Miami Hurricane, February 02, 1990

              Morality 101
University ethics policy: sad reflection of today's world.
Opinion — page 4
Home-grown talent
A recent Mozart opera featured three alumni of the UM School of Music.
Accent — page 6
Supreme courts
The 15th-ranked Lady Canes go up against three Top-10 teams at the Schiff Center this weekend.
Sport^ — page 9
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Volume 67, Number 29
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday, February 2, 1990
Leaders
suggest
tuition
protest
By MICHAEL R. MORRIS
Associate News EditOf
A group of concerned students has produced a list of demands concerning the usage of the increased tuition. At Wednesday’s Student Government Senate meeting, along with the demands came the declaration of a series of protests against the proposed increase. The protests are to begin on Valentine’s Day, said protest organizer and SG President Troy Bell.
“We are mourning the death of affordable tuition. We are mourning the death of financial aid,” said Bell.
The demands focus on two areas: room and board, and general University concerns.
In the area of room and board, there are three demands. The first concerns meal plans and itself contains three points.
•	The University should raise the cash amounts on the meal cards without an attendant raise in food prices, have an open meal plan available at no extra expense and allow commuter students to have a meal plan that costs the same as the meal plan offered to residents.
•	The second demand requests
adjusting the hours of operation of the dining service.
•	The last demands increased speed and quality of dorm maintenance.
There are nine general demands. These demands vary in scope and range from tuition and parking to registration.
•	There should be no increase in parking fees for two years.
•	The administration should put up matching funds for a proposed parking garage.
•	There should be a rolling tuition plan.
•	A commuter lounge should be placed in the Memorial Building.
•	A federal credit union should be established.
•	The sixth item demands full registration services during the weekend.
•	Seventh comes a demand for interest to be paid on Cane Cards.
•	The eighth demand requires
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Players turn on Mark Light
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By CHRISTOPHER J. RINGS
Sports Editor
ake the starting nine from last season’s University of Miami baseball team, which went 49-18 and made it to the College World Series, and subtract all those now playing professional ball.
What you’ve have left is catcher Chris Hirsch, UM’s only returning starter as the Hurricanes open the 1990 regular season against Seton Hall at 7:30 tonight at Mark Light Stadium.
Hirsch, who hit .242 last year with two home runs and 24 RBIs, is the leader of a largely-inex-perienced ballclub, said Coach Ron Fraser. He might as well be.
With the exception of junior second baseman Mike Tosar, Hirsch’s 100 games in a UM uniform total twice as much in experience as anyone else on the 1990 squad.
‘‘We lost eight starting position players and two first-round recruits,” Fraaer explained. “It
promises to be a competitive year with the key
being the team concept. Everyone is going to
have to contribute.”
But just exactly who is everyone? The departure of pitchers Alex Fernandez, the only first-round draft choice to bypass the pros for college ball since 1979, and Joe Grahe, which together formed, according to Fraser, was “the best one-two punchlin college baseball”, has as much to do with the preseason doubt as the all-new lineup, leave a huge gap in an already shallow pitching rotation.
“Our pitching is by far our short suit,’’ Fraser said. “We were counting on Alex Fernandez to pull us through, but now, well, what’s done is done ... He said if [the pros] didn’t work out he’d come back to Miami.”
Fraser will try to patch up the rotation with newcomer Shawn Purdy, a junior college transfer who pqsted a 2.23 ERA with 91 strikeouts in
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Class
times
change
Parking problems add to decision
By MAUREEN McDERMOTT
Insight Editor
The University of Miami is going back to the past. The fall semester’s scheduling allows a return to the customary oversleeping of 8 a.m. classes instead of this year’s innovative 8:30 a.m. start.
"I had to promise the deans we would not tinker with this (schedule! again,” said Vice Provost Dr. Ross Murfin. In the last two years, UM has experimented unsuccessfully with class start times and a Tuesday/Thursday free period at lunchtime when no classes were scheduled.
In the fall, UM will return to the way the semester was set up in 1987. Classes will begin at 8 a.m. every day with 12 sections on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and nine sections on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also, no class will be scheduled between 4:20 and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Murfin said the 8:30 a.m. classes
caused jsg| l)a,kmlt lire>b\v"V\
of the adminstration, employees
and some faculty are expected to arrive for work.
According to Dr. Thompson Big-
gers, associate dean of enrollment, administrators had hoped more students would take classes beginning at 8:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. Increased enrollment would have maximized general purpose classroom utilization in the Learning Center and the Memorial Classroom building.
Bob Fuerst, director of academic services, said classroom utilization remained at 75 percent with the time change.
Fuerst said time blocks wth 100 percent general classroom utilization are 9:30,40:30 and 11:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and at 9:55 a.m., 11:20 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Biggers said the changes were approved by the deans of UM’s colleges, schools and the Faculty Senate in January.
Commuter students: Let us participate in Sportsfest
Apartment area residents want to play, too
}y ERICK JOHNSON
itaft Writer	.
For many University of Miami students, bportstest 90 promises to be a weekend of fun, excitement and
m ifowever, for non-residential college students, this veekend might be no different from others.
Sportsfest, a weekend of athletic and non-athletic :ompetition that begins today between the five resi-lential colleges — Eaton, Hecht, Mahoney, Pearson ind Stanford — is not open to commuter students or
those who live in on-campus apartments and fraternity houses. Students living in the residential colleges pay a fee for the event upon registration.
“It is not an elitist event,” said Bob Wyner, Sportsfest coordinator. “The purpose of Sportsfest is to foster spirit among the residential colleges.”
Next year’s 8 percent increase in room and board rates have made some fear Sportsfest will separate
those who have money from those who do not.
However, Sportsfest is not open to everyone this fear due to the unexpected high participation rate, said John Fitzgerald, master of Hecht Residential College who helped organize the event. Fitzgerald expects approximately 2,000 students will participate in the weekend, up from last year’s 1,500. He added that the Sportsfest Committee is considering eliminating some
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events to help control the weekend activities.
Fitzgerald noted that Sportsfest distinguishes the residential colleges from the rest of the University community.
“There are certain events the colleges feel should be unique to their college,” he said.
Supersports, a similar event held in October for all registered students, was geared toward commuter students and those living in the apartments. The one-day event featured seven activities compared to
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Student won’t press charges
By TODD CLINE
Staff Writer
Sophomore Jay Dewing said Monday evening he has decided not to press criminal charges against University of Miami quarterback Craig Erickson.
Dewing filed a complaint last Friday with the Coral Gables Police Department alleging Erickson punched him four to five times in the face at the Rathskeller the previous night. At that time, Dewing said he planned to talk to the Dade County State’s Attorney about the possibility of pressing criminal charges; however, on Monday he said he had changed his mind.
"It [the incident] has been blown way out of proportion,” Dewing said. "I just wanted him to realize he was wrong. 1 just wanted to make him aware of it.”
Dewing said he did not think it worth his time to press charges because Erickson would probably not receive a strict punishment.
’It’s not worth the hassle, said Dewing. “It [simple battery] was a misdemeanor and he has no record, so it would probably be dropped in two seconds.”
Dewing said he has been contacted by the UM athletic department, which is also investigating the incident, and they had been cooperative during the process. Dewing said he hopes Erickson will receive some form of punishment from the athletic department.
"That would be good; I want him to get more than a slap on the wrist," Dewing said. "I want him to get more than ‘Don’t do it again.”’
Doug Johnson, associate athletic director in charge of compliance, said he has talked to both parties involved.
"We have looked into the matter and we feel we will resolve this to the satisfaction of both parties," he said.
Johnson would not comment on whether the athletic department will discipline Erickson.
Coca-Cola CEO details success
New Coke taught lessons
By MAUREEN McDERMOTT
Insight Editor
Coke is it. Take it from Roberto C. Goizueta, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company which strives “to serve a changing marketplace and sustain double-digit growth into the next century.”
“When our current management team took the helm in 1981, we were blessed with a company that had tremendous intangible assets and a solid fundamental business,” Goizueta said. "In this last decade, however, the company has flourished beyond our greatest expectations.”
Goizueta shared his life story and
the company's goals with 275 students and faculty Tuesday in Learning Center 130 as part of the
School of Business Distinguished CEO Lecture Series.
Rosemary Helenbrook, assistant director of executive development programs and coordinator of the lecture series, said she was pleased with the standing room only crowd.
“We do have a responsibility to these people who have no real need to come here,” Helenbrook said. "They are not paid.”
In the 1980s, Coca-Cola's soft drink sales volume doubled, net income tripled, the price of common stock increased from $11 to $77.25 and the market capitalization of the company increased from five billion to $26 billion.
‘‘We now outsell our closest competitor by an average of almost four to one,” said Goizueta, who boasts Diet Coke as the most successful new consumer product of the 1980s.
The 58-year-old CEO attributes the global success of Coca-Cola to two complementary factors. Goi-
Goizueta
zueta believes the desire for-refreshment is a human trait, a common denominator around the world. He also sees the company as practically without competition when it comes to making soft drinks more available, acceptable and affordable.
“We are committed to increasing our global soft drink leadership,” said Goizueta, who noted the
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Stanford, Pearson get new masters
By MICHAEL R. MORRIS
Associate News Editor
The president’s office of the University of Miami has named two new masters for residential colleges beginning in fall 1990.
Drs. Edward Baker III and Benji-man Webb will be the new masters of Stanford and Pearson Residential Colleges, respectively.
Baker serves as the interim associate dean of the school of business and a professor of management science.
Webb is a professor of German in the foreign language department and an associate master in Mahoney Residential College.
"I’m excited the two are going to be masters in the residential col-Please see page 2/ MASTERS
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