Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 20, March 9, 1973

              Name Change Waits
Action By Regents
FTU'S NAME will change if
the wishes of President Charles N.
Millican and a majority of leaders
in the campus community are
met by the Florida Board of
Regents next month.
"We have discussed and
needed a name change for almost
as long as the university has been
open," Millican told Regents at
their Monday meeting in
Pensacola.
According to Millican and
other administrators, the word
"technological" has caused an
identity crisis for the university
with high school students, job
recruiters, federal grant
institutions and other
universities.
IN A presentation to the BOR
We Live in the Present
By the Past, but,
for the. .
By Sharon Marek
Millican and Dr. C. B. Gambrell,
vice president for academic
affairs, urged members to accept
a name change that "would more
appropriately describe the
general purpose nature of the
university."
According to Gambrell, "the
original name of the university
was the result of input from a
sizable local committee. At that
time opinion about the name was
highly weighted toward space and
technology. However, to this day
FTU has remained a general
purpose university."
Millican suggested for Regent
approval    the    name    "State
University of Florida, Orlando."
WE HAVE spent months and
even years in an attempt to come
up with a suitable name change,"
he said. "We tried maintaining the
same initials and substituting
other words for technological. We
tried combining prefixes of the
names of the six counties in the
area we serve. Our desire was to
come up with a name that would
gain national recognition without
a regional or local connotation."
Regents were generally in
favor of Millican's suggestion.
Regent Chester H. Ferguson,
however, expressed the fear that
the suggested name might be
confused with University of
Florida   or   Florida   State
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Kathy Quickly Corners
Graduation Cum Laude
For Kathy Frink, the next
week's graduation is something
special.
Her graduation will be the
culmination of less than three
years of university study. Kathy,
a sociology major, will graduate
cum laude despite the fact that
By Campus News Service
she has carried as many as 26
credit hours in one quarter.
In addition to her academic
load, Kathy has worked as a
student assistant at the FTU
library since she was a freshman.
Kathy would have graduated last
quarter, except she had to take a
KATHY FRINK
quarter off in order to replenish
her   bank   account.   (She   has
managed to pay her way through
-college.)
The petite redhead, who is
one of five Air Force "brats" in
Col. and Mrs. M. E. Frink's
family, admits she had no idea
what to do after college when
she started here. She now finds
that books are her life.
The competitive spirit Kathy
displays extends to her brothers
and sisters. One sister, Sherry,
will graduate from FTU this
August. Her brother Skip is at
the University of West Florida,
and another sister, Sharon, is at
Seminole Junior College. Greg
attends Winter Park High, which
was the fourth and final high
school Kathy attended before
starting at FTU. In her travels
with her family, she attended
eight schools between first grade
and Winter Park.
"We all try to outdo the
others in our grades, and this
makes each of us work that
much harder," said Kathy. When
she graduates, Kathy will carry a
3.3 grade point average.
Before moving to campus
housing, Kathy peddled from
her Winter Park home to campus
and back--20 miles round
trip-several times a week. She
also has managed to squeeze in a
physical education course each
quarter she's been at FTU,
because "physical activity is just
as important as mental activity."
THINGS HAVE changed since this photo was taken in 1969.
President Charles N. Millican, pictured, is still here, but within the next
month the name of the university he nurtured from its infancy may be
changed. FTU by any other name will still be the school that Millican
built. (For related stories, see page 7.) (Photo by Chuck Seithel, past and
present FuTUre staffer)
BOR Requests
New Name Ideas
Anyone who wants to suggest a
new name for FTU will still have
an opportunity to do so,
President Charles N. Millican
announced Tuesday.
According to Millican, Fred
Parker, Board of Regents
facilities committee chairman,
contacted him Tuesday
requesting further "input from all
members of the university
community as to a possible name
suggestion or reactions to the
three names currently under
consideration."
Parker must have all
comments, suggestions or other
feedback by next Friday so the
facilities committee will have
adequate time to consider the
proposed change, Millican
explained.
"To expedite matters as much
aspossible," said Millican, "I have
set up specific channels of
authority for each and every
member of the university
community to use in making
suggestions."
Students may contact Student
Government President Steve
Adamick, who will in turn
contact Dr. W. Rex Brown, vice
president for student affairs.
Brown will then make
recommendations to the
president's advisory council.
Millican said faculty members
"should contact Dr. Phil Taylor,
faculty senate head, who will
contact the advisory council."
Richard V. Neuhaus, head of
the recently formed staff council,
may be contacted by staff
members who want to make
suggestions. Neuhaus will then
contact J. P Goree, vice president
for business affairs, who will
report to the president's council.
Dr. Harry Smith, president of
the local chapter of the American
Association of University
Professors'1, and the deans of all
the colleges on campus will also
be available to take suggestions
and pass them on to the advisory
council.
"We must have as much input
as possible," said Millican, "if a
proper decision on the name
change is to be made."