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People in cities across the globe have taken part in mass pillow fights as part of International Pillow Fight Day.In London’s Trafalgar Square, people came dressed in pajamas, dressing gowns and fancy dress to take part in the good natured pillowfight Saturday afternoon.Most people carried feather-filled pillows that exploded as they fought.
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started their film project from a website that helps creative projects come to Scrapped and skimmed, life. The website, the horror scenes are in. www.kickstarter.com, initiThree UCF alumni are ates funding for creative putting together their very projects. own film project, a horror “It has all sorts of artistic film called Hunters. endeavors such as films, Erica Harrell, a 2003 comic books, and just ranfilm graduate, Daniel Bax- dom things,” said Harrell, ter, a 2009 film graduate the film producer. “We set and Judson Scott a 2007 up the Hunters page on English graduate, jump there to let people know Contributing Writer
what we are trying to do as an indie film and to help us make the feature. Hopefully it’s successful.” In just one week, they have already raised more than $1,000 for production on the website. Their goal is to raise $30,000. Hunters has about 60 days on kickstarter.com to accumulate funds.
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From left,Daniel Baxter,Erica Harrell and Judson Scott are UCF alumni and are putting together their own movie,Hunters.
Hope is growing in Haiti
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AFGHANS IN EAST PROTEST AGAINST QURAN BURNING Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in a major eastern city Sunday.The protests have killed 20 people.
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When the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, Jeremy Schurke was on the island working at an orphanage. Schurke, a 2008 UCF graduate, was building the home through an organization he cofounded, Lespwa Worldwide. “I’ve never been in an earthquake before so when it happened I was just shocked,” Schurke said. “I felt the ground violently shake. I saw a car shake side-to-side and it was so forceful that I was on all fours and the kids were bouncing up and down along the road.” When Schurke gathered what had happened, he immediately took the children back to the newly constructed orphanage that was still standing. It was then he realized he had to actively help Haiti in any way possible. Schurke returned to UCF on March 31 to speak to students about how to get involved and help Haiti recover from the destruction.
A few days after being evacuated from Haiti, Schurke returned to become a part of the Haitian-run organization called Mission of Hope. Mission of Hope offered to make Lespwa Worldwide part of its organization. Now that the two have joined forces, Lespwa Worldwide became Lespwa Means Hope to become more focused on Haiti. Lespwa is the Creole word for ‘hope.’ Lespwa Means Hope now serves as the voice of young adults of Mission of Hope. “Mission of Hope is doing so much to help and it is truly amazing. I just wanted to be a part of something bigger and greater and I knew I could really help with being a part of Mission of Hope,” Schurke said. At his speech, Schurke
informed the UCF community of Mission of Hope’s campaign, Grow Hope in Haiti. Its goal is to build an agricultural development school on 55 acres of
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Lespwa founder and 2008 UCF alumnus Jeremy Schurke speaks at Grow Hope in Haiti, hosted by Cru @ UCF on March 31.
Students can expect to pay more in campus housing, parking and fees next year, according to UCF officials. On March 18 the UCF Board of Trustees announced a set of fee increases that would go into effect next fall. The extra revenue would cover the cost of roof and air-conditioning replacements, along with installing more security cameras on campus. Parking will increase with student decals going up to $94, a $6 increase from this year. Faculty will have to fork over an additional $21 for decals. They currently pay $296. Other increased fees will include athletic, health and transportation-access fees. A student taking 30 credit hours next school year will pay a total of about $960 for these three fees. This would be a $40 dollar increase for a student taking 30 credit hours. Housing fees will increase depending on where the student lives. It could go up anywhere from $30 to $95. Thomas Hellinger, chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee in the Student Government Association, thinks that these increases are coming at a bad time. “This is only the beginning of a series of proposals to make it more difficult for Floridians to get an affordable and necessary college education,” he said. “The $3.3 billon cuts being proposed for K-20 in this state, in addition to the measures to lower Pell Grant and
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Protests strike Shrine Circus DANIELLE LORD Contributing Writer
While many were inside the UCF Arena enjoying the Bahia Shrine Circus April 23, members from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida protested due to alleged mistreatment of animals from the circus. The animal performers for the circus included tigers, dogs, elephants and monkeys, with additional performances by acrobats and shooting a man out of a
cannon and across the Arena. Meanwhile, outside the Arena, members of ARFF, which is an organization separate from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, were protesting with fliers and posters in attempts to make potential audience members aware of what they say is animal cruelty taking place behind the scenes of the performances. Shriner staff had no comment on animal cruelty allegations. However, ARFF
FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS IN THE CIRCUS
members said they’re not directing their protests toward the Shriner organization or members, but to the acts hired for the circus. “Of course the circuses aren’t going to do this [abuse] in front of people. Sometimes we see people come out and say, ‘Well we didn’t see any abuse go on inside.’ But if they did it in front of people, then people wouldn’t come,” said Carla Melissa Wilson, an active
1.Every major circus that uses animals has been cited for violating the minimal standards of care set forth in the United States Animal Welfare Act (AWA). 2.Animals in circuses spend about 11 months of the year traveling. 3.During travel,animals may be caged or chained for long distances and hours,forced to stand in their own waste,in extreme temperatures. 4.Standard circus industry training tools used on animals include bullhooks,whips,clubs,and electric prods. 5.Animals born in circus “conservation”breeding programs have never been released into the wild. 6.From 1994 to 2005,at least 31 elephants have died premature deaths in the circus.Other circus animals who have died in an untimely manner include horses and lions. 7.Captive elephant and captive feline attacks on humans in the U.S.have resulted in hundreds of injuries,many resulting in death.
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Experienced physician assistants to help newcomers Students interested in becoming physician assistants can attend the event, which will be held on Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. The event will also provide students with the opportunity to join the Association of Pre-Physician Assistants. Open to all students, it will be held in the Student Union’s Key West Room 218. This is the first time that the APPA is bringing the Assistant Panel to UCF, but it plans on bringing in guest speakers and informational sessions in the future
Movie at the Pool presents The Tourist The UCF Leisure Pool will be hosting its Movie at the Pool Event, which is open to all students. The featured movie will be The Tourist, and unlimited popcorn or ice cream will be provided for a $3 donation. For $5, unlimited amounts of both will be given. All proceeds from the event will go toward providing Africans with much needed medical supplies. For more information, students can visit www.projectmuso.org. The event will take place on Monday from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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Several U.N.workers also killed in protests The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan many of the demonstrations have turned into deadly riots. Sunday's protest in Jalalabad city was peaceful, with hundreds of people blocking a main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama before dispersing, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. The Taliban said in a statement emailed to media outlets that the U.S. and other Western countries have wrongly excused the burning a Quran by the pastor of a Florida church on March 20 as freedom of speech and that Afghans "cannot accept this un-Islamic act."
Relay for Life at UCF raises $87K
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This year’s April 1 was no day for fools at UCF; it was a day for cancer survivors, caregivers and other supporters at the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event held at Memory Mall. The event, which started at 5 p.m. and finished at 11 a.m. the next morning, raised about $87,000, surpassing the $82,000 goal. “The committee really did a wonderful job this year,” said Jenna Bonazinca, a community representative for the American Cancer Society. “The activities and entertainment throughout the night was just amazing. Every year keeps getting better and better.” In addition to surpassing the fundraising goal, the number of cancer survivors who participated — about 45 — also made the event more special for Bonazinca. Junior micro & molecular biology major Samantha Tienda was one of those survivors. Tienda, who was the advocacy chair for the event’s committee, served as the mission education chair in the two previous events, but there was something special about her participation this year — it was the first time she’d walked as a survivor. “I’ve always been at Relay, but normally behind the scenes,” Tienda said. “I felt like people on the sideline were cheering me on and it felt really wonderful.” Tienda, who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the age of 5 and
declared to be in remission at the age of 7, said that aside from the survivor’s walk, achieving all her goals as a committee member was one of the highlights of the event for her. Vice-event chair for the committee Tyler Moose said getting everything set up was a nervewrecking process, but a great experience at the same time. “We started at 9 o’clock in the morning meeting up at Memory Mall just getting our vendors out there and as it comes together piece by piece, it just is a great experience and is very uplifting to see everybody out there supporting such a great cause,” said the junior interdisciplinary studies major. Moose said that the highlight of the night for him was the emotional Luminaria Ceremony. The ceremony involves lighting candles inside bags filled with sand that bear the name of a person touched by cancer who has been lost to the disease. After the candles were lit, participants walked a lap in silence. “That’s my time as an [executive] member to just take that moment to myself and relax and remember the fight that was fought,” said Moose who has lost an uncle to cancer and has a grandfather who survived. “Seeing the fight that the entire family took on when my uncle was affected by cancer, it’s something that [my grandfather] knows is a really great cause. He’s proud of the fight that we’re all putting up.”
Bonazinca also said the Luminaria Ceremony was one of her favorite parts of the event, but that the Miss Relay lap was a big hit this year. The Miss Relay lap, which took place at 1:30 a.m., consists of a number of guys dressed up in women’s clothing and walking a lap dressed as women to acknowledge how cancer affects women and their looks. “When they’re going through cancer, their skin changes and things happen to them,” Bonazinca said. “This year we had more guys than in several years past participate in it.” The Miss Relay lap was held in conjunction with ACS’s “Look Good … Feel Better” program that sends trained professionals to local hospitals to give those who have been affected by cancer style and beauty tips. “We have licensed cosmetologists come in, and they give a certain amount of makeup to all of the cancer patients, and then they teach them how to apply it,” Bonazinca said at this year’s kickoff event on Feb. 1. “It's just helpful, and it lifts their spirits, and they get free makeup, so it's a great program that we have.” Moose said one of the more impressive parts of the event was the variety of people it brought out. “The best part about Relay for Life is that you have every different age group imaginable,” Moose said. “It’s a rewarding experience just to see the hope.”
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Film prof. earns elite honors in Ann Arbor BAILEIGH JOHNSON Contributing Writer
Out of 2,500 submissions to the 49th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, UCF film professor Christopher Harris was one of 100 films chosen to be featured. His film, 28.IV.81 Descending Figures, had its world premiere at the March 26 festival that typically features avant-garde and experimental, storybased narratives, documentaries and animations. The improvised, double-projection film, shot at Orlando’s Holy Land Experience, is the second installment in an ongoing series based on a book by poet Nathaniel Mackey. The book, Bedouin Hornbook, is about the metaphysics of making music. It uses light metaphors to describe those metaphysics and each film in the series is inspired by a line from the book, said Harris. 28.IV.81 Descending Figures is inspired by the line: “The ‘descending figure came in to remind us that a sparked or incendiary ‘someone’ … repeatedly flared only to flicker and fade and die down again.” The noon and 5 p.m. performances of Behold the Lamb — Passion Drama were condensed to separate 100 rolls of film and simultaneously projected side by side. “My film was a great success,” wrote Harris in an email. “I got lots of very positive feedback from audience members, fellow filmmakers, curators and it even won a jury award, the Double Documentary Award.” Along with being awarded about $200 in cash prizes at the festival, Harris hopes his film leaves viewers thinking about the way
religion and matters of faith are represented. He also hopes that audience members recognize the performance he filmed as a particular way of representing what is essentially “unrepresentable.” Harris, who was first inspired to go into the film business while taking a film class as an undergraduate at Northwestern University, attended Ann Arbor as a spectator when he was a graduate student at the School of Art Institute in Chicago in 1999. When he took the class, he thought it would be “entertaining, but not especially difficult.” What started out as an easy A turned out to be a revelation as Harris learned that films have meaning beyond entertainment, an idea he found fascinating. “I always say that experimental film has the worst of both worlds,” Harris
said. “It is esoteric. It has little to no box office value in the commercial cinema world, and because there is no original object as with painting or sculpture, it has no market value in the art world.” According to senior film major Jon Perez, Harris’ films are far from commercial. “His films are very personal with singular production. He’s the person with the idea, he’s the person that shoots his idea, he’s the person that edits his idea, etc. He does it all,” Perez said. “He operates more like a traditional visual artist than what most of us think of as a filmmaker. The films are statements about himself by himself.” Perez said that he likes that Harris isn’t afraid to challenge his students’ thoughts. “He’s the kind of teacher you want to have if you’re
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Top,film stills from Christopher Harris’film,28.IV.81 Descending Figures,which was one of 100 films chosen to be featured at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
interested in growing,” Perez said. “He is a serious artist who happens to be a teacher as well … his office has film everywhere; it even smells like film.”
“In the classroom I ask students to question their own preconceived notions of what films are,” Harris said. “I try to do the same thing with my own work. I
have taught some the same techniques that I use on a limited basis. I expect to teach these sort-of techniques more often in the future.”
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‘People really have forgotten about Haiti’ FROM A1 land. Thirty-five acres of that land will be used for agricultural development and 12,000 square feet will be used for classrooms. This school will educate 1,000 Haitian farmers annually, instructing farmers in agricultural competencies that restore natural soil strengths, preserve ecosystems and reap larger, more sustainable harvests. The only problem is that this school and lasting lifetime change to Haiti will cost $360,000. “If you look at Haiti, it is brown and bare. This is because no long-term solutions have been thought out in Haiti,” Schurke said. “There is so much agricultural waste while 60 percent of the population is subsistence farmers, most in poverty and can’t eat. This is why Grow Hope in Haiti will make a lasting change in every Haitian.” Thursday’s event was sponsored by Cru at UCF, an organization devoted to creating a community within UCF and making each student feel welcome, rather than just a number in a large school. Cru at UCF will be partnering with Lespwa Means Hope in its efforts to raise awareness. “I love the fact that [Lespwa] is not just about throwing resources at Haiti. It is about education and teaching people,” said David Pezzoli, director of Cru at UCF. “UCF students should get involved because the great-
‘My joy is to connect people with helping other people and showing them where they can help to make the biggest difference.’ — JEREMY SCHURKE 2008 UCF GRADUATE
est thing in the world is love. We need to love others.” As the voice of Mission of Hope’s young adults, Lespwa Means Hope is looking to raise awareness within college communities and provide resources for college students to make a difference. “My joy is to connect people with helping other people and showing them where they can help to make the biggest difference,” Schurke said. Lespwa Means Hope encourages UCF students to spread awareness throughout campus, engage other students in fundraisers to raise donations for the agricultural project, join with other organizations and set up meetings with local businesses that may want to help. “College students are notoriously poor, but that’s OK, they have energy, passion and heart and we are
looking to connect with them and work together to spread awareness of Haiti,” Schurke said. Lespwa’s event opened the eyes of many students and encouraged some to take more active roles in helping Haiti. “It is a great thing Lespwa is doing because I think people really have forgotten about Haiti,” said Angela Fonseca. For another student, the videos shown at the event and the innovative ideas of Lespwa really were more than just words and images. “It hit close to home, because I am Haitian,” said Vanessa Jeannot, a micro & molecular biology and biotech major. “I’ve been trying to find an organization that doesn’t just focus on one area and that is what Lespwa is doing. They are helping Haiti all around. I didn’t lose any family, but it is still my people and I want to get really involved with Lespwa and get there and help.” Lespwa Means Hope will continue their tour to college campuses spreading the word about their new campaign, Grow Hope in Haiti, but do not want to get disconnected with the UCF campus. The organization encourages students to “like” them on Facebook or tweet them on Twitter to keep in touch and work together to make a difference. “The best thing in life,” Schurke said, “is to love and serve people that are less fortunate than yourself.”
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“My joy is to connect people with helping other people and showing them where they can help to make the biggest difference,”said Jeremy Schurke,a 2008 UCF graduate.
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BOT still needs Board of Governors’ approval FROM A1 Bright Futures scholarships, are going to make it more difficult for Florida to recover economically as it is going to be increasingly starved of educated workers.” The GAC committee views local, state, and federal laws and legislation that directly affect the student body at UCF. Although the BOT has approved these increases, the Florida Board of Governors still has to approve them. The BOG oversees
the state university system and they will be making the decision over the summer. If these fees are approved, students will be paying more per credit hour. Students currently pay $146.69 before the differential tuition and technology fee. After these fees they pay $167. 35. Grant Heston, assistant vice president of UCF News & Information, said that students were directly involved with the process of approving the fees at the
university level. “These changes were made in the best interest of UCF students,” he said. “When you look at the cost of tuition and fees at other universities outside of Florida, we are still an inexpensive place to go to school.” Matthew McCann, the incoming SGA president and former chair of the University Fee Committee, believes these increases will benefit the student body as a whole and will help with student growth.
Shriners show goes on FROM A1 member of ARFF. “It’s behind the glitz and glamour and the crowds, what goes on behind the scenes is what’s troubling and what people need to realize.” Other allegations include abuse of the elephants by current trainer, Tim Frisco — specifically, using bull hooks and electric prods. “[Tim Frisco is] on video at circuses.com, you can clearly see what he’s all about with the bull hooks. Trainers use these hooks on the elephants, and on circuses.com you can see them using the hooks like baseball bats on the elephants,” Wilson said. “They use this on the most sensitive parts of the body; under the chin, behind the knees and behind the ears. They’re also good about hiding it during performances; they’ll often times wear black and hide the hook under their arm.” “Even if they’re just touching the elephant with it, they’re using it as a
reminder of what will happen if they don’t do the tricks they’re supposed to do during the performances,” she said. ARFF gets all of their information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture because any discrepancies that occur during a performance or take place from the circus are required to be reported to the USDA. Additionally the USDA is required to do inspections of these circuses every 90 days or so. The regulations circuses have to abide by fall under the Animal Welfare Act, if the licensed handlers of these animals meet these regulations then they won’t be shut down by the USDA. “This weekend we’ve reached a lot of people. We try to hit everyone, but of course you can’t. But we try to get as much information into as many hands as we possibly can, and hopefully some people will see the light,” said Mimi Barnes, another activist for ARFF. “I had one lady yesterday [April 2] said she
actually had worked for a circus but they didn’t have any animals at that circus and she was actually very upset to find they had animals at this particular circus. She said if I had known that, I wouldn’t have gone. Most of these people love animals.” Despite the protesters, Shriners Circus Committee Chairman Donald Grable felt the circus was a success. “I felt [April 2’s] performance was excellent. I received lots of positive comments from audience members,” Grable said. “The audience was actually much larger than we had anticipated, if we were in the old Arena we might have actually run out of seats.” Grable said that he was impressed with how the performances turned out at the circus so far. “So far, everything has been running very well, I cannot stress enough how helpful the Arena staff have been, we couldn’t have done this without them,” he said.
“This year’s fee increases are the lowest they have been for students in at least the past five years,” he said. “Members of the University Fee Assessment Committee and I listened to proposals
from different campus entities asking for fee increases which better help each department cater to the growing amount of students and their needs campus wide.”
“We hope to continue this progress in the future, saving students money, while not neglecting the needs of a growing and premier university,” McCann said.
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Grads use website to fund movie project FROM A1 “I have always been an artistic-minded person, so I realized that films work just as much as an artist in their element, it kind of just sparked from there; and that was when I was thirteen,” Scott said. Hunters is Scott’s first feature horror script, which he finished a year and half ago. He showed it to Harrell, who then picked it up and filmed the trailer. “I am not a big fan of the genre and I cannot watch them [horror films] alone ... ever,” Harrell said. “When he gave me the script I was not expecting to like it, but I really loved the read of it.” Scott looked to his movie icons, Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi and Adam Green, for inspiration since they also started in the film industry entirely on their own. “I am not only trying to follow in their steps and [see] how they got it done, but also the quality of film they produced,” Scott said. Bloody-disgusting.com, a movie review website, described Hunters a cross between Inside, a 2007 French horror flick, and Hatchet, an indie film released in 2006. Other sites, such as www.dreadcentral.com and www.pissedoffgeek.com, have given similar reviews. “A lot of people that you talk to that have a certain opinion about this industry. They say it is impossible to break into, you’ll never feel it, its too far,” Scott said. Harrell, Scott and Baxter now live in Los Angeles and all have made headway in the film and televi-
sion industry. Along with helping with the production of Hunters, Baxter is an assistant on the set of the new Superman movie. Harrell is working for Sony Picture Productions and has worked on 16 television shows, including the NBC show Communi-
ty. Along with the Hunters movie, Scott is now working for Marvel Studios. He’s worked on the films Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers. The official trailer is for Hunters is online at kickstarter.com.
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Top,a still photograph of Isidora Goreshter,the leading actress in Hunters. Above,concept sketches of Oscar and Audrey,the villains from the film.
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Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150 CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN Associated Press
A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official. Who would be chosen “Person of the Year, 1861”? Five historians had made impassioned nominations, and the audience would now decide. Most anywhere else, the choice would be obvious. Who but Abraham Lincoln? But this was a vote in the capital of the rebellion that Lincoln put down, sponsored by a museum dedicated to his adversary. How would Lincoln and his war be remembered in this place, in our time? A century and a half have passed since Lincoln’s crusade to reunify the United States. The North and the South still split deeply on many issues, not least the conflict they still call by different names. All across the bloodstained arc where the Civil War raged, and beyond, Americans are deciding how to remember. For the next four years, we will mark the sesquicentennial at scores of crossroads whose names have become a bitter historical shorthand: Fort Sumter, which launched the war on April 12, 1861, and later Antietam, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and so many others, all the way to Appomattox. There will be many commemorative events, some light (like the recent vote at the Museum of the Confederacy) and some somber. We’ll reflect on more than 600,000 soldiers and sailors who died, leaving
mourners from Maine to Texas, Michigan to Florida — and on what inspired their self-sacrifice. We’ll judge again the leaders good and bad who played their parts. We’ll argue over the causes. We’ll talk about slavery and emancipation, what change the war brought and what it didn’t. Through the years, each Civil War anniversary has mirrored our nation at that point in time. At first, remembering was forgetting, an occasion to bring former foes together to shake hands, to show we’d moved on. Nostalgia for the so-called Lost Cause of the antebellum South defined many observances — even at the Civil War centennial in the early 1960s, ironically coinciding with the civil rights movement.
And what does today’s anniversary tell us? In search of answers, an Associated Press reporter embarked on a 600-mile tour through one scarred swath of the fighting grounds — from Manassas, Va., where the war’s harsh terms first became clear, to ruins still standing along Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s fiery march through Georgia, which put the outcome beyond doubt. Conversations along the way about the conflict and its legacy — with scholars, regular folks, Southerners, Northerners, blacks, whites — left several impressions. There’s a sense that we’ve matured. In our own time of two wars, military valor resonates deeply as we look back. Even amid the country’s cultural divisions, one finds attempts to see through others’ eyes. It’s a commemoration, not a celebration, this time: What we’re recollecting now is the Civil War AND emancipation, many people
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say. Yes, there have been secession balls right out of “Gone with the Wind,” but the viewpoint of the 4 million enslaved Americans is part of every serious observance. And one more conclusion: This fight, uniquely destructive and constructive, isn’t really past. Even after 150 years, it holds us still. ■■■ Clotted interstates carry you to Manassas, but it’s a surprisingly quick run from the heart of Washington, D.C. In July 1861 — just weeks after the Confederates took Fort Sumter in South Carolina, and Lincoln, the new president, responded with a call for 75,000 volunteers — Manassas, near a stream called Bull Run, would be the first real test of the opposing armies. Some spectators ventured out from the capital for a look and a picnic on what began as a fine day, expecting the rebels to be quickly dispatched. Instead, after fighting that littered fields with more than 4,500 casualties, terrified civilians found themselves scrambling away from a Confederate rout. “Turn back!” cried Union soldiers in full flight.
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“We are whipped!” This war, it suddenly became clear, would be deadly earnest. And at Manassas today, it becomes clear that people still care. Tens of thousands are expected in July for commemorative events, including a battle re-enactment with 15,000 participants on adjacent property. The battlefield park is already seeing a 10 to 15 percent uptick in visitors this year, the superintendent said. On a chilly day, a family pulled jackets tighter as they crossed the field where Confederate Gen. Thomas Jackson got his nickname in the midst of the furious fighting, when someone said, “There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall.” All the way from Denmark, Per Moller came with his wife and young son for a vacation touring America’s Civil War. They’d stopped in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and now here, to see where Americans from North and South struggled. Sheltering from the wind in the lee of a frame house that was struck by cannon fire back then, Moller shook his head, conjuring the fratricide. “They spoke the same language, maybe went to the
same schools,” he said, quietly. ■■■ From Lincoln’s White House to the official residence of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is only about 110 miles. The dove-gray mansion in downtown Richmond was one stop for Adam Ardire and Holly Coacsolonia on a trip “just to get a Southern perspective on the Civil War” and the country it left behind. She’s from Indiana, he from Pennsylvania. Now living in Norfolk, Va., they’ve concluded we’re still two nations in many ways: culture, attitudes, even style. “I like the laid-backness” of the South, he allowed, and both acknowledged Southern hospitality. At the same time, there are things about the region they don’t get. Some Southerners flying the Confederate battle flag on their homes, for example, he said. What’s that about? Around the corner from where they stood, a few hundred people filled an auditorium at the Library of Virginia. This was the place where the Museum of the Confederacy brought together five noted Civil War historians to make their nominations for 1861’s “Person of the Year.” One author proposed P.G.T. Beauregard, the egotistical Louisiana-born general who was in charge at both Fort Sumter and Manassas, giving the South two early victories. Another scholar named the largely unknown governor of Kentucky, saying his decision to keep that vital border state out of the Confederacy may have tipped the historical scales. Of course, Lincoln was nominated. And there were two other eloquent pleas for support.
Dr. Lauranett Lee, curator of African-American history at the Virginia Historical Society, nominated the enslaved blacks who made their way to Union lines to seek protection and a chance to help the Northern cause. Union officers reasoned that, since they were considered property, they could be taken like anything else being used to support the enemy. They became seized “contraband,” and when word traveled back home by the grapevine, a trickle of men became a flood of families; many would eventually serve in military ranks, otherwise aid the Union’s ultimate victory, and reshape the future for black Americans. Glancing at the other panelists, Lee noted, “Had it not been for the actions of the ‘contraband,’ I would not be where I am today.” The last nomination came from James I. Robertson Jr., the eminent Virginia Tech historian and author, who said the person of that pivotal year was the Virginia volunteer. This rank-and-file soldier was typically not a “fireeating” secessionist in the mold of the South Carolinians who started the war, but a small farmer grimly determined to resist what he considered invaders. Robertson told the story of one such, and quoted his tender letters home before he succumbed to wounds suffered at Manassas. “He died to protect that little parcel of farmland in the mountains,” said Robertson, his mellifluous Old Dominion accent bringing nods in the crowd. And now the vote: Audience ballots were marked and carefully tallied. And S. Waite Rawls III, president of the Museum of the Confederacy, rose to announce the results.
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The tables turned this weekend. After the Knights swept Southern Miss last season in Hattiesburg, Miss., the Golden Eagles returned the favor, sweeping UCF at Jay Bergman Field for the baseball team’s first series loss of the season. The Knights, who started the week with a No. 23 ranking, dropped to 19-9 (2-4) while No. 20 Southern Miss reached 22-5 (5-1) after UCF’s 5-2 defeat on Sunday. “Southern Miss played the game how I want my kids to play the game,” said head
coach Terry Rooney. “I want them to execute that way pitching wise and hitting wise and offensive-wise and we need to be able to make those adjustments, and we will.” Starting pitcher Ray Hanson moved to 2-1 on the season after five innings where he gave up three runs on six hits but struck out four. Reliever Joe Rogers came in during the sixth inning for his longest outing all season. Rogers pitched four innings and gave up two runs off two hits and walked one. The Golden Eagles got
started early on Sunday when they scored one run in the first, but a two-run third inning put the Golden Eagles up for the remainder of the game. Southern Miss scored two more in the eighth to cushion its lead. On Saturday, the Knights were outhit 22-6 and lost 13-2 to the Golden Eagles. After starting pitcher Danny Winkler faced only three batters in the first, he gave up seven runs on seven hits in the second and was pulled after 1-1/3 innings. Winkler dropped to 3-2 on
the season with the loss. “At the end of the day we just dug ourselves too big of a hole to come out of,” Rooney said. “You can't expect to give up that many runs against a top 20 team in the nation and come back.” Southern Miss set the tone early in the second by scoring seven runs on nine hits, with eight of the hits being ground ball singles. “We have to have a better outing on the mound,” Rooney said. “Winkler got a lot of ground balls that unfortunately got through and we just couldn't get out of it.” The only scores for the
Knights on Saturday came off of two solo shots from D.J. Hicks and Kevin Vasquez, who hit his first career home run at UCF. The Knights dropped Friday's contest, 6-5. Two Southern Miss home runs essentially won Friday night’s duel between the Golden Eagles and UCF. Left fielder Kameron Brunty’s two-run shot in the fifth scored the first runs of the game and Marc Bourgeois' three-run homer scored the winning runs in the ninth. The Knights led Southern Miss in hits but had five errors and two ejections in game one. Rooney was tossed in the
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Last season, the baseball team lost a close game to the Florida Gators 7-6. Freshman Brian Adkins had just recorded his first loss of the season against the Gators. Adkins pitched 4.0 innings that game, striking out one, and gave up three earned runs on six hits. Since Adkins last faced the Gators, he has been the go-to-guy for the Knights and has a chance to become the team’s ace with more strong outings. Even though head coach Terry Rooney hasn’t officially announced a starter, Adkins will likely start Tuesday night and will have a shot at redemption against
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Tuesday, 7 p.m. | McKethan Stadium the team who got the best of him last season. “I want to be that guy to face the big teams and get the big wins when we need them,” Adkins said after his win over Boston College on March 9. A lot had changed in one year for Adkins. He’s earned key wins this season against Boston College and Miami and has worked his way into becoming the team’s No. 1 pitcher.
PROJECTED LINEUP 1.Travis Shreve 2B 2.Darnell Sweeney SS 3.Ronnie Richardson CF 4.D.J.Hicks DH 5.Chris Taladay LF 6.Jonathan Griffin 1B 7.Beau Taylor C 8.Ryan Breen RF 9.Derek Luciano 3B Adkins biggest contribution of the season was pitching a crucial three innings of relief against No. 25 Rice to help capture the Knights’ first series win against the Owls. Adkins allowed no runs in the game and surrendered three hits to earn
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Knights starting pitcher Brian Adkins is looking to make up for his 2010 loss to the University of Florida when the Knights take on the Gators on Tuesday.
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Pure shooters needed to bring Jones’ Knights to next level UCF men’s basketball coach Donnie Jones has been a busy man. In addition to guiding his team to one of the better seasons in the program’s history, finishing 2112 in his first season leading the Knights, Jones has been assembling quite the recruiting class for UCF as National Signing Day for basketball approaches on May 18. The Knights have, to this point, put together arguably the best recruiting class in the program’s history, rivaling the class that brought in current stars Marcus Jordan and Keith Clanton. The players who are already signed and verbally committed bring skill sets aimed at addressing some key characteristics of what Jones is trying to install here at UCF. Remember all that talk about the new style of play Jones was going to bring to the UCF Arena? While we saw glimpses of it, and the team was an improved product overall, it wasn’t quite the run-andgun style he hinted at. That’s largely because it’s a style of play suited to long, lean, athletic wing players, and that’s who you can expect to see Jones and his staff pursuing out on the recruiting trails.
Fresh faces UCF has signed letters of intent from three threestar recruits. Rod Days (strong forward), Wayne Martin and Kasey Wilson (power forwards) are set to suit up for the Knights in the fall. The three players rank No. 40, 45 and 51 at their respective positions. Of the three, Days is considered to be the most promising. A 6-foot-6-inch wing player out of The
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Sagemont School in Weston, Days is an athletic player known for his abilities in transition and on the defensive side of the ball. Martin, at 6 feet 7 inches tall, is considered to be quick and explosive, a good interior passer and, like Days, good in transition. Wilson de-committed from Virginia Commonwealth (before their Final Four run) and signed with the Knights. Wilson is considered fearless and known to compete on every possession. UCF and Jones’ biggest catch of this class has yet to sign with the Knights, but has verbally committed. ESPNU Top 100 player and the No. 6 center in the country, Michael Chandler, has verbally committed to UCF over such powerhouses as UConn, St. Johns and Kentucky. The 6-foot10-inch true center will be valuable should he proceed and sign with the Knights, a natural replacement for senior Tom Herzog.
The Other Guys The Knights current class of three — possibly four — talented new players will join a group of three transfers who had to sit out this past season as a result of transfer rules. Tristan Spurlock, Jeff Jordan (brother of Marcus), and Josh Crittle, transfers from Virginia, Illinois and Oregon, respectively, came to UCF togeth-
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Oregon transfer forward Josh Crittle was often seen leading the team out of the locker room last season,even though he had to sit out due to transfer rules.
er and sat out the 2010-2011 season, forming what Spurlock dubbed “the best scout team in the country.” Jones agrees with that assessment. “They work hard and treat practices like their games,” Jones said. Spurlock, being an athletic wing who can drive and shoot from the perimeter, will provide another scoring option for the Knights. Jordan, like his brother, is considered to be a very smart player who can do whatever the team may need from him, from running the offense to locking down opposing guards. Crittle, who could be mistaken for a linebacker, adds much needed size for UCF. The additions to the rosters will make for a team more in line with Jones’ vision. The Knights will display more athleticism on the floor and faster players who can get
to the basket. Expect to see more of the run-and-gun offense Jones promised when he was hired.
Help still wanted The Knights still need more pure shooters. Currently, the biggest pure
shooting threat UCF has is Isaac Sosa. Other players, such as Marcus Jordan, can shoot adequately and have demonstrated range and the ability to create their own shots, but none besides Sosa have the ability to scare an opposing team out of a zone. The problem with that is two-fold. First, Sosa is going to be a senior in the fall. The Knights need a replacement before Sosa is gone. The other problem is depending on only one pure shooter, Sosa, who at times can be hot and cold. As good a shooter as Sosa is, the general nature of such players is that they have good and bad nights. UCF should seek out more options to help out behind the three-point line, because having the ability to change momentum with a few three pointers is key in college basketball. The biggest reason a shooter would be a great fit is because, paired with Sosa, the duo would help spread opposing defenses, creating one on one match-ups with the Knights’ athletic perime-
ter players.
Competing with the big boys Jones, known for his recruiting abilities, nearly landed a grand slam this spring. In addition to his impressive class being assembled for the fall, the Knights briefly landed class of 2012 commit Shaun Smith of Jacksonville. Smith, a four-star, 6-foot-4-inch shooting guard and ranked No. 45 in his class committed to the Knights in January, but decommitted in March. Nevertheless, UCF remains atop Smith’s potential destinations, with West Virginia, Florida State and Kansas State also going hard for the talented junior’s services in the fall of 2012. Together, paired with the incoming recruiting class, the new faces around the program may create a new challenge for the Knights and Jones, one which many coaches would envy — trying to create a rotation for a roster with plenty of talent. Hopefully, that will be with another shooter in the mix.
Rooney: Pitching needs work FROM A9 bottom of the fifth but acknowledged that the coaching staff and players knew what to do. “Anything like that is going to motivate us,” said third baseman Derek Luciano, who hit two doubles in Friday's contest. Freshman starter Ben Lively did not get a decision after his 5-2/3 innings. Lively, who was ejected after he was pulled from
the mound, struck out two, walked one, gave up eight hits and three runs. Lively was suspended four games because of the ejection. Brian Adkins (4-2) gave up one hit, a three-run homer, in his 3-1/3 innings and was tagged with the loss. The Knights were behind three runs when they scored their first two runs on a four-hit brigade in the seventh but left the
tying run on base. UCF continued its rally when Hicks doubled in the eighth, got to third on a ground-out by Jonathan Griffin and scored on an error by the shortstop to tie the game. In the top of the ninth, however, designated hitter Bourgeois took a two-on, one-out opportunity to blast a three-run shot, putting the Golden Eagles up by three, effectively winning the game.
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FROM A9 his fourth win of the season. Rooney has been more than pleased with Adkins’ effort so far this season. “Brian Adkins has done a great job for us all year,” said Rooney after the win against Rice that captured the series. The southpaw has been relied on to give the Knights a chance to win every time he’s in the game this season. In seven appearances, Adkins is 4-2, has a 2.57 ERA, and has retired 25 batters on strike outs.
Rankings The No. 3 Gators are 235 overall and 6-2 in SEC play. The Gators have only lost one series so far this season to No. 3 South Carolina. Their other three losses came from Florida State twice and Georgia Southern. In 28 games, the Gators’ pitching staff has
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posted a 2.32 ERA and their offense is batting .313. The Knights, ranked No. 23 nationally, dropped their first series of the season after being swept by No. 20 Southern Miss. The Knights are 19-7 overall and 2-3 in Conference USA play.
What to watch for — D.J. Hicks’ bat. Hicks leads the team in home runs and hit his sixth of the season over the weekend. — Florida outfielder Daniel Pigott. The Gator is hitting .390 and has 14 doubles this season.
Coming off their most successful season in program history, the Knights are faced with the challenge this spring of replacing lost experience. UCF has signed multiple junior-college transfer recruits, something they don’t usually do, to try and fill the void. “There’s no reason to bring [junior college players] in unless if they can contribute in the fall,” said head coach George O’Leary during his signing-day press conference earlier this year. The Knights are heading into 2011 with half of their 2010 offensive and defensive starters graduated. While seven of their 11 offensive starters are returning, only four return on defense — three of whom are underclassmen (Josh Linam is the lone returning senior starter). So far this spring, the Knights have struggled to
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find starters to step into the leadership role on offense and defense. “I’m still looking for the leadership [roles] right now,” O’Leary said. “It concerns me. I see sparks of it, but I don’t see consistency.” To O’Leary, the best way to replace lost experience on the football field is by practicing with intensity. O’Leary didn’t see enough of that during Saturday’s scrimmage, and called for another scrimmage Sunday because of the lack of effort. “We were very lethargic out there so we’re coming out tomorrow to repeat this practice,” O’Leary said after Saturday’s practice. “I won’t walk off the field with that. I didn’t see a lot of great enthusiasm. You can’t develop championship teams practicing like that.
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Linebacker Josh Linam is the only returning starter on defense who is a senior. George O’Leary is looking for Linam,among others,to step up as leaders.
We had some good plays but way too many bad plays.” The Knights usually look to their defense to step up the intensity in practice but Saturday the offense stood out more. Freshman quarterback Blake Bortles broke a 25yard run on a bootleg play while running the firstteam offense and was the only highlight for O’Leary.
“I liked Bortles a little bit, the way he moved that first unit,” O’Leary said. According to O’Leary, the Knights will have to be ready to work and step up their intensity throughout the spring in order to mature and replace their lost experience. “I think going into the eighth practice, they think it’s over,” said O’Leary. “It’s not over.”
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Murders don’t ‘prove’ Jones’ point O
ver the weekend, things took a turn for the worst in Afghanistan starting with the killings of United Nations workers on Friday followed by violent protests on Saturday. These murders and protests came following the news that Terry Jones, a Gainesville pastor, set fire to a copy of the Quran after giving the book a “trial” and finding it guilty of five “crimes against humanity” on March 20. Jones’ religious intolerance has led to the loss of more than 20 people’s lives, seven of them international staff members at the U.N. headquarters that was mobbed. A religious holy book is not something to be tampered with even if you don’t agree with its teachings. It’s blatantly offensive to large groups of innocent people and it’s just plain unnecessary. These killings and protests are a direct response to Jones’ actions and we believe the least he could do is swallow his pride and issue a public apology — anything to stop the loss of innocent lives.
What’s more: Jones will not take responsibility for the murders and said the entire ordeal just proved his point that radical Muslims are a problem. On the other hand, we can’t just blame Jones. Although these rioters in Afghanistan should be upset, they have no right to be killing people who were in no way involved with what one man and his small nondenominational church did. Reacting violently is not the way to promote a religion that already has a bad reputation in the Western world. Most of the protesters were members of the Taliban, the Islamist group that ruled Afghanistan before Operation Enduring Freedom began in 2001. Taliban members don’t represent the average Muslim, just as Pastor Jones doesn’t represent the average Christian. In both cases, we can’t judge an entire group of people based on the actions of a small group of extremists. Our military has fought for years to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaida. It doesn’t help much if the ideas the troops are trying to promote
overseas aren’t being practiced back home. In America, everyone has the freedom to practice their own religion and it’s only fair that we respect whichever religion they choose. There are ways to properly express dissent that are just as effective and don’t involve malicious acts. In every instance, violence only begets more violence. There are instances of violence in the Bible just as there are in the Quran. Most Christians and Muslims alike don’t abide by the violent passages and instead focus on the larger, more general principles promoted by the religion. The whole incident was entirely avoidable and it’s absolutely unacceptable that so many people have been killed over differing religious ideologies. We hope to see Pastor Jones issue an apology or at least show some sort of remorse for his attention stunt. On top of that, religious leaders in Afghanistan also need to step forward and publically condemn these acts of violence that continue to fuel prejudice toward the Muslim community.
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Divisive Congress splitting the public had a better approach to Things don’t seem to dealing with the federal be going well for our deficit, which is expected 112th Congress. to hit 1.65 trillion this year, Our elected officials in according to McClatchy. Washington are at logThat number has gerheads over the quesdropped to 21 percent in tion of how to keep paythe Pew Poll that it cited. ing the bills for the next The only way forward five months, which has for Congress, whether kept them from addressthey like it or not, is coming more long-term chalANDY CEBALLOS promise. Unless both lenges, such as entitleGuest Columnist sides are willing to cede ment programs like ground in the short-term, Social Security and they will have a tough time dealing Medicare. with our long-term challenges. Americans also seem to think There is no bill in place to fund that the debate is getting nasty. the government through the current According to a Pew Research poll fiscal year, which ends on Septemcited by McClatchy Newspapers, ber 30. The last temporary extenabout half of Americans think that sion signed into law by President the current debate over spending Obama ends on April 8, and we canand deficits has been “generally not afford to simply pass another bill rude and disrespectful.” that will essentially cover expenses At the core of the problem is the for a few more weeks, as we have dynamics of each chamber. been doing so far. Members elected to the U.S. We have much bigger problems House of Representatives are electon the horizon than just how to fund ed from congressional districts our government through September rather than whole states, so they 30. We still have to figure out how tend to have a narrower, like-mindwe are going to fund the governed constituency as opposed to the broader constituent base of U.S. sen- ment for the next fiscal year, what to do about climate change and the ators. other many vexing problems facing Republicans currently hold 241 seats to the 192 seats that Democrats this country and the world at large. Our leaders, of course, will not have in the house and can pass legiscompromise unless they have to do lation on simple majorities. As a so. In a democracy such as ours, it is result of this, U.S. House members are much more rigid and dig in their up to us to hold our leaders accountable and demand action from them. heels on many political issues. We can’t just watch the news and The Senate, on the other hand, is stare in disappointment as Congress currently controlled by Democrats. fails over and over to do the busiThey hold a majority of 52 senators, ness of the American people. We but because most legislative busihave a duty and obligation as citiness requires 60 votes to get zens to know who our senators and through this chamber, Democrats congressmen are, and educate ouressentially cannot pass any bills selves on what they are doing on along party lines. our behalf. House Republicans have focused This goes beyond just voting in much of their energy on undoing elections; this means calling their Obama’s achievements, and Senate offices and making your voices Democrats have spent much time defending them. One example of this heard. I am sick and tired of hearing is the health care bill. The House people complain about how corrupt passed a repeal of this bill, but it went nowhere in the Senate because politicians are, but never take the time to know who they are and it is controlled by Democrats. make their displeasure be known to Naturally, Americans are losing them. patience with the divisive governCongress can break this stalement that they put into power. mate they are in, but it’s up to us to After the election, 35 percent of make them do so. Americans said that Republicans
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