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VOtUME 69. NUMBER 15
DON’T WAIT TO HATE FLORIDA STATE
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 29.1991
Crime and Punishment
Victim: Why no action against attacker?
■ A student assaulted on campus last summer is accusing the Office of the Dean of Students of not punishing the guilty party.
By CONNIE PHOTO
Assistant News Editor
He said 7 know you'. I responded that 1 did not know him and that I would like to talk to him hut was late to class. By the time I reached the lawn, I heard running footsteps. I turned around to look and found his fist in my face.
This is how Elizabeth Comesanas, junior, describes her encounter with the man who assaulted her on the University of Miami campus on the morning of July 29.
After she was hit in the back of the head, she screamed and fell to the ground, unconscious. When she awoke, she found
herself surrounded by people. Her face was buried in the sidewalk, and the man who hit her was gone.
The man who physically assaulted her was later identified as Gregory Sheffield, a senior at UM.
According to UM Public Safety reports, Sheffield was contacted by police. When he arrived he told the detective handling the case, "I am the one you are looking for and I want to tell my side of the story.”
He was found guilty of battery on Sept. 9 at a disciplinary hearing held by the Office of the Dean of Students. Sheffield did not attend the hearing.
The State Attorney’s office completed an investigation of the case as well. Sheffield is being charged with battery, and his arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 4.
According to Comesanas, she was told at the hearing that William Sandler, dean of students, would determine Sheffield’s penalty within a week.
But, Sandler took over a month to decide what penalty he would impose, and
he has yet to inform Comesanas of the sentence. And now, Comesanas is accusing Sandler and the Dean of Students Office of dragging their feet in the case.
According to the Student’s Rights and Responsibilities section of the Student Life Handbook, the penalties imposed for a major offense, such as battery, are expulsion, suspension, withdrawal or termination of financial aid, or any penalty that may be imposed for a minor offense.
Sandler said Sheffield was given a trespass warning. Which means Sheffield will not be allowed on campus again.
Sandler said he submitted the paperwork to restrict Sheffield’s registration at the University on Aug. 5.
According to a source in the Office of Enrollment Services, as of Oct. 25, Sheffield was free to register for classes. “No stops are on his registration,” the source said.
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SANDLER The dean of students denies allegations of dragging his feet in the case. The University acted properly, he said.
UM 36, ARIZONA 9
Kevin William’s third punt return for a touchdown in three weeks highlighted Miami's seventh win of the season.
■ Sports — page 10
WVUM BENEFIT
Many bands that got their start because of airplay on WVUM will perform at a benefit concert for the station at Washington Square.
■ Accent —page 8
NEWSBRIEFS
Frat house vandalized
A piece of concrete was thrown through a window in the Sigma Chi fraternity house early in the morning of Oct. 20, according to reports from the Department of Public Safety.
The block caused approximately $100 damage, the report stated. No one was injured in the incident.
According to Public Safety, there are no suspects in the case.
— PAMELA WILFINGER
Freshmen with deficiencies prohibited from registration
Freshmen who have received midterm deficiency notices may not register for spring classes until they have met with their academic advisers. Those who have received the notices must meet with their academic advisers to discuss the matter prior to registration.
Jeanne Vaida, sophomore academic adviser for the School of Business Administration, said that "Freshmen and sophomores who have a midterm deficiency, have a ‘flag’ placed on their registration. It’s not that they cannot register, they will encounter long delays.”
Prior to registration, students must take the Course Request Form with the adviser signature to room 111 of the Merrick Building to have the “stop” removed.
Panel discusses Cuba’s future
The University of Miami North-South center held the "Sixth Annual Seminar on Cuba” last Thursday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, in which a panel of experts from UM and the international community discussed the future of Cuba.
The seven hour colloquium allowed the audience, mostly made up of prominent members of the business community, as well as people from the media, to debate with the panelists on issues pertaining to Cuba’s internal political future and external relations with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Ambler Moss, director of the North-South Center and dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at UM, said “I think that considering the topic, there was a remarkable amount of convergence on the idea that nothing dramatic was going to happen soon (in Cuba).”
TODAY’S FORECAST
PARTLY CLOUDY
HIGH: 85 LOW: 68 Chance of rain 20%
Source: National Weather Service
FACE THE FACTS
The following chart shows Endowment Fund Balances in the last 11 years at the University of Miami:
’’81 '82 ’83 '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '5 SOURCE: UM Annual Repon 1991.
HIRAM HENRIQUEZ / Graphic Artist
SINK OR SWIM
JAMES W. GIBSON/Staff Photographer
TREADING WATER: Tate Volino and Ken Dezee pull their boat, "Boat Outa Hell," to shore during the third annual Cardboard Boat Race, Friday. Of the eleven boats entered, Mark McKay and Alex King’s boat, "Liquor Box," won the contest held on Lake Osceola.
UM allocations questioned by U.S. auditors
By RICARDO J.BASCUAS
Staff Writer
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) report on its review of the indirect costs of research at the University of Miami showed $96,839 of inappropriate costs billed to the federal government.
According to Wayne Roberts, controller, the University has reimbursed the government $35,741 for each of the three years under review, required under federal regulations, and has prepaid the same amount for 1992 and 1993.
"We were a little disappointed, but in terms of the total dollars, it didn’t concern us that much,” Roberts said. “We made some accounting errors. It’s not like we were trying to gouge the rate. We owned up to our mistakes.”
HHS is currently investigating accounts relating to indirect costs of research at 14 universities ranking in the top 50 receiving federal research money. The schools being investigated are: Dartmouth College; Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Washington and Yale Universities; the Universities of Chicago, Miami, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Southern California; and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Roberts said that among the 14 schools under investigation, “We (UM) are on the lower end of the spectrum (in terms of the money being paid back).” Roberts said, “It ranges, according to what I know personally, from $81,000 to over $800,000."
The review of UM focused on the general and administrative indirect costs of research for which the University receives federal funding. Indirect costs are expenses incurred to make research tools possible such as buildings, equipment and administration. Fund raising, public relations, entertainment and investment management are not allowable under federal regulations.
According to HHS’s report, the government reviewed the general and administrative (G&A) cost pool for fiscal year 1987. Eighteen accounts were examined to see if the University had benefited from them in any way besides research. Of those, 15 accounts were reviewed to make sure all transactions were allowable under federal regulations.
The report revealed $649,653 of questionable costs and $435,760 which would be unallowable under proposed regulations. Expenditures that were allowable but misclassified totalled $213,071. HHS recommended questionable costs, both under current and proposed regulations, be eliminated from future proposals for funding and that misallocation be corrected.
Some of the expenses from the President’s Office account whose relation to research was questioned by the government were:
■ Memberships to the Pan Am Airways Clipper Club, $150; Gables States, $1,500; The Foundling Club, $600; and The World Trade Club, $850.
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Education dean search begins
By TERRY CHAVEZ
Staff Writer
The University of Miami will begin a search for a new dean of the School of Education later this year.
A seven-member committee, formed by Luis Glaser, executive vice president and provost, will be conducting the search. The committee will formally begin reviewing candidates on Dec. 9.
The committee is chaired by William Hipp, dean of the School of Music, and includes six faculty members from the School of Education.
According to Professor Eveleen Lorton, a committee member, qualifications for the position include leadership, administrative experience, published research and successful acquisition of public or private funds for the establishment of programs.
“I will assume that we will have some outstanding scholars and administrators apply for this position because the School of Education enjoys a great reputation nation-wide,” Lorton said.
Lorton described this as an “open search.” She said anyone who met the qualifications was welcome to apply.
The School of Education has been without a permanent dean since the resignation of Robert J. Simpson on May 31. Assistant Dean Robert Moore has been serving as interim dean.
Foote proposes new tenure policy
By STEVE ALVAREZ
Staff Writer
A controversial new policy to increase the pre-tenure period from six to a maximum of nine years for future faculty members has been proposed by University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II.
Foote said the plan has been designed to improve the caliber of the teaching staff retained by the University, to offer a quality education to UM students and to provide more flexibility in granting tenure.
"I proposed some changes in the system,” Foote said. "Universities are changing very rapidly. The pressure and demands are severe. America’s need for top quality individuals is enormous."
The new policy will be debated by the Faculty Senate over the next few months. It will be presented along with any changes, to the Board of Trustees at it’s meet-
ingon Feb. 12, 1992.
Not everyone believes Foote’s suggestions are appropriate, however.
Michael Kren, professor of history, said Foote’s plan is not very good.
“It’s based on a false premise that there is a lot of 'dead wood’ on the faculty. It is not a workable plan and will not solve the supposed problems."
William Whelan, chairman of the Faculty Senate, said tenure, granted by the University, gives faculty members employment security until retirement, death or resignation.
“UM’s tenure policy is a process of evaluation, in which the faculty member is observed on a year to year basis. In a tenure period, you are improving your credentials as a scholar. President Foote’s proposal is not the only alternative. The faculty must try to be flexible. A lot of people don’t
like the idea of extending the tenure period because it would limit the recruiting competitiveness,” Whelan said.
If approved, the new system, beginning next fall, would have three different full-time faculty tracks:
■	The "Regular Faculty” scholar-teacher would be the equivalent of the present tenured and tenure track professors.
■	The scholar track would include individuals spending professional time in scholarship and publishing and the other 50 percent or so in teaching and related service.
■	The teacher track would consist of individuals appointed on negotiable terms according to the University’s needs.
Initial appointments for "Regular Faculty” scholar-teachers would be for three years, with a
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