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Volume 58, No.4fe	Tuesday, March 23, 1982	Phone 284-4401
Student Leaders Decry Aid
By GEORGE IIAJ
Assistant News Editor
USBG President Bill Mullowney joined with the student government presidents from Dade County colleges and universities Friday to condemn President Reagan’s proposed cuts in financial aid. At a press conference at the New World Center of Miami-Dade Community College, the presidents vowed to rally their students and oppose Reagan’s cuts.
Mullowney was joined by the student government presidents from Florida International University, Barry College, Biscayne College, Florida Memorial College, and the four campuses of Miami-Dade Community College.
The press conference was sponsored by The Collegium, a non-profit public interest corporation which opposes Reagan’s plans.
Mullowney was accompanied at the press conference by USBG Senators F.ric Lieberman and Stacv
Wein, who sponsored a bill in last week’s Senate meeting formally condemning Reagan’s cuts as “excessive and counterproductive to the educational system in the United States.”
Mullowney said that he’s “been trying to understand the logic behind these cutbacks for a long time, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult as the months go on "
He stated that the enormous cuts that were proposed by President Reagan would “spell the end of the road in the education of many students today, and many students tomorrow."
Two out of three students at UM, he said, already receive some kind of financial aid. He also partially attributed the 1,000-student shortfall at UM last year to the problems of receiving financial aid.
FIU student body president Jorge Espinoza said that Reagan is “denying us the potential growth of that | which] this country needs. He is
denying us the ranks of educated, of trained students that a high-technology United States needs in the future.”
The proposed cuts would seriously affect many students. That point was made best by Florida Memorial President Tyrone Key. Florida Memorial currently receives $1.2 million in Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (also known as the Pell Grants). Of that, Key said that “under the proposed budget cuts, we will lose 38 percent of that amount, which amounts, in dollar figures, to $456,000 dollars."
That means that "somewhere around 200 to 300 of our students may not be able to attend college next year," added Key.
"It almost seems like the floor is being pulled out of students, especially at private institutions," said Mullowney. "On one hand, you have financial aid cutbacks taking one side away, on the other hand you have tuition rising and other
costs associated with college education. A lot of students are falling right through.
“My fear for my peers is that many potential students arc going to stay just that, potential college students, and they are never going to have the opportunity to enter institutions of higher learning," Mullowney said.
The student government presidents then called for all students to fight the cuts. A petition will be distributed at all the college campuses in Dade County, in the hopes of convincing legislators to reject the Reagan proposals. USBG will set up a table in the Breezeway this week so that UM students may join in the fight
"As students and voters,” Espinoza said, “we do have the power to alter the course of events. I can’t stress to you enough the importance of realizing the power you have, and how to realize it.
“This is an election year for some
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key legislators in the State of Florida, and we can use this to our advantage."
Congressman Dante B. Fascell, who represents this area, is up for re-election, as is U.S. Senator Law-ton Chiles.
Key added that Florida Memorial College is concerned with the cuts effects on all colleges and universities in the United States.
"At Florida Memorial College, we are definitely concerned, along with the 109 other traditional and historically black colleges around the countrv.
"We are also concerned for our brothers and sisters in the white education institutions across the country,” Key said. "We ask that we would join together and fight this that they call the Reaganomics, so that a mind will not be a terrible thing to waste."
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'It almost seems like the floor is being pulled out of students, especially at private institutions.’
Bill Mullowney, USBG President
Former premiere photographer for Life magazine, Alfred Eisenstaedt, was recently in Miami to lecture for the benefit of the South Dade Jewish Community Center. For a personal interview, see page 6 of Entertainment.
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Columbia Shoots For Stars
By GEORGE HAJ
Assistant Nows Editor
CAPE CANAVERAL- The Space Shuttle Columbia roared to life, slowly cleared the tower, and soared into space for the third time at 11:00 a.m. yesterday. Nearly a million people crowded the beaches surrounding Kennedy Space Center to cheer the shuttle on its way.
The shuttle continued to be marred by difficulties, however. A malfunction in a fueling system heating unit forced the launch to be delayed an hour while the unit was replaced. The rest of the countdown proceeded smoothly, making the third trip of the Columbia the most timely one ever
Launch Director, George Page, said that "This was the first time we did it on the same day we had planned to Getting it off the same day was teriffic."
In addition to the heating unit problem, one of the four auxilary tower units failed shortly after liftoff. The unit failure should have no effect on the mission time table. NASA (National Aeronautics And Space Administration) had hoped to launch this shuttle on time to prove its operational feasibility, said Kennedy officials.
The crew of the shuttle, Commander Jack R. Lousma and Pilot C.Gordon Fullerton, were awakened at 6:10 a.m. yesterday and fed the traditional astronauts breakfast of steak and eggs.
Lousma is no stranger to earth orbit, this being his second trip into space. He was on the second crew which manned the Skylab space station for 59 days in 1973. Fullerton has not flown in space, but was teamed with Fred liaise in three of the five approach and landing glide flights of the orbiter Enterprise in 1977.
Columbia is scheduled to land at the backup site this time, the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, at approximately 11:20 a.m. on March 29.
The primary site, Edwards Air Force Base, California, was made unusable by heavy rain. "Edwards will be unusable for probably three or four weeks, or maybe longer," said Donald Green, Shuttle weather officer.
A special 23-car train was required to .transport service equip-
ment to White Sands from Edwards. The shipment included the equipment required to cool and purge the orbiter, move ground crews in special protective suits and remove the orbiter crew.
The shuttle landing at White Sands should only delay the turnaround time of the shuttle by three days, said Page.
The seven-day mission is designed to further test the space shuttle in order to qualify the Space Transportation System for routine space operation. The emphasis of this mission will be to register the reaction of the orbiter and its payload to extreme temperatures. The shuttle’s response will be measured while aiming the payload bay towards the sun for 10 hours, the tail for 30 hours, and the nose for 80 hours.
Test of the Canadian-built robot arm will be tested further, along with other tests that were delayed because of the shortened second
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Head News Writer
Students from the UM architecture department may start redesigning the central business district in Coral Gables next fall.
UM Professor Nicholas Patricios, director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program, went before the Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board last week and proposed that about 10 of his students study and make recommendations for future development of the Miracle Mile area
The offer was unanimously accepted by the Planning and Zoning Board, although it must be approved by the City Commission next month, according to Patricios.
The students, who must be senior or graduate students must sign up for the project in order to be considered. It is one of many projects that will be offered to architecture and planning students next fall, said Patricios.
Patricios said the boundrries of thp area they will study have not yet been defined and will be one of
shuttle flight.
The mission is the third of four test flights of Columbia, which is designed to haul heavy payload into and out of earth orbit. NASA envisioned a fleet of shuttles, to be used both by government and private business.
The third flight of Columbia was dedicated to the people of Afghanistan by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan said, “ . . . Columbia, we think, represents man’s finest aspirations in the field of science and technology. So, too, does the struggle of the Afghan people represent man's highest aspirations for freedom.
“The fact that freedom is the stongest force in the world is daily demonstrated by the people of Afghanistan. Accordingly, I am dedicating, on behalf of the American people, the March 22 launch of the Columbia to the people of Afghanistan.” Reagan’s remarks were quoted from a NASA report.
the first decisions taken by the students.
The students will work on various problems, such as loss of small retail businesses, traffic problems, the manner in which office buildings are being constructed and land use, said Patricios.
"These are some of the apparent problems," Patricios said. "Part of the study is to find other problems."
After the study, recommendations will be made on how to regulate development of the area, according to Patricios. He added that students would be involved in public meetings in which they report their findings and recommendations.
"This project will be extremely valuable to students since they’ll be working on a live project," Patricios said. "It will be of a tremendous educational value to these students.”
Patricios said that there are no plans now to study other business districts, although if the opportunity presents itself, the students will lake advantage ot ¿L
Architecture Department Makes Designs On Business District
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Company Attacks TVNews
By BOB ANTHONY
News Writer
“Trial By Television," the story of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation’s two-year confrontation with ABC-TV’s "20-20" program is the topic of the Department of Communication’s second annua! Public Relations Society of America lecture.
Ronald E. Rhody, corporate vice president for public relations and advertising for the Oakland, California company, will be the featured speaker this Thursday, March 25, at 11:00 a.m. in the Whitten Student Union’s F'lamingo Ballroom. The lecture, co-sponsored by the University chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, is free and open to the public.
Rhody said it.at on Ajh i .V, L9HO, Geraldo Rivera, in a "20-20” report titled "Hot Wire”, broadcast an unsubstantiated statement accusing Kaiser of "marketing a defective product, of withholding test results, and of promoting the product by misrepresentation to the public."
Since then, Rhody said, a great deal of his time and his company's resources have been spent in what he terms "our long fight to inject fairness and balance into the unfortunate approach to television news.”
Following the campus lecture, Rhody will speak to a joint luncheon meeting of PRSSA students and PRSA professionals at the University Faculty Club, 1550 Brescia Avenue. Tickets for the luncheon, available at the door, will be $6 for PRSSA members, $10 for PRSA members, and $12 for non-members
As corporate vice president, Rhody directs Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation’s domestic and international public relations and advertising operations. He is also a member of the company’s manage-
ment committee.
Rhody joined Kaiser Aluminum in 1959 as a public relations representative at its Ravenswood Works in West Virginia, and moved to New York City as Eastern Region public affairs manager in 1962. After five year's experience in Manhattan, he was named manager, corporate communications, and transferred to company headquarters in Oakland. California. He was appointed director of public relations in 1972 and was given responsibility for the corporation's advertising activities in 1975. He was elected corporate vice president in 1976.
Rhody's background includes experience in both government and the media. He worked as a daily new paper editor, radio news and sports director, and telev i sion news broadcaster in his native Kentucky with a degree in political science, and served as assistant director to the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s public rela tions division immediately prior to joining Kaiser Alu minum.
Rhody is a member of the board of trustees of the Media Institute (Washington, D.C.), a member of the Council of the International Public Relations Institut« (London, England), and a member of the President's Advisory Council of PRSA (New York). He serves as a delegate at large to the Public Relations Society of America General Assembly, and as a governor of the Public Relations Roundtable of San Francisco.
He serves on the advisory board of the University of California Berkeley Business School Program in Business and Social Policy, the Communications Policy Committee of the Aluminum Association, and the Public Opinion Committee of the San F'rancisco Bay Area Council. He is a director of the Advertising Council's Western Region, and a member of the advisory board of Public Relations News. He is a vice president of Cor y Brythoniaid of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales and a member of the board of directors of the Oakland Ballet Company.
IVI usic Equipment Upgraded
Special to the Hurricane
The University of Miami School of Music recently installed new sound engineering recording equipment made possible through MCI, a division of SONY Corporation of America, and its president, G.C. (Jeep) Harned.
A local businessman for 25 years and noted philanthropist, Harmed has worked closely with the school's music engineering program to make the “state-of-the-art" equipment available.
Replacing outdated, 16-track equipment, the new equipment consists of two tape recorders (a 24-track unit and a 2-track unit), and a computer-assisted, 24-channel, automated mixing console which provides greater flexibility, capacity, and precision
Dr. led J. Crager, associate dean of the UM School of Music, says the equipment is a major addition to the school’s recording control room, which houses other MCI equipment, in the UM’s Gusman Concert Hall on the Coral Gables campus.
“It is very important for our students to gain hands-on experience with MCI equipment, since most major recording studios in the U.S. use it.
"Thanks to MCI, the equipment allows the school's music engineering technology program to be among the best at any university in the world," Crager said
Established in 1975, the interdisciplinary program was the first of its kind accredited in the country. It combines an in-depth study of music with electronic engineering
Pressili Al The Dcdieation Were <l,efl To Right) Crater, Harned, Mnsie Dean W ¡Ilian Lee. John Worani. Director Of Music Kngincering Technology Department, And Associate l’rovosl George Cilpui