The UCF Report, Vol. 09 No. 16, February 11, 1987

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Volume 9, Number 16
For Faculty and Staff
February 11,1987
Academic Affairs offers
close harmony with Senate
Learning LUIS
State Senator George Stuart, Orlando, was on campus this week
doing his homework on post-secondary education prior to the
spring session of the legislature. At the Library he was introduced
to LUIS (Library User Information Service) by Systems Librarian
Jeannette Ward.
Faculty Senate last week got a positive response from Academic Affairs
office on the senate's class withdrawal
policy statement and an offer to work
closer in the future on senate
resolutions.
Associate Vice President Charles N.
Micarelli presented his withdrawal
memorandum in person and suggested
that senate members work with him
while formulating their resolutions.
As proposed by the senate resolution
Provost Richard Astro has approved two
withdrawal grades so that classroom
teachers may show whether a student
was passing or failing at the time of
withdrawal.
Beginning next fall a student may
withdraw until the end of the eighth
week of a regular term, or midpoint of a
Scientist to give
German outlook
on space policies
The second in the series of public lectures on international space policy
brings a German expert to campus next
Tuesday evening.
Dr. Hermann Strub, head of the
Space Programme at the Ministry for
Research and Technology of the Federal
Republic of Germany, will appear at 8
p.m. in the University Dining Room.
His talk will be on: "Transatlantic
Cooperation in Space: The German
Perspective." Strub has served as
senior scientist for EURAT0M, Commission of the European Communities,
and is a member of the Council to the
European Space Agency.
The free talk, open to the public, is
one of a three-part series
Dedication set
for new building
at UCF/Daytona
The new building that houses the
UCF campus at Daytona Beach will be
dedicated in a public ceremony at 1:30
p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 25. The
ceremony will take place in the covered
atrium inside the three-story building
located on the Daytona Beach Community College campus.
State Rep. Sam Bell of Ormond Beach
will give the keynote address and UCF
President Trevor Colbourn and DBCC
President Charles Polk will tell how the
shared facilities benefit the community
and the institutions.
"Everyone is welcome", said Dr.
Sarah Pappas, UCF/DB director, adding,
"The dedication will go on even if it
rains." A dome-shaped fabric roof keeps
out the rain, but still allows outdoor air
to circulate in the courtyard.
UCF/DB moved in January from a
7,000 square foot building on Clyde
Morris Boulevard, where it had been
located most of the last 18 years, into
the 41,000 square foot building. Student enrollment grew 18 percent for the
spring term, Dr. Pappas reported.
UCF computer team seeks
glory in world competition
The team most likely to bring UCF a
moment of international glory squares
off next week in a six-hour struggle
against the best university teams in the
world.
Four UCF students will pit their skills
at computer problem-solving against
the best student brains of this continent, Europe and Asia during the
Association of Computing Machinery
conference at St. Louis Feb. 19-21.
They earned the right to be among the
top 24 in the international finals by
winning the Southeast Regional competition last November.
In the finals they expect to go up
against such computer heavyweights
as Stanford, Southern Cal, UCLA, Michigan and Texas Christian, according to
Ron Dutton, their faculty advisor. But
UCF has already cut its niche in the big
time, placing fourth in the international
a year ago.
Jim Geist, last year's captain, and
Nhan Tran, are returnees to the squad.
The other two, David Van Brackle and
Jim Duke were on the team that went
to the finals two years ago. Last year,
Van Brackle and Duke, both graduate
students, acted as trainers for the new
squad.
Geist, Van Brackle, Duke and Tran
scored a first in the regionals at
Mobile. They completed all nine problems given them by the judges, while
the runnersup from the University of
South Carolina, finished only six.
"I think their perfomance makes a
statement about the quality of students
we have and about the computer program we have at UCF", Dr. Dutton
said.
Another student has been assisting
the team in practicing for the international event with weekly three-hour
drills on solving previously unseen
problems. Michelle Spear has been
putting them through their drills every
Friday, he said.
UCF's world
class team
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summer term and receive a "W", but
after that time the student's record will
show either a passing or failing (WP or
WF) if a withdrawal is allowed.
On a pending resolution Micarelli
assured senators that he agrees with
faculty and students who want semesters to end earlier to provide time to
prepare for final exams. He asked that
Chairperson Linda Malone appoint a
committee to work with him and
Admissions Director John Bush in writing a calendar for the 1987-88 year.
The senate's earlier resolution on
admissions and standards was answered in a memorandum from Micarelli
with Dr. Astro's responses. Micarelli
explained in person that after meeting
state requirements the local choices are
few.
Astro's memorandum stated that
subcommittees of the University Admissions and Standards Committee would
review special admission requests for
athletes, minority group members and
performing artists and that the subcommittees would report directly to the
full body. The provost also plans to
review those special requests before
action is taken.
Astro said the EOP program should be
exempted, explaining that the innovative program has materially assisted the
University in its quest for minority students who demonstrate a reasonable
prospect for success but whose test
scores and high school GPA may not be
up to normal expectations. Micarelli
added that 40 students are admitted in
this way and that the success difference
between these students and others is
two percent.
Chairperson Malone continued the
Feb. 5 meeting until 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, to give time for discussion
on a resolution in the making on the
proposed graduate school.
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Members of UCF's rapidly growing
Federal Credit Union will hear at the
annual membership luncheon that
nearly 2,000 individuals joined the nonprofit cooperative in 1986.
President Barth Engert will include in
his report that membership at the end
of the year numbered nearly 6,000,
while assets in one year grew from $6.5
million to over $11 million. This will be
topped off by an insight into the Credit
Union's future plans.
Approximately 300 are expected to
attend the 11:30 a.m. buffet luncheon
in the Student Center Auditorium on
Wednesday, Feb. 25. The cost of $3.50
includes the meal, cash and other door
prizes, musical entertainment by John
Whitney's Jazz Lab, plus some words of
advice on how to live longer and enjoy
good health from UCF's expert Dr. Don
Ardell.
Luncheon tickets are available at the
Credit Union office in the Student Service Center.