Miami Hurricane, September 03, 1948

              The Miami
Hurricane
Vol. XXII
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA., SEPTEMBER 3,1948
No. 37
Work To Start On New Road Out To Dorms
Construction will begin within a few days on a modern four-lane drive to connect the Main Campus with the Main Campus dormitories.
Eliminating the hazardous bend on Miller drive, the new road will run from University concourse, across the waterway, past the Student Club, swinging west at the Memorial Classroom building into Avenue San Amhro.
Students living in Miami and Miami Beach will be given a more convenient approach to the Main Campus from South Dixie Highway when the road is complete.
“We hope to see the completion of the paving of the new Miller drive before the beginning of the fall semester,” Eugene Cohen, administrative assistant to the vice president, said.
Parking facilities will be provided along the drive, but parking will probably be banned on the drive.
Engineers will decide whether or not to allow traffic on Miller drive during construction. The construction is being done by the City of Coral Gables.
The old Miller drive runs from the Main Campus housing around a chewed-up bend at the waterway, into University drive. It is known to drivers as “Washboard Boulevard.”
The bend was leveled and packed at the beginning of the first summer session, but this improvement didn’t last long as rainstorms washed away the packing.
The poor condition of the road made many men at the dorms use the longer bus route to the Main Campus. Sharp turns in the bend makes its use by University busses dangerous and impractical.
New Stadium To Seat 2,816; Pep Rally Set
A 2,816-seat stadium for pep rallies and assemblies will soon be built on the Main Campus.
Bleachers will be set up west of the Memorial Classroom building when they arrive Tuesday. The stadium will have a platform and loudspeaker system.
A student football pep rally Sept. 29 will be the first official event in the stadium. Convocations, meetings, orientation classes, and music programs will be held at the outdoor auditorium.
The seats will form a semi-circle around the speakers’ platform which will face the class building. The platform will be 42 feet long, 16 feet wide, and three feet high.
Red Robbins, Student Association president, predicted assemblies will be held every week.
Weekly pep rallies will be sponsored by the Student Association on either Thursdays or Fridays, Robbins said. All classes will be dismissed at these times.
The first week, the rally will be at 9 a m.; the second, 10 a.m.; third, 11 a.m., and then start again, so that students will not cut the same class every week.
The Lecture Hall \yill probably be used only for class lectures and smaller programs, he said.
This arena will replace the North Campus tennis courts for student rallies.
NO SCHOOL MONDAY No classes will be held Monday, laibor Day, according to an announcement from the office of the dean of administration. All administrative offices will be closed for the day.
HURRICANE SAW HER FIRST
NEW YORK HAS FINALLY FOUND OUT what the Hurricane has known all along. Namely, that Miss Connie Ronde is yummy. Immediately upon making this startling discovery, the beauty contest officials plunked a crown on her head, proclaimed her Miss New York, and bought her a one-way ticket to Atlantic City and a chance at Miss America fame. Connie was first discovered by former Hurricane Editor Marv Green while weathering a Slop Shop coffee line. After picking his eyeballs up from among the discarded coke containers, Green whisked the blue-eyed blond to the photographer, where the initial steps were taken to present her as Hurricane Honey No. 6. According to our addition, limpid blue eyes, flowing blond hair, a startling figure, and a winning smile can add up to only one thing— Connie Ronde is well up in the running for Miss America laurels.
Issuance Period To Begin Tuesday For Vital Fall Registration Permits
Splash Party Features Chow At Pool Tonight
Hostesses will serve all the donuts and orange -juice the students can hold tonight at the swim dance at Venetian Pool, Norman A. Whitten, dance director, said.
Shuttle blisses will run between the pool and the North Campus from 5:30 p.m. until the dance is over at 10 p.m.
Last weeks’ dance was headlined by a night club type floor show, held in the main lounge of San Sebastian dormitory because of the rain.
Entertainment for the dance was furnished by three students, two of whom were unknown to regular dance attendants; “Goosey” Greenfield and Irene Barth.
"Goosey,” a professional entertainer while not attending classes here, brought down the house with his parody songs. Students brought him back for repeated encores, and many were heard to say that they would like to hear more from him at future hops.
Miss Barth, a member of the hostess group being organized on Campus. recited three poems written by herself.
Duke “Dixie” Bartell strayed from his usual routine of gags and donned female clothes for a novelty pantomime to the music of “I Can’t Say No!” from “Oklahoma!”
“Goosey” Greenfield singing a comic take-off on “Old Man River” at last week's student dance. He was a part of what Mr. Whitten called, “The longest and best floor show we’ve put on.” Carl Elnig's band provided he background music for the parody.
No More 'Country Club’
D-Average Expulsion Policy Favored By Student Majority
By JOYCE CORTLAND
Expulsion of D-average students was favored by most students interviewed this week in a Hurricane survey.
Many showed more concern for the school's scholastic rating than they did for their own chances of staying here. They claimed to be tired of students who come to school for fun only and are disgusted with the nickname of "country club,” some had given the University.
Others complained that the one semester leeway to bring up a low average was not enough; two would be better. Newcomers need time to get settled, they argued.
“Lots of kids have been in service a long time and they should have at least a year to get their bearings," John Grappo. junior, said.
Violently disagreeing with him was Bettye Berney, a senior, who contended that, “Anyone who cannot maintain a C average two semesters in a row should not be in school anyway.”
Anthropology Returns As Sociology Course
After being off the U-M curriculum for several years, anthropology 209 returns this fall to be taught by a new professor, Edward Beard, a graduate of Furman.
The course deals with the origins and development of our prehistoric ancestors: the customs, institutions, and behavior of primitive tribes, including case study of the American Indian and other preliterate groups.
Mr. Beard, who has done advanced study at the University of North Carolina, also will teach other sociology courses. Prerequisite for anthropology 209 is sophomore standing.
Lew Caputa, junior, agreed. “It’s a very good idea because it’s one step to eliminate the label of country club. Too many students go around saying it’s an easy university in which to get good grades.” Caputa added his fraternity. Kappa Sigma, is inaugurating a similar procedure with its members. Anyone below a 1.9 average for two semesters will be suspended.
Nonchalant about the whole thing was Earl Thery, who said, “Whatever the school says goes with me. I don’t care.”
“They ought to give two semesters’ trial because it would give students more opportunity to better themselves,” believes Allen Nelson.
Frank McGee, senior, qualified his approval by saying, “I think it’s a good idea as long as I can keep up my grades." He thinks the restrictions are “very good for raising the standards of the University.”
“It's a good idea to eliminate some students who are just in college to have a good time and not to learn,” senior Adriana Caravacci believes.
A new twist was given to the plan by Ralph Ferguson, junior. “It’s not a good idea to count summer sessions. only regular semesters. They go ton fast in summer school for a student to do his best work and he wouldn't have a chance of pulling up grades then.”
“It’s unnecessary,” junior W. B. Culbertson declared belligerently, “A school is supposed to teach, not break down students' morale.”
Jerry Gerstein, a senior, said, “If they ever want to build up a good school, they've got to set a minimum grade.”
Noncommittal Joe Pierre, a junior, said, “I can’t say what I think of the idea because they might kick me out of school one of these days for that reason!”
No Enrollment Without Cards
Registration permits will be issued Tuesday, Sept. 7, through Saturday, Sept. 25, at the registrar’s office. Students without permit cards may not register for the fall term, Registrar K. Malcom Beal, said this week.
All former students may get permits at the office or send an application through the mail. Mailed requests require a self-addressed, stamped envelope. This procedure will continue until Sept. 25, when permits will be issued in room 1041 until Oct. 2 at noon.
The date and time of registration for the holder of each permit will be on the card. Students cannot register before or after that time.
No guarantee of early enrollment is given students who do not keep registration appointments, Mr. Beal warned. “We'll try to work them in as soon as possible, hut there is no telling how long they will have to wait,” he said.
Law school and graduate students do not need permits, but will merely register on specified dates. Sept. 20 through Oct. 2 are enrollment dates Ifor law students, who will go to Dean Russell A. Rasco’s office at that time. Graduate students register from Sept. 28 through noon, Oct. 2, in room A 217 in the Administration building.
All other former students may begin registration Tuesday, Sept. 28. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Everyone, new and former students, must complete enrollment by 12:30 p.m.. Saturday, Oct 2. Delinquent registrants may not enter class until this is completed.
Once a registration is completed, no change of schedule may be made during the registration period, Sept 28 through Oct. 2, nor after Saturday, Oct. 9.
Further details of enrollment and activities, including dances, receptions, meeting, rallies, and football games, are listed in the Instruction Bulletin now being sent to all new and former students.
IFC To Conduct Pledge Smoker
The Interfraternity Council will hold a recruiting smoker at the Student Club Friday afternoon, Oct. 8, preceding the Hurricane-Villanova football game. All students are invited.
Besides arousing interest in fraternities among prospective members, the smoker is intended to give future pledges the opportunity to meet fraternity representatives.
The IFC is sending questionnaires to all applicants for admission to the University in order to determine probable student interest in fraternities.
Made up of one representative from each fraternity, the IFC is the policy making body for the University’s frats. One of its major functions is the coordination of pre-game rallies during the football season.
Business Club To Hold Beach Party Tonight
The Business club will hold n beach party tonight at Baker’s Haul-over for members and their guests.
Those attending should meet north of the restaurant by 7:30 p.m.