Central Florida Future, Vol. 21 No. 51, March 23, 1989

              he Central Florida Riture
e 1988 The Central Florida Future
Volume 21, Number 51
University of Central Florida/Orlando
Thursday March 23,1989
Students quiz Woodward
Pres. candidate says UCF "best kept secret in higher education"
by Jamie Carte
CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
Students had a second chance to meet a UCF
presidential candidate Tuesday.
The second in a five-part series of discussions
focused on Dr. James Woodward, senior vice
president at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Woodward emphasized his strong support of
athletic programs. He referred to his experience in gaining recognition for the basketball
program at UAB and suggested UCF should
focus on one particular area and build upon it.
Woodward also addressed minority interests, saying he would like to see a greater retention rate for minorities. "Students should be
able to take something from life, not just give to
life," Woodward said in support of "Greek Row"
and Greek organizations in general.
In response to questions by Ross Wolf, vice
president of the student body and Fred
Schmidt, student body president-elect,
Woodward said one of his primary goals would
3e to eliminate student apathy on campus.
The UCF
Presidential
Search
Richard Pruitt, reporter for The UCF Report,
inquired about Woodward's intentions in raising alumni awareness.
"Students should be recruited before they
graduate, not after," Woodward replied.
Woodward referred to UCF as "The best kept
secret in higher education." He said he would
attempt a "gradual progession to gain UCFs
maxiumum potential."
Approximately 10 students attended this
meeting in the President's Dining Hall, down
from 20 who attended the first.
Attendance for this meeting decreased by 50
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Stutler ent
to DUI: Not
by EricDentel
COPY EDITOR
Student Body President
Denver Stutler's lawyer has
entered anot^^nlty plea on
Stutler's behalf to charges
of driving under the influence resulting from a March
12 accident
The plea, along with a
notice of appearance (which
allowed Stutler to skip an
arraignment hearing Tuesday) was filed by mail on
March 17, Stutler's attorney Hugo deBeaubien said.
Stutler was charged by
Florida Highway Patrol
Trooper R. G. Jennings with
DUI and careless driving
after a March 12 accident i n
which, accordingto the acci-
	
dent report, Stutler's car
struck a parked car in the
University Shoppes park-
inglot Also according to the
police report, Stutler's blood
alcohol level over one hour
after the accident was
0.163. The legal level in
Florida is 0.1.
deBeaubien said he has
not seen the accident report
or the other information
about the case, and filed the
not guilty plea to gain time
to look over the records. He
said the case may still be
dropped, or the charges
reduced, or it may go to
trial.
Stutler could not be
reached for comment.
SEE STUTLER PAGE 4
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Senate passes finance bill
by Lance Turner
CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
The Student Senate passed a bill Tuesday revising the Student Government Finance Codes.
These codes outline the disbursement of the
Activity and Services Fee revenues, which are
collected from every UCF student and, this
year, are estimated at more than $1.59 million.
The fate of the bill now rests in the hands of
Student Body President Denver Stutler and
with his signature it will replace Title VIII of
the SG statues.
Senate Pro Temp Fred Schmidt, co-sponsor
of the bill with Senator Chris Toutikian, was
confident that Stutler would not veto the bill,
even with Comptroller Dash Wendrzyk asserting his intentions of a veto recommendation.
Wendrzyk said that certain parts of the bill
were unconstitutional and would infringe on
presidential power.
Referring to Wendryk's expected recommendation, Schmidt said, "Stutler won't accept a
blind recommendation; he's smarter than
that."
The bill continues to fuel a political squabble
between Schmidt and Wendrzyk. "That's what
we had our big fight about last fall," said Wendrzyk.
Past political allies, they had never, accordingto Wendrzyk, disagreed before and Schmidt
wouldn't have it.
Their last significant communication was a
memo sent by Wendrzyk to the Organization,
Appropriation and Finance Committee (OAF),
dated Oct. 27,1988. The memo listed his concerns pertaining to the Code changes.
Speaking before the Senate on Tuesday,
SEE FINANCE PAGE 5
Computer Dept. a few bits short
Bill Foxworthy/CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
HOLY ROCKERS
The Exit, a Christian rock and roll band from Merritt Island, performed on the Student Center Green Monday afternoon.
SPORTS
■ Despite winning three of
four games last week, the
baseball team dropped
from the national poll.
Read all about it, along
with women's tennis and
men's basketball reports.
by Cynthia Massino
CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
The UCF Computer Science
Department's expense account has run out of money and
can no longer provide students
with many of the services it
used to in past years.
Dr. Terry Frederick, chair
of Computer Science, said,
"The original amount of money
assigned to the computer department this year for expenses is not sufficient to support our needs."
The expense budget encom
passes computer accounts,
maintenance of computers,
telephone bills, research
equipment, paper and photocopying.
Frederick sent a memo to
the faculty explaining the lack
of funds and asked them to be
more conservative with handouts to their classes. He suggested putting bulky assignments on reserve at the library
instead of running off copies.
A policy adopted to curb the
financial problems requires
professors to obtain a signature    of    approval    from
Frederick's personal secretary
if they need 100 or more copies
for an assignment.
Dr. Dale Isner, professor of
computer science said, "This
procedure makes it somewhat
harder for us to do our teaching. You have to start planning
a week ahead of time whenever you have to give out notes
in class."
He also said he has been
running off copies from his
home computer to avoid the
"hassle of getting copies made
SEE C.S. DEPT. PAGE 7
OPINION
■ Our editorial focusses
on the controversy surrounding gun control efforts. Letters take shots at
the new fieldhouse and
Karl Marx. Plus, SG answers our challenge.
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