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Students gain world appreciation

Echoing what most national analysts have implied, Winthrop’s Scott Huffmon, a political science professor, says the results of this year’s presidential election repre-sent an affirmation of the status quo from 2008.

“The Republicans still control the House [of Representatives], the Democrats still hold the Senate and [incumbent] Barrack Obama’s still the president,” Huff-mon said in an interview Friday. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

ARTS & CULTURE

2012 election holds with 2008 results

NEWS

CSL nears decision on smoking policy

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Homecoming king and queen crowned

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Prepare for finals: Tips to study better

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4see WORLD pg. 8

4see ELECTION pg. 3

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By David [email protected]

Student reflects on Disney ‘Star Wars’

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SPORTS

WU basketball riding high

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In a packed Winthrop Coliseum full of screaming students and fans, the men’s basketball team earned their first win of the season in a shutout against St. Andrews this past Saturday. This game was also head coach Pat Kelsey’s first win at Winthrop.

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Men’s soccer scores “Big”

SCIENCE & TECH

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By Shelby [email protected]

Winthrop clinched a very un-expected victory against Coastal Carolina in the Big South Confer-ence Championship final Sunday in Greensboro, N.C. The Chanticleers, who were the number one seed in the conference and ranked eighth in the nation, fell to the Eagles 3-2 as coach Rich Popsipanko’s Eagles staged a historic second-half come-

back. Coastal entered the match with high hopes and a 19-game winning streak after defeating High Point in the semi-finals.

The Chanticleers held a 2-0 lead in the 26th minute thanks to goals by Uchenna Uzo and Ashton Ben-nett. It was not until the 55th min-ute that Winthrop scored, courtesy of freshman Magnus Thorsson’s goal. Senior Alex Isern handled the ball down the left side of the field to assist junior Mason Lavallet who

delivered the game-winning score in the 89th minute.

This historical victory marks the highest-ranked team Winthrop has ever defeated. Previously in 2002, Winthrop defeated Coastal when they were ranked tenth nationally.

Lavallet had much to say about the game and spoke of his excite-ment to compete on a national level. Lavallet’s goal was the defin-ing moment of the final. The junior from Birmingham, Ala. said he was

excited about going to the NCAA tournament.

“Having a chance to compete for a national title is what it’s all about,” said Lavallet. “I’m glad we won in the Big South, but now it’s time to prove we can compete with the best teams in the nation.”

Senior Enrique Miranda also ex-pressed his excitement to compete on a national level.

Students gathered in Dina’s Place on Monday night to learn more about other cultures.

Taste of the World showcased fashion, dance, poetry, music and a short theater performance by international students.

Annie-Laurie Wheat, theater professor, helped to plan the event. Wheat thinks students should broaden their horizons by learning about other cultures.

“It’s important so students can appreciate what the rest of the world has to offer. Here they get to see a glimpse of what a part of other cultures might be like,” said Wheat.

The event began with a fashion show. Students from Saudi Arabia, China and Taiwan wore clothing traditional to their country.

A jubilant Winthrop men’s soccer team celebrates their Big South Championship victory as Coastal’s players look on. Photo courtesy of bigsouthsports.com.

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4see FLU pg. 5

Flu shots available at CrawfordBy Frances [email protected]

It’s that time again. It’s time for flu vaccines. Influenza season has arrived. However, according to Wil-liam Cabaniss, Health Services Di-rector, this flu season has been mild so far, but Cabaniss still stresses the importance of getting a vaccine be-cause “it’s not if we have a pandemic, but when.”

There are several types of vaccines which include intranasal, intramus-cular and intradermal. Last year, Cabaniss said that Health Services ordered too many flu shots and had many left over. The intradermal is the smaller needle in which the vac-cine is injected into the skin instead of the muscle.


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Basketball teams both earn victories

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National French Week kicks off

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Immediate solutions do not exist

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CSL nears smoking policy stanceBy David � [email protected]

The Council of Student Leaders further discussed the issue of the current smoking policy on campus at their weekly meeting Monday, two weeks after hosting a public forum to hear ideas about how to change, support or strike down the open policy around Winthrop.

CSL chair Kambrell Garvin says CSL will draft an offi cial position by next Monday to determine its public stance on the subject. Current ideas on the table are to completely ban smoking, maintain the open policy with no changes whatsoever, or main-tain the current system, but make smoking areas safer, while also enforcing stricter policies.

When Garvin offered an informal poll of the more than 30 CSL annual members, three voted to institute a smoke-free campus and 25 voted for maintaining the status quo with the stricter poli-cies.

The campus safety committee on CSL will now be taking the thoughts from the forum and their own members to create a unifi ed stance to submit to the university.

“Next week, we’ll be able to have a decision to refl ect the majority’s will,” Garvin said.

Common time forum Meanwhile, CSL will also be forming a decision

about the future of common time on campus. Jar-vais Jackson, student administrative liaison of the student government, hosted a public forum in Sims Friday to discuss what common time means for student organizations. While most students under-stand that Tuesday/ Thursday common time is set from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., where no classes are held, few know that there is also a common time on Fridays from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

However, some students and faculty have expressed that they believe common time is a hindrance, because it can cut into a commuter’s schedule or because it doesn’t allow for enough events on the weekend to keep students on cam-pus.

Jackson has sent out a survey to the heads of stu-dent organizations on campus and hopes to have 300 students fi ll it out by Friday. An offi cial CSL stance on common time won’t become public until Jackson’s committee can assess the information from the surveys.

3 new chartered groups CSL also chartered three new student organi-

zations on campus, including the SC Education Association Student Program, the Non-Traditional Adult Student Association and the Young Men and Women of Hope ministry.

Political science prof reacts to presidential, local electionsDespite a hard-fought campaign over the past year and a

half, America’s Republicans are licking their wounds from last Tuesday’s election in which candidate Mitt Romney lost to Obama by 126 electoral votes.

Huffmon believes the Republican Party will have to make a marked re-evaluation of their policies and ideals ahead of 2016. He felt that the moderate Republican Romney had been forced to adopt more heavily right-wing principles by his party, which caused some voters to have doubts of what the candidate truly stood for.

“The way the Republicans evolved in 2010 was to force their candidates through an ultra-conservative gauntlet,” Huffmon said. “That may have made him unpalatable to folks in the middle.”

One of the most controversial storylines from this year’s election came from Florida as delays in ballot counting caused the highly contested state to need two extra days of in-decision before it was fi nally called that Obama had won by a

mere 50,000 votes. Referencing the fi asco of the Bush/ Gore election in 2000, Huffman says the prolonged conclusion is not surpris-ing for a state that often balances on a political knife-edge. Part of the problem, Huffman said, lies in the state “not doing a great job of purging their rolls” after voters have died or moved away.

“Republicans made sure to do that more in certain areas than others,” Huff-man said. “You have a highly contested Latino population there. Cuban Ameri-cans have voted strongly Republican and

non-Cubans have voted strongly Democratic. You can’t count on anything until you physically count every vote. Florida is the perennially problem child.”

On the home front, York County saw four major incum-bents win their elections over challengers, including Mick Mulvaney for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district and Britt Blackwell, Bruce Henderson and William “Bump” Rod-dey, who all won second terms on the county council.

“For a petition candidate to win, you have to get out a lot of information about what’s wrong with the incumbent,” Huff-man said. It’s sort of like if you were holding up a transistor radio at a very loud rock concert. It’s very hard to hear that over the booming music of the presidential race.”

Winthrop Poll remains perfect predictor in elec-tion forecasts

It may not be what he wants his research to be known for, but Winthrop Poll director Scott Huffmon can’t deny the impact the poll has had on research in South Carolina. With the results of the 2012 General Election now published, Huff-mon noted that the Winthrop Poll has maintained a winning streak in determining select election results since 2006. This year, the Poll focused on the new 7th Congressional District of South Carolina, which the poll predicted that Republican candidate Tom Rice would lead his opponent by 12.7 points. The actual margin of victory of Congressman-elect Rice was 12.9 points.

Huffmon, a professor of political science, said the primary mission of the Winthrop Poll has always been to measure the opinions, issues of importance and overall well-being of the people of the South, in general, and South Carolina, in particular.

“I don’t like the Winthrop Poll being all about elections,” Huffmon said. “It’s a nice validity check for people to believe the other results we fi nd, but I don’t want it to be thought of as an election poll.”

In 2008, the poll fi elded presidential polls for South Caro-lina, Virginia and North Carolina. Although South Carolina overwhelmingly voted for Republican challenger John Mc-Cain, the Winthrop Poll correctly estimated the candidate’s support in the Palmetto State by within two percentage points.

Two years later, the Winthrop Poll correctly predicted Nikki Haley’s gubernatorial victory, within four and a half percentage points of her fi nal margin of victory.

Scott HuffmonPolitical science

professor

ELECTION • from front

I don’t want [the Winthrop Poll] to be throught of as an election poll. Scott HuffmonDirector, Social & Behavioral Research Laboratory

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FEATURED PHOTO: 100th anniversary of Withers

By David � [email protected]

Senior Heather Prange didn’t hear about the competition that may help to end her job search from her professors or her ma-jor as she prepares to graduate this May with a degree in graphic design. Instead, she heard the idea from her other job, as a resident assistant in Lee Wicker Hall.

My supervisor [Residence Learning Co-ordinator] Kara Ostlund told me about the competition with RecycleMania,” Prange said. “She knew I was a graphic design major and so I decided to check it out.”

Although the Rock Hill native hadn’t heard of the organization before, Recy-cleMania has been working to promote and encourage recycling as a non-profi t organization since 2001, according to its website. Prange, at the urging of Ostlund and Chris Johnson, the sustainability coordinator on campus, decided to create a draft to enter the organization’s national poster contest. For a month, Prange says she heard nothing of it until just two weeks ago.

“I had forgotten about it, really,” she said. “Then on Nov. 1, they sent me an email tell-

ing me congratulations, I had made it. I was kind of caught off guard.

Prange says the competition was a good use of her talents, as she likes to do graphic design on print media, such as posters, bro-

chures and cards. She recently completed an internship at the local design company Stark & Associates, operated in Baxter Vil-lage in Fort Mill.

“I’m hoping it allows me to get a job there,” Prange said. “I really want to do something that allows me to do what I like to do, to communicate someone’s message.

Her poster was designed to show recy-cling in a positive manner and effectively communicate the goals of RecycleMania. The public will be allowed to vote for their favorite poster until noon (ET) on Thurs-day, Nov. 15.

The fi rst place winning poster will receive $500 in cash or check. In addi-tion, the winning poster will be printed for distribution to all the 2013 participating schools throughout the USA and Canada.

Prange feels good about her chances, especially after having the chance to see her competition.

“I’m happy to be recognized,” she said. “but I feel confi dent in my design. I’m hop-ing to get enough votes, it would defi nitely

be pretty neat if mine won.”To vote for Prange’s poster, visit http://

recyclemaniacs.org/vote-your-favorite-poster.

Senior selected as national � nalist in recycling-themed poster competition

Heather’s poster is up against four other nationwide � nal-ists. Photo courtesy of Winthrop University

Winthrop alumni packed into historic Withers Building to learn facts about its 100-year history, just hours before the Homecoming basketball game Saturday. Withers has been an landmark in Rock Hill for many education majors who have graduated from the school. Photo by Claire VanOstenbridge • [email protected]

CSL nears smoking policy stance

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Students share study tips for � nalsBy Breana WitherspoonSpecial to � e Johnsonian

As Winthrop students near the end of the semester, the number one priority of many is surviving fi nal exams, which are coming up in less than a month.

Although attaining good grades involves dedication in and out of the classroom, students have developed a variety of ways to study for their upcoming tests.

Sophomore digital information design ma-jor Dianne Phu said she relies mostly on her books and notes to study.

“Usually I reread my notes, go back and read the book,” Phu said, “then I write down stuff that I don’t have in my notes that I think are important from the book.”

Sophomore music performance major Angela Farlow uses a slightly different way to study her material.

“I study mostly through repetition,” Farlow said, “I fi nd that studying this way helps me a great deal to remember the material because I am using many different aspects of my brain to ensure that I know what I know.”

The place of study can also be important when trying to review materials. Junior Kel-lyn Colclough frequents the West Center as her place of study because she tends to “focus better” there. Colclough, an exercise science major, attends most of her classes there.

Others tend to resort to a more homey place

to study. “Most of the time, I study at home or on my bed upstairs because it’s nice and quiet,” Phu said.

Along with deciding how and where to study is deciding when to study. Colclough, for example says that she studies during her breaks during common time.

“I always strive to be over prepared, so I study whenever I can,” Colclough said.

Farlow, however, thinks that the time to study depends on the subject. In her aural skills class, for example, Farlow says she procrastinates “because it is not a concrete subject to study,” whereas in her astronomy class, she spaces out her studying so that “the material is easy to remember.”

In helping students best prepare for their fi nal examinations, coordinator of the Academic Success Center Amy Phillips offered many helpful tips. Phil-lips fi rst proposed that students “fi gure out ways that work best for them” when studying.

A graduate student herself, Phillips said that she is a visual learner, so she of-ten relies on her notes, charts and other visual cues to help her study. For stu-dents who are auditory learners, Phillips said that reading their notes out aloud usually helps them. She also added that it helps to “fi gure out why everything makes sense.” Phillips has found that

knowing why something is the way it is can help a student better retain the information.

For students who stress easily or are wor-ried about not getting enough sleep, Phillips said that it helps to “go to the gym” and to “give yourself a break.”

“Study in sprints, not marathons,” Phillips

said. Studying in 45 minute chunks can help you get the breaks that you need and “retain the information better.”

As for the Academic Success Center, Phillips said that they are here to help students and offer free drop-in tutoring sessions. The ASC’s tutoring schedule is below.

11/8/12Petty Larceny ($2,000 or less)

Approximately $120 worth of money and snacks was stolen last week from a vend-ing machine in McLaurin Hall, according to a Winthrop police report.

A Winthrop police offi cer was dispatched to Bancroft Hall to meet with Marian Ayers, director of fi nance and business. Ayers said she was contacted by Amanda Magh-soud to say she had noticed that on Monday (Nov. 5) that the vending machine in the student lounge of McLaurin Hall was empty. When Magh-soud said she had returned to work on Nov. 7, the machine was still empty.

Ayers then contacted Queen City Vending, who then contacted Ayers back via e-mail on Nov. 8, who replied to say that the machine was

locked and did not appear to have been tampered with and that the machine was restocked on Nov. 7.

The offi cer then asked Ayers and the owner when the machine should have last been fi lled, to which both people responded Nov. 2.

The reporting offi cer asked the owner if it was possible when the person fi lling the machine didn’t lock it and possibly someone had tried to make a purchase and it got stuck and when they shook the machine, the door popped open. The owner said that it was possible and that it could have just been a lock malfunction.

When the offi cer went out to McLaurin, the offi cer did not observe any visible signs of tampering. The case has been administratively closed.

Possession of Beer Under 21/Open Container/Beer After noticing a passenger hanging out

of the rear of a Chevy Cavalier driving on Alumni Dr. campus police stopped the vehicle containing nine passen-gers. After the vehicle came to a stop at Heritage Ln and Alumni Dr, the subject exited the vehicle while cursing and was warned by the offi cer to refrain from doing so, the report said. The report-ing offi cer then located a 12-ounce can of Natural Light in the back seat where the subject had been sitting. After being asked by the offi cer who the beer be-longed to, the subject advised it was his. According to the report, the subject’s birth date is Mar. 21, 1994 making him 18-years-old. The subject was arrested for Possession of Beer Under 21 and Open Container of Beer. Campus police transported the subject to jail, according to the report.

POLICE BLOTTER11/11/12

Driving Under the In� uence At approximately 1:34 a.m., campus police

observed a black vehicle weaving within its lane after making a left turn on Oakland Ave. After activating the camera system inside of the patrol car, the offi cer followed the ve-hicle. According to a police report, the offi cer stopped the vehicle after monitoring it for a while. Upon approach, the offi cer smelled an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the vehicle. The driver’s eyes appeared to be low and red in color, according to the report. The offi cer got the driver out of the vehicle for a Field Sobriety Test and advised her of her Miranda Rights. After failing the tests, the offi cer placed the subject under arrest for DUI and she was transported to Rock Hill Police Department to be administered a Data Master Test. Having tried to manipulate the machine, the subject was put down as a refusal and was issued a notice of suspension and the case was cleared by arrest, according to the report.

11/11/12

By Jordan LentSpecial to � e Johnsonian

Winthrop University’s Council of Student Leaders and members of different organi-zations from the student body discussed the usefulness of Winthrop’s common time period, as it relates to student organizations in a forum this past Friday, November 9. Jarvais Jackson, the Student Administra-tive Liaison of CSL, hosted the event.

The organizations represented included Delta Zeta, Alpha Delta Pi, the Palmetto State Teacher’s Association, TRiO, the Council for Exceptional Children, and the College Pan-Hellenic Council. A faculty member from TRiO, Leah Kendall, was also present.

There are currently three different com-mon times implemented at Winthrop. The more well-known Tuesday/Thursday Common Time from 11:00 to 12:15, and the lesser known Friday Common Time from 2:00 to 5:00.

The opinions of common time varied. Some representatives said that common time is very benefi cial because it members to have meetings and promote their orga-nizations despite having varied class and work schedules.

“For us, Common Time is the only time we can get together. [It] works perfectly for us,” said the TRiO representative.

Other organizations do not use common time at all or fi nd it a hindrance because so many students are a part of different organizations, most of which use this time to have meetings.

“It’s hard for you members to come out to our events because they’re in different places at the same time,” said the ADPi

representative.Tuesday’s common time was originally

meant for meetings and cultural events and Thursday common time for academic-based events such as Emerging Leaders. However, students found this to limit organizations’ opportunities to reach the student body.

The topic discussed most during the fo-rum was making use of the Friday common time and getting more students to stay on campus for weekend events. Since many Winthrop students go home on the week-end, it is unlikely that many students would stay on campus to go to a twenty-minute meeting. Even events held on Fridays are often not attended.

The proposed solutions to get more students staying on campus was to have two or more organizations work together to create events because it could expand student interest and increase the likelihood students would attend. Representatives suggested the idea that more events be held like those akin to the ones seen during Welcome Week. It was also suggested that more organizations make use of the Friday common time.

CSL also asked forum participants and other members of the student body to give their opinions on common time in an online survey. Those who attended the forum were asked to share the survey op-portunity with others. CSL plans to have their data collected by Friday November 16. “When we pass this information on, we’ll really be able to form CSL’s opinion on this topic,” said Jackson. However, any concrete changes would not be implemented until the start of the Spring 2013 semester.

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Call the shots with in� uenza seasonThe needle is much smaller than

the intramuscular needle. They ordered the new intradermal last year, but it was not as popular as they expected, so they did not order it again this year. There have been more complaints about the smaller shot. People reported more site re-actions than with the intramuscular. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), peo-ple complained of redness and irri-tation, itching and soreness around the injection site.

Health services orders their fl u vaccines from Sanofi Pasteur, a company specializing in human vac-cines.

Students, faculty and staff can come to Crawford to get fl u shots by either making an appointment or just walking in. Cabaniss recom-mends that students come early in the morning for their fl u shot, about 8:30 because their peak hours of operation are between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Another way for Winthrop citizens to get a fl u shot is to come to the fl u clinics. There was a fl u clinic in the West Center Wednes-day, and there will be more if there is a demand for more fl u clinics. At the moment, Cabaniss said there are about 80 or so fl u vaccinations left.

Flu shots are $25 and students can pay by cash or charge it to their Winthrop account. Faculty and staff can pay by cash, check and now they can charge it to their Winthrop ac-count as well. However, winthrop students, fac-ulty and staff are not the only ones able to get a fl u shot. Winthrop family members can also get fl u shots from the fl u clinics.

Depending on the payer’s insurance, some insurance companies will reimburse the indi-vidual for the fl u shot with the receipt.

It takes about two weeks for the vaccine to take full effect against the fl u. Cabaniss ex-plained the importance and of prevention mea-sures Winthrop should take against the fl u.

“Just wash your dog-gone hands,” Cabaniss said. He explained that there are fomites which are public hot spots for germs. Gas pump

handles, door handles, public keyboards and phones are all very popular fomites. He ap-proves of having hand sanitizer with you and using them after touching these objects. It is also benefi cial to keep your hands away from your eyes, nose and mouth as much as possible. He also encourages students, faculty, and staff to go to the West Center to help stay in shape and boost their immune system along with eat-ing right and getting enough sleep.

It’s important for institutionalized places to be vaccinated because of close quarters where the fl u can spread very quickly. Individuals who are 65 and older and pregnant women are at the most risk for the fl u. Students who have diabetes and asthma are also at a high risk for the fl u.

“The fl u is very robust and stays on door han-dles and such for a very long time,” Cabaniss said.

Cabaniss also urges students to take care of their health because students can get the fl u and recover, but they can be out of school for a whole week. “I wouldn’t want to be that far behind in school work,” Cabaniss said. Being behind in school work can cause stress which weakens the immune system and can cause ripple effects.

Right now, according to the CDC, South Carolina had sporadic fl u outbreaks. Some of the symptoms include fever or feeling fever-ish, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle soreness, headaches, fatigue and more commonly found in children, vomiting and di-arrhea.

Adults can be infectious up to one day before symptoms begin to show and up to fi ve to seven days after becoming sick. Symptoms begin to show one to four days after the virus is con-tracted. The fl u can be spread to people six feet away through breathing, coughing and talking or by touching a surface that contains the germ.

Crawford uses the intramuscular � u vaccine. Pictured is the � u shot including prep materials and a band-aid. Photo by Frances Par-rish • [email protected]

Birth control is no longer only for women By Anna [email protected]

Decades of controversy mixed with both social and medical strives have given women a framework from which to control their fertility. Only recently have people began to actively dis-cuss the reproductive issues faced by men.

Now discussion may transition to the reality of a male oral contraceptive. While testing a possible drug for cancer a few months ago, researchers have found that the drug has the added effect of causing the testicles to cease the production of sperm according to NBC News.

A new molecule called JQ1 was developed by James Bradner of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School along with his team. No negative side effects were indicated as the mice returned to the normal fertility levels and continued fathering healthy offspring when the drug’s use was ceased, ac-cording to NBC News.

A new tool is certainly in order. Even with the availability of the pill for women, half of the pregnancies that occur in the U.S. are unintended and 40 percent of those end in abortion accord-ing to the Guttmacher Institute, a promoter of reproductive health. Economists at the institute have gathered that unin-tended pregnancies result in an estimated $11 billion in federal money every year.

While women have the advantage of both oral and non-oral contraceptives, their male counterparts are left to only two op-posite ends of the spectrum; condoms and a vasectomy. As so-cial issues continuously gravitate towards the choices women have over their bodies, the voices of men, frustrated ones at that over unplanned pregnancies, which garner fi nancial diffi culties ,have not been adequately heard.

However, it is certainly changing with the future possibility of

an available male oral contraceptive.Most men are aware of the lengths some women will go to

hold on to a relationship. It is no surprise that many men, es-pecially those in college and on fragile ground in their futures would be receptive to an extra means of security.

“The pill would help to cover all the bases,” said Seth Gold-wasser, a sophomore philosophy and religious studies major. Goldwasser explained that the more insurance you have at a time in your life you don’t want children, the better.

On the other hand, some women use pregnancy as lock on a relationship.

“I have actually seen girls trap guys into getting them preg-nant,” said Taylor Robinson, sophomore sociology major. Robinson knew a girl in junior year of high school who inten-tionally skipped the pill to get pregnant and trap a guy into a marriage.

If safe sex and protection are advocated to both men and women, should birth control be primarily a woman’s re-sponsibility? Even with the social strides taken towards re-productive health, the obtainment of a contraceptive besides condoms is not an effortless task. It is uncertain how many obstacles men who wish to obtain the pill would face.

However, the possible obstacles do not detain the ethical and social responsibility that sexual partners must take into consideration. If sex is an act between two people, then it is not unreasonable to call for the practice of responsibility from both parties.

“Both people conceive a child. It’s not one sided, so both people involved should take responsibility, said MeG. Sud-deth, a junior international business major.

“It helps both sexes, for men especially. It gives them a way to be responsible for their own health. It takes preasure off of women to have the sole responsibility,” Robinson said.

Those sentiments are unintentionally, but effectively, echoed by Josh Knight, a freshman biology major. “If it’s safe, I would take it. Why would I ask someone to do something I wouldn’t do?”

After decades of controversy of women and birth control, now discussion may transi-tion to the reality of a male oral contraceptive. Graphic by Zach Greenway • [email protected]

Have any questions about the fl ue or getting a fl u shot? Feel free to come by Health Services in Crawford Building or call Health Services at 803- 323-2206

FLU • from front

Editor’s favorite apps Positive ThinkingPositive Thinking by Juniper Islet is an app that provides positive quotes every day to help boost confi dence. This app is free and can be down-loaded from the Android Play Store. It can be set as a widget on one of the home screens on your smart phone. It does not require 4G or 3G to operate the app. This app can boost your mood any day. The quotes can be posted to Twitter or Facebook from the app so you can share your favorite quote with your friends.

Here is a sample quote:

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

A Year of Riddles Another fun app to test your brain yet waste time is A Year of Riddles. It’s a free app from Pyrosphere. It requires 4G or 3G to operate the app. It’s addicting I warn you. You can buy the fi rst letter, last letter, the number of letters in the word and the solution. Every time you guess the answer to the riddle correctly, you get a few coins. Some of the riddles are easy and some of them are hard. It’s a fun game to play with friends, and sometimes two heads are better than one to fi gure out these riddles.

Here is a sample:

It comes only before,It comes only after,

Rises only in darkness,But rises only in light,It is always the same,

But it is always different.

The fi rst letter is MThe last letter is N

There are four letters.

The answer is the MOON.

One world vs. us Recycling and sustainabil-

ity are extremely important. We only have one earth, so we need to take care of it. Win-throp hosts many recycling/sustainability events and Win-throp students -faculty should take advantage of these events. We have all heard the importance of recycling since, for students who are my age, we were little.

But we should not throw this mes-sage away. We must take heed! Lis-ten to the Lorax and his message of “unless.” We need to take care of our earth. If we do not, how can we ex-pect it to take care of us? There is only so much water, land, and oil. So we have to be resourceful and use our resources sparingly.

As we learned in chemistry and bi-ology, all the elements are “recycled.” Nothing is destroyed and nothing is

created. Every element is just recycled through dif-ferent forms. The earth recycles, so why shouldn’t we?

We need to follow Moth-er Nature’s example and recycle. We are slowly trashing earth with land-fi lls of our wastefulness, and even recyclable items.

The earth is owned by nobody in particular, but by all of us, and we have to do our best to save our resources such as oil, land and water. We have to think of the fu-ture generations, and make sure they have enough resources.

To those who recycle and help the environment, I applaud you. You deserve a standing ovation. To those who do not, do better.

Frances ParrishScience & Tech

Editor


Science & Tech Events

By Jordan Lent [email protected]

In a global cultural event, Win-throp Alum Roy Weathers will speak to students about what it takes to be a leader in a global environment on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Whitton Auditorium in Carroll Hall.

According to Keith Benson, Associ-ate Professor of Management at Win-throp University, Weathers has had over 23 years of experience working with multinational clients and his lecture will focus not only on leader-ship qualities but also on what it is like to work with people from differ-ent cultures.

This lecture is a part of the Leader-ship Speaker Series for undergradu-ates, put together by a committee constructed by the Dean whose pur-pose is to bring relevant speakers fo-cused on leadership to undergradu-ate students. Past speakers include CEO’s of businesses and other Win-throp Alums.

Weathers graduated from Win-throp with a Bachelor of Arts in Ac-counting and holds a Masters in Accounting with a Concentration in Taxation from Clemson University. He has worked with various global tax teams at large fi nancial institu-tions and is now a Certifi ed Public Accountant licensed in the state of New York. He also has additional du-ties and job experiences.

However, even non-fi nance and business majors will benefi t greatly from attending this event because “globalization is business.” From BMW, to Michelin, global business is everywhere. “In this Charlotte met-ropolitan statistical area there are 400 Japanese companies that have a business or something in here,” re-ports Benson. Even this years com-mon book, What Am I Wearing? is centered around a global issue.

No matter what fi eld a student is going into what career plans he or she has, the student will be expected to show leadership qualities. And with how global the world is today, it is impossible to not come into con-tact with cultural differences and global trends. “I don’t think people always realize how connected we are globally,” says Benson. “No matter where you go you’re going to have some type of international exposure. I mean even on campus…[and] with travel nowadays it’s so easy to go abroad.” Indeed, with just a short walk around Winthrop’s campus this become evidently true.

Winthrop in itself is a small com-munity. If such is true of Winthrop, how much more is it true that the world outside the confi nes of college is a global place?

SWAT Social reaches out to students

By David � [email protected]

The annual recruiting drive for Winthrop’s Student Wellness Advo-cacy Team (SWAT) exceeded orga-nizers’ expectations Thursday night when 15 interested students came out for a social in the DiGiorgio Campus Center.

SWAT, which has been on cam-pus since early 2010, provides health education from relationship advice to alcoholism to sexual wellness tips, to students without fear of judgment.

Thursday marked the third time in three years that the organization has had their annual fall social. SWAT

typically holds their socials in the fall so they can advertise for their related class held each spring, Theory and Practice of Peer Leadership: Well-ness Education. The class, upon com-pletion, allows students to become certifi ed as Peer Health educators.

“The point of the social is re-ally about recruitment,” said SWAT president Desirae House. “We want to gain members and help them un-derstand the purpose of our organi-zation.”

At least fi ve students left the meet-ing after taking member applications, including Winthrop track athlete Zach Miller. Miller says he wanted to get involved on campus and saw

SWAT as a good way to do that.“We’re all good at keeping healthy

and doing good to our bodies,” Miller said. “So it’s natural to want to get in-volved.”

“We need more male members,” House said. “We can’t talk as well to men about male health without them.”

House says that she and the seven other certifi ed members of SWAT are all interested in breaking into the health fi eld in some capacity and that her organization is a key credential for job opportunities.

History of the Week November 18, 1883:

On this day in history, the railroads created the fi rst time zones. By the 1800s, people were being transported across the United States. Time was told based on the position of the sun, but when someone was traveling across the United States, it was hard to keep track of the time. Scheduling times based upon “high noon” was a nightmare for the railroad companies, so they took it upon themselves to create time zones. They divided the country into four parts and the time zone lines are very similar to lines used now.

Information compiled from history.com

Tech Tip of the Week

Is your computer being slow when booting up? You can easily disable startup programs that overwhelm your computer during the starting process.Here is one simple solution to speed up your computers bootup time. For PCs, click the windows button and type in mscon-fi g in the search bar. Then select the programs you want to run when starting up your computer. For Macs, click the apple icon on the start task bar, then go to Users and Groups. Then click on a user icon and go to the login items tab, and select the programs you want to run when starting up your computer.

Student Wellness Advocay Team (SWAT) members spoke to interested students about the organization. Photo by Kathryn Funderburk

Winthrop Sustainability Day

How wasteful is the West Center? En-vironmentally Conscience Organization (ECO) partnered with Sustainability Coor-dinator Chris Johnson to conduct a waste audit to answer this question. The waste audit was held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and as of Tuesday, Michael Goble, a senior environmental science ma-jor and president of ECO, seemed to think that there was less recyclable material in the trash from the West Center than last year. Members from ECO and Johnson separated recyclables from the trash and re-bagged the trash and recyclable materi-als.

For more information and to see the results from the waste audit, check out mytjnow.com.

West Center Waste Audit

ECO members sort through trash at the Waste Audit. Photo by Frances Parrish • [email protected]

Science & Tech Briefs

Coal ash ponds seeping into Lake Wylie According to Charlotte NPR, Duke Energy’s coal ash pond from their power plant on Lake Wylie is seeping into Lake

Wylie and Mountain Island Lake. Rick Gaskins, a Catawba Riverkeeper has found four leaks, which bubble up from the ground and are seeping into the lakes that provide drinking water for the Charlotte area. The environmental group has tested this water and found that coal ash toxins in the water. While the water is tested by the state, the leaks are not monitored which worries Gaskins. However, Duke Energy Plant is not surprised by the leakage because it ensures coal ash ponds are working. The Riverkeeper Foundation challenged Duke and will appear before North Carolina’s environmental management commission on December 3rd.

For the whole story on the coal ash pond leaks, visit http://wfae.org/post/coal-ash-pollution-isnt-regulated-when-it-comes-seepage.

Compiled by Frances Parrish.

Leading a world wide diversity program:Cultural and technical implications

Winthrop’s CSL and Chris Johnson, the sustainability coordinator is host-

ing a lecture led by Alysen Woodru� , the Clean Community Coordinator of

York County and Leslie Hatchell from York County Collection and recycling.

They will discuss why recycling is sustainable and the history of human’s

relationship to waste. The event is Thursday, Nov. 15th from 11 a.m.- 12

p.m. in Dina’s Place.

The Great American Smoke Out This year is the 37th annual Great American Smoke Out created by the

American Cancer Society. The aim of the Great American Smoke Out is

to encourage smokers to put down the cigarette, even if it is for one day.

By quitting, even for one day, smokers will be taking an important step

towards a healthier life and reducing cancer risks. Tobacco use remains

the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in

the US, yet about 43.8 million Americans still smoke cigarettes. The event

is on Thursday, Nov. 15th from 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. on Scholar’s Walk.

ACM Undergraduate Research PresentationsWinthrop’s chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

members will present their undergraduate reserach in Thurmond 308 on

Thursday, Nov. 15th at 11 a.m.

Prevent cancer

Don’tsmoke

TJOpinion

Jacob Wingard | Opinion [email protected]


Well, here we are, a week after the election. What have you done since Barack ‘Barry’ Obama was reelected as the president of the United States? Maybe you’ve sat down and dis-cussed political ideas a bit, maybe you took part in the massive party that went on at Scholar’s Walk. If you’re like most people though, you tuned in and then tuned out.

Politics isn’t a game that you can just play once every four years; no, it is a commitment to the government, a commitment to every man, woman and child that exist in this country of ours. Once you cast that first ballot, you’ve lost the right to be ignorant of what happens anymore; since that first ballot is the waiver we sign to say: “We are now going to take part in what happens across this coun-try.”

This was our Rubicon, each of us has become part of Caesar’s legion marching into insurrection; we’ve burnt the bridge behind us and lead-ers of the world have uttered: “Alea iacta est.” Obama is our president, whether you voted for him because of the color of his skin, a hatred for Romney or due to extended re-search; we must acknowledge this

as a fact. We cannot turn our backs to him when things go wrong and if you’re a Republican, don’t be a sore loser about it.

I didn’t have a dog in this race when it began. Romney seemed like a corporate puppet and Obama was the same figure who I had grown to dread making a speech. Listen-ing to either one of them talk was like watching paint dry, and it was impossible to tell which was worse; what made matters worse, the candi-dates that I actually wanted to win or be involved with, would never be allowed ten-miles within grasp of the election.

Yet, I will still stand beside the leader of this country now. He is commander in chief. While I may not agree with everything he says, I will not disavow him nor will I insult him. I owe him that respect; he is the elected official, the man that the majority of the country put into office.

Not only did he win the popular vote by over 3 million votes, he also won the Electoral College. So, to President Obama, I salute you; while everything you say will not be met with agreement, I must respect that you are doing what you believe is best for this country. May these next four years create a stronger, more united America.

Jacob WingardOpinion Editor

So, lately I’ve been hear-ing a lot about how the various problems in our country need to be fixed. Issues that are shaping the entire flow of our lives and consequently, our future and our children’s future; problems that have been talked about and failed to be fixed time and time again.

Yet, the answer never comes fast enough, why are taxes still so high, why haven’t the wars been dealt with, why hasn’t the economy been fixed, what about the energy crisis and finding clean forms of energy? Well, worry not, because I have solutions to all of your pesky prob-lems, ones that if implemented could likely immediately answer all of our problems.

Firstly, it has come to my attention that nearly twenty-percent of our government’s budget goes to health care; this large amount of money generally designed to cover the elderly whom have to make repeated visits to the hospital. Easy solution, we start euthanizing anyone over a certain age! Think about it, once someone reaches over the age of seventy, their entire body just starts to shut down; life is little more than a countdown to death.

Aches and pains will start to dominate every waking moment of life and all there is to look forward to is the occasional call from the kids or grandkids and watching reruns of television shows until collapsing on a couch. So, let’s just end the cost to ourselves now and make life better for the rest of us.

What’s the deal with burials as well? What purpose does it serve to preserve a body in the ground with various chemicals and other elements to reduce decomposi-tion? Better yet, why are we wasting resources to craft pine boxes that we’re just going to push right into the ground?

Let’s do away with burials com-pletely, while services can still be held; we shouldn’t be wasting precious resources and energy on burials. Instead, lets simply cre-mate the bodies and use them as fuel to power our nation; it will be about the same as coal, granted the smell won’t be anything pleasant. Still, a small price to pay for a renewable resource.

While we’re on the subject of hu-man bodies and energy; we need to completely redo the prison system

that is currently in effect. Prisoners are the dregs of society, so why are we keeping them well-fed and con-tained in little cells so that they can ‘think’ about their crimes. Every-one already knows that the average criminal will just find themselves being sent back to jail. At least fifty-two percent of criminals rereleased into society will repeat their crimes; obviously, prison isn’t bad enough to deter their actions. So, how can we change this? Well, firstly, let’s bring back forced labor, chain-gangs and the like. Better yet, let’s put in-mates to work powering our country through kinectic energy!

We have a surplus of inmates, around 1.6 million, let’s put them to work to really get this nation back on track. No more just letting these people get stronger, faster and more connected into the gangs and other groups that are becoming major problems in more urban regions. Make them work, force them to do menial labor, be it mining or hook-ing them up to a stationary bicycle to provide energy for the nation.

Let’s stop wasting money to make sure that law-breakers are in the best shape of their lives and com-pletely comfortable. They lost their chance to be happy for a set amount of time when they broke the law, so let’s treat them like scum, rather than fellow citizens.

As for our fellow citizens, we might as well take care of those that are leaching off everyone else. Let’s do away with most of these govern-ment run aid plans; if you can’t make it, tough luck. Into the incin-erators you go and to powering the rest of this nature; in death they will be nobler than they were in life.

No longer will people be forced to give their hard earned money to aid those in need, rather they can enjoy

the full fruits of their own labor; content in the knowledge that the ashes of those free-riders fortunate are now acting as fertilizer for their gardens and farms.

Now, before I have to barricade myself into my room and beat off mobs with a stick; let me explain the point of all these statements. Did they horrify you or disgust you? Good, it was supposed to. This is a satire and nothing more, I do not hold the belief that any of these are proper solutions; nor do I believe that we should burn homeless or euthanize grandpa and grandma.

Rather, I want you, my read-ers to think about this; immediate solutions to long term problems are crap. There is no such thing as a fast solution that does not require a sacrifice in some other area.

Attempting to solve any issue, issues that are wide-spread through our government or the world, or big enough to require the attention of the government, takes time.

Asking for immediate answers is ignorant and foolish, as immediate answers will do nothing but make matters worse for future generations or result in horrific ideas like those I just presented. Just forget it and sacrifice some of the pleasantries that we currently enjoy, your chil-dren will thank you and grandma will thank you for not ending her life twenty years early.

Jacob WingardOpinion Editor

The voting process, for some, is a walk in the park, but for others it can feel like a hassle. The thought of spending count-less hours in line to cast your vote, in a process that only takes three minutes or less, can be rather disturbing. It is this very reason, combined with voters’ lack of patience, that some don’t make it to the polls on Election Day.

There once was a time I judged individuals that did not vote because they didn’t want to wait in lines for several hours. After voting in my first presidential election I can understand where they are coming from.

I arrived to my designated voter location at 8:30a.m. Unlike other voters who were lucky to cast their vote in a school, church, court house, and etc. I voted at my town’s local fire department. To my surprise, the line was long and wrapped around the building.

Some of my family members where close to the front of the line after waiting for more than an hour and my first thought was to join them. Sadly for me that did not hap-pen because they advised me that if I didn’t want to cause a riot I should

go to the end and wait like everyone else.

Waiting to cast my vote was a struggle. I was standing outside in the cold, near a busy highway, hun-gry. The line had not moved once in an hour, and on top of everything, it started to rain.

I was seconds away from getting in my car and returning to the warmth of my bed until they made people take shelter in the fire department. Once inside, I became frustrated with the limited amount of space.

People where standing on top of each other. I felt like a sardine in a can and the line was not going anywhere.

My mind begin racing with thoughts of if this was worth it. I questioned if my vote really mat-tered. In my opinion the popular vote doesn’t make a difference when the candidates need the electoral college to win.

This was something I was deter-mined to see through. How can I voice my opinion about the govern-ment if I don’t do my part and vote? After waiting more than three hours in line, I finally was able to cast my vote.

Being able to receive my “I voted” sticker made me feel like it is worth it. At next presidential election I will be voting early or absentee.

Shaneequa EvansMass Communica-

tion Major

Disney has been one of the defining fran-chises of our childhoods since 1923, providing the world with some of the best cartoons anima-tion had to offer at the time.

We begged our parents to take us to Disneyworld, we kept asking for the new Disney movie to end up in our stocking for Christmas and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one with a shelf full of Disney VHS tapes. Oh, the nostalgia.

And then “Star Wars.”I’ll admit to being not as surprised

as a lot of people were. I’m not sure when Disney started its ‘buy all the things’ shopping spree, but these were the guys who managed to buy out Marvel.

They bought out Marvel and made “Avengers” several months ago. We all know “Avengers” was pretty much the most amazing thing to hit the screens this summer, so I’m defi-nitely willing to give Disney a chance when it comes to buying out another franchise. But….”Star Wars”?

I’m going to guess that the whole

buying “Star Wars” thing was planned at least a bit in advance. They wouldn’t have those “Star Wars” rides and customizable light sabers at Disneyworld for nothing.

The decision sparked either blood-curdling rage from the “Star Wars” nerds or blossoming excitement from everybody else because, “Hey, they did an amazing job with ‘Aveng-ers’. Let’s give them a chance.” I stand in the middle of those two viewpoints. Because considering the first thing I saw was Slave Leia Minnie, I think I died a little inside. Please, please, Disney, don’t go too far.

Disney isn’t perfect, of course. They’ve made some box office flops enough times to make that abun-dantly clear. We’re just skeptical because LucasFilms is another one of those franchises that pretty much made us into the nerds we are today – we’re not sure how much we want to see our beloved sci-fi world adapted into Disney’s world of hap-piness and fun.

I’ll give them a pass, though. I’m definitely willing to give them a chance on this one, and yes, I’ll ad-mit, it’s because of “Avengers”.

You wouldn’t even know Disney was any part of it unless you actually

knew that Disney had bought Marvel ahead of time, and even then, they’d plastered Joss Whedon’s name all over it by the time it hit the theaters.

Let’s face it, guys – we’re just waiting around for Disney to suck DC and Dark Horse into its murky depths of flowers and rainbows and cute furry animals. What are you doing to our nerd lives, Disney? Stop that. Bad Disney.

Honestly? People get scared by the words X Franchise bought out Y franchise. Just because Disney bought something does not mean that it will automatically fall into Disney’s ‘princess and prince and happy endings all around’ formula. It doesn’t mean that from now on, every Marvel movie and every Star Wars movie is going to turn into some squeaky clean kid’s flick. Which is why I’m willing to see where they go with this. If they can give us something fresh and original with Star Wars, something that is as awesome as the Avengers, I’ll be satisfied.

Slave Leia Minnie, though. We are not opening that door again.

Debbie CrockerPsychology Major

No immediate solutions to our problems

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Maybe we’re still on a high from Homecoming Weekend, but it’s en-couraging to see a weekend full of wins for Winthrop athletics. Between both the men’s and women’s basket-ball teams starting off their seasons with victories and the men’s soccer team bringing home the Big South Championship trophy, we’re look-ing forward to reporting on what the world of athletics has yet to offer.

Thursday, Nov. 15 the men’s soccer team will take us to the start of the NCAA in Dallas, Texas. It’s refresh-ing to see Winthrop athletics take us across the country for a tournament instead of to the Rock Hill city jail.

It’s been nice reporting on champi-onship wins for a change instead of finding another athlete’s name hid-den amid the police reports.

Our SayWinthrop athletics step up their game

Graphic by Zack Greenway • [email protected]

Graphic by Zack Greenway • [email protected]

There is no such thing as a fast solution. Jacob Wingard

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By Kaitlyn Schallhorn and Rachel [email protected] to The Johnsonian

Carmel frappe. Peppermint mocha latte. Carmel macchiato. Pumpkin spice. These are just some of the fall drinks that Winthrop students have available to them from the Starbucks located at the heart of Winthrop’s campus.

The sweet aroma of coffee lingers in the upstairs lobby of the DiGiorgio Campus Center and tantalizes stu-dents, drawing them into the small café. Just upon walking into the Star-bucks on campus, one can immedi-ately observe students there to study, talk, relax or simply enjoy sweet treats.

Kaitlyn Walters, an art major, has been employed at Winthrop’s Star-bucks since the beginning of the 2012 fall semester.

“I see people order caramel frappes,

pumpkin spice and chocolate chip frappes the most,” Walters said.

For sophomore chemistry major Marlee Beall, the fact that there is an on-campus Starbucks just solidified her excitement to attend the university her freshman year.

“I love drinking coffee,” Beall said. “I think I’m addicted.”

Unfortunately for Beall, she cannot frequent the coffee shop as much as she would like because she does not have as much Café Cash to splurge as she once did.

Veronica Gonzalez, senior art major, also enjoys visiting Starbucks but for more than just the coffee.

“I come here a lot to visit Kaitlyn [Walters],” Gonzalez said, while also admitting that she does order the iced coffee, minus the ice, when she buys a drink.

Starbucks is open weekdays 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.

By Kaitlyn [email protected]

Students in the French Club celebrated National French Week by bringing French culture and art to Winthrop students in the Digs concourse Tuesday afternoon.

Necie Wolfe, sophomore music education major and president of Winthrop’s French Club said Na-tional French Week is celebrated by high schools and universities across the United States.

“We’re sharing French culture to students,” said Wolfe.

Tables were set up showcasing books and comic books including a “Garfield” book in the French lan-guage. Posters adorned the tables,w

showing different countries around the world that speak French aside from France. Students were able to sample candy and snacks while speaking to professors and students from the French Club.

Wolfe, while she doesn’t speak much French herself, encourages students to attend French Club meetings or at least learn another foreign language.

“I listen to the French students in the club speak mostly,” Wolfe said.

Vice president of the French Club, Alyssa Sinicropi, said that the best thing about National French Week is “experiencing another culture.”

The sophomore international business major has been to France before and said that the representa-

tion of French culture displayed in Digs was a pretty accurate represen-tation.

“[National French Week] helps students understand the difference in people,” Thomas Shealy, French professor said.

“It also encourages students to travel and make friends in other places,” said Shealy.

Shealy began teaching French at Winthrop in 1962 when he was just 27-years-old. He has since then retired but remained at Winthrop to teach one basic level French class a semester. Shealy has visited France at least 15 times.

“It gives me an opportunity to stay acquainted with students,” said Shealy.

National French Week brings cultural celebrationsTwo members of the French Club posed with with a French book, a scarf and a French painting in the background. Photo courtesy of Cecile Leung

Homecoming Court CrownedStudents treat themselves

Congratulations to Kambrell Garvin and Colleen Rice for being voted Homecoming King and Queen by the student body!

Reigning Homecoming King, Willie Meir, and Homecoming Queen, Tori McLean, joined Garvin and Rice for a photo at the homecoming game. Photo by Jacob Hallex • [email protected]

Students perform at the Taste of the World event. Photos by Jacob Hallex • [email protected]

Next there was a beat box/rap per-formance. The song was rapped in Portuguese and the crowd enjoyed it despite the language barrier. As the song came to an end the audience erupted in a loud applause.

This act was followed by a piano performance. Scenes from the Tiwanese movie, “Secret,” played on a screen with subtitles. While this was showing, a student played an interpretation on the piano.

More students came out and no one knew what they were doing at first, but then they broke into the Gangnam Style dance. It started out with a piano version of the song but then the actual song was played.

The students performing the dance went out to the audience and pulled people up to join them in the dance.

Some students were reluctant to get up and do Gangnam Style in front of the crowd but most had fun with it.

The dance was followed by the French song, “Comme Elle Vient,” played on guitar and piano. Poetry was then recited by students from Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe.

Then students danced a traditional Ghanaian dance, Azonto. They also

pulled students from the audience and taught them the dance.

A version of Humpty Dumpty was performed, titled “Humpty Dumpty-Reloaded.” It was a comedy and the audience enjoyed a few good laughs.

The event ended with a Brazilian dance medley. Once again students were pulled from the crowd.

The audience was active through-out the whole event, seeming to enjoy it. Jamal Tate, junior exercise science major, said that next time he might do something different.

“I might sit closer to the front, so I can get pulled on stage,” said Tate.

Vivek Patel, senior biology major, says this event was one of the best Taste of the World events yet.

“I think it was good. I’ve been go-ing to Taste of the World since I’ve been here and this is the best so far,” said Patel.

Mohammad Kashkari, freshman computer science major, likes that students came out to learn more about the other cultures.

“When I talk to someone and they don’t know anything about my coun-try, it’s not a good feeling,” said

Taste of the World was a way for students to learn about other coun-tries and have fun.

WORLD • from front

By Kaitlyn [email protected]

Black Friday shopping is more than just rolling out of bed at 1 a.m. and waiting in lines at Walmart. The post-Thanksgiving holiday has developed into an art form. Black Friday no longer starts on Friday as some stores begin opening and highlighting their crazy deals Thursday evening. This shopping day constitutes countless hours of figuring out which stores have the best deals, strategizing how to carry out your itinerary and pushing past “Extreme Couponing” stay-at-home mothers to get to that coveted item sell-ing for an insanely cheap price.

To help you out, here is when some of the best places around Rock Hill and Charlotte open on Black Friday after you’ve loaded up on turkey:

• Walmart and Sears will open on 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.• Target will open at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving. • Macy’s will open at midnight on Friday.• Staples will open at 5 a.m. on Friday.

Be sure to check out individual stores’ websites as well as www.decide.com to figure out which places have the best deals and when to snag them.

Gotta get down on Friday...Black Friday that is


Things to do over Thanksgiving break CrossWUrd Puzzle

Across:

3. If your computer is slow booting up, you can press the windows button and type in what?6. Professor Scott Huffman thinks which political party will have to re-evalu-ate before the 2016 election season begins?7. First name of student selected as finalist in recycling-themed poster com-petition.10.Name of the team we played for homecoming.

Down:

1. Who is the men’s soccer team playing in the first round of the NCAA soccer tournament?2. Council of Student Leaders discussed the usefulness of having what?4. Students treat themselves to what?5. Recycling and what are extremely important to protect the earth?8. Number one thing to do over Thanksgiving break.9. Last name of the 2012 homecoming queen.

1. Rest

2. Watch the parade

3. Give thanks

4. Watch football

5. Catch up with friends from home

6. Cuddle up and watch a classic movie

7. Hang out with your family

8. Decorate for the holidays

9. Get excited for Black Friday

10. Enjoy lots of good food

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Shelby Chiasson | Sports [email protected]


Men’s soccer earns victory against Coastal in Big South final

Men’s soccer team celebrating after an incredible win against Coastal, their top rivals. Photo courtesy of Brett Redden

2 new coaches usher in 1 new era for Winthrop baskeball

Men’s

Men’s team huddling cheerfully during the match against St. Andrews Photo courtesy of Jacob Hallex • [email protected]


Prior to the game, the crowd cheered as Big Stuff entered the court on a motorcycle, while cheerleaders and the Eaglettes added even more spirit for the team. Starters for the game included Derrick Henry, Andre Smith, Gideon Gamble, James Bourne and Larry Brown.

The first half included impressive plays from all of the starters, notably a 3 pointer by Farmer, who was assisted by Brown, followed by two foul shots by Henry. At the end of the half, the score was already showing how domi-nant the players were on the court. The second half showed an incredible amount of teamwork as they continued to widen the gap between the score.

At one point in the half, the score gap be-tween the Eagles and St. Andrews was a huge 36-point difference. Sophomore Derrick Henry completed a career-high 26 points, followed by Senior Gideon Gamble with 12 points, Junior Christian Farmer with 11 and Sopho

more Andre Smith with 10. Henry finished the game shooting 8 for 14 from the field and 2 for 5 behind the arc. In a press conference fol-lowing the game, Gideon Gamble commented about the rest of the season. “We have to work together to tighten as a team,” Gamble com-mented. On being asked how it feels to earn his first win, head coach Pat Kelsey stated, “it feels good to obviously get a win, but I’ve got to give St. Andrews credit. Their best player did not play, we had a physicality advantage, they tried to keep us off balance, but our kids responded,” said Kelsey.

Following a match against Indiana State this Tuesday, the team will play Virginia Common-wealth University at home this Saturday at 2 p.m. On how he believes the rest of the season would go, Gamble commented, “we’ve been working hard, and the best is yet to come.”

Women’sBy Shelby [email protected]

The Lady Eagles started the opened their season as well this past Sunday with a win against Troy University. The 87-82 final gave head coach, Kevin Cook, his first NCAA Divi-sion I win. Junior Dequesha McClanahan scored a game-high 22 points while simulta-neously leading the team in double figures. Other career highs included sophomore Taylor Calvert earning 21 rebounds assisting 11 points and senior Diana Choibekova earning 16 points. Freshman Aliyah Kilpatrick also scored 12 points.

With the team dragging 39-36 at the half, the Lady Eagles came back with a 13-0 point gain in the opening minutes. Led by McClana

han, the team took charge for the remainder of the game. The largest gap between the two teams never exceeded 11 points. McClanahan cemented the game with three straight free throws in the last 27 seconds of the game. “We would like to score 87 points every night out, but I don’t know if we can score that many. We want to get it up and down the floor. We want to play fast, but we also believe we can slow it down when we get into the half court and feed it in to our young post players,” said head coach Kevin Cook.

The Lady Eagles will play the nationally ranked Ohio State this Saturday at 12 p.m. This game will be the first of six away games for the team, and will follow up Ohio State with the Hardwood Tournament of Hope from November 20-22nd.

Women’s team in action against Troy. Photo by Shelby Chiasson • [email protected]

BIG SOUTH • from front

“We’ve done this before, we can do it again if we stick together and believe,” Miranda said. Posipanko said that the boys “don’t need to panic” heading into the national competition.

With the win, the Eagles earned their fifth championship in the Big South conference. This victory also marks the third time Winthrop has defeated Coastal Carolina in a title match. Win-throp’s Alex Isern, Magnus Thorsson, Jordi Lluch and Enrique Miranda will join the Big South All-Tournament Team.

Now with a conference title under their belts, the team will travel to Dallas, Texas to play Southern Methodist University this Thursday in the opening round of the NCAA College Cup. Roughly 100 Winthrop students and fans showed up Monday afternoon to support the team as the drawings were made, and 48 schools are competing for a shot at the national title. SMU has a ranking of 10-5-4. Lavallet ended his statement with absolute excitement about this week’s match. “We’re extremely confident and happy with the draw that we got, and we just can’t wait to take down SMU.”


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11/12/12Schaquilla Nunn named Big South Freshman of the Week

Last Sunday, Schaquilla Nunn has been named The Crons Brand Big South Confer-ence Freshman of the Week for her perfor-mance against Troy.

Nunn, a 6-3 center from Fayetteville, GA., began her collegiate career with a double-double, scoring 18 points and grabbing 15 rebounds to help lead Winthrop to a 87-82 season-opening victory over Troy. She con-nected on 50 percent from the field (6-12) and was perfect from the free throw line (6-6). In addition to her scoring and rebound-ing production, she also blocked four shots.

Volleyball enters Big South Quarterfinals Thursday

The volleyball team will match up against the #4 seed Presbyterian this Thursday in Boiling Springs, NC at 2:30 p.m. Winthrop finished the regular season with a 8-6 re-cord, while Presbyterian finished 9-5. The semi-finals in the tournament will be played on Friday, and the championship will be Sunday at 2 p.m. and aired on ESPN3.

Chipper Jones to visit Winthrop in February

Tickets are now on sale for the 2013 Winthrop Baseball First Pitch Dinner that will feature the guest appearance by former Atlanta Brave All-Star Chipper Jones. The event will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10 in McBryde Hall.

A special VIP session with Jones will be held from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the Tuttle Dining Room with dinner following. Only 50 tickets will be sold for the VIP session and are priced at $100 per per-son. The VIP ticket will provide fans an opportu-nity to meet Jones in person and to have up to two items autographed by the future Hall of Famer.

Tickets for the dinner will be sold separately as 400 tickets are available for $25 per person. Each dinner ticket will also include an admission pass for the three-day , six-game 2013 Coca-Cola Clas-sic scheduled for Feb. 15-17 at The Winthrop Ball-park.

AP College Football Rankings

1. Oregon2. Kansas State3. Notre Dame4. Alabama5. Georgia6. Ohio State7. Florida 8. LSU9. Texas A&M10. FSU11. Clemson12. South Carolina13. Oklahoma14. Stanford15. Oregon State16. Nebraska17. UCLA18. Texas19. Louisiana Tech20. Louisville21. USC22. Rutgers23. Michigan23. Texas Tech25. Kent State

By Sam KmeicSpecial to The Johnsonian

Peyton Manning took his Denver Broncos into Charlotte on Sunday and beat down the Panthers, both physically and mentally. The final score came to 36-14 and with the loss, Carolina dropped to 2-7 on the season. Any last gleam of hope for the playoffs was shattered as the Broncos defense manhandled Cam and Manning continuously drove the Broncos down the field for points. Unless the Panthers win the remain-der of their games, this season is over.

This is definitely one of the most disappointing years in Panthers’ history. Rewinding back to the preseason, many experts believed Newton would only improve on his impressive rookie year and with that elite level of play, more wins would follow. The Saints were supposed to have a down year following the Bounty Scandal, the Falcons always seem to find a way to come up short, and the Buccaneers were supposed to be a young, irrelevant team.

The problem is that none of these things turned out in the Panthers’ favor. The Falcons were undefeated until this past weekend, but look to have complete control of that division and the top spot in the NFC playoffs. The Buccaneers are an offensive juggernaut and their young players are playing at a high level. New Orleans lost their first four games, including a loss handed to them by Carolina, but have won four of their last five and look to be getting back into form.

Now, back to Sunday’s game. New-

ton was subpar, throwing for just 241 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. Also, the running game did not show up again, re-cording just 50 yards on the ground between five different rushers. Steve Smith has been invisible all year, with just 19 yards on Sunday and only 1 touchdown this entire season. He is either getting old and slow, or Cam will not give him the ball.

The defense recorded just one sack on Manning and looked to be a little sluggish all game. The Broncos just chipped away 10 yards at a time, until they found the end zone. It was a brutal game to watch; Panther fans should really receive an apol-ogy from every single player and the ownership for having to witness this sad excuse for a football team.

Next up they will face Tampa Bay at home. They are one of the hottest teams in the NFL, led by their sen-sational rookie running back, Doug Martin and third year quarterback, Josh Freeman. This may be a high scoring affair, so we will see if New-ton can show up and make some big plays. Every win from this point out will have to be led by Cam because he is the team leader in passing, rushing, and touchdowns.

On top of everything else, Coach Rivera fired Special Teams coach, Brian Murphy, this week. Not sure how much this sad season is riding on the Special Teams, but this will be a trend as the season wraps up. Look for new names on the sideline next year for Carolina.

Game Time- 1:00 p.m. at Bank of America Stadium

Panthers’ season goes down in shambles

11/15/12 – Volleyball vs. Presbyterian at Boiling Springs, NC – 2:30 p.m.11/17/12 – Women’s basketball at Ohio State – 2 p.m.

11/17/12 – Men’s basketball vs. VCU – 2 p.m.11/20/12 – Women’s basketball vs. Mississippi State – 4:30 p.m.

11/20/12 – Men’s basketball vs. Lenoir-Rhyne – 7 p.m.11/21/12 – Women’s basketball vs. Oregon State/UC Santa Barbara – TBD

11/22/12 – Men’s and women’s cross country – NCAA Championships11/28/12 – Women’s basketball at College of Charleston – 7 p.m.

11/28/12 – Men’s basketball at Wofford – 7 p.m.

Aliyah Kilpatrick against a player from Troy. Photo by Shelby Chiasson • [email protected]

Winthrop cheerleaders rally the crowd at Homecoming. Photo by Jacob Hallex • [email protected]

Homecoming kicks off new basketball season at WU

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