Miami Hurricane, January 24, 1978

              TV’s Rivera at Beaumont
By IVONNE ROVIRA
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Geraldo Rivera, host of ABC’s Good Night, America and the traveling co-host of ABC’s morning news magazine show. Good Morning, America, will speak at 8 pm., Thursday, in Beaumont Cinema. Students will be admitted free with a valid ID card.
Rivera, once a self-proclaimed “radical," has changed his tactics but not his objectives. “You have to keep expectations within an attainable, realistic perspective. 1 don’t mean that you can’t think in idealistic terms," he said. "Think of a society that is equal where people have decent housing, education, food and life expectancies that are pretty much the same across the country.
“But we can’t resort to rhetoric anymore We ‘retired radicals' know better than anyone else. We can’t talk about making America an equal opportunity place to live within the next year. It's not going to be for a long time.
“The only way it’s going to be is if people do their work, really do their homework. The easiest thing to do, just like my documentary on the old people, is to look good, with good, hot rhetoric. It’s one thing to pound your fist and to really dazzle with your fancy verbal footwork. But it’s another to do the followup work that’s involved—just the everyday, pedestrian attention to detail that's to boring..."
Rivera, who joined WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News in 1970, did documentaries on drug addiction in East Harlem, the exploitation of migrant workers, the diffi-
culties of the elderly, the frustrations of returning Vietnam veterans and the discrimination against the physically handicapped.
For his documentary on the plight of the mentally-retarded. The Willowbrook Case: The People Vs. The State of New York, he received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism, the Scripps-Howard Foundation Roy W. Howard, the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the New York state and national Emmy awards. He received another Kennedy award and a Peabody award for his follow-up on Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded Rivera also garnered nearly 100 more awards for his other public service programs.
Ironically born on the Fourth of July. Rivera grew up as the typical Puerto Rican slum kid. Having been a poor student in high school, Rivera barely was conditionally accepted into New York Community College and spent the next few years dropping in and out of school After alternating school with such diverse vocations as serving with the Merchant Marines, playing professional soccer for two Mexican-American teams, and selling menswear, he finally received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
While an attorney, Rivera worked with the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Urban Coalition and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund to represent the poor of his native New York City
Despite his dedicating his entire legal practice to the poor and his counseling of the Young Lords, a Spanishspeaking “revolutionary action” youth group, Rivera has said of this time, “It was impossible for me to change the destinies of anyone as a poverty lawyer."
“I don’t want people to be touched by what I do. I
want people to be motivated," Rivera has said: and, according to him. he simply wasn't reaching enough peo pie in public defense.
Because of this, Rivera took a journalism degree at the Columbia School of Journalism and landed a position on WABC-TV as a bilingual, Puerto Rican newscaster, “as the token Puerto Rican," he himself phrases it. At first, due to his inexperience and his radical background (he had managed to be arrested twice during anti-war demonstrations), Rivera was given only insignificant stories.
Later, having blown the lid off New York in many areas. Rivera received national attention and spots on both Good Night, America and Good Morning, America.
“I don't want to be just another newsman. A lot oF them see news looking down on it. I try to see it at the level that it happens. I was born on 17th St., and I know this city and what the people go through, and I feel a re-' •sponsibility to tell their story," Rivera said.
“I report the news as I see it. The tragedy and humor of people who live in New York City.” he said, "a place so uncivilized that survival really means staying alive Sometimes, people just don't want to see the kind of stories I report on because they're sad or ugly, but these things happen just a stone's throw away.
“I makp no pretense of objectivity. But I'm not in-the business of making people cry. I'm in the business of
change."
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Circus dazzles crowd with clowns, elephants
By JAMES FERGUSON
Assistant News Editor
Tigers. Elephants. Ponies. Horses. Dogs. Birds. Motorcycle daredevils. And an 89-year-old woman horse trainer.
They were all UM visitors and sensational entertainers in the delightful Hanneford Circus' prrf-r mance last Saturday on the Student Union Patio.
Sponsored by the Student Entertainment Committee (SEC), the Hanneford Circus made its fourth appearance to UM, leaving the campus audience, along with community youth and parents that attended, in the traditional circus spirit
The audience enjoyed cotton candy, popcorn and drinks as the Hanneford Circus presented acrobatic feats, prancing promenading horses, elephants, an 8 year-old
horse rider, clowns, suspenseful motorcycling, and trapeze and magic acts and comedy.
The staff which performed in Saturday's show is the sixth generation of the Hanneford family, which owns the circus, and has kept the circus tradition in the family for years.
The family circus originated in the
IHOOs in England and is the oldest performing family circus in the United States today.
Tony Hanneford, the oldest living male of the family, took over the circus after his father George Hanneford died
According to Hanneford, the circus already has been invited back to UM for 1979.
"The University of Miami audience is always excellent," Hanneford said
Hanneford feels that people ap-
predate the Hanneford performances because "people like to be right up close."
“People like to see things like tiger claws and teeth." he said. "Unlike the large circuses which are performed in big arenas., it's more intimate this wav "
When asked of the family plans to continue in their traditional profession. Hanneford said, "Why of course. I don't know anything else."
Even though there are rumors that acts in the Hanneford Circus are a feeder circus for the Ringling Brothers Circus. Tony Hanneford refuted.
Hanneford said the circus has considered challenging Ringling Brothers, who claim to be the greatest show on earth.
“But we'll leave that up to the public to decide," Hanneford said
“Most of the acts in the Ringling
Brothers' Circus are from behind the Iron Curtain. " he said. "But, all my acts are American."
The Hanneford Circus has performed in Cincinnati, South Carolina. and New York.
According to Hanneford, they’ve also performed in basketball gymnasiums of major university campuses like the universities of Alabama, North Carolina in Chapel Hill. William and Mary, and Purdue universities
The main attraction of the afternoon's performance was the motorcycle feat and the Yopi Troop from Brazil thrilled the audience with their head-spinning, somersaulting cycling.
Hanneford claimed that he discov-Seepage6
Miami Hurricane TONY SLAM«
Pre-registration begins in spring
By JEFF BRISLOW
Hurricane Stell Writer
The hassles of registralion experienced last week bv all UM students will soon be phased out. replaced by a pre-registration system for all students desiring this opportunity.
A proposal to Initiate the school-wide pre-registration program for fall term '78 is under consideration.
While the exact set-up of the system has not been determined to date, Ihr administration has made a commitment to provide some type of pre-registration this spring. Rick Artman. assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs, said
“We hope to get approval for the program at the first meeting of the Management Committee, to be held sometime in February," Artman said.
Artman stated that he did not know what shape the preregistration will take or how many students will take advantage of it, hut that the program will take place to the Dest of his .
Knowledge "Thr proposal being considered,"Data Base Admimstra tor Sid Weisburd said, "is a manual advance registration plan "
Computer terminal registration is a long range goal Now. a manual system as utilized during regular registration, is the only feasible means available.
Students will have thr option to register this April and know what courses and sections they will be taking next fall before leaving this semester.
An advance defiosit of $125 to be collected from participants in the registration is part of the proposal.. Weisburd explained that this deposit will be to show good faith and that it would be non-refundable after a certain date.
Students on full or partial financial aid and/or scholarship may he exempt from this deposit This waiver would be on an individual basis and at the discretion of a financial aid officer and the bursar, Weis-burd said.
The procedure pre-registration follows probably will be similar to that of the New Student Summer
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Orientation Program (NSSOP). Weisburd said.
Students will be given the option to pay the entire tuition amount and complete the whole registration process. Under such circumstances, the student would not have to report to campus until classes begin.
Weisburd does not feel that a particular number of students is essential for the program's success. "We will make it early registration available to whoever is ready, willing, and able to do so." Weisburd said In the future. Weisburd feels that incoming freshmen could pre-regis-ter through the mail A prerequisite for this situation, however, is the elimination of UM placement tests. Also, the use of a computer for registration in the distant future will enable course scheduling The manual pre-registration system. when implemented, will mark an improvement over the present system by providing “better ideas of what the demand is for classes." Weisburd said. Adjustments could be made where appropriate before regular registration.
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W hitman Bridge engineer to speal
to occur on trial basis
By JOSHUA DANN
Hurricana StaW Writer
The apartment area will be implementing a realignment in staff patterning this semester. Assistant Director of Housing for Eaton Hall, Apartments Ray Leightman announced today.
The change will occur in the apartment area staff, where it will be changed from the present status of three graduate assistants to two graduate assistants and two resident assistants. The area will he split in half, and one GA and one RA will cover each division.
The new RAs are both females and will live in Apartment 43G. With two staff members in this relatively central spot, it is felt that they will be much more accessible and able to promote greater student/st-aff interaction.
"We want residents of the apartment area to have the same opportu-. nity to contact an RA for help as those who live in dorms where the RA is in closer proximity,” Leightman said
The staff change was originally scheduled for next year, but with the vacancy of a staff member in married student housing. Residence Halls Director George Shoffner gave Leightman permission to try out the program on a probationary basis.
One of the world's most distinguished engineers. Dr. Milton Brum-er, will give three talks sponsored
by the department of civil engineering.
Brumer will speak on "Satisfaction in Engineering." summarizing his life-long engineering accomplishments next Tuesday. On Feb. 14, he will discuss "The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge" and on Feb. 28 he will speak on “The Golden Gate Bridge—Lower Deck." All the talks are open to the public and will begin at 8 p.m. in the Law School Auditorium.
During his 40-year career, Brumer. retired president of Ammann and Whitney, Inc., had responsibility for major engineering projects throughout the world. Among the bridges he
helped create are the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge over New York Bay (the world’s longest), the Wait Whitman bridge over the Delaware River at Philadelphia and the second deck of the Golden Gate Bridge.
He has worked on major portions of numerous turnpikes and through-ways, harbor facilities and vehicular tunnels.
Brumer received the American Institute of Steel Construction's Engineer of the Year award in 1965, an honorary degree of doctor of engineering from Rensselaer -Polytechnic Institute in 1970 and was elected member of the National academy of Engineering in 1969.
H orkshop covers prof efficiency
Sixty professors attended one of the first faculty development workshops ever coordinated at UM last Thursday.
“1 got really excited about it. It was one of the most uplifting experiences I'd ever had I got to hear other professors speak about some of their successes and some of their failures," education professor Dr. Eveleen Lorton said.
The workshop was the result, according to Lorton. of five or six professors writing a letter to Dr. Sidney Besvinick, dean of Academic Administration and planning and of Academic Affairs, about increasing teacher effectiveness.
"This is a real concern on the part of a lot of us (professors) to do better. There was a lot of help on the part of Dr. Besvinick," Lorton said.