Miami Hurricane, March 24, 1981

              election Commentaries
see CDITORIALS page 4
Volume 57, No(4& <-i ^
Tuesday, March 24, 1981
Phone 284-4401
By PETER S. HAMM and MARK A. WOOS 1ER
Of The Hurricane Staff
UM	Puts Best‘Foote’ Forward
By HARRY H. RIMM
Editor-Emeritus
Proclaiming that “we have a home run hitter in this man," University of Miami Board of Trustees Chairman Janies McLamore introduced Edward Thaddeus “Tad" Foote II as UM's fourth president.
Foote, who will succeed the retiring Dr. Henry King Stanford July 1st after 19 years of UM presidency, is former Dean of the School of Law at Washington University.
While earning his law degree at George-
town University, he was a reporter for both the Washington Star and the Washington Daily News.
At a press conference yesterday afternoon at the Omni International Hotel, he mentioned his experience as a jornalist and told members of the press that he is "deeply honored and humbled to be the next president.
"In my opinion, there is no University, public or private, that has the opportunity to make more strides towards outstanding excellence than the University of Miami.
I have confidence in this University which I've been given the opportunity to lead," Foote
emphasized.
Foote has held many positions in both the public and private sectors since his graduation in 1966 from Law School, ranging from an associate in a prominent St Louis law firm to Special Advisor to the Chancellor and Board of Trustees at Washington University .
Concluding his remarks. Foote said "1 make only one promise to all of you and that is to do the best that I can as President of the University of Miami.
The Hurricane«'!// publish un indepth inter view with Foote in un upcoming issue.
Business School Loses $200.000:
Communications Chairman. Business Doan Leave: Wallon Claims Foul On l niversilv
By PETER S. HAMM
Managing Editor
UM is losing both its Business School Dean and the Chirman of the Communications Department.
Dean Gary Walton, the 39-year old "jogger” dean who came to Miami slightly over a year ago, is leaving for the University of California at Davis, apparently after struggling with
i the administration for more ; funding to the new school.
Elden Rawlings, Communications department chairman who also came to UM a year and a half ago, is moving to Oklahoma to take the directorship of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Oklahoma.
Walton told area press that he was leaving because the Univer-j sity and Dr. Stanford had failed
Hurricane Elections
Elections for the positions of editor and business manager of the (•all semester's Miami Hurricane will be held tomorrow in room 207 of the Student Union Applications can be picked up in room 221 of the Student Union from Hurricane staff coordinator Arlene Watts during regular business hours. Applications are due tomorrow at noon All applicants must have at least a 2.5 cumulative grade point average and be screened by Hurricane advisor George Southworth. Applicants must present a five minute speech to he Board of Student Publications tomorrow at 3 p.m.
to meet the commitments he says they made when he came here.
Walton said that the committment agreed upon was that the school's budget would be increased 13 cents per tuition dollar. The amount that would go to business, Walton told reporters would go from 37 cents out of every dollar to 50 centd per dollar.
Stanford commented on the situation by revealing that, in the fourteen months since Walton took over, the School of Business has run up a $200,000 deficit. He further stated that there was never any guarantee that financial considerations would be definite. The letter’s qualifying statement read, "... While this is our hope and expectation, it can by no means be considered an unqualified commitment."
Stanford told the Miami Her-
t
aid, "we haved placed a freeze on expenditures and 1 am hopeful that we can turn the deficit around.”
Walton wanted to use the additional funding for an improvement in faculty. He was interested in recruiting "star" faculty members. The only way to do that was to pay higher salaries.
Walton came to UM from Washington State University late in the fall of 1979.
Rawlings says that he is going to the University of Oklahoma for both personal and professional reasons. He is a native of Oklahoma, and told the Herald that one reason that he is going is to look after his mother.
Before coming to Miami in the summer of 1979, he was chairman of the Journalism department of Texas Christian University.
For the first time in UM history, there may be no winners in the Undergraduate Student Body Government elections for president, vice president, treasurer and senate
The top rival parties for those positions in I SHU. C.A.l'.S 1 and ACTION, accumulated more than the allowed nine penalty points for infractions of Elections Commission rules regarding campaign practices This has been followed by serious accusations of unethical politics
The only candidate who does not face disqualification is Roger Paul, running independently for the Student Entertainment Committee (SI C)
As of Sunday night, ACTION had 1 I points and C A I SI. had 10. Both arc appealing those points. A meeting of the t SBG Supreme Court was scheduled for Monday evening, starting at 5 p.m., to hear all final appeals. This meeting will decide whether either or both tickets are disqualified.
Sources on the interpretation of the USBG Constitution revealed that, if the election were to be thrown out, current President Alan Rubin would remain president until he graduated If and when he graduates. Vice President Marina Angle-ton would become president until another election is held in the fall semester.
If Angleton took over, she would appoint a vice president. The current treasurer. Bill Mullowney, running for president on the ACTION ticket, would remain in office, regardless.
Graduating senators in the l SBG Senate would be replaced by new senators appointed by the executive cabinet.
Sally Ehm, chairman of the Flections Commission, said that there would probably he an election next October tor the offices not filled by the problems with this election. But when an election would be held would be determined by the Senate.
On Thursday night, the Election Commission gave the two tickets the opportunity to drop all complaints and let the votes cast last Wednesday and Thursday determine the election results. According to Bill Estevez, presidential candidate on the C.A.U.S.E. ticket, his party wanted to do this, but ACTION did not
ACTION ticket supporters believe that C.A.IJ.S.F. supporters may know the unreleased results of the election, and that is why they wanted all complaints dropped. One ACTION party member said. "They know the results. We know that"
Benny Goodman, campaign manager of C.A.U.S.E. denies that anyone on his ticket knows any results "Any allegations like that can work both ways," Goodman said. He suggested that perhaps it is the ACTION ticket who knows the results
Goodman. Estevez, and C.A.U.S.E. supporter Ileana Blanco claim that, from the start, AC TION wanted to make the scampaign a war of complaints and penalties Goodman said that the ACTION complaints in the first week of campaigning outnumbered the
C.A.U.S.E. complaints by probably ^
"ten to one "
C.A.U.S.E. believes that either side in an election has the ability to get the other disqualified. "The three days of campaigning give both sides ample opportunity to load up enough complaints to disqualify each other," said Blanco
Estevez claims that ACTION knew it would not lose in such a battle, for if both sides were disqualified, Angleton would take office as president. Estevez said that Angletein is an AC I ION supporter; she ran on the UNIVERSITY ticket with Mullowney and Rubin last spring l-su-vez F lieves that Angleton would appoint mostly ACTION people to tin gnvern-ment, which would serve at least through the fall
"That means another five months of '50s dance-s and battles of the bands," said Goodman "If that's all the students want, that's e has But I don't think that’s all the- students want."
"It's gone beyond party line’s at this point," said I-stevez "If you voted for ACTION, their intention was to invalidate the- election from tin-start. The peeeple whe) voted have had no s.ev in whee is going to represent them."
"The failsafe system is already set." continued Estevez I saw Alan Rubin do more work in one night ¡Thursday! than in a war in the Senate. He and Armando | Rodriguez, Speaker of the Senate .end ace en ding to Estevez. an ACTION supporter| were there- checking the constitution to make sure it was airtight, that there is no alternative, and th*-re isn't. Just the Supreme Court."
"That's ridiculous Totally untrue," said Mullowne y when infeirmed of the C.A.U.S.E. charges
"First of all." Mullowney said, "the ACTION ticket is new this year. There's a lot of good in student government, and a lot that needs to be improved. I started the ACTION concept with this in mind." Mullowney said
Angleton also rejected any accusations of a v-t-up " That is such a ridiculous statement,” she said "I take mv job very seriously I'll do what’s best for the students if and when the situation arises " Angleton said
ACTION campaign manager and last year's l SBG vice president Robin Wilson said. "The last thing in the world that Marina Angleton wants to be is USBG president. If she- wanted to be president, she would have run."
"While we were discussing our options un Thursday night |." said Estevez, "I said 'Bill, do you think it's a service to the students to have no president?' "
Mullowney feels the students would hav e been done a greater disserv ice if all complaints had been dropped. "The Elections Commission has a set of rules that they abide by for the election," said Mullowney "To throw these out the window to get the immediate results of an election, which is not constitutional. I think that hurts the students The students deserve and the students demand the most qualified people to represent them in student government, and play ing by the rules is one way to get thu qualified people out there
"There were complaints filed My attitude was to let the Elections Commission do the job it was supposed to do To compromise here would set a dangerous precedent for a term in office I refuse to compromise in any matter in which the students' best interests are at stake
"Whatever happens there will he people in there |student govern mentj working for the students," said Mullowney
The Point Breakdown
CAUSE:
« 3 points for misrepresentation of views of Public Safety Director Joseph fre-chette
•	2 points for party member campaigning before formal opening
» 1 point for wearing t-shirt off campus t> 2 points for wearing C.A.U.S E. shirks before graphic campaigning.
• 1 point for poster not approved by blet io«n Com mission.
•	2 points for misrepresentation of opposition's views on "Friday Flicks.”
ACTION:
•	i point for donation not appearing on financial records
•	2 points for literature not approved by Elections
Commission.
» 3 poin*s for statement made in class by an ACTION supporter.
•	2 points for slipping literature under dorm doors,
•	3 points tor campaigning within 1Ü0 :eet of poll;
•	2 points for wearing campaign t-shirt off campus.
See rage 3/PART1ES
Points End Party Fight