The UCF Report, Vol. 12 No. 16, March 7, 1990

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Volume 12, Number 16 The University of Central Florida Newspaper for Faculty and Staff
March 7,1990
News Clips
• The UCF Women's Club is
offering a scholarship to a female student for Fall, 1990.
The deadline for applying is
March 15,1990. Eligibility
includes financial need, a
later-in-life start at full time
university studies after a
significant time lapse, single
head of household status, and
a 3.0 or better G.P.A. Faculty
and staff are asked to encourage qualified students to contact the scholarship coordinator in the financial aid office
for more information.
• Ken Dion, junior in nursing,
has received a Fuld Fellowship to attend the 6th International Conference on Cancer
Nursing to be held in Amsterdam, Holland, Aug. 12-16 and
the 15 th International Union
Against Cancer to be held in
Hamburg, West Germany,
Aug. 18-22. One hundred Fuld
Fellows were selected
throughout the United States.
• Once again Beta Alpha Psi
and the Student Accounting
Society will offer free income
tax advice between now and
April 16. Those wishing help
should bring all proof of
income, any deductible
expenses, last year's tax return
and this year's tax return
package to the information
booth in CEBAII on Mondays
from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. and
Wednesdays from 4:30 - 6
p.m.
• The Naval Training Systems
Center has presented UCFs
Air Force Reserve Officer
Training Corps (ROTC) with a
copy of "Serious Pursuit," an
educational computer game
developed by the center to
teach sailors about the Soviet
Union. Cadets can use the
game to improve their knowledge about the Soviet's
history, geography, people
and Navy.
• A presentation will be held
on the proposed new master
plan for campus facilities and
land use development March
8 at 4 p.m. in Phillips Hall,
Room 115. Jerry Osterhaus,
director of facilities planning,
will lead the presentation.
Soviet Brings GlasnostTo UCF
Now that glasnost and perestroika
are no longer giving you fits to pronounce, try Gennady Gerasimov.
Gerasimov, the official spokesman for
Chairman Mikhael Gorbachev and
chief press secretary for the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be
here to kick-off UCF's inauguration/
founder's day festivities April 20.
The Marlin Fitzwater of the Soviet
Union and disciple of the new Russian
philosophy of "openness," is a career
Gennady Gerasimov
journalist and former editor of the
Moscow News.
He is an author, ambassador and
only the second official spokesman
out of Moscow. He met his current
boss while both were studying law at
Moscow University. He told the
Boston Globe, "I got disappointed with
international law, because if s a weak
law. The UN Charter is not enforced.
So I went into journalism."
He worked for New Times weekly
and a trade-union paper before being
sent to Prague to edit the official
magazine of the communist parties,
known in English as World Marxist
Review. He spent three years as an
adviser to the powerful Central
Committee and from 1972-78 he was
a diplomatic correspondent in the
United States. Later he was appointed
editor and chief of the Moscow News
until being offered his current
position as top press agent for
Gorbachev.
Gerasimov will discuss the
successes and weaknesses of glasnost
and perestroika. He will give a noon
address in the Student Center Auditorium with a reception to follow in
the courtyard.
Gerasimov's speech begins a
week-long string of events which
include a founder's day convocation
on April 26 and the inauguration of
President Altman on April 27.     □
Schedule of
Inaugural Events
Friday
4/20/90
noon-3 p.m
Gennady Gerasimov
Speech/Reception
SCA Courtyard
Saturday
4/21/90
8 a.m.
College of Business
Business Policy Case
Competition
CEBA II
Wednesday
4/25/90
8 a.m.
Breakfast
Brevard Campus
noon
Daytona Beach
Campus Luncheon
5:30 p.m.
Booster's BBQ
7 p.m.
UCF vs. Univ. of FL
Baseball Game
Thursday
4/26/90
2:30 p.m.
Founder's Day
Convocation
4:30 p.m.
Founder's Day
Reception - UDR
Friday
4/27/90
10:30 a.m.
Inaugural Ceremony
Gymnasium
12:30 p.m.
Campus Showcase
College Openhouses
8 p.m.
Inaugural Ball
Stouffers Resort
8 p.m.
UCF Jazz Lab Spring
Concert held in SCA
Louie Bellson, Guest
UCF Joins Science/Tech Consortium
The University of Central Horida
has joined the Oak Ridge Associated
Universities (ORAU), a consortium of
55 universities exploring opportunities
in science and technology.
In accepting UCF's membership
into the consortium, President Steven
Altman told ORAU officials, "The
University of Central Horida is
immensely pleased to join the Oak
Ridge Associated Universities as a
research partner. ORAU's collaborative approach to the solution of
technological and scientific problems
offers an unparalleled opportunity
for our university scientists to learn
and contribute as they unite with colleagues on vital research tasks."
UCF joins a membership that
includes Virginia Polytechnic Institute, College of William and Mary,
Vanderbilt University, Southern
Senate: 'No' to Discrimination
Methodist University, Rice University, Emory University, Clemson
University, University of Georgia,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Louisiana State University and West
Virginia University.
Both a federal laboratory and a
consortium of universities, ORAU 's
efforts focus on four major areas
including science/engineering
education, training and management
Please See ORAU Page 3
The faculty senate voted Thursday
in favor of a resolution that calls for
the university to disengage itself from
organizations practicing discrimination. If the resolution is adopted as
policy, it could mean the loss of
donations from clubs or organizations
who discriminate against women,
blacks or other minorities.
At least one donor to UCF, the
Orlando University Club, openly
admits to not allowing women or
blacks in its membership, although
there is no written policy. Author of
the resolution and political science
professor, Mark Stern, referring to the
Orlando University Club said, "They
have two token Jews, no women, no
blacks and to the best of my knowledge no Hispanics."
Bruce Pauley, history professor,
questioned the practicality of such a
broad resolution. He suggested
instead a resolution that would allow
the university to accept gifts from any
group but it would urge faculty
members to be aware of the policies
of organizations they may be asked to
speak at or participate in. The resolution was voted down.
The accepted resolution reads:
It is not appropriate for the
university to engage in any activity
which may lend support or give
credence to any club or private
institutions which knowingly
engage in discriminatory practices
on the basis of race, gender, ethnic
or religious preferences.  ■
The resolution passed 32-2. □
Index
Classified Ads .. 8
Grant Opportunities  8
Memorandums  2
And in this issue:
Calendar................................... 2
Engineer of the Year............... 3
Library holdings .. 4 & 5
Newcomers  3
People ...3
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