Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 17, May 3, 1972

              volume 13, number 17
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
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May 7,1973
Actions Explained
calculated when he applies for readmission and will reflect the new rule. If a student
Administrative
by Dr. Sidney Besvinick Associate Dean of the Faculties
The following academic administrative actions have been taken in recent weeks and should be of considerable interest to faculty members and students:
1.	Credit/No Credit Option. By action of the Academic Deans’ Policy Council and the Faculty Senate, the statement in the Undergraduate Bulletin has been amended and students will now be permitted to change their status in a course from “grade” to “credit/no credit” or the reverse anytime during the first two weeks after day registration. All other requirements governing the so-called credit-only option still apply.
2.	Extended Drop-Add Period. Beginning September 1973 the drop-add period will be extended. Late registration will take place as usual in Brockway Hall for two days (September 10-11) after the regular registration (September 5-7). From September 12 through 21a student may add a course by the following procedure:
—Obtain an “Add-A-Course Authorization” slip from the Registrar’s Office. —Have the request approved by both the instructor of the course and the chairman of the department.
—Take the request to the office of the student’s academic dean and complete the standard “Drop-Add” slip.
All such course addition requests must be completed by 5 p.m. on the date specified in the academic calendar (for Fall 1973, the date is September 21). No requests will be approved after that date and time, regardless of reason.
3.	Transfer Student Transcripts. Effective with registraton this Spring semester, students who transfer to the University will have their entire record considered in computation of credits attempted, credits earned and quality point average. Transcripts for transfer students who first enrolled before that date will continue to show only the credits earned which have been transferred.
If a student who has transferred to the University officially takes a leave of absence, his transcript will remain as is. If he simply drops out, however, his record will be re-
takes course work at another institution after being admitted to UM, all of the data concerning those courses will be included on the transcript.
This action was approved by both the Faculty Senate and the Academic Deans’ Policy Council. Further information concerning this rule change may be obtained from the Registrar’s Office.
Phone Campaign Nets $315,379 from Alums
UM alumni have pledged $315,379 to establish a new national collegiate record for telephone campaigns.
For the fourth consecutive year the UM led all other universities and colleges in telephone campaigns. Last year UM alumni pledged $265,317; the years before, $233,229 and $157,000.
Five hundred and forty-eight volunteers obtained 4,000 pledges ranging from $10 to $50,000 in calls to every state over an eight-week period. More than one-third of the alumni reached committed themselves to gifts of $100 or more.
W. H. Charlton, director of UM Alumni Relations, said volunteers included alumni from all schools and colleges at the University, with prominent roles played by members of Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership honor society; Iron Arrow, UM leadership honor society; and Mortar Board, women’s leadership-scholarship-service group. ODK, he said, set a single-night, all-time record, gathering $53,210 in pledges April 4.
The gifts will be used for scholarships, loan funds, research and other academic goals.
Mr. Charlton added, “I’m particularly proud of the tremendous number of alumni and campus volunteers in the campaign. The success we achieved proves that each year a growing percentage of alumni are concerned with the financial well-being of the University, and each year their gifts become more meaningful, as illustrated by the fact that one-third gave $100 or more.”
Law Professor Put on Trial
Professor Richard Hausler’s contracts class in law school was interrupted last month by a birthday party for him, planned by his students. A little unorthodox, the party included a cake with 52 candles (Professor Hausler was 50), a miniature horse (made up to look like “Rose the Second,” a cow in a famous contract case), and a mock trial, in which the students charged the professor with causing “severe emotional distress.”
Dr. F. G. Walton Smith
Dr. Warren Wooster
New Dean Named for RSMAS
UM’s internationally known Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will have a new dean next September as Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, who pioneered the University’s studies in oceanography back in 1940, steps aside to become Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus.
Taking the helm will be Dr. Warren S. Wooster, professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Wooster, 52, has been associated with the Scripps Institution since 1947 with the exception of two periods when he was on leave. From 1957-58, he served as Director of Investigations, Council of Hydrobiological Investigations, Lima, Peru, and from 1961-1963 was director of the Office of Oceanography for the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, in Paris, France.
From 1964 to 1968, he served as chairman of Scripps’ department of oceanography and chairman of its graduate department, and since 1951 has organized and led numerous oceanographic expeditions.
Dr. Wooster was the founding Director of Scripps’ Center for Marine Affairs, established in 1970 under a Ford Foundation grant, and served as head of the Center until the fall of 1972.
In 1972 he also completed a four-year term as president of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). SCOR is a component of the International Council of Scientific Unions and is a scientific advisory body to the oceanographic program of UNESCO and also to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
His national activities include membership on the NAS Ocean Affairs Board, Committee for International Environmental Programs and advisor on ocean affairs to the U.S. State Department.
His particular interest has been in the circulation on the eastern sides of oceans, especially the coastal up welling regions. This has led to comparative studies of the California, Peru and Canary Currents, including measurements of their undercurrents, and investigations of their anomalies, such as “El Niño” off the west coast of South America.
He holds his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, his M.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and his Sc.B. from Brown University, Providence, R. I.
In announcing Dr. Wooster’s appointment as Dean, President Henry King Stanford said, “The University of Miami is extremely fortunate in securing as successor to F. G. Walton Smith a man equally distinguished in the marine sciences. Under Walton Smith’s leadership, the School which he founded in 1943
as the Marine Laboratory has become recognized as one of the leading marine stations in the world. Dr. Wooster’s experience and background eminently qualify him to carry on the tradition of excellence established by Dr. Smith and his colleagues.”
Sign Up Now for Appreciation Week
Faculty and administrators will celebrate the University’s second annual Student Appreciation Week starting Sunday, May 13, with the intramurals banquet and ending Monday evening, May 21, when the drama department will present Cabaret on the Whitten Union patio.
Highlighting the week’s events will be sports competition among faculty, administrators and students in sailboat racing, bowling, table tennis, softball, volleyball, arm wrestling and beer drinking (based on speed, not quantity). For the sailboat event, four Sunflower (one-man) sailboats will be used with a limit of 16 participants in four heats. Winner of the final heat will win the sailboat.
With the exception of the sailboat race and the softball game, competition will be limited to the first 10 signing up for each contest. So watch The Miami Hurricane and campus posters for contest schedules and sign up in 226 Whitten Union.
Fellows Chosen for ’73—74
Six scientists working in the fields of theoretical physics, biology and chemistry have been appointed post-doctoral fellows at UM’s Center for Theoretical Studies for 1973-74, the Center’s director, Dr. Behram Kursunoglu, announced recently.
They are Dr. Mou-Shan Chen, Yale (reappointment); Dr. Chiu Shuen Hui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr.
Chun Chian Lu, University of Tennessee (re-appointment); Dr. Stephan L. Mintz, Johns Hopkins University (re-appointment); Dr. Andrew Stewart, the Imperial College, London (re-appointment), and Dr. George Andrew Soukup, the University of Chicago.
In its eight years of existence, the Center for Theoretical Studies has established a reputation for attracting the most distinguished men of science to its membership and has become a focal point for the congregation of outstanding scientists in this country and abroad, including 16 Nobel Laureates in physics, chemistry and biology.
Four remaining CTS post-doctoral research appointments will be made in the near future, according to Dr. Kursunoglu.