Central Florida Future, Vol. 04 No. 21, April 3, 1972

              Parent's Aid Society Founder To Lead VC   'Discover   Series'
Bill Baird, whose arrest in
Massachusetts led to a U.S.
Supreme Court decision that single
persons have the same right to
obtain contraceptives as married
people do.is speaking Tuesday at 11
a.m. on the Village Center Green.
His topic is "The ABC's of
Abortion and Birth Control."
Baird's discussion is the first
portion of a two-part program on
abortions sponsored by the Village
Center. This discussion is the first
program of the "Discover series."
Baird left his job as clinical
director of a national birth-control
pharmaceutical manufacturer to
found the Parents' Aid Society, a
non-profit birth control, abortion
and narcotics center. As advisor to
the New York Senate
subcommittee on health and mental
health, Baird established the
nation's first abortion referral clinic
in 1964, and advised the New
Jersey legislature on birth control.
His current activities include
directing a birth control and
abortion    center   in   Hampstead,
Long Island, and the Plan Van, a This past legislative session has
mobile birth control and abortion seen the 104-year-old abortion law
unit. in Florida struck down by the State
Supreme Court. This law restricted
Since Baird's campaign began, it
has helped the New York and New
Jersey poor to receive birth control
advice and materials.
The second portion of the
program will feature a panel
composed of Orlando physicians,
Dr. Jim Werba and Dr. Arthur
Corey, both specialists in obstetrics
and gynecology; the Rev. Patrick
O'Neill of the Newman Center in
Winter Park, and Thomas A.
Horkan Jr., executive director of
the Florida Catholic Conference,
based in Tallahassee.
Horkan has been executive
director of the conference since
1969. He formerly practiced law in
Miami. He has been involved in the
legislative debate about abortion in
Tallahassee during the current
.session.
BILL BAIRD
abortions to women whose lives
were endangered by the pregnancy.
The Florida House of
Representatives approved a bill
allowing abortion if the
continuation of pregnancy would
endanger the woman's life or impair
her health, if the child would be
We Live in the Present
By the Past, but
for the. .
born with grave physical or mental
defects or if the pregnancy resulted
from rape or incest. The Senate
passed a similar bill, and the bills
would become law if the two
houses approved them in identical
form and Governor Reubin Askew
signed the legislation.
Also concerning birth control
and abortion, a presidential
commission on population goals
recommended that abortion,
contraception and sterilization be
made available to all Americans,
married or single. The commission
rejected such devices as sterility
bonuses, tax incentives or welfare
limitations, but recommended that
the sterilization, contraception and
abortion be paid for by public or
private health insurance.
The commission was headed by
John D. Rockefeller III and was
created in 1970 by Congress at
President Nixon's request. Special
programs for teenagers were also
suggested.
FTU's Student Government has
not been unaffected by the
abortion-contraception issue. A
current resolution recommends that
FTU   Health   Service  make  birth
control counseling and aids
available to all students, that such
counseling and distribution be kept
confidential and at the discretion of
the Health Service. The resolution
was to have received its second
reading last Thursday. If passed and
signed by SG President Frank
Santry, the resolution would be
sent to  Dr. W. Rex Brown, vice
president of Student Affairs. If Dr.
Brown signs the resolution,
according to SG secretary Barbara
Enos, a copy would be sent to the
Health Center. The resolution
would not effect a policy change,
since it only expresses official
Student Government opinion.
According to Miss Enos, there is no
state law which would prevent the
Health Center from counseling
students or dispensing birth control
devices.
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UNDER THE shield of a Dyson construction sign, workman raise
the roof on the addition to the Village Center. The new building,
scheduled for August completion, wfll house more student offices and
the cafeteria. (Photo by Ed Burton.)
WFTU Off The Air
Until License Secured
By John Gholdston
The law reads: "Except as $15,000 to $120,000 for the initial
otherwise provided in this Act, the outlay alone, and then from
Commission (FCC) from time to $13,000 to $20,000 a year for
time, as public convenience, operational expenses, not counting
interest, or necessity requires, shall the faculty and new staff positions
study new uses for radio, provide such an operation would require,
for experimental uses of There are several avenues which
frequencies, and generally could be followed in initiating an
encourage the larger and more FM station, starting on a small 10
effective use of radio in the public watt station which would be purely
interest." (Secion 303 (g) of the educational and building up to a
Communications Act of 1934) stereo FM station, which would be
It was under this provision that almost in competition with other
WFTU Radio has operated since it local commercial stations,
first went on the air in winter "We have passed the
quarter of 1970, broadcasting experimental stages," said Jackson,
experimentally to the students in "and need to progress to the next
the dorms. But WFTU is off the air step. We feel we are more than
now, for an indeterminate length of ready for the move."
time, and will probably not come The FM Committee reported to
back on the air until a regular FCC President Millican in January that
license is obtained and the station they felt there are program interests
can operate as a fully licensed that are not being fulfilled by the
broadcasting station, according to
sources within the broadcast
complex.
The station had allegedly been
exceeding its permitted power, and
had been broadcasting into Orlando
and some other local cities in
violation of their 'experimental'
standing. The FCC has supposedly
been in the area to check the
pattern and power of the station,
but was here on one of the
occasions when the technicians had
shut the transmitter down to work
on it. If the FCC was able to
document such a violation, the
station would be fined and the
possibility of getting a regular
broadcast license would be reduced.
Presidents And Governors
Eliminated By SG Action
The offices of class president made by these individual senate classes shall be elected within the
and college governor have been delegations shall be subject to the fast four weeks of the fall term,
eliminated from the FTU Student approval of the Student Senate. All shah" assume office within one week
Government organization by a rules governing meetings of the of certification of election, and
constitutional amendment which Student Senate shall apply to these sna11 serve until certification of
became law in mid-March. meetings   unless   waived    by    a executive  elections  the  following
The amendment, in the form of  two-thirds vote of the membership fall term. '
a bill, was originally introduced in  of   the   delegation   present   at   a       Section 4-C and 4-D, concerning
the Senate in fall and passed the  delegation meeting." eligibility    requirements    for
final vote on. March 9. It was then Article III, Section 2-C and 2-D executive officers: "To be eligible
signed by SG President Frank concerning executive officers: "The to seek and hold the office of
Santry    and    Vice-president    for governors of the several colleges, governor of a  college  a  student
who shall sit on the president's must be enrolled in the said college,
council. The presidents of the To be eligible for the office of
several classes who shall sit on the President of a class student must be
president's council " enrolled in the said class."
Section 3-C, 3-D and 3-F, Section 5-D, concerning duties
concerning executive officers' of the SG president: "Call special
colleges and each of the several elections: "The governors shall be meetings of the Student Senate,
classes shall convene separately at elected by a pluralty of votes cast and Preside without a vote over all
least once every four weeks to by the students in the college which meetings of the senate and the
discuss matters solely pertinent to they represent. The presidents shall president's council."
that college or class. All decisions be elected by a plurality of votes Section 8, concerning the
o.      i       .a .i        cast by the students in the class president's    council:    "The
otUQent ArreSteCl which they represent... .The president's council shall consist of
Ci      TU   14-  f^U governors  of each of the several  the governors of the several colleges
Ull   1 nelt V^narge       colleges and the president of each  ^d the presidents of the several
An    FTU    student   has   been of the several classes colleges and  classes.   They  shall meet at least
arrested, jailed and referred to the the presidents of each of the several  once every two weeks to advise the
the
SG
Student Affairs W. Rex Brown
The    amendment   deletes
following    from    the
constitution:
Article II, Section 10-E: "The
senators from each of the several
existing AM and FM stations in the
Orlando area.
Orange County parole and
probation office in connection with
the theft of a $3.95 item from the
university bookstore last quarter.
Security Superintendent John
Smith said this case is the only
instance of court action taken in
cases involving 26 thefts reported
during winter quarter.
Two of the largest thefts
reported occurred in early
February, when a calculator valued
at $2,600 was stolen from the
Engineering Building and a printer
worth $495 was taken from the
psychology department.
Other    items    stolen    during
Campus
to* Glances
PARKING PLACES
president of the student body,
report progress of their individual
senate delegations, and decide
questions of legislative
jurisdiction."
Added to the constitution will
be Article II, section 11,
subsections A and B, reading, "The
chairman of the delegation from
each college shall be the senator
with the longest tenure in the
senate. In the event that two or
more senators have the same length
of tenure, the chairman shall be the
senator with the highest rank. The
chairman shall coordinate
communications between the dean
"We  were  not forced off the Village   Center   addition  is  going
air," emphasized Don Jackson, who according to schedule and will be
works    closely    with    the    radio completed for use in fall quarter,
station, "We went off before the 1972.
end of the last quarter because of       Fred   Clayton,   Physical   Plant
technical    problems    with    the director,  said  that  work  on  the
transmitter, which we still have not sprinkler system in the median of
repaired. Our decision is, however, entrance to the university will be
to stay off the air until we can gain completed soon and work on the
a formal status." landscaping can begin.
Such a formal status, according       The utilities extension for the
to the FM Committee, which lias humanities    building    is    under
been   investigating   the   cost   and construction.   The   dome   located
feasibility of creating an FM station near the power plant will be used
on    campus,    could    cost    from by the research department.
For   students   who  are  having
CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS  winter, Smith said, included camera fmdi      a       ki        k of the college and the senators m
equipment tape recorders personal ug   se(*    0fflcers 6have  a his delegation, call and preside over
monies and petty cash funds. He        ^ J any    meetings    of    the    college
added that the total estimated loss suggestl°n-  iry temporary lot 2UU delegation that might be deemed
FTU's Physical Plant disclosed
Monday that construction of the
from thefts was more than $6,000,
while    the    estimated
recovered was slightly more than
$1,000.
Smith said security officers are
encouraging all persons to be alert
to strangers in offices and to report
all thefts to security immediately.
He added that some arrests have
near    the    Physical    Education
amount Building- ^e *ot can nold ^ many
as 500 cars and has a hard surface.
BOOK REDEMPTION
necessary.
This same bill was withdrawn
February 17, when an amendment
to eliminate the additions to the
constitution failed. It was later
renumbered and resubmitted to the
senate.
A similar bill, which would have
Redemption    of    Student eliminated only the class presidents,
been   made   in   connection   with Government book exchange money was postponed last October until
several of the thefts, but no court or    books    begins    today    and the third senate meeting of spring
proceedings have been initiated. He continues   through  Wednesday  in quarter.
said those arrested have included LB 243. Items not claimed before The original amendment wfll be
persons   from   both   on   and   off Thursday will become the property withdrawn    since   the    current
campus.
ofSG.
amendment has passed.