Miami Hurricane, November 18, 1960

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Vol. XXXVI, No. 9
University of Miami
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Coral Cables, Fla.
November 18, 1960
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EMPTIES MERRICK
FBI, Police Hunting UM’s Bomb-Caller
By BOB DAVIS Hurncno Copy lUitor
UM Executive Vice-President Dr. Roert Johns indicated strongly Wednesday that the University was taking direct steps to apprehend UM’s recent bomb-scare caller.	*
“If you're going fishing, you do not tell what kind of bait you re going to use," said Dr. Johns, in reference to a method for catching the caller whose threats closed the Merrick Building on Monday afternoon and Tuesday night.
Responding to a phone rail threat at 11:15 a.m. Monday, that a bomb would go off at 1:15 and another call on Tuesday at approximately 7 p.m. warning of a blast at 7:30 p.m.. University officials had the Merrick Building evacuated both times.
Dr. Johns added that classes are not going to be interrupted every time a phone call is made threatening to blow up a huildinR.
He answered, “1 don’t," when asked if he thought there was a likelihood that a bombing would
occur.
REGARDING apprehending the caller. Dr. Johns said. “The FBI has been notified and the Coral Gables police have been working on the case. If he’s a student, when caught he will be dismissed and prosecuted under federal law for the commission of a felony. We’ll prosecute as far as we can.”
A recent court ruling makes bomb threats a federal offense, said Dr. Johns.
As a university administrator before coming to the UM. Dr. Johns recalled the instance, "A fraternity put two pledges up to a similar action. When they were caught the fraternity was cleared out, 68 students were sent home."
Backgrounding the bomb hoaxes, the second call was re-
ceived by one of UM's switchboard operators. Said the operator: “It was a young male's voice disguised to sound different. He stated, *A bomb will go off in the Merrick Building at 7:30.’
“I didn't know whether it was a screwball call or not, so I called the evening division.”
Dr. Dan Steinhoff, evening division head, and Dr. C. Doren Tharp, dean of faculty, made the decision to evacuate the building.
Monday’s disaster threat originated through a phone call to Dean of Students Noble Hendrix. The dean said, "At approximately 11:15 a.m. a male voice said that a bomb would go off at 1:15 p.m. The voice said, ‘You fired me from school. I’m gonna' get even.'
“At approximately 12:30 p.m..” the dean continued, “although I was convinced it was a hoax, I called Vice-President Johns. He suggested I call Plant Manager John O’Day."
REGARDING TIIE CALLER.
Hendrix said, “It was the voice of a person reared in the English language. He sounded like a young man of college age. He hung up immediately after his threat."
O'Day said, “After speaking with Coral Gables Asst. Police Chief Delbert Edwards, I closed down the building. A threat of this kind you can’t ignore. You don't like to do it because 99 times out of a 100 these calls are phony, but you just don’t take chances with human lives.”
Photo hy Tooy ttooir
IT W vs A STRANGE SIGHT AT MERRICK MONDAY
Students Sat Outside As Homb-Hunt Went On
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Holiday Food Hours
All cafeteria meals during Thanksgiving Holidays will be served at the Student Union soda fountain.
Special hours from Thursday through Sunday are: Breakfast — 8-11 a.m., Lunch — 12-2 p.m. and Dinner — 5-7 p.m.
The soda fountain will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Thursday through Saturday. Hours on Sunday will be 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
‘Maverick’ Sen. Wayne Morse Will Lecture Here Monday
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USG Budget
'Impossible*
The new, centralized Undergraduate Student Government budget program this week was labeled “totally unworkable and impossible" by the student who administrates it, USG Treasurer j Ted Klein.
Klein said he will propose a reallocation of student activity I fees for next year because “the integration resulted in a lack of I money to go around."
He pointed out:
■	University College upset a balance by coming on the scene j without additional funds being i made possible for it.
■	The Law School is getting | proportionately six times as much money as the average of each of the six undergraduate schools. (According to Klein, $9,000 was allocated to the six undergraduate schools with 9 000 students, and $1,800 was given to the 300- 1 student Law School.)
NOW, WILL THE REAL Jonesc Smith please stand up? No matter which way you look at our Hurricane Honey, the reflection of
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"Jonny’s" character is perfect. The beautiful junior is an interior design major. Not a bad exterior designer, either.
Sen. Wayne Morse — the “maverick” from Oregon — will speak at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Beaumont Lecture Hall.
In a last-minute acquisition, UM’s lecture series chairman Shari Friedenn signed Morse Tuesday.
Morse, a member of the present U.S. delegation to the United Nations, will speak on the “Present Stability of the U.N.”
THERE IS also a possibility, said Miss Friedenn, that Sen.
Morse will spend the morning on campus, touring the facilities and meeting with students.
Pboto by Paul Grill
THE NOISE, THE EXCITEMENT — IT'S ALL OVER NOW
See Story, Page 3,And Pietures, Page 9
UM To Host Mixed Student Confab
Morse, a controversial figure in the Senate ever since he arrived, is now a liberal Democrat. At one time he was a Republican: later he called himself an Independent senator.
The lecture should be a sellout, said Miss Friedenn, as Morse’s frank opinions are usually shocking and stimulating enough to draw any crowd.
Admission for the lecture—the second in the series sponsored
troit’s secondary schools and president of the Detroit Commission on Youth, will speak on “Pre-Scientific Education And Its Risks.”
Morse is a former professor at the Universities of Minnesota, Oregon and Columbia University.
DURING THE war, he served as an arbitrator for the Depart-
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By TOVA BOSF.M
Negro and white Florida college students will sit down together at the UM next week to discuss common student problems.	-------
The newly-formed Florida Inter-Institutional Student Government Association gets under way next Saturday and Sunday.
FISGA. which was conceived by Undergraduate Student Government Vice President Jerry Levy and Dean of Students Noble Hendrix, reportedly has the harking of the UM administration.
According to Levy, who is act- Glenn Draper UM chora, di_ ing chairman, the organization rector wl]| conduct the combined will try to promote better re a- c^0rus of students of religious tions among Florida s co eges.	The numbers sung will
be representative of each faith, according to Draper.
We’ll Say Thank You
The Student Religious Associ-j ation will present the annual j Thanksgiving Convocation Sun-i day, 3:30 p.m., in Beaumont Lecture Hall.
Florida’s colleges, promote improvements in the educational program, and solve student government problems.
UM senior Howard Tisch, acting vice-chairman, denied rumors that FISGA would deal only with the problems of integration.
“UM’s Undergraduate Student Government is young and growing, and can benefit much from the experience of both large and small Florida colleges.”
The invocation will be offered by Sidney L. Kelly of the Religion Department.
Admission is free.
SEN. WAYNE MORSE
UN Delegate
jointly by Undergraduate Student Government and Delta Theta Mu, Arts and Sciences honor society— will be 50 cents for UM students and personnel, and $1 for outsiders.
Also signed in a last-minute move was educator Dr. Earl Kelley, who will speak Nov. 30, also at 3:30 p.m. in Beaumont.
Dr. Kelley, supervisor of De-
1111 proved Ford Needs Blood
Homer Ford still needs blood.
The 23-year-old Radio-TV-Film major’s condition is much improved over last week. Ford feels “fine” and wants to get back to his old haunts—the Hurricane office and the Radio-TV-Film department.
He has been suffering from a hemorrhage of the esophagus. The hemorrhaging has stopped, but he still needs blood.
He has type B-positive, but anyone, with any kind of blood, can contribute to his recovery by donating a pint at Jackson Memorial Hospital in his name. To date, 14 pints of blood have been donated in the name of the UM.
So Long... For Awhile
The Hurricane, like the rest of the student body, won’t be here i next Friday — we’ll be eating i crow, or turkey or something.
Like MacArthur, we shall re-i turn—Friday, Dec. 2.
All 'Cane staffers should report i up to the office for advance as-! signments and cranberry sauce.