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GAINESVILLE The University of Florida fired two editors and one managing editor Tuesday and Wednesday, dismissing the top post successor less than 17 hours after his predecessor’s ousting, for “failure to exercise and accept responsibility with which they were charged."
The students snapped back at charges saying they were fired because of “undue political interference from outside (the university)—most likely from Tallahassee and Gov. Haydon Burns.”
Former editor Robert Benjamin (Benny) Cason, 23, a graduate student was removed from office Tuesday night, one week before the end of his term, by the board of student publications on seven charges included in a petition submitted at the meeting.
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Students Blame Outside Interference
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The unsigned petition, presented by board member Buddy Jacobs, president of the student body, was backed up by the appearance of over 40 students— heads of various student organizations — protesting the actions end attitudes of Cason, Andy Moor, the 17-hour pro-tem editor, end Yvette C a r d o z o, Moor’s whirlwind managing editor, and asking for the dismissal of all three.
Cason was serving as editor. Moor of Sarasota as managing editor and Miss Cardozo of Miami Beach as executive editor. Moor and Miss Cardozo had been named editor and managing editor respectively for the summer term.
A motion to fire Cason pass-
ed by a two-thirds vote of the nine-man board, but motions asking that Moor and Miss Cardozo be removed for the summer term were defeated when one faculty member switched sides and voted against the petitioners.
The list of seven charges included “bias” and “inaccuracy in reporting” events relating to the resignation of four professors in the history department, and problems in the business office and food services.
Cason and the other two were also accused of “constant and unprofessional harassment of state government officials and friends of the university,” and “unwarranted rudeness both private and
| in print in regards to the UF | administrative officials.”
Adding that the editors had used the student newspaper “for individual dislikes and vendettas,” the statement cited them for “wanton lack of editorial responsibility” in coverage of the infirmary.
Moor and Miss Cardozo were removed from their short-lived offices at the order of Dr. J. Wayne Reitz, university president, who appointed Drex Dob-I son of Cocoa as editor, and ordered the publications board to find a new editor and managing ! editor for the summer term.
An April Fool’s joke that evidently backfired reportedly set the spark for the student petition.
Cason thought it would be amusing to have a reporter and a cameraman crash the tapping meeting of traditioned-wrapped Blue Key honorary.
Cason said he was fired because “he threatened the status quo—rocked the boat—by reporting and commenting” on state government control of the university, and reprinting articles on “state big-wigs” such as Ed Ball, 1 controller of the vast DuPont empire.
John B. Webb, chairman of the pubs board, said he was “afraid he would have to say no comment” when asked if the board knew about the petition before it met.
Cason and Moor said they had
no ettnee to prepare a defense and laid no notification about the neiitian although they “knew that group was planning to do something,” but “didn’t expect the grandstand play.”
While the board met Tuesday in one room, the administrative assistant to President Reitz, Mel Sharpe sat in the next room and sent notes into Webb via Bruce Culpepper, chancellor of the university system. Cason charged that he was being fired by the university “through Mel Sharpe with Reitz calling the shots.” Cason said Wednesday night he “plans to file a slander suit against Buddy Jacobs, and then take the whole matter as far as I can” because he feels “freedom of the press and academic freedom" have been violated.
Dr. Reitz was unavailable for comment.
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41st Year, No. 21	University of Miami, Coral Cables, Florida, April 1, 1966	MO 1-2511, EXT. 2942
Smith Discusses Selective Service
IFC Awaits
University of Miami students who intend to take the Selective Service Qualification Tests which will be administered to approximately 14,000,000 men during May and June must apply for the test prior to April 23. according to UM Registrar George Smith.
Any Selective Service registrant who is presently enrolled in college or is a high school senior or graduate may apply for the test, reported Smith.
The registrar's office will have application forms available to UM students beginning Monday, April 4. These applications must be postmarked no later than April 23. 1966. Tests will be given on May 14, May 21 and June 3, and each test will last approximately three hours. The tests will be given at approximately 1.200 renters across the country.
According to Smith, the current draft regulations provide that local Selective Service Boards do not have to give 2S (student) draft deferments to those freshmen who rank in the bottom half of their class; those sophomores who rank in the bottom third of their class; and those juniors who rank in the bottom quarter of their junior class.
Only those seniors who rank in the top one-quarter of their class have been accepted to graduate school will have their 2S deferments continued.
Under the present system the student's performance on the Selective Service College Qualification Test will provide a secondary criterion for the determination of the student's draft classification by his local board.
The student who fails to meet
Phato by Livingston Hinckley. MM
The Zeta Beta Tau house was the scene of a small electrical fire on Tuesday evening, March 29.
Although the fire caused some commotion on fraternity row, no one was injured. The only damage was done to the storage room where the fire originated.
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Publication Petitions
Students interested in holding stipend positions on the HURRICANE, Tempo, or Ibis for the fall semester, 1966 have been asked to turn in their petitions at the Office of Student Publications on or before Wednesday, April
20.
Those students who are interested and who have any further questions about petitioning may see Wilson Hicks, Director of Student Publications, or call his office, Ext. 2127.
Pluto by Livingston Hinckley. KAM Registrar George Smith
class rank qualification and passes the test will be eligible for a deferment. And the same will hold true of the student who fails to pass the test but holds a high class rank.
Negro Impact Set As Topic For Speakers
Largest, Best Greek Week
“The 1966 Greek Week of the University of Miami promises to be the most successful all-Greek i competition in UM history," ac- | cording to Pete Luhrs, Greek Week Chairman of the Interfraternity Council.
Fourteen UM fraternities and 12 sororities will participate in this year's Greek Week, the largest representation of the Greek system at UM in recent years.
The annual Marathon Rare, which signals the beginning of Greek week, will start at 7:00 p.m. on Monday April 25. The first place winner in the rare, will light the Greek Week Torch, the symbol of the Greek System and the focal point of Greek Week Activities.
The Greek Week Blood Drive, the proceeds of which will be donated to the Dade County Hemophilia Association, will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Under this year’s point systems sororities must have fifty percent of their membership donate blood to the drive, if they are to compete for the overall Greek Week Trophy.
Herbert Aptheker theoretician of the American Communist Party, will speak at the University of Miami in April, according to Undergraduate Student Government President Tom Spencer. ]
Aptheker’s appearance at UM { will mark the first half of a two day symposium on the Negro movement and its impact on American society, Spencer announced on Monday.
The second speaker in the symposium will be Charles Schuyler, former editor of the Cleveland Press and authority on the American Negro movement and communism.
Aptheker, who last appeared in j the national spotlight in January when at the invitation of Ho Chi Minh he made a special junket to Communist North Viet Nam. is scheduled to speak on Wednesday evening April 20 in the UM Student Union. Schuyler will j speak the following evening.
Aptheker, 50, enthusiastically supported Stalin and for years has been the chief party historian in America.
Fraternity and sorority skits will be held on Tuesday evening, and the Greek God and Goddess contest will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.
The Interfratemity Council will hold its annual elections on Tuesday afternoon, the newly elected officers will be installed at the IFC banquet on Thursday evening. UM Vice President for student affairs. Dr. William Butler, will install the new IFC Executive Committee. At the same time the Plato Award to the Oulstand- j ing Fraternity Man of the Year, and special citations for the outstanding member of each UM fraternity will be presented.
The highlight of the annual Greek Week will be the IFC j Olympic Day, an afternoon of track and field competition for [ fraternities and sororities, on Friday.
The IFC Dance this year will j be held at the Deauville Hotel, | on Miami Beach. Entertainment j for the evening will be presented I
by Gary “US.” Bonds, Barbara Lewis, and Major Lance.
Miller, CARavan Entertain At UM
Chato by Bill Ratakin
Roger Miller is accompanied by I'M cheerleaders.
Ford CARavan of Music | “Kansas City Star,” “Dang Me,” brought Roger Miller and the “Engine, Engine No. 9,” and Good Time Singers to the UM j “King of the Road.”
Saturday evening. Miller, “The 1
King,” sang many of his hit songs	G°°d Time Singers gave
which catapulted him to fame a s^ow of humor and songs, during the last year. Among them among which were: “Mv Ramblin’ were “Doo-Wack A-Do,” “Eng- Boy,” “I Can’t Stay,” “Power and land Swings,” “Chug A-Lug,” Glory,” and “This Train.”
Disciplinary Committee Suspends 5 UM Students
Five UM students were suspended this week by the Men’s Disciplinary committee. They were given suspensions assigned for different periods of time based upon the nature of the facts involved in the respective cases ranging from one semester to an indefinite suspension.
The Disciplinary Committee, comprised of two students, two faculty members, one member of the administration and the Dean of the College in which the student in question was enrolled, evaluated all of the factors pertaining to each case before making its recommendations for these suspensions.
A one year suspension was given in the rase of theft of money from another student's room in the residence halls. A one year suspension was also given for the theft of a tire from an automobile while parked in a University parking lot. One semester suspensions were handed down for the selling of text hooks, which were another student's property, to the bookstore without the permission of the owner, and for public intoxication, physical assault, and destruction of pri- '
vate property on the University premises. For the removal of property from the bookstore without payment, a student was given an indefinite suspension.
The members of the committee stated that they were deeply concerned with the major problem of theft which has been experienced in the bookstore, the residence halls, and in the University parking lots.
Hersker
Petition
Denied
The University of Miami student petition for the granting of tenure to Dr. Barry J. Hersker, assistant professor of marketing, was denied Monday by President Henry King Stanford.
The decision was reached, Dr. Stanford said, after a review of the tenure question with the Dean of the School of Business Administration, the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the chairman of the marketing department.