Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 39, February 7, 1995
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 2-7-1995 Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 39, February 7, 1995 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 27 No. 39, February 7, 1995" (1995). Central Florida Future. 1281. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1281 • UCF baseball team goes 1 and 1 against Rollins at the start of the season, see P. 12 • • Flori Future • • by CYNTIIlA CONLIN to the days of Sojotlll1erTruth, who ran - "I never ran my train off the Contributing writer away from slavery in 1827 when her track, and I never lost a passenger," master refused to grant her freedom._ Barnessaid,recitingTubmaninapow - Sojollll1erTruth,Mary McLeod Between each sketch, Bumes erful, commanding voice, banging a • Bethune and Zola Neale Hurston are sang as she change.d her attire. After wooden staff on the hollow stage. all long gone, but they were at UCF in Truth, during "No MoreAuctionBock Then she sang another song, spirit last week when actress Adilah For Me," the audience was intrcxiuced donned a lavender cardigan, and be Barnes brought them to life. came Mary McLeod Bethune as she • Barnes, whose acting credits was recalling a childhood day at the includetelevision'sRoseanne andBlue schoolhouse. Skies, brought her one-woman his "As I looked through one of • torical show, ''I Am That I Am: the books, one of the girls said, 'Put Woman, Black" to the Wild Pizza, that book down, Mary Jane. You kicking off UCF's tribute to Black can't read.' ... Oh, how I wante.d to • History Month. The month will fol learn to read and write!" low through with a series of appear Not only did Bethune accom ances from black women, including plish this, but she also became an poet and activist Maya Angelou, one educator and founded "a school for of the women in Barnes' show. little girls in Daytona" which later "Come jollll1ey with me as I became Bethune-Cookman College. • take .us back ... " Barnes began her Off came Bethune's cardigan performance. "Come now, to the time and on came a straw hat and floral of slavery." blouse as Barnes took on the persona She then put on a white scarf of Zola Neale Hurston. • and shawl which reflected the spot Barnes began Hurston' s light in the darkened room and sang to Haniet Tubman. words, "Growing up in an all-black the old negrospiritual, "Oh Freedom." Tubman led over 300 slaves to town ofEtonville, Florida," and audi Notasoundrangfrom theaudi freedom by way of the Underground enceasBarnes brought onlookers back Railroad. · see SHOW, page 4 • Survey says. .•UCF still one of safest campuses in state by BOB VOGEL went up in every .category, except for UCFPoliceDepartmentalsocautions Gorbas also says that in many crease in drug-related arrests. While Staff writer aggravated assault and forcible rape. against over-reliance upon statistics cases the area surrounding a campus UCF officials reported only two drug UCF fared better when com and warns that other factors may be has an impact on the amount of crime relate.darrests in 1993,ittranslatesinto A UCF publication shows that, pare.d with other Florida Universities, involved. ''If, in one year, we have that a campus experiences. an increase of 100 percent over the although some campus crimes have however. only one violent_crime, and that goes ''In Orlando, which is not con previous year. risen in 1993, UCF still remains one of While the number of motor up by one, then you have·an increase sidere.d to be a high crime area, one An annual survey shows that the safest Florida Universities to at thefts, for example, went up by 150 oflOOpercent,"heexplained. "But at might expect crime to be low," he campus officials across the nation re tend. percent at UCF, it is still quite low a campus where there are already a said. ''But in a place like Miami, well, ported 4,837 drug-relate.d arrests, 34.3 A Guide to Safer Living, a pub whencornparedtothenumberofmotor good number of violent crimes, an let's.face it, Miami is Miami." percent more than the 3,601 reported lication produce.d by the UCF Police thefts at UF. increase of one isn't that much of a Campus officials across the Department, shows that campus crime Sergeant Tom Gorbas of the percent increase." nation are alarmed by the sharp in- see CRIME, page 4 Iranian film maker brings 3 documentaries to UCF by OMAR DAJANI reality, several Iranian individuals Staff writer and groups began to organize in an effort to discredit and ultimately The wave of democratization bring about the demise of a regime that swept the communist world in that seems unshaken by the rum the late '80s seems like it stopped blings of the new world order. But once it reached the borders of Iran. many who spoke out too loudly Fifteen years after the country ex were hunted down by the Iranian ploded into revolution, Iran is still government and assassinated. under the grip of a violent, repres Yet Reza Allamehzadeh is sive regime dominated by funda not intimidated. He's an Iranian ex mentalist religious doctrine of ile who still produces documenta Ayotallah Khomeini. ries that show the atrocities com Many Iranians have since left mitted by agovernmentthatcrosses the country and started new lives in borders to neutralize its opponents. Europe and North America. Now Allamehzadeh was on the UCF cam that they have left the country they pus Friday to show three of his were exiled from, their L!W homes documentaries. have offered them an ingredient not "I assumed that the nation of found in Iran: Freedom. Takingadvantageoftheirnew see RLMS, page 2 News 1-5 Opinion 6-7 Classified a· The "Cool" and the "Fool" reviews by Jim-see p.1 O Features 9-10 Sports 11-12 2 •The Central Florida Future• Feb. 7, 1995 Al.'l'lillN A'l'l\fli ------------ ___ ._.. ------ ----------------- ------------------- --------------_..._.---------- -----____---- ---,_,,_- ---------- - ACID JAZZ • I~! ~J®I JIJl~ • and featuring the 89.9 news and sports teams • • CF 89.9 • FM Shuttle makes Mir rendevous ' Reuters Less than three hours before the delicate dance began, the Rus- • CAPE CANAVERAL, -The sian Space Agency granted its ap- U.S. shuttle Discovery hovered a proval for Discovery to fly within mere 44 feet away from Russia's 38 feet of Mir, before it backed Mir space station Monday at the away to 400 feet and flew a slow • climax of a rendezvo_us that wi11 set circle around the orbiting outpost. the stage for a historic orbiting link- The entire maneuver was to up in June. last about two hours. • Shuttle commander' Jim The decision came after Wetherbee and veteran cosmonaut three days of negotiations between Vladimir Titov waved at the cheer- American and Russian engineers ing, smiling Mir crew as they waited on both sides of the globe. The for ground controllers on two con ti- Russians had feared that the nine- nents to give the go-ahead f<?r Dis- year-old space station would be ~ covery to approach the orbiting out- damaged by oxidizer which was DO YOU post. leaking from a steering jet on the Ground controllers gave the space shuttle. • word at 1:35 p.rn. EST. Wetherbee NASA spokeswoman Kari parked the shuttle in front of Mir at Fluegel said U.S. engineers agreed SUFFER 2:20 p.m. EST, arid the two craft to have the astronauts stop the traveled in tandem at 17,500 mph leak by closing a manifold that from darkness into sunlight high supplies fuel to the broken jet. above the southern tip ofKamchatka By the time the two craft and the northern tip of Japan. established direct radio contact at FROM Wetherbee was to maintain 9:30 a.m. EST, space officials at the position for about 10 minutes, control centers in Houston and then back the shuttle away from Mir Kaliningrad still had not decided ~ and circle the space station at a whether the crew - five NASA (COLLEGE CRASH SYNDROME)• distance of 400 feet while his astronauts and a veteran cosmo- crewmembers made a photographic naut - would be allowed to ap- ~ survey. proach as close as they had hoped. Has burning the midnight oil zapped your GAS to the college marketplace, it's become energy? Are you pooped out from all that quite the rage among students everywhere. But • studying? Have all those great week- don't just take our word for it. Take one 'It's a plea for free speech ends started catching up with you? or two pills for yourself and you'll I Are all the extra curriculars of college quickly see why so many students are and free expression ... ' UCF • life draining your tank? Do you feel becoming Gas Fanatics. like you're always running out of So for an energy buzz you won't associate professor says. gas? forget... UP YOUR GAS today! Find RLMS, from page 1 are against what the revolutionary • Well then dudes.. it's time to out why some gas can actually be government is doing.