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Energy Exhibit Today
By C VNI MIA CHIEF A
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Energy Exhibit, in front of the Science Building, will present ;m Open Mouse today, from !* a m. to 5 p nt. The exhibit is sponsored by the CM Engineering and Architecture departments in cooperation with tlie Oakridge Associative Universities and will be open to the public as well as students.
Exhibit Manager Marion Marsee said that the purpose of the exhibit is to make the public aware of the American energy problem and "to highlight the fact that there are problems to all energy alternatives and that their implementations may or may not have some negative ramifications."
The exhibits themselves include colorful displays of facts about the various sources of energy utilized by the United States as compared to the rest of the world. According to these exhibits, the l niteri States consumes over MO per cent of the fuel of the entire world, or 17 million barrels of oil per day.
The present world energy shortage has much to do with the fact that we are dependent on fossil fuels and have delayed the use of solar energy. The energy consumption of Americans has increased astronomically in the last 100 years. In Ikho I 9 per cent of all fuel came from petroleum while today 46 per cent does. In 1880, no energy came from natural gas. water power, or nuclear power whereas today
we use 30 per cent gas, four per cent water and two per cent nuclear power.
Moves to nuclear or solar energy would alleviate some of the seriousness of the energy shortage but there are many economic factors standing in the way. Solar energy costs about .r>() cents a watt to have installed whereas present sources of fuel cost approximately three cents.
Solar energy is also a function of meteorological conditions In cases of prolonged cloudiness at night it is necessary to have adequate power storage or all appliances run by this power will stop working.
A computerized survey showed that one who drives 55 m.p.h., uses an airplane for long trips, lives in an air-conditioned home with a frost free refrigerator and no garbage disposal, rinses their clothes in hot water, has a color t.v. and a mid-sized car uses 87 units of energy, while the national average is 82 energy units and the ideal is 7ti energy units.
At the termination of the exhibit there are energy quotient tests which quiz the viewer's comprehension of the knowledge he should have gathered from the exhibit. The test not only reveals the correct answer, but tells you why the answmr is correct.
Free pamphlets concerning alternative available energy sources and energy conservation tips are available at the end of the exhibit.
By ALAN MARCUS
Editor
Preliminary enrollment spring figures showed a El per cent drop compared to last year, according to a report released by Registrar Cieorge Smith.
Dorm rentals were above the Residence Halls' projected figures while Saga food service said meal plan members were slightly off esti-mates.
Final enrollment will not he computed until law school registration is completed next week.
The preliminary report reveals that the actual number of undergraduate and graduate students d' npped from 11.772 to 1 1,398
Smith said the figures are "favorable" in that "we're pretty close to what we expected "
last fall, enrollment dropped three per cent with a final head count of 12,692.
Total undergraduate enrollment was 9,085 compared with 9. IKo a year ago. I ast fall, undergraduate registration was at 10.121.
Smith said it is too early to judge the effect of the de< rease in tuition revenues because not all the figures are in and they are misleading because it’s just a "head count .”
He did however, note that the total number of credit hours students are registered for was down 4.7 per cent.
"These figures are more important that the actual head count in determining the monetary effect," he said.
These preliminary figures indicate decreases in all colleges of the University. Arts and Sciences dropped about eight per cent; Music nearly 10 per cent; and Nursing about 20 per cent Busines- Administration. Education, and I ngineer-ing and Environmental Design all dropped two per cent or less
fieneral Studies students increased nearly 11 per cent.
In the housing area, Residence Hall's director .lames Grimm said dorm rental was above projections.
He said the dorms were at ill per cent capacity or that 3,923 of out of 1,148 beds were filled, avout 150 more than anticipated.
(irimm attributed the figures to the fact that the residence halls were able to notify students of the availability of double single rooms so early last semester.
A double single is normally a double room with one person living in it at the single room rate.
The meal service reported a slight decrease front projections. It was projected, Grimm said, fhaf there would he 3.000 students on various plans and there are 2,943. a drop of about 650 students from last semester
Grimm attributed the drop to students moving off campus and freshmen getting off the meal plan because they weren't generally satisfied with ¡1
Havey Receives Clipped Budget
By DAN Y MAI ERA
Assistant News Editor
A general copy of UM's budget, consisting of a series of combined figures, was given to Undergraduate Student Body Government (USB(i) president Sue llavey last Friday hut will not be made public until next week.
Vice President of F'inance Dr. John Cireen lias asked Havey not lo make the information public until after today's scheduled meeting on the matter.
“Green said there needs to he a more accurate summary before the information is made public, hut I assume there are a lot of people in the administration who don't want the budget made public," Havey said.
"I really believe Green wants to make the report public. I ant expecting him to give me a refined edition today and I imagine hr is requesting a consensus among the rest of the administrators, who don't want the information made public," she said.
The figures Havey presently has do not include personal salaries or other detailed information, hut Havey feels at least it's a start
"It's substantial compared to the
Eat All You Want At Ibis Cafeteria Lunch
By SHARON PERRY
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Ibis Cafeteria is offering a $2.95 all-you-can-eat candle-light buffet luncheon located in the pri-
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The pepartment of Student financial Aid Services wishes to make all UM students aware of application deadlines for financial assistance for the 1977-78 academic-year.
UM applications for financial aid are due by April 1, 1977 (freshmen due February 15). In addition to the institutional financial aid application, all applicants must file the appropriate financial statement, PCS or FAF Parents' Confidential Statement (PCS) or Financial Aid Form (F'AF). The FAF replaces the Student Financial Statement for independent students.
Please note that the application deadline tor summer aid is also April 1. These applications will be available In late February. To he eligible for summer aid you must have on file with Student Financial Aid Services a complete (application and financial statement) 1976-77 or
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vale dining room
"The decor and the quiet is quite unusual. This is very relaxing The food is marvelous and the price is right." School of Business Associate Dean Benjamin Walters said.
The buffet is open 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p m.. Monday through Friday. Fach day a different carved meat is served. There are two casseroles, a soup of the day, salad, assorted hot rolls and dessert.
"They have such a good variety you feel like you’re off campus, out of the crowd." student Stuart Z.im-berg said.
Attendance has been increasing since the buffet opened. “There are no complaints about the food. If business is good we’re going to open for dinner or maybe even on the weekends.” former USBG Senator and buffet organizer Greg Pape said.
According to Pape, the buffet was set up because many off-campus students are not on a meal plan.
In the private dining area there are red table-clothed tables with flowers and cloth napkins.
"The food is really good. It’s something different, it gives you a change, nice glasses, fresh flowers, very polite help,” Anita Bormel, another student patron, said.
“If the students come over and give it a try we’re sure they will stay and remain," Pape said
Ibis Cafeteria Manager Jim Seaton said, “We are happy with it. It’s a new service and we want to see more students to see if there Is a need for it. I hope it makes it. The people who have eaten here are happy vsljjh it."
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lack of information in the past, hut we need all the back-up material for this information, and a more accurate summary "
“I realize they just threw me a bone, hut it's a start," Havey said
llavey said if Green doesn't make the information public today, she
will.
Some early figures Havey agreed to release, which bothered her the most, was the fact that administrative costs, which includes the offite of the President among others, reported a cost of over $1 I million to* operate.
This figure amounted to morp than the budget for the School of Arts and Sciences. Business Administration. Fducation and Fngineer-ing combined.
Intercollegiate athletics took in $1.430,350, and spent $2.506.918 last year which amounts to a $1.076.568 defecit.
Havey said the report appears to show the Student Union operating at a loss She released Union figures that showed revenues of $373,000 and expenditures of $864.000
In contrast, thp machine concession in the Student Union, which includes the pin hall machines and is contracted out to a private firm, is reported to pull in well over $600,000 each year.
Havey also reported that "the food services (SAGA) appears to profit by $600,000 each year."
Concerning her correspondence with the IRS in an attempt to receive the tax forms of the University. Havey received a lettrr saying that "as of this time, we have no record of form 990 for the year requested." Havey had requested the 990 form for either of the past two years.
"That’s against the law. UM has to file the 990 form This Is politics. UM is doing something to try and get away with it. but it’s not going to work. If I have to call every elected official in the country, I will," Havey said.
Officials at UM's controllers office said the University has yet to file its 1976 forms because they were granted an extension. Forms for the previous years have long been filed thev said.
Money, Food For Migrants Collected
Due to severe weather conditi which destroyed the citrus crc 25,000 migrant farm workers Dade County have been left with jobs Donations of food, money blankets will be collected all i today in the Union Breezeway help these people. The project sponsored hy IfFBG
Referendum May Shift Control
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Of Act ivity Eee
By ISIDRO GARCIA
News Editor
The Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Senate passed a hill that will put a referendum on slate that may eventually transfer control of student activity fee monies from the Student Activity Fee Allocating Committee (SAFAC) to the Senate
The referendum also seeks to reduce the Hurricane allocation by five cents per payee and to increase allocations to WVUM by eight cents per payee.
The special referendum will be held Feb. 9, 10 and 11 and Election Commissioner Robert Mills says he will take the election "to the students" by going from floor to floor in the dormitories and gi\ing students a chance to vote just yards from their rooms.
Senator Allan l.ubel, whose Fiscal Committee worked on the referendum last semester, said that student government hasn’t been given enough power in the past to make it an efficient organization.
"If the referendum passes, you’re going to make student leaders responsible leaders," he said.
SAFAC is composed of eight students now. Three of the students are chosen at random by computer, and then screened bv the Student Activities Director. The Hurricane Business Manager, the USBG treasurer, u representative from the athletic department, and two students chosen by campus clubs round out the committee. The only elected representative is the USBG Treasurer.
Lubel says that the SAFAC structure is not accountable to students now “You’ve got to create a bond between elected representatives and the stu-
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If the referendum passes, it will he delivered to Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler who can make a decision on it or refer it to another de-aprtment for approval.
Dr. Butler said he has not made up his mind yet on what action he’ll take should the referendum pass.
He said the Senate would have to put the referen-
dum into legislative form and then submit the results to his office for approval. Board of Trustees approval would also be necessary.
"The referendum is a means of reflecting student opinion and it has no weight beyond that,” Dr. Butler said.
I.uhel said that USBG is the only place where money tan be distributed "fairly.”
If the referendum passes and is then approved hy the administration, a committee would he set up within the Senate to regulate student activity fee allocations to groups that apply for funds.
l.ubel says he is proposing to cut back the Hurricane budget because “it has an avenue for making money through advertising and other student organizations do not."
l.ubel said this would put pressure on the Hurricane business manager to perform well and sell enough
advertising.
Hurricane Business Manager Steven Avellone said that it "isn't fair" to cut hack Hurricane allocations.
"Just because we're a student organization that makes money doesn’t mean we have to be penalized," Avellone said.
The Hurricane made a $9.000 profit in the fall due to a readv market and efficient sales technioues according to Avellone However, he said that the money made in the fall is used "to balance money we lose in the spring."
Avellone said that if the Hurricane allocation is cut, the newspaper will go in the red.
I.uhel said that if students vote in favor of the referendum, he will propose further referendums in the spring election that will seek to redistribute encumbered funds of organizations that have fixed amounts of money allocated yearly.
"A lot of the referendums were voted on 10 years ago. We want to refix the amounts," Lubel said.
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