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Central Florida Future. 1742. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1742 ) FREE • Published Wednesda sdurin summer www.UCFnews.com • Wednesda , Jul 7, 2004 UCF didn't win the crown, but did sweep the Former UCF wide receiver "Doug Gabriel is becoming academic honors at the Miss Florida pageant. BRAWN - an impact player for the Oakla.nd Raiders. BRAINS - SEE NEWS,A6 - SEE SPORTS, AS 11 "We will have · to live with terrorism for From dictator MOSUL• •) the rest of our lives." - DWIGHT KIEL POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR to ·democracy TIKRIT ·• Professors ponder whether Iraq can . FALLUJAH • make the transition from terror ' ) VIJAV PATTISAPU political science said democracy should come Staff Writer gradually, as peace and security begin to be taken •KARBALA for granted in Iraq. On June 28; 16 months after David Houghton, assistant professor of political American forces invaded Iraq, science, said "most people would settle for a non the United States trans- deinocratic government as a prelude to a demo ferred sovereignty to cratic one, given the mess in Iraq right now:• Iraq's interim g0v "Saddam Hussein was a sort of mixed blessing," ernment. Saddam Houghton said. He compares Hussein's coercion of Hussein is currently Iraq's Shi'ites, Sunnis, and Kurds into a unified state on trial to that of Tito's coercion of Muslims, Serbians, and · Professors at Croatians in Yugoslavia after World War II. UCF feel a generally Factions are one of biggest problems facing the positive energy about new Iraq. "Kurds are Kurds before [they are] the latest develop Iraqis," Warren Goldstein, professor of sociology ments in Iraq, though said. they are cautious in pre · There are two major social rifts in Iraq: an eth . dictions and analysis. The nic struggle between Aiabs and Kurds, and a·reli · phrase "puppet regime" gious division between the Shi'ite and Sunni sects often ricochets off the walls of Islam. There is overlap, but at the.political level of Colbourn Hall, when refer most people talk about "the three factions": Shi'ite, ring to the new interim govern Sunni, and Kurd. · ment. Most warned about the Contrary to popular belief, neither reUgious fac perils ofcriticizing what has already Hon is more conservative or anti-American than happened, saying "Monday morning the other. Hadi Abbas, a professor of art who lived ·: quarterbacks win all the games," "hind under Saddam Hussein, pointed out how Western sight is 20/20" and ''this was a learning expe judgment of Sunnis and Shi'ites flips back and rience." forth. Britain appointed a Sunni monarch when it They all agree on the enormity of the task set up its new government in Iraq in 1921, believing ·before Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his · Sunnis to be the more liberal and modern sect. In cabinet. the '70s and '80s that feeling wa.S negatively rein- ILLUST~TJON BY JERROD ROCKHILL I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUI.URE. "Order and security are what we neoo first," The United States handed over control of Iraq on June 28, two 'days earlier than expected. Houman Sadri said. The .associate professor of PLEASE SEE DEMOCRACY ON AS l . 1 . ' L9ggerhead turtles give global warning ing. And most finding occur in tem Eggs laid early hint perate areas," Weishampel said. ) Several issues concern scientists regarding the shift in egg-laying at rising temperature behavior of the loggerhead. "Maybe mating that proceeds [laying eggs] is NASEEM SOWTI not happening," Weishampel said.. Staff Writer The babies may hatch out before the food supply - crabs, shrimp, and jel A shift in loggerhead turtle nest lyfish - would be easily available. ing has some scientists worried that The warming of the sea surface rising global temperatures might temperature can also have adverse eventually destroy local ecosystems. effects on the eggs. "The sex of the "Think of nature as a big sympho hatchlings. is· temperature-depend ny," said John Weishampel, an associ ent. If the eggs ·are laid earlier, it ate professor of biology. "The instru might mess up the female to male ments are animals and plants, and the ratio," Weishampel said. MICHAEL SNEAD I CENTRAL FLORIDAF UTURE timing that these instruments play "Loggerheads are carnivorous," he Eric Van Stryland is directing a study at UCF to develop technology that could prevent laser damage, as well as increase eomputer and telecommunications efficiency. [e.g. mate or lay eggs] makes this said. "This puts them at top of the symphony." . food chain, and if you remove them, . This beautiful symphony could be · you'll mess up the chain." : threatened, according to a study con Loggerheads, which are the most Laser-blocking material .could help • ducted by WeishampeL common sea turtles in Florida, are a His team has found that local log threatened species. An adult can gerhead turtles are laying their eggs weigh up to 350 pounds and measure 10 days earlier than they used to 15 about three feet in length. '.These tur military. troops protect their eyes . years ago, and they believe global tles mate during March and June, : warming to be the cause. and lay their eggs as early as April. VIJAV PATTISAPU Van Stryland, director of the Center for like glasses. The raw materials are Weishampel, along with biology Their nesting season peaks in the Staff Writer Research and Education in Optics and cheap, says Van Stryland, but right now . professor Llew Ehrhart and research .months of June and July and ends in Lasers and the Florida Photonics Cen- building it is "prohibitively expensive" : <Jssociate Dean Bagley, analyzed data September. · While the typical laser pointer is· ter for Excellence. for mass prdduction. t . : from a 25-mile stretch ofbeach on the Ninety-one percent of loggerhead nothing more than an annoyance to Currently, researchers are trying to · . U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, has I : east coast of Florida, from Sebastian nesting occurs on Florida's Atlantic your eyes, pulsed lasers, like those used develop glasses that darken in time to helped fund the project. Nearly $1 mil 7Inlet to the southern boundary of coast, making it the most in optical range finders, could be used block an incoming laser pulse before it lion has been granted so far. "UCF stu Patrick Air Force Base. They important nesting as weapons. UCF is working with the breaches the eye and causes damage. dents will now play a significant role in accumulated this data in a area for this Georgia Institute of· Technology to These pulses can be just a . few bil- the protection of the men and women 15-year period, starting species. The counteract that threat. lionths ofa second long. After the pulse serving our country, both at home and ~ inl989. 25-mile stretch Pulse lasers fire pulses, then meas- is blocked, the glasses must then light- abroad," he said. i · They've found that the team ure the time it takes for them to return en quickly enough for the wearer to see Their research could also have some ~ in 2003 half the has covered is the - calculating the distance much like a again. exciting applications outside of the mil- · turtles nested nesting destinatfon to 25 bat does with echolocation. The glasses use a liquid material that itary - specifically in the area of opti- ·before June 19, percent of the turtles. However, those same pulses can also. can change rapidly multiple times. cal transistors. Optical transistors compared to June Weishampel and his col cause lesions in the eye. Depending on . Researchers are using the liquid would allow one beam to switch anoth 29 in 1989. The team leagues are continuing their the power and time of exposure, they because its atoms can break up and er beam on and off, such transistors has also recorded an research, this time focusing on the can even cause permanent blindness. come back together more quickly and could be used to build optical comput..: almost 1.5-degree turtles' sex ratio. That scenario has yet to present easily than the atoms of a solid. ers. Fahrenheit increase in the "The main thing to consider here itself as a real problem, however An incoming laser beam would While purely optical computers near-shore temperature. is that this is another piece of infor researchers are hoping to develop the stimulate electrical interactions in the have not shown any advantage over This phenomenon isn't iso mation out there," Weishampel said. necessary equipment to protect sol- chemicals and darken the device. The electrical ones, a mix of electrical and lated to the turtle world - there is a "Sea turtles are a new addition to the dier~ before it becomes one. Pulse technology works like glasses that dark- optical components can make comput record of different species that are list of [species] affected by globiil lasers are becoming easier to obtain en in the sun and return to normal er and telecommunications projects laying eggs earlier each year due to warming." . · and sell for as low as $10,000 each - a when the wearer goes indoors.