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COURTESY MATTHEW MCCANN AND ADAM BROCK
COURTESY NICHOLAS GURNEY, FERNANDO GONZALES-PORTILLO
Matthew McCann,top,and Adam Brock,bottom,are running for SGA office and hope to “redefine the UCF student experience.”
Nicholas Gurney,top,and Fernando Gonzales-Portillo,bottom,are running for SGA president and vice-president.
With experience, McCann & Brock look to redefine UCF
Gurney, Gonzales hope for students to ‘expect more’
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With the election of a new Student Government Association president and vice president less than a month away, senior political science and English major Matthew McCann and junior political science and advertising/public relations major Adam Brock hope to redefine the experience of a UCF student in their campaign for student body president and vice president, respectively. McCann is a former chief justice, who resigned earlier this year to run for office. He also served as the assistant chief justice his sophomore year and currently serves as the chair of the university fee committee. Brock, who serves under SGA president Michael Kilbride as Director of KnightLYNX, has worked on that program since his sophomore year. He also served on the student leadership committee his freshman year and served as a justice his sophomore year. He is currently president of the Interfraternity Council and chair of the scholarship committee which allocated almost $150,000 to students. Central Florida Future: When did you first discuss running together on a ticket? Matthew McCann: Adam and I have both been
As candidates launch into their campaigns for SGA President and Vice President, running mates Nicholas Gurney, a senior legal studies major, and Fernando Gonzales-Portillo, a junior molecular biology and microbiology major, want to convey one main message to students: “Expect more.” Gurney has been on SGA’s senate for two years and served as attorney general, and Gonzales has three years of experience, including a spot in the Activities & Service Fees committee and a year as Conference Registration and Travel committee chair. Here, Gurney and Gonzales discuss what students can expect from their campaign and potential administration. Central Florida Future: Tell me about when you guys first discussed running together on a ticket. Fernando Gonzales: I would say around January we started having serious discussions about forming a ticket. We started off talking about things that we want and what we saw wrong in SGA that we wanted to change and improve upon. When we
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Engineers study abroad Minor makes students stand out BRANDON HAMILTON Contributing Writer
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Imagine if you had $200,000 to spend on an out-of-this-world vacation. For the several hundred people on the waiting list at Virgin Galactic, that’s exactly what they’re willing to spend on a trip to outer space. George Whitesides, CEO and President of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, spoke to students and faculty on Feb. 28 in the Pegasus Ballroom about the future of space flight and space tourism. Virgin is making it possible for anyone to take a trip into space. The second you place a deposit and save your seat, you become a part of an exclusive club with access to all parts of the projects. For $200,000 and a $20,000 deposit, anyone is able to travel into space. According to Whitesides, there have only been about 500 people who have traveled to space. Virgin Galactic has already gotten more than 400 people signed up. Even celebrities are signed up to take flight. Katy Perry has signed up her husband, actor Russell Brand, to take a flight into space.
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Jason Delosrios stands in front of the historic Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer),one of the Seven Wonders of the World,in Rio de Janeiro.
Jason Delosrios and Jonathan Torres are determined to set themselves apart from the crowd one class at a time. Delosrios and Torres are just two of UCF’s many engineering students setting themselves apart from their peers by adding a minor in international engineering on top of the classes required for their major. “It gives them an advan-
tage in the job seeking process when they are interviewing for positions, especially if they are working for companies that do business overseas,” said College of Engineering and Computer Science professor Avelino Gonzalez. Gonzalez, who is leading the minor, said a lot of his engineering students tend to opt out of adding a minor in addition to their
engineering major, but for those who decide to add one, especially the international engineering minor, it can be very beneficial. The international engineering minor requires 1820 credit hours and is comprised of three parts: language skill acquisition, cultural courses and the study abroad experience. Students must take at least six credits of foreign language, a cultural course related to their area of study and at least six hours
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Alumna principal leads a greener Sunrise JORDAN SNYDER Contributing Writer
UCF alumna Shayne Grove has been making efforts to guide her school, Sunrise Elementary, toward a greener future as principal. Since coming to the school last February, Grove has increased efforts in the environmental club, boosting membership and helping save the school more than $11,000. The school has recently become a paperless school thanks to the environmental club and support from Grove. “Getting rid of a lot of the fliers that go home has been huge,” Grove said. “We are trying to be 100 percent green in regards to advertising and outside people coming into our school. Working through the PTA, we do everything electronically, that’s been huge, last year they saved $11,000 and probably tripled that this year.” Grove graduated from UCF in 1996 with a bachelor’s in business administration, and though that was more than ten years ago, her school spirit has yet to waver. One of her first acts as principal of Sunrise Elementary was to paint her office with the colors students and other UCF alumni have come to wear with pride: black and gold. According to Sarah Gonder, a parent-volunteer for the environmental club, Grove’s dedication to going paperless has been a great success, and it shows. Every week, information is sent to parents not only by e-mail, but by phone as well. “The difference in support that the environmental club has received since she came here has been
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UCF alumna Shayne Grove is principal of Orlando’s Sunrise Elementary.In her year at the school,she has jump-started the environmental club and helped save more than $11,000 for the school.
astronomical,” said Jennifer Lane, a teacher and sponsor for the environmental club. “It was such a struggle to make anything happen other than just getting the kids to meet in a little room and now we have almost tripled in size.” All ideas to make Sunrise Elementary a green school have come from the students who are members of the environmental club. In September, Grove and her club built two raised gardens to harvest and produce vegetables and organic compost. “When we’re planting they let us decide where we want to plant, and what we want to plant,” said
Lauren Stecker, a fifthgrader at Sunrise. Prior to getting their plans approved, students had to make a plan of action and prepare a presentation for Grove. Parent volunteer Don Vu said his daughter, Katie, has enjoyed working in the Sunrise Elementary community garden so much that she has been scoping out areas at home where she hopes to plant her very own garden. “It’s neat when you see those little actions that they do and you know it’s coming from their participation in the environmental club,” Vu said. The biggest accomplishment thus far, according to Grove, has been get-
ting the school to recycle the Styrofoam trays used every day at lunch — a collaborative idea between Tricia LaChance’s fifthgrade gifted class and the environmental club. “It was a huge learning experience for the kids and, I believe, a confidence booster because they are going to have to go, as they get older, and get contacts and they’re going to be told no, and they’re going to have to figure out ways if you really want to get this done how to get it done,” Grove said. Many students have taken the idea of recycling and being environmentally responsible from their classrooms into their homes, going as far as
scolding their relatives when they attempt to throw away recyclable materials under their watchful eye. Gonder recalled taking her child to a race and looking up to see that he had run off to collect sodacan tabs so he could donate them to the class collection. Michelle Quinlan, a parent-volunteer for the environmental club, said that her daughter, Emma, will frequently ask her to pull over so she can pick up trash in their neighborhood, and even asked for worm compost for Christmas. Sunrise’s student and parent involvement is flourishing, and many
attribute the success to the passionate efforts of their principal. Quinlan said that Grove has a kind of connection that can only come from being both a mother of a student and a member of the community. Gonder said that Grove’s hands-on approach and presence at the school has made it easy for her to win over the affections of the students, and her willingness to occasionally dress up like Dr. Seuss and visit with the students hasn’t hurt either. “It’s a completely different relationship to the school when you have that involvement and that connection,” Gonder said.
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Space-flight safety a concern, but not a worry FROM A1 “That should be an interesting flight,” Whitesides joked. He later said that a few other celebrities that he couldn’t name had also signed up and bands have inquired about being able to perform so they can be one of the first musicians to play in space. The presentation wasn’t all jokes and celebrities, however. Whitesides broke down the logistics of tourism in space and why space matters. “It’s the first step on our pathway to the stars,” Whitesides said. “I honestly believe and I thought about this a lot, that space tourism is the root through which we’ll be able to access the solar system and eventually the rest of the galaxy.” Virgin’s website mentioned that the people who have already experienced space travel had returned to earth with a heightened awareness of the nature and vulnerability of our planet. Junior computer engineering major, Daniel Krummen, came to the
presentation because he has always been personally interested in space. As an avid reader of Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins, two well-published astronomers, Krummen thought the presentation could give him greater insight on the exploration of space. “I think that he has a really good point,” Krummen said. “That the commercialization of space flight is really the first step. You need people to realize that space is really important and the best way to do it is to get people up there.” During the question and answer portion of the presentation, concerns were raised about the safety of space travel. “Safety is Virgin Galactic’s North Star,” Whitesides said. Scaled Composites is the designer and builders of the space launch system. They have been responsible for some of the experimental aircraft and have a safety record that is second to none, according to Whiteside. “Every company will have challenges during a test flight plan so there
will be incidents, and the hope is that those incidents aren’t catastrophic,” Whitesides said. He also said that accidents are inevitable; his hope is that if anything happened it would be later on in the program after many successful flights. Alicia Cooper, a junior fine arts major, waited in line to speak with Whitesides after the presentation. Her concern about safety was for the individuals who would be going into space. “My concerning question is about health,” Cooper said. “What if people get up there and have panic attacks?” She was also curious to know what the health requirements were for passengers looking to take a trip into space and if someone with health problems would be allowed to go. Mechanical engineering student Jessica McWaters came to the presentation to learn more information that could better her future. “I didn’t realize that tourism in space was the new frontier so that interested me,” McWaters said.
McWaters said she hopes to work for a company one day that works on spacecrafts. “I would wait a little bit just to see what happens,
[see] the successes [of space travel] and then decide to go up or not,” she said. Whitesides mentioned that there is always a risk
when traveling into space. “If a person has the financial means and no fear,” he said, “heading into space could be in their future.”
Minor leads to success FROM A1 of coursework related to their degree program abroad. Delosrios, an electrical engineering graduate student, said his trip to Brazil in 2010 was a life-changing experience. “I got to experience a different culture and see how people interact around the world,” Delosrios said. For a semester, he spent his time assisting in projects for the Brazilian research company, Centro de Pesquisas de Energia Elétrica. “They seem to be a lot more relaxed,” Delosrios said of the company. “The younger employees were very helpful. They took me under their wing.” More than 6,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean,
Torres spent his summer semester in Berlin. The senior mechanical engineering major said adding the international minor was worth it. “It was an incredible opportunity to work at Siemens,” Torres said. The global corporation provides services in the industry, energy and health care sectors. At Siemens, he worked in manufacturing facilities, seeing how turbines were put together. He said the Berlin location exposed him to more about the engineering corporation because the manufacturing is mostly done overseas. “I was told that I had been exposed to more than the typical engineer at the Orlando facility because the manufacturing process only takes place in Germany,” Torres said. Both Torres and Delosrios agreed that adding a minor can make a difference in how future employers consider you. “It stands out,” Delosrios said. “A lot of these big companies, if they haven’t already, are leaning more toward [developing] international relations.” Delosrios also said that while attending a career fair, recruiters were quick to notice his international experience. “All the questions that are used in an interview, they want to see someone who can understand different cultures, who can understand different people’s ideas and how they
go about doing things,” Delosrios said. “It makes you a more valuable asset to the company.” Gonzalez said that students who go abroad in the international engineering minor tend to have more self-confidence and aggressiveness to excel in their field when they return. “It also benefits them tremendously from a cultural standpoint because it allows them to understand how other people live, how other people work and how other people think beyond the boundaries of the U.S.,” Gonzalez said. Torres, who also studied abroad in Spain in 2009, said his minor has done much more than just given him international experience. “I made life-long friendships in a matter of months,” Torres said. “Whenever I go to Europe, I basically have a place to stay.” Delosrios also had a good experience with his fellow employees. Torres said that in addition to getting different perspectives on things from different people and learning about the outside world, recruiters look for people who are willing to step outside their comfort zone when looking for potential employees. “I’ve done a couple interviews and they have always noted that having a minor is not a common thing,” Torres said. “It really sets you apart. With the experience, it really is a foot in the door.”
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Spring Break is here, enjoy yourselves With the weather still bogging down Florida with sporadic thunderstorms and surprisingly chilly conditions, northern travel for spring break seems to be no longer an option. How convenient that we live where the rest of the world vacations. Sticking at home isn’t so bad, after all. Florida is home to more than just Disney and Panama City. We took a look at some cheap and close destinations for your scaled back spring break.
Clearwater/St.Petersburg The beaches: Clearwater is regularly rated as one of the whitest beaches in America, and Fort Desoto in southern Pinellas County was rated by Dr. Beach as the best overall beach in the country. Desoto is a perfect mix of backwoods camping and tropical paradise, and it’s on the site of a Civil War fortification, if the history nerd inside of you is interested. The downtown scene: Downtown St. Pete might not look like much from the outside, but it’s full of unique dive bars and concert venues that give life to the otherwise sleepy town. Directly across the street from Tropicana Field, Ferg’s Sports Bar serves as a great postbaseball game drinking hole. Bishop Tavern is a regular hangout spot for celebs and out-of-town athletes, and it’s become known as one of the best bars for drink specials downtown. The State Theatre and Jannus Landing are well-known venues in the music world, and despite their small, roomy sizes, they still pull in top names in rock and hip-hop. What makes it unique: The Gulf Coast is known most for its great bars and restaurants that line the water and truly give Pinellas County its “beach bum” attitude. Salt Rock Grill on Indian Rocks Beach is just one of many along the coast that fishermen’s boats pull right up to after a long day and dump off their fresh hauls.
St.Augustine The beaches: Obviously, the beaches aren’t the main attraction in St. Augustine. But for the record, the city’s beaches are surprisingly nice for northeast Florida. It seems in the rush to Cocoa and Jacksonville, the beaches of St. Augustine have remained calm and quiet. The downtown scene: History is the key word in downtown St. Augustine. St. George Street, marked by its trademark coquina stone pillars, is a gateway to ancient artifacts. The Colonial Spanish Quarter, Cordova Street and Castilla de San Marcos are a must-see for even
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Students form the University of North Texas bury their classmate Andrea Aguirre in sand and shape her into a mermaid during spring break on South Beach,Miami Beach,Florida,March 18,2010.From top left are Jose Martinez,Marcos Alonzo,Arnoldo Hurtado and Crique Dozal.
the casual history buff. What makes it unique: Clearly, the history of St. Augustine is the city’s most well-known trait. St. Augustine is also home to one of Florida’s best upand-coming music festivals: Harvest of Hope. What began last year with appearances from Girl Talk, The National, Against Me! and Less Than Jake is continuing this year with The Mountain Goats, Broken Social Scene, Anti-Flag and Billy Bragg. The festival is a benefit for a unique cause, as well: migrant farm workers.
Sarasota The beaches: Once your feet touch the powdered sugar-white sand on Siesta Key Beach, you’ll know the trip was worth it. You can wade out into the water for a while before it gets deep, snorkel on the sandbars, walk along the shore at sunset, get some food at the snack bar or play some games of volleyball on the sand courts. The downtown scene: At the heart of Siesta Key Village, Gilligan’s Island Bar & Grill has loads of food and drink specials, themed nights, live music and DJs. Nearby, the popular Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar has a large selection of seafood and, more obviously, a huge menu of affordable, frozen drinks. What makes it unique: Whether you’re into
marine life, arts or soaking up the sun, Sarasota has something to check out. It has the bars and nightlife but for a more cultural experience, spend a day at the Ringling Museum of Art along Sarasota Bay. Or check out Mote Marine Lab and Aquarium’s sharks, manatees, sea turtles, dolphins and more than 100 other species, plus check out the work they do at the sea turtle, dolphin and whale hospitals.
Miami The beaches: There’s nothing like South Beach. Sure, it’s not the “True Miami” as CSI and Rick Ross portray it, but South Beach is the mecca for great food, beautiful people and a dash of culture not to be found anywhere else in the country. The downtown scene: Downtown Miami, specifically South Beach, is not as crazy as the stories may lead you to believe. It’s a bit worn down and it’s extremely expensive. Check out Dolphin Mall, a great outdoor shopping plaza that lines the beach. What makes it unique: What doesn’t make Miami unique? The weekend of spring break, Miami is hosting the World Golf Championship at Doral. It’s home to Dwyane Wade and the Heat, it’s got great Cuban culture (and some classy
cigar shops) and it’s where you’ll find some of the most obscure — and expensive — fashions in the country.
Daytona Beach The beaches: There really isn’t a more obvious choice than Daytona, for various well-known reasons. Sand and water quality are always great and the selection of hotels along the beachline stretches as far as
the eye can see. The downtown scene: Realistically, downtown Daytona has slowly become the area around the beachline. Be sure to check out small restaurants along the water, as well as ones more inland. Check out Don Vito’s Italian Restaurant and The Cellar, both of which are highly esteemed Italian restaurants in the area.
What makes it unique: Other than being close to UCF, Daytona’s ability to attract an incredible number of college students during spring break should be a huge added bonus, assuming that’s what you’re going for. It would be difficult to go wrong with Daytona Beach. — CFF STAFF
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Candidates look to increase SGA transparency FROM A1 heavily involved in SGA for the past several years. We’ve had a lot of great experiences really understanding what it means to be a part of SGA, what it means to be a student leader on campus and really a lot of the areas that could be improved. Students, groups, friends of mine would approach me, this year, and say, ‘We need someone to run for president that is going to maintain integrity and that is going to address the issues that students really are looking to have addressed.’ Over time, as more and more students inside SGA and outside of SGA did approach me, I really started to put a lot of thought into it. One night, Adam and I and a group of friends were out and it came up again. I’ve been told from a lot of friends that Adam Brock is an excellent person that could really fill and reshape what it means to be a vice president within the UCF community. We just talked more and more about it and soon it developed into what it currently is. CFF: After that was established, what was your next step? McCann: There were a lot of next steps that needed to be taken. I was the chief justice at that point and it was my responsibility within SGA to remain neutral, so I had to resign from my posi-
tion so that I could focus on this. Once I resigned, Adam and I just really started to get into the brunt of the work. We started thinking about ideas, we started attending different organization meetings, we started to discuss things with different students about how they felt UCF was just to gain ideas and have a better understanding of what we wanted to focus on. CFF: How did you decide upon your campaign slogan, “Possibility Redefined”?
Adam Brock: “Possibility Redefined” was kind of a group effort. We really thought the two of us with our ideas and everything we want to do for the students, it needed to be symbolic of that. “Possibility Redefined” embodies what the students truly think about student government, what they think about it now and what we want them to think about it in the future. It’s the approachability and the availability of student leaders, not only us, but our
administration. We just need to make sure students have a very positive experience whenever they deal with the SGA and make sure they’re leaving happy and with all their questions answered. CFF: What are your three main platforms and how did you come up with them? McCann: To boil it down, it’s going to sounds cliché, but transparency, accessibility and inclusion. It seems as though every year with every campaign, with every candidacy these three things are brought up, but the problem is they’re not always tended to as the year progresses. With transparency, it really has become cliché and just a trite word within student government. We need to make sure that our focus is on allowing students to better understand what student government is doing for
them. There’s this stigma in student government and outside student government that we are separate from the collective student body. That’s not true, we’re students as well and we want to make decisions that better our experience as well as every other student’s experience. That will make them more apt to come into the student government office and engage student government officials so that we can have their input and we can have their thoughts on what would make student government and their experience better. At times, there seems to have been a barrier between the students and student leaders and we need to break that down. Inclusion is another thing. We understand that as student leaders, a lot of the times, some decisions
have been made by one person or by one group of individuals in student government. CFF: What endeavors started and/or completed by your predecessor do you plan on finishing or maintaining? Brock: Obviously the KnightLYNX program is my goal. It’s a brand-new program and it needs evaluation. Also, the new [24hour] Study Space that’s going to be released pretty soon, including all the many services that we offer. We hope to bring free printing to Rosen. McCann: SGA Concierge was something that was spearheaded by the judicial counsel this past year and it relates back to transparency and approachability. It’s our responsibility to actively engage students so that we do make the most wellinformed decisions as student government leaders.
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Academics is key focus on Gurney’s platform FROM A1 talked about that we found out that we have a lot in common and shared a lot of the same views. We decided that it might be interesting to form a ticket instead of splitting up forces. Nicholas Gurney: We’ve known each other for a while. We were on two senate sessions together, but never really hung out or were friends. In January we started talking about things that were not even related to the presidency and vice presidency and it just
worked out. We have a lot of similar ideals and that ended up bringing us a lot closer than two terms on service had actually done. CFF: After that was established, what was your next step? Gonzales: We had so many different things we agreed on, so it was basically trying to organize the main issues we were going to address first. We just wanted to organize them in a way to get a consistent message out to students. Gurney: For us it was sitting down, and saying ‘Where do
we need to be organized? Where do we need to communicate?’ Not just amongst ourselves, but to the general student population. CFF: How did you decide upon your campaign slogan, “Expect More”? Gonzales: We had lots of ideas, but the final one we decided on was “Expect More.” Expect more from SGA, expect more from academics. Basically, raising the standards students have for SGA and
what we do and try to get them to expect more from us. Gurney: We want to make sure that the product we put out there is something that students can really relate to and that’s what “Expect More” actually is. We know that students have certain expectations of their leaders and we want them to feel comfortable expecting more than they currently do because, right now, sometimes not even their mildest
expectations are met. Gonzales: It was a great way to centralize everything into one message. CFF: What are your three main platforms and how did you come up with them? Gurney: I think that for us, the three main platforms are academics, campus life and SGA as a whole. We came up with those three because some of those three are things that are touched on every year — campus life, SGA — but academics is something that’s very rarely [touched on]. That came up because we like being unconventional at times, we like taking a different approach to things that maybe hasn’t been tried in the past. A lot of times people don’t take the unconventional approach because it’s not easy. Gonzales: I’ve really enjoyed my time at UCF and I want everyone to have that same awesome experience I’ve had so far at UCF. I have lots of ideas for programs that I want to do that I think students would enjoy. I want to do larger-scale, more effective programs. Gurney: [SGA] came up from us both being in SGA for the last year. Just being there and being in that office, it’s easy to see where disconnect is and why students don’t feel like they’re connected. I think that it’s very important for us to target certain areas of how the
office itself is run, how SGA as a whole is viewed and what is actually done to fix that. It’s really important for us to address the accountability, the approachability and the professionalism in the office, dealing with the transparency of a lot of the things that go on in the office. CFF: What endeavors started and/or completed by your predecessor to you plan on finishing or maintaining? Gurney: I think the first would be the [24-hour] Study Space. That ties in a lot to our academic platform. It’s not going to be something we run on, but it’s definitely something we’re going to support if elected. It’s something that really provides a service to a side of campus that doesn’t necessarily receive those kinds of services in terms of the Towers and the Lake Claire housing. They’re so far disconnected from the library and the main academic center of campus and it’s important that they have a facility as well. Gonzales: Continuing the printing labs we have here, but also expanding that to regional campuses as well. I think those are very easy to do and things that I think regional campuses should get as well. I know Taylor Lochrane did a lot of regional campus outreach and I want to continue that, especially with the College of Medicine as it continues to grow.
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DISTRICT JUDGE BACKS NFLPA WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a potential NFL lockout looming, a federal judge gave a key ruling in favor of the players that could strip what the union has been calling unfair leverage for the owners in labor negotiations. U.S. District Judge David Doty backed the NFL Players Association on Tuesday in a dispute with the league over $4 billion in TV revenue, money that players argue owners collected for a war chest to fund a lockout. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello downplayed the significance of the ruling, saying that clubs were “prepared for any contingency.” The league’s agreement with players expires at midnight Eastern time Thursday night. Also Tuesday, the New York Giants’ John Mara joined the NFL group negotiating with the players’union, the first team owner to participate since a federal mediator began overseeing the talks.
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Darnell Sweeney leads all UCF batters and Conference USA with a .500 batting average.The standout sophomore shortstop was named the Conference USA Hitter of the Week.
UCF receiving top-25 votes, will take on Ivy League champs next JESSICA GILLESPIE Baseball beat writer
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said. “Coach [Bob] Whalen, the head coach, has been there a long time and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him.”
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TENNIS STAR SERENA WILLIAMS HOSPITALIZED NEW YORK — Tennis star Serena Williams underwent “emergency treatment”Monday, days after doctors discovered a blood clot in her lungs, People magazine reported. Spokeswoman Nicole Chabot told the magazine that Williams “underwent emergency treatment for a hematoma suffered as a result of treatment for a more critical situation.” Williams suffered from a pulmonary embolism last week, Chabot said. The 29-year-old Williams is being treated at a Los Angeles hospital. “Doctors are continuing to monitor her situation closely to avoid additional complications,” Chabot told the magazine. The younger sister of seven-time major champion Venus Williams hasn’t played an official match since winning Wimbledon for the fourth time July 3. She cut her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant shortly after the victory, and her comeback has been repeatedly delayed by complications with the injury since. Williams had surgery after initially hurting her foot and pulled out of the U.S. Open. She resumed practicing in September, but kept pushing back her return and needed an additional operation in October. Williams missed the Australian Open in January, where she was the twotime defending champion. Chabot told the magazine the embolism was discovered after Williams returned to Los Angeles from New York “for doctor appointments for the ongoing issues with her foot.”
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Sophomore Chris Taladay proved why he was the Conference USA Freshman of the Year in his first at-bat against South Alabama. Taladay, who spent the first four games of the season recovering from an injury, sent the first pitch he saw to left field for an RBI-single. The sophomore will look to keep up his hot start versus Dartmouth this weekend. “Chris Taladay, boy it was great to have him back,” said head coach Terry Rooney. “The
returning Conference USA Newcomer of the Year, and he just stepped right in and in his first atbat he got a hit and an RBI for us and obviously had a great game on (Feb. 27) against Alabama. Chris Taladay is clearly one of the best players in C-USA and we’re excited to have him back.” The Knights, still at the start of a 13-game homestand that began on March 2, host the defending Ivy League champions this weekend. “Dartmouth is an out-
For more sports: www.UCFNews.com Twitter:@CFFsports standing team,” Rooney said. “I just told our players that they were an NCAA Regional team last year. Not only did they get to the Regionals, they won a game [against FIU, 159].” The Big Green starts its season in Central Florida. “I think what all our players have to know is that they see that it’s an outstanding club,” Rooney
Pitching rotation Junior Danny Winkler will start for the Knights for the third Friday in a row, Matt Collins will grab the Saturday start and freshman Ben Lively, who had his first career start and win against Alabama, will throw Sunday. Rooney said that UCF’s starting pitching has been solid and that five guys are battling for the starting spots. Brian Adkins and Ray Hanson are also vying for starting positions,
PROJECTED LINEUP 1. Travis Shreve, 2B 2. Ronnie Richardson, CF 3. Darnell Sweeney, SS 4. Beau Taylor, C 5. Jonathan Griffin, 1B 6. D.J. Hicks, DH 7. Ryan Breen, RF 8. Chris Taladay, LF 9. Derek Luciano, 3B
TOP PERFORMERS Home runs: Taladay - 2 Hits: Sweeney - 4 RBIs: Sweeney - 12 Batting avg.: Sweeney - .500 On-base percentage: Luciano - .593
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Snapped hitting streak is a weight lifted off Beau Taylor’s shoulders JESSICA GILLESPIE Baseball beat writer
After Beau Taylor tied the school-record hit streak, he said tying was like “kissing your sister.” On Saturday, the day Taylor had a chance to break the record of a hit in 26-consecutive games, the catcher went 0-for-4, snapping his streak and ultimately staying tied with Mike Myers, who set the 26-game record in 2001. “Mike Myers, I’d like to meet him, shake his hand,” Taylor said. The junior said it was an honor to be in the record books for the hitting streak. “I wish it would have been one more,” he said. In Saturday’s loss to
Southeastern Louisiana, Taylor hit foul balls that assistant coach Cliff Godwin said were only inches from being fair. “He probably would never admit to this but I think the hitting streak was in the back of his mind and put pressure on him and I knew that as soon as the hitting streak was over that he’d have an awesome game,” Godwin said. “And sure enough, Saturday night was over and ... he had [a] double and a home run and it was almost a second home run on the sac fly that Darnell [Sweeney] and Ronnie [Richardson] both scored on.” Taylor, who is “kind of happy” that his streak is over, did admit to thinking
about the streak when he was up to bat. “I was thinking about it a lot,” Taylor said about his at-bats on Saturday. “I mean, that was probably a mistake of mine I shouldn’t have been doing. I should have been worrying about the game but I was definitely worried about it and I was mad that I didn’t get the hit.” In the first inning against Alabama on Sunday, Feb. 29, Taylor doubled to left center. In his next atbat in the third he hit a sacrifice fly to center to score two runners, something that doesn’t usually happen on a sac fly. It was in the fifth inning when he hit his
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Beau Taylor,who shares the record for UCF’s longest hit-streak ,felt snubbed when he received all-American honors but not all-conference honors.
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Is coaching exodus a sign of worry or respect for UCF? Have the dominoes begun to fall? This is the question I asked when former UCF defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable left to join the Wisconsin Badgers’ defensive staff earlier this year. Well, it seems to be a domino effect, as more UCF coaches are getting noticed — and by the tops in the business. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick recently hired former running backs coach George Godsey as his new offensive assistant. This may not mean that prized recruiter and wide receivers coach David Kelly is on his way out, but it does mean that UCF coaches are being noticed. But why now? Well, the easy answer is that the Knights finished this past season ranked in the top 25 and are being regarded as a possible BCS-buster program, of which have historically been raided by traditional football col-
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leges looking to fill their coaching staffs. But it should also be noted that former UCF defensive coach Gene Chizik just won the National Championship as head coach of Auburn, in case you haven’t heard. Also, three UCF Knights — starting guard Josh Sitton and safeties Atari Bigby and Michael Greco — just won the Super Bowl as members of the Green Bay Packers. It seems that Knights are getting it done on all levels. Is this enough to say that UCF is synonymous with winning? Not quite. But it is enough to realize that there is something to the coaching staff here in Orlando.
Neither of those players that won the Super Bowl were high draft picks, in fact Sitton was the only one taken in the draft (in the fourth round). But when they landed on an NFL roster, teams found that they knew how to play and that they could contribute. Chizik must have learned a thing or two from coaches at UCF. Granted, he was not involved with the George O’Leary regime that took over in 2004 (Chizik left the Knights in 2001), but he is still a part of UCF football history. So what now? Should we be worried? Should UCF start paying its coaches more? I don’t think we should be worried. Though Huxtable is a big loss, and Latavius Murray and Ronnie Weaver will surely miss Godsey, the Knights coaching staff is deep enough to continue strong. John Skladany has taken over defensive play-
calling duties once again, and I believe the UCF defense is a product of the culture more than the coaching. And former Bethune-Cookman offensive coordinator Danny Barrett will be taking over running backs. Many people are worried that Kelly, an ace recruiter, could land a job as head coach at another university because of his recruiting contacts in the talent hotbed that is
South Florida. It is widely speculated that he is the coach-inwaiting at UCF and will probably take that role on. But if a big-time program looking to juice up its recruiting comes calling, don’t be surprised if he makes a Huxtable-type move. Coaches leave programs all the time. It’s a part of the game. And the better that UCF gets, the more coaches will be
noticed and offered more money to relocate. In the long run it will be a good thing. The Knights’ name will get out there, and the reputation that has started in the classrooms and on the field will continue to grow. These are growing pains and while it may hurt at first, the Knights will be bigger and better. (As long as David Kelly doesn’t leave.)
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Danny Winkler,the Knights’Friday-night starter,will start this Friday in UCF’s weekend home series against Dartmouth.
Dartmouth series up next FROM A9 which will increase once the Knights start playing two weekday games. While the pitching has been solid, Rooney is looking for the starting pitchers to improve in two areas. “The one area we need to improve upon is our starting pitchers must go deeper in the games,” Rooney said, which has less to do with endurance and more to do with efficiency. “They’ve got to go longer. They’ve got to get into the sixth or seventh inning. That helps them and it helps our bullpen. The second thing pitching wise is we’ve got to
get a lefty out of the pen that can come in and get left-handed batters out.”
What to watch for — UCF (6-1) suffered its first loss at the South Alabama Classic against Southeastern Louisiana. Both teams are receiving votes in the NCBWA rankings. — Three different players are batting .444 or better. Darnell Sweeney, the C-USA Hitter of the Week, leads all Knights and C-USA with a .500 average. Taladay is batting .455 and Derek Luciano is batting .444. — All nine starters are batting at least .310. — Now that Taladay is back, he’s back. The C-
USA Freshman of the Year hit two home runs and a double against Alabama on Feb. 27. — As Rooney said, the offense is the strength of the team. In the past four games, the Knights have hit 22 doubles. Leading the pack is Sweeney with five and Luciano with four. Designated hitter and pitcher D.J. Hicks has had three. — Dartmouth lefty Kyle Hunter, ranked fourth in Ivy League ERA last season, ranked ninth nationally in fewest walks issued per nine innings. The standout sophomore was also a high school classmate and teammate of UCF outfielder/catcher Ryan Breen.
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Miller, Newsome earn top marks at Combine ERIKA ESOLA Sports Editor
In their days at UCF, Bruce Miller, Jamar Newsome and Jah Reid had no problem standing out on Saturdays at Bright House Networks Stadium. The three former Knights traveled to Indianapolis from Feb. 23 through March 1 to show NFL scouts if they’re able to compete at the same level on Sundays. The Combine, an annual pre-draft event where players take part in a series of skills and psychological exams as well as workouts, gives players a chance to improve their draft stock. It’s one of the main events players attend before the NFL Draft in April. Miller was a top-3 performer overall in the bench press, throwing up 225
pounds an astonishing 35 times. Miller was also a top-5 performer out of all defensive linemen in the three-cone drill, clocking in at 7.05 seconds. “I thought it was a good week, I could have tested out better, but overall I had a blast,” Miller said. Miller’s experience at the combine wasn’t highlighted by his stellar performance in the bench press, though. “The best part for me was the interviews,” Miller said. “Getting to meet the coaches and their staff was great. I heard a lot of positive things and got a lot of great feedback on my linebacker drills. I had a great time doing that.” Newsome ranked in the top 15 among wide receivers in the 40-yard dash, clocking in at 4.51 seconds. He was also a top-
10 performer among wide receivers in the broad and vertical jump, measuring in at 10 feet 9 inches and 38.5 inches, respectively. “I’m satisfied but not complacent,” Newsome said. “With the Combine going as good as it did, it empowers me to work harder so I can be better.” Jah Reid was a top performer in the broad jump among offensive linemen, ranking in at a second-best jump length of 9 feet 3 inches. “I just need to keep working hard and continue to prepare for UCF’s pro day,” said Reid. Miller, Newsome and Reid’s next stop on their journey to the NFL is at UCF’s pro day on March 23. The NFL Draft is April 28-30 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Taylor yearns for C-USA respect FROM A9 first home run of the season. “All day I was relaxed — way more relaxed,” Taylor said. “I feel like a lot of weight was lifted off my shoulders.” What his coaches have challenged him to do more than consistently hit the ball, though, is to be more of a team leader behind the plate. “I told Beau before the game we needed him more that day than we did all weekend just to be a leader, and he caught awesome,” Godwin said. “Sunday was probably his best catching game, best offensive game and that’s one of the things that Beau’s done a better job to this point. Just being more mature and he’s grown up a whole lot and he’s been more consistent behind the plate and he’s been much more of a team leader.” Taylor, who didn’t start catching until his sophomore season in high school, has come a long way in his time with the
Knights. Godwin said that he doesn’t know if he’s coached someone who has improved as much from fall to spring as Taylor did when he was a freshman. Godwin, the team’s hitting and catching coach, worked with Taylor, who was the first UCF catcher to earn Freshman AllAmerican honors. Despite his freshman honors, Taylor has never been voted All-Conference, something that has both the catcher and his coach angry. “He’s hit .340, .350 both years and not been voted All-Conference,” Godwin said. “It makes me mad and I hope it makes him mad because I think he is the best catcher in the conference and I want him to be a little bit ticked off and I think this year he’s kind of taken it personally and it’s been a driving force behind him.” The snub has Taylor, who spent his summer playing in the Cape Cod League studying other catchers from around the country, focused and deter-
BEAU TAYLOR
BY THE NUMBERS... 2011 (through 7 games) Average:.355 Hits:11 Home runs:1 2010 Average:.354 Hits:70 Home runs:7 mined to be the best catcher in Conference USA. “I was kind of mad when I found out that I wasn’t [all-conference],” Taylor said, “So it’s fueling me to prove myself to everybody that I am the best catcher in the conference.”
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40-yard dash - 4.85 Bench press - 35 Vertical jump - 31” Three-cone drill - 7.05 20-yard shuttle - N/A 60-yard shuttle - N/A Broad Jump - 9’5”
40-yard dash - 5.40 Bench press - N/A Vertical jump - 29.5” Three-cone drill - 7.73 20-yard shuttle - 4.65 60-yard shuttle - N/A Broad Jump - 9’3”
40-yard dash - 4.51 Bench press - N/A Vertical jump - 38.5” Three-cone drill - 6.83 20-yard shuttle - 4.22 60-yard shuttle - 11.06 Broad Jump - 10’9”
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Universal’s annual Mardi Gras party will bring Skynyrd, Sean Kingston and more to Orlando
MICHELLE DENDY Copy Editor
Universal Orlando Resort has kicked off another year of beads, bands and the good times of the Big Easy at the 2011 Mardi Gras celebration. The ultimate street party, now in its 16th year, runs every weekend until April 23 and features a parade, Cajun cuisine and a wide range of concerts to adhere to every musical taste. The 30-minute parade features 12 floats, including guest favorites the King Gator, King & Queen and The Riverboat. Four new floats were added this year to go with the theme of the four elements: Fire, Earth, Wind and Water. “After five o’clock when we take over this whole thing, this park becomes something different,” said Lora Wallace, show director at Universal Orlando Resort. “During the day people are here to ride rides and see the shows. But at night, they’re here to eat the food, to see the concert, to see the parade, to catch some beads and it becomes a completely different park.” Universal goes to New Orleans every year and works with Blaine Kern Studios, the same company that designs the floats for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The floats PHOTOS BY MIKE WASHMUTH/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE take about a month to Universal Orlando’s Mardi Gras added four new floats to the parade to go with the theme this year, the four elements:Fire,Earth,Wind design and Water. and create and at least an additional two months to finish. This year, the floats are flashing with lights, bursting with glitter and featuring special effects and music. Universal estimates approximately 10,000 feet of rope lights were used decorate the parade floats and that about 2 million strands of beads will be thrown off the floats. Wallace said she thinks the turnout for Mardi Gras this year has bypassed last year, possibly because of the warmer weather. The tryouts for dancers were more popular as well, with more than 600 dancers auditioning for about 100 spots. For the foodies, add a little spice to your night by sampling some authentic Cajun food in the French
THURSDAY
Bright Eyes @ House of Blues 7 p.m. $23.25 - $38.25 FRIDAY
Orlando Magic vs.Chicago Bulls @ Amway Center 7 p.m. SATURDAY
The Scene Aesthetic featuring He Is We/ Carter Hulsey @ BackBooth 6:30 p.m. $10
Kid Rock @ UCF Arena 8 p.m. $27.50 - $103.05
Harlem Globetrotters @ Amway Center 7 p.m. $42 - $127
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Festival of Chocolate @ Orlando Science Center 10 a.m. $17
Lovers Art Show @ Pom Pom’s Teahouse & Sandwicheria Ongoing until March 6 Free
Depp’s Western ‘Rango’ not just for kids MATT REINSTETLE Staff Writer
It’s being packaged as a kids film, but Johnny Depp’s Rango provides plenty of laughs for all audiences. A lot of the laughs for younger viewers will come from the talking animals running around screaming while waving their hands in the air. For adults, Depp delivers his witty punch lines while talking quickly and uses big words. Some of those words may go over the young childrens’ heads, such as them knowing the difference between thespians and lesbians. Rango is a sheltered chameleon who aspires to be an actor but finds himself in a dried up Western town full of bandits and takes the role of sheriff. Rango treads carefully to create an original story while taking time to honor classic Spaghetti Westerns
Rango Director: Gore Verbinski Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy Starts Friday in select theaters
from Sergio Leone, some more obvious than others. I’m pretty sure there was also a Three Amigos reference in there. It even pays homage to some of Depp’s classic roles, such as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Director Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) teams up again with Depp. Verbinkski shot the film with the actors together acting out each scene then went back and animated from the real footage. This film isn’t a one-man show from Depp by any means. Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sun-
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Rango,left,voiced by Johnny Depp,is shown in a scene from the animated feature,Rango.
shine) and Bill Nighy (Shaun of the Dead) come together to form the right balance for each scene. This ensemble atmosphere improves the quality of the dialogue and the detail of their facial reactions. Industrial Light & Magic makes its debut in animation in jaw-dropping fashion. The level of detail given to each character comes out revealing every crack and crevasse of Rango’s skin.
The animation medium works better for Depp because people’s interest in him distracts from the subject matter. Depp has been known for his crazy, overthe-top characters, such as Capt. Jack Sparrow; but taking away the eyeliner puts the focus on the character instead of the face. The one gripe I have with the film is the overuse of certain comedy gags. A mariachi band of desert
birds act as the narrator reminding us that our titular character is going to die. The problem: the band member had the voice of a Taco Bell commercial narrator. The birds seem to keep popping up every twenty minutes to remind us that Rango hasn’t died yet, but will — spoilers. It’s still early in 2011 but Rango is already shaping up to be one of the best animated films of the year.
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RANGO (PG) A sheltered chameleon, living as an ordinary pet, faces a major identity crisis when Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role until Rango starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be. Directed by: Gore Verbinski Starring: Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Claudia Black
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Have a very vegan Spring Break vacation Beach weather has finally approached us and timing couldn’t be any better. Spring break plans are booked, bathing suit shopping has commenced and bags are all packed. Excited? Just because you are vacationing for a week doesn’t mean you have to give up your new vegetarian/vegan lifestyle! I researched restaurants that offer vegetarian and vegan options near the most popular hotels in the hot-spot spring break areas. First stop is Panama Beach. Several hotels, including the Holiday Inn Resort, are located on Front Beach Road. Luckily, there are restaurants
ELYSSA SCHWARTZ Contributing Columnist
around that cater to your diet. If you’re in the mood for a familiar cuisine, located on Front Beach Road is Back Yard Burgers. BYB offers a garden veggie burger. The bun is made with dairy products so don’t forget to ask for it on a bed of lettuce, instead. They also cook their fries and meat products in separate oils so you’re in the
clear. Thanks to a vegetarian owner, David’s New Orleans Style Sno-Balls on East Back Beach Road, offers Morningstar burgers for New Orleans style po’boys, vegan chick’n patties, vegan “sno balls” and veggie dogs. If you’re still taking baby steps, located on Front Beach Road is Sweet Basils Bistro. It offers veggie pizzas, vegetarian soups, eggplant and vegetarian pasta options. The Lotus Café, located on R. Jackson Boulevard, serves veggie burgers, beans and rice and a hot or cold veggie pita sandwich along with smoothies. If you’re recovering from last night, call for delivery
from 5 to 8 p.m. Second stop, Freeport, Bahamas. If you are staying at the Grand Lucaya you will probably end up doing most of your dining at or near The Square. You’ll know what I’m talking about when you get there. If you’re skeptical about trying anything new, try Subway. Order the Veggie Delite salad or the sandwich on Italian bread. Final stop, Key West. Chances are you will do just about everything on or around Duval Street. Keep in mind this convenient list of local restaurants and dishes to order. La Creperie is a veganfriendly restaurant. You can create a number of
vegan options as long as you order it on a buckwheat crepe without butter. Salsa Loca is festive and affordable. It offers more than 12 veggie dinners, including the Veggie Sincronizada, a grilled tortilla sandwich with veggies and jalapenos. Another veggie-friendly place is The Café at 509 Southard St. The menu offers vegetarian favorites such as tofu parmigiana with pasta. They also serve a range of stir-fry dishes. Just because you’re vegan doesn’t mean you can’t go out to eat. Next week I’ll tell you what to order at the chain restaurants you can find anywhere.
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Quarter. With the menu consisting of popular dishes like andouille sausage jambalaya, shrimp po’ boys and gumbo, you won’t be disappointed. Finish off your meal with some scrumptious King Cake or beignets. For those 21 and older and willing to spend $10 on a drink, try the Voo Doo juice — a spiked fruit punch that comes with a souvenir Mardi Gras cup. In addition to big-name musical talent, Universal brings about a dozen hand-picked authentic New Orleans bands to perform in the French Quarter Courtyard leading up to the parade. Stilt walkers and other Mardi Grasthemed characters pump up the crowds and set the mood for the evening.
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Justin Bieber Never Say Never:The Director’s Fan Cut 3D (G) 12:50 7:25
I Am Number Four The IMAX Experience (PG-13) 1:50 4:45 8:00 10:45
Big Mommas:Like Father,Like Son
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MARDI GRAS AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS THE CONCERT LINEUP: March 5:Lynyrd Skynyrd March 12:Foreigner March 18-19:Neon Trees,The Roots March 25-26:OneRepublic, Blake Shelton April 1-2:Sean Kingston,NeYo April 9:Lifehouse April 16:The Beach Boys April 23:30 Seconds To Mars
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Pitbull,“Mr.305”, performed a variety of crowd favorites and reggaeton rap at the Feb.26 Mardi Gras concert.
Tickets after 5 p.m. are $54.99 in advance and $64.99 at the gate—a steal since the rides are open
until the start of the parade, at 8 p.m. The nightly concerts, which include Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Sean Kingston, OneRepublic and The Beach Boys, begin after the parade at 8:30 p.m.
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t’s not just our friends abroad who are suffering at the hands of their political leaders in the Middle East and Africa. Recently, protesters have been storming the capitols in Wisconsin and Ohio to take a stand against their governors’ attempts to cut collective bargaining rights for union workers. This means state employees will lose their ability to negotiate with their employers regarding working conditions such as salary and health care. This extends to some of the most important people in our community: teachers, police officers, firefighters, etc. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker claims the proposed bill is meant to help get rid of the state’s deficit, but we don’t believe that argument for a minute. As Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein pointed out, we really can’t blame the unions for deficit, not in Wisconsin or any of the other states facing similar issues. There were no major changes in the way unions operated during the time the recession started; the cause of our current economic state is mostly due to failure in the bank system.
The real reason behind Walker’s actions is to disband unions entirely because they are one of the major supporters of Walker’s political opponent: the Democrats. Unions are one of the major financial supporters of the Democratic Party, without their funding it will be harder for the Democrats to find financial resources, but not impossible. Blogger Andy Kroll from MotherJones.com breaks Walker’s proposal down into three parts: union members’ ability to negotiate conditions with their employers will be greatly reduced; they will no longer be able to collect dues, which consequently means they’ll lose their ability to organize members or lobby the legislature; and each year the union members will have to vote to decide whether or not the union should continue to exist. With their power entirely stripped, however, it’s highly unlikely that members would continue to vote the union back into existence. Proposals like this aren’t just limited to Wisconsin and Ohio; Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and even Florida are currently struggling
with anti-union legislation. We value our state workers far too much to see them abused and neglected in such a way. They did not cause our current budget crisis and their sacrifices won’t save us from it. It’s extremely petty that these governors would sacrifice the union rights of teachers, police officers and other public servants — who are already underpaid, overworked and often have to worry about whether or not they’ll have a job next year — in a foolish attempt to eliminate the competition. It’s not just union members who are unhappy about all this. A New York Times/CBS poll found that 60 percent of Americans are against weakening bargaining rights for unions, whereas only 33 percent favor it. The fate of these bills is uncertain. In Wisconsin all the Senate Democrats left the state, because without them the Senate does not have enough members necessary to conduct a vote. We hope to see these bills killed in all the states currently struggling with this issue. We can only imagine the repercussions otherwise.
Obama’s decision subverts Constitution reinforce that perception President Obama has with moves like this one. decided that he will no He’s going to wind up loslonger defend the Defense ing both houses of Conof Marriage Act — a law gress, and possibly his own that establishes that for the re-election. purposes of the federal Obama has nothing to government, marriage is gain politically from what between a man and a he has chosen to do. He woman — in court. may create short-term vicWhen people choose to tories by essentially giving challenge the law in court, ANDY CEBALLOS opponents of the law an the Obama administration Contributing Columnist upper hand in court, but simply won’t be there to judges could still decide defend the law, improving against opponents of this legislation. the chances for legal victories for I sincerely doubt that gay-rights potential challengers of the bill. groups would criticize Obama for To me, this is a complete outrage, upholding the constitution as his job particularly coming from someone who is a former professor of constitu- requires. Also, where else are they going to go? They may not be fully tional law. By doing this, the presisatisfied with the response that dent is essentially not doing part of his job. He has a responsibility under Obama and the Democrats have Article II, section 3 of the U.S. Consti- shown toward gay rights, but it is almost guaranteed to hit the back tution to “take Care that the Laws be burner if Republicans take over Confaithfully executed.” gress and the White House. This means it is his job to enforce If he is “struggling” with this issue the federal laws of this country. He as he claims, then he has other doesn’t get to pick and choose which options at his disposal. Fighting for laws he is going to enforce. Obama knows this better than anybody, and if repeal of this bill is the best and constitutional way forward, and he George W. Bush had pulled a stunt should throw the full weight of his like this with a law he didn’t like, we office behind this approach if he is would have been criticizing him like serious about this. never before. Obama does not have the authority This is an act of absolute hypocrisy to determine which laws are constitufrom someone who campaigned on a tional and which ones are not. That promise to return to constitutional authority rests with our judicial sysvalues. tem. If the law makes its way through My grievance with him has the legal process and is invalidated by absolutely nothing to do with the gay community, and everything to do with the federal court system, then he has the right to no longer enforce the law. him doing the runaround on the constitution. He has called for the repeal Unless they say it’s unconstitutional, however, it is his job to enforce the of the law, saying it is discriminatory, law. and that it is the proper way for him For those of you that think he is to fight the law, rather than simply being a hero for gay rights, think not defend it. again. There is absolutely nothing Gay-rights groups everywhere hailed his decision, as if it is somehow heroic about what he is doing. He is going to benefit their agenda but what choosing not to enforce a law that was signed by Bill Clinton when he Obama’s move will actually do is was in office. Surely he isn’t implying energize the Republican Party. Nothing fires up the conservative base like that Clinton signed something unconstitutional into law. social issues, and this one is a doozy. The only way forward that honors This is easy red meat for Republicans to feed to their conservative base, and our constitution is for him to continue to push for Congress to repeal this it’s going to drive them to the polls in bill, but for him to just choose not to a hurry. enforce this law is wrong and unconObama is already perceived as a stitutional. radical president by some, and indeThis is not the kind of change that pendent voters might also view this I can believe in. step as extreme, and he is helping to
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Diversity essential in quest for wisdom learning center where As the fervor of revoluconflicting opinions can tion sweeps up the Midfind hearings. dle East, what is the As a public institution responsibility of a U.S. committed to educating its university, such as UCF, in students and the general educating its students and public, UCF aspires to informing the general receive international public? recognition. In terms of I believe that the most Middle Eastern studies, significant responsibility this can only be accomof a university dealing HAKAN OZOGLU plished by maintaining a with subjects as controProf.of Middle Eastern Studies reputation that we have a versial as the Middle East vibrant and impartial prois to expose its students to gram where we teach “how to think,” all different — even marginal — not “what to think.” viewpoints. It is not a difficult prediction that Pure knowledge does not have the Middle East will maintain its sigethnic, religious or political associations. Therefore, in pursuit of knowl- nificance for the American public in the foreseeable future. We have a edge, universities cannot afford to large number of veterans who are commit themselves to a particular curious about the region where they political/intellectual position. have spent considerable time as Although not unique, the Middle East is a place where there is no defi- active soldiers or those who will be deployed. Their impartial education ciency of conflict; and by nature all is of the utmost importance. conflicts have at least two sides. The U.S. need is significant for Arab/Israeli conflict, Kurdish nationspecialists in the Middle East who are alism, politics of oil, the War in Iraq, well trained and credible. Therefore, and the fight against al-Qaida are a as a major public higher learning good sample of these conflicts in institution, UCF will have to bear the which the U.S. has been involved. Therefore, one’s emotional attach- responsibility of meeting this educational need. ment to one side or another is Currently, we have a modest inevitable. However, the responsibiliminor in Middle Eastern studies ty of the university as a transnational with limited course offerings but institution is to go beyond any emogreat potential. We have a very tional attachment and to provide vibrant Global Studies program common grounds for all intellectual where world-class speakers share inquiries, no matter how marginal their opinions with our students. they may be. I sincerely hope that UCF will We are all proud that in terms of progress further in the direction of faculty and student population, UCF providing unbiased information is a very international and diverse about the Middle East and that our institution. As a faculty member in students will become increasingly Middle Eastern Studies, I am pleased aware of what is now readily availto see that UCF is fully aware of its able to them in terms of public lecresponsibility to be an independent and neutral creator of knowledge — a tures and course offerings.
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“E-books are more accessible if you have a computer and you can’t lose them.”
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