The UCF Report, Vol. 08 No. 18, November 20, 1985

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The UCF Report
Volume 8, Number 18
For Faculty and Staff
November 20, 1985
FALL MEETING
The regular meeting of the
Faculty Assembly will be held
tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Engineering Auditorium. The agenda
includes remarks by President
Trevor Colbourn, faculty
discussion and any miscellaneous matters faculty may wish to
raise.
'Create more campus housing or lose students' — VP Tubbs
Building options pushed on all fronts
Building more housing on campus is
the best thing that could happen to UCF,
LeVester Tubbs, vice president of Student Affairs, believes.
"If we don't create more housing we
will lose students," he said.
Although housing can't be provided
overnight there are some positive forces
at work that could nearly double the
899 beds in present dormitories within
two years.
The effort closest to groundbreaking
taps private investors to both finance
and build dormitories. On Dec. 6, Phil
Goree, vice president of Business
Affairs, and staff, will be joined by
representatives of the vice chancellor of
administration and of the state architect
Whale of a check
Roasting and toasting George Becker, former head of Sea World
of Florida, netted $30,473 that was given to UCF at Lake Claire
last Friday to buy equipment for the communication Department.
The left to right includes "Shamu"; Bill Bass, president of the
Orlando Area Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association;
Cheryl Carlson, president of Quotes, the UCF student RP/Ad
organization; organization; Tracy Smith, chairman of the 1985
roast, and UCF President Trevor Colbourn.
Health combines
heart and lungs
in new department
College of Health now has a Cardiopulmonary Department, the result of
upgrading the 17 year-old Respiratory
Therapy Program and recognizing mul-
tidisciplinary skills needed in the rapidly
changing health care field.
Steve Lytle, who has been in charge
of Respiratory Therapy for 10 years, is
chairman of the new department. The
program has been evolving and last
year added a graduate cardiopulmonary
program. This year the faculty added
Herman Core, who has worked at Florida A&M and Southwest Texas State,
bringing to six the number who will
teach in the department.
"The combination and change of
name indicates what our graduates are
doing out in the industry today," Lytle
said
INVITATION
Director Rick Goodenough and staff
invite the UCF staff and faculty to an
Open House to be held in the Financial Aid Office on Nov. 22 from 3:30
until 4:30, to express our appreciation
for our newly remodeled quarters.
"Men without education are condemned to live as outsiders — outside
the twentieth century, foreigners in
their own land."
—Robert F. Kennedy
Early deadline
for Dec. 4 issue
Because of the Thursday and Friday holidays for Thanksgiving an early deadline is
necessary for the Dec. 4 issue of the UCF
Report.
Those who want to have official memos,
or other information, printed in the Dec. 4
issue, please have copy in the hands of the
editor. Room 395J, Admin Building, before 5
p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27.
Any copy received in advance of this deadline will get preferred treatment.
"A man of genius makes no mistakes.
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
—James Joyce
Credit Union's
manager retires
UCF Credit Union manager Skip
Hickman has requested retirement
effective Dec. 31.
Replacing her in the top spot will be
Joe Hyde, currently treasurer of the
organization.
In a memorandum to Credit Union
directors, Mrs. Hickman cited her 14
years at the helm as "very rewarding
ones, and I know my successor will
experience the same feelings of
accomplishment ..."
Credit Union President Barth Engert
expressed the gratitude of the board
and membership for her "dedication
and many contributions to the
organization."
DEDICATION
The Student Government Information
Kiosk will be dedicated in a ceremony at
1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27. President Trevor Colbourn, Student Affairs
Vice President LeVester Tubbs and
present and past Student Government
officers will take part in the ribbon-
cutting. The service building will be
manned from 9 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.,
according to John Gill, Student Body
president.
in interviewing two groups of interested
investors.
"Both proposals look good and should
provide housing for 850 more students
some time in 1987," Goree said, recalling that he has been working for 15
years to reach that point.
"It is our intention to get a good facility and at the same time to keep the
rates at a level the students can afford. I
would like to see ground broken by April
1, 1986, but there are a lot of approvals
to get before then," he said.
Specifications allow bidders some latitude in design and decor. For the first
time on campus dormitories will have
kitchens, and these will be in one bedroom and two bedroom apartments.
Buildings will be either four or five stories and be faced with brick compatible
with the decor of the campus.
The complex will be located on 1 2
acres north of Aquarius Circle, the
future center of the campus. In addition
to the apartments, the complex will
include a building to house meeting and
party rooms for residents, an office for
all campus housing and provision for a
maintenance shop.
Upper classmen, Goree predicted, will
be assigned the new housing, but the
design does not anticipate family rentals for married students.
Something else on a roll at this time
is the start on Greek housing. Zeta Tau
Alpha sorority dedicated the first house
on Greek Park Drive on Nov. 3. Delta
Delta Delta and Pi Beta Phi have submitted their building and funding plans
and are on a countdown to their own
groundbreakings.
The Zetas provided for 20 residents,
but the trend on other campuses,
according to Carol Wilson, assistant
vice president of Student Affairs, is to
provide another 20 beds in a later
addition.
"If Greek houses are built on the 15
lots set aside on Greek Park Drive, and
each can sleep 40 students, that's 600
students living on campus, two-thirds of
what we have in campus dorms today,"
Wilson said.
On another front the legislature will
be asked next spring to authorize sale of
bonds to build a 165-bed dorm to complete the quadrangle started in 1980.
One other option, to get a federal loan
to provide 550 beds, is a possibility. The
University has applied every year for
several years without approval,
although UCF came close last year,
Tubbs said.
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About 75 percent of UCF's full-time
faculty members hold doctorate degrees
— a level of scholarly training that puts
UCF on a par with such elite private
schools as Wesleyan and Oberlin and
such a well established public institution as William & Mary.