Miami Hurricane, April 10, 1984

              Volume 60 Number 48
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Tuesday, April 10, 1984
Students Must Repay $34
of Vouchers
By MARY CRONIN
Hurricane Staff Writer
University of Miami student who received Florida tuition vouchers for spring or fall will have to repay $31 of that money because of a lack of state funds.
M,lc.h.*el.Wrrnon' coordinator of student contact at UM's Student Financial Aid Services, said a chani e in th> law regarding tuition vouchers,
which allowed more Florida residents to receive them, is the crux of the problem.
"Each year the state legislature appropriates a certain amount of '^orl<*a tuition voucher l he legislated amount per student is $750. Last year, the state had to reduce this figure, but they assured us that this year the students would get the full amount." Wernon said.
However, Wernon added, the legislature did not expect a large increase in tuition voucher recipients when they changed the tuition voucher requirements Previously. ,i n pient had to be a two-year resident of Florida and a graduate of a Florida high m bool.
Now, any person who h.i. lived in Florida for two years for any purpose other than educational and who wishes to attend a private university
within Florida on a full-time basis is allowed a tuition voucher for up to €■7 no	r
The voucher, Wernon aid. is available regardless of financial need. The entire sum of $750 is given to students who have at least $750 worth
of tuition costs to pay. A student who is under scholarship or for some other reason has less than $750 to pay will receive only the amount he/she needs to cover the bill.
"We'll be sending out letters to students to let them know the repayment is not our fault," Wernon said.
"Last year, when this happened there was a bit of uproar from the students and justifiably so. This year, we’re [the Student Financial Aid Services) trying to be a lot more proactive. We want to let the students know what's happening,” Wernon added.
The money is distributed in the form of checks toward the end of the semester, Wernon said. The University of Miami Student Financial Aid Office credits UM students’ accounts $375 at the start of the semester and therefore expects the full sum from the state at the end of the semester, said Wernon.
When the state informed UM that the spring voucher checks would be $34 short, UM had to bill students, Wernon added.
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Another action affecting the financial aid office is new rules aimed at forcing students who don’t keep their grades up to be taken off the federal aid rolls.
The new federal rule, which went into effect in January and which aid offices around the country are now trying to implement for the first time, stiffens old "academic progress" requirements.
The U.S. Department of Education now requires colleges to make students maintain "satisfactory academic progress" toward completing 120 credit hours within six years
That means students must keep making the progress during semesters in which they don't receive any aid, also.
“Some institutions are just too darn lenient" in letting students with bad grades or without a clear degree program continue receiving aid, said Duncan Helmrich, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education.
Last April, the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance reported that, while all schools require students to maintain satisfactory academic progress in order to get aid, few colleges actually monitored their aid recipients’ progress very closely.
The commission, created in 1980 to draw up student aid bills for Congress, could find few examples of colleges taking aid away from students with bad grades or who took too long to get through college.
Colleges individually must now publish guidelines specifying just how fast a student must progress over six years toward 120 hours and also submit reports on each aid recipient's compliance with those guidelines
Financial aid offices must also identify recipients as part- or full-time students, account for dropped courses in computing students’ aid eligibility, and be ready to bar aid to students who don't continue progressing toward their degrees at the pace prescribed by the school's guidelines.
This article was supplemented by information from the College Press Service.
stars
in acting
By HOLLY GLEASON
Hurricane Staff Writer
Soap opera a challenge
Miami Hurricanc/ROBFRT MANN
Rogers and Samms speak at the Ibis Cafeteria to a full crowd
appearances, "... the average person who goes to malls has the intellect capacity of a carrot."
Samms was mugged by a fan a year ago and that for her was a very frightening experience. But, she doesn’t let things like that bother her.
"I feel that if you’re bothered by it, you’re in the wrong business," Samms says. “Tony [Geary| has a saying that ‘it comes with the dinner’ and it’s so true.”
"I think it's important," Rogers continues. "You owe the public something in terms of personal commitment. Appearances give them a chance to equate the image on screen with the person in the flesh. It gives them a chance to formulate their own opinion.”
The rest of their time is spent on
various things Samms just bought a condo and is in the midst of decorating it.
When Rogers' contract is up In December, he’s not sure what he will do. But even as there are no guarantees that he's going to leave the series, there are no guarantees that he’ll stay.
Both Samms and Rogers are active in charity organizations. Samms is busy with the Starlight F'oundation, a charity that makes wishes come true for terminally ill children.
Contributions came be sent to: Starlight F'oundation, 9021 Melrose Ave., #206, Los Angeles. Cal., 90069. Rogers is active in a fledgling charity benefiting the victims of head trauma, a malady which affects 600,000 people a year
Iiûn_Arrow
\ oteon
lo he Thursday
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Iron Arrow Honor Society will vote Thursday evening on whether to admit women into the all-male society and be permitted to return to campus
Chief Ken Lise said he expects a large turnout at the meeting, which will be the first vote on the subject since 1976, when a proposal to admit women failed
Although he feels a majority of the members would vote to admit women, a two-thirds vote is necessary to change the constitution, and Lise said he is not willing to make any predictions of what the vote will be
The amendment to change the Iron Arrow constitution was proposed during Iron Arrow's February meeting The amendment would simply change the wording in one section to permit women as members.
Nothing else, apparently including the initiation procedures, would change if the amendment to admit women is approved by the members.
Iron Arrow left campus In 1976 when faced with an ultimatum by the university: admit women or leave campus. The university was under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which threatened to withhold federal education funds from UM if Iron Arrow was permitted to remain on campus and continued to discriminate
1 eaders of Iron Arrow decided to take the case to the courts, and it
has been in the courts for the past seven years The U.S. Supreme Court declared the case moot in November, because UM President Edward T Foote said that Iron Arrow would not be permitted to return to campus, regardless of the court’s decision.
This had reversed the university's position of 1977, when the board of trustees passed a resolution stating that if Iron Arrow won In the courts, it would be permitted back on campus.
Iron Arrow has a long history that reaches back to the founding of the University of Miami. The honor society was founded in 1926 by Bowman Foster Ashe, L'M's first president. Ashe based the society on Seminole Indian practices, following the concept of a men's honorary and service fraternity that would be exclusive to UM
Membership in Iron Arrow has been considered the highest honor a male student could achieve. The society selects only a handful of undergraduates each year
The members of Iron Arrow meet twice a sear to seln t those to be tapped for membership. Each nominee is reviewed in accordance with five criteria love of alma mater, character, leadership, scholarship and humility
It was conceived as an all-male honorary to honor students for service to the university. It has among its members many of the university's faculty, administration, and board of trustees, many of whom are expected at Thursday’s vote, I ise said
Inside
Sorority leaves campus
U8BG legislation
The Undergraduate Student Body Government passes legislation on Holocaust Education Week and on getting better deals for the return of used books to the UM Bookstore /PAGE 3
Where’s the opposition?
A column on positive opposition concerning campus issues /PAGE I
Matchmaker
A review of the "Matchmaker," now playing at the Ring Theater /PAGE 6
Weekend wrap-up
UM loses tw .nit of three in this weekend's series of baseball games /PAGE 9
B> LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane New* Editor
Dwindling membership and the disintegration of the Greek system have forced the Upsilon Delta Chapter of Chi Omega to decide to leave the University ot Miami chapter, according to chapter president Elizabeth Beumer
"The Greek system seems to be deteriorating slowly," said Beumer "Also, the number of girls going through rush has been going down."
About 20 girls went through the Spring rush. There are presently 16 members in the chapter
Chi Omega has 170 chapters nationwide. The UM chapter was founded in December. 1936 One of its most significant contributions was the Chi Omega Sun Festival, which has evolved into Carni Gras.
Other contributions include various scholarships to university women and the Chi Omega Gallery of Women, which recognizes the achievements of UM's prominent women, the latest of whom is Louise P Mills, former dean of Student Personnel, dedicated last year.
The closing of the chapter was recommended to the national executive office in Cincinnati. Ohio by the UM chapter, their advisors, and their housing corporation Despite the closing of this chapter, the Miami Alumnae Corporation will still be active
Emma Samms and Tristan Rogers look a little different than the characters they portray on television's daytime soap opera General Hospital. There's a certain lack of wariness on the part of Rogers, who plays police commissioner Robert Scorpio. For Emma Samms, the part of Holly was initailly quite a departure from her own self.
One thing, however, remains both on and off camera — the tremendous Interplay between the two, who made their first public appearance together in the Ibis Cafeteria Thursday night. Of all the lectures presented by Lecture Series this year, this one was the
best-attended.
Those In the audience were afforded a somewhat humorous look at what goes into making a show
like General Hospital work.
“I've got to hand it to Gloria Monte," Rogers said during the lecture. "She is General Hospital and without her, we wouldn't have the show we have now. Daytime television wouldn’t have had the raise in stature or the raise in pay, either."
Continued Samms: “There are still some actors who look down on daytime television and say they are only doing it temporarily until they can get into prime time or whatever. The acting challenge is an exceptional one. I can't Imagine a harder job.”
The commitment to daytime television can be startling, since there are no re-runs on the soaps. So, for the people connected to shows like General Hospital, work is five days a week, 52 weeks a year with little or no time off.
As Rogers said prior to going onstage, "The show demands a lot of you and it doesn’t leave very much for other things. Between you and the show, the show dominates. Having been on it for a while and having to do a lot of work for it, I'm a bit tired. I need a break, both physical and mental.”
Despite often shooting until 9 at night, only to go home and have to learn the next day’s script, there are other things which prove to be bigger detractors. There's a loss of anonymity which leaves the stars open to all sorts of things Both Rogers and Samms have fallen victim to the gossip sheets. And that can be frustrating, they say.
“I hate 'em," says Rogers emphatically. "They don't have one redeeming quality. The Enquirer won't touch daytimers, but The Star is taking a real turn for the worse of late. They're getting more pernicious."
The reason for this, both believe, is that, being on daytime television, they are very visible. That makes them perfect candidates for selling lots and lots of copies.
Visiblity, though, comes with the job and it can take some adjusting to. Rogers says of many of the people who attend his shopping mall
Miami Hurricane/A tXA MOHTERO
Mixer
Students and alumni get acquainted at the Student Alumni Association mixer at the Lowe Art Museum last Thursday
Facully Oub’s prices reasonable
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
Editor's note: This is the ninth in a series of urfic/es evaluating the different places to cat on campus. The order of the places evaluated and times of evaluation were picked at random. To maintain consistency. all places were reviewed during lunch hour, none were notified ahead of time, and all meals were paid for in cash.
The only restaurant on campus, the Faculty Club caters mostly to faculty and staff, mainly because of the prices. However, it is also the only place where there are waiters and the service is not one of a fast food eatery.
Prices are reasonable. For lunch, there are a number of sandwiches, none of them over $3.75 (these are served with potato salad and a ko-
sher dill spear). A burger will go for $2.75, more for extras such as cheese or bacon. Included in the price are french fries and a kosher dill spear.
Soup and salad cost $3.25 and this is a make-it-yourself, with a big selection from the soup and salad bar. The most expensive dish on the menu is one of the entree salads, seafood melange (salmon, shrimp and crabmeat). which goes for $5.50.
The other entree salads are the chef's salad bowl, avocado half, and fresh fruit plate. Besides these, there are special sandwiches — Philly Steak Sandwich, California Sub (deli meats and cheeses), Jersey Joe (roast beef) and Miami Beach Best (reuben on rye). These are all under $5 and are served with potato salad and a kosher dill spear
The entrees include chicken breast, fish of the day, and the
chef's special soup, or salad bar. rice pllaf, vegetables, bread and butter.
Also for lunch are eight different omelettes and four types of desserts.
The F'aculty Club, located at 1550 Brescia Ave., has facilities for luncheons and banquets.
Rating eateries
The Miami Hurricane will rate the on-campus eateries on a scale from one to 10. with 10 being the highest rating, in the following four areas:
Variety — What choice does the student have in what to eat? Quality — How good is the food?
Service — How friendly and cooperative are the employees? Do they care about the student? Atmosphere — How clean is the cafeteria? Is it decorated? Arc chairs broken, utensils missing, or the ice cream machine working?
Ratings: 1-3 poor; 4-5 average; 6-8 excellent; 9-10 superior.
Faculty Club
Variety...................7
Quality...................7
Service ..................8
Atmosphere................6
Miami Hurricane places third
The Miami Hurricane won third place for best all-around newspaper in the five-state Mark of Excellence contest sponsored by region three of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
There were 190 entries from colleges and universities in Alabama. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and East Tennessee. Thirty-one awards were given in the categories of newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and photography.
First place in the best all-around newspaper category was The Auburn Plainsman. Auburn University. Second place was The Daily Ilea con, University of Tennessee.
The awards were presented at a banquet Saturday night at the regional conference at the Konover Hotel in Miami Beach. Eight students from the UM chapter of SPJ.SDX attended the conference.