Miami Hurricane, February 12, 1988

              Shipe is griping again!
Find out what your favorite campus organizations have been up to this week.
Opinion — page 4
Kiss and tell
The methods of dating may have changed over the years, but the results haven’t.
Accent — page 6
Three dimensions
University of Miami baseball player Joe Grahe plays as a pitcher, right fielder and designated hitter.
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Volume 65, Number 33
University of Miami
Officers say UM campus ‘not safe’
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Security guards may be added to department
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Editor in chic/
“I don't come on this campus without a gun. It’s not safe for me and not safe for the students,” said Ed lludak. an officer for the University of Miami department of Public Safety.
The Oct. 20, 1987, departure of UM's police chief Curt Ivy and a drop of four officers from the UM force over the last two years has caused many Public Safety officers to share Hudak's concern for safety on campus.
“Crime doesn't stop at the entrance of campus," said Roman Pryjumko, a former British police officer now a graduate student at UM. "People are misled into believing they are safe here.”
Police records show that some UM officers are having to work more than 20 hours a week in overtime (about $30 per hour) to keep the campus protected.
"I don’t think it |police protection on campus| is inadequate,” said President Edward T. Eoote II. "When there is an emergenev, response is very good.”
The usual number of officers on patrol of the campus at a time is two, and if the president's alarm is set off at his house on Old Cutler Road in Coral Gables, both officers are instructed to respond — leaving the campus without any police protection.
"Everyone is working hard to protect the students and the officers like working here, but you can only work IB hour days for so long and fatigue starts setting in,” lludak said.
Don Anguish, associate vice president for business affairs, said there are no plans to fill the position of the chief or to hire more officers.
lie said the administration is instead trying to find a "structure that allows us to get more people out on campus and fewer administrators."
Anguish said some of the tentative plans include increasing student patrol and utilizing trained security personnel to patrol the campus, rather than sworn officers.
"The presence and visibility of people on patrol is a deterrent of crime," Anguish said. "Patrol doesn't necessarily need sworn officers. |But] we have a definite need for sworn officers."
"A guard service provides nowhere near the protection sworn police officers offer," said Sgt. Dennis Koronkiewicz, public information officer with the Coral Gables Police Department.
“It is hard for officers to gain respect, but there is no respect virtually for a guard service," he said.
Dr. Geoff Alpert, UM professor of sociology, said the difference between security guards and police officers is like night and day.
"Dade County police officers receive some of the best training in the country...Security guards usually have very little training," said Alpert. who has done several years of research for police departments around the country.
He said security guards could serve as the “eyes and ears of the police” and to do service-oriented
work around campus, such as helping to jump-start a car. But officers are still a must.
"We need a perception of police on campus," he said. "The highest priority is the safety of the campus community — not free from crime but we want to feel safe.”
Alpert said his major complaint with Public Safety is that the officers have two bosses — Coral Gables and the University.
"It’s not an appropriate method to run a police department. When you're serving two masters, it's a difficult task,” he said.
He suggests that the University be in charge of a well-trained security guard team, and the police officers should only report to the city.
NUMBER OK CITY'S OFFICERS DOWN
Public Safety officers are sworn Coral Gables officers, but paid by the University. In an emergency, the Coral Gables police supply assistance, according to Koronkiewicz. But the Coral Gables force is down seven to 10 officers now because of new retirement requirements.
“We are planning to fill those spots but there is a four-month lag time while new officers are training at the academy," Koronkiewicz said
He also said he hopes UM will fill the position of chief.
"That position was needed. It is a big campus, and
a lot of work," he said. "You cannot reduce forces when crime continues to rise."
Joe Frechette, director of Public Safety said the UM force now stands at 19 sworn officers and there are no plans to hire more police officers.
However, "The public is demanding police officers. People like to see a police officer walking around,” Frechette said.
He said this issue is not one of money.
"We're not asking for more money. We'd just like to stay at a police level,” Frechette said. "If we lose a police officer, we'd like to at least get a police officer in his place.”
He said part of the success of the campus police is giving out trespass warnings — a warning that forbids a person to come back on campus or they will be arrested.
"Trespass warnings are part of the success to keep people out of here," Frechette said. "It's a service that only can be given by police."
He said if the University decides to add security guards instead of more officers, it could actually create more work for the officers.
"People here will never lose their jobs, but people feel threatened and may be overburdened with police work," Frechette said.
An unnamed officer said he would quit if the University would hire guards without hiring at least six more officers.
UM IN COMPARISON
Harvey Gunson, director of Public Safety at Please see page 3/POLICE
Senators to meet their constituents
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Associate News Editor
Next week is Student Govern-•nt Week on the University of ami campus All week, mern-rs of SG will be at a table in the liversity Center Breezeway to tet their constituents.
SG Vice President Amparo Urania said, "The purpose is to form our students that we do ist and get them aware of what e've done and are planning to
Next Wednesday, the speaker o tempore of the Florida Legislate, James Burke, will make a test appearance at the SG senate
leeting.	____
The next week, Feb. 22-27 will p Safe Break Week, sponsored by oost Alcohol Consciousness Con-erning the Health of University tudents. BACCHUS President Ed lobley said the week will pro-tote safe drinking practices for he upcoming spring break.
Speaker of the Senate Dean urman announced that Democrat-c presidential candidate Michael tukakis will speak at 4 pm. Feb. !5 at the University Center Rock.
Also at Wednesday’s meeting, he senate passed several bills. *ich Jones was ratified as the new school of Architecture senator
A bill to end the sale of blue books was passed 23-2-2. Senator Marc Oster said, "Students are writing in blue books before coming to class and then using the notes on exams.” Providing the blue books will cost the University $6,000 a year.
"1 don't think that is too great a cost to stop cheating," Oster said.
After lengthy debate, a bill to free students from having to take three final exams on the same day did not pass the senate by a vote of 10-12-2. Senators argued that the bill should be for all exams, not just finals, and the resulting debate culminated in the failure of the bill to pass. The bill may be brought up again at a later date.
The senate also cancelled the March 16 meeting and appropriated $500 for an SG mixer on that
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The spring 1988 election calendar was modified so run-offs, if necessary, will now be held on Monday, April 4.
Oster also said University Ombudsman Bill Mullowney will meet with Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs to discuss compensation for students in Stanford Residential College whose rooms were flooded by faulty air conditioners.
Student with gun fends off burglar
Potential thief gets the message
CI1K1S DeROSA/Hurricane Stall
Shadows of love
Amy Yanagisawa and Chris Fredrick embrace by the
Palm Court Fountain.
By MARA DONAHOE
News l ditor
A University of Miami sophomore returned to his Miami apartment from an evening at the Rathskeller Tuesday night to find himself using his 12-gauge shotgun to fend off a burglar.
Sophomore Jordan Jacobson, who lives at an aparment complex on SW 27th Ave. and Bird Rd., used his shotgun to detain the burglar until police arrived.
Mitch Nyveen, Jacobson's roommate and a UM sophomore, came home at about midnight from the Rathskeller when he saw a black man fiddling with the door handle of his third floor apartment.
The man told him he was looking for someone named Bobby. Nyveen then told him to leave. "The man man walked away and said 'Okay, sorry.' " Nyveen said.
A little later Jacobson came home and went outside to take the garbage out. He later heard the girl from the apartment across the hall yell, "Oh my God."
Jacobson went in his bedroom and took out his shotgun and put in some shells. He told the man, who was then walking out of the
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apartment, "Don’t move or blow your f---ing head oft."
The man continued walking and Jacobson cocked his gun. “At that point he stopped walking." Nyu-veen said.
Me then told the suspect, “I've got a gun. Lie down on your stomach and don’t move.”
Jacobson said the man started to get up so he cocked the gun and prepared to fire a warning shot. "It was ready to fire.” he said.
Then eight Miami police officers arrived with their guns drawn and arrested the suspect.
Jacobson said the police told him he was a hero and not many people would have done what he did.
“I was just hoping he wouldn t call my bluff," Jacobson said.
Jacobson said the officers took jewelry worth $600 to $700 from the man's pockets. Police returned later to fingerprint the neighbor's apartment.
"It's just bizarre," Nyveen said.
“If I had not come home it would have been our apartment that would have been robbed."
City of Miami police are currently preparing a report of the incident.
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Sociology professor fights to retain Job
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By CECILE GAUF.RT
Stall Writer
Donald Calhoun, a University of Miami sociology rofessor of 25 years, started a long crusade to fight etirement last semester. Now he wants his benefits rom the past five years and he wants someone to peak with him about his situation.
Because he turned 70 years old this year, the Jniversity told him he would have to retire in May,
988 However, Calhoun wants to keep teaching.
"I want to continue teaching and I can't see why I an't continue teaching for at least the next four ■ears," Calhounsald. “I am ready to talk, but nobody vants to talk with me."
Calhoun said he would settle for a one-year ■ontract and a summer session until the situation is vorked out. He also wants to be paid the benefits he
Missing statue found
Case of the missing bust is busted
University asks 70-year-old Donald Calhoun to retire
didn't receive from the time he turned 65 to June 1, 1987 when the University started paying again into
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employers to pay employees benefits on|y |ln,l h ■ ■ reached age 65. However, a new law effective in HI88 required the University to pay benefits until the
BB UM Gerwraf Counsel Paul Dee said the University was within the law in not repaying for those years because the new law is not retroactive.
"When we didn’t pay Calhoun at the time, we didn't break any law," Dee said.	,
Any faculty member between the age of 65 and
mav he in the same situation. Lois Mitchell, assistant director for employee benefits, said “quite a number nf faculty members are in this age range.
°f MUcheil said the University had ^ generous enough to start paying benefits since June 1, 198 when the law only became effective in January 1.188.
"It was never our intent to discriminate against any faculty member over 65." Mitchell said. She said Uic University could simply not afford to go back and pay all the benefits.
Calhoun first requested that the University allow him a one-year contract to continue teaching. He said University turned him down
Under the Florida Civil Rights Law of 1974 it is illegal to discharge an employee on the basis of age^ Calhoun appealed to the Florida Commission on Human Relations after a first comPj^int. dismissed, but he has not received any feedback on it
'* Vie said that the commission ruled had„
jurisdiction over the University because Calhoun gets
benefits out of a pension plan funded by the federal
K" Dee "said the University did not break any|’e^'ral law since the law does not include university staff. "There is not a ceiling on retirement anymore.
eX<The University^senHU attorney, Thomas Rebel, to hear what CamoL had to say and tell Dee although Calhoun has not heard from him yet and May getting closer.
By MARA DONAHOE
News Editor
The bust of Neil Schiff has been ound at last. The missingSchiff vas a result of juvenile mischief.
The statue disappeared in early December from the front of the ennis center named for the long-:ime member of the University of Miami Board of Trustees. Il was round Tuesday in a lake by Snapper Creek off of Sunset Drive. It had been taken as part of a local teen scavenger hunt.
Lt. Henry Christensen of Public Safety said the statue was face down in the lake, "fairly well
intact.”	. .. , .
The tennis center was dedicated to Schiff in November. UM President F/dward T Foote II called Schiff's widow, Barbara Schiff, at 4:30 p m. Wednesday to tell her the staute was found
"I am very happy, elated and excited," she said. The family had recently begun work on a replace-
ment statue, but she said it was "just in the wax stage."
"We’re working on making sure that it never happens again, that it is safe for a lifetime," she said.
Detective Bart Pesa received information Jan. 8 that a local juvenile had some knowledge of the statue's disappearance. A group of juveniles had taken it as one object on a list for the hunt. The statue was then taken from the group by unother group of
U'The^second gfoup threw the
statue in the lake on Jan. 15.
With the assistance of tne juveniles who committed the crime and their parents. Pesa recovered the statue undamaged from the lake. Criminal charges have been waived in lieu of hign school disciplinary charges.
Foote, who came to see the recovered statue, said Neil Schiff had been a good friend of his. "I’m glad to see him back," he said.
Barzee chooses jail sentence instead of guilty plea ij/LÇPyïl
SG president arrives late to trial date
in jail for tardiness and ipr„njy unwillingness to plea bargain, he
By CAREN BURMEISTER
Contributing Editor
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Student Government President Bill Barzee spent four hours in the Hade County jail Wednesday afternoon after refusing to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges incurred during an incident at last season s opening football game,
Miami Police arrested Barzee on Sept 5 at the Orange Bowl and charged him with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence.	.
When Barzee arrived 15 minutes late for Wednesday's trial County Judge Gerald Klein gave him an ultimatum: Either plead guilty to the charge of disorderly conduct, or sit in jail until you raise $25U. Barzee chose jail.
"I don’t want to say 1 m guilty when I’m not,” Barzee said. "I m innocent — it's ridiculous.
"Basically, tfie judge threw me
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Car trouble and a subsequent 15 minute wait for the Metrorail caused Barzee to be late for his 1:30 court appointment, he says.
Barzee said he has no regrets about his decision to plead not guiltv. The $250 bail posted by Barzee's lawyer, Frank Zaremba, will be returned after he appears at his next court date to be scheduled within three weeks. Wednesday's visit to jail will not appear on his record.
Zaremba said he was not sur-prised by Barzee’s decision. He said that from the beginning his client refused to give in to the charges. "I believe it was an extremely courageous act on his part," Zaremha said.
Wednesday’s trip to jail reminded Barzee of his elementary school days. "In the fourth grade, if you
Barzee
were late to class, you had to stand outside in the hallway for a half-hour," Barzee said. “This time I was 15 minutes late and spent four hours in jail.|