Miami Hurricane, October 14, 1977

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Debate Fronti Get Second Despite Lack Of Funds
By FERNANDO ZULUETA
Humean* Staff Wnt*r
A group training and competing under the auspices of Joseph Martucci, a second year UM law student, displayed remarkable talents during a tournament held at Stetson University this past weekend
"Without any question, these are the most qualified debaters that Miami has had in the past couple of years," Martucci said.
The team of J Scott Murphy and William Pangmen advanced undefeated through the elimination rounds and finished second overall in the tournament
According to Murphy, most of the Southeastern schools were represented
Irene Teplicki and Willy Gomez combined for an impressive 7-1 showing during preliminaries and fifth overall in the tournament.
UM was the only school represented to place both of its teams in the elimination rounds.
It was after a two year hiatus that the University decided to revive its dormant debate program. This year UM offered six full scholarships to students who had excelled in debate during their high school years
Tracy Olmstead was not able to compete at the tournament due to her partner’s illness "I'm really glad that the University has set out to produce a winning debate team. However, I can’t help but notice the lack of Administration support,” she said
Besides the immense amount of practice necessary to prepare for competing, the team requires the preparation of mammoth loads of paperwork.
"We are desperately in need of a typist and a room to work in. We can’t keep drifting from room to room at the Law School," Olmstead said
Pangmen is concerned that, "after we hit stiffer competition, we'll have to prepare more and more We're at a disadvantage because other squads even have research staffs and complete debate departments."
Martucci is confident that his team can compete against any other squad "As the season progresses we'll have to contend with such debate mainstays as Harvard, Northwestern and Georgetown,” he said
With their budget of $8,000, the squad must arrange all their transportation and copying expenses. “Since Joe is a law student, he doesn't have any faculty priviliges — especially for the use of the copying !a-cilities,” Pangmen said
"As it stands now,” Olmstead said, "our budget won't allow us to go to nationals if we qualify.
"The University stands to profit from the added prestige of having a winning debate team "
The amount of effort demanded from each member is considerable indeed “Each of us spends at least 30 hours a week just gathering and preparing evidence,” Pangmen said
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The Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) will begin a full-scale effort to clean up Lake Osceola 10 a m..Saturday.
"This is one of the most important student projects the campus will undergo this year," USBG President Allan Lubel said. "Everyone is always complaining about how dirty the lake is, and finally we are giving them a chance to do something constructive about the problem," he said.
It was decided at last week’s Council of Presidents' meeting that each week a different student organization will sponsor the cleanup by giving Lubel at least ten people to participate.
"This event has drawn community support. It will be covered by the Miami Herald, and some members of the Gables community are interested in using the same type of a cleanup program for their canals," Lubel said.
The method that will be used to clean the lake and dredge the bottom debris is the one that was suggested by Leonard Greenfield, former biology chairman, in a report on the status of the lake's diagnostic condition.
Greenfield suggested that the Brazillian pepper plants be removed from the lake's edge since their roots are polluting the surrounding
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water. The removal of these plants will also take away much of the brown color the water now has.
Saturday, the cleanup crew will meet at the Rat and proceed to the US-1 end of the lake to clean the areas around the towers.
"If we can clean out the vegetation, we can get the water to flow smoothly, and the lake will look much better," said Pete Lampone, USBG secretary for university affairs.
"The entire event will be similar to a campus block party, with punch and sandwiches provided by SAGA; everyone is invited to attend with jeans, T-shirts and tennis shoes,” Lubel said.
"We will start at one end and meet the Campus Beautification Committee at the other end, near Doctor's Hospital," Lubel said.
By STEVEN GARWOOD
Hurricin* Staff Writar
"The goal of the Air Force ROTC is to train and motivate young men and women to become Air Force officers,” Major Ron Ebbert of the UM Department of Aerospace Studies and Air Force ROTC said.
Saturday’s sponser is USBG and in subsequent weeks other sponsers will be ROTC. Hurricane Skiers and Fraternitv Row
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The Air Force Reserve Olficc Training Corp (AFROTC) program now has a total of 115 cadets. 30 of which are on scholarship. A cadet who is on a scholarship, whether il be two. three or four years, receives all of his books, fees and tuition, plus $100 a month
"The value of it is worth from $4,000 to $4.500." Ebbert said There are 45 freshmen cadets in the program this year, 15 of whom are on scholarship.
There are 40 cadets on contract, which means that they have agreed to serve for a total of four to six years after graduation, in return for the $100 month .salary The rest ot the cadets are noncontract cadets, which means they don't have lo make any obligation of service to the Air Force after graduation. They are freshmen and sophomores They can try out ROTC for two years, without making any committment to the Air Force After their sophomore year, they can decide whether or not they want to go for a scholarship or become a contract cadet
There are now 20 women cadets, and this year there will he four women commissioned as Air Force officers
Whether a cadet receives any kind of scholarship from the A1 ROTC depends heavily on the quali ty of that person's academic record Also important is the potential cadet's major. Nursing, medicine, en gineering. chemistry, physics and
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Organizations To Cleanse, Dredge Lake
By ROBIN WILSON
Hurrtctn* Staff Writer
“1 could found a religious group based on utter nonsense on this campus and. with the right recruitment techniques, have a 100 followers in a month " Taken out of context that could be a rather powerful statement, but, coming from the new religion professor, Dr. James Ash. it merely sets off an interesting topic about the trends in religion on campus and elsewhere.
This is his second teaching position since he received his PhD from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he financed his way through graduate school by breeding St Bernards Because the weather in Florida is not conducive to raising St Bernards.he left them in Oregon where he taught at Oregon State University
In his teaching of four different courses in religion. Introduction to Religion, Religion in American Life, Biblical Literature and Outstanding Personalities in Religion. Dr Ash finds his students different from his former students at Oregon State On the whole, he says, he “finds the students better, that they have a better background and are more interested in learning.” One might «link that the majority of these students would have to be religion majors. Not so, according to Dr. Ash, who says the majority of his students are not majors in his department.
When asked about his general attitude toward religion today, in terms of where it has been, where it is, and where it will be in the future, Dr. Ash said, “The American
religious trend, now, is toward a more conservative religion." in comparison to the more liberal attitudes of the 60s "Concerning the more liberal churches, such as the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches. 1 predict they may well be statistically insignificant by thp Twenty-first Century." Their problem, according to Dr.
Ash. is that they art- not keeping pace wMth the conservative trends and that they will be replaced by a new group of conservative denominations, i.e . Southern Baptist. Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostals Judaism is already experiencing a rise in orthodoxy among the youth, and he sees this as parallel to the rise in their ethnic
consciousness.
"Radical religious groups are good and healthy for America." Ash said He sees it as a positive sign that such radical groups can function freely in our society, in support of the Bill of Rights
He quoted James Madison, fourth president of the United States, as saying,"The surest safeguard for a
democracy is a plurality of divergent viewpoints."
Along with his teaching. Dr. Ash also writes articles for journals, two of which have already been published He is currently working on a book. The Bibilicist Impulse in American Protestantism, dealing with the growing conservative theology in Protestant groups
The Campus Beautification Committee, under the direction of Gary Greenen and Chris Betzs, have fulltime workers cleaning vegetation from the hospital end of the canal daily.
“By the end of the year, we hope to have the entire lake cleaned, and the canal will then be like those in Venice," Lubel said.
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University To Purchase TKE Fraternity House
By JANE L. MARCUS
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After two years the problems of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity's lease violation have culminated in the University's buying the property
TKE leased the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity house five years ago The lease expired last June TKE did not have sufficient funds to purchase the house .and Kappa Sig refused to give them a new lease.
TKE had been accused of violating the lease by late rental payments In turn, TKE has accused Kappa Sig of not making sufficient repairs on the house.
The original price of the house was $110,000, according to Associate Dean of Students William Sandler, "but the building is now in bad shape"
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tempted to re-establish a chapter at UM during the five year period
Last April, chances of re-eslab-lishment had seemed so remote that Kappa Sig had tried to force TKE to buy the house before their five-year lease ran out.
Last semester Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) passed a bill providing TKE with up to $1,000 for legal fees in deciding the matter
Kappa Sig was represented by attorney John Dick.
Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Bill Sheeder said at the time, "that even though the University has had a ‘negative view’ of fraternities in the past, there has been a ‘reversal in attitude' toward this situation .
Last year, TKE had an idea that the University would buy the house See page 3