Kenny Loggins In Concert on Patio Sunday Along with PLAYER - Preview in ENTERTAINMENT - See Page 6 Volume M. Niimbor 17 Friday. Oetol>er 27, 1*)78 Phone 2ftJ~M«I Shipley's Jokes Banned Students Protest Action A Hurricane feature last month criti­ avoid having to confront the man. The let­ protesting the Women's Commission's ac­ quing politics and public affairs professor ter also included a threat to stop giving UM tion. Many of the 171 class members signed Dr. Virgil Shipley, has caused a controversy money because of the "shocking" philoso­ the petition resulting in termination of the professor's phy she found to be present on a wide­ Shipley allowed Spear to read the peti­ joke telling in his classes. spread level by Shipley and other UM pro­ tion to the class and Spear stressed that he The article, which only had praise for fessors. She not only disapproved of Ship­ told students they were under no pressure Shipley, cited one of his "risque" jokes in ley's jokes and teaching techniques, she also to sign it, only to "sign it if they'd like to." its contents. After the story was printed the felt that Mrs. G's column, a sex question When the signed petition was brougt to trouble began. and answer feature should not appear in the Dean Fox by it's authors. Spear said that The Women's Commission contacted Hurricane. Fox questioned whether the student had School of Business Dean Kdward Fox, ask­ In Shipley's response to the gripes ad­ been pressured into signing it. "But that's ing that he have Shipley stop telling the dressed to Dean Fox he said, "I find that the not the way it was," Spear stressed type of jokes mentioned in the articte. The joke technique relaxes the class and pre­ According to Spear, Fox said that he had Women's Commission said that Shipley pares them for the serious lecture to follow. been getting a lot of pressure to shy away comments represent a "grotesque and dehu­ This is the first complaint* 1976) that I have from the "Suntan U" image, which he com­ manizing presentment of the women's had from any student ... I believe my joke pared to poor teaching techniques. body." This statement was also mentioned telling has enabled me to establish a rapport The point that Spear and Pachero were in a Sunday Miami Herald article concen­ with my students that is very gratifying. I trying to get across was that Shipley uses trating on sexist comments made to women do know that many students come to me jokes as a teaching technique. "He's a good at UM. Dean Fox conntacted Shipley and, as with personal and academic problems that teacher and this is just one part of his teach­ a result, Shipley no longer tells jokes in they maintain they could not take to any ing technique. The subject (PPA) by itself is class. other faculty member. pretty dry," Spear said.,"It is a question of Shipley said that he used his jokes to "Each professor must be free to develop letting the man teach his class like ha wants bring himself closer to his students and set the style of teaching that works for him." to." a mood for easier learning in his large lec­ Shipley also stated in the letter that he Pachero, a former Italian ambassador ture classes. had won the University's outstanding from Costa Rica, did not think it was the This is not the first time Shipley has been teacher award and had been consistently job of the Women's Commission members, reprimanded for his jokes. In October of rated in the student evaluations as an "ex­ who do not take Shipley's classes, to judge 1976, Suzzanne Matthews, a UM alumna of cellent to superior" teacher. "Something I it. She felt that his remarks were not vul­ 1953, who had two daughter enrolled in the am doing must be right," he concluded. gar. University at the time, one who was in In the 1978 letter from the Women's However, according to Spear, Dean Fox Shipley's class, sent out 100 copies of a let­ Commission, it was put rather bluntly that did feel that the jokes were vulgar. ter she had written concerning the "taste- Shipley should no longer tell his "sexist" "The man (Fox) didn't have any Inkling lessness" of Shipley's jokes. Matthews said jokes. However, it appears that his students that students liked the jokes. I knew we that she withdrew her daughter from Ship­ do not object to the jokes, or if they do find were fighting a loosing battle the minute I ley's class, and that because, at the time, them offensive they do not make it known. came in (to Fox's office). I expected that," Shipley was chairman of the PPA depart­ A recent class petition, written by Jon ment, her daughter changed her major to Spear and Marita Pachero, was circulated Turn to Page 3 MUNCH OUT Rent Soars In Family Homes By JEFFREY M. WEISS Hurrlcana Nasm Wrilar Complaints about safety and rentals in Family Student Housing were highlighted this week by a pair of petitions turned in to Direc­ tor of Residence Halls George Shoffner. The petitions, signed by 17 resi­ dents of buildings 26,27.and 28, were originated by second semester junior Jamie Taylor, 26, a resident of the apartment 26 complex. They complained that the $396 increase in rent announced last June was "too drastic and too fast," and that the lack of a fence between the family housing and the newly wid­ ened Ponce de Leon Blvd. was a danger to children living in the apartments. The rent increase was presented to residents of the 375 family apart­ ments In a letter dated June 8, 1978, 22 days before most leases termi­ nated. The notice Informed resi­ dents that single bedroom housing Miami Hurrlcana, AL FERGUSON was going to cost $165 per month on campus (an $18 increase) and Children Inprolected $145 per month in the University Park apartments across U.S. 1 (an by Ponce increase of $15). Two bedroom April. The suggestions had to be Miami Murrlcatsa KAHHY H. >IMS* apartments are now $190 on cam­ formulated and sent through admin­ Recreation for Life Week featured Blimpie's cheese, and lots of the other great things Blimpies pus (a $33 jump), and $160 across istrative committees before being the street (a $20 rise). finally approved by the Board ot Second Annual Blimpie Eating Contest Wednesday is famous for. When it was all over, Jeff Roth came Solutions to both problems are Trustees on May 31, 1978. on the Patio. Over two dozen contestants munched out as the stuffed victor. Even though he won the under consideration, according to Shoffner stated that future rent Shoffner and Assistant Director increases will take place "on a down pounds of roast beef, turkey, salami, ham. contest, nobody left hungry. Raymond Leightman. mid-year time frame. We will try to According to Taylor, the lateness dovetail all of it at the same time so of the notice posed a problem for that a student will have about six students on financial aid. Deadline months to plan what their costs for applying for financial aid was will be." April 1. The financial aid office in­ Another complaint concerned the corporated the known rental cost amount of the increase, 21 per cent, USBG Week Seeks to Help U for on campus housing into deter­ for on-campus apartments. The pe­ mination of aid packages, and this tition said that the residents "find a By ALICIA CERVERA process was well underway by July great deal of difficulty adjusting to USttS P'.sidanl 1. this tremendous increase. We do Next week. Undergraduate Student Body Govern­ Shoffner explained that the late­ not feel that the reasons given for ment (USBG) will be making a full-fledged effort to ness of the announcement was the the rent increase were justifiable reach out and find out what the students are thinking, result of the lengthy process in­ for such a large increase." while providing some informative programs and fun volved in setting up rate structures, According to Shoffner the In­ times. as well as a late start getting the crease reflects the fact that family The week begins this Sunday with Student Enter­ machinery going. According to tainment Committee (SEC) featuring Kenny Loggins in Leightman, the process began in Turn to Page 3 concert. On Monday, the weekly senate meeting will be held in the lower lounge of the Student Union, al­ lowing students to see their senate at work and giving them a chance to ask any questions they may have about student government. On Tuesday, USBG is happy to host (What else?) a On (he Inside Halloween party at the Rat in cooperation with RHCCC and the Rathskeller. There will be a live band, and door prizes will be given away. USBG is looking Quarterback Joe Mon­ forward to seeing everyone there, in costumes of course. tana of the "'Fighting A debate on casino gambling along Miami Beach •^ will be held Wednesday at noon on the Student Union Irish" meets the Hurri­ patio. That night at 8pm, also on the patio, there will be a debate on Proposition 269 (Equality Ordinance canes Saturday at Notre proposed by gay rights advocates). Bob Kunst will I speak for the ordinance, and Shirley Spellerberg will Dame. Sports Editor JoeBi speak against it. -am The first Council of Presidents meeting will be held Glick will be there .Page 10 at 4pm in S237 of the Student Union.