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DESIGNER PURSESSEIZED IN TAMPARAID U.S.Immigration and CustomsEnforcement officials have seizedthousands of counterfeit items,worth nearly $5 million,in aTampa raid.

2 CHARGED WITHKILLING,ROBBINGFLORIDA MAN TAMPA — Tampa Police say theyhave arrested two of the foursuspects who allegedly broke intoa home,killed the homeownerand set the house on fire.

Vote in SGA Senate electionVoting for the SGA

Senate election startsMonday, Sept. 26, andruns through Sept. 28.

Vote from home orvisit the Election Com-mission tent.

From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,Sept. 26, the EC will havea tent located outside theStudent Union on thepatio. From 5 p.m to 8p.m. the tent will be locat-ed at the patio of theRecreation and WellnessCenter.

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Board of Trustees meetingUCF’s Board of

Trustees will hold theirfifth and second to lastmeeting of this yearWednesday, Sept. 28,from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. inthe Live Oak Center inFerrell Commons.

The Board will be dis-cussing tenure with hire,the proposed academiccalendar, installing aMediamesh® screen onthe face of the UCFArena and other agendaitems.

To follow live-blogcoverage of the meetingon Wednesday, visitwww.ucfnews.com.

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News and notices forthe UCF community

At a university of nearly60,000 students, demandfor a quiet space to study isever present. Even with thenew expansion of the 24/5Student Union at the begin-ning of this month, the needfor study space is still a pri-ority for students at UCF.

Last year, the StudentGovernment Associationunveiled All Knight Study,the first 24-hour study areaon campus. This year, SGAPresident MatthewMcCann and Vice Presi-dent Adam Brock havedecided to expand the AllKnight Study to be UCF’sfirst and only 24/7 studyarea.

“The demand for late-night study and theresources it offers hasgreatly expanded,” Brocksaid.

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CHANTAL AUGUSTOContributing Writer

In the next 10 to 15 years, leadingenergy-efficient homes could beinspired by designs created byUCF students.

For the past two years, UCF stu-dents and graduates have beendesigning and building an afford-able, solar-powered home to com-pete in the Department of Energy’sSolar Decathlon.

UCF students are a part ofTeam Florida, which also consistsof the University of South Florida,Florida State University and theUniversity of Florida. According toDOE’s website, Team Florida iscompeting with 20 other teamsfrom around the country and theworld to create a house that meetsthese criteria:

-Is affordable, attractive andeasy to live in.

-Maintains comfortable andhealthy indoor environmental con-ditions.

-Supplies energy to householdappliances for cooking, cleaningand entertainment.

-Provides adequate hot water.-Produces as much or more

energy than it consumes.Besides meeting these criteria,

the teams are also required to com-pete in 10 contests, worth 100points each, for a total completionof 1,000 points. The contests arebased on individual aspects of theproject such as architecture, mar-

Disposable to-go boxes are a thing of the past forUCF dining halls.

As a part of UCF Dining Services’ environmentalsustainability efforts, Knightro’s and Marketplace nowonly offer reusable “green” boxes for students wantingto take their food to-go.

The initiative will divert 145,000 foam boxes fromgoing into landfills annually, said Eden Wetherell, sus-tainability coordinator for UCF Dining Services.

The “green” boxes are free for any student with ameal plan. Those without meal plans are required toput down a $5 deposit to use the boxes, which arereturned to UCF Dining Services at the end of the year.

Students who use the boxes return them to the din-ing halls during their next visit, where they are tradedout for a new, sanitized box.

Aramark, the food service company that owns andoperates the dining halls, began encouraging UCF stu-dents to use the reusable boxes during Spring 2010, butdid not make the use mandatory until now.

“The first semester we started using to-go boxes,

Studentscompetein solardecathlonDepartment of Energyhosts competition

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Hours extended at UCF Arena location

Kelly Quintero, a juniorpolitical science major andwomen’s studies minor, hasalways believed in women’sequality. In fact, today sheconsiders herself to be asecond-wave feminist, or ageneration Y and X femi-nist, who strives to givewomen their voice back.

With UCF’s diverseselection of clubs andorganizations, Quintero

easily found a place oncampus where she couldvoice her opinions: theNational Organization forWomen at UCF, of whichshe is currently president.

With much aspirationand after three years ofbeing heavily involved withNOW at UCF, Quinterowas asked personally byDonna Slutiak, president ofthe state of Florida’s NOWchapter, to run for the

KAITLYN TEABOSenior Staff Writer

UCF junior lobbying forwomen in Tallahassee

KellyQuinterowill take onher positionas thelegislativedirector forFlorida NOWstarting inJanuary.

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EMILY BLACKWOODContributing Writer

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Freshman Iesha Johnson takes her food home to her dorm in the new, environmentally-friendly takeout boxes provided by the Marketplace.

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■ Free scantrons

■ Free copying/printing

■ Three computers forinternetbrowsing and printing

■ Open lounge area

■ Two-group study room

■ Multi purpose rooms with T.V.and white boards

■ Quiet area

■ Multiple outlets

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Students without meal plans can purchase the new to-go boxes for $5.

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Designer purses seized in Tampa raid

TAMPA — U.S. Immi-gration and CustomsEnforcement officials haveseized thousands of coun-terfeit items, worth nearly$5 million, in a Tampa raid.

About 50,000 itemsincluding boxes filled withdesigner purses were con-fiscated in Friday’s raid.

No one was charged.Agents executed five

search warrants at a fleamarket and storage units.

The goods will ultimate-ly be destroyed.

2 charged with killing,robbing Florida man

TAMPA — TampaPolice say they have arrest-ed two of the four suspectswho allegedly broke into ahome, killed the homeown-er and set the house on fire.

Authorities said the rob-bers attacked the victimThursday morning andstole items from the housebefore setting it on fire. It’sunclear what was stolen orwhether the suspects knewRichard Lee Blackman.Authorities found Black-man in the living room ofthe smoke filled home. Helater died at the hospital.

Police released newdetails Saturday, sayingthey had arrested two sus-pects and were workingleads on two others.

South Florida woman had 114 cats

MIAMI — A SouthFlorida woman told animalcontrol officials she hasbeen hoarding more than100 cats at her home.

The woman showed upat Miami-Dade’s AnimalServices Department onWednesday to surrender 20cats. But as investigatorsquestioned her, the womanadmitted she had more andled officials to her two-bed-room town house. Officialssaid she had 114 cats in vary-ing degrees of health. Somehad to be euthanized.

Dozens are up for adop-tion.

The Miami Heraldreported the woman willnot face animal crueltycharges because she sur-rendered the animals vol-untarily.

Hilary weakens some,dropsto Category 3 hurricane

MIAMI — Forecasterssay Hilary has weakenedovernight from a Category 4hurricane to a still-danger-ous Category 3 storm as itchurns up heavy surf alongMexico’s Pacific coast.

Hilary was a Category 4storm late Saturdayevening, with maximumsustained winds near 135mph. But the National Hur-ricane Center reported at 5a.m. Sunday that the windshad decreased to near 125mph (205 kph).

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About 2,000-square feet ofdigital commercial, academicand social potential could becoming to the UCF Arenapending approval from theBoard of Trustees.

Wednesday, Sept. 28, theBOT will approve or disap-prove the display of Medi-amesh®, a Garage Media tech-nology, on the face of UCFArena, according to the BOT’sagenda.

According to the agenda,“Mediamesh® is a technologythat integrates digital imageryand color with metal fabric.The LED mesh display willbecome the premier messag-ing center on campus and willallow UCF to showcase itsfacilities, programs and stu-dents in larger-than-lifeform.”

If approved, the Medi-amesh® screen would be usedcommercially, academicallyand socially, according to theagenda.

Commercially, UCF-approved partners and adver-tisers would be able to adver-tise from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.,seven days a week. Potentialadvertisers include: Apple,Burger King, Southwest Air-lines, Nike, Rockstar Gamesand 92 other major corpora-tions.

The screen comes at nocost to UCF; installment and

operating costs will all be cov-ered by Garage Media,according to the agenda.

Estimated annual ad rev-enues with 100 percent adsales at full utilization are pro-jected at $2.1 million, accord-ing to the agenda.

Academically, the screenmight be used to display thework of students in the graph-ic design, advertising or pub-lic relations fields. Accordingto the agenda, the screencould also be used to distin-guish award-winning stu-dents and colleges.

According to the agenda,the screen has a lot of poten-tial socially. In addition to dis-playing announcements andpromoting social events, thescreen could be used to hostMovies on the Plaza, a movie-screening event put on by theCampus Activities Boardthroughout the year. Thescreen could also be used todisplay away games and otherathletic events.

Garage Media, whoseheadquarters are located inHartford, Conn., partneredwith Mediamesh® andA2aMedia to create outdoormedia technology or “media-tecture” as it is referred to on

the Garage Media website.Mediatecture can current-

ly be seen on the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami andon the New York Port Author-ity Bus Terminal in New YorkCity.

According to the website,Mediamesh® is 80 percentmore energy efficient thanstandard digital billboardtechnology as it doesn’trequire high energy coolingand ventilation systems.

SGA President MatthewMcCann said the potential thescreen has makes looking intoit worthwhile.

“One of the greatest thingsabout the Mediamesh® con-cept is it has so much poten-tial…it can highlight differentstudent activities, works and alot of the things studentscome to UCF for,” McCannsaid.

McCann also said thatMovies on the Plaza is anevent students have come toexpect, but putting it togetheris a lot of work.

“This will help reach alarger population of stu-dents,” McCann said. “It’s justa cool experience to watch anentire movie on the side of abuilding.”

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UCF alumni businessprofessionals are sharingtheir wealth of knowledgewith undergraduate busi-ness students from theiralma mater through theCollege of Business’ newmentorship program.

“The idea was to pro-vide an opportunity for thealumni to give back to theschool, while at the sametime giving students expe-rience outside of the class-room,” said BridgetDownes, assistant directorof development at the Col-lege of Business. “Wewanted to help the stu-dents understand what theworking world is like, howto transition from being astudent to working in theircareer, how to prepare agood résumé, and to helpthem network.”

Forty alumni and stu-dents were chosen from agroup of applications and

are expected to meet regu-larly throughout the courseof the school year. The Col-lege of Business recom-mends they meet at leastonce a month.

“We’re hoping the men-tors will share networksand provide resources totheir mentees. Maybeallow them to meet withother professionals fromother colleges,” Downessaid. “We also recommendthe students shadow theirmentors for a day to get afeel for what it will be likeafter graduation, and thenvice versa, the mentorscould attend a class withtheir student and helpanswer any questions theymay have.”

The idea for this newmentorship programbegan during an alumnievent last spring as a sim-ple conversation and thentook off from there.

“The program reallyjust started with a cocktailconversation among the

alumni and continued as areally great project withquite a bit of groundwork,”said Monica Thorsen, Col-lege of Business Adminis-tration alumni chair, andmentor. “There was a lot ofresearch that went into thisas far as how it should run,what the applicationprocess should be like, cre-ating criteria for the men-tors and who exactly wewanted to target for the

mentees.”The program received a

lot of support from thealumni hoping to give backto the school that gavethem so much.

“I wanted to do thisbecause I like beinginvolved in the school. Mywife works here, and I helpstudents find jobs in thefirm I work for,” said MattHolt, UCF accountingalumni mentorship chair

and mentor. “And I want tohelp give the studentssomething I never had. Itwould’ve been nice if I hada mentor to answer a lot ofquestions I had while I wasgoing to school. I askedprofessors, advisors andrecruiters, but now I havethe opportunity to providevaluable resources to thesestudents.”

The official start of theprogram begins Tuesday,Sept. 27, with the College ofBusiness’ kick-off event.Students and mentors willgather together for a casualmeet-and-greet. Somementors and mentees willbe meeting each other forthe first time, and all willbe welcome to talk witheach other and learn aboutdifferent programs andopportunities.

“I would’ve loved hav-ing a mentor when I wasgoing to school. I thinkwhile you’re doing yourstudies you’re mostlyfocused on the end picture

of graduating and youdon’t really think aboutwhat’s going to happenwith the job interviewprocess and writing arésumé and what it reallytakes to land a job. I’mexcited this program cannow help with those samethoughts for the students,”Thorsen said.

After the pilot year, theCollege of Business is hop-ing to see their projectgrow and improve, withplans to someday includeall students from theirschool.

“We’re hoping the pro-gram will continue on inthe direction it’s going now.But we do want to learnmore on how to improve it;we’ve set up surveys at theend of the year to help uswith that,” Holt said. “Wealso selected a small groupof students this year andhopefully by next yearwe’ll be able to expand tomore people, and steadilygrow year after year.”

Alumni recruited to serve as mentorsDANIELLE LORD

Contributing Writer

NEW YORK (AP) —Two Americans held formore than two years in anIranian prison on accusa-tions of spying returned tothe U.S. on Sunday, ending adiplomatic ordeal thatbegan with what they calleda wrong turn into the wrongcountry.

Josh Fattal and ShaneBauer arrived at KennedyAirport in New York City atabout 11 a.m.

The two were releasedfrom prison last week. Theyarrived Wednesday inOman under a $1 millionbail deal and wereembraced by relatives.

They were detainedalong with fellow hikerSarah Shourd in July 2009along the Iran-Iraq border.

They say they were onlyhiking in Iraq’s relativelypeaceful Kurdish region andmay have wrongly ended upin Iran.

Before boarding theplane in the Omani capitalof Muscat on Saturdaynight, the men made briefstatements and thankedOman’s ruler for helpingsecure their release.

“We hope to somedayreturn to this wonderfulcountry, but for now we areeager to go home at last,”Fattal told reporters.

Bauer said he won’t for-get the feeling of seeingtheir loved ones waiting forthem in Oman.

“The joy of embracingthem all after so long willstay with us forever,” he

said.A furious diplomatic

effort led to the release ofShourd about a year ago,and negotiations continuedfor the two men. Lastmonth, Fattal and Bauerwere sentenced to eightyears in prison each for ille-gal entry into Iran and espi-onage.

The first hint of changein the case came last weekwhen Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejadsaid Fattal and Bauer couldbe released within days. Butwrangling from within thecountry’s leadershipdelayed efforts. Iraniandefense attorney MasoudShafiei secured the neces-sary judicial approvalWednesday for the bail —

$500,000 for each man.Hours later, the gates of

Tehran’s Evin prisonopened and the Americansheaded in a convoy withdiplomats to Tehran’sMehrabad airport.

Iran’s Foreign Ministrycalled their release a gesture

of Islamic mercy.Until their release, the

last previous direct contactfamily members had withBauer and Fattal was in May2010, when their motherswere permitted a short visitin Tehran, which Iranianofficials used for high-pro-

file propaganda.Since her release last

year, Shourd has lived inOakland, Calif. Bauer, a free-lance journalist, grew up inOnamia, Minn., and Fattal,an environmental activist, isfrom Elkins Park, Pa., aPhiladelphia suburb.

Hikers released from Iranian prison return to US

UCF TODAY

Business students can now participate in a mentorship program hosted by alumni.


Brock said a goodamount of students are uti-lizing the space.

“Many students are tak-ing advantage of this. Atleast 200 a night, which isgreat for the openingweeks,” he said.

Previously, the AllKnight Study by the UCFArena was open at 9 a.m.Sunday morning and clos-

ing at 9 p.m. Friday night,with hours from 9 a.m. to 9p.m. on Saturdays. With thenew expansion, the AllKnight Study will truly beall night, every night.

Josh Miller, the SGAcomptroller and chieffinancial officer, said that inthe 2010-11 fiscal year budg-et, SGA set aside $160,000for the construction, furni-ture and everything thatwent into the creation of

All Knight Study.“Starting in the 2011-12

budget, a reoccurring costof $73,400 will be spent onAll Knight Study for main-tenance, salaries and any-thing else needed to run theprogram,” Miller said.

The funding for thestudy space will now gothrough the Student Union,and the Student Union willnow be held responsible forthe operation of this pro-

gram. However, “An SGArepresentative will still bethere at all times to helpstudents with anything,”Brock said.

With the expansion ofthe All Knight Study, all ofthe resources that are avail-able during the currenthours will still be availablewhether a student comes inat noon or midnight.

Students are able to takeadvantage of free scant-rons, copying, printing,multipurpose rooms withwhite boards and manymore resources. The SGAwebsite has a full descrip-tion of all the resources,with pictures, of everythingAll Knight Study has tooffer for UCF students.

Universities such asFlorida State Universityand University of Floridahave long since had 24/7

study spaces.Brock has high expecta-

tions for the expansion andpopularity of the expan-sion.

“We are really excitedabout this and hope morestudents take advantage ofthis great opportunity,” hesaid.

Through the 24/7 AllKnight Study and the 24/5Student Union, studentsnow have more opportuni-ties for a quiet space tostudy or a fun place to hangout with friends.

“The Student Union is agreat place for privatestudy and group study oreven a great place to hangout because of the TVs andXBoxes,” Ashley Tinstman,SGA public relations coor-dinator, said.

During the extendedhours, scantrons are hand-

ed out at the InformationDesk from midnight to 7a.m., and the Express PrintLab remains open duringthe new hours.

Brock said that Subwayand Joffrey’s Coffee have sofar agreed to remain openduring the extended Stu-dent Union hours, and per-haps in the near future,more of the restaurants willremain open for more con-venience of students stay-ing late in the StudentUnion.

Whether studentschoose to study at extend-ed hours of the 24/5 Stu-dent Union or the 24/7 AllKnight Study by the Arena,students now have newopportunities for studyingor meeting with friendsthat have not been availableto previous generations ofUCF students.

SGA budgets for expanded study center hoursFROM A1

newly opened legislativedirector position, as shewas extremely impressedwith Quintero just by thefew times they spoke inperson.

“Kelly has differentqualities that I like to seein upcoming leaders, andmany of us are older, and Ilove having a youngerfeminist on board becausewe need to know how ouractions and reactions areaffecting our leaders oftomorrow,” Slutiak said.

Quintero was acceptedinto the Tallahassee-basedposition in June, but thejob will not really start topick up until the legisla-ture is in session, which isin January.

“I look at this positionas a chance to get involvedand put to work the thingsI have learned in my class-es to better inform womenabout what bills are affect-ing them in the Floridalegislature,” Quintero said.

With this new position,Quintero will be travelingto Tallahassee a few timesa semester to speak withFlorida NOW lobbyists,but she insists that it willnot interfere with herschool work.

“I will give it my all, butonly after I give being astudent my all,” she said.

She will also be lobby-ing herself, talking to Flori-da representatives aboutbills that affect womenand giving women inFlorida the informationthey need to make aninformed decision aboutsuch things as women’shealth care.

“As a woman, it is soimportant to know howthe government is treatingyou and how your healthis basically on the chop-ping block because thereare not many female rep-resentatives and so theydon’t know what women’shealth really entails,”Quintero said.

In addition to lobbying,Quintero is fulfilling her

dream as an active femi-nist by participating in asmany events as possible tospread the message ofequal opportunities forwomen. Such eventsinclude women’s marches,organizing the Take Backthe Night event which is amarch to end rape andrape violence and organi-zational conferences inFlorida that support femi-nism and bring awarenessto issue regarding womenin today’s society.

“Feminism is my pas-sion, and for me to be ableto be a student and speakout about feminism meansso much to me,” Quinterosaid. “ And you don’t haveto be anti-man to be pro-women. To be a feministmeans to be a femaleactivist and to fight forwomen’s equality.”

NOW at UCF mem-bers are all proud of Quin-tero for branching out ofthe UCF chapter to the

state chapter to make abigger difference.

“It is great that Kelly ison the executive board ofFlorida NOW because sheis putting in a younger per-spective into the mix andis able to tell the boardwhat college studentsthink about certain issues,”said Nicole Elinoff, UCFNOW secretary, psycholo-gy major and women’sstudies minor.

As the new FloridaNOW legislative director,Quintero plans on bring-ing as much as she can tothe table and hopes tomake an impact in Floridalegislature.

“My goal is to influenceas many representatives asI can, whether that meansme talking to them oremailing NOW membersto reach out to their repre-sentatives to ultimatelyand finally let women’svoices be heard in the stateof Florida,” Quintero said.

Student supports feminismFROM A1

REBECCA STRANG / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Students can utilize a 24/7 study space at the All Knight Study after the Student Government broadened operating hours.

KAITLYN TEABO / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Quintero will travel to Tallahassee multiple times throughout the semester towork with Florida NOW representatives and lobby for women.


ket appeal and energyappeal.

Thomas Welch, thepress officer for the U.S.Department of Energy,says the decathlon servesseveral purposes such as:demonstrating to the pub-lic the opportunities pre-sented by affordablehomes that combine ener-gy-efficient constructionand appliances withrenewable energy systemsthat are available today;providing student partici-pants with unique trainingto help fill jobs in ournation’s clean-energyeconomy; fostering collab-oration among studentsfrom different academicdisciplines, including engi-neering and architecturestudents, who otherwisemay not work togetheruntil they enter the work-place; and promote an inte-

grated, or “whole buildingdesign,” approach to newconstruction, which differsfrom the traditionaldesign/build processbecause the team consid-ers the interactions of allbuilding components andsystems to create a morecomfortable building, saveenergy and reduce envi-ronmental impact

Mike Flynn is one of theUCF graduates who is apart of Team Florida. Hesaid that earning his bache-lor’s degree in construc-tion engineering taughthim to think systematically,which helped a lot on thisproject.

Currently, Flynn worksat the Florida Solar EnergyCenter, a research instituteat UCF. Though he wouldhave liked to work with thecivil engineering team ofTeam Florida, FSEC wasthere to provide instru-mentation expertise. Flynn

said though the team hasn’twon yet, making it all theway to Washington, D.C., isdefinitely a victory forTeam Florida.

“Merely by being select-ed to display our house inWashington, D.C., we havealready, in a sense, ‘won’ aswe have already passed therigorous design require-ments leading up to thispoint,” Flynn said. “We areone team of only 20 teamsfrom around the world thathave made it this far in thecompetition.”

Team Florida’s entry forthe 2011 Solar Decathlon iscalled the FLeX house,which stands for Floridazero energy prototype.According to their website,www.flexhouse.org, theFLeX house is built forFlorida’s hot, humid cli-mate and sized for a youngcouple on moderateincome.

Recent houses that have

attempted to be energyefficient in Florida’s cli-mate have resulted in insu-lated, conditioned livingrooms with no connectionto the exterior climate. TheFLeX house does just theopposite. It is designed totake advantage of the cool-er, milder months andclose down to save thatenergy for when it’s need-ed in the months of tem-perature extremes.

It’s no surprise that theaverage size of homes inthe United States hasincreased since the 1970s.However, larger homesrequire more buildingmaterials and use moreenergy. The FLeX houseuses a variety of space sav-ing strategies that make thehome smaller, but butmore functional.

Flynn said that onething that will make FLeXhouse stand out in thecompetition is its look andstyle.

“On one hand, we havea very modern look withglass walls on two sides ofthe house, giving it a mod-ern and unrestricted feel,with parts of the architec-ture making it almost feelas if the walls are not there,such as a countertop thatruns from the kitchen,seemingly through the walland outside to the deck,”Flynn said.

Flynn said another bigdifference in the FLeXhouse is the liquid desic-cant system. Liquid desic-cant is a chemical thatabsorbs water vapor out ofthe air. Team Florida hasput a waterfall of this

chemical inside an artisticdisplay case in the mainliving area.

“This allows us to keepthe house comfortableusing a lot less electricitythan a conventional ACwould,” Flynn said. “Thisfunctional part of our envi-ronmental control systemalso serves as a beautifuldisplay piece in the mainliving area.”

The Solar Decathlonwill take place on theNational Mall of the WestPotomac Park in Washing-ton, D.C., from Sept. 23until Oct. 2.

For more informationon the FLeX house visitwww.flexhouse.org, andfor more information onthe contest itself visithttp://www.solarde-cathlon.gov/.

Engineering majors team up with UF, USF, FSUFROM A1

we had over a quarter ofour meal-plan holders pickthem up because theywanted to try them out,”Wetherell said. “We’re try-ing to cultivate an environ-ment of sustainability, but ittakes time.”

The leak-proof andmicrowavable boxes aremade out of plastic No. 5,also known as polypropy-lene. Polypropylene isknown for its durability,high melting point andrecyclability.

Wetherell said that thenew boxes last up to twoyears being cleaned bycommercial dishwashingmachines such as the onesused at Marketplace andKnightro’s.

The former to-go boxesprovided by the dininghalls were made from poly-styrene foam, which aids inthe creation of the pollu-tant o-zone and has verylittle potential to be recy-cled, according to the Envi-ronmental ProtectionAgency.

“It educates the stu-dents directly becausethey’re actually carrying itin their hands,” said Sebas-tian Church, co-presidentof UCF Intellectual Deci-sions on EnvironmentalAwareness Solutions.“They might not under-stand why Styrofoam isbad, but now they knowthere’s something better.”

Polystyrene can also betoxic to the human body, asthe foam can release harm-

ful chemicals into the foodsit is containing.

Aramark purchased1,584 “green” boxes for anundisclosed price for thedining halls. On the manu-facturer’s website, GETEnterprises, the boxes havean approximate advertisedprice of $45 per dozen.

“The savings are in thelong haul. The benefitswe’re reaping now is beingable to help the university,students and the environ-ment,” Wetherell said. “Wemay not see a financialreturn right away, but that’sOK because regardless, weknow how important sus-tainability is.”

“It’s just an example ofhow UCF is starting to rec-ognize how small thingscan impact the environ-ment,” Church said. “We’relooking at these small partsof living in society and try-ing to make them moresustainable, trying to findsolutions. That’s what Ara-mark has done. They’vefound a brilliant solutionthat’s incredibly impact-ful.”

Since the pilot phases ofthe “green” box initiative,dining services has seen agrowing interest in the use.However, student responseis varied in regards to theway in which they are nowrequired to transport theirtakeout.

“I think they’re betterthan the plastic boxes,”freshman Iesha Johnsonsaid. “They save waste, andthey’re reusable.”

“They’re pretty conven-

ient, I suppose,” freshmancomputer sciences majorBrett Wendrzyk said. “Per-sonally, I liked the Styro-foam ones because I didn’thave to remember to bringthe green box, and some-times their washers breakdown.”

Wetherell said that themoney that will be saved inthe long-term by purchas-ing reusable to-go boxeswill go towards other sus-tainability projects andevents that educate stu-dents on why initiativessuch as this one are impor-tant.

Dining Services has alsostarted selling “2-in-1” bev-erage tumblers, whichallow students to receive99-cent refills on drip cof-fee and fountain drinks.

The tumblers cost $5and can be used at the din-ing halls as well as non-Aramark owned, on-cam-pus vendors such asSbarro, Joffrey’s, Mrs.Fields and the cafes in bothUCF bookstores.

Aramark, Student Gov-ernment Association andthe UCF EnvironmentCoalition worked in con-junction to make the tum-blers usable all over cam-pus.

“It’s really exciting tosee that we can partnerwith so many other ven-dors outside of our own fora sustainability initiative,”Wetherell said. “Studentsare reaping savings andhelping the earth. Whowouldn’t want to getinvolved?”

New boxes last two yearsFROM A1

PHOTO COURTESY EMILY KUHN

Picture of the actual FLeX house built by Team Florida.The house is currently in Washington, D.C., as is Team Florida.

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Fifteen days.Take a second to com-

prehend how much thingscan change in 15 days.

Sunday morn-ing twoweeksagotheUCF

Knights woke up 2-0. Notonly were they 2-0, but theyhad outscored their oppo-nents in their first twogames, Charleston Southernand Boston College, 92-3.

UCF was just out-side of the

Top 25 and with all the con-ference realignment goingon, the program seemed tobe in a prime position.

Fifteen days later, a lothas changed.

The Knightshave given

away consec-utive

games.

Turnovers and miscueshave led directly to 28points in the past twoweeks. Against FIU, a fum-ble was returned for atouchdown and a muffedpunt deep in UCF territoryled directly to anothertouchdown.

Against BYU, a break-down in kickoff coverageled to BYU’s first kickreturn for a touchdown in13 years. Then, an eerilysimilar muffed punt situa-tion again led to an easytouchdown for the Cougars.

Now, the Knights havedropped consecutivegames, something they did-n’t do at all last season.They’re 2-2, and saying thatthey’re off the nationalradar is probably an under-statement.

But you want to knowthe worst part? The worstpart is for a program that istruly in need of casual fans,the past two weeks couldn’thave gone worse.

You see, UCF has thisvery loyal, enthusiastic fan

base. And it’s not exactlysmall, but it’s not exactlyenough to fill Bright HouseNetworks Stadium. Theprogram needs the supportof casual fans, the ones whodon’t bleed black and gold.

To be frank, UCF is outtrying to gain the support ofpeople who already have afavorite team. Head coachGeorge O’Leary has alludedto it before, trying to get thesupport of Gator and Semi-noles fans by asking whythey can’t be “Gator-Knights.”

Unfortunately, the sellon the “hometown team” isa lot tougher when the team

STEVEN RYZEWSKIFootball beat writer

UCF can have good season, but not good enough

Provo problems

UCF 17 | BYU 24

It was déjà vu of the worst kind.For the second straight week,

turnovers and miscues cost theKnights a win. UCF (2-2) droppedthe ball literally and figuratively Fri-day night, losing 24-17 to the BYUCougars (2-2) in Provo, Utah.

To make matters worse, this par-ticular game that got away from theKnights was televised to a nationalaudience on ESPN.

“We turned the ball and you justcan’t do that,” head coach GeorgeO’Leary said in a release. “We hadreceivers dropping the ball. We hadour opportunities but we didn’t takeadvantage.”

UCF led 10-3 at the half, but akickoff return for a touchdown, amissed field goal, a muffed punt, afumble and an interception allplayed into the Cougars outscoring

the Knights 21-7 in the second half.All of those contributed to negate thefact that UCF outgained BYU, hadmore first downs and controlledtime of possession.

Now, the Knights have lost twostraight games, something they did-n’t do at all last season, and a teamthat was thinking about going unde-feated is now just trying to remem-ber how to win.

OffenseAgainst a physical BYU defense,

the Knights’ offensive attack didshow improvements after a lacklus-ter effort against FIU.

UCF compiled 399 total yards onoffense compared to BYU’s 260 and

PLEASE SEE BYU ON A8

Turnovers haunt UCF as Knightscan’t get past Brigham Young 24-17

STEVEN RYZEWSKIFootball beat writer

PLEASE SEE WINNING ON A9

PHOTOS BY TRENT NELSON / ASSOCIATED PRESSTop: BYU running back Josh Quezada sheds a Knights defender.Above: Knights quarterback Jeff Godfrey is sacked and injures his left elbow.

For more sports:www.UCFNews.comTwitter: @CFFsports

Darius Nall sacks BYU’sJake Heaps in UCF’s

24-17 loss.

TRENT NELSON / ASSOCIATED PRESS


picked up 19 first downs tothe Cougars’ and 16. Still, theKnights put the football onthe ground four times, los-ing it twice.

“We’re [making] mis-takes that we shouldn’t bemaking, and that’s how weare losing these games,”quarterback Jeff Godfreysaid in a release. “Closegames like this, we have tofinish like we started.”

Godfrey tossed his firstinterception of the season,but that wasn’t even theworst Godfrey-relatednews.

Godfrey went downhard late in the third quarter,suffering an elbow injurythat forced him to sit out aseries. Redshirt freshmanBlake Bortles filled inadmirably, entering thegame in a tense situationand completing his first fourpasses and leading theKnights down the field. Bor-tles finished with 45 passingyards on four-of-five pass-ing attempts.

Still, the drive stalled outand ended in a 35-yard fieldgoal attempt. Senior placekicker Nick Cattoi hadmade an earlier attemptfrom 34 yards out butmissed his second attemptof the game, squandering achance to put UCF aheadwith the game tied at 17-17.

Godfrey, after refusing togo to the locker room, re-entered the game the nexttime the Knights had theball.

The Knights started toput together two fourth-quarter drives, down now24-17, but both ended withturnovers. Godfrey com-pleted a pass to DontraviousFloyd as the team moveddown the field with aroundnine minutes remaining, butFloyd fumbled as he wasbeing tackled, ending thatdrive.

Then, with the Knights

driving again and aboutthree minutes remaining,Godfrey was forced out ofthe pocket and threw hisfirst interception of the sea-son.

Godfrey finished thenight 17-of-25 for 272 yardsand ran for two touch-downs, giving him eight onthe season.

Still, the one costly inter-ception will likely be the sta-tistic the sophomore stand-out remembers the most. Ifnot that, then perhaps thefact that UCF, through fourgames, is still without apassing touchdown.

“We’re making mentalmistakes, and on my playwhere I threw the intercep-tion I have to be smarter andthrow the ball out of the endzone,” Godfrey said. “I haveto learn from that.”

Once again, the Knights’running game was subpar,amassing only 81 yards onthe night. UCF’s three-head-ed monster at running backhas been anything but thepast two weeks, with noneof the three backs able to getinto a rhythm Friday night.

As a team, the Knightsaveraged 2.4 yards per carry.

DefenseUCF’s defense held BYU

to only 260 yards on thenight.

Where the Knightsstruggled, though, was han-dling the Cougars’ rushingattack – a rushing attack thathad been virtually non-exis-tent for BYU through thefirst three weeks.

That same attack foundsome footing against theKnights on Friday, with theCougars rushing for 127yards.

UCF did have success,though, containing BYUquarterback Jake Heaps.

Heaps, who passed for305 yards the week before,threw for only 133 againstthe Knights on 16-of-34passing.

The sophomore quarter-back also had an intercep-tion, picked off in the firstquarter after a tipped balllanded in the hands of JoshRobinson.

“This is really toughbecause we had the leadcoming into halftime andwe just folded in the secondhalf,” defensive tackle Vic-tor Gray said in a release.“The mistakes keep catch-ing up with us. We madethem last week and wemade them this week again.We won’t be a champi-onship-caliber team if wekeep making these kinds ofmistakes.”

Special teamsTypically associated

with having a very disci-plined and effective specialteams unit, UCF’s specialteams looked anything buton Friday night.

“It’s a shame, and then

the kickoff coverage hurt ustoo,” O’Leary said. “Sloppycoverage and a bad kick.”

Three huge miscues bythe unit, all in the secondhalf, directly played into theKnights dropping awinnable game for the sec-ond straight week, and it allstarted with botched kickedreturn coverage.

UCF had just regainedsome momentum, going up17-10 on a Godfrey keeper.On the ensuing kickoff,however, the Knights’ cov-erage broke down and BYUreturn man Cody Hoffmantook the ball 93 yards to thehouse, instantly taking awaythe momentum UCF hadjust gained.

There was also the Cat-toi miss from 35 yards earlyin the fourth quarter, asdemons of Knights’ fieldgoal troubles in the pastresurfaced at an inoppor-tune time.

Despite the miss, thedefense was able to stopthe Cougars on their nextdrive, forcing BYU to punt.That’s when returner J.J.Worton, brought in to cor-rect UCF’s return issues ithad been having with JoshRobinson, decided to try tofield the punt off a highbounce. Instead, the ballbounced off Worton’s hel-met and ended up in thehands of Cougar MichaelAlisa.

Alisa took the muffedpunt into the end zone, butsince rules state you cannotadvance a muffed punt, theball was whistled deadwhere it was recovered.Still, BYU had no troublescoring on its ensuing drive– a touchdown that wouldend up being a game-win-ner for the Cougars.

Final wordThere might not be a

much better time for a byeweek.

The Knights didn’t dropconsecutive games at all lastseason but now find them-selves at a crossroads.

UCF will have twoweeks to dwell on its mis-takes and go about correct-ing them before openingConference USA play athome against the MarshallThundering Herd. The out-come of that contest willdetermine whether theKnights embark on an unex-pected three-game skid orregain some confidencewith a win.

Until then, though, thisteam will be staring downsome hard questions andlooking for answers.

“We didn’t make playsand in the second half wehad some bad decisions,”O’Leary said. “But we haveto move on and it’s a longseason for a reason.”

BYU takes advantage of sloppy second halfFROM A7

TRENT NELSON / ASSOCIATED PRESS

BYU kick returner Cody Hoffman returns a kickoff for a touchdown against the Knights. It was BYU’s first kickoff returned for a touchdown in 13 years.


is giving away games.Add in a bye week and

the beginning of a confer-ence slate with a bunchof teams casual fanshaven’t heard of or don’trespect, and all themomentum built afterlast season, UCF’s bestseason, is in jeopardy.

It’s an unfair burden tothe players, seeminglyhaving to play for morethan wins or losses.Often, with all the specu-lation swirling aroundthe program, it sort offeels like they’re outthere trying to playUCF’s way into a BCSconference.

How fair is that? Butwhen you have a pro-gram that wants so badlyto crack the big time,there’s no avoiding it.

Truth is, this UCF

team can, and likely will,still have a good season.Giving away games, bydefinition, means youwere good enough to winbut found a way to not.

Heck, if they rattle offeight straight wins inconference play, thiscould still be called agreat season. Butwhether or not fansrespect Conference USAor the teams that play init, that doesn’t change thefact that there are sometough tests still ahead ofthe Knights and that theteams in the league willcome to play each week.

This team should haveall the motivation itneeds over the next twoweeks and open confer-ence play with a bang.Don’t be surprised if theKnights take seven ofeight conference games.

Still, winning all eight

would be extremelytough, especially whenyou look at consecutiveroad games against EastCarolina and SouthernMiss.

Though at 2-2 rightnow, a 9-3 season is stillin the cards, and thatwould be a good season.There’s a lot of footballleft and a chance for theKnights to still turn someheads this season.

Maybe that’s what willhappen. Maybe theKnights come out of theirbye week, correct themental errors that haveplagued them the pasttwo weeks and are greatthe rest of the season.

Because there is apretty good chancethey’ll still be good.

But this season, morethan any other, good justmight not be goodenough.

Winning out can turn headsFROM A7

Men’s soccer

It’s been a while sincethe No. 8 men’s soccerteam has lost a game —November 20, 2010, afterMichigan ended theKnights’ season in the sec-ond round of the NCAATournament, to be exact.

The Knights’ seven-match unbeaten streakended Saturday afterfalling to FGCU 2-1 athome.

“You don’t want it to[end],” head coach BryanCunningham said. “It’sunfortunate. [Give] creditto Florida Gulf Coast –they outplayed us. We hadplenty of chances todaythat went begging. Theyhad two great chancesand they finished them.There is the result to win-ning.”

A weather delaycaused the match to bepostponed from Fridaynight to Saturday after-noon, but Cunninghamsaid that didn’t play a partin the loss.

“Both teams were inthe same situation,” Cun-ningham said. “At the endof the day, we were at

home and should havebeen able to make theadjustment.”

The Knights had plen-ty of chances againstFGCU, attempting 17 totalshots. Adam Glick,FGCU’s goalkeeper,played a fantastic game,however, recording threesaves and only letting aBen Hunt-equalizing goalthrough in the 34thminute. Andres Navas ofFGCU quickly took backthe lead 14 minutes later.

“Their goalkeeper, givehim a lot of credit,” Cun-ningham said. “He wonplayer of the year, and hekept three shots out of thenet, so that’s the differ-ence.”

UCF was also withoutits star player and thenation’s leading scorer,McKauly (Jimmy) Tul-luch, who received a redcard against GeorgeMason last week. TheKnights will have Tulluchback just in time for theirConference USA openeragainst Kentucky onWednesday.

“It’s not often that weget outworked and out-played at home … but it’sjust one loss,” Cunning-

ham said. “There wassome good moments butin the end, our defendinghas to get better and beprepared for Kentucky tocome down here and giveus their best shot, as well.”

JONATHAN VIRGILIO / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Despite taking 17 shots on goal, the Knights were dealt their first loss of the season on Saturday afternoon against FGCU.

ERIKA ESOLASports Editor

Win streak comes to an end against FGCU

Opinionswww.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Monday, September 26, 2011


he Obama administra-tion recently took astep that will provide

significant relief to statesstruggling to meet federalaccountability standards ineducation.

The administration willnow grant relief from certainparts of the No Child LeftBehind education law,according to an announce-ment by officials on Thurs-day evening.

What this means to statesis that they can apply forwaivers from specific partsof the law, provided they canshow that they are pursuingtheir own tough accountabil-ity systems. Florida will beone of the states looking toapply for a waiver.

According to the OrlandoSentinel, the state is alreadypushing for many reformsthat the White House isseeking from states. Itreports that Florida has whatis known as a “DifferentiatedAccountability System”designed to make the lawmore bearable.

Florida educators havelong had objections to thislaw, particularly in instanceswhen the law conflicted withthe state’s accountability sys-tem, which grades schoolsA-F.

Providing these waivers isthe right step to take becauseit provides states with theflexibility necessary toimprove their schools

according to what is workingin their state. It also givesbreathing room to states thatare showing progress inimproving educational profi-ciency. Under the currentlaw, all schools would berequired to reach 100 percentproficiency for all studentsby 2014. States that do notreach this target but canshow progress toward thegoal will benefit greatly fromthese waivers. It would bewrong to cut the legs outfrom under them just as theyare improving.

According to DelawareOnline, states would have toprovide a plan that showsstudents are prepared forcollege careers and createsevaluation standards forteachers and principals.

“For schools, it meansthey won’t be labeled a fail-ure by the federal govern-ment and risk losing criticalfunding,” U.S. Secretary ofEducation Arne Duncan said.

This could benefit schoolslocally. Eagle’s Nest Elemen-tary School in Orange Coun-ty, for example, earned an “A”on its state report card thisyear. However, because itsblack and low-income stu-dents continue to struggle, itwould be labeled as failingunder the federal standard,which looks at studentsaccording to subgroups. TomButler, a spokesman for theFlorida Department of Edu-cation, said the waiver option

will give the state significantbenefits, according to theSentinel.

“The benefits of a waiverwould be very evident forFlorida, especially in givingus the ability to better alignstate and federal accountabil-ity requirements so parentsand the public can more easi-ly understand how ourschools are doing,” Butlersaid.

This law could signifi-cantly undercut schools thatare making progress inimproving proficiencyamong its students. TheWhite House has said that asmany as 80 percent ofschools in the U.S. couldsoon be marked as failing,according to the Sentinel.This would be a significantamount of educational insti-tutions to deny funding toand could essentially havethe effect of setting back theprogress of these schools.

No Child Left Behind is alaw that requires reform inorder to provide flexibilityfor states and local commu-nities in achieving their edu-cational mission. Many com-munities face differentdemographics and must tai-lor their educational pro-grams differently than oth-ers. Providing these waiversis a necessary step to takeuntil this law can bereformed to better fit theneeds of states and localcommunities.

OUR STANCE

State waivers apositive impact

The popular ener-getic sponge and starfishcharacters featured ontheir own cartoon showon Nickelodeon are stir-ring up quite the contro-versy over how theyaffect the way childrenwho watch them think.

An article titled“SpongeBob impairs lit-tle kids’ thinking, studyfinds” printed in the LosAngeles Times on Sept.12 states, “Angeline Lillard and Jen-nifer Peterson, both of the Univer-sity of Virginia’s department ofpsychology, wanted to see whetherwatching fast-paced television hadan immediate influence on kids’executive function — skills includ-ing attention, working memory,problem solving and delay of grati-fication that are associated withsuccess in school.”

The article describes the differ-ent manners in which the childrenused for this study were tested. Lil-lard and Peterson randomly sepa-rated 60 4-year-olds into threegroups: one that watched nine min-utes of SpongeBob programming,one that watched nine minutes of aprogram “about a typical U.S. pre-school-aged boy” and one that wasasked to draw with markers andcrayons for nine minutes.

Immediately after being asked todo these tasks, the children had toperform four tests to measure exec-utive function. The results conclud-ed that those children who watchedthe nine minutes of SpongeBobprogramming scored significantlyworse than the other children.

There are a few issues that standout right away.

First of all, why is the Sponge-Bob SquarePants cartoon showbeing put on the spot? It makes itseem as if there are no other chil-dren’s cartoons out there that couldpossibly be impairing children’sthinking. Yeah right.

The study shouldn’t single outone cartoon show. It should com-bine a variety of cartoon shows totruly provide a wide span of evi-

dence on which cartoonshows have what effectson children’s thinking.

Also, the time of daythat children watch car-toons, no matter whatthe program, plays amajor factor in how itcan affect their thinkingabilities throughout thatparticular day. If childrenare watching cartoonsthe moment that theyroll out of bed in the

morning before school, then it’slikely that whatever show theywatched is going to have some sortof influence on the rest of their day.

Activities participated in withinthe first couple of hours of one’sday have a significant impact onthe remainder of their day. If chil-dren were to watch cartoons at alater time during the day, then theirthinking process isn’t as apt tobeing altered by the cartoonepisode as, by that point, they havealready taken part in other (moreeducational) activities like school,and possibly sports.

Lastly, moderation is key foreverything, especially cartoon-watching for young minds — nomatter how much a child mayobject to only being allowed towatch a limited amount of theirfavorite animated characters.

Moderation plays a part ineverything in our lives. With that,we must keep in mind the sayingthat too much of a good thing canbe bad. So, it would make sensefor parents to limit their childrento the amount of time spent star-ing at the television in a mesmer-ized state at their favorite charac-ters as they go on adventures andbeyond.

It’s inevitable that children aregoing to continue to watch car-toons. How often they watch thesecartoons and during what time ofday are factors that really need tobe monitored by their parents. It’sbest to leave the animated spongeand starfish out of this line of fireuntil other children’s cartoons areincluded in the study, as well.

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SpongeBob’s nauticalnonsense not the issue

NICOLE LULINSKI/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

JORDAN SWANSONGuest Columnist

Flowing deep below theground sits one of the mostunique and productive natu-ral formations in the world:the Florida aquifer. Water is aresource we generally takefor granted. We shower in it,dump it in large quantitieson our lawns and never real-ly think twice about it. Theproblem is, it’s looking moreand more like the state ofFlorida could be running outof this life-sustainingresource, and fast.

Recently, Orlando was listed by 24/7Wall Street as one of the top 10 cities atrisk for running out of water. Our cityhas faced constant droughts and aquickly growing population. OrlandoMayor Buddy Dyer said in 2008 that theOrlando Utilities Commission has esti-mated that water demand will exceedsupply by 2014 if no action is taken.

South Florida has been hit hard, aswell. Three months ago, city officialsfrom West Palm Beach warned thatthey only had 22 days left of fresh water,according to WPTV.

“Conditions are such that a signifi-cant threat exists to the public’s health,safety and welfare,” the report said.Thankfully, storms were able toincrease the water supply in West PalmBeach, but the city narrowly dodged abullet.

This lack of water supply is a partic-ularly big hit to Florida. The backboneof our economy is based upon having asteady flow of water. With an economyheavily supported by agriculture,tourism and real estate, to run out ofwater would be very harmful to us.

On top of this, the geography of ourstate makes us vulnerable to permanentwater loss. When water levels in theFlorida aquifer run too low, salt waterfrom either side of our great statebegins to seep in, permanently over-salinating our water supply. Accordingto the Orlando Sentinel, HallandaleBeach has already had to abandon six ofits eight drinking water wells as salt

water has now taken up two-thirds of the city’s aquifer. InBroward County, salt water isas far as five miles inland insome places. According tothe U.S. Geological Survey,we are at risk of the samething in West Palm Beach,Delray Beach, Boca Raton,Fort Lauderdale, Hollywoodand Miami.

The issue will only con-tinue to get worse. WestPalm Beach, the city that was

going to run out of water less than twomonths ago, was listed by CNN as thefastest growing city in the United Statesearlier this year. Orlando was recentlylisted as the sixth-largest growing met-ropolitan area in the United States,according to information cited by UCFToday.

In fact, according to a study commis-sioned by 1,000 Friends Of Florida, ourstate is going to double in size in 50years. This means more pressure on ourwater resources and more risk ofdepleting our water supply. This is aproblem that isn’t going to go away. It’san issue we must address quickly andcompletely.

The answer is not salt water puri-fiers, as the technology isn’t there toproduce potable water in cheap andeffective ways yet. The only way to fixthis problem is by reducing our demandfor water. Personally, take less time inthe shower and water your lawn less.Politically, pressure the state govern-ment to increase money to water man-agement districts, implement moreeffective water retention standards andcrack down on offenders.

From the swamps of what Floridaonce was, to the beautiful cities andpeople of what Florida now is, our greatstate has changed a lot throughout theyears. We live in the greatest state in thecountry, in the greatest country in theworld, at the greatest time in world his-tory. The question is: Can we do whatwe need to do, to make sure it stays thatway?

Florida’s water supplyon verge of drying up

BRYAN EASTMANGuest Columnist

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