Central Florida Future, Vol. 34 No. 14, November 21, 2001
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 11-21-2001 Central Florida Future, Vol. 34 No. 14, November 21, 2001 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 34 No. 14, November 21, 2001" (2001). Central Florida Future. 1606. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1606 HAPPY THANKS61VIN6! from The Central THE central florida Florida Future • November 21, 2001 •THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING UCF SINCE 1968 • www.UCFjuture.com 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. 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Powertrain Warranty CREDIT PROBLEMS -.I • November 21, 200I° • www.UCFfu"ture.com CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE • 3 • • • • ~Ill Web site allows students to grade professors 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.