Miami Hurricane, November 08, 1983

              HURRICANES TAKE BOUNTY — PAGE 8
RSMAS Breaks Ground for Building
By LOURDES FERRER and
RODOLFO CASTANEDA
0/ the Hurricane Staff
A ceremony was held (or a new building on the Virginia Key campus of the University of Miami's Rosen-stiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)on Friday.
The groundbreaking ceremony was for 'he Science and Administration Building — a modern I :ility that will provide laboratory, library, classroom, nd office space for the expanding research and education programs at RSMAS.
"It was a lovely celebration for the start of an important new addition to the school," said Barbara Hertz, new director of development for RSMAS.
She says construction of the building will begin right away.
Dean Alan Berman of the Rosenstiel School and UM President Edward T. Foote II opened the ceremony.
Others participating included Metro Mayor Steve Clark: Rep Michael Friedman, member of the Education Committee of the Florida House of Representatives; James McLamore, chairman of UM Board of Trustees; Maurice Greenbaum, secretary of the Rosenstiel Foundation; and Max Abramovitz and Gerald I. Schiff, architects of the New York firm Abramovitz-Harris-Kingsland.
RSMAS has a faculty of 75 scientists. There are 165 students studying for advanced degrees in marine science and in applied marine science, and the support staff numbers 180.
‘It was a lovely celebration for the start of an important new addition to the school.’
Barbara Hertz Director of development
Berman has proposed a plan for the development of RSMAS over the next few years that will almost double the numbers of faculty and students, and will greatly enhance the institution's research capability.
The $7 5 million building, which is Phase III in the institution's seven-step plan for modernization and development. will be the gateway to the campus. It will rise two floors above a parking area for 100 automobiles, and will provide 70,000 square feet of space
The building's first level will house administrative offices, classrooms, and a library. The second level will be devoted to laboratory space for analytical marine biology and chemistry.
fhe building will be constructed by Stobs Brothers Construction of Miami. Hufsey-Nicolaides Associates of Miami are the mechanical engineers, and Brill Engineering. also of Miami, will oversee structural engineering
Abramovitz-llarris-Kingsland developed the Rosenstiel School’s master plan and designed the building
Miami Hurricane/RODOLFO CASTAÑEDA
(second from right) lead the
Dean Berman (far left) and President Foote groundbreaking ceremony
OB Princess Torneo: dreams do come true
By LOURDES FERRER
Hurricane Associate News Editor
Can it be? Yes, dreams do come true. At least for 20-year-old Kimberly Tomeo, a junior at the University of Miami studying early childhood elementary education.
She pursued her dream to be an Orange Bowl princess and became one with hard work and dedication.
Since she watched the parades as a teenager, Kimberly has wanted to be a "prtncrHs." So it is no wonder how she set out to accomplish her goal.
On Oct. 8. Kimberly was named one of five princesses to represent the Orange Bowl's golden anniversary celebration.
“It's a fantastic honor . ... I'm ecstatic . . .1 was on cloud nine for days," she said.
"I love the city of Miami. This is the way I can return what it means to me — by letting them know this is the place to be It’s a beautiful
city."
The first time she entered the competition, during her sophomore year at UM, Kimberly ranked in the top 30 of 110 girls who applied This time, however, Kimberly did not make the court.
Although she lost, she knew she would apply again this year. Kimberly said it was a learning experience for her because she was able to come back this year much better prepared.
Later, she learned, she said, that one of the reasons she lost was because she was a Hurricanette and the Orange Bowl Committee did not want any conflict of interests. The committee wanted the winner to be able to dedicate all of her time to Orange Bowl festivities.
Among the tasks she set for herself, Kimberly kept up daily with current events by reading the newspaper
She chose not to enter the Miss UM Pageant or continue with the Hurricanettes this year so she could dedicate more time to the more important priority in her life — becoming a princess.
Kimberly said she never expected to win, although she gave it her best.
The competition, she said, was not at all easy. It took a lot of positive thinking. She entered the contest with the attitude that she could not lose anything
Her boyfriend, she said, gave her the encourgement she needed. He was her “coach and moral support."
Kimberly won a new wardrobe and $1,000 to spend as she pleases.
Kimberly Tomeo
Kimberly might enter the competition again next year to become queen. (She can be princess only
once.)
As a result of her experience, she said, “I'm able to talk to people a lot better. I'm less intimidated by others."
Kimberly said that being a princess could open up wonderful opportunities for her such as it has to Orange Bowl princesses before her — like “Dallas’s" Victoria Principal and “PM Magazine's" Katrina Daniels.
Of the Orange Bowl Committee, she said: "They treat us like princesses and queens, and they take care of us." And that kind of attention, along with meeting new people and having a good time, is what Kimberly likes.
Kimberly is actively involved in
UM.
She is secretary of the Student Alumni Association, little sister of Sigma Chi fraternity, a UM Golden Girl (sideline dancer for Howling Hurricanes), and a sister at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She will be chairman for Olympic Day during Greek Week next semester. She was director of this year’s Miss UM Pageant.
Kimberly teaches two- and three-year-olds at Canterbury Day Care Center. She also dances jazz and ballet.
Kimberly is originally from Richmond, Conn.; she moved to Fort Lauderdale when she was nine. She now lives on campus. To qualify, the contestants have only to reside in Miami during the Orange Bowl festivities.
She will be involved with the annual Orange Bowl New' Year’s Eve parade and the football game on Jan. 2.
Inside
College Roundup
Updated news on the draft law and how it applies to financial aid; also, other news from schools around the country /Page 3
Is logic logical?
Alex Saitta looks at professors who rely on one-sided logic to condemn the beliefs of others /Page 4
Mad Love
The play, performed at Brockway Hall, is reviewed in Pulse /Page 6
Nine in a row
The Hurricanes do it again — just barely /Page 8
Miami Hurricane/Kndolfo Castañeda
Orange Bowl-bound?
UM safety Eddie Williams holds up an orange thrown onto the field after Saturday’s 12-7 victory over East Carolina. Game story on Page 8.
The Institute of Inter-American Studies has been granted a five-year grant of $250,000 for the development of Cuban sudies at the University of Miami.
Dr. Jaime Suchlicki, director of the Institute and managing editor of the Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, is spearheading the Cuban Studies Project. The project, which began this wm"ster, will run for at least another five years.
“The main objective of the project is lo develop and promote Cuban studies at the undergraduate level in the University ol Miami." said Suchlicki. “The grant came from a private donor who is very interested in supporting this kind of development."
The immediate objectives of the program are to increase the number of courses offered at an undergraduate level, to hold a series of lectures throughout the year in order to raise awareness and interest in Cuban history among the student population as well as the community at large, and to publish a yearly monograph on a historical subject relating to the Cuban past.
Under the auspices of the departments of history and Latin American studies, Suchlicki teaches History of Cuba every spring It is the only undergraduate level course on Cuban history.
"We would like to add more course offerings so that the students can acquire a better understanding and appreciation of Cuban history and culture,"said Suchlicki.
Suchlicki will be proposing at least two new course offerings in th* near future. "History of Cuban Culture" is a course which, according to Suchlicki, “will highlight the rich cultural heritage of Cuba as expressed in its literature, music and education and will focus on the figures that have made major contributions in these fields "
Another course, to be called "Cuba in the 20th Century,” will examine the development of modern Cuba since its independence
Already, two lectures are scheduled to be held this semester us part ol the series of lectures sponsored by the Cuban Studies Project
Dr. Luis Aguilar, professor of history at Georgetown University, and Dr. Carlos Ripoll, from Queens College in New York, will be coming to campus. Exact dates are not yet known, but the lectures will be announced.
"Through this project,"said Suchlciki,"we hope to establish a great and increasingly valuable resource for the Cuban people here in Miami and for all others who are concerned with preserving and understanding the rich heritage of the Cuban nation "
By CHIQLT C ARTAGENA
Hurricane Staff Writer
Cuban studies to begin at UM
Lecture focuses on segregation
in schools
By PETER P. PERMUY
Hurricane AMl'.siuni News Editor
According to J. Morgan Kouss-ner, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Ed ucation (1954) could have occurred 100 years ago.
This, in turn, could have quick-
ened the needed rehuul of the racially discriminating American school system, which denied blacks equality of education, and thus opportunity, by legally advocating segregation in schools under the “separate but equal" doctrine established in the 1896 landmark case
Foreign policy discussed
By CHIQUICARTAGENA
Hurricane Staff Writer
The differences and similarities of policies of different administrations toward the Middle East was the gist of a lecture last Thursday by Dr. Bernard Reich, consultant to the U S. State Department.
Dr. Haim Shaked, director of the Middle East program, introduced Reich to the varied crowd of students, professors and other professionals that filled the recently redecorated conference room. After citing some of Reich's most notable publications, Shaked briefly reviewed his extensive background and experience in the area
As Reich commenced his lecture, he made his objectives very clear. “I’m here to talk about U S. foreign policy." he said,“not to talk for or against it."
Describing the area as one "where four shooting wars are going on," and where many other elements of Instability must be taken into consideration. Reich reviewed the history of U S. relations with the Middle East since World War II
"The U.S. is a relative newcomer to the Middle East," said Reich. From the post-war years to the present, however, the United States has become a major power in the area, according to Reich.
How and why has this area become so important to the United States? Why are we there now, and why should we continue to be there? These were some of the questions Reich addressed in his lecture.
Reich, former chairman of the department of political science at George Washington University, continues to teach at GWU and is also a member of the board of governors of the Middle East Institute
The ongoing lecture series being held at the Graduate School of International Studies features internationally renowned specialists in world affairs
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Blessy vs. Ferguson
But It didn't happen that way It look the United States quite a while to realize that school segregation was a constitutional and ethical no-no
Yet Kousser. a distinguished American historian and nationally recognized expert on desegregation, pointed to a history of 70 19th-century school racial discrimination cases occurring In 21 states
In his paper, entitled “Dead End: The Development of 19th Century Litigation on Racial Discrimination in Schools," he presents a catalog of such cases.
Blacks made an honest and hard-worked effort at eliminating legal segregation since the first half of the 19th century, but to no avail
They were constantly hampered by lack of funding, prevailing white maliciousness, and their inability to appeal to higher levels of jurisdk-tion or to organize because of their dispersed population and limited economic freedom
They did manage to win more
than half of the cases but that proved unimportant
Whites used several techniques to circumvent the blacks' efforts A Boston opinion poll concluded that recently refurbished black schools were equal to those of whites
Another case, in Georgia, ruled that a local school board was justified in discontinuing a black high school due to a shortage of funds for white schools
From the 1840s to the 1950s whites insidiously granted blacks their own schools to prevent integration And. finally, the Plessy case held that segregation was proper under separate but equal facilities
By the 1890s, however, the U.S Supreme Court faced several precedents that went against segregation
Still, it was a long way to 1954. when they outlawed segregation via the Broun case, said Kousser.
“One thing I learned from re-searching this area," said Kousser 'is that there is nothing new under the sun "
Editor elections
The Student Board of Publications will be holding elections on Nov. 22 for the spring Miami Hurricane editor in chief and business manager
All those interested in running must complete an application beforehand and go through an interview process Applications may be obtained from Kaymonde Bilger in the Student Affairs Office. Ashe 244 Students must have a at least a 2.5 grade point average to run Both the editor and business manager receive full tuition and a stipend. The business manager will also serve the Ibis yearbook