Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 16, February 9, 1973

              Ed. Building Nears Reality
Plans Include
Gymnasium
By Mark Weintz
ATO ROSE to the call for help last week and
spearheaded a drive to collect food and clothing
for those left homeless by the tornado that
touched down recently in West Orlando. Many
members of the campus community assisted with
contributions of clothing and foodstuffs. For more
photos see Page 9. (Photo courtesy of ATO
fraternity)
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We Live in the Present
By the Past, but
for the. .
String Of Robberies
DevelopingPattern
The two robberies reported
last week, followed since by an
additional robbery and a
ransacking, are beginning to fit
into a pattern, according to Jim
G. Jordan, FTU security
investigator.
The robberies have all
centered around the Village
Center and a total of over $80
has been stolen. According to
Jordan, the robberies all seem to
have been committed by the
same person. Each robbery has
taken place without forced
entry, only a portion of the
money in each ransacked office
has been taken and apparently
the thief is familar enough with
the VC and SG enough to know
where their monies are kept.
The string of robberies began
almost three weeks ago, when on
January 29, approximately $50
was discovered stolen from the
cash box used to store monies
collected from the VC movies.
Jordan said that available clues
seem to indicate that the thief
merely walked into VC program
director Lucia Turnbull's office
(where the money is kept) when
it was unoccupied, grabbed the
money and walked out.
About the same time $12.50
was discovered missing from
game room monies. Jordan feels
that the thief probably stole this
money in the same manner..
The next robbery took place
last Wednesday, Jan. 31, when
two Student Government offices
were ransacked.
This robbery had a new twist,
in  that  the robber apparently
By David Foster
had access to a VC master key,
according to Jordan. Both
offices had been locked the
night before, and the next
morning one was found ajar and
the other relocked after being
entered during the night.
On first auditing, $40 was
believed to have been stolen, but
a later count narrowed the
actual sum to $17.75. However,
the week before, SG had come
up $30 short on an audit and
they had attributed it to clerical
error. SG President Steve
Adamick said he wonders if it
was indeed an error or if it was a
theft. He said that SG had come
up short before, but always "by
a few dollars and that $30 was
rather unusual."
The fourth incident was a
ransacking. The SNEA-FEA
office, directly adjacent to the
SG offices, was broken into
sometime last Friday evening or
early Saturday morning. The
office was ransacked, drawers
were pulled out, and papers were
dumped onto the floor.
The thief could have had a
sizeable haul of $124 if
chairman of the FTU chapter of
the SNEA, Bob Hartlep, had
not, as an afterthought, locked a
cashbox containing membership
dues away into a file cabinet
instead of leaving it in its usual
.drawer. Hartlep said that he had
been fearful that "with all of the
VC robberies that the SNEA
office might be hit." According
to Hartlep, the thief on two
occasions has opened a bottle
of pills found in a desk drawer,
Excedrin in SNEA's case, and
spilled the pills on the floor.
Jordan said that he has
advised Ken Lawson, director of
the Village Center, to somehow
centralize the storage of funds
after hours in the VC, and has
asked the victims to keep their
money securely locked and to
make more frequent audits.
He said  that there are few
leads at present and that their
main hope of catching the thief
-depends    upon    increased
surveillance of the VC.
THE proposed educational
complex for FTU which
spawned rumors and
misunderstandings is officially
on its way to becoming a
reality.
Fred Clayton, director of
university physical planning,
announced last Friday that the
architects have been appointed
to draft the plans on the
complex.
The official announcement
concerning the structure was
delayed pending the
appointment of architects.
Clayton said, "Before the
architects are appointed you
have a lot of wishes, but all you
really have is a string on your
finger to remind you."
CLAYTON stated the
educational complex will include
an 8 7 ,000-square-f oot
educational building and a
67,000-square-foot
multi-purpose teaching
gymnasium.
The projected total cost of
the complex is $4.8 million,
according to Clayton.
He said the principal structure
of the complex will be the
three-story educational building.
A LEARNING resources
center with an instructional
media library will be the core of
the educational building,
Clayton pointed out. He said the
center will serve a wide variety
of teaching functions. According
to Clayton, the center will
permit large group study and
development with the use of
certain audio-visual equipment.
Clayton said the learning
resources center directly relates
to all other facilities in the
building from a central location.
"The educational complex
will permit the entire faculty of
the College of Education to be
housed in one location where
they can interrelate. It's a novel
thing to include a gym in an
educational complex. Usually a
gym is out in left field," said
Clayton.
Clayton emphatically said, "I
don't want anybody to get the
idea this is a fieldhouse because
it is not. It is mainly a teaching
facility."
THE multi-purpose teaching
gymnasium will support a
variety of functions, according
to   Clayton.   He   said   it   will
provide a facility for physical
education classes, rehabilitation
training, dances, on-campus
graduation ceremonies and
basketball games, to name a few.
The teaching gym will seat
about 3,500 persons without
setting up additional chairs,
Clayton said. He feels there will
be room for nearly 1,500
additional chairs. Clayton said
the building was designed to
easily accommodate . future
expansion which will bring the
total seating capacity up to
10,000.
Clayton said the complex will
be located slightly northwest of
the Classroom Building. He said
the underground utilities are
already in the ground; however,
the architects are not anticipated
to begin the schematic drawings
for 30 days. Clayton said it will
require the better part of a year
to finish the blueprints and get
the job ready for bidding.
AN architectural firm from
Titusville, Lemon and
Meggenson, was awarded the
contract, Clayton said.
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FRED CLAYTON
Before a university building is
drawn up in blueprint form, a
specific program must be
developed. The program outlines
what the building will comprise
and the functions it will serve.
Clayton said the educational
complex was programmed by an
educational building committee
appointed by Calvin Miller, dean
of the College of Education. He
said the committee worked with
the planning division of the
university in the development of
the program. Clayton felt the
committee represented a good
cross-section of the College of
Education.
SG Passes Semester Referendum,
Vote Set For Next Wednesday
By David Foster
A bill calling for a special
referendum Wednesday on the
semester system was passed
unanimously at the February 1
Student Government Senate
meeting. The bill passed by a
17-0 vote after SG President
Steve Adamick appeared before
the senate to emphasize the
referendum would enable
Student Government to discover
how students feel about
changing to the semester system.
The referendum is now
scheduled for February 14, from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in front of the
Village Center snack bar.
According to Adamick,
faculty councils at a number of
state   universities   have   voted
STEVE ADAMICK
approval of a semester system, in
particular, the "Texas plan."
This plan has two 16-week
semesters and two 6-week
summer mini-semesters.
Last week the FTU Faculty
Senate instruction committee
gave a preliminary vote of
approval for the plan. In
December 90 per cent of the
faculty senate of the University
of Florida voted in favor of the
modified semester system.
The modified semester plan
will be presented for final
Faculty Senate approval next
Tuesday, the day before the SG
referendum is to be held.
"The students are about to
have this plan ramrodded down
their throats," Adamick said,
"and if they don't like it, they
damn better take the time to
vote on the referendum next
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