Miami Hurricane, November 16, 1973

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• Vol. 49 No. 19
Friday, November 16, 1973
Election Results Declare

Recount
Changes
Outcome
By ELOISE CHITUK
Of Tit* Hurrlcan* Stiff
Tom Cauthen, who lives on the third floor, described his relationship with female neighbors as “brother-sister."
“If parents came up, they'd see there’s no nonsense going on — people act more mature in coed situations.”
“It is much better than any of the other dorms,” Randy, a finance major said. “But you can’t play football in the halls or run around in your underwear.”
One girl, who preferred to
be known only as Pauline said, “No way I’d leave! The only girls I know are my roommate and suitemates!”
A female sophomore from New York said, “The guys are great. At first I was really scared about living In a coed dorm. It was an adjustment, but now I'm really happy here.”
“People here are more real, freer,” John Salustro, an architecture major said.
One floor of Eaton Hall is
once.
“I counted them a second time and results were different.”
“The validation by the Supreme Court doesn't excuse what went wrong,” USBG Treasurer Steve Mac-hat said.
Election Commission Chairman Ken Leiberman said, “1 disagree with the decision made by the Supreme Court. I feel the election security wasn't the tightest and there were many areas that could have been improved.
“However, the Court has made a decision and I will stick by it all the way. The whole spirit of the election was destroyed and the complaints were valid. Time proved there should have been another election.”
Among the discrepancies of the election was the difference in vote counts on the second tally.
Three candidates, first announced as losers, became winners after the second tally was taken.
Marty Cohen won in the Student Entertainment Com-m i 11 e e (SEC) race, but Sandye Hayman was originally announced as the winner.
Andy Osborne won in the off-campus bumping Bennita Berke.
Seth Bixon won in the freshman-at-large race replacing Kathy McPhee, who had been disqualified from the election.
Another discrepancy involved the voting machines.
“My name was under sophomore-at-large and my friends couldn't find my name,” Cheryl Prigoff, candidate-elect for freshman-at-large said.
Vote counts were off approximately 30 to 50 votes according to Chairman Leiberman. Reportedly those votes could have made a difference in some to the races.
“It was sad when I thought I lost, but now that I’ve won I should be happy but I’m not,” Cohen said. “I can’t accept the fact that I won knowing that I didn't. Maybe those extra votes just came my way.
“Even if the Election Corn-
Last week’s Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) elections have been declared valid by the Supreme Court.
This resolution overrules earlier action by the Student Senate which had declared the election invalid.
The question was referred to the Supreme Court by candidate-elect Pat Wilson’s formal complaint.
The court’s ruling to validate the original election came Tuesday.
“The Senate took invalid action,” Chief Justice Bob Conochalla said, expressing the majority opinion of the Court.
Referring to the Court’s decision, USBG President Scott Anderson said, "Through the bureaucracy USBG has set up, the election became valid. I am not going to support an election where they counted the votes
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Chairman Leiberman (1) Anti L'SBG President Anderson
. . . preside over Senate meeting with Advisory Kay Whitten
mission says I've won my seat I know it’s not because of my ability, I won it because the breaks went my
way."
The Chairman of the Election Commission was supposed to have been chosen last May, but was appointed in September. His committee
was not approved until October.
“I hope all this brings out that an election can’t be run by six people," Kay Whitten, advisor to the Election Commission said. "They must have students volunteer to help.”
“We can learn from our
mistakes in election, I'm glad it all happened because it’s telling us to take a good look at ourselves,” said Howard Winniman, advisor to USBG and director of student activities, referring to all branches of student government in including the Senate, Executive branch, advisors.
University Examines Means Of Energy Conservation
Bv LINA TORO Of The Hurricane Staff
As a result of the nationwide energy crisis, the University is taking steps to determine how it can conserve energy.
Joseph Pineda, director of the Student Union, said the Union officials, in conjunction with the director of the Physical Plant, are trying to determine what etae, other than the towering of thermostats and the regulation of lights, can be done.
“We are now in the process of re-evaluating what has been done and determining what other steps we can take,” said Pineda.
"The residence halls are also doing what they can,” said James Grimm, director of residence halls.
Since they have received
Hurricane
no official order from the administration on what steps to take, Grimm said anything they could do is directly related to how much each student is willing to do.
“We don’t want to impose any kind of rule, like saying that all lights must be off at 2 a.m.
“It would largely be up to the students in the hall government to talk to the resident student* snd see what they can do," he said.
At the present time the measures taken in the residence halls are similar to those taken in the Union and administration buildings.
The air conditioning thermostats have been lowered and dimmer switches for the hall lights have been installed in some areas.
“We will help and encourage participation in any kind of program, but again I say it is up to the individual student," Grimm said.
These two buildings have programs scheduled on weekends until 2 a.m.
If the schedule could be altered to end at 11 p.m. the units could automatically go off daily.
The Memorial Building See page 2, Col. 1
Alfred Chance
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Criminal
Charges
Dropped
By DAVID TEPPS
Of Thl Hurrkln* Stiff
Criminal charges against UM senior Alfred O. Chance have been dropped after a preliminary hearing in Dade Magistrate’s court last week.
Chance was arrested October 20 on charges ol possessing illegal drugs and explosives. Campus and Coral Gables police entered the student's apartment in the married housing area and reported locating the contraband materials.
Police entered t h e apartment only after receiving a tip that a girl was being held there against her will, according to a spokesman for UM security. The tipster did identify himself.
Entrance to the apartment, using a key, was made only to insure that no kidnapping was in progress. Anything found in the apartment was incidental to the original search, the spokesman said.
Charges were dropped against Chance because the state decided not to prosecute, said James Gil-bride. Chance’s attorney.
Gilbride	stressed,
however, that the state could refile charges within six months.
Chance, a 27 year-old science major was in the news last Christmas when he flew a mercy mission to Nicaragua in a rented plane. He is a former Marine and received the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in Vietnam.
New Quiet Study Capsule
8 Mahoney Hall has instituted several of these II	■ I it   1-^—rr  , , r-n—
Photo by Jon Rosen
self-contained study capsules. For one dime you get a warm, quiet atmosphere, in fact the quietest in the hall. However, the capsules are not for students with queasy stomachs.
For Classes,
By ROY BERGER
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At White has been restored to his post as chairman of the Student Entertainment Committee (SEC).
At a meeting of the SEC Screening Panel on Monday, White’s application for the job he vacated was the only one submitted and was unanimously ratified.
White was forced to resign on October 18 because he was not a registered University of Miami student.
He has since cleared up his financial difficulties and has registered as a full time student.
Members of the Screening Panel were: Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) President Scott Anderson, Union Board of Governors (UBOG), Chairperson Risa Sugarman, new SEC member Sandye Hayman and SEC member Nick Napolitano. Kay Whitten, faculty advisor to SEC, presided over the meeting.
Napolitano had been selected as acting
chairman of SEC while the seat was vacant.
Gets SEC Job Back
He will now go back to his role as assistant chairman.
"During the few weeks I spoke to a couple of teachers and they gave me some notes so I could get back into classes," White said.
“We are now going to get back to work on the plans we had laid out. We are trying to book the J. Giels Band and are discussing the proposed concert plans with Miami Dade South.
“I waa very pleased with the job Nick did during my absence. One thing I would like to make clear is Nick was running the show, he was his own man. I was simply an interested out side party,” White said.
Napolitano said he was happy with White’s reconfirmation and never planned to run against White for the vacant seat.
"I’m definitely happy to have Al back. It takes a lot of work off my shoulders," he said.
“I don't mind going back to the role of assistant chairman. One man can’t handle the job by himself.
“Things ran smoothly while Al was gone, though, because he and I had made all our
plans this summer and it was simply a matter of following through on our ideas. His absence was no reason to deviate from what we had planned,” Napolitano said.
Anderson was also satisfied with White’s reinstatement.
“It’s good to have him back" Anderson said. “He has the leadership it takes to get the concerts students want and the knowledge it takes to he committee chairman. He did a great job while he was chairman and I’m sure he will continue to do the same now.”
Anderson said White's leadership and voice was present in committee decisions during his absence.
"While he wasn’t chairman his leadership was still there. He was behind the scenes making sure things ran successfully,” Anderson
said.
White said one change he would like to make in SEC would be to divide the committee in half.
“I feel the chairman should handle the major musical events, and the assistant chairman handle other programming like in the Rathskeller," White said
White Registers
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Al hite (loft) Is Happy To Got Job Back
. .. Yicfc Napolitano gives up interim position
Eaton Hall Residents Are Enjoying All The Comforts Of Coed Living
By BARBARA EPSTEIN
Of Th« Hurrican« Staff
Of the 374 students living in Eaton Hall, about 150 are women, making it the University’s first coed dorm.
Despite the lack of air-conditioning and the almost constant sound of stereos blasting 99% of those interviewed wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
"The atmosphere is more natural here — not like living in a prison (like in the towers),” Patty Scialfa said. ‘"It’s nice to see the opposite sex walking around.”
“I just got out of the army, where it’s just guys and guys . . . this is a good change," Michael Kalinowski said.
“I just got out of the army, where it'* guys and guys . . . this is a good change . .	— Michael Kalinowski
not coed. The second floor is all male “because there weren’t enough girls to go around.”
“I feel bad about living on the second floor,” said John Gerstenleuar. “You’re the first chick I’ve seen on this floor!”
Peter Swift, also of the second floor, said, “I don’t like living here because they won’t let me have my pet snake!” Peter owns a boa constrictor.
Another male Eaton Hall resident, who invited me in, complained, "All the girls are afraid of me. They’re really unfriendly.”
He was playing solitaire nude, with his door wide open.
Positions
Available
Applications are now being accepted for elected positions on the Hurricane.
The positions are Editor and Associate Editor of the Hurricane and Business Manager of Student Publications. Elections will be held on Friday December 7. at 3 p.m.
Applications are available in the Publications Business Office room 221 of the Student Union. They must be turned in by noon on December?.
Any full time undergraduate student is eligible to run if he is maintaining a 2.0 grade point average
All candidates must make arrangements to be screened by George Southworth. faculty advisor to publications.
“These few steps taken are a small beginning,” said Matthew Borek, Director of the Physical Plant. In two memorandums, of May 21 and August 30 of this year, he made various other suggestions that would help significantly In reducing the consumption of energy.
One of the biggest outlets of energy is the 13,000 tons of air conditioning equipment the University has, Borek said.
If some of these units could be automatically turned off when not occupied or, in the case of areas where there is 24-hour occupancy, the units could be turned down during periods of low demand the decrease in energy expenditure would be considerable.
A conflict arises when buildings such as the Beaumont Lecture Halt and the LC Building are considered.