Miami Hurricane, May 1, 1964

              SIGMA CHI AKES LAURELS Page 2
The Mia
urricane
LAUREL RANKS THE HIGHEST Page 7
;9th Year, No. 24
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, May 1,1964
Telephone MO 1-2511, Ext. 2581
SIGMA CHI PRACTICES for the 26th annual Songfest-Swingfest. They will be one of nearly 20 groups participating at the Dade County Auditorium tomorrow evening (Saturday) at 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity, the event will include music ranging from American standards to Afro-
Asian arrangements. Awards will be presented to the top fraternities, sororities, and mixed organizations.
The second part of the evening will be a dance at the Electricians' Ballroom, 1675 N.W. 17th Ave. Admission for both events is $130 for adults and $1 for students. Tickets may be obtained at the door.
NAMED ACTING DIRECTOR
UM Research Soars
Clyde Heads Computing Center
Dr. Dean Clyde
Elephants Are Coming!
cil will be named in September by Dr. Baum. They will serve terms of from one to three years, and will be selected from candidates nominated by committees of UM’s various schools and colleges. The Faculty Senate and Academic Planning Committee will set the number of committee members and percentage of representation by each school.
Until the fall, the 17 scientists of the unofficial “Research Advisory Group” will function as the Council. “RAG” was set up two years ago in preparation for the council’s formation.
Among the Council’s other functions will be planning for major research proposals and
projects, advising on matters related to research and research funds, and allocation of funds from “institutional” grants presented to UM.
During the past ten years, research at UM has multiplied more than 16 times, according to Dr. E. H. Man, coordinator of research.
In 1953, less than $500,000 in research projects were in effect., Last year there were nearly $8 million.
During the first three quarters of the 1963-64 budget year, UM’s research had spent some $6 million, Dr. Man added.
Dr. Dean Clyde, director of the University of Miami Biometric Laboratory, has been named Acting Director of the now-under-construction Computing Center.
Announcement of the appointment was made this week by Dr. Werner A. Baum, vice-president for academic affairs and dean of faculties, who said Dr. Clyde will carry the additional responsibilities until a permanent director is found.
Said Baum: “Dr. Clyde has had extensive experience in and knows much about the use of large scale computers.”
Dr. Clyde and his staff, tem-
porarily housed in rented office space on Bird Rd. in Coconut Grove, are currently using an IBM 1401 computer for their work. According to Baum the Biometric Center will use extensively the IBM 7040 due to be installed in the new building when it is completed.
The five-story Computing Center is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 1, 1965.
Though Clyde’s appointment becomes effective immediately, it will not be a full-time job for quite a while because it is mostly planning now, Baum declared.
“He will be doing preliminary work in planning and holding educational sessions for graduate students and students who will be working with the computers,” Baum stated.
Clyde, a psychologist with a strong statistical background, earned his degrees from Penn State University in eight years. His work at the Biometric Laboratory is being financed by a five-year National Institute of Mental Health grant.
He is currently correlating the effect of psychiatric drugs oh the patients of 75 physicians scattered throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Sonny Block, a 1957 graduate of the University of Miami, and “The Elephants” will swing into the Playhouse of the Miami Springs Villas this evening for the annual Inter-Fraternity Council Ball.
Plato Award Honors Outstanding Greek
More rapid progress in the study of the physical characteristics of the sea will be one of the major results of a recent grant of more than $1 million to the Institute of Marine Science, said Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, IMS director.
The $1,940,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will be used toward the cost of a new laboratory building to house the entire Division of Physical Sciences.
At the present time researchers in physical sciences are scattered over six buildings at the Institute’s main facility on Virginia Key, while others are on main campus and at the Bimini Station.
The Division of Physical Sciences carries out research on currents, waves, tides, underwater sound and light, the chemistry of sea water and sediments, the topography and composition of the sea floor, and other studies.
To be completed and in use by the spring of 1965, the new laboratory will be constructed as a wing connected to the main building at the Institute of Marine Science.
It will consist of three stories and will have about 30,000 square feet of working space. The ground floor will contain model basins and pressure tanks, including space for a rotating tank and a soundproof chamber. Tanks will be used for calibration of instruments and also to simulate some conditions of the open sea for experimental purposes.
Second and third floors will house offices and laboratories; also classrooms, a computer room, chartroom, and a radio communications center for maintaining contact with the Institute’s fleet of research vessels.
Block is the older brother of former IFC and USG President Stu Bloch. Ivan Block, another brother and member of the “Elephants,” also attended UM.
The Ball begins at 9 p.m. and will run to midnight.
Charles Bobbitt H . outstanding Greek
“As Plato exemplifies the best of ancient Greek society, the recipient of the “Plato Award” represents the best in our Greek system . . . Charles D. Bobbitt, H.”
Thus spoke Kenn M. Kerr, advisor to fraternities, who presented this first annual award honoring UM’s outstanding fraternity man to Bobbitt, a 21-year-old senior.
The av?-*.rd, nresented Pst week at the Inter-Fraternity Council Banquet, was presented to Bobbitt for his efforts on
behalf of the fraternity system.
Kerr praised Bobbitt for his many accomplishments: he is a past president of Sigma Phi Epsilon; chairman of last year’s Blood Drive; vice-president and acting president of the Inter-Fraternity Council; and chairman of the IFC Judiciary Board.
The individual to whom the award is presented is decided upon solely by the advisor to the IFC, on the basis of character, service, conduct, attitude, leadership, scholarship, and sportsmanship.
After graduation, Bobbitt, a marketing major, plans to work for his father in Mexico. With this in mind, he specialized in subjects dealing with Latin American affairs.
“He has been the one constant factor throughout this past year which has maintained the IFC on an even keel in days of strife,” Kerr said.
“He has never relinquished his principles or diminished his desire to help,” Kerr added.
“I hope the Plato Award will be looked upon as the most important that a fraternity man can receive—the epitome,” Kerr said.
USG Wants New Union
Concession
The Fifth Academic Honors Day is to be held at Miami on Wednesday, May 13, 1964. The ceremonies will be held from 11 to 12 noon, at the center of the campus, in the slight bowl between Merrick and library. All classes will be excused for the program.
At the university, “Honors Day” is the means by which students with exceptionally high academic achievement are publicly recognized. Dr. Taylor Alexander, chairman of the Honors Day committee would like to stress the fact that, although only a few can be hon-
ored, this program is held for all of the student body.
The program address will be by Dr. Werner A. Baum, vice-president for academic affairs and dean of the faculties. His speech will concern the building up of scholarships at Miami and include how we can devise means to support the most qualified applicants, and what our university has to offer to the applicant for a scholarship.
All students, faculty, and parents are invited and encouraged to attend. For the benefit of those coming by car, parking restrictions will be waived.
A resolution to establish a student-run news and periodical stand in the new student union was introduced by President Lee Clifford at the Undergraduate Student Council Monday.
The proposition noted there is a need for the sale of these items, and since the students helped initiate and finance the new union, then USG should sponsor a department for the sale of these articles. Proceeds would be used to aid worthy and needy students.
A committee of three was set up to study the proposal.
This is the Proposed Laboratory Building wluch will House the Division of Physical Science. . . . $1 million National Science Foundation grant will be used in constructing the building -----------------------------f

Scholars On Parade During Honors Day
NSF Grant Tagged For Sea Research
“The voice of research” for the | Jniversity of Miami was initiated ruesday by Dr. Werner A. Baum, dee-president for academic af-airs and dean of faculties.
The faculty Research Council of the University of Miami— whose fexpenditures are expected to exceed $8,000,000 in 1964—will supervise the formation of “research policy” for UM’s more than 300 researchers.
The first members of the Coun-
UM Dean On Panel At Rollins
University of Miami Dean of Students Noble Hendrix will ead a panel discussion on hu-nan relations on the campu§ as is viewed by student deans May 8 it the third annual conference on duman Relations in Higher Education in Florida.
“I plan to build the discussion iround the thought that the col-ege community, like all com-nunities, contains natural group-ngs of persons with group out-ooks and drives,” said Dean Hen-Irix.
“It is at this point that the col-ege has its especial opportunity md its especial obligation. It should be a setting for discussion )n a high intellectual level in which varying rationales are sub-ected to challenge and analysis ind must be defended on the >asis of scholarly search for truth, he essential function of the col-ege,” he said.
Dean May A. Brunson, Dean Ben David, and Guidance Center Director Dr. Jess Spirer will participate in the debate session which is scheduled to be held on the Rollins College campus, Winter Park, for all Florida colleges and universities.
The theme of the conference is I based on an inquiry into the in- I terpretation of society by the arts and education. In emphasizing the arts, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot will be presented as a social document for discussion.
The week-end meeting, sponsored by the National Conference af Christians and Jews, will close with a luncheon featuring Miami News editor Bill Baggs as the main speaker.