Central Florida Future, Vol. 04 No. 12, January 14, 1972

              We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
for the. .
Lake Claire
Completion
Due Feb. 1
Student Government's Lake
Claire recreation project, which was
begun two years ago and halted
several months ago due to spiraling
expenses and lack of funds, will
likely meet a February 1
completion deadline, according to
SG President Frank Santry.
"I talked to Fred Clayton
(university physical planning
director) this week," said Santry.
"He assured me that a purchase
order release for the drilling of a
well at the site, and the purchase of
beach sand will come around
Tuesday."
According to Santry, Clayton
reported there might be some delay
in spreading the beach sand once it
is purchased. "The physical plant
may need some additional
equipment to spread the sand," said
Santry.
More than five acres of land
clearing near the lake site should be
completed this week, according to
Santry.
Money for the project has been
allocated from the $22,350 Lake
Claire fund, which is the largest
single item designated in SG's
1971-72 fiscal budget.
Air Force ROTC
To Begin In Fall
By John Gholdston
The Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program,
which will begin at FTU in fall 1972, will offer a variety of possible
programs, according to Air Force sources in the Pentagon. One of the
programs will allow a high school student to contract for the entire four
years of higher education, at the cost of the AFROTC.
The  special  "Senior   Program"   —	
will pay the student's tuition, most students who maintain at least at
FRANK SANTRY
This will mark the completion for
the most parr of phase one of Lake
Claire development which includes
dredging, land clearing for parking
areas and game fields, installation of
electrical wiring and lighting.
Earlier improvements included
the construction of a limestone road
leading from Alafaya Trail to Lake
Claire, which is located about one
mile north of the campus.
The cost of this work, including
the land-clearing and beach sloping
operation recently completed by
Hubbard Construction Co., was
covered by $7,600 Lake Claire
allocation carried over from last
year's SG budget, according to
Santry.
LIKE A LIGHT in the sea of gray, FTU's first, and possibly only
homecoming queen, Patty Gray, looks down on the FuTUre
photographer from a bench beside the Library. The effect was produced
by Chuck Seithel, in his magic darkroom.
Master's Program
Gets Accreditation
FTU's master's degree program has received formal accreditation from
the Southern Association of College and Schools (SACS), to be
retroactive for all master's degrees awarded to date.
The action was taken by the
Association during its annual
meeting in Miami Beach. The SACS
committee on standards and reports
accepted the recommendation of an
evaluation team which inspected
the graduate program at FTU
during October.
SACS has one higher level for
degree approval than the one
attained by FTU. Level IV, the
highest level within the Association,
is used to designate approval for a
doctoral program.
That level cannot be attained for
the next four or five years because
of a State University System
moratorium on doctoral programs,
according to Dr. Leslie L. Ellis,
dean of research and graduate
studies. He added that the
moratorium is partially a result of
the number of unemployed persons
in the state work force who have
doctorates.
FTU first awarded three master's
degrees-in education-last June, and
since then the program has
expanded to included more than
one dozen graduates.
Master's degrees are now offered
in business administration,
communication, education,
engineering and industrial
psychology.
of his book costs and any special
lab costs, in addition to a salary
from $50 to $100 per month for
the full four years. His obligation
while in school would only require
active participation in the ROTC
2.25 overall grade point average.
According to Pentagon sources,,
the program is designed to
accommodate junior college
transfers and transfer students from
other four-year schools. The actual
program in his final two years of training   portion  of  the  program
school, and then as little as a
four-year stint of active duty,
starting off as a second lietuenant.
The program requires eight years
does not begin until the junior year,
but finances can be arranged for the
entire four-year period. Even a
student who does not get into the
total, which would mean four more  scholarship program can get from
$50 to $100 per month as pay.
Any student signing up for the
flight  training  program agrees to
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Demo Caucus
Set At FTU
FTU has been selected as the
location of the 5th Congressional
District    Democratic    delegate
years   in   inactive   reserves,   after
leaving the service.
Other programs offer flight
training to seniors, which if passed
successfully will also give the
participant a private pilot's license.
Concurrent with the
announcement of FTU being
selected to have a AFROTC
program was the^ naming of nine
other colleges and universities to
offer similar programs. The only
other Florida school to be selected selection ci
was Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University at Daytona Beach. FTU
be held February 26.
joins the ranks of 182 other units
which will be operating by fall.
According to Dr. C. B. Gambrell,
vice president for academic affairs.
The
program
1970.
baccalaureate
was   accredited
degree
Dec.   2,
SHIVER RESCHEDULED
The Village Center issued an
apology Tuesday when Major John
A. Shiver did not appear to make his
speech at 11 a.m. on the Village
Center Green.
Wanda Russell, VC program
director, said, "We of the Village
Center give our regrets that Maj.
Shiver did not show. Because of
interest shown by the students, we
have rescheduled Maj. Shiver's
speech for next Tuesday at 11 a.m.
on the Village Center Green." If it
rains, the spedch will be in the
Engineering Auditorium.
'PHILADELPHIA STORY'
"The Philadelphia Story,"
starring Katharine Hepburn and
James Stewart, is being shown
tonight at 8:30 in the Science
Auditorium. Admission is 50 cents.
The second of the "Highlights of
Katharine Hepburn" series, this is
the movie in which Stewart won an
Academy Award.
C. B. GAMBRELL
FTU has been trying to get some
form of ROTC since 1968. "The
Air Force and the Army were
actually the only two branches
which had us under consideration,"
explained Gambrell. "We have had
interest expressed by the
community in a ROTC program
since 1968."
The program will be totally
voluntary, but the scholarship
program   will   only   be   open   to
Each of 12 suggested Democratic
candidates will have an opportunity
to hold a caucus for delegate
selection. The 12 were announced
Wednesday and include Rep. Wilbur
Mills, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Sen.
Edmund Muskie, Sen. Vance Hartke,
Rep. Shirley Chisolm, Alabama Gov.
George Wallace, New York Mayor
John Lindsay, Sen. Henry Jackson,
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, Sen.
Hubert Humphrey, Sen. Eugene
McCarthy and Sen. George
McGovern.
The location of FTU in relation to
the four-county (Orange Brevard.
Indian River and Osceola) 5th
District was a major consideration in
choosing the unversity for the site.
FTU is located in the middle of the
population density and contains
sufficient space and facilities to
house the various presidential
candidate delegate selection
caucuses.
FTU officials indicated that they
would honor a similar request by
Republican party officials for use of
facilities based on availability and
other factors.
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'People Problems' Endanger Ecology, Says County Agent
"People problems" are
complicating Florida's three basic
resources, the land, air and water,
and may destroy the very
environment which orginally
attracted residents to Florida,
according to Henry F. Swanson,
county extension director for the
Orange County Agricultural Center.
Swanson recently presented a
realistic look at the form of chaos
in Central Florida resulting from
the great urban expansion and
onslaught of consumers in this area.
Swanson's thoughts focused on
man's misuse of his basic resources,
and he said that the Orlando area's
rapid use of agricultural land for
urban development may cause
serious problems. He emphasized
that "when man changes the land,
he affects the quality of the air and
water."
Because of the impact of Disney
World, the Naval Training Center
and FTU, t he Orlando
metropolitan area is expected to
reach a population of 813,860 by
1982. This figure reflects a 94.7 per
cent growth in 14 years over the
prsent population of 418,000.
With real estate values booming,
manu citrus grove owners are
finding it more profitable to sell
By Margaret Haas
Henry F. Swanson
their land for urban development
than to grow fruit. Swanson said he
expects Orange county, which now
has more acerage of citrus land than
most other areas in Florida, will
drop significantly in rank.
"Why is the manner in which we
use our (Orlando) land so
important?" asked Swanson.
Florida cities south of Belleview,
including Orlando, get 100 per cent
of their water from the atmosphere.
The area has no underground rivers
and depends entirely on annual
rainfall for its water.
The rainfall penetrates the soil
and is then absorbed deep into a
layer of white rock beneath the
surface. Drillers often must go
1,200 feet before obtaining good
quality water.
When man comes in and covers
up good water recharge areas, such
as absorbant agricultural soil, with
asphalt and shopping centers, the
rain carries the oil and assorted
trash into a drainage ditch and
eventually pollutes some lake or
river. That water may remain
useless to Floridians unless
somehow purified and returned to.
underground wells.