Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 34, November 8, 2006
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 11-8-2006 Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 34, November 8, 2006 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. 34, November 8, 2006" (2006). Central Florida Future. 1945. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1945 ·. I FREE ·Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays www.CentralFloridaFuture.com ·Wednesday, November 8, 2006 No need to Panic! . Music fans gear up as the Arena plays host to several popular bands - ·SEE NEWS, A2 Ferrell film to hit theaters Friday tJCF partners with Florida' Hospital SNL alumnus Will Ferrell plays . MARY KNOWLES attacks and other diseases, place at Florida Hospital Cele Staff Writer rather than simply treating them. bration Health. Harold Krick, a The partnership was announced Theodore Angelopoulos, a man plagued UCF President John Hitt says Monday. UCF faculty member, will also v by a weird he wouldn't have survived his The doctor who told Hitt to conduct research in exercise voice that nar heart attack in August without pay more attention to diet and physiolOgy, weight management rates his life the intervention of a Florida exercise is the chair and "lead and metabolism. (and death), Hospital doctor who told him researcher of the partnership. Under the partnership, UCF's I· four years ago to change his Cardiologist James Rippe will Department of Health Profes in Stranger than lifestyle. lead the partnership between the sions at the College of Health Fiction. The advice was nothing less UCF Center for Lifestyle Medi and Public Affairs will develop than life-saving, Hitt said cine and the Florida Hospital undergraduate and graduate I "Not only did I survive, but I Institute for Lifestyle Medicine, programs in lifestyle medicine. had minor damage to my heart," located in Celebration. Two professors from the Col Hitt said Most ofthe ·research will hap lege of Health and Public Affairs Now Hitt is leading UCF into pen at UCF's Center for Lifestyle . will commit their research and a partnership with Florida Hos Medicine, ·an 8,000-square-foot teaching time to lifestyle medi pital to study lifestyle medicine, laboratory at Research Park on cine, said Joyce Domer, the col- COURTESY BRAD SHAPIRO the branch of medicine that the south end of campus. The Or. James Rippe, chair of the Florida Hospital Institute for Lifestyle Medicine, left, and John t seeks ways to prevent heart clinical applications will take PLEASE SEE MEDICAL ON AS Hitt, president of UCF, announce a UCF-Florida Hospital partnership on Monday. Memorable show· from NFGatHoB RI DES IN STYLE BRANDON BIELICH , . AROUND CAiVIPUS Equestrian Staff Writer Kristallnacht A sold-out crowd packed the House Club keeps of Blues in Lake Buena Vista on Friday ' . program to cover night to see Florida natives New Found Glory in their first Orlando concert in range of topics Pegasus a more than a year. The event, put on by Hillel @ UCF, ·. ."It's great to be back in our home will feature author and journalist top secret state," guitarist . Chad Gilbert said Edwin Black, who will discuss the between songs. "New Found Glory has Holocaust, big business and how been a band now for like nine years LAUREN MIRO because of you, so thank you." , Contributing Writer it effects everyday life. The event The current tour supports the hew will be held on Thursday at the We've all seen the album Coming Home, which was Ferrell Auditorium at noon. Golden Knight galloping out released in September. However, with on his noble steed, Pegasus, at five albums under their belts, the mem PLEASE SEE AROUND ON Al . UCF football games - but the bers of the band aim to perform songs true identities of 1;he knight and both new and old to please all of their fans. LOCAL & STATE his horse are closely guarded secrets. "We're trying not to lean totally The only ones in the know Minor glitches PLEASE SEE FANS ON A6 If are the members of 1:1:\e UCF reported at polls Equestrian Club, who have pro vided all of the care for the on election day .. school's 10-year-old Andalu Some Florida voters encountered sian horse for the past five minor glitches Tuesday but no years. major problems were reported The mascot team is a as officials hoped that the state's group of UCF Eques trian Club members dark days as an election laugh who carcy out their ingstock were long gone. duties in secrecy. The PLEASE SEE LOCAL ON Al ·team is chosen through auditions. ''You have' to be an active club member to NATION & \VORLD audition; you have to have horse knowledge and riding New light shed experience," said Carla Cor on 23-year-old doba, adviser for the UCF Pegasus and the Golden murder case Knight Mascot Program. "You .Aman, sentenced to diefo{the can't just like [horses]:' COURTESY WILL FRESCH ,. 1983 bludgeoning slayings of a Auditions will be held Nov. ll, Jordan Pundik, vocalist for New Found Glory, perfonns on Marine captain and his wife · and those cliosen will spend spring the Vans Warped Tour at lndianapol_is. while they were camping, has tp and summer riding and training before tak ing the field as the Golden Knight in the fall be retried or released, according This leaves little opportunity for mascot to a circuit court that found the team members to also compete as part of the Spot-swapping man's lawyer at fault for Equestrian Team. botching the first trial. Those hoping to jojn the mascot team must keep a 2.75 GPA and must dedicate an entire year can be a danger PLEASE SEE NATION ON A4 solely to the care of Pegasus. , "It's long days and hard work," said Robin Fambri, JESSICA POUCHER the mascot program coordinator. "Before you audition, Contributing Writer TODAY'S WEATHER you have to assist at a game as a club member to see what Some studentS may be puttirig their hard work it is." safety in jeopardy when they are hunt The Alma Mater Society donated Pegasus to the school five Years ing for a parking spot, according to UCF High: 76° ago. For nearly 10 years, UCF had.been without its own Pegasus, p Low:SS 0 after the program was cut by the athletics office in 1991 officials. "Spot-swapping'' happens when driv ''The Alma Mater Society decided that they wanted to bring ers pick up students who are walking to MOSTLY SUNNY back this tradition," Cordoba said. "It's all done through private their cars instead of following behind them - just to take their parking spot donations." It started with "stalking": A .car INDEX The school's mas creeps up behind a student who is head cot is kept off cam him !fou~-~~~-----------1._ pus at. an undis ing back to his car and follows to his parking spot, notifying other cars with a Weather 2 closed location. iO<ai.&st:aie----··--···--·--·--····-·······-----i- tum signal The more bleak the parking "His everyday Nation & World 4 situation, the farther away the driver care is provided by will begin following. Sports 8 the mascot team," Cor Opinions 11 A driver, desperate for a parking doba said ''They are the ones space, will sometimes follow a student Classifieds-----------· 12 that bathe him, train him, trailer him and ~~o._k!_ _____________________________ ~--.!~ Crossword 13 PLEASE SEE SELF-FUNDED ON A? PHOTO COURTESY UCF EQUESTRIAN ewe PLEASE SEE DRIVERS ON A7 \;> I A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com November 8, 2006 • (en1taf :Jloriba 1utuft , AROUND LOCAL I CAMPUS & ~STATE News and notices for Keep local with headlines , the UCF community you may have missed Pennanent residence workshop Minor glitches reported as voters The International Services head to polls across Florida Center will host a workshop on Chart-climbing MIAMI - Some Florida vot attaining permanent residence ers encountered minor glitches in the U.S. today from 10 am. to bands hit UCF Tuesday, put no major prob- 12:30 p.m. at th~ Barbara Y1ng . lems were reported, as officials Center hoped that the state's dark days The workshop will cover the Arena through as an election laughingstock process of applying for IIl-B sta were long gone. tus and permanent residence. the next week State election officials said For more information, con TIFFANY PALMA all but five of Florida's 6,835 tact Paul Schatz at (407)-823- Staff Writer precincts opened on time. Sec 5491. retary of State Sue Cobb said her office had not received any rrtness orientation Panic! at the Disco, a pop-· reports of major problems in The Recreation and Well punk band hailing from Las Florida Vegas, Nev., will be headlining ness Center will be holding fit- 1 ''.As of right now things are ness orientations today from the Nothing Rhymes with Cir rolling smoothly. We're not real· noon to 5 p.m., with the initial cus To~ this fall happy with the weather, but it's meeting in Room 204. The tour's second show is not so bad, and we hope that These scheduled 60-minute today at the UCF Arena This everybody will go out and vote," sold-out show will also feature sessions are designed to intro COURTESY A&M RECORDS she said, alluding to cloudy duce students to the machines bands Bloc Party and Jack's skies.