Miami Hurricane, April 06, 1993

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■ Science writing is the focus for English 107, a class for students in computer science, engineering or similar majors. The class will try to bridge the gap between science and the arts.
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SPEAK UP
■ What compels people to buy lottery tickets despite impossible odds?
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ORIENTATION ASSISTANTS
■ Orientation assistant applications are due Wednesday. For more information, call K.C. White at 284-6399.
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BEST BUDDIES
■ UM students volunteered Saturday to promote awareness of mentally retarded citizens.
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■ The Seventh Annual Gatorade Track and Field Classic was held Saturday at the Greehtree Track.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 6,1993
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► A CLOSER LOOK: WOMEN & MINORITIES
LOT 500 UNOFFICIALLY OPENED FOR PARKING
The Dickinson Drive West lot was opened this weekend when barricades at the entrances were moved, not by the University but presumably by students needing a place to park.
According to Shuttle Coordinator Cynthia Corqjo, the lot was unofficially opened, even though it was tentatively planned to be opened later this week.
"There were some things that still had to be done, but since students have started parking there, it is unofficially opened," Congo said.
The parking lot was built to help alleviate the ikk of parking space on campus. Students who bought either a commuter or residential parking decal may park in the lot.
More than 200 parking spots are available in Lot 500.
JOURNALISTS TO DISCUSS ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING
seminar focusing on the different facets of entertainment reporting in South Florida will be held at 7 p.m. on April 7 in the Learning Center, room 182.
Sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the seminar will examine why the public shauld take entertainment reporting seriously.
Guest speakers include movie critic and University professor Bill Coeford from The Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel entertainment columnist Tom Jicha, Laurie Hibbard, host of The Buzz on WSVN-Chan-nel 7 and Lisa Petrilk), television movie reviewer from WPLG-Chan-nel 10.
Admission is free for all students or faculty.
NORTH-SOUTH CENTER OFFERS BUSINESS COURSE
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M North-South Center is offering an import-export business class 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, April 6 through 29.
Topic of the seminar course is “How to Succeed in the Import-Export Business,” and will include discussions about legal considerations of exporting and importing, marine insurance and working with the U.S. Customs Service.
Participants will learn how to evaluate the international trade climate, locate potential foreign markets, work on business strategies and marketing plans and learn to understand international banking, finance and taxation.
SPECIAL SECTION
THE SEARCH
Students facing graduation in May have a lot of decisions to make. Today’s issue of The Hurricane Magazine offers advice from the experts on resumes and cover letters, In addition to a look at the |ob market and alternatives to employment.
Passover began at sundown on Monday. This Is ths breakdown of undergraduate Jewish students by class.
Senior-217 (14.8%) Junior-197 (16.0%) Sophomore- 249 (17.8%) Freshman- 337 (18.6%)
WORKING IT OUT
BY LAURIE POWELL and JENNIFER RAMACH
Of the Staff
Two weeks ago, 38 students in the Graduate School of International Studies, signed a letter urging the school’s administration to correct the one-to-16 female-to-male ratio of faculty members in the department.
Holly Ackerman, one of the four organizers of the letter, said members of the GSIS administration "immediately responded to it and said they will make strenuous movements to recruit women.”
After he received the letter, Ambler Moss, dean of GSIS, invited a student representative to sit on the GSIS Search Committee, Ackerman said. She said Moss also contacted two women’s caucuses in an attempt to broaden the pool of applicants for jobs in GSIS.
Female and minority faculty representation is an issue not just in GSIS, but across the UM campus.
UM administrators and faculty try to hire women, minorities
are tenured or on a tenure track represented 17 percent of the faculty.
The report also states that of 80 academic departments at UM, three are chaired by women and eight by minorities.
The departments of Religious Studies, Geography and Geology are the only UM departments that do not employ any full-time minority or women faculty members. There are 11 departments that employ only one hill-time female faculty member and 11 departments that have only one full-time minority faculty member.
Stephen Sapp, associate chairman of Religious Studies,
said one reason for the lack of minority and female representation is the relatively few full-time positions available in the seven-person department. He said only three new faculty members have been hired in the last decade. > “Even if we can identify qualified and attractive minority candidates, the University of Miami has trouble competing in the market place, both in reputation and the amount we can pay them,” Sapp said.
Sapp, who headed the last faculty search in the department, said there are not many qualified minority or female candidates. He said the applicants who are qualified are in high demand by all universities.	'
“Every minority or female candidate we identified as the type of person we want in our department was quickly
Harvard or Michigan or other universities,” you are recruited Dy 25 different major
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► STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG elections to be decided in run-off
		
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Voting to take
place today
BY JASON ZDANOWICZ Assistant Nows Editor
Students can vote today in the Student Government run-off elections for the positions of president, vice president and treasurer. No candidates in these races received the required majority of votes to win from last Tuesday and Wednesday’s elections.
The run-off is among candidates of the We Will Restore and Rock the Boat tickets for all three positions.
Voting will take place 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University Center. Because of Passover, students will also be able to vote by “absentee ballot” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the Student Activities Office.
The points given to candidates for illegal campaigning during the regular election are carried over into the run-off election. Any ticket receiving 20 points is disqualified from the election.
Rock the Boat had received more than 20 points, but successfully appealed some of the charges to the SG Supreme Court. This reduced the number of points against them to 19.
Gordon said the points would definitely have an effect on his campaigning efforts.
“I will need to be very careful and my graphic campaigning will have to be very limited/’ Gordon said.
The We Will Restore ticket is going into the run-off election with 16 points.
Points are assessed by the Elections Commission according to the election codes. Some of the candidates said the election codes are inadequate and need to be
Voter turnout: 1,059 (11%)
Vice President
SG Senate Seat winners:
School of Communication Junior Class
Treasurer
Michelle Rivera 429 Michael I. Falk 200
School of Business
Carmen Fanego 156 David Barney 6**
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Ira Miller 106	Robert Perry 4**
College of Arts & Sciences Narah Rod9ers 3**4
, Kelly Sheehan 133	School of Music
Rachael Begelman 115 PaulMerhige 35
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School of Nursing Kelly Cayley 2**
School of Engineering
Esther Misdraji 38 David Hoffman 1 *
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changed. "The <
codes are nonspecific in nature,” David Dolinsky, who placed third in the presidential vote, said. “If [the Elections Commission] continues to give large numbers of points for specific violations, let’s spell those [violations]
out in clear and precise terms.”
Elections commissioners said they think the codes need to be changed before the next election is held.
"After we finish with these elections, our time will be centered on revision of the codes,” Quanda Kimbrough, chairman of the Elections Commission, said.
Several SG Senate seats were also filled in the election. Four people whose names did not appear on the ballot were elected senators by write-in votes. These senators must have their eligibility confirmed and must accept the position before officially being declared winners.
Write-in votes will not be counted in the run-off election.
Dolinsky said he did not think the election was well run.
Kimbrough defended the commission’s handling of this election.
"I think we did a very fair job given the codes we had to work with,” he said.
Diaz acquitted on impeachment charges
BY SIMON P. DUVALL and JASON ZDANOWICZ
Of the Staff
Commuter South Senator Paul David Diaz was acquitted early Friday morning on charges that he dishonestly placed the names of three fellow Student Government senators as sponsors on a bill he authored.
Diaz was tried on three separate charges, one each for Michael Brody, Tommy Hassler and Pars Pensky, ■ Diaz the names he allegedly used dis-
honestly.
Diaz was acquitted on each charge by votes of 10-11, 20-1, and 13-8 respectively. A two-thirds vote was needed to convict Diaz.
Dale Reed and Caroline Salisbury, who also worked on Diaz’s defense, said that although the senate returned a fair verdict, the trial was not conducted professionally.
They also said that Steve Cohen, speaker of the senate, discriminated against Diaz.
“I would like to extend my thanks to the senate for their exceptional objectivity in evaluating these proceedings, particularly in light of the highly discriminating and prejudicial rulings which were made by Cohen,”
Reed said. “The fact that the senate was able to overlook the ridiculous and unjust rulings by Cohen proves that the system indeed works.”
Salisbury said, “As a law student, when I first heard that the same people who accused Diaz were also going to be trying him and serve as judge and jury I thought that it was a kangaroo court and that Cohen was Captain Kangaroo.”
“ITm glad the senate at the end was objective because during the trial sometimes I felt very uncomfortable with senators falling asleep, eating,” Diaz said.
Cohen said, however, that the trial went well and was conducted fairly.
“I think I handled it as fairly as I possibly could,” he said.
► RUSSIA
Political, economic struggles causing uncertainty for Russians
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BY CRISTINA I.FBAVIA Hurricane Staff Writer
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is fighting a battle with an unpredictable outcome, according to Janet Martin, associate professor of history at UM.
When the 70-year-okl Soviet regime fell, the governments of the former republics of the U.S.S.R. tried to continue a trend toward democracy and capitalism.
Since then, Russia, the largest of the republics, has undergone m^jor
political and economic reforms under Yeltsin. Now, political and economic turmoil have brought Russia back into the limelight.
Recently, the Russian Cor tried to impeach Yeltsin and < ish his powers as president.
Martin, who teaches Soviet and Russian history, said the parliament and Yeltsin are quarreling over the "substance of policy for economic reform.”
Martin said the Communist Party no longer plays as important a
role in Russia.
“A communist party or one which adopts some of the theories may continue to play a role in Russia, but as a party with a monopoly, it is impossible,” Martin said. “When the attempted coup occurred in 1991, the Communist Party had lost its legitimacy and the confidence of the people in the Soviet Union to be able to establish some kind of authority.”
The University of Miami has onlv five students from Russia.
Two of them are undergraduates. Martin said Russia’s problems do not directly affect the United States, but the U.S. government should keep a close watch on the outcome of the present situation.
“The Bush and Clinton administrations have recognized we can’t ignore what’s going on because the Russians still have weapons,” Martin said. “We have a vested interest in keeping things as stable as possible so that things don’t deteriorate or a civil war breaks out. We
need to get them on solid ground.”
President Bill Clinton met with Yeltsin this weekend in a summit in Vancouver, Canada.
"The situation is much more complex than what we see in the news,” Martin said. "It is not a black-and-white situation.
“The ok) institutions were carried over from Soviet days,” Martin said. “They will arrive at institutions that will work in the kind of society that is evolving.”