Miami Hurricane, February 11, 1986

              Recruiting the international way The Office of Admissions has planned a full recruiting calendar with trips to Greece, Turkey and Hong Kong News — page 2	■		Drama with a cause Tonight, the Beaumont Cinema will host "Trial and Error,” a play which chronicles the plight of a Soviet Jew Entertainment — page 8		i	Clean sweep Hurricane baseball triumphs with two straight wins over Texas Sports — page 10
							
Volume 63, Number 31
University of Miami
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1986
Carni Gras awaits emergency funds
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
William Sheeder, University of Miami dean of students, is expected today to decide upon the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee’s recommendation that the Carnl Gras Committee be given $27,000 of emergency funds.
The money is needed, said Carni Gras Chairperson Clayton Randall, because this year the festival will feature no rides; a usual money maker.
Because Megerle Bros., a Miami ride company, and UM could not reach an agreement about the price of insurance, the idea of rides at the festival has been dropped.
Sheeder said the request is a "legitimate emergency, whether the whole amount is approvable or not.”
He said, though, that because he did not have the time to study the SAFAC recommendation Friday, he could make no other conclusions.
Sheeder said he would be able to make a decision after Undergraduate Student Government President Scott Kornspan has been able to review and give an opinion on the request.
Kornspan said that he does not have a problem with Carni Gras Itself, but questions whether $27,-000 Is too much to allocate to the organization and whether students
‘Carni Gras had to take on a new direction. It’s become a two-day campus party’
Clayton Randall, Carni Gras chairperson
want to spend the money on such an event.
Kornspan will be asking for an extension to review the details of the proposal for more money.
Randall said he expects Sheeder to approve the recommendation.
Randall said that he proposed to SAFAC that the Carni Gras Committee be awarded $21,000, but after the matter was looked into
more deeply, SAFAC recommended that $27,000 be given to the committee.
Randall said In years past the festival was given a budget and expected to make that money back and then turn a profit.
He said this year, because UM administrators do not consider the festival to be a money-making venture, clubs and organizations
that run booths will be allowed to keep 100 percent of their earnings.
Usually, Randall said, the Carni Gras Committee was given a 20 percent cut.
The lack of rides at this year’s Carni Gras has also forced the festival to become more musically oriented, Randall said.
“Carni Gras had to take on a new direction. It's become a two-day campus party,” Randall said.
According to Randall, the loss of rides has been accompanied by an increase in participation from UM organizations.
The Student Entertainment Committee, the Program Council (which is responsible for planning
ail the activities that occur in the University Center) and various campus music groups will now become involved in the festival.
SEC agreed to move its Hurricane Hunt from Feb. 28 to March 7, the opening night of Carni Gras. The Hunt will be a “trivial pursuit scavenger hunt,” Randall said and compared it to the Miami Herald's annual Tropic Hunt.
Randall said that the Program Council was also working to get the gameroom in the University Center to stay open all night on March 7.
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Fall Out
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Fro, left and Jet, of Nuclear Valdez performed for students Friday at the Midday Recess on the University Center Student Patio. For more on Nuclear Valdez see Entertainment page 8
USBG presents fee proposal
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane News Editor
At a meeting yesterday with Sam Jankovich, director of the University of Miami athletic department, Undergraduate Student Body Government leaders presented their proposal to increase the athletic fee — the first one to be implemented at UM in 10 years.
USBG's proposal calls for a $45 athletic fee — an increase of $35	i—\	,
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40% of UM freshmen graduate, guide says
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Attention freshmen: Chances are you will not graduate from the University of Miami.
So say statistics in the 1985 edition of Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges, a catalogue that rates universities on, among other things, their rate of retention.
Barron's reported that 32 percent of the freshman class at UM will not return for their sophomore year. The guide also said only 40 percent of any given freshman class at UM would graduate from UM.
According to Dr. Mary Sapp, director of Planning and Institutional Research at UM, the numbers quoted in Barron’s are out of date and should be lower.
Sapp said that a survey is being started by her department that should shed some light on the present rate of retention at UM. She said that the numbers in the guide are five years old and were tabulated by hand.
Another survey being conducted would, she said, help to tell why students leave UM.
“(At present) I don’t know why people leave. That’s why we’re doing the research.” she said.
Sapp also said that because students who leave don’t always give a whole explanation for their departure, the survey won’t be a definitive guide to why students drop out.
“They don’t necessarily lie,” she said, “but they give a reason they believe Is more acceptable. Some leave for personal reasons — reasons that we will never know.” Dr. Barry Zwibelman, the outreach coordinator for UM’s Counseling Center, said that two types of students leave UM; the student who leaves during mid-semester
and the student who leaves at the end of a semester.
He said that the student who leaves in mid-semester is the student that he might see at the Counseling Center because generally they have compelling personal reasons to leave.
Often, he said, the student who leaves at the end of a semester does not tell anyone why he is leaving.
In 1978, Zwibelman said he began a survey that would tabulate how many students left and, he hoped, why they left.
	How UM Compares		
University		Freshman	Freshman Staying
		Dropouts	to Graduation
Emory		12%	75%
Univ. of Florida		—	50%
Tulane		10%	75%
Harvard		1%	98%
Rice		7%	87%
UM		32%	40%
• Statistics	taken	from the Barron's	Profiles of
American	Colleges, 1985-86		
He said that 100 students were drawn from random and were asked to fill out a questionaire. At the beginning of the next year, the researchers would compare the forms of the students who left with those of the students who stayed. Possibly, common, recognizable traits could be found among students who stayed.
“Basically, what we found was that a project like that was much more involved than we had ever imagined," Zwibelman said.
The study was not completed.
Zwibelman said that most of the work the Center does is not correlated to students who drop out.
"Most of our counseling is different," he said. "We cover a whole range of things that statistics won’t affect one way or the other.”
Zwibelman said that the center had found, though, that “students who have a solid career goal are more likely to stay here four years.
“If we could get more students who are unsure (about what major they want to study) to come here less would drop out," he said.
He said that what UM should do is “find out what makes students want to stay — and keep those things, and find out what makes students want to leave — and get rid of those things."
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lion budget.
In return, students would receive increased services in certain areas. Ideas presented by USBG for these increased services include the use of Mark Light Stadium for at least one major concert and a kickback of $7,500 to be contributed to the Hurricane Howl from the athletic department.
Also, the money spent for buses that provide transportation for students to football games would be doubled — $20,000 Is now spent for this transportation.
Additional space for students for the basketball games at the James L. Knight Center is also on the list of services as well as the creation of a ticket center in University center to handle all student requests.
One other USBG proposal is to create a committee comprised of students and members of the athletic department to be concerned with student complaints of athletic activities.
Also Included In the proposal is the guarantee that the fee hike would not be raised any amount in the next five years.
In combination with the entire package for the athletic fee hike is the proposal to make the athletic fee a negative check-off waiver for graduate students at UM. If these students choose to pay the fee, they will receive ail the benefits that undergraduates receive.
“This will bring additional revenue in to the athletic department," said Frank Jimenez, vice president of USBG.
If the proposal is passed, it would then go before the students on referendum to be held during elections March 11-13.
Freshman drivers to be restricted to one lot
By LINDA J. ZIPPER
Hurricane Staff Writer
A proposal to have incoming freshmen park in designated areas beginning in the fall of 1986, was passed by the University of Miami’s Parking Authority Committee Wednesday.
"We need to relieve the pressure on the commuter lots on campus," said Dr. Stewart Barnes, chairman of the Parking Authority Committee.
According to the proposal. In the
fall, freshmen who commute will be restricted to using parking lot C-l directly across from the Metrorail station.
“We need to get more usage from this lot," Barnes said.
The proposal would give freshmen the exclusive right to park in the lot, with the use of a special decal.
According to Barnes, there was a suggestion that the parking fee be reduced for freshmen students, but the motion was turned down.
“There is not a great number
more decals than spots on our campus," Barnes said. “People want to park by the Law School and the Memorial Building, if they don’t find a spot, they drive around and get crazy."
He explained that UM has a better parking situation than most other schools.
Barnes said some students objected to the proposal.
“The students objected to the use of the lot during Carni Gras,” he said. “I want to improve the situation for the University as a
whole. I, personally, would like to help the parking situation. My sympathy goes to the student who drives around looking for a parking space.”
The proposal will go before Associate Vice President for Business Affairs Oliver G. Bonnert, President Edward T. Foote's representative, for final approval.
Barnes said, "If Mr. Bonnert approves the proposal, by next month’s faculty senate meeting, it becomes .law for the fall of next year." ^
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By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Staff Writer
The search for the University of Miami’s new provost and executive vice president has been narrowed down to three candidates. The selection will probably be made by the end of the semester. Dr. James L. Ash, associate provost for honors and undergraduate studies said.
The new provost will be replacing William F. Lee who has stepped down to resume teaching at UM's School of Music beginning in June.
Ash said the search is "focusing on external candidates" and that no official information or candidate names can be released at this point.
Dr. Herbert Quay, chairman of the search committee, saidhis committee has done its part and the candidates are being asked back for return visits.
"The matter is In the President’s hands," Quay said.
President Edward T. Foote, however, expects the search to continue for at least another month.
“Provost searches are notorious for dragging on at any large universty,” Ash said.
“The search is right on schedule and has been narrowed down to a handful," Foote said. "Various people are being considered and we have been looking at a number of people for many months."
Foote said that hopefully the selection will be made by the end of the semester.
Cable hookup delayed
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane Associate News Editor
Unfinished cable hookup has delayed the Residential College students from receiving cable television in their dorm rooms.
On Wednesday, Dynamic Ca-blevlson, the suppliers of the cable service to University of Miami, was scheduled to be subscribing cable to students. However, no one from the company showed up.
According to Ken Fuchs, general manager for Dynamic, the system has not been turned on yet for the Residential College. However, he Is hoping that in 10 days the service will be ready.
"Our incentive is the students,” Fuchs said. "Their viewing is our main concern.”
Fuchs said Dynamic will place an ad in the Hurricane stating when the cable service will be turned on and whenrepresenta-tives will be in the lobby of the Residential College to sign students up for the service.
Mario Yanez, director of the telecommunications department, said the delay is because of the large scale of work Dynamic was doing.
"I think^he delay was a lack of
their (Dynamic's! being able to put enough people on the staff to finish the job,” Yanez said. ”|Dy-namic) was doing a very, very large project on their own to be able to give cable to the students."
In addition to cable television, the dorms were wired for the local area data network system, a two-way computer communication system on campus.
For students whose rooms have been wired and missed the sign up, cable service can be purchased from the Dynamic office at 4601 LeJune Road.
The cost of the cable service is $25.25 per month for the package which includes all local channels, Including UM’s own Channel 51, Home Box Office and almost 15 other channels. Also a deposit of $74.75 is required for a converter box.
In the future, students will be able to purchase ShowtimeCine-max and the Disney Channel when technically feasible, according to Fuchs.
Final numbers of how many students signed up for the service will not be released until all students on campus have had a chance to si^n up.