Miami Hurricane, March 25, 1980

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Volume 57, Number 42
Tuesday, March 25, 1980
Phone 284-4401
‘US’ Ticket, Athletics Investigated In Tampering Of USBG Elections
By JANE L. MARCUS
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Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Attorney General lleana Blanco has reported to the USBG Supreme Court and Elections Commission that the athletic department has become actively involved in campaigning for the United Students (US) ticket in the USBG elections.
Many complaints by students have lead to an investigation that the US ticket and the athletic department allegedly misinformed students about the University ticket's platform.
According to Blanco, coaches have allegedly ordered players on the athletic teams not to vote for Alan Rubin (of the University Ticket) under any circumstances. The report also said that the coaches are
said to have provided athletes with false and incomplete information on the candidates.
An athlete who wished to remain unidentified by name and sport said "all we heard was that it would help a lot to vote for the US (United Students) ticket, but we weren’t forced or coerced into it."
Another athlete from another team said that “we were told to vote for the US ticket so that we would be able to keep the $10 donation to athletics ... the coach said on Tuesday and Wednesday to vote for the US ticket."
Another athlete said that he saw a memo from the athletic department to all the head coaches to vote for the US ticket.
A member of the University ticket, who cannot be identifed at this time, said that relatives from Cali-
"We were told to vote for the US (United Students) ticket so that we would be able to keep the $10 donation to athletics ... the coach said on Tuesday and Wednesday to vote for the US ticket."
A UM Athlete Name And Sport Are Withheld
fornia were directly contacted by a representative of the athletic department, because they are financial supporters of UM athletics. They were told that their niece was on the University ticket, and that the party is anti-athletic. The University candidate said that the misunderstanding was straightened out, and that the information the athletic department told her relatives about the ticket’s “anti-athlet-
ic" platform was false.
Athletic Director Dr. Harry Mall-ios said "I asked the coaches to inform them (the athletes) of the referendum." He also sent a memo to the coaches in hopes of getting the memo across to the athletes because "the referendum is important."
"I have approached various interest groups around campus seeking an endorsement from the students. The athletes were one of these
groups," said Bob Knapp, US presidential candidate.
Rubin, the University presidential candidate, said that “I support the continuation of the athletic scholarships and the efforts to gain national recognition for our athletes; however, I feel that the current financial policies of the athletic department put an unfair burden on our students — many of whom are on financial aid.”
According to Blanco, another complaint was that "students wearing yellow and blue University T-shirts were verbally harrassed by the Rathskeller at liappy hour and by Eaton hall.”
Blanco said that the report is under investigation by the elections commission. If the elections commission proves that there arc dis-
will go before the disciplinary board, and. as a result, they cannot hold a USBG office.
However, Blanco also expressed how serious it is if the athletic department is providing the athletes with false and incomplete information.
Mallios said that he has kept away from the USBG elections. In réponse to endorsing a political ticket, he said, "I know of no endorsement. The referendum is most important to us and that's the position I took."
"The athletic department has no juristiction to get involved in US or University campaigns — nor the right to interfere in political campaigns on campus. It’s unethical,” Blanco said.
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Parking
Concerns
Expressed
By MARK A. WOOSTER
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Several people involved with parking at UM have expressed displeasure with the new parking legislation passed by the faculty senate, which allows faculty members to park in any parking area They are especially displeased with the manner in which the legislation was passed.
"I really don't see what the parking authority is for,” said David Wike, director of Safety and Traffic in the Department of Public Safety at UM. "I am one that doesn't trunk the legislation should be coming out of the faculty, which is saying what the rest of the (UM) community should do. Why doesn't the legislation come out of the Parking Authority, which is supposed to represent the whole community. They (the faculty) have members on it too.
"In my opinion, it is not a true parking authority because it has another authority setting up guidelines for them, contingent upon the approval of the president," said Wike.
Wike said the whole community should have a voice in the issues covered in the legislation. "Why can’t a faculty member walk to classes like any other member of the community? I think other members of the community should have a say into whether or not the faculty should walk.
"Also, why shouldn't the rest of the community have their say into what the fine schedule should be?" asked Wike.
"I think that is why the parking committee has been a failure this year, because we haven't had any input into this new legislation. It wasn't brought to the Authority to see what we think of it. So what is the Parking Authority for?” said Wike.
"The main problem is a drift between the faculty members of the Parking Authority and all the other members," said Howard Schwartz, one of USBG’s two representatives on the Authority. The Authority also has two UM employee members, one law student, one graduate student and two faculty members. "The chairperson, Dr. Knoblock, has not called a meeting all semester," said Schwartz.
Schwartz's main complaint centers around the way the legislation was passed. "Last semester, the faculty wanted certain things done that were not done because the rest Of the Parking Authority did not approve,” said Schwartz. “It's a democratic vote on which nobody sided with the faculty. It seems to me that because the Faculty Senate has authority over the parking committee, they have acted on their own without consulting the parking committee, and have basically gone over the parking committee's head.”
Schwartz also expressed unhappiness with Knoblock's heading of the Authority. "Dr. Knoblock owes a lot of back parking fines, and despite this he was made chairman of the committee, which I think is i conflict of interest."
As for the legislation itself, Schwartz believes "there will be too many appeals for the appeal board to handle. The SI appeal fee (which the new legislation abolishes) was intended to stop frivolous appeals.
"I do think it is good that all who appeal will be presumed innocent before proven gu^/y.”
Housing Policy Angers Residents
Mi*mi Hurricane MARK BRANDT
Invading greeks watched Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity perform their version of "The Mickey Mouse Club'' at Skit Night for Greek Week 80 last Wednesday night. At the Greek Ball on Saturday night, Sigma Chi Fraternity was announced as overall winner of the week's events.
International 11 eek Continues:
COISO Gets Needed Funds
By LORI BARR1ST
Mtwi Editor
In spite of the fact that the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) refused to give the Council of International Students Organization (COISO) an emergency allocation of $1,000, International Week is underway.
According to Fahad Yahya, International Week chairperson, other organizations and departments contributed the approximately $1,500 needed to fund the week after COISO told SAFAC that they would not charge their members a membership fee.
The terms of the SAFAC loan
recommended that COISO members would be charged a fee. "And we told them ‘if you’re telling us we can’t have the $1,000 without charging a membership fee, then we don’t want the $1,000 and there won’t be an International Week,’ ” Yahya said.
Yahya said that funds were collected from the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG), the petty cash fund of the International Student Services, and the office of Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler.
"But the thing that really saved International Week was the $600 allocation from the Office of Continuing Studies," Yahya said.
By LORI BARRIST
Ntwt Editor
Mahoney Hall second floor residents complained of a "personal vendetta” on the part of complex director Kevin Keltz in conjunction with the prohibition on housing confirmations which went into effect last week.
The floor residents were prohibited from confirming next year’s housing assignments until they aided in an arson investigation. In addition, several of the residents were interviewed by UM Public Safety and asked to take tie detector tests.
Even though the majority of the floor residents will be allowed to register for housing Wednesday and Thursday, the students are far from pleased — especially upon learning that saveral of the students were able to sign up despite the housing order.
There have been 16 fires in Mahoney in the past three weeks, concentrated on the second and seventh floors. While there have been no leads in the seventh floor investigation, Keltz and George Shoffner. director of residence halls, feel that the second floor residents know who is responsible for the fires on their floor.
"It appears fairly clear that folks on the floor are aware that other folks on the floor have been setting those fires," Shoffner said.
Keltz said he is certain that “they know who is responsible for those fires."
However, interviews with more than 25 of the residents indicated that no one knows who set those fires, and that if they did, in the
The money received from Continuing Studies will be used to promote Study Abroad. International Student Services will offer counseling and advising to any student
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Where fa Go To Vote:
The following are the locations to vote for President, Vice President and Treasurer, along with the Senators from your school or division.
In the Breezeway: Students from Arts and Sciences, Business, or undecided.
Memorial Building near S100: Students of the Schools of Education and Engineering and Architecture.
By the Rathskeller: Students from the School of Music and Continuing Studies.
Smith Sheds Light On Economy
By AMY JACOVES
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Howard K. Smith, renowned broadcast journalist from ABC television, appeared on campus Thursday night in Brockway Lecture Hall.
In his lecture, Smith discussed the problems which are facing the United States, how problems came about and the way the government can deal with them.
According to Smith, after World War II, keeping other natiorts healthy was a "means of recovery" for the United States, and it raised the nation’s productivity level.
"The United States built four national economies the size of its pre-World War II national economy and piled on top of one another to create the greatest productive apparatus any nation in the history of mankind has ever known That huge productive apparatus brought us the greatest prosperity we had ever known,” Smith said.
Smith said that this prosperity "spilled over into the underdeveloped countries" and that "they benefited from the United States.”
“That situation has been changing all the time, but we barely noticed it . . . our allies are becoming competitors of ours," said Smith
Since that time, our economy has fallen and inflation has hit almost every facet of our society including oil, raw materials, and food, he said.
"There was a time when a barrel of Arabian oil cost 25/ a barrel . . . Raw materials have also begun to soar ii^ value , . , Food once cheap.
very cheap, in this country is beginning to rise because of the demand of more mouths to feed," said Smith.
Another problem is the gap that exists between the rich and the poor. "The rich are becoming richer, and the poor poorer,"he said.
Smith feels that the alienation of the poor from the rich is a direct result of the crisis of the American hostages in Iran.
"That is purely based on the resentment of poor people in a poor country for a rich, conspicuous nation. Remember, the Iranians did absolutely nothing when the Shah was in Mexico and they did nothing about his being in Panama, but when he came to the rich United States, they blew up . . . that is a direct result of that gap," said Smith.
Smith said that one of the reasons for inflation is that the Ameri-
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can people have gone into debt. Many people have borrowed money from banks and used credit cards, spending money they don't have, he said.
"The American people are wav out on a limb of debt. The result of that is inflation,” cited Smith.
Another serious problem facing the nation, according to Smith, is that "we've ceased to be the inventive people we were.”
“We can't compete with other nations, not with our productivity not rising; we're not modernizing our industry; other nation's are. and that's a big source of our inflation." Smith said.
“We have assumed that the security that we have enjoyed for all these years was a part of the natural order of things. The Russians have taken note of our dwindling security and they've grown ever bolder in the steps they take," he continued.
However. Smith does not feel that we cannot correct the problems which we now face.
"The problems we face today are really nowhere near as big as the problems this country has know n in the past" and they can be solved
One of the wrays to solve the problems, said Smith, is to clean out the bureaucracy, "plan ahead " and use innovation
"We have to weed out the bureaucracy which always grows in every nation," he said.
"We've got to turn on the light of informative planning, so we can see
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words of one resident, "they’d kill him."
"They really think the whole floor knows who's doing it, but we don't. It's stupid to think that we know and wouldn't say. especially since I got bounced out of my apartment because of it," said sophomore Mike Melillo.
"Some of the people weren't even here when the fires took place," said junior Bill McGinty.
Sophomore P.J. Savie feels that he got "screwed over" because he wasn’t permitted to sign up for housing while several on his floor were allowed to. "If we all have to suffer, why not them too?"
Melillo said he was happy that some of the people on his hall got rooms. "Maybe I should have raised alt kinds of hell and then l would have gotten a room.”
According to Keltz "very few" residents were assigned rooms. “Some people were allowed to sign up for floors accidently.”
One freshman said he had to sneak to register. "I went to sign up Monday, told them I was on the second floor, and they said I couldn't register. Then I went back on Thursday. I got a room because I didn't tell them which floor I was on," said the student, who asked not to be identified.
Other students signed up Monday before the housing order went into effect late Monday afternoon.
"Kevin (Keltz) told me I shouldn't have registered because of the order, but, because I already had, it was okay,” said another student who asked not to be identified.
Junior Glenn Siesser said he feels sorry for those who have not registered, because "a very good proportion will have to live off campus.
"I wish I knew who did the fires. My parents won't let me live in the dorms next year because the fires were right outside of my door," he said.
Siesser was one of the 18 people questioned by Public Safety in connection witli the arson investigation. He said he was asked the same questions by two officers. He also took a polygraph test. Another student questioned was asked if he knew any sexually frustrated males on the floor who might get "turned on" by a fire.
Residents were told that, unless they appeared at the questioning, disciplinary proceedings would be instituted against them. The students questioned were either suspects, people whose rooms were located near the fires, or people who stay up late at night and may have seen the arsonist.
"According to the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook, whenever University officials are making an investigation, they can ask students to appear." Keltz said
Tom Gniazdowski said he refused to show up at the hearing and also refused to take a lie detector test. "They think I'm a troublemaker, and. by asking me to take a test, they're saying I'm a liar."
Keltz said that no one was forced to take a lie detector test. “It was voluntary. It also helped us to clear names."
"The reason we are allowing the majority of the people to register this week is because we have gotten enough information for possible leads. Nothing hard core, but from the people we've talked to, it seems
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Hurricane
Endorses
The Hurricane has endorsed a president, vice president, and treasurer in the USBG elections today. For a full analysis on those candidates see the House editorial on Page 4.