Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 05, November 6, 1972

              volume 13, number 5
November 6, 1972
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Fitness Programs Within Easy Reach
Four new, attractive physical Fitness programs have been designed for full-time staff, faculty and administration.
Geared to those who wish to improve their physical condition rather than to those who regard themselves as physically fit, the programs are a result of President Stanford’s stressing the importance of physical Fitness when he addressed the faculty at the beginning of the academic year. The president designated committees to Find ways to make Fitness programs available to every member of the University community.
Pete Elliott, associate director, varsity athletics; Dr. Thomas Miller, chairman, health, physical education and recreation; and Bill Sheeder, director, student activities, Whitten Union, directed the establishment of the programs.
Any person interested in participating in any of the programs is encouraged to attend one of the orientation sessions being held by Dr. Miller at noon and at 5 p.m., Thursday, November 9, in the Flamingo Ballroom of Whitten Union.
The programs are:
1.	Slimnastics. Designed to improve body tone, including weight reduction for men and women desiring it. Activities sessions with instructors will be offered in the Flamingo Ballroom of Whitten Union at 12:15 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and at 5:15 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Lockers, showers and towels will be available.
2.	Jogging. Designed to improve cardiovascular efficiency. Experts will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays to develop individual programs for all participants. Jogging sessions will be held on grassy surfaces. Male participants will be able to use shower and locker facilities in the Varsity Building.
3.	Swimming. Expert instructors will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays at the Whitten Union Pool to develop individual and small group programs. Locker, shower and towel rental services will be available at minimal cost. Future plans include the construction of sauna baths in the men’s and women’s locker rooms.
4.	Weight training. Weight training facilities and equipment in the Varsity and Intramural Buildings will be available to interested University personnel. Qualified instructors will be in the varsity weight training room from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The intramural weight room is available for training from 11:30 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. throughout the work week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, and from 1 until 9 p.m. Sundays. Instruction will be available on advance request.
New Calendar Among Senate Items Approved by President Stanford
Beginning in the 1973-1974 academic year, Christmas vacation will also be the break between fall and spring semesters as a result of a change in the academic calendar passed by the Faculty Senate and approved by President Stanford.
Fall semester of 1973 will include 66 class days with six days for Final exams, and all subsequent semesters will consist of 70 class days and seven days for exams.
The fall semester schedule has evening registration beginning on September 4, with day registration September 5-7. Classes will begin September 10 and end December 12. A complete calendar will appear in the next Veritas.
Other Faculty Senate actions approved by President Stanford:
A change in the General Education Requirements statement which appears in the bulletin, to become effective in 1973-1974. Baccalaureate students are required to take six credits of English and a total of 18 credits from the areas of Fine arts, arts and humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Six credits are to be taken from each of two of the areas and the remaining six credits must be from one or both of the remaining areas.
A change in the Student Leave-of-Absence Policy statement in the bulletin, to go into
effect in 1973-1974. The new policy will read, “A student electing to leave the University for a year or more, normally not more than two, may apply to the dean of his college or school at the time of his leaving for re-entrance either under the requirements of the bulletin in effect at the time he originally entered or the bulletin in effect at the time of readmission, provided the courses are still in existence for meeting requirements of the earlier bulletin if that option is elected.”
Informational items presented to the Faculty Senate during their October 23 meeting included:
1.	Dr. Stanford has selected Clayton Charles, art, as a replacement for Dr. Charlton Tebeau to the Committee on Naming of Facilities.
2.	On the Faculty Senate, Dr. Don J. Latham, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, has replaced Dr. A. Conrad Neumann, who has left the School. Dr. Latham will serve until May 1973.
3.	Dr. Gerald G. Govorchin, history, has replaced Professor Thomas Correll as Faculty Senate representative from Group V of Arts and Sciences.
The next Faculty Senate meeting will be held on November 20 at 3 p.m. in Brockway Lecture Hall.
Health Care Bond Issue Vital To Future of Jackson Hospital
“The University, as well as all of South Florida, has much at stake in the proposed $88.6-million Health Care Facilities portion of the General Obligation Bond Issues to be voted on in Tuesday’s election,” said Emanuel M. Papper, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
In a letter to the 2,500 members of the Dade County Medical Association, Dr. Papper said, “Of the four items covered in this spe-ciFic proposal, the most important in our way of thinking is $55.4 million for replacement, modernization and expansion of buildings in the Jackson Memorial Hospital complex. You all know Jackson Memorial’s precarious position with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Loss of accreditation would be tragic.”
Dr. Papper said, “Inadequate and obsolete physical facilities remain Jackson’s major problem in meeting accreditation and licensure standards. It would be tragic if the institution which has trained more than one-fourth of the practicing physicians in Florida and one-third of all physicians practicing in Dade County lost its accreditation. All of the training programs in every Field of medicine conducted at Jackson Memorial would be jeopardized.”
SpeciFically, the expansion aspects of the proposed bond issue are directly related to many existing and pending grant applications and involve the following programs:
•	Rehabilitation services. A construction grant providing for expansion of spinal core treatment facilities, children’s rehabilitation services, and supporting physical therapy, occupational therapy, vocational training, prosthetic and other services.
•	Regional Cancer Research Center.
Renovation of existing facilities and centralization of cancer patients now housed throughout facilities is proposed.
•	Maternal and child care services. Contracts currently support reimbursement for pediatric care with the State Bureau of Crippled Children. This state agency has designated Jackson as a referral center for specialized pediatric care which is not provided anywhere else in South Florida. There is a proposed increase in the number of pediatric and obstetrical beds.
“The need for major capital expenditures for the purpose of modernization and replacement of various facilities located within the Jackson Memorial Hospital complex, I believe, is well known to this community,”
Dr. Papper said.
A second item in the bond issue is $11.2 million for construction of three decentralized regional emergency and primary care community health centers in North, Central and West Dade to complement the primary health center under development near the South Dade Government Center. The accessibility of these centers would greatly enhance the delivery of family-centered health care to most of Dade County.
A third item, $2.3 million, would be allocated to manpower training and development. This would provide facilities to house students, classrooms and equipment needed to meet the rapidly expanding and increasingly complex training requirements of today’s and tomorrow’s health care system.
A Final item on the bond issue is $20 million for site improvements and land acquisi-
tion in the Jackson Health Complex. Included in this is the cost of three parking garages to help alleviate the severe parking problems at the medical center. This portion would be self-liquidating through revenues derived from parking fees.
“I urge every eligible voter to show his approval for the General Obligation Bond Issue for the continued high quality of health care facilities in South Florida,” Dr. Papper said.
Women Faculty Committee Formed
Dr. Evelyn T. Helmick, assistant professor of English, has been appointed chairwoman of an advisory committee on women faculty matters to the vice president for academic affairs for the academic year 1972-1973. In naming Dr. Helmick to this post, Dr. Carl E.
B. McKenry noted three primary functions for the committee:
1.	To serve as liaison on those matters that are purely of an academic nature between the Academic Affairs Division and the University Women’s Commission.
2.	To advise the administration internally within the Academic Affairs Division on speciFic problems which may arise in connection with women faculty members.
3.	To bring to the attention of the appropriate administrative officials within the Academic Affairs Division procedures or actions which in the committee’s judgment appear to constitute unequal treatment of women vis-a-vis male faculty or staff within the Academic Affairs Division.
Dr. Helmick and two other members of the newly established committee—Dr. Carolyn S. Garwood, chairman, educational psychology, and Dr. Eveleen L. Lorton, associate professor, educational psychology—are also members of the University Women’s Commission on the Status of Women and will serve as liaison with that commission.
Dr. McKenry also selected the following women to serve on the basis of department and geographic location throughout the University and as a representative cross-section of schools and colleges: Professor Barbara Buchanan, nursing; Professor Barbara Campbell, foreign languages; Dr. Alma David, education; Dr. Edith Lord, psychology; Dr. Minnette Massey, law; Professor Frances McGrath, Mailman Center; Professor Dean Newberry, architecture; Dr. Nancy L. Noble, biochemistry; Professor Helen Purdy, library; Professor Rosalina Sackstein, music; Dr. Anitra Thorhaug, microbiology; Dr. Hazel Weidman, psychiatry; and Professor Wilhelmina Zukow-ska, accounting.
The committee held its First meeting on October 25 with Dr. McKenry outlining his thoughts on the committee’s responsibilities.
Notre Dame Game To Be Televised
Watch the Hurricanes battle the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame live on WPLG-TV, Channel 10, at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, November 18.