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Central Florida Future. 626. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/626 CHIVES • • he Central Florida Future Volume 18 Number 44 University of Central Florida/Orlando Th.ursday April 17, 1986 ~ • ' I . _ . · . · · . · Libya: UGF'.s · r~action " ~ - · : " ·. · ; -, -. : >. - - •• · • HOW THE The attack: what does UCF think? DRAFT woRKs . · 0 Males 16-yeors.old register with selective service. Opinions differ Students worry over U.S. attack about the draft by Debbie Dent by Tim Ball and Tim Ball NEWS EDITOR CENTRAL FLQRIDA FUTURE 6 War or a state of emergency is declored. The United States attack The United States' involve on Libya has generated of a ment in the Mediterranean myriad of opinions umong this week has many students Central Floridians regarding thinking about the possibility the military action. of a military draft being in Some political science stituted in this country. professors on campus said While the United States re .. they foel that the United quires all males to register States should have taken with the Selective Service Ad other peaceful actions before ministration when they turn attacking Libya. 18, the actual drafting of in Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese dividuals can not take place iJ The Department ot Defense asks ·said the attack "was clearly without an act of Congress. the selective service for men. for Reagan and the American "In order to go to draft public's ego." status, there would have to be She said that Reagan has national emergency or state public support now, but of war declared,'' Linda when Americans realize what Stalzey of Selective Service could reswt from the attack, said. Congress has the sole they might change their right to make such declara minds. tions. 9 The selective selVice computer ''I think this will cause a Stalzey added that only a selects o random date. " spiraling in terrorist Bledsoe Nelson Mccollum small percentage of the U.S. attacks," Johnson Freese . male population is in viola said. "It is in our ·ballpark. Is Reagan going must ''realize that terrorism is uncontrollable tion of registration laws. to keep doing this?" she asked. and difficult to respond to. We should have "About 99 percent of all Dr. Mark Stern said he believes that the analyzed what the consequences are.'' draft-eligible men are United States should have gone through the Bledsoe said that we may have encouraged registered,'' she said. United Nations first. "We didn't go through more terrorism and their may be an outbreak David Dickerson, a the legal actions,'' he said. of violence. spokesman for Florida Con 1:1 AU men 2Q..yeors-dd or older Although Stern disagrees with the attack, He added that he thinks President Reagan gressman Bill Nelson, said born on the date that the com he said the United States has a right to self has boxed himself in because he may have to the congressman doesn't puter picks receive on inciJcticil protection. letter from the amed seMces. Dr. Robert Bledsoe said that Americans SEE REACTIONS, PAGE 3 SEE DRAFT, PAGE 4 Jeff Gllck/Central Florido Future • Some teachers still hard to understand-students • by Maryann L. Cross · communication problem,'' Pellerin CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE said. When the problem cannot be resolved between the student and the Students at UCF are still having . instructor, the next step is to go to problems understanding their the department chairman. But some instructors. students do not like to complain for According to student Senator fear that it wi.11 hurt their grade. 'Melissa Pellerin, several students Students have another way to have spoken to her this semester express their dissatisfaction with an concerning in~tructors who are instructor. Pellerin believes that Adam Chnan/Cenlral Florida Future difficult to understand. Pellerin said student evaluations can be an Auto statement she 'advises the student to take the effective way for students to voice This driver has something to say with his license plate. problem to the instructor first. their complaints. "By taking this first step, the student alerts the instructor to the SEE ACCENTS, PAGE 4 • This weather stuff is get 1'e\w cli}'.li 3 ting so easy that anyone could do this job. We're still Opinioo 7 expecting mostly sunny skies and warm weather Clas.5ified 8 with a slight chance of rain • in the evenings. Highs will Sports 12 SUNNY be in the high 80s and lows Sports Confetti in the ,p'/ Hig~1 'b7 Low 70 10s. Black and Gold game 60s' fashions make a TO ADVERTISE CALL 275·2865 • Saturday. 12 comeback.Inside 2, The Central Florida Future, April 17 , 1986 Black and.gold . Spring Football '1 in -· I game for : number b . O~ando Stadium 7:00 p.m. April 19 April 18 Friday • 7:00p.m. Home field ·;.iii~~;;~-~~~==::.::;.:;;.;;;;m _____________ • State spending students' money illegally . college's efforts to make the refunds cost of education here," said Ed Staff Report "The only problem have "apparently not been enough,"· Poppel, assistant vice president of COUEGE PRESS SERVICE Carson said. administrative affairs 'at the we run into is when In all, the schools have University of Florida.· Some of Florida's nine state accumulated about $680,000 in The state comptroller has ordered universities and numerous a student has unclaimed tuition and fee UF to reliquish about $166,000, an • community colleges have illegally overpayments since 1971. amount Poppel says was easily and been using more than a half million moved and hasn't Until this year, the schools innocently accrued. dollars in tuition fee overpayments funneled the money into their "We register about a million credit that the state says now must be left their new operating budgets, a practice that hours a year, and it doesn't take that' returned to its rightful owners. address with the Carson says violates Florida's many overpayments of $2 or $10 or "This money belongs to former unclaimed-property law. 50 cents to add up," he said. students," said Harry Carson, university." "No matter how noble their plans UF has been in the practice of director of the state's abandoned on how to spend that money, it's informing students of the property department. "And the state ·Linda Bonta, against the law," he said "They were overpayments, Poppel said, but many is ~tanding in their shoes to ensure UCF associate ·extinguishing a property right, students never picked up their they get it back.'' creating their own laws." . checks. Overpayments are common at controller Administrators say they were just At UCF, Associate Controller schools that base fees on credit-hour interpreting the l~w a bit differently. Linda Bonta said the school has loads, as students who drop courses refunds. "We looked at the fee • in mid-semester are often due In the past 15 years, Florida's overpayments as an offsett to the low SEE REFUNDS, PAGE 5 Once-peaceful . Budget is • topic again student protests in Senate getting.violent Stan Report • CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE by Jessica Snyder COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE The student Senate will • continue today debate that Anti-apartheid protests escalated into angry, began last week over next sometimes violent, confrontations on campuses year's Strident Government across the nation last week as student protestors budget. Over $1 million is on clashed with both authorities and right-wing the line as the senators decide student groups. , how students' activity and In what may have been the worst incident, service fees will be spent from • dozens of students and campus police were and Exam cram Donna Lindsey/Central Florida Future July 1986 to June 1987 . injured 150 people arrested during two pre-dawn TheSenate meetingwill at 3 Two students find it's easier to study for exams under the shade of a tree raids of a shanty town built on the Univeristy of p.m. in the Engineering California campus in Berkeley. near the reflecting pond. Auditorium. As always, "The police were extremely brutal," said John anyone may attend. · Hurley, a Berkeley junior. "A lot of my friends got their faces cut by police slamming them down on the pavement.~' . REACTIONS Until now a mannered, business-like protest FROM PAGE l movement, the anti-aprtheid demonstrations of last week more closely resembled the heated, tense riots of the sixties, when campus opinion was respond to the next act. polarized. Khadafy has also boxed himself in by Earlier at Berkeley, campus police conducted a 1 encouraging terrorism, Bledsoe said. a.m. raid on a "shantytown" built to symbolize the "We have encouraged Arab allies to rally behind plight of South Africa's black citizens, tearing Libya" with our middle east policy, Bledsoe said. down the structures and uprooting some 200 He suggested that the U.S. should have students camping in the area. Chancellor Ira publicized evidence of Khadafy's involvement with Heyman said the structures were a fire hazard and terrorism attacks. the protestors were "inviting force." If we had shown our allies the evidence, Bledsoe Donna Lindsey/Central Florida Future 1 Nationwide, such protests seemed to p~ak during said, ·they could 'have taken a firmer stand.