Miami Hurricane, March 31, 1989

              Volum« 66, Number 44
University of Miami
Friday, March 31,1989
Troy Bell elected SG president
DAVE GRAFF/Stati Photographs
Junior John Loper casts his ballot during the Student Government elections Wednesday in the Whitten University Center Breezeway.
Registration office opens
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By ROBERT S. MARSHALL
Associate News Editor
Pending official confirmation, Troy Bell will be the next University of Miami Student Government president.
After a number of weeks of campaigning, the Liberty candidate emerged the victor over the Impact candidate, C. Dean Furman. Bell carried 58 percent of 919 votes.
Bell's vice president and treasurer will be Impact candidates Roxanne Greitz and Steve Fox, who ran unopposed.
"All the work paid off. Now my concentration will shift towards what the first thing up is. The first step is the appointed positions. I need to find the most capable people for the jobs," Bell said.
Bell also commented on his vice president and treasurer. “I think very highly of Steve Fox, and Roxanne is a capable person.”
Bell’s platform calls for a number of advances in getting students involved with SG. In addition, he proposes working on campus security, calling for publication of the University budget and making SG a more effective
force in the University.
Bell also proposed that students receive letters with photographs of their respective SG senators to make them, “more easily accessa-ble."
Furman commented, “The Liberty ticket is all talk and no action and I’m disappointed for the student body that he |Bell| won."
Furman also said he was disappointed in the Miami Hurricane’s endorsement of “a candidate that has virtually no accomplishments in the senate."
However, at the time of press. Bell’s office was not officially established. Both tickets have other violations which are pending further investigation by UM’s elections commission. If any of the pending campaign iolations rule against Bell's ticket, Furman will win by default.
Neither ticket ran a completely untarnished campaign. Both were assessed points for various violations of election rules by the commission.
At presstime, the Impact ticket had received 17 points for campaigning violations and the Liberty ticket had received 19 points for a string of violations including late applications and forgery
of signatures. Twenty points would automatically disqualify the ticket. Throughout the campaign. a total of 26 violations were filed.
Turnout for the election was low. Only 919 out of 8,263 undergraduates voted, accounting for 11.1 percent of the students. Last year, 22.5 percent of the students voted in the spring elections.
“It was really pitiful," said Election Commission Chairperson Laura Adams. "I would hope the students would care a little more.”
Most students contacted seemed unaware or apathetic to the elections.
“It doesn't really matter who wins; I don't think they [SG| will ever be able to get anything done anyway," said Joe Decker, a junior majoring in engineering. Decker's comments reflected the basic sentiment of those contacted.
Bell spoke on the campaign as a whole;
“A lot of time was wasted on petty bickering. I think a lot more of the issues could have been ad-
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By OLYMPIA ROSS
Staff Writer
The process of registering for .'lasses can often be more demanding than completing them — long lines and never enough idvice when it’s really needed.
To combat this frustration, the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Communication have established their own registration center.
The new office, which is being completed this week, is Merrick 107. The facility will open April
3.
Construction workers are still busy finishing the final touches on the new annex, but administrators are confident the center will open on schedule and be ready to register students on Monday.
“Everything seems to be mov-
Student attacked by youth
A University of Miami student was attacked Monday morning at 9 a.m. in the parking lot between UM’s post office and the Rathskeller, according to a UM police report. Police have not released the woman’s name.
The 19-year-old student was walk-ng to class when she heard someone say, “Hey, you,” from behind a tree. When she turned around, a Latin male, 5’8”, 15 to 16 years-old with a muscular build, pulled her toward the tree and tried to cut her face with a piece of broken glass.
The girl was wearing a pair of large glasses that covered most of her face, but the attacker still cut her on the forehead.
The assailant said, “I'll hurt you more if you pull away,” and started to tug at the gold chains around the woman’s neck, the report said.
Three or four male students passing by saw the two struggling and tried to help the victim. The attacker told the woman, “If you tell police or anybody else, I'll hurt you again,” and ran away.
One of the male students ran after the attacker, but lost him. The girl ran away when other students tried to help her. She called UM police later
that day.
She does not know the men who tried to help her, police say.
UM police are asking anyone with information to contact Detective Bart Pesa at UM Public Safety, 284-6666.
— ROBERT S. MARSHALL
Ing along on time,” said Karen Pringle, staff assistant to the senior advisor at the College of Arts
and Sciences.
Pringle said the new registration center “will eliminate some of the traffic that comes in the administration office here” from students seeking an appointment with advisors.
To offset this particular problem, the college has hired Grace Herring-Hinds, coordinator of sophomore advising and special projects, who will work out of the registration center.
Students will be better accommodated by the new office, said Katharine Thompson, manager of the division of registration for the Office of Enrollment. She said the new office — which will be equipped with six computer terminals — will eliminate long lines and provide better service
for the students.
The office will also handle all drop/add requests during the
year and provide full-time academic counseling.
The new registration center is only open for students in either the College of Arts and Sciences or the School of Communication. But students from those schools may still opt to visit the Registration Office located across from the Rathskeller in University Center 121 A.
Although the new registration center isn’t open yet, students are already excited about the addition.
Gladis Kersaint, a junior majoring in math, is eager to sample the service at the center. She said it will make things more accessible and shorten lines. "I love it," she added.
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Registration for fall 1989
begins at 10 a.m. Monday Studanta attould fiava rm-cmivmei an appointment card with the time and place of registration. Students may register at any time after the date and time listed on the card. Duplicate cards are available from the registration office across from the Rathskeller in Whitten University Center 121A.
Students may choose to register at either the assigned center or at the registration office.
Students must have a completed course request form signed by their faculty advisor and their appointment cards. Registration offices will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration ends April 14.
By SHERI LANGERMAN
Copy Orator
Outstanding graduating senior* and other high-achieving University of Miami undergraduates were honored yesterday during
the Honors Day Convocation held at Gusman Concert Hall.
Dr. John Fitzgerald, director of honors and privileged studies, presented the awards for the 1988-1989 Literary Competition.
Nancy San Martin, a junior majoring in math and English, won a first-place prize for her essay discussing the movement for the English-only Amendment in Florida and how it discriminates against Hispanics on the basis of language.
“I won overall first place last year, so I was very excited to win again. My English advisor, Dr. Mihoko Suzuki, has helped me with my writing by being very supportive of me,” San Martin said.
Peter Christiaans, a junior psy-
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Several outstanding students received more than one award. Kevin Kinney, majoring In marine science and biology, won the marine science and biology awards, as well as the award from Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society.
Kinney said he attributes part of his success to the influence of Drs. Kathleen Sullivan and Gil Voss, who showed him the importance of working toward goals.
“It’s good that students can be recognized individually, especially in the College of Arts and Sciences where there are so many people,’ Kinney said.
Kinney advises students who want to succeed to “always keep clear goals In your mind and
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Staff Writer
In an announcement which has startled some of the University of Miami community, President Edward T. Foote II said yesterday he is without a brain.
“Aliens ate it,” said the silver-haired Foote.
Foote spoke to several student and faculty leaders yesterday afternoon in his office on the second floor of the Ashe Building.
The president said he cannot remember when exactly the aliens de-brained him, but he believes the attack occurred after a board of trustees reception at his Old Cutler Road mansion sometime last year.
“The last thing I remember clearly is rifling through I Trustee | Florence Hecht’s wallet,” Foote said. “I was shocked and amazed. I would like to say more but can think of nothing to say.”
Administrators said they have no plans to depose Foote.
“He still looks good,” said James McLamore, chairman of UM's board of trustees. “Personally, I haven’t noticed much of a difference. I'm happy as long as the donations keep rolling
In.”
Students were less charitable.
“I’m outraged,” said lame-duck Student Government President Fred-
die Stebbins. “This is just one more example of where administrators don't listen to students. Students want a president with a brain.
“Now, who’s going to address SG’s ‘Coffee with the President’? Who’s going to veto all our bills? Who’s going to write my recommendation to law school?”
Roadrunner Commuter Student Organization President Carolyn Salisbury said Foote’s announcement did not suprise her.
“I was outside Foote’s office two day’s ago and heard him dicussing something with McLemore. Foote's voice was slurred. I thought he had been to the Rathskeller.
“Anyway, I knelt down on the floor to tie my shoes, and my ear happened to be next to the ventilation vent in Foote’s door. He and McLamore talked for half an hour.”
Where the aliens were from Is not known.
Tracking devices from the United States Air Force generally don’t pick up brainsuckers, said Air Force Col. Armando Hurricane.
However, Hurricane said a strange message came across Air Force tracking computers in October. The message, he said; “We came, we saw, we ate finger food. Furthermore HAPPY APRIL FOOLS.”
“We don’t know what it means,” Hurricane said.
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