Miami Hurricane, November 22, 1985

              Award-winning crime prevention
Selected as last year’s Officer of the Year, Pat Haden of the University of Miami Department of Public Safety continues to create crime awareness on campus	News — page 3
The other provost
Provost Lee — the music man behind the administrative man
Entertainment — page 6
it’s been a long time coming
After 14 years of watching college basketball on television, South Floridians can now watch the UM in person. It starts tonight against The Citadel
Sports — page 8
NOV 2 2 1985
THE MIAMI
Volume 63, Number 22
University of Miami
Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
Hurricane Kate shuts down UM
By LINDA J. ZIPPER
Hurricane Staff Writer
Hurricane Kate brushed by South Florida, but the University of Miami prepared for a direct hit by cancelling classes and securing its students Tuesday.
According to the UM Business Affairs Policies and Procedures Manual, “Upon the announcement by the U.S. Weather Bureau that a hurricane warning status has been declared, the President fof UM| will issue appropriate directives which will be relayed by the vice presidents to their areas of responsibility.”
Suspension of services such as canceling classes, closing of buildings and releasing of employees is decided on by President Edward T. Foote, an advisory committee and Clarence Lefler, coordinator of the hurricane planning committee.
Lefler said the decision to cancel school was made around 8 p.m. on Monday night, serverai hours after the hurricane warnings were posted.
But hurricanes are tracked by Lefler when they arc as far away as 2,000 thousand miles and until their demise.
“When there is a good likelihood of at least high winds, the plan goes into effect,” Lefler said.
Classes were not the only UM activities that were canceled because of Hurricane Kate.
UM’s Homecoming Parade, scheduled to run on Tuesday at 7 p.m., was moved to Thursday at 6 p.m.
The switch depleted participants in the parade, according to Martin
Applebaum, parade chairman.
About 15-20 participants out of 70 in the parade had to drop out.
UM fraternities were told by the parade committee to take down all flat plywood from their floats to only the two-by-fours because the flat wood would prove dangerous in the hurricane’s high winds.
"We had 100 percent cooperation from every frat,“Applebaum said. "They’ve been pretty good sports in this whole thing."
Local high school bands, like Miami Central High, that were to participate in the parade had to attend football games.
Radio stations also dropped out of the parade. The 1-95 van and Y-100 were at the Broward County Youth Fair which opened yesterday.
Also, WIOD held Its weekly, live Hurricane Hotline show, while its sports newscaster, Henry Barrow, emceed the parade. Tony Segretto, WTVJ newscaster, attended the parade after his newscast.
According to Frank Jimenez, vice president of the Undergraduate Student Body Government, a reception for VIPs originally scheduled at the Lowe Art Museum was moved to the area behind the stage at the Student Union Patio so the VIPs could see the boat burning.
In addition to changing parade plans, Hurricane Kate also activated UM’s emergency hurricane procedures.
In preparation for a hurricane, a predesignated three-day menu is planned by each manager of UM’s cafeterias.
The amount of food is determined by the number of residents, students and support staff in dorms, according to the manual.
On Monday night, when the storm threatened, all students in dorms
were alerted by the residence hall on how to prepare for a hurricane.
A list of procedures instructing students to pull beds away from the windows, remove articles from the floor, fill up bathtubs with water, and more was distributed in students' mailboxes.
According to Dr. William B. Sheeder, assistant vice president foi student affairs and dean of students, the University is well prepared for a hurricane emergency situation.
“In part, due to our location, the University has established very careful concrete plans for implementation for an emergency such as Hurricane Kate,” he said. "Authority as well as a refined system of communication have been developed and tested by the University."
In 1966, Sheeder said the University's hurricane program was tested when a hurricane hit the South Florida area. He said that no injuries occurred and all instructions were carried out as planned.
Each year the University reviews its plans in the event of a hurricane, Sheeder said.
“Dry runs occur in the summer each year," he said. “Jeff Zirulnick director of the Student Union| tells his staff what they are responsible
or.”
All divisions of the University review their hurricane procedures so that Student Affairs can disseminate the proper information.
Hurricane staff members Juan Carlos Coto and Debbie Morgan added to this article.
Here he is — Mr. UM
DOUG SEtlRES/lturricane Stuff
Joe Cassaho, (forward center) was crowned "Mr. UM" 1986 on Wednesday during Homecoming week. Cassaho is joined by Miss UM 1985 Laura Bailey (forward left) and Miss UM 1986 Diana Martinez (forward right). In the background, Dan Koch (left), one of the five finalists, Mark Gladwin, (center) first runner-up and Ken Miglionico, second runner-up, applaud the winner. See page 6 for more on Mr. UM_______________
New policy
to ban
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Hurricane Munuj'frc;: Editor
The University of Miami's University Center (the former Whitten Stu lent Union; established a benrer pol’cv recently and some of the organizations participating in Homecoming were the first to be affected by it.
Homecoming committee members were told last week they could not put up Homecoming banners until approved by Director of the Student Union Jeffrey Zirulnick.
According to Zirulnick, a banner policy was developed because organizations were abusing their banner privileges, often putting up unsightly or inaccurate banners, or placing them in inappropriate locations.
The new policy outlines a series of guidelines for organizations wishing to put up banners publicizing their events.
From now on, banners may be placed only in five specified locations around the Student Union. They must be "in overall acceptable taste, neat, legible, and with uniform typestyle as determined by the banner's style" and may not be placed more than one week before the event and have to be removed promptly after the event.
Moreover, organizations must reserve one of the five designated banner spaces for their events by filling out an application. Only two of the five designated banner spaces at a given time can be used by any one organization publicizing a particular event.
Furthermore, no banner can be
signs
put up which solicits money for non-Universitv-rclatcd causes.
All banners must secure the approval of Zirulnick to assure compliance wi'V the new policy. However, the I inf ra director can make exceptions to any of the policy’s guidellr.es — especially In case of special events like Carni Gras or Homecoming.
There is currently r.o appeals policy — whereby the Union director’s decision to reject a particular banner could he contested — in the newly-formulated banners policy.
Zirulnick stresses that the new banner policy only involves the University Center and is limited in its effect specifically to banners.
The new policy, which was the culmination of work done by a four-member University Center Board of Governors subcommittee has not gone into full effect yet, awaiting final approval by UCBOG.
“The policy is not in full effect now," Zirulnick said, “but we’re operating under the presumption that it is approved.”
"We’re not trying to inhibit the publicity of organizations," said Keith Fishe, UCBOG chairperson and one of the subcommittee members who shaped the banner policy.
Fishe said the aim of the policy is to bring order and neatness to banner-placing at UM and his subcommittee endeavored to reduce, as much as possible, the subjectivity involved in handing Zirulnick complete power to decide which banners go up and which don’t.
Debate team tops in Southeast
By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Staff Writer
“Debate is good for UM’s image because it is an academic activity that gets us known nationwide," said Susan Millsap, University of Miami's debate coach.
Millsap and her husband. Scott, assistant debate coach, coach the team that is now fourth in the nation and first in the Southeast.
Since early October, the team has traveled to competitions around the country.
The team placed first in the Virginia Craig Tournament at S.W. Missouri State University
and also first at San Houston State University and Shippensburg State University.
In all other tournaments, at Emory, West Point and Stephen F. Austin University, the team has gone to the final elimination rounds.
Over the past three years, the team has attracted many high-caliber debaters and has achieved a national reputation and respect.
There are now eight students on the team: Eddie Cruz, Wayne Firestone, Lisa Levine, David Leb-lang, Kevin Antkowicz, Darren Bock and Hector and Luis Garcia.
"We train. Anyone can join,” Millsap said.
Firestone received the first individual speaking award at West Point. He attributes the success of the team to Dr. Thompson Biggers, assistant processor of Communication, who started the program again four years ago after its decline in the '50s and '60s.
"Biggers helped get prominent alumni to get exposure and money for the program and to show their support," F’irestone said.
For example, debate alumni include Dante Fascell, a congressman from South Florida, "Doc"
Lebow, a car dealership owner, and Neal Sonnett, a Miami Lawyer and past president of the Florida Bar.
Next semester Millsap plans to hold on-campus debates and debates between professors and students on topics of current interest.
Over winter break, the team will host the Junior Orange Bowl High School Tournament, and in the spring, it will host its own college tournament.
“We have our best shot this year for a national championship," Firestone said.
Panel says media affects anti-Semitism
By LINDA J. ZIPPER
Hurricane Staff Writer
The press has a great affect on anti-Semitism in America, according to Carla Gerstel, associate director of Development for the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
Gerstel spoke as a participant of a panel discussion on “Israel and the Press, Media Misrepresentation?” Wednesday night at Hillel.
The panel, consisting of Rabbi Mark Kram, director of the Hillel Foundation, Dr. Mitchell Shapiro, program director of telecommuni-
cations and Gerstel, was sponsored by the Hillel Foundation and the Anti-Defamation League in association with the United Jewish Appeal.
The United States has “great sentiment” toward Israel. Shapiro said, particularly because Israel is one of the only countries in the Middle East where reporters from the United States are welcome.
“The media, all through the Lebanese War, focused largely on destruction that might have occurred six or seven years before Israel actually invaded Lebanon,” Kra«t said. This, according to
Gerstel, is part of the reason for some of America's anti-Semitic feelings.
According to an ADL research report, “The exaggerated newspaper reports about civilian casualties in Lebanon were reinforced by the visual impact of the television news coverage from which many — perhaps most — Americans get much of their information.”
“It’s harder to erase a visual image perceived |from televison| than what you read in a newspaper or magazine, out of sight, out of $ind,” Gerstel said.
The ADL research report also stated, “There is a double standard of conduct and morality imposed by the media on Israel. A double standard that resulted in a palpable ’tilt’ in much of the coverage of the fighting from the first day when the Israeli Defense Forces moved north to eliminate the PI.O threat to northern Israel and to the
Jewish State itself."
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Journalists who stay on the same beat for a long period of time tend to lose their objectivity, producing biased reports, according to j^apiro.
Drip, drip
Jill Topoloski donates blood at the Flamingo Ballroom as part of a blood drive during Homecoming
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