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Thursda , October 30, 2003 Men's tennis among unsung · Taking pumpkin carving to a • heroes of campus athletics. whole new level of creativity. RACKET -SEE SPORTS, All HALLOWEEN -SEE LIFESTYLES, AS • • 'Live at the Wetlands' Policy in Hitt's hands safer from discrimination against said. "It shows character that the fac­ Faculty decision gays, the. GLBSU actively lobbied ulty were the ones who stood up. administrators to include protections Students can only say so much but you based on sexual orientation in the always need an ad.miilistrator or fac­ turns up pressure UCF policy. The organization's efforts ulty to stand up for you. Obviously they PATRICIA XAVIER were met with no formal action on noticed it was an issue that needed to Senior Staff Writer campus. This year, the organization is be brought up, and we're happy they once again actively seeking an did." It took nearly a year, but student endorsement from Hitt and Hickey to UCF Director of News and members of the Gay, Lesbian and approve the Senate's recommenda­ Information Linda Gray said that last Bisexual Student Union say efforts by tion. year Hitt issued a policy statement the Faculty Senate to add a protection While efforts last year slowed after that included equal protection for all clause to UCF's anti-discrimination Hitt said he did not see UCF as a place members of the UOF community policy has pushed forward the battle where gays faced discrimination, regID.'dless of sexual orientation, mari­ for gRy rights at UCF. members of the. G:CBSU believe the tal status, veteran status, and political The resolution, which passed the Faculty Senate has re-awakened inclination. Faculty Senate Oct. 23, is under con­ efforts. Sophomore J.T. Philpot said "The university adheres to the • sideration by President John Hitt and the Faculty Senate's overwhelming state and federal guidelines regID.'ding Provost Terry Hickey, who could support 'of the resolution has set an discrimination because we are a state decide to add the resolution to UCF's example that she hopes administra­ university and we receive federal ANGELA KATSARELIS I CENTRAL FLORIDA MURE discrimination policy. The Senate's tors will fallow. funds," Gray said. "Dr. Hitt has talked Robert Randolph and the Fa"1ily Band, which includes Randolph (middle}, Danyel Morgan (left} and Jason Crosby, recommendation is only a suggestion "It was a hard process [lobbyfng], extensively, not just about diversity performed Tuesday at UCF's Student Union. The band has been together for three years. Their first and only album as - it has no official weight. of yet is titled 'Live at the Wetlands' and can be found at Park Avenue CDs in the Student Union. ' we tried to get involved and make Last year in an effort. to make UCF changes and it wasn't successful," she PLEASE SEE POLICY ON A6 SAE fraternity to' Olander takes anti-Patriot Act ·remain suspended case to City Hall BEN BAIRD or not SAE committed any wrong­ ALEX BABCOCK Senior Staff Writer doing, and if so what punishment Managing Editor will be appropriate. The meeting · The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra­ will be closed to the public, At the end of an Orlando City ternity's chapter at UCF will according to the Office of Student Hall meeting Monday,· after a remain on suspension for the next Conduct. half-hour debate on tow truck two to three weeks as it awaits a The fraternity is under investi­ company contracts, a UCF stu­ formal hearing to decide the fra­ gRtion for a suspected hazing inci­ dent on a mission got to speak. ternity's fate. dent that happened Oct. 16 at the It wasn't until after the city's Tl;le decision came Oct. 23 in a Lake Claire Apartments. Just COURTESYTERESA CAMPOSECO cameras shut off and Mayor prellrnµlary hearing that was to past midnight, two trucks collided Roger Roy (left}~an Orlando Sentinel writer, was embedded with American forces in Iraq twice during the rurrent war. He spoke with members of Buddy Dyer gave an unusually Ride Brunson's Contemporary Media Issues class in the Communications Building on Wednesday about his harrowing experiences. decide whether the fraternity in the complex's parking lot. One full gallery a chance to clear needed to be brought before the driver said the two trucks crashed out.. Not many people left, Office of Student Conduct. because he had pulled his truck though. It was decided. at the hearing into the oncoming lane as a joke Roy recalls horror, adventure of Rachel Ol~der, a UCF stu­ .that SAE would remain on its and did not drive out ot the way in dent and Student Go.vernment summary suspension status, time. One of the trucks was filled Association senator, led a coali­ which prohibits the fraternity with SAE brothers, and the other tion of students to City Hall, from participating in events such was filled with pledges of the fra­ reporting behind enemy lin~s joining a group of local resi­ as Intramural Sports, socials and ternity, according to UCF Police. ' dents opposed to the USA other UCF events attended by fra­ Witnesses reported seeing men in ISAAC BABCOCK Fbrce camp as the war began. dier about a firefight that was PATRIOT Act. ternities. both trucks removing their shh1s News Editor Scud missiles flew overhead, happening in the distance. Dyer pre-empted speeches The final decision that will and leavilig the seene. and he and the soldiers around Helicopter gun ships were flying ·by nin~ anti-Patriot Act activists determine the fate of the chapter One of the pledges had his Roger Roy, Orlando him endured repeated gas and in, guns firing, and explosions by saying the. Council wouldn't will be. held on an undisclosed nose nearly severed in the acci­ Sentinel war. correspondent, missile attack scares, and they reported back to Roy's position. act on the initiative presented to date when the Office of Student dent, and witnesses said that just crune back from months of hadn't even begun heading The soldier replied: "Yeah, him, because the Patriot Act is a Conduct will conduct a full hear­ those in the back of the pledge front line reporting in Iraq, and north toward the capital. somebody's ·getting their ass federal law, and the city govern­ ing. The hearing, to be held within pickup had been bound by duct Wednesday in the ''We· had gas, plane and mis­ kicked." ment has no influence over it. three.weeks, will. decide whether tape. Communications Building he let sile drills and false alarms pret­ "Things got progressively "There is a policy not to vote UCF journalism students know ty much every day," Roy said. tenser until we·got to Baghdad," on resolutions for items that what it's like to live like a sol­ "They blew up one SCUD mis­ Roy said. Fighting was fiercer, can't be affected by the city gov­ dier. sile right above our camp." · the reality of the situation more ernment," Dyer said. ''.At one point I didn't shpwer He was embedded along the apparent. Land mines and RPG One-by-one the activists for 25 days straight," h~ said. "I Kuwaiti border with Iraq as the missile h.ttacks became a real walked to the podium in a room . remember one soldier gave me '.'shock and awe" campaign was threat. "Thankfully they were filled with about 30 people and his last clean pair of socks." launched in the dark of night on · bad shots," he said. news cameras. On the front lines, he saw March 21. Then they began Tension broke as his compa­ Olander spoke of a need to blood, he saw bombs explode making their trek north, ny reached the capital, just two educate the public on the Act, around him, and he saw packs through hundreds of miles of days after it had been taken by an issue she said most peopl~ of wild dogs rummaging desert toward Baghdad. coalition forces. He was greeted don't know anything about. "I through tiody bags for scraps. Though he had been briefed by friendly soldiers and jubilant do not see how we can continue ROy was part of a worldwide by the military about what to Iraqi citizens, some of whom to go on and not talk about effort that saw hundreds of jour­ expect, when combat began, he kissed the soldiers as they this," Olander said. nalists given front-line access to saw chaos. "They said we'd get entered the city. ''You could tell Her concern with the law, major combat situations for the a chance to see everything first­ they were happy to see us," Roy passed in October 2001, is that first time since Vietnam. "They hand," I.toy said. "But when said.