2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
Just the thought of graduate school turned Kristen Ranieri's stomach into knots. As she sat in the comfort of her over-fluffed bed, she stared blankly saying, "I don't even know if I want to do this anymore." With only a semester left before she graduates with her bachelor's degree in psychology, Ranieri has come face-to-face with the challenges that accompany furthering her education.
Representatives from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers came to campus Friday to speak out against Burger King. The CIW is a worker-based organization that campaigns for the rights of farmworkers. Students at UCF have been involved in the effort since 2007.
Students were presented with an eco-friendly way to clean out their dorms at this semester's end. Students, faculty, and anyone else from the community were encouraged Wednesday to bring old business documents, bank statements and tax paperwork to be shredded on the spot at the Fairwinds Credit Union's Shred Fest was held outside the Alumni Center.
Dinender Singla is giving UCF students a chance to work in his lab, with no experience required. "Giving students this opportunity is important to me because I feel like if I don't give them the opportunity, who will give it to them?" Singla said. "Everybody will say they don't have any lab experience, then they will go nowhere.
More than 100 freshmen crowded the Student Union's Pegasus Ballroom on April 16 with bidding paddles in hand, ready to outbid their peers for prizes. "There were so many amazing prizes to give away this semester," said senior Dan Samuels, student program assistant for student leadership development and auctioneer for the evening.