Miami Hurricane, December 19, 1969

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Players who have come to me say that they're strictly for me."
—Charlie Tate

Rumors about Coach Tate's leaving have no foundation in fact."
Henry King Stanford
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By LARRY H. SNYDER And LARRY SOKOLER
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Widespread rumors that head football coach Charlie Tate will not command UM gridders next season were abruptly demolished this week when President Henry King Stanford told the Hurricane that Tate’s contract would he honored.
Stanford's announcement came following a one-hour meeting with the loss-ridden coach late Wednesday afternoon.
"Rumors about coach Tate’s leaving the university have no foundation in fact," Dr. Stanford said. “He will be the university's head football coach next year In accordance with the university's contractual obligation to him."
Dr. Stanford did not comment on the nature of this contractual obligation but it is believed the pact terminates at the bnd of next year.
The President gave no indication, one way or the other, as to what will occur at that time.
Coach Tate was reached at hia office in the athletic building yesterday morning, and said he met alone with Dr.
Stanford.
He said he had not given any thought to the rumors about a possible resignation or that local businessmen had offered to buy up the remainder of his contract following the 4-6 season.
“When you work for an institution with a reputation like the University of Miami you know they don’t do business in that manner,” Tate said.
He said he knows he has the backing of Dr. Stanford and the Board of Trustees and that there has not been any men-
tion made to him over displeasure at the way he runs the football program.
And what reaction, if any, have the players shown concerning this controversy?
“I haven’t discussed It with too many players,” Tate said, “But those who have come to me have said that they’re strictly for me.
“I don’t think it’s had much of an effect on them, anyway, because they know that the coach’s job is to teach and it’s the players job to put what they have learned to use ”
And what about the coach’s hindsight about the team’s performance for the ’69 season?
“1 might have rated them too high," Tate said. "They didn’t measure up like we expected them to, especially on defense, but that can be blamed on injuries as much as anything else.”
He said the loss of potential All-America safety Tony Stawarz just prior to the season opener was a heavy blow, one which was hard to compensate for.
“We also missed (Tony) Cline and (Bill) Trout because
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Black Athletes
Black athletes - the silent minority - speak out on their views, feelings, and dreams. For an in depth report by Hurricane Assistant sports editor, Ed Lang, turn to page
Vacation Lull
For a sneak preview of what UM will look like during the upcoming Christmas vacation - devoid of all animal life - turn to page 6.
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I BS Trial
Postponed For Now
By BARBARA WOODEN
Of The Hurrlc««» Staff
Ten members of UM’s UBS, and three Palmetto High School students, have been formally charged with "disrupting school functions and unlawful assembly" by the city of Miami.
The charges stem from the “Palmetto High Incident,” on May I, 1969. "The black students of Palmetto High School were on strike,” related Harold Long, former UBS president, who was one of those arrested in the incident. “They had called UBS in to speak to the black population of Palmetto."
Other Palmetto High students faced the same charges but were turned over to juvenile authorities, where the charges were thrown out of Juvenile Court.
The studpnts of Palmetto were concerned with the lack of black counselors, black oriented courses, and black identity at Palmetto at the time of the incident. UBS came in and tried to gather the support of other area high schools. Palmetto at the time was not the only high school where the integration of schools was causing dissension.
"The Dade County School Board had brought in blkck students and not made preparations for them,” Long said.
UBS's main concern at the time was to see that the Dade County Board of Public Instruction set up guide lines for all schools in this situation. UBS and the Palmetto students then decided to gather more support.
"After receiving permission from a ‘pig’ lieutenant we gathered across the street from Mays (high school),” recalled Long. "Up to this time we had been in the Per-rine area and we were planning to go to Liberty Park to hold a rally. Before we could leave, the 'pigs' moved in and blocked in all the cars. They gave us two minutes to disperse.”
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Ghetto Sell Cards
By IRIS HOROWITZ
Of »1»» Murrlcan« SI*»*
Ghetto children sold handmade Christmas cards, self-baked cookies and self-made candles in the Breezewav earlier this week. The children are junior high schoolers who attend the EOPl Center of Coconut Grove.
The purpose of the project, sponsored by Summon, is to buy baskets of food and toys for needy families. Also, to buy educational materials for the EOPI center in the Grove.
According to Lori Ellick-•on, VISTA volunteer work-Ing in co-operation with the Summon project, "This is really great for the kids because they are learning how to make and sell things. It makes the university students understand the value of giving.”
Two of the "salesladies,” Barbara Wilcher and Felicia Simmon agreed that business was terrific and that Christmas is “groovy.”
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Cohen (K) Discusses Money Problems ... as Gadfly Chairman Rorhy ff alters listens in
Cohen Discusses UM’s Finances
By JOHN REILLY
Of Th« Humean« Staff
“The UM is a complex institution with unusual problems," said Eugene Cohen, V.P. for Financial Affairs at Tuesday’s meeting with the Gadflies in the International lounge.
When asked about the $1.-500 charged to USG for additional insurance for the Janis Joplin concert, Cohen said he has a meeting with USG President Jim Yasser this week to discuss the problem and would not comment further.
Rocky Walters, Chairman of the Gadflies quizzed Cohen about President Stanford'« contingency fund.
"President Stanford has the authority to use the money as he sees fit," Cohen said, "but any continuing expense coming out of the contingency fund of over $2,-500 a year or over $10,000 for one year must be passed by the budget committee.”
When asked if the UM football team pays for itself, Cohen’s answer was “no.”
“There Is no way the football team can pay Its way with exception of the years we play Notre Dame. During those seasons our over-all ticket snles go up for each home game and of course the Notre Dame game is sold out,” Cohen said.
Cohen blamed the rising tuition of the UM on rising costs of the community. Clerical, maintenance, and faculty salaries must keep pace with the rising pay scale of the community to keep the personnel of the University working for the University.
“UM's tuition is lower than the median in comparison with other large, private universities," Cohen said.
"However, I can’t guarantee that in 2 or 3 years the
tuition won’t go up again,” Cohen added.
As chairman of the Master Plan Committee of UM Cohen said the idea of a field-house is not feasible at this
time.
“It would cost approximately $7 million to build a fieldhouse seating 7-10 thousand people," Cohen said, “and the cost of electricity alone would be about $150,-000 per year."
Cohen said gifts to the University have not covered the cost of a fieldhouse so far and although land has been set aside for the construction of a fieldhouse no plans are on the drawing board.
Cohen cited as an additional cost to the University the price of setting up the security system currently in the making. He said that $100,000 has been allocated to set up the security system.
Hurricane Editor Larry Snyder and Tempo Editor Mary Fiksel both running unopposed were re-elected for Spring semester 1970 by the Board of Publication» Monday.
Jerry Hart, currently managing editor pf the Hurricane, was elected Hurricane Associate Editor for next semester.
Hart, a transfer student from Dade South, was chosen after the Board of Publications had interviewed the candidates and reviewed their qualifications. Hart had been editor of the Catalyst, South Dade's paper, and an Intern reporter for The Miami Herald.
“I ran for the associate editorship on the condition that I would be allowed to do the job of the managing editor," Hart said. "This gives the paper $35 more weekly to be used for AP wire photos.”
Larry Snyder and Mary Fiskel were re-elected as the editors of the Hurricane and Tempo respectively. Snyder has served as the Hurricane's managing editor and this semester’s editor. Fiskel has been Tempo Editor and associate editor.
Others re-elected were Tempo Associate Editor Vernon Tremblay, Tempo Business Manager Boh Drake and Hurricane Business Manager Craig Gorson.
—ewrto bv JOHN L. HAMILTON
Environment Member Rids Lake Osceola pf Debris and Waste
. .. during group's Clean-Up Campaign last week
UM Officials Warning Apartment Residents
By CRAIG PETERSON
Hurrlcan* N*w> Editor
Assistant Director of Housing Chuck Lynch has advised those students living in the apartment areas to take precautions against possible break-ins and thefts during their absence over vacation.
"I would advise students to lock anything of value in their clc' s, then padlock them," he said. "That’s really about ail you can do.”
Lynch said security offi-

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cers will patrol the areas as usual but are hindered in preventing the thefts due to their lack of knowledge of the identities of persons seen on campus.
"They don’t know who is and who isn’t supposed to be there,” he said. “All they can do is patrol the areas and try to discourage some of these
Judge Approves Rock Festival
By IRIS HOROWITZ
HurrlctM E«e«rt«r
Miami Federal Judge William O. Mehrtens consented Tuesday to a three day rock festival scheduled for December 27-29 near Hollywood. He ruled that a Broward County ordinance aimed at blocking the festival was unconstitutional.
Mehrtens said the ordinance was invalid because it didn’t even define the offenses it banned and because "it leaves to the individual descretion” of the police “just precisely what is a rock festival. .
County offirials accepted the ruling and began to prepare for strict police enforcement of anti-drug laws during the festival.
Mehrtens’ ruling made no limitation on how long rock music could be played each day. Norman Johnson, festival promoter, had originally planned continuous dawn to dawn sessions of music.
The judge discounted claims by officials of Broward County that it would be impossible to adequately police the festival due to the drug-using music lovers the festival would draw. However, the judge noted that most football games draw more people and many who consume alcoholic beverages.
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Lynch said the prime targets of the vacation-time thieves include tape recorders, stereo equipment, clock radios and other electrical appliances. "It seems that the people who go in tend to make a mess of things and take the obvious things,” he said.
According to the Housing Office, break-ins last year were lower In number than in past years. In 1967, for example, items totaling more than $10,006 were stolen from one of the dorms alone, with apartment thefts bringing the total to a much higher figure.
Lynch suggested that departing apartment residents arrange for anyone remaining in the building over vacation to periodically check their apartments for any unusual signs, such as lights and unlocked doors during their absence.
Apartment area officials this year plan to keep half of the staff on duty during the vacation in an attempt to reduce the numbers of hreak-ins. At least one resident advisor will be stationed in every group of two or three apartment buildings during the vacation.
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UM’s Campus Lake YieïdÊ
Environment's clean-up of Lake Osceola began this week as a just-released report sponsored by the Hoover Environmental Legal Defense Fund reinforced the UM chapter’s plea for pollution control.
While chairs and tables from the old student union, a shopping cart, and the remains of several homecoming boats wene fished out of the UM student lake, the Hoover report noted that the Coral Gables Waterway at Dixie Highway had a fecal count that “must be considered unfit for swimming," and was named as one of the most polluted areas in Dade County.
Lake Osceola runs into this waterway system, which in turn "backwashes” Into the Ijike at high tide. The fecal count in the waterway system is attributed to seepage from septic tanks and cesspools along the route of the canals, although any fecal count at Lake Osceola could partially be attributed to a broken sewage pipe that Environment has discovered.
"Our next step is to confront the administration after vacation with the facts about pollution in the area, the results of the Hoover report, and Environment’s plans to alleviate the problem,” Environment President Doreen Le Page said.
When asked what course the group will take If the Administration fails to act, she said, “We will have the Board of Health condemn the Lake.”
Following the clean-up Monday which also netted innumerable styrofoam cups, a phone message for a UM administrator, and the Sigma Alpha Mu plaque that normally graces their table in the cafeteria. Environment set up four trash barrels around the Lake.
"But Tuesday morning one of our barrels was found floating in the Lake and it had to be removed," Doreen added.
Remember M-Day At Christmas
"What we want is for people to take home the Moratorium for Christmas,” Peter Yaffe, UM Coordinator of the Moritorium Committee said this week.
"On December 24 in many cities across the nation spe cial church services, caroling, and a boycott of department stores refusing to display signs reading, "This Store for Peace," will be evident.
"People at this time of holidays should examine their views. Christmas is traditionally a time for peace — it’s "Peace on Earth,” but the war still continues.”
An ‘Underwater Junkyard’
Study Says Waterway Is Polluted
By ELIZABETH OSTROFF
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