Miami Hurricane, November 17, 1972

              “ITe’re making sure progress in bringing to light cases where women are not enjoying etjual status in departmentsDr. Evelyn T. Helmick, advisory committee chairwomen said.
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Of TM Hurrium Staff
Sweeping changes in the area of women's rights have been ushered in faculty departments as the result of a recently appointed advisory committee on academic affairs.
“We’re making sure progress in bringing to light cases where women arc not enjoying equal status In departments,” Dr. Evelyn T. Helmick. assistant professor of English and chairwoman of the committee, said.
So far the committee has launched a series of briefings with members of the faculty to study specific sex discrimination questions and serve as a counsel to airing grievances.
Findings will be presented
periodically to Dr. McKenry for corrective action.
In addition the committee has prepared a special survey to study salaries and ranks of women in teaching positions as well as schedule a series of seminars for women featuring prominent women in the community as guest speakers.
The first of the seminars will be held December 5 in the Student Union with Dr. Anitra Thoughaug keynoting on women in oceanography.
“Sure inequities exist,” Dr. Helmick said. “That is why a faculty committee is in operation; because it best knows the problem of women in faculty positions.”
Already the committee has reported cases affecting the status of women in several
departments. Dr. Helmick said that in each case the problems of discrimination have been ironed out.
“Often male faculty members may not even be aware of sex discrimination and that’s where we serve to point it out,” Dr. Helmick said. “The University has long been a male stronghold.”
The faculty committee
serves as a liaison between the academic affairs division and UM’s Women’s Rights Commission headed by Wesley Foundation Director Polly Cook. Four women, faculty members also, serve concurrently on both committees.
Although concern over women’s rights was brought to public attention with demands made recently on
campus by Miami feminist Roxcy Bolton, Dr. Helmick said the original Women’s Rights Commission has been operating for a year now.
Ms Bolton demanded that more women be selected as heads of faculty departments because of 75 department heads, only one is a woman. She also called for the election of women to fill half of the all-male member board of
trustees and the appointment of a woman assistant to the President to study sex discrimination.
"In many cases if you give power arbitrarily to women, you’ll be taking away power from thp faculty," Dr. Helmick said. “Changes can't happen overnight.”
Dr. Henry King Stanford directed Ms. Bolton to the
Women’s Rights Committee and said that in most cases, his position as President did not facilitate the appointment of women to faculty positions. Department heads are now elected by professors and faculty members in that particular department.
Dr. Helmick’s advisory committee will meet with the Women's Rights Committee November 21 to restructure the Committee in order to better respond to the needs of women among UM students and staff personnel.
"Women on campus are satisfied by the efforts being made in their behalf, by other women who are aware of their needs, by also being on campus,” Dr. Helmick said. “Ms. Bolton’s revolution
tactics aie not the way a University should be run."
Six women on the Women’s Rights Committee have applied to become members of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfares Women in Action Commission.
The Commission, made up of outstanding American women, will meet in Washington six times during the year to advise President Nixon of the status of women in the United States.
"Our awareness of the problem of women’s rights on campus has existed for many years. By affecting changes and programs ourselves we can better the status of women at the University,” Di. Helmick said.
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FPIRG Petition Drive Seeking Endorsement
By MICHAEL PARKER
Of Tht Hurrlcam Staff
The Florida Public Interest Research Group (FPIRG) has announced that over 2,460 UM students have signed petitions which would enable the organization to be placed on a referendum for ratification by the entire undergraduate student body. A total of 4,372 signatures is required.
Should the FPIRG resolution be passed, all students would be required to contribute $1.50 per semester towards payment of all overhead costs. FPIRG is official-ly listed as a non-profit organization.
FPIRG is a loialized effort which would, if successful, work to alleviate many of the
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The group is hopeful that they will gain endorsements from the UM faculty and staff. Stuart .lasper, FPIRG organizer, said that Dr. Carl McKenry, vice president of
By HERB GREENBERG
Of Tin Hurricane Stuff
The Rathskeller, the new academic calendar, birth control, local elections and Thanksgiving were the topics used in this week's Hurricane Poll of 300 UM students.
Here’s how it went;
The Rathskeller is presently scheduled to open around December 1. It was scheduled to open in September, but the addition of a bar on the second floor, set the completion date back.
UM students were asked: Are you looking forward to the opening of the Rathskeller?
Academic Affairs, has given his “personal but not official endorsement to the group.” Petitioners will continue to man tables in the Breezeway and seek out signatures in the dormitories. Interested students should drop by room S-244 in the Student Union oi phone 284-3919.
Yes	No Undecided
63%	27%	10%
Most of those who said no, were under the drinking age. Others said that they just didn’t care for it.
“If students need this type of recreation, lei them go elsewhere. School is for studying and tuition is high enough without building a thing like that with school funds," one student said.
"What the heck, it's something new However, I don't believe they’ll ever finish it,” one skeptical student said
Do you approve ol the new
By HERB GREENBERG
Of Th« Hurricant Staff
It will be difficult to get big-name rock musicians to appear at UM in the future, due to the change in the South Florida rock promotion scene and UM's lack of facilities. Student Entertain-m e n t Committee (SEC) Chairman Jeff (Ra-en) Bloom said Monday.
In 196» and 1970, Janis Joplin, The Jefferson Airplane, Melanie, Richie Havens, Pacific Gas and Electric, Sam and Dave, The Vanilla Fudge, The Byrds, Santana, Leonard Cohen, and Canned Heat appeared at UM.
UM was able to get these groups, Raven said, because two years ago there weren't any promoters in this area.
“Now there are six other major promoters in Miami alone,” Raven said. “Some of the agencies which hook the group won't even talk with us because they deal solely with other promoters in this area.”
“A group gets a flat fee when it plajs at UM.” Raven said. “They can’t work on a percentage-pay basis of the amount of persons who attend.
“When a group plays for Leas Campbell or Howard Setin (south Florida promoters), they get a certain fee, say $5,000 or $10,000. Then, they work on a percentage of the amount taken from the gate.
“When they work for a private promoter, there’s a possibility of earning twice
academic calendar?
Yes	No Undecided
82%	•%	9%
The new academic calendar changes the time when school starts to before labor
as much than they would if they played at the University,” Raven said.
In college towns like Gainesville, the campus is the only place for the group to get exposure in that area, Raven explained.
"At most of those campuses, the students pay regular prices lo attend the concerts. At UM, concerts are free because students pay $6 for them in their activities fee," he said.
The lack of facilities in the south Florida area make it
By C HUCK GOMEZ
Of The Hurricane Staff
Environment, a student action group, will sponsor a recycling center for glass, aluminum, and newspapers, beginning December 2 and continuing throughout the year on the first and third Saturday of every month.
“It's the first center of its kind,” group president Ed Frankel said, “other recycling centers are usually concerned with handling only one kind of solid waste."
To finance the effort, Environment is sponsoring a bicycle contest. The object is to guess the pollution index of Miami on December 2. Tickets are 25 cents and may he purchased from any Environment member.
The renter will he located behind the UM Health Annex
day. First semester final exams will end before Christmas vacation.
While most students approve of the change, some students were undecided. One co-ed asked, “what academic calendar?"
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almost impossible to hold concerts, Raven said
The Miami Jai-Alai Fronton, which is the closest large capacity building to the University, won’t be available for concerts until May. The Jai-Alai season begins in December and lasts until May.
The only other place to hold concerts in Dade County is the Miami Beach Convention Hall complex.
“When you use the Miami Beach facilities, you have to use all of their personnel —
in the parking lot on Levante Avenue. From there, solid waste will be shipped to Lakeland, Florida, the Reynolds Aluminum Company, and a local paper firm for recycling.
Glass must be clean and metal rings removed In order
Yes	No	Undecided
77%	10%	13%
The UM currently has birth-control advising, but birth-control clinic has yet to be established.
"People should	have a
choice to do what	they want
to do. It should he available on campus,” one male said.
Another male said, “you’re damn right. There should have been one here already.”
One female was soothed by the idea. She said, “yeah, yeah, yeah.”
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for the sound, lights and security.
“Just to rent out the Miami Beach facility, it costs roughly $3,000,” Raven said.
SEC had scheduled the Kinks, a British rock group, to play last Sunday at the Jai-Alai fronton, “But they cancelled out,” Raven said. “They were touring in the North and they said they didn’t have any Southern dates.
“Instead of taking all of their equipment and flying down here, they stayed up
to be recycled. Aluminum cans will be accepted only if they are anti-magnetic and can be easily crushed. Newspapers should be unloaded in neat bundles.
According to Frankel, the group hopes to spark an awareness among sutdents of the critical pollution problem on and around campus. Environment presently has a membership of 25 students.
Assisted by a Student Body Government grant of $500, the group plans to establish an environmental hotline, organize a trip to the Everglades for underprivileged students and assist the “Save The Lake” committee in their research of pollution in Lake Osceola.
“We're exclusively a student group,” Frankel said. “Because we have no administration ties it’s sometimes difficult to get support.”
Frankel hopes the support will come from a respectable turnout at the group’s organizational meeting November 27 on campus. Students
north and played cities Ilka
Boston and New York.”
“A city like Miami is out of the way for a group to
come South just to play the University. If they're going to come down here, they’d like to have other southern engagements," he said.
[here's nothing beneficial for a group to play at the UM, Raven said.
“When they play at the University, they’re not allowed to advertise the con-
wishing to become involved should call 284-2916.
That the recycling effort will most likely aid only a small portion of the county with Coral Gables, thé principal target is one aspect Frankel believes won’t undermine the anti-pollution project
“We're concentrating on the Gables because it has a solid waste problem. We hope to educate the students first,” Frankel said.
Environment hopes also to work closely with the Florida Public Information Research Group (FPIRG), in studying pollution as it relates to the campus. An environmental coloring hook for children is also one of the target areas.
“Of course it will be difficult to continue operating on campus without a lot more student participation,” Frankel said. “To remain a student-run organization we need student manpower.
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•	Editorials	....... page	4
•	Hurricane	Eye ...	page	3
•	Intramurals .... page 10
•	Jocko.............page	9
•	Letter to the
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