Miami Hurricane, August 03, 1951

              MIAMI
2nd Session Registration Tops Previous Marks
The largest second summer session enrollment in U-M history, 2511 students, was on record Wednesday, with registrations still coming in, Henry Troetchel, assistant registrar said. More veterans are enrolled this*“
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University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Aucust 3, 1951
Baptist church, President Ashe directed his informal remarks to the graduates.
Another selection by the band followed, and the degrees were conferred. The “Alma Mater” was sung by the entire audience and the Rev. Whyte pronounced the benediction.
Photo by Fisher
U-M PRESIDENT BOWMAN F. ASHE and Rev. Lloyd Whyte, who delivered the invocation, look over the graduation program before the exercises.
258 Graduated In Dade Auditorium; President Ashe Speaks At Exercises
U-M President Bowman F. Ashe told 258 graduating students Monday night that their lab training is over and they are now ready to go into the shop. Graduation exercises were switched to Dade county auditorium♦-after the size of the expected audience became too great to handle at the proposed on-campus ceremony.
About 500 persons applauded the graduates as they were awarded their degrees. President Ashe said the purpose of formal education is to supplement experience, “though education is, in capsule form, the experience of others.”
Top honor student of the graduating class was Jeanne Lamper of Coral Gables. She was graduated summa cum laude in business administration. Magna cum laude awards went to James A. Gilleland,
AB; Lucille Kimtantas, BS; and Grayson Bates, BS in electrical engineering.
Cum laude winners were Jack Pogue, Betty McDonnell and Florence Silk, AB; Martin Leibling,
BS; Robert E. Conner and Gerald Rnhatz, BBA; and Florence King and Blanch E. Towsley Wood,
BEd.
The services opened with a processional, “Pomp and Chivalry," played by the white-garbed Band camp senior band. The graduates, led by Dr. Walter Scott Mason and Prof. W. F. Shaw of the English department, filed into the auditorium and occupied a section reserved for them.
Dr. Ashe told the graduates that knowledge and understanding is the greatest heritage that can be given one generation by another.
“The uneven distribution of the store of accumulated knowledge over the face of the earth is one reason we have so much international unrest today,” Ashe said.
Only participating faculty members wore caps and gowns for the informal ceremony. None of the students came to the stage to receive their degrees.
After the invocation by the Rev.
Lloyd Whyte, pastor of Shenandoah
Florida Statute Slows Approval Of Med School
Interpretation of a Florida state statute, which would provide adequate funds for the University of Miami’s medical school, appears to be the only barrier left between the adoption of the medical school bill and final approval of its construction.
The all-important step of accreditation by the medical associations took a long stride Monday, when representatives of the groups completed a two-day, area-wide survey of medical education and research facilities, and reported conditions “favorable” for the founding of the school.
The exception found by Dr. H. B. Weiskotten, chairman of the medical education committee of the American Medical Association, and Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, chairman of the executive committee of the Association of Medical Colleges, was the absence of required funds.
It is now up to Florida Attorney General Richard W. Ervin to interpret the recent legislative act which provides an initial expenditure of $225,000 and annual subsidy of $3000 per student up to a maximum of $900,000.
He must decide if the legislative intent was that “approval and accreditation” by the American Medical Association is a prerequisite to the state board of control releasing the fund.
Actually, only a tentative program can be approved by the medical groups, the doctors explained. Only after the college has been in operation for four years and graduated its first class, can full accreditation come.
year than in last summer's second session, Registrar K. Malcolm Beal reported, but the most notable change is in the evening division. This session's figures more than double those of the same term last year.
Beal said a drop of nearly 2000 from enrollment in the first summer session reflected a return to more normal conditions after a short-lived registration boom.
Teacher training classes, human relations workshop and the summer Band ramp also helped swell the first summer session total.
Figures released by the registrar showed a shift of more than four hundred from the day to Evening divisions,more than doubling the size of the Evening division registration.
Only 414 students were listed by the Evening division last year, compared with 868 for the current session. Registration for day classes dropped about 325.
About 130 more veterans are registered this year than were here last summer, and non-veteran registration dropped only three students in incomplete returns.
Figures released by the registrar’s office, with last year’s figures in parantheses, are total, 2511 (2384); day classes, 1643 (1970); evening classes, 868 (414) veterans, 1748 (1618); and non-veterans 763 (766).
Nearly 200 of the veterans were enrolled in a special registration for courses in the teacher training session which allowed them to register before the July 25 deadline.
Canoes To Be Available For Friday Night Renting
U-M canoes will be available for renting every Friday night during Student Club dances starting tonight. The charge is 20 cents per hour, per person.
Monday through Friday from 2-6 p.m., the canoes will also be rented and if sufficient interest is shown the schedule will include week nights, Saturdays, and Sundays as well, it was announced by the Student Activities office.
Vic Konefsky is in charge of rentals and can be found at the boat dock.
Gallery Work Begins Today
Ground-breaking for the new Lowe Art gallery is scheduled to begin late this week according to Allan McNab, director of the University’s present gallery.
Bulldozers were to move into the lot at University and Miller drives, diagonally across from the Student Club, yesterday or today according to announced plans.
The gallery is the gift of Joe and Emily I .owe of New York. Lowe Is head of the Popslcle company and Joe I,owe, Inc. Mrs. I .owe has exhibited her own paintings in Paris.
Dimensions of the new building will be 175 ft. by 90 ft. Interior arrangements will include two main exhibition rooms, a library of art publications and a print room for exhibiting rare works in graphic arts.
The entrance hall and lounge will open onto a landscaped sculpture garden skirting a waterway which leads from the canal behind the building.
Modern temperature and humidity controls and motion picture facilities will be installed.
Robert M. Little, well-known local architect, designed the buiding with McNab’s assistance on technical arrangements.
The gallery is expected to be one of the finest in the southeast, according to U-M officials.
Air Force Reserve Wing To Recruit On Campus
Recruiting for a new Air Force reserve wing to be formed at MIAD will take place on the campus next week, it was learned Wednesday.
The new unit, 906 Reserve Training wing, will be a headquarters organization, composed of non-flying personnel.
Air Force Sgt. A. S. Romano will be in the Student Club until noon Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to talk to interested students.
-Predicts 'Eventual War With Russia Inevitable’
Finer Analyzes Korean , World Unrest
By JIM WHITESHIELD
Hurricane News Editor
The Communists really want to negotiate a Korean truce now, but eventual war with Russia is inevitable, Dr. Herman Finer, U-M guest professor and political science writer said early this week.
“I think the Communists are sincere in the Korean negotiations, but we must watch out for an ulterior motive,” Finer said. “They will continue to cause unrest in the world wherever they can.”
Analyzing the effect of possible settlements in Korea, Finer said a divided Korea, with evacuation of all “foreign” troops, would leave the Communists in a position much better than our own should they attempt to repeat their attack of June, 1950.
“They’d only be across a border, but we’d be across a sea,” Finer said. “They would be able to secure beachheads that would cut off our access to Korea, by sending in paratroops and other highly mobile units, blocking the return of our forces.”
“If a unified Korea were formed," he said, “communist strategy would probably be similar to that which swept Czechoslovakia behind the iron curtain.”
An occupational force of 20,000 troops near the 38th parallel could have prevented the Korean war, Finer said, and “would have caused less adverse comment outside the Soviet satellites than pulling out the troops and then sending them back in did."
He said that the only successful Korean settlement, from the U.S. point of view, would include stationing an occupational force there for an indefinite period.
The prediction of eventual war with Russia came when Finer mentioned the Soviet tactic of stirring up unrest wherever possible.
“The Russian practice of creating unrest throughout the world will continue until someone loses his temper,” he said.
That tempers are getting short in this country is demonstrated by statements of two congressmen who recently called on the State department to demand the release of AP Correspondent William N. Oatis from a Czechoslovak prison or to take “positive action” to free the newsman.
U.S. prosecution of the Korean war will act as a deterrent to Russian expansionism, Finer believes, and he is of the opinion that for-
mation of a unified European defense force will check the Soviets even more.
Events in Korea have boosted the prestige of the Atlantic Pact countries, particularly the United States, much more than that of the United Nations, Finer believes.
“I am friendly to the UN," he said, “but I can’t ignore its record.”
Finer said he believes any cen-trallization of thought such as the UN represents is a good thing from a long range view.
He noted, however, that weakness in the organization was clearly shown by the failure of many nations that voted to defend Korea to back up their votes with a proportional contribution of arms.
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Top Political Scientist Ends 3rd Stint At U-M
Dr. Herman Finer has been called one of the top six political scientists in America.
He has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and UCLA and is now on the faculty of the graduate school at the University of Chicago.
Among the 12 books he has written are “Mussolini’s Italy,” “Road to Reaction," and “America’s Destiny.”
He was bom in England and taught political science there for 20 years before making his home in this country.
This year, Finer’s third guest appearance at U-M, he taught a graduate course in government and directed a study for the Kellog foundation. •
DR. HERMAN FINER