Central Florida Future, Vol. 02 No. 12, January 16, 1970

              SG Seeks Top Pop Group
We Live in the Present
By the Post, but
for the. . .
$20,000 Bash
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By DEED. DECKER
Student Government is planning
to blow its mind and yours with a
$20,000 Spring bash to be held at
the Orlando Sports Stadium May 19
or 22. With the $20,000 ceiling on
the project, the Spring conceit will
bring praise to FTU as well as a top
group and swinging fun to FTU and
Central Florida.
Although the group or groups have
not been signed yet, they could
range from the Lettermen or the
Association to Credence Clearwater
or Blood, Sweat, and Tears. A survey
conducted last quarter by freshman
class president, Don Opperman, will
serve as a guide in selecting the group
for this concert. The consensus of
SG senators was that the bigger and
more famous the group, the better
the turnout and success of the
project.
The $20,000  will  be divided to
rent the Orlando Sports Stadium, to
The FTU mascot will probably be pay promotional fees, and to pay the
a Knight of Pegasus, Scorpion, Fox, group. SG will offer the regular five
Black    Hawk     Cobra,   or   Cheeta. or six dollar tickets to FTU students
These are the names suggested by the for   two  or  three dollars.  Student
students,   narrowed   down   by   the Government hopes to break .even on
Mascot Committee, and now under the concert.
review by the administration. After a     This concert promises to be SG's
final list is selected, the student body big thing this year and may very well
will elect the FTU mascot. be Central Florida's "Spring Thing"
Nearly 80 suggestions were turned if it gets the priority, cooperation,
in,   said    Wayne    Leland,   Student and endorsement being sought for it.
Government    Mascot    Committee
Chairman. The six finalists emerged
after    duplications,    unacceptable
suggestions and names of other area
or state mascots were marked off the
list.
Those cleared by the administration;
will be put before the student body
for a popular vote. (More on Mascot,
Page 2).
Six Mascots
Suggested
r» »uv).v     itjr     giectuig wcicouieu visitors to me t*TU
carjapiis last week after some dorm students turned on
the sprinklers one cold evening. The ice seemed to have
almost killed several thousand dollars worth of grass
around the dorms.
Radio Station Starts Broadcasting
Beginning next week, FTU will have its own radio station, WFTU. It will
broadcast Monday through Thursday from 6 to 10 p.m. The format will be
rock music, campus news, and public service announcements, but no
commercials. It will be broadcast at 900 on the a.m. dial, and can be heard
over the campus, and perhaps picked
up on car radios around campus.
Chris Schmidt, program director
for the station, says he is hoping that
the majority of the resident students
will tune in, since they will have
campus news which is of special
interest to them. He is also looking
for more people to work on the
program, both as broadcasters, and
work off the mike.
At the present time there are four
broadcasters each night. More are
wanted   so   the   broadcasts can be
information on what to do.
Plans also call for occasional live
broadcasts of such events as
play-by-play descriptions of
basketball games and athletic events,
convocations, and other university
happenings.
The main idea behind the station is
to give communications majors
practical experience in broadcasting
in addition to their classroom work.
However, anyone is welcome to
come and help out. Originally, it was
extended to Sunday by the end of planned to broadcast also on Friday,
this quarter. but no one signed up as a D.J. for
The station will  broadcast from that night, so it had to be dropped.
LR   211,  with   the   transmitter   in The    problems    anticipated    by
Dorm A. The station  needs more Schmidt   after broadcasting begins
equipment however, and  they are are    keeping    up    the   transmitter
also short of records. Most of the
signals which has been a
troublemaker from the start, the
shortness of records, and the
difficuty of gathering news. Any
clubs, sororities, or fraternities who
want something broadcast are asked
to bring it by the station, and WFTU
will be glad to oblige.
In closing, Schmidt asked
earnestly for the support of the
students so that WFTU can not only
keep going, but can constantly
improve the quality of its
broadcasting.
1 ecn   1 alk
Bill Warden, Director of Public
Relations, was selected President of
The Central Florida Chapter of the
Marine Corps Reserve Officers
Association Saturday, January 10.
ThreePrints
Are Lifted
Three valuable prints were stolen
last weekend from an art exhibit that
had just been placed in the lobby of
the Library Building.
The theft of the prints, valued at
more than $300, caused the
immediate removal of the entire
display, and cast a shadow on the
future use of the library lo'uby for art
exhibits.
The Orange County Sheriff's
Dept. and the Orlando Police Dept.
were both asked to investigate the
disappearances.
The exhibit was owned by Western
Association of Art Museums.
Late last term, a display of posters
hung in the Multi-Purpose Room in
the Village Center, fell victim to a
light-fingered art lover. One of the
posters turned up missing from the
wall. An appeal went out from the
Village center, asking that the poster
be returned. It was stated then by
the Center Board, the organization
that arranges art exhibits on campus,
an Associate Editor, working with  that any further thefts could mean
Mettel Is Editor
Linda Mettel, a sophomore in
Communications, has been officially
named Editor-in-Chief of the
FuTUre for the Winter quarter. Miss
Mettel succeeds John Gholdston as
Editor.
Gholdston, who has been Editor
of the FuTUre since its conception
in October of 1968, tended his
resignation last week, because, to
quote Gholdston, "my academic
standing in the community has
become endangered by the time I
was putting in on the FuTUre."
Gholdston then quipped, "Such is
the plight of a moderate genuis."
Miss Mettel is the only other
person who has been working on the
FuTUre since its conception and
prior to the appointment had been
Gholdston. She commented, "I do
not plan to change any policy
matters or alter the format. I see
nothing wrong with the structure the
way it is set up." She went on to say
that she was looking forward to the
winter quarter and her editorship as
a "new experience which I hope will
help me in my future.
Gholdston said he will stay on the
FuTUre staff as a writer and as
Lay-Out and Make-Up Director and
he plans to re-apply for an editorship
as soon as he feels his academic
standing is well re-established.
cancellation of all displays on
campus for the remainder of the
year.
The day after the poster was
reported missing, it suddenly-
reappeared, in the president's dining
room.
Nothing further was said about the
poster "borrowing", but the theft of
the three prints is a much more
serious matter.
(See a review of the exhibit by
FuTUre Art Critic Barbara Pietrazak
on Page 3 , and an editorial on the
theft on Page 2.)
records they have are donations
from radio stations that have
duplicates or receive but do not play
rock type records.
The money for the program is
coming from Student Government,
and much of the equipment is the
property of the communications
department.
The station will operate on low
power so it will not be affected by
the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), but it will
follow the code of the National
Association of Broadcasters.
Schmidt says the station "will be
-j-un like a top quality station."
However, he asks that students bear
with them in the beginning, for most
of the broadcasters and management
have no real experience, and things
will be difficult for a while. Also,
because most records are donations,
Schmidt does not guarantee that all
the records will be "top 10".
In the hopes of variety and
improvement, Schmidt would like
for people interested in taping a half
hour or hour show of their own to
contact    the    radio    station    for
Drug Scene Quiet,
Administrators Say
By CHRIS VAN ORMER •
There is little evidence of drug abuse at FTU. When cases do arrise, they
are handled individually, and leniency is given cases when the source is
revealed. For example, in a specific case an FTU student was found in
possession of marijuana. This student gave the name of another student as
his source of the drug, and the other   	
student was dealt with because in
this case the marijuana was given to
the first student, not sold to him.
Therefore, the second student was in
violation of possession of drugs on
campus, but not of selling drugs on
campus.
Recent state legislation (Senate
Bill 989, now a law) requires an
Administrative hearing in cases of
narcotics violations on the
University campuses. Such cases are
to be dealt with in the same manner
as    other    cases    which    violate
university regulations and state and
national law.
When the offense is committed on
campus, the student must go before
a judicial board hearing. In this
manner, the student is protected
from self-incrimination. However,
the hearing can be avoided by
drawing up a confession. This act
stops an investigation by the board.
The confession is filed on permanent
record and kept confidential. When a
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Mr. Patterson; an FTU security officer exchanges greetings with a pledge
as the pledge fishes in a sewer for his acceptance.