Miami Hurricane, January 24, 1989

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Accent — 6
Bucks for books
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Opinion — 4
Twenty questions
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Sports — 8
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THE MIAMI
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Volume 66, Number 28
University of Miami
Tuesday, Jan. 24,1989
UM journalism prof one of last people to interview Bundy
By ASTRID ROMERO
and
SUZANNE TRUTIE
Ol the stall
A pool of reporters won this week’s lottery.
Not the $9 million in Florida's weekly Lotto, but the chance to have a final talk with serial killer Ted Bundy.
Bundy, 42, is scheduled to die today in the electric chair at Florida State Prison in Starke.
However, his rendezvous withdeath might have to wait. On Friday, Gov. Bob Martinez signed a seven-day death warrant that could delay Bundy’s execution as late as Jan. 30.
After 21 appeals, four death warrants and
Suite opens, tempers flare
Black greeks want room
11 years on death row, Bundy has, for the first time, given information about unsolved crimes in which he had been a suspect. In interviews with police investigators Saturday, Bundy admitted to 12 murders.
“I believe this (execution) will take place,” said Jon Nordheimer, the Knight Chair for this academic year in the University of Miami School of Communication. Nordheimer, The New York Times Miami and Caribbean bureau chief, Is the only journalist to have an interview with Bundy since he was convicted the second time. He is also among the small number of reporters from the Florida Press Association interviewing Bundy in his last hours.
In 1979, Bundy was sentenced to death for the slayings of two Florida State University Chi Omega sorority sisters. In 1980, he was sentenced for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake City, Fla. He is suspected of three dozen violent sex-related crimes in Washington, Utah and Colorado.
“Jack the Ripper terrorized London and the world. He only killed six women. Bundy supposedly killed 36... he is the equivalent of a modern ghost story,” said Nordheimer.
Bundy’s killing frenzy began the night of Jan. 4,1974. Mary Adams, 18, was battered in her bedroom in Seattle. She survived after several months in a coma. But the victims that followed, Linda Ann Healy, 21, Donna Gail
Manson, 19, Susan Rancourt, 18, Lisa Levy, 20, Margaret Bowman, 21, weren't as lucky. Their bodies had been brutally violated, bludgeoned orstrangled.
To many, Bundy, the law student with blue eyes, light brown hair, squared jaw and the all-American face, does not fit the stereotypical image of a serial killer.
“It’s amazing. If you saw him on the streets, you’d think he was decent,” said Marlene Ortega, 19, a Phi Sigma Sigma sorority sister.
“You have to be careful who you trust,” said Jill Riley, 21, Delta Gamma sister. “It’s a
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Bundy
By LISA FRANKEL
News Editor
The Federation of Black Greeks is upset that University of Miami administrators have promised the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity a suite in UM's panhellenic building, a suite FBG members say could have been theirs if they had known they needed to make a formal request.
Further exacerbating the situation is that Lora Davella, vice president of Student Government, lobbied administrators to vacate a suite in the building. Davella is a SAM little sister and is dating the president of the fraternity, Jay Brzezynski. FBG members are questioning Davel-la's possible conflict of interest.
By the end of this month, SAM members should be able to begin renovations on a panhellenic suite which formerly housed UM’s graphic arts office.
FBG President Sharony Andrews said that it has been common knowledge for some time that FBG has wanted to obtain a suite.
Acting Dean of Students William Sandler said that to his knowledge FBG has never applied formally to UM for a suite in the panhellinic building.
“The organization has not submitted a formal application for the suite,” Assistant Dean of Students Jerry Houston said. “Verbal overtures were made by members about needing space. These needs were communicated to Sandler, Butler |vice president for student affairs] and the the board of trustees.”
“I didn't know a formal application process existed," Andrews said. “No one ever said that.” Sandler said that the suites “should be given to women first,” but that top priority goes to those who applied first. He suggested that possibly FBG did not have the estimated $15,000 to $18,000 to purchase a suite.
“Lack of financial backing does not mean there is no interest," Andrews said. “I would hate to think we're being overlooked and not taken seriously because we don’t have the money.”
FBG is comprised of six organizations with a total of 31 members. The organization re-colonized under its current name in 1985, but has been active at UM since the mid-1970s when it was known as the National Panhellenic Council Incorporated.
Andrews stated that money could be generated from the national chapter of each of these organization, if the need arose. “Getting a suite is not out of our reach," she said.
Paul Dean, a member of Phi Beta Sigma, a black fraternity which is part of FBG, said that black greek organizations traditionally have less money than white organizations.
SAM President Jay Brzezynski stated that his fraternity had been attempting to secure space in the panhellenic building since December 1985, but that it was not until last semester that they had received actual confirmation. According to Sandler. SAM did
not colonize until January 7,1986 and in a letter at that time the fraternity stated that if space became available, they would want
it.
SAM acquired a loan to purchase its suite through its national chapter, Brzezynski said. A meeting will be held later this week to discuss the formalities of the purchase, he said.
Brzezynekl attributes much or
the success of the move to SG and its efforts on behalf of the fraternity.
“Having outside influence was a definite advantage,” Brzezynski said. "I think they're |SGJ listened to a little more than us.” Davella, who has been working on this project for several months, said that SAM was the most prepared for the move as far as the University was concerned.
“We (SGI want all of the panhellenic building open to greeks," Davella said.
Although Davella is a little sister of the fraternity, she said that affiliation and her current relationship with Brzezynski, do not constitute a conflict of interest.
“I may be a little sister, but I do not consider myself one of the most active ones," Davella said. “1 did not work for this issue so that the Sammies [the fraternity's nickname| would get in. only that the first person on the list would get in."
Davella states that the work she has done thus far on the Panhellenic project has been strictly
for SG.
“I didn’t start dating Jay until November,” Davella said. “All that started long after my initial push for the panhellenic building.”
Davella added that she felt there would only be a problem if she did not continue to work diligently on the project for other groups.
Andrews disagrees.
“If she |Davella| really thinks she did nothing wrong, she needs to think again, especially in a case where there could be blatant conflict of interest,” Andrews said.
According to Marc Oster, speaker of the Student Government Senate, members of Sigma Alpha Mu approached Davella and asked her to lobby the administration to move University offices out of the panhellenic building.
Oster said he did not think Dav-ella’s work was motivated by her association with the fraternity.
"SG has been working on it Igetting offices moved from the panhellenic buildingl much longer than Lora Davella has been associated with SG.”
SG President Freddie Stebbins said that Davella’s involvement with SAM helped the situation.
“She's also a Sammie little sister. Of course, that’s an incentive," Stebbins said. “I think that could do nothing but help the situation, especially for the Sammies.”
Presently, Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, which colonized at UM in September 1986, is next on the waiting list of formal applicants to receive space in the Panhellenic building.
PETER PAOUCEUMHurrtcane Staff
Patience is a virtue
University of Miami students wait in long lines outside the Ibis cafeteria last week for late registration.
Students: Osceola still reeks
By LIA FISH
Staff Writer
Students are still complaining Lake Osceola is unsightly and smelly almost one year after the University of Miami administration began working to improve the situation.
“When you walk past it, you have to go by really fast because the smell is so bad,” said Nahender Karthik, a freshman majoring in computer engineering. “It gives a bad impression of the campus."
Samples of the dark green and brown substance floating on the top of the water are still being analyzed to determine the cause of the overgrowth.
“It looked pretty grungy to me,” said Dr. Jeff Prince, associate professor of biology. "But I saw fish swimming around in it. I don't know how they did it."
Prince, who did not sample or analyze the water, said that based on observations made while walking over the bridge behind the Merrick Building, the substance is algae, although there are also some overgrown aquatic plants.
“I am not sure which is more abundant,’ said Prince, who will be analyzing samples this week. “I just remember a big mess.”
“I really didn’t see much algae anywhere," said Dr. Thomas Waite, a civil engineering professor who analyzed lake water samples
last month. "It’s all rooted plant material growing from the bottom of the lake.”
Other professors will also be taking water samples and making their own observations.
“A natural algae is coming from the sea through the canals," said Dennis Prado, assistant director of ARA, UM’s maintenance contractor. ARA has been periodically skimming the algae off of the water’s surface.
Over the winter break, dredging done on the bottom of the lake to remove heavy sediments makes the lake appear cloudy because of suspended material in the water, according to Waite.
"We’ve been waiting for the lake to settle down," he said.
Although researchers are not sure what is causing the overgrowth of the aquatic plants, Waite said rain could be causing fertilizer from recent landscaping to run off the grass into the water and spurring the growth.
Waite said two possible plans of action to reduce the growth are to check the hydraulics of the lake and improve the flow of water, or treat the lake with a chemical that will settle the suspended material.
Dr. Linda Farmer, coordinator of the marine science program and research associate professor of biology, has been taking water samples with a group of marine science majors.
“We’re just getting started,” said Farmer, who is using seven sampling sites in the lake and in the canals leading to it. She said they will be testing the water for nitrates, phosphates, oxygens, chlorophyll levels and water flow.
Victor Atherton, assistant vice president for facilities administration, said he will meet with a hydraulicist this week to see what can be done to improve the water flow.
“I think we need a more scientific approach,” Atherton said. “We need more information and a more detailed study of the lake.”
Meanwhile, students are still repulsed by the algae and aquatic plants.
"The lake is like a main attraction that you can sit by and maybe study,” said Karthik, who will be writing about the lake for an English assignment on necessary campus improvements.
"Since it smells so much, you can’t do anything near it.”
Karthik, who is an international student from Banglore, India, said there is a lake in his hometown that looks similar to Lake Osceola.
“Sewage was routed into the lake," Karthik said, adding that he thinks the lake's animal life will suffer because of the overgrowth.
“Thousands of fish were killed in the lake in India, and only catfish can survive in the water.”
UM donates extra food to homeless
By ROBERT S. MARSHALL
Assistant News Editor
Several University of Miami students combined their efforts over the winter break to help feed the homeless of Miami.
Members of Student Government and Circle K, a service organization, worked with University Dining Services to arrange for the donation of surplus food at the end of each semester to Camillus House, a shelter for the homeless in Miami.
According to Mike Mahaffey, director of resident dining at 960 Cafeteria, between $100 and $200 worth of perishable foods
and vegetables were given to the shelter.
An additional $100 worth was provided by a floor of residents in Hecht Residential College who won a $ 100 catered event in UDS’ pumpkin-carving contest last October. Instead of using the money for a pizza or ice cream party, Mahaffey said the students decided to donate the prize to Camillus House.
“It was a significant amount," Mahaffey said. “In the past, we’ve given it (the surplus food| away to students in the dorms, masters and employees. And there's no doubt about it that some did get thrown away. Now
it’s going to a good cause.”
C. Dean Furman, speaker pro tempore of the SG senate, said he first discussed the project with UDS over the summer.
“We originally examined the possibility of donating excess food at the end of each day to area food banks, but for liability reasons, they could not do it on a daily basis,” Furman said. "However, they did agree to donate food at the end of each semester. It’s a great way to show the community that UM cares.”
Julio Fernandez, president of Circle K and commuter north senator, coordinated members of his ernnn to transfer the food from
the University to Camillus House.
“We knew the food would go to good use. Food is always needed at Camillus House,” Fernandez said. "And if we didn’t take it, it would just get thrown away."
Brother Jack of Camillus House said although the shelter gets a good response from the community in terms of donations, there is always a need for food.
"Think of the homeless, and then think of the needs that must be met," he said. "We serve anywhere from 500 to 1,000 people a
day."
Mahaffey said he wants to continue the project in the future.
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