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• 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.orlando.digitalcity.com/future Education majors use area schools for their classrooms • By NICHOLE KING the classroom while university instructors "Our interns will be able to take what Staff Writer collaborate with teachers on various pro­ they are working on in the university class­ jects. room and apply it," Mealor said. "Our part­ UCF's College of Education has begun a Dr. Judy Olson, co-chair of the UCF ner schools will allow undergraduate stu­ partnership with the Orlando Science committee, said faculty members will be dents the opportunity to practice in the Center in preparation for the start of a pro­ working with area school teachers. classroom setting with proper supervision • gram in the fall of 1998. The program will "The College of Education has been while working with students and teachers." allow UCF and the Orlando Science involved in partnerships with schools pre­ Some selective graduate programs may Center to work directly with area schools. viously, but this offers more of a struc­ also choo~e to place interns, Mealor said. It , Photo by MIKE MARSHALL UCF is one of three universities in ture," Olson said. "Some faculty members is not uncommon for partner schools to In allallt:ll Florida accepted into the nationally run will be assigned to schools '!-fld will work hire interns as part of an intervention assis­ Tom DeLuca had a hypnotizing Holmes Partnership program. together with the teachers. They will· be tance program. effect at the UCF Arena on Feb. 3. The concept behind the program is to learning from each other." Dr. Sandra Robinson, who is the dean of pair universities with area schools from Dr. David Mealor, professor in the school the College of Education, explained how pre-kindergarten to high schools and offer of psychology, said undergraduate students SVA combines education majors real life experiences in will benefit from the program. See PROGRAM, Page 4 serving veterans 1st female Hisaanic aSlllJnaut and having fun By DANIEL F. McMULLAM • Staff Writer launches minds ta Ille heavens Women and men separated from By GWEN R. RHODES America's military service often find Staff Writer the social structure that they were accustomed to is abruptly gone. "Riding the space shuttle through The UCF Student Veteran the first eight minutes of lift-off is Association (SVA) is a group with the like having someone that weighs sole purpose of providing a social out­ more than you do standing on your let for veterans. There are aqout 1,400 chest," said Dr. Ellen Ochoa, veterans in attendance and many of NASA's first Hispanic female them enjoy fellowship and cama­ astronaut. "So you spend most of raderie of former service members. that time concentrating on your However, membership is not limited to breathing." veterans. Ochoa was the featured speaker SVA was officially chartered on Jan. for a room full of high school stu­ 26, 1972, by veterans returning from dents at a Pre-College Day ceremo­ Vietnam. ny on Feb.4 at the Student Union. "A lot of Vietnam Vets were still very The event was held by the much in the throng of the Vietnam Society of Hispanic Professional War." said Ron Atwell, coordinator of Engineers as part of the 1998 Veterans Affairs. "Their issues were National Technical and Career possibly more political and militant • Conference held Feb. 4 to 7 in but times have changed. Student veter­ Orlando. an issues have evolved." It was sponsored by the General During the Gulf War, there was a Motors Corporation with contribu­ vocal anti-war protest on campus. tors including NASA and UCF. SVA made a conscious effort to Though Hispanics are a minority actively support the military. Although in the engineering workforce, the demonstrations did not reach the Ochoa was quick to point out that fever pitch of national anti-Vietnam women play a major role in NASA. War sentiment, SVA felt it was essen­ "When I came to NASA, I was tial to bring about an understanding happy to see that there was about regarding the separation between the one woman for every five men, service member and the politics, which was different from where I Atwell said. had come from in the engineering Atwell, who is a honorary lifetime field," Ochoa said. member, has been active in SVA since When I was a researcher, I had he was a student.in 1983. • The group has experienced ·brief been the only woman working with Special to the FUTURE episodes of inactivity and has seen a group of 60 men, Ochoa said. Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic female astronaut in July 1991. Selected by NASA in January · peaks and valleys of interest, Atwell • 1990, Ochoa became an astronaut in July layer. the Atlantis. As a part of this crew,. she said. 1991. A veteran of two space flights, she One of the highlights of her space mis- studied the energy of the sun to learn how The membership comprises of chil­ has logged more than 484 hours in space. sions occurred on a flight when she said changes in its radiance affect the Earth's dren of veterans, single veterans and As a mission specialist on the Discovery she was able to operate the robotic arm to climate and environment. student veterans with families. Some space shuttle in April 1993, she helped deploy and capture the Spartan satellite. She was able to again use her skills with of the Veterans with families find it conduct studies of Earth's climate with spe- In her second space flight in November difficult to balance work, family and • cial emphasis on the condition of the ozone 1994, she was the payload commander on See OCHOA, Page 4 See MEMBERS, Page 2

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Members enjoy outlet University of Central Florida Campus Activities Board away from school Student Government Association & African American Student Union present • From PAGE 1 of War/Missing in Action flag studying. This causes member­ flying above the Administration ship to increase and decrease Building. with time. With time and student YOLANDA KING Michele Konecny, former turnover, however, the SVA has SVA president, joined the orga­ evolved into a purely social Born in Montgomery, nization after her second organization. DISTINGUISHE'D Alabama, two weeks semester at UCF in 1995. Laretta Redus, SVA treasurer, said the group meets frequently. before Rosa Parks re­ "I was looking for another LECTURE SERIES • social outlet outside of school "We used to have it at the fused to give up her seat acquaintances and classmates," University Grill," Redus said. Konecny said. "People my own "The meeting consisted of busi­ on the bus and triggered age." ness discussed over hot wings the movement that ulti­ SVA members come from a and beer." Some of the social activities mately desegregated the widely diverse background that • developed in the close quarters VA has done include camp outs. South, Yolanda King has During the summer of 1997, of military life. Those diverse been in the midst of the backgrounds seem to lead them several members held a towards different educational Memorial Day camp out and struggle for human • barbecue at Blue Springs goals. rights all of her life. The These are the qualities I was Campground. Redus said _the looking for in a campus activi­ reaction was so positive, she'd oldest child of Dr. Martin • like to have another one. ty, Konecny said. Luther King, Jr. and SVA was instrumental in the The association also avidly successful creati-0n - of the supports UCF activities. Coretta Scott King, • Redus recalled the UCF vs . Patriot Scholarship. Yolanda has participated - SVA members lobbied the Idaho football game where they Student Government staged a tailgate party. in numerous civil and "What made it special was the Association to provide funding human rights demon­ for a scholarship that would attendance of several UCF honor a deserving UCF veteran. alumni that were lifetime mem­ strations and has spoken bers of the SVA," Redus said. February 12, 1998 · The SVA has made other sig­ before countless audi­ nificant contributions to cam­ For more information, stop by pus life. Such as the Veteran the Office of Veterans Affairs UCF Arena, Bpm ences. February 12th, she and ask about joining. Memorial Tree outside the will speak at the UCF • Student Service Complex and Free Admission the furnishing of the Prisoners Arena at 8pm.

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For me, it is "Typically, a faculty member from the university works hand in eight-day free flight. four-year program, many of the main highlight of the space · hand with the school and with the teachers," Robinson said. Since returning from her sec­ whom are engineering majors. flights and a view an astronaut "Whether the teacbcrs have questions about how to deal with stu­ ond space flight, she has been These students spend part of each never grows tired of." dents and their problems, or if a teacher wants to teach a specific working on the International school year working :is an intern According to Sentfin lesson on a subject and needs more information or has questions Space Station and as one of the at a NASA facility. Fernandez, president of the on how to present the lesson. If I don't know anything about the astronauts supporting mission "Although I have a doctorate Society of Hispanic Professional subject, I can a faculty member that does know." control during space shuttle call degree in electrical engineering, I Engineers, the organization, Edl!cation majors have experienced the benefits from the pro­ flights. performed numerous duties on which includes Ochoa, has more gram. "There have been a total of 89 the space shuttle that had nothing than 10,000 Latino engineer The Orlando Science Center offers secondary math and science shuttle missions so far " Ochoa said. "Unfortunately, m'any peo­ to do with my engineering back­ members across the country. interns a chance to spend half of their junior internship at the cen­ ground," Ochoa said. "Many of "The conference provides a ter. ple who live in this area think of the duties included conducting forum for engineers to pursue Sylvia Pakstis. who is in residence at the teacher leadership cen­ the shuttle missions as routine. But once you learn what it takes various experiments like grow­ career avenues in engineering, to ter, said the interns learn how to teach in an informal setting at the ing human protein samples in learn and to have some fun," center. to accomplish a space mission, you learn not to take it for grant­ space. Fernandez said. Pakstis said the informal setting helps teachers maintain focus . "The human protein experi­ The UCF engineering depart­ "This helps because in a classroom setting, they can keep the ed. ments are important because they ment has more than 3,000 engi­ attention of the class instead of just having a captive audience," "It takes a lot of hard work by are the first step in designing bet­ neering students, said Dr. Martin Pakstis said. a lot of people some of whom are ter medicines. We also grew can­ Wanielista, dean of the College The pannership will help teachers to see if the programs they engineers. One of the greatest engineering accomplishments of cer cells in space to help scien­ of Engineering. i~ s titute are working and also give future teachers the expe­ will tists better understand the dis­ Several UCF professors partic­ nence they need, Pakstis said. all is the Kennedy Space Center." According to Ochoa there are ease." ipated in the event. This allowed "Also, the university professors have been out of the tradition­ more than 100_different types of One student asked Ochoa if the the high school students to learn al classroom for a long lime, and they are teaching student~ how educational programs offered time spent cooped up in a small more about the field of engineer­ to be teachers~" Pakstis said. "It gives them a chance to get back area in the space shuttle seemed ing, which included a tour of the in the trenches and refresh their memories." through NASA that cover ele­ mentary through graduate school like a long time. NASA Mobile Aeronautic Mealor said the program helps promote trust. "After all the time, usually at Education Laboratory. "The applied setting offers µiore than just reading about it," students as well as teachers. There are also several programs least a year, that you spend train­ "We make champions in the Mealor said. "There is also a sense of trust that emerges. The ing- for the space mission, the 11 - classroom as well as in the work­ ability to be honest. H there is a better way, we put it on the table geared toward minorities. 15 days in the space shuttle goes force," Martin said. "We help ou.r and discDs.5 "Although there have been cuts it by very quickly," Ochoa said. "It students to have a rewarding "The encouraging thing is the interest from the community and in the workforce in many compa­ is almost too short. You have so career which is a benefit to the number of schools which have expressed a desire to become nies, including · NASA, the majority of new hires at NASA· many things you are trying to mankind." p~~ers with the College of Education. It's a won~erful opportu­ accomplish in that time frame mty.

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By OLIVIA K. CURNOW KIOSK and a rotating billboard They also want to have a sys­ for the students at a lower cost? what's out there and what's avail­ Managing Editor at the intersection of University tem of checks and balances for Maybe subsidizing some of the able to them, it's going to be a Boulevard and Alafaya Trail. all three branches. parking decals. Giving out book repetitive cycle that's going to Student Government presiden­ "We feel that if the people are "I think a huge issue that we're scholarships. Anything at all to continue to move and it'll grow," tial and vice presidential hope­ just going by campus, they can suffering right now is the divi­ try to cut the costs. It's their he said. fuls Jason Murphy and Richard see the activities going on there," sion between the executive money, we're just giving it back Maxwell want to start new tradi­ Maxwell said. "If they're sitting branch and the legislative to them." tions, reconstruct SG and cut at the light, they have nothing branch," Murphy said. "Through Giving money back to the stu­ MUl/lhV I Ma•Bll costs for students. better to do than to sit there and my workings with SG, I've had dents can be done through the Murphy and Maxwell want look at a rotating billboard." no problems with working with activity and service fee, accord­ Orlando to be known for UCF, Murphy and Maxwell want to the senate. I think a lot of issues ing to Maxwell. not Disney or other theme parks. eliminate positions in SG and at hand are personal issues, not "If we can take so much "We don't get enough publicity add new ones to increase the professional issues. I think once money out of the activity and for the education we give here," accountability and responsibility. those are put aside, it's amazing service fee fund and put it to the Maxwell said. "People say we · "You can take four 20 hour once the empires are joined, it's bookstore, and lower every book are a second rate university in positions and break them down going to make it a lot better for by $10, that's affecting every stu­ Jason Murphy, the state of Florida. I don't feel into eight 10 hour positions," the students." dent at UCF," Maxwell said. candidate for president that. I came all the way from Ann Murphy said. "That would give They both agreed that costs are "Not only the ones that are in the Major: Industrial organizational Arbor, Mich., I picked UCF out four more students a little oppor­ too high for college students. clubs, organizations, or who psychology of a catalog, and ever since I set tunity to make some extra cash "Today, it's so expensive, pay­ have jobs on campus, but every •Director of public relations for foot on this campus, I've as well as ·maybe turning it into ing for parking decals and hav­ single student." • SG absolutely loved it." something that would probably ing to park in mud parking lots," Murphy summed up their plat­ • A&sistant director for student They also want to make sign be called the president's security Murphy said. "Buying books form in two words: communica­ activities language a foreign language council. What they would do is when there's only one bookstore tion and education. •Campus Activities Board spe­ requirement and add picnic help SG with anything that they that has a book or they may even "If we go out there and you first cial programs director tables near the Reflecting Pond, need. They'd be there when we be out of the book. How do we communicate with the students • Interlraternity Council chair an electronic marquee at the need them." make those things more feasible and then educate them as to and judicial officer • Member of Lambda Chi Alpha • UCF Dance Marathon direc­ tor of public relations • Special Olympics volunteer director • Mission Statement: "We wish QJJ;e ritanci"o irac~era to make the ever growing UCF lflepcat Q!\)t i{da~tt5 campus the New Frontier for students." ...... QJJ;e iuafrt~a ~~~ Jooioo

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By OLIVIA K. CUR.NOW create more emergency phones. working on a scholarship fund, ''We're really in support of "We want to inform the students Managing Editor . ·'People don't realize safety is comprised of a percentage of the leadership," Fariello said. "This exactly what student government such a big issue until it happens president's and vice president's is to get more involved and to is doing that month, what issues Safety, housing and a Student to them," Fariello, arts and salaries. The have connections with students. are facing the university, outlin­ Government-student relationship sciences senator, said. We really want to ing what we have accomplished are just three of the '20 issues on On-campus housing, be in touch that month, outline what we plan Dominic Fariello and Tami specifically the residence with the to do for the next month, Johnson's platform in the race to halls, are another concern students." announce any important dates, be the next SO president and vice to Johnson and Fariello. A state of and to communicate. We've got president. They want to add more the campus to get connected." Johnson, a senator in the security and improve the address is Johnson emphasized that often­ College of Education, said safety maintenance. another idea times students are not familiar is a special concern especially for "We have support with­ for the with SO or its accomplishments. the female population. in the dorms, people Fariello­ "A lot of presidents and vice "1 think it would be good, if who have their own spe­ Johnson tick­ presidents have finished a lot," elected, to have a big safety pro­ cific ideas," Johnson et. The she said. "The students don't motion just to inform everyone said. "[Administration] address will know that. They know eventually · [about the services on campus]," needs to know there is a be broadcast that it's there, but they don't she said. "Provide-A-Ride had a problem and the fresh­ on the UCF know their president got that for pretty big promotion but that's · men are complaining." television sta­ them." not the only thing out there. We Although plans for tion, the inter­ Both Johnson and Fariello just found out Victim Services is the recreation services com in the agreed that their concern for the ;t'ami .Johnson and Dom. . Ph?to by AMBER BOWERS out in a little trailer way out by building are under­ Student Union students set them apart from the interaction as one of th . uut c Fariello list SG-student the police station." way, Fariello wants to e1r op concerns. and the campus other candidates. Johnson wants to inform the improve _the exercise newspapers. "I'm not a politician," Johnson campus of the available services facilities by a,dding new weights scholarships "You don't said. "I'm just talking about what such as Provide-A-Ride, Victim and moving the aerobics classes are for leaders on campus and hear from stu­ I care about and what I believe in, Services and Student Escort to the now vacant Wild Pizza. they hope to increase the line dent government leaders unless and what I can do to help." Patrol Services, and to possibly Fariello and Johnson are also item from $35,000 to $1UO,OOO. its election time," Fariello said.

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University of Central Florida Fariello I Jollnson Dominic Fariello, candidate for SG president Major: Political science Minor: Legal Studies • College of Arts and Sciences senator on 28th, 29th and 30th student senates -----' • Pro-tempore for 29th senate • Served on Activity and Service Fee com­ mittee for two years • Has been a member of all senate committees • Army ROTC freshman and sophomore years • A brother for Alpha Tau Omega since Fall 1995 Student Academic Resource Center • Has been a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta, • Campus. Activities Board, United Nations Club, Student Alumni NEED A GOOD PLACE TO STUDY AT 3:00 AM? Association •Why students should vote for him: "Combined with my experi­ ence and the way we relate with students and communicate with SARC will be open 24 hours a day from 2PM, February 15th through 5 them really sets aside from the other candidates. We like to talk PM, February 20th. SARC will also be open after Spring Break from 49 percent of the time. The other 51 we like to listen, listen to the students, their ideas, their questions." 8AM March 2nd thfough midnight March 8th. Tami Johnson, candidate for SG When you're preparing for mid-term exams and assignments, choose vice president one ofUCF''s most preferred study places. Double major: Education and legal studies • College of Education senator on 30th stu­ dent senate While you're at SARC you can • Served on Elections and Appointments, **Study in_an academic setting · ...... __...... __., Clubs and Organizations and Scholarship * Meet with your study group committees * •Executive officer for Phi Alpha Delta for two years ** Attend group study sessions led by qualified tutors • Officer for Alpha Delta Pi ** Prepare papers and reports •Member of UCF Jazz Ensemble 1994-1995 • Volunteer work including Second Harvest Food Bank and **Get tutoring (Please check our schedule for tutoring hours.) Ronald McDonald House ** Access your E-Mail • Do you think the fact that you are a freshman senator will hurt **Access vital information on our "Information Kiosk" your ability to conduct senate meetings in the future?: "No. I'm very familiar with the Robert's Rules of Procedure, which is what we use in senate. I've been using them in my sorority, we use COl\'IE CHECK IT OUT! them in the legal fraternity. I've been using them since I've been a freshman, I'm very familiar with them." For More Information Call 823-5130 February 11, 1998 - www.orlando.digitalcity.com/future Central Florida Future• 9 Police scuffle with man concealing a semi-automatic gun

By ANNEMARIE MONTALI waistband. He was placed in the Officers observed Cooper drive • Eli Hernandez, 24, reported his to prosecute. Staff Writer patrol car where his head uninten­ through a stop sign without slow­ bag was taken from a restroom on Lake Claire coordinators tionally hit the vehicle divider, ing down. the third floor of the library on reported on Feb. 2, the word UCF police stopped Marcos according to police reports. After asking Cooper to exit the Jan. 29. The bag contained a "maintain" had been written on Salarnan for a routine traffic viola­ Salarnan suffered a head lacera­ car, officers reported Cooper had checkbook, a passport, an airline the sign in front of Building 66. tion on Jan. tion. Rescue was called and bloodshot eyes, smelled of alco­ ticket to Venezuela and an address The earliest residents remember 28. Once Salarnan was taken to the health hol and had book. seeing the graffiti was five days officers center for stitches. slurred Hernandez does not want to earlier. realized Officers later took him to the prosecute, but he wants the items The damage is estimated at $50. there was a Orange County Central Booking returned in time for him to leave possible Office where Salarnan was issued for Venezuela. • Daniel Chagas, 24, was arrest­ warrant out a trespass warning stating that he ed for driving under the influence • Police responded to a call of for is not to return to campus or he on Feb. I at about 3 a.m. Police criminal mischief in a parking lot Salarnan, they tried to get more will be arrested. stopped Chagas for driving 35 on campus on Feb. 2. Catherine information. speech. mph in a 25 mph zone and for Le, 20, reported somebody Salaman lied al:iout his social In other reports from Field sobriety crossing the dividing lines several entered her car without pennis­ security number and then pro­ the UCFPD: tests were given times. sion sometime between 10 a.m. ceeded to flee the scene, accord­ to Cooper and Officers smelled alcohol and • Richard Masso, 24, was caught and 3 p.m. ing to UCF police reports. after failing all three he was observed Chagas' blood shot eyes by a library employee for attempt­ Her driver's side door was Officers chased the car, then placed under arrest and taken to and slow movements after he exit­ ing to steal three pages from mag­ unlocked when she returned· and went to the Health and Physics the. Orange County DUI Center. ed his car. azines on Feb. 2. Police were her ignition was torn out. The Building where the suspect had After failing to pass the field called and Masso was read his • Tamaro Johnson, 20, reported steering column was removed and class. After being confronted, sobriety tests given to him, rights. He later waived these on Feb. 1, that somebody entered dam~ged. Le's cellular phone was Salaman became violent and offi­ Chagas was placed under arrest rights and gave police a statement. his car without permission. also taken along with eight cas­ cers were forced to use defensive and taken to the Orange County Johnson's belongings were left in sette tapes that were valued at tactics' techniques and handcuffs. Christopher Cooper, 24, was DUI Center where he submitted to a disorderly fashion but nothing about $200. A concealed .38 semi-automat­ arrested for driving under the a blood alcohol test. was damaged or stolen. Officers collected fingerprints ic gun was taken from Salaman's influence on Jan. 31 at 2:15 a.m. from the scene, and Le is willing

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By KATHERINE MARTIN "This is what some athletes call effort the first of 16, Students had positive remarks Staff Writer a runner's high," Kick said. time, we Kick about the lecture. "Now, there are some of you out wouldn't need provided "I really enjoyed [the presenta­ Humor and audience participa­ there who are saying 'I don't feel to fix it now," an tion]," said Stephen Olender, a tion were speaker Fran Kick's nuthin.' but that's because you Kick said. answer. junior computer science major. tools to actively engage the stu­ didn't work hard enough at it. Kick also "How "At first the games were like, dents in questioning their own The more you put into it, the said if people many Gee, why am I doing this, but leadership capabilities and weak­ more you get out of it.'' would take the squares then I saw what he was getting nesses. "Most people will have a more initiative lo would at. More than 50 UCF students gratifying experience if they put lead them­ you find "He had some good ideas. This attended a leadership-motivation more energy and effort into their selves instead if I paid is a good opportunity to hone in workshop mediated by Kick, a daily routine. In return, you will of waiting for you $1 on my leadership abilities, to add nationally renowned motivation­ receive more energy for yourself others to direct for each to what's there and improve upon al speaker, on Feb. 4. and better results on the job and them. not only square what's not." Third in the Leadership in your classes." would they you Meg Dutnell, assistant director Development Series, Kick-it-in He asked the audience to stand have a greater found?" of student activities, said the was sponsored in part by the a second time in a large circle. understanding Kick meeting was a success. Photo by AMBER BOWERS Office of Student Activities. "The only rule is you can't about the task Nationally renowned speaker Fran said. "We always look for a certain amount of fullness in a room," "I see this as an opportunity to talk," Kick said. "Make the letter being per- Kick introduced motivational exercis- "You would Dutnell said. "The amount of get more people to look at lead­ A as a group." formed, but es on Feb. 3. ership in more of an open way, Immediate confusion foliowed they could also put a Jot enthusiasm in the room and the so they realize they don't need a until one student stepped for­ discover an opportunity that more energy into it, wouldn't people that came exceeded my lot of effort to do it," Kick said ward to lead the group in making might otherwise be missed. you? expectations." after the presentation. a scraggly A. Kick drew a table of four rows "People often limit themselves The next installment in the He asked everyone in the audi­ "Good job," Kick said. "But and columns and asked the by seeing only what others tell Leadership Development Series

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By JASON HEIRONIMUS thing that UCF has to a big eel- pened in the old days, or some tions that are started surround- UCF has. Since we're not going Opinion Editor ebration where we we celebrate mythic event that happened that ing football. For example, some to build a football stadium on the school and the fact that we changed the school forever. of the most tradition laden campus, we should use all of This past weekend I enjoyed are a part of it. But the problem Because we are lacking a schools in the United States are that land for something. Hold a participating in that grand old with this is that every school in "thing" students must venture almost entirely based upon foot- big concert for the s1ndents and tradition of celebrating a holi- the nation has a Homecoming, elsewhere to enjoy other stu- ball. Auburn University is com- make it free to them and alum- day of which I knew very little even high schools have dents' "things." For instance, as pletely crazy over football. ni, and make locals pay a small about. Though I had celebrated Homecomings. Not that our much as I hate Gainesville, I Almost every tradition that they entrance fee. this holiday many times before Homecoming is not enjoyable, like to go to UF and enjoy have is concerned with it. Notre We should hold our new I never stopped to think about it is. Last semester the school "Gator Growl" which is a pretty Dame is basically built on foot- "thing" at the end of January. It what it meant. To me, put on perhaps one of the best ridiculous celebration but it still ball, I'm told that when football will truly welcome the students Gasparilla always meant get Homecoming parties that-UCF is a celebration that has nothing season is over, there is basically back to school and will make real drunk and watch silly peo- has ever seen. to do with Homecoming. UF nothing to do in South Bend, the spring semester a little less ple walk around with bad pirate But the problem is, we don't students wait all year to attend Ind. long and boring, unless, of costumes. have a "thing". What I mean by "Gator Growl" and it has Whatever our "thing' is it course, spring break gets moved To my knowledge that is what this is that we don't have any- become so big that people come doesn't have to be based on back a couple of more weeks so Gasparilla is all about. A long thing that asks the UCF com- from all around to experience it. football, it doesn't have to con- that we leave for spring break time ago a bunch of drunken munity to take a step back and The entire town gets into it and centrate on anything. What it two weeks after we come back pirates invaded Tampa Bay and appreciate where we are and it is basically like a party for should do is celebrate UCF as a from Christmas break. several hundred years later the how far the school has come as two days straight. whole. It should celebrate I know my dreams of a UCF Tampa Bay Buccaneers were an institution of learning. Isn't Why can't we have a "thing"? everything that the school has "thing" will probably never be formed to pay homage to this there anything involved in the Is it because we are running achieved in the last 25 years realjzed_ But I wonder, is it sordid past. school's history that we can short on clever names? How and everything that it will such a bad idea? I know middle To the people of the bay area, appreciate? about the Knightriot, or the achieve in the next 25 years. schools that actually hold fairs however, Gasparilla is their fes- History. There's an interesting Golden Knight Gala, or the We should get the community to commemorate their school. I tival. It is not a national cele- concept. Does our school have Central Florida Festivities? I involved, after all, we are basi- believe that we are attending bration or even a state-wide eel- any or did it just appear out of know that these are all pretty cally sharing a football team one of the finest colleges in the ebrati9n. In order to get the full nowhere? Considering UCF's lame names for a festival that with them already. Though the state, and thus we should cele- effect of Gasparilla one must be somewhat young state, I think would be for the UCF commu- heart of the festivities should be brate that fact by holding a big in Tampa. Orlando, on the other that it is important that students nity, but the fact remains, we based in and around the imnie- party for ourselves. The UCF hand, has nothing that would know exactly why and how have nothing. diate UCF area, get the other community deserves a little compare to this. UCF has noth- their school was founded. At present UCF is enjoying Orlando merchants involved, recognition, and how better to ing that would compare to this. Knowing specific dates may be the sweet success of its football like Church Street Station, do that than with a party? As far as I can see, a bit too much but how about team. With the success of the Disney, and Sea World. Take Homecoming is the closest some crazy things that hap- football team comes the tradi- advantage of all the land that ------

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LEAD STORIES giving up his wallet and brief­ word "not" several times from called "Bambi Baseball," super­ Jan. 19 at his new, two-day-a­ case, which contained the the story. vised by youth minister Robin week job with the big Marks & •In January, The New Yorker mayor's speech. And in June, an • In October, Harwinton, Gattis. The name came from Spencer department store in magazine reported the latest armed robber took the purse of Conn., local official Marie what was used as a bat: the London. For the next six months trendy body ornamentation in the the executive director of Knudsen told the Waterbury frozen leg of a deer. (A frozen under a government grant pro­ city: small jewelry charms Crimestoppers of New Orleans Republican-American that the cow tongue was the ball.) It was gram run by the Poetry Society, inserted under the skin, produc­ outside her office. first person snared in a radar trap also reported that an earlier ver­ he will work for about $1,500 a ing boil-like bulges in the shapes • Recent Dangerous Weapons: she intervened with the state sion of the game was played by month as the store's poet in resi­ of the charms. The "subcuta­ roast beef sandwich (pedestrian, police to have set up was the swinging a frozen trout to hit a dence. He said he hopes genenµ• neous jewelry" can be inserted in angry at a motorist, Matteson, husband of the constituent who frozen squid. ly to raise employees' and cus­ the forehead, the back of the Ill., November); burrito complained the loudest to her • In 1987 a leaky tank car con­ tomers' level of awareness of hand, or any other place in which (motorist, angry at another, about speeders ruining her taining the volatile chemical poetry. A lesser-known poet in the skin can be pinched. Longview, Ore., September); neighborhood. butadiene exploded in a New residence, at London's Botanical • Through what a company carrot (reaction to spouse's • In August, British mountain Orleans rail yard. No one was Gardens, said she has already spokesman later called "human demand for divorce, East climber Alan Hinkes, who had hurt, but 8,000 nearby residents had an impact on that organiza­ error," the front door of the Hanover, N.J., August); Etch-A­ already conquered nine of the were evacuated and later filed tion, as witnessed by her tele­ CoreStates Bank in Robesonia, Sketch toy (two teen-age boys, world's 14 highest peaks, had to lawsuits for their injuries, which phone message recording: Pa. (10 miles from Reading), overpowering a jailer and escap­ postpone his ambitious quest to consisted of 36 hours of dis­ "Sarah Maguire can't get to the remained unlocked through the ing, Clinton, Tenn., November); climb the other five in one year placement and a general fear of phone/So please leave a message Veterans Day weekend, and no cordless drill (mother hit step­ when number 10 failed. He was future illnesses, which have so after the tone." one knew until a customer, who daughter because her dog was at the base camp of the 26,600- far not materialized. About 20 so had forgotten it was a holiday, barking too loud, and the daugh­ foot-high Nanga Parbat in far· have won an average of (Send your Weird News to innocently walked in at 9 a.m. ter struck back with a "fish Pakistan, ready to e?-t a piece of $100,000 each in compensatory Chuck Shepherd, P.O .. Box 8306, Monday, setting off a silent whacker" tool, Wasilla, Alaska, local bread when the wind blew damages. In addition, in St. Petersburg, Fla. 33738, or alarm that alerted the police. The August). the flour topping in his face, September 1997, the entire class [email protected]. customer said his first thought on • In October, a man robbed the causing him to sneeze, which of potential plaintiffs won a jury Chuck Shepherd's latest paper­ seeing the bank empty was that Capital Bank of North County in resulted in a slipped disc. trial for punitive damages back, "The Concrete Enema and robbers had locked the tellers San Diego, Calif., and escaped in against the CSX railroad and Other News of the Weird and customers in the. vault. a pickup truck. According to a INEXPLICABLE four other companies for a total Classics," is now available at • The Wise Judiciary: In teller, the man never claimed to of $3.4 billion. CSX was ordered bookstores everywhere. To order December, a Bloomfield, Iowa, have a gun, but demonstrated his • The Sacramento Bee reported to kick in three-fourths of the it direct, call 1-800-642-6480 judge sentenced two men, who impatience at the teller's in November that a group of total even though the National and mention this newspaper. The had clubbed 23 cats with base­ dawdling by showing her a pho­ young people from the East Transportation Safety Board had price is $6.95 plus $2 shipping.) ball bats (killing 16), to one day tograph of another man holding a Valley Foursquare Church in ruled it blameless in the explo­ in jail per cat, but then he sus­ gun. Orangevale, Calif., were recently sion. pended even that sentence. Also observed playing what they • Peter Sansom began work on in December, a judge in OOPS! Leeuwarden, Netherlands, sen­ tenced the men who beat a man • In September, workers deliv­ to death on the eve of his wed­ ering crates to the Museon ding to 16 months each in prison. museum in The Hague, (In reaction, a Dutch inmate Netherlands, accidentally serving eight years-in a stomping dropped one containing a 75 death asked Queen Beatrix for a million-year-old dinosaur skele­ pardon, claiming his own sen­ ton made from bones recovered tence was thus way too severe.) in Montana, breaking it into 188 And in January, a judge in pieces. And in January during a Mexico City freed confessed break-in at the Yammonoki killer-bandit Alonso Gonzalez, Museum in Ito, Japan, a thief calling him "a modern· Robin being chased by a guard dropped Hood, who not only shares what a 600-year-old Ming Dynasty he earns from robberies, but platter worth about $400,000, gives his companions more shattering it. money (than he keeps)." • In Novembyr, an adviser to Israel's Prime Minister POLICE BLOTTER Netanyahu conceded that, due to a bureaucratic oversight, the • In September, a federal judge 'Io get you in the mood for love, Western Wall in Jerusalem is not in West Palm Beach dismissed owned by the government but by the disability lawsuit filed by an organization called the we have five little words for you. police Lt. Ed Wagner against the Islamic Trust, which administers department, ruling that Wagner various Muslim holy sites. After was not really penalized for hav­ capturing Jerusalem in the 1967 ing the disability in that he was Mideast war, Israel apparently merely denied a special assign­ formally appropriated the land ment. Wagner was removed from beside the Wall, but not the Wall the SWAT team for having a sen­ itself. ®~lJ-Ffi~~I®NfilJ sitive neck, a condition which • The Nov. 7 edition of the came to light when he com­ Vatican newspaper Osservatore plained that an old neck injury Romano contained statements flared up after a colleague got declaring that homosexuals "do ~®~~i lJ~iMN him in a headlock and gave him · have the right" to adopt children "noogies." and to live together as couples, • Hours before the Dec. 5 inau­ attributed to staunch moralist gural address of Mexico City's Father Gino Concerti. After sev­ Gfi~~Ii~fi ~IlJi new mayor, who was expected to eral days of panic at the Vatican, announce stern measures to deal editor Gianfranco Grie~o locat­ with rampant crime and police ed the problem: a computer corruption, the.mayor's top assis­ glitch that removed only the /Fri., /Feb. 13th at the cStudent Vnion, 11 arn-2pni tant was mugged in a taxicab, e Sign up $eb. 9-12th in Student Vnion

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I think the Arboretum should be included in their agenda, more funding should be used to protect it and also provide more signs for it. A lot of land is being destroyed and I really don't want to be surrounded all of these buildings. I really do want people to know the Arboretum is located there and check it out! So many plants and animals that depend on that type of environment. We must think of other creatures and not just of ourselves. - Victor Bedoya, Senior, Biology, Paterson, NJ. By PETER KUNDIS • ...

The issue of greatest importance among college students J I • J/...;I · r:' I ,-:: today is AIDS Awareness. And for this reason, all students at UCF should be required to take an AIDS class before J.....J , . !,,.J"' r I I I If,..-... they graduate. In this way, students will become more aware of AIDS and the precautions they need to take to avoid getting it. As a general idea, I think efforts should be made to - Brenda L. Castro, senior, org. communication, Guaynabo, better accommodate our campus' growth. Increases Puerto Rico. iu ~nroUment .have the present facilities straining to cope with the accumulating load. Considering the fma0nci3l resources ai;e available, we should not be ~. having grQwing. painS as an institution. This is the focws and driving force that should be behind any and all decisions made. · -Clll:i$ Sp~s, senior, a&ian s.P1dies, orlando .

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I believe our school's financial resources can be better used than they have in the past. I'm constantly irritated by the num­ ber of times I walk past the 'Reflecting Pond' and find that it's being cleaned again. Does it really need to be cleaned as fre­ quently as it is? I know that its the "hub of the campus,'' but the money that is being spent on this wasteful maintenance can be better spent elsewhere (ex. parking and student services) . • -Jonathan H. Dickison, junior, history/social science ed., Sanford

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Promoting both school spirit and school pride. UCF is such an outstanding university, that others should also be made aware of it. Instead of local sports stores only selling UF and FSU appar­ el, they need to also have UCF items. Having UCF sports appar­ el available off-campus will provide more of that ever-so-need­ ed support for the campus. - Amber Smith, sophomore, org. communication, Palm Beach Gardens February 11, 1998 www.orlando.digitalcity.com/future Central Florida Future• 14 Entertainment Yun-Fat scores in 'Replacement Killers'

By FOREST CRUMPLER to bring in Staff Writer some hired guns to finish "The Replacement Killers" is the job that director Antione Fuqua's big screen debut, Lee didn't, and what a debut it is. Fuqua, known and to take out mostly for his direction of Coolio's Lee in the "Gangsta's Paradise" video, came onto the process. cinematic stage with a wonderful bag of Realizing this, John Lee is compelled to tricks. First off, he had a great cast of save the child and stop Mr. Wei's reign of actors, but add to that a well written script, terror once and for all. an interesting story, and some good direc­ Now, although the basic story is not tion. You can't help but get an excellent incredibly original, Yun-Fat skillfully con­ film. vinces the audience that he has the heart to The storyline is an old one with a few make his cause believable and the sheer new twists. It stars Chow Yun-Fat ("The brutality that we might expect from a Killer," "Hard Boiled") and Mira Sorvino trained killer. First and foremost this is an ("Mighty Aphrodite") as an unlikely team action movie, so while the characters of heroes. John Lee (Yun-Fat) is a profes­ might not be very fleshed out, the excite­ sional assassin whose conscience gets the ment level is one that action/adventure best of him when his. boss Mr. Wei fanatics will enjoy immensely. It also has instructs him to kill the seven-year-old son an excellent combination of story and cin­ of nosy police detective Stan Zedkov, ematography. While the camera work played by Michael Rooker ("Mallrats," might be a touch dizzying at times, for the Tombstone"). Not able to commit such an most part it really makes the scene with act, Lee goes to I.D. fraud artist Meg good use of angles, lighting, and scenery. Special to the FUTURE Coburn (Servino) to get a passport to With the exception of a few cliche Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino are on the run from an army of assassins in "The China so that he may rescue his family moments and some very effective but very Replacement Killers.'' · from his vengeful ex-boss. Meg is unex­ contrived camera shots, the cheese level of pectedly caught up in the fight between this film was quite low. All in all I would - : , I Lee and Mr. Wei's men and is forced to rate "The Replacement Killers" as a great accompany Lee until the passport can be action flick. completed. Meanwhile, Mr. Wei decides

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By STACEY COPELAND ly set to· head out to New the audience exclaimed, "Oh, plain silly and did not fit in with Staff Writer Orleans. how cute" every time he picked , the rest of the story. It felt like Let me give you a up his harmonica. But the plot the flim makers included cer­ The Blues Brothers are on yet word of warning before you go itself left something to be tain songs just to get another another "mission from God". see this movie. Make sure you desired. It wa'S extremely far celebrity into the movie and "Blues Brothers 2000" see the original Blues Brothers fetched and silly. While th~ didn't care whether is actually is director John Landis' sequel movie before you head out to band is driving down to New made any sense. They just to the 1980 hit, "The Blues So Elwood is ecstatic when he the theater. I hadn't seen the Orleans they just happen . to wanted to boost ticket sales. Brothers." The new movie learns that . Curtis had a son. original (I was only 3 when it infuriate every cop they meet Jonny Lang's performance as a But the son, Cabel (Joe picks up 18 years after the boys came out) and I was lost during while being chased by a right­ custodian jamming on an elec­ landed themselves in jail. Morton), is a serious cop who several scenes in the new film. wing militia group and the tric guitar while dozens of mid­ Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is wants nothing to do with They reassemble the band with­ Chicago Chapter of the dle-aged, overweight phone sex released from prison and real­ Elwood and thinks he is still up out explaining who everyone is Moscow Mafia. Not very likely, operators danced around him to no good. Aided by Buster (J. izes that much has changed or providing flashbacks. No huh? was the most horrendous num­ while he was behind bars. His Even Bonifant), a 10-year-old one even explains what hap­ Music fans will enjoy ber of.all. partner, Jake, is ·dead and his orphan in need of guidance, pened in the first movie at all. the many guest appearances by It's a .funny movie, I'm band is long gone. Elwood decides to get the band The movie was enter­ artists like James Brown, just not sure whether it was Elwood turns to his back together and compete at taining, even funny at times, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, funny because it was supposed former teacher, Mary Stigmata, Queen Mousette's Battle of the but nothing to get really excited Erykah Badu, Blues Traveler, to be or because it was so silly. for help. He learns that Curtis, Bands in New Orleans. Elwood about. Aykroyd and Goodman the original Blues Brothers So, if you see the movie, you'll the orphanage custodian who finds a replacement for Jake in both play their parts well and band and many more. probably walk out of the theater acted as a surrogate father to Mighty Mack McTeer (John adding the kid to the band was a Many of the musical laughing. But you won't know Goodman) when they meet at a some of the boys, is also dead. nice touch. Several people in number in the movie were just why. strip club and the band is final------,----,-~------.1 UCF Greeks

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IFC will be attending its annual Southeastern Interfraternity Conference (SBIFC) on Feb. 7, The execu­ tive board along with Greg Mason, UCF's Greek advisor, will be traveling to Atlanta, Ga., between Feb. 12 and 15. Workshops will be offered during the conference on topics varying from recrnitment to hazing. The weekend is designed for each group to learn something new to better their individual IFC . .. . A,wards will a:lso pe given to councils for their achievement in the past year. In other Greek news: • Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi are bouncing with support for the Shriners of Central Florida. The two groups will be outside the Student Union on. Feb. 17 to

· j 19 hpstinTghtheirhMoon W,alkd- a-thon. ey ave receive pledges and will bounce non­ stop for three days in an effort to raise more than $5,000. • Delta Upsilon is holding its first annual Kickin' for a Cure soccer tournament on "' Feb. 7 and Feb. 14. The event is open to ·any teani that would like to par­ ticipate. The games will be on the intramural fields, and all proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. • Layne Labruzzo, who is a Tri Delta, is planning Culture Shock Week between February 16 to 20. , Layne, who is also the cul­ tural arts director for the Campus Activities Board, has planned three activities for the week: Poetry in Motion, Monday at 8 p.m.; Java Jams, Wednesday at 7 p.m.; and the Jazz Fest, Friday at 8 p.m. February 11, 1998 www.orlando.digitalcity.co11t/future Central Florida Future • 18 Classifieds

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By CORBETT TRUBEY love), while the rest of us, those last thing you want is people to lates! Yeah, you heard me! You 8. Go out and get drunk! Entertainment Editor who are bitter, bored, lonely, or think that you're showing inter­ just march right into that Assuming there's a designated all of the above, watch in pain est in the holiday. Publix, grab that three pound driver, you have enough Love is in the air.... and it and try not to hurt While not 2. Avoid married couples. box of truffles (you know, the money, etc.,etc. Drown it all stinks! That sick, sappy, dis­ everybody will get through These people are the worst. It one with that cheesy ribbon with a nice martini, kamikaze, gustingly sweet and hopelessly Saturday without catching might be fun to watch some crud on top) and inhale 'em all! or any other strong drink to eternal holiday of ·Valentines some annoying reminder of fumble desperately to think of 5. Don't watch TV. Especially wash those blues away. Day is approaching. That what day it is, it is possible to what to do this year (since you if you have cable, because you 9. Flip those flower girls on creeping dread you felt back at make it through without sink­ can only go to dinner & a know TNT will think of some the side of the road the bird. the beginning of January, when ing to desperate measures to movie so many times), they'll romance film-fest (or even 10. Give your pet a valentine grocery stores starting filling fulfill your holiday wishes (and still manage to let off the most worse, MTV will have a card. Hey, if you want to let their special "seasonal" aisle yes, stalking that girl or guy in puke-inducing of comments. "Singled Out" marathon). And someTHING know you care, at with Garfield valentines and your science class does count That does include saying things if you must watch TV, talk least let it be the one that won't \ those dorky little candy hearts, as desperate). Here is a short like "honey buns," "snook­ shows or soap operas will stand you up or make you go to will now reach an even more list of things you can do to sur­ ums," and the dreaded "creme always make you feel better. the most expensive restaurant dreaded peak as this weekend vive Valentines Day, and while puff." 6. Listen to Portishead (or any in town. will be filled with the over­ some might not apply to every­ 3. Call your mom/dad. If you other group specializing in PLEASE NOTE: These are joyed utterings of millions one (some broken hearts are must have some reassurance depressing lyrics). Drown your­ only suggesti.ons, so don't upon millions of blinded fools. bigger than others), it might that SOMEBODY loves you, self in depression. At least peo­ blame anybody but yourself for It is unfortunate that some make your day a little more they'll always make sure to let ple will leave you alone. what happens (those flower people must remind themselves you know. But usually you have 7. Prank call your ex. You bearable: girls can do some pretty painful once a year that they're in love 1. Don't wear red. Duh! It's, to call them first. hate them. They found some­ things with a bouquet). Good (or think that that they're in like, the color of LOVE! The 4. Buy your own darn choco- body else. Nail 'em. luck! I Men's Rugby loses .. WKMG PRESENTS THE . at Florida, 14-12 ~ ~ J ' By BILL CAIL Rugby correspondent

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By DOUG LANSKY I was the only person in the hall She ran back and forth between feed them for about 160 days, like a pitcher. The auction College Press Service wearing sandals and not wear­ the gates as if the two cowhands then sell them when they've put owner might walk out and pull ing jeans. My belt buckle was so had her trapped in a pick off on some weight, hopefully for a you if you' re not getting the big AMARILLO, TEXAS - I wimpy it could have been: beat­ between bases. In desperation, profit. Bo was just looking to bids in." Madison Michener, the couldn't tell you the difference en up by a Texan cufflink. Any she stopped in the center of the pick up a few "head." Amarillo auction owner, agreed between a "cowboy" and a one of these dress code viola­ ring and relieved herself. The As I learned, the animals were that this happens but said he "cowhand," a "steer" and a tions would probably have been auctioneer's hammer came either sold by .the "head," by the doesn't do it, even though a "steed," or a "heifer" and a enough to get me arrested as a down with a bang. She was out! "pound," or by the "quarter­ strong caller (or a caller on a "heifee." I only went to whale-hugging communist. And At one point, four female pound with cheese." roll) can average about 20 per­ Amarillo's cattle auction to-top it off, I didn't even have a tourists who looked like recent During intermission, I got a cent higher prices. because I get a kick out of lis­ STETSON! graduates of the Junior League chance to speak with Dale "A caller is really just a fast- tening to auctioneers - the A Stetson is the Coca-Cola of College for Texas Debu'tantes, Cooper, one of the auctioneers talking salesman," Dale only people I've ever seen who cowboy hats, the Lederhosen of entered the hall and proceeded with turbo-charged vocal explained. can talk more and say less than the Wild West. Madeline down to the front row. Every chords. When I admired his I didn't make much progress a room full of presidential can­ Albright wears one. The Stetson turned. The auctioneer locution skills, he offered to toward an auctioneering career; didates. Marlboro Man wears one. And briefly stopped talking. Even give me a lesson in "calling." I was content to sit back and In the parking lot, I wedged nearly every man in the auction the cattle· stopped to watch, Well, to say it was a lesson watch this entertaining my rented Subaru between two hall sat in the shade of a big though they were probably just would be stretching things. He American institution. But three dust-covered Ford pick-up one. blinded by the jewelry. The just wanted me to practice say­ hours without scratching my trucks. The Amarillo auction I spent the first hour trying to quartet's cowboy boots were ing, "Give-me-20-give-me-30- nose, sneezing, or blinking was hall was, at one time, the figure out the bidding signs, worth, cumulatively, more than 20-30-0K-30-give-me-40-30- about as much as I could handle. biggest in the world. Now, that many so subtle you could miss my rental car. I gathered this gi ve-me-40." title is held by a hall in them even if you were looking was how auction-hall tourists I would say, "Give me 20. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Oklahoma, and thanks to the TV right at the person making the were expected to look. Give me 30. Twenty. Thirty. WEB SITES: Cattle Auction Channel (also bid. I was afraid to scratch my Trying to learn more about OK? Forty, give me 30. I mean, Holding an Online Auction: called Pay-Per-Cow), live bid­ nose, sneeze or blink for fear I'd the auction process, I asked Bo, 40 give me 60. No, wait. Sixty, http://www.cattleofferings.com/ ding here isn't quite what it end up the owner of an expen­ a serious-looking cowboy sit­ give me 40." auctionannc.htm used to be. sive steer. ting next to me. Some of the "No," Dale would say. "More COWauction: The 300-seat hall was about a Some bidders used complicat­ bidders, he explained, were like this." Then he'd repeat his http://www.hfw.com/cowaucti.h third full when I arrived. There ed hand and arm gestures that "traders" who might buy cattle, spiel. I watched closely to see if tm was a curved "icatwalk" for the looked like . .. well, I'm a little rent space for them right at the he was taking air in through his Handilinks to Cattle: animals to show off their loins, rusty with my baseball signals, auction house, then sell them ears. http://www.ahandyguide.com/c with an entry gate on the left, an but I'm pretty sure one guy was the next week and stick around "What's the trick?" I asked. atl/c/c876.htm exit gate on the right, and sever­ trying to get a cow to steal third. to help bid up the price. Others "Practice -- and learn your , Dickinson Cattle Company al cowhands to help move the The cow, obviously not a base­ were "feeders." They typically numbers." Links Page: http://www.texas- st0ck in the right direction. ball fan, was equally confused. buy steers when they're small, According to Dale, "A caller is longhorn.com/links.html

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By KRISTINA LANE schemes." way to learn about the tools of delete," said Doherty. "This is a special counsel to the College Press Service Crump, who believes that spam persuasion. Doherty claims fundamental rule of persuasion­ Information Technology Group is a useful learning tool, created there is much to learn by analyz­ find a way to get people to read at the Los Angeles law firm of Want some stuff? Maybe a web site last September to test ing the methodology of spam, what you are writing-and it usu­ Foley & Lardner, more states $1,000 worth of stuff? How his belief right down to the subject head­ ally works." will follow. State regulations are L about $1,000 worth of stuff, with (http:www.missouri.edu/~rhet­ ings. This way of teaching expands problems, Overly argues, no strings attached? net/spamonade/). This site is the walls of the classroom, because 50 different laws would So begins a piece of unsolicit­ offered as an alternative to the •••••••••••• enabling students to learn by be confusing and potentially ed commercial electronic mail, delete key. Interested parties "As the class­ doing. Students can use restrictive to non-advertisers. otherwise known as junk e-mail, send actual spam messages to the Spamonade to form educated "This is one of the only times or spam. Spam annoys just site, and the messages are posted room becomes opinions about spam's influence a lawyer will ever say he wants about everyone and gives for rhetorical analysis or the computerized, on the Internet, and share their to see less application of the law, Internet advertising a bad name. browsing pleasure of the partici­ students need to beliefs with classmates and other but I do support the technologi­ Many states are working to pants. Some of the spam at the Internet users. Sandye cal approach of the Spamonade implement anti-spam laws that site include an offer for free learn how to Thompson, a participant in• the web site over the legal would inflict hefty fines on orga­ tacos and beer, a proposition for process i nforma­ Spamonade project, thinks this is approach," he said. "Those nizations circulating unsolicited free weekly investment service, crucial in a society continually favoring regulation are of the e-mail ("spammers"). and a memorial to Princess tion that is no influenced by technology. jump first, look later mentality. Numerous anti-spam Web sites Diana that urges readers to buy longer just the "As the classroom becomes They aren't ~hinking about the exist, acting as support centers T-shirts and to believe "she lives printed word, but computerized, students need to critical effects of mass regula­ for angry netizens (Internet in you, she lives in everyone!" learn how to process information tion." users) irritated by superfluous "Spam is rhetoric in action, and the electronic that is no longer just the printed Overly suggests that an ideal spam. we can't just dismiss.it by react­ word.Spamonade word, but the electronic word," solution would combine a specif­ In spite of such adamant oppo­ ing with vehement anger in a she said. "Spamonade provides ic federal law with the techno­ sition, spam prevails. But why? rush to get rid of it; we need to provides stu­ students this opportunity, as well logical approach displayed· by Eric Crump, Web site project study why the arguments posed dents this oppor­ as the chance to experience the Web sites like Spamonade. manager for the National by this sort of mail do or do not tunity." evolution of Internet culture." So what does Eric Crump think Council of Teachers of English, work, and who the audience is," The goal of Crump and his col­ of regulation?

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By LINDA RAMOS time-management system, Carol Staff Writer - C. Kanar, who is the author of The Confident Student, advises Have you ever wondered how the use of semester, weekly and • • there can be 24 hours in a day daily schedules. : wednesdayiil thursday ltl and there is not enough time to The semester schedule, which do all the things that need to be can be a wall calendar, is an e Market Day, Student done? Speaker Yolanda friends, rides and overview of important events. Union, South Plaza, 10 Use all class syllabi to construct King, UCF Arena, 8 • Fortunately, there is enough . buses. a.m. to 2 p.m. time. It is just a matter of using this schedule. The weekly p.m. • A quick way to eliminate time • An Evening of Elegance, a time management system. schedule, which can be your wasters is to carry class notes on • University Dining Room, • However, before a person pro­ index cards. This makes study­ daytimer, is less overwhelming. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. • claims war against the clock, ing convenient by breaking it Its purpose is to show all class they should examine the down into portable manageable times, test dates, papers due, job • • answers to the why-what-how chunks. - hours and free time when you • • questions of time-management. Setting goals, planning and could schedule study sessions. • • Walter Pauk, How to Study in evaluating are an important The daily schedule, which can . College, suggests that by plan­ be a to-do list on a notepad can : friday aspect of time management. llJsaturday IFJ : ning time a person is actually There are three steps of goal serve as a reminder for your reg­ planning their life. ular activities. setting, planning and evaluating: Sign-ups for Open Mic The benefits of time manage- Once a schedule has been • Valentine's Day · • • Identify and prioritize goals. • Knight deadline, Stuc:tent WUCF-FM 89.9: II ment are numerous. Is an English term paper due devised a person needs to evalu­ Union, Room 215 • e Trovatore, 1 :30 p.m. If a person manages time to before a chemistry test? Does a ate their progress. Comedian Rod Zj • stt1dy, they can eliminate cram- person want an A iri biology or A schedule can be difficult to • Student Union, 8 p.m. • ming. If a person schedules their just barely pass the class? follow, but a person should keep e Movie: Romeo and time to fit in all commitments, Answers to these types of ques­ at it. Time management with Juliet, Student Union, • • Room 316, .6:30 and 9 they will not feel overburdened tions tell a person how they need practice can become a habit. If • with conflicting responsib_ilities. to plan time. you have committed to a sched­ • p.m If a person plans time, they are • In Strategies for Active ule, then schedule time for fun . • freed from remembering every- Learning by James E. Twining, • • - thing they must do in a day. it is suggested to allow plenty of Linda Ramos is associated • . with Full Student Services • sunday Some people have trouble with room for flexibility. When plan­ · 11.1 monday ltd: time management because they ning time problems that arise (FSS), which provides word pro­ waste time. throughout the day do not cessing/typing and research • Movie: Grosse President's Day Cook Off, Barbara Ying assistance to college students. A time waster is an ineffective schedule every minute with an Pointe Blank, Center, 6 to 9 p.m. • use of life's moments. Time- activity. A person will not have Direct all correspondence to -·• Student Union, · CBS CoHege Tour, Student • wasters include time between time to adequately solve prob­ FSS, PO Box 622077 Oviedo, Room 316, 6:30 and Re~ource Center Green, 11 classes, waiting for professors lems. FL 32762-2077 or 407-525- • 9p.m . . a.m. • 3302. lthamar Gruenwald, before classes and waiting for • In the planning phase of a • "Kabbalah: Mysticisrn and • • Judaism," 7:30 p.m. 823-5039 • • • • tuesday 1w: • SG Elections • HEALT.HY WOMEN & CBS College Tour, Green, 1 O a.m. • lthamar Gruenwa1d, "Modern Jewish • • Messianism," 10 a.m. 823-5039 • MEN • -·• • VOLUNTEERS AGES 18-45 ... •••••••••••••••••• •

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From PAGE 28 all-state as a junior and senior; senior, was named team MVP an Kruczek said. "We lost them to Britt McGriff - 5-10, 165, wide named District 3 Class 3-A offensive MVP in 1997. Also Vito Golson - 6-3, 190, line­ great football programs that are receiver, Gainesville P.K. Player of the Year. played quarterback and running backer, St. Petersburg Lakewood traditional conference bowl Younge High School 40-yard­ "Maurice Wilson is a running back at FHS, rushing for 900 High School teams. Until we prove ourselves dash time: 4.5 bade/linebacker, possibly as a yards as a senior and had 190 Comment: Named to all-con­ at that level, we're going to con­ Comment: Third-team all-state. safety. He's really an athlete," tackles and seven interceptions ference, all-county and Pinellas tinue to lose those guys. But we "McGriff comes from a Gooch said. "He is probably the in his career. County All-Star teams. Seven have to recruit that type of quali­ University of Florida family," . prototypical football player; he "He is a true comerback. He career touchdown receptions, ty athlete [to succeed]." said Gooch, adding McGriff s has a great feel for the game, can play man-to-man defense, team-leading 98 tackles and four "This year's signing frenzy has o]der brother and father played plays either side of the football which is our style," Gooch said. interceptions in 1997. moved UCF closer to the elite for UF. "He broke the mold and and is an astute young man." "He could be an impact player." "Golson played linebacker, programs," Gooch said. "There decided to come to UCF." wide receiver, defensive back is no question we are bridging Defensively, UCF signed a Joe Coleman - 5-10, 185, and linebacker in high school, the gap and we are starting to get Raqdolph Waite - 6-1, 175, lineman, linebacker, defensive defensive back, Fort Lauderdale but we have a need at line­ in there with the big guys. An Orlando Jones High School 40- end, two cornerbacks and a S!. Thomas Aquinas 40-yard­ backer," Gooch said. official visit for a young man is yard-dash time: 4.55 defensive back. Raheem dash time: 4.65. now going to be an Auburn, an Comment: "Waite is a local tal­ Pontiflet, a 6-4, 235-pound Comment: Second-team all­ Kruczek said UCF competed Alabama, a Florida, a Florida ent and probably one of the defensive end from Northeast state, first-team all-county. with some of the nation's top State and then there's UCF." fastest players in Orange Mississippi Community College Expected to play comerback at programs for players this year. For updated recruiting news, County," said Gooch. "He could (Jacksonville Sandalwood High) UCF. "We lost some recruits to go to the Central Florida Future's be a sleeper because Jones does­ is the top signee. "This is the guy Auburn, Clemson, Kansas State, online site at http://www.orlan­ n't didn't throw the ball a lot dur­ who leads our defensive class Garrett McCray - 6-5, 280, Oklahoma State, Mississippi," do.digitalcity.com/future/index. ing his career [Waite caught only recruits," Gooch said. "We feel offensive lineman/defensive -'------'--'--~------18 passes this year] ." like he can step on the field and lineman, Mayo Layfayette make some contributions early County High School SCHOLARSHIP MONEY ! ! because we lost three defensive Comment: Recorded ll5 tack­ THE ROY LIKINS SCHOLARSHIP. Maurice Wilson - RB , 6-2, 185, A ends this year." les his senior year, first-team all­ Two - $2000 Scholarships will be awarded by Tallahassee Florida High School N 40-yard-dash time: 4.5. The others: state, LCHS Outstanding the Florida Section N American Water Works Association in 1998. Comment: 4,280 career .rushing Andre Purdie - 5-9, 165, cor­ Defensive Player. 0 nerback, Foley (Ala.) High "This is a good catch for us," ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have attained 65 college credit houra, have a yards with 45 touchdowns on u minimum of 3.0 GPA based on a 4.0 system, and must be pursuing a degree related 407 carries. More than 1,700 School 40-yard-dash time: 4.4 Gooch said. "He had a lot of N to the drinking water industry in a Florida college or university. Comment: Purdie was an all­ offers to play else where. He can c yards and 20 touchdowns as a If yo1_1 are interested, please obtain an application by contacting: I senior on 202 carries. First-team region selection as a junior and play both sides of the ball." Charle• J. Vou, P.E., DEE Phone: (407) 660-2552 N c/o Camp Dresser and McKee Inc. Fax: (407) 875·1161 G 2301 Maitland Center l'kwy., Suite 300 E-Mail: [email protected] ~faitland, FL 32751

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From PAGE 28 Davis named TAA.C Golden Knights loss to national­ Boike broke individual school 55-meter hurdles, 9.57 seconds). ly ranked Florida International records at the 1998 Barnett Bank Eighteen teams participated in The Golden Knights, ranked player of the week (Jan. 29) and followed that per­ Invitiational, indoor track and the event, including host Florida, 54th nationally in the latest Women's basketball player formance by recording her sec­ field meet in Gainesville on Feb. Georgia Tech, Florida State, Rolex Collegiate Rankings, won Chariya Davis has been named ond double-double of the year 7. Miami, South Florida and four of six singles matches the Trans America Athletic with 23 points and 10 rebounds . Panaggio earned a school-best Clemson . against the Green Wave (1-1 ), Conference Player of the Week in the 81-72 Florida Atlantic win time of 10: 16.79 to finish sixth in which ended last season tied for for the week of Jan. 26. (Jan. 31). the women's 3,000 meter run. Men's golf places 75th nationally. UCFfs number Davis, ajunior guard, averaged Davis shot 42.9 percent from Boike broke the 55-meter high one doubles team of Maria last at Gator l5.7 points, 7 rebounds, 5.7 the field, 83.3 percent from the hurdles record with a time of Widyadharma and Jeanine assists and 1. 7 steals in three line and 66.7 percent from three­ 8:62 seconds, which is UCF's The men's golf team shot a Christiai:i then clinched the victo­ games last week. The Golden point range in those three games. best time for either an indoor or final round 316 and finished 15th ry with an 8-6 triumph over Knights defeated Troy State, She is the first UCF women's outdoor meet, to finish fifth in on Feb. 8 at the Gator Stephanie Michael and Mika 102-70, on Jan. 26 and Davis player to be named TAAC Player her race. Invitational in Gainesville. Anami. was two rebounds shy of the first of the Week this season. Other top 10 finishers were UCF was paced by Ryan UCF's next match, which was triple-double in ·school history, Katara Beard (fourth place in the Williams, who shot a 12-over par to be South Florida on Feb. 13, finishing the game with 12 Track duo break shot put, 12.93 meters), Amber 222 to finish tied for 36th, and • has been rescheduled for Feb. 20 points, 11 assists and eight school records Twyner (eight place in the shot Jeff Whitman, who tied for 68th in Tampa. The Knights are play rebounds. put, 11.81 meters) and Carliss with a 23-over-par 233. next Feb. 12 against Miami (FL). • She scored 12 points in the Anne Panaggio and Michele Cade (seventh in her heat in the

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By DEREK GONSOULIN Knights lost 4-0 to Auburn, which The top three hitters nine in 68 at bats changeup over," Lubozynski said. Sports Editor was ranked 10th in the (.132). All-tournament "I just wanted to pitch as deep as I preseason USA center fielder and lead­ could for the team." ' The baseball team may have Today/Baseball off man Will Croud The st:atters, Mike Maroth, been swept at the Olive Garden Weekly pol4 as had five hits, triple d Travis Held and Lubozynski held Classic in Kissimmee, but Coach UCF could only and scored three runs. three teams that played in NCAA Jay Bergman now knows UCF is manage three hits Joining him on the regionals last year to seven runs in one strike away from beating against Tigers' all-tournament team 18 innings. some of the best in the nation. starter Brent were second base­ The bullpen's struggles, howev­ In the first game on Feb. 7, the Schoening. A prob­ men Eric Riggs er, allowing seven runs in eight Knights (3-3) led No. 16 Clemson lem with the (four hits, two dou­ innings, cost UCF two victories. by one run with two-outs in the Knights' offense, bles, two walks and Relief pitchers Chris Miller and ninth when the Tigers' Jason which had only seven two RBI) and pitch­ Lester Victoria, who gave up the Harris hit a two strike, two-run RBI and no home er Matt game-losing runs against USP and home run for the game winner. Oi:i runs, came from the Lubozynski, who Clemson, gave up four runs in just Feb. 8, UCF led South Florida 2-0 inability to advance shut out the Bulls over two innings work. with two outs in the eighth when runners, Bergman for seven innings "There's a saying in baseball: Bulls' third baseman Dan Boyd hit said. in his first start of When you're playing good, you're a two-run home run off a 1-2 "When you keep a the year. not playing as good as you think count. USP (3-4) finished off their game close and you Lubozynski, you are," said Bergman, who got rally with two outs in the ninth play good defense Photo by MJOMARsR¢.L who allowed nine his 800th career coaching victory with a two-strike single to score hits, struck out in the game at Bethune-Cookman the go-ahead run. ~~::e gt~in!i~o ah~;; o~ ... ~ . • . ·• •ite ..Marotb allowed thr§e ·'· runs m five and walked College on Feb. 3. "When you are games," he said. "You're StartilUJ t6Clems<>11· "We're one strike away from tive ..plu,s ~~~:':gsr...... · ~N:. . none, said he playing bad, you're not playing as winning two big games, but that's going to win those , stuck with his bad as you are." how close we are," Bergman said. games by getting a key , best pitches against a team The Knights next play Santa "The hard part is being that close hit at the right time. We "' in UCF's lineup had 13 hits like USP. Clara Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. at the and not winning." are just not trusting our offense in batting .377 for the tournament, "I wanted to hit my spots, which Florida Marlins Tournament in In the night game on Feb. 7, the right now, but that will come." but the rest of the team had only is what I do best, and get my Melbourne. Introducing·the bigger tai spt·ing bteak fevef ._.. -...... with the bigger .taste;

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By BRANT PATRICK PARSONS her through this situation by let­ laughing. Staff Writer ting her figure it out for herself. Coming from a basketball­ "I thought they were going to playing family, her father and Junior guard Chariya Davis is kill me, but they let me go brother both played in college, the leading scorer for a Division through this stage. They let me one could see the influence of I basketball program, a two-time suffer the consequences," Davis the game on Davis' ·life. But conference all-academic team said. studies were always put first in member and she has hopes of She also found inspiration in the Davis household. .. playing professionally one day. It her best friend since the fourth The rules were that all school might not have been this way for grade. Nikki was a year older work had to be done before any Davis, had she taken a different and an excellent student. playing was allowed. This was a path years ago. Growing up together, Nikki rule that was strictly followed by During a self-described identi­ assisted Davis with her studies. Davis and her brother. ty crisis, Davis said she struggled "If Chariya needed help with "A lot of times, (my parents) to find her place like many other something, she would go over to wouldn't be home, and my kids during adolescence. The age Nikki's and she would help her brother and I knew that if we when acceptance is the main with her work," Rosayln Davis didn't do our homework we did­ goal, she found herself giving said. n't play. We knew what was • into peer pressure. Davis said it was Nikki that going to happen when they got "I was doing stuff to be in with helped her realize who she want­ Photo by MIKE MARSHALL home, so we didn't even want to the crowd, trying to fit in," Davis ed to be. Nikki, who graduated in Junior guard Chariya Davis leads UCF in scoring, rebounding, take a chance with that," Davis said. the top five in her class and now assists and steals. said . • Davis' mother, Rosalyn, studies engineering, seemed to Davis credits her parents for remembers some of the antics be doing all the right things. ly took a liking to basketball and against pushed me harder, I had helping her become the person her daughter would pull. "Because of her, I was able to was soon thinking about playing to pick up my game." she is today. "Her father would take her to be myself," Davis said. "She with the adults. She spent every­ It is this old, hot gym that still "They did their best in raising the middle school and drop her showed me by example, she was day dribbling, shooting, doing remains close to Davis's heart. me," she said. "I see a lot of off and she would walk across doing good and she was smart. something with a basketball, she When she goes home over the things I could be doing, but I am • the street to the store to get She was a year older, I wanted to said. summer, she is still expected to not, because I choose not do it." candy," Rosalyn Davis said. be like her. If she could do it, I By the age of nine, Davis was show up at the gym, or else she Davis said she has found her Davis had also developed a ten­ could do it." no longer playing on the chil­ is may be accused of being too identity. She prides herself on dency to distract other- kids in The other constant in Davis' dren's side of the gym. She was good to come by the gym. She is being her own person, influenc­ school, her mother said. life was basketball. Basketball playing with the adults and hold­ now a marked person there, ing herself. Certainly, the antics pulled by has been a part of Davis' life ing her own. Davis was not being a college star. "Whatever I do, I just want to Davis are common place with since she was five years old. treated any differently during - "They're making it harder," she give 110 percent at whatever I other kids during those years, but Instead of sending her to day these games. said. do. I want to get my degree, Davis felt she was going down care, her father took her with him "The didn't let me slack off," "They are trying to block every have a family, ... a good life. If the wr9ng road. to work. He would open up the Davis said. "If I got fouled hard, shot and they are fouling me basketball doesn't work, I gave it "I didn't want to be that per­ old Quincy Middle School gym I had to get back up. They did­ hard. The older I get, the worse my best shot. I tried. Sometimes son," Davis said. for people to come and play var­ n't take it easy on me because I it is getting. I thought it would you fail, sometimes you suc­ She said that her parents helped ious organized sports. She quick- was a girl. Everyone I played slack off, but no," Davis said ceed."

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By TONY MEJIA UCF's next eight points, keying a "After hitting both free throws, Staff Writer . 12-1 run that tied the game at 81 we designed the last play to go to with two minutes left. FIU's Raja him, but the inbounds pass was UCF played its most inspired Bell, who with a game-high 20 so far back in the backcourt that basketball of the season in its points, hit two free throws after he didn't have as much time to home finale, upsetting Florida being fouled by Mark Jones. work with as we would have International, 86-83, on a 23-foot UCF now trailed 81-83 with 1:34 liked, and I guess that's why he buzzer beater by sophomore left, but the bigger blow was that settled for the jumper. DQ, in guard D'Quarius Stewart. the Knights' leading scorer had those situations has the ability to "I told coach that I wanted the fouled out. knock down a shot, especially final shot and he said 'OK, we're "We huddled together and said with someone right up in his going with you'," Stewart said. "I he's gone, but we have to pick face." just counted it down, five ... four things up without him. That's the Stewart's shot let seniors Chad ... three ... two ... one and put it way it's going to be next year," Steckine, fones, and Tony up." said Brad Traina, who led all Marlow, who were honored for Photo by MIKE MARSHALL ) Stewart's shot hit nothing but scorers with 21 points. "He's a Sophomore guard D'Quarious Stewart's three-pointer, the only their contributions to the pro­ net, bringing a raucous crowd of big part of our team, but with three UCF hit in the game, gave the Knights the upset win over gram in pre-game festivities, end 1,508 to its feet in jubilation. him gone that meant each one of FIU. their careers at the UCF Arena in Stewart almost didn't get the us had to step it up even more." sophomore center in the chest hard and the ref blew the tech. memorable fashion. chance to play hero. After the teams traded score­ "In with his elbow; technical foul on Good call." my four years here, we After the Knights led at half­ less possessions, Stewart drove haven't had much success against FIU. Gamble missed his two free time, 43-40, FIU began to pull to the basket with less than 10 "It was in the heat of the throws and Stewart, who asked FIU. They disrespected us down away, taking their biggest lead seconds left and missed an off­ moment with two aggressive to take the technical shots, made there (in Miami) and they were with 5:36 left after a goaltending balance runner. FIU senior for­ teams, so that's expected," both of his to set up the climactic talking trash to us in our own call against sophomore center ward Quincey Gamble grabbed Granberry said. "In the post, it's finish. place," said Marlow, who had Davin Granberry made the score the rebound and was fouled by not pretty, so you've got to "DQ had a lot of confidence in eight points off the bench. "I'm · 80-69. Granberry with 8.1 seconds left. expect that. It was nothing per­ himself, right at that particular just glad we had people to step Granberry, who tied a season­ Gamble took exception to sonal I think. He was just playing time," said coach Kirk Speraw. up and not let them get out of high with 13 points, scored six of Granberry's foul and hit the here with a win." FROMthe SPORTS de~k: Signing 1111lands10, Women's basketball loss at JSU cre­ a~es 2~d-place logjam Despite junior Chasity McCiendon's 20 points and eig.Q;trebounds and freshmanKelli Ely's 16 points, UCF _.1-11100111a1111a1e1S'- lost at Jacksonville State, 9r-84, on Feb. 7. The 'los's puts the Knights (13~7, 8¥3) in a tJ:rree~way tie with JSU By JEFF CASE (12-9, 8-3) and Campbell (8-3 in conference) for sec­ Staff Writer ond place in the Trans America Athletic Conference. OnFeb. 5, UCF defeat&l-Samford, 71-65, after trail­ To UCF football coach Mike ing by 17 in th_e first half. Junior guard Chariya Davis, Kruczek, recruiting in Division I-A who led the Knights with 15 points, scored the go­ allows no room for failure. abead basket with 2:07 remaining. "In college football, you have to l'b.e Bulldogs led 28-ll ~with 5:45 left u~til halftime, have a great recruiting class each btitled by only nine at the "break. UCF outscored the · year," Kruczek said. "You can't home team23-7 over the final 5:35 to take the victory. afford to have a washout with a class The Knights had two pla)Ters .finish with double-dou­ if you expect to compete. If you do, bles. McClendon had 13 points and 10 rebounds while you're history." senior center.Stacey DeVeaux added 10 points and 12 On Feb. 4, national signing day, rebounds. UCF announced 10 players who Kelli Ely, who had 15 points against Samford, hit six have joined the Golden Knights. three-pointers over the two games. She now has 44 UCF had 19 scholarships to offer. threes on the season, which is good for fifth-place in Alan Gooch, UCF's co-recruiting UCFs all-time history. coordinator, said the class meets the coaching; staffs criteria. Men's tennis falls to ranked USF "I feel we have got 10, I-A football players and we feel good about that," The men's tennis team lostto No. 67 South Florida, 4- Gooch said. "We didn't step off and 3, afterwinning the No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches on take somebody we didn't feel would the varsity tennis courts on Feb. 6. UCF (2-1) got vic­ have a chance to be successful at tories from No. 1 David Winberg, No. 2 Pelle Brunskog UCF and get us to where we want to and No. _6 Teddy Tandjung, but the two other singles go. players failed to win one of the last two matches the "We know as a staff, that with the team needed to eatn the victory. schedule ahead of us, we're going to The Knights took a 7-0 victory over visiting Bethune­ have to be competitive on that Cookman (1-2) on on Feb. 4. level." UCF, ranked 70th nationally in the Rolex Collegiate Offensively, the Knights signed Pre-Season poll, were led by David Winbergrs 6-3, 6-4 three wide receivers, one running Photo by MIKE MARSHALL victory over Javier Miles at No. 1 singles. Freshman back and a lineman. The receivers As many as seven of the 10 players who signed on Feb. 4 will play Greg Novak also rallied to post a 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 win over are headlined by Melvin Clark (5- defense for UCF. Tomas Uhrik at No. 3 singles. foot-10, 170 pounds) who caught 25 touchdown passes over his career at during spring practice. If he can Comment: First-team All­ Women's tennis beats ranked Thomasville (Ga.) High. He led his make an impact, then he could find a Southwest Georgia, all-state, all­ Green Wave on road team to the regional championship place in our plans as a wide receiver region. "Chance is a project," Gooch and runs a 4.45 in the 40-yard dash. or comerback." said. "He's not going to be an imme­ The women's tennis team improved to 2-0 on the sea­ "We will look at using him on both The others: diate impact pl~yer at this time." son as a result of a 5-3 victory over Tulane University sides of the ball," Gooch said. "It's a Chance Hutto - 6-4, 250, offensive here on Feb. 3. matter of the cream rising to the top guard, Bainbridge (Ga.) High School See COACHING, Page 24. See WOMEN'S, Page 25