Miami Hurricane, November 10, 1978

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Volume 54, Number 21
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USBG Officers Elected 2 Seals Remain Empty
By LOR! BARRIST
Hurnum New* Writer
Denise Tescher and Ralph Allen were declared the winners of the two seats on the Student Entertainment Committee (SEC), in the only highly contested position in the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) elections on Nov. 6-7.
While voter turnout was higher than expected (559), the number of candidates running for office showed a marked decline over last year’s election.
For the 15 positions available, 10 candidates ran unopposed. Nobody even ran for two of the positions
"We needed more candidates," Gina Corey, sophomore senator-at-large. said.
“If we had more people running, more people would have voted, and the election would have been more exciting,” she explained.
Sabrina Stern and Kevin Williams were elected as freshman-at large senators. Both emphasized that they will always be available to the students.
“1 was particularly impressed by the freshman participation in the election," Williams said “More freshmen voted than any other
class.”
Sophomore-at-large senators elected were Gina Corey and Alan Rubin.
Corey plans to help out student services by putting together a consumer directory.
“We're also working with security to improve safety on campus. Right now we're looking into installing peepholes in the doors so students can see who’s at the door before they open it,” Corey said
Rubin will concentrate on the apartment area-fixing the stairs and getting more bicycle lockers.
Dormitory senators elected were
Pat Finerty (960 Complex), Brenda Nason (1968 Complex), Jaques Moritz (Eaton Hall) and Paul Novack (Apartment Area).
Novack hopes to represent the students’ point of view to the ad-minstration.
“Right now I’m working on improving the safety features around the apartments, especially the fire extinguishers,” Novack said. “Some extinguishers were broken, and there just weren’t enough around. That situation has been corrected ”
There is no senator from the Ma-honey-Pearson Complex The only candidate running was disqualified due to faaalure to submit a financial statement.
Off campus south senators are Jeffry Pirofsky and Jeff Rubens. Carlos Puentes was elected as off campus north senator and Cristina Frexes was elected as off campus central senator. All off campus senate candidates ran unopposed.
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UM Discredit Effort Fails
By ERIC SHORE
Humean, N,W1 Wrtt.r
Information has been received by the Hurricane that the University tried to discredit Mike Infante before the State of Florida Unemployment Appeals Division.
It was reported that John Zanyk, of the UM personnel office, went before Edna Davis of the Chamber of Commerce, unemployment division, and stated tha all the information that former Officer Mike Infante brought before Sam Smargon
of the State Attorney's office, was found untrue by Smargon.
“Hell no,” Smargon said “Cross out the word ’cover-up' and everything Mike Infante brought out was true.”
It was also learned that David Wike, former Director of UM Security, wrote a note to Edna Davis, of the unemployment division of the state, and stated that during an administrative hearing, where Mike Infante was fired by him. Infante did not want an attorney when asked. Later, Wike reportedly under oath, said that Infante did request an attorney.
Davis refused to comment stating, “It would be a misdemeanor for me to divulge any information on the hearing or anything that could lead us to our final conclusions on the matter.
As reported in the Nov. 7 issue of the Hurricane, the State of Florida directly contradicted the findings of the University Grievance Panel hearings, stating that “the employer has failed to show by clear and positive proof that the claimant's refusal to answer questions without the presence of his attorney constituted a material breach of his duties and obligations to the employer."
The Grievance Committee, after 24 hours of testimony and deliberation, decided that “the action taken by Mr. Wike was proper and justifiable in accordance with university procedures.
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Miami Hurricane STAFF PHOTO
This jubilant gang is just one example the campus scene in the event of events, of how school spirit, dormant throughout UM Homecoming! most of the year, suddenly explodes onto
Contract Signed ARA Hires UM Employees
By CINDY S. VOVA
News Editor
Some 250 former UM employees working in the areas of ground maintenance, landscaping, garage, trucking and housekeeping services have now come under the jurisdiction of ARA Environmental Services Inc as a result of a contract signed between the company and the University earlier this week
On Oct. 30, approximately 100 employees gathered outside the Ashe Building to protest the contracting proposal.
According to custodian Harold Chubbuck, the employees were concerned that they would not receive the same benefits and pay rate that they had under employment with the University.
However, Edwin Shelley, Operations Manager of Physical Plant sent out a memorandum to the employees last week stating, “1 can assure you that all of the existing em-plyees will be transferred and will have jobs." Shelly went on to say in the same memorandum that the employees would have the same wages that now exist and comparable employee benefits.
In an article in the Nov. 3 Hurricane. UM Business Manager Oliver Bonnert stated that, "Until the union and the University come to an agreement or reach an impasse, we cannot proceed to make a final decision on whether we will go with contracting or not.”
The former University employees were not officially represented by the union. A June election to unionize them resulted in a 224-223 mote against unionization. After the election. 42 ballots were challenged by the unionrcausing the election to go
into appeal with the Florida NLRB (National Labor Relations Board), according to Bonnert.
Dr. John Green, Executive Vice President of Administration and Finance, explained that because the final results of the union electin remained in limbo, the University was obliged to have union members present to hear of the proposed con-
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4.0 Quality Ft.
By HARRY H. RIMM
Managing Editor
Unknown to most students ant faculty alike, the University ha-two grading policies, either ol which can be used at the discressior of the professor.
According to Undergraduate Stu dent Body Government (USBG) Sec retary for Academic Affairs Diana Joseph, the first system, which has been used exclusively until now, is an A, B, C, D, F. format, whereas the new system utilizes minuses and pluses.
This system, which first appeared in this year’s bulletin,is as follows:
A .4.0	C .2.0
A- 3.7	C- 1.7
Bt.3.3	Dj-1.3
B ,3.0	D .1.0
B-.2.7	E .0.0
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Company Removes Washers From UM
By MICHAEL J. WE BER
Afttétfanf Mow« Editor
Every single washing machine and dryer on campus was removed this past Saturday. This was done without notice to the students, many of whom were using the machines at the time.
Wash and Dry Inc., the vender who provided the machines for UM's use removed the machines following a decision by the University’s business office to award the contract to another vender
Mr. Phillip A. Davis, assistnat director of auxilliary services, gave the following reasons for the move to a new laundry equipment company:
"We have been having many problems in dealing with Wash and Dry over the past few years. Machines wouldn't be cleaned for weeks and often were out of order. The arrangement we had with them (Wash and Dry) was that they could regularly clean the machines and fix them within 24 hours of reported malfunction, except on weekends.
“We tried again and again to let them know what we expected of them under the terms of our agreement. It got to a point where we felt we were justified In seeking another vender.*'
Davis reportedly opened up bidding for the concession at the University to other washer and dryer suppliers, but also informed Wash and Dry of this action, and asked them to submit a bid.
“They told us that they were sat-
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isfied with the agreement that we already had and could see no reason to submit a new bid." Davis said.
On the basis of the newly submitted bids, the University chose to give the business to a new company, Wash-Bowl Inc. They then informed Wash and Dry of the decision abd told them that their contract would expire on Jan.l, 1979.
On Friday, Nov. 3, Oliver Bonnert, UM Business Manager, received a telegram from Wash and Dry stating that they would begin to remove their equipment on the following Monday. George Shoff-ner, UM Director of Residence Halls, was informed of that decision that same day.
On Monday, Residence Halls Office sent out letters to all students and WVUM broadcasted announcements to the campus informing them of the change.
Then on Saturday, Nov. 4 trucks from Wash and Dry arrived on the UM campus to remove the machines.
"I was right in the middle of a wash cycle," complained one unhappy coed "They wouldn’t even let the cycle finish, so that I could get the soap out of my clothes ”
“I had about five minutes left in the washer, and I asked them if they could wait about 10 minutes so that my clothes could finish drying,” said Steve Gellman, an apartment resident.
“They said it was getting near five o'clock and they want to go home. There was also a washer next to mine with clothes in it. *
They unplugged it, but I don’t know what they did with the clothes.”
"We realize that the action caused some inconvenience," Paul Robinson, sales manager of Wash and Dry said. "This was not fully our decision, it wasn’t just some arbitrary choice on our part.
“We were not happy either. We’ve been working with the University for almost two decades and we didn;t expect any more than the students. In a way, we have been inconvenienced, too,” Robinson stated.
Robinson told the Hurricane that he would submit a full explanatory statement next week
Approximately 30 washers and 24 dryers have since been installed on campus by the new vender, Wash-Bowl.
"We were caught flat-footed,” said a spokesman from Wash-Bowl. "We rounded* up whatever equipment we had at the time and moved it to areas that we felt received the greatest use.”
None of the recently installed machines will remain at UM permanently. New Maytag units called the "number one appliance in its field” by a recent Consumer Report, will replace the old machines. Several of the temporary machines cost 50 cents for a wash and dry. as opposed to 35 cents in the old machines.
“That’s only because we are giving UM every usable machine that we can acquire," stated the Wash-Bowl spokesman. “When the new machines arrive we will go to a
ticket system, whereby students will buy a ticket from a machine and use the ticket to activate the washer or dryer. This should cut town on the times that the machines are inoperative due to break-ins."
When the ticket system is installed the price will be agreed upon by UM and the new vender Wash-Bowl guarantees that whatever the new price is,“it will be the same or lower than competitive prices, definitely not higher."
The bulletin is a binding leg. contract between the Universlt and it’s students. The appearance o this new policy in the bulleti means that most students have en tered into an agreement with th University of which they are un aware.
Under the present system, a stu dent receives an "A",' wherea under the new system a studen may receive an "A" or an "A-” Tb “A" has a quality point average o 4.0, while the “A-” has a 3.7 aver age.
Being that it is up to the profes sor to decide which of the two sys terns to use, out of two students both having a 90 average, onci could hypothetically receive a 3.7
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