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Saturday Night Live veteran Joe Piscopo will kick off the UM Homecoming celebration tonight along with musical guests, The Cover Girls.
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Students to perform community service
Hurricanes Help the Hometown, philanthropy day for the University of Miami Homecom-| mg, is tomorrow. UM students will
rid most of day in the community doing good deeds.
The United Way will be the beneficiary of moat of the projects, but other organizations will also benefit. UM students will help Miami Rescue and the Salvation Army. They will be doing painting projects, working with children and the elderly and cleaning up Biscayne Bay.
The "‘kickoff’ will be at 10:30 a.m. on the University Center Plaza.
Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affairs, will be awarding prizes to students who participate.
“The goal ia to make a statement as a University that we do want to help the community. Also, to teach the students about the different agencies and projects available, Eva Alverez, of volunteer services,
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into an annual event.
- LYNETTE MALINGER
Candidacy filing deadline extended
The Student Government Senate has extended the filing deadline for candidacy for the tall senate elections until 5 p.m. today.
The decision was made because of a lack of candidates filing for positions, according to Ken DeMoor, author of the bill and the University Affairs Committee chairman.
Out of the 17 offices up for election, 10 offices have candidates running unopposed.
Students interested in running can pick up an application in the SG office.
A meeting for potential candidates will be held at 7 p.m. today in the UC Flamingo Ballroom. All interested candidates and campaign managers must attend.
Cours« books available today
Course schedule books for the spring semester will be available in all academic departments and registration centers today, according to Scott Ingold, UM’s assistant dean of enrollments. Registration begins Monday.
The books should have been available in time for advising which began on Monday, but Ingold said a shipping problem caused a week-long delay in their arrival.
“They were due last week from Tennessee,” Ingold said.
Ingokl said academic advisers had access to computer printout of course schedules to assist students in selecting their courses.
FACE THE FACTS
$38,000 sculpture stolen from Lowe
700-pound work taken during renovations
By AMY ELLIS
Editor In Chiat
University of Miami police say they still have no clues in the disappearance of a $38,000 sculpture from the grounds outside the Lowe Art Museum.
The 700-pound work, titled Dialogue One, was taken from outside the Lowe sometime between noon Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday. The sculpture had been left outside while the building was being painted, according to Museum Director Brian Dursum.
The only evidence police have is a pair of tire tracks running from the street to where the sculpture
stood.
The 6-foot-high, 3-foot-wide abstract sculpture resembles a distorted musical note and was created by Lila Katxen, a New York City sculptor. The polished aluminum piece took more than two months to complete and was donated to the museum by a Miami couple in 1981.
Dursum said it took five workers to move the piece from the museum’s front courtyard to the front entrance. Two others were also moved outside. Since the theft, these two have been bolted down.
“It’s not an easy thing to take,” Dursum said. “They would’ve had to have showed up with a truck.”
JACEY SMITH/Staff Photographer
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used properly. There are avenues that we can chan- l“Pf it dean. We nel that aren’t available to every student.’
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1990
Raij: SG headed in new direction
By BETH JAHREIS	'	~
Associate News Editor
Controversy and internal conflicts riddled last year s University of Miami Student Government, led by former SG President Troy Bell. Bell is gone now and Irwin Ray, current SG president, says he does not want to dwell on past problems.
“The way I like to deal with last year ia to try to for-eet it, said Ray, who has been involved in SG since his freshman year and who served as executive secretary bat year. "My slogan this year is: ‘We’re setting a new standard.
“I think there were more things that could have been done,” Raij said of the previous year’s accomplishments. “1 don’t think anyone was too satisfied It was very frustrating.”
But Raij said he believes that the SG elections held at the end of last semester sent an optimistic message to students.
“Howard (Rubin, U ticket presidential candidate,) and I ran very straight campaigns," Raij said. ‘‘We both
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Hecht, Stanford to be renovated if budget ok’d
UNITED NATIONS DAY
Improvements to cost $12.3 million

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TRY SOME OF THIS: Shelly Koch, left, and Melissa Baskin, center, wait to try an “Arab delicacy’’on the University Center Plaza during Wednesday’s UN Day. Lara Derderian, right, and Marwan Idas, behind Koch, are serving	,	_____________
Many UM students missed boat on first Homecoming cruise
leery of having the dance on a ship.
Marwen Naaman, a junior, was one of the students unable to get a ticket.
‘‘I think everyone should be able to go. Having the dance on a cruise is an awesome idea, but now 1 think they should have had it in a hotel so that I could go,” Naaman said. “But if I had tickets, I’d probably be all for the cruise.”
“The fact that the dance was on a cruise probably made the tickets more desirable,” junior Keely McCarthy said. “I wanted to go and I didn’t get tickets, but I still think it’s worth limiting the number of tickets and having it on a ship.”
After tickets were nearly sold out, there was an attempt to charter another ship from the SeaEscape Cruise Line, according to Misemer. However, the second ship would have cost $78,000 more than the first. WMal............. ■ "
By ALLETTA BOWERS Assistant News Editor
Tickets for this year’s Homecoming “Moonlight Masquerade Kruise,” scheduled for the evening of Nov. 2, sold out five days after they went on sale. Only 1,150 tickets were available to students, and many say they are upset because they cannot go.
“The idea for a cruise was something people had talked about for a while,” Todd Misemer, Homecom-
tial College? None of these things exist now, but they are all possible in the future.
These are just some of the renovations that could be implemented jjf the $12.3 million budget for the project is approved. The renovations have been in the works for over a year.
The opinions of a wide range of people, including students, residence coordinators and professionals are being used to decide on the plans.
While there is no specific date for approval, discussion has been stepped up. University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II visited Stanford last week to inspect the building. Renovations will need not only his OK, but also the approval of the budget committee, the trustees and others.
“The approval could be a while in coming; nothing has been decided yet, but we have developed a master plan,” Director of Residence Halls Dr. Robert Redick said.
Some of the other proposed changes will include glass windows in Stanford facing Lake Osceola and an expanded lounge. The living capacity of the buildings will not change, however.
“The towers do need to be renovated, and I hope President Foote will put this at the top of his list,” Stanford Master Dr. Edward Baker aaid.
According to Baker, if approved,
the students and the college as a whole.’
Dr. Edward Beker, Master of Stanford Residential
the renovations will take place in phases, with the majority of the work being split between four summers. Little can be done while students are occupying the buildings. When the first phase will begin is still to be decided, though Redick claims it will happen “as fast as money will allow.
‘‘These things take forever to get approved. Fm all for the renovations taking place tomorrow. It would be marvelous for the students and the college as a whole,” Baker said.
However, some students do not agree with the renovation plans and say other problems should be addressed.
“Why spend lots of money improving the looks of things, when the money could be better spent. We need to set some priorities,” freshman Pete Schulz said.
Sophomore business major Mindy Friedfeld agreed.
“The main thing they need to work on is the insides, the living conditions. They need to maintain the building better,” she aaid.
said. “We really didn’t
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According to Misemer, 1,000 to 1,200 showed up at the dance last year, despite only 900 to 1,000 tickets zsold.
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Mortar Board honors founder
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By CARRIE PERRICONE
Staff Writ»
In honor of its 25th year, the University of Miami chapter of Mortar Board wiU dedicate the street in front of the School of Continuing Studies to one of the chapter's founders, May A. Brunson. Brunson was dean of women at UM from 1955 until her death in 1970.
Celebration organizers Patricia Harrison and Alma David, both members of the UM Mortar Board Alumni Club, aaid they wanted to dedicate something special during the celebration in memory of Brunson.
“She was really instrumental in bringing Mortar
Board to our campus,” said David, who wrote the tribute to Brunson for the celebration’s program. She said •he remembers Brunson aa always helping young
women and being active in campus activities.
Brunson came to the University as a counselor for women in 1946, and in 1954 she became tte associate dean of women. Upon the retirement of Dean Mary Merritt in 1955, Brunson was promoted.
She served in her position at the University until her death in 1970. She died of a massive stroke on April 21, after staying late at her office for a conference with a student.	»»AD____________
The street, which will become May A. Brunson
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UM uses education in war on drugs
This is the fourth and last part of a series on drugs on campus. This part deals with the problem at UM and how the University is dealing with it.
By ROBERT MILLER
News Editor

‘Our primary goal ia prevention through education,” Dr. Philip Mann, director of the UM Drug Center, said.
According to Mann, the treatment of students after they have already developed their addictions does little or nothing to solve the problem of drug abuse among young people. Preventing them from using drugs in the first place ia the answer.
“If I can get the students before they get hooked, I can keep a lot of nasty things from happening," Mann aaid.
MANN: If I can get the students before they get hooked. I can keep a lot of nasty things from happening.
UM is attempting to follow this strategy and put it to work. Last year, the University opened the UM Drug Center in a suite of offices at 5801 Red Road. According to Mann, the center ia “a place to come, sit down, gather
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