Miami Hurricane, February 02, 1988

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Looking out for No. 1
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Sports — page 10
Volume 65, Number 30
University of Miami
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
Football team
Players travel to Washington, D.C.
By MARA DONAHOE
News Editor
After a perfect season, an Orange Bowl victory and a ticker tape parade, meeting the president of the United States was the icing on the cake for the Miami Hurricane football team.
The national champions were welcomed to the White House Friday by none other than President Ronald Reagan.
The 35 team members and 10 coaches presented Reagan with a University of Miami crystal seal, a white jersey with his name on it and a football autographed by the players.
lie congratulated them for their efforts on the field, especially fullback Melvin Bratton, and kicker Greg Cox for his 56-yard field goal.
“If I could just kick some of the spending bills coming across my desk, I would set a few field goal records myself," Reagan said.
Reagan said he had played football in his college years, yet he said he was always outsized. "I had 14 tackles in four years No, I'm sure it was at least 16."
Reagan shook hands with all the players in the Fast Room of the White House. Then, holding his jersey and football, he looked around for his crystal
The president turned to UM President Fdward T. Foote II and asked "Where’s my crystal?"
Foote quickly retreived it from an uudience member who he had given it to for safe keeping.
As Reagan was leaving, someone asked him if he thought the Hurricanes would do it all again next year.
“I just shook hands with them and based on that I think there’s a darn good chance,” he said
Foote was the first one to speak from UM and introduce the team to the President. “They’re the big ones," he said He then introduced Coach Jimmy Johnson.
“This has to be UM's finest honor on and off the field," Johnson said.
Athletic Director Sam Jankovich said the team deserved the honor for their outstanding job and meeting the president will help the University’s image.
“We need to honor those who do an outstanding job," Jankovich said. “It’s enough to make us all proud.”
“The whole country honors you today,” Reagan said.
The president said there was some confusion at the White House when he told the staff the Hurricanes were coming for a visit.
“I was not talking about a tropical storm,” he said. "Some of the White House staff ordered emergency reserves of jelly beans."
Reagan not only congratulated the Hurricanes but the University of Oklahoma Sooners as well.
“Knute Rockne once told his team, 'It’s easier to be a good loser than a great winner.' ”
Bratton jokingly told Reagan he needed to hold the autographed football a little tighter while corner back Tolbert Bain told the President to give his dog Rex a pat for him.
Dante Fascell, a UM alumnus and Florida State Representative, took the team on a tour of the Capitol before proceeding to the White House.
Fascell compared the government to a football team.
"If we had your ability in politics the world would be a better place," Fascell said. “But we are not a team. It’s tougher when you don’t have the determination for a single purpose a football team does. The coaches molded an effective instrument like the government.”
Full safety Bennie Blades was impressed with the Capitol. “I'm amazed; it’s so nice,” he said. “I wouldn’t have missed it.”
Offensive lineman Bobby Garcia said, "The closer the team is to Washington and a respectable place, it clears up the image a little bit." He added it was "good to see the snow.”
meets President Reagan
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The team watches as President Ronald Reagan, center, accepts a crystal seal and signed football from coach Jimmy Johnson, left, and Athletic Director Sam Jankovich.
Cox said it was a once in a lifetime experience.
"It’s a good place to make a decision whether to be a democrat or a republican,” he said while touring the Capitol.
Foote said the trip had a special
meaning for him because he used to live and work in the city.
“It’s really a coming home for me," he said.
At a luncheon, Gov. Bob Graham was allowed to speak, despite being a University of Florida
Gator.
“Not many people get to say I am the absolute best in what I have set out to do," Graham said of the team's efforts.
Graham said excellence is something which has many factors and
the victoty on the field will affect other areas of the University. “Each area influences the other," he said.
Foote said not only Floridians
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President Emeritus Henry King Stanford, left, displays a dedication plaque as Janies McLamore, chairman of UM’s Board of Trustees, watches.
Stanford College dedicated
Dorm officially named after former UM president
By SHERI LANGERMAN
Stall Writer
The University of Miami’s second residential college is now officially named alter President Emeritus Henry King Stanford in commemoration of his 20 years of service to the University.
Stanford was UM’s third president, serving his term from 1962 to 1981
The Residential College was unofficially renamed the Henry King Stanford Residential College last semester. The formal dedication ceremony was held in the 960 Cafeteria at 4 pm. Thursday.
"This residential college, which you so kindly named after me, Is going to be of
service to many generations of men and women," Stanford said.
He said he was pleased to receive the honor, and he kept the audience laughing with many jokes.
A series of speeches lauding Stanford were delivered by faculty, administrators, and students.
Mike Abrams, president of UM’s student government for the 1968-69 school year, was one of the many speakers. He is now a legislator in the Florida House of Representatives.
He recalled the "tumultuous times when UM was known as the No. 1 party school,” and how President Stanford “saw the winds of change, and maximized the potential for positive action.”
John Knoblock, chairman of the Faculty Senate, explained how Stanford “met every challenge to the credit of the University,” transforming UM’s image from Suntan U to a “highly respectable academic institution."
"I attribute most of my maturity over the past three and a half years to living in this residential college," said resident Geraldine Bianco in her speech.
UM President F.dward T. F’oote II, said Stanford "never forgot the students; he loved them in a special way.”
SRC Resident Coordinator Tammy Jones said, "It is an honor to have someone who cares so much about students involved in the college."

Registrar leaves position
Administrator to become consultant to provost
By MARA DONAHOE
News Editor
Sidney Weisburd has retired from his position as registrar at the University of Miami and will now be a special consultant to Provost Luis Glaser.
Dr. Thompson Biggers, master of Pearson Residential College, has been named associate dean of enrollment. He will now assume some of the duties for which the registrar was responsible.
Weisburd has been with the University for 23 years. He is currently serving as vice mayor of Miami Beach.
"I feel good about the decision to leave," Weisburd said. I have good memories of the University. The students were our customers.”
The retirement became effective Friday.
Weisburd said because of the new computerized registration the University is in a “transition period" and the role of the registrar is changing.
“Registration is now assuming a clerical function,” he said. He added that “anything new has to be tried and tested.”
Glaser said Weisburd has a large amount of expertise on registration and his retirement is allowing the University to “take a careful look at how we do things.”
Glaser described the new registration process as "consolidating a number of things" and "restructuring the system."
Weisburd said Biggers will be in charge of all' registration operations.
Weisburd is a UM alumnus and a member of Iron Arrow.
Journalism prof to explore ethics
Knight Chair also to moderate conference session
By BARBRA SPAI.TF.N
Associate Nows Editor
The School of Communication’s first Distinguished Knight Chair Dr. John Merrill will speak at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the master's apartment of Eaton Residential College on the subject of journalistic ethics. He will also be a moderator at the school's lntercul-tural Conference.
Merrill is currently professor of journalism and philosophy at Louisiana State University and professor of journalism emeritus at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
He has authored 16 books, published over 100 articles, lectured on five continents and received numerous awards and honors for his teaching and research.
Merrill specializes in international communication, journalistic ethics, semantics and communication, propaganda analysis and comparative press systems.
Merrill will moderate a session on "Latin America in the news," tomorroow at the Intercultural Conference. The conference will be held tomorrow through Friday at the James L. Knight Convention Center.
Over 75 media professors and scholars from the United States. Canada, Puerto Rico and Peru will convene in Miami to discuss the role of international media.
Dr. Michael Salwen said students and faculty can attend the lectures if they are interested; however, most of the talks will be scholarly. "Some sessions are more technical," ho said.
The Knight Chair is set up to bring a prominent professor to the University, with the salary paid from the interest of a $1 million
Flooding in several rooms of the first floors of the Stanford Residential College Saturday night was the result of air conditioner pipes bursting.
Alberto Real, resident assistant of the first floor of Walsh Tower, said he returned to his room at 11:30 p.m. that night to find one of his closets soaked.
"My clothes got ruined,” Real said. "The water’s slowly moving on to the carpet and no mops are available.”
The water from the burst pipes collected above the tiles in the closet ceiling and eventually its weight broke the tiles. Real said that maintenance fixed the pipes but ARA services did not come to dry the rooms.
Resident Chris Schafer heard the dripping earlier in the evening
endowment. The interest is approximately $50,000 per year.
Instead of bringing in one new professor, the School of Communication plans to have several visiting professors throughout the year. The money saved this way will be added to the original endowment to increase the interest on the capital in the future.
and fixed his pipes. “I’ve lived here three years and it happens regularly," Schafer said
Real estimated that five rooms on his floor were damaged and that the closets of Lori and Barry Blum, the associate masters, also got drenched.
George Shoffner, director of Residence Halls, said that whether the students will be compensated depends on the cause of the problem and the extent of the damage.
He also said the students may be compensated if the damage was the result of worker negligence, and may not be if the water came from malfunctioning equipment.
Shoffner said maintenance was trying to fix the problem with the pipes.
—BARBRA SPALTF.N
Water floods rooms
Items in closets ruined as pipes burst
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