Miami Hurricane, February 05, 1985

              FOR THE LOVE OF FILM
A review of opening night of the second Miami Film Festival and The Vulture, premiering tonight
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MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
FOR- THE LOVE OF FILM
HURRICANES WIN TWO, LOSE ONE
University of Miami’s baseball team racks up their first two wins against the South Alabama Jaguars in the weekend tournament
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Funday unites participants
By DEBBIE BOYLE
Hurricane Staff Writer
The fourth annual University of Miami Funday, held Saturday, brought 320 retarded citizens together with student volunteers for a day of fun and games in the sun.
“This year the weather was on our side,” noted one volunteer who remembered last year's cold and rainy Funday.
The participants, from a number of Dade County group homes, arrived early Saturday morning to the intramural field. Each student volunteer was assigned his or her "buddy" for the day and the pair was put into one of four large groups.
During the opening ceremonies, Robert Baskin, a member of the Executive Committee, recited a poem which he wrote for the occasion. The poem welcomed everyone to Funday '85 and told them, "Don't be afraid to show who you really are."
Jeff Zirulnick, Funday's executive committee advisor, cut the yellow ribbon and F'unday '85 was officially underway.
Joan Applebaum, Funday committee chairperson, began the festivities by leading all 320 pairs of buddies in the hokey-pokey. The groups then moved to three different areas. One group went to the Campus Sports and Recreation basketball courts, another to the Student Union, and the third remained on the intramural field.
Events on the intramural field included a beer can toss, football,
Funday participant Luis tips his hat off to his “buddy”
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frisbee, and soccer. Neil Block, one of the four members of UM’s Soccer Club that came out for the occasion, said, “The enthusiasm everyone has for this day makes you feel really good about helping out."
A special pair with quite a bit of enthusiasm was Kathy Durham and her buddy Drew. Kathy, a junior and a volunteer for the third straight year, was Drew’s partner last year.
The CSR basketball courts were full with people, basketballs and volleyballs. Although Funday is not a competition, the participants gave their best effort in every event they entered.
Sophomore Maureen Liberty helped her buddy, 13-year-old Allene, to shoot the basketball. “I, know that a lot of students are apprehensive about coming out here,” said Maureen. “I was too, but once you get started the intimidation stops and it really is fun."
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Drew, a Special Olympian, is enjoys Funday ’85 his “buddy” Kathy Durham
Groups also enjoyed themselves' at the Student Union. Magician' Donny Levan amazed his audience with magic tricks, “but the best part was the balloon animals," said one child. He was referring to Levan's ability to twist balloons into animal shapes, which he handed out during the show. Also in the Student Union, the Funday participants enjoyed free bowling and video games
Throughout the day the groups moved from one event to the other for a chance to participate in all of the Funday activities.
The eight-person First Aid Squad was on hand, equipped with trauma kits supplied by the Health Center. “All of these kids have complex medical histories, however we expect only to deal with minor injuries and possibly some
problems caused by the heat." Brad Reiter, head of the squad
Nello Filippone summed up he came out as a volunteer Funday: “It makes you realize how special people really are."
Students explore avenues at Career Information Jamboree
By SHERYL STEIN
Hurricane News Editor
Students explored new educational and occupational avenues last Friday at Career Information Jamboree 1985. Held in the Lower Lounge and adjacent areas of the Student Union between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the Jamboree was sponsored by the department of Career Planning and Placement in cooperation with Alpha Kappa Pst Business fraternity, Circle K, Guidance Center, the Student Alumni Association, and the Un-dergradaute Student Body Government.
Approximately 65 organizations participated through information stations located in the lower Union. The groups represented organizations involved with consumer services, education (both employers and possibilities through UM), finances, food and beverage processing services, federal, state and local government agencies, health and human services, insurance and real estate, manufacturing, public media and wholesale and retail businesses.
The Career Information Jamboree started as Business Week in conjunction with the Business School in 1968.
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University of Miami students inquired about new educational and job opportunities at the Career Information Jamboree Friday
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Awareness month focuses on pride
By HILDA JACKSON
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LESLIE MCKENZIE
Of the Hurricane Staff
Black on Black Pride is the theme for this year's annual observance of Black Awareness Month sponsored by the United Black Students Organization. The observance officially opened Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Rock.
The purpose of the observance is to showcase the many achievements and contributions blacks have made to society. A wide variety of activities are planned including lectures, exhibits, speakers, seminars, a fashion show, a greek step show, a picnic and the Miss Black University of Miami pageant.
The keynote speaker for the opening ceremonies was Dr. Marvin Dunn, associate professor of psychology at Florida International University. Dunn's speech focused on the important contributions blacks have made to American life and what life in America would be like without blacks. He noted that the modern day traffic light was invented by a black man, the agricultural contributions of George Washington Carver and the first successful open-heart surgery performed by black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.
Dunn spoke about the importance of the black family and the necessity for higher education in academically challenging fields like engineering and computer science. He also implored blacks to take responsibility for their own destinies.
“If every white person left, if every Cuban person left, blacks would still be in trouble because some internal elements of urban ghetto life are so destructive. One of the biggest problems is the erosion of the black family. In 10 to 15 years, 80 percent of the poor black children will live in homes without their black fathers. No one could succeed with those odds against them,"said Dunn.
Although many problems must be addressed in relation to the black experience in America today, he; stressed that blacks must not blame others for all of their problems. "Racism isn't our biggest enemy,” Dunn said. “Not the Klan, not the racist copy of the
sort who killed McDuffie. These are easy targets. It would be self-defeating to blame them."
He stressed the importance of obtaining an education. "Affirmative Action is on its deathbed. You can't depend on it to get that first job for you." Dunn said He quoted W.E.B. DuBois by calling black college students the "talented 10th," noting that 50 percent of young blacks are functionally illiterate.
“By the time you come to power, those of you who will be successful are the ones who will have survived calculus, logic and the classics," said Dunn.
The week of Black Awareness Month featured breakfast with University of Miami President Edw'ard T. Foote on Monday at 8:30 a m. Today, a Career Seminar will be held in Student Union 245. On Wednesday, the movie Ragtime will be shown in the International Lounge at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, a professional's seminar is planned at 7 p.m. in Eaton Hall North Lounge. On Friday, the Rathskeller will feature “UBS Night at the Rat" at 8 p.m.
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The Miss Collegiate Black American Pageant is a nationally-recognized pageant which showcases talented black women from respective colleges and universities throughout the United States. This year’s crowned queen is Miss Lori Williams, a music major at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.. Miss Williams will be an honored guest at the Miss Black UM Pageant on Feb. 16 at Gusman Hal), and the winner of the Miss Black UM Pageant will be invited to the next Miss Collegiate Black American Pageant.
The founder and president of the UM pageant, Frank Mercado, and the publicity director, Gerald Arti, are both students of the University of Miami. Due to the involvement of Mercado and Arti, along with the University and South Florida, the 1985 Miss Black American Pageant will be in Miami during the month of April. The University of Miami's Public Relations Student Society, a professional organization on campus, is helping to promote the pageant throughout the South Florida area and the University.
Expert lectures on sex education
By ODALIS RODRIGUEZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
Parents often do not listen when their children tell them that they have been sexually abused, according to Dr. Sol Gordon, a leading authority on sexual education.
In his Thursday night lecture. Promoting Self-Esteem: Teaching Socialization Skills, co-sponsored by the School of Education and Allied Professions and The Council for Exceptional Children, Gordon explained that children often aren't capable of reporting instances in which they have been molested.
In reference to an incidence of widespread sexual abuse among children in Manhattan Beach. Gordon said, “All the children told the parents and the parents didn't listen. The children didn't have the vocabulary. They would have paid attention if their kids, would have said things like, 'He's playing with my penis.
Gordon said that his book, A Better Safe Than Sorry Book, is the only children's book that uses correct sexual terminology.
In response to the hesitancy on the part of most aduits to be frank with their children on sexual matters, Gordon said that awkwardness Is not an excuse to eschew the issue.
"It's not necessary to be comfortable,” he said. "Tell your children that you feel uncomfortable, and they will reassure you ... You don't have to be super-knowledgeable. No child will ask you about the fallopian tubes.”
He urged parents not to ask their children to keep sexual Information confidential, adding that children whose parents give out misinformation, "never keep it to themselves."
Gordon criticized the kind of sexual education that is being offered in the public schools, which, with a few exceptions, he said amounts to "courses on menstruation for girls only."
Gordon contrasted the socialization process for males and females concerning sex. Males, he said, see sex as an opportunity for sex, and females view it as an opportunity for love.
He said that promiscuity among teens is often an extemalization of feelings of emptiness and uselessness.
“Of the girls getting pregnant and the boys who are doing the impregnating, almost all of them have a low self-esteem," he said. ‘The boys think, 'I don't amount to anything unless I've scored,' and the girls think, 'I don't amount to anything unless some boy will have me.” "
Gordon said that an individual must be given opportunities to feel useful and should also have positive learning experiences In order to raise his self-esteem.
"This is the only society in the history of the world In which you can be 25 years old and never have had the experience of being useful to
someone else," he said.
Changes in the family structure account for much of this negative phenomenon that exists within our society. On the other hand, said Gordon, changes in the roles of women have had a positive Impact.
"Today's curriculum is the message of the women's movement," he said. “If women were not available for exploitation, you better believa that we would not have so many pregnancies and cases of venereal disease.”
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