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Friday, October 19, 1973
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Students Gain Insight To ESP Limitations
By DIANE RENNICK
Of Tho Hurricane Staff
With eyes tightly closed, six students surrounded a fellow student '.«ho was sitting on a chair.
They placed their hands, one above the other, over his head.
Seconds later they removed their hands, and clasped them close to their bodies.
Then, with closed hands, they touched various parts of his body and lifted him up from his chair with great ease.
This is the process of
psychokinesis.
Psychokinesis is the ability to
move a being or object by touch without force, and with great mental concentration. It is used for testing ESP abilities.
Psychokinesis was demonstrated at a Tuesday night class, at the University of Miami.
This non-credit adult education .course, which meets weekly, is taught by Clifford E. McMillen, an instructor of ESP, Parapsychology and Astrology.
The majority of the students in the course are adults.
McMillen said the objective of the class is to gain a more mature under-tanding of extra sensory perception by knowing its values and limitations.
"I don’t want people to get the wrong idea,” he said, ‘‘and to think it is all weird.
“The course is an aid in analyzing psychic phenomena and to make
students aware’of the gullibility surrounding ESP.”
This week's class focused on dreams.
“Researchers believe everyone dreams* though at different times some people don’t have total recall,” McMillen said.
McMillen said people dream about four to five times a night.
“We go through different levels of awareness when we sleep,” he said. “Our recall depends upon at which level we awake from our sleep.”
McMillen said he hopes the class will help students attain a better insight into the field of parapsychology through psychological and spiritual approaches.
White Resi As SEC Chairman
By ROY BERGER
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Al White, chairman of the Student Entertainment Com-m i 11 e e (SEC) resigned Thursday.
In a letter to Scott Anderson, Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) president. White cited the reason as a bank loan being delayed in processing procedures thus not allowing him to register for classes.
White has been serving in his capacity since September despite the fact he is not a registered student.
He was elected SEC chairman in a general Student Government election last May. He was a registered
student at the time.
The USBG constitution calls for anybody holding a USBG or SEC office to take 12 credit hours and hold a 2.0 grade -point average.
“I applied over the summer for a New Jersey State bank loan that hasn’t come through yet,” White said. “The papers are now being processed.
“Perhaps I should resign until all this is cleared up,” he said.
White, in his position as SEC chairman, was responsible for the bookings of University concerts funded by
SEC.
Howard Winniman, director of Student Activities agreed with White’s decision.
“I think resigning will be his proper course of action,” Winniman said. “The thing that disturbs me is he should have come into my office in September and told me he
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has a problem, rather than me having to find out through a check of transcripts.
“Technically he cannot hold office because he is not a University student, but at the same time he is a student because he has been attending classes,” he said.
Kay Whitten, Associate Director of Student Activités and Advisor to SEC also believes White did the proper thing.
“If there is any question about his eligibility then I feel he should resign. From this standpoint it will make him look like a bigger person by resigning until things can be worked out,” Ms. Whitten said.
White said the fault for the mishap Is strictly his own. He said he had no excuses for not telling Winniman earlier.
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“I was notified at registration the loan fell through," White said. "I thought though that I could work things out by myself.
"A lot of it was solely my
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fault but my application also got held up in New Jersey," he said.
Winniman first found out about Whites’ status last Friday as a copy of all SEC and USBG Officials transcripts were sent to his office for examination. He then gave White until 4 p.m. Wednesday to rectify the situation.
“The feeling I get is you try to build up a mutual trust between people and then they don’t come to you when they have a problem," Winniman said, That’s the dilemma that bugs me.
“In this case ydu are dealing with a human being and the problem is how much do you base something on a technicality when there are surrounding difficulties."
Now comes the problem of finding a suitable replacement.
“That decision is up to Anderson, SEC and the screening committee on what procedure to follow,” Winniman said.
Ms. Whitten said, “I recommend they choose somebody from SEC to be the acting chairman."
There was a possibility however that White could be reinstated, Winniman said.
“If he becomes a full-time registered student then it becomes a matter of the screening board looking into it see how they will handle matters.
“I don’t know what they will do because something like this has never happened before,’ he said.
Life Of A Secret Agent
By MARK TARGE
Of Th# Hurricant Staff
Two weeks ago the headlines read, "• . .Secret Service seizes $1 million in counterfeit bills.”
A conspiracy involving one of the largest amounts of counterfeit money ever seized in South Florida had been smashed by the Miami Secret Service.
The United States Secret Service is responsible for the detection and arrest of persons engaged in counterfeiting, — and forgery, as well as the protection of the President and the people around him.
The Hurricane sought out the Secret Service this week, to find out how those unidentified men in group pictures of the Presidential party operate. By nature they aren’t always talkative. But they’re always there.
Senior Special Agent Charles Baber has been with the Secret Service for 13 years. He is a graduate of Shelton College in Ringwood, N.J., with a B.A. in Ancient Language.
Baber comes from a long line of law enforcement officers. His father Was a police sergeant, and he says it was only natural for him to go into law enforcement. It was only »decision of which agency he wanted.
“In my third year of college I felt that the Secret Service offered what 1 wanted in law enforcement. The duties seemed interesting,” Baber said.
Looking back Baber said he has found this to be true.
The duties of the Secret Service are to protect the President of the United States and members of his Immediate family, the President-elect, the Vice-President, or other officer next in order of succession to the office of the President, the Vice Presidentelect, a former president and his wife during their lifetime, the widow of the former president until her death or remarriage, minor children of a former president until they reach 16 years of age, and major presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Another duty is to detect and arrest offenders for counterfeiting coins, currency, stamps and other obligations and securities of the United States.
Baber said counterfeiting has greatly increased in the last ten years.
“Advanced techniques in photography, printing and transportation have been the main reason for the increase,” he said. ‘Today a counterfeit note may wind up in
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Easy Living
All the comforts of home and adventure too. A picnic lunch, your favorite chair, and a homemade fishing pole help make a lazy af-
Photo by Jon Rosen
temoon at Lake Osceola perfect. If you’re very lucky, you might even take home dinner.
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Dubitsky Strives For Personal Touch With RAP
By HERB GREENBERft
News EBitor
Karen Dubitsky is coordinator of the Residential Academic Program (RAP).
However, she says, “My correct title should be Hast o n. between faculty, students and adminisra-tors."
The 26-year old Ms. Dubitsky said RAP seeks to enhance academic life at UM through personalized communication with faculty members.
This is accomplished, she said, through films, informal lectures, tutorials and reviews.
Ms. Dubitsky has been with RAP since its inception last year.
"We started with four departments involved in ^ the program,” she said. Now 12 departments participate.
“I don’t think there’s anything RAP can’t do,” Ms. Dubitsky said.
She said students come to her cubbyhole office on
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the second floor of the 1968 residence hall for ac-ademlc and personal counseling.
“I don’t think there’s anything . . . that I wouldn’t try to work with them on.”
For instance, Ms. Dubit-
sky says, “1 have undergraduate students who ask me to get them into the library stacks.” She says she gets them into the stacks.
RAP is designed for freshmen and sophomore students, she said. However, any registered student, including graduate students, can participate.
Ms. Dubitsky was raised in Petersburg, Va.
When she was in junior high school, she said, she was invited to join g young “snooty girls’ club.”
At the organizing meet-
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ing at a Southern plantation type home, she said, the girls were meeting in the living room.
“The maid, a thin black woman, came into the room with a tray full of cookies,” Ms. Dubitsky said.

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“She dropped one of the cookies.”
The girl at whose home the meeting was held “got up and kicked the maid.” she said.
“I thought my heart was going to break. After the meeting, I went over to the girl and told her she shouldn’t have kicked her.
“Needless to say, I was blackballed from the dub. 1 never got in.”
Today, she says, that type of experience “has made me a more sensitive and compassionate person.”
Ms. Dubitsky is a religion instructor. When a student confronts her with a personal problem, she
says she tries to convey: “Somehow you learn to live by giving yourself a satisfactory existence. Also, you give yourself a spiritual basis by which to exist — either for an organized religion or something in your mind you call your way of life.”
Anderson
. . . new contracts
Printing
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By ROY BERGER
editor
University of Miami officials have ordered Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG), the Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) and the Rathskellar to stop ordering printed materials from the company that has done the bulk of their graphic work this year.
The three organizations have ordered in excess of $800 worth of material (letterheads, envolopes, tickets etc.) from a company known as Creative Press. Creative Press is run by two former UM students, Eric Baloff and Jeff Wollman.
UM officials claim USBG president Scott Anderson defied the USBG Constitution by permitting Creative Press to do their work. USBG did $400 worth of business with Creative Press while SEC contracted for $363 and the Rathskellar $66.
University regulations require each organization to fill out a requisition form in regard to printing matters. The requisition then gets forwarded to the printing arts building, so competitive bids can be conducted to obtain fair prices.
Officials say Anderson violated this procedure and gave verbal permission to Creative Press to begin work.
“USBG is not permitted to enter into . contracts outside the University,” UM purchasing agent Ed Davis said.
“They (USBG) were instructed to make their intents known in writing. This way if they specify what they wanted we could enter their request on an open and competitive market, something that wasn’t done in this instance,” he said.
“I’ve got 4,000 printing establishments in this area that want the University business and we want to give them every fair opportunity to obtain it.
"Creative Press has been placed under a letter of protest from my office indicating they have violated University contracts by accepting the offer,” Davis said.
Howard Winniman, Director of Student Activities concurred with what Davis said about USBG’s violation of University principles.
“The University as I understand it has special rules and regulations
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