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Campus Awaits ’62 Homecoming
Accidents Claim Lives Of 3 UMers
Three students died this weekend as a result of freak accidents.
Edward Ronald Emery was fatally injured last Sept. 30 when he was Involved in an auto accident that caused a light pole’s glass globe to crash on his head. The 23-year-old UM freshman was from Gardiner, Maine.
A skin-diving accident caused the death of Donald Friedman, UM sophomore. Friedman drowned when sand clogged the exhaust valve of his underwater breathing apparatus.
He was 18 feet below the surface and 45 feet from the sunken galleon when the swirling sand that was being pumped from the vessel caused the clogging and he inhaled water.
Allan J. Hirsh from Miami died in a freak boating accident Oct. 1.
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New Informal Party Policy Approved For Fraternities
By MARC SOKOLIK
A new policy on informal parties at fraternity houses was okayed by Dean of Students Noble Hendrix, at Tuesday's In-terfratemity Council meeting.
Acting on a suggestion by the executive committee of the IFC,
Dean Hendrix announced that “ten couples will be allowed at a fraternity house on any Friday or Saturday evening between the hours of 7:30 pm. and 12:30 a.m. in the presence of the housemother.”
IFC President Jules DuBoi.s explainded, “this eliminates the necessity of registering a party and gives the fraternity man a place to dance or watch television weekends.”
ZBT President Herbert Ro-
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senfeld said, “I am extremely happy with the administrations revised policy and I feel that this will give the fraternity men considerable opportunity
to use the facilities at their home away from home.”
Lou Carricarte, President of Pi Kappa Alpha remarked, “I am very pleased with this decision. This will serve as a much-needed informal gathering place for members and' their dates.”
In addition to accepting the new party policy, the IFC voted to send Jack Berry, vice president, to the National IFC Convention in Boston to make a study on deferred rush, Nov. 30 to Dec. 2.
Automatic delegates are fraternity advisor Stuart Meyers and DuBois. The council is also sending the following Juniors: Murray Manaster, ZBT; George Pappas, PiKA; and Jeff Fleck, Phi Sigma Delta.
‘'Operation Extension ’ Will Bring Free Intra-Campus Phone Calls
A movement is currently underway to place free extension phones next to the pay phones located at strategic spots on the UM campus, according to Ron Rader of USG.
"Operation Extension" is a project of Undergraduate Student Government’s Ways and Means Committee. The idea was originally oonceived by University College representative Stu Bloch to correct the problems students have been having with the regular pay phones.
“We are trying to install ex-tendon phone« because when students call from within the university and the UM extension they want is busy their dime is wasted,” Bloch said.
The extension phones will go on and off at the same time the regular university phones do. Bloch also said that the calls would probably have a five minute limit.
Bloch and his assistant, Ron Rade , are currently waiting for an official “OJC.” before the phones can be installed.
“It won't cost much. The coat will be determined by the distance of each extension from the UM switchboard, Bloch
said.
“USG realizes the needs of the
student and is constantly trying to improve student facilities," he concluded.
In the meantime, students have been requested by the administration to have patience when calling the University during peak telephone traffic hours.
According to chief operator, Mrs. Knoll, the only solution to the problem of getting a line into the University is fortitude.
“The main problem”, said Mrs. Knoll, “is that the average time a line is tied up during a call is nearly an hour," She continued
Art Rothenberg has resigned as president of University College, the position to which he was elected last March.
Since he is attending UM on a debating scholarship Rothenberg stated, that his obligations to his debating work should be more important than his job as head of his class.
Commenting on his resignation he said, “I was spread out so thin that it came to the point where I had to appraise those things which were of most importance
to explain that it would be technically impossible to accommodate outside calls even if the operating facilities were tripled or quadrupled.
She stressed the fact that the present staff was sufficient for handling normal traffic and each operator is occupied in some way at all times. She also pointed out that interdorm calls were not handled by main switchboard operators.
Mrs. Knoll has extended an open invitation to anyone who wishes to learn more about the switchboard setup.
to me, namely debating.”
A few of the accomplishments
that have been made since Roth-enberg’s election to office were the first UC Queen Coronation Ball which has become an annual event, a campaign for proper student dress in cooperation with Men's Residence Hall Association, and a program to keep the campus litter-free.
Dr. Paul Vonk, head of UC, stated that no decision has been reached as to who Rothenberg’s successor will be.
Student Body To Vote On $ $ Proposal
The student body will vote on the Undergraduate Student Government proposal to raise their allotment of the student activity fee from 50 cents to $1, Oct. 28 and 24.
Voting will be in the Student Union between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday and Tuesday, the same time as Homecoming queen voting.
The increase in USG's allotment will mean that the activity fee will be increased from $21 a semester to $21.50 per student.
“The University of Miami is expanding, and in order to grow with the facilities, USG needs more funds,” said Ron Shapo, USG treasurer. These funds will go for expansion of lecture series, dances and special events such as a senior week and a Spring Weekend.
iRashomon> Is Stolen
Would the person who swiped the billboard advertising the latest Ring production “Rashomon” please return it?
For how else would a person know of the Ring fall opener?
The sign was reported missing a few days ago from in front of the Student Union. Two tickets to the production are offered to anyone giving the whereabouts of the stolen property.
Art Rothenberg Resigns From UC President Post
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Soon ... mingling with UM students, looking strangely apropos in the slop shop, the book store, the “pit,” and the fraternity houses, will be the not-so-decadent graduates of the University of Miami. This is an indication of that time of year affectionately known as Homecoming.
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Kappa, highest men's honorary, UM's 35th Homecoming has been sandwiched into four jam-packed, activity-filled days.
Commenting on the abridgement of the previously week long revelry. Homecoming chairman, Tom Holleran said, “This year’s Homecoming week is shortened so the students will have a chance to participate in every event."
Stu Bloch, assistant chairman, emphasized that only student participation can make this Homecoming be "the greatest ever."
Academic Honoraries Luncheon.
And at 8:15 p.m., UM will meet N. Carolina at the Orange Bowl.
Saturday's activities begin at 9:30 a.m. with the Law School Alumni Breakfast at the Du Pont Plaza. Nurses will congregate at the Student Union for the Nursing Alumni Association Coffee.
At noon, the second house decorations judging will be held. Hie alumni will meet at 8:34 p.m. in the Du Pont Plaza to talk about the “Fantastic Fifties” over a banquet.
Voting for the Homecoming queen on Monday and Tuesday preludes the four-day festivities, which get underway at 8 am., Wednesday morning, with the awesome ritual of ODK’s tapping and the tolling of the Homecoming bell by Allan Rosenbaum, ODK president.
The Graduate Alumni Association will “rehash the traumas of thesis writing" at a dutch treat cocktail party in the Antonio Ferre Graduate School patio.
Finally . . . from 9:30 p.m. to 1 pm. the Homecoming Ball will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Hall. The Queen and her court will be presented, Omega, fraternity honorary, will tap, house decorations winners will be announced and the SAE Football Award presented. Billy Butterfield’s orchestra will play.
Girls will have a special curfew until 2 a.m. Saturday.
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The alumni will also be welcomed by the Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Concert in the Student Union.
Wednesday has also been designated Family Night and will feature a dutch treat dinner in the Student Union with entertainment by the UM Band and Glee Club. Following the dinner, a USG Torch-lite parade will wind its way to the baseball field via San Amaro Drive.
Culminating the evening, will be a program with the Band of the Hour and the Men's Chorus, which will be highlighted by the crowning of the Queen and her court. Following this, there will be a pep rally featuring Coach Gustafson.
Thursday will commence with the hollow sounds of the tom-tom and the pageantry of the Iron Arrow. Following the tapping, the new braves will be feted at a luncheon in the Student Union.
The annual Homecoming Parade down Miracle Mile Thursday evening will be followed by a Street Dance at the Student Union, at which the parade winners will be announced.
The final events of the evening is Theta Chi’s annual boat burning on the Student Lake.
More tapping is on taps for Friday morning, when Orange Key, University College honorary, and Theta Delta, religious honorary, tap.
Another pep rally at noon will heighten spirits for the crucial game Friday night. Scholastic qudos wil be dispersed at the
HC Schedule
Monday, Tuesday — Oct. 23, 24 Voting tor Homecoming Queen —9 a.m.—4 p.m., Student Union Wednesday—Oct. 25 ODK Tapping—41 a.m.—12 noon Ringing of Homecoming Bell —12 noon
First House Decorations Judging—12 noon ODK Luncheon—1 pm.
Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Concert— 6—7:15 p.m. Student Union Dutch Treat Dinner—8—9 p.m. Student Union
USG Torchlight Parade to baseball field—7:30—8:30 p.m.
Pep Rally featuring presentation of Queen and court—8:30 pm., Student Union
Thursday—Oct. 26 Iron Arrow Tapping—8 a.m.— 12 noon
Iron Arrow Luncheon—1 a.m. Parade—7:30—9:30 p.m.
Street Dance—10 p.m.—12, Student Union
Friday—Oct. 27
Orange Key Tapping—8 a.m. 12 noon
Theta Delta Tapping—8 a.m. 12 noon
Pep Rally—11:50—12:00—Between Student Union and Ashe Academic Honoraries Luncheon —1 p.m.—Student Union cafeteria UM versus North Carolina— 8:15 p.m.—Orange Bowl Saturday—Oct. 28 Second House Decorations judging—12 noon Homecoming Ball—9 pm—1 a.m.—Miami Beach Convention Hall
Clan Gathers At Pit
If you think the action on the gridiron once a week is | vicious, you haven’t seen a thing until you attempt a plunge through the conglomerated mass in the “snake pit” Monday through Friday.
For the novices, the “pit” is the'*-— ------------------ I
oblique shaped area just below the Beaumont Lecture Hall. It is the meeting place for ZBT, IFC, USG, M-Squad, MRHA, Joe, Josephine, inlaws, outlaws and bylaws.
Their objectives are to meet, talk, discuss, argue, plan, fight, make-up—and throw crushing body blocks into anyone who deems himself so important as to try to break through the
weaving mess.
But after the doctor bills are I paid, the student once more ven- 1 tures the wicked trek through his 1 would-be assassins.
As for cleaning up the pit, the | only solution seems to be a total § revamping of the Memorial 1 Building—making certain in the 1 new plans to exclude stairways 8 and students.
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