Miami Hurricane, March 12, 1971

              -Photo By SUNSHINE
The R.A. Rally Divided Into Discussion Groups
•.. here a girl discusses the foibles of on-campus life
Lake Nearly Claims life Of Disabled Student
By ED LANG
Of Thé Hurricane Staff
A 31-year-old disabled narrowly es-ped death Monday eve-when his electric leelchair went out of ntrol toppling him into ike Osceola.
George Sharp dove out wheelchair and W up with a broken 5 electric driven air hit a rise in the lewalk and though the air came to a stop, he The momentum his body barely er the rocks and he tided floating face min the lake.
1 guess I was lucky,” said. “There were Ma dozen people in area and one guy Mme out of the lake time. It could have 1611 worse though, I »id have fallen off the lrt of the walk that ,0Ps straight down in “water. I would have ^ dead for sure.
incident points me of the more dan-18 ^adequacies the ,!ed student faces
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“But besides this poor lack of planning, the Me-m o r i a 1 and Merrick buildings are either partially or totally unaccesi-ble to the disabled student.
“Any class that was scheduled for the second or third floor of the Memorial building has been moved downstairs, but I know some instances where it’s impossible for the class to move, and so the disabled student must search for another class,” Sharp said.
“The Merrick Building architecturally is a rat’s maze, and though there is an elevator leading to most of the classes, most of the teachers’ offices are on another level, where no elevator leads,” he said.
Dr. Robert Ward, a physician at the Health Center, also requires the use of a wheelchair to get around. His gripe is that cars park on the sidewalk where wheelchairs can’t get around.
“We had one paraplegic (paralyzed from the waist down) who had a mild case of pneumonia,” he said. “He tried to get to the Health Center but the cars blocked the sidewalk. Someone at last came to the rescue.
“Sometimes when I try to get to the Union, there’s a car on the sidewalk and I have to go in the street,” he said. “Mo-
torcycles don’t belong on the road and neither do wheelchairs. A person can be hit very easily in a chair.”
Sharp has also run into similar problems. “Going back to Eaton Hall,” he said, “there would be cars right on the sidewalk and I have to go in the middle of the street. Dickinson Drive is bad. It’s too narrow for two cars, but for two cars
it’s
and a wheelchair murder.”
Jim Alvey of Alpha Phi Omega, recently made a study of the barriers that prohibit 50 students or more from making it around campus. “I don’t want to lash out at the administration though,” he said. “I submitted the problems to the physical plant and I will wait a couple of
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This Is ‘Wheel Chair Dip’
... leading into student lake
The rally, which began about 8 p.m. on the bridge between the 960 and 1968 dorms took place while resident advisrors, members of student government, and stu-dents held rap sessions around campus.
One of the principal aims of the rally, to violate current visitation policy by packing the men’s dorms with women students after hours, failed when too few women participated.
Men’s Residence Hall Association President John Crawford said that he was disappointed “in the turn-out and the tone of the speakers.”
Crawford said that if the rally did not attain its goals, “we just.go on doing what we’ve been doing through channels.”
Reaction among the RA’s and graduate advisors varied.
“If they had had responsible leadership and had gone through channels they would have had a satisfactory visitation policy” Graduate Advisor Dave Islitzer said.
Eaton Hall head resident Tim Looney said that he intended to bust any students he found violating visitation policy.
Resident advisor Lincoln Myers said that he and other apartment area advisors had been told to stay in their areas Wednesday night.
Head Resident of the 1968 Dorm Jack Cantwell said that to his knowledge no one had been busted for visitation violation in his area. Cantwell also said that he thought extended visitation was “worth a try” if enough students supported it.
Dean of Men William Sandler said that any possible disciplinary repercussions to students who stayed in the dorms after hours was “up to whether or not they get caught and how they get caught.” Sandler said he had “no comment” in regard to 24-hour visitation.
SBG Student’s Rights chairman Sami Burstyn said he was upset over the irresponsibility of many of the rally organizers in not sufficiently warning students concerning the disciplinary consequences of their actions.
“In terms of any rash action, such as men charging up into the women’s towers — it would only tend to dem-
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Students Break Visitation Regulations
... by entering dorms through fire exits
Supports Deposit Withholding
SBG Backs R.A. Stand
Residents Stage Sit-In Over Visitation Policies

—Photo By TOM GURA
,e°rge Sharp Broke Leg
. . . from drenching episode
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of The Hurricane Staff
An attempt by residents of the 960 Residence Hall to stage a sit-in in support of a ■>4-hour visitation policy for the men s residence halls was something less than a resounding success Tuesday night.
According to George Toomigian, president of the Men’s Tower of 960, approximately 20 girls were evicted from the men s dorm after midnight, when the current visitation policy ends. Instructions were issued o evident advisors not to make a mass oc-lupa™“ check, but only to chock mto obvt-ous violations and to ask the girls to leave.
A Hurricane reporter who attempted to interview the girls in the Men’s Tower was t asked to leave by 960 Head Resident Michael Vavrick, Graduate Assistant Dave Islitzer, and Dave Butcher, assistant director of Resident Student Development.
“It is interesting to note that the Hurricane staff members consider themselves above the rules,” Butcher commented.
Islitzer explained that the three resident
officials had entered the tower to check on electrical equipment that had been used during the rally held outside earlier in the evening.
Toomigian said most of the girls found in the Men’s Tower left when requested to do so.
The sit-in stemmed from rallies held in all the residence halls to support the student boycott of the $100 fee necessary to reserve a room on campus next year.
The idea behind the sit-in was that since the visitation policy is not currently posted in many of the residence halls, the policy is not in effect.
The Dean of Men’s Office, however, said if the policy was originally posted on a given floor of a residence hall, all residents of that floor should be familiar with the regulations.
In most cases, the policy was originally posted and later torn down. The question of how long the policy must remain posted for all residents to become faiqiliar with it has not yet been interpreted.
By MELANI VAN PETTEN Of The Hurricane Staff
The Student Body Government Senate voted Monday to support the boycott of the $100 housing deposit initiated by UM resident advisors.
The Senate also voted unanimously to adopt a list of guidelines for the next on-campus concert to be used on a one-time trial basis.
Approximately 60 students and resident advisors attended the meeting, and several spokesmen from the gallery urged the senators to support the boycott.
“This isn’t an RA problem,” one resident advisor said. “It’s a student problem. The > RA problem is past history.”
“Action has to be taken now at this meeting,” he said. “You represent the students; the srtudents want your support in this.”
A proposal by sophomore representative Steve Chaykin to form a committee of students, resident advisors, and senators to rewrite the residence hall regulations, and until negotiations are begun with the administration, to support the boycott was passed by all but two senators.
Senior representative Nathan Shmalo explained, at the request of the gallery that he voted against the proposal because he felt the purpose of the university was to provide an education, and that housing was a secondary issue.
Junior representative Joe Neureuter at first refused to give his reasons for voting against the proposal, but after repeated questions from the gallery said that he would not want to live in the dormitories under the conditions he felt the revised rules would permit.
“You should vote as a representative, on the opinion of the junior class, not as an RA,” someone in •the gallery told Neureuter. “You’re doing a real fine job of representing the 7% that agree with you.”
“I’m behind it solidly,” SBG President Mark Kras-now said, in response to charges from the gallery that he had not taken stand on
the issue .“I feel that Lincoln Myers and the others in charge are doing a good job of providing leadership, and are leaving me free to pursue other equally important matters.
“I am supporting this personally by not paying my $100 deposit,” Krasnow said.
The Senate voted unanimously to accept a list of guidelines drawn up by the Steering Committee of Concerts on Campus, to be used as a test case.
The suggestions included punching ID cards on receipt of one ticket and one guest ticket, massive anti-drug and
anti-litter campaigns, a new location farther from the residential area, a tram service from dorm areas and distant parking lots, and a security system of student marshalls.
The proposal went before the President’s Cabinet for approval Thursday.
In other Senate business, the report of the apportionment committee was accepted initially, and will be voted on in a future meeting. An amendment to include a representative from the Council Of International Student Organizations was defeated, on the grounds that COISO is not a governing body.
SEC Re-Expl Funding

Mark Krasnow
^ . . ‘won’t pay9
By ELIZABETH OSTROFF
Hurricane News Editor
A misunderstanding between United Black Students and the Student Entertainment Committee concerning allocation of $7,000 for a black culture program has been cleared up when it was learned the allocation was for 1971-72, not this year.
The misunderstanding arose when a memorandum from UM President Henry King Stanford supporting the allocation, was interpreted by the SEC to refer to the remainder of this year.
The SEC subsequently denied UBS’s request for funds, citing severe budget limitations as the reason.
“We have solved the so-called problem,” SEC Chairman Êrwim Ellerin said. “The allocation was not for the Roberta Flack show; it was for the 1971-72 culture program.”
Ellerin and UBS President Bob Holmes said the misunderstanding was cleared up Monday when a second memorandum from President Stanford explicitly stated that the allocation was for the 1971-72 school year.
Another aspect of the controversy was Ellerin’s statement that UBS had not made an effort to uphold its part — contribution of 1,000 to the Roberta Flack concert scheduled for Black Culture Week — and had not made any attempt to contact the SEC.
“The UBS as a whole is not responsible for any previous lack of communication,” Ellerin said Wednesday. “Since my last memorandum, a valid line of communication has been established with representatives of UBS.
“I want to make perfectly clear that when Erwin Ellerin said UBS had not i^ade any
attempt to hold up to an agreement, he had reference to one member of UBS, and not the whole organization,” Holmes said.
Ellerin also said that whether or not the $7,000 UBS allocation will be approved would depend on the decision of next year’s SEC and SBG Senate.
“It all depends on next April’s elections,” Ellerin said. “The new people in office can allocate or not.”
Holmes also said that in the up-ooming elections a black student will be running for a seat on SEC, a move which Ellerin said he supported.
Candidates’ Deadline: March 19
Anyone interested in running in the SBG spring elections must file a declaration of candidacy by 2 p.m. Friday, March 19.
Filing fee is $25 for the executive offices and $20 for all others, which can be paid at room S-224 in the Student Union.
This is the first time candidates will run according to school, rather than class.
The 27 available positions, open to all students, are divided among the schools of music, engineering, education, business administration, and arts and sciences.
In addition, there are the executive, university-wide at large, and student entertainment committee offices, open to all, irrespective of school.
For further information, contact the Student Activities Office in room S-224 of the Student Union.
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