Miami Hurricane, October 14, 1988

              Paying the price
UM students had cash, credit cards and traveller’s checks stolen from their rooms by a guest.
News — page 3
Playing the part
The director of The Prime of Miss Jean Brody oilers a unique perspective about life.
Accent — page 6
It’s here
Miami and Notre Oame kick it off Saturday at South Bend, Ind, in the biggest game of the year.
Sports — page 8
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Volume 66, Number 13
University of Miami
Friday, Oct. 14,1988
Chairman explains evaluation delays
Results available next semester
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By LISA FRANKEL
News Editor
Dr. George Alexandrakis, chairman of the Faculty Senate, addressed the issue of faculty evaluation forms at this week's University of Miami Student Government meeting.
The major reason Alexandrakis gave for the delay in the release of the results to SG are the differences in evaluation forms from school to school.
“It’s not a question of indecision. The Faculty Senate feels they need the pause to put things together."Alexandrakis said. "The | Faculty | Senate does not want to hold anything back per say, but it is in the mechanics.”
Alexandrakis denied that the Faculty Senate is trying to hide anything. Rather, he said that it was simply a matter of organizing the information.
However, one of the test results that will not be released at any date is the Peer Review Evaluations. Alexandrakis said that each professor who does not have tenure or who wants to be promoted will be evaluated by his peers. The results of these evaluations will become a part of each professor’s file, but will not be released to the general public.
Alexandrakis said that every faculty member he knows likes to know what the students think about them. Yet, he said he feels that new teachers, who do not know “the ropes,” should have a right to not release their first semster evaluations.
One of the arguments Alexandrakis presented was that instructors are not allowed to print students’ test grades without permission from the students, therefore why should instructors have their "grades” posted without their permission?
Student Government President Freddie Stebbins gave a number of valid reasons why the evaluations should be printed. He said that freshman have been asking for the booklets and all that SG can offer them are last year’s cop-
ies. He argued that students need the information for new classes, professors and majors.
Stebbins added that SG pays for the printing of the booklets and that their budget does not allow for the reprinting of old material. Also, he said that this whole situation is making students wonder what the Faculty Senate is trying to hide.
“I can assure you that as far as I know, this is a completely honest effort to do things better," Alexandrakis said.
“I feel confident that we will have the results by February,” said Lora Davella, SG vice president.
Also speaking at the meeting was Director of Campus Sports and Recreation Norm Parsons.
Parsons discussed the eventual expansion of the Lane Recreation Center, an $8 million project.
“What we want to do is make it a home away from home,” Parsons said.
Pari of the expansion project includes the addition of a health bar, a large screen video room, ja-cuzzis, squash courts, saunas, a computer lab and a bio-feedback lab.
Parsons stressed that the center will be concerned not t
with working out, but also with wellness and health.
According to Parsons, the date of completion for the new center is financially driven.
There will be an open forum today at 2:00 p.m. in the Whitten University Center’s International Lounge to hear student suggestions on what the new center should include.
Presently, there is a fundraising campaign for the center being run by Lonnie Kantor, a UM graduate and past president of the Alumni Association.
Students who cannot attend the forum are urged to stop by the CSR table in the University Center Breezeway between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. today to express their views on the center's expansion.
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Sailing into the sun
The Hurricane crew team practices at the Miami Rowing Club on Key Biscayne.
Group
seeks
status
By ALBERT XIQUES
Assistant News Editor
Palestinian students trying to start an on-campus organization at the University of Miami are encountering numerous difficulties, said Ahmad Abul Jobain, a sophomore majoring in advertising and creative writing, who initiated the effort.
According to Jobain, the Palestinian Student Association, as the group is unofficially named, is trying to gain the approval of the Council of Student Organizations, a committee of the University chaired by William Sandler, dean of student personnel.
The first setback for the PSA came when the Council of International Student Organizations, an umbrella organization for all international student groups, refused to recommend them for approval to COSO.
COSO, the committee which examines all requests bv student groups wanting to register as on-campus organizations, tries to avoid having two organizations with the same objectives, said Jody Kalman, executive secretary of COSO and assistant director of student activities.
.... that
he was meeting with some resistance, at which point I assured him that COSO would review his organization equitably," Kalman said.
According to Laura Morgan, director of international studies and scholar services and COISO advisor, COISO did not endorse the PSA because it was not their place to do so.
“COISO is an umbrella organization that will encompass them once they are approved: it is not a sanctioning body," Morgan said. “We haven’t the right to say yes or no to an organization that wants to form."
“Basically. COISO will only approve cultural organizations once they have already been approved
Please see page 3/PSA
Administration breaks down budget
By PAT McCREERY
Editor in chief
Although the University of Miami generated $-117.5 million in fiscal 1988, it only made $2,000 profit, said David Lieberman, vice president for business and finance.
That situation is not bizarre, he said.
UM, like most universities, plans a “zero-profit" budget, he explained. To make money the University would probably have to raise tuition or increase patient fees at the two hospitals it owns, he said.
Below are two charts, which explain the University's revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year that ended May 31.
The $274.4 million listed in the expenditures chart does not include funding for most of UM s medical programs or for “auxiliary enterprises such as residence halls, which together with a read-
Revenue, expenditure funds allocated
justment in the University’s employee pension fund accounted for all but $2,000 of the University’s revenue.
Students first saw the figures In September, when Lieberman and Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, hosted a budget conference for student leaders.
“In the past, students were afraid they ¡administrators) had something to hide, and they don’t have anything to hide,” said Freddie Stebbins, Student Government president. “That’s been evident in the way they've handled these meetings. They’ve had more meetings and asked our opinions.”
“In the last few years the administration’s been very open and listened to students,” Stebbins said.
“I thought it^vas great that he | Lieberman | released the stuff,” said Marc Oster, speaker of the Student Government Senate.
He said the conference and Lieberman’s subsequent loan of the two charts to Tile Miami Hurricane might signify a new administrative openness about budget matters.
Administratorwealize students can speak intelligently about how tuition money and other University funds are spent, Oster said, adding that he hopes the trend continues.
Revenues
, Lieberman explained some facets of the charts. In the revenues cha
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•	Patient care applies to the two hospitals which UM owns — the Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, part of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics, commonly called the UM medical center, which is affiliated with Jackson Memorial Hospital. Both UM hospitals are located in downtown Miami.
The 27 percent listed in the chart is money patients pay UM to receive care, Leiberman said.
Doctors who work at one of UM’s hospitals earn only one-third to one-half what they would earn in private practice, Lieberman said, because they are not paid by patients. The University salaries them
"They are driven by factors other than money," he said.
•	Grants and contracts involve government or
Please see page 3/BUDGET
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CURRENT FUND REVENUES -$447.5 MILLION
Patient Care 27%
Other 4%
Tuition and Other Fees 29%
1988
Grants and Contracts 25%
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL EXPENDITURES - 1988
$274.7 MILLION
Student Services 4%
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Public Service
Gifts and Endowment Income 7%
Auxiliary Enterprises 8%
Academic Support 8%
Scholarships and Fellowships 12%
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Maintenance 6%
Instruction
39%
Research 17%
Institutional Support 5%