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Committee recommends $11.50 under grad actipi\^^ee By JIM HOLLANDER Optional fee recommendations are $15.85 for law stu The second motion stateslthat no students should p. \ fldltor dents, $26.20 for undergraduates and $25.65 for grads. Op for the amortization of "a |iversttj^ig#7K.lldirg The Blue Ribbon Activity Fee Review Committee has tional activities include SAFAC, SEC, Carni Gras and Lec by way of a mandatory fee." The third motion stales that completed its negotiations and has sent a recommendation ture Series. the principle of equality dot not exist between under- graduate, law and grad students. to the Board of Trustees proposing that undergraduates In its final report, the conclusion of seven meetings LIBRARY .g, pay a mandatory activity fee of 111.50 Undergraduates between undergraduate, law and graduate representatives presently pay a mandatory fee of $11.60 with two "unbiased" faculty members, the committee Gardner, who opposed all the motions and recommen The committee also proposed thai day law students makes three broad recommendations based on three suc dations, has filled a minority report His grievances in pay a mandatory fee of $10.50, evening lavs students pay cessfully passed motions. clude the apparent contradiction between the motion stat $5.25 and graduate students pay $11.75. All other fees are The first motion states that the activity fee shall ing no students should pay for a university building and to be considered optional, according lo Ihe committee's have a mandatory nature and an optional nature to be ap the inclusion in all the mandatory fee schedules of the report. plicable toall students. ." Union and Rat amortizations THE /WIA URMCANE -B - VpJ. 50 No. 45 Tuesday, April 8, 1975 Ph. 284-4401 AABOG creates loan agency By VALERIE STRAUSS said. Students will go the Apartment Area govern apartment dwellers. Naws Editor through the same process for ment and by other studen The bulk of the money will the loan as they do now. governments or alumni. Or Students living in Ihe come from the AABOG. Money'for the Loan Fund ganizers say they expect be Apartment Governor Brian apartments won't have to may be donated by individual tween $500-$ 1000 available write home for extra cash apartment area residents, by to the approximately 600 See page 2, col. 1 anymore. A new money-lend ing operation has been creat ed by The Apartment Area Board of Governors (AABOG) and Graduate Stu dent Association (GSA), which should be available to .ane Gl.ENKAGAN students by next week GSA President Tom Romkey said l,-,l,i i, aHI i in- "The Pederson Apartment Area Loan Fund will provide The tirst annual Seience Fiction nnrl Star Trek short term loans to graduate, convention tint undartftty Saturday, \/,nl .',, nt It a.m. undergraduate and law stu dents from the Apartment null tin- Jitiiiinit of a Sim I nl. episode. About tu-o Area. The maximum loan to liiiiuli ,-tl purtit if,tints fathered tn tins and sell rornii an individual student will be HtMiks, pi,lures, and model, til tin l.S.S. I liter prise $150," Romkey said. it ere tn tillable. Star Trek epistitles ware aired Saturday anil Sun- The loan fund was devel oped because of the student das, rm litttinit "Where \>> Mtin litis f.tine Before." need for short term loans, "'tils in, the Edge oj tm,HI.' mill 'ihe Galileo Apartment Governor Russ Seien." i segment of ^tm Trek htoopers highlighted Venti said. "There is a defi the lisntil presentation. nite need for students to have money for emergency purposes. This is a good way for them to obtain it." All short term loans' will n | _ _ D .• c . t Th* Miami Hurrlcana SUE ANN MILLER USBG, local businessesbe for a period of one month The week following the one Band on Patio Saturday month loan period will be in terest free, AABOG President plan student discounts Blaise Brucato said. "The Black Culture Week emphasizes purpose of this will be to allow students extra time for By ALAN MARCUS ner said a buyers guide will either repaying or for obtain Of lis* Hurncana Staff be printed with all participat ing permission to renew the Almost 800 local business ing stores indexed according identity of blacks in white culture to the services they provide. loan," he said. By LESLIE TANNENBAUM gram will emphasize the ac UM. Black Culture Week establishments have respond Ol Tha Hurrlcana Staff complishments of Blacks in gives an identity to those ed favorably to USBG's pro "A small charge will give Renewal will be permitted Medicine, Law, Business, the black people who have a ten posed student discount the student a buyers guide Plays and activites de a maximum of three times at signed to give blacks an Social Sciences, Sports, En dency to be absorbed into the union. The discount union and card lhal will be honored the discretion of the loan tertainment, the Military and while culture would offer students reduced by participating stores," he "identity" in a primarily fund administrator for stu white school will highlight Politics said Mona Lecey, With an "International" pricesat member stores, said. Each store will have a dents with extenuating cir Black Culture Week worker. emphasis, it also hopes to decal showing their union Black Culture Week, running Cabinet member Andy cumstances, Romkey said. In through April 13. point out the "Black way ot Meyer said 99 per cent of membership. the case of outstanding loans Lecey sajd in a predomi In its sixth year, the pro nantly white school such as See page 2, col. 1 "the initial response of the (iardner said he hopes to which have not been repaid contacted stores has been fa prove to students that they or renewed during the one vorable." are both a powerful econom week interest free period, a Although the amount of ic and strong political force. four per rent Interest charge Hurricane editor applications available each store's discount is un "Since students and govern shall commence with the be known, Meyer said there will ment can work together to ginning of the sixth week. Applications are now being accepted for ricane business office, room 221 in the Stu be a five to 18 per cent dis achieve a discount union it Editor and Business Manager of the Hurri dent Union. The deadline for filing is 5 p.m. count per store, possibly in shows we can have a voice in The loan fund administra cane. Interested students must be full time cluding stores on Miracle local and county politics." tor will be Edna Pedersen. undergraduates with at least a 2.0 cumulative Wednesday. All applicants musi he screened Mileand in Dadeland. Meyer hopes to have the assistant director for Finan average by Hurricane adviser George Southworth For USBG President Ken Gard program operating by fall cial Aid Operations, Romkey Applications can be picked up in the Hur an appointment, call 284-2265 2 THE MIMtl HURRICANE Tue,.. April 8. 1975 Mexican medical school to recruit Cuban students ByGUSPUPO In order to be eligible for the interview1, it is necessary with the purpose <if saving Ihe Cuban pre-med studenls ih, Of Tne Hurricane StafS for the student to have completed the necessary courses re money and inconvenience of a trip to Mexico. quired for entrance to any school of medicine in the United Students Interested in the program must v rite Federation of Cuban Students, P.O. Box 248206, Coral Gal • Cuban pre-medical students will have an alternative to States or one year of organic chemistry, one year of physics, Florida 33124. the L'M School of Medicine within two weeks. and one year of biology or anatomy. A deposit of $1,000 is required and may be mailed to letters must i • • lal davs prior to thi " I l OBI April 21, 22 and 23, the Director of Admissions for Mexico after the interview, but the University of GuRdRlajara interviews. the School of Medicine at the University of Guadalajara, Mex will not process any application until the money hai been re "Being a prettied sludent myself, I know how inn, ico, will interview Cuban students interested in studying med ceived wracking Ihe selfi tion ot a school of medicine can be." Palo icine at Guadalajara. According to Palomo, Cuban students do very well in mo said. According to the former president of the UM's Federa Guadalajara and feel "quite comfortable" because of the ami- Although the I niversity of Guadalajara used to chargi tion of Cuban Students, Antonio Palomo, this is an "all out" communist ideology both cultures share. Cuban studenls half tuition, at the moment they ssill hi . effort to recruit Cuban students for the University of Guada "We are willing to communicate." Palomo said, "hut it is quired to pay the full prut along with other.students lajara. important for the students to understand lhat the federation Palomo said tuition is $4,000, comparable to thai of the Palomo said Cuban students in Guadalajara have proved neither approves or disapproves of this program. UM's School of Medicine. themselves by excelling in scholastics and conduct. "Although, it's a nice opportunity, the Federation of Despite the cost, Palomo says Guadalajara could he w hat "There has not been a single incident of problems with Cuban Students is nol rallying for people to go." many Cuban pre-med studentsare looking for. tbe law between Cuban students and Guadalajara authori- Palomo emphasized lhat the visit by the director of ad IB>»," PaJomo said.