Miami Hurricane, August 05, 1949

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500 Beach Families Leave, Survey Shows
Bv JACK OSWALD
Hurricane Staff Reporter
At least 500 tenant families of Miami Beach’s year-round population have moved out of the city since rents were de-control ed. according to Dr. Rheinhold P. Wolff, professor of
economics.
These figures were revealed in a report on the housing survey conducted for the Miami Beach city council recently.
Tenants queried by mail and	■■ ■■■ -—-
house-to-house canvass listed three
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Vol. XXIII
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., August 5, 1949
No. 35
pertinent reasons as to the general exodus which has resulted in “serious economic shifts," the report
said.
Rent increases, frequently with little or no warning and out of proportion to the value of the property, headed the list of tenant complaints.
The refusal of landlords to make necessary repairs to rental property was also offered as one of the reasons for the movement trend. The unreasonable restrictions imposed by some landlords on their property was the third reason given for the shift of population.
The loss of year-round residents— most of them employees of the city government, business firms and util-ites—was described as “a return to prewar conditions of seasonality” the report stated. The result noted was a loss in purchasing power especially in the area south of 5th street to both apartment owners and the merchants in that section.
Few Rent For Less Than $100
Not less than 59 per cent of all apartments are renting for less than $100 per month, Dr. Wolff said. Broken down into figures for the four districts mapped for the survey, the under $100 level existed for 83 per cent of the apartments in South Beach, from 54 to 75 per cent in the two central districts, and 18 per cent in the northern end of the beach.
More than half the workers employed in Miami Beach live elsewhere, the repo t revealed, and this does not include Negroes, for whom no living quarters are available.
In his recommendations, Dr. Wolff urged an attack on the problem from a “viewpoint of community interest rather than the interest of either landlord or tenant.”
Editorial
Faculty Parking Lots Verboten To Students
A renewed drive to clear the faculty parking lot of unauthorized parking is now in effect according to the campus police Officers, R. M. Lakla arfd H. J. Purcell.
All faculty members who use the lot are required to have FACULTY stickers which may be obtained either at the Transportation Office or from any member of the campus police anytime between 7:30 a. m. and 4 p. m.
Cars without stickers are not allowed in the lot. Tickets will be issued to violators.
A similar drive affects parking in the administration building parking lot.
,	240 Students Get Degrees
It s Your 2-Bits Brother.	^ Summer Commencement
By JOE SCHOLN1CK
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American Way of Life.
The graduates were told by dividual responsibility to guard the heritage of the American way of life.”
"The democratic way of life in
Seventy-five dollars a month doesn't go very far—and most vets have trouble trying to stretch it.
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one very happy,excep possibly the bank receiving the 25f.	£ Dr. Herman Finer, visiting professor of
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value of government checks should be displayed by Gables 1 r	J	• t-
banks. Or that so little regard for the good-will of University students should be displayed by local business firms.
When the vet who was charged the tax complained about the practice to the VA office, he was told that it is perfectly legal, and that the only answer w’as for him to stay away from that bank in the future.
Considering the tremendous amount of money spent in the Gables by about 9000 university students, it seems ridiculous that such a policy be permitted by any local business firm. And it seems that the VA’s answer to the problem is very logical.
The answer to this dilemma seems rather obvious. If the Gables merchants are interested in keening alive the qoose that is daily providing the proverbial yellow stuff—and that is surely out of the realm of conjecture—then the merchants should try to make the students welcome in their establishments.
And charging sums like 25c for the performance of simple services does not seem to be exactly a welcoming gesture.
“As you sow, so shall ye reap.”	—J.B.S.
Actors Sought Sororities Move
For Video Shows In September
Wanna be on television?
Experienced student actors and actresses, are invited to audition for the TV Workshop drama series, seen and heard every Saturday night over WTVJ at 9 p.m.
Regular auditions are held in Room 236, on North campus, each Wednesday morning from 9 to 12. Students unable to appear at that time may make appointments by contacting Workshop Director Sydney W. Head at his North campus office.
You need not be a student of radio or TV to appear in the video productions.
More sorority sisters will be on Main campus next fall. Plans have been completed to move the sorority clubrooms, now in San Sebastian, to a group of portables in September.
Workmen are removing desks and blackboards and,' painting the interiors in preparation for the new | occupants. Each sorority will have a room the same size. No favoritism can be claimed because a | drawing for rooms was held yesterday in which all sororities participated.
The sororities’ furniture, in San j Sebastian, will be moved by the
Dr. Finer that it is their “ineducation, and two masters of business administration.
There were also 45 law school graduates, five of whom were cum laude.
The invocation was delivered by Rabbi Morris A. Skop, of the Coral Gables Jewish center, and the benediction given by the Rev. John A. Shirley, Coral Gables St. Phillips Episcopal church.
2409 Sign Up For 2nd Term
First TV program of the second j University when the new quarters session tomorrow night will be a are ready.
repeat performance of “The Name of Action," an original script by Paul Nagel, Jr.
On its first performance during last session technical difficulties interrupted the show, so the students I are doing it again.
Miss Merritt, Dean of Women, said the new location would be more convenient.
This move is in accordance with the University desire to transfer more facilities and activities to Main campus.
A total registration of 2,409 for the second summer session shows a larger enrollment than in any previous second session at the University of Miami.
In the regular division, 1,585 veterans are enrolled. This is the largest number of veterans ever to enroll in a second summer session, according to the veterans’ business office. Non veterans in the regular division, according to K. Malcom Beal, registrar, total 505, bringing the regular division totul to 2,090.
In the adult division, 319 students registered, including 242 veterans and 77 non-vets. “Since the adult division is holding a second summer session for the first time, it probably accounts for the increase in the over-all enrollment.” Mr. Beal said
The graduate school’s enrollment had reached 06 by Wednesday morning, but a breakdown of vets, nonveterans, was not available.
Approximately 50 foreign students students were reported enrolled, including 45 from Spanish-speaking countries, according to the regis trar.
Ever Wonder Where Exams Originate? Mimeo Room Has Answer—And Tests
“Where did they dig up this exam?” If you’ve ever asked that question when you got your stack of mimeo-traphed horror, here is the answer.
The majority of exam papers are printed in the mimeograph room in the 400 block. More than 8000 reams of paper are used in putting out exams, memos, and various notices used by the school each semester. Only two sizes of paper are used, and the cost runs to about $8000 a year, according to Stanley Dusenbury, manager of the mimeo office.
More than 400 pounds of ink, and uncounted stencils are also used each semester.
We've had plenty of offers for copies of the exams,” Du-senburv said, “but the teachers trust us completely —and with just cause ”
Many of the stencils are destroyed after doing their lethal work, while others are returned to the instruc-•01 However, exams are not the extent of the work
done by the office	.	. ,,
We send out notices to holders of season football ticket- and also address about 20.000 envelopes for the ,'umm office.” the mimeo office manager said. d Adult education uses about 1500 envelopes a year,
Marine lab about 2000, and the admissions office about 20,000, he said.
Included in the equipment used is an addressograph, a multigraph, and a number of hand and electrically operated mimeograph machines.
The staff of the mimeo room consists of four others besides the manager. They are: Karl Thomas, Rebecca Lesh, Jo Ann White, and Nancy Peeples.
“None of us have special jobs,” Dusenbury said. “We just all do what has to be done.”
“There is usually plently of work to be done,” he added. “In fact, exams have to be ordered three to five days in advance.”
Final exams require two weeks prior notice, and the office gets loaded with work at the end of each semester.
Keeping pace with the expansion of the school, more machines are being added, such as a ditto machine. The office also makes good use of the mimeoscope, but so far no machine has yet been devised which will print the answers next to the'questions without the instructor knowing about it.
l>r. Herman Finer
this country is a very precious thing,” he said. “So precious that it is difficult to find words to describe
it.”
He warned the students that they must take their places in society, and told them that “the hand that places the vote in the ballot box rules the nation."
“This country is a strong democracy now,” he said, “and no longer needs to fear the entangling alliances which had bpcn wise to avoid when young and struggling state."
The graduates, most of whom received degrees in business administration, were given their diplomas by Dr H. Franklin Williams, dean of faculty. Among the degrees conferred were three masters of arts, four masters of science, one master of
Money Troubles Reason For Senior's Suicide
David Wurman, 21-year-old senior, took his own life Tuesday morning at his apartment in the University housing project. His body was found at 10:15 a.m., by his roommate, Robert Page. It was hanging by an army belt from a hinge above his bedroom door.
Wurman, who was described
moody boy, left no explanatory note."
Page said Wurman was worried about his financial difficulties, and feared that his eligibility under the G I Bill of Rights might expire before his scheduled graduation in June, 1950.
Wurman was last seen alive by Elmer N. Smith all 8:15 a.m. Smith said Wurman was reading at the dining room table when he left for his 8:30 class.
When Page returned to the apartment he noticed the bedroom door was locked. Thinking Wurman was asleep and would miss his 10 o'clock class, Page forced open the door.
When he saw the body he rushed to the telephone and called the police.
Every possible effort was made to revive Wurman. Artificial respira-
by his roommates as a quiet,
tion was applied by Lloyd O. Solie, of the campus police, and F. J. Pay ton, assistant to the Dean of Men, before the arrival of the Coral Gables police and fire Hquads. However, all efforts were in vain, since the belt had crushed Wurman’s throat, Dr. John T. MacDonald, of the Doctors hospital later said.
The administration, in a statement from the office of the Dean of Men, expressed “sincere regrets," and also stated that it was unfortunate that Wurman had not taken advantage of “the counseling facilities available to all students both at the office of the Dean of Men and the Guidance center.
Wurman, a transfer student, came here from the Bronx in February.