Miami Hurricane, April 05, 1977

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Treasurer
Candidates Face Final
Test T oday
Trustees Meet Thursday For Tuition Decision
By ALAN MARCUS
Editor
A decision on a tuition increase will be made Thursday by the Executive and Budget Review committees of the Board of Trustees, it has been learned.
University Secretary Don Kubit and IIM President Henry King Stanford '•mild not be reached for . om-' meat
The forthcoming decision Is a result of much controversey. Initially, Dr. Stanford recommended a $200 per year semester increase to the Trustees. The Trustees gave the ad-minsitration guidelines in order to prevent a tuition increase.
The guidelines, to be used in re-
Dean Percy
J
Resigns Post
For Law
By STEVEN GARWOOD
Hurrican* Staff Writtr
Terry Percy, a UM law student, and assistant dean of students since 1975, has resigned his post as of April 1, in order to devote all of his energies to legal work Percy will graduate from law school in May and then take the bar exam in the states of Florida and Alabama
Percy lived in Alabama before moving to Miami.
Percy is a native of Greenfield. Mississippi, and is undecided right now as to what type of law he will pursue after graduation.
"My interests are varied at this point, so I’d really rather not say." Percy said. “I’m considering a number of possibilities at this point."
Percy has six weeks of school before he graduates and he wants to devote all his time to his law books. Even though many people are happy to see that Percy will soon be graduating, they will also miss him because of the many contributions he has made to both the students and administration at UM.
"Although we had known for some time that Dean Percy intended to leave the University to begin full-time legal work, the fact of his ominent departure will leave a void which will be difficult to fill." said Dean of StudentsWilliam Sheeder.
"Dean Percy has been a capable, conscientious administrator of integrity who related most effectively with a broad cross section of.our student body,”
In addition to his duties as assistant dean of students. Percy has organized and coordinated the freshman orientation programs, the Speakeasies program, and the President's breakfast. In addition, he has edited the New Student Handbook, Malaika, and Student Rights and Responsibilities.
“We will miss him both professionally and personally," Sheeder said. "He has made some great contributions in a unique way."
Throughout his tenure as assistant dean. Percy has managed to maintain an unusually good rapport with the student body. It is unusual for students to feel so close to someone in an administrative position. Percy attributes this to one thing: honesty.
“I have dealt with students in a very forthright manner,” he said.
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formulating a budget to be submitted to the Board, included providing for a modest increase in faculty salaries based on merit, a commitment, to academic excellence, including a ten per cent funding increase for the Schools of Business and Arts and Sciences, and some sort of cost savings plan.
The Trustees said that no decision should he made nn'il the administr»-tion returned to the Board with a new budget proposal.
In the last few weeks, Undergraduate Student Body Government President Susan Havey has initiated the compilation of material as to why the University could not increase tuition.
The report is essentially broken down into 18 categories dealing with things like spending, planning and costs.
The report is set up in a way where a paritcular problem or situation is explained From there, an evaluation is made and then recommendations as to what must be done are given.
The report suggests various ways to cut University costs such as a reduction in duplicate mailings, stopping paper wastes, eliminating unnecessary telephones, evaluating faculty teaching loads, reduction of the use of incandescent light bulbs, hiring more students in student services, cost savings through long range planning cuts or refinancing of auxiliary operations and planning for the use of solar power.
Also included in the report were various ways to generate revenues such as establishing a University f car towing system, improved recruiting techniques, lowering the University's high attrition rate by critical evaluations, student fund raising projects and a beginning for a serious attempt to build a large	i
endowment fund.	^ .
One of the purposes of the report is to encourage the Board of Trustees and the administration to make a commitment to the undergraduate student body, "reallocate funds and not raise tuition."
MI AMI Ticket Rejoices In Ral ( her Results
PhotOi by JULIE BLUMENfHAL
Thrill Of Vidor
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Tolls Ondi From 9 lo 6
By ISIDRO GARCIA
N*w* Editor
Polls will remain open from 9 a m. to 6 p.m. today for the Under-garduate Student Body Government (USBG) election runoff in which students will select next year’s executive office holders.
Allan I.ubel and Dave Goldberg will battle for the President's seat. I.ubel edged Goldberg in last week's election by a 59 vote margin, 586 to 527. However that amount could be insignificant because there is no clear indication as to whom students who voted for other candidates will support In this election.
Pat Woodward and Nicki Valme are both seeking the Vice President's seat, while Bill Lawrence and Gary Nunes will contest the Treasurer's seat.
Valme had 510 votes to Woodward's 441.
Nunes outdistanced Lawrence by
a 697 to 470 margin.
The Election Commission will announce the results tonight at the Rathskeller at 10 p.m.. but will first inspect the campus to see if campaign materials have been cleaned up. The results will not he announced until the campus is devoid of campaign paraphernalia.
Treasurer candidate Bill t.aw-rence yesterday filed a complaint with the Election Commision charging that WVIJM and USBG were “prejudiced" for excluding him from the Presidential debates whu h were held yesterday on the Studeni Union Pali«.
. Gary Nunes, MIAMI, candidate for treasurer, was also excluded from the debate. However, law-rente said that the MIAMI candidate who participated in the debate "plugged" Nunes.
Lawrence said he pleaded with WVUM but was turned down.
WVIJM General Manager Ross Block said both candidates for treasurer were scheduled to speak, hut the plan was scrapjied when Nunes didn't show up.
“Nunes didn't show up so we couldn't put Lawrence in by himself. Our obligation is equal time so it wouldn't be (air to let Lawrence speak without the other candidate being there." Block said that the candidates were offered time before today's election, but at press time, it was not established if both Nunes See page 6
tsling, Rewarding
Miami Hurntant, ED GRIFFIN
Nursing Shulcnl Obtains On The Job Training
...gets hand Irvin appreciative patient
By STEVEN GARWOOD
Hurricana Staff Writar
"It's fun, but a lot of hard work,” says Cindy Zehrer, a senior nursing student at UM “It is rewarding to see someone who is sick in bed for a long time get out of bed .”
“I'm usually out of the hospital by 2 p.m. exhausted,” says Janet Cuhn, a sophomore nursing student at IJM.
The day begins early for Zehrer. She gets up at 5:15 a m. and is at work by 7 a m. three days a week. The other two days are spent in lecture classes. Zehrer is on the last leg of the nursing program, which is physical assessment: learning to do patient histories and physicals.
Nurses at this level spend their day administering "patient care and treatment." This means getting their breakfast, their baths and doing their treatments," said Zehrer. Before reaching physical assessment. she took general nursing, pediatrics, obstetrics (delivering babies, and working with mothers and babies), medical surgical care tadministering to surgery and heart attack patients), community health.
geriatrics, intensive care, psvchlat* ric nursing and leadership skills.
Cuhn, a sophomore, is involved in the general nursing portion of the nursing program. "We learn the basics,” she said "We re assigned one or two patients for the dav. and we give them ‘Total Patient Care.’ We give them their medicines, their baths, we answer their questions, and fulfill their needs."
As a student nurse, Cuhn Is legally responsible for her patients. “Just because you're a student nurse, doesn’t mean the care given is any less than that given by a registered nurse."
The first thing Cuhn does in the morning is check the charts and the lab tests of her new patients. Then she checks the "nurses notes." which give an account of what went on during the night She also checks the physician's orders and the medicine Kardex. which is a list of drugs the patient is receiving, the amounts, its side effects, and why it is being used for that patient.
Next she greets the patient, and then gives him or her TPR (temper-
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