Veritas, Vol. 21, No. 12, March 23, 1981

              For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
Vol. 2% No. 12 March 23,1981
Founders welcome new members
The University of Miami honored 83 new members of the Society of University Founders on Saturday, Mar. 14, at the 15th annual formal banquet held at the Omni International Hotel.
The black tie affair began with a reception at 7 p.m. UM President Henry King Stanford was master of ceremonies.
UM Trustee Neil Schiff, who also heads the University’s Mid-Century Development Campaign, assisted Dr Stanford at the investiture ceremonies.
All Founders, either personally or through organizations, corporations, and foundations, have given or pledged a minimum of 550,000 to the University. Since its inception by the Board of Trustees in 1966, the Society has grown to a total of 730 and has provided in excess of SI25 million in support of the University.
Each member receives a personalized bronze plaque and a ribboned medallion at the investiture ceremonies. In addition, the name of each member is inscribed on a wall in Marion and Ed Lau Founders Hall (the Faculty Club).
Entertainment at the dinner was provided by UM Jazz Band II under the direction of Gary Lindsay
It's all in the family—the Atkin family that is. Stanley Ark in, a member of the UM Board of Trustees has also been a member of the Society of University Founders for some time, but on Saturday, his wife Jill, second from left, and his brother Norman, shown here with his wife Rosalie, also became members of the Society. Their gifts were designed to establish a chair in Judaic Studies.
CAIS conference focu$e§ on ^fiddle East coufliets
Prominent international scholars and political affairs specialists from the U.S. and abroad will meet at the University of Miami to discuss "New Faces and Conflicts in the Middle East" during a two-day symposium, Monday and Tuesday, Mar.
23 and 24.
Sponsored by the UM Center for Advanced International Studies, the public is invited to attend free of charge. Daily presentations and panel discussions will take place in Brockway Lecture Hall, adjacent to the Otto G. Richter Library on the Coral Gables campus.
Dr. George S. Wise, CAIS director and symposium chairman, will open the conference Monday, at 9 a.m. followed by
presentations from Dr. Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; Dr Jay C. Hurewitz, director, Center for Middle East Studies, Columbia University, and Dr Eliyahu Kanovsky, visiting professor of economics at Queens College, who will discuss "Strategic and Military Developments in the Middle East” and "Oil, the Economic Weapon.
Dr Alexandre Bennigsen, a foremost authority on Muslim minorities in the Soviet Union, is visiting professor at UM on leave from the Universities of Chicago and Paris. He will lead off the Monday afternoon session with Dr Chantal Lemercier, Ecole de Hautes Etudes, University of Paris, Dr. Oles Smolansky,
Lehigh University and Albert Seligmann, Diplomat in Residence at UM.
Their topics include the Middle East and its relations with the Soviet Union, Japan and East Asia, as well as the "Successes and Failures of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.”
Dr. Rouhollah K. Ramazani, Middle East Comparative Foreign Policy and International Law Professor at the University of Virginia; Dr. David Kushner, visiting professor at UM; Dr. Haim Shaked, formerly dean of humanities at Tel-Aviv University, now visiting professor at York University, and Dr Gabriel Ben-Dor; from Haifa University in Israel, will open Tuesday’s sessions.
Following a special luncheon hosted by
UM President Henry King Stanford, the afternoon panel will feature Ambassador Tahseen Basheer, former representative of Egy pt to the Arab League and Steven Speigel, associate professor of political science, University of California at Los Angeles.
Also participating will be Altemur Kilic, Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations.
The Monday evening session, focusing on intra-Middie East relations, begins at 7 p.m. in the UM Law School Auditorium, room 109- Guest speakers include Dr Fouad Ajami, director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies,Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Nadav Safran, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and Dr John B. Kelly, historian of the Middle East.
The Tuesday evening lecture, "Allies in the Middle East?” and "The Arabs and Their Approach to the West,” begins at 8 p.m. in the Crystal Ballroom of the InterContinental Hotel on Brickell Avenue.
HOT interviews
presidential
candidates
Two candidates for the UM presidency w411 be on campus Monday; Mar. 23 to be interviewed at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees.
The two candidates are: Dr Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., vice president University College, the University of Alabama in Birmingham; and Edward Thaddeus "Tad” Ftx>te. II, former Dean of the School of Law. Washington University and present special advisor to the chancellor and Board of Trustees, Washington University.
According to James W. McLamore, chairman of the Board of Trustees, after the candidates are interview^ed by Board members on Monday, a working luncheon will be served, allow ing the opportunity for debate and discussion of the candidates. It is anticipated that a presidential election will follow, he said.
President Henry King Stanford led the Academk Honors Da\ proc ossion to Gusman Conc ert Hall where 70 outstanding undergraduate students were honored. Students, fat uit\. administrators and trustee's filled the* hall to t apaciiv for the first honors day convocation since 1968.