Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 26, April 15, 1974

              Criminal Correction Is Assembly Topic
Edith Flynn	John Conyers, Jr.
by Jane Rieker News Bureau
“Prisoners in America” will be the subject of the fifth UM American Assembly May 2-5, at the Sonesta Beach Hotel, Key Biscayne.
Subtitled “Challenging Criminal Corrections,” the Assembly, sponsored by UM and The American Assembly of Columbia University, will bring more than 100 participants from all aspects of the field—from law enforcement officers to specialists in correctional counseling.
Three nationally prominent persons identified with the criminal corrections field will be evening speakers.
Dr. Robert B. McKay, dean of New York University School of Law, who chaired the “Attica Commission” which investigated the Attica prison riots for the State of New York, will be the keynote speaker May 2, the opening day.
On Friday, May 3, the Hon. John Conyers, Jr., Congressman (D-Mich.) will speak at dinner on “Improving Communications Between the Community and Correctional Institutions.”
Saturday night, May 4, the Assembly will hear Dr. Edith E. Flynn, sociologist, associate professor, Center for Criminal Justice, Harvard University School of Law. She is director of the Massachusetts Adult Corrections at the Harvard Center, and in 1972 was member and consultant of the Task Force on Corrections of the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals.
Assembly co-directors are Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, vice president for academic affairs; Priscilla Perry, assistant director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies; Dr. Seymour Gelber, director, UM criminal justice program, and Dr. M. Robert Allen, dean, School of Continuing Studies. President Stanford is chairman.
During the Assembly, three days of discussions in three simultaneous panels will review the acknowledged chaos of the American correctional system and consider alternatives to remedy conditions causing prison riots, ways to improve rehabilitation programs, and other problems.
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UM/Oberlin Initiate Joint Program in Urban Studies
Citizens Board Elects Ten
by Sanford Schnier News Bureau
Election of ten new members of the Citizens Board has been announced by Bill Miller, Citizens Board president and chairman of the board of First Florida Building Corporation.
The additions to the University’s prestigious volunteer organization are:
•	Clifford P. Clark, Jr., South Miami •attorney and UM alumnus (J.D., 1961).
•	David A. Doheny, vice president of General Development Corp. of Miami.
•	Irving Getz, president of Mayor’s Jewelers.
•	Jerry Isan, owner of several McDonald’s Restaurant franchises in the Miami area.
•	John M. Koval, M.D., internist and cardiologist.
•	Arthur Lazarus, president of Lazarus Development Corporation and UM alumnus (B.B.A., 1964).
•	Donald A. Stephen, executive vice president of Pan American Bank of Miami.
•	Lawrence M. Walsh, partner in charge of Haskins & Sells, Certified Public Accountants.
•	Michael Weintraub, president and director of Pan American Baneshares Incorporated, vice president and director of Atico Financial Corporation and director of Pan American Bank of Dade County.
•	Murray D. Wood, partner in charge, Ernst & Ernst, Certified Public Accountants.
In his announcement to the new members, Miller said, “Hie willingness of men of this caliber to participate in the continuing drive by volunteers to further develop the University of Miami as a major independent and international center of private higher education bodes well for the financial stability of the university and the cultural and educational benefits derived by residents of the South Florida area.”
Citizens Board membership now totals 125.
Edward Sofen
The University of Miami and Oberlin College will embark next fall upon a cooperative program which initially will send six Oberlin students to Miami each fall and spring semester for an intensive program in urban studies.
Dr. Edward Sofen, associate director of UM’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies and professor of politics and public affairs, will supervise the program which will combine field internship with on-campus studies. A pioneer metropolitan analyst, Dr. Sofen is the author of several books and numerous articles on metropolitan affairs, including The Miami Metropolitan Experiment, first published by the Indiana University Press in 1963.
Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, Jr., vice president for academic affairs, said the program was developed after Ira S. Steinberg, chairman of the department of education at Oberlin, met with Dr. Sofen last June to discuss Oberlin’s interest in establishing an off-campus program in a metropolitan area.
The cooperative arrangement is an innovative one, Dr. McKenry noted, since the UM Center’s academic program offers a concentration in urban studies at the graduate level only. Oberlin College, while limited to undergraduates, is one of the most esteemed coeducational liberal arts colleges in the nation.
The Oberlin Urban Studies Semester at the University of Miami will carry 15 credit hours and will include:
—Internship in a public, quasi-public, or private agency appropriate to the individual student’s interest and educational development, with supervision by Dr. Sofen and a designated member of the agency. Students will be required to prepare periodic reports and a final term paper describing and analyzing their work experience. For the field work, involving 15-18 hours a week with the agency, students will earn six semester hours credit. A seminar in conjunction with an urban studies internship may be included in the above.
—An elective interdisciplinary seminar in urban studies and additional courses in subjects relevant to the specific urban interest of the individual student will comprise the balance of the 15-credit program. These will include such courses as Urban Economics, Urban Geography, Urban Sociology and Criminal Justice.
Among the internship experiences available to the Oberlin students will be public agencies of Dade County, including the Public Defender’s Office, State Attorney, Pollution Control, Metropolitan court, Youth Hall, Welfare and Recreation, the Manager and Budget Offices; and quasi-public and private organizations such as the League of Women Voters, the Urban League, Health Planning Council and the Greater Miami Coalition.
Oberlin students, who will be selected by the Oberlin Committee on Urban Studies, will have all the privileges of regularly enrolled students at UM and may live at residence halls on the campus, or off-campus, as they choose.
Trustees Elect Executive Committee
Members of the Executive Committee of the UM Board of Trustees were elected at the Board’s March 27 meeting. They are:
James S. Billings, Edward C. Fogg III, Robert Macht, Max Orovitz, Stuart W. Patton, John R. Ring, Don Shoemaker and, ex officio, R. B. Gautier, Jr., and Henry King Stanford.
At a special meeting of the Executive Committee, Max Orovitz was re-elected chairman.