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Future- c 1988 The Central Florida Future Volume 21, Number 35 University of Central Florida/Orlando Thursday January19, 1989 UCF students drop-off schedule problems Staff Report The fees are slightly higher CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE for faculty, staff and research park employees and a little Drop-off day care is ·being higher than that for alumni implemented at some of the and the community. · major universities in the na­ Drop-off care could be an tion to accommodate children alternative for the part time whose parents are in college. student. The average age of a typical The University of Miami UCF student is 25; the average has a child development center is 31 for beginning graduate as well as drop-off day care. students and 38 for students The child development pursuing their doctorate de­ center's fees are comparable to gree. those of UCF. The University These numbers indicate of Miami charges students $3 that many UCF students are per hourfortheirdrop-offserv­ parents as well. ice. Currently UCF has The A senior, majoringineduca­ Creative School for Children tion, who has a two year old which is an educational re­ son, believes in the concept of search center for child devel­ a drop-off day care service. "I opment. am only able to take three 1:ric Patatl\a/CENTFru. FLORIDA FUTURE The fee schedule for The classes right now because I SHUSTER U. Creative school ranges from have to work full time and This Shuster University, home of Superboy, logo is the new look for our prideful school. The logo is $24 for two days a week to $40 raise a child. Being able to drop courtesy of a few talented UCF students, or was it a bird, a plane?? for five days a week for chil­ dren of UCF students. SEE DAY CARE PAGE 4 Student Information . Fraternities consider a ban on pledging Staff Report it for us." COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE "The public," maintained Dwayne R. Woerpel, a na­ Nabonal fraternity leaders, tional officer of Tau Kappa hoping to end a rash of hazing Epsilon, "is fed up with us and deaths and injuries and to universities are fed up with stave off simply being banned us." from many campuses, say they While the national frat are seriously considering a presidents - all of whom are radical reform: ending pledg­ no longer students-called for ing. reform, active fraternity mem­ The national presidents of bers disagreed. 59 fraternities voted to ask "Some chapters have prob­ their organizations to study lems with traditional role of alternatives to pledging dur­ pledges, butit'snoproblem ifit ing the annual meeting of the is used the right way," sug­ National Interfraternity Con­ gested Randall Stevens, presi­ ference (NIC), held in Decem­ dent of the University of ber in Burlingame, Ca. Kentucky's Phi Kappa Psi One alternative, they said, chapter. is to ask students to become Some national leaders felt full members immediately or that dropping the pledging after a brief time, skipping the process would be drastic. traditional pledge period. "I don't support the notion "Despite our best efforts, that pledging and hazing are the hazing and the deaths synonymous," said James C. continue," said Drury G. Bag­ Cherry, a Sigma Nu official. "I well, president of Phi Sigma don't agree that all efforts to Kappa fraternity and assis­ eliminate hazing have failed. tant vice president for student Many of our chapters have affairs at the University of found success with a judicious Maryland. "Nothing seems to application of education and eliminate hazing and death enforcement." . from the structure of pledg­ The NIC, representing in~." more than 40,000 students on TRAFFIC JAM "Our survival is at stake," 809 campuses nationwide and As a result of the new traffic light in installed inResearch Park towards the end of last year, the he continued. "If we can't in Canada, cannot pass bind- road looks like a regular highway. But, to those who avoid Alafaya by using it do not mind the delay eliminate pledging, colleges and universities will eliminate SEE HAZING PAGE 4 -sPORTS CONFETTI NEWS CLIPS 3 The women's tennis • This Week in Confetti: OPINION . 8 team opens its season Interviews with The today at home. See ~ports Connells and Stryper. COMICS 9 for a preview of this year's Also, reviews of Edie team and the team's Brickell and the New CLASSIFIED 10 schedule. Also, the Lady Bohemians, as well as the Knights fall to FIU. new movie, Beaches .. SPORTS 12 2, The Central Florida Future, January 19, 1989 .. The draft beer keg. Ifs awkward. Ifs bulky. And it's not particularly attractive. But in all our years in the br~g busine~s weve to.und no other container better suited for maintaining the consistent quality of real, ice-cold draft beer than the keg. so whenever you purchase Budweiser draft bee~ it comes from a keg... ft~ Not because we still care that much about kegs. But because we e._ e.\)~~ still care that much about quality. 1~\~ ~ a. Draft beer in kegs. Ifs just one of the reasons why ~ 1W "0V• Budweiser has remained the King of Beers®for more than ,.8 ' 110 years. • .. WAYNE DENSCH, INC. ' 851-7100 UCF REP ERIC ERICSON· 425-7005- .. • CIVIL SPEAKER NCAA's executive director. Temple's WSU aims to pro­ "Some groups don't view Mortenson also found that Dr. Charles R. Bullock will· The survey, according to mote white culture and to end· loans as favorably as others, people older than 24, those speak Jan. ~Oat 1:30 p.m. in associate project director affirmative action programs and to the extent that that without college degrees, those the Board of Regents Room, Terry R. Armstrong, was de­ which, WSU President Mi­ affects their behavior, it af­ who h~ family incomes under third floor of the administra­ signed to study how intercolle­ chael Spletzer said, discrimi­ fects their access to higher $22,oon a year and women had tion building, on the topic of giate sports effect studying nate against white people. education," said Thomas G. the most conservative attitude "Changing Political Realign­ from a broad perspective. Temple President Peter J. Mortenson, a senior ACT re­ about borrowing, and were ments in the South." The American Institute for Liacouras released a state­ search associate and author of generally unwilling to go into Bullock will also speak on Research, in conducting the ment criticizing the media the report. debt to pay for college. "Civil Rights in the Changing study, surveyed more than hype the club has garnered Mortenson added that most South" at 8 p.m. Jan. 20 in the 4,000 athletes at 42 division I and reaffirmed the college aid now is now loaned, •STAY AWAKE University Dining Room. Both colleges and universities. university's commitment to as opposed to granted, to stu­ CU.) - To keep their neurons are open to the public. On a4-pointscale, the study affirmative action. dents. firing and their eyes from clos­ found that football and basket­ He also recognized the Loans now account for ing, students disregard the • GRADE GRID LOCK ball players had · an average group's first amendment about 67 percent of all federal possible safety hazards and College football and basket­ grade-point average of 2.46, rights, but cautioned that acts student aid, compared to 21 take caffeine pills in abun­ ball players don't make the compared to 2.61 for other col­ of violence or intimidation percent in 1975-76. dance during exam times. grade when compared with lege athletes and 2. 79 for stu­ would not be tolerated. Low-income students have At the store Top of the Hill, student non-athletes and are dents involved in extracur­ been forced to borrow because near University of North finding it hard to fit their stud­ ricular activities. • MONEY FOR NOTHING funding for Pell Grants, the Carolina's Chapel Hill, store ies into their sports oriented The grade of many football (CPS) - The people for whom major source of scholarships manager Dale Kramer said schedules. · . and basketball players suf­ most student aid programs are for the needy, has not kept up "we sell about six cartons in six These finding, from a Na­ fered because of the 30 hours a designed are the least willing with rising college costs. weeks normally, but during tional Collegiate Athletics week they averaged partici­ to use those programs, a new "With the lack of growth in exams we sell 20 or more car­ Associaton (NCAA) survey of pating in their sports. report says. Pell Grants, the lowest-income tons in three days." how athletes spend their time Hispanics, low-income stu­ kids don't have any alternative Caffeine pills should be on campus, will be presented • WHITE POWER dents and people with little but to go into a loan program if perfectly safe as long as large at a meeting in San Francisco (CPS) - The White Student education generally are less they're going to pursue a doses are not taken, said Gail this month.