Central Florida Future, Vol. 21 No. 43, February 16, 1989
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Central Florida Future. 904. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/904 Central Florida Future e 1998 The Central Florida Future Volume 21, Number 43 University of Central Florida/Orlando Thursday February 16, 1989 Schmidt and Rausch face run-off Wendrzyk gives endorsement to Rausch by Lance Turner Rausch. CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE "I have no respect for him (Schmidt) after this campaign," Wendrzyk said. Hang on to your picture IDs; the "It's very important that a person does student ·body presidential elections not say one thing and do the other." are not over yet. Having supported Wendryzk in his The Fred Schmidt I Christine 1988 campaign for student body presi Toutikian and Scott Rausch I Matt dent, Schmidt said he could find no Boucher tickets must face each other reason for Wendrzyk's change of politi in a run-off election next week. cal allies. Schmidt grabbed 1,213 votes to lead ''Nothing during this race that we've the field, but fell short of an outright done would offend anyone," Schmidt victory by 72 votes. Rausch finished said. ''We've respected everyone's cam second with 885 votes. paigning and everyone's campaign The Dash Wendrzyk I Sandy materials, which hasn't been recipro- Funderburke ticket ended up over 416 votes behind Rausch. However, SEE ELECTION PAGE 5 Wendrzyk's strong sup- port on the Daytona cam pus proved to be the cru Election Results · .. cial factor responsible for denying any candidate a There will be a run-off election between the majority. Schmidt/Toutikian and Rausch/Boucher tickets According to Election since neither received 50 percent plus one of the Chief Lori Dickes, "in 2,567 votes cast. order for a candidate to win on this campus, he •schmidt!Toutikian has to get 50 percent plus D Rausch/Boucher one vote. And that did not occur." D Wendrzyk/Funderburke Voter turnout was up ® over last year, with 14.6 percent of UCFs 1 7 ,551 students casting ballots. Only 12.5 percent turned out last year. Showing great dissat isfaction with Schmidt, R Scott Homer/CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Wendrzyk announced Note: that he would be throw Percentages do not total 100 because of rounding. After hearing the election results, student body presidential candidate Dash Wen ing all his support behind drzyk endorses Scott Rausch for the run-off election against Fred Schmidt. Friends of strays show claws New dorm site: by Esta Krukin Alafaya and Univ. CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE by Jamie Carte The round-up of stray, unlicensed cats now CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE roaming the UCF campus bas been delayed due to opposition by students and Orlando residents. The new UCF dormitory will be built on the corner The collection, originally scheduled to begin on of University and Alafaya behind the Chevron sta Monday, was postponed after numerous calls from tion, instead of near Lake Claire, as originally pro students and members of Central Florida Action posed. on Animals (CFAA), a local animal rights group. The 520-room, $7 million "Collegiate Village Inn" SEE DELAY PAGE 4 will "become a reality" in the fall of 1990, according to George Pegram, spokesman for Demetree Build ers Inc. of Orlando. Mr. Kitty has a home According to the Dec. 1 edition of The Central by R. Scott Horner Florida Future, the dormitory was to have been built CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE between the scholarship house and Green Park on UCF property. It would have been leased to a private Mr. Kitty is not dead. company that would have owned and managed the He is alive and well and staying at his new home dorm. which he shares with Dr. Jean Kijek, UCFnursing The new dormitory will have no direct association department chair. R. Scott Hom:::r/CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE with the UCF Housing Department and will be built • Mr. Kitty is the rusty-colored tom cat who lived Campus cats are often seen near dormitories, where on private property. The "Lake Claire" plan, was proposed by Colle- SEE KITIY PAGE 7 they live off of student handouts. SEE DORM PAGE 6 SPORTS CONFETTI NEWS CLIPS 3 • The UCF men's basket • The Central Florida Fu OPINION 8 ball team defeated North ture explores the interna ern Illinois Monday and the tional music of Up With COMICS 9 Lady Knights' basketball People and local music by team returns from an the Granddads. Confetti CLASSIFIED 10 eight-game trip. to Florida movie reviewers say International University. thumbs down to' Fly 2.' SPORTS 12 2, The Central Florida Future, Fehr• 1ary 16, 1989 EIN • • • • • • • • • Any beer brewed with natural hops has a natural enemy. The sun. Because when exposed to light, it takes on a "skunky" smell. And a worse taste. Bud's one beer that's made the natural way. With no additives or preservatives. So we make sure it never sees the light of day. It's brewed in the dark. And packaged in a brown bottle, to keep it that way. ft~ .. So next time you reach for a cold Bud, you can count on L e.\)1'®~ that consistently clean, crisp taste. Because quality isn't 1~\~ 11'~ t" something we take lightly. l1W a 1~V• Light protection. It's just one of the reasons why fQ~ Budweiser has remained the King of Beers for over 11 Oyears. • .. • • • The Central Florida Future, February 16, 1989, 3 Circle K raises $300 with '·a Mile of Money' Foundation and McDonald's, by Melissa Baio is holding a two-part drive to · CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE attract donatfons. The first partof the drive, "a On Feb. 15, the Circle K Mile of Money", was held on Club kicked off a fund raiser to the UCF campus. The mem try to collect $100,000 for Judy bers of the club stretched a Gibson, a 22-year-old Colonial tape from the gym to the cafe High School graduate who teria, with four booths set up needs a heart-lung trans at various points along the plant. way. Students bought Gibson, suffers from a ter heart-shaped cards with their minal condition known as pri name and donation recorded mary pulmonary hyper-ten on it. The cards were attached sion (PPR). It is caused by the to the tape and will be given to use of birth control pills at too Gibson. ''We raised around early an age. $300," said Shawn Robinson, Gibson began taking. the President of Circle K. "It's ·medication at thirteen, to con nowhere in the neighborhood trol another heal th problem. of what she needs, but it's The medication caused "mas something, anyway. sive blQod clots, the destruc Robinson added that .the tion of one Jung, and severe 'Mile of Money' event was in damage of her heart and other tended mainly to make the Jung," according to her public aware of Gibson's mother, Sally Gibson. plight. He said his group ex The down payment for pects to raise more money Gibson's surgery will cost during the second part of the $30,000, and the total cost is drive, a Feb. 18 carnival near estimated at $300,000. Gibson the McDonald's across from Eric Parsons/CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE cannot receive a transplan UCF. Games, an auction, face OUTDOOR JAZZ until financial requirements painting, and raffle drawings are met. are among the activities The Vic Kusik Trio witll Vic Kusik on Guitar, Robert Passons on sax and Ron Gilotti on bass performed The Circle K Club, working planned between 9 a.m. and on the green Tuesday for the UCF students who came out to vote. with the Nielsen Transplant 5:30p.m. Newschps~, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • MISSING STUDENT covered on and near the Expo Centre. Pound in the Dec. 25 edition of business and related profes Tiffany L. Sessions, a 20- Corvallis campus during the The Orlando Chapter of the The Chicago Sun-Times. sional fields. The deadline is year-old University of Florida last month. One of them, a pipe Society for Technical Writing Visiting assistant professor March 1. student, disappeared Feb. 9 bomb, exploded, blasting a Conference and UCF are host Jon Harrington, along with The Uruversity of Central after telling her roommate she dumpster and a car nearby. ing this year's event. The two other authors, edited and Florida Women's Club is giv was going out for a walk. Oregon State is not the only theme is "Technology and the published New Visions: Fic ing a scholarship to female Sessions was last seen campus to have problems with Technical Communicator." tion by Florida Writers. Har students who either express a wearing red sweat pants, a explosives. Bomb threats have Major topics to be addressed rington also included a short financial need, are returning long-sleeved white pullover disrnpted Pacific Union Col are the challenges and prob story titled "The Fence" in the after a significant time lapse sweat shirt with grey horizon lege, Michigan State Univer lems of emerging technologies publication.