Central Florida Future, Vol. 24 No. 23, November 7, 1991
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 11-7-1991 Central Florida Future, Vol. 24 No. 23, November 7, 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. 24 No. 23, November 7, 1991" (1991). Central Florida Future. 1100. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1100 CONFETTI p. C1 OPINIONp. B SPORTS p. 16 'Country boy' gives gift Homecoming botched UCF basketball team to tenninally-ill children wi~h changed ballots kicks off '91 season Thentral Flori Future© Serving The Univer$ity of Central Florida Since 1968 .f Vol. 24, No. 23 THURSDAY November 7, 1991 20 Pages What W8.s that? No.reftmds for Leno concert. by J.C. Smith railings along the top section. Lenojoked.thatsomeone committee met. Dean left the Arena after that. COPY EDITOR must have given him a Mr. Microphone before he took off "Ifthey [the people in line] would have sat dQ.wn and his jacket and turned a speaker toward the crowd. He listened to the show, they wouldn't have had any Students, alumni and guests who had trouble hear- continuedtheshowwiththesamemicrophoneforabout20 problems," Collazo said. ing during the first part of the Jay Leno Homecoming. minutes before Dean con concert will not get their money back. someone handed tacted the.Arena The Campus Activities Board concert committee de- . "You could hear a little but him another one, "If they would have sat and CAB Mon: cided Monday morning not to give refunds to anyone vou COUidn't understand correcting the down and listened to the day about getting who attended the Friday night concert at the new UCF J' problem. a refund for him Arena. Victor Collazo, Arena director and associate direc- _what he was saying." "You could hear show, they wouldn't have and his guests. t.or of the student center, said the sound problem was an a little but you had.any problems." CAB told him to honest mistake and that it was fixed relatively quickly. couldn't under- write a letter Some people in the audience disagreed. ' 1 _David Dean stand what he stating his case "Itseemsliketheyjustcan'tnotgiveyouyourmoney computer science major was saying," - Victor Collazo to Collazo. back," said David Dean, a junior computer science Dean explained. Arena director The concert major. "It sucks." Dean said he ----------- committee Dean and others had problems hearing in the upper got in a line at the concer.t to try to get a refund. should not have made a decision before it had a chance level When Leno took the stage, people in the upper levels After standing in the line for about35 minutes, Pean to hear anyone's case, Dean said. shouted that they could not hear him. After several tries to said Collazo came by and signed his and others' tickets. "I'm still planning to pursue this," he said. "I'd like to fixtheproblemfailed,peoplefromtheupperlevelsstreamed Collazo told them there was nothing he could do, but down into vacant lower-level seats and crowded the ·- that he would try to pitch for them when the concert LENO continued page 4 57 Homecollling ballots ·pulled aftero:flicals discover tampering from students by Rebecca Falcon · homecoming wen~ required t.o STAFF REPORTER earn competition points by do ing volunteer work, such as An honorable crown tar- cleaningupafterskitsandwork nished after unsupervised elec- ing election tables. tion tables steered students to Because of this, the majority tamper with homecoming bal- of the people working the elec- lots. tion tables were Greek. VictorCollazo,advisorforthe Homecoming chair Bridget .Homecoming committee, said Nolan agreed. ''We took volun that after hearing a rumor that teers from all organizations, ballots were being tampered mainly Greeks." with, he threw ·out 57 ballots Collazo said that the compe- that all had eraser marks. tition is an honor for those stu- Ballots were altered in favor dents nominated. "For anyone of Marci Villanueva, the 1991 to dirty that for points for a Homecoming queen. Collazo competition is sick," he said. said that after pulling out all "I don't see any integrity in ballots that appeared to have that at all," added DiBona. been tampered with, Villanueva Agreeing with Collazo, Jen was still largely favored. "If it nifer Latran, who was a candi had been close, we would have dateforhomecomingqueen,said Pete Rohan, 23, a first-year film student, is one of many students who are wor had a whole other problem," it is unfortunate that people are ried about the future of UCF's film program. (Charles K. Morrow/FUTURE) Collazo said. so tempted to cheat. "Oh my God, it is a scandal," ' "I was just happy to be on Jason DiBona, student body court," Latran said. "I would University h~ons Harpole; president, said. DiBQna added hate to think that I o~ly ma~e , , ,1 that Greeks should not be al- court because somebody lowed to run the election tables. cheated." However, Latran said film progranl's future·in doubt ' "It's not that you can't trust she feels that Villanueva is de these people, itisjust a matter of serving of the crown. At the time Welke gave no reason for the by Jamie Carte control," he said. TheHomecomingcommittee, decision. Harpole requested that a United Fac EDITOR IN CHIEF Collazo said the incident ap- which is elected by CAB, is in ulty ofFlorida union representative be present. peared to be a malicious act for charge offindingvolunteers and A second meeting was held Tuesday with It reads like a film script... a teacher is Phyllis Hudson, UFF grievance chairwoman, the queen because none of the running the election tables. ousted with only a 24-hour notice and con ballots for king candidates were Collazo said that he advises the representing the union. cerned students worry about their future in a tampered with. Collazo added committee but does not super Welke said Harpole has been reassigned to that there were many other vise. program without a leader. This is no script. It is reality for the UCF a full-time teaching position. tainted rumors floating around However, after realizing that film program. A national search for a new director will during elections, but that after Greeks were accepting election · Charles H. Harpole, director of the film start immediately. Welke will fill the position doing investigative work, most ballots for candidates who were program, was given an ultimatum Monday until a replacement can be found. of them were found false. ofthesameGreekorganizations, either resign the next day or face termination. In the meantime, film students are outraged Collazo explained that the Collazo advised the committee James W. Welke, school of communication and shocked about the departmental overtun. temptation to cheht may have to seek volunteers elsewhere. director, approached Harpole and delivered They worry about the future of the program. come from an additional cat- "Everyone becomes so ob- egory in the competition. Orga- the news, offering to let him stay on as a teacher. · nizations that were involved in BALLOTS continued page 3 FILM continued page 6 CLASSIFIEDS page 10 : . 2 The Central Florida:Fu\ure November 7, 1991 ' ·.;.. ,.. , • e • Macintosh LC This is it. This is the choice ' computer system you've told us. So we're bringing it back for a limited time. It's tbe Macintosh • LC and Stylewriter bundle. And is this setup nice: you can do • j professional word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, and • sounds for an outrageously low price. • Believe it or not, this pack -· ...... age is less than th·e Macintosh LC alone. 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