Veritas, Vol. 15, No. 09, October 21, 1974

              Beaux Arts Opens Lowe Gift Shop
Beaux Arts is opening a gift shop in the Lowe Art Museum on October 23 to provide a selection of unique art gifts to museum visitors.
Gifts were selected for the shop from 16 areas of art including pewter, glass, porcelain, brass, and paper.
Prices for the gift items will range from $150 reproductions of antiques to $1.50 children’s art history coloring books.
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UM Gears Up for Election
Other items to be carried in the store will include Williamsburg reproduction in pewter, original Salvador Dali plates from Daum Glass, Norman Rockwell plates and colonial brass reproductions.
There will also be a special subject unit which will change periodically, and will open with items related to the bicentennial celebration.
The Lowe has also obtained permission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to sell reproductions of works in the Metropolitan collection. A collection of unique Christmas ornaments also will be available.
Staffed entirely by volunteers, all proceeds from the shop will benefit the Lowe’s exhibition schedule.
The shop will be open noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.
Chairman Named For Endowments
Dennis P. Clum, executive vice president and senior trust officer at the First State Bank of Miami, has been named chairman of the University’s Endowment Committee by President Stanford.
Mr. Clum has served as vice chairman of the committee’s trust officers division since its inception in 1964. In the volunteer job, Mr. Clum has reported to the committee a substantial number of expectancies in wills and trusts in the millions of dollars, said Peter Lafferty, director of deferred giving.
Mr. Clum succeeds the late Baron deHirsch Meyer in the post as chairman of the committee.
Faculty Meeting Set for October 24
President Henry King Stanford has announced that the first General Faculty Meeting of the academic year will be held at 3 p.m., October 24 in Brock way Lecture Hall, Otto G. Richter Library. Faculty unionization will be a topic of discussion. All faculty members are invited to attend.
•Election Dates Set: October 29 and 30
The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that the dates for the representation election will be Tuesday, October 29, and Wednesday, October 30. Voting will take place in Brockway Lecture Hall, Otto G. Richter Library, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on both days.
The $40 slide rule may be going the way of the dinousar.
Inexpensive pocket calculators are rapidly replacing slide rules on college campuses across the country, and UM is no exception. Students use calculators for their homework, in class and even on exams, and the professors are encouraging it.
One of the reasons for its acceptance by the professors is that it enables students to do a greater amount of work in a shorter time. Dr. Murray Mantell, civil engineering, School of Engineering and Environmental Design, said, “With students using the calculators, we can give a more comprehensive exam. We’re designing the tests assuming the students have a rapid way of doing the calculations, whether it be calculator or slide rule.” Dr. Edward Fox, dean of the School of Business Administration, said, “As more and more professors become used to students using the calculators, we can
•Law Unit Out
The Law Faculty Association at a meeting October 9 voted to withdraw its petition for recognition as a separate collective bargaining unit in the upcoming NLRB representation election. According to Law Faculty Association President Clifford C. Alloway, the Association, if the NLRB approves, will not appear on the ballot at the representation election. The LFA is composed of all full time faculty members of the School of Law and all full time law librarians.
expect courses to become more rigorous.”
Dean Fox feels that the use of calculators is helping to improve the student’s performance on exams where time is a factor. He said, “We encourage its use in the classroom. This is 1974, not 1874. The pocket calculator should be as much a part of a business student’s equipment as a slide rule is for an engineer.”
Helping to surmount any cost problem which may prevent a student from owning a calculator, Dean Fox has instituted a policy to loan $50 interest free to any business student who needs a calculator but can’t afford one. “But actually,” he said, “there have been very few requests.”
Professors agree that calculator prices, now as low as $20, are not a prohibitive factor when compared with the
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•Senate to Discuss Collective Bargaining
“Pros and Cons of Collective Bargaining” will be the topic of discussion at the Faculty Senate meeting on October 21 at 3 p.m. in Brockway Lecture Hall, Otto G. Richter Library. All faculty members are invited to attend. Addressing the topic will be Dr. Herman Meyer, mathematics, and Dr. Carroll V. Truss, psychology.
Volunteer Program Benefits Students
UM students who are or have been on disciplinary probation will now be able to have such action stricken from their records under a “Volunteer Activities Program” developed by the Student Personnel Office in cooperation with Mrs. Ruth Wedden, executive director of the Miami Junior League Advocate Program.
The program is the outgrowth of a May 1973 request by Norman Gerstein and Norman Milenski, then president and president-elect respectively, of the Student Defense Corps which is composed of law students who act as legal advisors for students who violate University policies or regulations in major discipline cases.
University personnel will work with members of the Junior League Advocate Program during the initial stages of the Volunteer Activities Program which is being undertaken on a trial basis, according to William P. McCoy, associate director of the Student Personnel Office, who will coordinate the program.
The Junior League program offers youthful first offenders the opportunity to utilize the skills of trained group leaders to meet and solve their specific problems through group counseling and community services for 63 agencies in the Greater Miami area, many of which are supported by the United Fund.
The option of participating in the University’s Volunteer Activities
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Calculators on Campus—Pluses, Minuses