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Central Florida Future. 621. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/621 • ' he Central Florida ..Future University of Central Florida/Orlando Tu esday Apn.1 l , 1986 • Regents: students dig,deeper U-,;i1veRsrfv '(if; c·E:NTRA( .·fLOR,tDA ~·· · -~ •~ANce . & ' A<;cduijit~!i ¢R~Anoo Ft ": by Tim Ball ;.,,.,,; .. V'·=·.. ;.;.:.···.~---~· ·.~~ . ...:~.--.:;:·~~-~.;::.:·····. NEWS EDITOR Cl & COL ; -,. The Board of Regents ~· A T E TIME Thursday unanimously h A TE AM OUNT approved a tuition increase of 25 percent to be put into effect gradually over the next five years. "What we're trying to do is bring lower level tuition up to the level of upper division,'' • Orlando Regent Joan Ruffier said. She further e~plained .. • • •It ' ;,. r i • ,. • 1 that the BOR eventually wants tuition in the summer to be the same as fall and spring. AM l WA 1 11E n "We'd like to see students ---- F ~ IO BY C HEC K paying for 25 percent of tneir -------- - +- ---- - - ----- PAID BY CA~H education," Ruffier said. "But we don't want to deny SEE TUITION, PAGE 4 I Discoveries I Vote! Vote! Vote! I a Anli·abortion groups No foolin'. ifs time to vote. Drop by that festive looking yellow tent on· the -Engineering Green today etween 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. It takes only a few minutes and it's gaining ground quite painless. If you can't vote today, the tent will also be open during the same hours tomorrow. So there, t;>y Beth Carran Poole you've got no excuse to miss your chance to vote. DISCOVERIES EDITOR "There is no Look out for a special election edition of The Central Florido Future on Thursday. Anti-abortion groups are striving answering to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's l 978 ruling in favor of abortion, and bigotedness." pro-abortion groups are afraid they will succeed. ·Patte Martin, ·Prior to 1973.' each state had its director or Birth Control own abortion laws. Thirty-two Center, Inc. prohibited it or allowed abortion only when a woman's life was threatened,. Fourteen permitted it in cases of rape and incest or to av0id genetic defects abortions were "back-alley or protect a woman's health. Four butcheries,·· she said, performed legalized it in almost all cases. In under unsanitary conditions by 1973, the Supreme Court declared all untrained people. Others were self­ but the least restrictive laws induced, often using coat hangers or unconstitutional under the right to swallowing quinine or Lysol. privacy. It also said a woman could The 1973 ruling resulted from the obtain an abortion without her 1969 arrest of a man for teaching husband's or parents' consent. students about contraceptives. Pa tie Martin, director of Birth Martin said Bill Baird had been in the Control Center Inc., Orlando, said the forefront of the pro-abortion and pro­ number of illegal abortions performed contraceptive movements since a before 1973 is estimated to be about woman who had attempted an t.he same as the number now abortion with a coat hanger fell performed legally. She said that prior screaming into his arms and died Donna Lindsey/Central Florido Future to 1973, however, abortion was the while he was visiting a hospital. Everybody's a fan most dangerous medical procedure, Pro-abortionist.s now fear the These kids from UCF's Creative School showed their support for the baseball and is now considered the safest type team lasf week. of surgery. Many of the illegal SEE ABORTION, PAGE 5 • As we head into April, the weather is looking wonder­ 1'ews diµ; 3 ful. Shorts are in style and the sun should be out most Opinirn 6 of the time to put a tan on those lilly white legs. Highs ~ed 8 will be in the low 80s and lows will be in the low 60s Sports 12 BEAUTIFUL Opinion Sports with 'tlear to partly cloudy ~p'3 High 82 Low 61 skies. Newsday is back and better UCF baseball, the road to TO ADVERTISE CALL 275·2865 . than ever.1 6 the record. 12 21 The Central Florida Future, Aprll 1, 1986 GREEKS GO FOR THE RECORD KL LAE • I lTKA • I AXA cP68 lTB<P . 666 .· . • ~"' /\. !1GREEK WEEK • ~I 1986 UCF Tues. Blood Drive . Kick-Off Party in SCA beginning at 7:30 with Musical .Chairs game Wed~ Blood Drive Banner Competition in cafeteria · Greek Sing.in SCA beginning at 7:00 pm. Thurs. Dance Marathon in SCA from 12 pm to 12· am to benifit March of Dimes I . Fri. Alcohol Awareness Road Rally beginning at 12:30 pm by the • Enginee.ring Green Greek Games( Part 1) on the SC Green • . Dizzy Bat Relay a t La k e CI a I.re Tug 1. · Egg Toss Relay • . Chenot Race Mattress Race· · beg1nn1ng at 1:00 pm • Sat. Theme party in SCA beginning at 9 pm FREE ADMISSION . GREEK GAMES(Part 2) beginning at • 9 am at Lake Claire Awards Party with the SAPPHIRE BAND in. 11 the SCA at 7:30 pm FREE ADMISSION • • 'Big blue' commends program .. program or a technical writing program has ever Staff Report been chosen from any institution anywhere." IBM, which has featured programs at l!arvard, CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE MIT, Yale, Duke and Georgia Tech in past .. brochures, uses the publications to demonstrate The bluest of the blue chip companies, IBM, has the impact their company is having on education. selected UCF's technical writing program to UCF's brochure will be distributed to 130 illustrate innovative use of computr equipment in universities across the nation and at a national • innovative educational programs. meeting of corporate executives from a number of UCF will be one of 20 universities honored this top companies, Omans said. year with individual IBM-produced brochures A team of IBM employees will visit the featuring each institution's program. university for three days to interview and "UCF's selection marks the first time a Florida photogr~ph involved faculty, students and institution will appear in the IBM publications," members of the program's Board of Advisers. They • English department chairman Stuart Omans said . will also observe the use of the lab which is "It also marks the first time either an English equipped with 12 IBM computers. t) Athletics 10· You say ifs hot? pay for new parking lot Well a quick dip in the • by Herman 'l. Blattaria reflecting pond is just CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE what you need. Frank Mariano gets a little • The Board of Regents has just approved plans to build a help into the water 5,000-space parking garage at from Jeff King and UCF, university officials said Paul Matynka. Friday. · Construction should begin next week and the facility should be open by the· beginning of the fall semester. The project is the brainchild of athletic director Gene McDowell. "Well, I was having so Donna Lindsey/Central Florido Future much fun eliminating teams like wrestling from our budget that I decided to use the money we'll save to fund a parking garage,'' McDowell said. The wrestling budget, however, was not enough to cover construction of the garage. "Anyway-you're going to love this-we had to cut the football team to get the needed funding, '' McDowell said. "I got a big rush out of that." Other university officials are in a tussle over who should get to use the parking garage. President Trevor Colbourn said he wanted to see the majority of the 5,000 new spaces given t o faculty members. "They are just never enough parking spaces for the SEE PARKI NG, PAGE 4 • BELL BLASTS Leadership, ·· and a number · Nude Olympics this year • FROM ALL OVER · Donors will receive In an article in the Phi of experts on the Reagan because of decency laws, but v Playboy says this year's coupons for free food. Delta Kappan, former U.S. transition team were about 100 students stripped annual search for publicity · Secretary of Education Heritage Foundation grads. down and ran the Jan. 21 and collegiate women to Terrel Bell says his tenure race in the nude anyway. pose in the nude will be •SELECTED STUDIER was marred by constant Foundation vice president About 150 face among Ivy League·schools. UCF junior engineering battle with an ideological Burton Yale Pines called the disciplinary actions, and v A Michigan State snack student Camille Dixon is one "lunatic fringe" within the Bell article " a rather now a few say they've been shop is offering weekly of 18 engineering students Education Department over pathetic exercise. ' kicked out of the Cary Quad drawings for plastic nationwide to earn a chance funding and other policies. dorms even before they've flamingos, now becoming a to participate in this year's gone through their he~rings. major dorm fad. Washington Internships for Many of the ideologues Dismantling .the Engineering Students.