Central Florida Future, Vol. 03 No. 12, January 15, 1971

              FTU 4th In State By 1980?
We Live in the Present,
By the Past, hut
for the. .
Buffalo Bob, of the famed Bob-Doody duo,
appeared before a full house at the Science
Auditorium last Wednesday. Mr. Bob's performance
without his wooden companion was the cause of a
great deal of speculation as to the reasons of their
separation. One rumor was that young Howdy is
under the specialized care of a tree surgeon in
Connecticut and, due to the nature of his illness, is
confined to his suitcase.
Buffalo Bob Visits Tec/i,
Says Howdy Without Doody
For two hours yesterday the
Science Auditorium became a
Peanut Gallery, and sophisticated
FTU students became youngsters
again, cheering, "It's Howdy Doody
time!"
Buffalo Bob Smith, was
resplendent in the fringed suit,
which was the same one he wore
when "Howdy Doody" was first
televised in color. Howdy himself,
with the rest of the show's puppets,
was with his owner, Rufus Rose, in
Connecticut. After the 50-minute
kinetoscope Buffalo of the 10th
anniversary of the Howdy Doody
program, Buffalo Bob led the
audience in some of the old songs —
"Howdy Doody Song," the
"Clarabell Song," "I'm for Howdy
Doody," "Clap Your Hands," and
the "Rhyming Song" from the
show.
He spoke of embarrassing
moments on the show when one
youngster wanted to go to the
bathroom    and    used    a   pumpkin
By BETH WEILENMAN
instead — unknown to the
television audience — and how he
became helpless with laughter as a
result. And how, for the radio
show, children were afraid to
respond honestly to the question
"Have you ever been bad?" and
were told to make up something —
and this got out of hand after the
first response.
Perhaps the most enjoyed portion
was the Music Lesson Dream when
Smith interpreted "Chopsticks" as
it would be played by
eight-year-old Beethoven, Wagner,
Chopin, Bach and Rachmaninoff, as
well as the more current Bacharach
and Little Richard.
Howdy Doody was televised 13
years, and has been in existence
since 1947. There were about 2,600
broadcasts of the program. Since
the last show in 1960, Bob Smith
has appeared on talk shows.
About a year ago, the University
of Pennsylvania requested a film of
Howdy   Doody   to   "relive   happy
Friedan Coming
To Pay Lib Service
Betty Friedan, author of best-seller "The Feminine Mystique" and
president of the National Organization for Women, is speaking at 11 am
Tuesday in the SCAUD on "The Battle Between the Sexes."
Mrs. Friedan, who helped organize the women's liberation movement,
was born in Peoria, 111., and was graduated cumma cum laude from
Smith College. She was a student of Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka
and has held a research fellowship in psychology at the University of
California in Berkeley. She has assisted in early experiments in group
dynamics at the University of Iowa.
Mrs. Friedan wrote "The Feminine Mystique" after five years of
research and travel, when she spoke with doctors, psychoanalysts,
marriage counselors, educators and motivational researchers. She also
interviewed eight women in depth, and the interviews lasted from two
hours to two days. Her book has been excerpted by McCalls and Ladies'
Home Journal, both of which, as with other women's magazines, have
been targets of her attack on the myth of the American woman as just a
housewife.
Mrs. Friedan's appearance is sponsored by the Village Center.
Program Director Wanda Russell says Mrs. Freidan's book and thoughts
are "well-founded and deep," and she treats her subject in an educated
manner. Mrs. Russell also says that Mrs. Friedan has been treated
unfairly, since Mrs Friedan began the movement before women's
liberation received its bad reputation, and since she is not a member of
the radical segment of the movement.
27,672 Enrollment
Although the latest registration figures for this quarter show
enrollment down from last fall, a Florida Board of Regents report to the
governor shows that FTU will be the fourth largest university in the state
by 1980
childhood days" and break the
monotony of a series of rock
groups. The film show was a
success, and the university asked
Smith himself to come. According
to Smith, the response was
overwhelming when he stepped on
stage — "For two full minutes they
were screaming." Other colleges in
Pennsylvania requested his
appearance, and now he has visited
about 30 campuses in the U.S., and
has been booked for about 40 more
on this tour.
The name "Buffalo Bob" evolved
from his own name and his
birthplace, Buffalo, N.Y. He
considered "Mr. Smith" too formal
for the puppets and children to use,
yet thought just "Bob" would not
be right either.
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Decal Dye Dies,
New Ones Offered
A dye that died caused the fading
plaguing most of the campus
parking stickers, John Smith, head
of Campus Security told the
FuTUre this week.
''.The company regretted
the mistake and has sent us some
brand new ones which we will
exchange for the faded decals,"
Smith said.
Smith stated that his men will try
and canvas the parking lots to
replace with matching numbers
those decals that still have numbers
visible.
"But we will only be able to do a
few like that," Smith said. "We are
asking that everyone with an
up-to-date faded decal to come to
the security office (in the LLRB
basement) and pick up a new one at
no cost."
Smith said that the office will be
open from 8 am to 5 pm each day.
When the decals began to fade
last quarter, a hurried call was made
to the Welden Lick and Smith Co.,
the firm that made the stickers.
"The company was very sorry it
had happened," the security officer
noted, "They said it was in the dye
when the stickers were produced
They have been very cooperative
with us in the matter."
I
Enrollment figures for this
quarter place the number of FTU
students at 4,909, down from
5,119 last quarter. These figures are
not final; computer tabulation is
continuing. Dr. John R. Bolte,
Assistant Dean for Academic
Affairs, said that the drop in the
number of students is normal for
the quarter.
Final enrollment figures may
actually be nearer 5,000, because
Registrar W. Dan Chapman
estimates that during the first day
of registration, over 4,500 students
registered, and approximately 500
students registered the second day.
Chapman said registration went
well, and usually ran behind only
by five or ten minutes. At one
point, however, registration was
running 20 minutes behind.
Because students were registering
faster than they were paying, long
lines piled up in the Administration
Building. Although at least three
windows were kept open at Finance
and Accounting, Chapman said that
understaffing   was   responsible   for
the long waits. Eight employes
worked all day, four at the fee
assessment station, and four at the
cashier's window.
Registration closed at 6:30 pm
the first day; the cashier closed by
8:15 pm. Chapman cited another
reason for some of the delay at the
cashier's window: outstanding fees
were added to the new fee
assessment cards and paid after
registration, rather than before.
Chapman estimated that
approximately 500 to 600 students
went through add-drop this quarter.
In speaking of future
registrations, Chapman soon hopes
to see a system that will require
students to feed their class schedule
computer cards directly into the
computer. The computer will be
able to detect immediately any
course conflict, thus eliminating
add-drop procedures for reasons of
course conflict. The computer
would also assess fees, and the
print-out would serve as the
students' receipt.
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Chappell       Class
Of Volunteer Army
By ROBERT WISHOFF
FTU students of political science
were given a chance Wednesday to
discuss the issues with Fourth
Congressional Representative Bill
Chapell. Congressman Chapell
represents over 70,000 Floridians
and has a great deal to say about
many controversial subjects. When
asked about reorganization that is
going on throughout congress,
Chapell replied that "Congress has
not been geared to honestly handle
in the best way the issues which
have come before it." Some of the
reasons he gave were the needless
waste of time because of the low
process of roll call and the lack of
computerized machineries
necessary to efficiently take care of
the work. "It is absolutely true that
we have dedicated too much to the
executive branch of the
government, we need to recall
it...these powers that belong to the
people, which are supposed to be
exercised by the congress, which
are now being exercised by the
governmental agencies."
The congressman is firmly against
mandatory retirement of
representatives at set ages using the
"brilliance" of former "Speaker of
the    House"    McCormick    as    an
example. However, upon being
approached with the question of
compulsory retirement for college
professors he said, "I don't think
that in this way you can judicate
the mental capacities of a man, but
I think that there can be a
mandatory review of everybody's
qualifications from time to time,
say every four years or so. Mark
Twain, for instance wrote some of
his best books at the age of 75."
On the government's seniority
system he related that, "I don't like
it a bit, until I consider the
alternatives. I don't know if there is
an alternative to it."
He feels that there is a better
power distribution in the system
the way it is. In other words, he
said modify it but don't destroy it
because, as the congressman put it,
"In the scheme of government the
strong people will come to the top,
their influence will be heard and it
makes no difference what system
you are under."
Congressman Chapell believes
that 18 is too young an age to vote.
He said that by giving the 18 year
old person that ''divine
responsibility   of  voting" * you   are
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Congressman Bill Chaipel! raps with an FTU Political Science class
about the ways and means of Washington politics. (Photo by Jim
Lehman).