Miami Hurricane, October 17, 1989

              Boy wonder
Steven Baccus, a UM graduate, is 20 years old and a practicing lawyer.
News- page 2
Down and dirty
Four UM students battle Notre Dame, not on the gridiron, but with chocolate and rubber chickens.
Accent - page 8
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Gino beats out Bemic
Second-string quarterback Gino Torretta enters the history books and the race for Craig Erickson’s job.
Sports-page 10
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UM claims antics disrupt games
Hy TOM B. HIGGINS
Staff Writer
While the so-called Miami Fanatic is a big fan of Hurricane sports, the University of Miami athletic department is no fan of the fanatic.
The Miami Fanatic is the character who attends all UM home football games with green and orange hair, clad in shoulder pads and a towel. He holds up signs with slogans supporting the Hurricane football team.
‘‘They’ve basically banned me from the stadium,” said Richard Molinary, the man who calls himself the Fanatic.
Molinary is not a UM student, but he was born and raised in Miami. He now works as a customer service representative for a Fort Lauderdale company. His brother is a UM alumnus.
Larry Wahl, associate athletic director for communications said, "Mr. Molinary has not been banned from the stadium. He has just been asked to stay in his
seat.”
Molinary said he was thrown out of the Orange Bowl during the Hurricanes’ game against Cincinnati
Oct. 7.
“During the game with California, stadium security mentioned that I wouldn’t be able to lead cheers anymore,” Molinary said.
"I didn't take them seriously though because I’ve done this so long,” he said.
According to Molinary, this would have been his seventh year portraying the Fanatic. He said during the seven years he has never missed a Hurricane home football game.
Wahl said, ‘‘We have had complaints from other fans. He |Molinary| was moving to the railing, blocking the views of these fans. He was asked repeatedly to return to his seat. When he didn't, he was asked to leave
the stadium, and his money was refunded.
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Students dissatisfied with Stu-lent Government President Troy Jell now have the 500 signatures lecessary for a recall vote of last rpring’s election and need only present it to the SG election commissioner, former SG member Sandon Kallstrom said.
Bell has named his selection for the post of election commissioner, but the senate has yet to approve it.
The petiton is the latest in a series of events that has caused problems for Bell since he filed for the SG elections last spring. Deficient grades, his disqualification from the election and eventual reinstatement and victory, and a failed impeachment attempt are the recall petition’s predecessors.
Bell, UM’s third black SG president, charges that the petition is part of an ongoing plot masterminded by students loyal to last year’s Impact ticket, Bell’s opposition during the election, to remove him from office. He said Ken DeMoor, Impact’s campaign manager, could be the possible source of the problems.
"Number one, they lost the election. Number two, they lost to somebody ‘outside,’ ” Bell said.
DeMoor denied having any knowledge of a plot against Bell.
“I want nothing to do with it,”
Election controversy
The controversy surrounding Bell began in February when he filed for candidacy on the Liberty ticket in the SG elections.
His grade point average was below a 2.0, the grade requirement for SG members, and there were numerous incomplètes and failures on his record, said Jody Kalman, director of Student Activities.
Bell, a mechanical engineering student, said he had resolved the incomplètes, and his grade problem was due to the procrastination of professors. The incomplètes were later corrected, and the election commission entered Bell in the election.
Only 919 of the approximately 8,500 eligible students voted, and Bell had the majority, but he was later disqualified from the election and then reinstated.
Uncertain victory
A campaign violation, which was filed by DeMoor on March 24, centered around illegal campaigning by the Liberty ticket in the Rathskeller.
The election commission dismissed the charge due to a lack of evidence. DeMoor and Impact appealed the decision to the SG Su-
preme Court. The court then reversed the decision and assessed Bell the two points needed to push him over the 20-point disqualification mark.
Bell asked the UM administrators, as well as outside sources such as Miami City Commissioners and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for help.
"I had no one to appeal to. People in the administration would not listen to me,” Bell said.
Under the advice of UM administrators, including Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler, the Supreme Court decided it did not have the authority to assess points, and the case was remanded back to the election commission.
The violation was dismissed for a second time by the election commission on April 10. Bell was inaugurated April 12.
Outside influence?
"The language |of the constitution] was ambiguous at best. It was hard to determine who had the authority to do what,” said Bill Mul-lowney, UM ombudsman and assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs.
UM accepts condom plan
Prophylactics to be placed in vending machines
By LINA LOPEZ And BARBRASPALTEN
Otthe Staff
To encourage sate sex, the University of Miami will install condom vending machines In campus bathrooms and now distributes free condoms at the Health Center, officials announced Friday.
The increased condom accessi bility is aimed at reducing the risk of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and sexually transmitted diseases among college students.
"The attempt is not to promote sexual activity. You have to realize the issues,” said Dr. William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs. “AIDS is so devastating to life today. It is irresponsible not to make information and condoms available.”
The machines will be located in the public bathrooms of the residential colleges, the vending areas of the apartment area, the Rathskeller and the University Center.
The action is a result of a Student Government Senate bill proposed Sept. 27 by SG Attorney General Max Adams, who said he expected a tough fight from administrators.
"The University has gone far and above what -we |SG asked for.” said Adams, who said SG originally intended to start smalt with the proposal. "I asked for a Pinto, and he gave me a Rolls-Royce.”
In addition, the Health Center is distributing free condoms with information on AIDS and other STDs. A student task force on AIDS, to be chaired by Dr. Eu-guene Flipse, Health Center director, will also be organized.
"It’s a very progressive move on the part of the administration,” said Gretchen Jansen, a junior. ‘ But with AIDS, you need to be con-
^Before Butler approved SG’s recommendation, he researched similar proposals at Vanderbilt, Duke,
Tulane and Southern Methodist universities. The smooth transition to the dispensing of condoms on campuses is not surprising, Butler said, because of the widespread knowledge of AIDS.
“AIDS is a very, very final decision,” Butler said. “The end result is death."
Butler noted 60 to 75 percent of college students are sexually active, yet only 25 percent of them use condoms. In addition, the 15-24 age bracket has the highest STD rate, with 10 percent of college students having STDs.
“These kids come to college with little information from high schools or home,” Butler said. "High schools pass the buck and students learn through peer interaction. We know what reality is, and when the reverse is true, I’ll be willing to listen to other opinions.”
’’Putting condoms in vending machines sounds like a good idea, although people will probably laugh and not take it seriously at first,” said jim Grodberg, a senior.
Butler is now researching the choice of vendor. Other detail*, such as how accompanying literature will he dispensed, have yet to be worked out. The condom machines will he a service to students and not for profit, flutter added.
Butler said his main concern is for the effort to be educationally sound and in good taste. To further increase AIDS awareness, he plans to include information with the condoms, mailings to students and special programming, possibly during freshman orientation.
The biggest hurdle to the proposal Butler noted, is the college attitude of “It can’t happen to me.”
“We have a great responsibility to emphasize the education aspect — to do what’s right in 1989, Butler said. “If we take prudent, responsible steps most people will agree with it.”
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“Troy won the position on his own qualifications, and he won the vote,” said Dr. Butler.
The controversy over the election did not prove to be the end of Bell’s problems.
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"UM buckled under to pressure and gave Bell the election," said a former SG member who wished to
Questionable grades
A former member of SG who wished to remain anonymous and SG Speaker of the Senate Beth Susi both said they knew of people who had broken into a University computet and checked Bell's grades at the end of last semester.
Susi said she was told Bell did not have the necessary 2.0 grade requirement.
In June, Susi requested a grade check on Bell.
"I thought when I took office, it was my duty to check GPAs. I sent the names and student identification numbers to Craig Ullom,” Susi said.
On June 26, Ullom, director of the University Center and advisor to SG, informed Susi that grade checks were done only at the beginning of each semester.
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By ROBERT S. MARSHALL And AMY ELLIS
Of the Staff
University of Miami junior Christian Brogan, 20, was listed in critical condition this weekend at Jackson Memorial Hospital after receiving a stab wound to the heart late Thursday night.
No further information on his condition was available Monday. Hospital officials said his family had requested that no information be given out.
Police still have no clues to the assailants’ identities.
Brogan and his roommate, senior Sean McCarthy, 21, were driving home from the Sports Rock Cafe in the Bakery Centre when the attack occurred. McCarthy received several blows to the head with a baseball bat and suffered bruised ribs, but was not hospitalized.
Police said a Ford Bronco drove up behind the students and flashed its high-beam headlights in their rearview mirror.
McCarthy stopped the car at the corner of Red and Bird roads,
apparently believing it was someone he knew, Metro-Dade police said.
Two white males got out of the Bronco, dragged Brogan and McCarthy from the car and began to beat them, police said.
McCarthy said he does not know what prompted the attack.
"The police are not really saying anything," he said.
However, McCarthy said police told him the attack could have been the result of words exchanged at the club.
McCarthy said he blacked out during the attack and does not remember getting hit.
"If they I the attackers] were standing right in front of me, I wouldn't know,” he said.
The attack was interrupted when another car pulled up and began honking. The two attackers then jumped back in their Bronco and sped off, heading west on Bird Road, according to police.
Detectives are searching for a brown or red Ford Bronco, which is believed to be a newer model 4x4.
Registration begins Oct. 30
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There have been no changes in general advising or registration procedures for spring classes, according to Dr. Thompson Big-gers, associate dean of enrollments.
General advising officially began yesterday, although each un-
dergraduate school and college may set its own times and guidelines. Registration for spring begins Oct. 30.
Advising methods vary by school and college, so students
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By TOM B. HIGGINS
Stall Writer
A special legislative session and a pro-choice rally brought five University of Miami students to Talla-hassee, Fla., in support of a woman’s right to obtain an abortion legally in the state of Florida.
The rally, held last week, was a
protest of the special legislative session called by Gov. Bob Martinez to discuss the addition of abortion restrictions within Florida.
Leslie Miller, Lolln Pallares, Amy Heimlich, Jaymie Mackaill and Staci Schoenfeld, all involved in the formation of a UM chapter of the National Organization for Women, attended the rally to voice their
views.
Miller said the majority of the cost of the trip was paid for by Dade County NOW.
According to the students, Rep. Elaine Gordon called it the largest rally in Tallahassee's history. They estimated between 12- and 15,000 people showed up to support the pro-choice movement.
On Oct. 9, The New York Times reported approximately 8,000 anti-abortion protestors rallied in Tallahassee to express their views to the Florida legislature.
Mackaill said, "We were told that we would be outnumbered four to one |by the pro-lifers|. We outnum-
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