Miami Hurricane, July 06, 1951

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Class Ratings Altered By Selective Service
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Deferment Chances Of Some Students
Volume XXVI
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., July 6, 1951
No. 33
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NORMA AND FLORENCE GAMPEL, who are attending summer sessions here are both nicknamed Bunnie. They say it saves embarrassment in rase someone confuses one for the other. “The Bunnies" are from the Bronx, are seniors in business administration, like golf, archery and tennis and write to pen pals in several foreign countries. They deny that they switch dates with boy friends and admit that neither of them has a Toni. In the fall. Norma and Florence will trek bark to New York to finish their senior year at NYU.
Last Minute Registration Rush Delays Majority Of Gl Subsistence Checks
Approximately 60 per cent of the initial checks due ex-GIs attending the first summer session will not be received until Aug. 1-10, according to Miss Lucile Faul, manager of the ----------------------^Veterans’ Business office at the Uni-
Profs Organize Market Bureau
A market research bureau has been recently established by two University of Miami professors, Barton A. Westerlund, instructor in business statistics, and Charles W. Wurst, instructor in marketing.
The new firm provides surveys, area tests, and statistical analysis on products, markets and methods of distribution.
Located in the Miracle building in downtown Coral Gables, the research bureau is equipped to furnish multi-tpye services required by businessmen of this and other areas.
In addition, the bureau can aid the troubled businessman with analysis of sales potential, shopping studies, and copy testing of advertising.
Some University of Miami students will be employed by the bureau to work with experienced interviewers and observers in making surveys.
Dance Contest Entries Must Be In By 4 P. M.
Students who would like to try for Amateur night prizes tonight at the weekly juke box dance should contact Brad Braddock, assistant di-' rector of student activities, before 4 p.m. today.
The dance, free to all students, is scheduled for 9-12 p.m., in the Student Club patio, with the show planned for 10 p.m., Braddock said.
An accompanist for contestants who need one will be furnished by Student Activities. Brad Braddock will MC the show.
versity.
"The delay incurred in forwarding the checks is probably due to the tremendous last minute rush of veterans applying for training be fore the July 25 deadline,” she said
Veterans are advised that “any GI student who drops out entirely before the end of the first summer session" will forfeit his remaining eligibility. Exceptions to this regulation are veterans recalled to service and those who are unable to attend because of legitimate reasons beyond their control, such as a doctor's certificate for serious illness, etc.
Effective Sept. 25,	1951, all
veterans must attend the two regular semesters, day or evening, without interruption in order to maintain eligibility.
Of primary concern to the graduating veteran is the new rule, which becomes effective during the second summer session, 1951, stating that he must apply to the VA for a supplemental certificate of eligibility in order to continue post-graduate work in his field of interest. This application must be submitted prior to the veteran’s graduation.
Bequests for change in course will not be authorized by the Veterans’ Administration.
Chimes, Instructors In 20-Minute Battle
Evening division classes were disrupted Tuesday when instead of the 9 p.m. chimes, a selection of six songs including “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” sounded out for 20 minutes.
Instructors battled in vain against the din. One resourceful class turned the chiming into a community sing.
Top Musicians To Make Tour Of Band Camp
Eight former presidents of the Florida Bandmasters’ Ass’n. meet here today to review the U-M summer band camp and discuss problems of high school bands in the state, according to Fred McCall, Band Camp director.
Roy Wood, president of the association and band director at Winter Haven High school will preside over the meeting.
The bandmasters will tour the band camp, attending rehearsals today and tomorrow and the concert in the Student Club Sunday.
Enrollment in the hand ramp this year is 180, representing four states, with 41 persons on the staff. Fifty-five of the high school musicians are day campers, living off the campus and attending class sessions daily, and 125 are resident campers who live in the dormitories.
A hand laboratory and workshop for bandmasters now working in high schools has been organized in conjunction with the camp.
A part of this course will be a demonstration by the U-M band in Beaumont Lecture hall each Wednesday night during the five-week camp.
By BOB COLLINS
Huerican* Nava Editor
A new provision for computing a draft-age student’s class standing may materially decrease his chances for deferment, according to information released this week by K. Malcolm Beal, University Registrar.
Although scholastic requirements for deferment remain the same, the method for computing the standing has been changed by Selective Service form SSS-109, just introduced two weeks ago.
Formerly, Beal said, in submitting to draft boards a report of a student's class standing, U-M used its own form, taking a university-wide point average as a basis for computing individual standings.
Under the new form the university must compute a student’s standing in relation to only those students who have completed the same number of semester hours.
“This makes the system extremely complicated," Beal said, “since in a university this size it creates between 150 and 200 ‘classes’ which must be averaged separately.”
With the new system a student might be rated in a group of perhaps as few as four or five students.
Still required for deferment are class standings in the upper half for freshmen, upper two-thirds for sophomores, upper three-quarters for juniors and upper half for seniors. Each class will be divided by the new system into a great many parts.
The form, copies of which go to the local board, the university and the student, requires listing of class standing by number, from top to bottom. A simple statement that the student is in the required percentage will not do.
“There can be no ties either,” said Beal. “Should any arise we are instructed to go into a student's previous record, even back as far as high school, to make a choice."
A student whose class standing is below the requirement set up may still be deferred on the basis of deferment tests given recently. A score of 70 is required. Students may loom their scores by writing
May 26 Test Grades Mailed To Miami Area
Test grades for students who took draft deferment exams May 26 have now been received locally, according to Loraine Puckett, former Dade county Selective Service clerk, now clerk for local board 46.
Grades for later tests are being received a few at a time, she said.
A recent decentralization move, which created nine boards here in place of the original four, has slowed things down, but many boards are mailing the results of the test to registrants, Mrs. Puckett reported.
In addition to the test, applicants for deferment still need a letter of application as well as form SSS-109 supplied by their University.
Applicants for deferment will be considered as soon as their files are complete. Notice to those whose local board number has been changed is being mailed.
or otherwise contacting their local boards.
“It must be remembered,” Beal added, “that local boards are not forced to consider these standings as 'qualification for deferment. The use of them is entirely up to the board's discretion.”
University students applying for deferment who filled out U-M's form during the spring semester do not have to fill out the new form, Beal said. The university will transfer the information given then to new forms it is completing.
Bridge To Open Today
The new Bird road bridge, under construction for the past four months, will be open to car traffic at 4 p.m. today, according to Hugh Peters, county commission chairman.
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Most U-M, Students Favor Korean Truce, Poll Reveals
By JIM W1IITESHIELD
Hurricane Staff Writer
“Would the United States be justified in withdrawing to the 38th parallel to obtain a truce in Korea?”
Since the suggestion of a Korean truce was advanced by Soviet delegate Jakob Malik before the UN, the possibility of such a withdrawal as a condition of truce has been advanced by many writers and statesmen.
To determine campus reaction to a truce under such conditions, the Hurricane asked a number of students, faculty members and other workers at the University the above question.
The answers given showed a wide range of opinion, but most were affirmative, with varying degrees of qualification. Some thought a cautious watch should be kept for Communist trickery. S y n g m a n Rhee, provisional president of the Republic of Korea came under fire in some opinions.
Helen Sherrill, Duke graduate student attending summer school
here, thought the Malik proposal was propaganda, but suggested it might be a genuine peace move. She said, that, as Premier Stalin is aging, it might fit Communist policy to stabilize the world situation so Russia can survive the inevitable struggle for power that will follow Stalin's death.
She also said, “The U.S. and Russia are afraid of each other. We have waited for Russia to take the initiative too often. There is danger that we could forfeit world leadership through such a policy.”
Robert H. Moffitt answered, “I think we should withdraw if that will make a truce possible. We should try for peace at all costs. The war in Korea hasn’t achieved any purpose.”
Law senior E. Jackson Haasze answered with an emphatic “We should not withdraw.” He considered Malik’s suggestion a trick “to lull us into a false sense of security,” and said we should fight Russia now,
Stan Rosenblum, liberal arts senior, said the Korean war was
only a step in Russian attempts at world domination. He thought a truce would be useless because “they (Russia) would only move somewhere else.” Rosenblum favored a US. occupation force in Korea in the event a truce is arranged and thought we should “throw out Rhee.”
Ernest Tobey, education freshman, supplied the least qualified affirmative answer. Tobey said, “We should stop at the 38th parallel. By going north of that line, we are only interfering in the other guy’s business.”
Dr. J. H. Warner, professor of English, gave a tentative “Yes,” but warned, “We should be very careful that this is not another Communist trick.”
Other affirmative replies came from:
Fred Feightner, business administration freshman, “ . . .truce or all-out war in Korea.”
Norman Graham, library circulation clerk, “The important thing ... a stable peace."