Miami Hurricane, April 16, 1969

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Partly sunny today with a
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Vote
Exercise your student
power by voting tomorrow
and Friday in the USG elec-
Volume 44       No. 48
Wednesday, April 16, 1969
284-4401
USG Elections To Begin To
Students
To Vote
On Fee
'Students   will   vote   on   a
referendum    tomorrow    and
Friday,  which  proposes Activity Fee increases totaling
$28.
The referendum will be
divided into three parts:
$3.00 general Increase;
$20.00 for a field house;
-^$3.00 increase for entertainment and culture.
The Student Activity Fee
is a fee of the University
which is paid by the students
and is used solely for the
students in non-academic
^ areas.
Of the $22.00 fee, as It
now is, $11.50 of it was set
by various student referen-
dtuns: $10 for a student union; $1 for entertainment and
-cultural events, and $.50 for
Homecoming and Carnl Gras.
Since the activity fee Is
used expressly for the students and paid by the students, the USG felt that the
entire undergraduate student
%hody should decide on the
proposed fee increases. It
will appear on the referendum in three parts. Part A:
$8 general increase.
* This could be the most
crucial of the three increases
t_e committee believes.
The present funds are in-
sflfficient to cover the recent
ajeeds of the campus-wide
organizations and-or activity, but these needs are
growing each year.
Below is a listing of all
organizations that received
funds   this   year   and   the
«nount   of  the  general   fee
hich they received.
Organizations
Am'per  Income
Fee     from
SAFAC
Debate
0.200   4,400.00
Student Ac'ty 3.075 67,650.00
Ater,
TJSO
1 000 22,000.00
0.025       550.00
Cheerleaders
0.125   2,750.00
Pep Club
0 050    1,100.00
vyvuM
0.300   6,600.00
Hurricane
0.800 17,600.00
Tfcmpo
.400    8,800.00
Ibis
1.800 39,600.00
^Football
1.250 27,500.00
Basketball
0.375   8,250,00
Baseball
Tennis
0.175    3,190.00
0.125    2,750.00
0.100   2,200,00
Swimming
0 100    2,200.00
Soccer
0.100   2,200.00
A«New organizations are now
requesting funds.
Allotments to football,
basketball, tennis and baseball enable the student to be
admitted to these athletic
events, and with more home
»
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Dorlon:
Student
Voice
Bob Dorlon, presidential
candidate, who has vowed to
follow through on the recommendations of the 3-3-3 Committee, is running on a 21
plank platform which emphasizes more student voice in
university affairs.
Dorlon who says he feels
he 'has been more involved
in USG than at least two of
the other candidates,' has a
slate including Dave Halberg
for vice-president and Neil
Carver for treasurer.
Claiming that a strong
argument against USG is its
'second floormanship. Dorlon said he would keep key
people stationed around campus to give him an accurate
assessment of student wants
if elected.
The slate's plan for staying
in touch with the students
includes monthly meetings in
the residence halls to hear
recommendations and gripes
about student government.
Admitting that their pledge
to expand the 3-3-3 Committee into a University Senate
is 'sort of idealistic' Dorlon
said 'there are things that we
can't implement, but we hope
to at least give a push in that
direction.'
The Dorlon slate gave mild
praise to the current USG administration. "1 think Mike
Abrams has done a fair job
this year. He just had certain
failures In communication,"
Dorlon said.
"One mistake he m_3e _nd
we won't," Halberg said, "is
that when recommendations
are made to the administration, dates have to be set."
"That's what the Day of
Conscience did."
"If you are hostile to the
administration, their alternatives can become limited,"
Carver said. "You can't circumvent them."
"I don't think the administration is so dog-headed that
things can't be worked out,"
Dorlon said.
NON-VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS AS STUDENT
PROTEST: "I don't think
they're that successful . . .
only as a last resort," said
Dorlon.
"Like with the Merlin
Curry incident, students
didn't really know what was
going on," he said. "The Day
of Conscience is the first
time any sort of protest has
been tried.
"When the administration
gets more conditioned to
these protests, they can plan
their responses and the method will be less effective."
"The way they are effective," Carver said, "is to give
the University a bad name.
We don't want to jeopardize
the University's name. We
want to seek a degree at a
respectful university."
COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Dorlon slate has
a plan for a "Career College"
which would take students in
Continued on Page 3
Candidates
At Forum
A special University
Forum has been called for
tonight by Director Dr.
Shepherd Faber in hopes
"of providing USG presidential candidates with
the opportunity to directly
present and defend their
platforms to the student
body."
"We are planning to
allow cross discussion and
debate among the candidates themselves as well
as between the panel and
audience," Faber explained.
The Forum will be held
in the International
Lounge on the second
floor of the Student Union
at 8 p.m.
Photo    by    BOB    HAHOU TUNIAN
Political Propaganda Superimposed On The Machine, Unified Only In Illusion. Promises. Promises.
Then, Compromises, Compromises. The Truth Lies Behind The Facade.
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Election Special
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Shapley Supports Interest Groups;
Will Turn USG Into Confederation
If elected, presidential
candidate Greg Shapley
plans a program which he
feels will turn USG into a
confederation o f interest
groups.
Shapley, a junior English
major, feels that the "other
candidates seem to be leaning heavily toward a federation type of student government where campus interest
groups would in fact lose
their autonomy under a vastly stronger executive
branch."
High on the priority legislation list Is the establishment of a constitutional convention composed of representatives from every student organization which in
turn would come under the
new constitution's purview.
The slate, including sophomores Pete Hill for vice president and Stacy Hornstein
for treasurer, is promoting
the establishment of a standing committee of international and American students "to
Shapley
study and promote better
understanding and relations
between these groups," and
the creation of a younger
more competent security
force.
Shapley said that the
funds for the construction of
the fieldhouse, the overhead
parking space, lighting systems for the baseball field
and the rathskeller, have
already been allotted, so he
can   insure   that   these   four
Hill
programs will be accomplished.
CLOSED      MEETINGS:
"We're responsible to the
people who elected us," says
Pete Hill. "The students deserve to know what's going
on, especially if it concerns
them."
STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: "I favor only nonviolent, respectful demonstrations of student opinion,"
said Shapley, "and only then
Four Voting Booths
Around Campus
USG elections this Thursday and Friday will find
voting machines in four locations around campus.
Booths will be set up in
the lower lounge of the Student Union, the Memorial
Building Breezeway, the
Great Lounge in Mahoney
Hall, and the Recreation
Room In the 1968 Complex.
Voting hours will be from
9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on both
days and all students must
have their ID cards with
them in order to vote.
USG Council decided on
the location of the booths in
their weekly meeting before
Spring Recess and voted to
place one more booth than
last year in the 1968 Complex "in order to catch as
much of the voting population as possible."
Election results will be announced simultaneously at
Student Union Patio.
The annual Banquet will
he held this year at the Airport Holiday Inn and is open
to all interested students
Tickets are $6.50 per person
and must be purchased in
advance from the student
activities office on the second floor of the Student
Union building.
tiii: HURRICANE
is conducting a poll
on USG Elections
for this F r id a y'«
issue.
Pollsters   will   be
asking students:
1) Are you going to
vote ?
2) tlhat is your
choice for President, Vice-President anil Treasurer?
3) How are you voting on the referendum ?
Yasser's
Platform
Different
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Hornstein
with the support and consent
of the majority of the student
body represented in such a
demonstration."
ADMINISTRATIVE RED
TAPE: "If there was a clear
majority of favorable student
opinion on the issue and the
administration had turned
down all other avenues of
student communication, it
would be my job as the students' representative to orga-
Cnntinued on page 3
Jim Yasser, the second
candidate to announce in the
USG presidential race, is
running on a 25 plank platform which he says "has no
point which is so Utopian
that it cannot be accomplished or the greatest substance of it effected."
The slate, composed of
Yasser, Marty Weinkle, vice-
presidential candidate and
stu Weiss, candidate for
treasurer, Is standing on a
platform which emphasizes
due process, revision of academic procedures, and selective service reports and guarantee a stable four-year tuition and housing fee.
Yasser described his platform as "different."
"Obviously, the most complex platform issues and the
most difficult to resolve are
the financial ones," Yasser
said. "The co-op bookstore
and the stable tuition are
more difficult, but we won't
forget them.
"Unfortunately, there are a
lot of this year's issues we
still have to wind up," Yasser said.
The Abrams administration
received a concerted round
of criticism from the Yasser
ticket. "Mike Abrams Is a
very sincere person," Stu
Weiss said, "but he is incapable of providing leadership
for undergraduates.
"If it weren't for members
on the council, his high point
would have been at least
mediocrity," Weiss said.
"His administration has
had no effectiveness," Weinkle said.
Yasser, who was instrumental in the creation of a
students rights' commission,
stressed the need for a
smoothly operating commission where "the president
works with it."
His plan for a new disciplinary system includes a court
of peers. "We don't see any
competency or relevancy of
administrators," Yasser said.
CONSTITUTION: "We're
trying on paper to devise
some sort of umbrella a . . a
broadly structured constitution. We need to maintain
the automony of certain
groups like Panhellenic and
IFC which are socially oriented groups," Yasser said.
"We would like to see the
governing of student life,
such as residence halls in a
consolidated student government."
The proposed constitution
has evolved during the past
few weeks as a battle point
The three agreed that acceptance of the Constitution
would "pave the way for
everything else we have to
do."
Yasser, who was chairman
of the constitutional convention, said "this Is going to
take a year to get through,
regardless of what some
reactionary leaders have to
say."
Collins
Offers
Change
Joe Collins, a sophomore
who isn't satisfied with the
communications between
USG and the administration,
has announced his candidacy
for USG President.
"I've seen the necessity for
change in student government at UM and want to do
something about it," Collins
said.
Collins' platform consists
of a Three Point Alliance
that will link securely together the student body,
student government and tha
Administration in regard to
all social, academic and financial affairs.
"I feel that for the past
two years, the President of
USG has been ineffectual,"
Collins said. "But I'm not for
the complete cleaning out of
student government There
are many changes that must
be made but they must start
from the top."
Collins feels that the main
problem is a lack of communications. "The students do
not have direct communication with student government
Continued on Page 3
AFRO-
AMERICAN
Continued on Page 3
Collins
Qass Representatives
Included On Ballot
Class representative selection will be included in the
USG balloting tomorrow and
Friday. Four representatives
will be elected from each
class.
In contention for senior
class representative is the
slate of, Jane Hershman,
Cindy Hill, Sally Kunkle, and
Robbie Lacritz with Tullio
Proni running independently.
Diane Botnick, Rolando Fernandez and Morton Robert
Laitner running independently. For junior class representative is the ticket of.
Tobi Cohn, Elliott Messing
and Ira Pollack opposed by
the slate of Bruce O'Boyle,
Thomas Conroy and Michael
Levin.
Sophomore class representatives are divided by two
slates and two independents.
Debbie Aronson, Candy
Hirsch, Lorrie Lifschin and
Natalie Millington compose
one ticket opposed by William Thomas Council and
John Dohm. Barry Taylor
and Steven Walzer are running without slate affiliation.
Inside
Endorsement p. 4
Entertainment p. §
Miami Engineer .... p. 8
Platforms p. 3
Sports p. g
Supreme Court .... p. 2