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Central Florida Future. 2003. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2003 • FREE· Published Monda s, Wednesda rnnd Frida s www.CentralFloridaFuture.com ·Monday, February 26, 2007 Sisterly ·strength Pitcher perfect Past sorority president draws - inspiration from the women Knights tos·s three shutouts, win three in her life. of five in UCF tournament -sEEsP0Rrs,A10 · - SEE NEWS, A2 HEALTH PUTIINGTHE Sparks fly over el ·cal bills 'THIN' BACK IN ' . fP ·Student apartments enforce cap on overages • Remember to turn off electrical equipment when not in use $404.08 electricity bill Obvious­ Most apartment ,complexes The Girl Scolsts' days of peddling JESSICA SAGGIO •Keep the air conditioning between 78-80 degrees when warm out hannful trarls fats are over.Their Contributing Writer ly, the $130 cap the UCF-affiliated include utilities in the rent, with cookies are the.\ next fuod to have the apartment complex provided just the exception of electricity. For •Keep the air conditioning between 68-70 degrees when cold out artery-dogging fats taken out of When Pegasus Landing resi­ wouldn't cut it · the power bill, residents have a •Clean air filters and coils on air conditioners dent Fi:ank Frati went to pay his "I now owe my mom $68," cap on what the apartment com­ them. Now yotl can rest assured that ..·Keep refrigerators set to 38-42 degrees a·nd make s~re coils are clean those cookies 're probably hurting rent, the last thing he expected Frati said. laughing. ''Like a lot of plex will pay. For example, if the your wallet more than your heart. was a $68.52 electricity overage people here, I have tt> work.to pay electricity bill is $200 and your •Wash clothes in cold water and use the dryer for consecutive loads . bill my rent and I don't want it to get complex has, a cap of $150, the •Use a microwave or toaster oven instead of a conv~ntional oven to cook Between Frati and his three to the point where paying my remaining $50 in overages will be roommates in their 1,390 square­ rent has t<;> come before my •Wash dishes.in cold water foot apartment, they racked up a school work." PLEASE SEE CAPPING ON A7 •Turn off lights when you leave a room Rocking ·out to help the .,. hungry VUCF benefit for Aman showed that thrift stores still have hidden treasures when he the local. homeless bought an official copy of the Updated classic Constitution for $2.48. Experts ·Disney story.of EBONY MONTENEGRO believe that the document, one of Contributing Writer 200 that was ordered in 1820 by pure good, evil John Quincy Adams, could go for as Volunteer UCF showed that much as $250,000 at auction. fihnsatUCF you can have fun and help save The Constitut11 the world at the same time RACHAEL LOPEZ-DIAZ with their Rock for Hunger Contributing Writer Showcase on Friday, at the AKA Lounge in ·Downtown • ,.Ir UCF is the backdrop for Orlando. Amanda Bynes' new movie, "[Rock for Hunger] com- . Sydney White, that started film-' bines two things, something ing its three-week stint on cam­ that we all love and something pus Friday. Sydney White is a that we all should be doing - $16.5 million Morgan Creek music and charity,'' Faraaz production that will be shot in Merchant, Alternative Spring AROUND CAMPUS, A2 the former Pi Kappa Alpha Break director, said. house. This time around. proceeds HOUSING FAIR TO GIVE Morgan Creek agreed to from the concert were given to STUDENTS ALOOK AT give UCF a $25,000 scholarship the· First Vagabond Church of in lieu of a location fee. Tom _ God, which is currently work­ AREA· APARTMENTS Evelyn, of UCF News and ing on building a new church Apartment complexes and other Information, said they ar!=! look­ that will also act as a homeless housing companies will have tables ing to put the money into a shelter. set up for students to gather informa­ scholarship that the state will With the aid of Volunteer tion. There will be free food, enter­ hopefully match, · potentially UCF, Rev. Brian Nichols, the tainment and prizes. It will take place doubling the money available pastor of the First Vagabond at the Memory Mall on Tuesday from to students to $50,000. Church of God, plans to build a 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. • "There's no guarantee of it church focused on helping the being matched one-to-one, homeless. The plans for the , though." church include housing for LOCAL &STATE, A2 The plot is said to be a . about 40 people and hosting of comedic modem-day retelling services and daily feedings to WARRANT ISSUED.FOR of Snow White and the Seven the homeless. SUSPECT IN RANSOM Dwarfs about students in their About 150 people att.ended fre-Sbman year of college in the the event. After accounting for KIDNAPPING CASE Gre~k system. production costs, about $500 Detectives searched a home Sunday The cast for Sydney White · was raised to build the new ·in their hunt for a man suspected of includes Amanda Bynes, 20, church. The success of the the kidnapping for ransom of a 13- who starred in such TV shows event was due in part to the year-old boy from a school bus stop, and movies as She's The Man, generous donation of $100 by sheriff's officials said. Authorities have What I Like About You and The Liberty Investment Properties. been on a manhunt since Clay Moore Amandci. Show. Chris Goyzueta, director of Hunger and Homelessness, was abducted at gunpoint Fridi!y. Co-star Matt Long, 26, will play Bynes' love interest in the first had the idea for Rock for ,,, film. He may be recognized Hunger a year ago. "I wanted from the · recently released Above: production for Sydney White, Amanda Bynes' to find something like the NATION &WORLO,A4 · movie. Ghost Rider or from his new movie, continues its three-week stint tilming'in Hunger Banquet, but step it up; the former Pi Kappa Alpha house. Bynes, right, co­ I VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS stars with M.att Lopg in the modem-day retelling of · EXPRESS 'REGRET' FOR . PLEASE SEE UCF ON A9 . Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. PLEASE SEE LOCAL ON A9 STATE'S ROLE IN SLAVERY Sponsors of the resolution say they know of no otherstate that has apologized for slavery. The resolution Fundraiser a 24-hour party does not carry the weight of law but I sends an important symbolic NEGEANMOHI of flu turned into much worse, not including the month of message, supporters said. · Contributing Writer After doctors could not figure physical rehabilitation she need­ out the problem, she was sent to ed to relearn how to walk. "I'm Seven-year-old Shannon Arnold Palmer Hospital. There just feeling better. I love making Smowton was greeted with they concluded she had an E. new friends at this event and INDEX smiling faces from the hard coli infection and explained how playing with my cousin,'' she Around Campos 2 workers and volunteers of the sickness would affect her. continued. Smowton's cousin, Weather 2 UCF's Knight-Thon as she As a toxin, E. coli slowly dies Kate Wilson, has volunteered Local & State 4 entered the Recreation and in the system and in the process . her time to the cause and the Nation & World 4 Wellness Center Saturday. makes the host body sick. After event. 2005, Sports · 10 In March Smowton one week with it in her system, Every year, Knight-Thon was diagnosed with an E. coli hosts a 24-hour fundraiser I . Opinions 13 Smowtoil clung to her life as her infection. The trouble started where all proceeds go to the Classifieds 14 kidneys began to fail and she the morning after a day of pet­ slipped -into a coma Children's Miracle Network to Sudoku 15 \ AMANDA MOORE I CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Sophomore Nicky Quiroga, front center, and sophomore Stephanie Neubert, front right, join in a ting and feeding animals. What · "I was .in the hospital for Crossword 15 quick dance to a marathon of dips from pop hits like Michael Jackson's Thriller. started as a fever .and thoughts three months,'' Smowton said, -PLEASE SEE KNIGHT-THON ON M A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com February 26, 2007 • (euttaf :Jloriba 31rtun AROUND CAMPUS (tnttaf News and notices for the UCF community • Open Mic Knight 1toriba The Campus Activities Board's Comedy and Variety • committees will host Open Mic 1utun Knight on Monday from 7 p.m. The Student Newspaper at UCF since 1968 to 9 p.m. at Wackadoo's in the • Student Union. Fe~ruary 26, 2007 The event is open to every­ Vol 39, Issue 66 • 16 Pages one to come and share their tal­ The Centro/ Florida Future Is the independent, student· • ents, whether that's comedy, written newspaper at the University of Central Flori~.