Miami Hurricane, November 19, 1982

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1982
Discrepancy Found In Election Results
Miami Hurricane/GINA MOUNARO
Speaker of the Senate Eric Lieberman swears in the newly elected senators at the USBG Senate meeting held last Wednesday. These senators were elected last week during the fall elections.
Author Speaks About Herpes
By SALLY SPITZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
Dr William Wickett, author of Herpes: Causes and Control, spoke Tuesday night to a group of about 70 people in the Student Union’s Ruth King Stanford International Lounge.
Even though Wickett started the lecture with a joke — "What is the difference between true love and herpes? Herpes lasts forever” — he made it clear that herpes is no laughing matter.
Wickett spewed out mind-boggling statistics. He said that 500.000 people In the United States this year will have new cases of genital herpes. Between 11 and 20 million people currently have genital herpes. This type of virus is known as Herpes Type II.
He also stated that 30 to 40 million people have fever blisters, a virus classified as Herpes Type I. He said that this virus is growing to epidemic proportions and by the year 2000, “all of us will have the virus for Herpes Type I.”
There are many general symptoms for both types of herpes. In both, fever blisters or lesions will form in the genital area or the mouth. There may be a low fever. Wickett also said that the lymph glands in the neck and in the groin will become swollen, as well as the liver and the spleen.
The lesions will redden, blister, then break and form a crust, Wickett said. “This is usually quite painful," he added.
Wickett presented a slide show depicting both male and female victims of Herpes l and II.
Although Wickett stated that a person never gets rid of the virus, he did point out that the human body has a remarkable defense mechanism, or. an immune response. against all types of viruses, including herpes.
“The cells are programmed to look for cells that are affected," Wickett said. “They then proceed to attack and destroy them."
The different cells serve various functions. Some become killer or helper cells, others take on the role of a “street-sweeper" or “garbage collector," and others become plasma cells.
Wickett compared the infected cell to a person who is being followed by the Mafia.
“The cell is targeted for destruction in the immune response,” he said. “The immune response plus something results in the preservation of health and that something is probably where our treatment is going to lie."
Wickett said that the herpes virus is powerful enough to bring about an “increase in contamination or in a reduction in our immunity response.” This reduction can be hurried by stress or emotional trauma.
Wickett also stated that smoking drastically depresses the immunity response. Nuts, as compared to milk products, can also be a danger, as well as the sun, which can be threatening to the lips.
Wickett explained that herpes is usually contracted through sexual contact; however, he said, although such cases are rare, a person can get herpes without engaging in sexual contact. Because herpes will live
Business Manager Reelected To Post
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Ada Palles, business manager for the Miami Hurricane and the Ibis yearbook, was reelected to the position for the spring semester at a Board of Student Publications meeting Tuesday.
Palles. a junior with a 3.0 grade-point average, has been with the Hurricane for three semesters. She has served in the positions of office personnel and assistant classifieds manager. She took over as business manager beginning with the Hurri- ■ cane's summer 1982 edition.
Palles said she first became interested in the position “the minute I walked into the business office and learned that the business manager position was held by a student.
"I think the fall semester was a learning process and that the spring semester will be a lot easier," Palles said.
She added that the next semester will also be much easier, since she and Editor-in-Chief Howard Burns have already worked together for a semester and know what to expect from each other.
“I’m really glad I was reelected,” she said. “I think it's

Palles
going to be a great spring semester."
Aside from the Hurricane and the Ibis, Palles also belongs to the Public Relations Student Society of America. College Republicans, Student Activity Fee Allocations Committee and the Board of Student Publications.
Once herpes is contracted, it may take a while before the symptoms show up.
"Somehow the virus gets in the system and lies in the nerve tissue,” he said. “It can stay for weeks, months or years before it flares up.”
Although there is no cure for herpes, Wickett stressed cleanliness as an important factor in preventing it.
He said that if a person is going to have sex, he or she should take a good look at the sexual partner.
"Condoms are a good protection if herpes is only in the vagina or on the cervix of a woman or only on the shaft of the penis of a man," he said.
Wickett stated that there are some treatments used in the past that have not been very effective. These included smallpox vaccinations and painting the lesions with red, blue, or green dye and afterwards focusing a light on them.
He noted that there are many
IFC Holding Drive To Benefit Needy
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
The Interfratemity Council is sponsoring a Thanksgiving food drive to collect canned goods and money for needy families in the Miami area.
According to Mark LaFerrera. who is heading the drive along with Wayne Russell, Willie Orozco and Armando Rodriguez, IFC will be distributing boxes to all the different offices on campus in the hopes of receiving donations of canned goods. In addition, there will be a table in the Student Union Breeze-
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
On Wednesday, the day that the new senators and Student Entertainment Committee members were to be sworn in by Senate Speaker Eric Lieberman. the election results were brought into question when it was found that the number of residential area votes cast turned out to be greater than the total number of ballots.
Although the official election results state that 1384 votes were cast in last week's balloting, adding the off-campus seats to the UM residence hall seats brings the total to 1,519 votes.
When the discrepancy was discovered — an hour before the Senate meeting — a decision was made to bring the matter before the entire Senate, which must officially accept election results. Lieberman explained the situation and was prepared to hold off ratification until the situation was clarified
The Senate voted, however, to accept the results, with only one senator voting against. Jeff Zirul-nick, advisor to USBG. said that there was virtually no chance that the discrepancy in the votes would lead to any change in the election results.
The ballots will be reviewed as soon as the Elections Commission can convene to study wha; went wrong with the balloting.
Zirulnick speculated that elections personnel did not mark the ballots correctly, allowing students to vote for more seats than they were eligible to vote for.
This is one of several possibilities
that will be explored by the commission to ensure that similar results do not occur after next spring's elections, where the competition is expected to be much stif-fer than in the fall.
The only seats that are in question in light of the 135-vote discrepancy are the off-campus north and off-campus south seats In the off-campus north election, candidate Everisto Moseley won by 71 votes In the off-campus south race. Mari-lu Madrigal won by 118 votes
The deadline for filing an appeal by lany undergraduate student passed on Monday, so no appeal regarding the discrepancy will be heard
This was the first time that computer sheets were used for the elections Voters had to bubble in the circles corresponding to the candidates and referendum choice they so desired.
The most probable cause of the error, according to Zirulnick. was that elections personnel failed to blacken out all but the one residential seat students were entitled to vote for in the election. The computer program that was used to count the ballots is also being reviewed to ensure that a program error did not cause the discrepancy, said USBG President Aurelio Quinones.
In addition to the discrepancy in the votes, international students have challenged the voter rolls used, as it seems that almost all the international students who wished to vote did not appear on the rolls.
The registrar's office is currently investigating why the international students were left off the rolls.
Lieberman Approves Parking Moratorium
Miami Hurricane/JEFF GOTTLIEB
Author William Wickett Stresses That Herpes Is No Laughing Matter As He Lectures At The International Lounge
on moist plastic and glass surfaces for several hours, Wickett said, that it is theoretically possible to get herpes from a toilet seat.
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
University administrators have agreed to a moratorium on parking The moratorium, approved in a memo from David Lieberman, vice president for business and finance, means that the “University is agreeable to not eliminating any parking spaces between now and December 1, 1983."
Lieberman's decision was in response to external response legislation passed earlier this semester by the USBG Senate calling for the university to halt the decline in the number of parking spaces on campus.
The campus beautification plan has already taken approximately 100 parking spaces from the lot next to the Ashe Administration Building, a move which enraged faculty and staff members who depended on those spaces. Although the moratorium is effective immediately. there are two parking projects being considered that will
have a temporary effect on the number of available parking spaces.
These include renovations to one of the parking lots during summer 1983, which would temporarily place the lots out of service in the summer sessions, and also temporarily eliminating parking spaces which serve the married student apartments in the nine acres facing Ponce de Leon in order to convert part of this acreage to a parking lot Neither project would have a negative impact on parking during the fall and spring semesters, however The decision by the administration is a change of heart from an Oct. 26 memo from Lieberman to student government leaders, in which he wrote: "Because future demand for parking spaces may change, the university is not in a position to declare a moratorium on the number of spaces . . thus, while the availability of adequate parking is a University priority, and an increase is being planned, a moratorium would not be an honest or prudent response to your concerns."
local treatments which can prove to be beneficial if the lesions are few in number. These include alcohol and ether, plus boric acid and burrows solution, all of which can be obtained without a presciption. These solutions soothe and dry the sores.
Wickett expressed hope that a cure will be developed in the future. He said that in other countries many vaccinations are being tested, but that they are not yet available in the United States.
There is also a great effort going on in the United States to help individuals deal with the trauma and emotional impact of herpes.
Wickett said that the rise in herpes is due to the “changing sexual mores" in our society. People, he said, are engaging in sex more often.
Wickett is the former director of the student health services at California State University, where he conducted a three-year study on herpes. He graduated from University of Southern California, where he also received his medical degree. He has been practicing private medicine for 20 years and has delivered over 4,000 babies.
25 Inducted Into ODK At Annual Initiation
By HOWARD BURNS
Editor-In-Chief
The University of Miami chapter of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society held its annual initiation banquet last week at the Sea Shanty Restaurant. The program was hosted by Betsy Miller, the current president of the organization.
The guest speaker at this year’s affair was Howard Schnellenber-ger, the coach of the Miami Hurricanes football squad. Schnellenber-ger was one of the new inductees.
ODK was founded on December 3, 1914, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia by 15 student and faculty leaders.
The concept of the honor society
is to recognize exceptional versatility and quality in college academics and leadership.
Students inducted at this year's ceremonies were: David Ausländer, Jamie Cooper, Hugo Fernandez, Os-waldo Herrera, Roy Kobert, Elisah Lewis, Eric Lieberman, Ken Lise, Linda-Ann Lurie, Avarian McKen-drick. Marilyn Mower, David Orr, Richard Percic. Robert Remek. Sara Robinson. Georgina Rodriguez and Viril Vipin Tolat.
Accepted from the faculty and administration were: Skip Bertman, Sidney Besvinick, Sharon Clark, George Gilpin, Father Francis Le-chiara and Mary Hope Rowland
William Kerdyk was inducted as an alumnus, and Schnellenberger was honored in the category of ho noris causa.
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way, and boxes for donations will be placed in the sorority suites.
Fraternity brothers will also visit Pantry Pride stores Sunday seeking donations. All the fraternities will work to help man the tables and actively pursue donations.
The goods collected will be given to the Plymouth Church in Coconut Grove, which will then distribute the goods to other charities.
“This is something we can do. relatively easily, to benefit the community and show people we can do things other than have parties," LaFerrera said
The Thanksgiving food drive is a first for UM fraternities.
A Question Of Ethics
The Hurricane reports on a panel discussion held by UM professors on the legal and ethical issues of genetic biology by abortion /PAG E 3
‘Here And Now’
Maxwell Glen and Cody Shearer report from Washington on why business school graduates are becoming flustered about the future /PAGE 4
‘Creepshow’
The Hurricane reviews the new motion picture thriller starring Hal Holbrook and E.G. Marshall /PAGE 6
Bowl Bid Or Bust
A preview of Saturday’s Miami-North Carolina State game, which will decide if the Hurricanes are bowl-bound /PAGE 10
NFL Roundup
The NFL players are hack, and so are the Hurricane soothsayers to pick Sunday’s gridiron action /PAGE 11
Opinion /PAGE 4	Entertainment. /PAGE 6
Sport* /PAGE 10	Classified* /PAGE 12