Miami Hurricane, September 21, 1976

              Who’s Who Night Draws Few Students
Either students were busily reading their texts, drinking their beer, or just plain not interested, but something kept them away from the USBG sponsored meeting with administrators.
The meeting started late, but only because everyone was waiting for more people to show up, however few actually did.
One of the highlights of the evening was when USBG Senator Greg Pape called the distinguished panel "international nobles” then gracefully recovered and said "er-notables.”
Panel members included Executive Vice President for Financial Affairs Dr. John Green, Faculty Senate Chairperson Dr. Sheppard Faber, Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler and Dean of the Faculty Dr. Sid Besvinick.
By ISIDRO GARCIA and DARY MATF.RA
of the Hurricane Staff
UM President Henry King Stanford has received a program review from Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) outlining certain irregularities that were discovered in the Financial Aid Office during their three-day visit here in August.
Dr. Stanford said the report states that the University was not in any great error and that /'there was no sign of criminal action.”
He said “there were some differences in HEW and our office but those things would be worked out. The problems that have been pointed out will be corrected."
Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. William Butler said the report clears up all the charges made against the office.
He said he will ask the Board of Trustees today to approve releasing parts of the report.
Acting Director of Financial Aid Ron Hammond said HEW investigator Ken Palmer "submitted a report to the President.”
Hammond said he “did not feel at liberty” to reveal the findings of the report although he did say that the record-keeping process in the Financial Aid Office was found to have been “inadequate."
At the April 20 meeting of the Trustee committee on Student Affairs, four graduate students presented both written and oral charges of mismanagement against the Financial Aid Office and its former Director Thomas Sheeder.
Three of the students were elected officers of the Graduate Student Association, while the fourth was a graduate student employee of the office of Financial Aid.
Four demands were outlined by the students:
•	that a competent, responsible person be found to direct the office
•	that a complete audit be done on all financial aid records by accountants approved by the Law School Dean
•	that a letter be sent to Washington informing the federal au-
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UM Enrollment Decreases By Nearly 4%
By HOLLY ENGLANDER
Hurrican# Staff Writar
Economic conditions, rising tuition rates and an increasing demand for financial aid. are responsible for a drop in the 1976 UM enrollment, according to Registrar George Smith.
"We predicted a downward trend this year, of approximately 3 per cent, and it appears we are pretty close to that,” Smith said.
In preliminary reports released Thursday, total UM enrollment of the undergraduate and graduate schools, excluding the law and medical schools and division pf continuing education, is down four per cent.
"We’ll probably gain one per cent or more within the next couple of
weeks," Smith said.
Preliminary figures of enrollment distribution among the undergraduate schools are: Arts and Sciences-3,542; Business Administration-1,862; Education-828; Engineering-1,110; Music-448; Nursing-297; General Studies-1,292; Continuing ^ Studies-25; and Unclassified Stu- * dents-575; a total of 9,979 students.
Figures for 1975 were: Arts and Sciences-3,926; Business Administration-1,878; Education-1,016; Continuing Studies-25; and Unclassified Students-807, for a total of 10,485.
Undergraduate enrollment shows a five per cent decline.
The graduate school enrollment, pending law and medical school fig-
ures is 2,460 students as compared to 2,496 in 1975.
“We predict approximately 1,100 law students, 540 medical students, and 3,000 students of continuing education,” Smith said.
In 1976, the figure for new freshman is 1,856, in 1975 it was 1,952 students. In 1975, there were 1,476 transfer students, while in 1976 the figure is down to 1,232.
Target predictions for the fresh-
man class and transfer students were 2,000 and 1,250 respectively.
“Actually, more applications were submitted this year than before and more students were admitted, but there was a serious amount of 'no-shows' for reasons that we haven't quite been able to figure out. From what we've heard, this has been the trend at quite a few institutions. Biscayne College reported this and the University of Florida also received quite a few cancellations," Smith said.
“Tuition rates are increasing at private and state schools. This tuition increase could be responsible for the drop in enrollment. Also, even though more money for financial aid is available, there is an increasing demand for it. The amount of money available never equals the demand. A student can’t always get 100 per cent of the money he needs, and if he can't make up the difference, then he just can’t hack the cost of the education,” Smith said.
thoritics of possible "clerical" errors.
• that the financial aid deadlines be extended for all students.
The graduate students said they made six additional charges against the Financial Aid Department. Dr. Butler only reported the four charges mentioned above in his annual report to Dr. Stanford.
Hammond said that the "charges were serious but there was nothing serious in the findings."
During the first meeting with the graduate students to discuss the matter, three of the students walked out shortly after the meeting's opening. The walkout followed a physical and emotional confrontation with Dr. Butler.
Dr. Butler reportedly assaulted the President of the Graduate Student Association in an attempt to take a tape recorder from him. After this happened, three of the four students at the meeting walked out.
A%> assault charge was filed against Dr. Butler in the UM Security Department. The charge was later thrown out by the city attorney on the grounds that there was no substance to it.
Security Director David Wike said, “We took the information, filed the charges, then I called the assistant city attorney and read him the report. He said there was no simple assault in what happened Dr Butler just fell over him while reaching for the recorder. There was no fighting.”
The graduate students also charged the financial aid office of giving federal aid to foreign students.
"In terms of funds, nothing was out of order," Hammond said.
"We cannot give federal funds if a student is here for other than temporary reasons," Hammond said.
Hammond said that there is no danger that the University will be shut down because the review had turned up "nothing of that gravity."
Hammond said that the Financial Aid Office must be audited twice a year.
“We do expect an audit ... it is a requirement for any branch of the University that receives federal money," Hammond said A Board of Trustee member on the Trustee Committee of Student Affairs said that as far as he knew "everything was referred to Dr Stanford and he has taken care of everything."
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Guards Surveying Lots
By MARSHALL STEINGOLD
Hurrican# Stiff Writ«!
The Board of Trustees has allotted special funds to pay for security guards to patrol the Mahoney-Pear-son area at night.
The walking patrol replaced the student rooftop surveyors this fall.
Assistant Director of Security Vince Anika. said that there will be onq man posted at Mahoney, one at Pearson and one at the 960-1968 Complex parking lots.
The patrolmen wear uniforms and carry walkie-talkies.
Anika said that he hopes these men will be "more effective than those students who used to be posted on the roofs."
"There was a waning of interest during the final two months of last semester. Consequently, some students did not show up at the scheduled time and other students needed to be called to fill their spots," Housing Director James Grimm said.
"One or two months would go by without some students receiving a
paycheck.”
Grimm said that although the program was very effecitve when it was first initiated by the Mahoney-Pearson Governors Council, the “waning interest was soon followed by an increase of thefts in that parking lot equivalent to the average obtained from all other lots on campus.”
The declining effectiveness of the program was evaluated by the security survey taken last semester.
“When criminals want to break the law, they will generally tend to stay away if they see someone in a uniform patrolling," Anika said. They serve as a deterrent to crime.
Although he admits the effectiveness of the new program can never be 100 per cent, Anika said it is "a step ahead of the previous program."
Grimm said the new security program has been in use for two weeks and that "It is too early to tell the long-term results of such an operation."
Homecoming Seeks UM Queen
By SARA LUSSKIN
Hurrican# Staff Wrlfar
One thing the University abounds in is beautiful girls.
The second annual Miss University of Miami Homecoming Pageant has all the intentions of tapping this natural resource with a thrilling fanfare of swimsuit competitions, a parade and a whirlwind flurry of activities centering around Homecoming week Nov. 1-6.
The pageant committee says that all organizations participate in this schoolwide event by sponsoring up to four girls in this year’s festivities. The girls need not be members of the sponsoring organization.
Contestant entrance applications can be found in the homecoming booklet or may be picked up in the Homecoming Office in the Student Union.
Applications are due before Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. in the Student Activities Office.
This year the preliminary competitions will span two days. The first day of judging will be Saturday, Oct. 9 and will be closed to the public..
The first day of preliminary judging will consist of a talent competition, talent presentations not to exceed three minutes, personal interviews, with no results to be re-leased
The second day of preliminary judging will consist of an evening gown competition as well as judging on general poise.
This day of competition is open and all organizations are urged to attend as spirit points will be awarded.
After the last day of preliminary judging 12 finalists will be selected for the final competition on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. at the Gusman Concert Hall.
On this night, the girls will be judged on talent, personal interviews with the judges, evening gown competition and swimsuit competition
This year's Homecoming Queen will receive a $100 scholarship from the Homecoming Committee, as well as the honors associated with being Miss University of Miami. See page 3 1
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HEW Financial Aid Review Done
Stanford Heads Florida ’s Private Schools
By CINDY VOVA
Hurrican* Stall writer
UM President Dr. Henry King Stanford was elected president of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF) earlier this year.
Dr. Stanford will preside over the 16-member board that composes ICUF organization.
“They range all the way from small women's colleges like Barry College through technical institutions like the Florida Institute of Technology, to religious institutions to complex, international universities like the University of Miami," Stanford said.
ICUF, established in 1965, provides an opportunity for independent university presidents to meet periodically and compare mutual interests. They promote a public relations forum to inform Florida citizens of the number of students enrolled in, and the programs available through, private universities.
ICUF lobbies in the state legislature to seek support for the Florida Student Assistance Grant Program, a state funded
program that makes funds available to needy students.
Recipients of these grants may then use the funds towards tuition in an independent university.
Dr. Stanford said that the grants, which can amount up to $1,200 per person, are beneficial to the state when used towards education in an independent institution because it eliminates the additional cost the state would have to provide to subsidize a student attending a state operated university.
Recently, ICUF was successful in lobbying for the passage of legislation that raised the allotment of the Florida Student Assistance Grant Program from $4 million to $6 million annually.
For the 1976-77 academic year, 2,654 students who received aid from the state program chose to attend independent universities.
Out of this number, 783 students are currently enrolled at
UM.
As president of ICUF, Dr. Stanford chairs the council of presidents, and represents the organization at banquets hon-
oring persons who have rendered notable service to the cause of independent colleges and universities.
He also represents the organization in Tallahassee.
“We will try vigorously to have the funds from the legislature raised 20 per cent for next year, which means that we want it to go up by $1 and a half million or $2 million," Dr. Stanford said.
Concerning the future of financial difficulties that have plagued independent institutions for years, Stanford said that such problems would always exist,” and that independent schools would always be dependent on gifts to supplement the tuition students pay.
Dr. Stanford could not state whether the University will face another'tuition increase next year since the budget has not yet been established
Funds for the facilitation of ICUF come from the dues that universities pay to the organization. Dr. Stanford says he devotes a great many hours working towards the goals of the organization. He said he does not receive any pay for his time

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