Central Florida Future, Vol. 16 No. 01, August 26, 1983

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INSIDE
A pietoral look at registration, see
page!)
A sample of Orlando's theaters'
wares, see page 13
Saban previews the fighting Knights,
see page 21
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Aiuriisl 2fi, 1983
Brenner is hired
for homecoming's
$25,000 concert
by Donna Howell
Entertainment editor
Nationally acclaimed comedian David Brenner will perform Sept. 30 for UCF's
Homecoming celebration, according to Mark Glickman,
UCF alumni coordinator.
Brenner was chosen to accord with UCF's comedy
Homecoming theme "Live
from UCF" because, according to Glickman, "comedy
reaches a more diverse audience than a musical performance could appeal to."
Glickman said the alumni
council is backing 80 percent
of the $25,000 budget to produce Brenner's performance.
Student Government is providing the remaining 20 percent of the cost of the show.
According to Student Center
program director Paul
Franzese, Brenner's salary
alone is $15,000.
Tickets for the Brenner
show will be available Sept. 1.
Over 1500 student tickets will
be sold for $6 each through
the Student Government
ticket office. Alumni tickets
Brenner, page 6
Rude welcome
The owners of this car started their year off on a sour note when it was towed from next to the
health center last week.
Student Center plans for $880,000 expansion
by Rick Brunson
Future news
Plans are now being made
for an $880,000, 10,000
spuare foot expansion of the
Student Center, according to
Paul Franzese, program director for the center.
. After an architect's rendering of the university's proposal, bids for construction of
the project will begin.
Franzese said a' student
organizations room will be added onto the former health
wing of the Student Center.
He said the additional office
space and work areas provided by the 2,200-square-foot
room are needed since there
are currently only nine offices
to serve over 100 clubs and
organizations that exist on
campus.
"This   building   will   help
with our growing pains,"
Franzese said.
The student government
will also be housed in the
former health wing. Two offices, a senate workroom and
a conference room will be
built to accomodate SG.
Franzese said the walkway
between the wings of the Student Center complex will be
enclosed to form a lobby, and
a small convenience store will
be in what is now the information desk.
An activity center, what
Franzese calls "an intimate
semi-pub," will be constructed behind the Student
Center auditorium. The
center which will seat about
400 people, will be used for
showing movies, presenting
small theater shows and coffee house entertainment, and
as a symposium for speaker
programs.
Franzese said funding for
the expansion was secured by
former SG President Tico
Perez last year. A committee
was formed to propose what
part of the Student Center
needed to be expanded.
"We quickly came up with
the same unanimous agreement," Franzese said. "It sur-
Expansion, page 7
Desegregation
UCF to bring black enrollment to 8.7%
Editor's note: Twenty
years ago, Martin Luther
King Jr. spoke of a dream
that envisioned racial
equality in all aspects of life.
In a two-part series, the
Future examines the issue of
desegregation of Florida's
universities and how it effects
new
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?uture news
UCF has begun implementing a comprehensive plan to,
increase black enrollment
from last year's 4 percent to
8.7, after a federal judge in
March ordered Florida's nine
universities to step up
desegregation by the fall of
i985.
Under the 14-ppint plan, officials from the Office of I In-
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dergraduate Studies will
make at least 65 visits to high
schools with significant black
populations this year; UCF's
public affairs office will
prepare advertisements to attract black students:
Minority Student Services
will mail information to 1,000
outstanding black students
designed to attract them to
the university: and the
university will send an integrated team of representatives to College Night and
Career "Opportunity' shows.
The plan also calls for the
university to more widely
publish an . alternative admission provision that allows
up to 10 percent of a projected
Desegregation, page 3
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Club provides aid to
new transfer students
by Wayne Starr
Future news
Students who transfer to
UCF now have an organization whose goal is to help
"ease the pain of
transferring," according to
Matt Albi, president of PHI
Theta Kappa Alumni
Association.
The major obstacle to a
smooth transition from a
community college to UCF is
registration, Aloi says, pointing out that the problem is
even worse for transfers than
for freshmen. "Even though
both transfers and freshmen
who don't go through orientation register after returning
students, most of the returning students are not taking
freshmen-level courses, so
those remain open. But by
Wednesday afternoon (when
transfers begin registering),
many, if not most of the
classes they need have been
filled, creating a lot of
frustrated, angry people,"
Aloi said.
At a booth set up at
registration, Aloi and other
PTK alumni members try to
comfort students. "We tell
them just to be tough and
hang in there," Aloi said, adding that "at one time or
another, almost everybody
goes through it."
And according to Dr.
Daniel Coleman, UCF director of institutional research,
Aloi is not exaggerating. Based on last fall's statistics,
7,554 of the 11,450
undergraduates enrolled as of
August 1982 had entered
UCF as transfer students,
with more than 3,000 of those
beginning their first semester
here. And when data is compiled for the current semester,
Coleman says, "consistently
our figures have shown that
Transfers.