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UCF to host stress management event The Veterans Academic Resource Center at UCF will be hosting a relaxation event, which will provide veterans with tips to manage stress, adjust to college and feel comfortable in the classroom. The free event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday and will take place in the VARC office, located in the UCF Arena next to Jimmy John’s. The event will also cover communications issues, anger management and how to practice healthy sleeping habits in a college environment. Those interested in the program can contact Jill Cooley at 407-823-2707 or varc@mail.ucf.edu. Those attending are welcome to bring their lunch to the event.
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With $25,000 in the bag from Activity and Service Fees, graduate students can expect their very own haven for studying, presentations and discussions. At the special sessions senate meeting in early April, the Student Government Association Senate passed a bill that would
allow $25,000 to go toward the Graduate Student Center, a project that Sen. Sergio Tafur and members of the Graduate Student Association have been working on for nearly a year. Tafur sat on seat two of graduate studies until he resigned soon after the bill was passed. “This will give a space for graduate students to meet and talk to one anoth-
er and have available computers,” said Bonnie Barry, GSA president. “Now graduate students can see their dollars from the ASF fee go toward something specifically for them.” Tafur said the idea for the center came about after a strong response on a survey given every three years to graduate students expressed a need for a student lounge specifically
for graduate students. According to Tafur, more than half of the 8,600 graduate students said in the comments section of the survey that they wanted a study-type lounge for graduate students. “As soon as we heard that news [that our plan was approved] we rejoiced,” Tafur said. “This was our goal. To have a place for grad students to get together and have
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On North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, a black and gold flag hangs from Goldie’s, a bar located in the heart of the city. This is the official game-watching location for members of the recently launched UCF Chicago Alumni club. Like many graduates, these one-time UCF-area residents have taken their school spirit to a new city and have made their mark by starting an alumni club. Earlier this month, more than 50 alumni attended a party hosted by the UCF Alumni Association celebrating the start of the club. “It was awesome … they had
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The UCF Chicago Alumni club was launched earlier this month.The club plans to have UCF football and basketball watching parties,start a softball league and participate in charity work in Chicago.
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going.” The club is part of a growing UCF presence in Chicago. A.J.
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Grad battles traffic for trafficking awareness STEPHANIE REYES Contributing Writer
Imagine driving a low powered go-kart across more than 3,000 miles of the most dangerous roads on the planet. This is how UCF graduate Cedric Dahl describes the charity rickshaw race he is participating in to help raise awareness of the human trafficking problem across India. “The choices ranged from golf to making the world a wee bit better … so I thought I’d take a crack at the latter,” said Dahl, describing how he went from a job with Microsoft at the ripe age of 28 to riding a rickshaw across India. While searching for charitable adventures he met Chris Keller, a studyabroad student at Mannheim University and pre-med student at San Diego State, who introduced him to the idea of “charity adventuring” and informed Dahl about the Rickshaw Rally. The race began April 17 at 10 a.m. Dahl joined with Keller and documentarian Daniel Gonzales. They began their journey in the town of Cochin. They will be traveling 3,300 miles from Cochin deep into the northeast city of Meghalaya. An auto rickshaw seats one person comfortably, generates seven horsepower and has a top speed of around 33 mph. When asked by organizers to choose a team name, one of the boys yelled out “Rabbit Foot” in hopes of bringing them some luck. Altogether there are 72 teams in the charity adventure from all parts of the world.
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Cedric Dahl,far left,and his teammates are cruising across India in a rickshaw, above,which seats one person comfortably and has a top speed of 33 mph.
“It seems our shared madness knows no limits and doesn’t discriminate by race or region,” Dahl said. As soon as the boys took off they immediately got lost. They quickly realized how insane driving in India really is. Dahl describes the driving rules in India as people going forward as fast as they can while simply trying to not kill each other. They were run off the road several times before realizing it was normal. After six days and near-death experiences virtually occurring hourly, Dahl and his team no longer get adrenaline rushes right before
oncoming traffic almost kills them. So why do it? Because it’s for a cause. These three adventurers are trying to raise awareness of human trafficking and are doing so by raising funds. So far after six days and traveling 1,056 miles, they have raised $1,254. Human trafficking victimizes more children in India than anywhere else in the world, according to rickshawadventure.com. Dahl feels that there is no point of life without freedom, which human trafficking steals from individuals. Although human trafficking is illegal in the country, enforcement is
extremely weak due to the limitations of the country’s judicial system. This has resulted in substantial trafficking in woman and children within India and its borders. Dahl and his team are making sure to raise the awareness of this growing issue by informing everyone about their cause. Dahl graduated from UCF in 2007 with a BSBA
in Management of Information Systems. He was possessed to live out his dreams while he was still young and capable and began to do so in the Rickshaw Rally. “Our core values are people, freedom and creativity. The human trafficking problem affects people and their freedom. Our team is using a bit of creativity to help people gain their freedom. So this
problem touches on all three of our core values,” Dahl said. Help fight human trafficking by visiting rickshawadventure.com, which allows individuals to make a pledge and donate funds, which go directly to the International Justice Mission to combat slavery and forced prostitution. Together they have raised more than $45 million.
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Professor cautions students on school selection FROM A1 few years. “We have lots of students in the master’s [program] and people get jobs, but at the undergraduate level, there’s nothing,” Folse said. “People were coming to me because they were undergrads, they were interested in going overseas or people who want to know something about linguistics and they would come to us because there are five TESOL professors here.” Graduating soon or not, Folse wants students — undergraduates and graduates — to be smart about this process and wary of an easy ticket. “When you ask employers what they think … they’re going to ask you how many hours of actual classroom practices or instruction or experience do you have,” Folse said. “If you can’t name a number, you’re automatically not hirable and you’ve wasted $140.” Taking this route isn’t on Folse’s list of ways to make it overseas, as it can have some unpleasant consequences. “If you’re not smart you’re going to end up in China not having any books and papers with you and living out of your backpack,” Folse said. “That’s all fine if you want to do that, but I’m trying to help you do a little bit better than that.” His primary hope is that students sign up for the certificate. “If more people knew about this, they’d be very smart and instead of taking four electives in something you really don’t care about and really aren’t going to benefit you down the road…at
Would you participate in TESOL?: www.UCFNews.com least take the first class [of the certificate],” Folse said. Folse said the biggest thing UCF’s TESOL classes can boast is the hours of classroom experience, which is the most important thing employers will ask about. Taking all of the courses in the certificate, which will result in about 50 hours of classroom experience, includes
shadowing teachers, giving speeches and having actual conversations with non-native speakers. For students who are graduating before the certificate is offered and are interested in TESOL, Folse still has plenty of advice. One of his most important pieces of advice is to never be customer No. 1. Mom-andpop shops that are not as reputable as more established schools are often willing to hire just about anyone.
Someone who didn’t accept just any offer is alumnus Angel HernandezSavino. Hernandez, who graduated last December with a degree in business management, is leaving to teach in Japan next week. Hernandez first heard about TESOL when he was a member of the United Nations Association at UCF. “It just seemed like a great idea, so I enrolled in some of Dr. Folse’s classes,” Hernandez said. Through Folse’s classes, Hernandez learned how to
better navigate the sea of programs that exists and choose one that didn’t make false promises. He also learned what to expect once he’s over there, like drinking with his coworkers. “In Japan, you must follow the atmosphere,” Hernandez said. “I love meeting new people and this will be a great way to mingle with my coworkers.” Folse advised that the students are not trying to date their teachers or anything that is viewed as inappropriate and that they just want to bond with their
teacher. While most students’ experience is good and leads them to a contract renewal, Folse said most students look at teaching abroad as a short-term option. “Since I’ve been here I’ve kind of been toying around with the idea of going to law school,” said alumnus and Fulbright recipient Tristan Reiniers, who’s teaching contract in South Korea is drawing to a close. Reiniers said while he’s enjoyed teaching, it was the international experience that meant the most.
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Windy City alumni don’t ditch O-Town roots FROM A1 Rompza, the point guard for the UCF basketball team and a Chicago native, recruited other players from his high school to UCF, including Marcus Jordan. Six of the 11 UCF basketball players are from Illinois. The Alumni Association plans to launch chap-
ters in Denver and Charlotte, N.C., in July, bringing the number of UCF alumni clubs up to 20, two more from last year’s tally. The Chicago branch was launched as a club, meaning there are less than 1,000 graduates in the region. When the number of graduates exceeds 1,000, the club becomes a chapter.
The co-chairs of the Chicago club are Ivette Herald, graduate of 2004, and Andrew Allan, graduate of 2003. “I love my school and love hanging out with people from my school,” Allan said. “It started out with watch parties but we decided to take it to the next level. Now we have a flag hanging outside a bar
and we are an official organization.” According to Prine, the level of involvement of a chapter is up to its members. Some chapters donate to the university through fundraisers and give scholarships to incoming freshman from their area. Prine believes that the Chicago club will be very active. “There was so much participation [at the launch party],” Prine said. “We even needed to start a new sign-up sheet for leadership positions.” The club plans to host watch parties for football and basketball, as well as start a softball league. It will also host a social every two months and participate in charity work. Starting a chapter
begins when someone in an area with many graduates that does not yet have a club or chapter volunteers to take on the task of starting one. Working with the Alumni Association, they determine if enough people will participate. If so, a club is started. According to Prine, some advantages of joining a regional alumni chapter are networking opportunities, making friends and watching Knights football and basketball games. The latter is a common function among chapters. “It is a great way to network and make friends in a new city or if you’re looking for a job,” Prine said. “Even if you move, just let us know by updating your contact
information with the Alumni Association so we can contact you with news and information.” The Alumni Association recently became a non-dues based membership in its attempt to include all UCF graduates. According to Prine, the change has led to one of their most successful years. “We are starting to see more people participate and get involved in events, which are now totally free — which is what we want to see as an Alumni Association,” Prine said. To view a list of Alumni chapters and clubs, or update contact information after graduation, students can go to the UCF Alumni Association website www.ucfalumni.com.
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GSA hopes to furnish center using tech fees FROM A1 interdisciplinary graduate level discussions, practice their thesis presentations and study.” The center will be a 2,500 square foot space in Colbourn Hall where the music department used to be. Tafur said having such a central location that’s close to the library is ideal
for the center’s purpose. The initial $25,000 will go toward manning the center for its first year and building on its initiatives. The facility’s improvements will be paid by the College of Graduate Studies using one-time recurring money. As far as furnishing the center, the executive committee of GSA is currently
working to write a proposal for the technology fee committee to help establish services and build out the space with projectors, computers and TV screens. Graduate students pay a larger portion of a technology fee, $12 per credit hour, whereas undergrads only pay $9 per credit hour.
The projectors would help graduate students practice their dissertation defenses and having the center would provide a space for professors from other universities to work with graduate students in their research and presentations, according to Barry. Barry is hoping to see specialized technology in the center that could help
each student within their area of study. “Graduate students don’t have a lot of space to study,” Barry said. “Studying in the Student Union can be difficult, not only in finding a seat but it can get loud in there and the graduate study room in the library doesn’t even have Internet access.” The Graduate Center is
also going to be the place for the four required ethics seminars graduate students seeking a Ph.D. are required to take. As of right now, there is no dedicated space for the seminars. Tafur is hoping that the center will improve retention rate and help graduate students become more involved.
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At least seven dead as storms pound South JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press
EDOM, Texas — Violent weather ripped through the South for a second straight night, killing at least seven people from Arkansas to Alabama, damaging homes in a rural Texas community and spreading destruction into Georgia and Tennessee. The latest round of severe weather Tuesday night and early Wednesday came after a series of powerful storms killed 10 people in Arkansas and one in Mississippi. A police officer on a camping trip was killed while shielding his daughter when the storm ripped through a state park in northern Mississippi. The victim, from Covington, La., was not immediately identified. “He covered his daughter with his body when the storm came through to protect her. A tree limb fell and hit him in the head, killing him. The daughter was not hurt. She was still at the campground waiting for family to arrive,” Choctaw County, Miss., Coroner Keith Coleman said. Also in Mississippi, a man was crushed in his mobile home when a tree fell during the storm and a truck driver died after hitting a downed tree on a state highway. None of the victims have been identified. In north Alabama, one person died when a tree fell on a car. A Cullman County sheriff’s spokesman said emergency responders were working to free another person from the car. Pell City emergency managers said at least two people died in St. Clair County in central Alabama.
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management confirmed early Wednesday that one person died in a storm in Sharp County. Officials said the person was in a home near Arkansas Highway 230 but didn’t know exactly how the person died or whether a tornado had touched down in the area. In Louisiana, police were investigating if two deaths in Monroe were storm-related. The body of a woman was found early Wednesday in a vehicle that had become trapped in a flooded underpass and the body of a man was found later on a flooded street. Severe storms in northwest Georgia downed trees, blew out windows in a hospital and torn off part of a school roof. Much of north and central Georgia was bracing for another round of thunderstorms later Wednesday. A tornado watch has been issued. In eastern Tennessee, what appeared to be a tornado struck just outside Chattanooga in Tiftonia, at the base of the tourist peak Lookout Mountain. Angela Milchack, 29, had just dropped off her son at Lookout Valley Elementary School. Students took cover and none were hurt. “It just sounded like the wind was blowing really, really hard,” she said. Tops were snapped off trees and insulation and metal roof panels littered the ground Police officers walked down the street, spray-painting symbols at houses they had checked for people who might be inside. The National Weather Service had issued a highrisk warning for severe weather from northeast of
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Ken Sanders,son-in-law of Jay and Carla Arendal,takes a rest while helping to look for items to keep after a tornado destroyed the Arendal’s home on Tuesday,in Vilonia,Ark.The couple was in the home and both survived. The National Weather Service issued a high risk warning for severe weather in a stretch extending from northeast of Memphis to just northeast of Dallas and covering a large swath of Arkansas.
Memphis to just northeast of Dallas and covering a large swath of Arkansas. It last issued such a warning on April 16, when dozens of tornadoes hit North Carolina and killed 21 people. Emergency management officials in Alabama said two suspected tornadoes touched down in Marshall County, about 70 miles northeast of Birmingham, causing widespread injuries and damage. “There are people trapped in mobile homes, in vehicles. We’ve got trees down all over, power lines down all over. It’s all over the county,” said Phil Mayer, working in the county emergency management office. The weather service didn’t immediately confirm twister damage, but forecasters had issued several tornado warnings and said winds blew as hard as 70 mph, just short of hurricane force.
High winds also damaged a hangar at the Birmingham airport. Dozens of tornado warnings were issued in Arkansas throughout the night. Strong winds peeled part of the roof off of a medical building next to a hospital in West Memphis, near the Tennessee border, but no one was inside. At least one person was injured when a storm slammed through the tiny town of Edom some 75 miles east of Dallas late Tuesday, said Fire Chief Eddie Wood. Witnesses described seeing what they thought was a tornado rolling the woman’s mobile home with her inside. A video shot by the Tyler Morning Telegraph showed emergency responders covering the injured woman to shield her from rain and hail. Her mobile home was reduced to a pile of debris in the road. “We have multiple
houses damaged or destroyed,” said Chuck Allen, Van Zandt County emergency management spokesman. He said he would survey the area by helicopter Wednesday to get an accurate count. Ted Ryan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said at least one tornado almost certainly hit between Edom and the town of Van to the north. He said the weather service would send a team to the area Wednesday to assess the damage and determine the strength of the storm. At daybreak Wednesday, residents on the outskirts of the small, rural community started to clear up the damage from the storm. The area was littered with uprooted trees, some had split in half and others landed on homes. Rhonda Modesitt, 45, said she and her 15-yearold son watched the torna-
do approach their duplex. “You could see lumber and stuff swirling in it,” Modesitt said as she swept up broken glass from patio furniture that was smashed in the storm. “You could hear it coming through and then it got real still.” Heavy rain prompted the evacuation of a military base near Memphis, Tenn. Military officials moved 122 personnel from the naval support base at Millington to hotels after a stream began flooding a low-lying section of the base, WMC-TV reported. Thunderstorms with high winds and possible tornadoes caused tree and power line damage from Bastrop, La., to Tishomingo County in northeastern Mississippi late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service’s office in Jackson, Miss. Officials reported minor injuries in northwestern Louisiana when a trailer at an oil drilling site turned over in high winds in Bossier Parish. In nearby Webster Parish, Sheriff’s Deputy Chuck Warford said there were reports of downed trees and power lines and some damage to roofs. The latest round of storms moved through as communities in much of the region struggled with flooding and damage from earlier twisters. In Arkansas, a tornado smashed Vilonia, just north of Little Rock, on Monday night, ripping the roof off the grocery store, flattening homes and tossing vehicles into the air. Four people were killed in Vilonia, and six died in flooding elsewhere in the state. In Mississippi, a 3year-old girl was killed when a storm toppled a tree onto her home.
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2010-11 has been the most successful athletics season in UCF history, capped off with Conference USA championships in football, track & field, women’s basketball and men’s golf. Six different teams were ranked nationally in top25 polls, distinguishing UCF as the only school in the country with this honor. Here are the Central Florida Future’s grades for UCF’s major varsity sports teams:
NFL LOCKOUT OVER MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL is a long way from playing football again — even if players are welcomed back to work with no lockout to stop them. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson granted the players’request for an injunction to lift the lockout on Monday, ending the NFL’s work stoppage in its 45th day but prompting an immediate notice from the league that it will appeal. And players? They were told to show up ready for work — or workouts — on Tuesday. Bills safety George Wilson confirmed that the NFLPA emailed players after Nelson’s ruling suggesting they show up at team facilities. He said players were told if they are denied access that teams would be in violation of the judge’s ruling. “We have received inquiry from a number of players and agents. We have simply responded and told them we don’t see anything wrong with it,” NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah said in a text message to The Associated Press. “Players are organizing stuff on their own.”
Men’s sports Baseball — B (...so far) Since Terry Rooney has taken over as the Knights’ head coach, he’s had two back-toback top-20 recruiting classes and signed players such as Ronnie Richardson and D.J. Hicks, who could have easily played professional baseball right out of high school. The baseball team has had some major upsets this season, the biggest over No. 5 Florida, but still has some work to do with the rotation and bullpen in order to compete with Rice for the C-USA title. Basketball — BThe basketball team would have received a much higher grade, but after starting out
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JENKINS KICKED OFF GATORS AFTER MARIJUANA ARREST GAINESVILLE — Florida coach Will Muschamp sent a strong message to his team Tuesday by dismissing star cornerback Janoris Jenkins. Jenkins was kicked off the team after his third arrest in less than two years, his second in the past four months. Muschamp’s decision makes it clear he won’t tolerate the off-the-field issues that plagued the Gators during former coach Urban Meyer’s tenure. The Gators had 30 arrests involving 27 players during Meyer’s six seasons. One of those included Jenkins. Police used a stun gun when arresting Jenkins in May 2009, and he was charged with affray and resisting arrest without violence. Jenkins signed a deferred prosecution agreement, receiving probation and community service. But his last two arrests were on marijuana possession charges. Jenkins was charged with marijuana possession Saturday after a Gainesville Police officer spotted the 22-year-old sitting in a parked car, smoking what the officer later found to be a marijuana cigar. Jenkins was arrested on the same charge in January and later accepted a plea deal. Muschamp said he met with Jenkins on Tuesday, and both felt it was in Jenkins’best interest to move on “to the next stage of his career.” “We appreciate Janoris’contributions to the University of Florida during his time here and wish him the best of luck,” Muschamp said in a statement. Jenkins, considered one of the top cornerbacks in the Southeastern Conference, missed the Outback Bowl following surgery. Many believed Jenkins would leave early. But after Muschamp took over and hired several assistants with NFL backgrounds, Jenkins opted to stay in school, rehab his shoulder and possibly improve his draft stock this fall. Now, he likely will enter the NFL supplement draft.
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D.J. Hicks earns national accolades JESSICA GILLESPIE Baseball beat writer
Designated hitter D.J. Hicks was at the baseball team’s optional lift on Monday afternoon when he found out that he was not only the Conference USA Hitter of the Week but also one of five student-athletes in the country to be Louisville Slugger’s National Player of the Week. “I’m definitely surprised,” Hicks said. “Awards in the middle of the season you don’t really hear too much about or even worry about, but I’m glad to see that some of it paid off and I got a little reward.” On Tuesday, Hicks was named the Pro-Line Athletic Co-National Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. He shares
the title with Southeast Missouri State’s Trenton Moses. “D.J. is very, very deserving of that honor,” said head coach Terry Rooney. “Certainly last week but really the last couple weeks, he has really been in a hitting zone. He’s been consistently doing well, but he’s also come up as we call it in the clutch and hitting in the clutch on numerous occasions. He certainly has done a great job over the last few weeks.” Because of finals week, UCF is off until Friday’s home series-opener against Houston. The redshirt sophomore helped lead UCF to a 4-1 record this past week, headlined by a career-high six-RBI game against Florida Atlantic. He hit a two-run double and a three-run double in back-
PROJECTED LINEUP 1.Darnell Sweeney SS 2.Ronnie Richardson CF 3.D.J.Hicks DH 4.Jonathan Griffin 1B 5.Chris Taladay LF 6.Erik Hempe RF 7.Derek Luciano 3B 8.Travis Shreve 2B 9.Beau Taylor C PROJECTED PITCHERS Friday:Brian Adkins Saturday:Ben Lively Sunday:Danny Winkler
to-back innings. On Wednesday, he hit a solo home run in UCF’s 86 win over No. 5 Florida. Hicks kept it up in UCF’s weekend series at Memphis. In the opener, he singled in the tenth
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D.J.Hicks,the Knights’designated hitter,notched the C-USA Hitter of the Week award and was named a National Player of the Week by Louisville Slugger.
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Three-peat: Knights are C-USA golf champs MIKE BALDUCCI Copy Editor
A new face leads the Knights every year, but one thing has remained consistent: The UCF men’s golf team has the Conference USA title in its back pocket. For the third consecutive year, the Knights brought home the C-USA Championship after posting an 862 at Texarkana (Ark.) Country Club on Tuesday. With the win, the Knights receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Regionals. Greg Eason, a freshman from Leicester City, England, braved the conditions and took second place overall with a 6under performance. It’s the second consecutive year a Knight has taken second place at the Championship, after sophomore Connor Arendell brought home the honors last year. “Greg’s had an absolutely amazing yea,” said head coach Bryce Wallor. “The first couple
of weeks here he went through the process of getting accustomed to a new county, and since then he’s been the low finisher in every event but two.” Eason’s third round, a 3under 69, included two birdies and an eagle, which helped him to his seventh top-10 finish of the year. After the departure of former Knights star Blayne Barber to Auburn in 2009, UCF has struggled to find a true No. 1. Eason and Arendell have shared the role and will help the Knights remain strong alongside a core of Kyle Wilshire and Brad Schneider. Said Wallor: “It’s a great one-two punch.” Schneider also finished in the top 10 with a 7thplace, 1-under finish. Arendell shot 1-over for a 13thplace finish. The Knights, ranked No. 33 in the Golfweek/Sagarin college rankings, will be randomly assigned to one of the six NCAA Regional locations May 9. The Knights finished sixth at last year’s
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The UCF men’s golf team poses with the Conference USA Championship trophy after posting an 862 at Texarkana (Ark.) Country Club on Tuesday.
Regional, just missing the bid to the NCAA Championship. “Last year’s team, with everyone getting used to a new coach and a new system, it took a while to get everyone on the same
page,” Wallor said. “This year it started off very quick. Runner up the first week and won the next week. Having established ourselves as a coaching staff, this year’s team hit the ground running.”
Football, soccer earn top marks FROM A10 15-0 and then losing eight straight games, it was made evident that the Knights are still in rebuilding mode. In head coach Donnie Jones’ first season, Jones helped star player Marcus Jordan elevate his game to the next level and brought in UCF’s best recruiting class ever, so next season shouldn’t be as streaky. Football — A It was a stellar year for the Knights football team, taking home their second C-USA Championship and their first-ever bowl victory after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the Liberty Bowl. UCF finished the season No. 21 in the AP top 25 poll and will likely appear in the preseason rankings. The only thing keeping the Jeff Godfrey-led Knights from an A+ grade was losing to Southern Miss on Nov. 12 after entering the top 25. Golf — AThe golf team achieved a three-peat Tuesday after winning its third consecutive C-USA championship in a row. Although they’re not ranked in the top-25 nationally, the Knights ranked No. 33 in the Golfweek/Sagarin college rankings and have gotten a big boost by freshman Greg Eason. Soccer — AThe soccer team had its most successful season in team history, making it all the way to the second round of the NCAA Tournament where they lost to
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The Knights women’s soccer team celebrates after taking home the C-USA regular season championship.
Michigan 2-1 in over time. The soccer team’s star players, Cam Cooksey and Nik Robson, look to likely lead the team on another NCAA Tournament run next season. Tennis — CThe tennis team finished up its spring season 9-15 and lost in the quarterfinals of the C-USA championship to Memphis.
Women’s sports Basketball — B+ Even though the women’s basketball team wasn’t ranked in the top 25, the Knights, led by D’Nay Daniels, won 11 consecutive games to win the C-USA championship and appear in the NCAA Tournament. The Knights lost in the first round to national powerhouse Ohio State, but put up a respectable effort against the Buckeyes. Golf — D The highest finish that the women’s golf team had this season was fourth place in the John Kirk/Panther Collegiate.
Soccer — AThe back-to-back CUSA regular-season champions would have a higher grade if they closed the deal in the CUSA Championship, but they lost to Memphis 1-0 (again). Still, the Aline Reis-led Knights soccer team is impressive, finishing in the second round of the NCAA Tournament after losing to UCLA 2-1. Still, it was their fourth consecutive at-large bid to the tourney. Softball — C- (...so far) It’s disappointing to go to the NCAA Regionals one year and then go 18-28 the next (the season isn’t over yet, but it’s not looking like the Knights will repeat). However, the Knights were in rebuilding mode this season after losing their star pitcher Ashleigh Cole. Tennis — C The tennis team finished its season 12-8 with a loss to Rice in the second round of the C-USA Championship tournament. With only one senior on the team, the No. 75 nation-
Houston home series looms FROM A10 inning and Kevin Vasquez, who pinch-ran for Hicks, came around to score the winning run. In the second game, his grand slam in the seventh put UCF on top, clinching the game and the series. The Knights started the game trailing 6-0 after the first inning. Hicks went deep again in the finale, finishing 2for-3 with his third home run of the week. Hicks, who sat out last season due to a collapsed lung, learned a lot by sitting and watching. “I came back this fall pretty much 100 percent,” Hicks said. “Coach still had confidence in me. It was good and fun again; no one wants to sit out for a year. At the end of the day, taking a year out, you have to
sit back and learn a lot more than playing every day, so it’s good and bad.” Hicks now leads the Knights with a .356 batting average and his 10 home runs are second only to Jonathan Griffin, who hit his eleventh on Sunday. “I’ve got enough friends and family that are teasing me and making sure it doesn’t all go to my head, and we’ve got a couple days off to keep working so I can forget about it. But at the end of the day, if we keep playing the way we’re playing we’re going to be fine,” Hicks said. He added that his national recognition brings more attention to UCF and what the Knights believe is a top-25 team. “That’s going to motivate us as a team to keep
working better with the spotlight on us,” Hicks said. “It’s going to be hard to be an underdog anymore if we’re getting these kinds of awards.”
What to Watch For — Houston’s Jordan Lewis. The lefty earned C-USA’s Pitcher of the Week honors and will pitch against the Knights this weekend. Lewis (4-1) struck out 10 batters last Friday against East Carolina. — Beau Taylor. After he snapped his UCF record-tying hitting streak, his batting average fell to well below .300. Since he dropped to the nine-hole in the lineup, his average has gone up. In last week’s five-game week, he batted 9-for-17 and raised his average to .315.
ally-ranked Knights should improve next season. Track & field — A The Knights have dominated both the indoor and outdoor track scene, ranking in the top-25 in both sports. The outdoor track team is currently ranked No. 17 and the indoor track team was ranked as high as No. 8 nationally during the season. Volleyball — C The volleyball team, led by star player Kristin Fisher, finished 18-18 this season. Fisher left the team this season, even though she was only a junior, to concentrate on nursing school.
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UCF alumnus Joey Conicella,pictured above,is co-owner of The Yum Yum Cupcake truck — a new business that sells homemade cupcakes outside of the Student Union.
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A new business provides students with something new to eat between classes, and it is served from a truck: Cupcakes. Joey Conicella and Alex Marin are the owners of The Yum Yum Cupcake truck, a new food truck that is sweeping through the area. The idea of a cupcake truck is springing up around big cities such as Miami and New York City, but no one has done anything like it in Orlando, Conicella said. “We decided to start the business because we were miserable in our corporate jobs,” said Conicella, 27-yearold UCF alumnus and part owner of The Yum Yum Cupcake Truck said. “We’ve always baked as a passion, one thing led to another and the cupcake truck was the next best option.” The cupcake truck has been at the Student Union the past two Wednesdays. “We plan on coming to UCF at least once a week and for game days and concerts,” Conicella said. “If the students like us, then we’ll be on campus more. I could sit on campus all day everyday. It makes me feel young.” Their truck, with a retro yet simple flare, provides customers with cupcakes baked from scratch. Marin, 28, the head baker, uses recipes that were handed down to him from his father and grandmother, who had been bakPLEASE SEE AN ON A14
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Veganism not just for hippies — athletes join club The semester has finally come to an end as finals week is getting the best of us. I want to reiterate that vegans are not hippies. Not consuming animal products does not equal hippie. People eat this way to improve their health and life for the future. Of course, a vegan diet ultimately helps the planet and was definitely a huge factor in my decision, but to some that is not the case. I’m obviously not the only person who thinks this way of life is perfectly normal, so I listed a few wellknown professional athletes and celebrities just to prove it. Baseball writer Jonah
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Keri wrote, “Who says you have to eat meat to be a successful athlete?” Keri explains how many athletes say that choosing a vegan diet enhances their performance. These smartypants athletes also know that they are not going to be ball players and stick handlers forever. They know that staying away from meat and dairy will start
improving their health for when they get older. Others are faced with health conditions, such as Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez, that may force them to make the switch. There have been several world-class athletes who adapted to a vegan or vegetarian diet, including former NFLers Desmond Howard and Ricky Williams, NBA guard Salim Stoudamire, track and field star Carl Lewis and Edwin Moses along with many others. In May 2007, 247-pound, Gonzalez was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy. His doctors prescribed a diet made up of raw fruits, vegetables,
nuts and seeds as a way to improve digestion and combat the condition. Now, he loads up on berries, bananas, mangos, fresh vegetables, rice milk and hemp milk and blends them into power smoothies. Gonzalez was shocked that he felt so good when the season started. In the fourth quarters of games, he was sprinting past tired defenders. He also found himself more alert during team meetings. After game day while his teammates were sore and worn out, he’d check into the gym for a post-game workout. Like Mixed Martial Arts? Five-foot-9-inch, 155pound Mac Danzig became
a vegan in 2004. Ever since, he says, he seems to have quicker recoveries from the beatings he takes during fights. Although MMA fighters are typically linked to meaty diets with shockingly high protein contents, Danzig is still able to fight under the direction of the Xtreme Couture MMA Gym in Las Vegas and keeps up with some of the biggest names in the sport. The New York Knicks’ Amar’e Stoudemire hasn’t completely ditched the meat, but he is definitely down for boycotting fur and posing for PETA’s “Ink, Not Mink” campaign. While promoting the cam-
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ing for years. “We literally do it like your grandmother would do it with the 1950s recipes,” Marin said. “We try to keep all the ingredients true to form.” The No. 1 thing that makes The Yum Yum Cupcake Truck’s cupcakes different from oth-
ers is that it’s made with only fresh ingredients. The cupcakes are made with no frozen products or powdered substitutes, and only real dairy products, he said. “Some of these other cupcake products are all about using bright colors and we try to cut all of that out and make it about the flavor and the quality of the ingredient,” Marin said. The two began selling cupcakes back in November but brought the truck into the equation in March, which makes getting their name out and attracting customers more convenient. One of the reasons Conicella chose to sell cupcakes is because of the attraction it has with people. It is small and you can eat it while walking without looking like a pig, he said. “And plus I think it
reminds people of being a kid,” Conicella said. “I think that brings a fun and almost nostalgic angle to it.” Cupcakes shops have recently opened in the UCF area with locations such as Sweet! in Waterford Lakes and now The Yum Yum Cupcake Truck popping up. “I think it is great that something like The Yum Yum Cupcake Truck is in our area and especially on campus,” John Johnson, a freshman computer engineering major, said. “It is something that stands out, is different, and keeps people constantly wanting to go back.” Conicella and Marin hope to have a regular spot in front of the Student Union in the future. “Everything is made with a lot of love,” Conicella said. “That’s for sure.”
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FROM A12 paign, Stoudemire admitted he tends to a four-day vegan diet as a type of body-cleansing. He stated the diet will “purify my body, and get my body in top shape.” Even local athletes recognize the plant-based diet. Allen Altfield, a senior computer science major, as well as a vegan athlete, gets enough protein without the animal fat. Altfield is more than impressive, traveling 3,800 miles — on a bicycle. He departed from Tybee Island, Ga., and ended up in San Francisco to raise green awareness. He traveled through 13 states in around 70 days with minimal training. Tell me, can any ol’ meat eater can do that? Remember the movie Clueless? Do Cher, Dionne and Amber ring a bell? If it not, at least try to remember that popular blonde Alicia Silverstone. Since becoming a vegan, Silverstone said she feels physically and spiritually better than she could ever have imagined. She even wrote a book, The Kind Diet, and appeared at UCF a few months back to talk to students about why to consume a vegan
diet and the benefits. PETA’s sexiest vegan and vegetarians list include Olivia Wilde, who claimed that she felt “beyond [her] desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.” Carrie Underwood, Anne Hathaway and Josh Harnett said their good-byes to meat too. “One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife,” Hartnett said. “There was [pus] and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.” Andre 3000 admitted he prefers a good meal with broccoli “because I’m a vegetarian,” after being asked during a post-award show interview. Oh, and don’t be so hard on yourself. You are the only person who can control what goes in your mouth. As Altfield said: “I guess I’ve mentally blocked out negative feedback. Haters will be haters, but as long as you speak the neutral truth, they won’t be able to provide any logically negative criticisms.”
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Senators: Steer clear of porn N
o matter what you’re into, the Internet has something to suit your needs — including all types of porn. But it’s not fetishes and role playing that’s gotten a rise out of a few senators, it’s the hardcore stuff. Think of Rihanna’s “S&M” except multiplied by 100; we’re talking rough, raw, unadulterated sex with whips, gags and violence. We don’t mind that it’s out there but apparently a bunch of senators do. These politicians want hardcore pornography taken off the Internet and its producers thrown in jail or slapped with a large fine. The problem is, they say, that this simply hasn’t been happening under the Obama administration. If you can remember back to the eight-year Bush era, you’ll recall that a special Justice Department unit called the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force was created in an attempt to remove obscene material off the Internet. Current Attorney General Eric Holder has dissolved this task force, not because he’s a pervert or anything, but because the Justice Department’s resources are limited, and he believes obscenity cases would better be handled by the U.S. Attorney’s offices and the Criminal Division’s Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section. It’s not that Holder doesn’t want obscenity to be prosecuted; it’s just that he wants someone other than the Justice Department to do it. But, of course, that’s not good enough for the 42 senators who wrote a letter to Holder begging him to prosecute more adult pornography cases because, according to Sen. Orrin Hatch, not a single case has been brought up since the Obama administration began. The reason why? They’ve been focusing their efforts on prosecuting child pornography instead of soraunchy-it-makes-you-blush sex between two consenting adults, according to the Department of Justice’s official response to the angry letter. Child pornography is always both disgusting and illegal but some worry that obscene pornography that shows simulated rape or violence may lead to actual rape and violence, as well as the maltreatment of women. A legitimate concern, of course, but it also seems like a pretty broad speculation to make. There are plenty of mentally sound adults who enjoy pornography and don’t go about committing acts of violence in the bedroom or otherwise; watching porn is
a perfectly normal thing. People surfing the Web need to realize that the Internet is full of some really disturbing things so every time you sit down in front of a computer screen, exercise some caution. Hardcore pornography isn’t going to just pop-up on your browser, you have to go looking for it. For each case of obscenity that’s brought into court the jury must decide if the material “violates community standards, is patently offensive and lacks serious, artistic, scientific, political or literary merit,” in accordance with federal law. If something is so atrocious that a jury of 12 people agrees, then delete it from the website and hope no one ever sees it again. However, we don’t think major department resources should be spent on juries debating whether or not bestiality or something of the like has serious “artistic, scientific, political or literary” value. There’s always going to be content out there that offends someone, no doubt about it. In extreme cases, hardcore pornography should be prosecuted as obscenity but even then that image or video can still be hosted on another website, making it nearly impossible to permanently delete something off the Internet.
Moving from the ‘Future’ to the future that I’ve been alive have, It’s a lifelong cliché: in some way, been just when you start getinvolved with the militing comfortable with tary. I’ve learned a lot something, it’s time to about leadership from leave. that institution, but one The past nine months of the most challenging have been, for lack of a things I’ve ever had to do better word, experimenwas lead a student newstal. I’ve done a variety of paper staff. things in my life, all of I don’t think I’ve ever which were pretty experEMRE KELLY criticized myself more imental in and of themEditor-in-chief than I have in the past selves. I’ve been with the year, which isn’t necesFuture for quite some sarily a bad thing. I pride myself on time — first as photographer, then making mistakes and taking away a photo editor and now Editor-inlesson or two. chief. Even before all of that, I I learned more than one thing worked with the military. I wouldn’t have stuck around the from this year, but at the root of all of those lessons is how young and Future if it weren’t a great place to inexperienced I am. Leaders in an work and gain experience. I think office come and go, but the leaderevery UCF student should have the ship taken away from one is forever. opportunity to contribute, which I’ll definitely be taking away has been something that I’ve leadership lessons from the Future, pushed during my time here. but what makes the office such a So, I guess this is the good-bye unique place is the combination of a column where I talk about how I laid-back and serious atmosphere. got here and what I’ve done. I’ve seen some of the most awkI had a few goals when I came in: redesign the website, expand contri- ward and tense situations of my life butions from non-journalism majors in the office; then again, I’ve also (being a history major, this is impor- seen some of the most heartwarmtant to me) and create some kind of ing ones, as well. To be sure, it’s just an office, but an iPhone application that would be people are complicated. It makes free of charge. I thought that if I me happy when people bring their could at least accomplished those, I complications with them, because would be pretty happy. that means that we had to work All of those goals were successthrough them together. fully met and I’m proud to at least So in summation: leadership and leave some sort of a legacy behind. pride. I’m honored to have been I highly underestimated what it would take to actually get started on part of the Future staff and couldn’t doing enjoyable things at the Future. imagine a greater college job. I was continually impressed by how The first semester turned out to be proud the entire staff was with the a trial run, where I got a feel for publication, even if it at times it what it was like to create the Future wasn’t all that impressive. and make the connections necesNine people have run the Future sary to be an effective student jourfor the past nine months. It’s a little nalist. hard to believe, but somehow, we Over time, I found out how pulled it off. important it is as an editor to keep This probably wasn’t the most in touch with your creative side. It’s heartwarming or impressive colimportant to bring that out during slow news weeks, where story ideas umn that you’ve read, but that’s the are the most valuable commodity to point. I’ve gotten pretty used to sitting at this desk and typing out my be found. stories, but it’s time to head out. Twenty-two out of the 23 years
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Is wanting better education a crime? to do this is to pay more to Wanting a better eduteachers who teach in cation for your children lower socio-economic should not be a crime. In areas. A 2009 analysis conOhio and Connecticut, ducted by The Washington however, it is. Post found that students in According to an article the D.C. region’s lowpublished April 22 by income areas are almost National Public Radio, twice as likely to have a two mothers, Kelley new or second-year Williams-Bolar of Ohio teacher in their communiand Tonya McDowell of ANDY CEBALLOS ties as those in the wealthConnecticut, have been Guest Columnist iest. charged with larceny for By providing incenforging official school tives to experienced teachers with documents. higher pay or bonuses for teaching in Williams-Bolar used the address of her father to get her two daughters low-income neighborhoods, we can improve the educational quality in into a better school, according to these areas. Experts say that experiNPR. The article states that both enced teachers are the key to raising mothers were found to collectively owe $45,000 in back tuition as a result academic achievement, according to of sending their daughters to a school the Post. There are a few options for mothdistrict better than the one that they ers like Williams-Bolar and McDowlived in. On top of this, WilliamsBolar was sentenced to 10 days in jail, ell to consider, such as sending their children to a magnet school. This is a three years probation and communipublic, tuition-free school that develty service. ops a specialized program teaching a McDowell, the other mom, is trade. The problem with these being charged with stealing $15,686 schools is that occasionally the spefrom the school district of Norwalk, cialty of a magnet program might not Conn., according to NPR. Her case is fit the needs of a family’s goals or the still pending. learning style of their child. We, as Americans, need to take a Charter schools, public schools long, hard look at an educational system that leaves students with a lesser run by private entities under the sponsorship of a state-approved or greater education depending on organization, such as a state board of where they live. Our greatest aspiration as individuals and as a country is education, are another option to consider. They are tuition-free and for everyone to have an equal shot at receive funds on a per-student basis success. That is why our federal govlike traditional public schools. Unforernment provides grants, student tunately, due to their limited size and loans and other means of assistance limited numbers, they are not availin an effort to level the playing field. able to all families, which is not fair or We must look at the broader picequitable to communities. ture, however. How have we reached Ultimately, I believe the best way this point as a country, where educafor us to help parents like Williamstional quality is sliced up into good Bolar and McDowell is to invest districts and bad ones? How can we heavily in public schools. Federal, relegate people who live in poor communities to a second or third rate state and local governments need to come together to find ways to education? increase funding to provide a higher We need to find a way to provide quality education, regardless of adequate resources to elementary, secondary and high schools. One way where you live.
MAN ON THE STREET T H E
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‘Where is your favorite place to study?’ IZZY SMIT
FIRAS SBEIH
RACHEL MERZ
Biology, junior
Micro. & Mol. Biology, freshman
Psychology & teaching, junior
“I study in the library because I like the overall environment.”
“I like the library because I never get distracted.”
“I have this favorite tree that I study under by the Reflecting Pond.It’s so relaxing.”
NICK KATBEH
NEEMA AMELI
KEN JEONG
Biology, junior
Biology, junior
Biology, junior
“Usually I study at home,but if I had to pick I’d say the fourth floor of the library because it’s so quiet.”
“I like the first floor of the library because it’s good for group study.”
“I also think the first floor of the library is the best.No one will yell at you if you need to talk a little bit when you’re studying in a group.”
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