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FLA.DEMS FILE LAW-SUITS OVER VOTINGFlorida Democrats are going tocourt to get several counties inthe state to offer more time forvoting before Election Day.

OUTSPOKEN FLA.DEMOCRAT MAY BEHEADED BACK TO DC Daytona Beach police areinvestigating after the body of anaked man was found on the roofof an auditorium.

All 10 members of UCF’s2012 Homecoming Courtstood on the field of Satur-day’s football game duringhalftime, anticipating thenext words from theannouncer, Erik Kohler. AsKohler announced thatMike Irene and AshleyJaramillo were to becrowned the new Home-

coming King and Queen,the crowd erupted intocheers and applause, andfriends and family of thewinners rushed down to thegate where they wouldmarch off the field.

Irene, a senior majoringin business management,and Jaramillo, a seniormajoring in interpersonal-organizational communica-tion, were flooded with con-gratulations from students,

friends and family.“There’s so much emo-

tion right now,” Irene said.“I’m at a loss for words.”

Irene is the president ofthe Interfraternity Counciland was nominated to rep-resent the organization for

Unintentional drug overdose is one ofthe leading causes of death in Florida,where an average of seven people dieevery day from the misuse of prescrip-tion drugs, according to Orange CountyMayor Teresa Jacobs’ Prescription DrugTask Force.

As of Oct. 1, the 911 Good SamaritanAct went into effect in an attempt toreduce the number of overdose-relateddeaths. Florida passed the bill in March,which protects any person experiencinga drug-related overdose, or any personseeking medical assistance for someonewho is, from being charged with a crimeof possession.

“I think it’s something that studentsneed to know,” said Thomas Hall, direc-tor of Wellness and Health PromotionServices at UCF.

Hall directs campus-wide drug inter-vention and prevention services.

“There are many people who arequick to criticize the law, but this is onethat can save lives and gained bipartisansupport,” he said.

The bill was passed unanimously inthe Florida Senate and received only onenay out of 118 total votes in the House.When it passed, Florida became one of ahandful of states to grant some kind ofimmunity to overdose victims, joiningNew Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan,Washington, Connecticut, New York,Illinois, New Mexico and most recently,California.

Many universities have also begun

Law aims tolimit drugoverdoses Act provides amnesty

Winners announced at Homecoming Game

ALICIA DELGALLOSenior Staff Writer

STEPHANIE JOHNSONContributing Writer

Sexual addictions workshop The Multicultural Psy-

chological Student Associ-ation is hosting a presenta-tion on sexual addictionstreatment at 4:30 p.m.Monday in the PsychologyBuilding, room 105.

STD testing UCF Health Services

has partnered with theOrange County HealthDepartment to bring freeSTD testing to campusfrom 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tues-day on the second floorconference room of theHealth Center. The testwill screen for HIV, gonor-rhea, chlamydia andsyphilis.

For more information,contact Megan Pabian [email protected].

Student open forum President John C. Hitt,

Provost Tony Waldrop andvice presidents MaribethEhasz, Al Harms, DanHolsenbeck and Bill Merckwill be holding an openforum at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdayin the Key West Ballroom,SU218AB.

All students are invitedto discuss their ideas, con-cerns and experiences atUCF.

Bollywood dance class The Recreation and

Wellness Center partneredwith the Multicultural Stu-dent Center to host a three-part cultural dance series.The third installment, Bol-lywood dancing, will beheld at 7 p.m. Wednesdayin the first-floor groupexercise room of the RWC.

For more information,call Ashley Hathcock at407-823-2408.

Miss America to visit UCFUCF alumna and Miss

America 2004, Ericka Dun-lap, will be speaking aboutbuilding self-esteem at 7p.m. Monday in the Pega-sus Ballroom.

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The new enrollment recordat UCF has been broken. Stu-dents have been outnumbered— by bugs. For thousands ofbeetles, butterflies, spiders,wasps, flies and cockroaches,the bug closet in the BiologicalSciences building is home.

“I just fell over as ayoung kid and there

you were …insects,”

Stuart Fullerton, founder of thecollection, said to explainwhere his interest in creaturesthat most often cause fear andaversion came from.

Fullerton started the collec-tion as a student of the biologygraduate program in 1976. Aftergraduating, he moved on, and itwasn’t until after his retirementin 1990 that he started rebuild-ing the collection in his house

withthe helpof UCF student volunteers.

Fullerton said a unique char-acteristic of this collection isthat it was built by students, forstudents and is still being usedby students. There arecurrently six volun-

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Michael Irene, a senior business management major, and Ashley Jaramillo, asenior interpersonal-organizational communication major, were crownedHomecoming King and Queen during the Homecoming Game on Saturday.

King and Queen are crowned

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MICHAEL CHEN / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTUREStuart Fullerton, center, with student volunteers who help him organize his bug closet in the Biomedical Sciences building.Thecloset has hundreds of drawers that hold 485,000 insect specimens.

The Rosen College ofHospitality Management,which already boasts “thelargest facility ever builtfor hospitality manage-ment education,” accord-ing to its website, is mak-ing plans to add a $15million expansion.

There are currently3,000 undergraduate stu-dents attending the cam-pus, a figure expected togrow 1 percent annuallythrough 2020, accordingto University Enrollmentand Planning Supportstatistics.

“[The] hospitalitymanagement college’sjob placement ratio is

higher than the UCFaverage, so there’s a highprobability that enroll-ment will grow,” saidTadayuki Hara, associatedean in charge of admin-istration and finance forthe college.

The national unem-ployment rate for the

leisure and hospitalityindustry is 9.9 percent,according to the Bureauof Labor Statistics, but aBureau of EconomicAnalysis report statedthat employment for thetourism industry has

$15M Rosen expansion planned

With Halloween cele-brations done for the year,it is now time for stores tofill the shelves — if theyhaven’t already — withThanksgiving and Christ-mas decorations. But thefast-approaching holidaysare not just a time for dec-orating and receivinggifts, they are a time whenmany people give back tothe community and tothose less fortunate.

For students hoping toget involved this holidayseason, Volunteer UCFand local organizationsare looking for a littleextra help with eventsaround Thanksgiving andChristmas.

Harbor House of Cen-

tral Florida looked for vol-unteers to help with itsthird annual Paws forPeace Walk on Saturday atBlue Jacket Park in Orlan-

Groups vie for moreholiday volunteerism

STEPHANY NAGYContributing Writer

UCF hopes expansionwill allow for smallerstudent-to-faculty ratio

TYLER VAZQUEZContributing Writer

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UCF is making plans to add a $15 million expansion to the Rosen College ofHospitality Management campus, above, to combat growing class sizes.

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Creepy critters call campus their home inthe Biological Sciences building’s bug closet

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Fla.Dems file lawsuits overvoting

ORLANDO — FloridaDemocrats are going tocourt to get several coun-ties in the state to offermore time for votingbefore Election Day.

The Florida DemocraticParty filed a federal lawsuitSunday seeking more vot-ing time in Palm Beach,Miami-Dade and Browardcounties. Those countieswere dealing with waits ofup to six hours on Saturday,the last scheduled day ofearly voting.

The party has also fileda separate lawsuit Saturdayin Orange County after anearly voting site was shutdown for several hours.The library was evacuatedwhen a suspicious packagewas found outside.

Gov. Rick Scott refusedrequests this week toextend early voting.

Body found on auditoriumroof in Daytona Beach

DAYTONA BEACH —Daytona Beach police areinvestigating after the bodyof a naked man was foundon the roof of an auditorium.

The body was foundSaturday afternoon on theroof of the Peabody Audi-torium. Police say theunidentified man may havebeen struck on the head.

The Daytona BeachNews-Journal reports theNational SymphonyOrchestra of Cuba wasexpected to give a concertthere Saturday night. Policesay the concert will go onas planned.

Police Chief Mike Chit-wood says a maintenanceworker inside the auditori-um saw debris on the stage,then noticed a hole in theceiling near a vent andcalled police. The workerwent on the roof and foundthe body.

Md.man extradited to Fla.for2001 homicide

PUNTA GORDA — AMaryland man arrested inconnection with a 2001homicide in Florida hasbeen extradited to Char-lotte County.

A sheriff’s office reportsays 39-year-old David RayMcMannis or Cumberland,Md., was sent back on Sun-day morning after signing awaiver of extradition. He’sbeing held in the county jailwithout bond. It was notimmediately known if hehas an attorney.

McMannis was arrestedlast month on a first degreemurder charge. Authoritiesare still looking for 43-year-old Phillip Gavin Barr.Detectives say Barr owneda septic system repair com-pany, and he and McMan-nis were at the PuntaGorda home of TaraDanielle Sidarovich doingwork the day she disap-peared in 2001.

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For some students, attendingUCF means living away fromhome for the first time, and beingcomfortable in their new homescan make all the difference.Knowing the advantages, as wellas the disadvantages, of each typeof housing can ease their transi-tions to being independent.

On campus, the different hous-ing communities — Nike, Her-cules, Lake Claire, Apollo, Libraand Towers — can house about6,000 students. About 3,700 stu-dents live in UCF-affiliated hous-ing near campus, and a numbermore live in nonaffiliated studentapartments in the area, accordingto the UCF housing department.

UCF freshman Rachel Wilson,a theatre studies major, lives inNike, one of the school’s six on-campus dormitory communities,not including the Greek houses.She shares a room with anotherstudent, and has two suitemates.In the past, these dorms havebeen geared toward incomingfreshmen with community eventsput on by the resident assistantson each floor, allowing studentsto get to know each other. Thishad a lot to do with Wilson’s deci-sion to live on campus her firstyear.

“I wanted to make sure to beinvolved with on-campus activi-ties and get to know other stu-dents,” she said. “It’s also reallyconvenient to hang out withfriends and get to classes.”

However, the dorms on cam-pus are being used more andmore for upperclassmen as well,not just freshmen. Towers is a fullapartment-style dorm, giving stu-dents the opportunity to havetheir own room and bathroom ifthey wish, as well as a full kitchenand dishwasher.

The Neptune community isbeing built behind the Nike andHercules communities and is setto open next fall. This community,as well as Lake Claire and somebuildings in the Nike and Her-cules area, have individual roomsand shared bathrooms.

With more privacy comes a

higher cost. On-campus housingranges in price from $2,470 to$3,845 per semester depending onthe community and type of room,but the price includes furnitureand unlimited utilities.

Even though there are fewerfreedoms in a dorm, such as whenyou can have people over, whatkinds of appliances you can useand specific regulations regardingdecorations, having a lease oncampus may be the way to go.Jimmy Moore, the assistant direc-tor of Housing and Residence Lifeat UCF, said on-campus housingcan be paid directly throughfinancial aid instead of having tobe reimbursed or waiting on acheck to come in before payingoff campus rent. He also said liv-ing on campus has academicadvantages.

“Not only are you more in tunewith academic resources avail-able on campus because of theRAs, but studies prove the level ofconnection, retention rates and

GPAs are higher when you live oncampus,” he said.

Having a semester-by-semes-ter lease on campus may be anadvantage to some people and adisadvantage to others. Some stu-dents prefer a monthly lease to beable to come up with the rentamount a little bit at a timeinstead of having to pay in onelarge chunk, but they also have toremember to pay a check eachmonth. Leases on campus areindividual like most studentapartments near campus, but areless binding.

Sophomore Daniella Urrego, abiomedical sciences major, livesin Knights Circle, one of twoUCF-affiliated apartment com-plexes off campus. She has herown room and bathroom butshares the apartment with threeother students. After living oncampus her freshman year, shedecided to move into an apart-ment near campus.

“I got a bigger room and my

own bathroom, and [I’m] not toofar from campus at about thesame price,” she said. “And since itwas associated with the school,my parents felt it was safer than tobe somewhere where it wasn’tassociated.”

According to their websites,both Knights Circle and ThePointe at Central include utilitiesin their rents, just like on-campushousing. Also included in rent is ashuttle system that takes studentsfrom the apartments to a centrallocation on school grounds, so thestudents don’t have to strugglewith parking or finding a ride.These apartments also come fur-nished and range in price fromabout $590 a month to $675 amonth, depending on the amountof rooms in the unit.

What does it actually mean tobe UCF-affiliated student hous-ing? A Knight’s Guide to LivingOff Campus says that affiliatedcommunities maintain a relation-ship with UCF whereas nonaffili-

ated communities are privatelyowned and operated.

One of the more common rea-sons that students say theychoose to live off campus is inde-pendence and freedom. Studentssometimes think of the RAs, whoare there for guidance and help, asa big brother type, watching everymove they make. Students wantto be able to get away from school;they wouldn’t be able to do that iftheir home was also on campus.

“Going off campus meansmore freedom, but the stakes arehigher,” Moore said.

Instead of dealing with an RAor the housing department atUCF, students would be dealingwith the Orange County policefor disturbances or a collectionsagency if rent payments arebehind.

There are many options forhousing on and off campus, affili-ated with the school or not. It’s upto students to choose what is bestsuited for them.

Students share pros, cons of campus livingKENDALL STUMP

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Sophomore biomedical sciences major Daniella Urrego, above, lives in Knights Circle, one of two UCF-affiliated apartment complexes off campus.


do. The walk helped raiseawareness about domesticviolence.

“It is a great eventbecause the animals pro-vide feelings of comfortand safety, and [it] alsohelps with animals thatmay have been abused,”said Kat Kennedy, directorof public relations andawareness for HarborHouse.

If students are lookingfor an event closer toThanksgiving, Angela Del-Prete, the domestic vio-lence awareness directorfor VUCF, needs volun-teers for ThanksgivingDinner at Harbor Houseon Nov. 20 from 4:30 p.m.to 8 p.m. The event willinvolve preparing, deliver-ing and serving food to

victims of domestic vio-lence.

Students who are notgoing home for break canparticipate in the TurkeyDay 5K run hosted byFeeding Children Every-where on Thanksgivingmorning at Fort MellonPark in Sanford. The eventstarts at 8 a.m. and endsaround 10 a.m., but volun-teers will need to comeearly and stay a little late.FCE is raising money tohelp provide meals to chil-dren in Seminole County.

“We are looking forabout 30 volunteers for therun,” said Maria Com-petelli, an FCE volunteer.“For every runner whoparticipates, 80 childrenget fed a healthy meal so itis a great cause.”

There are a few ongo-ing events, as well some

events at the end of thesemester, for studentslooking to volunteerbefore they head home forChristmas, and collectingand providing food forpeople is not the only wayto give back to the com-munity. Todd Currie, thehunger and homelessnessdirector for VUCF, said heis looking forward to col-lecting more than justcanned food.

“Because we don’t plananything with VolunteerUCF during the breaks,we’re going to try to puttogether a clothing andhygiene products drive forpeople who are homelessin Orlando and donatethem right before we goon winter break,” Curriesaid.

Lend a Hand to theHomeless will take place

on Nov. 26 from 5:15 p.m. to7 p.m. at the Jesus LovesYou, Love Him Back cen-ter. Students will have theopportunity to serve foodand meet homeless peoplein the Orlando area.

A Gift for Teaching willbe on Dec. 1 from 8 a.m.until 12:30 p.m. Volunteerswill help assemble art andscience kits, sort and bun-dle supplies and stock theshelves for teacher shop-pers. A Gift for Teachingprovides free school sup-plies for schools and class-rooms in need.

Knights Pantry is doinga nonperishable food driveuntil Nov. 9. Items need tobe dropped off to KnightsPantry, located in FerrellCommons. If studentsdonate five items, theyreceive a ticket for anySAK Comedy Lab show.

A great opportunity fora more personal experi-ence with a spin on toydrives is an event DelPreteis planning with Safehouseof Seminole and the Vic-tim Service Center of Cen-tral Florida.

“My committee will bedoing a program wheretwo or three people pairup with a family and getChristmas gifts for thekids,” DelPrete said. “It’ssimilar to a gift drive butyou’re working directlywith an individual or fam-ily rather than getting ran-dom gifts and giving themto someone you don’t

know.”Harbor House is also

doing similar events calledAdopt-a-Family and Pre-sents of Hope. Studentscan adopt a family for theholidays and help get giftsthey request or donategifts to Presents of Hopefor Harbor House to dis-tribute.

There are many moreopportunities to getinvolved during the holi-days and give back to thecommunity. VUCF andlocal organizations arealways looking for help. Alittle bit of help goes a longway.

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KISSIMMEE — Presi-dent Barack Obama has aproblem with Florida’simportant Puerto Ricanvoters, and it has little todo with the immigrationand deportation issuesthat dominate so much ofthe national debate involv-ing Hispanic voters.

Florida’s two biggestHispanic groups — PuertoRicans and Cuban Ameri-cans — have legal statusesnot enjoyed by immi-grants from other LatinAmerican countries. Thismakes illegal immigrationa tangential issue forthem.

Their chief concernscenter on Florida’s strug-gling economy, leaders ofboth parties say. AndFlorida’s high unemploy-ment and foreclosure

rates have hit PuertoRicans hard.

That’s a dilemma forObama. He’s counting onbig Puerto Rican supportto help offset Cuban-American precincts,mainly in Miami, whereRepublican Mitt Romneyexpects to do well. Someanalysts say he may fallshort.

“The Puerto Rican voteis going for Obama,” saidFlorida-based pollsterBrad Coker. “But I don’tthink it’s going by thesame margin” as in 2008.

More than 1.5 millionHispanics are registeredto vote in Florida, nearly14 percent of the statetotal. About 592,000 areregistered Democrats, and463,000 Republicans.

Obama’s team is work-ing hard to get PuertoRicans to the polls. Alongwith the Spanish-language

ads on TV and radio, thecampaign is organizingraucous caravans withdecorated car windowsand loud speakers ontrucks, a tradition in Puer-to Rico elections.

“The issue is, can wemotivate the base for ahuge turnout,” said BillRichardson, a Latino andformer New Mexico gov-ernor, as he helped organ-ize a caravan Friday in aheavily Hispanic Orlandoneighborhood. Earlyreports are good, he said,“but we have to drag themout, like we’re doing herein this caravan, to moti-vate early voters.”

Richardson, whobriefly ran for president in2008, said Hispanics’enthusiasm for Obamawas lagging earlier thisyear. He thinks thatchanged in June, whenObama announced that

about 800,000 young ille-gal immigrants with nocriminal records couldlegally stay in the country.

“What has brought theHispanic communityenthusiastically back tothe president has been hisdecision to halt the depor-tations,” Richardson said.

Others are less sure.Dario Moreno, a politicalscientist at Florida Inter-national University, notedthat Puerto Ricans andCubans “don’t have animmigration problem.”

Puerto Ricans are U.S.citizens, and can vote forpresident if they live in astate or the District ofColumbia. Cuban immi-grants have special legalstanding that stems fromthe United States’ long-running tension with theCastro government.

Moreno said PuertoRicans and Cuban Ameri-

cans take umbrage if polit-ical rhetoric reaches intoemotional areas. He citedinstances in 2008, whensome GOP candidates saidAmerica was “losing itsculture” because so manyresidents speak Spanish.Puerto Ricans and otherssee that “as not only anti-immigrant, but anti-Lati-no,” he said.

There have few suchover-the-line remarks inthis election, Moreno said.Even when Romney sug-gested illegal immigrants“self deport,” it didn’t res-onate much with Florida’sPuerto Ricans and Cubandescendants, Moreno said.

Kelvin Soto, a Kissim-mee lawyer who largelygrew up in Puerto Rico,agrees that Romney “hasdone a very good job” oftoning down contentiouscomments from the GOPprimary, such as when he

criticized Texas’ policy ofgranting in-state collegetuition to illegal immi-grants. What most of hisHispanic friends recall,Soto said, is that Romneyhas promised to create 12million jobs.

“People don’t want toinvestigate it, becausethey fear it might not betrue,” said Soto, an Osceo-la County school boardcandidate who was cam-paigning Saturday at anearly voting site.

Calvin Gutierrez, 18,said most of his friendssupport Obama, “but theeconomic situation hasgotten worse,” and manyare unenthusiastic. “Thereare a few who havestopped supporting him,”although they’re unlikelyto vote for Romney, saidGutierrez, a college fresh-man hoping to go intomedicine.

CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated Press

Puerto Ricans are key in Florida pres. vote


Homecoming.“I can sit here and say I

represent IFC as a whole ofall Greek life,” Irene said. “Ihave such passion for every-one past my own organiza-tion; it’s been even better tosay I represent all fraterni-ties.”

Irene said that the UCFcreed is essentially what hestands for, as well as respectand honor, and that he willrepresent the university inthe same way.

“It’s an honor that you getto say that these people puttheir trust in me to be able tocall me the HomecomingKing and know that I’ll repre-sent my school as best as Ican,” Irene said. “And for meto understand that, it’s at thatpoint I can’t fail.”

Jaramillo was nominatedby the Pi Beta Phi sorority forHomecoming Court, andnow she has the chance torepresent UCF as a whole.

“I’ll represent UCF thesame way that I do now, butwith an even bigger smile,”

Jaramillo said.Jaramillo has been

involved in multiple organi-zations, such as LEAD Schol-ars, O-Team, AlternativeSpring Break trips and thePresident’s LeadershipCouncil, and she is also theStudent Government Associ-ation director of campus andstudent life.

Jaramillo said even if shedidn’t win the crown, gettingthe chance to be on the courtis a huge accomplishment forher.

“Just being on Homecom-ing Court is an honor initself,” Jaramillo said.

Throughout the game,Jaramillo’s sorority sisterschanted “Ashley J,” and assoon as the winners wereannounced, they rusheddown to the entrance of thegate to greet her.

“She’s a really great per-son, fun and very nice,” saidCarter Hamlin, a junior legalstudies major. “[I voted forher] because she’s the bestone to represent UCF.”

Jaramillo said that beingHomecoming Queen means

representing UCF to theabsolute best of her abilitiesand showing people whyUCF is the greatest university.She said that since it is such alarge and prominent school,she wants to represent in away that shows other peoplethat UCF students aren’t allthe typical college stereotypeand that they always strive forthe best.

Irene and Jaramilloalready represent UCF withpride through their everydaylives, but having the honor torepresent the university inthis position will continue togive them the opportunity toshow the students and thecommunity what UCFstands for.

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Seniors Michael Irene and Ashley Jaramillo were crowned UCF Homecoming King and Queen during the football gameon Saturday.

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increased this year by 2.6percent and 1.1 percent inthe first and second quar-ters, respectively.

Hara also said thatright now the student-to-teacher ratio for the uni-versity is around 30-to-1,but for the Rosen Collegeit’s 60-to-1.

“The only equation tomake the class sizessmaller is to increase thefaculty,” Hara said. Hesaid the long-term goal isto double the teachingstaff from 50 to 100.

The “most desperateshortage,” he said, is inthe number of facultyoffices. As the collegegrows, more instructorshave to share crammedoffice space becausethere’s simply not enoughroom for them.

Students like ElvisPerez, a senior majoringin hospitality manage-ment, said class sizes aretoo big, but he hopes

parking will also be takeninto account.

“The campus wasn’tdesigned for this manystudents,” Perez said.

Others are fine withcurrent class sizes, butare looking toward thefuture.

“It’s never too crowd-ed,” Molly Basgall, a hos-pitality management sen-ior, said.

She said she can han-dle current class sizes ofaround 60 students butthat “over the years itwould become unman-ageable.”

Ken Grubba, a juniorin the hospitality manage-ment program, said hecan build personal rela-tionships with professors,regardless of class size.His perspective is thatstudents only get out oftheir educations whatthey put into them.

Both Hara and DeanAbraham Pizam said theplanning is in its prelimi-nary stages, but the tenta-

tive price tag is still $15million as UCF movestoward talks with archi-tects and contractors inthe coming weeks.

Funding for the cam-pus in the past has comefrom theme park ownerssuch as Anheuser-Buschand Disney, but the lion’sshare of financing camefrom a donation by CEOof Rosen Hotels &Resorts, Harris Rosen inthe early 2000s. UCF ishoping to appeal to thesedonors again as both Cen-tral Florida’s tourismindustry and the college’senrollment continue togrow.

“I don’t think it’s agreat idea for educationalinstitutions to borrowmoney,” Hara said,emphasizing the need forprivate donors.

Hara said it is the col-lege’s “ambitious goal tosee the whole building[finished] in 2014,” butthat it would be complet-ed by 2015 at the latest.

Goal for completion is 2015 FROM A1

‘Just being onHomecomingCourt is an honorin itself.’

— ASHLEY JARAMILLOHOMECOMING QUEEN

Both winners involved in campus, Greek life


teers who work with theinsects.

Sean McCarthy startedsix months ago as a volun-teer and now does inde-pendent studies identify-ing arachnids.

“I guess I’ll be the spiderguy for a while,” the seniorbiology major said whilesitting in front of thedichotomous key he usesto compare the spiders,which are held in smalltubes filled with water.

He considers his effortat the bug closet the oppor-tunity to get hands-onexperience working witharthropods, which willhelp him accomplish hisgoal of working with a gov-ernment agency such asthe Food and Drug Admin-istration or the Fish andWildlife Service.

In 1993, Fullerton start-ed to help teach the lab sec-tion of a course on generalentomology taught byDavid Vickers, then chairof the biology department.

“We put together thecourse and offered it for 12years, disproving the con-cept that if you wanted toknow about bugs youshould go to Gainesvilleand you should haveknown that since sixthgrade and started to makearrangements,” Fullertonsaid.

Because Fullerton does-n’t have a doctorate inentomology, he wasn’t paidfor teaching, but he did getto move the insect collec-tion from his house to asmall room on the firstfloor of the Biological Sci-ences building. A group offour volunteers — the“ferocious four” as Fuller-ton calls them — emptiedthe room, built a counterand set bookshelves andcabinets to turn a 7-by-16-foot room into the collec-tion’s home and the placewhere they did furtherresearch.

Now, the bug closettakes up another fourrooms, where hundreds ofdrawers hold the 485,000

specimens that make upthe only collection in Flori-da that is entirely data-based to the specimenlevel. Fullerton’s originalidea to document insectsfound in the UCF campusrapidly expanded to all ofOrange County and its fivesurrounding counties.

The entomology coursethat helped Fullerton movethe bug collection to UCFhadn’t been taught forseven years until last fall.That is when the biologydepartment hired HojunSong, a specialist in ento-mology and taxonomy, tobe assistant professor andcurator of the collection.Song is the first trainedinsect taxonomist ever tobe hired as a faculty mem-ber at UCF.

Song, who got his doc-torate at Ohio State Uni-versity, which houses a col-lection of 3 millionspecimens, said that whenhe began teaching at UCF,he thought the collectionneeded infrastructureimprovements, but that itsquality and scope sur-prised him.

“Every single specimenhas been individually data-based; that is unheard of. Iwould dare to say that thiscollection is the only col-

lection in the whole worldthat has all of its specimensdatabased,” Song said.

However, the collectionwas barely known by stu-dents such as HannaStephens, who now volun-teers at the bug closet.

“I had no idea this washere. It is not really adver-tised,” Stephens said. “Ithink people should knowabout it. It is much moreinteresting to know aboutinsects than to be like ‘Ew!That’s gross. I’m going tokill it.’”

Through volunteering,the anthropology majorwas inspired to start herown insect collection.Stephens’ work includescorrecting spelling mis-takes in the catalog of spec-imens in preparation for itsmigration to Ohio StateUniversity’s database.Many people involved withcollections are gettingtogether in an effort togather more informationfor the creation of mapsthat show where speci-mens can be located andhelp researchers comparedifferent habitats.

Fullerton has largelyself-funded the collection,purchasing cabinets, pins,computers, microscopesand even paying for volun-

teers out of his pocket.Song said the collectioncaught the department’sattention and it decided tomake the collection morevisible and hired him as acurator.

Song’s job includesimproving the collection interms of infrastructure,functionality, personneland its availability as aresource to the scientificcommunity. In order toachieve these improve-ments, Song sought a fund-ing opportunity from theNational Science Founda-tion last year. Funding wasdeclined because the col-lection needed to haveinstitutional support fromthe university.

After this experience,the professor coulddemonstrate the value ofthe collection to adminis-trators. The College of Sci-ences and the biologydepartment created thefull-time position to pro-vide university support.

Sandor Kelly, a UCFalumnus, was appointed asthe collection’s managertwo weeks ago. Kelly grad-uated with a degree in biol-ogy and took Fullerton’scourse as a student.

“The main goal of thiscollection is to understand

biodiversity, because youwould think people havebeen doing work here for along time so probably theyknow about all the speciesand where they are located.But that’s not the case, noteven close to the case,”Kelly said while sitting infront of some beetles thatneeded to be pinned andlabeled.

Since the collection’sbeginnings in the early1990s, the group ofresearchers, led by Fuller-ton, has discovered 18 newspecies, which have beendescribed and publishedby specialists.

Song will apply to getfinancial support from theNational Science Founda-

tion later this year. Arevised proposal thatshows institutional supportwill be submitted.

“I feel very strongly thatthis collection has a seriouspotential to become one ofthe most important collec-tions in southeastern Unit-ed States,” Song said. “Iforesee that in 10 years orso the collection willincrease to about a millionspecimens.”

Fullerton is now 72years old and still arrives at6:15 a.m. every Monday,Wednesday and Friday topin and label specimens tocontinue building the col-lection that after 22 years,remains UCF’s best keptsecret.

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Stuart Fullerton, above, catalogs flies he caught under an ultraviolet light for his expansive insect collection that dates backto 1976 when he was a biology graduate student.

practicing some form ofmedical amnesty policies.For example, Florida StateUniversity implemented a911 Good Samaritan policyin August after workingwith the university’s chap-ter of Students for SensibleDrug Policy.

No amnesty policy cur-rently exists at UCF. On thecontrary, the university’s

drug-free policy states,“Any UCF employee or stu-dent determined to haveviolated this policy shall besubject to disciplinaryaction for misconduct,action which may includetermination or expulsionand referral for criminalprosecution.”

UCF community rela-tions officer, JeannetteEmert, said she cannotremember a time when the

UCF Police Departmentpressed charges on anoverdose victim. She hopesthe new 911 Good Samari-tan Act will make studentsfeel more comfortableseeking help.

There are severalresources available oncampus for students withdrug addictions or medicalconditions that may lead todrug use, such as depres-sion. UCF’s Division of Stu-

dent Development andEnrollment Services offerscounseling and referrals tooff-campus treatment cen-ters. There is also an Alco-hol and Other Drug Pre-vention Program officethat offers students pro-grams and services tailoredto their specific needs; adrug information resourcelibrary; screening, assess-ment and intervention; andpeer educators and profes-

sional staff to discuss drug-related concerns with stu-dents.

“When we do find stu-dents who have overdosed,we just want to get them tothe hospital,” Emert said.“Most overdose victimsneed help, not criminalcharges. I’d hate to see stu-dents ignore their friendsout of fear, and walk awaywhen they need to help.”

She recalled an incident

more than 12 years agowhen three male studentstook the date-rape drugGHB, and two of themalmost died.

“Students are here tolearn,” Emert said. “Andsometimes that learningmeans making mistakes.Not just in educationalstudies, but big life mis-takes.

“I don’t want to seethem die.”

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Sportswww.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Monday, November 5, 2012


MEN’S GOLF STETSONINVITATIONAL MONDAY,TUESDAYALL DAY (AWAY)The team sends five of itsgolfers to DeLand insearch of its secondtournament win this fall.

MEN’S SOCCERC-USACHAMPIONSHIPWEDNESDAY-SUNDAYTBA (AWAY)The Knights arescheduled to competefor a C-USAchampionship after a 1-0win in the final game ofthe regular season.

WOMEN’SBASKETBALLGEORGIA STATEFRIDAY7 P.M.(HOME)

ST.JOHN’SSUNDAY1 P.M.(AWAY)The Knights open theseason by hostingGeorgia State and facingfuture Big East rival St.John’s in Daytona Beach.

MEN’S BASKETBALLUSFSATURDAY7 P.M.(AWAY)UCF opens the season onthe road in rival USF’s firstgame in its newlyrenovated arena.

CROSS-COUNTRYSOUTH REGIONCHAMPIONSHIPSFRIDAY8:30 A.M.(AWAY)The team hopes torebound from its 11th-place finish at the C-USAChampionships with astrong showing in theNCAA South RegionChampionships.

VOLLEYBALLUABFRIDAY7 P.M.(HOME)

FOOTBALLUTEPSATURDAY7 P.M.(AWAY)The Knights play toremain undefeated in C-USA on the road in Texas.

schedule

Trench warfare

Men’s Soccer

Three seconds. That wasthe difference between thepossibility of the men’s soc-cer team clinching secondplace in the conference, ormissing the postseasonentirely.

With just three secondsremaining in Saturdaynight’s match against Mar-shall, Eduardo Jimeneznotched his first goal of theseason, giving the Knights a1-0 win and clinching a Con-ference USA postseasonberth.

“That was one of the bestcollege soccer games that I

have been a part of,” headcoach Bryan Cunninghamsaid in a press release. “Icouldn’t be happier for ourguys. We knew a month agothat these last two roadgames would be meaningful,and they were. Our team hasshown so much fight thisyear, and to win five match-es in this league is not easyto do.”

In a rare occurrence, theKnights were greatly out-shot in the match, 20-10, infavor of the ThunderingHerd. Marshall landed justfour of the 20 shots on net,all of which were stopped by

BRYAN LEVINE Men’s Soccer Beat Writer


Redshirt senior running back Latavius Murray breaks past a would-be tackler in the Knights’ 42-17 victory over SMU Saturday night. Murray rushed for two touchdowns and caught one in the team’s seventh win.

The Knights controlledthe scoreboard by control-ling both sides of the lineof scrimmage.

The UCF (7-2, 5-0)offense was not botheredby the Mustangs’ (4-5, 3-2)top-ranked rush defensein Conference USA.

“Anytime you have awin like that it feels great,and that’s what we arecapable of if we executethe game plan,” redshirtsenior center Jordan Raesaid.

Redshirt senior run-ning back Latavius Mur-ray had another big game,amassing 153 yards andtwo touchdowns on 23carries.

“It starts up front run-ning the ball; the offensiveline was creating a newline of scrimmage and get-ting a lot of movement,”Murray said.

Head coach GeorgeO’Leary started the samefive offensive linemen aslast week, with redshirtsenior offensive tacklePhil Smith playing righttackle, junior JustinMcCray to right guard andjunior Jordan McCraymoving to left guard.

In two games with this

alignment, the Knightshave dominated confer-ence opponents on theground.

Murray has had at least150 yards and two touch-downs in three consecu-tive games. Murray alsohad 41 yards on two catch-es and another touch-down.

“That’s our pride andjoy, the run,” Rae said. “Forus there is nothing betterthan seeing them scoretouchdowns and throwbig passes.”

Redshirt sophomorequarterback Blake Bortleshad an efficient game,completing 10 of his 15passes for 110 yards andtwo touchdowns. Bortlesfound sophomore receiverRannell Hall on a skinnypost on the Knights’ firstpossession for a 21-yardscore.

Later, Bortles connect-ed with a diving freshmanwide receiver BreshadPerriman for an 18-yard

RYAN GILLESPIEFootball Beat Writer

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RECAP: SMU vs. UCF

SMU vs. UCF17-42

SCOREBOARD

Both sides of line prepareway for dominating win

ALEX SCHIERHOLTZ / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Blake Bortles makes an off-balanced throw in UCF’s 42-17 win over SMU Saturday night.

A lot can change in thespan of a year.

Just ask the UCF Knightsand the SMU Mustangs,who have met twice in thepast 13 months, producingtwo very, very differentresults.

Last year, the Mustangsran away to a 38-17 victory,sending the Knights homewith a .500 record.

This year, the Knightstook a 42-17 win, leaving theMustangs with a bitter tasteand a sub .500 record.

You could call it pay-

back. “Coming into this game

we were a little disappoint-ed still about last year, howthey embarrassed us,” sen-

ior defensive end TroyDavis said. “We needed toearn our respect back, espe-cially in front of our homecrowd.”

Consider that respectpaid back in full.

But for the Knights, itwas so much more thanpayback.

It was a complete game.It was a sign of what couldbe.

Most of all, it was thelook of a team hitting its

Overshadowed Bortles helps team hit its stride

ANDY ZUNZ Sports Editor

PLEASE SEE UCF ON A10

Last-second goal sends Knights to postseason

PLEASE SEE WIN ON A11NICK RUSSETT / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Eduardo Jimenez makes a move on a defender in a match against Old Dominion.Jimenez scored with three seconds remaining Saturday.


score.That was Perriman’s

first touchdown of hiscareer, and he was the 15thKnight to score a touch-down this season.

Junior wide receiverJeff Godfrey connectedwith Murray on a 28-yardtouchdown pass, on adouble pass.

“I tell you, I thought ittook all day to get there,”O’Leary said. “It lookedlike a punt.”

The senior defensiveend came out firing tostart the game, with twosacks on the Mustangs’opening series.

“I felt like I just get off,and feed off of everyone,”defensive end Troy Davissaid. “I was hungry, to behonest. I was hungry.”

Davis and the pass rushfeasted on the Mustangs’offensive line all night.Davis had one hurry andalso forced a holdingpenalty. The Knights hadsix total hurries, and jun-ior defensive lineman Vic-tor Gray also had a sack.

“We’ve been gettingpressure, but we havebeen working on finishingand getting to the quarter-back,” Davis said.

Davis has 6.5 sacks onthe season, already eclips-ing his total of five sacksfrom last season.

“Defensively, I thoughtthey shut them down pret-ty good, except for thatlast series where we had abunch of subs out there,”O’Leary said.

SMU came into thegame as ConferenceUSA’s fifth ranked passingattack, yet the Knightslimited the Mustangs’ jun-ior quarterback GarrettGilbert to 139 yards on 16completions.

Gilbert had 10 carriesfor 30 yards and twotouchdowns for SMU.

“You lose your energywhen you’re constantlygoing back out there toplay defense,” SMU headcoach June Jones said.

UCF is scheduled toface the UTEP Miners onthe road Saturday at 7 p.m.

Defensive players feed off each other in victory FROM A8

ALEX SCHIERHOLTZ / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Redshirt senior linebacker Ray Shipman applies pressure to SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert in the Knights’ 42-17 win Saturday night. UCF recorded three sacks and four tackles for loss in the game.

stride. “We had sporadic

strides in the first part ofthe season,” head coachGeorge O’Leary said afterthe game. “A lot of it hadto do with injuries. I thinkit is a little bit of moreconfidence with eachgame in all three phases— offense, defense andthe kicking game.”

While the stat sheetmight not show it, thatconfidence is comingdirectly from the quarter-back.

Remember that quar-terback who led his teamto an ugly win at Mem-phis, bouncing franticallyin the pocket the wholeway?

Well now that quarter-back is making snap deci-sions, even in the face ofpressure.

And tonight that pres-sure came in the form of6-foot-8, 275-pound futureNFL defensive end Mar-gus Hunt.

While it’s true thatBortles doesn’t have thestats to show it just yet,passing for 110 yards andtwo touchdowns in thewin, he’s certainly passingthe eye test. And it allcomes down to comfort.

Bortles looked frantic,rushed, even nervous ingames against Ohio Stateand Memphis.

But as the weeks haveprogressed, so has theyoung quarterback.

“I think when he can

utilize his feet, he’s a com-pletely different quarter-back, because if he utilizeshis feet, he’s making quickdecisions,” O’Leary said inapproval of his signalcaller’s positive develop-ment.

Bortles appears to bemuch more comfortablein his own skin, and whilehe’s not lighting up oppos-ing defenses in yardage,he is lighting teams up inthe win column.

And that’s exactly whatthis team needs out of itsquarterback.

It’s a nice luxury tohave a guy like LataviusMurray lining up behindyou most snaps.

And it’s nice to have astud offensive line block-ing for you every down.

When you’re blessedwith those luxuries as aquarterback, it’s importantto play within yourself,and that’s exactly whatBortles has done the pasttwo weeks — much to thechagrin of his futureopponents, I’m sure.

Because those futureopponents already knowabout Murray and theKnights’ tough defense asthreats.

Now they have toworry about a comfort-able quarterback.

UCF is going to needBortles to be that samecomfortable quarterbackwe’ve seen the past twoweeks in the next twoweeks.

The team is ready to goon the road to play a

tough UTEP and maybeits strongest ConferenceUSA opponent at Tulsathe following week.

While the Knights mayhave a trip to the C-USAtitle game in good handswith another win, they’relooking to earn an extrahome game – hosting theC-USA title game, actual-ly.

That’s a tough taskwith a game at Tulsaremaining on the sched-ule.

Even though it lookstough, UCF can’t be head-ing on the road at a bettertime.

Because, as the Knightshit the road, they’re hit-ting their stride.

And that might meangame over in C-USA.

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Alpha Xi DeltaWould like to congratulate

their newly initiated sisters!Fall New Member Class 2012

Lindsey Arick

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Lindsey Schadegg

Shelby Singleton

Kelsey Surman

Alyssa Terry

Emily Undieme

Shanna Wales

Chloe Webb

Kacee Wolfe

Katie Woodall

Women’s Soccer

The women’s soccerteam has made a seriousrun in the Conference USAtournament.

Hoping to win a confer-ence title in its final seasonas a C-USA member, theteam defeated rival Mem-phis 2-0 on Wednesday

and the SMU Mustangs 2-0on Friday night.

The back-to-back victo-ries led the Knights to thechampionship game,

which was held on Sundayat 2 p.m. in El Paso, Texas.

For a recap on UCF’schampionship match withthe Tulsa Golden Hurri-cane, go towww.UCFNews.com.

Knights play for final conference titleFor more on thisstory go to:www.UCFNews.com

— ANDY ZUNZ


Senior forward Nicolette Radovcic races to the ball in the Knights’ and the Golden Hurricane’s regular-season matchup.


Junior forward Omar Vallejo prepares to fire the ball downfield in a game against Old Dominion.

goalkeeper SebastianEvers. The shutout forEvers was his second in asmany games and his sixthof the season.

At the time ofJimenez’s goal, there wasstill a chance UCF couldclinch second place in theconference, along with afirst-round bye, but itneeded help from in-staterival FIU. The Panthersentered Saturday’s matchagainst Tulsa winless inconference games andcould not come throughfor UCF as Tulsa’s win leftUCF’s seeding fate inlimbo.

Sunday’s South Caroli-na-Kentucky game, whichended too late for print,determined where UCFwill finish in the confer-

ence. With a Kentuckyloss, the Knights will fin-ish in third place in theconference and face UABin the first round of the C-USA tournament. A Ken-tucky win would bumpthe Knights to fourthplace and give them afirst-round matchupagainst Memphis.

The Knights playedboth UAB and Memphisat home last week. Inthose two games, forwardDeshorn Brown scoredfive goals, despite missingthe entire first half of thegame against Memphis.Brown missed Saturdaynight’s match againstMarshall due to personalreasons but will return toaction for the C-USAtournament.

Best-case scenario, theKnights’ first-round

matchup is against Mem-phis. The Knights won a4-3 double-overtimethriller against the Tigerson Oct. 24, which, at thetime, extended theirhome unbeaten streak tofour games.

The Knights turnedright around three dayslater to face UAB and losta hard-fought battle, 4-3on Senior Knight.

The C-USA tourna-ment will begin onWednesday in Birming-ham, Ala., home of theUAB Blazers. Dependingon their seeding, theKnights will either play at6 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. localtime. With a UCF win, theKnights would have a dayoff Thursday, and faceeither Tulsa or C-USAregular season championSMU Friday night.

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Opinionswww.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Monday, November 5, 2012


forum was held atRollins College onSept. 21 to discuss the

future of Florida’s imple-mentation of capital punish-ment. The panel, composedof law professors, a publicdefender and the daughterof a homicide victim, pushedthe message of “Execute Jus-tice, Not People.”

Florida has the highestexoneration rate in thenation for those on deathrow — 23 innocent peoplehave been released fromdeath row since 1979. Thefact that this number is sohigh must surely lead to aquestioning of our justicesystem and how it is imple-mented carelessly. Early lastyear, the only U.S. manufac-turer of the lethal injectiondrug sodium thiopentalstopped producing the drug,and European suppliersrefuse to contribute to thesystem of American capitalpunishment, meaning thereis a shortage of materials toactually implement thedeath penalty. The issue pro-vides an opportunity for dis-cussion and re-evaluation of

this cruel system.Florida’s residents have

experienced the effects ofstate budget cuts and grow-ing debt in all fields of work.Our unemployment rateremains higher than thenational average, foreclosurerates are also high and cutsto education budgetsthroughout the state haveadversely affected both stu-dents and teachers. Yetevery year, Florida taxpayersfoot the bill of $51 million tofund the death penalty pro-gram. Sentencing theseinmates to life withoutparole is estimated to onlycost $750,000 – a fraction ofthe cost.

Palm Beach Post writerFrank Cerabino said, “Wecan rescue a bit of ourhumanity along with our taxdollars.” Although the for-mer is the more pressingmoral value lacking fromthis policy and all otherstates that still implementthe death penalty, the sub-stantial waste of tax dollarscould also be much betterspent elsewhere.

The advancements of

DNA technology have sur-passed the expectations ofmany and should beembraced as deliverancefrom such a callous and bro-ken alternative for justice.Every individual is fallible,just as every institution andprogram run by people issusceptible to human error.We have devolved to exist-ing in a very sick and cruelsociety when those whounderstand the possibility oftaking an innocent person’slife still advocate for the leg-islative measures that killhim. Gandhi’s message thatcautions “An eye for an eyewill make the whole worldblind” rings as true today asit did when he first utteredthe words.

In the 21st century, wehave certainly transcendedthe need for capital punish-ment, but the gravity ofdeath has been lost on a gen-eration desensitized to vio-lence. Life is sacred, and nojudge or jury should possessthe power to act as deitiesand decide when it ends forthose guilty of crimes, nomatter how heinous.

OUR STANCE

Fla. should abolishdeath penalty

According to Ras-mussen polls, the FloridaSenate race betweenConnie Mack and incum-bent Bill Nelson is a toss-up, and both candidatesagree that it is a clearchoice between them.Mack champions free-dom and a constitutional-ly limited government,while Nelson, who someconsider a centrist, hasrecently supported morefar left-leaning agendas that expandthe control of the federal govern-ment. Nelson is a strong supporter ofObamacare, which only passed theSupreme Court as a tax and is rid-dled with new taxes and regulationsthat will destroy jobs, raise costs onsmall businesses and embed the fed-eral government much more deeplyinto our health care system.

On another front, job creation isbeing promised by candidates in allraces, from presidential to local, andthis race is no different. Where theroad splits is the means by which tobest accomplish this seemingly sim-ple goal. Mack believes that the bestway to do this is to stop the massivespending and regulatory expansionthat are stifling small businesses andmaking hiring new employees unap-pealing. On the other hand, Nelsonsupports more federal spending tojump-start the economy.

Mack has consistently voted noon expensive programs like Cash ForClunkers, stimulus money (includingObama’s $787 billion stimulus passedin 2009) and the auto bailouts, whileNelson voted in favor of all these.These programs and several otherslike them have not only failed to pro-vide real economic growth, but havecost taxpayers billions. Watching thecandidates’ only debate was frustrat-ing and largely uninformative, asover and over again both sides madeaccusations that the other immedi-

ately called absolutelyuntrue. However, there isnot much to argue aboutconcerning their votingrecords, and Mack comesout ahead.

Mack is also the authorof the Penny Plan, whichwould cut one penny outof every federal dollarspent if enacted and capfederal spending at 18 per-cent of the gross domesticproduct beginning in its

seventh year. While this plan isunlikely to ever get enough votes topass, it underscores Mack’s under-standing of our dire need to rein inspending and his commitment tomaking sure that happens.

I am voting for Mack because Iam tired of watching the governmentthrow obscene amounts of ourmoney out the window while itclaims to be improving the economy,which currently boasts $16 trillion indebt, a trillion dollar deficit, 7.9 per-cent unemployment and a nastyhabit of printing (aka inflating) orborrowing from China to pay forthings we can’t afford. The best thingthat can be done at the federal levelto improve the economy is to getspending under control, somethingthat Mack’s record shows he willfight for.

The economy is at the top of mostAmericans’ priority lists this election,and on this topic Mack has the betterstrategy: reduce spending, debt andstifling regulations to allow business-es to grow. Overall, Mack has astrong record of rejecting legislationthat grows government and dimin-ishes our freedoms, while Nelson hassupported too many bills that com-promise our rights, in addition toracking up enormous debt. Just likethe presidential election, this Senaterace offers a chance to put our coun-try back on track, and Mack is thebetter choice for this job.

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Connie Mack best forFlorida jobs, growth

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JENNIFER THEODOREGuest Columnist

There is a substan-tive disconnect betweenthe implementation ofWestern culture andvalues as a whole thatplaces an invisible barri-er up to the rest of theworld, one mixed withattitudes of indifferenceand hostility. Comparedwith other first-worldindustrialized nationswhere a majority of citi-zens speak at least twoor three languages, testing scorescontinue to reflect the fact that theU.S. population can barely handleone. Less than one percent of col-lege students study abroad duringtheir university years. There is acuriosity and appreciation forother cultures missing from ourown.

Language is one of the mostprominent characteristics that setsus apart from other species. It isproof of continuous evolution andevolving consciousness. Reveredanthropologist Wade Davisreminds us “A language is not justa body of vocabulary or a set ofgrammatical rules. … Every lan-guage is an old-growth forest ofthe mind.” This capability is a fas-cinating advancement with rootsdating back to nearly 100,000 yearsago, when modern humans beganto evolve in Africa. The ability weas a species possess to communi-cate effectively in hundreds ofthousands of dialects around theworld is truly a feat, but in someplaces it is an endangered one.

Linguists at the Living TonguesInstitute for Endangered Lan-guages estimate that on average, anative language disappears everytwo weeks as elders in these cul-tures die, taking the last remnantsof that spoken dialect with them.In 2008, the last fluent elder ofEyak died, a language spoken inthe Gulf of Alaska region. Thatlanguage as the tribe knew it is

gone forever.Many indigenous

tribes suffer from first-world contact in numer-ous ways. The Interna-tional LabourOrganization Conven-tion No. 169 was estab-lished in 1989 as aninternational lawdesigned to protect trib-al peoples across theworld, but only 22nations have ratified it.

Field researchers at the organiza-tion Survival for Tribal Peopleswork to protect these tribes fromsettlers wishing to mine, drill andlog in these remote forests. Thethreats to their native landsinclude threats from first contactby non-native individuals — manyof us are immune to the diseaseswe carry in our systems such asinfluenza and chicken pox. Afterthe Matis tribe of Brazil was firstcontacted, its population fell byhalf; many young and elderly tribemembers suffered from pneumo-nia and died.

In reality, these pockets of cul-ture cling on to a more true senseof what it is to be human. The ideathat these tribal peoples should beforced to assimilate with the restof the world when they have nodesire to is a misguided notion,one that has been met with resist-ance by many. Colonialism still inpractice today is pervasive andthreatens these tribes’ ways of liv-ing that need to be cherished.They are a link to our past as aspecies, yet are so much furtheradvanced and exist more peaceful-ly and spiritually than most inindustrialized societies today. AsDavis explains, “All these peoplesteach us there are other ways ofbeing, other ways of thinking,other ways of orienting yourself inthe Earth, and this is an idea, thatif you think about it, can only fillyou with hope.”

Indigenous peoplemust be represented

KALEY LAQUEAOpinions Editor

Roe v. Wade underthreat of elimination

“50 million abortions sinceRoe v. Wade. 50 million peoplekilled before they even had thechance to be born but as long asyou don’t have to inconvenienceyourself any blood price is worthpaying I suppose. I mean unbornchildren aren’t really evenhumans, right?!?!? Now who elseused that logic to kill millions...”

— ANONYMOUS

“As a die-hard Republican con-servative, I have to disagree...

...with anyone who threatensRoe v Wade. It worries me to seepoliticians who want to regulatelove and women’s bodies. MittRomney is not for a small conser-vative government, he’s for a BIGcorrupt government. All Republi-cans should support PresidentObama when it comes towomen’s rights, abortion, andmarriage equality. If you don’t,you’re actually not a conservative,you’re not a constitutionalist, andyou’re an uninformed voter.”

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