Miami Hurricane, October 23, 1990

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UM Baseball Coach Ron Fraser has accepted an offer to coach the 1992 Olympic baseball team.
• SPORTS — page 8
CLUB HOPPING
Many UM students partake in the weekend ritual of hitting Miami’s thriving and diverse club scene.
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VOLUME 68, NUMBER 16
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23,1990
UM students named to Orange Bowl court
University of Miami students Tiffany Arrington and Alyson Scott were chosen from a field of 32 contestants for this year’s Orange Bowl Queen’s court following a luncheon Saturday with the Orange Bowl Committee.
Arrington, a freshman majoring in broadcast journalism and political science, was named an alternate to the court. She learned of the contest through her involvement with the Hurricane Honeys.
Scott, a first year graduate student, was selected to be one of the four princesses.
Scott, who tried out two years ago, described herself as lucky. ’’There is no way to really prepare,” she said. "The contest is almost all interview. You just have to be yourself.”
Contestants had to fill out an application and submit two photographs. About 250 applicants were narrowed down to 32, and then to 10 finalists.
United Nation« Day
planned for tomorrow
United Nations Day, an international event which marks the founding of the United Nations in 1945, will be observed on the University of Miami campus tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"The purpose of the United Nations Day is to provide peace, unity and stability throughout the world,” Samantha Bhopa, UN Day chairperson said.
"Each organization will have either a booth or a table that will be decorated with posters and flyers from their countries,” Bhopa said. “Some organizations will also have members dressed in their native costumes. Twenty-nine organizations are expected to participate.”
The Council Of International Student Organizations is sponsoring the event. A portion of each organization’s food sale profits or a percentage of the money collected from student donations will be given to the United Way.
— JENNIFER GONZALEZ
Resume seminar to be held Saturday
The student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is sponsoring a job and resume clinic at 10 a.m. Saturday in Merrick Building room 113. The seminar will be directed by Professor Tsitsi Wakhisi, and professionals from the areas of print, broadcast and photographic journalism will be present to critique resumes, letters and tapes.
All students with majors in these fields are encouraged to attend the seminar. Students who did not register in advance must pay $5 the day of the seminar.
Arrington
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Hurricane fans brave ‘enemy territory’ to see last game
There are approximately 4,000 students that are residents at the University of Miami campus Forty-six percent of them are undergraduates
TURNOVERS: Hurricane wide receiver Lamar Thomas sees the end is near for UM’s hopes against Notre Dame Saturday, as he is unable to recover Leonard Conley’s fumble late in the fourth quarter.
Photos by Dave Bergman
AGONY OF DEFEAT: One Miami fan watches in disbelief as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish get their final revenge on the Hurricanes, defeating them 29-20 in South Bend.
By ROBERT MILLER
News Editor
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — It was a beautiful day. Perfect weather for a football game. But all wrong for a hurricane.
"Die Irish scum. Die!” screamed one Hurricane fan in frustration during the fourth quarter of Saturday’s “final crusade’’ against Notre Dame.
But, the Irish refused to die.
The win was clearly within UM’s grasp. Most people thought they had it for the first three quarters, but every time they came close to actually getting it, there seemed to be a Notre Dame hand — or perhaps the hand of God — ready to take it away.
This was to be the last time in this century the University of Miami Hurricanes would visit the Notre Dame campus, and they left defeated. National championship hopes are gone.
Revenge is sweet. Miami learned that last year in the Orange Bowl, and the Irish learned it Saturday.
For the nearly 5,000 UM fans in tiny Notre Dame stadium, this was a crusade. Most of them flew up from South Florida, some took chartered buses, and other heartier souls made the 20-hour drive
through hostile Irish country. Alumni from the area also came to cheer on the Hurricanes in this most important game.
They braved the thousands of angry Irish fans camped out near the stadium with their “You can’t spell SCUM without the UM” T-shirts. Everywhere you looked, people were waving their index fingers and shouting ”ND! ND!”
The few spots of orange and green floating around outside the stadium stuck together and accepted the taunting with hardly a word in response. This was enemy territory, after all.
A few came prepared to do a little taunting of their own, however.
Several students ran through South Bend dressed in inmate’s stripes, making a mockery of the Notre Dame "Catholics versus Convicts” T-shirt. Others painted their faces in UM colors and carried hurricane warning flags.
To get to the stadium, the UM fans were forced to walk through several parking lots of this hostile ground. Notre Dame fans, it seems, take their tailgating pretty seriously. Irish fans that were not lucky enough to have season tickets, or that were not willing to pay the $150 a piece asking price for Saturday’s game,
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US.	News: UM one of nation’s top 50 universities
By MANISHA SINGH
Stall Writer
In its recently released listing of the country's best colleges and universities, U.S. News and World Report ranked three Florida schools in the top 25 of southern regional colleges.
In the ranking of national colleges, the University of Miami was placed among the second quarter.
Stetson University, Rollins College and Florida International University placed fourth, fifth and 12th among southern regional colleges, respectively. A regional category school is described by U.S. News as "generally awarding more than half their bachelor’s degrees in two or more occupational or pro-
fessional disciplines.”
A national category university is described as "having a wide range of baccalaureate programs, giving a high priority to research and the largest number of doctorates.”
Among schools in the national top 25 were Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Princeton.
UM placed in the next group of 25 along with such schools as Emory, Vanderbilt, New York University and the University of Southern California.
“We’re in good company among schools," Conchita Ruiz Topinka, UM director of media relations, said. "We were competing with schools like Harvard and Yale.”
Topinka said she thought UM fared well in
the overall survey, placing above schools like Boston College, Boston University, Southern Methodist University, American University and Rutgers University. In addition, UM was ranked above the University of Florida and Florida State University.
National universities and national liberal arts colleges were the top two categories.
They were described as “generally providing superior academic experiences for the academically ambitious students.
National universities were also described as "the major leagues of American higher education.”
This is the third year FIU has been ranked among the best regional schools in U.S. News. FIU is the youngest institution among the regional colleges named in the listing.
Connie Crowther, director of media relations at FIU, said it is a great honor to be listed in the report.
“This ranking reflects very highly on the quality of our students and faculty,” Crowther said. “We are very proud of them.”
Factors influencing the rankings include; selectivity of admissions, quality of faculty, overall financial resources and rates of graduation and attrition.
The schools were put into categories established by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The rankings in the report are determined by surveys completed by the presidents of participating colleges. A survey of overall academic reputation was sent to 4,131 college presidents to which 60.1 percent responded.
Proposed budget will cut student loans by $2 billion
By NICOLE KOLBER
Staff Writer
The guaranteed student loan program is expected to feel the ax of the new federal budget which must cut $500 billion in federal spending over the next five years, but legislators say students at four-year public and private universities should not be affected.
The newly-proposed budget bills from both the Senate and Efouse of Representatives include a $2 billion reduction in the federal student loan program over the next five years.
But, according to Bob Rogan, legislative assistant for educational issues in Sen. Bob Graham’s office in Washington, D.C., the $2 billion is not really a cut, but instead a
‘It's more of a plan for reforming the way the program is run; the plan doesn’t really cut any money, but what it does is make the ways to qualify more difficult.’
Bob Rogan,
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result in substantial savings.
"It's more of a plan for reforming the way the program is run; the plan doesn't really cut any money, but what it does is make the ways to qualify more difficult,” Rogan said.
The focus of the proposed bills is primarily to reduce the high rate of default on student loans. Schools with a calculated default rate over 40 percent for each of the last three
years would be eliminated from all student loan programs, Rogan said. Community colleges have higher default rates than public or private universities, but the schools which would be the hardest hit are vocational, trade and proprietary schools.
Financial aid officials have been following the progression of the
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Addict tells story of drug and alcohol abuse at UM
By CATHERINE MCELRATH
Stall Writer
Carrie is the pseudonym for a University of Miami graduate who was a drug and alcohol abuser while enrolled here. This is her story — in her own words — about her experiences with drugs and alcohol on campus.
I never considered my drug abuse a problem when I was in school here, because I had already gone through a real wild phase in high school, using all different kinds of drugs. I mostly smoked pot in college — a whole lot. It was my drug of choice and my biggest problem. It led me to feel very self-isolating. The only people I would ever talk to were
This is the third in a four-part series on drug abuse on campus.
other pot smokers.
I feel I missed out on a lot of activities in school. I used to say it was because I was a commuter student, but the truth was that the minute I got out of class, I was off getting high. I felt it was a reward for going to class.
I used to like to go down to either the creek behind the Lowe Art Museum, or the little hammock by the Art Building, and get high. I would tell myself that I had an hour or two before classes, so I might as well get high and study. As soon as I got high, the studying would go out the window.
The main problems that I expe-Please see page 3/DR UGS
Canes’ prayers go unanswered in South Bend
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