Miami Hurricane, February 12, 1991

              VOLUME 68. NUMBER 32
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. CORAL GABLES. FLA
TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 12. 1991
NEWSBRIEFS
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UM for the USO is a new campus organization which is collecting money for the families of the servicemen and women who have perished in Operations Desert Shield and Storm.
The group of 22 students was started by three University of Miami juniors — Charlie Salom, Jose Segrera and Luis Segredo — when they saw a need to help the families of the war's early casualties.
All members of the UM community are urged to donate a $5, $10 or $20 bill; for every donation received, a card with your name will be sent to a serviceper-son on active duty.
Salom said he has been assured that all funds collected at UM will stav in Florida. The group’s goal is $10,000 and they will be collecting funds in the University Center Breezeway this week.
UM medical school dedicates building
The UM School of Medicine will dedicate a 75,000 square foot research building honoring R. Bunn Gautier Jr., a former Florida state senator known as "The Father of the University of Miami School of Medicine.”
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square feet of laboratory space on each of the five lower floors and planned specialized lab space on the two upper floors.
The major financial support for the $12.5 million facility was provided by the medical school’s clinical faculty.
"The faculty wanted to show their appreciation for what Bunn Gautier did for our school and have committed the funds so that the school can carry out research in his name,” Dr. Bernard Fogel, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, said.
The dedication will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the building site, 1011 NW 15th St. U.S. Representatives Dante Fascell and William Lehman are expected to speak.
Department studies education trends
By the year 2001, women will earn more doctoral degrees than men, but men will continue to earn more medical and law degrees, the U.S. Department of Education predicted last month.
The predictions were among dozens published by the department, which oversees most federal college programs, in a new book that throws together many of the government’s statistical studies of the nation’s schools.
Among the report’s other findings: colleges nationwide will continue to hand out more than one million bachelor's degrees a year throughout the 1990s.
Master’s degrees are expected to rise, reaching 327,00 by 2001.
— From College Press Service reports
FACE THE FACTS
LAST IN A SERIES
The following chart shows the balance of what we own less what we owe *ln Thousands
‘Total Fund Brfances Currant Unrestricted Funds $10,341 Currant Restricted Funds $12,100 Loan Funds	$20,122
ndowment, Annuity Funds $177,146 in Plant Funds Assets$176.882
UM names new athletic director
Former Cal director leaving behind his alma mater
By KEVIN BROCKWAY
Sports Editor
The man who will lead Hurricane athletics through the 1990s has been appointed.
Donned in an orange tie decorated with several min-ature Ibis, Dave Maggard, 51, former University of California athletic director, officially accepted the position to become the athletic director for the University of Miami at a press conference yesterday.
‘The University of Miami is extremely fortunate to
Dave Maggard is a worthy successor. I could not be more pleased.”
"My ambition is to keep the University of Miami athletic program at a successful level, and I am looking forward to Big East Conference affiliation,” Maggard said.
Maggard declared that football will be the cornerstone of the athletic department and listed the following as his priorities: to maintain the strength of the football program in the new Big East Conference and to build a competitive basketball program in the Big East.
More importantly, Maggard will have to deal with
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DAVE BERGMAN/Photo Editot
NEW ARRIVAL: President Foote introduces newly-appointed Athletic Director Dave Maggard as Paul Dee. interim athletic director, looks on.
UM blacks unite in support of Miami boycott
>By ERICK JOHNSON and MYRTHLYN MOORE
Ot the Staff
Several black University of Miami organizations have joined 61 institutions in a boycott of the Dade tourist industry to protest the City of Miami's June "snubbing" of anti-apartheid activist Nelson I'
The "snub” came after Mandela voiced I of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Yassar A of the Palestinian Liberation OrMtitaatio».
Eaton reigns in Sports Fest 91
By MARNIZABARSKI
Stall Writer
Eaton Residential College proved that history does repeat itself, when they walked away with the 1991 Sports Fest championship this weekend,
Stanford placed second and Hecht finished third, followed by Pearson and Mahoney.
One of Eaton’s women’s team, the Spastic Arachnids, pulled top I rank in the final standings.
Placing first on the canoe race, volleyball, Pictionary and *the | obstacle coarse, the Arachnids added a total of 1,741.13 points to Eaton’s overall 18,929.56 points.	i
Amber Marcus, a member of ccct q-i the Arachnids, said of their victo- rcS1 ’ 1
ry, “We had a good idea that we'd-----—
win. We had an excellent team of
girls and lots of support. The whole week before
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DAVE BERGMAN/Ftiolo Editor
SPORTS
TRACY MACK / Assistant Photo Editor
WEEKEND OF WINNERS: Top. freshman Ann Harrell of Hecht Residential College bobbles the football during Sports Fest competitions this weekend Donnell Wright, above, pulls-for the SCUM team ot Pearson Residential College during the tug-ol-war contest.
' in the Mandela snub,” Kara Hall.
president oP Delta Sigma Theta, said. "It’s a very salient issue.”
Hall added that her sorority will hold their scholarship reception on campus in honor of the boycott.
Despite its small size, Hall said the sorority will have an impact on the boycott.
"I think every bit helps,” Hall said. “If it's just 10 people backing the boycott, then it makes a statement. We can pull people into the boycott."
Boycott leader H.T. Smith, a Miami attorney and UM alumnus, agreed, saying college students should get involved.
“This movement is about the young people. They (black studentsl have the opportunities we didn’t have growing up," Smith said. “We have to challenge them to do greater things.”
The United Black Students cancelled plans to have opening ceremonies for last month’s King Week at a Marriott hotel. The event instead was held at Victoria Station, a restaurant in Dadeland Mall. About 60 people attended. ....
UBS’ Black and White Ball, &PJ0 nearly every year at the Omni International Hotel In downtown Miami, will be held Feb. 23 on a Discovery Cruise Ship. The cruise line is based in Broward County
UM students say they will continue to participate in the boycott until Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez and local officials issue a public apology for their failure to welcome Mandela.
But Winston Warrior, president of UBS, said Suarez did not go far enough.
“Those who organized it |the boycott | feel it should be kept until the people in places at fault admit that they were wrong in snubbing Mandela, and apologue,” Warrior said.
As the boycott heads into its eighth month, many black leaders are urging Smith to compromise with city officials. But Smith and UM black organizations ruled out that possibility.
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Organization proposed to unite SG presidents
By TRACY KRAMER
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In an attempt to concentrate the lobbying efforts of Florida’s private universities in the state legislature, University of Miami Student Government President Irwin Raij has proposed an association of private university SG presidents.
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tv ot Miami, wnicn I represent," Raij said, citing specifi-
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cally an effort to protect state funds to private universities.
By invitation, Raij joined the nine members of the Florida Student Association (FSA), a group of student body presidents from public universities, last November when the group attended a
"student lobbyist retreat" in Tallahassee.
Lobbyist Schawn Pittman represents FSA in Tallahassee on issues, including financial aid, minority recruitment retention, academic advising, tuition and class size.
Pittman, who was selected by the nine student government presidents, receives a salary provided by the member student governments.
FSA meets onte a month to discuss ideas and strategies.
While in Tallahassee. Raij said he was able to see how FSA benefits Florida's public universities. Raij wants to create a similar association for Florida’s private universities modeled after the
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Disabled students demand access
By TRACY KRAMER
Stall Writer
No major improvements have occurred in handicap accessibility since the handicapped bill passed last November in the University of Miami Student Government Senate, much to the dismay of many handicapped students.
"UM needs to make a commitment to do stuff now,” said Natasha Alvarez, a handicapped student. "They should not have accepted me if they won’t allow me to go everywhere."
Esther Feuer, an SG senator, introduced the bill, which passed by acclamation.
According to Feuer, she became involved when three handicapped students decided to pledge sororities on the second floor of the Panhellemc Building, which has no elevator.
A list of seven i*“m« needing attention accompanied the bill, and an additional list of 18 items, compiled following interviews with wheelchair-bound students, was sent to the administration.
"The University is more aware of what students want and is more aware of what is going on,” Feuer said.
According to members of the administration, the University has the will to act, but not the money.
"It’s not that the administration doesn’t want to do it, but whether higher administration has or will free up the money," Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the Health Center, said.
SG President Irwin Raij said he urged for the installation of curb cuts by the Lowe Art Museum and a cement path to Eaton Residential College last summer.
These improvements were made.
"Handicapped students have to trust us and give us a chance to defend and represent them as best we can,” Raij said. "1 will put whatever pressure I can to push |these| projects.”
One current project UM is working on is the accessibility of the Cox Science Building.
"They had to have me point out to them where they were against code laws," Alvarez said. “The ramp needed rails."
Alvarez said members of the administration wants her to ride the ramp, but she said she is afraid of injury and uses the loading lift instead.
UM Physical Plant is “currently pricing out an elevator which will go from the loading lift to the other elevator,” Michael White, director of Physical Plant, said. “We are committed to that. It’s just a matter of getting bids.”
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