Miami Hurricane, November 25, 1969

              Hurricanes Win
For action shots and stories on Friday night’s Hurricane football team victory over the Wake Forest Deacons, see pages 9 and 10.
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Vol. 45 No. 20
Tuesday, November 25, 1969
Fashion Page
For an exclusive preview of the newest In gypsy-style fashions, turn to page 7 for pictures and commentary by Hurricane Fashion Editor Ron! Abrams.
UM Students Elect Reps; Approve $,
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Results	At
FRESHMEN	Vote«
Steve Burger	301
Peter Sokoloff	265
Lee Freedman	254
Garrett Grainger	243
Lynn Kaplan	235
Steve Cohn	168
Steve Chaykin	146
Dawn Mihalic	101
Rebecca Price	92
Ralph Epstein	90
James Snyder	84
Jeff Stein	45
Adam Kurlander	40
Marcia Mur	35
SOPHOMORE	
Diane Daughtee	104
A Glance
Robert Furlong	52
Daniel Peterson	51
JUNIOR	VOTES
Raymond Carr	117
Bill Lizewski	97
SENIOR
Louis Tripoli	127
Stuart Ellison	56
Thomas Buist	33
Richard DiQuattro	19
SEC
Lee Phillips	564
Mike Braz	545
David Glassman	541
Referendum for against
Concert Series	744	58
Birth Con. Pills	677	201
Security Force	672	573
Firearms	410	829
By MARK BERMAN
Of Th. Murrfc.n. Staff
UM students elected seven representatives to U S G Council and three members to the Student Entertainment Committee Friday and approved a proposed $2 increase for the USG Concert Series.
Voter turnout was light, with 1471 of nearly 14,000 undergraduates voting.
Elected as a slate for the freshmen seats were: Steve Burger, Lee Freedman, Garrett Grainer and Peter Soko-loff, who were top vote-getters out of 14 candidates.
Sophomore Diane Daugh-tee defeated two opponents to filL the council seat vacated by Bill Councill earlier this year and Raymond Carr was elected junior representative. Carr will hold
the seat vacated by Bruce O’Boyle.
Louis Tripoli, former USG attorney general, was elected senior representative, defeating two candidates with 54% of the class vote.
Elected without opposition to the SEC were: Mike Braz, David Glassman and Lee Phillips.
Students accepted the activity fee increase proposal by more than 200 votes. It must now be approved by the administration.
Another referendum calling for the University Health Center to give medical examination and prescribe contraceptive devices was ap-
proved by a vote of 677 to
201.
Students also voted to support a deputized police force on campus, but disapproved of the force carrying firearms.
The freshman winners ran on a platform listing 59 points. Among their major proposals were: abolition of
freshman girl's curfews by second semester, changing the board plan to either a 20 meal, “by the meal," or 100-meal, "any-meal” type plan, and the establishment of a freshman information center to aid incoming freshmen.
Diane Daugtitee's main platform proposals were
based on getting more students involved In USG and getting more student voice in University affairs.
T r 1 p o 1 i's major planks included the abolishment of the present USG Council and establishment of a Student Senate and the elimination or reduction of language requirements.
Administration Denies
Constitutional Change
Untenured Faculty Revises Policies
ago and has never been ratified by the student body.
The proposed Constitution Includes many significant changes in regard to the franchise, authority, and governmental powers.
For example, under the prepent USG Constitution the franchise is extended solely to “regularly enrolled full-11 m e undergraduate students," but the proposed Constitution will extend the franchise to “All students
By CRAIG PETERSEN
Hurrlc.n. New. Editor
Members of the Untenured Faculty organization last week discussed three major
Editorial
Elections
Slated
The University of Miami Board of Student Publications has announced that semi-annual elections will be held next month. Though a definite date has yet to be decided upon, the board expressed its desire to inform students that editorship and business positions will be opening.
Dean R. C. Benitiz, Board Chairman, said that applications for the positions will be distributed in the very near future. He said specifics on the elections will be released to the Hurricane as soon as they are available.
At this point, however, the board merely wishes to alert students that election time is fast approaching. Students interested in these positions are advised to watch for further information in future Hurricanes.
Surprise
Hurricane
Develops
By PAUL BARGER
Ot Th. Humean* It.«
Hurricane watchers at the National Hurricane Center on the UM campus brought out record books last weekend and entered hurricane Martha as the latest storm to develop in the southwest Caribbean since 1871.
The rapidly-intensifying storm was located about 100 miles northwest of Panama at that time and residents of Jamaica and San Andres
were bracing for the sustained 70 mph winds and
hurricane-force squalls.
Martha became the latest-developing storm since the beginning of formal hurricane records in 1871, according to Neal Frank, hurricane forecaster. Since that date, only four storms have formed in that area between November 16 and May 31, with three of them forming in
The conditions in the area are still good for storm formation according to Frank. Warm rains and ocean water provide energy for storm formation.
During the middle of the season in the months July, August and September most
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topics — two concerning faculty members and one, grades, affecting students.
A proposal to revise the . present grading policy by the addition of pluses and minuses, each worth a half point, was discussed and prepared for presentation to the Faculty Senate.
The proposal would allow Instructors to designate grades by the usual high-school method of quarter-grade increments, such as C-plus and B-minus to distinguish between the upper and lower ranges of each grade.
In other action, the members discussed the possibility of obtaining better insurance benefits for untenured faculty members who were previously advised they were considered uneligible under the present rules.
The group also argued against the proposed abolition of faculty discounts in the bookstore. “I know of no businesses not allowing their employes a discount,” U-F president Dr. Murray Binder-man said. "Faculty comprise about three per cent of the bookstore business and most of their purchases are for books, used to increase their effectiveness as instructors.”
Binderman said that students protesting high prices in the bookstore should seek another gaining a reduction in prices, rather than attack the faculty’s 10 per cent discount.
The Untenured Faculty plan their next meeting for Tuesday, Dec. 2 in Brockway Lecture Hall. Dr. Carl Me-Kenry, head of the Faculty Senate, is tentatively scheduled to address the group.
Yasser Rewrites Constitution After No-Show Council Meeting
By ELIZABETH OSTROF1
Of Th. Hument SUM
A meeting to introduce an entirely new Constitution for UM students had to be canceled last Thursday, when no members of USG Council showed up.
The proposed new Constitution is the result of several months research and writing by USG President Jim Yasser, in an effort to replaça the current USG Constitution which was written by an administrator eleven years
who have paid the Student Activity Fee.”
Since this change includes Graduate Students as members of the student government, the name of the organization will be the Student Body Government, after the deposed government of a decade ago.
“The authority of the Undergraduate Student Government is derived from the President of the University, who may withdraw all or any part of the authority granted
to it at any time that he believes such action to be necessary . . .” reads the current Constitution.
Yaiser’i constitution, states id regard to authority, “The Student Body of the University is authorized to enact regulations and to formulate rules for the immediate government of the University in such matters as student conduct and activities, student finances, activity fees, student publications and organizations, and the internal functioning of the student government.’’
In addition Yasser’s new Constitution gives the Student Legislature sweeping new powers in regard td monetary control. The SBG will have the power to determine student activity fees, to appropriate funds to student publications. Student Government agencies, extra-curricular activities which are “compatible with the general welfare of the student body , , .”
Under Section 8 of Article I of the new Constitution are listed individually the Association of Women Students, the Men’s Residence Hall Association, the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council, and the Graduate Association of Students, each clause reads.
“There shall be a (name of the organization) whose responsibility shall be to consider matters affecting (students coming under the jurisdiction of that organization) only.
Some question has been raised concerning this s e c-tion as it is felt, by some officals in these organizations, that this section places them in a subsidiary position to SBG.
Neck-In
’All he wants Is your blood.” The ZBT First Annual Challenge Blood Drive was kicked off yesterday by
-Photo by ALAN VOLLWEILER
“Dracula,” (alias Spence Kellogg). The contest will continue for three weeks with running counts posted in THE HURRICANE. For information, contact Andy Carver, (chairman), ZBT, 666-4017. Also pictured, Bette Kay and Carol Fidelman.
By IRIS HOROWITZ
HurrlMM Rtnnrttr
WVUM radio’s control panel, which was bought used due to the lack of funds, blew up Wednesday afternoon.
Currently, WVUM Is broadcasting from the LI Building, courtesy of the Mass Communications Department.
SAFAC will meet on Tuesday to determine whether or not the station will be given $3,000 to cover the cost of a new control unit “If we don’t get the money from SAFAC, WVUM will be forced off the air,” said John Emm, general manager of WVUM.
WVUM also requested from SAFAC $4,000 to be used for other badly needed electronic equipment. "Much of the equipment was donated or used when we began operating,” Emm said, “and its already past its life span.”
WVUM will recess for the Thanksgiving holiday Wednesday night, and will be back on the air Monday with a “new, higher quality sound of WVUM,” according to Emm.
The station will begin broadcasting the original half hour series of The Shadow, every Wednesday night at midnight, beginning December 3.
The Shadow, written by Walter Gibson caught on in the public eye when it ran as a series in a monthly magazine entitled, "Amazing Stories.” In 1936, with the birth of radio, broadcasting scripts were written for The Shadow, it became the first network mystery radio series.
WVUM-FM has in Its library the tapes of this most popular and famous, mystery series. The Shadow, today, is still quite ear-appealing.
—Photo by GARY RAPPS
Bill Gronvoltl Man» Control Panel
... effort» to revive power fruitle»*
WVUM Blows Its Mike
But VSC Will Use New Version A nyway
By LINDA KLEINDIENST • and MARK BERMAN
Ol Tht Hurrlcono SI»«
A constitutional amendment which would have partly derived USG’s authority from the consent of the students has been denied by the administration.
In a letter to USG President Jim Yasser, President Henry King Stanford outlined his view and recommendations concerning the amendments passed by the USG Council during its past three administration.
After reviewing a report of a committee including Dr. William Butler, Bryce Dunham, Dr. Nicholas Gennett, William Sheeder, and Donald Kubit, Stanford used his authority to “approve those portions which were acceptable” and in the “best interest” of the University.
He suggested that USG should derive its authority to represent the undergraduate student body from the consent of the undergraduate students. “All other authority of USG is derived from the Board of Trustees through the President of the University,” suggested Dr. Stanford.
The USG council voted unanimously Monday, to “consider Dr. Stanford’s suggestion in regard to the constitutional amendments as mentioned in his letter of November 20.”
The resolution declared that until such time as the suggestions are acted upon by USG, the Council decrees that USG proceed according to the constitution as amended by them.
Council members felt that the internal operation of USG is the sole concern of USG and that It is entirely capable of determining its own internal structure.
"Student government will not have its internal policy and its operational structure dictated to by any member of the administration, be it Dr. Stanford or Dr. Butler,” USG President Jim Yasser declared. “If they want to remove us, they’ll have to physically drag us out.”
Here are some of Stanford’s major reactions:
He approved the election of four representatives for each class. (Classes have been represented by four USG Council members since the fall of 1968.)
President Stanford did not approve the amendment giving the USG vice president authority to preside over Council meetings. However, Stanford said there is no objection to the vice president assuming this responsibility.
He did not object to political parties on campus per se, but said that appropriate guidelines should be recommended as a constitutional amendment or USG should eliminate all references to “political parties."
Dr. Stanford suggested that the executive branch shall make no expenditures during the fiscal year for which a budget has not been submitted to and approved by USG Council. According to USG treasurer Stuart Weiss this would not allow USG “to purchase a pen during the summer If the budget had not been approved by the new council first.”
“They’re not going to get away with this," Yasser said after reading the proposals. “They’ve given us a clarified authority to represent undergraduate students and said what the authority should be in the future, but not what is should be now.”
STANFORD YASSER
Pros, Cons Of Jetport
Discussed
By LINDA KÎ.EINDIENST
Hurrican* Nawt id««-
Weinkle, as a member of Mayor Chuck Hall’s Advisory Council, is currently working on a proposal concerning the benefits of the proposed jet-port, both pro and con, to the citizens of the South Florida area.
W e 1 n kle,
together with	____________
Phl1 Spitzer, a	WEINKLE
South Dade Junior College professor, and Tim Fogarty, the St. John’s Seminary representative to the Council, is working on the proposal because they feel that public officials in many cases don’t have ail the pertinent information to base their decisions on.
“Therefore they don’t realize what their decisions mean to their constitutents," Weinkle said.
Spitzer, as a guest of the Council, mentioned some of the problems involved In building the jetport In the Collier County area. These Included the dilemma of the pink shrimp and the sport fishing industries which are both dependent on a very sensitive balance of water-flow in the area.
‘The pink shrimp industry brings in over $300 million per year, and the South Florida economy relies quite heavily on it,” Weinkle said. ‘The sport fishing industry is in the millions too. And the jetport might seriously damage both industries.”
The recommendations of the three man committee will go before the Mayor’s council, which, if it approves them, will pass them onto the Mayor himself. “Mayor Hall will then possibly present them to the Board of County Commissioners, act-Continued on Page 3