Miami Hurricane, September 27, 1974

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Miami Dade And UM Reach Concert
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By JIM 1101.LANDER
Associate Editor
A joint concert agreement between Miami Dade South Community College and UM is but a hair from finally becoming a reality. Administrative and student representatives from both schools met Tuesday in the Student Union and gave overwhelming approval to the final proposal.
USBG president Ken Gardner said “all it needs now is a rubber stamp."
'The proposal will go before the Senate Monday where il is expected easy passage. It will then be sent to vice-president for Student Affairs Dr William Butler for administration approval.
In the meantime, the Dade South administration must also approve the proposal However. Gardner said he fore sees no problem.
This past summer, the UM adminislration agreed in principle to a similar proposal but suggested some minor changes. Initially, UM would review the contract after
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— Ken (.unifier, I SIM, president
each concert. However, the administration suggested two or three concerts be guaranteed insuring that Dade South recovers the amount spent on a prospective floor tarp and that they purchase the tarp from the lowest bidder.
The present proposal includes this and other minor changes. Ihe Miami Dade Board ot Trustees has already indicated its acceptance of the joint concert agreement. Last year, they rejected a similar proposal initiated by Al White, citing the energy shortage as the main reason.
, For use of the Dade South Health Center, UM will pav $2500 per concert. After the tarp has been paid for, UM will negotiate a lower fee for use of the facility.
UM will have to pay for 20 Metro Officers an estim-
ated $575 and student security forces will be paid by the respective schools.
Dade South will be provided a minimum of 1200 tickets and a maximum of 1500. The Health Center accomodates 5500 persons. Dade students will be charged from $2.50 to $4.50, the amount to be determined by UM according to the cost of the performers However, since tickets will be sold at the South Campus Bookstore, UM will absorb a service charge
Unsold tickets from Dade South will be returned to t M and will be sold at the door before the concert at a price not to exceed 50 per cent above the set ticket price. Holders of a valid I D. from either school will be eligible to buy them.
Dade South can disfibute their tickets to any of the Miami Dade Community College campuses.
Student Entertainment Committee chairman, Dudley B Ruffalo, said he hoped to establish a one dollar fee for
UM students. He said students must understand that top quality groups cost money.
"My plan is to institute a one dollar charge perma nently for large Dade South concerts,” Ruffalo said, adding that smaller gigs at the patio or in the Rat would remain
free.
Ruffalo said SEC lias always been handicapped bv not having their own house to present concerts in. Competition from professional promoters, he said, has blocked sevetal planned concerts.
“We’ve always had the money and manpower." he said." "it’s organization and Ihe house that we always
lacked."
"It should lake two to three weeks for Dade and us to get this okayed,” Gardner said “ Then bids go up for the tarp and at that time we’ll set a date to agree on the first
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If all goes as scheduled, Gardnei said the first concert could be held in January
Towns
Flooded
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Bv ELENA SEITZ
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Scores of Honduran pen pie remain homeless as a disastrous result of hurricane Fifi A committee of five concerned UM students has been formed to aid these people on their road to recover!.
■lose Martinez, Council of International Students and Organizations (COISO) president and a native Honduran is committee chairman.
"We are asking students It) donate canned food, used clothing and medicine, in other words, anything the Hondurans can use." he said.
Martinez cited the latest f’gores on the destruction
•	100.000 people are homeless
•	8,000 people are dead
•	95 percent of ihe ha
mm plantations were rle
stroyed
•	$65-million banana crop was lost.
"Many cities and towns in northern Honduras have been completely destroyed by flooding,” he said. "There are many homeless and sick people There is no drinking water in most parts, and there is fear of typhoid fevei.”
He said the Honduran economy will undoubtedly decline 40 in 50 per cent because the banana is the country’s main agricultural product.
"There is a possibility that UM students can adopt a city in northern Honduras,” he said. " I hen, all the aid would go directly to that city inslead of to various organizations."
Martinez said the remain mg four committee members are also nalive Hondo tans They are Georgette Adonie, her sister l.oueette, Cesar Mendoza arid his brother Augusto.
"None of us have been able to contact our families in Honduras because the hurricane has destroyed communication lines there.”
Martinez said students can either bring their dona (ions to a table which will be in Ihe Student Union breezeway next week or place them in boxes which are stationed in the dorms.
"Many people have already given money, clothing and much-needed medical supplies,” he said "The students have really been very helpful."
Sophomore
Receives
Steven F. Browdy, a UM sophomore, has been named recipient of the Citizens Board Scholarship for 1974-75. The scholarship covers the year’s tuition of $2,500.
Browdy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Browdy, of 12.110 SW 27th Street, was selected on the basis of scholastic achievement, financial need and leadership qualities.
Browdy is a College Work-Study Program participant in the UM me-chanical engineering department. His interest is nuclear engineering. He is a member of Roadrunners, a club for commuter students
By GUS PliPO
Of Th« Hurricane Staff
Ffforts by the U S. Postal Service to dose down UM’s branch post office have failed, assistant district manager for the Postal Service Donald Moon said.
In a cost cutting maneu ver, the Postal Service had planned to close the branch down, replacing it with a postal center manned by UM personnel and eventually financed by student money.
Moon cited an article, published two weeks ago in the Hurricane, as a major factor causing the change in plans
"'I he Postal Service hates publicity.” Genera! Presi dent of the American Postal Workers Union, John Wright said.
“I thank the Hurricane staff on behalf of all fhe Miami postal workers for a
fine job in bringing the problem to light. This makes me a very happy man," Wright added.
UM officials were opposed to the possible change from the very start.
Guidance Center Counsels Couples
By LYNNE SCHEWE
Of The Hurricane Staff
A new innovation in UM student guidance, couples counseling, is now being offered by the Guidance Center.
"Couples counseling is programmed for any two people living together who are having interpersonal problems,” clinical supervisor in counseling, Dr. Ar-thui llrucker, said.
Director of the Guidance Center, Dr. less Spirer said “A couple is not defined in terms of heterosexuality."
"The criterion is how two people see themselves Iwo women or two men can view themselves as a couple and therefore are a couple," Dr. Spirer said
Counseling for uiarrieds and non-marrieds has been available in previous years.
hut now an extra dimension in counseling is being added.
"In the past,” Dr. Spirer said, married or non-mat ried couples having difficul lies came in and were seen as a unit.”
"This year we are devel oping a supplemental in proadi. Couples can he seen separately first and then as
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Fire! I he i rowd senses trouble Everyone scrambles to the nearest exit l ocked. Chained So waj out. Panic overcomes the crowd, and what could have been an orderlv evacuation becomes mass hysteria
a unit."
After that, couples may decide to continue and participate in group sessions which have three, four nr five couples. This will he the first year in which there will be married couples In group encounters.
"We are not going to forte anyone ui participate in group sessions. II is up to
This hasn’t happened yet, hut the situation remains a possibility.
Several of Ihe exits in the three board-plan cafeterias, 960, Hurricane and Pearson Mahoney, are locked or obstructed, making an emergency exit difficult.
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the couple to decide if they want to attend or not,’’ Spirer said.
At least one member of the couple must have paid the activity fee.
“’We can’t eliminate one person from couples counseling just because thev aren't a UM student,” Dr. Spirer said. “Ordinarily, counseling is unavailable to
honey, the doors are equipped with “panic bar" releases, but heavy -duty chains with combination locks are pul on the doors to control the inflow of eat ers, allowing no exit.
In the Hurricane, small and often overcrowded, the doors equipped with the
dependents, but for this lype of guidance we had to make an exception."
Those wishing to participate in the couples counseling program can stop by the Guidance Center, building 2IR, or call 284-5511, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday to make an appointment with one of the counselors.
"panic bars” are the doors normally used for daily traffic. Ihe obvious exit is locked by a regular door lock and is not equipped with a “panic bar" release," thus it could not be used normally In case of an
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Exits Could Be Inadequate
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"Undergraduates have been gelling Ihe shaft for a long time," Student Activities Director Howard Win niman said.
Winniman and Residence Halls Director, James Grimm, spoke before an informal group of twenty MHO Complex residents Monday night.
"Oul of Ihe $16.45 student activity fee, roughly $22 and some odd cents is used tow'ards the various organizations who were ap propiated the funds bv ref erendums in previous elec-lions," Winniinan said
"The other $14 are used toward organizations anil activities which do not fall under previous heading."
“(SAFAC) Student Activity Fee Allocation Commit-
tee is composed of Ihe l n-dergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) trea surer, two representatives from each activity group, the Hurricane one representative front other pub lications and three other appointed representatives," Winniman said
’SAFAC begins Octobei I, wl on emergence requests for funds are heard.
"Around January we begin hearings for requests of various organizations’ future budget , We make the final dec ions on the 50 lo 60 requests around fi nals week."
Winniman said every body should pav the same
fee.'
"Graduate students pay only $1.50 studi m activity
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"We are not experts in running posl offices. II would just he another administrative burden,” Assistant Vice President for li nanciat Affairs William McLaughlin said
Discussions between ihe Postal Service and UM officials broke down ten days ago. McLaughlin said he advised Postal Service officials about UM President Henry K. Stanford’s decision to terminate negotiations.
“We are not volunteering to run the campus branch," McLaughlin said. “And, we
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UM officials have not been notified of ihe recent post office decision and are still "sitting pat.” McLaughlin said lie did not contact any government officials to intervene on he half of UM, bul other cam mis agencies did.
Congressman Dante Fas-cell made "a diligent effort” to keep the UM branch open after receiving letters from the U.S. Weather Bureau, the Army, and the (enter for Theoretical Studies protesting the possible shutdown and changeover. Thes e on-campus agencies have a large volume of registered mail requiring prompt handling hy U.S. Postal Service personnel only.
President Wright said Fascell wrote to the Post master General, calling Ihe actions by the Postal Serene "totally unwarranted."
Posl Office officials did not appreciate the “deluge” of complaints about their
proposed cutback Post manager Moon said other university administrations have taken over postal op erations with nun h success.
The aborted changeover could have resulted in a less efficient campus post office. McLaughlin and Wright both expressed concern about untrained personnel taking over the jobs of experienced postal employees. UM branch clerks have a wide range of experience. Some have been at the campus post office foi 14 years.
Sophomore Peter Diaz, School of Engineering stu deni, is one of the many students pleased with the Postal Service decision.
As a commuter, the on-i ainpus posl office is i real time saver for me. I use it frequently and the serve <• is excellent,” Diaz said
111 spite of losing the hut tie. Postal Service officials are "satisfied" willi (lie re suits. Moon says the I'M branch will continue to striy'P for heller service
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Somme Hus Only 'Broken Even At Track
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By DAVE TEPPS
Hurricane Editor
Even though she owns four thoroughbred rare horses, UM student JoAnn Rafsky still bets on hunches at the track.
"I’m always getting kidded about studying and everything,” JoAnn says. "1 saw this horse called "Bookish” so I placed a bet on it and won."
A senior education major here, JoAnn will student teach next semester hut still leaves time for her horses
"I just go to look at the horses (occasionally) and make sure they’re okay,” JoAnn says. She hires jock eys and trainers and rejec ts the idea of riding her own horse competitively saying ”H’s not for me.”
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A year-round resident of Florida, she has ridden horses since she was II), and always wanted to own one. A few years ago she and her two brothers, (one a law student here now) inherited some money, and her parents said, “here’s your chance."
Just a couple of years ago, when she was 18, JoAnn went with a profes sional trainei to a horse auc tion, where she made tier initial purchase, a $1500 horse
She now owns four horses, including the well-regarded Sew For Four, Beth’s Boots, Jigger’s Girl and Dainiv Slipper. They are trained by two of South Florida’s top trainers, W. R. Smith and Neil Win-nick.
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shaped ring, (all her family has an identical one) and a blouse emblazoned with horses, JoAnn says she has only “broken even” financially at the track.
"The stable bills eai up any of your winnings," JoAnn says. Totaling about $700 a month, they are rle frayed a little by the winner’s share of the purse. Just Monday, JoAnn’s tiorse, “Beth’s Bools" fin ished second in the money. Rut the horse was disqualified because of irregular riding by the jockey.
Another of her stable. Sew For Four, will soon pnler stakes races, which carry a bigger purse along with an entrance fee.
One way to make money in the business is to hreed horses, which JoAnn hopes to do someday.
Bul there’s another meth-od which is a lot quicker hut even more risky. That’s betting on your own horse
Like many fans, JoAnn puts aside a sum she’s will ing to risk and then stops She doesn't read the racing form much and dismisses the value of commercial tip sheets. Bul besides betting on hunches she say'S' “I might be around the track in the morning and I’ll look at the horses, lo see what I like.”
“inside information” is something every horse player alw'ays looks for, but JoAnn is hesitant to cooperate. Afraid of hard feelings if her tips are off, all she’ll say is "my horse is running.”
And she always bets on her horses
"Even if they have no chance to win.”
fht Miami Hurricane / PETER LtPSHUTZ
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