Central Florida Future, Vol. 02 No. 10, December 5, 1969

              Black Studies Accepted
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We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
for the. .
BUDDY Blitchington gets a welcome hospital visit from FTUers Dick
King, President of the Sociology Club and Chris Neuhaus. Not pictured
was Patty Nolan, another student who has been interested in helping
the critically injured boy.
A Gift For Buddy,
The mil To Live
By CHRIS VAN ORMER
Buddy Blitchington will spend his Christmas the same way he has his
last lour ChrisLmases - in a hospital bed, staring at an antiseptic ceiling.
Buddy is a paraplegic, the result of a hunting accident when he was 11
old.   He  was   tramping  the  wood  with   his uncle when a rifle Lauderdale,   was
"  Florida   Attorney   General s  office
Mascot Contest
Begins Monday
The Student Government
sponsored Mascot Naming Contest
with a $25 prize to the person who
submits the winning entry, will
begin Monday, December 8. The
suggestions will be taken from this
time until December 12 and may be
turned in to the Student
Government office in the Village
Center or placed in the suggestion
boxes which will be located in the
lobby of the LLRB. Entry forms
may be picked up beside each
suggestion box.
According to SG, the most
important blank on the suggestion
form is the "why it should be
FTU's mascot" blank. The purpose
of this blank is to give the
committee a background on each
mascot suggestion. The information
written in this blank will be
influential to the committee. The
decision of the committee is the
final decision.
The suggestion will be narrowed
down by the committee. However,
they will not be reviewed by the
president of Student Government,
as was previously stated in the
FuTUre.
Survey Authorized
Despite Walkout
At Meeting by BSU
The FTU's Black Students' Union had its request for a black studies
program granted by the administration Wednesday, but then the BSU
literally turned its back on the very project it had sought.
Six members of the BSU jolted a fairly peaceful meeting with President
Charles Millican and other members ■—	
of the administration Wednesday
afternoon by stalking out of the
Board of Regents' room, suddenly,
silently and sullenly.
University officials attending the
meeting registered surprise and
dismay when the black students
rose in a body after some cue, and
walked    out,   ignoring      President
Millican's supplication, "Where are
you fellows going?"
The    walkout    climaxed   several
Affairs office with reports on
progress made reguarly.
BSU members argued briefly over
how many courses would be
offered, but the walkout came
during a lull in the conversation.
Without warning, the six students
stood up from the conference table
and walked out of the room, the
president's question about where
they were going ringing in their
ears.  They left  behind  an equally
striking
accidently       discharged,
Buddy in the spine.
The small, bright-eyed boy has
failed to respond properly to
treatment giving him in numerous
hospitals and crippled childrens'
homes,
Until recently, Buddy could
transport himself around the
Orange    Memorial    Hospital    in   a
wheel chair - staff people said he
was .» terror on wheels at times -
hut QOW ho is too weak to sit up.
Buddy's 60-pound frame floats
weakly on a mattress of water now.
His main interests are television
and constructing models. He likes
to eat, despite his decreasing size,
and craves glazed donuts.
n those small
diversions, the only thing Buddy
had tO thillk about was an
obsession that no one cared about
him.
Until recently, he received only
'rom his mother and
more  frequent  visits from a young
friend.
\ ii o t h( r        Christmas        is
approaching,   and   no  one  cares if
Buddy lived or died.
That's not qui to the case.
The  FTU  Sociology Club  cares,
and  is  trying  to  do  something  to
Christmas especially
Bud. HUM     to     the
ion  of the Club through Dr.
ikovie.  chairman  of the
Dept.    Members    have
<   lad regularly, taking him
and do. The club has
ike Buddy's mind off
ight, and give him a vital spark
But   the   club   can   only   do  so
much.
That  is why Club President Dick
his week issued a plea to have
students   and   organisations
take >t in the fa
Buddy    is    in    a   room   in   the
U OMH. but he can
He      is     quite
Itemed to the hospital routine
- nt his last four years in
many of them.
Buddy   would   like   to  know   if
anyone cares.
King   said   that   anyone   or  any
campus    organisation    desiring   to
help   give   Buddy   a  boost   with   a
Christmas cards or presents.
A survey questionnaire on drugs
is circulating throughout the state
university system. Several have
already hit the FTU campus. The
survey, conducted by Drug
Research Foundation, Inc., Fort
ordered   by   the
can make arrangements through
Dick or the Sociology Dept. office.
Buddy is in room 529, Orange
Memorial Hospital on South Orange
Ave., Orlando.
If anyone cares.
and is legitimate, according to
FTU's Department of Student
Affairs. The survey questionnaire
states all information given on the
form will be confidential.
days of activity on the black scene shocked  C.   Barth  Enger, the BSU
at FTU.
Some officials saw it as the
beginning of a more millitant stand
by the blacks.
The BSU said, after the meeting,
it was the end.
"They (the administration) don't
have time for. us. We don't have
time for them," said BSU President
Dan Slater. "We are through. We
aren't going to have anything more
to do with it."
President Millican's office,
however, said it would proceed
with plans for a black studies
program, which includes a search
for a fulltime black professor to
head the program next Fall.
Ironically, the BSU now takes the
position that it isn't interested in
the program it asked for originally.
Argument of the BSU is that the
plan projected by President
Millican during the aborted meeting
Wednesday was not what the black
group had asked.'
Dr. Millican said he had followed
BSU's list of demands almost to the
letter, except for the immediate
hiring of a black professor.
"It would be almost impossible
to • contract a professor in the
middle of the year," the president
explained to the group.
The BSU listened restlessly,
fiddling with a tape recorder while
President Millican, outlined the
plan to offer a study in black
heritage at FTU, beginning in the
Spring Quarter.
The president said that an
adjunct instructor would be sought
by the spring term in order that the
courses at  the 300 and 400 levels
advisor.
Dr. Millican "kept his cool",
made no comment on the abrupt
departure of BSU and called a top
level huddle of his own.
The FuTUre, which had reporters
covering all the meetings during the
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Tech Wins Again!
FTU's basketball team, unbeaten
after three games, defeated Palm
Beach Atlantic Wednesday night
78-58 at the new Winter Park High
School gym.
Rudi Jessee led the Tech scoring
attack with 22 points, scoring seven
baskets and eight of nine free
throws. He was followed by Bob
Phillips with 14, Earl Stokes with
12 and Mike Clark with 16.
In rebounding Don Mathis took
14, Stokes grabbed 13 and Phillips
had 12.
The Palm Beach Atlantic high
scorer was Louis Williams with 25
points and 23 rebounds.
TECH TALK
HonorsConvocation
One hundred and two students received certificates for their scholastic could be started then. In the
excellence and William H. Dial, noted Orlando banker and Dr. Kurt H. meantime, the search for a fulltime
Debus, Director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, were awarded black professor would be launched
honorary doctorates at FTU's first Honors Convocation held Wednesday by the Vice President of Academic
The book-check service is open.
An attendant is on duty from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday to look after your books,
coats, briefcases, and umbrellas.
The cost is just five cents per
bundle. Leave some of your burden
with us.
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Asked if he thought the idea of a
vulture for a mascot at FTU should
be pursued, Orlando Mayor Carl
Langford, one of the area's better
known punsters, quipped, "Carrion
with the idea, gentlemen."
behind the Library Learning
Resources Building.
Following the processional,
invocation, and introductions of
platform guests, the Lyman High
School Band presented themes
from Offenbach. Mike O'Mara,
Student Government Secretary for
Academic Affairs, complimented
the    administration,    faculty    and
students for cooperative planning
and action.
Four students were honored for
maintaining all "As" for three
quarters: Eloise Beach, David
Heins, Lea Henderson, and
Geoffrey Schwartz. Mary Lemp
received an honor for making all
for four quarters.
Robert B. Mautz, Chancellor,
State University System of Florida,
delivered the convocation address
saying that the Florida University
System was growing and excelling
beyond expectations, attracting
under-graduate and graduate
studen faculty,        and
administrators from all corners of
the nation and world. He further
stated that this first scholarship
convocation was the "beginning of
the realization of a dream", with
results which would have an impact
upon the future of the state and
nation.
Dr. B.        Gambrell,
Vice-President for Academic
Affairs, led the rededication of the
faculty. He said that Socrates'
shadow. Plato, cast far and upon
many peoples and generations, and
he challenged the faculty to cast
their shadows likewise.
The honorary doctorates were
the first to be awarded by FTU Mr.
Dial,   presently   Chairman of FTU
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FTU PRESIDENT Dr. Charles Millican. left,
congratulates Dr. Kurt H. Debus, director of the
Kennedy Space Center, after Dr. Debus received an
honorary degree from the university. Dr. C. B
Gambrell, vice president for Academic Affairs look.1
on as television cameras record the historic moment