Miami Hurricane, September 30, 1983

              Volume 60 Number 10
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Friday, September 30, 1983
Florida colleges: something for everyone
By CYNTHIA HUDSON
Hurricane Staff Writer
Editor's note: This is the second in a Miami Hurricane series on higher education in Florida. This story compares and contrasts the benefits and disadvantages of several private and public institutions in Florida.
When choosing a college or university, one consideration is what type of institution, whether public or private, best fits one’s lifestyle. In Florida, there is a choice of schools for almost every need.
Another consideration is cost. Public universities like Florida Interna-iional University, the University of Florida, and Florida State University are not as expensive as private universities.
However, college costs have increased by nine to 10 percent throughout the state according to the American Council on Education. UM leads the hike locally with a 9.8 percent jump from last year in the cost of tuition. room and board, and books.
Higher Education
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
FIU has 13,640 students and 683 faculty members. It became a four-year university only two years ago and has since begun to change its
image.
It has set out to become one of the top schools in Florida, as inddicat-ed by its high admission standards — 1,000 on the SAT and a “B" average in academic courses. It offers 96 undergraduate majors, the most popular being accounting.
It is the only four-year, state-funded school in Dade county. Its students are mostly locals who can’t afford UM’s $7,000-a-year price tag. The majority (87 percent) of the students are from Dade and Broward counties: 6.4 percent are foreign students, of which half are Latin Americans.
FIU students pay $840 a year, and about 26 percent receive some form of financial aid. 6.3 percent have academic scholarships.
A commuter university in an urban setting, FIU is stilt young. Dormitories are opening in January 1984 at the Bav Vista campus and in Januarv
1985 at the Tamiami campus Predicted costs in 1984. accounting for dorm costs, are $4,200.
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
The University of Florida, another publicly funded institution has 25,170 undergraduate students. 90 percent of which are Floridians
According to the Insider s Guide to Colleges. UF is ranked among the top five in the nation for the number of courses offered on a single campus. It is also the largest university in the Southeast
Although it has a good academic reputation, it has fame for being a “party school.” Playboy magazine has consistently picked UF as one of the top party schools in the nation.
There are crowded classrooms and not enough dormitory rooms. Tuition is low, $740, but living and partying expenses add up About 70 percent of its students receive some form of financial aid
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Like UF, Florida State has public funding and low tuition — $840
The university is located on the outskirts of the capitol. which, the In sider's Guide to Colleges says, "is neither for the serious partier nor the serious student."
BARRY UNIVERSITY
Barry University, a Catholic university, is located in North Dade County. There are 3,100 students and 113 full time professors. Barry offers 35 majors, the most popular being business and nursing. Of the student body. 55 percent receive financial aid. Admissions standards are considered competitive.
Debbie Iacono, dean of admissions, says that the size, and the fact that it is a Catholic university, make it appealing to prospective students.
“Everything is on a one-to-one, personal basis," says Iacono.
Commuter students make up 75 percent of the population, since there is only room for 350 resident students. Although the school is small, tuition is high. The cost is $7,500 a year. Room and board is approximately $1,160 per semester
Missing ex-student may have run away
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
The latest development in the case of Barbara ValmaAa, a former UM student who disappeared September 22, is that she may have run away because of a strict family life, according to Hialeah Detective Danny Brown, who ia the lead investigator.
Because her passport and jewelry are missing from her home, police believe she may have fled overseas.
“The major development is that she was decieving her family for so many months on her status at UM," he said.
Valmana was not registered this term, although she had told her parents that she was a student and had received money from them for tuition and books. She had also told them she was an honors student, but was not.
Police and family originally thought she was abducted from Westland Mall, where her car was found ransacked. She never reached her friend's ho- se, where she had told her parents she would be.
“We have a particular destination out of the country in mind," said Brown about her disappearance. He added that they have met a couple
of flights out of the country.
Brown said they believe she has fled because of "correspondence and statements with friends."
He added they are focusing on voluntary disappearance because of a strict family life.
“The mother had a tight grip — the Cuban lifestyle," said Brown.
He added that her parents would drive her hack and forth to school last year.
“Her parents didn’t want her to have friends because they might be corrupt,” he said. “That's what her mother says. My conjecture is that if this is the case, she got fed up."
Ivo Riverio, a student who is helping family members in the investigation. also said that her parents were very strict with her.
He added she may not have been registered because financial aid sometimes holds up those on probation. Her family, he added, is obtaining a subpoena for her records.
The Hialeah police department is no longer expending overtime on the case, said Brown.
"We have spent about 50 overtime hours,” Brown said. “Now that there are indications of voluntary disappearance, we won't spend overtime unless we find something contrary."
Task force: update UM computer systems
By PETER P. PERMUY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
A special faculty task force has recommended that the University of Miami update its entire computer systems to the state of the art, said UM President Edward T. Foote II in a short presentation before the Faculty Senate Meeting on Monday.
The group has met for the past four or five months and has strongly concluded that the university's informational systems need a thorough revamping, said Foote.
The president added that UM has yet to complete the purchase of University Inn, across from campus. It will not pay off the $4 million price tag in a two-year period, as previously predicted, but neither will it put a financial drain on the academic budget, he asserted.
Foote mentioned that this year’s undergraduate enrollment is down by approximately 700 students — the most notable decreases being in the Schools of Nursing and Education.
He spoke of a 1 to 2 percent cut on the academic budget, which would amount to $3 million in a $300 million budget.
He ended his talk by stating that “this year’s student body is the brightest ever” and that UM “is a smaller university than a few years ago . . it is also a better one.”
Please turn to page 2/ FACULTY
ROTC training
A photo essay on the Water Survival Training Camp held near Turkey Point last weekend. /Page 6
Run-around
Getting facts in the University of Miami ia akin to going t hrough a maze with no way out... /Page t
Opening night
The Ring Theatre open* with Guys and Dolls. /Page 8 Band’s eye view
A member of the Band of the Hour describes playing during halftime. /Page 12
ROLLINS COLLEGE
Another high-cost private college is Rollins College Located in Winter Park, it is known as the “Country Club."
There are 1,350 students, of which only 45 percent are from Florida The rest come mainly from the northeast; 80 percent live on campus
The Insider's Guide to Colleges says it is "a rich kid's, preppy kind of place of the type usually found in the frigid North."
Julia Ingraham, director of admissions, disagrees: “Colleges hate it when things are misprinted about us." She says the location.-academic reputation and quality of faculty attract its students
Rollins offers 26 majors, with liberal arts being the most popular The small size of the school means intimate classes and a limited social scene
The Insider's Guide to Colleges says: "Though Rollins looks best seen through a pair of Jordache sunglasses and the fumes of Tropical-blend tanning oil, it also offers some serious academics along with the endless summer.”
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
The last type of private institution is the University of Miami, also high-priced
Although much is being done to erase the reputation of Sun Tan U most publications and guides still refer to it as such. There are 10.532 undergraduate students at UM, and 1,200 faculty members including part-time and medical faculty.
Admissions are not highly competitive. There are 13 undergraduate degrees and 108 options and programs. The most popular majors are in the School of Business
Social life on campus is considered excellent and luxury is boasted by students with expensive clothes and cars. Students from Dade and Broward county make up 45 percent of the student body There are many students from foreign countries. The international flavor of Miami is rubbed off onto the university.
The flavor becomes less flavory when it comes to price. UM costs $7.-000 a year, not including room and board. Estimated total cost is $10,950
To many, the price is worth the advantages that a beautiful campus, fast social life and large private institution offer
Pineda’s Move Surprises Union
Miami Hurricane/AIXA MONTERO
Mile of Silver
Individual students and campus organizations pooled their efforts to raise money for the United Way campaign. Wednesday Circle K organized its first Mile of Silver, a mile-long tape winding through the Student Union on which students could place coins.
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane Managing Editor
The cross-campus move of Joe Pineda, director of the Student Union/Student Activities, leaves a void in the student Union and questions snout who wttt succeed the 15-year veteran of the university who has spent the last 10 years in the Union.
Pineda has accepted the position of associate athletics director for external affairs under Athletics Director Sam Jankovich.
Administrators were quick to praise Pineda for his service to the university.
Dean William Sheeder, the assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said. "The appointment of Joseph Pineda as associate athletic director is yet another demonstration of the sound competence and perceptiveness of Sam Jankovich, our new director of athletics.
“Joe is a person of remarkable and diverse talents which have not only enabled him to function eminently successfully as a student life administrator for the last 15 years, but also predispose sound achievement in this new capacity."
Both the Union's associate director, Jeff Zirulnick, and program director, John Stofan, had kind words for Pineda
Stofan said that “the athletic department has gained a great asset in Joe Pineda."
"Joe's going to leave a vey large void," Zirulnick said "The athletic department couldn't have made a better choice That job was written for Joe."
Zirulnick has known Pineda for
11 years, since Pineda was the manager of the Rathskeller in 1972. He has been under his direct supervision for three years “I’m happy he's nol leaving the university, il he has to leave the Union," Zirulnick said.
A replacement for Pineda has not
been selected yet, and may not be for some time. According to several sources, the university’s most likely course of action will he fo name one or two people to the position on an acting basis until the end of the school year
One possibility being considered is separating the job of Student Union director and director of student activities. The jobs were separate until 1979, when Pineda was named to oversee both. Before then, he was only the Union director
Sheeder said that there is no determined course of action He said he is currently meeting with students and administrators "We are into a think-through stage." Sheed er said, adding that because it is such an important position, he "will not delay on it."
An announcement is expected next week on what will be done, although a permanent appointment is considered extremely unlikely While the Union is operated on an acting basis, there probably will be a national search for a new director.
Pineda has been director of the Union since October 1973. “Next week would have been 10 years," Pineda recalled. He has been with the university for 15 years. He came to UM in 1968 as director of men's intramurals In May 1972 he was named acting director of CSR, then the first manager of the Rathskeller
Foote goes Greek
Lambda Chi Alpha taps president
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II was made an honorary member of Lambda Chi Alpha on Wednesday in his office.
Officers of the fraternity pointed to this as an indication of Foote's interest in the Greek system.
"This, and the fact that President Foote has agreed to have luncheon with the Greeks, shows his support for the system." said Ivo Rlviero, president of Lamda Chi. “As for our fraternity, we are extremely proud to have the president of our university become a member of Lambda Chi and hope it will be beneficial to the university as a whole."
Vice president Todd Payne agreed.
"Obviously his interest in becoming part of the Greek system is representative of his effort to improve his awareness of the system." said Payne.
Honorary members are elected to membership status by the respective campus fraternity, and are subject to approval by the national fraternity.
“Like I’ve told you before, I consider it a great honor to be a part of your fraternity,” Foote told Lambda Chi officers.
Economics Professor Pat Fisher was also made an honorary member Wednesday. Other faculty members include Dean William Sandler and Professors William Heuson. Hank Diers, Jackson Sells. William Shea, and Cecil Marion
The UM chapter, which was founded in 1946, has been recognized twice in the last two years. They received the Phoenix Award,
given to the fraternity with the most improvement overall, and they were awarded the Order of Achievement last year for outstand-
ing campus involvement.
The national fraternity, founded in 1909, has 226 chapters throughout the country
Miami Hurricane/MIKF Bf-i NAVIS
Foote becomes part of the Greek system as Lambda Chi President Ivo Riviero (extreme right) and Vice President Todd Payne inducts him into the fraternity