Central Florida Future, Vol. 28 No. 57, April 18, 1996

              Golden Knights jump back into polls after sweeping Hatters- p. 20
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Central Florida Future
Vol. 28 • No. 57
News Briefs
photo/HUNT
Swimwear, haircuts, jeans-
you may be paying more
than you think. See page 3
• And the winner is ...
Greeks find out tonight!
See page 3
• Students get their turn to
grade the faculty.
See page 3
Features
•Julius Caesar comes to
life for the Orlando-UCF
Shakespeare Festival.
See page F2
• Filmboy's farewell.
See page F1
Sports
photo/SAGINARIO
Two-sport star Eric Riggs
uses his hot bat to help the
Knights win four in a row.
Gming events
April 18 - Speaker: Karl
Grossman, 8 p.m., SAC
April 22 - Earth Day
April 23 - College of
Education, Very Special
Arts Festival, Arena
April 27 - Walk America,
Loch Haven Park
April 22-29 Finals
May 4 - Commencement
Congratulations
Class of 1996
Serving the University of Central Florida since 1968
April 18, 1996
SOAR helps students succeed with flying colors
by MICHELLE MARTINEZ
Asst. news editor
Students who do not meet
UCF admission requirements can
attend the SOAR summer program
to obtain a second chance.
SOAR, Seizing Opportunities for Achievement and Retention, is a six-week academic summer program for minority students
sponsored by Minority Student Services. This program helps students
improve their writing, verbal, mathematical, social and study skills.
"The program helps them to
overcome any academic deficit in
the basic skill areas," said Justina
Gonzalez-Marti, SOAR Coordinator.
SOAR participants are required to enroll in three summer
classes. Among the choices are:
• Fundamentals of Oral Communication
• English Composition
• Selected Topics in English
• College Algebra.
Students are placed in these
classes based on placement exam
scores. Participants are also required
to attend at least two hours of tutoring for each class, a total of six hours
of tutoring a week.
Additionally, participants
must attend a Tuesday or Thursday
discussion group to hear speakers
from UCF or the community.
Each Friday, participants at-
SPECIAL TO THE FUTURE
The SOAR graduates from summer, 1995 take a short break. The group presented a plaque of
appreciation to the Office of Minority Student Services which stated: "To SOAR is to
succeed. In appreciation for your hard work. Thank you for giving us the key to succeed."
lend the Weekly Freshman Seminar, which focuses on developing
students' study habits and social
skills.
During the six weeks program, students must meet with a
SOAR coordinator twice and with
an adviser from the college of their
major once.
The SOAR students are
housed on campus and can pur
chase a flex card for meals.
The applications of students
who are on the borderline of admission requirements are referred to the
Minority Admission on Scholarship
Committee. About 600 to 800 applications are referred to the com
mittee.
"Sometimes they (applicants)
have a very high GPA, but their
SAT or ACT was not sufficiently
high enough. "Gonzalez- Marti said.
A third of those referred receive a
letter of invitation to apply for
SOAR.
More than 100 perspective
students apply and are required to
attend a one-day interview and to
take placement exams. Based on the
interview and exam results, 60 applicants are chosen.
First Future editor left UCF for Hollywood,
traded diploma for success, five Emmys
by JEFF HUNT
News editor
Most people watch television.
Stephen Jones makes it.
The University of Central
Florida graduate lives just outside
of Hollywood, Ca., and makes his
living as a freelance cameraman for
several popular television shows
including The John Larroquette
Show and Minor Adjustment. Jones
has had great success in the land of
opportunity, winning five Emmys
in the last 16 years.
And once shooting for the
regular television season is finished,
Jones is no less busy. He is currently
working on the sets of several experimental programs, or pilots, including one with Bill Cosby based
on a British series about a grave
digger.
However, Jones readily admits he did not start out to work
behind the camera. As a student at
Florida Technical University in the
early '70s, he studied print journalism with a small mix of radio/television and advertising/public relations.
Jones said FTU did not have
the well-defined programs UCF
has today, nor the buildings.
"You wouldn't have recognized it," said Jones in a cool Cali-
fornian tone, making him sound
more like 25 than 45. "People used
to get (FTU) confused with a small
university called Mid-Florida Tech.
(FTU) had an identity crisis."
FUTURE ALUMNI
Dana Eagles -
Deputy Managing Editor
The Orlando Sentinel
Rex Hoggard -
Tallahassee Bureau
The Orlando Sentinel
Cindy Barth
Orlando Business Journal
Don Wittekind
The Atlanta Constitution
Joe DeSalvo
Sports Editor
Florida Times-Union
Mike Griffin
Tallahassee Bureau Chief
The Orlando Sentinel
Jones did his part to ease the
identity problem by joining twoother
students, John S. Gholdston and Pat
Johnson, and Dr. Timothy O'Keefe
in starting a campus newspaper
called the Future.
As editor, he spent much of
his time following the topics of the
day including campus protests of
the Vietnam War and the opposition
to those protests.
One particular series of articles the cameraman looks back on
fondly is when he covered the formation of FTU's Student Government.
"It was laughable," Jones said.
"You had a bunch of young Republicans trying to emulate the government at a time when all kinds of anti-
government protests were going on."
Jones said a few of the
Future's, articles on the mayhem
between the protesters and the Student Government landed him in front
of the Supreme Court of FTU.
However, he did not allow
the turmoil to hinder him or his
plans in the communications field.
He secured a job with Channel 9, a
local television station, and interned
one summer for The Orlando Sentinel.
After graduating in 1972, he
went to work for the Sentinel as one
of only two reporters in the Marion
County bureau. Jones had to take all
the photos for his own stories which
made him start kicking around the
idea of doing something other than
working for a newspaper.
see EDITOR, page 2
Women pay
when it comes
to shopping
by EMILY J. POWERS
Contributing writer
Being a woman can have
its disadvantages when shopping
at the Orlando Fashion Square
Mall., especially if you are considering a swimsuit, a pair of jeans or
a haircut. In some cases, women
pay double the price that men do
tor certain products and services.
"It seems to me that women
are just naturally more concerned
about their appearance and so the
stores know they can charge
more." said one mall customer.
Swimsuits appear to have
the greatest difference in pricing.
In many stores, a man's swimsuit
costs between $ 13 and $30, and
sometimes include additional discounts. On average, a woman's
swimsuit costs about $60.
In Burdine's department
store, the highest-priced
swimwear for men is about $26,
where women's swimwear ranges
between $40 and $70.
If a man is looking for surf
shorts, he may pay as much as $50
at Good Vibrations, the mall's
see SHOPPING, page 3