Miami Hurricane, August 10, 1962

              Student Union Construction Set For January
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The Board of Trustees Tuesday cleared the way financially for a new Student Union complete with swimming pool.
Construction on the union will begin Jan. 1, 1963, and be open to students 12 months later, according to Dr. Henry King Stanford, University president.
The University will consider bids for construction after architect Robert M. Little completes the detailed drawings.
The current plans include a two story basic structure built around the main dining area. Floors can be added vertically in the future.
Aside from the main dining, everything will be tom down and remodeled. The space now occupied by the patio and the rocky area extending toward the lake will be replaced by an Olympic size swimming pool, cabanas and a snack bar.
The new building is to be entirely air-conditioned except for an “open-air” recreation room on the first floor with ping pong and billiards tables. In the adjacent room will be 12 regulation size, automatic bowling lanes, installed to help pay the debt for the new building.
A post office, barber shop and two-story bookstore are other features that will be housed in the union. Separate TV and study rooms are on the second floor adjoining the music library and listening room.
There are five portioned dining areas which can be made into a large banquet room. A snack bar in the pool area, a coffee shop and an "Eye of the Hurricane" soda shop are proposed. The latter, to be built where the present fountain is, will have tables, booths and possibly a jukebox. A place for fraternity tables has not yet been designated.
The new union will alto have several meeting rooms with folding partitions to regulate size. Offices for Union administrators, student publications, government and activities tre located throughout the $2,180,000 edifice.
As yet, no office space has been specificially assigned. Bowling and swimming rates have not been established yet either.
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Stanford Is Official Spokesman
Trustees Adopt New Policy; ‘Censorship’ Ruling Is Out
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What’s up Doc? Here Dr. Stanford, University President and John O’Day, director of the physical plant, check over the University's master plan selecting a possible site for the next building to go up. Now that the Student Union has been confirmed, reconfirmed and finally given the "go-ahead" the next building under consideration is the much needed science building.
Faculty, Administrators Act
Officials OK New. Policies
Tenure
The Board of Trustees this week approved revisions of the policy concerning faculty tenure.
The changes, which had been under study for almost a year by faculty and administrative committees, are in general accord with recommendations published by the American Association of University Professors and the American Association of Colleges, according to Dr. C. Doren Tharp, vice president and dean of faculties.
The new tenure policy is not retroactive and applies only to faculty members appointed after Aug. 7.
Some changes were made concerning the probationary period which each faculty member must serve before beginning tenure.
The period is now set at seven years of teaching in accredited colleges or universities, including a minimum number of years at this university. This minimum UM service varies according to the rank of the faculty member.
The revised policy states that tenure still be given only to those faculty members who are assistant, associate or hill professors.
Instructors, assistant instructors, lecturers, visiting professors, research assistants and
unpaid research associates remain ineligible for tenure
privileges.
The text of the new policy statement is to be published in the new faculty manual, Dr. Tharp said.
“This new policy on tenure should satisfy almost everybody," he said. “It is consistent with standards at other universities. Of course, there are some adaptations and variations for every university."
Faculty
Government
Faculty members will elect their own government when the fall semester gets under way next month.
A faculty senate with autonomous powers will probably be ready to begin work by mid-October, according to Dr. Herman Meyer, chairman of the Faculty Council.
The plan for faculty government was adopted June 5 after a majority of professors, associate professors and assistant professors voted for it.
The next step is for the Faculty Council to go ahead with implementation of the plan by electing senators, explained Dr. C. Doren Tharp, vice president and dean pf faculties.
Dean’s Council
UM President Henry King Stanford made key administrative changes in a move to centralize authority.
To get the presidency involved in all University areas, two vice presidents and the dean of students must now report directly to Dr. Stanford.
Dr. C. Doren Tharp, vice president for academic affairs; Eugene Cohen, vice president and treasurer, and Noble Hendrix, dean of students, will be meeting with Dr. Stanford.
The Council of Academic Deans has been re-established and all undergraduate and graduate deans will meet under the chairmanship of Dr. Tharp, dean of faculties.
This group will probably act as the sounding board and source of recommendations on academic policy,	,
These organizational arrangements came out of the Administrative Council meeting.
During the meeting, Dr. Stanford defined the five major areas of a university. They are the academic area; the research area; student personnel and student activities outside classes: the financial area, and the public relations and development area.
Students, Faculty Can Speak As Individuals Without Fear
The Board of Trustees this week adopted a new policy regarding the release of news about the University. It allows students and faculty members to speak to the local newspapers, radio and television stations as individuals without first clearing through the public information office.
The new resolution names Dr. Henry King Stanford, UM president, as the official spokesman. It also allows for an individual or a group whom he may delegate to speak for UM on specific matters.	♦
This ruling nullifies the May 14 Board decree which said that UM students and employes could be expelled or fired for releasing news about the University directly to the local press.
The May 14 ruling was labeled by some as a move to censor students, faculty members and administrators.
The new policy makes a distinction between an official spokesman for the university and students and employes who speak as individuals.
“There is no intent expressed or implied to impose censorship or to curtail Individual liberty or to prevent freedom of expression on the part of any individual connected with the University when he speaks or writes as an individual,” reads the new public information policy.
President Will Name New Veep
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A vice president in charge of development and public relations will be appointed shortly, according to Dr. Henry King Stanford, University president.
“The new vice presidency will be established as soon as I can find the most competent person for the job,” said President Stanford.
During a brief trip to New York recently, Dr. Stanford interviewed two applicants for the soon-to-be created post and a third candidate was interviewed on campus.
"The man who takes over the new post will coordinate many things that involve the public, such as alumni activities, news bureau information and fund raising functions,” explained Dr. Stanford.
Drop Deadline
Today is the deadline for dropping courses.
Courses dropped after 5 p.m. today will be graded WP or WE — withdrawn passing, or withdrawn failing — and will effect quality point average.
But, the Board’s policy stresses, the individual should always make it "unmistakably clear” that he is not representing University policy or action.
The statement sets the president, Dr. Henry King Stanford, as the principal official spokesman.
However, the University requires that proceedings of certain meetings be cleared through the public information office.
It is established policy of the University of Miami that proceedings and findings of any administrative, faculty or student board, committee or council are to be considered private and confidential matters which shall be given out to media of communication only by the responsible head of such board, committee or council through the public information -channels established by the University, reads the policy.
The University believes that the student “occupies a unique position” and has a special obligation.
“When he speaks or writes as a citizen he should be free from institutional censorship or discipline, but his special position in the community imposes special obligations," the Board policy states.
“He should remember that the public may judge his profession and his institution by his utterances.”
The policy stressed that each student be accurate and “exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for others and should make every effort to indicate that he is not an institutional spokesman.”
Dr. Stanford has been studying the May 14 ruling since its orgin. A group of students presented him with a formal protest of the ruling when the then president-elect visited the campus May 18.
The former ruling, said that employes, students and others directly associated with the University, will be considered in violation of proper procedure if they give out information without clearing with Public Information office. It added emphasis because of the heavy penalties.
Those considered by the University to be violators could draw permanent dismissal “or such action as the president and Board of Trustees may determine to be proper.”
The ruling passed this week does not mention penalties.
New Senior Award
The first outstanding male senior academic plaque will be presented this fstll by President Stanford.
The plaque, engraved with the names of its annual recipients, will hang permanently in the Ashe Administration Building.
Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, is sponsoring the award.
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I/O I no man write my epitaph. Well the Student Union certainly didn't—it wrote its own Ostensibly it foresaw its culmination and left the sign for almost two months before University administrators and trustees came around to the Union's way of thinking. A new Union will soon replace the old one.