Miami Hurricane, April 17, 1984

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Arts and Sciences’ Dean Brown to Quit
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Mews Editor
After seven years of serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Arthur Brown has announced he will resign from his position after the 1984-85 academic year.
Brown, who will stay on as a professor in the English department, began his career in higher education 48 years ago teaching Latin.
“I hope the Lord preserves me so I can finish my 50th year in higher education,” said Brown.
“The major reason I am stepping down is my ancient age,” he said.
"When |UM President Edward T.| Foote came in, I was reaching my retirement age, yet Foote allowed me to continue.”
Brown, who is 67, is currently teaching an honors course in his specialty — American literature.
"The thing I’ve enjoyed the most is teaching,” he said. "The associa-
English to let 7 lecturers go
tion with young people is a privilege. I can't think of any vocation that has more value than an educator."
Through the years here, Brown said, he has had the opportunity to reappoint many of the department chairmen because of retirements.
In his tenure, nearly 60 percent of the current faculty was appointed. There are now about 290 full-time faculty members in Arts and Sciences.
“Nearly every department has a cadre of new people," said Brown. “A lot of them will be nationally and internationally known in a few years. We will have a rich mixture of seasoned faculty members and also bright young men and women."
He has also seen other changes within the college. Some of these, he said, include improvements in the facilities, such as the new behavioral medicine building and the renovation of the art building.
“In terms of curriculum, there has been considerable change. Psychology has revolved around the theme of health. Sociology has redone its curriculum and included criminal justice."
He said he hopes the department of communication can soon become a
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
In keeping with what he considers his system of rotation, Dr. Paul Russo, chairman of the English department, has selected a new director of freshman composition and has chosen not to rehire seven of the department's lecturers.
Evelyn Mayerson is the new head of freshman composition. Kathleen Bell, currently acting director, replaced Ron Newman after Russo dismissed Newman from that position.
Russo also has notified seven lecturers that he has decided to not renew their contracts, which run through the 1984-85 academic year. Bell is one of those. The others are Richard Sanzenbacher (who was named a Professor of the Year by students this year), Rita Deutsch, Peter Hargitai, Jacqueline Perret, Judith Cofer and Amy Ronner. Cofer and Ronner will be leaving this summer for other jobs.
According to Russo, the advantage of such a program is that he will be able to bring in new people for a changeover.
Not everyone in the department is pleased with Russo's idea. A representative of the department’s 38 graduate assistants who wished to remain anonymous said, "The chairman has shown a total lack of disregard for English composition “It is demoralizing to graduate students to have three changes in three years. There is a constant upheaval and no continuity. Kathy |Bell| is a marvelous administrator and has had 17 years of teaching.” Bell is currently completing her dissertation at Arizona State Uni-
versity. Mayerson received her teaching degree from Laurence University of California in Santa Barbara, a non-accredited university.
Russo said the change in directors "in no way reflects on the quality of Bell's work." He added that Mayerson has eight books to her credit, the most recent titled No Enemy But Time. She also has written a textbook that is being used for the course now taught in business writing.
Mayerson, said Russo, enjoys teaching composition and has a natural desire to teach. Mayerson, now an assistant professor, has been at UM for five years.
Russo said he believes there will continue to be stability in English composition because most courses will continue to be taught. "For that, I thank the previous persons,” Russo said, adding that Mayerson is “equal to the task of maintaining these standards and will offer her own imprint."
Lecturers are basically apprentices, said Russo. “They are people who are finishing their doctorate, and this gives them an opportunity to begin their teaching careers and establish credentials.”
Russo said a lecturer’s stay at a university can vary from one to five years, more for good instructors. He said that the seven lecturers leaving are all good teachers who will be missed, but that it is important to bring in new faces.
The number of sections of freshman composition will not decrease because of the changes, said Russo, although in past years the number has shrunk because of a decrease in enrollment. Other courses now being taught by these lecturers will continue to be taught, he said.
school. A committee of the Faculty Senate is studying that proposal.
“When I first came here, there were only nine faculty members (In the communication department|. Now there are 30, with as many adjuncts. There are nearly 600 majors in a variety of fields.”
Brown began his career as university president of Adelphi University, and has served as academic vice president at Fordham. president of the liberal arts college Mary Grove, dean of Arts and Sciences in Bernard Brook (a city university in New York), and then dean at UM.
His campus memberships include Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Omicron Delta Kappa. In Florida, he is involved in the Institute for Knowledge and Policy and the Florida Endowment for Humanities. He is also a member of the national organizations Council on Education for Public Health and Modern Language Association.
Provost William Lee will be heading a search committee for the new dean, and Dean Claude Sowle of the Law School will be heading a consultative committee, composed of the chairman and another member of each department in the College of Arts and Science.
Arrow’s future bleak after vote
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane Staff Writer
The all-male Iron Arrow Honor Society decided its future Thursday evening when it voted not to accept women That future seems bleak now; all the officers of the organization supported letting women in. yet they could not get even a majority of the membership to pass the amendment.
back on campus without women, based on the trustees' 1977 resolution which stated that Iron Arrow could return to campus if the courts said the university would not lose any educational funds if it allowed Iron Arrow to return.
That resolution was reversed by President Edward T Foote, who wrote Warren in 1982 that Iron Arrow could not return to campus unless it admitted women, regard-
Hews Analysis
Why did Iron Arrow vote against women? The answer can be seen in the generational gap in the honor society. The older members, led by former Chief C. Rhea Warren, did not want to admit women. Buoyed by their "victory" in the Supreme Court, many of them feel that Iron Arrow couid return to campus — without women.
One member said after the vote that Iron Arrow could sue the university to get back on campus.
Ironically, the source of the confusion is the university itself. Many-older members think that the Board of Trustees will allow Iron Arrow
less of what the courts said
Many Iron Arrow members hope to petition the Board of Trustees to change its policy again, and allow Iron Arrow back on campus. This is not likely to happen As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, Neil Schiff, said. "The execulive board (of the Board of Trustees! has gone on record as supporting President Foote’s decision."
Interestingly, very few of the 203 who attended the vote actually voted on the merits of the question
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Miami Hurricane/ROBERT MANX
We are the champions
The Associated Press' college football editor, Herschei Nissenson (left), presents Coach Howard Schnellenber-ger with the AP Paul "Bear" Bryant award during the alumni game Sunday
Foote too optimistic, say audience members
Philosophy chairman to step down
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
Dr. Ramon Lemos, chairman of the University of Miami’s philosophy department for 13 years, has decided to resign his position, effective June 1. He will continue to teach philosophy to undergraduates and graduates.
Dr. Howard Pospesel has been selected to replace Lemos. Lemos said of Pospesel; “I think he will do an excellent job as chairman.”
Lemos said he decided last October that he would leave the position if awarded a humanities grant. The grant is not awarded to department chairmen. Lemos, who received the grant, would like to finish a book he is writing on metaphysics.
One of the reasons the job of chairman is so time-consuming is that it Involves much paperwork, said Lemos, and “in the past years, it has certainly not decreased."
Lemos has been teaching in the department since 1956. Although the department has not grown in size since 1971, when he became chairman, Lemos said it has improved.
The Conference Board of Associated Research Council, a committee
that every five years asks scholars throughout the country to assess departments offering doctorates, came out with its latest report in April 1981.
The University of Miami department of philosophy tied for ninth
place with the University of California at Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as "most improved."
“In the overall ranking,” said Lemos, "it virtually tied with Duke and Virginia for fourth place.”
He said he doesn’t believe that the controversy surrounding former Professor Richard Sharvy will affect the department. The American Philosophers’ Association condemned UM after it chose not to renew Sharvy's contract.
COISO elections
Betts becomes
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
More than 200 international students elected new leaders last week for the Council of International Student Organizations, the parent body of all international organizations on campus.
Richard Betts, a sophomore majoring in biology (marine science), was elected president. Raymond Augustin was elected vice president and Halima Bali was elected secretary. All of them ran unopposed
There will be a run-off between Zainab Vou Pam and Mohammed Yaacob for treasurer on Thursday in the Student Union breezeway from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Vou Pant received 81 votes, while Yaacob received 93. Hendrix Beck, also running for treasurer, received 56. A
new president
plurality is needed to win.
Betts, who is from Brazil, served as secretary of COISO this past semester. He has also been a member of the Latin American Student Association. Mahoney Pearson Student Organization, Scuba Club, and the Outdoor Recreational Club.
He says he would like to continue carrying out the programs already Instituted and bring more unity to the international students.
“Basically, I feel international students have to be represented more adequately and have orientation sessions, especially for freshmen, on American society," he added.
Betts, who came to the University of Miami because of the marine science program, says he feels at home because he knows many international students here.
By MARSHA de SYLVA
Hurricane Staff Writer
Last Thursday’s UM Women’s Commission annual breakfast and lecture turned out to be somewhat of a verbal ping-pong match. Not a drag-down fight, but a competition of ideas all the same
Present in the audience were UM President Edward T. Foote. Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler, Registrar Sidney Wcis-burd, and other faculty members and administrators.
The guest speaker, Dr. Phyllis Franklin, is director of the Department of English and English Programs for the Modern Language Association in New York City. She is also the chief author of the book Sexual and Gender Harrassment and was a professor at UM from 1969 to 1980.
While Franklin was at UM, she chaired the Faculty Senate Grievance Committee “in an effort not to chastise but to change," said Jean Darpini, president of the Women’s Committee. Franklin also worked to bring about changes in the women's athletic program at UM.
Franklin’s main topic was Title IX, a law which prohibits sexual discrimination in education.
"It took many generations to achieve the vote |for women]," Franklin said. "It took many generations to achieve Title IX. We must
not be the ones to lose it."
Title IX has made some significant changes, Franklin said, such us abolishing rules which treated male and female students differently The law also changed overt discriminatory policies by creating quotas for entering law and medical school
The law also allowed people to fight for change, and now sexual harrassment is explicitly prohibited.
While there have been many positive changes resulting from Title IX, Franklin called the Grove City College case a turn for the worse, which "gutted Title IX."
In the Grove City case, the U S. Supreme Court said that Title IX does not bar discrimination in all university programs because of discrimination in one of them, but only the specific programs that receive direct federal funds. This means, for example, that universities may discriminate in athletic programs because athletics does not receive any federal funds This, Franklin said, projected "a strong persistence of prejudice against women."
"At the moment, our students have no legal protection," Franklin said “The privileges which we enjoy now. the protection of the federal government, we take these for granted.”
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Inside
UM decal price tops in survey of 16 schools
College Roundup
Tax breaks and drinking age laws are the latest in events affecting colleges nationwide /PAGE 3
Iron Arrow
The honoraries decision not to admit women sparks some responses /PAGE 6
Ray Parker, Jr.
An exclusive interview with Ray Parker, Jr. in the Pulse section /PAGE 8
Old Hurricanes return
Former members of the Hurricane football team returned this weekend to campus to play the national champions /PAGE 11
By RONNIE RAMOS
Hurricane Editor in Chief
Following up on Undergraduate Student Body Government legislation calling for no increase in the price of parking decals, Arts and Sciences Sen. F’rank Jimenez has compiled a list of private universities and the prices of their parking decals.
The list shows that the University of Miami — which currently charges $30 a year for decals — is priced considerably higher than the other universities. Jimenez said he picked universities which — like UM — were private, with relatively small enrollments, relatively high commuter percentages and locations near major cities.
“Some universities were more expensive," Jimenez said. "But there was a tendency for those universities with higher parking fees to be in the heart of a major city, where parking is a problem." Two examples he used were Marquette (wit. an enrollment of 12.000) in
Milwaukee and Fordham (15,000) in the Bronx.
Last Wednesday, the USBG Senate passed unanimously (25-0) a Category D bill prohibiting a reported increase in parking decals. The Category D bill requires an answer from the administration within 30 days.
In a memo to the Parking Authority, Joseph Frechette, the Executive Director of Public Safety, listed the parking decal rates of 12 universities so that the committee “will have some background Information for discussing a possible cost of parking decal increase." The memo mentioned $10 as a possible increase
In a subsequent memo, Frechette said, "After reviewing and analysing the |figuresj. I think you will agree that for a private university we are a lot less expensive.”
Four of the 12 schools in Frechette's survey had lower rates than UM All 15 schools in Jimenez’s sur.ey had lower rates than UM’s
Parking	decal survey	
School (enrollment)	S-F.E	Commuter
	Decals	Students
University of Miami (9,218)	S40-S40	63%
Univ. of Hartford (9,000)	S25-S1	70%
DePaul (13,000)	$20-$20	95%
MIT (9,000)	$7-$7	40%
St. Louis Univ. (10.000)	S33-S35	80%
Northeastern Univ. (46,000)	$20*-$20	90%
Baylor Univ. (10,800)	S35-S0	67%
Seton Hall Univ. ( 10,000)	$25-$0*	80%
Notre Dame (9,500)	$10*-$0	40%
Univ. of Denver (8,500)	$0-$0*	85%
Tulane( 10,000)	$20*-$20	70%
Hofstra Univ. (11,000)	$0-$0	50%
St. John's Univ. (17,000)	$10-$0	100%
Villanova (9,200)	$35-$0	70%
Vanderbilt (8.800)	$5-$5	40%
Brigham Young (26,000)	$10*-$0	75%
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