Miami Hurricane, January 31, 1975

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This tiger arrived last Saturday with the rest of the menagerie that comprises the llanneford Circus.
Tht Miami Hurncan. 5U£ ANN MILLER
Sponsored by the Student lintertain-ment Committee, the circus performed two shows on the Patio which was temporarily converted into a big top for the occasion. For more details turn to page 4.
(.ommission ( leurs Harris
Impeachment Dropped
By VALERIE STRAUSS
Maws Editor
F.fforts to fcmorr USBG Vice-President Alan Harris were halted Monday when the Select Commission to Investigate Impeachment of Alan .1. Harris told the Student Senate they found "there Is insufficient evidence to warrant a trial "
Chairman of the five-person commission Ken Lieberman told the Senate that "after extensive and exhaustive investigation and intensive debate" they drafted their recommendations which included a request that a "complete and thorough investigation be made of Steven Dansker, attorney general of USBG."
Harris said he knew all along he would "come out clean."
"I did not violate the constitution of USBG. and I knew the Commission would come to the same conclusion. I'm just glad it is all over so we can get back to some serious work," Harris said.
The commission was appointed in December by Senate Speaker Alan Richard in response to Senator David Goldberg s request that Harris he investigated. The freshman senator said he was displeased with Harris’ answers to questions about the Students Rights Commission and the student directory, both which Harris created.
Although the commission has dissolved itself, there are still two problem areas that are threatening toexplode.
A show-down over the recommendation that Dansker be investigated appears imminent. Richard said he intends to rule the request "frivolous and non-legitimate at Monday’s Senate meeting and refuse to set up a another select investigating committee.
"My conclusion is lhat the request is simply not h IcKiliniute one. Part of the du-tir.s of L4»berman’» committee were ...
bring charges against anyone suspected u! wrongdoing. Since they did not bring charges against Dansker, 1 see no reason for an investigation.
"Furthermore. I ieberman told me the only reason they recommended that Dansker be investigated was because there is a discrepancy between his testimony and other testimony I ieberman himself now thinks he shouldn’t he investigated," Richard said.
I,ieberman said he never said this.
"If they want to investigate, that’s fine. If they don’t, that’s fine too."
Several senators who have already heard about Richard's decision have said they will ask the Senate to override his ruling.
The other tension area revolves around the secrecy of the committee's testimony. Lieberman said he would never allow the evidence collected by the commission to be made public.
"I promised every witness who came before us that everything they said would be taken in the utmost confidentiality. I will not go back on my word, even if the Senate wants to bring me up on contempt charges,” Lieberman said.
He said the records are in his possession, and if forced to, he will destroy them.
Several senators protested the relusal to make the testimony public.
Senator Boh Hoffman said he is angry , that the evidence the committee gathered is closed and may be destroyed.
"I think it shows there may be something here that doesn't meet the eye.”
Gusman Concert Hall Opens This Evening
ByELENASELEZ
0» Th» Humean» Staff
UM’s new $2.5 million Maurice Gusman Concert Hall will finally open its doors to the public tonight after construction problems delayed the opening three months.
Miami financier Maurice Gusman, donor of the hall, said construction costs totaled 150 per cent more than (he original estimate, an additional $1.5 million. Gusman agreed to pay the extra money, although the hall's recording system is being financed by an undisclosed donor.
The hall seats fi()(T and is equipped with quadrophonic sound The seats are arranged in a wedge formation focusing on a 10-microphone capacity oak stage.
Sophisticated recording equipment, movie and slide projectors and five video screens are other features. In addition to the sound chamber, the building has nine administrative offices, library and instrument storage rooms, warm-up areas, a dressing room, conference room, score desks, a music reproduction center and a quadrophonic television system in the dean's private office.
An acoustics consultant, Cyril M. Harris of New
York lily, suici hi* plans
were ••»!* nnvc h *TnaiY nan
which would have more of a big hall sound.”
He said the interior was designed to allow for a maximum resonant sound and that the noise of a jet, plane passing overhead will lie completely inaudible to an audience inside the hall.
Gusman Concert Hall's architect is Morris Lapidus Associates of Miami Beach.
and the contractor is Frank .1. Rooney, Inc. of Miami.
Three dedicatory concerts will he performed at 8 p in. tonight, Saturday and Sunday.
The concert highlight will be the world premiere of "l ight Vignettes for a Festive Occasion — a simul-sensory experience,” by Dr. WiIJiam F. Lee III. dean of the UM School of Music and noted composer. The hour-long work was commissioned by UM President Henry King Stanford, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Mary Reynolds Babcock foundation.
Dean Lee's work is scored for a full symphony orchestra, a chorus, a narrator, synthesizer, various soloists, percussionists, jazz
instrumentalists and a spoken chorus.
The vignettes, entitled 1. Consciousness, 2. Being. 3. Freedom, 4. Consideration, 5. Understanding, 6. Happiness, 7. Joy and 8. Love, are accompanied by impro-visational projected liquid light.
Dean Lee believes the concert hall will he an important asset to the music program.
“It will make possible exchange sharing of facilities with visiting faculty and student groups from other universities and cplleges and, in addition, will offer an opportunity to present musicological lectures of current interest to students and members of the community alike," lie said.
"It can be safely predicted that it will be in use almost nightly when made
available to prominent civic groups: chambrr musir. operatic and ballet, and to distinguished visiting professionals such as orchestral and dance groups.
"Mr Gusman's magnificent gift is momentous not only for ihoTmiversity but for our music-loving friends in the community,” Dean I ee said "It is wonderful to know that our performing artists and ensembles will
at last he able to appear in appropriate surroundings and the audiences will enjoy music presented in the finest concert hall in this area or on any campus in thiscountrv."
Tonight's opening performance will be attended by the board of trustees, lacul-ty. donors and media Students and alumni will attend Saturday, and the UM Citizens Board and the i onintiimtv on Sundav
Gusman Paid Extra Costs
$2.5 Million Auditorium Funded In Full By Donor
By GUSPUPO
Of Th» Humean» SUlf
“Not one penny” of UM tuition money was used in the construction of Gusman Concert Hall said William McLaughlin, assistant vice president for Financial Affairs.
Accusations by some students and faculty members concerning the alleged use of “general funds" to pay off the concert hall’s debts have been denied by several I'M officials.
between Maurice Gusman and UM which prohibited the use of UM funds for Gusman Hall." McLaughlin said
The concert facility's construction costs exceeded the original estimate to tile tuneof $1.5 million.
ly on the sophisticated acoustics that Gusman wanted," said Edward Coll, vice president for Development Affairs.
An acoustician, Cyril Harris, w'as brought in by Gusman along with the architect, Morris l.apidus.
According to Dr. William F. I ee. School of Music dean, only Gusman had final say in the construction and design of the hall.
With the final say went the linal construction tjjjl
man paid every penny of it.
"To he exact, Gusman donated $2..(10,000 which did mil suffice to pay for the recording equipment,"
Met augltlin said
An additional gill of $118,000 bv an undisc losed donor will he used lo pay I the recording equipment
Some students still think $2.5 million is an "extravagant" amount of money no matter where it came from.
"It's outrageous that an auditorium which seats only H00 persons should cost $2.5 million." said a pre-nied junior who requested his name he withheld	,
But Gusman Hall is not an auditorium.
Grinding in Ralph War-biirton, Associate Dean tor
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special building.
"It is a free structural span with no columns and acoustically perfect design along with special floors and ceilings." War-burton said.
le added Unfortunately, tills ty pe of design is expensive."
"We didn't budget initial- tab. McLaughlin said
Officials Consider elans
Students Redesign Park
By STF'VE MORF.T11
Of th» Hurncan» Staff
What began as a class project could go on the drawing boards as part of the eventual plan for the renovation of Bayfront Parkin Miami.
It all started last semester when professor Gary Greenan told his Landscape Architecture 471 class t(, split up into groups and draw up plans for redesigning Bayfront Park.
"I told the class lo come up with a plan that was im-plemrntable without much cost and that would use as many existing facilities as possible.” Greenan said. "I figured it would be a good experience for them.”
After the semester had ended and the plans were in, Greenan decided to present the students' plans to the Miami Chamber of Commerce. He did this with the help of Ralph Warbur-ton, architecture engineering department chairman and professors William Rosenberg and Felipe J Fresiamo.
Three students, Ernesto Burh, a fourth-year design student. Pilar Benito/., also a fourth-year design student and Dan Tinhey, a fifth-year design student were selected to present the ideas that each group had drawn up to a public meeting held at the Miami Chamber of Commerce of-ficeslast Tuesday.
Tinney told the meeting his group's redesigning ol the Miami park included isolating the	Bandshell
from nearby parking areas and traffic noises on Bis-caync Boulevard by utilizing landscape changes
He also suggested outdoor cafes at the "between boulevards" area and on the present	walkway
around the Bay's shoreline.
linney said many Latin American people already in the area would make better use of the Bay if some of these changes were made,
Beneitez. and Buch proposed overhead walkways so pedestrians could have
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FPIRG Rejects iPositive’ Check-Off System
By JIM HOLLANDER
Editor
While members of the Florida Public Interest Research Group (FPIRG) and administrative officials are beginning their third year
of negotiations concerning FPIRG's funding, the two sides are presently stalled over the method of soliciting student fees.
The administration advocates a "positive" check-off system whereby students would pay a $1.50 fee only If they mark "yes” on a computerized card that would be part of the registration kit. FPIRG officials have stated they will accept nothing short of a “negative” check-off system, meaning a student must pay the fee unless he marks "no" on the card.
Last December, FPIRG and administrative officials seemed to be on the verge of compromise. The FPIRG check-off cards had already been put in the registration kits when FRIG former President Linda Weeks notified Vice-President for
Student Affairs. Dr. William Butler, on December 23 that FPIRG could not accept the university’s proposals.
Throughout Spring. 1974, Dr. Butler and Weeks corresponding with several schools concerning their collection methods. Both finally agreed on the University of Maine’s plan, which is negative. Weeks said the refundable method Is the most widely used but FPIRG would accept the Maine plan, but nothing less.
Last summer, the Board of Trustees voted in favor of permitting FPIRG to collect funds and charged the administration to work out (he details.
It was at this time, while the wording of the card was being negotiated, that Weeks said she became aware for the first time that the university had a "positive check-off system in mind
At an October meeting, Bursar Joseph Collins objected to the university acting as a collecting agent
for the organization. FPIRG wanted students to pay the FPIRG fee along with tuition in the Ashe building.
"I was ready to collect the money, but on a cash basis,” Collins said. “It would be just like the parking situation. We’d collect it separately from the fee card operation.”
Weeks said it was "always my understanding that students would pay the fee with tuition.” She said if students had to stand in long . lines in the library they would rather not pay the fee.
Weeks was negotiating with the office of Financial Affairs and she said they were “getting nowhere.” She said Butler had dropped out of the scene and would not substantiate existing agreements.
"Butler told us he had no authority at that point,” Weeks said.
When negotiations between FPIRG and Financial Affairs proved fruitless. Weeks notified Dr. Butler that FPIRG would not be a part of
winter registration.
In December, Dr. Butler met with officials of Financial Affairs and an apparent compromise was reached. Students would pay the FPIRG fee along with their tuition and the organization would receive their $1.50 immediately, whether the student paid in full or not.
During a December, 20 meeting. Weeks said she told Dr. Butler FPIRG had two minimum requirements that could not be compromised They would not accept a "positive" check-off system and they would not operate at registration without a cost estimate.
Butler said the former was against university policy and the latter was impossible to calculate.
“An estimate should have been written Into the contract and my understanding with Dr. Butler had always been that we'd have a "negative" system,” Weeks said. "I thought it was a slip when the posi-
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Warhurtun explained t>00 is aboui the maximum number of seats $2.5 million ran buy.
" I n build an acoustic ally pet fed c oncert hall whic h seals 2.000 would cost about $20 million,” War-hiirton said.
Nine offices ate located in Gusman Hall, including Dean lee's, which some members of the university community say cost $50,000 to furnish.
"1 hat's absurd, it only tan to $2.500,” Dean l ee said.
I m aifd m Dean 1 re's spacious and elegant office is a quadraphonic sound system and a soon to be Installed closed circuit television system.
A spokesman for a local sound equipment firm said, a quadraphonic system, such as Dean Lee has, with IM tuner, turntable, and tape player, normally costs $4.500, not to mention another couple of thousand-for the closed circuit tries i-sion.
Similar quadraphonic sound systems have also been installed in Manager Judy Havely's modest office, and in the luxurious office of the associate dean.
Closed circuit television will also be installed in th** lobby and In the manager
office.
"I cannot he at two places at once and the television system allows me some command of what's going on in the sound chamber,” Havely said.
In reply to the alleged "extravagance" of the concert hall and its offic- .
• lavely says only one prr cent of the $2.5 million was used for furnishings in comparison to the usual five; per cent of the construction tah.
Although Dean Lee is "bothered" by questions dealing with the amount of money used for furnishings in his office, he insists the money was donated (nr that purpose and did n come from tuition funds