Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 93, May 28, 2007
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Central Florida Future. 2014. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2014 , , FREE· Published Mondays /' www.CentralFloridaFuture.com ·Monda , Ma 28, 200 Yoho hum Third Pirates plot tough to follow, but aesthetics remain constant. - SEE VARIETY, AS BOARD OF TRUSTEES GOV. CHARLIE CRIST VETOES TUITION INCREASE 11-YEAR-OLD BOY Hollinger· TAKES DOWN ONE .Walkout · chooses FAT PIG ~ letters · get cabinet answer ·7 former senators .: from Hitt take cabinet jobs 1 ABEABORAYA ROBYN SIDERSKY News Editor Staff Writer . In a move that members SGA President Brandi< ~ Hollinger filled every available spo of Students for a Democratic on her cabinet. Society called amazing; UCF ~' From students who campaigne< President John Hitt used his against her, to students only in thei -~ closing remarks at Thurs Hogzilla, the 1,000-pound hog of sophomore year, HolliJ1ger reachei days Board of Thustees mammoth proportions killed ih Georgia beyond her base with her choices. meeting to address letters in 2004, may have met his match. An "It just happened, the way W< SDS delivered to him on 11-year-old boy used a SQ-caliber advertised," Hollinger said. "Wi handgun to kill a wild hog that weighed April 13. advertised everywhere - tht in at 1,0S1 pounds.The boy, who Hitt received more than Union, outside the Union, the cam· nicknamed his prize Monster Pig, was 90 letters with about 150 sig paign Web site, the SGA Web sit< · offered a small part in the upcoming natures, calling on Hitt to and even a mass e-:mail sent out t< horror flick The 1£gend of Hogzilla. end the ties between UCF every student. It was such a beauti and military research. Hitt, ful makeup. We're really happy i TRAVEL who was given until Thurs happened the way it did" day's board meeting to Several current senators wil respond. made it clear at the · CAIRO COMBATS resign their positions to accept nev meeting that he would not ones on the cabinet. With seve1 ask the board to m,ake such a SNAKES ON A senators resigning, this makes roon policy decision. · "Just so that everyone for Hollinger to appoint new sena tors. ) PLANE understands, the university administration doesn't make "Senate seats are fair game,': Customs officers at Cairo's airport the proposals for research," detained a man who was trying to Hitt said. "It's a very' PLEASE SEE APPOINTEES ON A ~ smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane _ ........_ - including respectable point of view. I • two poisonous don't share it. We should not cobras. The seek,to abridge the rights of man, identified faculty and staff to research asYahia as long as they meet the Pioneering Rahim,.hid the other guid~lines." · snakes in small Hitt said that in order to RAYMA JENKINS I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE cloth bags and curtail military research, the SGA President Brandie Hollinger at her first Board ofTrustees meeting Thursday. After Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed the 5 percent professor said he was board would have to make a tuition increase for undergrads, Hollinger and the board voted to keep the increase for graduate and out-of-state students. looking to sell broad policy decision to-not them in Saudi allow any military research at honored Arabia. Samuel all, restricting the ability of . Jackson coulct not be .students and faculty to con reached for comment. duct their own research. 5%INCREASE for studies Hitt said this would tram ple the academic freedoms of . AROUND CAMPUS,Al AMANDA · H~MILTON researchers. Contributing Writer COVER LETTER AND . "I'm amazed he even · addressed it," said Eric Ein At Thursday's. Board of Trustee~ RESUME WORKSHOP gold. an SGA senator and meeting, three professors were hon· TUESDAY, 11 A.M. member of SDS. Eingold ored by UCF President John Hitt for helped organize the walkout receiving the Pegasus Professor ·Hosted by Career Services and ~d the delivering of the let - Awardlastmonth.. Experiential Leaming, the workshop tefs. ABEABORAYA was safe from Crist's budget axe, left solely to "It's the first time we've had three will show students how to design a SGA President Brandie News Editor a vote by the Board of 'Ihlstees. professors named in one year," Hitl resume, cover letter and other · Hollinger was also surprised Would Hollinger vote to increase tuition said. business correspondence targeted for by Hitt's talk, saying she had SGA President Brandie Hollinger wres just for those two groups of students, who, at Over the course of the next thre . the job they want. no idea he was going.to tl¢ with a tough decisiOn Thursday at the the very least, c•mprise 6.5 percent of the weeks, the Future will introduce eac address the letters. Board of'Ihlstees meeting. · UCF population? Hollinger's first thought ofthese professors. · "I'm actually surprised." ·She had already made up her mind before was to vote against it, wanting tuition increas LOCAL &STATE, A2 Hollinger said "I didn't real the meeting to speak i;mt against the pro: .es to be across the board or not at all Martin' Wanielista, director of CRIST, STATE LEADERS ize that he was going to posed 5 percent tuition h!crease for under- . ''I felt tom because the bill that the Gover UCF's Stormwater Management respond to that, and I'm glad graduate students, but then an early-morning nor vetoed only applied to undergraduate Academy and former dean of the TOTRAVELTOISRAEL that he did. I think he'd be veto from Gov. Charlie Crist changed that student tuition," Hollinger said in an e-mail. College of Engineering and Com remiss not to say anything The veto eliminated the tuition increase Adding another dimension to the situa puter Science, received the Pegasus NEXT WEEK ,for undergraduate students, a move that will tion, Provost and Executive Vice Presid~t In an attemptto promote business . about it because I know stu Professor Award last month. dents are concerned about it. cost UCF at least $33 million dollars out of Terry HiCkey told the Finance Committee The Pegasus Professor Award is between Israel and Florida, Gov. the 2007-2008 budget and save a student tak that without the tuition increase for graduate Charlie Crist will travel to Israel next "The fact is that it's/faculty the highest honor awarded to facul- ing 12 credit hours about $88 annually. But the students, a nitmber of ~tudents who had been ty members at UCF. · week with several state leaders. He is additional proposed 5 percent increase for ·scheduled to visit Israeli Aerospace PLEASE SEE H()LLINGER ON AS "I feel great and honored," graduate students and out-of-state students PLEASE SEE VETO ON AS Industries and meet with Israeli Wanielista said, adding that he is leaders. While there, Crist will spend thankful to everyone who has been time in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. a part of his work "It's not me that got the award, it's everyone I've worked with." · NATION &WORLD, A4 Experts predict active hurricane season Stormwater management is the .. center of Wanielista's work, and CASTRO REVEALS THE ROBYN SIDERSKY Most of Central Florida will something that he said he has been Staff Writer have an above nor:inal or greater looking at since the mid-1970s. TRUTH ABOUT HIS risk of hurricane-force winds in Developed in 2002, the HEALTH CONDITION UCF Statistics and Actuarial 2007. Stormwater Management Academy Science professor Mark John Surprisingly, South Florida was created to "solve the water pop After not being seen in public for son and Georgia researcher will have a relatively lower than ulation problem in the country," nearly 10 months, Castro signed an Charles Watson predicted that normal risk of hurricane-force Wanielista said, a problem he attrib~ essay published by state media hurricane risks will be higher wind$, especially Miami-Dade utes mainly to stormwater. He also Thursday and admitted that he than usual this. year for most County;-Broward will have the believes that the academy could underwent several emergency U.S. coasts. same risk as previous years. · Probability of Hurricane deal with the "need to address the surgeries, the first one not going well. In addition to higlier activity Johnson and Watson predict training education of folks and to along U.S. coasts, there will be ed that activity in Orlando will force winds in 2007 come up with newer solutions." more activity in North Florida. · be greatest·from September to · One of the Stormwater Manage INDEX TODAY'S Out of the 20 counties in the October. 2007 Forecast ment Academy's most important Around Campus 2 WEATHER country with the highest proba A major concern this year is on-campus .projects was the build bilities for hurricane-force C=:J Le,ssthan 1% l Weather 2 gas prices. Both hinted that gas ing of the green roof on the Student Local & State 2 winds, 10 are in Florida.