Miami Hurricane, January 31, 1969

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Volume 44 No. 27
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Senior Coed Hijacked; Wakes Up In Havana
By CRAIG PETERSON
g of tht Hume ant Staff
A UM student was one of 25 passengers aboard National Airlines flight 64 when it was hijacked early Tuesday and forced to Havana.
| Brenda Johnson, UM senior, boarded the four-engine jet at Houston, fell asleep, and woke up over Havana.
Johnson
T thought we were landing in Tampa,” she said. “I thought we were coming in from the south, then I saw the mountains on our right.” When the plane landed, she crossed to the other side of the plane and looked out the window. “I saw a huge sign on the terminal — ‘Welcome to Havana.’ ”
Flight 64 originated in Los Angeles, with stops in Houston, New Orleans and a destination of Miami. Soon after it took off from New Orleans, two men, one armed with a pistol, the other holding four sticks of dynamite, hijacked the flight and ordered the pilot to Cuba.
Brenda said she was “furious”; but not about being hijacked. “I was curled up sound asleep and I didn’t wake up until we were just about to land. I missed the whole thing,” she said.
Abrams Speaks ( On Trustee Seat
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By PAULA SCALINGI
Of The Humean* Staff
In his speech before the Board of Trustees USG president Mike Abrams gave several reasons why the USG president should attend future Board meetings.
f “Joint decision making is Ve answer to many problems Haguing óur campuses today,” he said, adding that an "air of secrecy" surrounds the Board's actions.
“Most students view the Board of Trustees as an indi-usable hand that appears every once in awhile to pressure the university into taking certain actions,” he said.
He pointed out that the president of USG, as a student, can eliminate this lack of communication. “Barriers of communication must be eliminated at all levels,” he ^ated.
Abrams said joint decision making can add to progres-siVeness of UM.
He notes that students proposed the Pass-Fail system and feels more changes 'Hn be introduced.
Faculty tenure, overcrowded T.V. classrooms and curfews are areas where he feels change is needed.
Students should determine the quality of a professor. “Tenure is awarded to faculty with little or no student voice but with some degree of politicking," he said.
Concerning curfews, Abrams termed them “perfectly ludicrous.”
He hopes that having a student on the Board of Trustees will enable the university to make changes and create greater understanding among administration, faculty, and students.
When the plane landed, armed Cuban soldiers removed the hijackers and escorted the passengers to the terminal for questioning.
“It was too good to be true,” she said. “I was the center of attention, since most of the passengers were businessmen from Houston and I was the only single girl aboard.” Cuban newsmen attempted to film the passengers, but most were deliberately uncooperative.
After an hour of questioning by Cuban officials, the group was put aboard a bus. Armed guards riding in cars preceded and followed the bus. They were driven through downtown Havana, which Brenda described as “really depressing.”
“All the buildings are really old and in terrible shape,” she said. “The only new buildings are the memorials.”
The passengers were taken to a hotel for supper. “The food was terrible and rats were running all over the place. We tried to get a guard to shoot one of the rats, but he didn’t understand.”
The Americans were later put back aboard the bus and driven two hours to a point south of Havana where a small airfield is located. They had been in Cuba a little over six hours.
When they arrived at the field, a four-engine National prop plane was waiting. “When I saw that beautiful American plane, I wanted to run up and give it a hug,” she said.
The special plane landed in Miami at 6, seven hours after the hijacking, and Brenda's parents and friends were still
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Annual Greek Rush Will Begin Sunday
By BOB DUTTON Of Th* Hurricane Sfaff
The annual IFC rush will begin on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the International Lounge of the Student Union
Pop Folk Singing Croup To Play At Orientation
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po p f o 1 k singing group, “David’s Court”, will perform at an Orientation Week Concert tonight at 8:30 on Lhe Union Patio.
" The six piece group, four men and two girls, is singing locally at the Skyways n.
Originally from Chicago where they sang nightspots and college campuses, “David’s Court" was here for the Association of College Unions International convention, app> aring with the Impact of Brass.
The "David’s Court” concert, sponsored by the Uni-1 ^ccrsitv Entertainment Com-wdi be held 1» the
Ibis Cafeteria in the event of rain.
Also during Orientation Week, on Sunday, February 2, women students interested in sorority rush may attend the Panhellenic Open House in the Flamingo Room of the Student Union from 2 to 4 p.m.
Interested men students may attend rush registration held by the Interfraternity
Council on the second floor of the Student Union at 7:30 p.m. that same day.
Sunday night a moonlight movie will be shown in the patio at 8 p.m. sponsored by the Whitten Memorial Union Program Council.
where the rush program will be explained to the rushees.
Afterwards, they will proceed to the Flamingo Ballroom where each fraternity will have a table representing four of its brothers.
On Monday and Tuesday, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., the rushees may visit the houses. They are not required to go to all of the houses but may stay as long as they wish.
On Wednesday and Thursday, each house will have preferential smokers, which are by invitation only. The fraternities will invite a number of prospective members.
On Monday, February 10, the bid acceptance will begin at 4:00 p.m.
Girls may attend the Panhellenic rush which will start on Sunday, at 2:00 p.m. with a tea in the Flamingo room. Each sorority will have four representatives at a table where the girls may register.
Each girl that registers will later be invited to a party given by the different sororities. This informal rush will continue until six weeks before the end of the semester, during which time individual bids for membership will be made.	v
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West Lab Denies UM Plea
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Th* Hurricane Staff
UM has lost the first round in a struggle with the Dade County Board of Public Instruction over control of the land now occupied by the West Laboratory Elementary School, near the 730 East Dorm.
President Henry King Stanford’s request for the return of the 10-acre site to UM was turned down by the board by a vote of 4-2.
The land, which originally
belonged to UM, was deeded
to the school board in 1954 for the establishment of an experimental elementary school where research on the effects of different teaching methods and environment would be conducted.
“It was necessary that the land be deeded to the board,” Dr. Glenn G. Thomas, West Lab’s principal said, “because the state’s money could not be spent to build a school on land that it did not own. A reverter clause was included in the deed, stating that if the school board decided at any time to close the
school, the land would be returned to the university and UM would purchase all buildings and improvements.”
In a letter to School Superintendent Edward L. W h i g-ham, Dr, Stanford stated that the reason for the request was that UM needs the space to expand. He pointed out that since the opening of West Lab School, UM’s student body has increased by more than 5,000 and the number of full-time faculty members has almost tripled.
Stanford noted that condi-
USG To Aid Biafra
Reacting to the estimates of Biafran deaths running into the thousands, USG President Michael Abrams plans positive response to the situation that has confronted the world for the past months.
In the next few weeks volunteers will collect student donations for the Biafran cause. The goal for the USG sponsored collection of $2,500 could be reached if $10,000 students would donate 23 cents, Abrams said.
Volunteers will collect donations in large Manila envelopes imprinted with USG at various locations on campus and USG Hostesses will be stationed in the Union breezeway.
A “big thermometer” by the Union bulletin board will show the fund’s progression.
Eventually 4.5 million people will be dependent on relief. Presently the Biafran Red Cross cares for 650,000 women and children.
The Red Cross needs $8 million by February.
“Our effort is a small but critical part,” said Abrams.
He added that school pride as well as concern should motivate students to give donations. He noted that Wake Forest raised $2,555 for the Biafran cause and UM can do better.
“We re the best school in the South,” he said.
During the USG-Red Cross
l)r. Thomas
tions in elementary education have also changed since 1955.
“There has been a tremendous expansion in support of research and experimentation not only from federal funds through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, but also from local school funds,” he stated in the letter. "Whereas at the time of the establishment of the West Laboratory School it seemed to make sense to have experimentation centralized in one school. The trend now is to have experimentation taking place in many schools of differing types."
Whigham recommended that the board comply with Stanford’s request, but said that the issue was not the school’s program, but UM’s need for space. V \
“I am symp&aietic with the university’s need to expand.” Dr. Thomas commented from West Lab’s point of
view, “but I do feel that there is a need for a laboratory school. I think that in view of the shortage of classrooms, the board will be reluctant to close the school.”
West Lab School has pioneered in elementary school organization since its opening. “We’ve been team teaching since 1959,” Thomas said, “and we also lead the way In the initial teaching alphabet. Our kindergarten has been a model for both public and private schools.”
“While this school has been dubbed as ‘special’ and accused of catering to an elite group, it should ha pointed out that the school is open to any child in Dade County, on a first come-first serve basis,” Thomas continued. “Both the student body and the staff are integrated, and the children come from a very wide range of income brackets. About 20% of our students are Negro. One of the things we are experimenting with is the influence of the changed »environment on children who come from all-black schools to an integrated atmosphere. Our personnel and budget Allocations are on the same basis as those for other public schools in Dade County." I “The reason West Lab is recognized as a superior school is because of a superior faculty. We have outstanding teachers with great concern for meeting the needs of individual children,” he concluded.
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Biafra appeal we should remember these words from the Bible said Abrams. “To whom much is given, much is required.”
Students interested in helping to collect donations should contact Norm Manasa or Rich Fabian at the USG
office.
Administration Is Aware; UBS Veep Likes Change
By CRAIG PETERSON
of Th* Hurricane Staff
Harold Fields, Vice President of UBS, said UM is "taking the first step in offering a rounded education for the black student" by offering five new black-oriented courses. “I’m very pleased,” he said.
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“T h e administration is slowly becoming aware of the needs of ethnic groups on campus but the blacks are still not on par with other ethnic groups,” he said.
Fields predicted that “maybe eventually we will ★ ★ *
have a regular degree In black studies.”
“The departments are further along than the administration in recognizing our needs," he said. "The administration is willing to concede for peace and to preserve the school’s image.”
“I don’t think we’ll have to go to the extremes of last year, but the black students will do anything needed to obtain their needs.”
Fields said that black students “have never really been tested.”
“I still think the University is a cracker school. I said that last year but it's true. The students are more aware this year, but they’re still apathetic.”
The UBS vice president said the administration is still moving with deliberate slowness in recruiting both black instructors and black administrators.
Fields said of the appointment of Chester Byrd, a Negro, as Associate Director of the Union, “the administration has gone out and gotten ★	★ tt
themselves a token. Now they can say “We’ve got ours.” He’s just there to keep the black kids in order.”
“We still need more black administrators, instructors and counselors,” he said.
Dog’s Home West Lai)
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Th* Hurrka** Staff
Among those who will be forced to transfer if West Laboratory School is closed is Bimbo, a cocker spaniel who attends class regularly.
“Bimbo originally came here when he followed a neighbor girl to school,” Dr. Glenn G. Thomas, West Lab’s principal, recalled. “He came to school with her every day, all day, until she transferred to junior high school. He followed her thera for two days, but found that crossing the highway was just too much for him. He came back here and hasn’t missed a day in 11 years.”
"B i m b o U everybody’s friend,” Thomas said. “The children all love him. They have a song that they sing about him. He’s especially close to the custodial staff, and is the almost constant companion of the head custodian.”
Bimbo has appointed himself official mascot and watchdog for West Lab School, and refuses to allow any other dogs on “his” property. He comes to school early in the morning and wanders complacently around the grounds with the air of a landowner surveying his acreage. He leaves in th® afternoon when school is over.
“One of the children’s major concerns over the possibility of the school’s closing is what would happen to Bimbo," Thomas said.
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Black ('ourses Added
Reacting to a cross-country trend, UM has established five black-oriented courses in economics, geography, government, sociology and history foi the spring semester.
The addition of these courses was recommended by a panel of three black sociologists who were invited to the campus last July by President Henry King Stanford to discuss with faculty, administration and students various ways that more Afro-Amd| \an culture and history couJa be woven into the courses offered by the UM.
United Black Students
(UBS) acted as a major influence in initiating the introduction of black-oriented courses in university curricula.
The new courses include:
Economics 499 — African Economic Development, taught by Dr. Lawrence F. Mansfield, professor of eco-n o m i c s. The three-credit course will include a survey of the problems of emerging African societies with emphasis on recent developments in sub-Saharan black Africa.
Geography 525 — Prob-( uijtinued on Page 2
By ERICA ENRIGHT
*1 th* Hurricane Staff
Who do you think is the B.L.O.C. (Best Lover On Campus)?
You’ll know for sure February 14.
The Hurricane and Womet-co Theatres are sponsoring a contest to find the male B.L.O.C. in connection with the release of an exciting new comedy “3 In the Attic,” which opens at the Miracle on Feb. 5.
A trophy and an evening at the Fontainebleau for dinner and a show for the winner and his date will be the prize.
Christopher Jones stars as Paxton Quigley (for whom the award is named) who is kidnapped and locked in the attic by three girls (one of whom is Yvette Mimieux) who set out to punish him in a very "unusual manner.”
Voting will be by postcard, with only one name per card, with the nominee’s I.D. number included.
The postcards should be sent to:
“3 In the Attic”
P.O. Box 2440 Miami, Fla. 33101
Each fraternity will nominate a candidate for the award, but anyone can make a nomination or vote.
Deadline for entries Is Friday, February 14 at noon.
The male student with the The Hurricane w*ll run a most votes will be the winner list of names submitted along with the decision of the with the front-runners each judges as final.	issue.
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