Miami Hurricane, October 29, 1971

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By SCOTT BRESSLER Hurricane Editor
Most UM students are not aware of it, but they have paid $28,737 this semester for a fieldhouse. That figure was reached when 9,579 students paid three dollars of their student activity fee to the fieldhouse fund.
The three dollars was was paid for the first time this se-
mester since the increase in the Student Activity Fee was voted on in last December's Student Body Government (SBG) election.
Many students have questioned the necessity of this new charge due to the different situation which now exists on campus.
When the increase passed last year, UM still has a basketball team. The basketball
team played all of its games off campus and one of the main reasons for the referendum was to give the basketball team a permanent place to play its games. Since that time the basketball program has been discontinued.
Another difference is that last year many thought that the three dollars was being paid for the construction of a relatively cheap “bubble”
fieldhouse. The “bubble” was a project of last year’s SBG administration which has since been dropped. The cost of the “bubble” was to have been in the area of $100,000. The cost of a permanent fieldhouse is approximately five million dollars.
Since only nine per cent of the student body voted on the referendum, many are questioning the validity of
the increase which will continue at the $28,000 level until someone decides that enough money has been raised.
A motion was made at the last SBG meeting which called for the repeal of the three dollar charge until the Board of Trustees guarantees full student participation in the fieldhouse government. The motion was tabled.
There will be an SBG election in November in which a new referendum could possibly be put on the ballot. Many feel that the charge should be repealed.
According to William Sheeder, Director of Student Activities, it would even be possible to give first semester students a refund by lowering their second semester activity fee if such a referen-
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dum were put on the ballot and passed. It would also be possible to redirect the money already paid into another account.
But until a change is made, the fieldhouse fund will continue to increase at a $50-60,-000 a year clip. And by the time a fieldhouse is built most of those who will be paying $24 over a four year period will have long since graduated.
Today's' 'Cane
•	For an interview with George Nottage, former UM tudent in danger of dying from kidney failure, see p. 8
•	Author James Michener discusses youth’s purpose
and achievement in life, see p. 5A.
•	UM baseball team returns from Nicaraguan goodwill tour. For story, see p. 13A.
• For the story on Jim Morrison, deceased lead sing-r of the Doors, see p. 11
•	Berger . . .14A
•	Fishel. . ,4A
•	Goldstin .. 13A
•	Hurricane Eye, • -2A
•	Kerr-Hassel .. 5A
•	Letters. . .5A
•	Rush. . ,4A
•	Soccer .. 14A
Students Help Kidney Patient In Fight For A Normal Life
Defeat Army!
Impact ’71, underway this week, will reach its climax to-
night as the Hurricanes meet Army ia tit* Orange Bowl at 8:15 p.m. Tomorrow the Homecoming Dance wHl be held.iit the Ibis Cafeteria and on the Union Patio. The Week's events will come to a close Sunday night with the B. B. King Concert at the Sewage Treatment Plant at 7:30 p.m. See the Hurricane’s Section B for full Homecoming details.
Concerned Dems. Investigate Alleged Dade Election Rigging
scheduled for this Tuesday, November 2, but due to unforseen problems, it has been postponed.
Morris said that he'd like to see campus organizations, fraternities, etc, use the Nottage Kidney Fund as a project to help raise money.
A kidney donor might also be needed, and there will be a need for blood donors, type AB negative, once the date of the operation is set.
The drive in the Breezeway ends today. George Nottage chose to risk the transplant rather than give up his freedom and be dependent upon a machine tor the rest of his life.
Anyone wishing to donate money after today can mail their conirihutions (check or money order please) to the George Nottage Kidney Fund, c-o 5811 SW 65 Ave., South Miami, Florida Blood donors contact Bruce Morris, x-4739. Remember, all donations help!	V
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By BARBARA KERR
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George Nottage is $1,090.97 closer to living a normal life because of the contributions of UM students and other donors.
Nottage, 21, is a former UM student who was forced to drop out of school because of kidney failure. Money has been collected every day this week in the Breezeway to help raise the $5,000 needed to help pay for a kidney transplant.
“I’d really like to see this as an all student effort... to have the students unite to save another student," Bruce Morris, supervisor of the George Nottage Kidney Fund
said.
aid and the Miami News to find out “crucial information to determine the truth or falsity of the Colliers’ charges.”
“We have a responsibility to the community to look into this. Personally I’m scared to death. I believe in the system and all I can say is God forbid that this is true,” Entin said.
Entin contends that the public does not understand
computers.
“My father told me that there is nothing mystical about computers. All it is, is a big adding machine. It cannot perform miracles. It can only produce results based on memory bank material,” he said.
Entin plans to be back Monday with the results of
his computer tests.
Photo By MICHAEL NEWMAN
Students Colled Funds For kidney Patient
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Nottage’s kidneys have been deteriorating for a year and a half. He now spends seven hours a day every other day on a kidney dailysis machine which cleans his blood since he was seriously stricken in the latter part of the summer.
The transplant operation was originally
By SCOTT BRESSLER
Hurricane Editor
The story of an alleged election rigging involving three UM professors will be investigated toy the Concerned Democrats. In a meeting last Tuesday night, the Concerned Democrats, after listening to the evidence presented, voted to go ahead with an investigation.
The alleged rigging, which was first reported in the Miami Beach Reporter on August 29, stated that computerized election projections made for the September 8, 1970 Dade County elections only 24 minutes after the closing of the polls by Channel 7 were so accurate they were impossible to make.
The projections were programmed with material supplied by UM professors, Drs. Ross Beiler, Virgil Shipley and Tom Wood,
The Concerned Democrats, which is a coalition of liberal groups in Dade County and the State of Florida, heard evidence which was presented by Alvin Entin. Entin is
a lawyer in the Miami area
and a member of the Concerned Democrats.
‘Tm not saying that any of the charges are true,” Entin said. “But there is enough probable cause to look into it further. From what I’ve seen there are questions which have to be answered.”
Entin’s main question is how the professors could project an entire election (40 races) 24 minutes after the polls closed on the basis of one voting machine out of 1,-648.
“It is impossible to project a race this close on the basis of one machine,” he said.
Entin is flying to New Jersey this weekend where his father owns a computer company. He intends to program a computer with the in-
formation to see if it can be done.
The controversy started when Ken Collier, a candidate for Congress in the September 8 election, brought the story to the news media.
“A lot of people are saying that Collier is crazy,” Entin said. “But you cannot dismiss this just by saying that he’s crazy. Why won’t Dr. Beiler tell us anything? If he did I would believe him since I don’t think that he’s crazy.”
The Concerned Democrats plan to send letters to the three professors, the three networks and the Miami Her-
Attention: Coral Gables City Commission
Dear Sirs and Madam:
It was rather amusing to read that the Coral Cables City Commission voted to change their election procedure to prevent University of Miami students from successfully electing candidates to the Commission. It is smusing because after all the years of discrimination against students, a new law made it possible for students to have a hand in governing themselves, and the Commission immediately attempted to snatch it away.
It looks as if the Commission is petrified that the students will try to avenge themeelves for all the years of unjust ruls. This was the same feeling that existed in the South after the Civil Var when it was felt that the newly freed'Blacks would terrorize the South for the years of involuntary servitude.
If the st .dents of the university make the Commission so insecure that they have to revise their election procedures, maybe other alternatives can be found.
Why not look into the possibility of putting the Ini-vertity outside the jurisdiction of Coral Cables. UM already ha3 its own police force and could adequately govern itself. Perhaps it woulu be possible for UM to incorporate as a separate city.
Another poasibllity would be to have a University seat on the commission. Since the total number of UM students living in Coral Cables is significant, it would not be unthinkable to have a UM representative as a voting member of the Commission. This would mean that the "danger" of what happened at Berkely would not happen here and the students would still have representation on the Commission.
Either alternative would be prelerable to the paranoia which appears to be sweeping through the Comi ission, lhere should be a little more rational thinking among the Corn iesion-ers and a little less irrational acting.
Sincerely,
Scott Bressler Editor
The pew procedures, which dtusi be approved by Gables voter», would become effective before the April 1973 elections when three of the five commission seats become vacant.
Commi»sioner Robert Blake, told the commission that the group election method would make it more difficult for UM students to control the elections with a bloc vote. He cited a successful drive by students at the University of California at Berkeley as an example of such a situation occuring.
“Three minority candidates were elected (in Berkeley) and the radical group has taken over that council. With 18,000 students down there (UM), theoretically this could happen here,” Blake said.
“Any sort of minority group could come in and control the city,” he added.
The seat that Blake now holds is one of the three which will become vacant in the April 1973 election.
Two commissioners, William Kerdyk and Rebyl Zain, were opposed to the proposed changes. They asserted that the group system would be more costly and would create runoff elections.
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Phillips Proposal
Hurts UM Voters
By KINGSLEY RUSH
Of The Hurricane Staff
Citing the possibility of a strong UM student voting bloc, the Coral Gables Commission proposed election procedure changes last Friday.
The proposal, submitted by Mayor W. Keith Phillips, requires commission candidates to run for designated seats rather than at-large as they do now. The proposed group procedure is presently used by other Dade County municipalities.
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Editor
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