Miami Hurricane, April 22, 1986

              One more time
The UM Board of Trustees has extended student input on the board to continue for another year
News — page 3
Moonlighting
UM professor and novelist Evelyn Wilde Mayerson is moonlighting at the Grove Playhouse
Entertainment — page 6
Golfers battle for NCAA bid
The 14th-ranked UM men’s golf team will fight for a spot in the NCAA finals this weekend in Georgia
Sports — page 9
Students, prof argue about contra policy
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
One of the few things five University of Miami students and one faculty member agreed about at a forum on U.S. involvement in Nicaragua, was that the United States government has to make some sort of substantial commitment if it wants to end • the stalemate in U.S.-Nicaragua relations.
The commitment should be to give more support to contra forces operating out of Honduras, said the three students supporting U.S. policy.
No, said two students and one professor who opposed current U.S. policy, America should lessen Its involvement and “respect the rights and wishes of the Nicaraguan people.”
The forum, sponsored by UM’s Model United Nations Club, was held Thursday night in UM’s International Lounge.
Supporters of American policy on Nicaragua were Tom McCuin, of UM's The Miami Tribune; Tony Fins, opinion editor of The Miami
Hurricane; and Bryan Dawson of the UN club.
Critics of U.S. policy were Bill Barzee, an Undergraduate Student Body Government Arts and Sciences senator; Julian Brew, member of UM’s Young Democrats; and Dr. Benjamin Webb, of UM’s Foreign Language Department.
In supporting current policy, McCuin claimed arms were flowing to Nicaragua via Libya and the Soviet Union.
“I am very much deeply offended by people who come to this country and take jobs away from Americans,” McCuin said about economic (as opposed to political) refugees.
Fins warned that if economic refugees from Nicaragua come to America they will ultimately cost the United States more money than the proposed U.S. aid to the contras.
"(The $100 million President Ronald Reagan wants to give the contras) is nothing," Fins said, “compared to what the U.S. will pay if the Sandinistas become entrenched.”
He said more money will have to be spent in the future if the United States becomes Involved in open war with the Sandinistas or if masses of Nicaraguans refuge to America as Cubans did in the early 1960s and in the Mariel boat lift of 1980.
Dawson said, “we cannot afford to close our eyes to what the true colors of the Sandinista regime are."
The true colors of the Sandinista regime are not as bad as the United States portrays them to be, UM opponents of American policy maintained.
Nicaragua does not pose a threat to U.S. security. Barzee said.
"Has Cuba invaded Key West?” he asked.
He maintained America, not Nicaragua, is destroying stability in Central America because it supports contra bases in Honduras.
Brew said one problem is that the United States is not supporting the peace process ”100 percent."
Elections held in Nicaragua in 1984 were not, as American officials said, a ‘‘Soviet-style sham," Brew said.
BETH KEISERAIurricane Staff
Bill Barzee, at podium, addresses problems with the United States’ Nicaraguan policy as (from left) Tom McCuin, Tony Fins, Bryan Dawson, Dr. Bejamin Webb and Julian Brew look on
He said the 300 observers of the elections, including two U.S. congressmen and members of Britain’s Conservative party, found that the elections were fair and above board.
Brew also said that contras, not Sandinistas, are the people violating human rights in Nicaragua.
Observance of human rights cannot be expected to happen In Nicaragua at this time, Webb said.
"Let's not use these magnificant terms like ’freedom’ when they mean absolutely nothing in a country like Nicaragua," Webb said.
“This is like deja vu to me." Webb said. “I am experiencing now what I experienced 20 years ago as an opponent of Viet Nam ... people, I'm not going to the next war, you are.”
Scott Swafford, president of the UN club, said the debate tried "to
allow students to voice their opinions."
He said the club was planning to hold three or four similar events next year and might have a son of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim speak at UM April 30 about his father’s campaign for president of Austria.
Political opponents of the elder Waldheim claim he was an active Nazi during World War It.
Pre-law service set up
. Bv DEBBIE MORGAN
Hurricane News Editor
A new pre-law advising service is being set up by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Student Academic Services division to prepare University of Miami students for law school.
The service Includes direct student advising andinformation sheets to help schedule classes in planning for law school, as well as American Bar Association catalogues, financial aid forms and Law School Admission Test packets.
I-ewis said the service will help
students understand what is expected of them in order to go to law school. She added that a typical myth of having a certain major in order to go to law school is false.
She said the most important factors are the students' grade point average and LSAT scores. Recommendations and school activities are also important.
Since there is no way for administrators to know who is a pre-law student, Lewis said that
students who are pre-law should come into the office to sign up so the service can start a file on each student.
She also said seniors who are pre-law should come and sign up at the office as being pre-law students so that the service will he able to follow them through law school.	.	.	....
This way. she said, they will be able to advise freshmen better from previous experiences as far as what classes to take, and at what law schools UM graduates do best.
JIM KOBIDOLX/Hurricane Staff
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In addition, programs and workshops dealing with the prof«*-sion will be sponsored by the service.
"The service enables students to prepare for law school and to plan Kr the future." said Elisah Lewis assistant coordinator of Pre-Legal
St Although located in the College of Arts and Sciences, all studcn** are able to take advantage of the service, according to Lewis^
“If a student is serious in law, he must start planning when he s a freshman." she said.	.. .
About a year ago, the Under graduate Student Body Government introduced bills to the Senate to start a new pre-law advising
SC"We |USBG| began pushing hard for apre-Uw service like the pre-med students have because we saw how benefitial it 'f th<’r"’’i. said Scott Kornspan. USBG presi
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service, and Ron Newman, associate professor of English deserve all the credit for forming the new service.
Student groups meet to create new council
By SATISH ERAI.Y
Hurricane Staff Writer
Representatives from four student governments met Sunday in an effort to create a joint council that would present a unified front to the administration on their common problems.
The Undergraduate Student Body Government. Graduate Students Association, Medical Students Council and The Student Bar Association were represented at the meeting.
According to some of the student leaders at the meeting, the administration has pursued a divide and conquer” policy by always meeting separately with the various student governments and providing them with information selectively.
"You take whatever they want to feed you.” said Bob Gerhardt, GSA parlimentarian. “This way |with a joint council| we can pool our information."
Among the issues raised at the
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Final exams, anxiety begin in a week
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Hurricane Staff Writer
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Lisa°Ferdmand, 20, a jazz vocal ajor, said she learned to stuay
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few days, she said she U sit down i a cram review session.
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• Schedule your priorities. No issue or class should absorb unequal time relative to its importance to you. On your calendar, mark the time reserved to review and take each test. Schedule papers, projects, interviews, problems and course reading to be completed by this Monday.
•	Identify what is most important in the course. The course syllabus identifies objectives and focus (as does your text and class notes). Turn these into questions.
•	Predict questions. Listen in class for "exam alerts." Predict the final exam from prior exams in your course. Furthermore, write answers to your predicted ques-
"°*S Review to understand. For
example, define a concept, identify what it is, what is it like and some examples. Don’t memorize Instead try to understand the rationale behind the rules.
•	Remember what you review. Avoid mere repetition; rather, look for information from different angles. Study when you are most alert. Rearrange and organize Information while memorizing so you can retrieve it during 8 ,e?‘
•	Prepare to think during
^Aside from these tips, take care of your health. Rogers said_
This includes eating right and exercising daily Exercise is a great wav to burn off tension and stress so familiar at exam time, he said, and make sure you get
en°fUa!l elsePfalls, any student can opt to take the approach adopted by Stephanie Winston, 20, a
freshman majoring in.{VSjjfiSSn
"I don’t study at all. Winston said “1 look up enough terms so that I don’t fail. Grades don t concern me."
BETH KFISER/Humcanf Staff
The questions of life
Rill Avres New York radio personality, at a deceptionin the Mescons apartment in the Residential College Thursday, illustrates the Jour questions he is most often asked during The Bill Ayres Show ____________________________________________
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