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It s good that the students can go to other students for help,” he said. “We wanted to make it as easy as possible for them to get help.”
The Open Door opens at 7 p.m. and remains open until 3 a.m. It is staffed by three students and a psychologist who remains home on call. If any problems come in that can’t be handled by these four, there is a list of numbers that the students can be referred to.
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200 cases, averaging four or five per night.
People really come in with all kinds of things,” Rockway said. “Problems with the draft, abortion, drugs, family problems — even people who are just lonely and want to talk.”
Students come to the Open Door voluntarily, and are not obliged to give their names. All conversations are strictly confidential.
“We want people to feel that they can come in and talk about virtually anything,” Rockway said. “We’ve had the feeling that not too many people knew abotit the Open Door, so everybody
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There are 42 student volunteers working presently at the Open Door, and a few more are needed.
“People who really want to work on something like this can also go to Switchboard,” Rockway commented. “They need volunteers lot more badly than we do.”
The students work three at a time, in two shifts each night. There are also seven psychologists who have offered their services.
The student volunteers meet once a week with a psychologist to discuss
the cases and their handling of them, and to try to find ways of improving their techniques. Many of them have had similar experiences themselves, and they understand the feelings of the students who come in with their problems.
“One problem we haven’t been able to solve is places for people to crash,” Rockway said. “Anybody with any interesting ideas should get in touch with us.
“The students should have a strong voice that shouldn’t be turned down,” he added. “The Open Door came from a need of what the students wanted, and what the staff thought would be good.”
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Students Sit On Grass; Baez Concert Goes Well
ln sP'^e °f all the difficulty ptting it started, the Joan concert came off •°°thly Friday night.
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effectively,” Miss Baez said. “They’ve really been wonderful.
“I hope everyone’s having a good time,” she added. “I am.”
The only flaw in the evening was the announcement
that those train whistles had been directed at two cars which were somehow parked on the tracks. The drivers of the unfortunate vehicles were instructed to find the police officers stationed at a nearby Royal Castle and fill out accident reports.
By JOHN REILLY Hurricane News Editor
The Student Body Government Senate voted Monday to bring impeachment proceedings against SBG Vice President Donald Spurlock and Treasurer Robert Drake. In voting the impeachment proceedings, the senate followed the recommendations of the SBG Budget Committee which made initial charges against the two student government officers Sunday.
The committee cited mis-sappropriations of funds, gross negligence, malfeasance and misfeasnce of office by both the SBG Vice-President and Treasurer.
The budget committee, in its expenditure hearings, has charged the vice-president and treasurer with:
•	Willfully and knowingly authorizing illegal expenditures above and beyond those legally and duly authorized for the activities of Secretary of Communications John Pike during the period of Homecoming 1970.
•	That Vice - President Spurlock and Treasurer Drake demonstrated negligence in failing to seek legal authorization for expenditures above and beyond those legally authorized for Secretary’s Pike’s Homecoming Program.
• That Vice-President Spurlock and Treasurer Drake demonstrated malfeasance and misappropriated funds in using SBG funds for
an extended period loan for personal use in the decoration of their offices.
The charges against Spurlock and Drake stemmed from a Homecoming Party that was not sanctioned by the Student Senate in which student activity fee funds were spent without authorization.
The budget committee found that Spurlock and Pike were authorized to spend $150 on a party which was held at the Fountainebleau Hotel the night of the Homecoming Dance. The budget
committee found that Spurlock and Pike spent a total of $721.
The party was to promote public relations between the SBG Senate, the student body, the administration and alumni. Irregularities were noticed when the SBG Senate and the student body were not informed the party was being held.
The SBG budget committee has agreed to pay the original $150 and the $79.50 room rental bill but insists
Spurlock and Pike are responsible for the remaining $490.50 that must be paid to the Fontainebleau.
“I have a moral responsibility to my electorate to see that their funds will not be mis-used,” Bill Lizewski, senior class senator and budget committee member said. “If other senators ackowledge their constituencies they will vote in favor of the impeachment and censure.”
The voting members of the budget committee present at Sunday’s expenditure hearing
Local Lawyers Aid Youth
By ELIZABETH OSTROFF
Hurricane News Editor
Young people who need help in dealing with the police, the courts, or their schools may now take their problems to the newly formed Metro Youth Relations Board.
The Board was created in December by an ordinance of the Metro Commission and is made up primarily of young attorneys whose practices range from the state attorney’s office to EOPI.
The YRB will be serving in a dual capacity. The board will advise the Metro Commission on matters affecting the rights of young people. In addition the YRB will advise
students of their rights and educate young people on how to effect change through existing structures.
At YRB’s first meeting in January, representatives from area colleges and high schools attended. Among the problems the students presented for YRB consideration were police harassment, public school policy, and the UM soccer field concert moratorium.
The only non-lawyer on the Board, Brian Carman, and Switchboard of Miami director, Steve Greenberg, a non-practicing attorney, both emphasized the need to document cases of police harassment.
According to Carman, in order to make such charges valid, young people who are the victims of harassment must record badge numbers, patrol car numbers, and if possible, names.
“We want to get you people under 30 some kind of pressure group or vehicle that will enable you to deal with people in government,”YRB member David Goldman told the group.
The YRB members also stressed the fact that, “we’re not going to be an advocacy group, we’re not yes-men.” The YRB will hold a meeting in S-241 of the Student Union at 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 12. All students all welcome.
were: Bill Lizewski, Dave Smith, Tony Passerello, and John Shephard. Reid Brown and Jerry Gorde were absent.
The budget committee has called a special meeting of the SBG senate to be held tonight at 7 p.m. in the Flamingo Ballroom of the Student Union to vote on the impeachment of Spurlock and Drake.
The Budget Committee originally voted to impeach only Spurlock and censure Drake. But at Monday’s Senate meeting, SBG senators decided to impeach both officers at the request of Jerry Gorde.
SBG President Mark Kras-now said he did not authorize the spending of the original $150. He was in the student infirmary during Homecoming and would not authorize student funds for a nonstudent party.
Penn State Veteran Hired To Head Athletic Dept.
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By ED LANG
Of The Hurricane Staff
After a four month hunt for a permanent athletic director the UM Board of Trustees and President Henry King Stanford have hired Ernest McCoy, 66, formerly of Penn State to fill the post.
McCoy is not on contract however, due to a technicality in university policy. After the age of 65, no one is to receive a contract.
“I wouldn’t want a contract because I would want the university to be able to have an out,” McCoy said. _
Prior to coming to Miami, McCoy was athletic director of Penn State for 16 years. He retired in 1970. When asked if he moved away from Pittsburgh to get away from the harsh weather, he said, J plan to gdt some fishing and hunting and some sun while I’m here.”
At Penn State, McCoy pushed for and got an ice skating rink, 36 bowling lanes, numerous tennis courts and an 18 hole golf course.
McCoy also put Penn State on a sound economic basis athletically. Since the Nitta-ny Lions are not affiliated
with any athletic conference, they do not have to split profits with any of the conference teams.
One thing McCoy insisted on at Penn State was that any money received on a profit basis by the Nittany Lion’s athletic teams would be pumped back into the athletic program for further development. This has not been the case with the UM’s past profits.
Jerry Wright, chairman of the Board of Trustees Athletic Committee said, “we’ve got all the youth we need out there on the grass. We need someone to hold the reins on these buggers and make sure they go by the rules.”
McCoy was offered the job in an indirect way. “Dr. Stanford asked me about someone else,” he said. I told him that he was a fine coach, but I didn’t think he would have made a very good athletic director. Then they turned around and asked me if I would consider the job. As of one week ago I had absolutely no plans to take this job.”
joe Paterno, Penn State’s football coach had high praise for McCoy saying If
there’s someone who can put together a good athletic program, he sure can.”
Asked if he knew of Miami’s losing athletic teams and loss of revenue, McCoy said, “I don’t know much about the university except that it’s a fine school. I haven’t been here long enough to learn the situation.
McCoy sard his wife had taken the news of moving very well, “My home will remain at University Park, Pennsylvania near the Penn State campus. My wife and I will simply rent an apartment in Miami as long as I’m on this job.”
McCoy said that his first job will be to “bring more organization to the athletic department.”
McCoy is the third athletic director this past year. Charlie Tate resigned his post as head football coach and athletic director in October and President Stanford appointed long time assistant football coach Walt Kichefski to take the reigns as acting athletic director and head coach.
Stanford scoured the country looking for a new athletic director and up until last week was still in search of a replacement for Kichefski.
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President Stanford Introduces Ernest McCoy
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Don Spurlock
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AWS Asks
Visitation Be Altered
The AWS has announced that a new women’s visitation policy is expected to go into effect sometime this semester.
A questionnaire was sent to the dorms in early December and visitation was voted on by a large majority.
The AWS Rules Revision Committee is now in the process of writing a visitation policy that would allow men in the women’s dorms. This policy will suggest the possibility of noon to midnight visitation Sunday through Thursday and 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
“I hope the policy will go through by March, but it depends on how long it will take to go through channels,” said Mary Lowey, AWS Rules Revision chairman.
There will be a trial period of one year, after which the policy will be either altered or accepted by the university-
Last week the AWS took a poll in the apartment area concerning the extension of visitation hours. “If there is enough of a majority,” said Mary Lowey, “we will recommend 24 hour visitation.”