Miami Hurricane, February 28, 1986

              Soviet experts debate
Two American experts on the Soviet Union debate the long-range implications of Mikhail Gorbachev’s party program
News — page 3
Parties fire up Sundays
Progressive Promotions offers parties at Fire and Ice for South Florida groups
Entertainment — page 6
Varsity priest
Father Leo Armbrust shares his heart and hum< r with Univeristy of Miami athletes
Sports — page •
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Volume 63, Number 36
University of Miami
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Budget cuts phase out Testing Center
By PETER P. PERMUY
Hurricane Stali Writer
University of Miami students may soon have to go off campus to take group tests or to get help studying. The University administration has indicated that as of June 31, 1986, the Testing Center and the Study Skills Center, both part of the Guidance Center, will be phased out.
The Testing Center administers several group tests for University students and non-students. Among them are the prerequisite graduate school tests, including the Graduate Management Aptitude Test, the Graduate Record Examination, the Law School Admissions Test
and the Medical College Admissions Test.
The tests required of incoming freshmen are also administered by the Testing Center, such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the American College Test and the math and English placement tests. Individual tests such as personality
and aptitude tests for students worried about their vocational future will be maintained.
Dr. Roderick Gillis, director of the testing center, opposes the administration’s move.
"My opinion is that no university cannot not have a testing center,” he said. “The number of people involved is too large."
Faculty evaluations would also be in jeopardy, Gillis said. Yet, he said it is possible that the University budget committee, which proposed the move, will revert its decision.
Dr. William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, said the programs are being cut to save the University money. While large scale testing will be eliminated, other functions, such as faculty evaluations and the College Level Academic Standards Test, will be decentralized instead.
The Office of Financial Assistance will monitor the CLAST, which is required of all Florida resident University sophomores who receive state financial aid.
Oscar nominee lectures at UM
By KAREN PLAVE
Hurricane Stall Writer
An actress nominated for best supporting actress in The Color Purple described herself and her character as “survivors" during a
lecture held at the University of
MiamiTuesday.
Margaret Avery, who played
Shug Avery, a blues singer In The Color Purple, lectured to about 120 people in the Ibis Cafeteria. The lecture was sponsored by the University of Miami Lecture Series and the United Black Students.
The Oscar nominee recalled the day she quit her teaching job to go to Hollywood. She said it was the toughest decision in her life.
"You can always find reasons why you can’t make it,” she said. Survivors, she said, rely on their confidence and self-worth. She pleaded with the audience not to rely on drugs or alcohol but on themselves.
Growing up as an only child. Avery said she had to rely on herself for amusement and she wanted to entertain others as well.
She said she loved to watch Lucille Ball on television and mowed lawns for a quarter so she
could see Doris Day in the movies.
"But there weren’t any of ’us’ in them,” she said.
This lack of black actors to identify with left her with "always the burning desire but never the belief that I could do it.” always cast as a maid. Years later
the only television per*« «he
received were of hookers or wives of thieves.
Avery said there are still few images of blacks in films. But she pointed out that black male actors such as Louis Gossett Jr. and Eddie Murphy receive parts that "don’t have to be black” more often than black women.
She ended with a dramatic reading of a poem about the destructive nature of drugs.
When asked why certain parts of the book The Color Purple were not included in the movie, she said that director Steven Spielberg cut “with tears in his eyes."
A minister in the audience thanked her for playing a character that led a minister, Shug’s father, portrayed by John Patton Jr., closer to God.
When he told Avery he and his family prayed for her, she had tears in her eyes.
English majors ‘better prepared’ to argue cases
By DEBORAH KIRK
Hurricane Staff Writer
English majors are usually better prepared to argue a good case, said F. Lee Bailey, a prominent criminal defense lawyer, at a lecture Tuesday at the University of Miami School of Law as he spoke on the quality of attorneys today.
In his speech "Training for Trial Lawyers," Bailey said, "the greatest shortcoming of litigators is their inablity to handle the king’s English."
He said, as undergraduates, too many potential law students get steered into majors that have
The CLAST is administered by the State of Florida Department of Education. “It’s the opinion of the budget committee and this office that these functions can be handled by other areas of the University.”
The faculty evaluations will be handled by the deans of the different schools.
Also slated for termination is the Study Skills Center. Dr. Kenneth Lingswiler, the program's director, said he and his colleagues at the Guidance Center were “totally shocked” upon hearing of the program cuts.
The Study Skills Center provides individualized and group
instruction to students. Their main services are study skills strategy and speed reading. There are four classes of each per semester and individualized help as well.
Lingswiler emphasized that the study skills program involves instruction for "good students who want to hone up on study skills and strategy," besides remedial instruction. Students pay for it with the Guidance Center fee.
"Student response [to the program] has been excellent,” Lingswiler said. Last year, a total of 233 students of 25 different majors, including 28 international students, 22 football players and 12 graduate students participated in the study skills program.
Business, engineering ai .1 i ing majors, along with th have yet to declare a the largest groups participa'
Lingswiler was partit ula-: . cerned about the lack of services on campus "Student« < no longer have a *upp>-t where they can go for •.tmlv t el he said.
Like Gillis, Lingswiler h, that the administration will verse its decision, though not know what the prosp., t, such a change would students and the faculty aware of what Is happe said, adding that only from them is needed for ent outcome.
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Law exam dates upset students
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Actress Margaret Avery of The Color Purple, lectured to about 120 people at the Ibis Cafeteria Tuesday
By JOAN KITE
Hurricane Staff Writer
One law student said the University of Miami School of Law’s exam schedule is like an outdated law that should be stricken from the books.
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Aside from social conflicts, students also claim they are at a disadvantage because they graduate too late to get into the job market.
"Other law schools get out early,” said Chris Marinello, editor of the law school newspaper. Res Ipsa Loquitur.“They have a jump on us getting jobs in the spring .”
As editor, Marinello has both heard and printed complaints from students about the exam schedule. The Student Bar Association doesn’t have the influence over the people who have the power to change the policy. Marinello said.
Associate Dean Dennis Lynch, who handles exam scheduling, could not be reached for comment.
Andy Cotzin, an associate lawyer in Joel Hirschorn's office,
graduated from UM five Mr-after transferring from Wakt est in North Carolina ‘Tve always had a ' li the way they |UM| ran lie Cotzin said. "It ruins Chris break."
Cotzin said law students warranted in their COII employment.
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He said he received little ut standing from his prof, he missed school for six wn . work on a case in the .Hu; Court.
Jeremy Paul, law prof- r exams after Christmas are n. cial especially for first-w . dents who need thi hreae absorb class material
“Law school is hard work said. “A lot of new inform ii coming in. Students are svs imi by Christmas break
"Studies should train f Paul said. "The job market ■ ■ second "
Darlene Schweitzer, a fosi student, agreed
"At first I hated It.” Srhw» said “But then I was glad I the extra two weeks to siu.i
nothing to do with helping them prepare for litigation. As a result, half of any incoming class at law school, that plans to go into litigation, do not finish.
“ A lot of people just can’t get over the hump,” Bailey said.
He stressed the importance of trial lawyers' thorough preparation before a case.
“It [preparation! gives you the leg up on your adversary,” he said.
The worst thing to do, Bailey said, is for a lawyer to have his head buried in pages of written material while presenting a case.
“You must have a working knowledge of that which you are
USBG votes to implement 12-point grading policy
By OLYMPIA ROSS
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Body Government Senate passed a resolution by a vote of 14-6 Wednesday, encouraging the administration and Faculty Senate to implement a 12-point A-plus grading policy.
The proposed policy provides for an A-plus option awarding 4.3 quality points for maximum performance in a class.
The resolution was created in an effort to protect students with higher grade point averages whose average may be lowered with only an A/A-minus option as originally proposed.
Also passed in Wednesday’s meeting. 18-0, was a bill establishing a USBG ombudsman position. The ombudsman will serve as an intermediary for conflicts arising between students and faculty members or the administration.
A bill to provide a “Gripeline on
Campus” service for i ty was passed by urut The bill calls for the . USBG funds to finam* which intends to it more accessible to i campus.
The estimated cost peline” service is |8 tially consists of the 12 boxes in strategic campus. The boxes wi collect student suggi plaints and concerns
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Faculty Senate Council approves honor code
By DEBORAH KIRK
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate Council and the University Honor Code Committee reached an agreement on the controversial honor code Monday.
A faculty committee had been appointed by Senate Chairperson John Knoblock to modify the student-proposed honor code, and after minor changes had been made, the committee gave its report to the Council.
UHCC representatives were satisfied with the final product.
According to Elissa Lieberman. originator of the honor code and an Undergraduate Student Body Government 'vnator. “Every siu-
dent-proposed principle was accepted."
Minor modifications had been made concerning the basic language and legal specifications of the code, she said.
“The idea is identical," Lieberman said about the revised code’s relationship to the original draft.
Alex Tachmes, USBG chief of staff, said that the Senate Council agreed to the University-wide, student-run honor code system.
“Monday was a big success. Everything went well," said Tachmes about the meeting with the Senate Council. Tachmes said the difference with the honor code now is "how it is perceived by the Fact ty Senate."
Both Lieberman and Tachmes are hopeful the Faculty Senate will greet the finalized draft of the code favorably, especially since the Senate Council has agreed to its terms.
The next step for the honor code, Tachmes said, will be its widespread circulation among senators. On March 10, the full Faculty Senate will vote on the honor code.
On March 11 and 12, the student body will have the chance to vote on the honor code which has been placed on referendum.
Tachmes said that the honor code should be instituted by next fall if everything goes well with facqiEy and students.
President pinned
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote (right) was pinnt\ Sigma Pi by Maverick Scott (center), director of Public Affairs for .ft