Library Receives $200,000

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Concerts OCT 5* 1973. j Ml lUHraArRYn//...r.f, •*. Miami-Dade t.oinmunity College'* South (ampus UM Considers New Site ha* already been ap proved by MIHC ad ministration. The new By DIANE RENNICK however, has not yet ap proposal before approving it. would profit Sl.ooi'i Of The Hurricene Staff proved the proposal. Presently, under the pro However, she said, a more site would provide belter Negotiations are underway Miami-Dade does not have posal, UM will pay for the recent proposal gives Dade facilities and more tecu- between Miami-Dade Com the funds to hire performers acts, rental of the 5,000 ca- 2,000 tickets at $2.50 per rily. munity College (south but they have a performance p a c i t y gym, equipment, ticket, without any profit. campus) and the University area, said Kay Whitten, UM maintenance and security. "If we can make back our of Miami that could produce Student Union Program UM students will be admit expenses," Mrs. Whitten a "unified concert series". Director. UM has the money ted free. Dade will be given said, "it will be a good deal." A proposal to hold UM for acts, she said, but lacks a an •filmed number of tickets She said a tarpaulin will concerts in Dade South'* decent place for concerts. to be sold to its students. have to he purchased to because of the Jai-Alai sea gymnasium (11011 SW 104th A suggestion of conces tarpaulin I In- proposal also calls fnr "The agreement should be In an original proposal, protect the gym floor from St.) has been approved by sions "as a service" to Metro police, who regular free bus transportation to the son. made equitable to both Mrs. Whitten said, Dade was cigaret burns. It will be pur the Miami-Dade administra students has been rejected h\ ly provide security for Dade, i oncerta tor i M students. sides," Mrs. Whitten said. to be given 1.500 tickets in chased by Dade. how. The only other alternative, tion. Dade to avoid any damage to will handle a good portion of i oni srti cannot be held at .' ie said UM wants lo iron sell al S3 per ticket. Under I'M will pay them back over the gym floor, caused hy the concert security, Mrs. the Miami Jai-AUi Fronton Mrs. Whitten said, would be The UM administration, out some differences in the that proposal, she said, Dade • period of tine. leakage of drinks beneath the Whitten said. from November through May ihe Union patio, inside sports Read Letters to the 'Canes travel to Ok Editor ... see page (% lahoma ... See pam' 5. urnrattp 10. V Vol. 49, No. 7 FriclaN, Oeloln-r ."J. 1973 284-HO I Senate Library Receives $200,000 Ratifies FPIRG New Books For By ALAN JACHTER Hurricine Heeert.r A referendum which Undergraduates would add a mandatory By LINA TORO $1.50 to the student ac Of The Hurricane Sleff tivity fee for funding a The Otto <i Ritiher library has received $L'00,0O.I tn he •tudent organization, used for the purchase of new books and the improvement of FPIRG, was approved other lervil Monday by the Undergraduate Student The money is part of $500,000 fund authorized June I by the University of Miami Board of Trustees to be used for Body Governmen t undergraduate enrichment. (USBG) Senate. However, the referen "R. B. Gautlei Ir., chairman of the board, specified that dum, which would bene ihe sum lllooatfld 10 the library be used to acquire books that fit the Florida Public The Inirertity Li pertain only to undergraduate academic subjects, and thai brary Committee will each department requesting money to acquire books prove the Interest Research Group in id for thorn," said Dr, Carl E. B. McKenry, vice president of (FPIRG), must now be op+n graduate stacks to v idemic Affairs, al a meeting Monday of the University Li approved by the adminis seniors. They are also brary Committee. tration. Library Director Dr. Archie L. McNeal provided the com- considering extending miltee with a list of suggestions for improving undergraduate "I seriously doubt the weekend hours, creating library ser*. I administration will okay Suggestions immediately approved included: the FPIRG program," a lounge and having a tf> Opening graduate library stacks for seniors Linda Weeks, UM FPIRG *ciencm librarian. sf) Printed library guides. president said. When the Hurricane McNeal said he received most complaints from went to press, Dr. undergraduates who wanted to use the graduate stacks. William Butler, vice He said all hough part of the building was designed president of Student lor storage, the library staff would he willing to experiment. Affairs said he could not "Ihis would entail Ihe COS! of hiring a stack supervisor comment on the adminis and increase student assistance in Ihis area." tration's stand because of a lack of information. The library guides, he said, would help students make better use of the library with such improvements as instruc The referendum was tions on the card catalog system. originally approved in December by a student I •ndergraduate Student Body Government President Scott Anderson suggested the library extend its weekend vote. hours ;nid create I library lounge. However, the Student "The lengthening of staff hours would also permit in Senate rejected FPIRG at extra costs," Dr. McNeal said. that time because of a lack of a clear funding A lounge, he said, would be impossible within the reading mechanism. FPIRG is a student "I have already investigated the possibilities seriously controlled and financed . .," Dr McNeal said. "Ihe Proving Room, now used by the organization with the library staff, could probably serve for that purpose." purpose of research and Also considered was the possibility of having a science li advocacy in the public brarian: someone who would be concerned with science mate interest. Lecture Series Picks Up Steam rial. Under the proposal, "Science students make up nearly one fifth of the student students who don't want By EL VTA H. THOMPSON nouncements can't be made Watergate personality, was including incidental expenses "We can'i afford • small population." Dr. McNeal said. "I proposed last year that a Of Trie Hurricene Staff to pay the $1.50 can ob as to who will appear, booked in the event Baker such as meals and accommo turnout with a limited bud separate science library be installed In Brockway Lecture Hall tain a refund shortly The lecture series is alive because booking agencies cancelled. dations. get," Brodie said. but the idea wasn't acceptable at the time." and well at the University of can't commit their clients too Four days before Ihe lee after registration. I lie 10 member committee I Miami. far in advance, said Dean ture date. Sept D. Federal The Lecture Scries some- made up of five students, Dr. Robert I.. Kelley, chairman of the Library Committee Ms. Weeks said the James Brodie, Executive Sec limes gets (lightly reduced The list of lecturers cur Judge Sirica injoined McCord Ihree faculty members and suggested the establishment of an automated circulation refund of the FPIRG por retary of the lecture Series. rates because it has been rently under consideration from further speaking two administrators, is hoping system. tion of the student activi An example, he said, was engagemenis working through the same Includes Linda Lovelace, "to schedule a leclure at "This would facilitate Ihe checking out of books but ty fee might be an objec the scheduled September ihree or four agencies for Ralph Natter, Lilly Tomlin, Congressman Paul M least ones a month," Brodie would iinnKi • gie.it deal of work," he said. "However, a re booking of Senator Howard several years, Brodie said. tion of the administra Erich Segall, Ed McMahon, key was signed in his place. said port stating the cost should be prepared and investigated " Baker, who was forced to The Committee tries to tion. "But," she said, Billy Jean King, Bobby Fisch The Lecture Series Com cancel because of his work in hook people who will appeal er, Katherin* Hepburn, Jesse mittee, Brodie said, must "other schools have the Watergate investigation. to the whole campus com Owen and Art Buchwald. deal with a $12,000 budget. worked out this Most personalities charge be munity, not only to a small problem.'" However, definite an James McCord, another tween $1,500 and $2,500 not group. Study Says Banks Mislead "*."•:. IMJI! ByELVlA II. THOMPSON interest rales m a "mislead Research Group (FPIRG). By JIM HOLLANDER study program, they are Of The Hurricene Stall ing and confusing manner." The report was compiled, Of The Hurricane Iteff given a choice of various I PRIG said. tO find oul if The University of jobs and paid according to Ihe i ost of borrowing That is the result of a re an accurate comparison of Miami security force has the job and their class. money is difficult to port and telephone survey of bank interest rates could be altered its corps with the tain in Miami because most 95 Miami hanks conducted made m Miami. banks in this area quote addition of four new faces Tom Springer, a junior by the Florida Public Interest I he survey asked hanks — all students. engineer major, worked what it would cost tn borrow last year at the Dade S2.00U and repay in three Casting aside the tradi County Department of years tional blue pants and Traffic and Transporta UF Rat Raided There are three methods of white shirt with the uni tion. He says it would be stating interest: the Annual versity emblem, the new too far to travel to his old The liquor license of the No exceptions ran be made Percentage Rate of Interest patrolmen wear "normal" job this year.

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