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Dalai Lama’s physician to host meditation workshop Dr. Barry Kerzin, the personal physician to the Dalai Lama, will host a meditation workshop on the UCF main campus. Kerzin is a Buddhist monk and will be hosting the free workshop for all UCF students and local residents. The event will take place on Saturday and will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 108 of the Psychology Building. Reservations are not required, but early arrival is recommended as a large crowd is expected to attend.
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President John Hitt has been listed as one of the 10 highest-paid university presidents in the nation, according to a report released earlier this week by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Hitt’s total salary in the 2009-2010 fiscal year was $800,703, ranking him No.
4 in the nation. He ranked fourth in what the report calls “total cost of employment,” which includes salary, retirement, housing and car allowances. Without bonuses and deferred compensation, he ranked ninth, with a total salary of $673,500. Hitt, 70, was the only university president in Florida to make the top ten.
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Charm to be hosted at Orlando Theather For $10, UCF students can see Charm in the Orlando Shakespeare Theater. The show is being held at 812 E. Rollins St. on Saturday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, students can contact info@orlandoshakes.org or 407-447-1700. All UCF students are welcome to attend.
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For many, being offered an internship for one of the world’s most viewed websites would only be a dream, but for one UCF student, it’s a reality. Junior event management major Jerry Estrada was recently selected out of 3,000 applicants for a summer internship with Google as part of the Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development Diversity Estrada internship program. After hearing about the internship opportunity through a friend, Estrada decided to apply. “I wanted to have an amazing summer,” Estrada said. After going through the two-step application process of filling out basic information and then submitting an essay and resume, the rest was history. Estrada’s paid internship will take him to Google’s headquarters, located in Mountain View, Calif. The 11-week long internship will provide Estrada with the opportunity to glimpse into a business career at a technology company, attend workshops and skill-building
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Chief justice,Scott agree on Florida court loan TALLAHASSEE — Chief Justice Charles Canady and Gov. Rick Scott’s Office have agreed on a plan to loan money from reserves to Florida’s court system to avoid furloughs and curtailing some legal services through May. Wednesday’s agreement will cover part of a $72.3 million shortfall in court funding blamed on a sharp drop in mortgage foreclosure filing fees.
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able and have a message, which makes them more appealing to a college crowd,” Cho said. News of the T-shirts, which are available on Impress Ink’s website, has traveled fast and led to orders being placed from
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The future of diagnosing malaria may be just a snapshot away. UCF computer engineering graduate student Tristan Gibeau and the other members of Team Lifelens have been working since November on a technological innovation for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2011 competition. Lifelens formed not only to participate in the technology competition, but also to create a simple, accurate and cost effective way to diagnose malaria. Gibeau joined the team after meeting Wilson To, a University of CaliforniaDavis graduate student who created the project idea, through the Microsoft Student Partner Program, where they both work from their respective campuses. For this year’s Imagine Cup competition, Gibeau and Lifelens developed a mobile smartphone application that uses high magnification and software developed by Gibeau to detect malaria in a blood sample. The phone is equipped with a special lens that is easily placed onto the phone’s image sensor, as well as an app that the team created. “He came up with this idea, and I ran with it,” Gibeau said regarding To and the project.
DIANA GALVIN Less than four weeks after an 8.9 magnitude offshore earthquake created a massive tsunami in Japan, UCF’s Pi Delta Psi fraternity took measures to raise relief money for victims. Since the week of March 22, the Asian cultural interest fraternity has raised more than $2,000 by selling T-shirts in front of the Student Union. Pi Delta Psi partnered with one of their alumni, Michael Cho, who owns the T-shirt company Impress Ink. All proceeds from the $15 T-shirts, which have the Japanese character for ‘love’ and ‘Japan’ incorporated into the design, will go to the victims. “The T-shirts are fashion-
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Google picks Estrada for two-month gig FROM A1 seminars, build relationships and much more. He is expecting to be there June 7 through Aug. 12. Estrada said while he is ecstatic with the opportunity to intern with Google, he ultimately hopes a job opportunity will present itself, particularly in the area of event planning since he’s an event management major and has experience as the student director of Late Knights. “Jerry is a very hardworking and talented individual,” said the adviser for Late Knights, Kelly Sparks. “I know he will make the most out of this opportunity.”
Junior marketing major and Google student ambassador Derek Werdenberg said that a lot of Google’s success comes from its employees, also known as Googlers, who exemplify what it is to balance work and life. “There is a reason why their hiring process is so rigorous, specific and thorough; it’s because they know what characteristics a Googler should embody,” Werdenberg said. “Google looks for individuals that exhibit endless creativity, autonomy, are results-driven and are ‘Googley.’ These employees bring a wide range of skills and ideas to the table, which is why Google is so great at
being innovative and a leader in its industry.” According to Google’s website, the BOLD Diversity internship program is designed to provide exposure to technology for minority students. “At Google, we don’t just accept difference, we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community,” the website says. Estrada, who is the oldest sibling with a younger brother and sister, said his family could not be any more supportive and that the amount of support he’s receiving from them, his hometown of Miami and
UCF is overwhelming. “I never expected for all this to happen. This is all a dream and it makes me feel so amazing to see all the support,” Estrada said. “I am so blessed to have a great family and an amazing school who believes in me.”
Estrada never thought that he would get such an opportunity to work for Google and said he encourages other students at UCF to try things outside of their comfort zone, and believes that anything is possible. “I am honored to see
how the students, faculty and staff have all been congratulating me. I am so blessed to have a great family and an amazing school who believes in me,” Estrada said. “I am so proud to represent UCF at Google this summer.”
Shirt sales raise $2,000 FROM A1 home for Pi Delta Psi brother and finance major Junichi Hirano, who has family in Japan. Hirano said his father and uncle experienced the aftershock of the earthquake, but are doing well. However, friends of his father and uncle are suffering from the effects of the natural disaster and the radiation from the nuclear power plants. “Even now, the situation hasn’t gotten better,” Hirano said. “Any bit of help makes a difference.” Hirano said he feels that selling T-shirts gives a non-verbal message that raises awareness in a way that regular fundraising often does not. He said he’s proud of his fraternity for getting everything together so quickly because the
effects of this natural disaster are not going away any time soon. “Many people did not know or understand the magnitude of the situation until Pi Delta Psi brought the awareness to the university,” said former fraternity president Chris Chen, who is working on a different charity effort for Japan. Chen is directing and coordinating a “Kings of the Court” basketball tournament set for April 24. Last year, the funds went to Haiti. Peter Le, the current president of Pi Delta Psi and and a junior micro & molecular biology major, helped put this event together because of Hirano’s Japanese descent and the Asian cultural interest. Though Le has been a part of other fundraising events, he said that this is
the largest. “If any disaster happens in an Asian country, we’ll be the first ones to help,” Le said. Pi Delta Psi has done many other charity events in the past including raising money for the victims of an earthquake in China, Operation Smile to help children with cleft lips around the world and more recently Relay for Life, said Ricky Ly. Ly founded the fraternity with Cho on the belief that brotherhood should be combined with community service and cultural awareness. Le said he wants to thank everyone who supported Pi Delta Psi in its efforts and appreciates everyone pitching in for a good cause. ‘Love for Japan’ Tshirts can be ordered at ImpressInk.com and picked up or shipped.
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dent receives comes from private money. Sean Snaith, director of the UCF Institute for Economic Competitiveness
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Without bonuses and deferred compensation,UCF President John Hitt ranks ninth in the country with a base salary of $673,500.
and a nationally recognized economist, said Hitt’s pay makes sense considering the amount of time Hitt has held his position, the size of the university and what he’s done for UCF. “The market rewards schools that do well,” he said. “Wages reflect difficult activity in his case, and the complexity of his task is in proportion to the size of the institute.” Hitt has been president of UCF since 1992 and is the longest-serving public university president in the state and among the most tenured in the nation, according to Grant Heston, assistant vice president of UCF News and Information. Heston defends Hitt’s salary, saying that it’s noteworthy because of specific things Hitt has done during his leadership including the increase in research funding, the growth of the College of Medicine and the completion of an on-campus stadium. UCF enrollment, the
second-highest in the nation, has doubled since Hitt arrived. Graduation rates and the average scores of incoming freshmen have increased also. “Dr. Hitt’s accomplishments on behalf of UCF and the community during the past 19 years are remarkable. His leadership has been, and continues to be, one of our region’s greatest assets,” Heston said. “The UCF system promotes financial accountability by directly tying compensation to the university’s strategic goals.” According to Heston, the system for tying his pay with meeting certain goals that improve the school was initiated by the UCF Board of Trustees in 2006-07 and unanimously approved by the full board. With budget cuts, program cuts and increases
in the cost of going to school, some students wonder if such a high a pay is fair. Andres Lopez, a general business major who works for Event Services in the Student Union, said he isn’t shocked at Hitt’s salary. “It’s hard to defend that kind of pay check when students have to deal with increased fees and tuition,” Lopez said. “If he gets that kind of money for doing his job by making the school better, well those improvements are a group effort among the school’s faculty and staff so more people should benefit.” SGA senator Thomas Hellinger, who chairs the governmental affairs committee in SGA, agrees with Lopez to some extent. “I think the amount of money that we’re paying
President Hitt is an insult to the many faculty members that are at least equally responsible for UCF’s successes,” Hellinger said. “I think the argument that such morally outrageous levels of compensation are justified falls flat when one considers that the exact same argument was applied to the CEOs that brought about the greatest economic disaster of the last several generations.” Graham Austin, a senior economics and political science major, believes Hitt’s pay is justified. “He exceeded the goal of getting $250 million for the medical school by $50 million. Someone who raises that much for the university should be motivated to stay here,” he said. “Good leaders get good pay or they get taken.”
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Students take pictures with Comedy Central comedian and 1996 UCF alumnus Daniel Tosh by the Reflecting Pond on April 5.Tosh showed up on the UCF campus after sending out a tweet that afternoon.
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Malaria project gets Microsoft’s attention FROM A1 “And now we have a full working product that can detect both malaria as well as cell locations.” Using just a drop of blood smeared onto a slide, a photo is taken of the sample and a phone with Lifelens technology can visualize the blood on a cellular level to detect the presence of malarial parasites. It can also test an individual’s blood count to eventually test for anemia. “It was something that we felt was very important,” said Gibeau. “Right now, current [malaria] testing is not very good. It’s very, very clunky.” The team, which is spread across the nation, communicates via its computers, using email and desktop sharing. The U.S. finals will be the first time Gibeau will meet face-to-face with any of his team members, aside from To. “It can be hard,” Gibeau said. “I feel like we could probably be more productive if we were all together, but then again, we’ve done a pretty good job.” The team competed in last year’s competition under the name Mobilife. They won the software category of the U.S. competition and moved on with 400 other students to Warsaw, Poland for the finals. There, a team from Thailand swept the competition with their software that translates speech into sign language and text in real time. Gibeau was brought onto the team for this year’s competition because of his experience with programming and computer vision image processing. In layman’s
terms, Gibeau said, it is “pretty much finding things in images.” For example, finding malaria in a photograph of cells. The theme of this year’s competition is “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems,” and that’s what the Lifelens team hopes to do. According to UNICEF, malaria has a 15-20 percent mortality rate, and the majority of those deaths occur in children under five. The disease must be recognized promptly for treatment to be effective. After taking a photo of a blood sample, the Lifelens app takes 1-2 seconds to detect the presence of malaria. Current technology accurately detects malaria 40 percent of the time. Lifelens has 90 percent accuracy. It also costs less. In a post on his website, The Gates Notes, Bill Gates stressed the importance of the future of cell phones for solving health care problems. “Cell phones are amazing tools,” he wrote. “For some of us, they’re about staying in touch. For millions of people, it could be about staying alive.” Gates’ foundation announced last year that it would give $100,000 in grants to eight scientists who are using of cell phones in areas with limited resources to improve health care. Regarding the competition, Gates wrote that it’s “one of the most important science competitions in the world.” Though he is battling lack of sleep, Gibeau considers the experience worthwhile. “In school I’ve always done all these projects,”
he said. “I personally wanted to do this project because I wanted to apply my knowledge, my experience, what I know in general to be able to help someone other than myself.” The U.S. Finals are being held in Seattle next week, and the World Finals in May will be in New York City — the first U.S. city to host the World Finals. The yearlong competition has taken place every year since 2003, starting with just 1,000 participants that first year and growing to more than 325,000 last year. Sharon Pian Chan of the Seattle Times called it “a World Cup for nerds.” Aside from the title and monetary award for winners, there are many benefits for competitors, according to Microsoft’s Academic Developer Evangelist, Tara Walker. “It’s a great way to start their own business,” said Walker. “That’s another benefit that the students really get. It can further their career and can take them to the next step after they graduate.” The competition gives participants real world experience and the opportunity to network with like-minded students as well as industry professionals. Their projects can also get visibility, which can lead to support and funding. “ I am not aware of any companies that do this to the magnitude that we do,” said Walker. The team hopes to be able to detect sickle cell anemia in time for the World Finals. Gibeau has already written down the procedure to program the application to do so. They would also like to work
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Lifelens will compete in the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition U.S.finals next week in Seattle.
on preventive technology, to keep deadly diseases at bay by knowing how and
where they spread. “I enjoy this stuff so much,” Gibeau said. “I’m
glad I’m putting my knowledge and resources into good use.”
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AGGIES ARE CHAMPS INDIANAPOLIS — This NCAA tournament had plenty of twists, turns and upsets even before the championship game. Coach Gary Blair and Texas A&M delivered a thrilling ending. This was the supposed to be the year Maya Moore’s Connecticut juggernaut won its third straight title or Stanford broke through or Tennessee got back to the top. Instead, the Aggies rewrote the script in their first Final Four appearance. They made the 65-year-old Blair the oldest coach to win a national championship just one night after UConn’s 68-year-old Jim Calhoun did the same thing on the men’s side. “We gave you that national championship game without the socalled powers of the world,” Blair said. “The two powers tonight were the two that earned it.” Danielle Adams scored 22 of her 30 points in a dominating second half Tuesday night to help the Aggies beat Notre Dame 76-70 and bring the women’s title back to College Station and the former all-male military academy. “I had a little voice in my head, ‘Don’t let this team down,’”said Adams, who became the school’s first All-American a week ago and was picked as the outstanding player of the tournament. “Every time we’d get down, we were telling each other we’re not going to lose this game. We worked hard all season to prepare for this point. I had to do this for my teammates. They’ve been doing everything for me. I decided to take them on my back and just let them ride on my back.” Now the Aggies (33-5) are national champs, newcomers who bullied their way through the tournament to win it all. Like Notre Dame, they vanquished their conference rival on the way, beating Baylor in the Dallas regional final after losing to the Lady Bears three times during the season. It wound up being the first title game without a No. 1 seed since 1994 and only the second overall. It also was the first final without either Connecticut or Tennessee since Maryland beat Duke in overtime for the 2006 championship. And it turned out to be a good one.
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MANNY NOT A HIT FOR RAYS ST. PETERSBURG — Struggling Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter Manny Ramirez is getting a break. Ramirez, who started the season with one hit in his first 16 at-bats, was out of the lineup for Wednesday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels. Rays manager Joe Maddon said Ramirez also will miss Thursday’s game at the Chicago White Sox while tending to a personal matter.
Tuesday’s 4-3 win over the No. 4 Florida Gators was the Knights baseball team’s biggest victory this season and it couldn’t have come at a better time. “It’s the highest-ranked team we've faced this year and it was a great win for us,” said head coach Terry Rooney. “To start our second half with a win like this, it's very special.” The Knights (20-9) upset the Gators (24-6) thanks to a ninth inning, game-winning double by shortstop Darnell Sweeney and the Knights improved to 5-5 against ranked opponents this season. After getting swept for the first time this season by No. 20 Southern Miss last weekend, the baseball team was hungry for a win. “It was a great win for our team,” Rooney said. “Not only was it a big win because of how we bounced back today but from over the weekend as well. This win showed a lot of character.” Down 3-2 in the top of the ninth, the Knights earned their first lead of the game on Sweeney’s double, which knocked in Beau Taylor and Ryan Breen. “Darnell hits at the top of our lineup for a reason,” Rooney said. “He is a tremendous player and did a fantastic job at the plate. That was a clutch hit all the way.” The other two runs for the Knights’ offense came off of two
For more sports: www.UCFNews.com Twitter: @CFFsports solo home runs by Breen and Erik Hempe. The Knights had seven hits in the game and two each from Taylor, Breen and Sweeney. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Ronnie Richardson came in to pitch for his first save opportunity of the season. The team’s regular closer Joe Rogers was unavailable after pitching four innings on Sunday. It was Richardson’s third
appearance on the mound this season and he retired Florida’s 2-4 hitters to earn his first save. Chase Bradford got the start for the Knights, pitching two innings, striking out one and allowing two runs off of one hit. The bullpen was Knight’s unsung group of heroes. The team used Brian Brown, Nick Cicio, Matt Collins, D.J. Hicks and Danny Winkler to shut out the Gators offense for the rest of the game. The six relievers pitched seven innings, struck out four and allowed no runs on six hits.
“It was pre-determined to use a lot of pitchers in the game tonight,” Rooney said. “We had planned to use six to nine pitchers tonight and they all did a great job of keeping us in the game.” Hicks earned the win for the Knights, pitching one inning and allowing one hit. The win gives the baseball team its fourth win over a top-five team since 2008. Tuesday was also the Knights’ ninth consecutive game against a nationally ranked opponent.
Back to the Berg: Green Wave series next JESSICA GILLESPIE Baseball beat writer
When UCF met Tulane on the diamond last season, shortstop Darnell Sweeney was 11-for-13 with a home run. Sweeney will look to repeat last year’s performance this weekend, when the Knights take on the Green Wave in a threegame weekend home series. In Tuesday night’s victory against the No. 4 Florida Gators, Sweeney proved to be the Knights’ clutch player of the game after hitting the game-winning double in the ninth inning, driving in two runs. This weekend’s series against Tulane gives Sweeney and the Knights the opportunity to continue to bounce back after dropping out of the Collegiate Baseball rankings last weekend after being swept by Conference USA rival Southern Miss. Last season, the Knights won their final game of the season in just seven innings against the Green Wave.
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UCF was down 3-2 in the top of the ninth inning when shortstop Darnell Sweeney blasted a double to drive in two runs,putting the Knights on top 4-3.
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win. Joe Rogers, who pitched in relief in the Saturday game, got a loss. Brian Adkins, last year’s Sunday starter and this weekend’s Friday starter, got the win in Game Three. Adkins will enter the weekend rotation for the first time this season on Friday night against Tulane. The sophomore has been the weekday non-conference starter throughout the season, but after the Southern Miss series the Knights need a strong arm in their weekend rotation. Head coach Terry Rooney has said all season that Adkins needs to beat the big teams this season; now that the Knights are into conference play, they will play big teams every weekend. “At the end of the day, we play every game to win,” Rooney said on Sunday after UCF’s first series loss of the season. “Every game matters, RPI-wise, bid-wise, but at the end of the day you’ve got to win your conference games.”
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Darnell Sweeney,looking to build momentum off his Tuesday night gamewinning double against UF,was 11-for-13 in last year’s series against Tulane.
Adkins is 4-2 with a 2.57 ERA; his losses were to Miami and No. 14 Southern Miss. Lively, who has worked his way from starting Sundays to starting Fridays, was ejected from last Friday’s game and thus suspended four games; he can’t start until Saturday. Lively is 5-0 and has a 1.88 ERA. The season started with Danny Winkler starting on Fridays, but last Saturday in his start against Southern Miss, the junior only made it 1-1/3 innings before he was pulled. Hanson (2-1) has pitched more innings this season than any other Knight and will stay in the Sunday slot of the rotation.
STARTING PITCHERS Friday:Brian Adkins Saturday:Ben Lively Sunday:Ray Hanson
What to watch for — The UCF pitching staff. The Knights have the third-highest team ERA (as of April 3) in CUSA. — UCF also has the third-highest team batting average (as of April 3) in C-USA. — Tulane’s Jeremy Schaffer has the thirdhighest batting average in C-USA. Schaffer is batting .382 and has one home run. — Rogers. In Game Three against Southern Miss, the closer pitched a individual season-high four innings. Expect Rogers to close a game this weekend. — RPI changes. The NCAA released its first
RPI report of the season on Tuesday and UCF was No. 32. Southern Miss was No. 2 and Florida was No. 1. If the Knights can win their Tulane series after upsetting Florida, their RPI should rise.
Notes — Tulane and UCF were both ranked last week. Both teams were swept in C-USA play during the weekend and lost their rankings. — Five of Tulane’s pitchers have faced injuries this season, some of whom are out for the season. — The Green Wave dropped a midweek contest to No. 17 LSU.
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Win-now mode has Jones targeting more top recruits Get ready for the trickle-down effect to intensify. So Butler and VCU didn’t actually win the NCAA Tournament. In fact, Butler in fact lost one of the uglier championship games in recent memory. But so what? The ramifications of what happened in the past few weeks is bigger than UConn beating the Bulldogs. The trickle-down effect is going to be palpable. As National Signing Day for college basketball approaches on May 18 you can bet every coach in the country is going to be going into the homes of these recruits and asking them, “Why not us? Why not now?” And more importantly, “Why not you?” Especially the coaches at the helms of mid-major programs, which is what UCF is, playing in the competitive but non-BCS Conference USA. Sure, there have been Cinderellas before, plenty in fact, but what we saw in this year’s tournament was more than just one fluke team making a run. We saw a big step in the reallocation of power in college basketball. Yes, most of the top recruits in high schools are still signing with the traditional basketball powerhouses — the Dukes and North Carolinas of the world, the schools with some sort of championship pedigree. Orlando’s own Austin Rivers, the No. 1 player in the country, is unsurprisingly enrolling at Duke after he graduates from Winter Park this spring. But more and more, you’re seeing athletes consider other options,
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including mid-majors. And why shouldn’t they? Not only is there a growing precedent for these programs to contend for a National Title, with Butler appearing in the title game in consecutive years and the Rams making it to the Final Four, but basketball on all levels is still a game of stars and match-ups. And stars want to play. A growing number of recruits, the stars at their respective high schools, would rather attend a school where they can start all four years and be The Guy as opposed to choosing a powerhouse where they may not play. It’s becoming more and more of a popular choice with the expansion of television coverage. The Knights are a good example, playing multiple nationally televised games on CBS College Sports and locally on Bright House Sports Network. With the ability to make an instant impact and play on television, the continued rise of the midmajors may be what puts a lot of recruits over the tops this signing season, picking less traditional powerhouses. The Knights and head coach Donnie Jones, an aggressive and effective recruiter, are in the midst of putting together their best draft class to date. So call it what you want, but
the trickle-down effect of the success of smaller schools (just to clarify, UCF would be considered smaller in basketball reputation and history, certainly not student population) has the Knights throwing in their hats to go after the services of more and more threeand four-star ballplayers. It’s seemingly UCF’s and Jones’ own way of asking, “Why not us? Why not now?”
Briefs — Two players have decided to part ways with the Knights. Dave Diakite (SF) and Jarvis Davis (PG)
are both going to be continuing their careers elsewhere but have not announced where they’ll transfer. Diakite, who could electrify fans with his dunks, was injured, struggled at times and his playtime waned as the season went on. Davis, a freshman and head coach Donnie Jones’ first recruit as a Knight, got limited playing time this season. UCF has an influx of players coming in next season, and neither player’s role looked to increase as a result. — Four-star center and verbal UCF commitment
Michael Chandler has withdrawn from Lawrence North high school in Indianapolis, as told by Lawrence North’s athletic director Grant Nesbit to the The Indianapolis Star. Chandler appears to be moving to Kentucky to finish his senior year of high school there. Chandler is still expected to sign with UCF next week, according to the report. Chandler has a Twitter account that he updates on a regular basis, and often comments on his excitement about becoming a Knight and posted later Tuesday evening after the
report of his transfer broke, “Still tired from that workout. Smh! I already know coach jones is gonna put me to work I can feel it!!” — The Knights and Coach Jones are throwing in their hats with the big boys of college basketball, going after Kevin Ware, the No. 56 player in the country, who was released from his Letter of Intent to Tennessee following the firing of thencoach Bruce Pearl. Ware recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Louisville is the frontrunner for the 6-foot-4-inch guard, but he is still weighing his options carefully.
Winning cures all — even if you cheat Confetti swirled down and around two men in the middle of their own violations and scandals, as Ohio State University Athletic Director Gene Smith handed Jim Calhoun his trophy. It was an apt scene during the celebration of UConn’s victory over Butler. Winning cures everything. A doctor among nurses, a miracle worker among common men, winning has the unique ability to make us forget, forgive and feel better. UConn’s Jim Calhoun is winning’s latest patient. Winning is Ohio State University’s Jim Tressel’s biggest supporter. As Americans, we love winners. If you’re not first, you’re last, right? And if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying. Right? Calhoun and Tressel can certainly attest to that. Earlier this season, allegations of recruiting violations fell down on the 68year-old Calhoun’s
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shoulders and questions about his return began. He apparently condoned the paying of players by agents in the recruiting process. After defeating Butler 53-41 in the National Championship, he now has the green light to return next season. The punishment for his actions is laughable. Calhoun is banned for the first three Big East games next season if he returns and incurs a reduction in scholarships. According to The New York Times, Jeff Hathaway, UConn’s athletic director said, “I don’t know whether it’s his last [championship] or not … he is what we all knew he was,
a great basketball coach.” Thank goodness he won. Thank goodness the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player, Kemba Walker, took the team on his back, because if they didn’t win, maybe Calhoun’s future would not be so comfortable. Jim Tressel’s story is similar, yet even more disturbing. He clearly violated NCAA rules by covering up a scandal dealing with five of his star players, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor. Tressel did not make his players sit in the Sugar Bowl. In fact, according to Fox Sports, Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan even lobbied to have them play. After failing to address the players himself, Tressel covered up the violations from Smith and University President Gordon Gee and lied to NCAA investigators. He received a meager five-game suspension next season from the university. Neither Smith nor Gee
have taken any further action to punish him, and it does not seem as if they will. The NCAA has not taken action either. In a sports landscape where coaches are fired all the time for losing, coaches who cheat and win are retained and even rewarded. Fourteen football coaches were fired after this past season, 13 for losing (one for legal troubles). Tressel has a nice job and a nicer pay check (about $3.5 million a year). It is time that coaches are held to a proper standard. Both coaches overlooked obvious violations in the name of winning. It is apparent that their respective universities will not fire them, so it is up to the NCAA to do the right thing and punish these coaches properly. If they give them a pass, they will be sending a message to everyone, including other coaches and athletic directors, that if you cheat and win, you’re clear.
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them exceptional. An acting teacher, Bruce Miller, served as an inspiration to her. While less supportive teachers made Amengual feel like giving up. “College severely damaged my self esteem,” Amengual said. “At times it made me feel like throwing in the towel … like I could never do anything right.” Despite the lack of support Amengual received academically, her life would be considerably different if she hadn’t majored in theatre. Amengual performed two Spanish songs for a musical theatre Styles class and heard about auditions for West Side Story. Before even graduating, Amengual traveled back and forth between Miami and New York, auditioning for the national tour of West Side Story. She had not been cast as Maria in the tour; however Amengual had landed the role of Maria on Broadway.
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Stepping on stage as Belle in the Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for the first time was one of Katy McCarty’s most memorable experiences by far. Being in the same stage version she watched as a child, she said singing those songs “epitomized a childhood dream come true.” Since she was a little girl , McCarty dreamed of playing Belle. She recalls an experience at the Fulton Opera House her sophomore year of high school. In a production of The Sound of Music she realized she couldn’t see herself doing anything else. “I was able to get to know and work with professional performers. I gained an insight into the life of a working actor,” McCarty said. “To work at a professional and well-respected regional, equity theater at that age … I realized that I also wanted to be a working actor.” UCF has about 60 hopeful students, studying in the BFA musical theatre program dreaming of one day having a career in the field, according to Earl Weaver, a theatre professor at UCF. The entire program of both major and minors at UCF consists of about 450 students. “A degree in theatre is not necessary,” Weaver said. “But, it lays a strong foundation. Many students get jobs simply based on their talent, but those who complete a university training program seem to have longer careers.”
Finding success in the acting world So do all students who major in theatre ultimately end up in that field? Some do, but many have opportunities during college and once graduation day
Theatre graduate doubles as orthodontist and actor KACIE DAVIDOW / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
Katy McCarty plays Belle in the Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
comes, the opportunities are gone. McCarty has been one of the lucky ones to make a longterm career out of it. McCarty currently works for Disneyland, Hong Kong performing in “The Golden Mickeys” as a singer, dancer and actor. She earned a bachelor’s of arts in English/theatre from Lebanon Valley College. “I had the opportunity to study and perform shows of varying genres,” she said. “It provided me with useful training that has been incredibly applicable and prepared me for a career in performing.” “I see myself in this business for as long as I have the privilege of doing so. I have always had such an undying passion for performing, that not only have I never been able
to envision myself doing anything else, but I have also continued to look to the future and to the next project/show with excitement.” Like McCarty, Sarah Amengual, who didn’t attend UCF, holds a degree in theatre. However, Amengual looks back at her college experience with mixed feelings. Of the numerous teachers Amengual worked with, she only calls one of
One thousand miles away, in Daytona Beach, David Lowe, now an orthodontist, studied theatre and biology in college. He finds it “foolhardy” to pursue acting as his career. “While performing in productions in college I saw many talented actors. Some of them beating me out for the roles I went out for. Many of those same actors I saw hang-
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Spring break is long over and students have arrived back to piles of laundry, winter clothes that need storing and leftovers that have accumulated in the refrigerator. Students are faced with the dilemma of either partaking in an overall cleaning binge or being left to look at fall’s mess. Facing a few options to alleviate the clutter, some students donate to the local Goodwill or sell to Plato’s Closet. Maria Rios, senior double-major in international studies and modern language, just finished her spring cleaning. Rios donated a desk, chairs and clothes to Goodwill. “I have sold stuff to
Plato’s Closet before, but I feel like the money they give me is not worth it, so I would rather donate,” Rios said. Gaby Torres, senior psychology major and studio art minor, had just finished a big spring clean. She cleaned everything out of her refrigerator and freezer and threw away all of her old paint supplies that she knew she wouldn’t use anymore. Torres also donates to Goodwill. “I do a lot of wardrobe changes, so I dropped off a lot of my old clothes at the Goodwill,” Torres said. Dani Rosario, a Goodwill employee, said students donate frequently. “They mostly drop off clothes, shoes and stuff in the knickknack section,” Rosario said. Christina Diaz, a Plato’s
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Selling gently used clothes to places like Plato’s Closet is one way to get rid of excess clothes and get extra cash after spring cleaning.
Closet employee, said she deals mostly with students as well. “Spring tends to be our busiest time because it’s Florida. People are now turning in all of their win-
ter clothes, and students are getting a lot more of our summer and spring items,” Diaz said. Not everyone is participating in the spring cleaning activities. Jason Pipe,
junior business administration major, lives with two other guys and said he’s not cleaning a thing. “You’re asking if we are cleaning? Three guys in the house ... probably not,” Pipe said. The questions of where to start and how to organize may leave students saying it would be easier to leave their rooms in shambles, rather than to procure a headache trying to begin. Bonnie Miller, certified professional organizer of Utterly Organized Inc. in Orlando, offered some tips on how to clean up and organize a dorm room or small apartment. Miller said it’s important to utilize your space. She suggested tools such
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Theater classes don’t teach handling rejection FROM A8 ing around the theater long after they graduated,” Lowe said. “I looked at my classmates, some of whom were much better than me and weren’t getting jobs. I said to myself, ‘What makes me so special?’” Lowe idolized his father, also an orthodontist, spending eight summers working for him. “I remember watching my dad ‘perform’ to his teenage patients. Hundreds of them a day and he always made them laugh,” Lowe said. “That probably pleaded to the theatrical side of me.” Married to another dentist with 7-year-old twins, Lowe wouldn’t change a
thing. “The arts are a huge part of my life, but a career in orthodontics gave me the opportunity to still pursue my love for performing while providing for my family,” he said. Most recently he portrayed the role of Milos Gloriosis, in Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Lowe charmed audiences with tantalizing one-liners, and comedic numbers such as Bring Me My Bride. Though he isn’t making a living at it, the theatrics is still an enormous part of his life. Lowe exercises his love for the arts in community theaters throughout the Central Florida area.
“I get to be a big fish in a little pond,” Lowe said of his performing. “I get my pick of roles. People tell me I’m good at it and they keep casting me.” Weaver is not surprised in the least by Lowe’s decision to have a career in one field and live his dreams throughout the community. “Most of our theatre studies majors are double majoring in something else. Often theatre is their secondary major,” Weaver said. “Many people find themselves pursuing other careers for many different reasons and participate in community theater to fulfill their love of performing.” After graduating with a
bachelor’s of arts in theatre/dance, Weaver began teaching. He also holds a master’s in musical theatre. As a performer he worked Off-Broadway, but Weaver feels the best achievement of his career is teaching. “I still do both,” Weaver said. “It’s the greatest gift of being a teacher. You have summer breaks to go work professionally and keep honing your craft. You don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.”
Rejection tough for aspiring actors out of classroom One thing a student
can’t learn in the classroom is how to deal with the constant rejection. The field is subjective and dependent on other people’s opinions. Amengual attributes the most discouraging part of pursuing theater to just that. “It’s frustrating when you don’t do as well as you want at an audition. It can be equally frustrating when you do as much as you can and you’re just simply not right for the role.” However, she remains positive. “You have to be willing
to let things go and live in the present,” Amengual said. “If you’re too busy looking behind you, you’ll miss the things ahead.” McCarty shares a similar outlook. “The competitive nature of the business and the uncertainty can be discouraging,” McCarty said. “I have found that as long as I just keep pushing forward, staying as positive as possible, looking forward to whatever the next opportunity may be, the joys of pursuing my passion outweigh such obstacles.”
Scan it, pack it, organize it FROM A8 as, over the door towel rods, multi-shoe racks or hanging bags and rolling carts with drawers, some of which can be stacked. Books, papers and schoolwork can overtake a student’s room. “Paper, this can be the bane of your existence because they multiply like rabbits,” Miller said. “Keep only what you really need.” Miller suggests scanning the paper into your computer then creating files and tossing the paper. “If everything is on your computer remember to organize the files with titles you will recognize easily,” Miller said. “Calling it your ‘9 a.m. class’ may be fine now but in a couple semesters you may not remember what class it was.”
Miller recommends organizing your files by categories, suggesting a system called “File Solutions.” The system is color coded and in categories. Clothing space is very important to the college student who already has nowhere to fit his or her clothes and is squeezing winter clothes in with new summer attire. Miller suggests shipping your out of season clothes home. If that is not feasible, she suggests purchasing space bags. “You load [space bags] with your clothes, sheets and use a vacuum hose to suck out all the air. They go so flat they can fit under a bed or on a shelf,” Miller said. If space bags or shipping does not work, there is still one more option. You can create extra space in the closet by
double hanging, Miller said. “Go to the hardware store after measuring the length of your closet. Get some heavy, thick PVC pipe and some chain with a hook to put the pipe on,” Miller said. “You can attach the chain to the existing rod and then the pipe at the proper level for your clothes to hang above the floor. The people at the hardware store can help you if you are not sure what you need or how to do it.” Last but not least, Miller reminds that “bigger is not better.” “When buying a container to put stuff in buy the size you need for the stuff,” Miller said. “Buying with ‘bigger is better’ is not the way to go. You will just end up with a large ‘junk’ box because you will dump all kinds of stuff into it.”
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David Lowe studied theatre and biology in college.He finds it “foolhardy”to pursue acting as his career.
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Hitt earns $800K, No. 4 in nation O
n April 3, The Chronicle of Higher Education released its annual study on the pay and benefits of public-university executives. Gracing the list as fourth-highest earner by total cost of employment for the 2009-2010 fiscal year is our very own John Hitt. The Chronicle’s study separated all the presidents’ pay into two categories: total compensation and total cost of employment. The total compensation figure represents the actual amount of pay collected including base pay, bonuses and deferred compensation actually collected during the year. In this department, Hitt was No. 9 on the list at $673,500. The total cost of employment category represents base pay, bonuses and all the money set aside by both the university and the state for the president. Here, Hitt ranks fourth at $800,703, which includes the aforementioned $673,500. However, this second category is where payment gets tricky. University presidents are given contracts that include deferred compensation, which is paid out over several years as long as the president keeps with his or her contract long enough to earn it. This figure is included in the total cost of employment category but it may not
actually be given to the president. Hitt has been our president since 1992 and since then our admission rates have doubled while our enrollment standards have simultaneously risen, he has created a medical school and he has improved the campus in general with amenities such as a new football stadium and more oncampus housing. Because of all his accomplishments, Hitt has received several bonuses during his 19 years as president and now he’s reached the level where he’s the highest earning college official in the state of Florida. It’s not like we’re just throwing Hitt money he doesn’t deserve. In fact, the university has found a way to combat that. According to the article in the Chronicle, Hitt’s pay is tied with his performance. If Hitt doesn’t meet the university’s goals in terms of fundraising, improving admissions and increasing degree production then he actually loses money. In fact, in the 2010-2011 fiscal year Hitt was denied close to $70,000 in potential earnings for not meeting the university’s standards in these categories. It’s a good thing that Hitt is forced to work hard and perform well in order to earn his pay, but at the same time this man is making a lot of money, even more than Orlando
Mayor Buddy Dyer who reins in $141,521. Our university has seen budget cuts left and right and it was only last month that UCF’s Board of Trustees approved yet another fee increase. We can’t ignore everything Hitt has done for our university but if fees and tuition keep increasing and programs keep being cut then potential students may look elsewhere. Some of the university presidents in the Chronicle’s study realized that with their respective universities struggling to combat budget cuts it only seemed fair to give some back. To our knowledge, Hitt hasn’t done anything like this but it would be nice for him to exhibit some personal sacrifice for the university he governs — it’s not like he can’t afford it. Hitt’s pay includes housing and car allowances so with those two major necessities covered, most of his salary can be spent on luxury items. You would think that if our university is experiencing budget cuts, then our president would be, too. We understand that it has to be a lot of work governing a university with more than 56,000 students, but when it comes to planning the university’s spending, Hitt’s salary shouldn’t take precedent over providing students with low tuition and fees.
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Americans ignorant when it comes to facts place in being informed One phrase comes to about the international mind when thinking about a world. Only 58 percent recent study done by could identify what the TalNewsweek — ‘We aren’t iban is. wise.’ Enough of the political Newsweek gave 1,000 stuff, because if the U.S. citiAmericans the citizenship zens actually cared about it test and apparently the then there wouldn’t be 44 results do not favor a wise percent of them who could society of Americans. Here is one staggering RUF PETIT-HOMME not identify the Bill of Rights. stat from the study: 29 perGuest Columnist We college students have cent of the people do not the potential to become one know the name of the viceof the smartest generations to ever president. That is equivalent of not populate the U.S. and make it the knowing the name of the restaurant smartest population in history. that makes the Big-Mac (Bernie Mac, It has to start with having a basic right?). Why is it that Americans always get knowledge of our own political systhe dunce cap when it comes to know- tems; this seems to be a problem seeing how the people with the least ing about our own government? amount of money do not really care On an old episode of The Daily about knowledge of the government. Show with Jon Stewart, foreign correThey mostly are trying to survive and spondent Jason Jones went to live paycheck to paycheck rather than Afghanistan to interview people about read up on political affairs. the American government. They I do not blame them, though — 400 answered questions such as, “Who was of the top earning households make Ronald Reagans’ vice-president?” and, “How many forms of government does more than the bottom 60 percent here in the states. the U.S. have?” Different people have been talking The results were astounding. The about having a national educational Afghan people answered questions system verses the individual state syswith ease, thumping the American tem. I mean think about it, it could be a audiences with knowledge about our three forms of government, how many good idea because it creates a standard stars the original U.S. flag had on it and of education. What do we do when the rest of the best of all, knowing who Daniel Quayle world just moves forward and we conis. tinue to ignore them? We end up lookAnother staggering statistic found ing like the crazy uncle with tin foil on in the research is that 73 percent of his head and bucket of guns in the back Americans could not figure out why shed. we were in the Cold War. To my I remember growing up singing, knowledge, that was the closest the “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” This was a world has ever come to nuclear war. song that defined the patriotism of our It really is a shame that as time nation, a nation that used to pride itself moves forward, the U.S. just seems to on being No. 1. Now we’re happy when be slipping back into the stone age. we tie Slovenia in the World Cup. Some people are stating government I hope for our sakes that the teachatrocities and claiming that the governers being taught now in school know ment is against them. their importance. Oh wait, they probaThis seems to be the model of the bly do not know who the Secretary of modern political warfare (no pun Education is. intended). The article then goes on to It’s Arne Duncan by the way. explain that U.S. citizens were also last
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UCF could easily adopt Orlando PBS should also be noted that On April 1, WMFE, the other two PBS staour local Public Broadtions in the area — casting Company (PBS) WDSC in Daytona and announced it would be WBCC in Cocoa, are both selling their television owned and operated by station to focus solely on local college campuses. radio. Why can't UCF do the This means that the same? Why can’t we save station that has been in PBS for the city of Orlanexistence for 45 years, do? the station that has ANNA ESKAMANI For the second largest brought to the city of Guest Columnist campus by enrollment in Orlando quality televithe nation, I feel that sion such as Mister being our community’s source of Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Public Broadcasting is not only feaStreet will be gone. sible — it just makes sense. SupportIn its place will be two sister staing a local PBS station would also tions, WDSC in Daytona and serve as an excellent learning tool WBCC in Cocoa. Both are available for students from all disciplines — on Brighthouse Networks — not imagine the opportunity. (And isn’t Comcast — and vary in their prothat what UCF stands for?) gram selection. For me, an Orlando native, losing But neither are suitable replaceour local WMFE station feels like ments for WMFE. losing a friend — but at the macro Needless to say, when I first level it means so much more. It heard of WMFE’s decision to sell I means that our children are losing was angry. And like most of us, my initial reaction was to find someone access to one of the most essential learning tools that exist. And with to blame. Should we blame WMFE the majority of our children spendfor not trying hard enough? Should ing hours of the day watching TV, we blame the public for never wouldn’t we want them to at least donating to the station? Or should watch something beneficial to their we blame Republicans for their mental health? Shouldn’t a public aspirations to cut funding to public good be just and fair, shouldn’t it be broadcasting? nondiscriminatory, available to Looking for that someone to everyone? blame often becomes both useless The easy option would be to just and pointless — the real key to anger is to find solutions. And that’s sit back, and waste more of my tuition money on pointless T-shirts, where my friend Ali Kurnaz had an Frisbees, iPads and rubber ducks. idea: Have UCF buy WMFE. Or we could do big things. We UCF already has a television stacould be innovative and be the tion called UCFTV. The channel itself actually airs PBS programming change we want to see in the world. This doesn’t take effort, it just on occasion, so it’s obvious that takes passion. Where’s yours? UCFTV values good television. It
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‘Do advertisers take Photoshop to the extreme?’ STEFANIE CARRIER
CHRISTOPHER HOLMES
Advertising/PR, junior
Engineering, sophomore
DEREK COLLINS Nursing, sophomore
“Absolutely,it creates a very unachievable image to most females.It would be acceptable for touch-ups like a small blemish.”
“Yes,they take it to the extreme.Photoshop is never acceptable.No one is perfect, so they shouldn’t have to look perfect.”
“Of course they take it to the extreme.It’s as necessary as it needs to be.But in the end,the models should look like regular people.“
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“It’s a lie.It’s taking reality and making a person believe something that’s not true.It doesn’t make any sense.”
“They give the wrong impression of what they should look like.As a result women try to be something they aren’t really are.”
“If it is related to the product,I find it acceptable.There’s always a positive and negative,though.”
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