Miami Hurricane, April 04, 1980

              THE MIA
Volume 57. Number 45
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Will UM Students Get
Three- Day Weekends?
By LORI BARRIST
New» Editor
A four-day school week may become a reality at UM within the next few years if the Energy Conservation Program Committee finds that energy would be conserved and expenses cut.
According to Alan Rubin, president-elect of the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) and author of the bill to look into the feasibility of the four-day week, rising energy costs played a large part in the $500 tuition increase.
"To form a budget that generates revenue, the administration had to either raise tuition or cut back expenses,” Rubin said.
USBG President Paul Novack said that by holding classes and office hours Monday through Thursday, approximately 20 per cent of the University’s energy costs in the academic areas could be reduced.
“The computer we are hooked up to can shut off the academic areas whenever they want,” Novack said.
According to Novack, another reason the feasibility of switching to a four-day week is being explored is that the U.S. Department of Energy is considering such a mandatory week.
“In addition, there are 4500 undergraduate commuter students here. If they only had to come to school four days instead of five, they would save 20 per cent of their gas and transportation costs," Novack said Novack said that the proposed plan would not be a blanket four-day work week for everyone. "It wouldn’t work for all programs. Some administrative offices would remain open a half-day Friday.”
Artpando Rodriguez, speaker of the USBG Senate, said that problems would be evident in the School of Architecture, where students work on their projects all hours of the day and night.
The bill, approved by UM President Henry King Stanford, established the Energy Conservation Program Committee. The committee will investigate the effects of switching to the four-day plan in terms of how much energy could be saved, how many classes
could be scheduled, and how the other areas of the University would be affected.
"We will look at the effects on classes, the residence halls, the food plan, the library, the Student Union, and Campus Sports and Recreation,” said Oliver Bonnert, committee chairman
According to Bonnert, the first step is to see what the cost saving? are. “It will take a lot of careful study to determine the feasibility of the plan. But it's too soon to see if it will work.”
Dave Lieberman, acting vice president for financial affairs and another member of the committee, said that he is very much in favor of the switch to a four-day week.
“It would save the University costs, energy and transportation costs for our employees. One major problem is that because of the limitations of class space, we’d probably have to hold some classes on the fifth day,” Lieberman said.
Novack said that a major consideration is the necessity of expanding classroom facilities to handle the
same amount of classes in fewer days.
"But it's ail feasible. There are businesses now in Dade County working on a four-day work week." Novack said.
"I guess we'd all have to get used to saying T.G.l T. (Thank God It’s Thursday) instead of T.G.I.F.," Lieberman said.
Lieberman explained that while there are many advantages to the four-day' week, one of the disadvantages is that more students will leave for a three-day weekend, resulting in less campus life.
“It may be fine for certain activities, but I don't know that it would be good for weekend college or university activities," Lieberman said
According to all involved, discussion about the plan's adoption is premature. The committee has met only once and plans another meeting next week.
“We didn’t expect this plan to have any effect this year We just wanted to know if it is feasible, and, if it
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Greeks
Fined
Search Continues For UM President
he limited. He said he would stay on until we find a president, but I can’t tell you when that will be,” Patton
said.
The chairman said he couldn’t reveal how close the committee is to making a choice. “But it's a long process and we're only in the first stage.”
Patton explained that the firjt step in selecting a president is to have the search and selection committee interview, research, and judge the candidates.
The recommendations of the search and selection committee are passed on to a consultive committee made up of 12 deans and 12 members of the Faculty Senate Council. This committee will then Interview the candidates.
The Search Committee received a petition signed by 300 professors. The petition stated that they wanted the next president to be a scholar with previous experience as an administrator in an academic institution. If one is not found, the faculty petition requested that the search continue and that Stanford stay on.
“But no one has been recommended to the the consultive committee yet," Patton said.
After the consultative committee meets with the candidates, the stu-dent government preHtdentH of the undergraduate, graduate, law. and medical schools will meet with them. Then, three members of the citizens’ board committee and three members of the alumni association will interview the applicants.
The recommendations of these groups are all taken into consideration before the candidate recommendations go before the Board of Trustees.
"Then the trustees meet the candidates, deliberate, and select the president."
According to Patton, the next UM president will not be selected any time prior to June.
Hurricane
Positions
Applications for Summer and Fall Editor and Business Manager of the Hurricane are now available in the Hurricane office, Room 221 of the Student Union.
Elections for both positions are Wednesday, April 9, and deadline for applying is noon of that day.
All applicants must have a 2.5 GPA, be a full time undergraduate, and must be screened by Hurricane Advisor George Southvvorth. Applicants must also have at least one letter of recommendation from a faculty member, or administrator, and have worked on the Hurricane for at least one semester.
Southworth can be reached at X4493 for an appointment - or for more information call the Hurricane at X4401.
By IFC
By PETER S. HAMM
Assistant Naws Editor
The Interfraternity Council decided last week to charge $350 to each of six fraternities and sororities who did not participate in Greek Week.
The six groups that did not participate were Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, TKE Fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority. Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority, and Sigma Delta Tau Sorority.
According to Mark McQuitty, a representative to the IFC from Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, the council decided that, since the loss of funds from the six organizations meant a ; large deficit for the IFC, the six ! would be charged the special fee.
"It is a hinderance to the rest of us when six drop out. We’re sup- 1 posed to get together and have a j good time, and this is a burden.”
McQuitty said that, e\en though i the six would each be fined $350, that the council would still suffer a l $550 deficit from Greek Week.
He also said that the council is now considering legislation which would make it mandatory for (Ireek organizations that choose not to participate to be in extreme finan cial stress and to announce their intentions not to participate in the activity before the end of the previous semester.
Porfirio De I a Cruz, president of Phi Delta Theta and IFC Publici’y Chairman said, "As President of Phi Delta Theta I am against the IFC ruling, but as an IF’C member I’m supposed to abide by It."
The IFC is the governing body of the fraternities, and they are also in charge of Greek Week, an annual chain of activities in which fraternities and sororities compete.
Miami Hurricam; AL FERGUSON
Nineteen-year-old Lisa Marion was selected as the new Miss Black UM Sunday night. Marion, an accounting major from Joplin, Missouri, will receive a $400 scholarship, a trip for two to the Bahamas anefthe chance to represent UM at the Miss Black Florida Competition. First runner-up in the Miss Black UN) contest is Barbara Hilliard and second runner-up is Belinda Small.
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Tyson Highlights Black Culture Week
By LORI BARRIST
N»«*» Editor
With less than two months remaining before the retirement of UM President Henry King Stanford, the Presidential Search Committee has not decided who the next president will be.
The search, which has been going on for more than a year, has attracted 260 presidential applicants. By February, the field of applicants had been narrowed to eight.
According to Stuart Patton, chairman of the Search Committee and a UM trustee, the search and selection committee is continuing to interview applicants. "And we will be interviewing applicants for the next few weeks.”
Patton refused to discuss "people or numbers” when asked whether the field had been narrowed to three — one of whom is UM Provost Clyde Wingfield.
“It would be inappropriate for me to speculate on that subject. Certainly the provost is a viable candidate,” Patton said.
Patton also said that he couldn't speculate as to whether President Stanford would remain until a new president is found.
“I never understood his tenure to
By AMY JACOVES
Assistant Naws Editor
Actress Cicely Tyson emphasized the role of blacks in television, theater and other forms of media before more than 300 people Wednesday night at Hillel. Tyson’s lecture was part of UM's Black Culture Week.
“The situation for blacks in California today, in Hollywood, is unbelievable. There are no black actors doing any movies in the theater, at least I’m not aware of any,” Tyson
USBC Senate Elects
Speaker
Rodriguez
By AMY JACOVES
Assistant Naws Editor
Armando Rodriguez and Marina Iglesias were elected as speaker and speaker pro tempore, respectively, of the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Senate on Monday.
Rodriguez feels that he can lead the Senate effectively and maintain a friendly atmosphere throughout the Senate.
Iglesias said.
The speaker qf the Senate is responsible for running the senate meetings. He decides who is to “get the floor," or speak. He coordinates speakers, and decides what order bills and discussions come in.
Rodriguez and Iglesias assume the responsibilities currently held by Michael Chisner and Jose Padilla repectively when they are sworn in by the senate.
said.
“There are a handful of actors working on television, but that is it. What the solution is I am not at liberty to say right now. But, we need a solution and fast,” she added.
According to Tyson, the only black actor working in films is Richard Pryor. '
“He is the only black actor who has been able to command the kind of salaries that white actors have. He is the highest paid black actor in history,” she said.
Tyson expressed her concern for blacks who want to start their own production company and have a hard time doing so.
"We have great difficulty working for one another and supporting one another. It pains me sometimes when I realize what little respect we have for ourselves and our abilities.
“It is considered miniscule when we (blacks) do it ourselves; it is considered monumental when others do it. We are disregarded because we have not realized the value of talent,” Tyson said.
Tyson referred to actor Sidney Poitier’s autobiography to reinforce her point."One of the things he talks about at great length is the lack of respect we have for one another and the lack of support.”
Many of those in attendance stated that they were disappointed with the portrayal of blacks on television and asked for her opinions.
“The networks in this country belong to you. Whatever there is
exists because you want it to be there, because you have not said otherwise. If, in fact, you find it derogatory, it is up to you to write to the station," Tyson said.
One student in the audience asked Tyson her feelings about the “current craze” of white women braiding their hair, since it is a part of black heritage.
Tyson refused to answer the question and went on.
Many questions were asked about her career and the. roles she has played.
She said that she spent approximately six or seven months preparing for the title role in the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and more than two years preparing for
the part of Harriet Tubman.
“She (Tubman) took longer because Harriet was a character that 1 optioned myself for. She’s a woman who I’ve been interested in all my life,” said Tyson.
In the television novel Roots, Tyson played Kunte Kinte’s mother “Just to have been associated with that project has been one of the most rewarding things in my career,” she said.
Tyson said that “one of the fallacies in this business is that you never have to study (acting). That is indeed a fallacy ... I’m a person who cannot just scratch the surface of anything You have to work to get where you want to go."
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"I’d like to take my job very professionally, but maintain a social atmosphere,” he said.
According to Rodriguez, the Senate will have to put the election and the individual tickets (United Students and University) behind them and work together as one unit. He feels that this way there can be an effective Senate.
“I know it’s going to be hard to get all the people in the Senate to work together. I hope that during the summer that we can start working on some of the platforms from both parties. I think that by having so many people that were elected, this will bring an advantage in bringing new ideas and programs to student government,” said Rodriguez.
As speaker pro tempore. Iglesias will be chairman of the Screening Committee, which screens people for various positions in USBG.
“I want the screening people (students on the committee) to appoint people who will work" and not be put into office on the basis of friendship.
In addition. Iglesias feels that it is important for the entire Senate to work together.
“Our parties have to be set aside. I think we can all work together We have a really good Senate,”
Work/Study Also Supplies Summer Jobs
Financial Aid
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Second In Five Paris
By JANE L. MARCUS
Edit*r-ln-Chi«t
Various types of work/study programs, student grants and loans, and the UM Honor scholarship are among the forms of financial aid available for this summer and next falL
The College Work/Study Program (CWSP) gives over 2,000 students on- and off-campus jobs. Students can earn more than the mini-num wage.
According to Judith Marty, director of Student Employment, students receive work/studv jobs that are related to student interests. Students can also receive summer jobs, even if they are not enrolled for summer classes but plan to be enrolled in the fall.
The summer jobs do not necessarily have to be on campus. According to Marty, a student can have a summer job at the Medical
School, at the Marine Science School, or in the community.
On-campus jobs include jobs at the pool, at the tennis courts, at Campus Sports and Recreation (where there are about 80 jobs), and in the library (where about 180 students are employed every year).
"There’s something for everyone,” Marty said. She also said that if a student has a summer job, he can change his job when school starts in the fall. The financial aid office will start assigning summer jobs on May 13; there are approximately 1,800 to 2,000 jobs open.
According to Marty, most schools pay minimum wage, but here students get paid according to experience and what they are doing.
For example, students with spe-
cial technical skills or knowledge enabling them to perform responsibly as paper graders, residence hall advisers. intramural assistants, music school assistants, or classroom monitors can receive from $3.30 up to $4 45.
The bi-weekly pay schedule will begin May 24. Work/study students will be paid every other Thursday instead of every month.
One type of grant for which students can still apply is the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), which is designed for students with exceptional financial need
According to Marty, the government's definition of exceptional need is that family contribution cannot exceed half of the budget.
However. Marty said, imee UM has a high tuition, it's easier for UM students to qualify than it would be at an institution with a lower tuition.
Another type of financial aid is the National Direct Student Loan (NDSL), which is based on financial need. Undergraduate students can borrow' a maximum of $5,000 over a four year period. Graduate students can also borrow $5,000.
Interest on the loan is three percent after graduation, and repayment is a minimum of $30 per month.
For the CWSP. SEOP, and NDSL, students must make satisfactory progress in classes and must earn at least 24 credit-hours per year to qualify each year.
UM s Honor scholarship program is available to all students w'ho demonstrate financial need, apply for financial aid on time, have an overall GPA of 3.0, and maintain a minimum of 24 credits per year
According to Marty, approximately 1,100 students have the
honor scholarship, which is also available to freshmen and transfer students.
Students must fill out UM's financial aid application and the financial aid form (FAF). The FAF has to be mailed to Princeton. Priority deadline for the CWSP. SEOP, and NDSL was April I. However, students can still apply for these sources of financial aid for next fall.
In the first financial aid series, students were informed about Florida Grants and Vouchers. Students who have been Florida residents for the past two years can still apply for the Florida State Assistant Grant (FSAG) - and receive up to $1,200 every year - and the Florida Tuition Voucher (FTV), receiving up to $750 each year.
With these two types of aid, the money does not have to be paid back
For more information on these types of financial aid. visit the Financial Aid Office, (building 37).
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