Miami Hurricane, October 31, 1972

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Vol. 48 No. 13
October, 31, 1972
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Bv CHUCK GOMEZ And.CINDY SNEl.UNG
Of Th# Hurrlc#n# Staff
Nostalgia launched the official opening of Homecoming Week.
The old-fashioned Homecoming was ushered in last Thursday with the pumpkin carving fare — a throwback to the days when mom would carve your jack-o-lantern and place it in the window sill. Remember?
And the voting in the Breezeway Thursday and Friday for your favorite girl from pictures on display kind of made you think back to those Betty Grable cheesecake shots we’ve all seen a thousand times. This time, though you voted for the girl that reminded you the most, or the least of your mother, apple pie, etc.
These are just samples of what is yet to come as the boola-boola-boola days of l4ie old Homecomings generate the 1972 Hurricane spirit.
Since the traditional idea of Homecoming Week has lost its popularity, George Toomigian, the first non-Greek chairman, has geared the idea of Homecoming is to have a week of fun, putting less stress on competition.
According to Toomigian, the apathy and lack of interest in the traditional sense of Homecoming Week has resulted in the need for a new outlook among students; he feels that the new idea has renewed interest in Homecoming Week. This year any partisan participation is restricted.
Last year, Homecoming Week was a flop, he said. This year he raised $10.000 himself and the figures concerning the activities show a definite increase in interest.
Last year there were 13 f loats; this year there are 21 and the University’s parade is considered the largest of its kind in the nation this year.
There were only eight house decorations last year; this year there are 18. Also, 100 girls entered the Queen’s Contest this year in comparison to only 67 entries last year. Last year five dorms participated as organizations.
If we compare Homecoming Week ’72 to Homecoming Week '60, the biggest difference is the interest among the students. Where Homecoming Week was the biggest event of the year, now its importance has somewhat diminished.
In I960 the Homecoming dance took place at the Miami Reach Exhibition Hall and the music was by Ray Coniff and his orchestra.
During the 1955 Homecoming Week the torchlight parade of floats was followed by a huge pep rally. Then, after the victorious game with Boston College everyone piled into Din-
ner Key Auditorium and danced to the music of Ralph Mar-tene and his orchestra. A television show featuring Homecoming films was featured at the end of the week.
The ODK bell, perhaps the most lasting and traditional aspect of Homecoming Week, still rings faithfully each year at the beginning of Homecoming Week. The bell, originally belonging to a World War II submarine destroyer, was presented to the UM President Bowman Ashe for the 1951 Homecoming by the United States Navy.
Thursday, In a symbolic gesture of Homecoming’s fiery spirit, Homecoming committee members will take to burning a boat on Lake Oceola. It seems perhaps as much a ritual as giving a plaque to the rival team in the Homecoming game. This year the team to beat is Nevada at the Orange Bowl Saturday.
And to generate the spirit around campus, organizations seem to be falling over each other to put up the most dazzling display of posters and ribbonry to net a prize in the Homecoming House Decorations competition.
In keeping with the Betty Coed and Joe College theme, Toomigian has wrapped himself, this week, in one of those old racoon coats you’ve always heard about but never seen. No doubt the genial head of this year’s committee will remove the garb for the Homecoming dance Friday night at the Dupont Plaza. Dress is expressly semi-formal.
There, like a picture from a I960 class yearbook, you’ll find our Homecoming Queen perched on a throne with her court.
Of course, always the most popular of the Homecoming events is the beer drinking event and understandably so. To watch someone guzzle eight glasses of beer in a row is cer-
tainly a page from the past. Although in the past swallowing goldfish was perhaps a bit more popular.
And if you’re wondering if girls on campus are wondering who will ask them to the game, your guess is most soundly founded on yesteryear tradition. Not to be asked to the "big game" was tantamount to being an outcast.
Are we steering away from the Homecoming festivities of old? Apparently not as strikingly evident in 72’s Homecoming plans. And, as Homecoming members hope, the old-fashioned days should spark the school spirit seemingly missing from past UM Homecomings.
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CTS Studies Frontier Sciences
By ALAN JOCH
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The UM Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS) may be one of the most important and highly acclaimed divi-
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sions of the University, yet because of the nature of >ts work it may also be the most obscure and mysterious, becoming an island in the stream of UM’s activities.
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CTS was started eight years ago from an idea by Dr. Behram Kursunoglu, director of the center, to bring together scientists from all over the world in order to do research in theoretical and frontier sciences. This research hopes to answer basic questions like “What makes the universe tick?” and “How does the brain conceive and preserve images.?”
“You can’t explain theoretical studies to anyone who's not in it," Kursunoglu said. “Its impact on the man in the street is small, we work in a useless science. We don’t make butter, or gold, or bread.”
One of the goals of the center is to try to use science and scientific thinking to solve man’s basic problems.
like crime, or environmental destruction.
“Scientists may be able to offer more original and deep-seated programs that others haven’t been able to do so far" he said.
The size of the membership to CTS changes yearly, but always remains small and select. It is made up of scientists and post-doctorates from throughout the world, including three distinguished scientists, Lars On-sager, Mou-shan Chen and George Allen, who have been appointed as permanent residents this fall.
Nobel Laureate, Lars On-sager of Yale has also become a resident of the center this fall. Onsager received the Nobel Prize in chemistry
in 1968. He has also done internationally acclaimed work in the fields of physics, chemistry and biology.
“We have only one criteria for membership,” Kursunoglu said. “Excellence. When you use that, you don't have to consider anything else."
Research at the center is not done in the conventional scientific lab. It is done in offices 1n Computer Row.
“We have no machines or tools at the center. I use this pen my wife gave me and a piece of paper," Kursunoglu explained. The nature of the work is intellectual not physical.
In addition to the research the center does on it's own, £TS is also an active mem-
ber of the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Studies (IFIAS). This is an organization set up by the United Nations, composed of 27 advanced study institutions throughout the world, to try and deal with the problems of water and air, crime and other problems man faces internationally.
“If we can do something like solve crime in one area, the whole world will benefit," Kursunoglu explained
CTS is not merely a research center that tries to isolate itself from the University, however. Throughout the year seminars and lectures are given for students, and occasionally a CTS member will teach a class, which,
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A Special Dedication
In precedent setting action, this year’s Homecoming Committee has approved the dedication of Homecoming '72 to Whitten Union Student Activities Director William Sheeder and Associate Director Howard Winneman.
The dedication was made for their outstanding and sincere efforts in bettering the environment for student involvement at the University of Miami.
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