Central Florida Future, Vol. 06 No. 10, December 7, 1973

              Dr. Megill Urges
Unionization
Before Faculty
By Torrey Stewart
The faculty will be making
one of the most important
decisions of the next generation,
said Dr. Kenneth Megill. It must
decide whether or not to have
collective bargaining represent
university professors, and if so,
determine who will represent
them.
Megill, state chairman of the
American Federation of
Teachers (AFT) for Florida
Universities, AFL-CIO, recently
addressed professors and other
interested people in the library
conference room. He discussed
"The Policies of AFT Regarding
Collective Bargaining in Higher
Education,"
Megill said that "within a
year, 90 per cent of the (FTU)
faculty will agree with
(collective bargaining)." He
based this projection on the 30
per cent of the faculty which
already favors it. For a
university in FTU's position,
Megill said, the 30 per cent
figure is high.
The attitudes of the FTU
faculty are not much different
than those of other state
university faculties, Megill said.
He pointed out that the Florida
Atlantic University faculty was
afraid to be identified with the
AFT three years ago. Now it is
"militant," and possesses
collective bargaining, he said.
With the money allotted for
next year, Megill said the average
faculty pay has been cut 11 per
cent since 1969. Currently,
faculty members are 10 - 50 per
cent in pay scale behind the
amount they would be receiving
if this university had been
unionized for a year, Megill said.
The AFT is asking for
immediate across-the-board
salary increases of 19 per cent to
meet  the rising cost  of living.
The NASA photo reveals
the twin-tail structure of
Comet Bennett in 1960.
Comet Kohoutek should
appear much brighter to
observers; see page 12 for
story on sky spectacle of
the century.
The Board of Regents (BOR)
are meeting today at Florida
Atlantic University in Boca
Raton and will be discussing
changes in visitation hours for
dormitory students on Florida
University campuses.
The existing policy
concerning visitation hours was
questioned after the State
University   System   report   no.
During the first year as union
members, salaries would depend
on how strong and unified the
union was, and politics,
according to Megill. At present,
the government sympathizes
with faculty's needs, he said.
Megill said that one advantage
of collective bargaining is that it
allows for criteria for situations
(such as basic salary schedule) to
be understood beforehand.
Another advantage which he
said collective bargaining would
bring, is that jumps in the pay
scale can be monitored to insure
fairness.
When asked what would
happen if the FTU faculty as a
whole voted against collective
bargaining, and other state
university faculties voted for it,
Megill replied that although
most basic rules issuing from
Tallahassee apply to all state
universities, "two-tiered
bargaining," in which state
universities held a local option,
would be "good." He said the
university should begin
arbitration for such a
"two-tiered" system.
Local branches of the union
cannot   be   forced  by  state or
national union officials to adopt
a particular action, he said.
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Area Gas Stations
Discuss Shortage
By Joanne Wilson Terry
Will FTU students get preferential treatment at local service
stations during the gasoline shortage?
From a survey taken this week of service stations in the FTU
area, the concensus is that business will be primarily on a first
come, first served basis.
Independent dealers say they have been the most severely cut
in their gas allotments and cannot afford even to serve their
regular customers. Most independent owners have had to enact
emergency measures to make their December allotments last.
Independent dealers Judson Dixon and Joe Priest of Fern Park
Exxon at 17-92 and Semoran, the third busiest intersection in the
state, have had their gasoline allotment cut from 90,000 to
45,000 gallons a month. They said they have been forced to limit
sales to $5 per customer and to open their station an hour later
and close three hours earlier. Gasoline prices were also raised
Monday.
Dixon and Priest said they will give no stickers or cards to
regular customers. Dixon said, "I will pump the gas until it is
gone I hope it lasts through December. I don't think it will."
Leroy Anderson, owner of a Mobil'station on 17-92 and
Semoran, said he cut his hours three weeks ago.
Anderson said he will try to take care of his regular customers
even though his gasoline allotment was also reduced.
"My regulars are doubling up - carpooling," said Anderson. He
said it was one method used more every day by his customers
trying to conserve gasoline.
Melvin Hill, manager of Mel's Shell, received 46.500 gallons of
gasoline for December. He said he asked his company for an
additional supply of fuel and received 6,500 more gallons --
substantially more than independent stations received.
Hill was the only station surveyed who said he would give
stickers to his regular customers to insure they got the gasoline
they needed.
Hill said several FTU students had asked about the fuel
shortage and what measures he would take to see they had
enough gas to get to school. He said he told them of the stickers
and recommended they use carpools.
"If the FTU students used carpools and public transportation
it would be a help to me/* Hill said, "then there would be more
gas for all of my customers."
uxams are lormiaable even to tbe best prepared.
FuTUre Friday Girl Camelia Ann says the greatest fool
may ask more than the wisest man can answer. (Photo
by Michael Berman)
BOR Considers Revising
Visitation, Wine Policies
73-21 was presented to the BOR
in September. That report
inferred that students on the
State University campuses
approve of the current visitation
hours within the resident halls,
according to the State Council
of Student. Body Presidents
(SGSBP) who disregard with the
report.
According to the SCSBP
report, 64% of the dormitory
students recently signed
petitions state wide, calling for
extention of the visitation hours.
FTU student government
president and chairman of
SGSBP, Lee Constantine, is at
the BOR meeting today
attempting to get the extention
of hours for all the i State
Universities. In an interview
Tuesday night, Constantine said
there was some chance the BOR
would accept the
recommendation.
But continued, ". . .It seems
that some of the Board members
are   against   the   extention   of
visitation hours because of the
so-called increased promiscuity
that may result."
The recommendation that
Constantine is presenting to
BOR calls for extending the
hours to noon-l:00 a.m. Sunday
through Thursday; and
noon-2:00 a.m. on Friday and
Saturday.
The wine resolution,
considered by the council and
passed 8 to 1 in favor of
allowing the sale of wine on
University campuses, will also
appear on BOR agenda today.
Apparently some of BOR
members are still doubtful that
the Universities should be
allowed to sell wine on campuses
because of public pressure.
According to Constantine,
the Women's Christian
Temperance Union (WCTU),
have also asked to be on the
BOR agenda today, apparently
in an effort to prevent wine sales
on the college campuses.
Formation of Car Pools
Needs Student Interaction
By Mickey Lochridge
All off-campus FTU students
have been combined into
six-member car pools and the
notices of group members will
be mailed to students over the
quarter break.
Student Government
President Lee Constantine said
Monday the car pool system is
an effort to alleviate the fuel
shortage for FTU students.
Each notice will include the
names, phone -numbers and
addresses of the five other
members of the pool. This
computerized car pool will
enable people to be in touch
with persons in their own
vicinity, according to Bill Morris,
Computer Center director in
charge of the programming.
Students living in Orlando
and south Seminole County who
filled out the car pool forms at
the VC during pre-registration
have been grouped by the map
grid numbers they listed on the
blanks. Three Hundred and
fifty-four students completed
the forms.
These are square mile grids,
according to Morris, so each
member of the groups will live
within one mile of each other.
The remaining
currently-enrolled students will
be combined in groups by their
respective zip codes. Morris said
he was not sure how much area
per group was covered with this
program.
Morris indicated plans for
computerized car pools for
faculty and staff sometime
during the fall quarter.