Veritas, Vol. 21, No. 04, October 6, 1980

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For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
Dean Gary M. Walton and George W. Jenkins
Photo by Jonathan Utz
UM dedicates new
business school complex Oct* 20
Dedication ceremonies for the new $5 million complex for the University’s School of Business Administration will be held Monday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. when donors, trustees, faculty, administrators, students and friends will be on hand to celebrate the official opening.
President Henry King Stanford and Dean Gary M. Walton will welcome guests to the dedication of the George W. Jenkins Building and the Elsa and William H. Stubblefield Memorial Classroom Building.
Dr. Clark Kern noted educator and president emeritus of the University of California, will be the keynote speaker President Stanford will confer an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree upon Dr Kerr
The Honorable Luther H. Hodges, Jr, deputy secretary of commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce, will be a special guest.
On the speaker’s podium will be George W. Jenkins, UM trustee, chairman of the executive committee and founder of Publix Super Markets, Inc., whose challenge gift in 1977 of $2.5 million sparked the fundraising drive; Glen Bludworth, representing the estate of Elsa and William H.
Stubblefield whose bequest in 1978 of approximately $2 million largely assured construction; and James W. McLamore, chairman of the UM Board of Trustees.
The Jenkins Building, the L-shaped wing of the five-story structure, contains offices, conference rooms, faculty-student lounges and support services. The school’s eight departments are centrally located for the first time since the school opened in 1939.
Fronting the Jenkins Building is the Stubblefield Classroom Building, a separate five-story structure which contains classrooms arranged UN-style in semi-circle and equipped with audio-visual and computer tie-ins.
The buildings are located adjacent to the west portion of the Merrick Building, between Merrick and the waterway paralleling University Drive.
Architects were Severud, Boerema, Buff, Bermelo, Inc., of Miami. Contractor was Winter-Macomber, Inc. of Atlanta.
All members of the University community are invited to attend the dedication. An informal reception will follow the dedication.
CM joins educational
The University of Miami is one of three institutions that recently joined the Southeast Florida Educational Consortium, an alliance formed to pool economic and educational resources.
Also joining the consortium on Sept.
17 were Florida Atlantic University in Palm Beach County and Nova University in Broward. The original SFEC members are Broward and Miami-Dade Community Colleges and Florida International University.
"Entry of the private institutions (University of Miami and Nova) broadens the scope of the consortium and permits an excellent means of providing better service at improved costs on a regional basis to the people of southeastern Florida,” said Dr Richard Konkel, SFEC director
The consortium expects to achieve its goals through sharing data for planning purposes, cooperating in developing program requirement and advice sheets, coordinated student activities, interlibrary loans of books for undergraduate students
and library check-out priveleges for faculty and staff, and offering technical and professional workshops.
The major consortium goals for this year are:
•	Projects designed to save or avoid costs.
•	The collection of information important for the development of a regional higher education master plan.
•	Planning with community groups to meet the needs of racial and ethnic minorities.
•	Enhancement of the quality dimensions of programs and services.
The announcement of the formal entry of all three institutions was made at a membership luncheon held on Miami-Dade Community College’s North Campus. The SFEC members were joined by the presidents of Barry, Biscayne and Florida Memorial Colleges, who expressed interest in joining the consortium.
On behalf of the University, Dr. Stanford accepts the Consortium membership plaque from Gregory B. Wolfe, president of Florida International University.
Hurricanes ticket sales show ITIMI has the spirit
One on one—that’s what they are playing at the UM athletic ticket office. But it’s not basketball—it’s football ticket sales to droves of recent customers.
Of the 54,267 tickets sold, some 50,008 people showed Saturday to see the UM Hurricanes beat 9th-ranked Florida State University 10-9. It was the largest UM crowd since the University played Notre Dame in 1971. Two additional sections were opened after faculty, staff and student sections were sold.
Sales have zoomed over previous years. UM sold over 77,000 tickets to the first two home games this year (FAMU and FSU). Last year total ticket sales for UM’s four games were just more than 26,000, according to Charlie Gesino, ticket manager Both figures include an average of 2,000 season-ticket-holders per game. Last year nearly 41,000 tickets were given away. 'Tve never seen anything like it,” says Gesino, "and I was with the Dolphins in their days of glory!”
The old athletic ticket office in the Ponce building, now belongs to Susan
Bonnett, Veritas editor "Frustrated Hurricanes fans have been literally beating down my door;” she said. "They just seem to ignore the sign on the locked door telling them where to go and insist on trying to open it as if they know those tickets must still be in here.”
The windows and doors of the Ponce building are covered with one-way reflective mylar so people on the street can’t see in during the day. "They think nobody can see them, and you wouldn’t believe the things they say and do. I just hope all of that high-powered energy made it to the game,” she added.
The ticket office is located in the Hecht Athletic Center on San Amaro Drive.
UM plays Notre Dame Saturday, Oct. 1L All seats on the team plane are sold out, but the UM Athletic Federation has chartered another plane. For $355 per person you can get a round trip ticket to Chicago, transportation to the hotel, overnight accomodations and a game ticket. Contact the Athletic Federation at 284-6699 for more information.