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Revenues
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By PHYLLIS HONIG
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Generous donations from alumni and friends kept UM in the black by $122,000 for the 1972-73 fiscal year, said Vice President for Financial Affairs Eugene Cohen at a press conference Tuesday.
The conference was called to highlight the financial picture outlined in the "Financial Report” released this week.
Cohen admitted the 34-page annual report was late in being distributed.
"Unrestricted fund revenues exceeded expenditures and transfers by $122,000,” Cohen said. "The budget was balanced despite a tuition revenue shortfall only because of $955,000 in unrestricted gifts from alumni and other friends of the University.
"If such unrestricted gifts had not been received, an operating deficit of $833,000 would have been reported.”
Cohen said the 1972-73 fiscal year was “a year of progress even though our financial position appears to grow tighter each year.”
He outlined several significant changes during the 1972-73 fiscal year:
•	Net investment in UM plant facilities went over the $100 million mark — to almost $107 million during the year.
• Total assets climbed $14.5 million to $198.7 million.
•	Unrestricted designated fund (primarily the School of Medicine, Professional Income Plan, University Press and student activity fees) expenditures and transfers exceeded revenues by $258,000 Designated funds balances are carried over to succeeding fiscal years.
•	Annuity gifts reached $2.4 million.
•	Student loan funds increased by almost $2 million and reached a total of $10.1 million.
9 Revenues from sponsors of research and training programs increased during the year by $3.3 million to $32.7 million.
The annual report also listed several total expenditures. Some of these expenses were: instruction and departmental research, $21.8 million; organized activities, $1.6 million; sponsored research, $18. > million; hospitals and clinics, $8.3 million; libraries, $1.8 million; operation and maintenance of plant, $4.3
million; and general administration, $7.1 million; and intercollegiate athletics, $2 million.
Tuition and fee revenue totaled about $30 million.
Cohen said tuition would not be raised next year, however, he would not comment on ensuing years.
Although it will be terminated on May 31, 1974, Cohen made several forecasts for the 1973-74 fiscal year.
“A hard look at the next twelve months Indicates that costs will continue to rise faster than the University can hope to increase income,” he said. “The greatest potentials for solutions for the University’s financial problems are in the areas of current contributions, deferred giving and especially endowment assistance.
“The honeymoon of the Eisenhower years is over and probably will never return. External pressures, the move of the nation to a ‘have not’ status, the growing divisions of authority, and the emergence of unionization all raise fundamental questions of financing and management”
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Practical Politics Set
By DAVID TEPPS
Auoclat» Editor
A course which offers a student the opportunity to work within a political campaign and receive college credit for the experience is being offered at UM next fall.
Politics and Public Affairs (PPA) 213, Practical Politics, will give at least one credit to any student who "gets out in the field” during the fall 1974 campaigns, said Dr. Vergil Shipley, PPA chairman.
The students chooses the campaign which he wants to work on from a list prepared by Shipley and another PPA professor supervising the course, Dr. Thomas Wood. Candidates in many fall races will be involved, from U.S. Senate contests to local and state elections.
"He (the student) may be one of the most important persons in a small campaign,” Shipley said. “Or in the better financed ones, ht may just sit in on the strategy sessions, which is still damn important.”
Though the course will involve no books or tests, the student will be expected to submit a report outlining his campaign experiences, Ship-ley said.
More than one credit may be earned in the course under special circumstances, Ship-
ley said.
He also pointed out that many students could take PPA 213 “free”, as most students are entitled to 16 credit hours, but enroll in only 15 or less.
‘This is a test,” Shipley said, "of whether personal volunteer involvement can offset the problem of financing campaigns.”
Could this effort result in a permanent job for the political enthusiast?
"Maybe,” Shipley said, "but only if your candidate wins.”
Fowl Situation
Here’s the latest resident (plus two) of the 1968 dorm complex. Despite the smallness of her abode, the
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pigeon seems content living on the fire escape. At any rate, her room and board is cheaper than the other dorm residents’, and she’s got a bird’s-eye-view to boot.
Week Sets Theme Of Black Culture
SOS Volunteers Needed Next Fall
By SUSIE O’BRIEN
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Planning is underway for next year’s Orientation Week for new students.
Jack Gibbons, student representative on the 12-member Orientation Committee, is in charge of the SOS (Student Orientation Service) Program.
“SOS is changing because orientation is changing,” Gibbons said. "We are working on more programs to get the students out this year."
“SOS has mainly been in the residence halls, helping new students check in. Next fall SOS will schedule activities for new students to participate in.”
The Orientation Program is In action during the first week and a half before classes start, when new students arrive for placement tests, advising and registration.
During this period, campus organizations, the Whitten Union, and the residence halls all have programs for new students.
SOS is an integral part of Orientation Week, with volunteers helping in almost every phase of orientation.
"There are now summer Orientation Programs where new students and their parents can come for a weekend In the summer, and the student can be advised and preregister,” Gibbons said.
“In the past, there hasn’t a real orientation pro-
gram for new students at spring semester, but we are trying to organize one for that time too.”
"Each SOS meptber is given a list of students to contact during the summer, just to answer any questions they might have about UM,” Gibbons said.
“SOS mainly tries to make
orientation week as painless as possible for the student.”
SOS volunteers come to UM for a two-day workshop before new students arrive to help check in new students at the residence halls. They also answer questions and help students with their schedules during registration. SOS members run a courtesy
car service to help students set to the dorms, and volunteers on each floor are there to answer any questions new students might have.
Anyone interested in being in SOS can sign up this week at his residence hall desk. Commuter students may sign up in the residence hall they wish to work in.
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People of all ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to participate in Black Culture Week, beginning tomorrow through May 3.
“Through very enlightening workshops and programs we hope to expose others to our lifestyle,” said Charles Cooper, president of the United Black Students (UBS), who are sponsoring the week.
UBS students said they hope the "sharing” experienced during Black Culture
Week will extend beyond
Saturday night.
"Our main objective is to open up ourselves and share with those that don’t understand our culture so the communication gap can be filled,” Cooper said.
"And we also hope more positive steps will be taken In the future to fill this gap and make this week a starting point,” he said.
"We’re hoping students will feel concerned with our own lifestyle because ours is quite similar to their owri. We all have the same basic problems,” he said.
Cooper said the communication gap is due to ignorance on the part of both black and white students.
“We’re trying to let people know we’re all In the same boat We all have the same needs, the same wants and desires. We just hope Black Culture Week will have a lasting effect on the student»,” Cooper said.
Tomorrow, Black Culture Week starts off with a soft-ball game at the intramural field. Later there will be a pool and beer party.
Sunday, there will be a breakfast with Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Carl McKenry.
On Monday, a rap with Dr. Henry King Stanford, UM
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Hausler Gets One-Way Ride
A group of freshmen law students kidnaped their pro-f e s s o r early Wednesday morning, packed him into a helicopter and took him for a one-way ride.
But It was all in fun to celebrate prof. Richard Haus-ler’s 51st birthday, In a tradition that grows more exciting every year.
“After this birthday, I don’t think I’ll live to see another,” the 26 year veteran of the law school said.
In a prank that has grown to be expected, students convinced Hausler to ride blindfolded in a helicopter from the airport to the intramural field here. Then they pushed him out — at just two or three feet off the ground.
Students Were Concerned Back Then,’ Says Dr. Owre
By LYNNE SCHEWE
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“One of the things that worries me today is when young people say ‘take it easy’ as they leave. It should be ‘work at it.' You have to do things to get a better view of life,” said Dr. J. Riis Owre, retiring professor of Spanish.
Owre has been with UM for 39 years. Upon retiring at the end of this semester, he plans to start working “on a lot of things I haven't had the time to do.”
"I hope to finish a research project and then I want to start getting educated again. That means learning more about music, economics, studying Norwegian and reading books I’ve bought in the past,” Owre said
Owre came to UM in
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1935 as assistant professor of Spanish. From then on he moved up the ladder, holding numerous positions.
“I’ve held a lot of Jobs here,” Owre said. “The positions range from professor of Spanish to the
Dean of Arts and Sciences, administration and Graduate School.”
In 1938, along with Robert E. McNicoll, professor of history, Owre founded the Hispanic-American Institute, the ancestor of the present Center for Advanced International Studies.
“In the 1940’s, McNicoll and I started the first academic publication, the Hlapanic American Studies. We sent it to Latin American schools for exchange and built up a Spanish library,” Owre said.
As chairman of the language department, Owre introduced Portugese and Russian into the curriculum.
The Graduate School was headed by Owre from 1947-1964. Under his ad-
ministration, the graduate department grew from offering a Master’s degree in three fields to one offering graduate work in 25 departments.
Graduate student enrollment increased from 158 to 1,326.
During his years at UM, Owre has seen the University grow as well as a change occur In the type of student attending the school.
“When I first started, the school was very small. There were only 50 people on the faculty. Everything was more friendly and intimate,” Owre said.
“Students were	con-
cerned about the University back then There was a time when all the students got together and went to paint the school’s three story building. That
showed good group spirit.
“Now the school is bigger and UM has more fun in the sun. There Is more emphasis on playing.
The average student Is more sophisticated, but less Interested In ideas. And this is true everywhere.”
With a bigger school, lines of communication are broken down between students and faculty. Owre believes that every administrator should teach one course a year.
“I think the most important things happen in the classroom, laboratory and library. If the administrators don’t teach, they lose contact with the students,” Owre said.
Owre was Dean of Arts and Sciences from 1942-43. On the present controversy of changing the
school’s requirements, he believes that UM’s philosophy of education should first be determined.
“It’s wrong for a group of students to go picking at one requirement. You have to determine what is a liberal arts education and then set down your requirements," Owre said.
On April 11, a commemorative banquet was held for Owre by Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish honorary.
Alumni members and past students of Owre’s attended the dinner. The organization's highest honor, the order of Don Quixote, was awarded to Owre for the first time since 1944.
“I am very immodest about the award,” Owre said. “I like things when they come from students."
Some observers of the flight might have temporarily thought the students had gone too far in their practical joke. At one point a dummy was tossed out of the helicopter over the student union.
A student band greeted Hausler on the ground, and a birthday reception greeted him in a law school classroom — complete with coffee, cake, presents, .toasts, and a vocal rendition of “1 could Have Briefed All Night," by law freshman Steve Jerome.
Law students here have been trying to outdo themselves annually for 19 years in marking Hausler's birthday. “He's the best teacher in the school," one student told The Miami Herald.
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