Central Florida Future, Vol. 01 No. 18, March 28, 1969

              Circle K
Represented
The 10th Annual Florida District
Circle K convention was held March
6-8 in Cocoa. Official delegates
from FTU Circle K were president
Mike O'Mara and Bill Hunter.
Others attending the convention
included Richard Belcher, Jim
Costello, Gary Hallman, Walt
Komanski, Bill Nestor, Neil
McMillan, Robert McMillan and Bill
Loving, club advisor.
Tom Kearney, founding
president of FTU Circle K, was
elected Lt. Governor of the
Okeechobee Division of Florida
District. All men are reminded that
Circle K meets every Monday at
7:30 p.m. in the Science
Auditorium. Visitors are welcome.
We Live in the Present,
By the Post, but
for the. .
Florida Tech, Harvard
To Lock Horns Tuesday
Florida Technological University
begins intercollegiate competition
with a debate between FTU and
Harvard on Tuesday, April 1 at 9
p.m. in the Science Lecture Hall.
Greg Hunter, director of
competitions for the Harvard
Debate Council said, "We are
delighted to debate FTU on our
spring tour and are looking forward
to our stay in Florida."
Debating on the negative side for
FTU will be Roy Werner and Walt
Komanski. Harvard's unit will be on
the affirmative side of the national
! topic: Resolved, That Executive
Control of United States Foreign
Policy should be significantly curtailed
Pictured relaxing at the Circle K Convention are Tom Kearney,
Frank Santry, Ron Turner, Ronnie Studdard and Devo Heller.
-    FTU Third
In Tourney
Student Government
Election   Figures  Told
Student Government elections of
March 6 and 7, 1969 were
tabulated as follows: Walt
Komanski, lone candidate for the
Presidency, received 417 votes.
Vice-President-elect is Ron Turner
who received 341 votes, while
Richard S. Richarde got 121 and
Byron Van Hair got 111. Charlotte
Scott won over Edward DuBosq for
recording secretary, 316 to 247
votes and Margaret Strouse who
was unopposed, was elected
corresponding secretary, with 446
votes. In the race for treasurer,
Henry Richard defeated Juan
Penzol 275 to 260 votes after two
recounts.
There was no candidate for
junior class president. In the
freshman class president race,
Phillip Odham won, receiving 130
votes, while Chris Schmidt got 114,
Melissa Hardman, 71 and Dan Scott
44.
In the College of Engineering
Tom McClellan was voted
Governor, with 43 votes. Terry
Gwinn, III received 24 and Ralph
Whittington got 19. Junior
Senator-elect is Christopher Wilson,
who obtained 10 votes, while James
Davis got three. In the freshman
class, Richard Acton won as
Senator with 26 votes while Mike
McCutcheon got 19 and Craig S.
Thomas secured 25, after three
recounts.
John Meyer, who ran unopposed
for Governor of the College of
Natural Sciences, received 70 votes.
In the junior race for Senator,
Glenn Richards won, acquiring 16
votes. Thomas Belcuore got four
and Phillip Perrault got two.
Nicolette Jackson and Ralph
Bundy, freshman Senators-elect,
won after receiving 44 and 38 votes
respectively. They defeated H. M.
Rose, Jr., with 23 votes and
Richard J. Huber with 14.
Students in the College of
Business   Administration   selected
Sigma Alpha
Sets Rush Party
Sigma Alpha fraternity will
throw a rush party and dance
Saturday, March 29, at the Angebilt
Hotel in downtown Orlando.
The party will last from 8:30
p.m. to 1:30 a.m. The "Stone
Balloon" from Daytona Beach is
engaged to provide music.
Admission is set at $4.00 per
couple.
Robert Parent to represent them as
Governor. Parent totaled 41 votes,
winning over Wayne Leland with 37
and Don Doyle with 32. In the race
for junior Senator, Michael Osborne
defeated James Fay 33 to 19.
Henry Ashby and Williams Evans
were selected as freshman Senators
over Devo Heller. Ashby received
46 votes, Evans got 37 and Heller
got 17.
In the College of Humanities and
Social Sciences, William Nestor
defeated Robert Hazelwood. Nestor
obtained 101 votes and Hazelwood
received 32. Richard Staley was
selected junior Senator, defeating
James Snowden 21 votes to 15
votes. Brandt Edwards and Frank
Santry were chosen freshman
Senators over Arthur McGinty.
Edwards received 48 votes, Santry
52, and McGinty 45.
Governor of the College of
Education is James Shaw, who
received 70 votes defeating Tom
Mercer with 50 and Linda Singer
with 45. In the race for junior
Senators, Robert Corson and Faren
Gibson were selected, receiving 41
and 44 votes respectively. In this
race, two juniors were to be
selected and Corson and Gibson
were unopposed. James Gary
Hallman, Mary Lou Rajchel, and
Thomas Woodson were selected
freshman Senators in the College of
Education, defeating Merle B.
Grady. Hallman had 52 votes,
Rajchel 59, Woodson 42 and Grady
26.
Of the 1,334 full-time students
who were qualified to vote, 620
voted.
SACS Committee To Evaluate FTU
A committee of ten from the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools headed by Dr. Jim
Clarke, Assistant Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Alabama has been
on the FTU campus this week to
evaluate all facets of the University.
The S.A.C.S. sends a committee
from   other institutions from the
Minor Athletics
Approved for FTU
The Florida State Board of
Regents approved the beginning of
a limited program of intercollegiate
athletics at FTU, at a meeting at
the University of South Florida.
Beginning in the 9170-71
academic year at FTU, there will be
a basketball team and eventually
intercollegiate tennis, golf and
possibly other minor sport teams
will be formed. These activities will
be financed from gate receipts,
student activity fees, and sources
other than state funds. The Board
of Regents, in approving the
recommendation for the limited
athletic program, was explicit in
accentuating to President Millican
that no state funds could be used to
support these intercollegiate
activities.
Plans call for the University
possibly to include other sports in
the intercollegiate program, such as
baseball, soccer, and track. The
expansion of the program will be
geared to the availability of
adequate resources and facilities.
Southeast composed of
administrative and faculty
personnel to see if the institution is
making satisfactory progress.
The Committee has eleven
criteria used in evaluating the
University. Some of the criteria
includes the faculty,
administration, library, research,
and outside and related activities.
Members of the Committee will
study documents, reports, and
printed literature concerning the
University. They will also conduct
interviews with people involved in
all facets of University life.
Students, faculty, and
administrative personnel will be
interviewed.
The primary purpose of the
study is to accumulate a
considerable amount of data on
what the University is
accomplishing and will * be
accomplishing. The Committee
does not decide whether the
University will be granted
accreditation   at   this  time.
The Committee's report goes to
the Commission on Colleges in
Atlanta. It is not a public
document, however it can be made
public at the discretion of the
University. The original copy of the
report will be sent to Dr. Millican.
If a favorable report is agreed
Upon by both the Committee and
the Commission, the University will
then request candidacy for
accreditation. At a later date,
another committee will visit the
campus to decide whether the
University should be granted full
accreditation.
FTU placed third in the Palm
Beach College Invitational
Basketball Classic Tournament held
recently at Delray Beach.
The team, composed mainly of
the players of the Tau Gold
fraternity squad, was one of five
other schools represented. The
schools were University of Palm
Beach, Florida Atlantic University,
Palm Beach Atlantic College, De
Paul and Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical Institute.
After drawing a first-round bye,
FTU met University of Palm Beach
and lost, 88-74. Dean Brunson led
FTU with 28 points. In the
following game, Dave Richarde's 30
points was the spark that gave FTU
an 87-75 victory and third place
over Embry-Riddle.
The tournament was won by
Florida Atlantic with University of
Palm Beach in second place. FTU
players selected for the
All-Tournament Team were Dean
Brunson and Dave Richarde.
Housing Fee
Due April 9
Campus resident students have
until Wednesday, April 9, to submit
a $50.00 deposit for the Fall
Quarter. Current residents
requesting housing after that date
will be placed on a waiting list.
C. Barth Engert, Director of
Housing, indicated that this deposit
will guarantee an accommodation
for the fall. Accommodations not
reserved by the deadline will be
released to prospective students on
the growing list of fall applicants.
The deposit will be refunded
upon request until May 1st. After
this date, deposit refunds will be
authorized only if enrollment for
the fall quarter is denied by the
university.
Werner, a recent transfer, has
won several national awards this
year including, "Top Speaker" at
Columbia University in New York
and a "Superior Debater" award at
the Golden Bear Invitational of the
University of California at
Berkeley. Other awards include
major southern regional
tournaments in debate as well as
other events such as after-dinner
speaking and extemporaneous
speaking.
Komanski, the student body
president, has a successful past
record in debate. While attending
high school in Colorado he placed
second in the state. As a member of
the Orlando Junior College debate
unit he was third in the state
tournament. Komanski also
received speaker awards and was an
undefeated district champion in his
second yard of debate at OJC.
"I am looking forward to
meeting Harvard and feel this is the
type of activity that we should
encourage here at FTU," said
Komanski. "Much of the credit
should go to Roy Werner who was
contacted while at another school
by Harvard, yet knowing he was
transferring suggested to the
Harvard Council the FTU debate.
He replied to them and also sent a
letter to me with a carbon of the
original to Harvard. With help and
effort on the part of FTU students
and administration we were able to
schedule the debate."
'Wild Wednesday'
Provides
Legal Riot
With all the disturbance and
unrest on all the nations college
campus', any spontaneous activity
usually brings the police and
consequently, trouble. "Wild
Wednesday", the first "organized"
spontaneous activity at Tech was
held Wednesday, March 26, in the
Village Center Area.
Village Center Student Activity
Board planned and carried out the
days events. At 10:30 a.m., an art
object, an 11 foot bathtub, was on
exhibit in the Patio area, this was
recently exhibited at the Winter
Park Art Festival. Later, Professor
Steve Lotz, FTU, and the two
artists, started a painting battle.
They encouraged students to "do
your thing" and add something to
the painting with a pen or pencil.
The next event was a Tricycle
race held in the patio loop outside
the dorms. The winners of this
event were: William Loving, who
went across the middle of the track,
so Pi Kappa Epsilon were the
"legal" winners.
And last was the balloon-shave
where teams competed in removing
the shaving cream from a balloon
with a razor. One person held the
balloon in his mouth while the
other shaved it.
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Participating in the "Wild Wednesday" activities, Bill Loving (center)
competes in the tricycle race, representing the faculty, which was not
easy since Loving holds an administrative post.