Miami Hurricane, May 19, 1961

              800 Scholars Recognised
This issue, The Hurricane gives special coverage to the scholastic side of campus. On Page 2, there is a complete picture page of Wednesday's Academic Honors Day Assembly. In addition, there is news of scholarships on Page 3 and on Page 18.
By SUSAN NEUMAN
And SANDRA STEDMAN Hurncine Assistant News ESiters
Some 800 University scholars streamed out of the Ashe Building into the sizzling sun Wednesday, and filed into rows of chairs in the quadrangle.
They wore black robes, white dresses, dark suits and ROTC uniforms.
UM*s second annual Academic Honors Day Assembly began with the Band of the Hour striking up “March Processional.”
Widely expanded over the initial attempt last year, the program recognized about six per cent of the student body.
UM President Jay F.W. Pear-
son gave the Honors Day address.
Said Dr. Pearson:
“This campus is dedicated to learning. Learning is our business, whatever else we do. Good teaching is one major essential to make that business essential. But good teaching cannot do the job by itself.
“(It) requires application by the student, the full use of his inquiring mind, to make learning successful. That is your
job, and I feel confident that you can do that job well.”
Dr. J. Everett Royer, chairman of the event, presided. Dr. W. Ivan Hoy, Religion Department head, gave the invocation.
All 11 a.m. classes were dismissed for the day.
The dignified assembly closely resembled the mass meeting for evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, held at the same spot earlier in the semester.
This time, the audience was just as attentive — the affair was just as colorful.
Bermuda-clad students leaned over balconies and crowded hallways overlooking the quadrangle to watch.
One onlooker wore a straw hat, and another carried a bright pink umbrella.
Observers fanned themselves with programs, as the first group of honor students—cited for being on the Dean’s List— proceeded to the platform. They received honor pins.
Fourteen scholars gained special recognition for making the Dean’s Lists three consecutive semesters. Eleven were local high school graduates.
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HURRICANE HONEY OF THE YEAR is
lovely Ciigi Auerbach, who came to the University from Poland via Ecuador. This shot, reproduced in a duotone process, was selected
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as Hurricane Photo Of The Week. For a .ttory about Gigi and pictures of the four finalists comprising the court, turn to Page 11.
COMMENCEMENT
Pearson To Speak
UM President Jay F.W.Pearson will deliver the commencement address to 990 June graduates and an undetermined number of summer graduates.
Dr. Pearson will give a brief report on the progress of the University to the students June 12 at 8 p.m. in the Miami Beach Convention Hall.
His brief address will end a University tradition of lengthy
speeches at commencement exercises.
Honorary degrees will be awarded at that time, but names of the recipients are not disclosed until the ceremony.
Army and Air Force ROTC students will act as the ushers.
Some 100 students are expected to be awarded cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum laude.
UM Switches Loan Plans
The University this week dropped the Short-Term Plan for financing loans, tuition and
fees.
It is adopting a new plan— The Tuition Plan, Inc. — under which the costs of tuition, fees and housing will be spread out over the school years.
Information on the new plan will be made available Monday at Ashe 132.
NO FROSH CARS
Campus Drivers Curbed By USG
Two sweeping proposals—one to cut out parking dorm cars in Main Campus lots and the other to rule out cars for incoming resident freshmen — were passed this week by Undergraduate Student Government. Both bills have been sent to the University administration for its official stamp of approval.
They were brought before the USG Council by the USG physical planning committee and the ad hoc committee appointed by UM Executive Vice President Dr. Robert Johns.
USG has asked that restricted dormitory parking begin this fall.
The freshman car ban, if signed, would take effect in the fall of 1962.
j In a third action taken this week, USG voted to abolish the student governments in the UM’s five schools and the University j College. Finances for school proj-' ects will be handled by a group [ of school representatives to USG —if the proposed amendment is passed a second time in two weeks.
The dormitory parking proposal would outlaw any parking by dorm students in main campus lots between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. t on weekdays.
All undergraduate car owners who register next fall would have to fill out an automobile registration card with USG.
Within two weeks of registration. all resident students would have to purchase the usual parking sticker for $1.
Cars with these stickers would be allowed to park only in the \ dorm areas. All other cars could | park on main campus lots, but j not near the dorms.
First offenders would be fined $5 by the Student Court. A second violation would draw a $10 fine and make the student liable J for dismissal in the future.
Three-time losers would be referred to the dean of students.
All rules for the new system would be printed in a special USG traffic book, on signs throughout campus and on the auto sticker itself.
The second move — to ban resident frosh cars — is also I aimed at boosting campus life and school spirit.
Without accessible transportation, USG officials said, more freshmen would stay on campus and participate in UM sponsored activities.


Empty Table
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Cubans Never Came Back
By SKIP BOZIN
Hurricane News Editor
How much alike the tables at the Student Union seem. No reason to notice that first one—the empty | one.
Just one more brown wood table. Bui what of the half-dozen Cuban students who hung around there all afternoon? Chattering away one day. The next, gone, without a word.
“Joe Fernandez is dead.
Sure loved Cuba — enough to die for it. He was my buddy.”
Joe Fernandez was a sophomore aviation major at UM. His buddy is Robert Rechts, a senior and president of the Ibis Flying Club.
“Joe just wanted to do what was best for Cuba,”
Rechts said. “He was a good pilot—flew for Castro two summers ago.
“He’d alw’ays thought Castro was good for Cuba, but that summer changed him. Since then he had been working with the resistance movement in Miami.”
Rechts' voice trailed off. He picked up again, more slowly.
“Joe dropped from sight,” he said. “We all figured where he had gone, but no one mentioned it, not until this week.”
Fernandez had been flying one of the four B-26’s shot down over Cuba the day before that island was invaded last month.
"Joe really loved Cuba,” said Rechts. “I wonder how many love their home so dearly.”
One UM student accounted for—others, simply gone, without a word.
JOE FERNANDEZ