Miami Hurricane, July 14, 1967

              Teacher s Corps Offers Learning, Earning
By MICHAEL EATON Hurricane Associate Editor
An unparalleled teaching opportunity for non-education graduates is being offered by the National Teacher’s Corps, now recruiting in the Whitten Union breezeway through Saturday offering applications to UM graduates in all fields.
The Teacher Corps, created by the Higher Education Act of Congress, seeks to offer better educational opportunities to economically and educationally
disadvantaged children. The | corps says that these children, coming from low-income families, comprise 18 percent of the United States’ school-age children.
Corps teachers are given the opportunity to obtain a masters degree while concurrently earning their teacher’s certificant teaching in Dade and Broward public schools. The normal ratio is 3 days in the school and 2 days at the university. A weekly tax-exempt salary of $75 plus
$15 for each dependent and all tuition for masters work is paid.
Qualifications for the Corps are a bachelors degree in any field other than education and ability to qualify for graduate study including passing the Graduate Record Exam.
Dr. Robert E. Hendricks, di- j rector of the project, points out that graduates who are able to obtain teaching positions by virtue of an education degree are \ not the ones considered by the | Corps. "We are interested in those j
graduates in every field whose plans are not ordinarily to become teachers,” said Dr. Hendricks.
All applicants will be in preservice training from September 13 until December 15 receiving their full salaries. During this time they will be acquainted with the physical, economic, sociological, and psychological characteristics of economically and educationally disadvantaged children. They will also learn
teaching techniques and counseling skills.
For the two-year program a , temporary teaching certificate is | given to Corps teachers. After the j program the teacher will have earned his master's degree, a permanent teaching certificate and two years of teaching experience.
Jeffrey Feldman, one of the UM graduates in the program on duty in the bree/.eway, says that “after the program most teachers remain in the special -
ized field of teaching under-priviliged children.’’ His reasoning is that “if one has a extra bit of knowledge and an extra sensitivity to a problem he will want to use it.”
Last year 28 teachers taught in local schools while studying for their master’s. This year the Corps expects 32 more interns to join that number. After Friday applications for the Corps are | available in the School of Edu-I cation, 310 Merrick Building.
A Plea For Life And Limb
South Dixie And Miller — UM’s Dead End
Fun In The Sun
By DAN BARBER Hurricane Editor
South Dixie Highway has a name with an exotic ring. Miller Road sounds like a pleasant pastoral trail. Put them together next to the main entrance and exit for a 15,000 student campus and they come out smelling like death.
The story of these two streets and the intersection they create accross from the UM campus is not a sad one, it is sickening.
One death occurred last year and nearly forty accidents.
The accidents are not simple ones either. They nearly always include two cars, sometimes three, four or even more.
Property damage is high. Ambulance runs are routine. Hospital stays are long. And nine times out of ten it’s the
UM family that -makes up the injury list.
When trouble strikes, it has no pattern. Sandy Rubin, Suzanne Goodman and Sharon Udell were coming back from lunch at around 1:30 p.m. early last week. Two of them finally made it back to the dorm this past Tuesday, and one is still in the hospital.
Their friend Ronnie Abrams came to me pretty broken up. She had just seen the ambulance pull away. 1 didn’t know really what to say, how to feel.
Four days later I got the chance. Ten o'clock at night I watched the police pull three people gently onto stretchers and race away to the hospital.
The problem is easy to visualize, not easy to solve. The Hurricane must demand however that we at least try. Safer driving is a big factor, but there is more.

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JULY THE FOURTH
. . . safe, pleasant, and fun!
Negligence must be placed at several doorsteps, the University, the City of Coral Gables, maybe even Dade County and the State of Florida.
They have allowed to exist one of the biggest pedestrian crossing areas outside of dowmtown with not much more protection than a schoolboy has crossing Interstate 95.
In fact the average schoolboy probably has a pedestrian crossing light that at least gives him a chance to call the traffic to a halt. There is no magic button at South Dixie and Miller.
An Editorial
There is no special right turn arrow for the driver heading north on Dixie and turning west onto Miller. Or any other direction for that matter.
This means that there is no portion of the four crossways protected from traffic at any time, someone can always turn, hence a deadly game of dodge-em that forces drivers to be extra careful. When they aren’t, people lose, in cars or out of cars.
And the game is played on a fast track. People are in a hurry, Dixie is four lanes, wide-open, college kids like to rough up their engines with drag strip starts. The corner is not likely to get any slower. There will be students crossing the street to eat or shop for some time to come. The campus’s other three sides empty into slow moving residential traffic.
The answer we propose is not easy, it costs a little money. Number one, immediate installation of turn arrows for the north bound drivers coming off of Miller and for the west bound drivers coming off of Dixie. Pedestrian crossing buttons to control the lights from the south side of Dixie, west bank and east.
And then an overstreet crosswalk, built by shared funds, starting on the northwest side of Dixie and crossing over to the traffic island between Burger King and Ponce Junior High.
The prieetag is difficult to estimate, but it can't be much higher than the cost of a banged up fender, a totaled car, a broken arm, a trip to surgery, or a 1967 funeral.
I can’t second guess who should pay the bills, or in what proportion, but this newspaper will not rest, and this campus shouldn't, until somebody antes up.
Pk«t« by S**«y Le»y
A CORNER THAT KILLS
. . . Miller Road and South Dixie.
Former ’Cane Staffer Recognized
Humberto Miguel Cruz, a UM journalism graduate from Kan-I sas City Missouri, has been [ awarded a 1967 citation for achievement along with 70 journalism graduates who were selected as outstanding in their classes at affiliated colleges and i universities by Sigma Delta Chi, Professional Journalism Society.
Award recipients are chosen on the basis of character, scholarship in all college work, and competence to perform journalistic tasks. The decision in each case is made by a committee composed of student. faculty and professional members of the Society.
The purpose of the citations, which are not restricted to members of Sigma Delta Chi, is to foster high standards and encourage broad and thorough preparation by students intending to follow journalism as a career.
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Peterson Named President
Of UM Citizen’s Board
Frank Peterson, Jr., president of Atlas Chemical Company of Miami, has been elected president of the Citizens Board of the University of Miami.
Other officers elected were Neil Schiff, president of Neil Schiff Construction Co., vice president, and Charles H. Gautier, partner in the law firm of Worley, Gautier & Patterson, secretary.
The announcement of new officers was made by UM President Henry King Stanford following the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Citizens Board last year, Schiff, secretary, and Gautier, chairman of the Speaker’s Bureau.
Elected to three-year terms on the Executive Committee were James R. Daugherty, I. Lloyd Farrey, James A. Henderson, Sr., j B. E. Miller, Floyd A. Osterman, j M.D. (Broward County), George W. Thorpe and Arthur D. Weiss. Elected to a two-year term was Emerson Allsworth (Broward County.) Elected to one-year terms were Frank Buchanan and C. Jackson Baldwin.
Incumbent Executive Comittee-men on the Citizens Board are Karl Bishopric, Morris Burk, Frank J. Callahan, Milton D. Coplan, M.D., Stanley Glaser, Arthur Horowitz, Edward C. Fogg II, Bill Lane, Shelby P. Langston, George Light and Walter M. Pierce.
The Citizens Board includes
many of South Florida’s business and professional leaders who have pledged to assist the University in all possible ways. Dr. Stanford said. Latest Citizens Board project is the Corporate Solicitation Program in Support of UM’s Golden Anniversary Development Program for science and medicine.
The Citizens Board has recently agreed to increase its corporate solicitation goal from $3.8 million to $5 million as an expression of its continuing interest in the University’s future.
To date the Citizens Board has raised $4,273,750 in support of the GADP. 1116 total represents $2,463,000 from local and national corporations and $1,810,750 from individuals and private foundations.
Its recent six-week “Spring Blitz” exceeded its $200,000 goal by $25,884, according to immediate past president James S. Billings, Jr.
Said Dr. Stanford, “The Citizens Board has long played a key role in the advancement of the University’s main campus. Formed following World War U to provide adequate facilities for the rush of veterans returning to complete their education, the Citizens Board obtained contributions for many of the existing buildings on the Coral Gables cam-(Continued on Page 4)