Miami Hurricane, November 05, 1993

              VOLUME 71, ISSUE 17
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA.
FRIDAY,NOVEMBER 5,1993
SEAN HEMMERLIE / Staff Photographer ■ FRIEND OR FOE? Hemp Awareness group members work to legalize marajuana. See Accent, page 4.
■Physical Graffiti will leave Its mark on the UC Patio.
see Accent, page 4
OPINION
■ Doctors work to save others' lives.
See Opinion, page 3
Morris takes over as UM baseball coach
By JASON MOLINET
Sports Editor
For the third time in as many months, the University of Miami baseball team has a new head coach. Jim Morris was named the Hurricanes’ eighth baseball coach Thursday in an afternoon press conference at the Hecht Athletic "’enter.
Morris left his 12-year cocching stint at Georgia Tech University behind him when he was offered the job by Miami Athletic Director Paul Dee Wednesday morning.
"We at the University of Miami are proud of the fact that we have conducted a search and were able to attract the talent of people from around the country that we’re able to attract,” Dee said. "There wasn’t a coach that we had any interest in that wasn't tremendously interested in this job. This is truly one of the great intercollegiate baseball coaching jobs.”
Morris was among two finalists for the job. Long Beach State University Coach Dave Snow was also being considered. The Miami Hurricane reported Snow would receive the job in its Oct. 19 issue.
“It's been a relief to have a head coach
already,” infielder Luis "Whico” Hernandez said. “It has been a long eight weeks. Coach (Turtle)Thomas has done an excellent job. We’re just all eager to have a coach and ready to get out on the field Tuesday.”
Thomas, the Hurricanes’ interim coach, will remain a part of Morris’ staff.
The position opened when Brad Kelley resigned on Sept. 3. Kelley, a longtime UM assistant under Ron Fraser, took the job last season when Fraser retired after 30 seasons at Miami. He led the Hurricanes to a 33-22 mark, but the team was eliminated after two games at the NCAA South I Regionals last June.
Morris, meanwhile, guided the Yellow Jackets to a 47-14 record last season and earned the top seed at the NCAA Atlantic Regional.
“I know we’re starting practice Tuesday and I can’t wait to get started," Morris, who arrived in Miami Thursday, said. "I don’t know exactly where we’re practicing at, but I’m very excited about starting and seeing this club and getting ready for next season.”
SEAN MEYER/Special to The Hurricane
■ NEW COACH: Jim Morris, 43, became the Hurricanes’ eighth baseball" coach Thursday. A former utility player in the Boston Red Sox organization and a Florida State assistant, Morris fills the position vacated when Brad Kelley resigned Sept. 3.
Bleeding for UM
ISABEL GRIFFITH/Staf* Photographer
■ NEEDLED PRESIDENT: President Fdward T. Foote II donates blood as part of the American Red Cross’ annual Homecoming blood d'ive campaign. "I am proud to participate in this blood drive so ably organized and led by my fav', ite students, ’ ’ Foote said. Between Tuesday and Wednesday 386 pints of blood were collected, the goal is to collect 1,000 pints. Left- Derrick Keaton Red Cross volunteer and in rear, law student Ken DeMoor.
WVUM celebrates power increase
By ZULIMA ROSENOW
Hurricane Staff Writer
After months of work, more than 60 stadents and faculty members involved with WVUM 90.5 FM celebrated Monday the long-awaited power increase with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The power increase comes at the 25th anniversary.
“This is a great moment for WVUM and its future,” said Nikki Tominac, general manager of WVUM.
Since it began in 1965, South Florida’s Alternative Voice has gone from 10 watts to the 1,300 watts recently granted by the Federal Communications Commission. Since the 1980s, the station transmitted at 365 watts and could be
picked up across Dade County.
Now, WVUM can also be heard in southern and central sections of Broward County.
"This frequency is the max it can go to before interfering with [WCIX] Channel 6 and it is something that today is nearly impossible to get,” said Ray J. Vaughan, General Manager of WVUM in 1981.
Vaughan, the technical manager for Dynamic Cablevision of Florida, has been active in helping WVUM with its power increase project.
Teardrop Robson, promotions director and co-disc jockey for the All-request show said she has never been so busy with caller requests.
"The amount of callers is incred-
ible,” Robson said. “They just don’t stop calling and I mean that in a very positive way.”
Freshman Catherine Papafotis, a newscaster, said she feels "a lot more pressure to do a good iob because there are so many more people listening now.”
Vaughn encouraged WVUM staff to take good care of the frequency. He also thanked Channel 6 for donating the $12,000 antenna which sits on top of Hecht Residential College.
Vaughan praised William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, for "being dedicated to seeing the future possibilities of a campus
See page 2/ WVUM
Duplex issue not yet resolved
By DARIN KLAHR
Contributing Editor
Coral Gables Assistant City Manager and University of Miami Community Relations Committee Secretary Sanford Youkilis said the ongoing debate over the Coral Gables zoning code’s definition of “family” may apply to a broader scope of residences than simply duplexes.
"I have to admit that after the last meeting I didn't realize that the regulation was also in apartments," Youkilis said. "Essentially, it says an apartment, as defined in the zoning code, must also have one family.”
In a move that may affect all University of Miami residents living off-campus in Coral Gables, the UM/Community Relations Committee unanimously recommended Monday to the City Commission that “the appropriateness of the use of the word ‘family’ in the zoning code be reviewed.”
CRC chairman and UM Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler said he was pleased with Monday’s meeting.
"I think we did what we set out to do,” he said. “That was to get the matter to the proper authority and to have a review of it.”
Youkilis said the committee’s recommendation will be discussed at the City Commission’s Nov. 23 meeting. The Commission will decide whether to refer the matter to the Planning and Zoning Board, which would send proposed code changes to the Commission. Youkilis said the issue could be resolved by January or February of 1994.
Members of the committee said the code’s current definition of family was too vague.
“1 think the City Attorney is having a difficult time because this can become a constitutional issue,” said CRC member Dr. Joe Briggle. “Who gives you the right to decide who lives where? You have a prime example of two elderly ladies who live together for financial reasons because they can’t afford to live separately. That's like many students, and I think this is why the City Attorney is wrestling with this issue.”
"I think that the board came to an understanding that the issue of overpopulation in Coral Gables is not a student issue but rather a Coral Gables zoning issue,” said Adam August, Student Government president and CRC member. “I think that our committee came to an understanding, and we are preparing ourselves to be more informed to make a recommendation in how ICoral Gables] should set their policy.”
August said the CRC requested that City Attorney Robert Zahner appear before the committee to provide his opinion. Zahner, after stating Oct. 7, that the zoning code “would not allow three or four students to lease the place," has not returned repeated telephone calls.
“IZahner] felt there could be better wording,” Youkilis said. "I guess the word could be uncomfortable.”
At the meeting, neighbors and students expressed their opinions on whether the Coral Gables Zoning Code should be enforced or reviewed.
Evelyn Buddy, a Coral Gables resident living on Benevento Avenue, said she did not feel that the CRC came to any resolution.
"We have had an awful lot of people living in the duplexes and in the single-family homes,” Buddy said. “I don’t think that is what Coral Gables is all about. We are not going to continue being the City Beautiful.
CHRIS BERNACCHI/Photo Editor
■ SPEAKING UP: Tonja Patrick speaks before the Coral Gables/UM Commanity Relations Committee at City Hall on Monday, l eft to right. Tonja Patrick, _ senior; Steve Wittmer, vice president of the Community Relations Committee and CPA; senior Jason Chorches, Interfraternity Council president; and, senior Adam August, Student Government President.
Our neighborhood is not the City Beautiful anymore."
The community’s quality of life was a chief concern among area residents.
“Living in Coral Gables is about standards and it’s about maintaining those standards,” Coral Gables resident Carlos Bolero said. “I think this is one of the issues that I think needs to be projected to the students. We’re proud of our city and this is one of the reasons that (Coral Gablesl is one of the places where you know you can buy a home, and 20 or 30 years down the road it’s going to hold its value and it’s going to be a nice place to live because of these standards of our city.
"If they’re going to be in the neighborhood, they should be like us,” he added.
CRC member and Interfraternity President Jason Chorches, senior, said he wondered what those “standards” were.
"It is something that struck a bad tone in my thinking,” Chorches said. “It was said and that just bothers me when you say, ‘Everyone has to live like us, by certain standards.’ ”
UM senior Tonja Patrick and junior Jenny Keady, who live in the duplex at 4951-55 Ponce DeLeon Blvd., said they understood the importance of "maintaining a good quality of life.” The students said they are good neighbors, good students and that the zoning code should not discriminate against UM students; it should apply to all cases.
"It is important to realize that it is possible to have a single family be bad neighbors, not just students,” Keady said.
“There are others in our neighborhood who are not students and do not meet the definition of a family,” Patrick said. “On the (meeting’s] agenda, it says ‘students’ and we kind of feel it should say, ‘affected neighbors’ because there are others in the area who don’t meet these definitions.”
Newly elected SG senators excited, uncertain of goals
CHRIS BERNACCHI/Photo Editor
■ I DO: Twelve Student Government senators were sworn in Wednesday.
By LI8A J. HURIA8H Associate News Editor
Twelve Student Government senators were sworn in at Wednesday’s SG meeting.
Several of the new senators said they were still not certain of their goals, but were anxious to start work with SG.
“I just got elected |as Commuter North Senator] and haven’t had much time think about |my goals],” Adrian Villaraos. "But I hope to keep working in [the] Academic Affairs [Committee] and make things easier for commuters.” He said he will work to get cheaper rates for commuters in the cafeteria.
Senior Ira Miller, Speaker of the Senate, said 360 people voted in the Senate election Tuesday and Wednesday.
“That’s a pretty average [turnout],” Miller said. “We always
hope for a large turnout but many people don’t vote because there are less things to vote for. It’s less popular than the presidential election.”
Quanda Kimbrough, chairman of the Elections Commission, said 13
students voted in Tuesday’s run-off election for Stanford Residential College senator and Commuter North senator.
Those sworn in include Freshman Senators Kira Brenman and Greg Nalwalanik; Sophomore Senators James Graham and Victoria Mendez; Apartment Area Senator Joseph Maled; Eaton Residential College Senator Cristi Hammond; Hecht Residential College Senator David Freilich; Mahoney Residential College Senator Dan Schulster; Pearson Residential College Senator Amy Rosenberg; Fraternity
Row Senator James Warble; Commuter North Senator Adrian Villaraos and Commuter South Senator Paul David Diaz.
Stanford Residential College
Senator Michael Skowler, Commuter Central Senators David Kirby and Maya Beydoun and Commuter North Senator David George were also elected.
Student food drive kicks-off Hunger and Homeless Week
By JODY JACKSON
Assistant News Editor
Campus organizations and local area merchants are sponsoring a food drive this weekend as part of Hurricanes Help the Hometown and as a kick-off to National Hunger and Homelessness Week, from Nov. 15 to 22.
Food must be dropped off by 4 p.m. Saturday at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, 5900 San Amaro Drive.
"If you want to help, just show up at Lambda Chi on Saturday and bring canned foods,” said Victoria Williams, food drive co-chairperson and member of Zeta Tau Alpha.
All food items collected will be picked up by the Daily Bread Food Bank on Sunday. Donations to the : food bank will be distributed to South Florida shelters and centers for the hungry and homeless.
The event is also part of Lambda Chi Alpha’s North American Food Drive philanthropy. Food will be collected at 221 college campuses throughout the United States and Canada this weekend.
“The entire Coral Gables area has been covered,” said Greg Rash, food drive co-chairperson and member of Lambda Chi Alpha. “We distributed 3,700 flyers throughout the community. On Saturday, we'll go back to those homes to collect food and 2,000 more.”
Rash said more than 200 people are involved in the collection. Members of sponsoring organizations collected food from the offices of faculty and administration Thursday.
“We’re expecting 10,000 pounds of food to be collected in our area," said Rash.