Miami Hurricane, December 12, 1969

              Blacks Protest
The United Black Students will hold a rally at 12 noon today on the Rock to protest the killing of Fred Hampton and 28 other Black Panthers during the past year.
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Voi. 45 No. 23
Friday, December 12, 1969
284-4401
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Jobs Open
Anyone interested in applying for positions on the Hurricane editorial or advertising staff for next semester, should contact editors in the Hurricane office S-221 before next semester.
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-Photos by MIKE NEFF
fhrislmas Cheer is Here
You can tell it’s getting close to Christmas when the lights, tinsel and glitter of the season start to appear on the city streets. As Coral Gables does each year, giant snowmen, reindeer, colored lights and .Santa Claus himself were set up in the middle of the city itself. Even though Florida’s brand of Christmas lacks the traditional snow and cold weather, we can tell its that time of year again.
Faculty Poll IJSG’s Proposals
By CAROL COPLAND
Of Tht Hurricane Staff
“The overall trend of the faculty opinion poll was in favor of the Students’ Government’s proposals, and the results will be used to push legislature in the faculty senate,” said Bill Diffenderf-fer, USG Secretary of Academic Affairs, after receiving the results Monday.
Sixty-three per cent of the faculty answered the 25 questions the poll ashed. Issues raised were the voluntary atterdance polxy, student evaluation of teachers. Faculty Senate, the Maymes-ter proposal and the proposed Bachelor of General Studies program. The BGS is a new degree that has been proposed that would enable students to choose courses as their interest dictates.
The results were broken down according to the school and whether the teachers had tenure or not
“We did this to see if the poll would show if particular schools leaned differently on an issue and we also wanted to check how the faculty felt they were being represented in the Faculty Senate,” Dif-fenderffer said.
Diffenderffer felt that because the faculty answered the poll as individuals and not as a group, their answers were more liberal than expected.
‘Movement’ Holds
By DUANE TREEMAN Special to lit# Hurricane
In conjunction with the December Moratorium, the “Movement” is sponsoring two days of educational workshops.
This “teach-in” is designed to offer a critical analysis of the role of the US with regard to the major social and political issues of today.
“Specific issues, such as the war in Vietnam, will be dealt with as merely manifestations of a more basic problem — US imperialism,” Duane Treeman, a member of the "Movement,” said. 'The workshops, through open discussion, hope to achieve a radical examination of US policy, both foreign and internal.”
People from the community as well as students from South Florida high schools
SAFAC
Disputes
Stipends
By SHARA T. PAVLOW
Hurrtcpn* Ixpcutlvt Editor
The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee, Tuesday, granted a total of $67,-459 to the campus radio station, refusing their request of $1,160 for stipend increases.
The funds were allocated to purchase broadcasting equipment and to cover required music fees.
In turning down the stipend request, members of the committee expressed concern for spending student funds to pay salaries for a “student activity."
“I feel we shouldn’t spread the use of stipends until we can re-evalute the entire situation,” SAFAC member Ira Pollack told the committee.
An application for funds from the Miami Engineer was
also refused on the grounds that the Engineering magazine does not serve the entire student body and therefore does not fit into the SAFAC criteria for allocating funds.
Representing the Engineer, Brad Heath told the Hurricane that his staff is presently considering making the magazine an all-campus publication.
“We will certainly follow through and determine the
feasibility of such a move,” he said.
The magazine had requested SAFAC funds for the first time “because a traditional assessment through the School of Engineering was not permitted this year,” Heath said.
Following their refusal, the committee voted that all future requests from minor campus publications must first receive approval from the Board of Publications.
The committee also discussed the necessity of the SAFAC controller, a position which was recently approved but has not yet been initiated.
and colleges are expected to attend.
In all, nine separate workshops are scheduled, each meeting several times a day. This will allow people to attend as many different workshops as possible. Films by Newsreel, a collective of revolutionary f i 1 m-makers, will be incorporated Into the individual workshops.
Topics for the workshops include: Imperialism — The basic underlying theme of the teach-in is anti-imperialism. “That is, capitalism that reaches out for foreign areas to dominate and exploit. In our teach-in the US imperialist nature around the world will be examined” Treeman said. “We will show that the war in Vietnam is a conscious attempt to preserve
our right to exploit an underdeveloped area.”
• ENVIRONMENT — "This is a relatively new area of concern for the radical left,” he continued, “however, if corporate America is not made aware of its death dealing pollution, we may all be dead before someone drops the atomic button. Our environment workshop will
deal directly with the capitalistic system and how its profit oriented outlook destroys the world around us.”
• THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX —
The military-industrial complex workshop will discuss the effects of the capitalistic system on determining military policy. “Profits and interests of the large corpo-
rations which control the US economy, and therefore the government, are being protected and advanced,” Tree-man said. ’These same corporations, through their ties to the military, profit again, directly, through equipping the military.”
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Votes For Incorporation
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Army Leaders Defend ROTC’s Place In UM
By MARK BERMAN
Of The Hurricane Staff
“The result of ROTC is a man who has learned responsibility and leadership,” says Lt. Col. Robert Black of the US Army.
Col. Black was one of the featured speakers at Monday night’s ROTC briefing in the Student Union.
The briefing was set up as an orientation meeting for those who wanted to know more about the ROTC program at UM.
The meeting was attended by a group of anti-ROTC forces who interrupted speakers several times with shouting.
Col. Black and four other speakers defended ROTC and said that it should remain a part of the University curriculum.
“ROTC students have a right to the convenience of attending classes in a university environment,” Black said.
He said the ROTC student learns to develop his communication skills, teaching skills and managerial skills, through disciplined training.
Answering the recent chal-
lenges by anti-ROTC forces in the US, Black said ROTC’s interest is “not to train men to kill, but to train leaders.” Two ROTC students also spoke, John Boles and Kenneth Olsen.
Both said they had benefited from the program.
“The most important thing I’ve gotten out of the program has been to learn to be a leader of men,” Boles sai$J-Olsen said that aside from helping him finance his education, ROTC has taught him “judgment, confidence and responsibility.”
“A n t i-ROTC demonstra-
tions have hit at least 50 colleges this year and radical leaders across the country vow to intensify their campaign to drive ROTC from the campus,” states a November article of Readers Digest, “ROTC Under Attack.”
The article states that abandoning ROTC would deplete the armed forces of many trained officers and would mean disaster for the US.
Speakers at Monday’s meeting stressed that ROTC was producing many civilian-Continued on Page 2
Diphtheria Vaccine Waiting At Center
By ED LANG
(ft tM HurrlctM Staff
Dr. M. Eugene Flipse. director of the UM’s health services said Thursday that students, personnel, and their children 15 and older may get diphtheria shots at the
ROTC Film Has ‘'Stray Facts”
Tempo Out
The third issue of TEMPO will hit the stands Wednesday, December 17. The TEMPO Staff has taken advantage of a rare opportunity. There won’t be another TEMPO like this one. Be sure to turn on with the December issue of TEMPO.
Vernon F. Tremblay
By LEE KOUSTEFANOU
Of The Hurrictnu Staff
Following the ROTC briefing Monday, the audience was nvited to view the film “ROTC” in order that the “anti-ROTC establishment” could present its viewpoint.
The film, shown by an off campus organization calling itself “News Reels,” began after a brief delay over a union room reservation, and then a move into a larger room.
ROTC turned out not to be the main topic, as the film attacked what was called U.S. “imperial” foreign policy and the American university system.
In expressing a multitude of topics, including the removal of leadership in society, ROTC was covered only briciij.
The individual maxing the presentation did not mention his name, but was klentified by one of the students in the audience as having made similar presentations at Miami-Dade J.C. South. At which time, as he later did at UM, identified himself as being in conjunction w^th the Communist philosophy.
Commenting on the ROTC briefing earlier, he said it was “Good and complete for its intent and purpose,” and when asked about the function of the university in the film he said, “I believe the un.v re ty is fundamentally corrupt and that qjvIous pot». 3 1 activity should be removed.”
“The film didn’t say much, just a lot of stray facts, with no relevance to each other. It’s attacking in all directions and is pro ROTC if anything at all,” said a student.
“It was a smoothly put together justification for an attempt at gathering support for a social upheaval and didn’t even justify the soc\|il upheaval very well,” said Tom Drummond, “It had little power as a commentary on the evils of ROTC.”
“The film only raised two questions about ROTC, and those were well answered by the ROTC board,” said Bernard Griffard. “Therefore no one seemed to desire any further clarification on the questions.”
“It was a pro ROTC film, and many of the quotes were dated,” said Griffard, “The quote on the domino theory was definitely out because it is proven no longer practical.”
Health Center.
The announcement, made in the wake of Dade County’s third death due to diphtheria was not made as a gesture of panic.
“While we do not think that diphtheria cases in the Northwest Miami area pose any threat either to the general community or to the UM campus, we are offering the booster shots as a service to the UM community who desire them.”
Se-rretares of Dr. Flhse said they had bee-« di»V ed with nh'-'x c',,’s	■'-»»
where they could get the
booster shot .
“Anyone who has ’ cen treated for an injury at the Health Center during the past 10 years has received booster shots for both diphtheria and ‘ tetanus,” Dr. Flipse said. The life of a booster shot is 10 years.”
Flipse added that the cost of the shots is $1.50 per person and vaccinations start Monday, December 15 and continue through Friday December 19 from 9 am to 5 pm.
Dr. Abraham Bolter of the Dade County Health Advisory Board emphasized that the risk of contracting diphtheria in older persons is very slim.
Set For Today
By MARK BERMAN
Of Tira HurrlctiM Staff
By a unanimous vote USG Council has decided to organize an independent corporate student government that will have more of a say in student affairs at UM.
The action came when junior representative Ira Pollack told Council Monday it was useless to consider establishing a new USG Constitution because it would not get administrative approval.
He said discussing a new constitution was just a “waste of time” and was developing into a “little game.”
USG President Jim Yasser agreed with Pollack.
“USG is a big game; look at the empty gallery and see — it’s a perfect reflection of what we’ve been able to accomplish this year,” he said.
Yasser views the decision to form a separate student corporation a “tremendous catalyst to our attempts to secede from administrative manifestation.”
"We must set up our own legal structure that will not have to ask the administration for anything,” Yasser said.
Yasser said there has been no communication between the administration and USG this year.
He said he has sent the administration several resolutions and letters requesting action but has received negative replies, and in most cases, no reply.
Yasser said he is angry at the administration for transferring $1500 from the USG account to pay for a special insurance policy purchased by the University for the November Janis Joplin Concert.
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Prior to the purchase Yasser told the administration that USG had no intentions of absorbing any additional costs for the concert that were nptT related to its production or site arrangements.
In a letter to vice president for financial affairs, Eugene Cohen, Yasser said, “it is insulting and totally unacceptable to have the university exercise such autocratic control over student activity fee funds.”
"These funds arc not to be considered in the same fashion as tuition or other university general operating monies, and are not to be used without the officially expressed intent of the students responsible for these funds,” Yasser said.
He asked the university to “immediptely reconsider this actioff.dr face serious and consequential reactions from the student body.”
He has called a special council meeting for 4 pm today in the USG office to discuss the extra insurance incident and a corporate student government.
j	*	—Photo by JON SOHOKA
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V/	dances at the Student Union
patio Monday. The crowds A bit of old Mexico came to gathered, but some typical the UM campus this week Florkfa rain soon spoiled the when a troupe of authentic show. But the ratings were Mexican folk dancers pre- Ole anyway.
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