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‘Target’ Is To Increase Black Enrollment
By CATHY HICKEY
Assistant-News Editor
“Our objective this year is to at least double the number of blacks in the freshman class as compared with the present year. That’s our target," William Butler, UM’s vice president of student affairs said. In addition, he said that there is a new assistant director of admissions whose fulltime responsibility is the recruitment of minority students.
Mrs. Lois Fells has been with the admissions program at UM since May, 1980, and “one of her prime responsibilities is recruiting minority students,” George Giampetro, Director of Admissions, said.
According to Giampetro, Fells
has been concentrating on getting students who are qualified to receive John F. Kennedy - Martin Luther King, Jr. Grants.
Giampetro mentioned that presently there are about 500 black students in the four classes at UM. Exact statistics are difficult to obtain because students may decide against reporting their race when they apply or register.
A problem in recruiting minorities is that the money available to these students is not “a bottomless pit." This is one of the reasons why the recruiting program for blacks is concentrated in the state of Florida. If a student is a resident of the state, he has a much better chance of receiving state aid, Giampetro
Committee Seeks New Chairperson
By SHARON HINSON i
News Writer
The Student Entertainment Committee is searching for a new chairperson this semester, according to John Stofan, Program Director.
This chairperson will serve only this semester in order to complete the term of the last chairperson, Craig Malone. Malone, a music merchandising major, vacated the position in order to take an internship in Dallas, Stofan said.
Stofan said that as advisor, he and the chairperson call agencies and find out what acts are available and how much money they want. “We list possibiities and SEC eliminates some of them immediately. If SEC decides it would like to have an act, it confirms a bid,” he said. “Then, the advisor and chairperson put in the bid to the agency.”
Stofan stated that some of the shows the new chairperson will be responsible for include the Vapors (who will appear this week), the Broadway show Pippin, and Michael Iceburg on acoustics and synthesizers. There will also be two other shows this semester, “which we have bids on now," he added.
Stofan outlined some of the chairperson’s other duties, which include “being completely knowledgeable of the show.” For instance, one question on a required application asks for "a brief breakdown of what costs you feel are involved in the typical SEC production.”
These costs vary, Stofan said. For example, when Christopher Cross performed at UM last year, he cost $1500. This year it would take $15,000 to bring him back, because of his increase in popularity. Pippin, which will be here later this semester, will cost $13,00^ to $14,000.
The chairperson must also be familiar with rider costs, security ar-angements, sound and technical arrangements and the stage crew, Stofan said. "Riders have to do with what kind of sound and lights you need, how many stage hands, food requirements,” and other stipulations in the contract, he explained.
As of now, the chairperson’s duties are being performed by acting chairperson Barbara Leibowitz. “It’s a 40-hour week,” she said. Stofan agrees. «‘It takes a great deal of time .. .someone has to have a great deal of dedication.”	-
Stofan said that students interested in applying for the job must first fill out an application. Then, a screening committee goes through the applications and interviews the prospectives. This committee is made up of USBG President Alan Rubin, a UBOG (Union Board of Governors) member, two SEC members and a randomly chosen fulltime student.
Applications are due on Wednesday and the committee will probably get together next Thursday, Friday or Monday to start the selection process, Stofan said. "We give them (the applicants! five minutes to give their presentation on what they feel their qualifications are and what they would do as chairperson." This is followed by about a 10 minute question and answer period. After the committee makes its choice, the Senate ratifies the new chairman.
Stofan said that he expected about four or five applications,although last semester there were 10 applications.	• • •
’ According To Stofan, the last two chairpersons weren't SEC member* before assuming the office.	' .
said.
Another reason that the recruiting program is centered in Dade and Broward counties is because “we felt that if we were going to make an appreciable impact and help black students, we ought to do it right at home,” Giampetro said.
He said that Fells has developed an excellent recruiting program which has employed about six or seven students from the Dade and Broward area. “These students all happen to be black and from predominately black high schools,” Giampetro said. The work that these students do for the admissions office is considered part of the work-study program in which they are involved.
At a recent Budget Committee meeting, in an informal discussion concerning the number of black students in attendance at the University of Miami, an unidentified administrator mentioned a questionable plan used by other schools as an aid in recruiting minority students.
Basically, the plan involves admitting minority students who do not necessarily meet the admission
requirements of the university; those students’ SAT scores are not used in the calculation of the average score for the incoming freshmen. The result is that the school is able to admit a large number of minority students without adversely affecting the average SAT score.
There was apparently no serious discussion regarding UM’s adopting such a policy, according to Giampetro, and the question of whether there was any possibility of putting such a plan in operation brought this response from him:
“There’s no validity to that. It is a practice at some institutions, where they do make an exception. They do not necessarily include those critera | in their SAT averages and final reports|.”
Giampetro said that such practices are “not honest;” he said that he felt that all SAT scores “should be included as part of the admission report.”
William Butler, vice president in charge of student affairs, agreed with Giampetro that the mention of an alternative policy for minority admissions was more in the form of a casual remark than a topic for
consideration. “While a particular person did mention this, no credence was given to the discussion,” Butler said.
Butler gave several examples of the ways in which other institutions have manipulated their statistics:
•	Some universities have two admissions programs — one for regular admissions into the freshman class and one for special admissions (i.e., those prospective students who do not meet the minimum admissions requirement, but are still desirable to the university for other reasons). The school doesn’t report the statistics from both the programs.
•	Other institutions are known to accept freshmen into the regular fail class, and to take the freshmen who do not meet requirements in the summer. Only the fall statistics are reported. Butler said that some schools in the state of Florida use this method.
•	Special admissions for sons and daughters of alumni, athletes admitted under certain circumstances, or minorities are simply not counted in the statistics for some schools.
Students Participate In Freedom Celebration
By CATHY HICKEY
Assistant News Editor
“This is our way of saying; Hostages, we're glad you’re back!,” said Chairman of the Student Rights Agency Mark Robinson, as he opened UM’s celebration for the return of the American hostages.
This celebration took place before a sparse crowd of sorority and fraternity members and USBG personnel on the Student Union Rock on Friday at noon. The program was sponsored by USBG.
Father Francis LaChiara of St. Augustine's Church cut the yellow ribbon under a sign that said, “Welcome Home, Fellow Americans,” after he had spoken about the hostages' release.
"We thank God for helping us to bring the hostages back, and Algeria as well,” he said.
But, he said, “We can learn a lesson from the hostage situation. . .We assume a lot of things. Now we are up in arms because we know that the hostages were mistreated, when we assumed that they were only being held hostage."
LaChiara encouraged the students to make the university more of a community through love and understanding, and he said that we ought not to assume that our fellow
students are doing fine when we can never know for sure.
“Let’s not forget our obligations to each other," he said. We can help out those people who are “still held hostage by their own insecurities and problems," he said.
Therd was a moment of silent prayer, and other students were given the opportunity to say a few words.
Susan Khoury, Secretary of Pub-
lie Relations for USBG. said of the celebration, “Our whole idea is to present that we still care, and that we cared when the people were still hostages.”
At the end of the celebration, Robinson reminded the students that despite all of the joy at the return of the 52 former hostages, there is still a lot to be done because “there’s still three more Americans left in Iran.”
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Father LaFliiara Cuts» Yellow Ribbon
Several plans for increases in faculty salaries and benefits have been proposed by UM’s Faculty Senate, according to Eugene Clasby, chairman of the Faculty Senate. The plans will be considered by the University Budget Committee, and all approved proposals will go before the University’s Board of Trustees for final approval.
The proposals include an “overall base salary adjusted pool" in which “12.7 percent of the base salaries of everyone in the University is to be set aside for salary increases on a merit basis,” Clasby said
Under this proposal, all salaries paid to University employees would be totalled. Of this amount, 12.7 percent will be calculated. This theoretical sum of money will be taken out of the overall University budget and will be allocated for salary increases. Based on dot for mane«, alt university employees will be eligible for a raise.
“In addition,” Clasby said, “|it was proposed! that there would be a market adjusted pool of 4.5 percent of faculty salaries to be set aside to improve certain faculty salaries to meet national standards.
“The third element is a fringe benefits package which would be' an equivalent of 2.6 percent of the total salary base to purchase improved health insurance to include A03 |clerical, etc.| employees, a disabled plan, a life insurance plan and a dental plan.”
“These are our proposals and we are prepared to change them to fit into the fiscal needs of the University. . .We’re especially aware of the impact of tuition on students,” Clasby commented.
These increases are necessary in order "to reward excellent teachers, and to allow us to attract and retain excellent faculty," he stated.
“Some salaries in certain departments are below the AAUP’s |American Association of University Professors! national standards,” Clasby said.
"In order to recruit qualified people, we need to have a good salary and fringe benefits package," said UM President Henry King Stanford
Stanford said that the salaries are "paid partially by tuition" and that “tuition is a very large part of our |UM’s| revenue.” Other revenue, according to Stanford, is derived from research grants, endowments and contracts.
"We have a smaller endowment than do some of our competitive universities |including Tulane and Emory|," he said. Because of this, approximately 57 percent of UM’s revenue comes from tuition.
Stanford said that this may be due to the fact that the other institutions are more established than UM. He also pointed out that even though other universities have larger endowments, their tuition is higher than that paid by UM students.
Tuition must be increased, according to Stanford, because “we need to increase allocations to the academic divisions of the University.” Also required is a $700,000 computer, which would be installed so that many of the University's programs that are usually done manually, such as registration, financial aid, and accounts receivable, can be computerized
Stanford said that the University will be allocating “$100,000 to the |Otto G. Richter! Library for the next few years to increase the library’s holdings."
The University, according to Stanford, is also making an attempt to save money.
"We directed that all support divisions of the University cut back 5 percent." The support divisions include development affairs, student affairs, financial affairs and the administrative portion of the academic departments. Stanford did say, however, that in certain instances some restoration of monies wa> permitted.
By AMY JACOVES
News Editor