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Enrollment Shows Gain In First Summer Session
Registration Of Veterans On Down Grade; Dade County Teachers Attend Workshop
No. 27
Schulke UM Photo
Milton uses Braille device for class notes.
Modern Milton Reads Pinholes
By TOM PICKENS
Hurricam Staff Writer
But for one fact Milton Anderson’s scholastic record looks very much like that of any other student enrolled in the UM summer session.
Anderson, an economics major from Washington College in Chester-town, Md., is studying Money and Banking at UM. He is a junior and a member of Phi Sigma Kappa social fraternity.
What doesn’t show up is that Milton Anderson has been almost totally blind since the age of two. He has achieved the status of an average college student through rather singular means.
Indeed, the average college student would be utterly baffled by Anderson’s class lecture notes, and would fail to recognize the “notebook."
Anderson takes his notes in Braille, by perforating a blank manila card with a series of pin pricks. To do this he uses what is called a pocket guide, a device which resembles an automatic bridge player. The pocket guide has four rows of little windows, or “cells,” on a sheet which can be fastened securely over one of the blank cards. Anderson takes a pointed stylus and moves along the line of cells, punching the Braille dot cypher for any given letter of the alphabet into each of the openings.
Every letter in the alphabet can be reduced to one of a combination of six pin pricks. Words such as “and” and word endings such as “ing” have their own individual Braille characters.
To “read’’ his notes Milton merely runs his sensitive fingertips along
Schulte UM Photo
Reviewing notes involve no eye strain.
the perforated lines he has made.
When studying from a textbook Milton has one of his friends read the required chapters to him, or, better still, has a friend read the chapter into a tape recorder. Then he can play the information over and over until he learns the material.
Anderson takes tests hi one of two ways. He can either answer the questions orally or he can type out the information on a standard typewriter. He knows the regular touch system.
On the campus a friend usually helps Anderson get from one class to another. Once settled in any one place he readily learns his way around. In his dormitory apartment, for instance, he moves about with as much ease as any other student. He has yet to master the art of big game hunting (socking palmetto bugs with BB guns) but then, he’s only been at UM for a couple of weeks.
Anderson has a jump on most people in this day and age. He's one of the few people extant who freely admits he isn’t growing an ulcer worrying about what TV is doing to his intellect.
Chile To Host Student Envoy
The UM will send a representative to the international art festival at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile,. beginning tomorrow.
Examples of art by UM students ranging from photographs to poems have been chosen by UM officials for entry in competition with Latin American universities.
Enrique O. Oltuski, former UM student body treasurer and current secretary of foreign student affairs, is the festival delegate.
Registration figures released Thursday by Registrar Ernest M. McCracken show a total enrollment of 3,001 students for the first summer session. This is an increase of 67 students over last year’s enrollment.
A breakdown of the enrollment figures shows that there are 2,352 day students, including 653 veterans.
Attending the evening division are 599 students, including 207 veterans. Also included in the figures are 50 non-credit students and between 400 and 500 teachers attending the Dade County Educational Workshop.
For the first period of last year's summer session there were 2,934 students, of which 2,424 were enrolled in the day division, and 510 students attending the evening classes.
Reversing last year’s trend towards fewer veteran students, there are now 860 veterans on campus, as compared to 575 enrolled last summer. For the same period in 1952, however, there were 1,071 veterans attending UM.
“This drop in veteran enrollment over the two-year period,” says H. Franklin Williams, vice-president and Dean of Students, “seems to indicate that the bulk of world War II veterans have already used their GI Bill, and- the remaining veterans are Korean GI’s who must meet the VA cut-off date.”
The entire enrollment figure for the corresponding period • in 1952 shows a total of 3,126 students, a loss of 125 over the two-year period.
“This leveling-off,” says Dr. Williams, “indicates a tacit approval of UM summer course offerings.”
Final registration figures giving a complete breakdown as to the number of students enrolled in each school will not be available for several weeks.
Liebman Given Harvard Study
Charles Liebman, UM sophomore, was one of 12 students to be awarded a six-week scholarship to Harvard University to study international student relations.
Undegraduates of all colleges throughout the nation were eligible for these scholarships awarded by National Student Association. The winners were notified this week.
Liebman, UM N.S.A. chairman, will report to Harvard July 12 for a study period at its second annual seminar. He is an economics major and has maintained a 287 average.
Ernest M. McCracken
Juk* Box Done* Tonight
An informal juke box dance, with free refreshments, will be held tonight in the Student Club patio at 8. There will be no admission charge, and everyone is invited.
Grads Receive Study Awards
Fellowships and assistantships for advanced study at other colleges in the fall have been awarded to 16 UM graduates, according to a survey made by Dr. C. Doren Tharp, UM secretary and dean of faculties.
Of the group, seven will study for master's or doctor’s degrees in the sciences, three in the arts, four in business and one each in engineering and education.
The students and schools are: Salvatore Alfieri, Jr. and Roger Walker, Cornell University; Stanley Dutten-hofer, Harvey Goldberg and Warren Samuels, University of Wisconsin Arthur Simon, Tulane University Victor Springer, University of Texas Charles Vilar, Emory University Iris Kliem and J. M. Majeski, University of North Carolina; Samue Myers, Columbia University; anc William Schelling, University oi Florida.
Others are: Ruth Schwartz, University of California at Los Angeles; Beverly Cooper, University of Alabama; Jerry Orr, California Institute of Technology; and Charles McKay, recipient of a joint gift from the UM and the government of Honduras for advanced studies.
Art Gallery's Display Features 'Clay Clinic'
The ceramics, ceramic sculpture and enamels now on display in the Ceramic League of Miami’s second annual ceramic exhibition at the Lowe Gallery will close Sunday.
Also closing Sunday in the Lecture Gallery is an exhibition of drawings by Thad Suits.
From July 21 to August 1 the permanent collection of the Lowe Gallery will be on exhibition.
WVCG To Inaugurate UM Pops Concert Series
A 10-week series of excerpts from of greater Miami as well as record-the Summer Symphony Pops orches- ¡ngs 0f featured selections from the tra will be inaugurated by the UM concerts Radio-TV-Film department tomorrow at noon over WVCG.	This afternoon at 5 p.fn. over
Dick Schulman and Ronald WKAT “Magic Carpet” will present Stucker, Radio-TV students, will re- UM radio instructor Paul Nagel’s cord and prepare the Saturday after- adaptation of a favorite children’s noon broadcasts in collaboration story, “Epamanandus.” with Dean John Bitter, conductor of Ross Skipper is the student di-the symphony orchestra.	rector and members of the cast are
The program will include inter- Haline Urban, Marge Nagel and views with leading music patrons Patsy Ann Clark.
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ARTIST S SKETCH of UM Medical School building to built in conjunction with Jackson Memorial Hospital. The building was designed by Steward &
Si nner, architects, and bids have been received ranging from $915.500 to $1,025.00. The contract is expected to be awarded this week.