No April WE’RE Fools’ this time. {BACK!} April www.unfspinnaker.com 8 Volume 32, Issue 26 2009 Wednesday STUDENT UNION First on his list: It’s opening in May. Get ready with an PAGE in-depth section of the new building, hire new coach Moon hires Driscoll as head basketball coach E1 BY JOHN WEIDNER tremendous leader and some- SPORTS EDITOR body who is respected by both his peers and players. A new Matthew Driscoll was an im- era has begun for UNF Athletics portant member of the Baylor with all of our programs becom- University men’s basketball ing full-fledged NCAA Division coaching staff, helping the pro- I members next season, and a gram rise through both good new era has begun for UNF bas- and bad times. ketball as well.” Now, he will try to give UNF Driscoll comes to UNF after a revival of its own. helping lead Baylor to two con- Two secutive post-season appearanc- months on es in the last two years after the the job as school suffered a 19-year post- UNF Athletic season drought and a tragic oc- Director, currence. Lee Moon In 2003, a member of Baylor’s introduced basketball team was murdered Baylor as- by an ex-teammate, which cause sistant coach several rifts in the program and Matthew at the university. Driscoll Driscoll “The thing I liked about as UNF’s [Driscoll] is that he went into fifth men’s basketball head an unbelievable difficult situa- coach in program history. tion at Baylor, and they cleaned • Map • Driscoll inherits UNF’s pro- it up,” Moon said. “They did it gram, which finished the 2008- the right way at a good, strong 2009 season with an 8-22 record academic school, and that told • Green standards • and amassed a 98-186 record me he knew how to build a pro- during the last 10 years. gram. As I looked at the total • Restaurant Guide • “We are extremely excited package, that was a big part of to welcome Coach Driscoll to [why UNF is hiring him].” • Q&A with Director Justin Camputaro • Photos • the UNF family,” Moon said in a press release. “He is a See COACH, page 18 � SPINNAKER SPEAKS WITH JOHN DELANEY Delaney plans to minimize budget cuts n October, President John Delaney assumed the position of In- throughout the state. Delaney said most legislators he became terim Chancellor of the Florida Board of Governors, the group familiar with were nearing the end of their terms, and developing I of university presidents responsible for the strategic planning relations with legislators was beneficial to UNF. of State University System resources. The Spinnaker recently spoke with Delaney to discuss how UNF In that role, Delaney was able to get an inside view of the and other state universities are dealing with the cuts and how legislative processes in Tallahassee that affect college students students can expect to be affected by further cuts. The Florida Senate recently approved Talks of state budget cuts have been When will UNF really get hit by budget a bill to allow each state university the prominent news for many public sectors. cuts, and how are state universities going power to raise tuition according to its Are cuts to higher education harmful to deal with them? needs. What is the advantage, and how because a large portion of the university will UNF use that freedom? budget is subsidized by the state? We’ve already been cut nearly 10 per- cent during the last two years. Next year, Tuition in Florida is lowest in the Yes. Because tuition is so low, when it appears the House and the Senate are country. If we raise tuition 15 percent per the state cuts its subsidy, we are impacted. going to cut us in the low single digits. I year, it would take 7 to 9 years to even get When you take into account federal and think students by-in-large shouldn’t feel to the national average. state financial scholarships, Florida stu- an impact, although it could be harder The bill allows each university to dents are paying about 10 percent of their to get into classes. We don’t want to lay determine what the market will bear and education. people off, and we’ve determined that balance that against the needs of faculty: In other states, you can just flip those one way to cut a budget is to lay off the adding sections, giving pay raises, hiring figures. In Ohio and Michigan, it’s about most recent hires. advisors, shrinking and helping speed-up 80 percent tuition and 20 percent state- A second way would be to eliminate graduation rates. subsidized. If we doubled our tuition, we a department or major. A number of We weren’t able to give raises last year would be at the national average. So I ask universities are looking at doing both, and this year, but in the four previous students, “What should you pay?” There’s but we don’t want to do either. We think years, we gave biggest pay raises of any a focus on the increases, but what’s the the majors we offer are appropriate for a university in the system, but we would like right price? What should a student pay? SPINNAKER ARCHIVE university of our size. You can cut a to pay our faculty more. Thirty percent of the budget is paid by program overnight, but it takes a long tuition, but 20 percent of that is still com- time to build them up. ing from the government, so the aver- age student is actually paying about 10 See DELANEY, page 7 � percent of the cost. DENIED RUGBY page 19 Student loans decrease, page 3 Ben Folds concert photos and art, page 11 PaGE 2 WEDNESDay, APRIL 8, 2009 NEWS QUESTION OF THE WEEK If you could take any class not already offered, what would it be? w THOMAS CORD LINDSEY DEREK KA T HY BRADLEY MCCOY PA T ILLO TOKAR TOURING SENIOR , SENIOR , SO P HOMORE , FRE S HMAN , JUNIOR , PS YCHOLOGY CRIMINAL JU S TICE UNDECIDED BIOLOGY PS YCHOLOGY “Ballroom dancing. I “Cooking. I’m a big “It would be cool if “I would take a “Maybe a sociology took it once at FCCJ, fan of the Food they had some sort cooking class. I cook class about how the and I want to take it Network channel and of veterinary-type a lot, and it would social environment over here, but they Bobby Flay.” classes.” further my skills.” affects fashion trends don’t offer classes like in history.” that.” Compiled by April Schulhauser. 7-DAY POLICE BEAT FORECAST THURSDAY APRIL 9 March 26 – April 3 Partly Cloudy 1 March 26 – hua in her arms, 79/62 Accidental Injury smashing the dog (Stadium7 Soccer between her and RAIN: 10% Field) – UPD was her boyfriend. dispatched to a The female stu- 1 student who com- dent was exces- plained of severe sively argumenta- back pain. tive and did not FRIDAY APRIL 10 While playing cooperate with soccer he tried the UPD. to use his chest She was then Cloudy to hit a soccer handcuffed for 81/66 ball when he her own safety RAIN: 20% collapsed to the and later trans- ground. Rescue 59 ported by her transported the friend to an un- student to the St. known location. Luke’s Hospital.8 The UNF student was referred to SATURDAY APRIL 11 2 March 27 – Pet- Student Conduct. ty Theft (Building Isolated 6) – A UNF em- 4 April 2 – Petty ployee reported a Theft (Building T-Storms key missing from 41) – A student 84/65 her key chain. parked his motor- RAIN: 30% The key accessed bike on a desig- the second9 floor nated motorcycle of the Fine Arts parking area. Center. He placed his 10 helmet on the SUNDAY APRIL 12 3 March 28 ground under- – Disorderly neath his motor- Partly 4 2 Conduct (Building cycle and left to 5 X) – Resident As- go to class. Cloudy sistants reacted to Upon his arriv- 82/68 a loud noise that al, he found the RAIN: 10% sounded like a helmet missing. dog yelping com- The estimated ing from one of cost of the helmet the dorm rooms. was $110. When11 they MONDAY APRIL 13 approached the 5 April 3 – Petty 3 residents, they Theft (Building Mostly found out12 that 41) – A student the couple, with who left the com- Cloudy one student visit- puter lab to make 81/67 ing from Florida a short phone call RAIN: 10% Atlantic Univer- returned to her sity, was heavily computer and intoxicated and found out that had been having somebody had a loud disagree- taken a black zip TUESDAY APRIL 14 ment. bag out of her UPD later purse. Isolated inquired about It contained the incident. The the student’s cred- T-Storms male student it card, driver’s 81/66 claimed that while license, five dol- RAIN: 30% he was sitting at lars cash and her the computer, his student ID. girlfriend stepped and fell on him Compiled by with a chihua- Andrea Farah. WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 Scattered Miles traveled by Approximate number of Showers Last week by the banned North students camped near 81/64 Korean missile Building 45 April 1 to RAIN: 30% the numbers 2,000 before landing in 25 raise awareness for the Pacific Ocean. women’s rights in Congo. For updated Each week the Spinnaker staff reports what’s going on around Wet, dreary and rainy days NCAA Division I men’s weather, visit campus: the good and the bad.