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Stanford: Don’t Rest On Laurels
Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, Dr. Carl McKenry, interim dean of the Business school and chairman of the board of student publications, and Debbie Wilker, editor of the Hurricane present an award of appreciation to Professor George Southworth. Southworth, who has served as student publications advisor and taught journalism courses, is retiring at the end of this semester.
Academic Services Gets The Ax
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
News Writer
The Student Academic Services Center (SASC), for eight years the advising headquarters of undeclared majors at UM, will soon be no more.
Arthur Brown, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, acting on the recommendation of an ad hoc committee he himself appointed, will soon move three members of the SASC closer to the College of Arts and Sciences and will lay off the other four professionals that helped an estimated 1,000 undeclared undergraduates each semester.
And at least one member of the Faculty Senate thinks Brown is out of line in the entire affair.
In an undated memo in the Fall of 1980, Brown charged the committee to “evaluate the responsibilities and effectiveness of the Student Academic Services Center as it pertains to advising in the College of Arts and Sciences.”
But Brown recently denied that that was targeted towards eliminating SASC. He said his primary concern was to "make sure that the University made the best use of its personnel in terms of advising ... we are looking into improving the advising as a whole."
But the committee, in its subse-
quent report, stated that it “interpreted the charge as requiring a study ... to provide a proper contextual perspective of the role of the Student Academic Services Center within the College."
Advising, Brown said, is one of the major factors in student retention.
But the 11-page report made no i allusion to "retention,” nor was there any effort made to evaluate retention between the SASC and the other advising crews within the College.
A study done a year ago by a member of the SASC showed that the Center had a better retention ratio than any other advising group on campus. Brown said he had never seen any such a study.
The committee report made a cost analysis which showed "clearly that the SASC is a very expensive operation.”
Therefore, in a move intended to save money, it called for:
•	Bringing together all of the College's advising personnel under one person. The person “is to have full authority of the Dean of the college.”
•	Moving Assistant Dean Thomas Papino — the director of the SASC — and two other advisors to a location near the offices of Arts and Sciences and continue advising.
Administrative efforts were | worthwhile job." By the same made to keep the report confiden- j token, it found problems with the tial. because according to Commit-
tee Chairman Dr. Clyde Hendrick, “it contains materials that might be embarrassing to certain individuals.”
According to an identified source, members of the SASC were ordered “to generate as little publicity about the move as possible."
The report left several questions unaswered.
Although the report stated that “in earlier years” the SASC reported to the college provost — a position whose duties are now handled by the vice president for academic affairs, Sidney Besvinick — it did not make clear why it was now reporting to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Since the SASC advised both undeclared majors from the College of and Sciences and undeclared majors with no school alliances, it is unclear where those students will now go for advising.
Since the committee specified that "it [the committee| did not attempt to define advising," it was not clear how it considered the problems that plagued advising with the College.
Also, the report admitted that all indications pointed to the fact that the SASC was doing a "qualititively
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By DEBBIE WILKER
Editor-in-Chief
After serving as president of the University of Miami for 19 years Henry King Stanford, will be packing up and going home to Americus Geoergia in July.
“It is not a good idea to remain in the shadow of a successor, " Stanford said at the most recent Board of Trustees meeting.
After 33 years of serving as a university president. Stanford has some interesting thoughts about youth.
“I have tried to bridge the generation gaps over the years — with some success, I say modestly. The only generation gap I have tried to bridge and failed is the decibel gap.(I remedy that with pieces of paper napkins stuffed into my ears at student dances.“)
Stanford was originally slated to leave UM last year, but when a national search for a new president came up dry, Stanford agreed to stay on.
Even after a $150 a plate farewell dinner, Stanford had no con-punctions about remaining at UM.
“Maybe I'll be having farewells like Sarah Bernhardt ever year.”
This year the Board of Trustees passed a motion to throw Stanford and wife Ruth, another party. The reported cost for 1,000 guests will be $60 a plate.
On the topic of his leaving, Stanford reflects objectively:
"It is easy to be nostalgic, particularly for moments of happiness, since time has a way of eroding, in one’s memory, the valleys of disap-
pointment, leaving visible only the peaks of satisfaction. Whenever the past begins to look rosy, that, says Kierkegaard, is the first sign of forgetting.”
"Resting on laurels, as I have often insisted, is thus a precious perch, both for an instituion and for an individual, both for the University and me."
"Gibran put the same idea in rev-ese,” Stanford explained: “For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”
“I have always been grateful for the opportunity to provide leadership for this young dynamic institution, a term of office that will have spanned 19 years, more than one third the history of the University of Miami."
“I have been a college or university president for over a period of 33 years, more than half my life. Now the approaching years herald my adjustment to a new adventure when my time will be less strai-ghtjacketed by outside demands and more directed inner wishes.”
"As for advice for the students of the future, I really wouldn't be so presumptuous as to tell them how to live It.” I recommend staying with humanities. They have a tot to tell us.”
In summing up his feelings, S an-ford explained that the words on the walls of a Viennese H'einstubc seem appropriate now:
“Nicht weinen dass Sie gegangen. sondren lachen dass Sie gewessen." — “Don't cry because you have gone, but laugh because you have been.”
Local Boy Makes Good
By DEBBIE WILKER
Editor-in-Chief
Porfirio de la Cruz has drawn cartoons and illustrations for The Miami Hurricane for nearly five years. Now, at 22, he is graduating and going on to work for The Mian-mi News on a full time basis.
He was selected a few months ago by late night local television personality, “Captain John” to be the illustrator of a new comic strip for The Miami News.
With Captain John, de la Cruz has produced a cartoon called “The Captain and the Cowboy.”
On campus he is probably best known for inventing “Harry Kane" and "Delirium.” Additionally, he draws political cartoons, many of which have been admired and honored by fellow journalists.
However, de la Cruz has his sights set on more lucrative prospects.
“Eventually 1 hope to work for the Disney studios as an animator. I want to win an Oscar.” he explains.
“I feel very sad about leaving the Hurricane, but I am looking forward to the future."
De la Cruz is well known at UM for donating much of his time and talent to worthy causes. He has made honorary illustrations for faculty members and has appeared on the UM patio during special activity weeks to do characatures.
He has also been heralded for his inventiveness.
"I get my ideas from talking to a butterfly. I really mean that. I just sit down and concentrate.”
Erica Jong Reads Work
By PETER S. HAMM
Managing Editor
Erica Jong, the celebrated author of Fear Of Flying, the international bestseller, and of numerous other works of poetry and prose, presented a reading of selections from her work in the Ruth Stanford Lounge of the Student Union on Tuesday night. The reading was made possible by the UM Lecture Series and the UM English Department.
Jong, now in her tenth year as a writer, has received both critical acclaim and financial success from her novels, but her rather “juicy” sexuality in her work has given her a brand of radical to many. Her latest novel, Fanny is about a “lady pirate of the eighteenth century."
Jong is hardly what a reader would suspect from her writing. In the words of English Professor Lester Goran, “she is inventive, she is daring; she arouses, but does not pacify. She takes a course that disturbs the peace," her writing has inspired “entertainment and outrage.”
Goran, the chairman of the Creative Writing Department, who is the author of the bestseller "This New Land,” and numerous other works, introduced Jong to the overflow crowd.
"Beware of the man who wants to protect you, he will protect you
from all but himself ... ,” Jong read from her poetry.
In her first book of poetry, Fruits And Vegetables, Jong wrote about the stuff of daily life. She was a housewife in Germany while her husband was there, and felt that poetry could come from the most minute aspects of everyday events.
Writing about small things, Jong said, “taught me how to be a writer.”
“It taught me how to assume that what you felt and thought was thought and felt by others ..." One of the most important things a writer must learn, Jong said, was to “learn to trust yourself.”
“If you tap your own fantasies truly and honestly, they’ll turn out to be other’s fantasies as well,” j Jong said.
One of her chief loves, Jong said, is animals, and dogs in particular. “Dogs are the wonderful children that never leave us. We have made the dog a complete reflection of all that is neurotic about ourselves,"
| she prophesized.
With this in mind, and suffering from the loss of a former canine named Alexander Poochkin who was struck by a car, she wrote her poem Besl Friends, about the dog she loved. The audience noticed tears flowing as she recited it.
From poetry, she went on to Fear l Of Flying. Jong was surprized by
it’s success. It was a moderate success as a hardcover, just enough to go paperback. "It came out in paperback, and it was a phenomenon, for reasons I don't completely understand. It was a book that dealt honestly with the way women feel ... It's really about autonomy versus indépendance.”
When Margaret Trudeau left her husband Pierre, the Prime Minister of Quebec, Jong said, she left him a copy of Fear Of Flying, with pages dog-eared.
After Fear Of Flying came How To Save Your Own Life, and then Fanny.
“I wanted to write a vast novel with a million characters and complicated plot twists,” she said. “I loved that kind of novel when I was a kid. 1 was hooked on Great Expectations."
After her readings, Jong answered questions from the audience. One man, sitting near the rear of the lounge, asked her to look at a manuscript. She very politely begged out, and instead offered the crowd some advice on publishing one’s work.
One question; What is underneath all the security that you effervesce? was answered quite plainly, "Insecurity.”
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