Miami Hurricane, March 03, 1978

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Allocations:
Budget channels $50 million into academics
By JAMES FERGUSON
Assistant Maws Editor
Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) President Allan Lubel and student representative on the UM Budget Committee, announced that more dollars are being channeled into the academic areas of the University.
As an official member of the Committee, Lubel has direct access to
l M founders to be honored at banquet
Forty-eight new members of the UM Society of University Founders will be recognized in formal ceremonies tomorrow during the 12th annual banquet at the Hotel Fontainebleau honoring all members of the society.
Since its inauguration by the Board of Trustees in 1966 when charter members numbered 140, the society has grown to a total of 531, including the new members. Gift commitnlent of the membership now totals $75 million. All founders, either personally or through their organization, have given or pledged a minimum of $50,000 to the University since its founding as an independent institution in 1925.
President Henry King Stanford and Board of Trustees Chairman Stuart Patton will invest the new members. Dr. Stanford will be the principal speaker.
Nancy Greene is chairperson of the black-tie affair which will begin with a reception for new members at 6:30 p.m.. followed by dinner for approximately 800 guests at 8 p m in the Grand Ballroom of the Fontainebleau
Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, archdiocesan director of the Catholic Service Bureau, will offer the invocation. The Strolling Ambassadors will provide music during the reception and dinner.
Pre-registra t i on requires deposit
of $ 125 in April
Academic advising for the fall semester will be April 3 to 14. Advanced registration will be April 17
to 21.
During academic advising, each student must complete a trial schedule to be signed by an advisor. This schedule along with a $125 deposit will be required to participate in the pre-registration program
All currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate in pre-registration
The $125 deposit will go toward tuition and fees and will be refundable until July 21.
budgetary figures and reveals that most of the schools will see an increase in the amount of dollars appropriated
‘‘It's not seeing the budget that is as important as actually being able to have a chance to decide where our money goes," Lubel said.
The budget is divided into three major categories: Academic Centers (areas which support the academic affairs such as operating expenses, admissions processes, student affairs, etc.,), and General Support (salaries of the Administrative Offices).
Of the $80 million dollars appropriated among these three categories, the area of Academic Centers will receive $28,350,000 F:ath school will receive an increase or de crease^s compared to its allocations last year for the following reasons:
•	Arts and Sciences is receiving an increase primarily to provide funding for the second year marine science program Some of the money will be used for operating expenses.
•	Education will witness a decrease in allocations because of reduction in the Dade County teacher discounts based on projected enrollment of local teachers In UM classes.
•	Engineering will witness an increase to supplement instructional
Departmental	\l loca lions
(in terms of allocation increases and decrease for next year as	
compared with academic year) School of Arts and Sciences	+ $40,000
School of Business	no change
School of Education	-*$62,000
School of Engineering	
and Environmental Design	+ 100,000
•Law School	+ 223,000
•Medical School	+ 883,000
School of Nursing	no change
School of Music	no change
•School of Continuing Studies	+ 274,000
Student Financial Aid	+ 420,000
Library	+ 100,000
* — Generating its own funds	
Thorhaug to get VIP tour
By SUSAN TROSCH
Humean* Staff Wrifar
Dr Anita Thorhaug, a member of the UM microbiology department and prominent member of the American Botanical Society, has been one of the 10 chosen to participate in a Chinese exchange program The 10 American scientists will leave for China May 18 for a two-week tour of Chinese agricultu-tal, botanical and oceanographic institutes.
A group of Chinese botanists will visit America late in 1979'
“There will be the three women, including myself, and seven men participating, two of which speak Mandarin fluently." Thorhaug said “We will probably be accompanied by two interpreters, however, since given we will be time to go off on our oxn. this could be a problem. Consequently, I'm presently learning some common mandarin phrases'"
Dr. Arthur Gulston of Yale University originated the idea of the Chinese exchange tour in 1973, but mutual arrangements were agreed upon during the summer of 1977.
“The benefits of this tour will be oumerous. the Chinese being more advanced in agricultural techniques and we, on the other hand, being
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more advanced in oceanography and environmental preservation, both parties should benefit greatly," Thorhaug said
Thorhaug. presently involved In a restoration on North Biscayne Bay. is primarily interested in environmental protection and preventitive measures.
"It will be interesting to see how the Chinese, China being a very heavily populated country." Thorhaug said, "deal with their waste."
“During the extensive 14 day tour, which the Chinese are funding, we will visit over 10 research institutions including the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, the Nanking Institute of Botany and the Shar-fung Province Institute of Oceanography."
"We will reciprocate to the Chinese by taking them on a nationwide tour of our prominent s universities and research centers. Our tentative tour includes Harvard, University of Illinois, known for research in agriculture, Berkley and UCLA, and the University of Miami for oceanography. The Chinese, because of the sameness of their land, are also interested in our mountains and swamps. We would also like to show them the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.," said Thorhaug.
Thorhaug was chosen to escort the Chinese on their American tour.
Upon their return from China, Thorhaug and the other scientists will go on a nationwide lecture tour sharing their experiences from the Chinese exchange tour.
By MARSHALL STEINGOLD
Editor
The transition from traffic jam to rapid transit for Miami will be underway pending a vote March 7 by Dade County voters.
Dade's plan consists of combining highways and buses, buses with rapid transit, and rail rapid transit with a downtown people—mover.
Train stops will be made directly adjacent to UM
Passengers who are coming to Miami via car. bus or automobile, will be able to walk through open-air stations, pay the fare and step onto the air-conditioned comfort that will stop at a station every few minutes from Dadeland South to Okeechobee
The transit cars will accomodate up to 80 persons and can carry as many as 259 people (Including standing room).
The entire system will move on air-suspension to make for a smoother ride and will employ a recently developed "chopper" power control system so sharp starts and stops will not be felt by passengers
The increases in population of Dade County have warranted the rapid transit move, according to a spokesman for the Dade County Rapid Transit System
In 1928. Dade's population was about 50.000 people The population in I960 was 935,047. Today Dade county houses more fhan 1.5 million people Over a five-year period, from 1971 to 1976, the county added 2.700 people and nearly 5.000 vehicles a month.
The $632 million in federal funds have been earmarked for the transit improvements by the Urban Mass Transit Administration (UMTA) of the U.S. Department of Transporta-
tion. Federal funds will pay for 77 per cent of the construction of the 21-mile system and for the re-aligning of the bus system to bring passengers to the rail terminals.
The program will also add 357 buses to the county's present fleet of 350
Federal funds will also pay for a 3.7 mile people mover system in downtown Miami The system is similar to a moving ramp and will enable a passenger to step on and be transported anywhere in the downtown area.
The local share of the cost will be divided equally between the State of Florida and Dade County.
But. is a rapid transit system really necessary?
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the bus system to handle the large number of commuters that ride each day. Buses like cars, cost more to run than electric trains and get caught in frequent traffic jams
In order to handle the amount of passengers that rapid transit will accomodate. 2,200 buses would be needed compared to 550 that exist at present.
By 1985. the combined rail and public bus system, including the 3.7 mile downtown people mover is expected to carry over half a million people per day.
Almost everyone in Dade County will be no further than four or five | blocks away from the train system.
During rush hours, the average I wait for a train will be I 5 minutes ( three minutes on the Hialeah line). Other times, the average wait will | be about three minutes.
Whether or not rapid transit will become a reality in Dade county is up to the voter. The election is scheduled for March 7.
and research efforts.
•	Law School will receive an increase based upon revenues generated on its own. In other words, regular undergraduate tuition does not contribute to Law School programs.
•	Medical School is “earning" an increase through its “up" in enrollment and through state appropriation
•	School of Continuing Studies will get an increase because of departmental increase in revenues from conferences and special academic programs.
Approximately $18 million will be allocated in the category of academic Centers, which include Student Services, Medical Affairs and admissions.
In this category is the Library which will witness a second consecutive $100,000 increase in appropriation.
Student Financial Aid Services will also receive an increase — $420,000 dollars—which will be divided among tuition to offset the tuition increase, the newly-established Presidential Scholarship, the College Work- Study Program,
(CWSP). and the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. (GSI.P).
Approximately $15 million will be allotted in the category of General Support.
This area includes no increase except for the compensation package, from which will come monies from the announced tuition hike for the fall semester.
Two million dollars is the actual amount needed for faculty salaries. Almost $2 million will come from undergraduate tuition The remaining dollars needed to make up the $2 million will come from the graduate tuition increase.
Lubel said that students are not so upset about the $100 tuition increase for the fall semester as they are about the fact that they don't feel they’re getting a better education for their money.
"If we have to spend $1850 in tuition this fall, we should get get $1850 worth of an education," Lubel said. "We (USBG) are trying not only to lower tuition. We’re also trying to improve the academic, physical and social atmosphere of the campus."
Miami rapid transit max become reality
Miami Hurricane / HARRY RIMM
Multiple Sclerosis Dunce Marathon
Robert Rivas and Rosemarie Shea were one of the couples that danced for 30 hours straight at the Fifth Annual Multiple Sclerosis dance marathon, sponsored by a committee of University students last weekend in the Hurricane Cafeteria. The couple raised in excess of $270 for the charity.
Bank service may decline for poor, underprivileged
considering the location or age of dwellings in granting mortgages or making loan offers.
Although the board contends the regulations are designed to assure equal opportunity in lending. Ben-ston said that they would be "much more likely to hurt, rather than to help, the very people in whose name the rules are said to be adopted
In a preface to the study. Dr. Peter Aranson, special research administrator at the Law and Economics Center, describes Benston's study as “a scholar s brief that ignores the burgeoning ideology surrounding ittempts to prohibit the alleged-practice of redlining."
Fewer mortgages and a decline in the availability of other banking services are in prospect for poor people in declining neighborhoods if “antiredlining" rules proposed by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board are adopted
Those are the conclusions of Dr.
George Benston, professor of finance and accounting at the University of Rochester's Graduate School of Management. His study of the proposed regulations has been published by the Law and Economics Center of UM’s School of Law
The regulations would prohibit savings and loan associations from
Positions for hurricane editor„ business manager open for fall
Applications are available in the Student Publications Business Office, Room S221 of the Student Union, for those wishing to run for the positions of Hurricane editor and business manager. Deadline for fil.ng is noon, March 17, in that office.
All applicants must be screened in advance by Communications Professor George Southworth.
The editor and business manager both receive tuition remission for one semester and a stipend of $350 for the same semester.
Applicants must be enrolled as fulltime undergraduate students and have at least a 2.0 grade point average.
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