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ELECTION SPECIAL The Mia urricane 41st Year, No. 22 University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, April 20, 1966 MO 1-2511, EXT. 2942 ELECTION UAL __ __ nr of uUy FSO Slate To Run linopjxjfeed™ Smith Slate Drops From Running As of Sunday evening, the slate including Gary Smith, George j DiCostanzo and Keith Haggarty for the top USG offices was dropped voluntarily from the running. According to a letter received by the Hurricane from Smith and confirmed verbally by the other two candidates, the slate felt that, “Due to financial difficulties, we feel that we cannot run a campaign which would be in the best interests of the University of Miami student body. "We have no doubt that our opponents will receive a proper mandate from the students which will charge the opposing slate with the responsibility of an adequate student government and the responsibility of good student leadership." The drop leaves the slate of Jim Fleming, Jack Sperry, and Chuck Omohundro running unopposed for the offices of USG president, vice-president and treasurer respectively. James Fleming James Fleming, candidate for the presidency of USG, is the 21-year-old “Outstanding Junior Boy of 1966." Fleming, a business major, is a varsity cheerleader and treasurer of the Pep Club. He has served on the Executive Committee of Carni Gras and Homecoming and holds these posts for this year. Recently elected into Iron Arrow honorary, Fleming is now working toward the publication of a spirit magazine for UM. A member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Jim has served as Rush Chairman, Secretary, and Vice-President. Jim, who hails from Rochester, N.Y., is currently a member of the Inter-Fraternity Council International Committee and is serving as the Co-Chairman of Greek Week. Aptheker, Schuyler Present Two Sides Jack Sperry Junior Jack Sperry is seeking the office of USG Vice-President. Sperry, a 19-year-old music education major, is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and is currently serving as treasurer. He is active in the UM Band of the Hour and is a member in the Orange Key and Phi Eta Sigma honoraries. He has been a member of the USG Constitutional Committee and the Carni Gras Committee and is also a teacher in UM’s Preparatory Division. Chuck Omohundro Running for the office of USG Treasurer is accounting major Chuck Omohundro. The 22-year-old junior is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, where he is active in the Executive Organization Council and the Financial Steering Committee. Omohundro was the assistant Publicity Chairman for Carni Gras, and is currently on the public Relations Committee for Homecoming. He is also serving on the committee preparing a new spirit publication for approval. Chuck, a native of McLean, Virginia, is the Crown Man of ZTA sorority. Senior Class Representatives Dr. Herbert Aptheker, American Marxist scholar and activist, will speak tonight at 8:30 in the cafeteria. Aptheker was educated at Columbia University and has been active in radical, socialist, anti-war and anti-fascist struggles since 1935. He has also taken an active part in the racial problem both in the north and in the south. As a scholar and author, he has produced twenty volumes dealing with problems fared hy the United States. His most recent work is “Mission to Hanoi,'’ published this year. His hooks have been translated into ten languages. Aptheker was awarded the History Prize in 1939 hy the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. In 1946-47, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Having been active in the peace movement for many years, Aptheker was a delegate to the world Peace Congress held in Tokyo in 1961 and at Helsinki in 1965. Since his fact-finding mission to Vietnam in December and January, Aptheker has been lecturing at _ various colleges and universities throughout the country—against the war. Aptheker was, in 1964, the founder of the American Institute for Marxist Studies, and has served as director of that organization since its foundation. He was also named Literary Executor of the estate of the late Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and is now engaged in the production of a collection of Dr. DuBois' letters and a bibliography of his writings. Apthcker's talk this evening will be on “The Negro Movement Today: Reform or Revolution.” Tomorrow at 8:30., George S. Schuyler will speak in the cafeteria on “The American Negro and the Communist Party.” Tickets will be available to UM students, faculty and staff upon presentation of their I.D. cards. Schuyler, a noted anti-Marxist and author, wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1925-61. At present, he lectures and is a contributor to the North American Newspaper Alliance! NANA). Students are requested to pick up free tickets for both of these lectures, no one will be admitted without one. They may be obtained at the information desk of the Student Union. Harriet Wcingarden Harriet Weingarden. a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi. is running for senior representative. As an AF.Phi she is second vice president. Other activities include being a ROTC Princess, and a UM Hostess. She is presently the vice president of the junior class. Laura Beckwith laura Beckwith is running for senior representative. In her three years at UM she has been active as UM Hostess and as a varsity cheerleader. Honories include Orange Key, Delta Theta Mu, and Mortar hoard. Pictured on this and the following pages of the HURRICANE are the candidates for offices in Undergraduate Student Government. Each candidate has listed his qualifications on the petition request form filled out for the Office of Student Activities. The information contained in the articles on these pages was taken from the students’ forms. Any additions to the lists of qualifications were made only by specific request of the student concerned. All additional information brought to the Hurricane office by candidates for publication was combined with that already received from the Student Activities Office. Garry I^efever Another candidate for senior representative is Garry Lefever. Garry, who is president of Madison House, and president of the Young Republicans, is an independent. Storm Sermay Running for senior representative is Storm Sermay. Storm has served on the U.S.G. Entertainment Committee. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sority of which she is Treasurer. Force of Student Opinio) Platform To Further USG 1. Commuter seat on USG council. 2. International seat on USG council. 3. General expansion of council striving for better representation of campus and reduction of duplicate representation. 4. Stimulate the foundnig of a commuter organization much like AWS town girls—including both men and women—to watch out for the interests of the commuter students. 5. In addition to the USG council and cabinet, establish a president’s advisory board consisting of presidents of IFC, Panhel, AWS, and MRHA. 6. Separate MRHA and IFC intramurals so that they play team sports individually (within IFC and MRHA) and then have play-off games between IFC and MRHA championship teams. 7. Eastablish Model United Nations and Model Organization of American States as an activity on this campus in order to promote interest in foreign affairs, create understanding and a training ground for solutions of personal and national intercommunication problems. 8. Work with the registrar’s office in setting up an advisory council to assist the registrar’s personnel in streamlining the processing. 9. Draft and present plans for upperclassman pre-registration and pre-advisorship for both upperclassmen and underclassmen. 10. Present plan for making the large empty lot by the West Lab school (property owned by the university) into an unrestricted parking lot with exits and entrances on the sides away from the West Lab school. 11. Institute a charge account plan for any section of the university (union, bookstore, tuition, etc.) on the basis of identification cards for all students. 12. Found a symposium program which would present a week-long session of discussion on some universal question in terms specific enough to be applicable to the present world scene. The symposium would include a panel of five or more nationally known experts (perhaps a theologian, an historian, an educator, a scientist, etc.) and individual seminar sessions held in the fraternity houses, sorority rooms, and dorm areas when students could speak with and question the members of the panel. 13. Improvement of alumni relations with USG and with all students in general by stressing closer working relations with the alumni office and by making the alumni more welcome at school functions and activities. 14. Because the vice-president sits as chairman of the union board, and only half of the $30,000 budget was used this year, present plans for closer working with the union board and the appropriation of union hoard funds for combined projects. 15. Institute a student advisory board to the faculty senate to provide student opinion for the senate and bring back faculty opinion to the USG council and cabinet. 16. Demand that, the university stop overselling the housing lots because the housing students cannot be expected to pay for spaces that don’t exist. 17. Include a provision In the USG budget for joint projects with all approved campus organizations. 18. l/ower the curfew limit to age 21 for all women in university housing, because at age 21 the student is legally responsible for his own actions and not answerable to the university or parrnts according to the law. 19. Turn the empty lots by the fraternity houses into recreation areas (for tennis, softball, etc.). New Voting Procedure To Curb Irregularities Procedure for Thursday’s and Friday’s voting has been improved, and a new system has been instituted to stop voting irregularities which have been noted in past elections. The voting will take place in the lower lounge of the Student Union (Game Room) from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be a uniformed Coral Gables policeman on duty in the area at all times. The following regulations will be adhered to with no exceptions, according to John Crane-Baker of the Election Commission: 1. Voting will be by validated photo I.D. card only. The following circumstance will be excepted, however: The student has the stub from his or her application for a new photo I.D. card. This stub must have the date May 22 stamped on it. Only stubs marked in this way will be accepted. The voter must present it along with his or her registration card which has on it a class schedule and a description of the student. On the hack of this card must be a stamp proving that the student is registered for the second semester of the 1965-66 school year. There must also be a stamp proving that the student has paid his student activity fee. 2. In order to vote, the student must sign his full name after his name on the last. 3. Clerks will explain the operation of the voting machines. 4. Questions of eligibility to vote will be turned over to members of the Election Commission, who will be in the area and will be wearing identification tags. 5. The highest degree of order must be maintained at all times to make the election process run as smoothly as possible. The Election commission also explained that voting will be done this year only by the number of credits earned by June, 1966. These credits, and corresponding voting, are listed below: 1-27 (Fresman) Top USG officers only 28-55 (Sophomore) Class representatives and U.S.G. Officers 56-89 (Juniors) Class representatives and U.S.G. Officers 66-89 (Seniors) Class officers and U.S.G Officers 90-)- (Present Seniors) Class representatives and U.S.G. Officers.
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Title | Miami Hurricane, April 20, 1966 |
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University of Miami -- Students -- Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals -- Florida |
Genre | Newspapers |
Publisher | University of Miami |
Date | 1966-04-20 |
Coverage Temporal | 1960-1969 |
Coverage Spatial | Coral Gables (Fla.) |
Physical Description | 1 volume (4 pages) |
Language | eng |
Repository | University of Miami. Library. University Archives |
Collection Title | The Miami Hurricane |
Collection No. | ASU0053 |
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Full Text | ELECTION SPECIAL The Mia urricane 41st Year, No. 22 University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, April 20, 1966 MO 1-2511, EXT. 2942 ELECTION UAL __ __ nr of uUy FSO Slate To Run linopjxjfeed™ Smith Slate Drops From Running As of Sunday evening, the slate including Gary Smith, George j DiCostanzo and Keith Haggarty for the top USG offices was dropped voluntarily from the running. According to a letter received by the Hurricane from Smith and confirmed verbally by the other two candidates, the slate felt that, “Due to financial difficulties, we feel that we cannot run a campaign which would be in the best interests of the University of Miami student body. "We have no doubt that our opponents will receive a proper mandate from the students which will charge the opposing slate with the responsibility of an adequate student government and the responsibility of good student leadership." The drop leaves the slate of Jim Fleming, Jack Sperry, and Chuck Omohundro running unopposed for the offices of USG president, vice-president and treasurer respectively. James Fleming James Fleming, candidate for the presidency of USG, is the 21-year-old “Outstanding Junior Boy of 1966." Fleming, a business major, is a varsity cheerleader and treasurer of the Pep Club. He has served on the Executive Committee of Carni Gras and Homecoming and holds these posts for this year. Recently elected into Iron Arrow honorary, Fleming is now working toward the publication of a spirit magazine for UM. A member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Jim has served as Rush Chairman, Secretary, and Vice-President. Jim, who hails from Rochester, N.Y., is currently a member of the Inter-Fraternity Council International Committee and is serving as the Co-Chairman of Greek Week. Aptheker, Schuyler Present Two Sides Jack Sperry Junior Jack Sperry is seeking the office of USG Vice-President. Sperry, a 19-year-old music education major, is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and is currently serving as treasurer. He is active in the UM Band of the Hour and is a member in the Orange Key and Phi Eta Sigma honoraries. He has been a member of the USG Constitutional Committee and the Carni Gras Committee and is also a teacher in UM’s Preparatory Division. Chuck Omohundro Running for the office of USG Treasurer is accounting major Chuck Omohundro. The 22-year-old junior is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, where he is active in the Executive Organization Council and the Financial Steering Committee. Omohundro was the assistant Publicity Chairman for Carni Gras, and is currently on the public Relations Committee for Homecoming. He is also serving on the committee preparing a new spirit publication for approval. Chuck, a native of McLean, Virginia, is the Crown Man of ZTA sorority. Senior Class Representatives Dr. Herbert Aptheker, American Marxist scholar and activist, will speak tonight at 8:30 in the cafeteria. Aptheker was educated at Columbia University and has been active in radical, socialist, anti-war and anti-fascist struggles since 1935. He has also taken an active part in the racial problem both in the north and in the south. As a scholar and author, he has produced twenty volumes dealing with problems fared hy the United States. His most recent work is “Mission to Hanoi,'’ published this year. His hooks have been translated into ten languages. Aptheker was awarded the History Prize in 1939 hy the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. In 1946-47, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Having been active in the peace movement for many years, Aptheker was a delegate to the world Peace Congress held in Tokyo in 1961 and at Helsinki in 1965. Since his fact-finding mission to Vietnam in December and January, Aptheker has been lecturing at _ various colleges and universities throughout the country—against the war. Aptheker was, in 1964, the founder of the American Institute for Marxist Studies, and has served as director of that organization since its foundation. He was also named Literary Executor of the estate of the late Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and is now engaged in the production of a collection of Dr. DuBois' letters and a bibliography of his writings. Apthcker's talk this evening will be on “The Negro Movement Today: Reform or Revolution.” Tomorrow at 8:30., George S. Schuyler will speak in the cafeteria on “The American Negro and the Communist Party.” Tickets will be available to UM students, faculty and staff upon presentation of their I.D. cards. Schuyler, a noted anti-Marxist and author, wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1925-61. At present, he lectures and is a contributor to the North American Newspaper Alliance! NANA). Students are requested to pick up free tickets for both of these lectures, no one will be admitted without one. They may be obtained at the information desk of the Student Union. Harriet Wcingarden Harriet Weingarden. a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi. is running for senior representative. As an AF.Phi she is second vice president. Other activities include being a ROTC Princess, and a UM Hostess. She is presently the vice president of the junior class. Laura Beckwith laura Beckwith is running for senior representative. In her three years at UM she has been active as UM Hostess and as a varsity cheerleader. Honories include Orange Key, Delta Theta Mu, and Mortar hoard. Pictured on this and the following pages of the HURRICANE are the candidates for offices in Undergraduate Student Government. Each candidate has listed his qualifications on the petition request form filled out for the Office of Student Activities. The information contained in the articles on these pages was taken from the students’ forms. Any additions to the lists of qualifications were made only by specific request of the student concerned. All additional information brought to the Hurricane office by candidates for publication was combined with that already received from the Student Activities Office. Garry I^efever Another candidate for senior representative is Garry Lefever. Garry, who is president of Madison House, and president of the Young Republicans, is an independent. Storm Sermay Running for senior representative is Storm Sermay. Storm has served on the U.S.G. Entertainment Committee. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sority of which she is Treasurer. Force of Student Opinio) Platform To Further USG 1. Commuter seat on USG council. 2. International seat on USG council. 3. General expansion of council striving for better representation of campus and reduction of duplicate representation. 4. Stimulate the foundnig of a commuter organization much like AWS town girls—including both men and women—to watch out for the interests of the commuter students. 5. In addition to the USG council and cabinet, establish a president’s advisory board consisting of presidents of IFC, Panhel, AWS, and MRHA. 6. Separate MRHA and IFC intramurals so that they play team sports individually (within IFC and MRHA) and then have play-off games between IFC and MRHA championship teams. 7. Eastablish Model United Nations and Model Organization of American States as an activity on this campus in order to promote interest in foreign affairs, create understanding and a training ground for solutions of personal and national intercommunication problems. 8. Work with the registrar’s office in setting up an advisory council to assist the registrar’s personnel in streamlining the processing. 9. Draft and present plans for upperclassman pre-registration and pre-advisorship for both upperclassmen and underclassmen. 10. Present plan for making the large empty lot by the West Lab school (property owned by the university) into an unrestricted parking lot with exits and entrances on the sides away from the West Lab school. 11. Institute a charge account plan for any section of the university (union, bookstore, tuition, etc.) on the basis of identification cards for all students. 12. Found a symposium program which would present a week-long session of discussion on some universal question in terms specific enough to be applicable to the present world scene. The symposium would include a panel of five or more nationally known experts (perhaps a theologian, an historian, an educator, a scientist, etc.) and individual seminar sessions held in the fraternity houses, sorority rooms, and dorm areas when students could speak with and question the members of the panel. 13. Improvement of alumni relations with USG and with all students in general by stressing closer working relations with the alumni office and by making the alumni more welcome at school functions and activities. 14. Because the vice-president sits as chairman of the union board, and only half of the $30,000 budget was used this year, present plans for closer working with the union board and the appropriation of union hoard funds for combined projects. 15. Institute a student advisory board to the faculty senate to provide student opinion for the senate and bring back faculty opinion to the USG council and cabinet. 16. Demand that, the university stop overselling the housing lots because the housing students cannot be expected to pay for spaces that don’t exist. 17. Include a provision In the USG budget for joint projects with all approved campus organizations. 18. l/ower the curfew limit to age 21 for all women in university housing, because at age 21 the student is legally responsible for his own actions and not answerable to the university or parrnts according to the law. 19. Turn the empty lots by the fraternity houses into recreation areas (for tennis, softball, etc.). New Voting Procedure To Curb Irregularities Procedure for Thursday’s and Friday’s voting has been improved, and a new system has been instituted to stop voting irregularities which have been noted in past elections. The voting will take place in the lower lounge of the Student Union (Game Room) from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be a uniformed Coral Gables policeman on duty in the area at all times. The following regulations will be adhered to with no exceptions, according to John Crane-Baker of the Election Commission: 1. Voting will be by validated photo I.D. card only. The following circumstance will be excepted, however: The student has the stub from his or her application for a new photo I.D. card. This stub must have the date May 22 stamped on it. Only stubs marked in this way will be accepted. The voter must present it along with his or her registration card which has on it a class schedule and a description of the student. On the hack of this card must be a stamp proving that the student is registered for the second semester of the 1965-66 school year. There must also be a stamp proving that the student has paid his student activity fee. 2. In order to vote, the student must sign his full name after his name on the last. 3. Clerks will explain the operation of the voting machines. 4. Questions of eligibility to vote will be turned over to members of the Election Commission, who will be in the area and will be wearing identification tags. 5. The highest degree of order must be maintained at all times to make the election process run as smoothly as possible. The Election commission also explained that voting will be done this year only by the number of credits earned by June, 1966. These credits, and corresponding voting, are listed below: 1-27 (Fresman) Top USG officers only 28-55 (Sophomore) Class representatives and U.S.G. Officers 56-89 (Juniors) Class representatives and U.S.G. Officers 66-89 (Seniors) Class officers and U.S.G Officers 90-)- (Present Seniors) Class representatives and U.S.G. Officers. |
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