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International 0 Hunger Banquet educates Week offered

• forums, Study students about poverty Abroad Fair • KRISTA ZILIZI STAFF WRITER PADRA SANCHEZ S'rAfp WRITER • Students got the chance to experience the different social On Nov. 13, UCF held a classes that populate the world series of open forums for students, • at Volunteer UCF's annual faculty and staff about pertinent Hunger Banquet last week. international issues. Held in the "This is a small slice of Student Union's Key West Room, JOE KALEITA I CFF each forum followed a town hall life as it plays out ~ach day in lower class students, who were the world," said Nausheen format, with a panel of guest forced to sit on the floor, had to eat speakers and open microphones Farooqui, Hunger and with "rats". Homelessness programs direc­ for audience members. tor, addressing the class-divid­ The first session, "Importance ed students at VUCF's eighth of International Education in the annual Hunger Banquet last Homeless Awareness 21st Century, was presented by Wednesday. Holiday Benefit UCF faculty. The second, Feasting on baked chicken When: Dec. 8, 5 - 9 p.m. "Dialogue between International and choc-olate cake, some UCF and U.S. Students," included a students were fortunate enough Where:. Lake Eola Bandshell panel of SGA leaders and to enjoy the benefits of being Info: www. ri ppleeffecti nfo.org International Student Association part of the upper class. Other representatives. Students talked students were forced to settle about the importance of interna­ for the only luxuries that their tion. To gain entrance to the tional awareness not only on cam­ middle class wages could event, students had to bring pus but also in their daily lives. • afford, beans and rice and ·a two canned food items to the "For me Democracy is the fresh glass of water to satisfy door. most powerful force in the history their appetites. The majority of VUCF opened the event of mankind because it allows for students sat on the floor, sur­ by assigning students class collective and creative thought," • rounded by scraps of newspa­ identifications and unique Student Government Attorney ~er, eating rice with their fin­ characterizations to represent General, Marcus Gould said. gers, drinking brown water. global income levels in real "Everyday, get up and put the • These students were members life. same basic principles on as you do of the lower class. "Fifteen percent of the pants and shoes, and I think we The Hunger Banquet is world's population make up can make this a better place." • VUCF's solution to educating the upper class, 30 percent The last session of the day • students about global. hunger make up the middle class and was "9/11: What Can Literature and homelessness. Oxfam the remaining 55 percent are Do?" and was presented by world­ renown authors from countries • America, an international part of the lower class," said organization that combats Farooqui. "Everyone on the JOE KALEITA I CFF such as India, Malaysia, Burma global poverty, originated the Miko Charbonn was one of the lower class students, who had to eat rice unique educational presenta- PLEASE SEE Guest oN PAGE 3 with their hands. PLEASE SEE Bersia ON PAGE 7 Vigil held for student killed in accident Family and friends to remember him with a prayer was an extremely active student • vigil. Bess, 21, died as a result of taking part in various aspects of remember honor student an automobile accident on the campus life. He was also a mem­ Andrew Bess Florida Turnpike on Nov. 4. ber of the Honors College and the • The vigil was relocated Director of Fundraising for inside Phillips Hall on account of Honors Congress, as well as an DANIELLE DEPARI poor weather conditions, however Hon9rs Team Leader at sympo­ STAFF WRITER the group remained rooted in siums. In addition, Bess was • their purpose. Originally from involved with the Young As drizzling rain fell upon Fort Myers, Bess was a student at Republicans. HALEY CABRERA I CFF Family and friends hold a vigil for Andrew Bess, who died earlier the reflection pond, ·family and UCF. He was a liberal studies this month in an automobile accident. friends of Andrew Bess gathered major with a film minor. Bess PLEASE SEE Bess oN PAGE 4 · . . • --======,, .,T..h. "e ,c_entral Florida Future .Publishes every Wednesday T$Si "6 - Some want it banned Are we 'just wild about Harry?' Controversy over sorcery and wizardry Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone • Knightro. Uffs mascot, was trained by the Universal in the box office blow-out rages. raked in a record-breaking $93.5 million Cheerleading Association. Knightro in its opening weekend. • makes public appearances at sport­ -SEE OPINIONS PG. 11 ing events. CAB events and more. -SEE ENTERTAINMENT PG. 14 ., . fl ._ ,. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • 4t • ~ • Student, Faculty, Staff and Alu111ni Special

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CARLY MORRIS MyProfessor STAFF WRITER Sucks.com allows students to rate MyProfessorSucks.com is a web site where their professors . • students at more than 2,880 colleges can evalu­ Several UCF ate their professors. The site, launched in June, prpfessors have allows students to grade the professor on cool­ already made • ness, the ease of the class and the overall worth . the site's list. The site's creator, University of Nebraska graduate student Kasey Kerber, said he came up with the idea after getting stuck in a particularly bad class. "I got back from that class one night and I remember thinking, 'I wish there was a way I could have known what this professor was • like before signing up for the class,'" Kerber said. Kerber began developing the site in February with help from his former roommate, a computer engineering major in Florida. Kerber's wife assisted with design, advertising and promotion. But it w,as Kerber alone who came up with the site's domain name. "I was looking for something that would be • easy to remember, but also have a bit of a bite to it," _Kerber said. "Besides, all of us have had at rience is not enough reason to tell the whole "It's surely true that organic chemistry has a bad least one professor that just plain sucked." nation that professor sucks,"senior Luis DeJesus reputation among students throughout the coun­ Several students at UCF didn't know about said . try," Elsheimer said. "The good news is we live • the site, but said it was a great idea. "It sounds Four UCF professors have been critiqued on in a place where everyone is entitled to an opin­ like a really helpful site," junior Stephanie Jones MyProfessorSucks.com. Chris Muller, a hospi­ ion and we still have free press and free said. ''Every student wants to know what kind of tality management professor, received an A+ speech." • professor they are dealing with before taking a rating. Muller was unaware of the site, but said Kerbers said about 65 percent of the evalu­ class that will be nothing more than a .hassle." it sounded interesting and he would be checking ations are positive in nature. "Students and pro­ Another student said the web site sounds it out soon. fessors shouldn't be turned off by .the name," like a waste of time and the evaluations unreli­ Another UCF instructor, Dr. Seth Elsheimer Kerber said. "We work really ·hard to keep the able. "Just because une student has a bad expe- of the department of chemistry, received an F. site neutral."

• • Guest speakers from The Ripple Effect, Second Harvest Food Bank

• FROM PAGE 1 by terrorism on Sept. 11, now Fifty-five percent 30,000 Floridians are out of How to get involved: of those attending earth has the same basic needs, work because the tourist indus­ the hunger • the only difference is the cul­ try has declined," Peel said . Volunteer UCF banquet were ture and circumst.ances of peo­ "The numbers may be 407 823-6471 forced to sit on ple." greater in other countries, but [email protected] the floor, and "Education is the single th~ problem [poverty and were served only most powerful tool against hunger] is just as important rice and dirty poverty," she added. everywhere, "freshman Alan Health Care Center water. The evening addressed a Wells said. variety of topics including There are 30 million hun­ for the Homeless: poverty statistics and documen­ gry people in America, and one vorunteer opportunities taries, volunteer opportunities out of every IO Central • and solutions to help hungry · Floridians need food assis­ Please call 407 428-5751 and homeless people. tance. Forty-six percent of "This is a unique and cre­ those are children under the age ative way to convey a serious of 17, and 50 percent of hungry issue," said Phanessa Pappas. families have at least one per­ The evening concluded "I want to find out what I can son working full time, accord­ with an open forum for students • do on a higher level, not just in ing to Peel. to share their thoughts . our community, bur the entire The Second Harvest Food "I never knew there was world." Bank collects food excesses in such a large percentage of peo­ • Guest speakers included America-and channels it to pro­ ple who get to eat so little," founder and president of The grams that help impoverished freshman Tameka Franco said. Ripple Effect, Kelly Caruso, senior citizens, families and "It's not their fault, it's the and Andrea Peel from the • children. resources not being available to Second Harvest Food Bank. "Wheaties used to dump them." Both women emphasized pallets of cereal boxes in the Senior Shayra Leon said: the prevalence of hunger and trash whenever they came out "This shows people the true • homelessness that affect with a ..new design for their problem. I come from Ecuador, American communities and the boxes," Peel said. "Now these a third-world country, and I see circumstances that can create boxes are donated to food how much poverty affects peo­ • sudden poverty. banks. This is an example of ple in my country. It is how it "The nation was attacked what we do." is." JOE KALEITA I CFF • Bess member of Honors Hoops Congress, LEAD scholar push

FROM PAGE 1 Ben Mena hands out "Tonight I met his entire Donations: fliers promoting family, who came out to UCF Friday's season to comfort students and share The family of Andrew Bess opening games for men's and women's memories of Andrew and requests that individuals show videos," Jill Painter, the basketball. Students in faculty advisor for the seeking to make memorial attendance watched Honors Congress said. She contributions direct them to: two decisive victories added, "I thought the intent First Baptist Church over University of of that candle light prayer Texas-Arlington and vigil would be to comfort the of Fort Myers Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. parents. But like Andrew, the 1735 Jackson Street See women's coverage in parents were there to comfort Fort Myers, Florida 33901 Sports on page 22 and us." men's on page 24. Bess was a student moti­ vated in making a difference, and helping people out. For those qualities that we most example, for the homecoming esteem and wish to see in all events, the theme was of our students: scholarship, Sequels, and the Honors resourcefulness, integrity, Congress selected "Revenge loyalty and steadfastness. In of the Nerds" as their group this regard, Andrew was an theme. Bess was-adorned as a ideal role model to all those half naked, tied up Monrow he mentored." Indian. He proceeded to The vigil gave Bess' escape during the game and friends a chance to reminisce let children catch him. Bess about him. was known fo r these type of "Ever since the first time antics. I met Andrew I knew he was "Andrew was our shining a nice guy, but I couldn't star, our hero, our friend and believe what happened when a master at making people I read the e-mail. I've never happy,"UCF student Jen taken anyone for granted, and JOE KALEITA I CFF Kracht said. She added, "He I won't because I learned I will always be in our hearts." can't," student Doug Brozek Bess was remembered said. with services Nov. 10 in Fort Bess was known to end Myers, as well as a presenta­ all of his emails with the fol­ tion for the honors college. lowing inscription, "God . The vigil was a final service Bless America, Now go make of commemoration. someone smile ... " Alvin Wang, Associate Katie Plesher said, Dean of the Honors College, "Andrew was a great guy. I For your shopping convenience CB&S will be open said, "Andrew was very know that none of us will involved with the Honors ever forget him." Friday, Nov. 23, Noon· 6pm and Saturday, Nov. 24, 10am-6pm. College. He was a team Painter said: "I am just leader for the past two years so grateful that I had the (Knight's Comer will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.) and served as the Director of opportunity to know Andrew Fund Raising for the Honors Bess. Everyone is put on this Congress. He was a National earth for a reason. Andrew's We have: • Merit Scholar as well as a was to touch as many lives as LEAD Scholar who excelled possible. He succeeded. as a student in his undergrad­ Because of Andrew, I have UCF Kids clothing uate preparation for medical learned to live life to the UCF Mom Dad tees school." He added: "He was fullest and to let the ones I & funny, intelligent and a good love know it! We didn't just "Social Awareness" tops &tees • friend to those who knew lose a friend Nov. 4, we lost and more! him. Andrew exemplified all part of our family." • We have the widest selection of UCF items in the area. •

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• UCF Army ROTC takes first Honors College underway , place at Ranger Challenge-· • CHRIS DERUYTER The 13-man team represented UCF at the CONTRIBUTING WRITER annual Ranger Challenge Competition at Ft. .- Stewart, GA. Twenty-one schools sent cadets to In the many facets of Army ROTC, the annu­ the competition, which is essentially the "all-star al Ranger Challenge competition is the hardest game" of the Anny ROTC, which lasted three thing a member of Anny ROTC can do. H the goal days Teams competed in nine different events; of Army ROTC is to breed officers, then the goal some of which are a grenade assault course, of Ranger Challenge is to breed Rangers, or at marksmanship with an M-16 assault rifle, con­ least potential Rangers . structing a one-rope bridge to cross a river, orien­ • This year's UCF Army ROTC Ranger teering and the Challenge team took first place while in competi­ dreaded lOK (6.2 miles) "ruck run." The ruck run tion with all the Anny ROTC programs from is the hardest event because it comes at the very • Florida, Georgia, and Pue1to Rico. The Ranger end of 2 days of grueling competition. Challenge Team consisted of 13 of the m9st high­ ''The ruck run was the most demanding event , ly motivated cadets in the ''Fighting Knights" for me. I only weigh 130 lbs. so _the Battalion. equipment was pretty heavy"_ freshman Wmward To prepare for the competition, each cadet Truitt said. The teams are required to run over worked at an intens_ity that would pain and simply six miles in .full uniform, with a rifle and 40 defeat the average college student. The cadets had pounds of equipment. to wake up at 5 a.m., Mon. -Fri. for over two So what type of college student would give months and participate in grueling physical train­ up a normal college life, to be put through physi­ ing. For an hour and a half every day, the team cal pain 5 days a week at all hours of the morning? members sweat. bled and cried (on the inside of All are ROTC students, which is challenging in course) as they were physically broken down and itself, but they come from various levels of expe­ built back up by four experienced cadet comman­ rience. Some individuals on the team had previ­ ders whom had competed in years past. ously served in Ranger Battalions on active· duty, "Our goal is to mold cadets into physically fit while others were brand new freshman who had and mentally strong leaders," never worn a uniform until this year. senior Andrew Miker, one of three co-comman­ Junior James Razuri said, ''This is the hardest ders said. Twenty-eight individuals showed thing I've ever done in my life. At times I didn't

up on day one.At the end of two months, only nine think I would make it, but I just kept on doing my HALEY CABRERA I CFF • had made the cut. best." Construction continues on the Honors College building adjacent to the Student Union, which is expected to be completed Spring 2002 • • (tiucF Coming ThurSday, Nov. 29, 2001 "2UCF CAREER CAREER RESOURCE . . RESOURCE CENTER The U_niversity of Central Florida's CENTER ,.. • EDUCATION JOBFA,IR

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The military salute_ is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

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Turkey is the traditional dish for the Thanksgiving on -November 2.9, 2001 feast. In the United States, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations. There is no official . reason or declaration for the use of turkey. They just hap­ pened to be the most plentiful meat available at the time of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, starting the tradition. Come by Our Table! Birthdays Nov. 21, 1694, Voltaire [Jean Francois Arouet], author, philosopher d: 1778

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Nov. 26, 1922, Charles Schulz, cartoonist d: 2000 . $1,000 Signing Bonus for: English/Reading (Secondary) Nov. 27, 1942, Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer d: 1970 * * Media Specialist *Gifted Science (Secondary) Quote of th.e Week * "It is therefore recommended . . . to set apart * Industrial Arts Technology * Special Education Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for Math (Secondary) solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart 8=nd * * Speech °Language Impaired one voice the good people may express the grateful feel­ ings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the ser­ vice of their divine benefactor ... " Broward County Public Schools -SAMUEL ADAMS, Father of the American Revolution Nov. 1. 1777 (adopted by the 13 states as Fort Lauderdale, Florida the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation) www. broward. k12. f I. us/teacher • November 21, 2001 • www.UCF.future.com CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE • 7 • Petitioning the Board of Trilstees Bersia: Aconstituent 41 University of Bill Nelson will stops students in front of the be conducting • Student Union asking them lo fill out a more forums petition. The FROM PAGE 1 petition is in favor of Sen. and Indonesia. Nelson's move There was also a luncheon to get rid of held for leaders in the commu­ the new Board nity and on campus, presented • of Trustees by The Metro Orlando system, and International Affairs re-instate the • Comrrussion and UCF's Office • Board of of International Studies . Regents in Moderated by Orlando mayor 2002. Glenda Hood, it was the first in a sequence of international dia­ logues, which would address Central Florida's position in the global market. Like the open ADAM SHI VER / forums for students, there was a CFF panel that answered questions and offered ideas concerning the business, exchange, tourism and economy now facing Orlando. Since the attack on America, students and business leaders alike have undoubtedly become concerned about such issues. • Attention All You "The week after 9-11, the first class session was difficult for all of us. It was tough to talk • but we did talk about it. I think the students had a new resolve Party People· in and a new dedication. I think we're going to be fine,"Vice • President of UCF University Relations, Dr. Daniel ·e··· .. H. -- ·o·· · Holsenbeck said. t .h. . . u·· s.··e··... _''•• As a result, UCF is taking steps forward in keeping stu- . dents aware of their internation­ ;n ca::1te yo<4 al surroundings and global news. John Bersia, Special Assistant to the President of • 'Uere "lond:eri"' Global Affairs at UCF said, "We're going to be conducting Mo$-\- more international forums both (ACf $-\-ude"-t* on and off campus. We're going • to see a lot more focus on the \\ave o~ly (:)-~ international realm here than we have in the past. I think we are drink$ going to see just about every aJcohoJ;c international course \l{e offer next year filled." 1-\\ey° Another part of "'"e" pa.e--ty* International Week included the Study Abroad Fair, held on Nov. T)\a-\-'s :I-ti! 14 in the Pegasus Ballroom to promote international study pro­ grams. Students attended in order to research their options • Far mnra in·f:u, Gtve us a call and speak to other students who have had the experience of _et 823-54.67, ar stop. by.· studying abroad . • Gabe Walker, a student who recently studied in China trailer BIB. said, "The most important thing .. * .. >.. · .. • .l!J is to have an open mind and to arm·~ a' beer, show the counselors that you really want to be there and to 3--4 o~ ]g1ass.Wine, learn." 1.5 oz liquor. A common concern among students about studying interna­ tionally was the cost. Walker, ADivision of· UC,f who was a panelist in SGA' s open forum said, "There is funding available. There are • Stud~ent Heafth Servicesi various types of scholarships. I would encourage anyone to go down to the Office of • International Studies on Research Parkway and talk to them." • Students tackle 6-year plan: College TheN AILS club 3050 Alafaya Trail, suite 1028, Oviedo, Fl. 32765 * (407) 365-1666 longevity raises crowding, finance issues ( 3/4 mile North of UCF I McCulloch Rd, torward Oviedo}

LINDA K. WERTHEIMER director of UT's office of student financial ser­ Professional Facial, Waxing & Nails Care THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS vices. UT estimates that an additional year of.col­ For Ladies & Gentlemen lege costs as much as $51,000, based ~n the cost Sean Stanton's mother gave him an ultimatum of extra loans and the wages the student would If set right before he began his fifth year of college: graduate make in a professional job. your nails does not look natural, it's not or pay the tuition. We can fix it, guarantied. You'll be sastified "Basically, right now, my motto is making a More working students. D," Stanton said. "D stands for diploma." UT officials said they don't accept every · Stanton plans to graduate in December after excuse students give for taking longer to graduate six years at the University of North Texas. "It's a - including working. real burden," said his mother, Coetta Rhodes. "I The number of college freshmen working in expected him to finish in four years." the nation has doubled from 23 percent to 47 per­ So do many parents. cent since 1960, according to the Bureau of Labor * No money to Join But the time Stanton is taking to graduate has Statistics. Surveys have shown that students from *Membership privilege. Always! become the norm in Texas and across the country. wealthier homes are working more, too. Most students, particularly in public colleges, are At UT, it's apparent that many students are taking five to six years to.graduate, and in many *Get 50% off all services on or B4 your BirthDay* working whether they have to or not, Burt said. cases, longer. (Some services required, call or see store for details) "They want to live the same way they did at The reasons are numerous. Working multiple (l)(J)(i)(j)(l)(i)(OO)(l)(l)(i)(OO)(l)(i)(l)(OO)(j)(l)(l)(i)(j)(l)(OO)IOO)(l)(l)(i)(l)(OO)(l)(i)(l)(i)(j)(l){l)(j)(i)(j)(l)(OO)Q)(.O Morn's and Dad's house," he said. "They want to jobs, dropping classes, taking lighter loads and $10.00 OFF EUROPEAN FACIAL drive a nice car. They want to have nice clothes. changing majors extended Stanton's undergradu­ Q)(i)(j)(l)(D $ S.00 OFF WHEN YOU BUY A FULL SET (00)1'.00)(t)(J)(J)Q) They want to have CDs. The days of the starving ())(i)(j)(l)(J)(i)(l)(l)(J)(i)(j) Exp. 11/30/2001 ())(j)(j)(l)COO)(l)(O(l)(l)(i)(l)(D ate college career. Colleges also have added cred­ student seem to have passed us by." it hours for many degrees. Students' slower pace worries some state offi­ cials and college leaders, who are working to get More accurate picture students out of college faster, partly because of The scenario at UT is not representative of the overcrowding and the financial burden on fami­ entire state, said Juliet Garcia, president of the lies. University of Texas at Brownsville. UT­ Some college officials say the graduation Brownsville, she and others say, is a more accurate rates are a reflection of the times and that six-year picture of the present and, especially, the future. college stays will be the new standard. The four­ Most of the college's students take seven to year graduation rate is already passe on federal eight years to graduate and enroll in just nine statistical charts. hours of classes a semester. All commute to the Nationally, less than half of students finish university and work because they must, Garcia within six years, according to the U.S. Education said. SUN DEC 2 Department and ACT Inc., which tracks gradua­ The emphasis, she said, should be on getting 2001 tion rates. students to graduate regardless of the .time frame. . "We live with the perception that it's still four "Maybe we need a new picture of what stu­ Rorida Rec-0rd Collectors years, when in reality, it's five and six years," said dents look like. Then we need a new package for higher education," Garcia said. . Associatton Inc. Brian K. 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The state also offers a $1,000 tuition rebate to "One way to do that is to get them through Phone 352-331-5928 or 904-454-0530 students who finish in four years. That policy went faster," said Marshall Hill, assistant commissioner into effect in May, so it's too early to tell whether for universities for the Texas Higher Education. the strategy will work, officials said. Coordinating Board. $1 off admission with this coupon Larry Faulkner, president of the University of Texas at Austin, said he thinks four years is ample Changing the culture for a large number of students at UT. In the fall of Changing the culture is one of the biggest 2002, UT will run a pilot project for the state in obstacles that officials face. STUDENT two of the university's liberal arts and natural sci­ "It doesn't just exist among students," said ~ ences colleges. Bruce Walker, UT's director of admissions. "It LEGAL UT will charge the same tuition to students in exists among advisers, who look at a student ·those two schools whether they take 12 or 18 record, and say, 'Just take 12 hours. You want to 11111 hours per semester. A dozen hours is the minimum protect your GPA.' We can't just point our fingers SERVICES for a full-time student. UT hopes the financial deal at students. It's the whole university." Problems with? Need? will motivate students to hurry up. UT's research discounts the notion that stu­ Landlords A will Faulkner said he's appalled that only 38.5 per­ dents improve their GPAs by taking fewer cours­ • • cent of UT's graduates last year finished in four es, Walker said. • Name change • Insurance years. Other public colleges of the same caliber Academic advisers from several schools • Uncontested • Contracts have a much better rate - some as high as 80 per­ counter that colleges often make it impossible for Dissolution Police cent, he said. students to finish in four years. Many majors "It's an issue of the performance of the high­ require as many as 136 hours for a degree, which Student Legal Services provides students with er-education system in the state, particularly UT­ cannot be done easily in four years. Students who assistance in selected areas of law such as Austin," Faulkner said. "Our students take fewer change majors fall further behind. landlord/tenant, consumer, chapter 7 bankruptcy, hours than they should. They take longer to get out "Most of our students, it's not their original criminal, traffic, & uncontested dissolutions. Qualified than they need to. 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Tuition costs may soar with budget cuts RYAN HERMAN year of $240,$195,$812. size of their checkbooks as justification. supply. Our concern should be one of - STAFF WRITER As of yet, it is unclear where exactly Take our own university for example; quality control-what are we getting for in the budget these cuts will be made, within five years, UCF will have a bud­ our dollar? Last week, the Florida State however, you can count on an increase in get upwards of half a billion dollars. And I don't mind paying the high prices Legislature handed down a series of bud­ certain fees to make up for the missing as the size of the budget increases every if what I'm getting in return is the quali­ get cuts, affecting all public schools slice of the education pie. year, so too does the size of each stu­ ty I deserve. Now I'm no expert, but it throughout the state, including high As of now, the general revenue dent's tuition. would seem to me that for my $1,000 schools, universities and community col­ expenditure, AKA "taxes," makes up the An out of state student, such as physics class I could expect something leges. largest chunk of the UCF budget, bring­ myself, pays almost $350 per credit hour. more than a professor lecturing straight The result of this cut was a 3.49 per­ ing in approximately $158 million of this That means that in my first two years at out of the textbook, which costs another • cent decrease in the state's overall educa­ year's $402.5 million total budget. So, to UCF, I will have spent more than $100. tion budget. But, it allows the Legislature put this all into perspective ... I have no $20,000 to, basically, review what I And at the end of the day, I often feel to allocate more funding towards con­ idea what any of it really means! already learned in high school. dumber for having wasted my time and struction and expansion of an already What I do know is that higher educa­ Not to put down our fine university, money on the same information I overcrowded school system. What does tion in this country has become ridicu­ because it's not the only one-of its kind received for free in high school. So my all of this mean for UCF? Well, our bud­ lously unaffordable. As young adults, we with soaring academic fees. Indeed, UCF advice is simple: let's take some of that get has been snipped by 3 .1 percent, are seeing our chances of intellectual is one of the better bargains for college $55 million generated last year from which equates out to a loss of nearly $7 .5 enhancement put on hold so that the education in the U.S. But even still, we tuition fees and put it towards pushing million. Given that deduction, UCF will major universities throughout the coun­ have some serious work to do. It's not a our students a little more, because a mind be looking at a state-based budget next try can show off to each other using the question of money, be it excess or short really is a terrible thing to waste. GRAY MATTERS Forget education, just CHRIS ZAPATIER peration at the fact that the world expects become a housewife STAFF WRITER Israel to continue efforts toward peace with "them." I wanted to ask him why acts of vio­ CASEY MCCORKLE ''The professor obviously is far more knowl­ I usually make it a point to practice lence, when committed by Palestinians, are STAFF WRITER edgeable than you, not everyone can pursue what I preach. I have often advocated stand­ labeled acts of terrorism, but identical mea­ higher education. Deal with it." So I say, if ing up for your beliefs even if it means mak­ sures when taken by the Israeli military are Feminists all around the world will you can't fight them, stay in the kitchen. ing strangers of friends and family. My labeled preemptive or retaliatory strikes, but groan in sincere disgust. Imagine me, an inde­ My reasoning is simple, if I am having heroes are not athletes or celebrities; they are I did not. I waited patiently for him to soap­ pendent, goal-oriented, perfectionist admit­ such a struggle in a supposedly basic class, men who di~ standing up for what they box about the Occupied Territories - where ting, outwardly, that I would want someday to taught at UCF of all places, exactly how can believed was right. Recently, an opportunity indigenous Arab inhabitants live in subjuga­ be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen mak­ I realistically see myself passing three years arose for me to emulate the men I admire on tion beneath an Israeli minority population - ing my husband, who naturally would be the of intense curriculum at a respectable law a small scale. I am sa~dened to report that I but he did not. I also waited patiently for him sole-bread winner of our large family, dinner school? was derelict in my duty. to speak about the Mossad - Israel's covert of his request ready for his arrival home from And then it occurred to me ... Do I really A little back story: This summer I spent military and intelligence agency that scours work. What has happened to me? need higher education? All these years I have three weeks away from home, one of them in the globe assassinating suspected enemies of Well, essentially one of my classes, been such an ardent advocate of women pur­ Los Angeles. My travel companion secured their state - but again, he did not. which shall remain completely unmentioned, suing graduate degrees when in actuality, us lodging at the home of an old friend of his The clincher came when an aged (but if you are a political science major, I what was so wrong with being a suppressed from college. Our host was a 24-year-old Hacidic gentleman at the table began dis­ gather you have a pretty good idea of who housewife? female who happens to be the daughter of a cussing college fraternities with the young instructs the course) has taken away any kind Seriously, assume for the rest of this prominent Rabbi in South Florida. Two days lady seated next to him. Without drawing of lofty goals or dreamy idealism I might paragraph that I am just a housewife. I went­ after our arri.val, she invited my partner and I any distinctions or making any quantifying have had about my future career opportuni­ to college and got a degree in something to Sabbath lunch on Sunday. From the start I statements, he denigrated fraternities as insti­ ties. worthless, like underwater basket-weaving. had reservations about attending. The lunch tutions that discourage individuality and pro­ Everyone has had one of these classes­ Suddenly, I have a husband, I have children, I was to be held at the home of several of her mote immorality: The irony scorched my the kind where the median test grade is com­ have responsibilities and I have a maid! Well, relatives, and I would be one of only two nose. That a devout follower of a patriarchal, fortably positioned somewhere around 45 that takes care of the cleaning. Then, we have non-Jewish persons in attendance. I knew exclusionist_ religion that promotes a socio­ percent and the teacher maintains such per­ a nanny who will run around after my four • that in the confihes of a living room, in such economic caste system within their own syn­ formances are by no means representative of kids. So basically I am left to shop and spend homogenous company, the conversation agogues would criticize another institution his teaching or evaluative methods. my husband's money everyday. And why is would inevitably turn towards the Israeli for their value.norms and customs was more On one hand, I realize that, more than this a bad thing again? Get your pens and Palestinian powder keg in the Middle East, than I could take. I excused myself and spent likely, this is a professor who cannot admit paper out ladies and start writing those letters and there was a good chance that my opin­ the rest of the afternoon outside. defeat and is stubbornly insistent that we the to the editor. ions on the subject would starkly contrast If I had, had the strength of my convic­ students, and heavens, not the professor, are Actually; there will be no need for all of those of my peers. tions I would have expressed my opinions responsible for contending with all of our fail­ that. I quickly came to the realization that my I was just sinking my teeth into my sec­ and feelings, even if it meant spending the ing test scores. Sometimes it is difficult to future goals reflect my desires and passions. ond helping of whitefish when the night on the streets of Los Angeles. At the rationalize such behavior because professors Just because a professor teaching a class at a ineluctable conversation began. I tuned in very least I should have taken the coward's are meant to encourage and motivate stu­ glorified community college feels the need to just in time to hear the head of the household way out and avoided the situation entirely. dents-not push them to abandon all lifelong make some kind of "life is never easy" state­ passionately rehashing the '1srael as the But what I did was even worse than the cow­ goals for a career of making biscuits and ment, making simple subject matter into blameless victim" myth propagated by the ard's way out, Isa~ silent, and in doing so I babies. No, I don't need my professors to hold highly interpretive rocket science, I will not American media and accepted as fact with­ allowed flawed, bigoted and hY,Pocritical my hand, but a compromise might be nice. be discouraged, nor will I be deterred. Not out audit by the American people. He points of view to go unchallenged. And as But on another level, this sort of "it's only will I attend a prestigious graduate referred to Israel's neighbors as, "A nation of the old axiom goes, "If you're not part of the your responsibility" rhetoric awakens that school, I will make four babies and cook too! • Timothy Mc Veighs," then expressed exas- solution, you're part of the problem." tiny voice in the back of my head that says: And the credit belongs to no one but myself. .. 407-36S-76S6 PtmuSHER ...... Heissarn )ebailey Eim:RTAINMRNT EDil'Olt ...... Llsa Applegate J The Central Florida Future Distribution 800-792-1009 •FAX: 407-977-0019 PRODUCTION MANAGER ...... 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KRISTA ZILIZI any themes more unsuitable than what STAFF WRITER can be seen on many children's televi­ Just wild about Harry? sion programs and films. The primary Find out if Harry Potter is Spells, sorcery and demonic pow­ materials identified in Harry Potter ers. Has Harry Potter, a publishing sen­ books include witchcraft and the super­ worth spending your sation and box-office blowout, opened natural, with several graphic descrip­ hard-earned money on. the doors to the "Dark Side?" Can chil­ tions of witches, wizards, goblins, · -SEE ENTERTAINMENT, pg 14 0 dren resist the temptation to join werewolves and poltergeists. Some Satanic circles, to summon demons or violent material such as blood, murder bum bibles when the omnipotent Harry and death is mentioned, followed by a always wins in the end. Unconditional is showing them the way through his few swear words; the most inappropri­ love and courage are held as ideals; and teachings in children's books? ate used is that four-letter one (damn). loyalty, friendship and self-sacrifice are Many parents and religious groups Yet banning books on these enduring themes throughout the Hariy believe that behind the fictional young grounds would call for a mass banning Potter stories. wizard's story-book life, themes like of children's books, since the majority We can ban books from class­ paganism, witchcraft, evil, death and of children's literature contains similar rooms and library shelves and prohibit the occult will lead children to "hatred ideas and material. No one ever book reports and reviews. We can tear and rebellion" after reading Harry deemed it necessary to ban Little Red copies out of children's hands that have Potter. Riding Hood, even after the wolf ate a become zealous readers because of Nationally, Harry Potter books grandmother and then attempted to eat these motivating and exciting books. have been attacked in at least 13 states. the little girl. Likewise, it seemed We can refuse to acknowledge the fact While many of the censorship efforts somewhat violent for the Queen to that the Harry Potter books are the failed, schools have been able to restrict order her hunter to slay Snow White, number-one selling books in the nation the reading, displaying and borrowing after the mirror proclaimed that Snow for a reason. We can prevent children of Harry Potter books. Many schools White was the "fairest of them all." from developing their own imagina­ cannot display the books on school When Ursula, the evil sea witch, cast a tions, opinions and beliefs. We should library shelves, and students must have spell on the little mem1aid, stealing her _violate their First Amendment right and parental permission to borrow the sweet voice, no one demanded that help produce an illiterate society. books. Some classrooms do not allow Disney pull the plug on the children's When all is said. and done, we will Harry Potter books to be read or allow classic. encourage our children to experiment children to write book reports on them. The Harry Potter stories offer chil­ with drugs, join gangs, vandalize and

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Employee defends having school spirit. I also know, how­ manager decided not to put the ever, that if you walk in to Wal-Mart, K­ UCF/Utah State game on one of the big 6ators Qockside Mart, basically any store in the local screens, that it was in the store's best I'd like to respond to Steve Conti UCF area, that they hardly support UCF interest and was what the majority of who wrote in a letter to the editor about by selling merchandise, their prime sell­ the customers preferred. If you want Gators Dockside not playing the ers are UF and FSU merchandise. school spirit, go walk on campus. This UCF/Utah State game on one of the big Why is this? Because that's what wasn't meant to be a college town. It's screens last weekend. I work at Gators sells, that's what people want to see and not Gainesville where people live, on the people in the area who are trying Dockside, so I see 'Yhat goes on there buy, regardless of the fact that the stores breathe, and eat in Gators colors with to make their business successful. and I know my managers pretty well happen to be in the UCF area. It's not a flags hanging on their cars 2417. If UCF since I've worked there a while now. I matter of school spirit; it's a matter of were that way, then we'd be given more am also a senior at UCF so I understand business. So I'm sure that when my credibility in general. Don't take it out -JENNIFER SMITH • Florida scholarships in jeopardy

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(left to right) Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe bring their characters (Hermion~ Granger, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, respectively) to life So Hogwarts gamekeeper., on the big screen in Harry Patter and the Sorcerers Stone. Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), rescues Harry from his relatives and puts him on a train •Harry's aunt, uncle and the scenes follow the book close­ to school. cousin, the Dursleys, are a lot ly. Harry's invisibility cloak and At Hogwarts, Harry makes more horrible to him than what is the life-sized game of wizard's friends, Ron Weasley (Rupert shown in the movie. They are chess are both done really well. Grint) and Hermione Granger almost tolerable on-screen. Seeing Quidditch come to life (Emma Watson), and enemies, •Many of the kids' classes in makes the film worth seeing mul­ Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) the film are never explained. It is tiple times. It is· the one thing the and Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton). never said that Professor book cannot do better than the He learns to play Quidditch (a McGonagall. (Maggie Smith) movie. game like soccer only played on teaches Transfiguration (which None of the negative com­ broomsticks 50 feet in the air) would've helped explain to some ments are to deter anyone from and wizard's chess (where you people why this lady constantly seeing this movie. Unless you command the pawns to move and turns into a cat). love to be teased for living in a they shatter the losing pieces). •Who wins the Quidditch remote cave far from civilization, Over the school year, Harry cup? Just seeing the movie won't you're going to see this movie learns of a conspiracy, finds out answer that. anyway. And people who have more about his mom and dad, Given that the original ver­ not yet read the book will certain­ meets a dragon, a three-headed sion had four hours of footage, it ly enjoy more so than those who dog (named Fluffy) and a troll is understandable why some of have. But the one thing that and finds out where his home these things had to go in order to should come from viewing Harry really is. make the movie more comfort­ Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is As great as Harry Potter and able to sit through (just two and a a strong desire to read the book to the Sorcerer's Stone looks on­ half hours long). Something that fill in the plot holes left by the screen, one should still read the was dwelled on too long that movie. book. would've looked nicer on the cut­ Less walking, less oohs Here's why: ting room floor were the many and aahs, more character •Although every single person scenes featuring just kids' facial background and more cast in this movie fits his/her part reactions to certain events. They Quidditch, please, for to a tee (specifically Harry, Ron, overreact to seeing Hogwarts for Harry Potter and Hermione, Snape and Hagrid), the first time, the troll in the dun­ the Chamber of there is virtually no character geon, the Quidditch match and Secrets, or just development in this movie. Harry every time there is food or candy leave us to is the only one given any sort of in front of them. These reactions curl up with depth, and even then, it is nothing alone were 20 minutes of the ·our books. compared to the amount of infor­ movie. Also, there is a lot of mation about him in the book. walking. Every time you see Movie goers learn nothing of ·Harry, Ron and Hermione, they how quirky and borderline "mad" are walking. Always. Professor Dumbledore (Richard The film redeems itself by a Harris) is, how much Draco hates few crucial scenes that lovers of people from muggle families the book were hoping would be (especially Hermione) or how included on the big screen. insecure Ron is about his family's Diagon Alley, Grigotts Bank, financial status and not measur­ Hogwarts (specifically the dorm ing up to his older brothers. and the banquet hall) and the •Many funny lines that were Dursleys' house all look exactly in the book (that would've added as they are supposed to. The a lot to the weak character devel­ mountain troll and Fluffy both ·Daniel opment) wound up on the cutting look as realistic as a troll and a Radcliffe as room floor. three-headed dog can look, and Harry Potter ·I

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He was · that she" is not currently mar­ Also, in the last month Rights and found to be a registered -- A mother, frustrated that a ried but had just giv~n birth.) sex offender ·living in Sokoto ·is Oile of the northern privileges Sallie Mae loan office would not Melissa (Texas)." believe that her debtor-son was Nigerian states that practice Britain's Legal & SKATE deceased, mailed them the cre­ Muslim Sharia law, · and as Services Commission mation certificate an<;l two tea­ with the Afghanistan Taliban, granted . imprisoned Wrong _place, spoons of his ashes, which not posses of men with clubs roam murderer Shaun wrong tiine only was inadequate proof but the country looking for law­ . Armstrong, 39 (whose -- Six men were indicted work that she was expected to caused a full anthrax panic breakers. Another quirk in the victim was 3 years old), legal in New York City in October for complete in uncompensated (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.). law: Though Hassaini is on aid for his privacy-rights law­ operating a drug ring, which overtime. Descendants of the 19th-century death row, she was released on suit for about $25,000 against came to the attention of fire­ feuding Hatfields and McCoys bail to care for the kid briefly, the friend to whom he con­ fighters, and then police, when People different from us resumed battling, in court, over after which time she is sup­ fessed in writing and who one of the men curiously refused -- From the police column of the whether McCoys are being posed to report back to court turned him in. Armstrong · to evacuate his apartment across weekly Leonard Graphic blocked from a cemetery whose so she can be killed. wants back the letters he sent the street from the World Trade (Leonard, Texas, 35 miles north main access is controlled by the -- In September, the Atlanta the friend, claiming ownership Center in the late morning of of Dallas), May 3, 2001: "A man Hatfields {Pikeville, Ky.). Model Journal-Constitution profiled of his confession (which reads, Sept. 11, despite _the area's fires, claiming to be a medical student (Ms.) Julian Fallon was awarded desolate Echols County, "Yes, I'm responsible for the falling debris and widespread was charged with theft of service about $8,"500 for career-stifling Georgia (between Valdosta crime, but please don't tell panic. The reason: Inside, police and given a trespass warning injuries from the collapse of a and the Okeefenokee Swamp), anybody."). found large supplies of drugs after it was discovered he lied second-floor rehearsal studio, well-known to the state's -- An Ontario Superior Court and paraphernalia. about his reasons for being in the which left her straddling a beam judges because that is where judge ruled in May that spous­ local nursing home two months and with disfiguring nail holes they encourage lawbreakers to es have no legal duty to inform ago. He told aides there he had Undignified deaths in her derriere (Dublin, Ireland). go when they really want them each other of their adulterous permission from the home to -- An elderly man was acciden­ Deputies subdued a man after a to leave the state altogether. affairs. A 52-year-old man had 'live the life of the patient' and tally struck and killed by a fire 10-minute shootout, which he The Georgia constitution pro­ sued his estranged wife for be bathed and diapered as part of truck that had been dispatched to provoked, he said; because he hibits banishing people from about $210,000 (U.S.) for a learning experience. However, take him to a hospital was irritable after a long bout of the state as punishment for .breaching her duty of "good when he returned to try the scam (Jacksonville, Fla., July). And a constipation (Bloomington, crimes, so judges merely ban­ faith" and "honesty" by hiding 41-year-old man ejected in a bar Ind.) ish them from 15 8 of the her affairs from him for · 21 again on April _17, police were . state's 159 counties, trusting years, but the best the judge that they would never volun­ would do is agree only in cases tarily settle in Echols, anyway, where "hazardous" sexual and such strategy seems activity outside the marriage always to work. would ·subject the spouse to -- While most of North health risks. osa. ucf.edu America endures a fear-of­ anthrax frenzy, the Ontario Trouble in Health Ministry in October fired its only five biohazard the workplace ·Happy Thanksgiving scientists for budgetary rea­ -- London's Daily Telegraph sons, replacing them with reported in July about a recent three lab technicians with job opening in Exet€r, froln the Oftiee of Student Aetivities community-college degrees. England: The Austern Electric Liberal Party spokespeople Circus' knife-thrower Jayde Be sure.to get your tickets for blamed the decision on the Hanson's assistant had · just health minister's long-standing walked off the job after being "Theatre Night" and CAB Cinema's "How High." philosophy of smaller govern­ nearly hit in the foot, which ment, irrespective of conse­ would have been her third seri­ quences. ous wound this season, which is also the number of wounds •/ Urban legends come to Hanson's former girlfrien~ took before she walked off the life job last year. -- An April story from the offi­ -- Nolan Lett was awarded cial newspaper of the People's $17, 000 from his former Republic of China reported employer, Aramark Corp. (0.ak that convicted killer Fu Brook, Ill.), in October. He Xinrong had indeed had his had fallen and broken his wrist kidneys illegally harvested . after being chased by a goose after execution, by a company as he arrived for work one day t. in Nanchang. 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She Striegler wanted a more turnovers, the Golden Knights went 9-12 from the field and balanced scoring attack and so tool\ better care of the ball in the 10-14 from the free throw line far she has gotten it. The second half. in the two games. She aver­ Golden Knights had three scor­ ''The good thing that came aged 24 minutes a game. ers in double figures in the sea­ out of it was the players were able son opener and had four in to make the adjustments at half­ Paige and Washington double figures in the second time we made," UCF Coach Gail game. Striegler said. "They actually - just like old times Newcomers Scala and Ali came out did the things that we Washington and Erin Roberts and sophomore Pick out 13 photos, and we'll enlarge . asked them to do, which is a big Paige have been playing Washington have been the one above each month of the year, place l, plus. 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Triple Threat takes Competitive title And they're still undefeated. Led by Matt Krzesinski's 14 points, Triple Threat captured the 2001 Competitive Tournament with a 47-37 victory over Kum Get Sum Boyz. This was a back and forth game that was not decided until the final few minutes. Kum Get ~um Boyz, led by the TUESDAY'S AT CALICO JACKS point guard s.tylings of Basim Hussein, kept on track with "the threat" and scored a buzzer beat­ er at the end of the first half to give Kum Get Sum NEVER A COVER Boyz a 26-24 lead at the break. The teai:ns traded a 1 few baskets, and a thun- . der dunk by Brandon l~IU~E l)JUNil l~Oll '1111~ l~IIL~'l 100 GUES'l1S Gnibbs gave the Boyz a 31-28 lead with 13 min­ utes left in the game. The game was tied at $2.00 PITCHERS 9 P.M. TO CLOSE 35 with four minutes left, when Triple Threats' John Stasko reeled off five straight points and seven • Sl.50 Longnecks of his team's last 12 to FEATURING give Triple Threat a lead they wmddn't relinquish. Triple Threat hit their free • $1 .00 Wells D.J. PUG! throws down the stretch, hitting 4-of-5 in the last minute and 15-of-19 for • Sl .00 lcehouse and Miller Lite Drafts the game. After the game, EVERYONE Triple Threat's Matt .. ALWAYS Krzesinski was elated • Sl.00 MGD Bottles with the win. WELCOME! "No matter if people take us out of the game or • Sl .00 Jello Shots and Tooters .not, we are still undefeat­ PROPER DRESS ed smce Spring 2001," he said. • Sl .99 Coronas and Smirnoff Ice REQUIRED Triple Threat is already looking forward to keeping that streak alive in January when 1172.6 EAsT ColoNiAl DRivE (NEXT TO AlbERTsoNs) they will defend their 3- on-3 Basketball • (407) 249--2~26 Competitive Title . WWW. CA Li coj AC l

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Abellard leads UCF to opening-game victory It didn't take junior-college transfer Ray Abellard long to get used to playing in a Golden Knight uniform. Abellard, who trans­ ferred to UCF from Pensacola Community College this year, scored a game-high 17 points Saturday to lead the Golden Knights to a season-opening 92-58 win over Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. Backing up junior point guard Al Miller, Abellard came off the bench to make seven of his 12 shot attempts, includ­ ADAM SHIVER I ing three three-pointers. CFF "I think you saw a little bit of what he can do," UCF Coach Kirk Speraw said. "He's Dotson hasn't been fully healthy since during the summer. quick, he can handle the ball, he can shoot it. coming to UCF, suffering from a stress frac­ ''We worked hard just to play together Today was a game where we gave him some ture in his shin in addition to the eye injury. this year - to learn each other and learn what good looks, and he was able to knock them These injuries kept him from going full speed each other can do more this year than we did down." in preseason practice, which has hurt his last year," he said. Said Abellard: ''Ever since high school, progress - Speraw had planned on Dotson as Speraw had another explanation - prac­ I've worked hard to be able to shoot like that. being team's starting power forward. tice, practice, practice. That's basically what they recruited me for­ "His timing is off a little bit, and it'll take "I think these guys have worked real to come down here and shoot and help this him a little while to regain that," Speraw said. hard in the offseason and worked consistent­ team win." ''He wasn't even able to get on a bicycle for ly in practice," he said. ''I thought the first 5- Abellard said Speraw gave him the conditioning purposes. He could do nothing." 6 days of practice were as good as we've had green light to take shots - even long ones, Against Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Bodden consecutively." something his last coach learned to do rather and senior Paul Reed filled in admirably. the quickly. duo dominated the undersized Bulldogs in Lindbeck signs with UCF "When I got to junior college, the first the post, combining for 22 points and 28 UCF made recruiting news last week, game the coach didn't expect me shoot from rebounds. signing Troy Lindbeck of Collinsville, ill., to that far," said Abellard. "He was like ''They were a much smaller team inside a national letter of ·intent. Lindbeck scored 'Raymond, calm down.' And then after mak­ than we were," Bodden said. "We knew com­ 16.5 points per game as a junior at St. Louis ing a couple of shots, he said 'Go ahead Ray, ing into the game that we had to dominate University High last year, and shot 37 percent shoot."' ADAM SHIVER I CFF inside and I think we did that. We hit the from the thr~-point line. He transferred to Speraw would still like Abellard to learn Junior point guard Al Miller ·led UCF with five boards pretty hard and that created a lot of Collinsville and· will play there this year for the offense better, however, which will keep assists against Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. stuff for the rest of the team on breakaway his senior season. him in more of a shooter's role while the points." "Troy is an outstanding young_ man," experienced Miller will continue to be the from Centenary, was supposed to be out 1-3 Speraw said. ''He is a very good competitor starting point guard. weeks after getting poked in the eye by team­ A different team and an intelligent player who is very good at ''We· didn't run a lot of sets today, and mate Beroi;iti Simms two weeks ago in prac­ UCF's season-opening win was the first shooting from the perimeter." those are the things he's kind of struggling tice. Dotson began bleeding from his eye and step in. erasing the memories of last year's Lindbeck can play both point guard and with - running the show, and running the needed 14 stitches to seal the wound, and dismal 8-23 record. shooting guard. point," Speraw said. ''Those are , the things wasn't cleared to play until just hours before ''Last year was sort of like a fluke sea­ he's got to get more comfortable with." game. He came off the bench to play 16 min­ son," Reed said. "We just put that behind us utes, scoring eight points and getting five and we're not thinking about that. We're a Next up Dotson gets unexpected minutes rebounds. He also had blocked one shot and much better team this year. We've got a lot of UCF has only one game this week, Junior power forward Ed Dotson also made one steal. payback to get this year." going on the road to play East Carolina at 7 made his UCF debut against Puerto Rico­ ''Even Ed at half speed is still pretty Reed attributed the improvements to bet­ p.m. on Saturday. Last year, the Golden Mayaguez, but it was a debut that came earli­ good," said teammate Josh Bodden, who ter team chemistry, something the Golden Knights beat the Pirates in what was consid­ er than expected. Dotson, a 6-foot-7 transfer started at power forward in Dotson's place. Knights built on a six-game trip to Europe ered a mild upset.

Jessica Scala transferred from Ali Roberts and '.fakira Allen zero mistakes and she's just steady. after getting in foul trouble. She New faces Palm Beach Community College give the Golden Knights some She never looks like she's rattled had three fouls, two of which were and gives the Golden Knights an much-needed height at the post out there at all. She doesn't play illegal screens. She grabbed three experienced, true point guard. She position. Without the freshmen, like a freshman. You can tell an rebounds in the game. to help UCF averaged 14 points, five assists and UCF only has two players over 6- offense one time or tell her an On Friday, Allen played for 17 four steals a game last year and feet. adjustnient one time and she goes minutes, but fouled out after scor­ earned National Junior College Roberts gives the Golden out there and gets it done." ing three points and grabbing six women's All-America honorable mention Knights a consistent, fundamental­ Roberts had two turnovers rebounds. She also had a block and honors. ly-sound post player. She is the Friday and none on Saturday, and a steal. At Quincy Shanks High Scala gives UCF a scoring tallest UCF player at 6-foot-3. the freshman is still not satisfied. School in Tallahassee, ·Allen led basketball threat at the point. She scored 11 She started both games over "I look to improve," Roberts the team in scoring as a senior and points Friday against the the weekend and led the teaI11-in said. led in rebounding all four years. KRISTY. SHONKA University of Texas-Arlington and scoring in her first game in a At Catholic High School in She earned First Team All-Big STAFF WRITER scored 10 against Western Golden Knight uniform. Pensacola, Roberts was named Bend Conference honors as a Carolina on Saturday. She also had She scored 16 points, grabbed All-State her senior season. She senior. This season, the UCF nine assists. six rebounds and had two steals averaged 16.4 points, l 0.2 Allen struggled early with women's basketball team suits up She played 28 minutes Friday against Texas-Arlington. Against rebounds, 4.5 assists and three learning the offense and with time three new Golden Knights; two and 37 Saturday. Western Carolina she scored 10 blocks a game. should become a power at the post. freshmen and one junior-college Last year Yvette Ash, only 5- points, had three boards and three Striegler has said that Allen is For now Roberts needs to remain transfer. feet tall, spent the most time at assists. one of the most athletic players consistent so the Golden Knights UCF Coach Gail Striegler ·point. With the addition of Scala, "Ali may be the steadiest she's seen, but she is struggling have a presence inside, while Scala recruited each player to fulfill spe­ Striegler will be able to use Ash in player I have ever seen in my life," with freshman mistakes. Saturday, should continue deliver ball to her cific needs on the team. her role as a defensive specialist. Striegler said "She makes almost Allen only played for 10 minutes _ teammates and to the net. November 21, 2001 • www.UCF[uture.com CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE • .2S

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~o-n:~J:__ .___.\ Top 10 Reasons to Eat at Wackadoo's ______blocks per game with 1.08. JOE MANZO Sante led the conference in kills STAFF WRITER and service aces. Her 4.70 kills per game were almost a half a Kansas setter signs kill higher then anyone else in • Emily Watts, a 6-foot setter the conference. from Wichita, Kansas, has com­ Jenny Frank and Tanya mitted to UCF. She will join the Jarvis were also named to all­ conference teams. Frank, • a team next year. sophomore setter, was named to Watts led Bishop Carroll High School to a -32-3 record the -all-conference second team. She led the A-Sun in assists with ,. and a state championship this year. She was named all-state 11.82 per game. Jarvis, a fresh­ and all-city and led her team in man from Bishop Moore, was named to the all-freshman team. kills and service aces. Watts will be a setter at Four all-conference players UCF, but will have to compete were the most for UCF since 1995. Last year, Morgan, Sante for playing time with a pair of excellent setters, Frank and and Lindsey Whalen received all-conference honors. junior Becca Saldana. Saldana made the Atlantic Sun first team in 1999 after averaging 12.70 UCF takes on South assists a game. Florida before NCAA ~ Tournament fresh food, made to order. ' Grut.!!rew ~l Morgan and Sante The Golden Knights will May take longer but ALWAYS tastes better. tYiry or~~ named All:Conference host South Florida today, Nov. Senior middle blocker 21, at the UCF Arena at 7 p.m. Phone 282-1900 ·Fax 282-1905 • In the UCF Student Union Piper Morgan and sophomore UCF lost to USF 3-0 in Tampa outside hitter Leyre Santaella on Oct. 23. This game d6es not Sante were named to the have much importance because Atlantic Sun all-conference first UCF earned the Atlantic Sun's team last week. It was the third automatic bid to the NCAA consecutive time that Morgan Tournament by winning the A­ has been named to the first SUD: Tournament on Saturday. team. Sante was a second-team- UCF will find out what er last year. region they are in and who they Morgan led the A-Sun in will play in the NCAA hitting percentage this year, hit­ Tournament on Nov. 26 during ting .397, and was second in the NCAA selection show.

• NCAA. Tournament selection Come In ·and Fill show to be held Nov. 26 Up _With Our FROM PAGE 28 and 15 digs. Kerner nearly had a triple-double with 10 kills, the Golden Knight head 12 digs and eight assists. Sante coach. led the team in kills with 17 • - ALL\ UCF will learn its NCAA and senior middle blocker the Best of PORK Tournament fate on Nov. 26, Piper Morgan had 15. the day of the selection show. Fortunately for UCF, FAU • The tournament is set up just defeated Georgia State 3-2 BUSTER like the NCAA basketball (30-26, 23-30, 33-31, 29- 31, tournaments, consisting of 64 17-19) in the semifinals after • teams broken up into four, 16- winning the final two games team regions. The last time the of the match in overtime. DEAL Golden Knights made the Georgia State was the only A­ .. NCAA Tournament was in Sun team to beat the Golden One JUMBO Pork Sandwich 1997. That year, UCF beat Knights this year, beating with one of our home cookin' style side items Clemson in the first round and them 3-1 on October 26 at the lost to Wisconsin in the second • Potato salad • Brunswick stew UCF Arena. Last year, UCF • Baked beans •Coleslaw round. Colado said she doesn't lost to Georgia State iri the • Collard Greens •Corn think her team will receive a championship matc_h of the • Smoked potatoes • Sweet potatoes very high seed this year, but tournament. GSU went 9-1 in • Chicken Caesar Salad isn't discouraged by that. the conference during the reg­ and a Large Soft Drink or Iced Tea "It's tournament time," ular season, with its only loss she said. "Anything is possi­ coming against FAU. ble." In the first round of the Located exactly 5 miles from the campus To get to the conference tournament, FAU defeated in the Uni-Gold Shopping Center finals, UCF, seeded second in Jacksonville 3-1 and Campbell • next to Tijauna Flats the tournament, defeated defeated Samford 3-1. UCF Campbell, seeded third, 3-1 and GSU had byes in the first Conway's BBQ Express (27-30, 30-18, 30-21, 30-23) round. 7622 University Blvd. • Winter Park, FL 32792 • on Friday. Frank recorded a Sante, Frank and Driggers Phone: 401.618.5594 triple-double, the first of her were named to the all-tourna­ career, with 45 assists, 10 kills ment team . .. 26 • CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE www.UCF.future.com •November 21, 2001

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do have one senior, Kiante Venible, off Tight end is relatively inexperienced ii} Sun Belt conference. the bench. with sophomore Josh Joers. being Their 2001 campaign got off to a Much credit for the UL-Lafayette's backed up by freshmen Lawrence promising start, as they dominated solid pass defense has to go to the Johnson. Nicholls State 20-0 in their season open­ Cajun's defensive backfield, led by Senior guard Garrett Charkalis er. Of course Nicholls State was coming Kyries Herbert and Charles Tillman. anchors an offensive line with a mix of off a 1-10 season as well, but the These two were the defensive stars of youth and experience. Sophomore Cajun's first shutout in nearly seven the team this year and last. Herbert, a D' Anthony Batiste starts at the opposite years could have indicated a slightly senior free safety, has intercepted a pass guard, while junior Jonathan Raush and smoother road ahead. But they've won and recorded a team leading 71 tackles. sophomore Marques Smith open at the only two games since, coming in 3-7. Tillman, a junior cornerback, had two tackles. Junior Josh Newton starts at The defense will be the key if the picks and 30 tackles. They start next to center. . With a group of sophomores and Cajuns are to turn·their fortunes aroup.d. seniors Brad Franklin and Peter Villia, freshmen behind them, depth is a prob­ But their defense has been anything but respectively. lem. stellar, yielding 33.4 points per game. On the offensive side of the ball, the Special teams have been pretty spe­ They're giving up 179.9 yards per game Cajuns have a fairly well-balanced cial for the Cajun's. Place kicker/punter on the ground, but they have been attack. At quarterback, sophomore Jon Jonathon Knott has averaged 37 .5 yards decent in defending the pass. Through Van .Cleave has taken full control of the on 53 punts this season. He's also hit the air they're giving up -just 180.6 offensive after splitting time under cen­ nine of 14 field goals. Knott is a junior­ yards. ter .with Lance Domec in 2000. Van college transfer in his first year handling The frontline is led by defensive Cleave completed just 54.6 percent of these duties at UL-Lafayette and gives 1-1 end Derrick Marshall. The senior is his pass while tossing ten touchdowns them a powerful leg that has improved third on the team with three sacks. He's and eight interceptions. both areas. As for the return game, joined by fellow upperclassmen Charley Running back Jerome Coleman, a Dugas has taken back punts for an aver­ Smith and Chris Gistorb, while under­ junior, has run for 668 yards and scored age of 8.8 yards. Wilridge has been the sized sophomore Daniel Taylor mans 10 touchdowns. Like Van Cleave, he's primary kick returner at a solid average the other end position. Junior Walter taken over the fulltime job this season. of 22.3 yards. Sampson, who tied Marshall for the He ran for 495 yards on 114 carries and While the Cajuns have been solid in sack lead last year, has a team leading four touchdowns after sharing touches most areas, they're hardly spectacular. five this season off the bench. with Darren Brister last year. Their poor run defense should allow The linebacking corps is the lone The Cajuns start a three wide Alex Haynes and company to have a area on defense without a starting receiver set, with Marcus Wilridge, field day rushing. For the graduating JOE KALEITA I CFF senior. Rather two juniors, Ross Frederick Stamps and Nick Dugas. seniors it should be nice send off in their Junior wide re

,. Cieslak returns to form of two years ago .. - HEATHER PAGLIARA STAFF WRITER Nicole Cieslak, a junior for­ '..,' .Nicole has ward, has had an outstanding "' season this year. She leads the been one of team with seven goals, in 35 sbots. She also had five assists, our most and was the ninth on the list of individual point leaders in the dangerous conference, with 19 points. "Nicole has been one of our players this most dangerous· players this year," UCF Coach Amanda year. Cromwell said. "She is unpre­ dictable, and that keeps our -AMANDA CROMWELL • opponents guessing." Women's Sa«:er Coach Cieslak, who has been play­ ing soccer for about 13 years, is in her junior year at UCF In her freshman year, she started 21 out "Nicole has progressed from of 23 games. She had 39 shots, last season because of her off­ five goals, four assists and 14 season work out," Cromwell points. Although she had an said. "She has always been . JOE KALEITA I CFF explosive start to her career at explosive and strong, and now Junior forward Nicole Cieslak (right) led the UCF women's soccer team with seven goals this year. UCF, her sophomore year was she has learned how to be effec­ somewhat quieter, yet still com­ tive for all 90 minutes of the mendable with 20 shots, five game. I worked a lot in the off­ them. They admire her work thought about it." ing to work with her because she goals and one assist. She played season. I was motivated by how ethic and it gives her a lot of For now, she is doing excel­ always has a smile on her face, 20 games, and started 12 of we ended the season last year, respect," said Cromwell. lent playing for UCF and and has a good attitude of want­ them. This is a change from this and I wanted to be an impact this Nicole is majoring in intrap­ appears to have a promising ing to be a better player, and not season, where she has accom­ year." ersonal communications, and the post-season as well as senior just settling for good." plished many things such as Her style of play affects the thought of playing in the season. As for Cieslak, the motto being on the All-Conference team also. women' s professional soccer "She is great to work with, she lives by has been an effec­ First Team, which was one of her "The team sees how hard league has "crossed her mind, and is very coachable," ti ve one so far - "Set your goal main goals for this season. she is working, and it motivates but she hasn't sat down and Cromwell said. "I am very will- and strive for it."

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) After losing the A-Sun title game in each ofthe past three seasons, UCF volleyball won the conference championships in a dramatic comeback victory last Saturday

JOE MANZO Knights began their comeback STAFF WRITER with a 30-24 win in the third game of the match. At one point in the Forget the third time. It's the game, Whalen had six consecu­ fourth time that's a charm. tive service points. UCF then pro­ After losing the champi­ ceeded to win the fin~Ll two games onship match of the Atlantic Sun 30-25 and 15-9, clinching the tournament in each of the past match on a block by sophomore three seasons, the UCF volleyball outside hitter Leyre Santaella team avoided a Buffalo Bill-like Sante and senior middle blocker streak last Saturday, winning the Shelly Driggers. conference title anl earning the "This was truly a team win," A-Sun's automatic bid to the Colado said. "This team has had NCAA Tournament. The Golden an interesting year. We've had a Knights came back from a 2-0 lot of wins - somehow we just deficit to beat old nemesis Florida find a way to win." Atlantic 3-2 (28-30, 16-30, 30-24, Sante, who had a tournament­ 30-25, 15-9) in the title game. high 28 kills, 12 digs and four "It's great," UCF Coach Meg blocks in the championship game, Colado said. "I'm so happy for earned tournament MVP honors. these players, and I'm thrilled at "Leyre can just take it to the way we won and the progress another level," Colado said. we've made." Driggers recorded her 500th Early in the match, Florida career kill in the match, one of a Atlantic looked poised to repeat season-~gh 11. She also had a its i998 and 1999 A-Sun title­ match-high seven blocks and .526 game victories over UCF. The hitting percentage. Sophomore Owls won the first two games 30- setter Jenny Frank almost had a 28 and 30-16, taking advantage of triple-double with 57 assists, 10 a number of errors by the Golden digs and nine kills, and junior Knights. middle blocker Cassy Kerner "We said at halftime that we added 12 digs and eight kills. The were giving -them too many Golden Knights held Florida points," Colado said. "We needed Atlantic to hitting percentages of ~ to just go out there and cut down .189, .156 and -0.056 in the final on the mistakes and be more con­ three games. The win was UCF's sistent, and that's what we did." third over FAU this year, and gave Sparked by the serving and Colado her first 20-win season as defense of sophomore outside hit- J oE KALEITA I CFF ter Lindsey Whalen, the Golden PLEASE SEE NCAA ON PAGE 25

CHRIS BERNHARDT downs, it should give UCF a Senior wide One final game STAFF WRITER pretty good chance to end the receiver Tavirus ·year on a high note. Davis and the The UCF football team Better late then never. After a dismal 1-10 2000 UCF football A game against Louisiana- and only three wins in two sea- team look to will close out the 2001 Lafayette that was originally sons under head coach Jerry end the season season this weekend at scheduled to be UCF's football Baldwin, the Ragin' Cajuns on a winning home opener is instead the final hope to start building up their note against home against game of the season for the program and compete in the UL ·Lafayette. Louisiana-Lafayette Golden Knights. And in a sea- son that has had many ups and PLEASE SEE UL ON PAGE 26 CFF FILE PHOTO