Miami Hurricane, May 06, 1969

              Read Wayne Silver’s column. See Page 4.
Voi. 44 No. 53
Tuesday, May 6, 1969
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Weather
Partly sunny today with 40 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon. High today 80 to 83.

Afro
Week To Highlight
-Photo by MIKE NEFF
Black Culture Week Began W ith Music
. .. the Charlie Austin fasz Group performs
Black
Theatre,
Serenade
African Art Exhibition òn Display This W eek
In Whitten Lounge
By MARK BERMAN
Of Tho Hurricane Staff
Enter the Lower Lounge of the Student Union this week afd you’ll be visiting a village in West Africa.
A look at the African cul-
Discussing Black Culture
Week, Mrs. Mansfield said that the idea was “magnificent.”
"African culture is a definite part of American life and it is important for all of us to learn about it,” she
By MARK BERMAN
Of Tho Hurricane Staff
“PM BLACK ... PM NOT NO UNCLE TOM . . . AND I AIN’T GOING THAT WAY NO MORE!”
These words echo the spirit of Black Culture Week, which opened to a tuneful beat Sunday with Folk Music Variations in the Student Union Patio.
The show featured a combination of jazz and spirituals, the two types of music with which American Negroes have become mostly associated. Entertainment was provided by the Charlie Austin Jazz Group and the Northwestern High School Chorus.
The program also included an Afro-American fashion show by the Manarsa, designers of Miami.
The highlight of Black Culture Week, according to Peggy Mills, student coordinator of the program, will be tonight’s Black Theatre at 8:00 p.m. in the Baptist Student Center.
ture exhibition, which has been lent to the Black Cul-tqge Week program by Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mansfield, will introduce American students to the art work, foodstuffs, fabrics and paintings which are commonly found in such West African countries as Dahomey, Gha-nl, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Togo and Sierra Leone.
The display contains drums, spices, haircornbs, and numerous other works of a«t.
Dr. Mansfield, who teaches the African Development Course at UM, spent two years in Africa with his family from 1965-1967 working for the United States Agency fo# International Development.
During their two-year stay, the Mansfields acquired an e-^ensive collection of African art work, which was featured on an Atlanta television show last year.
According to Mrs. Mans-fiekf, her most treasured possession in the exhibit is an assortment of hundreds of wooden carvings from the West Region of Nigeria, each depicting different facets of African life.
*ne of the carvings is of a h doctor administering his black magic. Another shows a lady feeding her chickens. “Each one tells a beautiful story,” says Mrs. Mansfield, “and describes African life very exactly.”
the display also features an antique balaphon, the ancestor of the modern xylophone.
Several pieces are made of bida, which Mrs. Mansfield li^cribes as hand-beaten brass. The metallic substance is used extensively in the production of bowls and dishes. Other works are made of ebony and animal bones.
"Our art collection Is very dear to us,” said Mrs. Mansfield, "Most of the work comes from markets, where my sons often traded with th|j villagers."
said.
“Black Culture Week will be an enriching experience because it will introduce us to the origin of several of the accepted customs of our society.”
Marilyn Sweeting, a UM graduate student in art, arranged the display in the show cases of the Union and some of her paintings are on exhibition.
David Jackson, UM drama student, will play the lead role in LeRoi Jones’ “The Dutchman,” a drama of a young Negro executive’s involvement with a white girl.
The show also features the June Brownlee Dancers and the Miami-Dade Dramatic Group.
Highlights of Black Culture Week which are yet to come include: The Ebony Cinema tomorrow night at 8 in LC 110; The Sepia Serenade at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Hillel Foundation; an Afro-American Recital at 8 Friday night in the Lower Lounge of the Student Union; and The Soul Dance: A night of Black Splendor, Saturday night at 7:30 in the Ibis Cafeteria.
-Photo by MIKE NEFF
Realistic Carvings Show' Scenes of African Life
.. . exhibit Is Part Of Dr. Mansfield's Collection
Go-Go Girls, Officials Meet To Plan Fight Against Club Ban
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By CRAIG PETERSON
Ot Tho Hurrlcone Staff
Go-go girls, local enter- . tainers, miscellaneous musicians and assorted officials all met last Saturday in an effort to organize resistance to a proposed law banning persons under 21 from performing in clubs serving alcoholic beverages.
Bobby “Dr. Go” Edwards, a Miami Beach talent agent, started the effort several weeks ago and set up the press conference to enlist
local support from musicians, club owners and go-go girls, all of whom would be affected by the law.
Tommy Rhodes, of the Rhodes Brothers was there, along with a member of the Impact of Brass, the Fabu-lettes, currently appearing at the Castaways, and representatives of musicians unions.
The bill, introduced by Representative John Criders
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“Dr. Go” Edwards
By TIM MURPHY
Of The Hurrican Stuff
UM’s School of Medicine and Mt. Sinai Hospital of Miami Beach joined forces last Thursday. The signed agreement between the two institutions calls for a sharing of facilities and working together on research projects.
Under the compact, members of the medical school faculty will become members of the staff at ML Sinai, and certain members of Mt. Sinai’s staff will be given faculty status. Teaching, research, treatment, and community service programs will also be coordinated.
Dr. Frank Moya, Acting Dean of the School of Medicine, noted the benefits of the new association:
“The merger will provide the School of Medicine with the opportunity to expand programs and to coordinate activities in areas which both centers have been developing, for example in the areas of radiology and nuclear medicine. The affiliation will permit Mt. Sinai and the University to work together for the betterment of the medical community. Cardiovascular medicine and surgery will also be greatly expanded.”
UM now has four teaching hospitals. The other three are Jackson Memorial, Veterans Administration, and National Children’s Cardiac.
President Henry King Stanford made this observation on the newly formed affiliation:
“The affiliation will benefit both these fine institutions immensely. But beyond that, it is the community which will really reap the benefits through the enhancement of teaching, patient care, and scientific research which will result
The evening began with what was described as a teach-in on the proposed ABM system, with Florida New Party chairman Robert Kunst presenting an opposition view.
The presence of ROTC on campus somehow became the major issue, however, and ended in a debate between Gadfly chairman Rocky Walters and various ROTC instructors and cadets in the audience.
Walters stated that his opposition to ROTC on campus was academic, saying that ROTC instructors do not have academic freedom of speech, and that their first obligation is to the military, rather than the university.
-Photo by BOB HOFFMAN
The UM Medical School Lacks Many Facilities
.. . that M t. Sinai will be able to offer students
-Photo bv PETER YAFFB
Mt. Sinai Hospital Plans To Expand
. . . which makes the merger even more beneficial
from this close cooperation.” Baron deHirsch Meyer, president of Mt. Sinai Hospital and a member of UM’s Board of Trustees, commented:
"Coupled with the $20 million expansion of our
physical facilities, such an arrangement will enable Mt. Sinai to offer the most complete health care available.” The establishment of UM’s School of Medicine was made possible by action of the Florida State Legislature in
1951. There had been no facilities for the teaching of medicine in Florida since 1866 when the Tallahassee College for Medicine and Surgery had ceased to function after a history of only three years.
Captain Pedro Mudatra, a ROTC instructor who was present, replied that it was necessary that military instructors owe their first loyalty to the military, since they are paid by the Army.
Mudarra said that the oath of loyalty taken by every ROTC cadet and instructor was necessary to keep Communists out of the Army.
“As far as the ABM went, I think we accomplished our purpose,” Walters said.
“We intended simply to supply information on the ABM system.”
—Photo bv PAUL HART
A child careening — lackadaisically. No thought of tomorrow. Free, with only the wind on his shoulders.
Med School, Mt. Sinai To Consolidate Staffs
Stanford To Head Palmetto Committee
By MARJORIE GROSS
Of Thu Humean* staff
UM President Henry King Stanford has been appointed to head a “fact finding” committee which will probe into the black student boycott
ROTC
Question
Debated
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Th* Hurricane Staff
The question of whether ROTC should be allowed on campus took precedence over the scheduled debate on the Anti-Balliastic Missile System sponsored by the Gadflies Thursday night.
and racial trouble at Palmetto Senior High School.
The appointment of Stanford and five other members of this biracial committee was made by Edward Whi-g h a m, Superintendent of Public Schools, and the Greater Miami Coalition.
In its first working session the committee met in the offices of the United Fund and heard from Palmetto students. School system personnel, parents and others will be asked to appear before the committee which has no legal status and should make recommendations concerning the racial trouble in about ten days, said UM Publicity Director Lynn Clark.
School officials who or-
dered the probe have also organized their own committee to investigate outside involvement of such groups as UBS, The Greater Miami Urban League, and the American Federation of Teachers.
The three day boycott was organized in protest of Palmetto’s lack of black courses and black instructors. Another demand was the firing of Principal Robert Moloney.
A biracial committee of students, parents and teachers was formed this year to study problems.
After a year of waiting for solutions students drew up a list of demands and decided to walk out when Moloney declined to negotiate under pressure.
The salaries of those members of the Mt. Sinai staff who receive faculty status will be paid by the hospital. The university will continue to pay the salaries of our faculty who become members of the hospital staff.
The chairmen and faculty members of the affiliated departments will determine the additions to the faculty.
According to Dr. Stanford the affiliation is mutually advantageous. It will “enlarge the instructional opportunities for our students and enable Mt. Sinai to qualify for more federal grants.” The latter results from the fact that federal grants are usually given to affiliates of schools of medicine rather than independent hospitals.
Another facet advantageous to UM is the cyclotron machine which is in the plans for the hospital’s development program. It is very rare for a school of medicine to have one of these devices at its disposal.