Miami Hurricane, November 23, 1982

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1982
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Miami Win Doesn’t Bowl Anyone Over
Fraternity And Sorority Membership Rising At UM Despite National Trend
By SALLY SPITZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
While fraternities and sororities across the nation report decreases in membership, participation in the University of Miami Greek system is steadily on the rise.
Dianne Regalado, rush chairperson for Panhellenic, reported a five-percent increase in sorority pledges from 1980 to 1981 and an eight-percent increase from 1981 to 1982.
Interfratemity Council (IFC) Vice President Mark LaFerrara reported larger increases for UM fratemities: 23 percent from 1980 to 1981 and 18 percent this year.
Both Regalado and LaFerrara attributed the increases to hard work on the part of the fraternities and sororities themselves.
“Because Miami is not a college town like Gainsville," LaFerrara explained, “we need to work a little harder to get people to come look at us.”
Regalado said that because of UM's location and high commuter enrollment, she was surprised that UM fraternities and sororities have seen their memberships climb.
Regalado attributed the national decline in Greek membership to — among other things — the increasing costs of education.
“People will go to a local home college and therefore feel they don't need to join a sorority or fraternity," she said.
She also suggested that students' need for individualism might have affected Greek enrollment.
“The trend nowadays is that people feel that they don't need to join a group,” she said. "It’s being played up to be your own self.”
However, Regalado said. UM sororities are trying to make individualism a priority — one they can use to attract pledges.
“Our goal,” she said, “is 'Be Independent — Join a Sorority.’ ”
LaFerrara said that the dormitories in many schools are filling the social void for many students.
“Fraternities used to fill the need for group involvement," he said. “The residence halls are now implementing that idea by having a lot of floor activities.”
LaFerrara said fraternities nationwide have received a poor reputation — an unfair one — for hazing. Hazing, he said, is often performed by local fraternities which are not under the auspices of the IFC, but “publicity blames the fraternities in general."
LaFerrara said that th^ majority of UM fraternities are regulated by the IFC
Regalado said she has been surprised by the number of articles concerning Greek hazing
“There is not one sorority on the UM campus, under Panhellenic. that hazes,” she said
Both fraternities and sororities at the University of Miami work throughout the year to increase membership. However, fall and spring rush periods prove to be the true tests for sororities and fraternities.
Fall rush is the more extensive of the two, mainly because of the annual freshman crop. Regalado and LaFerrara said that during the summer they send mailouts which explain all about the individual sororities and fraternities and about Greek life in general
Although the fraternities have a week of informal rush, during which they hold parties open to the entire UM campus, they also have a three-day intensive formal rush “This is for those students who show a definite interest in pledging,” LaFerrara said.
The sororities also have a formal rush during the fall, during which the girls get to spend time with each of the individual sororities.
Both LaFerrara and Regalado said spring rush is less involved than fall rush.
Sorority spring rush is "basically for girls who already know a lot about the sororities,” Regalado said And this academic year’s sorority
Decline In Interest
Helps Student
By KATHERINE MILAZZO
(CPS) — Declining interest rates may help “take the heat off” government efforts to cut federal student aid programs, and could even awaken the little-used Parent Loan Program on which the Reagan administration once pinned its hopes.
“For every percentage point that the prime rate |of interest that banks charge] goes down, the federal government saves $200 million on the cost of Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs),” estimates Charles Treadwell of the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation.
Students get GSLs at nine percent interest rates, but the government pays the nine percent to the bank that issues the GSL while students are still in school.
The government also pays the bank the difference between nine percent and the interest the bank charges other customers, which over the last few years has hovered at around 14 percent.
In recent weeks, banks in some parts of the country have lowered their prime interest rates — the interest they charge their best customers — to 12.5 percent
“The real effect" of the lower rates, says Dallas Martin of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, “is that we don’t need to change the student loan program or eliminate any program" because the government will be spending less money on it.
“I can’t predict how the administration would have reacted." adds Doug Seipelt of the Colorado Guaranteed Student Loan Agency, which solicits banks willing to make GSLs, “but if interest rates had stayed up, some people would have liked to restrict the number of students in the program."
The most dramatic effect on students themselves, many observers feel, will be in short-term PLUS — or Parent — Loans.
In the PLUS program, the government guarantees the loan, which borrowers get at current market interest rates. The government, moreover, does not pay the interest while the student is in school.
The Reagan administration once had high hopes for the Parent Loan program, which is cheaper for the government to run than the GSL program
The administration had hoped to force students out
spring rush — to be held Jan. 9-12 — will be different from previous spring rushes. Instead of serving full meals, as they do during fall rush, the sororities are going to offer just punch and dessert.
Sororities set up a sign-up table in the Student Union Breezeway for both rush periods. Sign-up for next semester’s spring rush will be up Dec. 3,.6 and 7.
Regalado said that there will be a $2 commitment fee upon sign-up.
“That way, people aren’t going to sign up if they don’t want to," she said.
The fee, Regalado said, will help pay for the cost of mailing the summer flyers
Rates Aid Programs
of GSLs into Parent Loans, but at 14 percent interest, the Parent Loans have been roundly ignored
With the decline in the prime rate. Parent Loans have recently dropped to 12 percent interest rates, however.
“The bright effect of the lowered rate is in the PLUS program." confirms Joe Henry of the Higher Educational Assistance Foundation. “We hope participation in that aspect of the loan program will increase.”
It probably won’t increase enough to bring some people back into college, however. “In my opinion it is a reduced cost, but two percent doesn’t have any real meaning for enrollment,” said Colorado’s Seipelt
Even GSL volume has been down, despite the lower nine percent interest.
Seipelt’s group found 28 percent fewer students took out GSLs in the fiscal year that ended Sept 30 1982
Most administrators blame the program's decline on the new “needs test" begun on October 1, 1981 Since then, students from families earning more than $30,000 a year have had to demonstrate financial need for a GSL before getting one
"Congress got exactly the result it wanted when it passed the needs law," Henry complains.
But Treadwell blames only “about half" the decline on the needs test.
“Because of poor information, students assumed that they were not eligible, and they haven’t even bothered to apply for a guaranteed student loan."
jVo Hurricane Until Dec. 3
Because of the Thanksgiving recess. The Miami Hurricane will not publish on Friday, November 2fi and Tuesday. November 30.
The Hurricane will return to the stands for a final issue of the semester on December 3.
The editors and staff of the Miami Hurricane wish the entire university community a Happy Thanksgiving
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurruanr Sport* Editor
Two freshman quarterback^ combined for 229 yards and three touchdown passes to lead Miami to a 41-3 football victory over the North Carolina State Wolfpack Saturday in the Orange Bowl
But the win lost some of its sparkle when it was learned Sunday that the Hall of Fame Bowl, the last of three bowls considering the Hurricanes, instead chose to invite Air Force to face Vanderbilt Dec 31 in Birmingham. Ala
"Our players went into this gami-knowing that getting into a bowl was a long shot but that we had the opportunity to win our sixth game of the year.” said UM Coach Howard Schnellenberger
The Hurricanes won in a most convincing manner, bringing their two-game losing skid to a screeching halt before more than 20.000 fans in the Orange Bowl
“After one month of starvation, we finally found the nourishment to win big." Schnellenberger said "I'm proud of our coaches and team for the way they bounced back after two disappointing losses
“Our kids made things happen today that they haven't been doing in the two past games,” he said “We played really well in all phases of the game "
After losing the opening kickoff on a fumble, the Miami defense dictated the tone of the game when it stifled a Wolfpack drive on downs after only four plays.
Miami capitalized on a turnover to get its first points on a one-yard touchdown run by halfback/full-back Albert Bentley. For Bentley, the only walk-on to make it on the Schnellenberger varsity football team, it was his first touchdown as a Hurricane
But that was only the begining of
a series of firsts for several Miami players
Still in the first period, quarterback Kyle Vanderwende threw his first varsity touchdown, a 60-yard strike to wide receiver Rocky Belk Belk. who caught five passes for 112 yards — his third 100-yard-plus day this season — also got his first two-touchdown game on a "mistake" when Vanderwende found him in the third quarter for a 20-yard pass
“I misread the signal coming in from the sideline." Vanderwende said after the game "It was supposed to be a pass to the halfback coming out of the backfield But something good came out of il Miami, which came into the game as a two-touchdown favorite, went into the locker room at halftime with a 17-3 lead It was still to see superb play at the quarterback position from another freshman. Vinnie Testaverde.
Seeing his first lengthy action in a varsity game. Testaverde replaced Vanderwende in the third quarter and completed five of 11 passes for 79 yards and one touchdown
He fired a 14-yard completion to Belk for his first completion on a first-and-10 play
Halfback Jimmy Austin, also seeing his firs' lengthy action for Miami, finished with a game-high 53 yards on nine carries
“I’m glad just to be able to contribute to the team,” he said "I'm glad that the coaching staff had the confidence that they can give me a chance to perform ."
"How about Austin?" Schnellenberger said. "He really did some moving around I know their |North Carolina’s! defense was down, hut his moves would have made any defense look ragged "
Austin, a junior transfer from Nebraska who had been performing Please turn to page 9/BOWL
UM Bucks Trend
Of More Stress
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Although college counselors throughout the nation are reporting an epidemic of student stress, there hasn’t been a significant increase in students visiting the UM counseling service, according to counselor Barry Zwibelman
However, he said that the problems students are complaining about are the same as those of students nationwide — mainly a slug-glish economy, depressed job market, and mounting academic pressure.
“One of them is a concern for finances, especially since UM is a private university and harder to get financial aid for,” said Zwibelman He also mentioned the concern to become independent, which seems to be related to increasing divorce rates. "Now there are many young people coming from divorced parents and more pressure to become independent as a result
"Another area of concern is about weight and this is primarily among females We have a national obsession with thinness and this creates psychological problems among some people.”
He said that the first two concerns — finances and the need to become independent — are part of the overall worry about the job market, since many students need to find a job to become financially independent
Worries such as these had statistics about campus fighting, drug and alcohol abuse, and even suicide up to record levels in the country last year
While it's too early to assemble statistics for this year yet. counselors say the pattern has continued into the fall of 1982. But the patterns are changing subtly, they say Some even see hope that increasing
student political activism may signal better campus mental health in the near future
“We are indeed seeing more stress again this year," said Susan Howling, president of the American Personnel and Guidance Associa tion’s college counseling division "With the continuing increase in unemployment and more and more competition both in school and in the job market, students are realizing that a college degree doesn't necessarily give them more stability in life." she added
Student suicides have also increased dramatically in the last several years. Campus counselors worry that the stress epidemic could push the suicide rate higher "Changing family situations, pressure to achieve, increased mobility and a lack of intimate contacts" all contribute to suicidal impulses, according to Juli Perlman, head of the American Association of Suicidology in Denver
The national average is two to four suicides per 10,000 students, with 15 to 20 attempts Suicide is the second leading cause of death — behind accidents — in the college-age population
Although the UM counseling center has not been receiving more students, Zwibelman said that the end of the semester enhances the “traditional stress" among students — the pressure to succeed in academ ics
Grades, hr said, are more on the students' minds now because it is the end of the semester
Zwibelman gives the following advice to students to help ease the anxiety:	"Get organized, take
things one at a time, take care of your physical health, get enough relaxation. and avoid trying to cop*-with problems by using drugs."
This article was supplemented with material from College Press Service
Index
Ui.-Soviet Relations
A news analysis by Maxwell Glen and Cody Shearer on what the death of Leonid Brezhnev means for T'.S. relations with the Soviet Union /PAGE 3
‘Here And Now'
Glen and Shearer report from Washington on why modifiea tions are needed in President Reagan's defense budget to hold down impending deficits /PAGE 4
Meet Molly Hatchet
The Hurricane talks with members from the southern rock band »'PAGE 6
No Bowl For Hurricanes
Air Force, not Miami, will compete in this year’s Hall of Fame Bowl. The Hurricane has the story /PAGE 9
Impressions Of A Freshman
The Hurricane profiles quarterback Vinnie Testaverde, who reflects on his freshman year with the Hurricanes /PAGE 9
Opinion/PAGE 4	Entertainment /'PAGE 6
Sports /PAGE 9	Classifieds /PAGE 10
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