Miami Hurricane, April 24, 1990

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Volume 67, Number 49	University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.	Tuesday, April 24,1990
Runoff election today for SG executive spots
Students say no to USA proposal, SG funds increase
By BARBRA SPALTEN And LINA LOPEZ
Of the Stall
A runoff election will be held today for the top three positions in Student Government, as no candidate for president, vice president or treasurer captured a majority of the 1,402 votes cast. Of the five referenda on the ballot, two passed and three were not accepted by the students.
Before a crowd of 40 in the University Center lower lounge Saturday night, Elections Commission Chairperson Mark Chiappone announced the long-anticipated results of last Tuesday and Wednesday’s election. Besides the news of the pending runoff, Chiappone announced that the referendum to establish the Undergraduate Student Association in place of SG did not pass.
Ten computers will be set up from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
today in the University Center, Chiappone said, adding the polls may stay open later depending on neetT "We’ll have the full blast out there,” said Chiappone, who plans to release the results at the Rathskeller tonight since they can be determined 20 mintues after the polls close.
Chiappone said the voting will be conducted faster than last week’s balloting since the at-large nature of the voting does not call for specified terminals for voter classifications such as commuter and resident.
Although the Memorial Building polling center is geared toward commuters, more commuters voted in the UC last week, said Chiappone, adding commuters accounted for about one-quarter of the total votes. The commission decided to conduct all voting at the UC and concentrate the manpower in one area instead of two.
No appeals had been filed in the 24-hour period following the commission’s decisions Friday on complaints filed against the tickets. Any ticket assessed 20 points or more would have been disqualified; the U ticket, which had over 2,000 pending points, received five. No other ticket was assessed points. Thus, no candidate or ticket was disqualified.
The SG Elections Codes do not provide for com-
	
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SPRING ELECTIONS	
VOTE ’90
RUNOFF CANDIDATES
IRWIN RAM	HOWARD RUBIN CHRIS GIORDANO CHRISTINE	VALERIE FRANZ HOWIE HAUSER
THOMPSON
president	vice president	mesurer
Runoff elections will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Center. Polls could remain open later if necessary, according to Elections Commission Chairperson Mark Chiappone. Students must have a valid Cane Card in order to vote.
The commission expects to announce the results sometime tonight at the Rathskeller.
plaints filed after a runoff election. For this reason and the proximity to the semester’s end, Chiappone said tonight’s results will be final, unless a student takes the case to the SG Supreme Court.
Two candidates of the original five for each executive position will take part in the runoff to determine the final results. The candidate with the most votes will win each post.
In the president’s race, From The Heart candidate Irwin Raij received 24 votes less than U ticket candidate Howard Rubin.
"I’m really happy with the result and number of people who went out and voted,” Raij said. “It’s finally . showing that if you run a clean campaign that people will come out and vote, and it’s really important to run a clean campaign and take the bullshit out. The Elections Commission was smart enough to realize these complaints against Howard (Rubin) were not worthy of being listened to.”
Raij said he would stay involved involved in SG if he
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No one disqualified following complaints
By LINA LOPEZ
And BETH EILERS
Of the Stall
The Elections Commission on Friday assessed the U ticket five points as a result of complaints filed against the ticket following last week’s Student Government elections. The approximately 21 complaints filed to the commission totalled a possible assessment of over 2,300 points for the ticket.
The commission heard four complaints, all filed by Dale Reed, SG assistant attorney general, during the four-hour meeting;
Any ticket or candidate which receives 20 or more points is disquanfteG; according to SG Elections Codes.
Elections Commission Chairperson Mark Chiappone said the commission took extra care in deciding what cases to hear, noting probable cause was only determined in the four cases the commission chose to hear. Matters of procedure, which in previous elections have caused difficulty and confusion, were strictly followed to prevent over-
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Assistant Attorney General Dale Reed prosecuted the complaints.
Fernandez won’t sue, will address SG court
By MICHAEL R. MORRIS
Contributing Editor
Julio Fernandez has decided to drop his battle for the position of Student Government treasurer, although at one point he had said he was preparing a civil suit against the University of Miami should his name not appear on the ballot.
Fernandez said he has decided to take his case before the SG Supreme Court, adding however that he will not use a court decision to try to overturn the elections results.
Last week’s SG elections, with a ballot that not include his name, resulted in today’s
run-off vote between tresurer-hopefuls Valerie Franz and Howie Hauser.
In order to set a precedent for future elections, Fernandez took his case before last night’s meeting of the court.
"This case is important,” Fernandez said. “I care too much about SG to see it go down.”
If Fernandez had pressed his case, it is theoretically possible the court could have required new treasurer elections take place today instead of the two-candidate runoff. If
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University Center celebrates 25th year
By TIFFANY M.BOST
Assistant News Editor
The year was 1965. On April 22, the University of Miami opened its new $3.2 million Student Union. It was funded by student fees, government funding and individual contributions. To swim in the pool cost 21 cents, bowling was 40 cents a game and billiards were billed at 30 cents an hour.
Now, 25 years later, the union has shown its changes with the times. The building was renamed in 1966 to the Norman A. Whitten University Center in honor of Norman A. "Chink” Whitten, the center’s first director.
Friday night, the University Center celebrated its 25th anniversary with a "Blast Back Birthday Bash” presented by the Program Council.
The celebration included live bands, dancers, movies, food, giveaways, games, reduced-rate bowling and billiards, a psychic and a caricaturist.
Dr. Craig Ullom, director of Student Life, said, “I think the bash was successful. It provided a little bit of
something for everybody.”
Students had the opportunity to win one week of free car rental by tossing a commemorative UC mini-Frisbee through the Center’s logo. Live entertainment on the UC Plaza was provided by UM’s Pizzazz dance troupe and local bands.
Freshman Allen Colaco said he spent most of his time enjoying the entertainment on the Plaza. "My favorite thing tonight was the music and the bands.” he said.
Natasha the Psychic attracted a large group of students who waited for as long as 45 minutes to have her answer their questions. She used crystals and tarot cards to answer students’ questions.
“I’m having a blast and a half,” said freshman Arden Williams. "The psychic was intriguing."
Several students participated in contests, including Hula-Hoop and Tetris mystery score competitions. Other students vied for sport-related prizes.
“I’m waiting to win a pool cue,” said junior Sheri Langerman.
The UC bowling alley and pool tables offered games at reduced rates and prizes for participants.
JASON WOLFE/Staff Photographer
Miriam Gonzalez competes in the Hula-Hoop contest Friday during the University Center’s Blast Back Birthday Bash.
NY Times columnist to speak at graduation
From Staff Reports
The University of Miami will hold its annual commencement ceremony on at 8:30 a.m. May 11 on the central lawn of the Coral Gables campus.
Approximately 2,000 students will receiving degrees: 1,135 undergraduate degrees, 486 graduate degrees, 425 law degrees and 174 medical degrees.
New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Baker will give the commencement address. He will also receive an honorary doctor of letters degree, one of six honorary degrees.
Baker, 64, who has been a journalist for more than 40 years, is known for the social satire of his "Observer” column, which appears in the Times.
Other honorary degree recipients will be: Nobel Prize winner
CAPS AND GOWNS
Spring graduates can pick up their caps and gowns during the first week in May on the second floor of the UM Bookstore. Identification is required. There is no charge, and graduates can keep their regalia.
Camilo Jose Cela, doctor of letters; biochemist Mildred Cohn, doctor of science; children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman, doctor of laws; Miami-Dade Community College President Robert McCabe, doctor of humanities; art historian and educator Vincent Scully Jr., doctor of humane letters.
The May commencement exercises is the official ceremony for all sectors of UM. The schools of law and medicine have separate ceremonies.
Spring graduates can pick up their caps and gowns during the first week in May on the second floor of the UM Bookstore. Identification is required, but there is no charge, and students may keep their regalia.
Graduation
1990
Rally held to combat bigotry
“If this were a perfect world, there would not be a need for this rally,” sophomore Paris Pierce said as he began the first Anti-Hate Rally in the University of Miami’s history yesterday on the University Center Rock.
According to Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Luis Glaser, the rally was held in response to the "bigoted propaganda" that has been appearing all over cam-pus.
Arthur Teitelbaum, featured speaker at the half-hour-long rally and director of the Anti-Defamation League, said these hate-groups and "gutter-level bigots” are using college campuses nationwide as a forum for the spread of their "retrogressive” views.
He urged the crowd of approximately 150 UM students and faculty to get involved and “challenge bigotry wherever it raises its ugly head.”
“With one day for 30 minutes, you are not going to reach as many people as you want,” Andres Acebo, a junior, said. ”1 think the rally was pretty good, but it needs to be on a grander scale. Maybe there could be a whole week.” ,	»
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Linda Lazcrc Levin, director of student activities at IlillcI, speaks to Anti-Defamation League Director Arthur Teitelbaum after yesterday’s rally.
Frat: Players
By CHRISTOPHER J. RINGS
Sports Editor
The University of Miami athletic department is investigating allegations that up to 40 UM football players harassed and assualt-ed members of a black fraternity on campus.
"We’re looking into it, privately," UM head football Coach Dennis Erickson said Sunday. "If any disciplinary actions are taken, it will be done privately, like we usually do.”
The investigation came in response to a letter printed by The Miami Hurricane Friday, in which the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, a fraternity of less than a dozen members, alleged that UM football players harassed brothers and pledges on the nights of April 2 and 3.
According to the fraternity, on April 2, several rock-throwing football players disrupted the "Alpha Mile,” a ritualistic track event involving pledges. The next night, a group of nine brothers and pledges preparing
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for a fraternity probate show were confronted by nearly 50 players, many armed with bats, pipes and sticks. When fraternity President Kevin Brown asked the players if they were coming to see the show, one allegedly replied, "No, we’ve come to put on our own."
According to Roy, the group of predominantly black football players "threw a few kicks and punches" and hit a brother in the back of the head so hard he had trouble seeing afterward. The brothers said they then filed complaints with campus and Coral Gables Police and after no results, decided to go public with the events two weeks later.
“(The police] are supposed to be conducting an investigation," Roy said, “but we’re not satisfied with the investigation. Now I think the administration is paying attention.”
Jerry Houston, adviser to UM’s black greek organizations, would not reveal details of the investigation and would not name players involved.
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