Miami Hurricane, April 15, 1988

              Farewell to Arms?
Shipe’s Gripes laments the removal of the University Center patio cover.
Opinion — page 4
At the movies
The Canes Film Festival features student-produced pictures at the Beaumont Cinema.
Accent — page 6
The tops
Michelle McGann, the top junior female golfer, signs with UM.
Sports — page 8
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Basketball moves to Miami Arena
By TODD CLINE
Staff Writer
While University of Miami Athletic Department officials said they are happy that UM's basketball team is moving to the downtown Miami Arena, student reaction to the change of venue is mixed.
The Hurricanes will join the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat as occupants of the newly constructed building.
"This really represents a move in the right direction for our program," said Coach Bill Foster. "We'll be playing in a place that has a definite basketball atmosphere, and the presence of a NBA franchise in the same building really excites our players.”
Junior Chuck Hogan disagreed. “It’s a pretty atrocious move,” the music engineering major said. “They had a hard enough time filling up the Knight
Library benefit to be held
Architecture plans reference additions
By ALBERT XIQUES
Staff Writer
The School of Architecture Alumni Association will be hosting its third annual Library Benefit at the Biltmore Hotel today. The proceeds of this event will go toward expanding the school’s small reference library.
The library was created about three years ago to provide students and faculty with reference materials in an easily accessible location.
According to Edward Rock of the school’s Oevelopment Office, the library has been growing ever since, thanks to generous alumni support. Recently, the widow of professor Arthur Bowen donated his library to be added to the reference room’s collection.
The collection has grown so large that the reference room will probably have to move this summer to a larger facility. Rock said.
The reference library, which is not a part of the University library system, does not contain the main body of architectural books, said Professor George Hernandez, who oversees the facility.
"It’s often called a reference library, but officially, it is the Reference Room. The main body of our books are over at the Richter," Hernandez said.
Hernandez said he will compile a list of books to purchase based on recommendations from students and faculty.
The reference room is very important to the architecture students. According to Matthew Mitchell, a first-year architecture student, the reason is simple. "We know those books will be there, because they can t be checked out.”
He said that while working on his last project he spent hours in the Richter and couldn’t find what
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Student reaction to team’s relocation mixed
Center and now they are going to spend nearly three times the money on a bigger arena.
"It doesn't seem very logical considering not a whole lot of people get into basketball here," Hogan said.
"It’s a good move if more fans support the program," said freshman Marc Hochman, a broadcast journalism major. “If we don’t get the support the team will be embarrassed because a small crowd will look smaller in the Miami Arena."
The Arena seats 15,826 for basketball games, but IJM will only use the lower bowl portion of the stadium which holds 6,156 people. That represents an increase in seating compared to the Hurricanes' former home, the James L. Knight Center, which
holds 5,109.
Not only will UM’s seating capacity increase, so will its rent. The school paid $2,600 rent for each game last year at the Knight Center. That fee will increase to $5,000 per game this year at the Miami Arena. UM will also have to pay 75 cents for every seat used in the stadium which could exceed 2,000 additional dollars for a normal crowd. The added cost should not affect ticket prices.
The Hurricanes had an average attendance of 2,297 last year and Athletic Director Sam Jankovich said UM will have to average close to 5,000 in the 1988-89 season to break even financially.
Some students doubt the team can attract larger crowds to the bigger arena.
It s ridiculous to move to the larger arena," said Yara Bashor, a junior majoring in architecture "In the larger arena we'll lose all the school spirit. Plus the Knight Center has a lot of UM in it with all thè school conference rooms."
However, freshman Doug Nanney, a politics major, agrees with the move. "It’s a good idea. I saw our game against DePaul this year on TV and we looked dumb playing in a hotel. We need to be playing in a real arena."
Jankovich and Foster think the school will make up the difference in rent by attracting more fans with increased promotions.
"If we do a good job of promoting we should be okay, Foster said. "I don't see the rent increase as a problem. Moving to the Arena is a giant step for this program and it just means we have to do a better job of promoting."
Honor Council may hear cases
during summer
Student advisory committee to form
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Expert opinion
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By KAY HOWELL
Stuff Writer
The University of Miami Honor Council is currently deliberating several cases and may have to meet over the summer if cases last beyond the school year or if a complaint arises during exams. Bill Mullowney, executive secretary of the Council, said.
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“I praise the efforts of the students who served on the Council this year,” Mullowney said. “I’m impressed by the caliber of students we've been able to get to join the Honor Council. With the continued support of the deans, provost, the president and the faculty, the University can continue to raise the concept of awareness of academic integrity and the ideals of the Code.”
Of the three cases currently pending, two concern cheating on tests and one concerns falsified survey results in a communication class.
The Council also decided one case this month. A junior was accused by an engineering professor of taking an exam for a freshman student. Both students pled guilty to violating the Code at the preliminary hearing. The freshman was suspended for this semester with a full tuition and housing refund.
The junior was suspended for the spring, summer, and fall semesters, also with a full re-
fund. Upon appeal, the Selection and Appeals Committee affirmed the freshman’s penalty and reduced the junior’s to suspension for the spring and summer semesters.
Some proposed amendments to the Honor Code remain to be forwarded to UM President Edward T. Foote II by the Faculty
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The proposals were passed by the Faculty Senate in February.
Mullowney said he originally expected approval from Foote at the beginning of February.
A committee of student advisors for students charged with violations will form now that the senate has passed a motion for it, Mullowney said. Student Government is helping with the committee that will counsel and help students understand the honor code process, he said.
The advisors will help accused students present their cases although "it is not a defense system," he said. Advisers will be chosen by the SG Selection and Appeals Committee on the basis of intelligence, objectivity, an ability to analyze facts and a “commitment to the concept of academic integrity,” Mullowney said.
Applications for the student advisory and Honor Council positions are available to undergraduates this week at the Deans’ Offices of all schools.
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International students receive new merit scholarships
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By ANDY SHIPE
assistant Opinion Editor
Seven international students have won the first Academic Merit Scholarships from the International Student Financial Assistance Committee.
The scholarships will be applied to the first summer session and are worth between $600 and $1,000.
Laura Morgan, director of International Student and Scholar Services, said some of the money was from repaid loans of
international UM alumni.
“We tried to give it |the money] for academic merit, because it's something we’ve always wanted to do," Morgan said.
The winners are Cecilia Akintomide, a law student from Nigeria; Fethi Belgacem, a graduate biomedical engineering/mathe-matics student from Tunisia; Vishjeet Chowdhary, a graduate civil engineering student from India; Siqiong Huang, a graduate educational administration student from China; Roman Pryjomko, a
graduate geography student from Great Britain; Bernard Riley, a junior mathematics student from Trinidad; and Martin Wassman, a graduate physics student from West Germany.
The awards were available to all full-time international students, and were based on grade point average and a one-page statement of what they intended to do with the money.
The projects suggested by applicants were as diverse as their nationalities "They were all superb,” Morgan said of
the 35 applicants.
Pryjomko plans to use his award to help finance a trip to Kenya, where he will work with Prof. Donald Capone in making the first physical map of the Amboseli National Park, homeland for Massai tribes.
Akintomide said she will use her money on the other side of Africa, helping Nigeria and other underdeveloped countries use their massive debt as a means to develop their industry through long-term multinational financing.
Belgacem said he will be working with Dr. Eugene Eckstein at the UM School of Medicine to devise a model for the distribution of platelets	in	the	blood
stream for certain diseases.
Wassman plans to take classes in Bogota, Colombia, as an exchange student. During	his stay there,	Wassman can
immerse himself in the culture of South America as he studies physics.
Chowdhary will work on composing an expert	system database	of	the	south
Florida	Building Code.
Top SG officials take oath of office
The top three officials of Student Government were inaugurated Wednesday at the SG Senate meeting in the University of Miami faculty Club.
President Freddie Stebbins, Vice-President Lora Davella and Treasurer Mike Novo took the oath of office which starts their year-long terms.
Stebbins said he is looking forward to one of SG’s best years. “Don't ever forget how good Student Government is,” he advised the senators. "Keep it in your minds and hearts."
Stebbins said the goals of SG are to better student life, let the members get involved on campus, and provide leadership opportunity for all students.
At the meeting, chairpeople were officially appointed to the
three Student Government Senate committees; Academic Affairs; Beth Susi, Joelle Cooper-man. Community and Public Relations: Fred Karlinsky, Carolyn Salisbury. University Affairs: Martha Zimmerman, Ken De-
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bill was passed by acclama-allowing the president to appoint an individual to no more than two committees that are external.
Speaker Pro Tempore C. Dean Furman explained that the president makes 18 or 19 appointments each year to committees such as the Board of Trustees and the Board of Student Publications. "This hill spreads out the duties and responsibilities among many members," Furman
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Student injured in on-campus mugging
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Supreme Court C hief Justice Joe Fernundez, left, swears in Student Government President Freddie Stebbins.
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Editor in chief
In the wee hours of yesterday morning sophomore Todd Rogers, was attacked and robbed while ho was walking east on Brescia Avenue near ihe Faculty Club.
According to Rogers, he was "sort of jogging” to his dorm alone from Manhattan’s, a local nightclub on Red Road, about 2 a m. yesterday.
A white male, six feet tall, about 20 years old with brown, spiked hair, walked toward Rogers and asked him for the time, according to the police report.
"He turned around and jumped me from behind,” Rogers said. “He was really vicious. He hit me maybe three or four times."
The man demanded that Rogers I
give him his wallet, but when Rogers tried to comply the man continued to strike Rogers in the face. He then took the wallet out of Rogers' pocket, according to the police report
"I had five credit cards and about $30 cash," Rogers said.
The man then fled east on Brescia into a waiting, dark colored small car which also fled east on Brescia.
Rogers said just as the car was driving away he was getting up off the ground and could not see the car very well because his contact lens was knocked out.
Rogers was taken to Doctors" Hospital and treated for a fractured right pinky finger. He said he also has a big lip, a cut over his eye, cuts on his hands and sore ribs.
The subject is still at large.
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