Miami Hurricane, March 04, 1977

              Vol. S2, No. 39
Friday,March I. I<>77
I Mi. 281-MOI
Brodie Limits W ork-Study
Student Awards
Miami Humean* / JATW« nonni**
Gator Cleans Up
The pizza was cooking and the 96X radio station gator was biting at the Delta Sigma Pi pizza booth last week during UlM’s annual Garni Gras celebration. This red brick booth took the first place trophy for best decoration.
After all the receipts were counted, student organizations learned they raised more than $48,000 during the three day affair. Lambda Chi
took the first place fund raising trophy for the fifteenth time in 16 years.
Carni Gras was broadcast live by campus radio station WVUM. Miami radio station WWWL (Love 94) gave away free tickets and prizes to help publicize the event to the community. The gator helped Physical Plant workers in the cleanup Sunday by swallowing the booth and some left over clowns.
By DEBBIE ARONOWITZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
Due to a miscalculation by the Financial Aid Work-Study office, students have been prohibited from working more than 15 hours per week, even if this means they will be unable to complete their awards.
Financial Aid Director Ron Hammond said that some students will not receive first summer session work-study awards.
Student Employment Director James Brodie overestimated the number of students that would drop out of the government-sponsored program, and as a result, there are more students working than there are funds available.
The Financial Aid Office purposely overawards yearly, because a few years ago the attrition rate was so high the University had to return unearned funds to the federal government at the end of the academic year.
"The rate of attrition was not what we mathematically expected. More students have accepted work assignments while less have dropped out." Brodie said.
"Limiting students to a maximum 15 hour week enables us to accurately project how much money we have remaining for this academic year ”
A memo was to be sent to student employers asking them to limit students to a maximum of 10 hours a week, but revisions were later made.
"A cutback to 10 hours is possible," Brodie said. "According to our projections, based on a 15 hour work week, funds will be exhausted by the end of April. We are looking for any additional government funding available."
Because students were overawarded funds, summer awards are
almost non-existent
First summer work-study awards will be limited to full-time students who enroll for that session. Other work-study awards will be made according to Hammond.
Work-study funds are allocated by the government at the beginning of each academic year, and it provides 80 per cent of the salaries to students. The remaining money is supplied by the University. The Financial Aid Office decides how the money is budgeted and the number of students that can be employed with the amount of money available.
The awards are distributed on the requirement that the student will work an average of 15 hours per week during the year and also on holidays and exam weeks.
Before discovering the overaward problem, students unable to work
"The rate of attrition was not what we mathematical^ expected. More students have accepted work assignments while less have dropped out.”
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15 hours during a given week were permitted to work more hours the following week to earn their full award.
Under the new guidelines, the time cannot be made up.
The Otto Richter l ibrary has "lost flexibility" because of the new regulations, according to Associate Director Dale Barker.
"We can't get any new students assigned nr old students replaced since the freeze," Barker said.
The library had 115 students employed but due to attrition the number has dropped to 101, and Barker said he has not been able to hire more students since the freeze.
"The library cannot afford to hire A02 employees to replace work-studies students because of the higher salaries," said Barker.
Hiring student assistants (A04) would not solve the problem, because the library would only be able to hire one fifth of the students it hires now since the government will not share in the costs.
"We are very much concerned about what is going to happen In May," Barker said.
The University will not receive additional work-study awards until June I, and current work-study
awards will end April to.
Work-study students were not happy with the new guidelines.
"With vacations, mid-lerms and finals, there is no way a student can work 15 hours a week every week." said freshman Sue Palora.
“If a student misses a week of work due to school holidays, he should be allowed to make the time up. 1 feel they are taking away money that was officially awarded us."
Since work-study assignments will be limited during the first summer session, students and employers will suffer.
"There is no doubt that we need our work-studies to run our office efficiently,” said Financial Aid Secretary Susan Scofield.
Brodie says he is aware of how valuable the work-study students are to the University, hul nothin* can be chanted unless «aAVt"’1'“ funds are
"I do not like this situation any more than the students do.” Brodie said. "If this problem is causing any great hardship on a student, I am more than willing to help them in any way I can. We are involved in student employment, not student-unemployment.”
Student Loan Agency
Offers $30 Maximum
Any undergraduate student can now borrow up to $.'J0, interest-free. for up to three weeks, according to Undergraduate Student Body Government President Susan Havey.
Students who are late in repaying
Nazi Hunter Wiesenthal Will Continue Work
the loan will be charged $1 for each week they are late. Those who do not repay at al) will have their registration cards pulled, making it impossible for them to register for the following semester.
"There will be no hassle, no red-tape, no interest charge," Havey said. "We have legal services and bail bonds with no losses so why should this be any different?"
"No reasons are needed. All t! it
By SARI SHAPIRO
Hurrlcani stall Wrltar
Simon Wiesenthal, founder and head of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna and world renowned Nazi hunter, spoke to a large crowd at UM.
Wiesenthal has dedicated his life to documenting the European genocide and hunting down the war criminals that are still at large.
“When history looks back,” he said, “I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill 11,000,000 people and get away with it."
Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in what is now the Lvov Oblast section of the Ukraine. Some members of his family were executed by Nazi parties. His stepfather was arrested and later died in prison; his stepbrother was shot; in August 1942
his mother was sent to the Belzec death camp
In total, 89 members of his family died in the holocaust. He was almost killed when an armored American unit invaded Mauthausen in May 1945. His wife was saved from having to remain in a forced labor camp by a deal he made with the Polish underground; he gave them detailed charts of railroad junction points made by him for use of saboteurs, and they gave his wife false identification.
As soon as his health was restored, Wiesenthal began gathering information and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the U.S. Army
After the war he also worked for the Army’s Office of Strategic Services and Counter-Intelligence Corps, and he headed the Jewish
Central Committee.
Late in 1945, he and his wife were reunited; each had believed the other to be dead.
Since that time, Wiesenthal has found 1,000 war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the salughter of Jews. He still searches. The West German government's war-criminal files contain more than 160,000 names, most of whom have never been tried for alleged crimes.
After listening to Wiesenthal speak, the listener leaves knowing that Wiesenthal is one of those dedicated people who continues to pursue a cause he strongly believes in
Unless proper precautions are taken and the guilty are punished, he said that another holocaust can occur.
Wiesenthal is often asked to ex-
plain his reasons for dedicating his life so deeply to being a Nazi hunter. When he was asked by a friend of his who is now a successful jewelry manufacturer and who was also an inmate at Mauthausen, he replied, "You’re a religious man. You believe in God and life after
death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us 'What have you done?’ there will he many answers. You will sav, T became a jeweler.’
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Applications are available in the Student Publications Business Office (Student Union room S221) for full-time undergraduate students interested in the position of Hurricane editor and Business Manager of Student Publications.
Filing deadline is noon, March 18, and all applicants must be screened before then by Professor South-worth.
Both positions receive tuition remission for one semester and a stipened of $350. Applicants must have a minimum 2.0 grade point average.
Each applicant will make a five to 10 minute presentation to the Board of Publications. The Board is composed of faculty, administrators and students.
is necessary is to be an undergraduate student and to show your ll> card, and we’li loan you the money,"
USBG allocated $1.000 from their account for the student loan program According to Havey, Michigan State University loaned $85,000 lo 3,500 students.
The Michigan State program has proven to be very profitable to that university, according to Havey.
"They started 10 years ago with $5,000 and now have $32,000, she said.
Havey said that the purpn of the $30 per student limit v.e to eliminate excess record keeping, keeping the system quick and > >y.
Any student interested in the program should call x-3082 or stop by roomS240of the Student Unite
Wesley Insurance Cancelled
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By JACK CHRISTMAN
Hurricant Staff Wrltar
An Iranian Students Association (ISA) hunger strike held in UM's Wesley foundation ended last Thursday and may have induced the insurer of the building to cancel the liability policy on the building. The company reportedly has financial interests in Iran and feared that any connection with the hunger strike would have resulted in economic reprisal from the powerful Shah.	• *	?
Lumberman Mutual Insurance Company of Ohio sent a notice of cancellation Feb. 18, and gave Wesley 10 days notice. The hunger strike began Feb. 16, two days before Wesley received notice of the cancellation.
According to Wesley Board Chairman and Dean of Students Bill Sheeder, the policy was cancelled "exclusively" because of the hunger strike.
The Rev. Phil Bigelow, Lutheran campus chaplain, said that Lumberman’s insurance company had financial interests in Iran He cited this as a major reason for the insurance cancellation.
Charley Prince, a spokesman for Lumberman's, said he had "no comment" to make about the insurance cancellation. He also declined to comment when asked if Lumberman's had financial interests in Iran.
The ISA hunger strike was In protest against what
a spokesman called "the repressive policies of the Shah of Iran
Last month SAVAK, the secret police under the control of the Shah, attacked a group of Iranians killing 13 and arresting 18 according to the ISA The 18 arrested could face execution because they have spoken against the Shah, an ISA'spokesman said
The hunger strikers wore hoods to remain anonymous because they fear reprisal from SAVAK. Hunger strikers that are identified could be imprisoned for up to 10 years for involvement in anti-Shah activities.^
One spokesman for the hunger strikers said. ‘ I he Organization is fighting against the Shahs regime to preserve democracy and the basic human rights, freedom of speech and freedom of press."
About 100,000 political prisoners are reportedly imprisoned in Iran, according to Amnesty International The prisoners are said to be tortured each day Since 1970 there have been 500 political executions in Iran. This figure does not include the alleged street executions and deaths resulting from torture.
The Iranian students took part in the hunger strike "to gain the support of the American people to force the Shah's regime to sit back and allow international
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