Miami Hurricane, September 15, 1989

              Tradition
Columnist argues for UM Hall of Fame to preserve our
past.
Opinion — page 4
Braid to order
Music student turns hair-styling talents into cash
Accent — page 5
Passing fancy
Miami (1-0) faces Troy Taylor and Cal's air attack tomorrow.
Sports — page 7
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Volume 67, Number 5
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday, September 15, 1989
Protesters rally
for arboretum
City hears report on UM plan
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By AMY ELLIS
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Iii an effort to save the University of Miami Gifford Arboretum,
one Coral Gables tree-lover invoked the words of the beloved
children's storyteller Dr. Seuss.
In the words of the Lorax, a
Seuss character who tries to save
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"Do not destroy nature for
things of doubtful economic
worth." Gaubatz said. "I speak
for the trees because the trees
have no tongue."
Calling herself "the Lorax of
Coral Gables," Gaubatz, who has
been working to save the arboretum for nine ye.irs, urged the
board to "reject the University's
plans for parking in any part ofthe
arboretum," at a public hearing
Wednesday night on UM's campus Master Plan.
The plan, which includes the
University's proposals for landscaping, parking, student housing
and other areas of development,
must be approved by the Coral
Gables City Commission before
any of the proposals can be implemented.
One aspect of the plan, which
calls for the construction of a
228-space parking lot where the
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Named in 1949 for the late John
Gifford, a professor of tropical
conservation at UM for 16 years,
the arboretum is a catalogued collection of trees and shrubs located in the northwest corner of
campus behind the art and engineering buildings.
While the University maintains
it needs the space for parking,
Gables residents, tree-lovers and
biology professors say the arbore-
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Photos by TRACY MACK/ Stall Photographer
(Top left) Planning Director Diana Wheeler criticizes the University Master Plan as 'inconsistent and short-sighted.' (Above)
Two-year-old Jennifer McKay and her mother show their support for the arboretum Wednesday outside Coral Gables City
Hall.
Impeachment
proceedings
dropped
Senate names new VP
By ROBERT MILLER
Assistant News Editor
Impeachment proceedings against Student Government President Troy Bell were dropped, and his nomination to fill the vacant seat of vice president was accepted during Wednesday's senate meeting.
The petition to begin the impeachment proceedings, submitted by seven students at last week s senate
meeting, was thrown out by Heidi Wilkinson, speaker
pro tempore, after she found the charges listed to De
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"For some of these charges, all it took was a few
minutes investigation to see that they were completely
baseless," Wilkinson said. ,       ,
Wilkinson said she had carefully considered each
charge and decided that no further investigation was
necessary. ._, _.
After the impeachment petition was thrown out,
Bell's nomination of Teesta Sisodia for SG Vice President was confirmed by the senate by acclamation. Bell
also had all of his cabinet secretary nominations confirmed by acclamation later in the meeting.
Originally, Speaker of the Senate Beth Susi was supposed todecide whether or not the matter should be
given to a special commission to investigate, but Susi
removed herself from the issue because of what she
felt was a conflict of interest. m
If Bell were to be impeached, Susi would be*ne*in
line for the presidency, and Sus. bfliev*! *<*■■*
proper for her to decide his fate, so the task was nana
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which the petition was handled.
"I think it's just sad that Student Government
doesn't feel the need to investigate itself," Kallstrom
said.
Kallstrom said it was not appropriate for Wilkinson
to do the investigation because she was only supposed
to decide if the charges were serious or not. He believes the investigation should have been handled by an
impartial commission instead of by Wilkinson alone.
"I don't think it is something that one person should
be deciding," he said. "Those charges were not frivolous or trivial."
Sisodia inherits the position formerly held by Roxanne Greitz. Greitz resigned in protest before the fall
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UM student tells story of her rape
By YVONNE ALVAREZ
Stall Writer
This is the second of a four-part
series mi dali rapt
A sophomore ul the I Iniversity of
Miami recounts her rape fivrvears
ago by a man she leas going out
wilh. ' I lell my alary whenever I get
a chance, because it nut only helps
me. but other women beeuine aware
that it can happen to them "
Her story is mure emnpli x than
the average date rape, but the
results and their elliet are still the
same Her name was withheld to
proteet her identity
1 was 15 years old at the time. I
was attending a private high school
in New Jersey. 1 was involved in the
school play Crease. This guy was a
popular senior |who| I thought was
my friend. He was in the play, too,
and he looked out for me.
He never really made advances
toward me. We were on the couch a
couple of times kissing, but t hat
was it. I was just really happy that a
senior was paying attention to me,
especially since I was a sophomore.
I went down to the locker room
after rehearsals one day, and he
followed. Somehow he pinned me
down on the floor. No one was In
that part ofthe school. It was
completely deserted. He held my
hands hack above my head. He was
about 6-3 and weighed about 200
pounds, and I am only five feet tall.
He ripped my clothes off and put
on a condom, saying he didn't want
to catch any diseases I might give
him. Actually, it was so they
couldn't trace the sperm, because
that is as good as a thumbprint. He
also didn't want to get me
pregnant, bei ause that is another
way they could catch him. I was a
virgin at the time.
As he attacked me, he
threatened to break my knee caps
so I could never play tennis again.
He also theatened to hurt my family
if lever told anyone.
When he finally let me go, I ran
out as fast as I could. I bled for two
solid days. It was the most
frightening thing I had ever
experienced.
About three weeks after, he said
he wanted to apologize. 1 thought
he was my friend. I was really very
naive, and I thought, OK, I would
give him t he benefit of the doubt.
He tried it a second time. He said
he really thought 1 wanted it,
despite the fact I was screaming
"no" at the top of my lungs.
I didn't tell anyone until about six
months after. I didn't want to talk
to anyone. I was hurt, embarrassed
and ashamed. 1 felt so dirty that I
didn't want anyone to know what
had happened. In a way I thought it
was my fault. He told me that I had
led him on. He was so thoroughly
convinced of it, I even started to
believe it.
He said that is what he would tell
anyone who asked. I had considered
pressing charges, because I really
wanted to see him pay. I didn't
became I knew my reputation
would be dragged through the mud.
I was also scared of what people
would do because I still had to go
through high school.
The hardest thing I did was try
and deal with it myself. I wanted to
be able to tell someone what had
happened, but I couldn't.
After a year and a half, I decided
to tell my mother. I told her some
guy had forced his way on me, but 1
could tell it was really hurting her,
so I didn't give her all the details. I
let it go, because I couldn't deal
with hurting her so much. To this
day, she does not know the full
extent of what happened that day.
My sister refused to believe it.
She couldn't accept it happening to
her little sister.
When I would tell guys who I was
dating, they took it very badly.
Some told me I probably deserved
it. Others said I probably led him
on. I was really shocked. I didn't
thmk people could be so cruel.
I would lapse into a hysterical fit
at any time. To this day, |l fear|
something like that will happen. It
rarely ever occurs, but if someone
pins my arms behind my head I get
upset, and it scares people.
I occasionally have these attacks
when I have sex with someone,
although not always. The best thing
they can do is calm me down and
•show me it's not the guy who
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Maverick Soviet
to visit Miami
Former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin will discuss Frontiers
of Soviet Democracy at a 12:30
p.m. luncheon ~~
Sunday in the
Omni International Hotel,
16(11 Biscayne
Blvd.
As a Politburo member,
Yeltsin was
part of the
Communist
party's highest decisionmaking body.
From 1985
until 1987, Yeltsin was secretary
of the Central Committee for
Construction in the Soviet Union.
He was ousted from his post as
secretary in 1987 by Communist
party President Mikhail Gorbachev for criticizing perestroika.
Yeltsin
Gorbachev's economic reform attempts.
On March 26, 1989, Yeltsin
was overwhelmingly elected to
the Congress of People's Deputies as part of an Independent
Caucus of the Supreme Soviet.
The election was the first in Soviet history to offer voters more
than one candidate per seat.
Yeltsin's revolutionary group
calls for a halt to Communist party-ruled media, the end to internal passports required for travel
within the nation and indefinite
property rights available to any
individual.
The luncheon is sponsored by
the Graduate School of International Studies Institute for Soviet
and East European Studies. Tickets are $100 per person; $17 for
students. For more information
contact the GSIS al 284-5411.
— LAURIE L. THOMAS
Women's studies adds new course
By CATHERINE McELRATH
Stall Wriler
The University of Miami Women's Studies
Program is expanding this year with a lecture
program and a new class being offered to students.
Women's studies was first offered as a 15-
cuedit Arts and Sciences minor in fall 1988. It is
an interdisciplinary minor with classes offered in
anthropology, art history, English, religion, psychology, history and sociology, all with an emphasis on women's roles and influences on these
fields. The courses cover a range of topics, from
women artists to the sociology of sex roles.
Shari Benstock, director of the Women's
Studies Program, said, "The discipline of women's studies is itself a history of culture. It is
guaranteed that the courses you take make gender an issue."
This spring a new class, Humanities and Gen-
der, will be introduced to the program. The class
will be taught by Prof. Lindsay Tucker of the English department and will cover women's roles
in art, music, filmmaking and literature.
Tucker said, "This class will be a historical
view of how hard it was for these women to become what they were and how they represented
women during their time."
The Women's Studies Program is comprised
of 14 faculty members. They all have main appointments in their home departments, but have
reached out to teach women's courses in their
particular field.
Although women's studies courses were offered at the University as early as 1972, the minors program did not begin to develop until two
years ago when Bensteock began pulling together
interested faculty members.
One of whom was Rita Deutsch, coordinator
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of freshman advising in Arts and Sciences and a
teacher of women's literature since 1979.
"I think for me, one of the most important
III for women's studies is the recognition
and acknowledgement of what's been missing
from academic knowledge — the psychology,
history and literature of 50 percent of the human race," Deutsch said.
So far, the students in the program are predominately female. Deutsch said in her women's
literature class of 39 students, only four are
male. Said Benstock, "It takes a lot of courage
for a man to take these classes."
One way of getting men into these classes is
to make them a requirement. According to Benstock, UM is in the final third of American universities to institute a women's program. Already, universities such as Duke, Stanford and
Washington University require a course in either gender or ethnocentricity.
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Music students make
long trek to class
ByCINTHIAMANZANO
Stall Wriler
University of Miami students
carrying tubas, saxophones and
trombones down Hurricane Drive
is becoming a common sight on
campus.
Because of the impending destruction of the Volpe Administration Building, where music majors
normally take their lessons, classes
have been moved to the dance studio, located at the corner of Hurricane Drive and Levante Avenue.
The new Weeks Recording Studio and a small performance hall
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will be constructed where the
Volpe Building now stands, according to Dr. Ted J. Crager, associate
dean of the School of Music.
Crager said the project has been
delayed because the City of Coral
(e.iMes needs to approve the long-
term plan for construction on campus.
"What it amounts to is that the
University is presenting a master
plan to Coral Gables, and all projects are at a standstill until the entire plan is approved," Crager explained.
He added he anticipates the situ-
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