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Vol. 48   No. 11
Tuesday, October 24, 1972
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Bird's Eye View
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Speaking
Spanish
Okayed
By CHUCK GOMEZ
HwricaM aasortar
Sparked by a Hurricane article last week revealing the
medical library's "International Policy," of prohibiting
the use of Spanish among
employees, Dr. E. M. Papper,
dean of the UM Medical
School, has lifted the
ban, and will now allow employees to speak Spanish for
the first time this semester.
"I would not feel comfortable if employees were being
forbidden to speak the language of their choice," Papper said.
The policy, instituted by library director Mrs. Mildred
Langer, prohibited the use of
Spanish by employees on the
job. Employees and student
assistants working in the library told the Hurricane they
had been warned they would
lose their jobs If caught
speaking Spanish during
working hours.
Complaints from students
and University officials, coupled with questionings from
the local media, prompted an
investigation by Papper of
the policy which also forbade
the use of any other language in the library except
English.
"We never meant to cause
any harm," said Mrs. Raissa
Maurin, deputy librarian,
who recommended the ban in
a memo last August "We
have many Spanish employees who should be speaking
English."
Mrs. Langer was unavailable for comment but had
earlier told the Hurricane
that "English is the only official language," and therefore
employees should speak another language only in case
of an emergency.
An investigation by UM's
Cuban Federation of Students showed that Spanish
employees working in the library feared a severe reprimand or loss of their jobs if
heard conversing in Spanish.
However, Mrs. Maurin denied there had been an outright ban but merely a suggestion that Spanish employees speak only English "because it would help them enlarge their vocabulary and
not make the other staff
members feel like strangers."
But student assistants and
employees interviewed by
the Hurricane said the policy
was instituted because doctors had complained that
hearing conversations in
Spanish annoyed them.
'This oppression of employees just never existed,
Mrs. Maurin said, we received no direct complaint
from any students or from
our workers."
A Hurricane study revealed that no other facility
on campus prohibited the use
of a foreign language among
employees.
Papper's action will allow
lihrary employees to converse freely in the language
of their choice, in addition to
allowing workers to apeak
Spanish with library patrons
who may not know English.
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Stanford Stresses
Tightened Budget
Presidential Issues
Ignite First Forum
By NANCY LUCAS
Hurricana Raeortar
The major issues of the
two Presidential nomiinees,
launched the first session of
the University Forum, Friday
afternoon at the Rock.
Representatives, Alec Stephens from the Young Democrats and Oliver Parker, from
the Young Republicans each
opened the Forum with a discussion of their candidates
platform and an informal
question and answer period
followed.
Members of the audience,
numbering about 60 at the
peak, chatted among themselves and wandered around
the area.
Due to the informality of
the election issues session,
the students agreed the discussion got off to a slow
start. Too many questions
were directed at first and
there was confusion as to
which representative the
questions were directed to.
By 3.30 p.m., however, the
Forum was progressing
smoothly after Dr. Sheppard
Faber, Forum director repeatedly called for short,
straight answers to student's
questions.
The Vietnam War was the
biggest issue discussed.
Spokesman for McGovern.
Alec Stephens, when asked
why McGovern is supporting
getting out of Vietnam in 90
days replied, "At this time,
with the level of fighting,
with Nixon's winding down
the war, we find it simpler
and easier to take all troops
our leaving no military advisors and no residual forces in
90 days. We want to end the
war, stop the killings, and we
want to stop the growing list
of POW's. As long as we
have soldiers there you always have the list of POW's
added and then we will go to
the peace table, forcing the
Geneva Agreement after hostilities are over."
The credibility of each
candidate was questioned repeatedly. Oliver Parker spoke
strongly against McGovern.
"George McGovern claims
to be right from the start.
However in 1966 George McGovern voted to retain the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. In
1(167 George McGovern was
quoted by the UPI as saying,
'Under no circumstances do I
favor total withdrawal from
South Vietnam.' In 1968
George McGovern still voted
to maintain our force level in
Vietnam. In 1964 McGovern
was asked why it was he
who voted to kill a bill that
would have allowed Goldwater and Johnson to debate.
McGovern at that time said
that I do not feel it is fitting
for a President of the United
States to lower himself to the
level of a common politician.
Now eight years later he de
mands the right to debate.
George McGovern has the
right to change his mind He
does not have the right to lie
about the frame of mind he
was in."
Parker continued, "The
war in Vietnam is being
ended. The American involvement is practically over
with. The only people over
there presently are volunteers. McGovern people claim
that they want to stop the
killing. How do you explain
the fact that the day the
Americans walk out of Vietnam, millions of South Vietnamese are going to be
slaughtered by the North
Vietnamese tyrants? How is
he ever going to get the
POW's   back    from    North
Vietnam if he goes begging
on his hands and knees. If I
were a North Vietnamese
and McGovern came begging
on his hands and knees I'd
urinate in his face."
Alec Stephens in his summation said, "Four more
years of Richard Nixon is
meaning inflation now more
than ever before, unemployment now more than ever before, military spending now
more than ever before, bombing now more than ever before, secrecy in the government now more than ever before and morally we just
can't have that."
... So went the first meeting of the University Forum.
By BARBARA KERR
Nawa idrte-
UM President Henry King
Stanford has announced that
"certain economy measures
in hiring and purchasing must
be exercised to maintain a
balanced budget for the current year" due to a 6% decline in the fall enrollment.
The enrollment drop of
1225 students at UM follows
a nationwide trend according
to UM Registrar G. W. Smith
that stems from three primary factors.
The military draft induction is no longer affected by
college enrollment and there
has been a trend of students
who are unsure of the career
choices to drop out of college
on a temporaiy basis to
work.
There has also been a tendency for many students to
go into vocational and technical schools rather than to a
college or university upon
high school graduation.
All enrollment in undergraduate schools at UM declined with the exception of
the School of Music. The
largest decline hy an undergraduate class was a loss of
621 students on the junior
level.
On the professional and
graduate level, both the
School of Medicine and the
School of Law increased in
enrollment with an increase
in the law school of 89, and a
medical school increase of 53
students. The graduate
school had a loss of 228 stu-
dents.
An inbalance in the budget
is projected for the current
fiscal year and all divisional
vice presidents have been requested by Dr. Stanford to
institute steps to help bring
the current budget into balance.
Areas in which Dr. Stanford requested cautionary
steps to be taken are:
%   Position   classification
requests and vacancies filling
requests must be justified
and individually approved by
each divisional vice-president.
• Transfer of funds between salaries and retirement, supplies and services,
and equipment account monies will be restricted
9 Remodeling and refurbishing expenditures for offices not essential to the actual operation of the University will be delayed
•   Extra-budgetaty allot
ments will not be considered
Dr. Stanford pointed out
that the cautionary measures
to be instituted would not result in any job terminations
as a result of financial emergencies, nor would it require
any program reductions.
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Diagram Shows This Year's Enrollment Drop
Homecoming's 'Glitter'
Sparks Student Spirit
Feminists S tage Sit-In
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Hurricana Rapartar
I amhasting UM administrators for condoning a "cesspool of sexism," Miami feminist leader Roxcy Bolton
and eight other women
marched yesterday into UM
President Dr. Henry King
Stanford's office handing
down ten ultimatums on behalf of women's rights.
The Women stormed into
the Ashe Building during a
morning Cabinet meeting and
prepared to spend the night,
Ms. Bolton said, unless the
demands were met.
"We are here to present a
list of demands to Dr. Stanford and his all-male cabinet.
The attitude against women
at UM is intolerable," Ms.
Bolton announced.
The controversial women's
liberation figure criticized
the lack of women in high
university administrative and
faculty positions and charged
hiring practices favored men
over women.
The demands outlined by
the feminists included:
• Appointment of an as-
sistant-to-the-president to
study cases of sexual descri-
mination
0 Establishment I of a
women's rights committee
0 Courses in the history
and development of women
• Appointment of a dean
of student women
• Ceasing payments of
dues to clubs whose members
are all-male civic leaders
such as the Miami Club, and
the Standard Club
• Appointment of a
woman to the position of
dean of the Law School
0 That future VBOMI n■
in deanships he filled hy at
least fifty per cent womrn
• Election of a woman to
the chairmanship of a faculty
department
# Establishing a position
that one-half/ of the president's cabinet be composed
of women
• Appointment of a
woman assistant to the president to study cases of descri-
mination.
The demands were reviewed by Dr. Stanford and
the Cabinet after an after-
n o o n meeting with the
women.
Expressing dissatisfaction
that the meeting glossed over
important aspects of the
women's demands, Ms. Bolton asked that another meeting be scheduled with tha
chairman of the Board of
Trustees and nominating
committees.
"We are all aware of the
tremendous problem, but my
position doesn't necessarily
provide the answers to solving descrimination," Dr.
Stanford said.
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Hurrlcana Raportar
The swirl of Homecoming
festivities begins next week
with a record-breaking number of entries in contests
from pumpkin-carving to
beer-drinking.
In addition, this year's extravaganza Homecoming parade will snake down Miracle
Mile as the largest college
parade in the nation. There
will be 21 floats. 14 dignitary
cars, and high school bands
from around the county joining in the excitement generated by the November 4 UM
clash against Nevada in the
Orange Bowl.
"There's an unusual high
amount of enthusiasm,"
Homecoming Commitee Co-
Chaairman Ilene Entis said.
"Practically every campus
organization is entering our
Homecoming."
However 1972's Homecoming will introduce a striking
difference from Homecomings of the past. There will
be no theme.
'Miss Entin said the change
was instated tn allow organizations to use their own
ideas in the creation of floats
and other Homecoming activities.
Sunday, 104 campus beauties paraded before judges in
the preliminaries of the
Homecoming Queen Contest.
From these 16 will compete
in the final pageant of pulchritude. Students will then
choose among posted pictures and vote for their favorite on October 26 and 27
in the Breezeway,
In addition, tickets to the
Homecoming dance are already on sale and Homecoming Committee Chairman
George Toomigan, who has
lately taken to wearing his
ubiquitous racoon coat,
promises the gala affair will
be a return to the "old fashioned" days of yesteryear.
The gala dance takes place
November 3 at 7:30 p.m. in
the DuPont Plaza. Tickets
are seven dollars. Dress is
semi-formal.
Providing the beat will be
two    international     bands:
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Students Like 4No Forfeit' Ruling
By NANCY LUCAS
Hurricana Rapartar
After the recent controversy over the Miami-Tulane
game and after Glenn Helton,
sports editor of the Tulane
University newspaper told
Hurricane Sports editor, Roy
berger that there was a "feeling of outrage and frustration" from the Green Wave
student body, we thought it
might be of interest to poll
the UM students to see what
kind of response the verdict
was getting on this campus.
After polling three hundred students, these are the
results:
Where you at the Miami-
Tulane game Saturday night?
could use the support."
"Who goes to football
games when there's so much
else to do around Miami?" a
UM coed declared.
Do you feel Urn made the
right decision by not forfeiting the game?
YES
55%
NO
is?;
MAYBE
27%
YES
17%
NO
83%
It appears that only a
small percentage of students
attended the football game,
despite the fact that the University supplies buses for a
small fee. Some students felt
that the University should
provide free busing.
"After all, they are our
team." one student said.
"Providing free busing niifjht
bring more students to the
game, and I'm sure our team
Most students feel that
Ernie McCoy, Um athletic director, Assistant Pete Elliot,
and others present in the
closed door meeting held
Monday afternoon made the
right choice in retaining the
win.
Roy Berger, in his assumption of campus opinion has
been proven to be correct. He
had believed that the decision not to forfeit was "generally accepted". Most students, when asked for merely
a yes or no answer reacted
strongly, often giving reasons for their opinions.
Do you feel the decision
hurt UM's reputation?
YES       NO      NOT SURE
2«%       m%       m%
"Definitely not," one student   said,   "if   anything  I
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Controversial Football Victory
... students favor derision
think the referee or referees
involved will have difficulty
in finding a job."
While most students felt
Miami's reputation has not
suffered, those who did, believe UM has displayed poor
sportsmanship.
"It's   important   to   win,"
one student said," but it's
more important how you
play the game."
After finding a discrepancy between low student attendance at football games
and great concern   over the
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Mandrill, a Latin combo
and the BWIA Sun Jets, a
steel drum band. The night's
activities will also include
the awarding of door prizes
and the announcement of
winners of homecoming contests, including the best float.
Always the most popular
of the Homecoming events
are the sometimes unique but
rollicking contests and special events. Such is the
pumpkin carving contest
which is still open to 50 indi-
dividual or group entries,
line 5 p.m. today. The object
is to carve the most unique
Halloween Pumpkin October
26 at 8 p.m.
Thursday, November 2 students can test their sobriety
with the Beer Drinking contest open to the first 50 entries for a $2 entry fee. Deadline is tomorrow. On the
same night of that contest at
7 p.m. is the Homecoming
pep rally.
Eighteen campus organization have already entered the
House Decorations competition with the object to decorate the campus for Homecoming and to net a set number of points. Judging begins
October 30 and will last a
week until the Homecoming
Game.
WVUM will join with the
Homecoming Committee to
sponsor a Halloween Party-
Dance on the patio on Halloween night. Best costumes
will receive awards donated
from merchants on Miracle
Mile and at 9 p.m. the patio
lights will be dimmed to
usher the suspense in the
crowning of the Homecoming
Queen.
With an ecological twist,
this year's annual boat burning on November 2 on the
moonlit waters of Lake Osceola at 8 p.m. will leave no
debris to clean up after. The
boat will balance on barrels
and the boat's triangular
truss will be laden with
paper cartons to facilitate
the burning. When the boat
burns the ashes will settle on
a platform supporting the
boat and not in the lake.
To join in the Homecoming
spirit students have only to
purchase Homecoming T-
Shirts with a four color design drawn by student Jcffe
Wollman especially for 72's
Homecoming. The shirts are
on sale now from Homecoming Committee members.