Miami Hurricane, January 21, 1983

              Volume 59 Number 27 Phone 284-4401
The triumph or Gandhi—see page io
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1983
Miami Hurricane/LISA COOPER
Tete a tete
Malaysian Deputy Chief of Mission G.K.A Kumaraseri met Wednesday with president Edward T. Foote and other UM officials. Here he is conversing with countrymen who attend the University of Miami. “Our relationship with the university has grown tremendously in a very short period of time." said the diplomat. In two years, the Malaysian population at UM has grown from six to 186 students.
UM Up for IBM
Computer Grant
Censorship issue resolved
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane News Editor
The University of Miami School of Engineering and Architecture has submitted a proposal for close to two million dollars in computer equipment to International Business Machines Corporation, The Miami Hurricane has learned.
UM is one of hundreds of colleges and universities to apply, under a $50 minion program of cash and equipment grants announced by IBM last September geared to help universities develop and update their manufacturing engineering courses.
The targeted date for announcing awards is April 1, according to Dr. Michael Roberts, Director of IBM's Technical Support program.
In an interview with the Hurricane. Roberts said that IBM "intends to award 20 complete computing configurations worth in the range of two to four million dollars depending on the choice and the location of the college."
As part of a related grant program designed to help with high technology curricula, 40 colleges have been selected, according to an IBM spokesman.
"This new support program is designed to help universities teach the most up-to-date and cost-effective designs and techniques," said IBM President John R. Opel.
“Concepts such as computer-aided design and manufacturing. robotics and resource planning require more attention in engineering curricula than they are jetting today,” said the chief executive officer of IBM
Saying that he was pleased, though not surprised, at the number of proposals IBM received, Roberts said that it is too early to tell what UM's chances are of receiving an award.
Awards will not be divided geographically, he said, “the area on which we will decide is based solely on the exellence of the proposals."
The grant marks "a whole lot of commitment on the part of IBM to help education in America, particularly high technology education," Roberts said "IBM needs the universities to flourish so it can recruit."
The School of Engineering and Architecture's proposal is asking for an IBM 4341 Computer which would be utilized extensively by the departments of mechanical, industrial, civil and electrical engineering, said Dr. Jerome Catz, head of UM's mechanical engineering department.
“We would use it for basic graphics as well as for pedagological researches at the graduate levels," Catz said.
The 4341 is the same system used on a universitywide basis for academic records. "We do not have anything here |in the school) like this system in terms of its memory, graphics and capacity." Catz said.
The computer would cost approximately $300,000 for installation and close to $400,000 a year for upkeep.
The figures may be somewhat misleading, in terms of actual cost to the university, Catz said, because work done on the computer would also raise funds to help pay for its maintenance.
The university is willing to shell out the money to maintain the system even though President Edward T. Foote is moving towards trimming the university budget in the face of the recession.
“If we don't get a system like the IBM, we'll have to do it some other way,” Catz explained. “A system like that is extremely important to the future of our school and to its growth."
The university will have to make space to house the system, but UM Provost William Lee said he does not forsee any problems.
"There are good problems to have and bad problems to have. This is a good one," he said.
Catz said the system could be housed in the Computer Center with the terminals spread through the School of Engineering and Architecture.
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane News Editor
The summer edition of The Miami Hurricane wilt no longer be subject to censorship from a tribunal of the university's vice presidents, The Board of Student Publications decided Tuesday night.
The expanded issue, which is mailed to the homes of incoming freshmen and transfer students, is primarily a public relations tool for the universiU. that is nut put by the staff of the iTiinTcdnfTn Is the only issue of the paper that is subject to censorship.
A panel made up of the financial and editorial advisors of the paper, a faculty member of the board, and the chairman of the board will review the paper.
In addition, the name of the publication will also be changed, thus giving up the pretense of legitimate journalism in favor of public relations.
The decision thus put to rest, at least temporarily, is one of the long-standing controversies about the amount of control the administration will exercise on the summer publication.
Following a series of changes instigated by a screening panel last summer, the Hurricane staff called for an end to the censorship or an end to the mailaway itself.
“I may be a minority of one on the benefits to the university but it would be a mistake to do away with it," said Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler.
Making his first appearance before the board in more than three years, Butler called last summer's project “the best we've had ciau I have Deen at the university. It brought out a sense of fine tradition of the history of the university. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water."
Student editors will continue to publish the paper while receiving better pay, as part of a compromise worked out by a subcommittee chaired by Editor in Chief Howard Bums along with the Department of Student Affairs.
Burns said he was reasonably pleased, although not entirely satisfied, with the agreement. His original proposal had been either for the abolishment the censoring process (in which case the paper would not have been mailed to students, but
rather distributed on campus), or of the issue Itself.
"We consented [to this compromise) because Dr. Butler would have vetoed any proposal- that did not include mailing out the summer issue," Burns said.
“Because the paper is going to be mailed out it seemed that there was simply no way to avoid a screening process. If the mailaway is to be screened at least let it be screened hy poftplfl who about newspapers.” Bums said.
"Considering Butler's stand it was the best compromise available," he added with a wry smile.
She has 4only answer’ for herpes
By SALLY SPITZ
Hurricane As-siMant News Editor
Twenty million Americans in the United States have herpes. At the present time, there are no cures for this contagious disease. But Sandy Farris, a Miami human resource
Farris has begun a program called “The Only Answer,” an introduction service for herpes victims. She said that people who have herpes can come to the center and
share their stories with other victims.
There are two different types of programs that the center offers for the individual. One involves a six month membership for $300, which includes many sessions and introductions. The other program is for four weeks for $60 which involves support groups for the individuals.
F'arris became involved in this program because she felt "a big need for this in the community." At the present time, there is no federal
funding from the government; a problem that F'arris said she is planning to confront in the near future.
“I am also working with physicians in the community about herpes," she said. She added that these support groups are designed to place the victims in an "acceptable social environment.”
Farris’ service has been in progress for three weeks and has attracted 25-30 members. Her office is located in the Kendall West Executive Center. Suite 232,	8900
S.W.107 Avenue.
UM copies a good rate
By JAN HIPPMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
A unique photocopying service is available on the University of Miami campus and you may not have even known about it.
There are four copy centers on the main campus and one on the Medical School campus, all owned by the University of Miami.
"Most faculty and students don't realize this service is available to them and usually go off-campus," said Chris Daun, supervisor of the centers.
Daun said that for large volume copying demands, the copy centers are very inexpensive and give professional quality results.
The services offered at the centers are for reproducing 11 or more copies of one original. These services include free collating. Stapling is available at the Ashe. Medical, and Rainbow centers only. The charge for stapling is four and one-half cents per staple.
“We specialize in resumes, reports, dissertations and masters theses,and flyers for organizations," said Daun.
Colored paper and business grade
paper are also available for a fee.
For single sheet copying, the work will generally be done in 24 hours; however, for colated work the time required is 48 hours.
A while-u-wait copying service is available; however, there is a 25 percent fee over the cost of the copying.
The centers can also make transparencies for presentations in clear and colored plastic at the cost of 75 cents. Reductions can also be done at the centers.
Daun stated that with the 25 percent rush charge on while-u-wait copying, “it's still cheaper than off-campus services."
He added that the prices at the copy centers are the cheapest prices considering the quality machines used and the professional results that the students receive.
The locations of the five copy centers are, Ashe Room 110, Merrick Room 221, Law Room 113, Rainbow Building (1540 Levante Avenue) Room 94 and Medical School RMSB Room 2094A.
The copy centers are open from 8:30 to 5:00, Monday through Friday, but they are closed from noon to 1:00 p.m. for lunch.
Inside
'National College News’
The latest news affecting colleges and universities all across the country /PAGE 3
‘1982: The Year In Review’
Part one of a retrospective on the top national and international news stories of the year past /PAGE 5
Academics before athletics
A commentary by UM President Edward T. Foote II on why academics deserves topmost priority in the college environment /PAGE 6
‘Gandhi’
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who made the motion picture ‘Gandhi’ a reality, and a review of the epic due to open today /PAGE 10
Baseball preview
The Hurricane takes a look at the 1983 Miami Hurricanes as they try to defend their national title /PAGE 12
Opinion /PAGE <	Entertainment /PAGE 10
Sports /PAGE 12	Classifieds /PAGE 14
Computers: students'’ best	’
(CPS) — Iowa State junior John Sutton is finishing his last papers of the term, hunched over his Apple II Plus microcomputer. Conspiring with a word processing program, he scans his work by touching a few more keys, rearranges a few sentences, and makes some minor last-minute changes.
And when he prepares to turn his homework in, he doesn't collate papers into plastic report covers or pull on boots to trudge through the snow to his instructors’ office.
Instead, he simply tells the computer to send his papers to the university’s main computer. In the morning, his teachers will ask the main computer for Sutton's work, and then grade it. Electronically.
At Idaho State, music majors compose and analyze songs on microcomputers. Art students “paint” with special computer graphics tablets that allow them to create video art projects.
At Carnegie-Mellon University, aspiring poets and playwrights consult computer programs to help them with English.
By next fall, you won’t be able to enroll at Carnegie-Mellon unless you agree to buy your own IBM Personal Computer.
Computers have been nosing into college libraries and offices for years now, and have been increasingly available to students on many campuses. But just last spring, Harvard students still caught administrators unaware when they lugged word processors into class to take finals. Harvard administrators, like counterparts around the country, had to scramble to draw up ways of regulating student personal computer use, which is quickly outstripping the centralized computer centers becoming common at Harvard.
Indeed, with falling computer costs, more and better software available, and lighter, more-stream-iined hardware on the market, 1983 promises to be a year in which micros will begin to change substantially the way students go to college.
“At the risk of being trite, the personal computer will become as much a part of life as the telephone, if not more so," predicts Bruce Schimming, IBM's education industry administrator.
Students are already using computer work stations and their own units to play remote games, carry on electronic conversations, send jokes, and even arrange dates as well as their work in new ways.
Iowa State's Sutton does his homework on the microcomputer his fraternity — Delta Tau Delta — purchased for its members to use
for personal as well as fraternity business.
“We use it for just about anything you can imagine," Sutton boasts. “By spending eight hours of work at the computer, I save 40 hours of study time. And when it comes to doing budget and financial reports for the fraternity, I can do in 20 minutes what used to take days to do manually.”
Like many other microcomputers, Delta Tau Delta's is connected through regular telephone lines to the university’s main computer, as well as to other national computer networks and data bases, allowing the fraternity members to communicate with other computers across campus or across the nation.
Now, virtually every college requires students to take “computer literacy" courses. Most schools now have campus computing centers, and many are installing micros in dorms, libraries, classrooms, and fraternity houses.
Marqueite. for instance, is linking dorm computers to the school's two main computers.
Duke University has installed some 200 IBM Personal Computers in residence halls and other buildings around campus to give students “unlimited access to computers."
Baylor, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, and Illinois State, among many others, are also installing dorm computers.
Students do use them. The University of Oregon has to keep its 15 dorm computer station open 24-hours-a-day to meet demand.
But the idea of making computers available only in certain ways — computer centers, dorm stations, or even in fraternity houses — is fast becoming a thing of the past.
Instead, observers say, there will soon be a computer for every student. And colleges will become “wired” so that personal computers can be plugged in and used virtually everywhere on campus.
“In the last five years the number of computer terminals on campus gone from under 400 to nearly 1000," says Dartmouth computer center Director William Arms, “and we expect that to increase to over 4000 within the next five years."
Dartmouth, like many other schools, is “getting away from the idea of clustering computers together, and moving towards the idea that each individual should have his or her own computer in their dorm or office.”
“And when that happens," says IBM's Schimming. “when you suddenly go to a situation where a student can be sitting at a keyboard of his or her own, not just spending four hours per week on a computer at the library or computer center, then you’re going to see some dramatic differences in the way things
are done. "
In a joint experiment with IBM, Carnegie-Mellon is one of the front runners in the race to become the nation's first "wired campus." CMU freshmen will be required to buy their own computers next fall at an estimated cost of $750 per year, in addition to their annual $10,000 tuition.
"By 1985, our goal is to build a network of 7500 personal computers on campus,” says CMU spokesman Don Hale. “Each student will purchase his or her own computer and take it with them when they leave.”
Drexel University, too, will require all entering freshmen to buy their own computers next year.
“A kid who comes to us next year," explains Bernard Sagik. Drexel Vice President of Academic Affairs, "will graduate in 1988, and will be working in a world that will be totally involved in information and computer technology. It would be an injustice to deny our students the opportunity to learn how to use this new technology.”
Nevertheless, a National Assessment of Education Programs study last year warned that unless more was done to educate students about computers, as many as two million high school graduates would be
without the essential skills neces sary for employment in the “information society" of the 1990's.
But not everyone is convinced that computer literacy should be ranked with reading, writing and arithmetic as one of education's basic aims.
“I just don't think it's necessary for everybody to need to know how to assemble and program a computer," says Robert Kelman, Colorado State's computer science chief. "You don’t know how a television set works to turn it on and watch a program. And you don't have to know how to program a computer to keep recipes and balance your checkbook on one.”
Last spring, moreover, the Committee on Basic Skills Education, a California-based consumer group, warned that many colleges and high schools were being “oversold" on microcomputers.
While there are legitimate needs for personal compu.ers, the group advises, colleges should guard against “computer overkill and the ‘bandwagon effect' being promulgated by the microcomputer industry to put costly general purpose computers into virtually every American classroom."
Miami Hurricane/MARTIN APPLES A t'M
The School of Engineering and Architecture hopes to get an IBM 4341 similar to this one oper-ated by Pete Bartow of the UM Computer Center