University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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UM? Stanford: The retirement date is May, 1981, and I have no intention of resigning before then. Ibis: Can you foresee any more buildings on this cam- pus? Stanford: Yes, I can fore- see a facility for Art, in which we are in a desper- ately poor situation. We need to tear down the present facilities and put up some decent Art Buildings. I can see a new facility for animal laboratories for the Psychology Department. Those are desperately need- ed. The School of Business Administration needs a building of its own. Those professors are housed here in the Ashe Building in cramped quarters. We have, waiting in the wings, so to speak, a bequest that will provide this building. The spot is already allocated for it. That ' s over on the canal in front of the Merrick Building. There is land in front of the West Lab Elementary School, which the University owns. We ' ve been unable to get it re- zoned for parking. I des- perately tried to reacquire the property on which the West Lab is built several years ago. Three times I went down to the Board of Education to try to get the Board to negotiate with us for the purchase on the improvements there and the return to us of land that was originally ours. We needed that for additional classroom space. I was thinking particularly of Art over there, but I lost the battle because the Board of Education was unwilling to turn down the pleas of the parents, whose children are studying there, to maintain it as a laboratory school. I can foresee additional intramural facilities. This new Lane Campus Sports and Recreation Center is the first of several units that we plan to build. We ' ve been talking recently about a North-South Center, which would be comparable to the East-West Center in Hawaii, where there is a commingling of the Asian and European cultures under federal grant. Well, where in the U.S. is there a more likely place for a North-South Center than Miami? It would be a kind of student-re- search-teaching center bringing the North and South of this hemisphere together. Ibis: Would you consider that a fulfillment of William Jennings Bryan ' s original dream? Stanford: Yes. I think we ' ve fulfilled it in many ways. 28

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T Bill Feuer, a senior biology major from Montclair, New Jersey, is an un- usual character in an unusual campus organization. An Environment! Member for two-and-a-half years, Bill states, I get along with the people in Environment! better than a lot of other people on campus as his reason for continued membership. The last thing of any real impact we did was the bottle bill, a Dade County referendum which would have banned the sale of nonrefundable containers and pop-top cans. Florida ' s environ- mental groups really pushed for its passage, but lost by a narrow margin, due to a massive advertising campaign mounted by the bottlers. This year Environment! got an old school bus, which our president, Scott deWolski, had totally refurbished. The bus has two bedrooms, a kitchen, bath- room, and living room. Environ- ment! painted it blue and silver at a party, and they ' ve used it for field trips and parties ever since. We went on an unbelievable trip to Corkscrew Swamp in the bus. With the sound system on full blast, while mos- quitoes were eating us alive, we ate spaghetti ourselves, and even though the engine conked out twice, we made it back . . . even collecting the speci- mens on the way home for an exhibit that we intend to create. Spring semes- ter we plan to have a complete everglades scene with plants, rain, and weather changes in our display case. The bus was also used for a mar- riage, which was utterly insane, and was used in conjunction with a South Beach clean-up, co-sponsored by the City of Miami Beach. Other than that, Environment! has recyclings, they ' re always amazing, operating the largest recycling center of it s kind in the southeastern U.S. Every first, third, and fifth Saturday, Envi- ronment! members unload two to three hundred cars from all over the state, sorting and processing the recyclable materials brought in. Newspaper, cardboard, aluminum, magazines, mixed paper, and glass are accepted. Environment! is the only campus orga- nization attempting to be self- supporting, through recycling. Bill feels that Environment ' s direc- tion as an organization is more control- led by the majority of its members ' opinions than any other on-campus organization. We could use more funding for our projects, such as dor- mitory and apartment recycling and audio-visual presentations on ecology for high schools, but Environment ' s internal structure is okay. The main thing Bill has learned in four years at U.M. is to be wary of pre-meds. The biology department ought to separate honest biologists from pre-meds at the outset of their studies. Also he feels that biology and science majors in general should be made more aware of other disciplines. The University ' s idea of making you take, perhaps, 48 credits of unrelated bullshit courses is obviously not the answer. A more intensive study of only a few humanities would be better. Bill came to U.M. originally because he wanted to become a marine biologist. He was impressed by the ocean, and my high school guidance counselor was a nerd ... he said I could become a marine biologist by coming to school here. Bill is more in- terested in mathematics, literature, and witty criticisms than marine biol- ogy now, and doesn ' t know what he ' ll do with his degree. Doing nothing with it and graduate school seem to be the options. When asked about campus lifestyles, Bill points out, If my room were air- conditioned, it would be great, be- cause then I could live in it. The apartment area is unquestionably the best area to live in on campus, but yoi can ' t live there in the daytime withou air-conditioning. He ' s spent at least semester in every housing area or campus, and says that after the apart- ments, Eaton Hall is the next place tc be. Bill is pessimistic as to whether campus recycling can be fully im- ' plemented in the lifestyle areas, be- cause nobody really cares. Students aren ' t involved with the world around them. Working through Environment! meetings aren ' t always as interesting as our other activities, but Environ- ment! is one of the few organizations that is interested and involved in what ' s going on in the outside world, I and isn ' t solely for the entertainment of its members. You can learn a lot from the files, field trips, and everything. Environment! is an experience worth having. BILL FEUER: ENVIRONMENT! 30.