Miami Hurricane, February 20, 1970

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UBS apologizes for excluding white students from Sammy Davis gathering. See page 4.
Voi. 45 No. 33
Friday, February 20, 1970
284-4401
He Came Because He Was
“Help them in their struggle for dignity.**
—Sammy Davis Jr.
Girls Can Now Visit In Men’s Dorm Rooms
Bv JOHN REILLY
Of Ota Hurricane Staff
Women’s visitation in men’s dormitory rooms has been approved on a trial ba-s i s by the UM Board of Trustees.
The new rules on the men’s visitation policy are as follows:
•	Women permitted in men’s rooms, noon to midnight.
•	Women may visit only by invitation.
•	Houses may vote to limit visitation privileges.
•	Quiet hours must be observed.
According to Men’s Resident Hall Association President and author of the visitation policy, Mark Krasnow,
Gndy Hill
... revises rules
‘Abolish Curfews’ Frosh Say
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Tha Hurrlcana Staff
The Central Council of Associated Women Students ac-c e p t e d recommendations Tuesday night for rules changes, including the Immediate abolition of weekend curfews for freshmen women, and the abolition of all curfews for second semester freshmen, beginning with the first summer session, 1970.
A group of women students, mostly freshmen, attended the meeting to express their opinions that the abolition of second semester curfews should go into effect immediately, rather than at the end of this semester, when it will no longer affect them.
The Central Council told the freshmen that it had decided in December that no maojr curfew changes would be made this year. The reason given for this decision was that there had been a number of major changes last year, and the Council felt that it would be wiser to wait for more changes.
The freshmen who voiced their objections to this pointed out that the proposed revisions were the result of an AWS poll taken in December. They had been under the impression, they said, that because the poll was taken at that time, the changes would be instituted second semester.
"Curfews are a joke,” one freshman told the Council. "They're not enforced, and more girls get away with breaking the rules than get caught. You can walk right out any time."
“the policy will probably be in effect by mid-March.”
The MRHA proposal was first submitted to Dean of Students Dr. Nicholas Gen-nett in Oct. ’69. Since then the proposal has been ap-proved and endorsed by MRHA, AWS, USG, the Office of Resident Student Development, the Dean of Students, the Vice-President for Student Affairs and President Stanford’s Cabinet The visitation policy will allow women in men's rooms seven days a week from 12 noon until 12 midnight. But no male resident will be allowed to have a woman in his room without the consent of his roommate.
Implementation of the policy will be decided at the Feb. 26th meeting of the Committee on Student Af-. fairs, where problems will be ironed out and a date set for the start of the policy.
The visitation policy will be initiated on a trial basis for the remainder of the semester. An evaluation committee will be responsible for the supervision of the trial period of the policy.
A majority vote of the committee can terminate the policy at any time should the effects of the policy prove undesirable. The evaluation committee will have the power to alter or modify the policy but will not have the power to expand it.
The evaluation committee is composed of representatives of MRHA, AWS, the Judicial Boards of MRHA and AWS, the Dean of Students, Dean of Men, Dean of Women and the Dean of Housing.
Joel Rudy, director of Resident Student Development will be the chairman of the evaluation committee.
At the end of the trial semester the evaluation committee will either recommend continuation, modification or termination of the policy to the Trustee Committee on Student Affairs.
According to Mark Krasnow, MRHA president, and Vice-President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler the trial period will expose the strengths and weaknesses of the visitation policy.
The trial period will reveal how resident students react to the policy and the responsibilities it involves.
“We are being asked to prove ourselves,” Krasnow said. “I know the resident students are mature enough for this policy.”
Dr. Butler said resident students will be given a 30
page booklet defining and explaining the visitation policy.
"It will be the resident stu-dents responsibility to be aware of what the policy involves,” he said.
By GERRY FORTENBERRY
Of TtM Hurricane Staff
"I’m here first because I’m black, and secondly, because there is a need," explained entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. before a large crowd on the Student Union Patio Tuesday afternoon.
Davis announced plans for an April 4th benefit show for the foundation of a UBS Scholarship Fund. Where the show will be held or other guest participants is not yet known.
“I am praying for the day when there will be mutual respect and understanding between people — When Sammy Davis Jr.’s won’t have to give benefits of this kind,” he said.
Davis is the third public figure to support the demands of UBS. Price Cobbs, co-author of Black Rage and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, announced their support last week.
UBS President Glenn Fu-bier, made it clear that the foundation of this scholarship fund In no way relieves the UM administration of its responsibilities and commitments to its black students.
By SHARA T. PAVLOW
Hurrlcunc Ixtcutlv* editor
Responding to demands issued by UM’s United Black Students earlier this month. University President Henry King Stanford, Thursday, outlined what the University can and will do to meet these requests.
"The fact of being white — from which whites can escape no more than blacks from being black — does not mean that being white means being anti-black,” Stanford said in his reply to UBS President Glenn Fubier.
He went on to assure blacks that the University is doing and will do all it can to increase the number of grants for black students.
"My colleagues of the faculty and administration as well as the members of the Board of Trustees are as dedicated as you and your colleagues t o eradicating from our campus any semblance of racism," he stated in answer to such charges from blacks.
Stanford also revealed that he has no intention to withdraw or modify his reply because of the Thursday afternoon actions of blacks in occupying the Financial Aid offices.
“It stands just as it is," he said. "This outline represents an open number of groups
USG issue» Faculty Poll
USG has issued an appeal to students to fill out and turn in their Faculty Evaluation questionaire. These quest ionaires have been t issued through MRHA, AWS, fraternities, and sororities and are available around campus. USG stresses that without the full cooperation of the student body, it will not be possible to compile a complete and comprehensive booklet.
committing themselves to greater strides.”
Asking that his response be carefully considered, the UM head pointed out that change can only be accom-p I i s h e d through “orderly deliberation” if it ifc to be constructive and supported by the entire University community.	"
“I really do not believe you, or any of your associates, want to destroy the only means you have to determine your own professional futures — futures which carry with them the opportunity to bring about constructive and needed change in the society at large," Stanford said.
In his outline of plans for black expansion, Stanford pointed out that in several instances the University had met several of the concerns of the black students.
In his outline of plans, the President explained that differences between black demands and University response were due to timing: some items have already been developed.
“Other differences are unacceptable as presented because of recognized prerogatives of the faculty or actual economic considerations,” he said.
Here is what Stanford’s letter had to say:
BLACK STUDIES
"Therefore the black studies program will be extended, but no separate department will be set up at this time because it is not relevant to the needs of black students when they search for positions after graduation," Stanford said.
A Committee on Black Studies has already been set up (Dr. Roy Hensley, Chairman) “to form and organize the program for maximum academic and social benefit.”
BLACK RESEARCH MATERIAL
Bookstore Manager George Mitchell will increase with-
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Davis urged white students to support UBS by buying tickets to the benefit. "Your moral support is needed,” he said. "Help them in their struggle for dignity and for the dignity of students yet to come.”
In a private meeting with UBS afterward, Davis admitted that five years ago he would not have sent a wire to a black student organization or approached them in any way.
“I realize now,” he said,
“that black people have to help each other and what I see here Is positive action by black students to help the rest of the community in which they function. I make It a policy to get involved everywhere I go, but we can’t
all do it the same way. I try to do it on the stage, in the movies and on television.”
Even though Davis said he expects to be busy, he told black students “if you ever need me, you know where I
am.”
Financial Aid Office Occupied
Riot" Police Called
To End UBS Sit-In
By LINDA KLEINDIENST, BARBARA WOODEN
and MELANI VAN PETTEN Of th* Hurrlcan* Staff
Fifty Coral Gables riot police were called to UM last night to evict over 15 members of the United Black Students from the Financial Aid Building.
The students mobilized at approximately 4:30 after a meeting with President Henry King Stanford at which he reacted to the demands made by UBS last week. Apparently they weren’t satisfied with Stanford’s reasoning.
The black students then occupied the Financial Aid
Office and the Dean of Men’s office.
“About ten black students were in my office when I walked in,” Dean of Men William Sandler said. "I asked them to leave at five o’clock. After I talked to them for awhile they left at 5:30.”
Stanford Outlines Plan To Meet UBS Demands
-Photo by KEN RATKIEWICZ
Coral Gables Police Were At The Ready
... at UM demonstration last night
B For, 3 Abstain
USG Adopts Resolution Supporting UBS Stand
USG Council adopted a resolution Monday support-in g the demands of UM’s United Black Students for more black students, courses and professors.
Sophomore representative Barry Taylor, author of the resolution, said USG must stand behind any individual or group who is “dealt with unjustly."
USG REPORT
By Mark Berman
Action came after
on
the resolution UBS Vice President Earl DeVeaux addressed Council to ask for their support.
“We need black students
to
more
have
and professors on this campus and the administration doesn’t see
Spring Enrollment Increases
u
“We felt that we were acting In the students’ best In-
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By ELIZABETH OSTROFF
0< Tlw HurricaiM Stair
UM’s second semester enrollment is expected to exceed that of the '69 spring semester by five to six hundred students according to Ass't. Registrar Sidney Weisburd.
Total enrollment thus far this semester is approximately 16,701 as compared to 16,429 last February.
“We’re 306 students ahead of last February, give or take a few and I expect it to go possibly another three hundred. We’re ahead of our expectations,” Weisburd said.
Part of the expected increase in enrollment will come when “students" who have yet to pay their fees do so and are added to the enrollment list.
“We will have more exact figures in about a month as some people haven’t completed enrollment due to financial payments," he said.
“All our schools seem to have gone up nicely,” Weisburd said noting that the increase has not been concentrated in any particular aaea.
The total enrollment figures for day and evening students and for full time and part time students is as follows:
Total: 16,701 Arts and sciences: Business;
Education:
Continuing Education: Engineering:
Graduate School: Nursing:
Law School:
Music:
General Studies:
Male: Female:
3,084
2,114
613
250
753
1,334
2
392
168
145
1.745
228
1.565
241
244
916
135
29
96
98
In addition there are 378 students in the Medicat school, 105 audit students, 1,491 non-credit students, and 677 In-service teachers.
this,” DeVeaux said.
He said UM needs a black history course to “tell the story like it really was.”
"I’ve had history books that dealt with slavery In two pages and you’re talking about 4-5 million people,” DeVeaux said.
Lynn Kaplan, AWS representative, told DeVeaux there was no reason why blacks should have a separate history course when she had to learn "all about the Spaniards and other people in one course.”
A few council members questioned DeVeaux repeatedly about his financial status and asked him how many blacks were on scholarships.
DeVeaux told them he wouldn't stand up and beg for their support.
"We’ve been begging for
300 years,” he said.
Senior representative Jane Hershman told Council that several scholarships for blacks could be created by white students on full scholarships giving up some funds and by USG executive officers giving up some of their tuition remission.
Council then adopted the
resolution by a roll call vote of 9 for and 3 abstentions.
USG Gets
$2,000
By LINDA ORMES
Hurrican* fttportar
A total of $2000 will be granted to Undergraduate Student Government by the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee. The money is needed for a referendum in which USG will present a new constitution.
The mailing costs of the referendum to be sent to 18.-,000 students, were not expected in USG’s original budget.
Jim Yasser, USG president, at first asked the committee for $4,000. Later in the meeting, he changed his request and asekd for $2000 from the Thurston Adams Fund.
The Ibis yearbook was granted $2700 for expenditures of office equipment. These expenses were not included in the original Ibis budget according to Stu Weiss, a committee member. It would have gone into the red without SAFAC funds.
SAFAC also passed a motion to send a memo to orga-
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Another group of students were rallied at the Financial Aid Office at the same time.
"They came in and announced that the office was closed,” Director of Student Financial Aid Dr. Thomas Sheeder said. “Our staff had been notified by Dr. (William) Butler before the students reached the office, so the files had already been locked up.”
The black students then took over the office and barricaded the doors with tables and chairs.
Nearly 400 students, faculty, and administrators stood outside watching while food and blankets were brought up to the entrenched black students.
Several black community leaders, including radio personality T. Willard Fair and Dr. John Brown, were present to give UBS their support.
When the students refused to evacuate the office. Director of UM Security Fred Doerner, reportedly said to UBS President Glenn Fubier, “This is the ball game now.”
Doerner then proceeded to announce to the students inside the office that, if they dicRnot evacuate the building then they would, be subject to suspension, expulsion, or the actions of the Coral Gables police.
By 6:30 p.m. nearly 30 black and white students had filled the staircase leading to the second-floor Financial Aid Office.
Leaning out of the window, Bill Pratt, UBS secretary, issued a statement to the press:
“We are here because we have not been answered by Dr. Stanford,” he said. “We are so committed that we will not leave until we get an answer. We are not going to resist arrest.”
The Coral Gables riot squad arrived in mass on a city bus three hours after the University had reportedly notified the police. Attired in riot helmets and carrying billy clubs, the fifty policemen stood in formation while students chanted “We hate pigs.”
Rocks were thrown by students, but the police did not break formation.
While the majority of students were occupied with the police in the parking lot, a few police along with Doerner and his assistant Dave Wike were breaking into the
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