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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 4-9-1991 Central Florida Future, Vol. 23 No. 54, April 9, 1991 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 23 No. 54, April 9, 1991" (1991). Central Florida Future. 1059. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1059 .. Thentral Flori Volume 23, Number 54 Serving The University of Central Florida Since 1968 Tuesday April 9, 1991 • • • • f ~ •• 4 . ~ . - ...... ... UCF details growth LAKE .. ..•:.,, .. CLAIRE ~ ' :~ .,.... .\. ·: -.:· "" J through year 201 O .. ._:: •S,. ~· •.," .. Ji . .M Campus may quickly outgrow available land ·) too small. -· by Sandra Pedicini I ~ In the past 20 years, UCF's popu­ i' •,;'"> ~ "'" CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE •o lation has grown to more than 20,000. I. I } . .. Constant change is the key phrase "Considering what's happening in . ' • o• .-::. .. ~ .. to describe plans for UCF develop- the Orlando area, it's at least not out I ""~ ~- ment. · ./ of the question that we'll see a similar kind of growth in c,..,.. •• So said Admin- istration and Fi­ the next 20 years," - nance Vice "Land is becoming very, Bolte said. President John very scarce ... as we try to The original , - . Bolte at master plan ·was Thursday's-faculty plan out to the year 2000." completed by senate meeting to Herbert Halback discuss growth of Inc., a landscap- the master plan. • John 6olte ing, architect Changes at' UCF vice president, planning and through 2010 Administration and Finance- graphic designing were detailed. company in Or­ "I think the lando. plan really changes daily, and per­ UCF has· done in-house work on haps it should change daily," Bolte the soon-to-be-published plan. It has said. come up with some changes, such as At one time it seemed like UCF adding more space for high-rise aca­ would have plenty of space in which demic and housing buildings in the to fulfill its needs. But now, Bolte said, southern portion of the campus. that is changing. Other proposed changes include: "Land is becoming very, very scarce • Relocation of the athletic fields in many respects as we try to plan tO the northeastern part of campus. out to the year 2000 or 201 O," he said. • Additions to the expanding aca­ And as the land becomes more demic core of UCF. The master plan scarce, the number of students grows. provides for communication, psychol­ "( The original master plan, completed ogy and social sciences buildings. ·~· .. l, in early 1990, planned for 25,000 stu­ • Planned parking. The master .. ~ dents, according to Director of Facili­ plan shows that the center academic ,. rill · ; .. {] =:::;..-' ties Planning Jerry Osterhaus. core of UCF will be free of automo­ - But that estimate is now considered biles. Jtm Ferguso111l.t:N 1 t1AL f-LORIDA Fu I URE MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO Jeff Dunham performs with Peanut in the Wild Pizza during Greek Week. See Page 3 for more Greek Week coverage. 2 The Central Florida Future April 9, 1991 6:30 . & 9pm Ken Rus~el 1 s film version of The Who 1s mystical rock opera • Thursday April 11 Beetlejuice • ·:coNNELLS Saturday April13 • An American Tail Sunday • Li mited amount of free tickets avai lable at April 14 the Kiosk with student l. D. Dial M for Murder • Monday April 15 ~~ ~aU!t 'ieWe-t Rear Window • ,~, ,•. ,0 . ';e~ 7'tlft- . Wild Pizza unless other· =,-h • · April 20-2-1 • • • .. You•re inYited to: Attend the groundbreaking cerempnies for the new Student Union! When: Wednesday, April 10, 1991at11 am • Where: At the site·of the Student Union (Pegasus Circle) • * There will be • entertainJnent, • hot dogs and Ent~rtainment will feature: H ' Cokes on the • green across Solo Acoustic Guitarist ~ - ~ '· : u~ froJD the site 1· ' . Performing songs by: fft·~~i- ,,...(~~ - Please JOIN US I * Jimmy Buffet ~ -- . • *·James Taylor * Cat Stevens • *Harry Chapin PLUS original songs • I "" •.,,, I _.. l, The Central Florida Future April 9, 1991 3 GREEK WEEK '91 · Sig Eps, Zetas overall winners in Greek Week Tau Kappa Epsilon, Delta Gamma place 2nd • Staff Report •Games CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE • Spirit, including the Carnival. • Participation, including Greek Sing. Tau Kappa Epsilon's 11-year winning • Service, including the can drive. streak was broken Saturday by Sigma Games started Wednesday on the Phi Epsilon at the annual Greek Week Green and continued Friday and Sat­ competition. · urday. Normally, the games are held at • Zeta Tau Alpha topped the sorority Lake Claire, but due to area construc­ division in the event for the sixth con­ tion, this year they were held at the secutive year. intramural fields. The TKEs came close to winning for Two new games had been added this the 12th time, but placed second overall. year at the pool, but were canceled be­ Phi Delta Theta came in third. CB:USe the pool pump was not working. Delta Gamma and Alpha Delta Pi This- year featured a new event - took second and third place, respec­ the Carnival - Wednesday on the tively. Green. Each group made a booth, which Four categories add up to make the was judged and scored in the spirit cat­ overall winner: egory . • • ·. ' Jim FergusonfCENTRAL FLOKIO A FUTU RE I COULD'<VE HAD A V-8! A member of Sigma Chi is a little dizzy after spinning around in .the Dizzy Bat com­ petition during Greek Week. TKE, KL and IIKA placed in the event. CRASH LANDING Members of Delta Delta Delta compete in the Mattress Race on Wednesday. Teams race up to a table and dump the person on the mattress, who chugs fruit punch and climbs back on. The teams then race back. · HEAT OF THE RACE Members of Pi Kappa Alpha compete against members of Sigma Phi Epsilon in the Mattress Rae~. IIKA pl_aced first in the event and .Dl>E placed right behind them in second place. · SPINNING AROUND A fraternity membe r spins around in th e game Dizzy Bat on Wednesday on the Green. 4 The Central Florida Future April 9, 1991 Poet Merwin: Rising activism inspires me to write by Bill Cushing people talking about changes in atti­ terian minister so that's part of my bad "Selected Translations 1948-1968," CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE tude," he said. "I think it's happening blood." He again commented on the im­ which earned the International Asso­ very differently than it did in the '60s." pressive turnout, more than 50 people, ciation of Poets, Playrights, Editors; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W. S. He added, "It's sort of consoling in for a poetry reading held at that hour Essayists and Novelists Translation Merwin visited Valencia Community some ways, and disturbing in others, to of the day. Prize for 1968. College and UCF on April 4 and 5 to go back that many years and realize "After all, Shakespeare could assume In 1970, his book 'The Carrier of Lad­ read original work as part of the.UCF that some of the same concerns were that his audience was used to listening ders" won the Pulitzer Prize for literature. Writers Series. there then. to sermons," ·he said. "We've made a Merwin feels his later works have The series is sponsored jointly by the "I know the first thing to do is to very strange society because if you take become more structurally formal. UCF English Department and VCC's allow yourself to care most of the societies of He said, "There have been changes honors program. so much that you have our strange species, in the kind of writing that I've managed . The first reading, held in the VCC to do something," he they had poetry. They to do over the years and people have Boardroom on Thursday, was standing observed. 'That's true just take it for granted commented about and argued about room only as more than 100 students, of anything. When you that it's natural to like these great changes and what was be­ faculty and area residents attended the fall in love with some­ it, just as it's natural hind these changes. And they talk as 90-minute performance. body, you don't know for children to like to though there was no connection between "[Poets] are not used to having such what to do but you sing and dance. the books." a large turnout and to see an audience know you have to do it "It leads us to real­ He feels that this misconception like this. I'm flattered," Merwin said. and you find out what ize that we have a so­ comes from the nature of language, He read some of his pieces from as it is. If you're involved ciety in which, by the which leads people to the impression early as the 1960s, finishing with some with someone who's time people ·are ado­ that one thing happens after another. works that have yet to be published. dying, you don't know lescents, thillk it's real­ "If there were total breaks, there Many of the poems were taken from his what to do but you find ly weird to like poetry. would be complete breaks of character • 1967 book, 'The Lice," and his most out you do the best you W.S.

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