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UM reveals its new and improved shuttle service with more stops and extended hours.
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Students have a chance of winning MTV’s “Ultimate Spring Break Weekend” m Daytona.
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Miami’s men’s golf team finished next to last in the Taylor Made/National Collegiate Invitational.
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Volume 66, Number 36
University of Miami
Tuesday, Feb. 21,1989
Students lose parking spots
Lot closed for new complex
By SUZANNE TRUTIE
Stall Writer
An addition to the McArthur Engineering Building and the construction of a new science complex will result in the loss of 350 parking spaces, according to Joseph Frechette, executive director of Public Safety.
The lot behind the Cox Science Building and the McArthur Building will be permanently closed starting Sunday, Frechette said.
The spaces in this lot were designated for UM faculty, administrators and employees. In a compromise between students and administrators, 200 of the commuter spaces from the lot behind the Memorial Classroom Building will be redesignated as faculty, administration and employee parking.
The spaces lost as a result of the construction will be absorbed in several existing lots, as well as a new lot on Scodella Avenue near the Faculty Club and the Alumni House, Frechette added.
“Our first priority was to make absolutely sure there would be enough spaces to accommodate
using the lot behind the McArthur Engineering Building and the Cox Science Center,” Frechette said.
According to Frechette, the new lot on Scodella will provide 221 spaces. Three existing lots which are currently underused should provide even more space, he added.
More efficient use of Lot 600 (next to Mark Light Stadium, parallel to Hurricane Drive), Lot 604 (next to Mark Light Stadium, parallel to Ponce de Leon Boulevard) and Lot 425 (the Metrorail lot) should provide sufficient parking, Frechette said.
Commuter students are d>» ided about the loss of spaces.
“I’m mad and disappointed," said Miriam Gonzalez, a sophomore majoring in biology Tm a science major, and I can’t use the
The spaces lost as a result of the construction will be absorbed in several existing lots, as well as a new lot on Scodella Avenue near the Faculty Club.
parking lot because it’s always full. When they take away the lot, I really won’t have anywhere to park.”
Alexis Hongamen, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering, said the University needs to expand, but it’s going to cause big headaches for all commuters
Carolyn Salisbury, president of Roadrunners Commuter Student Organization and student representative to the parking board, said the new buildings represent progress, but will only add to the parking problems that already exist.
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been for Student Government and the Roadrunners intervening, we would have lost more spaces,” Salisbury said.
Frechette added that one of the priorities during the planning process was to improve security at the lots around the perimeter of the campus, including fencing and lighting changes at the 600, 604 and Metrorail lots.
Some commuter students say they are not concerned with the loss of room for parking.
“I don’t care about the parking spaces. I’ll park anywhere, even if it’s on the grass,” said Rafael Herrera, a junior majoring In motion pictures.
Sophomore political science major Stephen Sarenac said, “I always make sure I get to class at least a half an hour early to find a parking space.”
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Members of United Jewish Appeal and Hillel release dozens of red, yellow and blue balloons Friday in a show of solidarity with the oppressed Jews of the world.
Adams returns to Senate
By JOHN BOG
Stall Writer
In its first case of the year, the Student Government Supreme Court voted unanimously last Friday to reinstate Max Adams as secretary of the SG Senate.
Speaker of the Senate Marc Os-ter dismissed Adams last semester on the grounds he was causing “intolerable friction” within the Senate.
Oster cited a memorandum sent by five SG members — C. Dean Furman, Mike Marcil, Fred Kar-linsky, Martha Zimmerman and Beth Susi — as evidence of the friction. The memo outlined some of the senators' grievances against Adams and requested his removal from office.
Oster said his decision was “In the best interest of the Senate and the student body.”
The main argument at the trial was whether or not Oster had the power to remove Adams from office without impeaching him.
Oster said the secretary of the Senate is a minor appointment and as such could be removed without actual impeachment. The court disagreed and ordered Os-
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According to Gabriel Edmond, a justice of the court, the SG Constitution does not specifically give the speaker the power to dismiss the secretary.
He said the question before the court was not whether Adams should have been dismissed, only whether Oster had the authority to do so.
Adams will attend tomorrow's senate meeting and said he is looking forward to “pursuing | his | projects.”
Adams said he is not bitter, but would like SG President Freddie Stebbins to “reprimand” the senators who wrote the memo against him However, he said he doubts this will happen.
“Hopefullv we can put this thing to rest' Adams said.
PETER A. PAOUCELLUAssistant Photo Editor
And the winner is ...
Montrese Tamar Hamilton, winner of the Miss Black UM Scholarship Pageant, receives her trophy and flowers Saturday night. For more on the pageant, see Accent page 6.
Sports Fest to begin Saturday
Masters say events should be spread across campus
people.
This year, with Mahoney as the fifth and last residential college, over 1,000 people are expected to participate, including masters, their families and the residence coordinators of each college.
The concept of Sports Fest was proposed four years ago by Hecht and Stanford Residential Colleges.
This year, with Mahoney as the fifth and last residential college, over 1,000 people are expected to participate.
By TRISHA CONDREN
Staff Writer
Over 1,000 people are expected to participate this weekend in the University of Miami Sports Fest '89, the annual sports competition between the five residential colleges, said Bob Wyner, associate director of Campus Sports and Recreation and coordinator of the event.
This year, 21 different events, from inner tube water polo to Frisbee golf, are planned. The object is to give everyone, regardless of athletic ability, a chance to participate.
In the past, most of the events have been held at the Lane Recreation Center and the Intramural Field. This year, the Council of Masters of the residential colleges suggested some of the events be held closer to Mahoney and Pearson.
The council reasoned it was hard to motivate people to get up early on Saturday or Sunday and walk over to the places where the events were taking place.
Thompson Biggers, chairperson of the council, said although no events were moved this year, he hoped next year’s Sports Fest committee would “be sensitive to the fact that there are residential colleges on both sides of this campus” and “make it more of a campus-wide event."
Wyner said the event, which is in its fourth year, has grown every year with the addition of each residential college.
Five hundred people participated the first year, Wyner said. With the addition of Eaton Residential College, the number of participants grew to 600 the second year, and last year, with the participation of Pearson Residential College, the event drew 800
According to Wyner, the two colleges wanted a sports program involving as many people as possible. A committee was formed and Sports Fest was born.
Individual prizes will be awarded to the best male and female teams, and a trophy will be awarded to the winning residential college. Free T-shirts will be given to all the participants.
A committee of 10 students, a
graduate assistant at CSR and Wyner has been planning Sports Fest since October.
Lisa Fritz, a member of the committee and a resident assistant at Mahoney, said she just wants everyone to go out and have fun.
“People say they will come out for one or two events," Fritz said. “But they end up staying all day Saturday and coming back out on Sunday."
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The Students Against Multiple Sclerosis organization at the University of Miami is sponsoring a “Skip a Meal” fund-raiser to benefit the victims of MS.
Students participating in the event agree to give up their dinner on Monday.
University Dining Services has agreed to donate a portion of the
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cost of each dinner to SAMS to help fight MS.
Students may sign up to skip their meal outside of any of the dining halls during lunch and dinner all this week, at the tables set up during Sports Fest this weekend or with theirresident assistant.
The goal Is to have 1,000 stu-
dents participate by going without dinner that day, according to Stephen Hester, co-chairperson of the event.
“We are trying to raise the most money of any school in the country so that MTV will come down here for the weekend," Hester said.
— ROBERT MILLER
Security patrol adds to student safety
By JON LEINWAND
Staff Writer
A class finished at 9:30 p.m. in the far end of the Memorial Classroom Building and a lone female student is standing by a blue light emergency phone cautiously looking around. Suddenly, a man in an orange jacket appears, driving a golfcart.
The man is a member of the University of Miami's student security patrol, charged with escorting students around campus at night and assisting police in routine duties.
The incidence of violent crime against students is much lower on campus than in the surrounding neighborhoods, said Department of Public Safety Officer Pat Haden, the university's crime
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