Central Florida Future, Vol. 04 No. 18, February 25, 1972

              Club Funding Solution Sought
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS secretary Linda Hutcheon
is one of the volunteers manning FTU's exhibit at the
Central Florida Fair. The 1972 exhibit, similar to last
year's, features the theme,  "Go To, Grow     With
FTU," and includes pamphlets, postcards and a slide
projector to acquaint fair patrons with the university.
(Photo by Chuck Seithel.)
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We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
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Parking Construction Delayed
By Temporary Loss Of Funds
Construction of a new
temporary student parking facility
has been halted due to a
reallocation of funds that had been
designated for the lot. The lot will
be located adjacent to lot 5, near
the General Classroom building and
work will continue when additional
funds are allocated.
This move and several others
have been instigated to alleviate
some of the consistent complaints
regarding parking problems.
According to John Smith, director
of security, the problems concern
CBS May Cover
March 1th Project
The results of the FTU-based
straw vote, Project 7th of March,
may be announced during the CBS
News coverage of the New
Hampshire primary that same
evening if arrangements can be
made, according to Bill Castellano,
one of the originators of the
project.
Castellano has been in touch
with the CBS News team for several
months, but did not receive definite
confirmation of the plans until this
week.
According to a letter from CBS,
a film crew will be sent to one of
the college campuses near Miami to
get some footage to use in the
report that evening. "We are
impressed with what you have been
doing. . ." the letter stated.
Castellano said he was "pleased
with the news of the coverage," but
emphasized that coverage was still
in the planning stages, and may yet
encounter problems.
Castellano has also received
support from Chairman of the U.S.
House Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur Mills (D-Ark).
not only students but faculty and
staff members as well.
Eighteen student spaces located
on the street next to the
Administration Building have been
re-designated as faculty spaces.
"This action was taken to alleviate
faculty problems," said Smith.
Smith was questioned on the
overall student parking situation
and said that there are a total of
approximately 3,725 parking
spaces, including all lots, and the
largest tally of cars on campus has
been 3,517. "The peak days are
monday, Wednesday and Friday in
that order and the heaviest time is
Monday at 10 a.m.," said Smith.
Smith noted that temporary lot
200, located adjacent to the
residence halls, is not being utilized
to capacity. "I cannot understand
Registration Set
For Next Week
Advisement for spring quarter
advance registration will begin
Monday, and registration itself will
start Tuesday in the library lobby
and continue through Friday.
Spring quarter class schedules
and advisement forms are now
available in each university
department and from the student's
advisor.
Registration appointment times
have been posted in the library and
administration buildings, and
registration will be held from 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through
Thursday, and 2 to 6 p.m. Friday.
Regular registration will be held
March 23 and 24. Students who
register during regular registration
will have to obtain their invoices
March 27 through 29 at tables in
the Administration Building lobby,
in order to pay their fees.
why students park in the mud
behind the library building when
there are approximately 200
unused spaces in this lot," he said.
The lot has a capacity of over
450 cars and "during the winter
quarter, the largest number of cars
in the lot at any time has been less
than 235."
Smith and other university
officials recognize that action must
be taken, but have found that the
university is unable to do anything
but request additional funds. "The
problem is money and convincing
the state officials that FTU, being a
commuter university, needs more
parking facilities than other
schools," said Smith.
Smith recently spoke to the
University Parking Committee, on
which he served in an advisory
capacity, and acquainted the
committee with the complaints and
problems of the parking situation.
He stressed the fact that FTU is
commuter-based and that parking
must be given a top priority by the
state officials.
The Kappa Sigma Fraternity
petition drive aimed at acquainting
state administrators with the FTU
parking problems "could have
positive effects," according to
Smith. "I hate for it to go this far
to get something done, but
sometimes this is what it takes," he
added.
Smith suggested several
solutions to parking problems that
FTU will encounter in the next
decade. "Parking garages could be
built to take the place of one layer
parking lots. Each garage would be
four stories high and would
quadruple the space available in one
lot," said Smith.
"I also see trains (or trams)
between    parking    areas    and
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Competitive System
Proposed By Santry
Seeking a solution to the problem of fair and equal funding for clubs
and organizations on campus, student government President Frank Santry
this week outlined a program designed to "reach a lot of students in small
groups, rather than a few students
in small groups, as has been done in
the past."
Included in the first "tentative"
draft of the 1972-73 SG activity fee
budget, the plan titled
intra-university programs, if
adopted, would completely nullify
the present system of yearly club
budget requests.
"Instead," said Santry, "we
would force clubs and
organizations, or groups of students
or even faculty members to devise
campuswide projects which would
be funded on a quarterly basis."
The tentative 1972-73 budget
includes an item which would
allocate $12,000 for this purpose
for the next year. According to
Santry, organizations or parties
would be required to submit
quarterly ideas for projects, which
would be judged according to their
relative merit and the number of
students who would benefit.
"We would allocate $3,500 for
the three major quarters and
$1,500 for summer quarter, and
each quarter's allocation would be
split either one, two or three ways.
If a particularly high cost or merit
is involved we may fund only one
or two projects in a given quarter,"
said.
This program, according to
Santry, is intended as a substitute
for the matching funds program
proposed earlier in the year which
would have required clubs to obtain
matching    funds    from    their
ID CARD CHANGE
New student ID cards will be
issued at advanced registration next
week. A table will be located in the
registration area in the Library
lobby and all students must
exchange their present card for the
new one.
A student must have the new ID
card to use library services. The
cards are also used for cashing
checks, identification and other
types of university identification.
Students who do not obtain the
new card during advanced
registration may do so at the
Library circulation desk following
advanced registration.
Use of a un iversity
identification card by anyone other
than the student to whom it is
issued is prohibited. If a card is lost,
there is a $5 replacement fee.
Losses should be reported to the
Registrar's office.
ON-CAMPUS HOUSING
Due to some cancellations there
are a limited number of vacancies in
the women's residence halls. These
vacancies will be released on a first
come-first serve basis. For further
information, write or call the
Housing office.
Currently, the men's residence
halls are full. However, last minute
cancellations could create
unanticipated vacancies by the first
day of class in spring quarter. Male
students desiring on-campus
housing should check with the
housing office during orientation
and the first week of classes.
associated academic department.
The earlier program, although
lauded by Santry as being a
necessity to protect against
uncontrolled expenditure of funds,
stirred a controversy on the senate
floor where one senator predicted
"the death of all clubs on campus"
if the legislation was passed.
"We have all but abandoned the
idea of matching funds," said
Santry, "first, because there is a
question of the availability of
department funds, and secondly,
because we don't want to put any
organization out of business."
Santry predicts that the new
intra-university program will
involve     and   affect   a   greater
FRANK SANTRY
number of students, and will "raise
the whole relative merit of
programs through the quarterly
competition for funds."
Although this new proposal
would completely do away with the
ability of clubs to make one annual
request for speakers, acitivites, and
so on, Santry added that "clubs
might request funds for operational
expenses if they could justify
them."
A second effect of the proposal
would be to allow more flexibility
in funding. "There would no longer
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SG Requests
$120 Thousand
For'72 Budget
A tentative Student
Government budget 1972-73,
totaling $120,204, was released this
week prior to the March 1 deadline
for student activity fee budget
requests.
This budget, although only a
tentative one, is well within the
realm, of last year's budget of
$119,800.80 according to SG
President Frank Santry.
"We have made a few
mechanical changes," said Santry,
"such as removing personnel and
publicity designations from all
single items and placing them under
separate items. Also, we have
changed the titles of several items
to alter the scope or focus of the
program involved for example,
changing the item "buses to away
games" to "transportation to
athletic events."
This present budget request is
designed to provide an overview of
basic priorities. "We have used this
past year's successful programs as
the basis for program requests for
the new budget," Santry said.
Transportation to athletic
events, student service subsidy
program, graduation
announcements, the Lake Claire
project, miniature diplomas, the
university picnic, the used book
exchange and intra-university
programs are the eight programs
now designated in the tentative
budget.
According    to    Santry,    the
student activity fee committee will
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