Central Florida Future, Vol. 06 No. 24, May 3, 1974

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Policies Cancel   Course
By Heather Henry
Despite a "go-ahead" from
Student Affairs Assistant Vice
President Bill Brown for the
Village Center (VC) to check out
a bartending course to be held at
FTU, Vice President for Student
Affairs Rex Brown turned down
the proposal on the grounds of a
university policy prohibiting
alcoholic beverages on campus.
Following this action, the VC
arranged for the course to be
held off campus. According to
Debbie Wheatley, VC program
director, the vice president
blocked the implementation of
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VOL. 6, NO. 24      ORLANDO, FLORIDA
MAY 3, 1974
Millican Admits Mistake,
Denies Telling 'Untruth'
President Charles Millican
Tuesday said he had made a
mistake by not changing his
letter's date in which he upheld a
veto of a student senate bill
advocating allowance of alcohol
in the dorms.
Although Millican's letter to
Student Government President
Lee Constantine, dated April 12
sustained Vice President for
Student Affairs W. Rex Brown's
veto of alcohol in the dorms,
Constantine said Millican assured
him (Constantine) that he was
still considering the bill on April
15.
Upon receiving the letter,
Constantine said Millican had
misdated his letter or had told
him an "untruth."
Millican said, "The draft of
that letter was unsigned and laid
on my desk because I was not sure
that upholding the veto was going
to be my decision.
"I in particular wanted to do
two things: first, I wanted to give
a very careful, long, and thorough
deliberation; second, I wanted to
talk to Lee about it before
deciding.
"That letter that was dated
April 12 was in my desk unsigned
and undecided upon when I
visited with Lee on April 15.
"In that discussion with Lee I
indicated I had not made up my
mind and that I would consider it
more. . . I crystallized the
decision on Monday 22, at which
time I signed the letter."
Constantine said that Millican
explained to him that he had not
lied, and that the letter had not
been misdated.
"I did make a mistake by not
changing the date on the letter,
which proves that I am human
too and that I make mistakes. I
will try to do better in the
future," Millican said.
the course, scheduled to begin
April 30, because- of another
policy.
This policy, said Wheatley,
states that any credit or
non-credit courses sponsored by
the university have to be run
through the department of
continuing education.
Wheatley, who said that the
University of Florida has held
similar courses on campus,
contacted the State Division of
Beverages, which replied that the
course may be held, providing
that no participant is under 18
years of age, and spirits are not
sold.
"We assumed that since we
were given an okay to check out
the possibilities, and then if that
looked okay, we were to go
ahead with the course. I think he
(Bill Brown) also assumed that,"
said Wheatley.
She said that Rex Brown
stated he only heard of the
course through a memorandum
sent to all Student Affairs staff
members asking if they wanted
to participate.
Officials from the
"Bartender's School, Inc." were
helpful    when    a    move    was
attempted to the school's site,
said Wheatley, to the extent that
they cancelled or rearranged
some of their classes that were
already scheduled.
Wheatley said that it would
be too late to try to go through
continuing education with the
course scheduled to begin only
three working days away. VC
officials were told the final
decision on April 25, he said.
Another reason Wheatley
gave for the final cancellation of
the course was that the
continuing education
department would probably
charge more than the minimum
of $10 the VC was going to
charge for registration.
"We want to try to change
the contining education policy,"
said Wheatley, "so that any
department may have courses
off campus.
"It's kind of good that this
happened, because I didn't even
know that this policy existed. It
was a lack of communication, I
guess," she said, "and the course
would have been successful, I'm
sure."
Wheatley said that she hopes
that the VC can offer a course
like this in the fall.
Alcohol Might Be Allowed In 2 Dorms
Two FTU dorms will be "wet"
if a proposed bill to allow alcohol
in two of the university's four
dormitories on an experimental
basis during fall quarter is passed
by the Student Senate.
The bill, which Student
Government President Lee
Constantine earlier this week
explained was expected to be
presented at the student senate
meeting held yesterday, would
allow students from one male and
one female dormitory to possess
alcohol in their rooms during fall
quarter.
Constantine said that the
other state universities have a
mixture of plans, with some
allowing alcohol in all dorms,
others only in a portion, and
some not at all.
Questionnaires used to
determine which students wished
to reside in dorms allowing
alcohol could overcome
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administration officials' concerns
with isolating alcohol from those
students desiring so, Constantine
said.
When asked if dorm students
desiring rooms in the "wet"
dorms could be allowed into a
"wet" dorm on a first-come,
first-served basis, Constantine
said the housing department
could determine this.
Gambrell:   Raise
By Glenn Padgett
FTU faculty advisors were asked to have
students take one more courses than they planned
in order to keep the university from losing 40
faculty positions in winter of last year, a former
FTU professor stated last week.
At the January 1973 Faculty Assembly,
"Gambrell told us that each faculty advisor should
try to get each student to try to take one
additional course per quarter to build up the
FTE," according to Robert W. E. Forrest who was
contacted in Quebec, Canada last week.
There is an apparent discrepancy between this
statement and statements made by Vice President
for Academic Affairs C. B. Gambrell in the April 5
issue of the FuTUre.
Forrest is a member of the faculty at Bishop's
University in Lennoxville, Quebec. He was a
member of the humanities department at the time
of the meeting.
According to Forrest, Gambreli's statement
followed a report by Dr. John R: Bolte, assistant
vice president for Academic Affairs, to the faculty
assembly about the impact of the university failing
to meet the projected enrollment figures. Because
of the lower enrollment FTU would lost 40 staff
positions which had been allocated to the
university.
FTE is a figure used by the state in determining
how much money each university will receive and
based on the total hours being undertaken at the
university rather than the number of actual
students enrolled.
The story in the FuTUre referred to the
internal auditing of state universities following tb»
disclosure of enrollment padding practices at some
state universities by a subcommittee of the Florida
House of Representatives.
In the article, Millican said, "To the best of my
knowledge, we have had no written or verbal
instructions to any graduate or undergraduate
students to take an overload just for the sake on
an overload."
In the same article, Gambrell said, "We've never
done anything like that there," when questioned
about enrollment padding practices.
According to another professor, present at the
meeting who wishes to remain unidentified, after
Bolte's presentation Gambrell got up and
"lamented" the fact that many high school
counselors were advising some of their students
not to go to college. Gambrell was then reported
to have offered the solution to the problem by
encouraging students to take additional hours.
Some faculty members when questioned about
this statement said that they felt that Gambrell
was not really serious. However others said that
"there was no way to take it as joke."
In fact, one faculty member recalled that at the
next meeting of the faculty assembly, Gambrell
got up and congratulated the faculty for doing
such a good job and reported that the allocated
positions had been retained.
All persons contacted clearly stated that at no
time did Gambrell recommend that the additional
courses be dropped after the start of the quarter.
The practice of having students enroll for
courses with the prior intention of dropping them
is what is known as enrollment padding.
According to Dr. K. Phillip Taylor,
communications professor and chairman of the
Faculty Senate, Gambreli's statements were
intended to encourage students to take advantage
of the system which allowed them to take any
number of hours with no additional cost after they
had attained full-time status.
Taylor defended Gambreli's statement by
saying that if each student were to take two
additional hours this would not adversely effect
their academic performance but that at the same
time 7,000 students taking an additional two
hours would enable the university to receive
additional money from the state.
At the University of Florida, controversy
continues between Interim President E. T. York
and College of Business Administration Dean
Robert Lanzilotti on the issue of enrollment
inflation.
Lanzillotti, in letter delivered to York on April
12, attacked the present policy of blaming
enrollment padding on lower level officials.
York replied in a memo to Lanzillotti that it
had never been the policy of the University of
Florida to enroll graduate students for courses in
which no work would be required.
According to the Gainesville Sun of April 18,
"The unresolved issue is whether it has been
encouraged or policy to register graduate students
for Dummy courses.. .in order to boost state
funding."