University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 7-17-2002 Central Florida Future, Vol. 34 July 17, 2002 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. 34 July 17, 2002" (2002). Central Florida Future. 1583. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1583 • • Back to school Classes resume Road Aug. 19. Pick up blocks The Future Bergman • Mondays and plugs the holes. Thursdays in the THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING UCF SINCE 1968 -SEE SPORTS, 32 fall and spring . • • . Methane leaks force evacuations An overwhelming smell of off gas to the building while fire­ "We had the same problem Continuous methane gas prompted Angelina fighters checked the building on July 5, and the gas was a lot Symptoms suffered Feliciano, an administrative with gas detectors to determine stronger," Feliciano said. "But due to leaks .. leaks can cause assistant in the physics depart­ whether or not there was a fire they let us back into the building ment, to call UCF's police or explosion hazard. After they around noon that day." Nausea nausea, headaches department that morning. determined that the gas levels in Anna Marie Durant, a secre­ • Cpl. Dennany, Sgt. Moore, the building did not pose a tary in the math department, Headaches Officer Luppo, Officer Emert and health risk, Environmental said that many people inside the Disorientation JASON lRSAY Officer Darcey responded to Health and Safety deemed the building have experienced STAFF WRJTER Feliciano's cail and pulled the building safe and let people back health problem over the past few Fatigue fire alarms to evacuate the into the building. weeks because of the continuous An unfixed methane leak in building. The unit searched the Feliciano said the building methane leaks. · UCF's Math and Physics build­ building but did not find the bas had gas leaks before-the "Quite a number of people ing forced students and faculty leak. first major leak occurred on July to evacuate on July 10. The Physical Plant turned 5. PLEASE SEE Many ON 3 • UCF brings historic theater back to life ALEXI HOWK STAFF WRITER Plans to revive the old Orlando Civic Theatre complex ' in Loch Haven Park have taken ' ' center stage-thanks to some tenacious fund-raising efforts · and an educational partner­ • ship with UCF. Construction workers have finally started hammer­ ing away at the 75-year-old • complex to bring it up to mod­ ern building and safety code standards. The complex will be home • to. a program associated with UCF's master's of fine arts degree in theater-a new degree first offered last fall. PLEASE SEE First oN 7 LISA APPLEGATE I CFF Shiou-San Kuo, director of the Florida Sinkhole Research Institute, uses underground imaging equipment to investigate sinkholes in Central Florida . • • A sinking feeling • BENJAMIN D. BAIRD because 80 percent of sinkhole reports STAFF WRJTER UCF professor heads are actually other events that are mis­ takenly reported as sinkholes by home • 4,000 sinkholes in Central Florida in and business owners, according to Kuo. 20 years make sinkholes a very imminent Florida Sinkhole While there have been no sinkhole danger for Central Florida property own­ occurrences at UCF, buildings at UCF, ers. Research Institute like many structures in Central Florida, • UCF professor Shiou-San Kuo has are built on top of underground cavities become Central Florida's sinkhole expert formed by acidic water, Kuo said. as director of the Florida Sinkhole Kuo's organization is able to deter­ During construction of the Health Research Institute. mine whether or not an alleged sinkhole and Public Affairs Building, an under­ When a 15-foot wide sinkhole threat­ is actually a sinkhole by completing sur­ ground cavity was discovered about 100 ened a section of Interstate 4 near Lake JOE KALE!TA I CH veys of the sinkhole site using under­ feet below the surface indicating a poten- Work has begun at the 75-year-old Orlando Mary Boulevard, authorities turned to ground imaging equipment. Civic Theatre to bring it up to existing Kuo for direction. The imaging equipment is necessary PLEASE SEE Underground ON 3 building and safety codes. .. - INSIDE Index: I\ packed house Q&A with Orsini Police Beat ............. 8 • Rock powerhouse Cinderella Editorials ...•.......... , 12 An in depth interview with UCFs new AD. returns to Orlando. 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Powertrain Warranty All Power, & Much More! I Hwy 17- 2 * We can Assist You With: UBiE GRAD PROGRAM f, FIRST TIME (407) 385-3300 BIWER CREDIT PROBHMS • *Al Leases se calcdated Wilh so.- down. billes 1SI P8V111e111. osec. dePOSil. laOS.111e m ICenSe. • July 17, 2002 • The Central Florida Future News• 3 • . • Underground cavities cause sinkholes FROM PAGE 1 tected from sinkholes because • the immense pressure causes tial sinkhole in the future. soil underneath the heavy struc­ Sinkhole-causing cavities, tures to solidify and keeps like the one discovered under structures from falling into the • the Health and Public Affairs crevices. builc:ling, are filled with a con­ According to Kuo, the best crete grout to reverse the sink­ way to prevent sinkholes in the • hole's effects . future is to properly investigate Sinkholes, most common in sinkhole occurrences. Florida where stretches of dry­ "We have a lot more work to ness are followed by heavy rain­ do, new developments need • fall, form when cracks in under­ exploration," Kuo said. ground limestone allow water Kuo said that with more and soil to seep into the cavities. funding, The Florida Sinkhole The existence of a cavity Research Institute would be • does not mean a sinkhole will able •to help property owners A ~D ANYONE TRiSPASStNG form immediately because the protect their structures by ON THIS PROPERTY, UPON process is very slow, Kuo said. warning them of possible sink­ • But the potential for sinkhole hole dangers. CONVICTION SHALL E activity increases when things He said a standard set of GUilTY OF AFELONY. such as heavy construction and codes need to be created to traffic move soil into the cavi­ ensure that structures stand up ties. to hurricanes and that sites are While structures like build­ properly searched and safe for ings, roads and houses increase building on. .. the likelihood of sinkhole forma­ "A standard procedure for tions, heavily developed areas all construction could eliminate JOE KALEITA I CFF like downtown Orlando are pro- future problems." Kuo said. A150-foot wide sinkhole forced the evacuation of about 100 residents at Wood hill Apartments last month in Pine Hills. • " Many professors relocate Miss UCF classes to different buildings competes for FROM PAGE the state title . 1 Mammino added that they are rarely forced to close buildings were getting ill, getting fatigued, because of gas leaks because leaks JULIE MONHEIM • disoriented, nauseous and having don't usually spread throughout an STAFF WRITER severe headaches," Durant said. It was obvious entire building. "It's been slow leaks for the past "People call right away, we While many students spent last semester three weeks. there was respond right away, and we fix it," with their faces buried in textbooks, Isabel "It got to the point that you did­ he said. "We don't have to close Rougeau was preparing for a different kind of n't even get into the building, and something buildings down very much. This is test-a test that involved vigorous workouts, the smell was hitting you in the out of the ordinary to have to close intense interview sessions and hours of voice face," she said. leaking; they the building." training. "We were all getting sick and He said: "The building is open Rougeau, who won the title of Miss UCF shut the office and went outside," shouldn't have again. Can it happen again? Maybe. 2002, went on to compete in the Miss Florida Durant said. "Otherwise we would I guess it depends on what they pageant this past June in Miami. Miss Florida have been on the floor." waited four find." is a state pageant that serves as a prelimi­ Durant said she notified several Gas had been turned back on in nary for the national Miss America competi­ UCF agencies, including the weeks to do most of the rooms in the Math and tion.