Miami Hurricane, May 04, 1973

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Interview with Two Gay*... see page 3
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Friday, May 4, 1973
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Potash, Ande Face SB(j Runoff
Candidate for I’re«ide!it of SBC Masquerades As Corilla
. . . costume was just one of several “gimmicks”
Student Opinion: An Election Post View
By SCHUYLER PULFORD
Aititlanl Newt Editor
“Maybe you think student government is a farce. Maybe it is,” stated one candidate’s campaign pamphlet.
Elections now over, many students and administrators had something to say on this year’s SBG elections, a Hurricane study showed.
A former SBG senator, Mark Deutsch answered "Are you serious”, when asked how he felt about SBG and elections.
A large number of students felt that with all the posters, buttons and other campaign paraphernalia “it was just like a contest to see who could spend the most money.”
SBG President Sami Burstyn felt that this year's candidates were at last applying themselves to the “real objectives in a campaign which is to win a popularity contest.
“If I could do the whole thing over, I wouldn’t run again at this University,” Burstyn said.
Several administrators, on their way by the breezeway, commented on the election, saying they were pleased
with the amount of candidates running.
“I think it's healthy,” said Carl McKenry, vice-president of student affairs. Sydney Weisburd, associate registrar, an enthusiastic supporter of many issues popular with students in the past, felt it was “all very exciting.”
In attempting to find out what effect the last minute campaigning had on voters, a poll was taken from students
standing in line, just a few minutes before casting their ballot. The question was asked, Have you decided who you are voting for? Of the 478 students who were polled 231 OR 48% answered “NO".
Unlike past SBG elections a large number of seniors were voting. Among them was last year's Homecoming Chairman, George Toomigan who said, “I have been here for three and a half years and I've seen one year of corruption, one year of incompetence and one year of nothing”. When asked what he felt next year’s SBG would accomplish, he replied "Nothing".
Even some current senators seemed awed and dis-
gusted at the “circus”. Alec Stephens, speaker pro-tem-pore of the senate, said, "I hate it; all that junk, all that mess, “There is only one person who has hurt the campaign and that’s our friend the gorilla."
He was referring to one candidate who dressed up in a gorilla costume.
Another senator said “It’s as stupid as it was last year.” Some undergraduate co-eds expressed concern over their personal safety complaining that many of the campaigners stepped on toes and pushed passers-by while trying to get “that extra vote.”
However, while everyone
else complained about the hectic campaign jungle, at least one candidate was “at home". “It’s better to vote for a monkey than an ass," said Ollie, an SBG presidential candidate.
Many of the people who worked on the election, including administrators, seemed pleased with the amount of interest this year.
“It looks pretty good. We have the most sophisticated system available, but we always need more students to help with the voting procedures,” said Howard Winne-man, assistant director of the student union. “It’s good for the students that are getting involved,” said an election officer.
Graduating In June?
UM will hold its spring commencement exercises in the Miami Beach Convention Hall on Sunday June 3, atv 3.00 p.m.
Initial distribution of admission tickets will begin at the bookstore on Monday, May 14 and will end on Friday, May 18.
During this period, each candidate for a degree will
be entitled to receive up to six tickets, if he has need for them and he may sign up for an additional number.
Any tickets not picked up during this initial period will be declared surplus.
From May 21 through noon, June 1, the requested additional tickets, if available will be issued along with cap and gowns.
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Humean# Associate editor
The president of a fraternity and the past chief justice of the student Supreme Court will lock in a battle for student votes next week to determine who will be the next president of UM’s student government.
Official returns tabulated last night showed that Scott Anderson and Richard Potash led a field of eight candidates in the race for president. Election commission chairman Ed Mills said 2.140 students turned out to vote on Wednesday and Thursday — 22 per cent of the undergraduate student body.
Totals in the president’s contest went; Potash (who resigned as chief justice last month to run), 538 votes; Anderson (Zeta Beta Tau president), 498 votes; Pat Wilson, 338 votes; Risa Sug-arman, 279 votes; Andy Fle-isher, 232 votes; Wayne Adams, 42 votes, and Oliver (Ollie) Parker, 98 votes.
“It's an average turnout,” Mills said. “We hope more students turn out Tuesday and Wednesday for the runoff.”
In other races Marjorie Feldman and Phil Medico will be in the runoff election and Robin Chvt and Steve Machat will also square off.
Elected to the Student Entertainment Committee were Jeff Jarrow, Sandee Birbaum, Stan Baum, Nick Nopolitano and A1 White.
Winners in the junior-at-Iarge race were Liz Marks and Jeff Cell; senior-at large, John Katz and Andy Scwartz; College of Arts and Sciences, Suzie Glazer, Linda Much, Ronnie Scherman, Alan Richard and Michelle Pain.
Steve Silverman and Gigi Chalfin were named to the Business-at-large seats; Fran Peterman and Denise Conahan to the Education seats; Beth Kline to nursing; Emmett Foster to engineering and Larry Tolin to music.
Ex-Pilot Battles Nature Polluters
By BOB ANDES
Hurricane Reporter
An Eastern Airlines pilot, who was fired in 1970 for refusing to dump pollutants in the air, will speak at the forum today on pollution and the current energy crisis.
“Pollution is misplaced property,” former pilot Captain Guthrie said. He has many other opinions on the environment and society’s attempts to rescue it
He said Eastern’s Environmental Task Force is a waste of time and money.
“Good business and conservation is one in the same thing. Garbage and sewage are not problems, they are assets,” he said.
Captain Guthrie pointed out that Florida Power and Light on Turkey point is losing much of their heat and production when they distribute electricity throughout the Miami area.
He is looking for a solution to control pollution and at the same time improve our economic system.
Captain Guthrie
.. . ex-pilot
"Putting their eye on the environment is a waste of time; industries should take a look at their own waste products. It is not a public or governmental responsibility; it is the industry’s responsibility to themselves and everyone else,” Guthrie said.
He said each company has to work on its own wastes.
"The idea ol property is revolutionary when ap-plied to unwanted wastes,” he said.
He says the Alaskan
pipeline is only a tempo-r a r y advantage to industry,” Our energy and resources are being expended at an alarming rate,” Guthrie said.
Captain Guthrie explained that no man has all the answers to the pollution problem but said he favors cost accountants and engineers over environmental control for the solutions.
"We know the engineer is competent. There are so many fields still unaccomplished in engineering,” he said.
He said new jobs would open if industries could fit environmental control into a process of production itself.
“Law is written in terms of failure rather than success,” he said.
“To live in harmony with nature we must not deliberately destroy her like we are doing now,
“We are actively destroying our life support system.” Guthrie said.
Final Drop Date Set
The last day for students to drop a course and receive a grade of "W” — official withdrawal from a course without penalty — is Thursday, May 10.
After May 10th students must receive one of the following valid grades; A, B, C, D, E, I, S, U, CR, or NC.
Sidney Weisburd, associate registrar, said that on an average there are about 6,000 dropped courses per semester.
"Compared to the fall semester, the spring semester has a fewer number of drops. This lower number of changes is due to the fact that there are fewer students and the fact that students have acclimated themselves to the university, and have taken a credit load that they can handle.” Weisburd said.
The drop date is two weeks from the end of the
semester, so the registrar’s office can adjust the rolls and notify the professor not to expect that student for finals.
“There’s about two weeks of mechanics involved,” Weisburd said.
INSIDE
•	The Recital...
•	Gay Story....
•	Watergate
•	Letters .....
•	Ring Stars ...
•	Gerri Lynne...
•	Tom Jones....
•	Hurr. Sport*.
•	Classifieds....
page 2 page 3 .page 4 .page 5 page 6 page 6 page 7
Prize Film Produced Bv Student
UM News Bureau
“The Silent Affliction,” a prize-winning film on deafness produced by a University of Miami student, will be shown on WPBT — Channel 2, Saturday, May 5, at 6 p.m.
The film recently won first place in the non- dramatic category at the annual student film, radio, and television competition sponsored by Alpha Epsilon Rho, the national professional broadcasting and film fraternity.
It was written, produced and directed by Len Depanicis, a UM senior in mass communications majoring in film-making. Other UM students in mass communications who helped in the project are Rick Pestrichelli, narrator, Larry Greene, sound; and Jennifer Orren and David Glassman, production assistants.
Dr. Lee Lincoln, a Coral Gables resident who has a deaf foster son, is executive pf iducer of the film.
Palm Tree Disease Huns Hampant in l)ade County
. . . killing 500 trees a month
‘Lethal Yellowing’ Fatal For Palms
By MICHAEL A. PARKER
Of The Hurricane Staff
A relatively unknown, yet highly contagious and deadly palm tree disease called "lethal yellowing” is running rampant in all parts of Dade County killing an average of 500 trees a month, according to George H. Gwin, plant specialist with the Florida Department of Agriculture.
“Our entire supply of Coc»nut palms could he wiped out in a matter of only a few short years if something possitive isn’t done.”
Although a cure has yet to be found, research is being conducted by the University of Florida and a new breath-a b 1 e plastic called Polymethine 69 can be successful in the prevention of the blight.
Gwin described the symptoms as premature coconut fail and a yellowing of the leaves. The entire process takes a period of six to eight weeks.
Lethal yellowing got its start more than 70 years ago in Jamaica where it was confined until 1957. In that year it cropped up in Key West and did away with 13,000 palm trees between 1957-1967. The disease appeared in Miami in September 1971.
One strange characteristic
of lethal yellow is that it seems to follow prevailing winds in an east to westerly fashion It is believed from this that the disease is carried by a tiny wind blown insect.
Various civic groups and societies have become actively involved and a “Save the Palms” committee has been initiated.
Doyle Connor, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, said that all interested groups and persons should concentrate on replacing the destroyed trees with another type of palm called the Malayan Dwarf, which is almost completely immune to the lethal yellowing disease.
The word dwarf is a misnomer, however, because the actual height is close to that of the normal palm.
Metro Mayor Jack Orr declared April 28 through May
4 as Palm Week.
The “Save the Palm” Committee is celebrating it by offering the Malayan Dwarf trees at a reduced price this Saturday in front of the Coral Gables Municipal Building located at Coral Way and Le Jeune Road.
Removal crews have been working constantly on taking down the diseased trees end already 12 trees have been destroyed this year at UM.
“Bids have been extended to local nurseries and we expect that the tree planting will begin within the month. Both student and administrative interest has been high,” said landscape director Mark Bisnow, when asked what plans are being formulated to replace these trees.
Anyone wishing further information may get it by calling the Florida Department of Agriculture at 685-0026.
Pub’s. Deadline Nears
Applications are now being accepted from undergraduate students wishing to run for editor and associate editor of The Miami Hurricane, Truck Magazine, and student publications business manager.
Deadline for submitting
applications, which may be obtained in the business office of the Hurricane, is Wednesday, May 9.
Elections will he held on Friday, May 11. Further information can be obtained in S22I, Whtten Union.
Let Me Out!!!
This Eaton Hall resident seems to be hysterical as he apparently screams “let me out” from the confines of a fenced in section of the dorm. However housing directors and resi-
dential advisors assure us dorm conditions aren’t that bad. Although som-times locked doots create problems they say. In any case perhaps what this over-zealous dorm resident should do is relax and try unlatching the lock instead of attempting to climb the walls to his “prison.”