The UCF Report, Vol. 02 No. 21, January 16, 1980

              University of Central Florida
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Wednesday, January 16, 1980
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Knight Notes
What you don't find when you
clean out a closet. .. the
Alumni Relations office found a
stack of "Hi-Fi Sound Sheets"
(flexible plastic records) of
the FTU Alma Mater. Want one?
Call x2233 or write the Alumni
Relations office. They promise
to keep sending them out as long
ns the supply lasts!
SAGA comes to the rescue
of you late lunchers. Although
the VC Cafeteria's hot food
and a la carte lines will still
close at 1:15 p.m. daily,.the
Deli section will now remain
open until 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Also, SAGA
Director Stan Ried and his
staff have added more
vegetarian entrees to the
menu. They'd appreciate your
comments and suggestions on
these new entrees.
Grab your coat (raccoon)
and get your hat (preferrably
straw) and jump into "A Roaring
Salute to the Twenties"
homecoming activities starting
Monday. See details on page 3.
Going to Houston, Tex.,
anytime soon? A group of UCF
grads are organizing an alumni
chapter in Houston. More than
200 graduates live in Texas
with 100 of those in the
Houston area. If you will be
attending a conference in
Houston in the near future and
would like to visit the group,
call Mark W. Glickman,
coordinator of Alumni
Relations, x2233.
UCF, Torchy post 200th win
Basketball victories are nothing
unusual to Torchy Clark.  But what
made last Thursday's win over
St. Michael's College a little different
was what happened afterward.   Torchy
received a plaque from the President,
the game ball from the athletic director
and a console television set from the
UCF Tipoff Club.   It was win No. 200
for Torchy (and for the University,
too, of course) - a long way from
Nov. 21, 1969, when a team from a
year-old university without a nickname,
regular uniforms, a gymnasium or
scholarships beat Massey Institute of
Jacksonville, 99-38.   Top scorer for the
night? Mike Clark, with 25 points.
The next night Florida Tech came
"home" (to the Winter Park High
School gym) and 1,250 fans watched a
93-71 romp over the University of Palm
Beach.   Two hundred victories later,
in 1980, Torchy's team is undefeated,
rated number one in the country in
Division II, and giving its fans an
exciting brand of basketball.  See
page 5 for more about Torchy.
Photo by Bernol Schooley
Student union, health center on way up
Cement blocks, steel reinforcing
rods, plastic pipes and behemoth
earth-moving equipment. What now looks
like a sandbox for an industrious
boy-giant will be transformed during
the next 12 months into the first phase
of the new University Student Union.
Presently under construction
northeast of the Library, the 22,000-
square-foot building will be "mall-like"
in design, according to Dick Lavender,
projects manager, Facilities Planning
& Engineering.
The covered but open entrance
will lead into a spacious hallway
which will be skylighted. Casual seating
and plantings throughout will further
carry out a mall atmosphere.
Occupying approximately one-half
of the one-story structure will be an
expanded bookstore. To the rear of the
building will be a snack bar, primarily
designed as a fast-food facility. A
student lounge and meeting rooms will
take up the remainder of the building.
The lounge will contain areas for
television viewing, music listening,
and a newspaper/magazine reading room,
STUDENT UNION, page 4
The earliest phases of the new Student Union take shape northeast of the Library.   The structure, to contain a bookstore,
fast food facility, and student lounges, is scheduled for completion in January 1981. Photo by Bemai Schooley