Miami Hurricane, September 25, 1992

              VOLUME 70, NUMBER 5
CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1992
INSIDE
SPLITTING THE UPRIGHTS
Hurricane place-kicker Dane Prewitt is attempting to fill the shoes of Carlos Huerta, the NCAA’s second all time leading scorer.
■ Sports — page 6
SEARCHING FOR A HOME
Gamma Phi Beta, UM’s newest sorority, is without a place to call their own on campus.
■ Accent — page 5
Parking on campus is costly, hard-to-find
NEWSBRIEFS
FSU guest passes go on sale
Guest pass numbers for the UM-Ftorida State football game will be distributed at 6 a.m. Monday at the Ticketmaster window by the automated teller machines in the University Center.
Vouchers will be issued to students who show ID and have paid the athletic fee. Students will then be able to use the voucher to purchase an actual guest pass any time Monday.
Passes will be sold for $12.50 and only cash will accepted. The passes will allow each student to invite one guest to sit in the student section.
Students should be prepared to come early. No efforts are being made to prevent students from lining up early said Craig Ullom, director of student life.
’’It’s always been a problem but there’s nothing we can really do to control it. We could tell students not to line up but they would find a place to line up anyway,” Ullom said. “Whenever they choose to line up is up them. The key thing we’re interested in is fairness and that no one gets hurt.”
Furniture will not be permitted in line, Ullom said.
Guest passes for graduate students will go on sale Tuesday at 7 a.m. at the same location.
—JULIUS WHIGHAM
By JOE CALAPAI
StaH Writer
Despite there being fewer parking lots on campus, parking permit fees were raised by $20 this year.
“It was always $115,” Jane Gail-ey, director of traffic and transportation, said. She explained that last year the permit was lowered to $95 due to disruptions in construction caused by building permit hassles.
Many students are nonetheless upset over the apparent increase in parking fees.
"First, it’s too expensive,” Otis Lee, junior, said of the permit fee. "Second, I don’t see any immediate results with the money, and third, they did it (ticketing) so unexpectant ly.”
Lee, an on-campus student, said he got his permit on the day Parking Services began ticketing for permits, and was ticketed once for .$20.
Gailey said students hunting for parking spaces should take advantage of perimeter lots and shuttles.
“Instead of riding around, lower the stress level by going to lot 600 and the Scodella lot and take the shuttle,” Gailey said.
In order to help students deal with the heavier parking at UM, WVUM-90.5 FM started broadcasting parking updates last Thursday.
According to Fred Sowder, WVUM general manager, the radio station will broadcast the names of parking lots which have open spaces 10 to 15 minutes before each class.
“(Parking officers] are going to have cellular phones. They’ll call their office and they’ll call us and let us know which lots are open,” Sowder said.
The updates will be from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., “just when the parking is at its height,” Sowder said.
Gailey said that an average shuttle trip is estimated to be seven to nine minutes, although traffic and * other disruptions can cause some delays.
Delays blocking a new parking lot, however, were overcome recently. Construction of a parking lot along Dickinson Drive began Sept. 21.
“Coral Gables has given us the
/JORGE BANDRICH/Staff Photographer
WHERE TO PARK?: Parking spaces are hard to find for many commuters. Parking lots like this one by the Health Center |are often full in the morning.
permits to go ahead,” Gailey said of the Dickinson Drive lot. "We’ve moved ahead as fast as anyone.”
However, Lot 505, a commuter lot adjacent to the Volpe Classroom Building, was lost due to construction at the School of Music.
Gailey said more parking permits are sold than there are actual spaces on campus because students are on campus at different times.
"Some people have class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and not on Tuesdays and Thursdays,” Gailey said.
“Right now, parking is real tight for commuter students,” Jennifer Willen, director of Commuter Students Services, said.
Willen said driving around searching for parking spaces “creates lots of frustration," and also suggested parking at perimeter lots and using the shuttle.
Parking Policies
Hare Is how ths University of Miami's parking policies for full-time students compare with those of other suburban and urban private universities.
University
Total
Enrollment
Parking
Restrictions
Commuters Residents
Emory U.	9,790	no freshman	$95	$95
American U.	10,500	no fresh, soph	$175	$335
U. of Miami	14,245	none	$115	$115
Tulans U.	11,490	no freshman	$65	$65
U. of Pennsylvania	22,220	none	$342	$652.50
U. of Notre Dame	10,000	no freshman*	$37	$53
‘Frwhman with a high G.P.A. can potWon to park on campus altor spring break.				
, JORGE BANDRICH/Staff Photographer
CAUGHT: Two UM parking enforcement officers supervise the towing of illegally-parked vehicles in Lot 2-109 by the Memorial Building.
Two new courses offered	Extra student aid offices created
A course in crisis relief and an off-campus class in importing and exporting are now being offered for the next semester.
The three credit "Crisis Intervention” class will provide students with an understanding of various catastrophic situations and their impacts on families and individuals. Students will receive training for the first two weeks of class, then volunteer six to eight hours a week in disaster relief.
Class will meet Tuesday and Thursday from 3:05 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. in the Merrick Building, room 324.
The University of Miami North-South Center is offering interested business executives the course “How to Succeed in the Import-Export Business.” The class will discuss international trade climates, locate potential foreign markets and various business and marketing strategies.
Cost of the eight session course is $295 for early registration.
The class meets Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the North-South Center, located at 1500 Monza Avenue. For more information, call Ben Recarey at 284-4414.
—PAMELA WILFINGER
By LAURIE POWELL
Staff Writer
As the Oct. 2 deadline for payments approaches, Enrollment Services, in coordination with Financial Assistance and Student Account Services, has set up satellite offices in the computer labs of three residential colleges to finalize student registration.
In addition to the main offices in the Ashe Building, the satellite offices will be in Hecht, Mahoney and Pearson residential colleges.
These offices are intended to service students on both sides of caihpus. Deborah Perry, vice provost and dean of Enrollments, said.
“They bring experts from financial aid and student accounts in one place to aid students with the registration process," Perry said.
The satellite offices, which opened Wednesday, will remain open through today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again from 4 to 7 p.m.
Initially, Enrollment Services was concen-
trating on locating students in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.
“Phone banks were set up using staff and faculty to find out how students were, whether they were returing and if they had any needs, questions or concerns,” Scott Ingold, assistant dean of Enrollment Services, said.
But now as students return to class, payment issues have come to the forefront.
Freshman Michelle Velez thinks the hurricane has added more confusion to the registration process.
"There are a lot of people in my classes who haven’t finished registration,” Velez said. —
Alice O’Neill, a graduate student in the School of Music, feels that finalizing registration is a project in itself.
“Line-ups are everywhere. Nobody has any idea what to do. There are so many things that are overwhelming,” O’Neill said. She advises students to double check their registration to avoid being dropped from classes.
Professor injured in motorcycle accident
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By JULIUS WHIGHAM and PAMELA WILFINGER
Of The Staff
Professor Tom Steinfatt, director of the speech communication rogram at the University of iami, is currently in guarded condition after an accident on Tuesday morning, said Gayle Remer, secretary at the School of Communication.
“He’s somewhat stabilized. I can’t give you the all clear that he is OIL” Remer said. “He is in intensive care and can’t have any visitors right now. He received extensive damage to the left side of his body.”
Steinfatt was driving his motorcycle when he was side-swiped by a truck. He was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital with severe injuries to his left side.
Steinfatt is staying at Jackson. He is not expected to be able to return to teaching this fall, Remer said.
“All of his classes are being handled by other professors. I really don’t know (when Steinfatt will be able to return],’’ Lemuel Schofield, associate dean of the School of Communication, said.
Steinfatt has been teaching at the University since 1987, Schofield said.
FACE THE FACTS
1 1992 Tuition, Room and Board
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$22,080
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$17,080
One month later, repairs to campus nearing completion
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By LAURIE POWELL
Staff Writer
As repairs to campus near completion, the University is hopeful that federal and insurance money will cover costs resulting from Hurricane Andrew’s destruction.
David Lieberman, senior vice president, said the University is optimistic that a fair portion of clean-up costs will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and by insurance.
Should federal money not cover all of the costs incurred, Lieberman would not comment about how the University
would cover the difference.
Victor Atherton, assistant vice president of Facilities Administration, said federal response has been positive.
"FEMA has been here, writing damage survey reports, and reviewing the clean-up process,” Atherton said. “They have been excellent in response to us.”
The clean-up of damage caused by the hurricane is nearly complete, Atherton said.
“All in all, the campus is back to full operation,” Atherton said.
However, clean-up costs may have an additional impact on UM students.
According to Atherton, all 800 windows blown out by the hurricane have been replaced, with the exception of those in the Ashe Building which require new frames. In addition, all roofs have been 1 The Ponce San Amaro Drive Boulevard suffered the greatest dam-e, but a new storefront is already in Ponce Building employees have relocated to the Plumer and IRE buildings.
Of the 2,000 trees that were flattened, 700 have been righted.
“We’re in this thing together,” Ath-
at the comer of Ponce de Leon
erton said. "We had reached a level i before the hurricane that was Disney World-like."
Atherton said the real drive is to make the University student-oriented again.
Eric Campbell, a freshman majoring in computer information systems, said he was surprised at the fast pace of the repairs.
"Most of it was cleaned-up by the first day of classes,” Campbell said.
Kim Komaransky, sophomore, was on campus during the hurricane. She said the clean-up effort has been remarkable.