Miami Hurricane, October 18, 1985

              Sex on campus
According to a national survey, casual sex on campuses is decreasing
News — page 3
UM’s world-traveling chorus
Students in UM Singers can write, conduct, play and sing music from classical to pop to jazz
Entertainment — page 6
Basketballs are bouncing
The University of Miami men's basketball program, led by Coach Bill Foster, has begun what it hasn’t done in 14 years — play basketball.
Sports — page 8
Volume 63 Number 12
University of Miami
Friday, Oct. 18, 1985
Sign helps police curb gay activity in bathroom
By SANDRA JARAMILLO
Hurricane Associate News Editor
In an attempt to curb homosexual activity in the men's bathroom at the Learning Center (the LC), the University of Miami department of Public Safety recently installed a sign over the entrance advising the bathroom is regularly patrolled by plain clothes and uniformed police officers.
So far, it appears to be working, said Curt Ivy, Public Safety law enforcement director.
No complaints of homosexual activity or contacts being made in the bathroom have been received by campus police since the beginning of the fall semester.
But, Ivy said the bathroom is known to be frequented by homosexuals.
In the latest decoy operation run in the second summer session in late July, officers in plain clothes made eight arrests for lewd and lascivious behavior and exposure of sexual organs.
Police records indicate those arrested include public school teachers, executives, managers, UM graduates and married as well as single men. Some of the UM graduates said they used to frequent the bathroom as undergraduates, police said.
Many of the offenders have been
put in pre-trial intervention programs
According to Ivy, during two 10-day periods this past summer, five officers arrested nearly 24 people in the bathroom for "overt actions.”
Numerous others, termed “borderline cases," were interviewed for information and in many
‘Rumor control has it that it [the LC bathroom) was published in a gay magazine as a good place to meet people’ Curt Ivy, Public Safety official
instances given a trespass warning but were not arrested.
“We're only touching the surface," Ivy said.
Police secured a sign with bold orange lettering over the bathroom’s entrance late in the second summer session to deter homosexuals.
Most of the homosexual activity occurs on the weekends, in the early evening after people get off of work or during night classes, police said.
Ivy believes the men's bathroom at the George E. Whitten Learning and Instructional Resources Center is being used because there is easy access to parking in the nearby lot for commuters, and the
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Furthermore, he added: "Rumor control has it that it (the bathroom) was published in a gay magazine as a good place to meet people.”
Four people arrested on separate occasions told police the bathroom had been advertised, Ivy said.
Dorm change forces School to move out
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane News Editor
Proposed work this spring or next fall to convert Eaton Hall into a residential college will force some architecture students to do their assignments, hear lectures and conduct classes elsewhere.
Eaton’s first floor is currently occupied by first- and second-year architecture students. Although the School of Architecture dominates most of the area located in what used to be apartments next to Eaton, there is not enough space to accommodate more architecture students.
"The University has given us every commitment that we will be given everything to replace what we will lose," said Thomas Spain, director of media relations for the School of Architecture
Architecture students now take up 6,000 square feet of Eaton's first floor.
Dr. William Butler, vice president of Student Affairs, said temporary facilities will be found on campus, rented or built in the area near the students' present location.
Both Spain and Butler have said a new building will be constructed once external funding is obtained. According to Butler, about $500,-000 will be needed.
Bulter said the new building should take about a year to build
In the meantime, Butler said new facilites will be found so that architecture students will not be separated and will have studios to work in.
"Another thing, 1 guess, is that public bathrooms have historically been places where this occurs. It’s not that unusual," Ivy said.
Police say holes burrowed in the partitions between stalls where homosexuals engage in contact have been repaired.
Physical Plant Director Clarence Lefler said Wednesday the holes have been filled recently or are being filled. He added that he was awaiting confirmation that the repairs were completed.
A visual inspection of the bathroom by a Miami Hurricane staff member, though, revealed the repairs have not been made and the holes remain.
Sergeant Cokes Watson from Public Safety said personnel from the physical plant had at one time locked the bathrooms at night but they were left open after complaints were received.
Lefler said that, to his knowledge, the physical plant has never locked any of the bathrooms.
Currently, uniformed officers go by the bathroom on an almost daily basis, said Ivy, but as far as running decoy operations, “we’re really kind of reactive to this.
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Three or four decoy operations have been run in the last three years, according to Watson, who said percentage rates for people returning to the bathroom after being arrested are way down.
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“In the long term, this will benefit the students," Spain said.
"I was just afraid that in our climb to the top, this was going to slow us down, said Lenny LaFo-rest. Undergraduate Student Body Government senator for the School of Architecture and president of the School's Student Council.
“As long as we are not kicked out, spread out all over campus and students will have a place to work, everything is fine," he said.
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Come sail away
Eaton hall residents might have noticed something unusual floating by their window Wednesday as a sailboat breezed by on Lake Osceola
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New
Exiled author to lecture on United Nations Day
By LUISA ARELLANO
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami Lecture Series Committee confirmed Thursday, they would be brining Donald Woods to campus on United Nations Day, Oct. 24. Woods is a South African author now living in exile because of his strong position against apartheid
“There was a conflict of publicity with Miami-Dade Community College who has engaged him for the Miami Book Fair, but it looks like we'll be able to get him,” said Sandra Richards, committee chairperson for the Lecture Series.
A finalist for the Teachers in Space Program and a live TV broadcast direct from Moscow are also planned presentations for 1985-86.
Richards said the committee is
also negotiating with Niki Wenger, one of the ten finalists for the Teachers in Space Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the middle of November.
"We are trying to coordinate her to do programs with other campus organizations so that she will be actively involved with as many students as possible," said Richards.
ORBITA: Live From Moscow is another planned feature according to Richards. "This TV broadcast will come to us directly from Moscow via the huge satellite dish we have on campus."
This would give students an insight on the workings of the media in the Soviet Union, said Richards.
"We are trying to bring speak-
ers who are going to be interesting, stimulating and positive and that will appeal to the vast majority of the students," Richards said. “We try to cover a wide spectrum of subjects."
Xavier Cortada, a two-year veteran with the Lecture Series Committee and Speaker of the Senate, said this is a standing committee of the University which has about $30,000 allocated to its functioning by the President's office
"Student’s activity fees provide $6,000, but the bulk comes front the President's office," said Cortada.
“One thing we are attempting to do is obtain co-sponsorships from campus and off-campus organizations," said Cortada “This would give us $60.000 to play with."
Decker gives mom credit for success
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane News Editor
Behind every great man, there is a great woman, goes the saying. Jeffrey Decker wholeheartedly agrees.
A junior at the University of Miami, Decker, 20. is the president and chief executive of three companies he hasesta-blished in the past year-and-a-half. And, he says his mom deserves all the credit.
"She |my mom) woke me up one morning and wanted me to go to a weekend seminar on how to start your own business,” Decker said. He was at home on summer vacation and reluctant to go. but his mom persisted and so he went.
And that was the start of something big for Decker, a double major in International Finance Marketing and International Business Management. Four days later, he was flying to California courtesy of National Tollfree Marketing, a company that provides the 800 service, for two weeks of intense training on sales techniques.
"I felt I could make a go of it." he said. “I wanted to do something no other student had done before."
Decker, a varsity cheerleader and
head junior cheerleader for UM last year, was so confident, he began recruiting for his first company while at cheerleading camp In Tennessee that summer and ran up a $600 phone bill.
Ambitious would be one word he could use to characterize himself. “I set high goals, but if I don't meet them I’ll just try harder," he says.
Decker admits it hasn't been easy
•i've had to make a lot of sacrifices," he says.
Often he has to make decisions on whether to make a sale or go out or go to class.	. .,
He conducts most of his work over the telephone, making his sales pitch while at the same time overseeing those under him.
Self-motivation and confidence, according to Decker, has a lot to do with his success, mainly because it is not a nine-to-five job and many risks are involved. He had to put some of his education money up as capital to start the buslnes. but says he has received it back in profits.
His perspective on why he does it has something to do with the fact that one of
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Jeff Decker ran up a $600 for his company
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phone bill recruiting
UM begins search for AIDS cure
By TONY FINS
Hurricane Staff Writer
University of Miami’s School of Medicine is currently testing two anti-viral drugs in hopes of providing a breakthrough in the battle against Acquired Immune Deficiency Svndrome
"We are testing to see what consequences they have on the AIDS virus," said Dr. Margaret A. Kischl. director of the AIDS clinic at the UM medical school
Gov. Bob Graham recently appointed Fischl to a state committee on AIDS.
Fischl expects the tests, which will be conducted on patients at UM's Jackson Memorial Hospital clinic, to take anywhere from six months to one year.
But she is pessimistic about breakthroughs any time soon, expecting it will take years before an effective anti-viral drug is found
“These tests are the initial stage of the process," Fischl said. “We need to make extensive research, and, unfortunately, the incubation period for AIDS is two to five years, which will prolong the process ”
The two anti-viral drugs UM researchers will work on are called Rlbabirone and Compound F.
AIDS has infected over 13,000 Americans, of
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