Central Florida Future, Vol. 03 No. 03, October 16, 1970

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1      McGratty's The Man - The Only Man - For President
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Sixty-four students have filed for Student
Government (SG) offices in the 1970 Fall elections.
The campaigning, which began last Monday,
continues through Wednesday, with voting on
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 22 and 23.
As the only candidate, Gerald R. McGratty, Jr. has
won the office of Senior Class President. Candidates
for Junior Clasb President are Stephen Douglas
Milbrath, Brian Skadowski, and John Davis. Jerrold
Frey opposes Mark Denno for President of the
Sophomore Class. Four candidates filed for Freshman
Class President; they are John P. Brooks, Don J.
Hodges, Richard Brandstetter, and Charles Claude
Grile.
Unopposed Hank Richard won the Governorship of
the College of Business. Linda Singer and Laureen
Gustafson are competing for Education Governor.
For Social Sciences Governor Michael Albert Malone
is running against Debbi Jones.
By Darwood Santmier
As the only candidates Don Opperman and Dee D.
Decker have won the Governorships of Natural
Sciences and Humanities and Fine Arts, respectively.
Five are competing for Engineering Governor.
Running are James Van Horn III, Mike Murdock, Van
Chris Johansen, Christopher L. Wilson, and Charles
Patton. There is no candidate for General Studies
Governor.
The following have qualified for the Senate races:
College of Business — William Clifford Hagan,
Charles Simpson, Junior Senator; James Wesley
Brooks, Sophomore Senator; Howard Whelchel, Jr.,
Freshman Senator.
College of Education — Don Rhyne, Bill Lawson,
Senior Senator; Mary Lou Rajchel, Sharon Ramer,
Junior Senator; Susan Trapp, Sophomore Senator;
James Robert Jolley, Daniel Lee Scott, Freshman
Senator.
College of Engineering — Raoul Avington Webb,
Steve Steen, Senior Senator; Gary Rasponi, Kenneth
Donovan   Croft,   Ted   Alan   Rush,  Junior  Senator;
Kenneth N. Wood, Arthur Stephen Haas, JoAnne N.
Puglisi, Donald A. Watts II, Sophomore Senator;
Lloyd Woosley, Jr., Otto Robert Matousek, Edward
Joe Stephenson, Freshman Senator.
College of Humanities and Fine Arts — John
Dishmen, Senior Senator; Teresa Anne Arbaugh,
Craig Wiedegreen, Terry Allen, Junior Senator; David
Edgar Jensen, Freshman Senator.
College of Natural Sciences — Debbie Valin,
Kimberly Read Wilson, Jack Robert Stacey, Jr.,
Sophomore Senator; Gregory Patrick Martin,
Freshman Senator.
College of Social Sciences — Glenn Wayne Streett,
Senior Senator; James Perry Thomas, Frank Santry,
Clifford Thomas Cook, Junior Senator; Miriam C.
Welly, Richard A. Janocko, Beverly Roper, Susan
Autrey, Sophomore Senator.
General Studies — Alton Jefferson Nolle, III, David
Lee Constantine, Freshman Senator.
Student Government will appoint students to the
unfilled positions.
S.A. Okays FTU's S.M.C.
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We Live in the Present
By the Past, but
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SG To Be Responsible
For Group's Problems
Student Mobilization Committee officially became the first
controversial political organization on campus this week. When the
Office of Student Affairs cautiously approved the group.
SMC   is   an   activist   group   primarily   concerned   with   the   U.S.'s
involvement in the Vietnam war. 	
The FTU chapter has been holding      In a carefully worded statement
meetings since the Winter Quarter  approved   the  FTU  SMC,   Dr.   W.
(1969)   and   took   part   in  several  Rex Brown, vice president in charge
peaceful    demonstrations    in    the  of    St"d.f.nt   Affairs,   P^ed J*?
area responsibility of watchdogging SMC
According   to   SMC    President  squarely    up    to    Student
Larry Lawson, the group may well  Government
celebrate its official birth by
participating in a national peace
demonstration scheduled for the
end of October.
"We are building for that
demonstration," Lawson said.
SMC    was    approved    as    an
Dr. Brown's announcement
follows in full:
"Upon the recommendation of
the FTU Student Government, The
Student Mobilization Committee
has been granted recognition.
Careful  deliberation  was  given  to
organization  earlier this year, but   ^e Purposes of the organization as
the final approval by SA sat in
limbo while ah in depth probe of
the organization's connection with
more controversial national groups
was made by the administration.
shown   by   its  constitution  which
reads:
"The purpose of this organization
shall be to organize mass opposition
to    the    war    in   Southeast   Asia,
Fashions of today and yesterday are reflected in
this representation of the controversy of the miniskirt
vs. the maxiskirt, with another contrast being evident
in the presence of a Confederate Flag on the front of
the new Cadillac.
-     .   Down With The Midi,
l0"efls; (/p With The Mini
FTU students eloquently
slammed the door against the midi
last week.
If the college crowd is dictating
fashion, as knowlegeable people in
advertising are saying, then the
midi's brief appearance this season
is doomed to a quick fadeout.
"Are you favor of the midi skirt
(mid-calf length)?"
Eighty out of 96 students polled
on this question at FTU responded
with a vigorous NO. Of these, 41
were female and 39 were male. A
spectrum of opinions paired the
midi with starvation, Canada,
desperation, death, convent life,
dictatorship, waste, hijacking and
old age.
While one young man remarked
in horror, "There is no word awful
enough to describe it," another
quipped, "For whom, man or
woman?" (an appropriate question,
considering the latest fashions from
London). Another student sounded
a practical note: "It will help to
distinguish between the sexes."
Lon Wagner, 17, a long-haired
engineering student, thoughtfully
remarked, "It will increase the
academic level of achievement."
Troy Hager, a 36-year-old
dark-haird male, communicated a
few instructions: "If you find any
men in favor of the midi, tell them
to   go  to  Montreal  where  people
by Vivian Herr
have to cover up on account of the
cold. Why starve when there's food
in the refrigerator?"
A white-haired senior student
frankly admitted, "I'm an old man
and I enjoy seeing legs," while
another, several decades his junior,
commented, "Midis belong in 1942
movies." '
Althougl no one threatened divorce
on behalf of the miniskirt, Ed
Morgan, a lanky student majoring
in electrical engineering, was grim.
Over 40 and married, he decreed,
"There's one set of clothes that's
not going to be given away, no
matter how much they are out of
style. If women allow themselves to
be forced into it, they ought to
have less lib instead of more lib
because it will mean they don't
have brains enough to handle the
freedom they already have."
After getting his second wind,
Morgan added, "Midis are the
world's answer to the population
explosion."
Few people can remain neutral.
At mere mention of the midi, eyes
glow with fire, lips pucker, brains
go into gear and opinions zoom
through the air.
When   the   question   was  asked,
"Under what circumstances would
you  wear  the midi?" at least six
j young women replied emphatically,
'"Never!"    A    petite    21-year-old
hedged, "It would have to be slit
considerably." Another, gesturing
expressively with thumbs pointed
down, said, "If I were going into
the convent."
Other responses from the
younger crowd were: "If it were a
dress requirement." "If my boy
friend would let me." "If I were
dead and they put one on me." "If
I could afford the whole new
wardrobe it requires."
Of the nine females over 25 who
voted against the midi, rone said
feelingly, "It's ghastly. It makes
everyone look as old as I am."
From another: "It's such a waste of
money and material."
A 52-year-old gray-haired matron
studying humanities said, "I'm not
in favor of an imposed style. It's
like hijacking by an airplane."
A chic, brown-eyed matron'with
a white chiffon scarf holding her
blonde hair avowed, "For the first
time in my life I'm not submitting
to the dictates of the fashion
industry. I'm not ever going to let
anyone tell me how to dress again
— ever!"
That's the kind of attitude
obviously favored by the young
male student who spouted a slight
rearrangement of a familiar
quotation: I like skirts "long
enough to cover the subject but
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Some   SG   officers   stated   that campus    complicity    with    the
SMC was being put through the red military,    and    the    present   draft
tape grinder more thoroughly than ^^^-   We,   as   an   orgamzat.on,
had   other   groups,   and   that,   in support     t h e     r i g h t     to
effect,    the    delay    was    causing self-determination    for    the
increased    support    of    the Vietnamese    and    Black   America,
organization by students who might °ur  Purpose is also to point out
otherwise   be    hawkish    in    their any   obstacles   which   infringe   on
approach to the war. those    rights    which    we,    as
Lawson   told  the FuTUre in an Amf,"can/' have-     ...
interview last week that he did not ,    7ne   fut"re   activities   of   SMC
exclusively endorse the views of the Naders   .and   members   will   likely
SDS   and   the   YSA,   two   activist determine    if    the    organization
organizations often linked with the remains consistent with the stated
SMC. But he said his group would Purposes.   It  remains  to  be  seen,
be   open   to   anyone   sharing   the following this recognition, whether
views of SMC, which, according to or . not   .the    ]o(f\ organization
Lawson, include a peaceful fight for maintains its intended objectives or
the  rights  of  the black man, the ^lls under the influence of a more
Mexican    American    and    the dominant organization,
feminist. (Continued on Page 12)
Drugs Kick Students Out
Tschirgi
junior high and high school
students in the area of Orange
County are casual users or are at
least around drugs, with about 5-10
per cent of these being hard-core
users. One of the reasons he cites is
that one of every three marriages
ends in divorce. According to Dr.
Doyle, youth knows that one out of
every five children is conceived out
of wedlock. During the last four
years illegitimacy has increased 400
per cent.
The bulk of his speech related
not to recommending that a person
not use drugs, but that they be
aware of the consequences of drug
use.
One of the biggest hazards
described during the speech was the
occurrence of serum hepatitis
resulting from the use of dirty
needles   used  to  inject  drugs.  He
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By   Alan
Dr. James A. Doyle, assistant
director of the Orange County
Health Department reported that
more than 2,000 students drop out
of Florida universities yearly as a
result of addictions to hard-core
drugs such as heroin and morphine,
in a presentation to an evening
Senior Science Seminar.
He also referred to the fact that
there have been 425 arrests made in
the last few weeks for drug
violations; these do not include the
arrests for alcoholic charges.
According to Dr. Doyle, "the
increased use of drugs is one of the
most crucial public health problems
facing contemporary American
society."
He added that 50 per cent of the
high school students in Orange
County are using drugs
"moderately" during weekend
parties. Some 75  per cent of the
It's In The FuTUre
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