Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 147, December 7, 2007
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 12-7-2007 Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 147, December 7, 2007 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 147, December 7, 2007" (2007). Central Florida Future. 2043. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2043 FREE • Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays .Go for the gold .) Beautiful season Fantasy and contr~versy The Future recaps women's soccer's consume new release, successful 2007 campaign -SEESPORTS,A7 ·Golden Compass, - SEE VARIETY,A9 1/-------------------------- It's not good to be ~he king UCFPD ·arrest fonner BucWR Predators player suspected in robbery 0 The life-sized sculpture of Sigmund Freud hanging from atop the Tra~ Center JESSICA SUNDAY Staff Writer Building prompted c.alls to the police and fire departmentTuesday. The Grand Rapids,Mich.,sculpture was mistaken for An Orlando Predators player a body hanging from a building.The and former Tampa Bay Bucca pplice and fire departments say they neer was arrested by UCF Police Wednesday in connection with a D weren't informed of the statue's placement · Pegasus Landing robbery in which $12,000. in prop 1) HISTORY erty and cash was stolen, said HUMAN REMAINS Cpl James Roop, DAVID ADAME/ ASSOCIATED PRESS community rela () . FOUND UNDER Hannah Sassaman operates a 10-foot tall puppet of the Burger King mascot during a march last Friday in downtown Miami against Burger King's wages for farm workers. tions officer for the UCF Police Department lee 0 Charles Lee Archaeologists unearthed the 19th Jr., 30, a former UCF football century skeletal remains of three adults player, is being held at the and a child from a school lawn in Buffalo, Orange County Jail on charges NY. The site was a cemetaryfrom 1832 of grand theft of the third to the mid-1880's, used by the city of UCF protesters take degree, home invasion. robbery, .Buffalo General Hospital. Archaeologists aggravated battery and a proba were sent in Tuesday to look for more as tion violation, Roop said. the school gets ready for a $40 million Detective Hugh Carpenter, expansion and renovation project. the UCF police officer heading the investigation, arrested Lee food fight to Miami after he was identified by a vic tim of the armed robbery that took place on Nov. 28 at the affil iated housing complex. KEITH SPENCER Staff Writer Lee is cooperating with police and police are hopeful he will enable them to catch the Last weekend, a group of12 UCF students joined a group AboutCIW other suspect in the investiga ,) representing immigrant tomato pickers and many others in The CIW is a community-based worker organization. The members are tion, Roop said. protesting against fast-food restaurant Burger King for better largely Latino, Haitian and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage A large sum of cash was wages and business ethics at its headquarters in Miami jobs throughout the state of Florida. found with Lee at the time ofhis According to the Coalition of lmmokalee Workers arrest, Roop said, but police CIW began organizing in 1993 as a small group of workers who met weekly AROUND CAMPUS, A2 (CIW), the multibillion dollar conglomerate food chain is can't positively say if the cash is underpaying farm workers and perpetuating other fonns of ·n a room borrowed from a local church to discuss how to better the the same money stolen from a COLLECTIVE BARGAINING exploitation. The wage of 45 cents per 32-pound barrel of ommunity. safe at the Pegasus Landing MEETING TODAY FROM picked tomatoes it pays tomato pickers has landed the King in a cross fire of trouble. This amount of payment has PLEASE SEE INVESTIGATION ON AS 9 A.M. TO 11 :30 A.M. remained roughly the same since 1978. L -WWW.CIW-ONLINE.ORG Office of the Provost and Executive Between November and February, Florida supplied 80 -- - -.. ---- Vice President will be holding the next percent of the nation's freshly picked tomatoes. The field ly questionable from a number of angles. This protest is a colos collective bargaining meeting today at workers supplying this enormous output, most ofwhich are sal waste ofresources and time that could be focused on helping 9 a.m.in Room 212 of the Computer illegal immigrants, want better living conditions and higher the migrant workers in Immokalee." Science Building. For more information wages. Many tomato pickers in Immokalee work in Burger King has not accepted the penny-per-pound deal yet, Minority contact [email protected]. deplorable conditions, living in cramped trailers with no but the company said the door remains open for negotiation. overtime or health care, according to the Associated Press. With the help of the United Church of Christ, the National The protesters are pressuring Burger King to follow Yum Farm Worker Ministry funded the bus transportation of nine of LOCAL &STATE, A2 Brands/Taco Bell and McDonald's footsteps by agreeing to a these UCF students to Miami; three others drove themselves. students code of conduct in addition to paying a penny more per There they joined roughly 2,000' other protesters in downtown PROBLEM WITH FUEL pound of Florida tomatoes they purchase, with this money Miami Human rights activists, faith leaders, grassroots organiz TANK GAUGE DELAYS being passed on by suppliers directly to farmworkers. If ers and young activists were all in attendance. Some of the Burger King were to comply with the penny-per-pound deal, organizations included Make the Road by Walking ofBrooklyn, seemore ATLANTIS LAUNCH workers' salaries would essentially double. N.Y., United Worker's Association ofBaltimore, Md., Alliance for NASA called off Thursday's launch of In an article by the Associated Press on Nov. 30, Steven Fair Food and United Students Against Sweatshops ofWashing Space Shuttle Atlantis after detecting Grover, a Burger King vice president in charge of food safe ton, D.C. Ph.D.s problems with a pair of fuel gauges in ty and quality assurance, said, "The mechanism ofpaying the its big external tank,a recurring extra pe~y directly to the workers is very obscure and legal- PLEASE SEE WORKERS ON AS PENNY JACKSON problem ever since the Columbia Contributing Writer disaster. Shuttle managers said they would try again today. College of At UCF, the McNair Scholars Medicine Dean Program and the Research and UCF loses children's Deborah German Mentoring Program encourage said in a press undergraduate minority students NATION & WORLD, A4 release that, so to pursue doctoral degrees. far, the college hospital at Lake Nona has exceeded her "The programs look to 19-YEAR-OLD WITH expectations in address minority students RIFLE OPENS FIRE ROBYN SIDERSKY wastoosoontocomment terms of because of how education has Staff Writer A few days later, a site visit performance. On -been denied to them in the past," IN NEBRASKA MALL concluded, bringing the Col Monday,the said Michael Aldarondo-Jeffries, A19-year-old with a rifle opened On the wake of losing the lege of Medicine one step plans for hosting the director of both the McNair Nemour's contract to put a a medical city at fire Wednesday at a busy closer to being accredited. lake Nona took Scholars Program and RAMP. department store in Omaha, Neb., children's hospital at Lake "I am very pleased with an unexpected "The whole goal of the programs killing eight people before taking his Nona, the UCF College of the visit and feel we have tum when is to make opportunity seamless own life. Five more people were Medicine is one step closer to taken another important and Nemours for these students." wounded, two critically. earning preliminary accredi successful step toward announced they In 2006, minorities received tation·after completing a site were planning to accreditation," College of buy three times 20 percent of the nation's more · • visit by a team that will report Medicine Dean Deborah the land they than 26,000 doctoral degrees, an INDEX TODAY'S to the Liaison Committee on German stated in a press originally slated increase of more than 150 com 1'11 Medical Education this week for the hospital Around Campus 2 WEATHER release. ''The performance of pared to the previous year, On Monday, Nemour's the College of Medicine staff -not at lake according to a study by the • Weather 2 Nona. announced they would be exceeded my expectations, National Science Foundation. local & State 2 • abandoning the 37 acres at which were very high." The· total number of minority Nation & Wor1d 4 Lake Nona for three times The team that visited the doctorate recipients was 4,707. Sports 7 that amount of land less than sit~ will send a report to the Of that number, 118 were Variety 9 2 miles from Lake Nona The SUNNY LCME, which will make a American Indian, 1,370 were His Oassifieds 12 Sentinel reported that the decision about the medical panic and 1,560 were Asian. Sudoku 13 price was just too high. Blacks received the highest num- Crossword 13 79° 60° Grant Heston with UCF HIGH LOW News & Information said it PLEASE SEE FIRST ON AS PLEASE SEE UCF ON AS ~--: · .: A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com December 7, 2007 • (entnl j(otiba :futun • AROUND CAMPUS • News and notices for the UCF community • Collective bargaining meeting today Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President will be holding the next collective bargaining meeting today from 711e Student Newspaper at /JCF since 1968 9 a.m.