The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • 49

Sentinel Orluiulo. Huriilti 0 ft Suiuluy, November 28, 1976 SECTION Classified Marston Urges Adequate Funds i 1 Newsfionts 1 Lv. 4 irv Ik'" 1 -r, t.4 if I I 'Jr. PI By ORMUND POWERS Swilliwl Itar Stall University of Florida President Robert Q. Marston made a strong, but generalized, appeal for adequate university funding in a breakfast address to 35 state legislators at the Hilton Inn West in Orlando Saturday.

Marston asked legislators to remember that the faculty' is underpaid and that "the ball game is recruitment and retention of faculty." Appropriations for capital outlay are needed, he said, "because we are now at the point of replacing our operating equipment." THE PRESIDENT'S requests were supported by P. Scott Lind-er, Lakeland industrialist and. incoming alumni association president. "We ask the state to adopt a businesslike approach to higher education," Linder said. "We ask that our program be allowed to continue and not be dismantled" by lack of funding.

Linder said that, contrary to some reports, "We do not seek mergers with other institutions or the abolition of any institutions." About 50 university faculty members and students attended ihe breakfast, part of the first off-campus legislative day the university has held. THE BILL for the weekend was paid by the university Alumni Association and the Central Florida Alumni Club. Later, the lawmakers attended the Miami-Florida University football game. Marston said there have been many complaints from student and parents about the delay in obtaining student aid, both grants and loans. This affects one out of two students, he said.

The difficulty lies with the federal system of administration and not with the university, Marston explained. Board of Regents chancellor E. T. York Jr. said "it is conceivable" the regents will act soon on a recommendation that the awarding of doctor-of-philsophy degrees be limited to the University of Florida under a plan to separate some of the functions of the state's university system.

MARSTON SAID the university today has "a talented and highly motivated student body. Our faculty, though shrunken in size and still badly underpaid, is the best ever Florida must provide higher education of such quality that every student, including the brightest, can come here with confidence. "We must be able to attract and retain the best faculty in the world if the research needs of the state, in economics, in energy, in urban development and in all other areas, are to be met." Mil ffifevl -fl Music helped cheering along as SOME MIGHTY BLASTS FROM UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BAND: Engineers Say Motion Normal vi- Of T-Bowl Sway 1 I at. a. Sections The crowds of football fans expected traffic jams Saturday and instead many got a surprise when sections of the upper deck of the new addition to the Tangerine Bowl swayed a motion engineers said was normal and expected.

While most of the 40,055 fans headed for the University of Florida -University of Miami game in the Tangerine Bowl 5 i Si JUL if- (Itnlincl SHr Photo by Rttf Hubw) Gators calmed the Hurricanes Jvijt uat Picnicking. Cheering I'll! i iWMWwwWWWWL Saturday discovered that the ex- pected traffic jams never materialized, some were startled when sections of the upper deck of deck of the newly constructed east stands began to sway when they rose to sing tne star-apangiea Banner. ACCORDING to some fans sitting in the upper-most deck on the east side of the T-Bowl, the stands stopped swaying as soon as they IV-' id i VH i 1 4 were seated and did not sway during the rest of the game, About 30 spectators moved down to the lower deck, and after the anthem they were joined by other upper-deck fans, heading for what they considered safer ground. Persons remaining in the stands described the scene as tense, but not chaotic. The sway was reported in Sections 302, 305 and 306.

HOWARD McClain, Orlando's director of public safety, said he was assured by engineers "that the movement in the stands is normal, that they expected it people are overreacting to publicity the stadium had in the past." Structural defects were discovered last year in the newly expanded stadium and included bows in the columns supporting the south end zone section. After extensive repairs, that cost more than $2 million, the upper deck was tested with steel drums filled with water to confirm the stadium's ability to support apacity crowds. BEFORE THE stadium was opened, the upper deck was pronounced fit to support 14 elephants, or twice the maximum number of persons that could sit there. "You'll get that sort of movement in any steel structure," said Harry Bertossa, engineer in charge of the T-Bowl expansion, who maintained there was nothing unusual about the swaying. Bertossa said that if the stadium did not sway, it would be structurally unsound.

"IT WAS frightening," said Patricia Dowling, a Levy County teacher who left the swaying upper deck. "My pants legs were snaking." Ed Weiss, a fan from Apopka who stayed in the upper deck, said "We really didn't jump up and down too much after that." But one problem that fans expected never occurred. The bumper-to-bumper traffic that had been predicted for the downtown area never materialized. Cars moved steadily into the T-Bowl parking area up until kick-off time with no major back-ups or delays. ALTHOUGH some parking spaces near the stadium went unfilled, spectators left their cars all over west Orlando in fields, near orange groves, in traffic islands and at hastily-designated "parking lots" on the lawns of enterprising residents who charged from $1 to $2.

Police said stadium traffic was cleared within 50 minutes of the game's final play. They attributed the smooth traffic flow, and lack of parking problems, to advance planning and the availabiliity of shuttle buses that allowed fans to leave their cars outside the game area. A SPOKESMAN for Superior Coach of Florida, the bus firm that ran the shuttle service, said more than 5,000 persons boarded (Sentinel Star Photo by Dennli Wall) Gator fans show a little of what it is all about eating picnic lunch before the game, above, and cheering the team on during play, below. With the fried chicken and trimmings spread are J. B.

and Brenda Kelly, Jacksonville. The 19-10 victory by the Gators gave the fans plenty of chances to jump up and yell "Go, Gators!" BWW! ajar rv. a a i i--: -v i iit 1 ri i I Lv-y" 4 i 4 iXV if 4 a 1 I -'Vliv Xjf jt i (Sentinel Star Photo by Red Huber) GATOR BANDSMEN JOIN DOWNTOWN ORLANDO PEP RALLY Balloon rises over parking lot crowd at Rosie O'Grady's I 4ir Photo by Rill PhiMtV' 5 IMbJUMMi af OiWi the 50 buses to the gae..