University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 10-28-2005 Sandspur, Vol 112, No 10, October 28, 2005 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol 112, No 10, October 28, 2005" (2005). The Rollins Sandspur. 1798. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1798 kmt HAU.QWEE* F*m THE OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN FLORIDA ;TOBER 28, 2005 FOUNDED IN 1894 IN BRIEF President's New Digs Hurricane Wilma Causes a Swirl of Controversy on Rollins Campus • The storm's policy and students and fac­ ulty began to e-mail the damage may be President trying to coax the found more in EOPT away from their deci­ On Friday, October 21, more campus relations sion. Caitlin McConnell, Stu­ than 200 members of the dent Government Associa­ Rollins community gathered than fallen trees. tion President, sent out an for the formal dedication of email to the students shortly Barker House. Located just by John Ferreira before 10 p.m. on Sunday east of the Rollins campus on the sandspur night saying that she was at­ the shores of Lake Virginia, Hurricane Wilma, the tempting, to the best of her this is the first on-campus twenty-first named storm of abilities, "to persuade the ad­ residence for College presi­ the 2005 hurricane season, ministration to reconsider dents and their families. made landfall on Monday, their decision." In the e-mail October 24, just outside of McConnell said that Presi­ CSI: Rollins College Naples on the southwest dent Duncan was standing coast of Florida. Residents of firm on the opinion since the the Central Florida area campus is 80% residential were prepared for the worse, that the students were not in as Orange County was danger to attend. Most stu­ under an inland Tropical dents could not understand Storm Warning. Some resi­ why so many cancelled class dents were reminded of last while Rollins did not. year's Hurricane Charley In response to the on­ that shifted its track just A "mock" crime scene was coming storm many Central investigated by Professor of prior to landfall and made a Florida counties and organi­ Anthropogy Carol Lauer's direct hit on the area causing zations cancelled or limited Forensic Anthropology class significant damage. activities on Monday. All on Tuesday, October 18. The Rollins community Central Florida counties can­ Joining the investigation was was on edge and many were celled class, and several Cen­ Winter Park Police detective fearful of a Charley repeat. tral Florida county govern­ and Rollins graduate The Emergency Operations ments, including Orange Stephen J Sciortino, '83. Team (EOPT) met on Friday Country, cancelled its ses­ NURI VALLBONA/The Miami Herald and decided that unless con­ sions. Many universities and UNDER DESTRUCTION: The Broward County School Board ditions worsened the predic­ colleges across the region Building sustained major damage during Hurricane Wilma IN THIS ISSUE tions did not warrant the cancelled class including the Monday, October 24, 2005, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. cancellation of classes and University of Central Florida The Boys Are Back in Town other activities. This asser­ and Stetson University. tion was based upon Winter Embry-Riddle announced Park and Orlando wind as­ that it would remain open sessments made by extreme­ on Sunday but then can­ ly detailed weather forecast­ celled class on Monday at 10 ing. EOPT did leave the door a.m. open for a possible change in The flames of discontent Musical group Hanson visit­ policy saying that if condi­ were fanned even more on ed the Rollins Campus last tions worsened they would Monday morning when week to show their docu­ cancel class. Hurricane President Lewis Duncan mentary on the state of the Wilma did gain some sent out an email in which music industry, "Strong strength as it exited the Yu­ he said that while most Enough to Break". catan peninsula. Many stu­ protest emails he received page10 dents and faculty assumed were "earnest and open" that so many other institu­ some were "uncivil and im­ Everybody Neat and Pretty? tions were canceling their mature." The President then Then on with the show! Monday activities that endeavored to explain the [According to a Rollins would follow suit. decision making process to Inew rule passed by Many members of the those who found it flawed. NBA commission­ Rollins community were He defended the position er David Stern, shocked with the EOPT an­ that it would be safe to have players are now re­ nounced at 2:30 p.m. that class, that any power out­ quired to dress up "classes scheduled on Mon­ ages would be localized and Iwhen off the court. day, October 24 are expected brief, and the storm would page 18 to continue as planned." go by quickly ending at Students and faculty around 1 p.m. Duncan also members were outraged at said that UCF and Stetson NEWS.. 2 the decisions and many were closing for their partic- OPINIONS ....5 feared for their safety as they tular reasons. Stetson, be­ cause it is located in a flood DANI PICARD /The Sandspur HOLTNEWS ....8 walked to class during the A BLUSTERY DAY FOR ROLLINS: Damage to the Rollins ENTERTAINMENT ... .10 storm. On Sunday attempts plain and UCF is a com­ LIFE & TIMES . .13 Campus and greater Winter Park area was minimal despite a were made to change the muter campus. SPORTS .. 18 brief period of tropical-storm force winds on Monday. OCTOBER 28,2005 THE SANDSPUR NEWS Tulane Students Work The Haunting of the Annie Russell Hard to Overcome • Rumors of a er ghost haunts the Annie as well but no documentation by Jill Moon versity, the University of lane and attended one ghost in the Annie has been found to prove or st.louis post-dispatch Missouri at St. Louis and week of classes before Kat­ Russell are com­ disprove such a claim. Sup­ Webster University. About rina hit. Fire ants. Mold. Those posedly a security guard 40 people came, including "Wash U. was incredi­ mon, but is there are just a couple of things committed suicide, hanging 10 St. Louis alumni. ble absolutely incredible. I confronting Tulane Univer­ any truth to them? himself from the trap door in "I am trying to spin it in feel completely at home," sity students when they re­ the basement of the Annie. a positive way for me," said Keller said. by Sophia Koshmer turn to New Orleans. In a Sandspur article pub­ Susan Keller, a third-year She is flying to New staff reporter But on Sunday, Cres­ lished in October of 2000, a law student at Washington Orleans Wednesday to cent City favorites red It is unclear as to girl was quoted as having University. She is staying drive her moldy, fire-ant beans and rice were served whether or not a ghost truly been down in the basement with her parents in Eureka. infested car back to St. up for displaced students does haunt the Annie Rus­ and hearing someone whis­ "I do plan on coming back Louis. Keller will return to while Zydeco music played sell theatre, but traditionally per in the darkness, "Hey, here after graduation." her unscathed second floor in the background. The there are certainly many sto­ come here." apartment in Jefferson evacuees gathered behind She said she was taking ries that have been passed Another student in an Parish for the spring se­ the Art Museum in Forest advantage of being here by down of such sightings and electric closet in the Annie mester. Park to share trials and tri­ looking for jobs. She also strange happenings that was said to have been an­ Other Tulane students umphs. It wasn't a home­ said that the law school have taken place there. This swering th phone only to said they've had good ex­ coming, it was "Tulane and Washington University is one among a multitude of hear dead air on the other periences in St. Louis. Un­ Overcoming 2005." Tulane is fabulous. Sandspur articles in past end. Then suddenly the clos­ University Alumni Associ­ Keller, who has lived in dergraduate students Na­ years chronicling this et slammed shut and the 7 ation's St. Louis Chapter New Orleans for seven talia Filippov of Houston "ghostly presence ' of which lights went out as the phone was the host. years, had no problems and Patrick Brady of can all be found in the rang wildly off the hook. She getting into Washington Houma, La., attend St. Displaced chemistry Rollins Archives located on could swear she heard the University's law school. Louis University. Both professor Scott Grayson, the basement level of the sound of a knife running Tulane's Jaw school re­ agree St. Louis is a nice who is from St. Charles, Olin Library, ted an article down metal. When the door leased the third-year stu­ change of scenery and it contacted the association's by an anonymous source opened finally she bolted dents first because they seems like a vacation. Ac­ president, Ruth Zarren- who supposedly spent the without question. have to take the bar exam counting and finance stu­ Koch, about getting Tulane night in the Annie to obtain Annie Russel's favorite in July.