Miami Hurricane, April 05, 1968

              Vol. 43, No. 4J
Friday, April 5, l*>í>K
Greek Week Capped By
Rhodes Bros.
By NANCY HANDLER
Hurrican. Staff Writtr
Tonight at 8.00 p.m. on the Student Union patio, the Rhodes Brothers will appear in concert as part of the Greek Week activities. The program is open to independents as well as fraternity and sorority members.
Throughout the past week, sororities and fraternities have been participating in friendly competition. In the 30th Annual Greek Week, sorority and fraternity members project their image throughout the campus and community through their philanthropic and social activities.
The car parade Monday, April I, initiated the beginning of Greek Week. Imme-diately following the parade were the opening activities of Greek Week, the Marathon Run and the Torch lighting. Representing Kappa Sigma, John Camp won the race for the third year in a row and was honored with the lighting of the Greek Torch.
'lapping for Omega, a recognition honorary for fraternity men, and Rho Lambda, a similar recognition honorary for sorority women, took place all day Monday.
Tuesday initiated the first day of the blood drive in which fraternities pledged pints of blood. The drive continued until 4 p.m. Wednesday. Inter-fraternity Council ejections were held at 3:30 p.m. with George Lachat winning the presidency.
Exchange Desserts completed the day’s activities. Sororities and fraternities
hosted members from different organizations to strengthen Greek unity.
Wednesday night, every sorority and fraternity presented skits and their representatives for Greek God and Goddess. Winners will be announced tomorrow night at the Grecian Ball.
Thursday was the College Bowl and scholarship fund raising drive. Panhellenic members collected all week for the emergency fund for migrant workers.
Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. is Olympic day, in which sororities and fraternities vie for athletic honors. The Grecian Ball at 9 p.m. in the Napoleon Room of the Deauville Hotel is the climax of the 1968 Greek Week. Winners of all the spirit activities will be announced at the hall.
The winner of the Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic Award, the highest honor a sorority woman can achieve at UM, was Avice Whiton of Delta Gamma. The award is in recognition of service not only to sorority and Panhellenic, but to the campus community as well. Recipient of the Mary B. Merritt Citation was Leslie Lustig of Sigma Delta Tau.
Initiated at the Workshop were the new Panhellenic Council officers for 1968. They were, Linda Bogan, S D T, president; Barbara Smallridge, AChiO, vice-president; Margaret Peck, DZ, corresponding secretary; Mary Hughes, Chi Omega, recording secretary, and Minette Halpern, AEPhi, treasurer.
USG Pro Hynes On Rights
—Photo bv BOB HART
‘No Man Hath (»rralcr Love'
. . . Greek Drive Save* Live*
By CRAIG PETERSON
Hurrican* Asst. News Editor
An administration task force headed by Dr. William R. Butler, Vice President of Student Affairs, ran a gauntlet of piercing questions from USG Monday, as Butler’s group attempted to defend an administration judicial system bill.
The group, including Dean Robert Hynes, Dr. Shepard Faber and John Stevens, all connected with a Faculty Senate subcommittee forming the bill, came under a barrage of questions from the USG Council mi^mhers who were told the administration’s hill would supersede the newly - passed USG amendments.
Butler, who confessed he had not read the USG judicial anienmcnts abolishing the Board of Review, vaguely
UBS Sends New Invitation
UM has received a formal invitation to send a delegate to a Conference of Black Collegiates at Princeton, April 10-12.
The invitation was spearheaded by UBS (United Black Students) due to their communications with the Association of Black Students at Princeton. The Princeton group “realized the considerable number of Black students here who are interested in the issues of the
times and so they invited UM to take part in the Conference this year," said Harold Long, chairman of UBS.
Since the invitation was extended to the university, not URS, allocation of funds to send a delegate fell under the jurisdiction of USG, where the motion was passed without delay.
l ast year, the conference was attended bv over 200
delegates from Barnard, Columbia, CCNY, NYU, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, and other universities and colleges . around the nation.
Ihis year’s theme is “Black Awareness: Directions, Prospects, Perspectives." Keynote speaker will be Charles Hamilton, who collaborated with Stokely Carmichael on the book “Black Power."
United Rlack Students are
Ltihrls Himself A '"Hessibilist“
Learner Pleads For Trust
In AIrmnhis
King Shot, Slain
Dr. Martin Luther King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and considered one of the nation’s exponents of aon-v i o 1 e n c e, was shot fhursday night as he stood in the balcony of his Mem-ihis hotel room.
Officials at St. Josephs Hospital where King was rushed after the shooting said the civil rights leader Jied shortly afterword.
Andrew Young, executive /ice-president of the SCLC, ;aid King was standing on he balcony alone when the ihot was fired, apparently rrom a passing car. “It
sounded like a firecracker, Young said. He said King apparently was hit in the
neck.
Reports of the shooting were conflicting. Another source said, “King was apparently shot in the face. He held a white towel over his fare as he was taken in the emergency room.”
“We are in a state of emergency here,” said police director Frank Holdman, who had told a federal judge that the march next Monday would not be held without bounds.
Police picked up two persons several blocks from the hotel where King was shot.
Off The Wire
Travel Tax Pill Sent To Senate
WASHINGTON — (AP) —■ The House passed and sent to the Senate today a bill to tax airplane tickets to foreign countries and reduce the duty free amount of goods that may be brought to this country by returning tourists.
The bill originally was designed to cut down the international balance of payments deficit but action on a major proposal to accomplish that was deferred by the House Ways and Means Committee.
The travel tax approved would be 5 per cent of the price of an airline ticket.
The present duty-free exemption of $100 on goods brought back by tourists would be cut to $10 until October 15, 1969. when it would rise to $50.
The existing allowance of $10 for gifts mailed from abroad to this country would be cut to $1 and a flat rate of 10 per cent of retail value would be imposed on the price of all goods above the new duty-free allowance.
Left out of the bill was an administration proposal to levy a tax up to 30 per cent on spending by U.S. travelers abroad over a stated minimum.
Humphrey ff itliholds Candidacy
PITTSBURGH — (AP) — Vice President Hubert H Humphrey appeared to rule out today any announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination while President Johnson is engaged in negotiations in Hawaii.
The vice president is described by aides as under strong pressure for organized labor to challenge Sens. Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy for the party's top prize — and to announce his candidacy soon.
But the vice president, without directly mentioning the turmoil in the Democratic party since the President disclosed Sunday he would not seek re-election, told a labor meeting. “My own course is clear in the days ahead."
Disrespect For Anthems Means Sail
KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysia — (AP) — Malaysians will now have to show respect for their national anthem or risk going to jail.
Parliament has passed such a law after civic and political groups complained that many persons were jeering and failing stand when the *ht hem was played.	.
By JOHN E. ASHFORD Hurricane Staff Writer
“I am not an optimist or a pessimist," contended Dr. Max Lerner, syndicated columnist. “I am a possibilist." The internationally famed political scientist was speaking on “The Inner and Outer World of American Student" before an attentive crowd last Tuesday night in the Ibis cafeteria, bringing the USG Lecture Series to a close.
By the time the evening was over, Lerner had commented on everything from Vietnam to the ramification of President Johnson’s recent announcements to his preference for president.
“Ours is an age of revolution, not revolution in the subversive sense, rather a revolution of change," explained Lerner, author of “America as a Civilization" and “The Age of Overkilled."
He admitted that there was such a rapid pace of change that America's economic, political and value structures were being deeply affected.
“Dangerous schisms are developing over international policy and domestic affairs which are widening the generation gap, further alienating an ever perplexed youth.”
“You can not make a younger generation fight for ideals they do not believe in,” he said. ‘He added, “When leaders ask their followers to die for a dream — in whose behalf is the dream being dreamt?"
Lerner said that the older generation is operating on a premise that the youth of today won’t buy. “They have different ‘hang ups.' ” The younger generation, he holds, has been alienated to the point of demanding a new set of claims and values.
The views of the elder and the younger generations have two areas, that of objective and subjective perceptions. Both factions, he claims have a similar view of external issues, but in the latter case personal interpretations of the same issues are much different.
He contended it is essential for survival that both generations judge crucial issues from each others' vantage point, affording adequate communication and turst, acting the part of “active men of thoueht thinking as men of action."
Insisting that issues and changes should he approached without a positive
— Photo by LEWIS MANN
l)r. Max Lerner
. . . '/ wholly *upport McCarthy'
or negative ethos, Lerner submitted that they should be dealt with in a “possibilis-tic” sense, organizing collective will and intelligence for the good of all.
“The New Left, drug cul-
ture and Hippies are all subcultures emerging from a thinking, revolting American youth,” he asserted. Theirs is an attack on the value struc-
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now ready to begin their own work on campus. "All our necessary materials have been submitted to the office of Student Activities," continued Long, “and we’re ready to start functioning as an organization.
He hopes that the members of the organization will be able to raise funds in order to purchase contemporary literature written by Black I Americans on the history of Blacks and the Civil Rights movement. “It would be a Black library where brothers and sisters of the club can come in and read about their i history and the history of their movement.”
In the future, Long hopes | that a Black culture week j can be established and per-i haps certain days could be set aside to show Black art in the Lowe Art Gallery.
Meetings are usually held on Friday nights at 7 p.m. At this time, the organization invites local speakers to talk to the group. “We’re hoping to get some national leaders, like Adam Clayton Powell, to speak to us in the near future,” Long added.
Wednesday morning a I breakfast was held for Presi dent Stanford, Dr. Butler and all the Black students on campus, in order to discuss problems that the Black stu-I dents face on the UM campus.
While speaking of UBS. Long commented, “The program is very positive and constructive in promoting the j role of Black students on a : predominantly White campus."
replied to the Council members' questions, and explained the details of the
administration's proposed system.
The subcommittee’s document, in its final stages, would reverse USG's efforts, providing for a separation of powers, an attempt to divide the prosecution, hearing and appeal of each case.
It would also view “students as students, rather than men or women in nonacademic and academic problems.”
Few of the guaranteed rights contained in the USG amendments would he duplicated in the administrations
proposal.
The new system would eliminate the Disciplinary Committees of both the Deans' staffs, providing a Hearing Committee in their place.
Butler said that cases would he split into "minor” and “major" divisions, with the Hearing Council only handling the latter.
Butler called the USG’s
judicial amendments “too narrow in scope."
He denied that a student should be allowed counsel during his hearing. “Sooner or later you'll end up with an adversary case on campus with two attorneys arguing," he said. “The Hearing Committee shouldn't be a mechanical duplicate of civil procedures." Faber argued that “the student has adequate representation” in the present system.
Thefts, visiting privilege violations, use of drugs or marijuana, and other infractions would be handled by the Committee.
Butler emphasized that the subcommittee's measure is scheduled to he passed soon, and asked Council members to meet with committee members to examine the bill and possibly modify it.
In other action during the double-length session, the Council approved a bill providing a Faculty Salary Study Committee, which would recommend pay raises by scale for UM faculty members.
Coundl Initiates Judicial Proposal
Dean of Men. Robert Hynes, was questioned closely about the details and desirability of an administration judicial proposal during a special USG session Wednesday.
Hynes quoted a California university student law case, Goldberg vs. California, as a basis for applying a judicial system circumventing USG's owrr recently-passed amendments.
The administration-backed proposal, scheduled to go into effect soon, includes most of the provisions of the former judicial system called obsolete and unfair by USG.
Council members barraged Hynes with questions about the- apparent lack of safeguards for UM students.
Hynes denied that counsel is neci -sir; f< r a student facing a Hi -m ug Commission.
“I'm not sure in my own mind that the student should have counsel there with
him,” he said.
However, Hynes later ad mitted an adviser "other than a lawyer” might he allowed.
Forty minutes of debate ended with the Council and Hvnes in a stand-off, with both sides recognizing the need for revisions in the administration’s bill.
The Dean of Men remained adamant about the Council's idea of a wholly adversary-type system, patterned after normal civil procedure.
“It's a system that is pragmatically unacceptable,” he said. “Justice is achieved by the Committee acting as both judge and jury.
I he Council will again pursue the subject in their regular meeting next Monday.
Molotov Cocktail Damages AEPI
Greek Week was marred when students allegedly from 5)60 burned an AKPi boat anchored on Lake Osceola, and the AF.Pi fraternity house was near-missed by a Molotov cocktail.
Richard Heads SUSGA
By ED SHOHAT
Hurricane Staff Writer
Recently elected chairman for the state of Florida for the Southern Universities Student Government Association, USG President Dennis Richard will have leadership over more than .50.000 students.
SUSGA seeks the cooperation of Southern Universities on programs, policies, financial matters and ideas. It seeks the growth of the influence of inter-university' cooperation on such things as guest lecturers and entertainers.
UM has been a member of SUSGA for a number of years and has held the chairmanship position once before under Si Johnson. All UM students are members of SUSGA and are eligible to participate in its activities.
Richard was nominated for the high post by Jacksonville University and was elected, even though he was not ifi attendance at the convention, on the basis of the dynamic leadership he displayed at last month’s state convention in Tampa, where he delivered the keynote address.
Representing I'M at the convention in Biloxi last
weekend were USG members Steve Dinnerstein and Richard Krinzman.
Presiden Gels F. It. Support
First in a series of USG election endorsements, Eaton Hall’s Governors Council has voted to adopt a resolution supporting Dennis Richard for President of USG.
Paul Silverio introduced the motion at an informal meeting, at which 14 governors were present. “I feel that he is the best qualified candidate running," said Silverio. fcHe's a well-rounded person and he has a well-rounded slate. He is very impartial as far as Greeks and independents go."
Referring to Richard’s campaign for student rights, Silverio added. “Richard's Bill for Student Rights speaks for itself.”
Richard, along with Mike Abrams, spoke to Eaton Hill on March 27.
Photo by RANDELL POPE
The Greek Torch
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Members of thp AEPi fraternity were notified at 8 p.m. that their decorative boat was burning, and a crowd of some 100 frat members assembled at the water's edge.
Six skindivers were spotted coming out of the lake and were chased toward 960,
but escaped.
’I he boat burned to the waterline and sank
A Molotov cocktail was hurled at the AEPi fraternity house at 1:30 a.m., Tuesday, exploding on the sidewalk close to the house, igniting the lawn.
One witness said, “I heard a smash that sounded like a brick being thrown through a windshield. I ran outside to find out what happened and the whole sidewalk by the house was in flames.”
A car seen fleeing the area was *later traced to a 960 resident.
Mike Taylor, president of AEPi, said, "The action taken by the independents and the students who reside in the 960 residence halls is deplorable. The independents should channel their protest toward a constructive vein. Let them build a bigger and better boat.”
Dana Stamler. treasurer of AEPi, said “The events tonight brought out the immaturity of the independents and will result in strengthening the Greek system.”
Earlier Monday evening, a crowd of frat members formed a protective ring around their Trojan Horse, to keep it from being destroyed by students.