Miami Hurricane, March 02, 1990

              UM’S ECONOMIC IMPACT ON CORAL GABLES
MICHAEL ROY/Photo Editor
Paintin' the Plaza Greek
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters cheer on the participants of Greek Sing held Monday on the University Center Plaza. Greek Week winners will be announced tonight at the Greek Ball. Complete results will appear in Tuesday’s issue.
The great smokeout
University moves to make campus smoke-free
Volume 67, Number 37
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday, March 2,1990
RANDY SHROPSHIRE/Slatl Fnotographer
UM student Bethany Kullman won’t be able to buy cigarettes on campus much longer. A new policy bans tobacco product sales and smoking in indoor spaces.
cessful smoking rules at other institutions.	“The Dade County schools just passed a similar
“We don’t anticipate any problems," Sugrue said,	policy with success. They don’t allow smoking on any
citing the sucess that airlines have had restricting school property, both inside and out.” smoking.	Some students questioned the University s right
By BETH EILERS
Assistant News Editor
Beginning in August, professors will not be allowed to smoke in their offices and students will not be able to light up in their dorm rooms. Nobody will ask for a light in the Rathskeller or change for the cigarrette machine. In a recent, sweeping decision, the University of Miami instituted a policy that discontinues the sale of tobacco products and bans smoking in all interior spaces on campus.
The policy, passed by the University’s academic deans and vice presidents, was recommended by a committee consisting of Vice Provost Paul Sugrue, Director of Business Affairs Alan Fish and Director of Campus Sports and Recreation Norm Parsons, among others.
“We discussed the problem and agreed,” Sugrue said. "Our overriding concern was the health of the students. There is overwhelming evidence that smoking is extremely harmful.”
Parsons explained, “We are trying to send a message, and that is that smoking is no dam good for you.
“It is important to discourage students from smoking, period,” continued Parsons. "Smoking kills over 40,000 people per year. Cigarrette companies have to generate 5,000 new smokers a day to make up for the people they’ve killed.”
Although a memorandum has been circulated stating the new smoking policy, no groundwork has been laid for enforcement, according to Dr. William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs.
“We are not near ready to discuss enforcement proceedures,” Butler said. “About 10 percent of our students smoke, so we have to consider the implications. I am awaiting a report from our residence halls.”
Sugrue compared the new policy to similar suc-
to impose a new policy without prior student consultation.
Joy Rowland, a resident assistant in Hecht Residential College, disagreed with the administration's actions.
“The students were not conferred with about this policy and they should have been,” Rowland said. “They are consulted about other issues, like the Icarus mural [in the University Center stairwell], why not this?”
Another resident assistant said he thinks the policy will be beneficial.
“I think it’s a good idea,” said C. Dean Furman, an RA in Mahoney Residential College.
“Here in Mahoney, smoke is always drifting out of the rooms,” Furman explained. "Smokers can always go somewhere else, but once the smoke is in the system, the non-smokers can't escape it.”
Furman said he doesn't think enforcement will be an overwhelming problem.
“It will be very difficult, but hopefully students will be mature enough to follow the rules,” Furman continued. “Now students won’t have a choice of having a smoking roommate, so roommates will police each other.”
According to the committee that made the decision, health problems of smokers and the dangers of second-hand smoke are why smoking is not entirely an individual’s right.
“The intention is a noble one,” Fish said. “All evidence we have says that smoking is not only harmful to smokers, but non-smokers are hurt by passive smoke. We want to be sensitive to the rights of everyone.”
Parsons added, “I hope that the faculty and students who do smoke realize that UM cares about them, and they thank UM for caring.
"This is bigger than a rights issue,” Parsons continued. “This is a life and death issue.”
Express yourself		Just for the fun of it
Homosexuals speak out about UM, themselves.		A1953 UM grad is back taking classes again — only this time, he s enjoying it.
See Insight		Accent — page 5
Study: UM generates half-billion for city
Dade County’s largest private employer, the University provides jobs for 6,840
Proportional amount of money contributed to city by various segments of UM.
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@ Faculty/Staff
E3 Student
□	Visitor
□	Retiree
□	Construction
MICHAEL R. MORRIS/Graphlcs Editor
contribute to our economy.
The University also has a positive effect on the business community because of its many research and health care facilities, plus its cultural and community events. These help create an atmosphere businesses can thrive in.
According to the study, areas close to research centers, populated with a well-educated workforce and close to major transportation sources are those corporations find most attractive.
Lieberman said, “I think the quality of life here is second to none that I know. The University also enriches the community in nonmea-surable ways that help business.”
SG appoints new court justices
By MICHAEL R. MORRIS
Contributing Editor
Three new Supreme Court Justices were sworn in at Wednesday’s Student Government Senate meeting, after the Senate voted to reject two of the five nominees. One rejected nominee has only been attending class for two weeks and said he could not recall ever having filled out an application for the position.
Mario Profeta, Simone Woung and Warren Wise joined the court while Said El-Haj and Dionne Skeete were rejected.
SG President Troy Bell and Attorney General Max Adams defended both candidates and the selection process.
After El-Haj stated he could not remember if he had completed the post’s application, Adams produced the form. Adams explained that El-Haj may have been nervous with the proceedings.
Bell said that El-Haj, who transferred from Seton Hall University to the University of Miami this semester, had talked with him in a campus visit he made in the fall.
Bell added that El-Haj had filled out an application at the beginning of the semster and was then stricken with chicken pox and quaran-teened from the University.
In spite of Bell’s and Adam's defense, El-Haj’s nomination was defeated with five in favor, 17 opposed and seven abstaining.
Bell also defended the recent lack of advertisment or notification of the student body about post vacancies.
“There’s no requirement that we make an announcement [about a vacancy,]” Bell said. “We accept applications on an on-going basis.”
Advertisements for applications to SG had appeared in last semester’s The Miami Hurricane. according to Bell, who then explained the application process.
A file is kept of approximately 150 applications for various positions in SG, ranging from the Cabinet to the Elections Commission, Bell said.
Of these applications, nine were for the Supreme Court. Of those, only six were actually eligible for the position, Adams said.
The Labati magic

ByCINTHIA MANZANO
Stall Writer
The University of Miami generates over $500 million for the City of Coral Gables according to a recent study of economic activity during the 1988-89 academic year. The study,by Coopers and Lybrand of New York, measured the University’s impact on the city, Dade County and the South Florida area.
The study estimated expenses by the University, its faculty, students, staff, visitors and retirees along with the jobs and earnings attributed to UM.
Direct expenditures totalling $642 million by the University community last year generated $1.6 billion in economic activity in other sectors of the economy.
Dr. David Lieberman, vice president for business and finance at UM said, “Whenever an organization spends money on a community.it helps provide human resources and is good for the vitality of the com-
munity. We help make this community what it is.”
UM is the largest private employer in South Florida, employing 6,840 faculty and staff. More than 9,200 jobs are supported in this city by University-related expenditures. Expenditures by faculty and staff, students, visitors and retirees in Coral Gables add to sales taxes collected by the county and state. A portion of these funds is returned to the city through the Florida State Revenue Sharing Act. Savings also go to an investment pool, which help businesses to grow.
“In terms of economic impact, we create a lot of jobs,” Lieberman explained. "We spent over a million on microcomputers. We bought from different dealers who then bought from factories, hired people to deliver them [the computers], to install them and to service them.
“We [the University] create a tremendous benefit to those businesses that exist here,” Lieberman
said.
For many businesses, the University is a major customer. UM can be the main reason the business maintains stability in the area. UM spent close to $45 million last year on construction, according to the survey. Faculty and staff spent an estimated $180 million in the South Florida area. The average total of student expenditures was about $90 million.
Visitors to the campus spent about $23 million in South Florida. University-sponsored events such as conferences, sporting events and pre-enrollment visits brought in about 65,000 out-of-state visitors. Retirees residing in the area also
Former professor: Blacks must unify to promote their common interests
By TIFFANY M. BOST
Assistant News Editor
It is a sad thing whites, as well as blacks, know little about the history and accomplishments of African-American leaders, said Dr. Alvin Rose as he discussed black issues during a forum held in Stanford Residential College on Tuesday.
“(Dr.) Martin Luther King [Jr.] was a tremendous person and his strategy of nonviolence marks him indelibly as one of the great persons in black history. Unfortunately, we know nothing of anyone other than him [Martin Luther King]," Rose said.
Rose is a former professor of sociology at the University of Miami, where he also was involved in the Afro-American studies program. In addition, he wa^ the United States Smith-Mundt visiting professor to Lovanium University in Zaire [formerly the Congo], Africa.
In his discussion, Rose developed a three-point strategy for black students.
First, he said blacks must develop a sense of selfesteem based on the awareness of black history.
Second, African-Americans should work to close the growing divisions of the black community, especially in the ranks of ever-expanding impoverished blacks.
Rose said, "As America gives up on them [impoverished blacks], so do the middle class blacks." He stressed the need to begin healing the growing schisms that have developed among poverty-stricken blacks.
Rose
Rose concluded by saying African-Americans must set a goal “ ... to learn as blacks to mobilize our economic and political forces. We have to stop asking whites and learn to do things for ourselves.”
The National Urban League has a plan in the works that will give blacks a political and economic base from which to promote African-American interests, according to Rose.
He said early plans call for black millionaires to set aside $1 million to be invested and the financial gains would be used without disturbing the original investment. Also, the plan asks middle- and working-class blacks to contribute $5 per week from their paychecks. ’ Through this proposed organization, the finest black or white minds would be utilized to develop African-American goals. Rose added that a public statement about the plan should be coming out in about three months.
He commented that Miami would never have effective black leaders.
“Black leaders in Miami are bought and paid for; for that you will never see one speak out or he is decapitated,’’Rose said.
About the current situation in South Africa, Rose said he does not see whites giving the blacks the right to vote and he does not see blacks accepting that denial. On that basis, he predicts difficulty ahead for South Africa.
Kenneth Setzin a student from South Africa said, "More such presentations should be encouraged by the black students, to encourage debate, and to articulate our history with pride.
“As blacks, we need to have an appreciation of history so we can talk with confidence and give us understanding of today’s events," Setzin said.
Women’s basketball coach Feme Labati shows how to build a winner -on and off the court.
Sports—page 7