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You're Invited To A Wedding! full details on page 9 THE MIA URRICANE Volume 58, No.23 Tuesday, November Phone 284-4401 Miami lit, im. HH- i ' ■ I > 4 1 l\ Spare Shuttle Columbia Took Off in \ Dazzling DWplai Of Kin .nd Smoke Launch Something To Lose Sleep Over By SCOTT E. RIXFORD .ev Writer Dateline: 2300 hours, 11 Sovember 1.98J. Hurricane writer/technical person/keeper of the brain Charles Lavin called me at my home as I was trying to crawl out of a Maytag washer "NASA has cleared the way for two Hurricane writer- to he part of the news media present at tomorrow's shuttle liftoff. Do you want to go?" "Why sure." I said I as I puked lint out of mv rav el. "What time do you wish to leave?" "How about twenty minute • . . m Al one o'clock In the morning, I found mvseif drinking black coffee, eating Pringles. and riding on my wa. to Cape Canaveral. It certainly i.sn't common for a freshman entertainment writer to be invited to cover such a mission during Ins first semester for the newspaper My mind felt exhilarated, my body dead, I would have to have been insane not to go. It seemed I had been driving all night I read the highway sign: I'alm Beach. 20 Hides. I broke down and sobbed. The man in the white suit with the butterfly net wa.s sitting on my shoulder. Mr l.avin was copping / s. and I was desperately in need of No-Doz. I had P-r-'gles caught between my teeth and coffee stains on my shirt. I had learned to hate small cars. • * * • After five hours of flying past the bubble gum boys. we arrived ai Cape Canaveral. Lavin was still sleeping I had bricks in my eyes and a contract with Crayola to produce a new shade of red. After I received my pass, nlinued through the many security gates and ar- rived al 'he press booth The time was 0600 hours i_ November 1981 • • • • What happened between 0600 hours and 0900 houra I'll never know I slept The honorable Charles 1 awn woke me up with his weirds of wisdom: "If you dont get up. Rixford. you'll nns^ i . thing. You can I sleep ihe day away " 1 wished I had a rifle, I I hair, a bomb. Anvthing tn I reduce this person to nothingness I grabbed mv , am- era, my pen and ray notebook, and set out for a media experience, * * . . As cynical as I may have felt that morning — I was capable of stealing a cauldron of money from a Salvation Army volunteer — the remainder of the day would prove to be one of the most exciting days of my life After tipping my hat to such celebrities as David Hartman. Dan Rather, and the writer for a publication in Cat's Creek, Oregon, I planted my flag in a pue e oi earth along the banks of the cape and began to set up Reverend Probes Anti-Semitism By MARIA t. SALAZAR Vewi Writ,,, "We Christians believe Jesus Christ is our savior, but this savior put a burden on us. We don't want those burdens, but we can't blame our own faith. We have to blame someone else. "Since Jesus was a lew. we blame the Jews." He may not think that analysis is morally right, but that's how Reverend Edward H. Flannery. author of The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries Of Anti-Semitism, sees anti-Semitism among Christians .tannery, director of the office of Continuing Education of the Clergy, Diocese of Providence. Rhode Island, explained that view in a lecture ahout anti-Semitism at the i M I .is' School Auditorium last Tuesday This lecture is the beginning of a lecture serial sponsored by the L'M Judaic Studies Program for 1981-H_. According to Dr Helen I agin, director of the program, the series has been made possible through a $12,000 grant from the Greater Miami Jewish Eederation. Addressing his lecture to a main ly Jewish audience, Flannery. a former executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, explained what he believes are the main rea sons for the Jewish-Catholic separation F'irst. he said. Jewish people rejected to carry on a dialogue with Christians, among many other reasons, for suspicion "Jews have alwavs believed 'hal Space 'Shot' Wasn't Easy B) ( 1IARI ES I . I AV1N It has been my unfortunate experience while working for the liurrit iverlng a "big" event out oi campus can be pretty frustrating. Covering the launch Of the Columbia would be no different ... or so I thought Many people ha\e told me on more than one occasion that I am crazy When 1 walked into the office two weeks ago looking foi someone to accompany me to the launch. I again was told what I already knew. Tbe only good place to see the launch up there would be from inside Kennedy Space (enter. 1 was told. There was no wa\ I v. ould get up there, let alone gel into the compound I was better ofl watching the launch on TV. But I didn't want to watch Ihe launch on TV I wanted to be there. I wanted to see and hear It, 1 wanted in shout it for my photo collection So i continued my search The onlj one. allowed Into the compound other than employees of the Center were press representatives. I learned. I work for the Hurricane — that should qualify me. Furthermore, the Story was approved for the news sec tion. Now all I needed was permission lo get into the compound Here is where I thought 1 would come to a dead end. 1 called Kenned) Space Center, and after being tossed around from department to department. I was told that I would have had to notify them ages in advance and the iinh way lo get in was to get clearance from Washington Wow. Washington. Five minutes later I was asking the D.C operator for the NASA phone number NASA referred me to another number In Kenned) Center, and aftei i ailing them and getting some minor paperwork done, we were cleared for the launch And so thi trek began At 11:00 p.m cm the eve of the No\ t George Haj. the official "reporter" on the story, and I took ofl four-and-a-half hour trip thai would get us losl a few times and would send us hunting for an open service station at 3 a m with the gas gauge needle way pasl I After thai we weie to spend another thirty minutes driving around the Cape in order to enter through Gate _. whi ltd be officially given our press badges and given tree run ol the complex Well, almost We were yel to be stopped r various checkpoint-, and turned back bul we finally made it to the press sit. There, al four in the morning, were reporters running around, helicopters taking off and landing (aster Ihan plane- do at O'Hare, network biggies getting preppeel up li ast. and dozens of photographers letting up complicated equipmenl In the far back- grim ml stood the < olumbia on its pad. lit from all directions, waiting And in the middle of it all. ihe count down clocl away, without stopping Without atoppit . lhe sun rose and tried to peek through the cloud cover which was beginning to worry everyone. Thousands Ol lumens were produced by the network studios as they all went on the air. Reporters typed madly on theii portable VDT's Photographers checked then equipment lor the upteenth time. / checked my equipmenl ior the upteenth time The clock counted awa> . less than fiv. minutes less than one minute Thouse ven frozen on the far image of the er, nol unlike all those eyes fro/en every afternoon on the IV sei in the Union crime 2 p.m And the clock counted away 50 si ds 10 seconds .. _ i sei i ind. 3 i seconds The onl> good picture I shot that morning was the one ol the i Ioi k Aftei all attempts to launch thai mon- sti i tailed I bega ■■■ i whether the phone calls, the running around, the 30 hours without sleep had been worth n But when I gol ba, k to ihe office I knew I had to go up again .nd again 1 was told that I was out of my mind Well, evet tied to his opin ion. i _th should nol lavi n nearl) as i leared foi tbe how to gel there, and we knew av i iear i atastrophe, But eports : om NASA wen no help in keeping things , aim and organized I hen a ere talks about further de- lavmg the laum h aiti d Final lo p m m i iuld, NASA see page _/LAl NCH The e\ p of he hectii Alter all, launch, we knew to fill up to my camera It didn't takl long to sei up a Kodak 110 Instamaiu 1 observed. Ihe huge vehicle assembly plant with Ms many-storied doors was more than just a building. It waa America On one side was the .inerican flag, on Ihe other the bicentennial star. 1 felt a stirring within nie I ignored il. It continued My stomach moved, my senses magnified. More Pringles. 1 decided Ten minutes before liftoff, the last hold passed with no complications Everyone was counting down the seconds Manv were pessimistic, mainly ihos, who had Se. page Z/PRINGLES there is something hidden in the |( hristianl agenda " Also, he said, lews think lhe ilea ni trying to convert them is always present in these talks On the other hand, he explained, Christiana also did not want to conduct a dialogue with Jews because of "indifference." This indil ference. he said, ia because ol ignc. ram i The dialogue started after the Holocaust. Flannery said. It was "probably because Christiana felt guilty and became more Christian in the real wav I he Ignorant e suffered b> i tians about Jews, said Flannery, is because Christians don't read their own Bible "The lews are mentioned in the lirsl book of the Bible, denesis See page J/1 H II Rl Miami I n u.-s n R Larry Brodsky's three-yard touchdown catch put the Hurricanes up 14-0 in the first quarter of Saturday's Peach Bowl rematch against Virginia Tech. Miami held on to win, 21-14. The 'Canes, now 7 2 on the year, are closing in on the Top Ten. For a detailed account of the game see SPORTS, page 1 1
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Title | Miami Hurricane, November 17, 1981 |
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University of Miami -- Students -- Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals -- Florida |
Genre | Newspapers |
Publisher | University of Miami |
Date | 1981-11-17 |
Coverage Temporal | 1980-1989 |
Coverage Spatial | Coral Gables (Fla.) |
Physical Description | 1 volume (14 pages) |
Language | eng |
Repository | University of Miami. Library. University Archives |
Collection Title | The Miami Hurricane |
Collection No. | ASU0053 |
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Object ID | MHC_19811117 |
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Full Text | You're Invited To A Wedding! full details on page 9 THE MIA URRICANE Volume 58, No.23 Tuesday, November Phone 284-4401 Miami lit, im. HH- i ' ■ I > 4 1 l\ Spare Shuttle Columbia Took Off in \ Dazzling DWplai Of Kin .nd Smoke Launch Something To Lose Sleep Over By SCOTT E. RIXFORD .ev Writer Dateline: 2300 hours, 11 Sovember 1.98J. Hurricane writer/technical person/keeper of the brain Charles Lavin called me at my home as I was trying to crawl out of a Maytag washer "NASA has cleared the way for two Hurricane writer- to he part of the news media present at tomorrow's shuttle liftoff. Do you want to go?" "Why sure." I said I as I puked lint out of mv rav el. "What time do you wish to leave?" "How about twenty minute • . . m Al one o'clock In the morning, I found mvseif drinking black coffee, eating Pringles. and riding on my wa. to Cape Canaveral. It certainly i.sn't common for a freshman entertainment writer to be invited to cover such a mission during Ins first semester for the newspaper My mind felt exhilarated, my body dead, I would have to have been insane not to go. It seemed I had been driving all night I read the highway sign: I'alm Beach. 20 Hides. I broke down and sobbed. The man in the white suit with the butterfly net wa.s sitting on my shoulder. Mr l.avin was copping / s. and I was desperately in need of No-Doz. I had P-r-'gles caught between my teeth and coffee stains on my shirt. I had learned to hate small cars. • * * • After five hours of flying past the bubble gum boys. we arrived ai Cape Canaveral. Lavin was still sleeping I had bricks in my eyes and a contract with Crayola to produce a new shade of red. After I received my pass, nlinued through the many security gates and ar- rived al 'he press booth The time was 0600 hours i_ November 1981 • • • • What happened between 0600 hours and 0900 houra I'll never know I slept The honorable Charles 1 awn woke me up with his weirds of wisdom: "If you dont get up. Rixford. you'll nns^ i . thing. You can I sleep ihe day away " 1 wished I had a rifle, I I hair, a bomb. Anvthing tn I reduce this person to nothingness I grabbed mv , am- era, my pen and ray notebook, and set out for a media experience, * * . . As cynical as I may have felt that morning — I was capable of stealing a cauldron of money from a Salvation Army volunteer — the remainder of the day would prove to be one of the most exciting days of my life After tipping my hat to such celebrities as David Hartman. Dan Rather, and the writer for a publication in Cat's Creek, Oregon, I planted my flag in a pue e oi earth along the banks of the cape and began to set up Reverend Probes Anti-Semitism By MARIA t. SALAZAR Vewi Writ,,, "We Christians believe Jesus Christ is our savior, but this savior put a burden on us. We don't want those burdens, but we can't blame our own faith. We have to blame someone else. "Since Jesus was a lew. we blame the Jews." He may not think that analysis is morally right, but that's how Reverend Edward H. Flannery. author of The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries Of Anti-Semitism, sees anti-Semitism among Christians .tannery, director of the office of Continuing Education of the Clergy, Diocese of Providence. Rhode Island, explained that view in a lecture ahout anti-Semitism at the i M I .is' School Auditorium last Tuesday This lecture is the beginning of a lecture serial sponsored by the L'M Judaic Studies Program for 1981-H_. According to Dr Helen I agin, director of the program, the series has been made possible through a $12,000 grant from the Greater Miami Jewish Eederation. Addressing his lecture to a main ly Jewish audience, Flannery. a former executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, explained what he believes are the main rea sons for the Jewish-Catholic separation F'irst. he said. Jewish people rejected to carry on a dialogue with Christians, among many other reasons, for suspicion "Jews have alwavs believed 'hal Space 'Shot' Wasn't Easy B) ( 1IARI ES I . I AV1N It has been my unfortunate experience while working for the liurrit iverlng a "big" event out oi campus can be pretty frustrating. Covering the launch Of the Columbia would be no different ... or so I thought Many people ha\e told me on more than one occasion that I am crazy When 1 walked into the office two weeks ago looking foi someone to accompany me to the launch. I again was told what I already knew. Tbe only good place to see the launch up there would be from inside Kennedy Space (enter. 1 was told. There was no wa\ I v. ould get up there, let alone gel into the compound I was better ofl watching the launch on TV. But I didn't want to watch Ihe launch on TV I wanted to be there. I wanted to see and hear It, 1 wanted in shout it for my photo collection So i continued my search The onlj one. allowed Into the compound other than employees of the Center were press representatives. I learned. I work for the Hurricane — that should qualify me. Furthermore, the Story was approved for the news sec tion. Now all I needed was permission lo get into the compound Here is where I thought 1 would come to a dead end. 1 called Kenned) Space Center, and after being tossed around from department to department. I was told that I would have had to notify them ages in advance and the iinh way lo get in was to get clearance from Washington Wow. Washington. Five minutes later I was asking the D.C operator for the NASA phone number NASA referred me to another number In Kenned) Center, and aftei i ailing them and getting some minor paperwork done, we were cleared for the launch And so thi trek began At 11:00 p.m cm the eve of the No\ t George Haj. the official "reporter" on the story, and I took ofl four-and-a-half hour trip thai would get us losl a few times and would send us hunting for an open service station at 3 a m with the gas gauge needle way pasl I After thai we weie to spend another thirty minutes driving around the Cape in order to enter through Gate _. whi ltd be officially given our press badges and given tree run ol the complex Well, almost We were yel to be stopped r various checkpoint-, and turned back bul we finally made it to the press sit. There, al four in the morning, were reporters running around, helicopters taking off and landing (aster Ihan plane- do at O'Hare, network biggies getting preppeel up li ast. and dozens of photographers letting up complicated equipmenl In the far back- grim ml stood the < olumbia on its pad. lit from all directions, waiting And in the middle of it all. ihe count down clocl away, without stopping Without atoppit . lhe sun rose and tried to peek through the cloud cover which was beginning to worry everyone. Thousands Ol lumens were produced by the network studios as they all went on the air. Reporters typed madly on theii portable VDT's Photographers checked then equipment lor the upteenth time. / checked my equipmenl ior the upteenth time The clock counted awa> . less than fiv. minutes less than one minute Thouse ven frozen on the far image of the er, nol unlike all those eyes fro/en every afternoon on the IV sei in the Union crime 2 p.m And the clock counted away 50 si ds 10 seconds .. _ i sei i ind. 3 i seconds The onl> good picture I shot that morning was the one ol the i Ioi k Aftei all attempts to launch thai mon- sti i tailed I bega ■■■ i whether the phone calls, the running around, the 30 hours without sleep had been worth n But when I gol ba, k to ihe office I knew I had to go up again .nd again 1 was told that I was out of my mind Well, evet tied to his opin ion. i _th should nol lavi n nearl) as i leared foi tbe how to gel there, and we knew av i iear i atastrophe, But eports : om NASA wen no help in keeping things , aim and organized I hen a ere talks about further de- lavmg the laum h aiti d Final lo p m m i iuld, NASA see page _/LAl NCH The e\ p of he hectii Alter all, launch, we knew to fill up to my camera It didn't takl long to sei up a Kodak 110 Instamaiu 1 observed. Ihe huge vehicle assembly plant with Ms many-storied doors was more than just a building. It waa America On one side was the .inerican flag, on Ihe other the bicentennial star. 1 felt a stirring within nie I ignored il. It continued My stomach moved, my senses magnified. More Pringles. 1 decided Ten minutes before liftoff, the last hold passed with no complications Everyone was counting down the seconds Manv were pessimistic, mainly ihos, who had Se. page Z/PRINGLES there is something hidden in the |( hristianl agenda " Also, he said, lews think lhe ilea ni trying to convert them is always present in these talks On the other hand, he explained, Christiana also did not want to conduct a dialogue with Jews because of "indifference." This indil ference. he said, ia because ol ignc. ram i The dialogue started after the Holocaust. Flannery said. It was "probably because Christiana felt guilty and became more Christian in the real wav I he Ignorant e suffered b> i tians about Jews, said Flannery, is because Christians don't read their own Bible "The lews are mentioned in the lirsl book of the Bible, denesis See page J/1 H II Rl Miami I n u.-s n R Larry Brodsky's three-yard touchdown catch put the Hurricanes up 14-0 in the first quarter of Saturday's Peach Bowl rematch against Virginia Tech. Miami held on to win, 21-14. The 'Canes, now 7 2 on the year, are closing in on the Top Ten. For a detailed account of the game see SPORTS, page 1 1 |
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