Veritas, Vol. 18, No. 05, October 21, 1977

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Volume 18, Number S October 21,1977
Architect's rendering of addition to Varsity Building
UM Receives $1,000,000 Hecht Family Gift
’ By Sanford Schnier News Bureau
A commitment of approximately $1,000,000 has been made to the University by the family of the late Isadore Hecht, owner of Flagler Dog Track and longtime Miami civic leader and philanthropist.
The money will be used for a new two-story addition to the UM’s Varsity Building, for renovation of the existing facility, and ancillary costs.
The complex will be named in memory of Hecht.
The commitment comes from his widow, Florence, and three children, Isabelle Hecht Amdur, David Hecht and Barbara Hecht Havenick.
Isadore Hecht
In announcing the gift, President Henry King Stanford said: “Isadore Hecht’s generosity over many years of his life benefitted a number of areas within the University. This magnanimous gift of his family appropriately commemorates his great interest both in sports and in young people. It will enable us to provide vastly improved quarters for our men and women varsity athletes as well as for their coaching staff.”
Hecht, who died April 16,1975, at the age of 61, was a member of the University’s Society of University Founders and a benefactor to the UM’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. His son is also a member of the Society of University Founders.
Stanley Glasgow of Ferguson, Glasgow, Schuster, Inc., architects, Coral Gables, said that the addition will
have 11,000 square feet containing director and head coach, a meeting front of the existing building, facing quarters for the UM Athletic Hall of room, ticket office, publicity office and San Amaro Drive.
Fame, Athletic Federation, athletic lobby, and will be constructed at the	Continued to Page 7
Fall Enrollment, Credit Hours Decline
University fall enrollment totals Graduate School and 1,310 in Law.
17,105 as compared with total The School of Medicine registered a enrollment of 17,249 last fall, according record enrollment with 613, including to figures released by Registrar George 57 enrolled in the special two-year W. Smith.	course whereby holders of the Ph.D.
Full-time students in all schools total degree may earn the M.D. degree.
10,720 as compared to 10,966, a drop of	The School of Continuing Studies
246 students, and there are 3,445 part- showed a small increase with 3,353 time students, a drop of 152 from last students over last year’s 3,308, although fall’s 3,597.	degree students dropped by 147, from
Total student-credit hours in all to ’ schools declined by three per cent.	^ew freshmen, totalling 1,833,
While enrollment continued to exceeded the Admissions Office target decline in the College of Arts and of 1,810 students. New transfer students Sciences and School of Nursing, by numbering 1,234 also exceeded the eight and 10 per cent respectively, Admissions target of 1,125, by 109 increases were recorded for the Schools students.
of Business Administration, five per Forty-eight states are represented by cent; Education, 10 per cent, and Music, 4,702 students, with only Utah and seven per cent. ■	Montana missing.
Enrollment in the Graduate School, Sixty-eight foreign lands are with 2,555, and School of Law, 1,317, represented by 627 students, a remained about the same as that of last substantial increase over last year’s 552 fall when there were 2,571 in the international students.
CTS To Host Nuclear Energy Forum
By Susan L. Hartt	“The aim of the Forum,” Dr.
News Bureau	Kursunoglu said, “is to focus on the
The promise and problems of impact of the plutonium fuel cycle and plutonium and other nuclear energy alternative fuel cycles on all other sources will be the focus of a five-day energy sources including coal, solar,
“International Scientific Forum on an geothermal, and the remaining Acceptable Nuclear Energy Future of inventory of gas and oil.” The Forum the World” convening Monday, Nov. 7, will include technical scientific papers at the SunRise Inn in Fort Lauderdale, and papers for non-specialists on the The Forum is being conducted under implications and solutions for the the auspices of the University’s Center world’s energy resources and needs, for Theoretical Studies (CTS).	Environmental considerations,
Dr. Behram Kursunoglu, Forum national and international safeguards, chairman and director of CTS, said that *he possibility of expanded nuclear more than 250 scientists, government proliferation and waste disposal will be officials and utility company executives among the subjects discussed, are expected to attend the by-invitati'on-
only meeting.	Continued to Page 7

Of the total 17,105 students enrolled, 9,996 or 58 per cent are men and 7,109 or 42 per cent are women.
FACULTY SENATE MEETING 3 p.m., Oct. 24 Law School Auditorium 109
Agenda
Minutes of Faculty Senate Meeting, Sept. 26, 1977.
Dr. John L. Green, Jr., executive vice president for administration and finance, “Update on the Financial Status of the University.”
77018—Presidential Scholarship Program.
Professor Anna R. Ceci-Knabb, “The Broken Rectangle.”