University of North Florida UNF Digital Commons Spinnaker UNF Newsletters and Newspapers 10-2-2002 The pinnS aker Vol. 26 No. 7 University of North Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/spinnaker Recommended Citation University of North Florida, "The pS innaker Vol. 26 No. 7" (2002). Spinnaker. 2. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/spinnaker/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the UNF Newsletters and Newspapers at UNF Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Spinnaker by an authorized administrator of UNF Digital Commons. For more information, please contact Digital Projects. © 10-2-2002 All Rights Reserved Wednesday, October 2, 2002 www.unf.edujgroupsjspinnaker Volume 26, Number 7 University of North Florida's ersary History full of tidbits, change By Ann Luce lo; the faculty chose the Osprey. room at the same time. One of them was tern, permitting direct dialing to and Editor-in-Chief This is just one of many tidbits of his­ moved outside. from all numbers at UNF. Faith Kimball tory upon which UNF laid its founda­ UNF was first opened as an upper­ Before moving to Beach Boulevard News Editor tion. level university, allowing only juniors, and St. John's Bluff Road, UNF was Two thousand twenty-seven students seniors and graduate students to attend. housed temporarily at the Florida It's the ninth inning at Harmon Stadi­ arrived at the newly built $6.9 million The school was designed as a commuter National Bank Building downtown and um. UNF campus Oct. 2, 1972, to start their school, with no dormitory or apartment the Florida State Chamber of Commerce University ofNorth Florida leads six first day of school at the seventh state complexes scheduled for construction. Building on Arlington Expressway. to three against its formidable opponents. university. With the opening of a state university, In its first graduating class in 1974, The bases are loaded. When it first opened, UNF used bells Jacksonville University in Arlington lost UNF had 170 graduates. The pitcher throws, the hitter swings. to signal the beginning and ending of 128 students because of lower tuition UNF welcomed its frrst freshman and You jump to your feet and scream, classes. The first bell sounded at 7:30 costs. It cost $190 for a state resident to sophomore classes in 1985. Since then, "Come on, armadillos!" a.m. and the last bell rang at 10:20 p.m. attend UNF for a quarter in 1972. the university has grown. Armadillos? Who the heck are they? Students attending that fust day dealt To make offices within the university Today, UNF has more than 14,000 Well Ospreys, the armadillos are who with two minor glitches: they had to more accessible and to make the univer­ students in attendance and more than you might have become if it weren't for walk on makeshift plywood sidewalks sity more accessible to the surrounding 2,000 students living on campus. There the faculty at the University of North because the walkways on campus were community, Southern Bell Telephone are more students living on campus Florida in 1973. not completed, and two classes were Co. built a facility near UNF to provide today than were in attendance that frrst The student body chose the armadil- scheduled to be taught in the same class- the university with a Centrex dialing sys- day of school in 1972. The awa rd-winni ng stud ent news_paper of the University of North Florida . Student Read, Student Run October 2, 2002 DISCOURSE 3 Letters to the Editor Editor: figure out the solution to this Editor: the time to call and tell you and have a good time. And at problem. Just get a 10- foot lad­ that you are doing a great job the same time, I decided I It looks like the new science der, a $10 clock from the hard­ I was on the verge of and keep up the good work. would read the university and engineering building will be ware store, a nine-volt battery, screaming when I read your Well, why don't you do the newspaper every week. How­ a fine addition to the UNF cam­ and attach the clock to the wall latest editorial [column], same for the administrators or ever, now I am not sure if I pus. One would hope the stu­ (first tie off the old wiring). though I have never been the bookstore and food facili­ want to crack the thing open dents who occupy those class­ My advice to the "powers that happy with any of them. How ties managers? And while you for fear of who or what is rooms do not suffer the fate of be" in charge of construction of can you blame the university are at it, why don't a few more going to be slandered against students like myself, who attend the new science building is this: administration for believing students do the same thing. I this time. In my opinion, the classes in the new Fine Arts Don't let the architect/project the Spinnaker is quite negative am sure if any of these people all-too-negative [story] that Building. I wouldn't give you the engineers sell you a bunch of at times? I am a student, and I are ever negative, it is because does get published is called time of day.. .it's not that I would­ conduit and wiring and $75 have the same opinion. Start­ they are constantly bombard­ yellow journalism, used strict­ n't; I couldn't. None of the class­ clocks that won't work. Take that ing this academic year, the ed with far too many unwar­ ly for its sensationalism to get room clocks keep time, and they money- and I'm sure it's in the Spinnaker has become notice­ ranted complaints about what more people to read. It can't haven't since the first day of thousands - and put it in the ably more negative toward could make an individual per­ possibly be actual news that is school in September 2001. From line item on your general ledger what the administrators are son happier, not what would going to inform us, create what I've heard, the wiring to a under the heading "NEW PARK­ doing about such things as make the university a qetter reforms or make our universi­ timing mechanism that serves lNG TOWER." parking and how the book­ place. ty a better place. these clocks, which is located in store and food facilities man­ Everyone needs to remem­ the Robinson Theatre, was cut Sincerely, agers are handling their busi­ ber why they came to this uni­ Nicole Timmer and nobody seems to know nesses. versity in the first place. It was Senior, History, Pre-law which wire it is. It doesn't take Laura English-Fitts You wrote that you wish most likely to get an educa­ Accounting Clerk, an engineer with a Mensa IQ to Junior, Music the administrators would take tion, make some new friends UNF Bookstore A look back: The early days Letters to the Editor Editor's note: These letters YARD is doubly important. Marijuana, dueling rary American life. appeared Jan. 9, 1974, in the first Those who were not directly The legalization of dueling would issue of The Halyard, the first campus involved can scarcely appreciate the Sirs: also promote the general tranquility of newspaper to serve the University of enormous amount of time and effort The students at UNF should sup­ America and offer a speedy remedy to North Florida. devoted over the past year or so to the port an attempt pr~sently underway to the resolution of both personal and planning of this publication. Various legalize marijuana and dueling. legal conflicts. 'Signal' event committees struggled over matters The legalization of marijuana The likelihood of increased proper­ ranging from philosophy to equipment would add tax revenue to the govern­ ty taxes and the certainty of increased This first issue of The HALYARD specifications and budgets. Two pub­ mental sector. Such additional tax rev­ lawyer fees could be efficaciously is a "signal" event in the life of our lications, the MARINER and enue could then be employed for tax stopped by the legalization of marijua­ young university in more ways than WHAT'S HAPPENING were merged, relief in other area~, such as, for exam­ na and dueling. one! In a beginning institution such as a professional journalist was persuad­ ple, a pro-property[tax decrease. Addi­ UNF where all things -people, facil­ ed to oversee this new venture, and tionally, the legali~ation of marijuana George Comer, ities, policies and procedures - are printing services were arranged. would promote a general decrease in Student relatively new, there is a critical need We now have a vehicle which can the collective ten~ions of contempo- for an effective means of communica­ - and I am confident will - prove to tion which we have not had. It is our be extremely beneficial to us all. I earnest hope that The HALYARD will welcome The HALYARD to our cam­ meet this need as a voice for the entire pus. Correction University community. In addition, it is expected to provide a laboratory Thomas G. Carpenter, Freshman volleyball player Tara Taylor was misidentified in the cut­ experience for students interested in President line of a photograph on page 14 in the Sept. 25 issue of the Spinnaker. the fields of journalism and communi­ Taylor was pictured next to teammates Lauren Westervelt and Jessica cation, thus the birth of The HAL- Bosacki.