Miami Hurricane, February 09, 1973

              Controversy Clouds Pass-Fail Option
By ERIC BALOFF
Editor
The Academic Planning Committee has proposed UM students will have to stick to the rules spelled out in the catalogue in regard to the credit-no credit option.
The credit-no credit option, commonly referred to as pass-fail, was enacted by the Faculty Senate in 1969 to allow a student to try a course outside his major or minor without placing his quality point average in jeopardy.
The catalogue clearly stated that a student could have only until the last day of late registration to switch from taking a course for a grade to taking the course for credit only.
A commonly expressed complaint from the faculty is that students have misused the program, using the credit-no credit option to take requirements which are considered to be difficult.
To further complicate the matter, the Academic Deans
Policy Council approved a two week extension in the time a student would have to make a choice on the option.
The whole matter came to a head when SBG Attorney General Leigh Rothschild appeared before the Academic Planning Committee to request a further extension which would allow students to switch from grade to credit only all the way up to the final drop date.
‘T personally feel that there was a complete breakdown of communication between those who passed the program, faculty, and students," said Dr. Paul Salter, assistant dean of the school of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Faculty Senate, “the program was designed for intellectual dabbling and has been modified by use.”
In his capacity as assistant dean, Salter hears requests by students to change from one to another.
“That rule I find extremely difficult to defend. The University’s objective is not to be punitive; these requests by
students to change from grade to credit only and vice versa is probably the most frequently requested in the Arts and Sciences Dean's office and I believe this is true in the other large
schools.”
Another standing committee of the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Senate Student Relations Committee, studied the student government petition requesting liberalization of existing credit only policies and agreed that the existing policies be modified.
“Much of the concept of the petition was endorsed,” said Dr. Shepard Faber, a member of the Student Relations Committee.
The Student Relations Committee recommended that the date be extended to two weeks after mid-term grades are sent
in.
Basically, there are now two proposals headed in a collision course on the floor of the Faculty Senate; the Academic Planning Committee’s proposal that the original policy be en-
forced as was originally passed February 24, 1969, and the proposal offered by the Student Relations Committee to extend the date two weeks beyond mid-term.
Leigh Rothschild plans to attend the Faculty Senate meeting to defend the interests of the student body.
“It is obvious to some of the administration and faculty and to all of the students that it is a clear regression in policy; a clear attempt to turn the clock back,” said Rothschild referring to the Academic Planning Committee’s proposal, “I think that it is a small committee, un-representative of the University and they did the students and the University a great injustice.”
Recognizing the differing views of the faculty and the students, Dean Salter intends to bring the matter up at the next Faculty Senate meeting where the intent of the credit only policy can be discussed, and possibly changed.
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Voi. 48 No. 25
February 9, 1973
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Lose Tuition Stipends
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Associate Editor
Student leaders won’t be getting free tuition beginning next fall, Student Body Government Senators have decided.
Instead they will only receive financial remuneration for six credits during the two summer sessions. The historic move by the Senate finalized a monthlong clash between senators and SBG President Sami Burstyn who vetoed an earlier resolution outlining tuition cutbacks.
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Previously, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary received full tuition at SBG’s expense for all sessions to the tune of $8,960 per year. Overriding Burstyn’s veto, the Senate voted to deallocate SBG funds for student programs.
“We voted as we did because there was no way to warrant SBG officers getting money for programs which needed the money more,” Senate Speaker Kevin Poeppelman said. “In other words, there was no money for student projects because SBG officers were getting it.”
Terming the cutback as “detrimental,” Burstyn denounced the Senate move on grounds it might eliminate candidates from running for SBG office.
"Nonsense,” said Poeppelman. "If a student cares about the University he will run because he wants to improve it, not because he gets free tuition.”
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United Black Student (UBS) Senator Alec Stephens stressed the cutback was essential because the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) would soon determine how much money from fees would go to SBG programs.
“We can use that money for other things,” said Stephens. “We would be doing something for students rather than individuals.
Last year $9,000, according to Poeppelman, went toward paying for officers’ tuitions from a till of $25,000.
The Senate placed a ceiling of $2,784 in grants toward tuition during the two summer sessions — a ceiling which could fall in if officers do not complete credits; payments would be frozen.
In addition, the Senate’s move struck a previous resolution to bringing the issue forward in a referendum during the spring elections.
Poeppelman explained SBG will jnow be better equipped to channel funds into counseling, entertainment, and tutoring programs which previously suffered because of a lack of funds. He added that $6,206 would be saved from fees for programs.
Lashing out against the decision, Senator Ralph Crozier said only “rich students will now be able to run for office.” He said students not receiving scholarships or who couldn’t afford tuition would feel the brunt hardest.
“After all, the students who would run would be those who could afford tuition without remuneration,” Crozier said. “It isn’t right.”
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Students Petition In Breezeway
By BILL QUINN
Of TM Hurrlcana Staff
A group of UM students called the United Students, (U.S.) are petitioning the administration on the tuition raise planned for next year.
The students, from all phases of the University, complain that the “educational opportunities at UM are not worth the massive
cost.”
The students have a table set up in the Breezeway until next Friday, and it will be maintained by 15 students from 9 to 3. Students will be asked to read and sign the petition.
The petition asks three things of the administration: the reinstatement of the 18-credit hour maximum level on the standard tuition pay-
Smith Appointed
Dr. Una Scully Smith, UM assistant professor in medicine, sees her appointment as a member of the
UM Books Banned
A UM Press book has been banned — not in Boston, but in Malaysia.
Called “prejudical material” by the ministry of security of the country, “Strategy for Conquest,” edited by Miami author Jay Mallin and published by UM Press in 1970, was confiscated by authorities.
“1972 was quite a year for banning our 1970 books," observed UM Press Director Ernest A. Seemann. “Spain also banned The Jews in New Spain, by Seymour B. Lieb-man because it contained so many reference to the Inquisition.”
Both books have been well received by critics and Mal-lin's volume is in use as an Air Force textbook.
Pulmonary Diseases Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Health as a scientific honor rather than a feminist’s one.
She was the only professional woman to be named to the Committee and will serve a three-year term beginning July 1.
“There’s far too much fuss to the liberation question,” Dr. Smith said. "But it is reasonably unusual for a woman to be appointed,” she said.
As a member of the Committee Dr. Smith will travel to Washington, D.C. three times this year to offer advice on federal programs related to pulmonary disease.
A member of UM’s Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute, Dr. Smith's appointment to the Committee comes after an impressive record of lung research. She has worked with the Howard Medical Institute and ia currently conducting lung research with Dr. James Ryan of the medical school.
Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dr. Smith received degrees from Bristol and Cambridge universities in England and has been connected with UM for six years.
ment; the extension of the drop-add deadline until ten days after the end of late registration and the extension of the deadline for determining whether to take a course “credit-only” or for a grade, until 14 calendar days prior to the last day for dropping a course with a grade of
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The group is trying for a minimum of 6,000 to 8,000 students to sign the petition and they will be setting up meetings with deans, teachers, faculty-senate members and trustee members.
Also, Kevin Poeppelman, a member of United Students, said that Feedback letters will be sent to the parents informing them of what can be done and what they can do.
There are four reasons given by the administration for the tuition increase; reduced enrollment being the main reason given. Salary increases, fixed expenses increases and tuition remission increases were others.
According to Poeppelman, to help offset the increased cost, the administration has found $302,000 other revenues, and is instituting “divisional degreases", (firing teachers and cutting curriculum).
“Students have been left out of many academic decisions," said Poeppelman. “They need more feedback and representation.”
Poeppelman feels that "unless the administration approves the three issues on the petition, and puts them through, there will be a large exodus from the University.” A.
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Effective September 7973, undergraduate students will pay $1,250 per semester, an increase of$100
• Tuition increase for graduate students will go from $84 to $100
•	Students in the Schools of Law and Medicine will pay $1,300 per semester — an increase of $150
•	Tuition increase will affect hikes in application fees, new
fees and housing.
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Students Face Marked Jump In Fall Tuitions
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By CHUCK GOMEZ
Associate Editor
UM students will pay higher tuition this fall, University officials announced January 25, marking the second consecutive year tuitions have been hiked.
Increases range from 812 to 16 per cent. Undergraduate students will «pay $100 more per semester, law and medical students $150 more, and graduate students will be charged $16 per credit hour more.
The dramatic move by the enced, according to officials, by inflation and a desire to improve undergraduate programs. However a study of recently released information indicates the high student attrition rate may ilsve played a large part in spurring the tuition increase.
That study showed that over half of the students who enter UM either fail, transfer or drop out — a problem which prompted a special meeting of the UM Board of Trustees December 6.
The new rates for undergraduates, effective in September, will raise the annual tuition by $200 a year raising tuition from $2,300 to $2,500 for an increase of 8.7 per cent. Students will pay $1,250 a semester.
Graduate tuition will soar to $100 per credit hour in September. Graduate students payed $73 per credit hour in 1971 and $84 per credit hour in 1972.
Law and medical students will pay an extra $50 per semester or a total of $2,600 annually. Previously they paid the same tuition a9 undergraduate students.
UM President Henry King Stanford said the tuition increase was under the national average of $2,671 for private colleges and universities In the United States. Current UM tuition and fees amount to $2,633 a year.
Stanford also said the $200 a year increase was vital to balance the budget for next year.
But the tuition increase will affect more than just tuition. In an open letter to students (see page 5) Dr. Stanford outlined increases in application fees effective June, 1973. The undergraduate and graduate student application fee will go from $20 to $25.
In addition students will pay a new fee of $5 per se-
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Carnival
Awaits
Kick-Off
By JUDI SULLIVAN
Of TM Humc>n< Stuff
Once again Carni Gras will invade the UM campus, only this year bringing a bigger and better week of carnival events.
The nation’s largest college campus carnival will get into full swing Thursday, February 22, at 7 p.m. on the intramural field (next to the 960 dormitory).
This year’s Carni Gras includes for the first time the Zyklon, a five-story roller coaster along with a carousel, bumper cars, a giant slide and other favorites such as the scrambler, round-up and skydiver.
Carni Gras ’73 will kick off the week of festivities, Monday, February 19, with the opening of the Carni Gras fun tent. Located behind the Student Union Rock, the fun tent will be open, distributing free information about Carni-Gras as well as free balloons, lollipops, comic books and other surprises.
Also in the fun tent, students may register in the free Carni-Gras raffle to win radios, gift certificates and other prizes.
Steve Ackerman, chairman of Carni-Gras feels it will be a week of student involvement on campus.
“I think it’s a great opportunity to share an event of this type where all the students get involved," he said.
Other events such as free gymnastics shows and a jazz concert, along with roaming clowns distributing surprises, will precede the grand opening of the Carni -Gras carnival.
Don't miss this week full of fun and surprises for it may prove to be the best year for UM’s Carni-Gras.
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Careers ’73 To Offer Business Opportunities
By DAVID TEPPS
Hurricane Raoorur
An exciting new program in business and career opportunities featuring recruitment interviews and business exhibits is now being engineered by the Inter-Business Council to occur Tuesday and Wednesday February 27 and 28, at Brockway Lecture Hall.
Careers ’73 will "introduce students to the challenging careers in today's business environment and will provide business firms with the opportunity to meet potential employees,” Mitchell Sherman, chairman of Careers ‘73 said.
Revolutionary in the program will be the fresh approach to career seminars, according to Sherman.
Leading speakers from the business community will speak on such topics as “expectations of your first boss, how to conduct yourself at an interview, how to present resumes and, most
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important, how to hold your first job,” Sherman said.
Sponsored by the Inter-Business Organization Council, and spearheaded by members Marty Cohen, Mark Deutsch and Sherman, the new program promises to “allow bufliiiess representatives to talk to students on a more personal one-to-one basis than normally possible in this type program.”
Sherman noted that past business seminars had been marked by poor attendance and admittedly boring lectures. However, he has promised that this year's speakers have been selected not only for business savvy but their speaking ability.
“Top speakers have been selected for their ability to hold interest and establish a rapport with the student,” Sherman explained.
Sherman emphasized that the entire program is of interest not only to job-hunting upperclassmen but to students who have as yet not decided upon their major.
The two-day careers program will stress international business initially, with lectures and awards presentation in Brockway Hall on Tuesday, February 27.
Wednesday’s fare will include personal interviews, resume instruction and various business seminars at the same location.
Further information on the Careers '73 program may be obtained by calling Mitchell Sherman at 284-4641.
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Hurricane EYE.....Page z
RAP Appears.......Page 2
UM FORUM .........Page 3
Women’s Rights.... Page 3 ’Cane Editorials... .Page 4 Stanford Speaks.... Page 5
Entertainment.....Page 6
Sports.............Page	9