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University of Miami Sunsations Jane Moreal, left, Aileen Powers and Christine Frese performed a dance during last night's Miss UM Scholarship Pageant, held at Gusman Hall. The finalists competed for the title last night. Results of the competition will be in Tuesday's issue.
Irate students try to voice opinions
FiomStatt Reports
The University of Miami police were called out to disperse a crowd that gathered in protest after Wednesday’s Student Government Senate meeting.
A group of students were hoping to speak to the SG Senate, according to George Fishburne, a past president of Florida Memorial Col-
lege’s Student Government.
Members of the group said they were present to support UM SG
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President Troy Bell, who has recently been at the center of an alleged racism controversy between Bell and other student leaders.
"By not letting us speak, they’re saying they can’t deal with fair play,” Fishburne said. “If this situation doesn’t, get resolved, somebody's going to get hurt. It may be me, it may be Troy [Bell], or it may be someone else. Someone is going to get hurt emotionally, physically or mentally.”
Assistant Dean of Students Jerry E. Houston told the crowd to air their grievances through the proper channels and then ordered them to disperse. Houston denied the administration had asked him to attend the meeting.
“They didn’t send me here,” Houston said. "Student Government is open. 1 came to the meet-
Bell said Houston had told him that Dean of Students William Sandler, dean of students had asked Houston to appear at the meeting.
Officers told the crowd they would "put the cuffs on them” if they did not clear the hallway immediately. Irate students on both sides of the issue continued to debate as they slowly exited the hallway.
Joseph Frechette, director of Public Safety, said no one was taken out in handcuffs and everyone left peacefully in the end.
“We were prepared for possible trouble,” Frechette said. “It is better to have some police present in case we need it.”
Frechette, Lt. Henry Christensen and three other officers were stationed in the University Center during the meeting.
Heidi Wilkinson, senate speaker pro-tempore, said, "I abhor the fact that the senate decided to adjourn the meeting. In effect, the senate said, ‘We don’t want to hear what you have to say, and we will not be forced to listen to you."
Wilkinson added, "As long as students are there to talk to us, we should stay to talk to them.”
Kent Krause, fraternity row senator, said if the students had wished to speak at the meeting, the rules require they first be sponsored by a senator.
"Someone must give them floor rights, and no one did that,” Krause explained. "They mentioned that they had something to say after the fact. It’s not racism.”
Speaker of the Senate Beth Susi
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Less food donated than group planned
The Volunteer Services Organization and the student volunteer service group Link are participating this week in a countywide food drive by collecting canned goods and money to give to needy families in Miami for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Dade County program called Miami Feeding Miami is being sponsored by Miami’s For Me, Inc. and the Florida Food Recovery Program. The program’s goal is to collect enough food to feed 10,000 families for three meals during Thanksgiving.
Link volunteer Tara Thompson said she wants the University of Miami to collect at least 1,000 cans, but the organization is having trouble getting students to donate.
"We’re not collecting as much as we’d like in the residential colleges, because students there don’t cook and don’t have food there to give away,” Thompson said.
Students can donate by placing food in bins Link has placed in the residential colleges, the apartment area and in the University Center Breezeway. According to Thompson, if students do not have canned goods to donate, they can help the drive by giving money. The drive will last until Nov. 10.
At tomorrow’s UM football game against East Carolina, the volunteer organizations will present what’s been collected to the Miami Feeding Miami program.
Thompson said doesn’t want UM to let down Miam’s needy.
"You’d think on a campus this size we shouldn’t have any trouble collecting food,” Thompson said. "It really is important to the people who don’t have food on Thanksgiving, to the people who don’t have food peri-
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UM tags now on sale
License plates available for $27 plus fees
By BARBRASPALTEN
News Editor
University of Miami license plates went on sale Wednesday over a year after the idea was first proposed and signature collection to get the state to consider approval of the UM tags began.
Orange numbers, green trim and the UM mascot, Sebastian the Ibis, decorate the white Florida plates.
The tags cost $27, plus a handling fee of $3, above the normal registration cpsts at any Florida tag agency. Registration costs run from $18.50 to $36.50, depending on vehicle size.
UM will receive $25 from the state for each plate and renewal sold. The money raised will go toward a general scholarship fund.
Fans of the state’s nine public universities have had the option of purchasing tags with their schools’ logos for the past two years. The University of Florida has sold over 30,000 tages, and Florida State University has sold over 20,000.
As a private University, UM supporters had to collect 10,000 signatures from Florida drivers to get the state to consider approving UM tags.
Joe Pineda, director of alumni relations, was involved in collecting over 18.000 signa-
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tures from alumni, students and friends of UM. In September, he estimated 15,000 plates would be sold the first year they are available.
Pineda said UM fans can buy the tags at any time, not just when their registration is up for renewal.
Senior Lora Davella was also involved in the drive for signatures and the decisions about the tag’s design as former vice president of Student Government.
"I think it’s great,” Davella said. "I’m definitely going to get one.”
Any driver whose car is registered in the state of Florida may purchase a tag. Davella said the tags can be prorated if the buyer wants, meaning buyers can receive a discount if they buy the tag before their regular renewal time by sending tjieir old tag back.
Crash, boom, bang
Should freighters be kept away from Florida’s delicate coral reefs?
Opinion — page 4
Three-ring circus
The Ring Theatre’s new production calls for acrobats as well as actors.
.'	Accent — page 5
Hand of the hour
Hurricane quarterback Craig Erickson regains his starting position tomorrow against East Carolina.
Sports — page 7
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Volume 67, Number 19
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday, November 3, 1989
Ticket for SG election disbands
had four tickets running and well over 2,000 students voted. How do they expext 40 independent people with different platforms to accomplish anything?”
Leaders of Integrity and the now-disbanded Action ticket have leveled accusations of lying and coercion against one another.
"People from Ken’s ticket [Integrity] have called our candidates tO( encourage them to drop from the ticket,” explained Carolyn Salisbury, a former Action campaign organizer. “At first I was upset that they [Action candidates) were starting to drop, but then I realized it was actually better for everyone to run independently.”
DeMoor insisted it was the other way around. He said Salisbury and SG President Troy Bell have been contacting members of the Integrity ticket.
"Carolyn and Troy have called, pressuring members of my ticket to run independently,” DeMoor said.
“They’ve even resorted to lying about past events to convince them to leave the ticket.”
Bell said DeMoor’s allegations were, "totally untrue.”
“I’m not involved in either of the campaigns,” Bell added. “I have not spoken to any of the candidates about the campaign.”
DeMoor speculated Action s leaders are attempting to interfere with the elections process.
"They are trying to make the elections as confusing as possible,” DeMoor said. “They think the referendum and all the independents will lead to a low voter turnout. I believe the ticket system is the best way to publicize a platform and to hold the people on the ticket responsible for that platform.”
Salisbury disputed DeMoor’s accusations that Action leaders are plotting to confuse students about the election.
“Ken's plot stories are untrue,” she said. "Totally untrue.”
Hallway dispute follows meeting
By TOM B. HIGGINS
Assistant News Editor
The campaign manager for the Action ticket, which was formed for next week’s Student Government election, formally dissolved the ticket at Wednesday’s Elections Commission meeting, objecting to present SG procedures and the ticket system.
“The Action ticket has disbanded in protest of the present ticket system,” said Heidi Wilkinson, Action’s former campaign manager.
At Wednesday’s SG Senate meeting, a bill to place a referendum on next week’s ballot proposed by the SG executive officers was passed. It would allow students to vote on whether the current ticket system should be restructured.
If passed by the students, the new system would allow only candidates from the same school, class, residential location or commuter district to run on the same ticket.
Candidates for executive office and the Student Government Productions seat would also be allowed to form a single ticket.
Under the present system, students who choose to run for any SG office can form a party under one platform or choose to run independently of any party.
"I’ve spoken against the ticket system since day one,” Wilkinson said. “I felt it was hypocritical to run a ticket. There are good, solid people on both tickets. Instead of going against each other, they have decided to run as individual people for their own individual constituencies.”
The idea to dissolve the ticket was not solely Wilkinson’s.
"A lot of the decision to disband was made by the individual candidates," Wilkinson said. “They felt it would be the best way to represent themselves to the students.”
She said in previous elections, senate hopefuls were arbitrarily
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‘I’ve stated before that it is better that people run independently.
That way, they run on their own merits.’
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split by ticket, even if their goals were similar.
“Candidates who weren’t actually running against each other were forced to compete because they were on opposing tickets,” she said.
Reacting to the disbandment, Elections Commissioner Mark Chiappone said, “I’ve stated before that it is better that people run independently; that way, they run on their own merits.”
Ken DeMoor, campaign manager
for the Integrity ticket, said he thought Action’s members were planning to run independently before the decision to disband was made. He added that students have the opportunity to vote for candidates from either ticket instead of voting for a straight ticket.
"They’re [Action's leadership] trying to make a campaign issue of running independently, DeMoor said. "In the past, split tickets have been elected. Students don’t vote straight tickets. Two years ago we