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Central Florida Future. 624. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/624 ,• • l~t•1;t.Jll11Q{llt•ltt~• he Central Florida Future · Volume 18 Number 42 University of Central Florida/Orlando Thursday April 10, 1986 ·Smith/Cady win; but is it over? • Smith/Cady win Tierney subject 71°/~ of the vote of investigation by Debbie Dent by Debbie Dent CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE "Holy cow," is what vice The judicial council decided _presidential candidate Steve Cady as Tuesday to conduct their own he congratulated running mate Ira investigation to determine if Mike Smith. Smith and Cady are the Tiern~y and Mike McFadden are winners of the. student government guilty of a major violation in their runoff election with Mike Tierney and campaign efforts. Mike McFadden. William Dietz contested last week's The news came about 8:30 last election that resulted in a runoff night after the elections commission ·forward to putting to action all the Cady said he is looking forward to a between Ira Smith/Steve Cady and had to hand count about half of the ideas I've had for a real long time. great year as student government Mike Tierney/Mike McFadden. Dietz i 1577 votes that were cast. Smith and The students of UCF have an vice president. ''I thank God for contested because of Tierney's Cady were supported by 1, 126 votes excellent year ahead to look forward giving me the confidence, my family omission of several items on his while Tierney and McFadden received to,'' Smith said. ''I'd like to thank all and friends for support, and Sigma expense statement. Dietz believes 451. the people who helped, especially my Alpha Epsilon and the Greek system that if all of Tierney's campaign items "I'm real excited and I'm looking parents.'' for backing me up,'' Cady said. SEE lf':'VESTIGATION, PAGE 3 $1 million up for grabs Congress debating Staff Report 1986-87. 'Octopus' of an act CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE The money being budgeted, which comes from ~tudents ' • More than $1 million will be on acitvity and service fees, will by Jessica Snyder the line when the student senate total about $1.1 million, COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE "There's a meets today to decide on Student according to Senate Pro Tern Government' s budget for William Dietz. strong deficit WASHINGTON - Some call it akin to "putting socks consciousness Athletics paying off $1 million debt on an octopus,'' some call it fear, but by any description fram Congress the government is having a and the by Maryann L. Cross terrible time fashioning a CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Higher Education public." Reauthorization Act of 1986. The act once was supposed ·Dallas Marfin, The UCF athletic to be called the Higher education lobbyist department is working Education Reauthorization towards paying off its debt. Act of 1985. According to the latest "The climate is different Act of 1965. And when it revenue and expenditure this time,'' said Dallas Martin reauthorizes the programs, it statement issued by the of the political struggle over sets maximum funding levels athletic department, the all-important bill that will for them for the next five $250,000 will be applied to eventually set American years. the current $1 million deficit higher education policy Educators don't hesitate to by June 30. through the rest of the stress its importance. "It decade. provides a road map" for The athletic department's Martin, head of the Congress and colleges, said projected revenue· through National Association of Bob Aaron of the National .June 30 is approximately $1.7 Student Fina ncia 1 Aid . As socia ti on of State million. Fifty-seven percent of Administrators, had a big Universities and Land-Grant the revenue comes from part in writing the Higher Colleges. athletic fees paid by UCF Education Reauthorization "It establishes what each students. Approximately 12 - Act of 1980. It expired last par.L; -federal government, percent is received from Oct. 1. · · state college and family- (in concessions, ticket income Congress is supposed to .ih& rollege business) is and guasrantees. The pass such acts every five responsible for ," he added. remaining 31 per cent comes years to "reauthorize" the But the process of creating from the state race track, ad federal student and college a Higher Ed uca tio n aid programs established in SEE BUDGET, PAGE 4 the original Higher Education SEE EDUCATION, PAGE 3 •Cruddy weather just has a way of sneaking up on f\ews clip; 3 you. 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Refr1gerator, Dishwasher and Ceiling Fan. • ______________________________________________CALL 275~9100 __. • \,..; • Harriet's diner· INVESTIGATION a place to relax FROM PAGE l by Mike Carr • were listed at a fair market CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE value, the Tierney/McFadden ticket would h~ve spent more A pile of record albums stands side by side than the $697 allowed by with a philosophy book on a man's search to election statutes. know himself. · · Next to them, the top sheet of a tablet of The elections commission • paper displays the hand-written words of ruled omission of the items to casual conversation between. two characters be a minor violation and fined who work at a cozy cafe. Tierney $30. The judicial These characters speak into radio council must now decide if the microphones. commission made the right Music, philosophy and friendly chats decision. , characterize the atmosphere at "Aunt Harriet's All-Night Diner and Short Order," In a meeting Tuesday, the a WUCF-FM radio program which airs judicial council heard Saturday night from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. testimony from Chief "We · describe the program as Elections Commissioner talkertainment," Kate Levensohn, the Cindy Spraker, Dietz and Photo/lnstruc:tlonal Resources Tierney. SEE HARRIET'S, PAGE 6 The Levensohn's radio show provides music, entertainment, and discussion. Spraker supported the elections commission decision EDUCATION says they should be. by explaining that Tierney's FROM PAGE l "We get alarmed when failure to include some items authorizaticms get too high," on his expense statement is said Bruce Carnes, not the cause for the 111 vote Reauthorization Act J:iasri't undersecretary for budet and difference between Dietz and been pretty. planning with the Education Tierney and therefore not a On March 3, for example, a Department. major violation. Senate committee finally Carnes believes the current passed a version of a bill it congressional plans-which Dietz cited several items first began pondering in 1984. some observers say would that were unclearly listed or Martin says the process has dictate five years of dropping omitted from Tierney's been more fiscal than more students from 8tuoPnt expense statement. He . philosophical. "There's a aid and letting college believes the elections strong deficit consciousness buildings fa 11 in Lo ·commission should have from Congress and the disrepair-are ''utopian." investigated further. public." "We (the department) take The Senate proposal, authorization figures very ''The elections commission recently out of committee, seriously," he says. "It just accepted his word would trim about $2 billion means a very great deal without checking," Dietz from the present because much of the bill is in said. "The (judicial council's) • authorization of $11.7 billion the form of entitlements investigation is a very fair for fiscal 1987. The House's (programs guaranteeing aid deal because they can't just final version, approved in to all students who qualify)." take his word. To just take December, would cut funding As part of his broader mine would be no better." a bit less drastically, to about reform effort, Education $10.6 bilion Secretary William Bennett Tierney opened his If the full Senate approves had his own version of a discussion with, "I see no • its version, a conference reauthorization act. basis for his (Dietz's) committee will' draft a He promised to deliver his allegations whatsoever." compromise. Both house~ will own version of the act by the vote on it and send it to the end of January. "I'm glad they are president probably later in At the end 0f March, the ·investigating because they 1986. Education Department said will find that -our figures are Given all the the plan was 95 percent accurate and that we have administration talk about finished, and would be stayed within our allowance,'' killing most kinds of federally presented one piece at a time Tierney said.