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FREE ·Published Wednesdays www.UCFnews.'com ·Wednesday, June 1, 200S TRACK& FIELD UCF HEALTH SERVICES: ROEBUCK LEADS FINISHING PROBLEMS STUDENTS·SOUND OFF .. Bad five weeks leaves baseball out of Regional - SEE SPORTS, A7 - SEE SPORTS, A7 -SEE NEWS,A2 Trustees approve more funding for stadium research Seal of approval • leveled, however until the feasi Some items passed at last Tuition increase and faculty tenure among items passed at last week's meeting bility study is finalized and Thursday's trustees meeting: to wait longer. passes. would begin on the north side approved students will not see ASHLEY BURNS The trustees approved the Athletic Director Steve Orsi of campus behind Jay Bergman • Managing Editor any of the steel structure erect • $500,000 towards stadium expense of $500,000 in private ni said that the study continues Field where the soccer practice ed in the immediate future. study funds to continue pursuihg a to show that the cost of the sta- fields currently exist. The stadi Orsini, though, is optimistic UCF football fans have been • 5 percent tuition and traffic awaiting announcement of the plan for the proposed on-cam . dium will·be recovered through um target date is still set for the that a business plan will be approval of the now-infamous pus home and an additional ticket sales and corporate spon 2006 season despite rumors completed and ready to present fee increases feasibility study for an on-cam expense · of $250,000 was sorships. If passed by the . that the project might not be to the trustees by the end of • Creation of two new degrees pus stadium for months now. included for the displacement trustees, the construction of the ready until the 2007 season. June. for regional campuses After last Thursday's Board of of practice facilities once the 45,000-seat stadium, which is The land• adjacent to the ·Tenure for faculty members Trustees meeting, they'll have feasibility study eventually estimated to cost $48 million, practice fields is' already being PLEASE SEE BUSINESS ON AS • .Newbill charges for extra credits Students who exceed the required .. number of credit hours face $125 fine MEAGAN JOHNSON Staff Writer ''U Can't Finish?" Well; "U" better - or face some stiff fines courtesy of the Florida Legislature. A recently approved educa tional bill, introduced by state • Sen. Lee Constantine, R-Alta monte Springs, aims to curb the increasing number of college stu- • . ·.r dents who graduate with excess credit hours that do notpertain to their baccalaureate degree. Known as bill SB2236, The • Excess Credit Hours bill will charge students 75 percent more than the in-state tuition rate per " credit hour if they graduate with • more than 120 percent of the credit hours they need to gradu ate. This means that with the recently increased in-state : tuition, students would be charged $125.25 for each credit • hour over the limit. The new legislation only applies to freshmen students who are enrolling in the fall 2005 PLEASE SEE BILL ON AS • Building . .bridges more than • a contest SEAN LAVIN Fellowship winner to study under Broadway designers Staff Writer The UCF College ofEngineer RACHEL BAUMBACH The fellowships, also made available to graduate ing hosted . the 14th Annual • ~ontributing Writer students and earJy-career professionals, were National Student Steel Bridge 7 awarded on the basis of tlie winner's submitted ~ Competition Saturday, an honor CF spring gradmite Thamaine Berryhill will portfolio. Berryhill, who graduated with a bachelor's ·" :~, that will help solidify the univer spend two weeks this summer in Washing degree in fine arts, attnbi:ites his win to bis unique '1X sity's position as a civil and envi ton, D.C., studying with esteemed Broadway designs. ~ ~- ·. ~ ronmental engineering power U designers Ming .Cho Lee and Constance "I thinkthat I bring a different set of ~eriences . ...... • • house. Huffman. to each project because of who I am," Berryhill • "'' ' If "It is an honor and a privilege Berryhill is one of only three black students in the wrote in an e-mail sent while he is on l~ation ~t ' ' to even be considered to host the United States to be awarded a Marvin Sims Design Fel his summer job with the Utah Shakespearean Fes-t~ event," said Daniel Hyer, presi lowship through the Kennedy Center American College tival. "I enjoy stretching and challenging.the old tra-t ~ dent of UCF's chapter of Ameri Theater Festival. ditions of the theater. This is apparen,m.my work ii.nd can Society of Civil Engineers. Berryhill won the fellowship offered to costume and rd like to think they can see those attempts." . "The event coordinators at the scenic designers, offering practical exploration ofthe full Of his interest in the design field, Berryhill wrote · national level thought that UCF process - from discussio1'(to research to thumbnails to that h.e has been interested in the arts for some time, _, ' * - put together the best confer- • sketches, rendering and mbdeling: He will be working ence." with eight resident directorS under Lee and Hoffman. · PLEASE SEE THEATER ON A6 Bridge-building teams from across the nation competed at UCF, as well as teams from the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada The competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction and co-sponsored· by ASCE, is one of the most high- PLEASE SEE OPPONENTS ON A6. • Around Campus Nation & World • News and notices for Health options conflict students Keep current with headlines the UCF cpmmunity you may have missed Opinions of the on-campus r~source range from glowing to·growling Grad School Workshop Ex-FBI official was "Deep Throat," • Interested in applying to a tions major: ''The doctor looked The doctor told Sheldon to up in days. confirms graduate program in the near TRACY BERKMAN Washington Post Contributing Writer at me for literally five seconds get some more rest and come Evan Molnar, a junior, also SANTA ROSA, Calif. - future? A workshop teaching before diagnosing me." back for counseling. went in for an ear infection. "I've The Washington Post said the skills needed to get accept The Student Health Center is Mitchell echoed these "It was such a waste of time," never had any problems,'' said Tµesday that a former FBI ed takes place today in Student generally a UCF student's first thoughts, adding: "I understand she said "He made me feel stu the accounting major. "They official, W. Mark Felt, was the Resource Center 1Room 185 stop along the road to recovery that it's free and they need to be pid for even thinking of going to were fast and efficient." confidential source known as from 9 am. to 10 am. when illness strikes. cheap. It's still not right that the health center when I felt sick. Debbie Segovia, a sopho "Deep Throat" who provided Tips on finding the right • However, many UCF stu these people are like talking I felt embarrassed I'd never go more, majors in nursing. She the newspaper information school and preparing your dents feel that the health center robots who prescribe the same back." also works as a cashier at the that led to President Nixon's application will be offered. does not provide top-quality thing for everyone." Lauren Einhorn, a junior _lib health center. She thinks that This event is open to faculty, . impe~chment investigation care. The most common prob Tiffany Liebell, a freshman eral studies major, had a sore students are unaware that they and eventual resignation. • staff and students. Contact lems students experience at the majoring in biology, said that fill throat and cough when she went have options. The paper made its Career Services & Experiential health center are long wait ing out papers and waiting for to the health center. They took "The hard thing is that there Learning at (407) 823-2361. announcement on its Web times, impersonal care from the nurse took longer than the blood from her arm and diag are just so many students,'' site after Felt, 91 and living in • staff and incorrect diagnoses. actual examination. nosed her with mononucleosis. Segovia said "The students feel California, talked to a lawyer Got a major dilemma? Students are instructed to ''The worst part was that they "The doctor just came up to like they're just going in and who wrote a magazine article This afternoon in Student arrive half an hour earlier than diagnosed me wrong," she said. me and told me I had mono," she coming out. They have choices, for Vanity Fair.' Resource Center Room 185 their appointment time, but wait "I had a sore throat and swollen said. "Then he handed me a though. They can request to see from 4 p.µi. to 5 p.m. there will Felt, the second-in-com • longer before being seen by a glands. They told me that I haye sheet to read about it and left." a doctor.