Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 07, November 3, 1972

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We Live in the Present
By the Past, but
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Engert Named
Director Of PI
Charges
Appealed
By ATO
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
Monday appealed three charges of
which the Interfraternity Council
Judicial Board, Presidents' Council
and the Dean of Men found them
guilty.
One charge, that of violating the
Students Rights and Responsibilities
rules concerning personal abuse, was
not appealed, according to ATO
president Michael Mclntyre.
Mclntyre said the fraternity was
appealing guilty charges of actions
proven detrimental to the rushing of
Tri-Delta sorority, actions proven
detrimental to the rushing of
Tri-Delta sorority, actions
detrimental to Greek unity and
Greek spirit and actions proven to be
against general IFC policy that rush
functions    be in good taste.
A letter of complaint by Tri-Delta
brought to the attention of IFC an
incident which occured during a
pledge smoker. The incident
involved an ATO pledge wearing a
Tri-Delta jersey while another
member of ATO held a sign which
IFC all edged was in poor taste.
The IFC Judicial Board convened
October 13 to hear the case.
Recommendations were made that
ATO be placed on restrictive
suspension with no fine for 10
weeks, preventing ATO
participation in social and rush
activities.
Recommendation was made by
the Judicial Board that ATO should
be banned from intramural
activities, but this recommendation
was deleted during a meeting of the
President's Council, which approved
the other suggestions. The
recommendations were accepted by
Dean Paul McQuilkin Monday, Oct.
23, who added that should the
recommendations go into effect,
men pledged during the rush at the
beginning of fall quarter would
remain pledges during the 10-week
period. McQuilkin said the pledges
would be unable tobecome accepted
as members until February 1.
Mclntyre was not sure when IFC
would act upon the appeal, but said
that IFC may consider the appeal at
a meeting Tuesday.
Campus Glances
JFK TICKETS
Students who purchased tickets
to "An Evening with JFK" may
receive a refund if they will present
the tickets to the VC Program
Director.
STUDENTS IN Dr. Marty Wanielista's atmosphere and pollution
control classes discovered this week that FTU's air is four times cleaner
than air in downtown Orlando, and 10 times freer of particulate matter
pollutants than the maximum allowed under federal regulations.
Experiments were carried out by the students with the help of the State
Department of Pollution's "Air Pollution Monitor Trailer" pictured
above. The trailer was made available on a temporary basis for
classroom use.(Photo by Henry Popkin)	
WFTU Broadcasting
After Repairs Made
By Pete Reynolds
WFTU radio returned to the air
6 a.m. Wednesday after almost a
full week of silence caused by a
failure in the audio board. Station
manager Bill Ivey said that a
voluntary contribution from a staff
member allowed WFTU personnel
to make needed repairs and resume
broadcasting.
The audio board is perhaps the
single most important piece of
equipment in a radio station, Ivey
said. Its function is to mix various
signals that are put into it in the
proper ratio and send them to the
transmitter. It also functions as the
main control panel.
According to Ivey the trouble
started October 24 when the main
audio board broke down. Hoping to
stay on the air, the station switched
to a secondary board in the main
production room.
Unfortunately, the transmitter
and amplifiers in this board
exploded. Since there was only one
more audio board in the university
and it was used for a variety of
activities, the station management
felt they didn't have the right to
use it. Thus, the station shut down.
Ivey said that the breakdowns
were unfortunate because "they
had been anticipated, but because
of a  lack   of  funds,   there  was
nothing that could be done to
prevent them."
The station will return to the air,
according to news director David
Waterman, with a staff of 35-40
persons. The station is a totally
separate entity from the TV
station. The staff is all voluntary
and consists mostly of persons from
the communication department,
although Waterman said the station
is open to students from any
college and in fact, they have
workers there from other colleges.
Waterman said that, "contrary
to popular opinion, the Broadcast
Club helps out at the station but
does not run it."
The station broadcasts from 6
a.m. to midnight Mondays through
Thursdays; 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fridays; and 4 p.m. to midnight
Sundays. There are no broadcast
hours on Saturday.
The station broadcasts a variety
of music, though the format is
mostly rock with occasional
middle-of-the-road and easy
listening sounds. Waterman said
news and editorials are mostly
concerned with FTU affairs,
although if something affects
another university or is deemed
important it wfll be broadcast.
By Mark Weintz
C. Barth Engert, 33, is the new
director of Public Information for
FTU.
Dr. William Grasty, executive
assistant to the president,
announced the selection of Engert
whom he said was selected because
of his imagination, personal
initiative, and because he works
well with students, faculty and
administrators.
GRASTY EXPLAINED that the
new director would mark the
beginning of expansion for the
public information office. He
added, "You're going to see a
different type of operation of that
office than you have in the past."
The director of Public
Information is under the Office of
the President. In his new capacity,
Engert will be in charge of news
releases and the distribution of
information concerning the
university.
Engert explained that the
function of the public information
office is the promoting and building
of good relations between the
university and the community.
The new director said he feels
the student newspaper ought to be
first to know things. "I think that is
the policy now," he added.
ENGERT SAID his main goal
would be "to make a good thing
better." He said he felt the former
director, Bill Warden, did a fine job.
Engert said he has been "most
pleased" with the public
information office from his
association with it.
He complimented the public
information office and Bill Daum,
acting office chief, for displaying a
sincere interest in informing the
public of events taking place on
campus. Daum will remain in the
office to head the news bureau
department.
Engert has been with the
university since it opened in 1968.
He began as director of housing and
in    1970    was    promoted    to
Nixon Signs
VA Increase
Tuesday, Oct. 24, Mr. Nixon
signed into law a bill authorizing an
increase in pay for veterans going to
school on the G.I. Bill, plus
modifying the payment system.
The regional V.A. office in St.
Petersburg termed it a "significant
step toward improving conditions
for vets."
One of the major provisions of
the bill is an across-the-board pay
increase of approximately 25 per
cent . The old amounts were $175
per quarter, $205 with one
dependent, $230 with two
dependents and $13 for each
additional dependent. The pay
increase boosted these figures
respectively to $220, $261, $298,
and $18. These figures are
retroactive, which means, for FTU's
veterans, the increase will go back
to September 19.
coordinator of educational
conferences, and is presently
finishing up commitments of his
former position and will assume
active command of his new office
in about a week.
According to Engert he found
his former job exciting and
challenging and is anticipating the
challenge of new problems which
will demand different types of
solutions. He said his new job
requires that he keep in touch with
all of the university and that it is
"up to everybody at the university
to let the office know what they
are doing."
ENGERT EMPHASIZED,
"When something big is happing on
campus or some individual is doing
something important, I will not
keep it a secret. We will do our best
in getting the word out."
He presently does "some
advising^ and "some teaching in the
sociology department." He said he
hopes to continue in both these
areas.
Engert's new office is room 390
in the Administration Building,
adjacent to the English and foreign
BARTH ENGERT
language departments.
With a smile Engert declared, "I
feel extremely comfortable being
next to the English and foreign
language departments in case any of
the news needs translation."
ENGERT SAID he is looking
forward to working with President
Millican. He said he admires him as
an individual and lauded the way he
has gone about assembling a sizable
staff of top people from all over the
country. "That's no small task,"
Engert said.
President Millican expressed his
viewpoint concerning Engert's
selection in last Monday's Orlando
Sentinel. "I've always felt that
when you have a good man on the
inside who looks like he can do the
job, it's best to stay with him and
move him into the new job, I'm
pleased to see Barth heading up
that department," Dr. Millican said.
When asked about his feeling
concerning Engert's selection, Bill
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Many Favor Reinstating Pre-Registration
By the time this story is printed
the decision as to whether or not to
reinstate advance registration will
most likely have already been
made.
Feelings concerning
pre-registration are mixed. In the
recent Student Government
referendum, 93 per cent of students
voting were in favor of reinstating
advance registration. However, a
small proportion of students and a
larger proportion of teachers are
fervently opposed to it.
The decision to drop
pre-registration   was   made   at   a
Council of Deans meeting on June
7. Reasons included complaints by
teachers and students that it took
away classtime that was crucial to
reviewing for exams. It was said too
much of the teachers' time was
taken up with registration,
add-drop advising and
pre-registration duties.
VARIOUS STUDENTS on
campus were polled recently to
determine their feelings concerning
pre-registration and whether or not
they would like to see it reinstated.
Their opinions were as follows:
I think I would be in favor of
By James Reynolds
reinstating it. I'm not that familiar
with the problem, really. All the
people I've talked to are in favor of
reinstating it - all the students
anyway -1 haven't talked to any of
the faculty.
Wallace Kirkland, accounting,
junior.
Whether I would like to see
pre-registration brought back would
depend on the computer. Every
time I pre-register, the computer
breaks down. Registration for this
quarter was the only time it has
ever broken down during regular
registration. I would rather just see
regular registration, I think.
Scott Bennett, humanities, senior.
I THINK we would do better
with the pre-registration. I find that
not many students come by during
pre-registration anyway. I think
there may be a little more work
with the pre-registration, but it's
not that much trouble because
there aren't that many people
needing to be advised. If you go to
a larger university where there are a
lot of advisees per faculty member.
I think they will say it is a lot more
work.
Dr.  J.   J.  Brennan,  professor of
physics.
YES, I WOULD like to see it
back. Otherwise there will just be
too many people going at once.
Ed Browning, psychology, senior.
Yes, I would like to see it back. I
think it gives you some idea of
what you are going to be doing the
next quarter before the break
between quarters.