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University of Central Florida STARS The UCF Report University Archives 3-19-1999 The UCF Report, Vol. 21 No. 17, March 19, 1999 University of Central Florida Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfreport University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The UCF Report by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation University of Central Florida, "The UCF Report, Vol. 21 No. 17, March 19, 1999" (1999). The UCF Report. 587. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfreport/587 mm- Volume 21 • No. 17 • March 19,1999 A publication for faculty and staff Taking a bite out of world market pie UCF business students help small- and medium-sized meeting earlier this month. markets. Working in teams of two, businesses tap into international In a unique program developed students are spending the semester are helping Florida's commerce. So far, students enrolled by UCF business professor Bob Taf t, working up an export strategy for businesses get spot in the program have helped generate companies can "hire" College of participating companies. $10 million in global sales for local Business Administration students for In May and June, the 28 graduates on international map enterprises. $3,000 to scout, research and develop and undergraduates will visit "The need clearly is to move more global opportunities. This year, for potential customers in the target ur small world is getting and more into international business the first time, the University of countries to prod the hot, hungry smaller thanks to UCF's ... Being global is not where you do Tampa, University of Florida and markets of Mexico, Argentina, China, o International Business 2000 business, but how you do business," Florida Atlantic University are joining South Korea, the Czech Republic, Program. Now entering its third year, President John Hitt told a group of UCF, representing more than 20 IB-2000 offers bargain expertise to business owners at a community Florida businesses in 10 overseas' Please see MARKET, page 5 Latest tests: Water is OK Expert says campus water may have been tainted by flaw in testing procedure n improper sampling practice is the prime A suspect for elevated traces of lead and copper in the drinking water of some main-campus buildings, according to a UCF report delivered earlier this week to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The report, prepared under the direction of UCF professor James Taylor, an internationally recog nized water expert, and Luke Mulford, a colleague in UCF's Environmental Systems Engineering Institute, concluded that the way the water was Jacque Brund collected contaminated the samples with higher- The beat of a different drummer than-permitted copper and lead concentrations. Music majors Jeff Williams, Chris Baker and Shannon Golden found an unusual The analysis was commissioned by UCF's place to practice playing the drums — a trash can outside Rehearsal Hall. The, Please see WATER, page 4 uh, instrument has the perfect sound they were looking for, the three explained. Graduates' film puts spell on Hollywood Five alumni created year later, someone found their the toast of the filmmakers' world Sanchez and Myrick while still unfinished film. and the darlings of a host of horror students at UCF, was shown at the , 'The Blair Witch It's not fodder for a TV series fans waiting for "The Blair Witch Sundance Film Festival in January. Project" — a hit at the about mysterious happenings. It's the Project" to hit theaters. With that, the lives of the five men mock-documentary film by Haxan Two years of hard work along with have been altered forever. There have • Sundance Film Festival Films, a company owned by five UCF the stereotypical "starving artists" been interviews with the likes of film graduates who wanted to make a tribulation behind them, Eduardo Vanity Fair, Premiere Magazine and hree college students vanished movie that would "creep the audience Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Gregg Hale, Showtime. Favorable reviews have while filming a documentary T out" — sans the usual prerequisite of Robin Cowie and Michael Monello whet the appetites of movie buffs. about the legend of the Blair blood and gore. A love of old- are looking at the fulfillment of all Witch, becoming the latest in a long fashioned scary movies with an their dreams — past and future. Please see line of unexplained disappearances. A innovative twist has made the alumni Their film, a brainstorm of BLAIR WITCH, page 4 n __\ • University of Central Florida Non-Profit Organization P.O. Box 160090 U.S. Postage Paid Orlando, FL 32816-0090 Orlando, FL March Address Service Requested Permit No. 3575 is http://www.pp.ucf.edu. let Physical Plant know how it and its The Work Order Request Form allows contractors did during the implementation Memo you to submit work orders over the of your A&l request. This will allow A&l to Good turn Internet rather than having to call the improve its services and choose contract To: Faculty and staff Work Management Center. This will save ors of the highest caliber and quality for From: William Merck, Administration time and allow Physical Plant to have a the university. We encourage your use of these forms. says a lot and Finance copy of the work order exactly as you Subject: University vehicles originally requested it for future reference. Should you have questions or concerns, Departments with university-owned A verification and work order number will call Dave Andrews, 823-3589, or send an vehicles must take steps to verity that all be e-mailed to you once the work order e-mail to [email protected]. about UCF employees (including student assistants) ticket has been initiated by professionals Sometimes, an act of kindness in the Work Management Department. To: Campus community who drive these vehicles on official busin can restore our faith in people. ess have a valid driver's license. Verificat The Complaint/Suggestion Form From: Richard Paradise, Physical Plant Gloria Lambert, office manager for ion may be documented by making a copy empowers you to effect changes and Subject: Alteration and Improvement ot each license or maintaining a log that improvements to the Physical Plant by (A&l) projects cutoff date the Honors College, can relate. will include the driver's name, license allowing you to submit comments about Departments wishing to use 1998-99 Recently, she left her purse in number and license expiration date. Res the Web site or Physical Plant service in fiscal year funds for A&l projects must the crowded Student Union after ponsibility for this verification rests with general. Complaints are welcome; without have A&l requests turned in to the Physical lunch. Besides the usual contents, the dean, director or chair of the depart them Physical Plant can't improve service Plant before April 30. A&l projects norm her purse was filled with cash — ment to which the vehicle is assigned. to you, which is the ultimate goal. ally require bids from outside contractors. part of her husband's paycheck. This deadline is necessary to properly bid The Alterations and Improvement Forty-five minutes had passed To: Campus community Request Form enables you to submit a and award these projects and encumber before she rushed back to the From: Physical Plant Leadership request for alterations and improvements funds before the purchasing deadline Council over the Web. This will speed up the (normally June 1). bench where she had been sitting. Subject: Physical Plant Internet based process of initiating an A&l request and A&l projects received after April 30 will The purse, of course, was gone. forms improve service by providing a printable be considered as 1999-00 projects to be Here's the twist. When Lambert The UCF Physical Plant now has four version of your request in your own funded from 1999-00 fiscal year funds. checked the Information Desk, the new Internet-based forms on its Web site words. If you have any questions or need purse — and all its contents — was to make contact with Physical Plant easier The Alterations and Improvements additional information, call Cheryl Colvin, there. Lambert and more efficient. The Web site address Questionnaire Form is designed for you to 823-2471. FrOm had fallen prey to tHp* the kindness of a stranger. "I want ' * UI y the person who Time to plan for commencement tOWGr turned it in to know how much I Spring commencement is Engineering, six tickets; and, College 26-April 29. Daytona Beach candi appreciate it," she says. Saturday, May 8, at the UCF Arena. of Health and Public Affairs, six dates should contact the Adminis The funny — and sad — thing The times for each ceremony are as tickets. trative Services Office (Building 34, is, most of us are surprised when follows: 8 a.m. — College of Arts and room 105) for tickets; Brevard campus Candidates on good things like this happen. Sciences; noon — College of the main campus candidates should contact the BCC Kindness and acts of honesty are Business Administration; must pick up Bookstore. hardly things we take for granted 3:30 p.m. — Colleges of tickets at the If a candidate misses the order nowadays. Take a trip to the Education and UCF Bookstore period, they will have to pick up Library— signs are pasted on Engineering; and, 7:30 between April 26 tickets on the main campus April 26- every floor, on almost every p.m.