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By LYNNE SCHEWE
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As in past years, USBG has started the year with troubles galore. One of the larger problems plaguing them now is Student Senate resignations which, at last count, totaled 11.
Alan Richard, Speaker of the Senate said this is "normal" for this time of year. “Just because a few students have resigned and there are 11 vacant senate seats, there is no reason for students to think Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) is like rats deserting a sinking ship," Richard said.
The 11 vacancies occurred
for various reasons, according to Richard. No one ran for the Engineering, Nursing, or Continuing Education seats.
"We did receive one write-in vote for the Engineering seat, but the person never showed up at Senate meetings," he said
USBG president Ken Gardner resigned his sena-tnrship for the Fraternity Residence Area after being elected. Jay W y n i c k
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no longer represent the college of Arts and Sciences. Pat Wilson, no longer a full-time student, was required to resign as an off-campus senator. One senator was removed for having too many absences from senate meetings.
Also, Lori Alpert resigned her position as education senator
"Firstly I had a class conflict which made it difficult to attend senate meetings," Alpert said. "Secondly, T didn't feel I was accomplishing anything "
“When I campaigned and first came into office, it meant a lot to me, hut after awhile. I'd come to meetings and listen to everybody argue over trival topics. People would just talk just because they thought It made them feel important."
Aipert still works for USBG as head of the Students' Rights Commission for Pearson Hall
Another senator who refused to be identified resigned because he was too busy.
“I felt USBG was a farce; I had too many other things to do than waste time at senate meetings. I must admit though. Ken Gardner's administration is much better than the one before. More officers come to meetings and Ken is working to get many things done for the students."
One other senalor, who wished to not bp quoted at this time, resigned to work in other student government areas.
"For the past two years, student government has been reorganizing and rebuilding, "Richard said. "Every organization is confused al the beginning of a year, and USBG is no exception "
"However, we are working for the direct benefit of the students. Since April we have passed more legislation than was passed all last year.”
“Senators have office hours of one hour per week and this year I am enforcing them. This enables a senator’s constituents to come in and rap about anything."
"Students complain USBG is ineffective because they do not know what it do-*;, Richard said Adding
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Harris Impeachment Rumored; Procedure
By JIM HOLLANDER
Attocial» Editor
Rumors circulating around the second floor of the Student Union of possible impeachment articles being charged against USBG vice-president Alan Harris have been labeled
as "gossip" by high ranking USBG officers.
Meanwhile, the Standing Committee on Rules and Calendar approved Friday a constitutional amendment and additions to the statutes dealing with future impeachment procedures. The committee’s proposals were to be sent to the Senate for floor action on Monday.
Speaker of the Senate, Alan Richard, said the committee has been studying impeachment procedures since last winter, when impeachment articles were dropped against Treasurer Steve Machat. Ironically, the articles were charged by Senator Alan Harris.
Machat was never brought to trial partly because the same body that approved articles of impeachment also was supposed to try the case
“The present statute has no procedure for impeachment other than that the senate has sole authority to convict," Richard said.
USBG president, Ken Gardner said any new impeachment procedure would have one impartial body to determine whether impeachment articles should be charged and the senate would try the case.
Neither Gardner nor Richard would confirm that Harris would be charged with articles of impeachment, but both acknowledged they have heard the rumors.
Richard said lie has received memorandum sta that certain actions of Harris' were in violation of pol However, he said it “has received no formal discussi Everyone gossips about everything ”
"1 must maintain myself as a disinterested party. I would be presiding officer of an impeachment article, should there be one,” Richard said.
Harris was not available for comment. However, In an interview with Hurricane columnist John Cuddihy, he said rumors of Impeachment had reached him and he “just wanted these people to get off my back so 1 can continue
to do my job."
Gardner said Harris acts as if he has no superior offi
cers.
“I’ve heard too many rumors," Gardner said, hear fact, I wouldn't believe it."
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Narcotic Agents Aim Vor 'Big Score
By DAVID TEPPS
Hurricane Editor
Walking about the Dade County Public Safety Department building just west of Downtown Miami, you know where you are immediately.
All the cars are white or bronze Plymouth*, with plain hubcaps and at least two radio antennas protruding from each. Though it's almost 90 degrees in the shade, most men wear a sport jacket concealing a weapon.
There are also a plethora of colorfully dressed men, some bonding out of the jail across the street, others likely undercover police officers.
Part of the Public Safety Department's 2.000 man operation is run under the auspices of the Organized Crime Bureau. One section of the bureau is the narcotics law enforcement in Dade and helped engineer a raid which netted nine UM students last semester.
Ft. Alan Richards, head of the 55-man narcotics squad since 1966, has time to talk, or rather he makes time, in between taking calls about the Dade County jail breakout, discussing protection for a worried ritizen who was involved with one of the escapees. Richards doesn’t have the luxury of worrying about drugs alone.
Entering his office, or rather a vacant sergeant's office, Richaafe immediately offered the long-halre^ bearded Hurricane photographer a job as an unde,-
cover agent. He's kidding, hut the photographer still refuses.
He might not make a good narc anyway, Richards said. The stereotype of a narc doesn’t apply anymore, he said. A bearded hippie with beads trying to make a "big score" would probably get more laughs than narcotics. Richards added.
"When you're dealing with top men, they're serious about it," Richards explained "our undercover men range in appearance from young, hippie-type to grey-haired middleagers who could pass for professional businessmen or bankers," he said.
And that’s what Richards and his men are interested in, the "big score," not minor violators.
"We’re interested in major traffickers in narcotics," he said. Richards doesn’t waste manpower in his squad to hassle a kid with two ounces of grass, unless his connection is a heavy dealer.
These “heavy dealers” might include a 19-year-old UM student arrested last February, characterized by police as "one of the main suppliers of marijuana and cocaine to the campus community.”
At least 12 UM students, many of them freshmen, were arrested on drug dealing charges last year, mainly in the second half of the spring semester. The organized crime bureau was in on at least nine of the arrests.
Richards explained that many busts will come
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Electric Costs Could increase F uture T uitions
Student Art Exhibited
Works hy six candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree at UM will be exhibited during the month of , September.
The works will he exhibited in the conference room of the Mayor of Miami, Maurice Ferre, and In the second floor lobby of the Dade County Courthouse.
Ken Nedornst, Bille Tuttle, Edith Landnwne, Janet Steinsnyder, Alice Terry and Fermin Coronado will have their works represented in this exhibition which was arranged hy Robert Sindelir, art coordinator for Dade County.
fuel oil adjustments hy FPL."
FPL uses fuel oil to operate some of their electrical generators. Since the price of fuel oil is going up, rates are going up each month, McLaughlin said.
"Last January the hill was $13,000 higher than the previous month's,” he said, t.ast August the bill was $65,000 higher than July's bill. This year the electrical hill was $475,000 more than what had been set aside to pay It.
"t wo to three years ago the electrical bill was $1,400.000 a year."
UM is required to pay a utility tax of 10 per cent, of the total UM's utility hill. $202,200 is required for electricity alone this year.
“F-verything ue buy has gone up.” Kimmons said. "One case of bathroom tissue (100 rolls to a case) has risen from $10.80 to between $22 to $24 a case. Lumber has doubled In price. Cleaning supplies and light bulb price« have risen.”
"UM has 150 or so accounts with us. Some are off the main rampuses in Coral Gables, Virginia Key Center of Marine Science and the Medical School,” FPL said.
These additional accounts include buildings such as Koubek Center for Continuing Education, President Henry King Stanford's home and former home, a center on Pigeon Key, a warehouse for drama storage and temporarily rented offices and medical space, McLaughlin said.
Last November President Stanford appointed a Energy Conservation committee chaired by Dr. Thomas Waite, civil engineer, to analyze energy utilization and make suggestions on conservation, McLaughlin said.
This committee was a merger of the Campus Environment Committee and the University Safety Committee. It analyzed and made recommendations for each UM building, Dr. Wait» said.
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measures we proposed," Dr Waite said.
“Turning off the Memorial classroom building's air conditioning in the winter, lowering thermostats lo 77 degrees, reducing lighting in certain areas, equiping air conditioning units with an automatic timer for shutting off at 5 to 6 p.m. and starting up again at 7 a.m„ and restricting evening courses to certain area* have been proposed," Dr. Waite said.
“Air conditioning makes up the major portion of the electricity bill. Air conditioning reductions in such areas where increased humidity would be harmful like the library, or where there is delicate electrical equipment would be limited,” McLaughlin said.
"If all proposed suggestions were put into effect, it could reduce the UM's elec-t r i c a I bill hy maybe $100,000," McLaughlin said.
At the physical plant we have attempted to reduce electrical use. The thermostat is on 76 degrees, one-half of the lighting fixtures have been removed and a timer has been placed on the air conditioning unit," Kimmons said.
“Lighting is one-third of i he electric bill. At the physical plant office we have reduced our electrical load hv 50 per cent," Kimmons said.
"We have requested the l earning Center (LC) keep earlier hours. That way the air conditioning can he turned down sooner It is more expensive to shut the air conditioning off completely than to idle it down at night," Kimmons said
last spring the Energy Conservation Committee submitted the proposed ree-ommenations No action has been taken yet. Dr Waite said.
'Canes Defeat Cougars
In Houston, an emotionally drained Hurricane coach Pete Elliott discusses the 'Canes’ victory with one of the Cougar coaches, while, hack in
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Miami, students watching the game on TV’s in the Rat show various degrees of enthusiasm. For the complete story of the 'Canes 20 to 3 victory, see page 8.
By TERESA DAY
Of The Hurricano Staff
Increasing electrical rates will probably cause housing fees and tuition to rise next
year.
Assistant Vice President of Financial Affairs William McLaughlin said “Rates are not going down any, and the money has to come from somewhere."
UM's electric bill has gone up considerably over the last year, he said.
“Now $2,022,000 a year, UM's electric bill has Increased by 31 per cent."
There are two reasons for this. "First UM’s 20 per cent discount by Florida Power and 1-iRht (FPL) wa* eliminated by legislative action through the Public Service Commission last May,” Assistant Director of the Physical Plant William G. Kimmons said.
"Second, rates have gone up 11 per cent because of
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Beaumont Hall Opens Soon As Theatre
By STEVE MORFTTI
Of The Hurricane staff
After over a year of fighting to renovate Beaumont Hall, the Communications Department is finally getting its way.
“We simply need to have w'hat other departments have for their disciplines," Dr. Josephine Johnson, Chairwoman of the Department said.
“There Is the Lowe Art Museum for art exhibitions, the Ring Theater for theatrical productions, hut there has never been any central showing place for film," she said.
Motions Pictures Director, Paul Nagel said, “The acoustics in there were always very bad."
“In the years intervening the hall’s conversion to a cinema, it has heen used as a classroom hy the School of Music and the Drama Department." he said.
“The basic layout of Beaumont Hall, quite bv accident, was architecturally
perfect for a motion picture cinema.” Nagel said.
Since Beaumont Hall presented an ideal building to be used as a cinema, Dr. Johnson was able to "interrupt the needs nf her department. She directed funds from the Hertz bequest, the allocation of $70,500, over many years by Vice-President for Academic Affairs Dr. Carl McHenry and about $7000 from the alumni, to the transforming of Beaumont Hall into a cinema.
Nagel said when Beaumont Is completed, It will contain burgundy draping, matching carpeting, a new sound system, a scrubbed up stage and a special 16 mm camera capable of showing double features without the technical problems encountered in the past.
"When the cinema is finally complete, we will have a ‘Grand Opening’ and
we hope to have some major feature along with an important guest perhaps
someone involved in the film's production, to make a 'splash' when we officailv open," he said. The opening is expected within a few months.
“AERhn (National Honorary Film Society) will
show their films in Beaumont, the Communications Department has its own library, and the cinema will he open to other departments who wish to show films of a nnn-instructional nature." he said.
Beaumont will also show classics, films made by UM students and other films of interest to the campus community, Nagel said, hut it will not try to compete with local theaters showing current Hollywood features.
UBS Will Publish Newspaper
By LINDA BORIS»!
Hurriean« Reporter
The United Black Students (UBS) will publish their own newspaper next month.
The newspaper entitled Us Publications will be published monthly. Circulation will Inti ally he 1,000 copies, with an increase dependent upon the students' response.
UBS will fund Us Publications.
"UBS is an organization trying to help UM’s black students,” Editor Jim Johnson, said, "and Us Publications is one way to bring students closer to academic achievement ”
The objective of Us Publications Is to encourage the black students to join activities.
Johnson said he hopes to reach white students as well as blacks.
Us Publications wants to inform all students of UBS activities,” he said.
Johnson said his staff will mainly write
feature articles.
The following features will be published monthly:
•	Under The Stars, a horoscope column
•	What’s Going On — publicizing black student activities
•	Personals—open to all UM students
at no cost
•	Who's Who — listing students with a 3.5 average or better.
•	Fashion.
•	Soulful Reading — literature list. Johnson said anyone with an interest
can work on the paper.
Contributing editor for Us Publications, Darlene Miller, has worked for the News Tribune and the Chronicle in Fort Pierce and the African World in Greensboro, North Carolina.