Miami Hurricane, September 09, 1988

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Volume 66, Number 3	University of Miami	Friday, Sept. 9,1988
Crowding plagues OB game
By LISA FRANKEL
News Editor
Housing and parking are not the only crunches at the University of Miami. Saturday night’s iHurricane football game against • Florida State University illustrated another overcrowding situation.
Michael Quashie, assistant athletic security director, said the reason for the crush of students before game time is that students are arriving too late to the game.
"The Metrorail system is available to students three hours before the game," Quashie said. ‘‘The readers ¡magnetic strip computers | are not the problem.”
Quashie said the system works and the problem lies with students not getting to the game early enough to compensate for overcrowding.
"Barricades are set up at the gate to allow for an orderly flow," Quashie said. “Those ¡students! at the back cause the problem by pushing forward."
Assistant Dean of Students Jerry Houston said students are just as much to blame for the problem since they are the ones who create the situation.
Houston said although the check-in process at the games delays entrance significantly, the students do not realize that they are arriving in droves and causing the crush themselves.
"Students may be arriving to the game four hours early, but then they wait outside the stadium to drink at tailgate parties," Houston said.
Students tend to drink before the game, Houston said, and that contributes to tempers.
“It's going to take situations where students are complaining to us to work towards a solution," Houston said.
Houston, who works as the University’s police liaison at the games, has suggested that perhaps the stadium entrance at the end of the gate hallway be extended.
Quashie said all of student gate 171 will be open for future games.
Stephen Dangerfield, Hurricane ticket manager, agrees with Quashie in that the opening of the entire student gate will alleviate most of the problem.
"Saturday’s game was the largest student turnout we’ve ever had, with over 8,000 students plus guest passes,” Dangerfield said.
Dangerfield also said that there has been resistance to distributing tickets to students before games. He said it was the opinion of student leaders to make the entire game process as easy as possible, and that although the reader ¡computer] system is working, the administration does realize that a problem still exists.
"Obviously this is not your ideal situation," Dangerfield said. "We’re very much aware of the situation though, and it will be alleviated for the next game."
M/CHAEL DIHAIil/Hurricane Stall
Studyin' and sunnin'
Graduate student Glen Davis is already hard at work in the third week of classes.
Textbook shortage affects students
By ALBERT XIQUES
Stall Writer
Students going to the University of Miami Bookstore trying to find required textbooks for their classes may find that the book they need isn’t in stock or hasn’t arrived yet. Many times when this occurs, students go across the street to Book Horizons to get a used copy. A problem arises when neither the bookstore nor Book Horizons can offer a copy.
This is happening in several courses, among them: Anthropology 202, Education and Psychological Studies 510, History 102, and Politics and Public Affairs 342.
According to Tanya Martin, who is enrolled in HIS 102, the bookstore was out of both texts before classes even started. Martin said she felt frustrated from what appeared to be a lack of interest in her problem by the bookstore.
“They always seem unorganized over there and they seem to know just one answer to your questions, ‘It’ll be in next week,’ ’’ Martin said.
To make matters worse, Martin has several assignments and must go to the library to use a copy of the book put on reserve by her professor.
Aileen Lotz, a substitute adjunct professor, who is teaching
PPA 342, is having trouble getting copies of her own book on Dade County government for her students.
"Neither textbook is in: one is the Congressional Quarterly, and the other is my book," Lotz said.
University Bookstore director Charles Canfield said he sympathizes with students who cannot get their books. However, the bookstore cannot simply over-order every book to have enough.
“We are not just free to return every book not sold, many publishers charge penalties of from 3 to 5 percent on returned books. Some of the smaller publishers won’t take them back at all,” Canfield said.
He also said in a private university such as UM, the people who pay the extra money would be students. According to Canfield, running out of books is a relatively common occurence. He said usually 8 to 11 percent of the 1,-000 to 1,200 titles carried by the bookstore are out of stock by this time of year.
"Normally when we re-order books, we have them sent by UPS second day air | service |, which is faster, because what is most important is to get the book back in stock, and it’s less expensive than the cost of returning unsold books,” Canfield said.
Canfield said the bookstore orders textbooks by accounting for such things as the estimate of enrollment given by the professor, by studying past estimates’ accuracy, estimating how many used copies Book Horizons will have, and how many the bookstore can expect to buy back.
“We used to just take off 15 percent of the professors’ estimate and order that amount, but we haven't done that for at least five years, because that didn’t work, ’’ Canfield said.
Reminders...
•	PARKING: Ticketing of University parking lots began Tuesday, and this year no free tickets will be allowed.
•	HOLIDAYS: Classes will not be cancelled on Monday and Sept. 21 in observance of the Jewish High Holy Days. However, no major tests or class events will be scheduled on these
days.
Students must notify their instructors to be excused from class. Assignments should be completed in a reasonable amount of time. Professors shall in no way penalize students who are absent for religious observances.
Law school alumnae commits $1 million
Money earmarked for library, graduate’s biggest interest
By LISA FRANKEL
News Editor
The University of Miami School of Law recently received a $2 million donation from alumnae Reba Engler Daner, a 1936 graduate of the school. The monetary commitment has been earmarked for the expansion of the school’s library.
Daner, who is a member of the first full-time class to graduate from UM in 1930, has said that she donated the money in order “to blend my two biggest interests.” She has been active in library associations on the local, state and national level and has helped persuade Congress to
pass laws to increase federal funds to libraries across the nation.
“Law is not just a job, it’s a responsibility," Daner said. “I am glad I could give something back to the University, which has given so much to me. The present library was not adequate, so it seemed like the perfect place to give funds."
This is not the first time Daner has made a generous donation to the law school.
In the late 1960s, she donated funds to build the school's moot courtroom, a mock court in which students argue hypothetical cases for practice.
“They didn't have moot court when I was in school,”
Daner said. “When I first went into a courtroom as a lawyer, I trembled. That’s why the moot courtroom is so important.”
Dean of the School of Law Mary Doyle said she is very excited about the commitment.
“The law school is proud to receive this gift and proud to honor Mrs. Daner by naming a wing of the law school in her honor," Doyle said. “She has always been a great friend to this school, and especially to our students."
Doyle said the law school will kick off its own fundraising campaign this fall and decisions about the expansion will be made next year.
Campus receives palm trees
Landscaper donates 50 Royal Palms
By ALBERT XIQUES
Staff Writer
The University of Miami, as part of its program to enhance the beauty of the campus, recently installed 41 Royal Palm trees along Billing's Walkway, the red brick path running along the shores of Lake Osceola.
UM planted the 41 trees along the pathway, where they begin behind the Rathskeller and end »long the curve near the Stanford Residential Col-
ege.
The palms are currently 18 feet high and can row to a height of about 50 feet.
Donald Anguish, UM’s vice president for busies affairs, said the trees are part of a donation of
from Manuel Diaz Farms. The University planted nly 41 of the 50 donated trees, and is seeking a suitable place to plant the other nine.
Administrators are not placing a value on the do-naiion. According to the Development office, this
was a gift-in-kind, so no fixed price is assessed.
Local nurseries, however, quoted prices in the range of $500 to $1000 for each palm tree, after installation. All the companies contacted pointed out that the Royal Palm is the most expensive and most sought after palm tree.
Manuel Diaz is a commercial landscaper who owns extensive tree farms near Homestead. He donated the trees and even had his employees plant the palms, with the help of the University's Physical Plant landscapers.
A few months ago, Diaz also donated trees to landscape the Rickenbacker Causeway that passes over Key Biscayne.
“We really appreciate Mr. Diaz providing the trees because we think the Royal Palms enhance the view around the lake |Osceola|,” Anguish said.
The Royal Palm is the official tree of the University of Miami and appears on the University crest.
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ANDY IVES/Hurricane Staff
Bryon Muraski passes the donated Royal Palms along the Billing’s Walkway,