Miami Hurricane, December 20, 1963

              3! ei Year, No. 12
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, December 20, 1963
Changes Will Help
By MARK CLASBY
USB President
4	THE STUDENT BODY:
■	?rtain important changes in t| Undergraduate Student Gov- | e: nent Constitution have been f| -mmended to the USG Coun-c; They passed the first reading J appeared in the last issue of
I	Hurricane.
■	ney will be voted upon for
II	second reading at the next U j meeting Jan. 6. This is the d :edure necessary for amend-
;■ the Constitution of USG.
I efore the Jan. 6 session, I 11ted to take the opportunity t| explain the purpose of these
■	¡ndments to the student body
■	to ask all interested in the
■	irs of government on their
■	lpus to attend.
I rhese amendments are based I the experience and knowl-I ge gained during my term as I esident.
■	'irst, is the election of the
5	sident and vice-president on
■	ombination or slate ticket. The H soning behind this, is that this HI ir I was fortunate enough to 1 re a vice-president elected [I h whom I could work. What £ uld happen if a president and
■	e-president who did not get
■	ng with each other were elect-
■	? It would be USG who would
■	/ the consequences, and, even-
■	illy, the student body. If the
■	d are elected on the same tick-I we will eliminate a possible
H structive element and ensure
■	setter working structure.
I Second, and probably the I tost important change, is the
■	reation of the executive
■	ranch—separate from the leg-I ¡lative branch. The USG I ouncil is a legislative body,
where bills, campus policies, and appropriations of monies are its major business. Presently, the USG president presides over the council meetings composed of representatives from the various schools. These people were elected to represent the views of their portion of the student body. They were elected, or appointed on their abilities as leaders, as students who can express their own views and opinions in a mature and capable way. Therefore, the president acts only as a monitor during the meetings and his presence is not necessary for the representatives to express their views on certain issues.
But he is needed in the cabinet, where the actual physical work of student government is done, where the planning, development, and carrying out of such functions as: lecture series, movie series, tutoring service, community relations, Battle of the Brains, Spirit Week, and USG Week is accomplished.
The president of any organization spends much of his time in fields closely related to the cabinet’s work in meetings and conferences. This is why I have called for a separation of legislative and executive duties, to put the president where he rightfully belongs.
A chairman of the council, also a council member, would preside over the meetings, just to carry out the parliamentary duties.
The third change deals directly with the student body in general. It has to do with the various and widely distributed organizations on campus. A plan has been devised to help
Computing Center Work To
Begin
■	groundbreaking ceremonies ■: the University of Miami’s
■	e-story Computing Center will I held at 4 pan., Dec. 27 at the
I dlding’s site, west of the En-
■	neering Building and north of
■	e Law School.
I The structure, scheduled to be I mpleted by the end of 1964,
■	ill house, among other equip-I ent, the IBM 7040, the largest
■	id fastest transistorized digital
■	mputer on a Florida campus. Occupying the top two-and-
| le-half floors will be the staffs the U.S. Weather Bureau, the .S. Hurricane Research Program, I id the U.S. Navy Fleet Weather nit
A number of cooperative re-arch projects are planned using I ie giant computer and teams of I M and government researchers. Under the terms of a ten-year I ase with the General Services I dministration, UM will receive 1169,599 a year for federal use the building’s floor space (in I <cess of 55,000 square feet) and
research data analysis equipment.
In order to clear sufficient room for construction of the building, the commuter parking lot north of the library has been reduced to one-fourth its previous size. To accommodate the car overflow, additional spaces have been created in the University College parking lot.
Estimated construction costs exceed $1.15 million. Part of this sum is being donated by the Committee of 21, which has inaugurated a drive to raise $350 000 for construction of the building.
Participating in the ceremonies will be UM President Henry King Stanford; Oscar E. Dooly, chairman of the UM Board of Trustees; William Singer, immediate past president of the Committee of 21; and Dr. Howard Aiken, pioneer in computer development and distinguished service professor of information technology at the university.
these organizations end their independence and join in a common bond. The organizations which are related to the various schools will be joined in a small grouping of their own and have a representative on the USG council (one representative will represent all organizations in a particular school). This is for better communication and for more active participation among organizations. Even though they have different interests they are still related in that they have a connection to their individual
schools.
This is not an idealistic program, it is a realistic answer that can be given to the problems existing on this campus. We are all working under adverse conditions without facilities, but it is time to join together and build a better student body.
The organizations which do not fall under a classification in a particular school will form another grouping to be called the Inter-Organizational Council. They will then work directly with the USG Council through their one representative.
USG Votes $4 Revisions Stalled
The Undergraduate Student Government Council voted Monday to give University Services Organization the $400 financial assistance they requested at an earlier meeting.
The action followed reconsideration by the council after the request had been tabled last meeting due to the lack of time to discuss it fully.
“I recommend that $400 be taken out of miscellaneous funds and given to them,” Clasby stated. “But I still think that they, as any other organi-
Don’t Give Up The Ship!
Homecoming is composed of things traditional. Burning a boat to symbolize Miami’s determination to defeat its rival in the ensuing football game is a familiar event that this year was given a glamor treatment.
—Photo by Jeffrey Joffe The versatile USO group bought a 40-foot boat, stocked it with fire crackers, installed a shore battery, and staged a boatburning spectacle that was a battle to the fiery end. When the two-masted schooner began to blaze it seemed like a scene plucked from an 18th century sea battle and plunked down in the middle of the lake.
zation, should requisition money before it is needed."
Prior to this, the USG Constitutional revisions were brought up for the second reading.
Dick Bonehill, representative from the Men’s Residence Hall Association, was recognized by Clasby and he stated that the revisions could not be brought up at this meeting due to Article XII of the Constitution.
This article states that: “Amendments to this Constitution shall require approval of two-thirds of the members of the Council manifested at two Council meetings held no more than one month and no less than two apart; approval of two-thirds of the members of the Board (of Review); and the approval in writing of the president of the University. All proposed amendments must be published prior to final approval of the Council.”
Since only three days had elapsed since their publication in the Hurricane, the proposals had to be tabled. “Well, that’s that. I guess we will have to wait until the meeting on January 6,” Clasby remarked.
Elliot Bernstein next brought up the subject of the Hurricane investigating committee and the extensive work it has done. “We spent a lot of time evaluating and checking the Hurricane. I think something ought to be done with the results of our investigation.”
Mike Rubin, Business School Representative, moved that the report be submitted to the Board of Publications.
After much discussion it was decided that the report would be given to the Hurricane editor, and “if no satisfaction is gained, we [USG] will go higher.”
25 Schools to Compete
Debate Tournament To Begin
Teams from 26 colleges and universities will participate in the 17th annual University of Miami National Invitational Debate Tournament, Dec. 29-31, said Steve Slepin, acting director of debate.
Based on drawings before their individual rounds, the debaters will either advocate or deprecate the topic: “Resolved: that the federal government should guar-
antee an opportunity for higher education to all qualified high school graduates.”
The final round is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Dec. 31, in the Brockway Lecture Hall of the Otto G. Richter Library.
The University of Miami will be represented by Barry Richard and Neal Sonnett. Because it is the host team, Miami is not eligible for the finals.
Projected Computing Center . will house weather bureaus, research programs
UM Graduate Shot On Viet Nam Flight
Louis M. S. Carnearte, UM graduate killed in action in Viet Nam last week, will soon have his name added to an honor roll dedicated to the UM students who lost their lives in the service of their country.
The honor roll plaque is now temporary but a permanent one is being constructed, said Mark Clasby, Undergraduate Student Government president.
“The plaque is being sponsored
by USG, and should be ready early next spring.
Carricate, 22-year-old Army pilot, was shot down while on a military reconnaisance mission. He had been on active duty in Viet Nam for only one month.
Bom in Havana, Cuba, he and his family moved to Miami 14 years ago, and became citizens a few years later. He attended UM for four years, graduating with a degree in business administration.
However, the team will meet West Virginia Wesleyan College in dual debate on this subject Saturday, Dec. 21 at 10 a.m. in rooms S107 and S108.
This debate, along with the tournament, are open to all interested persons.
The judges for the tournament will be: Miami Beach Mayor Melvin Richard, Circuit Judge Harold Vann, financier-attorney Baron de Hirsch Meyer, former circuit judges Vincent Giblin and Phillip Goldman, Metro Commissioner Robert Brake, and Gerald Kogan, UM alumnus and former champion at the West Point National Debate Championship, will be among the participants.
Other teams participating are: Ohio State, Princeton, Amherst, Northwestern, Canasius, Queens College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, St. Josephs, Xavier, University of Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, Florida State, Pittsburgh, and Kentucky.
Also Houston, Georgia, South Carolina, Boston College, Washington and Lee, Wake Forest, John Carroll, Emory, and Wisconsin State.
Critic To Speak On Nobel Poet
Students planning to be in the Miami area over the Christmas holidays are invited to attend a lecture on the poetry of George Seferis, Greek poet who recently won the Nobel Prize for literature.
The lecture, to be delivered by Professor Edmund Keeley of Princeton University, is sponsored by the Hellenic-American Club of the University of Miami. It will be held at the Recreation Hall of St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church on Coral Way at 730 p.m. Jan. 3.
Professor Keeley, noted critic, translator, and author, will be visit:ing the UM campus at the invitation of Dr. John E. Hall of the Humanities Department.
Professor Keeley is the author of two novels, The Libation and The Gold-Hatted Lover, and is co-author and co-translator of Six Poets of Modern Greece. He was awarded the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the first novel, and subsequently received a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing in fiction.
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