Central Florida Future, April 1, 1998

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Central Florida Future. 1453. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1453 __./ ___ Serving t be Univ er s j t y of Central FI or id a sin c ¢ l 9 ' ·8 A D I G I T A L C I T Y 0 R L A N D 0 C 0 M M U N I T Y P A R T N E R (AOL Keyword: Orlando) www.UCFFuture.com News apers 1sappear• rom campus By BRIAN SMITH circulation is 10,000. It is UCF student. The incident did in a more constructive . and News Editor unknown exactly how many not occur during a Sig Ep mature way," Wallin said. copies were taken. function. "Nobody should think they're The Central Florida Future The incident is believed to The papers were reported to above freedom of the press. I received numerous phone be in reaction to a story that have been seen in a dumpster met with Garth Jenkins [direc . calls from students who wit appeared in the March 25 behind the Engineering tor of Student Affairs] and I nessed people carrying stacks issue regarding a freshman Building. have full confidence the mat of the newspaper from the being arrested at the Sigma Scott Wallin, publisher of ter will be taken care of." campus on March 25. Phi Epsilon house on March The Central Florida Future, When no papers were The Future, which was dis 15. Fraternity member Erik J. said it is unfortunate the returned by Friday, the Future tributed by 4 a.m. on Ruda, 19, was charged with papers were taken. contacted the UCF Police Photo by AMBER BOWERS Wednesday, was believed to sexual battery after having sex "It's a very poor reaction Knightly News is broadcasted every be gone by noon. The paper's with a woman who is not a that could have been handled See STUDENTS, Page 6 Wednesday from the UCF Library. Li!!hts ••• UCF limits the amount of friends, camera ... family members for commencement action! By BRIAN SMITH News Editor By JAMES COMBS Staff Writer UCF is beginning to experience growing pains and the university has UCF students can catch up on the latest taken a step to soothe the ailment. campus news by viewing a broadcast news In response to the growing size of segment. the graduating class, students will be Sixteen students from the advanced given a limited amount of tickets for radio/TV course work together to produce family members and friends for the the Knightly News. The segments last 28 commencement ceremonies on May minutes and 30 seconds. They broadcast 9. the show at the Instructional Resource In order to stay within the fire Center, which is located in the library. code, tickets will be issued for the "We don't cover news unless it is of 5,000-seat arena as more than 3,000 value to the UCF students," said George students are expected to participate Bagley, assistant professor of radio/TV. during four separate ceremonies "There aren't any commercials either between 8 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. because we want to give our audience as "We now hold four commence much news as possible." ment ceremonies in May and Students broadcast the show live every December, and three in August," Friday from 2: 15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. on said UGF President John Hitt. Channel 63, the campus cable system. The "Four is the maximum number that channel rebroadcasts the show on can be held in one day, both because Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. the staff becomes exhausted and Time Warner Cable airs the show every because it takes a good bit of time to Tuesday from 8:30 p.m. to . 9 p.m on get one audience out, clean the arena Channel 21. and seat the next audience." The students are responsible for direct UCF is the only institution in the ing, producing and covering the news. Bagley acts as news director and judges State University System that holds ·• I four ceremonies. SpeCial to the FUTURE their performance. The UCF Arena has become too small of a facility to hold unlimited seating for gradua This is the first year UCF has See BROADCAST, Page 6 placed a limit on the amount of tick tion. ets given to students because the graduating class is about 250 stu Professor proves that doctors are not always right dents larger than last year. "Between 500 and 800 graduates By NICOLE KING in ly than the birth · of siamese will participate in the ceremonies, That was 1989. ing behaviors that are really sec which means there will be 4,200 to Staff Writer In 1998, Dr. Lorraine Sutton is twins. ond nature to people without 4,500 guest seats available in our now an adjunct professor of psy The cerebellum is critical for this kind of physical challenge. 5,000-capacity facility;' said Terry Lorraine Sutton is not one for chology at. UCF. She walks with coordinating movement. "It's like motion sickness. I Genovese, director of arena opera taking advice. the help of a walker and admits Automatic actions for everyone can't work on my computer for tions. "We will issue each partici Her neurologist told her by she has to concentrate to speak else have become things Sutton longer than an hour at a time pating graduate the maximum num 1995 she would be totally dis clearly, but she still gets the urge has to think about. because my eyes are moving and abled. He advised her not to pur ber of tickets consistent with avail to revisit the doctor who tried in "Walking, talking, seeing, I get nauseated or dizzy." able guest seating." sue her doctorate because by the 1989 to take her hope away. those things are supposed to Her uncoordinated walking The tickets will be distributed to time she finished graduate Sutton suffers from spinocere come easy," Sutton said. "My and talking often draws glances students when they are given their school, she would not be able to bellar degeneration, a rare, often day-to-day existence is very from others who think she is walk, talk clearly or use her genetic deterioration of the cere stressful. In terms of the effort See ADMINISTRATORS, Page 9 hands. bellum that occurs less frequent- that I have to put into perform- See IT'S, Page 8 • Founders Day Football Practice Who is this founder guy anyway? Students dance day and night to Offense dominates first full-pad raise money for children. scrimmage of spring. - Page 13 - Page 20 - Page 32 April 1, 1998 www.UCFFuture.com Central Florida Future • 2 • Family, friends admire work from their loved ones By ANN BOROWSKI place award was given to place to honor the women in purchase. yellow. Over the stoplight in Staff Writer Beverly Erwin-Frazier by the their lives," Frazier said. Matthew Clark, whose work painted letters it reads, "Go very • office of the university president. The second place award went was purchased, had drawings in Fast." The UCF Art Gallery over Dressed in a flowing turquoise to Christian Slade, an animation the show. "I find that contrast brings a flowed with proud parents, proud dress, Frazier went to the front of student. He received a silver One of his drawings, titled richness to my work, it creates a • teachers and excited art students the gallery to receive her gold sculpted medallion made by "Untitled," is a huge charcoal story," Thompson said of her on March 26 for the annual medallion sculpted by Professor Eyfells. drawn bug with wings. It stands work. B .F.A reception. Johann Eyfells, an UCF sculp Slade won for his collection of out on the gallery walls because Another artist in the show, Surrounded by the artwork of ture professor. eclectic pencil drawings, paint it is on bright yellow paper. Corey Eiseman, has a painting in the B.F.A students, they were Frazier won for her installation ings and animation drawings . "When I draw, I have no choice the show with table legs glued to there to celebrate nine students . piece titled, "Song of Athena." "To animate is to enliven life," but to look with intensity at that it. • who had spent their college lives Her piece consisted of a brown Slade said of his work. thing which holds me captive," "Art is fun," Eiseman said. learning how to draw, paint, hut placed in the middle of the His work included a large Clark said. "Understanding its The remaining artists in the sculpt and animate. gallery. painting of a bobcat, a watercol nature is no longer a necessity. It show were photos by Blaine . - B.F.A stands for Bachelor of This hut had white ceramic or of Assisi, Italy, a charcoal is integral to the ultimate success Katz, paintings depicting unborn Fine Arts. Students who receive bowls inside it with a multicol drawing of a nude figure and a or failure of the finished work." children by Pamela DeMuth, their B.F.A in art are required to ored rug lying in the center.

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