Veritas, Vol. 03, No. 25, March 25, 1963

              E RI T A S
March 25, 1963
OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
LEGISLATORS HEAR President Stanford was host to Florida legislators from Dade and Monroe FACU PROPOSALS	counties at a Friday luncheon at the Columbus when he and other UM
officials outlined proposals for State aid to private institutions of higher education in Florida sponsored by the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities and the Florida Council of 100. Educators of independent institutions in other areas of the State are holding similar meetings with their legislative representatives.
Under consideration since last November, the proposed legislation will recommend aid primarily in the form of a guarantee fund to insure: 1) construction loans for additional buildings where needed, with the individual institution seeking the actual loan from private lending organizations; 2) insurance of tuition loans to students. The only outright aid sought is in the request for direct scholarship grants to students attending private colleges and universities.
Reasoning behind the proposals: a program of State aid to private higher eudcation will enable the State to educate its people more inexpensively by taking advantage of existing facilities, thereby reducing the need to construct additional new colleges and universities.
WCKT-TV SCHEDULES A salute to Conductor Fabien Sevitzky and the UM Symphony Orchestra SALUTE TO SEVITZKY will take place Sunday, March 31, at the Miami Beach Auditorium with an
hour-long telecast. Occasion will be the first of the eighth pair of subscription concerts featuring Isaac Stern, guest violinist, who will play Beethoven’s "Violin Concerto in D Major" during the first half of the program which starts at 8:30 p.m. Since Mr. Stern’s contract prohibits his appearance here on television, the telecast salute will start at 10 p.m. and will be carried "live" from the auditorium over WCKT-TV which is donating both time and technicians.
Principal reason for the salute is that 1963 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr. Sevitzky’s arrival in the United States and participation in the musical scene in this country. A committee of 19, including members of the Symphony Club and co-chairmen Editor Bill Baggs of The Miami News and Editor Don Shoemaker of The Miami Herald are arranging the tribute which is expected to focus added attention on the Symphony Orchestra, now in its 36th year of presenting great music and great artists to the community.
ENGINEERING PROFS Released by Prentice-Hall last week was the second edition of a basic AUTHOR TEXTBOOK engineering textbook prepared by three members of the civil engineering
department of the School of Engineering: Dr. Murray I. Mantell, department chairman, and associate professors Milton S. Reeder and John A. Stevens. Titled "Orientation in Engineering," the book is designed for programs at the freshman-sophomore level.
NSF ANNOUNCES	Six graduate students and a senior have been awarded National Science Foun-
UM FELLOWSHIPS	dation Cooperative Graduate Fellowships for the year beginning next Septem-
ber. Three others received NSF Summer Fellowships for Graduate Teaching Assistants. Receiving tuition and $2400 stipends for the 12-month period will be Mrs. Jerre L. Basch and Mrs. Jan T. Parrish, psychology; Neil J. Freeman, engineering; Kent M. Plowman, physiology; Philip B. Robertson, biology; Walter A. Starck, II, zoology (marine biology) and Maurice A. Sholar, senior in civil engineering.
Awarded Summer Fellowships, providing a weekly stipend of $85 for 12 weeks, were Kenneth N. Krischer, biochemistry; John E. Malaby, psychology, and Dennis R. Paulson, zoology.
DEBATERS QUALIFY FOR UM’s varsity debate team has qualified for competition in the national WEST POINT FORENSICS forensic championship scheduled at West Point Apr. 24-27. The team
is one of four in the South to do so. Debaters Neal Sonnett and Barry Richard won for the UM in the mid-March elimination tournament at Emory when eight finalists chosen from more than 30 colleges and universities in the South competed for the top four places. Also qualifying for the national meet were teams from South Carolina, Alabama and Wake Forest. UM’s debaters have competed in the national rounds 11 times in the past 12 years, won fourth place in the West Point meet last year. Prof. Donald Sprague, debate coach for the past 17 years, will accompany the team.
IMS -’63-’64 BULLETIN	Decked appropriately in sea green cover is the 1963-64 Bulletin of
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION	the Institute of Marine Science, latest in the series to come off
the desk of Bulletins Editor Bill Olafson, Publications Office.
Now available from the Mailing Center, its 32 pages include faculty, administration and aides, details on course offerings at all levels—including recommended courses for undergraduates--and information on facilities, research and other activities of the Institute.
AAUP TO MEET The UM chapter of the American Association of University Professors will meet Tuesday, Mar. 26, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Otto G. Richter Library Lecture Hall. On the agenda: voting on the proposed constitution.