Central Florida Future, Vol. 04 No. 06, October 29, 1971
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 10-29-1971 Central Florida Future, Vol. 04 No. 06, October 29, 1971 Florida Technological University Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Florida Technological University, "Central Florida Future, Vol. 04 No. 06, October 29, 1971" (1971). Central Florida Future. 107. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/107 We Live in the Present By the Past, but for the ... -~ Vol. 4 No. 6 FuTU re October 29, 1971 Vandals Halt Lake Project By John Gholdston '" , ........ .... ..... ~ . ,., .......... \"" '\ \\ VC May Get $10,000 In SG Fund Trans£ er Plans for four new housing units for FTU students have received approval. The Orange County Planning an9 Zoning Commission recently gave approval for University Park, to be located near FTU, and a prefabricated housing unit is now in the design stage by the Rogers Coip.pany of Winter Park. Additionally, two mobile .horrte parks have received at least preliminary approval and will be located to the south.east and west of campus. The preliminary approval of University Park apartments was There is· a county requirement opposed by zoning Commissioner that efficiency ap~rtments for one Ralph Ward, who objected to the occupant be at least 500 square feet new development area because the in size and the proposed University units are smalller than the zoning Park efficiencies will be 185 Square· code allows. (C~ntinu;d on page 3) Science Building May Get Lounge ,~l··~·· A budget request for a student CAREER SERIES lounge to be constructed by the FTU Chemistry and Biology Clubs The Placement Center will has been submitted to Student sponsor a question-answer session / '.i[.. ~ , !~i l .. /~ Government. Book Exchange 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Engineering ·,,, ~ ' .1!)l The lounge, which would be Auditorium with emphasis on I , I located on the first floor of the careers in business. Planned -r Science Building, can be built at a Needs Supervisor primarily for freshman and -11' cost of $287. This is not strictly a sophomores, the discussion session 1, club p-rojeet, but will be built by There is an opening in Student will feature Laurends D. Handy of students for the use of all students. Government for a person to act as the Jordan Marsh personnel ~X. : According to Natural Sciences supervisor of the SG Book .department David Menzel of Senator Sandy Jackson, approval Exch'ange. The position is a Arthur Young Accountants; Joseph for the project has already been part-time salaried one and requires J. Gurtis, general manager of New obtained from the administration, the - person to be available York Life Insurance Co., and and construction is pending senate approximately five hours a day for William G. Bledsoe, vice president approval. Funds for construction five weeks. The primary duties of of First at Orlando Corp. would come out of SG's the supervisor would be scheduling unallocated reserves. of hours and keeping track of the GRADUATE RECORD This will be a temporary lounge till, according to · SG President EXAM to be replaced at a future date by a Frank San try. The next GRE will be ,:. permanent one. The structure, Anyone interested in the administered December 11, and CONSTRUCTION IS springing up all around the ·campus area,. as however, can be used for other position may contact Santry at the students may contact the property sales an~ zoning ordinances are finalized. This picture shows purposes, so that it will not be SG office on the second floor of Developmental Center for further some of the new apartments under construction in the Hylands area, wasted. the Library. information. directly across from campus, on Alafaya Trail. I ( Page2 Fu TU re October 29, 1971 1JfuWlltre EbitnriaJs FALL.EN WOMAN. Key Issues Face Voters The Right To Know by Osler Johns By now most Florida voters have probably heard the main arguments Last week's FuTUre carried a report on its front page of an FTU for and against the state corporate student supposedly being stabbed near a campus parking lot on October profits tax. However, several other 14. items of importance are. also included on the November 2 election The story carried very little information. and virtually no facts. The ballot. reason for the lack of facts was that none apparently were available. Orlando voters will decide if the city should acquire a thousand-acr In the ensuing week, the FuTUre tried again to obtain some tract of land around Turkey Lake in information about the stabbing. or even if a stabbing actually occurred. the southwest part of Orange There was no information. County. The land will be used for conservation purposes and future recreation areas. :Another portion of Security, usually extremely helpful to the staff. would release nothing the tract will be used for land definite. but a lot of 'reported 's and 'allegedly 's. The Orange County spreading of effluents from one of Sheriff's Office seems to enjoy playing musical phones. but denies having the city's sewage plants. any information to give out. The hospital where the victim wasallegedly Orlando voters will also decide if taken has no record of the incident. and since the FuTUre has not even the city should sell or lease the city been able to discover the name of the victim. any further research will be prison farm located on West extremely difficult. Reporters from the Orlando dailies have even tried, Highway 50. without success~ to find out some facts about the inci~ent. The argtiment in favor of selling the prison farm is that the city needs There was some sort of injury, as a Fu TU re photographer saw the trail to increase revenues, but at the same . ·~fblood leading into the Security office on the night ofthe incident. time, not to raise taxes. The argument against the sale of What. then. is the problem? Was the sheriff's office even notified of the the prison farm is that there is a need occurrence? If so. why won't anyone release any information? for a minimum-security detention The life of a volunteer reporter is not an easy one, and is not made any facility in Orlando. Most of the easier by uncooperative authorities. The report of the stabbing should be prisoners at the farm are charged, a matter of public record. and should not be concealed by either Security with violation5 of minor ordinances -----~----------------------andaren~h~~~~e~y~L or the sheriff's office (if they have it). The general public o1n this campus. just as in any community, has a right to know what is going on. Winter Park voters will decide whether garbage cans will be placed Concealing the information will not stop this staff from eventually at curbside or in the back yards of finding out the facts, whatever they are. It will just serve to make our task . their houses. more difficult, and will help to alienate the authorities just that much If the voters decide that garbage more from the community they should be serving. pick-ups will be made from each back yard, a fee of $48 will be • charged. If, however, they decide that garbage pick-ups will be made Dignity Ti Maria Led me across the mesa from curbside, a fee of $40 a year Too Many will be assessed. Teachers The lurking reptile To an abandoned shack in the city And together we began to rebuild it The basic issue centers about the GUEST EDITORIAL with mute gaze aesthetics of front yard garbage cans springs precipitously in the front yard and whether it is and claims the living flesh John C. Di Pierro The following guest edhoria/ is part I of a two-part series on education worth $8 a year to place garbage cans by Bob O'Neal, a student in the College of Education. at the rear of each house. irony inexplicable irony Universal Truth the palsying venom Approximately 1,100 students are currently enrolled in the FVU dissolves and vanishes The emptiness of my being is so College of Education. Previously, approximately 25 per cent of the into the river of life vast it encompasses the whole .-~~~= university's total enrollment were education majors. What is difficult to universe. Work on the utliities extension understand about this is that there is already a superabundance of Convulsive throbbing Inside my universe is emptiness. for the Humanities and Fine Arts teachers, and the surplus is rapidly multiplying every year. Television. of a determined heart Outside my universe is happiness. Building has begun. University magazines. newspapers and widely-distributed books have given vast uncoils the wriggling aggressor And Somewhere i.s love Planning Director Fred E. Clayton exposure to the excess-teacher issue. but immoderate numbers of and then with silent dignity to lead me said the utility extension is the students are still entering colleges to prepare for the field of education. resigns itself from primary step in the construction of A major portion of th is problem, is that there are too many people in Emptiness into Happiness. the building, which will be located unforgettable the desperate resistance behind the General Classroom the field of education who shouldn't be there.