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A D I G I T A L C I T Y 0 R L A N D 0 C 0 M M U N I T Y P A R T N E R (AOL Keyword: Orlando) www.orlando.digitalcity.com , Judicial council declares ballot invalid By SHELLEY WILSO~ Three amendments and two referendums regular elections constitutional amendments and referen Staff Writer were passed by the Senate on Sept. 3. ballot and the dums on the Fall '98 Student Senate Amendments one and two were placed on Judicial Council General Election run-off Ballot. This Act When students went to vote for the run the ballot but number three was not. They concurred with her. was passed by acclamation from the off elections last week, some students were not on the regular elections ballot They stated that Senate by Oct. 8. might have been surprised they weren't due to the fact that they had not been the ballot was not The Special Act stated, "The Student • just voting for candidates. - advertised two weeks prior to the regular invalid in the regu~ Senate is granted the power under Article Two amendments and two referendums elections as required by.senate statutes. lar elections. Therefore there would not be II, Section 5, Subsection L. to enact, by were also on the ballot for students to vote. They were, however, advertised during anything added to the ballot in the run- majority vote, special acts requiring action • How and why they were put on the ballot the fourth week of September meeting the offs. · by individuals · or groups responsible to was a call ultimately made by the Chief two-week requirement for the run-off On Oct. 5, a Special Act introduced by Stud.ent Government. Under this the Justice Mike Shutley, and the Judicial elections. the Senate and E&A Committees required Constitution granted the Senate the power • Council. This decision was made the day The new Elections Commissioner, the Student Government Elections before the run-off elections took place. Cheryl Fox, ruled not to put.them on the Commission, as a whole, place all of the See NEW, Page 6 • UCF film department • hires known director • By TODD MCFLIKER formed a friendly professional rela Staff Writer tionship and stayed in touch • through the years. After working The UCF Film Department has together in Hollywood, Jones hired a new visiting associate pro became a professor of film anima • fessor, Bruce E. Weiss. tion and is currently UCF's Chair of Weiss has worke.d as a tenured the Film Department. professor at two other universities, Weiss was producing and direct as well as running "Weiss ing a new TV series in Las Vegas 4he. lnteinationaf Student fairoo October 12 · • ;5;;'' ",3 ·;<:. - ' • Productions" film making for 20 when Jones contacted him. sfiowcased the various nationafitles p-r.esent at t.JCF. years. Weiss said he came to UCF "We worked together in LA, an~ Foo.d and:eageantry of cultures ·from around the. world, with the idea of turning his teaching I know that he is a great filmmaker, w.ere on ~splay i~ the s~~dent auditorium. s,,.., ~ - s • into a more tenured track position. a great teacher, and a great guy," He has experience in producing TV said Jones. "It's a real thrill for commercials in New York, Los UCF to get someone of Bruce's cal • Angeles and Cincinnati . iber to work here." ' UCFPD SERIES 5 OF 5 "I don't just teach the theory, I "This place can be one fantastic -::--:- teach what I've done and what I am film school, and I came here to help • still doing," Weiss said. make that happen," Weiss said . New ,,pro~ram ;gits ~toUgh ~ on Weiss attended Boston University "The students are fabulous because . I for film, where he studied under it's a small enough program to get • Professor Robert Jones. They to personally know and work with each student. carripus substanc,e problem·· "If we settle down into the work, • this department should be one of By GWEN R. RHODES to get busted and what to do if you do get the top five film schools in the Assistant News .Editor ·busted." country." A 1997 survey of college administrators The students are eager to work The UCF Police Department will begin a compiled by Dr. David S. Anderspn of • with Weiss. Substanc~ Abuse Prevention, Education and Georg~ Mason University and Dr. Angelo F. "I think that it is important for us Enforcement Program in January, -Oesigned to Oadaleto of West Chester University revealed as students to be exposed to new educate the UCF community about the use of ~·administrators believe alcohol abuse is • perspectives, such as Professor alcohol and otherksubstances and the penal responsible. for a latge proportion of vio Weiss' New York style," said UCF ties that can result from their abuse. lence, personal injury, acquaintance rape and film major, Jessica Fainter. Crime Prevention Police Officer Jeannette property damage on their cam.puses." • "Our experience of working with Emert said UCF's Crime Prevention Unit and College administrators also say there has him will be both inspirational and peer educators have been providing alcohol been increased use of tobacco products, mar instructional," said film student Joe education and prevention progi;_ams on cam ijuana and drugs, according to the survey. • Granato. pus for many years. The SAPEE program will Police Officer Jerry Emert came up with the The Florida sun is quite a change help add to the police department's arsenal in idea for the SAPEE program after noticing for Weiss. For two years, he worked addressing the ongoing problem at UCF. the high number of DUis and substance weekends and nights driving a cab "We try to help [students) get the most out abuse problems on the UCF campus. Photo by Kevin Colbei: in New York City to finance an of this time of their lives without killing Jerry Emert, an 18-year law enforcement · Associate Professor Bruce Weiss independent film project. It was a themselves/' she said. ''We teach them the came to UCF's film school after See EDUCATION~ Page 2 • symptoms of alcohol overdose and how not 20 years as a filmmaker. See UCF PROFESSOR, Page 4
• Raising a Tiger
Earl Woods discusses parenting ~--.i.:...... , Any town's better than 'Our Town': Following their bye week, UCF will during family weekend. theatre review in entertainment. take on the ragin' Cajuns. -PAGE4 - PAGE 19 ~-~-"'-'··..! -PAGE 28 • October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 2
• Some fright at Moss Park Cool guys go to college too • By SHELLEY WILSON a mile long loop and the skits are all By VICKI DESORMIER runity to study and work toward his degree. Staff Writer along the loop for people on the Staff Writer He said, however, that he's not sure he'll trailer to view." ever finish the degree. He just wants to get If you' re looking for something to . "A student asked me if a skit was • Dana Schiefler never thought much about some knowledge, do the Saturday before Halloween, a performance but it's actually more college when he was a kid! Schiefler said he has been trying to instill Moss Park and Volunteer UCF like a scene that will be witnessed as He said college was a greater love for learn- together have put together the visitors go by," Meketa said. Haunted Woods program. "The scene is totally up to the vol ~:!•::!~;;~ .QW,~§! ~,,~,., : in ~s c~:n, :~~ Last August, the recreation spe unteers how they want it to be por 0 bookworms and the eleventh grade. He said cialist for Moss Park, Cynthia trayed," she added. nerds went to college. Cool guys got jobs. he knows he could have gone a lot further as • Meketa, contacted the UCF There will be 15 or more scenes Schiefler believed thatfor a long time. a professional if he pad chosen college over Volunteer Office looking for volun during the hayride, which according He went to work right after high school. wa;rk. teers for a program that Moss Park to Meketa, can be scary for young He did construction for a long time and then ''My oldest son says he's going to go to • would be conducting for Halloween. children to watch. moved into supervisory positions at various. sec and see if he likes college before he Veronica Tasser is the director for "People will also be walking by to companies in his nJ,~.tive. Syracuse, NY. tries to enroll in a 'real school'," he noted. VUCF and chooses one event per jump out of trees to scare people. It ''I just wanted to make a lot of money," he "The other one.. .I don't know about him. He month for the volunteers to be is family oriented but we don't say ·• said. "College cost money and that wasn't scmnds like I did at that age. He keeps say- involved in. Tasser chose Haunted to the volunteers to tone down the wbaJ I wanted to do anyhow." ing he's not going to even try college. And Woods for Moss Park for October scariness of their scene. We do tell . fate~ ~e . said,'"Hslapped hHn in the head a, PY: just doesn~t und~rstand why rm doing because she thought it would be a parents that it may not be suitable • co~ple timesn when he realized he ~aS I am.'' great project for students to be for their children," she said. 'of what ~· being p~sed over for better jobs by people He said th.e besthe can do is hope that both involved in for Halloween. Ticket sales for the hayride begins 1 "WP() haci'degrees ..'· . · , his sons foam froµi his mistakes. His wife, According to Tasser the volunteer at 7 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. T~e • :'.All they had that I didn~t was that little who has a degree in counseling, is a flight turnout rate has been very good. last ride should be done by mid of paper;·~ l1eisaid. -"Sometimes I was attendant. "So far we have 10-plus groups night. The tickets for the ride are $5 piece. more qualified, butthey had more education ''She makes more money doing that than signed up which is amazing because for adults and $3 for children ages 3 than me... " . - sbe did with her degree,'' he said. "I'm afraid • each group has a good number of and up. Children under three are Schieflet said he ldiew he couldn't work in the kids S'ee that fttid they put two and two students," Tasser said. "On top of free. All the funds collected will go the field, even as a supervisor, forever. He together. In this case tWo and two ain't that we have students walking in the to new programs and facility renova ,. krlew he:o tJad to ~ak'.e a ptan apd d
From PAGE 1 limits. The best thing about it is that we DUI offenders will have to attend a is not really an enforcement program," • at least got them to think about what they one-semester course of about 50 hours Jerry Emert said. "The aim is to identify veteran, was hired in May 1994 and are doing." which they pay for (about $150). As part students that are at risk to be substance works the midnight .shift four months a Jerry Emert said he got the idea for the of the course, they will have to complete abusers to get them the required educa • year. He said he has handled about 100 program after hearing about the Orange 100 hours of community service, which tion and motivation to stop before they DUI cases since he was hired. He said he County DUI squad, specifically designed they cannot buy their way out of. hurt themselves, someone else or get looks exclusively for DUis when he is to find drunk drivers. The traditional community service pro kicked out of school. • not on another call. "The only problem with that at UCF is gram, which is normally part of a pretrial "I tried to model the program after the He said he realized arresting people for that the kids aren't learning anything diversion program, allows offenders to DARE program in the schools. It is a DUI wasn't the only way to help the uni from it," he said. "I wanted them to get a buy their way out of the community ser community policing program with teeth." • versity, so he started looking for other lesson that they would remember. vice at the rate of $10 an hour. The The program is being supported by ways. He began giving lectures to vari "No one I'm aware of has all parts in Emerts say parents often buy their chil Orange and Seminole County Sheriff's ous groups on campus :'uch as GAMMA one program. I wanted to include the dren's way out of serving any communi Departments. and training sessions for the dorm resi enforcement ty service time. "They will be carrying the student • dent advisors. angle as well as Traditional referral forms with them," said Jerry During these sessions he talked about educate them." community ser Emert, "as long as kids don't give the the penalties of DUI, what types of phys The program I tried to model the vice usually deputy a lot of problems, they will be • iological effects drinking has on the would make the involves helping ejected into our new program here. human body and worked to dispel myths education part program a~er the DARE churches and However, if they give the deputy prob about drinking. For example, he said mandatory. This other local orga lems or lie about their age, they will • 1 most people believe it is OK to have one will be enforced program in the schools. It nizations, but probably go to jail in addition to our drink in an hour. But he said it depends for any type of is a community policing UCF's program classes." on a person's body weight. He also said substance will require The police department also is in nego • alcohol has different effects on men and abuse, although program with teeth." offenders to per tiations with the State Attorney's Office women. the main focus form community to implement some version of a pretrial · - Officer Jerry Emert During some of the educational ses is alcohol. service which diversion program which would incorpo • sions, the Emerts gave groups of volun For example, helps them learn rate the new UCF program. teers a standard sobriety test. Then, using students who a lesson about Another goal Jerry Emert has is the pur~ a set of "fatal vision" goggles which are stopped for something minor such as the consequences of substance abuse. chase of a couple of police cars that simulate drunkenness, the volunteers an open container will get a Student Some of the community service locations would have a recognizability factor in the • repeated the sobriety tests. Affairs Referral, also known as a judicial include emergency rooms, halfway hous community and on campus. This experiment was repeated using 21- process form. They then will receive a es and rehabilitation centers. Other possi "They would be black with gold stripes year-old volunteers who drank controlled penalty that suits the crime. bilities include working with the Mothers and have something like Substance • amounts of alcohol. The students found Jerry Emert said some of the details still Against Drunk Driving organization. The Abuse Unit on them," he said. "I would they could not perform as well while are being worked out. The tentative plan exact details will be determined between hope that when the officers drive them wearing the goggles or after drinking. is for firsHime offenders to attend six the start of the program in January and around campus that it would help serve "This opened their eyes," said Jerry hours of an educational program. the next fall semester. as a notice to the students so that they Emert. ''They realir.ed that they were not Second-time offenders will attend a 12- "The program will be under the UCF would not drive while under the influ very good judges of their own drinking hour program. Support Services Commander because it ence." • October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future• 3
• WWW. .!~~~~,, • TEXTBOOKS ... ·Hispanic Awarenes.s Month.kicks off ••• -· ;.'If' l ~· ';.;.. "~~ ~; .~;.-; "' "'~ - . ·. -/?'1;;.;,., . By AMBER FELDMAN His expressionistic works ate.. "Having Arturo here temU'tds fessorsJ this d.ream tl.lat I hope ,. JI-.. ·<" ~-- • , ·::s..,:r:, .. ;R).r ..·• ,. Staff Writer , designed to show the differ.. . me of the many talent$1Qf the to continue would not have ~ i -r<"' ~i( '""~.,~,,~.~) ence betw~en physic(l1 ancf: ~:mvlt~cultutal stftdents ,~cl.t~ati been possible['~ , ,--...~~'\,,. ~ ••,.~.-·'' • ,,;.:•: ~f . ..,. ·"'' ""' In ceJebraticm of,,llispanic . spiritua,leleinrnts.J!e is a res~.:;;:: ; " se'Vtdent for stu~~,. ·.' •' : .• t4( Coo:~.~ \YaS ~yen an award, • You';,ergotta xAwareness Montlf~ •* the ,. d~nt.ptY~ez~,¢1a ~q retuq\7 , J·: ~et Y9Pl.' g:q~l~ (,\ w, ..· ~~ ;;'\.presented ~¥ti .Roz:;mski, on have 'em, so i". Hispanic AmetiJ~n> Student to Orlandtrfor the prese~t\!ip'n.· ..... lY hard ~. yo~ ci\n-> ~c .··.eve . b~half of~~~~- · ""' Association held its cannual art · The reception began with• thetr!. and your .dreams> ;·~an · •· ; ~ozanski :also presented cer- why spend 4 exhibit reception on Oct."9 :iri opening ·remarks from HASA':: . true."· Foi:d sai{J. "' ·. · ti:ficates of' appreciation to 'J more than you ¢oine have to? At · JheLibrary lobby. advisor 1U$tina Gonzalez-Marti Ford was follgvve
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From PAGE 1 haven't told a lie in the last week?" "I'm nothing special," Woods' "Maximize each and every day so Earl Woods asked an audience of said. "I'm not a clinical psycholo that you can enjoy it to the fullest," film about a family of nine living in the ghetto. Weiss parents and students on Oct. 9. A gist. And I'm certainly not a family Woods said. made the documentary to ·get the family out of its .. few raised their hands. Woods jok therapist. Just a concerned parent, He asked the audience to go to bed one-bedroom flat and into a four-bedroom public ingly responded, "That's the second just like the rest of us." each night and to think of the next housing project. The project was successful. lie you told this week." At times, Woods became very ·day positively. "That's the best thing that I've ever done," said Telling the truth, Woods says, emotional, especially when speak "When I wake up tomorrow, I'm Weiss. makes life easier and is a good qual ing about Tiger. gonna have 24 more hours of fun," Weiss said he has worked with some of the best in ity for parents to teach their chil ''.:fhe most important thing you'll he said. the business. ,He was scheduled to work with Orson dren. Truth is important in develop ever have in your life is your child;" Many parents and students were Welles only three days before his death. Weiss has ing a relationship between people, a teary-eyed Woods said. "Not your inspired after listening to Woods. worked wittr'Academy Award winner Jack Nichalson. he said. This is the reason he has a job, not your house." "I enjoyed it," graduate student, Weiss sai "He really seemed to speak from spoke about life in general, saying and Life." . ~~ ~.-~:.;; ,·· FORECLOSURES: YOUR AREA! 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RHODES Security and Medicare and the Southern **LIVE 5Pc BAND-42ND STREET BAND** Assistant News Editor Gerontological Society, in conjunction with the • Sponsored by Cypress Christian Life UCF Initiative on Aging and Longevity, will be As 1Jart of the celebration of Diversity Week, presenting "Social Security: A New School of "The Politics of Exclusion: Gender and Religious Thought" live via satellite on Monday, Oct. 26. Issues in 1998-99 The event will be in the Cape Elections" will be discussed Florida Ballroom 316A-D ATTENTION by Dr. Terri Fine of the from 1 - 3 p.m. ... ENGINEERING STUDENTS Department of Political Opportunity for Junior or Senior Science. The presentation will be held at the UCF •The UCF Art Gallery opened a new exhibit on Downtown Center from 12 - 1 p.m on Friday, Oct Oct. 15 featuring works that served as the The Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Orlando, FL is looking for abright, 23 . American entry for the 22nd International • \. self-starting Mechanical or Industrial Engineering student with excellent Then on Tuesday, Oct. 27 in the Sand Key Room Biennial of Graphic Art in Ljulbljana, Slovenia. \.." communication skills to work on aproject at our Orlando facility. of the Student Union, Dr. Fine will discuss "The The exhibit will run until Nov. 4. ~ The proied will involve conduding lime studies, interviewing manufaduring Politics of Exclusion: Women's Issues in the 1998 •The exhibition will include works by David employees and suppliers, and developing recommendations to improve the • preventative maintenance program at our Orlando plant. Elections." This presentation will- be part of the Hockney, David Humphrey, Alfredo Jaar, Doug Bluestocking Luncheon program held from 12 - 1 Aitken, Dani Tull, Diana Thater, John Baldessari, The successful candidate wilf receive $9.00 per hour and will be required to work 15·20 hours per week. p.m. Pae White, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella. interested candklotes should sign up at the Career Services . for our November 12 interview schedule. •A very large black and white mounted poster of An openiµg reception will be held Oct. 15 from the Cannes Film Festival featuring the film 5 - 7 p.m. • "Casablanca," was stolen from the film division in the Communications Building, Room 185. •The Student Accounts and Loans/Collection Professor Bob Jones is offering a reward for its offices moved to Trailor #541 on Oct. 9. return. Telephone extensions will remain the same. Student Accounts should return to AD 111-112 by Blacl Referendum #2 Dissolution of R II and ReplacementTrust Fund an Photo by Kevin Colber Election Commissioner Brian ~enthar is hanging up one of the 500 election announcements on the SGA office door. New act places ballot power in students' hands FromPAGEl did concur with the Senate for this Act. chance to vote on the amendments and ref establish means through which students "I want to give students their chance to erendums. can participate ... " Therefore, to estaQlish a means through which the vote and I wanted to put these on the bal Senate President Richard Maxwell, told Amendments one and two, and Student Body can actively participate in lot the first time,,,. Murphy said. the Judicial Council that "Those students Referendums one and two were placed on the formulation of policies affecting the "However my main concern was the elec having a chance to vote would be better the run-off ballot. · students of UCF." tions and how they were run." than students not having a chance to vote Amendment three was excluded because • In simpler terms, the Senate can pass an A Judicial hearing called by the Chief at all.' it's wording was inaccurately advertised act to involve students to participate in an Election Commissioner was held on The Statement of Decision was made by and was not the exact wording that had activity that involves the students. Monday, Oct. 12 to discuss putting the Shotley, and was issued on Oct.14, the last been passed by the· Senate. These rules This Act required the pla;ement of the proposed amendments and referendums day of the run-offs. It informed the· stu were outlined by the Attorney General. proposed Amendments and Referendums on the run-off elections ballot. dents as to why the decision was made to Shotley ended the Judicial Hearing and on the ballot which superceded all other The Judicial Council heard from the put some amendments and both of the ref the Statement of Decision ·with the • subordinate statutes or interpretations by Elections Commission on the numbers erendums on the ballot. The Council Council's opinion, "It is in the best inter- · the Chief Elections Commissioner. that would be voting during the run-offs. found that the Special Act was unconstitu est of the Student Body that all three The Senate requested further concur According to the commission, there are tional because of the direct conflict it had branches of government work together in rence from the Student Body President, only three seats in two colleges which in the Constitution. The Council did assuring the smooth completion of the Jason Murphy. Murphy serves as the Chief would mean that all of the other students determine that the Senate was fulfilling elections and work together for a positive Advisor to the Elections Commission and in the other colleges would not get a their responsibility by Section 5-1 "to future." October 21, 1998 .. l www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 7 Blind alumnus to participate in benefit walk By AMBER FELDMAN also sponsors the event, put Cunningham in Bray said 100 percent of the funds raised Staff Writer contact with the Lions. After some discus will be used for sight awareness programs. sion, members of different Lions groups "We are only allowed to use the money UCF-Brevard is co-sponsoring WATCH decided to co-sponsor the event. that we raise for community sight pro (Walk Along The Coastal Highway), orga "John is doing this from the bottom of his jects," Bray said. > nized to increase awareness and funds for heart," Bray said. "He's trying to help his Bray said Lions clubs receive calls from education, research and equipment for the visually impaired friends, his VTPs he calls people requesting aid for eye exams, glass visually impaired. them. We are very proud as Lions to be a es, etc. The Lions research each candidate's John Cunningham, a UCF-Brevard alum part of this." situation to assure legitimacy. The organi nus, founded the project with the desire to The project coordination was handed zation sends approved people to area doc help the visually impaired. Cunningham, over to Marion Meguiar, a member of the tors who have arrangements with the who earned a psychology degree in May, Cocoa Beach Seaside Lions. After con Lions. Generally, the doctor's office will and his younger brother, Mark, both are vincing Cunningham to · stay within .the give a discount and the Lions pay the bill. blind from a hereditary condition called county lines, Meguiar contacted public city Cunningham will have police escorts Leber's Optic Atrophy. This condition is officials and police departments to find out throughout his walk. Members of the passed from the father and generally affects what steps had to be taken. Brevard Lions groups will alternate and males, ages 20-30. Cunningham's vision "This project has been well received by wa!k with him. One of the sponsors, was reduced to perception of light and the jurisdictions that we'll travel through," Virginia Construction, is donating a large • shadows when he was in his late teens . Meguiar said. "All of the police have been banner to be carried in front of the proces In January, Cunningham approached super and cooperative." Special to the Future sion. Meguiar encouraged volunteers to Karen Bray, director of Campus Life for The walk will begin at James H. Nance Watch founder John Cunningham and help carry the banner along the way. his wife Bridget celebrate his gradua • UCF-Brevard, to express his idea of a one Park in Indiatlantic on AIA at 7 a.m. on "Since this is the first time this is going man walk-a-thon. Cunningham originally Oct. 24. Cunningham should arrive at his tion from UCF in May. to occur in .Brevard County, I'm hoping set his goal high. destination, the McDonalds at 8780 annual event. that people will come out and support "He wanted to walk from Miami to New Astronaut Blvd. in Cape Canaveral at -.. John wants to do that because be feels John," Meguiar said. York City," Bray said. around 4 p.rn. 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But applying for and obtain College Press Exchange at least a dozen complaints in Florida and Several BRACE advisors attended one of ing the money is up to the student. Texas. the company's meetings last year and grew "I can't say it's a scam because we haven't MIAMI - Emalia Jean-Jacques cares for One St. Petersburg family fought and won alarmed after they learned it charged hun charged them with anything," said Deborah patients in a North Miami nursing home. back its $783 after it received nothing but a dreds of dollars. Berry, a consumer protection investigator in The days are long and ~e pay is low. Life, sheet of paper last year itemizing what their College Financial Aid Services of America Pinellas County who issued a consumer she dreams, will be different for her 16-year daughter should be eligible to receive in aid considers itself the H&R Block for college warning about College Financial Aid old daughter. from the federal government. assistance. The Grand Prairie, Texas, com- Services of America earlier this year. That's why she put aside her suspicions last "I learned a valuable lesson from it," said · pany says it offers help to consumers who "But it's just not beneficial. They're charg month and gave permission to a Texas-based John York, who had the Pinellas County don't have the time or confidence to sort out ing people for what they can do on their company to make withdrawals from her Consumer Protection Office negotiate with college fmancial planning. own." bank account worth a total of $783. the company for a refund. "The best thing The company's director of client relations, So how do companies get students' home In. exchange, College Financial Aid we could have done is walked out and not insisting he could not be quoted by name, addresses? Services o~ America "guaranteed" it could done it." said the company stands by its guarantee. Dade Schools Superintendent Roger ,, find at least $2,500 in assistance for Sandy But the Jean-Jacques family was flattered ·"If you've got a counselor saying 'you Cuevas aims to fmd out. His son, Ryan, a Jean-Jacques, a junior at North Miami High. by a letter from the company. It said Sandy can't do that' (guarantee aid), all that means senior at Killian High, has been inundated The company also said it would recom had been "selected," and that if her parents is that they can't," he said. "We can." with letters from fmancial aid services mend ways to increase Sandy's eligibility wanted her to get a college education, they The director went on to say that College Angered by what he calls "phony come for aid and negotiate with colleges for more should make it a priority to meet with the Financial Aid Services of America has been ons," Cuevas has ordered his staff to investi money on her behalf. company. a Texas corporation since 1996. But its prin- gate how companies obtain the addressees. What Jean-Jacques and other So~th Florida "I was excited," said Sandy, who pleaded cipals - including President Steven L. He wants a clause written into contracts with parents who signed similar contracts didn't with her mother to call the service's toll-free Daughenbaugh - have been offering college outside companies that do business with the realize: Many of the services promised are number. assistance services since 1986, he said. The school system, forbidding them from selling already available · for free in local high The mother and daughter were among at company has its own Web site - mailing lists to other outsiders. schools and no one can "guarantee" fman least 100 Miami-Dade families who heard www.cfasa.com - and branch offices in Fort Cuevas says he throws away all of the let cial aid. the company's sales pitch at meetings held· Lauderdale and Tampa. ters. But other parents, desperate for college The Federal Trade Commission, which Sept. 19 and 20 at the Holiday Inn, 6658 W. The business reportedly has more than money, aren't so quick to dismiss. pursues unscrupulous businesses, warns par 28th Ave. in Hialeah. 30,000 student names in its database. But the Dade families who attended meetings with ents and students that a "guarantee" for The company hosted similar meelif!gs in director refused to release the names of peo College Financial Aid Services of America scholarships and aid in· exchange for money Broward County earlier this year and in ple the company has helped. He also would- were impressed. They watched a video is the first sign of a possible scam. 1997. n't provide statistics on how many refunds about colleges and listened to speakers give "Every year, especially around this time, After several students came to them with have been granted. "expert" advice. They were told only 25 per we try to put out consumer brochures with questions about contracts their parents had "It's in the single digits; it's a small per cent of those in the room would be selected tips because of these scams," said Brenda signed, College Assistance Program (CAP) centage," he said. "But all of our information by the company. Mack, a spokeswoman for the FT~ in advisors in Dade high schools issued warn- is confidential, completely confidential." After the group sessions, students and their Washington, D.C. ings to be wary of aid promises and to read Consumer protection advocates say the parents met individually with sales represen "No one can guarantee that they'll get you - the fine print. company may not be violatirig the law tatives. Nobody mentioned money until a grant or scholarship," the FTC advises. "This is so bad," said Glenda Rose, a CAP because the contract doesn't promise $2,500 then, said Jean-Jacques, the North Miami This is the season for fmancial aid services advisor at North Miami High. 'They don't outright. mother. to fill students' mailboxes because many need to pay for these things." The contract states: "We guarantee our first If they paid on the spot, the service would high school seniors are applying now for Laurie Sutton, head of Broward high year recommendations will demonstrate a cost about $500, the parents were told. They scholarships and aid. schools' BRACE program - Broward minimum of $2,500 in financial aid... " also were offered weekly payment plans, After hearing about College Financial Aid Advisors for CoA.tinuing Education - says The key words are "recommendations" with interest, totaling a maximum of $783 - Services of America, the Florida attorney she has stashed letters from College and "demonstrate." They allow the company more than the cost of a semester at Miami general's office opened an investigation into Financial Aid Services of America in a thick to produce possible sources of aid that could Dade Community College and almost as UCF BacK to school special Single Double If Quality is Important 24exp 6.99 10.65 Service list a&exp 9.45 15.85 .35mm processing and printing .Duplications and internegatives of: .Photo enlargements ·slides to slide Business Special .Passport photos I , .Package printing • Slide to color negative PowerPoint output ' ' • I Owned and .Slide processing 3hr • Slide to b/w negative · to slide only ' operated .120 & 220 slide processin.g 3hr • Color negative to slide $5.00 each bya .Scanning of negatives, slides and prints .Copy work to slides or negative: I UCFAlumni .Data file outputting to slides or negative • Flat artwork or photographs .Presentation slides . Graphic designing N .Powerpoint creation • Graphic layout On the comer of University and Goldenrod in the Goodings Plaza .Digital photo restoration or creation Fuji professional dealer .Photo restoration .Commercial photography .CD-ROM writing .Photo Archive onto CD-ROM. .Studio photography 9AM~:~~~OURS: TO 6:30PM 1'·~ ~~ .Custom black and white processing .C~nsulting SAT .Black and white enlargement .Briefings 9AM TO 3:30PM .Black and white paper, chemistry and film .Overnight 7624 University Blvd. Winter Park FL 32792 October 21, 1998 Central Florida Future • 9 www.UCFfuture.com much as a semester at Florida Student shot, killed at fraternity house • International University. ~n Jean-J~es asked ·i{. she 00\lld' By JENNIE JIANG a man in connection with the added. ty house, said he was at home take the contract. l'lqme and ~ jibol.Jt; it;' College Press Exchange incident He is not a student, a Chaos broke out in the frater awake when he heard five or • a·salesmatl , Sftid ~be had «> ;igµ ,nQW :et: spokesman for the nity house around 2: 15 a.m. six gunshots and people lose the c'.t,lance. , ... . : ... ·. &, CHAMPAIGN, UL - Champaign Police Police officers patrolling the screaming. "My daughter was so anxious,'' Jean.:: Homecoming weekend at the Department said. Witnesses area immediately headed to "I went to the window and a Jacques said. "Anything fot 1'. college"th University of Illinois at of the shooting said the gun the house after hearing shots ton of people were running," sign.for her. I want her to do better th~ Champaign-Urbana ended on man fled fn;im the fraternity fired. he said. "I heard someone yell me.'' a violent note after a student house before police arrived. "Everyone was partying and 'That guy's got a gun,' and I TwQ days after _sigrung her~ contract>. ,. was shot and killed Sunday The Omega Delta fraternity, getting the groove on," said saw a guy running down the JeruHacques got cold feet. phe asked ' h~{\ during a party at an off-cam in existence at the university Jules Murray, a senior com street. It was out of control." daughter to seek advice from Ro.Se, the pus fraternity house. for less than a year, was not munications major and Jason Kaugman, a senior • North Miami High counselor. After hear--" Kevin Moore, 22, a senior sponsoring the event, frater columnist for The Daily Illini who lives in a nearby apart ing Ros~'s warnings, themother hurriedly majoring in engineering, was nity members and police said. - who was at the party. "The DJ ment complex overlooking wrote a letter. to the.company, can,celing · an innocent bystander who The party was reportedly a stopped the music and said the Omega Delta house, said the con,traGt, She al~o changaj her bank was in the wrong place at the fund-raiser for a local boys someone had pulled the fire he had 'stepped outside for a • account ~~inbei:. Nowshe1 ~ . wajtjng;.to ~' .. ',, wrong time, police said. and girls club. alarm and that we would have cigarette when he heard the what will happen. · ey' Moore, an international stu "The party had nothing to to wait until the fire depart commotion j.Qt~. others, th~, W.:@ld.Y ~pctiQ!ls.~ta'-~("'; dent from Jamaica, was shot do with Omega Delta," said ment arrived. "I wasn't sure what was • ~g(kt; . S;i ~%· ;;,, . .;, ·.... ;,· . '• .·· · .. F 't' once in the head after a fight one member who spoke under "Then it was like something going on," he said. "I saw a ~~ust tliiway :tji~:y;:w~i:~ *" broke out between two other the condition of anonymity. hit the ·crowd. Everyone hit big puddle of blood by the \,:;, "" ~,~ men at the party. Another stu "A party production crew the floor. I hef:l.fd one shot and back door." dent - a 20-year-old woman asked to use our house to then two more'and then there University Chancellor whose name has not been throw the party. We needed was complete silence. I just Michael Aiken called the released - was injured. She the money, so we voted on it got up and. got out of there." shooting a "profound tragedy • was treated and released from and said OK. Jered Thorp, a sophomore for the university to have a a local hospital. "Most of our members and resident of the neighbor very promising life ended so On Monday police arrested weren't even there," he ing Alpha Sigma Phi fratemi- prematurely and senselessly." ., SIEMENS Westinghouse • • This is your time, your chance to pull ahead. You've never had this much power before. Here's how you can make the most of it.... Upcoming Information Session • Engineering •Finance •Marketing •Human Resources The global strength of Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation is energizing entire countries and companies, with leading-edge tech nologies now being applied around the world. And that makes it a great time to be in power with us! 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A trip even fall down. happened the next day while eating the Warning: th9se students under the age of downtown that is completely unplanned In addition to the buddy system whoev best hang over food in the world at The 21 have no need to read this column for it has disaster written all over it. When going er is assigned to be the driver for the night Grille. contains much conversation about privi downtown you must have a plan of attack. must play the role of the teacher guiding The safest bet, however, is to stay local. leges which only those of age and older This is most important when you go with a her second graders through the dinosaur We do have our own growing scene may legally enjoy. Basically, you should group of more than five people. Once you exhibit. They may want to touch and play around campus that basically caters to n't be able to relate to anything in this col have more than five people than you are with everything but the sober driver must UCF students. Of course the same situa umn if you're under age because it is ille forced to deal with the buddy system. be strong, swift, and agile. Once inside the tion is more than likely to happen but at gal for you to drink and therefore it is ille Remember when you were in second grade science center it is inevitable that someone least the lost idiot is closer to home and in gal for you to read this column (in which and you had a big field trip to the science will get lost or lose the rest of the group. f arniliar territory. •· case I have virtually guaranteed that you center, everyone was assigned a buddy. This calls for a quick thinker to be at the The entire going out process is much like now MUST read this column). You were then encouraged to hold hands helm. In this situation one might have to taking a test. In order to do well you must As UCF students we enjoy a privilege with your significant other for the duration rely on some of the students, I mean, prepare yourself for all of the options. that few college students are able to take of the day. Well, ridiculous as this might friends to help find the lost component. If Every now and then you're going to be advantage of. We have the access to many seem the buddy system works. this is impossible than as Jake Blues once faced with a situation that you have never really, cool bars in central Florida, namely You don't have to go as far as to hold said, " .. than you're really up sh_t creek." experienced, but you must learn to adapt Church Street Station. After Church Street hands with your buddy the entire night, but Once lost in the wilds of downtown a lost quickly and have the best showing possi you have other entertainment venues such it is more like each person looks out for the friend that is drunk enough to actually get ble. Everyone wants to have a good time as Pleasure Island and other Disney orient other. This is extremely important when lost is susceptible to almost anything. when they go out, especially downtown, ed drinking holes. We coµld realistically you are out with ten or tw_elve people, You can look in vain for as long as you but not everyone is able to make intelligent go to .a different place every night of the because just like second graders, it is near like but it is not likely that you will ever decisions once they are out. Th~ designat week if we were complete alcoholics and ly impossible to keep them all from wan find them. Usually the situation works ed driver is not only responsible for getting had nothing better to do than drink our dering off. And then imagine the second itself it out. The friend meets up with some the party safely home, but for keeping the selves silly. It is really quite ridiculous graders with a few drinks in them. It's like other friends and forgets to tell their origi party together, and sometimes that is the how spoiled we are. that old electric football game, you tum it nal ride that they had gotten a new one and hardest part. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING There will be an Activity and Service Fee setting public hearing on Wednesday, October 21 in the Student Union, Cedar Key Room at 1:00 p.m . . The Committee will hear co~ments from students regarding the amount of nex~ year's Activity and Service Fee. October 21, 1998 Central Florida Future • 11 www.UCFfuture.com ACROSS LETTER TO THE EDITOR 1 Gore and Capp 4 Tack on snow 10 Glasgow hats Thanks for the "big-time" feel to the game at the Citrus Bowl. 14 Fate Only problem is ... with so many fans now tail 15 Washington port 16 On Knightly support gating ... the City of Orlando doesn't have 17 Links' org. enough port-o-lets in Lot B by the lake"'(that~s: 18 Eggdish On behalf of all UCF Alumni, Boosters and another topic!). · 19 Soft drink fans, I just wanted to say a special Thank You to 20 Get chummy Just wanted to let all the students know that all the UCF students who have been supporting 22 Shining all the Alumni are proud of your support at the " 24 Javelin the football team by attending the games in the football games, and for all those students wbq 26 Verdi heroine Citrus Bowlll 27 "My Cousin have never attended a game/tailgate party, · To see the increase of student support the last Vinny" star you're really missing out this year. 29 Diet adjective few years has been remarkable! 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October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 12 Acut above the rest By CORBETT TRUBEY deceased John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jim Entertainment Editor Morrison, and the special finale are not nearly as funny as the rest of the show but Halloween is a weird holiday, and this get marks for creativity. The rest of the year there's a lot of weird stuff to do. But cast, mostly comprised of.. .. you guessed not all the blood-gushing, ghost-haunting, it, dead people, are the icing on this sick scream-filled affairs going on can com piece of cake. While not invading your pare to one of the most unique offerings personal space, the cranky crew gets this month. Resurrection Tour .. 98 is down to "Thriller" during the intermis going to blow them all away with a musi sion, something that's almost worth the cal multimedia gore fest that will leave price of the admission alone. everyone in stitches (but don't take that Once again, Only Productions literally). gets mad props for bringing another orig Combining live theater, singing, and inal creation to Orlando theater. Founded audience participation with a post-mod by UCF theater instructor J .J. Ruscella, em twist, Resurrection features the antics Only has been putting on highly enter of a flaming clnb manager (Scott Wells) taining shows (Breeder,Sex, Drugs, and who risks losing his job unless he can Rock And Roll) in a venue that would've find some · decent entertainment for the never been considered one (Cairo night audience. His attempt at bringing people club). It's a great breath of fresh air from back from the dead is unsuccessful until the flashy, overpriced Broadway rejects he makes a deal with Mr. Deville (Tony that regularly breeze through town. LaBerta) and a host of decomposing rock Don't even try to predict what these guys stc,rrs take the stage. This insane plot is Special to the Future will do next. played out amidst wandering zombies "Hi, looking for some action? I'm awaiting all of your cannibalistic desires at For anyone who likes their sev and audience members who are killed off Resurrection Tour '98. Now go get me a band aj.d;;'' ered limbs with a laugh, o; anyone look to 'resurrect' the talent. ing to be scared with a smile, Being immersed in such body that was in attendance. Wells, of unsuspecting magician (Dennis P. Forza, Resurrection Tour '98 is all that and a bag whacked-out mayhem leaves no room for course, steals the stage with a campy per Jr.), and Mr. Deville all chip in hilarious of bones. yawning or feigning interest. The show is formance that tops his appearance last twists to the brew. Resurrection runs October 23,24,25,30, packed full of energy from a talented cast spring as the preacher in UCF's The Best But to leave out the REAL play and 31 at Cairo (22 S. Magnolia Ave.). of locals (a few from UCF) who are unre Little Whorehouse In Texas. His dim-wit ers of the show, the dead people, would Show starts promptly at 8p.m. and stu= lenting in their pursuit to shock every- ted assistant, Tuesday (Talora Michal), an be unfair. The musical interludes with the. dent tickets are only $8. vs. IA! ~ Saturday, Nov. 7th 2:00PM -- Neighborhood Grill & Bar SEC ROW SEAT 232 u l YO ~N LYWITH THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS! 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The only lyrics posted on front of the listener; The listener the jacket are as follows: "I am so ~ shouldn't be in front of the music. dumb/ Just beam me up/ I've had it -B.W. Earl all forever/ I've had enough". These words coming from anyone would be . disquieting enough. Coming from the ,;I Hole wife of a suicide victim is exponen J Celebrity Skin tially creepier. But if you have a fast Icarus (Geffen Records) forward button on your CD Player, 4/4's from the real underground. It's then this exception shouldn't keep Hell. Kamikaze The latest effort by the former Mrs. you from listening in. -Marcel Spindae (Shadow Records) Cobain and her crew is, for the most -B.W. Earl part, a lively and consistent recipe, Einsturzende with more than a bit of inspiration Dj Hype & True I'm going to make a comparison Neubauten here. It's between the recent Eddie coming from Nirvana. By now, most Playaz Murphy flop Holy Man and Icarus' of us have heard the title track, Ende Neu latest release, Kamikaze. What's sim thanks to lots of airtime over the · Presents: Real Vibes (Nothing/~nterscopeJ ilar about two such varied forms of radio and heavy rotation on MTV. (True Playaz) entertainment, you might ask? As While it certainly is catchy, the real Holy Man worked a one-joke kick comes from the lyrics by lead With that "Du Hast" song in heavy singer Courtney Love. "My name is Picture this. It's 1994, the Levi rotation on MTV, the kids may final premise into the ground, so does Strauss marketing department is Icarus kick around the same sort of might have been/ my name is never ly be ready for some honest to good- was/ my name is forgotten". The looking for a snappy jingle to com ness Krautrock. Einsturzende tired techno over and over and over pliment their new ad campaign. "We and over and over and ... (reader twelve tracks are ear-friendly to those Neubaten are the beginning, or who dig this sort of music, although need street cred". the bloated. exec depending on your affinity to smacks the reviewer in the face a few says with adogmatic certainty. They times). Thanks, man. I needed that. those who never really liked alt-rock German sty led rock songs, da Ende will not be swayed. Love's vocals are pick Goldie's "Inner City Life" and of organic or grandiose or eccentric Techno, once proclaimed the heir to the music world goes from grunge to the pop music kingdom, is quickly more than adequate; unlike Hole's or baroque or surreal experiments in previous hits, such as "Violet", where jungle in an microsecond. This is a Krautrock music. A quick run down becoming a parody of itself. compilation of the South London Kamikaze is such an example. As of nontraditional ins~ments on jungle crew known as True Playaz. Neubautenis first release in a dozen with most recent techno releases, it Names like DJ Hype, Pascal, DJ Nut builds up the tempo for the first thirty years may help to acquaint the virgin l ,, Nut, Terminal Outkasts are obscure or so seconds. Then it stays at the listener to their motorific and to the occasional drum and bass mechanical sound world. Like a same level. With the same beat. For enthusiast. But for the beat headz, the rest of the song. If you were to readymade Dadaist sculpture the key this is the other jungle crew which word is 1foundsounds1: bass spring, take all of the different beats in never sold their "metalheadz," not metal plate, chain, pencil ~d paper, Kamikaze and roll it all together into that they couldn't have. Steady for a neat, tidy little package, what you'd brushes, resonating spring, air com more than 80 minutes, spread over pressor, plastic canisters, wood. Let have wouldn't exceed a standard two eds, these are the foundations of commercial break in length. This this be a warning, Einsturzende is as inner city life, these are sounds much a mechanism of futuristic, even would still be tolerable, would still which could have been in Levi's ' # be alright, if Icarus brought anything commercials. Just as accessible but new to the table. Unfortunately, it still just as Faustian. Evil, like the See LISTEN UP!, Page 14 Network Event Theater® presents: AFree College Premiere Screening of l: )\~.. ::.'"· . <.·.·1······~.··.·····., . :z::~ ~·.~.·-··········· :,.: · ~/ . . f , ___ ·Wednesdav, October 28th Followed by a LIVE Interactive Chat Session from University of California, Los Angeles MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: , Brought to vou by $1.50 Bud and Bud Light bottles. TUESDAY NIGHT LlvE: Bring your AT&T Student Advantage $2 Coronas from 9-11 p.m. ATs.T Card and receive WEDNESDAY: SouthPark night limited pref erred $1 SouthPaw longnecks from 9-11 p.m. seating while It lasts. Tm.JRSDAY: Killians night $2 Killians pints from 8-10 p.m. FRIDAY: Live Music 9:00pm @ Student Union Cape Florida Ballroom from 6-9 p.m. with Bart $5 All you can drink! Free passes available in the Student Union, SATURDAY: UCF vs. SW Louisiana Room 215, Student Activities. On the Big Screen! $2 Bud Light pints ALL DAV! SUNDAY: All You Can Eat Wings Passes required. Seating is limited NETWORK NFL Football and $2 Fat Ass Red Dogs all day. and not guaranteed. Please arrive early. . EVENT THEATER• 282-1900 • Fax 282-1905 • Located in the UCF Student Union October 21, 1998 Central Florida Future • 14 www.UCFfuture.com LISTEN UP!, From PAGE 13 fascist art as it is a wickedly brilliant rock band. If you are not afraid of philosophical concepts (see tracks 1-7) in your rhythms and Rammstein doesn't quite pepper your kraut pickle, give Einsturzende Neubauten a schmear. Musical accompaniment to CAl6161NC 41616 manifesto writing. -Marcel Spindae Dee Jay Punk-Roe Chicken Eye "UCF (lndependienteJ · • Ready for some inter esting sound tracks and KNICHTS delectable food? Dee Jay Punk-Roe's new CD offers We need 5 responsible UCF students for just that. The cover opens up to entrees that look interesting to say the least. part-time work in the university phonathon On the inside of the cover are the song titles with catchy annotations about Must be available Sun 1-:4, Mon 6-9, and Wed 6-9 serving food, entertaining guests and a recipe to make Chicken Eye Pie that does not sound appetizing •Good Pay (start at $5.50 per hour) unless you like chicken fat and chicken eyes. The cover divulges a message quite different • Student friendly hours (9-18 hours per week) than that of the actual music on the CD. Although, the song titles were a little strange like: "The World is My Ashtray" and "Dead Husband," the music was actually pretty decent. The very first Evenings Sunday - Thursday song, "I Hate Everybody," starts off with a woman talking in a voice that sounds like a cartoon trying to explain the dancing phe • Close to Camp~s (Research Park) nomenon, what it might remind you of is Speed Racer. Each song was extremely different from the next, you never got bored of lis tening to the samples of people's voices or the electronically gen erated sounds. One of the best tracks was "No Meaning," which starts off by introducing Dee Jay Punk-Roe that resembled a For More Information 1950's television show, then threw down with phat vocals and a bass line that will get you grooving. The next song introduces with some nasty crazy scratching. That's why this CD was good, it had Call 249-4740 diversity and something for everyone no matter what you're plea- sure. -Mercedes McElmurry " The Slackers • The Question (Hellcat Records) TONIGHT • The Slackers have a lot of talent in the group, with Victor Ruggiero doing vocals and piano, organ Do you want to succeed? and percussion and Marcus Geard on bass, T.J. Scanlon on guitars, Luis Zuluaga on drums and per Take a ride on the cussion and Marq Lyn helping with vocals and David Hillyard on saxo phone, Glen Pine on trom bone and also doing vocals ~~Ul.I with Jeremy Mushlin on SAA c·- - trumpet and vocals. The music was good, but the songs were kind of boring. Its hard to say how this particular music sounded but The Slackers have a recognizable sound that's been heard before Success 1rcult just not in this generation of music, maybe in the 40's or 50's. It would be mean to say that this type of music is outdated, because Get 4 sessions on business-related topics there might be someone out there that likes this style of music, but this reviewer could not get into the swing it. Of course, sitting on a including: beach sipping margaritas would help. The song "No More Crying," • Interviewing/Transitions • Business Etiquette • made that picture pop into the brain, it definitely had a reggae feel . to it. The CD is comprised of nineteen songs: half sound like reg • Resumes •Networking- How to leave a lasting impression • gae, which were the better songs and the rest had a wanna-be Latin sound to them that wasn't enjoyable. These guys deserve props for Each session is 25 minutes long, and then you bringing so many talented individuals together but let's hope the rotate to the next session. · next CD will be more exciting. -Mercedes McElmurry Wednesday, October 21st Student Union Room 2 IBABC&D Sonic Boom Top 1 0 CDs Registration begins @ 5:30 p.m./ 25 minute sessions fr~m 6-Bp.m. 1. V/A .. Freestyle Files Vol. 3 Hello Rockview For more info call (407) 823-3453 2. DJ Cam- DJ Kicks 6. Icarus- Kamikaze 3. Jon Spencer Blues 7. Deejay Punk-Roe- Chickeneye U~F Explosion- Acme 8. Soul Coughing- El Oso 4. V/A- Coffee Table Music 9. Slam • The Soundtrack Presented by the Student Alumni Associat,on SAA 5. Less Than Jake- 10. Hole- Celebrity Skin October 21, 1998 Central Florida Future • 15 www.UCFfuture.com You're not going very far with this travel site By VICKI DESORMIER ble of that. Enough to know that it could real lives to attend dish you want to recreate at home? Staff Writer probably be pretty good, but not even to, it's just not Click. There's the recipe and some sug enough to get a good taste of any enough. The arm gestions about cooking. Click. There's Being a big fan of vicarious travel (for thing ... and surely not enough to satisfy chair traveler will something about the restaurant. the most part, who can really afford to your hunger. be really disap Click. There are recipes for food of jet off to all those really great destina Epicurious whets your appetite for pointed. every taste and nutritional need. There's tions of our dreams?) I was really dis travel, but leaves you pretty dissatisfied In some sites, nutritional information. There's a culi appointed in the travel site put together in the end. the simple to navigate format with big nary dictionary and there are lots of fast in Conde Nast magazine. The site is really a simple one, with buttons to push that get you from one loading pictures. Epicurious Food (http://travel.epicuri the clearly marked options easy to find screen to another (as well as from one The food site is what the travel site ous.com) is a satisfactory site, but it and easy to navigate. You have no trou exotic location to another) would be should be. could be a whole lot more. ble finding information about a destina enou~h. In some sites such a character There's an easy connection between If you're planning a weekend trip tion. istic would even be a grand selling the two sites so if you like food and you somewhere here in the southeast (your You want to go to Key West? Just clic~ point. Here just adds to the feeling of like travel (and what else is there in life choices are pretty limited: Seaside and your way there. Once you're there you , dullness ... of mechanical boredom. when you're in a dream world anyhow?) 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Chicago Sun-Times story on the class, · a microwave oven/TV /computer with Internet access, Northwestern University professor pointed out that which it hopes to constimer-test soon and offer for discouraging profanity might create "a loss of lin- . sale at about $700. Said a spokesman, "(A)s the guistic vigor" and that Americans "insist on (talking) pizza is happily spinning around, you can ... check ) . the way we like." your bank balance, send an e-mail, or even watch the •Rev. John Wayne "Punkin" Brown k, 34, died on last five minutes of 'Friends."' Oct. 3 of a rattlesnake bite while ministering at the •In May, the president of Create Corp., a Japanese Rock House Holiness Church in northeast Alabama "alibi" telephone answering service, said he had near Scottsboro. In a landmark book on snake-han started acquiring as clients people who were so dling preachers in the South ("Salvation on Sand ashamed of having been laid off from work that they ST/j Mountain" by Dennis Covington), Brown was called pay the answering service to create an illusory job STA TRAVEL the "mad monk," the one most "mired in the ... blood and title for them so that callers will think they are We've been there. lust of the patriarchs." His wife, Melinda, died in the still working. (Most of the firm's previous clients same way three years ago at a church in were prostitutes who needed to convince their Middlesboro, Ky. friends and parents that they work for a fictitious but •In September, Norway's prime minister, Kjell respectable company.) Magne Bondevik, took three weeks' paid sick leave •In August, the British biotech company Kiotech for depression, reportedly caused by then-imminent began test-marketing a disposable wipe containing budget negotiations he would have to conduct from human sexual pheromones that would, as a company a minority position, controlling just 42 of the 165- executive said, "boost the wearer's sexual-smell sig seat Parliament. He pronounced himself well late in nature." Xcite! packets are now being sold in men's Writing Center the month and returned to work. And in August, room vending machines in nightclubs in three cities ~niversify Finland's prime minister, Paavo Lipponen, took six in England. (The substance itself smells awful so the days' partly compensated paternity leave after his wipes also contain cologne.) "Because Writers Need Readers" wife gave birth to a baby girl. The law allows up to •In May, Avon Silversmiths of London introduced 12 days for fathers. a $280 crueifix containing a built-in screeching Free to UCF undergraduates! alarm, designed. for clergy who are apprehensive Life Imitates the Tabloids · about violence at work. A recent survey revealed one in three British clergy have at some point been In Toronto in August, a circus performer was attacked on church grounds. We can help with anything you write: arrested and charged with sexually assaulting his estranged wife, and alse charged was a circus dwarf who allegedly helped the man and took pictures of Least Competent Criminals •:• Any subject the attaj:;k. And in Edwardsville, ID., in September, William Lee Beck, 41, was arrested in August and former circus performer (''bearded lady") Vivian charged with robbing Starvin' Steve's market in Wheeler filed a lawsuit against a former colleague, a Lake Havasu City, Ariz. According to police, Beck •:• In or out of dwarf named Steven Carter, accusrng him of attack entered the store with a large rock in his hand, class ing her after a night of drinking. grabbed a 12-pack of beer, and said he'd pay for it the next day. When the clerk objected, Beck raised News Germany the rock, said, "How about I crush your skull with •:• Any stage of the this rock?" and left. A half-hour later, a woman went writing process Doesn't Need to the store and timidly handed the clerk a check to The German television network ARD reported in pay for the beer. Sheriff's deputies went to the July that for the last 15 years, the KEG waste dis woman's home, and after considerable difficulty suc For more information, call 823-2197 or visit our ceeded in waking Beck up and taking him away. posal company has been turning the remains of website: incinerated miscarried fetuses, along with other hos http://reach.ucf.edu/-uwc pital waste, into granules. for use in road construc Recurring Themes tion. When informed of the practice, the regional Two men were convicted of murder in Seattle in health minister.said she thought that was "morally September based on DNA markers in the blood of incorrect." the victim's dog (which·also was killed at the scene). STUDENT News accounts said this was the first use of animal Lonely Guys· DNA in a U.S. criminal trial, which may be true, but Seattle, July: After a night of drinking, Donald R. News of the Weird reported that calf DNA was used LEGAL SERVICES Wood ill, 27, fell six floors down an elevator shaft in 1994 in cattle-rustling charges against two Florida and was not discovered for five days. (He survived.) men. Authorities matched the calf's DNA with that Breezewood, Pa., August: Michael Giovanetti went in an uncooked slab of pot roast (i.e., the mother) over an embankment in a one-car accident and was sold by the rustlers. A database search revealed an n~t able to crawl out of his mangled car for four days, even earlier cattle-rustling DNA case, in but then finally made it up a 75-foot slope where a Brownstown, ID., in 1993. (A cat's DNA was used at • passing motorist stopped to help him. Tokyo, a 1996 trial to help convict a man of murder in PROBLEMS WITH? NEED? Canada.) August: A 23-year-old Chinese stowaway survived a •LANDLORDS •A WILL three-hour airline flight by clinging to the landing •INSURANCE gear in sub-zero temperatures at an altitude of up to Least justifiable Homicides •NAME CHANGE six miles. (Upon landing, he was immediately •CONTRACTS •UNCONTESTED A 22-year-old man in Newark, N.J. (August), and deported.) •POLICE a 58-year-old woman in Apopka, Fla. (October), DISSOLUTION were killed in disputes over what to watch on televi STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDES STIJDENTS WITII If the Dogs Don't Growl, sion. It was not reported in either case which pro ASSISTANCE IN SELECTED AREAS OF LAW SUCH AS LAND grams were being contested, but according to LORD{IENANT, CONSUMER, NON-CRIMINAL, TRAFFIC & the Neighbors Can't Howl Apopka police, the suspect (the woman's 17-year UNCONTESTED DISSOLUTIONS. QUALIFIED STUDENTS CAN In West Hartford, Conn., in August, renowned old son) generally objected to soap operas. RECEIVE CONSULTATION AND REPRESENTATION FREE OF lawyer Johnnie Cochran, defending two Rottweilers CHARGE. accused of barking too much, lost the case. Cochran FOR INFORMATION OR AN APPOINTMENT: represented his friend Flora Allen (mother of basket (Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. CALL 823-2538 OR STOP BY · SRC:.J55 ball player and actor Ray Allen), whose dogs were Box 8306, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33738, or MONDAY· FRIDAY 8AM-SPM the subject of numerous barking complaints, but he [email protected]. Chuck Shepherd's latest Funded by Activity and Service Fees through the failed to persuade a judge to lift a 9 p.m. outdoor cur paperback is now available at bookstores Student Government Association few on the dogs. Final disposition of the case was set everywhere.) • October 21, 1998 Central Florida Future• 17 www.UCF.fu,ture.com An exotic journey for your taste buds By STEPHEN UNGER influences from the small sea to choose from. You can have cut Staff Writer region in which the Middle East lets of chicken, beef slices, or my rests against. Just because much favorite_, the marinated lamb. A The Middle East isn't just a of the influence to the Middle generous helping of hummus is region of the world where black East comes from India, doesn't included with the main dish for gold comes from. The Middle mean that the food is spicy. The lunch or dinner, too. East is actually the crossroads of food is actually very flavorful For vegetarians, there are a wide world culture, and an area of the with the trait of exotic spices like variety of dishes on the menu that world where diverse flavors are zaatar, a mixture of thyme, don't include meat. And the best mixed together. If Marco Polo sesame seeds and salt. part of all, you won't have to pay went to the The tasti extra if :you want the s9-called Orient and est and most "low fat health concern" dishes. the Far important All the dishes are fresh, and most East, he ingredient at of them do not even need meat to most certainly remembers travel the Falafel Cafe is a sesame sauce taste good. I eat meat, but I decid ing through the Middle East, called tahini. The sauce is often ed to order the Falafel Lover from experiencing foods that are most mixed with chickpeas and other the vegetarian section, and the broadly influenced by the farthest spices to make hummus, which meal was just as scrumptious and comers of the world. can be deliciously eaten with satisfying as any filet mignon The Falafel Cafe, located right every item on the menu. anywhere. across from the UCF main It takes some effort to get the If there's any place that gives entrance, behind Applebees, is a motivation to try something new, what you pay for then it's the perfect place for anyop.e to dis but after going to the Falafel Cafe Falafel Cafe. cover the unknown wonders of a couple times itis easy to get Special to the Future The main goal of the Falafel Cafe the earth. For three years, owner hooked. Once you've acquired Middle Eastern delights await at the Falafel Cafe. is to make sure that there will be Omar Dajani and his cafe have the taste, the only difficult thing something on ~he menu for every served up tasty and unique dishes· left is to try something new. It Middle East to Europe. Or, maybe delicious helping of three fresh, one. They also intend to enrich for the UCF-area business life. becomes tempting to always he didn't forget at all. Maybe California grape leaves ($4.99) people's appreciation for different This is an opportunity for stu order the same dish at each visit, Marco loved the food so much that are soaked in vinegar and foods. Their tasks are shouldn't be dents to experience something because some dishes are so good, that he had to get himself home stuffed with rice and vegetables. too difficult. The blue waters of different. The majority of the you just have to order them over before he ran up the tab on the After that, hopefully there will be the Mediterranean reflect a fine dishes at the Cafe are from the and over. Italian government's traveling enough room remaining for the cuisine from the east that not too Mediterranean region of Middle It is not surprising that not too expenses. en trees. many Americans have become East. That doesn't mean there will many people have an automatic Still don't know what to get? The large menu always has fully accustomed to. The chal be the usual pasta dishes from acquired taste for Middle East Start off by having a side order of something new to try, and some lenge is for students to study Italy or the common salads from food. Just place the blame on falafel (fried dumplings of chick thing to accommodate everyone's abroad at the Falafel Cafe, and ) Greece. It just means that this good old Marco Polo, who proba peas). I did, and the taste isn't too preferences. For meat lovers there learn a whole new way to end unique food will have the slight bly forgot to bring the taste of the strong for rookies. Then, have a exists a variety of different dishes hunger. · ., • V'·)G\p.tL\~/··· .... ·••. • : wednesdaytjl ~~rs~tY, ffi · e AA Meeting, Health ···• . # ' • ' . ) Resource Center, Trailer • 617, 12-1:00 pm Each year, Golden Key National Honor Society recognizes the most •• • Free public viewing of the outstanding undergraduate students in • Robinson Observatory, all fields of study-those who have maintained e 7:30-10:30 p.m. • high standards of academic achievement. • Golden Key rewards its members, not only for • • their scholastic excellence, but also for their demonstrated leadership and community saturday service. 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EARL semi-documentary style of film Staff Writer ing throughout the picture, but it's during the prison scenes that While I've been thinking about the low-resolution photography <. how to write the review for Slam, is utilized to its greatest effect. the award-winning film that has It's during this first half of the gotten rave reviews from Cannes movie that most of the pi?ture's to Sundance, I've most impressive also been thinking moments take place. about how this film There is one scene could've been that is particularly great. It definitely galvanizing. When had the opportunity. Ray hears the In the first ten inmate in the next minutes of the film, - cell start to slam (a we find out more about Ray brainchild of performance and Joshua (Saul Williams) than we poetry that combines the farmer's '- do in a full film about most of the emotion and the latter's fluidity), protagonists in Hollywood pic he joins in the action. For the tures. We see Ray buy ice cream next couple of minutes, the slam for the kids who had the misfor that ensues captures the viewer's tune to live in Dodge City, one of full attention. The rapid-fire poet the more dangerous neighbor ry and sincerity of it all is truly hoods in Washington, D.C. He breathtaking. Afterwards, Ray Special to the Future listens to their poetry. With a sin and bis neighbor shake hands Saul Williams stars as Rayond Joshua, an aspiring poet, in Slam. cere smile and encouraging through the metal bars. Then it's words for the children, Ray back to the distempering quiet of good, how could the movie miss? slam session (which, if memory verite style seems realistic, but seems like a nice enough guy, the the prison, and all of the racing In a way, I can't tell you; the loss serves me right, was their first for this scene, it's muted reality, kind of guy who no one would thoughts that can drive its of momentum after Ray's release meeting out of prison); there's an with the gangs shown as overly mind having as their neighbor. inmates insane. is partially indescribable. What I aura of phoniness to the proceed passive. Have I mentioned that he's a The overwhelming realism of can tell you is that the romance ings. When the closing credits went small time marijuana seller? the first hour of Slam is mostly between Ray and the prison's Another weakness lays with up on this uneven, powerful yet Well, he is. due to the brave, lived-in perfor writing instructor, Lauren Bells the gangs portrayed in the film. flawed film, I remembered what After a police intervention lands mance by Saul Williams, whose (Sonja Sohn), seems very con They're just too damn nice. I, for Williams said in an interview Ray in jail on a possession only previous film appearance trived. There is no real reason for one, have never encountt~red a with Entertainment Weekly: "I charge, the audience is given a, was in the similarly themed doc us to believe that this romance gang, but I would think it would think of it more as a movement brutally realistic depiction of the umentary SlarnNation. It doesn't could ·happen. Both characters take more than a poetry slam to than a movie." Slam was halfway inner city prison system. Director take long for you to forget that are well defined, with Sohn con stop a rivalry between two dis home, but it confined itself 'to Marc (The Party, Gang Bang: it's an actor playing a part. vincingly portraying Lauren as a senting gangs. Yet that's exactly familiar, overly friendly plotting. Incident at Little Rock) Levin, Williams brings a charisma and strong-willed teacher who's what happens when Ray bursts So Slam wasn't a movement. together with cinematographer sensibility to Ray Joshua that buried some secrets. But when into slamming in the middle of But the sad thing is, it could've (and Party co-director) Marc brings the character to life. Ray and Lauren break out into simmering tension between the been. It should've been. Benjamin, uses a cinema-verite, If the first half of Slam was so passionate lovemaking after a factions. In essence, the cinema~ < II/I < October 21, 1998 Central Florida Future • 19 www.UCFfuture.com A_long snooze through 'Our Town' By STACEY COPELAND lost innocence and remind us of old-fash quite fit in and des to love her so we can empathize with her in Staff Writer ioned values. But the couple's relationship perately wants to go both her joy and pain. seems a little too sugar coated and childish to back and live life The one standout in the play is the pro "Our Town". A play that has been be anything more than a high school crush. over again. fessional guest artist, Frank Medina, who called the Great American masterpiece. The The only truly interesting aspect of this act This character portrays the stage manager. The stage man Pulitzer Prize winning play that first is Emily's fear and doubt that surfaces right proceeds to go on ager's character seems to serve !18 both the appeared on America's stages almost 60 before she is scheduled to walk down the and on about just director and narrator. His funny quips and .. years ago. A part of American dramatic her aisle. Decked out in her wedding dress, she how wonderful life is and do any humans silly remarks seem to be the only thing that itage. A striking comment of America's val clings to Daddie's arms and begs him to take actually realize this when they are alive? Of keeps the play going. ues and the meaning of life. Uhm..huh? her away. She's not sure she's ready to grow course the answer is no. Us 'live' folk are all The last downfall of the play is the fact that ,,, They were talking about THIS play?? up yet. Apparently this is just a tiny case of a bunch of morons who take everyday life the people who put on this production took "Our Town" is the story of Miss Emily 'cold feet' though since she regains her san and all it's wonders for granted. I certainly Wilder's advice and used little scenery and Webb, a young woman from Grovers ity and skips down th~ aisle two seconds agree with this message. I just don't think only a few props to put on this production. Corners (aka Podunk) N.H. The play is rem later. I've ever seen it been put forth in such a Wilder claims that in doing away with the iniscent of a 'coming-of-age' story. The first The third act is quite different. It takes mundane way before. 'trappings' of the realistic stage, he was act takes place in 1901 and portrays a 'day place some years later and much has One of the biggest problems with this pro seeking a more universal appeal with his in-the-life' of the 'good people' of Grovers changed in this sleepy town. People actual duction lies not with the acting of the cast, play. The audience is expected to use their Corners. We are taken along for a ride as the ly lock their doors at night and a few cars are but the play itself. We are called upon to feel imagination and work to grasp what the townspeople make breakfast, go to work and even rumbling about town. The people have love and affection for the characters, but no author is trying to tell us. The lack of school, attend choir practice, do schoolwork, also changed. Lots of .babies have been real c~aracter development is offered. We scenery only seems to add to the lack of etc etc ..I think the writer, Thorton Wilder, born, people have moved away, people have get the 'day-in-the-life' spiel in the first act depth and emotion in the play and gives it a hopes we will all fall in love with the sup moved into town and yes, many people have then we' re rushed off to the wedding of the very shallow feel. Apparently all my imagi posedly idealistic town and its' people. But even died. characters we are supposed to love. By the nation was already used up for the day. ., the first act does little more than put you to The act opens with a group of people time the third act roles around, death is now The play isn't a total bore but I won't sleep. portraying some deceased citizens of the the focus and we're too confused to know promise that it will knock your socks off. The second act picks up somewhat as the town. They sit and watch a funeral proces what in the world is going on. It's the old 'Life is wonderful, but you won't innocent Emily and her sweetheart, George sion: They welcome a new member of town The acting of the cast was alright, but realize how true this is until you' re either Gibbs, discover their love for each other and into their clan and make silly remarks but nothing spectacular. Leslie Seidel does a dead or dying' message. It's been done a marry. This act is a little more interesting, you aren't quite .sure what else they do good job as Emily, but as I stated earlier, thousand times. If you want your socks but don't rush down to the theater yet. The besides sit there and comment on the weath Thorton Wilder's writing doesn't give us the knocked off to the tune of this message, rent love story is supposed to portray America's er. Needless to say, the new member doesn't chance to really get to know Emily and grow "My Life'. Bucket O' Tears. Guaranteed. ·[ October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 20 EXECUTIVE POSJTION IN A FORTUNE NEED SOME HELP?? FOR RENT I SALE Wanted: DYNAMIC PERSON to speak 500 COMPANY ... NATIONWIDE COMPA YALET PARKING ATTENDANTS NEED NY IN THE LARGEST INDUSTRY IN Internet Research, Word Processing, at local area high schools. 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In a four-year period, serves as USL's return specialist. U~L, with Arkansas State's Cleo Lemon receiver Brandon Stokley, the son of head no one has ever averaged 100. Throwing "They've got quality personnel, just throwing for 334 yards in a losing cause coach Nelson Stokley. Brandon Stokley, him the foothill is junior quarterback · like every team. Our guys have to realize last week. While Southwestern who set four NCAA receiving records Barton Folse, who returned to action last that there are great football players on Louisiana's weaknesses seem to play into with his proficiency as a freshman, caught week following a bruised shoulder and every team. No one can be taken for UCF's hands, Kruczek remains cautious. 10 balls for 133 yards and the game-win clavicle injury. Like UCF's previous granted," Kruczek said. "We can't look past anybody. 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ORIJ098CU October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 24 Since trans ferring cf-Go\den from Georgia, Danya \) at Harris has fit right in, leading SW Louisiana UCFto consecutive ...... ,...... • '°) • TAAC ...... ,, . . . champi onships. Now in her l:OOpm final year, her goal is to get to the .. .. - . NCAA's. . . Future File Photo the 6to\den l'ni9hts trave\ Harris strives for to Louisiana to p\a1 the l2-a9in' l-ajuns. Watc,h on postseason glory the '5unshine Networ\{ as By TRAVIS BELL "What they bring as players the G.o\den !'nights 90.for Staff Writer is that both of them are always a threat," coach Karen Richter win number si~. - Last chance for one last said. "Both of them are excel dance. lent, and both of them have put Danya Harris has been a fix in a great work rate on the ture of UCF soccer for three field." years, just long enough to forget What sets Harris apart is her that she started her career at the abil_ity as a clutch scorer. Thus University of Georgia. Harris far in 1998, five of her eight played at Georgia in. 1995 after goals have been game winners. graduating from Orlando's And for her career, 10 of her 23 Lyman High School. After play goals have clinched victory for ing for the first-year Bulldogs the Knights. But she doesn't and leading them to a 10-5-3 really like the pressure she per KNIGHT record, she proceeded to leave forms under so well. Athens to return home to UCF "It's ~tressful, but it feels and play at a higher level. good to do it," Harris said. "It's "Everyone was at the same a lot of weight on your shoul TIME level, and there wasn't anyone ders, but you've gqtta do it." to push me,"Harris said. "When This year has been an eye I came back here I knew I had to opener for Harris and the other ON push myself because I had to try seniors. An 0-3 start made .her and win my position to start and realize how important this sea prove myself." son was, and since then she has Harris has had very little led the Knights to an 8-4 record, SUNSHINE trouble fitting in, starting all 55 including two losses by only games since joining the Knights. one goal. In 1996, her first year at UCF, "It made me realize that this she set a school and Trans was gonna be it," Harris said. America Athletic Conference "We couldn't start out much record with 15 assists. Since worse, so we turned it around For more insight into UCF sports check out then, she has become a promi from there." our website @ www.sunshinenetwork.com nent scoring threat, with 18 With the turnaround com www. sunS~iineNeTWorK . com goals while bemg named to plete, the team has their. sights theAll-TAAC team the past two set on regaining the TAAC seasons.More importantly, championship that slipped from Wednesday October 21, 1998 Harris has done whatever it their grasp last year after a four takes to help UCF win, no mat year reign. Beyond that, the ulti ter what position she has played. mate goal for Harris is the 6:30 pm: UCF Football Review with Mike Kruczek "My first year coming in, we NCAA Tournament, in which had Amy Jones and a few other the Knights last played in 1991. Saturday October 24, 1998 scorers, so I contributed where I "I was only part of the team had to with the assists," Harris once when they won (theTAAC · 8:00 pm: Knight Football: UCF @ SW Louisiana (LIVE) said. "Last year with our leading title), but even winning it once scorer leaving, I stepped up and with the experience I had would Tuesday October 27, 1998 felt I did what I needed to do. be great to win again," Harris Then this year we had scorers said. "To have the chance to. go 8:30 am: Knight Football: UCF @ SW Louisiana on both sides, and I balanced it to the NCAA Championship in out." my last season, you couldn't Wednesday October 28, 1998 Harris has teamed with Kim have it any better to end your Shrum to provide a potent one career." 6:30 pm: UCF Football Review with Mike Kruczek two scoring punch up front for With two games remaining the Knights. The two have com before the TAAC Tournament, Wednesday November 4, 1998 bined for 15 goals and 11 assists Harris' wish could come true if while leading UCF to an 8-7 the Knights continue their win 6:30 pm: UCF Football Review with Mike Kruczek record. ning ways. October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 25 • Tough losses force UCF into must-win situation • By TRAVIS BELL son on a positive note." Staff Writer ,However, the Knights can't look past Florida International, who they play on The UCF women's soccer team strug Thursday. UCF leads the all-time series gled last week, compiling a 1-2 record. As 17-3-3, but they need every win heading a result, UCF's #9 ranking in the Southeast into the conference tournament so they ,, Region is in jeopardy after losing to two can't downplay any opponent. regionally ranked opponents. "I think the most important thi!Jg we The Knights began their week with a need to do is get ourselves playing with tough 4-0 loss in Tampa to sixth-ranked more emotion and not making careless South Florida. u ·cF trailed 1-0 in through mistakes," Richter said. "We need to play the first 78 minutes of the game, but the better possession game. We need to correct defense collapsed in the remaining 12 our own mistakes. That needs to be our minutes to allow three goals. objective this coming week." "That game crushed our spirit quite a UCF had to face a few injury prob bit," coach Karen Richter said. Then the lems this past week. Although defender • Knights played two completely different Margrette Auffant returned against USP games in the Huntington and played an important role in the victo Banks/Reebok/UCF Soccer Classic at the ry over Purdue,. Kim Shrum suffered a UCF Arena Soccer Complex over the groin injury at USP, then injured her left weekend. UCF came from behind for a, 2- knee· after a collision with the Purdue 1 victory over Purdue on Friday, but a 1-0 keeper. loss against Wisconsin-Milwaukee could Photo by Kevin Colber "Certainly Shrum not being 100 per bump them out of the rankings. Junior Erin Volz and the rest of the Golden Knights' have put themselves in a tough cent hurts us," Richter said:"She is one of "The two losses we took this week situation by dropping games to regionally ranked opponents. our more emotional players, so without .. could knock us out of the region, but I her we lose that aspect as well." don't know," Richter said. "We'll just have teams, so UCF will need to win the Trans ment, which is being played at UCF, Luckily for the Knights, the TAAC to wait (until the new rankings come out)." America Athletic Conference, to advance Nov.5-7. champion gets an automatic bid into the UW-Milw.aukee entered the game ranked to the NCAA Tournament. "I think that game is critical. It's our NCAA Tournament for the first time. So seventh in the Great Lakes region, and the Although the Knights have already last game before the conference tourna despite the struggles against ranked oppo Knights have struggled against ranked clinched the TAAC East Division, they ment," Richter said. "It's also a conference nents, UCF only has to regain the TAAC opponents this season. The Knights are 1- need to beat Florida Atlantic on Sunday to game, and we need to get ourselves back title from Georgia State to advance to the 7 this season against regionally ranked earn the top seed in the conference tourna- on track. We need to finish the regular sea- NCAA's for the first time since 1991. .. .. • . . ' .. . : wednesdaytJI ~Ursday tJi r-:.-:··· ::;:. ··~:· e Men's soc~er vs. • Stetson, 4:00 p.m., UCF • Arena Soccer Field • Men's socce·r vs. Stetson 4:00 pm • . ,,( ,·:,,;,-· • • (UCF soccer com1>lcx, behind Arena) .• ..• \.e : ft:: I~~~?": tJ1 saturday tJI ;.. .·,"; • • Cro$$·Country Stets·on, · Football at SW • • lnvita. ti~nal,, Delapd .Fl.. ' Louisiana, 8:00 p.m., televised live • fiJ Women's soccer vs. Fla International 4:00 pm fiJ • on Sunshine • ~ (UCF soccer complex, behind Arena) ~ Network • . A, • • . .~ _, .. • • sunday Cross Country-Stetson Invitational .. (Deland, Fl) • Women's soccer vs . • Fla Atlantic, 2:00 p.m., • UCF Arena Soccer • e Field • • Women's soccer vs. Fla Atlantic 2:00 pm • • (UCF soccer com1>lex, behind Arena) • • • • ·• tu.esday For ticket information call: (407) 823-1000 • • • '················• • October 21, 1998 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 26 Great expectations tor Henman NOTICE OF By JEFF CASE That dependability and play-through-pain atti Staff Writer tude is something Hoffman has always had. In an PUBLIC HEARING early season loss to Purdue, Hoffman was diag Looking at Dawn Hoffman, UCF women's vol nosed with a slightly sprained ankle and was not leyball coach Miriam Ochoa expected greatness expected to play. Hoffman Athletic Fee Setting from her. After all, Hoffman was from a volley simply taped up the ankle Thursday, October 22 ball-hotbed, California, had the prototypical vol and led UCF to a near defeat Student Resource Center Auditorium leyba11 player size, 6-foot-l, and was her team's of Purdue in five games. 4:00 p.m. MVP her senior year. "I like it when people "I felt she probably thought she had a lot to depend on me," Hoffman and prove being from there and a lot of the good said. "I guess I sometimes Friday, October 23 players come from California," Ochoa said. work better under stress. If Student Union, Sand Key Rooi:n #220 "She probably had it in the back of her mind she you look to me to step up, 10:00 a.m. had a lot to prove at UCF and she had some big I'll step up. That's what hap- expectations to fill." Hoffnian pened in high school, we As a senior co-captain, Hoffman knows she is lost a lot of people, and they The committee will hear comments from expected to lead UCF this season, and uphold looked to me as a senior middle blocker to step students regarding the amount of next the tradition started by a team whicb returns five up and run the team. Having a lot of experience year's Athletic Fee. players from last season's that went 28-4 squad behind me, playing club [volleyball] and every and earned its inaugural NCAA Tournament vic thing, I was able to do that." tory. Hoffman was, however, never recruited to be "The first thought we were going to have a lot the leader she has become, but instead to back up of hard work ahead of us. We had a good team Harper. Hoffman's emergence this season has last year and we all worked hard and .succeeded been a gradual growth, something that started as a team," said Hoffman, who is a psychology with her recruiting trip to UCF in 1994. major. "I ·knew that we were going to have to As a wide-eyed 17-year-old from the Mojave work 10 times harder to win the TAAC and to Desert, Hoffman was introduced to teammate keep the [65 consecutive TAAC match victo and close friend Anabel Marcos and her twin sis ries]streak alive. I knew it was going to be a ter, Maribel, who played for UCF from 1994- tough road ahead of us." ~ 97. The sisters took Hoffman on a tour of Orlando during the visit and it helped sway her PlAY 1111 AGAllln decision to choose UCF ovet Auburn, Alaska Anchorage, San Diego State and Cal State Fullerton. "When I came out here, I'm from a really small SIPOl~lr~ town in California [Ridgecrest], so there's no [dance] clubs, there's no nothing there," USED & NEW SPORTS EQUIPMENT Hoffman said. "I came out here, I had never met a person of [Anabel's] energy or the spontaneity Buy •:• Sell •:• Trade •:• Consign of the twins. I came out here and I had never· danced ouqin public] before,· so it was a very big culture shock .when I came out here." SwiNG ON IN FoR ALL _Since that trip, Anabel Marcos said Hoffman has slowly become less of an introverted small Of YouR t9wn girl. Marcos said the slow changes have helped her become a more complete play~r than GolfiNq NEEds! in the past. · "The thing I love about Dawn is in the first AREA's lARqeT SElECTiON of NEW game ~gainst Purdue, every time she would go & PRE-OwNEd EouipMENT up and block [a shot] straight down, she'd raise Golf her hands up and it was absolutely the most excited I'd ever seen her," Anabel Marcos said. Make Sure to Check Out Our "We just go nuts, her getting fired up gets every Skate Closeouts! body else fired up. "She's definitely matured, she's gotten smarter. Now she knows how to 7600 Unh.~ersity Blvd. • Winter Park work around the block, she's play.ing defense for us now, which is something she's never done. -677-5007 She's a smarter hitter and definitely stronger. Now that she has to step up, she's doing a great job." · Ochoa said Harper's departure has allowed Hoffman to showcase the skills she may have already had. "I see a big difference from last year to this year in her playing abilities," Ochoa said. Photo by Kevin Colber "Maybe last year, Tyra would have 20_kills and Dawn Hoffman looks to rise above the rest, Dawn would have six, so it didn't look like she leading UCF back to the NCAA Tournament. was doi.ng anything. There are glimpses of e_ner gy and fire and I'm glad to keep her in the game ' ~ Hoffman dedicated the offseason to training all the time." and conditioning for her role as a team leader Ochoa has also seen Hoffman's leadership this this season. Teammates and coaches say she · season, but said she expects mote out of her. often pushes herself harder than she is asked, Ochoa said Hoffman playing the back row, a something that can be a fault at times. unique skill for a middle blocker, has added "She tries to do too much in the game and too depth to Hoffman's. game, but she still needs much to help other people out," Ochoa said. improvement. "She may have learned a little bit of that from "She's definitely trying and giving 100 per .. [former player] _Tyra [Harper] because she would cent, but we. need more leadership from her in lose focus in playing as far as their responsibili tight situations, especially in the [Oct. 2] loss to ties. With the new players and young players Flonda Atlantic (snapping the team's 65-game coming in, she was not sure what they were TAAC win streak)," Ochoa said. "I'm on her a going to do. Sometimes, she'll get so busy giv lot and she knows ~hat we want because she's ing others instructions, she'll forget what she's been here four years. I expect her and all my supposed to do." seniors to play near perfect sometimes. I can Ochoa said Hoffman's dedication to the team accept trying your best and things happen, but I is immeasurable, noting that Hoffman has played cannot accept mental errors from my seniors." for more than a year with bone chips in her right The raised expectations are nothing new for foot. It is an injury that does not cause her pain, Hoffman, who will look to help lead UCF to its Ochoa said, but can annoy her in. close games. seventh-consecutive TAAC title in November. • • Nubira CDX 4-door Sedan • Introducing the Daewoo Leganza, the Daewoo Nubira and the Daewoo Lanos. Nice new cars, complete Used books. with new car handling. New car reliability. Used furniture. New car smell. For not much more than you'd pay for a used car. 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