Miami Hurricane, December 08, 1972

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Final Day For Voting In SBC Election
Vol. 48 No. 20
Friday, December 8. 1972
Exclusive
Manfred Mann concert story, see Page 7
Political Slates At UM See Page 4.
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Carl McHenry, Vice-President Of Academic Affairs
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Dr. Besvinick Assoc. Dean Of Faculties
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Dr. Robert Hively Acting Dean Of Arts And Sciences
Attendance Drop
Shakes University
By HERB GREENBERG
Of The Hurricane Staff
Over half of the students who enter UM either fail, transfer or drop-out of school, a problem which prompted a special meeting of the UM Board of Trustees and academic deans, Wednesday at the Faculty Club.
After the meeting, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Carl McKenry; Dean of the Faculties, Dr. John Harrison; Associate Dean of the Faculties, Dr. Sidney Besvinick; Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences, *Dr. Robert Hively and Student Body Government President Sami Burstyn met to further discuss the problem.
McKenry and Dr. William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs are in charge of a committee which will look into the UM’s attrition
—Hurricane Photo by BRUCE POSNER
Evidence Reveals Red Tide In Lake Osceola
. . . unsightly hut harmless
6Red Tide9 Creeps Into Lake Osceola
UM’s Lake Osceola developed its own case of the red tide, Monday, but persons involved in the campaign to clean-up the lake don’t think it will cause any damage.
“The fish are still doing their thing,” Director of UM ciean-up the lake operations. Dr. Tom Waite said. “It’s (the red tide) probably the cleanest thing in the lake."
The tiny algae plants which give the "tide” its red -orange color, have plagued the waters of the east coast of Florida for the past month and have appeared in other locations on the east coast for the past several years.
"If it is growing here or not — we don’t know. But it doesn’t appear to have taken over the entire lake,” Waite said. “The water pattern in
the lake is so screwed-up, it’s impossible to tell if it’s in the iGables) waterway.
“It's quite phenomenal and it’s interesting for students to go and see,” he added.
rate.
“We don’t have any idea who these students (who leave UM) are. Do they live in dorms, fraternity houses — what we want to know is: who is it who leaves this school,” Burstyn said.
Besvinick is concerned that nobody has any idea which student leaves UM.
“We’re losing good students as well as poor ones," he said.
Faculty members are also involved in the program.
Fraternities Caught In Campus Conflict
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Of The Hurricane Staff
Student Body Government (SBG) senators overruled a request Monday, for a new hearing to review the eligibility of fraternity members to run for off-campus senate seats.
SBG parliamentarian Dave Fisher declared the new eligi-
bility a conflict of interest after Supreme Court Justice Marc Cooper a Zeta Beta Tau member, participated in the ruling.
Cooper denied he had been biased in his vote, saying "We (the Supreme Court) only test the legality of that constitution y’all have there. Students knew I was in a
Carni-Gras Rescheduled
By BILL QUINN
Hurricaiw Reporter
UM’s annual carnival, C a r n i -Gras which is comprised of games, exhibits and prizes may be extended to four days instead of the three now planned.
The festival has already
Candidate Receives A pology
The Hurricane would like to make an apology to Pat Wilson, candidate for an Off-Campus Senate seat in the Student Body Government election whose name was omitted from the list of • candidates in * Tuesday’s paper.
been rescheduled to take place February 22, 23 and 24, instead of its usual date preceding spring vacation.
The participating fraternities and organizations decided Monday to go along with the majority. The committee voted 17 to four in favor of the extra day, but a thorough study of the idea will be conducted before it is finalized according to Steve Ackerman, chairman fo Cardi-Gras.
The various organizations that voted on the issue will sponsor booths during the festivities and a percentage of the profits will go to the Paul R. Yarck Memorial Fund for use in University development.
Even though there will be over 100 booths and more rides than ever before, the committee feels a fourth day will draw even larger crowds.
The big rides would mean more people Aming to the carnival, and more business
for each organization, as the committee pointed out, but it would also mean more time and work of the organizations.
According to a study conducted by the Carni-Gras committee, the extra day, a Sunday, would have the biggest potential turnout.
“Sunday is the biggest day for a carnival,” said Ackerman. “That’s the day when parents traditionally take the family out.”
This year's Carni-Gras will have more activities than last year’s according to Mike Hyman, Carni-Gras Publicity chairman.
He said that one of the events will be an attempt to beat the world's record by eating the world’s largest banana split, one-fourth of a mile long, in five minutes. The present record is ten minutes. There will also be a bicycle, or walking race around campus, acceding to Hyman.
fraternity when they elected me,” Cooper eaid. “Anyway, the Court vote was unanimous.”
Richard Potash, Supreme Senate, “a member of the told Senators the court vote was “decided arbritrarily" and dealt only with determining whether fraternity members should be considered on or off campus residents.”
However the Court’s ruling could mean that all six Senate seats at stake in today’s SBG election could go to fraternity members, leaving commuter students with no SBG representatives at all.
“The fact is, “ pointed out Pat Wilson, a candidate for Senator, who brought the original challenge before the Court, “a member of the Supreme Court shouldn’t rule on a case affecting fraternities when he is a fraternity member."
Cooper countered saying he wasn’t running for an office himself, so the ruling in effect did not involve him.
Alec Stephens, Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, urged Senators to uphold Cooper’s ruling because otherwise, “it could throw things in limbo” during the election.
If Wilson’s challenge had been approved, the Senate would have declared a mistrial and require a second ruling without the presence of Cooper.
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“We are confident no can do the things we have enumerated. We can improve both academic climate and quality. We can do, however, only if the funds to permit the effort are forthcom-
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•	Faculty recognition (dinners, certificates, and modest cash awards)
•	Faculty evaluation studies
Burstyn said he thinks the committee now being formed will bring about changes on this campus within a year.
“You should have students ask students why they leave this school. If Dean Hively’s associates call me at home (trying to find out why I left this school), I'd get off the phone," Burstyn said.
The Academic Affairs
Committee of the Board of Trustees met in November to discuss proposals and make a report concerning academic
changes, with proposals including faculty improvements and the upgrading of academic program
The conclusion of the report said: “We are confident we can do the things we have
enumerated. We can improve both academic climate and quality. We can do, however, only if the funds to permit the effort are forthcoming. We respectfully submit the
following as a list of our essential needs:
•	The continuation of freshman residence hall acadmic program.
•	Faculty and program renewal facility
•	Construction of a new classroom and office building
•	Academic experimentation
“I'm disappointed in the fact that we’re now giving these problems attention. We could have discovered the causes for these problems 10 years ago and solved the attrition problem,” Burstyn said.
Burstyn noted that the school always becomes con-
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Car Tlicit Takes Seconds
Inspite of newly devised anti-theft options being manufactured by automobile companies, expert criminals art
keeping pace by devising more elaborate ways of break-
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ing into parked cars. An expert thief can strip a car in a matter of seconds. The Traffic Safety Council advises motorists to guard against possible vandalism to parked cars by making sure the doors are locked at all times and that the keys aren’t left in the ignition. Apparently, it seems that nothing can thwart a professional thief.
Burstyn Promises 42 Trees, Will Check Other SBG Issues
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Of The Hurricane Staff
“You want trees, you’ll get trees and in time for Christmas if you want them,” Sami Burstyn, Student Body Government (SBG) president, told senators Monday, referring to one of three referen-dums passed last spring to plant and maintain 42 trees on campus.
SBG senators demanded a report from Burstyn concerning why the tree referendum and two others had not been acted upon since last year.
“I didn’t think it was my responsibility,” Burstyn said.
Burstyn said he had mentioned the tree referendum gie to Ed Frankel, SBG Environment chairman, but that
Frankel had refused to take up the project.
(But Frankel, who later showed up at the meeting, denied he refused to involve himself with the project. He said he thought the administration "had already taken care of it.")
The lack of action taken on the referenda was brought to light by a Hurricane editorial last Friday outlining the infractions.
“It seems the Hurricane is the only moving force for positive action on this campus,” said Editor Eric Baloff. “If not for the paper, this (Burstyn’s report), would never have come up.”
Bursty said he wps not asked to attend any of the
organizational meetings held last spring with administrators and Steve Diehl, last year's Environment chairman.
The other two referenda dealt with financial aid and participation in the state-
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•	Click...... page 4
• McDonald .... page 4
•Gomez........ page 3
•	Gerri Lynne .. page 7
•	Diana Ross ,
Story ...... page 8
wide hail bonds program — both of which had not been acted on.
Senators approved a motion which will give Burstyn “full responsibility" for investigating the referendum question before this Monday’s meeting.
•	Drugs at
Concert ..... page 8
•	Album
Reviews .... page 8
•	Seiden ..... page II
•	UM’s Newest Swimmer
page 11
•	Intramurals .. page ’,2