Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 14, January 26, 1973

              Mead Pleases Packed Multitude
Her deep-blue eyes spoke as
vividly of her experiences as her
words. She held a jam-packed
Village Center Assembly Room
crowd in awe with her ideas and
observations. Her name is Dr.
Margaret Mead.
Dr. Mead walked to the
podium aided by a staff. She
said she has had ankle problems
and despises American canes
because they are too short and
make it difficult to walk.
"This cane is so unusual dogs
bark at it,"she said.
The crowd responded with a
warm chuckle, but Dr. Mead
immediately stifled their mirth
by bluntly saying she was
annoyed at the manner in which
her press conference was
handled.
A press conference, which was
held prior to her lecture, was
attended by a number of persons
not connected with the press or
television. The extra persons did
not please her.
We Live in the Present
By the Past, but
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The type of questions she was
asked at the press conference did
not please her either.
Participating members of the
press conference underestimated
her environmental interests. The
questions started off related to
sociology and Dr. Mead's past,
but wound up off-base and
somewhat irrelevant.
The tone of her post-lecture
question period resembled the
tone of her press conference:
irrelevant at times. She replied
to all questions but some were
dismissed with a wave of the
hand as she said, "That's enough
of that," or "That's a debater's
question and I'll not discuss it
now."
For the most part, the tone of
her lecture was serious. Dr. Mead
enlisted the empathy of her
audience by expressing her
annoyance with the press
conference. Then the amazing
grey haired lady turned to the
topic she was to speak on, the
By Mark Weintz
undetermined future.
She stated, "with all the
environmental problems, why do
all the press people
concern themselves with topics
such as abortion, marijuana and
morals?
"There are 5 million persons
starving in the world today. Dr.
Mead said. "The state of the
environment is in such jeopardy
that we must act immediately."
According to Dr. Mead
persons began realizing the
environment was a problem
about five years ago.
The outspoken doctor said
the problem is not really due to
atomic energy plants but rathe r
by the way countries are
conducting their industry. She
said all the synthetics being
made are putting a strain on the
environment.
She noted that pollution is
beginning to be realized as a
worldwide problem. Developed
nations are now polluting many
underdeveloped  countries  with
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new industrial plants, she said.
Agriculture is one of the main
polluters, the spirited woman
noted. She explained agriculture
is responsible for various
chemicals and pollutants being
spread on the earth.
Another main factor in the
pollution problem is persons'
disobeying and enforcing the
laws, Dr. Mead said.
The renowned doctor said she
believes man has been given
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LOOKING AS if she could be anyone's grandmother, witty and
incisive anthropologist Margaret Mead addresses a packed Village Center
Assembly Room last Tuesday. Dr. Mead, a noted author, spoke
succinctly and often humorously of the undetermined future of the
world in light of recent developments of the atomic age. (Photo by
Robert Reidenbach)
Gymnasium Proposal
Yet To Be Approved
A story in last Saturday's
Orlando Sentinel concerning a
gymnasium at FTU was
erroneous, according to Fred
Clayton, director of university
physical planning. The plans for
any Physical Education complex
are still pending approval from
Tallahassee, he said.
Dr. Frank Rohter, director of
physical education and athletics,
gave the Sentinel the information
about the approval of the
Physical Education complex, but
wasn't too certain about his own
source of information.
"I had thought I had heard the
okay on the complex through the
By William Lee Hidden
Building Committee in the form
of an interoffice memo, but I
might have been wrong," Rohter
said.
Indeed he might have been,
Clayton seemed to feel. He said as
far as he knows, approval for the
gym is still a week away. There
was also some discrepancy as to
seating capacity, which Dr.
Rohter clarified.
"By expandable to 10,000 I-
meant that the complex's main
gym area could eventually seat
10,000 persons in the future, if
the increasing size of FTU
dictates additional seating," he
said.
The complex, when
completed in 1975 or 1976, will
have a total permanent and
temporary seating capacity of
4,000. Rohter said he felt the
Sentinel story was misleading in
that respect.
Besides the main multipurpose
teaching gym, which will also
serve as an auditorium and
fieldhouse, the building will also
house an exercise and physiology
lab, a rehabilitation and training
room and a multipurpose
wrestling or dance room. The cost
of the building is also pending
approval and will probably not be
for the Physical Education
complex alone, according to
Clayton.
FTU^ To Be 5th To Offer
Public Policy Grad Degree
FTU HAD a 'tree-ing' experience last Friday when officials from the
Orlando Chamber of Commerce arrived on campus for the planting of
these palms near the Physical Education Building in honor of Arbor
Day. The Chamber presented the university with a check for $225 to
help with the beautification program of the campus. Members of the
Panhellenic Board were on hand at the 10 a.m. ceremony to dedicate
the plant-in of the trees. (Photo by Craig Powell)	
FTU will soon be included on
a small list of schools offering a
graduate degree program
designed to prepare students for
positions as public officials.
The master of public policy,
which will be offered here
starting in September, could
only be obtained before from
By Pete Spivey
Harvard, Texas, Michigan and
California at Berkeley.
Approval of the program by
the Board of Regents raises to
nine the number of master's
degrees awarded by FTU.
Dr. William Young, chairman
of political science, whose
department is responsible for the
$$ Spur Humanities Construction
Work is continuing on the
FTU Humanities and Fine Arts
Building following an additional
award of $403,545 in contract
work by the Florida Cabinet.
Three separate contracts were
awarded: one for structural work,
one for electrical work and
another for a building elevator.
The Humanities Building is
being built by a construction
process known as the "systems
method" in which there are
separate contractors for each step
in building. The foundation
construction was slow to be
completed due to a concrete
shortage in the area, but has now
been completed, said Fred
Clayton, director of university
physical planning. Work on new
access roads is expected to begin
in February.
Romac Steel Co. won the bid
for the steel work on the
building's tower at $375,295.
The steel is expected to arrive
some time this month and will
take approximately two weeks to
erect, including framing and
thermo-lab fireproofing.
Additional costs include a
$19,003 contract for an
electronics control system,
awarded to Pooke and Kent Co.,
and a $28,250 contract to Miami
Elevator Co. for a building
elevator. The $2.75 million
building is expected to be
completed late this year.
new program, noted it will be
oriented to matters associated
directly with public service such
as housing, the environment,
planning and national defense.
According to Young, current
projected figures show that as
many as 25 students may enroll
in the program by September.
"We also estimate there will
be 35 the following year," said
Young.
Students will come from two
major sources, Young explained:
from local public officials who
want to add to their present
qualifications, and graduate
students in Central Florida who
have been waiting for the
program to gain approval.
"We have already had many
inquiries from both groups,"
Young said.