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Central Florida Future. 2217. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2217 :~REE • Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays W ·:W www.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Monday, March 16, 2009 , ( Bringin' bacon Growingup UCF students help Young Knights' squad makes leaps, build 'Backdoor Pig' bounds to C-USA title -sEESPORTs,As - SEE NEWS, A2 C GAME REINDEER Officials GAMES, WELL, ~d < SORT OF Aman who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations. frat Beta Marcel Fournier, 19,shotthe deer the evening of Nov. ll and used lag bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point rack, officials said 'fltetaPi Sexual battery complaint starts UCF investigation Il. KARI WILBERG News Editor The fraternity Beta Theta Pi is SUPPLIES on interim suspension after the university received police reports alleging misconduct by some members at the fraternity's nation­ al headquarters November. A notice sent out by Grant Hes­ ton of UCF News & Information said police reports showed investi­ gations of sexual battery commit­ ted by a few members of the frater­ nity. The complainant has not pressed criminal charges against the members. According to the notice, interim suspension p:rohibits students from coming to campus with the exception of attending classes, tak­ ing tests and medical appoint­ ments. Jud Horras, executive director ofthe national Beta Theta Pi organ­ BRIAN LAWDERMILK / ASSOCIATED PRESS UCF's Leah Paige, right, and Angelica Mealing embrace·after the Knights won their first (onference USA Championship on March 8 in New Orleans. ization, said fewer than five of the 70 UCF Beta Theta Pi members present at the Oxford, Ohio meet­ Women's basketball team ing were involved in this miscon­ duct. The UCF chapter has a total · Breaking of 120 members. news on heads to NCAA tournament "The interim suspension rm yourcell process also is addressing alleged PADRICK BREWER incidents related to alcohol-related Get UCF news sent to your cell Sports Editor misconduct, harmful behavior, phone. Just text the keyword theft/disregard for property, disor­ UCFNEWS to 44636. The UCF women's basketball team will find out derly conduct and falsification of tonight where and against whom they will be dancing information," the notice stated. when ESPN airs its NCAA Tournament selection Horras said members who dam­ AROUND CAMPUS,A2 show at 7 p.m. aged property had to pay for the UCF CLOTHESLINE Nearly a week after claiming their first Conference restitution of fixing the property USA title, the Knights will head to the NCAA Tourna­ and were suspended from the fra­ PROJECT HOLDING ment for the third time in school history and first RAYMA JENKINS / CENTRALFLOR IDA FUTURE ternity for their undergraduate TRAINING COURSE since 1999, and head coach Joi Williams could not be UCF forward Amber Kirkpatrick, seen here on March 1 against UAB, career. < happier. averaged 6.25 points and S rebounds per game during the tournament. Heston said a hearing will be Students who would like to "It sounds wonderful, and it feels even better," held within the next couple of volunteer or coniplete service­ Williams said ofbeing conference champs and having expectations for the Knights. weeks to determine the chapter's learning hours by participating in the opportunity to continue the season. Williams said UCF could be anywhere between a penalties. He said according to The (. the UCF Clothesline Project must ESPN's Charlie Creme, who predicts which teams 12 and a 15 seed and that one thing she was trying to Golden Rule Student Handbook, attend a training course on will make the women's tournament and where they have her team focus on was being prepared to face a the chapter could be removed from Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. will be seeded, had UCF as a 15 seed in his most recent school that routinely makes trips to the NCAA Tour­ campus. The handbook also states update early Sunday morning. nament. that students involved could be But Williams said that, while she does not get too The Knights will most likely face a tournament expelled from the university. LOCAL & STATE, A2 involved in predicting where her team will end up, she thinks the ranking represents_the low end of PLEASE SEE ALUMNI ON AS POLICE: MAN KILLS PLEASE SEE FANS ON A4 t 4ATGATHERING AND THEN SELF Aman shot four people at a Computers' lives gathering early Sunday, then went Plancher family files suit home and killed himself, police KARI WILBERG & said.The man may have been stretched for use JILLIAN KROTKI upset because his wife had left News Editor & Staff Writer , WRONGFUL him, according to an official. BILLIE JO ILES Contributing Writer 'I don't think The family of former DEATH • UCF football player THE TAKING OF THE UFE OF AN In labs and classrooms Ereck Plancher filed a NATION & WORLD,A4 anyone 1s INDIVIDUAL RESUL11NG FROM throughout the UCF's cam­ wrongful death lawsuit DEPUTY MUST BURY pus, computers have surplusing good against the UCF Board of THE WILLFUL OR NEGLIGENT become an essential part of machines right Trustees and the UCF ACTOFANOTHERPERSONOR LOVED ONES KILLED the education process. Athletics Association PERSONS. BY ALA. GUNMAN They make new methods of now; they're last week. K . teaching possible, and they A statement sent out If a person is killed because of Adeputy who joined the pursuit provide access to the world definitely of a rampaging gunman now by UCF News and Infor­ the wrongful conduct of a of evolving technology. mation Assistant Vice faces the grim task of burying two But computers don't last holding onto person or persons, the of his own family members. President Grant Heston Plancher forever. them.' stated, "While the law­ decedent's heirs and other Funerals were set for deputy The average life cycle of beneficiaries may file a Joshua Myer's wife and son. suit limits what the uni­ by coach George O'Leary a UCF computer is about - J.P. PETERS versity can say, what we and other staff. When wrongful death action against five years, according to TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR FOR THE know to date about the police arrived, Plancher those responsible for the ,. COLLEGE OF SCIENCES John 'Iurner, systems March 18 workout indi­ INDEX TODAY'S was unconscious. Police decedent's death. This area of • administrator for the Col­ cates that coaches and performed CPR, but Tort Law is governed by statute. Around 2 WEATHER • lege of Arts and Humani­ "Some colleges have less staff acted appropriately. Plancher was later pro­ Wrongful death statutes vary Campus 2 ties. Once a computer is out money and therefore less Per university policy, nounced dead at Florida < from state to state, but in Weather 2 of warranty, the cost of ability to purchase new UCF will not discuss Hospital in East Orlando. general they define who may Loe.al & State 4 .,,....,..., maintenance and repairs computers, so their life specifics about the law­ An autopsy report Nation & World 4 adds up. - cycles may range from five suit." later revealed that sue for wrongful death and ( Sports 8 MOSTLY While some colleges are to seven years," Turner On March 18, 2008, Plancher's death was due what, ifany , limits may be Opinion 12 SUNNY able to replace their com­ said "Usually when it gets Plancher collapsed dur­ to sickle-cell trait aggra­ applied to an award of aassifieds 13 63° puters every three to five beyond five years-if the ing a strength and condi­ vated by the workout. damages. Sudoku 13 sso years, others are not as for­ tioning drill called "mat HIGH lOW tunate. PLEASE SEE FEE ON A6 drills" being supervised PLEASE SEE UCF ON AS •- LEGAL-DICTIONARY.COM < Al www.CentralFloridaFuture.com March 16, 2009 • ~ ,=Jm11a :futu~ ., • AROUND CAMPUS <!tntral ... News and notices for the UCF community ~loriba • Clothesline training course Students who would like to volunteer or com­ plete service learning ~uturt hours by participating in The Student Newspaper at IKF since 1968 the UCF Clothesline Pro­ ject must attend a training March 16, 2009 • course. The course takes FIRST fuses robotics and are competiton Vol 41, Issue 27 • 14 Pages place at 4:30 p.m. on Tues­ The Central Florida Futull! Is the independellt student­ day and will take place at AMANDA WELCH written newspaper at the University of Central Rorida. News Editor Opinions In the Future are those of the Individual I~ Victim Services on columnist and not necessarily those of the editorial staff Research Parkway. or the Unive~ity administration. 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