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Eligible voters who plan to vote in a state other than Florida in the November sixth presidential elections, should apply immediately for an absentee ballot.
“The sooner you apply," a spokesman for the League of Wosnen Voters said, “the better chance you will have of receiving the ballot In time to vote.”
Ballots can be obtained through the hometown election office of the voter.
Most states have set different dates for the written requests. The average cut off date for the written requests is one week prior to the election, but the deadline varies from state to state.
In Pennsylvania a request for a ballot must be received by the Tuesday proceeding the election, and the ballot must be received by the Friday before the election.
In New York and Maryland. the written request for a ballot must be in seven days prior to the election, and the ballot must be received the day before.
New Jersey’s ballot requests must be received eight days prior to the election, and the ballot must be received the day of the election.
A spokesman for the League of Women Voters said, “We are expecting a tremendous jump this year in the number of voters in Dade County, partly due to the eighteen year old vote."
The League is expecting about 100,000 new voters for the presidential year, this will almost double the 1968 turn out.
Almost 300,000 voters turned out for the 1968 oresi-dential elections, over 10,000 of which were absentee ballots. The expected turnout this year is 560,000, with 20,-000 absentee ballots being cast.
This is the first time that eighteen to twenty-four year old voters will cast a vote in a Presidential race. A spokesman for Dade County Voter Registration believes that young voters influenced two iocal races in September, and that they could have an effect in the national elections.
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Voi. 49 No. 6
I LIBRARY I 1
University Police Changing Image
Gee! Almost Fell In
“Time. Time. Time to see what’s become of me. As I looked around and saw my possibilities, I was so hard to please.” This scholar-to-be is
testing out the construction of the University before he decides to lay his educational foundation. The Student Union bridg« seems to meet his specifications by the approving smile on his face. Could he be contemplating how to structure his future?
Frosh Adjustment Less Obstacles To
By NANCY LUCAS
There has never been a freshmen class like this before in UM’s history, both students, faculty, and administration members agree.
No more speeding GTO’s carrying nerve-wrought, fingernail-chewing UM coeds across expresways and major arteries from their dates to meet the 9 p.m. curfew of 10 years ago or even the 12 p.m. deadline of last year. There is no curfew this year.
No longer will freshmen have to trudge to history seminars. They are being held in the dorms.
No longer will freshmen have a valid argument that they have no voice in national issues. This year eighteen-year-olds can vote.
No longer will freshmen be forced to live in sexually segregated housing. They will experience the first full year of a dally visitation policy
Frosh Profile
Yearbook
Sign-Up
Continues
Ibis Annual, the UM yearbook, will continue its photo registration for all students this week in the Union Breezeway. The registration window will be open from 10 a.m. til 4 p.m.
This year, for the first time, all classes will be included In the yearbook. In past years, class photos have been restricted to seniors only.
This experiment is designed to raise more revenue for the yearbook due to the rising costs of printing. Approximately 500 people have signed up so far.
ever permitted at this university.
Fewer than half of the 2,147 freshmen will return next year. Chances are that less than one-third will graduate from UM.
Coeds will have a harder time catching a husband than their upperclass sisters. “Two guys for every girl” which existed a few years ago is no longer. Don’t transfer, UM is considerably ahead of the national average.
Scholastically, UM is doing well this year. UM can boast of a 700% increase in the number of National Merit Scholars enrolled as freshmen. These students are spread over varied fields of study from biology to art, philosophy and urban studies.
Although there is no significant difference in college board scores of entering freshmen, UM has recovered from a drop experienced in ’70 and ’71 and seems to be headed back to the peak of 1969. Also on the rise is class rank in high school. Over 16 of this year’s freshmen were in the top 10% of their high school class.
UM continues to have a cosmopolitan student body. Forty-three states and the District of Columbia are represented on campus, including Alaska and Hawaii. Students from three territories and 20 foreign countries. For the first time UM can boast of a student from Wyoming.
Bob Lineen, area coordinator of 1968 complex, believes freshmen are more studious than those of last year. Lineen said that most questions freshmen ask are relat-
ed to academic affairs. “They are definitely more interested in studies this year than last year," he said.
“While it is too early to give a statement on the success of the seminars in the dorms,” Lineen said, "there seems to be a good response.”
Dr. Lynn Bartlett, 1968 Complex adviser, has admitted that many freshmen boys have registered the complaint that it is hard to meet girls. She suggests to them, “Try a new approach.”
One coed admitted that UM is changing its academic
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goals. “Some people transfer out of school looking for happiness elsewhere,” she said. “I found some conflict here almost right away, but I’ve resolved It and changed over to a different form of studies. I’m so glad that I’ve found a future in my life.”
One foreign student found the American way of life startling. He was used to a closed community where individuals were second to the group. He said that once he got the feeling that everyone is a different individual, he made positive adjustment and his face now beams with happiness.
George Giampetro, Director of Admissions, remarked, “There's something very fine I’ve noticed about this year’s freshmen. For the first time freshmen aren't looking at their feet.”
By JIM FISHEL
A>wcl«t* Iditor
Two years ago, UM began a new program which brought trained police officers to the security force. The program was one of numerous changes instituted by Chief of Security Fred Doer-ner, who came to UM three years ago.
“We are here on campus working as a service organization, with the sole purpose of serving members of the University community of whom 75% are students,” former FBI agent Doemer said. “Our primary purpose is people, with a secondary purpose of protecting property.”
In the three years that Doemer has headed UM’s 12-man security force, the crime rate has greatly declined. Up to that time building watchmen served as UM’s only means of security and their unarmed police status hindered them.
Doerner’s law enforcement experience is extensive and includes the span of 27 years he served with the FBI prior to his retirement in 1969. In addition he holds an AB and JD degree, something of a feather in his cap. At present, he is a professor of criminal law at the UM School of Law.
“My policies of University security have never changed, and they never will as long as I am associated with the department,” he said. “Communication is the name of the game. If anybody has any kind of complaint to make about any officer or situation, I assure you that a thorough investigation into the problem will be made."
Doerner has great admiration for the students and says that he finds them very helpful. "The last thing that we want to do is harass students or for that matter anybody,” he said, “but we do not want and cannot tolerate harassment or improper conduct.”
The security force is trying to gain a strong rapport with the students and other members of the University community, so they will feel free to call campus police with confidence.
“If we make mistakes, we make attempts to rectify them, but none of the arrests we make are ever trumped up,” Doemer stated.
• Most of the people involved in committing crimes on campus are not connected with the University or the University Cbmmunity, according to Doerner.
The current interest in the newly revised search and seizure handbook brought up the question of the security department’s position. Doerner emphasized that his department has nothing to do
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Security Chief Fred Doerner
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Security on campus is here as an asset ahd not a liability. “We are here to protect people and property,” said Dave Wike, assistant Director of Security.
Security on campus is paid for by the university, although 12 officers, including security director Fred Doerner and assistant director Dave Wike, are deputized by the Coral Gables Police Department. Therefore, Coral Gables police can be called for any
reason at any time if university security deems it necessary.
The entire Coral Gables Police Department will be taking a new community relations program this year at the UM Center for Urban Studies. The year long program gives two weeks training to each of the 125 police, and intensive extra study for the special unit of investigative and school resource officers.
960 Head Drowns
By VIVIAN RACKAUCKAS
Of Tlw Hurricane Staff
Jerry Navolio, Area Coordinator for the 960 Complex, died Saturday afternoon in a swimming accident near Pensacola.
In his first weekend off-duty since school started, Mr. Navolio and his fiancee of a few weeks, Betsy Brooks,
Poll Proves Faith In Security
By NANCY LUCAS
Hurricane Reporter
The majority of the 300 UM students polled this week felt campus security is performing effectively, and added a sense of safety to the campus. However, most students felt they should not be receiving parking tickets from the same security force. But be it New York City or Lander, Wyoming most of those polled agreed Coral Gables is no place like home.
Here’s how it went:
If you were in trouble, would you call a UM security guard?
YES 56%	NO 44%
Security efficiency got a high rating from the UM girls that were polled, while the males of the campus tended to feel they wanted to take matters into their own hands.
“Yes, definitely,” a student replied, “they’d come faster than the Gables police.”
“I know a few of them personally,” one UM coed remarked, “and I’d trust them explicitly — actually to the point of saying, I'd put my life into their hands.”
“The security police are a must for this university com munitv,” one student said “Problems can be self-con tained and handled quicker easier, and with few aggrava tions for the student.”
The UM security police are armed and available 24 hours of the day. It is said they arrive within five to ten minutes after a call by phone. For those students polled who were ignorant of the campus security number, we take this opportunity to suggest that they post X-4202 by their phone.
Do you feel harassed by the presence of armed UM security guards?
YES 18%	NO 82%
The presence of armed UM
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Security Still Carrying Guns
went to Florida State University to visit friends.
They decided to go swimming in St. Joe, near Pensacola, where Mr. Navolio was caught in an undertow.
Mr. Navolio, a graduate of Slippery Rock State College in Pennsylvania, had been with UM since September 1971. He had been a Graduate Assistant in Eaton Hall last year.
Mr. Navolio, who celebrated his 27th birthday last week, had participated in an exchange program with the University of Northern Colorado for eight weeks before he became Area Coordinator of 960.
As Area Coordinator, he had many new ideas and was ambitious in trying to gain student participation in dorm activities.
He was deeply respected by the Resident Assistants and Graduate Assistants with whom he worked.
“Jerry had a real concern for the students. He was great to work with because he really cared what was going on in the dorms,” said one RA.
He stressed communication between the RA’s and the students and between the Graduate Staff and the RA’s It was his goal to handle discipline problems in the dorms by a series of consultations rather than to involve the students' records for minor infractions.
“Jerry wanted to get to know as many of the stu-
dents personally as he could. 1 think that if he had had the whole year he might have done it,” the RA said.
A surprise party and engagement party was given him by the 960 staff last week.
Miss Brooks is an Area Coordinator in Eaton Hall and in the apartment area. They had planned to be married in April.
Mr. Navolio’s family from the Pittsburgh area.
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