Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 03, October 9, 1972

              volume 13 number 3
October 9, 1972
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
McLaughlin Sees Solution to Parking President Speaks Dilemma in Near Future	On “Equality,	”
Faculty, staff and students alike are facing the problem of where to park for awhile this semester because of new construction and rearrangement of existing parking facilities.
Something is being done about the UM parking dilemma, and though not everyone will be able to get the most convenient parking spaces, at least there will be more spaces to go around. And soon.
“We will have enough parking spaces at UM, just not enough convenient spaces,” said William McLaughlin, assistant vice president for financial affairs and business manager.
About a year ago the City of Coral Gables complained about the lack of parking places at the University. Previously, the city had permitted UM to consider the campus as an entire facility as far as zoning for parking was concerned. Last year, however, the city’s philosophy seemed to change. Now they said that UM must have a certain amount of parking spaces adjacent to specific buildings, in line with the rest of Coral Gables zoning policy.
UM applied for variances to these rules.
The parking variances were granted, but the city asked that UM solve its parking problem.
The Metropolitan Dade County Department of Transportation recently did an on-campus traffic study. Their preliminary report, issued in late August, recommended steps that would solve the UM parking problem for about the next three years.
“This was the main reason we didn’t start all this construction during the summer. UM just didn’t get the information needed to start the projects. In addition, construction was begun for the Doctor’s Hospital addition,” said Mr. McLaughlin.
The Metro report recommended three steps, two of which are nearing completion; the tnird is under study. They are:
•	Rearranging parking on the north end of campus, which will add 487 spaces.
•	Paving area for parking between the Ring Theatre and San Amaro Drive, which will add 153 more spaces.
•	Under consideration is the demolition
of seven wooden “temporary” buildings north of the Memorial Classroom Building to make way for a 404-car parking lot.
The first two recommendations are already underway and scheduled for completion before the end of October.
The third recommendation has not been acted upon yet. If space can be found to effectively relocate the people now using the buildings, the projects will be started.
This decision should be reached soon.
These new spaces offset those lost in recent campus construction. The Rathskeller took away 82 spaces and when construction of the Gusman Concert Hall gets underway 125 more spaces will be lost, leaving only 119 spaces in the Whitten Union parking lot. Doctor’s Hospital construction will take away about 247 spaces. Mr. McLaughlin said construction of the Law School addition didn’t result in any lost spaces.
An alternative was considered, but not accepted as feasable—building a $1-million-plus parking garage. This was rejected because of cost, and because Metro’s preliminary report said UM could solve the problem for the next three years without such a facility.
“It is our hope that the increased number of spaces on the north end of campus will draw students and faculty using the Merrick Building, the Whitten Learning and Instructional Resources Center and the Dooley Memorial Classroom Building away from the congested area around Ashe Building and the Whitten Union,” Mr. McLaughlin said.
Before the changes now underway, he explained, there were 6, 870 spaces on campus, with 8, 580 registered cars, belonging to students, faculty and staff.
“This, of course, is realizing that everyone won’t be on campus at the same time,” he said.
When new lots now under construction are completed, there will be 7, 056 parking spaces. Figures on the number of cars registered are not available yet.
--Excerpts from an address by President Henry King Stanford
As principal speaker for the Honors Day Program October 4 at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, President Stanford chose as his topic: “Equality and Excellence in the Land of Opportunity.”
With his permission, Veritas shares with its readers a few of his observations.
As preface to these comments, Dr. Stanford reviewed the evolution of democracy as we know it in the West, then noted:
“So the mantle of Western thought, falling on the shoulders of the framers of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, was rich in the woof of religious equality and the warp of political equality, however defined over the centuries.
“It was inevitable and fortunate that this philosophy of man’s equality to man should have been expressed more and more in the political evolution of our country. It was equally inevitable and fortunate that laws, even Constitutional amendments, should have been enacted to prevent sex, race, ethnic origin, or religion from hindering a man or woman from participating in the mainstream of American society. The outgrowth of recent legislation, buttressed by executive decree, requiring contractors with the federal government not to use tax monies in a discriminating manner against citizens of the United States, is to merge the historical concepts of equality with opportunity . . .
“In our enthusiasm to embrace the concept of equal opportunity we may be headed toward a misguided understanding of it. There is a growing tendency to believe that equal opportunity means that society must seek to provide for each of its members an equal chance to overcome individual limitations of heredity or enviroment by encouraging or making possible the fullest development of his native abilities, helping him thereby to correct any disadvantages he may suffer in competition with others for the available rewards. Thus the individual tends to become convinced that his share in
these rewards is not potential and based upon his performance, but absolute and based upon his right. . .
“To infer, as some are doing, that equality of opportunity means that the techniques of social engineering can make possible a-chievement among individuals of unequal abilities is a cruel hoax . . .
“Unless this relationship between promise and performance is understood by all who enter the race, then the consequences of individual failure could be fraught with great danger for the stability of our society and for the stability of the individual . . .
“We seem almost ashamed to admit, at least in our public behavior, that there exist among us superior individuals who succeed because of their superior gifts . . .
“Leveling forces are clearly at work in this society. Many would lop off the first head which appears above the common row. . .
“Yet we must continue to make it possible, in all the ferment of social change, for excellence to rise up, to be recognized, and given sway, for it is on the shoulders of the excellent men and women, individuals of superior ability, that professions, vocations, governments, and societies move forward to improvement. . .
“Equal opportunity does not guarantee equality of success. It does promise, however, that the individual will have the . . . greatest opportunity for success ... the fulfillment of his potential.”
Senate Names New Committee Members
In the first Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year on September 25, the Senate ratified nominations by the Senate Council for the President’s consideration for a replacement on the Sabbatical Leave Committee.
Since the meeting, President Stanford selected Dr. John B. Miale, M.D., pathology, who replaces Dr. Max Millard, M.D.
Other members of the Sabbatical Leave Committee are: Dr. Ralph Boyer, law; Dr. Hank Diers, drama; Dr. A. G. Keenan, chemistry; Dr. Edward Schuh, philosophy; Dr. Thomas Wood, politics and public affairs;
Dr. Armin Gropp, ex officio, and Mr. Paul Apt, ex officio.
In informational items, President Stanford selected Dr. Herman Meyer and Mr. Charles Eyre to serve for the 1972-1973 academic year as faculty representatives on the University Retirement Committee Panel.
Others on the standing panel are: Dr. Thomas Mende, biochemistry; Dr. George Pickar, law; Dr. Gary Salzman, management; Dr. Edward Sofen, politics and public affairs; Dr. George Tershakovec, biochemistry; and Dr. Hubert Rosomoff, M.D., neurological surgery.
Faculty Senate representative from the Medical School, Clinical III, Dr. Eugene Nagel, M.D., has resigned from the Senate because of prior commitments. Dr. Burton Goldstein, M.D., has been elected to serve in Dr. Nagel’s place for 1972-1973.
Any faculty member desiring a complete report of the Senate’s actions may contact his dean or Senate representative.