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INSIDE
TABLE FOR TWO
University of Miami Table Tennis team offers the opportunity for beginners and advanced players to develop their skills.
■ Accent — page 6
GOLDEN SPIKES
Former Hurricane baseball players Jeff Alkaire and Charles Johnson are two of the nine finalists for the Golden Spikes award given to the nation’s best amateur player.
■ Sports — page 9
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Mistake-free Canes cage Nittany Lions
By MARTIN EMENO
Contributing Editor
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.— There wasn’t one, but rather two cases of mistaken identity surrounding the University of Miami’s (5-0) 17-14 triumph over Penn State University (5-1) before 96,704 fans Saturday at Beaver Stadium.
However, there was no mistake made by the pollsters, Miami is back in the top slot in CNN/USA Today poll and has closed the gap to just one point behind the University of Washington in the Associated Press poll.
Identity Crisis Part I — Penalties.
The Hurricanes, renowned for their bad boy image on and off the field, were assessed only two penalties for 24 yards the entire game — a far cry from a team whose name is commonly associated with convicts.
On the other side, a normally subdued Nittany Lion squad best known for its boy scout persona ran up nine penalties for 77 yards — two coming on the club’s final drive that pinned PSU inside its 10-yard line.
‘i don’t think we can play any better than we See page 8/ FOOTBALL
J.C. RIDLEY/Special to the Hurricane HURRICANE WARNING: Senior wide receiver Lamar Thomas waves a hurricane warning flag before University of Miami supporters after Saturday's game In Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pa. The Hurricanes defeated Penn State 17-14.
UM students on debate: No winner, but Perot gains
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NEWSBRIEFS
Quest seminars begin
Quest is a series of free seminars, sponsored by Student Affairs and various campus organizations, that are meant to spark discussion and debate while offering information on a variety of subjects began Monday.
In conjunction with this week’s Hispanic Heritage Celebration, the first seminar was on the Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World in 1492. Historian Miguel Bretos spoke in the University Center about ‘"Columbus in America: The Two Sides of Hiato-
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Abortion will be the topic of discussion at 7:30 p.m. today, when Sarah Wedaington, the defending attorney in the famous court case Roe vs. Wade, speaks on campus. Also sponsored by the Program Council Forum, Weddington will give her Quest seminar on the UC Patio.
Mark Trowbridge, residence coordinator of Eaton Residential College, will head a seminar at 12 p.m. on Oct. 14 about "Learning to Motivate Yourself and Others.” The seminar will focus on leadership skills and studying and sleeping habits.
Seminars are scheduled every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday until Nov. 18 and will cover topics j from AIDS and environmental issues to UM ditions and problems facing the twentysomething generation.
—PAMELA WILFINGER
Student to be remembered during poetry reading
A poetry reading will be given in memory of University of Miami senior Andrew McGinnis who was stabbed to death on Sept. 29 and found on the Florida International University campus.
Sponsored by the Department of English and the
j wiD be given by 15. in Brockway Hall.
By FERNANDO BATTAGLIA and JULIUS WHIOHAM
Of the Staff
No single candidate won outright th presidential debate held on Sunda night, according to University of Miami students who watched it. However, Texas billionaire H.
Ross Perot did gain some credibility, said the same students.
‘T thought all three candidates were excellent,”
Drake Corrigan, graduate student, said. “I think we got a clear understanding of Ross Perot.
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what we need in Washington.”
“Ross [Perot] could give a more dear, precise answer about what was happening,” Bhavesh Shah, sophomore,
Shah said he saw pretty much what he expected from the debate, but added that the it did have some impact.
“It makes it [the presidential race]
thing
now,” Shah said.
Sophomore Orlando De La Cruz had a similar opinion.
"They didn’t say anything new. Because of that, I didn’t think it helps [President George] Bush much, since he has to make a comeback,” De La Cruz
said.
De La Cruz said he was looking forward to more specifics from the candidates in future debates and especially wants Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and Bush challenge each other.
“Clinton did a good job of defending himself. Bush did a good job of asserting his foreign policy,” De La Cruz said.
Political Science Professor Michael Milakovich said none of the candidates made any major mistakes, although Bush was hurt a little bit when he was
condescending to Magic Johnson.
“He sounded insensitive towards the issue [of AIDS],’’ Milakovich said.
Clinton looked most like a president during the debate, Milakovich said.
“It deary helped Clinton and it hurt Bush ... I thunk Perot picked up popular support, but Clinton was the dear winner,” Milakovich said.
Milakovich said he is looking forward to the next debates, especially the one between the vice presidential candidates.
“The next debates will be great. It’ll be even more fun. It’ll be more amateurish,” Milakovich said.
Graduate student Jeremy Lehman disagreed with most of those opinions.
“T think that President Bush dearly demonstrated that through his experience in areas like foreign policy and international affairs he is clearly superior to Clinton," Lehman said. “Both candidates used it as a forum to re-emphasize their old campaign points.”
Lehman said Perot appeared very amateurish and failed to attack the other candidates on the issues.
“[Perot was] definitely disjointed and non-visionary,’’ Lehman said.
Junior John Thomas said the debates came a little too late to help most people make up their minds in this election.
“Ultimately, I don’t think that it will be a factor,” Thomas said. “I think people have made up their minds at this point.”
Nevertheless, Thomas said the debate provided a good opportunity for
the candidates to finally discuss the issues.
Some students are still waiting for the other debates before they make up their minds on their choice for president.
“I’m still up in the air about it and I’ll probably be until the last debate,” Shah said.
“I’m not really gonna make a judgment until the debates are done,” De La Cruz said.
Political campaigners debate at UM
By RJ. KLEINER
Special to the Hurricane
Is President George Bush the victim of acts of Congress or the proponent of "voodoo” economics?
WFTL radio talk show host Rick Seiderman and FIU Professor Kenneth Lipner debated the issues of taxes, entitlements, and federal deficit and trade during a debate at 2 p.m. on Friday at the University Center International Lounge to an audience of about 30 students.
Lipner, a former financial adviser for the government and most recently for the Miami Downtown Development Authority, trumpeted Clinton’s cause in the debate. Lipner has been doing speaking engagements for the Dade County Democratic Party during this campaign.
Some students were holding
Bush/Quayle placards, to which Lipner responded that they should be “concerned that when [they] graduate there won’t be any jobs available, if we have another four years of what we’ve just gone through; it just hasn’t work«!.”
Rick Seiderman, a UM alumni and political campaign practitioner who is in the executive committee for the Dade County Republican Party, from the Vietnam War-era, answered in Bush’s defense.
“Yes, Bush approved a tax increase, but it was only a third of what Congress asked for; you should have seen what the Democrats’ really wanted.”
Lipner said the current economic condition is a 20-year manifestation of
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School erf Communication, the reading Carol Snow at 8 p.m. on Oct.
Admission is free.
The reading is dedicated to McGinnis who was a senior majoring in motion pictures and English. He was known by friends and professors to be a budding scriptwriter.
Last week, McGinnis’ parents in Pennsylvania asked the University to forgo an official religious memorial for Andrew.
The reading ia part of the Otto G. Richter Library Poetry Series.
—PAMELA WILFINGER
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Tales recounted of Bosnian horror
By JULIUS WHIGHAM Associate News Editor
The pictures that the media have shown from war-torn Bosnia are nothing compared to what Irfan Mirza has seen in person. Mirza, director of the World Humanity Fund, spoke Sunday night in the University Center International Lounge to a group of about 100 people. Mirza’s speech was sponsored by the Muslim Student Organization.
Mirza, who spent three weeks in Bosnia last August, spoke of the numerous atrocities that are being committed in the former Yugoslavian republic.
“The media is showing only about 10 percent of what’s really going on," he said.”[When we went to visit] the i their cities.”
The people are under the constant threat of snipers from the neighboring republic of Serbia, he said.
"The people in the cities don’t have any way of getting out because the Serbians control the mountains and the roads,” Mirza said. “If you are on the road without authority, they will shoot you.”
On the night of Aug. 28, Mirza said that he saw through a pair of binoculars 40 people killed by sniper fire.
“Twenty-four hours a day, you can hear sniper fire. Most of it is Serbian and some of it is Bosnians shooting back. We went to the hospital the next day and it was full. All of the corridors were full," he said.
While Mirza was critical of the media, he was even more critical of the United States ment for the way that it has handled the situation.
“The government has become insensitive to the needs of the people,” Mirza said.
Even if the government does not use direct
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Number of graduate students increases
ByNATY ALAYON
Start Writer
The dents increasini
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number of graduate attending UM has been
in the last 10 years, said Jo Anne Hecker, interim dean of
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the UM Graduate School.
According to James Gorostola, manager of Enrollment Services, 2,160 graduate students were enrolled at UM, not including those in the schools of Law and Medicine. Last year, 3,276 were enrolled at UM.
The number of graduate students enrolled for this year is expected to be about the same as last year, Gorostola said.
Hecker said she attributes this
increase in enrollment to the extensive advertising and to several recruiting trips around the country by the Graduate School.
A number of individual schools have noticed the increase.
Mitchell Shapiro, director of Graduate Studies at the School of Communication, said the graduate program has grown since the school was formed six years ago.
“It has grown both in quantity and quality. Now, we’re more focused on quality,” Shapiro said. “The size of the program is ideal for the resources we have right now.”
The Graduate School, to Hecker, started to advertise i recruit recently. She said the campaign began in early 1980 and has
proven to be successful.
“We have recruiting efforts in the fall. We go to graduate fairs,” Hecker said. “We can reach 10 to 20 universities in one fair,” Hecker, who recently returned from a fair in New York, said.
At these fairs students interested in coming to UM sign cards stating their particular interests. The Graduate School then gets in touch with the corresponding departments and they send the required literature to prospective students.
“We also advertise in a booklet called Graduate School Guide,” Hecker said. She said that in the book there are tear-off cards which students interested in information may send.
High book prices blamed on publishers
By 8TEPHAN 8ARENAC
Start Writer
Many students have complained recently about the book prices in the University of Miami Bookstore. Some students’ book bills have climbed into the $500 range for one semester.
“Prices are outrageous,” Matt Saltzman, senior, said. "For what we pay to go here, the University should give us a break somewhere.”
“It’s literally highway robbery," Stephen Warner, senior, said. "Although I paid $160 this semester, I still feel the University is taking unfair advantage of their position by profiting from the needs of students.”
Chuck Canfield, manager of the
Bookstore, said he is also concerned about rising book prices.
“I’ve been as distressed about this as the students,” Canfield said. "Publishers have to be careful as to what they do regarding price increases of books. They may go out of business soon if they continue with this.”
According to Canfield, there are two industries within the book business, binding and publishing. The cost of these two processes have steadily been increasing over the years, therefore book prices have been rising.
The bookstore does get a 20 percent discount on books from the publishers. Canfield said the bookstore tries to be as fair as possible
with its i
Canfield said mark up on ic. books ranges from 20-25 percent
The bookstore is an auxiliary service under the University’s division of Business and Finance, said David Lieberman, senior vice president. It receives no funding from the University.
“It operates on a bottom line budget under which it is expected to produce a surplus which goes to the University’s educational budget,’’ Lieberman said.
Gauthier said she has tried buying books in other places, but it didn’t make much difference.
“The difference is one or two dollars, it’s not really big,” she said.
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