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VOLUME 68, NUMBER 13
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16,1990
Emmerglick
NEWSBRIEFS
Memorial aervlce held
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A memorial service was held Sunday at Temple Sinai in Waah-ington, D.C., for Leonard Emmerglick, formerly the director of the University of Miami Center for Interdisciplinary Study of National and International Regulatory Structures. Emmerglick was also a professor of law, public I medicine and oncology and an adjunct professor of Judaic stud-
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He died at the age of 86, leaving his wife, Magola, and her three daughters Amparo, Lillian and Michele. Memorial gifts may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Local school named for first UM president
The first president of the University of Miami was honored by the Dade County Public Schools Sept. 26 when it named a new elementary
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Foster Ashe Elementary School at 6801 S.W. 152nd Ave. will open in the fall of 1991 and will accommodate 875 students. The late Dr

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Ashe served UM from its inception in 1926 until 1952. Under his administration, the institution survived bankruptcy, a reorganization and a world war. In the post-war years, the University experienced tremendous growth and prosperity.
Ashe died Dec. 16,1953 at the age of 67. The Ashe Memorial Administration Building, housing administration and faculty offices on the Coral Gables campus, was named in his honor.
New Mexico police blast campus cartoon
A University of New Mexico Daily Lobo cartoon was labeled "a bunch of garbage” by Detective John McDonald of the Albuquerque Police Officers’ Association in a meeting with student editor* in September.
McDonald said his association's member» were upset by sn August Lobo cartoon by student James Martinez, who had portrayed the police as "the few, the proud, the trigger happy.”
Editon of the student paper should be “more responsible” about what they print, McDonald
said.
"People take themselves wsy too seriously," Martinez replied.
From College Press Service reports
FACE THE FACTS
The following »hows the chenge in percentage of faculty member» with dootorates m the last decade:
Mace, stun guns illegal weapons on campus
By NICOLE KOLBER
Stafl Writer
Aside from common sense and the student security escort service, whistles and portable alarms are the only personal protection devices that University of Miami students are allowed to possess on campus.
After five students were murdered in Gainesville, many college students began to arm themselves. The Independent Florida Alligator, the student paper at the University of Florida, got an influx erf ads for mace, tear gas and stun guns. The Miami Hurricane, in its Sept. 4 issue, also carried a large ad for atun guns.
But, as stated in the Students Rights and
Responsibilities Handbook, stun guns are illegal on campus, along with a wide range of items legal under Florida state law.
The University definition of weapons includes, “Any item designed to inflict a wound, cause injury or incapacitate another peraon,” according to section B.22 of the handbook,
“Nun chuks, spears, bows and arrows are all legal in Florida but they are illegal on campus because of the concentration of people,” said William Sandler, dean of students. Mace also would be considered illegal, based on the University definition of a weapon, because it is designed to incapacitate, Sandler added.
‘To my knowledge, we’ve never had a case where mace was taken from someone
who had it as a means of protection,” Sandler said.
Last year, the Office of the Dean of Students handled eight cases of possession of fireworks and weapons which resulted in disciplinary probation. There were no cases involving the possession of firearms.
UM students say they generally feel safe on campus.
Senior Tracy Ogden was walking alone from Mahoney Residential College to meet a friend at one of the fraternities at about 11 p.m. on Friday. Normally she said she would call a security escort, tat because she was running late the didn’t think of calling one for this particular walk.
T do feel safe,” Ogden said. “But what
happened in Gainesville definitely changed some of the things I do. I try to walk with others, and I’ve used the security escort service about six times in the past month.”
"A real change in students’ attitudes [toward safety] is reflected in the increased uae of the escort services,” said UM Department of Public Safety Capt. Henry Christensen. According to Christensen, there were 689 escorts provided during the month of September, up dramatically from 300 at the same time last year.
Student* say calling for a security escort is sometimes not worth the effort. Sophomore Diahann White says she uses the escort
Please see page ¿/PROTECT
Freshman class numbers increase over last year
By STEVE SABO Stall Writer
According to figures released by the University of Miami Office of Admissions, the class of 1994 is one of the largest and most diversified in recent history. The 1,961 enrolled freshmen come from nearly 75 nations and every a tate in the country.
This is up from last year’s 1,732 freshmen. However, the quality of students has not declined with the higher number, according to Deborah Triol Perry, associate provost and dean of enrollment*.
Perry reported the range of freshman T scares, in the 25th to 75th per« entile.
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year’s class,” Perry said. “This fact is even more impressive because there has been a nationwide decrease in enrollment figures and class standards.”
The class is an ethnic and racial mix with a high academic profile, Perry said. Forty percent of the University's freshmen were r anked in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
According to Perry, a recognition of the University's academic strengths, wider
State epidemic causes alarm
Mosquito-transmitted encephalitis threatens area
By PETER CHRISTIAANS
Staff Writ*
The growing number of cases of St, Louis encephalitis in Florida the last few weeks has particular concern from of the University of Miami community.
Effects of the disease can range from mild headaches and fever to more extreme cases of coma or death.
The ease of transmission of the virus by evening and night-biting mosquitoes, combined with more than 30 cases in the state already, has officials alarmed. Furthermore, the problem is worsened by South Florida's canals, lakes and the Everglades, which are all breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
“It definitely poses a problem [for those people living in Dade County]," said Dr. Caroline MacLeod, director of the Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Clinic in Miami.
Although the danger seems to be lower around urban areas, there was a major outbreak last year in downtown Lot Angeles spread by mosquitoes in the city's sewer systems.
“If this happens here, a lot of the street people will be infected,” MacLeod said. “In Orlando, some
‘ It's not that more students applied this year. It’s just that more of them decided to take us
up on our offer.'
Deborah Triol Perry, dean of
enrollments
exposure and a more aggressive recruitment campaign are the mam reasons for the increased quantity with sustained quality. “We worked harder,” she said.
There were other factors involved in
football team last year, and there was also an increase in the amount of students and parents who visited the campus.
“It's not that more students applied this year. It’s just that more of them decided to take us up on our offer,” Perry said.
Although the freshman class is bigger this year, Perry said it is doubtful this increase will became a trend. “Next year will be a very tough year. Competition [between all®
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be infected,” MacLeod said. “In Orlando, some high schools have moved their games to the daytime in order to compensate for the problem.”
Some UM students have expressed concern over the spreading epidemic.
“It’s a scary thing. I definitely take precautions since my grandfather died of encephalitis," sophomore biology major Kris Wetterstrand said.
Senior Lincoln Carr said the epidemic has been blown out of proportion.
“I think that the amount of worry that people are putting into it isn’t proportional to the probability of getting [the disease],’’ Carr said.
Kelly Lewis, a junior, said, "Some people just don’t care and aren’t afraid, but it’s good to be conscious at night just in case."
Macleod said only about one to four people per thousand v.’ho become infected with the disease will actual-ly be hospitalized.
“Students should wear long-sleeved shirts and pants after sundown and should put on insect repellent containing DEET [diethylmetatolulamide] like Cutter or Off,” ilacLeod said.
MacLeod said she believes the encephalitis problem will eventually fade as the South Florida weather changes. "The first cold snap will stop the epidemic,” she said.
ROBERT 8. MARSHALL/ Contributing Editor
CROSSING THE LINE: Junior Michael Vesser starts his trip across a canal near Bis-cayne National Park at the Army ROTC, Hurricane Battalion, river-crossing exercises Saturday. The cadets gained experience in using one-, two- and three-rope bridges, as well as constructing a one-rope bridge.

Safe drinking habits promoted
National Alcohol Awareness Week will be observed at UM through a series of events aimed at the promotion of responsible drinking.
“Drink with the deans" will be held Wednesday on the University Center Plaza from 1 to 4 p.m. Several students and members of the faculty will consume alcohol and have their blood alcohol content tested by Florida Highway patrolmen.
Also on the UC Plaza Wednesday, the
Panhellenic Council will be hosting "The Great American Drink-Off,” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. UM sororities will be competing to create the most innovative mock drink.
PeRry cOMO night at the Rathskeller on Thursday evening will also focus on alcohol awareness. Free T-shirts, cups, caps and frisbees will be given out, courtesy of Anheis-er-Busch and BACCHUS. Concluding the week’s events, “mocktails” will be served on Friday during Happy Hour at the Rat.
— FRANK RECIO
Students often ignore risks of substance abuse
By ROBERT MILLER
Nam Editor
/ was sweati ng as the professor passed out the exam. The room was spinning, and I couldn’t really breathe right. I couldn t get comfortable in the desk, and / kept trying to settled, but it was impossible. My eyes
. Iclosingon me every time I tried to focus on the test. I was to tired, and my head was pounding. It hurt to think. / couldn't remember any of the material at all. Then I knew I was going to be sick to my stomach; I had to get out of there. I turned in my test — unanswered — and went as fast as I could
This is the first in a four-part series on drug abuse on campus.___________________
to the bathroom. I ended up getting a "D" in that class.
David, sophomore biology major.
People take risks when they use drugs. There are small risks and big ones, too. bi David’s story, no one died, went into a coma or needed counseling, tat who knows what kind of effect that one night of drinking had on hia future. That “D” will be on his transcripts and will change his grade point average.
Does his description <rf trying to take an exam with a hangover sound familiar to
you?
Statistics suggest that David is not the only person in college, high school or even grade school who has had this experience. A study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute of Social Research reported that, in 1986, 92 percent of cc dents used alcohol at feast once < year, and 45 percent of all college i are considered to be "heavy drinkers.” A heavy drinker is defined as “someone who has had five or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks.”
Nearly half of all college students are heavy drinkers of alcohol, even though only about half of all the people enrolled in col lege are legally old enough to purchase it. To many people, this statistic is not very surprising, tat they say it does represent a very large problem.
"People forget that alcohol is a drug," Dr. Tom Hankes, a South Miami Hospital specialist on drug abuse, said. "It is a very dangerous drug.
Hankes said the biggest danger involved in misusing alcohol cornea from the acct-
Please see page ¿/DRUGS


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