Miami Hurricane, November 18, 1986

              Premed myths
Students may be surprised to learn that it’s not necessary to major in the sciences to get into medical school.
News — page 3
Chicago Vice
The University of Miami drama department and the Ring Theatre will present the musical Chicago starting tomorrow night.
Entertainment — page 6
Fiesta Bowl bound!
The stage is set for the Hurricanes’ showdown with Penn State as they attempt to win the national championship in the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 2.
Sports — page 8
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Volume 64, Number 21
University of Miami
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1986
Library agreement misunderstood
By KAREN PLAVE
Hurricane Associate News Editor
The University Budget Committee “technically complied" with a commitment to the University of Miami’s faculty senate to provide $350,000 to the Richter Library, according to Dr. Robert Zaller, former faculty senate chairperson.
But according to both Zaller and current chairperson Dr. John Knoblock, part of that money came from restricted endowment funds, despite the faculty's understanding that new funds would be used.
When endowment funds are donated to the University, only the interest earned on the money in the fund is actually used, rather than the money in the fund.
Zaller, who chaired the faculty senate from 1982 to 1985, said that although he was under the impression that the library would receive $350,000 in new funds, not all of the promised money came in that form
According to a memo from former Provost William Lee, the library was allocated $250,000 in direct, new funds to be added to each year’s normal acquisitions budget.
That memo, dated Feb. 25, 1985, also said that “an
additional $100,000 of expenditures for acquisitions is authorized to be funded from a restricted revenue source on a non-recurring basis."
Vice Provost George Gilpin said University policy normally allows the library to use five percent of its endowment funds. In the 1985-86 budget, the library was allowed to use more than five percent, which is the source of the additional $100,000.
Zaller called this form of financing "permission to raid the family bank account.
"We never talked about dividing the money this way," Zaller said. “This was new money, to our understanding." He said he also thought that all of the $350,000, instead of just $250,000, would be added to the library's budget each year.
Knoblock said, "I think the faculty, in general, believed that the money was new money.”
Gilpin confirmed that part of the library funding came from the endowment funds but said he knew of “no agreement as to where the money was coming from.
Endowment funds are often limited by the donor in how they can be used. For example, the major library endowment, the Meyer Gold fund, is limited to buying books related to business subjects.
According to Robert Naylor, assistant director for administrative services, part of the Gold fund is spent
not only on books but on expenses such as salaries for staff.
The money from the endowment fund could not be used, according to Zaller, because of these restrictions on the Gold fund. He said the library was in a “Catch-22" situation because of the “inadequacy of other endowments.”
The issue was raised in the Nov. 7 issue of Undertow, a student literary magazine, which contained an article saying, "About two-and-a-half years ago, the 1400 faculty members voted to take a cut in their standard raise of pay to the tune of $350,000 for the sole intent of purchasing volumes for the library. An additional sum of $200,000 was open-endedly arranged for the following year. Of this $350,000, only $150,000 ever found its way through the Library’s doors."
Zaller said the article is inaccurate, although he explained, "We elected to put the needs of the library above all other needs, including salary." He added that the administration's commitment was unrelated to faculty salaries.
Zaller said the Faculty Senate Budget and Compensation Committee met with UM President Edward T. Foote II sometime during the spring of 1985; Knoblock, however, said he recalled the meeting taking place either in the late fall of 1983 or
the early spring of 1984
Knoblock said the faculty received a commitment from Foote to provide $500,000 for “academic enhancements." Part of the $350,000 for library acquisitions would come from this $500,000 This amount would supplement the existing budget Knoblock said the budget group indicated that part of the $500,000 would come from the endowment funds. However, he said, the group did not explain that this would also be true of the library funds.
‘T've never had an accounting for how and why this change was made," Zaller said
He said although the commitment was made before the arrival of the present provost, Dr. Luis Glaser, it should still be honored.
"I have no basis to impugn bad faith," Zaller said.
The president was sincere in his discussions, completely straightforward and honest."
He said the net effect of these negotiations was a loss of $200,000. He added that because it should have been cumulative, the library lost this money not only one year but each year
Knoblock said Zaller’s conclusion is correct. The library’s budget is $200,000 less than it would have been had unrestricted University funds been provid-
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Pulling through the years
Leon Blvd. Thursday. For winners of the parade, see page 6._________________________________
By PAT McCREERY
Hurricane Opinion Editor
The University of Miami's Faculty Senate tabled yesterday a piece of legislation which would change the definition of "graduate faculty." If implemented, the number of members in the grout) 'ii'fl'y allows an instructor to oversee a student's dissertation
Now. members have to achieve the highest degree possible within their field. They also have to hold an assistant professorship, or a higher position, in a department with Graduate School programs, and have to have published a significant amount of literary material.
Members are selected by the Graduate School’s Graduate Council and are reviewed at five year intervals.
If passed, possibly at the senate's December meeting, the new system will open membership to most of UM's faculty, from the president to all instructors and lecturers. Research, clinical, adjunct, visiting and affiliated faculty will automatically become graduate faculty.
UM President Edward T. Foote II will have the chance to approve or disapprove of the change if the plan is passed by the seante. If he approves the change, it will go before the board of trustees for final approval
"|The plan is| ridiculous," said Jane Whitehead, president of the Graduate Student Association "Basically, you will have graduate
students who are also members of the graduate faculty."
Whitehead said seven lecturers in the English department are graduate students who under the plan would be able to oversee other graduate students' dissertations.
..MISw.lUV1fclM<A.Aa-r,wnuR>1!lA. G laser are urging the Graduate School to enforce quality control and Improve standardm.
At a meeting Friday with the Graduate School's Graduate and Research Councils, Sidney Besvin-ick, acting dean of the Graduate School, said quality control should be related to professors and students, not just programs.
At the meeting, Dr. Howard Gordon, a physics professor, said he was very concerned about what he saw as the University's minimal support of its own faculty. He said he chaired a committee for the Faculty Senate which recommended the Graduate School be given $900,000 for improvement of its research facilities.
That amount, Gordon said, was “conservative."
Glaser said the money would probably not be available this year.
“I know we don't have enough money,” Foote said He explained, though, that $125 million of UM's $400 million fundraising drive was going for "general operating support" of the University.
The highest priority of this money, he said, would be to endow students and faculty.
Bicycle thefts increase on campus
By DENISE D. CORBITT
Hurricane Stall Writer
According to University of Miami Depart-lent of Public Safety reports, there was an nusual increase in bike thefts on campus in Ictober and the trend is carrying over to lovember.
According to reports, more bikes are stolen rom the area around the Whitten University enter than any other location. However, bike wners shouldn’t assume that any area ot ampus is safe.
Pat Haden, a crime prevention officer at »ublic Safety, claims that Kryptonite locks for likes are one preventive measure that can be aken.
Public Safety sells the locks for $22.
“The great thing about the locks is the (uarantee that the company offers, Haden aid
The lock company. KBL Corporation, offers
a reimbursement ot up to $500 if a bike is stolen because of a tailed lock.
A student must have his bike registered with Public Safety, which the department offers free of charge, and send KBL a copy of the registration form to make a claim.
The warranty registration form must also be mailed to KBL within 10 days of the purchase of the lock.
"We had one of our officers try to cut through one of the locks with bolt cutters, and he couldn't break it," she said.
She added that a group of people standing around a thief would conceal any theft. Furthermore, unless a student recognizes a bike at the time of the theft, other people assume the bike belongs to the rider.
According to Haden, students who have plastic coated wrapped wire locks are not sufficiently protecting their bikes.
"Anyone can cut the cable with a pair of bolt cutters, even pliers in some cases, with no trouble,” she said.
Even heavier chain locks provide bike owners with nothing more than a false sense of security.
To complicate matters, at least one student knows of a thief who attends a nearby school and makes a living stealing bicycles and selling them. Because area students are permitted to use campus facilities, it is hard to monitor who belongs to the University and who doesn’t, Haden said.
"This is also the holiday season, Haden added. “Kids steal bikes to get money for shopping."
Conrad Ekkens, a sophomore music education major, had his Schwinn 12-speed stolen from the breezeway of the Foster Building. He had his bike registered with Public Safety and was aware of the Kryptonite locks
"I was thinking about buying one, but^I didn’t have the money at the time,” he said. "I also found out that homeowners' insurance covered bikes as well, but I didn't know that at the time."
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Foote among 18 Iron Arrow tapees
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By ADRIENNE CONDELL
Hurricane Staff Writer
As part of Homecoming activi-les. Iron Arrow Honor Society nducted six University of Miami tudents and 12 non-students Wednesday, including UM Presi-lent Edward T. Foote II.
Graduate students Ana Gonzalez ind Frank Jimenez, law students ;ric Luftig and Adalberto Jordan ind undergraduates Annette Ser-ma and Kathleen Sullivan were apped
Besides Foote, others tapped were Oliver Bonnert, UM’s asso-
ciate vice president for business affairs; alumni Sharon Brown; Dean C. Colson, an attorney; Reba Engler Daner, an Everglades researcher; Paul Dee, general counsel for UM; Marjory Stoneman Douglas; William Landsea, a professor in the finance department; Samuel Lee, associate dean of UM’s College of Engineering; Norman Parsons Jr., director for Campus Sports and Recreation; Judith Brines Wallace, associate professor in UM's School of Communication; and Admiral Thomas DeLancey Wood of the U.S. Navy.
Foote said he was quite sur-
prised by his induction into the oldest organization on UM’s campus
“I am deeply honored to have been selected,” Foote said "I feel very privileged to have become a part of the organization founded by my predecessor, Bowman Foster Ashe |UM's first presidenti "
Dee also said it was an honor to have been selected. Hestated that having the opportunity to work with people who share similar ideas will bring him even closer to the University.
“Iron Arrow and its membership have done things that were
good for the University," Dee said_
Iron Arrow was founded in 1926 by Ashe, a month after UM opened its doors. The idea came from the University's first student to be enrolled, Francis Haughtling. who suggested establishing a fraternity founded on American Indian rituals.
Iron Arrow meets twice a year to select people to tap Tapping takes place during Homecoming and Carni Gras weeks. One of the main activities involved is a 24-hour beating of Iron Arrow's drum outside of the Whitten University Center.
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Toasting the '20s
Sophomore Kirk Barnhart, left, and freshman Kristi Rhodes dance at the Homecoming Ball held at Signature Gardens Friday night.