Miami Hurricane, August 31, 1984

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RUSH WEEK AT UM
Fraternities anti sororities rush prospective pledges KNTKRTAINMKNT, p. in
THE AGE-OLD RIVALRY CONTINUES
Hurricanes meet tin tiators lor the 2tith time SPORTS, p. Hi
By SHERYL STEIN
Hurra anr Assistant Sews Editor
After approximately a year of planning and construction, the Honors Residential College has opened its doors to 543 residents, 420 of which are honors undergraduates.
Although the renovations in the 1968 complex have not ye' been completed, both f’entland and MacDonald Towers are now housing freshmen and upperclassmen, most of whom are taking the construction
in stride
"Seeing all the construction going on isn't the greatest, but I know it's going to look fine when it's done.” said Michelle Stirman, an honors freshman liv ing; in the HRC. " Some people are kind of angry with it |the construction¡, but I feel that if it's not done yet. it’s not done vet."
When completed, the HRC will boast a microcomputer lab with 20 personal IBM computers, two faculty apartments, a seminar room, a television lounge, two classrooms, a library of about 3000 volumes, a Nautilus room and conference rooms.
"The Honors Residential College has several purposes," said Ross
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Murfin, master of the HRC and director of the Honors Privileged Studies Program. "One is to make more available to honors students than juxt academic course work, a climate in which professor and student interact outside the classroom. A physics professor and an English student could interact outside the classroom with such an atmosphere.
“It is also the next logical step for the honors program. It's how the honors program can extend into residential life. The university wauls to make UM more attractive to bright incoming freshmen, and it has — this year has seen the largest jump in the DM SAT score ever."
Many activities are planned for the HRC. Scheduled lecturers include Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and member of Carl Sagan's Black Cloud Panel on the consequences of a nuclear war; Ambler Moss, former I S ambassador to Panama and dean of the UM Graduate School for International Studies; Evelyn Mayerson. director of freshmen composition and author of Sanfo, If Birds arc Free, and No Fnemv Hut I imc; Richard Pfau, associate professor of history and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and Rhonda DuBord. director of women's intramurals and club sports advisor.
Spremi to the Miami liurricuru /S 1 ! HA VI K
Follow the leader
Alfredo Roberts (~87) leads the Miami football team in a prayer after their victory over Auburn. For story, see page 16.	——————————i————	~
Brown arrives a/ UM; plans 4subtle9 changes
Bv TEQUESTA BRYANT
Hurricam \ •■iieiute Van - I ditur
David H Brown's clear blue eyes have set their sights on the University of Miami.
Brown is about to enter his third month as the new director of student activities and he likes what he sees
Brown, who spent five years at !h( tort Hays State University in Kansas in a similar capacity, was hired to replace acting director John Stofan. who left the University after seven years here to pursue a career in promotional work Brown said that he learned of the opening while attending a National Association of Campus Activities convention in Nashville, Tennessee He picked up some information about the position and subsequently applied After a number of screenings. Brown was invited to come to Miami for an interview in miri-Mav
"I really liked what 1 saw. Brown said "It was a really good mov e professionally I was offered a job and I obviously at (epti d I arrived in Miami June 11 and have been working ever sine e
Prior to his stint at fort Hay-University, Brown was a graduate student at Indiana University ot Pennsylvannia and vva- a • uduute assistant for two y at'* u. the activities office ttu n
Brown said that stud not see any major ihae. offered activities during h year as the new dir« ' 1 the changes will he
There will be more of an effort to publicize and promote the events, and follow-up evaluations of events will he provided.
"We want to get input from the students — what would they like to have happen?" Brown said
Brown said that the Student Activities Office currently has a software package that would enable the office to compute the demographics of the audience at events This tool would help his office to design promotions to reach those groups that are not being responding to advertisements and other promotional activities
He said that the information obtained would also help the activities office to discover which groups are interested in which at • tivlties and to provide the most popular activ ¡tics.
"The university is very broad demographically. It has a lot of needs compared to ‘standard campuses' where all the people are from the same state or the same background," Brown said
"This is an international university and the activities should be international activities. This is not to say that it is the job of this office to provide alt of the events, he continued.
Organization such as COISO fotincil of International Student Organizations and UBS United Black Students] sponsor various , , ¡¡i. this office should be the
■, r for additional assistance w, in the organizations while
filling student needs."
One major development Brown hopes to see is ihe introduction of a travel program that would operate out of the Student Activities Office Brown is working now to arrange a student trip to Jamaica for Thanksgiving, lie should know what will happen with that idea in a few weeks
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There will also be two faculty members living in their own apartments in the HRC in addition to Murfin and Ins family Jim Shelly , the director ot academic computing, w ill reside in the HRC as an expert on computer systems. Connie Weldon, assistant dean of the School of Music. Will also live in the HRC and will assist students in their academic pursuits. Both plan to be greatly involved in the IIRf"s ai tivihes
Out of the HRC resident's $55 activity fee. $30 goes toward the honors common meal I very Sunday night at 6:30. the students will have dinner in the Hurricane cafeteria, complete with tablei loths and the opportunity for an open forum
On the second Sunday of each month, some faculty members will be invited to attend the meal and possibly a discussion afterw-ards in Murfin's home
The remainder ol the honors student fee -.' ill be for the activiiie that the students plan. An HRC Council is expected to form to govern the building, receiving input from students, the Department of Re , dence Halls, the Department ol Honors and Priv ileged Studies, and lai ni ty associates.
P/euse turn In pope { HONORS
Research to l)e built (tt South Camnus
By LISA GIBBS
Hurricane Sm .s [Jitor
Plans arc* currently being finalized for the construction of u major medical research facility for graduate education at the University of Miami's South Campus, a 106-acre tract of land located on Coral Reef Drive adjacent to Met-rozoo.
The South Campus will house a 55,000 square toot complex which will include three main research
facilities.
The largest building will contain antimalaria! chemotherapy and trypanosoma! research programs while the second building will he devoted to the testing of new drugs. The third building will include several laboratories such as toxicology and tissue culture laboratories as well as South Campus’s administrative offices.
“Our goal is to establish an applied research center for the university," said Dr David Wilson, acting vice president of Graduate Studies and Research.
Various UM faculty members currently working on research projects will move to the South Campus to continue their efforts
Such projects include: human drug studies, studies on the purity of drinking water and the amounts of testicule residue in fruits, and training programs, involving students from Third World countries, supported by the Agency for International Development
“We’ll try to develop these programs." said Wilson, "and help them grow through further outside support from outside agent if.s — the government and other pro
vale foundations
“The idea is encompass all
the research activities on other UM campuses for example, tin medical and marine science schools — in a magnet site that will attract industries and the faculty to engage in research on those campuses.“
The university plans to establish “joint ventures with companies
with high-tech nt eds," sat 1 1 Bonnert. vice president of Busin« Affairs “These companies can f •
the expertise from the universe, and work out research programs
Wilson said that South Campu will be utilized mainly by graduate students as a “graduate and te< I nical training center, very little r* lated to undergraduate education
In 1981. the University of Miami acquired the land in south w» • Dade County from the United States Department of Health. I ducat Ion and Wei hire
lor the past three stars, tin land has been used for observation purposes as a field station — boil faculty and students researched landscaping and v ildiife .if tin South Campus, a natural habitat for different species ol birds and insects
"This ¡South Campus) is a vers important development in tin mi folding histors of the unisersits." said President I dwanl I I oote
"A university exist , lor i" • fundamental reasons to tea« h students	and do good ie
search." Toole continui*«! "South Campus gives us a physical cult : for tin1 research programs around campus. «‘Xpamhng our res«.mb eapat itv greatly."
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Bust's will bo leaving promptly at HI a m. on Satuidax, Sept. 1. from tho Student Union Circlo lor tho Tlorida-Miann football gamo in Tampa. Studonts going on tho trip will nord their UM ID. trip receipt, food money and a bathing sun it Ibex are planning to go to Adventure Island. I or lurihrt mon mat ion. call 28 I 3082.
kappa Sigma returns to l M
By DEBBIE MORGAN
I turrit anc Stajj U’riter
After a twelve-year absence from the Greek life at the l mversiiy of Miami. Kappa Sigma is back to be involved in campus activities and carry on its tradition
"Building for the future" is the motto of the newly termed l M tra-ternity. according to Jeff Sanoian, acting president ot Kappa Sigma
founded in 1939. Kappa Sigma was one of the strongest fruternites on the UM campus, said Sanoian In 1972. the frat disbande d because of lack of organization and interest.
In 1984. however, Kappa Sigma is making a new beginning Ihe Greater Miami Kappa Sigma Alumni Association, through Sanoian. reactivated the fraternitv With 75 active Kappa Sigma alumni members in the Miami area, there is a lot of enthusiasm this year to mak. the Kappa Sigmas a part of UM.
"This year the voung people seem to be interested in rebuilding Kappa Sigma and getting a charter established." states Ernie Kent. President of the Great' i Miami Alumni Association
Jeff Sanoian is e transfer student from Wisconsin, where he was also a member Of Kappa Sigma ‘It Was the best thing that I have ever done." comments Sanoian. "It is a great chance to get involved in the campus activities. It g,\ts you a feeling of accomplishment
Kappa Sigma is a div. rse fraternity, covering all < ross sections of the campus population, according to Kent Their purpo 1 is to f.t In^with ih< goals "I the university, and make the university proud of Kappa
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Meetings will be held in Panh. lien organizing and planning ai duties
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