Miami Hurricane, April 25, 1986

              Spring Break — Russian style
Two UM activists spent the week after Spring Break visiting Russian refuseniks
News — page 5
World-class woman
UM graduate Judy Drucker brings the best of the best to South Florida
Entertainment — page 8
A Clean Sweep
Pi Kappa Alpha won the Divisional and Presidential trophies in intramural competition
Sports — page 12
Volume 63, Number 49
University of Miami
Friday, April 25, 1986
Students to vote
on Rat’s future
GEORGE ALV AREZJUurricane Stall
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Students will vote Monday whether or not to raise the University of Miami’s student activity fee another $14 per year in order to bail out UM's financially troubled Rathskeller.
The activity fee is currently $60 per semester. If passed, the referendum would raise the Rathskeller's $1.50 allotment of the activity fee to $8.50.
The call for a student vote came after a rally Wednesday by about 70 students who demonstrated to save the Rathskeller .The rally culminated in the passage of a biil by UM’s Undergraduate Student Body Government Senate calling for the student vote.
Regardless of what happens in Monday's referendum, no one is guaranteeing the Rathskeller will stay open.
The largest undetermined factor is whether Marriott Corp., holder
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Kevin Dillon, right, organized Joe Bugs and Jill Wittcnbrader, left, and about 70 other UM students to protest the possible closing of the Rathskeller
of the campus monopoly for food and beverage services, will renew its contract with the Rathskeller.
Marriott will not decide whether to renew the contract until May 31, said Scott Swafford. USBG attorney general and co-sponsor of the bill calling for the referendum
Marriott may not contract an agreement because it projects the Rathskeller has lost $50,000 this year, he said, and it may lose more if proposed improvements by the Rathskeller Advisory Board fail to work.
However. Swafford said, Marriott may think twice about not renewing the agreement, because it would raise the possibility of competition. The Rathskeller would not cease to exist necessarily if Marriott ends management, but could continue with money generated from the activity fee hike.
The chances, he said, are 50/50 Marriott will renew the contract
Marriott is only responsible, Swafford said, for the Rathskeller's financial losses and management.
Overall operation of the lounge is overseen by Rathskeller. Inc., with programming done by the Rathskeller Advisory Board, headed by Kevin Dillon, organizer of Wednesday's rally and co-sponsor of the bill calling for the referendum.
The chain of events leading to the passage of the bill started at 3:30 p.m Wednesday, when a
rally organized by the advisory board began at the lounge Shouting "Save the Rat." "I'm
fu----' mad and I'm not gonna
take it anymore" and “Let's take hostages," the crowd of students headed over to the USBG meeting at 4 p.m
Students, wearing yellow "Save Our Rathskeller” T-shirts and telling each other it was a "nice day for a riot,” made their way to the University Center Flamingo Ballroom
However, by the time the bill was voted upon, some of the enthusiasm and many of the supporters had drifted away With the meeting beginning 15 minutes late, the crowd of Rat supporters began hissing "Save our Rat. save our Rat" and yelling for the meeting to begin When it did. the Senate voted to deal with Swafford and Dillon's bill immediately
Amid shouts and cheers, both gave authorship speeches.
The Rathskeller, Dillon said, lost approximately $75,000 a year ago and about $50,000 in the year just ending Other sources say, at the current rate, the Rathskeller will probably lose $50,000 next year He said that by raising the amount of money given to the Rathskeller from the student activity fee, better programming could be divised which, in turn,
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Polititian calls for equal opportunity
Eating disorders common among college students
By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Speaker Pro Tempore of the Florida House of Representatives said Wednesday morning she has encountered many obstacles in her fight for equal opportunities in education and the Florida Educational Equity Act that she helped pass in Congress in 1983.
Elaine Gordon spoke to over 100 people in the private dining room of the IBIS Cafeteria on “The Importance of Sex Equity in Education” at the 13th annual Administrator's Breakfast of the University of Miami’s Women's Commission.
“I ran into so many obstacles and issues related to equality,” said Gordon about her fight for the act in Congress.
Gordon said The Florida Education Equity Act requires that no person shall be excluded from participation and discriminated in anv educational programs.
the act requires pro-active positions, reports made to diminish discrimination and a process of hearing complaints and mediating problems.
"It is an access to excellence for all students, " said Gordon. It
prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race and handicap.
The bill failed first in Congress and then was passed in the Senate. It only passed the House when Gordon attached the bill onto another.
Gordon said that the Grove City decision, a case involving schools only being under federal jurisdiction for federally funded programs, helped her bill pass.
“Grove City helped us leap through the window of opportunity," Gordon said.
As an example of discrimination in high school, Gordon related slow and fast-pitch softball to winning scholarships.
She said girls can only play slow-pitch softball but scholarships are only offered for fast pitch.
Thus, girls are denied opportunity for scholarships, said Gordon.
“We have not come a long way baby," she said.
Gordon said that girls from Florida high schools receive scholarships from other colleges and thus go out of state. Consequently, Florida is losing a lot of good athletes.
Gordon said she wants to change this so "girls who don't have the money to go to college
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will be able to do so.”
"Passing the Equity Act won't fix everything," Gordon said. "It is many steps further than the federal law.”
She has been in the Florida House of Representatives since 1972 and has served on almost every committee, including the ad hoc committee for Child Support and the Governor's Task Force For Aging.
She was professor of law at the University of Arizona and specialized in the law of ecology. She was also ore the commission that investigated the Attica riots.
By DEBORAH KIRK
Hurricane Staff Writer
Anorexia Nervosa and bulimia are complex eating disorders which are affecting college-aged people more and more, said Dr. Paula Levine, a psychotherapist.
At an informal lecture Tuesday night at the Residential College, Levine, director for the Anorexia and Bulimia Resource Center in Coconut Grove, discussed the problems involved with these eating disorders with about 20 students. .
“Anorexia is the relentless pursuit of thinness,” she said.
Anorexia is actually a “non-eating" disorder in which a person, typically a teenage female, loses so much weight that the number of pounds lost stops mattering. They lose muscle as well as fat, but they still see themselves as being fat
Most young people who do become anorexic are usually perfectionists who feel as if the only part of their lives they have full control over are their bodies. This, compounded with the pressures of college life, may cause a student to become anorexic.
"It's a thought disorder," Levine said," because they lose touch with reality.”
"They are not rational when
they're lying in the hospital with 25 percent of their normal body weight gone,” she said.
An anorexic in that condition, Levine said, will not admit to being hungry, cold, or tired.
"Psychotherapy at that low weight is impossible," Levine said about anorexics who are usually dragged in by friends or family members for treatment.
She said that such people need to be hospitalized just to gain control of the physical aspect of their disorder. Only after they gain control can anorexics begin to slowly undergo cognitive restructuring, she added.
Almost 50 percent of untreated
anorexics become bulimic, Levine said.
Bulimia is characterized by excessive binge—eating episodes at various times during the day (as often as 40 a day), followed by extreme purging methods such as induced vomiting, excessive exercise, diuretic and laxative abuse, or starvation the following day.
Unlike anorexia, Levine said, bulimics can often hide their disorder from friends and family members. Another difference, Le-vme said, is that anorexics are concerned with weight loss
whereas bulimics are preoccupied with weight maintainance.
Medical side-effects of bulimia include weakness, dizziness, difficulty swallowing or retaining fixxi, and excessive tooth and gum decay.
“It's a form of substance abuse." Levine said
Once the bulimic gives up the purge end of the syndrome and starts to have a different attitude about food, he or she is on the road to recovery, Levine said.
One student present at the lecture admitted to being bulimic for the past 11 years. She said that now she does not purge her body, and if she does binge.'i just gain weight.”
Some other students who listened to Levine’s talk have friends whose eating disorders they are concerned about
One young man reported that he intervened in his girlfriend's purging by disallowing her to induce vomiting. He said after a few minutes, she felt less guilty about not purging than she thought she would have.
Although it may take a long time for some bulimics and anorexics to recover, “when thev recover, they do start to live again,” Levine said.
UM Singers cancel tour
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane News Editor
The University of Miami Singers have cancelled a tour to England because of the recent world terrorism crisis.
Instead of going overseas, the group will perform in the United States and at the World s Fair in Canada.
According to Dr. Lee Kjelson.
The University of Miami has been chosen one of nine hot colleges on the climb" by Time magazine in this week’s issue.
UM’s cost-incentive budgeting, new schools of Communication. Architecture and International Studies, and smaller enrollment were cited by Time as reasons for its status as a “fast-rising and ambitious Institution."
"We're rapidly becoming this generation’s Stanford." said UM President Edward T Foote in the . article.
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director of UM Singers, a tour of England was chosen since it seemed, at the time, to be the least controversial place.
But novik there is hysteria, he said.
“It is a shame that such things have to happen in the world that limits our ability to share in each others cultures," said Cliff Mitchell, junior and co-manager of the group.
“We’re not educating the masses anymore," said Associate Provost James Ash.
Time agreed.
"Apparently not," it reported. “Tuition will be $8,840."
Evergreen State College, Trinity University. University of Massachusetts at Boston. Depauw University, George Mason University. Rollins College, Rhodes College and Brooklyn College were the other colleges and universities mentioned in the list.
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Kjelson said that about 80 percent of the group were willing to go to England. But parents had some strong feelings against going, he said.
The Singers' tour will begin May 13 in Denver, where the group will perform for three days. Next, they will move on to Salt lake City, Utah, where the Singers will sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The group will then move on to Vancouver, British Columbia, to the World's F'air Expo ’86. The tour will close in San Francisco, Calif
"While it was disappointing that we’re not going to England. I'm looking forward to a successful tour in the Northwest, especially the World’s Fair in Vancouver," said Stephan Toback, sophomore and tour sound engineer.
"Although many people were disappointed about the cancellation of our trip to England, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to see our own country," said Scott Morlack, sophomore singer.
“The chances are greater that we will be killed on U.S. 1 than on an England tour, but I am still very excited about our U.S. tour." Jane Spinney, administrative intern
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UM ‘on the climb’ magazine reports
Four Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers, (from left) John Fazacerley. Robert Katsotf. Chris Moore and Kevin Mitchell browse through the Ibis yearbook, which arrived on campus Wednesday
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