Central Florida Future, Vol. 06 No. 21, April 5, 1974

              Statute Changes Majority, Spending Regulations
Election   Tests
Non-Profit Orgn.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Permit No. 3575
Orlando, Florida
Revision
By Mike Myers
The upcoming election of Student Government
(SG) President and Vice President will provide the
first test for the recently-revised election statute,
according to SG Elections Commissioner Gabriel
Yanni.
HE said the revamped regulations, which were
approved by the Senate only three weeks ago, will
be in effect when the students go to the polls in
two weeks.
The revised rules include two major changes;
involves campaign spending.
one deals with the election method and the other
The new statute was prepared under the
direction of SG President Lee Constantine, with
Yanni and former presidential assistant Tom Costa
handling most of the actual revising. Also assisting
with the project were Attorney General Dan Scott
and senator Jim Davis.
In the past, the president and vice president
were elected by a plurality of the votes cast. This
simply meant that a candidate with the most votes
won, regardless of the percentage voting for him.
The revised statute requires a candidate to
receive a majority of the votes to be elected. In
most instances, this will make a run-off election
necessary, which will be held the following week.
Constantine said this new measure would
eliminate situations such as that which occurred in
1971. He was referring to the presidential election
in which there were six candidates and the winner
received only 26 per cent of the vote.
Also in previous presidential elections,
individual campaign spending was limited to an
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VOL. 6, NO. 21      ORLANDO, FLORIDA       APRIL 5,1974
Recent   Decisions
Challenge Funding
By Glenn Padgett
Following a recent opinion by
the Florida Board of Education
(BOE) General Counsel that
campus organizations which
practice sex discrimination in
membership cannot perform
official university functions,
receive university funds, or use
rent free office space on campus,
Florida Attorney General Robert
L. Shevin made his views on the
subject known. Shevin expressed
his "informal comments" in a
thirteen page letter to University
of Florida (UF) Student Body
President Tyrie W. Boyer.
In the letter, Shevin said that
because of recently filed legal
action he could not express a
formal opinion. (The action
Shevin refers to is a suit against
the Board of Regents filed by
eleven UF coeds seeking an
injunction to halt the use of state
money and facilities by campus
organizations which do not admit
women.)
In his letter to Boyer, Shevin
said ".. .that by subjecting a
discriminatory organization to
university regulation. .,.the
university would involve itself to
a significant degree with the
organization.,, .making the
organization's    discriminatory
practices.. .the responsibility of
the university."
Shevin also said, ". . .if the
organization receives significant
funding through public sources,
utilizes university
property. .,.and is comprised
solely of individuals with
substantial ties to the
university.,. . it is not a truly
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This Japanese greeting which reads "Welcome Central
Japan District 360 Group Study Exchange" is directed
toward the six members of Rotary International who are
visiting the FTU campus today from Central Japan. The
six business and professional men will tour the industrial,
educational and attraction sites in Central Florida during
their six-week stay in the United States. (Graphics by
Mark Johnson)	
Discovery Of Fake Enrollment Figures
Prompts Internal Audit Of Universities
"To the best of my
knowledge, we have had no
written or verbal instructions in
this university to any graduate or
undergraduate students to take
an overload just for the sake of an
overload,"    President    Charles
Millican said this week.
Millican said that Vice
President for Academic Affairs C.
B. Gambrell reported to him after
checking with every college dean
Sun, fun, music and refreshment
furnished the atmosphere for the large
crowd on hand at the SG double concert
feature Sunday by the lakeside. (Photo by
Glenn Padgett)
that he found no such requests
had been issued by any dean or
college.
None of 32 graduate students
contacted in a survey last
weekend said they had been
asked to take more hours than
they wanted while a graduate
student.
Accusations that state
universities falsely inflated
enrollment figures to appropriate
additional funds recently led to
an order for a quick check to
determine where and how
extensively such padding has
been employed.
As much as $7.3 million per
quarter may have been generated
by state universities falsely
inflating graduate student
enrollments, states a report
prepared for a House
subcommittee, the Associated
Press recently reported.
Subcommittee members said
universities commonly obtain
additional funding by urging
students to sign up for larger
course loads than they want, and
then allowing them to drop the
extra hours later.
Such inflated course load
figures increase the universities'
Full Time Equivalency (FTE)
totals, which in turn leads to
increased funding.
"Something like this is bound
to have a negative effect on the
universities if in fact it turns out
that the allegations are true,"
Millican said.
Millican requested
"immediate" reports indicating
correlations between the
schedules of graduate students
enrolled for more than 12 hours
in fall quarter compared with
their grade reports at the
quarter's end. This report's
purpose is to reveal the number of
hours such students dropped.
Millican requested a similar
concurrent analysis of
undergraduates who sign up for
more than 15 hours during fall
quarter. Similar analyses of
winter quarter figures will be
prepared after completion of fall'
s figures analyses, Millican said.
Pointing out that check-ups on
undergraduate hours will be more
time-consuming than check-ups
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$60,000     Donated     For     Child     Center
A $60,000 grant to be used
solely for construction and
equipment of an on-campus child
care center was accepted Tuesday
by President Charles N. Millican
from the Edyth Bush Charitable
Foundation of Orlando and
Winter Park.
President Millican, who
accepted the grant on behalf of
FTU, noted the grant was made
possible due to the generosity of
the late Mrs. Archibald G.
(Edyth) Bush.
Final building plans and final
approval from Millican and the
Executive Committee are the
next steps to prepare for the
center's construction, according
to Dean of Women Carol Wilson,
who has been assigned
responsibility for development
and supervision on the center.
Wilson could not -give the
tentative beginning construction
schedule, but indicated that
construction of the first stage of
the nursery will begin "at the
earliest possible time."
The child care center help
increase enrollment. "This service
may enable some students to go
from part-time to full-time
enrollment and also prospective
students to enroll who cannot at
the present time because they
have no provisions for child
care."
Although criteria to determine
which children may tuilize the
center have not been established,
Wilson is quick to point out that
the center is designed to aid
students, and "I would like to
think those students in the
greatest   need,"   of   child  care
facilities would have access to the
center, Wilson said.
The child care center, will be
developed primarily as a student
service within the Division of
Student Affairs under Dr. W. Rex
Brown, . Vice President for
Student Affairs.
The gift from the Edyth Bush
Charitable    Foundation    will
enable  the  University  to assist
students with young children by
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