Miami Hurricane, February 12, 1985

              THREE—GAME SWEEP
The Hurricanes won three in a row this weekend against the University of Arkansas Razorbacks in the East-West Baseball Classic.
SPORTS — page 8
Student leaders protest CLAST fee
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
At the first annual Florida Student Associations Conference in Tallahassee this past weekend, the College Level Academic Skills Test fee was protested by Florida colleges.
The conference invited 107 student leaders from the Florida Black Student Association, Florida Junior Colleges Student Government Association, Florida Independent Student Association, and Florida Student Association.
FISA, which was represented by Amy Mursten, the president of FISA and University of Miami law student, proposed a bill at the conference to delete the $13 test fee required of students in private
colleges. The students attending state schools are subsidized by the state of Florida for this fee and therefore take the test for free.
FISA is composed of seven colleges, including UM, which have all supported the proposed CLAST bill, said Mursten.
The purpose of the conference, according to Mursten, was to not only exchange information and ideas but to join in legislative issues. “It was FISA's idea for the joint conference to learn about higher education," she said. “UM is taking a leadership role to organize the colleges.”
The association was started by Mursten in 1983 when she was an Undergraduate Student Body Government senator and head of a committee whose project was to form an alliance association between the independent colleges in Florida.
Six hours of workshops were held for the students on such topics as how to handle the press, lobbying skills, educational policy making, and swapping of information and financial aid. Also discussed were President Reagan's proposed financial aid cuts for college students and their effects on the college and its students.
Guest speakers were Ralph Turlington, commissioner of education for Florida; Clark Maxwell, director of community colleges; Barbara Newell, chancellor of the state university system; Bill Gunter, commissioner of insurances; and Marvin Davies, director of university affairs for the governor.
FISA is now planning to work with UM's USBG to initiate activities to support the CLAST bill.
Student forms mag
Special to the Hurricane/MARTIN APPLEBAUM
Mann relaxes after working with the new “Front
Row,” to be released on Feb. 20
By LISA GIBBS
Hurricane Managing Editor
Cans of food line the shelves of a room in Eaton Hall and towels, clothes and newspapers lay in disarray on the floor, the chairs and the bed.
Frank Mann flopped on patch-work pillows and sighed. "I’m busting my butt," he said.
This University of Miami senior has seen a lot of sleepless nights and hard work in the last five months. Almost single-handedly, he has put together and produced Front Row, an entertainment magazine designed for college students.
"There was a need for something that students were really interested in, which is entertainment," Mann said. "The idea was to have students feel they were more connected with the publication.
"I wanted to produce something and I wanted people to be aware of what I was doing," he said. "I didn’t Just want to go out and get a part-time job.
“At first I thought It’d be easy."
From September to December, Mann looked into printing costs and surveyed advertisers. "The original response was overwhelming and I really got Interested.”
He then set about choosing a name for his magazine. “I spent hours at the library looking at all kinds of music publications and dictionaries — even French, Dutch and German ones," Mann said. “Some article said something about a front row of a movie theater and I started thinking — front row, front row — it had a connection with what I was doing.”
After printing a sample copy of
‘I go into something to learn, for the experience. I don’t really concern myself about making a profit.’
UM student Frank Mann
the final product ("people would see that I'd invested money and maybe they'd invest money"), Mann worked on preparing articles and photographs.
The 22-year-old real es-tate/flnance major soon found out that producing a magazine wasn’t as easy as he'd thought.
"The time constraints made me produce and I made a lot of sacrifices." said Mann. “The advertisers' tune had changed, nobody was interested anymore and I was upset, frustrated and annoyed — I'd spent a lot of money and time.
“I owed everybody money. I’d borrowed from my friends who took me out to dinner 'cause I had no money. They even paid my phone bills — I couldn't have done it without them.
"At one time it looked like I was going to have to put up the money myself, and the next day, I received all the advertising money I needed to produce. I went with a few of my good friends and celebrated.
There were few celebrations, however, for production was only in its beginning stages.
“I found myself doing everything even when I didn't want to — laying out, editing, even taking some photographs myself," Mann said. “None of them came out — I’m not a good photographer.
“I'd be up 'til 3, 3:30, sometimes 'til even 6 in the morning thinking about the magazine. Miraculously, I passed all my six courses. It's easy. If I didn’t have this it'd be easier — I’d take nine courses.”
The native New Yorker has no regrets though.
"I go into something to learn, for the experience. I don’t really concern myself about making a profit,” said Mann. "I just wanted to produce something.
“If I sleep in all day then nothing gets done, but I know if I didn't get up, there'd be no photographs, no advertising — it’s a form of satisfaction.
"I’m capable of doing anything I put my mind to and this proves it."
Front Row is scheduled to come out Wednesday, Feb. 20.
UM proposes satellite project
By ELIZABETH CUPPARI
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami Rosen-stiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has recently become Involved in a satellite project whose prime aim is to give scientists some insight into the earth's magnetic and gravitational fields.
The satellite, which is called the Geo-potential Research Mission, could reveal the reason why South America. Africa, and India drifted away from Antarctica and where the continents may be heading in
the future.
According to Christopher G.A. Harrison, a University of Miami geophysicist, the GRM will allow scientists to map the earth's gravity fields.
"The GRM will be the first to measure the earth’s gravity fields directly," said Harrison, a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. “We will also learn more than we've ever known about convection currents beneath the earth’s crust."
Harrison is the co-chairman of a NASA committee formed to study potential areas of research for the
satellite system. By studying the earth's gravitational fields, data from the GRM could tell scientists something about future continental drift patterns and help them understand more about how the earth's surface works.
The GRM also studies the earth's magnetic field, allowing scientists to take magnetic and gravitational measurements in mountainous areas and to improve the accuracy of magnetic declination charts, which are used in plane and ship navigation.
The University of Miami will be involved in analyzing the data that the GRM brings in, said Harrison.
Moreover, when the satellite is launched, students will also be involved in the project.
Many proposals about what the GRM is capable of studying have been submitted to the committee. The committee is now trying to get NASA to launch the satellite. “The toughest task our committee has now is to convince NASA that this project is more important than the many proposed satellite missions it is considering."
It is estimated that the Geo-potential research mission will likely be launched from the space shuttle in 1991 if NASA takes on the project.
Communication conference joins scholars
UM professors meet to discuss media issues
By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Second Intercultural Communication Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean was held last Thursday and Friday at the University Inn.
The conference was co-hosted
by the University of Miami department of Communication and the Group for the Advancement of Communication in the Americas, GRACIAS.
The goal of the conference was to create an atmosphere where communication scholars from all over the world could gather to
discuss issues of communication in Latin America, North America and the Caribbean. Communication scholars from around the world and professors from the University of Miami spoke on problems facing the media today.
Dr. Bruce Garrison of the University of Miami communication department and Dr. Julio Munoz of the Inter-American Press Association discussed issues of media and culture in their lecture “Freedom of the Press and Information in Latin America and the Caribbean.” They spoke on governmental control on the print media and liccnring of pipers.
Dr. Thompson Riggers, I'M c ■ tien professor, ad-' of "The Emotion-
Infon. .tar, 1 tjund iri Comnuini-cation Situations.” He explained how the environment of a commu-n.cation alftcts the attitudes of an audience.
Dr. Olaf Rankis, also of the communication department, discussed "Sapir-Whorf Revisited:
Information Processing Discover-
f
ies from the Neurosciences." He discussed how language is the product of culture and how different cultures utilize the right and left areas of the brain in communication.
Some other topics discussed were; International /Intercultural Relations and the Communication Professional, Communication Issues in Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras. and El Salvador, Third World Communication Issues, Communication Issues in Religion and Issues in Intercultural Communication Research.
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Rankis said. "The conference has brought together nationally and internationally-known experts from these geographic areas to discuss how we might improve our relationships with one another."
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	Elections Calendar
Feb. 19	First candidates meeting (mandatory), Student Union, 7
	p.m.
Feb. 25	Filing for candidacy begins, 9 a m.
Feb. 25-March 1 SEC screening	
Feb. 28	First financial 'tire- t, 4:30 p • t.
March 4	Filing for t
March 21	Absentee ballots at Studi nt . .
March 25	Final candidates meeting, . .
	Final financi,. statement dut
March 26	Elections, 9 a m -4 p.m.
March 27	Elections,9 a m - i p ni.
April 1	Run-offs (if necessary)
The locations for polling arc Memorial Building and Student	
Union.	
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New school receives input from students
By DENISE L. HERMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
A council composed of students has been formed to give input into matters concerning the newly-created School of Communication.
The initial meeting of the Communication Student Advisory Council decided the Council’s first project will be to provide continuing students in the area of communications with information they need to pursue a communication major In the School of Communication.
Department of communication Chairman David Gordon said the Council will aid the faculty and administration in determining the concerns of students.
The Council will be a student-operated organization with faculty available to help Elections for offices have not been held since the idea is still in the planning stages.
The first meeting — which had student representatives from The Miami Hurricane, speech communication majors, Society of Professional Journalists, Public Relations
COM MAJORS
An information forum is being held Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. in the Beaumont Cinema to explain effects of the newly-created School of Communication
Student Society ot America, UM Filmmakers Association, and Alpha Epsilon Rho — established the Council as a communication channel from the faculty to the students.
A convocation for communication majors is being held on Feb. 20, at 4 p.m. in the Beaumont Cinema. The convocation will be an information forum for students remaining in the College of Arts and Sciences or continuing a major in communication in the School of Communication, Gordon said.
A report will also be given by the Council. Anyone who is interested or has suggestions about the Council should go to the convocation, Gordon said.
■Miami Iturricam/AlX \ MONTERÒ
Who says brothers aren't creative?
ZBT brother Adorn Reiver and pledge Keith Furer can be seen here in a rather compromising position as they participate in a tumultuous Aphrodite Day. The event, held Saturday, benefits the National Foundation for Addiction Prevention and the Chaim Sheba, an Israeli hospital
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