Miami Hurricane, February 22, 1974

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Friday, February 22, 1974
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On UM Campus
Will Hotel Be Built?
See editorial, page 4 By PHYLLIS HONIG
PHOTO BY LASS Y GREENE
Pulling The Old Switcheroo
One UM student has found a way to beat the
new Oregon plan gas rationing system. On even days he uses his own plates and on odd days he “borrows” the license plate of a friend.
iProfs Getting Peanuts’ From Students’ Tuition
By DAVE TEPPS
Associate Editor
If University funds were better managed, professors could get increased pay without forcing tuition hikes, according to faculty unionization proponent Dr. Nancy Clasby.
“We are getting peanuts from student tuition payments,” Clasby said. “Students are not getting what they are paying for, which is education.”
She said that funds from tuition could be managed more efficiently, but declined to elaborate without an audit of the University budget by a faculty group.
According to Clasby, only about one-fourth of undergraduate tuition revenue goes to professors' salaries. The federal government, when issuing educational project grants, allows 68 per cent for overhead. UM’s overhead costs, according to Clasby’s admittedly rough figures, is closer to 300 per cent.
"Nobody knows where the money goes now,” Clasby said.
“But we can't guarantee that tuition won’t go up,” Clasby said.
The question of which professors will eventually vote for unionization is now being discussed by the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. The process of defining this unit definition could take several months.
Some unionization critics have said that collective bargaining would lower the quality of teaching at UM. Clasby disputes this contention.
"If the faculty is better paid, you get a better class of professors,” Clasby said.
These same critics have cited the inability of unionized faculties to hire "distinguished” faculty members who command higher salaries. Clasby also disagrees with this contention.
Higher salaries for outstanding professors can still be arranged, Clasby said. Unionization proponents re-
alize the value of “stars- in a department, and would be willing to provide a fund for these professors. This is the situation now, with the discretion of the department chairman involved, she said.
Clasby said she hopes unionization would provide pay raises across the board for professors.
“Why should we carry the burden when everyone else’s -salary has gone up?" Clasby asked.
The fate of a $12 million donation to UM from the Intercontinental Hotel Corp. (IHC) is now in the hands of the Coral Gables City Commission.
The IHC is planning to give the University this money to build a residential hall-training hotel facility.
This facility will be built in conjunction with the James L. Knight International Conference Center.
Tuesday night several UM officials including UM President Henry King Stanford, Academic Affairs Vice-President Carl McKenry, Developmental Affairs Vice-President Edward Coll, and Continuing Education Dean Robert Allen asked the Coral Gables Planning Board’s approval for the UM proposed Knight Center and hotel facility.
Dean Allen said, “This center has been nine years in the making, and it Is critical for the future of the University.”
Coll said, “This center will enhance graduate and undergraduate education. It relates to all UM schools, students, and faculty. If we can proceed, the University will become world renowned.”
Most of the opposition to the proposal came from surrounding hotel and motel owners, and residents near the UM campus.
The hotel and motel owners fear the hotel facility will take business away from them and represent unfair competition.
Surrounding residents fear the center Itself will add too much density, traffic, and pollution.
John Sutherland, the IHC representative disagreed with these complaints.
"The entire community
will benefit from the construction," he. said. 'There will be no promotion or advertising locally for business.
“We’re not really interested in getting business,” Sutherland said “The educational and training aspect is really what is important to us."
Sutherland also indicated the key points in the IHC proposal as stated in a booklet UM has compiled on the proposed Knight Center project.
Some of the points IHC has agreed upon are:
•	To build at their expense and responsibility, a facility of up to 400 rooms, to include supporting services, facilities and luxurioes of a first class hotel.
•	The building would
include administrative offices, classrooms, and the food service area laboratory space sufficient for the establishment of an academic department of hotel-motel management hospitality and tourism.
•	To include expanded physical space to provide for student interns in the facility and to make available to UM students worldwide internship opportunities in their 70 or more locations.
•	To establish academic scholarships for business majors wishing to concentrate on the hotel-motel management field, both undergraduate and graduate.
•	Pay UM annual rental fees for the land used by IHC facility, and IHC will also donate to UM a share in any profits annually to assist in the general operating support of the Knight Center and the
University in general.
• There will be no direct solicitation or advertising locally through the media, or signs directing local tourists to the facility, but referrals through the IHC-Pan Am system or from UM offices and administration will be accepted pending room availability, that overflow bookings will be made with priority to the nearest motels-hotels and especially to those in the Coral Gables area.
In response to the University’s proposal, several objections were presented.
"This is a requisition for high density and high rises, which is an obstruction to the voter’s wishes," one opponent said. "Let them use money to reduce the student-
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USBG Treasurer Resigns Position
Archaeology Prof essor Picked By U.S. To Help Research Hidden Oil Sources
Dr. John E. Hall, noted marine archaeologist at UM, is one of 11 American scientists selected by the Bureau of Land Management of the U.S. Department of the Interior to conduct underwater archaeological surveys at sites in the Gulf of Mexico prior to proposed oil exploration by American companies.
“I was probably chosen because there aren't too many archaeologists who are also divers,” Dr. HaU said.
Under the federal government’s Outer Continental Shelf Law, designed to
Dr. John Hall
... UM professor
protect the country’s cultural resources, oil companies leas-
ing submerged land sites must submit statements showing the area contains no historically important sunken ships, prehistoric sites, objects, or structures associated with aboriginal human occupation of presently Submerged lands.
Dr. Hall, a former Ful-bright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, and other archaeologists will analyze data from magnetometer surveys and develop maps based on bathymetry and existing archaeological and anthropological data to determine specific areas which will require more detailed on-
site surveys before oil and gas or hard mineral mining activities are permitted.
The sites are 40 to 50 miles off the coasts of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
In addition to taking part in underwater archaeology expeditions off the coast of Greece in 1957-60, 1967 and 1968, Dr. Hall has done exploratory work in Columbia, Haiti, Guatemala, and Bimini. An associate professor of archaeology in the department of anthropology and a native of Tampa, he has been on the UM faculty since 1963.
See editorial, page 4
By VALERIE STRAUSS
N«ws Editor
Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Treasurer Steve Machat has resigned his position.
His resignation is effective today.
Machat’s termin office would have ended in one month.
“I couldn’t stay there any longer. I can’t work for and with people who refuse to recognize that they are working for the entire student body they supposedly represent," Machat said.
"The Senate is comprised of too many ego maniacs. I was getting no cooperation, and I found them still trying to take over my duties,” he said.
Last week the Student Senate threw out charges of impeachment against Machat. The charges were malfeasance, nonfeasance and gross negligence in office.
"I want my constituents to be made aware of the low-key politics that are being carried out, at this school and how dirty their games are. They are all supposed to be working in the name of student interest, but instead are working against each other," he said.
Machat said his attempts to change USBG were deliberately arrested.
“I feel the only thing I’ve accomplished in this office is my resignation as all other serious efforts have been politically detoured.
■’Homecoming is one example. I tried to negotiate with the Homecoming Committee to try and change the format of the Homecoming Dance. I proposed to hold it
in a large hall so all of the student body could attend; practically no one came to my defense. USBG President Scott Anderson chose to abstain from helping me also," Machat said.
Machat said USBG is a nonfunctional organization.
"As it stands now, there is nothing USBG is doing, or can do. Everyone has to have a say in even the most tedious matters. For example, at a Senate meeting, they argued for more than 10 minutes about whether USBG should get a $7.50 subscription to the Miami Herald for the executive offices. Perhaps if they spent as much time on important issues as they do on trivial,
Sieve Machat
... resigns post
insignificant things, they could really do something of importance for the student body," he said.
Memo Of Resignation To University Students
The following memorandum was sent to the Hurricane by Steve Machat. It is addressed to the entire UM undergraduate student body.
“On Dec. 10, 1973, the Senate, in an amusing secret ballot vote, succeeded in impeaching me from office; the charges were unfounded and ridiculous. A politically oriented event is an understatement. The senate’s activities suggested an insecure effort to extend influence over the executive branch.
“It goes much further than our full-nose senator aspiring for a bit of Hurricane publicity in preparation for his spring T-shirt “color war.” I regretfully realized that the backbone of my impeachment rested under the directing influence of USBG President Scott Anderson.
"Anderson’s reasons for impeachment are two-fold. Initially, competitive efforts in last year’s executive election stimulated a sour attitude from Anderson; I refused to run with him as I did not feel that he was competent to hold such an office, a position 1 still maintain.
“Disagreements over Homecoming Dance funding promulgated further constraint. I attempted negotiation with the Homecoming committee and USBG President Anderson chose to abstain from helping to undo this unjust rip-off of
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Lean Toward Impeachment Evident
A poll of 100 UM Students showed an overwhelming desire to see Richard Nixon vacate the Oval Office of the White House.
There was also an indication that they would like to see him leave the Blue Room, the Green Room, the State Room, and the White House altogether.
This is how it went:
Should President Nixon remain in office?
•	yes 17 per cent
•	no 82 per cent
•	don’t know 1 per cent
Thirty per cent asked that Nixon be Impeached, while 42 per cent demanded a resignation. Ten per cent said they didn’t know, or didn't care.
Reasons for his removal from office varied but most agreed that “he is a liar and "he is a crook." Other reasons ranged from
Hurricane Poll
"He no longer has the support he needs to do a decent job,” to "Because he has disgraced himself and the nation,” to "Do you really enjoy having the wool pulled over your eyes?" to "He has breached an implicit duty of honesty and integrity that he owes the American people,” “Maybe if he would — Pat more, he would — us less,” to “Because.”
Those who wish him to remain in office said. “He is the best president we have ever had,” and "It would look bad in the eyes ef other countries.”
In th< next question, “Do you think Vice President Gerald Ford can govern the nation m»re effectively, less effectively or as effectively as Nixon?,” UM students displayed their skepticism of Ford’s governing abilities.
•	More effective 28 per cent
•	Less effective 16 per cent
•	As effective 43 per cent
•	Don't know 13 per cent
This shows a minimal amount of support for Ford, considering the people who said he would be as effective as Nixon think Nixon is not effective at all.
UM students showed they practically don’t believe the White House at all.
“Do you tend to believe press coverage of the Watergate-related events or the official White House statements which directly conflict with the press?"
•	press 80 per cent
•	White House 4 per cent
•	Neither 14 per cent
The last question dealt with the Watergate Committee. On the same day the Committee declared it would hold no more public hearings, we asked “Would you like to see the Senate Watergate Committee resume its hearings?”
•	yes 70 per cent
•	no 12 per cent
•	who cares? 18 per cent
PHOTO BY LARRY GREENE
Different Viewpoints Among The UM Community
... crook, liar, or hest president ?
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