Miami Hurricane, March 29, 1988

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Volume 65, Number 43
University of Miami
Tuesday, March 29, 1988
Day recognizes top students
Convocation honors students from each school, college
By JEFFREY SCHWARTZ
Staff Writer
Outstanding students from each school or college were honored at the University of Miami Honors Day Convocation Thursday in Gusman Hall.
UM President Edward T. Foote II said Honors Day is one of his favorite days at UM. “It brings together so much that's good about the academic enterprise," he said at the president’s reception in the Lowe Art Museum, following the ceremony.
Foote said the core of a university is its teachers, and the teachers could not be prouder of the accomplishments of the students honored that day.
Foote noted that Dean Jack Borsting, of the School of Business, and Dean Melanie Dreher, of the School of Nursing, will be leaving the University.
John T. Fitzgerald, director of Honors and Privileged Studies, distributed the awards. Aside from the awards given to the best seniors from each school or college, the honor societies also awarded their outstanding members.
Fitzgerald also presented the awards for the 1987-88 Literary Competition, on the subject of censorship and freedom of speech. The winners of the contest, who each received $500, are freshman Melinda Wilson, sophomore Nancy San-Martin, junior Greg Marcus and senior Ernesto Varela. The grand prize winner, San-Martin, won an additional $500.
Guest speaker Catherine A. MacKinnon, a feminist lawyer, teacher, writer and activist, discussed the relationship between law, sex, equality and social change. She said if men treated women as equals, everyone would “find life worth living and rise to new challenges.”
Many of the seniors said they were glad they were recognized for their academic achievements.
Mario Cubas won the anthropology award. “I’m very proud for winning the award,” he said. “It caught me by surprise, and it means I just have to continue to do the work I’m supposed to be doing and I’ll get recognized for good work.”
Diana Rivera received the foreign languages award. “I was very pleased, it came with complete surprise,” she said.
Tamara Vaughn, winner of The Bryce Finley Ryan award for academic excellence in soci-
Tm very proud for winning the award. It caught me by surprise, and it means I just have to continue to do the work I’m supposed to be doing, and I’ll get recognized for good work.’
Mario Cubas, anthropology award winner
ology, said, “I finally found a home at UM after attending other schools, and the sociology department at UM has excellent professors.”
Kirk Malloy, the marine science award recipient, credits his advisor, Gillian Brooks, for encouraging him. “It’s a hard major, and everyone who graduates from jthe program | should get some sort of an award,” Malloy said.
Richard Masters, winner of the finance award, said, “It’s a great honor for four years of hard work. I appreciate the department’s recognition."
Abbie Duchon, who won the motion pictures award, said, “I worked for good grades my entire life. I’m so glad I received it."
Mayra DeJesus, winner of both the Phi Lambda Upsilon and Golden Key awards, said, “I’m pretty proud; I feel great!”
“I’m very proud and honored to be nominated for the award, and I’m glad I won it," said Lynn Sheeder, winner of the Mortar Board award.
The winner of the Phi Lambda Pi award, Annie McElrath, said, “I was very thrilled, it made it worthwhile for all the sacrifices I had to make.”
“I am extremely honored to be recognized by the college and the department,” said Denise Altman, winner of the Judaic studies program and College of Arts and Sciences awards. “I just feel it’s a great satisfaction to be recognized, and I’m proud to represent my department as well as my school.”
“It was a great honor,” said Lisa Steiner, winner of the biology and Beta Beta Beta awards. “There are a lot of good biology majors and tri-Beta members, and I really feel pleased that I was chosen.”
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Dr. June Dreyer, professor of politics and public affairs, left, leads the Honors Day procession with James McLamore, chairman of the UM Board of Trustees, center, and UM President Edward T. Foote II.
Student newspaper	switch hands
By PAT McCREERY
Managing Editor
Lack of love and money may end student production of The Mailaway, the administration-approved summer newspaper sent to incoming University of Miami freshmen and transfer students.
UM’s Board of Student Publications may ask the University's office of public affairs to produce this summer’s edition instead of relying on the staff of The Miami Hurricane, which has produced The Mailaway since its inception.
Boardmembers say the switch may happen because many student journalists don’t want one of the paper’s long-lasting, low-paying
jobs.
Raymonde Bilger, financial advisor of The Mailaway and The Hurricane, said the BSP raised the issue of production at its last meeting, March 15.
Chris Dudley, director of media relations for public affairs, said he will meet Friday with Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Bruce Garrison, senior advisor to The Mailaway and The Hurricane, to discuss the staffing and salary problems.
Administrators say the board has at least three alternatives when dealing with The Mailaway. It can move the publication date of the paper back to the first week of fall classes; it can ask the office of public affairs or another body to produce the paper; or, it can keep the paper student-produced, at which time it would probably raise the students’ stipends.
But Bilger said The Mailaway does not rely on any University funds, paying for itself through advertising, and so cannot afford to pay staffers much more than token stipends. She said that although she favors students working on The Mailaway, she doesn't think
Public affairs may produce Mailaway summer issue
UM can afford to pay them.
However, "the students working on The Mailaway aren’t getting anywhere near what they could get working on the outside,” said Norm Parsons, the board's chairman.
Lina Lopez, editor of the Accent section in last summer’s Mailaway. agreed. "The pay was no motivation," said the junior English major.
Lopez earned $100 for the month-long job. She says she worked five afternoons a week on copy for the section and two days pasting-up the paper. She had one assistant.
For years. The Mailaway has served a dual purpose — to be a public relations piece for UM and a training ground for future Miami Hurricane staffers. Some student journalists say they do find the experience worthwhile.
“I had never been exposed to the actual workings...of a section editor," Lopez said, "so I got to make all my mistakes on this trial run with enough time to correct them before the paper went to press.”
Other Mailaway staffers say the work was banal and time-wasting.
"It wasn't anything new that I wasn’t prepared for," said Dodd Clasen. a junior marketing major who was The Mailaway’s business manager. “It really didn't help me at all.”
Clasen said he developed few new business contacts during the summer, relying instead on perennial advertisers such as AllSports and D’Pizza.
His work was hampered, he says, by having no assistants since the paper could not afford any. Clasen completed the business work of The Mailaway almost single-handedly, he says, relying only on one salesperson for classified
ads and a staff coordinator who also worked with the news staff.
Overall, the paper made about $3,000 profit, he said. “It was a good moneymaker, but pretty much a waste of time."
Clasen earned $2,000 in sales commissions, hut paid about $800 to live in a dormroom, and about $400 for food. He figures he would have earned about $3,000 in that 2 '/j month period if he had worked as a sales representative for the Minnesota Twins, his usual summer job. Then he could have lived at home, saving on rent and food costs.
"The students do lose some money staying here," Parsons says, although he stresses that most students learn from the experience.
Those students are almost always current and future staffers of The Miami Hurricane, UM’s official student newspaper. Indeed, a person selected by the BSP to be Hurricane editor in chief or business manager must usually also agree to perform the same function on The Mailaway.
While the two papers may employ the same staff, they differ in editorial outlook
“The Mailway's a different kind of publication from the way The Hurricane's evolved," Garrison said. He says administrators may reject stories scheduled to appear in The Mailaway if they reflect poorly on the University, something UM does not do with The Hurricane.
UM wants to leave a favorable impression on the families of incoming students. Garrison said.
Garrison. Bilger and Parsons all say they have not decided how they will vote on who will produce this summer's Mailaway. which usually appears in July.
“I don't know that it's really important who does it, as long as it's done well, and whoever works on it is adequately compensated." Parsons said
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Lawyer says porn violates rights
MacKinnon discusses private, public morality
By MARIA ELENA FERNANDEZ
Staff Writer
Under the First Amendment, pornography has been traditionally considered a question of private virtue and public morality — not a question of personal injury and collective abuse, said feminist lawyer Catherine MacKinnon.
"Instead of recognizing the personal injury and systematic harm of pornography, the law had told society that pornography is a passive reflection of the real world," she said. “Us harms have not been seen as real; they have been protected and disguised under one name: speech.”
MacKinnon discussed “Pornography as Censorship” Wednesday night at the Lowe Art Museum and spoke Thursday at the Honors Day Convocation at Gusman Concert Hall.
MacKinnon is a teacher, writer and activist who invented the legal claim of sexual harassment. She is a 1977 graduate of Yale University and recently completed her doctorate in political science from Yale. With constitutional law as her field, she specializes in equal protection, sex discrimination and the First Amendment.
According to MacKinnon, the First Amendment has "authoritatively shaped the social conception of what pornography does."
Pornography is framed as a concept rather than practice, a thought rather than an action, she said. Its effects are viewed as abstract rather than real, depending on the person's point of view.
When pornography is debated, the issue is whether government should be in the business of ensuring only nice things are said and seen about sex rather than "whether government should remedy the exploitation of the powerless for the profit and enjoyment of the powerful,” she said.	w
She said this happens because the law is an instrument of social power.
"Those who use and consume pornography have social power,” she said. “You can tell they have power because other people are bought, sold, abused and presented to them for their intimate gratification and nothing is done to them."
Whether pornography is detrimental to the "social fabric" has been considered, she said However, whether particular individuals or definable groups have been hurt by it has not.
A causal relationship can be found between consumption of pornography and increases in social levels of violence, hostility and discrimination, particularly by men against women.
“Pornography makes men hostile and aggressive toward women,” she said. “And it makes women silent. That silence that pornography imposes upon women is censorship."
"The people who do pornography are silent to protect their power, profits and pleasures," MacKinnon said. "The people it is done to are overwhelmingly silent because they are ashamed, afraid or dead — and because even when they do speak, no one listens."
MacKinnon has co-authored ordinances that recognize pornography as a civil rights violation for Minneapolis. Minn. Indianapolis, Ind., Los Angeles, Calif, and Cambridge, Mass.
Pornography, according to the ordinance, is “the sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and words," MacKinnon said
The ordinance also makes it possible for persons hurt by pornography to sue if they have been coerced into pornography, had pornography forced upon them, were assaulted, trafficked in pornography, or were forced to participate in the production, sale or distribution of it.	r