Miami Hurricane, January 22, 1974

              Will Professors Win Right to Unionize?
By DAVE TEPPS
Associate MINT
Will UM professors soon be able to unionize and thus obtain the right to collective bargaining? Could this unionization eventually mean higher faculty salaries and more
power to the profs at the
University?
These questions may be answered after the results are known of this week’s meetings of the UM faculty organization, American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
More than 50 per cent of the main campus faculty have approved representation by the AAUP. A 30 per cent vote is required.
The main question confronting the NLRB this week is the question of unit definition. In other words, which professors will vote on whether or not to accept collective bargaining.
AAUP leaders at UM want to represent only professors at the main campus, excluding the professional law and medi-
cal schools, according to Dr. Nancy Clasby, English professor and AAUP advocate.
"The AAUP does not seek to represent the med school since the 577 med school faculty members are already in much better position financially than are the 539 faculty members on campus,” Dr. Clasby said.
Neither would the law school be included in the unit definition.
“The law school faculty is seeking a separate unit election, to which the AAUP has (agreed),” Dr. Clasby Indicated in a printed statement of the AAUP position.
However, the UM administration, according to Dr. Clasby, seeks to include the medical school faculty, all University deans, and the law school faculty in the unit definition.
Dr. Clasby said this administration move is only to neutralize “the main campus vote which will probably favor collective bargaining.”
Because of the better financial conditions of medical and law school faculty, they are not seen as supporters of collective bargainig. Med school faculty number 577, and the law school less than 30.
“We want the med school out (of the unit definition),”
Dr. Clasby said. "They’re being used only as a pawn by the administration to prevent us from reaching our goals.”
The AAUP has been a force on campus for over 20 years. Only in the last few years have University professors had the right to collective bargaining.
The NLRB hearings to determine the bargaining unit continue Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Open to the public, the meetings will be held in the NLRB offices at 1370 Madruga Ave.
Some have questioned the effects collective bargaining would have on the University. Might the threat of a strike or an actual walkout be used by faculty as a club to gain satisfaction from administrators?
According to Dr. Clasby, a strike is a remote possibility under the proposed labor relation situation. Once collective bargaining rights are secured, there are several steps which may be pursued.
A faculty grievance may result in a mediator being called in from the NLRB. If this is not sufficient to reach a solution between profs and the University, a fact-finding committee will be established by the NLRB.
Finally, if both groups agree, binding arbitration may be implemented.
If a solution of a faculty-administration conflict Is still not reached, only then would a strike be considered, according to Dr. Clasby.
Stanford Cites Bargaining Limits
In a letter to faculty members, Dr. Henry King Stanford described the conditions the faculty will work under while filing with the NLRB.
Nancy Clasby, AAUP spokesman, said that the UM administration is hinting that any move toward collective bargaining could result in a freeze on faculty promotions and salary increases.
Dr. Stanford said a study is being conducted to determine what effect the collective bargaining push would have on salaries, tenure, etc.
What Stanford is referring to, according to Dr. Clasby, is the NLRB regulation that the administration not interfere with faculty during labor hearings, which could last for a long period of time.
NLRB regulations require that the status quo be maintained with faculty during the hearings period. According to Dr. Clasby, this does not mean freezing salaries and promotions, but maintaining the same patterns.
Dr. Clasby sees this letter as a hint of what resistance could be mounted by the administration to collective
bargaining.
Section 8A of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) makes it illegal “to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise the rights guaranteed in Section 7."
Section 7 of the NLRA gives certain employees the right to organize and bargain collectively.
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Master Plan Presented To USBG
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Patio And Ibis Cafeteria Remain UM Concert Sites
. .. Miami-Dade again turn» down propo»al for joint concert series
Combined Concerts Proposal Nixed By Miami-Dade South
By DIANE RENNICK
Assistant Haws Editor
Since the summer of 1973 UM and Miami-Dade South Community College have been negotiating on proposals for a unified concert series.
Miami-Dade has rejected the last proposal submitted by UM.
John Zeien, director of Student Activities at Miami-Dade South, attributes the rejection to the energy crisis.
“We received a mandate from the State Board of Education telling us to reduce energy consumption by 25 per cent,” Zeien said.
He said the campus will
close down some weekend operations in light of the
energy crisis.
A1 White, former Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) chairman is skeptical about the rejection.
“Every year negotiating for joint concerts with Miami-Dade is begun by SEC and it only gets to a certain point,” White said, “and after planning for this thing since July, it seems like SEC is getting the shaft again.”
White said Miami-Dade claims it has been told by the state to curtail their night time activities, result-
ing in the elimination of concerts.
“However, the University of Florida, another state institution has its spring concert line-up consisting of The Doobie Brothers, J. Geils, Grand Funk and other major acts,” White said.
The proposal submitted by UM called for Miami-Dade to pay for the cost of maintenance, a technician and the purchasing of a tarpaulin to cover the gymnasium floor where the concerts would be held.
UM would pay rental costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $2500 for each concert.
Physicist ‘Explains’ Universe
By JIM HOLLANDER
Of Tin Hurricane Staff
Having concluded summarizing his soon to be published theory of the Origin of Matter and the Birth of the Universe, the mental giant stood in front of the audience and reflected for a moment.
“I’m frightened to be so right,” he said. “Frightened because I do not trust in my own calculations that much. Why should I have solved such an important problem myself. . .?”
With that, Dr. Behram Kursunoglu, director of UM’s Center for Theoretical Studies, cast the credit off to Albert Einstein and said his work “is a few brush-strokes added to Einstein's portrait «.'■nature.”
Bom in Turkey, Dr. Kursunoglu completed his undergraduate studies at Edinburgh University in Scotland and went on to receive his doctorate at Cambridge. There, he was a pupil of P.A.M. Dirac, known as the world’s foremost physicist.
While in England, he became interested in Einstein's general theory of relativity, which explained gravitational forces. “I corresponded with Einstein and also with Erwin Schroedlnger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, who was also working on the same theory,” he said. .
The theory, he said, was that besides gravitational force there existed another
similar force in nature, an electromagnetic force. "Einstein wanted to formulate a theory,” he said, “which included both of these factors. He worked for forty years on this subject which he called the generalized theory of gravitation.”
In 1952, Dr. Kursunoglu came to Cornell University. He visited Princeton on and off and in November 1953, “had the good fortune to have a three and a half hour meeting with Einstein,” he said.
“He agreed that my approach, which was within the spirit and framework of his ideas, was more general than his own.”
He said it was during this
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By VALERIE STRAUSS
News Editor
The Master Plan for the University of Miami’s anticipated construction of new facilities was presented at the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) meeting yesterday.
Vice-president for Financial Affairs Eugene Cohen, acting as chairperson of the Master Plan Committee, said there are seven new buildings either under construction or contemplated.
“Gusman Concert Hall is now under construction and is to be finished by next September. This asset, not only to the University but to all of Coral Gables, will provide many interesting cultural programs which will be of mutual interest to the campus and to our friends in the community,” Cohen said.
The James L. Knight Conference Center for Continuing Education is expected to be built this year, he said.
“The University will spend $5 million for these two major new buildings this year,” Cohen said.
There are five other buildings planned in addition to Gusman Hall and the James L. Knight Conference Center.
A new proposed building for the School of Business Administration will be built south of the Merrick Building in the academic zone of the Main Campus, he said.
“The University does not have a contribution available at the present time so there is no specific starting time for this structure,” Cohen said.
The Ashe Administration Building will someday be re--assigned for academic use and a new administration building will be built just south of the Student Union and across from the present Lowe Art Museum, he said.
“It was thought that a donor had been located for this structure but unfortunately negotiations were not completed.”
This addition to the campus will change our front door to Miller Road off U.S. 1 and will have an Impact in reducing the traffic on San Amaro Drive and Campo Sano Drive, he said.
The Lowe Museum will also go under extensive changes.
“It has been announced that the University will
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To avoid any enrollment errors, please ask the instructor to check the class rolls.
A “C O” printed to the right of the student’s name on the class roll, indicates that the student is enrolled in the course for “Credit Only.” If there is a discrepancy in your enrollment, please go immediately to your Academic Dean's office to correct the Jrror.
receive a gift for a major extension of the present Lowe Museum and that the Museum will become a major cultural asset for all of South Florida,” he said.
The new Activities Building (Fieldhouse) will be located on Ponce de Leon easterly from the site of the proposed Knight Conference Center. No donor has yet been found for this project, he said.
The remaining project is a new Science Building plan-
ned to be constructed near the Science Building which was erected approximately three years ago. he said.
Cohen said there is not a campus parking problem at this time and he does not anticipate one.
“It is acknowledged that early in the Fall semester some students do have difficulty finding parking spaces because of a lack of knowledge of campus parking availability and there-
fore, during the first week of school, you will find a few students who park outside University properties.
“In the past five years we have increased our parking spaces from a total of 5,880 to 7,534. This is an increase of 1,654. In the same time, the student enrollment has declined by 2,314. This significant decline in enrollment shows there is not a parking problem on this campus,” Cohen said.
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Skunk-Ape Scare
When the Hurricane learned of the presence of a Skunk-Ape in the Everglades last week, several reporters and photographers were immediately dispatched west on State Road 84 to cover the hairy story.
Armed with cameras, notepads, pencils, baseball bats and golf
clubs, the intrepid journalists found nothing but a soda stand at Andy« town and returned to the office.
Discouraged and downtrodden, the staff pulled into the parking lot in time to shoot a picture of the Skunk-Ape attacking a coed walking her dog. Security responded but failed to catch the beast as it lumbered west on Ponce de Leon Blvd.
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Bicyclist Hurt In Collision
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UM student Steven Tipaldi, 19, was injured Thursday night when the bicycle he was riding collided with a car.
Tipaldi, who lives in Apartment 42B, was riding south on Merrick Drive when he collided with a Volkswagen driven by another student, David Cambell, the UM News Bureau said.
Cambell, of 8211 S.W. 72 Avenue, was allegedly driving the wrong way on Dickinson Drive, which is a one-way street.
The collision occurred at the intersection of Dickinson and Merrick, near Eaton Hall.
Tipaldi was taken to Doctor’s Hospital where he was treated for back and leg injuries and lacerations of the back and face. He was then released, according to the News Bureau.
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Cambell faces charges rela the accident.