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Vol. 49 No. 2
September 18, 1973
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By DAVID TEPPS
01   TH*   Hurrk.n.   Staff
Susan had passed out. She had taken seven barbiturates. Her roommate Linda had tried unsuccessfully to
wake her.
Linda was scared.
She called 634-1511 — Switchboard of Miami — a
24-hour hotline and referral service.
Switchboard asked Linda the quantity and type of
pills her friend had taken. They asked her to take Susan's pulse, advising her that a rate of 60-90 beats per
minute was in the safe zone.
When Linda found the pulse was near 55, Switchboard sent a rescue van to take the overdose victim to
the hospital.
Linda's story is fictional. All of Switchboard's
cases are confidential.
Switchboard is an agency that tries to link people
who have problems, with groups or individuals that are
able to serve those people.
Their reference card file, numbering 2,000, contains
listings ranging from abortion to yoga. In between those
is help concerning birth control, child care, consumer
protection, drugs, mental health, cheap food, housing
and more.
They also have emergency service for persons in
distress. Program administrator Bonnie Griffin said
many calls come front people contemplating suicide.
"We naturally talk as long as we can to these people," Ms. Griffin said. "We could refer them to a psychiatrist if they want one, or help them just by listening."
Switchboard volunteers are also accustomed to
questions about drugs, and are ready to handle them.
Switchboard is the official drug hotline of Dade County,
licensed by the state. They are associated with the Metropolitan comprehensive Drug Program.
Switchboard began five years ago as a housing
referral service for Miami-Dade Community College
students. Since then it has grown to a community referral service for all areas.
Though a six-line telephone handles incoming calls,
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Parking Rules
Security will enforce all parking
regulations     beginning     Thursday.
All    vehicles    must    have    parking
decals and mutt be parked in prop,
er parking areas. Cars parked in
fire lanes and cars interfering uilh
the flow of traffic will be lotted.
Other violators will receive fines
ranging from $3 to $10.
Open Door Outlet To Air Problems
By VALERIE STRAUSS
HurnuiM Hoeortir
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The Open Door is a
student referral, information
and rap center.
In its fifth year, its main
purpose is to help UM
students.
Psychologist Dan Lott said
Open Door is "manned exclusively by University of
Miami students. We would
not, however, turn down
anyone not attending the Un-
versity."
The Open Door is located
in apartment 49-K. It's open
from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
As a referral service, Lott
said, files are kept and updated.
Open doors deal with such
"Our-policy concerning drugs is a neutral
one. We neither condemn nor condone,
ue just talk. We never ask for identifying
information."
—Dan I.OU, Open Door Psychologist
problems as unwanted
pregnancies, legal hassles
resulting from an auto accident or cancellation of insurance, and tenant-landlord
disagreements.
"There are still questions
about where to register for
the draft. If we don't have
the information, we tell them
who does."
"We give out drug information too. If someone has a
drug they want identified, we
check in our  files and find
out what it is. We have information about the effects
of some drugs.
"Our policy concerning
drugs is a neutral one. We
neither condemn nor
condone, we just talk. We
never ask for any identifying
information," Lott said.
However, Rosen said, the
Open Door is open to more
than just problems.
"You can call if you just
want to rap," he said. "The
general mood of the Door is
relaxed.
In addition to it's referral
and information services, the
Open Door also handles a
Trucking Service.
"If someone needs a ride,
or if they want another
student to ride with them,
they should just call the
Door," Undergraduate
Asistant Oren Wunderman
said. "There is no charge for
this, or any of the Door service."
When the Open Door is at
full staff, they hope to have
70 to 80 volunteers. There
are several psychologists
that are involved, but they
"stay in the background.
They train, supervise and
give assistance in emergencies. It is the students who
do the work and answer the
Coconut palm tree*
are tlowly dying of Lethal Yellowing, which it
afflicting many of South
Florida'* palm*. The
diteate it characterised
hy the dropping of
yellowed frond*, the
premature dropping of
coconuts, end finally a
barren trunk.
Lethal Yellowing Threatens Palms
By ELV1A H. THOMPSON
Hurricara. ne*ti*r
There are 18 coconut palm
trees at the University of
Miami that are sick said
Mark Bisnow, landscape supervisor.
They're victims of lethal
yellowing, an incurable disease killing coconut palms at
UM  and  throughout  South
The visible symptoms of
the disease are the premature
dropping of coconuts and the
yellowing of leaves. Ihe
fronds eventually die leaving
a barren trunk.
The Department of Agriculture   removed   25   trees
from the campus as of April.
Now, Bisnow said, the University is removing "the totally dead palms" at their
own-expense.
There may be some hope
for the palms however.
A series of tetramyacin injections will be implemented
by the Department of Agriculture, possibly beginning
next week.
The drug will not cure the
disease, an Agriculture Department spokesman said,
but it will retard it for up to
three months.
The disease was first identified in Jamaica in 1891 and
spread through the Caribbe
an,  reaching  Key  West  in
1951.
Miami and Coral Gables
were first affected in 1971,
when 200 trees were killed
within the first three months
of its recognition.
It recently began spreading
into Broward County.
Scientists do not know exactly what causes the disease
but they believe it's virus or
a mycoplasma-like or^inism,
probably transmitted by a
flying insect.
"Research is being
conducted actively by the
University of Florida in
Gainesville and Fort Lauderdale to determine the cause
of the disease and how it
spreads from tree to tree,"
an Agricultural Department
spokesman said.
The Department of Agriculture is now removing
trees only in the area north
of 183 rd Street in North
Miami Beach and south of
Kendall Drive.
In the area between, residents are responsible for
removing their own trees.
The city of Coral Gables is
removing trees on municipal
property.
If no cure is found by
1977. officials say 95 per
cent of South Florida's
coconut palms will die.
138 Students
Without Homes
phones," Lott said. "This is
not a professional counseling
service. We complement the
services of the guidance
center.
"Because we are not
professional, we do not do
on-going treatment. If it is
needed, we refer the student
to the appropriate place. If a
crisis occurs that is too severe for the volunteers, the
psychologists will give assistance. We are not primarily a
crisis Center, however."
Rosen said: "Last year we
handled a little under 5,000
calls. Each year, the number
of calls we receive practically doubles.
"It takes time for a thing
like this to gain the trust of
the students. I think as time
goes on, students feel more
comfortable with the Open
Door."
The Door is looking for
volunteers.
"The only qualification required is that you have to really want to help people,"
Rosen said. ''Students can
come and see if this type of
thing has a place in their
lives.
"Each volunteer goes
through a training period before they begin work. After
the initial interview and
selection, there are two-hour
orientation sessions. Then
the trainee is put on a six-
week probation period.
For the first two weeks,
each volunteer will be put on
shift in order to get acquainted with the referral files, and
observe how the Open Door
runs.
For the remaining four
-. the trainee will be
handling calls but under the
supervision of a team leader.
Throughout the entire period,
they will get constant training from psychologists and
experienced volunteers.
"After the training period,
they will be evaluated and
most likely assigned. Each
volunteer works one 4-hour
shift weekly. In addition to
that, there is a two-hour
training session for new and
old volunteers each week.
Ihis is conducted because
there is always new information being brought in. Last,
there is a one-hour seminar
with the psychologists weekly. In effect, the volunteer
puts in a seven-hour week,"
Lott said.
"If any students are
interested, all they have to
do is call the Open Door or
the Counseling Center. We
know there are other B
centers in the city. But we
think we provide the best
service for University of
Miami students."
By MARK TARGE
Of  Th*   Hurrican.   Staff
Seven people have been
using one bathroom in the
campus apartments. Other
people are sleeping on dormitory floors. Still others are
sleeping in backs of cars.
Some are even renting house
trailers.
138 students in all are
presently living and going to
school at the University of
Miami without housing this
semester.
When asked why, James
Grimm, Housing Director,
said "the nation's economy
had played apart in it
"Money is tighter, expenses are higher. People discovered that off-campus living
was more expensive, that it
was more ecnomical to live
on campus. And that's why
the flood."
Grimm admits that he
didn't expect the overflow of
students.
"In fact, I had concern last
June about filling up. I told
the vice president we might
make it," he said.
The people who made the
difference are the ones who
lived off campus last year,
and came on campus this
year.
Next fall? "We expect
about the same problem," he
said.
If we can anticipate it, I
can see about getting more
off-campus housing.
This year we didn't anticipate it. In fact, we weren't
even aware of the situation
until people started showing
up on campus saying, "Here I
am, where's my room?"
One student (who preferred not to be named) said
that he had made reservations last April, and called
again in the beginning of
August
When he arrived at the
University of Miami Sept. 4,
the Housing Office said that
they would "try to do something" about getting him a
room and put him on a waiting list.
"I've been sleeping on
floors, going from friend to
friend," he said. "Everyday 1
Campus Apartments Are Over-Crowded
... tower* are filled up
go to the Housing Office, and
I'm still on the waiting list."
One lady behind the counter told him, "Before they
even touch the list, they're
going to house all medical
and hold-over students."
Junior Tom Minor came
down the Sunday after registration. He too was placed on
a waiting list and told, it
would be indefinite "when he
would get in."
Minor said he has had
trouble looking for an apartment. "They're all taken," he
said. "If I had gotten a room
I wouldn't have planned
bringing down my car. Now I
guess I'll have to. Just what I
needed, another expense."
Grimm said most people
have been in the overflow
situation for only seven-to-
ten days but that he expected
to solve the problem by Sept.
24.
He stressed that it was up
to the students to find housing. He said, "It was the
students' responsibility."
Anyone who made reservations on time got housing
and those who came in last
minute, didn't," he said.
Asked if the $25 fines (per
night) would be imposed, in
accordance with the illegal
guest policy, on dorm residents who housed friends
without rooms, Grimm »mii
yes, after a warning.
But one Resident Assistant
(who preferred not to give
her name or dormitory) said
that her Area Coordinator
had instructed all RA's "...
as long as the people illegally
living on the floor don't
cause any disturbance and
the roommate doesn't complain, don't hasslt them.
'Cause they really haven't
got anywhere to stay."
Yisual Aids Improve
Frosh English Attitude
By NANCY LUCAS
Of  TIM   Hurricant   Stiff
Described by Dr. Ronald
Newman as "a persuasive
gambit to like and enjoy the
written word" this year's
freshman English program
will be a change from all
previous freshman English
programs at the University
of Miami.
After many years of what
Dr. Newman described as
"an orthodox approach to
teaching English," an experiment began in the fall of
1970 introducing a laboratory class situation. Students
were required to write three
500-word themes during the
semester.
"For a number of reasons,
the lab did not come out well
for many students, professors and deans . . ." Dr.
Newman said.
Appointed last spring as
freshman English director,
Dr. Newman said he spent
the summer corresponding
with other colleges in an effort to learn about their
freshman programs.
"There is not a single
freshman English class anywhere across the country
that has met 100 per cent
success with any one type of
program," Dr. Newman said,
"but we are constantly seeking a program that freshman
can both benefit and enjoy."
Dr. Newman said one of
the major changes in this
year's program is a change
from the reading of expository prose to imaginative literature. Fine literature, he
says, is more interesting than
aaaajts more accessible, and
more relevant.
"literature is about life
and any professor who is getting his students into sky-
high realms and magnitudes
is doing a disservice to his
students," Dr. Newman said.
"Professional standards
and sophisticated techniques
of expository prose overwhelm the majority of freshmen. Take sentence fragments, for example. Most
students just don't know how
to handle them."
Course readings will
include poetry, the short
story and the short novel.
To mini-essays of 150-200
words each, will be required
weekly.
A full-time tutorial staff
will he available. The Residence Academic Program
(RAP) will assist the tutorial
staff.
Full professors will be
teaching the classes, whereas
in the past, most instructors
were graduate assistants.
They're still being used, but
under supervision.
In the spring, Dr. Newman
and the English Department
Chairman Robert Hosmon
will be teaching freshman
classes.
Audio-visual aids will play
an important role in the
instruction, Dr. Newman
said. Instructional tapes on
the proper use of
apostroohes, colons and
semi-colons, as well as tapes
on such subjects as
plagiarism, footnotes,
bibliographies and displaced
modifiers will be available in
both the library and in the
freshman dorms (Pearson-
Mahoneyand 1968).
"This is not to get away
from the written word." Dr.
Newman said, "but in recent
years visual acuity has been
conditioned more than
written instructional material."
In the spring. English 106,
a continuance of 105, will
offer special sections in writing for science, writing for
business, and creative writing. These sections will allow
the technical student to incorporate the fundamentals
of composition with his own
interests.
Director
Appointed
Dr. Robert S. Stempfel Jr.
has been named director of
Mailman Center for Child
Development at the University of Miami School of
Medicine.
Dr. Stempfel will hold the
titles of professor of pediatrics and vice chariman of
that department.
Dr. Stempfel comes to
Miami from the University of
California School of
Medicine where he was
professor and chairman of
the department of pediatrics
and director of the department of pediatrics at the Sacramento Medical Center.
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