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The desire to create a "one-stop shop" to more efficiently serve commercial and industrial clients was the driving force behind the formation of a new Northwest Ohio real estate company.
Five local businessmen recently joined forces to launch Industrial Developers Ltd. The company, which officially formed in June, will acquire, refurbish and market commercial and industrial properties in Ohio and nationwide, said managing partner Ed Harmon. Services offered will include development, brokerage, construction, property management and financial liaison services.
Harmon, president of Columbus-based Harmon Family Development, is joined by longtime local real estate agent Dallas Paul, retired banker Lee Dunn, Spartan Logistics President Steve Harmon and Logan Creek Construction President James Howell.
"Each member brings a unique set of skills tempered with years of business experience," Harmon said.
"Normally a company would have to go out and find a real estate agent, they'd have to find a developer, they'd have to find a general contractor, they'd have to find financing, leasing. They would have to work with the city, county or state for permitting, incentives, anything else available," Harmon said. "We bundle it all together. We sit at one table and sign off on each segment of the project.
"There's not too many companies in this area who can do that. Some big national companies can do it. We compete on a scale that's smaller but very effective," Harmon said.
If existing buildings do not fit a client's needs, Industrial Developers will also offer the option of designing and building a customized facility, Harmon said.
"With Logan Creek Construction Company, we can provide rehabilitation to an existing property or construct a facility to satisfy customer needs," Harmon said. "We can attract clients to occupy buildings as needed and assist in the management of those properties."
The ability to help clients secure financing also sets Industrial Developers apart, Dunn said.
"Between the three of us (Dunn, Ed Harmon and Paul), we have a lot of experience working with banks and other forms of financing industrial properties," Dunn said.
Having all the pieces together in-house ultimately saves clients time and money, Paul said.
"We can bring the services of our different companies in to fulfill any requirement," Harmon said. "All the processes are integrated and the client can choose any or all parts."
Industrial Developers has been in the works for about two years. It already has several active clients, which Harmon declined to name, citing confidentiality agreements. He said he plans to hire more staff soon and eventually establish offices in other Ohio cities.
"Success begets success," Dunn said. "One satisfied customer talks to another. I've known Ed for many, many years and his phone rings off the hook. He doesn't really have to market. They tend to come to him and I think that comes from years of dealing with very good, ethical standards and producing, doing what you say you'll do."
"That's the key," agreed Harmon, who is no stranger to launching and cultivating successful businesses.
He founded Columbus-based Spartan Logistics, now operated by his son Steve, in 1988 and Oregon-based Logan Creek Construction, now operated by Howell, in 1999.
Spartan Logistics operates more than 2.5 million square feet of warehouse space in Ohio, Indiana and South Carolina and has its own truck fleet.
Logan Creek Construction is a general contracting firm specializing in industrial and commercial projects, particularly distribution, warehousing and manufacturing. The company has designed and constructed projects from New York to California.
Harmon Family Development owns 5 million square feet of commercial and industrial properties in 17 states, including 1 million square feet in Northwest Ohio.
Paul specializes in industrial and retail real estate. His past experience includes securing tenants for Arrowhead Park and Levis Commons.
Dunn worked in the banking industry for more than 40 years, including Charter One and Genoa Savings and Loan, before founding the Bank of Maumee in 2006.
"We took a good, long strategic look at how to improve the process and now Ed's bringing it all together and integrating it," Dunn said. "It's a bunch of arrows in the quiver and the quiver is Harmon Family Development and the arrows are his companies. This company really rounds out his ability to provide really comprehensive services throughout the United States."
Industrial Developers is located at 6705 Wales Road, Suite 100, in Northwood. They can be reached at (419) 960-4410.
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Benson Henderson vs. Anthony Pettis - Benson Henderson by Decision
Frank Mir vs. Josh Barnett - Josh Barnett by 2nd round Submission
Chad Mendes vs. Clay Guida - Chad Mendes by Decision
Ben Rothwell vs. Brandon Vera - Brandon Vera by Decision
Dustin Poirier vs. Erik Koch - Erik Koch by Decision
Gleison Tibau vs. Jamie Varner - Jamie Varner by Decision
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KOTN - Brandon Vera (yeah...I realize I picked no K.O.s)
SOTN - Josh Barnett
FOTN - Benson Henderson vs. Anthony Pettis
After these 2 fight cards, I'm clearly out of the top 3, likely out of the top 5 (hopefully holding on in the top 10 for pick 'ems). I'm simply uninspired recently, for some reason. With over half the year over, hopefully I can get re-inspired again. Good luck everyone, get your G.D. picks in for this event!


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Ohio Northern students make a difference in their new community on Ada Civic Engagement Day.
For the second year in a row, Ohio Northern University asked its incoming freshman class for a gesture of goodwill toward their new home, to give back to the community before receiving anything from it for themselves. And for the second year in a row, ONU students answered the call with enthusiasm and purpose and made the second annual Ada Civic Engagement (ACE) Day a success and the village of Ada an even more beautiful place.
Any time a community the size of Ada receives an influx of population with the traits of an ONU freshman class, it can't help but be buoyed by their mere presence. ONU students are high achieving, hard working, intelligent and socially aware. Apply those traits to actions like those witnessed on ACE Day and you'll see a transformative effect on a community that is hard to ignore.
And so it was on this first Saturday of these young college careers. From 10 a.m. to noon, groups of white T-shirted volunteers were seemingly everywhere —cleaning, trimming, painting, mending and just generally making things better.
"ACE Day is just a wonderful way for our new students to shake hands with the community of Ada and to become involved with a very important value at the University, which is service," says ONU President Dan DiBiasio, himself an ACE Day volunteer.
More than 300 students, faculty and staff members volunteered at 25 ACE sites, which ranged from local businesses, to the public commons, to private residences. In fact, there were actually more volunteers than sites in Ada, so some students worked in the in nearby communities of Arlington, Alger and Bluffton. But clearly, the focus was on building a positive relationship between the students and their new home.
"It's important for our students to understand that they are part of the greater Ada community in addition to being ONU students," says Jennifer Lambdin, ONU's director of student involvement and coordinator of the ACE event. "We want to establish a sense of partnership and responsibility in the community through this program. We want our students to understand that responsible citizenship and service to one's community is critical. Service projects like this are mutually beneficial for all."
While some projects were of the lend-a-hand variety, others were more ambitious. Perhaps none more so than the Puzzle Path at Ada War Memorial Park, where the president and First Lady Chris Burns-DiBiasio led a group of more than 50 students in the completion of the interactive walking path for children. The volunteers placed cement walking stones around the quarter-mile path connecting 10 clue stations that children will need to solve a different puzzle each week.
According to Megan Watson, BS '09, volunteer coordinator for the village of Ada, the completion of the actual path is the second collaboration with ONU on the project and hopefully not the last.
"Some of the stones that the students are installing today were painted by students attending the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership (HOBY) conference at ONU this summer," she says. "And after the path is complete, we hope to provide mentorship opportunities for ONU students to help local children develop future puzzles for the Puzzle Path."
Main Street was busy on ACE Day, as many projects focused on the residents of Ada's marquee boulevard. The Ada Fire Department looked brand new after a group of 15 students washed the four fire trucks and tended to the landscaping. Storefronts along the downtown had windows washed and sidewalks swept clean. Volunteers landscaped the Ada Railroad Depot Park and pruned the trees lining Main Street in front of campus.
Regardless of the job site students were assigned to, students were happy to help.
"I've always enjoyed helping out in my community back home. So when the opportunity came to help out in my new home of Ada, I kind of jumped at the opportunity," says first-year pharmacy major Seth Wollenhaupt.
While ACE Day is scheduled as part of new student orientation and targeted at new students, it isn't limited to just freshmen. Junior Jenalyn Fallott participated in the inaugural ACE Day last year and enjoyed the experience so much that she volunteered again this year as a student leader.
"I just wanted to do it again. Last year, I helped an elderly woman here in town. We cleaned out her garage and weeded her flowerbeds and helped her with things that she can't really do anymore. She was lovely, and it was great to get to know her," she says.
Though it is still early, ACE Day looks to become a highlight of move-in weekend in coming years. The new schedule implemented this year makes it easier for ACE Day to be successful because students now move in on Thursday and have a couple days to get used to life on campus before exploring the community beyond. Saturday also is the best day for the community members who may need ACE Day volunteers.
"I'm so thrilled to see such great turnout at this event, because it means that we get to introduce more students to a part of our community that they might not otherwise see," says Burns-DiBiasio. "I'm willing to guess that very few of these students were aware that we had such a beautiful park here."
A park and a community made even more beautiful by a simple gesture and a lot of hard work.


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Dear Scott: Robin Roberts recently came back on the show "Good Morning America" after having cancer treatments. She has been doing interviews the whole time of treatments and has never worn a wig. I thought she would come on the show with a wig and was surprised when she didn't. I see your column and wanted your view on this. My girlfriend and I have been going at it. She thinks she is being brave by going without hair, and I think it's a publicity stunt.
Answer: Is she going wig-free for publicity? Anyone that battles this disease deserves to be able to pull out the cancer card whenever they want. If all Robin Roberts gets out of the fight of her life is a little bit of publicity, she will be lucky. She has been an incredible story to follow. Being beautiful without hair is one of them.
Roberts is an excellent illustration for anyone undergoing cancer treatments that cause the loss of hair. Pictured with a hat a few times, I haven't seen her wearing any wigs throughout her treatments. She has looked beautiful with every interview. If she was being brave to go without a wig, she didn't have to be.
In an interview, Roberts said she had a wig picked out for her return to the program. It was mid-length and dark in color. And it had bangs. After realizing that the first major interview on her schedule was with Michelle Obama, she decided not to wear it.
Right now her hair is very short, but she does have hair. I think she pulls the look off with immeasurable style. No wig was necessary when Robin was seen at the Oscars wearing a brilliant cobalt-blue MarcBouwer gown. On the other hand, Sherri Shepherd of "The View" has a new line of wigs. She promotes them on a daily basis by wearing a different wig every day on the show. Extremely diverse in colors, lengths, curly and straight, she looks completely different on a daily basis. Is she doing it for the publicity? Of course she is, but she provides women undergoing cancer treatments with an alternative.
Shepherd caused eyebrows to rise when she first started to change her hair on a daily basis on the show. But by doing so, she also demonstrates that any woman can have extremely different looks just by changing her hair. Great news for those stuck in a rut.
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New research from customer service company Genesys finds that when it comes to reaching out to their customers online, over half of consumer-facing Fortune 500 companies are "socially shy." On the contact pages of their website, more than half of these companies don't provide their Twitter handle or a link to their Facebook pages. And 27 percent don't provide links to their Twitter or Facebook profiles anywhere on their websites at all.
"This is a classic example of where consumer behavior is changing much faster than companies are adapting," Tom Eggemeier, Head of Sales at Genesys told me in an interview earlier this week. "Companies are still seeing social media through the lens of marketing, not as part of an overall brand execution strategy."
What it all boils down to, says Genesys, is the fact that social media tends to be seen by large firms as merely a means of marketing. Something that Eggemeier thinks is a mistake.
"Companies don't understand that social media is not just a marketing vehicle. They aren't realizing that there needs to be a brand execution discussion. Of the actionable tweets and Facebook posts a company gets, only about 20% relate the marketing – the rest are about service. Sales and marketing is the promise – but service is the delivery. Companies need to start integrating the service and marketing aspects of social media."
Another surprising finding of Genesys's study is that 90% of the companies they studied didn't provide an email address in their contact pages. Instead, about 83% of them had a contact form – something they note consumers see as a "black hole" and tend to avoid using.
"A large percentage of customers still use and prefer to use email as a way to contact companies," Eggemeier told me. "But we think that some big companies are hesitant to provide email addresses because they're concerned about spam or scraping."
Despite those concerns, Eggemeier thinks that given the ubiquity of email, companies need to do better at providing email addresses to their customers.
On the whole, the research demonstrates that the largest consumer-facing companies are still struggling to adapt to the ways that the Internet is providing them to reach out and engage with their customers. Although many companies have readily embraced social media for marketing, the customer service piece is coming much more slowly.
"We believe social media is going to change the way companies provide customer service," said Randy Brasche, Director of Marketing and Media at Genesys. "Our observations showed that some companies are making strides in this area, but in the Fortune 500 as a whole, it just hasn't made that much of an impact."


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Miley Cyrus and Wiz Khalifa Are "Twinzies" (PHOTO)
You never know who'll be hanging out with on Grammys weekend.
Soon-to-be new dad Wiz Khalifa just shared some interesting photos on Instagram, including himself with Sting, and with Miley Cyrus.
He shared this Miley photo on Instagram, writing, "Twinzies :-)" (Nice jackets!) And he also tweeted, "Miley's a G. We got sum shit!!!!"
Does he look like he's lighting up? We know Wiz is a big fan of smoking weed, and plans to keep smoking after his son with Amber Rose is born. Miley joked about smoking too much weed in 2011, after her 19th birthday. "You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake. You know you smoke way too much f***ing weed." But she later clarified that she was just being sarcastic.
Anyway, what do you think about Wiz and Miley as "twinzies"?
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Missed Connection provides reimbursement in the event of a missed flight connection or for the additional costs to "catch up" to a cruise if the cause of delay is an accident or bad weather.
Missed Connection: If You miss Your cruise or tour departure because Your arrival at Your Trip destination is delayed for 3 or more hours, benefits will be paid, on a one-time basis, up to the Maximum Benefit Amount, for a) the Additional Transportation Cost to join the Trip and b) the unused portion of the prepaid expenses for land or water Travel Arrangements, due to: a) any delay of a Common Carrier (the delay must be certified by the Common Carrier); b) a documented weather condition preventing You from getting to the point of departure; c) quarantine, hijacking, Strike, natural disaster, terrorism or riot. These benefits will not duplicate any benefits payable under the policy or any coverage(s) attached to the policy.
"Additional Transportation Cost" means the actual cost incurred for one-way Economy Transportation by a Common Carrier reduced by the value of an unused travel ticket.
"Baggage and Personal Effects" means luggage, personal possessions and travel documents taken by You during a Trip.
"Bankruptcy" means the filing of a petition for voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy in a court of competent jurisdiction under Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code 11 L.S.C. Subsection 101 et seq.
"Business Partner" means an individual who (a) is involved in a legal general partnership with You and/or (b) is actively involved in the day to day management of Your business.
"Common Carrier" means any land, sea, and/or air conveyance operating under a valid license for the transportation of passengers for hire.
"Default" means a material failure or inability to provide contracted services.
"Domestic Partner" means a person who is at least eighteen years of age and can show: 1) evidence of financial interdependence, such as joint bank accounts or credit cards, jointly owned property, and mutual life insurance or pension beneficiary designations; 2) evidence of continuous cohabitation throughout the 180 day period prior to Your Effective Date of the Plan; and 3) an affidavit of domestic partnership if recognized by the jurisdiction within which they reside.
"Economy Transportation" means the lowest published available transportation rate for a ticket on a Common Carrier matching the original class of transportation that You purchased for the Trip.
"Family Member" means any of the following who resides in the United States, Canada, or Mexico: Your or Your Traveling Companion's: legal spouse (or common-law spouse where legal), legal guardian, son or daughter (adopted, foster, step or in-law), brother or sister (includes step or in-law), parent (includes step or in-law), grandparent (includes in-law), grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew, Domestic Partner, an employed caregiver who lives with You, or a person for whom You are the primary caregiver with whom You have lived for 12 continuous months prior to the effective date of Your Plan, whether or not they travel with You.
"Hospital" means: (a) a place which is licensed or recognized as a general hospital by the proper authority of the state in which it is located; (b) a place operated for the care and treatment of resident inpatients with a registered graduate nurse (RN) always on duty and with a laboratory and X-ray facility; © a place recognized as a general hospital by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. Not included is a hospital or institution licensed or used principally: (1) for the treatment or care of drug addicts or alcoholics; or (2) as a clinic, continued or extended care facility, skilled nursing facility, convalescent home, rest home, nursing home or home for the aged.
"Inclement Weather" means any weather condition that delays the scheduled arrival or departure of a Common Carrier.
"Injury" or "Injuries" means accidental bodily injuries: (a) received while insured under the Policy and any attached coverages; (b) resulting in loss independently of sickness and all other causes; and © not excluded from coverage.
"Insured" means the person who purchased the Trip and who has paid the required plan cost for the protection plan provided herein, and also referred to as You and Your.
"Intoxicated" means a blood alcohol level that equals or exceeds the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle in the state or jurisdiction where You are located at the time of an incident.
"Legally Qualified Physician" means a physician or a Christian Science Practitioner: (a) other than You, a Traveling Companion or a Family Member; (b) practicing within the scope of his/her license; and © recognized as a physician in the place where the services are rendered.
"Maximum Benefit Amount" means the maximum amount payable for coverage provided to You as shown in the Confirmation of Benefits.
"Medical Treatment" means treatment, advice or consultation by a Legally Qualified Physician.
"Medically Necessary" means a service or supply which: (a) is recommended by the attending Legally Qualified Physician; (b) is appropriate and consistent with the diagnosis in accord with accepted standards of community practice; © could not have been omitted without adversely affecting Your condition or quality of medical care; (d) is delivered at the most appropriate level of care and not primarily for the sake of convenience; and (e) is not considered experimental unless coverage for experimental services or supplies is required by law.
"Pre-Existing Condition" means any injury, sickness or condition (including any condition from which death ensues) of You, Your Traveling Companion, or Your or Your Traveling Companion's Family Member traveling with You which within the 60 day period prior to the effective date of Your Trip Cancellation coverage under the Policy: (a) manifested itself, became acute or exhibited symptoms which would have caused one to seek diagnosis, care or treatment; (b) required taking prescribed drugs or medicine, unless the condition for which the prescribed drug or medicine is taken remains controlled without any change in the required prescription; or © required medical treatment or treatment was recommended by a Legally Qualified Physician.
"Program Medical Advisor" means One Call Worldwide Travel Services Network, Inc.
"Scheduled Departure Date" means the date on which You are originally scheduled to leave on the Trip.
"Scheduled Return Date" means the date on which You are originally scheduled to return to the point of origin or the original final destination.
"Sickness" means an illness or disease that is diagnosed or treated by a Legally Qualified Physician after the effective date of insurance and while You are covered under the Policy.
"Strike" means any stoppage of work: (a) as a result of a combined effort of workers which was unannounced and unpublished at the time travel services were purchased; and (b) which interferes with the normal departure and arrival of a Common Carrier.
"Terrorist Incident" means an incident deemed a terrorist act by the United States Government that causes property damage and loss of life.
"Third Party" means a person or entity other than You or the Company.
"Transportation Expense" means: (a) the cost of conveyance of You and any medical personnel (if Medically Necessary); and (b) Medically Necessary services or supplies.
"Travel Arrangements" means: (a) transportation; (b) accommodations; and © other specified services arranged by the Travel Supplier for the Trip.
"Travel Supplier" means any entity or organization that coordinates or supplies travel services for You.
"Traveling Companion" means a person or persons with whom You have coordinated Travel Arrangements and intend to travel with during the Trip.
"Trip" means scheduled trips, tours or cruises for which: (a) coverage is requested; and (b) the required premium is submitted prior to the Scheduled Departure Date.
"Usual and Customary Charges" means those comparable charges for similar treatment, services and supplies in the geographic area where treatment is performed.
Benefits are not payable for any loss due to, arising or resulting from:
1. suicide, attempted suicide or any intentionally self-inflicted injury while sane or insane (in Missouri, sane only);
2. an act of declared or undeclared war;
3. participating in maneuvers or training exercises of an armed service;
4. riding, driving or participating in races, or speed or endurance contests;
5. mountaineering (engaging in the sport of scaling mountains generally requiring the use of picks, ropes, or other special equipment);
6. participating as a member of a team in an organized sporting competition;
7. participating in skydiving, hang gliding, bungee cord jumping, or scuba diving if the depth exceeds 130 feet or if You are not certified to dive and a dive master is not present during the dive;
8. piloting or learning to pilot or acting as a member of the crew of any aircraft;
9. being Intoxicated, as specifically defined in the policy, or under the influence of any controlled substance unless administered on the advice of a Legally Qualified Physician;
10. the commission of or attempt to commit a felony or being engaged in an illegal occupation;
11. normal childbirth, normal pregnancy (except complications of pregnancy) or voluntarily induced abortion;
12. dental treatment (except as coverage is otherwise specifically provided herein);
13. amounts which exceed the Maximum Benefit Amount for each coverage as shown in the Confirmation of Benefits;
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Friday, December 5, 2008
what Cuba can teach
So Slate tells me that there's a piece coming out in the New York Times Magazine about the next step for Cuba, and quotes this line:
Once "the winter playground of Americans, a place to gamble, rumba, smoke puros and sip mojitos, the land of every vice and any trade
Because of the history of America's mutual antagonism with the Soviet Union, it's very difficult to discuss Marxism or communism whatsoever. There's still a healthy strain of red-baiting within conservatism, and a propensity within liberalism to want to purge any vestiges of Marxist or socialist thought, because that is supposedly what's necessary to be taken seriously, to advance the movement, etc. So Naomi Klein, with whom I agree on very little, is not just another person with bad ideas, but a pox on the American intelligentsia. There's little doubt that "race realists" face much less
I'm no Marxist. I don't think prescriptive Marxism (solutions) work, although I think that there is some descriptive Marxism (observations) that is simply undeniable. Indeed, some of these observations have been absorbed into economic conservatism itself. I have sympathy for some of the more idealistic Marxist intellectuals of the last century, and it is simply dead-out flat historically wrong to insist, as some do, that there was never a Marxist revolutionary who didn't advocate or commit violence against civilians. But I do think these people were almost all wrong about what can and should be done by the state to alleviate poverty.
I have nothing but opprobrium for the many Marxist or quasi-Marxist dictators in history with horrific records on human rights and individual freedoms. It's truly a detestable history. Let's not pretend, though, that there isn't differences within them. Fidel Castro has undertaken many harsh, repressive actions against his people, and deserves our criticism for such. At the same time, people who speak or act as if there is no difference between a Stalin or Pol Pot on one hand, and a Castro or El Che on the other-- that's just not a mature way of analyzing history or considering morality. It's like the people who speak as if there's no difference between an asshole like Chavez and a monster like Saddam Hussein. It obscures where we desperately need clarity, and diminishes the crimes of the worse villain.
So I'm not a cheerleader for the Cuban revolution, either in its ends or means, and I don't think the revolution had a net positive effect for Cuba by any means. At the same time, I think we should have sympathy for people within these revolutions, and make an attempt to understand why so many people would be convinced that they needed to overthrow the government.
Consider the above quote. You've got an oppressive, nominally capitalist regime in Batista. And then you've got the capitalist superpower to your immediate north that sends its people down to your country to conspicuously consume and treat your home like a filthy playground. The economic conservative might object that the tourists are improving the lives of the people of Cuba by spending their money there. And, indeed, economic participation helps the people living in an area. But that doesn't always outweigh the negative realities of the behavior of the people who are spending the money; the world is littered with places with a great tension between the native people and the tourists who they rely on, because of the bad behavior (including crime and violence) of the visiting tourists. Surely, in Cuba, where the island's American presence was literally controlled by gangsters, this didn't help. Plus, degree matters. Cuba's poor were absolutely benefited by American tourism financially, but they remained in desperate poverty, and as often is the case, their proximity to those with much more money and power than they had exacerbated their anger. That's not good, it's just true.
So you've got this situation where so many have so little, work for those from an incredibly affluent, white hegemon, and have to deal with the poor behavior of those people constantly, all while living in squalor and poverty. Then throw in the actual dictator who repressed the people, quite savagely, who meanwhile used his power to enlarge his personal wealth immensely, and you've got a tinderbox. And Marxism, whatever else is true, for all of its failings, for all of the ways in which it leads towards dictatorship and genocide, for all its miserable history and every other caveat you want to throw out there-- Marxism at least represented an attempt at bringing the people living under the boot of poverty and powerlessness out from under it. You don't need to educate me about why this didn't work or doesn't. You don't need to convince me about the folly of communism; I'm on your side.
What economic conservatism needs to do, or I guess, what I would like it to do, is to demonstrate that it can acknowledge and respect the difficulties of Batista-era Cubans or other non-American peoples who are trapped in poverty and despair. And if I can ask for a little more, it would be for economic conservatives to demonstrate some way that these poor countries can improve their lots beyond "just take part in total free market capitalism and wait for globalism to gradually pull you out." Look, maybe there is no other way. That might be true, although I don't agree. But surely, the suggestion that there are other ways isn't necessarily some sinister plot or the mark of total naivete. Surely it isn't always the case that people who want to try something truly different are secretly just out to burn down the abundance that already exists. I know that I've handicapped my own position here, somewhat, by leading people to think that I'm merely talking about caring.
When I engaged with Conor on these issues a month or so back, due to my own failings, it came to be framed that I was saying "you guys don't care". Which was easily undone by Conor or others saying "Sure we do." But the point isn't caring, or not just. The point is that it's a cruel business to insist that every instance where people are downtrodden, the only solution is the slow wheel of globalism; and maybe, in some situations, there are some times when a more robust government social state is the vehicle most likely to produce human utility.
The fact is that economic conservatism has found itself in a place of rhetorical maximalism. Liberals say that the government is not the best or only solution all the time. Pick your favorite liberal blogger, your Yglesias or your Klein or your Beutler or whoever, and they'll all take pains, at regular intervals, to agree that in such circumstance or another, government intervention is a bad idea, or that current government ventures aren't working. Similar claims are in contrast exceedingly rare among economic conservatives, and libertarians in general. Sonny Bunch said in disagreeing with me that no one says that capitalism has no victims. True, that strong-form statement is made only by a straw-man. But so many of the economic conservatives I read, even the most bright, act and talk as if that were true, even though they would never make the explicit claim. It seems as if there's no room at all on most conservative or libertarian blogs to say "this is a situation where standard free markets have broken down, or have failed to provide the people with workable possibilities." Instead the habit, particularly by commenters, is to insist that any individual situation where one might say that is in fact another shining example of the glory of the free market.
I'd like for that argumentative excess and zeal to be turned down somewhat. I'd like to find on libertarian blogs examples of where markets aren't working, with the same ease and frequency that I find examples of governmental failures on my favorite blog, Matt Yglesias's. And I would also like for some conservatives to be more amenable to the fact that there are indeed sinister forces that sometimes work within capitalism, they way that history demonstrates that there were myriad sinister people working within communism. Yes, it's true, liberals often attribute malice to businesses or corporations where none exists. Yes, there are times when leftist critiques of business go overboard or are unfair. But there are also times when corporations really do cause major harm to many people. And there are situations, like in Batista's Cuba, where capitalism is allowed to be twisted in ways that are nothing less than destructive. Capitalism in and of itself is amoral. Too many leftists ascribe to it purely sinister motives or effects. But too many conservatives ignore the actual sinister motives or effects. There really is such a thing as rapacious capitalism.
More, and this is crucial, understand that capitalism, while capable of delivering a huge number of people to unheard of abundance, is also capable of preventing people from rising above their station. Some say things like this: the people of Cuba were foolish to revolt. The example provided by Americans should have pushed them to try and emulate America's capitalism, not to embrace Marxism. Well, look-- Cuba is not America. Cuba does not have America's power, leverage, natural abundance, size.... I am frequently exasperated by the notion that many poor countries have little Americas within them, if only they were allowed to flower. More importantly, it really is true that great powers often use that power to keep other countries from improving their station. Sometimes life, and capitalism, really are exercises in power struggle, and sometimes it really does come down to this: people with power and wealth trying to keep people without it from getting it. That doesn't disqualify the system. But it should give us pause, and make us tread carefully in how we appreciate the ability of any country to just bootstrap itself up.
I don't think any of this makes me some preening socialist, but who knows. I may be. I do know, though, that there exists within economic conservatism a strain of such ideological zeal and argumentative excess that nothing I say could be taken seriously, if it doesn't amount to a complete sop to unfettered free markets. That, I think, should change. Some have written me out of the conversation long ago, simply for thinking that there are very valid and real concerns that could bring a '50s era Cuban to incorrectly believe that Marxist revolution was a good idea. In my ideal public discourse, talking soberly about capitalism wouldn't require unflinching fidelity to laissez faire policy, and people could make stronger and more fundamental critiques of the capitalist system as practiced without disqualifying themselves from adult conversation.
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Thank you for sacrificing paragraphs to the "to be sure" God of Capitalism. Your offering to the altar is accepted! -K.
- December 5, 2008 at 6:41 PM
But really, folks:
"And if I can ask for a little more, it would be for economic conservatives to demonstrate some way that these poor countries can improve their lots beyond "just take part in total free market capitalism and wait for globalism to gradually pull you out."
Freddie, I love you, but here, you're totally, totally wrong. Opening serious trade with Cuba would overwhelm Cuba with dollars. What American doesn't want to buy Cuban sugar, smoke Cuban cigars or visit Cuba? The negative consquence, IMHO, would be the losses that Cancun would incur. Okay, one more -- and the mass environmental devastation that could occur if Cuba decided that they just had to turn the country into one big sugar plantation to sell to the US. [I wouldn't mind screwing sugar beet farmers in the American South, while we're at it.]
Seems to be that Cuba has plenty of places where it could specialize and bring in foreign currency and improve people's lives. The social structure, of course, would be determined by the following government. I really, really doubt that all the folks who receive benefits under the current regime would go free market and not vote themselves some level of continuing socialism. -K.
All of this, of course, is a response before reading the article, a.k.a. talking out of my butt. Let's talk again on Saturday night, when the article is open.
- December 5, 2008 at 6:48 PM
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- December 5, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Freddie said...
No. My anger is with people who are so blinded by ideology they can't see the plain fact that government intervention, sometimes, is preferable than the free market, as we have seen again and again in our own lifetime. And I am growing exceedingly tired of pretending otherwise in the name of "being serious". When being serious means constantly lying about the consequences of government social programs, we've reached a pretty fucking bankrupt place.
- December 5, 2008 at 9:37 PM
- bcg said...
"government intervention, sometimes, is preferable than the free market"
That's the lesson Cuba can teach us?
- December 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM
- Freddie said...
A tiny country that has had it's economy destroyed by 50 years of brutal sanctions is no experiment in one social system or another.
- December 5, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- bcg said...
What rich lives we lead, here on a computer at 11:30pm on a Friday.
- December 5, 2008 at 11:36 PM
- Freddie said...
Uh... I'm on a smartphone at a really cool party. Yeah.
- December 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM
Fair warning - I don't know a ton about economics, so it's possible I've got the wrong end of the stick here. But I am confused by the conservative God of the free market. Government intervention, assistance, taxation and regulation has been part of the game for a very long time. Hell, even back in the early 20th century, the US had all that trust-busting going on. And that's even more true in European democracies -I don't see that what I would call socialized capitalism says anything about the virtues of the free market. This is what confuses me about "free market" idealogues - how free do they want it to be? Roll back the environmental rules but keep the corporate regulation (disclosure, competition law)? Cut the taxes? Remove all the government-owned players (eg post office)from the field? Stop all government loans to businesses or start-ups (which pick winners and losers)? I feel like the reality of the US market has shifted a lot over time (and the last few months) to incorporate a legitimate government presence, but that gets rhetorically acknowledged only when fighting liberals who use the classic view of laissez-faire economics. Oh, we don't advocate the kind of brutal free market that lets children starve - look around the world, and see how well capitalism does for its citizens. Oh, why do liberals use this weird out-dated stereotype of an absolutely free market when arguing against us? It's because the rhetoric of this mythical perfectly efficient free market is their default, and I haven't seen any principled discussion of what they would keep from the more regulated modern market. If you brought forward a free-market devotee from the 1920s, they would think the US is socialist, but people who apparently support (most of?) the modern arrangements use identical rhetoric. It's confusing... but maybe I'm just missing some foundational explanation. Help!
- December 6, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Freddie said...
If you've come for real economics, rather than broader bore philosophy-of stuff, you've come to the wrong place! Let me marinate on your questions, though, and see if I have anything worth saying. I often don't.
- December 6, 2008 at 9:23 AM
people who speak or act as if there is no difference between a Stalin or Pol Pot on one hand, and a Castro or El Che on the other-- that's just not a mature way of analyzing history or considering morality. It's like the people who speak as if there's no difference between an asshole like Chavez and a monster like Saddam Hussein. It obscures where we desperately need clarity, and diminishes the crimes of the worse villain.
One word: Bushitler
- December 10, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Freddie said...
Never had any use for that "Bush is the same as Hitler" stuff, although it always depends on how the person making the comparison draws the lines of comparison. But you're right.
- December 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Roque Nuevo said...
Give examples of "Marxist revolutionaries" who didn't advocate of commit violence against the people. If they didn't advocate or commit it, they for sure condoned it.
The difference between Castro and Che Guevara and Stalin is that the USSR had more people to kill. In terms of percentage, Castro and Che are right up there.
Why is it "immature" to make these people equivalent morally? They all imposed a police state.
I don't think you know very much about the Cuban revolution. Yes, "the people" were oppressed under Batista. But "the people" never supported a communist revolution. That happened after Batista was overthrown. Read Carlos Franqui or Guillermo Cabrera Infante sometime.
The poverty in Cuba is many times worse today than it was under Batista. The class system is much more rigid as well—Cubans are segregated by police power. The only thing that works in Cuba is the police. Cubans get hassled by the police for talking to foreigners. They can be jailed for selling the shirt off their backs—it's a crime against the state to sell anything. Prostitution is much more pervasive today than under the heyday of the Mafia. Back then, it was confined to a "red-light" zone. Today it's everywhere, anytime. You can sit on a bench in a park and have any girl who walks by for money. Castro has made Cuba a prime destination for European (especially Spanish) sex tourists—male and female. They sleep all morning, go to the beach, ride around in rickshaws, then to the sex club, then do it again the next day. Castro is effectively selling Cuban girls for dollars.
I could go on. But you should learn something about Cuba before you write so pompously about it. It offends the dignity of the Cubans.
- December 10, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- Freddie said...
But "the people" never supported a communist revolution.
I'm afraid that's simply untrue. That's just historically wrong, which any history of the Cuban revolution, even those harshly critical of the revolution-- which, if you'd bother to engage in basic reading comprehension, you'd see I am as well-- demonstrate the frankly incredible domestic popularity of Castro and his revolution.
- December 10, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- Roque Nuevo said...
Any history of the Cuban revolution, even those harshly critical of the revolution-- which, if you'd bother to engage in basic reading comprehension, you'd see I am as well-- demonstrate the frankly incredible domestic popularity of Castro and his revolution.
One question is Castro's revolution. It's quite another to speak of Castro's communist revolution. This was "incredibly" unpopular. Just as examples, Carlos Franqui didn't leave Cuba because he was a Batista supporter. He had been a leader of the 23 July movement, which was taken over by Castro. Who killed Frank País? Who killed Camilo Cienfuegos? And why? What is the purpose of the Comités de la Defensa de la Revolución? These are rhetorical questions, of course. An "incredibly popular" regime does not need to kill dissidents or to unleash armies of informers on the public. These events occurred in the early '60s. Maybe you should take a reading comprehension course.
You're just shilling for Castro here. It's disgusting, really, because of the disrespect you show the Cuban people. It's "incredible" that you can bloviate about "immature readings of history."
Cuba's economy was destroyed by Che Guevara, not by "fifty years of brutal sanctions." Cuba trades with any country it wants to, except for the US. That should be enough for the economy if it weren't for Guevara's successful efforts to destroy it. He was in charge of the economy and is lauded in the so-called history books you refer to for his tireless efforts which ruined everything.
You bloviate about "a great tension between the native people and the tourists who they rely on, because of the bad behavior (including crime and violence) of the visiting tourists." The so-called tension of the Batista years is very small potatoes compared to today. It's a world sex-tourism destination. No holds barred. And the "visiting" sex-tourists aren't the only source of "tension." The main source comes from party members. You'd have to see them riding around in their Mercedes past the rickshaw drivers hauling Spanish sex-tourists around through streets that look like Berlin circa 1945 to understand.
You'd have to see people living in these bombed-out buildings. You'd have to see the bodegas where "free" food is dispensed and the shelves are empty after the first of the month. You'd have to see that antibiotics and even aspirins are sold on the black market under the advanced medical system because Cubans can't get the medicines they need unless they have dollars. They can't get dollars unless they sell something, which usually is their bodies because that's all they have.
If you think Castro is popular in Cuba, you need more than a reading comprehension course. People are afraid to even pronounce his name. Instead they make a motion of stroking their beards, which everyone knows refers to the barbudo. Everyone wants to go the the US, besides party members. Everyone needs a relative in the US to send them money or they starve.
As for your opinions about capitalism in general…you're not qualified for "adult conversation." I'm sure that you were an aristocrat back before capitalism was invented but I wasn't. I was one of the 99% of the population who were serfs. All of us ex-serfs enjoy lifestyles today that you couldn't even imagine when you were an aristocrat. Capitalism doesn't oppress anyone. It's a system.
- December 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- Freddie said...
It's quite another to speak of Castro's communist revolution. This was "incredibly" unpopular
Look, I know you desperately want this to be true, but it simply isn't, and again, please, don't take my word for it, consult the work of any leading historian of 20th century Cuba. I'm sorry, it's just a non-starter. That has nothing to do with the righteousness of Cuba's revolution. Hitler was a very popular leader. But it doesn't change that fact.
As far as shilling for Castro goes, that's pretty interesting, considering I am explicitly and consistently condemning his actions here. Again-- you want it to be true that I support the Castro government, so you are simply averring that it is true, against all evidence. That's not a particularly useful way to approach the world, I'm afraid.
- December 10, 2008 at 4:07 PM
- Roque Nuevo said...
Look, I've read books on the history of Cuba. I know Cubans. I've been to Cuba. That's how I can tell you don't know what you're talking about.
Here's an excerpt by Jorge Domínguez (Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics in the Department of Government, Vice Provost for International Affairs in The Office of the Provost, Senior Advisor for International Studies to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. Member of the executive committee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Faculty Associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and of Leverett House. Research focuses on the domestic and international politics of Latin American countries).
"On 19 October 1959, Huber Matos, military commander of Camagüey province and one of the the leading figures of the revolutionary war, resigned along with fourteen officers over the rising influence of communism in the regime. When Matos was arrested the entire 26 July Movement executive committee in Camagüey province resigned and its leader was detained. Matos spent two decades in prison; his courageous resistance in jail and his unwillingness to collaborate or to bend to the will of his captors became a symbol of strength to the opposition.
"In November the Confederación de Trabajadores Cubanos (CTC) held its tenth congress to select a new leadership. The 26 of July Movement's slate had a clear majority. The government pressed for "unity" with the Communists, but the congress delegates refused and when Fidel Castro addressed the congress his words were interrupted by the chanting of "twenty-six, twenty-six." He attacked those who would use that label "to stab the revolution in the heart." He argued that the revolution's defense required avoiding partisan quarrels; he asked for and received authority from the congress to form a labor leadership. He picked the "unity" slate, including the communists.
"Opponents of the regime took up in arms in every province in the first half of the 1960s, being especially strong in the Escambray mountain region of Las Villas province. Thousands of Cubans died in this renewed civil war (1960-1966), the rebels including the peasantry of souther Matanzas province as well as those whose social and economic interests were more obviously at stake."—Cuba: a short history, pp. 105-107, CUP, 1993.
These are not events that happen in an "incredibly popular" revolution. They happen in police states.
By repeating the canard that the US sanctions have destroyed the Cuban economy and that Castro's communist revolution was popular, you are definitely shilling for Castro, no matter what other criticisms you make.
Let's hear you respond to this: Give examples of "Marxist revolutionaries" who didn't advocate of commit violence against the people.
And this: The difference between Castro and Che Guevara and Stalin is that the USSR had more people to kill. In terms of percentage, Castro and Che are right up there.
And this: Carlos Franqui didn't leave Cuba because he was a Batista supporter. He had been a leader of the 23 July movement, which was taken over by Castro. Who killed Frank País? Who killed Camilo Cienfuegos? And why? What is the purpose of the Comités de la Defensa de la Revolución? Why would any of this have happened if Castro's communist revolution was so "incredibly popular?"
- December 10, 2008 at 4:50 PM
I just discovered this blog and find it pretty interesting.
Although I'm a little more sympathetic to the Cuban Revolution, all I'd like to do is contribute this interview and some commentary around it:
There is some disagreement in the post about whether the Cuban people wildly supported a communist revolution. I'm no expert, but I believe it may have been less that the Cuban people supported a communist revolution, and more that they supported national self-determination, and better public welfare.
This video may be misleading. It shows Fidel Castro insisting that the United States doesn't need to worry about communists, and it was done before Fidel Castro joined the communist party. The misleading part is that communist influences were always strong during the Cuban revolution. Che and Raul Castro were communists before Fidel Castro was, before the revolution. Fidel Castro was a populist before he was a communist. But the point I want to make is that the strict alignment with the Soviet Union and the alienation of the United States was not part of the originating vision of the revolution. Aligning as strictly as it did with the Soviet Union, and the government shaping up like it did (at least in part), was something that arose out of the urgency of national survival. It needed to sell sugar, and the United States wasn't buying if it didn't own the sugar cane fields. They took the inch, and I think they just had to go the mile.
I don't think I'm saying anything that anyone isn't aware of, but I wanted to try to frame the situation more within the context of global pressures and circumstances, and away from the solitary force of popular will. If the United States were even able to shrug off losing all that Cuban property and continued buying Cuban sugar anyway, I think the situation would have been different, BUT not only for the usual reason of propping up a healthy "middle class."
I disagree here with almost everything Roque Nuevo said, and a lot of his facts are wrong, but I liked the way he differentiated "Fidel's revolution" and "Fidel's communist revolution." However, I'm thinking about those terms in probably a slightly shifted sense. Both "revolutions" were popular, but I think they represent historically significant nuances.
- December 13, 2008 at 1:21 AM
- Roque Nuevo said...
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- December 13, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- Roque Nuevo said...
Mr. Anonymous: Which facts do I have wrong? Tell me and I'll be happy to learn from you.
Meanwhile, here are some facts that you have wrong:
Aligning as strictly as it did with the Soviet Union, and the government shaping up like it did (at least in part), was something that arose out of the urgency of national survival. It needed to sell sugar, and the United States wasn't buying if it didn't own the sugar cane fields.
First, the United States never owned anything in Cuba or anywhere else for that matter. Americans did own things in Cuba and they were supported by the government.
That's just common sense, not facts. But Cuba's alignment with the USSR happened after began to expropriate private property. I don't know how much land was owned by Americans. Do you? They did own banks, industries, and especially the public utilities. The US had a deal with Batista to buy a certain amount of sugar, which the Congress rescinded after the revolution and before Castro's alignment with the USSR.
When Castro expropriated American-owned property, he did it without compensation. In other words, he stole it, just as he stole the property of Cubans. Property-rights are fundamental to US policy. Either they are respected or not. Even going back to the early years of the republic, Congress authorized payment for British-owned property because to do otherwise would undermine public trust in the government. The US government cannot accept any gray areas because this would undermine its legitimacy. That's why the government couldn't "shrug off" property theft. It wasn't a matter of supporting Castro. The US and international organizations, like the IMF, offered aid to Castro. The US had supported Batista with military aid, which they cut off during the revolution. Castro refused to accept foreign aid because he was a communist and accepting it would mean tying Cuba to capitalism. Or do you have a better explanation? The urgency of national survival, like you say, did not require alignment with the USSR. Cuba could have survived as a capitalist democracy, with US and international support.
The Communist revolution was popular among the Communists but I don't know how popular it was amongst the public. Do you? I do know that Communism has never been popular enough to win a free election, even in Russia. In 1917, the elections were won by the anarchists (the Socialists Revolutionaries), not the Bolsheviks. Thereafter, it was imposed by police power, including in Cuba.
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Student athletes at the University of San Francisco face the daunting challenge of excelling in the classroom and competing on the field. With a variety of support mechanisms in place, USF is seeing to it that student athletes do just that.
In the competitive West Coast Conference, Dons fans might expect a coach's stopwatch to be the all-motivating timekeeper of top student athletes at the University of San Francisco. But, for three-time WCC women's tennis Player of the Year Jennifer-Lee Heinser, a pocket-sized day planner peppered with Post-It notes is her taskmaster.
Heinser, ranked No. 1 in the WCC, has a hard time leaving her planner behind—even when she's relaxing and sunning her toes at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Even then, her notebook accompanies her, tucked inconspicuously into her beach bag.
"I write down several lists and schedules for myself every day," said Heinser, a senior honors business student with a 3.89 grade-point average. Her busiest days are color-coded in 30-minute increments.
Heinser's ability to balance the demands of her sport while excelling in her classes is impressive by any standard. It's also a testament to USF's commitment to provide student athletes with a first-rate education, according to Heinser, who was among 96 USF student athletes named to the WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll for 2008-09.
Compiled each academic year, the honor roll includes students with GPAs of 3.0 or better. Out of the 96 USF student athletes to make the honor roll for 2008-09, 14 earned Gold Honors (4.00-3.75 GPA), 15 earned Silver Honors (3.74-3.50 GPA), and 67 earned Bronze Honors (3.49-3.00). Cumulatively, USF student athletes earned a 3.19 GPA for 2008-09.
Like Heinser, several USF student athletes on the honor roll are standouts in their sport, have overcome extraordinary odds to be at USF, or turned their USF experience into a launching pad to a promising career or professional athletic contract.
At USF, the expectations on student athletes are elemental: What is foremost is that they understand they are "student athletes" in that order; they are taught to be students first, said USF Athletic Director Debra Gore-Mann. "Every year, I tell them that we're not here to keep you eligible to play athletics but to make sure you earn a degree."
Balancing a Division I college athletic career with full-time studies is anything but easy. On one three-day trip to Portland, Heinser, already suited up in her tennis gear, spent the morning composing a paper on religion in Latin America in the hotel's executive business center before submitting it by e-mail and rushing off to a match.
"I think it's definitely harder for athletes to do well academically just because we have less time to do everything," Heinser said.
Finding that there are too few hours in the day is a common dilemma. Spare time is so scarce for Ganbi Bor, 2008 WCC Freshman of the Year in men's cross country, that he sometimes balances his classes and training by completing homework on runs as long as 16 miles.
"For finals week last semester, I organized an essay that was due for rhetoric class while running," said Bor, a sophomore computer science major with a 3.19 GPA. "I was also able to solve a problem on one of my computer science projects."
An immigrant from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Bor arrived in San Francisco in 2005 with little more than an English/Mongolian-Mongolian/English dictionary. "Three years later, I graduated from Jefferson High School (Daly City) having completed honors English," said Bor, who is pursing U.S. citizenship.
His immigration to the U.S. was full of unexpected turns and moments of culture shock, said Bor, who laughed as he recalled his early anxiety at the tendency of American friends to hug him on the street. "A goodbye hug doesn't exist in Mongolia," Bor said. "Hugging means two people are in love. So, you can imagine that it was very uncomfortable in the beginning."
Coming to the U.S. was a dream for Bor. And being able to compete at such a high level in a Division I sport while obtaining a top-flight education has been an incredible opportunity for him, said David Wolber, professor of computer science and an informal adviser to Bor.
"I think student athletes are sometimes undervalued in the academic world," said Wolber, a former Division II basketball player for the University of California, Davis.
Brenda Giarratano, USF director of academic support for student athletes, echoed Wolber's concern about how student athletes are perceived. If she could correct one misconception on campus it would be the idea that student athletes are jocks who receive special treatment.
"In reality, they work really hard and face grueling schedules," said Giarratano, whose department oversees student athlete tutoring, study hall, and academic counseling each semester for USF's 240 student athletes.
On top of a full schedule of classes, the majority of student athletes spend at least 20 hours a week training for their sport, according to Giarratano. Another three to five hours are devoted to weight training, and then there is the travel time. Some teams travel as far away as Hawaii and Texas. On the road, coaches hold study hall, interspersed with practices, team meals, and hours-long team meetings devoted to strategy and reviewing video of opponents. Occasionally a graduate assistant will accompany a Dons team traveling for several days just before finals to provide tutoring.
Being a student first and an athlete second is exactly what Derek Poppert chose when the Dons' shortstop turned down a contract with the Cincinnati Reds after he was picked in the 28th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball amateur draft.
For Poppert, completing his senior year and graduating made the most sense. "At some point or another, every student athlete will no longer be able to play their respective sport," said Poppert, an international studies major with a 3.76 GPA.
A typical baseball game day starts by arriving two to three hours before the first pitch, competing for three hours, and spending another hour cleaning up the field (if it's a home game) or riding the bus back to USF. Try tackling a midterm paper on the politics of war and peace after that, said Poppert, recalling a four-hour bus ride back to USF last year following a game at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
"I ended up staying up until 5 a.m. to work on (the paper)," said Poppert, who led the Dons with 52 runs batted in and had a .352 batting average as a junior. "I felt horrible during practices and games for the next few days."
During a 56-game spring semester baseball season, in which he dedicates about 36 hours a week to baseball, it's all Poppert can do to keep up with the minimum three classes (12 units). But, enrolling in the minimum number of units each spring means he'll attend USF for an extra semester to earn his degree, not an inexpensive prospect.
That's all right. Studying the roots of international conflicts and why one in six people in the world lives on less than $1 a day helps him keep baseball in perspective, said Poppert, who sees a role model in the late Roberto Clemente, a National League MVP and 12-time Golden Glove winner famous for charity work in his native Puerto Rico.
"This is a guy that did something with his life beyond simply living for money, fame, and personal achievement," Poppert said of Clemente, who died in the prime of his career when the plane he was on crashed while taking earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua in 1971.
If juggling a Division I sport and full-time college studies weren't enough, many student athletes also take part in community, church, or other volunteer efforts.
Women's basketball, like other USF athletic teams, regularly helps out the less fortunate, including working to raise money for the Haitian earthquake relief effort, serving food at a soup kitchen in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and participating in the American Cancer Society's breast cancer walk.
"Not only is it very important that our student athletes graduate," said Tanya Haave, former USF women's basketball coach, "it's part of our Jesuit vision to prepare them to go out and make a difference in the world."
Senior forward Nnenna Okereke, who is among USF's most athletic women's basketball players, exemplifies that vision. Raised in Berkeley by Nigerian parents, Okereke, a psychology major with a 3.07 GPA, volunteers at a Bay Area homeless shelter and spends summers working with kids at church camp.
To balance her class work and extensive travel schedule, Okereke studies on the bus or during airplane flights. On a trip to Los Angeles in February, Okereke became ill and struggled to stay awake to complete an assignment on addiction for her advanced research methods class by the midnight deadline.
"I fell asleep with my computer on top of me," Okereke said. In the morning, she scrambled to complete the assignment between a required team breakfast and video review session of that evening's opponent. Her instructor was understanding.
Steadfast in her intent to pursue a professional basketball career following college, Okereke sees her USF education as indispensable to her other aspiration of attending law school and starting her own law firm specializing in child custody cases.
A former USF student athlete also drawn to law is Anika Steig '09. A politics major and the USF women's soccer team's starting goalie in 2008-09, Steig's interests lie in civil rights and environmental law.
Along with making the WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll for 2008-09, Steig graduated summa cum laude and was chosen as valedictorian for the College of Arts and Sciences with a 3.89 GPA.
"For me, it was always the parity between athletics and academics that enabled me to do either one," said Steig of her approach to finding time for both soccer and school. It wasn't unusual for her to use soccer as an escape from the classroom or vice versa, said Steig, who recalled suiting up to train on occasions when she had run up against a wall while writing a paper.
Steig, who spent spring 2008 working in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's office on immigration and home foreclosure issues, credits her experience at USF, on and off the soccer pitch, for helping her transition to her current job as a law clerk in her native Seattle.
This spring, she planned to travel in Latin America for several weeks, stopping to volunteer in El Salvador where an estimated 10,000 Salvadorans were made homeless or left hungry when floods swept across the country last fall.
Steig is part of a bigger success story of USF's women's soccer team raising its GPA to a "B" average since Coach Mark Carr took over in spring 2007. That's due, in part, to a coaching strategy of constantly encouraging players to cultivate a proactive relationship with their professors and to seek help sooner rather than later.
"At the end of the day, our athletes are not going to make a million dollars playing soccer," Carr said. "We want to set them up with the tools to be successful in whatever field interests them when they leave USF."
Another coach whose athletes have reason to pat themselves on the back for their performance in the classroom as well as in competition is women's tennis Coach Hilary Somers. Since 2002, her teams thrice have laid claim to USF's Dr. Carl Jordan Cox Award. The Cox Award is presented annually to the Dons team that demonstrates excellence in competition, academics, and community service.
A highly organized person, Somers' coaching extends to advising student athletes on time management, including holding team meetings so that veteran players can share their experience and suggestions.
It's an exceptional drive that propels these student athletes to compete at the highest level of their sports, graduate at the top of their classes, and tutor or travel to another country to assist in disaster relief. Such drive and success requires support, not only from professors but coaches, Somers said.
In hopes of coalescing that support, Giarratano began a new tradition last fall of offering "academic tours" to coaches and coaching staff to introduce them to USF deans at the beginning of the academic year. "The idea is to build the community so that the coaches understand what is expected of our student athletes," Giarratano said.
When all is said and done, that support and that community might be what makes the difference for USF's student athletes. "Whereas, some university athletic programs focus on preparing student athletes for professional athletics, we focus on preparing them for life," Gore-Mann said.
There's no secret recipe for conjuring up athletes who can achieve academically. It's a simple matter of priorities, Steig said. "First and foremost, USF is an educational institution that wants its graduates to leave with a greater understanding of the world than when they arrived," she said. "Athletic programs make college more fun, but at the end of the day they are a privilege, a bonus."


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David Moyes reckons the returning Wayne Rooney moved a step closer to staying at Manchester United after his "incredibly committed" display in their romp at Swansea.
Fulham boss Martin Jol suffered a shock during his attempts to sign Tottenham's England midfielder, Scott Parker.
Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal are all attempting to bring 17-year-old PSV Eindhoven winger Zakaria Bakkali to the Premier League.
Manchester United will launch a bid to sign Marouane Fellaini on the cheap this week.
Arsene Wenger insisted Arsenal did not suffer a humiliating opening-day defeat because of his lack of spending.
Newcastle players and staff fear Alan Pardew is already fighting to save his job.
Liverpool are keen to sign teenage wonder boy Richairo Zivkovic.
Paolo Di Canio is ready to wheel and deal again after a nightmare start to the season at Sunderland.
Liverpool are on the brink of signing Brazil star Willian.
Arsenal will be told to pay £25million to make Michu their transfer Plan B.
Crystal Palace have launched a £2million bid for Nancy winger Yohan Mollo.
Luka Modric wants to become Manchester United's star signing.
Jose Mourinho will make a final bid of £40million for Wayne Rooney within the next 48 hours.
Gareth Bale is fuming at claims he is giving Spurs the silent treatment.
Frank Lampard says he would love Wayne Rooney at Chelsea.
Paolo Di Canio insists Stephane Sessegnon is not leaving the Stadium of Light.
Jose Mourinho insists he will walk away from Chelsea if he is a disaster and fails to win a trophy in his second spell.
Tottenham are slugging it out with Southampton for Pablo Osvaldo.
Arsenal will have to pay £25million to land Michu from Swansea.
Chris Coleman says he feels sorry for Spurs star Gareth Bale over his £81m move to Real Madrid.
Man Utd's raids for the Everton pair of Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines will help clinch a £15m Toffees move for Wigan midfield ace James McCarthy, 22.
Brendan Rodgers has been urged to splash the cash on samba ace Willian by Liverpool great Jan Molby.
Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea are eyeing a move for Radamel Falcao after reports suggested Monaco may be forced to sell the player after a dispute over their tax status.
Sunderland have switched their sights to Juventus left-back Paolo De Ceglie after missing out on Aly Cissokho.
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce is showing interest in Benfica striker Oscar Cardozo as he tries to beef up his attack.
Reading striker Pavel Pogrebnyak is looking at options of a return to Russia.
James McClean has blamed the boo boys for forcing him out of Sunderland.
Newcastle director of football Joe Kinnear has been offered wing wonder Jefferson Montero - but Crystal Palace lead the chase for the Ecuador ace.
Wayne Rooney has publicly told David Moyes that he needs a run of games to regain "100 per cent" fitness even though he is still pushing for a move to Chelsea.
Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, criticised referee Anthony Taylor and again defended his transfer policy after coming under fire from supporters following a surprise 3-1 defeat by Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium yesterday.
Wayne Rooney betrayed his continued determination to leave Manchester United by refusing to celebrate with his team after helping to create the second of two brilliant Robin van Persie goals as United eased to a 4-1 win at Swansea in David Moyes' first Premier League match in charge.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he is prepared to strengthen his squad before the end of the transfer window after facing a hostile reaction to yesterday's 3-1 home defeat to Aston Villa.
Wayne Rooney has finally accepted that he will not be allowed to leave Manchester United to join Chelsea and has had to settle for another season at Old Trafford.
Luis Suarez declined the opportunity last night to tell the world that he wants to stay at Liverpool. But his manager Brendan Rodgers declared himself "very satisfied with how everything has been resolved".


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