Central Florida Future, May 12, 1999

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Central Florida Future. 1470. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1470 • • Special Career Oulde - tZ page pullout for the May ttth Job Fair l..side! • S e r v i n g th e U n i v e r s i f y , o f C e n t r a J ' Fl o ,f i ~ a s i n c e 1 9 6 8 • A D I G I. T A L C I T Y 0 R L A N D 0 C 0 M M U N I T Y P A R T N E R (AOL Keyword: Orlando) www.orlando.digitalcity.com • • Senate passes budget despite protests SHELLEY WILSON In the '98-'99 Golden Rule Government, and members of STAFF WRITER Handbook under Student the administration discussed this • Activities, registered organiza issue. :·PattGB/Cupitha ' sworn in Senate passed the 1999- tions may receive operating and A memo to Dr. Craig Ullom, 2000 Activity and Service Fee programming funds from the associate vice president for 's ii(ELLEY.··iWILSON ' {\place . atth~ SG office with Budget on April 29 with a vote Campus Life, by Associate . STAFF<WRJTER. Justice Chad Hart swear- of 20-7. ~,,_ Director of Student ing them in. About 15 Several changes were Activities Meg Dutnell, ,,, Dn May 7, Darin '~ people were at the cere unsuccessfully requested to the It should have said that 21 of the student " ~~-tto1{> an<!' A:ndrew >·mony including staff; stu budget before it was passed. organizations that requested ·.Gupicha were sworn '(ients, apd other justiCes. Among those requests was waited a week... it funding and are recommend in .. as . Student Patten. said they are • transferring $4,000 from future ed to receive it are not regis ··· Go,vemtne~t ,, presi- ,,, glad to fin<;illy be in office WebDevelopers to Volunteer was the first time tered. ., ;<lent and'*vice presi~ and are '. ready to get .to UCF. Out of these 21 student dent. •Work. The budget was voted on that most senators organizations, 11 are eligible . The'"'swearing in "I'm ready to get Patton initially 25-6. The bill was then really looked and to request funds because they was done following a started .... to do the things reconsidered in an attempt to were registered by the ---.......-r--i JUdicial Council hear- "that n~ed to get done," . answer questions that. had been dealt with this. deadline of January 14. ing concerning a con- Patton said. "I'm sorry to raised. Some of those questions However, those remaining t~stment m~e against the students that I've had included the misrepresentation -Senator Joy Walker are not eligible to receive . the ticket by former to go through these past of requests made on the budget funding. until their registra presidential candi- few months. We're here and why Greek Council is still tion status changes. The date, Jaime_ Halscott. now and ready to do busi zero-budgeted. Student Government through an memo also pointed out that The Council did not ness." There have been questions application process. 12 of the student organiza find sufficient evi- Cupicha and Patton raised about non-registered Through memos and during tions on the budget are also deuce to uphold the are currently taking appli organizations receiving funding a meeting on April 8, the Office contestment. cations for positions on from the budget. of Student Activities, Student QUESTIONS, Page 5 Cupicha The swearing in too.le their cabinet. • UCF's student escorts (SEPS) work Knight's Krossing hopes to ensure students' safety. new management helps FUTURE FILE ToDD McFLICKER College Park is a national company PHOTO STAFF WRITER with years of experience in student housing. It is also known to have a vast Residents of the Knight's Krossing amount of resources available for resi off-campus apartment complexes, dent disposal. located across the street from the main Residents say that one of the nice UCF campus, have been complaining things about living in Knight's Krossing • about severe problems within the devel is that there is never a problem meeting opment since last fall semester. Students new people. It is also very convenient are complaining about everything from having one bill covering every resi- Police efforts curbing campus the lack of park- · dent's rent, cable, ele9tricity, and air • ing to unpro condition fessional ing. Not to treatment mention, vandalism and petty theft from the each apart staff. ment is ELAINE LEBLANC - University of Florida reported 1,014 thefts. The fully fur CONTRIBUTING WRITER Also, Florida State University's Tallahassee complex nished and campus reported 649 thefts. was recent there is UCF's Orlando campus has low rates of van Many factors such as location and student ly taken access to an dalism and petty theft compared to other Florida population can contribute to crime on a campus, over by the exercise campuses, according to the FBI's Uniform according to Sgt. Tom Gorbas, UCF's Crime manage- room, pool, Crime Report. Prevention coordinator. "You can't just look at ment of and com The annual publication prints the number of these statistics and assume UCF is doing a bet College puter lab. reported offenses of most state colleges and uni ter job of preventing crime," Gorbas said. "For Park. There However, versities in the United States. The most recent exampie, of course in Miami crime rates are are three dif there are issue (covering 1997) listed only 211 incidents ferent phases to also serious of theft at UCF. By comparison, the COMMUTER, Page 3 the development, but "they resident com are all very similar," said Jennifer Brust, plaints about the apartment complex. recently transferred property manager ''What we need is for people to for Knight's Krossing of College Park communicate their concerns to us so Communities. that we may react to them," Brust said. The community was designed as The main problem with Knight's three phases, each with one area of Krossing most people tend to think of is focus. Knight's Krossing Phase 3 is the the parking spaces, or lack thereof. leasing office. Phase 1 handles resident With far more residents and guest services, while Phase 2 is made up of extraneous offices. PARKING, Page 4 • May 12, 1999 www.UCFfuture.com Central Florida Future • 2 • How safe are Florida's-universities? MARIA CHANDLER shifts around the using. When he went UCF's, are funded through the universities' STAFF WRITER clock. Area police to see what was student governments. UCF's escort service, • departments also lent wrong, the student called SEPS, used to be funded by Student Of Florida's five major universities, the officers to the investi- was standing naked Government, according to Gorbas. University of Florida has the lowest number gation. The same would happen today if a by th~ outlet. But because the professor did However, a past president found a law that • of students per certified police officer for murder occurred. not fear the student, the case was not con stated that funding was not allowed. Since 1999, 460-to-l. UCF has 750 students to Though safety has increased at UF, it sidered a stalking case. But now that the law then, UCF Police Department has funded every police officer. has not at other universities. Both UCF and has been changed, it would be classified as SEPS. The five universities'include UF, UCF, FAU have seen increases in the number of one. At FSU, the police department will • Florida Atlantic University (FAU), the stalking cases. USF has seen a rise in the number of make exceptions for anyone needing assis ·University of South Florida (USF), and Lt. Chuck Aurin at FAU attributes this thefts. According to crime statistics, motor tance. FAU has made police advisors avail Florida State University able to help students. · • (FSU). Of the five, UP has Some of the universities the largest student popula Stolen cars for 1997: have security guards to tion at 40,000 and the UF 1.15 percent " assist students. largest officer enrollment at USF .86 percent USF has senior security 87. UCF has 30,000 stu FAU .79 percent guards who will walk stu dents and 40 police offi FSU .45 percent dents to their cars. The cers. UCF .27 pertent guards and USF's According to the "Safeteam", the escort spokesman for UF's police Burglaries for 1997: patrol service, train • department, Stacy Badics, FSU 2.5 percent together. UF is the only university UF 1.6 percent Despite the added UCF L2 percent guards, USF ranked top with a decreasing crime • rate. FAU .42 pe~~ent PHOTO BY NICOLE KING among the five universi This is a big change UCF ranked the lowest among five Florida universities for automobile theft in 1997. ties in rape cases. from the university just In 1997, USF reported nine years ago when five students were mur rise to a change in the stalking laws of the vehicle theft at the Tampa campus increased three rape cases.

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