Miami Hurricane, March 21, 1969

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A no true bill was handed down on Curry by the Dade County Grand Jury March 4.
By the
Hurricane Staff
A six-hour sit-in ended late yesterday when administration officials agreed to United Black Students’ demands that Merlin Curry be re-in-stated at UM.
A spokesman for UBS said late yesterday that Curry will be allowed to make up the courses that he failed to complete last semester when he was arrested and held for two months in jail on a rape charge.
Curry’s scholarship will be re-instated after the satisfac-t o r y completion of his courses. An anonymous donor has provided funds for Curry’s housing for the remainder of the semester.
Photo by BRUCE GOLDSTEIN
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USG Approves Activity Fee Hike To Build Purse For Fieldhouse
By SHARA PAVLOW
Of Tin Hurricane Stall
A proposed $25 increase in ^ the student activity fee and construction of a USG Students’ Rights Commission were approved by USG Council members in their
Monday meeting.
The increase, bringing the now $22 student activity fee to $47 per semester, was passed 9-2 by the council.
Twenty dollars of this
Gennett Named Student Dean
* By CRAIG PETERSON Of Tin Hurricane Staff
Dean of Men Dr. Nicholas Gennett was named Wednesday to the n ewly-created post of Dean of Students. Gennett will serve as a coor-«1 dmator for those detriments reporting directly to
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Elliott Messing, junior cabinet assistant to the attorney general has announced his candidacy for USG president.
Messing, 19, is an accounting major and an Alpha Epsilon Pi brother.
He is also a member of Phi Eta Sigma, a physical science tutor, and maintains a 3.9 cumulative average. f Messing has not yet chosen his running mates.
He said he has a strong belief in student integrity and respect, and is looking to involve a united panhellenic in USG.
“T h e administration is ».breaking down the ‘spirit of 'cooperation’ and we, the students, are being treated as puppets with the administrators pulling the strings. We are tired of this. What we need now is positive leadership with a new ‘spirit of y leadership. ’ ”
Elliott .Messing
the Vice President for Student Affairs and will be charged with disciplinary functions and as a back-up-man for the Vice President for Student'Affairs on some occasions.
“The post is an attempt to reduce the number of people reporting directly to the Vice President,” Gennett said. The Dean of Men and Dean of Women will report to the Dean of Students in the future.
"it makes a great deal of sense to coordinate these positions to eliminate duplication and confusion,” he
said.
The Dean of Students will be in close contact with those administrators dealing with the V-P, serving as a close consultant to the V-P in policy decisions. He will also be responsible for the Vice President’s post when that person is absent from the University.
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Gennejt toured Midwestern universities last spring in a search for information on the creation ot duties for a proposed Dean of Students. The position itself has been considered and in planning stages for almost two years. Due to the complexity of the Dean of Student’s duties, Gennett said “naturally a lot of planning has to go into something like this,” accounting for the lengthy study.
The move to create this position is part of the general reorganization of the Division of Student Affairs in an attempt to form a more compact, efficient unit.
Associate Dean of Men, William Sandler, has been named as a successor for Gennett. A replacement for Sandler as Associate Dean will be made sometime before this June. Gennett said “several people are being considered for she position at this time.”
increase was specifically designated “to be used solely for the construction of a 'field house’ for student activities.”
Funds are to be deposited in a restricted account (administered by a field house committee structured by the Council) and will serve as a basis for a university loan to begin construction.
“If any action toward the field house is to be taken, it must be instigated by the students,” declared resolution co-author Jim Yasser.
“I feel confident that students will pass the referendum when it' comes up in April,” he said. “If they want a field house, they’ll realize that this is the only way to get things going.”
He further prophesied that should this rase go into effect next fall, students can look forward to the field house “within a few years.”
Voting against the $20 proposal was sophomore class representative Bob
Dorian. “It’s not that I am against the $20 increase,” he said. “I just don’t think the students will approve such a large expenditure for something they may not see for a period of at least two years.
Of the remaining $5 per student increase $2 will he used for the USG Concert Series and $3 will be deposited in the Student Activity Fee Contingency Fund (allocated by SAFAC) for usage "benefiting both student organizations and students in general.”
The Council further decided that, upon receiving student approval, it would request that the Board of Trustees make the $3 increase part of the general fee, thus establishing it in the graduate as well as undergraduate fee.
The Students' Rights Commission, proposed by Jim Yasser. Stuart Weiss, Marin Weinkle, John Dohm, and Bill Councill, has its foundation on the recent incident involving two UM co-eds and the violation - of their rights
Shohat To Run As Anti-Greek
Ed Shohat, a top varsity debater, announced his candidacy for USG President yesterday. He is also Chairman of Union Board of Governors, Junior Representative to USG, Vice President of collegiate council, member of Board of Review, member of Election Board, Hurricane and Tempo columnist, a member of Pi Sigma Alpha.
“I’m running because I feel that USG is the only legitimate organization representing the entire student body. It is the only institution thru which to change drastically or eliminate the fraternity and sorority system.
"A, lot has been said, of course, about social discrimination and academic repression in the Greek system but no action has been taken to correct these shortcomings. I feel that most of the students realize the significance of these problems and need only to have their feelings marshalled and directed in order to effectuate change,” Shohat said.
His announced running mates are Wayne Silver for vice president and former USG President, Dennis Richard for Treasurer. *
Silver is also on the debate
in a search of their dormitory room.
“In studying hack files,” commented Weiss, “we’ve found several questionable cases. We want to make sure this does not become standard procedure. Students must be informed of their rights.”
It will be responsible for making public a complete list of students’ rights and for counseling any student involved,in University Disciplinary proceedings.
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The agreement was reached at 6 p.m. and announced by Vice-President for Student Affairs William R. Butler in a press conference in the Ashe Building.
“Merlin Curry will be permitted to make up all incomplètes and ‘x’s’ appearing on his record. During this period he will not be permitted to live on campus. However, he will live off campus near the school,” Butler said.
Curry will go before Dean of Men Nicholas Gennett today to face disciplinary charges stemming from two alleged infractions of UM’s
Photo by MICHAEL NEFF
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Merlin Curry
disciplinary code prior to his arrest by January 7.
Butler said he was unaware of the nature of the charges.
After the press conference Curry expressed only partial satisfaction with the rrsults. “I’ll accept it for what it is, but deep within my heart. I'm not satisfied.”
Curry thanked those who sat in at the building for his benefit.
Curry was denied his request for financial assistance by the President's Cabinet in a decision Wednesday.
The President’s Cabinet, which had considered his request last week, re-heard the request after members of the United Black Students met with President Henry King Stanford and Vice-President for Student Affairs William Butler last Friday.
The Black students said that they felt the original decision, to deny him aid while he was completing his first semster exams, was
Girls Found Innocent In Second Pot Hearing
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Th» Hurricane Staff
The decision made to suspend two UM coeds for possession of marijuana was reversed by the University Disciplinary Committee Wednesday on the grounds that the University’s search and seizure policy was violated during the search made of their room.
The girls were found inno-
cent by a committee consisting of two students, two faculty members, and their academic deans, after a hearing before the Dean of Women had found them guilty and suspended them until September.
The girls made a plea of no contest, charging that the search warrant presented to them was invalid, the search was conducted by unauthorized personnel, and that the
Shapley Announces CSG Candidacy
Shohat
team, a member of Student Life Rules Revision Committee, chairman of Upward Bound Program, former chairman of the Board of Review and member of the editorial staff of Tempo magazine.
Richard is chairman of SUSGA and executive editor of Tempo Magazine. His past experience includes both president and vice president of USG.
The ticket’s campaign manager is Tom Wilson, editor of Tempo.
"I intend to continue many of the goals of the Dennis Richard administration,” Shohat said. “The goals of that' administration have been grossly distorted or completely ignored by the Abrams administration.
Greg Shapley. former Hurricane associate editor, announced his candidacy for president of the Undergraduate Student Government and at the same time named Pete Hill and Stacy Horn-stein as his vice-president and treasurer respectively.
Shapley resigned his Hurricane position to enter the race.
A member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, Shapley is a former writer and photo
Greg Shapley
editor for Tempo Magazine, and a Vietnam veteran.
Hill, present sophomore class representative to USG, has been an MRHA governor, a member of the committee on student organizations, and a member of the University Services Organization. He is a government major.
Hornstein is vice-president of Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity and a former Hurricane staff writer who covered USG. He also resigned at the time of his announcement. A sopho-m o r e government-business major, he has served as public relations chairman for IFC and was a member of the IFC Homecoming spirit committee.
Shapley, a junior English major, and his slate, have pledged their intention to turn, not only USG, hut all student organizations into truly representative organs of studen^ expression and opinion.
only basis for the search was hearsay.
“The searchers showed very little respect for the girls’ privacy,” said sopho-m o r e representative Jim Yasser, who headed a USG committee investigating the issue. “They ruined the ceiling, and they didn’t even knock before coming in.
“There were male resident
advisors involved in the search who had no business being there," Yasser continued. “The basis for the search was a phone call received by the assistant head resident.”
The girls also charged that the search warrant presented to them was not the university’s official application for search and seizure, but a fraudulent document made up at the time by those conducting the search.
The correct form was produced at the hearing, but the girls state that they were presented with a different document at the time of the search.
At the end of the hearing. Associate Dean Louise Mills remarked, “It seems that the witnesses are on trial, rather than the students.”
“Everything worked out so well,” one of the girls commented. “I’m very happy.”
“This is one of the landmark decisions in university disciplinary proceeding.” Yasser remarked, "The fact that the case was heard again on the .basis of the students' rights rather than on possession of marijuana established a grpat precedent."
unfair.
The Cabinet re-considered the proposal and ended up re-stating an exact replica of their initial decision. No new facts were introduced at the second hearing.	.
"Inasmuch' as Mr. Merlin Curry is not currently en-« rolled as a student, through no fault of the University, the President’s Cabinet has ruled that the University’s policy should be maintained that no scholarships nor other financial assistance be provided for individuals who ace not regularly enrolled in the University,” the statement
In a press conference yesterday morning, Curry charged that the University’s action was indicative of “radical racism present at this institution."
"WHY. AFTER the Dade Grand Jury cleared me of the charges brought before me was I not re-instated to
school?
“WHY «AM I considered guilty after I have been proven innocent?
“FINALLY, I WOULD like the University to show cause as to why I should not be allowed to make up the work missed and take exams because my absence was not totally my fault?
“I can see no moral or legal grounds for my being
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Robertson
Running
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With the race for USG president becoming larger every day, David Robertson announced his candidaev yesterday. Robertson als« ran in last year’s election.
"There’s a certain category of people who don’t learn from their msistakes and unfortunately I’m one of them,” he said.
Robertson’s platform will be “pretty much the same as last year.” In that election his campaign was based on revising the campus security and making the students aware of how much they contribute to the school.
"Last year tuition was only about half of what students spent," Robertson said.
He has not chosen running mates as of yet and may run without any. He is a believer in more voice for students.
“The students should be given more of a voice in things that effect them — food, Kampus Kops, classes.”
Robertson was originally thinking of running on the know-nothing ticket.
“I figure if Millard Fillmore could lose on a K^Lw Nothing ticket, so can I.
Results In Allowance To Complete Courses