BY GREG ROBINSON
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

The Student Government Union and finance committee are finishing up for the year, and a few big decisions have been made. SGU voted to use some of the surplus funds in the student activities budget to help finance the new business center.

David Ostrander, Vice President for University advancement, made a proposal before SGU on Wednesday, April 14th, to request $10,000 a year for the next 5 years. The money will help finance the new business center that is to be constructed on campus, starting this summer.
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BY CHERALYN BARRINGTON
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

Mama earth has been blown up, frostbitten, suffocated, dehydrated, drowned, melted, stepped on each day by billions, and keeps on turning; so why not give her a break?

So there is this seeming “fad” going around. People all over are telling one another to “go green” and “save the environment.” These people have been working hard to make products that begin the quest to save the planet. These people may just save the world. Why not be one of them? With all of the new “green” advances, saving the planet is easier than ever. From pens made from plastic bottles to “waterless washing machines,” mama earth is slowly getting a little greener.
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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editor

On April 8, a small group of Saint Leo students looking to learn information about furthering their education with graduate, medical, or law schools, came together for an hour and participated in a workshop designed to help them understand the requirements for application and what admission officers are looking for.

Sponsored by the Junior Class, this workshop was led by Magali Tort, Associate Relationship Manager of KAPLAN Test Prep and Admissions. KAPLAN is a company which offers different programs including higher education, English language, test preparation, professional education, k12, and compliance programs. Tort, talked to students about their test preparation program, and offered advice and practical information concerning test scores and the application process.
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BY MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editor

The Pacioli Accounting Club hasn’t been around for long, but is making its own path in the Saint Leo community of clubs on campus. The club was just recently approved by the University’s Student Government Union (SGU) at the end of the first semester, but has some big plans in the future to become one of the most influential clubs on campus.

You don’t have to be an Accounting major to be in the recently added club to Saint Leo, the Pacioli Accounting Club, but you have to at least have an interest in business. Accounting is commonly phrased as, “The Language of Business,” and with this statement, it is how all businesses operate and communicate.
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BY JORDAN COATES
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

The library is full, the coffee is flowing, stress is building, and the sleepiness is not from a night on the town. Graduation is right around the corner.

Now that the end of the year has come, it is time to write those final papers, make summer plans, and plan ahead for the next semester. That is, some of us. It is not only the final days of the semester; it is graduation for many of our fellow Saint Leo students. Along with the diploma, graduation marks the beginning of facing reality.
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BY COLLEEN SHANAHAN
Lions’ Pride Online Editor

On April 4, 2010, I woke up at 11:30pm at night after attempting to fall asleep at 9:00pm. It wasn’t the most pleasant night’s sleep, but at least I caught some sleep. After all, I was about to embark on a journey to outer space that wouldn’t be over until close to 9:00am April 5.

It all started last summer when my dad got in contact with a pilot of his from his days working on the F-22 at Lockheed Martin at Edwards AFB, California. Air Force Colonel James Dutton wrote him to say that he had been selected to a NASA space shuttle mission. My dad’s face beamed with excitement for Jim (or Mash as he had more commonly been referred to because it was his pilot nickname). Dad said that Jim had always dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and he was so happy for him to finally realize his dream.
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BY CHERALYN BARRINGTON
Lions’ Pride Assistant Layout Editor

When Senior Colleen Shanahan graduates, she will have left a unique imprint on many organizations.

She is an intelligent and talented young woman who has excelled in academic and extracurricular activities throughout her four years at Saint Leo University. Shanahan is an english major with a specialty in creative writing. She is in the honors program, the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society, and the Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society. She has made the Dean’s List five times, and passed her junior oral exam, which she jokingly considers to be her greatest achievement. In addition to her impressive academic career at Saint Leo, she has also participated in Quiz Bowl all four years, and has been published in The Sandhill Review for photography and poetry. Shanahan has been the online editor for The Lions’ Pride for two years and speaks highly of her experience.

“I’ve enjoyed [working at the newspaper] with people I’ve known since I came to Saint Leo, the flexibility of the job since I am a commuter, and the ability to enlighten the Saint Leo community with many different genres of news and entertainment stories,” said Shanahan.
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BY KATIE GAISER
Lions’ Pride Layout Editor

“Edges” the musical is not just a typical show with cute dance numbers, creative props, and Broadway tunes. This show is about the lives of four young individuals searching for the answers to questions like “Who am I and who do I want to become?”

As college students on the brink of entering the real world without a clue, this show is about all of our lives, our uncertainties, and our futures. Each character portrayed a unique persona plagued with the fear of facing the world not knowing who they are and where their path will take them.
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04/27/10: Goo Goo Dolls
Genre: Rock, Adult Contemporary
Signature Songs: Iris, Slide,Name
Location: Hard Rock Live, Orlando
Time: 8:00pm
Price: $35-55

04/28/10: Thirty Seconds to Mars
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Signature Songs: The Kill, From Yesterday
Location: House of Blues Orlando, Lake Buena Vista
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $27

4/29/10: Alexisonfire
Genre: Post-Hardcore,Screamo
Signature Songs: No Transitory, 44 Caliber Love Letter, Young Cardinals
Location: State Theater, Saint Petersburg.
Time: 6:30pm
Price:$14

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BY MARY F CHUHINKO
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

I sit in the Saint Leo cafeteria. Across from me is one of the Theater department’s veteran stars, Miss Julia Teal, who sits with her hands in her lap and a polite smile across her face. She wears a simple white gypsy blouse hidden underneath is an ink blue camisole. Three different silver necklaces dangle from her neck and her dark almost black hair is parted and flows evenly past her shoulders. Her makeup is flawless as she sips from her glass of water. A bowl of spinach, beats and black olives sits before her, untouched.

Q| You’ve been acting with Saint Leo since your freshman year, how did you feel when you got the lead part in last spring’s production of Fool for Love?
I felt really excited and then a bit worried about such a big role.
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BY LINDSAY RENNER
Lions’ Pride Entertainment Editor

A popular Saint Leo event, Theta Phi Alpha’s Rock Against Cancer, returned to campus for its third year on Saturday, April 10th. Sponsored by Arizona Peace Tea and Henry C’s in Dade City, the lineup consisted of Connor Zwetsch, a sixteen—year old girl from the Tampa area, Boxer and Clover of Orlando, returning Veterans The Shoreline, also of Orlando, and last but not least, headlining band Mae, hailing from Norfolk, Virginia.
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BY MARY F. CHUHINKO
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

When most people are safe in their beds sleeping, one Saint Leo student is up driving to Daytona Beach as early as 2 a.m. in the morning. Her passion is surfing. She does this at night, when the water is black and there is no one else around. After getting her fill, she makes sure that she is back at Saint Leo in time for her morning classes, without missing a beat.

Tara Baseil is not your average student. Born and raised in New Jersey, Baseil wanted to get involved in a sport unlike the typical softball and basketball.
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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

The Saint Leo baseball team came up big on Green and Gold day as they beat the visiting Webber International University Warriors 28-10. The Lions pounded out 28 hits en route to their second-largest victory of the year.

The Warriors got things started immediately in the first inning. After a walk and a double play, Lance Lozan and Nate Goldstein hit back-to-back homeruns to give Webber International a quick 2-0 lead.
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BY KATIE GAISER
Lions’ Pride Layout Editor

The last four years I’ve spent at Saint Leo University have been some of the best of my life to date. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest influences in my life both professionally and socially has been the Lions’ Pride Newspaper.

I started working on the paper my freshman year because it was one of the few jobs on campus which employed non-work study students. I started writing editorials from the very beginning and always enjoyed voicing my opinions on various issues. At the end of the year, I was promoted to Layout Editor and have been doing it ever since.
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BY KRISTIN BRITTAIN
Lions’ Pride Editor in Chief

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end,” and graduation is just the next bittersweet step. College has been the fastest-slowest four years of my life, and it’s over.

The experiences I had and the memories I have made at Saint Leo are priceless. This institution has brought me places I have never dreamed of going too. I was given the opportunity to drink Guinness in Ireland, tour castles in Wales, have wine in Bath, and I learned the five W’s of journalism in California.
Over the past four years I have loved, lost, cried, laughed, drank, sobered up, read, written, I have been challenged, persevered, caved, and learned. I will never forget the memories I have made and the people I have met during my time here. From learning to cook in a microwave in Beniot Hall to “family dinners” in apartment 4208, and road trips with the “tripod,” I will never be the same.
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BY MINDY PIERCE AND JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Frankie Keel, from Fairfax, Virginia, is a Communications Management major and plans on continuing his career interning at the Tampa Bay radio station. Number 11 for the Lions, Keel plays as an attackman on the field. Just in the first official game for the 09-10 Lacrosse season, Keel captured three goals against Rollins College. Beginning the Deep South Conference, Keel scored a goal in a gut wrenching game where the Lions won 10-9 against big time rival, Florida Southern College.

“We won our conference championship on our last game of the year and ended my career with a win and a Deep South Conference Championship” says Keel about his biggest career highlight of Saint Leo LAX. “I would have to say my favorite memory of SLU LAX is when I legally body checked a player from Southern New Hampshire and sent him to the hospital after their team was talking trash to us” Keel says when asked about his favorite Saint Leo Lacrosse memory. Congratulations Frankie, the Lions’ Pride wishes you success with the rest of your senior year!

BY DANA JENNINGS
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

Saint Leo University just had its Student Government Union (SGU) elections this month, and I congratulate all who won their elections and commend all who ran. That being said, SGU is a relatively invisible force on campus even during election week, and that is unacceptable. An anonymous source from SGU stated that voter turnout was approximately 20 percent for every class. This means that only 300 students determined who is representing our over 1500 on-campus student body.

SGU is a governing body of the students elected for the students. There are bi-laws and a student constitution that is integral to the representation of the student body. SGU is important to this school, and as students we have the right and obligation to be the checks and balances for our representatives.
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BY CHERALYN BARRINGTON
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

Under this controversial health care plan 95 percent of Americans  will be covered for health insurance. This question is: how is this possible?

According to the White House’s website, health insurance is now more affordable by creating the largest middle class tax cut that America’s health care has ever seen. The new bill also reduces the cost for 32 million small business owners and families who cannot currently afford health insurance. The bill is said to reduce America’s deficit by over 100 billion dollars over the course of ten years, and by more than one trillion dollars in twenty years by decreasing government overspending.
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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editor

On April 15, students, faculty, and attending public will come together for Academic Excellence Day and learn about the projects and accomplishments of Saint Leo students.

“Overall, Academic Day is an opportunity for students to support each other, learn what their peers are working on,” Dr. Spoto said, “and to celebrate with their success.”
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BY JORDAN COATES
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

Fellowship and worship is thriving within the walls of Saint Leo’s resident halls as students come together to make up the ministry called “The Quest.”

“The Quest” is a student run ministry. The ministry has been around for about ten years, formally known as the “Lighthouse.” The “Lighthouse” started as a protestant ministry that was recognized as an official club on campus, and was led by John Zeller, the Chaplin for the Saint Leo University baseball and basketball teams. After some time, the club lost allocations, but continued to survive from the offerings of students who attended each week. The group met in Selby Auditorium, and almost every seat was filled. For two years, junior Krystal Filsinger attended regularly. With the leaders of the ministry graduating, they asked Filsinger to take over. Taking charge of her own calling and purpose at Saint Leo, Filsinger investigated the history of the “Lighthouse” and joined with other students to form a small leadership team. The students worked together to keep the ministry alive and active. As a group they made the decision to form a new face for the “Lighthouse”, and together they changed the name to “The Quest.”
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BY COLLEEN SHANAHAN
Lions’ Pride Online Editor

Now, this reporter knows you have heard it all before: “Click here to claim your FREE LAPTOP, Congratulations, you are the thousandth visitor to our site click here to claim your prize, Like X store? claim your gift card here!” Everyone knows that nine out of ten of these sites are scams to get your personal information and credit card. Well, what if this reporter was to tell you there is actually a legitimate site that gives away prizes without the scam? It’s true, and you can start earning bucks to claim amazing prizes.

Swagbucks.com is a search and win site that allows you to earn “swagbucks” that can be put towards prizes and contests. There are many ways in which you can earn swagbucks:
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BY LINDSAY RENNER
Lions’ Pride Entertainment Editor

One of Saint Leo’s many charitable organizations, Students Engaged in Rewarding Volunteer Experiences, better known as SERVE, recently sent a group of 15 students and faculty to San Jose, Costa Rica. The expedition was Saint Leo’s first time organizing a trip of this nature through an outside organization, and proved to be a very enriching and positive experience for its participants. According to sophomore Emily Pierce, “The best part of the trip was to be able to give the teachers a much-needed break, and play with some amazing kids at the same time. Experiencing a different way of life was pretty cool too.” The group primarily worked at a school, Casa Del Nino in the city itself, but on the weekend ventured out to sites such as the Irazu volcano and Playa de Jaco, one of the country’s famous black sand beaches.

At the beginning of the trip, the group went on a tour that encompassed sites such as the Irazu volcano, the Basilica de Nuestra de Senora de Los Angeles, the Orosi Valley (the latter two pictured above) and ended the day with lunch at a restaurant by the river. This was only a very small sample of the natural beauty of the Costa Rican landscape, which is well known for its beaches, rain forests and volcanoes.
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BY JORDAN COATES
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

Georg Buchner’s modernist masterpiece, Woyzeck, was acted within the walls of the Selby Auditorium at Saint Leo University.

Buchner began writing Woyzeck in 1835. He was a 23-year-old German playwright, medical student, and social revolutionary. Buchner died and it is unknown when the final scene was actually written. Four drafts of the play were left after he died. All of the original drafts included scenes in different orders, and different endings have been adapted over time. The production by Dave McGinnis followed the play quite closely to the chronological storyline with an added touch of his own personal charisma.
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BY ANDREW LEVENGOOD
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

On the third Saturday of every April since 2008 ,record stores that sell 50% music retail, are not publicly traded, and have 70% of their stores in the state they originated in, sell special releases from various artists available in no other capacity.

Record Store Day was started on April 19, 2008 with a performance by Metallica in San Francisco. Since then, it has featured special releases, meet and greets, and other various music related activities.
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JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

On February 20, 2010, the Saint Leo women’s soccer team traveled to Stetson University to play in a 7v7 spring tournament. Freshman Kelli Jones, who had played in all 16 games for the Lions in the fall, was there with the rest of her team participating in the tournament. It was supposed to be another day of normal soccer games for Jones, a midfielder from Wheaton, Illinois, but a freak accident changed everything.

Jones, who attended Wheaton Warrenville South High School in Illinois, started 12 games for Saint Leo during the 2009 fall season. She scored the first goal of her college career on September 25, 2009 against Clearwater Christian. For this season, she totaled two goals and two assists in more than 1100 minutes of playing time.
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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Senior swimmer Kyle Gramm is finished with collegiate athletics, but is continuing his athletic career with coaching.

This semester, Gramm is interning as a sixth grade math teacher at Centennial Middle School in Dade City, where he was appointed the boy’s head track coach for this season.

Gramm holds practices after school five days a week for an hour and a half.

“I am enjoying being the track coach,” Senior Kyle Gramm said, “I feel that this position will give me valuable experience and help me obtain my desired career as a math teacher. Ultimately, I would like to continue coaching throughout my teaching career.”

Gramm said that his experience as an athlete here helped him attain the job. Understanding how college athletics worked and being part of the team, helps Gramm manage his own team, and his ability to help his runners to achieve personal goals. As Gramm was a captain of the swim team, this leadership position helped his transition between being an athlete to a coach easier. Overall, Gramm is happy with this new position, hoping to have a successful season with Cyclones, and is glad he is able to use his athletic experience to give back to the community.

BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Gina Schifano, from Tampa, Florida, is majoring in Biology, and hopes to go to graduate school and get her Doctorate in Physical Therapy.

Schifano has contributed a lot to the Tennis team over her four years. She has obtained the Excellence Awards her Freshman and Sophomore years (2007 &2008). She was deemed Sunshine State Conference player of the week in 2008, and won the Sodexo Award worth $1,000 Scholarship for Saint Leo Women’s Tennis in 2009.
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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

On April 21st, a ceremony will be held at Kafe Kocopelli in Dade City, FL to induct the inaugural class of Zeta Chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society (NCAHS).
20 members will be inducted at this ceremony, with men’s soccer junior Bruce Cutler achieving the highest G.P.A. of 3.97, followed by cross country runners Alison Luthman and Emily Zambito, tying at 3.91.

“We are please to institute another way to recognize our outstanding student-athletes, this time on a national level,” Athletic Director Fran Reidy said. “They deserve this honor and recognition.”
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BY KATIE GAISER
Lions’ Pride Layout Editor

I’m fairly certain that most people have taken their respective sides on Obama’s new health care reform. However, I’m not so confident because for the first time ever, I am touched by both the benefits and the downfalls for a reform that is supposed to be “the solution.”

Let me explain myself. According to Obama’s website, this health care reform is going to provide health coverage for 95% of the country while still maintaining the current health care system. Where is this money coming from one might ask? To put it frankly, people like my parents. The money provided to pay for all these uninsured Americans comes from raised taxes for people making over $200,000 a year. It also takes a toll on the pharmaceutical companies, who will be charged an extra three billion dollars in excise tax every year.
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Dear Students of Saint Leo University,

When boredom struck a group of Saint Leo students two Saturdays ago, they decided there was absolutely nothing better to do then to light an entire bundle of newspaper, over 100 papers, on fire in the Benoit barbecues.

When I decided to attend Saint Leo University, I didn’t fully comprehend the importance of the Core Values, to be brutally honest I thought they were childish and couldn’t believe that the University actually followed them. Alas I was proven wrong. Now as a senior in my last semester with just about a month left till graduation, their importance couldn’t be any more evident. Like our wonderful handbook says, they are a “practical, effective model for life and leadership in a challenging world.”
With that said, we would really love to see more students emulate these core values on a daily basis. To anyone considering burning school newspapers, did you know it is against the law and punishable? If we knew who you were you could be prosecuted. Why, one may ask? Well, The Lions’ Pride is a student newspaper and is considered property; ergo, those papers would be deemed stolen, and when they were found as ashes they would be deemed destroyed stolen property.
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