Miami Hurricane, February 04, 1983

              Volume 59 Number 31 Phone 284-4401
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1983
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Seniors woo employers during annual career day
By LOURDES FERRER
and
JACKIE FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Stall Writers
Caretr Information Jamboree 1983 sparked a day full of programs last Tuesday, offering an opportunity to learn more about career possibilities and graduate and professional study opportuni-Ues. The emphasis was on information rather than recruitment.
The eighth annual Jamboree, which attracted approximately 2000 students, was sponsored by the Department of Career Planning and Placement. It was held in the lower lounge and adjacent areas of the Student Union.
Representatives from about 70 businesses, industries, governmental organizations, professions, human service agencies and public schools participated in the program.
While employers shared information about career opportunities in their organizations, the different schools at the University of Miami also provided advisement for graduate and professional study opportunities.
The purpose of the Jamboree was to offer an exceptional opportunity for UM students, alumni, faculty, staff and others to obtain general information about career and graduate or professional study opportunities from those most directly involved — the employers and schools themselves — said Thomas Sheeder, Director of Career Planning and Placement.
“The Jamboree is a good point of contact for employers,” Sheeder said. He added that many of the corporations have been participating for several years and are quite happy with the results.
The brokerage firm of Merrill. Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. has actively participated in past Jamborees. “We are interested in establishing a relationship with the students,” said Cynthia A. Yanaros, Regional Personnel Manager.
Wackenhut Corporation, a prominent Miami security company attended the Jamboree for the first time this year. Albert Simon, persongel representative, said he enjoyed the experience. "The people I’ve had the opportunity to speak with seemed very interested in our company as well as familiar with it,” he said.
The students also shared a positive response from the Jamboree, stating that it was both informational and enjoyable.
“Career Day was very enlightening,” said Barbara Johnson, member of USBG. “I was able to talk first hand with employers about career opportunities and what qualifications they look for.”
Furthermore, Johnson learned that it is very important to start interviewing as soon as possible for job positions, especially if students are seniors, since employment opportunities become slim after April.
The representatives for the various companies were "very friendly, willing to help and offer valuable information,” said Carmen Del Dago, a junior and member of Alpha Kappa Psi, a business fraternity and one of the many organizations helping in the event.
Most, if not all of the companies, gave out informational booklets and brochures in order for interested students to learn more about the career opportunities and the benefits of their companies.
“The day has been enjoyable and profitable," said U.S. Navy Lt. Oscar J. Braynon. “We’ve gotten a lot of response, mainly in the engineering program, and about five people are scheduled for a test."
“I did not expect so many students to be interested," said Mary Kay Cosmetics beauty consultant Cynthia Busweiler. About 25 women, mainly interested in going into business for themselves, applied for an interview.
According to Sue Abbonddante,
representative for Gould S.E.L., many students signed up for a program the company is scheduling to present to UM students next week in the main campus on electrical engineering in computer science.
While some organizations felt they had received a positive response and interest in their programs, still others, like the Burger King Corp. felt differently.
“Most inquiries were about opportunities in advertising, finance and international studies," said Carla Conroy, Personnel Representative for the Burger King Corp. He added that they currently only had openings in management training and restaurant operation, but “no tremendous interest” was shown in these areas.
When asked his overall opinion of Career Information Jamboree, Sheeder said he was “pleased with the turnout,” especially by the representatives of each organization and the students who participated.
According to Sheeder, everyone worked very hard to make the Jamboree a valuable experience for UM.
The career planning committee received excellent support from a number of other campus sources, including financial assistance from the Provost and Executive Vice President; the Vice President for Student Affairs; the Deans of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education and Allied Professions, and Music; and the SEAL Program (Students Earn and Learn through off-campus employment) of the Department of Career Planning and Placement.
The Jamboree steering committee included key student and staff representatives from the Alpha Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma Pi business fraternities, the Society of Women Engineers, Undergraduate Student Body Government, United Black Students, the Guidance Center, and Career Planning and Placement.
Algerians had key jo.b in freeing hostages
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane News Editor
Deadlines and outdated ways of handling international disputes handicapped the negotiations for the release of the American hostages in Iran, according to a former United States diplomat
Moreover, a lack of foresight on the part of the diplomats in Iran as well as dogmatic persistence in a poor political path provoked the incident in the first place,'former U.S. Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Algeria Ulrich Haynes told The Miami Hurricane in an exclusive interview.
Haynes, 52, entered the critical stage of the negotiations in the fall of 1980 when the United States “made the decision to utilize the good offices of the government of Algeria."
The former diplomat said the decision to ask Algeria for help, which triggered the release of the 52 hostages after 444 days of captivity, was a belated one.
Haynes
"Early in the spring of 1980 1 had suggested that we approach the Algerians to see whether they would play this role because at that time, our relations with Algeria had improved substantially and they were friendly both with the United States government and with the government of Iran,” Haynes said
“However a decision was made to use other approaches, including — unfortunately — the approach of military intervention Eventually the U.S. governement made the decision to ask the Algerians to help
and they agreed
“I can say categorically that without their help the hostages would not be free today." Haynes said
Several factors conspired to make the negotiations an extremely difficult process, he said
“The two adversaries, the United States and Iran, had never met each other face to face," Haynes said
The former diplomat denounces the act of breaking off diplomatic relations except in time of war as counterproductive. “If ever there is a need to open communication channels it's during just such crises," he said.
That put an added burden on the Algerians, who acted as the go-between, according to Haynes.
“They had to not only translate the mesages from one adversary to another, but they also had to interpret, and interpret accurately, what each party was trying to accomplish," he said "The fact that they
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Jokanson loves 6	9
By SALLY SPITZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
In today's fast moving society, it is often intriguing to look into the past and locate the origin of man
"There is an insatiable urge to know something about the unknown," said anthropologist Donald C. Jo-hanson. finder of the most complete and oldest hominid (human) skeleton.
Johanson, director of the Institute of Human Origins, talked to members of the press about his findings of ‘Lucy.’ He said that they termed the fossils ’Lucy’ because, while on the dig, he was listening to the Bea-tle’s Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds when someone suggested that the findings needed a nickname. "Lucy just seemed to stick," he commented.
'Lucy', he said, is forty percent complete, which is the most complete fossil that has been discovered. The human-like skeleton is three to three and a half million years old. This find, along with a group of 13 individuals called the "first family" were found in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974.
Johanson explained that after detailed study, they were able to determine that this specimen "differed in significant ways from other collection of fossils in the direction ot being more primitive or less derived."
He said, because they are different from already recognized species, they deserve a new species name. The new species of hominid was termed Australopithecus afarensis. The species was named afarensis because they were located in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
The next step in the process, he said, was to find where this new species fit on the family tree. “In a 1979 science article, we presented a family tree in which this new species occupied the trunk of the tree,” he said.
However, this caused much controvery, especially among the South Africans. “We removed the South African apeman to the side branch and no longer considered it to be on the ancestral line to modem human, which emphasized brain expansion,” Johanson said.
He stated that South Africans still believe the Afri-canos belonged on the direct line. However, he added that they have enough evidence to show that that species was already moving in “the direction of vegetarian specialization."
Johanson explained that his job, along with his colleagues, is to bind together the lineage between ape man and true man between two and three million years ago.
Although ’Lucy’ was found in 1974, the group went on subsequent expedition between 1975 and 1977, in which they found many more specimens of the same species. In the spring of ‘82. after extensive study, they published a monograph explaining the anatomical characters.
When asked about how life existed during the time of ‘Lucy’, Johanson replied that it probably “wasn’t a bowl of cherries.” He explained the differences that existed in the sizes of males and females.
“ ’Lucy' was probably three and a half feet tall, in her mid-twenties, and weighed between 50 and 55 pounds. Males were probably about five feet tall and weighed almost 100 pounds,” he said.
The reasoning behind this theory is that males were more defensive, while women were small for reproductive reasons, he said.
In the baboon society Johanson said that there was a lot of ’’intra-group aggression.” He said that the males used their large canines to keep peace within the group and to ward off other males from prospective females. He pointed out that these action resemble a type of social behavior.
In the early hominids, Johanson said that the size of the canine in males has reduced in size. "This is reflec-
tive of important social changes within those groups," he said.
One of these changes, he said, is that the members in the group became monogomous (the state of being married to one person at a time). "In early hominids. this reduced the necessity for large canines in males," he said
Through his findings and extensive research, Johanson believes that “our ancestors demonstrate that there is a single or continuing origin for the human family. This single origin contributes to the commonality of mankind "
Upon his findings of Lucy', Johanson published a book in collaboration with Maitland Edey entitled Lucy; The Beginnings of Humankind. In 1982 this publication received the American Book Award in the science category.
He has also completed several films for PBS and the National Geographic Society and is currently hosting the PBS program, Nature, a 13-part BBC and Partridge television series produced and directed for PBS by WNF.T/13. New York
Senate tables bill due to of late changes
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane News Editor
A vote which tabled a bill that would have set the dates for spring elections may have killed the bill at the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Senate meeting Wednesday.
The motion to table the bill was made by Senator Mark Cheskin because, he said, it had become hopelessly confused due to too many changes.
“Right now, for us to try to vote on something as complicated as this calendar isn't really possible," Cheskin said
Eric Lieberman, Speaker of the Senate, said that this particular bill could not be saved and that another one, containing the same dates as the old one, will be brought up before the Senate’s rules and calendar committee.
“The purpose of the committee is so that eight, |or| nine senators could get the chance to see the bill and have time to debate it," Cheskin said “The first time we saw it was now.
“I didn't like the fact that they set February first thru the fifteenth for SEC [Student Entertainment Committee) screening and it's already February second
“I was also not happy with the fact that they changed the calendar for us two minutes before the meeting," he said.
However, the same bill may be facing the senators at their next meeting.
"It’s going to go to the rules and calendar committee, but I see no changes that are necessary," said Chairman of the Elections Commission Kirk Harum “This is just not possible with the calendar that we have, what with Carni Gras and what the commission is trying to do in terms of controlling the overspending."
Although some of the changes that were made were last minute changes. Harum said he didn't “see any problems” with getting the changes through the commission.
Any changes that may come, will come from the floor of the senate, Harum said. “The senate has control over that I have no control over that." he said
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The national champion Miami Hurricanes prepare to open the regular season against the third-ranked Arizona State Sun Devil* /PAGE 8
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Entertainment /PAGE S Classified»/PAGE 10
By LOURDES FERRER
Hurricane Staff Writer
Do you need advice on a legal problem or have any grievances with the University's administration? Student Rights Agency takes an interest in students and acts as a link between UM students and the administration itself.
S.R.A. is an independent agency of the Undergraduate Student Government at UM and is funded by full-time undergraduate students through their student activity fee. The agency is authorized only to handle problems dealing with the undergraduate students.
"We act as advisors,"said S.R.A. Chairman Stacy Lipner. By knowing "what's going on and what to expect” S.R.A. is able to advise and help solve problems students may encounter.
S.R.A. tries to understand questions and problems students face and seek to solve grievances students may have while attending the
University.
“We are the intermediator," said Lipner. "We know a faster way to get things done since we know what is going on and what to expect."
Among its responsibilities, S.R.A advises undergraduate students of their rights and responsibilities in the University disciplinary system The agency has a lawyer-on-retainer which gives free legal advice to students who have a problem.
They also counsel students charged with minor disciplinary violations and refer students charged with major disciplinary violations to the Student's Defense Corps.
Furthermore, S.R.A. monitors and reports on violations of due process or of fundamental procedural requirements to the appropriate bodies and offices
S.R.A. also monitors and recommends changes in current University disciplinary policies and procedures to the USBG Senate as an external response action The agen-
cy’s emphasis this semester will be on cheating, especially in cases where teachers give the same exam each semester Their primary goal will be to make the University administration aware of the issue and request action be taken to solve the current problem.
S.R.A. also administers the Undergraduate Student Body Government’s Bail-Bond program through an off-campus agency and serves as a collateral to any UM full-time undergraduate student.
Last summer, S.R.A. members put together a booklet dealing with specific subjects of interest and importance to UM students. It was directly influenced by students themselves who suggested ideas on current problems and needs.
"The booklet focuses on students' needs and explains issues and questions they do not understand in easier terms,”said Lipner “It is our business to try to understand the problems and questions our students lace."
UM President Foote said the booklet was "a big step forward."
UM Vice President William R Butler agreed.“The booklet contains a great deal of very helpful information and will serve as a valuable resource, not only to students, but to all of us in the University," he said.
UM Provost and Executive Vice President William F. Lee III said it was obvious a great deal of time and effort went into the preparation of this document. He was impressed with the clarity and format in which the information was presented.
During Students Rights and Crime Awareness week last semester, 1.000 copies of the booklets were given out in Residence Halls Copies can be picked up at the S.R.A. office.
S.R.A. is made up of 15 commissioners and an unlimited number of appointees. No membership fee is
required. „	___
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