Miami Hurricane, October 30, 1981

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University Says Goodbye To Public Safety Member
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
News Writer
UM has said goodbye to an individual who led an interesting career with the University which spanned five decades.
David Wike retired from his position as director of safety and traffic in the Public Safety Department Oct. 1 after 13 years with the department. His retirement ended an association with UM which began 43 years ago.
Wike came to UM in 1936 on a football scholarship He played quarterback and a halfback for a team which defeated the rival University of Florida Gators.
Wike has said he remembers that during his college years UM consisted of one building.
After his years as a student were over, the now-famous quarterback began working for the athletic department. He worked his way up to bead trainer and served as basketball coach for two years. The pinnacle of his career in athletics came when he was named trainer for the
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1968 Olympic squad.
By 1968 Wike had lost his enthusiasm for sports. At the request of then President Henry King Stanford, he moved over to the Public Safety Department. Wike saw the turmoil of the 1960s spill onto the UM campus and he had to deal with it, but he also watched UM grow into a fine professional institution.
Wike, recently asked about his hopes for the future, replied: "1 would like to see the administration and students get back into one happy family and to move towards the goals of the new president.”
While some may expect members of the PSD to view activities such as Cami Gras as security problems. Wike says he sees them as expressions of greater unity among students.
After 43 years of continuous service to UM interrupted only for a stint in the military, Wike has said he has great memories he can’t elucidate now. He adds, however, that he will soon sit down and tell a lot of stories.
-	Photo by STU BA YER
Floats, and wonderous displays of all types highlighted the annual Homecoming parade on Wednesday night Traffic was closed on Ponce de leon Blvd. as the parade swept past UM for nearly two hours.
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Runnervlip Look On As A Tearful Nancy Liu Is Crowned Miss IM Monday Nijjhl
No Big Budget Cut, Says UM
By GEORGE HAJ
Head News Writer
University of Miami administrators have denied portions of reports in Wednesday’s Miami Herald that the UM budget will be cut $6.5 million, with $800,000 cut from the College of Arts and Sciences.
According to David A. Lieber-man, vice president for business and finance, that information was incorrect.
Rather, the $800,000 cut will not be made solely in the College of Arts and Sciences, but will be made in all seven of the schools.
“The cuts,” said Lieberman, “will be spread over a large number of areas, will be hardly noticeable and have no negative impact on the students.”
According to Arthur W. Brown, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the published information that $800,000 had been cut from his budget was “totally false,” and he had no idea where the Herald got their information. As far as he knew. Brown said, no cuts whatsoever had been made in his college.
After reading the article. Brown issued a memo to the chairmen of the various departments within his school, allaying any fears that cuts would be made in their budgets.
While that figure was incorrect, administration sources said that $6.5 million was indeed cut from the budget — which totalled $252' million — but most of that cut reflects budget increases that were projected on the basis of stabilization or an increase in student enrollment.
In addition, Lieberman said that $1.5 million had been budgeted for enrollment uncertainties.
According to UM President Ed-
mal cuts in actual services to the student body.
1 he cause of the shortfall in funds was due to a large drop in enrollment. According to Registrar Sidney Weisburd, overall enrollment has dropped 8.3 percent, with a seven percent decrease in undergraduate enrollment and a drop of over 15 percent in the number of new freshmen and transfer students.
The biggest drop was in the Graduate School, which showed an 18.2 percent decrease, while the Law School lost 3.5 percent. The School of Medicine dropped 0.8 percent, while the School of Nursing was the only school to show an increase, 13.4 percent.
These drops in enrollment reverse the trends of previous years, which showed increases.
Weisburd cautioned, though, that the figures are difficult to compare, because the registration process differed this year from last year. There are approximately five to six hundred students who have not yet paid and may or may not actually be registered students.
“It's like comparing apples and oranges," Weisburd said. “Comparing this year’s figures with next year’s will show a more accurate figure.”
Weisburd admitted, though, that there is a significant decline in students, although the figures are not
very accurate.
The causes for the decreased enrollment are twofold, said Lieberman. First, Miami has received very poor publicity lately, and that may have urged many students to seek an education elsewhere. This, he believes, primarily affected the freshmen and transfer enrollees.
The second major factor was the
nancial aid. Although many of the much-publicized cuts in financial aid did not go Into effect, the uncdV-tainty was enough to keep many students away.
Weisburd said he felt that many students decided to stay closer to home and attend cheaper colleges and universities. In the Miami area, for example, Miami-Dade Community College reflected a 4.9 percent increase in students over the previ-
ous year.
Undergraduate Student Body Government President Bill Mullow-ney said; “The shortfall of students is a good indicator that we need to improve several areas of the university.
“These include admissions, recruiting, and especially retention. It means nothing to attract good students if we can’t retain them."
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Head News Writer
A panel of six judges from the Miss Florida Scholarship Pageant chose 18-year-old freshman Nancy Liu to reign as the 1981-82 Miss University of Miami Monday night before a capacity crowd at Gusman Hall.
“Oh God, 1 can’t believe this is happening," exclaimed Liu.
“Do you know what it was like in high school?" she asked. “I was the girl everybody respected because I had a good grade-point average and I was smart.
“1 never consider myself to be ugly, but I never thought of myself as being physically attractive," she said.
“There is also the sterotype that goes with being the senior class valedictorian and involved with student governments and academics." Liu said.
She was chosen out of 14 finalists to become the Homecoming queen and to represent the University in the Miss Florida Scholarship pageant to be held in Orlando in the summer of 1982.
Liu, who captivated the audience and the judges with her jazz piano rendition, said she was both surprised and honored to be named the UM's ambassador.
“I did not really have that kind of confidence in myself” at the beginning of the pageant, Liu said.
“It took a lot of convincing from my friends for me to decide to run," said the black-haired, brown-eyed beauty.
But by the time she was named one of the 14 finalists, she was more at ease, more poised.
"It was because I knew that 1 was going to give it my best shot," she said. “I knew that if it took my best effort to win it, I would. Apparently it did.”
Her charm and poise may have made her a crowd favorite almost from the start, but her parents were
not at first too thrilled with the pageant idea
"My parents are very conservative Orientals," Liu said, “and they thought it was very trivial of me to do this.
"I called them to tell them I won. and I made sure to tell them that I would also have time to study. With them, school comes first," she said.
Liu is on a six-year medical honors program, a new UM program which allows selected students to graduate with a docotorate in medicine in six years.
If for whatever reason the queen is unable to complete her term, 17-year-old freshman Ileana Perez, the first runner-up, will assume her responsibility.
"I did not think it was going to be so much fun when 1 entered,” Perez said. “But it was a totally different experience. I loved it.
“There is no way I can describe it unless you go through it," said the biology major, who performed a modern dance number on the theme of The Amityville Horror.
Suzanne Burkhalter was chosen by her peers to be Miss Congeniality-
“I was really pleased by the fact that my peers with whom 1 spent a month liked me and voted me Miss Congeniality," said the twenty-five-year old French major.
. She called the pageant a success story for everyone involved. “You are not competing with everybody, but you are competing with yourself,” she said.
Four other young ladies made up the rest of the Queen’s Court. Bina Merchandani, who recited two of her own poems, was the second runner-up; Barbara Ferriero, the third runner-up danced to George Gershwin's Art American In Paris; and fourth runner-up June Thomson, the reigning Orange Bowl Queen , performed an excerpt from The Belle of Amherst, the dramatic work depicting the life of poet Emily Dickinson.
Sophomore Gunned Down At Agora
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Head News Writer
A University of Miami student was shot and killed Sunday Night at the Agora Ballroom, where he worked as a bouncer.
Nineteen-year-old sophomore Bryce Wald-man was talking with some friends after work when, according to Police, a station wagon occupied by two unidentified males pulled up in the driveway.
One of the occupants pulled out a gun and shot at Waldman three times. Waldman was struck in the back by one of the bullets and was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood.
"1 have known the kid since he was 12,” said Steve Cutler, a UM accounting major. “He was one of the nicest kids you would ever want to meet. It really was a senseless killing
“He was very clean cut and not involved in
any kind of drugs or anything like that,” Cutler said.
Waldman, a business administration major and a Rung Fu expert, was working nights as a security guard to help pay his way through
school.
“He has got two brothers and three sisters," Cutler noted. "His older brother is going here as a music major. That gets pretty expensive.”
Waldman was also running a private yacht for a corporation on weekends, Cutler said
Waldman and Cutler both has were licensed boat captains.
"Both of us use to work down on the boats together," he said.
“Before I got my license, I was working on a boat and I got him to be my second mate. He was a good captain and a good fisherman.
“I worked with the kid, and we got to playing amateur Jai-alai,” he said. "Before he was going here he was a certified diver.
"He got involved in martial arts stuff, and he was very good.” Cutler said. “But he never got to use it."
Cutler said he heard the news of the shooting from Waldman's brother.
“I was in a state of severe shock when his brother called to tell me that he was dead." he said.
There are two stories concerning the murder, The Miami Hurricane has learned.
One source, who would rather remain anonymous, has said that the police have no suspects or a motive. Another source, also preferring anonymity, claimed that although the police have not made any arrests, there were a couple of suspects.
The second source said that Waldman had ejected a couple of people from the ballroom earlier, and they had gotten violent. The police belive that these may have been the assailants.
Waldman's ashes were buried at sea Wednesday.
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