Miami Hurricane, October 06, 1987

              Is winning enough?
Despite long time success on the field, UM football still lacks the tradition found at other schools.
Opinion — page 4
A striking problem
Life takes on a whole new dimension without real national league football.
Accent — page 6
Seminole spearing
The University of Miami football team avoided being scalped by FSU and in so doing gained an inside track toward being involved in a national championship game.	Sports — page 8
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THE MIAMI
URRICANE
Volume 65, Number 9
University of Miami
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led by quarterback Steve Walsh (left), the Canes had a hard time against Florida State, hut Coach Jimmy Johnson, came away with the win. Story, page H.
SG speaker to fill senate seat vacancies
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Hurricane Assistant Sews Editor
Speaker of the Senate, C. Dean Furman, is now filling Student Government senate seat vacancies although the fall senate election is only a few weeks away.
This semester, at least 11 of the 35 senators are unable to complete their terms for various reasons.
According to the SG constitution, “the speaker shall declare or announce the vacancy, as is appropriate, at the first student senate meeting immediately thereafter, and shall arrange appropriate publicity."
Bill Barzce.SC president, said the positions could have been advertised better and will be in the future.
"First, we’U post the openings in the announcements, and second, we'll go to the constituency if it's easily accessible and post it,”Barzee said.
Barzee said that this is the first year that any attempt has been made to announce open positions.
"A traditional problem is that the Senate is closed to its constituents," Barzee said. "It's fine to deal with issues as a student, but it's beneficial to meet the constituents."
Students interested in applying for positions have two weeks from the time the vacancy is announced. If more than one person applies, each will submit a petition to SG of 80 names, or eight percent of the constituency, whichever is less.
The applicants will then be reviewed at the next meeting by a screening committee composed of
Senate leaders. Then the the sentors will make their decision.
Last spring's elected senators were not able to fill their positions for a variety of reasons
The Mahoney senator elected last fall, Darrell Carr, moved to Hecht Residential College. One of the Arts and Sciences senators, Eric Martinusen, transferred to another university.
The music senator. Elaine Rinaldi, cannot fulfill her duties because of her class load. The same applies for sophomore senator Andrew’ Reece.
The apartment area and nursing senator seats are available because both the senators have graduated Several off-campus seats are also available Because Amparo Braniella became vice-president in the spring elections, she could not continue as an
off-campus senator.
Rich Gauthier, elected as an off-campus south senator,resigned when he moved to the Sigma Chi fraternity house. He w’as later ratified as the fraternitv row senator The other off-campus south senator, Amelio Rengel, is also no longer a senator.
The School of Communications senator, louis Aguirre, was removed from the senate because he did not attend senate meetings. Johnny Taylor, the freshman senator elected last fall, was also removed from office.
"1 had an unexpected class conflict," Rinaldi said about her music seat position "I felt awful I didn t want to leave the seat vacant because the School of Music traditionally has weak representation."
Please see page 3/SENATE
Afghan resistance leaders request U.S. support
By PETER VALDES-OAPENA
Hurricane Staff Writer
Two leaders of the Afghan resistance requested increasedll.S. interest in the Afghan conflict during a conference Thursday on Soviet-American Rivalry in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf.
Moderator Dr. Ralph Magnus, of a naval post-graduate school in Monterey, Ca., said, “I think in talking about both of these subjects we need to understand not only analytically but also with passion because we have to understand the position of the people of
the area and especially of Islam."
The University of Miami Institute for Soviet and East European Studies and The Middle East Studies Institute sponsored the conference at the James L. Knight Center.
UM professor Jiri Valenta, di-
rector of ISFiES, and professor Haim Shaked, director of MESI, spoke at the conference.
According to Valenta, “Both Christians and Jews have neglected this war. I think it is partly because these guys are Muslims that we don't care enough, and we
think we should care about them as brothers."
"It |the war| is very difficult to get a handle on, and of course the Russians try to keep people from doing that," Magnus said.
Since there is no controversy over U.S. policy on Afghanistan.
there is little public debate on the issue and therefore a lack of publicity, according to Magnus Brigadier General Rahmatullah Safi, an American educated Muja-hadeen |freedom fighter| leader,
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Termites drive students to
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Hurritane Assistant News Editor
Five rooms on the seventh floor of Pentland tow’er are infested with termites, and residents say they are being inconvenienced by the problem that was supposed to be remedied over the summer.
Lora Davella, a sophomore living on the seventh floor of Hecht Residential College, said residents were told to move out of their rooms Wednesday because a toxic spray was going to be used to exterminate.
"We were told to remove books, clothes, and bedding," Davella said. “Our rooms are bare. We received no boxes, no help in moving, and no secure place to put our belongings."
The students said they got bags to carry their belongings, which were then stored in the lounge and in several other students' rooms.
"The lounge is packed," Davella said. "My things are in four people's rooms.” The seven students affected have had to find temporary living arrangements with other students on the floor.
The problem began last year when a resident of the women's floor found live termites and complained about the problem to the front desk of the EIRC. The residents were told that the rooms on the sixth, seventh, and eighth floors would be sprayed over the summer.
Evidently, the chemical was not powerful enough to permanently exterminate the termites.
HRC residents say they found live termites, wings, webs, eggs and termite excrement in their dorm rooms two weeks ago.
"This was supposed to have been taken care of over the summer, and it wasn't," Davella said.
Another seventh floor resident. Adelle Mcilroy said, "We want them to do something that will be permanent."
The termites were found mainly in the bolsters, cushions on the walls of the rooms, so they were removed.
Davella requested that the bolsters not be replaced until the end of the semester so the termites would not return.
Mcilroy said, "We want new bolsters or no bolsters, but not the ones with the termites in them."
Robert Redlck, associate director of residence halls, said that the problem would be taken care of quickly. “We won't leave you living in limbo,” Redick told the students.
Residence halls maintenance worker Rick Rivera said that the spray used is a stronger liquid than the spray used in the summer extermination. “It absorbs into the wood," Rivera said, "and the smell will go away."
Karen Melino. residence coordinator of Hecht Residential College, offered the residents the use of her office to store their belongings.
Melino said she was told that the liquid used was stronger. Due to a miscommunication between ARA, maintenance, and residence halls, Melino was not originally told whether the women had to move out of their rooms. “It’s not the same stuff [spray] they used before," Melino said. "It works when it dries."
Mcilroy said. "If it's not toxic enough to have to clean, then it won’t solve the problem And if it is toxic, we want them to clean our rooms."
Although the residents have returned to their rooms, they are concerned about what will happen if the problem recurs if the new pesticide does not work.
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Seventh floor Pentland residents Lora Davella and Adelle Mcilroy in the lounge where their belongings were stored.
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