Florida Institute of Technology - Ad Astra Yearbook (Melbourne, FL)

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Two new buildings located near the main- tenance area, include the Off-Campus Pro- grams Building, and the Genetics Research Lab. The Off-Campus Program building was started on May 4, 1982 and finished in November 17, 1982. It also contains offices for Aeronautics. The Genetics Research Building will be the site of research con- ducted by Dr. John Hozier. Construction began on August 26, 1982 and was com- pleted December 3, 1982. 19

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During the last two years F.I.T. has seen a number of new additional buildings on campus. One of the most essential buildings is the Holzer Student Health Center. This building was made possible by Dr. Holzer and was completed Sep- tember 17, 1982. The Psychology Building was started on July 10, 1981 and was finished October 20, 1981. This building is the center of the graduate psychology studies, the largest graduate program on campus, and houses the adminis- trative psychology offices. The Sheppard Seminar Building was started on July 10, 1982 and finished October 20, 1982. It was named in honor of Dr. Donald Sheppard a for- mer member of the Board of Trust- ees. WHAT'S NEW

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20 Playboy FIT made Playboy magazine when inhabitants of Shaw Hall placed the Playboy emblem on the front of the hall. A picture of the incident was sent into the magazine by a secretary. In February 1976 Playboy bunny Susan Marks of Miami visited the Melbourne campus. Of course the inevitable had to happen and did in March 1968 when students were busted for possession of marijuana and beer drinking. Some minor “demonstrations” followed. An undercover narcotics informer posed as a student of FIT in May 1972. The operation lead to several Melbourne drug raids. Earth Day Earth Day April 1970 was observed at FIT as it was nationally. FIT students decided to have a ‘“Polluter of the Year Award”. First place went to Florida Power and Light, second place to the Melbourne Sewage Plant, and third place to PAFB for its Banana River dump yard. Another FIT? Elise Frank of Tampa filed a suit in September 1971 saying that her school had the official claim to the name of FIT. She said that she had received a charter in 1957. The Tampa school taught art, architecture, electrical engineering, electrical drafting, and landscaping. FIT has a — it fit. In 1968 West Melbourne wanted to upgrade their waste disposal plant. The problem was they would be dumping into the stream which runs through the FIT campus. Needless to say, not even the best plunger could get the disposal system to be passed. What about the ’60s The university saw few problems as the rest of the nation was caught up in the Vietman demonstrations and civil rights movements. Reasons for the little action were explained to be do to the heavy study load at FIT and that we had serious students. Many state colleges had students which were merely dodging the draft.