Would-Be Rapist Targets UCF Students with Flashlight

A female UCF student was targeted by a man deputies say is using a flashlight to apparently spook his victims and try and rape them, according to reports. The 18-year-old was victimized by the man on Saturday as she slept next to her boyfriend. She said the flashlight-toting intruder walked into the...

March 3, 2010 | Crime, Safety | Read More

Cheer, Stroll and Tumble: ADPi Helps RMH

On Tuesday night, March 2, Alpha Delta Pi hosted its annual philanthropy event, “Cheer, Stroll and Tumble,” to benefit the Ronald McDonald House. The doors opened at 7 p.m. and the event started at 8 p.m. Fraternities, sororites and student organizations, like the dance group Rukus, all...

March 3, 2010 | News | Read More

US Energy Officials Pick UCF to Tour

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has chosen the University of Central Florida as a national example of the best green initiatives happening at colleges and universities nationwide, according to a UCF news release. UCF is the only university in Florida DOE is visiting in its current national tour,...

March 2, 2010 | Politics, UCF Administration | Read More

Purim Palooza: Mardi Gras Edition at Deko

Saturday night, Chabad Jewish Student Group at UCF celebrated Purim in style: A night out at UCF’s newest club, Deko Bar and Lounge. Purim is, in essence, a commemoration of a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination. It happens once a year, and Chabad students wanted...

March 2, 2010 | Entertainment, News | Read More

Is it Legal for UCF to Fund Anti-Abortion Message and Block Opposition?

When giant graphic billboards of aborted fetuses — which displayed Planned Parenthood’s name next to images of the 9/11 terrorists attacks and compared abortion to the Holocaust — were erected recently on the Student Union stage, you may have been arrested for standing next to it, quietly...

March 1, 2010 | News | Read More