Miami Hurricane, March 22, 1977

              ... Inequities Distort Salaries
By ALAN MARCUS
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On March 4, the Hurricane reported that faculty compensation ranged from $27,500 for a full professor to $1.3,100 for an instructor. What that "compensation” includes, however, lowers the average by nearly $2,600 in actuai cash dollars.
Included in the compensation are fringe bene-fits;things like tuition remission for family, Social Sec-utity, retirement funds, and some health insurance according to Faculty Senate Chairman Shepard Faber.
In terms of compensation versus salary, a full professor’s average compensation is $27,500 and his salary is $25,300; an associate's is $20,000 versus $17,800; an assistant professor's is $16,700 versus $14,600 and an instructor's is $13,100 versus $12,700.
However, even those figures are not they're all cracked up to be
A professor could be earning anywhere to $40,000 and if so, someone has to be $10,000 or so in order to have a $25,000 average.
One professor said that the averages cited are "grossly deceptive” because of the inequities of the sal-
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ary schedule.
"Increasing salaries across the board,” he said, "continues this inequity."
Faber said he is earning a $21,500 salary for the academic year and is a full professor.
The tuition remission plan for spouses and children of faculty is included in the compensation though not all faculty can use them. For one faculty member, if he has two children attending UM, the benefits and therefore "compensation" are much greater than for the faculty member without children.
Any faculty member who has come to the University in the last few.vears is only allowed to take advantage of the tuition remission program at UM. Senior faculty can use this option at any University in the country.
"This," contends a faculty member, "is making those compensation figures inaccurate because it really doesn’t cost the University $3,300 to send a student here. This is commonly called soft dollars for the University."
The retirement program for faculty calls for small benefits for early retirements but the longer a faculty member teaches the sharper the increase becomes.
The actual salaries of comparable colleges were not included in the "Fact File" compiled by Provost and F.xecutive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Clyde Wingfield
Another problem with the inequities in faculty salaries is that salary increases generally don’t allieviate them. Last year's increase was eight per cent across of which four per cent was the board as a cost of living increase. The rest was by merit or promotion.
Faber said it was conceiveable that someone could have gotten a 28 per cent increase and someone else the minimum of four per cent
Presently, a subcommittee of the Faculty Senate’s Budget Committee is developing a formula basing salaries on years, rank and merit similiar to what’s being
used in the Physics department.
There is talk of a faculty salary increase for the upcoming academic year ranging in the five per cent area. Two years ago there was no increase and last year it was an average of eight per cent.
One faculty member said the four per cent average over two years doesn't even keep up with inflation for the last two months.
It should also be noted that there are 244 full professors and 332 associate and assistant ones.
There is no information in the "Fact File" that reveals the breakdown in salaries at UM by dollar amounts. There is no way to determine the number of faculty earning over $30,000 and under $15,000.
In the protest against the tuition increase last year, one of seven student demands included salary disclosure of University employees. The administration said they would give salary breakdowns in terms of how much employees earn in categories, but that information was never made available
The second of this two part series will center on the value of fringe benefits at UM. especially pensions, and what can be anticipated in the luture.
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Greek fraternities are sponsoring a blood drive which begun yesterday and is scheduled to run through tomorrow to help keep hemophiliac Timmy Strohback, a Miami— Dade Community student, alive. The drive is being held in the Flamingo Ballroom of the Student Union.
According to Interfraternity Council President Gary Ramey, Strohback must pay for each pint of blood that he uses. By having people donate blood into his "account," the cost to the hemophiliac is diminished.
Greeks have been supplying Strohback with blood since 1961. Last year was the first time that non-UM students have been allowed to participate.
In order to donate blood, a person must be a legal adult in good health and must be able to present two forms of identification.
"Timmy needs approximately 400 pints per year, and at least one full blood transfusion a year,” Sigma Chi member Alan String said.
The blood donated will be held at the Mount Sinai Hospital for Strohback.
"The few seconds of pain that a person may feel when he has his finger pricked to determine his blood type, is nothing in comparison to the wonderful gift he is offering to those who need blood so dearly, Ann Housman, Mount Sinai’s director of blood replacement, said.
Only three per cent of the population donates blood, and Housman said she believes that it is needed on a much wider scale.
The blood drive for Strohback is but one of the many events in Greek week. According to Ramey, Greek week was founded to promote brotherhood between members of fraternities and sororities.
"We're hoping to get a large turnout, which will really take a lot of financial pressure off of Timmy Strohback and his family,” Ramey said.
Mumi Hurncim EVEL VN SEIDEN
Gal ’Canes Place Dismal Sixth
The Women’s Swim Team placed a dismal the past two years. Above, is freshman Melinda sixth in the AIAW Championships over the Lyverse, who set a new UM school record in past weekend. The gals had been champs for the 500 I restyle. (See story page 8).
$200 Per Year Tuition Hike
By ALAN MARCUS, ISIDRO GARCIA and JANINt CRACHIOLO
of th* Hurricane Stall
I'he Hurricane has learned that UM President Henry King Stanford has asked the Board of Trustees to approve a tuition increase of $100 per semester beginning next fall.
ttr. Stanford said "1 woutd prefer In consult with the Faculty Senate Budget Committee and the executive Committee of the Board of Trustees before making any comments about financial policy for next year."
Provost Dr. Clyde Wingfield said •that he made a recommendation to the University Management Committee (composed of the President, the executive Vice President for Administration and Finance Dr John Green, and himself) to provide new resources in the form of honor scholarships, increased library spending and increased financial aid
"If we are able to go through with this commitment, it would lie necessary for the University to find cash flow m tin form of a tuition
Reiter’s Rummy Belters Reading
By JIM WIELGOS
Humean* Stall Writer
A UM graduate has created a card game improve the reading skills of children.
Jeff Reiter, who graduated with a Masters degree in Special Education
AIES EC Seeks International Flow Of Management Ideas
By STEVEN GARWOOD
Humean* stall Wrltar
“Working toward a better world through the international exchange of management ideas and skills.” That is how the International Association of Students in Economics and Business Management (AIE-SEC) describes itself.
AIESEC is an international student-run organization with chapters in 55 countries, including the United States. The Miami chapter was founded by International Finance and Marketing Chairman Dr. John Dyer.
The idea of AIESEC originated in 1948, when students from seven European countries met and decided that some kind of international marketing organization was needed. Their goals were then and still are very idealistic. The goal of AIESEC is to create international brotherhood and a better world. The U.S.
- AIESEC has steadily grown in size, to where it is now the largest organization of its kind in the country It has chapters in more than 50 colleges, and more than 3,000 companies also participate.
AIESEC has three major goals. First, it helps reinforce the education a person receives in school. The business or marketing major gets a chance to put his classroom experience to practical use
“It’s a good chance for international marketing majors to rub elbows with big businessmen." said Gary Slonim, AIESEC's special projects chairman here.
The second goal of AIESEC is the promotion of international goodwill
through the AIESEC Intern Exchange Program.
"We go to companies, and ask them if they would take a foreign intern, and people in other countries are doing the same thing," UM AIESEC President Brent McFarland “The company takes the intern for anywhere from two weeks to two years. They receive about $150 See page 3
(Learning Disabilities) from UM, first became aware of the problems children have reading as a teacher in the New York City and Dade County school systems.
"I began thinking about new teaching methods which would facilitate the education of children, who, for various reasons, were not ‘making it’ via traditional approaches," Reiter said. "The game actually developed after a lot of work I did trying to find ways to teach."
Reiter found that many of the problems children face in their school work stem from an inability to recall isolated facts.
After 11 years of teaching professionally, Reiter learned to "emphasize the importance of continually stressing the interrelationships of meaningful concepts in the teach-ing/learning process."
Many years of research led to the development of "Rainbow Rummy," a card game which enables almost anyone to improve the
reading skills of children.
The game has been received enthusiastically by parents, teachers, and children since it came on the market. Its popularity is still spreading.
The game is very similar to Gin Rummy. A deck of sixty cards (with fifty different words) is used, each card chosen for its usefulness in the many related aspects essential to reading and language art instruction.
To win the game, players draw and discard cards attempting to sequence them according to a specifically ordered rainbow— colored sentence pattern which is found in design form on the back of each card. Each color represents a specific part of speech.
Since color sequence is normally within the ability of even a four year old, in many cases the whole family can ejoy playing Rainbow Rummy together.
"Thé game is geared to both the
very young and old," said Reiter.
Points are earned by demonstrating specific skills including capitalization, punctuation, spelling and reading con comprehension. Points are never subtracted for error, allowing the positive facet of the game to be accentuated "This aspect motivates children playing the game,” said Reiter.
Because it is such an easy yet versatile game, Rainbow Rummy can be used to help combat all types of reading difficulties, whether "normal" or those youngsters considered "exceptional" who have more than average deficiencies.
It’s easy to learn how to play the game. "On a one-to-one basis, and depending on the ability of the child, the game can be learned in about half an hour," Reiter said
Any individual or organization wishing to know more about the game can contact Reiter through the Dade County Department of Youth Services.
ReiL Franklin	Will Falls 7 ane
Joyce Bauman
Mary Beil
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Mary Reil was elected Editor of the Hurricane and Donna Franklin was elected Business Manager of Student Publications by the Board of Student Publications Friday. The positions commence with the end of this semester.
Reil, who said she intends to "uphold the professionalism and near excellence of the Hurricane,” also said her primary obligation is to the students.
"As Editor, I intend to increase coverage of student activities on campus, student achievements in academic endeavors, and intramural sports, along with the accurate reporting of timely news stories directly relating to the UM students,” Reil said.
Reil will also probably increase the number of run-on sentences in the editorial column
At the previous Board meeting, Joyce Bauman was elected Editor of the Ibis. Wes Morgan was elected Bauman s Associate Editor at the same meeting.______________________
Donnu Franklin
Henry King
To Turkey?
The rumors arr out. hut the
President isn’t... yet.
UM President Henry King Stanford, the rumors suggest, is
in line to become U.S ambasssa-dor to Turkey. Me said that some of his friends put his name in the running lor the post late last year but hr has heard nothing since then
Will the President take the post if offered to him?
"I think any citizen would be 1 obligated to give his services if requested bv the President.
"Whether I will take it or not I cannot say. but I would hr forced to consider it very seriously." the President said
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increase or increased philonthroplc support. The latter is preferable but the former is available," Wingfield said
■‘The Board of Trustees may decide that we need to live with our budget I think that would he a mistake for the University,” he said.
Dr Wingfield has also proposed a 10 percent increase in spending for the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business Administration .
According to Dr. Wingfield, the schools actually need a 30 per tent increase for faculty and personnel spending to maintain quality standards.
The tuition increase is believed to have been proposed to provide the faculty with a close to four percent salary increase.
Dr Wingfield says the money will come from the tuition fund of the UM budget.
"The University is also going to have to face other realities Some of our poorly paid employees can hardly afford to pav for health tare so we are going to have to establish some kind of program for them," he said
Dr. Wingfield said this would not be payed for with tuition funds but would be an additional burden on the I Iniversity budget
Undergraduate Student Body Government President Sue llavev said that she has no definite plans on what action she'll take if there is a tuition increase. Throughout her tenure Havey has asked the administration to consider more student input in the decision making process
Dr Stanford said earlier this spring that he is "hopeful that tuition can be contained."
"Putting this year's budget together is the most difficult admims-trative task I've ever performed," Dr. Stanford said.
The President said the University ought to do anything possible to avoid a tuition increase. He said this can be done with the aid of “outside sources."
Accountants Haskins and Cells are researching measures that can be taken to save money in non-aca-dcmic areas.
Executive Vice President of Administration and Finance Dr. John Green said the University had to dip into other funds to cover skyrocketing insurance costs this year.
Financial Aid Director Ron Ham-
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