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VOLUME 71, ISSUE 21
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES. FLA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,199
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Tax offers solutions for Dade’s homeless
■	Mystery still surrounds the life and death of President John F. Kennedy.
See Accent, page 6
■	Homelessness issues a temporary reality for some students.
See Opinion, page 4
■	The men's basketball team opened its 1993-94 basketball season with a convincing 117-86 victory over the Russian National Team.
See Sports, page 8
By JENNIFER RAMACH
News Editor
Going to college is not a guarantee that you won’t wind up homeless. Just ask Brad Simon, case manager at Beckham Hall Homeless Shelter.
Simon graduated from the University of Miami in 1985 with a degree in education. Three and a half years ago, he was among the homeless men living at Beckham Hall.
"I never thought I’d be homeless,” Simon said. "It’s not something you grow up saying that when you grow up you want to be homeless. I do think there is more awareness of the homeless situation now. When I was in college, I never thought of it as an issue.”
Simon was one of about 60 people who attended a town meeting Wednesday at the Rathskeller about the homeless problem in Dade County and the possible solutions offered by a one percent tax increase.
The one percent tax applies to all Dade restaurants that serve liquor and grossed $400,000 or more a year. Miami Beach, Surfside and Bal Harbour are not enforc-
ing the tax, since a similar tax is already in effect there.
Proceeds from the tax, estimated at $7.5 million a year, will help build three homeless assistance centers, or HACs.
Alex Pinellas, Dade County Commissioner and Chairman of the Dade County Homeless Trust, said he does not necessarily agree with every part of the plan, but feels something must be done now.
"Ht’sl a very, very complex issue,” renelas said. "Very few communities have been successful dealing with it. This community has finally come together like never before.”
Penelas said HACs are not shelters. He said the task force specifically stated in their plans that they were “opposed to the concept of a large city traditional shelter.”
Simon said he thinks homeless assistance centers or shelters can work.
I think it could be possible to make this a long-term solution,” Simon said. "It's important to provide motivation and support without putting people down. Given the chance, it’s up to the person to do it.”
Carlos Gonzalez, a homeless advocate for Union of the Homeless, said he supports the tax, but doesn’t think HACs are the answer to Dade s homeless problem.
“|The plan| will be effective,” Gonzalez said. "It’s the effect on individuals that I don't support. What we’re talking about is individuals. When we think of the homeless, we think of people we don’t want around.”
Gonzalez portrayed several types of homeless people during the presentation, including a drug addict, someone who was mentally ill and a man who worked, but spent all his money on food and transportation to work.
“I work all the time,” he said. “I work 50 hours a week, but I don’t have enough money to rent a room.
"I am a name," said Gonzalez. “I am your son and daughter, your mother and father, your sister and brother, your friend and lover. I’m not faceless. I’m not a drug addict; I'm not a drunk. Underneath these layers, I'm just like you."
Gonzalez said he thinks Dade should examine the possibility of placing home-
less people in homes, with other hoinel-ss people. He said this would individualize the system, instead of creating HACs that could seem like institutions.
“It’s a money game,” Gonzalez sa d. "There’s a trickle down effect with very little getting to the bottom.
Samuel Mills, a homeless man, said le thinks the plan is just a scheme to ma te money.
“As long as the homeless are out of the way, Miami will get more tourists," Mills said. “First of all, building a shelter cost* money, then it costs money to mainta n the shelter and then people get salaries for working there.”
Simon said the discussion answered some questions for him about how tl e money raised by the tax would be spent.
”1 still remember the lottery, how it was supposed to help education and we haven't seen any real improvements,” he said. “I’m satisfied |with the plan|.”
Facts and figures flew around the room
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McNamara: reduce nuclear power for good of national security
SEAN HEMMERLE/Staff Photographer
■ BABY TRAIN: Canterbury worker Stacey Lobel watches over from back left, Ashley Date Brandi Brewton and Leticia Delgado and from back right Gilbert Sirein, Lauren Steinke and David Tower at Canterbury Preschool on the UM campus.
Canterbury considering tuition assistance
By CARRIE MAHAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
Canterbury Preschool, located on the University of Miami campus, was established 21 years ago to provide a place for students to leave their children while in class.
Today a vast majority of the center’s students are the children of faculty or staff and not of students.
Only 12 or 13 of the children
are children of University of Miami students.
In 1992, the University granted the center approximately $550,000 to renovate and update the facilities. Attendance at Canterbury grew from 40 students before renovations to 114 students. Children range in age from one-month-old to kindergarten age.
Tommy Hassler, a member of the Canterbury Board of Direc-
tors, said he would like to change this. Hassler, a 31-year-old senior majoring in international finance and marketing, brings his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Jessica to the Canterbury Preschool.
"I would like to see a 50-50 ratio of children of students to those of faculty and staff,” Hassler said.
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By JESSICA MAGNANI
Hurricane Staff Writer
Nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War world should be reduced, said Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense to [ohn F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He said nuclear weapons should be limited to the control of a vetoless United Nations Security Council.
McNamara spoke Tuesday at the LJniversity of Miami's North-South Center about his ideas for a new world order in the Post-Cold War world.
“If economic sanctions fail, and we’ve seen evidence that they might well fail, then a United Nations force should be given a mandate to eliminate the production facilities |of nuclear weap-ons|,” McNamara said.
McNamara said he supports a world in which national security is dependent on a system of collective security. Leadership roles would shift according to issues.
“In such a system of collective security, whenever the U.S. plays a leadership role, it must accept collective decision making and that's going to be very hard,” McNamara said, "We’re not accustomed to it.”
This system of collective security would reduce the number of nuclear weapons, as well as provide the world with a way to solve conflicts among nations and within nations, McNamara said.
“I don’t know if I would agree entirely with the removal of nuclear weapons to the point where it’s just the bare bones nuclear force, unless you could guarantee that other nations wouldn’t raise their level of nuclear proliferation," said Anthony J. Kreider, a graduate student front the Philosophy Department.
The former Secretary of
DARREN ARNS/Staff Photographer
■ AFTER THE COLD WAR: Robert McNamara, Secretary of I leten under the Johnson administration, speaks Tuesday at the North-South Center about the need to reduce nuclear arms in the post-Cold War world.
Defense, however, stressed that in this system the United States should not have to bear the burden of economic costs as well as of the loss of lives.
“If a system of collective security is devised, other nations must accept the sharing of the costs,” McNamara told the group. He said the new world order would accomplish three main objectives.
"First, it should provide to all states the guarantees against external invasions,” McNamara said.
"It should provide a process by which such groups who claim their rights have been violated may seek redress without resorting to violence,” he said.
"Third, the new world order should establish a mechanism for resolution of both regional conflicts, conflicts between nations, and conflicts within nations,” McNamara said.
He said there are three strategies for the nuclear weapons policy.
A system of extended deterrence would lower the number of nuclear weapons to a level lower than the present levels, said McNamara. Minimal deterrence would lower levels only slightly than they are at present. Another alternative, McNamara said, is to return as close as possible to a non-nuclear world.
Free trade agreement approved
By JODY JACKSON
Assistant News Editor
Despite last-minute uncertainty of the outcome, The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday by a vote of 234 to 200. University of Miami students and faculty are similarly divided on the issue.
Rafael Nunez, director of Latin American Institutions at the North-South Center, said he supports NAFTA.
“I believe it will be helpful for the future in expanding U.S. economy and fulfilling the potential possibilities of the markets involved,”
Nunez said.
The free trade agreement, which the Senate is expected to approve as soon as this weekend, will allow free trade throughout Canada, Mexico and the LInited States. The debate which preceded the vote lasted about eight hours.
"Generally I’m supportive of labor and environmental positions on issues, but in this case, I feel the benefits outweigh the costs,” said Jonathan West, professor and chairman of the political science department.
The question of what NAFTA will mean for the countries involved is yet to seen, said June
Dreyer, professor of political science.
"We will just have to wait and see," said Dreyer. “On balance, I think it’s worth trying, even if
Steven Shore, a junior, said he is against NAFTA. "1 think it will continually screw things up in terms of American workers getting a fair shake."
Whitney Kerney, a junior, said she supports the NAFTA.
“Clinton says there will be more net jobs and in the long run it will be better for American workers,” she said.
Student Government tables bill to retake classes
By USA J. HURIASH
Associate News Editor A bill to allow the freshman forgiveness rule to apply to all undergraduate students was set aside because of a lack of consensus at the Student Government Senate meeting Wednesday. The author of the bill, Business School Senator Carmen Fanego, said it will come up again for discussion next semester.
Fanego said the bill would allow undergraduates to repeat up to two
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courses in which they receive a grade of “D" or “E”. Currently, only freshman are allowed to repeat courses.
Michelle Rivera, senior senator and academic affairs chairperson, said the policy would allow transfer students, who are never classified as freshman, an opportunity to repeat courses as they adjust to UM.
“If you’re a transfer or have a death in the family, then you have an option,” Rivera said. “It opens
up an opportunity for two chances for those who need it now."
Sophomore Senator Victoria Mendez said the policy would benefit those who are never classified as freshman, including transfers and students who enter UM with high school credits.
“The repeat rule [would allow students to) save their failures until their senior year,” Mendez said.
“If academic integrity is what you want, then this is not the way to do it," said Business School Sen-
ator David Barney. “This would make it easier and a way out for students after their freshman year. The policy is for freshman who are adjusting [to college.] They should be adjusted by their sophomore year. This is like an expanded recess or having soda pop in the water fountain.”
Sports and Recreation Club Interest Federation Senator David Dolinsky said allowing seniors to
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Whitely drawn to UM’s spirit
By LISA J. HURIASH
Associate News Editor
An abundance of spirit is what Patricia Whitely likes most about the University of Miami.
“There’s a spirit that’s there and I’m seeing it grow in terms of the community and the recognition around the country,” said Whitely, the new director of Student Life and the Whitten University Center. “I wouldn't
work anywhere else."
Whitely, 35, was announced as the new director at the Student Government meeting Wednesday. She is also the new Student Government advisor.
“My job is to enhance the extracurricular involvement for students outside the classroom,” she said. “I'm proactive
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