Miami Hurricane, October 17, 1986

              Michener meets Miami
Renowned author James Michener will serve as a distinguished visiting professor in UM’s English department while working on his upcoming novel.
News — page 3
Jazzin’ it up
Jazz is undergoing a resurgence in popularity But is it really traditional jazz, or just a commercialized version?
Entertainment — page 6
Men’s basketball begins
Tito Horford and the rest of the UM basketball squad tipped off the season with their first open practice Wednesday.
Sports — page 8
Volume 64, Number 12
University of Miami
Friday, Oct. 17, 1986
New parking code to start soon
‘If we expect the number of paid tickets to decrease, there will be an increase in the decal price.’
Paul Dee, UM's general counsel.
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane News Editor
As soon as the new parking code can be printed for distribution to the University of Miami community, it will go into effect, according to Paul Dee, UM's general counsel.
The new code, which applies to all students, faculty, administrators and employees who use University parking, will be in effect only during the academic year, not during the summer or during vacation recesses.
Although the University is now operating under the former code. Dee said the part of the code concerning the free parking tickets will be honored since it has been publicized.
The new code changes the original proposal from three to two waivered tickets per academic year, which instigated much debate, Dee said.
"The original purpose |of three waivered ticketsj was to limit the number of appeals," Dee said.
Dee said however, that now the purpose to give warning tickets is so that the immediate feeling of getting a parking ticket is not a negative experience.
"I don't think the purpose is to intentionally allow people to break the rules," he said. He also said the new system was not established to make money for the University.
Dee called the two free tickets "an extended
warning period" added to the period at the beginning of the year in which warning tickets are given.
The free tickets will not count however, for parking in fire lanes, disabled spaces, on the grass or reserved spaces. In these cases, the car will most likely be towed.
On the receipt of the third outstanding ticket, the offender's car will be added to a list of cars to be towed.
Therefore, no one will be able to run up a total of more than five tickets that have not been paid before his car will be towed, Dee said.
Despite whether the first two tickets were right or wrong, they cannot be appealed, Dee said.
There has been no functioning appeals committee up to this point this year. However, an appeals board is being formed, according to Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs.
The board will consist of one student nominated by Jose Garcia, president of the Undergraduate Student Body Government, who will then be approved by Butler.
A representative for the faculty and administration will be selected in a similar way.
Dee said the board will develop its own rules as it goes along during the year.
Butler said he hopes and expects that the board will grant fewer appeals under the waiver system than were granted under the now-defunct Parking Appeals Committee.
But Garcia said that the number of appeals will be just as great as last year since it is human nature for people to appeal tickets because they do not want to pay them
Another committee to be discontinued is Parking Authority. Garcia said that, although the committee
did not have a lot of power, the students will be losing representation in parking decisions.
The exact price of the parking decals will be decided by the budget committee, since it sets all fees for the University
Dee said the price of the decal will be determined
by the question of income provided by parking fines
"If we expect the number of paid tickets to decrease, there will be an increase in the decal price," he said.
In addition, the code also adds a "gate" for faculty and administration so that they must pay their tickets or have their cars towed.
Dee said students have always had a gate — the fee document — to catch offenders and make them pay outstanding tickets But there has been no such method of forcing faculty and administration to pav parking tickets
Dee said one important addition to the code was that only one ticket can be given at one time.
For example, a car parked without a decal in a residential parking lot can not get tickets for both parking without a decal and parking in an unauthorized lot.
Also, the new code has eliminated such fines for parking on the painted line and front end parking, or parking in backwards.
In addition, the compact lots will no longer be restricted to compact cars.
TOM ARXf-TT/llumi une Staff
Dave Barry (left) speaks to a full crowd in the Meseons’ apartment at The Residential College on Wednesday. Senior Tim Dowling demonstrates the dress-for-success look of the executive.
Columnist offers business advice
By Jl'AN CARLOS COTO
Hurricane Munu^inft Iditnr
Judging from the way he kept the packed house at The Residential College of the University of Miami in stitches Wednesday night, humorist, satirist and syndicated columnist Dave Barry gets the same response in person as he docs in print.
The primary purpose of the lecture was to promote his new book, C/uw Your Way to the Top, a self-help book about job hunting written with the unmistakable style of the columnist, who wrote for The Miami Herald for six years — while living in Philadelphia.
However, Barry moved to Coral Gables several weeks ago (as a cover story in Tropic magazine warned) because, as he said, he wanted his six-year-old son "to grow up in a city where he could have a machine gun."
Mostly using material from his book, the author offered unusual advice on how to succeed in today’s corporate world, which, he said, used to “actually make products, but, now, we have Asia for that."
Barry noted that corporate employees have two tasks — to go to meetings and to take phone messages for people in meetings.
Unlike other self-help books in the same category, Barry stated that the goal of his book is to allow the reader to achieve so much power that “if |the reader)
makes a bonehead decision, it will cost thousands of people their jobs."
Barry suggested that university students only take courses with the word "business" in the title "If you have to take liberal arts," he added, "take something like Business Poetry."
Step one, he said, in clawing
your way to the top call» (or
reading the want ads and picking only the job descriptions with the most adjectives in them Once you've got the job, Barry said, don’t settle for being on the bottom. Get to the top. You want to get to the meetings because that's where the power is located There are many steps involved in getting a promotion, he said, and the process could take years. He advised typing up the announcement of your promotion yourself and tacking it right up on the office bulletin board
As final advice. Barry suggested that you be able to "give good lunch" and to keep your subordinates subordinate — by not allowing them to think
In a question-and-answer session after the talk, Barry noted that his favorite humorist is Robert Benchley. who is recognized as one of the great satirists of the 20th century.
Due to his ability, Benchley never had to bow to traditional writing structure.
"He broke all the rules," Barry said
Political activist ends college tour
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane Editor-in-chief
He autographs his books with a drawing of a tree behind bars, a symbol representing prisoners. The two words he lives by are truth and solidarity, he said
Ending his tour of American universities at the University of Miami, Armando Valladares, Cuban poel, author and ex-political prisoner, spoke to a crowd of about 600 Monday in the Ibis Cafeteria.
The lecture was sponsored by the University Lecture Series, I ejerucion de Estudiantes Cuba no-, and the Cuban-American National Foundation.
As part of his tour, Valladares visited several other universities, including Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia and Harvard where he debated a student who defended the Cuban revolution
In general, the author said the tudents he spoke to were very receptive to his ideas "Young people are sensitive, and no young person tolerates these violations.
As he received a standing ovation from a crowd comprised mostly of Cubans and Cuban-Americans, Valladares told the audience that he found it difficult to talk to those whom he did not need to convince that Castro was violating human rights.
Valladares went on to say that Cuba's image in Europe is deteriorating; he also expressed his opinion on human rights.
"I am opposed to a Communist being tortured anywhere," Valladares said
"I condemn the violations of human rights everywhere," he said and appealed to the audience
to do the same.
Valladares said that Cuba, at the moment, is the only country to institutionalize the violation of human rights.
He cited Article 52 of the Cuban constitution, which states that there is freedom of speech in Cuba but that it is only for the benefit of
socialism.
Article 58 of the same constitution also states, according to Valladares, that it is illegal to put religious faith before the government.
“Those who practice their religion are put in jail," he said
The poet also talked about those still in Castro's jails. Valladares received his freedom after F'rench President Francois Mitterand asked Castro to release him.
According to Valladares, there are prisoners who have been there for 27 or 28 years. Valladares himself was in jail for 22 years. These prisoners, he said, are still subject to constant beatings and psychological tortures.
"Castro," Valladares said, "stated that there has never been proof of torture."
Valladares said he offers his book and the stories of other released prisoners as evidence that torture does exist in Cuba
"Once Castro has disappeared and all the horrors are repeated, the world will be horrorized |as horrified | as they were with Stalin." he said
Valladeres answered questions posed by members of the audience
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ROBERT DUYOS/Hurricane Staff
Armando Valladares, former Cuban political pris oner.
Various faiths join in Christian group
By OLYMPIA ROSS
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
This is the second story of a series on (he part religion plays in the lives of University of Miami students.
"Our main goal is to help people develop in their relationship to Jesus Christ," said Paul Ting, president of the University of Miami Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
The group, which is affiliated with a national organization, is composed of students from a variety of faiths, all of which recognize Jesus as the Christ
As an interdenominational Christian group, several attitudes and beliefs are incorporated and discussed in the group Catholic. Presbyterian, Methodist. Baptist, Lutheran, Church of God and international students are all members of the Christian Fellowship
According to Ting, having such a diverse background "promotes a lot of discussion.”
The Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meets every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in University Center 2-15 for general announcements, worship and prayer A Christian personality addresses the group every Thursday
Five weekly bible studies are also sponsored by the Christian Fellowship These studies are held weeknights in students' rooms
In addition, two daily prayer meetings are held at 1 i a m and at noon in UC 245
"You’re free to be involved just
by showing up and being there," Ting said
He added that there is no membership fee, and membership is open to everyone in the UM
community.
"We want people to come and talk to us and to find out what we are all about." Ting said Ting said the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship is essentially a group of students interested In discipling, bible study and discussion The group does not meet at one specific site for worship serv ices, but members are encouraged to become involved in their own church.
"We don't intend to replace our members' churches." Ting said Ting said interested students can attend a meeting or look for the Christian Fellowship book table which appears in the breezeway at least every other week
At the book table, students may pick up literature on the organization or ask questions.
According to Ting, membership has risen steadily in the last few years, with membership peaking al around ten members
Last year, however, 25 people were involved with the Christian Fellowship This year, 40 people are already involved.
Ting attributed the increase to the change in students' perception of religion on campus "I think there's a general attitude on this campus, and other campuses as well, that people arc more open to religion." Ting said "People are more interested in w hat we have to say.”