Miami Hurricane, February 15, 1983

              Volume 59 Number 34 Phone 284-4401
‘Bratty’ little girl becomes Miss UM
Torres becomes queen, realizes dream
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane News Editor
Dreams often begin like this. Rarely do they end so happily.
When Evelyn Torres left Rochester, N.Y., in 1978, people knew her as the “bratty" little girl who became Miss Rochester one year after being the runner-up and went on to a top-10 finish in the Miss New York Pageant.
They still thought her goals were
too high and her ambition too unrealistic.
Wednesday, Torres became perhaps the only person in Florida to
wear two crowns at the same time when she was crowned Miss University of Miami for 1983-84. Torres, who was the first runner-up to Jo Lynn Burkes at the Oct. 22 Miss UM Scholarship pageant, is also the reigning Miss Broward County.
Burkes yielded the crown to Torres when she could not get out of a prior professional commitment.
Torres will divest herself the Broward title when her one-year reign comes to an end In March.
She walked In the student activities office Wednesday — and right into a hastily arranged party as friends gathered to offer her their congratulations.
“At first I thought they were playing some terrible joke on me." she said. “It still hasn't sunk in yet. It was like a dream come true.”
It's taking the usually poised Torres a long time to get back down to earth because being Miss UM means so much to her.
It began last year in Orlando, where she was representing Broward in the Miss Florida Pageant. The subject of the UM contest Icame up in a conversation with Nancy Liu, last year's Miss UM.
“1 said that I would really like to go back (to the Miss Florida Pageant], but the only way I would is if' I would be representing the Univer-
sity of Miami," Torres said.
There were a few problems.
A year ago, Torres was co-director of the Miss UM pageant, and was not sure about how others would react if she returned as a participant.
A talk with a few close friends and with others close to the pageant dispelled anyjdoubts that she had, and she was on her way to make the dream come true.
But, on Oct. 22, she stood by and watch the dream seemingly slip away. As the first runner-up, she was so close and yet so far.
"Everybody was so happy for me that I got first runner-up, but it
hurt a lot,” Torres said.
But as it is with dreamers who persevere, she is now preparing to return to the Miss Florida Pageant, determined “to give the school what it has never had before, at the very least a top-10 finish. |
“We usually send a girl up there to compete who goes up againit girls that have been at the pageant two to three years,” she said.
When she talks of bringing the Miss Florida title to UM, most agree Torres is not just dreaming.
The 22-year-old graduate student from the school of education has all the tools necessary to make that dream, too, a reality.
Torres: Gets her shot at Miss Florida
SEA celebrates National Engineering Week
Opinion/PACK 4	Entertainment /PAGE 6
Sporta/PAGE 7	Classifieds /PAGE 8
Inside
Higher education seminar
A report on the Seventh Annual Conference of the Higher
Education Colloquium/PAGE 3	”
Here and Now’
Maxwell Glen and Cody Shearer report from Washington on Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger /PAGE 4
The story of Boy George
Rolling Stone’s Dave Marsh profiles rock star Boy George, who asks the burning question: “Am I bisexual?” /PAGE (
Shocking the Shocker«
Steve lusby provided the excitement in Friday night’s victory over Wichita State. The Hurricane has the story /PAGE 7
Turning pro
A profile of Scott Wheton, a DM grad now looking to make it m the ranks of professional boxing /PAGE 7
By MARLENE EGUIZABAL
Hurricane Staff Writer
High School juniors and seniors will be on hand to participate in the sixth annual University of Miami School of Engineering and Archi-techture (SEA) Open House Saturday.
The event, which commemmo-rates National Engineering Week, will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the J. Neville McArthur Building.
George Brown, director of Academic Services for SEA, announced Friday that the event, free and open to the public, will feature displays, contests and other attractions.
Some of the displays to be featured include the “floatable cement canoe" (winner of the Southeast Regional 1982 American-Concrete Insitute Awards), a robotic arm, and a computer able to test its operator's engineering aptitudes. In addition, guests may visit engineering labs and architecture studios in the McArthur Building.
The highlights of the open house, however, will be a display of a vehicle designed by SEA students and an engineering design contest for
South Florida high school students.
“The all-terrain vehicle was designed and built by SEA students and will be entered for the 1983 ‘Mini-Baja-East Competition,’ a contest sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers,” said Brown.
In conjuction with the open house, the Junior Engineering Tech-nichal Society will sponsor the High School Student Engineering Design Contest.
This year, Brown said, the contest challenges South Florida high school students to build toothpick bridges or vehicles powered by standard mouse trap springs.
Added to these events is the 1983 "Mathcounts Competition." Conducted by the Florida Engineering Society, the contest will challenge high school students to solve math problems for prizes.
The students and faculty of SEA invite all interested to attend the annual open house. They will be present to discuss displays and answer questions. In addition, food and refreshments will be available throughout the day.
"The SEA open house is held to
John Russo
overhauls
curriculum
By JAN HIPPMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
The undergraduate curriculum of the English department is undergoing a "complete overhaul” following a review panel's recommendations. said Dr. Pat McCarthy, a professor in the department who chaired the panel.
Serving with McCarthy on the panel were Dr. Eugene Clasby, Dr. Barnett Guttenberg, Dr. Francis Skipp, Dr. Robert Casillo, Dr. Evelyn Mayerson, Dr. Steven Mailloux, Dr. Ronald Newman and student Lori Roman, a senior majoring in English.
The review, aimed at the department's entire curriculum, was done at the instigation of Dr. John Russo, who recently took over the department chair.
Russo described changes in the program in two words: “vision and design." There are now five ways to recieve an English degree, but the new curriculum will “allow maximum flexibility to work through the program," Russo said.
The department’s revised curriculum comprises a general English major, an honors program, an English and foreign literature major, a creative writing major and an Eng-lish-and-related-subject major.
The diversity in the program is a reflection on the different interests that the students hold, McCarthy said. A new curriculum with courses in the introductory, middle and advanced levels will add “coherence to the program,” he said.
In addition, there is now a framework to readily add courses to the English curriculum. Eight courses — including Classical Greek, Roman Literature and Renaissance Literature — have already been added.
A foreign literature course has also been added because “the university Is at the crossroads of North America and South America," Russo said.
The review panel also redesigned the numbering system of the English courses. More than 30 courses have been renumbered.
There are several other changes:
•	Two female professors will be hired to teach Shakespearean literature next fall.
•	The department’s honors program will be expanded; sections designed specifically for honors students will be Installed.
•	Senior faculty members will be teaching freshman composition courses.
That portion of the faculty can help freshmen students with their writing skills, Russo said. The English department “wants to reach out from the beginning to freshmen," he said.
The department head described the era of change around the university and especially within the department as a "creative and golden period.
“The student body has proges-slveiy gotten better," and faculty and student improvements “challenge each other," Russo said.
Miami Hurrlcane/JEFF GOTTLIEB
Benjamin Hack sits in the all-terrain vehicle that will compete in the 1983 Mini-Baja-East
spark student interest in engineer- to come by.”
ing and science careers." said For more information about ac-Brown. "We welcome all who want tivities, call Brown at 284-2404.
Israeli Newsman: U.S, Counterparts Befriended PLO
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane News Editor
American journalists befriended the Palestinian Liberation Organization and lost their objectivity in covering the war in Lebanon, said a leading Israeli journalist.
In addition, because editorial writers in the United States relied on their correspondent's biased accounts, the views expressed by the papers were "uninformed," said the city editor of Ma’Arin, Israel’s largest newspaper.
In an interview with The Miami Hurricane, Avinoam Bar-Yosef, who as the Jerusalem correspondent for the independent paper covered the war, said that American and world news media gave consistently biased coverage of the event in Lebanon.
“The journalists had been in Lebanon for a while and the PLO did favors for them; and. when the war broke out, they reported only one side of it," he said.
Bar-Yosef, who said he monitored coverage by American journalists throughout the war, said they failed to report that Israel was
Inspected
elevator
breaking
Please turn to page 2/ MEDIA
By ANGELA GREGORY
Hurricane Staff Writer
An elevator at Mahoney Hall broke down two weeks ago, trapping 10 people inside for five minutes.	'
The same elevator broke down Feb. 7. and again the next day, this time trapping a student between the sixth and seventh floor.
Please turn to page 3/ELEVATOR
Lifelines has forum on sex, birth control
By SALLY SPITZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Miami Hurrtcane/MARTIN APPLEBAUM
Osceola Tea Party
When the Undergraduate Student Body Government decided to reopen its bike and boat loan service, agency head Scott Kornspan decided to go all the way — champagne, VIPs, the works. One of the "VIPs," USBG Vice President Stacy Wein, Is having a little trouble uncorking the bottle of champagne. Actually, this is only part of the veep's problems. She was, uh, shall we say, more than a little reluctant to get on board.
Ibis elections
“Informing students" is what the Lifelines Program is all about, according to Santiago Alvaredo, social program coordinator.
One of Lifelines’ first special programs. "Sexuality and Contraception,” will be held today in the Student Union Breezeway. Lifelines will operate a table with information about different methods of contraception.
Lifelines workers at the table will hand out pamphlets; the table will also feature displays on different types of contraception.
“We want to help inform the students about what choices are available.” Alvaredo said. The procedures, he pointed out, can be performed here on campus at the University of Miami Health Center.
If a student goes to the Health Center, Alvaredo said, the services will be “private and professional.”
Along with the information table, Lifelines is also sponsoring a speaker at the 1968 Auditorium at 7 p.m. Dr. Abraham Lavender of the department of sociology will speak on "Sexuality on College Campuses: 1983."
Lifelines has also begun planning other events for the semester. In March, there will be a drug and substance abuse seminar.
“The program will deal with drugs and alcohol, in conjunction with BACCHUS [Boosting Alcoholic Consciousness!," Alvaredo said.
In April, Lifelines will sponsor the ever-popular Health Fair, which offers students the opportunity to take different health tests. Alvaredo said this will also include activities with Campus Sports and Recreation, along with other UM and community organizations.
Alvaredo stated the overall goal of the Lifelines Program: “It is a health awareness and education program to try to get students aware and be healthier."
The program coordinator is Hugo Fernandez.
Editor elections for the Ibis Yearbook will be held on Tuesday, March 2. All interested candidates have until Feb. 22 to submit their applications. See Arlene Watts in room S221 of the Student Union for more details.