University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 11-12-1976 Central Florida Future, Vol. 09 No. 12, November 12, 1976 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 "Central Florida Future, Vol. 09 No. 12, November 12, 1976" (1976). Central Florida Future. 276. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/276 ,.. Future FLORIDA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY . I< . ... Vol. 9 Friday, November 12. 1976 No. 12 .... Funds withdrawn for shooting range By LISA FERGUSON Goree, vice president of Business FTU's legal : counsel, John D. Staff Writer Affairs, on April 27. It was then Mahaffey, said that the noise from cir cu lated among various staff the range might eventually become a A proposal made to the members who attached to it their nuisance to surrounding ad ministration by the FTU questions and comments. communities. He added, '~I, at one Sportsman's Club for land to build a The proposal was returned to time, Jived approximately 3/4 "of a university trap and skeet field will Ferrell in August for the Sportsman'.s mile from a trap and skeet shooting not be approved because the Club to answer the questions and range and am sorry to say that the • , Photo by Bernal Schooley community orga11ization willing to revise the proposal. By then, tlrn noise practically drove me insane SMOKEY THE BEAR Visited the Child Care Center earlier fund the projec;t has withdrawn its Oran)(e Cot.\lltY Trap and Skeet Club when there was a meet in progress." this week much to the delight of the 60 two to five-year-olds offer. had lost interest and made a deal Mahaffey was also concerned about The proposal asked for about 55 with another organization. the possibility of having a suit filed who attend the Center. acres of university land on which to Four of the six officials to whom build a trap and skeet field. "I U1e proposal was shown stated that (Continued on page 2) thought it was a good proposal. They noise from the facility would pose a (Sportsman's Ciub) did a lot of work problem. on it," said Jimmie Fcuell, director Oswald. 0. Gracia, campus·planncr, of Student Organizations. said he was concerned ab9ut the Pay-hike ·delay cleared The Shooting Chapter of the FTU noise from the ra1ige and its effect on Sportsman's Club was offered the the overall ecological balance o.f the money to develop a combination campus. By MARK HESS President for Academic Affairs Dr. C. B. Gambrell, only skeet and trap shooting range and Dr. Martin P. Wanielista, chairman Managing Editor two other universities had their collective-bargaining access road by the Ornnge County of the Econological Committee said, increases in the payroll checks before FTU . FTU's increase Trap and Skeet Club. The project "The committee was opposed to the Jn response to a United Faculty of Florida (UFF) will be in J:he Nov. 19 paycheck. would cost about $45,000 according proposal on the grounds of it not newsletter headlined "No Raises for FTU Faculty," a "Because the salary adjustment comments circulated by to Ferrell. The imjversity was asked being consisteT)t with the master plan memo from the Academic Affairs office was released the UFF·Jast week are grossly in error, I am providing you to provide the land. and UlC noise associated with such a Wednesday. clarifying for FTU's faculty what appeared to with the following accurate information based on contracts, The proposal was sent to John P. facility." be a university hold-out on pay hikes which w"ere awarded with tl1e various universities," the memo said. Listed in the last month. memo were the expected paycheck increases ·for the other The Faculty Forum, FTU's newsletter for UFP members, eight universities. stated in their Nov. 5 issue, "The UFF chapters at the other "Several staff members in Payroll, Academic Affairs and Registration $$; campuses in the State University. System (SUS) report that the . Deans offices worked extra hours to complete these they have received the raises wgn in the new adjustments. A s a result only two unive rsities (University of collective-baFgaining contract, but at Florida Tech it's a West F lorida and the University of North Florida both of different story." which calculated early increases without waiting for specific The F~rum continued, "Faculty and profession al BOR guidelines) will have the increase s in payroll checks \¥here does it go? personnel here have no idea when the contractual prior to FTU." commitment will be implemented, and m embers are still Carol Walters, coordinator of budget planning and subsisting on the pre-inflation salaries of two years ago." analysis for the BOR said the differences between By BARRY BRADLEY general student aid fee. Again, these. The story called on the administration to "get on the individual univoenities' paycheck hikes· comes from arc actually the same thing and they Staff Writer ba ll." We would like answers. to these questions. And the :'in tern al administrative differences," ·and all the payroll arc used for the same purpose but grapevine says that the Board of Regents (BOR) would like . increases came out of Tallal1assee at the same time. they are computed using different Most students arc aware that $2.14 some answers to." (The last sentence of the story makes Dr. Frank Jugo, executive assistant for-employe relations, of their regis tration. - fee goes to formu1ns and arc maintained explained that the pay increases are "very complex separately. reference to Chancellor E. T. York's visit to FTU last week · Activity and Service Fees (A&SF) for and his meeting with the Faculty Senate. It was reported calculations which require a lot of clarification. Part of the student activities but many do not A related item is the student that one of the faculty members present at the meeting reason for any delay at all was getting the constant know where and how the other financial aid trust fee. This accounts questioned York about FTU being tl1 e last SUS school to verification from the Board (of Regents)." money is spent. for 35 cents of each hour fee and receive their collective-bargaining· pay hikes. York Calculations for all basic, merit and retroactive salary goes to the State Department of For instance, $9. 3-1 of each hour reportedly was bewildered by the question and answered he adjustments must be made on a., individual basis, Juge said. in the lower level and $10. 81 of each (Contillued on page 2) did not know why FTU had not received their raises This explains why the smaller universities, like West Florida hour in the upper level goes to a because the other eight SUS schools had.) an.ct North Florida, were able to include the pay. hikes matriculation foe. As it turns out, and was clarified by the memo from Vice before any of the other schools. Joseph Gomez, :FTlJ comptroller, said this money goes to the educational and general budget which · is used to opera tc the university. Last Soccer squad denied playoff bid year FTU received over $17 million iTI educational funding -from the state. Of this amount, over $4 million, or about 23 per cent; was contributed by students in the form =---~~ , of the matriculation fee_ The money n11a -. is used for faculty salaries and actual expenses incurred in the operation of the university. Jim Vickrey, assistant to the BOR Chancellor, said state dollars accounted for about 49 per cent of the total opera ting funds of the State University System (SUS). The other 51 per cent comes from student fees and from federal, state al1d local grants. Photo by Bernal Schooley · Another $2.50 of each per hour FTU' S SOCCER TEAM LOST on fee goes in a category labeled two goals this week. On Sunday building fee and capital improvement they were passed over for the fee. These fees arc actually the same regional playoffs· and Tuesday thing but the building fee was esta bli s hed before the capital East S.troudsburg goalie, Chris improvement fee and a different Rand shut ·off a shot on goal formula is used to compute each. (above). (See stories on page 14). This fund is divided' up among each of the state's nine universities on a need basis. The funds arc used for new buildings or for improvement of present buildings. FTU received $3.7 million of these funds last year for U1e new educational building, for in1prove ments in the library and for the new biology building. The fund is also used to retire the state bonds which were sold in order to finance ne\~ buildings. Still another category rece ives $ . 70 of each hour fee and is earmarked for student financial aid fee and the Page 2+Future,-Noy. 12, 1976 <A MOUNTAIN SHOP IN FLORIDA?? Turlington proposes plan YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!! FOR TOP QUALITY GEAR to upgra·3e veteran teachers . FRIENDLY SERVICE HELPFUL ADVICE As the needs· of the Florida Public The plan would seek to of Public Education (PIPE). The plan S c hool System change, the concentrate on upgrading veteran calls for further utilization of the universities within that system must teachers rather than simply training resources of the university faculty adapt the colleges of education in new teachers.