Will Turn UM Upside Down Have a 3.5 Cumulative Aver Age Or Above
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16 Credit Ceiling Remains For Most Exclusive Overload Henry King Stan ford {.jives his Views of Pricing the film, The Godfa itrrtnt ther, page 7. Vol. 17 !No. 51 Friday, May 19, 1972 Unaltered By COLLEEN JOYCE Of The Hurricane Stalf UM President Henry King Stanford has announced that the 16 credit ceiling will re main for the majority of stu dents and the level of over load credit pricing will re main at $58 per credit for the Task Force's 'Minor Revisions' 1972-73 academic year. Earlier in the semester, the Dean's Council had recom- =5 mended to the President's Cabinet that the credit limit remain at 16 credits except for full-time students who Will Turn UM Upside Down have a 3.5 cumulative aver age or above. If the proposal had beet By JOHN REILLY Even though a majority of the members of the Task accepted, those students Hurricane enter UNIVERSITY Force agreed that existing decision making processes in would be allowed to take up One member of ihe group spent his time creating the University are basically effective and that necessary to 18 credits, including honor Grecian urns from slyrofoam coffee cups but it did not TASK or desirable improvement can be accomplished with students and students en prevent him and 89 others from completing an 82 page only modest revisions the Task Force seemingly did not rolled in SUMMON. manual on "How to govern a large, complex universi stop with "modest revisions." The decision was made ty-" FORCE What the Task Force proposed was a University after careful study and con Known as The President's Task Force For Univcrsi- community bound together in a unicameral body for the sideration by the Dean's ty Governance, the panel was charged by UM President most effective "representation of the entire university Council, the Budget Commit Henry King Stanford "to study the organization and ON GOVERNANCE community." tee and the President's Cabi processes of decision making below the level of the How the Task Force came to this decision (includ net. Board of Trustees in the University of Miami and to ing all the ramifications of it) is a complex story. make recommendations for necessary or desirable revi REPORT The main problem cited was the delegation of au Tht charges of $58 per sions." thority and responsibility by the Board of Trustees to credit will be effective for all In his charge to the Task Force President said, "In -Graphics By TOM MINOR the President of the University in the By-Laws of the undergraduate students at 17 your study you shall be guided by the necessity to: •University and to the faculty in the Faculty Charter. or more credits in Arts and Dr. Stanford instructed the Task Force not to at 9 Provide administrative leadership in the com To solve this problem the Task Force recommended Sciences, business adminis tempt a managerial survey to evaluate operations for ef plex organization of a modern university such as ours a restatement of Article III of the Faculty Charter. tration, and education and at ficiency and economy, "for, while valuable, this would • Determine and evaluate the role of the adminis "I he revision provides for a recognition of the President 19 or more credits in engi involve a consideration of minutiae." tration, faculty and students respectively in accordance as holding primary authority and responsibility for the neering, music, and nursing. with their respective responsibility, knowledge, interests Meetings Began Sept., 1970 operation of the University. It provides, further, howev and expertise The Task Force began its organizational meetings er, that the President may and docs delegate authority It was also agreed that the # Determine which decisions should be made at on Sept. 16, 1970 and began its inquiry by inviting all and responsibility to the faculty or other members of method of academic overload the level of the individual school or division and which members of the university community to discuss their the University Community." pricing would be reviewed at a higher level representative of the several schools or respective participation in existing processes of gover during the 1972-73 fall se divisions." nance and to make recommendations for revisions. Continued On Page 2 mester as to whether it be "continued, revised, or elimi nated as a continuing Univer sity policy in future years." In response to the decision, Norm Manassa, director of the SUMMON program said, All tlousina Areas Covered "Regarding the SUMMON program, I don't think this decision on the part of the administration comes as a surprise to anyone. The ad Drug Use Attitudes Studied ministration of this Universi ty has a well earned rcputa- Continued On Page 6 By ERIC BALOFF, over Ihe use of drugs. A con- *mgji$fg(0tMLW^ JEFF BLOOM c e r t e d effort is being And DEBBIE SAMUELSON 9 "launched in this country Ol Ttie Hurricane Stall today to educate the parents Today's poll, the last of If cane of future generations. How the year, is devoted entirely ever, it could be imagined to determining the attitudes that lack of knowledge of of UM students towards drug parents over the last twenty use and drug abuse. Opinion yean regarding drugs led to Covering all housing areas, the wide usage experienced students off campus, stu on college campuses. dents interviewed personally in the area of the Whitten Poll Students polled felt that Union, and students called peer influence did not lead randomly through the use of them down the path of drug the student directory, a total use, while at the same time, of 200 were polled. anti-drug laws with alcohol Does your use of drugs a majority felt that curiosity Norm Manasa nine-month, $2,000 vacation and get back prohibition of the late occur habitually, often, occa played an important role in Here's how it went: a a a rCSpilllds to work up north. As your vacation rapid 1920's? sionally, rarely, never? "getting into" drug use. 'Sea' You! ly draws to a close, so does your favorite Does parental pressure in YES NO UNDECIDED HABITUALLY OFTEN vacation publication, the Hurricane. While fluence your use of drugs of 69% 23% 8% 42% 48% Also, social influence, in Yes, students it's that time of year again. this is our last publication of the semes a non-medical nature? Does beer influence affect NEVER general, had an affect on the Summer is here and we must kiss good ter, you can bet that we'll be back in the YES NO UNDECIDED your use of drugs? 10% use of drugs according to 5 SBG bye to the beautiful shores of sunny South all to bring you all the news that gives us 20% 71% 9% YES NO UNDECIDED Would you rate drug usage those polled. Florida. It's time to go home from our fits. —Hurricane Photo by SUNSHINE Do you equate present 31% 59% 8% as an important political Although many have called Did curiosity about drugs question? college students a "defiant have an affeartt on your initia YES NO UNDECIDED generation," most students Senators tion into drug cultures? 83% 14% 3",', indicated that defying drug YES NO UNDECIDED Do you feel marijuana laws was not a reason that Truck Termination Threatened 71% 21?,', 8",', should be classified in a man they began using drugs. Did social influence affect ner not related to hard nar Resign By JIM HOLLANDER program had been 'intensively" discussed and "tentatively" your use of drugs? cotics? Many doctors and politi Hurricane Reporter rejected. YES NO UNDECIDED YES NO UNDECIDED cians theorized that escapism Five newly elected Sena Truck Magazine has received All-American honors this 60",', 32",', 1% n% 7",-, i"/, and disillusionment were the tors have resigned from the year and is in contention for the coveted Pacemaker Award Mr. Sheeder suggested that possibly funds currently allo Did defiance of drug laws If you were a "non-user," reasons behind the increase Student Body Government along with five other top collegiate journals. cated to the Hurricane and Ibis might be reappropriajted to have an affect on your use of would you object to the use in drug use. However, a ma this past Monday at the third save Truck, but he said that, "Dr. Butler makes the final deci drugs? of drugs by other persons? jority of UM students dis Senate meeting, in protest However, the student publication is threatened with ex sion." YES NO UNDECIDED YES NO UNDECIDED agreed. of the election of Kevin Pop- termination by the Student Activity Fee Allocation Com 26% 67% 7% 9°;, 89";, 2% plcman as Speaker of the mittee. Ihe American Collegiate Press, which handles the rat Did social disillusionment Do you keep your feelings An earlier drug poll this Senate. Bill Sheeder, Student Union director, said that a final ings, said that Truck was "truly a magazine for the students, or escapism have an affect on drug usage a secret from year revealed that 73% of "I sincerely feel that this meeting will be held tomorrow night to review a preliminary with something for everyone." on your use of drugs? your parents? UM students used drugs on a body of the Student Govern decision to oust the magazine. YES NO UNDECIDED YES NO UNDECIDED frequent basis. The figures ment (the Senate) has done "Costs have gone through the ceiling," Mr. Sheeder said, "Day is Night" a photo essay in their January edition, 38% 58% 4"„ 33",', 56% 11% revealed in today's poll re nothing, will do nothing, and "and activity fees have not gone up correspondingly." won second place in the southeastern division including pro Does the use of drugs en Students here revealed mained virtually the same.