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OPINION .. , .~ .. ~ ............... a::: Another Martinez looking OCF remembers last year;·s · COMICS ..................... 9·. to come to UCF baseball Tiananmen Square deaths CLASSIFIED .;'. .......... 10: FEATURES,, ........... 11 ::' UCF golfers ready for NCAA finals- Sports Amnesty sponsors ceremony- Special Report' ;~ ., SPORTS ·~ .. ·;. :.. ;·.......... ..12 ::· .. Thentral Flori Future • Volume 22, Number 65 University of Central Florida/Orlando Wednesday June 6, 1990 Senate fills two holes in SG cabinet by Melissa Stoker cabinet and the rest of the senate. Mann said the appointments should a trip for a UCF graduate research CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Pruitt also said his experience as not have been discussed. program in biology. Graduate students public relations director made him "I don't. think it's proper for us to Jim Burney, Patricia Burney, Shaun The student senate confirmed two of more qualified for chief of staff because discuss. any of these people because Cunningham and Mike Johnson will go student body President Jeff Lain g's he has communicated with the senate, they were justappointed today," Mann to Charleston, S.C., for a conference cabinet appointments Sunday. administration and the media. said. June 14-20. The senate voted 11-4 to accept The senate confirmed Jeff Meadows Laing has also reappointed Comp The students will use the trip to help 0 Laing's appointment of former Public by a vote of 10-4 as Laing's judicial troller Bob Shafer, Attorney General in their thesis work. UCf may benefit Relations Director Scott Pruitt as his advisor. Lori Dickes and Director of Student from the trip, as UCF will receive a chief of staff. "If students are in trouble with the Lobbying Dana Boyte to the positions percentage of any grants the students Pruitt said his main goals are to university, I will not tell them what to they held under former President Fred obtain while in Charleston. organize the senate better, and to help do, but make known to them what their Schmidt. None were discussed Sunday. Also, the senate passed a bill moving broaden communication between options are," Meadows said. In other business, the senate voted the summer meeting time from 4 p.m. Laing and his cabinet, and betwee~ the Senators Scott Bowen and David unanimously to give $550 to help fund to 6 p.m. * Audit of Kiosk revenues reveals irregularities by Tom Kopacz The report also said SG offi STAFF REPORTER cials gave $976 in Kiosk cash receipts to a cruise line repre An audit of student govem sentative as payment for ment ticketsalesrrom Julyl to cruise tickets. Dec. 31, 1989 found that for The report said documenta mer student body President tion of the exchange was lim Fred Schmidt obtained a large ited, consisting of signatures block of movie tickets without and dollar amounts on scratch proper documentation. paper. Cash from Kiosk sales was It added that the cash was used to purchase new tickets eventually received by the instead of being banked in cruise line and that the Kiosk compliance with state proce did receive the tickets. dures, and the safe used to The report said SG officials store attraction and movie did not follow state purchasing Jorge AlvarcziCl:NTRAL FLOHIDA 1-UTURE tickets was kept open and procedures because they did REMEMBRANCE IN SONG unattended, not deposit the cash in Jim Johnson, bass player for The Spinmen, leads his group through a set of originals. The group according to the report. the bank and performed Monday as part of the Tiananmen Remembrance on the Green. Story, page four. "[The Student Center] The report issue a check. said Schmidt told us when we There was removed 230 gave out all the free also no evi movie tickets, tickets ... they would dence of re Street crimes may result in early valued at view by SG $765. convert some $5 Accountant closings of downtown nightclubs The report tickets to free tickets." Edmund Da said these -Edmund Dabiedath biedath, ac tickets were SG Accountant cording to the Staff Report to become a big city, it was going to have street originally report. CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE crime problems. listed as The report "In response to that, I say, 'The city of Miami missing, with no explanation does not name the cruise line Downtown Orlando nightclubs refused free is a big city, so big in fact it has to have refrig for the sudden gap in ticket or the SG officials involved. readmission to their patrons last weekend in erated trucks to hold the bodies of murder numbers. Internal Auditing Director response to a proposed city ordinance that victims because there is no room in the morgue.' Schmidt sent the auditors a Barbara Ratti said the cruise would close the clubs at 2:00 a.m. I don't think we want a big city like that. I think memo in which he admitted line was SeaEscape but would The ordinance proposes the establishment of we can solve the problem," Hamilton said. removing the tickets, accord not name the SG officials. closing hours for "downtown commercial enter "The measure is draconian," Mayor Bill ing to the report. She said the names were tainment establishments" from 2:00 a.m. to Frederick stated at the meeting, according to He later said the tickets left out of the report because of 8:00 a.m. and includes the prohibition of free Joe Mittiga, assistant to the mayor. Frederick were needed to sell during the publication. reentry into such clubs. suggested finding an alternate solution by Thanksgiving break when the Tubbs' response said all The city council passed the ordinance on the forming a task force to look at the various ticket kiosk was closed. state purchasing procedures first reading, but tabled it indefinitely on the problems and possible solutions. "The block e>ftickets was not will be followed from now on. second reading due to the controversy sur Drug dealing, gang rapes and drive-by shoot returned, however, until our The report also said access rounding the measure at its May 7 meeting. ings are further problems that need to be ad inquiries," the report said. to the safe in Dabiedath's office The problems center around the increase in dressed, according to Hamilton. Schmidt denied the charge used to store tickets and cash street crimes, including public consumption of "We've had a big problem with kids jumping Monday and said the tickets was not restricted, and the alcohol, possession of alcohol by minors, public on moving trains," Hamilton said. "There have were returned the next busi safe and office were frequently urination and excretion, street fighting and also been shots fired into the First Union Build ness day. ~ept unlocked. excessive littering. ing and the Fire Chiefs office." He said he was following es The report recommended "The free reentry policy encourages those The ordinance affects the nightclubs "lying tablished SG holiday proce locking the safe at all times. underage to leave the club, go out to their car within and bounded by Rosalind Avenue on the dures. "The problem wasn't that and drink without having to pay to get back in," east, Hughey Avenue on the west, Colonial According to a written re the safe was open or closed, the Bob Hamilton, the city attorney said. Drive on the north and Pine Street on the sponse from Lee Tubbs, vice problem was that too many Several people accused council members of a south," or specifically, the Beach Club, president of Student Affairs, people had access to it," Da- "Mayberry mentality" at the meeting, accord SG officials will not be allowed ing to Hamilton, asserting that if Orlando was see ORDINANCE page 3 to sell tickets in the future. see TICKETS page 3 2 The Central Florida Future June 6, 1990 • • FAMOUS EUROPEAN. VIDEO DISCO • • J I. I I I ' •'I I The Central Florida Future June 6, 1990 3 / TICKETS FROM PAGE 1 Space suits needed in·dorm biedath said Friday, adding that too many people had the Asbestos is being removed from Lake Hall, traces found in three others safe's combination. He said the combination by Mary Watkins ronmental Health and Safety, said Lake McCray said the department borrowed has since been changed arid CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTU~E Hall is the first hall in the asbestos abate tl:rn money for the project from Capital the safe is locked whenever he ment project which is funded by the hous Improvements Trust Fund. leaves his office. Lake Hall residents have been evacu ing department. Currently, engineers The asbestos is not a problem yet, The report also said $455 ated and people in space suits now occupy are scraping asbestos off the ceilings and McCray said, because experts say the air worth of ballet ·tickets that the dormitory. pipes in Lake Hall. in the dormitories is free of asbestos at this were issued free to students The space people are actually engineers Christopher McCray," director of Hous time according to readings taken.