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VOLUME 69. NUMBER 38
BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST AND FAR
TUESDAY, MARCH 3,1992
INSIDE
THE BIG EASY
Sunday, the UM women’s basketball team became the first Big East team of either gender to finish conference play undefeated.
■ Sports — page 8
FICKLE FUN
Clubs in Coconut Grove are hurting business at the Rathskeller by drawing students off campus to drink and party, but this raises some interesting questions.
■ Accent — page 6
TODAY’S FORECAST
PARTLY CLOUDY
20 percent chance of showers HIGH: 78 LOW: 62
Source National Weather Service
FACE THE FACTS
Over the last two years there has been a 20 percent increase in the number of homeless persons In Dade County, to an estimated 6,000 on any given day. On May 1, 1991 researchers found:	./
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TEENAGERS
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Miami Coalition lor the Homeless
FRANK RECK) / Graphic Artist
UM may bring suit against flier distributors
By ALLETTA BOWERS
News Editor
The University of Miami is considering taking legal action against two businesses allegedly illegally dispersing fliers on campus.
“A determination has not been made yet if action will be taken,” Lourdes LaPaz, assistant general counsel for the University of Miami, said. "If we do, it would be civil action asking for an injunction and damages.”
Distributing fliers on private property without permission is illegal, according to Coral Gables city ordinances.
One of the establishments allegedly in violation is Tyrannosaurus Mex, a Coconut Grove club.
Letters sent to Tyrannosaurus Mex have been ignored, according to Steve
Braswell, manager of duplicating at UM.
“I think we need to take more drastic action,” Braswell wrote in a memo to LaPaz. "Begin whatever other legal action you think is necessary against T-Mex.”
In a memo to the owners of Tyrannosaurus Mex, Braswell wrote, "Distribution of advertisements on private property is a privilege, not a right.”
Rumors have been circulating that the University is holding off on legal action because Tyrannosaurus Mex is going out of business. Thus far, the rumors have not been confirmed.
LaPaz said she had no knowledge of Tyrannosaurus Mex going out of business.
Richard Bonomo, manager of Tyran-
nosaurus Mex, said he did not know where people would have heard that.
“If it is [true], it’s news to me,” Tony Jones, promoter of Tyrannosaurus Mex on Thursday nights and UM sophomore, said.
According to William Sandler, dean of students, two people were caught putting fliers up on campus. The two were not students.
“They were given a warning,” Sandler said. "We try to find out who they are working for.”
Sandler said the names of violators are turned over to Braswell.
Over 157 letters have been written to companies that have distributed fliers on campus, according to Braswell.
“I write the company about our rules, policies and procedures,” Bra-
swell said.
“Since it is almost impossible to catch these people in the act, you and the rest of the University community can assist in my efforts if you will continue to send me unwanted fliers,” Braswell wrote in a memo.
Many of the fliers come from local night clubs.
"The biggest reason for the Rat losing business is because off-campus bars are coming on campus and distributing fliers,” Fred Karam, chairperson of the Rathskeller Advisory Board, said.
Many students said they learn about special prices or promotions from the fliers found under doors, atop cars and on bulletin boards.
NEWSBRIEFS
Foote meets with Business professors
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote II met with all the full-time professors of the School of Business Administration Monday afternoon to continue discussions regarding the future of the school and reported problems with the dean.
"This is a meeting with only School of Business people to attack certain issues,” said Dhruv Grewal, professor of marketing.
Foote also met with faculty members last Thursday to "discuss ... a variety of issues,” Foote said.
“The meeting was confidential, and I don’t think it would be appropriate to say more,” Foote said. "There will be no action taken as a result of the meeting. There are no direct consequences from that meeting.”
Moshe Friedman, professor of management science, said "I really can’t say anything right now. We were asked not to say anything. I don’t remember if the dean (Kenneth Fedor) was at the meeting or not.”
School of Business Dean Kenneth Fedor was not available for comment.
— FRANK RECIO
Students to explore Salt Spring
Beginning March 9, eight students from the University of Miami and the University of Florida will begin to excavate Little Salt Spring, a noted archaeological site in Florida.
Professor John Gifford, of the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, will take the students to the site, which is located in central Florida. In 1986, archaeologists excavated certain areas of Little Salt Spring and found human brain tissue 7,000 years old and a spear dated 12,000 years old that was used to kill a giant tortoise.
— PAMELA WILFINGER
Students set out to solve homeless problem in Miami
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By DANIELLE PARKS
Accent Editor
ith a pencil, paper and a ruler, you can draw up plans for just about anything, but the big test lies in whether you can actually make it
work.
Making their plans work is exactly what a group of seven University of Miami architecture students are trying to do. They have set out to design and implement low-cost housing communities to help alleviate the homeless problem in Miami.
Saturday, they came one step closer to making their plans a reality.
Nearly 50 people from various fields gathered in a studio on the second floor of the School of Architecture building to offer their comments, suggestions and criticisms on the students’ presentation.
Senior Valerie Dekle was the first to speak, outlining the group's goals and explaining how they came to adopt the project.
She said they wanted to do something to make a difference. Something tangible.
Then she cited some facts:
■	America’s homeless population is estimated at 3 million.
■	Miami’s homeless population has doubled since 1985 and is projected to reach 8,500 within the next year.
■	A recently released, Congressionally-funded study predicts that nearly 19 million people will face the prospect of homelessness across the country within the next 15 years.
■	At the start of Ronald Reagan’s first presidential term, the United States spent $7 on defense for every $1 spent on housing. Today, the ratio is $44 to $1.
Dekle said as a result of the impending recession, an increase in the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill and a lack of low-income housing as a result of cutbacks during the 1980s, there is a greater demand for housing, training and counseling for those on the streets.
Richard Hubacker, student architect, said he and his peers have set out to fill the gap between the homeless and their search for low-cost housing.
He said Miami is ignoring the problem. "By trying to eject the homeless from downtown the problem will not go away. They will still be homeless, just relocat-
Uourtesy of UM architecture students BIG PLANS: The proposed collapsible housing, designed by UM architecture students to alleviate homelessness, would fit in with other housing in the area.
ed,” he said.
The students’ design, a collection of bungalow-type buildings arranged in a courtyard configuration, was made completely portable. The foundation, walls and roof are bolted together and can be taken apart easily.
The 10-by-16-feet modules will house four people per unit, and are designed to be stackable, doubling the number of occupants in each complex. Each courtyard would ideally house 25 to 50 people and focus on a particular target group, such as single mothers and children or recovering drug and alcohol addicts.
Privacy is a large concern of the designers. The small scale of the project is meant to give a sense of pride, intimacy and dignity to the residents.
Some in attendance Saturday suggested four people per unit was too many, but the designers countered that it is worse to feel alienated than crowded, especially when recovering from drug or alcohol
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CHRISTOPHER CARLISLE/Photo Editor THIS NEW HOUSE: Architecture students, Rich Hubacker, left, Valerie Dekle, Joseph Mini-cozzl, Lana Patricios, Anthea Gianniotes, Stephanie Hough, and Jennifer Cohen (not pictured) , designed low-income collapsible housing to help alleviate homelessness in Miami.
Fewer SG candidates file
THE CHOICES
By JULIUS WHIGHAM
Staff Writer
The spring 1992 Student Government elections will not be as hotly contested as they have been in the past. Only two presidential candidates filed for the 1992-93 SG elections, drastically fewer than in past years.
Of the 14 SG positions to be decided during elections, seven will include candidates who are running unopposed.
Steve Cohen, junior, and David Diamond, sophomore, will compete for the office of SG president.
“It’s really hard to determine why there is such a small candidate pool,” SG President Irwin Raij said. According to Raij, there were as many as seven students who were considering running for SG president.
Raij said one factor that may have convinced others not to run for president was the belief that Winston Warrior, current SG vice president, would run for the position.
"Winston said that he was not going to run, but many were convinced that he would,” Raij said.
"It was a difficult decision,” Warrior said.
“But I felt that it was time to move on. I want to spend more time working with other organizations that I am involved in.”
The low number of candidates might also be attributed to the fact that many students may have been unaware of the Feb, 21 filing deadline, Raij said.
"The Wednesday before the filing deadline there was a motion in the Senate to extend the deadline, but it was rejected,” Raij said.
Raij said he was disappointed about the low number of candidates who have filed for election.
Four senate seats will have to be determined after the election is concluded, because no one filed for the positions. No candidates filed for the School of Education or School of Music seats.
The School of Education has now become part of the College of Arts and Sciences and will eventually have its senate seat phased out, Raij said.
"Technically, the School of Education seat is still in the constitution,” Raij said. “No one was discouraged from running for that seat.”
The following is the complete list of candidates tor the spring 1992 Student Government elections President: Steve Cohen, David Diamond
Vice Preeident: Tracy Krulik Treaeurer: Roger Kline School ol Architecture: David Conroy, Chad Nehring College ol Arte end Sciences (three scale): Xinia Amador. Tara Andrlch, Kirk Chan Tack, Tricla Clarke. Falcon Hale. Jonathan Long, Clara Lora. Marla Lugorres. Shara McCallum, Joel McTague, Jennifer Nangel, Eddy Pereira School of Bueinesa (two eeate): Patrick Burbank. Christina Carracedo. Quanda Kimbrough. Jason Maxwell. Daniel Miller. Allison Smith, Karen Voelkel
School ol Communication: Ira Miller
College ol Engineering:
Susana DeJong
School ol Nursing: Kim Sand-quist
Junior class: Stacy Roberts Senior class: Michelle Rivera
UM to offer insurance to medical students
By RACHEL MATHASON and MARLENE RODRIGUEZ
Of The Stall
Beginning this fall, the University of Miami will offer its 900 medical students long-term disability insurance protection against AIDS and other communicable diseases.
The policy guarantees students compensation if they are disabled while in school.
School of Medicine administrators view the plan as a safeguard against all health hazards encountered by students.
These range from AIDS, hepatitis and tuberculosis to slipping and falling on a wet floor.
“Doctors have always been at high risk for contracting diseases but until now, disability insurance wasn’t much of a factor,” Janet Canterbury, deputy dean of the UM School of Medicine, said. “With'the students carrying around debt levels as high as $100,000 just to pay for school they simply can’t afford to become disabled.”
School of Medicine administrators say UM will have its own disability plan in
place by August. Canterbury will send a representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges meeting in Washington, D.C., next month to look into available policies.
Premiums, which will run between $75 and $140 per year, will be added to the students’ overall tuition costs. If the amount exceeds $200 per year, it may be partially subsidized by the University after graduation.
“The insurance idea is great. It’s a See page 2/ INSURANCE
Final tenure
proposal
discussed
By BARBARA E. SUAREZ
Contributing Editor
The University of Miami Faculty Senate and members of the administration met yesterday to discuss President Edward T. Foote II’s final proposal for changing the University’s tenure system.
Foote said he thinks the tenure policy should be more flexible and more responsive to the needs of UM. More job security for the associated faculty, those without tenure, is needed, Foote said.
Foote’s changes have been controversial and highly debated among the faculty and administration. yet according to William Whelan, chairman of the Faculty Senate, in an interview before the meeting, "Nothing has been decided because the faculty hasn’t voted on anything yet.”
Among the issues in question was whether or not professors will receive tenure in their school or college as opposed to their department. In the case that the department would lose funding, the professor would still have a place within the University.
The establishment of a new category of faculty called ’teaching faculty’ or ‘senior lecturers’, which would not have tenure, yet remain at the University for the length of a predetermined contract is controversial.
According to Whelan, the faculty of each school will set the numbers of the senior lecturers according to their own needs