Miami Hurricane, April 23, 1982

              Kick A rima il, Assistant To The Vice President, Will New Post At Nebraska Wesleyan University
Miami Hurricane/JEEF GOTTLIEB
Be Leaving UM Por A
By HOWARD BURNS
Contributing Editor
The student body at the University of Miami is losing a very good friend.
Dr. Richard B. (Rick) Artman, assistant to the vice president of student affairs, and student ombudsman, will be leaving the university effective May 1 to become vice president of student affairs at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Artman's departure signals the end of a 16-year relationship with the University of Miami as both a student and administrator.
Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. William R. Butler, the man who Artman credits as being his mentor, said of his outgoing colleague: “I am extremely proud of Rick's appointment. I know that he will represent the student affairs profession, and his alma mater |UM| extremely well.
18 Nationalities In One UMClass
By CRISTINA NOSTI
News Writer
Over the last five weeks, a special training class on tropical meteorology and hurricane forecasting has been in process.
Apart from the fact that the course is sponsored by the University of Miami, the U.N International Affairs Division of NOAA and the World Meteorological Organization and is the only one of its kind offered in any institution in the United States, the class is special because of its diversity.
When the class was being organized, it was decided that there would be no more than 20 students accepted. The students were to be chosen from a group of professional meteorologists with a degree in meteorology or a related field, and who were working in national services or institutions concerned with tropical cyclone forecasting in regions affected by these low-pressure systems.
The prerequisites were filled slowly as applicants from all over the world were chosen. The result is a class which began March 1, is in session now, and will end May 7.
The class consists of 18 men from 18 different nations. The men, aged 28 thru 48, are from all parts of the globe. Costa Rica, Liberia, the Philippines, Mexico, Hong Kong, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Bangladesh, Antigua, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Fiji, Venezuela, Barbados, Thailand, Zimbabwe and El Salvador are represented.
The course itself is conducted in English and consists of various lectures and exercises divided into three sections.
The first five weeks were spent studying broadscale tropical storm features, and lectures were conducted primarily by Dr. Neil Frank, Director of the National Hurricane Center and staff in Florida. Track prediction, storm surge, storm intensity prediction, rainfall estimation and preparedness were all covered by Frank and his staff; a special lecture was given by Dr. Mariano Kstoque from the Remote Sensing Lab.
Lectures in the next two weeks were conducted by Dr. R.K. Datta from the Meteorological Service of India and Dr. R. DeGuzman from the Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and dealt with monsoons and typhoons in the Far East and some small scale weather features of the tropics.
Topics in the last three weeks of the course, which are now in process, will be handled by Dr. H. W. Hiser of the Remote Sensing Lab and Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Miami and will cover radar and satellite meteorology.
When commenting on the class, Hiser referred to the participants as a select bunch of students and a professional group.” He was genuinely interested in "passing on experience and knowledge and making it applicable.”
The students themselves appeared eager to take on this knowledge their professor was offering. Paul B. Boyan of Robertsfield, Liberia said, "The course is very interesting for people who had no knowledge of the Ideas presented before they came.”
Alfredo Rivas Lopez, from Caracas, Venezuela said, "The course has supplied us with many opportunities to deal with specialists and meteorologists from other countries.”
Enrique Camarillo-Cruz, from Mexico City, Mexico added, "This is a practical training course not normally obtained. The operational aspects discussed help to unify old techniques and discover new ones.”
Jaime Francisco Bucoy, from the Philippines, seems especially excited about what the course has offered him. "Everything is applicable to my country,” he said. "Although these topics wouldn't be of Interest to many, they have improved my knowledge, and 1 appreciate the fact that this course is offered to the Philippine cities."
“The lecturers are very dedicated,” said Ma-rufu C. Zinyowera of Salisbury, Zimbabwe.
Akram Hossain Md. from Pabna, Bangladesh said, “Monsoons have been discussed in this class and Bangladesh is affected by these.Thal makes the course purposeful.”
Apparently, the course has been successful so far, and promises to end on a good note also. The students all seem to have gotten something from the class and their stay here in the University of Miami.
“You have very good facilities here at the university. The library, the tennis courts, the pool, the food," said Hunberto Gonzalez Mar-entes of the Dominican Republic. “I’ve really enjoyed them all.”
“I liked Miami Beach so much!” said Eul Young Chung of Seoul, Korea. “It is one of the three most famous beaches in the world. I read about it. You should be proud."
All of the students will be taking some very valuable information back with them to their respective countries, and euch will apply what he has learned In his own way.
Speaker Attacks U.S., Arab Policies
By MARY CRONIN
Head News Writer
Noted Middle East scholar Dr. Fouad Ajami criticized America's role in the Middle East and the governments of the Arab world in a lecture Tuesday afternoon at the Center For Advanced International Studies.
The United States, Ajami said, continues to make the same foreign policy mistakes that it has for
years.
"The Persian Gulf has become a geopolitical contest because, in our | American- minds it has become our own," he said. Even those nations who are leaders of non-intervention movements do not mind the United States in the Persian Gulf, he added, because of the oil.
“We no longer have a foreign aid package, we have a security package, with the most advanced weapons," he said.
The United States continues to involve itself in various Middle Eastern nations, he said, despite requests from the Saudis to “be discreet.”
He directed his criticisms against American intervention not just in Saudi Arabia, but in most Middle East nations.
"We continue to shore up dictators, even though they have feet of clay,” he said, adding that “we loved Sadat so much that he forgot who his own people were," and, he added wryly, “when the end came, Barbara Walters was not even there to cover it.”
Although Ajami criticized the United States role in the Middle East, most of his criticisms were directed toward the current governments of Arab nations, and the problems of the West Bank.
Oil, he said, provides a feeling of power for Arabs, “but the West Bank shows the weakness of the Arab world,” he said.
The fact that Menachi-m Begin annexed the Golan Heights from a wheelchair, he said, showed the
Arab world that they either need to get together on issues or “fall apart."
“Lenin said, 'If you want to make an omelette, you must break eggs.' The Arabs not only have broken eggs, but they have killed the chicken, too,” he said.
Arabs, he added, feel a gap because of what they think they can be and what they know they are.
The West Bank problem, Ajami added, is a serious one for Arabs, Israelis and the United States.
For the first time, Ajami said, the big question of the Middle East is that of Palestine.
“In preceeding Middle Eastern phases, the question of Palestine
was not the dominant question," he said, adding “it lay dormant from 1948-67.
“It's not that others |Arabs- love Palestinians so much, but rather that you can’t impose a nineteenth-century form of rule on the Palestinians today," he said.
By far the biggest problem is the West Bank, he stated, and it is the Palestinian people themselves who are, he said, caught in the middle of a power play.
"Palestine and the Palestinians have always been pawns, maneuvered by kings and armies. The Arabs have always had a series of policies over Palestine. Syrians, Ira-quis and Jordanians have all had ap-petities for Palestine," he said.
The Palestinians should be worried about the Jordanians. Adjami said. King Hussein controlled the West Bank for many years, he added, so would he not want the West Bank again?
What is needed for a Palestinian solution, Adjami said, is a safety net over the Palestinians. This, he said, would be in the form of joint support of the Palestinians by both Egypt and Saudi Arabia.These two nations, he said, have no direct claim to Palestine.
Ajami said he believes that the Palestinians are ready, and have been ready, for a peace settlement, but every time they try to achieve one the Syrians and the Iraqis will not allow it.
“He has been |an administrator! at the university for 10 years in many different assignments, and I will be losing an extremely effective colleague and personal friend
"|His departurel is going to be a loss not only for me, but for the entire university. I am very happy for his new professional opportunity."
The Hurricane had the opportunity to meet with Artman this past Monday and share with him his recollections of the past 16 years at the university.
Hurricane; What changes have you seen at the university since you were a student?
Artman: The first thing I think of is residence halls. There was no visitation. There was a space where somebody walking by could look in and make sure there was nothing going on that wasn't supposed to be going on.
Of course, Physical Plant — there was no Rathskeller, there was no Gusman; '68 and 960 were just being built. We lost parking lots. We did have more parking lots then, but I think the campus is much more beautiful today than it was then.
Student life has changed through the spans of time from the days of student unrest through today. From one standpoint it is certainly milder around campus, but 1 think the students themselves have changed from a more social priority to an academic priority.
Students are more career-oriented; more concerned about graduate school; more competition among students to compete for grades and
achievements.
H: How do you explain that change?
As a new direction is being set for the university, a smaller institution with higher standards; then how do we in student affairs fit in with that different type of institution.
I think our basic mission . . to provide opportunities for growth and development will continue, but how we do that and in what ways we have to sit down and define.
H: With enrollment going down and tuition going up, would the future of the university be considered bleak at this point?
A: No, I don't think so. Half my life has been at the University of Miami. I'm ,13 years old. I started as a freshman in '66, and I just feel a lot of love and devotion for the university.
I think we’ve got a great future ahead. We may be a little bit of a different type of institution. I’ve never been bothered by the kind of institution we were.
As a student here, I thought it gave me great opportunities for development. growth and leadership, and for me that was the most important thing. I got a good education. but my education, I think, took place outside the classroom.
I don't think there's anything wrong with having students with average SA T scores come here, and having them leave having grown an extra dimension as opposed to having all students who scored 1400 on their SATs and having them leave with not much growth.
The city’s problems have permeated into the university temporarily, but I think we are going to come out strong. I really do
II: How do you characterize the administration s ruiationsUio with the student body? Is the communication process really working?
‘The largest group I’ve yet to mention are the students. The relationships, the trust; the respect that they’ve shown me, and what I’ve tried to contribute in return, have been the greatest memories. On some cold nights in Nebraska I’ll have a lot of warm memories of the University of Miami.’
Kick Artman fairs
Assistant to the Vice President For Student Af-
Miami Hurricane/JEFF GOTTLIEB
Noted Scholar Fouad Ajami Criticized The Arab Nations In \ Speech Tuesday \l lite (.enter For Advanced International Studies.
A: I think the economy, the change in priorities for the university toward academics — I think there’s a big influence there.
I think students who have seen big brothers or sisters, or observed the Vietnam era, the protest era; even today, you see those people who were activist then are into the corporate structure, so maybe they've seen what the results were.
I think students today are more self-centered. The "me" generation really was accurate, a good descriptor of the late seventies where individuals were not so much concerned about groups . people want more freedom on their own. Students are more concerned about themselves, and where they’re headed.
H: How can the university make students more optimistic about the future?
A: One thing we can do is try to provide the opportunity for students to gain the skills that they will need to compete after graduation. and that's done in the classrooms and outside the classrooms.
We should be trying to train and equip students for skills that they will need in their future; decisionmaking skills, understanding their values, what makes them happy, what are their peak experiences, how do they relate with people, how to accept the consequences of their behavior and their decisions; .
. . it's better that they learn now than making those kind of mistakes later on.
II: With the recession and extensive budget cuts, how adverse do you think the effects will be on the student affairs department?
A: Well, it’s hard to say what the impact is going to be right now. We in student affairs have to look at what we have left, where the strengths and weaknesses are and where our priorities are, and then shift energies and manpower to where those priorities are.
That's something that Dr. Butler needs to look at once the | school | year is finished and he knows exactly who's returning. |He must| take a look at what we're doing now that we ought not to be doing for the future, and what aren’t we doing that we should be doing — that's the key question that we have to look at
A: I think we try. Maybe sometimes we're not as effective as we’d want to be, but I think the different things we do in student affairs are geared to try to improve communication.
The problem is that we’re a huge organization, and so we have a lot of specialty areas. Sometimes we don't communicate as well within the administration as we should, and students visibly can see that sometimes they get caught in that miscommunication where one department is doing one thing and another department is doing something else.
I think that things like the president's breakfast which were initiated by Dr. Stanford and are continuing under President Foote is an excellent vehicle to get grass roots student opinion.
I hope that the ombudsman program will continue, which I have been actively involved in. I think that is a good input mechanism for us in the administration to hear where the problems are from students.
I think the student newspaper helps to keep the communication going. Administrators do read the student newspaper. especially things like letters to the editor where the students express their concerns about the environment.
We in student affairs have a student on every standing committee that's in our division, and I think that’s good input.
I think we have good relationships with all the student governments . . . and they know that the doors are open and that the channels are there.
H: What are your feelings toward the Faculty Senate's attempt to define "good academic standing"?
A: Like the Hurricane |house| editorial last week, I am in agreement with the spirit and the intent of the legislation. I'm not sure what the implications are for every student organization and how it defines representing the university.
I don't know If we've really looked at every implication of that policy. I think the spirit is right, and I also agree that we ought to “grandfather” things for students who are already here under a certain set of conditions
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Battle Of Bands Tonight
Those students who participated in the Fall 1982 Registration must return the yellow confirmation card to the registrar's office on or before July 1 2 in order for the University to reserve your course selection.
The Battle of the Bands takes place tonight at 7:00 p.m. on the patio. The bottle will feature a variety of local and student musicians. Join hosts Theo Sofia and Greg Spiegel for this action-packed evening. Be there. Aloha!
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Friday, April 23. 1982
Volume 58, No.49
Phone 284 4401
Memories In Hand, Artman Bids Adieu