Miami Hurricane, February 13, 1970

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UBS Rally Began With Robert Bolden Reading List of Dema nils to Dr. William Butler. Then It Moved to the Ashe Building, and Finally to the Flamingo Ballroom
Hundreds Rally For UM Blacks
‘Support UBS Stand’ Abernathy Tells UM
By BARBARA WOODEN Of Tlw Hurrlcano Staff
In a timely lecture before 3000 students at the UM last night, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leader-s h i p Conference (SCLC) came out emphatically in favor of the demands presented to the UM administration by UBS.
“Not only do I endorse the
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demands of the black students,” stated Abernathy, midway through his speech, “but I also call upon the president of this university to hasten with speed from Paris, and act not as a coward but as a strong man, and grant not only these demands but go further as an act of goodwill.”
In a university of 17,000 students, 125 of them black, one black administrator, no black professors, Abernathy asked the question, “how can you expect black students to hold their peace?”
Dr. Abernathy was informed of the situation on the UM campus as he arrived at the airport by UBS President Glenn Fubler. Fubler also gave him a list of the present demands, since Abernathy is already familiar with the conditions in the Miami area, and has worked here before to improve upon them.
“In the light of the fact
‘Park For Peace Built In Miami
By IRIS HOROWITZ
Of Th* Hurricane Staff
A “Park for Peace” is being built in the heart of the Liberty City black district by one of the people involved with the Florida Mobilization
‘Concerned*
Plan Rally On Monday
By MARK BERMAN
Aulitant Haw* Editor
A group of “concerned” UM students are planning a rally for Monday night to show their support of expanding the operating hours of the Student Union.
The rally is scheduled for 10:30 p.m. in the Lower Lounge of the Union and will last until midnight.
The group wants the Union to stay open until midnight on week days and 2 a.m. on weekends, instead of the present 11 p.m. daily closing time.
Peter Sokoloff, a member of the group, said it will be "relatively easy” to keep the Union open extra hours, but that three additional employees must be hired.
Sokoloff proposes that the employees be paid by the extra income the Union will make by extending its hours.
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Committee to end the War in Viet Nam — Mrs. Steven Jacobs.
The project was started three months ago and it was just oassed by the City Commission, with a permit for building this Saturday.
The park will be strictly a children’s park complete with hand -made and donated equipment. It will be located at NW 70th and 71st Streets cn 21st Court.
“The main purpose behind the project is to show people that, if demonstrations aren’t working, we can do other things," said Marty Weinkle, an organizer of the park project.
“As far as this semester’s moratorium activities go, we’ll be undertaking a campaign to get signitures from male members of the campus community on ‘We Won’t Go’ statements which will be mailed to the Moratorium Committee, published, and possibly given to elected officials," said Weinkle, Moratorium Coordinator.
"The petition doesn’t put you in any legal jeopardy, it just says that you will use any legal means to stay out of the draft and being sent to Viet Nam," he said.
On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., anyone interested in
helping with organizing the Park for Peace is urged to meet at the art building behind the engineering building or call Marty Weinkle for information at 30jjf! or 3919.
that Dr. Abernathy is falling in line with the policies of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, this indicates the legitimacy and the necessity of our demands,” stated Earl DeVeaux, vice president of UBS, after Abernathy’s lecture.
“Those who were present at today’s rally,” continued DeVeaux, “saw what went on. In the private meeting they saw what type of men we have to deal with as well as the necessity for a different sort of action.”
“Let the students of Amer-i c a demand,” Abernathy further emphasized in one of his closing remarks. “Let them demonstrate and exercise an education that is not dehumanizing.”
The highlights of Abernathy’s speech focused on
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fare and poverty programs and the need for the unity in America today.
“I believe firmly in nonviolence," stated Abernathy in a policy relating back to those of the late Dr. King. “I do not believe we can win in this struggle through violence but we must escalate nonviolence to the level that it has never been practiced in these United States. We will tie up anything we want to tie up ... to change this so called silent majority into a vocal majority.”
Movement Member Announce« Platform
... they won’t display National Liberation Front flag
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Removes Vlet Flag
Bv LIZ OSTROFF
Of Th* Hurricane Staff
At a rally held on the Rock Monday The Movement announced that it will no longer display the National Liberation Front flag by its table in the Breezeway.
"Hie decision to take down the flag was contained in a three page mimeographed flyer entitled: “The University of Miami and the Fascist State,” which gave the group’s policy on the “Abbie Hoffman Incident,” the
USG Urges Graduate Fee
USG Council adopted a resolution this week proposing that all graduate students be required to pay a student activity fee.
The resolution also requests that undergraduates taking between six and eleven credits pay an activity fee proportionate to the number of credits they are taking.
It asks that graduate students pay the following fees, subject to the approval by the Graduate Student Association:
• $.50 for Carni Gras and
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USG REPORT
By Maik Berman
Homecoming
Ira Pollack
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•	$10.00 for the Student
Union
•	$6.00 for student entertainment
•	Any other special assessments established by referendums in which they have a right to vote.
•	Two-thirds of the remaining Undergraduate Activity Fee, provided that graduate students are directly represented in the bodies responsible for allocating the student activity fee.
Current policy allows a graduate student to voluntarily pay a $16 activity fee per semester that entitles him to all undergraduate student privileges.
"How can USG vote on something that will affect graduate students?” senior
representative Lyn Siegel asked.
Ira Pollack, who introduced the bill, said the resolution merely suggests, but the administration would decide the final outcome.
The resolution asks the administration to act on the change in the activity fee and forward Its response to USG by February 26.
Gary Kesl, chairman of the Graduate Student Association, issued an official statement Wednesday disapproving the USG action.
“USG does not have the authority to vote on policies which will be imposed on graduate students,” the statement said.
“The USG resolution is illegal,” he said, “and it is certainly beyond the powers and authority of USG and therefore will not be consid-ei*d by GSA."
UBS Demands Spark Ashe Building Sit-In
By IRIS HOROWITZ And BARBARA WOODEN
Ol Th* Hurrlctn* StaH
UM’s United Black students dramatically brought their demands to public attention yesterday in three separate demonstrations which began in the morning and lasted into the early evening.
The rally, which included about 500 blacks and whites, began at the Rock, moved to t h e Ashe Administration building and then finally to the Flamingo Ballroom of the Student Union.
Basically, the demands included, “an Immediate long-range academic program relating to the black community, and an administrative department dealing specifically with the recruitment of black students, professors and administrative personnel on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.”
Dr. Butler
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“NLF Flag incident,” and "What We Want, What We Believe.”
The Movement’s position, as expressed in the flyer, is, . . the Movement table in the breezeway was attacked by reactionaries who assaulted Movement people and tore down the NLF Rag . . . we acknowledge the depth of their feeling . . . For this reason, we intend to announce and carry out our program without the NLF flag; but we are not fooled. We know that it is not our symbols that they are threatening, but our ideas, and we remain ready to resist any new attempts to silence us.”
Two spokesmen for the Movement read the flyer to a crowd of approximately 200 onlookers and concluded by saying, "All right, that’s it. That’s all for now.”
The flyer also stated that "not only does the University serve the interests of those who benefit most from this exploitation, but it directly and viciously exploits many who work here. University workers at the lowest level and most Slater system employees, typically black and Cuban, are paid wages hardly greater than welfare benefits.”
The members of the Movement asked all students, faculty and workers to join them in their “struggle for liberty andpustice for all.”
The list of the UBS demands were read in an attempt to make the students cognizant of black complaints and to emphasize their significance to the administration.
A copy of t h e demands was personally presented and read by Robert Bolden to Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. William R. Butler.
“We’re going to pressure the administration to get more black students, and until they meet our demands, we’re not going to stop pressuring,” said UBS President Glenn Fubler. “The black program is completely ineffective and meaningless to the blacks.”
"This campus is irrelevant to black people. We have to make it relevant,” said Harry Role, a member of the black
community.
"Something must be done. If you’re not part of the solution then you’re part of the problem,” said UBS member John Bailey.
Chanting, “Revolution is swell, Stanford’s gonna catch hell,” rally members moved into the administration building, and without Incident, continued the rally there for about two hours.
During this time Dr. Butler made it clear that nothing could be done for the students in the absence of President Stanford, who was in England, attending a convention.
He did however, set up a meeting with members of the President’s Cabinet which began immediately after the rally members peacefully left the Ashe building.
Also, Dr. Butler reportedly scheduled a meeting between black student leaders and President Stanford for this morning.
“We must talk logically,” said USG President Jim Yasser. “There’s one kind of logic they know around here, the logic of economics.
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Reviews Pep Club
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Th* Hurriesn* Staff
The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee considered a request by the Pep Club Wednesday night for $2,000 for next year, a $500 increase over last year’s allocation.
Ibis editor Alex Bukhair raised questions about several of the requests on Pep Club’s list, including $1,300 for printing a pamphlet titled "Hail to the Spirit,” to be distributed to freshmen, and $1,200 for the Sugar Canes, who received an emergency allocation of $445 two weeks ago.
Bukhair and other committee members objected to the idea of Pep Club requesting additional money for the Sugar Canes who had already been denied extra funds.
Bukhair also said that he considered the pamphlet in its present state a “waste of money,” and that it ended up lost among the other printed material received by freshmen.
USG President Jim Yasser questioned whether or not Pep Club would be able to sell a significant number of dinks, commenting that he thought the M-squad had been abolished.
Pep Club President Rich Rudner explained that Pep Club had taken over this tradition when USG dropped It. He said he felt that freshmen
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