Miami Hurricane, November 21, 1986

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News — page 3
A second serving
SEC’s Lakeside Dessert Cafe returns Sunday night at 8 with a sweet offering of musical comedy and pastries on the Lake Osceola loading dock.
Entertainment — page 6
UM basketball beats Australia
The University of Miami defeated the Brisbane Bullets 79-78 in an exhibition match Wednesday night at the James L. Knight Center.
Sports — page 8
New parking code begins today
The two free tickets rule will be retroactive over the entire fall semester, even though the new parking code becomes effective today. Students who were billed for one or two parking tickets, with few exceptions, will not have to pay for them. Student accounts will be credited if the student has already paid for the tickets.
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane News Editor •
The new University of Miami parking code officially becomes effective today. However, the administration said that since the new extended warning period idea of two free tickets was announced earlier, the free tickets will include tickets given during the entire fall semester.
Therefore, two parking tickets received on campus during this semester will not have to be paid unless the tickets were given for blocking fire lanes, creating a safety hazard, which includes driving across undesignated areas, and unauthorized parking in disabled or reserved spaces.
These first two tickets are also unappealable, since the purpose of the extended warning period is to limit the number of appeals, according to Paul Dee. UM’s general counsel. There will be two excused violations given each academic year.
"Both the University and the student get a reprieve,” he said. “It's as if the ticket was not given."
Students who have received UM account bills which included parking fines will not have to pay for two of the parking tickets as charged. However.
students must pay the remainder of the debt owed to the University.
Students who have already paid the fine for one or two parking tickets that were assessed on the bill will be credited, according to bursar Al Mathews. Dr. William Butler, vice president for student
affairs, said new payment notices will be issued when the computers are updated to account for the two free parking tickets.
“Going back to September will be confusing," said Joe Frechette, director of UM's Department of Public Safety, in reference to his computers. “There may be some dragging of feet, but it will get straightened
out.”
One reason for the delay in the implementation of the new parking code was the question of whether the two free tickets would be appealable.
Frechette said some of his employees were stopping work to print on the new code pamphlets that the first two tickets were not appealable in an attempt to clarify the matter.
Also, the new appeals committee for the code has only recently been approved by Provost Luis Glaser. The committee will include Robert Fuerst, director of academic services and representative of the administration; Dr. Leonard Carrier, a philosophy professor and representative of the faculty; and William Barzee, speaker pro tempore of the Undergraduate
Student Body Government senate, who will represent the students.
The committee has already met once. It will no* meet again until after Thanksgiving to start looking into the appeals.
Frechette said another major change in the code, besides the two free, unappealable tickets, is that University employees may park in any lot.
"Parking will get worse because faculty and employees can park anywhere." he said. “I don't know what effect this will have on commuter parking."
He said the code will not really change ticketing but will allow for more towing.
Frechette also added that the two shuttle buses that run from lot 600 to campus help to relieve the parking problem, especially in the peak morning hours. The shuttles run every 15 minutes from lot 600, in which spaces are available and all decals are permitted.
Copies of the new code will be mailed to students who live on campus. Additional copies of the code can be picked up at the Ashe Building, the University Center Information Desk, Public Safety, the Help Desk at the Ungar Computer Center, the Hecht Athletic Center and the Richter Library.
USBG wants expanded meal plan, library funds
Arson reason for 3 roof fires
By KAREN PLAVE
Hurricane Associate News Editor
A fire Monday night on the roof of Building 31 marked the third case of arson in the apartment area during the past two weeks, according to reports from the
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According to the report, the fire Monday night was caused by someone lighting newspapers in a brown paper bag with a match or lighter.
Swager said a student apparently saw the fire and called Public Safety. An officer arrived at 7:37 p.m. and called the Coral Gables Fire Department.
According to the police report, the department fire marshal verified arson as the cause of the fire but said that because he found no leads to the identity of the arsonist at the scene of the fire, his department would not investigate.
Swager said the UM department of residence halls was following up on the fire by replacing the doors that lead from each apartment to the roof.
“We are replacing all doors to the roofs, so students should have no access to those roofs," Swager said.
Jim Shaw, one of the firefighters on the scene, said the roof was not badly damaged. He also said the wooden roof, which is covered
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with tar, could burn quickly.
Clarence Lefler. director of UM's physical plant, said that the structure of the roof is composed of wood but that it is built up with layers of felt, Ur and asphalt and covered with gravel.
“The rocks [gravel| would help control flammability," Lefler said Fires were also started on the roof of Building 33 on Nov. 2 and Nov. 7. In both cases, telephone books were set aflame Since the Public Safety officer extinguished the Nov. 2 fire, the fire department was not called The report indicates no damage to the building, which was occupied at the time.
The Coral Gables Fire Department was called for the fire that occurred on Nov. 7.
“We're trying to determine if there's any connection" between the apartment fires, said Swager She also said no disciplinary action will be Uken until a suspect is identified.
Cheap sunglasses
Cars keep their cool with cardboard sun shields in the Mahoney/Pearson parking lot.
By ANDREW POWERS
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami Undergraduate Student Body Government senate passed bills to expand the meal plan system, request funds for the library and add a senate seat and a USBG Supreme Court member at its meeting Wednesday.
The group also ratified and swore in the 18 newly elected senators and a new Supreme Court justice at the meeting.
The bill concerning the meal plan, which passed unanimously, entails the expansion of the current meal plan to include the Rathskeller, the Eye
cafeteria in the Whitten University Center and the Lakeside Delicatessen so that students can use their meal cards to eat at these locations.
The proposed change would have no effect on the cost of the plan for students.
The senate also unanimously passed a bill requesting the allocation of $225,000 to the Richter Library from over $2 million that the University will probably receive from the bowl game in which the UM football team participates.
"The library is the backbone of academics, but it is not up to par," said Bill Barzee, senate speaker pro tempore and co-author of the bill.
Panel says drug abuse rising
By CHRIS HARVEY
Hurricane Staff Writer
By 1990. drug addiction will be the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, according to Dr. Jules Trop of Mount Sinai Hospital.
Trop was on a panel which discussed drug and substance abuse Wednesday in the Universi-
In the event the University of Miami board of trustees decide to sell the University Park apartments this year, student residents will not have to move out until June 30, 1987, according to Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs.
The 76 UM-owned apartments, located across U.S. 1 from the main campus, house married graduate and undergraduate students and their families.
Butler said that the contract for
ty of Miami Flamingo Ballroom. Panel members represented medical, legal and University perspectives.
"Addiction is the most devastating disease known,” said Trop, currently the addictionologist and program physician at Mount Sinai Hospital’s addiction treatment program called “Tough Love."
Thomas E. Scott, federal judge
the housing ends June 30 since the University realizes some of the UM students living there have children who attend public schools which do not let out until mid-June.
In the Nov. 11 issue of The Miami Hurricane, it was reported that the University wants to sell the Park apartments and the University Inn because they are causing UM to lose money.
—DEBBIE MORGAN
of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, discussed the effects of narcotics on the legal system.
“The majority of street crimes, such as murder, rape, assault and robbery, are directly attributable to drugs," Scott said.
The judge also spoke about the role of the legal system in dealing with drugs.
“We can have a totally permissive society and legalize drugs, or we can have a complete police state," he said. “The solution lies in balancing between two extremes. This is what our system is trying to do."
The panel members also discussed university-wide drug testing, which is now in effect for most college athletic teams.
“The drug-testing program's goal is to keep athletes from doing drugs,” said Kevin O'Neill, UM’s head athletic trainer. “The program is supportive, not punitive We want to help students who have a problem."
Although O’Neill mentioned that Duke University administrators are considering administering drug tests to all students, he pointed out
Residents can stay until summer if buildings sold
Mike Rosen, Arts and Sciences senator and co-author of the bill with Barzee, said that although members of the University administration have claimed that academics is their first priority, they “haven’t committed themselves financially" to the library problem.
The creation of a senate seat for the Sports and Recreation Interest Club Federation was also approved unanimously.
SCRICF met the following criteria in order to be given a seat on the USBG senate: recognition by the University, a mandatory fee source and governmental control over its members. The senate also recognized the importance of the federation, which encompasses
almost 800 students in more than 36 clubs.
After some debate. Carlos Torre was ratified and sworn in by the senate as the newest USBG Supreme Court member.
Also passed by the senate was a bill establishing a four-member board to screen the tour at-large members of the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee.
The SAFAC screening board will be composed of Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs; William Sheeder, dean of students; USBG President Jose Garcia; and a randomly selected member of SAFAC.
Plan to help fight cafe roach problem
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the problems with testing all students.
“One jproblem| is money," he said "It would be very expensive to run tests on all students."
Responding to questions of its legality. Scott said, “There are not definite laws in existence concerning drug testing, but if the regulation is deemed necessary for discipline and preserving an educational atmosphere, then it would probably be legal.”
Trop described what people can do when someone they know is abusing drugs.
“Get the people around the addict to quit enabling that person to abuse drugs," he said. "Give them the opportunity to get help."
By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Auietant News Editor
Robert Choate, general manager of University Dining Services, said he is formulating a plan of action to solve the roach problem in the Hurricane and Ibis cafeterias.
This plan, according to Choate, includes improving his staff’s observation of sanitation principles, consulting extermination companies and possibly exterminating more frequently.
During a tour by two Undergraduate Student Body Government senators on Nov. 12, a large number of roaches were found in various areas of the Hurricane and Ibis cafeterias.
Choate said a possible cause of the problem is the physical aspects of the building, including cracks in the walls through which roaches could enter.
He said another contributing factor to the roach problem was that exterminators could not get into the building on Nov. 11.
Choate said that because the locks had been changed. Care Pest Control could not get into the building to exterminate.
According to George Alonso, quality control supervisor for Care Pest Control, the cafeterias had not been sprayed for three weeks because of the lock changes.
Alonso said that for this amount of time, a "normal situation was found." He added that the building should be exterminated at least once every two weeks.
Choate said that he went to the cafeteria to investigate the problem on Nov. 14 with Efren Gort, director of operations of UDS.
“We saw a few roaches, and that's when we called the exterminators," Choate said.
Choate said it is not acceptable to see any roaches in the cafeteria
He said he plans to spend time with and have "one-on-one communication" with the exterminating service to achieve a better
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