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I SUC Does Survey On Aid Awards
By CYNIHIA I. CHILFA
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Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) is presently conducting a survey of students on financial aid in order to ascertain some of the common problems plaguing these students.
The surveys are available during the noon hour at the USBG table in the Student Union Broezewav and in the USBG Office, room S240 of the Student Union.
"We feel that if students have common complaints and thi ' inan-cial Aid Office is made aware of these problems, then situations like the one that exists this year can he avoided." USBG President Allan Lubel said.
"The emphasis of the survey will be to discover trends or patterns of complaints to find out if there is an inherent weakness in the financial aid system or in the students' methods of filing." Peter I ampone. USBG secretary of University Affairs said
Presently. Financial Aid, Student Affairs and the Registrar's Offices are attempting to register those students who had difficulties with their financial aid awards.
"We can't help students who tail to turn in their applications on time and therefore have problems." Lubel said. "But we can help those who do everything right and still do not get registered on time. We urge everyone on Financial Aid to fill out the questionnaire in order to take some of the trauma out of filing for financial aid."
"By using some of the newer forms of voting systems, we can eliminate the problems of foul-ups, students voting twice and we can have a generally better managed election with less expense to the student body," Bayless said
The punch-card type voting system will be employed, keeping elections at pace with Dade Couty. who is the supplier of the machines.
"The IBM punch cards lessen the chance of errors and provide quicker results. Instead of four or five hours, it will only take three," Bav-less said.
The cards will be run through a computer three times to insure ac-_
curacy.
"By providing students with a more up to date election process. I feel in the long run we're providing beneficial experience." Bay less said
The election, in which 28 students are competing for 10 positions, will lake place Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 31 and Nov. i in the Student Union Breezeway.
Candidates must attend two, possibly three mandatory election meetings. They will be held in room
Behav iorists Exam ine Problem Children
How can parents cope with a kid who’s got the jump on them—the thoroughgoing brat who knows just the right obnoxious conduct to grind dow'n their resistance so they give him what he wants?
He may throw tantrums in the supermarket aisle, pull his sister's hair, use four-letter words that would make a stevedore blush, refuse to talk to adults, subsititute shrieking for language and pick up and hurl objects—preferably breakable.
These may be extreme manifestations, not all are as outrageous, but they do exist.
Drs Richard Toister and Lee Worley at UM's Mailman Center for Child Development, are coordinating a promising method of dealing with these problems. It’s called "Behavior Management.”
The program requires a high degree of parental cooperation—a stipulation which, the doctors say, most parents are willing to accept in order to learn more positive ways of interacting with the child and reducing aggravation.
Behavior Management is a two-year-old pilot project woven into the curriculum of the UM medical school by Toister. who is an associate professor of pediatrics and psychology, and Worley, who is an associate professor of pediat-
Family participation is strictly limited to parents whose children have been evaluated and referred by the Mailman Center More than 100 families have gone through the program and in 70 to 75 per cent of the cases involved, it has proved successful. The ages of the children have ranged from two to 12, with the emphasis on the two to eight year olds.
Behavior Management basically involves getting the parents of these children to determine exactly what it is they want the child to do or not to do in given situations, then devises a plan acceptable to the child and the family.
"From infancy on, all of us adopt the approaches that get us what we want," Toister said. "If we learn that 'Please' will get us a cookie and 'Thanks' a smile and a pat on the head, we'll use that approach.
“On the other hand, if we find that lying on the floor and kicking and screaming will get us the cookie, and maybe after the hullabaloo has died down a pat and an apology from the parent for losing his or her temper, we'll use that approach.”
Toister and Worley will not give general examples of behavioral problems and their solutions Each case is unique they say, involving a specific child and specific parents and each must be evaluated in this context.
"The major purpose of the program is to help parents acquire skills in handling developmental behavior problems so as to foster more positive growth in their child and in themselves," explains a letter addressed to prospective participants. "After assessment, approximately 10 to 12 visits to the home will be arranged by the technician, usually on a weekly basis.”
Each technician handles eight to 10 cases, usually over periods averaging three months. The home visits last about an hour. The technicians observe the child/parent relationships and may make suggestions to both
The parents keep logs, recording the incidence of the child's "misbehavior” and other data The log serves as a guide, indicating the success of a program by the decreasing number of “incidents."
In helping a family implement a behavioral plan, the technician observes the home environment. and initially helps by prompting appropriate responses in actual situations.
Toister and Worley have considerable evidence to indicate that the Behavior Management approach is becoming increasingly accepted. The course is offered as an elective to UM senior medical students and four to five students a year take the course.
STA Opens In Ashe
By VERNETTA K. GARVIN
Hurricana St«»# Writar
The Southeast Travel Agency (STA) has opened a branch on the fi>-st floor of the Ashe Administration Building in order to serve the travel needs of the UM community.
The STA accomodates travel needs such as air and rail tickets, automobiles, hotel and motel reservations, cruises and group travel, including all vacation needs
"Southeast was the highest bid-
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der for UM's contract. Fourteen other agencies including the major airlines bid to rent the space to house their facilities.” Assistant Business Manager John Galbraith said.
The primary reason for bringing the travel agency to the campus was that the faculty and students
wanted a full line travel agency which the airlines couldn't provide by law, Galbraith said
"Very definitely it is an asset, the University community no longer has to go off-campus to make travel arrangements. Some students during the holiday seasons travel as far as the Caribbean," Galbraith said.
“The University wanted to be able to furnish the students, faculty and the patronage with convenience to coincide with the great degree of travel," Manager and Travel Consultant to the UM Branch Ernie Stubbs said
"A multi-lingual staff that speaks Russian. Dutch, German, Spanish and English are provided along with free services of the travel agency," Stubbs said.
Office hours for arranging travel and making reservations are 8:30 a m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through F'riday.
“The business influx has been good since our Sept. 1 commencement," Stubbs said.
“I think it is very important that the faculty, students and University community be accommodated with travel conveniences such as airline travel, hotel reservations or anything concerning travel needs',’ UM President Henry King Stanford said
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Soul vs. Disco
To most of you, this looks like just another typical Disco Night at the Rathskeller. Yes, it is Disco Night and it’s at the
Rat, but it’s not typical. A somewhat bitter rivalry between soul lovers and disco lovers has grown to a point where the discoers leave the dance floor whenever a soul tune comes on and soulers leave when disco comes on. What's the answer? Who knows, but this week, our roving photographer went to find out the problems and Rat— goers comments are on page two.
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In the process of turning to a zero based budget, the University has another problem facing it— that being a .300 to 400 drop in enrollment producing a revenue shortfall estimated between $1.2 million and $2.2 million.
The exact shortfall has not been determined yet and the problems surrounding it were discussed at the last Board of Trustees meeting.
The shortfall would be made up, according to Provost Dr. Clyde J.
Wingfield by budget cuts and additional fundraising However, the areas of cutbacks have not been determined.
The revenue shortfall raises serious questions as to the direction of the University in the upcoming years. The University is already operating three per cent below last year's budget and it was hoped that the tuition hike last year would serve as a financial cushion for UM.
The $200 tuition hike was designed to raise $2.4 million in new monies, UM President Henry King Stanford had said. He noted that through a series of cost savings programs. a total of $2.22 miillion would be saved
A cushion of $550,000 was to be established and used if needed.Stanford said.
The essential question is how the University will function if it cannot increase revenues from tuition increases.
Depending on the final shortfall, the new monies generated are appproximately negated by an ene-
Bayless Appointed Elections Chairman
By JEFF BRLSLOW
Hurricane Staff Writar
Undergraduate Student Bnttv Government (USBG) President Allan Lubel has appointed Richard Bayless as the new Election Commission chairman for the fall and spring student government elections.
Bayless, junior marketing major, was ratified for the position by acclamation at a recent USBG Senate meeting.
S228 (the Flamingo Ballroom) of the Student Union, The first will take place tomors&ww at 8 p.m. The second will take place on Oct. 19, with a possible third on Oct. 24.
The election commissioners who will be assisting Bayless are Gema Pinon. Arlene Silver and recently ratified Sue-Ann Karger.
All students must have a valid UM ID to be eligible to vote.
“Those voting for off-campus
precincts will need a second form of identification as well, something showing thesr zip code," Bavless said
According to Bayless, acceptable zip code proofs include voter's registration card, a credit card and the green UM registration receipt
“Write-in ballots will be provided at the polling place." Bayless said.
Bayless feels the lightest voting periods will be between 9 and 10:30
a m on Monday, and 2 and 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Election results will be announced at the Rat at approximately 9 p.m.. after the second day of voting. If a run-off election is necessary. it w ill be held on Nov. 9.
To those running, the rules and regulations laid down by the commission will be strictly enforced Good luck and let's have a good election,' Bayiess sakl.
rollment drop.
The Administration is reluctant to blame the drop on the tuition hike and its equally as plausible that our high attrition rate is getting higher.
A move is underway to enrich the academics on campus. The effort, spearheaded by Provost Windfield and generally supported throughout the adminsitration will become more difficult as funds get shorter.
The University has let itself gel into a cycle it must find a way out of, that being that it is using funds from tuition increases to support itself against inflation and new costs. .Dnce the tuition is increased, the University loses students and must again increase tutiton to make up deficits.
The University is hoping a zero based budgeting program instituted by Executive Vice President John Green and the Trustees can save monies and that the Mid-Century fundraising campaign can serve as ways to maintain budgets.
There are ideas as to ways to reduce University costs through energy savings programs, an increase in faculty teaching loads, and other cutbacks.
As the upcoming budget is put into some semblance and figures from this semester's incomes are analyzed and examined, the problem still is raising money for next year's budget and ending a cycle that can only get the University in deeper problems, that is, raising tu-tition yearly to meet its needs.
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