Miami Hurricane, June 18, 1954

              Volume XXVIII University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., June 18, 1954	No. 26
Schulk. UM Photo
Dotted lines on model show administration wing proximately $250.000 and will be constructed by the and present structure almost completed. The pro- first of the year, posed two-story administration wing will cost ap-
Opinions Split Over Foe
UM Offers New Health. Program
By EVELYN SAVAGE
Aaii«tant Newt Editor
Ashe Building Occupancy Promised For September
Newest Addition To UM To Be Completed Far In Advance Ol Scheduled Opening Day
.	By CAROL ROSS
Hurric.ru N.w, Editor
Faculty offices in the Ashe Memorial Building will be ready for occupancy by early September, according to Dean C. Doren Tharpe. The two-story administration wing, originally scheduled to be built at a later date, will be ready by the first of the year.
Readjustment of the health program to include full-time enrolled students living off campus proves to be a controversial subject according to a campus poll.
Under the new program students must pay a $3 health fee each summer session and a $5 fee each regular semester.
The fee includes charges for consultation, routine drugs and dressings for infirmary and ambulatory patients, and occupancy of the infirmary for one week. Treatments given by a nurse with the doctor’s orders are also made available.
Charges for surgery, fractures, consultation and treatment by specialists are not included in the newly-adopted plan.
Dr. H. Franklin Williams, dean of students, said, “It is not an uncommon thing among universities to have a compulsory health fee. It will work toward the benefit of the student body in a more complete medical coverage than would otherwise be possible.
“The dispensary aspect of the program is much more important than the infirmary,” he said, “as
previously an impressive number of students have used the dispensary for treatment without any right.”
Lowering of the medical fee provides non-resident students previously not entitled to services with complete UM infirmary facilities.
A number of the off-campus students interviewed registered surprise at mention of the fee and apparently had paid it during registration without question or complaint. Comments of other students ranged from whole-hearted disavowal of a need for the plan to enthusiastic assents.
David B. Alter, DI, a government major, said, “It’s not worth it for students who do not live on campus. The fee shouldn’t be compulsory for people who get their medical attention outside anyway.”
“It’s a good idea," said Joe Rus-che, a sophomore sociology major. “I couldn’t afford to go to a doctor in town.”
A foreign student, Luis Buena-hora, stated, “It may be good but I feel that the compulsory, insurance policy is enough for foreign students.” Buenahora is a senior
management major.
“The new plan isn't fair,” said Natalie Kraft, a senior elementary education major. “I’ve been going to the University for four years and I haven’t used the infirmary yet.”
Henry Ruffolo, a freshman in his second semester at UM, stated that he used the clinic quite often and wasn’t charged for the services he had received. “I am definitely in favor of the new health fee,” he said.
An Air Force veteran and senior accounting major, George Brady, commented, “It's a good idea—but I think the fee ought to be voluntary in order to meet the needs of those students living off campus to whom It doesn’t really apply.”
“From the point of general public health it would be well for a physician to prescribe for a student’s cold, headache or turned ankle,” said Dr. Williams. “Students are just as ill living off campus as on.”
“The administration wouldn’t have installed it if it hadn't been basically sound,” he stated. "We think it's a pretty good investment.”
Completion of both wings in one continuous construction operation was decided upon recently by the University Board of Trustees, to save time, money, and inconvenience.
The first floor of the new wing tentatively will include public lobby, business office, U. S. Post Office, message center, property management office, and credit union office.
The second floor will house the rtgistrar, admissions, records, I.B.M., Student Lounge, university editor and public information office, dean ol the graduate school's office, athletic office, alumni office, dean of research and industry, treasurer, secretary, symphony, purchase and supplies offices, also tentatively.
Cost of the administration wing is estimated at $250,000. The entire structure was designed by Watson & Deutschman, Architect« and Engineers.
The University Board of Trustees made possible concurrent work on the administration wing by voting immediate construction of its framework and a finished first floor.
Continuation of the building construction for occupancy was assured by a subsequent pledge by the Citizens' Board that additionally needed funds would be forthcoming.
President Jay F. W. Pearson pointed three advantages of continuous construction. Money will be saved by keeping on the construction crew to finish the building. Cluttering up of the campus by two separate building operations will be avoided. Essential university services will be moved from temporary shacks into fireproof, air-conditioned quarters.
“We are extremely grateful to the Citizens’ Board for underwriting the Ashe Memorial Building,” Dr. Pearson said. “We need it badly. It will stand as a fitting tribute to the late Dr. Bowman F. Ashe. The housing of faculty and administrative offices under one roof will knit us more closely into a family unit such as the good health of an expanding institution requires. Not least is the access that students will have to administrative facilities and to quiet conferences with their instructors.”
Citizens' Board members, comprised of 220 business and professional leaders, entered the University building program four years ago by raising a third of the money for the Merrick building. The hoard raised the $600,000 re-; quired to erect the seven-story Ashe Building's first wing, now six months along and due to provide faculty offices And conference rooms for the opening of the fall semester.
“We never intended to stop with completion of the faculty wing," Citizens' Board President J. N McArthur said in announcing the decision of the administration offices. "We did pause for a breather after underwriting the first unit, but the
sight of that handsome but unfinished building has been too much for us. We’re going ahead.”
Prof Gets Leave For Farm Study In Honduras
Dr. Marinus J. Dijkman, associate professor of tropical botany at the UM, has been granted a year's leave of absence to join the agronomy and horticultural staff of the Pan American school of agriculture in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
He was invited to the post by Dr. Wilson Poponoe, director and founder of the institution, which is said to have one of the finest physical plants and libraries in Central and South America. Buildings and grounds were donated by the United Fruit Co.
Under Dr. Dijkman's supervision will be 60 advanced students whose plan of study will include working in the fields in the morning and lectures in the afternoon.
‘The Central Americas are developing,” Dr. Dijkman said before leaving last week. “Improved methods of agronomy have already reached the stage where people are craving more and better education in this field.
“The importance of Central America in the world economy is readily apparent when one considers that owners of large holdings in the Far East are pulling out. Some have moved to Brazil. Others are going into Central America where profitable crops include those of coffee, quinine, oil palms, tropical fruits and rubber. The people of Central America are increasingly aware of their need to develop their own resources, hence the program of the Escuela Agricola at Tegucigalpa.”
Dr. Dijkman is the author of “Hevea—Thirty Years of Research in the Far East,” published by the University of Miami Press. Hevea is a type of rubber tree planted extensively in the Far East. The book, which has proved an international best seller, covers all phases of planting and growing rubber trees.
At the University of Miami, which he joined in 1947, Dr. Dijkman teaches and does research in the fields of plant breeding and selection, cytology and cytogenetics and tropical botany.
"UM In Review” Salutes Entomology's Centenary
Sunday at 1 p.m. the “UM in Review" TV program will salute the 100th anniversary of professional entomology. The program will be arranged by Dr. F. Gray Butcher, UM entomologist and co-director of Dade county events of the centenary.