1. January 15, 2015 | theseahawk.org | volume LXVI | Issue 9
NEWS..........................1
LIFESTYLES..............2
SPORTS.....................3-4
OPINION.....................5-6
CONTENTS
Sophomore Nicole
Dempsey has stepped
up as president of
TealTV. pg 2
At 8-7 already just one win
shy of last season’s total.
Seahawks continue to show
gradual improvements
under Keatts. pg 3
Step-by-step
TealTV President
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UNCW professor Paul
Hearty joined a team working
to find new ways to understand
climate change and the precari-
ous future of our planet.
Hearty, an associate profes-
sor in the environmental sci-
ence department at UNCW,
is playing a vital role on a re-
search team that is investigating
Pliocene, a geological times-
cale, and attempting to create
new methods of viewing and
treating global warming to-
day. Hearty and the four other
researchers on the team were
granted $4.25 million from the
National Science Foundation
so that they can effectively rec-
reate a model of Earth during
this specific time period. The
National Science Foundation
granted Hearty and the four oth-
er researchers on the team $4.25
million, so they can effectively
recreate a model of Earth dur-
ing the specific time period.
Hearty and his associates
are primarily working on find-
ing fossils from Australia and
Africa to the East Coast of the
United States. They are search-
ing for shells, sediments, and
rocks that date back to the Plio-
cene epoch. These geological
deposits serve as evidence of
the climate during this specific
time period and give research-
ers insight into the both the
Earth’s crust and ice caps.
He and his team have al-
Miriam Himes
Opinion Editor
Paul Hearty joins research team granted $4.25 million
Recent government deci-
sions led to the removal of sev-
eral education programs, jump-
starting a decline of teachers in
North Carolina.
"One of the main factors
contributing to that decline is
the state ending the NC Teach-
ing Fellowship Program," said
Robert Smith, a professor and
undergraduate program coordi-
nator at the Watson School of
Education.
The Teaching Fellowship
program awarded high school
students financial assistance to
obtain a teaching degree. Many
of the students in Smith's class
relied on the fellowship pro-
gram.
The fellowship removal
wasn't the only legislative
changes potentially causing
concern for teachers and stu-
dents.
"There were many changes
that were implemented such as
the removal of teacher tenure,
supplement of teachers earn-
ing a master's degree, class side
caps, and other factors beyond
that," said Smith.
Students pursuing a mas-
ter's degree will no longer gain
a supplement, paying teachers
more for continuing their edu-
cation. Teachers looking to fur-
ther their education would not
be compensated for being more
qualified and better educated
or given no assistance in pay-
ing back their graduate degree
loans.
Associate professor at the
Watson school of education,
Brad Walker, took notice of
the affects the removal of the
supplement caused. "We've
saw a real drop in our graduate
program," Walker said. "I think
a lot of teachers have left after
teaching in North Carolina.”
According to Brittany Sattler,
a UNCW junior majoring in el-
ementary education, for anyone
going into a profession, money
isn't often the main concern.
"We do it because we love
kids and want to make a differ-
ence in their lives," Sattler said.
Like many students, Brittany
Sattler, a junior at UNCW work-
ing to get an elementary educa-
tion major, worries about being
paid enough after graduation to
pay off her student loans.
"It's difficult to accumulate
so many loans and not get paid
enough to pay them off in a de-
cent amount of time," said Sat-
tler, who doesn't plan to work in
North Carolina once she gradu-
ates.
However there has been
some action to counter the
teacher decline.
"Legislature recently agreed
upon a pay increase that aver-
ages to about 7 percent." Smith
said.
Yet North Carolina is one of
the states with the lowest teach-
er salaries in the United States.
Teachers seeking a better pay
wage and benefits are moving to
neighboring states such as Vir-
ginia or South Carolina.
"If you value teachers, do so
by respecting the work that they
do, respecting who they are, and
seeing them as an investment
instead of an expense," Smith
said.
N.C. ends
teaching
fellowship
programs
Kathrin Bittner
Interning Writer
It was announced on Octo-
ber 17 at Midnite Madness that
UNC Wilmington would be
unveiling a new athletics logo
on January 28, 2015. This an-
nouncement has sparked the cu-
riosity of many students, alum-
ni, and fans, as the current logo
has been in place since 1992.
Rob Aycock, Senior Associ-
ate Athletic Director and Ex-
ecutive Director of the Seahawk
Club, spearheaded the new logo
project.
New UNCW Logo to be unveiled this month
Kevin McClary
Staff Writer
Professor Paul Hearty poses for a picture at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Professor
Hearty is working with associates to determine global warming patterns.
“Once I’ve been here we’ve
moved in a very clear and up-
front direction about getting this
done,” Aycock said, “A lot of
people here for a long time have
been at least interested in inves-
tigating a possible new logo.”
Joe Bosack & Co., a design
firm located in Pottsville, Penn-
sylvania specializing in sports
brand identity, designed the new
logo. They have designed logos
for schools such as Mississippi
State University and Boise State
University, and are currently
working on new NCAA Cham-
pionship logos.
The UNCW athletic de-
partment reached out to many
people across campus and held
focus groups with student ath-
letes, members of SGA, faculty,
and staff throughout the design
process.
“I want people to know that
this has been a university pro-
cess. This was not something
athletics launched into on our
own,” Aycock said, “We’ve
gone to great lengths to try to
involve as many people on cam-
pus as we can.”
ready found through these sam-
ples that sea-level during Plio-
cene was higher than the current
level. Hearty says by collect-
ing such data, “[we can] try to
understand what the world was
like during warmer periods” and
thus better understand the cur-
rent status of climate change on
Earth today.
Hearty emphasizes he and his
team are principally focusing on
collecting and gathering data in
order to better understand the
past and what this information
means for “tomorrow’s future”.
Rather than making predictions
about the changing climate
or attempting to prove global
warming is happening on Earth,
Hearty is simply striving to
“build a comprehensive model
of the earth’s atmosphere, ocean
and ice sheet systems”.
The current logo has been
used in various ways across
UNCW for the last 22 years,
however the new logo is de-
signed specifically for athletics
branding.
“I think one of the interesting
things is we have a logo right
now that’s a spirit mark and it
works really well for the univer-
sity but it’s not necessarily a dy-
namic athletics logo,” Aycock
said, “so that was one of the
things we really wanted to ad-
dress through this process.”
Although the new logo will
be used for all athletic depart-
ment sports and merchandise,
the current logo will stick
around UNCW for a while.
“We’ll still have it as a sec-
ondary mark. We’ll quit selling
merchandise with that logo on
it as it relates to apparel but we
know that logo is ingrained in
the culture here and we antici-
pate that a lot of the university
will continue to use that mark,”
Aycock said, “Moving towards
a new logo in not an indictment
of that mark.”
In addition to the new logo,
there will be new secondary
logos and custom fonts the uni-
versity will own. This will add
a new level of versatility for ev-
ery team’s uniforms across all
UNCW sports.
“Once we launch this, we
will be committed to the brand
and identity guide that goes
with it,” Aycock said.
Three pieces of the new logo
were revealed at the Men’s and
Women’s Basketball exhibi-
tions on November 8 , a few
days later on UNCW Athlet-
ics social media pages, and at
Wagsgiving.
The full logo will be un-
veiled on January 28, 2015 at
Wagoner Dining Hall before the
Men’s Basketball game against
Elon. New merchandise featur-
ing the logo will also be avail-
able that day.
He and his colleagues are
working to gather enough in-
formation to correctly and ef-
ficiently recreate this 3 million
year old version of Earth.
“The upshot is that if we
can understand basically how
sea-level behaved in a natural
system without humans inter-
vening,” Hearty said, “we can
get a better idea of what kind of
changes we can expect in sea-
level and ice sheets and ocean
currents and all the other factors
that are related to that in the fu-
ture.”
Several UNCW Environ-
mental Science majors ex-
pressed excitement surrounding
this project, and it what it means
for the issue of climate change,
because it is difficult for this is-
sue to gain attention and fund-
ing from foundations such as
the National Science Founda-
tion. Furthermore, Hearty’s
connection to UNCW helps to
encourage the green mentality
the UNCW campus works to
adapt.
Jimmy Morgenroth, an En-
vironmental Science major at
UNCW, is thrilled about the
project and its potential impact.
“Dr. Hearty and his team is
conducting research from a geo-
logical perspective...the data
that they come up with can be
extremely beneficial in under-
standing climate change in the
past and what can be expected
in the future,” Morgenroth said.
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The university will reveal a new logo on the evening Jan. 28 at Wagoner Hall. Students are
encouraged to look for the missing puzzle pieces to complete the logo.
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Free time is in short supply
for Nicole Dempsey, who bal-
ances the roles of both a sopho-
more at UNC Wilmington and
the president of TealTV.
Double majoring in both
Film Studies and Communica-
tion Studies, Dempsey became
president of TealTV, UNCW’s
student-led television network,
this year. Previously, she held
the role of assistant producer
and joined TealTV as a way to
get involved on campus.
“I’ve always had a creative
flair, however I have never been
traditionally talented as far as
being able to draw really well or
something like that,” Dempsey
said. “I always thought that film
was a really great media for me
to get that creative side of my-
self out.”
Dempsey was a production
assistant on a few student films.
Growing up, she watched vari-
ous films and knew she wanted
to become a producer upon en-
tering college.
“I was always a huge fan
of Quentin Tarantino movies
and I just thought that when I
watched them that they were a
really good art piece,” Dempsey
said.
Her interest ranges from
modern to foreign films.
Dempsey previously attend-
ed Psych Circle[s1] , a UNCW
club that meets weekly to dis-
cuss interesting topics in film
that have a psychology focus.
This year, she dedicates most
of her time to her position at
TealTV along with her 18-hour
class schedule.
Student Profile: TealTV
President Nicole Dempsey
Kathrin Bittner
Interning Writer
Pomegranate Books, a lo-
cal bookstore and Wilmington
gem, recently opened a café to
stimulate business and to ex-
pand. Owner Kathleen Jewell
opened this family-owned and
local bookstore ten years ago.
Her son-in-law, Manol Geor-
gieff, began working with her
in order to create the new coffee
shop, Café Zola.
The two said that opening
the café was primarily stimu-
lated by the idea that coffee and
books naturally go together.
They want to create a space for
students and members of the
Wilmington community alike
to be able to enjoy the experi-
ence of reading and perusing
the bookstore coupled with an
exceptional cup of coffee.
Not only are Georgieff and
Jewell attempting to serve out-
standing brew to their custom-
ers, but they are also working
towards giving customers an in-
viting and laid-back atmosphere
in which they can work, study
or hang out in the café.
Georgieff also focused on the
quality of the coffee. The coffee
will come from one of the four
micro-roasters in Wilmington.
Thus, Café Zola will support
the local coffee brewers while
providing customers with an au-
thentic taste.
“[I hope to] deliver arti-
sanal coffee,” he said, “to give
customers an excellent experi-
ence.”
Georgieff said he plans to
have three different methods
of serving the coffee: espresso,
Wilmington bookstore
owner opens new coffee shop
Miriam Himes
Opinion Editor
TealTV Vice President, Rob-
ert Oechslin, commented on
Dempsey’s work ethic.
“Sometimes we call her the
owl because she works day and
night,” Oechslin said.
Dempsey described herself
as more of a behind-the-scenes
person than someone who en-
joys the spotlight. She prefers to
organize rather than take center
stage.
“Nicole is awesome to work
with,” Oechslin said. “She was
fairly shy when we first met, but
as president of TealTV, she has
really broken out of her shell
and become a more charismatic
person.”
He described her as a student
who leads by example and sets
the tone by showing dedication.
“You just want to work your
hardest to be able to keep up
with her,” Oechslin said.
TealTV plans to follow their
motto, “by students, for stu-
dents,” by allowing talented
students to show off their skills.
Dempsey works with her team
to make more student-originat-
ed content available to the stu-
dent body.
“We are trying to build our
presence on campus,” Dempsey
said.
She hopes to increase the
visibility of TealTV, one of the
younger on-campus media orga-
nizations. .
After graduating from
UNCW, Dempsey hopes to es-
tablish herself locally by be-
coming a producer. Then, she
plans to move to New York or
Los Angeles to build her career.
pour-over, and Turkish or Greek
coffee. He wants to stray away
from the typical ways that chain
coffee stores usually serve their
coffee and provide customers
with a distinct and genuine cof-
fee experience.
Other than coffee, the own-
ers plan to sell loose leaf tea
from all around the globe.
They will be collecting differ-
ent kinds of tea—from black to
green to chai to yogi—and serv-
ing it alongside their local cof-
fee blends. Their tea is organic
and will give non-coffee drink-
ers a chance to enjoy the pleas-
ant ambiance that Café Zola has
to offer.
In the future, Georgieff hopes
to include freshly squeezed
juices on the menu. He already
has juicers and dispensers of lo-
cally grown fruit. The café will
also have small food items for
customers to enjoy during their
stay. They will be importing a
variety of sweets from Coastal
Cupcakes, Wilmington’s pastry
hot spot. Everything the café
plans on offering will be local,
organic or all-natural in order to
create a green and socially con-
scious environment in the book-
store and café.
Café Zola hosted a soft open-
ing on Jan. 13 as the first day of
the new installment of the cof-
fee shop. In February, the café
will host a grand opening com-
plete with live music and free
beer. UNC Wilmington stu-
dents can receive discounts with
their student I.D. at all times at
Café Zola. The coffee shop will
be open around the same times
as the bookstore—Monday-Sat-
urday from 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Café Zola opened on Jan. 13 in order to expand on the busi-
ness, Pomegranate Books.
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3. When UNC Wilmington
signed Kevin Keatts to take
over their men’s basketball
program last March, fans and
players alike looked forward to
what a coach of Keatts’ pedi-
gree would bring to a program
that had suffered through six
straight losing seasons.
After being an assistant
coach to Rick Pitino and the
Louisville Cardinals for the
past three seasons, Keatts had a
proven track record of being a
great recruiter, and being a part
of a great winner.
Now he just needed to bring
that success to the Seahawks.
The former long-time coach
of renowned prep school Har-
grave Military Academy, Keatts
inherited a roster full of play-
ers recruited by the previous
coaching regime. The cupboard
was not bare, as there were still
talented and experienced play-
ers left on the roster, but it was
yet to be seen how quickly they
would gel in Keatts’ new sys-
tem.
Fifteen games into the sea-
son, the Seahawks have an
overall record of 8-7, already
just one win shy of last season’s
total, and a conference record of
3-1, equaling last season’s num-
ber of conference wins.
After blowing an 11-point
halftime lead at home against
Hofstra last week in a loss,
the Seahawks have since hit a
stride, pulling out three straight
CAA victories.
The team traveled to CAA-
favorite Northeastern on Jan. 5
where they dealt the Huskies
a seven point loss. It had been
nearly two years since UNCW
had won a conference game on
the road, their last being a 57-
51 victory at Hofstra on Jan. 26,
2013.
UNCW carried that momen-
tum into a home contest against
defending-CAA champions
Delaware, where they topped
the Blue Hens 74-73 in over-
Men’s basketball shows gradual improvement under Keatts
Kevin McClary
Staff Writer
Junior guard Craig Ponder drives for a layup against Delaware last Thursday.
time, their second overtime vic-
tory of the season.
The Seahawks trailed by six
with 37 seconds left in regula-
tion before taking advantage of
turnovers by the visitors to force
the extra period.
Senior Freddie Jackson
never left the court, playing
all 45 minutes, finishing with
20 points, eight rebounds, and
five assists. Junior Craig Pon-
der finished with 19 points,
four rebounds, four assists, and
sank two clutch free throws
with three seconds remaining to
force overtime.
“It’s conference time, and
youcantellthroughoutthecoun-
try and even in the CAA there’s
going to be great games,” Ke-
atts said after the game. “It’s un-
fortunate that somebody had to
lose a game like that. I thought
our guys were resilient.”
Several players came off the
bench and delivered big plays
throughout the game. Junior
forward Dylan Sherwood, who
has been bothered by an ankle
injury recently, drained a three-
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pointer in both the second half
and overtime to help propel the
Seahawks.
“We had some guys who
came in the game and made
some really good plays,” Ke-
atts said, “You talk about Dylan
Sherwood who hadn’t played in
a couple games, not the minutes
he would like, and he came in
and made shots.”
Sophomore C.J. Gettys also
came off the bench and con-
tributed eight points, eight re-
bounds, and five blocks. Gettys
made several hustle plays that
didn’t show up in the stat sheet,
setting screens to get shoot-
ers open and diving after loose
balls, none more so than the
play that helped secure the vic-
tory for UNCW.
With the game tied at 73 in
the final minute of overtime,
Sherwood missed a three that
would’ve given his team the
lead. Gettys then sprawled onto
the floor where he snagged the
ball and passed it to senior Ad-
dison Spruill, who was fouled.
After missing the first free
throw, Spruill sank the second
to give UNCW the one-point
victory.
“When you see stuff like that,
when you see a seven footer just
laying it all out and getting on
the floor you have no choice but
to give it all to the team,” Jack-
son said. “We’ve been doing
that since day one, since coach
got here, and I feel like that car-
ried over into that game.”
“I think since I’ve been here
that’s the first game that we’ve
won like that at the end of the
game,” Spruill added.
After winning the tight victo-
ry over the Blue Hens, UNCW
dominated wire-to-wire over
visiting Drexel on Saturday,
earning a 64-57 decision and a
third straight conference win.
Senior Freddie Jackson has
become instrumental in UN-
CW’s success this season. The
New Hanover graduate cur-
rently leads the team in scoring,
averaging 15 points per contest.
Jackson is also tied with Spruill
for the team-lead in rebounds
per game (6.3 rpg), and leads
While club sports teams op-
erate differently from Divison I
squads, that doesn’t mean their
goals are any different.
They both want to be suc-
cessful.
Practices, events, and every-
thing else that goes into a suc-
cessful Divison I team still lies
within a club team.
The UNC Wilmington cy-
cling club exhibited those quali-
ties last year, in their most suc-
cessful season to date.
The club was second in Divi-
sion II in the spring of 2013 and
finished ranked sixth overall.
Division II is the placement of a
team based on the size of a cam-
pus, with Division I for smaller
campuses.
The team plans to do better
this year, but first has to recruit
more members and train exist-
ing members who are new to
racing.
Cycling club gaining traction on and off campus
Kathrin Bittner
Interning Writer
Due to members graduating
the previous year, club president
Alex Claiborne hopes to recruit
more members by making the
club more accessible.
“That’s one of the goals I’ve
been aiming for this year,” Clai-
borne said. “People see us wear-
ing our jerseys on our road bikes
and are intimidated. I don’t want
that. I don’t like that.”
Vice-President of the cycling
club William Raynor is also
working to train new members
who have yet experienced road
racing before.
The club is divided into two
separate groups Men’s A and
Men’s B.
To be placed in Men’s A,
members have to complete a set
amount of races and rank high
enough to be placed. The club
plans to gain one other member
with the possibility of ranking
in Men’s A.
Raynor and club member
Carter Harris are the only mem-
The UNCW cycling club has grown in recent years.
bers that are currently eligible
for Men’s A.
For interested members,
training to handle the road rac-
es, which cover both hills and
long hours in the biking seat,
will be underway during the fall
and winter months to prepare
for the spring races.
The club plans to develop
three female members for vari-
ous races out of a total of five
or six female members on the
team. Along with recruiting
more members, Claiborne says
that they are also looking to re-
cruit more female members for
the team.
Road racing starts in Febru-
ary and ends in mid-Septem-
ber and the team plans to train
through the season to prepare
for the spring events.
All those interested in join-
ing the cycling club are encour-
aged to contact Alex Claiborne
or William Raynor via email.
the team in minutes played per
contest, being on the court for
37 minutes per game.
The younger members of the
team have improved throughout
the year as well, specifically
freshman guard Jordon Talley.
Talley has started each of the
team’s last four contests, calmly
leading the offense while taking
advantage of scoring chances
of his own, including finishing
with a season-high 21 points in
the win over Northeastern.
“Jordon’s been tremendous,”
Keatts said. “What Jordon’s
given us is a lot of effort, he’s
been a tremendous defender on
the ball and certainly, believe
it or not, a lot of these guys are
following his actions because
he’s playing so hard.”
While the Seahawks early
success in the CAA has raised
eyebrows throughout the league
(the team was picked to finish
ninth out of 10 teams in the an-
nual preseason poll), the team
still has a long way to go in Ke-
atts’ first season at the helm.
UNCW has 14 conference
games remaining, with eight of
them on the road.
Nevertheless, the team’s
recent performance provides
hope for the rest of the season.
If there’s one thing Keatts wants
his players to have in his inau-
gural season as head coach, it’s
the right mindset in each and
every game.
“We’ve preached since I’ve
taken the job that the condition-
ing will kick in, believe that
you’re going to win the game”
Keatts said.
“Our motto is we don’t stop
playing until the clock hits
zero.”
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4. The UNC Wilmington wom-
en’s basketball team contin-
ued its ‘breakthrough’ season
Wednesday, defeating Campbell
University, 89-80, at Trask Coli-
seum and improving to 2-0 on
the young season.
The Seahawks trailed the
Camels late in the first half be-
fore tying the game at 41-all
on a 3-pointer from sophomore
Johanna McMillan with 47 sec-
onds left in the half. Campbell
never regained the lead, and
UNCW finished the half with a
two-point lead.
Campbell didn’t miss a shot
until the 12:49 mark of the first
frame, and sophomore forward
Amanda Coffer broke her ca-
reer-high of 16 points with 9:22
left in the half. Coffer finished
with 30 points, shooting 11-for-
17 from the floor and 5-for-6
from the free throw line.
“Every time that she shot
the ball, I thought it was going
in,” said UNCW head coach
Adell Harris, “From where I
was sitting in the first half and
the second half, she looked like
LeBron James out there. … I
thought she was big for them.
She made every open shot she
had.”
UNCW inched ahead in
the second half, leading by as
much as 15 points with 3:51
left to play. Campbell’s hot start
trailed off further into the game,
and the Camels finished 22-for-
45 (48.9 percent) from the field.
John Levering
Staff Writer
Shatia Cole defends during Wednesday’s contest against Campbell.
Despite having guards Am-
ber Reeves, Shatia Cole and
Naqaiyyah Teague foul out
within a two-minute stretch
with nearly five minutes left in
the game, the Seahawks were
able to hang on to start the sea-
son 2-0 for the first time in Har-
ris’ tenure at UNCW.
As a team, the Seahawks
won the turnover battle with
22 takeaways from the Camels,
while limiting their turnovers
to seven. UNCW also had a
big day on the offensive glass,
grabbing 19 offensive rebounds,
which led to 19 second-chance
points.
“I think this is such a huge
win for our team, our program,
our growth, the process of what
it means to become a champi-
on—that’s what we want,” Har-
ris said. “I think this is a huge
step in the right direction. I have
so much respect for Wanda Wat-
kins and the program they run at
Campbell. They are a bunch of
hard workers, blue-collar kids—
not a lot flash out there, but a lot
of toughness. We had to really
take the game from them—they
weren’t going to give it to us—
so I’m really proud of our kids
for stepping up and taking the
game.”
McMillan was one of three
Seahawks to score double dig-
its, finishing the night with 17
points, breaking her previous
career high of 12. She had five
of the Seahawks’ eight 3-point-
ers, shooting 5-of-8 from be-
hind the arc.
Senior Kelva Atkins turned
in another impressive outing,
finishing with a team-high 29
points, adding six assists and
three steals.
“Kelva is the one who had
it going from the start,” Harris
said. “I don’t know how many
points she had at the half, but I
feel like it was 15 or so. You can
identify early what they’re go-
ing to do with Kelva as it relates
to attacking, and we didn’t see
any change in what they were
doing to Kelva in the 40-minute
game. I don’t think there was
any adjustment really made to
stop her from getting directly to
the rim. It’s easy for her to do
that—it really is.”
After sitting out in the season
opener against UNC Pembroke,
sophomore Ryan Flowers made
her season debut, coming off
the bench with 7:31 left in the
first half. Flowers was the lone
Seahawk to register a double-
double, scoring 13 points and
grabbing 14 rebounds.
Last season Flowers started
all 32 games and led the Se-
ahawks in rebounding with 247.
“I feel like it was very im-
portant for me to make a state-
ment,” Flowers said. “I had to
go out there and do what my
team needed, and I feel like I
did that tonight.”
Entering the season, Harris
had a combined record of 10-
53 in her first two seasons as
head coach. It’s still early in the
season, but with a full roster for
the first time, the Seahawks’ im-
provements are already notice-
able.
After the victory, Kelva At-
kins, the lone recruit from Har-
ris’ first recruiting class three
years ago, had a succinct answer
when asked about the progress
the program has made in her
time at UNCW.
“One word,” Atkins said.
“Breakthrough.
“A lot of credit goes to our
kids,” Harris said, “and not just
for working hard in the weight
room or getting in the gym and
doing extra, but for believing in
my vision for the program. Ev-
ery kid on the roster has been
recruited by me or my staff for
the last two years, and that has
been a grind to replace a full
roster in two seasons—that’s
basically what we did. And last
year, our kids got an opportuni-
ty to play. [They] had to endure
some difficult times for us to get
to this point, so the success that
we’re having now, we’ve paid
the price to have. We’ve had
our bad days. We’ve been in the
grind of it. It’s time to get back
up again after we get knocked
down. We deserve this. Our kids
deserve this. And we will con-
tinue to get better, and we will
continue to be humble about
what’s happening, and we’ll
continue to stay hungry. But this
isn’t an accident. We’ve worked
hard, and we’ve been working
hard behind closed doors, so not
a lot of people have seen it. All
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Seahawks come from behind to top Campbell
you’ve seen is us lose basketball
games. We’ve always believed,
and we knew this year—like
Kelva said—is breakthrough
season. We can either turn the
corner, or remain how it has
been. Our kids are just deter-
mined to turn the corner.”
On Saturday Nov. 22,
UNCW will travel to Appala-
chian State University for their
first road game of the season.
Over Thanksgiving, the Se-
ahawks will look to add to their
‘breakthrough’ season when
they host the UNCW Hampton
Inn Thanksgiving Classic over
Nov. 28 and 29 at Trask Coli-
seum.
Seamen become staple of UNCW sports scene
McLeod Brown
Sports Editor
For the past few years, there
has been a sports team on UNC
Wilmington’s campus creating
some buzz by winning awards
and gaining national exposure.
And it’s not the one you may
be thinking of.
UNCW’s male Ultimate
team, the Seamen, has become
one of the most popular sports
clubs on campus, and for good
reason.
The Seamen have made a
name for themselves, not just
on a regional scale, but nation-
ally in recent seasons, advanc-
ing all the way to the USA Ul-
timate National Semifinals last
season which were broadcasted
on ESPN3 and ESPNU.
This year, with a huge spike
in prospective members trying
out for the team, veteran players
are excited to see that the club
has turned the corner on cam-
pus. But it hasn’t been easy.
“The team has changed dra-
matically,” said captain Char-
lie Lian. “First off, my fresh-
man year was the first year we
started the B team. It consisted
of nine students and our A team
only had around 24. Now we
had more than 75 players tryout
for the team. And now we have
27 students on the A team, and
the B team has around 20 stu-
dents. Also we have many stu-
dents send the team emails be-
fore they come to the school and
say they are excited to tryout for
our ultimate frisbee team.”
Lian, now a senior, has had
a first-hand view at the club’s
growth in recent years. That
growth has in turn led to more
success for the team, as well.
After being a national title
contender for the greater part of
the 90s, and winning the nation-
al championship in 1993, the
Seamen hit a bit of a lull with
the turn of the century.
That has changed quickly,
however, with last year’s trip to
the D-I College Championships
marking the club’s second visit
in a row, and third in five years.
After finishing tied for fifth
in 2013, the team was able to
advance to this year’s semifinals
in Mason, Ohio before falling to
national runner-up UNC Dark-
side 15-10.
The recent resurgence of the
team has also created a renewed
interest in the sport throughout
campus.
“I’ve never been on a team
where everyone really bought
into the system,” said club
member Erik Esposto. “For the
Seamen, everyone really buys
in and really wants to work for
each other to do a good job.
When we were going to nation-
als, at the end of May, we had
about a month between school
and nationals. We stayed here
and trained the whole time, al-
most every day. Everybody just
gave everything they got. They
stopped their work schedules,
focused just on Ultimate, and
worked so hard every day at
practice… People were will-
ing to put everything into it.
For each other, for the team, for
themselves, to really grow as a
program.”
The growing interest in
UNCW Ultimate is a micro-
cosm of the sports popularity
throughout the country.
Over 12,000 student athletes
compete on 700 college ultimate
teams in North America. Ad-
ditionally, many high schools,
including Hoggard, have begun
ultimate programs.
The team competed in three
tournaments during the fall sea-
son in preparation for the up-
coming spring portion.
Separated into two teams,
UNCW Y and UNCW X, the
team first traveled to the Bank
Run in Charlotte. UNCW Y ad-
vanced to the semifinals before
falling to UNC, while UNCW
X fell in the finals to the same
UNC squad.
At the Wolfpack Invite in
Raleigh, UNCW X finished
sixth, while UNCW Y advanced
to the semifinals.
The tournaments were used
as a measuring stick for the
team before they deployed their
A squad at the Fall Easterns,
which took place on UNCW’s
campus Nov. 15-16. The Sea-
men finished third in the tour-
nament, once again dropping to
UNC 14-11.
Now gearing up for their
spring season, with the Carolina
Kickoff in Chapel Hill on Jan.
24th and 25th marking the be-
ginning, the Seamen are looking
forward to keeping their high
level of performance.
With the team’s popularity
continuing to soar, people are
always encouraged to go out
and give the sport of Ultimate
a try.
“If you are looking to be part
of something big come join ul-
timate frisbee club team,” Lian
said. “Whether you want to play
the sport competitively and play
on ESPN or just play for fun,
this club sport is for you. Come
check it out and give the sport a
chance, you will grow to like it
and you won’t regret it.”
The Seamen have grown in popularity on campus with their recent success.
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5. 501.15.15 |TheSeahawk.org
OPINION
I locked the dorm windows,
unplugged everything, and ini-
tialed the roommate checklist.
No more shower shoes, 2am
parties in the room above, or
suspicious Wag green beans. Fi-
nally, the pressure to constantly
be my best self, in case of the
inevitable awkward hallway
interactions on the way to the
shower, was lifted. After four
months of attempted self-suf-
ficiency and ignoring the hair
stuck to shower walls, it was
time to go home.
I could hardly sleep on the
airplane (due to anticipation
or the hefty leopard-printed
woman leaning on my shoul-
der, I will never know.) Child-
ish thoughts of home swirled
around my head. I imagined
myself sleeping past noon and
ignoring all my responsibilities
to frolic in the snow.
My first semester of college
felt more like summer camp
than adulthood- full of forced
icebreaker games and spontane-
ous late nights. College was not
home, but a temporary vacation.
When I walked into my
house, everything would feel
normal again.
Sadly, the mind is the master
of embellishment. After hours
of travel, my teary-eyed par-
ents squeezed me tightly and I
rushed into my room. I stopped
instantly, bewildered.
It was spotless and my bed
was neatly made.
Rather than the comfort of
familiarity I had been expect-
ing, I felt strange. There was no
yelling, and there was a list of
activities planned for the week.
Perhaps I had stumbled into a
welcoming bed and breakfast.
I felt homeless. I certainly did
not belong under the florescent
lights of my dorm. Now my
only option was to be a guest
among my own, suddenly po-
lite, family.
For most freshmen, myself
included, college is our first ex-
perience being away from home
for an extended period. It is an
odd in-between time in every
sense. We do not feel like adults,
despite the reality of dirty laun-
dry. The fall semester is packed
with excitement and change, yet
four months is hardly enough
time to settle in completely.
Then, when we finally return
to our families, eager for the de-
served break, home is not quite
how we remember it.
Most of all, our friends are
different. One of my friends
babbled about her sorority sis-
ters and was covered in illegible
monograms. Another met a girl
on a bus during his gap year in
South America and may never
return, and a third had come to a
surprising realization about her
gender identity. I felt the same
on the inside, but I began to
wonder if I had become a new
person too.
Despite the changes, how-
ever, daily life slowly returned.
My dog stole all my blankets
Almost home for the holidaysEmma Tasharski
Contributing Writer
once again, clothes were strewn
across my floor in familiar hap-
hazardness, and arguments burst
out around the dinner table. I
remembered why I sometimes
need a break from my mom.
By the last week, everything
was normal and everything was
boring. I found myself buying
various kitten shaped items for
my cat-lover roommate and cal-
culating what time I would need
to wake up to get to classes on
time.
Soon, I stuffed my freshly
laundered clothes into my hid-
eous suitcase and said my good-
byes. It hurt a little less than last
time. And when I returned to
campus, it felt like I was com-
ing home.
Men on the move
A Menimist movement has
recently sparked the media’s
attention as individuals come
together to fight for equality for
men across the web. Yes, you
read correctly. A movement has
been organized to not only fight
and counter feminism but to
protect the rights of men.
The movement originally
started on social media as way
for men to share jokes concern-
ing issues they face as men in
the 21st century, but got car-
ried away when a few individu-
als decided to take the jesting
and not so clever word play
to the next level and present a
new movement, dubbed “Me-
nimism” to the spotlight. They
have created their own website
and foundation, A Voice for
Men, which allows men from
around the nation to celebrate
their common concerns about
the feminist movement and
present day social and political
issues. While the movement
has not spread wildly, it does
bring to light some unsettling
misconceptions about the femi-
nist movement all together and
the general incomprehension
some have towards it.
The Menimist movement
focuses on the issues men face
currently around the world.
These issues range from a va-
riety of topics from rape con-
cerns to challenging the media
on the lack of diversity in male
body types presented. Some of
their concerns are legitimate a
worthwhile as evidenced above.
There is a great need in the me-
dia for body types and char-
acters to be diversified. These
relevant and important issues,
however, are oftentimes ad-
dress by feminist in the feminist
movement. Anyone who has
taken a gender studies class or
who has stayed up-to-date and
educated on gender issues in the
media would understand and be
Miriam Himes
Opinion Editor
aware of the fact that the femi-
nist movement includes work-
ing towards solutions to many
these concerns.
Thus, it is important to be re-
minded of or for others to learn
and know that feminism em-
bodies a myriad of issues - race,
gender, masculinity, feminin-
ity, class, etc - and it works to
empower individuals positively
rather than (as some choose to
believe) degrade, belittle, and
ultimately usurp all men. Men
in today’s society have their
own set of issues and quiet
suppression. Feminism and
feminists don’t hate men - we
are working to bring equality
for everyone and that includes
bringing to light the lies men as
well as women are taught and
striving to educate everyone on
how to filter the distortion of to-
day’s masculinity and fight for
resolve.
Instead of being ignorant and
uneducated by joining a fem-
inist-shaming movement like
Menimism or thinking femi-
nists’ ultimate goals are to live
in a man-free society, work to
become informed and enlight-
ened to a gain a greater and
deeper understanding of femi-
nist issues and the fight for so-
cial, racial, and gender equality
around the world.
UNCW students have the
opportunity to learn and ex-
pand their worldview through a
variety of events hosted by the
Women Studies Resource Cen-
ter. Stay up to date on what they
plan for this semester so you
can be involved and educated
on important social and political
topics.
The Menimism movement addresses some issues that are try-
ing to be resolved by feminists as well.
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Visit their webpage for
more information:
http://uncw.edu/wsrc/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/
rossalynwarren/men-are-call-
ing-themselves-meninists-to-
take-a-stand-against
http://www.avoiceformen.
com/
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The transition between being at school and going home can be hard for first-year students.

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OPINION
Hold on to your Toblerones
everyone—there’s a global
chocolate shortage. Merely a
day ago this news fell under
the category of “Horrible Facts
That Never Even Occurred
to Me to Consider.” But the
moment the words fell from
my editor’s lips and I started
googling, I was wide-eyed with
shock and dismay within min-
utes. Everything is about to
change, friends.
Apparently the world is eat-
ing chocolate at a much faster
rate than it can be produced.
According to the Atlantic, “[in]
2013, the world consumed
about 70,000 metric tons more
cocoa than it produced. And
now, Mars, Inc. and Barry Cal-
lebaut—two of the world’s big-
gest manufacturers of chocolate
goods—are warning that by
2020, that consumption-over-
production number could in-
crease to 1 million metric tons.”
This chocolate deficit may mean
smaller sizes and more fillers in
beloved chocolate bars—not
to mention higher prices. So
why aren’t people just grow-
ing more chocolate? It’s both a
popular and profitable crop, just
not quite as profitable as some
others. According to Fox news,
“Seventy percent of the world’s
cocoa is produced in the Ivory
Coast and Ghana. But disease,
drought and farmers opting to
grow more productive crops
such as corn and rubber have
made growing conditions less
than ideal.”
What does this mean for
us? For college students? For
Americans? For humanity?
Are vending machines full of
Twix and M&M’s going to be
replaced with nothing more
than ever-increasing ludicrous
Autumn Rankin
Opinion Editor
The world is running out of chocolate
flavors of potato chips and sad
packs of chewing gum? Is trick-
or-treating going to become a
door-to-door stop for nothing
more than pumpkin-flavored
pretzels and plastic toys? Are
chocolate Santas going to be a
thing of the past? What will we
eat to console ourselves on Feb-
ruary 15th if not enormous box-
es of 70% off chocolates in red
heart-shaped boxes? Will the
Easter bunnies of our youth be
a distant memory as monstrous,
giant Peeps take over the entire
candy aisle? Why bother going
to the gym if you can’t undo it
all with a Snickers or a Butter-
finger?
Is a potential chocolate
shortage a big deal? Yes, but
is it a cause to panic? Well, not
yet. Before you start hoard-
ing Hershey’s kisses and cry-
ing yourself to sleep, take note:
scientists are as worried about
this as you (well, almost) and
are actively attempting to find
a new strain of cacao that will
solve the problem of chocolate
trees being so slow to produce
fruit. Though many have failed
to produce chocolate pleasing
to the palate, Fox News reports
that “farmers in Costa Rica are
working on several a new dis-
ease-resistant breeds of cacao”
and certain strains “are showing
promise not only for [their] abil-
ity to resist certain types of ca-
cao-killing diseases but because
[their] taste is superior to that of
other strains being developed.”
So Americans may need to
empty all the change from their
pockets at vending machines
and the world may need to be
mindful of how much chocolate
is being consumed in light of
how much faster it can be eaten
than produced. But never fear,
all is not lost. Science seems to
have its priorities straight and
is doing its best to fix the prob-
lem. Hopefully soon, so there is
no lull in our chocolate-buying
binges.
Chocolate is being consumed faster than it is being produced which could lead to a potiential
shortage of cocoa products.
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Full-time students
struggle to work
part-time
As students prior and during
college, we are continuously re-
minded of our need to take more
responsibility. This is usually
associated with part-time jobs
and independence even as full-
time students. Similarly to high
school, we are still given a con-
siderable amount of vacation
days overall. During the school
period, balancing a part-time
job and student life is manage-
able for most of us. However,
once the vacation begins many
students are presented with the
issue of housing. In particular,
freshman dorms and dining halls
close for some of these special
holidays leaving those students
with part-time jobs in the area
homeless, or should I say dorm-
less. Considering a fair amount
of students work these part-time
jobs to pay for their housing
or even tuition, the closing of
these dorms becomes a major
issue. I have encountered many
students who work part-time in
the area and were unable to take
time off over Thanksgiving and
Christmas. Although employers
may compromise and give out
more vacation for their part-
time employees, housing still
remains problematic. Couch-
surfing should surely not be the
only alternative to quitting a job
in order to find a place to stay
over a break. Unfortunately for
many, our previous employ-
ers from our high school days
rarely hire college students for
weekends or a short Christmas
Beth Milford
Staff Writer
break. Many of us depend on
our earnings from these part-
time jobs during the school year.
Even though the campus offers
employment for it students, the
hiring process is becoming in-
creasingly more difficult as the
UNC Wilmington student popu-
lation grows each year. Person-
ally, I not only work part-time to
earn and save money, but I also
view this job as an opportunity
to work on my time manage-
ment and organizational skills.
As a result of balancing my
studies and work, I feel myself
automatically scheduling things
and procrastinating less since
free time becomes more pre-
cious. Furthermore, I believe
that this issue should be taken
into more consideration if we
are expected to slowly break
away from dependence and gain
more responsibility.
Many students’ dorms are
closed over the holidays,
creating a problem for those
who have a job.
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