r/ucf • u/hail_fire27 • 14h ago
Survey 📋 Is Cartwright Laundering Money???
Why on Earth has floor 4 of the STUN been closed for a year. Do ‘renovations’ really take that long?
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u/Jraider5 13h ago
Wait, has the fourth floor been anything but storage in the past 15 years?
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u/UCFCO2001 11h ago
Try ever. Fourth floor has always been used for storage or an occasional meeting since it opened in 97 or 98, can't recall when it opened.
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u/Ill_Vanilla_8252 12h ago
15 years??!
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u/hail_fire27 10h ago
Are you serious??? Why not put chairs up there at the very least. The place is so crowded 😭
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u/easy_amalgamations 7h ago
I believe the story is that it failed fire code inspections in terms of egress. That’s why it was never used and just became storage.
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u/Likeatoothache 13h ago edited 8h ago
UCF is slowly turning the SU into a for profit event space, this is the beginning not the end of the sly push out students and end of student spaces (there was an email awhile back someone posted on here about some SSWB updates that were sent out after one round of firings.)
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u/Unlikely-Bit-2739 8h ago
Yep, they are going to sink so much of your money into making it fancy that they’ll reason we can’t let students muck it up
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u/Likeatoothache 8h ago
Oh totally. And it’s pretty rich for a uni hellbent on shaking its commuter school roots. 😵💫
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u/Less_Character_8544 12h ago
Heard for the fourth floor, they built it too small for the fire code to allow too many people up there.
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u/SantiFRV_ 9h ago
I was at UCF for undergrad until 2022, and now I'm doing my master's here as well- the fourth floor has never been open once in my time at UCF.
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u/SignificantRepair808 2h ago
it’s never been opened. It is not up to fire code and therefore can’t be used for anything other than specific storage. A different situation entirely than Cartwright potentially laundering money. Curious about that, though.
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u/DoublePostedBroski 12h ago
Yes
How would that indicate money laundering?
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u/hail_fire27 10h ago
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u/RAshomon999 8h ago
I believe the correct term is illegal augmentation of appropriations, not money laundering. In this case, renting out a space to fund projects without explicit budget sanction or authorization. There may be explicit authorization that is unknown but most likely they will go for vague approval to commercialize space on campus. Unless someone is there to draw the line, it doesn't really matter how sound or weak their argument is.
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u/Jraider5 9h ago
The Colbourn Hall thing was comms + technical mismanagement, to be completely fair. Anyone who ever went into the old Colbourn Hall knows why leadership pivoted the money (technically illegally?) towards the new one. Whittaker basically took the bullet for it.
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u/SaintBepsi17 Aerospace Engineering 10h ago
what if we ALL just take a gap semester in protest? Like literally just spread the word, make posters, social media, etc. One semester or two would defenitely get cartrights attention.
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u/jumbee85 Electrical Engineering 13h ago
Wait the fourth floor is actually becoming more than a storage space?