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Final	USBGElection Results
By ANDREA KAYE
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In what election officials called "the largest turnout at a student government election” 1,600 students voted last week in Student Government elections.
Four referendums were passed and 16 students elected.
The four referendums were:
• Do you agree to increase the student activity fee by $4 per semester for allocation to Campus Sports and
Recreation for the operation of the proposed Campus Sports and Recreation building?
•	Shall the student activity fee be increased by a net total of 15 cents to increase in allocation to the Open Door?
•	Should a student be allowed to “bank” credits paid for, but not taken, for use in future undergraduate study at the University of Miami?
•	Should a student be allowed to take an 18 credit load unit in the college of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business Administration and the School of Education in accordance with present academic standards but not
have to pay additional fees for the additional credits?
All four referendums will not go to the Student Senate for further recommendations.
Newly elected senators are:
Sophomore-at-large, Richard I.ombart and Bonnie Reiss; Mahoney-Pearson, Daniel Desario; 960, Alan Harris; 1968, Scott Weisburd; Eaton Hall-Apts, John Dunn; Fraternities, Ken Gardner; Freshman-at-large, Cheryl Prigoff and Seth Bixon; Otf-eampus. Benitta Berke, Pat Wilson, Silvio Garcia, Brian Miller, and Timothy Wirth
Elected to Student Entertainment Committee were Larry Greene and .Sandye Hayman.
Electoral Improprieties Claimed
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Exact Tallies Withheld
By ELOISE CH1TI.IK
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Support is growing for a new election in the wake of alleged	electoral
improprieties in last week's USBG voting.
This sentiment continues despite pressure from the election commission and Commission Advisor Kay Whitten to ignore accusations leveled at them
"I don't think Ken Leiher-man (Election Commission
chairman) is capable to handle the election and the Commission is lacking because of inexperience,” Medico said.
These apparent election violations include:
•	Improper security resulting in students being able to vote more than once,
•	Failure to police machines properly (names of candidates were reportedly being defaced),
•	Lack of housing area
regisiration rolls, allowing students to vote in any residential sector,
•	Failure to assert proper
security in the voting area, where students were walking freely in and out.
• Failure to keep candidates and election material out of the voting area (students were seen carrying campaign literature into the voting machines.)
The Election Commission in unprecedented action has filed away in a University safe the results of the election, refusing to give the tally of votes to the Hurricane for publication in this paper.
Only the names of the winners were announced, without vote counts.
When contacted Saturday by the Hurricane, Election Commission Chairman. Ken Leiberman, refused to release the figures and threatened a Hurricane staff member with prosecution for election violations.
The violations referred to are changes resulting from the Hurricane Investigation
into election violations by the Commission.
Neither Ms. Whitten, nor Howard Winniman, union director was available for
Suggestions?
The Undergraduate Student Body Govern-ment has installed suggestion boxes in each dorm and in the Rat.
Suggestions will be picked up three times a week and will be sent to the proper committee that has the authority to take action on it.
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comment after election results were announced.
Responding to reports from certain candidates a Hurricane reporter was dispatched to the voting area with instructions to go through the voting procedure, short of casting a vote, as many times as the Election Commission would allow him to.
The reporter found a chaotic situation surrounding the voting area.
Two Hurricane reporters were able to enter the voting machines twice.
There were no records to verify of which residential area the voter was a constituent.
Candidates were elected by housing areas rather than by class this semester due to senate legislation dividing representation in the senate by residential areas.
While (fie electmn^ was’Tn” process the violations were reported to Leiberman and Ms. Whitten.
Ms. Whitten said the Commission couldn't control everything.
Early in the first day of voting, machines were working improperly and votes of students voting during that period of time were not cor-r e c 11 y recorded by the machines, voting officials said.
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"Without a doubt machines were messed up beginning the first day,” Winniman said.
Leiberman, during a meeting with candidates . before the polls closed Friday claimed, when asked where the registration residents rolls were said, “There is no Hist.”
James Grimm, director of housing, said “Monday before elections I gave three rosters to the registrar’s office.”
Candidates and students not affiliated with the Hurricane questioned the voting procedure.
Rick Lombart, a winning candidate said, "I went through a second time to prove the point hut didn’t vote a second time.”
Bruce Alpert went through three times and said, “I couldn’t push the SEC levers.”
Diane Rennick. Hurricane staffer said, “I couldn't decipher the SEC choices.”
Despite evidence to the contrary, Leiberman said, "There is no way to prove if people voted more than
once.”
Sandye Hayman, another winning candidate for SEC, when asked about holding another election said, “It's such a hassle, but definitely.”
Senator Suzie Glazer also said that another election is in order due to the lack of validity in last week's election.
Andy Osborne, candidate for off-campus senator, said, “It's the Election Commission’s fault, not the candidates.”
“It was a poorly run election,” said Marty Cohen another candidate for office.
Omega Psi Phi Holds Thanksgiving Drive
Univerlstv of Miami President Henry King Stanford has donated $100 to kick off a Thanksgiving drive by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., to help the needy families of South Miami and Coconut Grove.
i'he drive will take place November 14 in the Student
Union.
"We will be accepting canned goods and cash,” said Willie Andrews, president of Omega Psi Phi, "and if some people can donate turkeys that would be nice, too."
Andrews said the project is one of social action whereby they can extend brotherhood in the community.
“With the donations we hope to give members of the poorer communities, black, white and Cuban, a good i hf-ti- ;f>iring dinner," Andrews said.
.■> This donations will be given to community leaders to dis-tni\ e to the needy.
Clinic Studies Drug Problems
“No attempt is made to provide the 1.41 trainee with any kind of clear and final solutions to any aspect of the problem.”
-—Tom Cahill
By JIM HOLLANDER
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The University of Miami’s National Drug Abuse Training Center, is known to be one of the best organizations of its kind in the United States.
Established under the aus-pices of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Division of Narcotic Addiction and Drug Abuse, Training and Education Section, the Training Center, at 5801 Red Road, gives clinically oriented training to persons engaged in various administrative and clinical aspects of drug abuse programs.
The program is also appropriate to individuals working in business, social and law enforcement fields who have direct or indirect contact with drug abuse problems.
"Our courses are based on a philosophy that drug abuse is symptomatic of a multiplicity of social, psychological and physiological factors,” said Tom Cahill, the Center's deputy director. “These casual factors must he dealt with through intervention modalities, such as agents or agencies which prevent or modify and end the drug abuse pattern.”
Cahill said the major factor associated with the Training Center’s success Is that organizationally “it ties in as a program that allows itself administratively to borrow from the various individual University schools and departments.”
He said this creates faculty participation “that is necessary to deal with the various parts of what drug usage is all about.”
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school, psychiatry, education and other departments, as well as grass-root people from the community are utilized, he said.
“Other programs lack this type of university involvement,” Cahill said. At Yale, he said, the program is tied in with the psychiatry department.
“No attempt is made to provide the UM trainee with any kind of clear and final solutions to any aspect of the drug problem" he said. “The purpose of the academic activities is not to teach specific facts, but to broaden the trainee’s conceptulization, to encourage the trainee to overcome stereotypes and biases.
“As a result, the academic activities are purposely de-
signed to emphasize exposure to diverse opinions.”
He said the academic activities generally include various presentations in pharmacology, medical management, counseling, prevention and programming.
The program, Çahill said, is flexible enough to fit individual needs and interests.
“Prior to and during training,” he said, "each trainee's educational and or administrative needs will be evaluated so that it will be possible to articulate and meet trainee’s goals in terms of the trainee and program needs.
“To us drug abuse is a coping mechanism, like food or alcohol abuse. People use them to develop functional behavior."
Resides drug addiction, he
said coping mechanisms can cause such problems as work addicts. Cancer and heart disease, the nations two biggest killers, he said, can be a result of overworking, strain and smoking, which are themselves sometimes a per-son’s way of establishing functional behavior.
“Drug abuse becomes a much tighter perspective," he said. "People are developing coping mechanisms and freaking out people living next door to them.
“We all cope." he said, but the problem is that people use very personal value judgments. He said in the past, ethics and morality were
The three-day Continuing Courses follow the eight-day course and involve intensive study on one particular
aspect of drug use. The five-day Administrative Courses put emphasis on the management and budgeting of drug programs and agencies.
Cahill said the Training Center makes use of the extensive treatment facilities existing in Dade County.
“Trainees use the Progressive Clinical Training Method," he said. They begin the sequence in the role of observer, move to participant-observer, and complete the, session in some active intervention role.
“Our training staff reflects the background and culture of the trainees. Over 30 per cent are female which is uni-que among many programs.”
He said 2,277 persons were trained last year. This number included 584 students, over 100 members of the Coral Gables and South Miami police departments, members of the Marine Corps and NA 10 representatives.
Cahill said the Training Center wants to teach people how to handlp the coping mechanisms of others so that they may "behave in a way that allows them to handle stress and strain.”
“based on absolute principles,” but now we have “relative ethics."
“What is good for you,” he said, “I don't know, hut when you find it, don’t think it’s for everyone.”
The Training Center offer* three types of courses.
A basic eight-day Clinical Course is designed for individuals with little or no prior experience with drug abuse. An advanced level of the same course is useful for those with experience because it will provide a review and broaden their scope of familiarity.
Are Requirements Needed?
All non-departmental degree requirements in the College of Arts and Sciences should he eliminated, says Charles Javens, associate professor of foreign languages.
Javens, a member of the Committee to Study Degree Requirements for the College of Arts and Sciences, said that because of man's belief that he changes “. . . our whole concept of the Humanities must change.”
Each student could then have his or her university program structured within the department in which he declares a major or an
intent to major.”
Javens’ proposal calls for a student to take a certain number of credits in his major and minor within the Arts and Science
College, setting a limit on the total.
“The remaining credits would be taken as the student wishes," he said, "in areas that he chooses with the advice and encouragement of advisors in the department of his or her major."
Students would be treated as individuals, Javens said.
"At a time when jobs are scarce for B A. graduates, this would allow for greater professional preparation of the student in his major and minor field and would allow the desired flexibility in one’s total university experience.”
This is the current situation for students In the privileged studies program.