Miami Hurricane, January 30, 1990

              Out of a jam
Courtesy of GOLD COAST COMMUTER SERVICES
A new service provided by the University of Miami will assist commuter students in avoiding traffic congestion along 1-95.
Service to assist commuters
By TOM B. HIGGINS
News Editor
■Hie University of Miami commuter student affair« office and Gold Coast Commuter Services
students outside
according to Stephanie Palubicki, director ol C5A.
David Sappenfield, a marketing representative for Gold Coast, said the service, slated to begin in February, will be free to students. The service will cost the University no additional funds beyond the salaries of the employees the University uses to implement the service.
"I have had enough requests from students to let me know there is a need for this service,” Palubicki said.
Commuters living farther away than the proximate area surrounding the UM campus will be mailed a “commuter kit,” Sappenfield said. The kit contains information on car pooling, current Interstate 95 construction sites and the background of Gold Coast. Gold Coast is paying all expenses of the mailing, including postage.
A list naming about six other students living within one to two miles of these students will be sent after the initial mailing. Interested students would then contact the commuter student services ^ffic^ndtel^Üiemwit^vUgy^g^^^^g^
those students to see if they were interested in taking advantage of the service.
“No phone numbers or addresses will be sent out,” assured Sappenfield.
Gold Coast is a public/private company that assists organizations with the coordination of their specific commuting needs. It was established by the Florida Department of Transportion is conduction with the 1-95 expansion project. Gold Coast has taken over all 1-95 traffic information responsiblities along the affected areas.
The car pooling service will be targeted to both undergraduate and graduate students at the program's inception but could later be expanded to
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UM student claims QB assaulted him
Craig Erickson accused of brawling
By TODD CLINE
Stall Writ«
Sophomore Jay Dewing filed a complaint with the Coral Gables police department Friday, accusing starting quarterback Craig Erickson of simple battery after an incident at the Rathskeller Thursday night. Simple battery is a misdemeanor, with the highest punishment being a year in county jail. However, the more likely punishment would be community service.
Dewing said he planned to go to the Dade County State's Attorney office yesterday, where investigators for that office would decide whether there was enough evidence to warrant filing criminal I against Erickson. So far no rges have been filed.
Erickson allegedly punched Dewing four to five times in the face with his fist Thursday night at the Rat, according to the police report. Dewing’s left eye was swollen, and after the incident he was taken to Doctor's Hospital, where he spent the night, according to the report.
In a phone call yesterday to The Miami Hurricane office. Dewing
‘My eye and lip are both pretty
messed up... I don’t want these football players getting away with anything.’ Jay Dewing, sophomore
‘Obviously there are two sides to every story. I don’t want to comment anymore on it.’
Craig Erickson, quarterback
said, "At this point the situation has gotten blown out of hand, and I have no comment at this time.”
After the incident however, Dewing was willing to comment on the situation.
"My eye and lip are both pretty messed up, and my eye is really swollen and purple and pink,” Dewing said.
After the incident, police said Dewing said he didn’t want to press charges or file a report. However, Friday he filed a formal complaint with the Coral Gables police department because, “I don’t want
these football players getting away with anything.”
Dewing, who is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, said in the report that he drank an undisclosed amount of alcohol at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house before entering the Rat. He said Erickson, 6 feet 2 inches, 196 pounds, approached him inside the Rat and hit him for no apparent reason.
"I provoked nothing and said nothing.” Dewing said. “1 never
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By LEANNE R. REIFSTECK
Stall Writer
The School of Architecture will undergo an accreditation process this week on campus. Accreditation will be conducted by a four-member team from the National Association of Accreditation Boards, the organization that visits and evaluates schools across the country.
UM’s School of Architecture sent the team a report with information on the school, its programs and the background of UM. The team then set criteria from the report and visits the school to determine if these criteria are being met.
The main objective of the accreditation process,
according to Jorge Hernandez, interim associate dean of the school, is ensuring any students who graduate from the University with an architecture degree will
have had the kind of training to insure professional sue
cess.
The team may also randomly choose a student to interview, sit in on classes and visit the architectural studios.
Nationwide, there are approximately 110 programs of architecture. Of those, about 90 are accredited, with two-thirds given a five-year term. UM’s school was first accredited in 1974 when it was a department in the School of Engineering. In 1984 the school was given its first five-year term, the highest accreditation possible.
Kirkpatrick: What a year
By MICHAEL R. MORRIS
Associate News Editor
“Nineteen eighty-nine should be the year of the century,” said Jeane Kirkpatrick, former ambassador to the United Nations, yesterday in a speech that was part of a University of Miami foreign policy seminar.
“The post-World War II era collapsed,” Kirkpatrick said. "By the end of the year, the division of Europe had effectively been over-come.”	,	,	. .
Kirkpatrick also shared her views on the reunification of Germany and the future of communism in Cuba under Fidel Castro.
The language of communism has changed, according to Kirkpatrick and "Fidel speaks the old language.” She said the invasion of Panama would help to shorten the life of the Cuban regime and she does not forsee a large, permanent contingent of U.S. forces being stationed in Panama above what exist-
ed
I prior to the invasion.
She noted the changing look of communism, comparing Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s look at the beginning of the decade to his current appearance. In the early '80s, Ortega would come to the United Nations dressed in a military uniform with slick-backed hair. In the past few years, he has adopted a suit, designer glasses and a blow-dried hairdo.
“He looks much more like a middle-class Nicaraguan," Kirkpatrick said.
Also featured at the seminar were Elliott Abrams, former assistant under-secretary of state for inter-American affairs and Connie Mack, U.S. senator.
Abrams discussed the relationship between the United States and Cuba, while Mack spoke on Panama.
Abrams echoed Kirkpatrick’s statements, calling for the 1990s to be the last decade for Ortega, Cas-
tro and North Korean leader Kim II Sung. He stressed the importance of a foreign policy based on moral principles, as opposed to the Kissinger policy of realpolitik. He also spoke of the gains in human rights during the Reagan Administration. Abrams defended U.S. intervention in countries such as Grenada and Panama.
The seminar on "Foreign policy for freedom in the 1990s,” held at the Omni International Hotel, was sponsored by the Horizon Institute for Policy Research, the Cuban American National Foundation, the James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies in cooperation with the institute for Soviet and East European Studies and the Institute of Inter-American Studies of the UM Graduate School of International Studies.
Kirkpatrick, 63, served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1981-85. A staunch conservative, Kirkpatrick was once
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a member of the Democratic National Convention Committee on Party Structure and Presidential Nomination. By 1988, she was being mentioned as a possible secretary of state by then-presidential candidate Jack Kemp. She has turned down calls to run for the presidency and a Maryland senate seat on the Republican ticket.
By STEVE FEIN
Stall Writer
Having trouble with taxes? Free tax service will be available for University of Miami students, staff and community starting Feb. 26. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program features UM students offering help with taxes in University Center 240.
Anyone with a simple tax return is invited to use the program, especially students or staff with low incomes, according to coordinator Ilyne Sbar, a senior at UM. The volunteers will fill out tax returns and answer questions until the tax deadline, April 16. The deadline is usually April 15, but that date falls on a Sunday this year. Appointments are not necessary.
VITA is a national program sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service. It was established to provide free tax assistance to low-income, elderly and non-English speaking individuals. The UM program is sponsored by Beta Alpha Psi, the
accounting fraternity, and Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity.
Accounting majors and other business majors who are interested in volunteering for VITA must attend a full-day tax information seminar on Feb. 10. The program will be given by the IRS at 8:30 a.m. in Cox Science Center 126.
Volunteers will donate at least two hours a week to the program.
Students who wonder whether they need to pay taxes are encouraged to visit the VITA office for free advice and assistance. The volunteers are prepared to answer
Jiuestions about scholarships and ellowships, most of which are not taxable, according to Sbar.
Moreover, dependent students who earned less than $3,100 in 1989 and had taxes withheld may be entitled to a full refund if they complete a tax return. Independent students may be refunded for up to $5,100 in wages.
For more information, contact SG or call Sbar ar 666-3411.
Conservation: the German way of saving the planet
HEIDELBERG, West Germany — Umweltfreundlich. Meaning “friendly to the environment,” this German word has become quite the buzzword. It and its symbol, a man encircled by branches of floral life, show up everywhere you look, and environmental awareness in Germany seems to have surpassed environmental concerns in the United States.
Maybe it is simply more crucial in the Federal Republic of Germany. With over 60 million citizens, the population dispersement is nearly exactly as if twice the population of California lived in an area the size of Oregon. In such tight quarters, it would be pretty tough to survive with sweep-it-under-the-rug waste management procedures.
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whatever possible to protect the environment. Last year, concerned students at the University of Miami assembled a group, Earth Alert, to see what measures could be taken to protect the environment on campus as well as off.
One of the UM students’aims was to set up aluminum and paper collection bins for recycling in the residential colleges. If I remember correctly, resistance was anticipated due to the potential fire hazard of paper bins, student indifference and the question of who would pay the cost to implement the program.
The students here have an extremely detailed environmental plan in which a high number of people participate. The area in which I live consists of 15 apartment buildings housing approximately 2,000 students. At the beginning of the semester, detailed instructions were distributed to everyone on what processes had been implemented and how students could help out. Participation is, naturally, optional.
The five-part plan begins with garbage separation.
Proper separation involves putting paper and aluminum in collection receptacles, as well as glass and old batteries in their appropriate bins. There are also separate dumpsters for compost or biodegradable food waste. The dumpsters are centrally located and using them is no more of a chore than taking out the trash unseparated. Students are issued extra garbage cans for easier separation.
That much is already far more than any recycling plan now in use at UM, and it’s only the beginning.
The second part involves special trash — paints, lacquer, thinner, adhesives, solvent, acid, alkalines, lye, photo chemicals, spot remover, spray cans, old medicine, oil, etc. These things have a special collection area, and members of a student organization take over their disposal from there.
The next step is a more passive one. A ride board has been set up where students can post slips of paper offering rides when they have room and others can post slips asking if anyone is going where they need to travel The board covers ail of the federal republic
and works like a giant carpool, thus saving gasoline. Not only is this obviously environmentally Deneficia), but it is also quite a money-saver — gasoline costs approximately $2.60 per gallon here.
The fourth part illustrates how these procedures aren’t only being stressed by students. It is a water-saving method that has been built into our buildings. Instead of having the standard flush lever on the toilets, which uses about seven gallons of water per flush in the average American toilet, the toilets have manual controls so you need only to use the amount of water necessary. Quite often a gallon or two is all that is needed.
I must admit, it did take me a couple of weeks to figure out where to put all the different types of trash, but after a short time it becomes habitual.
It seems that token environmental efforts have become fashionable. Even President George Bush has called himself an environmentalist. It has been quite refreshing to see such a large-scale effort, initiated by student!
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