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Servin~ the University of Central Florida since 1968 • A D I G I T A L C I T Y 0 R L A N D O C O M M U N I T Y P A R T N E R · (AOL Keyword: Orlando) www.orlando.digitalcity.com Engineering honor society under. investigation • SHELLEY WILSON But Garcia e-mailed Eta Kappa December ceremony, what was hap- . to contact Siegel for a response were STAFF WRITER Nu's national headquarters on pening. unsuccessful. March 30 to find out where his and "Siegel told me all of the money The Director for Judicial Eta Kappa Nu, UCF's Electrical senior Brad Plank's membership went to nationals and that nationals Services, Dr. Garth Jenkins, and the and Computer Engineering Honor certificates were. A representative takes forever," Garcia said. "First, it Judicial Program for University National: Society, is being investigated as to told him on April 2 that Eta Kappa was we should· receive it before Administration are looking into the missing • why money prospective members Nu's national headquarters had not Christmas, then it was during situation. paid during the past three years was received a requisition of new mem Christmas. He never gave us a real "It is still too early to determine membership not reported to its national head bers from UCF's Zeta Chi chapter answer and that's why I e-mailed if there will be any charges brought , quarters. since April 14, 1996. Until a new headquarters." or not," Jenkins said. "We are still fe~sfor Engineering senior Esteban requisition was received, it is not Siegel is listed as acting presi investigating this matter." past three Garcia wrote a $55 check made possible to ·have a certificate dent for the honor society on UCF's The Zeta Chi chapter is not a payable to Eta Kappa Nu for mem processed and membership granted. website for engineering clubs and registered organization with UCF. years ... bership on Nov. 30. The check was Attempts by The Central societies. He is also chair of the The organization is, however, on the cashed at the UCF Federal Credit Florida Future to reach nationals Organizations, Appropriations, 1999-2000 A&S Fee Budget to Union on Dec. 9. His initiation was were unsuccessful. Finance (OAF) Committee and the receive a proposed $10,000 starting .. on Dec. 2 and was attended by 15 _ Garcia asked David Siegel, who Activity and Service Fee other new members. was Zeta Chi's president during the Committee. Attempts by the Future SUPERVISION, Page 4 • • ·. ~rf!eli · exrf•M • Jight · tO;fitidU~s ., . · ): Y. ·· :::::: · .)*?t .- '. :;i=;· . :.:::~:::~ >t i*;::it<,)' 0!\: • MELODY CARPENTER · • be a'. haffelPus-wide effort inv9l'Viil$ ·· CONTR!1JVT!NG WRrtER . many organi,zations.~'. , :·......
.. Juuy':Jlancock;~ .ro~:rpber9tthe 1 • SPECIAL TO THE FUTURE • Fo'ur g~BttPs of people are·fight:~ !:.,,\ .,$!erra Club, ' ~~d} ·~1 (~ink tli~~r~JC · The UCF Student Health Center provides health services to students on a $1.2 million budget._ ing a battle over a pieee Qf UCF : . Housing''Expapsiort .Pr9jett o.p :~ Fhat o;· land. The land is part of a war piece of land is a really ba4)~. • ~!Ween th<{ environment and UCF •· ~y 6~ t.~ iet ~7 , nr9j~dt ~~~sed . UCF health services struggles to .expausion that began in,!Q95. " everyc~uple ?f'·¥~~~~; lt ~ <~ ~HMi* + The Facility Plaqltipg Office'' cated t9-nservationiafea': Wby1,datl.'t ·
~the Greek Affairs Office at UCF 11 they build]t somewhere else?·~ ..... · ' want to buil? the Greek Hoqsin~ . .. · . Gr~~;:,M~9~ 1 · d~~~~!.i?f ~~~~k . maintain care on tight budget Expansion Project on .the land. ,The:,.· Affairs ~tUCF., siy~~!We desp~~~t,e7 Sierra Club, a ~tate conservation ly need wore Greek housing. Some APRIL KEIFFER an estimated 26,906 students will enroll, providing groupi wants to keep orgatii~~ CONTRIBUTING WRITER Health Services with around $1.2 million. the land natural, and Kappa Siglfla ...... The spring semester is estimated at about the Biology is the most The Student Health Center recently finished $60,000 less than fall. The summer semester • Department at UCF recent Greek renovations that almost doubled the facility in brings· in $35.20 per student, and with an estimat wants to use the house to be size. With almost twice as many examination ed 15,375 students, at around $540,000. land as an educa- built on rooms, students have more opportunities to see the According to Bridgham, the revenue numbers • tional tool '99 budget calls for new staff, equipment for center • FROM PAGE 1 more," Yoshida said. The class also address emergency dentist off-campus for students the quality of treatment at the Student Health es sexually transmitted diseases and common with severe problems. Center. 53 positions in the 1998-1999 year. relationship problems of the age group The clinic now has two observation "The medical center does seem to be a • Bridgham said for the 1999-2000 year, involved. rooms, which will be used this summer, bit on the 'get you out as quick as possible' Health Services plans to request an addition An Eating Disorder Team has been Yoshida said, for administering I.V fluids to kick sometimes," said Norrin Dias, 20. Dias al 5 to 6 positions. established, which has identified several dis students. All the nurses are going through said he would return because "we pay for it, • The clinic needs four new employees in orders campus-wide. Along with a dietitian, training at Florida Hospital so those students so we might as well use it." different nursing areas, and there is debate on the team is participating in several National can be treated with fluids on campus, rather Others felt differently. whether or not to hire an additional pharma Eating Disorder Week programs a.11d has con than having to go to the hospital. Ashley Maher, a 20-year-old accounting cist. Other departments will experience tracts with sevefal referral programs that help The Health Center's new x-ray machine major, said, "On several occasions I felt like • upgrades in positions, but no new positions students and offer lenient payment options. is a main revenue provider. The machine has the staff seemed uninterested in helping me, are planned to open. The Eating Disorder Team also has a contact a 90 second processor and the staff does a like I was a burden or something." She con In the meantime, Student Health that allows the students having such prob "wet reading" to see if they can see any-dam tinues to use the Health Center though • Services must supplement their income to lems to meet with a psychiatrist one time free age right away. A student's radiographs are because of the convenience of the location. cover the new space and expenses. Many of charge. then sent to a radiologist and results are typi To address ·the concerns of students, new programs are being brought in, and The Wellness Center also offers the cally received within 24 to 48 hours. Student Health Services has named Marsha • many more are expanding, according to the CHAMP test, which is a comprehensive Another source of revenue for Health Bradford the Patient Advocate. Bradford has Associate Director for Clinical Services, Dr. health assessment for students. The student Services is the laboratory, which can read been with UCF's Health Services for almost J. Yoshida. fills out a form that gives the care team some almost all the tests students need. The lab can 21 years. As the Patient Advocate, she tries to The Women's Clinic, which offers information about the.ir lifestyle, and then generally provide needed results within ·24 ·resolve any problems that students might women the chance to discuss personal issues undergoes strength and endurance tests, flex hours. have with their visit. and have gynecological exams, has expand ibility tests, body fat aqalysis, and blood Student Health Services is also offering "Sometimes I am a mediator, sometimes • ed from one exam toom to three. A pressure screening. a Travel Clinic for students who travel in the I am an explainer," Bradford said. Some stu coposcopy program has been brought into After analyzing the results, the care United States ,or internationally. Students can dents have a problem with their bill, and the clinic one afternoon a week to treat team will tell the student what their health make an appointment with a travel consul- Bradford tries to help resolve that because women with abnormal Pap smears. risks are and what they can do to control the tant, and the consultant can tell the student she said she feels-that the students do have a ' Dr. Frank Karcsh is heading up the new risks. The student then receives a coupon for what the Center for Disease Control has right to be informed of the charges. For other Men's Clinic, which is operating on a $5 lipid profile test at the clinic. If they declared endemic or epidemic in the area students, it is just a simple matter of wanting Wednesday evenings from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. choose to do the test, the clinic analyzes the they are traveling to. The consultants can also to feel like they have been heard. According to Yoshida, the Men's Clinic results, such as cholesterol levels, and sends let the student know what immunizations are Bradford encourages students to fill out offers men a chance to get information on the student back a referral on how to control requiredorrecommended before traveling to · the comment cards located in the Health sexually transmitted diseases, receive testicu such problems. the specific area. Center lobby, and she tries to respond to each • lar exams, or discuss other personal matters. Student Health Services is looking at The Travel Clinic is also working on one of them. Although students· can remain The Wellness Center is offering a class possibly bringing in a physical therapy pro providing students with a travel kit, which anonymous if they wish, Bradford finds it called Straight Talk that is geared toward gram in conjunction with the physical thera would include products such as bandages and more beneficial if they leave a name. With • young women and their boyfriends. The py sJUdies on campus. A mobile ultrasound anti-diarrheals. "Things that you should have · identification, she can research their records class offers couples who are thinking about unit is also being brought in once a week to when traveling but forget to pack," Yoshida and see who their provider team was and experimenting with sex an opportunity to help screen for such problems as kidney said. what they came to the clinic for:This'Way she • learn about different types of contraception. stones. With all the new programs and recent can see if there is a problem in an area that "It's not just the pill or a condom any- A contract has been established with an expansion, students have mixed reviews on may need to be changed. Luxury • Stitdent Living • • At Its Finest .. AT ALAFAYA CLUB BRAND NEW COMMUN/1Y j Fully Furnished Apartments With The .. )Vorks! • Individual -3 and 4 Bedroom Leases Available • Rental Rates .include Utilities*, Cable w/ HBO • Every Suite Offers: Our Community Features: • • Private Baths • Convenient Location • Walk-in Closets (less than one mile from UCF) • Individual Phone Lines • Well-lighted, Gated Community • Additional Phone Lines • Picturesque Boardwalk & for Internet Access Nature Trail • Ceiling Fans • State-Of-The-Art Fitness Facility • Full-Size Washer/Dryer (with Freeweigh~s) •Microwave • Basketball & Volleyball Courts • Automatic Dishwasher • Swimming Pool With • Self-Cleaning Oven Designer Deck • And Much, Much More! 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They want to keep the votes were split right down the middle. • Tau Alpha Greek house was the first built in burrows: active burrows, inactive and aban land protected. Seven voted for and seven voted against. I 1986 and others soon followed. The newest doned. Active burrows are clean, include a "There are very few tortoises left," he voted for the expansion because I think we Greek house is Kappa Sigma that was built sand apron, and have fresh tracks. Inactive said. "They left on their own, since the habi need more space for students on campus." in June of 1996. burrows have leaves and cobwebs. An tat was no longer suitable to them. Tortoises Wanielista said the others voted against Mason said "The Greeks were brought abandoned burrow has nothing living in it. don't live where tall trees create a canopy. the proposal for many reasons; the plan was to UCF to get away from the commuter sta The survey in 1997 found that 90 percent of They like grassy and sunlit areas." not well presented, they didn't present all tus as a school. It creates a collegiate the burrows are abandoned. Stout was against the project in 1995, the alternatives around campus, the envi • atmosphere. It helps student life. The The survey also found that there are and still is. He said the Biology Department ronment, and the land may have a better Greeks have a big tie to the university. Fifty about two gopher turtles left. In 1997, they has used that land as an educational teach use. percent on the board of the UCF alumni are found 31 burrows, one active, two inactive ing tool for at least 28 years and considers it · The Sierra Club would like to keep the • past UCF Greeks. When they graduate, a lot and 28 abandoned. an outdoor laboratory. They teach students land the way it is. of them become donors to the school." "We came to the conclusion that two about the different plant communities, soils, "Just because a few turtles are left, it The univ~rsity's Greek Housing gopher turtles could live there," Bowen animals, and aquifer recharge that are there. doesn't mean there are no other animals liv • Expansion Project is currently on hold and said. "Most of the burrows were old. The "We need to keep parcels of natural ing there," Hancock said. "The many other waiting for a Master Plan revision. The other turtles left on their own because the land for the students," Stout said. "It takes animals living there are songbirds, a variety Master Plan designated the land as a donor habitat was no longer suitable. The habitat little expense to show them the things on of snakes, and frogs. The other animals that • site for displaced gopher turtles. In order to is overgrown and it is less desirable for tur the land than to do it in a laboratory room. use the gopher turtle burrows are foxes, build on that site, there must be a revision to tles." A laboratory room reduces the effectiveness possums and raccoons." the Master Plan, and the few remaining tur There are many conflicting opinions of teaching, when you can see the real thing . The proposal will come up for recon • tles must be moved . about the status of the animals on the land. in the field. sideration later this year, but the controver The university hired a consultant to do "We think most of them were moved "I am absolutely not against the Greeks sy over university expansion will no doubt an environmental assessment of the land except one," Newman said. "We're not or their housing expansion. It's where they continue. when they first wanted to build there. The sure." want to put it. You can put Greek housing "UCF is readily becoming a total met consultant determines whether the turtle Mason said the Greeks would not build anywhere. This piece of land can not only ropolitan univ.ersity," Stout said.· "It is burrows are active or not, and then moves on the land if endangered species still lived be saved for the students in 1999, but for engulfed with development. The Greek the turtles to a nearby donor site. The con there. students in the years to come. It is a learn Housing Expansion Project piece of land is sulting firm of Ivey, Harris, and Walls Inc. "The consultant declared the land very ing opportunity for a large number of stu not a piece of waste, just because there is no did the assessment in 1995 and again in buildable," he said. "There are no animals dents. It could benefit the future genera · building on it." 1997. or wildlife left on the land." tions." Hancock questions the project's priori • The gopher turtles are at the third level The Associate _Dean for Graduate Wanielista is a chair on the University ties. of protection as a species of "special con Affairs in the College of Engineering, Master Plan Committee. The Committee "We can't just have patches of protect cern." "Endangered" is number one and Martin P. Wanielista, said, "The consultant votes on projects proposed by the Facility ed land here and there," he said. "What • "threatened" is number two. assessed the land one year ago. The consul Planning Office. Wanielista was a member about saving the environment for our chil Angela Bowen, from the tant said there were no endangered species of the committee that voted on the Greek dren to have when we are gone? What's Environmental Department of the firm said, there. But, there are other animals living Housing Expansion Project in 1995 and he more important?. Is it the environment or .. • Orlando's Guaranteed Lowest • Contact Lens Prices Include The Eye Exam!! • • ·'· ONE YEAR SUPPLY ~:-' INCLUDES EVE EXAM! INCLUDES EVE EXAM! • DEt LARSON . 600 EiBOSTDN AVE ?';;:;i i ' &. COFlNER,HWV.436 • .:;::EIEGLASS ,~ ·xi:_._,,_( l 1 COOPER VISION SILVER 7 DAILY 'EAQ - ~ '" ,_;;;,\~t~SbRIPTIOfHlNLV ., FLORIQA MALL J~XPIRES 6/10/99' · . , · • L------__. .... __.:. -.J L~~=:-t~!E~ 6~1~ ___ ,_·j 438-2974 Dfl:. NGUYEN r ..... _... - --- .... - ... ~ .... ~ _ ... _8111111 ... . , 8001 S ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL · ,2 BOXES! · . , NEARADAMS MARK HOTEL , DISPOSABLE • CONTACTS FASHION SQUARE INCLUDES EVE EXAM! 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Bauer said. • State of the Art Movie Theater fol'$100 Dr. Christian Bauer, a UCF The students, though, just off your engineering professor, has want the recognition for mem •Tanning Bed seeul"lty become advisor to Zeta Chi and bership so they can be accurate • Reserved Carports (optional) deposit!! believes more supervlSlon on resumes upon graduation. should be given to advisors to "I've already used the name ·And MOREU!f! prevent a situation like this from of Eta Kappa Nu for experi Cl'\LL <407)'.J82-4114 FOR MORE INFORMl'\T ON. occurring again. ence," Plank said. OPEN 7 Dr\YS I'\ WEEK FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. "Sometimes you have peo "If employers check to ver ple that can't function indepen ify it and it's not there, we're dently that need oversight and losing our character and that's there should be more financial worth more than money." • May 26, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 5 • • • This Way This Way f for some strange circumstance you I happened to purchase this CD you too would feel This Way. Standing in your room shirtless bowing your head wonder ing WHY THE HELL DID I BUY IT. As if the New Radicals weren't annoying enough along comes ThisWay. Maybe if they would have taken 30 seconds during PHOTOS COURTESY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Brendan Fraiser (center) stars in "The Mummy''. • one of their sleep inducing songs to criti cize Marilyn Manson then they too might have potential to become a one hit won Lacuna Coil der. Music like this ALMOST makes me happy that She 100 is off the air. That is if 'The Mummv' mav In a Reverie a crappy Oldies station didn't replace it. The lead vocalist sounds so sissy that he ot since the days when Lita Ford and makes Michael Stipe look like Gene NWarlock used to get airplay on the Simmons. The band has no recognizable be better on buried Headbanger's Ball have female singers trait of creativity whatsoever. "Wanna Be" sounded better when REM played it on made such a strong impression on the RAMIRO VAZQUEZ wrestlers can act better than these idiots. Automatic for The People. This CD has Metal scene. What makes band,s like The STAFF WRITER Most of the movie is bad Indiana no place in anyone's record collection. Gathering and Lacuna Coil different from Jones rip-off; the mysterious murderers in Unless you have trouble sleeping and pills their 80' s sisters is that their music has a om what I understand this movie bl~ck, the gunfights, booby traps and even don't work the way they used to then, - female sensibility that is usually associat was meant to be a remake of a 1938 the constant arguing between Fraiser and This Way could lead to a good nig~ts rest. ed with the Lilith Fair. Lacuna Coil is F:movie of the same name, but the the love interest. All that was missing was -Ramiro Vazquez heavy without being brutal. Melodic with end result looks more like Indiana Jones the giant ball chasing Fraiser around, out being wimpy and dark without being IV mixed with The Twelve Commandments Nazis and snakes. depressing. Technically the group has one and the funny looking skeletons from the When the Mummy resurrects the male and one female singer but when it Sinbad movie. The plot of the movie looks movie shows some potential. It's true that comes down to it Cristina Scabbia is the like it took ages to figure out (well not real the whole deal with the ten plagues is front woman Guitarist Cristiano Migliore ly). A group of adventurers travel to a mys straight out of the Twelve Commandments • does a good job juggling acoustic and terious city in the middle of the desert and elements of Dawn of the Dead can electric guitar melodies especially on looking gold and glory. Underneath that also be seen, but for a short moment it "My Wings.'' In perfect world metal fans, city lies a cursed mummy, and if awakened seems to stand out of its Hollywood pre the Lilith fair crowd, and all the girls who the Mummy (I dictability. mistake that Tiffany wannabe known as bet you didn't J\.1aybe if the stu Alanis Morrisset for a serious artist could see this one com On §(RIEJEN **rots> dio wasn't so equally appreciate Lacuna Coil. That is if ing) could concerned with their perspective on new music went destroy the world. Of course the Mummy a PG-13 rating to target a wider audience beyond that of eMpTv and vhl. is awakened otherwise THERE WOULD the movie could have been better. I would -Ramiro Vazquez BE NO MOVIE. Thus, all hell breaks have preferred the film focused more on loose as he tries to rescue the woman he the elements of suspense than lame jokes. loves. If someone like Lucio Fulci was directing The character development is every the film he could have put those flesh -eat bit as impressive. You have the lone adven ing bugs to better use. Of course the movie P . turer (Brandon Fraiser), the damsel in dis would also include someone getting '* Get a inap~, Or.:< · tress, her incompetent brother (can you say stabbed in the eye. A ;~:::;;;:: "comic relief'), the weasel thief who also The Mummy is just another in the list G directions to; . serves as comic relief and a bunch of of predictable summer blockbusters. American cowboys. As far as acting goes There's nothing here that hasn't been recy E Brandon Fraiser was a good choice for the cled over three thousand times. The movie aftywhere! lead. He lies somewhere between a - is watchable if you have an immense urge younger Indiana Jones and a less cheesy to go watch something at the local theater. Bruce Campell (a.k.a. the world's best bad There are much worse things you could do 7 actor). Maybe if Harrison Ford gets too old with your time like listening to the latest to play Indy he might have a chance for the This Way CD. Then again, I would rather role. The rest of the cast is as impressive as watch any of the movies I mentioned in the cast of a 90210 spinoff. I bet the WWF my review. www.UCFfuture.com Publisher ...... 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Letters are subject to editing for space and grammar and become property of the newspaper. The Central Florida Future is a free campus newspaper published weekly. Knight Publishing, Inc. is not associated with the University of Central Florida. May 26, 1999 Central Florida Future • 6 www.UCFfuture.com •.s= Sera-Tee Biologicals limited Partnership Until Robots Replace Humans••• Your Plasma Will Always ~ Needed! The Plasma You Donate Helps: Lead Stories cheating on an exam. • Patients In Shock· •In March, the Burlington Homes housing ; • • Bleeding Disorders • According to a May Boston Globe report, development near Bakersfield, Calif., rejected the )'4" •Provides Intravenous Fluids the town of Sydney, Nova Scotia, is the country's application of attorney Timothy Liebaert and his For Burns, Surgery, or most polluted place (arsenic, naphthalene, lead, wife for a five-bedroom home, citing the compa · -- ·Treatment Of Illness PCBs, oil, raw sewage) but is hopeful of exploit ny's aversion to lawyer~. which the company • Protection Against Infection ing the situation to become a research facility for believes are quick to litigate and thus impose • Accident Victims •Children environmental technicians and possibly a tourists' higher legal and administrative costs, which frus • Hemophiliacs center to showcase its spectacular leve]s of conta trates Burlington Homes' efforts to keep its prices • New Research On Life mination, as a warning to others. The mining down. Of course, when informed of Burlington Threatening Diseases industry, however, is opposed, and its continued Homes' rejection of his application, Liebaert sued. 'We Would Like To Compensate You For Your operation adds to what the Globe termed the • In March, John Killick, 57, who was being lime When Giving The Gift Of Life" "mountainous slag heaps" and "rivers of toxic held in a maximum-security prison in Sydney, ooze." Last year, the rest of Cape Breton Is1and, Australia, on ai:rned-robbery charges, was sprung on which Sydney is ]ocated, was named by Conde from the exercise yard by a helicopter, which his Nast Traveler magazine as the world's most beau girlfriend had hijacked at gunpoint. The couple tiful island. are still at large. • A beatification ceremony was held in Rome CALL FOR INFORMATION in May for the proposed saint Padre Pio of south AND/OR APPOINTMENT ern Italy, who died in 1968. Padre Pio was wildly Awesome I 1122. West Church Street, Orlando, FL loved by his parishioners but viewed skeptically • Three cows escaped from a barn in (407) 841-2151 by critics, including two popes and other Vatican Ancaster, Ontario, in April, and when cornered by officials. According to his supporters, his hands animal control officers, two escaped by leaping bled from the crucifixion ho1es similar to those of · over a police cruiser and remained on the lam for Jesus, to the point where light passed through two more hours before being tranquilized. And a them; he once had a wrestling match with the week later, following a one-truck accident on the devil, who gouged Padre Pio's eyes; and various Capital Beltway near Alexandria, Va., the driver's parishioners (including a friend of the man who dog Tito was found in excellent condition. He ~UCF later became Pope John Paul II) were inexplicably could not have crossed the Beltway on foot at that cured of illnesses after praying through Padre Pio. point; the only way he could have been where he He will need two posthumous miracles to become was was to have been ejected over a four-foot a saint. concrete barrier and four lanes of traffic and to •Practicing Up for Yugoslavia: In April, an have landed in the soft grass. Air Force pilot training at the Warren Grove • During an April sunset in Brooksville, Fla., Bombing Range in New Jersey missed his target Lucy Dover, 79, was knocked to the ground by a by a mile and a half, landing in a state forest pre 15-pound red fox, breaking her hip and rendering serve and starting a fire that burned more than 18 her unable to get up. Periodically, the fox attacked square miles. Dover, clawing and biting her repeatedly, until she grabbed it behind the head and by the tail and held it at bay for the next 12 hours, until her land Leading Economic Indicators· lord happened by on a routine visit and rescued The· government of Hungary recently agreed her. $295 to investigate massive scams in which 30,000 • Patricia Dolinska, 27, was arrested for (includes textbook) farmers paid their life savings (totaling about $42 shoplifting from a grocery store in Ottawa, 24 hour program million) for earthworms to breed under fanciful Ontario, in April. According to police, underneath assurances that Western entrepreneurs would buy Dolinska's long skirt were three whole chickens, a UCF Main Campus all the worms they could produce, according to an pork roast, a beef roast and a duck. April London Daily Telegraph report. And in call . Malaysia, where men rely on snake-blood tonics ( 407) 207-4929 as their own Viagra, the bounty on cobras is now Well, Sure ... about $35 each, compared to 75 cents in the • According to a March report in the London 1970s, according to a February Times of London Daily Telegraph, Saddam Hussein has delayed Divisio.n of Continuing Education story. And in Fort Walton Beach,' Fla., in March, a deploying his planned 60-member suicide-pilot 60-year-old man was assaulted by a woman after task force, saying he does not trust the recruits. he made a derogatory comment to her while (Saddam's strategy is for pilots to lure U.S. and receiving fellatio, for which he had paid $2. British pilots into range of Iraq's air defenses so he can shoot the planes down and show the world Break Is · that he has inflicted his first casualties of the Ovstl low Hit-Man Unemployment Desert fox confrontation.) In October, Brandon Lund, 16, was convicted • In January, Theotis Hall, 51, was arrested in of hiring a hit man to kill his father because, Brunswick, Ga., and charged with assisted suicide according to the prosecutor, "He just didn't like after he allegedly complied with a woman's wish the way (he) was running the household." And in es and locked her inside her car's trunk, with the March, landlord Alvin Weiss, 46, was sentenced engine running, for about eight hours. According to seven years in prison for hiring a hit man to police, the woman paid $140 to Hall, whom (unsuccessfully) to kill two of his tenants so he she had recruited service because it was a tempo could re-lease their apartments at higher rents. rary job." (She was rescued by her son and is And in Lahore, Pakistan, in April, according to aliv.e.) police, a 32-year-old woman was shot to death by •A 27-year-old man in Springfield, Ill., Need·Money? a hit man hired by her father because she had called the local State Journal-Register newspaper shamed him by seeking a divorce from her hus in April to say that he is the one police have been Earn Up To $205.00 per Month band. calling "Sock Man" and that he promised to stop his antics if editors would not print his name. Donating Plasma Cliches Come to Life According to police, he approached two women and promised them $100 each if they would go FOR INFORMATION OR • In March, two professors reported that home, get some of their socks, and leave them for results of their identical polls on ethical questions, him at designated points. One took him up on the APPOINTMENTCALL: asked of graduate business students and then of offer, but he reneged on the payment. Police Lt. inmates at three Midwestern prisons, yielded Carl Sprinkel said the man would not be charged: 841-2151 remarkably similar results. In fact, inmates were "It's no crime to be weird." judged more loyal to employers than were the Sera-Tee Biologicals MBAs. And the San Diego Union-Tribune report (Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. 1122 W. Church Street ed in April that 25 business-ethics students at San Box 8306, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33738, or Orlando, Fl Diego State University flunked the course, tor [email protected].) May 26, 1999 Central Florida Future • 7 www.UCFfuture.com Mexican food with an American touch RAMIRO VAZQUEZ serve. they do offer free fried ice cream. He seemed to love this plate STAFF WRITER The place looks :fam§TAU'~ :famVlIJEW refills on sodas, a lot. He even claimed that it was the reason well kept and even but their glass is why he started working there. My first not a Chinese place that's for sure. It's the bathroom twice the size of thought was how do you fry ice cream. Do et another Americanized version of a looked pretty clean. If the bathroom of a the average restaurant, and at 1.50 a glass you mix it in with all the French fries? How Eexican restaurant. Don Pablo's and place is clean it's safe to say that the rest of that's not a bad deal. about grilled ice cream? Taco Bell proved that there's big money to be the place is. I ordered a Carne Caliente and as the Apparently what they do is cover the ice made off Mexican food so whoever owns From the moment you sit down a waiter title might suggest it was a spicy dish. The cream with cinnamon and syrup and fry the this restaurant figured that the market could comes with a plate full of service was friendly and quick. I don't know outer shell. After tasting it I would say that use a couple more "friends." tortilla chips. I'm all for free chips myself. If if it's always this quick since it seemed a lit the waiter's obsession is understandable. Amigo is located on Alafaya next to I didn't know any better I would just eat as tle too quick, but I'm not complaining. The restaurant also has a satisfaction Giovanis on the second of three shopping many chips as I could and leave without You get your money's worth at Amigos. guarantee so if you don't like the food you centers in Alafaya that have a Publix. The ordering, but I did not. They serve a lot of food for the price. The get your money back. If you are economical place is decorated in Mexican fashion (of The price range is from six to ten dollars, Quesadillas here were twice the size of the ly challenged and are taking a date or family course) complete with Mexican music but which is pretty cheap. Their most popular ones inApplebee's and, if memory serves me member out to eat, Amigo's is not a bad they don't overdo it like Don Pablo's. There plates are the Quesadillas. There are different correctly, the ones in Applebee's cost more. choice. You could save some money and was Corona banners all over the place so it's ki!lds of quesadillas like chicken, Amarillo, The price of desert range from three to enjoy some good food without looking not hard to guess what kind of beer do they cheese and fajita. Like most places around four dollars. The waiter recommended the cheap. • nePC IPleerillS ~ The Wallnuts 30SH. llEY.. 30SH. 30SH, DAffG! I' OION'T k'NOW YOU HAD WAk'l OP. lllll00000007 fllAT VISION. 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[email protected] 12269 University Blvd. • Orlando, fl 32817 • 407.282.0505 MAIL:. 120 Alexandria Blvd. Suite 17, Oviedo, FL 32765 • • May 26, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 9 • UCF returns plenty of • · recorded 95 strikeouts in 102.2 innings . ·depth at all positions Bowser to try out for Spooner hit .306 with· 39 RBis, and he threw out 42 percent of opposing base run FROM PAGE 12 • National Team ners. Sophomore left fielder Matt Bowser UCF has now received 28 All-TAAC with two home runs in 24 starts, and was one of 38 players selected last week to selections since joining the conference in Johnson hit .385 with 12 starts. try out for the 1999 USA Baseball National 1993. Sophomore Mike Fox started 32 Team. games at shortstop batting .265, but he Bowser, who hit .371 with 13 home was at his best in the field. Medical runs and 62 RBis in earning First Team All UCF announces student ticket • redshirt freshman Joe Sadler could TAAC honors this year, begins USA provide a challenge for the starting Baseball trials June 9 in Tucson, Arizona. distribution for UCF-UF game job. Sadler had 19 home runs and 65 The team consists of all freshman and The procedure for obtaining tickets to • RBis during his senior year of high sophomores, including four players selected the Sept.11 game between UCF and the school. to the Baseball Weekly All-America Team. University of Florida at Gainesville's Ben Pete Gavillan and Bill Oakley pla He joins fellow First Team All-TAAC Hill Griffin Stadium has been announced. tooned at third base and combined for • selection Lenny DiNardo from Stetson. If With only 700 tickets available, stu 69 starts. Gavillan hit .325 with six selected, Bowser would begin a summer dents are encouraged to mark the week of home runs and 33 RBis, while Oakley schedule that spans June 12-August 17. August 23 on their calendar. hit .302. • Distribution of the student tickets will Sophomore Left fielder Matt be by lottery. UCF students must have a Bowser anchors the returning outfield Trio of Golden Knights receive valid All-Campus Card to participate in the ers. He hit .371with13 home runs and Freshman Bay Paul • lottery. Old Student I.D. cards will not be 62 RBis. Junior Mark Batia. freshman All-Conference hono·rs honored. Numbered vouchers will be dis Jeremy Frost, junior Ivan Trujillo, and 102.2 innings. Arnold was 7-4 with Pitcher Jason Arnold, left fielder Matt tributed the week of August 23, 1999, start sophomore Darryl Stephens split play eight saves and a 2.67 ERA. He Bowser, and first baseman Dustin Brisson ing at 9 a.m. on Monday and going through • ing time in center and right field . appeared in 24 games and struck out were selected to the Trans America Athletic 5 p.m. on Thursday at the UCF Ticket Batia hit .378 in 44 starts. Frost 75 in 56.1 innings. Freshman Justin Conference First Team. Arnold, a Frehman Office, located at the Wayne Densch Sports struggled in rnidseason, but hit .276 Pope and sophomore Brian Freeland All-American last year, was picked for the Center. with five home runs. Trujillo hit .329 are the only other pitchers returning First Team for the second straight se~on. Each student must present his/her own with 18 steals in 47 starts, while with more than two starts. Pope threw Arnold finished the year 7-4 with seven All-Campus Card and will be able to pick Stephens hit .281 with four home runs, 86 innings and showed flashes of bril saves. He also struck out 75 batters in 56.1 up only one voucher. and came on late in the year as the liance but finished with a 6.07 ERA innings with a 2.67 ERA. At the end of the week, one voucher only Golden Knight to earn All-TAAC and 7-5 record. Freeland started fi ve Bowser's First Team selection follows number will be drawn. Beginning with that Tournament honors. games, and went 4-0 with a 4.02 ERA. up last year's Third Team pick, when be number, the next 350 voucher numbers will Junior Brent Spooner was a Chris Youngberg emerged as an • also earned Freshman All America honors. be eligible to purchase tickets the week of much-needed addition at catcher. He important set-up man for Arnold. Brisson set school records with 17 the game:. Monday, Sept. 6 through hit .306 with five home runs and 39 Youngberg had a 2.57 ERA in 12 home runs and 76 RBis while hitting .388. Thursday, Sept. 9, from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. at RBis and threw out 42 percent of appearances with 23 strikeouts in 2 l • Brisson was selected Third Team last year. the Ticket Office. attempted base stealers . innings. Bay Paul pitched in 20 games Second baseman Tim Boeth joined Stµdent with a winning voucher must The pitching staff needs the most with a 3.16 ERA. Zach Sutton and , Brisson as a Third Team selection last year, present the voucher and a valid All-Campus help, but it settled down after feeling Scott Keller got significant time as but he improved to a Second Team pick this Card to purchase their tickets, which cost • the effects of losing six players to last they each pitched in 12 games. season. Boeth hit .361 as the leadoff hitter $22.00 each. Each student with a winning year's draft. Junior David Rankin and So as the Knights recover from and stole a team-high 44 bases. voucher will be allowed to purchase two sophomore Jason Arnold anchor what not maltjng the NCAA Tournament for Pitcher David Rankin and catcher tickets and must pay in cash. All tickets would be an experienced staff next the second straight year, they can take • Brent Spooner rounded out the honors for must be bought and paid for during the year. Eleven pitchers who saw action solace in the fact that next year looks tite Knights as Third Team selections. times listed on the week of the game, no on the mound this year could return. like a possible return to the form they Rankin was 8-5 with a 3.94 ERA, and he exceptions. • Rankin was UCF's number one enjoyed from 1993-1997, when UCF starter, and went 8-5 with 3.94 ERA in received four NCAA bids. • Locos is your NHL and NBA play~ff headquarters! • • • • ~--7~--~----~---~------, • : ~ ilreak/ast Special: .2 eggs, : • : , , bacon, toast, hash browns - $2. 99 : L-~~---~----~------~ • Locos opens at Try our NEW • 8:30 am for breakfast Smoked Turkey Breast! during the su er! • Open Daily from 8:30 am - midnight • 282-1900 • Fax 282-1905 • Located in the UCF Student Union May 26, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 10 ~ ~ ~Tt:n~ U lT 1'!~'1i'ft'~~~~ ~n.JJJiiCa~~~ fi\W .w..w:.~\U'\U~ l four in 1993, 1995 and 1996. UCF had six players on the 1997 All ( Tournament team. EHjoy "Trca4ifilut" Ap~ Big batters fall info slump .Citriq C~e ta. UCF First baseman Dustin Brisson and left fielder Matt Bowser had carried the Knights all year, but their struggles in the tournament reflected in the team's early exit. Brisson went 3-for-12 with his hits coming against FAU. Bowser was 2-for-11 with four strikeouts. "They're a big part of our offense, but good pitching is gonna stop good hitting," Bergman said. Brisson and Bowser batted :397 and .383 during the season. They accounted for 30 home runs (47.6 percent of the team total) and 137 RBis (31.9), but they combined for no home runs and only one RBI in three tournament games. - TRAVIS BELL (. Sophomore Llving Master Bedrm 20x 15 Living Matt Bowser Bednn ll_.x12" l~x 125 will get a 1i x 12~ chance to exhibit his tal ents in a bid to 2 bedroom, 2 bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath ( make the US llOOSQ.Ff. 750SQ.FT. National Team. FUTURE FILE PHOTO (ttftTttftt\ lft nDlnG 2550 Alafaya Trail •Orlando, Fl 32826 (407) 380-5519 More Than You Expect. And Then ZOM! i ...... ,.,,., ...... • May 26, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 11 • · Brisson has major decision to make • TRAVIS BELL junior from Wellington accounted for 27 percent Dustin Brisson STAFF WRITER of the team's home run output and 17 percent of set school its RBI production. He followed last year's third records for • UCF first baseman Dustin Brisson has a team All-TAAC honor with a first-team selection . home runs and major decision to make this summer. As the end of the season approached, Brisson runs batted in After his junior season ended at last week couldn't help but think about his decision. He saw this post sea end's TAAC Tournament, Brisson officially firsthand what the effects of last season's draft had son. became available to be selected in the June 30 on UCF. The Knights lost 10 players to the draft, major-league draft. including seven juniors. FUTURE FILE Brisson had a breakout season as he set "I've got my lease signed, and I've got all my PHOTO • UCF's single-season records for home runs (17) classes set up (for next and RBis (76), while hitting .388. He only hit .303 year)," Brisson said. "I'm gonna go play summe,r with 15 home runs and 74 RBis during his first ball, and they (pro baseball) are gorina have to pull • two seasons combined . me away." "Some days I can't wa,it to go (pro) when If Brisson returns, he would provide ·ucF teams are interviewing me,'" _Brisson said. "But with senior leadership. Second baseman Tim • I'm keeping all my options open." Boeth was the only senior in the lineup this year Brisson excelled in the field and as UCF's and Brisson would be a big bat needed in the mid clean-up hitter. Coach Jay Bergman has referred dle of the lineup alongside left fielder Matt • to Brisson as "the best fielding first baseman I've Bowser. ever had." But despite being one of the veterans of Brisson gives much of the credit for his a young team, Brisson has a quiet way of leading. improvement to UCF's coaches and says that "I've tried to lead by example," Brisson said weighs in his decision . • earlier in the season. "I've never really been a "I'd l_ove to play pro baseball, but this pro vocal person in the dugout." gram has done so much for me. I o~e my success Brisson let his bat do the talking, as the to them," Brisson said. • .. EftOPE.$1s9.61w N&ITTIME 1Nl999 .. . ''· ~ . • < , • (l;l!:~~,~ w)fw./iirhitc~4!;tg ,,., "· .. You Want It? '.(taxes additio,n~l) , ''l( Indoor Fitness Center• Student Sen1i~es Center • Free Local pho~e • • Free Internet access in each bedrO~lll • Mic~~swaves • Refrigeratqr llCl!FllTUBB. 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SPORTS EDITOR Making only its second appear if it stays in.tact ance at the NCAA Tournament in school history, the UCF Women's TRAVIS BELL tennis team ran into the third ranked STAFF WRITER I. team in the nation, the University of Georgia. UCF's season came to an end Friday in the Trans The Golden Knights' appear Arnepca Athletic Conference, but there is plenty to ance in the tournament was a brief look forward to next season. That is, if the major one. Georgia defeated UCF, 5-0, in leagues don't raid the team~s treasures like it did last the first round of the 1999 NCAA " ¥~~· . La$t y~'-~·~ajQr . Lx~gueBase])a11Draft took 10 Women's Tennis Tournament, held at ·pl¥Y .~1'$ fron:{tq~ Kmghts, : i~cluding .seven juniorS,. This the Dan Magill Tennis Complex on )i~;s' tDraft; · til}'.>e held Jttn.~30, could take mqre talent. the campus of the University of · The I\,night.~ w:Ul defmi,t~ly he· withoutfQUf players Georgia. The Bulldogs (22-3), who advanced to the NCAA semifinals ;. ;st~n.g~' :: ~ . S.tay or·go? Junior Dustin Brisson will have a decision to make with the Major League draft upcoming in late June. -PAGE 11