Miami Hurricane, January 12, 1973

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four staff and five students to review the present policy and to come up with a decision Betsy Brooks, co-ordinator of ‘68 will act as chari-man of the committee.”
Grimm said that in reviewing Lifestyle III, which includes coed Eaton llall and the on-campus apartments, he found that “coed living has cut down Peeping Toms in the apartment area.”
He expressed some disappointment with Eaton Hall which never received its quota of girls to make it a true coed dorm. Grim believes £utt more girls will apply fof Rousing in Eaton Hall once the air-conditioning is installed.
“Both Mahoney Hall and Eaton Hall will be air-conditioned by Fall ’73,” he said.
Freshmen were required to live in Lifestyle I, consisting of 1968 Complex and Mahoney Hall, geared at “hitting incoming students early and regularly with the notion that academics are important at UM."
“There has been a negative
Improvements For
response on an all freshman dorm. Students feel that this does not permit a wider view of the campus." Academically, it’s pretty difficult to
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make evaluations until the fall term is over,” Grimm said.
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Residence Ha Ils Undergo Changes Next Semester
By NANCY LUCAS
Of Tht Hurricane Staff
According to James Grimm, Director of Housing, 250-300 dorm vacancies are expected spring semester, 1968 complex may change its visitation policy by next month, Mahoney and Eaton Hall will be air-conditioned by next fall, and there will be changes in the meal plan.
Eash spring the residence halls are hit with a flood of vacancies. Grimm sa i d normal attrition is 250 students from fall to spring.
“We plan to hit that — anywhere in the range of 250 to 300 students,” he said.” “It’s a strange thing. Men’s occupancy is maintaining the same level, yet, at the same time, we are housing less and less women each year. There is a committee assigned to the women’s attrition problem. We telephone surveyed 250 girls who moved off campus over the summer and we have found that visitation is only a superficial reason to student attrition. We are losing students because of noise in the dorms and because rules are both too tight and too loose."
Grimm said this year's new Lifestyle program is "too new to see the effect on housing and the problem of attrition.” Lifestyle, this fall’s novel program in campus living was originally implemented to answer several problems which have recently plagued UM’s residence hall program.
“People are still selecting by the type of facility even though they have a choice in the matter of selecting different types of living styles,” Grimm said. “It seems that whatever hall people go into as freshman, they tend to stay in that dorm.”
According to Grimm, there is a chance that 1968 Complex may extend its visitation hours from noon to midnight on Sunday through Thursday, and from noon to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. 1968 now has a weekend-only policy for its women residents.
“The women of '68 don’t like visitation onh on weekends,“ Grimm said “At the request of Associated Women Students (AWS) we are forming a committee of
Poll Shows Student Feelings On Faculty And Administration
Registration
Scheduled
By BOBB HANE
Hurricane Reporter
Registration for second semester will take place January 30 through February 2 in the Richter Li-brary on the main campus.
The schedule for registration is as follows:
•	January 30 — Registration workers, disabled veterans, and handicapped students
•	January 31 — All students with 90 or more credits, freshmen, and all special groups such as UM athletes, the members of the WVUM and HURRICANE Staffs
•	February I and 2 — Any other student who has not registered
A computer has worked it out so that thirty
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said Rothschild, “everyone from the committee will be voting for one thing, for , the senate is just a rubber stamp of the committees.”
If the Faculty senate does vote to cut off the 14 days, it will probably not take effect until the fall semester, although Rothschild said that it could take effect spring semester.
“I'm sorry I proposed the extension,” Rothschild said, “because now it seems that the opposite of my intent is being achieved. Instead of extending the credit-only change date to the drop date, it will in all likelihood be cut back to the late registration period".
Rothschild feels that the Faculty Senate went beyond what they should have, and that if they were going to
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"Pass-fail is not a cop
out”, Rothschild «aid, “the
trend in education is towards the elimination of grades. And many of the Ivy-League schools across the country approve of the pass fail system. Students want to use credit-only to help their grades, not hurt them”.
If the credit-only change date was extended to the drop date Rothschild said, the school could charge $5.00 for each change, and make a good bit of money.
But Rothschild said the reason that he wants to ex-
Trustees Pass New
By CYNTHIA SNELLING
Of The Hurricane Staff
As a direct result of several instances concerning the refusal of housing black faculty members in Coral Gables and surrounding communities, the UM Board of Trustees passed a “Resolution on Housing” October 26, 1972.
The resolution makes an “affirmative commitment to overcome the obstacles faced by University-employed blacks and membeis of other minority groups seeking housing in Coral Gables and the surrounding communities.”
The resolution was recommended to the Board by the
University's Minority Affairs Council. Ted Nichols, chairman of the Council, said that it is a good thing for the University to go out into the community.
Board Chairman, Harry Hood Basset also appointed a five-member trustee committee to handle the specific problems of ending discrimination in housing.
In its resolution, the Board also noted it “will strongly remind legal, governmental and community organizational sources of their responsibilities to insure fair practices and non-discrimination in matters of housing.”
Mrs. Rebyl Zain, Coral Gables Commissioner, said she doesn’t believe there is any discrimination in Coral Gables. She said there are many blacks living in Coral Gables areas such as Alhambra Circle and Coral Bay.
The Resolution on Housing states:
•	Whereas, there have been recent instances where University-employed blacks and other minority group members were refused, denied or otherwise not permitted to buy or rent housing in Coral Gables and the surrounding communities; and
•	Whereai^Blacks and members of other m^ority
five months now, and you're asking me if the UM faculty is interested in the student body? I really can’t tell you. I mean, I go to classes and all that, hut I never see them around anywhere else. I don’t know if it’s really supposed to be any different?”
An upperclassman, who has been attending school here for five years, said that the younger, newer professors are the friendliest, although the older professors are more sincere. "The younger ones just want to he popular," he went on to say, "While the older ones are the only ones who really care about you. They come to class prepared to really hit you with things."
“I can tell when a guy’s interested, when he takes time to ask us what we think about something," a sophomore said. “Those teachers who don’t care, never bother to have open discussions with their classes. They just say what they have to say and grab their paycheck.”
One student in the general studies program said that biology professors are mainly
interested in biology students, English professors are mainly interested in English majors, and likewise for c ch of the other departments. “That’s understandable,” he said. But folded that
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Students Are Urged To Get Pre-Advised To Avoid Long Lines
By BILL QUINN
HurnciM Reoorltr
A decision on cutting off the 14 days after late registration that are used for changing the credit only options, will be made by the Academic Planning Committee Thursday, January 18.
“Nearly everyone but me, In the committee, is going to vote to cut off the 14 days,” said Leigh Rothschild, Attorney General of the Student Body Government (SBG). “All that Is left now is the formality of voting on it, they have all already discussed it.”
Approximately three years ago the Faculty Senate first inaugurated the credit only system. At that time the students were given until the end of late registration to change from credit only to a grade, or vice versa.
Students were later given 14 days after late registration to exercise this option.
“This is still not enough time for a student to evaluate his grade potential”, Rothschild said.
A UM faculty member said “a 14 day period is like being a little pregnant, it's just not realistic.”
Because of this controversy, the SBG Senate passed a resolution to extend the option date to coincide with the drop date. The proposal was then passed by the Student-Relations committee, and sent to the Aca-
ty and administration — here’s what 300 students say:
Do you feel the UM faculty is generally interested in the student body?
Yes No No Opinion
57%	38%	5%
While the majority of students feel that faculty at UM are interested in them, there occurred a strong trend for freshmen to be more doubtful of any faculty concern, and seniors to be the most certain of it. (While only 23 per cent of 50 freshmen polled felt a faculty concern, 72 per cent of the same number of seniors felt it was so.) Several freshmen remarked that they had never even spoken to any of their professors.
"I really don’t know," one freshman said. “I really like most of my professors, but I guess I have no way of knowing if they care or not. I’ve heard though, that most of the better faculty don't like to teach freshmen. I guess they think we’re pretty stupid, or something, I don't know "
A large number of freshmen felt they had little experience with faculty and gave no opinion.
One said, ’T’ve been going to this schflol for only about
Your Name Is Really Jim Nazioni?
By NANCY LUCAS
Of The Hurricane Staff
If this year is like those in the past, 80 per cent of all freshmen here at UM will either fail, transfer or drop out of school. In answer to UM’s attrition problem, which has most recently gained the attention of the Board of Trustees and academic deans, we present the last of a three part series of questions directed to the problem of why students leave UM.
This week’s subject, facul-
Housing Resolution
groups have been exposed to humiliation, disgrace, loss of time and attack on their personal dingity; and
•	Whereas, a black person or a member of a minority group cannot and should not be expected to use subterfuge, such as to deny or attempt to hid the fact of his identity, in order to obtain housing; and
•	Whereas, the protection of individual rights have been guaranteed through the provisions of Federal Open Housing legislation; Now, therefore, be it
•	Resolved that the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami finds repugnant and does repudiate those practices that discriminate in matters of housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or naional origin; and be it
•	Further resolved, that the University Board of Trustees now makes an affirmative commitment to overcome the obstacles faced by Universty-employed Blacks and members of other minority groups seeking housing in Coral Gables and the surrounding communities; and be it
•	Further resolved that the Board of Trustees does hereby establishing a committee of Board members to address itself to the specific problems of ending discrimination in housing; and be it
•	Further resolved, that the Board of Trustees will strongly remind legal, governmental and community organizational sources of their responsibilities to insure fair practices and non-discrimination in matters of housing; and be it
•	Further resolved, that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the official minutes of the Board of Trustees and be disseminated to the news media and other agencies in the interest of public notice.
“I don’t think its proper that people who are renting should be forced to sacrifice themselves just because a person is black, either,” Mrs. Zain said.
"The trouble is,” she said, “is that we stress race too much."	,
The original idea behind the credit -only system, Rothschild said, was to let the students take courses which are new or experimen-tial without worrying about their grade point average, and it would also help students to get through unneeded but required courses. But Rothschild said that many of the faculty feel that the pass-fail system is an easy way for students to avoid working hard
"Pass-fail is not a cop out. The trend in education is towards the elimination of grades. And many of the Ivy-League schools across the country approved of the pass fail system. Students want to use credit-only to help their grades, not hurt them," SBG Attorney General Leigh Rothschild said.
demic Planning Committee for approval
“I naturally assumed that they would pass it as the others had”, Rothschild said, “and there had been no discussion about cutting those days off that I heard about”.
However the Academic Planning Committee not only rejected the proposal, but also had discussed reducing the days now allotted.
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tend the option date is that a student might not want to drop a course, even though he may be doing poorly in it. By changing to credit only the student can avoid lowering his grade point average without having to drop and repeat the course.
The Academic Planning Committee has also been considering the dropping of English from the courses a student can take for credit
only. This would mean that freshman composition with its large mortality rate, would have to be taken for a grade.
Even if the Academic Planning Committee votes to cut the change date back to the last day of late registration, the Faculty senate still has to pass it.
"They'll pass it I'm sure",
he was bothered when faculty he had encountered “scoffed" at the general studies program, and feels he has met with some discrimination because he is an undeclared major.
Another student said that this year he sent over 25 Christmas cards to each of the professors he has met since he was a freshman "I made it a point to get to know all my professors," he said, "at least on a first name basis. And I’ve been surprised that a few of them still remember me after all
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