Central Florida Future, Vol. 02 No. 15, February 6, 1970

              Too Few Hues At FTU: HEW
University Encouraged
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We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
for the. .
To Recruit Blacks
by John Gholdston
Last quarter the office of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) sent
two representatives io FTU's campus to find out if FTU was meeting the
integration standards which had been set for universities receiving federal
funds. Their findings along with suggestions for rectification were released
last week to President Millican in the
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SUE Geisler and friend. Sue poses beside a plant figure at the Disney
World Reception Center. Sue is one of several FTU students who are
working part-time at the giant entertainment complex.
See  Page 7  for story
Mautz Reguests Increase
In Budget For University
-    Robert Mautz, a one time professor and Vice President for Academic
Affairs at the University of Florida and presently Chancellor of the state of
Florida's University system made a whirlwind visit to FTU last Friday to
make a special presentation to the school faculty and administration.
The   hour   and   twenty   minute   	
session in the Science Auditorium
was well attended by University
officials and was jam-packed with
information from Mautz on subjects
ranging from state-wide budgets for
the coming year concerning teacher
salaries and allocations for campus
buildings to fringe benefits for
faculty members and the future
enrollment of the state's universities.
In President Charles Millican's
opening remarks, he cleared up a
rumor that FTU's enrollment would
be frozen temporarily at 4100
students, a number which included
800 freshmen students. Millican said
that the projection for the
pnrollment in  the Fall  Quarter of
Robert Mautz
1970 will be 4700 students and
added the figures for the Fall
Quarter in 1971 as 6500 and in 1972
as 8300 students. The President
stated that the number of entering
freshmen should level off in 1979
with 2000 students.
Mautz' presentation was centered
around a list of questions sent to him
by the FTU faculty Senate
President, Dr. Richard Addicks. He
attempted to answer the lengthy list
throughout the speech. Overhead
transparencies were used to show the
annual budget for the coming year
for the University system in the
state. The budget will be submitted
to the legislature for approval at a
later date. Several important points
discussed in the presentation are
listed and explained here.
1. The legislature of the state of
Florida wants to place a ceiling on
the number of freshmen and
sophomores coming into the state
universities    because    Florida    has
, developed a very bood junior college
. system.
2. Peak enrollment in the
universities is in the Fall Quarter, the
state is striving to even out the
enrollment into the Winter and
Spring Quarters.
3. "Student fees, in my opinion
are as high as they should go," said
Mautz. He also pointed out that, "we
are one of the highest in the
country." The state official backed
up his point by adding that only
seven or eight states are higher
including   Wisconsin,   Indiana   and
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m and  Fridays,  from   10:30 a.m.  - 4
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|| Thursdays and Saturdays.
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form of a three page letter. The
letter, in essence, said that the
university was not meeting the
ambiguous standards. (There is no
set ratio which a university must
meet or comply with. The standards
faculty members..." It goes on to
state "The University should make
special efforts to recruit' minority
faculty members to its staff. It is
recognized that the University
desires  to  increase  the percent of
simply call for a congenial mix of instructors with doctorate degrees
races. The investigating team decides
if that mix is proper or not.)
The study revealed that "sixty
four black students are in attendance
(at FTU) and that they are generally
treated without regard to
race..."The findings also showed
that out of 172 faculty members,
including 75 added to the staff for
It is recommended, however, that if
affirmative action is to be taken,
black instructors with less than a
doctorate degree should be
recruited." The FuTUre phoned the
HEW office in Atlanta to find out if
they wanted Tech to lower its
standards for professors just to
acquire a black on the staff. "NO!,
absolutely no black professors. This
gives the University less than 2%
blacks in attendance and 0% holding
faculty positions.
The letter pointed out that the
University has been "making some
initial    steps    in    recruiting   black
Equal Opportunity
Council To Form
FTU's total commitment to equal employment opportunities on its
campus took on added weight today with the announcement of formation
of an FTU Equal Opportunity Advisory Council.
The Council was named by President Charles N. Millican and is part of
FTU's Affirmative Action Program   .	
of Equal Employment Opportunity
that supports Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act.
Chairman of this Council is Mr.
Thomas Simmons, Director of
Personnel Services, who becomes
E.E.O. Officer at the University for
this program. He is supported by
three council members serving as
consultants to their respective areas
of University operations: Mrs. Leone
Asbury, Instructor in General
Studies, Academic Affairs; Leslie
Gross, Director of Procurement,
Business Affairs; and John
O'Rourke, Director of Student
Placement, Student Affairs.
This Council is charged with
administrative responsibility for the
Program, monitoring its
effectiveness, and communicating it
to all areas of the University.
"I look forward to the very able
support this Council will provide
us," Simmons stated. "It will be a
key factor in bolstering our sincere
WRA to Present
Art Exhibitor
Sue Williams, an award-winning
arts and crafts exhibitor, will speak
on "Contemporary Arts" Thursday,
Feb. 12 in the Science Auditorium at
8 p.m.
The program, sponsored by the
Women's Residence Association as a
part of their SPEAKER'S SERIES,
will consist of a lecture accompanied
by slides from the speaker's personal
collection on contemporary crafts.
Miss Williams will also give a
demonstration of the processes
involved in batik, an Indonesian
method of hand-printing textiles by
coating the parts not to be dyed with
wax.
Miss Williams, who is currently a
faculty member at the Loch Haven
Art Center, has won numerous
awards for her work in textiles, batik
and crafts. She received her B.A.
cum laude from the University of
Arkansas and was awarded her
M.F.A. at the Institute Allende in
Mexico. She has exhibited at several
Florida universities and art shows,
and has recently been featured at the
Karyanna Gallery in Winter Park.
All members of the FTU
community and the general public
are invited. There is no admission
charge.
the   69-70  school  year,   there  are Absolutely   not."  was  the  answer
from Mr. Dewey E. Dodds, Chief of
the Education Branch of the Office
for Civil Rights. "Our point was
simply that th6 University already
has white professors who do not
hold PhD's so it should not limit
itself to black professors with PhD's.
It's not a matter of lowering
standards simply for blacks, it's just
that the standards for blacks should
not be higher than it is for whites."
The FuTUre was assured by Dean
Micarelli, Dean of the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences that
his office was "making a
concentrated effort to recruit black
professors. Not just for Black
Studies courses but for any teaching
position in my college." President
Millican told this reporter last
quarter that he would do the best he
could to implement Black Studies
Courses taught by black professors
by the Spring Quarter. Dean
Micarelli said that he was in the
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0CS Acceptance
To Be Revealed
move in continual and
ever-broadening implementation of
the mandate and intent of the Civil
Rights Act. Securing a total
awareness of need to effect greater
equal opportunity and a positive
motivation to respond on the part of
everyone will be the paramount task
of the Council."
Mascot List II
To Be Submitted
Students on the FTU campus will
have an opportunity next week to
learn how they can qualify for
acceptance in an Officer Candidate
School of the U.S. Army.
An Officer Selection Team along
with a testing team will interview
students interested in a military
A few weeks ago President career or in discharging their military
Millican rejected a list of submitted obligation. The interviewing,
mascots for FTU. So the Student counseling and testing will take place
Government Suggestion Box was left f the ,Y»,lage Center between the
up, and a second list was come up hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday,
with.   This  list  consisted   of such Fe^!uar/ 13th
suggestions  as  Lancers, Citronaut,   „The team will consist of Captain
Road  Runners, Snoopy, Leopards,   Hardy E. Batchelor, Jr. and Second
Star-Ridgers,    Golden
Falcons   Lieutenant    Gloria    America
Monarchs, Spartans, Phoenicians, Villamarzo Captain Batchelor will
Frogs, Chameleons, Bob-Cats, counsel the male students,
Conquistadors and finally, Bunnies. Lieutenant Villamarzo will talk to
This second list will again be ^e y°un* lad,e5, Crested m the
submitted to President Millican. He £™»?A™y Corps and Sergeant
will  choose some finalists from it, J£*'2"!   ?^ ?   • "ul"
and these will be submitted to the administer tests to.those who wish to
student body for voting. take them' at no obligation.
WHAT are these men all up in the air about? Is it a campus riot?
To find out, turn to page 7.