Miami Hurricane, April 16, 1993

              Although registration for summer session officially (mens on April 19, students nave been allowed to register since April 12.
According to J. Calvin Leonard, Directoi of the Office of Summer Sessions, the signs posted on campus give the true date of registration, but students are being allowed to register earlier if they have the extra time.
“If anybody wanted to go and register early because they happened to be on campus, they could do so,” Leonard said.
No classes have been closed due to early registration.
Leonard encourages students to enroll in summer courses as an opportunity to accelerate progress towards their educational goals and for adults to investigate a topic which may not have been available to in the past.
The last day of registration for the first summer session is May 21.
FORUM TO DISCUSS
LANGUAGE AND GENDER
Students in a 300-level English class have been researching and performing experiments to see how women and men use language differently and how gender is portrayed in language.
The class is called "Language and Gender” and examines the differences in class, culture, biology and social networks.
English lecturer Rebecca Bums will present the results of the class’s research projects at Language and Gender: a Student Research Forum. The program will
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■ SHAKING IT UP: The 1993-94 Student Government officers were sworn In Wednesday. From left, Ira Miller, speaker of the senate, Adam August, SG president, and Gus Abalo, vice president, congratulate each other during the ceremo-
SG inaugurates 1993-94 officers
Arts and Sciences, Library campaign reaches $10 million
3-year campaign moves toward $50 million goal
The Cornerstone Campaign to benefit the Otto G. Richter Library and the College of Arts and Sciences has raised an estimated $10 million in cash and pledges toward its goal of $50 million, said Roy Nirschel„ vice president for University Advancement.
The Cornerstone Campaign began in November 1991 as a three-year effort to raise to revitalize the library and the college, considered the "cornerstones” of an educational institution.
Donations are solicited from alumni and friends of the University.
Former UM baseball coach Ron Fraser is the honorary chairman of the campaign. Charles Cobb, chairman of the Board of Trustees, is serving as the chairman of the campaign. The Cobb family has made a $1 million donation to the campaign.
Proceeds will be used to expand the library approximately 95,000 square feet, the area of almost two
be held at 4 p.m. on April 27 in the University Center room 237.
Heidi Smith, junior, wrote a paper called "Making a Case for Gender Bias in the Classroom: A Transactional Analysis of a Pre-Law Class.” Her research showed how one of her classes, taught by a male lawyer, excluded women and treated them unfairly.
"It’s not an ultra-feminist view, rather we try to study and change our use of gender neutrality,” Smith said.
The class projects, which were sponsored by the Women’s Studies program, will focus on the topics: "Intimacy and Distance Dynamics in Women’s Conversations: A Conversation Analysis of ‘Single White Female,’ ” by Jennifer Abaid, "Involvement vs. Politeness: Conversational Style as a Function of Language Choice in a Bilingual Family, by Michelle Baena and "Abbreviated vs. Elaborated Speech in ‘Jeopardy’ Interviews: A Replication Study,” by John Burns and Katie Rossborough.
BY JASON ZDANOWICZ and SIMON P. DUVALL
Of tha Staff
Newly elected Student Government officers were sworn in during a ceremony on Wednesday.
Taking office were President Adam August, Vice President Gus Abalo, Treasurer Cristie Pecoraro, SG Senate Speaker Ira Miller and Speaker Pro Tempore Dan Schulster.
Steve Cohen, senate speaker for 1992-93, presented August with a "housewarming” gift of a framed Pond ScUM cartoon. Pond ScUM appears regularly in The Miami Hurricane. This
one depicted Diamond passing the SG gavel to August.
After the candidates were sworn in, Cohen turned control of the meeting over to Miller, his successor.
During the ceremony, David Diamond, outgoing SG president, summarized some of the major events of his presidency and offered advice and encouragement to the new officers.
"Always keep a sense of humor,” Diamond told the new officers.
William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, said the incoming leadership should make sure to strive to
serve the needs of the students.
“Keep up the spirit of leadership ... and make all people welcome on this campus,” Butler said.
August gave a brief speech thanking the people who helped him and highlighting his goals for next year.
“We're really going to be a positive effect on the administration and the students,” he said.
SG adviser Craig Ullom said since Diamond’s administration has accomplished so much, he has high hopes for what the incoming leadership will accomplish.
football fields, after it receives a projected $25 million from the campaign, said Ron Naylor, assistant director of Systems and Technological Services at the library.
The new addition w\\\ house the Music Library and the archives and speciai coWections, Nayior said. We
m space for the archives and special collections will double to accomodate new volumes.
The Music Library, currently located in the School of Music, is expected to expand from its current 5,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet in its new location, Naylor said.
Brockway Hall will be joined to the library, said Naylor. Part of the area that is now Brockway Hall will be used to shelve many of the 25,000 to 30,000 books obtained by the library each year.
The expansion will have two phases, Nirschel said. After approximately $13 million of designated library funds are raised through the Cornerstone Campaign, the first phase will begin. This is expected to take place at the end of 1994.
The first UM library began in 1926 with a donation of 250 books. In 1962, the Richter Library opened with a one million volume collection. Currently, the library holds over 1.9 million volumes and offers seating for 1,200 patrons.
► GRADUATION
President of Iceland, Estelan to attend graduation ceremony
BY LISA J. HURIASH
Hurricane Staff Writer
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the president of Iceland, is scheduled to speak before the 2,348 graduates during the May 14 commencement exercises, said Dayle Wilson, assistant director of University Relations.
Finnbogadottir was asked to speak at the commencement ceremonies last year and the year before but was unable to attend either time.
"The chairman of the Board (of Trustees, Charles Cobb,] was an ambassador to Iceland,” Foote said. ‘‘[Finnbogadottir] is a very distinguished person.”
Pop singer Gloria Estefan, anthropologist Jane Goodall, known for her studies of apes and Finnbogadottir will receive honorary degrees during the ceremony. Other honorary degree recipients include Edward
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lywright and author; A. Leon Hig-
ginbotham, U.S. Court of Appeals judge; Edward W.D. Norton, ophthalmology professor at UM; and Otis Pitts, a local community activist.
Scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., the ceremony will take place on the Green, the large open area between the University Center and the Ashe Building, for the 11th consecutive year.
Wilson said she advises guests to arrive at the Green by 7:30 a.m. because there are only 6,000 chairs available. Seating will be first-come, first-serve.
"We estimate between 8,000 and 9,000 people actually attended graduation last year,” Wilson said. “We don’t have money to have more chairs. We have whatever money they give us, so that’s how many we order.”
Wilson said graduation should be over around 10 a.m., allowing graduates to attend
receptions hosted by their specific schools.
“Most of them have receptions before or after the ceremony,” Wilson said.
“We don’t do tije handshaking and diplomas in the cent"} ceremony because it would take hours and hours,” Foote said.
Responding to complaints from some, Foote said he has not heard of any complaints about the audience having difficulty hearing the speakers.
“Anytime you have a crowd that big, it is going to be difficult for the people in the back to hear and see,” he said. Foote said alternatives, like the Miami Arena and the Dade County Auditorium, would force people to travel off campus.
"Many universities do ceremonies like this,” he said. "Places like Yale and Harvard. We’re not alone.”
“President Foote likes to have it on cam-
pus,” Wilson said. "We don’t have an on-campus facility large enough to hold graduation inside, so we hold it outdoors.”
Foote said he thinks the experience of having graduation outdoors balances any discomfort.
“It’s much more pleasant and good for the graduates and their friends and relatives because it brings the glorious celebration into the heart of campus, instead of trying to move 14,000 people miles away," Foote said.
"There’s no question it’s a trade-off,” Foote said. "It starts to get hot, but we begin the ceremony early, so it’s not the heat of the day.”
In case of rain, commencement will be delayed until 11 a.m. Diplomas will be mailed to students in the weeks after graduation.
FACE THE FACTS
Tha following is the number of bachelor's degrees granted at UM in the past five years:
1988	1.933
1989	1.708
1990	MHM
1991	1,820
1992	
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► ALUMNI
Alumnus: Oswald acted alone
► MUSIC
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BY AMY LANGE
Hurricane Staff Writer
Although John F. Kennedy was assassinated nearly 30 years ago, controversy still surrounds his death. Some people say it was a conspiracy. Others, like UM alumnus Vincent Bugliosi, say Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Bugliosi, prosecuting attorney for Los Angeles County in the Charles Manson trials and co-author of Helter Skelter, the True Manson Murders, spoke Tuesday evening at the Wesley Center on Kennedy’s assassination, the subject of a book he is writing.
A1957 graduate of UM, Bugliosi said he became interested in Kennedy’s assassination in 1986 when Weekend Television decided to
give Oswald the trial he never had. The trial consisted of a real federal judge and jury from Texas, real attorneys, with Bugliosi as prosecutor, and most of the original key witnesses.
Bugliosi said his challenge lay in convincing the iury that Oswald alone had killed Kennedy.
"Critics have deceived the public and convinced the majority of Americans that Oswald was framed, or a patsy, or part of a conspiracy,” Bugliosi said. “There’s no substance to these charges. I knew I had to prove Oswald’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, I had to prove it to the critics.”
Bugliosi also said three expended cartridges that matched the bullets fired at Kennedy were found on the
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sixth floor of the Book Depository Building. No bullets, he said, were found on the small hill from which some people say the shots were fired.
BY STEVE FRIEDENBERG
Hurricane Staff Writer
Financial considerations have caused the College of Arts and Sciences’ Theatre Arts program and the School of Music's Musical Theatre program to allow students to take courses that fulfill requirements for either program, said David Alt, associate professor of vocal performance in the School of Music.
Students now majoring in music theatre in the School of Music can not take any courses in the Theatre Arts Department. School of Music students are currently locked out of necessary acting clas-
ses, said Carolyn Stanford, director of the Musical Theatre Program.
Freshmen in the fall 1993 Musi-, cal Theatre program will be able to j take courses from either program in either school, but continuing students will not be required to enter the new program, said Stanford.
If music students choose to join the new program, they will have to retake their freshman courses during their sophomore year, but will then be exempted from senior level courses, Stanford said, j “I’m excited about the new curriculum. I think it’s going to be great for our students and our University,” Stanford said.
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