Miami Hurricane, October 04, 1977

              Disco Night At Rat Lacks Soul; According To RAB And Patrons
By SARI SHAPIRO
Humean« »«•« Writer _
What type of music should be played on disco night at the Rat?
The answer to this question may cost Donald Cohen, disco night disc jockey his job.
Some students have complained that Cohen does not play enough soul music.
“Throughout the year I have tried to play 50 per cent soul and 50 per cent disco, and on Wednesday night I found out that that wasn’t enough,” he said.
The Rathskellar Advisory Board (RAB) brought the matter up at the meeting Wednesday night. “We decided to give him a few weeks to improve himself”, Rat Manager Greg Kramer said.
Cohen first learned that his job was on the line at work Wednesday when a RAB member informed him that he almost lost his job that night.
“We have already been in contact with Dan Best (Mr. Majestic) about taking his old job back," Kramer said.
Dan Best is a graduate of UM, and he is the ex-Rat disc jockey.
Joe Pineda and Scott Britain, both on RAB, feel that "the job should be held by a current student.”
President Stanford said at the President’s breakfast on Friday that "students should first be given the opportunity to fill jobs on campus.”
“Last year, the crowds didn't start coming until 11 p.m.; this year, they are coming at 9:30 p.m.," Cohen said.
Kramer argued that September is the busiest month of the year, but, according to others, “the Wednesday night Rat crowd last year at this time was not as large as it is this year." Some have suggested that one night be designated as soul night and the other as disco night.
"Fifty per cent of the songs I play are requests made by students. The rest are off the disco and soul charts", Cohen said.
"I try to please everyone", Cohen said. When he told this to Bob Grabowski, from RAB, Grabowski’s reply to Cohen was, "We don't care about the crowds, we just want you to play more soul."
"There is more to firing Cohen than just him not playing enough soul," said one RAB member.
According to some, people have been complaining about him since he took over Wednesday nights from Mr. Majestic last year.
When Mr. Majestic came back to the Rat last year to play for a week, Cohen wrote down every song in the exact order that Mr. Majestic played them. The following week, Cohen played the same songs in the same order. "People still complained that I wasn't playing the right music,” Cohen said.
Dancers Enjoy Disco Music
...although D.J. may be fired for an excess thereof

Law School Builds New Facility
By MARGO KAMIN
Hurricane Staff Writer
The UM Law School is presently in the process of expanding to include a three story classroom and office building which will fill the fourth corner of the law school quadrangle.
Final plans for the building were set in motion during the past month with ground breaking cermonies at the commencement of construction.
The new, three-story facility, which is being built at an estimated cost of $500,000, will house the distribution and printing centers on the ground level. 11 offices and one large seminar room on the second floor and a 150-seat lecture room on the top floor.
“We have the funds from several sources," said Dean of the Law School. Soia Mentschikoff.
Expected completion date of the
new building is Jan. 8, 1978, and it should be in full operation by Feb. 1. 1978, the date spring semster begins for law school students that year.
Mentschikoff said that the delayed start on the building was due to conflicts with Coral Gables and the University over building permits and ordinances.
“A delay in completion would cause probiems," Mentschihoff said.
“We would have full faculty strength and not enough classrooms.”
The construction contract also calls for the demolition of the old student lounge once the new building is completed.
Tentative plans include a courtyard complete with fountains, benches and tropical foliage to beautify the la w school quadrangle.
“For these plans I am rattling a tin cup." Mentschikoff said.
By MARY RE1L
editor
While the final enrollment figures are not yet available. UM President Henry King Stanford has indicated that the total enrollment may have dropped by as much as 3.5 per cent. Stanford made the announcement at the UM Board of Trustees meeting held last Wednesday in the Faculty Club.
Final enrollment figures are expected to be rnat^e qvailal)le sometime this week accbrding to Data Base Administrator and Associate Registrar Sidney Weisburd.
"The 3.5 per cent figure is only valuable in that it gives us a head count of students who were expected to be enrolled this semester and have not enrolled to date,” Stanford said. "What’s more important to note in terms of what the financial impact of the drop will be on the University is the number of credit hours involved in the decline.”
As soon as the exact enrollment figures are known and the financial impact on the University can be assessed, plans to make up the difference in monetary income will be made through such avenues as budget cutbacks and increased revenue raising efforts, according to Provost Clyde Wingfield.
Stanford also noted that while the enrollment of the freshman class was according to expectations, the number of returning students was on the decline. It is estimated that
Nine Professors Added Law Faculty
Nine professors have joined the UM School of Law faculty this fall.
John H. Moore, professor and associate director of the Law and Economics Center, comes to UM from the University of Virginia where he served as associate director and acting director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy and as president of the Thomas Jefferson Center Foundation.
Associate Professor, Bernard H. Ox man. served recently as assistant legal adviser for oceans, environment and scientific affairs In the State Department.
He has been a U.S. Representative Hnd deputy chief of delegation to the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea and vice chairman of the National Security Council Inter-Agency Task Force on Law of the Sea He is teaching in the international law area.
Associate Professor Jofrom Jay Osborn comes to UM graduate work at Yale Law School. A 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School. Osborn is author of the novel, The
Hurricane
Apologises
The Hurricane wishes to apologize for a quote in last Friday’s issue which was mistakenly attributed to Dean of Students Bill Sheed-er.
The quote which read, “It seems to me that Bonnert’s obsession with liablility is being taken to a point of inhibiting student services . should have been attributed to Undergraduate Student Body Government President Allan Lubel.
paper Chase, describing the life of a first year student at Harvard Law School. As a successful motion picture, it has been subsequently shown on national television and on the college theater circuit. His second novel, The Only Thing I’ve Done Wrong, was published this year. He is teaching contract law.
Assistant Professor Patrick O. Gudridge was most reccntlv law clerk for the Hen Mathew d. Tob-riner of the California Supreme
Court. A 1976 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he was editor and developments editor of The Harvard Law Review. His area of specialization is organization of American States, from 1962 until July of this year. An internationa-ly-known scholar, he taught international law at the University of Havana, Inter-American University of Villanueva and held Ford and Harvard Lectureships David L. Ladd, visiting professor,
comes from the Dayton, Ohio, firm of Biebel, French and Bu. An expert in patent law, he was the United States Commissioner of Patents from 1961 to 1963 and has been an adjunct member of UM and Ohio State law faculties. He is teaching in the patent, trademark, copyright area and evidence.
Benton L. Becker, visiting professor, was a general partner in the firm of Cramer, Haber and Becker in Washington, DC, before cominR
here. He has served as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice and as assistant U.S. attorney. He teaches civil procedure.
Thomas C. Heller, visiting professor, comes from the University of Wisconsin Law School. A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, his areas of interest are taxation, economics and Latin America. He teaches in the area of taxation and Latin American problems.
the figure may be as high as 300 students.
"The largest« attrition was in terms of juniors and seniors who failed to return this fall. The freshman and sophomore classes, as well as transfer students were enrolled according to our predictions,” Stanford said.
The exact reason for the declinb in returning juniors and seniors will not be known until Research can be completed. However, the Administration feels that the $200 tuition increase may have played a part in students’ decisions not to return to UM this fall.
"We don't know at. this point whether the majority of students decided to not return to UM at the last minute due to personal problems or our present system of predicting what the enrollment will be is a faulty one," Stanford said.
The attrition rate of freshmen who fail to return for their sophomore year, which has always plagued the University in the past, is expected to be in accordance with predictions.
UM's decline in enrollment is matched by an increase of about two and one-half per cent, from 11 million to 11.3 million, enrolled in colleges and universities on the national level, according to the latest Health, Education and Welfare statistics on national enrollment.
At the Trustees meeting Stanford also announced an increase in the SAT scores of entering UM freshmen. The scores, which were an average of 20 points higher than those of last year’s entering freshmen. accompany a decrease in the average SAT scores of entering freshmen on a national level.
“The University could easily have enrolled a larger freshman class this fall by lowering our admissions standards,” Stanford said. "However, at a time when the University is attempting to raise the quality of the student body, lowering our standards simply to be able to boast a higher admisssions rate would have been disastrous to our academic endeavors.”
“If the University had been using last year's standards of admission, we could possibly have enrolled up to 300 more freshmen this fall’’’ Stanford said.
Low Cost Tickets Offered To Loews Theatre Films
By JANE MARCUS
Astifttont News Editor
Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG). with the cooperation of George Mitchell, man ager of the Bookstore, and Sandy Cohen, secretary of Student Affairs, is sponsoring theater discount tickets for any Loews or Wometco movie theater.
The discount tickets will cost students only $2.50 instead of box office prices of $3.50.
The program was in effect last year. However, many students were unaware of Its existence.
"It is one of my main objectives' to make available and publicise to all students the existence of the theater discount tickets." Cohen said.
Mitchell has made it possible to purchase the tickets from the Bookstore, on the second floor at the business window. Here students (or the general public) may purchase as many tickets as desired.
The discount tickets can only be used within a period of one year
after the purchase date.
The Bookstore makes a 25 cent profit from the sale of the tickets.
“The money is used to cover the cost of bookkeeping and laying out the money to buy the tickets each month," said Cohen.
The discount tickets do-not apply to midnight movies at the Riviera because the box office price is only $1 and students would be Iwing money.
The theaters in the area at which students can receive a discount are the Westchester, Cutler Ridge, Riveria, 70th St. in North Miami Beach, . Dadeland and Miracle theaters.
Discount tickets may be used at all Loews and Wometco theaters even those in areas other than Coral Gables.
"I feel this service was not used to its potential last year because students were unaware that it existed. I want to publicize it as a student benefit,” Cohen said.
Cohen, Mitchell Arrange For Ticket Discount m,*m
... valid at all Loetes, W ometco theatres in l V area
Fall Semester Enrollment Drops 3.5°/o
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