Miami Hurricane, September 09, 1974

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‘They’re Called The S,9 Students Love
By TINA TITLES
Of The Hurricane- staff
“They’re called the slum of the University,” UM Apartment Graduate Assistant Tom Rampky said.
He said students are presently paying $301 per semes, ter for an unairconditioned apartment housing four to six persons.
While the individual pays $75 a month, UM is still obtaining at least $300 monthly for each apartment. For a three bedroom apartment, the University receives about $450 a month.
The kitchens in the apartment are equipped with a
sink. There is no refrigerator or stove.
One pre-med student said, “The University is not giving you much of a choice about eating except to buy the meal plan.”
Although refrigerators are prohibited in the other dorms, apartment residents can obtain them at their own expense, Rampky said.
Complaints from apartment residents seem to center around the lack of air conditioning even more so than mea ger kitchen facilities.
“The condition and facilities available concerning UM apartments is a constant battle against bureaucracy.”
There are four ‘special interest groups’ that have access to airconditioning — football players, law students, graduate students and honor students, Rampky said.
"These apartments are air conditionable, not air-conditioned,” said Rampky, adding that the wiring system makes installation possible in these areas.
Coral Gables building codes force University housing to install private air conditioning units, through one licensed contractor. This precaution against structural damage costs students an additional $55.
Many people would like air conditioning, but “for the normal undergraduate student there is no building that is
wired for it,” Rampky said.
Another apartment resident said the only thing this life style lacks is air.
“For the first couple of weeks you have to handle the heat,” said another.
A female transfer student who loves the apartment life style admits “it’s needless to say, I’d prefer air.”
Couldn’t the rent pay for at least air conditioning?
Rampky says the revenue collected from the apartments goes into residence hall budgets.
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Architect
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By ANDREA KAYE
Of The Hurricane Staff
The Department of Architecture of the School of Engineering and Environmental Design was accredited June 15, 1974. Because of this, its enrollment has increased 74 per cent in student credit hours this semester.
UM is now one of 79 accredited architecture departments across the nation.
“Graduates will receive credit for their degrees when they apply for their national architecture license,” Ralph Warhurton said. “Before the accrediting of the school it was the state’s option to accept the credit, with Florida being the only state to always accept it.”
The program is retroactive for two years, allowing students who graduated in 1972 to be affected by the change, he said.
“There will not be any difference in degree requirements, but subject matter is in the process of changing with the addition of courses in landscape, interior design, and tropical architecture,” Warburton said.	v
lie said the new ingredient for the accreditation of the architecture department is the support from the Vice President of Academic Affairs Carl McKenry.
“The architecture program was one of the first instituted at UM, beginning in 1927, being dropped in 1932 because of the recession, and finally reinstituted in 1961,” he said.
“We are expecting even more of an increase in enrollment because the news of the accrediting will be spread nationwide, and we are prepared to accommodate the additions to our enrollment," Warburton said
There is also an upsurge in attendance because students are staying for the entire five-year program, and transfers und the Urban Regional Planning program, which is the largest department in graduate enrollment.
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Quilting — isn’t that something that great-grandmothers used to do?
Quilting has become popular again and the School of Continuing Education is offering this art course.
Although it is a non-credit course, it is still in demand.
The instructor is Carol Wien, a 1968 UM graduate from the art department. She lectures to a class, which meets once a week for an hour in Pearson Hall.
The course consists of lectures on the history of quilting, how to repair quilts and how to care for them as well as the actual art of making quilts.
"The art of quilting is very old, and some have been found in the caves of the sixth century,” Wien said.
“The quilt patterns are very contemporary. They resemble hard edge painting or super graphics.”
In her class she lectures on all aspects of design and patterns.
Anyone Interested in learning about the art of quilting should contact the School of Continuing Education at x-3933.

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teaching assistant Martin Kreloff at the UM Art Department Faculty show. Judy Garland and Liza Minelli are two of the nostalgic faces in Kreloff’s exhibit. See page 7 for a review of the faculty exhibit.
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Alumnus In Local Election
By £1 ENA SEEEZ
Of The Hurricane Staff
Former UM student Bob Kunst says he isn’t the average political candidate.
In today’s primary election, Kunst is running for a seat on the Metro Board of County Commissioners. If elected, the 32-year-old candidate would become the youngest member on the Commission.
Kunst does not consider the age factor a disadvantage to his campaign, nor does he count his lack of previous political experience as a liability.
“I'm young, 32 years young,” he emphasized. “I’m running as a taxpayer who is tired of being ripped oil.
“I'm not a politician, but I am a human being and a public servant. There is a difference."
A native Miamian, Kunst attended U M for one year in 1961 and returned for another in 1968. In between, he attended New York University, City College of New York and Harvard University.
Kunst decided to run for public office on August 9, at the height of the activity in Washington concerning Prt -ident Nixon’s resignation.
add 50 or 60 miles to the route,” Kunst said. “It’s our tax dollars that we’ve already paid.”
Kunst proposes the opening of more food co-ops to help curb inflation in the supermarket.
“I’d like to see these coops started on a block-to-block basis with 30 or 35 people involved,” he said. “Then you’d see how fast supermarkets would drop their prices.”
He said there are currently 16 such food co-ops in operation in Dade County.
“The environment issue is also important,” Kunst said.
“I can remember a time when people didn’t have to worry about cleaning thei cars simply because there was no need to. The air was just so clean," he said. “Now Miami’s air is worse than Milwaukee's and Houston’s."
Kunst proposes a plan to offer free hus service for everyone. He said the necessary funds could be raised by adding a penny onto the gas tax.
“We just have to get people out of their cars,” he
said.
Kunst is running in the sixth district, which comprises the entire southwest section, including Coconut
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Grove and Coral Gables.
It is a county-wide, nonpartisan race. The run-off will be held October 1.
Registration for the primary closed on July 27 but remains open until September 21 for the general election.
Kunst estimates the voter turn-out will include 4,000 UM students.
“I think my chances of winning are excellent,” Kunst said. “The politicians are going to be surprised.”
“I’ve tried to reach approximately 500 to 1,000 people a day, shaking hands and just talking, and the re-s p o n s e has been very good," he said.
Kunst has been active in the civil rights and anti-war movements in Miami and
was Ihe national organizer of the New Party headed by Dr. Benjamin Spock.
He said he would like to “incorporate ideas from the campuses” in an effort to restore young people's trust in government.
“I know many young people — and older people, too — with some very together ideas who never let the whole community know what they are doing,” he said.
“I’d like to see these people getting more actively involved. The time is right for bringing the government back to our needs."
Kunst believes that if he wins today’s primary, the October 1 run-off will be no problem for him.
“We’re going to win,” he said. “I just feel it coming.”
By JIM HOLLANDER
And LYNNE SCHEWE
Of The Hurricane Staff
The Health Center’s year-old gynecological service program has been forced to close down this year. GYN services and the supplemental contraception program will no longer be offered to UM coeds.
“The program was eliminated because of the feedback we received from students,” said Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the Health Center.
The program came under attack from UM’s Women’s Commission, made up of female faculty and students. In their report on the status of jvomen, it states, “84 per cent of those who replied (to a questionnaire on the GYN program) have chosen not to enroll In the program.
“In addition to the resentment at the supplemental fee, the women expressed a general lack of confidence and distress with the conditions of examination at the Health Center.”
Marge Abrams, present chairwoman of the Women’s Commission said, “Women should be provided services for things peculiar to their anatomy, just like men.”
She said a major complaint voiced by students was that coeds were being forced to register in the GYN program in order to receive treatment for problems peculiar to women but not necessarily of a gynecologic nature.
The complaint, sha said, was that in previous years, women were being treated at no charge for things that
the Health Center now were claiming could be treated only if the coed was in The GYN program.
When initiated in the Fall, 1973, coeds enrolled in the program by paying a $25 fee for a semester. The Health Center had a gynecologist and a general practitioner trained in gynecology to handle the patients.
‘The program was an elective service provided for the students, like the dermatology service and allergy shots,” Dr. Flipse said. “These elective services are funded by the users, not by the Health Fee, and are on an appointment basis."
A poll of coeds enrolled in the program in November gave strong support for ♦he program. Dr. Flips? said. However, he said these results were apparently misleading because a lot of negative sentiment was being expressed to the Women’s Commission.
A poll by the commission at the end of tnis past spring term, part of an overall siudy on women's status, showed 84 per cent were dissatisfied.
“The decision (to close the program down) was made on the apparent dissatisfaction of women on campus,” Dr. Flipse said.
Dr. Flipse said the commission had requested that off-campus GYN specialists be used to treat students. However, he said that would cost a student $100 per year.
Dr. William Butler, vice-president for student affairs, said soaring medical costs make it impossible to have the same medical care now that was possible in
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the past for the same price.
“if we want to establish a comprehensive health program,” he said, “the fee would have to be raised substantial I y."
He said limited health programs, like GYN, would have to be paid for by the users, not the student body at large.
Undergraduate Student Body Government president, Ken Gardner, said a committee of students, faculty and possibly administrators is going to be set up to review complaints about the Health Center,
“We have over 200 student. complaints on file, ranging from bad service to misdiagnosis,” he said. “We hope to have the committee working by the end of the month.”
In the meantime, coeds in need of GYN treatment should either find a private gynecologist or use the free services available at Jack-son Memorial Hospital. This service is provided by the UM Medical School and is open from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Politics Profs Analyze Elections
Three UM political science professors will appear on local television tonight to analyze election returns.
Dr. Vergil Shipley, politics and public affairs department chairman here, will join
WTVJ news director Ralph Renick at 7:30 p.m. on channel four to discuss election results.
The analysis is aided by obtaining vote tabulations immediately after the polls close. UM students act as cor-
respondents, calling the television studio with results which are then fed into a computer.
One hour later, at 8:30 p.m., Dr. Ross Beil-er and Dr. Tom Wood, also professors here, join WCKT newsmen in
interpreting election results on channel 7.
Through sampling of strategic precincts, analysts are able to project results long before final vote totals are known, one participant in the project said.
• People are just so disgusted with politics today, thev see me as an opportunity to change all that’s wrong with the system,” he said.
“The fundamental issue that’s missing from other campaigns is respect, love and trust for other human
beings."
Kunst said his regional m.i ter development plan is thi most important part of his platform.
He also takes a strong stand for expansion of the mass transit system, environmental protection, readily available low-cost housing, improved services for the elderly and handicapped and more neighborhood food co-ops.
Kunst plans to enlarge the transportation system “to serve 80 per cent of the community, instead of 20 per cent."
He said the plan that Mt l ro had approved is "already obsolete.” He plans to use $72,000,000 allotted for an arterial road project and apply it to mass transit.
“By doing this, we could
Hurricane Precautions Necessary
By ANDREA KAYE
Ol TIM Hurrican* Staff
“With the onset of the hurricane season, it is the time to be concerned with the importance of hurricane preparedness in saving lives," Frederick B. Dent, U.S. Secretary' of Commerce, said at a press conference Saturday at the Computer Center.
“Hurricane preparedness means listening to pub-lice announcements on radio and television,” Dent said. “It means making secure your home and property. It means staying under cover.”
"I am appealing to everybody within the sound of my voice, or who may read my words, to enter into a life-saving partnership with the Weather Service, to know the safety rules, to follow closely the progress of severe storms and to obey quickly and scrupulously any warning to evacuate.
"We are very concerned with saving lives, but the response depends on each individual’s efforts.
“Hurricane tracking and communications also calls into play a wide range of public cooperation.”
Dent termed the National Hurricane Center located on IJM campus as "a nerve center, gathering and evaluating early warning data.”
“All data are analyzed and evaluated here at the National Hurricane Warning Center by a staff of the world’s finest weather scientists,” Dent said.
According to Dent, the success of this whole system depends on the awareness and cooperation of
men and women at home, at work, and on the
streets.
“Hurricanes are erratic,” he said. "Evacuation, one of the essential ways to protect yourself, is not receiving adequate attention.”
Dent emphasized that educating the people who are unfamiliar with the fury of hurricanes is of the utmost importance. People must be instructed on what to do when one is imminent, and they must learn to take the problem seriously enough to take all precautionary measures.
“Another important factor is that we are highly mobile people,” Dent said, “and a great many people now living in hurricane country never went through one.”
"In Dade County, one and a half million people, or 75 per cent of the population, don’t know what a strong hurricane is ail about.”
“The southeast Florida coast is one of the most hurricane vulnerable sections of the U.S., with an expected hurricane frequency of one every seven years.
“We have found, through many disasters, that people and communities who have been through them and appreciate what they can do come off best."
He said hurricane preparedness is the responsibility of every individual American who is threatened.
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“Property can be regained. Life cannot,” Dent said. “We arc committed to the saving of lives. W* need your help."
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