Veritas, Vol. 18, No. 04, October 7, 1977

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Volume 18, Number 4 October 7,1977
$90,000 Is 1977 Goal In United Way Drive
The United Way annual fund drive has set a 1977 goal of $90,000 for the University community, $4,000 more than was collected in 1976.
The UM campaign was launched Sept. 29 with a kickoff luncheon at the Ibis Cafeteria. Dr. Carl Thornton, executive director of personnel affairs, is serving as campaign chairman. The drive will run through October 31.
William S. Rubin, president of the United Way, was the main speaker at the luncheon which was hosted by President Henry King Stanford for approximately 100 UM people.
The cost of the luncheon was donated by SAGA Foods.
Dr. Stanford asked those in attendance to encourage greater participation in the drive than in previous years.
“More than $23,700 was returned to us last year in research grants and $30,000 was given to the Canterbury Child Care Center on main campus,” Dr. Thornton said.
Key personnel in each division have been named to assist in the drive. They will be talking to small groups of people throughout the UM system and distributing pledge cards.
“We’re all a part of it” is the 1977 slogan for the largest provider of human services in Dade County. More than 300,000 individuals and organizations gave more than $9.9 million in last year’s campaign to make that help possible.
Even though inflation keeps driving up the cost of helping people, the United Way continues to make possible more services for more people every year.
Law School Builds New Facility
Construction is under way on a new three-story law classroom building in the School of Law complex.
When completed in early January, it will house a copy and distribution center on the first floor, an open area on pillars; a seminar room seating 60, 10 offices including four for faculty and six for student organizations and instructors on the second floor, and a classroom for 144 persons on the third
floor. The building will be wired for video.
The new structure will square the law quadrangle. The old single-story law student lounge, known affectionately as “The Dairy Queen,” will be tom down 10 days after the new building is finished. It is possible a decorative fountain will be erected on the site of the old building.
During the past seven years, the list of more than one-half million. At the same United Way agencies helped locally time, efficient management lowered grew from 38 to 65, and the number of administrative costs from 13.8 per cent people helped increased from 375,000 to in 1971 to 7.9 per cent last year.
Campus-wide Energy Plan To Conserve, Lower Costs
With a goal of reducing the University’s utility bills—estimated to be $5 million in fiscal 1977-78—by $500,000, UM Energy Manager Byron A. Krulewitch and his energy conservation committees on the three campuses are at work formulating energy policy and educating the UM community.
President Henry King Stanford announced Cabinet approval in July for the formation of the committees, composed of faculty, administrators, staff and students.
While the immediate goal is a cost avoidance in electricity, water, sewage and fuel (oil and gas) of one-half million dollars this year, the long-range action is to reduce energy consumption and costs by alteration of existing physical facilities after an energy analysis has been performed.
Alternate energy sources and heating and cooling reclamation are also being explored.
„ One of the early committee decisions, Krulewitch said, was to set comfort standards of 77° F in summer and 65° F in winter. The result is an immediate savings of 25 per cent in energy now being utilized to air condition campus buildings.
Other committee actions planned are the reduction of lighting levels in outside walkways,- corridors and stairwells; reducing hot water temperatures to 120° F maximum with the exception of sanitation requirements of 180°F, and installing water restrictor devices in showers, lavatories, and kitchen sinks.
Krulewitch recommends the inexpensive restrictors for home use as well, saying they are available at the Bookstore.
Following an inspection tour of the Cox Science Building, he and a
consulting engineer projected a cost savings in reduced lighting of $88.26 per day. Coupled with reduced air conditioning, the savings figure is $109.26 per day for that building.
Similar energy analysis surveys will start next month and continue for two to three years. Priority in time scheduling will be given to the largest energy users among the buildings, Krulewitch said.
He makes an energy presentation to occupants of all campus buildings before energy actions are taken. So far, Krulewitch has brought the conservation message to approximately 750 UM people.
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