Central Florida Future, Vol. 02 No. 01, October 6, 1969

University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 10-6-1969 Central Florida Future, Vol. 02 No. 01, October 6, 1969 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. 02 No. 01, October 6, 1969" (1969). Central Florida Future. 31. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/31 Double Enrollment For Second Year According to the Board at Re celve theirs before the year is and should be ttnished in the !ding small groups to points of make it the second largest uni gents• projected bead count, FTU out, according to Dr. c. B. Gam near future. Included in that pro interest and giving opportunity versity in the state. this year ls supposed to have a brell V. P. o! Academic a!!alrs. ject is the General Classroom for questions. The tours and President Millican said that round 2,936 students attending During the sum mer a new sp building which will contain 31 orientation went on until Maday the second year of operation on classes. The actual figures, ac r lnkli ng system was Installed a classrooms and several faculty with just under 1,500 students the new campus "should prove cording to a survey made by the round the dorms and finally the offices and should be partialy going through the series. to be more exciting and chall FuTUre, should be around 4,000. "instant grass" which had been complete in time for classes If Tech grows at the antici enging than our first, with FTU The !acuity also will have more delayed for months waiting for the this quarter. pated Board of Regents estimate, having for the first time all than doubled from last years' sprinkling system, was laid Con The past two weeks oncampus which, according to FuTUre's four classes in the student body figures boasting around 180 me struction had been continuing In have been filled with new stu figures were nearly 1000 under freshmen, sophomores, juniors, mbers. The new additions to the high gear as the second phase of dents and parents orientation as this years actual headcount, the and seniors. n will be the acade faculty brings FTU's number o! the campus plan was started. well as registration. Guided tours school should boast around 25,000 mic. year in which we will have PhD's to 72% of the total fac Over $7 million worth of new of campus have been going on students by 1980, which would our first graduation exercises." ulty with 8 to 9% expected to re- buildings are under construction with student representatives gu- We Live in the Present -----·-·····-·-•lllllllllUIWe Live in the Present By the Post, but By the Post, but for the . .. for the . FTU. Orlondo. Florido .Vol.2 No.1 October 6, 1969 Paved Parking No Vacancies ·To Increase The university received some In Housing welcome news last week when it •·The dorms are completely was learned that Orange Paving food plan. filled and if we had had 250 and Construction CO. had been "Even though the food service awarded a $147,336.20 contract additional beds, and had known ls still through Morrison's," En to grade and pave four additional about it back in April and May, gert said, "the residents have a parking areas. they would also be filled," said choice of two plans: A 15 meal Even as incoming students and Barth Engert, Director of Hous plan, that includes three meals !acuity were squeezing into every ing in an interview last week. Monday through Friday, or a 21 available paved parking space and Engert went on to say that there meal plan, that includes three will be 423 resident students, 216 were spllllng over into the pine meals, seven days a week. Just women a nd 207 men. The develop trees, bulldozers from Orange as last year, the food plan is Paving were cutting through a mental center will continue to use mandatory." !!reline, opposite the Hall Road two suites in "C" dorm until the. Engert went on to say that intersection with Alafaya Trail, Administration Building is com •the reason for the mandatory in preparation !or the much pleted in March. food plan is a doll.ir and cents needed construction. The nearest date for additional reason. In the original bonding Ordinary governmental redta housing on campus is the fall of arrangement for building of the pe held up the co-awi'.rding of the 1971. Engert said that •we are facilities, it was based on an contract for several months, but trying to possibly encourage pri agreement with the University to Orange finally was given the vate investors to bulld campus guarantee the facillties would be green light. Unfortunately, con housing both on and off campus." filled and used to the fullest ex struction began the same day Llsted as the changes for the tent, and that the income received students were pouring onto the resident students are color tele will go towards paying the mort campus for orientation. vision sets in two lounges for all gage. After we've been in opera Orange Spokesman Earl Da the resident students use; the tion i0-15 years and have enough niels assured FuTUre that stu landscaping around the dorms money in the reserve accounts, dents would not be bothered by that is nearly completed; and the we possibly can alter this plan. the construction. The fire line PH OTO BY CHUCK SEITHEL will afford access to the main President of FTU, Dr. Charles JV . Millican. looks out from lots under construction, west of Ille Library Building balcony to survey tlze progress and physical Building Crisis At FTU the main campus buildings. Heavy growth made by the University during its first year of operation. equipment would not come on the (Hecause of the gravity of //1e problem which faces Tee/i's university property from any /111ildinr; program. the FuTL're will sidl!s/ep I radition far this issue and nm Ille fallowing impurlanl 1'c/iloria/ on the front page) other route. Guaranteed Loans Set Three o! the lots will be con An Editorial structed there, including access Guaranteed student loans in the NDEA amount given last year. amount of $2.5 mllllon were ap roads, and a fourth will be built Carr's report indicates that the proved by the State of Florida in T/1e fact is that unless /lie voters of Florida reinstate the in the area of the science class need for financial aldin Florida's July for the coming '69-'70 aca colleges and universities for '69- bonding authority under l/1e 1%3 HighE>r Fducation BondAm.end room. menl, FTU's building progmm will all bill comf' to a screecl1ing Orange Paving said the con demic year, according ton report '70 is more acute than at any by Dr. James Carr, Assistant other time since the NDEA pro linlt. This authority becom E>s et•en more impo1·tant in light of tract called for completion of three o//1 e1· adverse trends: the parking lots in 110 worJµng Chancellor for student Afia.1Ts for gram was begun in 1957. the Board Regents. The shortage of financial ass J. The federal Government is culling back on Ille cons'truc days, or about six months. lion s;mnts which it has been makins; since 1.'16.'i. FTU President Dr. Charles About $500,000 in guaranteed istance funds will be lessened student leans was approved by partly by the recent increase in 2 . C anstn1ctian costs a re soa rilllf al an unp1:ecendented rate. Millican has repeatedly said that The lalt:'sl repo1·ts by //1e Dodge 01xanizution indi~·ate costs parking ls the university's big Florida iending institutions. dur tuition and fees in Florida's uni ing the fifst week of August. versity system. For the first an' going up at Ille rate of 1.3 percent a month. or aboul 15 gest, immediate headache. Now, percent a .rea1·. Normally buildilllf casts inCJ·ease al //1e rate Due to cuts in the National time in Florida's history, a por it appears as though the state of al>oHI :'i percent a year. Defense Education Act (:NDEA) tion of this money will be channel Department of Tansportation h 3. lnleresl rates a1·e continuing lo climb. )I recent check ed into a student financial aid pro as rushed in some pain reliev student loan budget, Florida will indicates Ilia/ the current market is about 6.25 pl:'rcenl on edu- e.r. receive $500,000 less than the gram. 1·a/ ion bonds oft he type wliicli Florida has been iss11i11J?. Florida's . {>rl!sent ceiling is 5 percent. If the bonding aulho1·ity is reinstated it will provide roughly aboHl 5160 million fo1· capital outlay for universities, jHnior Activity Day Features Involvement colleges, and vocational schools llirr:mgli June 30, 197.'i . This woHld amount to about '35 million a year on /he avems;e for "Involvement is the key" is the to promote campus involvement are: Faren Gibson, Sue Jump, canstni.ction over the next six years.

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