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WEDNESDAY, jANuArY 9, 2013

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Mourning Dara Kusiv

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// miDSEASoN upDAtEWith the heart of the season beginning, UNF men’s basketball has much to improve on.

// firE iN thE holE PS3 showed why he’s one of the top three-point shooters in the nation, during UNF’s match against the Hatters.

// muSic rEviEW2012 struck a special chord with musicians, and Osprey Radio deliberated over which bands topped the rest.

// ANYthiNg but miSErAblEAs the classic Broadway musical Les Misérables comes to the cinemas, it certainly does not disappoint.

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// NEW YEAr’S crAShOne UNF student died and three were injured in a Dec. 31 car accident.

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Alex Arango learns to spin a balloon from Lester, a performer, in the stu-dent union courtyard Tuesday after-noon. Lester was putting on a show and interacting with students while warming up for SWOOP Madness.

Police Beat

Nov. 17 Joy Ride (Building 34) - An officer met with a witness who saw kids joyriding in UNF golf carts. The witness said they saw the kids crash the cart into the pond. The suspects were located and taken in for questioning. The suspects were under the age of 18 and were joined by their parents. The suspects were released. The damage costs have not yet been estimated.

Source: University Police Department Compiled by Catherine Byerly

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Dec. 17 Marijuana Possession (Skatepark) - An officer was dispatched to the skatepark in reference to suspicious activity. When the officer arrived he watched a vehicle flee and then park behind the treeline near Central Parkway. The officer then approached the abandoned vehicle and reported a strong smell of marijuana. The suspect attempted to hide in the woods but then returned to the vehicle. The sus-pect allowed UPD to search his vehicle where two pipes were found. The items were placed in the JSO property room.

Dec. 27 Injured Person (Bldg. 50) - An of-ficer met with a complainant who was in-jured in a lab. Emergency rescue responded due to lacerations on the student’s eyelids and right hand. The student was able to communicate with rescue workers and con-firmed he was not working with any chem-icals. The student was taken to the Mayo Clinic hospital for further treatment.

Dec. 29 Sick Person (Fountains) - An of-ficer met with a complainant who said he had passed out and hit his head. The complainant was able to speak clearly

and said he had been smoking a hookah earlier before passing out in the lobby. Emergency response evaluated the stu-dent and took him to St Luke’s Hospital for treatment.

Jan. 3 Damaged Property (Bldg. 6) - An officer met with an employee who said that his assigned golf cart had been dam-aged. The employee noticed the damage to the windshield and front frame when he arrived at work in the morning. There are currently no suspects.

Jan. 7 Theft (Lot 11) - An officer met with a complainant who said his cell phone had been stolen. The complainant said he was in Lot 11 when a man in a red vehi-cle stopped and asked to borrow his cell phone. Once the suspect had the phone in hand he sped away onto UNF Drive. The case has been suspended until further in-formation on the suspect can be obtained.

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It’s a solemn beginning to the spring semester. Police still aren’t sure what caused the one-vehicle crash into the over-head sign post at the corner of Beach and Kernan.

And, whether she was a close friend or a stranger, the idea that any of us could have been in her shoes leaves us shaking in our own.

That’s because Dara was just like the rest of us — on her Pinterest, there’s a picture of a little black dress, some of her favor-ite funny quotes, food she likes, and hints about when to shop clearance items at Target. And there’s a board called “future.”

The death of a fellow student is an op-portunity to look at our own futures from a different perspective. It’s a gentle reminder that even when your life is filled with too much homework, stress, or extracurricu-lar commitments, what’s important is that you’re living a full life.

You’ll encounter seemingly countless demands this semester — appreciate them as opportunities to excel. In a quote to

First Coast News, Randy Kusiv said of his daughter, “There are regrets that she died so young, but no regrets about the years she spent here on earth.”

That’s exactly the kind of life each of us should constantly strive for — a life with no regrets, whether it be 19 or 100 years long.

There’s something that feels inherently invincible about being a college student. We’re constantly described as being in our prime; we’re supposedly the biggest risk-takers. It’s jarring to be reminded that we’re more fragile than we know.

But Dara seems to have understood how precious and fleeting life can be. A quote in one of Dara’s pins on a board she named “good quotes” says it best:

“Love the people God gave you because he will need them back one day.”

Moving ForwardUNF lost sophomore Dara Kusiv over the break in a New Year’s Day crash

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— The great secret of success is that there are no secrets of success; there

are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout

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In 2010, the Vice-President for Student Affairs charged a Values Integration Task Force with the task of developing recom-mendations that would integrate the es-poused values of UNF into the day-to-day operation of the university. These values are: (1) the pursuit of truth and knowledge carried out in the spirit of intellectual and artistic freedom; (2) ethical conduct; (3) community engagement; (4) diversity; (5) responsibility to the natural environment; and (6) mutual respect and civility.

The subsequent report produced by the task force, titled “What We Say and What We Do: Jumpstarting the Conversation on Our Values,” included a set of recommen-dations. Among them was the following:

Apply the Values to Management of the University’s Endowment Fund: The task

force notes the absence of full disclosure on how the university invests its endowment funds. To assure full integration of its val-ues, the University should establish more transparent investment practices and hold those practices accountable to the values it subscribes.

The point of this recommendation was to explore the degree to which companies and corporations included in the endow-ment investment portfolio engage in ac-tions that are consistent with the stated values of the institution such as “ethical conduct” and “responsibility to the natu-ral environment.” For example, would we want endowment funds invested in fossil fuel companies that are serial violators of environmental regulations or financial institutions that have engaged in criminal

behavior or manufacturers of guns and weapons?

Currently this information is unavail-able to the public or members of the UNF community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni). Therefore, the first step is to es-tablish greater endowment transparency.

It should be noted that “endowment transparency” is one indicator of a univer-sity’s commitment to sustainability. The College Sustainability Report Card has includes this indicator in ranking univer-sities on their demonstrated commitment to sustainability practices. “Investment Priorities” and “Shareholder Engagement” are also included. Many universities have developed policies in these areas and have received high grades for their efforts.

What’s more, UNF recently signed on

to the American Colleges & Universities Presidential Climate Commitment that commits the institution to policies and practices advancing the principles of sus-tainability. UNF also participates in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) that awards credit for transparent, proactive, and socially re-sponsible investment practices.

If UNF is truly committed to its value statements, the climate change initiative, and sustainability, UNF’s endowment in-vestment portfolio and policies should be collectively evaluated to determine wheth-er we actually ‘put our money where our mouth is’.

David Jaffee

UNF Professor of Sociology

Happy New Year! What are your new year’s resolutions? To get in better shape, make higher grades or, perhaps, to just get your act together?

Before the semester gets too demand-ing, you might want to be reminded of some of the resources around UNF.

Peer Tutoring in the Academic Center for Excellence office (Bldg. 2) takes walk-ins. However, if you need more specialized attention — such as with anything writing related — appointments are available.

For those of you living on campus, there is another tutoring option called Peer Assisted Tutoring in Housing (PATH Program), happening Monday through Thursday from 6-10 p.m. on the second floor

of the Library. They accept walk-ins, but you may want to make an appointment.

Maybe you were lucky enough to have received a tablet or laptop this holiday sea-son. If you need a little technical assistance with the UNF network, visit the ITS Help Desk located on the second floor of the Mathews Computer Lab in Bldg. 15, Room 2102, or call 904-620-HELP (4357).

How about a helpful app for your shiny

new Apple or Android phone or tablet? The UNF Mobile App can keep you abreast of what’s happening on campus, help you con-nect with your peers and university staff, and keep you informed of your academic status.

In the same way that staying on top of your college career might be your goal for the new semester, improving your health might be your plan for the new year. I know it’s cold outside, but that can’t get you off the hook seeing as the Student Wellness Complex has its own indoor track and rock climbing wall, and across from the Wellness Complex is the Aquatic Center with a heated indoor pool.

You might need to visit Student Health

Services in this cold weather. Schedule an appointment in advance by calling 904-620-2900, and don’t forget to show up 10 minutes early to complete any paperwork. They can help you with anything from treating the flu to providing birth control options.

This is your life, and the new year is an-other chance to make the most of it. May 2013 bring you good health, great times, and high achievements. You have the resources, the technologies and the opportunities to overcome whatever excuses you may come up with.

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On the outset of another adventure with my favorite contact killer, Agent 47, I must confess: I was concerned the Hitman series might be going too far in an action-oriented direction.

Fortunately my preconceptions were proven wrong. Picking up almost imme-diately after Blood Money, we find Agent 47 on the run from employers after he is ordered to kill his former handler, Diana, which he does, but he then refuses to bring them a mysterious girl that was in Diana’s care. Agent 47 must now uncover the se-crets as to why this girl is so important to his employers.

Hitman seems to have taken a more sto-ry-focused approach than in previous in-stallments. Unlike before -- when you were given a simple briefing of your target and dropped in a different location -- the story has a linear progression in with each area and target connect and add up to a very tight narrative.

The characters are well written and colorful in the usual Hitman style, even though at times they seem deliberately ex-aggerated and clichéd. Like, for example, the Texan character that wears a cowboy outfit and has to end most of his sentences with “Yeha!”.

The best character in this game is the protagonist, Agent 47. I place him in my top 10 of the best video game characters ever created. On the surface he’s a cold, stoic, sociopath who could put a bullet between your eyes while he’s drinking a cup of cof-fee; deep down, he can’t seem to find his own place in the world, having been liter-ally bred and raised to be the perfect killer.

As for the gameplay of Hitman: Absolution, though some levels aren’t as open and sprawling as they were in Blood Money, the classic Hitman style has been retained and there are dozens of dif-ferent ways to complete the levels. Which will you choose: hiding in boxes and closets, picking off en-emies with your silenced pistol, grabbing a disguise and sneaking past guards in plain sight, or the iconic Fiber Wire to strangle your foes and drag them to the nearest dumpster?

Several new features improve the game-play. A sound effects element allows the player to throw objects to distract guards — but if you sprint away they will hear the pitter-patter of your feet and investigate.

A new vision mode has been created, called Instinct. Similar to the vision mode in Batman: Arkham City, the player can see through walls to find guards and per-form actions that allow you to hide in plain sight while in disguise. The Hitman games have always been challenging and this one is no different; you have a lim-ited supply of Instinct and guards can now see through your disguise if you get too close.

Hitman: Absolution is not for the faint at heart, but if you’ve stuck with the series through the years, the newest release will keep your support.

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Letter to the Editor: UNF transparency

New beginnings and New Year's resolutions

The art of murder in ‘Hitman: Absolution’

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Spinnaker // unfSpinnaker.comLetter from the PresidentDear Ospreys,I hope you’re as excited as I am to kick off 2013! Over the past six months, your Student Government has been working closely with departments across UNF to enhance campus life, bring students unique opportunities and ensure that your voices are effectively carried to university administrators and state officials. Our work is not yet finished, and the more than 100 students involved in the day-to-day operations of Student Government are more committed than ever to represent and serve you well.

As your president, I have been inspired to hear your stories of success through challenging times. We all have hardships in our lives – whether financial, family-related, academic or other – and all too often it becomes easy to get caught up in such moments. As we begin a new year and semester, let us continue striving for the greatness that we can only find together. It is ultimately the successes of our students that will carry our institution in the long run, and I am confident that we can all overcome our individual struggles and become part of the best era UNF has seen in its short history.

Below this message you will find several updates on the promises we made when you elected us, as well as some ideas we’re pushing in the upcoming semester. As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns about any UNF matter, please don’t hesitate to contact me at [email protected] or stop by our offices on the third floor of the Student Union (east building). Swoop!

Signed sincerely,

Carlo FassiPresident

University TrusteeStudent Government

University of North Florida

Initiatives UpdateAim Higher Florida CampaignThis student-led campaign stresses the importance of our state investing in public higher education. Over the past five years, the State of Florida has cut more than $1 billion from our universities, leading to a close to 100% increase in tuition prices during the same time period. SG will be hosting an “Aim Higher Rally” on January 14th at noon (the day tuition is due) to urge students to sign petitions and write person-alized postcards to our own state representatives. The time to stop tuition increases is now, but we must stand together. Please stop by and join our movement!

New Campus Dining OptionsDuring last spring’s elections, we promised to bring more name brand eateries to UNF so that you’d have better choices when considering dining on campus. Papa John’s will be opening a brand new location in the Student Union food court in the coming weeks, and Chick-Fil-A will be opening a full-service restau-rant at Alumni Square (in the former Sbarro’s space).

Intramural Sports Facility EnhancementsOur senators worked closely with the Executive Branch to fund enhancements to UNF’s intramural sports program. These items include jerseys, professional scoreboards and end-zone markers, as well as an excit-ing new policy of tracking all statistics and uploading them online, allowing participants and supporters to track individual athlete performance.

Free PrintingSG is again funding twenty-five (25) free prints per student at any of the printing stations in the library or around campus.

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REGISTRATION DEADLINES ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

ARE YOU PREPARED?• Add/drop period for classes ends on Friday, JANUARY 11TH AT 5:00 P.M.

Be sure to check your schedule for waitlists and any other classes that you want to drop or add. It is YOUR responsibility to make schedule changes in a timely manner.

• The payment deadline for classes is Monday, JANUARY 14TH AT 5:00 P.M. You are responsible for paying any amounts not covered by pending financial assistance before the deadline. Payments can be made online or by visiting the Cashier’s Office in Building 53, Hicks Hall.

To check your schedule, add or drop a class, or make payments, login to your myWings account via mywings.unf.edu

For questions or help, contact One Stop Student Services at (904) 620-5555 or www.unf.edu/onestop/contact

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By Lydia moneir

DAiLy NEWS EDiTOR

On New Year’s Day, Florida Highway

Patrol responded to a car crash that left UNF Student Dara Kusiv dead and three of her friends injured.

At approximately 12:50 a.m., the silver Dodge truck veered off Beach Boulevard and onto the shoulder as it approached the Kernan Boulevard intersection. The truck then hit a large overhead sign post.

Dara Kusiv, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene. Sean Franke, Samantha Kasten and Kusiv’s boyfriend, Jacob Materia, were all taken to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center with serious injuries.

According to the FHP report, none of the four students had been wearing seatbelts.

Driver Sean Franke, 20, is no longer listed at Shands. Materia, 19, was released from the hospital. Samantha Kasten, 19, re-mains in critical condition.

Both Kusiv and Kasten were members of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, while both Franke and Materia were members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

It is unclear at this time whether alcohol was involved.

Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority life Laura Worrell said the univer-sity has responded by offering free counsel-ling to all UNF students, and is also work-ing with ZTA to host a candlelight vigil for Dara Kusiv at 7 p.m. Jan. 12.

“We recognize that our students need-ed an opportunity to grieve for Dara,” said Worrell. “We are very concerned for the students and their families who also suffered.”

Madison Proctor, president of Zeta Tau Alpha at UNF, said she did not feel comfort-able answering questions as she was not ready to talk about what happened.

PKP released a statement yesterday stat-ing that the fraternity will continue to monitor the situation and cooperate with the appropriate authorities throughout the investigation.

FHP reports that charges are pending further investigation.

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UNF student killed in New Year’s Day crash

PhoToS By RaNDy RaTaJ

Dara Kusiv’s sorority, ZTA, passed out black ribbons in the Student Union plaza for students to wear as symbols of remembrance. There will be a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Jan. 12.

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By Gordon rhyne

DAiLy NEWS EDiTOR

The UNF President’s Office allowed up-

wards of 200 exemptions for the freshman housing mandate in Fall 2012, the first se-mester of its implementation.

President John Delaney said the ma-jority of exemptions fall into certain cat-egories such as health concerns, extreme family need, allergy issues and religious persuasion.

Delaney said all issues were verified by the President’s Office.

Dei Allard, UNF’s associate director of Housing and Residence Life, said they have not had any problems implement-ing the freshman housing mandate, since all exemptions are handled through the President’s Office.

Delaney said all requests are handled on a case-by-case basis. He said he is happy with the implementation of the freshman housing mandate in its first semester.

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By catherine ByerLy

ENTERPRiSE EDiTOR

Tuition could be going up for some stu-

dents but not others if the findings from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Higher Education are enacted.

Commissioned by Gov. Rick Scott, the task force was created to come up with strategies for improving the state’s pub-lic university system. A 38-page report released last month recommended perfor-mance based funding, tuition variances and expanding the role of the Board of Governors to address the rising cost of Florida tuition.

Task force member and UNF President John Delaney said the money has to come from somewhere.

Delaney said when he became the presi-dent of the university the state subsidized around 70 percent of the cost of higher education, and students picked up the re-maining 30 percent. The split now is closer to 50/50.

Students have not been quiet in the pro-cess, though. In an effort to keep the divide from widening further, the Florida Student Association has organized the Aim Higher Program. The program organizes rallies and letter writing campaigns to encourage the state legislators to increase funding for higher education.

Formerly, if a full-time course load had cost a university $100, the state legislature was responsible for $70, and the student paid the remaining $30 as tuition fees. Now, a student’s contribution is equal to the amount coming from the state, increas-ing the burden on the student.

Florida spends 30-40 percent less on each student on average, when compared to oth-er states, Delaney said.

“If tuition isn’t going to go up then state support is going to have to go up,” Delaney said.

One initiative of the task force is to freeze tuition for in demand science, tech-nology, engineering and math majors, essentially altering the price of obtain-ing select degrees. Currently the legal limit for increasing tuition is 15 percent, but if tuition for certain majors is fro-zen, other majors could quickly become more expensive.

According to a poll released by Quinnipiac University, approximately three-quarters of Florida voters are against the task force’s recommendations.

Sixty-six percent of voters oppose charg-ing different tuition prices for different majors and 73 percent of voters oppose allowing certain high-profile colleges to charge more in tuition than other state universities.

Delaney said the state is hurt in the long run if higher education isn’t invested in.

Those sentiments were echoed by Student Body President Carlo Fassi, who said education is an investment for the state and not simply an expenditure.

Fassi said UNF’s Student Government would be keeping an eye on how these ini-tiatives would be put into action to ensure they are fair to students.

“We need to make sure that all our stu-dents, whatever degree they choose to pursue, are being fairly subsidized by the state,” Fassi said.

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UNF exempts some students from freshman housing mandate

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DAiLy NEWS EDiTOR

Many have speculated that police de-

partments tend to issue the most tickets at the end of the month simply to meet quo-tas. UNF Student Robert Picard conducted a study to find out if this was happening on campus.

To the surprise and disappointment of conspiracy theorists everywhere, Picard, a computer science and history major, found there was no definite relation between tickets issued and days of the month.

Although Picard’s study found no defi-nite trend, the Spinnaker took a look into UPD’s traffic ticket reports and found that drivers may want to be more wary around campus during certain months of the year.

If you drove through campus this past September, you may have noticed an abun-dance of encouragement to buckle up in the form of signs and a wrecked car at the intersection of UNF Drive and North-South Road.

As an added attempt to encourage seat belt use during the initiative, UPD issued a lot more tickets - almost six times what they issued in March of the same year.

This is because, as part of the state-wide Buckle Up program, UPD issued tickets in-stead of just warnings.

UPD Sergeant Dwayne Howard said UPD has to report how many seat belt cita-tions were written to their national office as part of the program.

“That’s why most of the time, you get those high numbers -- because it’s during those initiatives, said Howard.

“During those times, we don’t write warnings for not wearing a seatbelt -- we will usually cite the driver,” said Howard.

Students may want to be aware of this, as a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt costs $114.

However, UPD does not benefit financial-ly from writing these tickets. The money they collect goes to Duval County.

Howard said the Buckle Up program began before it was illegal to not wear a seatbelt, and UPD has been told it is the most significant factor in reducing highway fatalities.

“We especially try to encourage safety belt usage because there is a lot of pedes-trian traffic on campus,” said Howard.

Sgt. Howard said most people who get tickets are not actually students, but peo-ple passing through UNF.

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By mason mcGouGh and trevor Johnson

OSPREy RADiO MUSiC DiRECTOR AND CONTRiBUTiNG WRiTER

Perhaps it was 2012’s looming sense of

doom that spurred one of the best years we’ve had for forward-thinking music in quite some time. As a whole, the musical frontlines of the human race’s supposed last year on Earth were both fruitful and high-minded. Partially riding on the coat-tails of the “80’s revival,” the music world has written a new chapter in its periodic “looking back.”

This year has certainly been the year of hindsight. Twin Shadow’s Confess, Ariel Pink’s Haunted, Graffiti’s Mature Themes, Tame Impala’s Lonerism, The Tallest Man on Earth’s There’s No Leaving Now and Lambchop’s Mr. M are all success stories of the recycling of reliable themes, though each with their own commentative angle.

We present to you Osprey Radio’s Top Albums of 2012!

(10) JAPANDrOiDS – CELEBrATiON rOCk

The music of 2012 falls into one of two camps: the side that demands cerebral grat-ification above all else (and often with stal-wart adherence to this need) and the side that demands you just shut up and dance. Celebration Rock straddles this boundary as if there was none at all. Like Discovery and I Get Wet before it, Celebration Rock sets guiltless enjoyment as its prime objec-tive, and makes a powerful case for it in do-ing so.

(9) DirTY PrOJECTOrS – SwiNg LO MAgELLAN

The music of Dirty Projectors has always retained a tangible emotional appeal, even outside of songwriter David Longstreth’s eccentricities. Swing Lo Magellan sees the group pulling back the veil on Longstreth’s (possibly unconscious) proclivity for cryptic imagery and esoteric themes, re-vealing some of the band’s most relatable songwriting to date. “Dance For You” is a solipsistic pursuit of meaning, “Just From Chevron” a parable about the oil industry’s callous destructiveness, “About to Die” about the search for fulfillment in the face of a ticking biological clock. Dave Longstreth has always been a man of many ideas. On Swing Lo Magellan, he’s finally found a way to share them.

(8) MEDiAFirED – THE PATHwAY THrOUgH wHATEvEr

Advertisement has become its own cul-ture of sorts. It has pervaded our cultural consciousness with mascots and slogans, to the point where the average person can’t name three out of the thousands of Hindu

gods, but can still remember every line of obscure 90’s commercials. Mediafired, named after the “music distribution ser-vice,” reflects just one of many methods of cultural dissemination/saturation. A cracked kaleidoscope of everything from Pepsi commercials to Kate Bush to Queen, The Pathway Through Whatever is jarring in its ability to encompass a little of every-thing into its heady chamber. This album is available for free on Bandcamp.

(7) ANDY STOTT – LUxUrY PrOBLEMS

Andy Stott has been in the back of ev-eryone’s minds for a while, but Luxury Problems establishes the man as one of the technical masters of this generation. Whether it’s the incorporation of vocals into his low-end stitch-house or the simul-taneous parsing down and blowing up of his sound, Luxury Problems delivers on all of the promise his 2011 EPs showed us. It might not be about anything in particu-lar, but you won’t find a more well-execut-ed and exciting “headphones album” in all of 2012.

(6) LiArS – wixiwPerhaps the most alluring aspect of

WIXIW, Liars’ sixth album, is its plastic precision. The album is as immaculate as a surgeon’s table, and the moments that cut do so like a scalpel. And yet despite its tightly-wound frame, it always seems on the verge of chaos. The whispers of singer Angus Andrew are the only human pres-ence on the record, but even they retain a noticeably unsettling level of imbalance. Existing on the fringes of sanity, Andrew mumbles “teach me how to be a person” with the detachment of a person who truly doesn’t know how.

(5) TiM HECkEr & DANiEL LOPATiN – iNSTrUMENTAL TOUriST

It’s fitting that the most sensible collab-oration of 2012 is also the year’s most po-tent. Hecker and Lopatin have dealt equal-ly with the alien intangibility of the past. History is written in stone and we can only experience it through its aftershock. To be an “instrumental tourist,” a stranger who is wholly essential to the work, one must

pursue transcendence from physical limi-tation. Recovered media is the artifact of an instrumental tourist, one who has long since been gone, but whose footprint con-tinues to influence the “tourists” of today. Every sound on Instrumental Tourist fades in and quickly decays like an apparition, aware of its expiration date, yet intent on leaving a mark before it goes.

(4) grizzLY BEAr – SHiELDS

Noticeably more conservative than Veckatimest and less attentive to detail than Yellow House, Shields is the sound of Grizzly Bear falling into false content-ment. The album begins with a wistful al-lusion to the Ute Mountains in Colorado, where the singer Ed Droste is delivered a “vision dark and cloaked.” The members of Grizzly Bear are torn between duty and desire, with the former often winning out. One of the most memorable moments of the album is perhaps “Adelma,” an in-strumental track that bridges “Speak in Rounds” to “Yet Again.” In its delicacy lies simple resignation, a serenity derived from purpose and ultimately circum-scribed by it.

(3) BEACH HOUSE – BLOOM

When this album was first released, we at Osprey Radio misunderstood it. We saw it as an exceptionally well-produced, cool-headed reiteration of Beach House’s identity and little more. Stepping back, it becomes clear that there is more emotion-al depth to Victoria Legrand’s storytelling than just two-note guitar arpeggios. The imagery is delivered in disjointed strokes like an impressionistic painting, or like memories. Every emotional revelation is paired with an equally enrapturing cre-scendo. The band’s signature clash of cin-ematic synths and guitar with inanimate percussion feels so familiar merely be-cause it is so perfect.

(2) SwANS – THE SEEr

Understanding The Seer can take quite a bit of investment. On two disks and nearly two hours long, it’s not entirely practical to listen to in one sitting. However, take one glance and you’ll see why every pulsat-ing beat is well-spent. Every second treads closer and closer to the brink as Swans churn a maelstrom of a musical force be-neath their arms. It’s enthralling like a free-fall to the death, frightening like a toxin hallucination, and invigorating like a shot of adrenaline. One of the most infec-tious aspects of The Seer is how every line seems to have an ominous implication in the real world. The triumphant return of Swans is a monster of an album.

(1) DEATH griPS – THE MONEY STOrE

The Money Store sounds like a lot of things. It sounds like a Y2K conspiracy made tangible through concrete and razor wire. It sounds like a tape loop of Rodney King slamming in a circle pit. It sounds like the future of hip-hop or a desolate wasteland of catharsis; it sounds like an intelligent music listener’s worst night-mare. But beyond that fight-or-flight in-stinct that bleeds through every corner of the album, The Money Store is a pounding, pulsing, thought-provoking album about paranoia, technology, racial tensions and violence. It’s a transgressive masterpiece and the catchiest thing dropped in the past 12 months. There’s no arguing against it: Love it or hate it, Death Grips wouldn’t have it any other way.

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A classic novel made award-winning

musical, Les Misérables has it all: a pow-erful story, interesting historical context and fantastic music. The musical, written by Alain Boublil and composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg (with English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer), has been on stage for over 25 years. The overdue big screen adaptation allows this masterpiece to be enjoyed by a wider audience than those who can afford to enjoy it from plush theater seats.

With the prestige it achieved as a musi-cal, this year’s movie adaptation of Les Misérables had a lot riding on it. Bringing a musical to the big screen has the potential to expand and deepen the story, like 2002’s Chicago, or cheapen it, like 2008’s Mamma Mia!

Overall, director Tom Hooper handles the adaptation well. His decision to film the singing live instead of recording the songs beforehand makes the soundtrack fresh and allows the actors to play their parts in a more realistic way. The crew also did a fantastic job with the audio mixing, allow-ing individual voices to come through even during the group numbers.

Adapted from a 1,500 page novel, the plot

of Les Misérables is anything but simple. In short, it is the story of the convict Jean Valjean, who breaks his parole and creates a new life for himself. He adopts Cosette, the orphaned daughter of Fantine, a des-perate factory worker who dies after be-ing driven to prostitution. Throughout the movie, Jean Valjean is relentlessly pur-sued by the policeman Javert.

The story takes place in the period from 1815-1832, during the latter part of the French Revolution. Toward the end of the movie, the characters are swept up in an unsuccessful and bloody uprising in Paris.

Those drawn to the movie by the pros-pect of seeing Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe sing may come away disappointed. Jackman, as Jean Valjean, and Crowe, as Javert, play their parts admirably, but both were obviously chosen for their big names and acting skills and not their singing, which was bearable but rather nasally.

However, the rest of the cast shines both in acting and singing. Even during her few minutes on screen, Anne Hathaway steals the show as Fantine. You can’t help but get goosebumps during her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream,” which is raw, powerful and tear-jerking.

Child actors Daniel Huttlestone and Isabelle Allen steal hearts as street urchin Gavroche and young Cosette, respectfully. Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter bring a lighter side to the heavy story, playing a sleazy innkeeper and the innkeeper’s wife.

The entirety of the dialogue is sung, which allows for smooth transitions be-tween scenes, but may come as a surprise to the average movie goer. The fast pace of the first half may confuse those who are

unfamiliar with the story, while the last thirty minutes drags out the conclusion of the story.

Much of the film focused on close-ups of the actors, which made it feel intimate, but got a little old after almost three hours of seeing every wrinkle in Hugh Jackman’s face, and at times felt like an invasion of personal space.

Perhaps if he had zoomed out more of-ten, Hooper could have done more with the setting to place the audience in 19th cen-tury Paris. With the attention to detail in costumes and makeup, the audience sees the grime of poverty, but we see only a few shots of the streets, and only a quick glimpse of Notre Dame in the background during Crowe’s main number.

However, in all, Hooper succeeds in do-ing justice to the musical while sticking in more details from the book. The cast gives a stirring performance which is well worth watching. You will cry with Fantine, your heart will be stirred by the revolutionar-ies, and you will leave singing.

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While most UNF students were enjoy-

ing their holiday break, the UNF men’s basketball team was traveling around the country playing a series of tough games. UNF has now moved into the season-with-in-the-season as they start Atlantic-Sun Conference play. Over the past month, a few themes have emerged that will deter-mine the success of UNF against A-sun competition.

Free throw shootingThis season the team is making the

freebies. UNF is shooting a combined 69 percent from the free-throw line, which is nine percentage points higher than last season. Four out of the five starters are shooting over 70 percent, with Parker Smith leading the team at 88 percent.

Starting lineup shuffleThe current starting lineup is not the

starting five that head coach Matthew Driscoll envisioned when he started the season. This season was supposed to be the year of the seniors, with all five pro-jected starters in their final year of eligibil-ity, but things have changed. Senior Jerron Granberry took a leave of absence from the team after the death of his father, and it’s doubtful that he will return. True fresh-man Beau Beech has stepped in to take Granberry’s place and has played well, aver-aging 14.8 points and 4.7 rebounds over the last four games. Senior Andy Diaz missed five games with a knee injury. His replace-ment, junior Travis Wallace, played so well during Diaz’s absence that Driscoll chose to keep him in the starting lineup even after Diaz returned to 100 percent health. Wallace has been the most consistent player for UNF over the last seven games averaging 20 points and 6.7 rebounds during that stretch.

Lack of Bench ScoringDiaz is settling into his new role as a

bench player, scoring double digits in three out of the last four games, but the rest of the second unit has been lackluster at best. Junior Charles McRoy, who started 19 games as a sophomore last season, has been spotty from behind the three-point line, shooting 29 percent for the season. The drop-off at the point-guard position is perhaps the most significant. Will Wilson is having a career year as the starter, av-eraging 6.5 assists per game, but his back-up, true freshman Ray Rodriguez, has struggled to produce at the college level. Rodriguez is averaging 0.6 points and 0.8 assists over the last five games.

Emergence of BeechUNF has started to develop balanced

inside-outside scoring with the inside

scoring of Wallace and the long range ability of Parker Smith, but freshman Beau Beech has started to become a viable third scoring option. Beech is shooting 40 percent from the three-point line and his 6-foot-8 frame has helped amass 22 steals for the season, which is second on the team. The team and coach Driscoll trust in Beech enough to the point of electing him to attempt the last shot in a close loss to FGCU, Jan. 7.

UNF has suffered two early conference losses, both due to cold shooting and poor defense. If the team can plug up the holes in their play, they can easily finish in the top three in the A-sun, but it won’t be easy.

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As the name suggests, Parker Smith aka PS3’s job is to get open and shoot three pointers.

Winter Break Matchups12/8/12 At PittsburghL 47-8912/17/12 At Colorado StateL 55-8312/19/12 At PortlandL 64-7412/22/12 vs. CSU Bakersfield (Las Vegas, Nev.)W 80-7012/23/12 vs. Georgia Southern (Las Vegas, Nev.)W 74-4612/31/12 Lipscomb (A-Sun)W 84-701/2/13 Northern Kentucky (A-Sun)L 52-651/5/13 At Stetson (A-Sun)W 90-74



PS3 goes off in DelandComing into the season, I was excited to

watch one of the best three-point shooters in the country, UNF senior guard Parker Smith. The Bleacher Report, a sports web-site, rated him as one of the best 15 shooters in college basketball, and they were right. As of Jan. 7, Smith was ranked 15th in the nation in shooting percentage (46.7 percent) but ranked second in the same category of anyone who has more than 100 attempts. Smith was also tied for third for most three-point field goals per game, with 3.94.

I’ve had a chance to watch Smith play in a few home games, but the true mark of a great player, and a great team, is their ability to play well away from the com-forts of home.

The perfect opportunity to watch a road game came when UNF traveled to Deland to play the Stetson Hatters Jan. 5. (Side note: No team should be named after an ar-ticle of clothing. I’m really glad we’re not the North Florida Sweatpants.)

Deland is a quaint little town with some pleasing aesthetic qualities, including the university, which was established in 1887.

The fans of the Hatters, most of whom look like they attended classes during Stetson’s inaugural year, are passionate about their basketball.

The Edmunds Center is a compact ven-ue but has a unique feel. The seating where fans look-on, elevates at a steep angle and is kept dark. The court, however, is bright-ly lit. The contrast gives the place the feel of a boxing match.

The main card for the Stetson - UNF match didn’t have any fights, but it did fea-ture a super-ultra featherweight in Parker Smith. PS3, as the kids call him, is built more like a Kenyan long distance runner than a boxer. He stands 6-foot-3 inches tall and weighs in at 155 pounds.

After a disappointing showing at home against Northern Kentucky, Smith was in need of a rebuttal. He was 2-10 from distance

against NKU, resulting in a loss against a team that UNF should have beaten.

Before the game, head coach Matthew Driscoll asked Smith if he wanted to run a play for him to start the game, but Smith declined. I guess he knew he would have his fair share of chances.

Smith came out with a vengeance. He attempted eight three-pointers in the first half, and made seven. The only shot he missed was a shot attempt blocked by a Stetson player. By the middle of the first half, Smith was so hot Stetson fans were yelling, “No!” the second he was catching the ball in anticipation of the three points that were sure to follow. Smith used his slender frame to slip screens and get open looks, to the tune of 23 first half points.

The Hatters had no answer for Smith in the second half either. He dropped two more trey’s and finished the game with 33 points on 9-10 shooting from 3-point range.

There was nothing the Stetson players could do to stop him — short of sabotage. Smith was having the type of game that most players only dream about, but the

crazy thing is that it was only his second best shooting performance of his career. Smith drained 11 three-pointers and scored 46 points last season against Mercer for a career high.

When the game concluded with a 90-74 UNF victory, the entire Stetson women’s basketball team — who witnessed the Smith Show — rushed over to the scorers table to get a look at the stat sheet. They shook their heads and marveled at the sta-tistical evidence of a truly great shooter.

While many onlookers were shocked at what they had just seen, Driscoll wasn’t surprised. He said that after his cold shoot-ing against NKU, Smith was back in the gym working on his jumper at 7:45 a.m. the next morning. My guess is that after his performance against Stetson, Smith might have hit the snooze button a few times the next morning.

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Scores by Period 1 2 Total

FGCU (11-5-0) 20 33 53

UNF (6-9-0) 18 24 42

Free Throws

FGCU 15-18 (83.3%)

UNF 8-10 (80%)

Field Goals

FGCU 16-53 (30.2%)

UNF 16-41 (39%)

UNF

## Top Scorers Points Stl A

34 Lamar, R 11 0 1

35 Kerr, J 8 0 1

05 Destinee, S 8 0 1

FGCU


05 Hansen, S 19 1 0

24 Kennedy, B 14 3 5

21 Gluesing, J 11 1 0

Parker Smith puts up a stellar shooting performance against Stetson, allowing UNF to come away with the win

Travis Gibson

/// Sports Editor

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

vs.53 42Jan. 7, 2013

MEN’S BASKETBALL

vs.75 73Jan. 7, 2013


FGCU (11-6-0) 40 35 75

UNF (7-10-0) 29 44 73

Free Throws

FGCU 11-24 (45.8%)

UNF 13-15 (86.7%)

Field Goals

FGCU 29-64 (45.3%)

UNF 25-58 (43.1%)

UNF


03 Smith, P 20 2 0

02 Beech, B 14 0 0

01 Wallace, T 12 0 0

FGCU


25 Brown, S 19 2 0

20 Fieler, C 17 0 1

05 Varidel, C 16 1 0


STET (7-9-0) 33 38 71

UNF (4-10-0) 23 34 57

Free Throws

STET 5-8 (62.5%)

UNF 14-17 (82.4%)

Field Goals

STET 28-60 (46.7%)

UNF 18-51 (35.3%)

UNF


23 Wilson, S 9 0 0

35 Kerr, J 8 1 1

02 Conner, K 8 0 0

STET


23 Sanders, S 19 3 4

22 Sharp, J 11 2 4

24 Sims, S 11 2 1


UNF (7-9-0) 47 43 90

STET (4-10-0) 31 43 74

Free Throws

UNF 7-9 (77.8%)

STET 9-10 (90%)

Field Goals

UNF 35-56 (62.5%)

STET 28-56 (50%)

STET


41 Pegg, A 19 0 1

23 Perez, C 17 1 3

03 Green, W 16 1 0

UNF


03 Smith, P 33 1 5

01 Wallace, T 23 1 2

02 Beech, B 11 4 2

vs.71 57Jan. 5, 2013

vs.90 74Jan. 5, 2013

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Question 1: Who is your almost-mid-season nBa mvp?I’m picking Kevin Durant, but not for any traditional reasons. Being that I am a long and lanky fellow, I must support other gangly persons as opposed to many of the other sausage-like armed players in the NBA. Despite King James’ dominance, I just can’t root for someone whose arms are bigger than my entire body.

Lebron. Without him the Heat are in 5th or 6th place in the East. He’s been on a scoring run that our generation has never seen before.

My almost-mid-season MVP has to be ei-ther Lebron James, who is the best player in the world right now, or Chris Paul, who is the best player on the league’s best team at the midway point of the season.

I have always been a fan of the MVP going to the best player on the best team, and the LA Clippers’ best player is Chris Paul. CP3 does so much for his team, some of which includes his leadership abilities that will never show up on a stat sheet. Paul has a narrow lead in my mind thus far, but check back in a few months, it could easily be Lebron or Durant at that time.

It’s tough for me to label the Ravens as an underdog team, but they have the weak-est record. Despite their underdog status, the Ravens are going to beat Shmeyton Shmanning and the Broncos. I would also like to see Ray Lewis murder someone else on or off the field before playoffs are over. He’s got to end his career with a bang.

The Ravens. And the reason is simple, Ray Lewis. Because of his announcement, the team has something to play for — a rea-son other than a championship.

If you can still call it an upset, give me the Seahawks over the Falcons as my upset pick. The Hawks are the hottest team in the playoffs.

I like Seattle. They have a defense that can neutralize Matt Ryan and the high powered offense of the Falcons. Seattle has also showed they can drop 50 points on teams. Atlanta has been inconsistent during the second half of the season and are capable of laying an egg and keeping Ryan’s streak of playoff losses going.

Question 2: Which team is most likely to pull off an upset in this weekend’s nFL playoff games?

We live in Jacksonville. This question could be answered by just looking out our back window. Not only would ‘Bama win, but it would be a spectacle of abuse for the kittens known as the Jaguars. PETA would have to get involved.

Sure seems like it. The offensive line might be the best in college football history.

No college football team could ever beat an NFL team in this day and age. The game is far too different from the college to professional level.

My gut tells me that no NFL team would ever lose to a bunch of kids, but crazier things have happened. Watching Alabama dismantle a great Notre Dame defense in the BCS Championship game makes me think that the Jaguars or Chiefs would not want to play Nick Saban’s squad.

Question 3: could alabama beat an nFL team?

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