Miami Hurricane, January 22, 1982

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Volume 58, No.26
Friday, January 22, 1982
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Enrollment Loner Than Alitici juried
UM Budget
Cut Across The Board

Major UM Pol io\ Changes Made
Bv LOURDES FERNANDEZ
lleuif News Writer
Two major changes in the registration and grading policy that will affect University of Miami students have recently been approved and will be in effect for the Fall of 1982.
According to Registrar Sidney Weisburd, the last day for dropping a course will be moved to four weeks after the beginning of the term.
In addition, if a student retakes a course in which he has received a D or E, the repetition of that class will not eliminate the previous grade from the record. Both grades will count and both will affect that student’s grade point average
These two changes originated with the faculty Senate, and have been considered for some time
Weisburd said that the last day to drop a course has traditionally been twelve weeks after the beginning of a semester. However, the new policy lias shortened the length of time to four weeks
“This means that students will have to plan property and, if they wa» to drop a course, make a ^ecision by four weeks," Weisburd said
The reason for the decision. Weisburd added, is that
it will make final grade rolls more accurate and faculty members will be able to Identify at an earlier time which students are remaining in class.
"1 suppose that instructors felt that this policy would help them have a true idea of who was in the class," said Weisburd. "A student could linger in the class for twelve weeks, then drop out and still be on the roll."
The other change concerns the repetition of a class. Presently, if a student repeats a class in which he has received a D or E, the quality points and credits attempted and earned for this second attempt are counted in lieu of those for the first attempt.
This will now change and the number of semester credit hours required for graduation will he increased by the number of credits repeated with the passing grade.
"It w'asn’t fair to a student taking the class once for someone else taking the same class twice to get a grade just as good or better than his," Weisburd said. "It deflates the grade of the student who takes the class only once."
The Undergraduate Student Body Government Senate will discuss these adrmnistrative moves at their first meeting Wednesday afternoon
Miami Humcane/STV BAYER
As usual, lines for registration stretched endlessly through the Ibis and Hurricane cafeterias.	\
By MARY CRONIN
Head News Writer
The capture of one of World War IPs war criminals. Dr. Josef Men-gele. may be imminent, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal said Tuesday night in a lecture at the Hurricane cafeteria.
"I hope that I can say very near," was Wiesenthal’s response when asked about the capture of Mengele, an SS physician at Auschwitz concentration camp, nicknamed the "Angel of Death."
Upon prisoners' entrances to the camp, Mengele would allegedly choose who would live or die. He is believed by many to have performed genetic experiments upon many of the prisoners with the hopes of creating the perfect Aryan race. Unlike many other SS men, he escaped capture in 1941 as the Soviets closed in on the Germans.
Since 1959 Mengele has been living in Paraguay, and previous requests from Germany for extradition have been turned down. Wiesenthal said, as the Paraguayan government has labeled the Mengele case “political and not criminal."
Wiesenthal added that he has been tracking Nazi criminals since 1947, two years after his release from Janowska concentration camp, and considers his work as not only a payment to those who died, but also as a warning to the living
"I see my work as a warning for
the murderers of tommorow," he said.
He said that currently there are thousands of "Nazi murderers" in the world, and over 5,000 living in the United States.
"There are . . . more than 100 organizations in the United States that supply hatred, that supply Nazi, anti-semitic, anti-democratic literature, and misuse the first amendment,
“South African. South American, European and Australian neo-Nazis couldn't exist without this printed propaganda coming from the United States," Wiesenthal said
"In these leaflets,” he added, "you will find the language of the murderers of 1942-43."
In Flurope, Wiesenthal said, people can be jailed for such literature, but in America they are not
Wiesenthal's organization, The Jewish Documentation Center, has been responsible for bringing many Nazis to trial, perhaps the most famous of which was Adolph Fich-mann, executed in lsreal in 1961 after being found guilts of mass murder.
The trials have been plagued by lack of evidence (much of the Nazis' secret files and papers was destroyed before the war ended, and the defense has often lacked witnesses). but Wiesenthal continues his search, he says, because the
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I don't think students are going to miss anything. We want to avoid that at all costs. We are not going to sacrifice improving the academic quality of the universi
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David Lieberman, Vice President for Financial Affairs
By AMY JACOVES
News Writer
Budget cuts were made throughout the University of Miami due to a decrease in enrollment which caused a deficit of $5.9 million from the proposed budget. According to Vice-President of Financial Affairs David Lieberman, the original budget was prepared on the expectancy that an additional 1,000 full-time students would be enrolled.
In preparing the original budget, $1.5 million was put on reserve until actual enrollment figures
could be ascertained, thus the actual funds that were cut were $4.4 million.
According to Associate Provost G.H. Gilpin, "We've already made some budgetary changes this year and nobody really noticed. At this point there have been no problems caused by having fewer students."
Although UM’s budget is balanced for this year, cuts had to be made in order to eliminate the possibility of a $4.4 million deficit Cutbacks totalling $1.4 million were made in the academic sectors of the university, including the schools of
medicine and law. Some of the cuts were achieved by offering fewer sections of classes. It should be noted that the Medical and Law
Schools did not have an enrollment decrease
"I don't think students are going to miss anything. We want to avoid
that at all costs. We are not going to sacrifice improving the academic quality of the university," Lieberman said, when discussing the areas of funding cuts.
Cuts were also made in the support units of the university. Each Vice-President was asked to take out of their budget a certain amount of dollars upon which they agreed Lieberman could not give details on how the money was saved since it was up to each individual department
Lieberman speculated that money was saved for the coming year by not adding additional equipment and not replacing staff that leaves the department
The university also saved money in student scholarships which totalled $300.000. “if all the students had shown up we wood have used our entire financial aid budget and then some," says Lieberman.
Lastly, money that the university invests for its fringe benefits for professors, including the retirement benefits "worked real well for us," says Lieberman. From the results of
an actuary's study, the university determined that it did not have to add more money to the fund The total savings was $2.1 million.
Tuition is always uppermost in students' minds, especially this time of year. Although no decisions have yet been made, Lieberman asserted that tuition will go up "relative to the cost of living indeces" and improvements for which the university always budgets.
"The tuition increase will be for the normal reasons." he said.
What about the future of the university? Lieberman says that the university "expects a shortfall in enrollment in the spring as well " Lieberman said that the decrease in student numbers does not come from returning students, but from incoming students
“I think the reason is the concern about drugs and crime in the Miami area in the minds of parents and students. On the long-term basis Miami will weather out this adverse publicity and 1 think we |UM| will grow or remain stable," he stated.
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boote Reveals	Plans
By JEREMY M. LAN(i
Head News Writer
The swimming pool closed and the ceremonies opened as the University of Miami inaugurated Edward Thaddeus Foote II as l'M's fourth president
F'oote revealed for the first time several developments for the university to an audience that gathered at 2:30 on a sunny Friday afternoon. Officials say substantially more than three thousand people came to the three-storv tent on the lawn by the Student Union.
Distinguished guests included Florida Governor Bob Graham. Congressman Claude Pepper, and Senator J. William Fulbright, Foote’s father-in-law
Perhaps the most ambitious proposal of all was Foote's hope to establish a center for cooperation between UM and Latin American countries and universities.
“For years there has been talk of creating a new Florida institution devoted to exchanging ideas, technology, research . between North America and our friends to the South,” Foote announced “I pro-
pose today that the University of Miami and the State University System join with civic leaders and public officials at the local, state and national levels to acquire and convert to a North-South Center the Biltmore Hotel . ." Foote said the “magnificent and gracious" hotel was built the same year as UM. and "seems a natural.”
The Biltmore Hotel, a landmark one mile from campus, should be used as a north-south center modeled on Honolulu's east-west center, Foote said.
Delegates at the inauguration included representatives from Oxford and Harvard Universities Foote compared UM to those two institutions when they were 55 years old.
UM in 1981 is where Oxford was in 1222. and Harvard in 1691. he said. Foote acknowledged and thanked his predecessors, saying he believes that UM can be “one of the truly great universities of the world."
The 44-year-old president, who was initialiy reluctant to have "the embarrassment" of an inauguration, used his 40-minute address to make some bold and encouraging
revelations.
The School of Continuing Studies "will soon have in downtown Miami an outstanding educational facility, the City of Miami-Universi-ty of Miami James I Knight International Conference Center."
This is a joint venture by private enterprise, the City of Miami, and the university. It is now under construction where "each can capitalize on mutual interests while preserving its separate identity," F'oote said
"I announce today the acquisition by the university from the Federal Government, 106 acres of valuable property in South Dade County, adjacent to the Metrozoo. That land, previously loaned to the university and known as the South Campus, now has been approved for transfer," Foote said. Once written confirmation is received, plans will be made for its future, which will probably be as a center to consolidate research conducted at the several UM campuses.
"I announce today . after months of study, a distinguished consultant to the State System has confirmed recommendations by
other experts that a new School of Public Health should be established at the University of Miami with strong connections to public health programs in the State System." F'oote revealed. Only the 2.3rd accredited such school in the United States, it would be modeled after the one at Cornell University in New York
F'oote also plans to form several groups immediately,
"We will form visiting committees for each of the schools and major divisions of the university," Foote said Flach committee will consist of diverse individuals who will assess the quality of university work and "help us understand not only what we do, but why we do it
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