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VOLUME 70, NUMBER 12
CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA
INSIDE
RECORD BREAKER
Fullback Stephen McGuire tied the University of Miami's record for career touchdowns when he scored twice for a total of 32.
■	Sports — page 10
HURRICANE HOWL
Rock legend Bob Dylan will be the feature performer at this year’s Hurricane Howl in November.
■	Accent — page 8
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Andrew photographs to be displayed on campus
The School of Communication and The Miami Herald will present “Photographs of Hurricane Andrew” at 7 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the Merrick Building, room 120. — • • "•	"------------■--*—raphs
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1992
UM named in OB suit over disabled access
By ANNETTE GALLAGHER
Stan Writer
Two disabled football fans are suing the University of Miami and the City of Miami for better disabled access and accommodations in the Orange Bowl.
According to Jorge Duarte, attorney for the plaintiffs, Roberto Perez, 51, and Chris Leone, 23, are not seeking monetary damages. Duarte said the plaintiffs simply want the Orange Bowl updated.
According to Duarte, UM is named in the suit because the Americans With Disabilities Act states that tenants have as much responsibility to ensure handicapped access to a facility as the owners do.
Duarte said that disabled access and seating in the Orange Bowl do not measure up to standards set by the disabilities act. "There must be dispersed seating with a comparable line of sight to other seating in the Orange Bowl,” Duarte said
According to Duarte, all disabled seating in the Orange Bowl is in the end zone. He also said that anyone accompanying a disabled fan must sit behind that person.
"It wouldn’t take much to update the seating,’'’ Duarte said. There is already an elevator in the Orange Bowl. All that would be needed would be to remove a few seats so that a wheelchair could fit in that space.”
Another alternative, according to Duarte, would be to regrade aU of the ramps in the Orange Bowl.
Many other problems were named in the complaint, including “horrendous” restroom facilities for the disabled, more expensive tickets than anyone else, the lack of disabled parking, and lack of access to medical facilities, and others.
‘On many prior occasions, offi-
advised, told or put on notice that these facilities and conditions were inadequate, unsafe, and discriminatory toward persons with disabilities,” alleges the complaint.
“We haven’t received a court complaint, so we do not have a position yet,” said Wally Lee, assistant city manager. “We’re definitely going to fight it in court.”
UM V ice President and General Counsel Paul Dee said he received the complaint on Monday and hadn’t had the opportunity to read it.
"We’re in the process now of filing responsive pleadings unless they move for a preliminary injunction,” Dee said.
There is no indication of an injunction, Dee said. In that case, the University has 20 days to respond to the complaint.
“All I am interested in is getting these changes made. My purpose in filing suit against the University is for them to put pressure on the Orange Bowl to effect the changes since they are the main tenants of the Orange bowl. I have nothing personal against UM,” Perez said.
“Basically, they’re looking to have their contentions addressed and have the city respond,” Dee said. "The issue here is what needs to be done from their point of view.”
Dave Maggard, athletic director for UM, said he has heard about the complaint but hasn’t seen it.
“We are users of the Orange Bowl. We rent the orange bowl facilities and use it on six occasions during the year,” Maggard said. “I would assume the Orange Bowl and the city are very aware of the suit and they’re looking into carefully.”
“I don’t know what our liability might be but I’m sure the city is Jiml'in* il finer riniftiMi rnl i i”
Mock accident staged for awareness week
The book The Big One, which contains-
taken by Herald photographers may also be and autographed.
Proceeds will benefit hurricane relief victims.
Fire caused by hot mail
An accidental fire sparked in Stanford Residential College at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 11, when a mail bag heated up inside the small mail room, according to Department of Public Safety reports.
Sarah Huard, a front desk assistant at SRC, told police that a mail bag had been left on a nearby stove r_ -----:i---->ri._ i—----ht fire when one of the
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few moments to get out the announcement board,” Huard said. "The next thing I knew, all we could smell was smoke.”
Off-duty resident assistant Daniel Horan put out the fire with an extinguisher from a box on the first floor. Coral Gables fire rescue arrived only tro find the fire already doused.
No injuries were reported and the only damage was ! of charri
a pile of charred magazine inside a burnt mail bag.
-PAMELA WILFINGER
Championship ring stolen
By STEPHAN SCHERLEITHNER
Staff Writer
A team of students, together with the department of Public Safety and the Coral Gables Police Department, staged a mock accident at the Stanford Circle at noon yesterday.
A pedestrian was supposedly hit fatally by a drunk driver's car. According to witnesses, the scene seemed very real.
“I saw the crowd gathered around this guy lying in a puddle of blood and police all over the place. I thought it was a serious accident,” Heidi Kibirsky, junior, said.
Tracy Sides, senior, said the purpose of the demonstration was to increase awareness of drunk-driving.
7‘This week is the national Drug Awareness-Wellness Week. The mock accident should help to
increase awareness of the danger of driving after having drunk too much and encourage responsible drinking,” Sides said.
"It is important that the people learn how dangerous it is to drink and drive," said Angela Abraham-son, assistant dean of students and assistant director of Drug Abuse on Campus.
“We want to get the students’ attention and make them think about their drinking habits,” Abra-hamson said.
Terry Williams, sophomore, said he thinks that the presumed accident fulfilled its purpose.
"A lot of students, including myself, rushed there to see what was going on,” he said. “I finally found out that everything was just staged, and yet - it could as well have been real. And I could have been the victim.”
JENNIFER ABELSON/The Hurricane
MOCK DUI ACCIDENT: A drunk driving accident was simulated at noon yesterday in Stanford Cirle as part of national Drug Awareness-Wellness Week. The "victim,” Pete Stofle, was tended to by real paramedics and Public Safety officers who arrived on the scene.
Bill challenges speech codes
A Miami Hurricanes football player was the victim of grand theft when his 1989 championship ring was stolen from the locker room of the Hecht Athletic Center on Oct. 8.
Receiver Darryl Spencer, number 35, said he left the ring in a locked locker before heading out to practice. Upon his return a couple hours later, Spencer said the locker door was open with the lock broken and the ring was missing.
“I got it in 1990.1 had to do a report so I can get it replaced,” Spencer said.
The rinij is gold with a cubic zirconium stone in the center and the words “University of Miami, National Championship 1989” engraved on it. Its worth is estimated at $300.
The theft was reported to the Department of Public Safety on Oct. 14.
-PAMELA WILFINGER
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■ Idaho Sen. Lany Craig proposed a bill to Congress which would withdraw federal funding from colleges and universities that have rules restricting speech on campus.
By SIMON P. DUVALL
Staff Writer
A bill introduced last term in the U.S. Senate threatens to ban federal funding to colleges and universities that impose campus speech codes.
The Freedom of Speech on Campus Act, proposed by Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, would restrict federal funding to any college or university — including the University of Miami — with a speech code, according to the congressional office of Legislative Information and Status.
“The proposed bill concerns me,” Richard Walker, assistant dean of students, said. “I think there needs to be some control over what’s said on a university campus.”
UM’s policy on harassment, as written in the Student Life Handbook, reads “Any words or acta, whether intentional or a product of disregard for the safety, rights, or welfare of others, which cause or result in physical or emotional harm to others, or which intimidate, degrade, demean, threaten, haze, or otherwise interfere with another person's rightful actions or comfort are prohibited." Congress has adjourned for the year, and
Jeffrey m. brooks / Graphic* Artist Craig18 office did not confirm whether or not
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This Is how much In dollars the federal government and UM have paid for work-study employees over the past four years.
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the senator would reintroduce the bill in January. A unanimous Supreme Court already struck down a campus speech statute last June.
Jeff Lurie, a member of the Gay and Lesbian Bisexual Community, supports the proposed Senate bill.
“I’m for free speech,” Lurie said. “We’ve never had to deal with UM’s harassment policy.”
Kathie Driskell, co-president of Dade County National Organization for Women at UM, said she is not surprised at the bill.
“It’s just another hurdle they want to throw in front of the rights of minorities,” she said. “Most speech codes are against gay bashing.”
The offices of both Florida senators refused to comment directly on the Freedom of Speech on Campus Act.
Jeff Styles, legislative aide to Republican Sen. Connie Mack, said the senator has “generally been supportive of free speech,” but said Mack has not read the bill. Michael Sessums, legislative correspondent for Sen. Bob Graham said he could not comment until the senator sees the bill in January.
* The proposed bill concerns me.
I think there needs to be some control over what’s said on a university campus.’
Richard Walker, assistant dean of students
Visiting students help rebuild damaged areas
By CHRISTINA GONZALEZ
Staff Writer
Students from four midwestem and northern universities have volunteered through campus ministry groups to help victims of Hurricane Andrew.
John Scar-ano, director of St. Augustine’s Catholic Student Center located just west of the University of Miami, said
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many colleges wanting to
help out victims of Andrew. He organized work schedules and found housing accommodations for the students’ visit.
“Some students are giving up their fall break, while others are actually missing several days of school to come down here and help out,” Scarano, said.
Volunteers will work with agencies such as the Miami-Dade Community Action Agency doing reconstruction work in Goulds
and with Habitat for Humanity in Homestead.
Friday, approximately 25 volunteers from Wheeling Jesuit College in West Virginia arrived in Miami. They will be leaving today.
Sophomore Briony Culley of Wheeling Jesuit said volunteers paid for half the expenses of the
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listry has a lot of area,” Eric Chapman, sophomore at Wheeling Jesuit, said. "The need is incredible and to help out a little, it’s making progress.”
A group of 42 students from Villanova University and 49 student from the University of iNotre Dame will leave on Friday* About 30 students from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania have already returned to their school after helping in Dade County.