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Central Florida Future. 1999. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1999 • • FREE • Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays ' www.CentralFloridaFuture.com ·Wednesday, March 7, 2007 • • • •• • Len~g~hand Tourney preview CONFEli'ENCE. Students volunteer their We break.down the C-USA tourney, time and .efforts to aid the • ~M~aJ which starts tonight -SEESPORTS,A9 local community -SEE NEWS,A2 • . ANIMALS Spring break BOT nieeting raises conipl3futs • SURPRISING VICTOR JORDAN FARBER days. Meetings would last all representative, the student The BOT held a meeting last from the student body last year, IN HELICOPTERV. Contributing Writer day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. body president. year during spring break as then UCF Vice President and The BOT, comprising one On March 14, during spring well. Willie C. Bentley, Jr., for­ Chief of Staff Beth Barnes was The SGA Senate passed a, student, one faculty and 11 state­ break, the outgoing SGA Presi­ mer student body president at quoted in the Future saying that OOSE resolution last week reacting.to You'd think that when a moose and appointed members, is the legal dent· Mark White might sit the time, did not attend the from then on. the board would the Board of Trustees' decision owner and governing body qf alone, as most students are meeting because he had con­ make every effort to meet only helicopter came head-to-head, the to meet during spring break for moose wouldn't have a chance. But UCF. It makes the final decision expected to take their holiday. flicting spring break plans. At when students were on cam­ that wasn't the case on Saturday, the second consecutive year. on an·university business. Stu­ Aside from Martin Luther King, that meeting, the BOT unani­ pus. when an Alaskan moose brought The resolution calls for the dents have the right to attend Jr. Day, spring break is the only mously voted to raise student "It was in no way an attempt down the helicopter by hitting its BOT to meet every two months BOT meetings, voice their ideas holiday during the spring. fees, prompting a controversy. and only on non-student holi- tail rotor. The moose had already and concerns, and support their semester.· . After witnessing a backlash PLEASE SEE SENATOR ON A3 been shot with a tranquilizer dart, but~ seemed to have the opposite of the intended effect. The moose was euthanized because the rotor maimed it, officials said. GENESIS, EXODUS AND ~HE BOOK OF CHALK •) UCFgets $700K for roof. r) upgrade FEMA to help.pay to hurricane-proof the Library roof BRANDON BIELICH Staff Writer The UCF Library will receive a grant of nearly $700,000 from the U.S. Depart­ ment of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency to · retrofit the building's roof to withstand winds up to 120 mph - equivalent to a · Category 3 hurricane. · The gr~t comes from FEMA'.s Haz­ ard Mitigation Grant Program, ·which "provides grants to states and local gov­ ernments to implement long-term haz­ ard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration," said Jim Homstad, spokesman for FEMA Florida Long-Term Recovery Office in Lake Mary. AROUND CAMPUS,A2 "The goal of the HMGP is to rebuild communities to higher standards to BEST OF MOVIEFESTTO reduce or eliminate the effects of future BE SHOWN TONIGHT AT disasters on life, safety, structures and infrastructure," Homstad said. BACKSTAGE DINER Varied, atheist sayings FEMA'.s grant, which is administered The top 16 movies made by students by the state, will cover about·7 5 percent as part of the Campus MovieFest will peppercainpusl\fonday of the upgrade's total cost; UCF will pay be shown tonight at the Backstage the remaining ·25 percent out of the Diner from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the · JESSICA SUNDAY &JESSICA SAGGIO minor projects fund for maintenance. Backstage Diner at the Ferrell Staff Writer & Contributing Writer According to Jim Uhlir, director of UCF Commons. Environmental Health and Safety, the Cracked pavement and sun-bleached concrete entire project will cost nearly $1 million weren't all that UCF students walked over last Monday to complete. LOCAL &STATE, A2 while on campus. · Uhlir said it is a reasoriable price to CRIST: 'COOPERATION Colorful - but not illegal, according to campus pay and "worth the investment" because police - sidewalk graffiti featuring radical statements the Library is worth about $113 million - · AMONG PARTIES IS covered the sidewalks all over campus, under the foot­ .the building itself is worth $36 million ESSENTIAL' FOR FLA. steps of students scurrying to and from classes. and its contents are worth $77 million. Qµotes from the Bible, the Rev. Jerry Falwell and "The Library is really one 0f UCF's Democrats and Republicans working others emblazoned walls and pathways, along with crown jewels. There are so many vol­ together will be the key to solving other seemingly atheist written statementS. Although wnes in there and it's a focal point for the Florida's most pressing p~oblems, the pale-colored statements looked like harmless university," Uhlir said. "In addition to from the global warming threat to announcements, the words blasted organized religion. just the books, it's got some key telecom- . high property taxes, Gov. Charlie Crist 'The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler munications and computer resources, so said Tuesday in his first State of the is that God is more proficient at genocide," read one of it's more than just a library." Uhlir, who filed the application and State address.1 the statements, attracting smirks and frowns from stu­ dents congregating outside of Classroom Building MATHEW KUKA I CENTRALFLORIDA FUTURE paperwork for the grant, said it took . One. Top: Anthony Ramcharan, hospitality management major, is a practicing Catholic. After about six months to complete. walking past some of the chalk writings near the.Math and Physics Building, he said, "It's "It's a very long, hard process; there's • NATION &WORLO, A4 The words elicited a plethora of emotions, rangirig different. It changed my perspective of the Bible." Above: More of the chalk writings that appeared ori campus Monday. No group has daimed responsibility, and because the graffiti FORMER VP ADVISER PLEASE SEE ON A7 ACADEMIC was done in chalk, no criminal investigation is being conducted by UCFPD. PLEASE SEE SAFEGUARDING ONAS FOUND GUILTY ON 4 COUNTS IN LEAK CASE I. Lewis"Si:ooter" Libby was convicted of one count of obstruction, two counts of perjury and one count of Teaching about the greater'forces of Qppression in the world lying to the FBI about how he learned BRANDON BIELICH According to Shane Cadden, in the day to think about what Over the years, the Tunnel "There is bad in the world, of Plame's identity and whom he told. StaffWriter assistant director ofUCF Hous­ goes on in our world - both has evolved According to Cad-. course, but there is also a great ing and Residence Life, the pro- . near and far - while offering den, one pertinent change has deal of hope~ and we're better Today marks the third and gram began with the purpose of moments of hope to move for­ been to include more informa­ than the college campus to fos­ INDEX TODAY'S final day ofthe United Resident educating the greater UCF com­ ward" tion "on the positive things peo­ ter this sense of hope to take us Student Association's sixth- munity about the forces of Around Campus Because of positive feedback ple are doing to combat oppres­ forward into tomorrow," he 2 WEATHER annual Tunnel of Oppression . oppression in our world, both Weather 2 . I and overall effectiveness in sion," not just focus on the added exhibit, located in the Student person-to-person and systemic. 2006, URSA is ~eusing last negative aspects. Ashley Vance, URS.A'.s vice Local & State 2 Union Cape Florida Ballroom. The aim of the program is year's topics, Cadden · said. "We want people to leave president of campus involve­ Nation & Wor1d 4 The 'funnel is ~ educati?nal not to guilt, offend or scare a These include giobal genocide; knowing they have been ment, acted in the Tunnel's Sports 8 I program that spo~ghts vanous person into b~lieving in the fear and anxiety; media and exposed to some of the bad poverty and homelessness MOSTLY SUNNY Opinions 11 fo,rms of oppression through - value of civil and/or human societal messages; spiritual things in the world but also to exhibit "Poor ,in Spirit." The skit Oassifieds 12 live demonstrations and skits, rights, Cadden said abuse; poverty and homeless­ feel empowered that anyone is about how Vance and a friend Sudoku 13 78° 56° acted out by members of URSA "Instead, we wish to provide ness; prejudice and hate; and can be a force to change things HIGH - LOW Crossword 13 and volunteer sponsors. the participant an opportunity pe~onal empowerment.