Central Florida Future, Vol. 11 No. 19, February 2, 1979

              Future
University of
Central Florida
Vol.11
Friday, February 2,1979
No. 19
Brown, Kissel to leave posts
Would have lost positions
to re-organization proposal
by Joe Kilsheimer
managing editor
Apparently prompted by President
Trevor Colbourn's plan to wipe out
their jobs in his reorganization
proposals, Vice President of Student
Affairs, Rex Brown and Social Sciences
College Dean Bernard Kissel have
asked to relinquish their positions.
Brown's resignation is effective July
1. Kissel went on vacation this week,
according to his secretary, and was not
available for comment.
Brown said Wednesday he did not
plan to leave the university, but he has
asked to be reassigned to another administrative post within the university.
One of the options he said he was con-'
sidering was a position in the Continuing Education department.
Brown said he had been considering
relinquishing his post for about a year.
"When I first came here, I came with
the expectation of staying five to seven
years," Brown said. "I have been here
twelve; I think I have overstayed a little."
Since joining the university in
August 1967, Brown had made his
reputation as somewhat of a conservative, opposing Student Government
proposal's to introduce alcohol on
campus and several versions of a legal
aid service. Although he said he has no
second thoughts about allowing
alcohol, he said at the time it didn't
appear to be one of the objectives consistent it the administration's goals.
One of the biggest disappointments
as the student affairs vice president,
Brown
...asks to be reassigned
said Brown was the failure of the
Board of Regents to provide more funding for on-campus housing. "At the
time," said Brown, "there was a lot of
Kissel
...on vacation
money and a lot of jobs to be had.
Students didn't want to live on campus, so the state put a moratorium on
additional housing."
Area development begins to blossom
by Mary Wilson
staff writer
The Orange County Planning Board
has approved six major housing
developments for the acreage surrounding UCF. Though, the developments
were approved in the early '70's, little
construction has begun in an area
where the housing demand is high.
According to UCF Housing Director,
Richard Scott, rental facilities
available along Alafaya Trail are
averaging 96-97 percent occupancy.
The 414 rooms on campus have for
several years topped this figure with
full occupancy. Nonetheless, 430 to
450 housing applications are turned
down each year by the housing depart.
THE SIX planned developments of
the UCF area, Straw Ridge, University
Lakes, University South, Tech Properties, Pegasus Place and Scottish Glen
are designed to meet student needs, as
well as those of a growing county.
Throughout Orange County in recent
years, apartment occupancy rates have
averaged from 90 to 95 percent. Yet,
no one seems to be building the needed
apartment facilities.
Historically, the UCF area has not
been the center of a development
boom, either in housing or commercial
building. Less than 25 percent of all
planned developments in the area have
been constructed. Scott Henderson,
senior planner of the Orange County
OPEN
SOON
Planning Board explained, "Orange
County was tremendously overbuilt in
the early 1970's, and it's been a buyer's
market until recently. It just didn't
make any sense to a developer to throw
up more garden apartments in a
relatively unpopulated area when
there were apartments readily
available everywhere else in town."
THOUGH THE apartment glut is
over and occupancy is high, according
to Henderson, "Nobody is building
apartments." The hesitation of UCF
developers can probably be attributed
to   two' factors:   unprofitable   rental
structure and the unfinished construction of the Iron Bridge regional sewage
treatment plant.
Henderson's assessment of market
conditions in Orange County concluded the developer "can't get enough
money out of an apartment to justify
building new ones." When the projects
near UCF were approved the rental
structure was "tremendously higher
than it is now" because occupancy
rates were so low. Now that occupancy
is high, the rent is too low to support
new construction.
Currently most of the Orange Coun
ty construction is aimed at EPCOT,
the airport, the convention center and
all the commercial services which support the tourist industry. Multi-family
housing (apartment) will be at a disadvantage until they show a competitive
profit.
THE SECOND consideration
preventing large-scale development
near UCF is the incomplete Iron
Bridge regional sewage treatment
plant. Most of the six housing projects
cited were approved on the condition
that  developers  provide   community
Development, page 8
fToday's Future — '  	
Outdoor Study       New York Style King and Queen
Ever get' tired of studying in the controlled atmosphere of the library, but you
don't want to go outdoors because it
might rain or the sun is too hot? Student
Government is providing the answer. See
story, page 3.
Hey all you transplanted Yankees, don't
you wish you could have just one more
hotdog like the kind you can get on a
street corner in Manhatten? No, you
don't have to drive all the way to New
York. See story, page 12.
There was a touch of royalty in the air
when UCF crowned its new
Homecoming King and Queen. The
ZTA's were especially proud because
their candidates took both crowns. For a
look at both winners, see page 10.