Miami Hurricane, April 19, 1988

              Graduating? Jobless?
The office of career planning and placement offers jobs and tips to graduating seniors and other students.
News — page 5
Miami’s millions
Graduating senior Tim Huebner offers President Foote some invaluable advice on how to spend UM’s new $400 million fortune
Opinion — page 6
Swan song
The University of Miami men’s tennis team (12-11) finished the season by winning its host tournament.
Sports — page 10
UM Board of Trustees adopts budget
By AMY ELLIS
Assistant News Editor
$445 million to be distributed among schools
The University of Miami Board of Trustees adopted a five- year strategic plan and budget for the University at its annual meeting Friday.
UM President Edward T. Foote II said the strategic plan is an outline of the general direction and broad policy issues facing the University over the next five years.
Issues addressed in the plan include increasing the undergraduate student body and finding money for proposed expansions on campus.
"We try to understand what our strengths are, what our weaknesses are, and determine the priorities of the University," he said. “We want to anticipate as much as we can and build it into the plan.”
According to Foote, the five- year plan and budget have not been finalized.
“It's a continuing process," he said. “The budget for next year has been established by the board, but it has only been outlined in general terms for the next five years."
According to Vice President for Business and
Finance David Lieberman, the board allocated portions of next year’s $445 million budget to each of the schools and departments at the University.
Lieberman said 30 percent of the budget money comes from tuition, 33 percent from patient care revenues through the University’s medical school, and the rest from sponsored research.
Of the $445 million, $247 million will go to the medical school,$20.6 million to the College of Arts and Sciences, $11.8 million to the law school, $16.7 million to undergraduate scholarships, and $6.9 million to Physical Plant, which maintains and operates buildings on campus.
Sixty percent of the budget will be be used for salaries and benefits for faculty members, he said.
Alumni Association president and board member George Braithwaite referred to the proposal as a “shot-gun budget," that leaves the allocation of the funds to the discretion of the individual schools and departments.
In terms of the strategic plan, Foote said a major aim is to increase the undergraduate student body by
almost four hundred students. The University will continue to increase academic quality at the same time, he said.
“Five years ago, the plan was to make the University smaller and better,” Foote said. To accomplish this, the University cut the size of the student body by about 2000, and kept the faculty the same size, thereby improving the student-faculty ratio and making classes smaller, he said.
Foote said another main priority of the plan is finding funds for developments such as the Lane Recreation Center expansion.
The University of Miami five-year fundraising campaign recently topped its goal of $400 million, 19 months ahead of schedule, and according to Braithwaite, the alumni phase of the fundraising is just beginning.
“We're making an all-out effort to reach as many alumni as we can over the next five years,” he said.
Braithwaite also said an overwhelming majority of the donations are “non-discretionary dollars" donated for a specific purpose. The board does not decide
where this money goes. For example, donors designated 62 percent of the funds to go to the medical school.
As yet, no funds have been set aside for other developments such as the proposed convocaton center, the School of Architecture, the Otto G. Richter Library and the Lane Recreation Center expansion, Braithwaite said.
Also addressed in the plan is the UM School of Nursing. According to Braithwaite, the school has been in financial trouble due to competition from four-year nursing programs at Florida International University and Barry University.
“We examined the possibility of doing away with the undergraduate School of Nursing and offering only graduate work," he said. However, Braithwaite said the board decided the School of Nursing undergraduate program would remain intact.
"The program is not healthy, but it’s in place, and it will be supported,” he said.
Foote also said the board is considering ways the University can increase the amount of state funding it receives. Currently, UM receives about $20 million from the state.
Few students get ID card
Students may face long lines in the fall
By LISA FRANKEL
Assistant News Editor
The new ‘Cane identification card is not receiving the response the administration had hoped it
would according to Bob Fuerst, director of academic services.
As of last week the number of students who have registered for the fall semester was estimated at 5,600. Of those students, only 3,500 have received their ‘Cane cards.
"The whole thrust of this thing |the card | is to be able to cut down the anticipated lines during August registration," Fuerst said.
The new ID card will be used for all forms of campus identification: at sports events, libraries, cafeterias and residence halls. The system will be activated in August.
Fuerst foresees no major problem with students waiting until the fall to get their cards; however, the new cards are necessary for almost everything on campus starting the first day students return.
The first football game of the season will be played Sept. 4 and Fuerst said he is worried about the fall rush affecting attendance.
“The cards cannot be used twice," Fuerst said. "They can be magnetically traced." Since students cannot share cards he is encouraging all students who have not attempted to get their ‘Cane cards to do so before the semester is over.
"We’d like to get students who have opted not to get their cards until fall to go ahead and do so now.”
The cards are available in Memorial 111 from 8:30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. everday from now until the fall. The first card is free, after which all replacement cards will cost $15.
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Student brawl leads to arrest
One student sent to hospital
By DEBBIE MORGAN
Editor In chief
Two University of Miami students were involved in a brawl early Sunday morning that sent one to the hospital and the other to jail.
Gregory Riley, 18, was arrested on charges of aggravated battery after allegedly hitting John "Gum-by" Haley with a rock and bicycle kickstand. Haley. 20, was transported to Doctor’s Hospital, treated for head trauma, and released an hour later.
According to the police report, the officer found Haley at 2:45 a.m. Sunday in front of Apartment 44A with a severe laceration to the head. He was bleeding from his mouth and nose.
Witnesses said they saw Riley running from the apartment area to Mahoney Hall, entering through the Pearson Residential Lobby, and up to his dorm room in
Mahoney.
After two witnesses positively identified Riley, he was arrested and taken to Dade County Jail by Coral Gables and UM police. According to a jail spokesman,
he was brought in at 2 1:32 a.m. and taken out by a bondsman at
6:45 p.m. The bail was set at $3,500. A court date has not yet
been set.
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The officer that was approved to be processed for hiring by the department of Public Safety has decided to take an offer with the City of Miami instead, according to Joe Frechette, director of Public Safety.
Alejandro Macias, a security guard for Public Safety at the medical campus, said he will take a job as a police recruit for the city
May 2.
Please see page 4/SAFETY
Two candidates run for UBS positions
MICHAEL DlBARlAturricane Stall
Reaching new heights
Doug Finn, left, blocks Nick Beaulieu's shot during the Mahoney Spring Olympics Sunday afternoon at the Lane Recreation Center. For story, see page 4.
The United Black Students will be holding their elections this week. Campaigning for the election continues today and tomorrow with candidates’ platform presentations at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the University Center International Lounge.
The voting will be held Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the UBS office on the second floor of the University Center.
Paul Dean is running unopposed for the office of vice president.
“I feel right now I am more in touch with what's happening on campus,” Dean said. “I want to improve the unity of UBS and make it what it could be."
He said the major difficulty with the group now is poor communication.
Sophomore Johnny Taylor is running unopposed for president.
UBS sponsors such programs as this semester’s Black Awareness Month. Members organized activities commerating black achievement, and held such events as forums, a fashion show and a dance.
Election commissioner Karen Ford could not be reached for
comment.
The installation banquet will be held Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Sea Shanty Ballroom.
— BARBRA SPALTEN
Students to produce Ma Ha way Subjects needed for study
Board of Publications raises student salaries
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After some debate, the University of Miami Board of Student Publications has decided that students will once again produce The Mailaway, the large newspaper sent to incoming UM students.
The board debated turning the paper over to the office of Public Affairs, since it is considered a public relations piece for the University. In addition, student journalists say the pay was too low for the five-week job.
Students who work on the paper will now receive higher salaries than in previous years. Last year s editor in chief earned $600; this year the position will pay $1,200. Section editors will earn $500, as compared to $100 last year. In addition to a commission on ad sales, the business manager will also receive a $600 stipend.
Raymonde Bilger, financial advisor of the paper, said she is happy the paper is coming out.	„
“I am pleased we are able to raise the salaries, Bilger said.
Editor in chief Pat McCrcery said the pay increase was overdue.	....	„
“I’m glad that we will have the Mailaway, McCreery said. (‘There had been some discussion that
students aren't being paid what they deserved. Fortunately for us and for the incoming freshmen, salaries are being raised. Now we're getting what we deserve and we're going to do a good job."
Dodd Clasen, business manager, said money was not the only problem with last year’s paper; students also did not want to turn down other summer jobs to work on the paper. “The students just didn't want to do the issue and give up what they had planned for the summer,” he said.
However, Clasen said the pay he will earn this year is about equal to what he would get working his usual summer job with the Minnesota Twins.
Lina Lopez, last year’s Accent editor for the Mailaway, said, “It’ll inspire people to do a better job and put more effort into it, and it will hopefully lead to a better quality publication.”
Clasen said administrators were too concerned with the money issue and could not understand that students did not want to produce the paper.
"Administrators weren't listening to us,” Clasen said. He said the extra money is “just going to make the students not complain. They would have done it ¡produce the paper| anyway." Clasen said.
Anyone interested in working on the paper can pick up an application in T/te Miami Hurricane office. University Center 221. Applications are due back by April 26.
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By KEN DEMOOR
Staff Writer
Could you use an extra $700 for the summer? The Applied Clinical Research Center on the University of Miami south campus in Kendall is looking for healthy, male non-smokers to participate in a new medication research study.
The Research Center is testing new medications that may soon be seen on store shelves to determine how long the medication stays in the system and what the peak times are.
Nader Jallad, assistant director of the center, said the aim of the research is to find out what effects food has on the drug being tested and the bioavailability of the drug, which is how it is absorbed into the system.
The drug is a combination of the nasal decongestant pseudoe-phidrine and an unreleased antihistamine product which is being used in Europe.
Jallad said the research is safe. "It is all under the UM investigation teview board," he said. “They look into the risks and
what’s involved; it's scrutinized under Food and Drug Administration regulations.”
The tests will consist of two three-week periods in which a subject would be "dosed" once with the medication and then have subsequent blood samples analyzed.
Prior to the actual testing, all prospective subjects will be screened to determine if they are suitable for the tests.The center has tentatively set the starting date for the study as the first weekend in May.
After the individuals have been notified of their eligibility, the approved subjects will report to the center on a Friday evening.
They will not be allowed to eat certain foods, but they will have the opportunity to read, study or watch television during the confinement period. They will receive the medication Saturday and will have periodic blood samples taken until Sunday morning.
The patients will then return
for more blood sampling on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of the first week; Monday and Friday of the second week; and Friday of the third week. This cycle would be followed by seven open days and then the second cycle would begin.
Jallad said this is necessary because the drug is a time-release capsule. Additionally, he said the test is a double-blind crossover study, where the students will either eat or fast each of the weekends. Neither the subjects or the investigators will know ahead of time who are the tasters and who are the eaters.
Jallad said the center wants UM students to partiepate in the research. The follow-up blood testing may be done at the main campus.
"If they cannot make it on
some days, we can come with a van to campus,” he said.
Screening tests, consisting of a physical exam, an electrocardiogram, and blood and urine tests are being scheduled at the Research Center. For more information, call 284-7360.
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