Miami Hurricane, November 16, 1990

              IN THE SWIM
She swam in the U S. Open Championships in Orlando and the Olympic Games in Korea, and now she is swimming for an NCAA championship.
• SPORTS —page 6
OFF THE HOOK
UM’s Parking Appeals Board hears up to 5,000 parking appeals every year - and grants about half of them.
• ACCENT —page5
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OPINION: Students should support Africa Day and recognize the diverse culture of the continent Page 4
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VOLUME 68, NUMBER 23
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLESJ1A.
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NEWSBRIEFS
Graduate student wins competition
University of Miami graduate student Teri Tennison-Barrett won first place in the American College and University Poetry Competition.
Tennison-Barrett’s work Odysseus was one of 1,500 entries nationwide in the semiannual competition, sponsored by Cooper House Publishing. Her poem will be published in Poet magazine and she will receive a $200 award.
Tennison-Barrett is currently studying literary criticism and serving as a teaching assistant for freshman composition.
ABT will be watching for fake IDs In OB
Members of the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco will be present at the next two home football games and are strongly warning students not to use fake identification cards in order to purchase alcohol.
"Tell your students to leave their fake ID cards at home for these last two games," Captain Thomas Wheeler, of ABT, said. "A lot of fake IDs have been getting past the ID checkers at the Orange Bowl lately, but we will he there now to put an end to that.”
According to Wheeler, the only acceptable forms of ID are; valid driver's licenses, state-issued
II)-cards. and valid passport».
Any student caught carrying
alcohol who is not 21-years-old, or who does not possess one of these forms of ID, Wheeler said, will be detained by the ABT or the Orange Bowl security.
Spring registration begins in January
Nov. 9 was the last day students could register for the Spring semester — this semester. Those students who have not yet registered for their courses must wait until Jan. 10 to do so.
Drop/Add requests for the Spring must also wait until Jan. 10, although the registration centers can check to see if a student's class choices are full Students may add classes until Jan. 22, and the last day to drop without a "W" is Jan. 30.
The first day of classes is Jail. 14.
Harvard requires students pay for use of trademarks
Harvard University officials say they will now charge student groups a 7.5 percent royalty fee for using the Harvard name or logo on f—shirts or other items.
Groups must also have any fundraising items bearing the school’s registered trademarks officially approved by the centralized Harvard Student Agencies, Sylvia Struss of the school's trademark program said.
"I have no way of telling what is a real student group and what is not,'' Struss said, and added that only student groups hoping to make a profit from the item will have to pay the royalty.
Fiom College Press Service reports
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UM library fails to stack up
By FRANK RECIO
Stall Writer
How do you feel about the Otto G. Richter Library? How does it compare with other universities’ libraries?
Some students and faculty members say they believe it needs many improvements.
“The (UM| library is really lacking," UM junior Diego del Pino said. "1 dread going there. There is no good place to study, and I can never find anything 1 need.”
"Every single book I’ve ever needed has never been on the shelves," Ann Casano-
va, a senior, agreed. "I’ve always had to look elsewhere."
Statistics tell part of the story.
Both UM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent over $9 million on their libraries during the 1988-89 academic year. But the University of Florida and Harvard University spend much more.
According to American l.ibrary Sta tistics, a reference guide which compares 106 university libraries, Harvard spends over $40 million on its library each year, and UF’s library gets $14 million.
With more than 11 million volumes, Harvard has the largest university library in the nation.
In comparison, UM’s library has 1,656,659 volumes.
According to American l.ibrary Sta lislies, UM’s library ranks 89th in the
number of total library volumes out of the surveyed universities.
In terms of volumes added for the 1988-89 academic year, the Richter library ranked 75th.
Frank Rodgers, UM director of libraries, said he does not think the statistics are fair.
Rodgers said, “This quick and dirty method of comparing libraries doesn’t tell you a damn thing about quality.”
"Expenditures have us |ranked| in the 50s. Given the fact that we are such a young library, I think we are doing pretty well,” Rodjjers said.
The chair of the English department, Dr. Zack Bowen, disagrees.
“They (the library staff) are really working hard, but they are hampered by a miniscule budget." Bowen said.
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Rodgers
Student spends day as president of UM
By ERICK JOHNSON
Stall Writer
At noon Monday, the University of Miami appointed a new president.
Five hours later, Erik Braaten was out of a job.
Well, not quite.
Braaten, a senior majoring in
motion picture«, nwitctied pOttl-
tions with the real UM President Edward T. Foote II for one day.
Braaten, a 22-year-old born in Bogota, Colombia, won the opportunity after his name was drawn on Nov. 7 in a contest sponsored by Student Alumni Ambassadors. Contestants were required to donate money to the United Way during the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2. The event raised $200.
Braaten’s term in office began at the Mahoney/Pearson Residential College cafeteria, where he and Foote lunched on mmi-egg rolls and Chinese fried rice.
After the meal, Braaten left the campus in a brown 1990 Taurus and headed south to Goulds, a crime-ridden neighborhood in Southwest Dade.
Here, Braaten took Foote’s place as chairman of the Miami Coalition for a Drug-Free Community and accompanied Metro-Dade police officers on a tour of abandoned crack houses. Braaten said he was touched by the experience.
"It was scary," Braaten said. “You see this |crime| on television and in the movies. I never thought I would see this in real life.”
The next stop was Jackson Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, where Braaten witnessed
Foote goes to classes, plays pool
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Stall Writer
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II sat upright in his chair, carefully taking notes in Dr. Barbara Laman’s world literature class Monday aftermxw.
Foote was not taking notes for himself. He was taking UM senior Eric Braaten's place during the day-long presidential switch sponsored by the Student Alumni Ambassadors.
"Although I didn’t receive the reading assignment on time, I tried to take careful notes for Eric when he returns to reality," Foote said.
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the hectic world of Florida's largest hospital.
"1 really couldn’t see what was going on," Braaten said. “Everyone was so busy. It was an incredible experience."
Braaten then met with Dean Bruce Rosendahl at UM’s Rosen-stiei School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on his next stop.
When Braaten returned to the main campus, some students and faculty members addressed him
PRESIDENTIAL FLIPFLOP:
President Foote, above, concentrates on the pocket, while UM |unior Kirk Moody takes game notes. Foote, right, gives his class notes to "President" Erik Braaten during the presden-tial switch
as "Mr. President." But Braaten said being the president can have its disadvantages.
“I was asked a lot of questions on tuition increases," Braaten said. “I had to avoid those kind of questions."
So what did Braaten learn from this experience?
"Being the president of the University is a a difficult job," he said. "I really admire President Foote.”
JONATHAN STRAIT/Statt Photographer
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Two million spent yearly recruiting new freshmen
Women’s Commission urges better quality UM day care
By NICOLE KOLBER
Stall Writer
Attracting new students to attend the University of Miami is an extensive and costly process.
This year's UM budget included $2 million for the recruitment and admission of new students, according to Deborah Triol Perry, dean of enrollments.
The office of admissions must first identify those high schixil students who are likely candidates for admission. In order to do this, the office purchases a large student search list with names of students who have taken the PSAT, according to Mary Conway, direc-
By TRACY KRAMER
Stall Writer
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who was supposed to have given a speech entitled "Reflections of the Constitution,” instead addressed the effects of the press on the court system Wednesday afternoon at the Janies L. Knight Center.
As a guest speaker of the Robert B. Cole Distinguished Jurists Lecure, Scalia, 54, was presented by the UM School of Law in part-
tor of admissions.
The list includes self-reported biographical and academic data for each student and the students' expectations in a university.
The students who seem both interested in a school like UM, and also appear likely to meet admissions requirements, are the names the admissions department purchases to target for recruitment. According to Conway, the cost per name is approximately 17 to 20 cents.
"We are traditionally a large search buyer, and the initial mailing is very large,” Conway said, though she did not discuss any fig-
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nership with the law firm Mershon, Sayer, Johnson, Dunwody and Cole.
Scalia, a Reagan appointee to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 1982 and to the U.S. Supreme Court in August 1986, is aligned wih the strict conservatism of the Reagan era.
He often avoids the press. In a Congressional Quarterly article dated March 24, 1990, Scalia declined to be interviewed.
Scalia also refused interviews during his
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By ERICK JOHNSON
Stall Wrttef
While her in-laws were babysitting her two children, Leisha Duran spent her lunchtime Tuesday afternoon urging the University of Miami administration to provide space for a quality day-care center.
"The University needs another daycare facility," Duran said. "It will benefit the employees, economically and emotionally."
Duran was among 100 University employees and concerned individuals who attended a forum on day care at UM. The meeting, which was sponsored by the Women’s Commission, addressed the plight of University employees who are unable to find quality on-campus day care.
David Leiberman, vice president for business and finance, said the lack of day care facilities is a concern but not a priority.
“Health care is a much higher priority,” he said "It affects all 6,000 of faculty and staff. If I had a spare nickel, I’d put it
in health care.”
Some people say Leiberman does not care about UM employees with children.
”1 don’t think Leiberman came, in with
the right attitude," said Duran, a full-time employee at the Department of Public Safety. "He was pretty negative. He was looking at these people as just numbers."
Leiberman disagreed sharply.
"People who think I'm negative are not open-minded about the University’s priorities," Leiberman said. “I'm very sensitive to the issue, but some people have to look at our priorities."
Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, assistant vice president for human resources, offered a solution to the day care problem.
“We're going to have experts and administrators help us look at maximizing the utilization of the Canterbury Center 11he only on-campus day care facility, which is operated by the Chapel of Venerable Bede Episcopal Church)," Thomas said.
Despite Thomas’ proposal, many UM employees said the meeting was unsuccessful.
"The University’s stance about more day-care facilities has remained the same for two years," said Cynthia Wilson, associate master of Pearson Residential College.
Wilson, who is expecting her second child next May, will take the summer off from work to care for her baby.
Scalia discusses media and courts