Central Florida Future, Vol. 22 No. 44, February 20, 1990

              Carroll's Commandments
shake up Knight Rock
WUCF radio needs student manager- Opinion
Men's basketball team
wins one, loses another
But baseball team loses two - Sports
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OPINION 	
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LIFE IN HELL	
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CLASSIFIED	
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SPORTS	
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Central Florida Future
Volume 22, Number 44
University of Central Florida/Orlando
Tuesday February 20,1990
Taylor loses appeal, will keep fighting
by Tom Kopacz
STAFF REPORTER
Student body presidential candidate Don Taylor's final on-campus
appeals of his disqualification from the
race were denied Thursday.
However, Taylor said he will continue the fight in the court system.
Thursday morning the Student Affairs Review Board decided Taylor had
received due process in his earlier
appeals.
In going before the board, Taylor
contended that due process had been
denied because both the Elections
Commission and the Judicial Commission had been interfered with by student government and the office of student affairs.
Taylor, readingfrom a written statement, said Vice President for Student
Affairs LeVester Tubbs and Dean of
Students Charles W. Brown interfered
with the Election Commission by meet-
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ing with them approximately one hour
before Taylor's hearing Feb. 6.
"I contend that the conversations
with [Brown and Tubbs] had a direct
influence on the Commission," Taylor
said.
However, Asst. Chief Elections
Commissioner Jeff Meadows said the
commission had had several meetings
with Brown, Tubbs and student body
President Fred Schmidt to determine if
they could legally hear Taylor's appeal.
Meadows said he did not feel the
Election Commission should be allowed to hear Taylor's appeal because
the commission is part of the SG executive branch and has to enforce the election statutes.
"I didn't think he'd get a fair hearing
from us," he said.
Taylor said the Judicial Council had
also been interfered with by SG and
student affairs, but for different reasons: contact with Schmidt and his
opinions concerning the case and the
employment of four justices by either
SG or student affairs.
Taylor said Justice Cindy Noce was
influenced because she is SG's
Panhellenic liaison, and therefore
should not have heard a case involving
SG.
Schmidt called Noce a resource person and said she does not receive a
salary from SG for her services.
Taylor also said Justice Kelly Wiggins, an employee in the office of student affairs, was influenced against
him by Tubbs, who Taylor believes is
biased against him.
Tubbs was out of town and could not
be reached for comment.
see ELECTION APPEAL page 4
Election dates remain
unchanged despite
Laing/DiBona request
by Tom Kopacz
STAFF REPORTER	
The Elections Commission
turned down a request Thursday to
move the student body presidential
election back from Feb. 27-28 to its
onginal schedule.
Jeff Laing and Jason DiBona
made the request shortly after disqualified candidate Don Taylor lost
his last on-campus appeal Thursday.
They asked the commission to
move the election back to Feb. 20-21
and have the area campus elections
on the same days.
see REQUEST page 4
Michael LaughJin/CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
PIE FOR CHARITY
Kurk Dunnaway, who calls himself the "Supreme Kappa Delta God," dodges a pie thrown by Todd O'Connell.
The pie throw was part of the Sig Ep Queen of Hearts fundraiser for the American Heart Association.
International contest next for UCF
by Joseph Kaye
CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE
The UCF computer club team is once again going
to international competition after placing first in the
South-East Regional division of the Association of
Computing Machinery.
The team, which has never placed lower than
third in SE regionals, consists of four UCF students:
Don Cross, an electrical engineering major; Bill
Brown, a computer science major; Mark Schnitzius,
a computer science major and Peter Popovich, an
engineering major.
This is the first year of international competition
for all four team members. "They are all really brilliant programmers," said their coach, David Van
Brackle. "They work well together as a team."
The international competition is scheduled for
see COMPETITION page 4
Cigarette ban
proposed
Campuses may go smoke-free
by Jamie Carte
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR	
A state legislative proposal asks to ban all smoking
and sale of cigarettes on university campuses.
State Rep. David Flagg of Gainesville proposed the
legislative bill in an effort to ban smoking on university campuses.
The bill has been distributed to campuses for
research and consideration by university lobbyists.
UCF's lobbyist is Dan Holsenbeck, director of
governmental relations.
Holsenbeck lobbies UCF views to the state Board
of Regents and the legislature.
In researching the bill, Holsenbeck said, "What I
will look into includes the violation of individual
rights, the practicality of the bill and whether it is
enforceable."
If the bill is passed, it would immediately ban
smoking in buildings. In two years, it would ban
smoking in outside areas. The only exception to the
outside smoking would be at public sporting events.
According to Holsenbeck, no position has been
taken yet to support or oppose the bill.
Holsenbeck described the proposal as controversial. He said it may take a while to research enough
material to support a position.
Once a UCF position has been established, Holsenbeck will confer with other university lobbyists. The
lobbyists will report to The State Board of Regents.
The BOR will take a joint position to the legislature,
which meets in April.
Currently UCF's smoking policy varies in each
building. Hugh Ivie, director of UCF Environmental
and Safety, said there is at least one smoking area in
each building. Building managers are responsible for
designating smoking areas.
"We try to accommodate everyone, both smokers
and non-smokers," Ivie said.
In Flagg's bill, all of these smoking areas will be
abolished.
"This bill is still a long way from implementation,"
Holsenbeck said.
Last year, Flagg supported the attempt to put an
additional tax on cigarettes. Flagg will reportedly try
to pass a bill for a ten-cent-a-pack tax on cigarettes,
to raise money for health care for the poor, again in
this session.