Miami Hurricane, January 08, 1960

              WEEKEND
WEATHER
January heat wave will lose some of its steam.
The Mia
Voi.. XWV, No. 12
University of Miami
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Coral Gables, Fla.
J am ary 8,1960
WHAT PROFS SAY, MEAN Page 2
U.S. Tables Loan For New Union
By SHEILA STEINBERG
Hurricm Assistant News Edit»
The University's request for a 11 j -million-dollar loan for a new Student Union has gone unanswered before the Federal Housing and Home Authority in Atlanta, and a UM official said it “will probably be spring before our application is considered again."
‘Because of limited funds, the authority gave first preference to the schools which were willing to put up
25 to 50 per cent cash. Since we are asking for a 100 per cent loan our request will have to wait at least until the new Congress appropriations come through,” said Eugene Cohen, UM vice president and treasurer.
COHEN CLAIMS that the hold-up on the loan has not in any way hampered plans for the new Student Union. "We are moving right along as intelligently as possible.”
Plans for the Student Union and 4
Library were pushed forward last year when students voted to double their student activity fee and use the extra money as backing for the loan.
"I understand from Mr. Cohen that ihey are very favorable to our request in Atlanta, but you should realize that when you put a request before the Federal Housing and Home Authority you often have to wait a year or two before it is answered," said Dr. Jay F W. Pearson, UM president.
“1 DON'T THINK that not getting the loan has slowed us up at all.” Dr. Pearson said. “We are continuing to work up plans which we hope will be able to satisfy the needs of all students.!’
UM officials still are optimistic about getting the loan this year, but “I can’t say definitely when we will have a chance to get the money because first the hill must be put on the docket— and then Congress must pass the bill," ♦
said Cohen. “I understand that the FH&HA has asked for more money this year and that our loan request is near the top of the pile."
THE UNION would include a swimming pool, a post office and bookstore,
an athletes' dining room, an arts and erafts room, a 12-lane bowling alley, a new coflee shop and a tropical garden.
Plans for the union have been under way for about eight months.
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... But Library Breaks Ground
By MIKE BOYD
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■	Latin American Center Boomed. Page 7
■	Alumni Must Help, editorial, Page 6
The votes are in—and it’s unanimous. The University of Miami’s faculty and administrative leaders want by 1970:
■	An “adequate" library.
■	Enough money to stop worrying about the first 33 years of growing pains.
Polled by the Hurricane on the future and desires of UM in the next decade, the men of the Ashe Building and its satellites forecast and hope for the following:
"About 90-odd million dollars for endowment," is the wish of University President Jay F. W. Pearson. Hoping to avoid a repetition of last year's budget cutback, the president also is seeking support for science, communications and general classroom buildings. “Aside from that there isn't a thing I want," he said.
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THE MAN ON THE PURSESTRINGS, Treasurer Eugene E. Cohen, also is endowment-minded. He would like to see the cash roll in for a “complete” library and various other buildings He also desires “anything that helps improve the good name and standing of the University," in other words —money.
The teachbr who is on the spot as the new dean of the University College project, Dr Paul K. Vonk. pleads the status quo. “I hope for continued high quality of teachers—
and students.”
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“An all-purpose fieldhouse for everything from sports to culture,” is the dream of Dr. Thurston Adams, student activities director.
“The largest school of physical education on earth,” with
«evening sports facilities and complete sporting areas with student access will he worked for in the next decade by Norman “Chink” Whitten, who also will be in charge of the projected Student Union.
The deans of the respective schools promise to lure with all their ardor the academic “angels.”
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FOR INSTANCE, Drama Department chief Dr Delmar Solem wants an expanded replacement for the Ring Theater, "a focal point on campus ... to unify all the arts.” Money >	is also his problem as his thespians do not have the neces-
§	sary funds to accept invitations to give UM productions
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Dean of the Law School James A Bumes thinks his 4 students should have “an opportunity for live' law.” This would necessitate a special center for the future lawyers, where they could live, eat and learn. For this, and an expanded scholarship program, he needs only money.
The recent recipient of a new building, Engineering Dean Theodore A. Wcyher now wants his students to have the proper facilities for “sophisticated research” within the next ten years.
And so into the '60s
These will Vie groping years for UM. and it looks as if faculty members and administrators would like to join students in sending that time-honored communication— “Dear Dad Having wonderful time. Send money.”
—Miriam Cohn and Byron Scott
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They Bowled ’Em Over In TV-Land
We’re finally Retting a shelf to put all those dusty books on.
Earth \^as turned Dec. 22 for the first unit of a new library building, the missing hub in UM’s educational wheel.	-------------------------
Since students were home for the holidays, only a handful of happy library staffers and faculty members watched President Jay i F. W. Pearson and Trustees William Stubblefield and E. L. Cotton man the shovels in an informal groundbreaking.
Dr. Archie MeNeal, director of libraries, who has been behind the project since he came here In '52. said, “My predecessor car-| ried those plans around "in his back pocket since 1940.”
“THE PROJECT had been pigeonholed for years due to a lack | of funds. But because of a stu- , dent body vote last year to double activities fees, the money
for the first unit, $390,000, has IT’».«»» 1» »w* been raised.” said Eugene Cohen,; A ■ f till Ilf till UM vice president and treasurer.
FREDERICK SWEETING
Changed Flight
Four University of Miami students sat behind a New York
Ssk for three weekends, pushbuttons, walked off with $3,500 in scholarships and returned to the campus this week.
The four, called “the fastest button-pushers in the South” by New Yorker magazine, were members of UM's two-time-winning College Bowl team on CBS-TV.
COMPOSED of Eric Raepple, Dave Alexander, Frank Coleman and Betsy Sokolof, the team soundly whipped in successive weeks the Universities of Missouri and Pennsylvania. Miami was edged by the University of Chicago in its third match.
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The team was coached hy Prof. Vaughan Camp, of the History Department.
With high - speed buttonpushing. the team answered questions on topics from ancient history to chemistry, from physics to drama, from religion to literature. The key question to which they attribute their loss?
"We identified Patti Page as the McGuire Sisters.” v,
“Everyone on the team was superb, however,” said Team Captain Eric Raepple.
But the champion button-pushers weren’t always so fast,
“We thought we’d had it before we even started," said Raepple. “We were so nervous during the pre - show warmup, we lost to Missouri 225-25. We just couldn’t push the buttons in time.”
BY SHOW TIME, however, the stage fright was gone, and the UM Brain Trusts stomped the Show Me team by 70 points.
Betsy, the only girl member of the team, had a woman's intuition about their loss to Chicago.
“The boys always bought me two pink carnations before the show for luck. The day we lost to Chicago, I told them I didn’t like the looks of one of the flowers; it looked sick. But they laughed at me and said I was silly.
“1 wonder what would have happened if we had bought another carnation.”
The new unit will contain two of the planned nine stories, designed as a stack section for UM’s half-million books now housed on three campuses.
“The foundations are tremendous in size to carry the weight of the nine stories," said Cohen.
I "This unit will take all the temporary books from South Campus and relieve some of the pressure on the library in the Merrick Building,” Cohen added.
IN DESCRIBING the first unit of the new building. Dr. MeNeal said, “This unit will contain 38,-000 square feet of floor space, will be air-conditioned and elevator-equipped.”
The quiz whizzes, who speak or read nine languages all together, doodled L« four for relaxation while on the show: Erie, German; Dave, Japanese; Frank, Greek, and Betsy, Egyptian hieroglyphics.
“The best part of the show— outside of winning—was being recognized and congratulated on the streets of New York. We even received fan mail, believe it or not," said Raepple.
The completed unit will be similar to that at Ix>uisiana State University and will be finished by early June.
Dr. MeNeal speculated on the final completion of the library:
| “Maybe one year, maybe ten; I hope one. If the people of the
community see this one unit completed there may be a more : concentrated effort to raise the I 2 million dollars still needed.”
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A New Oil Cartel?
Each dated Jan. 1, 1960, two checks—worth $1,500 apiece—arrived on the same day this week in the President's Office. The grants, both for UM development, were from the Shell Companies Foundation and Texaco Inc.
Killed In Plane Crash
A University of Miami student was among 34 passengers killed in the foggy, early-morning National Airlines plane crash Wednesday.
Frederick Y. Sweeting, 18-year-old freshman, was returning from his holiday vacation at his home in Port Washington, N.Y., on the DC-6B—National's Flight 2511—when it crashed 25 miles south of Wilmington, Del.
DM chief telephone operator, Mrs. Sylvia Knoll, said the youth's mother called from New York at about 8:30 am Wednesday to check on her son’s arrival.
Mrs. Sweeting believed her son was on the earlier flight from New
York—a jet Boeing 707. However, he had not informed her of the flight changes, which were due to
mechanical trouble.
Sweeting was bom in Miami but raised in New York. He held many positions in student activities in high school, and was named “best actor" of his junior class. He also was business manager of the yearbook.
One Of The Hoys
Dr. Margaret Jean Mustard,
research associate professor of applied tropical botany, will be included in the next edition of "American Men of Science.” A researcher in horticulture, she has been at UM 14 years.