Central Florida Future, Vol. 23 No. 37, January 31, 1991
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 1-31-1991 Central Florida Future, Vol. 23 No. 37, January 31, 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. 23 No. 37, January 31, 1991" (1991). Central Florida Future. 1042. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1042 • • • Then t. raI Fl. or1 .. Future© ... Volume 23, Number 37 Serving The U~iversity of Central Florida Since 1968 Thursday January 31, 1991 .No out~f-staters for a year, speaker urges by Mary Watkins support this proposal. Reed said he feels a mixture of Interacting with different cultures can sometimes CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE students add$ to the education process. - teach more than can textbooks, Laing said. UCF President Steven Altman agreed and said "Soine estimate that 60-70 percent of actual Florida universities and community colleges should Wetherell's idea is short-sided. · education comes from outside the classroom," Laing enroll no out-of-state students for one year, the·speaker According to.Reed, 1 Opercentof all Florida university said. of the Florida House of Representatives suggested. students are from other states. Wetherell's press secretary Randy Lewis said SpeakerT.K Wetherell, D-Daytona Beach, proposed BOR spokesman Patrick Riordan said cl:im:lnating Wetherell's concern is the large number of parents in this · ide~ at the first Education Summit meeting Jan. out-of-state student tuition could result in a $4.4 million Florida who paid taxes for years to find their children 24. Wetherell said education budget cuts caused loss for Florida. cannot getfoto Florida colleges. universities to turn away thousands of Florida UCF student l?ody President Jeff Laing opposes the Lewis would not say whether the suggestion would residents. proposal because he said he feels diversity in the become a formal legislative proposal. C_hancellor Charles Reed, Board of Regents, did not · student population is important. "Right now it's a serious consideration," Lewis said. SG to open 2 polling places ' starting·with Feb. elections by Tom Kopacz The bill also adds three main Knight said. ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR campus election commissioners. Sen. David Mann was the Sen. Emily Rado, one of two only senator to speak against The student senate Thursday senators sponsoringthe bill, said the change. He said he opposed agreed to add two new poiling she felt adding the new polling jt because of concerns over places for the upcoming student places would make Student logistics and possible ballot body presidential elections. Government more visible. fraud. The new polling places will ''We are here for the sole Mann said he thought be at CEBA and the Education purpose ofserving the students," students should be restricted to Building. The polling place at she said. certain pollingplaces depending the Green Will not be affected. · She denied allegations made on their major, as in the original After an ·amendment, any at the senate's Jan. 17 meeting bill. student can vote at any polling that SG could not pay for the - He also said the bill was place. Prior to that amendment, additional staff and facilities. inappropriate at this time. students were restricted to "I spoke to the people in "Rjghtnow, the system [isn't] specific polling places, charge and there ·is. plenty of brokenenoughforittobefixed," depending on their major. money," she said. he said. The bill making the change President Pro Tern David "[Fall] would be the best time (23-14) passed 34-1. Carls, who also sponsored the to do it." Because stuqent body bill, said the addendum budget Mann also said he was not President Jeff Laing and Vice could cover. the additional againstthechangein.principle. President for Student Affairs expense. ·"I never disagreed with the Lee Tubbs both signed the bill · The addendum budget comes concept of this bill, and I resent Friday, the change will take from activity and service fee the jmplication of people that I place for the presidential income above estimates made do," he said. · elections, scheduled for Feb.18- for the current SG budget. "Ijustdon'tnecessarilytliink 20. However, he refused to, say it should be done now,'·' he said. If either had not signed it by how much money was in the. The senate also voted 25-3 9 a.m. ·Monday, the change addendum budget. · against confirming Tim would not have taken effect until "All we're doing is expanding . ChBrl!!S Morrow/tA::N I HAL t-LUHIUA r-U I UHE this fall's senate elections. the· polling places," Sen. Ted see S~A page 5 .. FLYAWAY James Gostage and Chris Fleagle explain an exhibit presented by ,the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Studentclgainst war ·has car vandaliz·ed; dorm phone broken. by Heidi Steiner .J .J .J STAFF REPORTER UCFpolicechargedastudent under 21 with possession of an AUCFstudent foundhisanti- _ alcoholic beverage Jan. 20. war-decorated car covered with UCF police charged Derek white flour Jan. 23. Giandolfi, 18, with the crime. The student noticed his Officer Hugh Carpenter vandalized car at 6 p.m. in the approached the student at the dirt parking lot next to Seminole intersection of Greek Park Drive Hall. and Gemini Boulevard, near the The student told police he Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity thought the reason for the flour house. was his anti-war and anti- Carpenter approached the President Bush symbols and studentaftertheofficersawhim writings painted on his car. put a cup on the ground and 1,,nanes MorrOW/l..t:N I HAL t-LUHJUA 1-U I UH!: He believes the damage to walk toward the fraternity HERE KITTY KITTY the car occurred after 1 :30 p.m. house. that day, the time he parked his Laurel Hays, a 22-ye_ar-old post- baccalaureate student, pets a rescued cat cared for by Campus car. • Action for Animals. The group rescues stray cats on campus and puts them up for adoption. - see POLICE page. 4 • • 2 The Central Florida Future January 31 , 1991 • • • • . • • • • • • • SIODTH TASII. NO IfTIRJASTI. • • U CF REPRESENTATIVE. RYAN FISH 380-0064 ~ • ~WAYNE DENSCH, INC, 851-7100 _,_ • The Central Florida Future January 31, 1991 3 • Students may ~e able • to get loans in 1 stop: the financial aid office Staff Report brought forth in very, ambiguous COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE terms." "I would have to take a look Students who need a at the whole issue [before government loan for co11ege in commenting]," agreed Michael comingyearsmaynotneedtogo O'Rear, director of financial aid any further than their school's at the University of Texas at financial aid office, the Bush Dallas. · administration proposed Jan. However, "Anytime there fl-Te • 14. sweeping changes, somebody's '.rhe reform, if passed, would goingtogethurt,"O'Rearadded. cut banks out of the college loan In this ·case, that someone business. - ma;v be the bank.s·who now offer .. It would make getting a loan student loans. a lot simpler for students, who · The feder.al government now· have to negotiate federally would not have the.resources to .. guaranteed loans with banks, adequately oversee the program proponents of the idea contend. and therefore would make the . Nancy Robards/GENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE But banking officials argue student loan program more Carlos Arriaga, a junior, presents senior Benjamen. Ungerman with a plaque for being the outst,anding the plan - in which .the complex, said Consumer area squad. comm·ander for Area 8. The AFROTC teams swept the awards at an area competition. _... government would directly give Banking Association President colleges money to loan to Joe Belew. students-wouldactual1ymake "Hopefu11y the admin- Air Force ROTC captures ~ the process harder for students istration will recognize the and effectively put campus problems with this proposal officialsintoaloanbusinessthey and abandon it before don't know how to run. embarrassing themselves by 18 of 21 competition awards · currently,bankslendmoney officially proposing it," Belew and UC-Fs members will be next ye(lr's Angel to, and trytocollectitbackfrom, said. · by Troy A. Pierce CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Flight Region D Headquarters after winning the students. If they can't collect News of the.reform proposal privilege in ARCON competition. · • the money, the· federal camefromtheU.S.Department UCFs Air Fore~ ROTC can boast that its ''We were in competition with eight schools in _government effectively ·repays of Education, which oversees service organization is tops in the state. our region, including Valdosta State and all the the loan to the bank. most federal college programs. The Arnold Air Society (AAS) walked away Florida schools," said Angel FHght Major Stacey The federal government also The proposal, which could be with 18 of 21 major awards at the AAS Area Ripperdan. "It's gratifying to know that hard • pays a bank a fee each time it included in President Bush's Conclave Jan. 11-13 in Clearwater Beach. work pays off." . lends money to. a student. The F~b. 4 official budget request to UCFs AAS beat other AASs from Florida, AAS's awards included: fee represents a bonus for Congress, aims to save at least Georgia and Panama. It took the • Outstanding medium-sized • lending to students, who $1 billion a year in fees and competition's top honor in squadron. , · typically don't qualify for a loan adminis-tration costs, and b'ecoming next.