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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. CORAL GABIES, FLA.
FRIOAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1903
inside [ Decision to cut ads
causes controversy
CHRIS BERNACCHI / Photo Editor ■ SPINING TUNES: WVUM program director Jason Gordon broadcasts his 4 to 7 p.m. show every Monday from the WVUM studios. WVUM celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. See Accent, page 6.
■ Floor Hockey Club looks for a new home.
See Page 8
• Who will win the UM-VT
game? _ *
See Sports Stats
By ANNETTE J. GALLAGHER
Managing Editor
M. Lewis Temares, vice president of Information Resources, decided to remove the categories "Abortion Alternatives" and “Abortion Information” from the UM telephone directory, as well as replacing the word “abortion" with "termination of pregnancy” in all display ads.
Susan Maurer of the Choice for Women abortion clinic said she submitted an ad for her clinic for the UM telephone directory. She was told Monday the word "abortion” would have to be cut from the ad.
Temares said he spoke to women who felt uncomfortable with “abortion” and that “termination of pregnancy" is a "valid, acceptable term with medical authority.” Temares said he did not personally speak to any students about the changes, nor did he consult the UM Women's Commission, National Organi-
zation for Women, or any right-to-life groups while making the decisions.
"We try to avoid things that might be embarrassing to the University," Temares said.
In previous years, the telephone directory has changed its categories for such services regularly. In 1989-90, all were listed under “Clinics.” 1990-91 and 1991-92 saw both “Clinics” and "Abortion — Information and Services." “Abortion Alternatives” and "Abortion Information” were the terms of choice for the 1992-9.') book.
All ads for abortion information, clinics and alternatives will appear under the heading “Clinics" in this year’s directory. Temares said organizations such as A Woman's Pregnancy Center, run by the Christian Action Council, would probably appear under "P" for “Pregnancy,” but "it will not appear under ‘Clinic.’ You have my word on that.”
Sec DIRECTORY, page 2
Edward Watson, M.D. American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Susan Maiityrcna
Certified Registered Nurse/Anestatis
•	Free Pregnancy Testing
•	Complete Abortion Services - Up To 22 Weeks
•	Ultrasound For All Patients
•	General, Twilight & Local Anesthesia
•	Infection Screening & Treatment
Safe • Painless • Private • Confidential/Counseling Day, Saturday (S Evenings Appointments g.-. v L Student Discounts
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Courtesy ot A Choice For Women
■ CONTROVERSY: The advertisement that I t?w Temares, vice president for Information Resources, refused to run In the 1993-94 UM Telephone Dime lory.
Parking issue remains a key concern for students
IN PURSUIT OF PARKING
There are 7,839 parking spaces at UM. Following is a breakdown of the 5,726 spaces available to students.
250
Lot 600 (reduced price) 4.4%
Following is the number of permits sold to students as of Sept. 15:
5551
5726
1314 1302
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Residential Commuter I I spaces available ■1 permits sold
Source Bob Kahter, director of parking and transportation
All Student Lots
MICHAEL I. FALK/Graphic Artists
New lots help solve parking dilemmas
By JODY JACKSON
Assistant News Editor
Construction of a campus parking garage is scheduled to begin within the next six weeks, said Hob Kaliler, director of Harking and Transportation.
Kahler said the three-level garage will be built on the site of Lot 600, next to Mark Light Stadium. The new garage will be designated for any type of University of Miami parking permit except for the discount permit, which is valid only in Lot 715, located just off of Red Road.
The garage, part of the University’s Master Ulan, should !*• completed sometime this spring. The Master Plan is the University's blueprint for future campus construction.
Many students say the new Dickinson parking lot is helping the parking problem. But for others, parking on campus is still a headache.
Some resident students said they have a hard time finding a space outside their residential college.
"I got a ticket for parking on a curb,” said Kim Pampenella, a freshman who lives in Mahoney. "It was around 9 p.m. on a Thursday. There aren’t enough spaces for the amount of people who live there.”
Vicky Gonzalez, a junior who commutes, said as long as she arrives early in the morning, she usually doesn’t have too much trouble finding a parking place.
“After 10 a.m, there’s no parking left behind Memorial or the | Learning Center|. 1 park in the serpentine lot (Lot 425| and walk," Gonzalez said. Lot 425 is off Walsh Avenue, parallel to the Metrorail station.
Recently, students have been concerned that employees from nearby Doctors’ Hospital were occupying the parking spaces for which they paid $115.
Kahler said the hospital has a contract with UM which says hospital
CHRIS BERNACCHI/Photo Editor
■ PARKING PROBLEMS: Commuter lots lined with cars leave little
room for students who arrive later in the day.
■ FRUSTRATING:
Spencer Stuart, senior, reluctantly waits for a parking space in Lot 410 Wednesday
employees are permitted to park m Lot 209, located behind the Learning Center, after 3 p.m. on weekdays. Employees will use this lot until construction of the hospital’s garage is completed.
“Our employees park at Metrorail and are bused to the hospital. Visitors and outpatients park valet," said Andy Choban, director of Security for Doctors' Hospital.
There isn’t enough parking at the Metrorail for all of the employees, however, so the second-shift employees of the hospital use Lot 209, said Kahler.
"Doctors’ Hospital has always had a shortage of parking," Kahler said. “They are spending a lot on a shuttle
CHRIS BERNACCHI/Photo Editor
system from Metrorail to the hospital in order to accomodate employees.”
Kahler said he didn’t know if Doctors’ Hospital was paying the University to use Lot 209.
"We’re here to try to provide ample parking for all those who need to park on campus. One way we can do that is through the shuttle buses,” Kahler said. "The shuttles are very nice, comfortable, and run frequently.”
Kahler said studies have shown that parking lots are not generally full after 3 p.m., based on students’ class schedules.
"All the costs involved in building and maintaining lots are passed on to the user,” Kahler said.
FSU voucher sale leaves some out in the cold
Administrators hope to avoid distribution problems in future
By JENNIFER RAMACH
News Editor
Some students who were given red tickets Monday morning have been told they may not be able to receive tickets for the Oct. 9 football game between the University of Miami and Florida State University.
Red tickets were distributed to students after the lines of students waiting for vouchers turned into a mad rush for the Information Desk. Students were told they could redeem the red tickets for vouchers later that day. The deadline to redeem the tickets was 4:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
“I went back three times Monday - the first time, they didn’t have any money for change, then they didn’t have any vouchers left, then they said the desk was closed and to come back really early Tuesday,” said Senior Cam Mon-tuori. Montuori said he tried to redeem the voucher four times on Tuesday, beginning at 8:30 a.m.,
but was unsuccessful.
“1 finally called this morning and the lady at the information desk said she’s not guaranteeing that I’ll get a ticket," Montuori said Thursday. He said he has been put on a waiting list, but won’t know if he can get a ticket for the game until Oct. 4.
Eric Beach, a junior, also received a red ticket Monday morning. He said he tried to redeem his ticket for a voucher three times on Tuesday. At 4 p.m., 45 minutes before the deadline to turn in the tickets, Beach was told he would be put on the waiting list.
“They kept saying the Athletic Department is bringing more vouchers over, but then we called the Athletic Department and they said they don’t have any more vouchers to give out,” Beach said.
Both students said it would be hard to make carpooling plans if they are forced to wait until Oct. 4. to receive their tickets.
"These students are assured or
guaranteed of their tickets on Oct. 4,” said John Hahn, assistant sports information director. "At least, that’s my understanding of the situation. This is something Dan Westbrook has initiated. 1 don’t know why they were put on a waiting list instead of receiving vouchers.”
One thing everybody seems to agree upon is that something did go wrong.
“A lot of different things went wrong; students camped out, which was wrong, Public Safety let them, which was wrong, and other things,” said Larry Wahl, senior associate athletic director. “I don’t think anyone is totally blameless in this situation.”
Vouchers for the football game were scheduled to go on sale at 8 a.m. Monday, but security officers allowed students to purchase vouchers at 7:15 a.m. The result was a massive push towards the University Center Information Desk.
“Our mission and our desire and our goal is to see it doesn't happen again,” Wahl said. “We may sit down and decide this is the right way — the policy might have been fine, but the procedure was wrong.”
Wahl said he does not know why students were permitted to purchase the vouchers earlier than the publicized time.
“I don’t know whose decision that was," Wahl said. “I can only assume that it was made because the crowd got unruly.”
Dan Westbrook, interim director of the University Center, said students were given red tickets because of a growing concern for the safety of the students.
“My main concern is safety. It’s not our ticket sale and it’s not our event, but we have to be concerned about safety," Westbrook said Monday. “What happened this morning was [this), when it looked like the presence of the police officers was not going to suffice to
keep the crowd from coming to press around the doors, I recommended to Mike |Kulla| from the Athletic Department to distribute tickets and so that’s what we did.”
Not all students in line Monday morning were able to purchase vouchers. They were told there were no vouchers left. Begging at 2 p.m. Monday, however, 80 more vouchers were sold to students.
Paul Dee, UM athletic director, said he does not know why the tickets were not sold earlier in the day.
“What happened, as far as I’m able to tell, is that everybody is to blame,” Dee said. “I think everybody was responsible for their own department.”
Westbrook said Monday that he had questions about the system of distribution from the beginning.
Wahl said representatives from the University Center and the Athletic Department will meet next week to discuss future procedures.
Staff writer Darin Klahr contributed to this article.
Brokaw, Chung add national flavor to UM workshop
By LISA J. HURIASH
Associate Nows Editor
lorn Brokaw, anelioi of “NBC Nightly News” and co am hoi of "Now," will lie one ol 10 proles sional communicators involved in a T e I e v i s i o n News Woi ksliop al the University of Miami.
The program is scheduled to begin by May.
The workshop will also feature Connie Chung, co-anchor of "CBS Evening News" and Ken Bode, C NN correspondent and director of the Institute tot Con temporary Media Studies al Del’auw University in Indiana.
Ear li show will examine some facet of the media.
"With the enormous amount of information available to iteople, we need a place lo turn and see how il works,” Brokaw said in a phone interview from the NIK' studio in New York. "Our goal will be lo have an honest broker between die networks and the audience.” Brokaw said allhougli lie has vis ited UM Indore, In- is looking for ward to the workshop.
"We have a balance of people involved that includes people m broadcast, pi ml and academics," said Joseph Augotti, who lias held Hie Communication Studies Chair m lire School of Communication since June. "The Television News Workshop will produce a show al least once a year at UM and lie available to UM broadcast journalism students.”
The workshop will bo headed try Angotti, who left NBC in 1991. lie was the NBC Executive Producer for 12 years and the Senior Vice President for two years. Angotti chose the volunteers for the workshop.
"Our goal is to enable the UM School of Communication the national recognition it deserves," Angotti said.
Angotti said the shows will be produced on campus, enabling UM students to assist with scriptwriting, ticket sales, research and production.
“UM students interested in becoming journalists will benefit because they can be around these people,” Angotti said. “Students can talk to them while they’re here. It will give students exposure they have never had the opportunity to have.”
Ed Turner, executive vice president of CNN, said in a telephone interview that the workshop, "will present a world of news to students and I hope they can absorb my experience and that of my colleagues as they seek employment.” Robert Hosmon, assistant dean of the School of Communication, said he thinks it is “exciting for UM to be recognized on a worldwide basis.
Michael Putney, senior political correspondent with WPLG-Chan-nel 10 Eyewitness News and anchor of “This Week in South Florida," will provide a local view of the news to the program.
Putney said he is looking forward to the program “with great anticipation.”
“(The other journalists in the program) are legendary in the news business," Putney said. "The caliber of national people will expose UM students to the best minds in this business. I’m excited this will be happening in our community. We’re not exactly known for cutting-edge projects. Now we will be.
"We’ll be playing on a large national stage,” he said.
Angotti said one of the reasons he came to UM was to help develop new programs like the Television News Workshop.
"We have the opportunity here to develop a new program,” Angotti said. "It’s more fun to be in a place where there is a challenge. It’s better than starting this in a place that already has an established reputation and everybody i sitting around on their laurels."
Brokaw said he has one standard piece of advice for students who wish to pursue jobs in the communication business.
“They have to learn the substance of what they are talking about,” Brokaw said. "They have to understand health care and a global economy. They have to understand what in the world makes change.”