New basketball coach going for blue and gold

The 2013 Daytona State College basketball team poses for their team portrait, avidly awaiting the season. Photo Courtesy of Daytona State College.

After six years with Daytona State College, head Men’s Basketball coach Anthony Andre resigned mid-season, leaving a team leaderless and with an overall 77-105 win/loss record for Daytona State College and a dismal 6-25 this past season.

Injuries and the loss of players gradually throughout the season served as a major setback for the team and DSC athletic director Will Dunne promptly initiated an in-depth search for a new coach following Andre’s stepping down. Throughout that month-long process, Dunne fielded interviews with many possible candidates, settling on a young coach named Ryan Ridder.

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Spring performances showcase student talents

Melissa Williams and her fellow dancers perform their openng act at Daytona State’s Dancescapes 2013. Photo by Brittany Fournier.

Last month, on a Friday evening, DSC students of the studio classes in ballet, jazz tap, composition, and modern dance all gathered to perform talented choreography from their respective disciplines at the News Journal Center.

Before the show, anxiously lying in wait, former Dancescapes performer (from 2005-2007), and professional dancer/student, Simeon Newton said that he was “really excited to see current awesome dancers.”

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Organizations work for cleaner, healthier campus

For some students April 11 began with no ifs, ands or butts. DSC’s Environmental Club hosted the Cigarette Butt Pick-Up event alongside of Daytona State’s No Butts Committee, Student Activities and the Volusia County Health Department. In 2012 students managed to pick up around 13,500 butts in the Daytona campus alone. With Earth Day just around the corner, the No Butts Program was a great way to kick it all off. The No Butts program isn’t just about beautifying the campus. On March 21 Daytona State offered a Quit Smoking Now class that was entirely free. The one hour course also offered free Nicotine Replacement Therapy patches, gum and lozenges for those that participated. The No Butts Program helps to beautify the campus but there is a larger goal in the midst. The program also aims to encourage others to quit smoking. The No Butts event isn’t the only way to be environmentally friendly. The Campus Cafeteria offers reusable mugs to replace the Styrofoam cups that cafes so often use. For students and staff that spend much of their time on campus, a single payment of 30 dollars will let one fill up his or her mug for the rest of the semester. If that price seems a bit steep, 10 fills cost 10 dollars and 25 fills cost 20 dollars. Along with reusable mugs, Daytona State has taken other initiatives to be environmentally friendly. Recycling bins for paper, aluminum cans and other common reusable items are common around campus, but what DSC recycles varies widely. From chemical waste to Freon, DSC has been working hard to expand their recycling program.

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The benefits of being a Facebook Fugitive

In the realm of social media, Facebook is the undisputed king. With over 1 billion members and more than 50% of them logging in several times a day, Facebook is only beaten in traffic by the internet monster Google.com.

In terms of population, if Facebook were a country, it would have the third largest population on the planet. If every member worked for Facebook, they would be five times larger than the top ten worldwide employers combined.

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