University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 9-17-1991 Central Florida Future, Vol. 24 No. 08, September 17, 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. 24 No. 08, September 17, 1991" (1991). Central Florida Future. 1084. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1084 COLLAGE • 11 OPINION • 8 SPORTS • 16 Student's film premiers Georgia Southem now Knights' defense shuts on campus at Wild Pizza home to tick collection down Valdosta State Thentral Flori Future© Serving The University of Central Florida Since 1968 Vol. 24, No. 8 TUESDAY September 17, 1991 16 Pages State Attorney UCF prescribes drops charges physical therapy 14 agencies pledge $500, 000 by Michelle Wood ruff • in spring theft ·CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE by Bill Cushing In response to the need for health care specialists, CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE UCF may become the first Central Florida institution to offer a bachelor's degree in physical therapy. · . In spite of a recorded confession, a theft of The Fourteen health care agencies have pledged $500,000 Central Florida Future has occurred without any legal and the use of their facilities for out-of-class clinical conviction for the second time in five years. sites if the program is approved by the Board of Re- • Last Feb .. 11, nt least 4,500 issues of the paper were gents. · discovered missing after Jamie Carte, editor in chief, Dr. Jo Edwards, associate dean of the College of received phone calls from erriployees in the administra­ Health and Public Affairs, developed the initial pro- J tion building asking why that morning's issue was . posal for planning which was approved by the board in missing. July. She is also working on the implementation Donna Fitzgerald, financial adviser to the paper, proposal whicn will be presented at the January board said losses totalled more than $1,800 after considering meeting. salaries, commissions and printing costs. "We are pleased to be able to respond to the over­ "The potential revenue loss to advertisers 1s insur­ whelming health care community demand and support mountable," she added. for this program." Edwards said. After notifying cam pus police, stacks of the newspa­ If this final proposal is approved, students will be pers were located in a dumpster near the Student able to register for the program in the fall of 1992. Center. Because losses were more than $300, the Dr. Robert Laird, ·College of Health and Public incident report filed with UCF police was listed as a The Central Florida Future staff and UCF police Affairs. worked with a hired consultant and a task force case of Grand Th€fL under Florida law. found papers in a dumpster. (File Photo1FuruRE) of phy~ical therapjsts to study the need for a physical Carte said the investigation moved slowly until the therapy program in Central Florida. He said the task staff, upon approval from the UCF publications board, force found that the demand far exceeds the supply. posted a $300 reward.for information concerning the Carte does not look at the incident as a prank. "I The force also found that the cost of hiring physical incident. consider it a theft," she said. "A prank is something therapists averages about $40,000 for every vacancy On April 1, UCF Det./Sgt. J. G. Padgett received an that doesn't hurt anybody, and this hurt us." filled in Central Florida. At any one time during the anonymous tip that two students had bragged about The students named in the final report, dated April year, one-fourth of the full-time positions remain theirpartintheincident.AccordingtoPadgett'ssupple­ 24, were Victoria Del Casti11o and Leigh Ann Mell wain. unfilled. mental report on the case, "they (the students impli­ Mcilwain has since graduated, while Del Castillo is The college was prompted to do the study after cated) had been drinking and some time early in the still attending UCF. receiving many phone calls from students interested in morningtheycameup with the idea, as a prank, to take the campus newspapers." THEFT continued page 3 DEGREE continued page 6 Free funds for instruction now, Faculty Senate says ""' ~ . ..fl.· by Robert Warren Jr. stead of scrambling to raise CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE funds. Other issues discussed at the Transfers ofmoney from edu­ Sept. 10 meeting were: cational and general accounts •Administrative liability. '"" should be stopped th is academic • Payroll. year to free funds for instruc­ • The Presidential Search tion, the UCF Faculty Senate Committee. · resolved. • Minority enrollment. Dr. Richard Astro, According to the fac­ provost and vice presi­ ulty, there is a need for dent of academic af­ administrative ac- fairs, pledged to the , countability. Dr. Rosie senate that he will do Joels said there has everything in his been one dean evalua­ power to eliminate tion in six years and no those payments and vice presidential evalu­ transfers when pos­ ation in eight years. sible, but said, "wedon'twantto Joels said the payroll foruni:­ do damage." versity Vice presidents is about Astro said he would meet with $500,000, and more than $2.5 Interim President Robert Bryan million when associates and to discuss the resolution. assistants are included. She said Currently, funds from depart­ the compensation shoul~ be ment accounts are transferred linked with an objective evalua­ to university escrow accounts to tion. NEED A JOB? cover costs of future projects - Dr. Glenn Cunningham, Dave Morrow of Cellular 1 talks to UCF student. Robert Stuart about job opportunities like a new telephone system. chair of the senate, recognized The transfers allow money to be with the company at the Career Expo last week. (Charles K. 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See your dealer for details. • . ' • .. .ar. · Js . - The Central Florida Future September 17, 1991 3 • • • LIFT OFF.I! • . UCF students Dave Cooper and PaµI Kubiak watch the shuttle lift off from · the .Kennedy Space Center. The Space Shuttle Discovery curls out towards its 350-mile-high orbit. The shuttle containing the $500 million Upper Atmosphere Reasearch Satellite went up last Thursday at 1:11 p.m., 14 minutes later than the scheduled time. The satellite will study holes in the ozone layer. Photos by Charles K. Morrow Student G<>vernment,· provost help bail out library by Ericka Newsome. of libraries, said that specifi­ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE cally two-thirds of the Book Other Capital Outlay is used for Recent state budget cuts hit purchasing books and journals. the UCF library hard, but ac­ Since 1988, there has been a 46 tions have been taken to help. percent i11crease in subscrip­ Student Government has tions made by the library for agreed to give $15,000 to the various colleges within the uni­ library in order to pay all stu­ versity. dents workers. In addition, Pro­ The library staff made the vost Richard Astro has put decision to inform each college $500,000 into the library fund. that they would have to cut 15 • Within the last year~ 23 per­ percent of their subscriptions cent of the total library budget thisyear. Thefacultymembers was cut. Because of growing were supplied with lists of sub­ enrollment ancl the budget cuts, scriptions most closely aligned the library is finding it to be with their field. The· library is quite a task to cater to the grow­ taking other courses of action in ing research needs, student in­ order to compensate for the bud­ terests and increasing library get cuts. Many of the jobs within programs. Kristin Ragsdale, a sophomore majoring in hospitality management, studies in a Anne Marie Allison, director LIBRARY continued page 6 Secluded area at the library. (Michael De~oogJFUTURE) THEFT Orlando's state attorney offices, the case incident, UCF police advised that some our.paper from such practices," Carte FROM PAGE 1 was dropped because "it is very question­ sort of disclaimer be made concerning said. ''We had the same incident happen able if the state can prove beyond a The Future, either on the front page or in '88." The two were initially interviewed by reasonable doubt that the defendants on its stands. Although those students were appre- Padgett on April 8 at which time both 'stole' newspapers that were to be dis­ "We did that last September," she bended "red-handed,"the editors opted "emphatically denied any participation tributed free of charge to anybody who said.