Miami Hurricane, September 17, 1982

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1982
Communication Wants To
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The Shack Which Houses The Photo-Communication Department Was Described As ‘In A Bad State Of Re-pair'In The Com Department Report
Costs Cause Enrollment Decline
USBG Considering A Sunshine Bill
Total Costs Of College Keep Rising
NEW YORK. NY (CPS) — The to Lai cost of gqjng to college — including tuition, room, board, supplies, transportation and personal expenses — has jumped by as much as 13 percent this (all. according to a survey by the College Board's College Scholarship Service.
The survey of some 3,300 colleges predicts students at four-year public institutions will spend an average of $4.338 to go to school this year, a 13 percent increase over last year's expenses.
Private college and university students will spend an average of $7475 to make it through the 1982-83 academic year, an II percent hike over 1981-82, the study found. At the University of Miami, expenses rose 14 percent over last year.
Soaring tuition rates are the main reasons. Tuition is up an average of 20 percent at public colleges, and 13 percent at private colleges.
The average public college tuition this year will be $979, compared to $815 in 1981-82. Private college tuition has hit $4,021 this year, up from last year's $3,552. In comparison, UM’s tuition is now $5,750. up from $5,000 last year.
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
A proposed amendment to the Undergraduate Student Body Government constitution proposed Wednesday would grant students access to virtually all areas of USBG. This amendment, along with
another, was proposed at the USBG Senate meeting Wednesday afternoon.
The first amendment, called the Sunshine Bill, and patterned after similar federal and state laws, would prevent USBG from excluding “any undergraduate student at the University of Miami, or prevent access to their documentation.”
The Sunshine Bill would open USBG, with certain exceptions, to complete access by undergraduate students. The exceptions cover personal correspondence, informal meetings, screening committee meetings, the deliberations of the USBG Supreme Court, and names of those who use the Student Rights Agency.
An additional controversial exception, immediately suggested by several senators, would be an exception for the deliberations of the election's commission.
Another constitutional amendment proposed stated that the Senate does not make a distinction between bills and resolutions and defines how each is to delineated and worded.
The two constitutional amendments must be heard again next week, and voted on to take effect.
In other action, the Senate passed a bill asking that the Financial Aid Office inform all students who apply on time for financial aid by July 15 of the academic year.
The action states: "That if the Financial Aid office can make notification earlier |than July 15), they shall, and if major changes are made in the federal financial aid disbursement as in this summer, the office will notify students prior to July 15 of changes and their inability to send out correct award letters, and will give notification no later than two weeks prior to registration.”
As a Category D Bill, this action now goes to the administration for their response and action. If no answer is given in 30 days, the bill goes into effect immediately.
In other action, the Senate agreed to co-sponsor a Mr. UM contest with the Homecoming Committee, to be held on October 27 at noon on the patio. The Senate also allocated $75 to fund dinner and refreshments for the annual joint Senate-Cabinet meeting next Wednesday
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UM Outpatient Clinic To Be Reconstructed
By JAENE GARCIA	be made in person). Cost is $15;
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The UM Health Center, which was closed two years ago for safety code violations, is being reconstructed at a cost of $600,-000. The Health Center was a licensed hospital until it was closed down two years ago
The funds for this building did not come from tuition money or from any kind of university fund, said Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the Health Center. The money, he said, came from health service money that was saved for this purpose
The Center no longer serves as a licensed hospital, but as an outpatient clinic. The university's clinic, however, is much more than a bandage station, Flipse said. The clinic's services include diagnosis and treatment for most acute illnesses and minor injuries. Its laboratory services includes facilities for the diagnosis of illnesses and jf pregnancy.
All this is free to the students who have paid their health fee. This fee of $35 is required of all undergraduate, graduate and law students taking nine or more credit hours.
The Health Center also houses three special clinics that students one who have paid their health fee can take advantage of at a nominal charge:
•	ihe immunization and alergy clinic. Cost is $5 per shot;
•	the women's clinic. Services include “Pap" smears and con-traception (appointments must
open on Wednesday afternoons (appointments must be made in person). Cost is $10.
The center is also starting an orthopedic clinic that will be attended by a specialist and a physical therapist. The clinic hours will be on Tuesdays, from 4-6 p.m. and by appointment only. Cost is $10. The health center is also planning to bring in, once a week, specialists such as neuroligists and gynecologists.
"There was only one cutback in the program this year." said Flipse. “Last year, the Health Center was closed on Sundays because students were not utilizing our services. We felt it was a waste of the students' money to keep it running a full day and only have a few patients come in. This year it was decided to have Saturday become only an Emergency Nursing Service center.
“Again, it was felt that to have a full staff of doctors on call would only be wasting our student funds," Flipse said.
Flipse said he hopes that students take advantage of the services and especially of the appointment system. "Making an appointment before coming in will save you hours of waiting time,” Flipse said
Clinic hours this year will be: regular services — Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m; emergency nursing services — Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Aid Cuts Hurt Private Universities
WASHINGTON, D C (CPS) — The long-expected, forced student migration from expensive private colleges to cheaper four-and two-year campuses may have finally begun, two just-released studies suggest
The primary cause of the forced march, the studies say. are the cuts in federal student aid programs
According to a study by the National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities, as many as 200,000 students have dropped out of private colleges and universities this year
The exodus of low-income and minority students is “much more dramatic than we expected," and may broaden as this year's cuts in federal financial aid programs exacerbate student money problems, says Julianne Still Thrift. NIlCU's executive director.
Though no one can say definitively where these students are going — to other schools or simply out of the educational system — another study released last week predicts community college enrollment will increase by four pecent this fall.
The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC) expects two-year college enrollment to surpass five million nationwide.
The reasons, according to the AACJC. include an influx of un- and underemployed people returning to school and a significant number of students who choose two-year colleges at least temporarily for financial reasons.
In some states, as much as ten percent of the students who ordinarily would have gone straight from high school to a four-year college have chosen to live at home another year, and attend cheaper local two-year campuses, the study reports.
Such movement suggests the onset of the massive “stepladder effect" educators began forecasting when President Reagan introduced his first federal education budget in February. 1981.
Federal budget cuts and rising tuition rates would combine to knock students down the economic ladder of education, they said. The poorest students at private colleges would be forced to transfer to less expensive four-year institutions. They,- in turn, would displace the poorest public college students, forcing them to transfer to still-less-expensive two-year colleges.
And because campuses can accomodate only a limited number of students, they fear the poorest two-year college students eventually will be forced out of college altogether.
The migration out of private campuses began as a trickle last January, but has grown to a steady flow now.
The 200,000 who have dropped out this fall are "much larger (a group) than we thought, and doesn't even include the effects of this year's cutbacks," says Thrift.
"Unfortunately, most of the decline was among students in the $6,000 to $24,000 income bracket. While some of our upper-income students are getting more financial aid, the number of low-income students getting aid actually decreased by 40 pecent,” she adds
The institute assumes "most of |the dropouts] are going on to schools that are lower-priced "
She asserts that "that means more and more students are having to pick a school based on price rather than academic considerations."
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By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
The UM department of communication has put together a report which is to serve as the groundwork for the department to be converted into a School of Communication.
The 45-page proposal is the culmination of the efforts of a five-man committee of communication professors that has studied this ideas since fall of 1980 The reason that j School of Communication is needed is that it would result in better quality education for students, said Professor Steven Beebe, who headed the committee.
The school would still be under the jurisdiction of the College of Arts and Sciences and would not have a dean, but a director. Such an arrangement would be the only one of this kind at UM. Other schools, such as the School of Music and the School of Education, are headed by deans, who report directly to the provost.
“Philosophically and theoretically, we (the department and the College] have the same goal." Beebe said. "We believe in the importance of a liberal education "
Beebe said that students in such a school would have the same requirements as the College of Arts and Sciences. He added that the department of communication wants to continue under the College because it would assist them economically. “We would still rely upon the resources of the College, in such areas as student operations and other support services," Beebe said Provost William Lee, who supports the proposal “enthusiastically," said the school would be under the College of Arts and Sciences for some time, but may then become an independent school
A School of Communication will help them gain national recognition and benefication consistent with their quality work." he said The report, which will be presented to Dean Arthur Brown of the College of Arts and Sciences some-
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time soon, states that as one department among 19 in the college, the department of communication is "too unwieldy, too constrained by inappropriate academic requirements, and too low in profile to function effectively and to attract the best quality students and the sources of funding "
‘We have always supported it |a School of Communication!. We’ve had it in mind for five years and we’re moving right ahead.’
Dean Arthur Brown
Said Brown "We have always supported it |a School of Communication]. We've had it in mind for five years and we re moving right ahead
The report stales that “A multifaceted school with appropriate autonomy in its professional-academic concerns is essential for real progress in the communication field ”
A major change would be thaï students would receive a degree from a school, not a department It would also help in accreditation n( programs, the report said.
"We're just in the beginning stages of seeking accreditation." Beebe said. "The rules state that we need 51 percent of the students majoring in communication to belong to the sequence we want accreditateti It s difficult to do that now because we have nine sequences and the stu dents are spread out "
Those nine sequences are news-paper-editorial journalism, broad cast journalism, public relations, broadcasting, motion pictures, television and motion pictures, photo communication, speech communie.i tion. and organizational communi cation
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NCAA Contract On Television
Declared Void
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane Editorial Board
A federal judge in Oklahama City declared void contracts between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and three television networks In a ruling handed down late Wednesday, District Court Judge Juan Burciaga voided contracts signed by the NCAA, ABC. CBS and Turner Broadcasting System, because they violate antitrust laws.
The NCAA will appeal the decision, which was brought about when the University of Georgia and the University of Oklahoma challenged a recent NCAA legislation This decision may have long reaching ramifications at UM “A decision of this caliber would greatly affect the University of Miami and college football in general," said UM Athletic Director Harry Mailtos shortly after the decision.
Mallios cautioned, however, that "On something like this I would have to wait and look over the decision."
Mallios pointed out that this is only the begining of a long legal battle. “It's going to be interesting to watch how this will be litigated through the courts over the next few years," he said
If the decision is upheld by a higher court, "you will see teams going out and hustling to market
their programs." he said
Under current NCAA rules, universities are limited to six television appearances every two years, with a maximum of four in any given year, bowl games notwithstanding Schools receive $310.000 for a regional telecast and $500,000 for a national broadcast The University of Miami recieved $2.5 million over the past five years from television revenue.
"If the decision is not overturned, this will put things into total chaos," said television sportscaster Tony Segreto. of Channel 4. the CBS affiliate in Miami
"The networks will only schedule top ten teams week in and week out," Segreto said
The dispute between the universities and the NCAA arose in St. Louis, Missouri on Dec. 4, 1981 at the NCAA's meeting on restructuring. Mallios said
The UM athletic director, who participated in the meeting, said the two schools tried to bring the matter up but the chair of the meeting ruled the issue out of order because it did not deal with restructuring.
"The matter was brought up for a vote but it was overwhelmingly shot down," Mallios said.
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Index
Conservatives Strip Nader
A Court Wants A New Trial For A Right-Wing Legal Foundation’s Attempt To Strip Rutgers’ Public Interest Research Group Of Student Fee Funding /PAGE 5
Amityville Horror II
The Hurricane Brings You To The Press Conference Announcing The Sequel /PAGE 8
Take A SEAT
Attend The Opening Of The South End Alternative Theater /PAGE 8
Hoaxing The Hokies
A Preview Of The Miami-Virginia Tech Game /PAGE 9 NFL Roundup
The Hurricane Soothsayers Predict Thiif Week's NFL Games /PAGE 12
Opinion /'PAGE 6 Sports /PAGE 11
Fmtertainment /PAGE 8 Classifieds /PAGE 13
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