Miami Hurricane, November 06, 1984

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OPINION, p. 4
SPIRIT Wins All
Freshman senator
By LISA GIBBS
Hurricane Sews Editor
Every member of the SPIRIT ticket won senate seats in this year’s Undergraduate Student Body Government fall elections.
Only two of the seats had been opposed; Scott Swafford and Gary Lane of SPIRIT won the two freshman senator seats over independent candidate Adam Rabi-nowitz, and Raj Agarwal and Eddie Wang of SPIRIT took sophomore senator seats over independent Michael Moritz
There were two write-in candi-
dates; Tom Hickey for apartment area and Tom Hester for fraternity
row.
"It was a pretty slow election,” said Frank Jimenez, campaign manager for SPIRIT. “We campaigned as much as we could — naturally, the excitement just wasn’t there
"We had a hard time getting the ticket excited, but we did," he
said.
A total of 338 ballots were cast, down from 361 last year. But Jimenez wasn’t displeased. "We were real happy to see the total so close to last year's," he said. "It rained
most of Wednesday ... if it wasn't for that, we would have beaten last year's total."
As part of the ticket's platform. Jimenez and his ticket plan to improve accessibility to dorm phones, increase the visibility of USBG, work with the department of public safety to improve campus security, and establish a ¡ounge on the first floor of the Memorial Building.
“I was proud of the way the ticket conducted itself,” said Jimenez. “They were out there campaigning even though we were unopposed. We did a good job.”
Gary Lane (Spirit).......77
Adam Rabinowitz..........46
Scott Swafford (Spirit) .79
Sophomore senator
Raj Agarwal (Spirit).....57
Michael Moritz ..........24
Eddie Wang (Spirit)......56
Eaton Hall
Meg Finnegan (Spirit)....13
Mahoney/Pearson
James Schulz (Spirit)....58




Miami Hurricane/JULIO PESTONIE
Man overboard
Sophomore architecture student Raul Lastra holds on to his ship during the boat races held Friday on Lake Osceola. The winner (left) holds up his trophy in front of professor Jan Hochstim, who conducted the race. The boat race replaces the traditional Chariot races
Election Results
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Eric Persily (Spirit) ....50
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Ricki Levy (Spirit)
Apartment area
Xavier Cortada (Spirit)..22
Tom Hickey (write-in)....12
Fraternity Row
Eric Robinson ...........10
Tom Hester (write-in).....7
Airline
speaks
By PAT GARRIGA
Hurricane Stuff Writer
Colonel Frank Borman, former astronaut and current chief executive officer of Eastern Airlines, said that keeping his company afloat has been the most challenging assignment in his professional career.
Borman was given a hero's welcome from the capacity crowd at Gusman Hall Thursday at the second Distinguished CEO Lecture Series, sponsored by the corporate attitiates ot University ot Miami's School of Business Administration
Borman, in his speech titled “U.S. Airlines and Industry in Transition," traced the course of the U.S. scheduled airline industry since 1928.
"Eastern started off with six fabric-covered biplanes carrying the mail," he began. "Soon the transition was made to carrying passengers with equally fragile airplanes."
The industry has evolved into one which has a total revenue in excess of $40 billion, carries some 300 million passengers on an annual basis, and employs more than 100,000 people, Borman said.
Borman cited the improvements made in passenger safety over
Off-campus North
Kim Lengert (Spirit)		31
Maria Lorenzo (Spirit)		.30
Off-campus South	
Izhar Haq (Spirit)		.32
Peter Lott (Spirit)		.35
Student Entertainment	
Committee	
Tanya Jones (Spirit)		257
Deborah Swirsky (Spirit)	236
Off-campus Central	
Liz Rodriguez (Spirit)	.36
Ana Villazon (Spirit)	.31
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those years since 1928. "Today, the scheduled airline industry in the United States is the safest form of transportation." he said Efficiency, reliability, speed, and comfort in a more controlled environment have also greatly improved
“All of this was done with an industry that was tightly controlled because for the first 50 years, we were, in essence, a public utility," Borman said of the era prior to deregulation of the airline industry During that time, he said, ticket prices were stabilized
In the 1960s, inflation began to take its toll on the industry and society as a whole; "Over 16 years ago, the 727 airplane cost about $t million." Borman said "The last 727 planes that we bought, over two years ago, cost about $18 million
"Our fuel bill in 1973 |at Eastern | for about a billion gallons of kerosene was $117 million. Five years later, for about the same amount of kerosene, our fuel bill was over a billion dollars.
"So you have this remarkable convergence of four different forces: inflation, energy, technology, and labor costs that came to-
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UlVTs Muslim Student Organization holds exhibits on Islamic Day
By AHMED SHOREIBAH
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Islamic Day was sponsored Friday by the Muslim Student Organization of the University of Miami Among the special events featured were video shows, free brochures, and discussions aimed at educating non-Muslim students about Islam These events were
held in the breezeway and on the main floor of the Student Union during the morning and early afternoon.
Later in the afternoon, Gary Miller, a Canadian religious scholar and a former Christian priest, lectured in the Student Union International Lounge to an audience of over 100 people on the doctrines and teachings of Islam.
COISO to sponsor foreign film series
By CATHERINE H. MALLINAS
Hurricane Staff Writer
Movies from all areas of the world will be coming soon to the International Lounge. The Council of International Students and Organizations will be sponsoring a foreign film each Thursday beginning Nov. 8 and continuing into December.
The International Film Series is the result of the efforts of Richard Betts, COlSO's former president; Lourdez Gonzalez, a member of the COISO cabinet; and the Program Coordinating Council of the University of Miami
The films will be free of charge and everyone — including international and native students, faculty, administrators, and the community at large — is urged to attend
A half-hour mixer, designed to help international students become better acquainted with administrators and people from the community as well as with their peers, will precede each feature.
Raymond Augustin, current COISO president, said that this is the first time such a project has been undertaken at the University and that it will foster mutual understanding between international students and the non-international community.
Dennis O'Toole of the Intensive English Program has also contributed significantly to the film series, which will be funded entirely by student activity fees.
The first movie of the series, to be shown Nov. 8. will be a silent movie starring Charlie Chaplin entitled First Modem Times. A week later, Beauty and the Beast, a French film, will be screened.
Then, there will be a two-week gap because of the Thanksgiving holidays, after which a German movie. Blue Angel, will be featured on Dec. 6.
COISO stresses the importance of this series and urges everyone to participate. Izhar Haq. an Undergraduate Student Body Government senator and COISO newsletter editor, said, "the Film Series will enhance cultural awareness among the international and native students "
COIS * plans to publicize the serf 1 through the use of local media such as The Miami Herald and radio station WAXY-106 FM
Following the speaker's presentation, an Islamic book sale was conducted.
In the evening, a dinner, which concluded the day's series of events, was held in the Flamingo Ballroom.
“We want to give a correct impression of Islam" in order to counter the distorted picture sometimes given by the media, said Adnan Al-Refai, MSO president.
There are over 600 Muslim students currently attending UM, according to Al-Refai, a graduate student in operations research from Kuwait. They come mainly from Malaysia, Pakistan, and the Arab countries, he added.
MSO has about 50 members and 300 other participants in its activities, which include Friday prayers, religious study, and sports competitions. The organization also sponsors lectures in the four Miami area mosques
Islam is one of the world's great religions, with nearly a billion ad-
herents worldwide in such diverse countries as the Soviet LInion, Iran, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia, among many others.
Muslims believe their prophet, Muhammad, to be the last in a long line of prophets, beginning with Abraham and including Moses and Jesus, that were sent by a single God. They also accept the Qur'an, the holiest book in Islam, as the exact word of God as revealed to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel
Muhammad died in 632 A D., and some 30 years later, a dispute concerning the succession of the caliphate, or leadership, of the Islamic world resulted in the major division of Islam — between Sunni and Shi'a — which has continued to the present.
Nevertheless, in the centuries following Muhammad's death, much of the civilized world succumbed to Islamic domination, and an empire — the most intellectually and culturally advanced of its age — was maintained, albeit di-
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vided into various dynasties. The last remnant of these Islamic dynasties — the Osmanli (or Ottoman) empire — was dissolved shortly after World War I
Despite the diversity within Islam, all Muslims share common duties and obligations dictated by their religion These include praying five times daily, fasting from dawn to dusk throughout the holy month of Ramadan, making a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, giving an annual donation to the poor, and believing strictly in the tenets and teachings of Islam as divulged in the Qur'an
847.3 million received in grants, gilts, pledges
By DENISE L. HERMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
For the fiscal year ending May 31, 1984. the University of Miami received $29.8 million in private cash gifts and grants, $9.4 million in pledges, and $8 1 million in deferred gifts and expectancies from individual corporations, foundations, trustees, alumni and friends, reported Cyrus .lollivette, vice-president for Development Affairs
Over 70 percent of the gifts were for the School of Medicine, Jollivette said
Jollivette said the money is spent in the area the donor chooses Approximately 82 1 million wa-- given a! unrestricted gifts, the use of which teas determined by UM President Edward T Foote and the
board of trustees.
The majority of these unrestricted funds were used for general purposes, such as paying bills.
The development office of each school works closely with the deans to determine and meet the school's needs, and sends proposals to corporations and individuals, Jollivette noted
The offices are constantly looking for funds, but, according to Jollivette, "We never raise enough money. Twice the amount would be wonderful "
Jollivette said the advancement program of the University is very exciting and touches on all aspects of the University, having about 9,000 volunteers and hundreds of donors.
Jollivette also reported that a two-year major fundraising campaign wilfbe announced in December
Judaic Studies expanding sluch abroad in Israel
By MARY ANNE STEVENS
Hurricane Stall U ni, r
The department of Judaic srud ies has been offering the opportu nitv to study abroad in Israel in conjunction with Tel Aviv Univi r-sity since 1981 Now it is expand ing the program to include summer courses and other universities such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa University and Bengurion University
This program is open to all students and allows University of Miami students to receive academic credit in subject areas other than Judaic studies. The courses are laugh! in English at these Israeli schools, which provide a crash course in Hebrew to facilitate the student's interaction in the foreign environment
Deborah Richter, a senior who participated in this program in 1982 when the wars in I ebanon broke out, had never been to Israel before although she spoke the language. She regrets spending onlv one semester there, and said that she never had any cause to worry about anything because, in her words, It was a well-organized, "most wonderful trip "
Wayne Firestone, a junior who will participate in the program next semester, is interested in a career in international relations and hopes "to get 'on-hand' academic exposure to the field of foreign studies " A visiting instructor, Dr Chaim Shaked. will be re turning to Tel Aviv University with Firestone, who will continue his studies with this professor
Interested students should contact Dr Henry Green, director of the program, at 284-4375 Tran
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with the application