Miami Hurricane, August 31, 1990

              SHAPING UP
Campus Sports and Recreation has gone through a makeover with state-of-the-art equipment to help UM students lead healthier lifestyles.
• Sports — page 18
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Local bands often “get their start" playing at the University Center Plaza, sometimes moving onto local clubs and record deals.
t	e Accent —page 16
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INSIDE TODAY
Recycling underway on UM campus. Panes OPINION: Students discuss U.S. involvement in Middle East
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VOLUME 68. NUMBER 1
UNIVERSITY

NEWSBRlkFS
e Dr. Robert Simpson, dean of the School of Education, and Dr. David Wilson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, have each announced their intention to step down, effective next summer.
Sim paon assumed the deanship in 1986, and since then has contributed to the increase in the volume of research in the school.
Wilson, a neuro-scientist, is now in his sixth year as dean of the College of Arts and Science*. He has announced his intention to return to science and teaching in the department of biology.
Butter create«
• Dr. William Butler, vice president for student affaire, recently announced the creation of a Vice-President’a i Award for Service which will I be awarded each spring to | an undergraduate student who has extraordinarily contributed to the cam-1 pus and great-er-Miami com- a.*!«-munity.
Criteria for the award indudes: the quality of involvements, the
Volunteer Services Student Center will also present special recognition awards to individual* and group* involved with service throughout the year.
The selection for the award will be conducted by a committee appointed by the vice president for student attire, which will be composed of student, staff, faculty and a representative from the Miami community. The process will occur ■ in March of each academic year.
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• Students with two-year degrees may initially earn more than their counterparts with four-year degrees, a University of Florida study revealed.
Bernard Fila-Aime, placement director for Miami-Dade Community College, attributes this to a profusion of technical fields for which high school graduates are underqualified and four-year graduates are overqualified.
Fila-Aime said, "After five years (the salary discrepancy] reverses. People who are ambitious will look to finish their degrees."
—From College Press reports
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Kuwaitis look to embassy for help
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HEI8MAN HOPE: University of Miami quarterback Craig Erickson Is In the running for the Heisman Trophy, given to the top college football player.,As for the Hurricanes, they're In the running for the national title again. Sports, page 18.
By ASTRID ROMERO
Staff Writer
Almost a month has passed since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and while the situation in the Persian Gulf is still uncertain, Kuwaiti students at the University of Miami are hoping to resolve personal financial difficulties caused by the crisis.
After Iraq invaded the small kingdom of Kuwait, the United States froze all of Kuwait’s assets her? in order to prevent Iraq from gaining control of them.
Due to the freeze, some of the 42 Kuwaiti students at UM were left with no way to pay their tuition.
However, after conversations with the U.S. Treasury Department, the Kuwaiti embassy has liquidated some of its assets and renewed its sponsorship of these students.
The embassy also plans to make payments to students who are supported by their families or funded by private companies, as well as provide students with a monthly stipend, although these have been reduced by 60 percent.
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enrolled at U.S. universities, 1,200 of these receiving government-sponsored scholarships.
Teresa Poole, director of UM International Student Services, said she has been meeting with small delegations of Kuwaiti students to address their concerns. She said the Kuwaitis on campus have created a network to share information and offer support to each other.
Many of the UM students affected by the crisis have applied for an authorization to work off campus to supplement the embassy’s aid, Poole said. But sb far they’ve had to' follow regular immigration procedures regarding employment.
Harold Hay, an adjunct professor in the School of Architecture, said
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he has two positions available, but the students must be studying in the field of architecture or engineering.
Even if the financial situation has somewhat cleared up for Kuwaiti students, those students who are citizens of other countries but who have Kuwaiti residency status are
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loans and off-
of these students.'
“I haven’t talked to my family since the fourth of August," said Abdullah Bughaith, a graduate student of architectural engineering. "We share the feelings of the families of the hostages because our families are also hostages in then-own country,” he said.
Meshal Al-Ameri, a senior studying computer science, who left Kuwait 10 days before the invasion, agrees that trying to contact family members is the biggest problem. “We only get news from those whose famines have been able to ■tee said.
UM students react to Gainesville tragedy
By CORIE BISHOP
Contributing Editor
A fear which has gripped the student* at the University of Florida since Sunday has caused many to pack up their books and head home, but it has not drastically altered University of Miami students’ perceptions of their own safety.
A total at five bodies have been discovered in the collège town of Gainesville, including two students from Dade County. The mutilated bodies of Jacksonville’s Christina Powell, Sonia Larson of Deerfield Beach and Christa Hoyt of Gainesville were found this weekend, and
Œ:es Tracy Inez Paules and I Ricardo Taboada of Miami were found dead on Tuesday. “You can’t even leave your girlfriend’s room at two in the morning without someone knowing you were there.” lot of fear and concern that the same thing could happen here.
At a result, students are vowing
Public Safety urges precautions
By AMY ELLIS
Editor in Chief
Five students in Gainesville have been murdered in the span of three days.
Even though the college town is over 300 mues away, officials at the University of Miami Department of Public Safety say they are taking extra safety precautions and urging students to do the same.
“We are very concerned over
his,” said Public Safety Director oseph Frechette. "We are treasing to students to keep heir doors locked, avoid walking one and just be more careful.'' Frechette said hours of operator the student security service have been expan-, and a flyer stressing the need it precautions is being distribut-Uround campus. ‘ >•
will now be available until 3 a.m. on weekdays, add on weekends, the hours may be
extended to 6 a.m. if manpower can be found, Frechette said.
Pat Haden, Public Safety Crime Prevention Officer, said she hopes all students, both males and females, will take advantage of the escort service.
“We are stepping up security, but students have to do their part,” she emphasised.
Haden spoke Wednesday to the Student Government Senate and urged students to keep their Please see page 5/SAFETY
to pay more attention to their own
safety measure*.
Jean Estes, a freshman mechani-engineering major, said she does not feal frightened to be at UM, but said she will take aafety
I to protect herself.-| Estes said, “I wouldn’t drfte a r nice car around or wear a lot WmM< r to dais; my friends Sink itfmtxahge, but I think it’s safef ’ also emphasized that jhe
would never leave her door unlocked or walk akme across campus. In fact, she has called for the safety escorts twice this week, once as early as 8:30 p.m.
Students at the University of
Florida are doing more than calling escorts - they are moving out of their apartments and even out of Gainesville.
Lynn Sarnow, a 21-year-old junior at UF, lives a half mile away from campus, but is moving into the fraternity house where she is a little sister. Her two roommates went home. She said that people don’t want to stay alone, and if they are staying in Gainesville, they are moving in with friends.
“It’s absolute hysteria up here. Everyone is scared; rumors are flying, and no one want* to go anywhere,” Sarnow said.
Nicole Monteith, a freshman biology major at UM, said, like Estes, she doee not share the UF hysteria.
She said she feels safe here, but does not deny the possibility that it could happen here. "It could happen anywhere,” Monteith said.
Both Monteith and Estes said
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Students living at Holiday Inn say it’s no Vacation, miss campus life
By YAMA PAlLLAftB	~
Staff Writer
University of Miami “student exiles" are ready to return home. Students being tempo-rerily housed in double rooms at the Holui.iv *nn from the campus say “brnel life” is not all it a cracked up to be.
Hut James Smart, assistant director for re*!den<£servk*s, said it is a temporary sit-uatun. Students should begin moving back on campus by the middle of next week.
.I	10 mad. I have to pay for local
calls. It a 60 cents per local call.’'said senior ,<The best thing about being here tnsteaa of on campus is the ice machine and
the pool «opened until 10 p.m.”
Senior Amelia Mahoney, alo a Holiday Inn dweller, said that although the does not expect someone to dean up afer her, the maid service far students is nft adequate. When ate asked an employee abut student rooms, the response was that they don’t clean students' rooms.
“It's a nice hotel, but the \ al thing stinks,” said Mahon,
Mercedes Chavez, head ot housekeeping, said students get freah towels and sheets every Monday and Friday. They ip not get regular maid service because they g> nbt pay the same as "regular customers.” .
Sophomore KhaJed AJ-Tararwal said he misses campus life and having ciaasla within walking distance.
(the shuttle], you have to >, and U.S. 1 is dangerous,"
Smart saidjhe situation ia not the University's fault. Student* residing at the Holiday Inn “are all edhtinuing students who didn’t do what they wQe supposed to do last spring,” Smart said. £
They are students who sent in their deposits too late, students who did not inform the University that they were returning or student* who had planned to live in off-cam-^apartments. The list goes on and on,
“It would be nice if the students at UM would(iiUy put. We have people arriving today,” Mid Smart
Over the weekend, nearly 50 students checked in • none of whom informed the University at their late status, according to Smart.
Afl incoming freshmen have been housed on campus because in the past it has not been a "positive situation” to nave student« who are away from home for the first time resid-! in a hotel, said Smart. Some freshmen are housed on campus in super singles • _ the aise of doubles - in Hecht and Stanford Residential Colleges.
Those residing in super singles were forewarned of a possible roommate last year.
"Ninety-five percent of the students, we know about It’s that other five percent that keeps u* bwy,” said Smart.

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