UCF Loves Selling Water

And it is a lot easier to do when you build a brand new stadium with no water fountains.

Congratulations to the UCF Football Team

The UCF players played a great game. The ESPN2 announcers and UCF’s head coach George O’Leary were unnecessarily critical of UCF quarterback Kyle Israel. Considering what he was up against (#5 Texas), he should be proud of his perfromance.

An Open Letter to Charlie Crist

Dear Governor Crist,

I was heartened to read that because of Florida’s money troubles that you have proposed to cut funding for UCF’s medical school by 4.7 million dollars. Florida is becoming a poor state, and the last thing we should be doing with our money is giving it to a bunch of power-hungry administrators who will waste a lot of it to produce a few mediocre doctors.

Don’t underestimate the political powers of UCF. Sure, they aren’t very good at educating people, but that’s not what’s important to them. The thing UCF loves is money, and they are very good at bringing home funding for inane causes (e.g., medical school, football stadium, new arena, a hotel college, and a campus in Clermont). In Dan Holsenbeck they have a powerful lobbyist. He is the one who pushed for UCF to hire Senator Evelyn Lynn’s retarded daughter as an assistant vice president. The pilfering David Mealor will still be around for the special session that will deal with these budget issues. Still, I hope you prevail with this one small issue so that I am not completely consumed with cynicism.

Your friend,
Arthur Barnhouse

UCF Employee Loves Money

David Mealor has two jobs. He is an Associate Vice President for UCF’s Regional Campuses, and he is a Representative in the Florida Legislature. Recently, it was brought to the attention of UCF that when the legislature has been in session, and thus Mealor wasn’t doing any work for UCF, that UCF was still paying him his full-time salary. So, Mealor, who is resigning his legislative post, has to pay UCF back about 75 grand. He’s already paid back ten grand.

The above is what you can read in the newspaper. Here’s the inside scoop. First, Mealor was busted by a former UCF employee that hates his guts in part because Mealor chaired a search committee that denied this employee a promotion. Second, everybody knew that Mealor was double dipping. This was tacitly approved by the UCF administration because they love money and wanted Representative Mealor to bring the pork home to UCF. Third, nobody seems to believe that Mealor didn’t know he was stealing from UCF, and that the punishment for a thief should be more than having to give back what wasn’t his in the first place.

Enjoy it While it Lasts

UCF has sold out their first game in their new, on-campus stadium. Two predictions: First, The University of Texas is going to beat the shit out of them (Clearly, I was wrong about this one - AB). Second, by this time next year, the novelty of the stadium will have worn off and the reality of being a losing football team will have sunk in; attendance won't be good anymore.