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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1992
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TORRETTA’S BIG DAY
Gino Torretta may become the second quarterback in UM history to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday.
■	Sports — page 8
AWARD-WINNING DIRECTORS
Three University of Miami students’ won second place in the Alamo Film festival last month.
■	Accent — page 6
NEWSBRIEFS
Teen sentenced in racially-motivated murder
The teenager convicted in the brutal beating of Luyen Phan Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American University of Miami student, received twice the normal sentence recommended by state guidelines.
Bradley Mills, 19, who was convicted on Oct. 21 of a racially-motivated second-degree murder, was sentenced to 50 years in prison by Broward County Circuit Court Judge Richard D. Eade.
Mills was recommended to receive 22 years of jail time in the pre-sentence report, however Eade said the “savagery” of the crime prompted him make the sentence more harsh.
Dean of Students William Sandler said the administration of the University really hasn’t taken a position on the sentencing because it’s a criminal matter.
“Well, the courts are taking hate crimes more seriously now," Sandler said.
According to Associated Press, Mills was one of the seven men charged with the killing of sophomore pre-med student Nguyen after he objected to being called a "chink” and a “Viet Cong” during a party in Coral Springs this past summer. Nguyen was then followed and beaten by a mob.
Six others involved in the beating are awaiting trial.
—PAMELA WILFINGER
Library receives collection of Pan Am’s history
The Otto G. Richter Library acquired the extensive records of the former Pan American World Airways.
The records which run from 1927 to 1991, deal with aviation history and include extensive photographs, albums and scrapbooks, and internal publications.
Cited in the collection is the first scheduled international flight by a U.S. airline which flew from Key West to Havana in 1927.
One cache of documents include letters written between the airline’s founder Juan Terry Trippe and famed American flyer Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh served with Pan Am for 45 years as a technical adviser and dealt with the instrumentation of transatlantic flights.
Esperanza Varona, assistant professor of Archives and Special Collections, said the historical record will be helpful to many scholars and researchers.
“It’s primary source material for history, marketing and engineering students,” said Varona. “It’s both Florida history and aviation history.”
—PAMELA WILFINGER
FACE THE FACTS
Andrew hits home— academically
Students: Administration’s ‘no finals’ policy causing stress
AFTER ANDREW
By CRISTINA I.PRAVIA
Staff Writer
It’s been over three months since Hurricane Andrew caused chaos all over South Florida, but the academic effects of the storm are just now being felt by University of Miami students.
"Even though there are not supposed to be any exams, I have two take home exams and tests in all my classes,” said freshman Fred Gravel, a chemistry major. “I would appreciate having one or two catch up days. There’s not enough time for everything.”
Freshman Megan Clouser agrees: “Instead of assigning the
work throughout the semester, we have everything at the end.”
Due to the destruction caused by the hurricane, classes at UM were postponed two weeks. To make up that time, faculty and administrators decided to cut fmal exam and reading periods from the schedule.
Since professors were encouraged not to give cumulative final exams, some are making up for it by assigning extra projects or giving more non-cumulative exams.
Even faculty members prefer to have cumulative finals than to teach the last weeks of school and change their syllabi to cover all material.
Paul Blaney, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said, “Half-way through, things were getting back to normal, but this is a strange ending to the semester since there are no reading days or finals.”
“It’s been a disjointed and out-of-synch semester,” said Stephen Sapp, associate professor of religious studies. "We started out tired and drained and it took a lot out of everybody to be here. Right now, we should be in reading days with class preparation behind and time to relax, but the rhythm of the usual semester was thrown off.” Undergraduate students may not
have finals, but students in the law school are busy preparing for them.
Because of bar requirements, law students still have finals during the next two weeks. Classes were extended from 50 minutes to an hour to cover all the necessary material.
“It was having a full term in less time,” said third-year law student John Fischer. “The term was compressed and it was difficult for students who had back-to-back classes. At least we have finals before Christmas and our vacation is not ruined."
Foote still haunted by ‘Clinton connection’
From Staff Fteports
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II announced at a Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday that he has not had contact with the Clinton Administration
“I have had no contact,”
Foote told the Hurricane Thursday.
"There’s a lot of talk around Washington and Foote Little Rock.”
Despite Foote’s comments, several rumors have arisen about a possible role for him within the administration. The rumors specifically deal with trips by Foote to Washington and Little Rock.
“It’s not true,” Foote said of the trips.
Foote said he has not traveled to Little Rock. He said he was traveling to Washington today on other business. Foote will attend a meeting of the Anti-Drug Coalition in Washington.
"I recommended that he deal with this subject at the meeting,” Charles Cobb, chairperson of the Board of Trustees, said. “He said he has not talked to the presidentelect.”
Oleta Garrett with Clinton’s Southern Political Desk in Little Rock said they had not been in contact with Foote.
“We have not received anything from him,” Garrett said.
However, Garrett said that if Foote is being considered for a position in the cabinet or an ambassadorship, the information would go to Washington, not to her office.
A member of the board who asked not to be identified said he had heard the rumors and would not be surprised if Foote was up for a position.
“Look at who his father-in-law is and it isn’t hard to see why,” the board member said.
Foote’s father-in-law is former Arkansas Sen. William Fulbright. Clinton is a former intern for the committee Fulbright chaired in the Senate and considers him his mentor.
DECKING THE HALLS
PRESTON MACK / Photo Editor
SPREADING HOLIDAY CHEER: From left to right, Matt Hallisy, junior, Ann Meyer, junior, and Ginger Sides, sophomore, decorate a Christmas tree in Eaton Residential College Sunday night. Students around the campus hung up decorations for the holiday season.
Cafeterias, Rat to extend hours, menus
By SIMON P. DUVALL Associate Newt Editor
Changes in the campus food service including the hours and menu will be implemented for the spring semester. Beginning Jan. 19, dinner will be
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served at Hecht-Stanford and Mahoney-Pearson cafeterias until 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, according to Efren Gort, Marriott Dining Services manager.
Full service will be provided until 7:30 p.m., and limited service including deli, salad bar, deserts and beverages will be available until 8.
“When there’s a long line, service suffers,” Joan Murray, Marriott marketing director, said.
Dinner will still begin at 5 p.m., and dinner service at the Hurricane cafeteria will remain from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Other changes in the meal plan for spring include enhancing the current deli program by serving fresh baked bread and rolls at both lunch and dinner, and providing premium meats, including turkey, at all meals, Gort said. In addition, eggs-to-order and omelets will be available during weekend brunch, he said.
“We’re doing this as part of our
response to suggestions from the Student Government dining services advisory board and other student suggestions,” Gort said.
There will be no cost to students or the University for the additions during the spring semester, Murray said, but after that, Marriott will review student input and consider the cost of the changes and make a decision about which services to keep and any charge for those services.
"We’re enhancing the whole dining experience,” Murray said.
Changes are being proposed for next semester by a Student Government ad-hoc committee on the revitalization of the Rathskeller, Steve Sutton, Rat director, said.
The committee is working with Marriott to finalize new upstairs service during lunch as well as add new menu items and combo specials to be offered for dinner.
SG President David Diamond, a member of the committee, said a plan is being developed that would offer students a variety of ready-to-go or quick preparation sandwiches or items like pizza by the slice and steamed hot dogs served on the
balcony during lunch, in addition to table service on the lower level.
Meal card equivalency credit would be available for the items on the second floor, Sutton said. Currently, meal cards are not accepted at the Rat between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
"They alienated half the student body by cutting off the meal cards during lunch,” Diamond said.
The committee is also proposing that combo specials be offered for the $3.75 meal plan dinner equivalency credit at the Rat. Combos would be available after 2:30 p.m. and include a sandwich with chips and a drink or another entree and beverage, Sutton said.
In addition, the committee has recommended a number of menu changes at the Rat.
The committee is working with Marriott on possibly replacing non-selling items like the Chicken Liver Pate with more popular items, and adding one or two more selections to most of the menu categories, Diamond said.
Sutton said the changes should be finalized and approved in time for spring semester.
Faculty votes on senate’s organization
HOLIDAY CLOSINGS:
TANYA GILMORE / Qrapt*» Edtor
By CHRISTOPHER J. AVR08 Assistant News Editor
Voting faculty must decide by today whether to reorganize the University of Miami Faculty Senate in order to make its operation more efficient, according to William J. Whelan, chairman of the senate.
The Faculty Senate has six measures are on the ballot, the most important of which, if approved, would dissolve the Senate Council. Ballots sent out must be returned to the senate office by today.
Whelan said that the informal council set up by the senate has, over the years, grown in importance. Originally designed to prepare the agenda for senate meetings, the council has become a forum to voice senate concerns, essentially replacing the senate meeting themselves.
“What has happened over the years is that the Senate council has become a very formal body,” Whelan said. “It tends to go over exactly the same ground. More and more, the Senate Council has been simply duplicating what the senate does. So, we find that every two weeks during the academic year, we have the Senate Council meet-
ing, then two weeks later the Senate and it’s a replay of the same business. That doesn’t seem very efficient.”
Also part of the proposal is the addition of a new senate officer. A second vice-chair will be added, bringing the number of officers to three, Whelan said.
“The chair would be allowed to appoint what is being called an advisory council, an executive group of a few people,” Whelan said. "They along with the officers will form a group of seven or eight and they will take the place of the council.
The other measures to be voted on would, if enacted, reduce the number of senators per school to one. Currently, either one or two senators represent a school depending upon the number of tenured faculty within the school. Senators would also be elected to staggered, three year terms, as opposed to the current policy of simultaneous two year terms.
The size of the senate also would increase from 45 members to 50 because more schools would receive representation. Under current guidelines, not every school of the University had its own senator,
Whelan said.
Other legislation up for consideration includes proposals for giving the senate the alternative of an emergency power and also for changing the language in the faculty charter and faculty manual to make it gender neutral.
The intent of the emergency power is to establish a contingency whereby the senate would not be powerless during the summer should a situation requiring their action arise and a quorum can’t be assembled.
Also on the table is an initiative to keep active the Committee on General Welfare, long a part of the Senate Council.
According to the legislation on the ballot, the Committee on General Welfare is responsible “for general welfare, tenure, the academic freedom of faculty and of students and faculty-administration relationships.”
If these measures pass, there will be a final ratification vote by the Board of Trustees scheduled before the end of the first semester, according to Whelan.
He said that he would not expect to encounter obstacles with the trustees.
■ Ash« Building — University offices will close at 3 p.m. Dec 23 and will reopen on Dec. 29 and 30. For the New Year s holiday, offices will close Dec. 31 and Jan 1 and will reopen on Jan. 4.
■	University Canter — The games area closes at midnight Dec. 18. The poof and all other areas will close at 4 p.m.. Dec. 18. The bookstore will close at 5 p.m.. Dec. 18. From Dec. 24 to Jan. 3, the UC will be closed. Jan. 4 to 14 will be regular hours except the pool, which will open Jan. 13 and 14 from 11 a m. to 4 p.m. All regular hours resume Jan. 19.
■	Residence Halle — All colleges close Dec. 19 at noon Apartment area students may remain in their apartments during the break. Residential colleges reopen Jan. 12 lor international students and Jan 13 lor all others.
■	Otto G. Richter Library — The library will close at 3 p.m.. Dec 23 and reopen from 1 p.m to 6 p.m.. Dec 26 Hours over the holiday break vary The library will not be open Jan. 18. Normal hours will resume Jan 19.
■	Campus Sport* and Racrsatlon — CSR will close at 7 p.m.. Dec. 22. Hours vary over the break.
■	The Eya — The Eye will close Dec 18 at 4 p.m. It will reopen Jan. 4 Irom 8 a m. to 3 p.m Hours will expand to 4 p.m. beginning Jan 11. Normal Hours will resume Jan. 19.
■	Hurricane Dining Hall— The Hurricane will close at 7 p.m. on Dec. 16 and will reopen at 11 a.m. on Jan. 19.
■	Hecht/Stantord and Mahonay/Paarson Dining
Hal la — The dining halls will close at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 and will reopen Jan. 13 tor dinner
■	The Ibis — The Ibis will close at 2 p.m. Dec. 18 and reopen at 7:30 a.m. Jan 19.
■	The Rathskeller — The Rat will close at midnight Dec. 17, except tor special events, and wM reopen Jan. 11 tor lunch only. Normal business hours will resume Jan. 19.
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