Miami Hurricane, October 11, 1985

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Residents should follow guidelines outlined by the Department of Residence Halls
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A refined *'Voice’
With a new air board and newly-decoratecf studio, WVUM celebrates an anniversary and dedication
Entertainment — page 8
Bearcats meet the Hurricanes
The University of Cincinnati could surprise University of Miami defenders if they get over injury bug
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Volume 63, Number 10
University of Miami
Friday, Oct. 11, 1985
Board adopts Sullivan Principles
By LISA GIBBS
Hurricane Editor in Chief
The University of Miami Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to adopt an investment policy which would allow them only to invest in companies which abide by the Sullivan Principles.
Any company doing business in South Africa in which UM chooses to invest must comply with the Principles.
The board's policy also includes the following amendments, according to UM President Edward T. Foote:
• UM will not invest in banks that make direct loans to the apartheid. South African government
•	UM will not invest in any company which appears to be supporting apartheid despite its compliance with the Sullivan Principles (i.e. selling weapons to the government), and
•	UM wll participate with other universities in a consortium to actively recruit and make scholarships available to black South Africans.
Adoption of this policy came after 90 minutes of debate, said Foote.
“There was a spirited and thoughtful debate among the trustees and a variety of opinions expressed," said Foote. “A great deal of concern was shown not only for the needs of our own work as a university but for the plight of the South Africans in an
Excerpts from the investment policy approved by the University of Miami Board of Trustees Wednesday:
Although the University, because of its mission, is not free to take institutional political action, as an institutional investor it should act responsibly. Thus the University of Miami does not, and will not, hold the stocks or bonds of any company doing a significant percentage of its business in any country that has such a government, or any company that has direct investments that does not comply with generally accepted principles of equality (eg., in South Africa, the Sullivan Principles).
extremely tragic and difficult situation.”
The position of complete divesti-
ture would cost UM about $1 million per year, said Foote, because it would prohibit invest-
ment in 40 percent of the Fortune 500.
"You substantially reduce investment options (by divesting] and depending what happens to the market, it could have a substantial impact over a period of time."
Currently, however, UM has no investments in corporations who do business in South Africa — the $12.3 million previously invested in companies like IBM and General Electric has been sold.
“In June, our investment advisor sensed a market change and divested of lots of stocks,” said Chairman of the board James L. McLamore.
Foote said that a large percentage of UM's stock holdings had been converted into short-term
Proposed grading system will reduce inflation
government securities and cash items.
“The decisions were made for economic reasons," he said."The issue (of apartheid] is getting a lot of national attention which could have an adverse effect on the market. But it is still an economic decision.”
UM as an investor will do its best to act responsibly, said Foote.
"As an institution of teaching and learning it will do all it can in the long run to serve as a forum for dissent, debate, for expression from students, faculty and everyone in the community," said Foote. "That's what we exist for.”
About 40 trustees attended the meeting held in the School of Architecture, the first of five this year.
By DAVE OSINSKI
Hurricane Stall Writer
In an effort to reduce grade inflation and reward outstanding scholarship, the Academic Standards Committee has recommended that the University of Miami change the current grading scale with five letters to one with 12 letters.
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In the proposed grading system, quality points for each grade would be as follows: A, 4.0; A-, 3.5; B + , 3.3; B.3.0; B-, 2.7; C + , 2.3; C. 2.0; C-, 1.7; D +. 1.3; D. 1.0; D-, 0.7; E. 0.0.
According to John Fitzgerald, chairman of the Academic Standards Committee, the new system would provide faculty with a more calibrated instrument for assessing student performance and would allow them greater flexibility In assigning grades.
"The scale would promote student scholarship by rewarding maximal rather than minimal accomplishment.” Fitzgerald said. “For example, too many students now strive simply to achieve the minimum that is required for an ‘A’.
‘The new grading system would allow faculty to reward the work
‘It bothers me to see students who really make an extra effort get the same grade average as some who don’t’
John Fitzgerald______
achievement was of higher callher.
“And. to the extent that an 'A' Is reserved for truly superior work and is therefore used more sparingly than is currently the case, the adoption of the new grade system would provide one means of dealing with the problem of grade inflation,” he added.
The proposed scale Is being
studied by the Senate Council, a group of faculty members selected from the Faculty Senate. Based on
acuity members selected
input from all the academic departments, the council will decide whether or not to forward the proposal to the full senate for a vote.
Should the Senate pass the proposal, it would then go to UM President Edward T. Foote for approval. If he signs, then the new grading system would become University policy.
Fitzgerald estimates the earliest
the new system could go into effect would be the next academic
year.
Indications from faculty so far are that most are in favor of the
new scale.
Those opposed. Fitzgerald said, “think that the subjectivity factor is great; some say they would feel uncomfortable making that distinction between a plus and a minus."
Alw listed among the dlsadvan-
possibility that faculty will ba
imnislivl by ‘grade grubbing' atu-
e"l think student’s initial re-
sponse will be that they’re going to get a 3.7 rather than the 4.0,” said Fitzgerald. “But, It could also work to their advantage just as well, say in the case of a 'B + ‘ instead of a ‘B’."
He also said students should be aware that teachers will be under no obligation to use this 12-letter scale since it will be Incorporated into the present five-letter scale. Faculty members will retain the right to use any grading system they choose.
"In effect we are giving faculty a greater range of options,” Fitzgerald said.
“Personally, I think the new scale will be benefical to the University." Fitzgerald said. “It bothers me to see students who really make an extra effort get the same grade average as some who don’t.’"
Karate kid
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Karate teacher Jennifer Griffin demonstrates to a student in the Tae Kwon Do karate club a defensive move
Finding buses to UM from Bowl to be easier
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane News Editor
Students taking buses from the University of Miami to UM football games In the Orange Bowl will have an easier time getting back to the University after games, according to Undergraduate Student Body Government President Scott Kornspan.
UM students returning to campus via buses provided by USBG will now exit through Gate 14 into a circle where buses will be waiting for them.
“It removes many of the problems that occurred before,” said Kornspan.
At the UM-University of Florida game on Sept.. 7, many students complained about being left behind and having to take cabs back to UM. Some said they walked to the Metrorail station.
Kornspan said circumstances surrounding the Florida game were the exception since a record 80,227 people were on hand.
Many students also did not wait for the second run* he said.
In the past, the Athletics Office tried to obtain a specific comer for UM but was not able to.
Kornspan met this week with William Sandler, dean of student personnel, and Walter Goldby,
manager of the Orange Bowl, to compromise and work out details.
The area outside Gate 14 is secure and fenced in, according to Kornspan. Security patrol in the area will also be increased to prevent crime.
Beginning with the Cincinnati game, only UM buses will be lined up in a designated area six blocks around the Orange Bowl along Northwest 4th Street from Northwest 16th Avenue to Northwest 21st Avenue.	.	,
Three buses at a time will be parked in the circle nuts!de Gate 14. A radio dispatcher will call the buses
to the circle as buses are filled
Currently, 30 buses from Gray Lines and American Sightseeing service UM
Kornspan said that buses will be doing double runs after the games, so some students will have to wait for the buses to return in order to get back to UM Kornspan also said students should expect to be in different buses on the way back and that all students who want to ride together may not be able to.
Buses will be loading students as they exit the stadium and not in any particular order
Buses will continue to leave fraternity row and the circle to the game as they have for past games.
Writer lectures at Residential College
By ANDREW J. COHEN
Hurricane Assistant Sports Editor
“If you can just imagine being in the middle of finals and finding out you'd just won a Pulitzer Prize," said Jackie Crosby Wednesday night to a group of 30 residents and faculty of the Residential College. "I was totally floored about the whole thing."
Crosby, 24, is the first women sports-writer to ever win a F>ulitzer Prize. She is only the third sportswriter in history to win the Pulitzer.
“My boyfriend called me one day while I was watching General Hospital,” said Crosby. “He was working at a newspaper in Columbus. Ga.. and he told me that it had just come over the (news wire services] that I had just won a Pulitzer. I really thought that it was the biggest joke in the whole world.
“The next thing I knew. Associated Press called me. United Press International called me. Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, big names. The Orlando Sun-Sentinel came to take a picture of me, a local television station wanted me to be on their news show, a radio station wanted me to be
on their talk show. I was on the phone for four hours straight before I could even call my parents and tell them.
“It was the biggest surprise of my life! said Crosby.
Crosby was responsible for undercovering a situation at the University of Georgia involving athletes who were taking crib courses, staying at the university for as long as their eligibility could last and never even graduating or getting any degree.
She became interested in sports as an All-American swimmer at Bolles High in Jacksonville, Fla.
“I always knew that I wanted to be a journalist." said Crosby. “Since seventh grade. I have always excelled at writing I'm real strong in English and I have always had a knack for putting things together. I have known since then that I’d major in journalism in college."
Crosby worked for The Red and Black, the student newspaper at the University of Georgia where she did her undergraduate classwork. She became a sportswriter and, eventually, sports editor in her junior year.
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Hill and Gould get probation, community service
By AHMED SHORE1BAH
Hurricane Managing Editor
Robert Hill and Jon Gould were each sentenced Wednesday to 18 months probation and 300 hours of community service by Judge Norman S. Gerstein.
Hill and Gould were convicted a week and a half ago on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence.
The charges and convicts were a result of arrests made the night of April 10, 1985 at a lecture by physicist Dr. Edward Teller.
About 20 minutes into the Teller lecture. Hill got up and heckled the speaker and was swiftly taken away by Public Safety officers. Shortly thereafter, Gould was taken away for leafletting on the University of Miami campus.
After hearing the case for two days, it took three hours for the six-member jury to convict Hill and Gould each on two of the three charges and to acquit Gould of the more serious charge of battery on a police officer. The same charge — battery on a police officer — was declared a mistrial in the case of Hill.