Miami Hurricane, May 09, 1969

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Special on Black Culture Week. See pages IB and 2B.

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Friday, May 9, 1969

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Aid Cut Might Cost UM
By MARK BERMAN
0« The Hurricane StaH
UM will lose an estimated $158,000 of its national financial aid allocations next year if Congress approves former President Johnson’s proposed cutbacks in student aid programs.
Approval of the proposal will mean less money for UM’s Educational Opportunity Grants, National Defense Student Loans and the College Work Study Program.
According to James B. Alinder, director of financial aid, the former President’s budget request for 1969-70
calls for $155 million for financial aid as compared to $10 million, which was allocated for the current school year.
"Even with the larger amount of federal funds we received this year, we had to turn down 500 student requests for aid in 1968,” said Alinder. "If the current proposal is approved, we will have less money to accommodate an even greater number of students seeking assistance.”
In an effort to receive more loan funds the Southern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, which held its annual meet-
ing in February, urged Congress to increase, rather than cut back its aid to students.
Assisting in this campaign to keep colleges from suffering sharp aid cutbacks, members of the National Financial Aid Council have appeared before Congress and individual financial aid officers have written letters to Congressmen, hoping to increase their allocations.
“The situation doesn't look too hopeful,” said Alinder, “but we're letting them know through a nation-wide effort, how serious this problem really is.”
“Entering freshmen would
be hardest hit by a decrease in national aid programs because most of the appropriations will be allotted to continuing students, who are now receiving aid,” added Alinder.
To be eligible for consideration for University scholarships a student must have above a 3.0 average. Entering freshmen are granted scholarships on the basis of their high school academic records, class rank and college entrance exam scores.
“Loans are available to students showing a definite need for financial aid, but with the high tuition costs at
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How Cut	Would Affect Grants		
	1967 68	1968-69	1969-70
National Defense Student Loan	$763,429	$772,280	$663,523
Economic Opportunity $236,325 Grants		$261,485	$250,000
;Vl!e*e Work-Study Program	$334,511	$340,000	$300,000
UBS fold Stay Off Campuses
By PAMELA AMLONG
Of Tit* Hurricim Stiff
A circuit court judge yesterday told the United Black Students to stay off high school campuses in Dade County.
Judge J. Gwinn Parker issued a temporary injunction against ten UBS members and South Dade Black activist Odell Johns in the wake of their pro-
•	moting a black student boycott at predominately white Palmetto High School last week.
Subpoenas were served individually on ten United Black Students and on the entire UBS as a whole Tuesday night at a private dinner in conjunction with Black Cultural Week.
>	The subpoenas, calling for the UBS members to
appear in court yesterday at 9 a.m., were the result of the Dade County Board of Public Instruction’s attempt to seek an injunction keeping them off high school campuses.
The ten members who were individually served were arrested last week ax they participated in a Palmetto High School boycott demonstration across the street from Mays High School, They were charged with illegal assembly and disturbing the functioning of a school. A date has not yet been set for their trials.
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The school board Monday asked Attorney George Bolles to seek the injunction against the ten UBS members arrested and South Dade Bondsman Odell Johns who was instrumental in organizing the Palmetto High boycott.
Suit for the immediate injunction was filed be-
♦	fore Circuit Court Judge J. Gwinn Parker Tuesday.
The immediate injunction was sought in an attempt to keep the UBS members off all high school campuses until the request for a permanent injunction can be heard.
The Board in addition, asked the Dade County Grand Jury to investigate the UM students’ involvement in the incident.
Volunteers Are Needed For Slimmer Program
—Photo by BOB HOFFMAN
Yasser, Weinkle, and Weiss are sworn into tluir USG positions
. .. hy Dave Halherg, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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By MARK BERMAN And DAVE VAN SINDERIN
Of Th« Hurrlcaiw Staff
UM students will picket the LeJeune Rd. A&P tomorrow to protest the local su-permarket’s purchase of grapes.
The demonstration, scheduled for 10 a.m., is focusing on the California grape industry. The “Boycott Grapes” movement was initiated to protest the industry’s treatment of its largest segment of employees —
migrant workers.
“The purpose of the picket is to draw people’s attentions to the plight of the grp.pe
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project in Miami two months ago. At a meeting Monday night with Sanchez, student leaders decided to participate in the picketing.

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BOYCOTT
GRAPES
By DAVE VAN SINDEREN
Of The Hurricane Stiff
* The University of Miami Summer Youth Program now needs volunteers. UM students are being asked to devote some of their time this summer to working with •underprivileged children.
The program, in its second year, consists of student volunteers counseling, teaching, and coaching young children in athletic and academic activities.
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Instructors are needed in the following areas: golf, swimming, basketball, soft-ball, soccer, tennis, chorus, guitar, piano, drums, arts and crafts, Spanish, typing, drama, reading and writing, uiiath, mechanics, and science.
Essentially the program tries to utilize whatever volunteer skills are available in all listed categories as well as in less formally structured ^endeavors with some of the more talented children.
The entire program is planned, conducted and directed solely by University students, sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government, MRHA, and administratively supported by the Division of Continuing Education, its Community Education Service, and the UM Athletic Department. The directors of the program are ^im Choate, Eliot Server and
Norman Manasa.
Another positive consideration is that students may qualify for academic credit for their participation in this program.
In all probability, funds will be available to pay vol-
cial need. The effort has received a grant of $21,090 from the federal government.
The Youth Program will be run five days a week, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It will be divided into two sessions: the first,
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workers and to make the grape-growing industry fulfill the needs of its workers,” said Mike Abrams, former USG president.
The national movement for an improvement of workers’ conditions in the grape industry is being led by Cesar Chavez, a Californian, who is head of the grape-pickers’ union.
The local picket and boycott has been organized by Manuel Sanchez, a Chavez appointee. Sanchez has been drumming up support for his
Abrams decided to join the picket after speaking to Sanchez and said, “It is the least I could do to help the migrant workers and it is the least others could do to help.”
Interest in the “Boycott
Grapes” movement has been growing rapidly since Monday, according to Abrams. “I already know of more than 20 people who plan to attend the picket tomorrow,” he said.
Several of Chavez’s appointees who have been touring American cities have forced the grape industry to move away from formerly concentrated consumption areas.
Consequently, Miami has moved from 20th to 5th place in grape consumer ranks without any increase in consumption rate.
UM- students leading the drive for the “Boycott Grapes” movement include Abrams, George Lachat, Fred Biistein and Jim Yasser.
Graduation Dale Set For June 8
— Phot# by MIKE NEFF
.Man is ,Borii ami matt «lies. He is Imi a jripple in the pool of time.
UM commencement exercises will be held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, June 8 in Miami Beach Convention Hall South, 1700 Washington Avenue.
Tickets for the ceremonies will be distributed May 12-16 and caps and gowns will be distributed May 19-June 6 on the second floor of the Student Bookstore.
According to Registrar George W. Smith, there are 1862 candidates for graduation — 228 for doctoral degrees, 248 for masters degrees and 1306 for bachelor degrees.
The Academic Deans Council has authorized any summer session candidate for graduation to attend June commencement with the approval of his academic dean. In the past this rule has been suspended because of a lack of space, but by using Convention Hall there is enough space to accommodate a larger group of students.
who can earn their degrees in the first or second summer sessions the opportunity to participate in the traditional ceremony,” said Smith.
Chairman of the commencement committee, Mr. C. Bryce Dunham, said that no cameras will be permitted inside Convention Hall once the program begins. “After the exercises are over, however, cameras may be used,” said Dunham.
Graduate candidates, relatives and friends are invited to the Commencemr it Reception, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Saturday, June 7, in the Brock-way Lecture Hall of the Otto G. Richter Library, Each candidate is also entitled to six tickets for the ceremonies and may buy engraved announcements in the Bookstore.
Further information concerning graduation procedures will be handed out with caps and gowns.
The commencement committee is made up of 22 members including two students, Andres Gomez and Jay Baumatyi.
Fee Hike
Balloting On Wed.
Students To Picket A&P To Support Grape Boycott
By SHARA PAVLOW 01 Th# Hurrican# Stall
A re-vote on the $5 student activity fee increase was set up for Wednesday, May 14, by USG Council.
Yasser, Marty Weinkle and Stu Weiss were sworn in as USG officers by Supreme Court Justice Dave Halberg.
The recently elected USG Council was also sworn in.
In his first official act as USG President, Yasser asked the Council for ratification of three Cabinet appointments.
Nominated and approved by Council were Ted Elwell, Secretary of the Lecture Series; Bob Haroutunian, Secretary of Entertainment; and Harold Fields, Secretary of Community Affairs.
Elwell and Haroutunian received unanimous approval
Discipline
Proposal
Accepted
A proposal for mandatory referral of student disciplinary cases to the Students Rights Commission was passed unanimously by USG last week.
The resolution would require each personnel dean to refer major cases, excluding residence hall judicial court cases, to the commission at the time the charges are levied against the student.
The resolution, submitted by John Dohm, Jim Yasser, Bill Councill, Stu Weiss and Marty Weinkle, is currently being considered by Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler.
“This move by USG was necessitated by the atrocious and autocratic handling of students involved in disciplinary procedures,” said Yasser.
“T h e personnel dean’s offices, particularly the Dean of Women’s, have seen fit to mislead, confuse and often lie to basically uniformed students,” he said.
“That is why we need a mandatory referral board ... to insure due process and counseling to all students, before they are submitted to a closed hearing with no counselor present.
“If t h e administration can’t give students our basic rights, we’ll provide them,” he said.
The Students’ Rights Commission was created earlier this semester to advise and counsel students charged with infractions of university rules and regulations,
of the Council by hand vote. Fields was ratified in a 13-2 roll call vote with one abstention after intense questioning by representatives concerning his plans for community involvement outside the black ghetto district.
Senior representative Jane Hershman attempted to reflect the feelings of apprehension expressed by various council members on her statements to Fields.
“I (hink what we are all most worried about is alienating the university from other than black community areas. We do live and are responsible to the city of Coral Gables. We have business with local merchants and make use of city facilities,” she said.
“We don’t want to see the rest of our interests lost in the shuffle,” Miss Hershman
concluded.
Fields, in his remarks before the Council, attacked original plans for white students to go into the Coconut Grove district for the JFK (Join For Kindness) Cleanup Day last semester.
It is extremely difficult for a white person to go into a black area. Communication is always better between people of like cultural backgrounds, he said.
Yasser interrupted the discussion to say that In his campaign platform he had emphasized help for local for poverty areas.
“I choose Harold for my Cabinet because he was concerned with the poverty areas. This is where I feel USG should direct its energies rather than aggravating merchants on Miracle Mile. I feel that he will be a very valuable addition to the Cabinet and will give USG more relevancy.”
“Harold is part of the problem. He knows where the problem is and why It exists. His appointment is a sign of the university becoming aware of the social and
The Council selected Murray Cohen as temporary Election Chairman solely for the referendum until Yasser can make a permanent appointment sometime later this month.
In what Yasser termed only the beginnings of a more complete presidents report he said, “Despite a few obvious rough spots which will iron themselves out as we gain experience in office, I think we’re off to a good start.
“The important issue now is to make sure the student body gets out to vote on this referendum. We are powerless to act in improving USG functions without the increase, and we need a tremendous show of support to take such a proposal before the Board of Trustees.”