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Central Florida Future. 1014. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1014 • • • • • Future- Vo lume 23, Number 1o University of Central Florida/Orlando Thursday September 20, 1990 iii UCF gets less­ • ' money from Florida's taxes Government deficit hurts agencies by Mary Watkins students attendingtheuniver­ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE sity. Altman said a similar short­ • Florida Gov. Bob Martinez fall occurred last year, but and his Cabinet restricted all education was spared thanks state agency spending, includ- to excess lottery funds. ing that at UCF. However, Altman said he According to Dr. John Bolte, feels nothing can save educa­ vice president of Administra- tion this time because the debt tion and Finance, UCF's gen- is too large. eral revenue budget suffered Thus UCF administrators almost a 5 percent cut. must abide by budget restric- General revenue is the tions until Sept. 25, when a • money collected from Florida revenue-estimating confer­ Mke PohVCENTRAL FLORIDA FUTU RE taxes. This year ~~~~~~~~~~ ence will take QUITE A HAUL Florida's gen- place. These Student senate candidate David Mann helps set up ballot boxes for elections Tuesday afternoon eral revenues "It's going to slow restrictions on the Student Center Green. Elections were held Tuesday and Wednesday. fell below the progress, but it include a hir- government's ing freeze, re- projections. won't stop it. We still stricted travel • UCF Presi- have a bright future" and purchas- Select students appeal to have dent Steven ing habits. Altman said the According to legislature fell • or. Steven Altman the guidelines, athletic fees removed from tuition approximately UCF President any positions $550 million vacant as of by Hunter Daus dozen actually got their fees waived. short of their expectations. Sept. 1 are not to be filled. CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE To file an appeal, students must fill out an The law prohibits the gov- Exceptions will be made only appeal form available in the Student Accounts ernment to run with a budget for adjunct teachers needed to UCF students who fit certain criteria can office. deficit, thus the state govern- teach scheduled classes. appeal this semester to have their athletic fees The forms will be sent to the Athletic Depart­ ment had to reduce all funding The only travel permitted waived from their tuition. ment for processing, then to a committee, which • to state agencies. must be vital to the university . "One criterion would be a person that is a is made up of various people from Student Ac­ Florida universities fall Bolte said faculty members senior citizen," said Assistant Athletic Director counts, and of Zeleznik himself. under the Education and Gen- cannot attend any profes­ Art Zeleznik. "The other criterion is if a student "The people that are on the committee make eral Budget category. This sional meetings and seminars would demonstrate a severe financial hard­ a determination as to basically whether the budget includes money ex- at this time. ship." appeal fits those two criteria," Zeleznik said. pended to operate state uni- "Some thing5 we consider as This appeal is not to be used in place of Ifthe appeal is approved, it is then sent to the versities. normal maintenance must be financial aid or student loans, but only if the student accounts office where a refund, based Dr. Glenn Cunningham, delayed," Bolte said. student has tried everything and still does not on the applicant's tuition, is authorized. chair of the UCF faculty sen- Bolte said the revenue-esti­ have enough money. One problem with the athletic appeal process ate, said he feels the budget cut mating conference will allow Out of more than 21,000 students at UCF, is that many people confuse it with the process is particularly hard on UCF less than 100 filed appeals, according to • becauseofthelargeincreasein see SHORTFALL page 4 Zeleznik. Out of those applicants, only a few see APPEALS page 4 Fewer use escorts by Heidi Steiner uSure, Humphrey is in custody, but CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE he's only one of eight suspects," Doe­ berly said. "In fact, now is the most dangerous time of all for students to go During the initial publicity of the out because they aren't as cautious as Gainesville murders, the Student Es­ they were before." cort Patrol Service tripled their UCF Police Sgt. Sandra McClendon average work from escorting 25-30 said the recent escort statistics may not .. students a night to escorting almost be as high as during the initial killings . 100 students each night. However, they are higher than usual. However, the number of students "The statistics may have dropped, using their service has now decreased but that is because the campus hys­ to an estimated 40-45 persons a night. teria is calming down," McClendon SEPS Commander Greg Doberly said. "I feel students are still self-con­ said he feels students are not being as science. Even an estimated 45 students • cautious on campus as they should be. a night [getting escorted] is high." "We're very concerned," Doberly UCF Police Chief Richard Turk­ said. "The students out there have a iewicz said another pi:ecaution stu­ false sense of security. As soon as they dents should take is parking closer in walk Oll campus, they think they're the evenings. automatically safe." "The SEPS program is great," Turk­ Doberly said he feels this false sense iewicz said. The SEPS patrollers are of security stems from one suspect of available between 7 p.m. and 12:30 the Gainesville murderers, Edward p.m. Monday through Thursday. Mlke PohVCENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE Humphrey, who is being held in cus­ SEPS patroller Jim Mullen, a senior engineering major, escorts freshman music tody. see ESCORTS page 4 major Sheryl Remekie from her dorm room to the Fine Arts Building. 2 The Central Florida Future September 20, 1990 • • • • THE . • " o, really ... bring your mother" A Welcome Back Party cw • &l ~ • ..... • • • • Ray's Knight Out Pub • (Across from UCF, Next to Pizza Hut) Friday, September 21, 1990 8:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. I $3 Cover • A Benefit 1·foY the Coalition }"for the Homeless. '.of 'Orlan4 J~~\!)l . "~~ • • BU BEER T. Presents: "FIND THE KEG CONTEST" • Winners will be recognized during the "Welcome Back Party" on Friday night. Keep looking and· Good Luck! • Campus Rep: Ryan Fish, Phone # 380-0064 • The Central Florida Future September 20, .1990 3 • Former· UCF president now history teacher • Dr. Trevor Colbourn teaches upper division courses .. by Vicki Paulus Colbourn said he enjoys writing as CENTRAL FLORIDA FlJTURE well as teaching. "I've always wanted to write, it's the Dr. Trevor Colbourn, UCF president nature of a historian," Colbourn said. • before Steven Altman, has returned to At the moment, Colbourn is working UCF as a faculty member. on a book on the changing of a univer­ Many people wonder why someone sity seat. • would step down from the post of a uni­ Colbourn said making a position versity president to an American his­ switch can give you more time for other tory professor. interests. During his term of 11 years, Col­ Colbourn also wrote "The Lamp of • bourn changed the name of the institu­ Experience," "Fame and Founding tion from Florida Technological Uni­ Fathers" and, most recently, "The versity to the University of Central ·Americans: A Brief History." • Florida and brought visibility to the In addition to teaching and writing, campus with the addition of a football Colbourn serves on the Selection program. Committee for the Douglass Adair "Basically, [being president] is not Award given for writingthe best article whatl want to do for the rest of my life," published in the William and Mary Colbourn said. Quarterly. "The president's job is a 24-hour-a­ Colboum said he is proud of the way day job with an eight day week. I left the university is now beginning to turn the place in very good'hands and I have out. no regrets." "[UCFJ has grown into a very good Colbourn teaches upper division institution," he said. "One that stu­ • courses about U.S. history and the dents should be proud of." revolutionary period of the United Besides serving as UCF president, States. Colbourn served as president of San Colbourn said he also plans to teach mego State University and taught at • a course about colonial history next Penn State and Indiana. CFF FILE PHOTO semester. Colbourn received his doctorate in Dr. Trevor Colbourn left the post of university president in 1988 to teach American "I like the classroom and being a American history at Johns Hopkins history courses at UCF and write books on a variety of topics. faculty member," Colbourn said. University in 1953. • TV may be cause of lower verbal SAT scores Staff Report which average verbal scores declined, the SAT and other standardized stu­ teachers and course work that is "not as COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE prompting education experts to look for dent tests. demanding as it should be" for the • scapegoats and standardized test oppo­ The verbal score for the high school decline.