Miami Hurricane, March 11, 1966

              Petition Questions Tenure
A phantom petition, directed to UM President Dr. Henry King Stanford, made its way through the student body this week, arousing questions concerning the University’s procedures of extending faculty tenure.
The petition resulted from the recent announcement that UM professor of marketing Dr. Barry Hersker has received a terminal contract, which will become effective in September and carry through the coming academic year.
President Stanford, Vice-presi-jdent for Academic Affairs Dr. lArmin Gropp and Dean of the ! School of Business Administration Dr. Clark E. Myers all reported Tuesday afternoon that they had not even seen copies of the petition. Hersker told the Hurricane Tuesday evening that he understood the petitions would be presented to the president either today or Monday.
| Although he had not seen a ropy of the petition and no appointment had been made to
present it, the president said Tuesday afternoon that “I am always willing to receive a student petition. Any serious expression of student opinion will receive the full and serious consideration that it deserves."
j The petition reads in part: “When a man of Dr. Barry J. j Hersker’s demonstrated and unquestioned qualifications is rumored to be leaving for ‘ques-(tionable' reasons, then we, the undersigned students, feel that it i is our obligation to use every
honorable means of persuasion possible to remedy what should be an obvious error on the part of the administration of the Uni-
ersity of Miami.”
It goes on to site Hersker’s “continuing academic achievements in the field of publications since joining the University faculty,” and to state that “his continuing academic and professional development is clearly indicated by his participation in numerous outstanding professional pursuits, forums, case
method program^ ships.”
Dean of Busi tion Clark E. Myers confirmed that Hersker had received a terminal contract for the coming academic year, and that marketing Professor Dr. William Stevens would not be given another contract.
University of Miami policy, as provided in the UM Faculty Constitution, spells out the conditions and procedures of
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Sargeant Set For Final US G Lecture
Howland Sargeant, President of the Radio Liberty Committee, the most powerful free voice directed exclusively to the USSR, will appear on the UM campus next week as the final speaker in this year’s USG Lecture Series.
The Lecture Series, which has received acclaim from members of the University and local communities for the quality of its lectures this year .will close with the Howland Lecture which will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16.
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Sutton To Kickoff Jr. Week, Starting New UM Tradition
HOWLAND SARGEANT
Sargeant became the president of the Radio Liberty Committee in 1954. The organization of private Americans was formed to help people in the Soviet Union promote govern-response to their needs and aspirations.
Prior to joining the committee he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1946 to 1953, and played a major role in developing the United States' international information change programs. This saw a major expansion of the Voice of America.
Sponsored jointly by the B'nai B’rith Hillel Foundation and the United Jewish Appeal, Rafael Ruppin, director of Nautical Education in Israel and former Israeli Ambassador to Tanganyika, will address the UM student body and members of the community on Tuesday, March 15 at 8:00 p.m. Ruppin’s lecture will include such topics as the position of Jews in the Soviet Union, sl-rael’s program of aid to Africa’s developing nations.
Roger Miller, popular folk singing star, will appear on the Student Union Patio Saturday, March 26 at 8:30 pjn., sponsored by The Undergraduate Student Government. Also on the program will be The Good Time Singers. Students may purchase tickets for the Miller Concert now in the UM ticket office located in the Student Union breeeway for $1.50. |
Thomas W. Sutton, UM director of financial aid, will kick-off the newest of UM’s traditions on Monday by tossing a roll of coins into the Junior Week Scholarship Wishing Well.
The kick-off ceremonies will inaugurate a new concept in campus-wide activities at the University - Junior Week, the brainchild of former Junior Class president Stan Stahl.
“A combination of objectives are resolved in the concept of Junior Week," explained Stahl. He pointed nut that one of the primary objectives of the week will be to raise funds for a program of financial aid to UM’s upperclassmrn. The final derision on the use of the funds raised, either as the basis for loans or scholarships, will be made at a later date. “Now we are just interested in raising the money.”
The other objective of the week is to provide a combination of social, cultural and entertainment programs designed by the Junior Class for the benefit of the entire university.
Among the programs planned for the week will be a series of impromptu concerts by folk singers from the Flick, a concert by the UM Jazz Lab Band, diving exhibitions, a fashion show featuring swim suits and evening gowns, a talent fiasco which will be highlighted by members of the student body, faculty and administration performing their various ineptitudes, a date sale on Friday afternoon and a Junior Week Banquet on Friday evening.
With the exception of the Junior Week Dance on Thursday afternoon, and the Talent Fiasco on Thursday evening and the Junior Week Banquet, all of the events of the week will be free and open to all of the members of the University community.
Tickets for the dance. Talent Fiasco and banquet will be available in the Office of the Director of Student Activities on the Second Floor of the Student Union, and will cost 25 cents, and $2.50 respectively.
Stahl has already received two rings, one chínese Jade and one smokey topaz to be given as door prizes for the Junior Week Dance on Thursday. The rings, donations of Gilbert's Creators of Fine Jewelry of Downtown Miami. The rings one for a man and one for a woman, are valued at over $100 a piece. Other outstanding door prizes include a woman's camel hair sweater.
In addition to the take from the gate for the activities which will require admission prices, funds will also be raised by donations to the Junior Week Wishing Well which will be established on campus and
through the sale of cotton randy and cokes all week long on the campus.
Stahl pointed out that those organizations which wish to compete for the Junior Week Collection Item Trophy should register in the Student Activities office by 4:00 pjn. Monday.
Nominations for the Outstand-
ing Junior Man and The Outstanding Junior Woman will be due at 5:00 today in the Student Activities Office. The Junior Class had received a total of 27 nominations by press time on Wednesday. The awards will be presented at the Junior Week Banquet.
For a calendar of Junior Week activities see page 13 of today’s Hurricane.
UM To Host Brubeck, Quartet On Saturday
Dave Brubcck, acclaimed as one of the world’s foremost i jazz personalities, will bring the Dave Brubeck Quartet to the [ stage of the Student Union Patio on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. to present a jazz concert in the inimitable Brubeck manner.
Brubeck is the symbol of progressive jazz in the minds of most Americans and also in the minds of people all over the world, even behind the Iron Curtain.
UNITED For A Better UM
U.N.I.T.E.D. which stands for Urgency Necessitates Intellectual Teaching Excellence and Dedication, emerged spontaneously as an attempt to further intellectual progress at the University and in the process to improve the academic image of the UM.
UNITED president Bill Abel states that “this is a positive action group — seeking only to improve the academic environment of the University of Miami with firm convictions never to be detrimental to the University population.” Abel went on to say that “membership in the organization is open to all students concerned with the intellectual situation at the University.”
The initial case of urgent concern of the group is the treatment in matters of tenure of two members of the Marketing deportment Dr. William Stevens and Dr. Barry Hersker.
Automobile bumper stickers will be distributed by UNITED this coming Monday as the first project in their purpose program. The stickers will be red, white, and blue with the printed slogan “UNITED for a better UM."
The students who are guiding this organization are Bill Abel, President, Fred Ruppert, Vice president. Rusty Rudolph, Secretary, and Jeff Blank, Treasure. A Board of Governors is being formed by UNITED to aid in guiding its progress and in achieving its goals.
Organization efforts for a committee of University Students "UNITED for a better UM.” received added impetus this week in the debate of the refusal of the University administration to grant tenure of office to two members of the UM marketing department.
DAVE BRUBECK
When his picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine, it was apparent that Dave Brubeck had emerged as one of the few jazz men of any era to capture world-wide recognition. His history-making world travels, under the auspices of our State Department, have caried the message of jazz to the four comers of the world as a symbol of American freedom, bridging language. cultural and racial differences, and creating real communication among peoples of different cultures. His work abroad has been acclaimed as among the most successful of all State Department Cultural Exchange Tours.
Winning national and international awards in recognition for his outstanding contributions to jazz is a common event for Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, who have won at one time or another virtually every poll and award in jazz.
Following the Brubeck concert, the first place trophies for the Orange and Green Divisions of the 1966 UM Cami Gras will be awarded on the stage of the UM patio.
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Burns Refuses To Meet With His Opponents
A forum, featuring two of the candidates for the upcoming gubernatorial election in Florida, will be held on the UM campus on Tuesday evening, March 22, at 8:00 p.m.
The program, which was planned by the freshman class officers, caused some controversy on the Florida political scene recently when Florida Governor Haydon Burns refused to appear.
The forum was to have received live statewide television coverage, according to Freshman lecture committee chairman Joe Albert.
“The major television stations in South Florida agreed to give the proposed forum, in which the three candidates in the upcoming gubernatorial election were to appear, complete coverage." said Albert. “Both Miami Mayor Robert King High and State Senator Scott Kelley agreed to appear on the program. However, the Governor refused to accept any invitation.”
High and Kelly will both take part in the March 22 discussion, however. USG president, Tom Spencer, reported on Wednesday that he had received a letter from Governor Bums expressing his regrets at being unable to attend, due to a Cabinet meeting that day.
The governor refused to appear in public debate or a forum during the last gubernatorial election, when he was opposed by both High and Kelley.
As a result of the governor’s refusal, the television stations lost interest in complete coverage and agreed to give the program only partial coverage, explained Albert.
The proposal exploded into the issues of the statewide gubernatorial campaign when Mayor High attacked the Governor, calling him an “interim Governor” who is potshotting at High's positions, but is afraid to meet High in public forum.
“For some reason, the Governor is unwilling to meet me in public forum to discuss the issues in this campaign.” High said.
“He has received numerous invitations throughout the state to share the public platform with me and the other candidate but has turned down every invitation.”
“I hope that he will reconsider his position and meet with me in public forum to discuss the critical issues faring Florida today. He owes that much to the people of Florida.”
Jeff Tand, president of the freshman class recognized the Governor’s right to refuse to appear on the forum program.
iting tenure.
Constitution, are hired orig-niversity on a probationar>T~S5tus. The period of probation is designated as seven years, during which the faculty member may be dismissed at any time. UM policy, however, is to give the faculty member a one-year terminal contract prior to dismissal.
At the end of the sixth year, the members of the departmental faculty involved who have already achieved tenure status meet and discuss the qualifications of the candidate. At that time they vote on the issue of tenure and the chairman of the department forwards the vote and his recommendation to the; dean of the appropriate school or college.
The dean then forwards his recommendation, which may be in opposition to that of the department chairman and faculty members to the vice-president for academic affairs and depn of the faculties, acting on behalf of the president of the University, the vice-president then issues an appropriate one-year contract which will end either with tenure or the termination of employment by the University.
The cases of the two professors involved differ slightly in that the terminal contracts for the two were released one year apart.
Dr. Stevens is teaching his final semester at the University. His terminal contract was released last year. Dr. Hersker, however, has only recently been given his terminal contract, which will carry through the coming academic year.
There is an established program of appeals which may be made by a professor who is either denied tenure or whose tenure is released by the University during his period of probation. “The professor can appeal if he feels that the procedures of the faculty charter have not been complied with, or that there are extenuating circumstances,” explained Dean Myers.
Stevens, according to the dean, has carried his appeal through all of the proper channels, and had spoken with the president
on the issue.
Dr. Hersker told the Hurricane Wednesday he had carefully followed all the procedures of appeal and was to have had a meeting with Dr. Stanford at 3:00 p.m. yesterday.
“I have the highest respect for Dean Myers and have always felt that he has supported me to the best of his ability, and I am confident that nothing that has happened will change the confidence that he has expressed in me,” said Hersker. “Dr. Annin Gropp was extremely cordial and sincerely concerned over the problems that I have encountered.”
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UM Receives 3 WilsonA wards
Three UM students have been awarded the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships for 1966-67. Frank G. Färber, Jorge Luis Nobo, and George E. Oberländer will receive tuition and a living stipend for one academic year at the graduate school of their choice. Gwendolyn L. Grizzle, a magna cum laude January graduate, has been granted an honorable mention.
The recipients were chosen on the strength of their academic records and their extra curricular activities. Färber, a history major, is the editor of Ibis, the UM yearbook. Jorge Nobo, a Cuban refuge, is a member of the Hispanic Society and the Friends of Hispanic American Culture and a major of comparative literature. Oberländer, a philosophy major, is president of the Philosophy Club.