Miami Hurricane, December 02, 1983

              UM	IN TRANSITION — SPECIAL TABLOID
Volume 60 Number 26
Bowl game tickets
USBG Prepared To Take
By PETER P. PERMUY
Hurricane Assistonl News Editor
The UM Undergraduate Student Body Government passed a bill Wednesday stating that the current distribution of Orange Bowl tickets is unfair to students and demanding equitable distribution to students.
The bill cited that the ticket allocation is in direct violation of the 1978 Athletic Referendum, which established activity-fee paying students as season-ticket holders.
There is little time for action, since the tickets will be distributed on Tuesday
As a last resort, USBG is prepared to take legal action. Attorney Alan Fishman, of the law firm Fishman and Carlton, is on call with USBG President Mark Cheskin if he deems legal means to be necessary.
Several issues are at hand. First, there is the question of what is an "equitable" number of tickets. Some say since 2,400 students signed up for
the student ticket lottery, the same number of tickets should be available to them. Out of 12,500 tickets, only 1,200 were granted to students.
Cheskin asserted that "equitable” is hard to determine because the administration has refused to disclose the current plan for distribution. He said the student cabinet recommended a 3,000 to 4,000 figure. The executive office considers 3,000 to be an adequate number.
A scale for dispensing tickets was set up shortly after UM received its bowl bid, and four categories were established.
Top priority was given to Athletic Federation supporters Next in line were season-ticket holders (there were 19,000 season tickets purchased this year, but they were shared by 3,000 buyers, i.e, corporations and booster organizations). Third, the development affairs office was allotted an undisclosed amount. Students were considered lastly. They were given 1,200 tickets.
In Wednesday's meeting, Cheskin said the student ticket allotment
was undoubtedly inequitable and unfair. He said, "Students have a right — not a privilege — to football games" and other UM sports activities not only because it is their university, but because they willfully pay the activities fee.
He pointed to the fact that, in 1951, when UM last went to the Orange Bowl, the student body received 3,600 of 7,500 tickets.
Vice-president for Student Affairs William Butler advised the student government that the best possible and most positive action students could take was via a “letter of concern to President Foote and Athletic Director Sam Jankovich” which "expresses their disapproval" of the tickets policy.
Butler also said the 1978 Athletic Referendum wasn't legally binding, but was merely "an opinion."
The Senate passed the bill, voting 28-2.
Orange Bowl tickets will be distributed Tuesday. USBG will decide whether to take legal action Monday should the matter remain unresolved
Miami Hurricane/AIXA MONTERÒ
On top of things
Alfredo Gonzalez demonstrates yoga exercises as instructor Eve Diskin looks on. Diskinisteachi^ t_voaa_cour^__________
Nuclear course debates issue
Florida recruiting trip lures high schoolers
Loan program a first
The University of Miami will have a multi-million dollar loan program, the first of its kind in Florida.
With this new program, a quality education at UM can be affordable.
“Every student should have the opportunity to attend the very best university for which he or she is qualified regardless of cost," said UM President Edward T. Foote. “Our new loan program can make the dream of studying at a major independent research university a reality for high school students."
Under UM’s parent-loan program, parents can borrow up to full tuition with rates at or below market rates. Rates on the loans will be set annually, loans for the 1984-85 year will be made available at approximately 10 percent. A maximum loan for one-year's tuition will cost parents less than $100 per month.
Repayment of principal and interest begins upon origination of the loan and can extend over a 10-year period. Loans will be initiated after parents complete an application, which includes a standard test of credit worthiness.
“Families with incomes of $30,000 to $50,000 and up often feel that they cannot qualify for financial aid." said Scott Freedman, acting director of financial aid.
“Every parent ought to apply for financial aid. Formulas used in evaluating need often show that students are eligible even though family income might appear to be too high at first," he said. “The new loan plan is designed to cover the amount of tuition which is not met with need-based student aid." The "estimated parents contribution” for university costs can be covered with a UM loan.
"The first step in the application procedure is to apply for need-based aid from UM," Freedman said. The university uses the Financial Aid Form (FAF) which is standard throughout the nation and the Florida FAF, which is recognized state-wide.
Funds for the new loan program will be provided from UM resources.
"We are committed to the implementation of the parent loan program, and will guarantee funding through university operating monies," Foote said.
“UM’s parent loan program is the first of its kind in the state," said Freedman. "In developing the plan we have reviewed programs at other major universities throughout the country, selecting the features which we feel will be most useful to our students and their parents."
— LOURDES FERRER
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
For the second year, the Center for Theoretical Studies will be offering a three-credit course entitled “Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace."
The course, offered on an experimental basis last spring, was so successful that Director Behram N. Kursunoglu expects three times as many students.
There were 116 students last year. Kursunoglu said that as many students have already called to ask about the course; about 280-300 students are expected to take the course.
“An enlightened youth is one of the most important solutions to the global problem of nuclear war," he
said. "We are taking a step toward that enlightenment."
He added that students will be hearing statements “from the horse's mouth; from people who know. We not telling students how to think, but giving them the talks."
He said the course gives students the facts and lets them decide what is good.
The course, offered to undergraduate and graduate students, is given in cooperation with the departments of history, physics, politics and public affairs, sociology, and also programs in honors and privileged studies — which means students will be able to get credit for the course in those departments.
It will cover the beginning of the nuclear age with the Manhattan
Project (1939-45) up to the current status of nuclear arms and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
The syllabus revolves around distinguished visiting lecturers — among them Edward Teller (principal author of the hydrogen bomb), Eugene Wigner (Nobel laureate), and Robert Hofstadter (Nobel laureate).
Last year, five of the original initiators of the Manhattan Project and 23 of the people who worked on the first atomic bomb spoke to the students.
The Center for Theoretical Studies is dedicated to bringing together scientists and other thinkers interested in science and culture.
Please turn to page 3/ NUCLEAR
By LOURDES FERRER
Hurricane Associate News Editor
ORLANDO — Top administrators, following on the success of past recruiting trips for the honors programs, tried the same strategy for non-honors students last week.
The University of Miami brought a road show of sorts here and to Tampa in an attempt to lure students to an "exciting and dynamic atmosphere.”
This was part of a two-day tour in which high-school seniors with a "B” average or above were invited. The students and their parents were treated to extravagant receptions — fresh shrimp in Tampa and roast beef in Orlando.
Top UM administrators, the UM Singers and selected students hosted the reception in an attempt to recruit quality students from Florida.
An entertaining and informative videotape about the University as an “exciting place getting better and better" was specially made for the occasion and featured UM President Edward T. Foote and several students.
It was also a musical night filled with spirit. The UM Singers performed a hit parade of pop songs, including Miami's for Me and Flash-dance.
During the brief presentation, students and their parents were told of the value of an education at a major independent research university like UM; various scholarships offered; and financial aid options, among them the first university-based parent-loan program in Florida.
"Our University is dedicated to young students and faculty .. . maintaining high standings . . providing the best possible education," said Provost William Lee. "We have students from 50 states and 100 foreign countries.”
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies James Ash stressed that "quality is affordable." Ash dispelled a myth which he said surfaced two weeks ago in a New York Times article which compared the University of Nebraska, a large state school, to UM, a private university for the affluent.
He explained that the students receiving need-based aid at UM account for more than 70 percent of the student body. This year, UM will administer $30 million, including more than $7 million of its own funds.
Figures show retention drop
By LOURDES FERRER
Hurricane Associate ,\eus Editor
This year's retention rate for all students at the University of Miami declined by 2.4 percent, according to Dean of Students William Sheed-er.
The reason for this, he said, is because a larger number of undergraduate students graduated than were recruited.
He also announced an even greater commitment to students and their parents with the first university-based parent-loan program in Florida, which UM will initiate in 1984-85. The new program, explained Ash, is intended to reduce or eliminate the family's contribution and secure credit for parents at a favorable term.
Parents will be able to finance most of their children's education with monthly payments spread out over 10 years. "It will cost less than a car payment in this country,"said Ash.
Ash said that financial aid — federal, state, university and private — can make the cost of a quality edu-
A retention rate is the percent of the total students in degree programs who are enrolled in a given semester and who either return in a
cation quite a bargain
"The value of a UM education should be so important that the cost should be seen as an investment," said Ash. "A bigger investment now leads to big dividends later."
Ash urged students and their parents to do some competitive shopping and consider UM as one of many options, since "education will shape your lives and will set the limits of your success."
But what's unique about UM? According to Foote, "A research university provides that young student [the opportunity) to study with professors who are also students ”
Please turn to page 4/ RECRUITING
given future semester or complete their degree program in or after the first semester
Please turn to Page ^/RETENTION
Retention figures
Class*	78 to 79	79 to 80	80 to 81	81 to 82	82 to 83
Freshmen	66.6	65.4	65.4	65.6	68.9
Sophomore	72.5	73.0	75.1	74.8	71.0
Juniors	71.9	73.6	69.8	71.5	70.1
Seniors	36.2	35.3	32.6	34.8	29.1
Total UG	61.3	61.9	60.7	61.6	59.2
The rates are figured from fail to fall, i e fall 1978 to tall 1979

Inside
Family Housing
Those families living on campus face problems different from those of other dorm students. /Page 3
UM Singers
This group of talented and dedicated UM students perform for both UM and non-UM events. /Page 5
For the Holidays
The Pulse section reviews a slate of films to be released during the holidays. /Page 10
Phil Lane
Phil I-anc tries n new position on the baseball team. /Page 23
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Editor, business
Ronnie Ramos was reelected editor of the Miami Hurricane at last week's meeting of the Board of Student Publications.
Ramos will be serving his second term as editor in the spring.
The 20-year-old senior has worked on the Hurricane for three years, working in the Opinion and Sports sections before being elected editor-in-chief last spring. He plans to “keep the newspaper going the same way it is now."
He feels that "we’ve done a good job ot dealing with campus issues and we plan to keep doing that."
To do that, he is currently accepting applications for editors positions. Interested students should come by the Hurricane office, Room 221 of the Student Union?	f
manager elected
Rene Rosen was elected business manager of student publications at last week's Board of Student Publications meeting.
Rosen is a senior majoring in international finance and marketing and has worked for three years in various capacities for the Hurricane Rosen looks forward “to another successful semester" at the Hurricane. Her ideas for the spring include possibly Increasing the Hurricane's circulation to maximize readership and "making sure that advertisers are familiar with the newspaper."
She credits current business manager Roy Robert for "leaving the paper in a great position for me to take over from."
"I've learned a lot from hi she added.
Fee refunded
Students who purchased the check-cashing fee card will be refunded in cash beginning Dec. 5 until the end of the semester, said Bursar Alan Matthews
To be refunded, students need to show their card at the Bursar's window in the Ashe Building during regular check-cashing hours.
The only catch: students cannot have a bad card. If students have written bad checks, they will have to settle the matter with the Bursar's office before they will be refunded the $5.
The personal check-cashing card will still exist. It it is lost, students will have to pay $ 1
-^LOURDES FERRER