Miami Hurricane, February 03, 1970

              Fashion
Newest clothes appear against the background of the Auto Show. See page 6.
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Voi. 45 No. 28
Tuesday, February 3, 1970
284-4
TY OF MIAMI
FEB 3- 1970
CIBRARY
Pollution
UM students are still active in the anti-pollution war. See page 2.
Hoffman’s "Drama’ Sparks Patio Spectacle
By MELAN1 VAN PETTEN
Of Til* Hurrtcin* Stiff
"Our whole life style is on trial,” Abbie Hoffman, self-styled “cultural revolutionary," informed about 1.000 UM students and a few "outside agitators" Sunday night.
“Our whole life style — our views on imperialism and racism — in America, all young people are niggers.”
Hoffman spent a large part of his time responding to the crowd, who were packed closely on the stage, around Hoffman. Every few minutes, hecklers attempted to make themselves heard, which resulted in the exchange of shouts from all sides of the crowd.
News photographers had some difficulty when members of the audience tried to prevent them from getting pictures. Hoffman beamed down on the scuffle and remarked,
“THIS MIGHT TURN out
like Chicago. They started bustin’ us, and we told them, 'Why don't you bust Walter Cronkite? He brought us down here.’ ”
Hoffman was interrupted several times by a barrage of various and assorted foodstuffs, including flour and tomatoes. To which he remarked:
"Flour Power — use Betty Crocker. This all has to be viewed as a Greek drama — with the chorus, the harpies, and everything.”
"What brought you down here?” a heckler inquired.
“I’m just doing my thing,” Hoffman answered. “I got two grand from your crummy university to come up here. Why don’t you tear the f---g university apart?
“You want to do me in, man, send me a bomb at the Federal Building,” Hoffman told a heckler who threatened bodily harm. "Just send it to ‘Dear Abbie.’
“THERE MUST BE something lacking in your culture,” he went on. “I ain’t in your culture. When they told me, ‘Love it or leave it,’ I left. Last month was alien registration month, and all the brothers and sisters went down to the Post Office and signed up.
“The Pentagon takes orders from Moscow.” Hoffmann commented. "Just ask the National Liberation Front. I saw LBJ and Grome-ko in Patterson, N.J., three years ago. I looked from one pig to the other pig and I knew they were the same P«g
“I’ll give you an idea what it’s like to be in Chicago,” said Hoffman, who Is currently on trial as part of the “Conspiracy 8,” accused of crossing state lines to commit violence at the 1968 Democratic Convention.
“There’s a war on there against all young people, left or right,” he said. "On the TV screen at 10:30 every night, a line goes by that says ‘It is now 10:30. All people 17 or younger must be off the streets.’
“THE KIDS HAVE been coming to the trial,” Hoffman continued. “They start lining up at midnight, and the cops go through the crowd, checking ID’s. Anybody 17 or under gets hauled off to jail and arrested.
“This trial in Chicago was our idea,” Hoffman confided to the audience, who chanted “Power to the people” In
response.
"We picked this judge (referring to Julius H o f f-man) this 75-year-old Geritol freak. We sent him 20 gallons of Geritol. We’ve got
MIAMI — (AP) — A new black militant movement called BAMM has succeeded in doing what the Black Panthers have been unable to — sink roots into Miami.
The bushy-haired young leader of the Black Afro Militant Movement claims: “Each of our present 30 members owns at least two weapons and is fully trained to service and operate various weapons correctly.”
“And we can mobilize hundreds of blacks in a few hours,” added the chairman, who prefers to be called by his n ew African name — Cetewayo.
Cetewayo warns, "Revolution is coming soon in the United States." He vows also. "We will put an end to all police harassment and all forms of black oppression."
Black Panthers describe themselves as the armed revolutionary vanguard against racist oppression in America and adhere to an identical philosophy of policing the police.
But several Panther recruiters have failed in repeated attempts to establish the militant movement In Florida.
A few weeks ago one Black Panther admitted resignedly, "We do not have the glue to stick the movement together in Florida. Political maturity, which is a most important element, is absent among blacks in this state.”
BAMM, formed just three weeks ago. has its headquarters on the ground floor of a two-story apartment building in the northwest section of Miami. Members call the district The Colony, because
more cops in there than Sir-han Sirhan.
“We put Allan Ginsberg on the stand,” he continued, "and the prosecutor says, 'Ah, how long have you been
of its predominantly black population.
The young militants carry a small blue badge and could be identified by the BAMM uniform — matching blue denim pants, lumberjack and black leather boots that reached halfway between the knee and ankle
"One of our first moves,” said the chairman, “will be to set up a police review board and put a stop to police entering apartments and homes in the Colony without proper warrants.
“We are going to take control of the entire colony. And we intend to put an end to ‘kangaroo’ courts and take
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Bombing
Threatens
Meeting
By IRIS HOROWITZ AND ED LANG
Ot Th* Hurric*n# St*«
Over 200 people were cleared from the second floor of the UM Student Union and all of the offices were emptied when the Coral Gables Police were notified by telephone of a bomb planted in the Flamingo Room, Saturday night.
The ballroom was the scene of the Israeli Kibbutz Evening, sponsored by the Israeli Student Organization and American Students for Israel.
S c h 1 m o n Schwartz, an expert on Kibbutz living and Malka, an Israeli singing star who were featured at the event continued their disrupted evening of entertainment on the patio of the Union.
While the group was dancing to the tune of “Hava Nagila," the UM security force and thte Coral Gables police were combing the Flamingo Ballroom for a bomb they didn’t find.
The police were pleased that the crowd remained calm. “There was absolutely no panic, thank goodness," a CG police said.
An unidentified member of the Hillol Foundation asked Assistant Security Director, Dave Wlke if the group could come back up to the second
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Today's 'Cane
•	Second UM football player is seeking a transfer . . . See page 11 for details.
•	For Film Society schedule see page 9.
•	Read a character study of UM Professor David
Saltzman on page 3.	10	Lang 		
Editorials		4	RAP 			 9
Entertainment		8	Snyder 			 4
p VP	2	Sports 			 10
Kleindienst 		5	Sussman 			 5
-Photo by KEN RATKIEWICZ
“Power to the People” Was The Cry
... as Hoffman trailed into the mike
Black Militants Form New Group
a queer Commie, Mr. Ginsberg?’
“We're being tried under the first Federal law about a state of mind," Hoffman stated. “We’re being tried for
crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot.”
ONE THING — we showed the young people throughout the country and the
whole world that that facade of a Democratic Convention was a sham.
"Fifty tons of garbage and Bob Hope,” Hoffman told
the crowd. "They can have American culture if they want it, but nobody does. The only way anybody will accept it is with a shotgun at their head.
"I’m really here to steal the goddamn money and organize 7-year old kids as the vanguard of the revolution,” Hoffman told the crowd as he left. They cheered.
“l/SG . . . has been ignored this year
—Jim Yasser USG President
“/ have not ignored USG this year
—Henry King Stanford UM President
Students Walk Out
Stanford’s Speech
On
By MARK BERMAN
A»»l*t*nt New» Idltor
Pandemonium broke loose at the conclusion of a meeting of student leaders called by President Henry King Stanford Friday to discuss UM governance.
The disruption occurred when USG President Jim Yasser demanded that student representatives on a University-wide task fore* proposed by the Board of Trustees to study UM governance come from within the USG structure.
Dr. Stanford called the meeting of some 250 student leaders in an attempt to get their opinions on how to arrange the make-up of the task force. Several students in the audience suggested that an election of s'udents at large should be held; other asked that members of the task force should be selected.
Yasser told Dr. Stanford he was angry that USG was not consulted first, since the group is representative of all students on campus.
When Dr. Stanford was about to take a vote of confidence on whether the leaders wanted elected or selected student representatives on the task force, Yasser stormed out of the room with a small group of students.
“USG should provide the membership on the task force,” said Yasser. “Who is this group of so-called leaders anyway? USG, which is representative of all the students, has been ignored thia year.”
“I haven’t ignored USG,” Dr. Stanford said. UM student Peter Yaffe told Dr. Stanford it seemed as though he was trying to “railroad this thing through."
Graduate student Bob Ro. sen told Yasser the meeting was a fair one. “I’m a graduate student and I’m not represented by USG,” Rosen said.
Yasser walked out at this point and was hissed and
jeered at by some members of the audience.
Dr. Stanford opened the meeting Friday by telling the group that UM governance was inadequate.
He said the Board of Trustees Executive Committee directed him to come up with a task force to study governance at UM.
Reading a prepared state-ment, he cited several expressions of concern over UM governatree, among them:
By LEE KOUSTEFANOV
Hurrictn* Contributor
The UM campus was the target of three acts of saba-tage Friday morning.
An army 2V4 ton truck
•	The question of non-tenured faculty members not being represented by the Faculty Senate.
•The continuing questioning by students of their role In UM governance.
•	A committee studying UM’s accredidation for the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities suggested that UM re-evaluate its present system of governance.
parked at the Kendall Armory was hit by a fire bomb at about 3:15 a.m. Friday. At the same time, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the vestibule of the campus secu-
Dr. Stanford said he has received a proposal for task force make-up from the Faculty Senate Council and the Academic Dean’s Council. Both groups suggested that two students and four faculty members from each school in the university serve on the task force and that Dr. Stanford select the other members from the administration, alumni and Board of Trustees, as long as they don’t exceed the faculty-student number.
rity building, and a rag wick was placed in the gas tank of a campus security car.
The front seat and the side of the truck sustained minor damage, after being hit by a molotov cocktail. Three other molotov cocktails were thrown at the truck, but missed the mark
Damage to the security building was also slight, consisting of damaged paint to the wall behind the vestibule, while the wick placed in the gas tank on the security car intended to cause the gas tank to explode, failed.
The Coral Gables fire department was called to put out the fire in the truck, after it was reported by a campus security guard.
The truck was the property of the Army Reserve, and not the UM ROTC, as earlier reported by local media.
UM director of security Fred Doemer said that the incident was under investigation.
The army criminal investigation division, and the FBI were among the agencies involved in the investigation.
He also received several suggestions for student representation from the students assembled.
USG Supreme Court Chief Justice David Halberg said electing student representatives to the task force would “get us nowhere” because it would be too political and people would have only political interests.
He suggested that Dr. Stanford choose all members
Bail Bond
Proposal
Approved
By CAROL COPLAND
Hurrktn* SI»« Writ*r
Students who plan to get arrested this semester for a minor offense don’t have to worry about spending a night in jail. President Stanford approved the USG Bail Bond proposal January 22.
USG has guaranteed Pete Peterson, a bail bondsman, that it will cover bail set for a student not exceeding $2,-000. Students must sign a promisory note to the USG for the amount of the bond plus 10% for bond costs.
“Students have six months to pay us back and if they do not pay USG they can be taken to court,” said USG Deputy Attorney General Ira Pollack.
Money from the student activity fee has been allocated for the bail bond program.
“The $2,000 covers possession of marijuana, if it’s the first offense, but not pushing,” Pollack said.
Students may have USG help bail them out in Dade, Monroe and Broward counties.
"it’s cheaper if students can pay their own bond (then they don't have to pay the 10% bond costs) but no one should be forced to spend time in jail,” Pollack said.
If arrested call Pete’s Bail Bonds at FR 9-1213 or the USG office at 284-3082 any hour for immediate service.
Ira Pollack
. .. ‘il’a cheaper*
Uui'ss Wliat^s Coming For Dinnor?
By JOHN CRAWFORD
Hwrrk*n* Cortrtbul*r
The Central Food Committee, in cooperation with the University Dining Services, will conduct a food preference poll today in the 960 and Mahoney-Pearson Cafeterias.
’ The poll will be circulated during lunch and dinner by the local food committees. under the direction of Lynn Kaplan in 960 and Sharon Gris in Mahoney-Pearson.
The polling is part of a new set of dining reforms being undertaken by Slater's at the recommendation of the Central Food Committee.
The purpose of the poll is to aid Slater's menu-planners in determining student likes and dislikes. A new Board Plan menu will go into effect Feb. 14.
In addition to the food preference survey, the Mahoney-Pearson Subcom-
mittee will run a Food Committee poll. The secorn. poll, similar to the 960 poll of November, will be used to determine the extent of changes in student opinion since the dining hall disturbances of late December, and to define the direction of future changes in the cafeteria system.
In a plea for student sincerity in polling, Central Committee Chairman Tony Passarello said, “I can’t stress too much the need for accuracy and honesty In completing this poll.
“The recent weekend hours change and the new entree elimination system, which came about as direct results from last semester’s 960 poll, show that Slater’s and the University will accept the recommendations of properly conducted inquiries and investigations. The students have finally gotten the ear of the dining services.”
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—Photo by BOB HOFFMAN
Blistered Paint on Side of \riny Truck
. . . irounded in combat from personal war
Firebombs Strike UM; Damage Army Vehicle