Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 07, December 4, 1972

              volume 13, number 7
December 4,1972
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
ON TEST-Dr. William Fogarty (left) and Dr. Neil Freeman examine the air hag safety system installed in a fleet of cars loaned to the City of Miami by the government. If one of these cars should crash, the air hag would instantly inflate to protect the front-seat passenger.
Accident Investigation Team Studies Auto Air Bag System
Experimental cars with air bag/seat belt restraint systems are being tested in Miami and four other cities under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Delivered to GSA interagency motor pools, the cars will be used daily. If one should be involved in an accident, UM’s accident investigating team will get to the scene to record the results.
The team, headed by Dr. William Fogarty, associate professor of civil engineering, is one of 16 such teams throughout the country. Operating on grants from the Department of Transportation, the team seeks the reasons for automobile accidents and conducts studies on motor vehicle and highway safety standards. Keeping a close watch on the air bag-equipped cars is part of one of these studies.
Dr. Fogarty, himself responsible for the traffic engineering aspects of the investigations, has three other UM faculty as well as several consultants from the community on the accident investigation team.
Dr. Neil Freeman, civil engineering, is responsible for studying the vehicle itself and the biomedical engineering aspects. He correlates the victim’s injuries with the parts of the car that they came in contact with. Professor Bertan Morrow, civil engineering, studies the kinematics and dynamics of the accident—how fast the vehicle was traveling and the force of impact. Dr. Robert Adt, mechanical engineering, reports on the automotive aspects of the investigations.
Community consultants to the team are: Dr. Joseph Davis and Mrs. Elizabeth Everson from the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office; Mrs. Carole Haviland and Glenn Sudduth of the Dade County Citizen’s Safety Council, who gather data on the human factors contributing to accidents and act as liaison with other agencies; and Joseph and James Metka, who study and photograph the manufacturing defects in autos and present “automotive autopsies.”
Studies by the investigation team go beyond the accidents themselves. Reports of defects in new cars are investigated and documented. Dr. Fogarty’s team, along with the other teams across the country, have been responsible for several recalls.
Locally, the team, working with Gene Sim, Dade County traffic engineer, has been responsible for many spot improvements based on their highway and traffic safety recom-
mendations. Illumination and traffic signals have been added where they were found to be needed, deceleration lanes have been added or lengthened, and some roadside hazards eliminated.
Now in its fourth contract year, the team’s funding has totaled $386,000.
Looking toward the future, Dr. Fogarty says the team’s activities will probably center on specific studies in the areas of single vehicles going off the road, intersection collisions and recreational vehicle safety.
UM Opens Office In Collier County
President Henry King Stanford has announced that nine prominent Naples area residents have accepted invitations to serve as the Collier County Advisory Committee to the University in connection with the opening of its regional office in Naples.
Co-chairmen of the executive advisory group are Addison B. Miller, Naples realtor, and H. Alvin Smith, retired business executive and long-time Naples resident.
Working with them as chairmen in specific areas are Dr. Brice Boynton and Dr. John B. Stewart, prominent local physicians, who will head a hospital-medical committee;
Dr. William 0. Webb, superintendent of schools, and Miss Goldie Cross, director of adult education, who will chair a continuing education committee; and Benjamin Parks, prominent local attorney, and Edgar Brackin, trust officer of the Bank of Naples, who will form an endowment committee.
A cultural program and community services committee will be named later.
Thomas E. Hyer, editor of the Naples Daily News, will serve as public relations advisor to the committee.
Active participation by prominent alumni also is being planned, Dr. Stanford said, noting that more than 300 UM alumni now live on the lower west coast of Florida, with approximately 75 in Naples.
Edwin Hamilton, associate director of development from the UM’s Broward County Office, will be acting manager of the Naples office.
The Collier County Office will provide information and services to alumni, prospective students and their parents, and to business, civic and government organizations in the community.
Senate and Council First Quarter Report
by Dr. Gary I. Salzman, professor, management, chairman, Faculty Senate
The activities of the 1972-1973 Faculty Senate and Senate Council included approval of the following items:
1.	A new Student Leave-of-Absence Policy (#72018).
2.	The institution of a Program of Jewish Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences (#72019).
3.	A new modified 1973-1974 Academic Calendar, including fall semester termination prior to the Christmas holidays (#72020).
4.	The Search and Seizure Policy put into effect earlier this year was tentatively accepted for use during the remainder of the school year at which time a committee report on its substance will be presented to the Senate Council (#69067).
5.	A minor revision of By-law 1.5 of the Faculty Manual (#69048).
Under imminent consideration is a Doctor of Arts degree and the School of Medicine’s Professional Income Plan (#72017 and #69048).
The Senate Council has approved a resolution supporting the basic concepts of the Knight Center for Continuing Education.
An ad hoc committee of the Senate worked with President Stanford resulting in his report of June 8, 1972, establishing University policy in the event of a financial exigency.
Another ad hoc committee helped establish clarification of the roles of the Search Committees and the Consultative Committees in seeking new deans.
Another ad hoc committee helped clarify the procedures to be followed regarding the study of University Governance, reiterating the established procedures as indicated in the Faculty Manual.
The Senate Budget Committee has met and will continue to meet with the administration concerning both the 1973 summer school and the 1973-1974 school year.
Reviews and studies concerning early retirement costs and the feasibility of establishing a Health Maintenance Organization are under way.
Numerous items have been discussed and referred back to their appropriate committees for further study.
The next meeting of the Senate is on December 14 at 3 p.m. in Brockway Lecture Hall.
Any information concerning the above items may be secured from Mrs. Susan Merri-man, Senate secretary, 284-3721, or Dr. Gary I. Salzman, Senate chairman, 284-5862.
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NATIONAL RECOGNITION-Dr. EmilianVs programs in deep-sea sediment research have recently earned nationwide attention from The New York Times and from Time magazine.
NSF Grant Goes To Dr. Emiliani
A quarter of a million dollars has been granted by the National Science Foundation for deep-sea sediment studies under the direction of Dr. Cesare Emiliani, chairman, division of marine geology and geophysics, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
Deep-sea sediments have yielded novel and most significant information on the evolution of the earth’s climate during the past million years. These studies, beginning in the early 1950’s at the University of Chicago and continuing at the University of Miami since 1957, have revolutionized the classic concept of four major glaciations and have replaced it with a picture of alternating cold and warmer intervals no longer than about 20,000 years each.
The studies have been based largely on oxygen isotopic analysis of the tests of planktonic Foraminifera from deep-sea cores and on the micropaleontological analysis of the fossil foraminiferal faunas using various statistical methods and large computers.
While the general trend of climatic evolution has been clarified in this manner, much remains to be done on the detailed analysis of climatic change over a time scale of tens to a few thousands of years.
Toward this purpose, suites of deep-sea cores of particularly high rates of sedimentation from the west Florida shelf and off the coast of west Africa have been collected. These cores, having a particularly high sedimentation rate, will provide much more detailed information.
Gautier Hall Dedication Saturday
Charles H. Gautier Hall, which houses the UM Rathskeller, will be dedicated Saturday, December 9, in memory of the late Mr. Gautier who was a dedicated Trustee and friend of the University. He played a major role in planning for the Rathskeller.
Taking part in the dedication ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. will be President Stanford; Tom Rebel, chairman, Rathskeller Advisory Board; Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, Jr.; and Bill Colson, UM Trustee. Honorary memberships to the Rathskeller will be presented to Mrs. Charles Gautier and her sons. A plaque, to be placed in the building, will be unveiled during the ceremonies. A small band from the School of Music will provide German music.
The Rathskeller will hold an open house
from 2 to 5 p.m. for all members of the UM family for tours and free food and drink. Starting at 5 p.m., the Rathskeller will be on a regular cash basis until closing at 1 a.m.
Later that evening, the Rathskeller will be the scene of a performance of “Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat,” a musical written by Tim Rice and Andrew Weber, the creators of “Jesus Christ, Super-star.”
Producer is Dr. Hank Diers, chairman, drama. The musical director is Dennis Burleson and the choreographer, Daisy Hay.
The performance features a cast of 21.
“Joseph” will be repeated in the Rathskeller the following Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 14, 15 and 16 at 11 p.m.