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Central Florida Future. 1446. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1446 • • • 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 • • Student goveqiment begin plans for upcoming year • By NICOLE KING The book scholarship program Leadership Academy. The academy will affairs, said the program hopes to meet its Staff Writer is just one project Murphy and have two purposes: to house the Senate pledge to register 9,000 voters by Richard Maxwell, student body chambers and to provide all leadership at November. UCF's Student Government vice president, have begun work UCF with a centralized location to share "We will be setting up tables at the major • Association (SGA) will offer on this summer. Since being resources. events and at the orientations to register stu­ $100 book scholarships to stu­ sworn in on May 9, the two have Although plans are speculative1 the acad­ dents," Piccolo said. dents in the fall. The financial · proposed a budget for next year emy will provide groups such as the Lead Murphy and Maxwell will also be present aid department will award the scholarships and met with the Homecoming committee Scholars Program and Leadership UCF at this summer's orientations. They plan to to students who meet the specified criteria. to organize the annual concert and fire­ with utilities like a resource library where speak at each of them to introduce them­ Jason Murphy, student body president, works show. students can have access to legislation selves to the newest members of UCF's stu­ said the scholarships are funded from Maxwell said their biggest goals for the materials. dent body. money raised through the activity and ser­ summer are to get the budget passed and the "We hope this will provide opportunities "We want to talk to students and find out vice fee, which each student pays per cred­ cabinet approved by the Senate. to students to become successful leaders for their concerns," Murphy said. "It's their it hour. "We're trying to get everything in place so the betterment of UCF and the community," money and we are trying to institute the "We can give away several $100 book that when fall rolls around everything will Murphy said. programs they want. scholarships instead of the 20 or 25 $5,000 be established and we can get things going A voter registration campaign is also "We are also researching those programs • tuition scholarships that used to be given as soon as possible," Maxwell said. being organized and will be in full force already in place to find out which are the away," Murphy said. ''This will definitely One of the biggest projects the two are when election time arrives in November. most beneficial to students. We just want to help a greater population of students." working on for the fall is the Legislative Fred Piccolo, director of government represent the student body the best we can . • Beat ~tUdents need to • the ~,, l~ie~ visual educated Heat t~ . ~ ~ ,_-. IND. A . ~MOS Students IStaff ·Writer seek 'Skills involvmg graphs ~;poorly l'racticoo and shelter _p.l:µlsifed in 'Jcad,e- from the .y~t they are very · WlPOtfant. I 00 degree­ I '0taphiC Skill$ are basic tOOlS USed for deciphering f inf.ormation that has been condensed and visually afternoon r depicted. whether paper-based or computer generat- heat inside ~ ed. ~ • r ., . t s~dentsle~ ho':'1 to re~ th~ bas~c pie chart the Student t ~graphs during nnddle or Jumor high school; Union. ~ »re.ve~ with the present and continuing expan- • f sion of computer technology just knowing the Special to the Future ; -basics isn;t enough. I According to the community employment and ( e'Conomic database, employers consider graphic , skills the up and coming skill most in demand. 1 1 . )?he reason is because an employer automatically 111 'J!:. ,.. }ff • knows that an applicant familiar with graphic skills Professor bridges the language barrier 1 • J.oeates, understands and interprets written informa­ By LEAH WALDRON Sitting in a ·snug fifth floor office work force in an accounting office. tion, .according to the database. Skills applicable to Staff Writer overlooking UCF's grassy _campus "After all, numbers are the same in many professions. 'Brenda D. Smith, author of Bridging the Gap: while classical music softly plays, every language," Cervone said. Reading, describes the eight most common When Anthony Cervone was a young Cervone recalls his first impression of Cervone caught on quickly and was Gol).ege boy growing up in Southern Italy, he the United States. encouraged by his advisors to go to • graphs. For simplicity, l have divided these graphs into could not start elementary school "America has always reminded me of college. He took their word for it that t, twQ categories: graphs of facts and graphs of rela- because it was turned into a field Hos­ the Roman Empire, the people are he was college material and applied. ! riolis. pital for the war. practical and such great builders," Despite his language barrier, " Graphs of facts depict straightforward information A pale-faced boy, he stole potatoes Cervone said. "I saw the Empire State Cervone was accepted into and that.is jointly presented for the purpose of contrasts for his mother and avoided the path­ Building, and I could not believe my enrolled in Iona College, an all-boys and comparisons. Among these graphs are tables, ways of the strict soldiers marching eyes. Catholic school in New Rochelle, New pie charts, bar and columrigraphs. through town. His elementary school "Within one week, everything in my York. • Jab. le$ . are comprlSed o. f listings of factual data did re-open and at the age of seven, life had been turned upside down. I did ... There he received "his Bachelor of usually with table notes indicating source. Pie Cervone entered his first classroom. not know which way was up." Arts in Spanish and a minor in Latin. rcharts indicate amounts to demonstrate areas of Years later, at 16, Cervone and his He might not have known which way In graduate school, he earned a doctor­ • minority and majority interests. Bar and column • family moved to America leaving the was up, but he quickly found the word ate in Spanish and Latin American small Italian town of 16,000 to New for it. While in New York he attended See GRAPHIC, Page 2 York City, a bustling metropolis of Edison High School in Mt. Vernon and See CERVONE, Page 3 over eleven million people. upon his graduation he entered the Course in futility ~aseball draft saps Knights Summer classes have become an UCF had more players drafted unnecessary evil. than any other university. • - PAGE 12 • June 10, 1998 www.UCFfu.ture.com Central Florida Future • 2 Wireless company gives UCF the hookup Grapliie skills vitalto By BRIAN SMITH Aeronautics and Astronautics News Editor Southeast regional student design students' ~ducation competition in Huntsville, Al., in AT&T Wireless Services Inc. During her tenure at UCF, Jacobs April. FromPAGEl rewarded UCF with a $100,000 gift worked with community leaders on The students built the model fol­ that will be used to establish a schol- the development of the I-4 high-tech­ lowing the first phase of a $11.3 mil­ graphs use rectangular bars (vertically or horizontally) , arship fund for qualifying students . nology corridor, two new UCF lion project to design and build a pho­ to illustrate duration and amounts. facts whoseinain is portray who major in electrical engineering or research centers in the fields of drug ton laser communication satellite. Unlike graphs of goal to facts and allow the reader to interpret relations, graphs electrical engineering technology. discovery/diagnostics and material .... of relations mainly show variable relationships. The donation to UCF will be sup- sciences and a resource bank for •The UCF Wellness Center is offer­ They itJclude diagrams, fi()W charts~ maps and line plemented with an additional $50,000 small businesses under the auspices ing a weight and eating management graphs. Diagrams and flow chaits show how a process from the statewide matching pro- of the Central Florida Innovation group during the summer semester. work:s~ UQW parts are interrelated and integrated as a gram. The scholarships will pay for Corp. The group will be led by a registered functioll:ing whole. Maps show relations of ge()graphy students' tuition, books and fees. She also has participated in two dietitian and it will meet for 7 weekly ;;:~d phy,sical properties~ .. Line graphs a.re for frequency To be eligible for the scholarships, trade missions to Russia, France and sessions in the Health Resource .;atstribUions. · ·· ··· · applicants must be full-time juniors or Southeast Asia. Center classroom. · Iust.1Qi9wing,the different rypes of graphs isinsuffi- seniors and musr have a 3.2 grade Soileau will begin the position on Those interested must have a con­ ~t.