Miami Hurricane, December 06, 1985

              Whiz kid graduates
Sixteen-year-old Stephen Baccus will become the youngest University of Miami Law School graduate in January
News — page 4
Hooty hoot
The Hooters will check into the James L. Knight Center on Sunday night in a concert for UM students
Entertainment — pegs 8
Poetry in motion
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The University of Miami football team finished the regular season with a 10-1 record — and at times it seemed as if the the year was poetry in motion
Sports -page 13

Volume 63 Number 24
University of Miami
Friday, Dec. 6, 1985
SÂFAC adviser paws for retreat costs
4I made a mistake out of lack of sensitivity.’
David Brown, director of Student Activities
By JOAN KITE
Hurricane Staff Writer
Director of Student Activities David Brown paid over $1,000 out of his own pocket for the “excessive costs” of the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee's retreat.
SAFAC, which determines annual distribution of the Student Activity Fee Contingency Fund, met Nov. 8 and 9 at the Key Biscayne Hotel and Villas.
The $2,019 retreat, designed to orientate new committee members to the inner workings of SAFAC. was deemed too expensive by William Sheeder, dean of students,
"1 have independently investigated the costs connected with the SAFAC retreat held on Nov. 8 and 9," Sheeder said. “In my opinion, these costs were excessive."
Brown, adviser for SAFAC, accepted responsibility for organizing the retreat for the nine SAFAC members who attended.Brown said none of SAFAC's members, who are the only voting members, had any connection with planning the retreat.
“I made a mistake out of lack of sensitivity," Brown said.
Sheeder said because only nine students attended the retreat, the location failed justification. SAFAC members stayed in two three-bedroom villas for one night. Brown stayed in an oceanside villa for two.
According to Alex Copp, a front desk employee at Key Biscayne, three-bedroom villas average $280 a night. Oceanside villas cost $370 a night.
SAFAC ordinarily requests $1,000 per semester to meet operating costs, but, this year, SAF'AC moved to allocate itself $3,000 to cover the cost of the retreat.
Sheeder's eyebrows immediately rose at the request. Sheeder, who approves financial requests made by SAFAC, asked SAFAC chairperson Izhar Haq for a detailed budget breakdown to explain the "sizeable increase.”
Sheeder met with Brown and a mutual agreement was made that Brown would foot the majority of the bill.
Brown said he chose Key Biscayne because it was close to the campus for committee members who had to work. Also, another UM organization and a fraternity had used the villas earlier this fall for their retreats.
Sheeder said more than 30 people attended those retreats whereas only nine students attend SAFAC's.
According to Sheeder, Brown was not adequately aware of how other groups financially handled retreats, but he was "upfront" and "very honest."
SAFAC members showed some concern about the cost of the trip, but the $3,000 allocation was requested post facto, leaving members no choice but to accept the motion.
Scott Kornspan, Undergraduate Student Body Government president, expressed his concerns to Sheeder.
"I spoke with Dean Sheeder." said Kornspan, whet did not attend the retreat and is not a vetting member on SAFAC. "I was unhappy with the lack of student input in making the decision Students were ne>t involved in allocating funds."
Kornspan has been pushing all vear for greater USBG involvement in helping with SAFAC decision-making. He said he felt USBG could offer valuable recommendations since it was the only organization on campus that adequately represented all students — despite the poor turnout'of voters at the last USBG elections.
In handling the financial controversy, Sheeder worked with Brown and Haq He specifically refused Kornspan's input on the issue
Meanwhile, Brown has paid his dues, and Sheeder said he's satisfied with the outcome SAFAC's working budget has been saved from depletion, and everyone seems content
“I think this year, more than any year, SAFAC has a good working relationship," Haq said
Finals aren't a laughing matter
Jim Miller, a sophomore biology major, studies organic chemistry in the Biology Club office in the Science Building while a stuffed hyena looks on	___
Bowl profits
may provide
tuition rebate
By DEBBIE MORUAN
Hurricane Associate News Editor
University of Miami students may be the recipients of the Sugar Bowl profits whether the Hurricane football team wins or not.
The Undergraduate Student Body Government passed a hill Wednesday which proposed the net profits from the Sugar Bowl, nearly $2.25 million if UM wins, be appropriated back to the students in the form of a tuition rebate.
The money would put into a separate University account and then distributed equally among undergraduate students based on the students' credit hours.
"We (students| have made an investment and we |USBG| feel the students should have the money one way or another," said Scott Kornspan, USBG president and co-author of the bill.
According to Kornspan, it a tuition rebate is not alloted. the University will take a majority of the Bowl money and put the funds in the general account
The University did this for the money won by UM in the Orange
Bowl In 1983 nnrt the V'tesfa Bowl last year. Kornspan said The money was then used to make up for budget problems, he said
With a tuition rebate, the students and the fcntthall player^, themselves as students, wilt tm able to directly benefit from the Sugar Bowl which is unlikely if the money is put Into the general fund.
The money wus not budgeted in the athletic account as bowl money has been in the past and therefore is "free money," he said According to Kornspan. eight years ago when there was a budget excess, the money went back to the students in a tuition rebate. Some of the money was returned directly to the students, part of the money was given to the University as a donation from the students, and the rest of the money was put in a fund to build the University Center Patio tent fixture.
To put the bowl payoff in perspective, if the money were to go toward tuition next year, the increase would be lowered I percent, since $500,000 equals a I percent tuition hike. Kornspan said
1 721 international students enrolled at UM
By SANDRA JAKAMILI.O
Hurricane Associate News Editor
This is the first part in a two-part series of stories about the University of Miami's international^ students. For more on internationals see pages 6 and 7.
Although mosc undergraduate students attending the University of Miami are from Florida and every state except Alaska, international students from as close as the Bahamas and from as far away as a tiny country in the Middle East called Qatar give justification to UM’s motto as a "global university."
Figures recently released by the Registrar's Office indicate that 1,721 international students from 104 countries, or 12.8 percent of UM's total enrollment of 13,398 students, are attending UM this fall
The number is slightly down from one year ago,
but students came from more countries than ever before this year including Iceland, Botswana. Swaziland, Afghanistan. Vietnam and the Christmas Islands.
"Overseas, our institution is held in high regard,” said Laura Morgan, director of International Student and Scholar Services, which is the l!M office monitoring all aspects of an international student s stay. “It's a major task but our office coordinates the whole program," she said.
By comparison, UM’s international student enrollment is more than twice that of Miami Dade Community College and nearly twice that of Honda International University.
Miami Dade, with a total enrollment this fall of 37,370 students at its four campuses in South Florida,
has 2,056 International students or 5.5 percent of its total enrollment, according to Margaret Männchen, staff associate for institutional research at Miami Dade.
F'lU, with a total enrollment of 16,539 students at its two campuses, has 1,083 international students or 6 5 percent of its total enrollment, according to Sid Walesh, director of the Office of Resource Analysis
The general trend for most of the world's regions represented at UM was toward a slight decline in the number of students hailing from around the world, but there was a boost in international students from the Middle East and Southeast Asia
With respect to the Bahamians, for example, there was a decline in students from 28 in the fall of 1984 to
16 this fall
On the other hand, nine students, two mon than last year, came from Qatar, a peninsula some 90 milts long'and 60 miles wide protruding from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf Qatar i- an independent Arab sheikdom with about 55.000 people which has a special treaty relation with the United Kingdom and is noted for its oil deposits
By far, the 309 students from Malaysia, located in Southeast Asia, are the largest group of international students at UM, accounting for 18 percent of all the international students
They are followed by 112 students from Kuwait in the Middle East and ill from Venezuela In South America
Student dies in car crash
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane Associate News t.dltnr
A University of Miami senior died on Nov. 28 in a car accident in upstate New York
Pompi, ’if
Rex Pompadur. 21, was a tele-communications/film major and operations manager of UM’s cable studio. He was also a member of Sigma Chi and Alpha Epsilon Rho, a national honor society for film and broadcasting students.
Pompadur enjoyed convertible cars and was one hour away from earning his pilot’s license
He is survived by his parents, Martin and Joan Pompadur, and sister Jana Pompadur.
A donation is being accepted by the School of Communication for trees to be planted in Israel in his name and a memorial fund will he established by his parents in his name at a future date
M AM Al A VAI DI S/Hurrn une Stufi
It's better in numbers
International finance students (left to right) Bill Freson. Unni Johansson Philippe Naim Richard Corial. Diane Ans. Jean-Lue Feiand and Sherna Rosendorf study for finals in the Otto G. Richter Library. For more on how to cope with tmais
stress, see page 3________________________.	- — ----—----------------
Please turn to page 7/GLOBAI.
Hooters to play Knight Center
The Hooters (All You Zombies, And We Danced) will play the James L Knight Center Sunday at 8 pm
The concert, originally scheduled by the Student Entertainment Committee for the University Center Patio, is tree to all University of Miami students
The concert was relocated off campus because of a conflict with a previously scheduled School of Music event and because of its proximity to finals.
Buses will leave from the University Center Circle at 6:30 p.m Sunday Bus transportation is free UM students can pick up tickets to the concert in Student Activities. University Center 232 For additional information, call 284 5732 or 284-5646