Miami Hurricane, December 02, 1988

              I Food for thought	
I University Dining Services Director Efren Gort ex-	
I plains the meal plan.	News —pages
Hit that perfect beat
The Sunsations dance line is headed to Venezuela in the spring.
Accent — page 8
Fast breaking start
The men’s and women’s basketball teams began the season with a bang with 2-0 records.
Sport* — page 10
THE MIAMI
IjMERStTY OF MIAMI
URRICANE
Volume 66, Number 25
University of Miami
Friday, Dec. 2,1988
SG suggests first aid training for RAs
By AMY ELLIS
Assistant News Editor
Senators also decry housing terminations
After much debate, the Student Government Senate passed a bill Wednesday which would require University of Miami resident assistants to be trained in basic first aid procedures. The bill passed by a vote of 19 for. four against and one abstention.
If accepted by the administration, the bill would require the Department of Residence Halls to provide RAs with the necessary training to respond in emergency medical situations and supply each residence hall and the apartment area with adequate first aid supplies.
According to Pat Whitely, assistant director for personnel and training, RAs are instructed to stay with a victim in an emergency and to notify Public
Safety immediately.
Whitely said it is out of the realm of the RA job description to administer emergency treatment to an injured student.
“RAs are front-line people who are trained to
identify problems and help facilitate solutions by referring people to the appropriate places," Whitely said.
Rich Jones, Stanford Residential College senator and co-author of the bill, said RAs should be able to assist an injured person until UM Public Safety/Fire Rescue arrives on the scene.
"As it is now, RAs put their jobs in jeopardy if they try to help someone,” Jones said. "If a person is in trouble, the RA shouldn’t sit by and watch while they bleed to death. They should be trained and have the knowledge they need to offer assistance.”
Fred Karlinsky, senator for the School of Communication and an RA at SRC, disagreed with the proposal, saying it would put RAs in a “very touchy situation.”
"A lot of RAs are just not going to want to do it because they wouldn't feel qualified,” Karlinsky said. "Even if we were trained. I don’t think I would feel comfortable handling a life-threatening situation."
Karlinsky said the present system of notifying Public Safety is more appropriate.
“The proper procedure is what we're doing right now — confronting the situation and calling Public Safety. They’re better qualified to handle it.”
According to Whitely, UM’s Public Safety has a response time of under three minutes.
“It's been our experience over the years that Public Safety has been prompt and helpful in treating injured students," Whitely said.
Ali Koshy, senior senator and an RA at Mahoney
Residential College, said training RAs in first aid would put the University and the RAs in a liability
situation.
“In RA training, it was stressed that risk management is our number one concern,” Koshy said. "In terms of helping a student, the first thing I would want to do is run over and help, but we're torn between what we want to do and what we have to do."
Jones said a person who is trained by the Red Cross and receives the Red Cross Multi-Media First Aid Certification would not be held liable for complications or injuries resulting from the treatment administered.
“They | the Red Cross | back you up 100 percent, and there are ‘Good Samaritan’ laws that would support you too,” Jones said. “Whether they are employees of the University or not, RAs are people too, and if they’re trained and they tried to help,
Please see page 4/SG
Bookstore
proposals
accepted
UM to release records, ensure book availability
By AMY ELLIS
Assistant News Editor
At the final Student Government Senate meeting of the semester, Speaker Marc Oster announced that the administration has officially responded to legislation passed by the senate in September regarding improvements needed in the University of Miami bookstore.
In a memo sent to SG leaders, Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, accepted the senate’s proposals for improving service in the bookstore.
The accepted proposals include working to ensure that the bookstore is adequately stocked with textbooks one week prior to the start of classes and that students wait no more than 25 minutes to pay for their books.
"The most important result of this legislation is that it forces Enrollment Services, the bookstore and the University faculty to cooperate with each other to ensure that the bookstore is adequately stocked,” Oster said. “By next semester, we should see some substantive improvements in the bookstore.”
In addition to cooperating with Enrollment Sevices to reorder books as necessary, Butler said the bookstore will continue to monitor students' waiting time in lines.
Butler added that the bookstore renovations, to be completed prior to the fall 1989 registration, should help improve service by adding new doors and check-out lines.
Keeping the beat
MICHAEL DiBARl/Hurricune Staff
(Right) Trombone player Debby Tannenbaum and (above) percussionist Rob Maier practice marching on the intramural field for the Band of the Hour.
MICHELLE LUTMAN/Hurricai. Stall
Butler also agreed to the senate's suggestion that financial information regarding the bookstore’s textbook profit margin be made available to the president of Student Government as well as the editor of The Miami Hurricane.
“This was included in the bill in response to popular sentiment that books are too expensive,” Oster said. “We want to be able to see the type of profit margin the bookstore is realizing in order to judge whether the bookstore is charging too much.”
Oster said the bill was originally passed in response to problems which have existed in the bookstore for many years.
“I’m glad that the administration has worked with Student Govenment in effecting these changes for the student body," Oster said.
Architecture student wins $8 million lottery
By CAKEN BURMEISTER
Contributing Editor
Winning an $8.3 million lottery jackpot wouldn't change a thing, thought Carlos Sanabria. He could fly up to Tallahassee, pick up his first check and make it back to campus in time for class.
Sanabria, a fifth-year University of Miami architecture student, won the Florida state lottery Nov.
19. He is Florida's youngest lottery winner. He may also be the humblest lottery winner ever.
“I won’t change any goals, but it will be a stepping stone,” Sanabria said of his new-found fortune. "Everything will go on as planned. Now I can dedicate myself to school.”
Sanabria's randomly selected numbers, 7-15-24-30-31-49, will fetch him a yearly check of $419,000 for the next 19 years, before taxes.
Professors and friends characterize Sanabria as someone whose feet are planted firmly on the ground, and they say they are glad to see him win the lottery.
“He's a real cool customer,” said Michael Stanton, an architecture professor who is working with Sanabria on his final exam progict. Sanabria and Stanton worked
together two days after Sanabria learned he had won, but Stanton had no clue of the windfall.
"He’s not a flighty guy,” Stanton said. “If I know Carlos, he’ll finish school and become an architect.”
That is exactly what Sanabria plans to do. He hedges speculating too far into the future because he is focusing his attention on his final exam — a theoretical rendition of a 70,000 square-foot Pan American Art Institute.
After graduating in May, he plans to complete his internship with The Russell Partnership, an architecture firm where he has been working part-time for the last three years.
“It’s incredible how calm he is," said Alex Bonet, one of Sanabrias’ classmates. Bonet, aware Sanabria had gone to Tallahassee to pick up a check, saw him pull into the architecture parking lot after he returned.
“I asked him, 'What are you doing here?’ and he said, ‘Going to class,’ " Bonet recalled “Then I asked him how it felt to be a millionaire and he said it was no big deal. 1 wanted to know if we were still going to play basketball and Carlos said, 'You bet.' "
"It couldn’t have happened to a nicer person," said Daniel Tinney, Sanabria's boss and part-time architect professor. Tinney said he went into the office Saturday
and found Sanabria working. "He’s handled it so well," Tinney said. "That says a lot for a 22-year-old. He's a real asset to the University.”
Sanabria couldn't say if the money would change his life. "I’ve been too busy for it to sink in yet," Sanabria said, a week after collecting the first installment of $427,000. He said he received a phone call from someone beggi ng for a donation and realizes he wi II have to prepare for beggars and thieves.
How likely is it that another UM student could win the lottery? The chances are the same as if Sanabria had never won, said Therese Bruce, a professor of management science. "You feel like there is more involved than randomness, but there isn’t," Bruce said.
Countdown
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