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Board of Trustees Meeting
The Board of Trustees will meet Thursday, May 26, in the Live Oak Center. Committee meetings will start at 8 a.m., and the BOT meeting will start at 1 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. The BOT will discuss adding a dental school to the Lake Nona Campus, which would begin construction in 2012 and accept its first class of students in 2014. They will also discuss adding three new degree programs that would be available in 2013. The three degrees are a doctoral in security studies, a master’s in research administration and a bachelor’s in Latin American studies. The BOT will also discuss 15 percent increase to tuition and fees. Students currently pay $111.55 per credit hour. If increased, students will pay $128.28. To view the meeting agenda or for more information on the BOT, visit http://bot.ucf.edu.
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Fate of Arboretum unknown Easement transfer leaves land unprotected ASHLEY SIKAND Variety Editor
Rumors circulated around campus last week that construction was taking place near eight acres of land connected to the UCF Arboretum. St. Johns River Water Management District ended protection of the location by approving a swap onto another piece of land. How-
ever, that does not mean that UCF has taken action to start building on the land. According to Grant Heston, spokesman on behalf of UCF’s Chief Financial Officer Bill Merck, the construction had nothing to do with the parcel of land within the Arboretum. Students, alumni and environmental agencies have expressed their anger toward the administration’s
Do you agree with the swap?: www.UCFNews.com request to swap this protection to a new location of 17 acres of woods and wetlands. The eight acres of land that was just released from the easement is a portion of the 82-acre Arboretum that educates students
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Students,alumni and environmental agencies are up in arms after UCF transferred a protective easement over eight acres of the UCF Arboretum.
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UCF introduces new awareness program CAMILLE THOMAS Staff Writer
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Incoming students will become more aware of how to keep themselves safe in risky social situations thanks to a new mandatory program. “We thought it was very important that students be more aware. So we are now giving three modules which will be mandatory: alcohol education, sexual assault and academic integrity,” said Delaine Priest, associate vice president of Student Development and Enrollment Services. The focus of the sexual assault aspect of the program is to educate students about sexual violence, said Christine Mouton, coordinator advocate for Victim Services. Specifically, it encourages students to participate in bystander interaction by bringing up legal issues, consent and the factor of alcohol. It gives students options for intervening and preventing someone from becoming a victim, she said. The program was conducted for volunteers last year and received very positive feedback,
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Gov. Rick Scott is taking his budget show on the road again. The Republican governor will sign the budget Thursday in front of a crowd of supporters in The Villages. The Central Florida community is a GOP and tea party stronghold 200 miles from Tallahassee. Scott similarly held what amounted to a political rally in nearby Eustis to announce his budget proposals in February.
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Republican Senate hopeful is touting his plan to cut federal spending. Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux addressed the Florida TaxWatch board meeting Wednesday. The research and advocacy group with close business ties has recommended that Gov. Rick Scott veto Florida budget “turkeys” worth $203 million. — ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Green garage up for recognition CLAYTON GREEN Contributing Writer
This year’s National Building Competition has a variety of structures competing; some of them from universities across the country. However, UCF’s entry is unique: it is the only stand-alone parking structure the two-year-old competition has seen. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR National Building Competition measures the energy use of a particular building and compares it to buildings of a similar size. Parking Garage C is entered in the competition. Eugene Roberts, senior projects engineer for the Department of Sustainability and Energy Management, has high
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Garage C reduced an estimated 66 percent of its total energy for the year predominantly due to changing to 70-watt fluorescent light bulbs.
hopes for the building’s chances. “It would really surprise me if we’re out of the top three,” Roberts said. The winner of last year’s competition was Morrison Residence Hall in Chapel Hill, N.C. The total energy use-reduction of the UNC dormitory was 36 percent for the
year. It’s estimated that Garage C’s reduction will be around 66 percent for the year — and that was just due to changing light bulbs. Krishna Singh, the director of UCF Parking and Transportation Ser-
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It’s pretty surreal for most part that WMFE, Central Florida’s public media broadcast network, does not yet know the fate of PBS Orlando. Even more surreal, UCF will play a major part in that decision. The Board of Trustees will be holding an advancement committee meeting and then a full board meeting on Thursday, where it will vote on the transition of PBS to UCF and Brevard Community College. The advancement committee meeting will be held at 9 a.m. and the full meeting will be at 1 p.m. Both meetings are open to the public in the Live Oak Room on campus. The sta-
Do you watch PBS?: www.UCFNews.com tion would merge with UCF TV and Brevard’s WBCC on July 1, becoming WUCF, according to an email from John Schell, vice president and chief of staff for UCF and associate corporate secretary to the BOT. This vote will have a great impact on the Central Florida community, as well as the UCF community; especially for students Anna Eskamani and Ali Kurnaz, who created the “Keep PBS in Orlando” campaign. Eskamani, a senior political science and inter-
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Lake Claire promotes ‘Healthy Lifestyle’ JONI FLETCHER Contributing Writer
This past year, the oncampus Lake Claire Community redesigned the Healthy Lifestyles Community. This community provides first-year students the opportunity to live in an environment free of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs and not currentlyprescribed prescription drugs. The Healthy Lifestyles Community currently consists of two buildings that accommodate almost a hundred students on a first-come, first-serve basis. This unique living opportunity was created so that students who value a substance-free lifestyle could live and interact with each other at the same cost that other students pay to live in the apartment-style dorms in the Lake Claire Community. According to Jeremy Foskitt, Lake Claire area coordinator, in the past the Healthy Lifestyles Community focused solely on being substancefree. This past year, they branched out to encourage overall wellness. Each month has a theme of healthy living, and the residents of the Healthy Lifestyles Community are encouraged to attend programs related to healthy living in all aspects of their lives. The programs include topics such as relationships and safe sex, physical and emotional health, professional development, spring break safety, alcohol awareness, diversity and social justice, and many other health issues that affect college students today.
These programs are hosted by resident assistants and campus departments including the Recreation and Wellness Center, UCF Police Department, the Counseling Center, Health Center and the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Prevention and Intervention Services office. Living in the Healthy Lifestyles Community has a number of benefits, according to Lake Claire resident assistant Matthew Smolinsky. “Our residents feel safe," Smolinsky said. "They don’t have to worry about coming home to intoxicated roommates and anything unsafe happening in their apartment.” According to the area coordinator, there were zero conduct-related issues reported in the Healthy Lifestyle Community this past school year. “The students in the Healthy Lifestyles Community seem to be more involved and outgoing and willing to attend the programs being offered,” Smolinsky said. Smolinsky also encourages living in the Healthy Lifestyles Community. “When I was a firstyear student, I actually lived in a type of Healthy Lifestyle dorm, but it was substance-free and I absolutely loved it. I met people that had the same interest as I did with not drinking and shared the same views as I did on other issues. It was actually a secure environment and I really like it. ” Fall 2011 Healthy Lifestyles residents will be given an opportunity to live an even healthier lifestyle. A peer education training class (HLP 2701) will be offered exclusively
for the Healthy Lifestyles Community residents. “This class is designed to educate students who have already committed to not using alcohol and drugs on ways that they can empower their peers to learn about not only alcohol and drugs and the dangers of them, but other contemporary issues as well, such as sexual health, relationships and social justice and how that fits into the overall picture of what it means to live well,” Foskitt said. In the future, the Lake Claire Community is looking to expand its programming and include buildings that focus on other specific groups, such as Volunteers UKnighted and Burnett Honors College, in an effort to encourage positive living.
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The Lake Claire Community has increased their Healthy Lifestyle program to include awareness on topics ranging from relationships,physical and emotional healthy,spring break safety,professional development and social justice.
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Victims Services strives to make UCF safer FROM A1 according to both Priest and Mouton. “A lot of the students thanked UCF for offering the program,” Mouton said. “Some said, ‘I’ve learned things I didn’t know,’ ‘I’ve learned how to protect myself from being a victim and a perpetrator.’ They learned a little more about the risks of being a college student.” Kelly Quintero, a junior political science major and president of UCF’s National Organization for Women Campus Action Network, hopes this program will reduce the number of sexual assaults on campus.
Should this course be mandatory?: www.UCFNews.com She also believes events that NOW hosts, such as Take Back the Night and Light up the Night, have influenced awareness of sexual violence at UCF, “especially this year, because it was bigger than ever before.” Priest agreed that anything that would help educate students and raise awareness was helpful and important. In addition to that, she said many other schools have implemented modules on these particular topics.
“I think the only way that UCF can become a leader in sexual assault awareness is through pushing programs like these to other universities and showing that they work.” — KELLY QUINTERO PRESIDENT OF UCF’S NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN CAMPUS ACTION NETWORK
“It’s about time,” Quintero said. “I think the only way that UCF can become a leader in sexual assault awareness is through pushing programs like these to
other universities and showing that they work. But they also need to take action against those that do victimize and really push for students to get
informed. It’s just really important for UCF and its community to really put themselves out there as a forerunner in ending sexual assaults on campus.” Victims Services’ goal is to make UCF one of the safest universities in the nation, Mouton said. “These are the expectations we have out of students, so there’s no misinterpretation of what is appropriate. We’re making you reassess your actions and help make you a productive student.” She also said it was important that students have a positive understanding and a feeling of support.
“Our goal is that no one would have to access our services,” Mouton said. “But this way students can learn the proper responses. If they see a situation that can become harmful, they have the tools and can utilize that knowledge to reduce violence.” Mouton said she feels the course will be more relatable to students because it’s more peerdriven. Much of the program consists of videos of other students discussing assault myths and violence, she said. “It gives power to the students,” Mouton said. “It gives them the power to help each other out.”
Lighting changes save big money FROM A1 vices, said that by changing the lights in the parking garage, energy use has been reduced tremendously. “A garage is just a big concrete box and there’s nothing in the garage you can do except change the lighting. That’s your biggest cost associated with running a garage,” Singh said. The previous lights were 150 watts compared to the new, energy-friendly fluorescent lights, which are only 70 watts and produce the same amount of light as the old ones. In addition to changing the main lighting
in the garages, they also plan on changing the lights on the roofs of the garages to more energy-efficient LED lights. “Right now, each pole has two 400-watt bulbs,” Roberts said of the lights on the roof of Garage C. “We’re going to replace those with one fixture that’s 309 watts. So the savings are gonna be like 66 percent. We’re gonna have better quality of light because it’s white light and we’re going to have a higher light level than we’ve previously had.” The Department of Sustainability and Energy Management hopes to extend
the retrofit to the other parking garages and also to other areas that need new lights. “Garage C is kind of the prototype, the pilot program,” Roberts said. Along with adding energy-efficient lighting, the parking garages have also received motion sensors in their storage areas. “A professor will send his students back to pick up a golf cart, they’ll turn the lights on, retrieve the golf cart and then leave the lights on and disappear and don’t come back until the evening and the light stays on all day,” Singh said. “Once you
open that gate, the sensor light comes on and after half an hour, if there’s no movement, it goes off.” The retrofitting of Garage C is a step in the right direction according to Alexandra Kennedy, a political science major, who works closely with the Department of Sustainability and Energy Management. “Students ask for it. What are we doing to save money? They pay tuition, so they want the university to save where they can,” Kennedy said. “When you get into college, you have that higher level of [environmental] awareness. People do want to see those forms of energy-efficient lighting exhibited.” The National Building Competition officially started on May 4. The competition will announce the finalists June 27, followed by the winner on Nov. 2.
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The Department of Sustainability and Energy Management will also install energy-efficient LED light poles,similar to those pictured above.
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UCF TV awaits No plans to build on acreage Board’s decision FROM A1
FROM A1 national relations major, said she watched PBS in Orlando growing up and that it had a positive impact on her life. WMFE is selling PBS because of a large decrease in financial support; direct TV support has decreased 68 percent from corporate donations and 40 percent from individual donations, according to information released from its media relations department. Also, donations to WMFE would to go WMFE-FM 90.7, its public radio station, which is thriving at a more substantial rate. “I like NPR, but NPR is for adults and PBS is for everyone — kids, the elderly,” Eskamani said. “It’s the fact that it lacked transparency and that smaller stations at community colleges wanted to buy it. If community colleges could do it, why couldn’t UCF do it? After I talked to the former and current CEOs of PBS, we [Eskamani and Kurnaz] decided to take action.” WMFE’s application for candidates requires more than 50 percent of its airtime to educational, cultural, public affairs, news and religious programming, which UCF TV would have to support after the transition. Eskamani said she talked to many people at UCF who hated the idea because the station might be a financial drain for the university. She sees it as an opportunity that students, faculty and the surrounding community would benefit from. Grant Heston, assistant vice president of UCF TV,
said that the current plans UCF TV has for PBS would be better solidified after the decision is made by the BOT. “For such a large university, UCF TV isn’t really that well-known. [The campaign] has more likes on [its] Facebook page than UCF TV does,” Eskamani said. “It would also allow for 20 percent of its advertisement for UCF at the same time. No matter what your demographic is, you would know about UCF and they could take advantage of that. We could create internships — not just for journalism or broascasting but for other programs too. And imagine having the PBS kids logo next to the UCF logo. I think it would be a great opportunity for everyone. There are definitely more important things than money.” Other possible candidates for acquiring PBS are Daytona State College’s station, WDSC as well as stations in Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville. “I feel like PBS is the one channel that will tell you how the world is,” Eskamani said. Eskamani said the UCF takeover would be a really great alternative, but that people in the community are still reeling over what WMFE did. “For a 45-year-old station to do this almost behind our backs is hard to take. I think a PBS station would make a lot of people happy, including myself,” she said. “It’s not exactly a win-win but in the longrun it’s a good idea. I hope that it will be a lesson for other broadcasters not to handle it this way.”
and the community about nature and protects the environment. This ongoing controversy has community members outraged over fact that this piece of land that provides many educational resources can now be potentially built on. Heston said if UCF does decide to build on the land, there will need to be further approval beyond St. Johns. “At this point and time there are no plans for the site and we will continue to listen to student and community input,” he said. Since September 2010, Samantha Ruiz, president of UCF I.D.E.A.S., an environmental organization that works toward addressing environmental challenges and finding realistic solutions, has teamed up with members of the Sierra Club’s Central Florida branch, expressing their anger in regards to the university’s request. Hank Largin, communications specialist for St. Johns River Water District Management, said the executive director, Kirby Green, had taken note of the e-mails and letters that were sent in by the students and environmental organizations and that Green had personally visited the site before releasing the easement. “This was a situation where the rules were set and UCF met the requirements to be approved to swap the easement,” Largin said. “Our staff believes the land that the easement has been swapped with will now be protecting an ecologically-better piece of land that is bigger and holds valuable wetlands.” He said UCF has not requested any permits to St.
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According to Grant Heston of UCF News & Information,UCF has no current plans to build on the available land.
“Our staff believes the land that the easement has been swapped with will now be protecting an ecologically-better piece of land that is bigger and holds valuable wetlands.”
— HANK LARGIN COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST FOR ST.JOHNS RIVER WATER DISTRICT
Johns in regards to building on the land. Sebastian Church, vice president of I.D.E.A.S., believes this newlyswapped land will never have the educational value that the eight acres within the Arboretum has. “If the administration decides to build on this piece of land, it will ruin not only a home to many, but a strong sense of community
— it is more than just a piece of land,” Church said. He feels it is hypocritical and unfair of the administration to turn around and take this from the students after all of the time they have spent both in and out of the classroom using the land for learning experiences. “They are robbing us of that community that they promised us through
everything that UCF is supposed to stand for,” Church said. He said although the administration claims to be hearing its students out, he sees this as just another issue where hierarchy comes into play. “After the referendum was passed by Student Government by 87 percent in favor of keeping the easement on this piece of land, they are still doing this,” Church said. “They are serving corporations and not the students of the campus.” Church said he and his fellow Arboretum supporters are going to continue to send out positive messages and continue the movement to prevent anything from being built on this valuable piece of the land within the core of the UCF campus.
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LOS ANGELES — The family of a San Francisco Giants fan who was brutally beaten at Dodger Stadium in March sued the team and its troubled owner Frank McCourt on Tuesday, claiming security cutbacks were partially to blame for the attack. The suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Bryan Stow contends the Dodgers were negligent by not providing more security and not having adequate lighting in the parking lot where the attack occurred on opening day. Combined, both elements “provided a perfect opportunity to commit a variety of crimes,”the lawsuit alleged. “Unfortunately, for Bryan Stow, this is exactly what happened.”The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. Stow, 42, remains in critical but stable condition under heavy sedation to prevent seizures caused by the traumatic brain injury he suffered in the March 31 attack. Police arrested Giovanni Ramirez, 31, over the weekend, but charges have not yet been filed against him. They have not identified a second attacker or a woman suspected of driving the pair from the scene. Police Chief Charlie Beck called Ramirez the main aggressor. Chip Matthews, who is representing members of Giovanni Ramirez’s family, said Ramirez never went to the game that day. Matthews told The Associated Press that Ramirez is willing to take a polygraph test to show he was not at the stadium and had spent the day at his aunt’s house with several family members. Jerome M. Jackson, an attorney for the Dodgers, said in a statement that the organization had been unwavering in its support for the Stow family and for police investigators. “But, to be clear, Mr. McCourt and the Dodgers will defend themselves against the allegations,”the statement said. Attorneys for Stow say McCourt has mismanaged one of baseball’s most storied franchises by spending lavishly since buying the team in 2004 and reducing security during games. Court documents filed in the divorce trial indicate the McCourts took out more than $100 million in loans from Dodgers-related entities. The lawsuit also says Dodgers staff was slow to respond to Stow, taking between 10 and 15 minutes before staffers arrived on the scene. His attorneys also claim Dodger Stadium has more crime than any other MLB venue and that the defendants knew the area was unsafe and a haven for known gang members to “meet, plan and carry out criminal activity.” The Dodgers “knew that the decrease in security forces at Dodger Stadium, coupled with the decrease of uniformed officers patrolling the stadium, would lead to increased attacks and criminal activity on their property,”the lawsuit alleged. Stow, who wore Giants gear to the game, was taunted repeatedly and some Dodgers fans threw peanuts, hot dogs and wrappers at him and his friends, according to the lawsuit. Stow also sent a text message to a family member during the game about the intimidating scene. Besides beefing up security and improving the parking lot lights, Stow’s attorneys said several other measures could have been taken to prevent the attack, including ejection of disorderly fans, refusal to have known criminals or gang members attend games and the promotion of responsible consumption of alcohol. The lawsuit pointed out that a halfoff beer promotion was scrapped at Dodger games after the Stow beating. The stadium has been plagued by violence in the past. A Giants fan was shot and killed in the parking lot in September 2003. Pete Marron was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for the firstdegree murder of Marc Antenorcruz, 25. In April 2009, a man stabbed his friend in the stadium parking lot after the home opener. Arthur Alvarez was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Alvarez, who contended that he was knocked to the ground and acted in self-defense, was later acquitted by a jury.
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Ronnie Richardson’s fifth-inning RBI single snapped a 9-9 tie and proved to be the game-winning hit in UCF’s 16-9 victory against Memphis in the opening game of the Conference USA tournament. The game featured a combined total of 25 runs, 33 hits and four lead changes. “Memphis has an outstanding offense, and I told our guys that it was like a pendulum where it kept going back and forth,” said Knights head coach Terry Rooney in a release. “But the most important thing was that we were on the positive end of it.” Jonathan Griffin, Erik Hempe and Ryan Breen drove home three runs each for the Knights, who scored their third victory in four games this season against the Tigers. The Knights (37-20) got on the board first with two runs in the first inning, but Memphis’ lineup erupted early, taking a 3-2 lead in the top of the third. That’s when the Knights rallied back. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the third inning, Breen smashed a triple down the right field line to drive in all three base runners giving the Knights a 5-3 lead. Memphis (29-26) battled back in the fifth inning, scoring six runs headlined by Phillip Chapman’s tworun homer to chase UCF starter Brian Adkins from the game. The Tigers tacked on four more runs against relievers Ray Hanson and Johnny Sedlock to tie the game. However, those were the final runs the Tigers scored. Strong pitching by the southpaw Sedlock, along JONATHAN VIRGILIO / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
Johnny Sedlock earned the win through 4-2/3 innings of work,giving up five hits and only one earned run.Sedlock is now a perfect 3-0 on the season.
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Griffin embraces cleanup bat role JESSICA GILLESPIE
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Jonathan Griffin came into his own as a hitter at the end of last season. The UCF first baseman became the Knights’ power source, hitting six of his 13 home runs in the last 10 games of the 2010 season. He has carried over the momentum into 2011, leading Conference USA with 17 homers and a .638 slugging percentage. He became the only Knight to make the All-C-USA first team. “I like [being UCF’s power hitter],” said Griffin, who raised his batting average from .299 last season to .336 this season. “That’s always been my job – hit in the middle of the lineup and bring in RBIs to win the ball game, so I like having that in my hands.” In two seasons as a Knight, the senior has 30
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Senior first baseman Jonathan Griffin is tied for third place in single-season UCF history with 17 home runs.
total home runs. Griffin is tied for third in single-season UCF history with 17 home runs. Associate head coach Cliff Godwin said that despite having a lot of
power when he arrived at UCF, Griffin had flaws in his swing mechanics. Griffin dominated the junior-college level, hitting 37 home runs in two seasons at the State College of
Florida, Manatee-Sarasota. But, he hit just two homers in his first 19 games for the Knights. “When he got here, he struck out a lot,” Godwin said. “He still showed flash-
es of big-time power, but he was really inconsistent. We worked on some things, and to Griff’s credit, he worked his butt off the two years he’s been here.” Godwin helped Griffin changed his batting stance to give him more balance, and he also worked with him mentally to educate the power-hitter on what kind of pitches he should watch for and what kind of pitches he handles better. “I’m focusing more on just seeing the ball and not trying to do too much,” Griffin said. “I’ve been working with Coach Godwin a lot in the offseason and during the season and that’s what our main focus was, just seeing the ball and not trying to do too
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Rose, Bulls’ inexperience will end in a Miami Finals berth Unsurprisingly enough, the best team free agency could buy is now one game away from the NBA Finals. There have been a few instances in this series and throughout the playoffs where the Miami Heat have looked like the team many envisioned them to be — a team that is nearimpossible to stop. But the greatness of LeBron James’ and Dwyane Wade’s “Heatles” is not the reason why Miami is poised to go to the game’s biggest stage following Tuesday’s 101-93 overtime win, putting the series at 3-1. No, the real reason is the growing pains of their opponent. Don’t get me wrong, the Heat’s stars have been stellar. But let’s be honest: the two teams left (that almost everyone who’s not from Miami or Dallas are rooting for) are standing on the brink of elimination for the same reason —
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inexperience. Sure, you could dissect it and break it down much further than that. But if you want the plain and simple explanation for what’s going on with the Bulls and Thunder, it’s inexperience. Both the Mavericks and the Heat have gotten quality production from their star players and have outcoached their opponents. But on the flip side of the equation in Chicago and Oklahoma City, what you have is two stars (Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose), two supporting casts, and two coaches (Scott Brooks and Tom Thibodeau) who aren’t yet up to the task. Think back to the most
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The dynamic “Heatles”duo of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have been unstoppable throughout the NBA playoffs.
famous Chicago Bull of them all. We all remember Michael Jordan’s six championships in eight years, but what we don’t recall as quickly are the struggles the Bulls and Jordan had with the Pistons and other
teams in the late 80s en route to becoming one of the greatest dynasties ever. Failure and success in the playoffs alike are what make the great players who they are. Jordan fed off of his failure and
Bats ignite to give Knights win FROM A6 with power-hitting from the Knights’ lineup, which included Hempe’s two-run homer and Griffin’s threerun shot to center field, put the game away in the sixth and seventh innings. UCF scored six unanswered runs to close out the game. “We responded very well in the 9 a.m. game to
put up 16 runs,” Rooney said. “Tomorrow we face an outstanding UAB team and they have a tremendous pitching staff, so we will have to be at our best.” Sedlock earned the win after giving up five hits and one earned run through 42/3 innings of work and is now 3-0 on the season. The Knights, who have gone 8-1 in the last nine games, will take on the
eighth-seeded UAB Thursday at 10 a.m. and will face the top-seeded Rice Owls Friday. The top team from Pod 1 (Rice, UCF, Memphis and UAB) will take on the top team from Pod 2 (Southern Miss, East Carolina, Houston and Tulane) for the C-USA title on Saturday.
C-USA Postseason Awards
C-USA honored the
top baseball players on the diamond as well as in the classroom this week. The Knights picked up four awards. — 1B Jonathan Griffin – All-C-USA First Team — DH D.J. Hicks – All-CUSA Second Team — RHP Ben Lively – CUSA All-Freshman Team — 3B Derek Luciano – C-USA All-Academic Team
Griffin leads C-USA with 17 HRs FROM A6 much.” Most of Griffin’s home runs have been solo shots, and Godwin thinks that might be because of how pitchers pitch to him. “When guys are on base and they see Jonathan Griffin up, any of our guys, but especially him, they’re like, ‘we really have to pitch this guy tough because we’ll make a mistake and it’s going to be a three-run homer or a grand slam,’” Godwin said. “Sometimes they pitch around him and,
even though they might not walk him, they might be pitching out of the strike zone and just not giving him the pitch to hit. With nobody on, they’re probably throwing balls more for the plate and that gives him an opportunity to get home runs.” Griffin had his first multi-homer game on Senior Day, the series finale against Marshall. After Griffin led off the sixth inning with a homer, the Knights went deep four times in the seventh. Darnell Sweeney and Ron-
nie Richardson each hit their first of the season back-to-back and Beau Taylor followed up with the third straight home run. Two batters later, Griffin hit his second of the game. “We were pretty excited for Sweeney to get his first home run so it was pretty exciting,” Griffin said. “I don’t even know if many people were watching Ronnie and then Ronnie hit his [first home run], so that was the big talk of the dugout, and then of course Beau comes up and
hits another one, so it just felt unstoppable.” After sweeping UAB two weeks ago and winning the Marshall series last weekend, UCF is seeded fourth in the conference tournament and has a shot at the C-USA championship. Godwin said that the Knights are confident and Griffin agrees. “We’re loose, but we’re also determined,” Griffin said. “We’re determined to go up there and compete for the Conference USA championship.”
used it. Should the Bulls in fact lose this series, Rose will have plenty of motivational material going into the offseason, including Tuesday’s air ball at the end of regulation with a chance to win and head back to Chicago with home court. Therein lies the real truth to the situation — Rose himself isn’t quite prepared to take this team to that level. It’s been impressive enough where the MVP has taken his Chicago club this season, but this stage is a whole different beast, and despite still being brilliant at times, the star point guard has struggled mightily and has a lot of
growing to do in regards to playoff pedigree. Sure, the Bulls’ entire roster has some growing to do. Carlos Boozer has to improve his defensive play. That growth had better be fast; fast as in before Thursday’s Game 5, but the brunt of the “learning on the fly” needs to be done by Rose. He’s the only one that can pull this series out of its nosedive. The Bulls’ woes, especially in the fourth quarter, are what’s keeping the team from pulling a very attainable upset. The Heat are good, and it’s always scary when they’re clicking on all cylinders, but they’re not exactly dominating a team that seems bent on beating itself at certain points of these contests. The series is pretty much over. It’s not done, because two of the improbable three games in a row the Bulls would need to sweep are at home. And they do have the MVP and an infinitely deeper bench. But the questions remain: Will the Bulls make the right adjustments? More importantly, will Rose have a midweek playoff coming of age? I wouldn’t put it past him, and with the Bulls staring down Miami, led by playoff-tested players like Wade and James, it’s the biggest storyline left, as the series flirts with its end.
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Stuffed flour tortillas give STP its signature menu item: Sloppy tacos ASHLEY SIKAND Variety Editor
Have you noticed the palace down on Kirkman Road? The Sloppy Taco Palace, that is; a place that is home to a rock-androll-fueled American atmosphere with a twist of Mexican eats. Who would have known this place has been within our reach for just about four years? It may be a small place, but it has a Mexican-style menu filled with a large beer selection, full liquor bar and free Wi-Fi; what else could you need? This local find does not joke around when it comes to happy hour. As an establishment that values celebration over spending, it offers happy hour twice a day running from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., as well as 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. Live music is also a plus on Thursday and Saturday evenings, as locals set up on stage to showcase their talents. STP can easily be a perfect pit stop on your commute home from work or a fun spot to grab drinks with some friends.
“You definitely get your money’s worth out of a drink – the house margarita or sangria, I would recommend,” said junior interdisciplinary studies major Brittany Lukin. “The food too, [it] came out with no space on the plate even for ketchup. I definitely would come here again.” All first-time visitors are urged to try STP’s must-have meal off the menu: the Sloppy Taco, of course. You can order it à la carte or in a basket. Baskets offer more tacos and your choice of rice and beans, chips and salsa or tater tots. The soft-shell flour tortillas are lightly fried with your choice of meat, pico de gallo or queso and is then topped with specially-blended seasonings. “We are really just a bar that serves excellent food,” STP owner Timmo Foley said. “We take our bar and menu seriously,
and people are surprised.” He says they are not shy when it comes to portions, and he would rather be generous to his customers. Switching the house salsas daily, STP has more than 50 original recipes for its salsas, each bearing a name worth remembering. This past weekend, ‘Grandma in heat’ was the salsa of the day; sweet, but still with some heat to it. “I like the fact that none of our salsas are from the can. Everything is fresh,” said Eric Loesher, who has been working at STP for three years now. The décor in STP is what you might
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Film Festival put UCF students to the test SALO STEINVORTZ Staff Writer
Junior cinema studies major Cesar Rosario could breathe a sigh of relief as he sat in the Enzian Theater on May 21 with his friends and teammates. In just a 24hour period, Rosario had accomplished a task that not many can say they have: creating a film. Only two weeks ago, Rosario and his seven teammates spent 24 hours writing, filming and editing a short film to enter in Orlando’s 24 Hour Film Festival. “We literally stayed up all night,” Rosario said. “We had to turn in the finished product at the given deadline.” Rosario’s team, called Team Arsenal after the English football team Arsenal F.C., was one of 55 teams at the festival competing for the grand prize of $2,000. This year, only two teams from UCF – Team Arsenal and Sans Pants Productions – participated in the competition, com-
pared to the eight teams that competed last year, said Michael DiCarlo, producer of the film festival. However, both teams’ films qualified in the top 24, which were screened last Sunday at the Enzian Theater in Maitland. Besides the grand prizes, other incentives included $1,000 to the second-place team and $500 for third. Beginning May 14 at 9 a.m., every participating team was given exactly 24 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film that followed the requirements set by the organizers. On May 15 at exactly 9:01 a.m., the staff stopped accepting any additional submissions. When the festival first started three years ago, the creators, including DiCarlo, considered the time period given to the participants as the most important component of the festival. According to DiCarlo, that is why the organizers are strict when it comes to turning late projects, even if they’re a minute late.
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Team 7th Art Force won the $2,000 first place prize for best film at the 24 Hour Film Festival.
“The whole point of the festival is to demonstrate what teams can do in 24 hours,” DiCarlo said. “If we allowed for the teams to turn in their films even a minute late, this wouldn’t
be called a 24-hour film festival.” The 55 teams that participated, with an average of eight people per team, had a choice to pick between two genres: romance or
action. Each team also had to appoint a team leader, include at least one line of dialogue in the film and satisfy the three-to-five minute length requirement for each film. Additionally, each team had to use three out of 15 mandatory objects, such as a tanning bed, a prosthetic limb or a real black dog. DiCarlo said each year the committee picks 15 different objects to promote creativity and prevent teams from shooting ahead of time. For Rosario and his teammates, not being able to shoot ahead of time was the most difficult aspect of the competition. “The fact that you don’t know the topics until an hour before the competition, and [whether or not] you’ll make the deadline after putting in such hard work, can be really upsetting and disappointing,” he said. It took Team Arsenal about 12 hours to compose
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Taco Palace urges customers to ‘Drink Up’ FROM A8 expect from a Mexican restaurant. The walls are decorated with José Cuervo posters, sombreros and various types of beer memorabilia. A life-size Jonathan
Goldsmith, also known as the ‘Most Interesting Man in the World’ who advertises Dos Equis beer, greets customers at the bar encouraging them to “Drink Up.” “We all trust each other;
it is small-staffed and we are all like a family here,” Loesher said. “I have known both Timmo and Bucky (owners) for 15 years and I love coming in to work.” He said they come up with new ideas in the
CAMPUS STYLE Name: Rheanna Salazar Year: Sophomore Major:Theatre Studies What are you wearing and where is it from? Top - Goodwill Skirt - Goodwill Necklace - From Grandma’s costume jewelry collection Shoes - Payless ShoeSource Sunglasses - Earthbound Trading Co. in Key West Ring - From the giftshop at the 2010 Florida State Thespian Competition Where do you like to shop? Goodwill, American Apparel, Papaya Who is your style icon? I try to do my own thing. I don’t follow anyone. How do you describe your style? Kinda artsy, yet minimalist. How would you describe UCF’s style? Casual COMPILED BY ASHLEY SIKAND,BRANDI BROXSON,KATIE DEES
Both UCF teams make it to the top 24 FROM A8 their action film; three hours of brainstorming ideas and writing the script and nine hours of rendering and editing. In the end, they made the deadline by three minutes. Reuben Rogak, a graduate student and digital media major, is the director of Sans Pants Productions. Rogak is proud that both UCF teams made the top 24. But he’s disappointed that only two teams participated, considering the university’s large film program.
“Frankly, I wish there were more people and representation from UCF,” Rogak said. Rogak also participated in the film festival last year. Both years, he said he made it in the top 24, which, for him, is always satisfying to know because the team’s efforts and hard work paid off. The most difficult challenge for Sans Pants this year was having outdated technology. “The computer that we were doing the post-production on was extremely slow,” Rogak said. “We burned the CD in the car
as we drove to turn the project in, and we made the deadline by 13 minutes.” DiCarlo believes the 24 Hour Film Festival is realistic for film students to understand the challenges of creating a film from scratch and turning it into a finished product. “The 24 hours they have is all a rush of challenges,” DiCarlo said. “From coming up with a cohesive story, having to shoot the film and finding the right locations, the festival can bring a great deal of mixed feelings for those who participate.”
kitchen daily for their guests and have recently started a five-pepper burger and homemade pretzels for baseball season. They also stuff their own jalapeños and create a fresh black bean recipe everyday. Foley hopes to venture out to a second location to reach out to the UCF community, but in the meantime, he is focusing on expanding its current loca-
tion with an outside patio and stage. “UCF students would love to have a place like this near campus. It is a noncommercial version of your typical Mexican cantina, but STP really does ‘stick it to the man’ competing against food chains such as Tijuana Flats and Moe’s because their food quality is really so much better,” Lukin said.
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Don’t dishonor honors classes H
onors courses, which are advanced classes that provide students with grades more heavily weighted toward their GPA, are starting to disappear from schools across the country, according to an article in the Washington Post. According to the article, administrators are starting to move toward a new curriculum intended to encourage minority students to join Advanced Placement classes. The public school system of Fairfax County, Va., is at the forefront of this movement. Starting this fall, they will discontinue honors-level courses in subjects where AP courses are offered; they will instead be favoring AP and International Baccalaureate courses instead. The IB program is an advanced program typically taught within a twoyear period aimed at children ages 16 to 19. Those who complete the program graduate with a specialized diploma. Getting rid of honors classes is a wrong move, and school districts across the country should work to preserve honors classes. Not all high school students are necessarily interested in attending college. Some of those students are instead interested in attend-
ing trade schools or other specialized educational institutions. Honors classes provide a way for these students to challenge themselves and earn a higher GPA without taking a course that is intended for college students. The article notes that, 10 years ago, school systems offered at least three tracks to high school students: regular, honors and AP. Now, some school districts have shifted to providing two options, and others have gone further, providing only one track for students. Students should not be placed in a position where they may have to choose between the two extremes of basic and AP courses, or not have that option at all. It is important to preserve the honors option for these students. The move toward AP is also not helpful to minority students. African Americans made up 14.6 percent of the high school graduating class last year but made up less than four percent of the AP student population that earned a score of three or higher on at least one exam, according to the Post. These exams are weighted on a five-point scale. Peter Noonan, Fairfax’s assistant superintendent for instructional services, said
that many underrepresented minority students can handle college-level classes but are scared off by the AP label. Honors courses provide an opportunity for minority students to choose an honors class over more advanced courses like AP. Honors classes also provide an important segue into honor societies, such as the National Honor Society. Although AP classes provide more heavily-weighted grades, the honors courses allow students to obtain weighted grades by taking courses that are more suited to the level of work that they want to take on. Taking away these classes will eliminate an important avenue that allows students to qualify to enter honor societies and get into a broader range of schools. AP courses offer the same opportunity but require college-level work that a student might not be prepared to take on. Honors classes are important to students and are a traditional hallmark to public schools. Without these classes, students will be left without an important way to improve their academic performance. They give students a way to challenge themselves and must be preserved.
Homosexual athletes break the stereotype fans that abuse and target Your stereotypical footthose who they see as vulball player, rugby player, nerable, no matter what soccer player, basketball that vulnerability may be. player is a lot of things, but Players can be just as he isn’t gay. responsible; Kobe Bryant Male athletes have been was recently fined $100,000 typecast as macho men, after calling a referee by a beer guzzlers and womanhomosexual slur, and izers. In the past, the same Joakim Noah of the Chicacould’ve been said for actors and politicians, but MICHAEL MCCOMBIE go Bulls was fined $50,000 Guest Columnist for using one toward a fan. eventually someone came There is a fine line along and broke that between banter and abuse. Players stereotype. Charles Barkley was recently quot- and fans need to be aware that homophobia hurts everyone. Even a lot of ed in the Washington Post as saying straight girls are afraid to get involved that having gay athletes in sports is with certain sports for fear of being acceptable, which would break the called homosexuals. Similar to when stereotype of how an athlete is tradiblack athletes such as Jackie Robinson tionally viewed. and others first broke the color barrier, A stereotype is a hard thing to it will take awhile for society to get change. Most homosexual athletes seem to follow an unofficial “don’t ask, used to the idea of having an openly homosexual athlete. don’t tell” policy. They are afraid that Although not in America, there their colleagues will be uncomfortable have been some cases of successful in the locker room or getting tackled homosexual athletes. Gareth Thomas on the field. Yet, society outside of grew up in the small, European counsports is becoming more accepting of homosexuals and homosexual athletes try of Wales, where rugby - a bonebreaking, no-pads sport similar to should feel comfortable breaking football - is more than just a game; it is these traditional stereotypes to be a way of life. On a Jan. 4 appearance accepted in today’s society. on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he Twenty years ago, it was impossiadmitted that he was always the first ble to come out as a gay athlete. Justin one to start fights when he went to Fashanu was Britain’s first black socbars with his teammates. He even had cer player worth a million British a wife to whom he was married for pounds at the time and was a sensathree years. tion on the field with what seemed to Thomas disclosed his homosexualbe a brilliant career ahead of him. In ity last year, and is currently the only 1990, he came out. At the time, he was openly gay professional athlete in the the only professional English soccer world, according to Ellen. player ever to do so. If you didn’t already know that What followed was a spiral of Thomas was gay, you would never be abuse: teammates spoke out against able to tell. He’s one of the toughest him, his own brother publicly disguys on the team, the fans adore him owned him and his manager berated and his teammates treat him like any him for his homosexual lifestyle. other player on the pitch. There is still On May 3, 1998, he was found hanged in a deserted lock-up garage in much abuse that comes from rival fans but it doesn’t bother him. He is finally Shoreditch, London, which he had open with who he is and plays better broken into, the Telegraph reported. because of it. It takes a player like This happened after he visited ChariThomas to break the stereotypes of ots Roman Spa, a local gay sauna. In a both athletes and gay men. suicide note, Fashanu said, “I realized It isn’t our place to say whether gay [sic] that I had already been presumed athletes should come out or not. That guilty. I do not want to give any more is a decision that each individual embarrassment to my friends and should make based on their own life family." circumstances, but with examples Although we have made progress such as Thomas, gay athletes should in the last 20 years, it still won’t be easy for a homosexual athlete to come feel comfortable that they can come out and still be accepted. out in today’s society. There are many
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Republicans share Common problem Jersey. If I walked up to you So when New Jersey and said “My peoples police officers caught want hits, I hit it from the wind of Common’s visit to back. Under the cherry Washington, they were moon, I hold notes and “outraged” because apparcarry tunes,” would you ently they think that police invite me to your house? officers are above It appears that this is reproach. all you need to do in order They disregarded all to be invited to the White the undeniable good that House. LACY PAPADEAS Guest Columnist Common has done, from Well, not exactly. HIV/AIDS awareness to You would need to have won a Grammy or two and have his own charity, Common Ground Foundation, which is dedicated to the gotten paid a substantial amount for empowerment and development of doing it. Common, formally known as Lon- urban youth. Common has even said, “I think nie Rashid Lynn, Jr., was recently invited to the White House for a cele- making a difference in the lives of others is my life’s greatest purpose.” bration of American poetry and But when our country’s most prose, and some organizations, such as Fox News, of course, were disgust- famous Alaska-loving caribou hunter heard of Common being invited to ed. the White House, she gave the world While Common has indeed writa beautifully eloquent and constructen some controversial lyrics and poetry, you would be hard-pressed to tive comment via Twitter: “Oh lovely, find a poet who hasn’t. Controversy is White House.” I didn’t think I could like Sarah Palin any less. spun from passion, and writers are Johnny Cash visited numerous passionate people — this is one of presidents, though he said and did our defining characteristics. things that make Common look like a Common has said “Burn a Bush” common saint. Not only did he go to in protest of our former president the White House, but he was presentand America’s war on terror, and has ed the National Medal of Arts by sung sympathetically of Assata Shakur, an activist and member of the President George W. Bush. The only difference is that ComBlack Panthers in the 1970s. mon has black skin. He wasn’t arrestShakur was indicted 10 times ed 15 times. He’s not addicted to between 1973 and 1977, leading to drugs, nor has he ever snuck across seven criminal charges. She went to the Mexican border with a guitar jail for the killing of a New Jersey case full of narcotics. police officer, even though medical Therefore, upon dissection, it can reports stated that she was physically be boiled down to something which unable to fire the gun due to the fact is less than 140 characters, so I can’t that she had been shot. imagine why no opponents tweeted Documentary evidence shows it. One comment that clarifies it all: that she was the target of an FBI investigation, which attempted to link “Oh no, not only do we have to have a half-black president, but now he her with “every bank robbery or vioand his black wife are bringing their lent crime involving a black woman ghetto, vile culture to our White on the East Coast.” House!!!” Common, among others, felt Please picture some old, white Shakur was targeted because she said people passed out on chaise lounges she had the right to defend her kin here, or some younger, white people against murderers, like a policeman passed out on piles of beer bottles; it’s who killed a black 16-year-old boy when he shot him in the back in New one or the other.
MAN ON THE STREET T H E
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‘What are your Facebook privacy settings?’ JEN WARD
CHELSEA ROMANO
Nursing, Sophomore
Heath Services Admin., Junior
SUNNY PATEL Business, Senior
“Everything is set to friends only because I don’t want people who I’m not close with to know stuff about my life.”
“People that aren’t my friend can only see my profile picture, because it’s creepy to have strangers know my information.”
“Everyone is blocked besides just for friends,for jobs so they can’t see my pictures or things on my wall.”
LINDSAY WINTER
JESSICA MULLER
JOSHUA SHAFER
Communication Sciences, Junior
Advertising and PR, Junior
Religious Studies, Senior
“Private,rush is coming and I don’t want people creeping on me.”
“Completely private,I just don’t want people I don’t know looking for me,I’ve heard too many stories.”
“Most of my stuff is set to friends of friends,I like my life open and my hope is that someone would be intrigued by my page.
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CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Bass-baritone Simon 6 Second-century date 10 Welding sparks 14 Hard to stir 15 Old __, Connecticut 16 Half a fictional detecting pair 17 We 20 Prov. bordering four Great Lakes 21 Limoges liver 22 Saltpeter 23 Wie 27 Maroon 28 Cycle start 29 Common street name 30 Amateur golfer’s score, perhaps 31 Lasting impression 32 Confucian path 33 Oui 38 First woman to land a triple axel in competition 41 Nyctophobic fictional race 42 Fed. fiscal agency 45 Cheese partner 46 Moving aid 47 “Obviously” 50 Wee 53 Win by __ 54 Words before many words? 55 Canadian attorney’s deg. 57 Wii 61 Seller of FÖRNUFT flatware 62 Phnom __ 63 Corn Belt native 64 Tracy’s Trueheart 65 Chipmunks creator Bagdasarian 66 Recipe amts.
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DOWN 1 Five-time Art Ross Trophy winner, for short 2 Baseball’s “Old Perfessor” 3 Ristorante dessert 4 Frozen Wasser 5 Mocks 6 Eau __, Wisconsin 7 Water-carrying plant tissue 8 Sitter’s handful 9 Thirtysomething, e.g. 10 Hall of fame 11 Small plant support 12 Fur-loving villain de Vil 13 Riviera resort 18 Carol 19 Available for service 24 Gladly 25 Burning desire 26 Supercomputer name 31 Fi front
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