Miami Hurricane, November 30, 1973

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FPIRG’» Linda Weeks
... president of LIM chapter
Public Interest Research Group Seeks Funding
By DAVID TEPPS Of Tho Huriicono Staff
Funding for UM’s chapter of the Florida Public Interest Research Group (FPIRG) is still in doubt.
Despite a student referendum last year which favored a $1.50 contribution to FPIRG from student activity fees, the University administration has just begun action to send the funding question to the UM Board of Trustees for approval.
The University’s five vice presidents voted earlier this month on whether to send the question of funding FPIRG to the Board. The vote was split; two for sending to the Board, two against and one abstaining.
Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, proposed that the vice presidents prepare questions they had regarding FPIRG for examination by the University’s legal counsel.
Linda Weeks, UM’s FPIRG president, and secretary-treasurer of the state FPIRG, thought Dr. Butler had gone a long way toward instituting FPIRG on campus.
"Dr. Butler made a beautiful compromise,” Ms. Weeks said, referring to the possibility that the idea be dropped. “If the vice presidents act on this quickly, FPIRG could be funded by next semester.”
When FPIRG’s legal problems are explained, if indeed any are found, the vice presidents will again vote. UM President Henry King Stanford will also cast a vote on whether FPIRG’* funding question should be sent to the Board of Trustees,
If the board approves FPIRG, the funding mechanism would be instituted on a one-year trial basis. Refunds could be collected by students not wishing to support FPIRG.
"The refund rate at New College (in Sarasota, where FPIRG is funded on campus) is practically nil,’’ Ms. Weeks said.
FPIRG had applied to the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee for funds, but has yet to receive action. Their monies have consisted of an $85 grant from New College and about $20 collected from UM members of FPIRG.
New College and Florida State University in Tallahassee are the only FPIRG campus locations which are funded on a permanent basis.
But even without funds, UM’s chapter of FPIRG “is still on the same level as everybody else,” Ms. Weeks said.
Public interest research groups presently operate In 20 states with almost 250,000 students participating in solving problems “ranging from student affairs to environmental protection.”
Organized in 1972, the group has lobbyed for such causes as regulation of drug prices, increased pollution control and examination of public officials.
"These (FPIRG) students have become a powerful force for change on campuses, in local communities and in state and federal government,” an FPIRG spokesperson said.
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Handbooks dealing with problems of tenant-land-lord relations are now available in the FPIRG office in the Student Union, room 244.
Ralph Nader spoke Wednesday to the FPIRG state convention at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. A report on Nader’s remarks will appear in the Hurricane next week. ,
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Voi. 49 No. 20
Friday, Novt’mbrr 30, 1973
Carni Gras Adds Sunday
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Take That, You Creep!
On Dancer, on Prancer, on Comet and Blitzen. Christmas is coining and so is the snow. UM
student Bill Bader is enlisting the help of 100 volunteer students to referee the snowball fights on Family Day, December 9, at the Lowe Museuem. If you’d like to help, contact the USBG office at extension 3082.
New Literary Publication Set For Next Semester
By PHYLLIS HONIG
AuoclaNd editor
Funding sources for The New Spectator, the
new University of Miami literary publication, has been announced by Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs.
The three monetary sources for the quarterly magazine include the department of Academic Affairs under Dr. Carl McKenry, the Student Union and the department of Student Affairs.
Future funding will be obtained through private sources and foundations.
Lester Goran, associate professor of English and the author of six novels, has been appointed editor of the maga-
The New Spectator will first of all be a showcase for our own recognition of the varied talents that exist here.
—Lester Goran
zine. He said each issue will cost about $2000.
“The first issue will be out the last week of January or the first week of February,” he said. “The New Spectator will first of all be a showcase for our own recognition of the varied talents that exist here.”
He explained that works from graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and distinguished authorities capable of addressing international audiences will be used.
"Secondly, we will enter the orbit of important places where matters are being discussed that require national attention • from other people who read and think,” Goran said.
He said The New Spectator will be examining “views of the life of the mind” in such areas as the arts, sciences, medicine, law, prose fiction, literary criticism, and comment on contemporary ideas.
“Since it will be circu-
Comet	Kohoutek;Maximum Visibility Due In December
Bv JIM HOLLANDER
Of The Hurricant Staff
FIRST IN A SERIES
The comet Kohoutek, discovered by German scientist Lubos Kohoutek at the Hamburg Observatory on Feb. 28 of this year, will be near maximum visibility during mid-December.
Dr. Joseph llirshberg, a UM physicist who received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, said the importance of studying Kohoutek’s journey is to give scientists a better understanding of the “sun and Its neighborhood.”
“For instance, if jets appear (protrusions
that would face towards the sun),” he said, “we can study the sun’s winds, temperature and possible wave motions.”
A comet is made up of three parts, said Hirschberg. There is a nucleus, which is made up of a collection of stones and different kinds of ‘snow’ (frozen material that melts easily, such as solid water or carbon dioxide), the coma (a cloud that surrounds the core which is composed of gas and particles released when the sun melts the nucleus), and, two tails (there is a gas tail and a dust tail although not all comets show both), he said.
“The mass of a comet,” he said, “has never been measured. The only way of meas-
uring the mass an object of any kind is by its effect on another body. There has been no effect measured of a comet on another
body.
“We know of no comet whose nucleus is larger than a few miles in diameter, although the exact size of one has never been determined.’’
Dr. Hirschberg said as a comet nears the sun, the coma and tail (which give a comet most of its size) increase because the gases expand.
A comet is “like a giant snowball. Ordinarily it wouldn't be noticed but some get near the sun.” As it gets nearer the sun,
“it often loses part of its mass because it heats up and some of Its materials boil off and never return,” he said. He noted that it is the various types of snow inside the nucleus that melt when in close proximity to the sun.
The tail of a comet, he explained, is formed by solar wind and radiation pressure pushing against the comet. He said this causes the tail to always be in a nearly straight line pointing in the direction away from the sun.
“Presently, Kohoutek can be seen just
prior to sunrise in the southeastern sky. Because it is visible close to the line of the
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lated nationwide, The New Spectator can attract much attention to UM,” he said “and give it more life.”
There will be no real deadlines for submitting articles he said, but works for the first issue have already been assigned.
“Anyone who submits an article must do so in outline form to insure against manuscript loss,” Goran said.
The outlines will be used as the criteria for judging which articles will be published.
Contributions or work on The New Spectator can be arranged by phoning Goran at 284-3867, or Ronald Link and Deanna Crabbs at 284-4472.
By VALERIE STRAUSS
NtWt Editor
Armed with letters of rec-ommendation, religious surveys and 50 signatures, the Carni Gras Committee went before the Coral Gables City Commission to request permission to extend UM’s annual Carni Gras to a fourth day.
After hearing a ten-minute presentation by Overall Carni Gras Chairman Daniel Y. Leong, the Commission voted unanimously in favor of allowing Carni Gras, a carnival-fair, to extend its operating days to a Sunday.
The Carni Gras Committee decided to present their case to the Commission to avoid any problems that might ensue in the coming months. Associate Chairman Brian Por/ers said.
“This has not been standard procedure in past years. However, now that we are extending Carni Gras to a Sunday, we felt we should ask the Commission for permission, since Sunday is a rather special day in Coral Gables," he said.
Leong said the Carni Gras Committee had planned on extending through Sunday last year, but didn’t have time to make a presentation to the Commission.
"Since we couldn’t prepare the presentation in time for last year’s Carni Gras, we began working on it for this year,” he said.
The Carni Gras Committee took the proposal for the Sunday extension to Dr. William Butler vice president for student affairs.
“His office felt there would be opposition from various citizen groups, religious groups, and possibly the Commission Itself. We then called the city manager who questioned the whole existence of the Cam! Gras event taking place in Coral Gables.
“Dr. Butler knew how the city manager felt. He was afraid if we went before the Commission with this proposal, we would have trouble, perhaps jeopardizing the existence of Carni Gras,” Leong said.
“However, we felt we had ail the legal grounds on our side, and decided to approach the Committee anyway,” he said.
The Carni Gras Committee had several reasons for wanting to extend the event to a Sunday.
“We feel Sunday would be the best day to expand to,” Leong said. "Sunday is the traditional family day. Many people in the area would be more able to come on Sunday with their families than on any other day of the week.
“Another factor is we would like to hold a University Open House on Sunday so normal operation of the facilities on the other six days of the week will not be disturbed," he said.
“The extra day will also help further the goals of Carni Gras," Powers said. “First of all, the event brings the University community together, and gets students involved. Secondly, Carni Gras allows some student organizations to raise money. Finally, the event contributes money to the Paul R. Yarck Fund, which goes towards
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the physical development of the University."
The Carni Gras Committee presented each Coral Gable Commission member with a booklet containing all the research they had compiled.
"We had letters from Dr. Henry King Stanford and Mr. William B. Sheeder, who expressed their approval of the plan," Leong said
“We asked all neighborhood churches and temples if they would object to extending Carni Gras to Sunday. There was only one objection from the St. Augustine Church about the parking problem. It was remedied when we promised to hire guards to keep Carni Gras visitors out of the church’s parking lot.
"Lastly, we went to practically every house within a two block radius of the UM campus. We received no objections," he said.
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Student Perishes In Crash
David Charles Bauer, a University of Miami junior, has been presumed dead after the plane he was piloting crashed off the Florida Keys November 22. He was 22.
Two companions in the plane were recovered after the tragedy, but another man believed in the plane is still missing.
Mr. Bauer served in the army as a pilot and had volunteered for service recently in the Israeli army. He was an accounting major at UM.
Active in campus activities, Mr. Bauer served as editor of the Student Voice and in several student government projects.
Services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hillel Jewish Students Center.