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By ALAN MARCUS
Editor
Rosary services for 20 year old Frank Meli of 8067 S.W. 73 Ave., who was brutally murdered in a kidnap ransom attempt, were held Sunday at Panciera Funeral Home in Hollywood.
The funeral will be private. He will be buried in Detroit next to his father.
Meli met his abductor through a classified ad in the Miami Herald. Attempting to sell his car. he met an interested buyer. He was kidnapped and held for $2,700.
Police said he was killed trying to
escape. The cause of death was multiple stab wounds to the chest.
An accounting major, Meli had a 3.5 cum and was described by one of his professors, Dr. Harry Price, as a better than average student that never caused trouble.
Dr. Price said that Meli was “very quiet" and kept to himself.
The only time he would speak, he said, was when he was called on in class.
Chairman of the Accounting department and former senior advisor to Beta Alpha Si, the accounting honor society, Dr. Harold Royer said everything he knew about Meli was very good. “He was always a
fine student."
"He was very cooperative and fine in Beta Alpha Si. Everything I’ve ever heard about him was marvelous," he said.
Professor Jess Brandon, who had Meli as a student twice, called the incident a "real tragedy.”
“Frank was of outstanding stature. He was quiet, mature and personable. I was honored he was taking my course.”
He said that Meli wasn't real popular. “He was respected by students and very conscientious."
Brandon said Meli had talked to him about his plans.
"He was going to become a CPA and an attorney. He was also going for a masters in taxation ... a real ambitious undertaking," he said.
Meli's body was found Friday by detectives in a shallow grave in the back yard of one of his abductors.
Police explained that Meli met his abductor in an attempt to sell his car. After being taken by knifepoint to one of the kidnapper's home, he phoned his brother and told him the kidnappers wanted the balance of his bank account, $2.700.
The kidnapper never picked up the money when it was dropped off. By tracing the check of the kidnap-
pers who sold Meli’s car to a local dealer, police were able to get a description of the kidnapper and eventually nab him.
Two suspects, Winkie Tavlor and David Leroy Washington have been charged with first degree murder and kidnapping. A third is being sought.
Taylor was out on parole for robbery. When in the second grade Taylor had a fight with another boy on the way home from school. He ran into his father's house, took his father’s shotgun and killed a boy who got in his line of fire.
Psychiatrists said Taylor had suicidal and homicidal tendencies.
Frank ¡Meli
Voi. 52 No. 11
Tuesday, October 5,1976
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Tenure Revisions Rejected
The Morning After The Fact
“Like where are my eyes?”
Johnny had the same thing happen to him that occasionally happens to many of us. It seems that he had a difficult exam and he decided he had better cram quickly or he was liable to fail it.
However, cramming led to boredom, and boredom led to . . . well . . . procedures that are specifically designed to alleviate it. Unfortunately for little Johnny, he drank more than he should have consumed and in a mad frenzy tore up his book.
Oh yes, Johnny flunked his exam.
By ISIDRO GARCIA
N«w$ Editor
Five faculty committees have unanimously rejected a University ad-hoc committee's recommendation that tenure be reviewed every four years.
The ad-hoc committee was formed last year and consisted of three Board of Trustee members, three faculty members and three administrators.
Faculty Senate Chairman Shepard Faber said the majority of the faculty "absolutely" opposes the proposal to review tenure every four years.
Faber said the tenured faculty members are continuously assessed by department chairmen and school deans.
“Existing policies do a nice job of covering tenure review,” Faber said.
Faber said that if existing policies were adhered to, there would be no need for tenure revisions as proposed by the ad-hoc committee.
“Many provisions of the tenure policy as well as faculty manual are overlooked by the administration," Faber said.
Carisi i Elected Gardner-Harper Cha ir man
By ELENA SELEZ
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"It’s a shame that people never want to get involved unless there is a crisis," said Dom Caristi shortly after he was elected chairman of the Gardner-Harper Committee last
W66k.
A member of the official UM-Coral Gables liaison for three years, Caristi hopes to change the attitude he described and to renew student interest in his organization.
“My first goal has got to be to involve more students not with the procedures, but with the interests of the committee," he said. “Unfortunately, most people wait until there is some sort of a crisis before they get involved.”
Caristi recalled two instances during the past three years of the committee's operation which aroused significant student interest in the University's relationship with the surrounding community.
The first was a successful effort
to extend the 11 p.m. noise curfew by an hour on weekends. The second time involved UM resistance to the proposed establishment of a perimeter road (around campus) which would have cut down on available student parking space.
“All of a sudden, there was an interest in Gardner-Harper," Caristi said.
While still in a forming stage, the committee was instrumental in getting permission both for the installation of pinball machines in the
Freshman Orientation Retreat Program Cancelled Because Of Student Apathy
By SARA LUSSKIN
Hurrican, Stall Writ.r
The Freshman Orientation Retreat Seminar Program scheduled for Sept. 18-19 at the Sheraton Golden Gate Inn in Naples was cancelled due to a marked “lack of student response" to the program, said Maureen Short, assistant dean of students and student development programs director.
The problem seemed to center around a number of schedule conflicts, as the weekend was also the kick-off of UM football season.
“Out of 17,050 students, not even 10 applied for the 30 places open in the retreat. The same positions which were eagerly grabbed up last year,” she said.
“I can only attribute it to lack of understanding and awareness on the part of the students.”
The FORS program initiates a number of weekend seminars which are designed to alleviate some of the trauma experienced by entering freshman, while having a good time as well.
These seminars are free for room, food and transportation from UM and are awarded on a first come first serve basis. Financial backing comes from the Student Activity Fee.
The objectives are the opportunity to meet people and make lasting .friendships, discuss personal impressions of the University and its students, and to enjoy the many facilities at the Sheraton.
The Seminars include creative problem solving and competitive games based on the results of student questionnaire results.
, Students are , placed in four groups with an upperclassman and
an administrator allowing the students an opportunity to meet faculty personally and feel less alienated by the enormous impersonality crisis present on the large college campus' of today.
If you missed signing up for the first seminar, it is already too late to sign up for the second one Oct. 18 at the Sheraton Inn on Naples Beach. “If enough student interest
is aroused in the seminars, we will consider rescheduling the first seminar so that more students may enjoy the benefits of this program," Short said.
For more information on the FORS program or further questions, you should contact Student Activities Director Tom Rebel in the Student Union or Maureen Short in the Administrative office.
Student Union and for the building of the Rathskeller.
“Both required a variance in a Coral Gables ordinance," Caristi said “Students should be made aware of the intricacies of the Coral Gables government.”
The new chairman said there is “only one foreseeable” problem that the committee will deal with in the near future and that is convincing the city to permit a unisex hair salon in the Union.
"The Union Board of Governors had suggested it to the City of Coral Gables whose objections are that because the University is non-tax-able it would mean no revenue (for the city) and that local businessmen may not approve of the idea," he said.
“This is something Gardner-Harper should definitely want to look
into."
Caristi’s plans for the committee include “implementing programs” in addition to its problem-solving
function.
There are 15 official Gardner-Harper Committee members, representing students, other University
community members and Coral Gables residents.
One student-at-large remains to be selected for a two-year term.
The five members from Coral Gables include Mayor Knight, who Caristi said has shown his support for the committee from its beginning when he recommended that City Council pass a referendum to recognize Gardner-Harper as the official communication link between UM and the city.
“Mayor Knight has been with the committee since it was conceived. He has done a whole lot to make this committee work," he said.
Caristi, a junior communications major, won the election for chairman against four opponents. Only students are eligible to run for the position.
“I’ve worked (for Gardner-Harper) since near its inception. I feel that I was the most knowledgeable candidate there was, more experienced than any other member except Kenny (Gardner),” he said
Caristi urges all Interested students to become more involved with the committee, which meets about once a month.
USBG Plans Book Referral Service
By STEFAN BECHTEL
Hurrinnu Staff Wrlttr
Plans for organizing a student-run used book buy-back service, tentatively dubbed the "USBG Textbook Referral Service,” are being discussed by Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG).
“I had to pay $60 for three textbooks this semester," USBG Vice President Steve Osinski said.
"It’s ridiculous to pay that amount of money when maybe the guy next door or down the hall has the same book and he’s not using it," he said.
Osinski has outlined an idea, still in the discussion and planning stages, which would put USBG in the position of liaison between students who have the books and those who need them.
A master file containing book titles, the course numbers they were used for, the owner’s name and general asking price, would be kept by a staff designated by Osinski.
“The general response from students so far has been very good," Osinski said. "The real problem — finding people to work — is still up
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Faber said that revisions of tenure affect students because "tenure is to protect academic freedom; if tenure policy is materially weakened, academic freedom could be sacrificed considerably.”
Faber said that the recommendations of the ad-hoc committee could weakened tenure policy.
“If we weaken tenure policy, it will definitely intrude on the likelihood of establishing academic excellency,” Faber said.
The ad-hoc committee report to study tenure made a total of 30 recommendations, and added eight proposals of the Faculty Senate as proposition 31.
Faber said that most of the ad-hoc committee recommendations are objectionable to deans and to department chairmen
Faber said the Faculty Senate Council Is currently drafting a response to the ad-hoc committee recommendations and will submit it to University President Dr. Henry King Stanford soon.
Acting English Department Chairman Dr. William Babula said that the ad-hoc committee "proposed solutions to problems that could be solved by following existing regulations."
Dr Babula chaired a committee of Arts and Sciences chairmen who submitted a report to Dr. Stanford which opposed "most recommendations that were proposed by the ad-hoc committee."
He said that faculty reaction to the ad-hoc committee report has been “very negative" and he hasn't “heard a positive remark about it" from faculty members.
"If we actually followed what is in the faculty manual we would have a good tenure review system,” he said.
Babula said that the administration has ignored the faculty manual. According to one faculty member, tenure review was initiated because the administration and the Board of Trustees felt that there were a small number of incompetent faculty members who received tenure automatically year after year.
However, he said these new recommendations would penalize the entire faculty.
Babula said that the ad-hoc committee report never made clear who would review tenure. He said this was one of the many objections the faculty had to this report. Babula said the Board of Trustees would not implement tenure policy revisions because “although the Faculty Senate is considered only a consulting body, the tremendous negative response to the ad-hoc committee recommendations would make it difficult for the Board to ignore us."
Babula said that if the ad-hoc committee recommendations are implemented, faculty moral and recruitment would suffer.
“New faculty members won’t want to come here if they can't get tenure,” he said.
Babula said that the recommendations do not provide tenure as commonly defined and said the Board is seeking to implement the measures to “exercise more financial control."
Geology Professor Dr. Gesare Emiliani, who participated in the deliberations of the College of Arts and Sciences Committee said, "Tenure protects freedom of expression and not the job.”
Geology Professor Dr. Fred Nagle, co-chairman of the Faculty, committee in Arts and Sciences to review tenure recommendations, said the administration is “looking for ways to save money" and that this was the main motivation in forming the ad-hoc committee to study tenure
Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee to Study Tenure and Acting Dean of thet Faculties Dr. Sidney , Besvinick was out of town and unavailable for comment.