Miami Hurricane, September 29, 1944

              HURRICANE
Vou XVIII
Cotax. Gables, Fla., Septembm 29, 1944 '
No. 27
To March For Last Time
After the graduation of the last class of Army navigation cadets tomorrow, there will be no more scenes like the one above of the cadets marching from the main building to the San Sebastian building, for the navigation school will close soon afterwards.
Pep Rally, V-12 Water Show To Open U Football Season
A giant parade, led by a V-12 marching band, will begin a gigantic pep rally next Friday evening, when the student body of the University of Miami ushers in the 1(,44 football campaign.
Starting at the Main building of the University, the parade will go to the Venetian pool, where a V-12 water show will be
Students To Vote Today Despite Confusion
After a week of campaigning, disqualifications, appointments, and hurried conferences, the election of new student government officers will be held today.
The midweek appointment of James Pilafian as new chief justice, two days before the elections, highlighted the week’s political activity. He was appointed and sworn in by the present student body president, Clyde
Navigation ArmyCadets To Leave
After four years of association with the University, the navigation school here, the first of its kind ever to be established, will be officially closed tomorrow naming when members of the last class receive their wings.
The 2551st A. A. F. Base Unit, Contract Navigation school, as the oekool is designated, has, in the short time since its opening in 1940, sent out more than 4,000 navigators, including approximately 2,800 American Army cadets, about 1,200 members of the R. A. P., and cadets from Brazil, New Zealand, China and Columbia.
Graduates of the school have received 1,240 military decorations ranging from the Distinguished Flying Cross to the Military Order of China, in addition to 1,096 Oak Leaf Clusters, it «as revealed by Maj. Jesse H. Brown, commanding officer of the school.
The idea for the school was conceived by Gen. Delos Emmons «hile on a transatlantic flight to Lisbon as observer for the U. 8. Government. During the flight by way of the Pan American Airways Atlantic Clipper, he met the navigator, Charles J. Lunn, and became interested in the navigational technique he used. Gen. Emmons questioned the possibility of teaching the same navigational technique to large groups, and found it could be done. .
A short time afterwards, the War Department made arrangements with Pan American Airways to set up a training school in the Greater Miami area for the purpose of training cadets in serial navigation and meteorology for the U. S. Army Air Forces. The PAA navigators were pioneers in celestial and radio navi, gation.
Capt. Norris B. Harbold, now Brig. Gen. Harbold, commanding general of the 80th Flying Training Wing, with headquarters in San Marcos, Texas, was selected to help organize the first school. Capt. Carl M. Ddwey of PAA was appointed director, a post he fills at the,present. Mr. Lunn served as director throughout most of the school’s history, and is now (Continued on Page 3)
presented at 7 p.m.
All students should meet at the rotunda entrance to the Main building at 6 p.m.
Cheerleaders, captained by Alan Fauquher, will be in attendance. Head Coach Eddie Dunn and some
Ex-Student Shot In Aerial TUI
On Sept. 5, his 21st birthday, 2nd Lt. Richard E. Gerstein, AAF navigator, was wounded over Germany.
A former student of the University during the year 1941-42, Lt. Gerstein was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Gerstein, 2510 S. W. 20th street, who have received letters from him since Tie has been in an English hospital stating that he is recovering from his wound.
of the football players will attend. Dean of Men Foster Alter will speak
After tie water show and pep rally, dance music will be played by the V-(2 orchestra.
The program for the swim meet, as announced by Chief Peter Van. derJagt, is as follows:
Five sprint events, a 220-yard free-style dormitory relay, exhibitions in swimming strokes, abandoning ship, gear inflation, underwater swimming and lifesaving tactics.
Also a clown diving exhibition by Gilbert Heckel and Joe Betz; a diving exhibition by Betz, Heckel, Chief VanderJhgt, and Pawley.
Dan Beuham, sophomore V-12, will be the narrator and master of ceremonies.
V-12* To Vie In Sacajest Assembly
Sacajest skits given by representatives of the four V-12 dorms will be presented in the 12:45 p.m. assembly today, Chairman Rollie Kohen has announced.
Stohn dormitory’s skit, to be directed by Bob Fishkind and Maurice Levy, will feature a “girlie” review, a trombone solo by J. D. Liedman, songs by Sam King, and accordion selections by Louis Long.
Representing the Santander dormitory is Dan Reaves, who will perform on the corn jug accompanied by a hill-billy band. A feature of the program will be a soft shoe dance by Kenneth Tar-bell and Gil Heckel.
“Harris Island” is the title of the skit to be presented by Lejeune dormitory. Armando Cana-lejo will direct the skit, *which will portray a typical day at Lejeune. The identity of the mysterious “Ivor” will be announced.
Roy Neal, director of the skit for the French Village, will release no information about the skit of his dormitory until it is presented.
Judges will be Mrs. Melanie R. Rosborough, Dr. Julian D. Cor-rington, and Chief Peter Vander-Jagt.
Baptists to Plan Term-End Social
An end-of-the-term social will be planned by members of the Baptist Student union when they meet Monday, 2:30 p.m., in room 213, President Sam King has announced.
Plans for the activities of the coming trimester will be made also at the meeting.
All Baptist students have been asked to attend this meeting.
Frazier, on Wednesday evening.
The ballot which will be given students today will carry the following names: Richard Farritor and Victor Emanuel, candidates for president; Roland Kohen, vice president; Alice Cook, secretary; Frances Bennett, Bob Whitakef, and Seymour Hinkes, treasurer; James Pilafian, chief justice; Daniel Ginsberg, prosecuting attorney; Laura Gouldman, Louise Maroon, Sam King, Lewis Cook, Jack Straessley, Robert C. Fox, Bob Bickner, and Robert Lee Towles, associate justices.
The candidacies of four candidates were contested last week with the result that Robert Pre-tat, Hal Goldstein, Marshall Simmons, and Ted Sakowitz were declared ineligible to run by Chief Justice Daniel Ginsberg and Prosecuting Attorney James Pilafian.
Ginsberg was soon after asked to resign on the grounds that he was unqualified to hold office.
President Frazier will attempt at 12:45 today in the assembly to clarify the political issues and explain why the election was held and why certain of the candidates were disqualified.
Eiis. Cantor Killed In Saipan Action
Ensign Lloyd “Scratch’ Cantor, graduate of the 1942 summer session, has been reported killed in action on the island of Saipan, according to offocial notification by the War Department.
Ensign Cantor was a liaison officer in an amphibious division.
While at the University, he was treasurer of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, sports editor and managing editor of the Hurricane, and member of the varsity basketball team.
Muddled Elections Need
Two hundred and thirty-five students, who felt that Political issues were too confused for a person to be able to vote intelligently, petitioned yesterday that the elections be postponed until the situation could be cleared up.
Despite the fact that two hundred and thirty-five students signed the petitions, Chief Justice James Pilafian and Sudent Body President Clyde Frazier refused to accept them on the grounds that the “petitions were not legal.”
We would like to quote from the Constitution of the United States: “Congress shall make no low respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people Peaceable to assemble, and TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVINCES.”
The national government recognizes the right of petition but the University of Miami student govem-•**( does not.
Anyone with his eyes open this past week or so realize that student government affairs are suffering from a severe case of mismanagement, lack of ’■tdligent leadership, and lack of coordination. To-election is the climax of months of shoddy or-
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ganization. Look back on the doings of the Honor court, those of you who have been here for the past three months or more. Are you satisfied with the way student affairs have been going? Are you proud to call yourself a member of this Student association?
We of the Hurricane are not. We used to be—when the school was run by qualified student leaders who had a sense of responsibility to the student body; leaders who more than met the requirements of their offices; leaders who were not satisfied to sit back and let the student government become muddled.
When this editorial was written, the whole status of student politics was more confused than a Sunday morning comic strip, more tragic than a Shakespearean saga.
The new officers whoever they be, will have the problem of setting the Student association’s house in order. It is their ditty to iron out the confusion. W’e doubt whether they can do it alone.
But there is one alternative to complete despair. Last year, the Hurricane pleaded for a student-faculty central committee to direct student- affairs. We students are not so egotistical that we think we can do wibout intelligent cooperation from the faculty. Nor did last year’s request mean that we wanted to give any of our student rights over to the faculty. What
we wanted was advice and guidance.
Now, more than ever, we need such advice.
Now, more than ever, we need a central organization which is representative of the students, the faculty, and the administration.
Any of you students who have ever tried to see a University official in order to have a request granted will remember the red tape, long hours of delay and channelling to other officials that you experienced. A student-faculty committee with authority would alleviate this situation and lighten the burden on our administrators.
WTe cannot let student affairs persist in such a befuddled manner. The injustices that have been dealt out in large portions this summer must cease.
The very principles on which our democratic student government is founded are in jeopardy. The fault is with all of us who did not earlier demand that the situation be cleaned up. The remedy lies in the formation of a student-faculty committee.
We earnestly hope for that committee. And we challenge that committee, as its first act, to study our student constitution, survey the campus for suggested revisions, and present to the student body for its approval a more workable constitution.