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VOLUME 70. NUMBER 7
CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2,1992
INSIDE
MAN BEHIND THE MASCOT
John Routh has been entertaining thousands of University of Miami fans for a decade.
■ Accent — page 5
FSU’S CHIEF
Charlie Ward, who plays point guard for the Seminole basketball team, will lead the No. 3 FSU football team into the Orange Bowl Saturday.
■ Sports — page 6
FACE THE FACTS
Average starting salaries offered to students who graduated Detween September, 1991 and August, 1992
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UM student found dead at FIU
■ A National Guardsman was arrested in the stabbing death of UM senior Andrew McGinnis and two other people whose bodies were found inside a car parked on FIU’s University ] campus.
By PAMELA W1LRNQER and RICARDO J. BA8CUA8
Contributing Editors
The flags in the center of campus .were at half-mast last Wednesday in mourning of a UM student found dead at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning in a parked car,
UM student Andrew McGinnis, 21, former Miami-Dade Community College student Ronny Quisbert, 20, and 15-year-old Regina Rodriguez were found stabbed to death at Florida International University’s University Park campus, Southwest 107th Avenue and 8th Street.
Metro-Dade police arrested Steven Coleman, a Florida National Guardsman from Tampa, on Wednesday morning. The police later said Coleman had confessed to the slaying of the three young people.
Coleman is being charged with three counts of first degree murder and two counts of sexual battery. One of the men and the female victim were allegedly assaulted by Coleman after they had been killed.
The three victims went to Boosters Bar and Grill, located across Southwest 107th Avenue from FIU, where thev
apparently met Coleman. They were seen leaving the bar with Coleman.
Coleman was affiliated with the 53rd Support Battalion from St. Petersburg and was sent to Miami to help with Hurricane Andrew relief efforts. The guardsman’s battalion was camped only a few hundred yards from where the bodies were found.
No one knows what precipitated the stabbings.
McGinnis, who was from Media, Pa., was a senior majoring in motion pictures and English. He was described by classmates and faculty as being quiet and reserved.
Hannah Hawkins, junior, also majoring in motion pictures and English, said she and her roommate, senior Kimberly Caprone were friends of McGinnis.
“He was a really nice guy. He didn’t talk much but he had a lot of friends," Hawkins said. “He was very into artistic films. He liked Terry Gilliam a lot and Monty Python.
“He’s a very gentle person. I’ve never seen him in a fight. He would always try to calm things down. He was always the mediator. ... Kim and I could have been out with him that night and that really scares both of us,” Hawkins said.
McGinnis was a student in motion picture Professor George Cape well's senior internship class and had already interviewed for a few internships.
“He was more into writing and scrip-‘twriting, but he also liked to work with the camera,” Capewell said. “And he was looking forward to making a film. He also wanted to work in the industry.”
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duction class remember his movie from last semester as a convoluted fight between good and evil.
During the storyline, the “good” side of a man stalks the “evil” side, both played by McGinnis. In the film, "good” ends up stabbing “evil” with a knife in the back seat of a car.
Motion pictures Professor Jim Lane Iknew McGinnis well, but refused to comment to the media. However, he did talk to his film class students about McGinnis. Before beginning a lecture class, Lane recounted the story of a student helping a teacher.
Lane, who usually takes the bus home frbm the University, said McGinnis often gave him a ride home because they lived near each other. He depicted
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McGinnis as a good person who met with an untimely tragedy.
' “[Lane) was very upset about this. He didn’t want to exploit this boy’s death,” Capewell said. “On one pit, you want to do right by his memory and be fair to him. And on the other hand, you don’t want to exploit this. It’s a very fragile thing.”
Local media surrounded the apart-jment where McGinnis and Quisbert [lived after their bodies were discov-[ered.
The condition of the McGinnis’ and 'his roommates’ apartment led to false reports from local media that the residents practiced satanism. Friends of McGinnis said the house had been decorated for a "Destroy the House” theme ¡party thrown last weekend.
NEWSBRIEFS
Facilities to close for game
A few UM facilities will be closed this weekend due to a rival football game.
Because of the Florida State University and Miami football game Oct. 3, the UM swimming pool. Campus Sports and Recreation and the Rathskellar will be closed. Normal hours will resume on Oct. 4.
Norm Moss, supervisor of the University Center, said the football game will take away a lot of business from the weekends normal activities.
“There’s really no activity going on this weekend on campus during that time/’ Moss said.
The UC recreational area will have the football game showing on television beginning at noon.
—PAMELA WILFINGER
UM will offer meteorology major
Starting this fall, a new bachelor of science degree in meteorology and applied mathematics will be offered in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Assistant Professor Dean Churchill wants students to know that this is not a weather forecasting degree.
“It is actually an intense, hard-core mathematics and science degree which will qualify many students for government positions. Students can also expect to be readily accepted into graduate school,” he said. "This degree is not for the weak-hearted.”
Faculty such as Dean Churchill, Edna O’Brien, Naomi Surgi and Rainer Black will be offering lectures for the classes. Also, summer programs such as trips to the NASA Facility at Cape Canaveral, undertaken last summer by Dean Churchill, are being offered as part of the program.
The major is offered through the division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography. A minor is also being offered.
—KEVA CARMICHAEL
PRESIDENTIAL YEAR
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EACH ONE COUNT8: Kerl Gilford sits Tuesday at the voter registration desk In the University Center Breezeway. University of Miami students can register to vote for the upcoming national elections until Oct. 3.
Fewer stations for students
By CHRIS MERRITT
Start Writer
The University of Miami has renegotiated its contract with Dynamic Cable and made some changes — including changes in the channels available to residents.
“We dropped the channels that nobody was watching, such as the local government meetings and public access channels,” Redick said. “However, we have added four new channels, the SportsChannel for Florida which broadcasts certain UM sports events, the Sunshine Network, Black Entertainment Television and the UM Residence Hall channel, which provides information 24 hours a day similar to channels offered in many hotels.”
The change was made after a study of the spring Quality of Life survey was conducted. The survey is distributed to all residents during the spring by Residence Halls. It includes questions on the rooms, facilities and services, including the cable TV service.
The Arts & Entertainment channel was dropped because it did not receive a high enough popularity rating from the survey. However, the possibility of adding the Discovery Channel and A&E is being examined.
“If the students display an interest we may bring them back,” Redick said. “Also we wish to expand the UM cable Channel 51’s programming so that it is on the air more often.”
According to the Quality of Life Survey, MTV, VH-1 and CNN are some of the most popular channels among students. These channels are only available through the cable system.
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UM helps disabled students get around
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By LAURIE POWELL
Stan Writer
The University of Miami is making it easier for the physically disabled to get around campus this year by renovating the facilities to make them more accessible.
Michael White, director of Physi-1 cal Plant, has been working with Student Government, Handicapped Services and the ad hoc Committee for Disability Issues.
“Facilities Administration is allocating $50,000 a year,” White said.
Some of the renovations include:
■	Handicap restrooms have been installed in the Ungar Building and they are in the final stages of installation at the Cox Science Center.
■	Ramps at the Richter Library have been installed with permanent handrails forthcoming.
■	Power door assists at the Ibis Cafeteria, the University Bookstore, Health Services and the Cox Science Center have been installed.
■	Elevators at the University Bookstore were installed over the summer, and elevators at the Cox Science Center are currently under construction.
4 They’ve done what we've asked them to do. They really want to help us.’
Jodi Barker, Junior
“Jodi Barker and Natasha Alvarez have been key players in getting these improvements done to the campus,” Dave Diamond, student government president, said.
Alvarez was severely injured when she fell out of her chair while getting off a freight elevator at the University Bookstore.
Jodi Barker, a physically disabled student who is also a member of the ad hoc committee, is satisfied with the response from the University. "They’ve done what we’ve asked them to do. They really want to help us,” Barker said.
Barker said she plans to meet later this year with White to discuss what further steps need to be taken.
In addition, parking spots for vans have been created and roll edges have been added to the bridges near the Whitten University Center.
Diamond hopes that SG can take over the publication of Rolling Along, a map of the campus with access sites. He said SG is currently looking for independent financing.
Some problems persist. Space limitations and design problems have prolonged placing handi-s in the
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“The whole lobby might have to be redone,” White said.
Wilhemena Black, the affirmative action director for Handicapped Services, has also played an integral role in making the facilities and services available to disabled persons.
"What we need is sensitivity training for faculty, administrators and persons responsible for providing assistance,’1 Black said. “We need to look at ability rather than the disability,” Black contends.
Currently, Black is coordinating the dissemination of information regardipg the placing of elevators, water fountains, ramps and doors with buzzers among all four University of Miami campuses.
Diamond said he hopes that improvements will be made to the Panhellenic and Art buildings where there is no access for the physically disabled.
New Biology 110 class offered
ByJUNEOHATA
Staff Writer
A new biology course, open only to students currently enrolled in the general biology major has been created to help students acquire a background in natural science and to help prepare the students to take Biology 111 and 112.
Professor Daivd Wilson, who will teach the course, said he hoped the course "would give those students who did not receive a strong natural science background in high school or college a good broad-based background.”
"The course should cover parts of Math 101 and 102, Chemistry 111, Biology 111, and Introductory Physics,” Wilson said.
1 Biology 110 will not require any labs. Students must drop Biology 111 to take the introductory i course.
Biology 110 will not satisfy the required natural science credit because it has not gone through the College of Arts and Sciences approval process.
If the students are biology majors, they must take Biology 111 again.
The course will be taught every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1 p.m. There will be only one section available for about 20 students. It will begin on Oct. 16, about one week after the , first Biology 111 exam.
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