Miami Hurricane, April 25, 1958

              The Miami
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Hurricane
Vol. XXXIII
Umvebsity of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., April 25, 1958
No. 21
Honor March Struts
EDITORIAL
Last Tuesday a student was tried in Honor Court on a criminal charge of intimidating a witness in another case, still to be heard, which has to do with a violation of the election code. The student was convicted.
It is not essential, the Hurricane feels, to go into details of the charge or of the trial. In fact, the Hurricane feels so strongly on this point that it is not printing a news report of the action at all. It is, rather, on the basis of its strong convictions, setting aside this important space to inform its readers why it is not reporting the case.
The Hurricane’s refusal to print the story does not imply a lack of faith in the Honor Court proceedings.
Under Section 10 of the Student Body Government Constitution, a party to a criminal action in Honor Court has the right to request that no publication be given to proceedings involving him. The request, if made, is automatically granted.
In this particular case, there was a series of omissions of considerable significance. The student under charge was not aware of the no-publication provision. The defense counsel did not advise him of this specific right.
It was not until 24 hours after the trial had ended that the student learned he could have exercised the option. During that interim The Hurricane could have put in type a full report of the action. Curiously enough, after the student learned that he could have asked that the story not be printed, he told The Hurricane he had no objection to its doing so.
(It is necessary to refer at this juncture to a technical point in the interpretation of the constitutional provision. Section 10 does not make clear that the defendant’s request for no publication should be made at the start of the trial, during or after it. In the opinion of some of the court’s legal minds, the request should be made at the outset of the trial, which is the proper time also for a defendant to be informed of his right.)
Why did this paper not rush into print with the story? There are a number of reasons, three of which it is the purpose of this editorial to set forth.
Reason 1: The student was not apprised of his option. The Hurricane feels that as long as the Constitution stands as written the paper should not print proceedings of a criminal case unless the defendant has a chance to act at the proper time upon his right to permit or deny publication.
Reason 2: During the entire school year 1957-58, to date, none of the criminal proceedings in Honor Court has become privileged news under the constitutional proviso. Therefore, The Hurricane believes that a grave injustice would be done a student who had not exercised his right if it singled him out and made a horrible example of him when the convictions in other cases had gone unpublicized.
Reason 3: Quite apart from legalities, constitutions and other much formidable matters, there is an even larger question involved here. “Criminal" is a nasty, a very nasty word. By letting the whole student body (and, indeed, the whole world) know that a student has been labelled a “criminal,” might not more harm than good be done? Another editorial could well be written about the question of whether student indiscretions can be considered criminal!
Do you call this suppression of the news? If you feel it is, that’s okay by us. The Hurricane can take the charge. Its back is broad.
Rather than suppression, we call it discretion.
UM Obtains Field Staff Reports
CHAMP OYSTER EATER who holds quite a record is business student H. Murray Forehand. He ate 114 raw oysters in eight minutes to win a competition sponsored by Loftier Brothers Oyster House in Coral Gables. Assisting him is CM coed Margo Abramson, one of the hostesses. Hie event, staged at the Coral Way Drive-in Theater, included five other finalists.
BULLETIN
At Hurricane press time representatives of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. were meeting with UM Vice President and Treasurer Eugene E. Cohen on final arrangements on the installation of individual dial telephones throughout the dormitories.
Complete details of the installation, which is scheduled for completion next fall, will appear in next week's issue.
So Far 1,000 Signatures
Petition Making Rounds Calling For Cuban Educational Freedom
16 Students Presented Awards; Groups Stage Tapping Ceremonies
Dr. Archie L. McNeal, director of libraries, announced this week that UM has become a subscription member of the American Universities Field Staff reports service.
Established in 1951 by a group of American universities, the AUFS maintains a full-time staff of foreign correspondents—Americans living aboard who are specialists in the affairs in the areas they report.
Received to date are reports on Africa, Argentina, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia.
From 90 to 100 reports are published annually by AUFS specialists in countries of the Far, Near and
Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan and Northwest Africa, Europe and Latin America.
Appointed by trustees of the nonprofit organization, each correspondent is selected on the basis of training and experience, years of residence and study in the foreign area, command of the local language and effectiveness of writing.
Med School Holds Dance
The Student American Medical Association will hold its annual spring dance at the Police and Volunteer Firemen’s Hall at Palm and 6th Street in Hialeah Saturday, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Reynaldo Estevez, 27-year-old part-time student, is distributing petitions across campus asking the president and Congress of the U. S. "to re-establish constitutional and educational freedom in Cuba.”
Estevez, a political exile currently studying English for foreign students, has gathered some 1,000 student signatures on the petition.
He said he got the idea for the petition after Lucy Dubois, president of the Latin American Suh-Commission, received a telegram from the National Student Association reaffirming the stand that the Commission took at a special meeting of I^atin American students April 9.
The telegram in part said, “NSA reaffirms its condemnation of the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista and its repressive measures against student rights.”
Marshall Shapo, secretary of the UM office of NSA, said the basic policy contained in the telegram was “a strong and unequivocal condemnation of supression of student rights not to be construed as a gen-
eral attack on U. S. governmental
policy.”
Shapo said that Estevez's petition not only encompassed student rights but also was a denunciation of the political government in Cuba of Batista.
"NSA simply cannot be officially tied up with this petition," said Shapo.
Estevez said although his petition did deal slightly with politics that “the telegram is morally the same as his petition.”
The petition called for the sup-presion of student rights to be ceased, the approval of stopping further arms shipments to Batista, the evacuating of U. S. military bases in Cuba and the suspension of diplomatic relations with the Batista regime.
“We are going to send this petition to NSA,” said Estevez, "and ask them to circulate it around other colleges.”
“The only country that can stop the dictatorship of Cuba is the United States government,” Estevez said.
By CHARTS SCHUBERT
Hurricane Assistant N«ws Editor
The annual honors assembly Wednesday was the scene of the presentation of 16 student awards and tapping ceremonies of five honoraries.
Chairman of the ceremony was Dick Chapman, outgoing vice president of Student Body Government. Dr. Thurston Adams, director of student activities, gave the invocation.
First on the program was the presentation to Carol Newman of the UEBA-Smead Award for the outstanding student in business education.
The YWCA Religious Award was given to Rosemarie Kascher as the outstanding senior woman in religious activities on campus.
Jerry Pinnas received the Mae Bernice Jacobs Award for the outstanding freshman on campus, given by Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic honorary.
Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman women's honorary, gave Susan Dun-kel the Mae Bernice Jacobs award for the outstanding freshman woman on campus.
ALD also presented certificates to eight senior members who have maintained 2.5 averages.
The are Pamela Harris, Florence McMahon, Sandra Bossak, Evelyn Goldstein, Janet Guadagno, Diane Russell, Marri Weiss and Sue Tomhave.
Miss Weiss and Miss Tomhave also received book awards for maintain-in a 2.9 average, the highest of women in the senior class.
Elizabeth Kovachevich won the $300 Charles Ulrich Bay Award, presented for the first time to a student in the Business School for excellence in professional training for business and for high promise of leadership and achievement.
Nu Kappa Tau, women’s leadership honorary, laid the traditional pink stole on Linda Grussraark at the assembly. Other members had been tapped earlier in the day.
Harvey Kupferberg was given the annual Tom Johnson Memorial Athletic Award presented by Men’s Residence Hall Association to the outstanding athlete on the MRHA teams.
In the midst of the ceremonies, a procession of colorful jackets filed to the front of the room, stopping the presentation of the Tom Johnson Award with the beating of their drum.
These men, members of Iron Arrow, highest men's leadership honorary on campus, “tapped" Dick Chapman and marched him out. Returning a few minutes later, he commented, “Unga," then continued.
Although Alpha Sigma Epsilon, coeducational leadership honorary, had tapped earlier this week, Diane Russell and Diane Nuckols were ceremoniously tapped at the assembly.
Dr. Reuben Ellison, professor of French, received the sponsor’s award presented by the Miami French Club in appreciation of service to the club.
Betsy Liss was chosen to receive the Kappa Kappa Gamma outstanding sophomore woman award. Nancy Overpeck received the award for Miss Liss, who was not present.
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