Well, it aired last night. And for 30 minutes, UCF got national attention about the problems students have surrounding their sex lives.

After a quick opening montage, where Savage told an online UCF radio station not to let morning erections “go to waste” because they are “a little present from Jesus,” Savage sat down with a student concerned that her frequent masturbation may be a problem.

The student, MTV identified as Ashley, told Savage she’s “always masturbating” and said she felt that “it can be a problem.”

UCF student masturbates up to 6 times daily

Ashley asked, “Is there something I can do that will like — I can do it once and then like, I don’t have to like, constantly like think about it again?”

Savage dismissed Ashley’s concerns that she may be spending too much time masturbating — as often as six times per day.

“Masturbate, then once you’re done, concentrate and study,” Savage told Ashley, speculating that she might be an “anomaly” and is hitting her sexual peak earlier than most women. “This is what I would call a non-problem,” Savage said.

But Savage admits through a disclaimer at the end of his show that he is not a licensed professional — or even a licensed driver. So, the question is: Could a doctor disagree with Savage’s advice to Ashley?

It appears professionals are not as quick to dismiss concerns about masturbation possibly impeding other parts of someone’s life. Dr. Drew Pinsky, who appears on HLN, has told someone seeking his advice that felt addicted to masturbation that it can be a serious problem.

“The Internet and the sexual content that flows into people’s homes is literally a stress on biological systems,” Pinksy said. “And for those with a tendency to sexual addiction or compulsion, it’s like having a crack pipe in your house 24/7.”

Pinsky told people seeking his advice that “there is a problem when behaviors progress in the face of consequences. When a normal person has an adverse affect from a behavior they will curtail the behavior. An addict will not. If you are able to have stable relationships, you are not putting your health in harm’s way, or creating financial or legal liabilities, then you are probably in the normal range.”

In Ashley’s case, she suggested that a consequence of her urges was being distracted during class and when she studied.

Pinksy also pointed out there are books and “people specifically trained in this disease,” and that there’s an estimated “600,000 Americans each year newly manifesting this compulsion.”

Students wanting professional counseling at UCF can visit the wellness center.

Student tells MTV UCF means You Can't Finish

The show also featured shots of UCF’s nice landscape, and the hosts pointed out how about 58,000 students attend the university.

So, will this show have a positive or negative impact on UCF’s reputation? Share your comments below or email us at news@knightnews.com. (Also let us know if you were featured on the show and want to be interviewed about it.)

Zimmerman is currently being held on no bond. He will have a first appearance in court tomorrow at 1:30p.m.

George Zimmerman, 28.

If convicted, Zimmerman could face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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Reports say that George Zimmerman, 28, will be charged for the killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.

The Washington Post reports that Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey will announce the prosecution as early as Wednesday afternoon although it is not clear on whatexactly George Zimmerman will be charged for.

April 11, 2012 - Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. - State Attorney ANGELA COREY speaks at a press conference for the Trayvon Martin case announcing that GEORGE ZIMMEMAN has been arrested at the State Attorney's Office in Jacksonville, Florida. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

The prolonged arrest of Zimmerman has caused a social uproar around the nation, with African-American Civil Rights leaders like Rev.Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to make trips to Sanford to advocate for Zimmerman’s arrest.

Groups like the New Black Panthers have placed a 10,000 dollar bounty for Zimmerman, and his lawyers have said that Zimmerman has been receiving death threats.

If the announcement were to be on Wednesday, this would be just a day after Zimmerman’s lawyers withdrew their representation of him due to the inability to contact him.

Knightnews.com will keep you updated with any information pertaining to this breaking news.

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With more than 100 million records sold, nine Grammy nominations, three Grammy Awards, along with an American Music Award, the band has garnered a huge following.

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Alpha Delta Pi | Delta Tau Delta
Delta Delta Delta | Phi Delta Theta
Kappa Delta | Sigma Chi
Zeta Tau Alpha | Lambda Chi Alpha
Kappa Alpha Theta | Beta Theta Pi & Delta Sigma Phi
Pi Beta Phi | Zeta Beta Tau & Theta Chi
Delta Zeta | Sigma Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi | Phi Gamma Delta & Alpha Epsilon Pi
Kappa Kappa Gamma | Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Nu, and Phi Mu Alpha

Wednesday Update: Sigma Chi brought out its giant house banner to get KD for homecoming. Check out the photo they posted on Facebook. We’ll let you know how Theta Chi responds.

NEW VIDEO: See a replay from our live stream when ATO walked out of giving ADPi their serenade, before the bombshell that Delt beat them out was dropped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ur_HA4irec

BREAKING NEWS: DTD sources confirm ADPi picked them for homecoming. We’re told ATO is NOT part of the pairing. We have a replay of our live breaking news coverage on the historic upset:

Also:
- Tri Delt picks Phi Delt exclusively
- Zeta picks Lambda Chi, leaving DU/KE without a partner
- ATO also is without a partner at the moment, because ADPi picked Delta Tau Delta over ATO

Update:
- We are seeing reports from ZTA’s on Facebook that they have officially paired with Lambda Chi for homecoming. This leaves team Kappa Sigma and DU on the hunt.

- We watched Delt and ATO both compete against each other for ADPi tonight. We are waiting to see which of those fraternities ADPi picks — or if ADPi asks both to pair together as a package deal.

- Also: we talked to Pi Phi’s leaving chapter tonight who told us they aren’t doing homecoming serenades this week. We’re hearing Theta Chi may not be serenading KD until next week as well.

-We found on Theta Chi’s YouTube channel that they are having “KD Week”
Watch the video they made for Kappa Delta below:

-Sigma Chi retaliated by bring the ladies of Kappa Delta gifts tonight:

Check back for updates.
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We’re still working to find out who is serenading the following sororities:

Check back for live updates posted here, and on video, throughout the night. We need your help keeping us updated with what is happening! Text us updates at 407-5-tip-ucf (407-584-7823) and email us pics or video updates to news@knightnews.com. You can tweet us @UCFKnightNews or make a post or comment on our Facebook.com/KnightNews page, or at the bottom of this story. See our 2012 Homecoming Serenade coverage recap from last week here.

On Wednesday, Dr. JoAnne Stephenson, an associate professor in the music department at UCF, shared these roots by presenting an overview of music that was created by African Americans. Her presentation was part of UCF’s Office of Diversity Initiatives’ signature events called DiversiTeas.

Barbara Thompson, assistant director of diversity education and faculty engagement, said that the DiversiTeas are held annually every March and September. Each presents a different aspect of diversity. In March, the focus is to expose people to different cultures and in September, the focus is placed more on hot topics such as stories of Holocaust survivors or war veterans re-entering daily life.

Wednesday’s event was held in one of the Recreation and Wellness Center’s newly created multipurpose rooms and was broadcasted to UCF’s other regional campuses, including Cocoa, Palm Bay and Sanford/Lake Mary.

Stephenson, who teaches a course similar to her presentation, brought her audience through musical history from the 1600s to the present age, exploring the key themes and people that shaped music culture.

She began with an overview of what was going on in Africa before Africans came to America, because she thinks it is important to understand the background in order to understand the music.

“When we talk about Africa and when we talk about the music it’s really important to understand that the music was a very integral part of their existence,” Stephenson said.

Stephenson incorporated various YouTube music videos within her presentation and despite technical difficulties in the latter half of her presentation, Stephenson continued to engage the audience with humor and even her own renditions of some of the music she was presenting.

Andrea Burress, a junior elementary music education major, enjoyed the presentation.

“Just an understanding of the different types of music and the hardships and why the music evolved how it did, that was really helpful,” Burress said.

Angela Hobbs, a freshman choral music education major, said she learned a lot from Stephenson about the background that shaped African American music.

“I thought I would know a lot more about African American music because growing up my dad would play a lot, just on the radio and the funk stuff, but I really learned where I came from and I found that that was really interesting,” Hobbs said.

As an education major, Hobbs was able to see ways that she could incorporate what she learned into her classroom.

“I’d like to inform my students, if they’re singing a type of African American song maybe make sure they know the history of it before they’re singing it. I feel like that can help them in their performance,”Hobbs said.

From March 22-24 and March 29- April 1, the University of Central Florida hosted its own production of Ragtime, the classic musical, at the UCF Theatre.

It was the first time that a full 20 piece orchestra had been used on stage alongside the actors. All of the performers, both musicians and singers, were UCF students.

“It’s been so great collaborating,” said Earl Weaver, Program Coordinator for Musical Theatre and Director and Choreographer of Ragtime, “And those music kids are stellar.”

According to Weaver, two weeks of the production process were dedicated to the music exclusively.

In addition to a collaboration with the UCF Music Department, the UCF Theatre also collaborated with a local group of Steam Punk artists to create art work pieces to display in the Theatre lobby as an accompaniment to the show.

Steam Punk is, “…an aesthetic and literary movement that its roots in science fiction,” said Christie Hudson, who along with her husband, Spencer Hudson are a part of that movement.

Hudson is considered the visionary between the two, while her husband is the actual artist who takes her ideas and brings them to life by various means of nontraditional invention or conventional drawing.

To give an accurate depiction of Steam Punk, she asks the question, “What if in a Victorian world, they had steam technology?”

Both Hudsons are alumni of the University of Central Florida.

In order to offer audience members more historical context and understanding of the performance, this production was also one of the few to be included in Theatre UCF’s new pre-show discussion events.

Before every performance, a discussion was held in Technology Commons near the Seattle’s Best Coffee, hosted by Theatre UCF and facilitated by a Performing Arts staff member.

The goal of these discussions, which were orchestrated to resemble an intimate class setting with an instructor surrounding by attendees, was to offer unique points of view, historical facts and production insight into the show attendees were about to see.

It was a group dialogue that all received an invitation to and in which all could choose to participate.

“Some of the language is not pleasant, but it is history,” said Theatre professor James “Jim” Brown, the resident Musical Theatre and Classical Theatre specialist.

Brown was one of the instructors asked to conduct a discussion session, and in fact did so his first night in the absence of another instructor.

There were many students who participated in this pre-show discussion, such as excited Social Science freshman, Caitlyn Ramirez, “It’s so good. Oh my gosh!”

“The harmonies are so pretty,” said Ramirez during the discussion, “ I know the whole plot and everything already.”

Yet, there were even more students in attendance during the show and their reactions at the intermission and conclusion of the event were almost standard.

“My face is gonna look like I’ve been crying for the rest of the night,” said Kelsey Carriere, a Valencia student attending with her friend, Danielle Raniere, a senior UCF Theatre Management student.

“I thought it was absolutely incredible,” said Raniere.

According to Ross Alagna, a senior Cinema Studies major, “I’m a big fan of the music. I always have been, and they did a good job of portraying that.”

But the audience was not the only group who felt the force of the show.

The cast was equally as moved and motivated by the experience.

“It was a pretty cool experience. It was fun,” said 12 year old actor Gabriel Quijano who played Little Boy.

“It’s one of my favorite shows, so I love doing this every night,” said Cornelius Davis who played Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Ragtime is a famous historical production based off of a 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow. It first appeared on Broadway in 1998 and has won numerous awards since.

Santigold performing at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

Josh Klinghoffer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

Flea and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on March 31, 2012. (Kurt Rivers/KnightNews.com)

Plain White T’s hits the Universal Mardi Gras stage Friday, March 30 at 8:30 p.m. Known for songs like, “Hey There Delilah,” the band has been quoted with the following philosophy: “With a plain white T, there are no limits there. You can wear it with anything. You can put anything on it. It’s that blank canvas—kind of like your imagination when you’re a kid.”

Prince Royce, Universal Mardi Gras Performer

Then, on Saturday, March 31, Prince Royce takes the Universal Mardi Gras stage at 9:30 p.m. Born and raised in the Bronx, Geoffrey Royce Rojas is exposing more people to bachata music. His song “Corazon Sin Cara” was No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin songs chart and No. 2 on the pop songs chart.

Prince Royce will be bringing that latin flavor to Universal Orlando Saturday.

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UPDATE Friday: KnightNews.com now has pictures of Alpha Tau Omega bringing gifts to Alpha Delta Pi ahead of serenades this Sunday.

ATO Gives ADPi Gifts

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During Homecoming Serenades, fraternities go to sororities and serenade them, asking to be their partners. Then, sororities will vote and decide which of the fraternities that serenaded them they’ll pick to be their partners.

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KnightNews.com’s team of reporters has been working sources throughout Greek Park all week to see who is going for who — and to predict pairings.

Here’s where we’re projecting fraternities are setting their sights:

Alpha Delta Pi | Alpha Tau Omega vs. Delta Tau Delta
Delta Delta Delta | Phi Delta Theta – unopposed as far as we know
Kappa Delta | Sigma Chi vs. Theta Chi
Zeta Tau Alpha | Lambda Chi Alpha vs. Team Kappa Sigma & Delta Upsilon
Kappa Alpha Theta | Delta Sigma Phi vs. Beta Theta Pi
Pi Beta Phi | Zeta Beta Tau – unopposed as far as we know
Delta Zeta | Sigma Pi will serenade them next week, according to a tipster

We’re still working to find out who is serenading the following sororities:

Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Alpha Epsilon Phi

We need your help keeping us updated with what is happening! Text us updates at 407-5-tip-ucf (407-584-7823) and email us pics or video updates to news@knightnews.com. You can tweet us @UCFKnightNews or make a post or comment on our Facebook.com/KnightNews page, or at the bottom of this story. Also, see pictures of what some fraternities have done for sororities already this week.

Universal’s website says, “This funky Nashville bunch scored a monster hit in 2011 with “Tonight Tonight,” and its hilarious video (featuring a cameo by guitarist Nash Overstreet’s brother, Glee’s Chord Overstreet) has racked up nearly 30 million views online!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvzkdYqJDc

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