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News — page 3
In stitches
The Comedy Woom, a club featuring local and national comedians, is hoping to attract the UM crowd.
Accent — page 6
The big time
UM basketball center Tito Horford leaves Miami to enter the NBA draft in June.
Sports — page 8
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THE MIAMI

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Volume 65, Number 46
University of Miami
Friday, April 8, 1988
Senators sworn in
However, SG faces financial problems
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Associate News Editor
The newly-elected senators were sworn in at Wednesday’s Student Government Senate meeting, yet the new Senate already faces financial difficulties.
The senate’s financial records seem to show a loss of $2,000 this semester.
“We have no money," Vice President Amparo Braniella said, adding that the senators will have to pay for their banquet this year. "I don’t know how in the past we used the student activity fee money to give ourselves a free meal."
“We seem to be missing a couple of thousand dollars from the Florida State University and Orange Bowl games,” President Bill Barzee said. However, he said the missing money is only on paper.
SG advisor Jeff Zirulnick said SG lost money on the FSU game because they refunded money to students who did not go even though SG still lost the bus deposit.
"We’re attempting to rectify accounting discrepancies," Zirulnick said. In the past, SG raised money, he said.
"The problem Is the result of my poor record keeping," Barzee said. "If somehow it does not show I will pay for it out or my o' pocket.”
Barezcc said the problem stents from the fact that many receipts have been thrown away.
Barzee said he plans to meet with the bursar today.
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SG passes parking bill
Legislation aims to save spaces for commuters
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These “mini-Canes" were on hand Tuesday night for the University of Miami baseball team's victory over Niagara and the 20th anniversary of the Sugarcanes.
By BARBRA SPALTEN
Associate News Editor
The Student Government senate passed a bill Wednesday which aims to prevent further congestion in student parking lots and also considered a bill to implement changes in the entire parking system.
The first bill is designed to save the spaces in the lot behind the Memorial Building for student commuters. It reads. "Any loss of parking spaces caused by the construction of the new physics building or of new visitor parking shall be absorbed equally by Faculty, Administration and Employee parking and student parking." The building will begin construction this summer.
Carolyn Salisbury, Roadrunners commuter organization president, co-authored the bill. “Under no circumstances should this lot be taken away and given to the faculty," she said.
Salisbury proposes that the loss from the construction of the new physics building "be distributed evenly between student and faculty."
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Anguish is considering a proposal to put card-accessed gates in the lot to limit the spaces to faculty and administration only.
"Students will be treated unfair-
ly if the proposal goes through." Salisbury said of the faculty recommendation.
Presently, the FAE sticker allows members of the faculty, administration and employees to park in any lot, but with Anguish's proposal, they would be able to lock the students out of some lots.
The other bill discussed at the senate meeting involves changes in the parking system. These include creating one commuter sticker for all non-residents, both student and faculty; eliminating the two free ticket system; planning to build safe, secure and lighted perimeter lots; expansion of the shuttle service; creation of a central Parking Advisory Committee to advise the provost about all parking matters and serve as a parking appeals board; and collection of a fee to establish monies to build a parking garage.
The semi-open parking lot system, she said, would recognize the fact that all non-residents are commuters, whether they are students or members of the faculty.
"Those of us not parking wrong are paying for us who are," she said. The University lost $1 million is revenue from the two free ticket system,
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"Students are getting shafted and we cannot allow that to occur," she concluded.
Cum laude graduation requirements changed
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Students now required to take independent study classes
By LISA FRANKEL
Assistant News Editor
As of the fall semester 1988, the requirements for graduating with cum laude honors will change at the University of Miami.
Affected by the change in policy will be anyone graduating after this May or August.
Minor differences in the policy will be a lowering of the cumulative grade point average for summa cum laude candidates from a 3.95 to a 3.9. There will also be an increase in GPA for magna cum laude honors from a 3.65 to a 3.75.
The major difference from the old policy to the new one is an added requirement of six credit hours of independent study suited towards the purpose of submission of a senior thesis from cum laude candidates.
In a letter mailed to all junior and senior honors students, Dr. John Fitzgerald, director of Programs in
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Honors and Privileged Studies, said that students graduating “ in 1988-1989 who wish to be eligible for these honors must register for the appropriate courses and complete the thesis or project.”
The new policy will affect those students graduating in December of this year, causing those students to readjust their fall schedules to incorporate the six credits for their thesis projects.
Marc Oster, Student Government Senate Chairman for Academic Affairs, has sent a letter to numerous administrators protesting the modifications to the system.
“My concern involves the possibility that deserving, hard-working students with excellent grades will not graduate magna cum laude or summa cum laude because they failed to leave time for two unexpected classes," Oster said.___________________
Oster met with Dr. James Ash, vice-provost for Undergraduate Studies, on April 1 to discuss the
issue.
"Dr. Ash is sympathetic to the students concerns," Oster said "He will work with the hardship cases next year."
According to Fitzgerald's letter, these new requirements were printed in the bulletin for the 1987-1988 academic year.
Amy Brown, a junior honors student majoring in biology, and Stephanie Feltz, also a junior honors student, have begun a petition protesting the implementation of the new policy.
"It’s an inconvience," Brown said. "The faculty is really adamant about implementing it. They're insisting the legislation was passed three years ago
even though months ago."
Fitzgerald insisted that the change is good from the academic standpoint. “It's being done to make a honors a more significant achievement.”
"This was not designed to increase [credits|, but rather within the exisisting framework it would provide an avenue for the winning of these honors. It is in the best interest of the students to do this," he
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Fitzgerald added that as of this past Wednesday, individual departments have been given the flexibility to work with students on a one to one basis to fulfill the requirements. Also, each department has been granted the ability to appeal particular cases in which fulfillment of the criteria is deemed impossi-blc*-
"I'm very sympathetic to the situation,” Fitzgerald said. "I'm urging the departments to he cooperative and humane in their treatment of this issue.”
By LISA FIORENZA
Stall Writer
Several University of Miami student groups have unified to form an "umbrella organization" to speak out against prejudice and racism.
The first meeting of the Students’ Coalition Against Racism and Prejudice was held Tuesday night. Forty student leaders discussed local and national incidents of discrimination and prejudice.
SCARP co-founder Darlene Zo-sel said the organization is needed on campus.
"We don't hear enough about the consequences of discrimination." Zosel said. "We need to make students aware that such incidents happen on college campuses.”
Co-founder Lisa Needleman developed the organization after she learned of an incident involving suspected gang-related vandalism at a Miami synagogue. Vandals broke windows and spray-painted walls with racial and religious markings.
Rabbi Louis Feldstein, of the University’s Hillel Jewish Student Center, suggested that Needleman campus leaders and discuss the issue of
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Organizations represented at the meeting included Organization of Jewish Students, Hillel, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Panhel-lenic Association, United Black Students, Federation of Cuban Students and the alcohol-awareness group,Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students.
OJS President Laura Zel said the group wants to develop strong participation and representation from all campus organizations and perhaps eventually from the community.
“We want to involve everyone, Zel said. "Individuals as well as organizations."
Some members expressed the belief that prejudice is a universal problem.
BACCHUS representative Ld Mobley said, “No one is exempt from racism. It involves everyone."
Panhellenic representative Jane Secia said, “We should all be bound by this. We have enough to worry about without students being split apart."
The group's next meeting will be held at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Flamingo Ballroom of the University Center.
Publications editors elected
The Board of Student Publications announced the new managers of the student publications Tuesday. The board elected Pat McCreery editor in chief of The Miami Hurricane, Dodd Clasen was re-elected business manager of the same newspaper, and Darren Dupriesl was named the new editor of the Ibis yearbook.
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Cultural cuisine
Abdullah Al-Khanbashi gets a "Taste of the World" at Mahoney Hall 6th floor Tuesday night.
Public Safety chooses potential new officer
Candidate must be certified first
The University of Miami department of Public Safety is processing one new officer to enter training and is still looking for another candidate, according to Joe Frechette, director of Public Safety.
The candidate, whose name is protected by his right to privacy, was approved yesterday by Don Anguish, associate vice president for business affairs.
The one approved candidate is not certified and, therefore, must go through the academy in May before joining the force.
"We looked at certified candidates and felt they didn't fit the criteria of the campus," Frechette said. "But now we will keep looking over the applications to fill
the other spot."
Also, all candidates must take psychological, polygraph and physical tests, as well as go through background checks, before being hired, Frechette said.
If the candidates are approved, they must go through five months of intensive training to become certified with the state. I he training includes classes on law, self defense, and when to shoot or not shoot.
After passing the academy, the officers will be paired with a training officer on patrol. If they join the May academy class, they could be on the force as early as September, Frechette said.
— DEBBIE MORGAN
Engineering magazine returns to campus
Staff seeks next years’ editor in chief
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By JEFFREY SCHWARTZ
Staff Writer
A magazine by the College of Engineering that has not been published in three years will soon return to the University of Miami campus.
The Miami Engineer, a semi-annual magazine not published since 1985, will be re-established at UM this month, said Elsa Chi, editor in chief of the magazine.
“I think |the magazine| gives new students an opportunity to view the college in a new light by letting them see what goes on with the faculty and students,”
said engineering Gagnier.
"In the past, the magazine used to be published more often," said Ghassan Kridli, a graduate student in mechanical engineering. “I didn't think financially that it was in the best interest of the University, because it wasn't even covering its own expenses."
"I do believe, however, that every other good engineering college has its own publication, so I'd like to see it back," Kridli said.
The magazine will be available April 23, following an awards banquet for the College of Engi-
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