Veritas, Vol. 16, No. 16, January 12, 1976

              Barbara Buchanan
M.S. Degree in Nursing Approved
Nurses who want to advance in nursing health care administration or nursing now have the opportunity to earn a Master of Science Degree in Nursing under a new curriculum recently approved for the School of Nursing by the Board of Trustees.
Introduced in the spring semester, which started January 8, the Master’s program requires a minimum of three semesters of fulltime study and a minimum of 35 credits to complete.
Nursing School Dean Barbara B. Buchanan said three elements will be emphasized: specialized theory and practice in physiological nursing; expanded professional role theory and practice, and research.
Volume 16, Number 16
January 12, 1976
Law Library Addition Dedicated
by Sanford Schnier News Bureau
Dr. Francis Allen, president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools, gave the address for the December 17 dedication of the Baron deHirsch Meyer library addition of the School of Law.
The four-story addition was made possible by a bequest from the late Baron deHirsch Meyer, UM trustee and major donor to the entire law complex, along with additional gifts from others.
President Stanford welcomed guests at the dedication, and Soia Mentschikoff, dean of the School of Law, also addressed the group.
During the ceremonies, Baron deHirsch Meyer’s widow, Polly, was presented a gold medallion showing the scales of justice in balance “as the ideal.’’ Dean Mentschikoff presented the medallion on behalf of the law school faculty.
The UM law library, one of the largest in the South, contains almost 200,000
Soia Mentschikoff, Polly deHirsch Meyer
volumes, placing it among the first 20 in volume count among the 158 accredited law schools nationally. The addition provides spaces for another 200,000 books, for a total of 400,000, which would place the law library in the top three percent in the country.
The library was completed at a total cost of $1.5 million, and has 38,000 square feet of floor space. The first floor contains
research stacks, general stacks and reading rooms. The second floor houses an audio-visual area, general stacks, the administrative law collection and the corporate and tax and estate planning collections. The third floor contains offices, a faculty lounge, general stacks and the legal periodicals section. The Law Review and Moot Court offices, faculty offices, carrels, stacks and a clerestory roof are on the fourth floor.
Symposia Attract Top Scientists
The eighth annual Miami Winter Symposia, to be held January 12-16, will deal with the topics “Protiolysis and Physiological Regulation” and “Cancer Enzymology.” The symposia are arranged jointly by the UM School of Medicine’s department of biochemistry and the Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute.
Deficit Forces Curtailment Of University Press
The University of Miami Press was placed on a standby basis as of December 31, 1975, with a skeleton staff of three persons remaining to promote and sell books in print and to reprint books as demand justifies.
The Villagers Book of Outstanding Homes of Miami, whose publication is announced elsewhere in Veritas, is the latest general interest UM Press book. The continuing scientific series on Studies in Tropical Oceanography is in press and in future will be published by the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and distributed by the UM Press.
The University of Miami: 1926-1976, by Dr. Charlton W. Tebeau, UM professor of history emeritus, will also bear the UM Press imprint. It will be published October 15, 1976, the 50th anniversary of registration for the first UM students.
President Stanford said the mandate of the Board of Trustees to balance the
budget led to phasing down the Press which has been a deficit operation.
Since last September when Dr. Stanford reluctantly agreed to suspend the operation of the University Press, several members of the faculty and the literary community of Florida have expressed dismay about the action. The central office of the Academic Affairs Division shares their disappointment because the Press has served the University well and its scholarly activity has been of high quality. Unfortunately, despite a significant subsidy, the Press has operated at a loss for the past five years.
The Division of Financial Affairs has compiled a summary of the financial history of the Press income and expenditure accounts for the period 1970-1975 which is reported below. For each of the years shown, the net loss has been in excess of $50,000 and the cumulative deficit would have been almost $500,000 except for the insistence of the Board of Trustees that
the deficit had to be frozen and last year’s loss had to be absorbed by the general operations budget of the University.
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Outstanding Concerts Scheduled This Month
Russian concert pianist Lazar Berman, on his first visit to the United States, will perform at the University’s Gusman Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday, January 22. Tickets are $7. For reservations, call 284-6477.
Also on the Guest Artists Series schedule at Gusman Hall this month are the January 20 appearance of Gary Karr, noted double bassist with Harmon Lewis, keyboard artist, and a concert by Stan Kenton and his orchestra on January 23. The Karr-Lewis concert is $3.50 to the public and $1.75 to UM personnel with identification; the Kenton concert is $7 for everyone.
Papers to be presented in the first symposium will deal with the structure and function of proteases and the activities of the enzymes in such physiologically important processes as blood clotting and complement as well as protein turnover. The second symposium is concerned with differences in enzymatic activities between normal and tumor cells, and the use of enzymes in cancer therapy.
Distinguished scientists from both Europe and the United States will be participating in the Symposia, including Dr. Britton Chance, who was recently awarded the Medal of Science.
Dr. A. H. T. Theorell, Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, will give the annual Feodor Lynen Lecture, named in honor of Professor Lynen, visiting professor of biochemistry, and Nobel Laureate in 1964. The title of the lecture is “My Life With Proteins and Their Prosthetic Groups.” It will be chaired by President Stanford, and will be followed by the presentation of a commemorative medal to Dr. Theorell by Professor Lynen. The Lynen Lecture is sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.