Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 25, March 4, 2009
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 3-4-2009 Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 25, March 4, 2009 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. 41 No. 25, March 4, 2009" (2009). Central Florida Future. 2194. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2194 , ' I ! • • Broke at break Takingitto'em Students find cheaper The 5th-seeded Knights battle Rice in ways to spend break C-USA Championship -SEE sPORTS,As - SEE STUDENTS,AS • CRIME OF MICE AND Landlines to be cut front dorms E AMassachusetts man has been fined Cost to UCF will be reduced by $530k $500 for assaulting a Chuck E. Cheese JESSICA GILLESPIE Residence Life currently students. mouse.Authorities say 34-year--old Contributing Writer spends about $530,000 "The university is Trahan Pires thought the perpetually annually to provide land reviewing whether the happy mascot had pinned his 11- On-campus residents line telephone service in money now spent on year--old son against a video game. at UCF will have to stick all resldence hall rooms, landline phones should Pires then ripped off the mascot's to using cell phones in excluding the Towers," instead be invested in headpiece and yelled at him. dormitories next year. Chad Binette of UCF other resources, such as Pires plead guilty on Monda . Landlines will be News & Information said. adding wireless network removed from the resi While that money connections to the resi dence halls because of the comes from student hous- . dence halls," Binette said. expense and the lack of ing rental charges, it may Students can access student use. be put toward something CAITLIN BUSH / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE "UCF Housing and that would benefit more PLEASE SEE CELL ON A6 Miguel Lozano plays a game in his dorm while his landline phone sits unused. ···- orn male, UCF computer Cutsmay ANIMALS analyst Davina Hovanec said Gazette gives B she felt like she had lived a lie for most of her life. She said \ she wrestled with an identity cri- .causea sis that caused depression and a feeling ·of being disconnected woman away from society. string of But one day while working on The New Zealand of Christ church campus, someone asked Hovanec hopes that putting Barry Manilow if she ever felt she had been born furloughs on speakers throughout the mall will to share story the wrong gender. ., pacify unruly teens that hang out at "I am floored but respond the location. with a soft yes," Hovanec wrote Four unpaid-leave Agroup of several dozen young in My Story, My Secret, a . people regularly spread rubbish, Web site allows anyone to poem/short story that details days a year possible spray grafitti, get intoxicated, use Hovanec's struggles with being a KARI WILBERG drugs,swear and intimidate patrons. submit gender perspectives transsexual and her battle with News Editor Hodgkin's disease, which she was MARY DAVIS undergoing chemotherapy for at Furlough days are a lingering Contributing Writer the time. possibility for faculty and staff at "I was so emotional I needed UCF, according to Grant Heston of to write something, and I wanted UCF News & to be able to share it," Hovanec Information. fur·lough n. said. With more a. Aleave of While she researched ways to than $40 mil absence or vacation, Breaking share her story, Hovanec found lion in budget especially one news on The Gender Gazette, an online lit cuts since July granted to a erary collection produced by 1, 2008, the member of the myour cell women's studies students that UCF adminis armed forces. .. features poems, fiction and non tration is start: Get UCF news sent to your cell fiction, visua,l art, graphic litera ing to think of b. Ausually phone. Just text the keyword new ways to temporary layoff UCFNEWS to 44636. ture, and podcasts submitted by UCF students and staff. prepare for the from work. "I thought The Gender Gazette next round. would be perfect because I felt I More budg c. Aleave of AROUND CAMPUS, A2 absence from prison EAT INDIAN FOOD IN was speaking to a good audi et cuts are granted to a ence," she said. expected July 1 prisoner. THE MARKETPLACE By submitting her piece and of this year. having it accepted and published, Heston said the STARTING AT 11 A.M. Hovanec said she felt accepted. state legislature has experienced a The Marketplace and Knightro's will "I gained confidence as a $5 billion to $6 billion budget be serving Indian-inspired dishes writer, and I gained the shortfall and warned universities beginning at 11 a.m. as part of the human side of myself back," that a 5 to 15 percent budget cut is weeklong celebration of the Indian she said. "It was a healing possible. Spring Festival. That event takes and rewarding experi Heston said the university is place on Friday at 6:30 p.m. ence." waiting to see what the legislature The Gender does during the next four to six Gazette aims to weeks and also said the university LOCAL & STATE, A2 does not lmow what to expect yet. PLEASE SEE "Expect the best, plan for the FATHER: COAST GAZETTE worst," he said. • He said even though no deci GUARD LOSING HOPE ON A3 sions have been made, the idea of OF FINDING PLAYERS furlough days is a possibility. The families of two NFL players and Furlough days would mean a third man lost at sea watched as SHARON WEAVER/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE the search entered its third day Davina Hovanec contributes to an online publication by students of the women's studies program. The Gender Gazette is currently accepting contributions. PLEASE SEE CUTS ON A7 Tuesday, with odds stacking against their hope the Coast Guard could still find survivors in a chilly sea. Busted: 15-nrln~ rule a myth Incubator helps NATION & WORLD,A4 WILLIAM BUCHANAN CHIEF: GUINEA Contributing Writer fresh ideas ripen ~~~-.. ,·;,~, ........... - ........ ~~t BISSAU IN 'VERY The clock is ticking. • ·- _-.,_-1,' JOHANNA STEWART supply it to them quickly DELICATE' SITUATION Waiting for a professor • ~~ .. "1'! Contributing Writer before they get in trouble." The man in line to become Guinea to show up can be a long 15 A The UCFBIP was devel Bissau's interim leader briefly minutes. As businesses flail in an oped by O'Neal in 1999 to addressed the nation Tuesday for But wait, are students unsteady economy, the make new, growing com the first time since the president's allowed to leave class after UCF Business Incubation panies smarter and have 15 minutes if the professor Program helps entrepre faster successful startups. "' assassination brought about a • power vacuum. is tardy? Some say yes, and neurs develop a fresh start The purpose is for a go. and new ideas to stay client to achieve a level of Others fear the profes afloat. financial and corporate • sor will show up 17 minutes From the beginning, growth that enables them INDEX TODAY'S • into class, angry that some RAYMA JENKINS/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE executive director Tom to leave the incubator and WEATHER • Around 2 students left already. No Anthropology professor George Long walks into his 3 p.m. dass at 2:45 p.m. O'Neal has worked to enter the second stage of Campus 2 one seems to lmow what while students are already seated in the class expecting his arrival. expand and grow the Cen corporate growth. accord Weather 2 <~ ~~ ~ the official rule on class tral Florida small business ing to the incubator Web Local & State 4 room tardiness is. arrive more than 15 min University does not have a community into a success site. Nation & World 4 Known by many differ utes late to a class, students formal policy about stu ful arena for the local econ O'Neal said nationally, .. Sports 8 MOSTLY ent names in many differ may leave without conse dents' or professors' tardi omy. 87 percent of incubator Opinion 10 SUNNY ent places, a rule exists that quence. ness to class. 'We are like the emer graduates are still in busi Oassifieds 11 is commonly dubbed the Officially, however, Each student and pro gency room in a hospital." ness five years after gradu Sudoku 11 68° 47° ''IS-minute rule." Christine Dellert from fessor is responsible for O'Neal said "Our job is to ation and 84 percent stay in Crossword 11 HIGH LOW Unofficially, it states UCF News and Informa figure out what [members " that should a professor tion said via e-mail, "The PLEASE SEE POLICY ON A7 of the program] need and PLEASE SEE PROGRAM ON A6 :, A2 www.Centra!FloridaFuture.com March 4, 2009 • ~ :Jloriba ~ AROUND CAMPUS {!tutral • News and notices for the UCF community 3f=loriba • Eat Indian food on campus Come eat at Desi Mad ness: Flavors of India Date. The Marketplace and Poet writes, raps about life and culture 3f=uturt Knightro's will be serving The Student Newspaper at (l(f since 1968 Indian-inspired dishes KELLY ZVSKOWSKI beginning at ll am. as part Contributing Writer March 4, 2009 of the week-long celebra Vol 41, Issue 25 • 12 Pages tion of the Indian Spring From Russell Simmons' HBO "Def Poetry" to performing The Centro/ Florido Future is the independent, student Festival.