Miami Hurricane, April 07, 1987

              THE MIAMI
Canes are city champs
The Miami Hurricane baseball team swept a three game series this past weekend from cross-city rival, Florida International University.
Sports — page 10
Give (from) the heart
This week has been proclaimed Organ Donor Week, with activities designed to educate students about UM’s organ transplant program.
News — page 3
Global gardening
‘Cultivating Utopia’ is the theme for this year’s International Week. Each international organization will plant a different flower for a garden on the Patio.	Accent — page 8
Volume 64, Number 43
University of Miami
Tuesday, April 7,1987
UM center to sell condoms to students
By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Associate News Editor
The University of Miami Health Center pharmacy
will be offering condoms for sale by the end of the week, according to Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the Health Center.
Flipse said the center decided to offer the condoms because of requests from students but mainly because of a request from the Student Health Advisory
Committee.	'
“We are looking at the best price we can get,” Flipse said. He added there will be no discount on the condoms and that they are only being offered "as a matter of convenience.”
Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, gave the final approval for the condom sales.
“It is such an obvious natural commodity that we thought it ought to be offered in our Health Center pharmacy," Butler said. “We ought to carry the supplies that are needed here on our campus.”
Brad Reiter, chairman of the Student Health Advisory Committee, said he has been pushing for the condom sales for several months.
“A lot of schools are promoting condom use,” Reiter said "It |condoms] are an effective way to
prevent disease and are easy to use."
Flipse said the center will only offer one type of condom, which will be equipped with a spermicidal agent that kills sperm and helps protect against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Rabbi Mark Kram of the Hillel Jewish Student Center said that he has no particular objections to the sale of condoms at the center.
"The University is recognizing the realization of sexually transmitted diseases," Kram said. “If they jthe Health Center] can make them available, then it is a smart way to go about doing it.”
Kram said selling condoms on campus would not promote sexual activity. If the condoms were not sold on campus, he added, then students who wanted to purchase them would “just walk another five minutes off campus" to purchase them.
Senior Jean Ricscher said she thinks selling the condoms is a good idea. "It may save someone’s life,” she said.
Lisa Lyons, also a senior, said she thought condoms were always sold in the Health Center. “I think they definitely should be available," Lyons said. "They should even be sold in the bookstore.”
Center not accredited
By SHAWNA SER1G
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami Health Center, which had over 15,000 out-patient visits last year, is not accredited as a medical facility.
In other words, the Health Center operates by only the guidelines the University sets for it and in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
According to Ony’e FtMort, accreditation process manager for Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, "Just because a center isn’t accredited doesn’t mean it’s not good. It just means that it’s operating by their its own standards.”
Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the center, said that since the University was already accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the center needed no other accreditation.
“But SACS is not responsible for accrediting the center as a medical facility,” explained Jane White-head, co-chairperson of the Student Health Advisory Committee.
“It is true that we are accredited as an educational facility, and that is all that SACS is qualified to accredit us for,” Whitehead said. “That has nothing to do with medical care or health services.”
Whitehead, a graduate student in English, said she and SHAC chairperson Brad Reiter learned about accreditation at a seminar they attended last year in New Orleans. When they returned, they hoped to obtain accreditation for the UM center.
After examining the guidelines for the center, Whiteheadrecom-mended accreditation to Flipse and
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Flipse said he does not think the
center is eligible for accreditation.
"I dont even think the center would qualify since it’s not open on a 24-hour basis,” Flipse said. “It’s mostly the larger schools that are accredited, and I think we’d be denied an application."
But Elliott said that is not the case.
"The eligibility criteria are outlined in a handbook, and it says nothing about requiring facilities to remain in operation on a 24-hour basis,” she said.
Elliott said the facility is required only to operate within the law: to have any required license, to share the facility, equipment and management of the institution and to avoid discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin.
“There is one more thing,” she said. “The only requirement we do make is that the facility request the accreditation.”
According to Elliott, accreditation of a health center includes a review of existing procedures, fulfillment of the standard of the accreditation association and a survey (which can cost up to $3,000, depending on the facility
’’/Iffcr' accreSi t at ion. we make sure the institution maintains a quality care program and because
of itsaccreditation, it is compared to nationally-recognized health
care standards," she said.
Accreditation, while not mandatory, is a “positive step forward,” Whitehead said.
“It is my belief that any institution worth its salt would welcome the idea of an outside group [accrediting team surveyors] coming to study its facility,” Whitehead said. “The results of that study will be suggestions for improvement, and that’s a step in the right direction.”
"After all, students aren’t expected to go to a college that’s not accredited ... or a hospital,” she said. “Why should they be expected to go to a medical facility for treatment that is not accredited?”
Over the fence
The Miami Maniac greets a fan at Saturday's baseball game against Florida International University. See Sports page 8 for story.

ERIK COCKS/Hurricane Staff
Petition for
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Copies of a petition for better quality cafeteria food have been posted on the bulletin boards of every floor of the Hecht Residential College. Tracy Maisel, a junior architecture major who lives in HRC, initiated the petition.
Pat Whitely, the resident doordinator for The Residential College, did not allow the petition to be posted in TRC. She said she did not think it was done in good taste.
“Dr. Mescon |the master of TRC1 and I felt that the information was inappropriate,’1 she said. “We have had no problems here.”
If the petition were written differently, said Whitely, she would reconsider posting it.
Maisel said that whether the administration agrees with the petition is not the point. She added that she will solicit signatures door-to-door if necessary.
better food quality posted in Hecht
"I’m not trying to be revolutionary. I’m just sick of
the food],” Maisel said.
The idea for the petition came about after the HRC nmunity dinner on March 29. Maisel said she was -ticularly displeased with the food.
“For the extra money we paid, it wasn’t very good ality," she said. "Somebody should know we’re happy. Then they can offer solutions.”
According to Maisel, the petition had 50 signatures or two days on the bulletin boards. The petition luests a student's signature, room number, phone mber and type of meal plan.
Maisel said she conducted the petition in the uper manner, obtaining permission from HRC sident Coordinator Karen Melino. Maisel said Dr. iss Murfin, master of HRC, also supported her
A letter accompanying the petition states that idents in residential colleges not only have to buy a i „ion hut are also reauired to pay an extra $100
above regular room-and-board fees, $30 of which is used for the community dinners.
Most of these dinners are barbeques that are not worth the extra money, Maisel said.
The letter also states that Marriott Inc. has an exclusive contract with the University that prohibits catering by any other company.
She hopes the letter will bring the problem of the cafeteria food to the attention of the administration.
"We are extremely dissatisfied with the quality," she said.
Maisel said she will send the completed petition to 960 Cafeteria Director Efren Gort. Residence Halls Director George Shoffner and Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler.
“If they try to improve, it will be fine," Maisel said in reference to the University Dining Service. The University's contract with Marriott Inc. expires next year.
“They have the little blue cards [response cards]
up on the board,” Maisel said in regard to the 960 cafeteria. “But their response is ’Sorry you didn't like it,’ and nothing is done."
Maisel said that the administration does not understand students’ views and that the administration can be aware of problems only if students complain.
She also said the Undergraduate Student Body Government is also unaware of students’ feelings since no senator had ever asked her for input.
Andrew Reece, sophomore senator, said student input is important in any decision.
"I’m glad to see a student so concerned to go through all the trouble," Reece said. He said he plans to work with Maisel to improve the quality of the cafeteria food.
Reece, who is working on a proposal for an alternate meal plan, said he would like to see the petitions in every residential college and wants to use them to find out what students want.
Admitted students visit UM
By LISA SILVF.RBERG
Hurricane Staff Writer
Over 125 high school seniors from across the United States arrived at the University of Miami Thursday for a three-day orientation to the “world of college.”
The V.I.P. program, sponsored by the Office of Admissions, provides students who have already been accepted to the University a chance to get a first-hand look at UM.
While visiting, the V.I.P.s stay with student hosts in one of the residential colleges, attend classes and tour the campus. The program also included an ice cream social, a barbeque and free admission to Friday's Hurricane baseball game against Florida International University.
Michelle Delaney, senior director of Admissions, said the oppor-
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A panel of juniors in the President’s 100 answers the questions of V.I.P.’s in the master’s apartment of Eaton Residential College.
tunity to visit the campus helps alleviate fears and anxieties a student may have about returning here In the fall as a freshman.
“Our research has shown us that if a student comes to the University and has a succesful experience
here, he's much more likely to enroll the following year," Delaney said.	„	■
This weekend was the first of four V.I.P. programs the Universi-
2/ADMISSIONS
‘Athlete’ memo rescinded
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II rescinded a March 18 memorandum from the department of Public Safety which stated that any police report involving an athlete must be given to the commanding officer immediately.
The memo, written by Lt. Cokes Watson of the department of Public Safety, also stated that the commanding officer would then put the report in an envelope under the office door of Joe Frechette, director of the department.
“At this time, no other memo in that form will be written," said Watson on Monday.
The department's policy concerning reports involving athletes is "no different than it ever was,” said Frechette. He said that the reasons for the memo were to make the reports more secure and to more efficiently distribute memos to the appropriate people on campus.
Reports involving athletes will now be treated like other reports, Frechette -aid. "The president
wants everybody treated the same; so do we,” he said.
"It’s unfair to pick on ball players," Frechette said. “There's no press interest in nonathletes.”
All students are protected by Public Safety's procedures, Frechette said. Police reports are still open to the public, but members of the press must make formal requests to receive University incident reports.
Frechette said he was contacted by The Miami Herald's executive sports director, Paul Anger, who requested UM reports from March 18 to the present in compliance with Article 119 of the public records statute.
The press is not able to get reports that are sent to Dean of
Student Personnel William Sandler’s office for disciplinary action. “They can’t get anything with a student’s name on it," F'rechette said. To print a story, the newspapers would have to contact the student and get permission.
Frechette said athletes may still end up on police reports but that such actions as playing loud music should not make it into the newspapers. "The papers should feel an obligation not to write about that," he said.
Frechette said that a leak in his office may cause minor incidents to be written about in the paper but that security concerning memos is stricter.
Board announces new editors
The 1987-88 editor-in-chief and business manager of the Miami Hurricane, and editor-in-chief of the Ibis yearbook were announced last night at the Board of Publications meeting.
Debbie Morgan, a junior majoring In telecommunications and
psychology, was announced as editor-in-chief of the Miami Hurricane. Dodd Claesen, a sophomore majoring in marketing, was named business manager.
Lee M. Stevens, a freshman majoring in architecture and engineering, was named editor-in-chief of the Ibis.
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