Miami Hurricane, May 02, 1972

              University Deputies To Register Voters
Exclusive

President Stanford congratulates UM students for their ecological conscience. See p. 5.
Œfo item
urn
\ ol. 47 No. 46
Tuesday, May 2, 1972
iiiill!liiilill>BllillWWilllWIIIIBIIIWIIB>illllf|'Wit;!iiil'if1i''r - m
I .w
LfBRARy204-fl01
To Aid Dade’s Program
UM Faculty Group Seeks Collective Bargaining Powers
Exotic Gift
Dwarfed by the 18-foot cactus he just presented to the University as a living memorial to a deceased friend, Edward K. Smith, a 12-year UM employee, donated the rare plant recently.
in hopes that students would be inspired by it and appreciate its beauty. This particular home-grown rare cactus was originally from a tiny island in the Bahamas. It can now be seen in its new home in the southwest corner of the Biology building. For rest of story see
p.2.
Tau Kappa Ensilon Named “FraterniIv Of The Year’
By PAUL SWANSON
Of Th* Hurricane Staff
“Fraternity of the Year,” an award given annually to the fraternity with the most outstanding achievements during the academic year, was presented to Tau Kappa Epsilon by UM President Henry King Stanford last week.
Founded in the fall of 1966, TKE is a comparatively young fraternity on the UM campus.
“Four years ago, twelve members of TKE, while living in a dorm, founded the McKinley Rats. In an effort to continue the
common friendship that we had acquired, we decided to go fraternity. From that point on, TKE has continuously improved,” TKE President Dan Hall said.
In order to win the award, TKE participated in a wide number of activities this year.
In Homecoming TKE won a variety of awards, including first place for the parade in the lower fraternity division, second places in house decoration and poster decoration, and third place overall.
During Greek Week in the spring, TKE
Continued On Page 2
By JOHN REILLY
ffurricam Editor
The UM chapter of the American Association of University Professors has voted to commit itself to an effort to become the collective bargaining agent for the University faculty.
UM chapter president Charles Eyre said the AAUP has traditionally avoided organizing along union lines but that recent developments in the academic world have led the national office of the AAUP to revise these policies.
The AAUP now encourages individual chapters to become collective bargaining agents in order to maintain the status of faculty members and to prevent the erosion of the gains made over the past decade.
The UM chapter of the AAUP has 187 members of which 30 were present at the April 26 meeting which resulted in the vote for collective bargaining. The total UM faculty numbers approximately 650.
Eyre said that although the majority of the membership was absent, he felt 90 per cent of the membership is in favor of pursuing collective bargaining starting in the
The main reason the UM chapter has commited itself to the effort of collective bargaining is the problem of pay, Eyre said.
“The rise in the cost of living has hit hit everyone but during the past two years the cost of living has outstripped the faculty pay increases,” Eyre said.
Eyre said there is also the general matter of power.
“The word ‘faculty’ means power,” Eyre said, “and traditionally university faculties have had a great deal of power especially when it comes to the budget. But our faculty has had no say in the University’s budget decisions. Our power is just coming up too short.”
According to Eyre the process whereby the UM chapter of AAUP would become the bargaining agent for the faculty is a long one, taking from two to five years.
But first, Eyre said, AAUP will ask the University to recognize it as the bargaining agent for the faculty.
Freshmen Pledges Required To Remain In Dormitories
By TONY PASSARELLO
Hurricane Contributor
A proposal for increasing residence hall room rentals which will end the right of freshmen fraternity pledges to move into the fraternity houses of their choice, has been approved by Director of Residence Halls James C. Grimm and Dean of Students Nicholas Gennett.
The proposal was part of a multi-part package designed to bolster declining room rentals in UM residence halls.
“We have been charged with maintaining an occupancy rate that will minimize the housing deficit,’’ Grimm said. “This means that approximately 95% of residence hall space must be occupied throughout the year.”
UM’s on-campus housing has been the focus of Budget committee attention since
James C. Grimm
... homing director
major University budget cutbacks were instituted following the publication of a 1969-70 housing deficit of some $600,000.
The proposal is linked with other measures including the establishment of different "lifestyle” programs in UM dorms, and an application for a loan from th^ Department
of Housing and Urban Devel-o p m e n t to air-condition Eaton and Mahoney Halls.
UM’s fraternity system, which for years has depended upon the housing fees of freshmen pledges to support the operation of UM fraternity houses, reacted with anger and dismay.
"Whenever the University has needed aid on manpower for a special project, it has always called upon the frats,” Dan Hail, president of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity said. “This move is a direct stab in the back to the Greek system.”
Halls remarks were echoed by representatives of other fraternities at a Thursday joint meeting of the Inter-Fraternity Council and the SBG President Sami Burs-tyn’s “May Cabinet.”
IFC President Dan Leong has appointed a comnyftee to
study alternative proposals to ease UM’s financial ills.
"Fraternities have always been a major source of free, willing labor for any University project,” Burstyn said. “Greeks are the major support of Homecoming and Carni Gras, both of which contribute financially to UM through production of added revenue for SAFAC, and in drawing alumni donors back into contact with UM.”
Ronald P. Kozuta, assistant personnel dean, indicated at the meeting that Greek alumni are responsible for a predominant proportion of alumni donations to the University.
"I think it's obvious that these alumni are going to be very disturbed to see the UM administration take action that will be directly responsible for closing down most of
Continued On Page 2
“It is unlikely the University will agree to this right off but it may happen. They may wish to avoid ill feelings which could be produced by drawn out procedures," Dr. John Gorman, of UM’s language department and vice-president of UM’s chapter of the AAUP, said.
Here is the process that must be followed before any group may represent the faculty in collective bargaining:
•	The National Labor Relations Board must receive authenticated signature cards from at least 30% of the faculty.
•	The NLRB must then receive a petition signed by 30% of the faculty requesting an election to decide who will represent them in collective bargaining.
•	The NLRB then conducts the election with the
faculty voting either for a group to represent them or voting for no representation.
Gorman said several different groups may vie to represent the UM faculty in collective bargaining aside from the AAUP. They include the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. However, Gorman said, neither of these groups have a campus organization at this time.
Both Eyre and Gorman stressed the point that the faculty may vote to not have any group represent them in collective bargaining.
Eyre said there is a 50-50 chance the UM chapter of the AAUP will wind up as the collective bargaining agent for the faculty “but that is the chance we will have to take.”
Eyre said that in no way does the AAUP’s attempt at
collective bargaining represent the threat of a faculty strike at UM.
"The only time a strike would even be considered would be if we obtained the right to bargain and the Board of Trustees refused to bargain with us,” Eyre said.
Eyre said any arbitration the AAUP entered into would be binding arbitration.
Concerning reprisals by the University against faculty members attempting to organize, Eyre said “there is always that possibility but I have never been able to document any case of that kind. I think this administration is as good as we can get.”
Last year there was opposition to any form of unionizing, Eyre said. The faculty felt that professionals should not stoop to unionism but Eyre feels “this opposition is waning swiftly.”

Who known what garbage lurks in the bottom of Lake Osceola? 50 volunteers spent hours in an effort to clean up the lake this past Saturday.
At least one 2-ton truck was filled with odds-and-ends, as the ail-ministration requested no divers be used because of poor risibility and lack of insurance coverage.
While cross campus . . . the VM-Environ-m e n t Club was busy cleaning up the Sewage T rent meat Plant, as more volunteers pitched in there, in an effort to
!make the UM campus — a clean campus.
—Hurrican» Photos by SCOTT CUTLER
___________
mfÈÊÊÊÊÊamm
tiMUHMBMBBBflaUI
By MARK TARGE
Assistant Ntws Editor
Starting this spring, UM will have people trained and deputized to officially register students and all other members of the University community to vote in the upcoming elections.
Though the efforts of Don Kubit, assistant vice president to Student Affairs, six UM employees and himself will be going to the Dade County Courthouse on May 5 for training.
“Its all being arranged with Willard Miller, supervisor of Dade County elections,” Kubit said. “He has agreed to train and deputize our people to register students to vote.”
Under the new system people will now be able to register to vote any weekday 9-5, since deputized people will always be on campus, and not just when the Dade County mobile registration bus is here.
“The bus which has been used on the campus this past year for registering students to vote will be back on May 11, at the Student Union traffic circle,” Kubit said
The last time the bus was here was during class registration.
“We’re trying to get one clerk in every residence hall, one in the Student Activities Office, one in the Student Affairs Office, and one in the Student Personnel Office, so people can register on a walk-in basis,” Kubit said.
But the bus will still be used as well as campus personnel during next fall’s class registration.
Kubit felt that with the Fall elections approaching, students are becoming more interested, and many are expected to register.
“It will be a great service to the students," Kubit said, “our main interest is to pick up students we miss during fall class registration when the bus is here. We might even start registering students this spring.”
Also supporting the program is SBG. “Dave Fisher and Sami Burstyn have pledged support,” Kubit said.
Kubit emphasized the point that the purpose of the program was to aid and supplement the Dade County program.
Inside jj---
Today's
'Cane
•	For an analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s, “A Clockwork Orange” by Kathryn Ann Crimmins, see page 5
•	For a music interview with the group Osibi-sa, see page 6
•	To find out where UM students go in their spare time, see the Poll on page 3
•	Hurricane tennis team ends Georgia's 76 game home winning
streak, see page 8
•	Belford ............ 4
•	Crimmins ........... 5
•	Editorials ......... 4
•	Frank & Maud	....	7
•	Goldstein .......... 8
•	Horowitz ........... 4
•	intramurals ........ 9
•	Lang...............4
•	Reader's Response	.	5
• Seiden............^ 10