Miami Hurricane, July 17, 1978

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l M negotiates purchase of West Lab Elementary
By JANE MARCUS
M*W! Sditttr
Negotions with the Dade County School Board will resume this fall concerning the University's purchase of West Laboratory Elementary School to house the Communication and Art departments.
According to UM President Henry King Stanford the negotiations began early this summer, "however, neither the School Board nor I wanted to discuss this controversial matter when the West Lab parents were not here."
In 1954. UM donated ten acres of land adjacent to the east side of campus to the Dade County School system where West Lab, the first experimental schooL was built.
During the summer negotions. Stanford, on behalf of UM offered $750,000 to the School Board for the appraised value of the building.
"We are under strong encourage-men: from the City of Coral Gables to demolish those shacks (where the art and communication departments are located) that have been here smce World War II," Stanford said
We are only paying for the
v»iuc iif the building, the land al-ceaiy belongs to the University,"
Stanford said
According to Deputy Superintendent, Leonard Britton, who headed
l»e negotiations for the School
Board, the appraisors Slack-Slack and Roe Inc., estimated that rebuilding the school with the current educational requirements would cost $1.35 million, and the land was appraised at $850,000.
Besides having to move the communication and art departments, the University is faced with an annual property tax on the unused land across the street from West Lab.
“We must pay $12,500 annual tax on the property between West Lab and Granada We do not have to pay other property taxes, but since it is University property and it is not being used we must pay this tax." Stanford said.
According to Stanford, by purchasing West Lab, the property can be annexed to the campus and the University, therefore, would be exempt from paying the property tax.
"More important, the University has pledged its cooperation to the School Board to help in relocating West Lab and developing ft into a better lab school," Stanford said
Enrollment in elementary schools has been declining; we can take an elementary school with low enrollment and develop a better program than the previous one and we would still have a lab school for the teachers." Stanford said.
West Lab has new methods of teaching which provide a real life
workshop for the students of the UM School of Education.
West Lab is open to every child in Dade County. It is able to hold 400 students and is filled to capacity every year. Some parents have registered their child before birth or af an infant age The waiting list for West Lab exceeds 1,700.
The idea of relocating this lab school has caused West Lab parents to argue that by moving the school it will never be the same
According to Principal. Patricia Frost, Dade County public schools See page 18A
By CINDY VOVA
N#w$ Editor
UM is not the typical “ivory covered towers" type college that the mind is liable to conjure up. Instead, nestled in the southwest corner of Coral Gables, "the City Beauliful," UM's Florida-styled buildings spread out over 250 foliage covered acres thats beauty is difficult to rival.
Looking out across I ake Osceola, from the dorms each day at sunrise it seems as if time is standing still. Only the different colored blossoms on the trees mark the changes of the seasons. But after the sun has risen a quick trip to the library will inform one when the mid-term or semester's end is approaching.
UM’s reputation for perennial sunshine has become both a blessing and a burden for the University. It has been a blessing in that outdoor activities can he carried on year-round, but a burden in that the Sun-Tan U image-of years ago still wallows in the shadows of the past.
UM is a major university with a diversified blend of many academic areas, all requiring sufficient discipline in order to be successfully completed. Taking advantage of perennial sunshine does not insure perennial passing of one's courses.
In addition, do not be surprised if it is raining when one first arrives on campus Miami rain is not uncommon and it does not take long for one to get one’s share of it.
Even still, after the exams have been passed and the rains have subsided. there is still enough time to love, to live and to learn. UM ... for the times of your life!
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President Cervera plans coming year
Special Hurricane summer edition highlights newspapers to come
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overview of the University of Miami.
The Hurricane is UM's entirely student-run newspaper. It comes out biweekly throughout each semester on Tuesday and Friday, excluding finals week.
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By CINDY VOVA
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Undergraduate Student Body President (USBG) Alicia Cervera has a big job ahead of her. She has chosen some difficult goals for her administration.
But the 20-year-old junior, a psychology major, remains cool and collective when discussing her plans for the year. She places almost equal amounts of her emphasis on academic affairs and student services, a somewhat different position than her predecessor, whose accent was on the latter.
"We want to make students happy socially, and also have them respect the academic atmosphere,” Cervera said.
Born in Havana. Cuba, Cervera and her family moved to Miami when she was three years old. She is a graduate of Carrollton School in Coconut Grove, and has attended UM since her fresman year.
Prior to her election last April, Cervera had been active in Psi Chi. the psychology honorary and Or-
ange Key. She was In the USBG senate during her freshman year, and served as secretary ol Academic Affairs last year
Cervera headed up the M I A M I. (Miami is a Major Institution) ticket.originated under past president Allan Lubel. as "Make it a Major institution" was changed for what Cervera called “preventative medicine."
Cervera. who is currently attending summer sessions, spends a Rood deal of the day working on plans for the fall. Some of her proposed programs include:
• Security Service. This entails ev tablishing a phone number students can call to request accompaniment when they have to walk across campus at night. Five people will he involved in the process. Two groups of two (one male and one female) lo accompany students across campus and one to man the phone. Air Force ROTC. Karate Club and Circle K have already volunteered to man the service.
See page 2A
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