Central Florida Future, Vol. 03 No. 16, February 12, 1971

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Pre - Registration Okayed
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We Live in the Present
By the Past, but
for the. . .
To Begin March 1:
Advisement A Must
By Mary Anna Jackson
FTU will have its first experience Tuesday,
with preregistration at the end of
this quarter. At the first official
meeting of the registration
improvement committee last Friday
plans for preregistration were
presented, and the decision was
made to implement them.
Preregistration is already in
process to the point that computer
programs are being prepared,
according to Bernard L. Slessinger,
systems consultant for information
systems.    Equipment    for
Dragon Types Being Hunted
Wanted: One fire-breathing Sir
Dragon to reign during FTU's
Homecoming activities this
weekend. Only faculty and staff are
eligible.
Nominations for Sir Dragon, and
his foe Sir Lancelot, for whom
anyone is eligible, cost $1. Voting
will be 10 cents per vote, and a
booth for nominations and voting is
set up in the Medieval Festival.
Money from the Sir Dragon-Sir
Lancelot contest, as well as any
money raised from the other
festival booths, will be donated to
the FTU Foundation.
The
festivities will begin at 3 pm today,
when the medieval booths will
open. There will be "Dunk the
Jester", "Kissing Booths", and bake
sales. Also at 3 pm the Knightly
contests will begin, followed by
Jousting contests and an archery
contest. At 5 pm the log wrestling
will begin. This consists of trying to
throw one-another off the log and
into the mud. At 6 pm there will be
arm wrestling. All of the contests
can be entered by anyone at the
last minute, except the arm
wrestling which will have a deadline
entry of 4 pm.
Starting Saturday morning at 10
am the booths will reopen and stay
open to 3 pm in conjunction with
the open house.
The Nite of Knights this evening
continues the Homecoming
activities. Student organization
planned skit will begin at 6:30 pm
in the FTU tent. A varsity wrestling
match with Miami-Dade Jr. College
is at 8 pm in the Multipurpose
room, and at 9 to midnight,
students may dance in the parking
lot to music by "Raintree County
Band."
Open House begins Saturday at
10 am and the Medieval Festival
reopens at that hour. A road rally
from FTU to Oviedo is planned.
Registration begins at 4:30, and the
rally itself runs from 5 pm to 8 pm,
and the FTU-FIT basketball game
in the Oviedo High School
gymnasium will begin at 8 pm.
After the game, the Homecoming
dance will be in the Multipurpose
room. During the dance, at 11 pm,
FTU President Charles Millican will
crown the Homecoming queen.
Dan Chapman
preregistration will include
telephone lines and computer
terminals similar to IBM selectric
typewriters. The terminals will be
connected with the IBM 360
computer at the University of
Florida, which will contain the
necessary student information.
Advisement will be a vital part of
the preregistration process. During
advisement, which, according to
Slessinger's calender of events,
begins Tuesday and continues
through February 25, the student
and   his   advisor  will   fill  out  the
trial class schedule. The spring
quarter schedule of classes is due to
come out today, and no later than
The white copy of the trial
schedule will be sent to the deans'
offices to determine the number of
students who will be taking each
class and to plan for class sizes and
sections.
It is important that students who
wish to make changes in their first
trial schedules go to their advisors
to make the change. Thus, the
deans' offices and the programmers
who will be working with the daily
student tallies will know how to
plan classes to allow for maximum
student convenience in obtaining
those classes desired.
The advisement sheets must be
filled out completely and
accurately to facilitate
preregistration. Registrar W. Dan
Chapman added that students
would be wise to supply alternates
in the spaces provided on the trial
schedules, so that in case of a
conflict, they would have another
course to substitute.
Preregistration will begin March 1
with graduates and seniors. Juniors
will preregister March 2;
sophomores, March 3; and
freshmen, March 4. Preregistration
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DATES TO REMEMBER
Feb. 16-25... Advisement
Mar. 1... Graduate and Senior
Preregistration
Mar. 2... Junior Preregistration
Mar.     3...    Sophomore
Preregistration
Mar.     4...     Freshman
Preregistration
Mar.   5...  Mailing  of  Official
Class Schedules and Fees
Mar.    8-19...    Payment    of
Tuition, Fees
Mar.    26...    Registration    for
New    and    Non-preregistered
Students
Mar.    29...    Spring   Quarter
Classes Begin
FINANCIAL AID
All students interested in Student
Financial Aid for the next academic
year ('7 1-;72) should make
application as soon as possible. The
April 1 deadline is rapidly
approaching and the application
procedure requires approximately
six weeks. Applications are
available in the Student Financial
Aid Office (second floor,
Administration Building).
NOTE: Applications and
Financial Statements must be
submitted annually.
GOOD LUCK, SUSAN
Congratulations to Susan Thistle,
an FTU Junior Education major
who running for Miss Citrus Queen
(in her first pageant). Susan was
chosen to be one of 25
semi-finalists, and will compete in
the finals this weekend.
RETRO May Rocket
FTU To Prominence
Congressman Lou Frey Jr. (R-Winter Park) has proposed a federally
financed re-training program for job-hungry engineers and technicians in
the Central Florida area.
Frey  met Thursday  with  presidents and  representatives from FTU,
Brevard   Community   College   and —•    -   ——; -
Florida Institute of Technology and   space and defense cutbacks, would
not go to waste,
told    them   that   he   would   seek      These   meri)   with   the   help   of
$3 30,000    to    initiate    re-training federal    re-training   funds,    could
programs to be carried out at the  channel   their   talents   into   other
three institutions.
FTU's initial share would be
$200,000 under Frey's proposal.
Although   a   bill   will   have   to   be
fieids, aiding fights against
pollution, urban turmoil and
ecological problems.
"RETRO    would    not    only
introduced for the full approval of coordinate    the   activities   of   the
the program, the congressman told three   universities,   , it would   also
administrators    he    would    seek work  with   the  federal,  state and
sufficient, already existing monies local   governmental agencies in an
to fund budget preparations for the effort to establish and maintain a
project, dubbed RETRO (Regional, well-run program of re-training and
Environmental,    Training   and opportunity   for   the   unemployed
Research Organization).
The pilot program, if successful
here, could be implemented
throughout  the  nation, Frey said.
technician and scientist," Frey said.
Frey    will    propose    that    FTU
receive   the   major  share of initial
National Science Foundation funds
In this way, the talents of for the pilot program. FIT already
numerous scientists, engineers and has been awarded $50,000 for a
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What Can You Do When All Is Said And Dunn - Is Gone?
Dr. Dallas Eugene Dunn is a
Professor at the University of
Calgery in Canada.
Dr. Dunn has a $300,000 grant
for a psychological study he wants
to do at FTU.
Dr. Dunn holds his Ph.D- in
psychology, is a business executive,
an industrial consultant, and the
illegitimate son of Sir James Dunn.
The police would like to speak
with Dr. Dunn.
True or false? Authorities can
only be sure of the last item, and
after Dunn hurriedly left the FTU
campus after a three day visit he
also left behind some very
untalkative people, a menagerie of
rumors and broken facts, and a
warrant for his arrest at the Orange
County Sheriff's Office.
Probably no one person knows
exactly what Dunn's activities were
during the three days spent residing
at the Ramada Inn and visiting
students and administrators during
the day; however, what information
is known about his movements and
contacts portrays one of the most
intriguing characters to ever visit
Florida Tech.
Sometime    during    Tuesday,
February 2, Dunn walked into the
office    of   Dr.    Charles    Unkovic,
Chairman   of   the   Department   of_
Sociology,   and   explained   that he
By Tim Tumlin
held a Ph.D. in psychology and that
he had been awarded a $300,000
grant by the Canadian government
to do a psychological study of the
lives of urban dwellers with rural
backgrounds. In a long conversation
with Dr. Unkovic, Dunn claimed
that he had also visited UCLA,
Vanderbilt, and Fort Lauderdale
University but had decided to make
his study in Orlando, basing his
operation at FTU. When asked
about his credentials he said that
they would arrive by mail from
Canada. He also said that he was on
leave of absence from a position in
a car rental agency in Canada, and
industrial consultant business, and
that he was the illegitimate son of
Sir James Dunn.
In the conversation, Dunn said he
would like to see some films
already made on the subject of
urban dwellers to show to the
students he would need to work
under him on his study. For this he
was told to see Mr. Richard Cornell,
the Director of Instructional Media.
Dunn spoke with Cornell about
the films he would supposedly
need. During the discussion he was
invited to attend an informal
discussion regularly held at the
Stone Conundrum. That night
Dunn attended  the discussion and
met Jim Stringer, President of the
FTU Student Government.
Late Wednesday morning, Dunn
visited Stringer at the SG offices.
There he became engaged in a
discussion with Stringer and Chris
Schmidt, the executive assistant to
the SG President. At the end of the
visit he took Stringer out to lunch
at the Ramada Inn. While the two
were having lunch, Schmidt and
two friends came in and seated
themselves at another table; Dunn
paid their bill also by signing the
checks. Later, both Stringer and
Schmidt described Dunn as "very
generous." Back at FTU Stringer
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