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Central Florida Future. 2255. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2255 FREE • Published Mondays and Thursdays www.CentralFloridaFuture.com • ThursdaY, October 8, 2009 Reportcard Halfway through the season, we grade the UCF football team -sEESPORTS,A6 To seethe SGA memos goto: © www.UCFNews.com Staff Senators found. SGA Ticket and Building A More Functional SGA ·discuss Ticket engaged in bribery through the use of free pizza and other campaign I in minor violation materials. · ·'unf3ir' On Thursday: JEFFREY RILEY & Tuesday afternoonI and ness Seat 8, filed separate "Students were Biomed professor talks ASHLEY CARN IFAX found two candidates in complaints against both coerced using bribes in neuron degeneration Editor-in-Chief & Online News Editor minor violation of cam­ of his opponents, Jason the form of merchandise byValeriWalsn paign statutes. Bryant and Kyle Lazernik. .and comestibles such as labor Dr. Ella Bossy-Wetzel explained The Student Govern­ In the first two of In the official memo­ pizza to vote at their sta- . her research, which could help ment Association Elec­ these, former SGA Senate randum filed with the tion," Matlin said in his Workers: all slow down the aging process. tions Commission sched­ candidate Glenn Matlin, elections comm1ss1on, Open forum addresses uled four hearings from the College of Busi- Matlin said both the Unite PLEASE SEE ONE ON A4 work, no pay campus safety issues CAITLIN BUSH by Shayla Silva · Photo Editor Student Advocacy at UCF hosted an open forum for students to Physical Plant workers learn more about campus safety. said they believe they are being taken advantage of On- Friday: by being asked to perform On-campus housing tasks that are outside of applications down their job classification. by Matt Reinstetle This was the main topic An increase in rental rates has of discussion in a closed led to adecrease in the number meeting with labor union of applicants for housi~. representatives and Physi­ cal Plant management last On Saturday: · Tuesday. Delta Lambda Phi Twenty-seven people struggles for charter were present at the meet­ by Steven Barnhart ing, including Physical Afraternity aimed at gay, Plant management, main­ bisexual and progressive men, is tenance employees and trying to become official. representatives of the American Federation of On Sunday: State, County and Munici­ New cooling sxstem pal Employees labor expected to cut costs union. ~ by Kerri Anne Renzulli "[Maintenance work­ The system, which will become ers] are asked to do what­ active in November, should save ever management wants about $700,000 per year. us to do at the time, and if it's not in our job descrip­ tion they'll rework the job description and put it in," Breaking said 62-year-old Enrique Jimenez, a housing main­ news on tenance specialist. your cell Jimenez has worked for UCF for seven years and Get UCF news sent to your cell has been in the union for phone. Just text the keyword five years. UCFNEWS to 44636. PLEASE SEE WORKERS ON AS AROUND CAMPUS, A2 ARTISTIC TALK TAKING PLACE IN THE VISUAL ARTS BUILDING Art department faculty artist Jason Burrell will give an informal gallery talk in front of his paintings which are presently on display in the faculty exhibition today from 11 a.m. until noon. LOCAL &ST ATE, A2 TROPICAL STORM IN CAITLIN BUSH / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Enrique Jimene~ a Physical Plant ATLANTIC IS WEAK, worker, assembles a bicycle rack. FORECASTERS SAY Forecasters say Tropical Storm Henri is weakening in the Atlantic Ocean and is likely to be short Panel discusses global lived. The storm is moving toward Free printing coming soon the west and is expected to stay north of the Lesser Antilles. Former Park Ave. war on terrorism at UCF spot gets print lab JENNIFER DORVAL demic community, each 1 Staff Writer spoke for 15 minutes to a MARIA AYALDE EX-ASTRONAUT'S Contributing Writer crowd of more than 100 in LAWYERS LOOK TO Eight years after 3,000 the Pegasus Ballroom, on The temporary Et3PRESS GET RID OF CHARGES people were killed in 120 their concerns with the Pl<l '< ~ ·L AB minutes in Pennsylvania, .lounge on the first floor .Lawyers for {ormer astronaut Lisa war_ of the Student Union will New York and Washington Nowak are asking ajudge to toss Sebastian Gorka, a pro­ be turned into a free ' D.C., the United States is out the battery, burglary and fessor of National Security ' quick-print lab bef9re still fighting the global assault charges she faces. They say war Studies at National the end of the semester. the pepper spray Nowak used was on terrorism and its chang­ Defense University in ing threats. For years, students not a dangerous weapon. Washington D.C., dis­ have requested more MELISSA CHADBOURNE/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE UCF's Global Perspec­ cussed the war's lack of The temporary lounge in the Student Union will be turned into a quick print • free printing locations lab. Prints-will be provided for free and is sponsored by SGA . tive Office hosted "Global clarity and the weaknesses on campus, and many Terrorism in 2009: Assess­ of the current and last SGA campaign platforms Doyouplanon ing the Changing Threat," "When the space TODAY'S administrations' ability to have promised it, but using the new lab? INDEX Tuesday afternoon, which • opened up, it was obvi­ • WEATHER plan. now that promise is www.UCFNews.com Around Campus 2 featured a four-member Gorka said the U.S. has ous what we could use it • Weather 2 being fulfilled . for," Kilbride said. "We panel discussion where had a lot of wish lists in the . Each year, more than 5 Local & State 2 thoughts and concerns on past eight years in terms of accounting and finance are very proud of this Sports 6 million pages are printed major. because many [people] the global war on terror­ the war - creating a at the SGA computer lab • Variety 8 ism, and its current prob­ More than 10,000 dif­ before us have promised national-state out of Iraq on the second floor of Opinion ISOLATED lems, were shared and making sure Ameri­ ferent students used the it and we can actually 10 I the Student Union, all of lab last year, wh1ch deliver." Oassifieds 11 T-STORMS The persons on the cans aren't killed on U.S. Sudoku 11 I them at no extra cost to explains the daily lines This new lab, which is I panel, which included soil - but no defined the students, said · Crossword 11 I 3° 75° members of governmental that students wait in any­ set to have a soft opening I Michael Kilbride, SGA where from 10 to 40 min­ I agencies as well as the aca- PLEASE SEE SPEAKERS ON A3 chief of operations and utes, Kilbride said. PLEASE SEE STUDENTS ON A4 A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com Oct. 8, 2009 • Wt1tal :Jlm jutuie d AROUND CAMPUS (enttal • News and rwtices for · the UCF community An.artistic talk in the VAB Jloriba Art department faculty artist Jason Burrell will • give an informal gallery Juture bis talk in front of paint­ The Student Newspaper at IJCF since 1968 ings, which are presently on display in the faculty October 8, 2009 • • exhibition. Vol 41, Issue 79 • 12 Pages The talk will be today from 11 a.m. until noon. 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