Miami Hurricane, April 27, 1990

              Volume 67, Number 50
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday, April 27,1990
DAVE BERGMAN/Assistant Photo Editor
Raij celebrates Tuesday at the Rat.
elected... finally
By TOM B. HIGGINS
News Editor
With a surprisngly high voter turnout, From the Heart presidential candidate Irwin Raij emerged the victor from Tuesday's Student Government runoff election with l1 ticket candidate Howard Rubin.
Raij’s vice presidential running mate Chris ''Gio” Giordano and No B.S treasurer candidate Valerie Franz also claimed their posts.
Elei tions Commission Chairperson Mark Chiappone said 1,224 people voted in the runoff. He had been predicting a turnout of about 500.
«G’s three new executive officers were
RUNOFF ELECTION RESULTS
Du* to abtiantioos. the individual vote totals do not equal the overall number of voters.
Total number o< voters > 1,224 President: Total votes cast «1,212 Irwin Rail — 662 votes. 54 82 percent Howard Rubin — 550 votes. 45.38 percent Vice president Total votes cast « 1,182 Chris Giordano — 700 votes. 59 22 percent Christine Thompson — 482 votes. 40.78 percent Treasurer: Total voles cast « 1,185 Valerie Frans — 608 votes. 51.14 percent Howie Hauser — 579 votes, 48.86 percent
SOURCE: ELECTIONS COMMISSION
sworn into office at Wednesday's senate meeting.
"It |winning] was one of the happiest moments of my life," Raij said. "Howard |Rubin| was good competition. He pushed me to a higher level.
"We went out there, and we got students out to vote,” Raij continued. “We both ran extremely good campaigns.”
Rubin said he’s confident of Raij’s qualifications to hold office.
“The most important thing is that it becomes more of a 'student' government,” he said, “and I know that Irwin will work as hard as he can. He and I have the same goal. We want to work for and with the students."
Newly elected SG Vice President Giordano said he and Raij would implement their cam-piagn promises.
“We're going to take our platform, and as we do things and make any progress, we're going to cross them (platform ideas] off,” he said.
Franz said she plans to help merge ideas from the No B.S. platform into the Raij administration.
Howie Hauser, who ran for treasurer on the Please see page 5/ELECT10N
VOTE ’90
Senate picks new leaders
Chiappone wins award
Butler, UM: together 25 years
Singh
By MICHAEL R. MORRIS
Contributing Editor
Amidst ceremony and tributes, the Student Government Senate elected a new speaker and speaker pro tempore Wednesday afternoon.
officers elected in Tuesday’s runoff: President Irwin Raij, Vice President Chris “Gio" Giordano and Treasurer Valerie Franz. Outgoing Speaker Beth Susi swore in the newly elected senators.
Running the meetings next year will be Speaker Peter Christaans, backed by Speaker Pro Tempore Manisha Singh.
“It hasn’t sunk in,” Christaans said. “I am looking forward to working with Irwin IRaij] and Gio IGiordano] and Manisha.”
Singh echoed Christaans’ com-
Please see page 5/SEN ATE
DAVE BERGMAN/Assistant Photo Editor
Butler enjoys spending free time with granddaughter Courtney Butler Wade.
By TOMB. HIGGINS And UNA LOPEZ
OUT* Stall
Dr. William Butler, vice president for Student
Affairs, celebrates his silver anniversary at the University of Miami this year. During the /ast 25 years, he’s helped to guide UM through the turmoil of the '60s, the selfishness of the '70s,
the materialism of the ’80s and the yet-to-be-labeled ’90s.
Butler was hired in 1965 by then-UM President Henry King Stanford. Always popular with students, Butler is best known for his steady flow of meetings with students to discuss their concerns, his trademark green sportcoat, a warm smile and a firm handshake.
Butler recalled his early years at UM as exciting, yet challenging.
Butler recalled a Janis Joplin concert held on
Please see page 4/BUTLER
UM smoking policy for residents reversed
‘I would rather have time to reach a consensus among the students than make an abrupt decision.’
Dr. William Butlar, vie« president lor Student Affaire
By BETH EILERS
Assistant News Editor
The University of Miami has reversed its policy on smoking in interior spaces on campus, again.
According to Dr. William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, the University has reverted to the 15-year-old policy allowing smoking in single-occupancy rooms in residence halls. The policy also allows students to smoke in doubles and suites if all roommates agree.
Butler said the March decision to ban smoking from all interior spaces in campus was rushed, without due consideration.
"It happened so quickly, without time to notify incoming students," Butler said. “I
would rather have time to reach a consensus among the students than make an abrupt decision.”
The March policy passed by the UM’s academic deans and vice presidents discontinued the sale of all tobacco products and banned smoking in all interior spaces on campus, beginning in the 1990-’91 school year.
Explaining the decision in early March, Vice Provost Paul Sugrue said the ban was nessesarv to send a message to the students.
“We discussed the problem and agreed,” Sugrue said. “Our overriding concern was the health of the students. There is overwhelming evidence that smoking is extremely harmful.”
Sugrue could not be reached for further comment.
Director of Campus Sports and Recreation Norm Parsons, a member of the committee that recomended the smoking ban, said he was not satisfied with the change.
"I don’t know why the change was made,” Parsons said. "I haven’t talked to anyone, but I am disappointed.”
Both Butler and Parsons said the next step will be implementation of a comprehensive program to educate students on the dangers of smoking.
"The committee has sent a memorandum to the provost's office urging for a smoking education and cessation program,” Parsons said.
Butler said education is an immediate solution.
“There are ways of doing that (decreasing smokingl through education and lifestyle training that would be a better idea |than the ban ] , Butler said. "Maybe a year from now we will reconsider.”
ItTCTi]
.AMIGOS
This is the last issue of The Miami Hurricane for the 1989-90 school year.
The Hurricane staff wishes its readers a productive summer break. The paper resumes publication Aug. 31.
Reminder: Students can pick up the Ibis yearbook beginning at 10 a.m. Monday at the University Center Rock. Please bring your Cane Card.
DAVE BERGMAN/ Assistant Photo Editor
The fruits of labor
English professor Dr. Claire A. Culleton receives the Panhellenic Council's Apple Polishing Professor of the Year award from junior Allison Gillespie.
By BETH JAHREIS
Stall Writer
Five Pulitzer Prize-honored journalists addressed potential winners of the futrure Tuesday on the University of Miami campus.
Sandra Dibble, Sydney P. Freed-berg, David E. Hardin, Lucy Morgan and Brian Smith spoke to more than 125 students and faculty at the event, co-sponsored by the School
of Communication and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Dibble, a reporter for The Miami Herald, won a National Reporting Pulitzer in 1987 for her participation in coverage of the Iran-contra affair. The series of Herald articles exposed unknown contra headquarters located in Miami.
"I played a small role, but I learned a big lesson from being a
stories
part of the team," Dibble said, crediting her co-workers with the project’s success.
"Think big. Don't believe what you’re told," Dibble warned. “If we had only gone on what we were told, we wouldn't have had a story."
Freedberg, a general reporter at Please see page 4/PULITZER
Classes at sea:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to “sail the Seven Seas” just as Sinbad the Sailor or travel "Around the World in 80 Days’,’ like Phineas Fogg? I had the opportunity for this once-in-a>-lifetime adventure during my coll#© career when I embarked upon therSemester of Sea experience.
The program, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, attracted 432 students from the United States and abroad. A Semester at Sea is more than just another DEBORAH	semester of university classes. The
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a global idea
Malaysia, India, Egypt, Soviet Union, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Spain.
The voyage took us to Mt. Fuji, the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids, Red Square and the Rock of Gibraltar all within three months. The Semester at Sea may be expensive but its a small price to pay in return for receiving the world.
The first 50 days were spent in courses of major disciplines as well as electives. Everyone was required to take a core course on "Perspectives on the Global Community.” In this course, we learned of cultural aspects such as history, customs and social and political systems of each country on the itinerary. On-ship days were spent in the intensity of the classroom developing a framework for analyzing world
Please see page 2/SEA
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