Miami Hurricane, December 09, 1969

              UM Blacks And Whites Hiding Behind False Facade
Tliirlee Smith is a graduate student in education administration at the University of Miami, lie is on leave from The Miami Herald where he works as a reporter coveriiifi many problems in Dade County black ghettos. He was one of the few area reporters that did an on the spot coverage of the Liberty City disturbances in August
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By THIRLEE SMITH
Hurricane Controbutor
Seemingly one of the “in things” on the University of Miami’s campus is for both black and white students
Volunteer
David Farrelly, a ‘Hand Wash Hand’ volunteer who was deported from British Honduras last Friday, tells his story on page 8. He will lecture to interested students tonight at 8 p.m. in the International Lounge of the Student Union.
to mask themselves with an outward disguise that appears to ignore the existence of each other.
All of which takes place amidst an atmosphere of tolerance completely void of hostility.
At the same time the university's administration is dealing quietly with a handful of “black leaders" to smooth things out concerning racial issues at their level of influence.”
But as one student puts it, “This is all well and good but we as students should also do what we could to remedy the racial gap wherever it exists on campus."
“I was so glad to see some black students on campus but I find it kind of hard to talk with them,” said a
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junior coed transfer student from Connecticut.
The blonde haired student, who wouldn't give her name said she thought it was a little strange at first that he had "sized the situation up.”
"Most blacks have their own thing to worry about and would like to do most of the battling on their own,” she said. "I can’t really blame them.”
“We’ve got our thing too. There is the war in Vlet-
scious,” she explained.
Harold Long, a junior law student ar
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Integration at UM is tokenism”
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Tuesday, December 9, 1969
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Pub Elections
The Board of Publications will hold a screening interview for those students who are running for the positions of editor, associate editor and business manager on Hurricane and Tempo. For complete Information see page 3.
DRUGS AND YOU
-Wwto by PAUL TUMARKIN
Sneaky Al Miller
. . . holds protests
Complete With TV
Dorm Hosting ‘Sneaky’ Protest
By PAUL BARGER
Of Th* Hurricane Stall
“Sneaky” A1 Miller locked himself in, and his floormates out, of the Kennedy House lounge last Friday morning at 11:30 a.m. in protest of the Vietnam War.
Miller, a junior in marketing, held a sign saying "Stop the War” and watched as twenty of his floormates attempted to force the door and enter the lounge.
“You guys will never get In here,” Miller said, fairly confident of his security.
Miller refused to allow press members to enter the lounge for an interview. He said he was not about to open the door.
“They’ll kill me," he said.
Students tried several methods to force the door. Removing the hinge pins was ineffective, however, someone hit on the idea of tripping the lock with a piece of wire. A guitar string was procured and slipped between the door and the jamb.
After several fruitless tries the string was snatched by Miller who held it aloft with a very smug look.
Someone quickly produced a coathanger, though, and efforts were resumed.
“Well kill him," an amateur lockpicker said.
When asked why, he said because the TV and only deck of cards on the floor were locked in with "Sneaky.”
An ingenious plan to draw
out the protestor was tried when a student came with the news of Miller’s girlfriend.
“Bobbi is calling you from Minneapolis,” he said.
After a moment of hesitation, Miller said, “Good try.”
At 1:27 p.m. that day, Miller’s protest came to an end as 15 of his floormates tripped the lock and rushed in. The scene resembled the pile resulting from a Hurricane rush off right tackle.
After the play ended with a two-yard loss. Miller was tied to a table and the floor artist rendered in oil, on Miller’s stomach, the words, “STOP THE WAR ”
Illegal Drug Traffic Rate Highest In Dade County
USG Officers’
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Tuition Unpaid
By CAROL COPLAND
01 Th, Hurrican, Stall
Jim Yasser and Stu Weiss still do not know if their tuition is getting paid, and, if so, who will pay it.
In previous years, the administration paid the tuition of the USG executive officers. This year, the administration gave the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee the responsibility of paying for the officers’ tuition.
“Last year, the administration agreed to give SAFAC the organization profits that had previously gone to the UM general account,” Yasser said. “This is the way it should have always been, but the administration gave SAFAC these profits provided that they pay for the USG officer’s tuition, and the Abrams administration agreed to this.”
In order to register, Yasser and Weiss had to sign promissory notes to pay for tuition. Weinkle’s tuition is mostly covered by the University because his father is on the faculty.
On November 12, USG passed a motion recommending that the officers’ tuition be paid by the university. The recommendations must go before Dr. Butler and then before the University Budget Committee.
Yasser and Weiss have received no news from the administration but they have received three bills charging them for full tuition. "If the matter is not resolved by
second semester, they will probably let us register but put it on our bills,” Yasser said.
NAACP’s Evers Here Tonight
Charles Evers, noted civil rights worker and Mississippi Field Director of NAACP, will speak on “What It Means To Care,” 9 p.m. today on the Union Patio.
Since his younger brother, Med-gar, was mur-d e r e d five years ago, Evers has launched several Negro registration drives in Mississippi. He has organized boycotts in the South and has won solid advances in Negro employment and desegration of public facilities.
Evers has been described as “colorful, controversial, abrasive, reckless, a master tactician and a superb businessman.”
He has built and run many businesses in the South, including the Medgar Evers Shopping Center in Fayette.
“We in Mississippi, white and Negro,” says Evers, “are going to have to work out our own problems.”
Evers’ lecture is being presented by the University Program Council.
—Phot# by BOB HOFFMAN
Fintfight Breaks Out During Israeli Rally
.. . power of the press irks student
Arabs, Israelis Clash In Mideast Peace Rally
Three units of the Coral Gables Police were unexpected participants in a rally held by Israeli students Thursday after a fistfight broke out between Arab and Israeli students.
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He’ll Sing for Strikers
By ELIZABETH OSTROFF 01 Th* Hurrican* Stall
Folksinger Pete Seeger will give a special concert to benefit the United Farm Workers and particularly the Miami Grape Boycott Saturday at the Miami Beach Auditorium.
“Pete is going to do the concert here in Miami because of the growers intentions to dump a large part of the grape harvest in the South during the holiday season,” said Lalo Valdez Florida Coori-nator of the UFW.
Seeger will definitely not appear on campus in concert and is not going to appear at the Miami Pop Festival according to a conversation with his agent,” Valdez said.
We feel with the publicity the concert is going to give us, along with the message Seeger will relate in his music, the Boycott’s efforts will be bolstered both morally and financially,”
“An emphasis on publicizing the concert on the University, we hope will result in a large portion of the student body attending. In the past a large portion of any Seeger audience has been
students. We hope the same will hold true here,” Valdez said.
Seeger who will be flying in from Europe especially to do this concert has long been in the vanguard of social reform movements. “He recently appeared in Washington where his rendition of “Give Peace a Chance” turned-on the audience on a long cold afternoon,” he said.
Benefit concerts are one of the major sources of revenue for the Grape Boycott group. Peter, Paul, and Mary and Alan King are among the well-known entertainers who have donated their services to the cause.
“Many, contemporary rock performers including The Byrds and Joan Baez do Seeger songs which include “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” “Turn, Turn, Turn” and “If I Had a Hammer.”
There were approximately 3,700 tickets available for the December 13th concert and tickets are currently on sale in the Union Breezeway, record stores, and traditional ticket outlets. Tickets can also be obtained at UFW headquarters at 1454 N.W. 17th Ave. in Miami.
“Give Miami Beach to the
Jews.”
An Israeli Student, Arthur Shomer, Intervened and the two engaged in a brief exchange of punches.
“I intend to press charges,” Liam said after the
incident.
The rally was in protest of the detention of two Israelis by Syria. “After we brought it to the attention of the UN General Assembly and efforts for peace failed, we began to appeal to the American public,” Mosag Josselovitz, Israeli student president said.
Speakers at the demon-s t r a t i o n included Rabbla Mayor Abramowitz, and Leon Kronish.
According to Josselovitz, “the demonstrators were trying to bring the pressure of the world on Syria for the release on the prisoners.”
The two were released late last week by Syrian authorities in exchange for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis.
“We don’t want to agitate violence, we just want the world to get together and eliminate air piracy by international agreemcn^.”
Marijuana Tops List With Users
By JOHN REILLY
Ol Th* Hurrlt*n* SI»H
According to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Dade County has the highest rate of illegal drug traffic in the state of Florida. The bureau contributes this to the dose proximity of the port of Miami to South America and the peculation of Dade County.
The most commonly used illegal drug in Dade County according to the Bureau of Narcotics is marijuana. Agents of the Bureau contribute this to the easy access of marijuana by drug users.
The next most used illegal drugs are pills, acid, speed and stolen prescription pills, says the bureau. Cocaine and heroin, what the Bureau terms hard drugs, are the least used but the most dangerous in the eyes of the bureau.
According to one Florida State Representative Dade County has the highest drug traffic in cocaine of any county in Florida. The Bureau of Narcotics will not confirm this.
The price of marijuana has risen in the last nine months from 100 dollars a kilo to approximately 400 dollars a kilo. The Bureau contributes this to Operation Intercept. (Intercept is the project being carried out at the Mexican border by U.S. Customs agents to stop the flow of Acapulco Gold coming into the U.S.)
Since Miami is the closest port to South America and the Caribbean, more drugs come into the Miami area than almost any other area of the U.S. The Bureau of Narcotics is especially concerned with the amount of cocaine coming into the port of Miami from Peru.
The Bureau admits that some of the dangerous drugs are smuggled in through customs but some are flown in by private airplanes. The planes land at out-of-the-way airports and unload their cargo or simply air-drop it into empty fields.
The Dade County Sheriff’s Department reports 856 arrests on illegal drug use for the period October 1968 to September 1969. This is an Increase of 419 arrests over the previous year. In the month of October 1969 there were 81 arrests compared with only 26 arrests for October 1968.
“The primary function of the Dade County Sheriff’s Department is to ascertain the pushers of the illegal drugs.” Sergeant Lamont of the Sheriff’s Department said.
“Although we are concerned with the users because they are violating the law we put our greatest concern on the pushers," Lamont said.	.
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