Miami Hurricane, September 21, 1973

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UM Coed Works On Senate Hearings
By NANCY LUCAS
Of Th* Murrictn« Staff
UM coed Denise Simon was so close to Senator Joseph Montoya during the Watergate hearings that I could have played footsies with him,” she said.
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, A senior majoring in mass communications, Ms. Simon was assistant to the Executive Producer of ABC Special Events. During the televised hearings, she was posted in the ABC News Bureau control room, responsible for second-to-second communication with ABC newsmen in the caucus room on Capitol Hill.
When ABC was not telecasting, Ms. Simon sat at the press table in the caucus room where she was able to photograph senators and other hearing participants during interrogation. It was there she got so close to Senator Montoya, she said.
‘‘I was so nervous and the camera I was using made such a loud click, that he kept giving me dirty looks,” Ms. Simon said.
She recalled memories from the summer.
"You know, we worked such long hours . . . twelve to fifteen hours every day, that we used to take 25 cent bets on what time the hearings would end to add a little humor to the day,” she said.
"We would also count how many times a witness would say, ‘in retrospect’ or ‘in hindsight’,” she added.
‘‘Another thing that was funny was that we never knew when to start commercials,” Ms. Simon said. "But as we became more familiar with the styles of the senators, we found that we could start the commercials as soon as Senator Montoya began to speak and not miss much.”
Ms. Simon said her worst
experience was the time shfc had to rush downtown to a 10-cent store to buy face powder for ABC Capitol Hill correspondent Sam Donaldson, fifteen minutes before he was scheduled to broadcast. After the show, she said she went up to him and asked him how the powder was. "It was the wrong powder,’ he said. "You got corn silk instead of cake!”
During her stay in Washington, Ms. Simon lived right across the street from the Watergate building.
“I lived, ate and drank Watergate,” she said.
Her own opinion about Watergate is that TV viewers got the best coverage of the events. "The caucus room was too distracting,” she said.
“Granted everybody has their own opinions, but on the air newsmen try to be as objective as possible,” she said. "For example, ABC aired the whole week of John Dean’s testimony and then allowed equal coverage for Ehrlichman's testimony. Not all of the networks did this. Production costs are so great.”
Ms. Simon said she also See Page 2
By PHYLLIS HONIG
Associate Editor
How to be more effective as a member or leader of a group is the objective of the University of Miami Leadership Training Program.
The program, funded by an anonymous foundation, is headed by Marjorie Abrams assistant dean of students.
"Leadership Training is funded for 90 students," Ms. Abrams said, “who learn about decision making, conducting meetings and
problem solving.
"On a personal level the program enables a student to understand other people, and discover what his impact is on other people.”
She said interested students should go through the three phases of the program.
The first stage is an interview conducted by a screening committee.
“If a student does not pass this phase, he may reapply as many limes as he wants,”
Ms. Abrams said. "There could be errors in judgment and we feel that everyone should be given a fair chance.”
A reapplication for an interview would result in going before an entirely different screening committee she said.
The second phase of Leadership Training involves a weekend at Remuda Ranch, near Naples, Fla.
Fifteen students go at one time accompanied by three
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trainers for an off-campus conference.
“This weekend, Including food and lodging, is fully paid for by the program,” she said. “Remuda Ranch is a resort, so we do give some free time.”
The final phase involves the use of the learned skills and is under the auspices of Nadine Alpers, Ms. Abram's assistant.
"During this internship period, the student is provided opportunities to put leadership training to work,” Ms. Abrams said.
, The program was developed in the late sixties under Dr. Nicholas Gannett, Dean of Students.
“This program grew out of the student confrontation era,” Dr. Gennett said, "when the University had difficulties relating to the students.
“Part of the reason was that they saw college students complaining of a lack of leadership, and students were not encourged to become leaders.”
The Leadership Training Program was developed three years ago, but it did not get underway until 1972 when it received funds.
“After going through the program, most students seemed to feel that their ability to communicate with each other was greatly increased." Dr. Gennett said.
Ms. Abrams said these people are regarded as a “pool of talent to be utilized in all kinds of situations.”
She said the Leadership Training Program has had offers from Channel 2, the residence hails (who recommend that their resident assistants enter ^the program), federal government interships, and other organizations to provide student workers.
The Leadership Training Program is voluntary. It is open to any student with 12-87 credits earned.
“From Jacksonville to the Keys becoming one sprawling megalopolis Edward Levinson.
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Urbanization Rattles Florida
By JIM HOLLANDER
Hurricane Reporter
The spotlights are focused on girls dancing to the soft sounds of Melanie’s “Look What the City is Doing to You” when suddenly the atmosphere is shattered by the roar of vacuum cleaners; the auditorium lights come on to reveal piles of garbage and trash strewn about.
This scene is one of several that comprise the theatrical production “Urbanization”, created and directed by Edward D. Levinson of Miami-Dade Community College South. It will be shown at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, in Beaumont Lecture Hall.
Levinson worked as an architect in Philadelphia for 11
Pets To Die At 5 PM.
Today
By MARK TARGE
Of Tin Murrlcaiw Stiff
This the final day. If these pets aren't adopted by five o’clock they will be put-to-sleep . . . forever.
WHY? They’re surplus. Excess. They must die by five o’clock because there are more pets than there are homes. Five out of six puppies and kittens born die in one tragic way or another. MILLIONS are destroyed in pounds and shelters; millions more are abandoned to starvation, disease, and highway slaughter. And on top of the terrible toll paid in animal life, it costs us, the taxpayers, $500.000,000 annually just to keep from being overrun by stray cats and dogs.
Cats and dogs are being See Page 2
Hurricane Photo By DAVE POKRESS
Thio Dog Frols Doomed
. .. millions of animals are killed each week
years, before he decided to "get away from that mess.” He escaped to south Florida in 1969.
He said he hasn’t found the Gold Coast very glittering.
“From Jacksonville to the Keys it is becoming one sprawling megalopolis,” he says.
He said the dilemmas Include insufficient schools, not enough community hospitals, lack of consolidated parking in congested areas and little, if any, natural greenery in urban areas.
"The problem,” he said, "is the planning commission. One of its members told me that zoning is a day-to-day tool of the planners.”
He says that the master plan, which is supposed to determine area growth and effect zoning accordingly, is nothing more than “a guide for developers.”
Failure to control Florida’s bulging population growth is one of his main gripes.
"In the past year Dade's population increased by 44,300 persons,’’ he says, “which means that we added a city the size of Coral Gables.'
He says that presently there is not enough water, or housing (for those other than rich), and that a real transportation problem exists.
He would like to “force the crisis now ”
"If the whole country knew of our problems, they would stop coming,” he says.
Realizing the importance of educating the public about the ill-planned and uncontrolled growth of their communities, Levinson started a course at Dade-South in Human Ecology.
A large student response led the development of the Man and Environment television series.
To complement this he started a lecture series that utilized hundreds of slides on three screens.
Thinking that more could be done to strengthen the impact of his lectures, he added more screens, a sound system and dancers in order to “bombard the student's senses.”
A new and enlarged version will be shown at UM Tuesday night.
There are now eight screens for slides and movies that are interrelated with dancing and several sound tracks.
The pictures are presented in an opposing manner to depict what Is and what can be, while the dancers give their Interpretation of the various aspects of city living.
"We must humanize our cities,” Levinson said, so we can bring back the "feeling a city should give you.”
The show proposes solutions as well as pointing out the problems. It is free and open to everyone.
Trial Grants Study Delay
By MARK TARGE
Of Th« Hurricane Stiff
The University of Miami pleaded not guilty Monday to 12 charges filed by the Dade County Pollution Control for alleged pollution of Lake Osceola.
UM is charged with polluting Ihe lake since April 19, 1971 and falling to take appropriate action to remedy the situation.
Attorneys for the University waived a jury trial and asked for “a ten-day extension to conduct a fact-finding study to determine the true nature and source of the pollution in the lake.
Judge Gerald Klein re-scheduled the trial for October 1. If found guilty UM faces fines of up to $500 per charge.
“We just pleaded not guilty to get it into court” William McLaughlin, University business director said, "We will be represented at the hearing Oct. I”.
James O’Boyle, a Dade County Pollution Control Inspector told the Hurricane:
“This is our last shot. If we can’t adjudicate, we might as well close down our offices.
“Everyone seems to be in favor of environment control until it hits them in the pocket hook. The University is no exception.”
UM officials have suggested the pollution is from the upstream waterway, O’Boyle said, and comes in with the daily tide flow.
"UM has never initiated a step to clean up the lake . . . their own backyard . . , they blame everyone else,” O’Boyle said.
The first official violation was filed July 25, 1972. A water sample showed the lake contained excessive bacteria counts.
O’Boyle said the pollution was traced to overflow from grease and oil traps behind UM’s main cafeteria that were emptying into a storm drain.
On August 18, 1972 a "Notice to Correct a Violation" was sent to Dr. Henry King Stanford from the Dade County Pollution Control.
Dr. Stanford’s reply of August 31 read “Housekeeping procedures have been
changed so that the surface drainage pipes at the rear of the Student Union cafeteria are kept free of contaminating effluent during daily flushings," and continous maintenance and observation measures had been instituted.
Five days later, excessive bacteria was still coming out of those same pipes, O’Boyle said.
University lawyers asked how he got his samples and if he could pinpoint the source.
He said samples from the storm drain behind the cafteria indicated an excessive bacteria count.”
In his letter of August 31, Dr. Stanford said Dr. Leonard J. Greenfield, chairman of the department of biology, stated that the high fecal coliform count obtained by O’Boyle couk' have been caused by small animals or birds.
“Animals! They must of been elephants,” O’Boyle said,
Ken Shang, chief environmental engineer for the Dade County Pollution Control, said, “They’re (UM) dragging their feet. We’v« tried working with them.”
University lawyers questioned whether all the pollution was cafeteria overflow drain.
O’Boyle said repeatedly that he can conclusively show evidence of the pollution's source and that it was not from natural causes.
Last Sunday O'Boyle was on campus and samples taken from the lake wete “gross”.
“I called security, who called maintenance,” O’Boyle said, “but maintenance doesn't know what to do about it.”
Matt Borek, director of the physical plant said “There was no sewage, just a clogged drain and that was taken care of immediately.
O’Boyle experts UM’s experts to “mask the facts.”
“The investigation will not discount the facts. It’s happened too often,” he said.
There is always the possibility of a private citizen taking the University, if found guilty, to a higher circuit court to adjoin them from ever polluting again.
Knight Conference Center Plans Early 1974 Start
Hvrricene Photo By BILL ROGERS
Lake Pollution in Question
... L M pleads not guilty
By JIM HOLLANDER
Hurricane Reporter
The James L. Knight Conference Center will begin its road to reality in early 1974 immediately after the demolition of the sewage treatment plant at the campus’ southwest corner, said Robert Alen, Dean of the Division of Continuing Education.
The Center was made possible by a $3 million donation by James L. Knight, Chairman of Knight Newspapers. At a recent Coral Gables Commission meeting residents complained about Its construction.
They said the Center is not needed, claiming it will present traffic problems.
Dean Alien disagrees.
“The Center,” he says, “will bring on campus the finest minds and leaders in the world . . . not only at the conference site but in our classrooms.
“With the recent trend in the reeducation of the professionals in order to keep abreast of rapidly changing knowledge and techniques,
the center may be critical to the University of Miami’s survival.
"It will provide for an enrichment of instructipnal materials, audio-visual aids, television and film, live, to classrooms, dorms and the student union.”
He says UM students and faculty members will be given priority In the selection of technical personnel, pro-g r a m supporting requirements and general employment.
In the past, he said, conferences have been held at outside hotels and conferences halls. With the proposed center, which he said, is to be the most modern and efficient of its kind, both national and international professionals will he attracted.
Since many of the conferences will deal with subjects such as environmental pollution. social problems and city needs. Dean Allen says the community as well as UM will benefit from the Center.
In response to alleged traffic problems, he says that ample on-campus parking will be provided.
One major aspect of the facility that has angered Gables residents is a proposed residence complex to house conference participants.
At the U...........page	2
The Grabowski's on
sex .............. page	3
Havens concert ...page 6
T.V. previews .....page 7
Peterman on SEC .... page 8
Seiden on Leaks....page 9
Meet the Hurricanes page 10 Intramurals, Doninger reports ............ page II
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