Central Florida Future, Vol. 07 No. 33, August 8, 1975

              We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
for the. .
Groundbreaking expected soon
FTU to begin expansion
By Kurtis Klardie
Assistant Managing Editor
Groundbreaking for FTU's educational complex is expected within
the next couple of weeks, said
Oswaldo Garcia, director of campus
planning.
One end of the new complex will
include a gymnasium with approximately 2,500 seats, locker rooms
with showers, a training equipment
and therapy room, a multipurpose
room for activities such as dancing
and wrestling, and rest rooms.
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On the other end of the complex
building there will be three stories
of classrooms and offices for the
education majors here.
According to Garcia the low
bidder that was approved for the
construction of the building is the
Dyson Construction Company from
Tampa.
Also to begin sometime in September, is the construction of a child
care center. It will be developed
primarily as a student service
within the Division of Student
Affairs under Dr. W. Rex Brown,
vice-president for student affairs,
and Will be under the supervision
of Carol Wilson, dean of women.
Plans    include    a    building    of
approximately  3,000  square feet,
■ including  play   areas.   It   will   be
located near health an-., security 3
services  and  will  be  staffed^by
personnel""experienced  in     early"
childhood development.
Dean Wilson said funds in the
amount of $60,000 for the child care
center were donated by the Edyth
Bush Charitable Foundation of
Orlando and Winter Park. She
wanted to give special recognition
to Student Government, who she
feels really got the ball rolling for
the center when they gave an initial
donation of $2,000 for equipment
and furniture. SG later came up
with an additional $15,000 for the
same purpose.
The gift from the Bush Foundation will enable the university to
assist students with young children
by providing complete child care
while parents attend classes. In
addition, the care center program
will be available to many students
in academic programs requiring
internships and observations.
Garcia said a new central receiving building will also be constructed across from the security building. It will replace the temporary
facility presently located in the
basement of the library building.
The primary purpose of central
receiving is to take in all deliveries
coming  into  the university,   said
Garcia. From there the merchandise is separated and distributed to
the various departments on campus
for which it was ordered.
Expansion of FTU's underground
utilities, extending them to the
northwest corner of the university
. has been completed, according to
William Willard, utilities supervisor. He also commented that
enlargement of air conditioning
capacity to 3100 tons has also been
completed. Another chiller is expected to be installed by February
or March of 1976 because of the
addition of the new education
complex. It is expected to have a
2000-ton capacity.
Garcia said temperatures in the
buildings on campus vary due to
testing of the capacity of the new
chillers. But according to Willard'
the testing was done between
quarters while students weren't
attending classes. He said it will be
a while before he is able to
straighten out the various temperatures in the building.
Donated by the FTU Women's
Club is a permanent information
center which is to be erected in the
visitor's parking lot. It will replace
the temporary facilities there which
was built from scrap lumber.
MAINTENANCE MEN are given instructions by William Willard, utilities
supervisor, as they work on the new chillers that have an air conditioning
capacity of 3100 tons.
Students aim to lobby I
The implementation of student
lobby was the major topic of
discussion at the recent meetings
at FTU of the State Council of
Student Bodv Presidents and the
Florida Association of State Senates .(FASS).
"The next step is for the council to
appoint a director of the lobby and
to set the goals we want the lobby
to work for." said Gary Anderson,
president of the FTU student
government. "The director will
begin work in October; his job will
last nine months and he'll be oaid
director to be
appointed and
goals to be set
ANN HUNTER WAS HONORED at recent meeting of the student senate with a certificate of
commmendation for her work as* a secretary of the senate. Gary Anderson, president of the
Student Government, presented the award and then a party was held in her honor.
$6,300 total. His assistant will work
for eight months and , be paid
$4,800. In addition, $1,540 has
been allocated for a part-time
secretary.
"Also, four interns wiil be sent by
different universities and they may
be paid by the school which sends
them to work on the lobby. The
tentative overall budget for the
lobby (including rent, travel expenses, etc.) is $22,550 but that
will probably be cut down a lot. The
estimated cost per student is about
2j0 cents, based on the BOR
head-count of last Fall.
"The council will begin to advertise for and take under advisement
applications for the position of
director of the student lobby. They
will make a decision on the
directorship in September at the
next meeting.
"The council decided not to
include community colleges in on
the student lobby, but provisions
have been made so that they can be
included in the lobby at later
date," said Anderson.
Rick Walsh, who acted as chairperson at the FASS meeting, said
that FASS will coordinate its efforts
to work with the council to help
determine the goals of the lobby.
"FASS will act as an information-gathering body for the lobby,"
Walsh said. "We will hold workshop sessions in which representatives of the student senates can
work on common problems of the
schools. We will consider possible
solutions and make a report to the
council.
"FASS is also going to start a
voter registration drive on the state
campus. Only five per cent of the
registered voters are students right
now. We will try to get more
students to register to vote.
Hopefully, we will be able to raise
that percentage figure to ten or
fifteen per cent. That should help
raise the lobby's influence among
the legislators."	
'Looking Into
The FuTUre
SG complain  sessions
successful   Page 2
Security gets new speed radar
Page 4
Spanish soccer team to visit
FTU      Pa8e 5
Registration schedule for fall
quarter Page 6
DR. E.    T.    York    to    speak
at   commencement Page 8