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) Medical ci BREAKS GROUN ) More than 500 attended ceremony ROBYN SIDERSKY university's first building. Staff Writer "It doesn't get any better," German said. "It's a celebra UCF officials broke tion of the birth of our med ground Wednesday at Lake ical city." Nona, the planned home of The Burnham Institute for UCF's College of Medicine Medical Research will house NICOLE STANCEL I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE and a medical city. UCF's' College of Medicine President John Hitt and Student Government Association President Brandie Hollinger are among others who were part of the dirt-turning With more than 500 Cen and the emerging life sciences ceremony at Lake Nona. The event signified the commencement of construction for UCF's College of Medicine and the medical city. ) tral Florida community lead cluster. ers in attendance, College of The site in Lake Nona is The Science and Technol "This is a monumental day Dyer was honored by UCF Medicine Dean Deborah Ger 600 acres and will have an ogy Park will be home to the for the Central Florida com President John Hitt as an hon man used the same silver Orlando Veterans Affairs medical clu5ter that is project munity," Orlando Mayor orary knight. Orange County shovel that UCF's first presi Hospital and the Nemours ed to bring $6.4 billion per Buddy Dyer said. "It's a cata Mayor Richard Crotty and FOOD dent, Charles J.\1illican, used Orlando Children's Hospital year to the Central Florida lyst for all the activity in th.e when he broke ground for the and Research Campus. economy. medical city." PLEASESEE PROJECT ON A6 THAI SAUCE G~USES CHAOS IN LONDON Library AThai restaurant in London cau'sed quite a disturbance Wednesday when passers-by began complaining that a listed as chemical coming from the restaurant was burning their throats. spot for Police dosed down roads, sealed buildings and gave out special gay sex breathing masks in fear of what it · Men's restrooms was.The a place for 'cruising' culprit- the AMANDA WELCH restaurant's Contributing Writer super-spicy chili sauce Robin Chan, a senior called"nam Llbrary technical assistant at ·" prikpao." UCF, entered a third floor rest room that seemed to be empty. After shutting the door of the farthest stall, he realized somebody was sitting very AROUND CAMPUS, Al quietly in the stall next to him. Bicycle·Society to be new Chan noticed the person's VUCF JOINS GIVE KIDS Tara Snodgrass, junior, paints bikes for the RED Bicyde Society. foot was twitching, and then The premise of the society is to have bikes people can share in he saw the person's hand flash 'THE WORLD TODAY communal bike program order to get from dass to dass. The society has 10 bikes so far. underneath the side of the FROM 4 P.M. TO 9 P.M. provide bicycles for · stu to be able to leave my bike project stems from a stall. AMANDA ZIKE It was then that it occurred VUCF will be participating in Give Kids Contributing Writer dents to use on campus. on campus and thought Regions Bank commercial, the World today from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Students would leave the other people must feel this Snodgrass said. In the com to him what the person might Volunteers who are interested must With an expanding cam bike in the nearest rack way too." mercial, people use neon be signaling him for a sexual meet in the Visual Arts Building at 3 pus and limited time to get when they're done for the Freshman Brittany Mar green bikes and then leave encounter, so he got up and p.m. to carpool. The theme of the from one class to another, next person to use. tin agreed with Snodgrass. them for someone else left. event is pirates and princesses. students may soon have an "I ride my bike to cam "I live off campus," Mar when they reach their desti This is not the only report alternative to walking. pus," said Snodgrass, an tin said. "To bring a bike on nation. ed incident of "cruisers," or Tara Snodgrass, a junior education major who lives campus everyday would be Snodgrass is also the sec people meeting for anony LOCAL &STATE, A2 at UCF, is creating a new iri University fiouse off a big hassle." retary of the Outlanders mous gay sex, in the UCF program called The RED campus. "I thought it would Part of the idea for the Club atUCF. Llbrary restrooms. POLICE OFFICER ·sHOT Bicycle Society. be nice The Outlanders Club is , I DEAD IN SUSPECTED The project's goal is to devoted to climbing, hik PLEASE SEE GROUNDS ON A3 ATM ROBBERY ing, camping, canoeing, An off-duty police officer was shot PLEASE SEE PROGRAM ON AS dead at a bank early Thursday, the victim of a suspected ATM robbery, Red Homicide authorities said. Alfred L. Gordon Sr., • an Orlando police veteran, was discovered just before 1 a.m. by an Orange Country Sheriff's deputy. victims' are NATION &WORLD, A4 lives CARGO PLANE CRASHES IN CONGO CAPITAL, honored AT LEAST 19 DEAD EASTSTANDS . JESSICA SUNDAY ) Staff Writer ACargo plane crashed in a residential . 1 1 1~ 16 neighborhood near the main airport in 600 USF tix up for grabs G G~ GP GA. GATE He would have been Congo's capital on Thursday, plowing friends with anyone, even -- " into homes and killing at least 19 Game is second straight sellout for USF No tailgating activi you. people, officials said. Several destroyed ties are allowed. This But for those who were and 13. Those gates are oppo homes near a market were ablaze. MATT MCKINLEY includes, but is not lim closest to him, Michael Staff Writer site of the tower where the ited to, grilling, drinking skyboxes are located. Ruschak was so much more and parking at the stadi than just a forthcoming INDEX TODAY'S Six hundred fortunate, Tickets will be first come, um. and devoted students will first served and limited to charmer. Around Campus 2 WEATHER "Students must park If his Italian "cappy hat" receive a free ticket to the one per person. Students in the designated lots ) Weather 2 did not draw you in immedi sold-out game against the must present their valid UCF and garages that their Local & State 2 ately, his smile certainly University of South Florida ID card. The tickets are for decal allows for on nor Nation & World 4 Oct. 13, courtesy of the Stu Section 329 in Raymond would mal school days," Friends and family have Sports 7 dent Government Associa James Stadium in Tampa. Delanois said. said that anyone who knew Variety 10 SHOWERS tion. "Get there early, as The UCF Police Ruschak knew that he did not Oassifieds 13 LIKELY The ticket giveaway will campers are anticipated," Department will be on deserve to die on Sept. 24 in Sudoku 13 take place at Bright House said Brandon Delanois, the regular patrol and doing Crossword 13 89° 75° Networks Stadium at 7 a.m. Athletics and Traditions HIGH WW Monday, between gates 12 PLEASE SEE FRIENDS ON A3 coordinator for SGA PLEASE SEE USF ON AS Al www.CentralFloridaFuture.com October 5,2007 • ~nmd :Jloriba 1utun • AROUND CAMPUS (tntraf News and notices for the UCF community 11oriba VUCF joins Give Kids the World Volunteer UCF will be par • ticipating in Give Kids the World today from 4 p.m. to 9 1uturt p.m. Volunteers who are inter The Student Newspaper at UCF since 1968 ested must meet in the VISual • Arts Building at 3 p.m. to car UCF political groups discuss Iraq War October 5, 2007 pool. The party has a pirates Vol 39, Issue 122 • 14 Pages and princesses theme. TARA YOUNG The Central Florido Future is the independent, student • Staff Writer written newspaper at the University of Central Florida. Who's Who applications available Opinions in the Future are those of the md1v1dual columnist and not necessarily those of the editorial staff Applications for Who's Who The Student Union's second floor or the Unive~ity administJiltion. All content is property of Among Students are now avail the Central Florida Future and may not be reprinted in part buzzed with political debate on Wednes or In whole without permission from the publisher. able. The honor is given to stu day as College Republicans, College dents who show exceptional Democrats and Students for a Democra NEWSROOM ·. leadership, service and scholas tic Society took center stage to share and 407-447-4558 ' , tic achievement. Student's who discuss their viewpoints on the Iraq War. receive the honor are eligible It was standing room only as SDS Editor-in.Chief for scholarships through the Melissa Heyboer xl13 kicked off the forum with their opening editor@(entra/F/oridaFuture.com national Who's Who organiza remarks. tion and Student Govemnient "Ifwe want td end the war in Iraq ... News Editors • Association of UCF. To apply the power isn't within the politicians, it's Jenny Andreasson and and find more iriformation, go within us,'' SDS member Eric Eingold Matt Morrison x213 to www.getinvolveducf.com. said news@(entra/FloridriFuture.com Applications are due by 5 p.m. The forum was divided into three Opinions Editor • Nov. 9 in the OSI office of the topics: the current situation in Iraq, the Natalie Morera x213 Student Union. parties' thoughts on where to go from opinions@C£ntra/FloridaFuture.com here and the regional impacts ofthe war. Sports Editor • UCF promotes community service A moderator, political science profes Padrick Brewerx215 SGA, VUCF and OSI are sor David Houghton, read audience [email protected] beginning "Knights Give Back." PHOTOS BY AMANDA MOORE I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE questions to the groups in between each Students packed into the Key West Ballroom of the Student Union Wednesday to hear a debate on the Iraq War. Variety Editor The goal of the event is to get topic. Each group, represented by two • more that 1,000 students, facul Corinne Schulerx214 members, had equal time to speak. lem,'' Houghton read from the card variety@(entralfloridaFuture.com ty and alumni involved in a vari College Republicans began the first Chambers cited some examples of ety of community service proj topic by stressing a need for security in strategies, including presidential candi Photo Editor ects throughout Central Iraq - a need that could be obtained and date Barack Obama's withdrawal strate Andy Jacobsohn photrJ@(entra/FloridaFuture.com Florida. For more information, maintained by American troops. gy, ''which advocates pulling a certain contact "Security is a necessary prerequisite amount of troops out per month until Staff Writers [email protected]. for any political or economical process," about Jan. 1, 2009, when we leave an Brandon Bielich, Richard Bilbao, • said Patrick Stauffer, executive director undetermined amount of troops there Donald Thomann, William Goss, of College Republicans. "It's basic psy just for security purposes," Chambers Whitney Hamrick, Mary Knowles, Je~n~fr chology "" you can't expect people to go said "So I believe there are many plans, Latino, Lauren Paulauskas, Jeffrey Riley, LOCAL out and live their everyday lives, start but it's just that the average Joe may not Zaileen Roach,Amanda K. Shapiro, new businesses and make extremely dif see them as succeeding." Robyn Sidersky, Jessica Sunday, Tara Young &STATE ficult political compromises, ifthey can't When SDS was asked to reply to one Copy Editors even guarantee the safety of their self audience member's concern that if the Jennifer Heimburg, Brian Murphy, Keep local with headlines and their families. U.S. were to withdraw from the Middle Jamie Salmasian, Megan Speer you may have missed "So really, our military objective is East it may lead to more innocent lives Staff Photographers focused on keeping security in Baghdad being taken, Eingold answered with con Off-duty police officer shot dead Brian Bustos, Ben Edelstein, Brian Fieg, and the surrounding areas." viction. Shanna Fortier, Jennifer Heimburg, < • at bank in suspected ATM robbery A representative for College Democ ''.Absolutely not," he said "The U.S. ORLANDO - An off-duty Rayma Jenkins, Amanda Moore, rats had some members of the crowd presence right now is restricting recon Nicole Stance!, Gregory Territo police officer was shot dead at a cheering after his first sentence. ciliation between the groups in Iraq that bank early Thursday, the victim "Iraq is a disaster,'' Chris Chambers need to get together in order for them to Editorial Cartoonist • of a suspected ATM robbery, said rebuild their country, which we Spain Fischer authorities said. He then gave the audience some war destroyed" Graphic Artists Alfred L. Gordon Sr., an statistics. SDS began the closing remarks ofthe Orlando police veteran, was Cara Cooper, Joseph Mangabat, ''In 2007, there has been an average of forum. Brad Walkover • discovered just before 1 a.m. by ' 17 deaths from car bombs per day, double "Ifwe really want to see change in our Editorial Adviser an Orange County ·sheriff's from 8.5 in 2006,'' he said. "Since the society, and if we really want to see an deputy. He was driving his per Abraham Aboraya beginning of the war in 2003, there have end to this war, we need to come togeth adviser@(entra/FloridaFuture.com • sonal car, and investigators said been 81,119 documented deaths, with the er as people and say ... the two-party sys it wasn't clear if the suspect figures as high as 600,000 in undocu tem has abandoned this country and On Wednesday, two representatives from each of the knew Gordon was an officer. mented deaths. Since the end of major abandoned countries worldwide," Ein three leading campus political groups met at 4:30 p.m. Police Chief Mike McCoy combat operations, 3,700 soldiers have gold said Members of Students for a Democratic Society, College said the 18-year veteran was a Republicans and College Democrats tackled the subject BUSINESS ., ,.. ·: died, which averages about 2.4 soldiers The first squabble between the audi of war in Iraq. deacon at his church, an inac per day." ence and panelists erupted after College 407-447-4555 , >, tive major in the Army SDS took a more specific approach to Republicans' closing remarks. From top: SOS members Eric Eingold and Jeff Gore, Reserves, had three children Advertising Sales Director explain the degradation in Iraq. York brought the conversation back College Republicans members Justin York and Patrick Mark Lanaris x204 and sang in the church choir. Shauffer, and College Democrats members Chris ''In the last year, there have been over to the issue that the Iraqi civilians may Chambers and Kris Krausse. [email protected] The county sheriff's office is 30,000 documented cases of diarrhea in not want a democracy in their country. leading the investigation Iraq," Eingold said. "Diarrhea is the "I think it's pretty ethnocentric to say University Sales Director because the alleged homicide said "But the representatives for SDS Heissam Jebailey x201 largest killer ofchildren under 5, and this that only Westerners like a high standard showed complete respect." [email protected] happened outside city police comes from a lack of sanitation. The of living; only Westerns like freedom of jurisdiction. Bilak also said he thought College United States' occupying force has failed speech, freedom ofpress and freedom of Democrats was not given equal time to Classifieds Sales Director Allen wouldn't disclose to meet the basic qualities oflife." religion," York said ''.And to be perfectly Trisha Irwin x212 whether there was a struggle, if speak. [email protected] The groups answered several ques honest, it makes me so angry to see peo "It was mostly focused on SDS and ·Gordon was armed or if he tions submitted to Houghton by audi ple who hate this country, who hate this made a transaction. He also College Republicans because they had Distribution Manager ence members. system, sit here and benefit from it, and the more radical views, I suppose," Bilak Ryan McDonald x211 would not say how many times One question, directed toward Col to do nothing but come up here and [email protected] Gordon was shot, but said the said lege Republicans, was whether it was complain about it. Despite the excited tension at the end General Manager body was found near his 1998 really feasible to implement a democra-: ''The way to solve the problem is to of the forum, the participating groups Raymond G. Bush x220 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. Gordon cy and impose the American culture in create a more open and just society in has worked on patrol and in were happy with the outcome. [email protected] • Iraq. the Middle East." ''I think the majority of the time it criminal investigation, but was "It's not really that we want to go in York was cut short by an audience most recently assigned to the stayed civil and there was great achieve Fax: 407-447-4556 there forcefully and do this," vice chair member, yelling, "Go to Iraq then! Go!" ment,'' said Kris Krause, director ofPhil airport. man of College Republicans Justin York But, before the argument went any Published by Knight Newspapers Investigators are reviewing anthropy for College Democrats. said "It's more because we have a further, Maria Pecoraro, SGA director of Eingold added, ''This is the time for us 3361 Rouse Rd. Ste. 200 bank surveillance video trying responsibility as the most powerful Governmental Affairs, quieted the Orlando, FL32817 to identify the suspect or sus to start having these debates. We should country on Earth to basically stabilize crowd by demanding order. have had these debates a long time ago, pects. Allen said he believes the world economy." One attendee, Michael Bilak, a chem there are witnesses, based on but I feel like it's better late then never." College Democrats was thrown quite istry sophomore, commented on the Many said the community support bank transaction records, and a different question - one that asked the audience reactions during the forum. ~UCF authorities offered a $20,000 wasgreat. group to explain what its exit strategy ''I have to say that I thought the SDS ''I think it went really well,'' Stauffer Stands For Opportunity41 reward for information leading from Iraq would be and how it would get kids in the crowd were completely rude 'I to an arrest. said ''The turnout was fantastic; it was a Congress to go along with it, because throughout the forum, especially when packed room, so we're definitely going to Ap "after all, the democrats haven't sho'wn the College Democrats and College be looking to do it again." ASSOOATI:D Nearly $1 billion cut from state's that much spine in addressing this prob- Republicans were trying to speak,'' Bilak COLLEGIATE Associated budget approved by House Panel PRESS Press ti TALLAHASSEE - A House One free copy of the Central Florida Future bill that has cleared a commit permitted per issue. If available, additional copies may be purchased from our office with prior tee cuts nearly $1 billion from approval for $1 each. Newspaper theft is a crime. • the state's $71 billion budget to Violators may be subject to civil and criminal offset a shortfall in tax revenues. Students neglect runoff elections proseartion and/or University d'ISdpline. The House Policy and Bud get Council approved the meas ROBYN SIDERSKY results of the four elections. and Kristen Adams to Col- of Business seat by eight • ure 21-10 on a straight party line Staff Writer . "Campaigning really lege of Nursing Seat 2. · votes. vote - Republicans for and slacked this week compared Mortellaro was the first to The seats in the College LET US KNOW Democrats against. A Senate of Sciences received the The second week of Stu to last week," Elections ·celebrate victory, shouting "I · The Future wants to hear version is set for committee dent Government Associa Commissioner Sean Hughes won" at the top of his lungs most votes, with more than action there later Thursday. from you. If you have a club, tion Senate elections caught said ''Nobody was aware of as soon as he got the news. 300 in each election. organization or event and want Democrats criticized cuts the attention of less than 2 what colleges were in "It required a lot of time · In the first week ofSenate for education, anti-discrimina your information to be consid percent of the student body. runoffs." and energy, but at the end of elections, 6,170 students ered for the Around Campus • tion programs and water proj When the runoff results The 692 students who did the day, fighting for students voted, filling 44 seats; four ects. They also suggested the column, send a fax to 407-447- were announced Wednes vote elected Erica Desanti to is worth it,'' Mortellaro said seats went into the runoff. 4556 or an e-mail to editor@cen repeal oftax cuts in recent years day, the area in front of the College of Business Seat 7, In the College of Nursing Seven seats, which that they said mostly benefited tralfloridafuture.com. Deadlines stage near the Student Stephen Mortellaro to Col election, only 28 students remained empty throughout are 5 p.m. Friday for the Monday • businesses and the wealthy. Union was nearly empty, lege of Sciences Seat 1, voted and Adams won the the elections, will be Republicans said that in edition, 5 p.m. Monday for the with fewer than 10 people Genevieve Napolitano to election by four votes. appointed by the SGA presi Wednesday edition, and 5 p.m. most cases including education, showing up to hear· the College of Sciences Seat 4 DeSanti won the College dent and the Senate. the state still would be spending Wednesday for the Friday edi • more than last year and criti tion. cized Democrats for failing to suggest alternatives. LOCAL WEATHER • Coral Springs removes anti communist law from city books Today TODAY IN DETAIL Saturday High:90° CORAL SPRINGS - If a Today: Chance of rain is 60 percent. CHANCE T-STORMS Low:74° • 1975 anti-communist law was SHOWERS Partly cloudy. 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COURTESY CHARLES BATEMAN ) Charles Bateman tickles best friend Michael Ruschak."We tickled him because of his responses," Bateman said. "He would just blurt out complete, random nonsense. It was hilarious."The picture was taken less than two months ago at a party Eddie Bermudez (bottom) had. Friends take time to grieve
) FROM Al Barwick, who transferred basically saying a goodbye to to SCC from UCF with the her," Price said. the fatal shootout in Oviedo intent of returning after she UCF Event Services, where that killed both him and completed her prerequisites, Ruschak worked since last ) Tiffany Barwick, a Seminole planned to be a nurse one day, May, is left with a void too. Community College student. Bateman and Riese said Bateman, who has not "I don't think I've ever Bateman said that life is returned to work since the introduced someone to him completely different for him death of his friends, worked and they've not gotten along now. with Ruschak on campus. He with him,'' said Charles Bate On Wednesday nights, he said they thought it would be man, 21, a sophomore at will go to BackBooth, a club in fun to work together so they Valencia Community College. Orlando, with friends and both applied for the job. Bateman, Ruschak's best continue a ritual he started Services were held on Sat friend, spent time with with Ruschak, but Ruschak urday for both Ruschak and Ruschak and Barwick the will not be there to enjoy the Barwick Ruschak's memorial night they died. '80s music with them. service was held in the Stu Bateman, who had been "It's something I still want dent Union, while Barwick's friends with Ruschak since to do because it brings us that funeral was held at her home their freshman year at Oviedo much closer to him every town church. High School, said he remem time we go," Bateman said Bateman is creating two bers Ruschak's kindness Before Ruschak died, Bate separate photo albums for the toward all of his friends and man said they had talked students' families. The Barwick's fun-loving attitude. about dressing like '80s-style albums include photographs "Tiffany was having a little joggers and going to the club, along with comments from bit of a hard time after the just to· do something ''ridicu the friends who donated breakup, and she didn't have a lous." them. place to stay," Bateman said. At least 59 people joined the "I figure you can only read "Mike was just trying to do "I love Tiffany Barwick'' Face people's giving their condo the right thing - to help book group created byTI-enton lences for so long before it just someone else out." Venezia of Gainesville. gets old and depressing,'' II Ruschak made people his The page is a common Bateman said after deciding top priority in life, Bateman ground for friends ''to memo that a sympathy card did not said. He said he didn't know rialize her and to keep her convey his feeJ:lligs to . his how Ruschak got his class alive in us forever,'' Venezia departed friends' parents. work done because he devot said. He said he hopes that when ed so much time to caring for Bateman said he would the families flip through the others. especially miss Barwick's sto album, they will have pictures Touched by her rare, laid ries. "oftheir daughter or son smil back yet exuberant qualities, "She told a lot of inside ing and having a good time many of Barwick's friends jokes, which are hard to tell to with friends and family." expressed their grief through someone who wasn't there," Eric Roberts, a UCF alum her Facebook page. Bateman said, "but she liked nus, survived the shootout "She had a spontaneous to tell them anyway." that killed two of his friends. personality and an original Richard Price, a student at He was shot in the right leg. sense of humor,'' said Jessi Daytona Beach Community Andrew Allred, a suspect Riese, a theatre studies major college, said he knew Barwick in the shooting, is being held who met Barwick on her first since kindergarten. He held a at the John Polk Correctional day of public school in the moment of silence for her last Facility in Sanford. Police are I • seventh grade. "She was so weekend. still investigating the case. optimistic." "I felt something needed to Realizing that nothing can Bateman said that he and be done in remembrance after bring back the lives of Ruschak had plans for the seeing that the local news Ruschak and Barwick, Bate future. only played a 45-second story man said he will continue "[We] wanted to buy a about the event ... and then remembering his friends and property next year, move in with the fact that there are the joy they brought to his life. together and stay there until over 25 new wall posts on her 'We just clicked," Bateman we graduated," Bateman said Facebook from her friends ... said
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HEALTH p LAN S Health plans with your healt._ in mind. ,t A4 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com October 5,2007 • (entm :JlQriba juture • LOCAL & STATE NATION & WORID Keep current with headl.ines from around the globe Arena show is dropped FROM A2 kitchen products and other Cancellations not everyday items. The city ordinance critical to Arena "I'm so upset," she said. '!I requires businesses to have a ASHLEY KOEHLER special license, pay an addi Contributing Writer was so excited for [Ne-Yo] tional $10 fee and display prominent signs if they sell Despite the cancellation to come. Iwas really goods from communist coun of the Ne-Yo concert, New ' tries, including China. Adver UCF Arena officials say the tising those goods without venue is off to a strong start. looking forward to it." indicating they are "a Com Ben Gibbs, assistant gen munist import" is prohibited, - CHAVOUS ARMSTRONG eral manager of the Arena, SOCIOLOGY MAJOR the law states. said that cancellations are City historian Emily Heafy common in the business, but said the ordinance was "a that this year, the Arena has statement of the commission, n't had any problems selling block of tickets were hadn't sold any tickets to the period. I don't think they JOHN BOMPENGO I ASSOCIATED PRESS Nigerian Red Cross workers recover a body at the site of a plane crash in Kinshasa, tickets for its other shows. released, they were gone Ne-Yo and Sean Kingston were going out with the com "Reba [McEntire] sold show, and that the cancella munist police going in and Congo, on Thursday. At least 19 people died after a plane crashed into a neighborhood. within seconds. out," Gibbs said. "Fall Out But only certain shows tion was news to him. out of stores. And the citizens Boy is on the verge of selling Other students found out of the time agreed with it." Cargo r.lane crashes in Congo Kraft Foods announces sell out in a matter of hours. capita , at least 19 dead white chocolate recall in U.S. out. Elton John sold out." The Brooks & Dunn and just a week shy of the event's No violations are on The ill fate of the Ne-Yo record, and no licenses were KINSHASA, Congo - A NORTHFIELD, Ill. - Alan Jackson concert sched scheduled date. Chavous Armstrong, a ever issued, city spokesman cargo plane crashed in a res Kraft Foods announced and Sean Kingston show, uled for Oct. 21 went on sale which was scheduled for sociology major, was planning Kevin Knutson said. idential neighborhood near Thursday it is recalling Aug. 18 and now has only Oct. 12, left some confused to buy her ticket this week The city commission this the main airport in Congo's white chocolate distributed 1,000 seats left. about why it was canceled. end. She said she's a big fan of week tentatively approved capital on Thursday, plow in the United States because "Some shows sell out just The Arena staff said they the R&B singer-songwriter, striking the code from the ing into homes and killing at of possible salmonella con three days before," Gibbs said were not authorized to say For instance, he said, tick and that she listens to his CD books. A final vote could least 19 people, officials said tamination. Several destroyed houses Kraft said consumers why the promoters had can ets to the Monster Truck three times a day. come later this month. celed the show, but did say it "I'm so upset," she said. "I The law cites 17 countries near a market in Kinshasa's who purchased its six ounce, Nationals on Nov.16-17 go on wasn't the venue's decision. was so excited for [Ne-Yo] to as communist dictatorships Kingasani. neighborhood Baker's Premium White sale today, and .past years "It was at [the promoters] come. I was really looking for that were part of a "vicious, were ablaze, and smoke Chocolate Baking Squares exhibit that it is one of the discretion; we had nothing ward to it." atheistic, criminal conspira filled the sky, according to an should immediately discard shows that sell slowly until a Associated Press reporter the product. to do with [the cancella couple of weeks prior. The cancellation aside, cy'' to "unfairly compete with tion]," Gibbs said. "We Gibbs said having a new American labor" with slave on the scene. The recalled product was "Two weeks before the The An-26 crashed about distributed nationally, and thought it would be a strong show, we'll destroy it,'' Gibbs venue has definitely been an and convict labor. show; we had a lot of confi advantage. He said the public Some of those countries 10:30 a.m. into a market area have the UPC Code said of the neighborhood three 0043000252200 and for best dence in it, which is why He credits that to the type ity the venue has garnered no longer exist: the Soviet we're disappointed." since opening on Sept. 8 has Union, Yugoslavia and miles from the airport, and when used by March 31, of crowd the show draws. One show that is sure to helped ticket sales to take off. Czechoslovakia. East Ger 19 bodies had been recov April 1, April 2 and April 3, "They are using their be strong, Gibbs said, is Fall "When you open a new many and West Germany .ered so far, said civil aviation 2008. most recent paycheck to pay · Out Boy. Fewer than 500 for the tickets; they're not building, you get that have been become one feder chief Alphonse Ilunga. The U.S. Food and Drug tickets remain unsold for the using credit cards," he said. bounce," Gibbs said. "If you al republic. The plane's flight mani Administration detected the Nov. 1 show, which is UCF's In the case of initially can keep that momentum up, North Vietnam and South fest indicated there were 16 presence of salmonella in people aboard, but more had some packages of the white Homecoming 2007 concert. slow sales, he said, some one success leads to another. Vietnam are now one com "People need to buy soon. promoters will panic a week For anyone who purchased munist country with normal boarded before takeoff, Ilun chocolate baking squares That show will sell out, or two out and pull the plug Ne.,.Yo tickets, refunds are trade relations with the Unit ga said. It was not immedi during tests, according to there's no question," Gibbs on a show. Other times, available at the location ed States. ately known what caused Kraft. Kraft said in a state the crash. ment that it was aggressively said. shows are canceled because where the tickets were sold. The Arena has a little the promoter can't financial - ASSOCIATED PRESS A plane window and · investigating the source of pieces ofcharred metal were the problem. more than 10,000 seats. For ly pull it off, such as not visible as frrefighters strug The recall is only for shows, such as Elton John being able to pay the venue " . gled to put out the frre, and a Baker's Premium White and Brooks & Dunn, seating deposit. crowd gathered around the Chocolate Baking Squares. is set up in a circle, with the Cancellations, when they HIGHER site. Ilunga said the plane No other varieties of Baker's stage in the middle. That do occur, Gibbs said, don't had just taken off from the White Chocolate or any allows more than 8,000 seats hurt the venue financially in • airport en route to central other Baker's products sold to be sold. Another type of anyway. EDUCATION Congo. in the United States are setting ·is the "U-shape," "We have clauses in place What's in the pews at Cargo planes in Congo affected by the recall, which allows for 7,000 to that protect it," he said. "We colleges around the country are frequently flown by according to Kraft. 8,000 seats; Gibbs said. don't open ourselves up to • experienced pilots from for It said consumers can The Nov. 10 Elton John any risks." New survey reveals gaps in mer Soviet states but the air request reimbursement or show at the Arena sold out Shane Donahue, a UCF university crisis-response plans craft are often old, ill-main ask other questions about in less than an hour. Gibbs finance senior who works in • Newly released survey tained and overcrowded. the recall by calling Kraft at said when an additional the Arena box office, said he results reveal that many col 1-800-310-3704. leges are focusing more than San Diego landslide destroys 2 ever on preparing for a crisis homes; 111 homes evacuated More than 2,000 miners .. since the massacre at Vrrginia SAN DIEGO - Dozens rescued after elevator damaged Tech but may not be well of city workers remained at CARLETONVILLE, equipped to handle one. site of a landslide Thursday South Africa - More than The online survey was morning, monitoring the 2,000 trapped gold miners in conducted by SimpsonScar area for signs of fresh slip South Africa were rescued borough, a crisis-manage page and keeping evacuated in a dramatic all-night oper ment fitm that focuses on col residents from returning ation, and efforts gathered leges and universities. It home. speed Thursday to bring invited 546 people who are Police Sgt. Jim Schorr hundreds more to the sur members of the National said about 50 officers were face. Association of Presidential at the slide, which destroyed There were no casualties Assistants in Higher Educa at least two homes in the when a pressurized air pipe tion to take the survey, and 17 upscale La Jolla neighbor snapped at the mine near percent of them responded. hood Wednesday and dam Johannesburg and tumbled Most ofthe respondents were aged several others. No one down a shaft Wednesday, presidential assistants and was hurt. causing extensive damage to chiefs of staffs. Schorr said ill homes an elevator and stranding Nearly 100 percent of the were evacuated and police more than 3,000 miners respondents said their institu spent the night making sure more than a mile under tion had a written crisis plan, no one entered evacuated ground. and most also had a crisis properties. The mine owner and management team. But when There were no instances South Africa's minerals and it came to what those plans of looting and officers energy minister vowed to covered, and how often they overnight had escorted sev improve safety in one of the were tested, the findings sug eral residents into their country's most important gest that many colleges have houses to get pets and industries. room.for improvement. important belongings, Earlier hopes that all the The crisis plans of respon Schorr said · miners would be rescued by dents overwhelmingly cov Also on scene were utility lunchtime faded and compa ered how to deal with weath crews, frre fighters and other ny officials said it would er emergencies, frre, or bomb workers. more likely be early evening. threats - all longtime ele The landslide cut a 50- "We nearly died down ments of crisis-response yard-long chasm in a four there," one man yelled as he • plans for colleges and univer lane street and left a 20-foot walked past reporters. "I'd sities. deep ravine overlooking rather leave (the job) than Plans that provide strate Interstate 5 hundreds of feet die in the mine." gies for dealing with inci below. The hundreds of workers < dents that the study's authors Just one day earlier, city who remained underground say are more likely to occur officials had warned resi were all near a ventilation on campuses than terrorist dents of four homes not to shaft and had been given attacks or mass shootings sleep in them because the water - although no food ' weren't as common. For land might give way. It was for fear of provoking a example, "less than half of the n't clear if those residents scramble among hungry respondents' crisis plans cov heeded the warnings. miners, according to Peter ered a suicide or a strike, The neighborhood, Bailey, health and safety while fewer than one in four which comprises many mil chairman for the National plans dealt with situations lion-dollar homes, is in an Mineworkers Union. that could harm a college's area that has a history of The accident prompted reputation, like administra landslides dating back to the allegations of the industry tive scandals, hazing, or racial 1960s. cutting safety comers in the discrimination. Sixty-eight Orange traffic cones and name of profit - and accu percent of the plans covered sections of big concrete sations from the govern • an on-campus shooting. pipes sat in the fissure ment that mine owner Har For many institutions, "the across the crumpled resi mony Gold Mining Co. did big problem with crisis man dential street, which serves not bother to inform it ofthe .. agement is a lack of funding," as a busy shortcut between potentially devastating cri said Mr. Stephens, who is also the surf neighborhood of sis. a member of the board of the Pacific Beach to the south Minerals and Energy University Risk Management and the fancy enclave of Minister Buy(;!lwa Sonjica • and Insurance Association. ''.A restaurants and shops in complained that she learned lot of schools, especially downtown La Jolla, a ~jor about the early morning smaller schools, simply don't tourist draw. accident from the late have the resources to write a Authorities said most res eveping news. • plan, maintain the plan, and idents had gone to work and She said President Thabo get other people on campus only seven people were Mbeki also found out from invested in the plan." inside homes near the col the news bulletin. lapse when it occurred - CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION e - ASSOCIATED PRESS • (entta( 1fttdba jutut't • October 5, 2007 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com AS Florida falls behind in B.A. degree recipients DONALD THOMANN that by 2027" the number of replaced by what is now the Board's suggestions, Bright student can go." dents,' are investing in our Staff Writer 4) working adults in Florida·aged more common five to· six Futures would be rewarded The other recommendation future.'' 24-65 who have a minimum of years, causing lag time in the according to a student's family for Bright Futures addressed • Changed the minimum Florida lags behind in the a bachelor's degree be data. income in conjunction with, or the gap between the minimum number of math courses need number of working adults between 20 and 25 million. "More than 65 percent of as a complete replacement for SAT score needed to receive ed for first-time college stu ,, who have bachelor's degrees, The Board acknowledged our students at FAU [Florida rewards based on GPA and the scholarship and the mini dents to apply to Florida pub the vice chancellor of Acade that this shortcoming may be Atlantic University] are part SAT scores. mum SAT score generally lic universities from three to mic and Student Affairs for the attributed to the fact that time," said Norman Tripp, "Obviously, funding is accepted by most universities. four courses at or above the Florida Board of Governors manystudents who emoll into chairman of the Board of important, and as we look at "Mo.st universities won't Algebra I level. I ; said at a Board meeting Sept. a university don't finish. trustees at FAU. "Many of Bright Futures, I think we admit students with a 970 SAT, • Agreed to discuss at a 26 and27. For a number of·reasons them can only take three or six again have to emphasize that but that is the cut-off rate for future meeting' the implemen "Florida ranks 46th in the related to medical conditions, credits because they're work Bright Futures should be· Bright Futures," Board mem tation of a meningitis vaccina nation in the number of bach stress, mental health and ing full time, supporting a fam much more need-based than ber Arlen Chase said "I think tion requirement as ' J elor's degree awarded per finances, there is a disparity of ily and trying to get a degree. I across the Board," said Charles we need to look at the admis opposed to the current recom 1,000 residents," Vice Chan students actually graduating say it's a misnomer when we B. Edwards; a member of the sion requirements for SATs mendation - for a student cellor Dorothy Minear said. from Florida universities, Min say two plus two [years], Board. ''We talk about it con- and modify them to more real entering a Florida public uni "The national average is some ear said, and part of the solu 'Qecause many of the students . stantly but I think we need ·to istic levels. What we're <;loing versity. This comes as a where around 29 percent, with tion could be to make more of don't go through their com make our position very clear." now is setting up a false expec response to the death of USF some universities in the thir an effort to reach out to stu munity college in two years.'' The purpose of this recom tation for parents and stu student Rachel Futterman ties, but in Florida, that per dents earlier in their academic Tripp went on to point out mendation is to see that chil dents.'' from meningitis iri September. ) cent is around 27." careers. that UCF, the University of dren in need of scholarships At the meeting, the Board • Heard a report from the Since the 1990-1991 aca "I think it is critical to work South Florida, and Florida for financial· reasons are not of Governors also: . vice chancellor of the Board of demic year, Florida schools with K-12 partners and .with International University have ignored while upper-income • Approved a motion for a Governors, R.E. LeMon, have seen a 70-percent growth community college partners "very much the same track children receive money they graduate incentive competi regarding recent Florida ) in the number of students so that more students are pre ing." don't necessarily need, Board tiveness program that would Office of Program Policy graduating with at least a four pared and ready to succeed in Two changes regarding the member Gus Stavros said. award the best and brightest Analysis and Government year degree, but that number our system," Minear said. Bright Futures .Scholarship "I have friends, very afflu graduate students with fellow Accountability visits to a . will need to increase even ·~so, we need to reach out to Program were also recom ent people, who say, 'Hey, I ships, tuition waivers, health number of university institu more in the next two decades more of the adult population, mended to be put on the table could afford to send my child insurance, etc.' tions and centers and their ifthe schools are to reach their again to assure that we are for further deliberation. to any college in the country; "Competition for grad stu subsequent praise for the qqal projected numbers. · going to haye the workforce The first was a suggestion yet they're on Bright Futures," dents is increasing," said ity of what they saw. OPPAGA Ideally, the Board of Gover we need for the coming years.'' that Bright Futures be convert Stavros said. "That's wrong; it Nancy Marcus, dean of Gradu recommended that the Board nors wants to see more than Another explanation may ed from a strictly perform should be need-based If there ate . Studies at Florida. State conduct periodical perform 87,000 students graduate per be that the traditional course ance-based scholarship to a is any student in the state of University. "Providing com ance evaluations of all insti year with a bachelor's degree of four years for a bachelor's predominantly need-based Florida who wants to go to col petitive offers is essential. We, tutes and centers in the Florida by 2023. The Board's aim is degree has slowly been scholarship. Based on the lege, we should make sure that by investing in graduate stu- university system. ' ·USF Program test run expected this month game FROM Al white water rafting, orienteering, kayaking and everything outdoors that's fun, according to the starts at club's Web site. The Outlanders will be the host club for the RED Bicycle project. "If [the RED Bicycle Society] takes off, I'll look ·IlOOil, into making it less of a project and more of a club," Snodgrass said. Daniel Kreichelt, treasurer ofthe Outlanders Club not7 and a mechanical engineering major, came up with the society's name. FROM Al The "REI?" in the title signifies that it is a com munity program, similar to the more positive sharing crowd control for the aspect of the communist philosophy. expected arrival and camp However, it's just the name of the group. 'l ing times of the students, ' ''We're not communists,'' Snodgrass said. "Dan Delanois said. and I are only founders of this program as this is an Dedicated campers need equal opportunity service for the people." not worry about being cut in Although the group is called the RED Bicycle line. Vouchers will be given Society, the bikes will be painted yellow. out to the first 600 students "It's a bright color; you don't usually see anyone in line. The vouchers can be with a yellow bike," Snodgrass said. ., redeemed at the specified Signs on each bike will state lack of liability for giveaway time for ticl ( FROM Al receive a site 'visit in December from the LCME, the national Resesh Thakkar, the senior accrediting association fqr managing director ofthe Tavi medical schools, and will find stock Group, are also honorary out in February if it receives knights. . preliminary accreditation. Numerous city, state and For its first class of 40 stu county officials were present dents, the medical school is ( at the ceremony, as well as trying to ·provide tuition and members of the UCF Board of living expenses to each stu Trustees. dent for all four years of their The Burnham Institute will medical education. The schol have a 175,000-square-foot arships are funded by donors building that will have a two from the Central Florida com story administrative wing and munity. So far, 15 have been a three-story' research wing, funded. ( I which will seek Leadership in Dyer said he is excited about Energy and Environmental the medical school and said he Design Certification. thinks it will be the medical ( The Burnett School of Bio destination in the country. medical Sciences will also be in The land was a donation the medical city, in a five-story, from Tavistock Group. The 195,000-square-foot building. group also donated $30 mil ... The College of Medicine will lion, for a total contribution of be in a 173,000-square-foot, more than $65 million toward four-story building with a state the UCF College of Medicine of-the-art medical library. and the Burnham Institute PATRICIA WEIGEL I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE "For one thing, those inter campuses. Hillary Trupp and Lauren Alvarez follow the colors on the ·screen as they play Guitar Hero, an interactive video game, for the cause New Hope for Kids on Wednesday. The Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre event, held at the Riverwind Apartment's clubhouse, was hosted by members of a Cornerstone class group, C-Stone Stars, which includes Alexandra Gentry, Mam Rush, ested in life sciences or medi Jennifer Childs, Chad Acree and Randi Shaw. The five UCF undergrads raised $300 at the event with about 30 attendees to benefit the cause. Gentry described New Hope cine, the building is going to community within the city I for Kids as being similar to a local Make-A-Wish Foundation. So far, the group has raised $600 toward the cause and are aiming at a personal goal of $1,500. create enormous opportuni limits of Orlando, will host not ties," said John Reed, president only the medical city, but an and CEO of the Burnham area suitable for living. It will Institute. "Hopefully, we'll . have elementary, middle and encourage lots of student high schools, a park, a YMCA Shiite mayor dies in roadside bomb careers in research." and entertainment and recre The medical school will ation options. KIM GAMEL Abbas Hassan Hamza, a eying for power ah~ad of The tensions pose a · Associated Press political moderate and the top expected provincial elections. dilemma for the U.S. official in the Iskandariyah Iskandariyah has a volatile military, which must BAGHDAD - Roadside district, was killed by a bomb mixed population that is decide whether to inter bombs killed the top Shiite that struck his convoy while about 60 percent Shiite and vene in what essentially official in a volatile area south he was going to work, a police 40 percent SurmL is a civil conflict even as of Baghdad, and an anti-al officer said. The Mahdi Army militia, critics step up calls to Qaida Sunni sheik to the Four of his bodyguards loyal to radical Shiite cleric start withdrawing U.S. north, on Thursday as inter also were killed and one was Muqtada al-Sadr, is active in troops. nal power struggles within wounded, the officer said, the area, some 30 miles south Meanwhile, Sheik both Islamic sects threaten to speaking on condition of of Baghdad. Muawiya Naji Jbara, the complicate U.S. efforts to sta anonymity because he feared The Sadrists boycotted the Sunni head of the bilize the. country. retribution. previous provincial elections Salahuddin Tribal Car bombs, meanwhile, Hamza had defected two in January 2005, ceding most Awakening Council, struck Iraqi civilians in Bagh years ago to Prime Minister local leadership posts to died from head injuries dad and the northern city of Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party Supreme Islamic Iraqi Coun he suffered after a road TalAfar. from the largest Shiite party, cil and other rival groups. side bomb exploded as At least 31 people were now known as the Supreme Rising internal violence his convoy travelec;l killed or found dead nation Islamic Iraqi Council. threatens to plunge the south near Samarra, 60 miles wide, according to police Suspicion for the killing ern Shiite heartland into polit north of Baghdad, said reports. fell on Shiite extremists jock- ical turmoil. his brother, Marwan Jbara. He said two guards also were wounded. The blast occurred as the prominent sheik was traveling to an area southwest of Samarra to support the anti-al 2007 STUDENT Qaida fighters there, a FOOTBALL TICKET LO I I Ell.Y' day after 16. members of the council were wounded during clashes with gunmen, according to his brother. Nobody claimed responsibility for . the attack, but al-Qaida- , linked Sunni insurgents have been fighting back against initiatives pro moted by the American NICOLE STANCEL I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE military to turn Sunni President John Hitt, top, addresses a crowd of community leaders at the Burnham Medical -ESllAY 10 School ground breaking at lake Nona on Wednesday. Graduate student Julie Zimmerman, a I OCI' sheiks against the terror member of the President's leadership Club, attended the event to help provide assistance network. to the public. The ceremony brought in more than 500 people from around the community. •atlR.. Y/OCIM •&11 ,.,.y /llOY 1• II ' LOTIERY WINNERS ARE N011RED VIA E-MAIL WES OF GAME < taithll ( 1 VISIT FOR Why believe? God exists! INFO ON TAl~GA11NG POUCIES. SHUDLES AND PAKING •Scientific Evidence Wed. Oct. 10, 2007 •Philosophical Evidence Wed. Oct. 17, 2007 .. ~ Why believe? The Bible IS historically reliable! . Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 Why believe? The Bible IS· God's·Word! Wed. Oct. 31, 2007 ' Kyle Hauck All speeches will be given in October on Wednesdays at 1 :30 on the Free Speech Green in front of the Math and Physics Building ( For more information, you can contact Victoria at [email protected] or Kyle ~t k,[email protected] J ·(entral 311odba 1uture www.CentralFloridaFuture.com ·Friday, October 5, 2007 .) ) ) .¥ J 0 ~· ,, '.l BRIAN MURPHY Staff Writer It's time for the UCF Football ] team to get out· of its comfort zone. After three consecutive games in Bright " House Networks Stadium, the Knights will play their first Conference USA road game. when they face East Carolina tomorrow. The Pirates are just 2-3 on the hope that on a couple of those year, but their September sched plays where there is a bigger play ule was the toughest of any team opportunity that he would throw in Conference USA They played a pass that was twelve inches three BCS conference teams, two closer to the receiyer and do of which were ranked in the top some things. And now, the ade 10, and had to face the reigning C quate play of the quarterback USA Division winners: Southern becomes above-average play of Miss and Houston. the quarterback. Those are the . The Pirates beat_the Cougars things that he has-to continue to " on the road last week and hung press upon and try to make." tough against Virginia Tech in But the instability the Knights their opening game, so don't be have had at quarterback is noth deceived by their sub-par record. ing compared to the Pirates. ECU Here are a few items to watch for hasn't had one steady quarter tomorrow: back all season. Sophomore Rob Kass was Battle of the backs named the team's starter before After his 223-yard effort the season, but he was suspended against Louisiana-Lafayette last for the opening game because ofa week, Kevin Smith is back on top violation of team rules. Sopho .. as the nation's leader in rushing more Brett Clay got the start ver yards per game with 178.3. That sus the Hokies, but after he com total is 14 yards more than anyone pleted two of his first six passes, else's. Smith1s lead could be even Clay was replaced by junior larger if his last game wasn't cut Patrick Pinkney. short due to groin and shoulder Pinkney put up impressive injuries. But he'll be ready to go numbers in starts against North against the Pirates. Carolina and Southern Miss, but Slowly, people around the he struggled against Houston and country are starting to acknowl was replacecl by Kass at halftime. edge Smith, but not many people Kass played tht:; entire secqnd half anywhere know about the quality and led the Pirates to a come runner on ECU. Senior running from-behind victory over the back Chris Johnson already owns Cougars. the school record for all-purpose Now it is expected that both yards. He leads the team in rush Pinkney and Kass will see playing ing yards and is second in receiv time against the Knights. Pinkney ing yards, but he has also returned brings more mobility to the quar 13 kickoffs for 339 yards. That is a terback position for the Pirates, big reason why the Pirates' kick but Kass, at 6-foot-4-inch, 254 off return team ranks in the top 25 pounds, has a stronger arm. in the nation. ...,. Last week, Johnson racked up Pilfering Pirates 171 yards on offense with two The Knights have had trouble touchdowns against the Cougars. hanging on to the ball lately, com He has scored eight ofthe Pirates' mitting six turnovers in their pre 14 offensive touchdowns this sea vious two games. UCF backup son. running back Phillip Smith has fumbled in each ofthose games. Acouple of quarterback carousels "He's had two fumbles, A week after becoming a UCF which, as far as I'm con sensation, quarterback Michael cerned is. three too many," Greco played in only four series Salem said. against the Ragin' Cajuns, three of If Smith doesn't which came in the fourth quarter clean up his act, he when the game was already may lose his spot to decided. Starting quarterback senior running back Kyle Israel completed ll-of-20 passes for 153 yards, one touch PLEASE SEE UCF ON A8 down and, probably most important, no interceptions. But UCF coaches· would like to see Israel make more plays. "I really think that to date, he has just done an adequate job," offensive coordinator Tim Salem said. ''You just would AB www.CentralFloridaFuture.com October 5, 2007 • €entnl :Jloriba 1utun Knights thriving off early nto~entunt After wip.ning three of its first four games, UCF looks to keep rolling against the East Carolina Pirates MELISSA HEYBOER Editor-in-Chief. NEXT GAME Around this time last year, the UCF Football team found • itself entering week five with vs. al-3 record The Knights had already failed to stand up against two UCF East Carolina in-state powerhouses, lost their first Conference USA Tomorrow 7:30 p.m. j Greenville, N.C. game, and their only win came agai:iist a Villanova ing forward to the challenge." team from Division II. IfUCF wants to put anoth This year, however, it's dif er win on the board this ferent. With a 3-1 record, the , weekend, its biggest chal Knights have reversed their lenge will be the second half. fortunes. ECU has scored 62 points They have already earned in the second half of games their first C-USA win of the this season, while UCF has season, beat a BCS confer managed just 43. ence team in N.C. State and The Knights will either nearly·knocked off the sixth need to step up their game in best team in the country in the second half or rely on a Texas. big first half like they have Now UCF will undertake done throughout the season. yet another obstacle to its Despite its dominant first young season. half play, UCF has also strug • Tomorrow's game at East gled in the second half with Carolina marks the Knights' turnovers and penalties. The first conference road match Knights will need to improve of the year, but UCF is riding in those areas if they want to • high on momentum as they stay in the game. enter the matchup against a "We've just put a big very good Pirates team. emphasis on procedural 'We should be playing in a things," linebacker Cory very fun environment,'' offen Hogue said. "Taking a penalty, sive coordinator Tim Salem offsides or anything like that said. "That's one thing our on first down, that's the hard • players are looking forward est fiv~ yards to get back, the to: that kind of an us-against hardest 10 yards to get back. the-world [atmosphere], and Right now, we've had a real a very critical Conference emphasis on doing the right USA football game." · things before the ball is The Pirates (2-3 overall, 1-1 snapped." in C-USA) aren't worried If UCF's penalties aren't ANDY JACOBSOHN I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE about momentum, however. enough, ECU enters the game UCF running back Kevin Smith scores one of his three touchdowns during UCF's 37-19 win over Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday. He will face an East Carolina defense tomorrow that ECU owns a 5-1 series lead leading .the conference in ranks sixth among Conference USA teams in rushing defense. The Pirates limited Houston running back Anthony Alridge to 89 yards on 21 carries in their most recent game. over the Knights, with UCF's turnover margin. The Pirates lone win coming in 2005. have caused 11 turnovers this "You've really got to· work UCF's offense will once Smith ran for a career-high when he gets a penalty. So "Those guys in the purple season, while giving the ball hard on your tech11iques of again be in the hands of run 223 yards and three touch when people are talking jerseys, they play fast, they away only five times. stripping the ball and coming ning back Kevin Smith, who downs. about that he leads the nation are structured on defense and ''You've got to play aggres over the shoulder and doing enters tomorrow as the "[Kevin] just makes us bet in rushing, it feels really good very sound," Salem said. "I sively, but you've still got to those things. So, we've nation's leader in rushing ter," offensive lineman Patrick for the a-line." think they have some stout play smart," defensive coordi work~d hard at those the last yards per game. Last week Brown said. "Usually, an o ness to them, and we are look- nator John Skladany said. couple of days." against Louisiana-Lafayette, lineman's only recognition is PLEASE SEE GRECO ON A9 ..., f JEFF GENTNER I ASSOCIATED PRESS ECU quarterback Patrick Pinkney completed 51-of-74 passes in starts against North Carolina and Southern Miss, but he was pulled at halftime against Houston for poor play. UCF players look .., YOUR CATERING to limit blunders $0LUTIONlll FROM A7 with No. 6 South Florida in BOX LUNCHES. PLATTERS, PARTIES! Tampa. The Knights have a natural DELIVERY ORDERS will include a delivery ( charge of 25c per item (•HOc). Curtis Francis, who looked rivalry with the Bulls. very good in just his second Whenever the two teams game of the year against meet, it's one of the most Louisiana-Lafayette, rushing anticipated games on each of for 71 yards on nine carries. their schedules. But if you The Knights must be very want to know what. looking secure with the ball against ahead to future opponents · the Pirates. They have forced does for a team, take a peak at . 11 turnovers this year, second what Oklahoma, Texas and most in Conference USA. Florida did last week. Outside of their blowout loss Secondly, any game against to West Virginia, the Pirates a ranked team, especially one have forced at least two in the top 10, is a big statement turnovers in each game. game for the Knights. But in On the flip side, the Pirates the end, conference games are don't hurt themselves with FREEBIES (SUBS & CltJBS ONLY) where the Knights, and every turnovers, as they have com other C-USA squad, will make Onion. lettuce, alfalfa sprouts. tomato, mayo. sliced mitted just five this season, cucumber. Dijon mustard. oil & vinegar. and oregano. or break their season. the fewest in the conference. And this team's main goal . ( Final words is still to win a conference • WE DELIVER! 7 DAYS A WEEK U . The Knights have made it a championship. point to take every game as its So when the Knights walk own season. They say they into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium ORLANDO 11565 have 12 one-game seasons and in what will be the most hos UNIVERSITY BLVD. 407.275.5911 · they only concentrate on each tile environment they have week's "season." That's criti experienced in five weeks, cal this week for a couple of they need to understand that "YOUR MOM WANTS YOU TO EAT AT JIMMY JOHN'S!'' © reasons. what happens tomorrow II ' 1 ••• One, most people on this night will probably be more campus are looking forward important to this season than to the Knights' Oct.13 meeting what~ver happens next week. I . •!1 . (tnttaf 31otib Jutute • October 5, 2007 www. Centra/FloridaFuture. com A9 Greeds mobility could be valuable against the Pirates FROM A8 Smith, however, may have TURNOVER TROUBLE a serious contender on the UCF EAST CAROLINA other sideline for the first The Knights have committed five The Pirates have a plus-six margin in time this season. turnovers in the past two games and turnovers. They have caused 11 · ~CU's Chris Johnson leads have eight on the season. They have a compared to losing just five in their his team with 315 rushing yards and eight touchdowns negative-three turnover margin. first four games. and is second on his team with 202 receiving yards. Johnson also has 339 yards Israel is much slower than 16 and have 10 touchdowns. on kick returns. Greco, but can be ·a threat UCF will need to effectively In East Carolina's win at through the air, and Israel's use this to its advantage Houston last week, Johnson coaches know that he has to tomorrow. recorded 221 all-purpose be the leader of the.offense. UCF knows tomorrow will yards. "He has to be the focal bring its first test in what will After introducing backup pbint of getting things done," be a tough month ahead, and' quarterback Michael Greco Salem said about Israel. '.'The the Knights know that if they to the field two weekends ago biggest thing the quarterback don't polish up some things against Memphis, UCF head has to do is, obviously, run the on both offense and defense, coach George O'Leary chose club, run the show and get in it could be a long month. to play Greco in just four the right place. I think [Israel] The Knights, however, series ·against the Ragin' has thrown one interception aren't focused on the rest of Cajuns. this year, and he has to keep it the month. Their only con- But against a defense like that way over the next eight cern is the Pirates. · ECU's, which leads the con games in .order for us to be fe:rence with 14 sacks and 42 successful." ''We always talk about that tackles for a loss, UCF will UCF;s defense will need to it's a one-game season," need Greco to mix things up a step up its game in order to Brown said. "Right now, that's little at quarterback and use · hold ECU inside the red zone. all we're focused on, ECU. his running ability to make While the Knights are 17- We've got to beat ECU first BEN EDELSTEIN I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE defenders miss. for-17 this seas.on in red-zone before we can do anything UCF running back Phillip Smith fumbles in the fourth quarter against Louisiana-Lafayette. The Knights have committed six turnovers in Starting quarterback Kyle scores, the Pirates are 12-for- else." · .their last two games, and the Pirati!s have forced 11 turnovers this year, the second-most in Conference USA. Men's.soccer gets shut out for second straight match _Knights give up three first-half goals in loss to Charlotte 49ers ZACH PARDES Staff Writer Despite a strong second half, the UCF Men's Soccer team (4-5-1) was shut out by Charlotte 3-0 at the UCF Soc cer Complex Wednesday night. SHANNA FORTIER I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE "We lacked desire and UCF midfielder Mike Mattson had four shots, including one on goal, against Charlotte. exhibited no pride for UCF on the field tonight," head coach However, despite out'" ished their chances to earn a Bryan Cunningham said in a shooting the visitors 14-4 in win." press release. "That will never the second half, UCF could By the conclusion of the happen again." not tmd the back of the net. contest, UCF outshot Char Charlotte (6-3-0) wasted no · Luzunaris sent a shot wide lotte 23-9. time getting to work, tallying in the 57th minute, while sen UCF freshman goalkeeper its first goal ofthe evening just ior Philip Michael Hall took Sean Johnson made two 62 seconds into the match. advantage of an opening, saves. Junior Chris Salvaggione forcing Martin to make a The Knights hit the road netted his first of two goals on point-blank save. . agafo tomorrow when they the night after capitalizing on Cunningham was pleased visit Conference USA foe No. a pass from teammate Kent with the Knights' second-half 11 SMU at 8 p.m in Dallas. Long. efforts, but was disappointed It will be the second C- · UCF freshman Matt Luzu- with the game overall. USA match of the season for naris sent a header over the "We played a very good the Knights, and they will be crossbar in an attempt to even second half, but we still charged with stopping a the score six minutes into reg- couldn't break through and Mustangs team that has ulation. It was one of .many score,'' Cunningham said in a scored 20 goals in nine games scoring chances UCF missed press release. "It's too hard to this season. throughout the contest. dig out against a good oppo- The Knights have scored Precise passing con- nent like Charlotte when you just 14 goals in 10 games and tributed to Charlotte's second are down 3-0. They stuck have the third-worst goals goal of the contest when Sal- with their game plan and f"m per-game average in C-USA vaggione found senior Tom Woollard across the box. Woollard was able to tmd the net in the 28th minute to put the 49ers up by two. Just four minutes later, Sal vaggione struck. for the last · time, putting Charlotte up by three goals and sealing the victory. · UCF had numerous offen sive opportunities in the first half but could not capitalize on them, including a header by sophomore Seung Tak Nam that sailed over the •) , crossbar in the 39th minute. The Knights continued to find chances in the· second half and tested Charlotte goal keeper David Martin, who had five saves on the night._ Waterford Lakes· Lake Underhill Rd.· 407·737-6606 {next to Hooters) University• Unlgold Shopping Center• 407~71-7797 Ul.J',;JJl.IL.JUIY (_ /_ (eutral 1foriba 1uture www.Centra/FloridaFuture.com • Friday, October 5, 2007 l l I { > \ ( • ( ' • (eu1titf :Jlotiba 1uture • October 5, 2007 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com All MOVIE TIMES G•J9i!JIWlf Buckethead's skill shines on Acoustic CD AMANDA K. SHAPIRO ability to redefine his music strates. progressions with phenome Staff Writer with each new albwn. A so-so album for Bucket nal melodies, his impressive It's hard to think of a genre head is equivalent to the peak skill might strike some as ' For most people, walking the man has yet to touch. for 90 percent of the world. annoying. around with a white mask and The experimental feel of Few parallel his technique and 1 The aggressive nature with a KFC bucket on your head the music on Acoustic Shards articulation. which'he performs each song • would either earn you a might stem from the lack of The new album highlights keeps listeners on constant restraining order or get you individual song structure. his eclectic range of styles, alert. Across the Universe institutionalized. The album sounds more including fingerpicking and Those who crave organiza (PG-13) 12:30p, 1:15, 3:40, 4:25,7:35, 8:10, 10:55, 11:15 For Brian Carroll, it was the like recorded jam sessions. slap guitar. tion and a steady riff will not best career move he ever The Brave One Still, the free-flowing Still, Buckethead manages find their fix on Acoustic (R) 12:40p, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45, 12:30a made. melodies are liberating. to squeeze in speedy acoustic Shards. "For Mom" is one of Known to the world as Buckethead the few tracks that has any Eastern Promises Acoustic Shards While Buckethead may be arpeggios to stake his claim in (R) 1:20p, 7:45, 12:35a Buckethead, Carroll's alter known more for his shredding the land of guitar heroes. sort of rhythmic consistency. Feast of Love ego has provided audiences and psychedelic electro The only place the release Most of the songs shift time (R) 4:45p, 10:05 with some of the most mod ****• metal, Acoustic Shards is is lacking is in the quality of signatures several times and ern and thought-provoking Label: Video Music Inc. Feel the Noise Available Now more reminiscent of the calm the recording. Though it was take on a whole new meaning . (PG-13) 12:15p, 2:35, 4:50,7:10, 9:30, 12:00a guitar, banjo and piano com and mellow feeling on his done stylistically, the pro halfway through. The Game Plan positions to date. 2002 release, Electric Tears. duction value is amateur - a The most noteworthy (PG) 12:05p, 12:50, 2:55, 3:20, 6:55, 7:20, 9:40, 10:00 His contribution to music shred guitarist offers up an Though Acoustic Shards word that does not fit well songs on the album are "Spi 12:10a, 12:40 has been both beautiful and acoustic · album titled may not be the album that with an artist whose music is rals" and "Johnny." Good Lucic Chuck shocking and always encom Acoustic Shards, his second defines his career, many known for being over the (R) 12:55p,3:25, 7:10, 9:25, 12:05a passes the element of sur release in 2007. artists will never achieve the top. Send questions, comments The Heartbreak Kid prise, which is why it isn't One ofBuckethead's gl'.eat level of skill and technique While Buckethead contin and album suggestions to: (R) 12:00p, 12:35, 1:10, 2:50, 3:30, 4:15, 6:50,7:30 shocking that the infamous est assets as a musician is his that Buckethead demon- ues to offer off-the-wall guitar AmandaKShapiro@gmaiLcom f l 8:05,9:55, 10:10, 11:10, 12:45a In the Valley of Elah (R) l:OOp, 4:10, 7:55, 10040 The Jane Austen Book Oub (PG-13) 12:45p,4:20, 7:40, 10:25, l:OOa The Kingdom (R) 1:05p,3:15,4:00,8:15, 10:20, 10:50, 12:50a Open captioned and descriptive audio showtimes: 12:25p, 7:15 • Mr. Woodcock Wild takes you on thrilling trek Where have all the (PG-13) 1:25p, 3:55, 8:00, 10:45, 12:55a Resident Evil: Extinction (R) l:OOp, 4:30, 8:10, 10:35, 12:55a WILLIAM GOSS Staff Writer The Seeker: The Dark is Rising Pete & Petes gone? (PG) 12:10p, 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50, 12:15a Into the Wild I Director: Supe$1<1 Sean Penn . (R) 12:20p, 3:35, 7:00, 9:50, 12:20a GRANT LOWTHER most people, but when I Contributing Columnist watched most of my Nick Sydney White (PG-13) 12:00p,4:55, 7:50, 10:15, 12:50a .toons on my television, it was ****• The common thread that not strapped to the end of my - Listings for Friday, Oq. 5 Adapting the best-selling binds not only all people at skateboard to allow for ease of book by Jon Krakauer, writer UCF but all people ofthis gen- viewing while doing gnarly director Sean Penn chroni eration is not something as nose grinds. cles the journey of Christo trivial as the music ofthe Beat- No, the location of my tele pher McCandless (Emile les, nor is it as fleeting as the vision was engineered to allow Hirsch), who left his family mere, universal feeling of civil for ease of gnarly pizza. inser 0THETUBE and possessions behind soon unrest in the '60s and 70s. tion into my mouth. This being after his college graduation in Further still, the force that the case, watching kids going flam.g.;RmrllSWt 1990 to take a trek to Alaska, binds is far more intoxicating outside and partaking in dread 9 p.m. NBC: Friday Night lights under the pseudonym and pervasive than even the ed exercise caused me some Season Premiere! Summer comes to an practice ofsnorting cocaine off degree of guilt. end, and the team i 1opes to continue its Alexander Supertramp. success despite many changes taking · He thought himself to be toilet seats in the '80s. Nickelodeon is supposed to • place: Eric begins his career as TMU head better off the poorer he was; As should already be evi- be fun, and to the best of my coach; Tami goes into labor; someone from he wanted a life without a dent, I am speaking ofthe early knowledge, exercise and guilt Tyra's past visits her; Matt and Landry phone, a pool, pets or ciga '90s programming of Nick- have never been fun. struggle with new lifestyles. rettes, and - once in the elodeon. I bring all this up because, wilderness - he didn't want a In any given conversation, until recently, I had managed to SATURDA'l,OCT.6 "· . · · . .: COURTESY PARAMOUNT VANTAGE map, watch or axe either. As Emile Hirsch stars as Christopher McCandless in director Sean Penn's Into the Wild, which , the name of any classic Nick- bury this guilt beneath a pile of 9 p.m. NBC: Chuck elodeon show can be invoked Doritos. The hapless Chuck finds himself in the one acquaintance puts it, "it's follows McCandless as he leaves behind all worldly possessions and treks through middle of a battle between the NSA's Casey a mistake to get too deep into Alaska. The film is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling book of the same name. to spark a flurry ofnostalgia But there I sat last Saturday, and the CIA's Sarah when a scientist is all of that stuff," and thus, "So, Grant, I feel as though applying neon orange lipstick killed after he tries to remove all those McCandless' ultimate fate cally defeated women (Maria signs over the course_of five your column topics are often by way of Cheeto consump- pesky government secrets from Chuck's com~s as too little ~ sµrprise, Bello, . Emily Blunt, Kathy days, The Seeker: The Dark is hackneyed and contrived;' tion, when I tried to take a brain: Meanwhile, Sarah goes undercover if no less potent when it Baker, Maggie Grace and Rising is, as far as Fox's family- says a close and dear friend of stroll down memory lane by at a hot-dog joint to keep an eye on the arrives. Amy Brenneman) and one friendly fantasy franchise mine. watching some of the latest geek that holds all the secrets. As such, Penn can't help bold man (Hugh Dancy) do attempts go, only a bit better "Pete & Pete," I offer as a bastardized Nicktoons. Upon but tilt his hand toward the indeed form a reading group than last winter's Eragon. rebuttal flipping to the channel, I was martyr end of the spectrum, dedicated solely to the discus It still falls into the all-too- "Little Pete was the crazi- met with dead air. 9 p.m. Fox: Family Guy Bonnie tells Joe that she is tired of being yet it's certainly admirable to sion and dissection of six familiar territory of a young, est!" exclaims my close friend Astonished, I referred to the married to a handicapped person, and he see a self-proclaimed aesthet Austen titles - each are reluctant hero who f"mds him- This phenomenon has Internet for further investiga- decides to get a leg transplant. Excited ic voyager on a spiritual jour assigned one, and no, silly self endowed with magical many practical applications. tion where I learned that Nick- about his new ability to walk, Joe dives ney, even ifsaid voyager tends man, they're not sequels - powers and responsible for And just as universal as intri- elodeon was taking part in the head first into extreme sports and begins to recycle some particular and slowly but surely, trite nothing less than the fate of cate knowledge ofthe antics of fourth annual Worldwide Day Jo hang around more active friends. pearls of profundity, whether parallels between their own the world. the redheaded Pete and Pete ofPlay. This being the case, my " Meanwhile, Peter and the guys are upset they come from his favorite relationships and the ones in Ludwig is an adequate pro- duo, is the feeling that Nick- stroll down memory lane was . at how Joe is acting and decide to .teach their respective novels tagonist, but villain Christo- elodeon, as it exists currently, thwarted, and I instead found him a lesson. authors or those he meets along the way (including become increasingly pro pher Eccleston (one of TV's has fallen from grace. myselfin the doldrums ofguilt. tlM•1~1.m1.5U*gtJ!Uli<. wit Vmce Vaughn, Kristen Stew nounced. Doctor Whos) is rarely intim- But why? And how? This truly signifies the end 9 p.m. NBC: Heroes art, Catherine Keener, Brian The result is all flusters idating and mentor Ian I place the blame squarely The carefree antics of Pete & Upon his return to New York, Suresh is Dierker and a heartbreaking and flirting, complete with McShane (Deadwood) often on the Nicktoon known as Pete, Ren and Stimpy and the unnerved to find an undiscovered Isaac Hal Holbrook). Aimee Mann on the sound looks as ifhe has better things Rocket Power, the show that Rugrats are no more, and it has Mendez painting that foretells death of Opens at Regal Winter track and the occasional to do, although he admittedly showcased the extreme antics been supplanted by pro-exer- someone close to him. Both Claire and Park Village 20 today. canine reaction shot, and for brings the occasional sardon- of, perhaps, the youngest per- cise rhetoric. H.R.G. pursue their own secret personal fans of chick lit, that will be ic bite to his scenes. son to give Newton the finger. · It's as though Nickelodeon agendas. Determined to make it to the enough. Despite a well-shot first This isn't to say that Rocket was atop a high, unreachable U.S., Maya uses her deadly abilities to free The Jane Austen Book Alejandro from a Mexican jail. Ando returns Club I Director: Robin Everyone else might sim half (kudos to cinematogra- Power didn't possess all the mountain in the early '90s and to his job in Japan and makes a happy Swicord · ply have to make do with pher Joel Ransom), director proper essentials of a suitable has been systematically falling discovery. In Japan's past, just when Hiro actually reading a novel or David L. Cunningham and his Nicktoon. from its zenith. Nickelodeon had written off Kensei, his childhood hero looking for love instead of two editors go to town with There was a rambunctious now exists in the abyss that is surprises him. Niki and Micah leave Las **• .• watching the professionals do tired music-video cuts, grainy male protagonist that was kept three hours of dead air. Vegas in an attempt to start over. Two One's investment in, and the same. close-ups and tilted shots that out of trouble by his older and In time, perhaps, Nick- familiar people with abilities make an enjoyment of, writer-director In theaters everywhere cross the line from ominous wisersister,andhehadafather elodeon will climb back up unexpected return. Robin Swicord's adaptation of today. to just plain clumsy. who was both cool and relat- that mountain. The channel Karen Joy Fowler's novel is The story itself plays like a able. My issue is with the will best its competitors, pump oi1~•·3WfM•8p.m.CW:Beautyand e eek likely tantamount to just how The Seeker: The Dark is hodgepodge of every other prominent role exercise played its fist in triumphant victory The geeks give massages to their partners willing one would be to par Rising I Director: David L. fantasy tale ever told; the in the show. and f"mally secure a glowing while the beauties learn about rocket ticipate in an actual Jane Cunningham puberty metaphors are less Now, I don't know about piece ofthe Aggro Crag. science; a romance in the house grows Austen book club, let alone subtle than ever, and it's hard ~------ more intense. So two beauties are hooking pay to watch one's meetings to imagine an apocalypse up with each other, sounds great right? and follow the subsequent **• .. more arbitrary than the one Well, this year there's a guy beauty - not estrogen-soaked woes of its Following the seventh son concocted here. so great for the geeks. members. of a seventh son (Alexander In theaters ,everywhere Regardless, five romanti- Ludwig) as he searches for six today. 8 p.m. ABC: Pushing Daisies Ned suspects foul play when an automotive expert dies in a mysterious and ·Race Book traffic accident. Meanwhile, Chuck presses Ned about how he revived her. This show is supposed to be great, so it might be worth Thing's house best of event checking out. COlUIBUS DAY FROM A10 perennial cult musical. No need to toast and 41!!11iMil•Slll - no need to bother unless you're a die-hard 9 p.m. NBC: 711e Office MONDAY - OCT 8TH Michael anticipates going to NeV( York for •fifiiiG fanatic or a relative newbie. the company's Web site launch party; Jack's Funhouse, in Clown-0-VJSion - Free Admission Dwight tries to sell more paper in one day A moderately inspired attraction based on the than the Web site does. resident host ofhorrors, this house uses dispos iJEGGB 50C Hot Dogs, 50C Solt Drinks able 3-D glasses to . disorienting effect. The Thing: Assimilation - A storyline &50CBeerl, Congestion is common yet again. that commendably continues the original story, impressive effects and scare-actors who Promouons Good Dav & Night BILLBOARD actually encourage you to keep things moving College Students Always Free • •fiiifi instead ofdistracting uniformed employees in (With Valid l.D.) TOP 3 ALBUMS: Bill & 'Tud's Excellent Halloween Adven other houses. 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There were things in it About Mary star Ben Stiller for brought Stiller onto the proj is transparently strruned (a jel (including the Farrellys them that weren't holding up.... We their raunchy update of 1972's ect. lyfish encounter in particular, selves) have used less extrane got in there and started rewrit The Heartbreak Ki.cl, in which 'We had a really great ti.t:Ile and that's all we'll say). early on that this is going to be ous characte'rs, but a more ing it, and it really kind of lovelorn loser Eddie (Stiller) making Mary with Ben, and Regarding the rating, one R." judicious pair of editors would became our movie at that hastily marries the seemingly we've kind of been meaning to Farrelly brother said, 'We had Stiller is as comedically have done well to save some time. So they both stand on perfect Lila (Malin Akerman, get back together with him for a feeling kind of like, we didn't combustible as ever - his thing - anything - for the their own, actually. 'They're Harold and Kumar Go To a long time," one of the broth want to keep going where we father, not so much - Mon fuevitable unrated DVD and quite different." White Castle). ers said felt like we had to outdo our aghan just as gorgeous, and spare audiences several laugh Well, Neil Simon, the origi Not only does their honey Or so they should hope.. selves. So the next couple of Akerman delivers the furiniest less stretches. nal's writer, never needed full moon swiftly reveal Lila's glar After their PG-13 efforts failed movies we made were a lot bombshell-turned-time-bomb Given the brothers' fond frontal nudity to make a great ing physical and psychological to match the success of 1998's more sentimental stories, and performance this side of Wed ness for the original, they were comedy. defects, but Eddie happens to Mary - or even 2000's Me, they didn't call for an R rating ding Crashers Isla Fisher. reluctant to remake what they Perhaps the Farrellys run into, and fall for, the more Myself, and Irene - it became [The films being Stuck on You, However, Carfos Mencia considered a classic. would do well to keep that in <) down-to-earth Miranda increasingly apparent that the Shallow Hal and Fever Pitch]. shows up in yet another "We were offered this mind rather than their box (Michelle Monaghan, Mission: co-directors were ready for ... 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