Miami Hurricane, September 01, 1944

              THE MIAMI
HURRICANE
VOL. XVIII
Coral Gables, Fla., September 1, 1944
No. 23
Hurricane Would Offer Aid To Lagging Expansion Drive
The very existence of the University is at stake. The exigencies of the post-war world will demand that this school increase its physical facilities and raise its academic standards. Without ade- . quate finances the University will be unable to expand and improve. It may be doomed to become a sub-standard, third-rate institution.
To avoid such a gloomy future and to put the University of Miami on the “academic map” the leaders of this community launched a sixty-day campaign for a million dollars last May.
Today, four months later, the expansion fund totals $271,194.75. This is the story of that campaign:
Before May 1, the official opening date, three donations were made: five thousand dollars from George Brockway, five thousand from a Miami Beach bank, and one thousand from “a friend.”
By May 5 the campaign chairman announced a total of $17,-835, with twenty-five thousand dollars “immediately in sight.”
Very soon thereafter, former student Jimmy Meyer made a birthday contribution of five thousand dollars.
These early donations added up to $201,835. During the next three months only about sixty-nine thousand dollars have been collected.
The expansion fund drive is struggling along with only minor donations coming in from time to time. At this rate, the drive will never succeed, the goal will never be reached.
As the official student newspaper, the Hurricane is more than worried over the progress of the campaign. Although most of the present student body will have been graduated before post-war expansion is begun, they nevertheless maintain an interest in the welfare of their Alma Mater.
We commend the men and women who are responsible for this drive and hesitate to criticize their failure to achieve what they had set out to do. For we realize that raising one million dollars is a Herculean task.
But it is altogether evident that the campaign needs a shot in the arm, with professional promotion technics and better publicity. Of late there has been no mention of the campaign in the local papers except for an inch or two buried in the Sunday editions. The motion picture trailers, the billboard signs, and the radio plugs have all but disappeared.
With the coming of the winter season and the coincident football months the campaign can succeed, if scientific promotion methods are applied to it.
We address ourselves to the campaign managers and offer the services of this paper and the student association which it represents to send the drive “over the top.”
New Activity Fee Levy Revives Campaign for Medical Service
The cost of living is skyrocketing. A little less violently the cost of education is increasing. We note, in the Registration Instructions for the second trimester, that in addition to the regular tuition fee an activity fee of five dollars will be collected from all regularly enrolled students. It will be optional to students who are carrying less than twelve hours.
This fee “entitles the regular student to admission to all athletic contests, orchestra concerts, a copy of the Hurricane, student weekly publication, and a copy of the Ibis. . . .”
Previous to July, 1943, the regular tuition of one hundred twenty-five dollars included the student activity fee and all the privileges mentioned above plus admission to plays and other student events. Last summer the activity fee was eliminated, but the tuition price remained at one hundred twenty-five dollars. The only activity which suffered was the Hurricane. The staff had to resort to selling the paper to keep it alive. Otherwise, students had free access to activities. However, the Student association was shackled financially, since it had very little capital.
The reintroduction of the activity fee is admirable in principle. But not in method—charging an additional five dollars. In the first place, some students may be unable to afford the additional sum. Secondly, many students will not avail themselves of all the activities offered.
Finally, even though the Hurricane depends upon a subsidy from the school, it cannot endorse the new fee. About four weeks ago. the University refused to adopt a hospitalization insurance program whereby, for a very slight sum, medical services would be extended to University of Miami students. If the University refuses to charge a moderate sum to extend to its students a service which practically every other college in the country offers, then it should refuse to charge an activity fee.
The primary purpose of the University of Miami is to provide an education for the men and women who claim her as their Alma Mater. Very few students can maintain a fair academic standard when they are in ill health. As important as extra-curricular activities are, they should play second fiddle to the physical well-being of U. of M. Students.
CLASSES ON LABOR DAY
Tli*r« will be no Labor Day ▼acat:on Monday, Sept. 4.
Cl*.Me» will be held at usual, William J. Hester, secretary of tbe University, has announced.
Local Gridders Predominate Miami’s 3rd Wartime Squad
5 Weeks To Opener —
Although they look like they’re doing anything but practicing line crashing, Hurricane linemen Johnny Lowe and Ken Williams (facing camera left to right) are doing just that on the opening day of Miami’s grid practice sessions this week.
—Photo by Lasky
JUNIOR CLASS MEETING
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With a squad of forty-three candidates and more expected before the fall campaign starts, Coach Eddie Dunn and his two new aides, line coaches Pix Pierson and Tony Cianci, got football practice under way in earnest Tuesday on the Quarterbacks’ field.
Of the forty-three men at the official opening session, twenty-one are Miami boys, which means that the 1944 Hurricane contingent will be this year truly representative of Miami as in no other year.
Already wearing pads, the late arrivals will have to hustle to catch up to the two dozen men who have been conditioning themselves for several weeks.
Backfield problems will revolve around a choice of starting players from a list of nineteen halfbacks. Worrying about the loss of Bill Eisnor, Arnold Tucker and the Salvatore brothers, who carried the ball last season, Dunn is looking for a good passing combination to replace the running attack, which, he feels, cannot be developed with the material on hand.
Thus far Gus Dielens, Chick Angelus and Gene Hancock have been doing the tossing.
Only two backs can make 180 pounds. They are P. C. Williams and Jack Block. But, according to Dunn, the lightweight toters are fast.	,
There will be a junior cl»«» meeving Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 12:45 p.m. in room 317, president Marshall Simmons has announced.
V-12 Musical Show In Assembly Today
Under the direction of Walt Etlin:', the V-12 band will serenade the student body at 12:45 p.m. today in the Theater with a program of at least seven musical selections.
Lewis Long will handle the vocals on “I’ll Get By” and “I’ll Be Seeing you.” Hal Goldstein will take a vocal fling on “Straighten Up a.id Fly Right/
Other numbers selected for the progiam after much rehearsal are “Diggin’ For Dex,” a new arrangement of Glenn Miller’s “String of Pearls,” “It Had to Be You,’ and a command performance of the song the band introduce« several weeks ago, “Blue Snow ”
Bill Tomlinson will handle the M.C. duties.
Tucker, Lost 1 Year, Kilted In France
After being listed as missing for over a year, Dick Tucker, former University of Miami basketball star, has been named as killed in a recent War Department casualty list.
A first lieutenant, Tucker was piloting his B-26 bomber “Hurricane Devil" over France when lost on August 9, 1943.
Miami court fans will remember the twenty-three-year-old hoop3ter as high-scoring teammate of Tommy Hilbish, Red Tobin, H. J. L>e, and Joe Krutulis in 1941.
Tucker was a member of the Kiwanis Builders’ club during his matriculation, from 1938-1941.
Summer Queen Race
Rose Marie Hall, nominated by the French Village dormitory, leading yesterday at noon in the race for the “Summer Queen” title offered by the combined junior-senior classes.
Miss Hall had 841 votes, leading the runner-up, Eleanor McConnell, by 189 pennies. Miss McConnell is the Kappa Sigma entry.
A last-minute entry was made by the Independents, who are sponsoring Elaine Granis, a freshman, and had backed her with 171 votes at press time.
Sue Burch, Stohn dorm, had garnered 434 votes and was followed by Carolyn Rone, navigators’ choice, with 300.
Santander’s entry, Gloria Patterson, marked up 165 votes.
Voting will continue throughout next week until the night of the dance, Saturday, Sept. 9. The queen will be crowned during the affair.
Ticket sales have been reported “as fast as expected” and since the date bureau, set up for the occasion, has had little business, Hal Levin and Maria Porra, chairmen, assume that students are having no trouble getting escorts for the dance.
Tickets are being sold for seventy-five cents, stag or drag. They may be bought in the Slop Shop.
SAI to Sponsor Music Programs
First in a series of weekly “Listening Hours” of recorded music will be sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority next Thursday evening. Sept. 7, at the Music Workshop.
The program, which will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m., will include Brahm’s First Symphony, Szos-takowiez’ Piano Concerto, and selections from Debussy’s works.
Martha Fahnestock, president of the group, announces (hat these listening hours will be open to the public. Other officers are Jo Moot, vice president; Faye Hunter, secretary; Haydee Morales, treasurer.
On the line, only thirteen men make up the beef trust. Bill Levitt, guard, is the heaviest on the squad with 220 pounds to carry. The other twelve range from 180 to 200 pounds.
All of which tends to show something lacking in the meat department of the third Hurricane wartime squad.
From the V-12 unjt, eleven have reported for workouts. Hal Levin, guard, and Jo^' Bulbin, end, are the most promising.
Blood Drive Speaker Gave 100 Pints
Opening a drive for donations to the Miami Blood Bank, Alpha Phi Omega, national honorary service fraternity, will present a speaker at assembly today who has just made his 190th donation of blood.
James McConnell, chief engineer at the Alcazar navy bar-, racks, is the man with the enviable record. His short talk will assure potential donors thit no ill effects result from the transfusion.
McConnell will be introduced by Lt. Pemne, medical officer of the V-12 unit, who will concisely discuss the tremendous need for donations.
After the assembly, members of Alpha Phi Omega will solicit names of both men and women who are willing to donate blood. Individual or group appointments for the actual giving of blood wili he made and physical prerequisite of the donor will be explained.
Mu Beta Sigma Meets To Plan Field Trip
Mu Beta Sigma, Miami biological society, will meet Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 12:45 p.m. in room 104, Victor Emanuel, president has announced.
Plans for a field trip to take place some time during this trimester will be discussed.