2008 Woodie Awards
The Visiting Author Series hosted by the English Department brought author Julia Alvarez to UCF on Monday night. The Pegasus Ballroom was packed with eager students, listening to the speech Alvarez delivered. Known for books such as In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Alvarez shared with students her philosophy on storytelling and the significance that reading and writing has on humanity.
The Student Government Association Senate election results will stand after an elections violation hearing Monday. With a vote of 0-7, the Real UCF Ticket was found by the SGA Elections Commission to be in neither major nor minor violation of elections statutes.
A woman jogging alone on the Apollo circle sidewalk near the Arboretum on Monday, Sept. 30, was pushed to the ground, spit on and warned to not run in the area again, according to the UCF Police Department. The man reportedly told the woman she should not be running around at night and then ran into the Arboretum and disappeared, according to police reports.
As UCF looks to maintain a cleaner more environmentally friendly campus, it has taken part in the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System - STARS - program. The system was created and developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
It's the only degree program at UCF where professors can tell you what kind of underwear is appropriate for class. For the students in UCF's College of Nursing, the undergraduate student handbook delineates strict rules and regulations on everything from class attendance to proper undergarments.
Four UCF students are trying to help Orlando's homeless community through relationships and a project called Home Sweet Homeless. Ben Kuykendall, a UCF student and the communications director of Home Sweet Homeless, said he thought the biggest problem homeless people had "wasn't necessarily that they didn't have a place to sleep at night or that they might smell bad, but was they didn't have anyone to really talk to them or care about them.
UCF educational studies assistant professor Trae Stewart traveled to Ramallah, Palestine to evaluate Ruwwad, a youth-empowerment organization and service-learning program. Ruwwad is funded by United States Agency for International Development's West Bank/Gaza Mission and is implemented by Education Development Center, a non-governmental organization based in Massachusetts.
Despite having capped freshman admissions for this semester at last year's rate, UCF has not curbed the admission of students transferring from local community colleges to pursue a bachelor's degree. The influx of transfer students has resulted in higher required test scores for those who enroll traditionally.