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Central Florida Future. 1899. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1899 (\ STORM STATISTICS <.• \ Researchers' analysis CALIFORNIA D looks at hurricane UCF pitcher Tim Bascom is selected in the fifth chances for 28 cities round'of the MLB Draft by San Diego -SEE SPORTS, As - SEE NEWS, AS FREE • Published Mondays during summer www.UCFnews.com ·Monday, June 12,2006 Kyla Tomlin's short aims to capture gay students' struggles E.RIC GRIMMER Contributing Writer Recent UCF graduate Ky] Tomlin's film Katie and KasE!1 which she made as a UCF sh dent, will be feattired at FramE line30: The San Fmncisco Intenu. tional Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ~ 'Iransgender Film Festival on Jun I T I' 18. ERIC GRIMMER Ky a 10m m Tue film, which depicts th Contributing Writer reluctance of a lesbian college student to shm affection to her girlfriend in public, has been fe~ tured at film festivals such as Breckenridge in Co: More than 100 students, faculty and fans packed into the Barbara YJng orado and NewFest in New York. Tomlin's film originated in her two-year ftlr Center for the opening World Cup game Friday. production Capstone class at UCF. 'I)ie first ye:i revolved around the writing and pre-productio Six minutes after the event began, fans were chanting "Goal, goal, goal," as aspects of the film; the second year required th actual production of the film and the post-pre Philip L3hm of Germany scored the first goal of the 2006 World Cup. duction editing. / Tomlin. who graduated from UCF with a BB in film production, found herself inspired by th "Bottom line, we are looking true-life experiences of her gay friends and th to bring people together through GET IN THE GAME difficulties they faced when they revealed thei soccer;• Rachid Bendriss, Assis­ What: World Cup games sexual orientation. The goal of Tomlin's fib: (t tant Director of the International Where: Barbara Ying Center Service Center, said PLEASE SEE FESTIVAL ON A Fans entered the Ymg Center When: June 9-July 5, times vary through doors decorated as soc­ cer goals. Inside they found a which will broadcast every game standing-room-only crowd of of the tournament on a 150-inch various ages and cultural back­ LCD projection screen. grounds. Some fans wore jerseys The job of the Cultural Pro­ Liquid-crystal oftheir favorite teanis and every­ gramming Board of the ISC, one cheered the goals and all-out headed by Bendriss, is to organ­ efforts of the players regardless ize events for international stu­ of team affiliation. dents. With the World Cup's lens invented The viewing of the game was global popularity, the ISC leapt EXIS WINEGARD I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE an ISC and International Stu­ Students mingle outside the Barbara Ying Center before the showing of a ... dents Association joint venture, PLEASE SEE PLANNERS ON A6 World Cup game Friday. The showings will continue until July S. by UCF optics Brazil leads top challengers for the Cup Team hopes to use lens in Powerhouse Brazil, making its Group i= debut against Croatia on Tuesday, seems to be the team to beat as it gears up for defense of its World Cup title in Berlin. Some teams to watch: (World rank) tuneable focal eyeglasses t' •/ ,,1,, ....., 5::;:' CRYSTAL POTTS r-I\\~ g Staff Writer t KHVB Brazil (1) Argentina (9) England (10) Czech Republic (2) Netherlands (3) Italy (13) UCF optics researcher Shin-Tson Wu and 1ili Looks like it's Brazil's title to Lineup teeming with With strongest lineup in , With the return of Pavel Unpredictable, talented Amid a domestic match-fixing team have created a type of tuneable liquid-crys· lose. Record five-time talent and Coach Jose . three decades, especially Nedved, could be the dark two-time runner-up needs all scandal, coming off two lackluster tal lens after three years of research. winner appears to be Pekennan's difficulty is ifWayne ' Rooney' s horse of the championship, but the stability itcan get to draws in wannups against Wu's team includes Hongwen Ren, a UCI reachingpeakatrighttime · choosing the right names broken foot heals only if all its stars perfonn well - qualify from a tough group Switzerland and Ukraine last week research scientist of about five years;,David Fox. < ASSOCIATED PRESS recent graduate student; Phillip Anderson, < Research Experience for Undergraduate studen1 from Mississippi University; and Benjamin Wu, ~ summer intern from Duke University. ''We were trying to develop a continuous zoon: to replace the old mechanical lenses by using ii SGA brings free newspapers to Rosen school single tuneable lens," Wu said The Web site, Physicsweb.org, reported tha1 TIFFANY PALMA community. same opportunities the Dlain. cam­ are they yours to keep or tear arti­ the lens "consists of a mixture of liquid-crystal Contributing Writer "Even tho~F the students are pus has." cles out of: they just go better with molecules and smaller N-vinylpyrrollidone located way q~town. it is SGA'.s Deborah Ebster, associate tha~ morning cup of joe. monomers placed between two glass substrates, Students in UCF's ·hospitality desire to give those students the librarian 'h ead at the Rosen Col­ "Rosen students should be each of which is coated with a thin transparent program can look forward to pick­ same resources that the main cam­ lege, said she hoped students grateful to their student govern­ layer of conducting indium tin oxide." ing up free copies of the Orlando pus students are provided with . would recognize the services ment for adding this new reader­ Applying certain amounts ofvoltage across the Sentinel and USA Today on the everyday," White said. "In this already available to them through ship program to their reading entrre lens enables the lens to have continuous Rosen College campus, thanks to a administration, we've made stu­ UCF's libraries. choices." zoo~ capabilities. When different degrees of . recent expansion ofth e SGA news­ dents our first priority. Expanding "I wonder how many students Newspaper readership pro­ voltage are applied, the liquid-crystal mixture sep­ paper readership program. this program to the Rosen School realize that they already have free grams on campuses have been suc­ arates. As the substances are pulled farther apart, The readership program, which is simply one step towards achiev­ electronic access to the Orlando cessful natfonally. A survey of 26 the focus of an object becomes clearer. costs SGA $40,000 a year, aims to ing that goal" Sentinel, New York Times and the campuses using the program indi­ Previous lenses' molecular reorientation help students become aware of Hospitality management major Wall Street Journal," Ebster said cated that 83 percent of college caused unclear imaging depending on lighting; their national and global surround­ Christie Cowan said she was glad Still, Ebster agreed that the free students took advantage of a free this problem does not exist with the new lens, Wu ings. Currently, nine newsstands to see her campus reap the same newspapers were a welcome.addi"' newspaper at least once a week. said on the main UCF campus offer the benefits as the main campus. tion to the Rosen campus. UCF was recognized by USA The team's original motive for making the paper free to students. "I think it's really cool that the "In any event, it's sometimes Today publisher and president tuneable lens was for use in tuneable focal eye­ President Mark White said SGA Rosen School is getting the free nice to have paper copies of the Craig Moon as olie of the top 50 glasses. Ifglass es were made with this type oflens, realizes the importance of the newspapers," Cowan said ''We're a daily newspaper to use as you so schools committed to student civic ,. , Rosen College students to the UCF part ofUCF, and we deserve all the choose," Ebster added ''Not only engagement. PLEASE SEE NEW ON A5 ~----------- • AROUND NATION& CA1\1PUS VARIETY WORLD News and notices for ' Keep current with headlines • the UCF community you may have missed Summer dance dasses Israel and Hamas militants clash • i The UCF Conservatory as Palestinian divisions deepen Theatre will be offering a GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - summer dance class, .Tap I, Israel killed two Hamas mili­ during Session B, June 26 to tants in an airstrike Sunday • August 4, 6 p.m. to 7:50 p.m., while Palestinian militants Monday through Thursday. bombarded southern Israel For more information and with homemade rockets as a to determine eligibility, e-mail 16-month-old cease-fire • the head of the dance depart­ unraveled and the two sides ment, Brian Vernon, at bver­ moved closer toward a broad­ [email protected] er conflict. • The violence complicated Avian flu information conference Palestinian President Mah­ The Metropolitan Center moud Abbas' efforts to per­ for Regional Studies will hold suade the Hamas-led govern­ • a half-day conference about ment to endorse a document avian flu from 8 a.m.