Miami Hurricane, July 18, 1969

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VOLUME 45 NUMBER 3
JULY 18, 1969
UM OFFICIALS, GABLES POL INVESTIGATE STORMING OF 960
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Involved
Parties
Speak
Hurricane staff members spoke recently with several persons known to be involved in some way in the 960 incident which occurred on July 1. This is what they revealed:
"It was near 1 a.m. and John Fu 1 lert on and I were in Richard Rudy Streeter’s office discussing the disturbance which had occurred earlier in the evening." said Joel Rudy. Director of Resident Student Development "Mrs. Mary Madden, the secretary on duty in 960, came into the office and told us that there were a group of Black students in the lobby with guns.
"We immediately went into the lobby. By this time the group was approaching the main desk where Barbara Otheim, Asst. Head Resident had picked up the telephone in an attempt to call me. At. this time, the fellow with the shot gun was waving it at us while yelling in a very emotional manner — "Put the damn phone down or I’ll shoot.” He was very upset. Needless to say, none of us moved a muscle.
"By this time the group itself seemed a little unnerved or undecided as to what course to take. I stepped from behind the desk and walked toward the fellow with the shotgun. I told him to please cool it and put the weapon down. At this time I thought I saw another fellow with a rifle, however, I was most concerned with the shotgun because the fellow was .extremely emotional.
"Then for some reason the group just turned and tan from the building. 1 don’t know if what I said did it or not. They simply ran out and the rest of the night was calm.”
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Meanwhile, Barbara Otheim had this to say:
"I wasn’t afraid for myself. We were concerned with preventing anything from happening. I think the action which I the resident Barbara advisor took in diverting the group from going into the tower was very commendable.
"In a situation like that you realize the magnitude
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Story
Is Set Straight
By LARRY H. SNYDER
Hurricane Editor
Jo* Rudy, Richard Streeter,
Photo, by BILL. BIERMAN
Barbara Othaim and John Fullarton récréait the 960 shotgun incident.
Ad Hoc Commitee Suggests More Equality In Parking
By SHARA PAVLOW
of the Hurricane Staff
More equality in parking was the key idea stressed in a report issued this month to President Stanford by a specially appointed Ad Hoc Committee for Parking.
Recommendations in the report suggested a reshuffling of parking places, construction of over 300 new spaces (100 of which are to be for student use) and reduction of vehicle classification to three major categories.
Should these recommendations be put into effect, "it will still only provide a temporary answer to the parking problem on campus and will not actually remedy the situation,” stated USG President Jim Yasser who was chief investigator of the recently issued report
The Committee was ere ated last month by Vice President for Financial Affairs Eugene Cohen in response to a letter from Yasser explaining USG’s official position on the parking situation.
Yasser’s four major requests to President Stanford included:
( 1 ) Elimination of the almost two dozen vehicle classifications with only certain mutually agreed upon exceptions;
(2)	Payment of parking decal and registration fees by all members of the university community (at present, faculty and administration are issued free decals while students are required
to pay an annual $5 fee);
(3)	Recommended reduction of fines and adequate means of enforcement on non-student fines; and
(4)	Application of excess funds received from registration fees and fines to be applied towards obtaining parking improvement (Yasser revealed that over a two-year period a profit of $51,-000 was made over and above maintenance and improvement costs made in that time).
Parking Authority Commission chairman Dr. Duane Koenig feels that a majority of the recommended changes made on the basis of Yasser’s letter will be approved by Dr. Stanford and his Cabinet
The one crucial point he forsees is that concerning the change in employee designated parking.
The committee report recommended that employee parking be on the outer limits of campus possibly within tram service from the employee lots to central locations on campus.
The employees are attempting to protest such a move on the grounds that they had no voice in the original recommendations.
" Personally, it is only fair that employees have a chance to present their point of view,” Dr. Koenig commented.
The only real answer, he feels, to the parking problem, lies in creating new spaces through a high rise multi-
level parking unit, and construction of 800 new places on the "Lincoln property" on the west side of campus.
High rise parking is considered financially unfeasible at this time and the Lincoln property is tied up in legal complications.
After consideration of the requests made by Yasser, the committee came out with twenty recommendations more or less reiterating those of USG.
In a summary, they included:
• Distribution of FA. S
and E spaces be established in approximate percentages of 72% students, 14%faculty, and 14% employees;
(This will give students a tottd of 4,070 parking places; faculty, 790 slots; and employees 790 slots.)
•	Construction of302 additional spaces;
•	Redesign certain lots for 150 more spaces;
•	Elimination of all minor classifications leaving only FA, S, D, and E categories;
•	Faculty, administration and students pay the
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University officials and Coral Gables police today are probing an 18-day-old incident , where some 30 Blacks stormed the |
960 dorm complex in j a would-be confrontation with the UM football j team.
At least one of the Snydar invaders was armed with a shotgun and, according to some reports, another manned a .22 cal. rifle. Physical confrontation with the gridders never materialized.
Reports of the incident are as conflicting and confused today as they were two weeks ago. Part of the local media, namely WTVJ and WCKT-TV along with the Miami News, reported on the ruckus last week. According to information compiled by the Hurricane, these stories were grossly Inaccurate. Risinthe interest of clarity then that the following account is filed.
The assault on 960, on July 1, was apparently sparked by an incident which occurred at approximately 1 a.m. on Sunday, June 29, two days earlier. At that time a white male student (not an AAU Javelin thrower as reported by the Miami News) and his date were returning to the complex. Two unidentified black youngsters approximately 10 years of age, who were milling around the complex, apparently approached the couple with a barrage of personal insults. According to reports the student then caught one of the youngsters and "in some way” spanked him.
Stories vary as to what happened at this point. One report said the youngster took a chain from his bicycle and threatened to use it on the student. Another said the youngster threw rocks.
In any event, several black students witnessed the spanking and came to the lad’s defense. An argument then erupted between the white student and the small group of blacks. At that time UM defensive tackle Dick Trower got into the argument. While the six-foot, 238-pound gridder was relating his viewpoint to the group the white student slipped into oblivion, never to be heard from again.
Trower reportedly told the group that he was going for re-lnforcements. He left and did not return to the scene. The group broke up and the night of June 29, remained calm.
Two days later the argu-
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