Miami Hurricane, March 23, 1984

              YOUTH FAIR PREVIEW — PAGE 6
Volume 60 Number 43
Two Tickets Vie In USBG Elections
By USA GIBBS
Hurricane Associate News Editor
On Monday and Tuesday, when the election polls open, University of Miami students will have a choice between two tickets — STAR, headed by Scott Kornspan, and New Approach, headed by Jaene Garcia
STAR hopes to build on the existing Undergraduate Student Body Government, emphasizing experience, while New Approach puts more emphasis on change and the initiation of new programs.
"We don't want to start new,” said presidential candidate Korn-
span. “We have a good, sound student government and we’re going to build up from there.”
New Approach, on the other hand, advocates a “stronger and better USBG.”
"We want a student government that’s not reactionary,” said Junior Jaene Garcia. "We want to be initiators.
“We don’t want to object to problems and issues after they occur,” said Garcia. "We want to accomplish everything on our platform by the end of the fall semester [next year).
“We're not only leaders of the student government, but leaders of the student body.”
Kornspan said he thinks his ticket has the leadership necessary to run student government successfully
“We have the experience in student government, we have been a positive force this year," said Kornspan, a sophomore and USBG attorney general. “If we are given the opportunity, we can run student government effectively.
“I’ve been there, I have the experience and I can work with it.”
STAR'S proposals include USBG membership on the UM Board of Trustees, the establishment of USBG as a student information center, and the development of several programs which will serve stu-
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Bill Foster, named coach of the new basketball team, speaks at a press conference Wednesday. Foster was also at the Rathskeller that night to greet students More on the new coach on page 9.	________ 1
By TEQUESTA BRYANT
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Tom Wolfe, controversial author and journalist, said he regretted not including the natural history of The Right Stuff in his most recent bestseller.
Wolfe was scheduled to speak on his career as a writer, but to the su-prisc of some in the audience Tuesday night at the Beaumont Cinema, Wolfe's lecture consisted of the chapter he "did not write" in The /fight Stuff, his 1979 account of the difficult birth of America’s space program. The book was the basis for a motion picture that has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.
“A very small part of it [The Right Stuff] came to me without my knowing it," he said.
Wolfe said he was flying to New York from Phoenix, Ariz., when the pilot announced that a warning light indicated that the landing gear would not lock into place. Wolfe said he was amazed and shocked at the captain's calm drawl in a life-and-death situation. Wolfe said the pilot joked the whole time the plane was in the air. the stewardesses asked the passengers to "assume the position" for a crash landing. Wolfe said they were “less amused than the captain."
The landing gear held, the plane landed safely, and Wolfe was left with a desire to find out what made it possible for a man to be so calm In the face of danger.
At the time, Wolfe said, he was working on a book about astronauts. He wanted to know what, if anything, made them different from other people.
Later on, Wolfe said he was in the control tower of an airport when a pilot came over the radio, said in a calm, Midwestern drawl that he was losing altitude, and requested permission to land.
Wolfe asked who the pilot was
and was told that he was a Maine native Wolfe had interviewed earlier — a native with a sharp Maine accent. Like all other pilots produced by the military, the Maine man was imitating the voice of Chuck Yeager, pilot who had broken the sound barrier. Yeager's calm drawl had became a symbol of solid bravery and unbending courage for the pilots. Wolfe said Yeager had “the right stuff .”
Wolfe, in talking about the Vietnam War, said that the military is not representative of the make-up of the American people. He said that where the upper class once thought it honorable to join the military, the military now consists of military sons and daughters and rural people looking for a way to improve their social positions.
Wolfe said the West Point class of 1966 consisted of 600 graduating officers. Of the 600, one of every six was wounded in Vietnam; one of every 19 was killed in the war.
Wolfe compared these statistics to those of the Harvard class of '66. He said of the 1,223 graduates, 26 went to Vietnam. None was killed and one man was injured while running from a shell a mile and a half away.
Wolfe said that this and other factors showed how the Vietnam War was and is a source of displeasure to the common man who fought in the war and now holds a grudge toward the businessmen who claim to be most patriotic and somehow escaped injury or death.
Wolfe writes for The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Esquire.
Although Wolfe has received several prestigious awards for his fiction and nonfiction, the critics have been divided in their opinions of his self-described “wowie" prose. While some credit him with creating a new genre — the nonfiction short story — others ridicule him as a "renegade dandy" because his
dents.
“Getting a student on the Board of Trustees is important," said Kornspan. "We can get it done . we have to start moving higher, reaching higher."
Kornspan also said that the Greek system is important. "It (the Greek system] is not used as effectively as it should be used," he said “It could be the best retention tool we have."
Garcia's ticket hopes to develop academics with internships, a typing room in the Richter library, a five-year honors law program, and a ban on examinations during the week prior to finals.
USBG will be changed also, with scheduled topics of debate at Senate meetings and a USBG/Administra-tion workshop “to establish common goals, identify problems and issues, and build a spirit of trust and respect between USBG and the administration from the very beginning.”
“There's got to be a give and take between the administration and the students,” said Garcia.
Parking is an issue with both tickets.
"Right now the faculty is able to park in student lots without being ticketed," Kornspan said. "We want to abolish that."
STAR plans to work with Public Safety so that students who pay their parking tickets within 10 days will pay only one-half of the fine.
New Approach hopes to abolish "double penalty for a single parking violation." It also plans a reapportionment of parking spaces after Metrorail opens.
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New bill to go on ballot
Wolfe tells origin of ‘Right StufF
By LISA GIBBS
Hurricane Associate News Editor
What looked like a routine passage of legislation became a confusing clash between the Undergraduate Student Body Government and the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee.
However, students will finally be able to vote for or against the activity fee increase on Monday and Tuesday.
A referendum passed at the March 14 meeting of the USBG senate to put a student activity fee increase of $6.90 on the election ballot was line-vetoed by USBG President Mark Cheskin.
Cheskin, who had already made it known that he thought the bill “misleading," vetoed the first three paragraphs of the bill, leaving only the last paragraph: “The Student
(SAFAC) finds it necessary to increase the (student activity) fee by $6.90. Do you support this proposal?”
To Roy Robert, chairman of SAFAC and author of the referendum, the new bill was unacceptable. He and Cheskin met Monday to write yet another bill, and Tuesday, Robert got a new sponsor, the Council of Chairpeople.
A new referendum, including an article to rescind the previous referendum, was written to be brought up at the next senate meeting.
Cheskin also stated in a letter to Robert that the referendum, passed 28-0-1 by the Senate, had improper sponsorship and therefore was in-
valid.
The senate committee on university affairs, Cheskin said, did not have quorum (the correct number of voting members present) and thus could not sponsor a bill. Cheskin brought the matter before the Supreme Court Tuesday.
At that meeting, it was discovered that only one committee member (out of 12) was present at the University Affairs committee meeting held on March 18. Two members who were not present turned in written votes, and the chairman of the committee, Sen. Ken Berk, inducted temporary members in order to reach quorum.
The Supreme Court declared the actions of Berk “improper" and the referendum (the one passed by the senate) void.
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According to Robert, the bill was a dead issue because no matter what the Supreme Court decision was, the first referendum would be void and the new referendum would go to the Senate on Wednes-
day.
"I think the whole thing is becoming a political power play," Robert said. "My main goal is to get it [the activity fee increase] on the ballot," he said. “I'm willing to make concessions."
Last Thursday, SAFAC refused USBG's request for S2400 in emergency funds. USBG Treasurer Angie Vasquez has not yet appealed SAFAC’s decision, although she plans to eventually
"I feel that Cheskin was trying to remind SAFAC of the zero allocation," said Robert "I hope this is not a vendetta."
Cheskin said that this was not true. "It |the first referendum! wasn't political, just improper."
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Cheskin said he would sign the new bill. "The wording of the bill is very objective," he said. "It's a very fair referendum for students to vote on.”
Activity Fee Referendum
Your student activity fee of $53.10 per semester helps fund the Lane Recreation Center, Student Union, Rathskeller, concerts, yearbook, newspaper, student admission to football and baseball games, and 61 other student organizations and activities.
Since 1969, the number of student organizations has increased significantly while the amount of available activity fee funds for all organizations has basically remained the same.
Do you support a proposal to increase the student activity fee by $6.90?
International Week
Ceremonies begin today
Wolfe
dress in the 1960s commonly consisted of a white suit with white shoes and a wide white tie, black shirt and socks: they implied that his wild, freely constructed, mixed metaphoric vernacular prose was as frivolous as his clothes.
Today, Wolfe has exchanged the “Saturday Night Fever” look for pinstripes and narrow ties, but his work, if more structured and formalized, continues to be topical and controversial. "The Right Stuff," he said, “is not for everybody.”
Tuesday night, Wolfe wore a white suit, pale blue shirt, wide white polka-dotted tie and white shoes.
His numerous magazine articles cover every subject from stock car racing and Las Vegas gangsters to Cary Grant and Hugh Hefner. Of them all, Wolfe says he is proudest of “The Truest Sport," a magazine article about carrier pilots in Vietnam.
The lecture was sponsored by the UM Lecture Series.
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
Food, music and exhibitions will highlight International Week, which begins today and ends March 31. The Council of International Students’ Organizations, along with 18 other organizations, will be hosting the events during the week.
The first event begins today at 11:30 a.m. and will consist of a performance by American Bakalaika (Eastern European music) on the Patio. Opening ceremonies will be at 12:10 p.m. on the patio. They will be followed by a fashion show at 12:30 p.m. in the Ibis Cafeteria. This evening, there will be a jazz performance at the Rathskeller; the time has not yet been determined.
The following is the schedule of events:
Saturday
7 p.m.: Indian Cultural Show in the International Lounge; light snacks will be served afterward in the Flamingo Ballroom.
Monday: Potpourri Day
10 a m. - 4 p.m.: Exhibitions on the patio.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Israeli band, traditional Malaysian games, and food sales by Israelis, French Club, German Club and the Malaysian organization. All on the patio.
4 p.m.: Guest speaker from the Malaysian embassy in the International Lounge.
7-10 p.m : Turkish Evening: music and food on the patio.
8 p.m. - midnight: International Night at the Rathskeller.
Tuesday: African Day
10	a.m. - 4 p.m.: Exhibitions on the patio.
11	a.m. - 2 p.m.: African and Indian food sales on the patio.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Kokuma Adesi Ensemble (African dance) performance and an African fashion show.
7 p.m.: Symposium, hosted by the International Business Association.
Wednesday: Latin American Day
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Exhibitions and food sales.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Latin entertainment.
8 - 10 p.m.: Latin music.
Thursday: Caribbean Day
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Exhibitions on the patio.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Haitian music and food sales on the patio.
4 p.m.: Haitian speaker.
7	- 8 p.m.: Haitian dance troupe on the patio.
8	- 10 p.m.: Reggae Night on the patio.
Friday: Arab Day
4 p.m
Exhibitions on
10 a m. the patio.
7-11 p m : Arab Night at the Rathskeller
The week will end Saturday with a banquet
Inside
New Ibis yearbook editor elected
Residence Halls
Complete schedule of deadlines to sign up for next year / PAGE 2
Party platforms
Each party gives an overview of their platforms and major issues /PAGE 4
Youth Fair	„ .	...
Preview for the Hade County Youth hair, wh.ch heg.ns this weekend /PAGE 6
Welcome Foster
A coach is chosen for a new sport11'
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
Bill Scherer, a senior majoring in chemistry (pre-med), was elected the new editor of the Ibis yearbook I at a Board of Publications meeting | last Tuesday.
Andrea Angelo, outgoing Ibis edi-1 tor, said Scherer has been a key member of this year's Ibis staff. "I feel I confident that he will do an excellent ' job next year," said Angelo. "His photographic talents and ability to work with students make him a natural for the postion of editor.”
Scherer, who has been a photographer for the past seven years and who has won three photography scholarships, served as photo editor of the Ibis this year.
He has also been active in the Student Orientation Service, New Student Service Orientation Program,
Scherer
Alpha Sigma Phi (serving as little sister chairman, corresponding secretary, newsletter editor and scholarship chairman), Miami Hurricane, and Golden Key. He has been on both the President's and Deans' list.
“This year was a good learning experience because I've been involved in every step of the way,” he said. "Eve seen the problems this year and know what to avoid."
Next year, he would like to strive for "excellence in photography and writing.” There will be extensive use of color photos, said Scherer.
The emphasis, he added, will be on large, dominant photos. He plans to incorporate two photo essays; one would be in the beginning with color photos directly related to the theme of book.
The second essay would be at the closing of the book. This, he said, would be a gallery section highlighting the best black and white photography of students.
Hurricane
elections
Elections for the editor in chief and business manager of The Miami Hurricane will take place April 4 at 3 p.m. Candidates must fill out an application, available in Student Union Room 221. Deadline for applications is April 3 at 4 p.m. Candidates must also have a grade-point average of at least 2.5.