Miami Hurricane, September 24, 1976

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W ilkie Honored
In commemoration of the international recognition he has brought to the University of Miami, Scotland’s David Wilkie was honored with “David Wilkie Appreciation Day” Wednesday at the pool. The Gold and Silver
Medalist at the Montreal Olympics was presented a plaque by UM President Dr: Henry King Stanford, right, thanking him for all he has done for the University.
By STEFAN BECHTEL
Hurricana Staff Wrifar
The results of a Sept 1 election, in which union representation was rejected by Physical Plant and maintenance employees, have been officially confirmed by the National l abor Relations Board (NI.RB).
The administration has been prohibited from beginning the improvements in employee conditions which they promised before and after the elections until the "Certification of Election Results" report was received from the NI.RB.
"We've already begun re-organizing our personnel since the report came in Sept. 15,” Personnel Director Dr. Carl Thornton said.
"We are starting an orientation program next week for the benefit of incoming employees, and we will soon be hiring three key people to serve the needs which have come to our attention."
"Very often employees become supervisors simply because they’ve been here a long time, or because they have a trade skill, and not because they have management ability," Assistant to the Vice President for Administration and Finance Dr. Richard Ruch said.
For this season, the University will be hiring a training specialist to structure and run training programs for supervisors, designed to instruct them in management skills.
’’ 'Supervisor' in this context means anybody who manages people." Dr. Thornton explained. "A Dean could be a supervisor, as well as someone in the Physical Plant.”
A wage and salary administrative specialist will also be added to the University management.
“Our job classification system is something that is badly in need of review," Dr. Thornton said.
There are more than 900 A0:t (employees paid hourly wages and overtime) job classifications at the University.
"The wage specialist will use a point »ystem to determine how valuable each position is. At the present time, some employees are paid too little, some too much, and some
"Our job classification system is something that is badly in need of review."
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the right amount, based on the type of work they perform,” Dr. Thornton said.
The third new administrator will be an employment specialist whose purpose will be to develop testing methods for a more equitable hiring
system.
"We want to correctly match people's skills with the jobs they do. The old interview system just isn't adequate." Dr. Thornton said
"What we are trying to do, in general, is to improve our human resources at the University."
Dr. Thornton said that a "performance appraisal system" is being
designed to test the validity of the methods that will be used
“It's a system to check the system — our hiring methods, our supervisor training program, our re-organization of job classifications, everything," he said.
“We're also planning to meet with the Employee Senate and all the employees in small groups to find out what they want, how they feel, what their problems are."
Dr. Thornton will present a de-j tailed timetable of the other pro-' posed improvements at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees in late October.
U M Reorganizes Department Staff
By AI.AN MARCUS
Editor
Structuring of the new Administration and Finance division.of the University has been completed according to its Executive Vice President Dr. John Green
Students Evaluate Faculty Members
By ELENA SE1.EZ
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The process of class selection whereby students try to decide which professors will be “right" for them is usually a major concern at the beginning of each semester, but law students were given somewhat of an assist last week at their registration when copies of the first annual "Course and Faculty Critique"
were distributed.
Coordinated by Student Bar Association President Jack Sobel. the 90-page booklet contains student opinions about 75 different classes and their instructors.
"One of the planks in my platform when I ran for president was that the students should be able to evaluate the courses and the faculty
themselves," Sobel, a third-year
Center Seeks \
For Cancer Information
By CHANDRA KEARSE
Hurricane Staff Wriftr
Students can gain experience and knowledge from working at the UM Cancer Information Service according to communication coordinator Beth Strunk.
The Cancer Service is funded by the National Cancer Institution and is affiliated with the Comprehensive Cancer Center for the State of Florida at UM’s School of Medicine.
Seventeen similar service centers were started a year ago. The other cancer centers are set up throughout the country. Some haven’t established an answering service, but they do have up-to-date information available.
The first to start its pilot project was the UM Cancer Information Service.
The program was initially available only to Dade County, but now enscopes all of Florida.
The objectives of the project are:
•	To provide a communications office to which health professionals and other individuals can turn for information.
•	To inform the public of safety procedures that will minimize chances of developing cancer, and to maximize the probability of recovering if cancer does develop.
•	To inform health professionals and the public of community resources and available services in their area for cancer patients and their families.
•	To reach professionals who are caring for cancer patients with up-to-date knowledge on detection, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and continuing care and prevention of cancer.
The Cancer Information Service depends on volunteers for project continuance.
Volunteers are asked to work one day each week for a period of four hours.
There are no set qualifications or age limit, but a mature mind and a willingness to work, said Strunk
Students who are in the field of medicine, psychology, or public relations have an opportunity to relate to patientif and non-patients, she said.
The volunteers attend periodical
seminars that provide them with current cancer information in an informal setting with flexible working hours.
There are ten volunteers working at the Cancer Information Service and half are UM students.
Health Educator, Judy Stein said that the volunteers are enthusiastic about their work and says she needs ten more volunteers.
Students that want to volunteer can call 547-6920.
law student, said. "The evaluation called for making a distinction between the material and the merits of the book used in the class and the teacher's style and effectiveness.”
The actual work began back in March. Sobel said, when his brother Stuart and F.van Sarzin, both second-year law students, drafted a questionnaire.
"! went ahead and hassled various student organizations for funding," he said “We got permission from the dean of the I.aw School to interrupt classes for 10 or 15 minutes and administer the questionnaires."
Sobel said most of the money for the 1,200 printed copies, costing $2,000, came from the Graduate and Law activity fee with "$500 or so” coming from the SBA.
The documents were distributed free to students and teachers because Sobel said it would have been "double taxation" to charge students for them.
He said the critique had two purposes. the first of which was to aid law students in deciding what classes to take.
"It gave them something to go by other than rumor." he said. "It tells
them what materials will be used in
class.
"The second purpose was to actually help the teachers see what areas they’re weak in. Some of them know the material, but they tend to intimidate their students."
Sobel said he hopes students and teachers take the critique "seriously" because the three of them spent six months working on it. In each class, students were asked to respond on a numerical scale in rating both the material and instruction. F:ach question was concentrated on a specific area.
"The answers were collected, keypunched and run through the computer. The computer printout consisted of volumes and volumes of data,” he said.
"We then constructed a model to convert the answers into English since we couldn’t just print numbers."
Because it was the first time to his knowledge that there was a student evaluation of the I.aw School, Sobel said every attempt was made for the critique to be "credible."
"None of the teachers was really crushed in it. We tried to write it right down the middle with no edi-
torializing and no joking around." he said.
"I've been in the law School three years, and I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
He said comic strips from Amicus Curiae, a George Washington University publication, were used to “spruce up the format, making it funny, but at the same time not detracting from its credibility."
Although each faculty member was asked to publish a short statement of his or her course and aims in teaching it, Sobel said he was disappointed that no one chose to do so.
Another "weakness," according to him, was that all the questions could not be "tailor-made" to each class.
Nonetheless, he said the overall reaction has been favorable
“Everyone loves it; even the teachers respect it as a document. We accomplished what we wanted to, le said
Because he feels it is a valuable service, Sobel expects to make arrangements for the collection of data during this semester and next and for the assembling of another critique next summer.
Dr. Green was named to his post when the Hoard of Trustees established two positions to take some of the workload off President Henry King Stanford
The other ptMuiittr ximai and executive vice pee«, nt for academic affairs was filled by Dr. Clyde Wingfield
Along with the organization of
the office, Assistant in the Executive Vice President Dr. Richard Ruch said the office was working on job descriptions that would outline responsibilities and how each administrator sees their own functions
Ruch said that this will reveal "gaps and duplications" making sure that all the responsibilities of the office are met.
Dr. Green said he is very pleased with the reorganization and that “we are fortunate to have men of such quality in the office."
Here is a capsule list of the organization and a chart depicting the structure of the office with no regards to hierarchial levels.
• Dr. Richard Ruch is the assistant to the executive vice president and his main functions deal with personnel. faculty, student and employ-
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JDL Stages Yom Kippur Demonstration
By DEBBIE ROVIN
Humean* Staff Writer
The Jewish Defense League (JDL) staged between-classes demonstrations this week in protest of the University's policy of holding classes on Yom Kippur. the most important day on the Jewish calendar
"The reason the demonstration is being held is to show the University administrators that Jewish students do not want to miss classes and therefore should not be forced to on Yom Kippur," JDL Chairperson Jeane Babrove said Wednesday.
In April, 1975 the Faculty Senate adopted a statement that students and employees would not be handicapped for observing holidays of their religious belief.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Sid Besvinick said that the policy statement “noted that students would be excused from classes and would be permitted to make up the work in a reasonable amount of time without penalty."
Jewish students, clothed in the traditional white Yom Kippur gowns, sounded the shofar, or ram's horn, to call for the institution of a fall recess which would coincide with the Jewish High Holy Days *s the winter recess coincides with the Christian holidays.
Resident Henry King Stanford defended the present school calendar	_____________
"The University is a secular institution, and we do not officially embrace any religion," Stanford said. "The University’s policy is to reflect the University's awareness and sensitivity to religious holidays. This means that for our students our attendance policy is pretty liberal. Students may elect to go to class or not."
In a letter to Dr. Stanford, USBG Vice President Steve Osinski wrote, “There have been times when professors have violated this policy, thus causing the students who are unable to attend to fall behind in their work.
"I feel that out of respect for the Jewish student body on campus all classes should be canceled on their most religious and solemn holiday of the vear."
Dr Stanford said past University policy ot allowing students to make up missed work on the holy day would be enforced.
“Any person in violation of this issue should be reported to dean of the school or college; at that point the dean, in all likelihood, will confer with the professor and seek to have the policy enforced," Dr. Stanford said.
"Our policy is to be completely tolerant of anyone who wishes to observe a religious holiday, but the University doesn't officially take It intu«c^unt"
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