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Volume 65, Number 39
University of Miami
Friday, March 4, 1988
University eliminates dance major
By CECILE GAUERT
Staff Writer
University of Miami dance majors will soon have their last tango in Miami. In May, 1989 the dance department will close its doors to would-be performers.
Non-dance majors will not have the option to take dance courses as electives either.
According to Dr. Diane Milhan, chairman and the only full-time faculty member of the dance department, Provost Luis Glaser and Dean William Hipp of the School of Music made the decision to close the department based strictly on economics.
Hipp is out of town and unavailable for comment. Assistant Dean Constance Weldon refused comment.
Milhan said the dance department was placed under the School of Music's jurisdiction three years ago, when she created the bachelor of fine arts degree program for dance. The demanding program requires majors to complete 132 credits without free electives, 12 credits more than the requirements for Arts and Sciences majors.
Milhan said it was a mistake to ask one art form to support another, especially since the music school is
Students must seek education elsewhere
not as profitable as it looks.
“They look successful from the outside, but they're largely subsidized,” she said.
Glaser said the University's reason for closing the department is, "Simply, there aren’t enough people interested."
Milhan disagreed. She said she had to deny applications from prospective dance majors.
Marianne Gaulkin, who will graduate from the program in May. said the closing of the department is bad timing. “Dance is coming alive in this community with the New World |Ballet Co.)," Gaulkin said.
Gaulkin said it is important to educate the community about dance. She teaches creative dancing to children severalhours a week.
"How can you erase a major art form?” asked Ana Healy, a senior dance major.
Every dance major, except three freshmen who transferred to other majors or schools, will be able to graduate by May, 1989.
"The University was fair with the students in this
regard," Milhan said. She said she had provided counseling and advising to her students.
Graduating by next year means working twice as hard for the students. Sophomore Jodi Vaccaro is taking 24 credits this semester in order to graduate by next May.
In December, the dance majors knew for certain that their department was being phased out. Vaccaro said approximately four seniors and 10 juniors will be finishing their degrees with relatively few problems. Vaccaro and Sophomore Emily Lemos, however, will have to double up courses and attend summer sessions.
"I tried to have elementary education as a double major but now I don’t have time," she said. "They wanted me to change my major or transfer."
Vaccaro said the dance program was growing. "It was getting good but now they gave it up."
Milhan originally approached Hipp to try to improve the dance department.
"I went to see them |the School of Music faculty)
last February, and there was simply no support," Milhan said.
The academic program met the National Association School of Dance standards, but Milhan said she wanted to have more faculty and a better dance studio.
“It’s not ethical to have students pay such tuition and have them dance here,” she said. The studio, situated on Brescia Ave., is an old, small building "Fungus is falling from the ceiling as the students pound the floor."
Milhan and her students said the program was never given a fair chance to improve before the University closed it.
"Our first legitimate class of graduates will be the year we close,” Milhan said.
Milhan said she would leave both the University and teaching to go into private practice.
"I don't want to have to go through this again," she said. "I’m going to go practice physical therapy in a clinic."
Students who want to become accredited as dance performers will have to direct their inquiries to other schools such as the University of South Florida. University of Florida or Florida State University.
UM undecided about candidates
Survey finds conservatism on campus
By TIM HUEBNER
Contributing Editor
The Miami Hurricane conducted this public opinion poll the evenings of Feb. 2H29 and March I. Members of the Hurricane staff and students in the CNJ 216 fournalism class taught by associale professor of journalism llruce Garrison interviewed 364 University of Miami students who were randomly selected from the UM phone directory.
Contributing editor Tim Huebner directed the polling procedures and Jeff Kobaf, a sophomore computer science major, processed the polling data.
Just days before Tuesday’s Florida presidential primary, nearly half of the University of Miami student body remains undecided about their choice
for president in 1988.
A random telephone interview public opinion poll of 364 UM undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, conducted by The Miami Hurricane this week, indicates that “undecided" was the clear choice of UM students with 44.8 percent. Vice President George Bush was a distant second with 26.9 percent.
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and Kansas Sen. Robert Dole finished behind the vice president with 10.2 and 9.3 percent, respectively. No other candidate polled over 5 percent.
The survey also confirmed the fact
that UM is a relatively conservative campus when it comes to politics. Over 48 percent of those surveyed consider themselves Republicans, compared to the 27 percent who consider them-
selves Democrats. The rest identified themselves as Independents.
Among those who identify with the Republican party, Bush was the favorite of nearly half, 49.6 percent. Dole's support consisted of 16 percent of those surveyed, lower than national polls indicate. New York Rep. Jack Kemp and the Rev. Pat Robertson received minimal support.
About 31 percent of Republicans polled were undecided.
Those who consider themselves Democrats were more likely to be undecided than their Republican counterparts, confirming the idea that it is still anybody’s race among the seven Democratic candidates.
Over 45 percent said they were undecided. Dukakis garnered the support of 28.8 percent of the Democrats, while the Rev. Jesse Jackson finished second with 11.3 percent. The other
candidates, Illinois Sen. Paul Simon, Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt, Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr., and former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart split the remaining support.
News Analysis
A few trends were evident from the poll. Almost 68 percent of those who identified themselves as Hispanics consider themselves to be Kepublicans. and nearly 40 percent ot Híspanles Identity Bush as their choice tor president.
Jackson won the support of about 43 percent of those polled who identified themselves as black, a considerably lower number than he is currently polling nationally.

Primaries: Key to presidential nominations
By MARTIN BINGHAM
Staff Writer
Next Tuesday is Super Tuesday.
Twenty states, most of them in the South, will hold presidential primaries or caucusses, and will have tremendous power in determining who is nominated for president from both parties.
Super Tuesday was organized initially by a group of southern Democrats, who as Professor Jonathan West, chairman of the University of Miami’s department of politics and public affairs, said "hope to be able to use this as a means to influence the selection process and help nominate a moderate
candidate who will be sensitive to the South’s interests."	_____________________
Commentary
West said, however, that the idea of a southern regional primary in order to elect a more moderate candidate may have backfired on those who created it.
“I have not been able to detect the level of interest the organizers hoped for. It does not seem that their objectives will be accomplished on Super Tuesday," he said.
West said there is expected to be a four-way split with Massachussetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson leading, and Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. and Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt trailing close behind.
Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart and Illinois Sen. Paul Simon are not expected to make strong showings in the South.
On the Republican side, West said Bush is by far the leader. In Florida, where the state’s delegates are allotted according to a winner-take-all system, this is expected to be "a big boost for George Bush, but not a death knell for Robert Dole."
Please see page 5/ELECTION
Opinion Poll Results
Who it your choice tor president in 19887
Undecided........................44.8%
George Bush......................26.9%
Michael Dukakis..................10.2%
Robert Dole.......................9.3%
Jesse Jackson.....................3.0%
Paul Simon........................1.6%
Richard Gephardt..................1.4%
Gary Hart.........................1,0%
Jack Kemp.................less than 1%
Pat Robertson.............less than 1%
Albert Gore Jr............less than 1%
Do you conoldor yourtoU • Democrat. RopubUcon or (ndopondonn
Republican.......................48.2%
Democrat.........................26.7%
Independent......................24.7%
Among Democrats:
Undecided........................45.2%
Michael Dukakis..................28.8%
Jesse Jackson....................11.3%
Paul Simon........................5.1%
Richard Gephardt..................4.1%
Albert Gore Jr....................1 0%
Gary Hart.........................1-0%
Among Republicans:
George Bush......................49.6%
Undecided........................31.3%
Robert Dole......................16.0%
Jack Kemp.........................1.7%
Pat Robertson.....................1.1%
MIKE ROYAtumcane Stall
One for the road
Ed Mobley, president of Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students, takes a whack at a car to symbolize "Taking a whack out of drunk driving." BACCHUS sponsored Safe Spring Break Week to educate students about the negative effects of alcohol.	_____
Referendum would raise fee for CSR expansion
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Associate Sews Editor
Student Government senators passed a bill Wednesday to put a referendum on the spring election ballot to raise the student activity fee for improvements of the Campus Sports and Recreation facility. The bill passed by acclamation.
If the referendum is passed by the students, the increase would raise the present $4 CSR allocation of the student activity fee to $14 per semester. The increase would cover costs of the operation and maintenance of the expanded Recreational Sports and Wellness Center.
The proposed addition to the Lane Recreation Center will be approximately 50.000 square feet. Norm Parsons, director of CSR, said the addition will cost between $5 and 7 million and the University is currently looking for backers.
“(This referendum! shows potential donors that this is important to our students," Parsons said.
The facility will include lockers, showers, saunas, jacuzzis, racquetball courts, squash courts, fitness and exercise rooms, meeting/conference rooms, floor hockey/indoor soccer rooms, lounges, a health bar and an administrative area.
The facility will be used for recreational, self-directed activities, intramural sports, club sports.
leisure sports, wellness programs and other CSR
activities.
SG President Bill Barzee said the fee will be collected the semester after construction of the facility has started. The fee will only be collected for two semesters. All undergraduates who pay the fee will have access to the facility.
Barzee said the fee will pay the $250,000 annual maintenance costs of the facility. He said the referendum "guarantees that the money cannot be used for other than recreational purposes."
Parsons said, “Chances are you will have at least one semester to use It. We'll bust our buns to get this thing built before any one of you graduates. You’re getting a $300 to $2,000 membership to an ultra-modern facility.” He said collecting a fee has been done traditionally at UM, to build the library and the University Center.
The senate also passed a bill 19-7-2 ratifying Mike Rosen, Enrique Carrillo and Freddie Stebbins as members of the Honor Code Amendment Committee. The committee is composed of six students; three from the Honor Council and three from SG.
Senator Marc Oster said the committee is a "group of students who must be consulted by the administration before any action (concerning the Honor Code| is taken." He also said the members may make suggestions and propose changes to the Code
Computer registration to begin
Schedule books available today in Memorial Building
111
By JEFFREY SCHWARTZ
Staff Writer
Students will be able to register for the fall 1988 semester from March 21 to April 15 on the new computerized registration system, said Dania Lopez, associate director of Admissions.
Schedule books are available today In Memorial Building 111. said Deborah Triol Perry, dean of Enrollments.
A pamplet will be sent to students explaining the On-Line Student Computerized Academic Registration According to the pamphlet, OSCAR will “allow for a quick and more elficient man-
agement of the registration process.” and "incorporate all billing, financial aid, housing, and payment information."
OSCAR will be located in the private dining rooms of the Ibis cafeteria across from the Rathskeller.
Registration times will be set up by OSCAR for all studentswho do not graduate in May. and registration cards will be mailed to students at their local addresses.
According to the pamphlet, there will be no change in the advising process; all students must receive academic advising before registration.
Students registering for the fall
semester do not have to pay or leave a deposit for classes. Statements will be mailed over the summer which will list all charges, payment credits, and the balance due. OSCAR will also confirm class selections.The due dates for payment will be printed on the statement.
If payment is not made, OSCAR will cancel the course selection, and the student will have to re-register with the freshman and transfer students in the fall.
Class changes can be made on OSCAR by June 30 by filling out a change of course form, which is available in each of the academic colleges and schools.