Miami Hurricane, February 28, 1975

              Dean’s Needed For 18 Credits
THE /WIA
URMCANE
By VAl.ERIESTRAUaS
N.w« Editor
Voi. 50 No. 38
Friday, February 28,1975
Ph. 2844401
The hopes of students who plan* tied to take 18 credits next semester may be quenched.
When the tuition hike xvas announced several weeks ago, a propos* al allowing students to take 18 credits for the same amount of money as 1$ credit* was also recommended. At that time, it was assumed by students that anyone who wanted to conld automatically take 18 credits. Such is notthecasc.
The decision of who can and cannot take an 18 credit-load lies with the dean of each college in the university. Assistant Dean of The College of Arts and Sciences Richard Banks said his college will decide “on each individual case.
“We will examine each case thoroughly, and on its own merits. A person with an unsatisfactory average will not be able to take 18 credits, just as a person with a satisfactory average will be allowed to. We don't want students toover load so they fail.
“f am not prepared to blindly state a definite grade point average that will be the deciding factor. We are fairly flexible. Students will just have to come up. discuss it with us and receive permission,” Banks said.
School of Education Dean Lou
Klrinman also said the decision will hr made "by individuals. I won’t give a blanket ‘yes’ or a blanket 'no.’ For those people who are capable of carrying 18 credits, permission will be granted. We don't want grade points todrop.
"If there Is good reason for taking an 18-credit load, if pprhaps a student nerds the extra course to graduate, we will allow it. First, however, we must consult with the student and his advisors. The key element is what is in the best interest for the student,” .Kleinmansaid.
Students have expressed the desire (o lake 18 credits because it allows them to "take an extra course I would never have the time to take.” Some professors, however, fear that students will take the extra course only to drop it near the end of the semester.
USBG’s Supreme Court Decision Declared Inoperative By Gardner
l.lliott Confers Willi Flavor On Sidelines
.., named Selmer as new head com fi
Elliott Quits Coaching Post
By BILL F1SSE
Sport* Iditor
UM President Henry King Stanford announced Thursday that Pete Elliott was stepping down as head football coach to devote his full energies to his post as athletic director.
Elliott in turn told a roomful! of expectant reporters and cam-
eramen that offensive coordinator Carl Selmer would take over as new head coach.
“I thought I would coach another year when this season ended,” Elliott said. "1 changed my mind and rechanged it. It's difficult to quit when you love to coach.”
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ByGUSPUPO
Of the Hurrican« Staff
A USBG Supreme Court ruling has been declared "inoperative" by USBG President Ken Gardner with the Student Senate's approval although Chief Justice Alan Bell insists Gardner is “overstepping his powers by sticking his nose in something he should not.”
The Court ruled that a Campus Sports and Recreation (CSR) petition originally thrown out by the Election Committee which had declared more than 650 signatures invalid, should he put in a referendum in the Spring eleciion.
Only 30 signatures were found to be invalid by the court leaving 100 more than the 500 required for a valid petition.
Both Gardner and CSR Director Norm Parsons have been struggling for weeks over a five-year $28,464 trust account originally voted by students in 1970 for the construction of a “bubble” dome fieldhouse.
In 1971, the Coral Gables City Commission prohibited the construction of the 5,000 seat air inflated structure which was to house basketball games and concerts thus leaving the money in limbo.
Plans for this money have been
made by Gardner who says he would like to use $8,000 to finance a proposal for a campus closed circuit television system and invest the remaining $20,000inUM bonds.
Gardner claims the Supreme Court violated the USBG Constitution, failed to notify all parties involved, and “neglected to follow proper procedures.”
“Three of the five justices had a conflict of interest because they had previously signed the petition in question,” Gardner said.
But Bell said the vote was retaken
Integrated Roommates Often Have Problems
By LYNNE SCHEWE
Of Tlx MurrK.ns St.fl
Problem* can arise between roommates because of personality conflicts, varying tastes in music, different friends and individual lifestyles.
Further complications can result when one is black and one is white.
"I had a white roommate last semester," sophomore and 1968 complex RA Beverly Wright said. “I felt when I talked to her, she just listened, but didn’t really hear me. I learned through the grapevine that she didn't want to be roommates,
"1 stayed her roommate tilt the end of the semester — I think more nut of spite than anything else,” Wright said.
Shelley Matthews, a senior and 960 RA has always had a black roommate.
"I've never really had the problem of having a white roommate. I dn know that most black-white roommate assignments do not usually work out. I've known of only one or two that have stayed together. Most parents send their white daughters down here wanting them to have white roommates,” Matthews said.
Matthews has noticed that many of the black girls have been assigned the same number room on each floor. Blacks will live in 105, 205, 305 and so forth.
“The fifth room on each floor is down the hall from the RA’s. I guess they feel that the RA’s esn keep a close watch on them,” Matthews
said.
Director of Housing, James Grimm said students are not assigned rooms on the basis of race. Students are assigned on the basts of sex, age, class rank and major field of study.
As to the “stacking" of blacks In
the towers, Grimm said, “With HEP (High School Equivalency Program) it is different. We hava 48 students in the special program.
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These students are nut high school graduates and come from a lower economic background. They are assigned as roommates.
Because they can't afford it, these students have no long distance phone privileges from their room. To satisfy the phone company, we assign these people to the same number room on each floor.
“It just happens that many of the students in HEP are black,” Grimm said.
Matthews sees few black students involved in campus organisations and activities.
"One of the main drawbacks to involvement in established Greek organizations and other clubs is that of expense.
“You’ve got to have money to belong to these groups. Many blacks are here on scholarships and don't have a lot of money to spend.”
In other white dominated groups, blacks feel intimidated or unnecessary to the group.
"In events like Carni Gras, the head chairman is white and will choose people he likes and knows, and most likely they won’t be black. Black groups do participate in Carni
Gras, but they’re not working on the executive committees," Matthews
said.
“Look at other organizations and honoraries,” Matthews said. “In each one you can count the black members on one hand.”
Hol Plate In Dorm Ruled Legal By Ma jor Disciplinary Judge
1 ast week at a major disciplinary hearing the judge ruled that possession of a hot plate in the dorms was notiliegal.
Currently the Student Personnel Office has sent out a memo to all of UM’s departments requesting
them to recommend revisions of the student rights and responsibilities book whichaffectlheir department.
The Student Personnel Office plans to act on these recommendations by the end of March.
with the three justices abstaining but “as long as three of the five justices are physically present, the decision is valid."
Gardner disagrees claiming the constitution states if there exists any possible conflict of interest, the justices involved .shall abstain from any proceedings, thus they would not be able toeven hear thecase.
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The student who gathered the signatures for CSR, Scott Hirschbein, says Gardner also has a conflict of interest.
“Gardner wants the money for his closed circuit television system and he is using every possible way to prevent a vote by the students," Hirschbein said.
Meanwhile, Parson* propnies the money be used for the construction of
at least three outdoor four-wall hand-ball-paddleball courts.
“All I want Is a chance to hav* the students vote on the mattar,” Parsons said.
But Gardner says If the court fails to reconsider and doe* not take “a
proper vote,” the referendum will not
be placed on the Spring ballot.
“As in the past, if the court justices as a whole want to voluntarily respond and take a new vote, that'il be fine, but it seems to me this will set a precedent for any USBG president who does not like the decision to demand another vote,” Bell said.
City Commission Denies Hour Curfew Extension
By STEVE OS1NSKI
Of Tht Hurricane Staff
The Gardner-Harprr Commission held an open meeting Wednesday night to discuss the new noise ordinance.
Although there was no final decision made to regard lo the ordinance,
several suggestions were offered.
Among these were the possible installation of decibel meters in po-
Pay Concerts Still Under Consideration
By ELENA SELEZ
Of Tht Hurricane Staff
UM’s Legal Counsel is currently investigating the consequences of a proposal which would initiate a policy of charging admission to SEC concerts for non-students and others who have not paid the student activity fee.
Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs William B. Sheeder said the main obstacle is that UM may be forced to pay $4.000 in Florida state sales tax as a result.
Besides the added income from the charged admissions, he said the $6 portion of the student activity fee allocated to the concert series would also be subject to the tax.
Sheeder said this would cost UM “approximately $4,000" in addition to the 4 per cent tax on all paid admissions for each concert.
“We’ve researched this with the slate sales lax people, and it’s confirmed," Sheeder said. “Once we start charging admissions, (he full amount of the student activity fee would be
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UM Tuition, Fee Costs Below Average
BySTEVEMORETII
Of Tht Hurricant Staff
The average UM student dished out $2645 this year for tuition and fees, but for another $20, the student could have attended Georgetown or Notre Dame. And for $150 more a year, the student could have attended Duke or New YorkUniversity
A compilation of the tuition and fee costs of 164 northeastern universities and colleges by Assistant Vice-President for Financial Affairs William McLaughlin said the average cost for tuition and fees of the schools surveyed was $2931, $286 above UM’s ’74-'75 tuition and fees cost. UM ranked as I he 127th most expensive institution on the list.
Bennington University had the highest tuition and fees cost, at $4175. Sarah Lawrence was second, $3690. and Yale third. $3650 Harvard's tuition and fees amounted to $3400. Hofstra's $3088. The two lowest universities on the list were Rice and Springfield with tuition and fees amounting to $2175and $2265 respectively.
Although these figures are for 1974. and many schools
have announced tuition hikes, the ratings should remain approximately the same. McLaughlin “conservatively” estimates that next year’s average tuition and fees of the
universities he surveyed will be $3114, still higher than UM’s $3045.
McLaughlin said most of the private colleges and universities are concentrated In the northeast. “It's the home of higher private institutions, and many of these schools
have a reputation of excellence along with higher tuition.”
Director of Admissions George Giampetro said, though, it is more than just academic excellence, students attending such universities are "paying for the prestige."
However, a recent story in the Miami Herald said all Florida universities, including UM are low in national rankings and "not a single Florida university has been tapped for membership by the Association of American Universities, a 46 member group organized by a Harvard president in 1900.”
Gianpetro disagrees with such criticism. “We have the See page 2, col. 1
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lice cars so the police could determine if the music was really too loud.
The Commission elected to keep their weekend extension curfew alive and will bring It up to the City Commission once again.
The Coral Gables City Commission voted unanimously on Tueadav against a proposal made by USBG'* Gardner-Harper Commission lo extend the city's curfew hours from 11 p.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday nights.
In 1967 a bill was passed by tha
City Commission making it illegal to cause any loud or unusual noises in Coral Gables.
Dorn Caristi. Executive Secretary for UM Community Relations, and the Gardner-Harprr Commission said. “The 1967 ordinance was hazy and
unexpliclt.”
On February 12 of this year the Gardner-Harper Commission approved a proposal to update the old ordinance, thus clarifying it, as well as exiending week-end noise curfew hours from 11 p.m. to midnight.
The extended curfew proposal waa originally suggested by Coral Gables Mayor Robert Knight, a member of the Gardner-Harper Commission.
“The mere fart that at ont moment the proposal waa suggested, and the next that it waa unanimously defeated shows that the City Commission did not take It, nor the Gardner-Harper Commission too seriously,” Caristi said.
The Noise Ordinance had been
coming for a long time, since many complaints by Coral Gabies residents were made about the noise caused by
the fraternity Rush parties as well as
Carni Gras.
The complaints were directed to Mayor Knight, UM President Dr. Henry King Stanford, and the Coral Gables Police Department.
Last December the Gardner-Harper Commission tried to have the IFC (Inter-fraternity Council) telephone number publicized, and have all citizens' complaints referred to them first.
Despite approval from Dr. Stanford, little has bean done in getting this number publicized.
“The Noise Ordinance by the City Commission is discriminatory In that It only pertains to amplified music.” Caristi said.
“It makes no mention of disturbances caused by barking dogs, bonking horns, loud yelling, and other things like that. The ordinance is aimed solely at UM and the fraternities," Caristi added.
USBG President Ken Gardner said. "We went to Tuesday’s commission meeting in the hopes of extending the week-end curfew by only one hour. We feel that this was a fair and eqoi-table request. TV* asked for a one hour extensloa which la nothing absurd."
“I personally don’t think that thev had everybody’! best interests in mind as they claimed when they vetoed It.”
Mayor Knight waa unable to be reathi)1 lor any further comments.