Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 20, February 13, 1961

              ONLY PRESIDENT SPEAKS FOR UM - To prevent any future confusion about statements of University policy or definition of University procedure, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees Feb. 6 adopted the following resolution-”Resolved, that, effective forthwith, it is the established rule of the University of Miami that any official statement relative to policy or procedure that represents the University will emanate solely from the President or his delegated representative.”
COMMITTEE STUDIES CUBAN INTERRELATIONSHIPS - A faculty-administration committee has begun exploring possible interrelationships with members of the Cuban academic community now in the Miami area. Chairman is Dr. H. Franklin Williams. Vice Chairman is Dean J. Riis Owre. Other members are: Dr. Jose A. Balseiro, professor of Spanish; Dr. Herman Meyer, professor of mathematics and engineering and chairman of the faculty council; Dean Dan Steinhoff, Jr. and Dr. Ralph Jones, chairman, department of medicine. After the committee’s first meeting, said Chairman Williams: "Formation of this committee signalizes the University’s recognition that professors and scholars all over the world constitute one intellectual community. The committee is exploring ways in which UM can cooperate with our academic colleagues from Cuba. We hope that we can help in finding appropriate opportunities for individual scholars.”
AS OTHERS SEE UM - William Calhoun Baggs, editor of The Miami News, concluded his signed editorial Feb. 5 with the following tribute to UM’s trustees: ”What is heartening about the action of the trustees of the University of Miami is that these people acted voluntarily. No one was there with a judicial gun at their backs. They did what was right without any immediate pressure to do so....No doubt the trustees have been scolded by others for their votes. And no doubt many of the trustees believe in the practice of segregation. But they realize one thing the South must come to know: a generation of people without adequate opportunity for education would be the most dismaying sight imaginable.”
WILL TALK ON SATELLITES - ’’The U.S. Meteorological Satellite Program” will be discussed by Dr. Sigmund Fritz, chief scientist of the U.S. Weather Bureau Meteorological Satellite Laboratory, Washington, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. in Room N201 Memorial Classroom Building.
Students, faculty, staff members are invited. Following his talk, Dr. Fritz will remain in N201 to talk with students interested in employment in the Satellite Lab or other areas of the Weather Bureau and to discuss specific phases of the program.
AAUP COMMENDS TRUSTEES’ ACTION - The UM chapter of the AAUP at its February meeting voiced hearty approval of the action of the Board of Trustees in opening UM to any qualified student. In a unanimously adopted resolution, the Chapter commended the trustees and said: ”We feel that such a stand is important to the full development of our University and, particularly, to our status as an inter-American institution. We offer full support in the implementation and execution of this policy, believing it to be consonant with basic American principles and ideals. We congratulate the University Administration on this step forward and trust that it will lead to others of mutual benefit to the institution and to the community it serves.”
WILL DISCUSS ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION - Dr. Seymour L, Hess, head of the FSU Department of Meteorology,will lecture on ”The General Circulation of the Atmosphere” Feb. 20 at 8:15 p.m. in Beaumont. The following morning (Feb. 20) he will be in Room E 341, Engineering School, to consult with students interested in meteorology. His lecture is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and the National Science Foundation.
SPEAKING OF FACULTY - Dr. Archie L. McNeal, director of libraries, blew home last week from the Windy City with a new honor: election to the executive board of the American Library Association. The board is composed of ALA past presidents and eight other members. Dr. McNeal is president of the ALA library administration division and chairman of the committee for intellectual freedom. Dr. John H. Curtiss, math chairman, will talk on new applications of mathematics to sciences at the first regional science seminar for college information officers to be held under the sponsorship of the Southern Regional Education Board at the University of Florida Feb. 19-22. Charles B. Jones will represent UM’s PIO. Dr. Fritz Koczy, professor of marine sciences, will direct a program of basic research on ’’Distribution and Vertical Transfer of Trace Elements in Tropical Waters,” for which UM has received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Harry R. Price, professor of accounting, will address the South Florida chapter of the National Association of Accountants at the Dupont Plaza Hotel Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. His topic: ”How Adequate are Today’s Financial Statements.” Gonzales J, Sanchez, who holds an EE degree from the University of Havana, has been appointed an assistant instructor in electrical engineering for the current semester. Arturo Morales-Carrion, assistant professor of Latin-American history 1939-1940, has been appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He left UM to join the State Department in Washington. In response to a call for help from Miami’s greatest morning newspaper, Dr. Gerald G. Govorchin, professor of Russian history, wrote a 500 word reply to an 11-year-old girl who asked a Chicago newspaper ”T would like to know why tlqe USSR is mad at the USA. My teacher doesn’t know.” Dr. Govorchin’s cogent, concise answer was published in the Feb. 10 Miami Herald.