Miami Hurricane, January 09, 1973

              Rat Hosts 5.000 Students
Bv CHUCK GOMEZ
Of Tht Hurrican# Staff
Some 5,000 students have thronged UM’s Rathskeller in the two weeks since it’s opening according to Rathskeller Manager Joe Pineda.
“We are encouraged by the turnout and acceptance by students,” Pineda said. “And we’re also happy with the operation.
Pineda estimated that the crowd has averaged from 1,200 to 2,000 students a day and said he expected larger turnouts as students trickled back to campus from winter vacations.
However, there are some problems with the Rathskeller according to Pineda. He cited that the
facility is not ready to handle the entertainment engagements already slated and that student help has been scarce.
The Rathskeller’s first concert was held Friday night featuring guitarist David Bromberg. Students complained that the jingle from the cash registers, directly beneath the stage, Interfered with Bromberg’s performance.
“We talked it over with him before he appeared," Pineda said. “Our number one function right now is to provide a facility for the entire University family.
Entertainment is only secondary."
In recent weeks, meetings of the Student Entertainment
Committee (SEC) have strongly suggested that future concerts and entertainment programs be booked at the Rathskeller.
“It’ll take a long time before we’re able to handle entertainment efficiently,” Pineda said. He pointed to a a lack of student enthusiasm to fill many of the waiter and waitress positons, as hampering initial operation.
“There’s just not enough people,” Pineda said. "You just can’t take any student off campus and teach him everything he should know."
Of course Pineda admits that these problems may just be "breaking in” ones with no real indication of affecting the Rathskeller next semester.
An intricate sound system won’t be available until February at the earliest, hampering initial concerts hut Pineda says that’s just one of the “little mechanical problems” yet to be worked out.
But for UM students the Rathskeller is a dream come true.
"I can hardly believe it's finally here,” said one coed. “The service is amazingly quick, the atmosphere is great and so is the beer."
Although the menu is still scant ( mainly hamburgers and sandwiches) the beverage selections, students agree, are well worth the price of a hike in student fees. Five sparkling wines are offered as well as four beers on tap, and two im-
ported bottled beers.
Some 200 students lined outside the Rathskeller opening days as television cameras recorded the historic moment when the first student was admitted to the $500,000 beer bistro. Besides UM, Florida International University and Biscayne College in Dade County serve alcoholic beverages on campus.
Elsewhere it is an unheard of luxury. "Whoever heard of a university building a beer hall?” Coral Gables City Commissioner, Rebyl Zain was quoted as saying in a recent issue of the National Enquirer. Only the University of Florida and a handful of colleges across the country have similar facilities.
-Hurricane Photo b» SUE ANNE MILLER
Hat Opening Successful With Only A Few Problems
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Tuesday, January 9, 1973
Sports
Read about UM’s new coach,Page 8
Something Missing Here?
One down and one to go. With only two minutes to get to class a UM student had a surprise when he went nut to get his bike. His response has been rated triple X. At any rate,
—Hurricane Photo by JIM DALY
this has got to he an excuse that his professor has not heard, hut who would believe him. Strange things happen everyday at the university in the sun. Rumor has it that when the owner of this bike returned from his class, the other wheel was gone.
Student Flys Medical Supplies To *Quake-Stricken Managua
By HERB GREENBERG
Of Th# Hurricane Staff
A UM student chose to give earthquake ravaged Nicaraguans a second chance by giving up Christmas with his family to offer help to the thousands injured in the December 23 disaster.
Al Chance, a 26-year-old pre-med student left North Carolina 2 a.m. Christmas morning with a friend in a rented a single engine plane for a four day stay in Managua.
“I decided, the hell with staying home Christmas,” Chance said. “I knew I could get there.”
To begin their eight-hour trek, they stopped at the
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Hurricane Eye.......... 2
’72 Music Reviewed.....6
Bromberg .............. 6
Year’s Best Films.....7
Gerii Lynne.............7
Stanford Picks Elliott.... 8 Elliott's Coaching background...................
Berger on Curci ....... 8
Swim Team Wins.........9
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Miami office of Nicaraguan-based cargo firm Lanica Airlines, whese they picked up 500 pounds of medical supplies.
The flight was Chance’s longest since receiving his pilot’s license last June. “We had only six gallons of gas when we arrived and we landed with our engine sputtering,” he said.
"As far as I know, we were the only single-engine plane down there. While we were waiting for a hospital assignment and a truck to pick up our supplies, a National Broadcasting Company (NBC) film man persuaded me to fly him around the city. We took him up for about 20 minutes.”
He said the NBC crew shot film earlier, but it was taken from a small jet, which was too fast. The film crew wanted anyone with a small, slow plane to fly over the city.
“Parts of the city looked leveled. They looked like a B52 bombing raid. The city was burning. From the air, it . 10 looked like a third of the city
was destroyed but when I got on the ground, all of the buildings in every part of the city were cracked,” he said.
Chance said he wasn't interested in the NBC people, or the service with which he provided them.
“I just wanted to get a hospital assignment,” he said.
Chance was assigned to a field hospital, which had been destroyed. “We had a gas generator, a surgical tent, and a tent for (birth) deliveries.
“Working with obstetrics was the main thing. People still had babies — all normal births.
“We had three expectant women on the tables. Suddenly, the team of Mexican doctors and nurses, with whom I was working, left — leaving their tools behind.
“One of the members of the Mexican swimming team told me that the country’s leader, Samoza, was seen on a golf course right after the earthquake, by a Mexican newspaper photographer. He told me a picture was taken and put in a Mexican paper, causing Samnza to ask for an immediate dismissal of the Mexicans."
So, Chance was left in the Continued On Page 2
Burstyn VetoGains Senate Affirmation
By DEBBIE SAMUELSON
News Editor
Student Body Government SBG) voted Monday not to override a Presidential veto on a resolution they passed last week limiting financial remuneration for SBG executive officers to take six credits per summer school session.
SBG President Sami Burstyn, in the first such veto in SBG history, took similar action against three subsidiary resolutions.
The major resolution, defeated 16 in 9 did not receive the necessary two-thirds vote required to pass. However, the Senate did override the veto 22 to 3 on an amendment placing the question in general election.
Motions to nullify the vetos on resolutions calling for the referendum to be binding on the Senate, and a special election calling the question failed 14 to 11 and 15 to 10 respectively.
Burstyn said that ha vetoed the resolutions because:
•	The vote on the original resolution had been a tie broken by Speaker of the Senate Kevin Poeppelman.
•	The major argument in favor of the veto was that SBG would have more money to spend and he felt that the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) would reallocate SBG funds.
•	Elimination of stipends would limit the number of candidates for SBG offices.
“SAFAC allocated funds on the basis of expected amounts budgeted for stipends. SAFAC would merely divert the equivalent amount. If we eliminate stipends, we’U get less,” Burstyn said.
SBG treasurer, Phil Holts-berg said that while SAFAC would probably redirect some SBG funds, they would be directed into other facets of the university which students now fund.
Burstyn said that not
offering financial remuneration would be detrimental to SBG.
“I feel categorically that to eliminate any sort of financial stipends from the SBG executive position would totally affect the amount of candidates running for the offices and affect the caliber of leadership, directly. Of course there are some people financially stable enough to spend maybe six or seven
hours a day on the job for SBG and then another three to five hours a day at least for academic purposes and have the rest of the day tree for themselves.
“I know that I would have to have a part-time job without a stipend and I bet with working, eating, sleeping and shooting a little pool I would have very little lime to spend for student government,” Burstvn said.
Burstyn also stated that he was in favor of some modification of the present stipend system with perhaps only two stipends offered per semester.
“I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend more than one hour per day if I have to work my way through school,” he said.
The resolution, if passed in
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Budget Cuts Lead To 11 Dismissals
By DAVID TEPPS
Of Th* Hurricint Staff
The recent administration move to fire as many as eleven UM faculty members may not he entirely final, according to Dean of Faculty John Harrison.
“Although letters were sent to certain faculty members notifying them of their severance, if the deans of the individual schools can balance their budget in other ways the severances may be rescinded,” Harrison said.
All instructors who may be fired are those that have been at UM for less than two years, according to faculty tenure procedures.
Explaining the cause for the faculty firings, Harrison said, "This is a question of budget and expenses only. We are doing this as a last resort."
Harrison reported that the faculty cuts will save UM up to $100,000.
One professor who received a letter advising him of his dismissal said that his contract would definitely not be renewed May 21. The letter did however offer help in obtaining a teaching position elsewhere.
The professor admitted
knowledge of discussions aimed at halting severances, but said, “This causes great personal uncertainty.”
The HURRICANE has learned through a faculty member that at least 11 faculty members have received notice of their dismissal as of next semester, rather than eight as Dr. Harrison told the HURRICANE December 15.
Harrison denied reports by The Miami Herald that up to 20 teachers would be fired.
“If by the end of January there are more than eight to 11 terminations, I’ll be surprised,” Harrison said.
Speaking optimistically, Harrison stressed that there is a certain turnover of faculty every year, due to retirement, sabbaticals, transfers and the like.
“This year's turnover will only be normal,” Harrison said.
Citing the abrupt cut-off of federal funds to UM in 1968, Harrison felt that the University had done as good a job as any institution in protecting faculty from economic problems facing the administration.
A drop in the quality of education at UM is not fore-
seen by Dr. Harrison as a result of the faculty cuts. Classes will not be enlarged to any noticeable degree and the scope of the curriculum will not be reduced.
“We are concerned with the quality of education. The cuts will be spread out so as to avoid a decrease of quality,” Harrison explained.
Conditions May Be Key To High Attrition
By NANCY LUCAS
Of Tht Hurricane Staff
Academics at UM — the second nf a three part series of questions directed to the problem of why students leave UM.
Last month an emergency meeting of the UM Board of Trustees and academic deans was held to discuss the problem of UM’s attrition rate after figures revealed that 8« per cent of UM students entering as freshmen either fail, transfer, or drop out of school.
This disclosure prompted us to direct a poll to the problems of why students leave UM.
For this special attempt, we created 16 questions
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POLL
covering the areas of social, academic and administrative conditions at
the University.
Our usual poll of 300 UM students was broken down into five categories. One hundred students were polled at random. Of the remaining 200 students we polled 50 freshmen 50 sophomores, 50 juniors and 50 seniors
in order to discover if any patterns of opinion oc-cured.
The same 300 students were polled on all 16 questions.
It was the topic of social conditions here at UM that we printed in the December 12 issue of the Hurricane. In a brief summary the results were: While more than 60% of
all students polled said they were happy at UM, nearly 50% had expressed some doubts about completing four years here.
Most students agreed that they came to UM looking for a good time as well as for a good education, yet only 27% replied that UM lived up to their social expectations of university life. Half of the students polled said they could relate to their fellow students and fewer than 30% considered themselves "an average UM student.” Most students admitted though, that they enjoy the clubs and facilities offered at UM.
On this week’s subject — academics, here's what
students had to say:
Do you feel the atmosphere at UM is conducive to learning?
YES
«%
NO
69'7,
Most students said they have not found the UM atmosphere conducive for learning.
“There is no good place for the average student to study. The quiet hours at the library should be enforced,” one student said.
“I think most students suffer academically from all the social life and activities offered in the Miami area,” another student said, "but I’ve found it an opportunity
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Student
Killed
In ( rash
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Of Th* Hurrlcan# Staff
Rescue workers worked feverishly to pull victims from the Everglades muck in the dawn of December 30th. Amidst the strewn wreckage of Eastern Flight 401 they found Mark Leshay’s lifeless body.
The 21-year-old UM business marketing major was one of the 100 persons who would not live to see the New Year. The ill-fated flight from New York, where Leshay was visiting friends during the holidays, would be his last.
The Lockheed 1011’s plunge into the darkness of swamp came at 11:43 p.m., December 29th, ten hours before Leshay was scheduled to tee off at the Freeport Country Club Golf Course.
"Mark was on his way to play golf there before starting school (here) again,” Tom English, Leshay’s roomate said. English, an accounting major, and Leshay shared a cottage at 7400 SW 79th Ct.
For English, the nightmare knowledge that his roommate and close friend was dead did not come until Sunday, two days after the crash, when he arrived in Miami after a brief vacation in Cleveland, Ohio.
He speaks softly when he tells of comforting Leshay’s hysterical parents when they phoned him Sunday from Newton, Massachusetts.
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