Miami Hurricane, January 17, 1947

              Seniors to Gel Caps & Gowns
Seniors who have ordered their caps and gowns for January commencement may get them in Building 94, Main Campus on Thursday and Friday, Jan 23 and 24. No identification is necessary as ■ list of eligible seniors will be there.
Invitations for commencement may be obtained by seniors any time next week in the same building. Those people who fail to call for their invitations by Jan 25 are warned that extra invitations will be sold at that time to students desiring additional copies.
Caps and gowns will be the official dress for both commencement and baccalaureate, and degrees will not be granted to students not appearing in them. A mimeographed sheet of instructions for graduating seniors will be placed in every cap and gown box.
"Monkey' Signed By Hurricane
Mire el Mono! >
The biggest thing that has hit this campus since the Hurricane struck in ’26 . . . someone who sees all, knows all, hears all, and tells everything . . . hot-shot columnist for the Jungle Daily News ... he looks sweet and innocent—but . . .
All this is just a little of the action-packed historyof "THE MONKEY” who, after months of negotiations with the Hurricane editors, finally came to terms and signed a contract to do a column The salary that “THE MONKEY" will receive was undisclosed but it was reported to be “fabulous.”
Watch for him in the Feb. 6 issue of the Hurricane.
CCC IIIKIVK IK KXTKIMIKIIs MVK TO A WOIKTIIY lAUSK
Have you ever seen cancer ridden bodies, tiny tots, loo young to have ever known anything other than the («tin that is wracking their bodies? Have you ever seen news photos of veterans and their families, spending nights on park benched because they couldn’t find a place to stay ? Have you ever seen tubercular crippled adults, and polio-afflicted children ? You bet you have. You’ve seen these things and many others, all of them turning your stomach ind making you ask yourself what kind of a world this is in which we live. Yet when you’re given a chance to rectify some of this, to alleviate a little of that untold suffering, it appears that you turn your back on it all.
I guess you know what I’m talking about by now. For the entire week just past there has been a drive going on. A drive to collect money for five worthy causes, all of them combined under the title of “Campus Charily Chest." This drive has been a miserable failure. The goal of $2,500 hasn't been approached and what's more, unless something is done about it, it never will be. The drive has been extended for three more days, but they can keep collection booths, and put up posters, and have solicitors going the rounds from now until doomsday without swelling the Charity Chest one mite if each and every student on this cuntpus doesn’t stop ami ask himself:
“Have I contributed yet? Have 1 given my share of that $2500?’” When he, or she, can answer yes, individually, and as a group, then and only then, will the drive be the success it should be.
Go on.......Ask yourself.
—Hal Mourns
New South Wing Classrooms To Be Read) By February
The South Wing will be ready for clases by Feb. is the good word from Dan Phillips, construction engineer for the University.
Students entering South Wing hall will find class rooms complete in all details, except for a few minor omissions, such as the absence of sun shades and building ornaments. However, there will be no gaping holes in the ceilings, denoting lighting still to be installed, or half completed jaint jobs.
Mr Phillips explained that the reason for these failings in the North Wing was lack of essential materials. 'We were held back constantly, and fighting for materials up until the last minute," he said. “This time, however, we have everything right on hand and we’ll be ready on Feb. 1. We’U guarantee that.”
When questioned about further
projects, Mr. Phillips said that at present, “builders are treading water. Other projects are contemplated immediately upon completion of the lecture hall, but I am not at liberty to say when they will be at this time. What I can tell you is that the center section of the lecture hall, now being worked on in conjunction with the South Wing, will be finished on March t.”
I.1HHAK\ OPEN 1 NIC.HT FOR FINAL EXAM STUDY
To accomodate students who wish to study for final exams in the University library, the reserve bouk room, building 1M, will be open ONE night, Friday, Jan 24 from 6:3« to 9:3«, Mr. William G llarklns, librarian announced
Franklin Propose War Memorial P
Freedom of Press Becomes Theme Al News Confab
"Freedom of the Press” became the theme of the Florida Inter-Collegiate Press association’s winter conference at the University of Florida last vdrek, when representatives of six Florida colleges passed resolutions opposing the censorship of student publications and «11 groups creating racial, religious and color prejudices
Over 50 delegates, representing student publications of the Florida State College for Women, Stetson, St. Petersburg Junior College, and the Universities of Tampa, Florida, and Miami moved to invite negro schools tlito the association. A committee was appointed to investigate the details concerning invitation of negro delegates from Florida A. & M. to the next convention, which will be held in April.
The association went on record as opposing all intolerant organizations—“the Ku Klux Klan and Colombians in particular.”
Guest speakers at the sessions included: Mr. William Pepper, editor of the Gainesville Sun, who stressed freedom of the press; and Dr. Rembert W. Patrick, author of Florida Under Five Flags, who «poke upon the subject, “What Are Books Made of?”
Attending the conference from the University of Miami were: Vernon Cordry, faculty adviser; Irene Erickson, Ibis managing editor: Marvin Green, Hurricane managing editor; and David J. Kras-low, Hurricane sports editor.
Recommending that the sity establish a memorial to former students who were failed fa the armed forces, Charlie Franklin, president of the senate and student body, has submitted a letter addressed to President Bowman F. Ashe and all U-M students outlining his proposal.
Mr. Franklin suggests that the “new library or student union building—when built—would be appropriate for this purpose “ Plaques bearing the names of all students who made the “supreme sacrifice” together with pertinent information would be placed in the memorial building In addition the letter proposes that “a University of Miami World War II Memorial fund tk established” to assist children of students killed in service in obtaining an education at this school when they reach college age.
Let Us Not Forget Them
Honoring those who died, the senate leader expressed the belief that “we should do something to perpetuate their memory at the University they all had faith in. Many of them attended the U-M when it was small and weak; each contributed to its growth and development, and each was Miami’s ambassador of good will . .
“Their share in achieving victory and peace . . was far greater than any of us who returned contributed to the cause .	. Let us not forget
them; their memory should instead be an inspiration to all in the future.”
$5,000 Fund in 15 Years
The scholarship fund could be obtained by setting aside $150 or (Continued on Page 8)
San Sab Preserves Quiet With Male Visiting Rules
In an effort “to preserve a quiet, dignified atmosphere for residents of San Sebastian hall,” the following regulations made by the administration have been announced by Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women.
1.	All men visitors coming to San Sebastian alone must report to the desk upon arrival and make known their request, date, or otherwise.
2.	No men may call at San Sebastian before 1 p.m., except on Saturday or Sunday when they may call at 10 atn.
3.	No men may play cards in the card room unless girls are members of the game.
4.	All men students are asked to use the outside restaurant entrance.
In accordance with the above Sunday, Jan. 12, directors of women’s residence issued the follow-regulations which become effective ing procedure for men visiting San Sebastian dormitory.
1.	Upon arriving at San Sebastian, each visiting man is to go immediately to the desk, sign his name and the name of the girl whom he wishes to see.
2.	If the girl wanted is not in the lounge or on the loggia, the desk will assist in locating her.
MARY B. MEKRTIT
3.	If the girl is in the lounge, the visitor is to present his name at the desk and feel free to go into the lounge.
4.	If he prefers to wait on the loggia, the visitor is asked to let the desk know that he will be there.
Sweeps Clean -- If Your Brother Doesn't Steal It
A New Broom
by PAUL SAWYER
“Dere be only one thing ah don’t like about this job of cleanin’ up the university every night. My brother!"
“Your brother, Mrs. Waters?”
“Yassuh, my brother Ah gots my own favorite broom—we keeps all da brooms in Mr. Property Man's office—and my brother keeps takin' it before ah gits there.”
“Ah, relatives. Mrs. Waters; I know how it is."
“Yassuh, ah’s got a brown broom and you’d think my brother would know that after two months, ’cause everybody else got a white broom."
“Everybody else Mrs. Waters?"
“Dere be eight of us. Eight womans, dat be, and one man. That be my brother, but he don’t do much, ’cept put on the lights on the buildin’s, put chalk in da rooms, and carry some of the boxes of
trash us womans can’t carry.” “What do the eight of you do?” “‘We cle.ins da rooms. We sweeps da floors; we empties the trash; we dusts the rooms and puts everything back neat, and den we goes to da next room. ’
"All eight of you together?" “Nossuh. we wuks in teams Two girls to a team.”
“Four t- ams, then. Is that right, Mrs Waters?"
“Yassuh, four teams Each team got six btildin’. Some buildin' have five room.« and some have six."
“Are the rooms always very dirty?”
“Not always. Dey be dirty on Tuesdays and Thursdays mostly Monday is the cleanest day. On Tuesday and Thursday dey turn the chairs backward, 'specially dat room 611. Dey must be terrors in dat room ”
"Then you think the students here leave a lot of dirt around?”
"Well, dey leave some, naturally. But if dey didn’t, den we wouldn't have no job."
“Philosophically stated, Mrs. Waters. What hours do you work?"
"We wuks every evenin' from four to twelve, 'cept Satidday, when we wuks from twelve to four. Dey don't hold no classes Satidday afternoon.”
"Does it take you all that time to clean the rooms?”
“Oh yes indeedy, It takes all that time. Yassuh!”
"How did you get the job, Mrs Waters?"
“‘My brother—the one that takes mah broom—he told Mr. Meeker about me.”
"Mr. Meeker is the property manager?”
“Yassuh, Mr Meeker is the boas."
"Did the other girls get their jobs through your brother too?”
“Oh, dey got	theirs through the		
employment office		in	Coconut
Grove.”			
“Then you	live	in	Coconut
Grove?"
"We all lives in Coconut Grove.”
“How about transportation. Mrs. Waters?"
“Well, we takes the Grove bus to Coral Gablea and den we takes da University bus to the other camp and den we takes another bus to this camp.”
“And how do you get home at midnight?”
"The University sends a bus for us and it takes us to the Grove where we alt live», ’cept Mr. Meeker who takes a No. 4 bus."
"Do you like the job, Mrs. Waters?"
"Yassuh It’s da bes’ job I had since I come to Miami."
“How long ago was that, Mrs. Waters?”
“I come here in 1919, with my husband, from Donalsville. Geor-
ii»-"
“1919. May I ask how old you are, Mrs. Waters?”
“Nossuh. I was born in 1902.”
“Thank you, Mrs. Waters. I can do my own subtraction, and get the answer ”
“Does you get 44?”
“Mrs Waters I do.”
“Dafs right, Tse 44. Tse got a daughter who’s 21 and she lives in Thomasville. Georgia, with her husband. He drives a taxi but he’s leamin’ to lay bricks now. He say he likes it very much . . say, why you askin' me all these questions?”
“For an interview, Mrs Waters, for an interview.”