Miami Hurricane, February 06, 1987

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News — page 3
Taking it all off
Playboy comes to UM to take pictures of the No. 2 party school’s women.
Accent — page 8
Miami beats FSU in basketball
UM comes out on top in a fierce battle on the court against Florida State University
Sports — page 10
Volume 64, Number 30
University of Miami
Friday, Feb. 6, 1987
No lottery for housing next year
Most single rooms to become doubles
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane Managing Editor
University of Miami students who want to live on campus next year will be able to do so without having to go through a lottery, according to Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs.
After months of deliberation concluding Monday, the administration has decided to increase the number of residents in the residential colleges and the apartments, as well as reducing the number of spaces saved for transfer students each yey.
"By doing both of those things, we were hoping that every student currently living in University housing who wishes to come back will be able to do so." Butler said.
According to Butler, the idea came from an Undergraduate Student Body Government plan. The
plan suggested that students, expressly freshman, would be required to live with a roommate in the residential colleges.
“USBG has come forth with a plan to increase housing beyond what we would normally expect to do." he said.
"The whole idea of our plan,” said Undergraduate Student Body Government President Jose Garcia. “Is that if students want to live on campus, they can ... because there was an implicit agreement with the University."
This plan is going to be viewed as a short-term plan, and Butler said he believes next year the housing demand will be just as critical as it is this year.
Originally, the administration was planning to implement a lottery, which would have forced about 300 students to find off-campus housing.
But the increase In residents will cause overcrowding in the first two residential colleges. Butler said.
“An increase in population is a step backward from the smaller, personalized environment that we are trying to create in the residential colleges," he said.
Bill Barzee, speaker pro tempore of USBG, said he went before President Edward T. Foote with the plan, explaining that housing would be available for athletes on scholarships, but not for scholars.
“What finally changed the decision was President Foote. He realized that thee lottery must at least be put off," he said.
Both Hecht Residential College and The Residential College will increase in size to S80 undergraduate residents; Eaton Residential College will stay at the same capacity of 400; and the new Pearson Residential College will decrease to 600 undergradu-
ates.
Mahoney Hall will continue to house 703 undergraduate residents.
In the apartment area, all three-bedroom apartments will now house six students — two to a room — since single rooms will be converted to double rooms.
Thus, the number of residents In the apartment area will increase from 808 to 920 students.
Butler said money from the increase in residents will be set aside for improvements in landscaping, new stoves for some apartments and necessary painting in the area
Barzee also said USBG will push for these improvements to be made, as well as hiring more resident assistants and alloting more money for programming.
Please see page 4/HOUSING
Baseball ’87: rebuilding again
By SCOTT ALAN SALOMON
Hurricane Stall Writer
Spring is here, and this means college
baseball is upon us.
The University of Miami Hurricanes, under the coaching of Ron Fraser, take the diamond tomorrow at the University of Texas for a two-game stint against the Longhorns.
Fraser, the “king of college baseball" if there ever was one, is gearing up the players for his silver anniversary with the club. In 24 seasons in Miami, Fraser has built a dynasty. His 982-347-7 record at Miami Is a teat in itselt. In 1982 and 1985, Fraser took the Hurricanes all the way as they brought back national championship* from the College World Series In Omaha. Neb. However, Fraser's biggest challenge comes in 1987.
"This is a new ballclub,” Fraser said. “We have kids playing different positions this year, and that is going to take some time to get accustomed to. It won’t be easy.”
Last season, UM posted a 50-17 record and finished third in the College World Series.
The team ended the season ranked No. 3 behind the national champion, the University of Arizona, and runner-up Florida State.
The reason for the large amount of position changes is the fact that a lot of last year's talent has graduated to the major leagues. Gone from last year are All-American rally-stopper Rick Raether and starting pitcher Dan Davies. Also gone are first baseman Chris Howard, catcher Chris Magno and outfielders Rick Richard! and Greg Vaughn.
“Our problem, year in and year out, is losing players to signing major league contracts and losing players to graduation,” Fraser said. "It seems as if whenever we get a solid unit out there, we just run out of time with them."
Fraser has called this season one of rebuilding. However, the last time Fraser made a similar statement, he responded by winning a national championship with Greg Ellena and Magno as the Hurricanes downed Texas 10-6 in the 1985 Series to claim their second national title in three years.
Last year, the Hurricanes won with pitching and solid defense. The bat did not come around until the regionals. Fraser said
that the lumber could be a key to success for Miami this season.
“We’re not gonna knock them out of the park all the time,” Fraser said. "But we will get the timely hits and hit the ball away from people and score some runs.
"I hope that we don’t have to rely on playing catchup like that, but if we do. I’m confident,” he added.
Someone else who is also confident about the offensive punch is Coral Gables product Mike Fiore. Fiorl batted .307 last year and is confident about a new brand of offense at Mark Light Stadium this year.
“This season, we are going to shock a lot of people, said Flora. *'l know that In the past we had to rely on Rick I Raether) to ball us out a lot. but this aaaarm there era a let of
big bats in the lineup.”
The bats that Flore spoke of include Kirk Dulom. who hit .277 as a red-shirt sophomore in '86, and Jose Trujillo, who as a true freshman batted .244.
Please see page 10/BASEBALL
Student drops assault charge

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Fraser’s silver anniversary
Ron Fraser celebrates his 25th anniversary as coach for UM baseball.
Inside,««
•	A preview of the ’Cane* first game against No. 1 Texas
•	Highlights on pitching and the
•	Right fielder Mike Fiore talks about his years at UM
•	A complete Hurricane baseball schedule
—See Sports Page 11
By PAT McCREERY
Hurricane Opinion Editor
A University of Miami student has been charged with aggravated assault, but the victim, another UM student, has dropped the charges and refused to cooperate with the police investigation.
According to UM department of Public Safety reports, Barry Grant, at whom a black, short
barrel revolver wm »uppoMdly poVnled et In the Jan. 25 \nc\deni. told Detective Ban Peaa on Jan. 27 that ha would no ton»er cooperate
with the department in its investigation of Francis Jacob, the student against whom charges were filed.
In an interview with police the day before. Grant had agreed to press charges. But three and a half hours before he was scheduled to identify the man with the gun at a “public gathering,” Grant announced that he would not cooperate.
Grant would not talk to The Miami Hurricane.
Jacob told the Hurricane, however, that he pleaded no contest to charges of possession of a firearm and public intoxication. The plea was submitted to the office of Student Affairs on Wednesday.
‘‘Our policy is not to discuss cases under deliberation," said Jerry Houston, assistant dean of students.
According to the police reports, Jacob, a junior business major, said he and another UM student, Harold Wardlaw, went tolhe ninth floor of Pentland Tower in the Hecht Residential College, looking for Scott Swafford, a junior communication student living on the floor.
According to the report. Wardlaw denied that he had accompanied Jacob to the tower, although
he did tell police that he had spent most of the day with him.
In the report, Grant said that one of men who came to the room was black and the other was white. Wardlaw is black and Jacob is white.
Grant told police he had answered the door and told the two men that Swafford had gone to Vizcaya for the day but that they could leave a message for him.
The white man. according to
Grant, aalA “Vou can't AaWvav out
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walstnanti oT tm* wtmp man. tne report states. The man took the gun from his belt. Grant said, pointed it at Grant's face and said. "Tell Scott we’re going to kill him.”
The next day Grant changed his statement to say that the gun was never directly pointed at him. but
in his "general direction."
Jacob testified that he never took the gun out and pointed it at Grant.
Swafford, a former Undergraduate Student Body Government senator, testified the day after the incident that the person looking for him was Jacob. Swafford told police he had taken tests for Jacob in a fall semester math class.
He said he had not taken the final	exam,	and Jacob became
angry	after	he was	given	an
"incomplete" for the course.
Swafford could not be reached for comment.
“Scott Swafford never took any tests	for me,” Jacob	told	the
Hurricane. "I went to the exams and showed my ID."
Bill Mullowney, the secretary of UM’s	Honor	Council,	said	the
council was investigating the case.
Mara D onahoe, a Hurricane assistant news editor, contributed to this story.
Hurricane refuses to run ad
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane Managing Editor
The Miami Hurricane's business office decided not to run an advertisement from Playboy magazine in today’s and Tuesday's
issues.
The ad was to publicize the magazine’s photographer, David Chan, who will be at the University of Miami today to interview
girls of the top 10 party colleges, as defined by the magazine in December.
Raymonde Bilger, financial advisor to The Hurricane and Roland Medina, business manager of the paper decided jointly to not let the ad be published.
“We both agreed that, for the image of the University, we should pull the ad,” Medina said.
Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs said he
agreed with the decision of Bilger and Medina, that the ad w*s a matter of poor taste and the ad was misleading.
“I don’t believe the University qualifies as one of the nation's best party schools,” he said. “UM’s emphasis is on academics, fun and good health.”
UM was ranked the No. 2 party school In the nation, beaten only by California State University in Chico. Calif., for the No. 1 rank.
According to a letter dated Feb. 2 to the Hurricane from the advertising agency for the magazine, Playboy was to have paid $320 per insertion — a total of $640 for both issues.
In a size of a 7" by 10" space, the ad contained a short descrip-
tion of why Chan was coming to Miami, the dates he will be here, where he could be reached and a logo of the traditional Playboy bunny with the saying “Women of the Party Colleges" on top of the bunny’s ears.
According to William Petan, director of creative services for the magazine, not many school newspapers have declined to run ads ol for this series of party college women pictures.
Chan said in the 10 years he has been doing this feature of college women, only Baylor University, Harvard University and now UM have not run the ad.
He said he believed It was not the UM newspaper which was at fault, but the administration.
Students voice racism concerns
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/Hurricane Stall
Frank Robertson, co-host of the WSVN-Channel 7 program Live at Five, allows senior Francine Thomas to ask a question during the live program Wednesday in the Learning Center.
By GEOFFREY HABRON
Hurricane Stall Writer
University of Miami students voiced their opinions on racism on the WSVN-Channel 7 program Live at Five on Wednesday in the Learning Center.
Co-host Frank Robertson spoke with the audience of about 55 people, while co-host Denise White brought the students' questions before a three-member panel at the studio.
The panel consisted of Don
Samuels, who represented the
Broward County School Board, which is currently being sued for allegedly having segregated schools; Francena Thomas, who is director of minority affairs at Florida International University; and Silvia Unzueta. who represented the Spanish American League Against Discrimination.
Robertson's initial words to the audience that "your input will make or break the show" were greeted by many raised hands from anxious students.
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TearirT down the house
Sophia Pintard won the chance to officially begin demolition of the Great Lounge between Mahoney and Pearson Halls. The demolition is part of the conversion of Pearson to a residential college.
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