Central Florida Future, Vol. 10 No. 14, December 9, 1977

              Future
Vol. 10
Friday, December 9,1977
Florida
Technological
University
No. 14
Class action suit
College of Education faculty may sue university
by Dale Dunlap
managing editor
Some members of the college are still
"madder than a hornet" with administration over the salary dispersals
to their college this year and are
rallying support from their members to
file a class action suit against the
university.
' A document titled "Affadivit" is
being circulated around the College of
Education and although the author is
not known, Dr. Richard A. Thompson,
professor of Elementary Education
said, "It pretty much reflects the attitude of everyone over here."
The document makes three seperate
allegations "at the local level" against
Dr. C.B. Gambrell, vice president for
Academic Affairs.
They include:
•Allegation 1. That arbitrary and
capricious funds allocation based on
the unified academic study "The
Oklahoma State University Study
which has doubtful validity and has
never been replicated or endorsed.
•Allegation 2. Use of this study constitutes "de facto" discrimination
against the College of Education
which contains a number of women
and blacks.
•Allegation 3. The study is not based
on salaries at institutions that have undergone sex equity or racial study and
adjustments, utilization of this study
consitutes a retreat from equity ad-
Senate nixes
Homecoming
appropriation
The Homecoming committee was
dealt a blow last week when the
Student Senate voted 13-11 not to
allocate funds for homecoming which
the committee needed to plan
festivities.
The senate voted Dec. 1 to postpone
indefinitely bill 10-1, which gives the
Village Center Activities board $950
for homecoming.
Another bill discussed was 10-3, an,
alternative bill giving the board $ 1620
for homecoming. The bill was withdrawn by its author after .10-1 was
voted down, leaving no provisions for
homecoming funds.
The money would come from the
senate working fund which is used for
unforeseen expenditures.
Senate members and Bobby Allen,
student body vice-president, said that
the VCAB was allotted this year's in-
justments.
The money the College of Education
is questioning is the dispersement of 6
percent  increases to  the College of
Education while the College of
Engineering received 9 percent increases. The Florida Legislature appropriated funds that would include
Trie one and only Mickey Mouse waves along with Vicki Jaramillo,
an FTU student who was recently named Walt Disney World Ambassador for 1978. For more about Vicki and her new job see the
story on page 3. (Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Productions)
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staff writer
creased budget of $183,000 with the'
unwritten understanding        that
homecoming should be budgeted by
them. The increase was minimal
because all student organizations
received a 30 percent cut, Allen said.
Mark Glickman, VC program director and Connie Hunt, VCAB vice-
president, said they didn't know
homecoming was to be budged solely
by them. "Even if we did," said Hunt,
"our budget was only increased by
about $2,000, which is barely enough
to cover inflational expenses."
The VCAB did budget $2,500 for
homecoming this year to avoid last
year's scrounge for committee
donations. The Extemporaneous and
Adaptions Committee gave $500 to the
VCAB for homecoming.
With the bill defeated, this $3,000
will be the total spent by the
VC programming committee on
homecoming. The major VCAB committees   cannot   donate   from   their
budgets, Hunt said, because the year's
events have already been arranged and
the funds earmarked.
The homecoming committee has
costs that cannot be cut said Hunt,
such as alumni mailouts and
publicity. The money to be spent on
fireworks, daytime entertainment,
prizes, decorations and the band for
the dance will be decreased.
Other VCAB committees have
scheduled events for the week funded
by their individual budgets:
The Cinema Committee will be offering the movie "Wizards" and the
Cultural Events Committee will sponsor the New Orleans Preservation Jazz
band in keeping with the theme "Mar-
di Gras." The Popular Entertainment
committee has spent almost one-third
its budget to provide bluegrass music
during the week.
This year's expenses will total
$10,000. Only $2,500, compared to
$5,100 of last year, will be spent on
7.1  percent average salary increases
for all faculty members.
Their argument is that the University of South Florida, Florida Atlantic
University and the University of West
Florida did not discriminate but
allocated 7.1 percent to each college.
They say that their appeal to the
President, Charles N. Millican, was
denied and they have "exhausted local
remedy."
Dr. John R. Bolte, associate vice
president for Academic Affairs, explains that in formulating the budget
for this academic year that he followed
a request made by the, "Chancellor's
office", which formed their
operational procedure, which states
"...internal allocation of discretionary
monies should be made consistent with
salaries paid by discipline category
nationally and should take into account institutional priorities."
Bolte admitted the word 'should'
was "not a compelling term" but said
that if the College of Education
were paid the 7.1 percent increase,
that they would be far above the
national pro-rated average in the
Oklahaoma State study. The College of
Engineering, he said, would be well
below the national pro-rated average.
Bolte said he intends to bring the
salary levels up to the. approxiate
national averages in the study over a
two or three year period.
directly related homecoming activities, said Hunt.
To prevent misunderstandings next
year, senate members, Allen and
VCAB members plan to explore the
possibilities of funding the
Homecoming Committee as a separate
organization. They must submit a
budge request.
Hunt said homecoming is not a standing committee of the VCAB "It is an
ad hoc committee composed of members of all other VCAB committees and
open to all students for membership.
We should not have to budget it."
"I feel we did the right thing in
sticking to the budget," said Allen.
"The bill would have drained the
senate working fund by one-third.
After the vote, Ron Jakubisin,
president pro-tem, said the decision
was an attempt to destroy him
resulting from a conflict with another
senator. "This is a blatant abuse of the
senate," he said. "It was done not to
provide, but to destroy something."
Brian Joslyn, who lost to Jakubisin in
the president Pro-Tern election, said he
was against the bill because he wasn't
sure why the homecoming committee
needed funds.
Tclaifs Fuiura
"We want Ed!"
Former U.S. Senator Ed Gurney was fire
and brimstone in his speech to the Student
Senate last week. Looks like another campaign may be in the offing. For more see
story, page 3.
Lefthanded praise
Village/ Center concert goers received a
honey of a performance by Southpaw
Friday. This local rock band was notable
for its ntusical arrangements. For a complete review see page 10.
Fly national
The Lady Knight volleyball team is in
Napierville, III., trying to make all the
long hours of practice pay off royally,
preferably by taking the No. 1 crown. See
story, page 14.