Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 29, May 25, 1973

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President
Tours FTU
In Wheelchair
By Torrey Stewart
After spending two hours
Monday in a wheelchair,
President Charles Millican said
he is "much more personally
aware of the detailed problems
handicapped students have that
do not appear on the surface."
In order to learn about the
problems of handicapped
students, Millican visited the
Classroom and Administration
buildings, the Library, snack bar
and cafeteria. He experienced
some of the difficulties itemized
on a priority list compiled by
Robert Van Etten, a
handicapped student.
The priority list itemized
present campus facilities which
are difficult or impossible for
the handicapped student to use
and suggested possible solutions.
Charles May, district director
of vocational rehabilitation in
the area, and Jan McQuirk, FTU
vocational rehabilitation
counselor, accompanied the
President.
Millican experienced
difficulty with ramps onto
curbs, the library ramp, entrance
to the snack bar, cafeteria and
Administration Building.
In the Classroom Building
vending machine room, Millican
realized some selections were
out of reach for students in
wheelchairs. Another difficulty
arose when his wheelchair
caught on the Classroom
Building ramp, where a slab of
concrete is pulled away, leaving
a sunken area.
Millican found bathrooms
should be equipped with stalls
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Name Change
Chances Dim
Until Fall
By Pete Spivey
PRESIDENT CHARLES Millican rolls up the curb ramp by the
Classroom Building Monday at the beginning of a two-hour wheelchair
tour of campus. Millican encountered several problems experienced by
handicapped students. (Photo by Jerry Brooks)
Chances of a name change for
FTU before fall quarter dimmed
considerably following the
monthly meeting of the
Administrative Council May 17.
President Charles Millican
reported he was told by the
Board of Regents in Tallahassee
May 15 to "come back when
you have a name."
Millican then suggested to
council members, "I think we
should let this simmer through
the summer and dig into it again
in the fall."
There were no objections.
In Millican's opinion, the
delay is necessary to approach
the problem of a name change
from all angles.
He indicated he would like to
have "better liaison between the
Board of Regents and the state
cabinet before we go before
them again."
Two requirements seem
necessary for any change of the
university's name: The new title
must have the word "Florida" in
it, and it must not sound in any
way like University of Florida or
Florida State University.
Millican promised to
investigate all name possibilities
thoroughly, even to the point of
meeting with holders of the
chartered companies that are
preventing FTU from assuming a
name sounding like University of
Central Florida.
FTU Building Program Stalled
By Torrey Stewart
EIGHT TO ten years will
elapse before FTU has another
major academic building, such as
the General Classroom Building
or Engineering Building,
according to James F.
Schroeder, physical planning
consultant.
Such a building would be in
addition to those now in
planning or construction stages --
Biology, Humanities and Fine
Arts and Education -- and its
construction would be
contingent upon no changes
within    the    makeup    of   the
university, Shroeder said.
President Charles Millican
stated FTU will not be allocated
additional funds for academic
buildings until enrollment
growth justifies it, and he
predicted this would probably
not occur before 1980.
ACCORDING to Millican, the
decrease in foreseeable
enrollment affects the master
building plan by postponing the
timetable of upcoming projects
by about five to six years. The
need FTU once felt for
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To The Rescue:   Astronauts To Save Skylab
After a pressing race against time,
Skylab 1 astronauts will lift off from
Kennedy Space Center at 9:02 a.m.
today in an attempt to salvage as
much as they can of their crippled
orbiting workshop.
The space station was disabled
shortly after liftoff from Cape
Kennedy May 14 when a reflective
meteoroid-sun   shield   tore  off  the
See Page 7 For PROBE
The missing meteoroid-sun shield
would have had a stablizing effect on
the thermal balance of the craft
Without it, water in a heat
exchange coil on the shaded portion
of the ship threatens to freeze,
expand and rupture the coil; and
rising temperatures in the sunlit
portion threaten to fog sensitive
photographic   film   and   deteriorate
medical    supplies    and    foodstuffs
stored aboard.
The rising temperatures are far
above the expected tolerances
originally foreseen for the lab, and
some of the materials aboard, such as
insulative foams, are believed to be
"outgassing" or being degraded in
such a way that they release toxic
gases.
Before the crew enters 'the craft
they will test for the presence of such
gases.
The loss of the shield has
apparently contributed to the
creation of additional problems. In
leaving the craft, the shield seems to
have disturbed two large solar cell
array wings designed to supply more
than half of the workshop's electrical
workshop, exposing the outer skin of
the craft to the blistering heat of the
sun's radiation. Without the
protection of the shield,
temperatures inside the lab's living
quarters have soared to around 125
degrees Fahrenheit.
The Skylab astronauts, Pete
Conrad, Dr. Joseph Kerwin and Paul
Weitz, have been training since
Monday for the tedious task of
cooling the workshop by deploying a
specially built sun screen resembling
a beach umbrella through a nine by
nine inch airlock. Alternatively, the
crew could rig a thermal blanket
around the sunlit portion of the craft
in a space walk tomorrow morning.
The temperatures inside the craft
have been brought under control by
engineers who have been playing a
game of thermal "seesaw" with the
$295 million workshop.
Mission control has attempted to
keep the side shaded from the sun
warm and the side facing the sun
cooL
IN THIS Marshall Space Flight
Skylab is shown as it would look
Center mock-up,
with solar wings
fully delployed. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
power. Mission directors are hoping
that at least one of the solar wings
can be deployed manually by the
astronauts.
The type of salvage techniques to
be used by the crew tomorrow will
depend heavily upon how
Commander Pete Conrad surmises
the situation when the command
module intercepts the workshop over
the North Pacific about 4 p.m. today.
The crew will relay television
pictures of the Skylab cluster so
Mission Control can assist Conrad in
deciding the best course of action.
After this visual inspection, the
crew will probably soft dock with the
workshop to avoid the task of
stationkeeping, and the astronauts
will bed down for the night in the
command module.
If Conrad and Mission Control
decide one or both of the solar wings
can be deployed manually, the crew
will probably separate from the
cluster tomorrow morning and
attempt to free the malfunctioning
solar wing from the side of the
• workshop.
This also could conceivably be
done this afternoon during a
spacewalk.
Engineers think one of the solar
panels is just slightly deployed
because the solar wing seems to be
producing a slight trickle of
electricity. However, the measured
amount is so small as to test the
tolerance of the voltage measuring
instruments.
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