Miami Hurricane, April 18, 1986

              Students go smokeless
A national study finds that smokeless tobacco use is on the rise while groups try to ban its advertising
News — page 3
Rock-and-Roll weekend
Local band KrUii rocks the University of Miami into a music weekend today at the University Center Patio
Entertainment — page 6
Behind the 8-Ball
University of Miami student Gail Newman will be representing 10 states this weekend at the 8-Ball Championships
Sports — page 8
Volume 63, Number 47	University of Miami	Friday, April 18, 1986
UM reacts to attack on Libya
Male students will go to war after completing semester
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A sign in front of the Pi Kappa Alpha house denounces Libya
Discrimination against Arabs to be fought by boycott
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Unlike students during the Vietnam conflict, today’s students, if drafted, will have to go to war after they complete the semester during which they receive their draft notices, said a public affairs officer for the Selective Service Commission in Washington, D.C.
Linda Stalvey, the public affairs officer, said that during the Vietnam conflict, students were given deferments until they graduated.
The draft system was reworked in 1980, Stalvey said, in an attempt to make it more fair.
She said the day after the president of the United States instituted a draft, a lottery would be held that would randomly number the days in the year.
All 20-year-old men who were born on the day given the first number would be conscripted. The process would follow through until all 365 days were done and, if the United States still needed soldiers, then 21-year-olds would be drafted.
The process would continue until all eligible 25-year-olds were drafted and then the Selective Service would begin conscripting
18- and 19-year-olds.
Anyone who turned 20 after the other 20-year-olds had already been drafted would be conscripted right away, she said.
At the University of Miami, tension between supporters and critics of President Reagan's Libyan policy is running high after the United States attacked Libya Monday.
The day after the attack, a local television news crew asked UM
‘[The debate contained a] lot of emotion, but no violence, or aggression or namecalling.’
Gloria Villaamila, UM student'
students sitting in the downstairs lounge of the Whitten University Center what they thought of the airborne raid.
The questions generated an argument among several students in the lounge about the amount of wisdom behind the attack.
Gloria Villaamila, a UM student who was In the lounge at the time, said the debate contained a "lot of emotion, but no violence or aggression or name-calling.”
Villaamila and Ali Kain, vice president of the Lebanese Student Association, who was also present at the discussion, both said the debate was a positive event because both sides learned more
• bout tfie other’s attitude«.
Not all of the statements about Libya were positive, with posters around the campus denouncing the country and terrorism.
A spray-painted sheet hanging from the second floor of Walsh Tower proclaimed: “Libya, Eat Shit and Die.”
Another billboard, in front of the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, said Colonel Moammar Khadafy had stolen the History 132 exam.
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
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be fought by boycott, said the spokesman for the Arab-American Anti-discrimination Committee Wednesday evening in the University of Miami’s Flamingo Ballroom.
Fans Bouhafa told about 130 students and faculty attending his speech that the group’s first target would be the Hààgen-Dazs ice cream company because its owner
contributed money to and publicly supports a group that is suspected of assassinating an official of the committee.
sometimes suftco^s^ousTy, Is prf-‘ marily responsible for the poor image of Arabs and Arab-Ameri-cans in the minds of the American public.
Since the late-1960s the stereotypical image of the Arab had been one of the rich sheik, Bouhafa said. Now, he said, the image is becoming one of the Arab as a terrorist.
“God forbid that a Palestinian
child (in America| identify himself in school when his schoolmates are identifying all Palestinians as terrorists,” Bouhafa Mid.
"Nonocry flees to see emictren killed, but we have to find out what makes people go to such extremes,’’ he said. “Ronald Reagan is not interested in finding out. Israel is not interested in Ronald Reagan finding out.”
The Lebanese Student Association had originally asked the media monitor of the Arab-Ameri-can Anti-discrimination Committee, Steve Manick, to speak during
International Week, said Ali Kain. vice president of the association.
That idea ended when UM administrators refused to give **fturing^fnTcrnafZonal Week any event that is political we don't sponsor," said Dr. William Butler, vice president of Student Affairs Bouhafa said he understood Butler's position and had found the vice president helpful, but that he was upset because a member of “the lowest echelon of UM's administration” had called his organization an “anti-American association.”
Grads: get ready to face the ‘real world’
By KAREN PLAVE
Hurricane Stall Writer
After May 8, over 2,100 University of Miami graduates will enter “the real world” with degrees in hand and four years of college experience under their belts.
According to a study by Career Planning and Placement conducted
six years ago, almost half of UM’s graduates go on to graduate or professional school.
The other half face a job market that is competitive but not disheartening.
Demand in particular occupations usually shifts over a period of five or six years. Director of CP&P F. Thomas Sheeder said.
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Sheeder cites the teaching field as an example. A few years ago an abundant supply of candidates decreased demand for teachers. As a result, enrollment in education programs declined. Now a shortage has evolved, and teachers are in demand all over the country.
Another national trend is for corporations to hire arts and sciences majors, especially for positions Involving sales and management.
Sheeder said this hiring trend reflects a stable economy.
“What is happening as a result is a better recognition of what the arts and sciences major has to offer," Sheeder said. "That person is trained to deal with change, to be flexible, to communicate well.
and to work hard, all of which are important.”
If you open the newspaper and skim the classified ads, however, you'll see that jobs for engineers and accountants are in constant demand.
Although computer programmers were once similarly sought out, top companies like AT&T and IBM have not been recruiting as actively as in the past, Sheeder said.
According to the same CP&P study, about half of UM’sgradu-ates will begin their careers in Miami, either because they are from the area, or because the job market is better in South Florida than in most other places.
Miami's growing banking indus-
try can be expected’to put to work finance, economics and marketing majors, Sheeder said, just as opportunities in international trade are unique to this city.
Other areas of demand are transportation and construction, for which engineers are needed.
Companies and agencies all over are most likely to hire college graduates as a result of on-campus interviews, according to a Michigan State University Placement Services study.
Over 400 representatives from about 150 organizations visit our campus each year, Sheeder said. Interviewing takes place throughout the school year, so CP&P advises seniors to establish a file with them at the beginning of fall
semester, so as not to miss the interview they want.
The second most popular hiring practice involves cooperative education programs and internships. These are "tremendously valuable,” Sheeder said, because they allow students to find out If they are truly interested in their career
The schools of Business Administration and Communication,and the College of Engineering have internships for credit that are usually available for juniors and seniors.
CP&P offers a Student Earn and Learn program which is available to students of any year.
Besides the experience of a "real world” job, the SEAL program lets students earn money to help pay for school.
UM’s handprints to combat American hunger, poverty
‘This is just UM’s way of saying that we support “Hands Across America” and its goals.’
Kathy Spata, president of ‘Miami’s for Me and UM’
By DORCAS PEREZ
Hurricane Stall Writer
For $1, University of Miami students included a part of themselves in a historic event.
On Tuesday and Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.. the University Center Patio hosted a campaign to join "Hands Across America,” which is to be held May 25 nationwide.
Students, faculty and administrators could put their handprint, either orange or green on a long white banner for $1. The money wilt go toward helping to combat hunger and homelessness in the United States.
Since “Hands Across America." stretching from California to New York, does not include Miami en route, the city of Miami decided to include itself by sending banners of handprints to be presented In New York.
"Miami's for Me and UM." a subgroup of “Miami's for Me" which is linked with the Chamber of Commerce, issponsoring this event at UM. This non-profit group created to promote the university was begun last semester to represent “Miami's for Me” at UM.
The project was started as an attempt to raise money for the poor people of Miami. In an endeavor entitled “Miami Feeding Miami," the community tries to help itself.
"This is just UM's way of saying that we support ‘Hands Across America' and its goals," said Kathy Spata, president of "Miami's for Me and UM.”
Fifty cents of every dollar donated will go toward "Miami Feeding Miami," the local effort, and the other half will be given to "Hands Across America."
The first handprint on the Miami banner belongs to UM President Edward T. Foote, who initiated the event Tuesday. Jimmy Johnson, head football coach of the Hurricanes, put his handprint on the banner Wednesday morning.
The banner will be presented in
New York by the Miss USA Pageant contestants, according to Beti San Miguel, special events chairperson for “Miami's for Me and UM."
About 20 people were fed only soup, rolls and water in the Residential Colleges' cafeteria Tuesday night.
They were participating in the Meal for Concern, held to show concern tor world hunger.
Students on the meal plan who participated used their meal cards to get into the cafeteria, but the money for the meal, which is usually paid to Marriott, went to the program instead.
Rex Arts and Low Key Meats also sponsored the event.
The cross-country program, “Hands Across America." will try to raise $10 million by establishing a human chain of more than six million people.
For $10, anyone can buy a spot in the line-up.
For more information, call 1-800-USA-9000
"I think programs like this make students aware of the hunger problem because it's something you don’t see everyday," said freshman Leslie Bruce. “It is worth trying things like this."
Others expressed disappointment at the turnout.
"The students see the signs, but look at how many people are here," said junior Lisa Thurber. “It isn’t taken seriously."
—JUDY BATTISTA
Meal for Concern held to fight world hunger
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