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Students split on texting etiquette SEAN BOWER Contributing Writer
The risk of being embarrassed by the professor in front of their peers is one that many UCF students are willing to take as they send text messages during class. While some professors think texting in class is a distraction, there are students who think it’s a nor-
mal part of life and doesn’t divert attention. A survey of students from the University of New Hampshire observed high rates of texting during class, as reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The survey of 1,000 students found that about 80 percent send at least one text message during class and many feel guilty afterward.
While UCF students are also familiar with texting in class, guilt doesn’t always accompany that action. “It’s as simple as looking at the time on your watch,” Gregory Leibowitz, a senior studio arts major, said. “It’s just a part of life now.” Several students admitted to texting throughout an entire class period. “Sometimes in a big class I will have conversa-
tions going on the whole time,” said Jessica Meyer, a sophomore advertising and public relations major. Texting in class can become routine or a habit for some. Matt Leili, a junior aerospace engineering major, compared texting to doodling in your notebook.
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The UCF Student Union will be hosting a free HIV testing session for students from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m.on March 16.Results from the oral swab tests are provided in 20 minutes. KATIE DEES / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
Lance Shook,2004 UCF graduate,is the vice president of the Florida Orange Groves Inc.and Winery,his family’s citrus-based winery.
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MIAMI AIRPORT AUCTIONS OFF ABANDONED ITEMS Miami International Airport is auctioning off thousands of abandoned items.From DVD players to a keyboard piano, everything will be on the auction block Saturday.
POLICE:MIAMI MAN SET GIRLFRIEND ON FIRE Authorities in Miami have arrested a man whom they say doused his girlfriend with a flammable liquid and set her on fire, killing her.They had been in an escalating fight.
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Some UCF students don’t find it disrespectful to text during class lectures,but a new study found that many students who text in class feel guilty about it.
UNCORKED POTENTIAL UCF alum brings talents to family’s citrus winery KATIE KUSTURA News Editor
For three years, Lance Shook spent his days in a suit and tie working as the assistant vice president of the Bank of Asheville in North Carolina. These days his attire has become a bit more casual since returning to his hometown of St. Petersburg last August to join the family business — Florida Orange Groves Inc. and Winery. “My dad and I met, talked a little bit, he made me a pretty good offer and here I am today,” said Shook, who graduated from UCF in 2004 with a bachelor’s in finance and later from Western Carolina University with a master’s in business administration. “I’m glad to be back with the family business and using all the skills I learned through college and my master’s to help out and grow the business.” Shook’s father, Vince, the president of the company, said that before his son came to work for him, the business was in a period of transition. “We were deciding whether or not we were going to continue on as a family
For more photos of the winery: www.UCFNews.com business or start up a program to divest ourselves as a business,” Vince said. Vince’s parents, also employees at the winery, are both 83-yearsold. With Vince and his wife in their 60s, he was worried about the winery’s future and hoped his son would want to join the business. “Eventually we made him an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Vince said. Lance, the winery’s
Brittany Bellanca is one of many students who uses the Recreation & Wellness Center, but she can’t be found on the track or by the free weights. Bellanca, a senior psychology major, hangs out downstairs, completing her CHAMP Plus program. CHAMP Plus is a free, eightweek program that is offered to all UCF students who are dedicated and ready for a change in nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle. It consists of meeting with a licensed dietician, a fitness orientation, four face-to-face meetings with a peer educator and a post-CHAMP assessment after the eighth week. Larissa Bravo, the CHAMP Plus graduate assistant, teaches her clients about exercise through power points in her workshop. “The idea is to educate,” Bravo
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Alcohol Screening Day to be hosted outside of library Alcohol Screening Day will provide confidential information to students about their personal alcohol use. All UCF students are welcome to attend the event. Free T-shirts, key chains and water bottles will be given to those who attend and complete the program. The event will take place on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of the UCF Library. For more information, contact Stephanie Spies at sspies@mail.ucf.edu or 407-823-3652.
LOCAL & STATE Keep local with headlines you may have missed
Miami airport’s auctions sometimes lead to surprises MIAMI — The contents in the suitcases will be sold to the highest bidder, but must remain a secret until a sale is final. Property owners usually have 60 days to claim their missing items before it goes into the auction pool. All the money goes into the airport’s general fund. One year, a bidder bought a suitcase for $150 and inside was approximately 25,000 British pounds.
Fight led man to set girlfriend on fire MIAMI — Officers took 41-year-old Jesus Alvarez into custody Saturday, three days after a fight that escalated from a beating to a burning. Margarita Blanco died the next day from her injuries. Alvarez is facing a firstdegree murder charge for the death of the 42-year-old woman.
Miami-Dade police investigate death of 4-month-old HOMESTEAD — Miami-Dade police are investigating the death of a 4-month-old boy whose parent brought him to a hospital in an unresponsive state. Investigators went to the infant’s home Saturday and found the living conditions to be “unfavorable for a child.” — ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Moscato said her goal is to create a sustainable clinic that will help make the Orlando community healthier. According to the College of Medicine website, in the first module, students identify a research mentor and are responsible for developing a proposal including their hypothesis or question, specific aims, and methods and procedures. “Learning to overcome the uncertainty inherent in beginning an ambitious project has been just as valuable to me as the technical knowledge I’ve accumulated”, said second year Lynn McGrath of his FIRE project. McGrath is working on evaluating the effectiveness of the helmets used by our military in protecting troops from traumatic brain injury during IED blasts. These students will finish their second year of medical school this month and continue phase two of their modules next semester. The module ends in a Research Day where both first and second year students present on their findings or study proposals. “It has been a valuable learning experience in what it takes to lead your own research team, and I am fortunate to have this experience at such a young age,” Mirick said.
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Post-spring break world news roundup The 2011 spring break season has been one of the most destructive in years. A massive earthquake shook Japan, causing a tsunami that tore through its cities and even hit the United States. Both the Future and UCF News & Information have confirmed that some UCF students were in Japan during the 8.9-rated earthquake. Look for a Future article in the coming days on these students and the situation they’re facing. In other international news, Libyan rebel forces lost ground to Moammar Gadhafi’s troops, failing to hold a key oil port. Finally, rainstorms are causing floods along the East Coast. See the Associated Press’ quick roundup below:
Death toll in Japan quaketsunami likely to top 10,000; millions without water,power TAGAJO, Japan — The death toll in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said Sunday, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverized northeastern coast. Although the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 100,000, it seemed overwhelmed by what’s turning out to be a triple disaster: Friday’s quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant on the coast, and at least one of them appeared to be going through a partial meltdown, raising fears of a radiation leak. The police chief of Miyagi prefecture, or state, told a gathering of disaster relief officials that his estimate for deaths was more than
10,000, police spokesman Go Sugawara told The Associated Press. Miyagi has a population of 2.3 million and is one of the three prefectures hardest hit in Friday’s disaster. Only 379 people have officially been confirmed as dead in Miyagi. The nuclear crisis posed fresh concerns for those who survived the earthquake and tsunami, which hit with breathtaking force and speed, breaking or sweeping away everything in its path. According to officials, at least 1,200 people were killed — including 200 people whose bodies were found Sunday along the coast — and 739 were missing in the disasters.
In Japan plant,frantic efforts as govt says partial meltdown is ‘highly possible’ KORIYAMA, Japan — Japanese officials were struggling Sunday with a growing nuclear crisis and the threat of multiple meltdowns, as more than 170,000 people were evacuated from the quake- and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast where police fear more than 10,000 people may have already died. A partial meltdown was already likely under way at one nuclear reactor, a top official said, and operators were frantically trying to keep temperatures down at the power plant’s other units and prevent the disaster from growing even worse. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Sunday that a hydrogen explosion could occur at Unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, the reactor that could be melting down. That would follow a blast the day before in the power plant’s Unit 1, as operators attempted to prevent a
equipped and loosely organized rebels who had seized much of the country. On Saturday, Gadhafi’s forces pushed the front line miles deeper into rebel territory to just 25 miles (40 kilometers) outside Brega, the site of a major oil terminal. Sunday’s report said Brega has been “cleansed from armed gangs.” DAISUKE TOMITA / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Futaba Kosei Hospital patients are assisted by Japan Self Defense Force personnel as they disembark from a helicopter.
meltdown by injecting sea water into it. “At the risk of raising further public concern, we cannot rule out the possibility of an explosion,” Edano said. “If there is an explosion, however, there would be no significant impact on human health.” More than 170,000 people had been evacuated as a precaution, though Edano said the radioactivity released into the environment so far was so small it didn’t pose any health threats.
After tsunami waves,Calif. coastal town left to recover from damaged port,fishing industry CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — Harbor crews are assessing the damage caused by powerful tsunami surges that pounded this northern California port, sinking or damaging dozens of boats and wreaking havoc on port facilities. “This harbor is the lifeblood of our community,” Del Norte County Sheriff Dean Wilson said as he scanned the wreckage from waves touched off by a massive earthquake in Japan late last week. Last year saw landings of crab and fish worth $12.5 million. “The fishing industry is the identity and soul of this community, besides
tourism,” he said Saturday. The region has never recovered from the loss of the timber industry in the 1980s and 1990s, and downturns in salmon fishing, said Wilson, who fished on his father’s boats as a young man. A series of powerful surges generated by the quake arrived about 7:30 a.m. Friday and pounded the harbor. Eight boats were believed sunk and dozens of others damaged; an unmanned sailboat sucked out of the harbor ran aground on the coast. Crews are beginning the enormous task of determining and then repairing the damage to the port, where a sheen of oil floated in the basin. Seagulls feasted on mussels exposed by upended docks. About 80 percent of the docks that once sheltered 140 boats were gone.
Libyan TV says Gadhafi forces capture oil town of Brega BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan state television has reported that forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have retaken the oil town of Brega in the east. The report could not immediately be verified. Libyan TV has issued faulty reports claiming territory in the past. Gadhafi has been swiftly advancing on the poorly
East Coast flooding leads to hundreds of evacuations;communities watching rivers rise
prospect of evacuations due to rising flood waters early Sunday, while rain-swollen waterways were slowly receding elsewhere along the East Coast, allowing dozens of other floodweary residents to return home. The Passaic River was expected to crest early Sunday, and officials believe the surging waters will quickly make low-lying areas uninhabitable. If that happens, residents could be kept away from their homes for several days. Among the towns expected to be hardest hit Sunday were Little Falls and Paterson, where residents were being urged to find temporary housing, either with family and friends or at any of several shelters in the area. The river was expected to crest in Little Falls at nearly 5 feet above flood stage, according to the National Weather Service. “This is not a game. This is real. If you can, please seek higher ground now,” Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones told residents on Saturday, warning them that it could take at least two days for the river to recede completely. Jones said he expects that roughly 1,500 residents will have to be evacuated from their homes on Sunday, noting that six fire department rescue boats will be available to help if needed. Jones was among dozens of officials from Maryland to Maine who were monitoring rivers, creeks and streams that had either overflowed their banks or were expected to do so, causing more hardships for communities where major flooding forced hundreds of people from their homes.
TRENTON, N.J. — Hundreds of northern New Jersey residents faced the
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Major Republicans donors taking time to size up potential GOP candidates in 2012 race WASHINGTON — The potential White House candidates need cash. But donors aren’t eager to shell out until the hopeful prove they’re credible. Which they can’t — until they have the cash lined up to start their campaigns. This explains, in part, why the 2012 Republican primary race has yet to begin in earnest. “It’s a little sluggish. The major donor folks are sitting back a bit,” said Rob Bickhart, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman who is helping former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Less than a year before the lead-off primaries and caucuses, many of the Republican Party’s biggest fundraisers aren’t aligned with any one candidate and many are holding back to see who emerges as a frontrunner in a field that lacks one. All-but-certain candidates Mitt Romney and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty have lined up pieces of their fundraising teams; others are moving more slowly. None is eager to start spending.
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‘It’s something to pass the time. It’s not like you are answering a phone call.’ — MATT LEILI JUNIOR
“It’s something to pass the time,” Leili said. “It’s not like you are answering a phone call.” Rules created by UCF consider texting to be a violation for students. The UCF Golden Rule indirectly addresses this topic. It states that “Communication to another through written, visual, electronic or oral means,” during examination is academic misconduct. UCF also gives professors the power to provide rules at the beginning of the semester, including the ability to prohibit the use of phones during class. Students also notice a hidden distraction presented when they are not able to check textmessages in class. While the professor’s lesson is the primary focus, the unread text messages are constantly at the back of the students’ minds. “I feel like I need to answer the text,” Meyer said, “but I don’t want to ignore the teacher either.” Meyer’s comment sheds light on the idea that allowing students to text during class time would provide an environment in which a student can feel comfortable. The obvious barrier being that many believe allowing texting in class would be a distraction to others. Despite this belief, some students said that when they see others texting in class it does not distract them from the professor’s instruction. Young people see texting as a regular part of everyday life, and a necessary part of a social life. A study by two psychology professors at Wilkes University found that 62 percent of students inter-
viewed from 250 different universities feel that texting in class should be allowed and is not a distraction. However, most students acknowledge the distraction caused by a phone ringing in the middle of class. In the same study, 75 percent of students said they find a phone ringing in class to be a disturbance. UCF professors’ thoughts on texting in class is quite the opposite of students’. Many professors see texting during a lecture as a sign of disrespect. Professors usually spell out their policies on using phones in the course syllabus, sometimes disregarded by students throughout the semester. Professors in general do not see any place for texting in the classroom setting. Political Science professor Ed Bradford is one of the many that doesn’t allow texting in class. “I make it perfectly clear that I don’t tolerate it [texting], the threat alone seems to suffice,” Bradford said. Professors often have heavy penalties for students who feel the need to use phones during test periods. Bradford said that any student with an electronic device on the desk during an exam automatically receives a zero. Beyond text messaging, smart phones may be able to serve as substitutes for laptops in the classroom. Cell phones can now do some of the necessary tasks for students, such as sending e-mails and serving as a platform to take notes. “With technology the way it is, I think one day smart phones could be a substitute (for laptops),” Bradford said.
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College life can harm good food habits, health FROM A1 said. “I want them to feel like they can do the exercises themselves. I don’t want to hand-feed them work out routines; education will last them a lifetime.” Bellanca discovered the program through her sociology of deviant behavior class when she decided to
write a paper on how dieting may lead to irregular behavior. “Our teacher gave us a list of topics to write about and mentioned CHAMP as a topic choice,” Bellanca said. “I was interested after my teacher’s lecture, so I researched for more information.” CHAMP Plus motivated Bellanca to move past the
“plateau” point. She had lost weight but had reached the stage where the body becomes used to the routines and stops losing weight. Bravo sees a majority of her clients being referred to the program through Health Services. People are going into the clinic for regular check-ups and doctors are noticing weight-
related problems, such as hypertension and prediabetic symptoms, according to Bravo. “Doctors are telling their patients they need regular diet and exercise, so they are referring them here,” Bravo said. “On the application, we ask, ‘Why are you doing this?’ and we are getting responses such as, ‘my doctor referred me, and it is the only way I can get off my medications.’” The rise in obesity rates among America’s youth has earned Generation Y the nickname Generation XL, generated from Richard H. Carmona, M.D., the U.S. Surgeon General from 2002 to 2006. According to the University of Michigan’s 2010 studies on freshman weight-gain, obesity prevalence in young adults 18 to 29 had the largest percentage increase of all age groups, 96 percent from 1988 to 2006. The study also found that college women with heavy roommates gain less weight during their freshman year. College students have been put under the microscope in other various studies, with researchers hoping to find what the actual weight gain in college students was and what the cause may be. The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association recommended five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day, moderateintense cardio or aerobic activity for at least 30 minutes five days or more per week or vigorous-intensity cardio or
aerobic activity for at least 20 minutes three or more days per week, for a healthy lifestyle. According to the survey results of the 2010 National College Health Assessment, 49 percent were actually getting the recommended amount of exercise, leaving 22 percent of college students overweight. Sophomore Max Green said he does not see a big problem for UCF students. “I think there is a weight problem to some degree,” Green said. “It is not overwhelming in college though because people are pretty conscience about their appearances.” Tré Hester, a senior interpersonal/organizational communications major, said that although he doesn’t see an obesity problem at the university level, options for food on campus leave students limited. “There are not a lot of super-healthy options on campus. It’s hard, people are studying, drinking, they need something quick,” Hester said Bellanca said healthy eating is a choice, and there are more healthy options on campus now than there were in the past. “Young adults are just tempted to eat whatever they want without thinking about the consequences,” Bellanca said. “They need more information.” Sherri Flynt, coauthor of SuperSized Kids: How to Rescue Your Child from the Obesity Threat and head of Florida Hospital’s Center for Nutritional Excellence, said college students do have a role to play in the
obesity problem. “Freshmen students gain 10 to 20 pounds because they are now in charge of what they eat and when they eat,” Flynt said. “Unless they were underweight to start with, this much weight gain would probably put them in the overweight category. It is difficult to see overweight in yourself if you feel you look like everyone else does.” Flynt explained that eating healthy can involve spending a little extra and recommended staying away from fast food, even the salads. “College students are busy so it is easy to skip meals and lose sleep. Eat breakfast, pack snacks, then you are less likely to eat late at night,” she said. “Working 15 to 20 minutes of physical activity at various times throughout your day, and getting adequate sleep is a must.” Freshman year can be tough for some. “I lived in the Apollo dorms my freshman year,” Bellanca said. “The meal plan was too expensive, there was limited storage and limited ways to prepare it. I definitely gained my ‘Freshman 15.’ “ Despite that brief setback, Bellanca has learned a great amount since her freshman year. “I have learned a lot about the different types of fitness,” Bellanca said. “The nutritionist has taught me a lot, like there’s this new food pyramid, and now I am more fit than I’ve ever been in my life.” For more information on the CHAMP Plus program, visit www. hs.sdes.ucf.edu/wellnesscenter/services.html.
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Shook family’s tropical wine is one of a kind FROM A1 vice president, wasn’t involved with the company in its infancy because it was his senior year of high school and he was busy applying to colleges. After taking a tour of UCF, he knew it was where he wanted to go to school for a finance degree. “I thought I wanted to be a stockbroker or something like that,” Lance said. While attending UCF, many of his friends would ask what his parents did for a living. “I’d always tell them we had a tropical, citrus and berry winery and they were always intrigued by that,” Lance said. “Toward my senior year at UCF, everybody that I knew loved it. I could get the guy across the hall to do anything if I gave him a bottle of blueberry wine.” Since his return to the winery, Lance has taken steps to bring the business up to date. “He’s brought us into the real world with technology, financing and accounting, some different marketing strategies and redesigned our website for us,” Vince said. Lance said that, since designing a new website, Internet sales have gone up quite a bit. “I’m definitely not an IT guy, but I’m trying,” Lance said. “One of the projects that I’ve been working on, I’d say forever, is a rebrand
of our existing store, our labels primarily and the image of the business.” The labels on the wine bottles haven’t changed since the winery’s establishment in 1997.
Citrus beginnings The Shook family originally started developing their unique wines in 1991, but prior to that they were in the citrus industry. The idea to make wine out of citrus came from someone else entirely. “We were into our honeybell tangelo season, so we were squeezing that juice at the time,” Vince said. “There was a gentleman who came in and asked about pricing on a five-gallon container of the juice because he wanted to make some wine out of it.” Vince said his family found that interesting, so instead of making him pay for the juice, they asked him to bring them a couple bottles of the wine when it was finished. “A year went by and I didn’t see him, so I thought that was over and done with and next thing you know he shows up with a couple of bottles of tangelo wine,” Vince said. “That’s when we tasted it and the light bulb went on and we said ‘let’s look into this.’ “ The Shooks spent several years testing different methods of making citrus and other fruits into wine with the hopes of eventually opening a winery. They
already had a location that they had bought in 1978 and operated as a restaurant for several years before joining the citrus industry.
Early doubts “We did have concerns. We didn’t know about pricing and a whole host of issues. We were basically amateur wine makers at that time trying to go to the next step, so we kept the citrus operation and we added a small square footage amount for the winery,” Vince said. “We started out with maybe five or six different kinds of wine to see how it would go. It was received pretty well and then over the years it grew. The citrus industry in Florida was in decline anyway due to competition from foreign markets and the freezes, so it was a natural transition for us.” Though it was received well, others had harbored doubts early on. “A lot of the old timers told us you couldn’t make wine out of the citrus juices, but we kept at it,” Vince said. Even Vince’s mom, Gladys, had her doubts because no one had ever successfully made wine out of citrus, but her doubts were quickly cast aside once the wines started turning out well. “Now, we’re the second largest winery in the state of Florida...and the original tropical winery,” Gladys
said. Gladys said that in the beginning, people questioned the realness of the wine. “If we don’t make real wine, where did all these wine awards come from?” Gladys said. “People kind of looked down their noses at us because we were not the traditional wine makers.”
Uniqueness breeds success Being nontraditional is what Vince thinks helped things turn out for the better. “Not taking any formal courses, I think it was good,” Vince said. “My dad and I were both engineers, so rather than try and take courses that would put us into the traditional wine making mentality, we just played around with it on our own with basic knowledge.” Using that basic knowledge would lead them to win more than 235 various awards and medals from state fairs
and wine competitions. Most recently, their Key Limen wine earned the “Best of Show” medal at the Florida State Fair in both the commercial fruit wine competition and the Florida State Wineries competition. “They don’t really have any competition at this moment that I know of or that they know of,” said UCF alumnus and assistant winemaker Ryan Miller. Miller, who graduated in fall of 2009 with a bachelor’s in business management, has been working at the winery for a year, but his family has been friends with the Shooks for several years and his mom serves as their office manager. As the assistant winemaker, Miller’s day consists of cleaning the fermentation tanks, checking the fermentation temperatures and alcohol levels throughout the day, placing bottles on the machine that cleans them and fills them with
wine and loading trucks with cases of wine. He also samples the 41 varieties wine to ensure that the quality and taste is consistent. “It keeps me on my toes for sure,” Miller said. “I didn’t really have much experience in this field, but at the same time I knew I could handle it because I worked very hard for my degree.” Miller said that although he went to school for a field that would typically have him behind a desk, working with his hands at a winery is more up his alley and he hopes to stay in that kind of industry. Lance hopes to help the company grow to mirror the success of one of America’s most famous brands. “I think one day I’d definitely like to be in the position to run the company,” Lance said. “I’d like to grow it to a household brand name, like Heinz Tomato Ketchup or something.”
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Top:UCF alumnus and Assistant Winemaker Ryan Miller loads wine bottles to be cleaned before they’re filled with wine. Bottom:Florida Orange Groves Inc.and Winery has about 3,000 gallons of juice currently fermenting in the silver tanks.
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Dems hope to taint Romney with praise STEVE LEBLANC Associated Press
BOSTON — President Barack Obama and other top Democrats have been quick
to lavish praise on former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney for signing the sweeping health care law in 2006 that laid the groundwork for Obama’s
national health care overhaul. The fact that repeal of the national law, derided as “Obamacare,” was a rallying cry for Republicans in last
year’s midterm election hasn’t been lost on Democratic loyalists who hope to taint Romney by tying him too closely to what is a highly unpopular law among GOP voters. Some analysts are wondering if that strategy could end up backfiring if Romney wins the Republican nomination for president and has to reach out to independents and moderate Democrats — especially if those voters start warming up to the national law and its Massachusetts precedent. “Democrats need to be careful of that strategy of praising him too much,” said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. “Once he has the nomination he’ll be playing to moderates and independent voters and he could use that in his favor.” Boston University communications professor Tobe Berkovitz also warned that Romney could eventually use Obama’s comments to appeal to the same voters Obama needs for a second term. “The fact is, Romney has proven himself to be a very adept politician when it comes to dealing with problematic voters,” he said, noting Romney’s success in Democratic Massachusetts. “He could take the pushing by the Democrats and flip it around.” Romney has walked a fine line on the 2006 health law, which he once considered a crowning achievement of his single term as Massachusetts governor. As he weighs another run for the White House, Romney has cautiously defended his decision to sign the health care initiative even as he criticizes
the national health law, essentially arguing that the decision to expand insurance coverage should be left up to the states, not the federal government. A top Romney aide has recently gone a step further, saying Romney is “proud” of what the state law has accomplished. Massachusetts has the highest number of insured residents of any state in the country, with more than 98 percent coverage. The Democratic plaudits haven’t escaped Romney’s notice. During a speech at a recent Republican dinner in New Hampshire, Romney joked about Obama and Democrats spending “more time talking about me and Massachusetts health care than Entertainment Tonight spends talking about Charlie Sheen.” The kudos has been piling up fast. Addressing a recent meeting of the National Governor’s Association, Obama not only credited Romney for providing a blueprint for the federal law, but also said he agreed with Romney that states should take more of a lead on overhauling health care. “I agree with Mitt Romney, who recently said he’s proud of what he accomplished on health care in Massachusetts and supports giving states the power to determine their own health care solutions. He’s right,” Obama said. “Alabama is not going to have exactly the same needs as Massachusetts or California or North Dakota. We believe in that flexibility.” Obama pointed to another Massachusetts Republican, Sen. Scott Brown, who wants to let states seek a waiver from
the federal health care law sooner than the law now allows as long as the states provide coverage of the same quality and affordability as mandated by the national law. “That’s a reasonable proposal,” Obama said. “I support it.” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who plans to stump for fellow Democrat and friend Obama in next year’s election, has also applauded Romney, saying “one of the best things he did was to be the co-author of our health care reform.” As he gears up for an expected 2012 presidential bid, Romney has appeared unsure about whether to distance himself from the law he signed. At a recent Republican dinner in New Hampshire, Romney vowed to repeal the federal health care law if elected president while saying individual states should be the incubators of new health care approaches. “Our approach was a state plan intended to address problems that were in many ways unique to Massachusetts,” Romney said. “Our experiment wasn’t perfect. Some things worked. Some didn’t. And some things I’d change. “One thing I would never do is to usurp the constitutional power of states with a one-size-fitsall federal takeover,” Romney said. While Democrats have been quick to congratulate Romney, his potential GOP challengers have pounced on the same issue. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has said Romney should offer an apology for the Massachusetts law.
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Survivors of ’04 tsunami shaken by disaster FAKHRURRADZIE GADE Associated Press
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Tears streamed down Maisara Mucharam’s face as she watched aerial shots of the tsunami pummeling Japan’s coast and remembered the day, six years ago, when her youngest daughter was ripped out of her arms by the heavy salty sea. Survivors of the 2004 tsunami that started off Indonesia sat glued to their TV sets, stroking each other’s hands, as images of last Friday’s disaster in northern Japan flashed repeatedly across the screen. “I heard someone screaming and ran to see what was going on,” said Mucharam, who also lost her husband and two other daughters. “I tried, but couldn’t stop watching,” the 38year-old said, her voice trembling. “It was exactly the same, except they have this horrible footage, events unfolding right before your eyes.” The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck on the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, spawned a tsunami that smashed into coastal communities, beach resorts and towns in 12 nations, killing more than 230,000 people. Two-thirds of them died here in Indonesia’s remote Aceh province, and it took days for images to emerge. Even then, most showed the aftermath: crumpled buildings, flattened landscapes and row upon row of swollen corpses. “Unbelievable,” whispered 39-year old Cut Chalidah, who lost a son and nine other family members, as she watched the 23-foot high wall of water wash over Japan’s coast, rolling up everything in its path. “So this is what it looked like.” She sat silent as the television showed cars, ships and even buildings lifted up and carried inland, tossed about in the debris-strewn water like floating toys in a running bath. The images left 13year-old Zaki Ramadhan, orphaned in the 2004 disaster, struggling to breathe. “My chest was tight, I couldn’t feel my legs,” said the boy, now being raised by his grandparents. “All I could think of was my mom and dad, my
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In this video image taken from Japan's NHK TV,water surrounds the airport building at Sendai Airport,Miyagi Prefecture,Japan Friday March 11,following a massive earth quake.
sisters. ... They disappeared under water, just like that.” In Sri Lanka and Thailand, both also hit by the 2004 tsunami, some survivors said the pictures brought back tears and nightmares that had all but stopped. “It’s exactly like what happened in my village,” Tharmalingam Komila, who lives in Sri Lanka’s coastal village of Passiku-
dah, said as she watched the rescue operations in Japan on TV. “I was dragged away by the wave into the sea,” said the 29-year-old, who lost more than two dozen relatives. “I was holding onto a big plastic jar and a log for five hours before people in an army helicopter saw me and saved me.” For others, the unfolding events reminded
them of Japan’s outpouring of support after the 2004 tsunami, the food, medical supplies and other assistance delivered to Indonesia by ship, plane and helicopter even after others had scaled back operations. “I wish there was something I could do,” said Muhammad Nazri, 42, who lives in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital. “I’d like to go there, really, even if it was just to share my feelings of grief.” The only piece of good news, some said, was that it appeared the 2004 disaster had raised awareness in
coastal area of the dangers posed by tsunamis. Tsunami warnings were issued in many countries and widely heeded after Friday’s earthquake off Japan. Even in remote corners of Indonesia, far from the epicenter, villages turned into ghost towns as thousands of people, responding to warnings on television or mobile phone text messages, fled to the hills. The waves never came, but at least they knew what to do, said Zainal Abidin Latif, an Aceh resident, who lost all three of his children
in 2004. Others said they hoped the latest disaster would serve as a loud warning to governments to improve alert systems, most of which rely on electronic buoys to detect sudden changes in water levels. Among them was Maitree Chongkraichak, who lost his father, nephew and about 40 other relatives when the 2004 tsunami hit Thailand. “I feel so sad for what has happened in Japan,” he said. “I know what it’s like for their families right now.”
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Coming into Conference USA Tournament in ElPaso,Texas,the Knights women’s basketball team dreamed of revenge against Tulane,who knocked them out last year.On Saturday,UCF beat the Green Wave 85-73 to win the C-USA Championship.
ERIKA ESOLA & AARON CROUCH Entering the 2011 Conference USA Championship game against Tulane in El Paso, Texas, the Knights dreamed of revenge against the team that shattered their title hopes last season. The women’s basketball team’s dream became a reality when UCF (22-10, 12-4) defeated Tulane (22-10, 9-7) 85-73 on March 12 to secure their second C-USA title in three seasons and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. “We stuck together, we trusted what the coaches told us and we trusted each other and we came into this game with a chip on our shoulder,” said junior guard Aisha Patrick in a release. “They beat us 63-62 last
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sure we had each other’s backs throughout the game,” said Caldwell, who was named the MVP of the tournament. “That, and rebounding of course, is what helped us win a second championship.” Caldwell, along with seniors Chelsie Wiley and D’Nay Daniels now have two C-USA Championship rings. The three seniors were also named to the All-Tournament team. Wiley tallied 13 points to secure sole possession of third place in UCF history for career points with 1,520. “It’s been such a long journey for these seniors,” said coach Joi
SEASON STAT LEADERS Points per game: D’Nay Daniels,14.2 Shooting percentage: D’Nay Daniels,51% Three-point percentage: Aisha Patrick,42% Rebounds per game: Aisha Patrick,8.1 Steals:Aisha Patrick,82 Assists: Aisha Patrick,128 2011 ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM MVP: Jelisa Caldwell,UCF D’Nay Daniels,UCF Chelsie Wiley,UCF Roshaunda Barnes,Tulane Danielle Nunn,Tulane
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year and that was in the back of our heads. We came out with a sense of urgency and played so well together.” Patrick, who had 11 points and 12 rebounds, earned her first doubledouble of the tournament. She also chipped in seven steals and six assists. Senior forward Jelisa Caldwell also had a double-double, scoring a game-high 27 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. It was the first of her career. The Knights have now had three games this year where multiple players achieved double-doubles. “We believed in each other, think of each other as sisters and made
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It was a short stay. The Knights’ dreams of crashing the Conference USA Tournament and perhaps earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament were short-lived as the Knights (19-10, 6-10) lost to East Carolina (18-14, 8-8) 75-60 on Thursday in the tournament’s opening game in El Paso, Texas. UCF shot lights out in the first half, going 59 percent from the field as they went into the half up 39-34, but that success didn’t translate into the second half and East Carolina made the Knights pay. “The second half we just couldn’t score,” said coach Donnie Jones in a release. “It’s hard to go long periods without being able to score and overcome that.” Despite a promising hot start from sophomore forward Keith Clanton, who
scored 11 of his 15 points in the first half, the Knights could not sustain their offensive efficiency in the second half and had no answer for ECU’s Darrius Morrow and friends. Morrow led the Pirates with 18 points. Jamar Abrams chipped in 15, going four-of-five on three pointers and giving UCF’s perimeter defense fits. Clanton’s 15 points led the Knights. Isaac Sosa had 11 points, and Marcus Jordan, who had a slow start and struggled from the field, chipped in nine. The Knights inability to score consistently hurt them as ECU went on run after run. UCF had cut the lead to four in the second half on an A.J. Tyler threepointer that led to a timeout, but the Pirates immediately responded with a 12-2 run that put the Knights away. In what was a rollercoaster ride of a season, it
was a roller-coaster ride of a game. The Knights came out and shot the ball well and looked good, but a scuffle near the end of the first half that resulted in the ejection of UCF forward Dave Diakite seemed to affect the two teams adversely. ECU rallied afterwards and the Knights could not match the Pirates’ intensity. A once close game ended a blow out. For UCF it was a crushing blow. For a team that had lost eight consecutive games earlier in the season, the Knights had certainly rallied down the stretch, winning five of their last seven contests. Nevertheless, the chances seem good UCF will appear in some form of postseason play, most likely the College Basketball Invitational, giving the Knights one more chance to finish the season on the up-swing.
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Sophomore forward Keith Clanton earned All-Conference USA third team honors. Clanton has been awared All-Conference honors during his first two years at UCF.
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Despite letdown, UCF basketball’s future is still bright If anyone would have told us before the season that the Knights were going to have a fourteen-game winning streak, appear in the Top 25 polls for the first time in program history, notch landmark in-state wins and possibly record 20 victories, I’ve got to imagine most Knights fans would have been more than content. All of that happened, though, and there still seems to be this lingering feeling of letdown. It begs the question: How can there be this feeling of disappointment when, all things considered, UCF did better than almost everyone expected? Well, let’s face it. When you start the way the Knights did, perspective gets tossed out the window. It’s understandable when things happen so abruptly like they did, but
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the reality is this season was never about any of the lofty expectations that followed the Knights’ early success. It was a transition year, the first year under new coach Donnie Jones, and there were supposed to be some growing pains. The reality is that this season was all about building a brand for the Knights, and that was actually accomplished, and could be accomplished even more as UCF prepares for a likely appearance in the College Basketball Invitational Tournament.
For Jones and his program, exposure is the best thing right now, even if it’s not in the NCAA Tournament or even the NIT. Jones is a recruiter, and what he really needs is for the UCF brand to continue to grow so he can continue building on what’s already a solid foundation. Playing in the CBI can do just that. Next year’s Knights are going to look a little different. And by a little, I mean a lot. UCF has probably the best scout team in the country, with transfers from Illinois, Oregon and Virginia, all sitting out this year due to transfer rules. Add to that the recruiting class Jones has put together, headlined by fourstar center Michael Chandler and forward Rod Days. The Knights already have a solid foundation to build upon. They have Con-
ference USA Second Team guard Marcus Jordan and Third Team forward Keith Clanton, two sophomores who grew a lot this season
as they were constantly looked to produce for the Knights. With that foundation in place and multiple pieces
being added to the puzzle, the Knights are in a position to become a regular in the polls and not just a guest appearance.
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Lay-Ups — Two Knights received C-USA honors this past week. Marcus Jordan was named to the All-
Conference Second Team, and forward Keith Clanton was named to the All-Conference Third Team. — If the Knights do make a postseason appearance it will give them a
chance for a 20-win season. UCF is currently 19-11, and with another win it would make them just the fifth Knights team since moving to Division I to reach the win total.
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Marcus Jordan received All-Conference USA Second Team honors.Jordan received All-Conference honors last season as well.
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Two complete games thrown, series swept JESSICA GILLESPIE Baseball beat writer
Ben Lively and Ray Hanson both threw complete games in UCF’s sweep of Wagner (1-10). None of Knights’ pitchers walked a
batter throughout the series. In Sunday’s 2-1 victory over the Seahawks, UCF (133) had just three hits compared to Wagner’s six. The Knights’ starting pitcher Hanson struck out four and didn’t walk a batter.
From the third inning through the ninth, Hanson faced the minimum at the plate. Though he gave up three singles and hit a batter in that time, the UCF defense backed him up. Catcher Beau Taylor threw out runners at first and at second and the Knights turned two double plays. “I feel like keeping the defense in the game is just part of pitching,” Hanson said. “If you go out there and try to strike everybody out your defense can end up flat sometimes.” After an early run for Wagner in the first inning, Jonathan Griffin launched his third home run of the season, a two-run shot in the second, to give UCF the lead. “They were pitching us backwards from the beginning and Coach [Cliff] Godwin told me, “If you see a curve ball up, go for it,” and I did and it worked out well for me,” Griffin said. On Saturday, Lively became the first UCF freshman to pitch a complete game since 2006. He earned UCF’s 5-1 win against Wagner, striking out ten, allowed four hits, one run and no walks. “It was just one of those days where everything was working,” Lively said. Lively, who picked up his third win of the season, was pied in the face after the victory. “I love throwing complete games, especially here and they said [UCF] hasn’t had one in such a long time, and that’s a big confidence booster.” The freshman, who got his first win against the Alabama Crimson Tide, holds a season ERA of 0.43 in 21 innings pitched and gave up his first and only earned run on Saturday. “Ben did a heck of a job,” head coach Terry Rooney said. “You’ve got
to tip your hat to him. It was an unbelievable effort.” The Seahawks scored their only run of the game in the first inning on a sacrifice fly. The Knights responded in the bottom of the inning with two runs to take the lead. Shortstop Darnell Sweeney, who went 2-for3 in the game, hit his first of two doubles to bring in Travis Shreve, who was hit by a pitch. Later in the inning, first baseman Jonathan Griffin hit an RBI-single. The Knights scored two more immediately in the second. After right fielder Ryan Breen walked, D.J. Hicks hit a two-run shot to right center. UCF scored its final run of game two in the third inning on another Griffin RBI-single. Danny Winkler, Nick Cicio and Ronnie Richardson struck out 17 and walked none in Friday’s 134 victory over Wagner. Winkler picked up his third win of the season with 10 strikeouts in six innings pitched while Richardson, the starting center fielder, struck out two in his college pitching debut. “We talked about it a little bit my freshman year but I didn’t think [Coach Rooney] was serious,” Richardson said. “When he told me, I was really excited because I’m used to doing it, I did it in high school a little bit. When he told me I was coming in today, I was pumped because I’ve warmed up in the outfield like six times.” Wagner scored three runs off three hits and two errors in the fourth and the Knights were down 3-1 going into the bottom of the fifth, where they took the lead again. “I’m proud that we bat-
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In his college pitching debut,Ronnie Richardson struck out two batters. Richardson,who normally plays center field,pitched in high school.
tled back,” Rooney said. “I think we can play a lot better and I expect that we play a lot better. It’s such a fine line to be confident and confident in your abilities but you still have to go out and execute it and play the game a certain way. That’s the thing that we’ve got to make sure we keep doing is that we keep getting better every single day that we play. Obviously the end result I’m pleased with because we played better at the end of the game but we just want to put together nine full innings.” UCF took the lead in the fifth but scored five runs in a big seventh inning, which started with a double from Erik
Hempe. Shreve went 2-for-4 with a double, stole three bases and scored four runs in the game; Griffin went 3-for-4 and batted in three runs; and Taylor went 2for 3 with two walks and three RBI.
Notes — UCF lost to Mount St. Mary’s 2-1 on March 8. — The Knights bounced back the following night and defeated Boston College 18-0. Griffin, Hempe and Derek Luciano all homered and Taylor tripled. — Designated hitter D.J. Hicks extended his hitting streak to 13 games on Saturday but snapped his streak on Sunday.
Caldwell named tourney MVP FROM A12 Williams. “Going into the month of February we talked about playing as well as we could and we did that and I can’t say enough about these five seniors and this team. We played with that sense of urgency and I’m so proud
of them.” UCF had to overcome adversity earlier in the season, entering February with an 11-10 record. The Knights are now riding high on an 11-game win streak into the NCAA tournament and the seniors hope to cap off their legacy with another championship.
“[Winning a second title] is something that’s very special to us and it’s a legacy that we can pass down to our freshmen and sophomores,” Wiley said. “We’ve left our footprint and this is something that they can chase after.” UCF will learn its NCAA Tournament fate
on Selection Monday on ESPN on 7 p.m. and then play a first-round game on either March 19 or 20 at one of 16 predetermined sites around the nation. The Knights will be making their fourth appearance in the national showcase, previously qualifying in 1996, 1999 and 2009.
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Milestones achieved as UCF takes UTEP series JESSICA GILLESPIE & AMY FOIST Softball beat writers
Allie Jest set the school record for the longest consecutive hit-streak at 16 games as the Knights defeated UTEP 6-0 Sunday afternoon, finishing its first Conference USA series two games to one. “I have been pretty confident at the plate so far this season,” Jest said. Lacey Dinney took the mound allowing three hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings pitched. UCF (9-17, 2-1) got on board first after Jest singled. Tawny Swan got on base with a walk and then Swan and Jest initiated a double steal. Natalie Land doubled to left field, scoring Jest. “When Allie leads off the game with a hit it’s almost like, ‘Oh yeah, we’ve got this’, and it is almost automatic,” said senior Abby McClain. This was Jest’s first C-USA series as a Knight, after transferring from Tallahassee Community College. McClain singled to center
field, scoring Land and Swan. The Knight’s offense didn’t strike again till the sixth inning when first baseman Marissa Menendez crushed a one run homer to right field to put the Knights up 4-0. “I didn’t start off too good, but I was just thinking that this girl is not going to get me out three times in a row and make me look like an idiot,” Menendez said. That was Menendez’s first home run at the UCF Softball Complex in regular season play. Menendez who follows Jest and McClain in the batting order says she feels good knowing there are always people in front of you that are going to get on base. The Knights split their CUSA opener on March 12 with a 2-1 win and a 3-2 loss against the Miners. “Today I was just going up there every time taking a deep breath, looking at the pitcher and hitting the ball as hard as I could up the middle,” Jest said. “As long as I keep putting the ball in play they have to work hard to get me out, because I’m pretty fast.”
In Game Two of Saturday’s doubleheader, Diana Rojas gave up six hits and was tagged with the loss. The Miners (11-13, 1-2) scored all three of their runs in the second inning on five hits and one error. The Knights scored one in the third and Vanessa Perez picked up the only RBI of the game with a single in the fourth. The Knights left three on base in the fifth and two on in the seventh but didn’t score any runs either time. In UCF’s win earlier in the day, the Knights held the lead the entire game. Jest hit an RBIsingle in the second and Marissa Menendez added one of her own RBI-singles in the third. “I wasn’t trying to do much, I was just going up there wanting to hit the ball hard into play,” said Menendez, who had the game-winning hit. “And it turned out that it fell in the right spot.” Dinney struck out four and gave up four hits in her fifth win of the season. “It was a good game today,” Dinney said. “My pitches were really moving and I was doing my best to keep their hitters off
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Junior Allie Jest now owns the UCF hit-streak record.Jest’s hit-streak record was set during the March 13 win against UTEP and is currently at 16 games.
balance, and it turned out successful.”
Notes — The Knights played two games on March 8 against Ball State and North Carolina, both of which were lost, 7-5 and 7-6. — In UCF’s final in the Courtyard by Marriott Invitational, the Knights won two and
lost two. UCF dropped both games on March 4 to South Alabama and Virginia Tech (both 7-3 losses) but won both games on March 5. The Knights beat Monmouth 11-10 in 11 innings and they beat Florida A&M 5-1. — Coach Gillispie’s 600th career victory came in the win over Florida A&M.
NFL’s fate rests on compromise between owners, union My worst nightmare became a reality over the weekend when the NFL Players Association decertified and the NFL owners imposed a lockout on players after a collective bargaining agreement negotiations fell through. In layman’s terms, we are without football until a new CBA agreement can be reached. Call me naïve, but I thought a deal was going to get done. Especially since the owners and players agreed to a weeklong deadline extension.
ERIKA ESOLA Sports Editor
So we are officially without America’s game. Yes, football is America’s game. Not baseball. Welcome to this century. Many fans are wondering why the lockout is taking place. The answer?
Money. The NFLPA and the NFL owners need to figure out a way to split up nearly $9 billion in revenue, most of which comes from lucrative television contracts. The NFL owners want to reduce players’ salaries by reducing their share of revenue by 18 percent, extend the season from 16 games to 18 games and prevent players from receiving healthcare benefits. The players want the opposite. The 2011 season hasn’t
exactly been cancelled, but no football will be played until an agreement is reached. The last time an NFL season was shortened was in 1987, when the players went on a strike. The 1987 season was a disaster, with one game canceled and many being played with replacement players. I don’t think we’ll be seeing any scabs a la Keanu Reeves (the NFL already said that they will not put together replacement teams), but I do think that like 1987, we will
be missing some football games. Missing football games would be a disaster, not only because my Sundays will be filled with United Football League action instead of NFL games, but because of the actual economic impact. According to the NFLPA, if the 2011 season is cancelled, an estimated $160 million would be lost in each NFL city and more than 115,000 jobs would be affected. Both sides need to compromise. I would hate
it if my boss told me to do more work for less money, but the players and owners need to stop being so greedy. Not only for football fans, but for the players’ and owners’ pockets too. Too much money is on the table to be lost. In the meantime, I guess I’ll be watching some UFL. At least I get to see Daunte Culpepper tear it up on the gridiron again. Anyone know where can I buy a No. 8 Sacramento Mountain Lions jersey?
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ince last year’s State of the Union address, there has been much talk about a proposed highspeed rail that would stretch from Tampa to Orlando beginning in 2015. Ever since Gov. Rick Scott took office, the plan has hit many hurdles and on Feb. 11, the Obama administration announced that the $2.4 billion allotted for Florida will be allotted to another state. Scott’s reasoning behind terminating the project was that he didn’t want taxpayers to have to pay for what could turn out to be expensive operating costs in the long run. The flaw with that logic is that private companies would have assumed any surplus operating costs and paid for the extra $280 million needed to build the train. In conjunction with this, Scott completely ignored a study conducted by the Florida Department of Transportation that found the high-speed rail would earn profit in its first year. According to the study released last week, the project would produce a $10 million profit in its first year and by Year 10, that figure would soar to $28 million. These figures surpass the original profit estimations, but Scott is choosing to ignore them. On top of that, the construction and implementation of the rail could have created numerous job opportunities. According to an article published on TampaBayOnline.com, between construction, operating, etc., the proj-
ect would have created 23,000 jobs. In Central Florida, the employment rate hovers around 20 percent — we’ll take any jobs we can get. Although profits and jobs are both great things, there are some major flaws in the plan we simply cannot ignore. New York Times writer Michael Cooper wrote a detailed article exposing some shortcomings of what could have been the United States’ first high-speed rail. When most people ride trains, they do so for longdistance trips, but Orlando and Tampa are only 84 miles apart and because the train would have stops along the way, travel would only save about a half hour of the passenger’s time. When you consider the trouble of carrying luggage, making sure you arrive on time and all the other bothersome necessities associated with public transportation, the saved half hour hardly seems worth it. Cooper also points out that once the passenger arrives in their intended city they’d be at an extreme disadvantage. Both Tampa and Orlando are large, major cities and getting around without a car is nearly impossible. It simply wouldn’t make sense for someone to come to either one of these cities without a reliable, easily accessible mode of transportation. As much as we’d like to see a high-speed rail in Florida, the plan needs some major revisions before it would be truly logical.
It seems as if the plan was rushed and the engineers went with a shorter-distance route so that it would take less time to create and thus be chosen to receive the funds from the Obama administration. We hope, however, that the plans can be revised to make the route longer and the destinations friendlier for travelers. We must also mention that Florida elected officials didn’t want this for their state; the mayors from Orlando, Tampa and Lakeland all banded together to write a letter earlier this month pleading the governor to reconsider his stance on the project. They addressed all of Scott’s concerns as to why he was so against the rail. In the end, Scott ignored the pleas of these mayors and several others and his ultimate actions did not coincide with the beliefs and needs of the people he governs. All the plans and progress made thus far shouldn’t be thrown out, but should be reworked to correct their major flaws so that Florida can still reap the benefits of the high-speed rail. The deadline to apply for the $2.4 billion is April 4, which means Florida — along with any other interested state — has time to work up plans to resubmit an application. We sincerely hope that the plans can be salvaged in time to reapply for the federal funds because we think a high-speed rail in Florida is a great, job-beneficial idea, but not without some reworking.
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