Miami Hurricane, October 18, 1988

              Healthy and happy
The UM Lane Recreation Center plans to expand with Nautilus, floor hockey, a juice bar and more.
News — page 3
Bowling for points
College Bowl Miami has selected its varsity team for a regional tournament
Accent — page 6
Nightmare at South Bend
Miami lost to Notre Dame Saturday, 31-30, thus relinquishing its No. 1 ranking.
Sports — page 8
Welcome to reality
Miami’s winning streak ends with 31-30 loss
ERIK COCKS/Hurricane Staff
Miami Head Coach Jimmy Johnson signals to
By DAN LE BATARD
Sports Editor
Allow me to be a tour guide for a moment. Let me escort you through a place where Hurricane foot hall fans haven't been in recent years, a place where mortality is a permanent resident and where pain and failure often make guest appearances.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. to reality.
Please wipe your feet before entering, because Oklahoma fans and players have been trying to keep this place tidy while awaiting our arrival Oklahoma, like the rest of the nation, knew we would eventually arrive here. They just doubted (and rightfully so) that we would arrive before the turn of the century.
Let us begin.
On your left is a vindictively smiling Florida State University, suffering here since last season after a two-point conversion and
a national championship was swatted away. After trying to escape from here earlier this season, FSU was caught and punished. 31-0.
Directly below you, in a symbolic position it has become accustomed to, is the University of Oklahoma. After several years of being able to avoid this place, the Sooners fell victim to a neat little football invention called "the pass." They'll be here for a while.
Just behind you is the University of Michigan. They just got here last month. If you listen carefully enough, you can hear their leader, Coach Bo Schembechler.
What’s that? Speak up, Bo.
"We had that game. We had that game."
You'll have to excuse Bo. He's been mumbling that since he got here.
Up on your right, cowering and quivering in the corner, is the University of Florida. The Gators, unlike the other residents, checked in here voluntarily. They figured this was a great hiding place, a place where they could avoid confronting the University of Miami (again).
That concludes our brief tour.
Our team is human. Welcome
to reality. Don't bother grabbing a seat, though.
We won't be staying long.
The University of Miami Hurricanes, a fabulous team which had been making the miraculous seem routine, made some mistakes Saturday and, for once, couldn’t recover. The Hurricanes were beaten Saturday by the only collegiate team in the universe that could possibly have defeated them:
The Hurricanes were beaten by the Hurricanes.
But please understand that this is not a time to talk about turnovers or missed opportunities. Our focus shouldn't be on penalties or unsuccessful fake punts. This isn't a time to discuss fumbles or blown calls.
This, believe it or not, is a time for congratulations.
Thank you. Hurricanes, for that incredible winning spree encompassing 36 regular-season games.
Thank you, Hurricanes, for the way you continue to play like national champions.
Thank you, Hurricanes, for consistently fielding a team that contends for the national title, a feat only a handful of proud schools can boast.
Thank you. Hurricanes, for continuing to be the Team of the
'80s.
Thank you, Hurricanes, for representing UM with class Saturday, for stopping all the self-serving babbling of past years, and for letting your bone-snap-ping play speak volumes for you.
Thank you, Hurricanes, for putting forth an effort Saturday that even the most avid of Hurricane-haters had to respect and admire.
Thank you, Hurricanes, for fielding a team that can make seven turnovers and still come within two points of beating the nation's fourth-best team.
Thank you, Hurricanes.
Yes, Hurricane fans, the streak is over, but the season is not. Miami will probably fall to fourth in the rankings, but oodles of teams have won the national championship with a loss and oodles more have won it when ranked as high as fourth after only five games.
If Miami can win the rest of its games, a distinct probability, the other three teams ahead of the Hurricanes (Notre Dame, UCLA and USC) can easily lose at least once. Notre Dame still has to play
quarterback Steve Walsh
at USC, and USC still has to slug it out with UCLA later this season. UCLA, meanwhile, must still face most of the tough Pacific 10 Conference.
Does all this speculation sound odd and confusing? It should. You haven't had to worry about it for a while.
When was the last time Miami needed other teams to lose? When was the last time Miami didn’t
to watch his receivers.
control its destiny? Aside from pre-season rankings, when was the last time Miami wasn’t standing at the top of the polls?
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. to reality.
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Dan Le Buturd, a junior majoring in news-editorial journalism and politics, is the sports editor of The Miami Hurricane.
Exam
schedule
revised
By LISA FRANKEL
News Editor
University of Miami students who were scheduled to take three final exams in one day may find relief in the newly revised final exam schedule being released this week.
The Student Government Senate addressed this issue last year with legislatioa and a series of meetings between Speaker of the Senate Marc Oster, SG President Freddie Stebbins, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs Dr. James Ash and Associate Dean of Enrollments Dr. Thompson Big-gers, a solution was worked out.
"We wanted to take some of the pressure off students who had to take three exams in one day,” Stebbins said.
Stebbins said he thought one of the motivating reasons the administration had for changing the schedule was the percentage of freshman taking three exams in one day.
When enrollment services examined the statistics, they found that 28 percent of the freshman class was scheduled for three final exams in one day, Stebbins said.
Director of Academic Services Bob Fuerst said that the freshman class was the one faced with the biggest dilemma. "The freshmen were the main group to suffer from this,” he said.
"Most students are going to be extremely happy about this change in policy,” Stebbins said.
There were some drawbacks, however. Not everyone who was scheduled to take three exams in one day was helped by the new schedule.
Of the approximately 1800-2000 undergraduate students scheduled for three final exams on the same day, there are still around 315 whose schedules will still be overloaded. Stebbins said he believes those students will be handled on an individual basis either with their professors or through an administrative committee, which Stebbins is hoping will be formed, to deal directly with this issue.
"We think that way they can work out most of their problems," Fuerst said.
In order to solve the exam problem, it was necessary to take part of one of the reading days away, Stebbins said.
Johnny Taylor and Andrea Wilson dance at the residential colleges'Fall Ball held Friday at the Biltmore Hotel.	___________________________________________
Crew van flips; few rowers hurt
Wind, load cited as reasons for accident on Rickenbacker
By AMY ELLIS
Assistant News Editor
A van carrying 17 members of the University of Miami men's novice crew team turned on its side and slid down the William Power Bridge of the Rickenbacker Causeway early Friday morning, according to a report filed by Officer George Roschel of the City of Miami Police Department.
According to the team's head coach Joe O’Connor, one student was treated for shock, another suffered a strained neck and two students had lacerations on their hands.
O’Connor said the team members were on their way back to UM from practice on Virginia Key when the driver of the van, a member of the crew team, lost control and hit the bridge’s retaining wall.
Police said the driver, Javier Fraixa, was not charged with the accident.
O’Connor said the driver may have been moving too quickly as he was trying to change lanes. That, combined with strong winds on the bridge and a heavy load in the van, may have caused him to lose control, O'Connor said.
A member of the crew team who was sitting in the back of the van, but asked not to be identified, said the vehicle then slid halfway down the bridge, flipped
on its side and finally came to rest at the bottom of the bridge, in between the far left and middle lanes.
"It was very windy, and we were overloaded,” the student said. "It [the wind| nailed us at the top of the bridge, and he | the driver] lost control."
The student also said that a Metro-Dade police officer who witnessed the accident said the driver did not appear to be at fault and actually may have saved the occupants of the van by avoiding the other cars on the bridge and slamming into the wall, rather than going off the bridge into Biscayne Bay.
O'Connor said. “It could’ve been real serious if other cars had been involved.”
Once the van came to a halt, the student said they had to push the back window out and climb through because the side door was beneath the van and the back doors were crushed and would not open.
According to O’Connor, the van was very badly damaged but could possibly be repaired. UM’s liability in the matter is not known at this time. Director of Business Services Alan Fish and Associate Athletic Director Doug Johnson could not be reached for comment. UM’s General Counsel Paul Dee declined comment until more information on the accident is available.
Enrollment largest In five years
By BARRY JACKSON
Staff Writer
University of Miami officials announced yesterday that the school’s total enrollment is the largest in five years and freshman enrollment is the highest in eight years.	_
UM currently has 13,828 students, according to Deborah Triol Perry, associate provost and dean of enrollments. It is the University’s largest enrollment since 13,861 students entered in the fall of 1983.
This year's student body includes 8,530 undergraduate and 5,298 graduate students, Perry said. Last year, 13,345 students enrolled, composed of 8,333 undergraduate and 5,012 graduate students.
The overall rise in enrollment is partially due to the increase in freshman enrollment. UM has 1,900 freshmen this year, Perry said, compared to 1,734 first-year students who enrolled in the fall of 1987. This freshman class
Freshman SAT scores increase
is the largest since 1,947 students entered the school in 1980.
"We wanted to increase the size of the student body without sacrificing quality," Perry said. "I feel we were able to accomplish that.”
In fact, the quality of the freshman class did rise slightly, in terms of test scores and high school class rank.
This year's freshmen compiled an average Scholastic Aptitude Test score of 1107 on a scale of 400 to 1600, according to Chris Dudley, UM’s director of media relations. The score exceeds last year's average of 1106 and greatly surpasses the national average of 904.
Dudley said the average freshman SAT score is the highest since UM began recording standardized test results in 1975.
Furthermore, 61 percent of the first-year students
ranked in the top 20 percent of their high school class, and 40 percent ranked in the top 10 percent, Dudley said. These were also the highest totals since 1975.
In contrast, 58 percent of last year’s freshmen had grade point averages in the top fifth of their graduating class while 37 percent ranked in the top tenth.
"I’m very satisfied with the quality of the freshman class," Perry said. "Every class in the last few years has gotten better."
Mary Conway, director of admissions, agreed, adding that the incoming students were the most academically distinguished of any freshman class in her nine years at the school.
"The quality is outstanding," she said. "Our ability to attract top students shows that our academic reputation is rising."
While UM accepted more freshmen this year than in the last eight years, the school probably accepted a small-
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