Central Florida Future, Vol. 07 No. 19, March 7, 1975

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BOR Considers Finance Requests
By Dana Eagles
The Florida Board of Regents,
March   10,   will   consider   11
separate     recommendations  of
the   Finance   committee,   whose
proposals last month drew fire
from university students around
the sate.
At least four of the committee's
Requests may vitally affect individual      student's      tuition
budgets.
A rule reducing the first-time-
in-college ceilings of state
universities by 15 percent will be
considered by the BOR.
The cutback would save a net of
$420,000 per year in operating
costs and would reduce FTU's
first-time-in-college     headcount
from 2000 to 1700 next year.
The fee schedule changes to be
considered by the board provide
alternatives for adjusting and
increasing student registration
fees and for reducing allocations
to Activity and Service Fees
(A&SF) to provide additional
funds for student financial aid.
The rule would increase student
registration fees per credit hour
per quarter in a range from 50
cents for undergraduates to $3.50
for graduate students, and would
give the option of reducing the
A&SF allocation by 23 cents.
In addition, out-of-state tuition
would be adjusted to full cost per
student per hour.
An amendment decreasing fee
waivers by $1.3 million state-wide
Florida     resident     students,
providing for allocation by the
Regents of student financial aid
fees will also be on the board's
agenda.
Under consideration in another
area of interest will be an articulation agreement relating to
the transfer of CLEP credits and
co-ordination of the advanced
placement program between th e
Division of Community Colleges
and the State University System.
FTU's Student Government
has introduced a resolution on the
floor advising the board against
adopting any policy of reducing
A&SF allocations, citing as an
"iiequitable situation" that of
increasing tuition rates and
reducing "the amount of services
the student gets in return."
Instead, SG has recommended
that the BOR proposal be implemented without the A&SF
. reduction but with a 14-hour
tuition cap.
Under such a plan, students
would not pay any tuition fees for
any credit hours taken per
quarter over 14.
The reasoning in the resolution
b that the change to tuition by
quarter hour resulted in a
reduction of the average number
of quarter hours taken, and
therefore less money received
from tuition fees.
According to the bill, this
"encourages students on a fixed
income to take fewer hours per
quarter and spend a longer time
in school," costing the state more
in th e long run.
At press time, the bill was
slated for its second reading and
exDected vote March 6.
In other Regent action this
week, Chancellor Robert Mautz
announced that resources have
been obtained for the establishment of a Center for the Study of
Multi-Campus Systems of Higher
Education at Florida State
University, to be headed by
present Vice Chancellor Dr.
Allan Tucker.
Mautz said funds would be
taken from research monies set
aside for the introduction of new
programs for which a great need
exists within the SUS.
Director of Purchasing for the
state, John Hittinger, also indicated the need for con- je?:?
servation, here on paper within
the universities, calling for
widespread economy consideration.
Hittinger      reported      that
university officials estimate the
shortage at the end of 1974 fotf^
wood p ulp will exceed 600,000 torfs.
and would double by the end of
this year.
Debate Team Succeeds
By Vicki Blanchfield
While FTU athletic teams have
successfully engaged in physical
competition this year against
notable foes, FTU's debate club
hasconducted a highly successful
season of mental competition
with some of the best college
debate teams in the nation.
Judging from the
achievements in recent tournaments, Jeff Butler, FTU's
debate coach for the past three
years, was speaking conservatively when he said, "Our
debaters have done well this
quarter."
He expanded on their ac-
c om pi i s hm en ts , "Our
representatives have competed
against and defeated teams from
over 100 colleges this year, inch diig Harvard, the Univ. of
Kansas, Northwestern, Boston
College and other schools from
outside the South as well as in-
4^stnte."
In the Vanderbilt Tournament,
FTU was one of two squads out of
40 representing 30 different
schools, to have both varsity
teams selected for final competition rounds. Final results saw
one FTU debater chosen as
Second Speaker out of 80 competitors and the team as a whole
placed third.
In the West Georgia College
Tournament, FTU was the only
school to send both varsity teams
into the finals. The debaters not
only placed fourth overall in the
toumey, but three of FTU's four
varsity competitors were rated in
the Top Ten out of 100 debaters.
Our school's representatives
were again successful in the
tournament at Florida State
Univ. (FSU), when three of our
varsity speakers placed in the
Top Ten and a novice debater for
FTU was ranked in the Top Five
of h is_djv is ion
Butler cited FSU and Miami as
the  team's   toughest   in-state
competition, but debater Dave
Larkin interjected, "We're pretty
dominant in the state."
Both men agreed that the Univ.
of Kentucky, West Georgia
Collegeand the Univ. of Alabama
were FTU's biggest rivals.
Although facing mucn stiffer
competition than in previous
years, the squad has earned 25
trophies so far this season. Butler
commented, "This has been our
best year of quality competition."
Larkin stated apprehensively,
"We're getting into the very
heavy portion of the season now.
In three weeks we'll be competing in the Southeast Regional
Contest."
Butler added, "This is strictly
an invitational tournament and
FTU b the youngest team to be
invited. (FTU's team has only
been in existence for four years.)
College representatives from the
ten Southeastern states will be
there and only four teams will be
selected to proceed to the
National Contest. This is our
second year at the invitational
and we narrowly missed going
last year. We really want to win
badly."
The topic for debate this year,
chosen by the National Collegiate
Board has been "Controlling the
Power of the President." The all-
male varsity team debating this
subject consists of: Dave Larkin,
Pat Jerome, Ed Foster, Tom
Marcinko, and Richard
Bloombat. There are also ten
novice debaters representing our
school.
Butler stressed the role of the
debate club in community
relations too. "FTU debaters are
becoming more and more involved in the college and community. We're trying to reach a
massive number of persons who
might otherwise never see the
FTU campus."
"To acconfplish this, FTU has
hosted or is planning to host four
speech tournaments on this
campus. These will bring a total
of over 500 different college and
high school students onto the
campus."
Students will have an opportunity to see the team in m-
tion this weekend, as FTU hosts
the Invitational College Debate
Tournament on March 7 and 8.
Our school's toughest competition will stem from teams
representing Tulane, Emery,
Carson-Newman .College and
Morehead State University.
Butler emphasized proudly
that, "FTU is the only state
universit.v to my knowledge that
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Representative Lou Frey (R-Fla) was a guest speaker at
FTU's recent Engineering Fair. Frey discussed the
developing of new energy sources and different conservation methods that would be necessary to make the
United States independent. (Photo by Alan Geeslin.)
Add-Drop Slips Forged
By Dana Eagles
Some students who cannot
obtain professor's signature on
withdrawal slips for one reason
or another are apparently forging
them onto the documents, Dean
of Men Paul McQuilken revealed
to the FuTUre last week.
The FTU administrator, who is
partially responsible for
disciplinary affairs on campus,
believes there is no "malicious
intent" on the part of students
whosigntheir instructor's names
onto the forms, but rather that
the incidents are causea Dy
misunderstanding of the purpose
of the signature, lack of time, or
difficulty in finding theinstructor
by the deadline.
McQuilken rioted that the
forgeries usually have no "great
consequences," except in cases
where students change the withdrawal grade from "WF" (withdrawn and failing) to "WP"
(withdrawn and passing).
McQuilken cited a case during
the winter quarter which he sees
to be indicative of a "larger
problem" in which a student
forged   a   university   document
altering his academic record.
The Student-Faculty Judicial
Board sentenced the student to
suspension, from the university
for one quarter.
Such cases arise every quarter,
says McQuilken, when students
fall short of the "university's
expectations of the student's
handling of forms and information."
Such cases can always be
detected, since a copy of the withdrawal form, which must be
signed and returned to the
registrar's office, is always sent
to the appropriate instructor
after processing.
Whether or not the faculty
member starts disciplinary
action against forgers, says the
Dean, is another story. Many of
the cases could go unreported.
"Most all of them get caught,"
says Registrar W. Dan Chapman.
The form itself has been
redesigned so that a student
cannot change the grade on the
form once it has been given by
the instructor without detection.
The appropriate gra"de must
now be circled. In the past,
students "doctored" the
characters     written     in     by
professors in hopes of passing the
course.
Without commenting on
whether the withdrawal forgeries
were malicious in nature, the
registrar reflected that people
will often do what they feel they
can get away with. "Thus is the
nature of man," Chapman said.
The withdrawal policy allows a
student to withdraw from a
course with a "WP" during the
first four weeks of the quarter,
and with a "WP" if passing or a
"WF" if failing after the fourth
week of the quarter
There is no advantage for the
student by withdrawing with a
failing grade over finishing the
course with either a passing or
failing grade.
Refunds of tuition fees are not
made after the add-drop period.
Chapman commented that if
faculty members are all doing
their jobs in reporting the
forgeries, all such violators are
being caught.
That said Chapman, however,
is not a valid assumption.