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GameBoy · Advan<e will hit stores on June 11. ·REVIEW, pg. 8 May 23, 2001 •The Student Newspaper serving UCF since 1968 • www.UCFfuture.com Board of Regents to be dissolved ADAM SHIVER for Academic Affairs at UCF, As members null-and-void under this new sys STAFF WRITER calls it. learned that tem as well. They too will be gov "There was; a couple years they would erned by the new Florida Board of • Out with the old and in with ago, a vote that said the people [of be out of a Education. the new. Beginning July 1 the Florida] wanted to see the educa job within UCF's board of trustees will state's Board of Regents will be tional system change," Sweeney two years consist of 12 members appointed • replaced by governor-appointed said. "There is no question in the they began by Governor Jeb Bush and one boards of trustees at each individ state of Florida that educational searching for student. That student being the ual university and a Florida Board reform is needed. I don't think other jobs, university's student government of Education. anyone questions that." many of president. These boards will be This change comes about due With the state striving for a them leaving Bush headed by each universities' pres to a movement to improve on the seamless system to govern its their positions. This in turn made ident. state's educational system. The schools it was only a matter of it necessary to move the date up Many people have been 11 Senior shortstop Jeremy Karella state was looking for a system that time before the Board of Regents, for which the new system would nominated for universities' boards went 13·for·20 in the TAAC would bring all of Florida's edu the governing body for the state's begin to take over. all across the state. Nominees do Tournament, rais~ng his cational institutions under one university system, was dissolved. Many positions at communi not have to be solely locals but • season batting average to .403. "umbrella," as Dr. Mike Sweeney, The breakup of the Board of ty colleges and primary education Coordinator of Special Projects Regents was scheduled for 2003. facilities' boards CK~ 12) will be SWEENEY, Page 3 II ·BACK PAGE Taking 'care of business Oath not Summer activities pg.-3 NEWS taken raises Internships educate pg. 5 • NEWS questions - 81-year-old UCF grad pg. 6 KATHY FORD 'A OPINION STAFF WRITER To die, or not to die pg. 6 OPINION When newly elected Student .. Government President Marco Pena -Jammin' with 102 Jamz pg. 8 resigned from his former position CONCERT REVIEW of vice president on April 27 to organize his office and look for A good movie Memento pg. 9 appointments to the cabinet, no one MOVIE REVIEW knew what the repercussions of that move would be. Q&A with Brian Craig pg. 13 SPORTS Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Richardson conferred that same day with outgoing Chief 1 Ready for Omaha pg. 16 COMMENTARY Justice Jessica Jenness about fulfill ing the obligation of taking the vice PHOTO BY ADAM SmVER presidential seat. According to • Letter to the Editor... pg.6 The UCF baseball team won the Trans Ameri<a Athleti< Conference tournament last weekend, beating Troy State, Jenness, he mentioned that he was Gray Matters... pg.7 Campbell, Florida Atlanti< and Ja<ksonville on the way to the ch~mpionship. The Golden Knights now lead the going to challenge the move with Felix ... pg. 10 nation with 49 wins, and have one of their best chan<es ever t~ make it to the College World Series. an injunction, but later told her that • Crossword Puzzle ... pg. 11 -BACKPAGE he had changed his mind. She pre sumed this to mean that Richardson meant to take the oath of office, which is a key part of the obliga -Part II in a series - tion . "When he called me a few .Students' disabilities aren't always outside days later, he told me thathe wasn't going to file an injunction, I Hidden disabilities taking notes for two students in her white canes to get around with. thought that he was going to come personality theory class. That means a student could be in to take the oath of office," said such as A.D.D. and "I met one of them once. She sitting in a lecture hall next to a stu- "If you Jenness. students who are was nice -- it didn't even occur to . dent with a disability and never However, Richardson didn't me that she was disabled," Hey even know it. Sophomore Carolyn don't see take the oath of office. He felt that ·hearing impaired are_ said. Clemans was diagnosed with it, it's there was no need to take the oath just as common and That's because the student had Attention Deficit Disorder in the of office due to the lack of activity Attention Deficit Disorder, and is third grade, after her brother was harder to in that week long period, as the valid as other one of the 306 students registered recom.mended for testing by the Senate had no meetings. with Student Disability Services same teacher. The one thing believe it's "There was no legislative disabilities with a specific learning disability. Clemans remembers is having to activity whatsoever during that Students with specific learning hop in one tile square for several there." period so there were no duties to disabilities make up over 60 per moments for the pediatrician. fulfill either as vice president or pro CHRISTIE ZIZO cent of the students registered with "From the third to the sixth tempore," said Richardson. STAFF WRITER SOS, and combined with scores of grade I took medication, and then I -Deborah Kamm, It wasn't until the day before students who are hearing impaired, didn't until I was a senior in high Counselor at the swearing in of the new execu Before this semester, UCF speech impaired, and have other school," Clemans said. "I had trou Student Disability tive branch that Jenness finally got junior Stacy Hey often considered disabilities, equal roughly 400 stu ble concentrating in junior high Services in touch with Richardson to see '-'that people might say they were dents with disabilities that people school. Then my junior year I about the oath of office that should disabled to get special privileges. · won't see because the students That was before she started aren't in wheelchairs or don't need STUDENT, Page 4 RICHARDSON, Page 3 • UCF - Students, Staff, Facultv & Alumni Specir (' 3.58/o over invoice on new and pre-owned vehicles $2541111-• ID0/42 IDOS.* CD Changer, Airbags, Keyless Remote, Alarm, More! *Leases are calculated with $0 total down. Includes 1st payment, 0 sec. deposit, tags, title and license. _I I ~ J ' I ~ • $239 ID0/42 IDOS.* 7 to Choose *Leases are calculated with $0 total down. Includes 1st payment, 0 sec. • deposit tags, title and license. • I $239 ID0/42 IDOS.* • 7 to choose *Leases are calculated with $0 total • down. Includes 1st payment, 0 sec. deposit, tags, title and license. - . ARISTOCRAT VOLKSWAGEN 4115 l Hwy 11-92 • 401-365-330, . 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Offer ends May 31, 2001 . · • http://www.aristocrat.vwdealer.com • see salesperson for details • May 23, 2001 • www.UCFfuture.co11J CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE • ~ Sweeney: Both bad and good can happen, no one knows FROM PAGE 1 Many of the difficulties the Characteristics needed to - -- "The key to all this is insuring the quality of schools wm face in the very near become.a trustee candidate: can · be from anywhere in the future are uncertain. ~ation, or the world for that mat- · education, and making SUfe the Students are "Could some bad things hap- • Previous experience in insti ter. Some of the most famous d ll pen? Sure. Could some good tutional government. nominees so far include Bill Serve We ·" things happen? Sure. Which ones •Willing to serve in the state's Cosby and Jimmy Buffet. -Mike Sweeney, are going to happen? Nobody best interest.