Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 17, January 23, 1961

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^nuary 23, 1961
RESEARCH COMMITTEES CALLED FOR - A memo from the executive vice president to all deans and directors requests that each school and college appoint a research review and planning committee. Committees will be charged with the responsibility of reviewing requests for research projects and grants to determine the educational worth, compatibility with existing programs, economic and efficient use of personnel, facilities and space. The committees also will be responsible for coordinating research activities within each school or college. On the basis of such reviews, the committees will be expected to make recommendations, favorable or unfavorable, on all research requests, new or continuing, to a University committee on research soon to be appointed. February 1 is deadline for appointment of school and college committees.
TOO MUCH TALK NOT CHEAP - In its ceaseless war on waste, the Budget Committee requests all departments to attempt to reduce telephone expense by 20 percent for the coming 12 months. Also, effective now, no modifications of telephone facilities will be made without approval of the President’s office. A hint to the cost conscious —the average bill for modification is $14.
HICKS’ OK REQUIRED FOR PUBLICATIONS - Effective immediately, approval from Wilson Hicks, Director of University Publications, is required for purchase or authorization for printing of all publications. Approval means Hicks’ signature on the requisition.
WHAT MAKES TEREDO TICK - Without the help of microscopic organisms to soften up the wood it seeks to devour, the shipworm or teredo would be stymied, according to research findings reported by Dr, Charles E. Lane, associate professor of Marine sciences, in the February issue of "Scientific American.” For the past decade the Office of Naval Research has sponsored UMTs study of the destructive teredo, which causes fifty million dollars yearly damage to ships in the U,S. alone.
SEMINAR FOR CUBAN ACCOUNTANTS - First of a series of free two-month tax seminars for Cuban public accountants, now resident aliens in the U.S., will open January 30 at Koubek Center. The course, to be conducted by Hector de Lara and Manuel J. Coya,
Miami accountants who hold degrees from and have taught at Cuban universities, is planned to help Cuban accountants obtain employment while in the .U.S. and to prepare for CPA exams.
TEACHER STUDY COMPLETED - Results of a study of problems of beginning teachers, financed by the Ford Foundation’s Fund for the Advancement of Education, have been published by Dean John R. Beery of the School of Education. The study was conducted in public schools of Dade, Broward and Monroe counties. Its general conclusion was that completion of the professional sequence of education courses is reflected in more effective teaching, at least during the first year. In directing the study,
Dean Beery was assisted by an advisory committee which included Dr. Samuel Ersoff,
Dr. George J. Mouly, Dr. Mark Murfin and Dr. Herbert W. Wey.
AAUP OPENS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE - First objective of the newly elected leadership of the UM Chapter of the American Association of University Professors is to increase membership to enable the chapter to participate more adequately in the University’s growth and progress, said Dr. Samuel F. Harby upon assuming the chapter presidency. An organization committee is preparing to conduct an intensive campaign for new members# The committee includes Frank E. Wills, assistant dean, UC, chairman; Miss Harriet L. French, School of Law? Professor John A. Stevens, School of Engineering, and Professor Lauren C. Gilman, North Campus.
NBC TO FEATURE UM AID TO CUBANS - UM Medical School’s pioneering postgraduate course designed to help Cuban physicians become rehabilitated in the United States will be featured by NBC in a half hour show. The network will review the Cuban refugee prob-lem in a documentary to be presented on January 29 from 5:30 to 6 p.m. (Channel 7 in Miami). The show will include interviews with Dr. Ralph Jones, chairman, department of medicine, who planned and organized the UM course, and other members of the UM medical faculty. A ten-man UM crew spent most of the January 14-15 weekend at the Medical School taking film for the show. As of last Monday, 265 physicians had signed up for the three months postgraduate course and 30 members of the University of Havana Medical Faculty had been given appointments as visiting UM faculty members.
NO CHECKS CASHED FEB, 1-3 - Because of the pressures of registration, the Business Office will suspend check cashing privileges Feb. 1-3, except for emergencies.
ART SHOW DATE EXTENDED - Closing date on the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery exhibition on ’’The Human Figure in Oriental Art” is being extended from February 5 to February 26.
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