 1,000 suicides on college campuses around the nation each year.

Risk factors for suicide in college students include depression, sadness, hope-lessness and stress.

Among other things, the SOS program will train faculty, staff and students to recognize suicide warn-ing signs.

The grant will also fund a suicide prevention coali-tion to coordinate, design and review policies related to suicide prevention and crisis response as well as a student o r g a n i z a t i o n network to provide educa-tional activities aimed at

decreasing stigma associ-ated with mental illness and help-seeking.

Other organizations on campus supporting this cause are Students for Suicide Awareness, To Write Love on Her Arms, Student Veterans of America, and the Gay-Straight Alliance.

“So much of prevent-ing suicide is being aware,” Cooper said. “This program is going to do wonderful things.”

Any student who has experienced depression or suicidal thoughts or knows someone who has experi-enced feelings of depres-sion, is encouraged to seek

help. Counseling a n d W e l l n e s s Services offers free and confiden-tial counseling to students.

For more infor-mation contact the office at 474-2420.

If there is greater urgency, call the 24/7 crisis hotline:

“So much of preventing suicide is being aware. This program is going to do wonderful things.”

-Andrea CooperSuicide prevention activist,

mother of suicide victim

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Shelby SmitheyStaff Writer

The University of West Florida is now offering a downtown residence for students. Located in Historic Pensacola Village on 202 Church St., this fully furnished, renovated house offers graduate students the chance to live in the heart of downtown Pensacola.

The house was built around 1900 by C.L. McVoy and is a frame vernacular cottage typical of working-class housing in Pensacola at the turn of the century. It is a simple, white, one-story, rectangular wooden structure resting on brick piers.

West Florida Historic Preservation Inc., known as WFHPI, purchased the McVoy House from the estate of the late George Bode, a local attorney, in 2008. In 2010, plans were developed to convert the structure into student housing for UWF students. Renovations began in late 2010 and were completed around June 2011.

The house now has a large living room, a large kitchen, two full bathrooms, three single-occupancy bedrooms and one double-occu-pancy bedroom. Outside, the house has a large front porch and a fenced backyard.

According to a UWF news release, WFHPI and the UWF Department of Housing and Residence

Life, teamed up to help foster the “living-learning” atmosphere.

Ruth Davison, director of Housing and Residence Life, said in the news release that this type of “niche” graduate student housing is “emerging as a popu-lar attraction for students and puts the University on the cutting edge of such programs.”

WFHPI, established in 1967, is a non-profit organi-zation dedicated to the pres-ervation and exhibition of the Pensacola area’s historic buildings and other mate-rial culture. Since 2001, the group has been managed and supported by UWF.

Richard Brosnaham, WFHPI executive director, said that many people are not aware of the University’s large and vital presence in downtown Pensacola.

“Ever since our transfer to the University in 2001, UWF has been a major

benefactor to the downtown community, contributing more than $2 million annu-ally to the operation of the Wentworth Museum and Historic Pensacola Village,” Brosnaham said in the news release.

“These programs include 28 properties spread over nine acres.”

W F H P I A s s o c i a t e Director Robert Overton said that the access to these programs will enrich students’ learning experi-ence.

“The students residing in this facility will have easy access to the city’s historic districts, museums, activi-ties, businesses and cultural events, providing the ideal location for hands-on learn-ing,” he said. “The college experience is more than books and lectures. It also involves immersing your-self in different cultures and environments.”

Historic downtown house renovated for UWF students

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Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011

Freedom WhitingContributing Writer

One of the best parts about America’s universities in the post-Civil Rights era is

the diversity that schools introduce to students while they are on campus.

Practically every university — well, except Bob Jones University — encourages students to learn about and partake in different cultures.

And the University of West Florida carries on this new tradition as well. Student organizations like the Gay-Straight Alliance advocate tolerance, and the Campus Activity Board promotes events that bring students together in a friendly, social environment.

With all that said, many people who attend schools like UWF still have a way to go, especially in this so called “post-racial” America.

Case in point: I was at a get-together with my co-rec flag football team when one of the guests asked me what my major was. I told her that I was a pre-law student, and

she shot me an incredulous look and said, “No, you’re not!” – as if she found it hard to believe that a black man could be smart enough to study law.

Later in the conversation, the young woman said, “Freedom, you speak so well!” She made the statement as if I was a trained monkey who was taught how to speak!

The irony of her “speak so well” statement is that even though I can be articulate in a formal setting — not at a cook out — I’m still a southern boy who use phrases like “y’all”, “fixin’ to” and “you knowwha umsayin’”

Sometimes I think people forget that humans can be diverse in and of them-selves and don’t always fit into stale, age-old stereotypes.

For instance, on campus I always hear, “Freedom, you’re the whitest black guy I know!” or “Hey, you should meet my other white black friend.”

Look, people, just because I don’t walk around campus with my pants below my butt, refer to my friends as “dog” and don’t have a chip on my shoulder does not mean I’m not black.

Being educated and listening to other forms of music besides rap does not make me white.

Not all black caricatures of our race are true, though I know Tyler Perry movies and Lil’ Wayne come across as the shining examples of how black people are.

Since I have everyone’s attention, I want to reiterate a point that I have made

in the past: The n-word is never, ever, ever okay.

Just recently, I was at Hopjacks with some UWF students when one girl said “nigger” while referring to me in a conver-sation.

She seemed shock when I became upset. The young lady tried to justify her use of the word by exclaiming that, “My best friend is black!”

I explained that it doesn’t matter even if her president was black; the n-word is one of the ugliest words in the English language and should never be used.

There are people who took a lot of beat-ings to make sure that I — or anyone else for that matter — should never be called that word.

Because you go to a college does not mean you should hold hands with every race, creed or religion and sing “kumbaya,” but attending college should mean that you are willing to open your mind and shatter a lot of preconceived notions about people.

I hope I was able to properly articulate my point.

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The importance of selflessness

John StricklandColumnist

Events can occur that completely change the way

we look at the world as well as the people we share it with. For me, this event took place about a couple of years ago.

I woke up from a great night of rest, energized and prepared to tackle my day. The world was completely in front of me, and I had everything figured out. Then it happened.

I flicked the bathroom light on, looked in the mirror and noticed that something was different. I felt as if a part of me had disappeared, or, even worse, had ceased to exist in the first place.

I scratched my head, perplexed by this feeling that suddenly consumed me. Then, when I looked at my hand and saw an indeterminate amount of hair entwined around my fingers, I immediately realized the cause of my ominous concern.

I was going bald.Soon after my discov-

ery, others began to notice my condition.

My mother bought me a package of “hair restora-tion” cream. No mention of it, just out of the blue, it was sitting on my bath-

room counter. It was the store-brand stuff, too, not the real-deal Rogaine. Thanks, Mom.

One night, while I was out playing billiards at a bar, a buddy of mine pointed out a picture on the wall and said, “Hey, doesn’t this kinda look like Big John?”

He was pointing at a picture of Larry from “The Three Stooges.” You know the one with the bushy, curly hair and the expan-sively receding hairline? That was me, and it still is.

It has been a few years since that day. I have had time to reflect, and the most important thing I’ve gained from the experi-ence is how utterly useless it is to worry about crap like this.

I hate worrying about my hair loss. I hate worrying about my head in general. I have an enormous head. So enor-mous, in fact, I can no longer attend heavy metal concerts because if I were to ever engage in the act of “headbanging,” I could easily be charged with second-degree manslaugh-ter.

I hate worrying about whether or not the chick I dig has quality taste in cinema or if her favorite movie is some stupid Nicholas Sparks adapta-tion.

I hate worrying about the appropriateness of wearing a shirt that says “Boobies Make Me Smile” for Christmas dinner at my grandmother’s house.

I now strive to be as selfless as possible. I strive to be more like we all were on 9/11.

When the planes hit the North and South towers of the World Trade

Center that day, I doubt people were worried about how their hair looked, or how their armpits smelled, or how their blouse might have been “a little too revealing” to others.

We were worried about our families, wherever they may have been that day. We were worried about our mothers and fathers and our brothers and sisters.

We were worried about the firefighters, the EMTs, the police officers and the rest of the “First Responders” who showed up to such a cataclysmic catastrophe to help as many people make it out of those buildings alive as they possibly could.

We were worried about the people being carried out of the wreckage on the shoulders of others, and we were equally worried about the people doing the carrying.

We were worried about tomorrow and how every-thing would be different.

But, through all the anguish and devastation that we witnessed that day, we also witnessed the beauty of selflessness.

Selflessness should not be an exclusive response to tragedy and chaos.

Honestly, we should try it more often.

Now, back to the subject of the “Boobies Make Me Smile” t-shirt.

I didn’t wear it to Christmas dinner that year. The reason was not because it was inappropri-ate for the occasion, which it most certainly was.

I didn’t wear it because I knew my grandmother wouldn’t find it as funny as I did.

“Sometimes I think people forget that

humans can be diverse in and of themselves and don’t always fit into stale, age-old

stereotypes.”

Incredibly Serious Business

Black intelligence does not equal being white

Letter to the editor

Art student: Comic undermines heavy workload for art majors

The last edition of “Skewed Perspectives,” created by Ryan Watson, was offensive and ignorant.

It explicitly implied to the student body that our passion and chosen area of study is not a valid educational path.

Poking fun by insinuating a contrast exists between the intel-lectually challeng-ing assignments given to English and computer science majors, versus the perceived simplis-tic and childish assignments for art students is distasteful and inaccurate.

My fellow art students are hard working. Our curriculum is serious.

We too have the assignment of writ-

ing papers — as well as web design and learning to work with chemicals and machinery, all with the added pres-sure of knowing nearly everything we do in our studio classes will be publicly

displayed and critiqued by dozens of our peers.

Almost noth-ing we work on will be submitted privately to an instructor.

The University community should support each other. We back Ryan’s jour-nalism efforts, but not at the expense

of UWF’s art department.

— Taryn PomerantzUWF art student

“The University community should support each other.

We back Ryan’s journalism efforts,

but not at the expense of UWF’s art

department.”

Any comics published on the Classifieds page do not reflect the opinion of The Voyager, but the staff would like to apologize for any offense that was caused by the comic in question. Our main purpose is to support the voice of UWF students, but not at the expense of others.

We are open to all student input, whether it’s through letters to the editor or comics.

— The Voyager

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Christie McClungStaff Writer

University of West Florida students who spend their Thursday and Friday nights walk-ing in and out of differ-ent restaurants and stores along streets of downtown Pensacola now have a new restaurant to explore.

Helen Back Café is the newest edition to downtown attraction list. Located at 22 South Palafox St., Helen Back is open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week. The restaurant welcomes a diverse crowd by offering inexpensive food, drinks and entertain-ment.

C h r i s Sehman, the o w n e r o f Helen Back r e s t a u r a n t s in Navarre B e a c h , O k a l o o s a Island and Crestview was contacted by the owner of the building and asked to be in a part-nership.

“He had heard about Helen Back, and he basically recruited me,” Sehman said in a tele-phone interview.

Many high top tables and booths offer indoor seating to accomodate the hungry. For those who prefer dining al fresco, there is a small outdoor patio with several tables.Their large bar has plenty of drink options.

The wooden walls are lined with 27 flat screen televisions, four of which are big screens, and with the channel always turned to the biggest sporting event of the night, Helen Back is any sports advo-

cate’s dream sports bar.If the

sports are not enough to bring in the crowd, H e l e n Back offers a reason-ably priced place to dine, as w e l l a s other types of enter-tainment.

H e l e n B a c k ’ s s m a l l p i z z a , a l t h o u g h the size

that most people would consider a medium, is priced at $9.67 with a list of extra, fresh toppings available for free.

If that is not enough to cure the hunger pains, a large pizza is only $17.22, with the same toppings available free of cost.

Helen Back’s other menu items include common types of appetiz-ers, hot sandwiches, and salads.

“We cater to all walks of life,” Sehman said. “And we have a big obsession with the military.”

While Helen Back does not currently have any special days of the week for college students, Sehman is not ruling it out.

“As I get acclimated to the town, I will do things to bring in more college students,” he said. “Several college kids have approached me to do closed events for them, and I am up for anything.”

Katherine CorderoStaff Writer

The Center for Fine and Performing Arts will spotlight the talents of both current students and alumni of various sections of the art department at the University of West Florida’s Family Weekend on Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Showcase of the Arts.

The assortment of acts will include tributes to musical theater, symphonic praise, vocal displays, graceful movements, strokes of the brush and displays of digital graphics.

Jerre Brisky, the assis-tant director of the Center of Fine and Performing A r t s , said that Showcase o f t h e Arts is an o p p o r t u -nity for people to s e e t h e variety of things that the Department of Art has to offer to both students and audiences. Students participating will range from freshmen through

seniors.“It’s like going to a

buffet,” he said. “You get a little bit of everything. It allows people to see those pieces or groups they really connect with, and can come back and see full-length performances by each of those groups later on this year.”

Grace Thompson, 21, a senior theater major, and Savannah Simerly, 24, a senior musical theater major, are both veterans of Showcase of the Arts.

“I hope to show the audience, and anyone who has never been here, how versatile the Center of Fine and Performing Arts really is and how much talent and ability we have,” Simerly said.

They are choreogra-phers for the University’s dance fitness class, and they have also choreographed dance scenes for this year’s Showcase of the Arts.

“It’s a beautiful thing to be a part of,” Thompson said.

Allison Gilliard, 21, a senior music performance major, said that the music department would be contributing various acts,

including the UWF Singers, the UWF Madrigal Singers, the UWF “Runge Strings,” the UWF Symphonic Band and the UWF Jazz Band. Gilliard will also perform in an opera scene from the opera workshop class offered over the summer. She said she loves being able to work with the other areas of the department.

“At the very end, we have a big finale where all the music groups and sing-ers come together to do a big number,” she said.

Because the event is called Showcase of the Arts, digital artwork of students will be shown on televisions in the main lobby. An exhi-bition of student artwork, including paintings and sketches, will line the hall-way.

Willie Deberry, 23, a senior graphic design major, is a designer for part of the grand finale of Showcase of the Arts. He has taken photographs from classroom work, rehearsals, studio time, performances and exhibitions and is making a video to present during the finale.

“I like to depict the scenes that show how hard

students are working and how much we appreciate them for what they do,” Deberry said.

Showcase of the Arts has been sold out for the past four years. Brisky suggested that those interested get their tickets early.

“This showcase is about the students and the student work that is being done,” Brisky said. “While the faculty is guiding a lot of it, we try to take a mini-mal approach and let the students really shine. It is a fun, constantly moving, great artistic experience, and there is something for everyone.”

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Art students show off skills

Eclectic mix of musichits the bay of Mobile

Photo by Katherine Cordero

(L-R) Allison Gilliard, Savannah Simerly, Grace Thompson and Willie Deberry pose in front of the CFPA. These four UWF students are displaying their talents in October’s Showcase of the Arts.

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Megs GlasscockStaff Writer

For one early fall week-end, Mobile, Ala. will host various musical talents and their fans for their annual Bayfest.

The festival will cele-brate its 17th anniversary of music and fun on Oct. 7-9. The organizers of the music festival expect a crowd of more than 200,000 this year.

Bayfest boasts a wide range of acts on five differ-ent stages, including a stage devoted to local and regional acts. From the rapper Ludacris, to country star Toby Keith, to the ‘80s glam band Duran Duran and hard rock band Korn, Bayfest has a musical act for every taste.

Brittney Gallaher, a University of West Florida senior pre-professional biology major, has never been to a concert, and she is looking forward to the expe-rience. She is most excited about country singer Blake

Shelton, who will perform on Friday of the festival.

“I love country music,” she said in a phone inter-view. “I love his songs, espe-cially ‘Who are You When I’m Not Looking.’ That’s probably my favorite.”

Charmed by his appear-ance and the Southern twang in his voice, Gallaher is the typical female Shelton fan.

“When I’m driving, the words in his songs calm me down,” she said. “He really puts my mind at ease.”

Gallaher is also excited about country singer Toby Keith, who closes the festi-val on Sunday.

“I like that his songs are about America,” she said. “He sang ‘Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue’ and ‘American Soldier’ along with ‘Made in America.’ They’re all really good. I like a lot of his old stuff.”

Besides country music, Gallaher is a fan of what she called “older ‘90s bands.”

“I like 3 Doors Down a lot,” she said about the

rock band that will play on Saturday. “I like a lot of their songs. I’m not really into hard rock like Korn.”

The band Korn will take the stage on Friday, and similar hard rock acts like Drowning Pool and Theory of a Deadman will also perform during the week-end.

The festival will go on rain or shine, and organiz-ers encourage guests to not mind getting a little wet. They also advise wear-ing lightweight clothing, comfortable shoes and bringing a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen.

Roads will be closed in certain areas of downtown Mobile, and the Bayfest website features a map of guest parking.

Festival hours are from 6:30 p.m. to midnight, Friday, 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturday and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday. For further information and to purchase tickets, visit the Bayfest website at www.bayfest.com.

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Hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa is a popular act playing in Mobile at Bayfest this year.

❱❱ Rundownn “Military Night” Monday: military eats free pizza all night with a discount on domestic pitchers of beer.n “Guys’ Night” Tuesday: $10.00 sausage pizza. n “Ladies’ Night” Wednesday: free drinks from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. and live music.n “Bike and Insider” Thursday: bikers get discounted drinks, specials for the member of the Helen Back Insiders club. n Friday through Sunday: live music on the deck.

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Helen Back is a new pizza pub downtown in the old Will Call space above Club Ice.

“As I get acclimated

to the town, I will do things

to bring in more college

students.”—Chris Sehman

Helen Back Owner

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The UWF Madrigals and Singers, shown at a 2010 concert, will be performing at the Showcase.

❱❱ Rundownn Showcase of the Arts: Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the CFPA. n Dance, musical theater, singing and more. n Free for those participating in UWF’s Family Weekend. $10 for non-participants. n RSVP to the CFPA Office at 857-6285.

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AASA more than a club to membersRachel GilesStaff Writer

The University of West Florida African-American Student Organization meets every other Monday at 6 p.m. in the University Commons room 272. The organization’s motto says it’s “a movement, not a club.”

So, what is the move-ment? The club’s presi-dent, Dwayne Manuel, a senior interdisciplinary social sciences major, said the group’s movement is to educate peers and the local community about African-Americans and the A f r i c a n -American culture.

Manuel said this i n c l u d e s b a t t l i n g stereotypes o f w h a t African-Americans are like.

Manuel said a “big misconception” people seem to have about the club and African-Americans in general is that they’re “all loud and just like to listen to rap music.” He said this isn’t the case.

“We have people who like to talk and people who like to listen,” Manuel said. “We are beyond or past the stereotypes.”

The organization’s meet-

ings often host over 50 people, a number Manuel said he considers “very successful.” The group also frequently plans social events, including kick-ball games, movie nights, a ropes course, and skate nights.

Manuel said one goal of the group is to “push every-one to finish graduating.” He said that he doesn’t want to see African-American students giving up on their studies and would love to see more students finish their college education.

“We’re open to all students on campus, regardless of race or ethnic-ity,” Yashica Washington, the club’s vice president and a senior elementary education major, said in an interview. “We’re really trying to diversify.”

Pearl Mansu, a sopho-more pre-law and politi-cal science major, said a great moment for her with the club this semester was when she saw people of varied ethnicities attending the event the club held for the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

“I think that the actual purpose of Dr. King’s speech was met that night,” Mansu said.

Manuel said the event was supported by the Student Senate. He said the club encouraged students to

come out and reflect on how King’s speech affected their lives.

The club also had attendees write down their dreams, which were strung and hung in the Great Hall. Manuel said the main goal was to break tension between African-American students and other ethnic groups on campus.

“For us to get people that are not only African-American, but other ethnic-ities, made me proud,” Manuel said.

Mansu said that she would love to see more students getting involved in the club.

“If you’re at UWF, come to one of our meet-ings,” Mansu said. “We’re not just open to African-Americans.”

Get scaredThe goblins and ghouls

will be out in full force this October, as local horror troupe Nightmare Theatre presents “Shocktoberfest! 2011” at the Silver Screen Theatre in Pensacola.

“Shocktoberfest! 2011,” a presentation of several of the most demented and highly regarded horror films in the history of the genre, will run every week-end throughout the month of October.

The festivities begin Saturday, Oct. 1, with a screening of the preeminent ‘80s slasher flick, “Friday the 13th.” Spirit Halloween Pensacola and Halloween Inc. will be giving away prizes.

One of the highlights of the festival will occur on Saturday, Oct. 8, when Nightmare Theatre will present a screening of John Carpenter’s semi-nal 1982 creature feature, “The Thing,” less than a week before a prequel to Carpenter’s film debuts in theaters.

The festivities will culminate on Saturday, Oct. 29 with a screening of the most prominent midnight feature of all time, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Each screening will begin at 11:30 p.m. Admission to each screen-ing is $3.

The Silver Screen Theatre is located at 7280 Plantation Road, Suite A, in Pensacola, behind University Mall.

For more information on “Shocktoberfest! 2011,” visit www.nightmarethe-atre.com.

Last Lecture seriesOn Saturday, Sept. 24

from 11 a.m. to noon in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts Music

Hall, Dr. Evans will pres-ent her “Last Lecture: Living with Chickens and Angry Birds...What Does It Mean?!”

The “Last Lecture” series asks a professor to assume that he or she has one final opportunity to share a message with students. In Dr. Evans’ lecture, she explores potential answers to some of the most press-ing policy issues dominat-ing the national political debate.

Without blowing the punch line, students can expect to find out some embarrassing details of the quirky life of Dr. Evans, to unwrap the life lessons by which she lives, and to hear her thoughts on our students’ role in a self-conscious, technologi-cally advanced, globally-connected and largely-unfunded future.

Hands-on historyThe Florida Public

Archaeology Network (FPAN) is seeking enthusi-astic volunteers of all ages to help rough sort arti-facts recovered from local archaeological sites.

Volunteers work inside our air-conditioned lab to rough sort artifacts recov-ered from local archaeologi-cal sites.

Working with small screens, trays, brushes, magnets and other lab tools, artifacts are cleaned and sorted. Once artifacts have been cleaned, they are sorted into groups of like materials.

Contact Irina Sorset at isorset@uwf.edu.

Comedian, artist visits UWF

The Campus Activity Board will host comedian and spoken-word artist Asia on Thursday, Sept. 22. He

has been featured on HBO’s “Def Poetry” and BET’s “J Lyric Café” and was named college performer of the year by the Association for the Promotion of College Activities.

He uses his poetry as an activist tool to help fight poverty in the Philippines. Asia is currently on tour with his brother-in-law Jollan, who plays guitar to accompany Asia’s poetry.

Thursday’s show is free. However CAB recommends that students pick up a ticket at the service desk to ensure a seat. There will be free food.

For more information, visit www.uwf.edu/cab.

Help othersOn Wednesday, Sept.

28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Volunteer UWF! will host its semi-annual Volunteer Fair. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with more than 30 local nonprofits.

For more information, contact Career Services at (850) 474-2254, or email career@uwf.edu.

Prep for the futureOn Wednesday, Sept.

28 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Building 19, Career Services will host Backpacks 2 Briefcases, a job shadowing and career mentor program.

About 50 mentors have already signed up, with more expected in the next week.

Al l s tudents are welcome, but preregistra-tion is required. Pre-register by calling Career Services at 474-2254 or R.S.V.P. through JasonQuest.

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❱❱ Rundownn The African-American Student Association is hosting its 2nd Annual Poetry Slam on Sept. 29 from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m in the Conference Center. Anyone can come out and present a poem, or just come to listen. Those interested can sign up in the AASA office located in the University Commons.

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September 24

The Honors Council will be hosting “The Last Lecture” series starting from 11 a.m. to noon.

The Last Lecture series asks a professor to assume that he or she has one, final opportunity to share a message with students.

In this inaugural address for the UWF Last Lecture Series, Dr. Jocelyn Evans will give a talk entitled, “Living with Chickens and Angry Birds… What Does It Mean?!” In it, she explores potential answers to some of the most pressing policy issues dominating the national political debate.

Without blowing the punch line, students can expect to find out some embarrassing details of the quirky life of Dr. Evans, to unwrap the life lessons by which she lives, and to hear her thoughts on our students’ role in a self-conscious, technologically-advanced, globally-connected, and largely-unfunded future.

September 21

The UWF Pre-Law Chapter Phi Alpha Delta International Law Fraternity and the UWF Mock Trial Team are co-sponsoring the visit of James Owens, Public Defender, First Judicial Circuit of Florida. The event will be held in Bldg. 78, Room 145 at 4 p.m. Owens will be discussing the topic of criminal jury trials. All students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend.

September 22

Teaching Partners promotes the exchange of effective and innovative teaching strategies.This event will be held in the Nautilus Chamber (Room 255) of the UC Commons from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Identify a Teaching Partner and learn about mutual mentoring and peer classroom observation. This session will include a workshop on how to plan and conduct a peer classroom observation. Attendees will participate in a simulated classroom observation and practice providing tactful and helpful formative feedback.

Teaching Partners Program is open to all faculty at UWF.

September 22

Beta Alpha Psi will be hosting the annual Meet the Firms event from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Conference Center in the University Commons. You do not have to be a member of Beta Alpha Psi in order to attend. Undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Business are invited to attend. There is no cost associated with this event.

September 27

President Bense will present the 2011 State of the University Address at 10 a.m. in the University Commons Auditorium. Immediately following the State of the University, please join the President on the Crosby Hall Lawn for President Bense’s Fall BBQ and celebrate reaching our goal of 12,000 students.

September 24

Join the Sailing Club for FREE sailing any Saturday this fall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Pensacola Yacht Club! Boats, equipment and wind provided.Register by emailing sailuwf@uwf.edu.

Ed Rodgers, a profes-sor and former chair of the Department of Computer Science, passed away on Sept. 19. Information regarding services will be shared with the campus community via Argus Today or email as soon as it is available.

DEATH NOTICE

Chris Elkins Jesse FarthingStaff Writers

The planned University of West Florida football team has people talk-ing, and opinions on the program are split among both students and faculty.

Associate Professor of Psychology and Faculty Union President Susan Walch said the results of a recent short faculty poll conducted by the faculty union after President Judy Bense’s announcement that the football program would be going forward show that opinions on the program were split nearly down the middle.

“Big sports can create big problems,” said Matthew Schwartz, associate profes-sor and department chair

in environmental studies. “But I have seen sports being a very useful part of the academic life at univer-sities.”

Schwartz said that this was s time of growing pains for the university, but he remained optimistic that the football program would be integrated with the academic vision of UWF.

“I certainly want to see us balance meaning-ful growth with our natu-ral setting,” Schwartz said. “And not just our natural setting, but our academic setting.”

Athletic Director Dave Scott said that academics is also coming up with a plan for the future.

“On Oct. 1, the Academic Vision is supposed to come out,” Scott said in a presen-tation to the Sports in American History class.

In addition to faculty concerns, student opinions run both directions as well.

“UWF is not a sports-oriented campus, and I doubt that fact will change just because of a football team,” Rebekah Johansen, a graduate assistant for the Writing Skills Laboratory, said.

Although some students may not see UWF as sports-oriented, the university has a history of success.

UWF has produced 266 All-Americans, won 10 individual national championships, 59 GSC

Championships, and six national championships in its history.

However, not all students care about sports.

“I hate it,” Marla Wankowski, a sophomore majoring in archaeology and anthropology, said. “I came here because there was no football team.”

“I think it’s safe to say that the average UWF student chose the school for the beautiful scenery, the academic focus and the affordable cost,” Johansen said. “Damaging all three of those for a Division II foot-ball team is not wise.”

However, the enhanc-ment plan d o e s n o t directly effect academics or student costs.

“ T h e vision of the e n h a n c e -

ments made in the Master Plan are to bring students back to campus after they graduate,” Scott said.

“You chose to come to UWF because it’s some-thing you’re proud of. We hope that you come back and are excited about the enhancments.”

Other students’ primary concern is how much money would be coming out of their pockets.

“I think it’s a good idea,” Shaun Ferguson, a sopho-more engineering tech-nology major, said. “But tuition is probably going to go up a lot more to pay for it, and do we as a student body really want more expensive tuition?”

Currently, the adminis-tration has not announced a plan to pay for the enhancments.

Bense said during a press conference earlier in the year that student fees would not be increased during the coming school year.

Despite concerns from some students, you do not have to look far to find others who are very excited for the program.

“We need one, quickly,” said Aaron DeLoach, a junior athletic training major. “Every college needs a football team.”

The biggst quetion still remains: When?

“Everyone wants a specific date,” Scott said. “Well it’s not that simple.”

The first meeting for the implementation team was last week, Scott said.

“It’s different than what we’ve seen before,” he said. “It’s internal UWF staffers. Hopefully there will be a plan by the end of the next semester.”

Schwartz said, “I’m pleased to see the concern being voiced. I’m also pleased to see the excitement, because I think that’s going to lead to the right dynamic.”

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Sophomore Abby Timmer and freshman Autumn Duyn go for a block against Mobile, on Sept. 13.

Campus divided about football

Sports Editor, Chris Elkins sports@thevoyager.net

Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011

Elliot

n Athletic director hopes to calm concerns from students

Volleyball wins home opener, 2 of the past 3

Morgan SmithStaff Writer

University of West Florida’s men’s soccer player Junior Prevalus is on a fast track to becoming a stand-out player this season.

He scored goals in both of UWF’s games on the opening weekend against Barry and Nova, coming off the bench in both games.

Prevalus, a forward, was named Gulf South Conference Player of the Week after his first two performances as an Argonaut.

“It was an exciting moment,” Prevlaus said.

“I hope there will be more to come.”

Prevalus was born in the small town of Gonaives, Haiti.

He said his love for soccer developed

during his early childhood there. “I came to the United States in

2002, when I was 12,” he said. “I’ve been playing soccer since

I was 4 or 5 years old, and my older brother encouraged me to keep play-ing when I moved to Florida.

Soccer was a daily routine for me in Haiti after studying. I’d play outside with the other kids in the neighbor-hood.”

Teammate Christian Perez described Prevalus as quiet and easy-going off the field, but aggressive and highly determined on the field.

“He’s quiet, but deadly,” Perez said. “I nicknamed him The Silencer.”

Teammate Alex Dumond said that he and Prevalus attended Atlantic Community High School together in Boynton Beach and played soccer together at Jefferson College in their freshman year.

“We were separated for a year, and then we reconnected when we came here,” Dumond said. “Soccer is his life.”

“He works hard at practice, and he is a talented kid,” Elliot said.

“He is a quiet kid, and he is new to our program. I look forward to getting to know him better.”

Prevalus, who is a junior sports management major, was raised in Boynton Beach.

He transferred from Culver-Stockton College, a private, residential college in Canton, Mo., with an enroll-ment of approximately 853 students.

During his sophomore season at Culver-Stockton, Prevalus totaled 40 shots, 3 assists and 9 goals.

Prevalus decided to transfer from for a number of reasons.

O n e r e a s o n he said was that Dumond persuaded him to come after Dumond trans-ferred to UWF from Jefferson College in St. Louis last season.

Prevalus said another deciding factor was that the Culver-Stockton team wasn’t as competitive as UWF.

“We struggled a lot,” he said. “As far as the players go, we worked hard, but there was not enough talent to compete with the other teams.”

Ultimately, it was a recruiting trip to UWF last year that sealed the deal for Prevalus.

“I enjoyed the environment here,” he said. “I really liked how everyone embraced me.”

Prevalus has made two of six shots on goal this season, including one game winning goal.

Prevalus said that the season looked promising and that he looked forward to bonding with the team more.

“It’s coming along,” he said. “It seems it’s good. It’s the beginning of the season. We still have to come together as a team.”

Chris Elkins Sports Editor

The University of West Florida volleyball team bounced back after tough losses to good teams in the first two tournaments they played by winning their next two of three matches.

The Argonauts won their first three sets to sweep the University of Mobile, 25-12, 25-14, 25-14 in front of 505 fans in a match that took only an hour and six minutes on Sept. 13.

UWF started the first set strong with a 10-2 lead en route to the 25-12 victory. Things didn’t look as good for the Argos in the second set, when they were down 4-1 in the first 5 points, but UWF fought back and finished the set with a 11-3 run to win it.

“It was really nice to get home and to have a good crowd show up,” Head Coach Melissa Wolter said in an interview with UWF Sports Information.

She said it was nice to build on an undefeated home season last year.

The Argos traveled to St. Petersburg to face a tough opponent in Eckerd College who entered the match 7-1.

The Tritons finished the first set with a six point run to win 25-15. The Argos started slow again in the

second set but fought back to tie the game 24-24. However, the team was unable to complete the comeback as the Argos lost

the set 26-24.The third set was back-

and-forth as the Argos fought to prevent the match loss, but Eckerd was able to

hold on and win the third set 25-22.

“We did not play well, and it’s no shock when you look at the stats,” Wolter

said. “It’s tough when you play a good opponent. You have to play well. You’re not going to get any breaks.”

UWF then traveled to

Saint Leo to play the Lions who entered the match 6-3.

The Argos were led by Lindsay Homme who had 14 kills and a .542 attack percentage to lead the team in a 25-15, 25-21, 25-18 sweep.

The second set was the closest set of the night as Saint Leo kept things close tieing the Argos 7-7 through the first 14 points. However, the Argos broke away to a 20-15 lead and on tothe set victory.

“We scheduled those matches because it’s important to play regional matches,” Wolter said.

As of Monday night, freshman Autumn Duyn leads the Argos with 120 kills, followed by Lindsay Homme with 110. Sophomore Molly Pearce continuies to lead the Argos with 267 assists. Jenny Bellairs leads the team with 36 blocks.

“We’re still a work in progress,” Wolter said. “We’ve got young players that we’re depending on and now conference starts, and it’s a whole different deal. “

UWF opened confer-ence play Tuesday at home against the University of New Orleans.

Check goargos.com for the latest results.

Dumond

“I came here because there was no football team.”-Marla Wankowski

UWF student

Prevalus

Prevalus makes big impact

“Every college needs a football

team.”-Aaron DeLoach

UWF student

From staff reportsThe University of West

Florida men’s soccer team won their home opener against Spring Hill on Sept. 14 2-1 and tied Tampa 2-2 on Sept. 17 to put their record at 3-2-1.

In the home opener, the Argos came from behind to defeat the Spring Hill Badgers 2-1.

Spring Hill got on the board first in the 58th when Patrick Cullotta scored on sophomore goalkeeper Ramon Sealy, giving the Badgers a 1-0 lead.

The Argos tied the match, 1-1, in the 67th minute when junior Stephen Munoz blasted a free kick from outside the box. The kick bent just inside the right post past the diving Badgers keeper.

The Argos kept the intensity and took the lead, 2-1, in the 75th minute.

Freshman Di l lon Gallet drove the ball into

the back of the net from just outside the box.

The game against Tampa was a 0-0 tie going into halftime.

In the second half, UT got on the board first in the 51st minute on a Ryan Griffin goal off an assist by John Reddick from the right side.

Eight minutes later, junior Andre Verardi scored his second goal of the year and tied the game.

Ryan Griffin converted a penalty kick to put Tampa ahead 2-1, but Munoz drew a foul in the box and converted a penalty kick of his own, making the score 2-2 at the 70:33 mark.

In overtime, UWF thought they found a game-winner when Verardi scored on a shot off a rebound in the 108th minute, but the play was called offside, ending the Argonauts’ cele-bration.

The Argonauts will continue a 7-game homes-tand against Montevallo on Sept. 27.

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The men’s cross coun-try team finished 17th out of 19 teams in a field filled with Division I competition on Sept. 17. The Argonauts finished the Iona Meet of Champions in the Bronx with an average time of 27:45 scoring 503 points in the 8k race.

Iona College won the race with an average time of 24:58 scoring 19 points and placing five in the top 10. Brown was second with 64 points and the University at Albany was third with 71.

The women’s team finished 18th with an aver-age time of 25:34 for the 6k race scoring 516.

Iona also won the women’s competition, scor-ing 84 with an average time of 22:55.

Penn finished second with 86 points and Brown

was third with 89.“It was a great experi-

ence for our team to run with this kind of competi-tion,” Head Coach John Bergen said in a press release.

“ W e w e r e p l e a s e d that every-body ran hard and p u s h e d t h e m -selves.”T h e

men were led by junior Martinique Sykes for the third consecutive race. Sykes finished with a time of 27:17 good for 96th over-all. He was followed by senior Eddie Pagan who finished 121st in a time of 27:39 and freshman Cody Haden who finished 129th in a time of 27:47.

“For early in the season, our freshmen are running well and staying right with

our experienced veterans,” Bergen said. “We feel like we’ve got a pretty strong team top-to-bottom.”

The women were led by freshman Kelly Bahn for the third consecutive race. Bahn finished 83rd in a time of 24:48. She was followed by freshman Aimee Marsh and sophomore Renea Porsch who finished 120th and 127th in times of 25:23 and 25:27, respectively.

“For our five freshmen this was their first chance to run a 6k, which we run in our regional meet in the postseason,” Bergen said. “I was pleased with how consistent they ran for their first 6k against this kind of competition.”

Top returners Karyssa T o u r e l l e - F a l l o n a n d McKenzie Carney have yet to run this season.

The Argos return to action Saturday at the Florida State Invitational at Tallahassee Regional Park in Tallahassee.

Cross country teams face D-I competition

From staff reportsTina Murray continued

to cause havoc for opposing goalkeepers, as the senior recorded her second hat trick of the season in a 5-1 defeat over Spring Hill for the women’s soccer team’s home opener on Sept. 14.

The Argonauts tied Kennesaw State on Sept. 18 in Kennesaw Ga. to put their record at 2-2-2.

In the game against Spring Hill, Murray scored the Argos’ first goal in the 12th minute off an assist by sophomore Alexis Garrand.

UWF held a 1-0 lead until the 44th minute, when

Murray sent in a corner kick from the left side and senior Aveann Douglas scored on the back post.

It took only 10 minutes for the team to score again in the second half, as Murray once again scored off an assist by Garrand at the 55:18 mark.

Murray scored unas-sisted at the 68:23 mark to clinch the hat trick, and redshirt freshman Lindsay Foy scored the team’s fifth goal, the first of her career.

In the game against Kennesaw State, UWF controlled the first half taking six shots to KSU’s five.

In the 20th minute the Argos found the back of the net, taking a 1-0 lead, when Cori McCullough gathered up a loose ball in front of the goal redirecting into the open goal.

In the second half the Owls controlled the pace taking seven shots to UWF’s four.

KSU received numer-ous free kicks on the Argos’ side of the pitch as UWF committed six fouls in the half.

The Owls tied the game, 1-1, in the 58th minute when Katrina Frost ripped a ball from 15 yards that went into the top of the goal.

Bergen

Josh CooperStaff Writer

Robin Thompson, a senior public health major, has found a way to stay active and have fun at the University of West Florida by bringing students who run together.

Thompson, who founded the UWF Running Club last August, is also the president.

“Everybody needs someone to run with,” Thompson, the president and founder of the UWF Running Club, said.

She said the purpose of the club is to get people into running without feeling they have to compete.

“Competition isn’t the incentive,” she said. “The incentive is to be more active.”

The club has about 30 members who run at different times of the week. They post the times on Google Docs.

People can compare their running schedules with other in the club and choose running partners.

Thompson said the club vice presi-dent, Anna Bauer, a sophomore,was a huge asset she started the club. Thompson said Bauer coordinates the runs, the events and the volunteer work.

The group will be doing volunteer

work in the coming weeks, giving out water and supporting the runners in the Santa Rosa Triathlon.

They also hope to run a “trash trot,” a run during which they pick up trash on campus.

Thompson also mentioned doing a shoe drive. She said she is setting

the goal higher this year by donating the shoes to organizations such as the Manna and the Waterfront Rescue Mission.

Thompson said she is planning to set up long runs for people who are interested in training or who just want to run with a group.

She has been using a website called www.mapmyruns.com to create a trail using local streets and locations. She encourages runners to try it out.

Thompson said she wasn’t sure what she’s going to do after she graduates. She said she would like to work for the National Intramural Recreation Sports Association or get a job in her field with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

She said she will graduate in the spring and hand the reins over to Bauer.

Thompson said she hopes to have shirts printed with the recreation logo, saying “No matter what the pace, you’re faster than the guy on the couch.”

Upcoming community events include the Pensacola Seafood Festival 5k at 7:30 a.m. this Saturday at Seville Quarter and the Santa Rosa Island Triathalon at 7 a.m. on Oct. 1 at Pensacola Beach.

Student stays active with running club

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Siblings Robin and Cullen Thompson cool off after the Bushwhacker 5k on Aug. 6.

Murray records second hat trick