Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 65, May 28, 2003
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 5-28-2003 Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 65, May 28, 2003 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 65, May 28, 2003" (2003). Central Florida Future. 1637. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1637 - Making the grade Baseball loses Loaded grade points after IO?i ng summer season in A Film students Sun play. critique . -SEE summer SPORTS, 10 sequels. -:-SEE LIFESTYLES, 12 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER .SERVING UCF SINCE 1968 THE- GENDER GAP ;Study: Women p.aid ~ · their worth at UCF JASON IRSAY of faculty pay, UCF's administration· both years, is there is virtually no sig STAFF WRITER was plea&antly surprised: UCF has nificant difference between male ·and 1• almost no ·significant gap, and in one female faculty members." A national . Despite consistently low pay for category, -women are paid more than survey released in April paints a dif female faculty at coll~ges throughout men. ferent picture for most colleges. ·the nation, UCF has reached relative "We analyzed both fall 1999 and . Though faculty salaries for both men parity in · salaries; according to two fall 20,00 ·faculty salary data," said ~nd women are rising, women contin- recent surveys. Robert Armacost, who conducted the SHARON PERRY I FLASH 90 (KRT) Following a university-wide study study. "What we found, consistent over PLEASE SEE Women's ON 4 Under intense U.S. pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sh~ron I I reluctantly approved a Mideast pea~e plan that formally recognizes Palestinians' right to be a state. Violence mires • followers of peace road map PATRICIA XAVIER l STAFF WRIT.ER ' ·J A week plagued by suicide bombings and retaliatory strikes in Israel couldn ~t stop a ·Sunday vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a U.S.-backed . "road map" for peace in the Middle East. The cabinet vote - marked the first time Israel has formally accepted · the concept of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian AuthorttY has already accepted the principles of the peace plan. Bush Despite support now from both sides of the issue, violence continued up to PLEASE SEE U.N. ON 3 PHOTOS BY KATIIERINE B1sH I ST. Lows Posr-DrsPATCH (KRT) Heather Arnold laughs as she talks to Christiane Carlsson at a bake sale organized by the Behavioral Sciences club at Webster University on April 25 in St. Louis, Missouri. Web service helps profs . Sex cookies' ice the case on unequal pay expose UCF's cheaters • CYNTHIA £11:1HARTZ BASS' bait ST. LOUIS PO~-DISP~H (~) on gender KATRINA HAMMER pay . STAFF WRITER The Webster University BASS ST. LOUIS - "Have a sex cookie," Sarah McCabe, 21; urges a dub's bake sale prices, based on The Internet may offer students a faster, sim fellow Webster University student who has stopped to browse the unequal pay for men and Behavioral and Social Sciences club's bake sale inside Webster Hall. pler research tool, but it also offers the unscrupu women and disparity among lous student the chance to cheat. Cutting anu past No, the "sex cookies" aren't racy delicacies for prurient con- . races: sumption. And this isn't a bake sale just for the sake of raising ing someone else's words may seem like an easY' A, money- although that is an added bonus. $1 for white men but thanks to an obscure- paper audit service in Instead, the cookies are artfully iced with either the Mars or 18 cents for black men California; making the grade without doing the Venus astrological signs, commonly use.ct to represent male and 63 cents for other minority men work isn't so easy. • female gender. 76 cents for white women Because of Turriitin.com, professors have help And the primary purpose of the bake sale - which also 66 cents for black women in their efforts to promote academic honesty. UCF includes doughnuts, brownies, muffins anq sundry other non-sex 54 cents for oth11r minority women has paid the .company $36,000 in the last three delicacies - is to raise awareness of wage disparity between men years to screen papers for origmal ideas, and flag SOURCE: National Organization for Women and women. The BASS club is charging different prices for its baked those that look like copies. · goods; depending on the purchaser's sex and race. · Created by University of California An proceeds will go to Rape And Violence End Now, a 1ocal non researchers in 1996, 'I)Irnitin.com ·compares stu profit organization that offers classes and groups to men who are dent submissions with published material, informa- PLEASE SEE Bake oN 6 . PrnAsE SEE Half oN 6 INSIDE On-stage · · Hard rock, dirt cheap Index: .UCF FACT Higher Education Briefs ... 3 Student actors work overtime launching four productions, MTV's summer concert series offers cash-strapped P'arking permit fees will increase from dark drama to light comedy. , ~t udents a chance to let loose. _ Editorials . 8 bx 5 percent. costing students • . '-LIFESTYLES, 12 '-LIFESTYLES, 16- Road Less Traveled : . 14 $b3. staff $126, and faculty $210 ·"' Classifieds . 18 for an annual permit ~ www.Ufffuture.com .. • •• • • • • .. .. 2003 New Beetle GL Lease for $219 ~er month + • · menlhly fax far 48 mombs* * le(Jses are caJmJ11ited with $0 total down. indude-s 1§t payment 0 sel. .deposit, tags, tide m1d.Jice11se. 5ee 'Sales person for details. We, • • Oi • • • • • • May 28, 2003 • The Central Florida Future News•~ Higher education U.N. i1}volvement key tolastjng peace in Israel I\ ' - around the nation FROM PAGE 1. the .day before the Israeli vote. No match for this art Israelis shot and killed an Administrators at Wake Forest armed Palestinian while an University hope that students will find a Israeli raid aimed at destroying· renovated cigar~tte machine addictive. .terrorist infrastructure was · Installed in the student center, .it carried out in the West Bank. offers miniature objets d'art, no larger Some ·ucF students and· than packs of smokes. For $5, a student teachers doubt the U.S:-led can unwrap ·a handmade painting, a peace· efforts will curb the drawing, a sculpture, a piece of jeweiry or years of violence and bitter a poem by one of 20 contributors. ness that have .. plagued the James R. Buckley, the student cen region. · te(s director, read a newspaper article Political science professor about the local artist who created the Art Waltraud Q. Morales said the o-mat machine·s and says he couldn't current string of violence will . resist ordering a i960s-vintage mo~el in . once again derail peace efforts. Wake Forest gold. "The Israeli government ins-ists '.The Art-o-mat's creator, Clark on the- end to all terrorism Whittington, of Wmston-Salem, N.C., says · before they will talk," Morales the campus machine has dispensed more . said. "This is unrealistic, and : · • than 100 pieces of artwork in just a few some critics hold -:- not neces months. It's one Of the ·busiest of the 20 sarily me - that it is a delaying Art:.o-mats in tobacco country, says tactic." Whittington, who keeps the machines Senior Chris Byrd, 21, has-· stocked with new works. high hopes f9r the new peace Of the $5, half goes to the artist, $1.50 plans, though. As a member of to Wakff Forest, and $1 to him. The most . the United Nations Association CHUCK KENNEDY I KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE ·. popular selections are Nell Whitlock's · of UCF he said this as a crucial President George W. Bush answers reporters' questions with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the Oval Office on May 7. tiny abstract landscapes and the jewelry and historic moment in the of Naoko Higashi. _ peace negotiations_ in ~he at least allowing, terrorism to States after the war in Iraq will Palestinian leaders fo embrace More .than 300 artists are featured in · Middle East. · · continue in Israel. derail the peace process. Bush's plan. But oppositio!l to 50 machines around the country. "We have not seen1 this Members of the Islamic "The War in Iraq has - 'the road map within ·both level of cooperation begin to resistance .movements Hamas stirred up Muslim resentment nations has grown. All washed up · develop between both sides in a and jihad met the_plan with 'against the United States, the There are signs of inter A longtime tradition is going down long time," he said. "The cur protest and a campaign of vio- West and Israel," Morales said. nal division by ho th the the drain at the University of North rent Middle East peace process - lence. The militant groups 'We will see more, rather than Palestinian and Israeli govern qarolina at Chapel Hill, where officials has the most potential for suc unleashed the recent uprising less terrorism." ment. Sharon's Likud party is plan to eliminate a swimming test cess this time due to the higher against the U.S.-led_peace plan. Morales also thinks the not in full support of the objec required to graduate. _ level of favorable responses Suicide bombers and mili United Nations :i;ieeds to step tives set by the "road map." All undergraduates sinee the 1940s from the Palestinian and Israeli tary raids plagued the first up.