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FREE • Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays www.CentralFloridaFuture.co • Crowning glory Student aims for Miss USA title after winning Miss Polk County - SEE NEWS, A2 MARRIAGE DESIGNING A UCF MESSAGE OF OVE Not just another police walk in the Park might get dog UCF PD call on Computer programmer Bernie Peng reprogrammed his girtfriendTammy Li's man's best friend favorite video game,Bejeweled so a ring CAITLIN SMITH and a marriage proposal would show up Contributing Writer on the screen when she reached acertain • score. Li reached the needed score and With the new on-campus said yes. The reprogramming took Peng stadium and venues, the UCF nearly a month. Police Department has more on its plate and is in need of an • extra hand - or rather, a paw. RECORDS "Currently, the force has two effective dogs with two LITTLE BOY'S others in training," Officer Jeanette Emert said. "The NOSE IS FULL OF dogs are used at least weekly but are going to be essential • for future football seasons on campus." Emert said that she believes the UCF PD is expecting a new dog, which will cost about $8,000. The UCF PD has based its canine unit upon a unique concept called K-9 Lite, which relies heavily upon communi­ ty and volunteer support instead of state funding. • PHOTOSBY ANDY JACOBSOHN/ CENTRAL FlORIDA FUTURE Charlie Mesloh, the former review by GuinReSS World Records. UCF police officers carrying rifles loade~ with blanks in a training exercise Monday search a building in Research Park set up to look like a classroom for a VT-style shooting scenario. UCF police training coordina­ 1 tor who is now an assistant Aitdl!W's first atwnpt of MM· professor at Florida Gulf Coast loons was r~ected be(allse his UCF police train for VT-style University, was one of the pri­ mary driving forces behind the faUler tied the balloons, shooting with high technology Police Canine Program and K- 9 Lite in its infancy. STEPHANIE WILKEN "A few years ago, I saw the Staff Writer opportunity to fill a void," he '4 said ''I wrote a proposal to the UCF police were locked and loaded with blanks and high­ university leadership, and AROUND CAMPUS,A2 tech sensors Monday when they stormed into a vacant build­ lucky for me, they decided to CASTING CALL FOR ing in Research Park looking for a "shooter." pursue the concept. About 140 UCF students, faculty and staff volunteered to - "I felt that it was one of PHOTO SHOOT TODAY participate in a series of training exercises as innocents [UCF PD's] responsibilities to BEGINNING AT 4:30 P.M. trapped in a building being stalked by a school shooter. Partic­ take another step toward mak­ ipants were given roles to play when confronted by police and ing the campus as safe as pos­ UCF Marketing will be holding a casting wore vests equipped with sensors that worked along with sen­ sible. Dogs just add another call for a photo shoot today from 1:45 sors on police rifles to record minor, serious or fatal hits. Volunteers play the role ofvictims as police sweep the area. About 140 students, faculty level of security that should p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 174 of the The exercise was a first for Florida universities. and staff participated in the exercise and were given specific behaviors to act out. give students and visitors Education Building.The event is t One year after the Virginia Tech massacre, UCF Police some peace of mind" being held to find students to represent Chief Richard Beary said the university is prepared for a simi­ scenarios were played out provided police with a practice Mesloh said a good police UCF in upcoming promotions. lar situation. space similar to what a classroom building looks like. Rooms dog can cost a department ''We have all the necessary tools we need, and this is just one were labeled as classrooms or a lobby and set up to look like anywhere between $4,000 more piece oftraining to put those tools into place," Beary said. and $20,000, depending on ' LOCAL&STATE, A2 The vacant, 50,000-square-foot office building where the GOV. CRIST DOES NOT PLEASESEE cRom oN A7 PLEASES EE DOGS ON AS SUPPORT $1 CIGARETTE TAX INCREASE I Gov. Charlie Crist is extinguishing health care advocates' hopes for a Team takes $1,500 i dollar increase in the cigarette tax.A CATCH IT ON THE FLY measure in the Legislature would the disc into an end zone. boost the tax on a pack of smokes in business contest UCF disc team advances to regionals "It's similar to basket­ from 34 cents to $1.34.A hearing was ball in the way turnovers held Tuesday. JILLIAN KROTKI The UCF team pitched its JAKE BRIDGES either Florida State Univer­ are done but similar to soc­ Staff Writer Contributing Writer idea for an online networking sity or the UF B-team. This cer in the way you move up third-place game was post­ Web site called Group Table. One of two ultilnate and down the field,'' said It's an unusual equation: Group Table is designed to siln­ poned due to lightning in Steve Schade, vice presi- NATION & WORLD, A4 business students riding a litn­ disc teams at UCF finished the Orlando area and will plify group work in classes and second in an annual sec­ ousine around the Indianapolis allow the exchange of notes, be made up soon in Lake PLEASE SEE ON POPE VISITS U.S. IN tional tournament that UCF A7 500, pitching their business outlines and other files. City. took place April 5 and 6 in HOPES OF ENDING plans, but it all adds up to big "Group Table was created to The sport, called "ulti­ Orlando. PEDOPHILES IN CHURCH money. help students save time and get mate,'' is played with two Jonathan Beilan, David Brim, Scott Wall and The UCF A-team, Dogs teams of seven players try­ front, leaps to catch a better grades by maximizing ofWar, ranked No. 24 in the Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday he Carl Henderson of the UCF the power of their group inter­ ing to pass flying disc. nation by the Ultimate was "deeply ashamed" of the team were named finalists in actions and bringing them con­ clergy sexual abuse scandal in the the National Nascent 500 Busi­ Players Association, was veniently online, the way our only defeated once in the Roman Catholic Church and will ness Plan Competition March generation likes to work," Brim work to make sure pedophiles 28 and received $1,500. Their Florida Sectional said "Group Table mirrors the Tournament by the Uni­ don't become priests. team went on to win first place same interactions of a physical in UCFs business plan compe­ versity of Florida. UF is • group meeting but goes a step currently ranked No. 1 in tition, TheJoustTournamen4 further, allowing students to the nation by UPA, which INDEX TODAY'S 1 on April 11 and took home add to discussions at their con­ is similar to the AP poll in • Around Campus 2 WEATHER $12,000. venience and manage all of NCAA college football . • Weather 2 In the Nascent competition, their groups silnultaneously UCF's B-team, Havoc, Local & State 2 each team was given eight min­ from one location." utes to pitch its business plan to finished seventh in the Nation & World 4 Wall and Brim came up with tournament. a group ofthree judges in a litn­ the idea for Group Table about Sports 8 Because of its top three ousine while cruising around this time last year when they Opinions 13 MOSTLY finish, Dogs of War will the speedway. In addition to the realized that getting groups and Classifieds 14 SUNNY advance to the Atlantic Sudoku ride, each team was able to tour teams together for projects was 15 750 510 the Indianapolis Motor Speed­ Coast Regionals in States­ Crossword 15 I way Hall of Fame Museum boro, Ga., with UF and • I HIGH LOW PLEASE SEE WEB ON AS (t ----··--·-------------- ---·-----~-- ------- A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com April 16, 2008 • t'.enttal :Jloriba ,utu,e • AROUND CAMPUS (entnf News and notices for • the UCF community Jforiba Casting call for photo shoot today UCF Marketing will be • holding a casting call for a• photo shoot today from 1:45 ,Uture p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 174 of The Student Newspaper at UCF since 1968 the Education Building. April 16, 2008 • The event is being held to find students to represent UCF Vol 40, Issue 40 • 16 Pages in upcoming advertisements, The Centrul Rorida Future Is the independent, student· promotional materials and written newspaper at the University of Central Aorida. • Opinions in the Future are those of the individual more.