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University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, February 7, 1964
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Union Delays Overcome — At Last!
Beset by a vast network of legal problems, and now faced with strong student protests, construction of the University of Miami’s multi-million dollar Student Union is at last scheduled to begin within the next two weeks.
The long awaited announcement of the impending dedication date was made recently by university assistant to the treasurer for new construction, William F. McLaughlin.
HERE IS A MODEL of the new Student Union for which groundbreaking ceremonies will be held soon. To be housed in the buildings are: (1) Billiards room with snack bar; (2) Post
office; (3) Bowling alleys; (4) Two-story bookstore; (5) Main cafeteria; and (6) Upstairs — TV lounges, 17 meeting rooms, and offices. For more on Union facilities, see page five.
'I Its Puff Or Poise
If you want to quit smoking, he best thing you can do is to levelop poise and self-assurance vithout using a cigarette to lean >n, according to psychology pro-essor Dr. Granville C. Fisher.
Dr. Fisher should know; he >nce stopped smoking for 13 rears.
“The report of the Surgeon General is an intellectual appeal to emotional problem; smoking is mainly due to emotional factors. The smoker — like the alcoholic — isn’t going to quit just because he knows it’s harmful,” explained Fisher.
“People start smoking because they want to ‘belong’ socially. They continue because it gives them something to do in a social situation — instead of just standing around like a dummy.”
The most important step to take is to “develop a feeling of ease in social situations so that you will need to have something to do,” says Dr. Fisher.
Although he quit for 13 years, the psychology professor says he took it up again because he found himself “continually lighting young ladies’ cigarettes.” He added that he is “planning to quit again . . . tomorrow . . . maybe.”
Roosevelt To Discuss President’s Program
James Roosevelt, Democratic Congressman from California and eldest son of the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt, is scheduled to lecture here next Wednesday, Feb. 12.
Roosevelt’s topic will be “President Johnson’s Program,” according to Lois Millman, chairman of the Undergraduate Student Government Lecture Series committee, sponsors of the talk. |
The address will be held in the Great Lounge of the 720
dorm at 4 p.m. and will be free to students and faculty members.
The delay in construction of the Union has been a thorn in the side of the administration for several months. McLaughlin hopes that the proposed facilities will be partially completed for dedication during Homecoming 1964.
“Everything is ready to go. If we could sign the contract today, the man (contractor) would be able to start tomorrow,” said McLaughlin. However, there arè a few more legal problems to be solved before construction can begin, McLaughlin noted.
Hopefully, it will take UM two weeks - - and no longer - - to complete the final arrangements necessary to clear the way for construction.
Here is the story on the delays: The first came when it was
STANFORD PROCLAIMS WEEK
Peace Corps Invades Miami
“The Peace Corps? Me? But there’s nothing I can do to serve.” Not so, says the Corps.
A seven-man team is on campus for Peace Corps Week, Feb. 9-15, to let you know about the organization and how students can qualify as volunteers.
President Henry King Stanford has endorsed the program which gets under-way with a convocation Monday night.
“The University of Miami
is in such a strategic geographic position that it should participate in many such national endeavors. You may know that ever since its founding, this university has had continuing interest in international affairs,” he said.
The team has already established itself in the USO office, the palm-lined walk between Merrick and Memorial Buildings, and the reading room un-
der Beaumont Lecture Hall.
“We’re not here to recruit,” explained 32-year old Dave Pearson, Peace Corps Deputy Chief of Information, “The people we’re looking for will be volunteers. We’re here to answer questions.”
The non-competitive aptitude test will be given at 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday in the reading room.
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Photo by Robert Nitti
Blazing Spirit Week Programs Silhouette Policeman ... at Wednesday night*s Union fire
Old Union Partition Damaged By Fire
Photo by Jeffrey Joffe
UM Students Line Up To Get Information About Peace Corps . . . questions range from pay to purpose
Fire in a trash can over-flowing with old newspapers and 1963 Spirit Week programs burned a partition in the idle Studeht Union building Wednesday night.
Two fire engines, one ladder truck, three Coral Gables police cars, and two campus policemen answered the alarm which was turned in at 9:53 p.m. by three UM students.
The fire between the beginning of the snackbar counter and the main dining room poured smoke into other parts of the Union.
Firemen had no trouble entering the building — the doors were unlocked. Their main problem concerned the flam-able trash strewn over the Union floor. Recreation Director Norman (Chink) Whitten s? id there has been no trash pick-up for months.
Twenty minutes before the alarm was turned in, a campus patrol car passed the union building and reported that everything was in order.
Later, according to the police report, the three students walked I through the breezeway and spot- »
ted the fire. They attempted to put it out themselves, but had to call the Coral Gables Fire Department.
When the fire fighters arrived, the building was filled with smoke. They used a booster line, water, and a carbon dioxide extinguisher to put out the blaze. Firemen also used fans to clear the building of the smoke before investigating the cause of the fire.
Flashlights were needed to examine the building since the lighting system in the snack bar is disconnected.
Investigators found the first and second floors of the building littered with papers, pamphlets, and broken glass.
School investigators on the scene were Matthew Borek, director of the physical plant; Harry Meigs, building operations supervisor; and Whitten.
Drawn by the sound of sirens, and flashing lights, approximately 250 students jammed the union patio.
Cause of the fire had not been determined at press time.
discovered that the original plans for the Union placed a corner of the structure over Dade County’s right-of-way along Miller Rd.
In order to avoid the right-of-way problem the university began immediate negotiations with the county for possession of the land in question.
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Dade County gave the university the right to permanently close the road in August in return for the university’s promise to provide “tum-around” circles at the closed off areas. However, before the university could deed out the land areas, it had to obtain the permission of the owners of the land and all mortgage owners concerned.
The university does not own outright all of the land which makes up the campus, McLaughlin explained. Most of the land has been mortgaged by UM to cover the construction costs of other buildings.
It was at the time that the university received the Miller Rd. right-of-way that UM President Henry King Stanford decided to close the road. McLauglin explained that UM administration felt it was of advantage to everyone to close the road from the beginning of the semester in order to avoid the confusion which might later result.
McLaughlin pointed out that the administration had hoped at the time to begin construction in September or early October, but had been unable to forsee the legal problems which they later encountered.
While* the university was negotiating for the Miller right-of-way, it also had to consider the problem of utilities lines which crossed the proposed construction site. The last of utilities companies, Bell Telephone, gave its final approval of the newest plan on Tuesday, thus clearing the way for approval of the new plans by the Coral Gables City Commissioii this week.
When approvals are received from Coral Gables and the Dade County Commissions the university will be free to sign a contract for the immediate construction of the Union.
Panels On Marriage To Begin
A topic close to the hearts of all college co-eds is marriage, and that’s what a panel discus-sibn in the Great Lounge on Feb. 11, at 7:30- will be about.
The first in a series of four panel discussions entitled “Education For Marriage” will, be “Marriage: Church or City Hall.” The panel will be made up of Dr. Earl F. Gossett, Jr., Rabbi Herbert Baumgard, Father Thomas A. Clifford, and Father H. Benton Ellis.