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Central Florida Future. 916. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/916 :,ihe Central Florida Future e 1988 The Central Florida Future Volume 21, Number 55 University of Central Florida/Orlando Thursday April 6, 1989 Final five presidential candidates interviewed Friday by Crlckett Drake Altman, Dr. Roy McTamaghan, Dr. Dale F. NEWS EDITOR Nitzschke, Dr. Kala Stroup and Dr. James Woodward. Friday marks the final step in the choosing of the The five were chosen from the last batch of 12. next UCF President. This date is also the last chance These 12 interviewed on campus with the UCF students, as well as faculty and business leaders, will Search Advisory Committee. have to voice their opinions towards the selection. Each interview· was taped and is available for In Ballroom A of the university Holiday Inn, the student viewing in the library. final five candidates will interview once more before Overall, the UCF Search Advisory Committee feel the Board of Regents Selectfon Committee, the UCF the process has been efficient, fair and has produced Search Advisory Committee, business leaders and all the best candidates. other interested students, faculty and administra­ After a selection process that began last December As Dr. David Scott, chairman of the UCF Search tors. and several cuts, only five candidates remain in the The interviews will start at 8:30 a.m. running. These candidates include Dr. Steven SEE PRESIDENT PAGE 5 Presidential selection process · · -. 1 Popper goes to anderbilt by Richard Finger Jones High School, came up with the idea of the CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE popcorn popper. She wanted to combine math, science and engineering, while motivating stu­ The World's Largest Popcorn opper and dents. Largest Box of Popcorn, designed by the UCF Faculty advisor for the project, UCF Profes­ chapter of the American Society of Mechanical sor Rod Henry and 18 mechanical and aero­ Engineers (ASME), will be presented at an space students worked donating over 300 hours annual competition at Vanderbilt . to research and designing the hot air popcorn F. Allan Schwarb Jr., a member of ASME, machine. The Campus Action for Animals group will now be in charge of the will be the present.er. The presentation will be Experimental testing took place started in wetf are of the stray cats on campus. made at the Old Guard Contest, an annual December. The temperature that causes event he1d to "get engineers interested in prac­ the popcorn to pop was reached, as well as the ' tical application," Schwarb said. volume of air. Campus group aids in The project was initiated around Thanksgiv­ ing of last year. Ricky Richmond, teacher at SEE POPCORN PAGE 7 solving cat problem by Joelle Subourne group Campus Action for Ani­ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE mals, has been agreed on and will be carried out, starting in Thanks to some concerned early April. students and cooperative The proposal involves the administrators, the end of the university, the student group, and the Humane Society, in addition to local veterinarians. ."The university bent A university employee will be responsible for capturing over backwards to get the cats. Dr. Ashmun Brown, this problem solved in attorney for UCF, said, "This an effective way." employee is also a graduate student in biology, and ex­ - Frank Andrews, pressed an interest in doing Executive Director of this." Special cages that will the Orlando Humane not harm the cats will be set in Society certain spots on campus. The employee will take the trapped cats to the student group. If campus cat problem is finally another animal such as a in sight. A solution, conceived by the. SEE CATS PAGE 5 This popcorn popper is the largest in the world and is the topic of presentation by ASME. SPORTS CONFETTI NEWS CLIPS 3 • The UCF baseball team •This week's cover story OPINION 8 celebrated its No. 28 rank­ meets the Grand Drago , ing by topping the 20th for the KKK. Also, a review COMICS 9 ranked Bulls for the sec­ of bands and old bands ond consecutive Tuesday and Madonna sings the CLASSIFIED 10 night. A UCF student wins blues. Look at our rap a national title. Contest on page 8. 12 " ' -,. .. 2, The Central Florida Future, April 6, 1989 ON · Address Name .Budwei Title .r:fitb/Jed Jx; r111~ ~~·s...~.,..~,'J ~'~~Md~.~-"' Jilnl,p,1.14M/- References ----~ i • If Budweiser is already your regular beer wed like to say thanks for the .. business. If ifs not, then wed like to apply for the job. fte... Of course our resume can only tell you who we are. 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Deo, a computer science professor, was chosen for his "High Technology is outstanding work with paral­ the way of the future lel processors, computers that and these scientists use dozens of central process­ ing units (CPU) to simultane­ are paving the way ... " ously solve complex computa­ -Gov. Bob Martinez tions. He taught at Washington State University for nine years · Dr. Michael Moshell, Dr. before corning to U CF three &le Parac>n9/CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTIJRE Narsingh Deo, Dr. Donald years ago. Malocha and Dr. Karl Guen­ Malocha, a professor of elec­ HOW LOW CAN.YOU GO? ther all received the Governors trical engineering and commu­ The annual dance-a-thon, a part of the Greek Week Festivities, was held Tuesday in The Wiid Pizza. Award for Outstanding Con­ nication science, works with Members of the different sororities and fraternities obtained pledges for the amount of time each was tributions to Science and Tech­ analog signal processors and able to dance. nology March 7 at the surface acoustic wave devices. governor's mansion. This technology is used in tele­ Moshell works with the vision for sophisticated mili­ Institute for Simulation and tary equipment. M a 1 - Corrections Training "in the Central Flor­ ocha has been teaching both masters and Ph.D. students at ida Research Park. He devel­ In the presidential candidate box appear­ Also, the UCF Search Advisory Commit­ . ops computer graphics that UCF for seven years. Guenther teaches electrical ing in the April 4 issue, the committee from tee did not reccomend the three starred simulate hazardous real-life Tallahassee helping with the presidential engineering and physics. His candidates of the final five. According to activities such as tank warfare selection process is not the BOR Search representatives of the committee, all five research involves thin film and fighter plane maneuvers. Committee, but rather the BOR Selection candidates are just as qualified as the oth­ Moshell said, "This area of Committee. ers and each has their own quality to offer. computer simulation also has SEE RESEARCH PAGE 7 • LE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS Government and Foreign Af­ She was also the lone female eat Wed, Greek sing and can Admissiort is $5 for the gen­ The latest export to France fairs at the University of Vir­ comic on Rodney Dangerfield's due date Thur., tug-of-war eral public and free to UCF from the U.S. is not movies or ginia will speak on "Freedom Nothi.n. 1 Goes Right HBO spe­ Fri., and the Greek games Sat. students with a valid ID. clothing but Les Crados (The of Religion: Ccntemporary Re­ cial. The Awards Ceremony for Dirty Ones), the french version flections," on April 6 at 4 p.rn. Mendoza has also appeared the Week is planned for Sat. • ENG. SCHOLARSHIP of the Garbage Pail Kids, in Biology 215. on Letterman and the Tonight night in front of the Reflection The Florida Engineering children's bubble-gum cards. The lecture is free and open Show. In addition, he has ap­ Pond. Society is offering a $1,000 Les Crados include charac­ to the public. I tis sponsored by peared on the HBO Young scholarship to a student enter­ ters such as Matthew Nose­ Pi Sigma Alpha. Comedians Special, MTV, The • AIDS SEMINAR ing their junior or senior year picker, Toilet Face Herve and Wil Shriner Show and Richard The AIDS Education and in a Florida university engi­ Stinky Pit Letitia • HARD MAC CAFE Belzer1s Cinemax Specials. He Information Institute at UCF neering program. The cards have become a fad "The Hard Mac Cafe" will has also played clubs, includ­ will present the second annual The applicant must have a with french schoolchildren.