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Central Florida Future. 1125. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1125 1J COLLAGEp. 9 OPINIONp. 6 SPORTSp. 16 Daytona workforce Graduation changes UCF basketball team makes Spring Break came entirely too late triumph and tragedy • • entra uture Serving The University of Central Florida Since 1968 • Vol. 24, No. 47 TUESDAY March 17, 1992 16 Pages Graduation debate settles t Administrators secure a date for spring commencement ClimD tho~e ~te~~ ! by Rebecca Falcon ager for the Orlando Centroplex, ment would hold their own NEWS EDITOR Brown's booking agents failed graduation ceremony for se- to secure the building. niors if spring commencement UCFs graduating seniors will Brown, according to interim . was not moved back on the march through spring com- director of the UCF Arena Vic home campus. .. men cement as originally Collazo, may be performing in The promise was made un- planned on Saturday, May 2, the UCF Arena on May 2, but der the condition that 75 per- according to a contract signed "no contracts have been signed cent of the graduating class by administrators Monday. yet." Collazo said that theArena signed a petition being circu- The UCF administration is "more appropriate for the lated by SG and Delta Sigma shuffled the date for spring crowd" than the Orlando Arena. Pi, a business fraternity. commencement from May 2 to While the Orlando Arena can Nearly 900 graduating seniors Monday, May 4, but after re- hold up to 15,000s Collazo said signedthe petitions. SGand Delta ceiving complaints from stu- that Brown's producers only Sigma Pi were in the process of dents, faculty and staff at a expect to draw a crowd of about calling the graduates to question meeting Wednesday, adminis- 3,000-4,000 people. their views on the date and place trators secured a ceremony for When the Saturday date be- of commencement when the con- May 2 at 1 p.m. came available in the Orlando tract was signed. Dean McFall, assistant vice Arena, UCF settled on May 2 for DiBona says that although president for university rela- commencement. graduation is not being held at tions and director of public af- "It's more accessible for people UCF, ''90 percent of the students' J) fairs, said that a Saturday cer- who have to travel," McFall said. omplaints were that the time and emony was preferred, but the However,students were also date were changed." DiBona said Orlando Arena was already concerned about commencemt that UCF administrators treated booked for May 2. being he Id off campus. the graduating class with a gen- Singer James Brown was During an open forum, Stu- eral "lack of respect" by changing scheduled to perform in the Or- dent Body President Jason the time and date but that a com- o'.'I lando Arena May 2, but accord- DiBona promised those gradu- ing to Steve Cox, events man- ating that Student Govern- GRAD contjnued page 3 Hitt keeps the Extra funding­ UCF baD rolling. reality or not? by Jamie Carte by Heidi Steiner EDITOR IN CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR UCFs new president, John C. Hitt, UCF looks for supplemental funding, spent Spring Break getting used to his but Sen. Richard Crotty, a UCF alum­ position, shaking hands and hearing an nus, slaps the university with "Reality." ~ earful about UCFs problems. There are two different budgets being In his first two weeks in office, the considered by legislators; the reality new president said he has talket1. to budget and the supplemental budget. people with "urgent requests" and some The State House and Appropriations who "just wanted to get acquainted committee passed the supplemental bud­ with the new guy." get that would give UCF an extra $10 He said he will support some of the million starting in July. However, the policies proposed by Interim President senate only supports the reality budget. Robert Bryan and Steven Altman, John Bolte, director of administra­ UCF's former president who resigned tion and finance, said that although last summer, but he has also started the senate passed the reality budget, some plans of his own. the governor's office is going to veto it. He said the university's strategic He said the reality budget would in­ plan, a comprehensive growth plan that (Charles K. Morrow/FUTURE) volve a "no new taxes system." How­ was started under Altman, seems to be lando Arena. Hitt said, "It is hard to the eyes of the students. We tend to do ever, he added, "It would reduce the well thought out and that he would reverse it now," but he said he would things to make it easier for the office amount ofmoney available to the State "absolutely not" change the plan nor go have examined the goals of graduation. workers, and we forget about the needs University System." with another. He went on t6 say that ifUCF continues of tile student." The supplemental budget was pro­ As for the foreign language debate to grow, commencement may eventually Although it is not an uncommon posed to offset the reality budget that that became heated while Bryan was be too long to have in one day. problem for universities, Hitt wants would reduce UCFs $95 million budget in office, Hitt said, "We need to decide In making these kinds of decisions, shorter registration lines at UCF. about $3 million or $4 million. what we're trying to do with the re­ the president said he would rely on stu­ Hitt promises to release his first state­ Patrick Riordan, director of public quirement." He added that most uni­ dent leadership from Student Govern­ ment of administrative goals in a few · information for the stated Board of Re­ versities require more foreign language ment and other organizations to get a weeks. He said the list would narrow gents, blames Crotty for the supplemen­ for bachelor of arts majors, but said he ·sense of what the students want. down five to seven broad ideas about the tal budget not getting passed through would support whatever the faculty From what he has gauged so far, Hitt direction UCF should head toward. the senate. He said the supplemental decided was best. said he would like to cut down on the "Ifsomeone can't remember their goals budget would require new taxes. 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