Miami Hurricane, August 06, 1954

              Volume XXVIII University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., August 6,1954	No. 32
New Funds Granted For Research; Projects To Be Conducted In Fall
Cohen UM Photo
Bus driver offers assistance to reporter Evelyn Savage.
Tourist Investigation Undertaken By 'Cane
(Editor’s Note: Students on campus are well acquainted with the swarms of tourists who alight from busses to visit the Student Club. Approximately 200 sightseers daily approach our portals to observe the inmates of UM. A sample reaction to this close scrutiny by the tourists is the “Please do not feed the students” sign on the Student Club loggia. This week The Hurricane sent one of its reporters to get the inside dope on "The Daily Tourist Invasion." Here is her story.)
By EVELYN SAVAGE
Hurricane New« Editor
Monday, 2:15 p.m. I was working the tourist detail for Hurricane. The sightseeing bus left the downtown Greyhound
terminal. I was on it.
The bus made its way along the usual tourist route, but for me, the scenic aspect of the trip was entirely wasted. I was anxiously awaiting the time when we would approach the campus boundaries.
On entering San Amaro drive, Murry Kay, our guide and bus driver, started his introduction with, “We are now entering the campus of the University of Miami, for many years known as the ‘cardboard college’ because plans for its construction existed only on paper.”
Kay drove leisurely by the fraternity houses, football field and office, commenting on the cinder track and pointing out the swimming pools behind frat house walls, as well as the dormitories across the lake, to the busload of eager spectators.
“A theatre in the round” was his glib description of the Ring Theatre as the bus turned onto Miller drive.
Kay announced that the Student Club was “a building that had an open loggia around which the children ate their meals to the music of the popular UM symphony orchestra.”
Exclamations of surprise at our unusually modem Club were lost in the hustle and bustle of departure from the bus. I hastily adjusted myself to this new viewpoint and meandered into the Slop Shop for a soda. My incognito was so complete that one cashier, whom I’ve known for a year, didn't recognize me as I paid her for the soda.
I then proceeded to the mezzanine with a few other shutter-hugs from my bus and commenced to take pictures, sans film, of the swan in the lake. All this time a Hurricane photographer, Art Cohen. was following me at a discreet distance.
The 26 other passengers boarded the bus reluctantly and our driver outlined UM's enrollment program
\s we drove down University drive last the Merrick Building. He point'd out the Memorial classroom Building, Ashe Memorial Building ind temporary buildings.
Appraisal of the University was evident in the flattering comments made by' the passengers, with the exception of one quiet, young man seated by himself in a far comer.
With tongue in cheek, I approached him and popped the $64 question, “What do you think of the UM?” His answer: “I don’t speak English."
Enrollment Drops In Second Session
Registration for the second summer session shows a total enrollment of 1500 students, acording to figures released by the Registrar’s office. This is a 50 per cent drop over the first summer session.
The second summer session of 1953 placed the enrolment at 285 above the present semester.
Although they are incomplete, a breakdown of the figures shows the day enrollment to be 1128 students, and 372 attending evening classes.
Veterans are still in evidence on the campus, numbering 580 as opposed to 920 non-veterans
In 1953, there were 1,384 day students and 401 evening students. Approximately 1,459 were non-veterans and only 326 veterans. The total enrollment for the 1953 second summer session was 1,785 students.
The 1952 enrollment was 1,579 day students, 459 in the evening division, with a further breakdown showing 1.066 non-veterans and 972 veterans.
The usual pattern of summer school enrollment over past years has shown a decrease in the second session figure.
Teachers End Study Program At Workshop
First workshop for 26 elementary and secondary school teachers representing 13 states and Alaska, will complete its six-week program next Friday.
Their schedule included group discussions, lectures, studies of curriculum resources in greater Miami area, consultations with workshop staffers and other curriculum spe-cialistists.
Emphasis in the entire program was on behavior problems of children, teaching techniques, and night school curriculum planning. The workshop was organized according to the interests and problems of those enrolled.
Workshop directors were Dr. A.
Wells Foshay, director of the bureau of educational research at
Ohio State University, and Dr.
William Alexander, UM professor
of education.
Guest speakers at the workshop were Dr. Richard Reed, associate professor of education, and Dr. Baker Hindman, director of secondary education in Dade County.
During their stay the teachers were taken on various sightseeing trips. The trips included a tour of Vizcaya, Fairchild Gardens, the Spanish Monastery and boat tours. This weekend they will take a trip to Cuba.
“We all have enjoyed working together and I feel we have learned a great deal,” said Dr. Alexander.
Grants totaling $26,758 were released to the zoology, physics and medical laboratories for five new research projects to be
conducted this fall.	Plants and depressants on cells.
Dr. Clarence S. Rainwater, assistant professor of physics, will begin work next fall in tracing energy distribution of live light sources. He will use luminous minute sea bacteria as subjects of research and as a source of light to replace standard lamps for calibrating spectroscopes.
It has been estimated that a pint bottle of the luminous bacteria to be studied, swimming in salt water, will yield enough light by which to read.
The fifth contract calls for research in the morphological and physiological differences among paremecium.
Under contracts with United States government agencies, provisions for continuation for two, and in some cases, three-year periods, bring the over-all commitment total to $44,708.
Four of the contracts are from the National Institute of Health, under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, while the fifth has been financed by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Walter O. Walker, dean of the University’s division of research and industry, said, “Most of the grant money will go for salaries, the remainder for supplies. The new contracts make a considerable addition to the scope of our research work and they also constitute a vote of confidence from the federal government in the University's ability to handle research work."
Dr. W. Henry Leigh, associate professor of zoology, will direct research in larval trematodes of fresh water and marine mollusks, the minute organisms believed to cause swimmers to itch. He emphasized that this isn’t the same condition as the better known sea lice.
Dr. A. Kurt Weiss, instructor in physiology, is in charge of the study of the influence of age upon adaptation. “This study will establish a metabolism research lab,” said Dr. Weiss, “as well as survey the specific problem of rats in adjusting to climatic conditions."
Dr. Edward L. Chambers, a new addition to the medical research faculty, is expected to arrive from the University of Oregon medical school in time to start research in Sept, on the action of chemical stim
ic Beauty Tours Campus
Touring the UM Campus this week was Virginia June Lee who, as Miss Hong Kong, placed third in the recent Miss
Universe beauty contest.
Petite Miss Lee, who stands 5 feet 5% inches and weighs 112 pounds, was “fascinated” by the UM. Everything is so new here,” she said.
She was amazed at the profusion of trees on the campus. ‘There are not many trees in Hong Kong and here they are all over. The ever-
Virqinia Leo
reen trees, especially, are very
nice.”
This is the second trip to the United States for the 20-year-old beauty, but her first to Miami.
Daughter of a British marine engineer, she was formerly an airline stewardess for Cathay Pacific Airways, a British airline operating out of Hong Kong. She attended grade school in Richmond, Va.
Guide for her campus tour was Mrs. Catherine Lemna, English instructor and editor of the UM Bulletin. Miss Lee visited administrative offices, the dorms, construction sites and the Student Club.
Commenting on the student lake duck population, she remarked, “You can almost learn how to swim by just watching them.”
Miss Lee has been in Miami since July 29 and will be here until Aug. 15. She then leaves for Hollywood, Calif, where she is under contract to Universal-International Pictures a prize awarded her by the Miss Universe contest.
On the subject of men, Miss Lee said that she likes American men because “a girl always knows where she stands.”
In the department of vital statistics, Miss Lee measures 34-23-34 in the usual order.
Tempo Feature To Be Carried By Magazine
Larry Fried, UM graduate of 1950 and now a top free-lance photographer in New York, has returned to the University of Miami, but this time on assignment from a national magazine.
One of the photographers who helped found Tempo, Fried is here now to handle thejjicture side of a story concerning a UM student. Cliff Umscheid, and his wife, Lynn. The story and pictures are scheduled for a forthcoming issue of McCall’s magazine.
Appropriately enough, the story originated in the March, 1954, issue of Tempo magazine and caused more attention than any other story ever carried by UM student publications.
The Tempo article received such notice because it dealt with the unusual story of the student pilot who flies a full Eastern Air Lines schedule and at the same time carries a complete academic load. He is able to do this because of close cooperation from Lynn. When flying and studying schedules don’t mix, she attends Cliff’s business administration and law classes.
Lynn herself is no stranger to UM because she was a student here when she met Cliff and was a Hurricane Honey.
The^’empo article, which ran a four-page spread of text and pictures, showed the Umscheids at home, at the airport and on campus. John Schulte, editor of Tempo, directed the layout of the article. Gary Miller and photographer Bill Evans collaborated on the story and cover picture of Cliff.
The first outside publication to pick up the story was the Army Times, with a circulation of about 400,000. Eastern Air Lines liked the story about one of their young pilots and borrowed the Tempo feature for their house publication, The Great Silver Fleet News.
Then Fried saw a copy of the March issue of Tempo and showed it to the McCalls people. The national magazine immediately arranged to send one of its top writers and Fried himself here to do justice to the Umscheid story.
Many of Fried's pictures have appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, and other top-notch national magazines.