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Central Florida Future. 2075. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2075 ) FREE · Publish~d Monda s, Wednesdays and Frida s www.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Wednesday, January 16, 2008 ) LEGAL j Deaths may > change policies ANew Zealand man as been charged with driving a lawn mower while drunk, police said Tuesday. Richard Gunn, 52, Meningitis rules was driving the lawn mower down a street late Monday evening when police face strict revisions stopped him.Gunn's breath-alcohol level WILLIAM RICHARDS was at more than twice the legal limit Contributing Writer for drivers. · Florida policies concerning POLITICS meningitis vaccinations at uni- · versities are under review follow­ ing several incidents last year. On Jan. 23 and 24, Dr. Phillip Barkley, director of Student Health for the University ofFlori­ da, and Dorothy Minear, UF's interim vice chancellor, will pres­ ent research findings and a pro­ posed regulation concerning meningitis vaccinations to the State University System's Board > of Governors. The new proposal would require all incoming students to receive vaccinations for meningi­ ) tis and hepatitis B, or provide an opt-out waiver. The current policy for vacci­ nation requires only students liv­ ing on campus to receive or opt out of getting the shot. "I signed a waiver [upon first coming to campus],'' senior inter­ disciplinary studies major Laura Carrying a family Bible, a Colo Torbin said. "I had never heard state representative-elect kicked a anything about it, so I didn't think photographeiwho took a picture of him it was a big deal. I hate needles, so during a sta~house prayer - then was I told my mom I didn't want to get sworn into office.When Rocky Mountain it." News photographer Javier Manzano took It took a tragedy to change her his photo during the traditional morning mind. Torbin still wears a blue prayer, Bruce brought the sole of his sboe meningitis bracelet to honor her down on the photographer's knee. friend Rhett Davis, a UCF stu­ dent and victim of meningitis. l "He got meningitis Novem­ AROUND CAMPUS,A2 ber 2006," Torbin said. "Myself and my friends got the shot after PART-TIME JOB FAIR that, if they hadn't gotten it already." STARTS TODAY IN Torbin now thinks that the PEGASUS BALLROOM vaccine should be mandatory for ) Career Services will be hosting a part­ all incoming students. time job fair today from 10 a.m. to 2 More recently, University of p.m. in the Pegasus Ballroom of the South Florida student Rachel Fut­ Student Union. The fair gives students terman died of meningitis on the opportunity to discuss part-time Sept. 24. on-campus and off-campus jobs. On Oct. 15, the UCF Health Services Web site announced that the Orange County Public Health Department had a con­ LOCAL &STATE,A2 firmed case ofa UCF nursing stu­ PARENTS OF DEAD BABY dent with meningitis. The stu- ASK THAT SUSPECT PLEASE SEE COLLEGE ON A6 NOT BE CHARGED ) Atoddler's parents do not want authorities to prosecute a 12-year-old boy who is accused of beating a baby girl to death because she was making Research dives into the crowd Foreign students noises while he watched a cartoon KELDA SENIOR show. The boy was baby-sitting the Staff Writer baby on Jan. 4. make UCF home Researchers at UCF's Institute for Simulation and JENNIFER LARINO there, and I have no pillows, NATION & WORLD, A4 Training said that social con­ Staff Writer no bed sheets, no comforter,'' nections, cultural back­ Trivedi said. "There's a phone EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT ground and gender all play a When Shreya Trivedi first plug, but there's no phone, role in how crowds move to arrived at Orlando Interna­ and I'm just lost. It's so quiet, TARGETS U.S. EMBASSY escape in an emergency. tional Airport in August 2001, and it's scary, and I'm like, VEHICLE; 4 DEAD Crowd simulation she was taken aback by the 'Did I make a mistake?"' size of the buildings and An explosion targeted a U.S. Embassy involves the use of A month later, the Sept. 11 mathematical models and roads in the city. terrorist attacks occurred. vehicle Tuesday in northern Beirut, Back then, she was a 20- killing four Lebanese and injuring a computer simulations to pre­ "I was so homesick at that dict how crowds in a room year-old international stu­ point, I would keep calling local embassy employee just ahead dent just arriving from of a farewell reception for the would react during an emer­ my dad every week and say­ gency. ANDY JACOBSOHN/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Kenya, "not knowing a soul" ing, 'I think I made a n:_iistake. American ambassador. Fans crowd into Bright House Networks Stadium for the UCF-Texas game last year. The and hoping to pursue her Currently, UCF results of a new study could help officials exercise better crowd control at games. I need to come back home'," • researchers are using the bachelor's degree at the Uni­ Trivedi said. versity of Central Florida. With encouragement from INDEX TODAY'S data to better manage the friends will exit a building others into their personal • crowds in Bright House Net­ much differently than those space and how that affects She had arranged to be her father, who continually Around Campus 2 WEATHER works Stadium. who do not have personal crowd behavior. picked up at the airport and told her to give UCF "one • 1 Weather 2 "The most often-used connections with others who "Here [in America] we dropped off at the Collegiate more day," she finally adjust­ • Local & State 2 [factor for determining are exiting the building. tend to have bubbles around Village Inn, where she was to ed to life on the other side of stay just off campus for the Nation & World 4 crowd behavior] is emotional Rex Oleson is a UCF us, and we keep a certain dis­ the world, she said. Sports 7 or otherwise social connec­ graduate student and has tance away," Oleson said. upcoming semesters. Six years later, Trivedi, Opinions 11 tffA~CE' tions," said Florian Jentsch, been working on the crowd Once in her room, she said who graduated from UCF "Japanese and Iraqis tend to the impact of how far she was aassifieds 12 SHOWERS project faculty adviser and simulation project for two stand close to one another." and now works at the univer­ from Kenya hit her. Sudoku 13 psychology professor at UCF. years. He said that the cul­ Also, Oleson said that a sity's International Student Crossword 13 ~0° S8° Jentsch said that family ture factor relates to "They drop me off to the HIGH I.OW units, couples and groups of whether a person allows PLEASE SEE STUDY ON AS apartment, and I'm sitting PLEASE SEE DIVERSITY ON A4 1 A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com January 16,2008 • (entn{ '1orlba 1uture Ii AROUND CAMPUS News and notices for • the UCF community Part-time job fair starts today Career Services will be host­ • ing a part-time job fair today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Pegasus Ballroom of the Stu­ The Student Newspaper at IKF since 1968 dent Union. January 16, 2008 The fair gives students the opportunity to discuss part­ Vol 40, Issue 05 • 14 Pages time on-campus and off-cam­ The Central Florida Future Is the independent, student­ written newspaper at the University of Central Florida. • pus jobs with employers. 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Opinions Editors Jeffrey Riley and OSI presents UCF club showcase Tara Young x213 The Office of Student SHARON WEAVER/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE opinions@(entralFloridaFuture.com • Involvement and Knights of the Henry Daniell inspects his lab on camp_us; Daniell was ~a med an American Associati~n for the Advan~ement o! Sciences fellow last year ~nd will be recognized_t~is Fe~ruaiy at a Sports Editor ceremony in Boston. Daniell's fellowship 1s a result of his research to find a cure for diabetes by growing genetically enhanced lettuce. His WJ>rk has been promising with mice. Round Table will be presenting Padrick Brewerx215 Club Mardi Gras' spring club sports@(entralRoridaFuture.com showcase today from 10 a.m.