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Central Florida Future. 1924. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1924 SPACE WEATHER • DOUBLE TROUBLE Local professors receive Football isn't alone as volleyball drops $1 million NASA grant to build satel)ite camera two matches in Gainesville -· SEE SPORTS,A9. - SEE NEWS,A2 • ,• • FREE • Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays www.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Wednesdai September 13, 2006 • • Pregame • party in downtown • Despite best ranking ever, UCF is still trailing other Florida scho~ls Orlando . • I JENNIFER ALVIRA TIFFANY PALMA The top S standings Contributing Writer Staff Writer School Rank The Student Government Associa­ • When it comes to being one of America's Princeton 1 tion will sponsor the first-ever UCF vs. top colleges, a lack of academic resources, a USF Block Party Friday complete with growing.population and relatively low facul­ Harvard 2 food, live performances, music and free ty salaries are slowing UCF's progress into Yale 3 tra,nsportation to the event. the list of top schools. The block party will give everyone U.S. News and World Report printed a spe­ Cal Tech 4 the chance to have a great time showing cial report on Aug. 28 titled ''.America's Best Stanford 5 off their black-and-gold pride, SGA'.s Colleges." The article, which lists hundreds athletics and tradition coordinator said of colleges and universities, is designed to "It will be like the ultimate pep rally," · help students searching for a college fmd the said SGA Athletics and Tradition Coor­ right choice. Florida school standings dinator Brandon Delanois. "It's all • Despite earning the school's best ranking Florida 47 about showcasing our pride, our talent ever, UCF was still assigned to the third tier and to get ready to take it to the USF of schools, which comprises the schools Miami 54 bowl the next day." ranked 125 to 180. FSU 110 The block .party will be held at • Fifteen factors were considered in U.S . Church Street Station in downtown News' assessment, including graduation and UCF Third tier* Orlando from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. The retention rates, faculty resources and student event is free to the public with free selectivity. FIU Fourth tier** • Problems in all these areas have been FAU Fourth tier** . PLEASE SEE SGA ON A6 experienced by UCF students. For many, the * Rank 125-180, ** Rank 181-248 ranking was not a surprise. • "UCF is kind of like a kid hitting that ado- · lescent age," Andrew Gluchov, 23, a double major in accounting and management infor­ mation systems said "Slowly, it is improving Students try its programs." Gluchov said that QCF is improving their programs, and already has strength through to cope with · its engineering and business departments. Yet even though programs are growing, LSAT stress UCF was still unable to make the list, much unlike its neighbors at the University of Florida and Florida State University. Many Lavvschooladtnittance PLEASE SEE STUDENTS ON A8 test a trial for students JESSICA LINDBLAD Contributing Writer • For some UCF students, the Law School Amissions Test can cause uncontrollable anxiety, cold sweats and sleepless nights. • The I.SAT, as it is commonly known, is a test that helps determine a college student's future in law. The half-day test measures a stu­ • dent's reasoning in reading, logic and verbal skills. A passing score requires a lot of No. 2 pencils and one's complete dedication. • "You have to really want it and you have to be really dedicated because it's a really hard test," Joanna Blackstone, a senior journalism major, said "It makes you retrain yourself to think a certain PLEASE SEE LSAT ON Al. • Bus funding gives students another • way to get around SUSIE ORR Contributing Writer Lynx has received $5.2 million from • Seminole County to add 21 more buses to its fleet, which company officials say will increase on-time performance in all the available routes, including the UCF area. Many UCF students who are look­ ing for an.alternative to parking on .. campus have the option of taking Lynx buses, Central Florida's form of public transportation, to campus. Lynx routes are available to the main campus directly from Oviedo, down­ town Orlaildo and the Valencia Com­ munity College East campus. In December, a route called the ·~afaya Circulator" will become available with stops between UCF and Waterford Lakes. ,. .. Many students who use Lynx cur­ rently say there are pros and cons in taking public transportation. • PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BYB ENHEND ERSON I CENTRALFL ORIDA FUTUR E PLEASE SEE BUS ON A6 A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com .. September 13, 2006 • (wtnl :Jlodba 11mnl • " AROUND NATION& CAMPUS UCF professors get NA.SA ~t WO RID • News and notices for Professors to . Keep crirrent with headlines the UCF community · you may haVe missed Volunteer with children build device that In ma)or shift, Hamas gives Abbas The Orlando Day Nursery meas~es space go-ahead for talks with Israel will hold an event today on its GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - • grounds from 8:45am.to12:30 weather's effects Hamas officials gave Palestin­ p.m. where volunteers can ian President Mahmoud Abbas spend time with children. the go-ahead Tuesday for nego­ Volunteers must wear JENNMAIEno tiations with Israel, a major closed-toe shoes and should Contributing Writer shift in the militant Islainic refrain from showing any tat­ group's position as it works to toos or piercings, other than . James Harvey, associate end its international isolation. earrings. Those without trans­ professor of optics at the UCF All Israeli military court, • portation can meet in the VAB College of Optics and Photon­ meanwhile, ordered the release parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to car­ ics, and Assistant Professor of 19 HamaS officials - includ­ pool to the nursery. Richard Eastes ' of the Florida ing Cabinet ministers and law­ • For more inforination, con­ Space Institute, have been makers - from an Israeli tact Meagan Johnson at (407) awarded a $999,500 grant prison. The men, arrested by 823-6471. from NASA to build an ultra­ Israel after the June 25 capture vi<;>let imaging spectrometer. of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit by • Leaming Fair 2006 Aµ ultraviolet imaging Hamas-linked militants, will The Student Academic spectrometer is, in basic remain behind bars for several Resource Center will host its terms, a camera that separates more days pending aD. appeal third annual learning fair different light wavelengths by by prosecutors. • to.day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in color. The camera recognizes Israel said the court decision the Student Union, Key West ultraviolet rays similar to ones was not meant to reward 218AB. that penetrate the ozone and Hamas for its moves toward Various organizations. will cause sunburns. By studying moderation. these ultraviolet rays, scien­ showcase the different learn­ BIUAN BUSTOS I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Hamas, whose ideology calls ing support services available tists can monitor changes in Professors Richard Eastes of the Florida Space Institute, left, and James Harvey of the UCF College of Optics and Photonics have received for Israel's destruction, reached to UCF students. There will the composition of the upper nearly $1 million in grant money to build a high-tech camera.used to monitor changes in Eart,h's upper atmospheres. agreement Monday with • aiso be food, prizes, and give­ atmospheres around Earth. Abbas' Fatah Party to form a aways. "It will tell if there's an satellite. It will be aimed at the or the northern lights, will be viewing the ultraviolet rays unity government in an effort to ' For more infonnation, con­ atmospheric change in tem­ Earth. It's similar to the satel­ c9mpletely visible and have that make up the lights. end the financial crisis crip­ tact Ana Mack at (407) 823- perature or density,'' Eastes lites used in satellite televi­ continuous images captured. Both Eastes and Harvey pling the Palestinian economy. 5l30. said. "Temperature and densi- sion, whereas it is fixed on one Other satellites would move in stressed the importance of International donors cut off aid . ty are closely related." position. This satellite will orbit and fail to .capture the this instrument to the Nation- to the Palestinian Authority Employment Prep Conference The spectrometer will be move with the Earth. For the entire northern lights. This when Hamas formed its Cabi­ Career Services & Experi­ attached to a geostationary first time,. the aurora borealis, spectrometer is perfect for PLEASE SEE PROJECT ON A5 net six months ago. Hamas is· enticll Learning will hold an listed as a terror group by Israel employment preparation ·con­ . and the West. ference today from 12 p.m. to Palestinian Prime Minister 4:30 p.m. in t4e Pegasus Ball- Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas . room of the Student Union. , LSAT stress can overwhelm students leader, said the government Loe~ national and interna­ itself would not be involved in tional employers will address FROM Al Handberg said thatone rea­ would be.