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Volume 66, Number 23	University of Miami	Friday, Nov. 18, 1888
UM may name commuter director
By PAT McCREERY
Editor in chief
Programming funds may be allotted
If Carolyn Salisbury gets her way, University of Miami commuter students next year will have many of the same social and educational opportunities now found only in residential colleges.
Salisbury, president of the Roadrunners commuter student organization, recently asked administrators to create a commuter affairs office with a director and programming budget. The office would provide programming for that half of the student population which commutes to class.
She wants the director to have clout similar to George Shoffner, director of the department of Res-
idence Halls.
Commuter students, Salisbury said, think they deserve more administrative support, especially because UM spent over $5 million to renovate five dormitories into residential colleges and then increased the colleges’ programming budgets.
"There’s so much that's done for residential college students. They have barbeques, lectures and receptions," Salisbury said. “For years, not enough attention has been paid to commuter students.”
Acting on the suggestions of Salisbury and others, Dr. William Butler, vice president for student
affairs, has asked UM's budget committee to supply enough money for a director, secretary and programming funds.
“I admit that I don't have all the answers about what to do with commuter students, but I recognize that 50 percent of the campus ... needs our attention," Butler said.
The budget committee will forward the request along with its recommendations to Provost Luis Glaser. Likewise, Glaser will pass the proposal to President Edward T. Foote II, who will forward it to the board of trustees’ finance and audit committee.
which will make its recommendations to the full
board.
Glaser, who outlined this process, said changes may be made to the initial recommendation anywhere along the route.
He said he favors University-funded activities for commuter students, but is not sure yet how much money, if any, the University can afford to spend.
“We are still wrestling with many, things in the
budget,” he said.
Glaser said administrators may not know uqtil April, when they finalize the University's budget, whether they have enough money for a commuter
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Students ignoring OSCAR schedule
By ALBERT XIQUES
Assistant News Editor
Already in its second full semester of operation, the much hailed On-line Student Computerized Academic Registration is not being used to its full potential. According to Dr. Thompson Biggers, associate dean of enrollments, only 68.9 percent of the students scheduled to register during the first two weeks have already done so.
Of the 11,113 students who were scheduled to register, only 3,578 had registered by last Friday. This represents about one-
third of the total number of utu-uviiiN who me ittglulcrlng ul
though more than half of the registration period has passed, he said.
“I’m having nightmares of August all over again — but worse," Biggers said, referring to the eight- and nine-hour lines some students had to endure. “We're seeing a lot of continuing students saying that they’ll just register in January."
Biggers added that he fears students do not realize this is the main registration period for the spring semester, and if they fail to register now they may
get closed out of classes or have to stand in long lines.
Student Government President F’reddie Stebbins agreed the lack of student registration is a problem.
“I wish more students would take advantage of it because it’s much easier than the system we've had the last 10 to 20 years,” Stebbins said. “It appears that they are starting to think that since it only takes a few minutes they can put it off.” He added that students do not realize that if they wait, classes will not be available.
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"There are some classes that are closed,” he said. “If they’re closed now, imagine in January ¡since) no new classes will be opened.”
Biggers stressed that students who do not complete their registration before the first day of classes will be charged a $100 late fee. For every week they continue to wait, the fee will increase by $100. However, if students register now and decide to change a class later, no add/drop fees will be charged.
Auto thieves apprehended
By ROBERT S. MARSHALL
Staff Writer
Raymond Oritz, a 4-foot-9 gravedigger from Miami, came up short Nov. 10 when University of Miami police buried his chances to steal his second car for the day in the parking lot between the apartments and Ponce De Leon Boulevard, according to UM police reports.
Oritz and his partner, Jorge Luis Ramos, 22, of 531 N.W. 73th St.. Miami, were arrested for auto theft, burglary to conveyance, possession of burglary tools and possession of a controlled substance by UM police.
The arrest signals a marked increase of successful arrests by UM police this month of auto theft and burglary suspects.
While on a routine patrol. UM Public Safety Officer Melvin Tooks noticed Ramos in the parking lot. "It | Ramos’ car] looked out of place for the area," Tooks said.
As ‘I ooks approached Ramos, Oritz emerged from behind a parked 1986 silver Honda. Ramos was seated inside a 1986 blue Mazda 626 with the engine running.
Tooks asked Oritz what he was doing near the cars. Tooks said Oritz replied he was “taking a leal Tooks responded by statin, the story’s impossibility.
Tooks said he then asked the Pair their names in order to run bar ground checks.
hey gave false names, but
they were similar to their own and they used their own birth-dates," Tooks said. "We kind of figured what was going on. So we ended up getting their real names and found their police records."
Tooks then called for assistance and Sgt. Robert Remmen arrived. They asked Ramosfor the vehicle registration, since they could not search the car unless they knew it was stolen.
Tooks said he noticed the ignition switch lock had been removed. When asked about the name “Alan Kirk" on the registration, the pair replied that the car belonged to a friend.
"I pretty much doubted that and told them,” Tooks said.
"The windows were tinted so it was pretty hard to look inside,” he said. “I had to put my face right up against the window. When I looked inside, I saw a slam hammer on the passenger’s seat with the ignition to the car on the end of it." A slam hammer is a tool with a screw attached to the tip used to fix dents in car bodies.
“When we searched them, we found that they each had two pairs of pants on,” Tooks said, noting they probably were hitting a place and then changing clothes quickly to avoid recognition.
A search of the Mazda uncovered the car’s ignition lock and a small bag of white powder which Tooks said he suspects is cocaine.
Oritz and Ramos were taken to Dade County Jail.
Hurricane top jobs available
Tuesday, the University of Miami’s Board of Student Pub-ations will elect next semester’s Miami Hurricane editor in T and business manager. Students interested in either job uld obtain an application from Pam Hernandez in Whitten
University Center 221.
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Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters Gayle Schleifer, Kathy Wittmer, Sonja Schnell, Alison Gillespie, Karen Feldpouch, Kaylie Ebner and Marlene Gato dressed as nurses, vegetables and fruit to promote heath and nutrition for the American Heart Association Wednesday at the University station of Metrorail.
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SG bill to extend drop
By SUNNY GOLDIN
Staff Writer
Students to get more time to judge classes
A bill to extend the period during which a course may be dropped without a *‘W"was passed by acclamation at the Student Government Senate meeting on Wednesday. A "W” on a student’s record is a formal sign of withdrawal from a course, but does not affect the student's grade point average.
The bill now goes to the administration for consideration. If passed, the period would be extended until the third Wednesday following the first Tuesday of classes.
The bill, authored by C. Dean Furman, speaker pro tempore, and Jacque Levermore, SG Cabinet undersecretary, was designed to give students additional time to decide if they want to drop a class.
With the current drop period, students who have Tues-day/Thursday classes only have four class sessions to decide if they wish to drop the class. The bill would allow for at least one additional day of class to make a decision.
“In all likelihood it would start next year," said Furman, noting that the administration has 30 days to decide on the bill.
The senate also passed a bill by acclamation requiring the University and the department of Residence Halls to give proper notice of all health and safety inspections being conducted.
According to the bill, written by Marc Oster, speaker of the
senate, and junior senator Ken DeMoor, prior to the inspections, Residence Hall staff must prominently advertise the inspections and make reasonable attempts to contact the students before keying-in to student rooms.
"This bill does not create a perfect world, but it begins to address the question of administrative entry,” Oster said. "I feel the bill balances the needs of Residence Halls with students. We cannot allow Residence Halls to create anything similar to a police
state.”
The initiative for the bill came earlier this semester when some students complained resident assistants were unnecessarily entering student rooms during health and safety checks and not informing students about the inspections.
The bill also must be passed by the administration before it can take effect.
In other business, the senate ratified Paul McDonnough’s appointment as Parliamentarian. He
replaces Mike Marcll, who was recently elected to a sophomore
senate seat.
Also during the meeting. Student Govenment Productions announced that Thomas Dolby will play at the Whitten University
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Center on Dec. 2. Admission-is free for University students, and 500 guest passes wilhbe available for $10 each.
The senate decided by acclamation not to meet next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The senate will resume with its .last meeting of the semester Nov. 30.
Senate secretary dismissed
By ALBERT XIQUES
Assistant News Editor
On Wednesday, Marc Oster, speaker of the Student Government Senate, dismissed Secretary of the Senate Max Adams from his position.
The secretary of the senate is not elected to the position, but is appointed by the speaker.
In a letter to Adams, Oster explained that the action was taken due to Adams' inability to improve the organization and add to the cohesiveness of the SG Senate, “for whatever reasons.”
Adams, who ran for SG President last spring, had been appointed by Oster to the position during the summer, so that he could “assist the speaker in the day-to-day operations of the senate.”
"I have looked at Max Adams'
service in the senate and I said to myself, '... Is he an asset or a detriment?’ and for whatever reason, he is not assisting the speaker in the speaker’s responsibilities, and therefore I had no choice but to dismiss him," Oster said. He also added that Adams’ inability to work well with his colleagues in the senate contributed to the problem.
Part of the controversy arose from a memorandum sent from the SG Council of Chairpeople, comprised of the leaders of SG’s committees, to Oster listing numerous concerns about Adams and asking that Adams resign or be dismissed. According to Oster, he did not receive the memo until after he had already dismissed Adams.
Adams, however, said that he thought his dismissal was politi-
cally motivated, and that he was not treated fairly.
“He beat me — because of my views, because he doesn’t like me — he got me out,” Adams said.
Adams also added that he felt that the action was taken because of pressure that C. Dean Furman, chairperson of the council’ of chairpeople and co-author of the memo, was applying to the senators.
He also alleged that SG leaders wanted him out because Furman did not want to run against him for SG President in the spring.
Both Furman and Oster denied Adams’ allegations.
“If we wanted to get him out of SG, we would have brought articles of impeachment against him," Furman said. Had Adams been found guilty of the charges, he would have been barred from SG for one year.