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The UCF Recreation and Wellness Center's leadership team introduced pro-level fitness combine tests to showcase the athletic abilities of over 10 patrons, fueling them by sounds of blaring music and infectious hype, on Monday night.

The RWC hosted a Fitness Combine class, which challenges an individual's strength, agility and speed. With similar events in the past, the RWC leadership team created the new event made up of exercise exams to inform patrons about the combine tests athletes from the

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Over 100 people swayed to songs and prayers during a candlelight vigil in the Pegasus Ballroom to honor and remember the victims of the war between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday night.

The attacks took place on Oct. 7, by Hamas, a Islamist militant group, against Israeli towns and villages in the Gaza periphery. Over 800 Israelis have lost their lives as well as 500 Palestinians. About 3,000 Palestinians have been injured and more than 2,500 Israelis have been injured with these numbers expecte

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As a welcome for UCF entering the Big 12 conference, the Big 12 members for the first time partnered up with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models, to glam up with UCF students to kick off the Big 12 Homecoming Be You Women's Empowerment series on Thursday.

The Big 12 has entered its 28th year as one of the nation's premier athletic conferences under the direction of Commissioner Brett Yormark, according to Big 12 Sports. Yormark has enhanced the conference with placing an emphasis on marketing, b

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Milena Maldonado watched the struggles of 8-year-old Nieve and her family under the political unrest and rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba in the film “Everybody Leaves," at UCF's Latin American Film Festival on Friday.

Maldonado, senior film production major, said she was able to relate to the film because her family is Cuban, and her parents experienced a similar situation to the couple in the film.

“Sitting down with people who are not necessarily Cuban or even Hispanic and seeing a movie about

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With the closure of Knights Plaza, UCF's Recreation and Wellness Center teamed together over the summer to reimage its Group Exercise Studio II space to offer a new format to its group exercise schedule.

On Tuesday, 15 participants gathered at the RWC to take on the newest format of cycle and strength. The one hour class consisted of 30 minutes on a bicycle and 30 minutes of strength training.

The first cycle and strength class was taught by Aliyah Valdez, an assistant director of fitness at t

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Star of HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and UCF alumna Cheryl Hines made it back to her stomping grounds to talk with students about her personal journey in the entertainment industry on Monday.

In the 32 years since Hines has graduated from UCF, she said her life has been a series of small accomplishments. Hines continues to live every day by the phrase "oh, well that happened" and said it was dangerous to walk in this industry with expectations.

Hines learned that rejection must be part of the

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When Janiece Deveaux got the lead role of Undine Barnes Calles in the Theatre UCF production of "Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine," she first felt like the character was unreachable.

The production opened as a way to examine social and racial identity on Feb. 17 in honor of Black History Month as a way to explore the struggle of advancing through society as a Black woman.

“This production brings to life the authenticity of the Black community and more importantly shows that we are peo