Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 26, November 20, 1986
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 11-20-1986 Central Florida Future, Vol. 19 No. 26, November 20, 1986 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. 19 No. 26, November 20, 1986" (1986). Central Florida Future. 669. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/669 ovember 20, 19~6 • t The Central Flori a uture Volume 19 umber 26 University of Central Florida/Orlando Sixteen pages Administrators ask for athletic fee increase ' Hike would allow crew, ski team to be funded through athletics student would pay would by Chris Richcreek increase to $3.02 per credit MANAGING EDITOR hour. Over a semester, this translates into an increase of UCF administrators, citing $9, from $36.30 to $45.30. a need for more money, are Director of Athletics Gene proposing a 53-cent increase McDowell explained, "We are per credit hour in the student striving for excellence and athletic fee. this modest student fee The increase would take increase is the only sure effect next fall. Included in means of revenue support we Lhe increase would be a one have to attain that goal." dollar raise in the flat fee The funds generated.by the students pay at the beginning proposed increase would be of each semester. used to support vari·ous The current athletic fee for sports. Student Government a student taking 15 credit has proposed crew and water hours is $2.42 per hour. This ski teams be funded by the . Photo courte~y of Smith Aen·at Photography, Inc. includes $1.42 per hour taken athletic department. Funding The Holiday Inn University is scheduled to open in April of 1987. Construction on the 250 from tuition fees along with for the band and the room luxury hotel, is 30 days ahead of schedule. the $15 flat fee, which, for a cheerleaders would also be student taking 15 credit covered by the new revenue. hours, is one dollar per hour. Another project the UCF Under the proposed athletic Holiday Inn in Quadrangle fee, the amount a 15-hour SEE INCREASE, PAGE 6 to open doors next April redil ho Fees are based on a normal class load __._. ----1~~~~ 250-room inn brings gli~, specialities to town of 15 hours per_semester. _____ . _____ 53 75 By Steve J. Pustelnyk equipment, jacuzzi, outdoor pool and jogging NEWS EDITOR trail extending around ·a 30-acre lake. "We are not going to be a Crown Plaza (Holiday Inn at The Florida Mall), but we are A 250-room hotel coined as the Holiday Inn going to be the closest thing to it," Feimster University is scheduled to open in the spring said adding, "We are off the beaten path, yet of 1987 at the corner of Alafaya Trail and in an area ... that is seeing a great deal of University Boulevard, hotel representatives growth.'' said. The facility will cater to business men, but In addition to the 250 rooms, tne hotel will will offer reasonably priced specials for off er an entire floor of 50 rooms geared students and families. Normal room rates Source: UCF Athletic Dept. toward the business man. The sixth floor, or . will range from $48 to $68 a night, she said. concierge floor, will feature a two-way phone "We expect regular use by company system, in-room VCRs and personal 1 employees," Feimster said. But "we are computer rentals, according to Mary probably going to do some packages for Theresa Altomare'/Central Florida Future Feimster, director of sales. students and special events," "The need for a facility around here is She said the hotel should help handle the astronomical,'' said Feimster. large number of people attracted to future She explained the hotel will cater to the athletic events held in the vicinity. Universities question needs of the area. ''We're trying to handle the "People have been using hotels all over needs of the community. We're going to gear Orlando," Feimster said explaining that group's ties to Moonies our business toward the Univeristy, having a hotel in this area will allow people to Research Park and Quadrangle.'' stay closer to their business. by Karen l. Ziebell bicentennial of the U.S. The hotel will. feature "Celebrations," a According to Feimster, the hotel's other COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE Constitution. restaurant-lounge aimed at hotel guests and business features include a 60-seat Since September, CAUSA students who want a quiet evening out. amphitheater, two board rooms, banquet petitions have shown up at In addition to the restaurant, the hotel will A group called CA USA sport a fitness center including exercise Utah, Ohio State, Monmouth SEE HOTEL, PAGE 3 U A has begun circulating New J eresy, Alabama, p ti tions on campuses across Nebraska, Minnesot'a, the nation in recent weeks, Winona State, Brookdale Centaurus Drive but some critics think its a Community College ~nd r ruiting front for the Queens College, among Unification Church and the dozens of others. R v. Sun Myung Moon. Students at the above U A schools complained CA USA m~mbers belatedly inform them that they are the followers of Rev. Moon, while others charge the group is 0 ju t gathering names of University Blvd. > students to recruit for the 0 Unification Church. 0 ~ CA USA officials emphatically deny it. N ''This is not ome sort of tricky recruiting drive," said ' SEE MOONIES, PAGE 6 Theresa Altomare/Central Florida Future 2,The Central Florida Future, November 20, 1986 Come and experience the woodsy charm. Prices include these features: • Full-Size Washer & Dryer • Paddle Fan • Builder will pay four points for the • Refrigerator • Mini & Vertical Blinds mortgage amount towards closing costs • Dishwasher • Builder will pay for title • Builder will provide a 10-year • Range insurance "Home Buyers Warranty" Within walking distance from UCF ~-UN_IVE_RSl_TYB_LV_D. -----1 ~ U.C.F. SHERWOOD ~ ,_ _____. Affordable prices start in the low 50's FOREST < 2 & .3 Bedrooms LOKANOTSA TR. CALL 275-9100 . HWY 50 • United Parcel Service. 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Among other things, the As a result, "many of the foundation urged colleges to nation s colleges are more stop requiring students to successful in credentialing • take standardized admissions than in providing a quality tests, to make all students education for their students, ' take a ''core curriculum ' of the report said. courses and to have all In early October, U.S. students write and defend a Secretary of Education ' senior thesis" before getting William Bennett leveled their degrees. essentially the same charges, • A number of educators, adding colleges sometimes Barbra Bailey is a twenty-one-year-old accounting student who's long-term goal is to be moreover, said there's a good are so concerned with finding a practicing CPA. Besides a job, Barbra said she wants to get married and have chance colleges may adopt money to operate that they children . many of the suggestions in don't educate students well. • the near future. Still others say the recommendations are SEE REPORT, PAGE 7 • Florida and Georg~a; • fans learn to behave by Rose Jackson San Francisco's St. Francis COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE. Hotel while registered there to see the Stanford-USC game in 1985. Two thousand Florida and Georgia Cal-Santa Barbara fans lit . footba.Jl fans apparentl:f uncontrolled bonfires on the behaved themselves well street after a Spring, 1986 enough at last week's annual rugby tournament. grudge match - called "The In October, police arrested World's Largest Cocktail ·125 fans in Dallas for the Party" by local officials - to annual Texas-Oklahoma keep the game located at the game. "Just ·the normal Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. Texas-OU weekend." said Gator Bowl officials warned Sgt. Sherryl Scott. · they would cancel the But many colleges, wary of lucrative game - forcing· the injury and insurance teams to play each other at concerns, are cracking down. their smaller home stadiums Penn canceled a senior class in Gainesville and Athens, parade in retaliation of egg Ga., - if fans rioted as they throwing incidents at football did after the 1984 and 1985 games. Iowa charged a games. student celebrating a UI In the melee after the 1985 victory with incitement to game, poliee arrested 30 riot. Artist sketch of finished Holiday Inn. Complex will stand 6 stories tall and contain 250 rioters, six people were It took a security force of rooms with 50 ·rooms geared toward businessmen.