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Volume 44 !No. 36
Friday, February 28, 1969
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Abrams Calls Off Class
HKS Reacts To Boycott;
Day’s Points
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(Here is the text of President Stanford’s letter to USG President Mike Abrams concerning the demands made for the Day of Conscience:) Since you raised a number of issues for consideration by the faculty, the administration, and your fellow students ten days ago, I have been giving careful consideration to these matters. Student concern has always prompted the faculty and administration t o review traditional policies to determine their adequacy for today’s world. Several of the issues which you list have been under discussion and consideration by the faculty and the administration for some time, and action has already been taken on them. Others can be considered positively. Still on others, I have reservations. Let me comment on the issues in the order in which you have raised them.
The institution of the proposed pass-fail option by
September, 1969.
I am happy to report to you that the Academic Planning Committee at its meeting on January 16, 1969 approved for submission to the Faculty Senate a plan which will provide opportunity for students during their college careers to register in some proportion of their courses on a “credit-only” basis. This proposal was approved by the Faculty Senate on February 24, 1969, to be put into effect at the beginning of the fall semester, 1969. I am giving my approval to this Faculty Senate legislation. Under the new policy, any full-time undergraduate student may elect one course per term for “credit-only," to a maximum of twenty-four credits. Such a student is to be graded “P" or “NC” (no credit). Grading standards are to be the same as for students in the course who elect the regular grading system. Free elective courses
may be taken under the option. Additional options may be permitted by individual schools and colleges. Other details of this new regulation will be distributed to the campus news media and will be printed in future bulletins.
The Institution of a voluntary class attendance policy by September, 1969.
A voluntary class attendance policy, developed by a committee, representative of students, faculty, and administration under the chairmanship of Professor Carroll Truss, has been approved by the University’s Academic Planning Committee. On February 24, 1969, this proposal was also approved by the Faculty Senate for implementation at the beginning of the fall semester, 1969. I am giving my approval to this Faculty Senate legislation. While reaffirming the position that the University considers regular and punctual attendance an important aspect of the learning process, the new policy does permit voluntary attendance in most courses, except at announced quizzes and examinations. The exceptions to the policy are courses such as scientific or language laboratories, applied music courses, and other courses designated by the instructor in which all or a substantial part of the course work is based upon classroom participation.
An immediate and continuing evaluation and revision of curriculum, course content, and academic development: involving students from the departmental to University-wide level.
Dr. Armin Gropp, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties, and I believe that students should make their suggestions known in the departments, where curricu-
5 Demands Met; Rally
Scheduled
A snowball fight in Miami? What was naturally impossible became a reality for students Wednesday afternoon, in front of the 960 Complex.
Photo by LEW MANN
Snowballs whizzed . .. SPLAT!! But it was all done in fun as part of Resident Riot ’69.
Abrams To Veto USG Vote Giving Support To Boycott
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By STACY HORNSTE1N Of TM HurrtcaiM Stiff
USG voted to support the Day of Conscience Monday in a meeting called without the knowledge of President Mike Abrams.
Abrams called off the Day Tuesday after receiving a written reply to the demands from President Henry King Stanford.
After being informed of the action of the Council in his absence, Abrams said that he would veto the support proclamation.
Faculty
Voluntary
Senate Approves Class Attendance
By SHARA PAVLOW
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A voluntary class attendance policy has recently been approved by the Faculty Senate in a joint effort made by USG, the Administration and Faculty Senate to arrive at an agreement concerning the issues involved in the now cancelled class boycott.
The policy was one of 17 demands made by Mike Abrams in his declaration of a Day of Conscience scheduled for March 5.
Established In July of 1968 from a recommendation by Armin Gropp, a Joint Committee on Class Attendance policy released its final report to the Faculty Senate for its official stamp of approval on February 19.
The Senate in turn has approved the resolution with what is termed by Faculty Senate Chairman Dr. George Pickar "only a minor change in wording that actually will not change the meaning of the report as issued to us by the committee.”
The report of the committee calls for the following to appear in the 1970 edition of the UM Bulletin and Faculty Manual:
“The University considers regular and punctual attendant an important aspect of the learning process, but has a policy of voluntary attendance in most courses, except at announced quizzes and examinations. In these courses, the instructor may not cause a student to be dropped, lower a student’s grade, or in any way penalize a student for class absences.”
It later rebates that the only exceptions to this policy
are science or language labs, applied music courses, and any other courses “designated by the departments and approved by the Dean of Faculties in which all or a substantial part of the course work is based upon classroom participation."
The Faculty Senate revision, however, states that exceptions include the same lab and music courses plus “any other courses designated by the instructor" in which course work is based on classroom participation.
“Despite the rewording,” commented Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the UM Health Center and member of the original committee to draft the resolution, “I personally do not believe that a single instructor will be permitted to designate required attendance unless he is the only professor teaching that-particular course.”
"The committee report," he continued, “established a policy that was intended to
protect students from the few capricious instructors, it puts the reigns in the hands of the students.”
Explaining that only about 10 per cent of the student body actually abuses the attendance policy and only 2 per cent of the faculty are unfair to students. Dr. Flipse told the Hurricane that the committee felt students capable of the additional responsibility.
Courses requiring attendance will be listed in the Bulletin, he further elaborated. Students, therefore will have an opportunity to avoid those classes if they desire to do so.
The approved proposal also encompasses an avenue of appeal for students in regard to unaccepted absences, a mandatory attendance requirement for all announced quizzes and exams, and excuses authorized by the University.
Chairman of the commit-
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The USG meeting scheduled for Monday had been cancelled by Abrams early in the day because the Flamingo ballroom, where the meetings are normally held, was to be used for Business Week activities.
Council members, however, rescheduled the meeting after efforts to reach a quorum proved successful.
The meeting was called to order by Treasurer Tom Rebel in the absence of the president and vice president.
Rebel called for the election of a president pro-tem-pore to chair the meeting. Sophomore representative Jim Yasser was elected.
With Yasser chairing the meeting, a resolution was adopted calling for USG support of the Day of Conscience and putting organizational authority for the Day in the hands of the Steering Committee.
Eleven members voted in
favor of the resolution, three abstained and one voted against it.
Included in the proclamation was the provision that USG Council "shall reserve the right to cancel the Day of
Conscience if the demands are met per diem as proclaimed.”
Tom Wilson, editor of Tempo Magazinf and member of the Steering Committee, expressed the opinion that Abrams could not cancel the protest without a vote of the committee.
In an exclusive interview with the Hurricane, Abrams predicted that the 2-3 vote needed to override his veto could not be reached.
The proclamation supporting the Day was introduced by freshman representative John Dohm.
Less controversial was a request submitted by Dohm calling for extension of women’s curfews to 2 a.m. on Thursday March 20 so that women residents may be allowed to work with Cam!
Gras activities.
AWS representative Lyn Segal felt that “It would be more appropriate to submit this request to AWS.”
Senior representative Sharon Gnrmen expressed the opinion that this resolution would be disrespectful to the Dean of Women who has extended curfews for activities such as Homecoming and Carni Gras in past years.
Bruce O’Boyle, speaking as editor of Campus World during * suspension of the rules, commented that last year’s announcement of curfew extension was not made until late the night that the extension was to go into effect, and that many of the women had already left.
Action on the resolution was postponed until next week.
A resolution did pass concerning a request for lighting on the paths from the Student Union to the 960 and
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By PAMELA AMLONG
0« Th# Humean* Staff
USG President Mike Abrams called off the Day of Conscience class boycott Tuesday after receiving a written response from Dr. Henry King Stanford to the seventeen demands.
The steering committee Wednesday night voted unanimously, however, to retain the Day of Conscience in the form of a noon rally on. the patio March 5 to further discuss the issues — their background, their present status, and future means of implementation.
“The boycott of classes was called off because I received from Dr. Stanford positive answers on some of the more crucial points and he established mechanisms to solve the remainder of the problems,” Abrams said.
Abrams has met with Stanford four times since the boycott was called to discuss the demands and means securing the proposed changes.
Abrams said that five of the demands have been met to his satisfaction.
These include:
THE ADOPTION of a pass-fail system for fall 1969. The Faculty Senate approved the proposal which was composed by Abrams and USG vice-president Alan Sherman Monday without alteration.-Electives and courses designated by individual schools are to be offered under this system.
THE PERMISSION of the
Faculty Senate for a USG observer and the release of the Senate meeting minutes to USG. The Faculty Senate ruled Monday in favor of the two provisions which are to take effect as soon as Abrams designates a person to sit in on the meetings.
THE REVISION of the curfew policy. Dr. William Butler, vice-president for student affairs, approved the recommendation forwarded to him from AWS and Dean of Women May Brunson last week. The policy alterations are effective as of fall, 1969.
THE ACCEPTANCE of a
financially feasible alternative to the board plan. Fraternity pledges, seniors and graduate students in residence will not be bound by the board plan for fall, 1969 as the result of a joint deci-
sion. by Stanford, Slaters and the Treasury office.
Included in the proposal is the provision to allow Board Plan students to eat in the Ibis pay cafeteria for the face value of their meal ticket. A promise not to build new cafeterias, which was included in the approved proposal, will allow the gradual relaxation of Board Plan requirements.
THE ACCEPTANCE of a
more equality-oriented parking program. The accomplishments in this field include to date that:
All University members be required to purchase decals at the same price.
Decal and fine money be placed in a special account
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UM Helps Poor With Book Drive
USG Community Affairs in conjunction with the Student Bar Association are attempting to collect 20.000 books of all types for use in underprivileged parts of Dade County-
“UM is joining Barry College, Biscayne College, Florida Memorial College, and Dade College (North and South) in the drive,” said Norman Manasa, USG Secretary- of Community Affairs.
"Anything from comic books to sets of encyclopedias are needed,” he said. All students are asked to bring whatever they can between today and Friday, March 7.
USG will situate four book drops on campus, at the LC building, at the 730 dorm, at the 960 dorm, and in the Union breezeway.
The books will be distributed to the EOP1. Day Care Centers and migrant camps.
“It is not military power, nor economic affluency which causes a nation to be truly great, but instead the npen-mindedness and openheartedness of its people.
“Books can begin the rebirth of a nation,” said Manasa.
Day Of Conscience Survey Taken
On The Inside	
Resident Riot		
World News		
Beauty Form		
Hurricane Eye 		
Rathskeller Approved		
Greek Week 		
Entertainment 		
Poetry		
Signs of the Times		
The Happening		
Fieldhouse Night		
Swimming 						
Basketball Wrapup		
Last week a public opinion survey was taken of 1 per cent of the University of Miami undergratuate student populace, on the subject of the Day of Conscience.
The students were divided into 8 broad categories, which were further broken into divisions by sex.
Each student was asked four questions, they were:
1.	DO YOU THINK that the calling of a student boycott was a necessary instrument in bringing forth administrative action concerning student demands?
2.	DO YOU THINK that the student body was represented by the students’ government’s decision in calling for an overall class boycott?
3.	DO YOU THINK that there is a need for more violent demonstration on campus? (with Day of Conscience considered as a peaceful one)
4.	DO YOU THINK that more radical demands would have a greater effect in gaining student support than the stated gievances?
An interpretation of the survey finds that females are somewhat more conservative than males. Also shown from the sample that fraternity men and sorority women are more conservative than their overall class sex.
The results show that northern students and South ern students were in almost equal agreement for more
violent demonstrations.
Senior men seemed to lean more in favor of having a protest than did senior women, yet senior women fell below the overall average of women students as did sorority women on this point.
Education majors made up of mostly women also fell below the general consesus of overall women polled in
their feeling of support for a student boycott as a necessary instrument in attaining student demands.
Business majors and engineering majors, made up of essentially males, were in favor of a protest, as a means of attaining results to the demands.
Concerning question number three, students’ opinion
revealed that any demonstration that entailed a physical protest, such as a sit-in was deemed as a violent demonstration.
On all four questions, southern students and northern students had almost the same percentages.
The greatest discrepancy occurs with sorority women in answering question num-
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her two. Apparently, they felt that they were not represented by the student boycott.
Approximately 5 per cent of the student body was either not willing to comment or were not familiar with the questions.
It is figured by the originators of this poll that there is an approximate error of 3.5 to 5 per cent.
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