Central Florida Future, Vol. 09 No. 10, October 29, 1976

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FLORIDA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Vol. 9 Friday, October 29, 1976 No. 10
Photo by Bernal Schooley
WILLIAM E. COLBY, former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, spoke to about 800 people on the
topic "Intelligence Out of the Shadows," last week in the
VCAR.
Colby vindicates
function of CIA
By ARLA FILKO
Associate Editor
Likening America's modern
intelligence agency to the story of an
elephant examined by several blind
men and each concluding something
different about it William E. Colby,
former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), spoke to a
crowd of about 800 people Oct. 21
in the Village Center Assembly
Room.
Like the blind men we. have taken
one feature of intelligence and used it
to project the entire image of the
operation. Thirty years ago the image
of the adventurous spy cloaked in
intrigue was close to reality, but
today that image is wrong, even
dangerous, said Colby.
Three major changes since the end
of World War II have been
responsible for the shift from an
adventurous to a more scholarly
intelligence gathering process.
The   first  major  change  was  the
assembling of information from
scholars, businesses and universities
and centralizing it for use by a corps
of experts.
Next, American advances in
technology and the proliferation of
computers have helped revolutionize
the intelligence gathering business.
The final change is that American
intelligence gathering has been
brought under American law.
Conservatively dressed in a grey
suit and tie the 56-year-old former
director, who was fired along with
former Defense Secretary James
Schlesinger in November 1975 by
Pres. Ford, was reluctant to elaborate
on the incident.
Colby's lecture was entitled
"Intelligence Out of the Shadows"
and most of his speech was devoted
to the justification of the intelligence
agency and its role in the modern
world.
One of the major threats to world
peace   is   a possible  armed  alliance
(Continued on page 16)
Polls find Carter
holding slim lead
In the most recent national
polls, Democratic presidential
nominee Jimmy Carter is still
holding onto a narrow lead over
President Gerald R. Ford.
Carter, beginning his final
campaign stretch, will be hitting
the country's most densely
populated states this week trying
to win back some of the popular
support which at one point gave
him a seemingly unsurmountable
33 to 39 per cent lead over Ford.
Ford, in the meantime, is
continuing with his own campaign
blitz and will remain on the road
until the eve of the election, Nov.
2.
See related story page 8-9
As of late, both candidates
have been winging verbal blasts at
the other's foreign policy stands.
While Carter has been busy
defending his remarks concerning
no United States intervention
should the Soviet Union invade
Yugoslavia, Ford claims the Nov.
2 decision will determine whether
the United States maintains a
strong, big brother defense policy,
or one of "isolationism," should
Carter get the nod.
In the most recent Gallup poll,
Carter carries a six-point edge
over Ford. Both plan extensive
media campaigns, with Ford
estimated to spend some fj
$900,000 a day over the final 10
days, and Carter planning to
sponsor several 30-minute
documentaries the night before
the election over all three TV
networks.
In the Oct. 25 issue of Time
magazine, a state-by-statc count
of electoral votes gave Carter a
commanding 280-129 lead; 10
more than-needed to win the race.
Following the third debate, it
looked as if both Ford and Carter
we're going to stop the
mud-slinging and bring the
campaign back to some
respectable level of decency, but
both candidates quickly returned
to their familiar battle stations,
aiming barbs at each other's
stands, character and even
competence.
Barring any unforeseen
reversals by the voting sectors, or
perhaps another near-fatal case of
"foqt-in-mouth disease," which
has plagued both candidates
throughout the campaign, it looks
to be a real "barn-burner" come
Tuesday.
Greek housing okayed
NOV. 2
Plans for VC expansion
gets nod from Millican
By MARK HESS
Managing Editor
A revised priority list for the
spending of $2.78 million in Capitol
Outlay Funds, calling for the
expansion of the Village Center (VC),
including a bookstore, and land
development for Greek housing,
gained the approval of President
Charles N. Millican Wednesday.
The Ad Hoc Committee for
Student Activity and Service
Facilities, which was drawn up last
year to evaluate and prioritize
proposed building projects, made the
revised recommendations after their
first proposal met with some
opposition from Millican.
The committee had listed the-
number one priority in their initial
recommendations as the addition of
on-campus student housing, which
included land development for Greek
housing; followed by the building of
a University Center, a Student Health
Service/Developmental Center/Allied
Health complex and the development
of land for a Spiritual Awareness
Center.
But Millican, after reviewing the
recommendations, the amount of
funds available and the needs of the
students, requested the housing
proposal be delayed until further
notice.
Millican further suggested that
Projects II (the University Center)
and III (Student Health
Service/Developmental Center/Allied
Health) be merged and a new
proposal be submitted.
The committee, now composed of
several new members because some
of the original committee members
are no longer at ITU, again listed the
addition of student housing as the
number one priority. "The
Committee does not waver in its
position that expansion of on-campus
University housing a sorely needed,"
the committee reported. "However,
the committee does recognize the
reality of the situation in terms of
limitation of available funding and
new developments which you (Rex
Brown, vice president for student
affairs and chairman of the
committee) have conveyed."
Thus the committee, in complying
with Millican's suggestions and still
keeping in line with their original
proposals, drew up a revised priority
list giving the expansion of the VC
and land development for Greek
housing as the no. 1 priority.
Because   htere   are   not   available
funds to build a separate University
Center, the committee decided they
should expand the facilities already
provided by the VC. The committee
suggested the expanded VC could
include facilities such as study areas,
student'lounges, student offices,
additional meeting rooms, additional
storage and expansion of the game
room and related facilities. Other
facilities could be included, but
would be left up to the planning
committees.
Brown, in a memo to Millican,
pointed out the committee did not
include a bookstore in their
recommendations to expand the VC.
Accordingly, Millican accepted the
new proposal but with one
exception.
"Because of the absolute necessity
of moving the bookstore from the
Library Building, I am making a
bookstore one of the planning items
within the Village Center expansion
project," Millican said. "I am
convinced that with careful design
our available funds will be adequate
to include all of your
recommendations and also include a
bookstore."
The second priority of the
committee's recommendations was
for the Student Health
Service/Development Center/Alliea
Health Facility. Aothough there was
some discrepency voiced by members
of the committee as to the use of
studeni fee funds being usea to buiid
university services, Millican explained
thymoney for building these facilities
is not Activity and Service Fee
money, but Capital Improvement
Fund money, which is $1.29 taken
out of the total tuition that a student
pays per credit hour. Millican added
the guidelines for using Capital
Improvement Fund money specifies
it can be used for any capital
improvement on campus, as long as
its use is approved by the Board of
Regents (BOR).
Although Millican could not give a
definite timetable for when any new
building projects could begin, he said
planning committees have already
been appointed to actx of the
proposals. "(Dr. John Phillip) Goree
will get the committees to move
expeditiously to get the programs for
the project written and forwarded as
soon as possible to the BOR."
Millican defends
fund expenditures
By BARRY BRADLEY
Staff Writer
Much criticism has recently been
levied against FTU Pres. Charles N.
Millican concernin'g. certain
expenditures of university funds.
Florida Auditor General Ernest
Ellison charged that Millican used
money from the concession fund for
purposes that did not serve the best
interests of higher education.
Millican said these funds are not in
any way connected with state tax
dollars, although he said he feels a
"deep sense of responsibility" to see
that the funds are spent in the
interests of the university.
He added the president can use
these funds for any purpose not in
conflict with Florida statutes..
The problem said Millican was that
the auditor general did not think the
university had sufficiently justified
the expenses in a manner more
suitable to the auditor.
"There was nothing improper,
nothing illegal, nothing out of piace,"
said Millican. "He (the auditor) just
thought we had not given an
adequate statement to justify the
benefits to be derived for higher
education."
Certain other charges were made
concerning Millican's inaccessibility
to the press. Millican said the day the
press requested an appointment, he
had obligations irl the community all
day. He said Vice-President for
Business Affairs J. P. Goree made a
statement to the press that covered
the matter.
Millican said he was on WKIS
Radio with Gene Burns last Friday
night and discussed the issue. He
added that he was not inaccessable to
the media, it's just that Goree had
already taken care of it.
"I've never thought this office was
a tower at all, much less an ivory
tower," said Millican. "I continually
try to get the idea across to the
students that if they. have a real
problem, let me know and I'll try to
help."
THE FTU THEATRE DEPARTMENT
presented their first production of the
season,    "Madwoman    of    Chaillot"    last
weekend. For a review of the play, which
will be presented again this weekend, see
page 10.