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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 State requests budget documents on expenses
SHELLEY WILSON $750,000. The Senate passed this amount STAFF WRITER 1998 Budget Proposal - the only on Oct. 8 of last year. James Smith, Jr., director of This week the State University University Budgets, requested the System is expected to receive the docu~ one questioned in UCF history increase in spending for Activity and mentation it requested from UCF's Service Fees in a memo sent to Ron Student Government on budget alloca the ones who said we don't need this In the pas! 20 years, 14 addendum Stubbs, director of Budgets for the State tions. money and that we already have too much budgets have been proposed at UCF. Only University System of Florida, on Dec. 2, "In October we submitted. our adden money to spend." two of those budgets were vetoed by 1998. dum budget," said Student Body The requested documentation either the SO president or Student Affairs' The memo said the current budget President Jason Murphy. "Senate and includes expenses through Nov. 30, 1998 vice president. Another budget was not would not meet operational requirements OAF passed this budget and Dr. from the $4.5 million approved budget, granted at all by the state. Murphy's bud and local delays did not allow inclusion in Huddleston signed off on the budget. We sources for projected increased revenues, get proposal is the only proposal that the the original budget request. Operating started funding all of the programs we and the Activity and Service Fee Board of Regents/State University System expenses were requested at $725,000 and wanted to and did not hear about this bud Committee's minutes from its meetings has bad questions about. non-operating transfers were requested at get not being passed until January. It has on recommendations for implementing The increased revenue for the total been told to us by Tallahassee that they're new programs. Addendum Budget Allocation was MORE,Page2 Student makes his living under water - ,,, ,,------MARIA CHANDLER As an African STAFF WRITER American woman/ I
"If you don't want t-0 have close feel we are going encounters with sharks, don't be the first down the path person off the boat," Bret Forbes, 36, a that has been set journalism major at UCF, said. "Sharks will come within 5 or 6 feet of you, which before us. is a great opportunity to get a close-up ~ylvia Mi
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• Panhellenic proposes More funding needed for clubs
FROM PAGE 1 all and we wanted to enhance sure that had to be taken. changes to sorority rush those students. "When the Senate got $25,000 on the memo. "We don't get very accu their chunk of money, they KELLY BRYANT Chi Omega, Kappa Sigma, and Stubbs sent a memo back rate information with the uni took in account the traditional STAFF WRITER Acacia; Delta Gamma, Sigma to the UCF Student versity pushing us to pass the programs they would fund," he Chi and Fiji; Zeta Tau Delta, Government office, received budget because you never said. "Due to the enormous • Panhellenic's Rush Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta on Dec. 9, 1998, stating that at know what the revisions are. amount of wonderful programs Executive Board is currently Theta; Kappa Delta. Delta the time the 1998-'99 operat We tried to put the padding in that the students are putting on proposing a few changes to Upsilon, and Pi Kappa Phi; ing budgets were approved, the budget to catch the old this year, the Senate spent all • sorority rush for the fall semes Alpha Xi Delta, Lambda Chi UCF was provided a 139 per transactions and a lot of that of their money and their ter. The Board would like to see Alpha and Alpha Epsilon Pi; Pi cent increase over 1997-'98 was line item vetoed." accounts went dry. UCF move to a "no frills" rush Beta Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon and actual expenditures. This addi The clubs and organiza "It's not the student body • that would Lambda tional request would make the tions requesting funds ha".e president's responsibility to eliminate a Theta Phi. budget over 179 percent from been affected by t~is budget. monitor what the Senate is lot of the the previous year. During the past month, 10 dif doing with their money. I think flashiness •A The memo also stated that ferent bills equaling $44, 730 Senate has done an excellent of past rush parties. One change Greek block party has been 'the ending fund balance of the in funding for clubs and orga job this year and I'm happy that has already been voted on added to Greek Week. It will be '98-'99 budget was $560,383, nizations have been presented they' re out of money because and passed is the removal of held on Greek Row on March 6. significantly less than the to the Senate. The bills have that means they have given Skit Day. Instead, sororities will The time has not been requested $750,000 additional been delayed because the every club and organization prepare a 10-12 minute video to announced. increase. Based on the increase Senate did not have the money opportunities for funding." be shown on the day that skits provided in August 1998 and to fund all of them at once. Murphy said that the • are usually performed. •Chi Omega visited the the end fund balance, the State When the bills were on their transfer of funds would affect Westchester Retirement Home University System requested third reading at the ninth ses the next Student Government •Rush Executive Board has for a Valentine's visit on the documentation to make a sion of Senate, a reserve of administration. • also chosen the J999 Rho Chi February 13. The chapter sere recommendation. $50,000 was used to fund these "When the next student team. The women chosen will naded the residents and deliv OAF and Activity & clubs and organizations. body president and vice presi attend a retreat on Feb. 20-21 ered cards and gifts as part of its Service Fee Chair David "What we did was not dent come in and the money is for training. philanthropy project. Siegel said there was a need hide the money," Murphy said. not there, and clubs and orga for an addendum budget ·in "I have my SG productions nizations are used to someone •Greek Week plans are in •Greek Council is still col order to benefit all UCF stu account right now so that you being so charitable, bu~ that's full .swing as the kick-off on lecting school supplies to bring dents. never spend the full amount of not the normal way .it's sup • Feb. 27 draws closer. The teams to the Southeastern Panhellenic "We've tried to analyze money that is there. When a posed to work. The clubs and for the week have been Conference for their annual phil where people participate club or organization comes to organizations might get mad at announced': anthropy, which is held at the here," he said. "A large group me for funding we take it out the new administration and • Delta Delta Delta, Pi Kappa end of March. Supplies may be of people participate at the col of there." say, 'Murphy handed me Alpha, and Delta Tau Delta; dropped off at the Greek lege level with clubs and orga Murphy said the fact that · $13,000 without any ques Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Alpha Council office through the first nizations, but then you have he, not the Senate, funds clubs tion' ." Epsilon and Tau Kappa Epsilon; of March. people that don't participate at and organizations was a ~ea-· want notes?? •
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• Election statutes called 'outdated' • .·Experienced by candidates and commissioners • Photographers Needed SHELLEY WILSON it is time to deliberate the STAFF WRITER charge. Would you let a wit • ltttttted~tely! ness on a murder case also There have been seven violations brought sit on the jury?" against student government candidates, only three A loophole in the system Eal11 •thi motteV!~ have been charged to the candidate tickets. These is another problem area that 1 '. ;'" violations are currently in appeal to the Election presidential candidate Jaime ' Call the Cetttral·Florida :F Commission. Halscott said he wants to change. • 'i~'.ij(; 'llii•At' . * '.: :-:, ~ . There are four tickets for students to choose "If a candidate violates [Student] Union policy .. from during the elections. On the agenda for some they would not be violating election statutes and in of the tickets is changing the election statutes. The which case there is nothing that can be done," he violations for the presidential tickets are outlined in said. "The Election Commission should have the the election statutes, which acts as a representation power to enforce all University/College/Building of the Constitution during the elections. regulations that would otherwise give another can The student body does not receive a copy of the didate an unfair advantage." statutes so many students do not know thatthe vio The first election statute was written back in lations candidates commit can be charged back to 1970 and the last revision was made in 1995. ORLANDO'S their original ticket. According to Chief Election Commissioner Cheryl • "Ignorance of the law in this case should be Fox, the election statutes are not up-to-date. GUARANTEED taken jnto account during the elections because "The Election Commission sends recommenda many students do not know the statutes," Fred tions for changes to the Election and Appointments Piccolo, a vice presidential candidate, said. "The Committee after the elections," Foxx said. "During II LOWEST CONTACT candidates receive them, but the students don't. the time I have been chief, there's been 14 recom "If a candidate in the federal and state elections mendations, but only one change." walks down the street and says 'I want to run', they Fox said she is impressed with the Election LENS PRICES can, but here we're held liable for what 30,000 peo Commission and the elections staff, but thinks bet ple say and do, which trickles down and comes ter communication would encourage students to Include The Eye Exam!! back as a charge against the ticket." participate in the elections more. • Another issue that Piccolo said he is concerned "Some violations are inevitable, but I wished r------~------, about is the conflicts of interest for members of the that if they' re changes to be made, they would DAILY WEAR CONTACTS commission. address the Election Commission first to help use • . . "The commissioners are just doing their job the elections to the fullest ability we have to offer." INCLUDES EYE EXAM! when they find violations and report on them," he Students will have an opportunity to vote for said. "They should remove themselves though the next student body president and vice president 95 when on Tuesday and Wednesday. •• I Reg. Price $88.95 I Man. Rebate ~ I Your Price $49.95 Photographer's travels include Fiji, Mexico I A- - - I ClBASOFr™ VISITINT I FREE AOSEPT KIT '. Expires 2/24/99 • FROM PAGE 1 • L---~------~------~ ------~ installation of columns that were ! · .: · 4BOXES! . welded and bolted together. _-: DISPOSABLE CONTACTS On his yearly vacations he I shot photos underwater in the ••I INCLUDES EYE EXAM! Florida Keys, Cozumel, Mexico • •• and the Cayman Islands. He also started writing stories to go with the photos. In addition, Forbes • has been to the Fiji Islands locat 1.!$ ~Se ed in the South Pacific where he has photographed some of the I · · · . Reg. Price $119.95 I B~w! ~mb · Man. R.ebate ::.llD.oo most beautiful coral in the world. • I Expires 2/24/99 Your Price $99.95 Besides a variety of colorful L------~ corals, the South Pacific also has r------, r------, a variety of tropical fish of many EYE : COLORED : colors and shapes. "I captured scenes of these EXAM : CONTACTSIN( ·1 ,lJI >FS EYE EX,\ l\ I! : reefs and fish and showed them • to friends and relatives who don't scuba dive," Forbes said. s299s sgggsi "Showing my photographs is what I like best. They differ from - EYEGLASS DISPOSABLE the basic point-and-shoot pic CIBA NEWVUETM SOFT COLORSe AFTER :I PRESCRIPTION $10 MFG. REBATE OR WJ FRESHLOOK™ I tures since I create my own - ·· !ONLY. .:.. COLORS AFTER $20 MFG. REBATE I L---~_;~:,~~----.J angle. I like to do wide-angle ------~..I - reef scenes using subjects that .SAME DAY.SERVICE IN MOST CASES. can create a forced perspective, (subjects appearing larger than • WE'll MATCH ANY COMPEi IIOR'S PRICES! the background)." 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I I ence, the forum opened up to the audience for discussion. On The forum was opened by Shelley Park, the director of Women's I I Studies, who introduced the first speaker, Mary H. McKinney. McKinney has been with UCF since 1973. She currently works as . I Your executive director for the Financial Aid Office. I McKinney addressed the past of black women. ''When I started at UCF, I don't believe there were any black . ·1 women in high positions," McKinney said. ''For a black woman look I ing to be a professional, teaching was the only option." McKinney. was followed by Kathy Gary King, who works in . I Terills recruiting-for the College of Business Administration and has worked I for UCF since 1986. She spoke on where black women are now. King opened her segment with clips from the movies "Soul . I Open One Year I Food" and "Waiting to Exhale." Using examples from the movies, she said she sees today's black women as strong, assertive, sensitive Regi,stration to Complete and sensuous. I I "Regardless of what the circumstances are, I see two things we Course Work have to do," King said. "One is to work and get paid. Second, you've got to be responsible for yourself, for your family and your commu- I I nity." « ~ She also showed a clip from the recent film "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" in which the lead character is a over-worked business I woman. King said that black women need to put the accent on them • selves and practice good "personal preparation" to fulfill their many different roles, such as mother and professional. "We are at the crossroads ofusing you effectively," she said. "We - FLORIDA I CONTINUING are going to have to learn to start balancing. If you start by putting the . I EDUCATION accent on you, then the other things will fall into place." For Information Contact: King suggested treating yourself once a month and to map a plan . I to educate and elevate by networking locally. 1-800-327-4218 King was followed by 1998 graduate Sylvia Michele Badie who e-mail: [email protected] now works as a program assistant for the African-American Studies www.doce.ufl.edu./ indstudy program. She opened her talk on where black women are going with ·L a clip from "Waiting to Exhale."• The clip showed four black women celebrating New Years together. ------"As an African-American woman, I feel we are going down the path that has been set before us," Badie said. At the beginning of her ·talk Badie began to cry and was unable to speak. This moved McKinney who also began getting "misty." After an emotional moment, Badie continued her presentation. She called black women of the future "reformers and activists" and said they have been raised to have things their way. "What I got out of my UCF career, no one can put a price on," she said before closing with a poem by Maya Angelou. The panel then opened for a time of questions and discussion. • Where UCF One question was what should black women do during their time at UCF. The forum said to think global, know who you are and what you students want, network, and to treat people the way you want to be treated. • "The sky is the limit," King said. "There are a lot of places to go want and we are going to get there. It will just take us one step at a time." to be! UNIVERSITY of CENTRAL FLORIDA's Other Floorplans Available • DISPUTE 6 3 and 4 bedroom ap;;irtments 'D Fully It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week! ca ..(,,) February 20 - 27, 1999 0 =c 'i: Check out what UCF's ia. ~1)~ ' Cl> ~ Self:.aeeeptanee u; c m Motivsdon Q... 0 0 Aedon ;;: Respeet& ·- 1-800-542-6190 . . Trust Program has to offer you! Monday, February 22, 4-S:OOpm, SU; Key West Rm 21 SA ·• REACH Peer Education presents an educational workshop on "Body Love, ,.. 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Q) ~ * 1-3:00pm, SU; Rm 313 t: "Greeks Speak" will offer an open discussion of how eating disorders tie in ~ Q) with the Greek community. a: I February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 7 • • How to become scuba certified SARAH SEKULA generally the class will elect to pay the ment stores for $50 to $80. But it is rec and ascend safely. • NEWSED/TOR extra money to go down to West Palm." ommended to buy professional gear found Rhodes recalled, "A big thing they only in dive stores. This gear will last talked about was the buddy system. Never "I saw Goliath, a huge, bright green Social aspects _longer (many items come with , lifetime dive without a buddy. You kind of keep an • moray eel," Gwen Rhodes, a junior at Some people choose to take the class guarantees) and will fit better. eye out for each other." UCF, said. "He lives in a shipwreck in the with a friend, but many come by them The gear· can cost from a low of $15_0 "With safety being the main concern Florida Keys and seems to have interna selves. "Diving ·is a good way to meet to a high of $300, he said. Rhodes said she of the course," Shimkoski said, "that's one • tional fame," the novice scuba diver other people," Shimkoski said. "We sent a paid about $145 for her personal gear, thing we try to teach-being comfortable explained. group out to West Palm this morning. about $75 for a mask, $20 for the snorkel, and confident underwater and how to think "We were about 45 feet underwater Many of them have not dived together $30 for the weights and $20 for fins. The rationally. We do a lot of muscle train swimming around a shipwreck site," she before. By the time they come back, they price for weights will differ for each per ing-doing one skill over and over again. • said. That's when Rhodes caught her first will know each other well. son because it depends on body size. We also teach a safety stop. Every 15 feet glimpse of the notorious, but rarely seen, "It's a good social activity-more so "If you put money into anything, put it a diver should stop for three minutes." sea creature . than most sports," he said. "A lot of dif into the mask," Rhodes emphasized. "I After this, a student is now ready to • "The whole experience was incredi ferent people participate. I think it's some made a point of getting a good one." She apply this information and pool exercises ble," Rhodes said. "The visibility was thing that everybody can do and it's non said she rented a mask on a previous snor begin. "We usually go to a YMCA pool or great. You could see all the colors because competitive. Everyone is pretty much on keling experience. "It kept leaking and I whatever is available," Shimkoski said. • we didn't go very deep. We saw red coral, equal footing once you hit the water. You just couldn't relax-I kept having to fix "The pool training is about six hours alto green coral, parrot fish, puffer fish and a can't muscle your way through water, it's it," she said. "Purchasing a mask that fits gether. We won't let you go out into open huge sea turtle swam right by my face." all about technique. Just the overall expe made it much more pleqsant." water unless you've mastered the skills of • Rhodes' admiration of Jacques rience is exciting-the boat ride, getting in confined water." Cousteau and love of marine life prompted the water and being with friends Rhodes said: "One thing we had her to become a certified scuba diver last you knew before or that you met in to do was take off all of our equip July. She has been on eight dives since. class. It's a calm, relaxing sport." ment and let it fall to the bottom then put it on again. Out of the pool, Like Rhodes, many students have an Time investment we practiced taking our masks off interest in scuba diving but have no idea Many scuba companies offer with our eyes closed. This simulat how to begin. courses that last four to six weeks ed putting the rnask on under or a more condensed course offered water." Where to start over two weekends. Each is about The last step of the certification • The first item on the agenda for scuba the same amount of time. process is a series of four open newcomers is to find a local diving com Scuba Worlds is affiliated with water dives. For the open-water pany. Talk to friends, see if they can refer NAUI (National Association of dives, it is two dives in a local • you somewhere. And don't just call the Underwater Instructors), which spring, like Blue Springs (freshwa company on the telephone, visit and tour requires a minimum of 32 hours of class Learning the basics ter), then two dives at West Palm Beach the facilities. Meet the instructors. Ask instruction. PADI (Professional Prior to hitting the water, the instruc (saltwater). Shimkoski said they choose • yourself if you feel comfortable around Association of Diving Instructors) may tors begin with a medical and liability ses Blue Springs because it is close to them? Do they have a good selection of have different requirements, Shimkoski sion. They want to make sure conditions Orlando. "It's - about an hour away in equipment? Shop around and keep in mind said. such as exercise induced asthma, chronic Orange City," he said. • that your choice of instructor is very Scuba Worlds has a certification ear problems or lung trauma do not affect "When the final dive is complete," important. course that runs two evenings a week for your diving. Shimkoski said, "every new diver seems to the span of five weeks. Rhodes said she "The next part is an introduction to feel like they've accomplished something Certification expenses started class· this past summer on June 15 scuba diving," Shimkoski said. "We talk and have overcome that initial fear." The course fee can vary depending on aod received her C-card on July 19. "I about characteristics of equipment, how to "I was a little bit nervous when I start where you sign up and the time of year. went two nights a week. Monday night assemble, maintain and inspect the equip ed the class," Rhodes admitted. "But it all Dive stores and instructors sometimes was academics and Wednesday was pool ment. And how to select it for purchasing. comes together wh~n you're diving-it • offer reduced rates during colder months. practice," Rhodes explained. We also talk about the differences in tanks . becomes habit and you do things without At Scuba Worlds on West Colonial, a The most popular course according to "Then we go into the effects of scuba thinking." scuba certification course costs $179. It is Shimkoski, is the one offered over two diving, basically we call it diving Rhodes is planning more dives for the • available all year long at this price . consecutive weekends. "The first Saturday physics," he said. "For example, the future. "I'm looking into going back to the College students receive a 10 percent dis is classroom lectures and Sunday is pool effects of pressure, hearing underwater Keys or maybe somewhere in the count off the price and equipment. The training. The following weekend is and visibility.;' Caribbean. There's so much more I want $179 fee includes books, certification card reserved for the open-water dives." Next, the instructors discuss proper to see." or C-card, classroom lectures, pool train diving techniques. Practical stuff is taught: The exciting thing about scuba diving ing sessions, and four open-water dives. Equipment how to assemble your equipment and how and getting certified, according to "There is an additional charge, usually Gear provided by the company usual- to enter the water. The basics are then dis Shimkoski, is "the conquering of the • $25-$30, for boat costs if you go to the 1y includes a tank, regulator and buoyancy cussed: face mask clearing, buoyancy underwater environment. I guess it's the coast instead of the local springs," John compensator. You have to provide mask, . control, swimming techniques underwater. last great frontier. They say space is, but Shimkoski, owner of Scuba Worlds, said. fins, snorkel, weight belt, weights and a Classes also talk about some emergency how many people go to space? You have "It's up to the class. 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FLORIDA • This Certificate is good for Dry Cleaning services ONLY and must be presented at the time of the incoming order. One Gih Certificate per visit please. • mm 11m - - lllE - - - _. ._ - -- 11::1 ------February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florid.a Future • 8 Taking ·things as they come DANIEL F. MCMULLAN "So much for spontaneity," Melissa whine." Just 27 miles northeast of Orlando, Mount STAFF WRITER says dryly. "No room for us at the inn." Melissa storms out of the bathroom. Dora offers a needed respite from theme We head back north to check out the "Stop it, Dan. You're not going to guilt parks and cartoon spokesmen-or mice, "You want to do what with my daugh Tavares Budget Inn. When I walk into the trip our 2-year-old daughter. It's not her as it were. At 184 feet above sea level, it ter?" Melissa's eyes ask-daring me to lobby, the smell overwhelms me. It makes fault." also appeals to my need for broken ter repeat myself. My wife's like that, though. me queasy and short of breath. Curry and Not her fault? You think we're leaving rain. When I have a brilliant idea, she emphati incense, I think. because the room service sucks? Micaela, on the other hand, is not cally says so. Whenever I come up with I walk to the counter and ask the Grabbing the car keys, Melissa impressed. some nonsense, she simply says nothing. woman for a room. She's East Indian, I explodes out the door in her pajamas, "I want to go back to the room," she There's a lot of silence in our house. think, and she's completely oblivious to bare-feet, and Micaela in her arms. She's S'ays. "To the hotel where we stayed last My plan to take our 2-112-year-old the fact that her forehead dot has smeared furious: she'll walk out to check the mail night." daughter canoeing sinks before it can all the way down to the bridge of her or get the paper wearing her pajamas, but What? I don't even want to hear that. float. I look around quickly hoping to find nose. I ask her if I can see a room first never bare-footed. I pack angrily. I drop We see a sign outside Hart's Country a better idea written on the floor or ceil and she looks at me like I just proposi the room key off and stomp to the car. Crafts on 100 W. Third Ave. Free coffee ing. tioned her. She hurries to the office to get Inside, the silence is loud. and cookies-that draws us in. We are "Hey, I have an idea. Let's go some her husband. He leads me to the second Pulling onto the highway, I fight the kept in by the smell of coffee brewing and where on Sunday," I say. "Somewhere floor room, telling me I'm lucky to find temptation to stomp on the gas and burn candles burning-two of my favorite we've never been and make a day of it. one, like he's sham- rubber. That would scents. Melissa and I frantically try to See what there is to see and spend no ing me for wanting just push Melissa keep up with Micaela as she roams money." to look at it first. BmDCAGlE LINER over the edge. I turn around looking at things. "Can I see?" she Melissa's eyes brighten. "Maybe we He opens the around and see asks. For her, seeing means touching. As could get a hotel room on Saturday door and the room is fine. No blood stains Micaela sleeping as if nothing had ever we leave, the owner, Jo Hart, suggests we night," she adds. on the wall, springs tearing through the happened. wander down to the lighthouse. Ever magnanimous, I agree. Melissa is mattress or strange odors. I pay for the "Should we turn around?" I ask It's 80 degrees in the shade when we really excited about this. I'd be a real jerk mom and unpack the car. Melissa carries Melissa. reach the 35-foot tower on Grantham to belabor the bills we have. I do that a Micaela up to the room. Micaela's limp "Do whatever you want," she Point. The structure is not exactly awe lot-it really ruins the mood. This is the arms and legs dangle and bounce with responds. inspiring, but when it's the only inland most spontaneous thing we have done every step. I make a U-turn, pull into the Budget freshwater lighthouse in Florida, it doesn't together in a while. We really need this. Exhausted, we collapse into deep Inn and retrieve the key. We lay Micaela have to be. I spot what looks like a nature On Saturday morning the urge to man sleep only to wake to Micaela's coughing down and she doesn't bat an eyelash. As trail, so we investigate. The path is part age and plan overtook the urge for spon and crying at 11:30 p.m. "I want to go Melissa and I lay down, I mumble a weak boardwalk and part sandy trail and winds taneity somewhat. And after thumbing home," she says. "I want my room." apology for losing my temper. "I.can't through the reeds and cypresses of Palm through several Florida books, I settle on Melissa leaps from our bed to calm believe what you did to her" is her accep Island Park. We spot an alligator, two rac Mount Dora. My qaughter, Micaela, and I Micaela before the child erupts into a fit. tance, I think. coons and several different birds. Micaela pick Melissa up frdm work at 6 p.m. at The tactic fails.. Micaela starts wailing. Gratefully, Micaela sleeps until 8 a.m. is delighted. · the mall in Merritt Island and drive west Nothing will settle her down. which is nice because we're all in better Melissa and I are really tired. The ward. Finally, Melissa soothes Micaela with moods. When I leave the room, she tells hills, the heat and the hotel have taken Finally, we leave city limits and its · her favorite story of the princess, her Mommy, "Daddy yell at me last night. their toll. We return to the car and buckle seediness. Melissa is worried that Mount prince, their castle and her pumpkin patch. You yell at Daddy.'' Micaela in. She's still wide-awake and Dora will look like Orange Blossom Trail. I drift off only to be woken up with a At breakfast, Micaela is well behaved still asking to go back to the hotel. So we "Don't sweat it," I say. "Look, honey, fresh round of crying and whining . and enjoys her favorite meal: bacon and do what most parents do: we lie. We tell .rolling hills!" A change "in altitude-we're Melissa endures this well, but I don't. It's apple juice. My breakfast is disappointing her we're looking for it right now. On the almost giddy with vertigo. It's also 9 p.m. some time after midnight when I turn the and I tell Melissa, "I have half a mind to freeway, Micaela finally dozes off. To her as we pull into the Mount Dora Comfort television on. Micaela wants cartoons. Of complain to the manager." it was just another day. For Melissa and I, Inn. course she wants what we can't find. "Don't be miserable, honey,'' she says it was an attempt to live spontaneously. As I walk in, the clerk says, "Sorry sir, Around 2 a.m., Melissa, obviously frus quietly. Which just can't be done when you've we're booked. Mount Dora bicycle thing trated, says, "Some adventure this is turn "Don't be miserable, Daddy," Micaela got a child to plan for. We should have this weekend, ya know? Everything for 15 ing out to be." says loud enough for two other parties to studied our lodging options instead of tak miles is booked. I've called around. The Micaela, unaware of the problem she hear. ing whatever was left. We should have only place with vacancies is the Budget has created, agrees. "This is a nice adven I pay the bill and we head for Mount made reservations. We could have arrived Inn down the road. But I don't recom ture," she says happily. Dora, which turns out to be the most soon enough for Micaela to become mend it. It's real old. It looks nice on the Mkaela's happiness is brief. At 3:30 appealing small town I've ever visited. It accustomed to her new sunoundings. We outside, but I'd-ask to see the rooms first." · a.m. she sobs, "I'm scared," so we tum seems genuine, not contrived. Out of time would have if we waited to eat until after I report to Melissa, who takes this the lights on. and out of place, the town is very New settling in. We should have, we could well. Gratefully, Micaela is asleep. At I reach the end of my rope .at 4 a.m. England-like and Victorian-only with have, and we would have ... least we won't have to worry about get "Get her out of here," I bellow. "Take her palm trees. But it was fun all the same. I'm glad ting her to fall asleep in the hotel room. down to the car while I pack. I can't take Furthermore, everyone is so friendly we took the trip. But I needed to remem We turn back south, jgnoring the clerk's this anymore." and there are several blocks to explore ber my friend's advice. "Don't take life so advice. Sure enough, the Mount Dora Turning to Micaela, I say, "I can't and enough shops to keep Melissa,a pro seriously," he says. "You'll never live Econo Lodge has no vacancies. believe we blew 50 bucks just to hear you fessional gift-giver, occupied for days. through it." 11 tJA _,. VA- K IS lll '5T1 ML JUT 'HY IM AU.. 1HOSl .-V tma?S. t ~ K~ JUT 11lltNk' 1M1' MllQU. AAS ,.. OfPfM IH ,. QIMAaiRS. I MHlfMA llElllAAA l llAV£ 'ft!~ WffW JOSK ON ltiS <»I RICK. \ I • • • February 17, 1999 Central Florida Future • 9 www.UCFfuture.com • • Barbies with tattoos raise a few eyebrows MARYLN SCHWARTZ yourself wet-and-stick-on tattoos. OK, says the tattoo doll is proving popular. know a girl at school who has her own KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS these stick-ons aren't whips and chains, I know the little girls love it, but tattoo and has had an artist friend paint • ------just flowers and butterflies. But, still, the what about their parents? the exact one on this new Barbie. It's I have an aunt who is a doomsayer. door has been opened. "Well, they've also made Barbie's quite a conversation piece." • But in this instance, I'm afraid she is all And for every tattoo that goes on figure more realistic," says Carol This brings to mind what happened too right. Barbie, there is one included for the little Pennington, a mother I talked to while some years ago when the company came She has been watching all this mess girl who buys her. broyvsing through a toy store. "A tasteful out with a Magic Earring Ken. This Ken going on on the Senate floor with pursed "It's too much," says nurse Nancy tattoo doesn't bother me. After all, my doll had very blond hair, rather mod • lips. All along, she has predicted that Lenox. "Now they've gone too far. I saw daughter can always wash off the Barbie clothes and an earring in one ear. standards and decorum will now slip this as a commercial on TV. I can just kind. Lots of kids are getting tattoos. It's I wasn't aware of this, but a friend everywhere. picture all those little girls running not the shock it used to be. tells me the doll was an instant hit, but "Once behavior like this is discussed around in their new tattoos." "But to have my daughter play with a not with little girls. It was heavily col openly in the hallowed halls of law and Lenox is a friend of mine. Frankly, doll with that impossible figure would lected in the gay community. government," my aunt has warned she hasn't gotten anywhere near as upset make me feel a lot worse." This Ken doll is no longer being • repeatedly, "who knows what other slips over the Monica situation as she has I checked out that new, more realis made. It is almost impossible to find one in taste are bound to follow?" over Barbie's tattoos. tic-figure Barbie while I was in the store. secondhand. Well, they have, Aunt Dorothy, they Interns are in and out of fashion. But Guess what, folks? I don't know anyone Toy marketers and a lot of parents really have. Barbie, for goodness' sake, is an institu who has a figure like that, either. like the idea of Barbie and Ken taking Please sit down if this is coming as a tion. Just like any other out-of-the-ordi on a more worldly existence. complete shock. Barbie has gotten tat "What are we going to have next?" nary Barbie, the tattoo version is begin I asked st!veral what they think will - ~ tooed. Lenox wants to know. "A Barbie with ning to get a cult following. And it's be Barbie's next foray. Yes, I'm talking about Barbie. That body piercing?" adults who are buying it, just as much as "Anything that's in the spotlight," pristine doll who once wanted only to This is _all part of the Mattel toy com kids. says mother-of-two Jan Higgins. "Well, shop for designer clothes until she pany's plan to bring Barbie into the 21st "I collect outrageous toys," says let's just hope for Ken's sake, they don't dropped now comes with a set of do-it- century. A spokesman for the company Marianne Davis, a college student. "I come out with a Lorena Bobbitt Barbie." www.UCFfuture.com Publisher ...... Scott Wallin News Editor ...... Nicole King Assistant News Editor ...... Taylor Sikes Sports Editor ...... Tony Mejia KNIGHT PuBLISHING, INC Entertainment Editor .. Corbett Trubey 120 ALlixANDRIA BLVD, SUITE 17 Production Editor ...... 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Knight Publishing, Inc. is not associated with the University of Central Florida. 407- 679-0018 Owned and operated by bsolute UCF Al'umni members Photo Studios ·- ·- We Are Close To You February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 10 Dear Dr. Daphne, frontation, sit Return to I think my down with roommate has been your roomie going through my one night and stuff Lately when calmly talk to I've been coming them about it. sender home, I notice Don't accuse things in my room them of any that have been thing but let Costner's character was noth B.W. EARL moved around, and my roommate has been act them know that you value your privacy and ing like the romantic that she STAFF WRITER ing a little strange. I haven't found anything people who violate it will get a good beating had hoped, raced to her rental missing, but I'm afraid that might happen next. (you can leave out the beating part if you like). In order to make this car, and gone off, thus finish How should I deal with this? You can also set up a video camera in your review for Message in a Bottle ing an unsatisfying (yet thank room while you're gone if you feel like totally a bit different, I'm deciding to fully brief) film. -Desperately Seeking Privacy nailing them. If you're the kind of person who put the entire 11:10- In the is backbone deficient; then the best thing to do ordeal together process of falling Dear Privacy, is put a lock on the door. If your roommate asks via timeline: for Penn, Costner Having a roommate that you can't trust why you did it, just say that you want to keep 9:35- Waiting shows her his makes for a very uncomfortable living your valuables safe. More importantly, for the previous designs for the situation. First and foremost, make what are you doing living with some show to end. half-completed sure that someone has definitely one that would do that to begin Looking at the boat that he been in your room without you with?!?!?! It's amazing how posters- hey ceased building knowing it. Make sure it's not a pet many people blindly walk Disney presents Doug's 1st when his beloved Catherine going through.everything, if you into screwy living situations Movie. I wonder if that'll be died. (Reviewer's· Note: have one, and consider your- with people they don't an 'animated masterpiece.' Predicted E. T.A. until Costner self, especially if you're para know well or not at all. If 9:50- The long journey finishes the boat: 30 minutes.) noid, absent-minded, or both. you are a stickler for privacy, than you begins. Not long afterward, 11 :35-- Costner resumes Making an accusati0n and should make an effort to live with newspaper journalist Theresa work on the boat. (Margin of being completely wrong about someone that you know a little bit Osborne (Robin Wright Penn) error: 5 minutes.) it will only make things worse. better. This roommate of yours could finds the aforementioned bot 11 :45-- Costner finds the In regards to your roommate's be a real weirdo, so take care of this tle with the aforementioned bottle, thus ending the rela behavior, you might want to consider ASAP! The last thing you want is to message inside. We're treated tionship with Penn (Margin of what they've found. This would include come home and see your nosy room to about fifteen minutes or so error: 10 minutes.) any drug paraphernalia, inflatable ani mate parading around in your under of actors reading notes, show 12:05-- Major character mals, or bondage gear. Then it's time to wear, reading your diary out loud, and ing us just how darned roman dies in totally unrelated take action. If you're living in a dorm, I sug blowing their nose on your pillows. tic this author is as he pours tragedy, not unlike City of gest you haul this over to your R.A. It's their out his emotions to his late Angels. (Okay, it wasn't job to take care of these kinds of things. If you Got a problem? Nothing is too big or love. By finding out the Newman's character, but I'm live off-campus, then you're on your own. If small for Dr. Daphne!! Just e-mail her at insignia on the message, she counting it anyway. Margin of you're the type that doesn't mind a good con- [email protected] hunts down the author (Kevin error: 18 minutes.) Costner) to a quiet fishing 12:15-- Thank God, this town in North Carolina. movie's over. Total number of (Reviewer's Note: Predicted watch checks: 22. Geez. This E.T.A. until Costner finds the film made You 've Got Mail, a . bottle and notes somewhere, snail pacer itself, seem like a IT'S 11:59 ON NEW YEARS EVE. thus breaking off his relation whirlwind of cinematic action. ship with Penn: 1 hour, 45 One part City of Angels, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DATE IS? minutes.) one part Horse Whisperer, and 10:26- Half an hour into with sprinkles of Sleepless in this shindig, Penn flies down. Seattle thrown in for good I check my watch for the 5th measure, Message is definitely time. less than the sum of its parts. 10:32- We see Paul Don't get me wrong; it's a Newman for the first time, as nice-looking and sounding Costner's stereotypical aloof film. There's a fine musical yet-wise father. The opening score by Oscar-winner Gabriel dialogue between Newman (The English Patient) Yared, and Penn might rank among who once again turns in much the worst exchanges of better music than the film Newman's career. If he gets deserves (see City of Angels). reduced to comic relief, a la The cinematography is stun Jack Lemmon and Walter ningly beautiful, particularly Matthau, it's going to be a when the movie sets out to damn shame. (Reviewer's sea. The other technical Note: Predicted E.T.A. until aspects of the film are fine, Newman has a life-threatening especially the construction of illness: 75 minutes.) the boats. 10:37- Costner appears for But for all of its visceral the first time, more than 45 advantages, Message in a minutes in. The scene is an Bottle is the victim of a partic omen for the rest of the movie; ularly cruel irony: for a Ben Affleck Casey Affleck Dave Chappelle Guillermo Dhu Costner turns in a perfor romantic film that opened on mance that's unemotional Valentine's Day weekend, it Angela Featherstone Janecme Garofolo Gaby Hoffmann Kate Hudson where it's supposed to be sen lacks heart. The blci ad Courtney Love Jay Mohr Martha Plimpton Christina Ried Paul Rudd sitive, passive where it's sup romance, the waste of a fine posed to convey depth. supporting cast (Illeana ( 10:46- Costner gets into a Douglas and Robbie Coltrane fight at a diner with the broth as co~-workers at Penn's news er of his dead wife (John paper are given the brunt of Savage, who's wasted in a the 'jokes' in the film, all of throwaway role). During the which fall remarkably flat), fight, Penn walks into the and the. dreadfully slow pace diner. If this was anything makes this Message an unre resembling real life, she warding moviegoing '.experi would've concluded that ence.' • February 17, 1999 Central Florida Future • 11 www.UCFfuture.com • • Son Volt delivers alterna-country rocl< • TAYLOR SIKES with excitement. ly together in the band, Uncle Tupelo. This After releasing three more albums with ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Guitarist Bosquist played three differ band was formed in the late 1980s and fea Uncle Tupelo, Farrar felt he needed ent electric guitars and a slide guitar. On tured Jeff Tweedy on bass. Tweedy later some time off. He quit the band and moved • Roots rockers Son Volt visited the "Out of the Picture" he joined in on the went on to form the band, Wilco, who to New Orleans to write some new songs. Sapphire Supper Club on Wednesday fiddle, complementing gained critical acclaim At the end of 1994, Farrar put together Son bringing their unique sounds blending the dark, slow picking for their recent work Volt and recorded their first album, Trace. rock, country, folk and blues. of Farrar's guitar. with Billy Bragg on Son Volt has now recorded three • The full-house show lasted about 2 With all the differ the album, Mermaid albums, Trace, Straightaways and Wide hours and featured such hits as, ent instruments, very On "Straightface,'" Avenue, which fea Swing Tremolo. The latter was recorded in "Windfall," "Drown," "Caryatid Easy," little talk in between Farrar pulled'' a har tures songs written by Millstadt, Ill., in an old lingeriem ware • and "Straightface." Son Volt is currently songs, and no encore, Woody Guthrie ·but house which the band turned into a studio. touring in support of their latest release Son Volt seemed to monica from his never recorded. They later named the studio "Jajouka" Wide Swing Tremolo .. dedicated their show pocket and tore In 1990, Uncle after a Moroccan town known for its musi • Son Volt is made up of Jay Farrar on solely to the music. Tupelo released their cians . vocals and guitar, Jim Boquist on bass, And the audience did into it,, causing the first album, _No According to Farrar, the title of the Dave Bosquist on guitars, and Mike n't seem to mind. They crowd to cheer Depression, which album comes from an old Gibson cata • Heidorn on drums. During the show the sang along on with excitement. gained attention from logue. One of the advertisements he saw band displayed musical ambidexterity by "Windfall" and other critics and brought was for a 1962 amplifier. "Wide swing" playing different instruments. Farrar was slower songs, and interest back toward was one of the ways the ad described the • constantly changing guitars, moving from danced during the country rock-interest amp's tremolo. Farrar thought it applied to an acoustic guitar to an electric to a differ faster ones, like "Drown," and "Medicine that was lost since the days of Gram Son Volt's latest music. ent electric. On "Straightface," Farrar Hat." Parsons. The same year the band was For more information on Son Volt, • pulled a harmonica from his pocket and Son Volt was formed in early 1994 . voted best unsigned band at the New check out their web site at tore into it, causing the crowd to cheer Farrar and drummer Heidorn were formal- Music Seminar in New York City. http://www.wbr.com/sonvolt • • Celebrate the Start of Chinese \?ear 4697 NoteTakers Wanted The \?ear Of The Rabbit $200-$1500/ class! • Post your lecture notes on the Internet SIGN UP ON-LINE@ www .STUDY24-7.com • Over the next month, the University Dining Room explores the world of Pacific Rim Flavors, via cutting-edge Asian • combo meals. Dine in, or carry out, we offer Real food, with fresh, healthy alternatives daily. 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UNION • February 17, 1999 Central Florida Future • 12 www.UCFfuture.com Stephen King chats about his chilling miniseries RON GIVENS finish this because I've lion for the novel "Bag of Bones." press, the radio talk-show guys, Wind,"' he said with a laugh. "I COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE got all these characters King jumped to Simon & everyone who's going to sit in a don't want any of thats-." and I've got to try to find Schuster, which put out "Bag" last chair and say, 'Who does this guy Then, with a weariness that NEW YORK (KRT) - a way to integrate all of fall through its Scribner imprint, think he is, he wants all this comes from knowing that he is, as Here's a shocker for you: Stephen them into the story. It's like and the novel got some of the best money.' You want to find a polite he says, "wired up" to be the kind King is thinking about retiring - you're pulling this weight behind reviews ever for a King work. way to say, 'I'll tell you who I am. of writer who wants to entertain the maybe. you. And then at some point, it Although he took a lower advance I'm the only person God made who biggest audiences possible, King "I'd rather leave when I'm at turns for the can do this one particular thing, adds: "I probably will continue to my best than when I start to go around novel, he and you like it. So, shut up."' do it. Probably I' 11 be like downhill," says the 51-year-old and it's got a cut King is similarly blunt when Muhammad Ali and say, 'It's not author, one of the most successful pulling of the he imagines the end of his career as time yet. One more fight."' novelists of our time. "I don't you." profits. Already, King says, he's a published writer. The smart money says Stephen want to finish up my career fish At the center of "Storm" is made more than he would have if -"I'd like to express my gratitude King isn't about to go gently into ing for bad fastballs because my evil. The small, insular communi Viking had met his price. gracefully," he says. 'That doesn't that good night. The night is too eyes have started to fail." ty on Little Tall Island is bracihg "The downside," he says, "is mean tears and flowers and Elton scary, and he's still got a lot of King makes this comment in for a major winter storm when a there is a _gauntlet which is the John singing 'Candle in the rocking and rolling to do. a greenroom at the daytime talk stranger (ColmFeore) arrives and show "The View," where he was kills an old lady. Even though about to promote "Storm of the he's locked up in the tiny jail cell Century," a six-hour miniseries behind the general store run by that starts Sunday night on ABC. the constable (Tim Daly), towns In "Storm," an evil stranger people begin to die, each of them arrives on a small island off the scrawling one of the few things coast of Maine and terrorizes the the stranger has said: "Give me community just as a killer bliz what I want and I' 11 go away." zard hits. The chiller, King's first The dark force represented SVRfOOARDS screenplay written directly for by the stranger fascinates King, ~ television, proves that he needn't who lives in Bangor, Maine, with .A SKATEBOARDS worry about his abilities. his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Early reviews, which have Their daughter and two sons are been very strong, indicate that grown. . Quiksilver~t Roxyf;i!. ONei/~t Rip Cur/~t Rusty~t Split King can still hit one out of the "As we go into the next mil park. lennium," says King, "evil is the ()1 OFF tWth UCF Student In other ways, he seems to central problem that we have to -;o or Faculty l.D. The Shoppes of Eastwood contradict the notion that King is cope with. We have to try to 15 1937 S. Alafaya Trail in the twilight of his career: He decide if there is such a thing, and 5 Minutes From UCF loved working on "Storm" so if there is, what we're going to do much that he'd jump at the about it whether it's when we 482-0181 chance to write another minis dig up the bodies of 40 slaugh eries for the alphabet network. In tered nuns in Rwanda or whether the meantime, he's not lacking it's the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia for projects: three more books iri or whether it's a case of two boys his "Dark Tower" series, a novel who go crazy and shoot a bunch about a grocery-store price war in of children." 1960s Detroit and a book on cre Much of "Storm" has an Old ative writing are in the works. He Testament quality to it. The con says he'd like to write a nonfic stable refers to the trials . of Job, tion book about a season in the and the evil stranger delivers a life of a baseball team. perverse kind of judgment on the You have to wonder when his townspeople. King doesn't pre "retirement" could begin. sent these themes in a heavy And yet there is a winding handed way, as the miniseries - down quality to what he says: leavens its morality with narra + - 'Tm getting to tq.e end, although tive suspense_ or maybe it's the the house isn't bare yet. It's not other way around. time for the fire sale." "I believe in God. Very King's energy level jumps much," says King, who describes when he talks about "Storm." He himself as a "generic" Protestant. 111111 clearly becomes the guy who has "I just don't believe in church at produced an almost nonstop all. I don't have any use for the stream of horror and suspense religion. In the end, it always since "Carrie" in 1974. More comes down to the same thing, than 30 books of fiction, more which is 'We're better than the than a dozen screenplays. More rest of the people because God than 150 million books sold has got a direct line to us."' worldwide. Countless millions in Discussing religion, or any earnings. Forbes estimated that other subject, King speaks his • he earned $40 million in 1998 _ mind without hesitation, whether and that was considered an off he's complaining about the vora year. ciousness of the media or defend When wntmg goes well, ing the megadeal he made last King says, "it's very addictive. year when his publisher of 24 It's like 'Storm of the Century.' I years, Viking, wouldn't meet his was thinking I'm never going to reported asking price of $17 mil- 1 CASSELBERRY , uc·F .. c::.J $ . . ' . I 0 A H 0 M A E T I G E R E R R P .. ·Atmaya ·& East·50 1259 ·semoran Blvd. E X I L E A .24•9-25.26 67 ... -2066 G E 1 4 February 17, 1999 Central Florida Future • 13 www.UCFfuture.com • • All systems go in October Slcy CORltETT TRUBEY a hit movie, without all the flash. ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR This means no blood, ~n, babes, hunks, or computer-generated Talk abaut a lame job mar explosions. It's straight-up enter • ket! In Coalwood, a small town tainment that is, and I can't in the depths of rural West believe I'm writing this, enjoy Virginia d_uring the 50's, you've able for all ages. Does this sound got two post-high school options: like cheddar or what? get a football scholarship or head What little to blow off about to the coal mines. Coal miner's October Sky rests in an extremely son Homer Hickam (Jake important plot point: WHY IN Gyllenhaal) isn't too jazzed about THE HECK DOES THIS KID this, and his future is looking LIKE ROCKETS SO MUCH?!?! about as bright as the light on Can you believe that the movie those cool little helmets him and really doesn't answer the ques his friends will be wearing after tion? This realization hits so early they toss their tassles. All it takes in the movie that you almost want is a rocket in the sky for Homer to flip the bird for all the feel to realize his true professional good scenes that follow. But to • calling, but audiences can unfas do that, you would really have to ten their safety belts because have a heart of stone. There's also October Sky is a feel-good movie something about Homer and his that relies on very little to really three friends that has the stale blow you away. aftertaste of Stand By Me, with Based on a true story, one scene in particular involving October Sky plots Homer's moti SPECIAL TO THE FUTURE a train. Jake Gyllenhaal (right ) stars as Homer Hickam Jr. in the drama October Sky, the triumphant true story of a high school vation to build rockets and possi So unless you're completely student in rural West Virginia who turns his attention to the skies. bly into something more. While devoid of human emotion or everyone is a skeptic at first, the be! Seriously, people walked out ly Dern), throws in worthy per between the father and the son, extremely prejudiced against town slowly begins to spot the theater either smiling or cry formances. Gyllenhaal and crew something that almost takes away West Virginians, you will find the Homer's potential. This includes ing. In the tradition of other pile on the twangs a little too from the shooting rockets. Peel appeal of October Sky a difficult a numerous cast of locals from local-boy-does-good films (a much at times, but every main off another layer, and you have choice to pass out. Not only does workers in his father's mine to good example in this case being character gets the examination of a this little film go a long way to his teacher (Laura Dern) to even Hoosiers), October Sky is soaked ample time to town that was built get you involved, but when you good ol' mom (Natalie Caerday). in inspiration and double-dosed reveal some _depth. on a dying industry, leave the theater, you feel moti . . And then you have the obligatory with the unstoppable message to Cooper stands out an unfortunate bit of vated to do something. I'm not obstacle, which in this case pretty "follow your dreams." This is a as Hickam Sr., knowledge that saying you're going to want to go much goes to dad (Chris Cooper), phrase that can get any audienc¢ . playing father not Homer's father must raid NASA or anything, but it's a who enjoys putting his big \Yest cheering at the end, which for only to his two carry on his shoul lot better than the hollow emo • Virginian foot down on his son's October Sky, they did. sons, but to the city ders through most of tions that you have to make up aspirations in favor of those purty Not only is the message wor as well while withstanding enor the film. for after watching big-budget black rocks. And a battle for thy, but so is just about every mous pressure from his job. Even better is that fact that blow-outs. And that makes audience-pleasing ensues. thing elSe. 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All Rights Reserved February 17, 1999 Central Florida Future • 14 www.UCFfuture.com ACROSS 1 Gem State 6 Actress West 9 Rugby formation 14 Predatory cat 15 Slip up 16 Temporary pattern of behavior 17 Imposed absence 18 Clemente 19 Solemn words from relatives and friends of men who have been 20 Trumpeter Davis Lead Stories slain in gang violence and who want the victims' 21 Missing •The Japanese firm Matsushita announced in persons? faces commemorated on T-shirts. The city has such a 23 Taken care of December that the Tokyo government would soon high homicide rate, Lewis says, that several of his 25 Male deer begin distributing to elderly people the company's customers have later been murdered and memorial 26 Arid 27 Disorderly pile new robotic cats (furry, lifesize, and, thanks to ized with their own T-shirts. 29 Checkers side microchips, playful and talkative) to combat loneli •New Product Delivery Systems: In December in 31 Miler Coe ness. Skin sensors cause the cat to purr when petted Thunder Bay, Ontario, Wendy Cashaback opened 36 Actress Diamond and to jump when startled by a noise. The cats are what she believed was Canada's first drive-thru shop 40 Dramatic expected to sell for about $300. selling only sex toys and lingerie. Also in December, presentation · •Only the Falcons Were More Disappointed: On 41 Tennis star C 1999 Tribune Media Services, Inc. the New York company Joe Boxer placed 10 vending Monica All rights reserved. 2/17/99 Super Bowl Sunday, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times machines in the city to sell men's underwear in pop 43 Little piggies profiled local resident Joffre Leggett, 80, as he pre top cans and said it hoped to roll out 100 more in 44 Assistants 46 Bottom deposits 7 Saudis, e.g. • pared for the Publishers Clearing House prize patrol 19.99. 48 Tree fluid 8 German dadaist that would later that day, he was certain, be arriving •New Products: In December in Overijse, Belgium, 50 Ship's pole 9 Soaks up at his house with $31 million. He proudly displayed horticulturalist Luc Mertes introduced a line of skirts 51 Top marksman 1O Casual talk 54 MDs 11 Gave a score the roomfuls of magazines he had bought over the and dresses made of live grass, still growing as long 57 Small river 12 Poe's Roderick last two years ($5,000 worth, though he complained as the material stays damp. And in January, Heather 61 Realms 13 Disorderly 64 Phone greeting to the reporter about his lack of food and heat and his Joy of Glenpool, Okla., showed an Associated Press 22 Hearing organ 65 Came to 24 Cereal Solution on broken-down car) and pointed to the latestPCH mail reporter her handcrafted bags made from bull scro 66 Director Spike ingredient ings, which Leggett says "(read) like I'm gonna win. tums, priced at $110 and up. And in January, a 67 Arch~ectJones 28 Meat or fruit 68 Roseand dishes Page 12 They've sent me plenty of (literature) that says I will Melbourne, Australia, company called Liquor Pops Rozelle 30 Dissuasion (win)." He didn't. drew criticism when it announced its intention to 69 Put a strain on 31 Health resort • •Edward L. Bodkin, 56, was arrested in February market Popsicle-type products with 6 percent alco 70 Pertormed 32 Inventor Whitney 71 Shock or lock 33 Naughty in Huntington, Ind., and charged with performing hol, in melon, pineapple and orange flavors. 72 Cloud cover 34 Ginger_ surgery without a license. Police said Bodkin •Kenneth Adams, 37, was arrested in Peoria, ill., in 73 Prognosticators 35 Beatty and removed the testicles of at least five consenting men Buntline November and charged with soliciting an undercov DOWN 37 Actor Chaney and was ready to perform again when a patient got er police officer posing as a prostitute. The officer 1 Particulars 38 Ran into 49 Luau fare 58 Select few cold feet and handed over to police a videotape said Adams offered her a stolen shower head and a 2 The South 39 Donkey 51 Change with the 59 Fictional Horatio 3 Nimble Bodkin had loaned him, of some of the surgeries. 42 Mini drinks times 60 Dispositions • stolen water purifier if she would have sex with him. 4 Broadway 45 The blues 52 Cringe in fear 62 Eisenhower and Allegedly, some of the testicles were in jars in theater name 47 1948 & 1952 53 Act the ham others Bodkin's apartment. As to the patients' motives, 5 Electra's brother Decathlon 55 Young horses 63 "Da Ya Think I'm 6 Tableland winner 56 Move furtively _r prosecutor John Branham said, "I can't sit here as a Least Competent Criminals • reasonable human being and give you an intelligent In January, three young men broke into a house in 1 answer to that." St. Paul, Minn., with a shotgun and beat a man who they say owed them money. They left after firing a • shot over the man's head to scare him, but on the way Photography Doctors' Favorite Pastime out, the shotgun accidentally discharged again, hit In January, the Toronto Sun published office pho ting one of the three in the buttocks, and all were tos of surgeon William G. Middleton's nurse, inex arrested when a police officer saw the distinctly plicably straddling an unconscious female patient, wounded man later on the street. Three days later, in who subsequently filed a complaint against the doc Newark, N.J., Andre Gordon, 27, was arrested when, c tor. On the same day, in Tulsa, Okla., dentist Donald after pistol-whipping a 25-year-old man, his gun AA Meetln91 Heatth C. Johnson pleaded guilty to sexual molestation of accidentally discharged, firing a bullet through his Music : College Music Society, Center~ traiJer617, 1.z .. 1 pm young girls, behavior that came to light when lewd own arm and into his leg. Performers' Concert, Visual Arts Polaroid photos of apparently anesthetized girls were Building, 8 pm discovered in Johnson's office. And in December, a Waynesboro, Va., woman filed a $350,000 lawsuit Recurring Themes against physician Dale A Stinespring for allegedly News of the Weird has reported several times on tricking her into posing topless for photographs the phenomenon of houses that are inexplicably, under the guise of producing evidence in her car almost pathologically, cluttered, but tragedy struck crash lawsuit. twice around Columbus, Ohio, recently. A 70-year old man in the Clintonville neighborhood shot him self to death in February rather than face the conse _fr_id_ay_-.lliilPr.Q satUrU Can't Possibly Be True quences of. a health department order to clean up his •German retiree Jost-Burkhard Anderhub, 59 who AA Meeting, Health Resource 1 h9use and yard. Said the man's wife, "I'm not a good Men!sbasketbaU vs. Florida Center, trailer 617, 12 - 1 pm spent several days in the Newport, Ky., jail last year housekeeper, I grant you that." Six weeks earlier, a Atlantic, UCF Arena, 7:30 pm before pleading guilty to a federal gun charge, was so 60-year-old man in nearby Whitehall, Ohio, had died Forum : The Central Florida Baseball vs. Rollins, UCF impressed with the service that in October, he sent of a heart problem after his wife declined to call 911 Quality Exchange open forum, Arena,2.pm the jailer (elected official Greg Buckler) $200 as a for him because she was afraid authorities would dis Research Park,, 8:30 - 1O am tip. Wrote Anderhub, ''The treatment by the officers cover the couple's too-cluttered house and arrest her. was absolutely flawless." Music : College Music Society, Performers' Concert, Visual •An October Chicago Sun-Times story revealed Arts Building, 8 pm that local attorney David G. Harding, executor of the No Longer Weird estate of his office co-tenant D. Rex McBride, dis Adding to the list of stories that were formerly covered that McBride for · 1g years right up to his weird but which now occur with such frequency that death had been leasing his two rotary-dial telephones they must be retired from circulation: (31) The dis from AT&T for $110 a year (vs. about $15 each to covery of gobs of undelivered mail at the home of a buy the phones). postal worker (usually after he got behind on his AA Meeting, Health Resource •Sports News: In November, Japanese billiards deliveries and needed to hide it), such as the 10-year Center, trailer 617, 12 -1 pm player Junuske Inoue, 58, was suspended from com old, unopened mail found at retired postal worker petition for two years for testing positive for a mus Ralph Horvath's home after he was killed in a fire in cle-building hormone. And in September, Torquay, Chicago in January. And (32) the bank robber who England, lawn bowler Gnff Sanders, 25, was banned wants a worry-free getaway (no parking problem, no from outdoor competition for 10 years for excessive driving while jittery, no forgetting the keys or to have obscene language. (Sanders reportedly considers the car gassed up, etc.) and decides to hail a taxicab himself "the John McEmoe of lawn bowling.") (much higher profile than a getaway car) outside the bank, as police say Mary Barrera did after robbing a tuesda NationsBank branch in Kansas City, Mo., in The Entrepreneurial Spirit November. •According to a September San Francisco Baseball vs. Centenary, UCF Arena, 3 pm Chronicll.! reDort, '\Tew Orkans T-shirt printer Ricky (Send your Weini Neris to Chuck Shepherd at Lewis. <+2. c.v q_ pen.. ent of his bus.ne-;s c m1e:s Weird(rocompu.erve com.) February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 15 om Deluca performed his ever-popular act last Wednesday at the arena, hypnotizing a randomly chosen group of students on stage for 60 minutes of wacky mayhem.As always, some students rwere eager to partitipate (left). During the show, Deluca had his subjects cruising around town, dancing the ballet, checking their fly, and many other potentially embarrassing stunts. They even got to chow down on some ice cream (below). Deluca, who has come to UCF for over a decade, never fails to keep audiences glued with one of the most entertaining shows you'll ever see on campus. PHOTOS BY CORBETT TRUBEY • 111e American Cancer Socie~·s ) /" ~I I C~OICBS AMERICAN ~CANCER "823-CI\g~ f SOCIETYt Providing answers. • Saving lives . photocopies 1·800-ACS·2345 CCut 1111 tm:co color .copies HH~d Ille lal transparencies Only moderate use or 0alcohol, if at all Increase fruits, & more Ivegetables and grains C~I your doctor for all at LOW prices! 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"But I figured the b;sence. a women's magazine aimed at African-Americans. worst ching char could happen would be that the business · Christy convinced the magazine's president to meet with her. wouldn'c fly and I'd end up being a lawyer after all." and his company agreed ro help fund her srarr-up. Christy • launched Lacina magazine in 1996. and it was an immediate hir. As Presidem of her class ar law school. Christy already Today. it has an impressive circulation of almost 200.000. but it possessed the leadership skills thac entrepreneurs need. Her wasn't easy getting rhere. One of the hardest things about publishi~? experience. however. w~s limir~d being a young enrrepreneur is simply the fact char you are • to edmng the Stanford Law Review. Still. young. Potential business parmers often assume you are inex- .. Th e Secrf't Su cc es· s Ser 1· es !::~~~;:~d ~~~~~~~ :~~~ ::r~v~~~~~~; :t • for someone ~ a magazine publisher. But I persevered. You who is only 30 brings you information designed to help you achieve your personal and career goals. have w be prepared to get over your pride years old. magazine Watch for the rest of this series in future Issues of your school newspaper. and fake your confidence when you need ro." magnate Christy • she figured she could learn what she needed to know pretty Haubegger has already put While rhere is a cercain glamour associated with being the together a pretty impressive quickly. "If you take any reasonably sman person and rel! rhem publisher of a major magazine. Christy still relishes the role of to spend a year researching an industry. they can become an resume. She·s v.ron an award underdog. "Each milestone means so much more when you're • from the Ms. Foundation (also expert if they work at ir:· she says. ':A.II rhe data I needed was a start-up." she says. "A major retailer just advertised with us for given to Oprah Winfrey and Madeleine Albright}. and Tom in the public library. Census data. information about the the firsc time. To a larger publication. it wouldn't be such a big Brokaw named her one of rhe "most influential people of the magazine induslry. books on how to write a business plan. ir deal. But when they agreed to be in our magazine. we jumped year" in 1996. was all there." In che meantime. she lived on the cheap in San up and down and cried and hugged. Then. "she laughs. ·we ate • Francisco's Mission District and did legal research to pay ice cream." So how did she end up in company like that? Turns our it all the bills. scaned with one simple question. "I took a few business class As an owner of a growing company and Publisher of Latina. es in school with some great professors. and they always talked Once Christy's business plan was done. she srarted to show it Christy has continued ro nurture her dream magazine into a • about the search for that mythical big idea." she recalls. "As a to people who might be willing co invest the millions of dollars leading lifestyle publication. read by thousands of dynamic, Mexican-American. la always wondered why no one had ever she would need to launch a glossy publication. "192 people educated young produced a magazine for Latina women. Then I wondered if I cold me no. I counted." she says. "But most of them didn't slam women jusc like her • could do it myself." che door in my face. and I was able co learn a lot by asking self. She says that chem how I could improve my business pitch.· she hopes to inspire Christy graduated from the University of Texas in 1989 with a ocher young women philosophy degree and immediately headed off to Scanford Eventually. some good old-fashioned networking led her to her to pursue their • first big investor: "ff you don't believe chat stuff about using all University Law School. Bue as law school graduation dreams as well. "Strong enough for a Man. But Made for a Woman'. February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florid.a Future • 17 UCF Faculty, Staff and Students! Station. University UCF Volleyball names · The second class of UCF's UCF begins spring Athletics Hall of Fame was Fitzgerald new coach also inducted. Former soccer football practice early Wine & Spirits University of Central standout Amy Allman, baseball The UCF football team will Florida Athletics Director star Tim Barker, basketball begin football spring practice • Steve Sloan announced today player Jerry Prather, and for- on Wednesday morning, Your Local. Neighborhood Bever.age Store the hiring of Meg Fitzgerald as mer volleyball player and Feb.17, about a month earlier new head women¢s volleyball coach Laura Smith. Only than usual. coach. Fitzgerald succeeds Smith, who was stuck on the It will give Coach Mike Fine Win.es, Liquor, Beer & Cigars Miriam Ochoa who, as an west coast, was unable to Kruczek the opportunity to Wide Selections interim head coach, led the attend. assess his returning players, Golden Knights to the Trans The event's auctions raised including those who redshirted Great Prices America Athletic Conference approximately $125,000, up last year. The early start allows Major Brands semifinals while posting a 7-15 from the $100,000 raised last UCF an advantage in prepara- record last season. year. tion for next season. Fitzgerald, a native of New "It gives us a longer period 10143 University Blvd. Orleans, La., comes to UCF of conditioning without inter- Corner of University & Dean after a one-year stint at Rollins UCF hosts Golf ruption, and if someone gets College. In one season as head hurt, they have longer rehab Next to Publix coach of the Tars, Fitzgerald Invitational time," Kruczek said. "Plus, you took over a team that had post- The University of Central don't have a problem with 671-4111 ed only 21 victories in the two Florida women's golf team exams week in April." previous seasons and led it to a hosted the 1999 UCF Women's Of this year's recruiting 15-16 record and 7-7 mark in Golf Invitational at the class, cornerback Travis Fisher, the Sunshine State Conference. Stoneybrook Golf Club wide receiver Thad Ward, and "I am extremely excited ·Feb.15-16. tight end/offensive lineman ·· ··· ,; about taking over the head Taylor Robertson are the only -FREE SPIRITED coaching reins at UCF. This is ones enrolled and eligible to ·HUMANISTS an incredible opportunity to be practice this spring. The other given at this point in my recruits remain in high school FLORIDA STATE C01VF1,1RENCB career," stated Fitzgerald. or junior college. * FREERegistratitm "The timing is more accelerat- The Golden Knights plan to ed than I expected, but I wel- work in the mornings on ' for Sttule~t.s ; come the <;:hallenge." Mondays, Wednesdays, and ($50. Regi$tration For Non~,Student$) Prior to assuming the head Fridays in addition to scrim- February 19-21: 1724 Alafaya Trail (&SR.. 50) coaching duties at Rollins, maging on Saturdays in the Fitzgerald spent the 1996 and football practice field. The Radisson (Formerly Sb,~raton '£!niversi!Y Inn) j 97 seasons as an assistant practices culminate with the coach at the University of annual Black&Gold Game at 1 * 1Ji$cover if Etl)ics &, ~orality are Q~~~ti;f · Colorado and University of p.m. on Mar.13 in the Florida *;Disc.over.the G.oodtle~s qUbe Godle~s ·~ " ,· ...... -- ... -~·= :.. ., . ·' ;;;; North Carolina-Charlotte, Citrus Bowl. All practices and He;r pfominent and ~xci~i'1g ~peakers in~luding respectively. At both institu- scrimmages are open to the tions, she served as the sum- public. UCF .Philosophy Prof~ssor Dr. Ronnie Hawkins. mer volleyball camp director. Interestine & Stimulatin& Discussions ~bout: An outside hitter for the Crew has successful showing * Tl)e relationship betw~en culture and religioJ!. University of Florida volleyball in IRC * Se:xual orientation .issues · team from 1992 to 1995, The University of Central Fitzgerald was a two-time all- Florida women's crew compet- ·* Pre~erVing the sep~!?-tion, . of church"and staie PHOTO BY NICOLE FOGUS * The evolution of pro-social behavior . " . . Southeastern Conference Big things are expected from fresh· ed in the Southern Sprints * Citerature & painting: creativity from within selection (1993 & 95) and man Monica Gundersrud, a native of Indoor Rowing Championship in Melbourne last Saturday * Raising children wit.. out religion member of four SEC Elverum Norway. Championship squads under (Feb. 7). Joining UCF at the Furtfter Information: Ca..ll 896-3955 ft9m '-?pm. the guidance of head coach The 36-hole event featured Championship were Miami, Mary Wise. The Gators Mississippi, Florida, Miami, Florida, Rollins, South Florida appeared in the NCAA South Alabama, Florida and Jacksonville. Tournament during all four of Atlantic, Florida International, Jennifer Swanson (Miami) · her seasons and twice reached Florida Southern and the host finished first in the Open the Final Four (1992 & 93). Golden Knights. The teams Lightweight category with a The 1996 graduate holds a played 18 holes on Monday time of 7:58.l, followed by Bachelor of Arts degree in and Tuesday to crown a team Amy Engelhardt (Palm Coast), luxury Uair Sociology from Florida. champion as well as an indi- who finished second in 8:03.6. "We have been fortunate to vidual champion. Each team Amanda Ream (Orlando) 10% OFF with Student ID have a legacy of excellent vol- had five players participating placed first among the leyball coaches here at UCF," each day with the top four Lightweights in 7:45.8 while Sloan said. "I believe Meg scores counting toward the the UCF's Christina DePrimo •Hair will continue this excellence." team score. (Miami) finished eighth with a Fitzgerild will begin her It was the first women's time of 8:16.8. • Wax (Bikini, Armpits, Legs, Eyebrows, Lips) new position' February 22nd. tournament UCF hosted since The Novice were also sue- the McDonald's UCF Rotary cessful with Tiffany Marlink Classic in March of 1991. (Grandville, Mich.) (7:53,5), Night of Knights filled Women's head coach Jill Jody Hart (LaGrange, Ky.) WALK-INS WELCOME! Fjelstul was enthusiastic about (7:55.6), Amy Robinson with accolades bringing the new to tournament (Valrico) (7:55.9) and Katie Quarterback Daunte to the Golden Knights. Auger (Naples) (8:05.7) placed $5 off Chemical Service (perm, color, hi-lite) Culpepper registered another "I'm really excited about in the top ten in their race and "first" in UCF history, while hosting this tournament out at Lightweight Mandy Workman $2 off all cuts three other past greats were Stoneybrook," Fjestul said. (Satellite Beach) finishing a offer good through March 31, 1999 recognized in the annual "Stoneybrook has been won- close second to Florida's Tracy "Night of Knights" fund-rais- derful by allowing us to bring Pearce in 8:17.2. Pearce's first ing event. in eight teams and Coca-Cola place time was 8:16.2. Culpepper received the fust also agreed to be a sponsor as The Golden Knights open 249-0779 Wayne Densch Award, given to well. We're also excited about their Spring rowing season Alafaya I Right on East Colonial one mile in the Outstanding Athlete of the the community support we February 27 at the Keuper Cup Year at the Presidential Bridgewater Shopping Center received." Regatta in Fellsmere. • Ballroom at Church Street -TONYMEilA February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 18 UCF ends regular season Knights stifle Mccollum in win The Knights avenged a against Florida teams previous loss to the Gents in Shreveport, 87-80, on Jan.23., when they were TONY MEJIA play at the site of the conference without Traina for the first SPORTS EDITOR tournament, the JU Memorial time. A number of players Coliseum. also had the flu in that loss, With second place in the TAAC In the previous meeting between and struggled ·to get in sync still up for grabs, the Golden Knights the two teams, UCF won a 74-58 offensively while McCollum travel to Jacksonville for a key con decision in Orlando, holding JU lead and freshman Ed Dotson ference game before returning home ing scorer Calvin Slaughter to only each scored 24 points for to end the season against Florida six points. The Golden Knights will Centenary. Atlantic. continue to blend all their pieces UCF had its full content Brad Traina has returned to the together in time for the TAAC tour of players for the first time UCF lineup after missing nament in their final regu this month, as everyone was five games due to a stress lar season road game. The healthy enough to see action. fracture in his foot, while Dolphins, who according Mario Lovett had 10 points Davin Granberry is to Coach Hugh Durham and nine rebounds, while expected to return from were playing with a lack Cory Perry had six points, his shoulder injury. Now, of intensity at the time of four rebounds, and a game it's time to put all the their previous encounter, high 10 assists. With all the pieces together in time for but their play of late has players back in the mix, a TAAC tournament run. them re-invigorated, presenting a UCF looks to close the sea In Traina' s absence, juniors solid challenge for the Golden son by improving in each of D'Quarius Stewart and Mario Lovett Knights. its next two games. and redshirt freshman Jason UCF will end its regular season at "You want a plateau Thornton have picked up the scoring home against FAU. The Owls, effect. Stable, so you know slack, so it may take time for every already eliminated from TAAC where you're at," Traina one to get re-acclimated to playing Tournament contention, will be play PHOTO BY KEVIN COLBER said. "We want to continue together. Meanwhile, Granberry's ing their final game of the '98-'99 Freshman Jason Thornton, being coached by assistant Chris Mowry, to get better so that heading absence has forced Bucky Hodge, season. Damon Arnette, who will fin was a huge surprise in his relief of the injured Brad Traina. into the tournament, we can Roy Leath, and Beronti Simms to ish as Florida Atlantic's all-time be peaking. That way we step up their play in the post. The leading scorer, will become the first FROMPAGE24 the Golden Knights up six. avoid being beaten on a last injuries may actually have strength Owl to ever lead the TAAC in s-cor Centenary would never get second shot, or something ened the team down the stretch. ing. We made him work for any closer. like that. We want to contin Stetson Coach Murray Arnold thinks UCF won in Boca-Raton, 82-72, everything he got," Speraw Traina, back in the lineup ue to improve so that we can so. despite playing shaky · defense. said. "Our awareness of him for only his setond game put away teams by a com "I really think their injuries will However, the Golden Knights shot was great. Our help-defense after missing five contests fortable margin." end up being a blessing. It's allowed extrem'ely well from the field to was effective and made it with a stress fracture of his UCF has a one-game lead them to bring Thornton along and has escape with the victory. Traina, in the difficult for him. He didn't foot, was limping less on Georgia State for second made other people step up," Arnold last game he would play until UCF's have an open look all night." noticeably and trying to keep place in the TAAC. The team said. "UCF has more strength and win at Stetson last week, scored 20 Speraw's team got an the pain in the back of his will look to continue to gel depth (than TAAC-leading Samford). points. early jump on the Gents, mind. Still, he felt restricted at Jacksonville on Thursday I see the Knights as the strongest The game against the Owls will opening the game with a 14- by the injury. night before finishing the team in the league." also mark Senior Night, where 3 run. Centenary closed to "I'm trying to get back in season at home ~gainst .. Jacksonville, who UCF visits on seniors Traina and Hodge will be within five points at half the flow and not really think Florida Atlantic. Both games Thursday night, has improved as the honored in a ceremony prior to the time, and got within three at ing about the pain anymore," start at 7:30 p.m. The season season progressed and going into contest, their final games at the UCF 41-38 with 8:22 remaining. Traina said. "It's a little sore finale against the Ow ls will Monday night's game at Troy State Arena. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 On UCF's next possession, from being worked on, but I be televised by Sunshine had won three in a row. The game p.m. Traina hit his second 3- just have to ice it down. I Network. will also give the Knights a chance to pointer of the game, putting think it will be alright." STOP! DON'T SWAUOW THAT CONDOM. 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After UCF answered with four straight points, Kennith Johnson connected on two more 3-pointers, giving Stetson a 17-6 lead heading into the media timeout. "Stetson came out as the aggressor," UCF Coach Kirk Speraw said. "I thought they executed their offense very well. We knew it going to be a battle." The Knights went into the half down by four points, but a Beronti Simms-led surge in the second half put UCF ahead for good. Simms scored all seven of his points during a three minute stretch that pushed a 42-40 UCF lead to nine. Both Simms and Roy Leath, who added four points, five rebounds, and two blocks, sparked UCF with their bench play. · "It was a case ~here Brad (Traina) didn't have his A-game. D'Q (Stewart) didn't have his A-game, but others stepped up," Speraw said. "Simms carried us through a stretch with his play, while Roy Leath provided the best effort he's had here. Jason Thornton also . was a key factor with his shooting." Lovett WilS the biggest factor however, scoring from the perime ter as well as down in the post. He called for the ball from point guard Cory Perry when he was guarded by Ricky McConnell, a • player whose skills he knew from his high school days. When Stetson big duo of Sebastian Singletary and Santos Hampton guard ed him, Lovett used his agility and speed to score over and around them. He surpassed his previous c~eer-high of 19 points, which ironically was set against Stetson earlier this season. "I see the Knights as the strongest team in the league right now," said Arnold, whose team's last contest was against TAAC-unbeaten Samford. "I don't think there's any question. UCF has more strength and depth than anyone. I feel that their injuries may be a blessing in .· Not only are we there f,or you when you graduate ... that everyone came along faster. When they get Brad at full speed and get (Davin) Granberry back, they've got a great shot at be~ng the best team come tournament time." • U~F Traina returns to the Golden Knight lineup ALUMNI Brad Traina, seeing his first action after missing five games due here for you when you a~udent . to a stress fracture in his foot, managed only one 3-point field goal, ... We are are a too. but helped his teammates in other ways in the UCF victory against the Hatters. "Throughout the season they key on Brad, U~F meaning others have had to step up," Lovett said. "Since he's been gone, other guys have had to do SAA more. Now we can get Brad back in the mix." Traina, who scored nine points, looked out of Get plugged into the "Real World". sync, which can be attributed to the layoff. However, he said he felt fine physically and is eager to get back out and play. "I felt fine out there. I think it hurt being out Traina so long because I was out of the flow," Traina said. "But it was beneficial being able to watch things from a coach ing perspective. Still, I wanted to play as soon as possible. It didn't matter where it was, I just wanted back in there." Fan support appreciated by UCF coaches, team Join the Student Alumni Aaaociation today UCF fans who made the trip up to DeLand to see the Golden · Knights play the Hatters were part of the largest crowd to see a and take advantage of theae great benefits: Stetson game this year. The vocal UCF faithful provided a spark that helped the Knights come back from an early deficit. • Fun Sociala • Free Seminare • Scholarehipe • "It was really great that they came out to show their support," • Free T~ahirt and Lapel Pin • Local Dlacounte from Area Merchante • assistant coach Don Burgess said. "The staff and players really • Networking with Prominent Alumni Profeaelonale • Leaderahlp Opportunitiee• appreciated it. We needed the lift from the great turnout. We're very thankful." • lnvitatione to Mingle with Alumni at Varioua Evente • The Golden Knights, following their home game against • Student Alumni Amt1aaaadore Council (SMC) • Mentor Program • Centenary on Monday night, play at Jacksonville on Thursday before • One Year Subacription to Pegaaua Magazine • the season finale, at home on Saturday night against the Florida 11 Atlantic Owls. •Your CONNECTION to the "Real World. • UCF fans will also get a chance to make another road trip to cheer on the Knights at the TAAC Tournament, which will he hosted by Jacksonville. UCF will play on Thursday, Feb.25 in the first For more information call 407 ~823-3453 round. The semi-finals will be televised by Sunshine Network, while the TAAC championship will be on ESPN. or atop by the Ad~iniatration, ~uildin~, room 340. -TONY MEJIA February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 20 Oakley opening eyes in early season, specifically his own TRAVIS BELL STAFF WRITER UCF third baseman Bill Oakley has made great strides coming into the 1999 season after only getting 51 at-bats as a freshman last year. But its one major change that has been the difference in his progress. "I was having trouble seeing the ball this summer and last year, so I got con tacts," Oakley said. "It's made a world of difference. I've been able to see the ball, and it's not jumping around at me. I don't have to swing at the middle one." Since he no longer has to worry about • seeing the ball, all he has to do is watch it travel to all parts of the field. The success has has helped Oakley regain confidence in him self to be an effective hitter at the collegiate level. "I've gain~d confidence," Oakley said. "The first game (::tgainst Duke) was unbelievable. It was one of those days where you just see the ball and everything goes well for you." • In only his seventh career start, Oakley got the Knights offense rolling in the season-opener. He had a two-run double in the first inning, and then added a • three-run homer to right. His five RBis tied an Olive Garden Classic single-game record, and it started Oakley on an offensive tear that has continued through the first six games. He had two three-hit games in the Nicholls State series, and is hitting .500 with nine hits. More important, he has only struck out twice and has drawn three walks. That's the kind of discipline and leadership that Coach Jay Oakley Bergman expected from the sophomore this year. "He has been instrumental in all three wins. Plus he's playing ' good defense,': Bergman said. "He just needs to stay. within him self, and not get too big with his swing. He just needs to keep the KNIGHT ball in play." • Staying within himself is not a problem for the team-oriented Oakley. He wanted to improve to shore up the team's vacancy at third base, and was rewarded for his play in the Olive Garden Classic by earning All-Tournament team honors. "It was an honor. I remember some of the guys that won it last year, and I looked up to them a lot," Oakley said. "I just wanted to hit for average, and I wanted to be solid in the field. That's all I could ask." SUNSHINE. Humble expectations for a kid that came to UCF as a small town .hero in Libertyville, Illinois. Oakley set several schools records _during his career, and his team was ranked as high as sufSYrfME fourth in the national USA Today poll. But after hitting .431 and NETWORK • compiling a 10-2 mark as a pitcher, Oakley came to UCF and had· p ..,,,",,. .. ~ to sit the bench for the first time in a long time. For more insight into UCF sports check out we Game "It was an eye opener," Oakley said. "When you come from a our website @ www.sunshinenetwork.com PlaYYouR • www.SunShineNe1WorK.com small town, everyone knows you for baseball. Then one day, you're sitting the bench. !·wanted to do something about it. I want Monday through Friday . . ed to really work hard, and I did th.ls summer." All that hard work has definitely paid off for himself and 10:00 pm: Sunshine Network Live! A lively 1 hour round Bergman. After losing five regular position players from last table sports talk including phone calls from you the fan! year's squad, Bergman has been able to rely on Oakley at the plate • and in the field to help stabilize a young team. Wednesday February 17, 1999 "Bill made a lot of progress in the fall, and he worked real hard 6:30 pm: Golden Knight Basketball with Head Coach Kirk Speraw • over the summer," Bergman said. "He's just stepping up the plate, 7:00 pm: Washington Wizards@ Orlando Magic (LIVE) seeing it real good, and swinging it." Despite Oakley's torrid start, he's not pleased. He never had Friday February 19, 1999 personal goals in mind, and is concerned with the team winning. After a surprising start at the Olive Garden Classic, UCF's home 7 :00 pm: Phoenix Coyotes @ Tampa Bay Lightning (LIVE) debut against Nicholls State left him unfulfilled, despite his per Saturday February 20, 1999 sonal success. "The most important thing is winning," Oakley • said. ''We haven't done anything until we win and win consistent 7:30 pm: UCF Men's Basketball:· Florida Atlantic @ UCF (LIVE) ly. That is everyone's biggest concern right now. Individual things Sunday February 21, 1999 really mean nothing right now." UCF may have turned the corner last weekend, taking two of 7 :00 pm: Orlando Solar Bears @ Cleveland Lumberjacks (LIVE) three games from St.John's. Hopefully, UCF can continue its solid • play so that its third baseman can begin to enjoy his surprising )79 Monday February 22, 1999 average. 7:00 pm: New Jersey Devils@ Tampa Bay Lightning (LIVE) • February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future• 21 • "We've scored a lot of runs with two outs, and that is a good sign for any base February ups-and-downs ball team," Bergman said. "We left some runners stranded, but. that's part of the The struggling 6-4 start for the ball game, but that will all take care of Knights could be attributed to the collec Knights take two itself." tive youth of the '99 squad, but if you from Red Storm UCF's major concern is still the devel look at recent history it comes as no sur opment of the bullpen. Four relievers prise. UCF gained confidence this weekend pitched in the series for the Knights, The Knights are only a combined 20- as it battled back from deficits in two of throwing 9.2 innings with IO strikeouts, 19 in February since 1997. The 1997 three games against St. John's to improve . but had a combined ERA of 6.52. team managed a 9-7 record, while last its record to 6-4. "If we can't get the ball to (closer year's squad finished 7-9 in the sec~nd • Surprisingly, Coach Jay Bergman feels Jason) Arnold then we can't win, and month. So this year's 4-5 record in that the 13-8 victory last Tuesday against that's very obvious," Bergman said. February doesn't worry Bergman. Bethune-Cookman really jump-started the Even though the bullpen struggled, the "It's still February, and we're not a • team to its drastic improvement over its offense has finally come around and has very good February team," Bergman said. struggles during its opening homestand learned how to score runs without hitting "So we'll just take things one game at a against Nicholls State. the ball out of the park. UCF had 14 time and try to grow and mature." "I thought the game against Bethune extra-base hits and nine stolen bases in UCF historically has provided a much Cookman in the middle of last week the three games to produce runs. better performance once March rolls when we were down 6-0 gave us a lot of "Sometimes, particularly with a young around. The 1997 team produced a 15-4 confidence to come back and win that team, you go through periods and lose record, while the next season saw a 17-2 game," Bergman said. "I think every ball focus of what you're trying to do," mark during that span. game your gonna see us get a little better Bergman said. "I think the players and better." regrouped today, and that's a good sign After winning 14-5 on Friday, the that they got themselves back and didn't Bumps and Bruises Knights had a major letdown during St. let the game get out of hand." Freshman power-hitter Joe Sadler John's I0-5 win on Saturday. But they underwent surgery this week and will use recovered nicely with a solid 8-5 win on a medical redshirt to save a year of eligi Sunday. The Knights trailed at least once Comeback kids bility. in each of the three games, so to come The Knights continued a trend this Starting shortstop Mike Fox and back away with two victories was impressive, weekend that started in the second game up middle infielder Matt Meath were but it is also a concern for Bergman. UCF of the year against South Alabama sidelined during the weekend series with continued its dubious trend of stranding coming from behind. UCF has trailed at St. John's. Fox dis~ocated his shoulder in numerous runners on base (29) and com one point in the last nine gaines since the Bethune-Cookman game last mitting several crucial errors (eight) in SPECIAL TO THE FuTURE jumping ahead of Duke 4-0 in the season Tuesday, and Meath suffered an ankle First basemen Dustin Brisson is one of the the three-game series leading to many opener. injury last week in practice. Knight's returning mainstays on the diamond. scoring opportunities for the Red Storm. Of the nine games that the Knights "This is the fifth time that he (Fox) "We've had it (bases loaded) tons of have trailed in .• five have resulted in vic has dislocated his shoulder, so this is not five hits apiece against St.John's. times," Bergman said. "I just hope that tories. The largest deficit overcome by the a new injury. That's something that con Jason Arnold has a 1.29 ERA in three we can get through it and mature and Knights was a 6-0 lead by Bethune cerns me," Bergman said. games with nine strikeouts in seven grow. One inning we gave six outs, and Cookman that resulted in a 13-8 win for innings. Tim Boeth had five hits, four another time we made a base running UCF. Even though this is a good quality runs, four stolen bases, and three RBI's in mistake to get doubled off. This team for the Knights to have, it is still a major Who's hoL .. who's not the past three games. can't afford th~t kind of stuff." concern for Bergman. Brent Spooner has a current five-game Boeth committed five errors in the St. UCF has won four of its last five "I'm very concerned because that puts hitting streak, and went 5-for-8 against St. John's series, and has nine for the season. games and the offense has finally turned a lot of pressure on the offense," John's with four runs scored and three Excluding Arnold, the bullpen has on since losing the first two games Bergman said. "But when you make mis RBl's. Matt Bowser has had at least one allowed 43 hits in 32.1 innings with 22 against Nicholls State. The Knights have takes defensively you'll get behind hit in nine of the first 10 games, and leads walks and 24 runs. The Knights have averaged I0.4 runs during this current against a good hitting team. We're still the team with 13 hits and IO walks. stranded 91 runners on base in the first 10 five-game stretch, showing the improving very young, but we're starting to do some Dustin Brisson and Jeremy Frost each games. maturity of the young UCF squad. things offensively." have five-game hitting streaks and had -TRAVIS BELL 679-5144 Fax: 679-6787 Complete Line Of 15% Discount to Fresh: Silks, Plants, :, -~~~~K~ All Students & Flowers Faculty with l.D. TEN YEARS SERVICING THE COMMUNITY Wire Service or A Full Service Florist We service to Delivery available 1345 Howell Branch Road 10069 University Blvd ALL parts of over phone with Winter Park, FL 32789 Orlando, FL 32817 the country Major Credit Card 407 -629-0050 407-679-5144 "Same Day Delivery" wire service excludes discount www.allinbloom.com delivery service excludes discount • aj UCF overcame a ' 6~0 deficit 'last week to defeaf ~ th~ • Wildcat~~ providin~ Bergman something to bullet upon d~sit1t~ the strugg}~~. ,. 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The words of Coach Knights win against CSU up a win at #3 singles, beat "This is a tough road trip Michael Dublin echoed both with an emotional 6-2, 6-4 ing Anja Aephelbach 6-4, 6- for both teams," said Coach • pride and confidence after victory over Johan Payment. 0. The Knights lone loss Dublin, "We are looking the UCF men's tennis team Freshman Johan Westin Veronica came in the unlikeliest of fundamentally strong, but finished off a difficult week remained undefeated in the Widyad· places, with two-time TAAC we need to stay mentally with a 6-1 victory over #6 singles slot, winning all harma Player-of-the-Year Veronica intact." Florida A&M. three of his matches. lost her Widyadharrna losing to the The men's squad knows "5 and 0. You can't ask "Our doubles play looks match Hatters' Taryn Lynn in #1 first-hand how tough this for more. But the road gets very strong," said Dublin, last singles 4-6, 6-2, 6-0. trip down south can be, but • tougher, and so do we." referring to the fact that his week, but Widyadharrna teamed up take solace in the fact that They also beat team has gone 13-2 in dou with Gouttefarde to win at this year's team has tasted the UCF Charleston Southern, who bles on the season, led by # 1 #1 doubles, while Ashnar only success so far this year. • they had struggled against in doubles team Federico women's and R.onen paired up to win "These are two very the fall, and TAAC rival Camacho and Greg Novak, team their #3 doubles match. tough matches," David Stetson. who went 3 - 0 on the week. rolled Daniella Okal and Sonja Winberg said with a gri • "This week shows that Along with being an no net he· Prokopec picked up the mace, "but we are going into we are in good shape. The important TAAC victory, the less, 8-1, other doubles victory for them with a lot of confi guys really stepped up," said win against Stetson provid over UCF. Prokopec also won dence:" #1 singles player David ed sweet revenge for the Stetson. her singles match, 6-3, 6-4 The women, having Winberg, who bounced back Knights, who lost to the over Ivette Reyes. defeated both Florida from a singles loss against Hatters 4 to 3 last year. FUTURE "Beating Stetson is a Atlantic and Florida FrLE PHOTO • Stetson early in the week "We really made a state very strong win," said International last year, will with two dominating victo ment with this victory," said Dublin. "It put us back on look at these games as their ries against CSU and Coach Dublin. "The guys track, and gives us some first opportunities to prove FAMU. had a job to do and they did momentum going into next themselves on the road. One player who really it." week's matches." "I think that these are stepped up was newcomer Meanwhile, the women's Both the men and important matches because Fernando Martinez. Playing team improved to 2-1 on the women's teams travel to they are the first matches • in his first singles matches season, bouncing back from Boca Raton this week for away from home for us," of the spring season, its first loss of the season by matches against TAAC said Gaelle Gouttefarde, "Its Martinez filled in .for breezing past Stetson 8-1. opponent Florida Atlantic on good to play against confer • William Guerin at the #3 Ann-Jeanette Svantesson, Feb.19. They will then be ence teams because it tells singles slot and earned two playing at #2 singles for the tested by Florida us where we are and what important victories, beating first time this season, beat International on Feb.20. we have to do." • Rohan Wadehra of CSU 7-5, Julia Woods of Stetson 6-4, The men will face a Florida The women better take 6-4, and Timirin Collier of 6-0. Rachna Ashar picked International team who oust advantage of ~he experience FAMU 6-3, 6-2. He also up her ninth victory of the ed them from the TAAC of playing on the road, as it teamed with Pedro Pacheco season, defeating Lind~ey tournament last year. FIU, won't last long. They begin to pick up doubles wins Wyeth 6-4, 7-6, while Hadas now ranked #64 in the coun a month-long homestand, against FAMU and Stetson. Ronen notched her eighth try, left the conference for while the men remain away, Pacheco went 3-0 in singles win of the year with a 6-3, 6- the Sun Belt, but remains an continuing their road trip • matches for the week, com 4 victory over Jennifer important opponent on with three matches in ing from two games down in Parsons. UCF's schedule. The men Louisiana. • NOW ON SALE! • E. • .. - ~ Y EAR The first ever GOLDEN KNIGHT • football highlight film! • 1998 highlights of every game including a special tribute to • DAUNTE CULPEPPER'S FOUR~YEAR CAREER .. Only $19.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handliilg. Call 407-977-1009 or 800-792-1009 Order your piece of history today! Available in early January 1999 • •) February 17, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 24 •) ~) Knights avenge loss to Jacksonville State TONY MEJIA SPORTS EDITOR Tanya Simmons' three-pointer with 10:50 \). remaining. However, the tie was short-lived UCF moved a step closer to its first as Kelly Ely connected on a three-pointer to TAAC regular-season title by avenging its put UCF ahead, 51-48. The Golden Knights lone conference loss of the season, 78-68 never trailed again. against Jacksonville State in its final home "It wasn't easy at all," Coach Lynn Bria game of ·the season. said. "I thought we played hard. We put them After building as much as an 18-point at the free-throw line entirely too much. I felt first-half advantage, UCF allowed that's how they stayed in the game early." Jacksonville State to tie the game at 48 on a With the victory, UCF (16-7,12-1) has beaten every TAAC team it has faced this season. The ·Gamecocks defeated UCF, 77-70, in Jacksonville, Ala., on Jan. 21, leading early. and holding on for the win. This game was nearly a duplicate, although with a different result. "Up there we played poorly defensively. They pretty much did everyt~ing they want ed," Bria said. "We were very aggressive and played with much more intensity this time ....., around. We were a much better team." The Golden Knights hope to continu~ to FuTURE FILE PHOTO play well h~ading into the TAAC Pete Gavillan is one of the versatile newcomers on the UCF_roster. Tournament, March 4-6. Bria says it is criti cal for her team to continue its surge. UCF closes its season with three road games at Stetson, Georgia State and Campbell. "I think that the teams that do well in the Pair of in-state rivals ·tournament are the teams that are playing their best heading into it," Bria said. "Being the regular-season champion is great, but not visit UCF baseball team really wh;it you work for all season. We're . shooting for the tournament championship TRAVIS BELL when he played outfield for the Tars and nothing else." STAFF WRITER from 1959-63. Rollins has been on JSU's Lisa Baswell, the TAAC's leading UCF's schedule since the program's scorer, led her team with 28 points and 10 The Knights host a pair of familiar inception in 1973 and has always rebounds, while Heather Mayes added 18. faces this week before the long awaited played the Knights tough. FUTU.RE FILE PHOTO Chariya Davis paced the Golden Knights showdown in Baton Rouge with This year should be no different, Chariya ·Davis led UCF past Jacksonville State, with 17 points. Ely added 13 and Nancy Louisiana State on February 27-28. even though the Tars have 10 freshmen avenging its lone conference loss of the year. Richter scored 11."' Rollins College and Bethune on their roster, and only nine members Cookman come to Tinker Field this returning from last year's squad. week, with the Tars visiting on Third baseman Justin Sherrod, a .Saturday and the Wildcats coming in pre-season All-American selection, Knights continue perfect month, beating Gents on Tuesday. anchors the Tars after hitting .313 with UCF has only played Stetson more 12 home runs and 41 RBis last year. TONY MEJIA line first. times in the school's history than First baseman Andy Jensen is the only SPORTS WRITER "It was slow-paced. That kind of play Rollins. Since 1973, the Knights have other position player who saw a lot of lulls you.to sleep," Speraw said. "They opted battled the Tars 78 times, coming away action last season. He hit .274 with two Late in the second half of UCF's 59-49 to hold the ball for 20 seconds before getting victorious in 40 of those match-ups. home runs. victory against Centenary, senior Brad Traina into their offense. It was a good plan. They But the Knights have dominated the Senior Brent Haworth and A.J. took off ·for a tomahawk dunk over wanted to slow us down. series in recent history, winning eight Brack along with junior Chris Doherty Centenary freshman forward Ed Dotson. "I thought our guys handled it pretty well. of the last 10, including the previous anchor the pitching staff. Haworth Although he missed the difficult dunk, the We maintained our composure and did a six. posted a 3.86 ERA with a 2-2 record message was clear: He's back, and the TAAC pretty good job." However, the games again~t Rollins and three saves last year. Brack started better take notice. UCF turned the tables on Centenary, provide more for the Knights to lose 13 games with 90 strikeouts in 76 Traina scored a team-high 18 points for holding them to 31.6 percent shooting in the since they compete in Division I, while innings, while Doherty was 4-4 with a the Golden Knights, who continue their per second half. The Knights also forced three the Tars are a Division II member. 6.08 ERA. fect play in February. In its last home victo 35-second violations, and held Centenary "It's kind of a lose-lose in a way The Knights have already posted a ry, UCF scored 107 points, running away leading scorer Ronnie McCollum to just 16 because we still have to beat them," 13-8 victory this season over Tuesday's from Troy State. This time around, instead of points, four below his average. Coach Jay Bergman said. "And it's a opponent, Bethune-Cookman. The win a sprint, the Gents opted to make UCF run a "We did a good job on him (McCollum). win-win for them because it's a big improved UCF's all-time record marathon. Despite the change of pace, Kirk game for them." Speraw' s team managed to cross the finish KNIGHTS, Page 18 Bergman's ties to Rollins go back to BASEBALL, Page 21 \j) Top notch tennis Oakley sees the light From the diamond Get your hoops fix The men's and women's UCF third basemen Bill Look for updates on UCF " Game stories from UCF tennis teams have Oakley has gotten off to a baseball games and men's and women's impressed an early going. hot start. news. basketball action. l\1 -PAGE 23 www.IJCFfuture.com