Miami Hurricane, February 22, 1991

              GLOWING REVIEWS
The Ring Theatre's engaging production of Children of a Lesser God is perhaps the best show staged on campus in the past three years. 1 - M
• ACCENT — page 6
SMOOTH AS SYLK
UM forward Samarr (Sylk) Logan, with his flawless three-point shots, will be a major asset when UM hits the Big East next season.
• SPORTS —pages
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NEWS: College students across
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Sale of UM plate* add* to scholarship*
The profits from the sale of University of Miami license plates have added $353,000 to the University's general scholarship fund. Cyrus Jollivette, vice president of university relations, said that this money has been distributed throughout several scholarship funds.
jollivette said the most recent figures released show that 14,124 tags have been sold. The University receives $25 for each one sold and each renewed. Since this is the beginning of the second year plates have been available, UM is has just started seeing renewal funds. Jollivette said all of the money has been put into scholarships except for the funds used for advertising.
If you are interested in purchasing a plate, you must contact a tag agency, not the University.
Scholars to discuss communication t rands
Today and tomorrow, the UM School of Communication will be sponsoring the Eighth Annual Conference on Intercultural and International Communication. The events will
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22.1<!91
Campus day-care considering expansion plans
By ERICK JOHNSON Assistant News Editor
The University of Miami and the Canterbury Day-Care Center are looking for ways to expand child care facilities on campus.
University of Miami officials and the Canterbury board of directors recently discussed plans to expand the facility, which is currently located off of Stanford Drive.
During a meeting held on Feb. 6, UM officials discussed the possibility of putting a roof over the center’s current patio to create
more internal space, according to Ronald Naylor, a board member.
Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., assistant vice president for human resources, said UM considered placing the center’s kitchen and bathrooms upstairs to make a larger playing area
on the first floor. Thomas said he hopes to increase Canterbury’s capacity limit from 30 to 100 children.
Naylor said the board did not make a final decision because board members wanted to look at other options before reaching a conclusion.
The two parties will meet again March 6 other possibilities, Naylor said.
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According to Naylor, once the idea is agreed upon, the University’s architect must incorporate it into a design. After this happens, financial support for the project must be found — a task that might be difficult con-
sidering today’s declining economy and a tight University budget.
But despite the possible setbacks, Rhonda Dubord, chairwoman <rf the Women's Commission, remains optimistic about an expanded day-care facility on campus.
"At least they’re making an effort,” Dubord said. "Tlie more we continue to put presaure on (the administration) formally and informally, tMb more we get things done.” “I’m fainy optimistic, Naylor said. "The University administration is aware of the needs |for a bigger and better child care facility! and has been assisting in those needs."
Israeli envoy speaks at UM
Shoval meeting opened only to invited guests

The panel will include Joseph Treaster of the New York Times, Mohammed Hamaludin, managing editor of the Miami Times, and Mark Seibel, foreign editor of the Miami Herald. This panel will begin at 1:15 p.m. tomorrow.
According to John Masterson, associate dean of the School of. Communication and director of the conference, the panel and discussion sessions are free to all members of the UM community with a valid ID.
For more information, call 284-2265.
Tsxas students may savs on books
Texas collegians may soon be able to sell even discarded textbooks back to their campus bookstore, if a bill recently introduced in the state House of Representatives passes.
The bill, written by state Rep. Billy Clemons, would require public colleges and universities in the state to Duy back books no longer used on campus at 25 percent of their retail cost.
Clemons, who has a daughter who attends Texas A&M, said it’s “not right that students should have to buy books and not be able to sell them back,” aide Rick Collins said.
It would also force campuses to pay students thousands of dollars that they don’t have, campus officiais replied, 'it’s almost ludicrous," Wes Aldis, manager of the Victoria College Bookstore and president of the Southwest College Bookstores Association, said.
FACE THE FACTS
The following numbers Indlcsts the numbers of freshmen and transfer students at the School of Nursing-Fall 1990:
By LEE BUDAI
Siati Writer
Zalman Shoval, a prominent Israeli ambassador to the United States, spoke at the University of Miami on Monday afternoon.
Since Iraq began attacking Israel with Scud missiles, Shoval has been the liaison between the United States and Israel.
However, the meeting was closed to the public.
According to Conchita Ruu-Topinka, director of
e. Invitations were
issued by L. Luria & Sons, Inc., the sponsors of the event.
Mitchil Dabsch, assistant to the director of the Middle East Studies Institute, said Shovai spoke about relations between the United States and Israel in light of “recent chanees in international dynamics.”
“What he IShoval] said was consistent with the Israeli government's policy,” Dabach said. "The importance [of his visit) is self evident given the situation in the Gulf,” he added.
By SIMONE WOUNG
Staff Writer
This is the third in a series focusing on black students on campus as part of Black Awareness Month
In an effort to promote ethnic diversity, the University of Miami has a recruitment program geared specifically toward the attraction of minority high school students.
Yet the number of BLACK minority students actually AWARENESS enrolling at UM has not u/->NTH increased before this academic year. The total ______
number of incoming minority freshmen increased from 130 to 150
Minority numbers increase slightly from 1989-90
Dr. Scott Ingold, assistant dean of the Office of Enrollment Services, said the University does not have an official definition of a minority student. However, Ingold said UM minority students are usually black.
According to Ron Hammond, director of minority student support services, blacks represent about 7 percent of the total undergraduate student body.
He added that the University also considers American Indians, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans to be minority groups.
The heart of minority recruitment is located at the UM Minority Recruitment Office in the Ashe Administration Building’s Office of Admissions.
Prior to the office’s establishment in 1983, the University did make attempts to recruit minorities through special programs, according to Hammond.
Minority recruitment is "given a lot of pri-
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CHRIS CARLISLE /Staff Photographer
PLAY BALL: Jeb Bush, son of President Bush, prepares to throw the opening pitch for the Hurricanes Tuesday night against the University of South Florida Bulls at Mark Light Stadium.
Room and board expenses to increase 8 percent next fall
said. “Every dollar goes to the educational
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By TRACY KRAMER
Staff Writer
On-campus room and board will increase by 8 percent for the second year in a row next semester. This latest increase will result in an average total of $5,162 for on-campus housing and a 20-meal board plan.
According to Dr. Robert Redick, director of the Department of Residence Halls, the University of Miami is a non-profit University.
‘‘There it no such thing as profit,” Redick
purposes of students.
Provost Luis Glaser agreed
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But students still say they are not happy with the increase.
“The who|p thing is ridiculous,” Michele Gelade, a freshman majoring in music engineering, said. ’’It's really expensive to begin with.”
Students’ room and board fees pay for a number of things.
“ft pays for more than the actual expenses, such as supporting an ongoing program of activities, classrooms [and| computer labs [in the residential colleges) and receptions,” Redick said.
According to Redick, the increase in room and board expenses reflects inflation and proposed projects for the residential colleges.
“Due to inflation, utilities are up 10 percent,” Redick said.
One example of a planned project is the
installation of a card access system to increase security in the five residential colleges by the beginning of August, Redick said.
According to Redick, an additional project, which will be funded by the increase in room and board expenses, is an effort to improve the qualityof food in the Hecht/Stanford and Mahoney/Pearaon cafeterias.
An additional expected expense for the Department of Residence Halls includes
ened summer renovations in Hecht and iford residential colleges. Redick said.
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Ex-hostage analyzes events in Middle East
By ROBERT MILLER
Contributing Editor
lot going Middle East right now, isn’t
there?”
This is how retired U.S. Army Col. Charles Scott opened hia speech Wednesday night in the University Center lower lounge. He was there to give his views on the war in the Persian Gulf.
Scott, while understating things a bit, should know better than moat about affairs in the
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CHRIS CARLISLE/Staff Photographer
TEACHING FROM EXPERIENCE: Former Iranian hostage Charles Scott addresses students about the war in the Quit.
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Writers discuss works at conference
By ERICK JOHNSON Assistant News Editor
As an African-American writer, ltabari Njeri said she is determined to show readers the problems facing American blacks.
The purpose of her non-fiction work is “to document personal and collective experiences of a group that has been marginalized [by society),” Njeri, a former Miami Herald reporter who now cover» American culture for the Los Angeles Times, aaid.
Njeri was one of many writers who participated in “The Art of of Non-Fiction,” a writer a conference, sponsored by the University of Miami School of Communication Monday and Tuesday in the Beaumont Cinema.
Other writers who spoke at the conference include Shari Benstock, UM English professor; Edna Buchanan, Miami Wera/dPulitzer Pruw winning reporter; and Phil Caputo, author of Rumor of War, a memoir baaed upon hia experiences in the Vietnam War.
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BOOK TALK: Writer Ted Conover and James Lemoyne of The New York Times both attended the writer's conference held Monday and Tuesday at the Beaumont Cinema.
Michael Carlebach, the director of program* in journalism and photography, said the conference was held to “talk about non-fiction writing and to celebrate it”