Miami Hurricane, June 01, 1993

              Page 2A THE FIRST IMPRESSION Summer 1993
NEWSBRIEFS
Foote named to National Council
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II was appointed to Bill Clinton’s President’s Drug Advisory Coalition earlier this year. He stepped down as leader of the Miami Coalition for a Drug-Free Community to take on his new duties.
“It’s time for new leadership and I have no doubt that a worthy successor will be found. I remain a member of the board of directors," Foote said.
The Miami based-coalition has gained nation-wide respect as a model for other community antidrug groups.
“Two hundred thirty-two coalitions in the United States have sent representatives to Miami to study our work,” Foote said. “We work in the neighborhoods, schools, and through community groups like religious organizations to try and curb this terrible problem that we have.”
The President’s Drug Advisory Council meets every few months in Washington and Foote will begin attending these meetings.
“It’s a very prestigious council. It’s appointed by the president of the United States,” William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, said.
Butler said Foote was a good choice to serve in the President’s Council.
“He’s informed, he has been a leader of one of the most success-
ful coalitions in the United States," he said.
Foote said he will attempt to bring the same comprehensive plan to the council that he brought to the Miami-based Coalition.
Although the President’s Council was founded during George Bush’s administration, it has been continued under President Clinton.
“It's clear that President Clinton supports demand reduction |of drugs.| We just don’t have enough soldiers and enough guns to stop the source,” Foote said.
He said continued work in communities across the world was needed to reduce the use of, and demand for, drugs.
—ED PORTER
Transfers find adjusting easy
Most transfers students are thought to be at a disadvantage when it comes to academic success. Transfer students must adjust to new surroundings — a problem which other students don’t have after their freshman year. However, according to most transfer students, this is not the case.
“In the beginning of my freshman year I found it quite difficult to adjust to college life,” Jeff Marsh, sophomore, said. “Things are so different compared to high school. Soon I started to enjoy my time on campus.
“Then I transferred to UM in
my sophomore year and at first I thought ‘Oh no, now I have to go through the whole process again.’ But it was easier than I had expected,” Marsh said. “I don’t think that being a transfer is necessarily a disadvantage in terms of succeeding academically.”
Another	transfer student
argued.
“Coming here was not a big adjustment for me, although it’s difficult to compare this University to the college I previously attended,”	Rachel Kraemer,
junior, said.
“However, college lifestyle is quite similar everywhere and after one year you’ve got the hang of it no matter where you are,” Kramer said.
This view supports a recent University of Michigan study which tracked a number of transfer students and compared them with students who went from high school directly to a four-year college.
"Transferring to a four-year institution does not appear to lessen the likelihood of a student graduating from college or enrolling in graduate school,” Valerie Lee, a Michigan associate professor of education who conducted the study, said.
The report contradicts previous research findings that transfer students are at a “definite disadvantage” in earning a degree or going to graduate school.
According to Scott Ingold, assistant dean of Enrollments, 635 students transferred to UM last year. The majority of these
were from Dade County colleges and universities.
This year, Ingold said, 650 transfers are expected.
Transfer students at UM go through a different program for orientation. According to Marisol Rodriguez, assistant program coordinator for transfers, transfer students have different needs and questions than do freshmen.
“We started this program about two years ago. We provide orientation meeting the specific needs of transfers. Many of them come from foreign countries or from two-year institutions and they don’t know what a four-year college is all about,” Rodriguez said.”
—S. SCHERLEITHNER
Best Medicine recognizes JMH
The UM School of Medicine and its affiliated teaching institutions have been recognized as centers of excellence in burn treatment and 18 other specialty areas in The Best Medicine, a book compiled by CBS News medical correspondent Robert Arnot.
The School of Medicine, Jack-son Memorial Hospital, the Sylvester Cancer Center and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute were recognized for their work in areas ranging from AIDS care to the treatment of depression.
One of the areas listed in the book was the work in depression treatment done by the department of psychiatry.
“I’m very pleased with the recognition of the rebuilding of the department of psychiatry,” Carl Eisdorfer, psychiatry chairman, said. “It is well-deserved recognition of outstanding faculty and staff.”
The department of gynecology was cited for treatment of high risk pregnancies, Caesarean sections, gynecological cancer surgery, fertility programs and hysterectomies.
The UM/JMH Medical Center was the only institution in Florida mentioned for burn, AIDS, and cancer care and gynecology.
The department of gastroenterology was chosen as one of the best in South Florida for gallbladder surgery, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy. It was also recognized for its treatment of peptic ulcer disease as first-rate in Florida.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, headed by John Clarkson, chairman of the department of ophthalmology, was listed as the best cataract surgery facility in South Florida.
The department of neurology was chosen by Arnot as the best in Florida for carotid endarterectomy.
—MARIBEL PEREZ
UM newspaper joins Hall of Fame
The Miami Hurricane, the student newspaper for the University of Miami, was inducted into the College Hall of Fame at the University of Minne-
sota in 1993.
The Hurricane was one of three college newspapers in the United States to receive the award this spring. Only 30 colleges and universities nationally have been selected for this honor, according to the sponsoring Associated Collegiate Press.
The award was presented in “recognition of sustained excellence in national competitions with other college student publications, and for receiving consistently the All American Honor Rating in these evaluations and competitions programs,” by the sponsor, the Associated Collegiate Press, the national organization which represents most college student publications.
“We think this is marvelous," Bruce Garrison, faculty adviser for The Hurricane, said. “It is appropriate recognition for our on-going high level of success in both news and advertising. The entire newspaper staff, and all those individuals who have worked on our staffs over the years, has earned this award.”
The Hurricane also won both 1990 and 1991 regional Pacemaker Awards, which are the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The Hurricane, entirely student run, is published twice weekly. The paper is free to all UM students and staff.
The campus newspaper at Saint Joseph’s College in Indiana and at Amarillo College in Texas were also selected in 1993 for Hall of Fame membership.
—LYNETTE MALINGER
Graduating class one of the best
GRADUATION /From page 1A history as well.
“Words are not disposable goods,” she said. "Conservation is becoming a symbol for the gift we have been given and entrusted with — the preservation of life itself.”
The other honorary degree recipients this spring were:
■	Jane Goodall, the famous English zoologist and chimpanzee expert:
■	Playwright Edward Albee, author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf,” and “A Delicate Balance;"
■	A. Leon Higginbotham, Chief Judge emeritus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and author of “In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process — The Colonial Period;”
■	Dr. Edward W. D. Norton, founder and chairman emeritus of UM’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the only facility dedicated to the advancement of ophthalmology;
■	Otis Pitts, Jr., a former Miami police officer and president of TACOLCY Economic Develop-
ment Corp., a group dedicated to rebuilding Liberty City, a poor area of Miami. Pitts was named by President Bill Clinton to head a multiyear, $1 billion plan to help South Dade County after Hurricane Andrew.
■ Local pop music star Gloria Estefan, a UM graduate, was also awarded an honorary degree. Estefan was instrumental in helping the Miami area recover after the hurricane and drew a great cheer from the assembled graduates at the commencement ceremonies when she stepped forward to receive her degree.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
FALL SEMESTER 1993
Aug. 22, Sunday
Aug. 23-25, Monday-Wednesday
Aug. 26, Thursday
Aug. 26, Thursday
Sept. 3, Friday
Sept. 6, Monday
Sept. 10, Friday
Sept. 10, Friday
Sept. 30, Thursday	Last
Oct. 11, Monday
Oct. 14, Thursday
Nov. 4-16, Thursday-Tuesday
Nov. 24, Wednesday
Nov. 25-28, Thursday-Sunday
Nov. 29, Monday
Nov. 29, Monday
Dec. 3, Friday
Dec. 4-7, Saturday-Tuesday
Dec. 8-17, Wednesday-Friaay
Dec. 17, Friday
Dec. 17, Friday
Dec. 18, Monday
Dec. 20, Monday
Dec. 20, Monday
68 Clast Days
Housing available for Studenta/Orientation begins
Orientation, academic advising and regiilration
Claases'begin Late registration fees in effect Last day for registration and adding a course Labor Day (Holiday) Last day to make a change in credit-only designation Last day to drop a course without a "W" day for applications for degrees to be received at the end of the semester Midterm grades of ’’D” and "E” due in academic dean's office by 9 a.m.
Courses may not be dropped after this date Registration for Spring 1994 Classes end (U p.m.) Thanksgiving/Spring Recess Classes resume (7 a.m.) Theses/Dissertations due in Graduate School office Classes end (U p.m.)
Reading days Final Exams Semester Ends (11 p.m.) Annual Commencement exercises Housing closes at noon Final grades due in academic dean's office by 9 a.m. Final grades due in division of registration before noon
SPRING SEMESTER 1994
Monday-Saturday, Jan. 3-16 Wednesday, Jan. 12 Thursday-Friday, Jan. 13-14 Monday, Jan. 17 Tuesday, Jan. 18 TYiesday, Jan. 18 Wednesday, Jan. 26 Wednesday, Feb. 2
69 Class Days
Intersession
Wednesday, Feb. 2 Friday, Feb. 4	Last
Wednesday, March 2 Friday, March 4 Saturday, March 12
Monday, March 21 Monday-Friday, April 4-15 Monday, April 25 Friday. April 29
Saturday-Tuesday, April 30-May ; Wednesaay-Thursday, May 4-12 Thursday, May 12 Thursday, May 12 Friday, May 13 Saturday, May 14 Monday, May 16 Monday, May 16
Housing available for Studenta/Orientation begins
Orientation, academic advising and registration Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Holiday) Classes begin Late registration fees in effect Last day for registration and adding a course Last day to make a change in credit-only designation Last day to drop a course without a "W" day for applications for degrees to be received at the end of the semester Midterm grades of "D” and "E" due in academic dean's office by 9 a.m.
Courses may not be dropped after this date Classes end (11 p.m.) Spring Recess Classes resume (7 a.m.) Registration for Fall 1994 Theses/Dissertations due in Graduate School office Classes end (11 p.m.) Reading days Final Exams Honors Day Convocation Semester Ends (11 p.m.) Annual Commencement exercises Housing closes at noon Final grades due in academic dean's office by 9 a.m. Final grades due in division of registration before noon
Plan holds key to future
MASTER PLAN/From page 1A
One of them was to take advantage of the location of the University ” Foote said. He said he wanted to make the campus a place of great beauty as well as a place that would assist in research as a botanical garden.
Senior Vice President David Lieberman said the University would like people to envision a tropical garden as they walk through campus.
“We are the only major university located in the subtropics, and we should take advantage of that,” Lieberman said.
Irwin Raij, Student Government president from 1990 to 1992, said UM students would benefit from the plan for years to come.
“The students are going to get a much better education through the Master Plan, because they’re going to have the facilities available to them that they deserve, that we’re paying for.” Raij said.
UM administrators and planners began working on the design in 1985. The plan itself has undergone several changes since its inception. It has evolved over the past five or six years as a result of working with numerous committees, city staff, neighbors and others, Peruyera said.
“The University actually has plans going back to day one,” Peruyera said. “When George Merrick dreamed of the University, he had a sort-of-plan in place, and then over the years its been built upon or modified, according to the University’s needs.
According to Peruyera, the
plan will add about three million square feet of new space, tailored toward residential living, education and research.
Since the plan was developed, three fountains have been added on campus and a large number of trees have been planted to give UM a more tropical atmosphere, said Lieberman.
Hurricane Andrew knocked down about 2,000 new and old trees, but most have been since replaced or replanted.
One of the objectives of the Master Plan is to make the campus more resident-oriented by adding a new residential college.
“Housing is another area you’re going to see a lot of changes. We’re going to become more of a resident campus than a commuter campus over the next few years,” Peruyera said. “So we’re probably going to start seeing a shift towards a larger residential base.
Among the projects that have already begun are the L. Austin Weeks Recital Hall, which will provide recording facilities for School of Music students; the expansion of the School of Law Library, which will double the size of dedicated library space; and creation of a recently completed parking lot by Hecht Residential College and the student Apartment Area.
Future building projects at the University include:
■ The George Smathers Recreation and Wellness Center, which will replace the Lane Recreation Center and will provide an athletic fitness facility for UM students, faculty and staff. Con-
struction on the Wellness Center is scheduled to begin in spring of 1994.
■	The Ziff Tower, a new building to house the School of Architecture and expansion of the schixil to include an auditorium and studio space.
■	Several support facilities such as additional parking lots and garages, a new chilled water system to cool buildings and an expanded fiber optics network. Within a year or two the first parking garage on campus will be erected north of Mark Light Stadium.
■	A new studio office building for the School of Music, to house all faculty in one building.
■	Classroom renovations in the School of Law, as well as the construction of an administration building.
Another major development is the construction of New Campus, designed to be “the public and cultural hub of the campus.”
“We're going to have a museum, which is a replacement to the Lowe | Art Museum |, a theater |replacing UM’s Ring The-atre| and also the North-South Center for Inter-American Studies," Peruyera said.
New campus would be located on Ponce de Leon Boulevard facing the Metrorail.
"And then there are a host of projects. For example, the School of Communication has a building program, the School of Education has various smaller additions and when you put all that together, it’s a pretty exciting campus plan that should take us well into the next century,” Peruyera said.
Orientation provides ‘a fresh start’
ORIENTATION /From page 1A
especially with such groups as transfers and international students.
“A lot of times the focus is on the freshmen, but we also focus on transfers," White said. “Transfers are dealing with different issues and we recognize that.”
Each area is headed by an assistant program coordinator.
“We want to show freshmen the resources on campus,” Adelle Tanelus, assistant program coordinator for Resident Students, said.
One of the keys to a successful
orientation is its Orientation Assistants, or OAs. Returning students are a valuable part in helping new students adjust to the University.
“|Orientation| is definitely student-driven,” White said.
Lippman said OAs are freshmen’s first link to the University itself.
“A lot of |OAs) do it to meet new people, some do it to volunteer. Orientation is a real easy way to get involved.”
The orientation programs try to give new students a different perspective according to their needs.
For example, transfer students are in a group with other transfer
students and are led by an orientation assistant who was once a transfer student.
"For students who are staff members, it is an excellent leadership opportunity. They are key players in orientation programs,” White said.
The theme for Orientation this year will be “A Fresh Start for ‘U,’ ” White said.
“Everyone was a new student at some point and you can survive it,” she said.
Lippman said freshmen should expect to have a lot of fun, to learn about the University and to meet new people.
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