Miami Hurricane, February 18, 1986

              Mrs. Sound Machine
University of Miami graduate Gloria Estefan is the fuel for the Miami Sound Machine’s fire
Entertainment — page 6
Volume 63, Number 33	University of Miami	Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1986
Gators go home winiess
The University of Miami baseball and men’s tennis teams sent the Florida Gators home empty-handed
Sports — page 8
Which is the better sex?
A Stanford survey finds college women to be more intellectual than their male counterparts
News — page 3
Grad School may be decentralized
‘It’s not a cost-saving budget. They apparently have a hidden agenda.’
Jo Anne K. Hecker, associate dean of the Graduate School
By AHMED SHOREIBAH
Hurricane Contributing Editor
An internal report prepared by three University of Miami deans to be released today calls for the decentralization of some of the major functions of the Graduate School, including most of its admissions role.
The report is the result of about three weeks of work by an advisory committee consisting of Chairman Dr. Jack R. Borsting, dean of the School of Business Administration; Dr. David L. Wilson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and Dr. William Hipp, dean of the School of Music.
According to Wilson, the committee was asked by William F. Lee, executive vice president and provost, to find out how the Graduate School could "absorb a significant budget cut."
The committee determined that the School’s "paperwork functions should be distributed out to the other schools and colleges of the University, while keeping central all of the quality control, the school council, the graduate faculty, and the leadership functions,” Wilson said.
Currently, the Graduate School's budget stands at about $274,000, 80 percent ($220,000) of which goes to pay the salaries of its staff, consisting of 12 full-time employees, three college work-study stu-
dents and two part-time employees.
The Graduate School reportedly stands to lose $160,000, or 59 percent, of its budget if decentralization becomes a reality. The school will have to terminate eight of its full-time employees and all of its part-time and work-study help, one Graduate School source, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Miami Hurricane.
“They're giving us 40 percent of our budget, while keeping 75 percent of our functions," the source said, referring to the fact that the Graduate School will continue handling only 20 of its 28 functions.
Currently, the Graduate School’s 28 responsibilities range from handling graduate admissions to taking care of dissertations to graduate recruitment and advertising. Lee called the proposed decentralization “not a very big thing.”
Lee, who meets today with the advisory committee, the University Budget Committee and Acting Dean of the Graduate School Dr. Sidney L. Besvinick
to discuss the proposed move, said the administration's main motive in studying the proposal is to see how graduate affairs might be “better expedited" with increased “efficiency."
Lee, as well as other administrative sources, emphasize that it is "too premature" to predict the outcome of the current discussions. But others close to the administration and the Graduate School believe the proposed decentralization could begin as early as the University's next fiscal year, which begins June
"We've been faced with this for three months," said one employee of the Graduate School, who requested anonymity. “It's difficult to keep up the enthusiasm |with these pressures!. We have people scurrying for jobs."
In a confidential memorandum obtained by The Hurricane dated Dec. 18. 1985, Besvinick told UM President Edward T. Foote and the University Budget Committee that he believes "a change now jin the
operation of the Graduate School! to save money may well be an overreaction that is ill-advised
"Before dismantling the Graduate School, I urge that we make the effort to see if it can perform well in its existing mode," wrote Besvinick. "Given proper leadership, I believe it can."
And, in a publication distributed last fall to graduate students, Esther Sterental, president of the Graduate Students Association, wrote, "I can only conclude that the administration is slowly but surely trying to phase out the Graduate School, the graduate programs and the graduate students."
Last week, GSA Secretary Jane Whitehead charged that the administration wants to turn this into an undergraduate college.
“They're using financial reasons as an excuse for doing that," she said. "This decision is being made by the budget committee, not the graduate faculty."
According to Dr. Jo Anne K. Hecker, associate dean of the Graduate School, the proposed decentralization of the Graduate School would save little, if any, money and may in fact wind up costing money, a contention with which Lee agrees.
Hecker also said that the Graduate School now generates over $229,000 through application fees and outside grants.
“It's not a cost-saving budget. They apparently have a hidden agenda," she said.
Please turn to page 3/GRADUATF.
Carni Gras
may
Hoopsters at halftime
For five minutes during halftime of the University of Miami basketball game Saturday. Pi Kappa Alpha s Ed DeTorres (left), an engineering major, and Zeta Beta Tau's Tom Taubes (right), a business ma/or, played basketball ZBT won 3-0. For more on the Hurricanes, please turn to page 8
be granted field
for concerts
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
The Carni Gras Committee will learn today whether its request will be granted for the festival to be held on the intramural field, according to Clayton Randall, committee chairman.
The Campus Sports and Recreation Advisory Board will decide whether to approve the committee’s request or not.
Stephen Plattner, chairman of the CSR advisory board, said that he would like to see the festival held on the field.
However, he said that the general consensus of the board members was that holding Carni Gras on the field was a one time exception and should not happen every year.
The Carni Gras Committee had planned to hold the music festival, which will run March 7 and 8, on the graduation area between the Norman Whitten University Center and the Ashe Building.
However, Dr. William Butler, vice president of Student Affairs, rejected the idea of holding the festival there because the music would interfere with students taking the College Level Academic Skills Test in the Memorial Building and students studying in the library.	, „
Because Butler had a full appointment calendar and was unable to meet with the committee, Randall announced his desire to hold Carni Gras on the graduation area before he could clarify his intention with the vice president.
Randall said that he is "hopeful” that permission will be granted by the CSR advisory board, on which nine students arc seated.
“I can't predict what they’ll |the students) do,” he said.
Norman Parsons, director of Campus Sports and Recreation, said that he has not seen any plans for Carni Gras and does not know how the board will vote.
Plattner said that the committee would have to meet several requirements before the board would grant its approval.
“The biggest problem we’re going to have is that the board will want to see adequate means of cleaning up and repairing damage to the field," he said.
Plattner said that when Carni Gras had been held on the field several years ago, a razor blade and some nails had been left in the grass and a soccer player had lacerated his foot.
Plattner also said that because there will be no large rides which could harm the field, damage would be minimal.
Randall agreed, saying “because of the nature of the concerts, no damage will be inflicted.”
Although Carni Gras will end March 8, Plattner said that the festival would have to be dissembled and the field would have to be cleaned by 7 a.m. March 9, because a softball game would be held later that day.
Plattner said that Randall would have to negotiate with the lacrosse and soccer teams scheduled to use the field, if he wanted access to it.
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Accreditation team dissatisfied with new School’s budget, layout
By LAURA PLAIA
Hurricane Staff Writer
he official decision to name the ool of Commiinication an ac-lited school will not be made il April or May.
,t least three more stages and Lher discussions must be initiat-and passed before the new ool’s accreditation, said acting in David Gordon Friday, n its preliminary report, the meditating Council for Educa-i in Journalism and Mass nmunication team was dissatis-1 with the budget and the rsical layout of the school :ause the professor’s offices re widely scattered and the ation of the journalism labora-ies was too remote from the t of the school.
\ccording to Gordon, whether not the school is accredited has bearing on the degree the ident receives at the time of iduation.
The meaning of the accreditation is to obtain an outsider's point of view of how the school is operating.
"The accreditation will not affect the value of the degree at the University," Gordon said.
Last week the five-member team from ACEJMC met with theschool’s students and faculty members to judge the teaching atmosphere and learning facilities of the school.
Even though only a few students participated in the accreditation meetings last Monday and Tuesday, the quality of the input from the students was good, Gordon said.
He was pleased with most of the comments about the school’s progress.
"We can look at the situation in two ways," Gordon said. "We can look ahead to where we want to be in five years. But also we can look back to where we were five years ago and see how far we ve come."
New $49 athletic fee proposal to be voted on by USBG Senate
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane News Editor
In meetings held for the past week, the athletic department and student leaders together have come up with a $49 athletic fee to be paid by students annually beginning the next academic year 1986-87.
Students now pay a $10 annual athletic fee.
The proposal will come up for a vote before the Undergraduate Student Body Government's Senate tomorrow.
“In terms of the athletic teams." said USBG President Scott Korn-span,"they have been very good to UM and have provided us with top rankings."
If approved by the Senate, the
‘I feel confident that the services they |athletic department] are providing for the fee students
will be paying are adequate.’
Scott Kornspan, USBG President
proposal will be presented to students in the form of a referendum in USBG elections to be held March 10-12.
"Students will have to decide one, how important the athletic department is to them and two, whether they want to be included," Kornspan said.
The proposal worked out by USBG leaders and Sam Jankovich. director of the athletic department calls for additional benefits to be given in return for the increase.
“I feel confident that the services they are providing for the fee students will be paying are adequate,” Kornspan said.
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000 as well as transportation provided for basketball games.
Also, a certain percentage of tickets to UM post-season games will be alloted to students.
A committee consisting of student leaders and members of the athletic department will also be created to oversee the distribution of the athletic fee, ticket distribution and to handle student interaction with the athletic department.
Students will be allowed to use the James L. Knight Center twice and Mark Light Stadium once during the next academic year to hold student-run events, and the Hurricane Howl will receive a $7,500 kickback fee from the athletic department.
"Hopefully," Kornspan said, "these services will provide better communication between students and the athletic department