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A UM alumnus talks to President Carlos Menem of Argentina.
Opinion — page 6
Members only
UM faculty and staff receive tuition remission benefits for themselves and dependents.
Accent — page 8
It’s showtime	
Miami’s basketball programs open their seasons this	
week.	Sports — page 10
Volume 67, Number 23
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday, November 17, 1989
Vote results hang in limbo
Commission to rehear cases
Oink, oink
By JOHN ROG
and TOM B. HIGGINS
Ot the Stall
The University of Miami Student Government Supreme Court met Wednesday night to hear appeals to decisions mack at Monday night's Elections Commission hearing.
Monday night, the Elections Commission heard six complaints against the Integrity ticket resulting in the assessment of 28 penalty points. Twenty points are needed to disqualify a ticket or candidate from an election.
At Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing, the court reduced the points imposed for two of the complaints. These decisions brought the total points against Integrity to 14.
The court decided to hear the remaining appeals at a later date.
One of the revised decisions involved the placing of personal ads in the Nov. 3 issue of The Miami Hurricane. The original decision from the Elections Commission was to assess the maximum penalty of five points. The Supreme Court however, decided that this penalty was too severe and reduced the
punishment to one point. The penalty was levied because Integrity did not have approval from the commission to place the ads.
The second complaint involved a cease and desist, order issued by Elections Commissioner Karen Herman to Integrity supporters. The supporters were ordered to stop wearing Integrity T-shirts and to remove a banner containing false candidate information. The banner and T-shirts listed independent candidates Rose Labadessa, Jose
Mass, and Raquel Egusquiza as members of the Integrity ticket. According to Ken DeMoor, cam-
paign manager for Integrity, the three independent candidates were members of Integrity in the original draft of the ticket.
Elections Commission Chairperson Mark Chiappone testified that he did not support the original decision made by the other commissioners and therefore could not defend it.
As a result of Chiappone’s testimony, the Supreme Court reduced the penalty against Integrity from 10 points to zero points.
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DAVE BERGMAN/Slatt Photographer
Michele Baker from Sigma Delta Tau sorority competes in Homecoming's You Oughta Be a Pig contest Tuesday on the University Center Plaza. For more Homecoming information, see Accent page 8.
Thoughts for sale .
Research paper sales to students raise ethical questions
By.AMYELI.lS
Contributing Editor
Although it is illegal in the state of Florida, several companies and individuals are in the business of selling term papers to students at the University of Miami and other college campuses across the nation.
While those involved in the sale of the papers claim they merely provide research assistance, University faculty members say the services tempt students to commit plagiarism and turn the papers in as their own.
Advertisements on campus bulletin boards, in The New Times, Rolling Stone and The Miami Hurricane offer catalogs listing thousands of pre-written papers at a cost of anywhere between $5.75 and $7.50 per page. For a higher fee of $17 to $18 per page, students can get an original paper written to their own specifications..
Art Stekel, general partner of Research Assistance, a California-based company, says the papers he sells are intended only for research purposes. Stekel acknowledged, however, that students probably submit the papers as original work even though "that is not the intent of our service.”
Dr. Eugene Clasby, associate professor of English, said he is unaware of any instances of students buying
and submitting the papers, but said students who see the advertisements may be tempted to use the services.
Richard Rosichan, a former librarian, who says he "helps students with all the work or any part of it,” claims that roughly 50 percent of the business he does is generated from UM students.
Dr. Ron Newman, director of English composition at UM and a member of the University’s Board of Publications, said the advertisements are “simply intolerable.”
"I can certainly say it’s a large problem," Newman said, adding that his role on the Board requires him to do everything possible to keep the ads out of the school newspaper.
Newman said he advises University Counsel of problems with advertisers, who are told to "stay the hell off our campus in any way, shape or form.”
The other half is'mostly from Florida Irfternational University, with some students from Miami Dade Community College and Nova University also using his service.
Rosichan, says a large portion of his income comes from the researching, editing and typing he does for college students, but claims he does not sell completed term papers.
However, Rosichan told a Hurricane reporter who did not reveal his identity that he would charge a student $ 150 to write a 5 to 7 page research paper on the fall of the Roman Empire. To do just the research, Rosichan said he would charge $80.
According to Florida statute 877.17, it is unlawful to "sell any term paper, thesis, dissertation, essay or report which the seller knew or reasonably should have known wqs intended for submission by a student.”
However, according to Bill Johnson, assistant chief for misdemeanors in the state attorney’s office, no one has ever been prosecuted under the statute in its eight years of existence.
"However, we would prosecute anything that we have enough evidence for.”
According to William Mullowney, University ombudsman and secretary to the Honor Council, any student who submits a purchased paper as original work is in violation of UM’s Honor Code and subject to disciplinary action.
Mullowney said, although the Council has heard cases involving plagiarized term papers, there have been no cases dealing specifically with papers purchased from research assistance agencies.
"However, there is not much difference,” Mullow-
ney said. “Both are instances of academic dishonesty, and both are blatant misrepresentations of the source of the work.”
Mullowney said companies selling term papers should be prevented from advertising their services on
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Mullowney added that the Hurricane should also reconsider its position on running the ads.
“Giving students the information is also facilitating the use of it,” Mullowney said. “But this is a student decision that should be based on what is acceptable to the University community.”
Hurricane Business Manager John Angele said he was unaware that the sale of term papers was illegal and that the paper would reconsider running the ads.
“With the paper being one of the most visible aspects of this University, we should seriously reconsider running these ads and would be inclined to stop running the ads, but would have to get the advice of our adviser,” Angele said. "It is unethical. The students
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UM alumnus Ernie Kent beats the ceremonial drum during the tapping of Iron Arrow members Thursday. The following students, faculty, administrators and alumni were tapped: Timothy Gallagher, Bob Hildreth, Richard Jones, Jacqueline Lever-more, David Lieberman, Carlos Martinez, Philip Needles, Sonia Nikore, Mary O'Day, Robert Panoff, Robert Paul, Thomas Pfeiffer Eduardo Sanchez, Gayle Sheeder, Francis Skipp, Michael Spears, Edward Strongln, Steven Ullmann and Anthony Upshaw.
Thief revisits fraternity
By ROBERT S. MARSHALL
Contributing Editor
Early morning Tuesday brought an unwelcome visitor to the Sigma Chi fraternity house, as George Ellis, of 5545 SW 60 Ave., Miami, replayed a scene of illegally entering the house and being captured by the brothers of the fraternity for the second time this year, police and Timothy Hendershot of the fraternity said.
According to UM police, Ellis has been charged with burglary, loitering, prowling and tresspass after warning.
Hendershot said the fraternity had been suffering from thefts of
property for several months, as have many of the other houses on fraternity row. Some of the brothers decided to set a trap for whomever tried to steal the next time.
They tied a string to a bicycle that was in the house. The other end ran into one of the bedrooms and was attached to a chain that set off an alarm to wake the brothers up. Daniel Rovner and Jason Bod-ine, both sophomores, live in the room.
At 6:30 a.m., they were startled by the sound of the alarm they had set uo a few hours earlier. They then ale. ted other brothers in the house, and the group entered the common area where Ellis was hiding.
They found Ellis in a corner of the room and surrounded him while the police were notified, Hendershot said. Hendershot said he was unsure if it was.Ellis whom they had captured last February. Rovner said everyone present recognized the intruder as Ellis.
Feb. 3, Ellis entered the house and went upstairs into a room he found was full of sleeping fraternity brothers. The brothers captured him, and the case went to trial. Ellis was convicted of trespassing.
"The funny thing is,” Rovner commented, "that he was wearing a University of Miami sweatshirt. I’m sure he stole it from another house."
AIDS task force formed
By CHRISTINE THOMPSON
Stall Writer
Students can get involved in the University of Miami Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome awareness campaign by joining the newly-formed Student Task Force on AIDS prevention. The task force was formed to increase student awareness of the disease.
"The main purpose of the task force is to have students tell their peers about the increasing threat of AIDS and how they can protect themselves," said Dr. M. Eugene Flipse, director of the Health Center and an advisor to the task force.
Flipse said the task force is in the organizational stages. He said students chosen for the task force will play a key role in its development and growth.
Candidates for the task force mustoe interested in AIDS awareness efforts, he said, adding that they must also have leadership skills to encourage additional student involvement.
"We're looking for students who have some understanding of the problems of AIDS and who will make a commitment to work and help educate other people," said Pat Whitely, associate director of residence life
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