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*1 The Independent TUJES)A Y Florida Alligator JUY1.17 VOL. 67, NO. 154 e hed by Compus oomntoons Inc Go nesma FIondo Ndi a sfico scoat. w,14 th Un *, iy af Fondo I Housing Code Uncorrected violations breed roaches, flies and rots (see related storv ;puge II) By JOSE SAIEGO Alligator Staff Wri ter EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the first hna threat part .rln om suab.Iand&d hou.iu I. GOsnenlille, In It, she ense mnd history of Gtu.sv li'. h.Sing pnhbhe .r. exaamIned. Louise Williams says she is scared 10tICs her bathroom alone at night because t he floor might collapse under her. [he floor is soggy Irom the constant moisture coming from a leaky toilet. THlE FLOOR immediately below the ho0le is so rotted and decayed that it is already beginning to give way under the weight ol those who use it To the right of the toilet is a hole in the w.aI roughly three feet in diameter only parlialh covered with a piece .4 plywood. fhr-ough it you can 'cc t he wall of the lex, room. I he bathroom smells uS a combmiat 'On urine and mildew, Ihe unpleasant odor imgers even as you ceave. THERE ARE CRACKS which run along the entire edge ol the bathtub and around t fixtures. But her problems do not stop there Her rented brick home at 1756 N E. Aye. 'shich she occupies with her five Krand- children has no 'screens on several ot its phoso by 0o5 ipper KITCHEN WINDOW LACKS SCREENJ cooking orno usnprotected from 11wes Bond surplus means possible tuition slash By KEVIN BLOOM fmay be used to retire the bonds early which AIlwtor Staff Writer would reduce the student tuition money used to pay bor the bonds. A reduction of tuition rates may still be an York said the committee'\ report will alternative to the proposed mass seating include the amount tuition can be reduced if facility at UF. such a possibility exists. A Board of Regents Finance Committee is STUDENT 30DY Preskdent Jini Etton currently studying student building bonds to said if a tuition reducdlo. was possible he determine if they can be retired early to Iowect would support it. student tuition. State Sen. Robert Graham. D-Miani ALL NINE state university presidents Lakes. Chairman of the Senate Eudeation supported the use of en estimated 125 million Committee said he supports using the surplus ci surplus funds for non-academic buildings revenue so speed up the retirement of the at a Council ol Presidents meeting in bond issue and upgrading laboratory and Tallahassee last ,.eek. classroom facilities. The surplus 'as generated by student Chairman of the House Education tuition payments of I.ll per qiater for the Committee Richard Hodes. fl-Tampa, said he student building fund and 11.23 for the supported the use of the money icr non- capital outlay bond. academic buildings but 'as disappointed that An unexpected tnrollnment increase it had not been brought to his attention generated more than enough to make luring recent legislative budget heorhmgs. payments on honds already issued to fiance "SINCE the revenue is generated lby unnersity system collstrUCtiOnl. 'tudent mane. I can't %Ce spending it On State University Systenm Chancellor E.f academic facilities. however w.c were not York said the committee will e explore the ai.are oh the surplus and that could ha'e possibility ol usmng the surplus revenue to pal ligured into the budger" Hodes said. off the remaining debt instead ci tar new Hodes said the failure ot the Beard ot buildings. Regents to inform the legislature tould "THE ISSUE a oh t'sicent importance to constitute a "breach cf taith" and could photo by jo. .klppu explore all the possibilies i ork said. iwe want to be agare of all our options." POTTING FLOOffiNG AND RUSTING FREEZER lic pa'e sx) Surplus generated by past tuition payments cod. violations present safety hozord. for residents Fog. 2. TheIndep.ndentSorid.Mltgeio. lu.d.y July ' 9/s Soul T ravel Rising above the physical worid throughEckankar By LINDAWISNIEWSKI planes, one of which is the astral plane. Alligator Staff Wrdter Dalton said. The astral plane rules the emotions within A Lakeland plastics manufacturer claims man, he said. he has "heard the sounds of the Go d-world." BARRY STILLMAN, a fifth grader. said A layout editor for the Florida Ti- he has been an Eckist for 14 months but said I Union in Jacksonville says people "have he does not try to convert his classmates at ceased to look like people' but now look like school to his new-round religion. "billions and billions of Fourth of July "I don't say 'Hey man. wanna camn about spurkiers coming together." Ecks because I don't want to push them." AN Il-YEAR-OWD faith grader fron, Stiliman said. Jacksonvdlle claims his soul travels to Stiliman was one of several perforers mountains, rivets and streams while he siceps. during the two-day Eckasikar seminar and These arn not excerpts from a psychiatrist's recited atn original poem entitled "Souls of log, but the experiences of Florida Eckists, Seekers." tbllowers of Eckankar - 'the ancient science The chubby, brown-haired boy told the of soul travel." audience of approximately 70 people that - . - FLORIDIANS with similar experiences "there are two main seekers - one is positive met for a seminar in the Flaglar Inn con- and the other is negative. Te positive reacth. frence room last month to watch musical and the sublime but the negative seeks material dramatic presentations by frilow "Eckists." things." JOHN McGEE. the plastic manufacturer. AT TUE END of the pout, the Il-year-old explained the sounds he has heard since he advised his audience to 'rtleac yourself from became a. Eckist three year. ago. your problems" by becoming * "positive "The first Sound I heard is the real Eck seeker" while a proud Frank Stiliman wat. sound of thunder and lightning." McGee died hi. son perfornt. said. "Rarry is one of the younger followers of Since his first experience of hearing Eck Eckankar." Stillman said. sounds. McGee claims tie has also benrd "the Dr. Angel Thgudla, a physician frmm sound of the sea" and 'tinkling bells." Titusyille. sang -n original pitar lullaby, Everyone, whether he is an Eckist or not. telling of his experiences with soul travel. Can hemr the 'sounds of the God-world." he "THE FIRST experience of soul travel said. comes in a drank state - this capacity must e& "You're hearing the sounds now - you just be used to travel to the God's world and not don't realize it because you haven't separated anywhere else," Thgudin said. - yourself from the lower world to rise above the The teaching, of fEckankar have existed for matter world." McGee said. 'millions .1 years" but it was not until 1%g1 JOHN DALTON, the layout editor, has had that Eckankar became known, throughout other "rather dramatic experience&" besides the world, M'chael Don., Seminar director. seeing people as "Feirth, of July sparkler." said. since he became an Eckist seven years ago. There are now approximately three million "Ote night I was chanting "Ho' (the Eckists in the world, Boaz said. ancient name tfor God) and I was into it for ECKAA'KAR, which means "the way of the about 2l or .30 minutes. Then I began to feel eternal". can "work through us to perforir like something was rubbing against me and whatever changes it deems best." Roar. when I looked to see what it was, it was the adding that Paul Twitch~ell, the "living Eck ceiling." Dalton said. master." determines the plane a person's soul Dalton said when he looked down from the has reached. K ceiling he could still see his body sitting in his Etch new follower of Eckankar receives a easy chair where he was chanting. monthly "discourse" or booklet of teachings skeptical of the teachings of Ek. HAYWOOD SAID "one week later to tice WHEN DALTON SAW his body in the in the mail front the Eck master. Ronz said. "I thought to myself Ibils had better be for very day' she received a letter from the livin chair he said became frightend and his Each succeeding discourse contains real or I'm gonna expose it,'" the housewife Eck master telling her she was ready lt hcr 'astral soul" immediately jumped back into Eckankar material of increasing levels of dif- from Lighthouse Point, said. first discourse. his chair. ficulty. Haywood said she asked "the supreme of According to the spiritual ONE OF teaching of THE SPEAKERS during the goodness, loving kindness and mercy" for a "I've been a follower of Eck Eckankar, the soul can be transported to five seminar. Peppi Haywood, said at first she was sign that Eckankar was "icr real." H aywood said. 'Father of the Pill' runs UF women'sclinic By DiLL BEELOW "We're pleased to have a guy with this kind of cla an s ad WOtlent in need of gyneologlcei itrvIce to Shands. Now, the Ains. SeaMf Wrier. backpound," he said. health service is "gpiqto promid Thbe health service has been trying to fill this spcal cass set up frt majority of Dr. Robert Laurie, father of Ovrd., the largest selling bith creased posftion for about a year. The lass five month were girls op campus." he said.prvt Sasra explained that -anae a pl control pill, will begin today as director of UP Women's spent recruitIng Laurie, Shasra said. yini to pfltCOlogiUt Health Care Clinic at Student Health Services.