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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume 67, Number 17
I 0CT 27 1989
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Senators agree on most issues this week
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University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla,
Friday, October 27,1989
By ROBERT MILLER Assistant Naws Editor
Student Government senators decided to put last week’s chaotic meeting behind them and get back to work. Five bills were brought before the senate, and all but one passed unanimously by acclamation.
The only debate during the meeting took place over SG President Troy Bell’s Election Commission chairperson appointment. Bell nominated sophomore Mark Chiappone to lead this year’s commission, instead of nominating last year’s chair, senior Laura Adams, and two other applicants.
Bell said he wanted to nominate someone who could head the commission for the next three years to keep some consistency in the
commission.
Chiappone was ratified by a vote of 19 in
favor.
At the Oct. 11 senate meeting. Bell told the senators he had asked Adams to act as a mentor to Chiappone and she tentatively
agreed.
During the Oct. 18 meeting Adams addressed the senators and said she had not agreed to help and she was no longer willing
to be a part of the commission.
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“He is a hard-working person,” Bell said. Speaker Pro-Tempore of the Senate Heidi Wilkinson said the screening committee, which interviewed Chiappone, gave him a
rating of two and a half on a scale of one to five.
His rating prompted concern among some senators, but Chiappone was ratified as chairman when the question was called.
The senate also agreed to place a referendum on the fall 1989 election ballot to let the students decide whether the minimum grade point average for SG executive officers
should be raised from the present 2.0 to a
2.5.
The senate had passed a bill during its Oct. 18 meeting that proposed to raise the GPA standard, but due to the controversy surrounding the issue, a majority of SG members decide! the issue should be put to the student body. The bill was authored by Bell and sponsored by Sophomore Senator Mike
Marcil, both of whom took opposite sides on the issue.
The referendum will ask students if they believe SG executive officers should maintain a 2.5 GPA and if they support raising the standards for all student clubs and organizations on campus.
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sumed too much from his conversation with preme Court Chief Justice. Bell’s three other Adams, but he said he did not want that to af- Supreme Court nominations — Zuri Stan-feet Chiappone’s nomination. Bell said, of the back, Laurvetta Suzanne Williams and four people he interviewed for the job, Chiap- Christian — were also ratified pone was the best qualified.	um.
Honor Council officers aim
to increase efficiency
Senior history major Michael Streiter was elected president of the University of Miami Honor Council at the organization’s retreat last weekend.
Seventeen members of the group attended the retreat in KeyLargo. The council has 18 student members and two alternates.
The Honor Council was established to enforce the four-year-old Honor Code. The council members investigate alleged infractions of the code, determine guilt or innocence and impose penalties when students are found guilty of violating the code.
Streiter served as the council’s vice president last year. The newly-elected vice president, senior nursing major Elaine Wendling,
is also a returning council member.
Streiter said the council has two goals for the 1989-90 academic year.
The first goal is improving student awareness of the Honor Code. Streiter said he plans to distribute handouts to faculty members stressing academic integrity.
"I think we’ve done a pretty good job," Streiter said.
The second goal is to increase efficiency within the council. One issue in this area is whether both preliminary and final hearings are necessary in Honor Code cases.
“That’s a decision we’re going to have to make,” he said.
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The colorful mural depicting the myth of Icarus and his tragic flight has decorated the University Center stairwell for over 20 years. However, controversy has surrounded the painting since its creation. Story, page 2.
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M student Mami Kobayashi shows how to make peer cranes during the United Nations Day of food and Iture, held Tuesday on the University Center Plaza.
Eating disorders can affect anyone
By CHRISTINE THOMPSON
Slafl Writer
"Thin is in.”
This phrase describes the look many people want to have.
However, as the incidence of eating disorders becomes more frequent, especially at the college level, emphasis is being placed on the physical and mental health of individuals rather than their weight.
Eating Disorders Awareness Week, held this week, is an international program aimed at increasing efforts to prevent the development of eating disorders. Education, health awareness and support are key purposes of the program.
In recognition of EDAW, the University of Miami held a panel discussion, "In Pursuit of Thinness,” yesterday in the Mahoney/Pearson Residential College classrooms. The discussion was sponsored by several UM departments and offic-
Awareness programs designed to help afflicted UM students
es, including the Department of Residence Halls, the Counseling Center and the UM Athletic Department.
Dr. Paula Levine and UM experts hosted the two-hour program. Levine is a local psychologist specializing in eating disorders.
“Our main purposes are to promote a better understanding of both anorexia and bulimia, and to encourage healthy attitudes toward body image and self-esteem,” said Dr. Lori Blum, a psychologist at the UM Counseling Center.
According to Blum, anorexia nervosa is an obsession with thinness and an emotional disorder characterized by severe weight loss and restriction of food. Although ano-
rexics may be of any age, sex or race, Blum said the disorder is commonly discovered in females at the junior high school level.
She said some of the symptoms of anorexia include abnormal weight loss, denial of hunger, intense fear of gaining weight, prolonged exercise despite fatigue, distorted perception of body size and social withdrawal. Anorexics deny the abnormal eating behavior and turn away from food to cope with pressures, she said.
“Anorexics try their best not to eat at all,” Blum said. “They have
such a disturbance of body image
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see themselves as fat.’
Student affairs promotes its field
Closely related to anorexia is bulimia nervosa. Bulimia is an emotional disorder characterized by cyclical binge-eating and purging episodes, Blum said. Purging may be self-induced vomiting, laxative or diuretic abuse, fasting or strenuous exercise, she said A UM senior who requested anonymity said she has been bulimic since the 10th grade.
“1 moved to a new town where I didn’t know anyone,” she said. ”1 didn’t have control over anything in my life. I could control my weight. It was my way of passive resistance.”
She said she remains bulimic because “it is the only way that I know to keep thin. I don’t care how I stay thin as long as 1 am thin.”
She added that she did not attend the eating disorder seminar because “one night is not going to solve my problem. I’ve heard it all before.”
FALL BACK
In order to promote careers in student affairs to University of Miami students, the Office of Student Affairs held a breakfast Wednesday featuring Dr. Rick Artman, vice president of student affairs at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Artman received his bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees from UM.
“It was good for Dr. Artman to come home to UM,” said William Mullowney, UM ombudsman. “He did a good job of communicating the centrality of the student in the day-to-day tasks of student affairs.”
According to Mullowney, Artman is a former assistant to the UM vice president for student affairs and a past UM ombudsman.
The breakfast included a panel discussion featuring UM student affairs personnel. The panel members related their personal experiences which led them to get involved in student affairs.
“The purpose of the breakfast was to heighten students’ awareness of careers in student affairs,’’ said K.C. White, residence coordinator of Stanford Residential College. “The division of student affairs is showing a strong commitment to our own profession ’
According to White, a “cross-section” of approximately 80 people attended the breakfast.
“The breakfast was interesting,” said Joy Rowland, a resident assistant in Hecht Residential College. “Most students have never heard of a career in student affairs. It really broadened my perspective.”
Lisa Bardill, residence coordinator for the apartment area, added, “It was motivating to see people interested in student affairs. It reminded me of why I went into this field.”
Karen Melino, director of Orientation 89 and student development services, as well as one of the organizers of the event said, “I was really pleased, a lot of students and administrators showed up to the program.”
Melino added, “We’ve set up a mentoring program so that people presently working in student affairs can guide interested students to the appropriate graduate programs.” The breakfast succeeded in making the students aware of “a lot of great master's degree programs in student affairs.”
. V	—TOMB. HIGGINS
Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday to return to Eastern Standard Time.