Miami Hurricane, March 30, 1982

              1982 USBG Elections Coverage
-See Pages 4-7
THE
V
Volume 58, No.42
Tuesday, March 30, 1982
""'«KIT» §F MIAMI
Phone 284-4401 f ¿Jbu ‘ '
OMâ

Two Parties Vie For Election
BAMr
The MAGNUM candidates — Quiñones, Wein, Kobert
Magnum
Sets
Goals
Miami llumcane/MARK CHESKIN
By GEORGE HAJ
Assistant News Editor
The three candidates competing tor executive positions on the MAGNUM ticket are running on the platform of expeHence within student government. Aurelio Quiñones, the party’s nominee for president of the Undergraduate Student Body Government, is presently speaker pro tempore of the USBG Senate, and feels that this, along with experience in other organizations, makes him the most qualified candidate for the job.
Running with Quiñones is Stacy Wein as vice president and Roy Kobert as treasurer.
Quiñones said that “students have a very, very good opportunity to vote us in, and get people to know about student government. It isn’t only us, it’s the people working with us.
"We have the experience to start with both feet on the ground running. We don't need any on-the-job training in student government,'* he said in reference to the fact that his opponent, Eddie Pozzuoli, has limited USBG experience.
Kobert said there were distinct differences between their opponent’s platform and their own. “We view the platform as a form of written contract between us and the students. When you compare our platforms, there is a definite difference.
"Everything on our platform is practical, viable, and feasible. Things in their platform are written very ambiguously,” he added.
Quiñones spoke of his opponent as well. "I’m better than Eddie as far as experience goes, as far as commitment goes. I have more awareness of the campus and I know what's going on.
“We know what’s going on, and I know that Eddie doesn't, because he has not been within the structure |of USBG|. He has been president of IFC |Interfraternity Council!, but that doesn’t give him one-fifth the exposure that I have in the academic areas,” said Quiñones.
Quiñones said he has vast experience in organizations outside USBG as well, such as his founding and serving as president of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. He was president for two and a half years.
“Running an organization,” he said, "gives you a certain amount of discipline and commitment. I’ve been a senator for two years. I know the workings of the senate back and forth, and the whole cabinet too.”
He is also on the committee that screens the nominees for the cabinet and other agencies in USBG, elections commission, supreme court justices, etc. Since he has to screen these candidates, Quiñones said that he is in “total awareness of USBG.”
Quiñones said that one of his primary goals as president would be to “give USBG direction, something that it hasn’t had much of of . . .it hasn't had a vital role among the students here.”
Wein said one of the first things she wants to do if she wins is to have the platform printed and placed in the USBG office so everyone in USBG can see what the projects and priorities are. “Most importantly," she said, “we want to accomplish everything we say we're going to accomplish.
"Another priority is improving relations within student government, such as senate-cabinet relations. Sitting on the senate, I know it wasn’t that great this year," she said.
Wein is vice president of Sigma Delta Tau sorority and said she "knows the working of the senate. I know how to write a bill, know how the cabinet works, I’ve been to cabinet meetings. Most importantly, 1 know how to work with people.
Kobert is a sophomore business major who has worked with Student Orientation Service, and has been a commissioner with the Student Rights Agency, as well as senator. As SRA Commissioner, he “has seen first hand the problems students are having The senate makes an Excellent training ground," he said to prepare him tor an executive postition.
The MIAMI ticket — Lise, Rodriguez, Pozzuoli
Miami Hurricane/STtJ BA YER
Fun Run Benefits Easter Seals
By MARSHA de SYLVA
News Writer
The University of Miami’s 1968 Complex is sponsoring a “Fun Run," a three-mile race around the perimeter of campus, on Saturday, April 3 to benefit Easter Seals.
The race will begin at 10 a.m. at the 1968 mailbox (1231 Dickinson Drive) where race numbers can be picked up at the sign-up tables.
The event is entirely produced and run by students. The sponsors and race directors, Edie Knowton and Dave Cox, are two Resident Assistants whose purpose is to raise money for Easter Seals and at the same time increase student awareness towards the need.
Knowlton got the idea while working at the Rehabilitation Center for Handicapped Children and Adults.
“We missed the Jerry Lewis telethon for Muscular Distrophy," Knowlton said, “but this is our contribution to the many handicapped peo-
UM Education Group Gets Back Into Action
pie who need our help."
Students as well as the public and beginners as well as the more advanced are welcome to run in the race. Pre-registration is at the 1968 Complex desk where applications can be turned in with a $1 entry fee. Registration on the day of the race will be $1.50. All entrance fees will be donated to the Dade County Easter Seals Society.
Sponsor sheets will not be used in the race because of problems with collecting the money, and sponsors think that this will create too much hassle for students whose finals are approaching.
There will be refreshments at the end of the race, as well as the awards to the top finalists. Prizes will be given to the floors of '68 with the most participants. For those who don’t finish in the top, there will be a drawing from all the entrees for a prize.
For applications or further information, stop by the '68 desk this week, at the sign-in table from 9-9:45 a.m. on the day of the race.
By TRISHA SINDLER
News Writer
After a year of dormancy, Alpha Sigma Epsilon, the professional educators organization, has come out of its sleepy state and is back Into action.
According to Beatrice Llano, an active ASE member, this nationwide fraternity is UM’s only organization of this kind. To be admitted into the group, one must be an education and allied professions major currently enrolled in the School of Education and Allied Professions as a full-time student.
“Now, more than ever,” Llano said, “we feel the need for this type of professional organization, because the quality of educators is so much better now than it has ever been.
“We provide professional speakers ranging from classroom teachers to school board members. They talk to our group about the problems and joys we'll experience in our careers. And we have conferences and seminars with various professors.”
In addition, plans are in the making to offer education services to both students inside and outside of the Uinversity of Miami.
“We’re trying to implement group sessions to provide not only
tutoring, but also to loan books to other students until they're able to buy their own,” Llano said. “As the cost of books continues to rise, this is an idea which makes a lot of sense.”
Group members also intend to serve as classroom volunteers in day, elementary, and high schools.
Llano, a sophomore, presently works as an intern six hours per week at an area pre-school. Her job, which she describes as an invaluable opportunity, is to develop a class curriculum, make and execute lesson plans.
In discussing the relevance of Alpha Sigma Epsilon to the needs of UM education students, Llano points to shifting trends that have characterized the education profession in the last five years.
"Suddenly there’s a need for teachers,” Llano said. “People who are choosing to be educators do so not as an alternative, but as a real choice.”
Llano sees her group as a highly beneficial one, and urges prospective members to contact adviser Toni Potenza in the School of Education.
“Alpha Sigma Epsilon,” said Llano, “is a foundation for our ca-reerr basically, it prepares the education student for what he'll actually face.
Miami Hurricane/STU RAYER
The University of Miami tennis team defeated the University of Florida Gators 5-1 on Saturday. The Hurricanes' record now stands at US-6. For more details, see page 11 in Sports.
Miami
Offers
Change
By GEORGE HAJ
Assistant News Editor
The MIAMI ticket,led by presidential nominee Eddie Pozzuoli, is running on a program of proven leadership and accomplishment in areas other than USBG. The other two running with Pozzuoli in executive positions are Ken Lise as vice president and Gina Rodriguez as treasurer.
Pozzuoli said that “what we’ve seen in the past is that the people who’ve run student government have all been from the same basic background. They’ve worked their way up through student government.
“I think the strength of our ticket, especially between me, Ken and Gina, is that our diverse backgrounds give us different opinions on different subjects."
Ken Lise is chairman of the Residence Halls Central Coordinating Committee, and he coordinated the recent Special Olympics Day held at UM. “I’ve worked on a lot of different areas on campus," he said. "fmm the residence halls to student activities.”
Gina Rodriguez, running for treasurer, is presently Secretary for Community Affairs in USBG. She is proudest of the employment service recently started. She is a member of FEC, Committee on Student Organizations, and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Pozzuoli said that the student body president should "set the direction and tone for the organization. He must be able to lead a diverse group of people. In other words, he must be able to go to other organizations and rally support on basic issues.”
He said that this year there has been a failure to stand strong on some issues “when we could have really been strong.”
The MIAMI ticket said they are more qualified than their opponents for several reasons. According to Pozzuoli, "the opposition has three of their major candidates from the senate, and to me that's a major weakness.
“In my opinion," he said, “the senate has not been strong. The fact is, when a ’ Ml is put before the senate, such as i. « bill saying that student government is against the financial aid cuts at the federal and state level, I walk away from the meeting saying so what. It’s much too little action, and a little too late.”
He said that nothing of substance has come out of the USBG Senate, "anything of any everlasting value."
One of the more absurd decisions of the senate, said Pozzuoli, was that "in a time where residence halls have trouble filling their rooms this year, and may have more trouble next year, the senate came up with a bill allocating money to get an apartment listing. In my opinion, that is self-defeating.
“As far as I’m concerned,” he said, "leadership in the senate is not experienced leadership.”
"What we’ve seen in the past," said Pozzuoli, “is a big cut between the executive and legislative branch, where the Speaker of the Senate has been vollying for power with the executive branch. I think that has to stop " He is confident that the senators he has picked will work with the executive branch and feels he can be successful with the ticket he has picked.
Pozzouli recognizes the fact that the USBG president always has a difficult time dealing with the administration. "On the one hand," he said, "he must be able to work with them, but he also must remain and keep his perspective in dealing with the administration. He must remember that he represents the students first and foremost."
Lise said that the position of vice president is to unite the student body, more specifically the student organizations on campus, behind student government. “1 would kike to give F.c^ the united student bodi that he’s going to need when he goes before President Foote or the
->f Trticfpp^ "