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■	Tha Law School's
first Criminal Law Day was called a "success."
■	RSMAS was
granted $2 million to research oil spills in South Florida.
DIFFICULT CHOICES
■ A Turkish student examines the cpmplexities of his country's foreign policy.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY...
■ The Rathskeller is celebrating 20 years of service to the University of Miami community Feb. 10.
INSIDE THE LOWE
■ Students might be surprised by what's inside the Lowe Art Museum.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
PICKING ORANGES
■ Center Constantin Pope helped lead Miami to a 81 -74 victory over the Orangemen of Syracuse on Saturday.
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70TH YEAR, ISSUE 30
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ■ CORAL GABLES, FLA.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1993
► SPORTSFEST
BRIEFS
MEDIA, DEMOCRACY DISCUSSED IN SEMINAR
The media is "transforming the very nature of American democracy,” said Marvin Kalb, from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Kalb and four others formed a panel in a seminar hosted by the University of Miami debating the effects media has on democracy. School of Communication Dean Edward Pfister presided over the seminar.
The panel comprised of Larry Grossman, former president of NBC news and PBS; Thomas Luce, director of the first half of Ross Perot’s presidential campaign; Everette Dennis, from Columbia University’s Freedom Forum Media Studies Center; and Henry Geller, from the Markel Foundation and Kalb.
' The panel exchanged opinions on how the media have influenced democratic government through methods sucn as polls, electronic town meetings, talk radio and instantaneous communications. It also discussed how these influences affect the public good.
HURRY CANES SHUTTLE SCHEDULE EXTENDED
The Hurry Canes Shuttle Bus hours have been extended to 10:15 p.m., the division of Parking Services announced. A bus will leave the fountain at 9:15, 9:45 and 10:15 every weeknight.
“We had to extend the service to accomodate all of the students, faculty and staff that needed it,” shuttle coordinator Cynthia Corqjo said.
Some classes end at 9:05 p.m. and the law school has classes that end about 20 minutes after that, she said.
"The Student Bar Association recommended the change. We did some research and it came to light that students really needed this service,” Coruio said.
SERVICES DIRECTOR LEAVING COMMUNICATION
John Fiske, director of Communication Services, will retire in May after working at the University of Miami for 31 years.
“I will miss the school and the deans and my friends,” Fiske, 55, said. "But I’ll be moving to Jupiter where I have immediate family members."
Victor Jugenheimer, Communi-
cation Services technical manager, said during the 33 years he nas worked at UM, Fiske has become a
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Committee bans ‘offensive’ team names
BY ALLETTA BOWERS
Editor In Chief
A Sportsfest Committee decided during a meeting Friday evening that 14 of the 70 competing teams must change tneir names because the ones submitted were judged too offensive.
“They were racist or sexist in nature,” Men’s Intramural Director Bob Wyner said. "They were offensive to males, females and administrators.”
Wyner is a member of the 11-person committee that makes decisions concerning Sportsfest, which is sponsored by Residence Halls. Each residential college is represented by two resident assistants, one male, one female.
"The names deemed inappropriate were done so to change the climate prevalent last year,” Tim Newby, a representative of Mahone/Residential College, said.
‘TThe names] are contrary to the values of this institution,” Pat Whitely, associate director of Residence Halls, said. "The Department of Resilence Halls feels strongly that the names were really degrading and sexist to men and women.”
"We decided to set a precedent and be more strict this year,” Evette Price, a representative for Stanford Residential College, said. "The committee tried to eliminate any (names] that were objectionable to anyone in the group.”
Committee members said there was some concern about the image Sportsfest presented.
“You don’t want it to turn out to be a big negative event for the campus,” Newby said. “There are a lot of children around and prospective applicants.”
Team members wanting to use just the initials of their team’s previous name were told by the committee that they could not do that either.
"The committee felt that [the initials] would lead back to the old names,” Wyner said.
However, the committee said nothing will be done about T-shirts students purchase themselves, Whitely said.
Last year the teams which placed in the top five included Poker Face, Vertical Smiles and Jimmy Hats for the men and Ladies on Top and Six on the Beach for the women.
CSR has a similar policy concerning the names of intramural teams.
Members of some of the teams have voiced objection to the committee’s decision.
Shawn Wolf, senior, is a resident of Pentland’s sixth floor. Last year, the team was called “Sexecutioners.” Their name this year is "Freedom of What?”
Their banner features a caricature entitled "Vlad
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■ BLUE RIBBON DAY: Last Thursday, approximately 80 Army ROTC students received awards for academic and leadership excellence during the fall semester. Awards were given for best cumulative GPA, best semester GPA and other categories.
► HARASSMENT HEARING
sort of father to him.
‘‘[Fiske] makes us feel like family. There is a lot of camaraderie around here,” Jugenheimer said. ‘Tve worked for John a long time and I am going to miss him.
"John has been a terrific guy," School of Communication Dean, Edward Pfister said. “UM owes him a great deal. We will all be very sad to see him go, but we wish him the very best.”
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Valenta conduct hearing scheduled for today
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BY SIMON P. DUVALL and LAURIE POWEU.
Of the Staff
Jiri Valenta, the University of Miami professor accused of sexual harassment, abusive behavior, and professional misconduct, lost his bid to halt today’s hearing by the Professional Conduct Committee of the Faculty Senate.
Valenta said he wanted his own lawyer, Kathleen Burgener, to be present at the hearing, or at minimum, an unnamed part-time facul-member from the School of Law.
niversity policy only permits an academic counsel, a full-time faculty member, at such a hearing.
Dade Circuit Court Judge Phillip Bloom ruled that the University’s definition of academic counsel is valid.
The University said that Valenta ed to the policy when he the University faculty and signed the faculty handbook. A lawyer is allowed to be pjeaent at the next stage in the process, where Valenta could be tried on the charges before the Faculty Senate.
Valenta was not in court on Friday, and Burgener refused to say if.
he will appear at today’s hearing.
"I don’t have any comment for you right now,” Burgener told reporters Friday.
Professors Vendulka Kubalkova and June Dreyer, along with at least four others, are scheduled to testify before the Professional Conduct Committee during the three-day hearing.
The committee consists of three senior faculty members. According to Kubalkova, two of the members are Mary Ann Fletcher, a professor in the division of Allergy and Immunology in the department of Medicine, and Eveleen Lorton, director of the Alternate Teacher Preparation Program in the School of Education. The third member’s name could not be verified.
After deliberations, the committee will inform Valenta and UM President Edward T. Foote II of the committee’s opinion as to whether or not Valenta’s conduct conforms to acceptable professional standards.
The hearing is not open to the public or the press and, at press
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time, the location was not known.
Kubalkova said she is not looking forward to seeing Valenta, who she was told will appear today.
"I do not feel very happy that Valenta is coming back into town,” she said.
PRESTON MACK / Photo Editor ■ BANNED IN THE U.S.A.: Senior Shawn Wolf, of Pentland's sixth floor, shows off his team’s banner for Sportsfest 1993. This year the team calls itself Freedom ot What? to protest the banning of 14 names by the Sportsfest Committee.
► MINORITIES
Committee: Students harassed by UM police
BY JULIUS WHIOHAM
Hurricane Staff Writer
Seven times this semester freshman Hercules Huggins has been followed and then stopped by Department of Public Safety officers.
Huggins said that he was particularly upset by the fact that a UM police officer proceeded to call for backmiypu^approaching him.
“It’a not just the way I dress,” Huggins said. “One time I was walking in my ROTC uniform and they stopped me and asked for ID.”
He’s not alone.
Several black students at the University of Miami say they have been treated unfairly by Public Safety officers.
During a Black Action Committee meeting last Wednesday, one of the major focal points of discussion was the treatment of minority students by UM police officers. Several committee members expressed concerns that minority students are being treated unfairly by public safety officers.
The unofficial committee was formed almost two weeks ago, when a group of 12 students who had gathered to discuss the life and teachings of Martin Luther King decided that there are changes that need to be made at UM.
Run as a function of United Black Students, the committee’s goals are to improve university life for minority students and to strengthen cultural unity at UM.
“I think we needed a spark, hopefully we will expand. The common goal is to break the barriers
between ethnic backgrounds," sophomore Ralph Brutus said. The new committee has outlined several immediate goals.
"Our focus right now is to imple-
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said. “There are a lot ot groups on campus. They’re really not active. It’s a select few who have decided to do something.”
The group's primary goals include the establishment of an Afro-American studies major, and to create a study abroad program in Africa. The treatment of blacks by Public Safety has also become a concern for the group.
When informed of the allegations, Public Safety director Eric Shoemaker expressed immediate concern. He said that he could not comment on the allegations however, until he had been presented with some factual evidence to support them.
I Freshman Elizabeth Marshall said that she was particularly disturbed by the way she and a group of friends were treated by public safety officers during an Apartment Area party at the beginning of the semester.
‘‘The police came because the music was too loud. They told us to turn it down, which we did.” Marshall said. Marshall said that as she and about four friends stood outside and talked, the police stood close guard.
“One cop told all of us to go inside or the situation would be considered a riot,” Marshall said. She said that there were only about ten people in the area at the time.
► student government
Commission seats still open
BY JASON ZDANOWtCZ
Hurricane Staff Writer The Student Government Senate has set a Feb. 24 deadline for David Diamond, SG president, to fill the remaining vacancies on the Elections Commission.
There are currently three members on the commission and, according to Diamond, ‘‘if everyone [nominated] to date goes through, we have eight. Seven members are required to hold an election, and there are fourteen total seats on the commission.” Steve Cohen, speaker of the SG senate, said the Senate “has concerns, but we have been assured by David Diamond that the Feb. 24 deadline will be met.”
Both Diamond and Cohen agree that the task of filling the seats belongs to Diamond.
"It's completely David’s responsibility to see that the deadline is met,” Cohen said.

"The responsibility falls on my head,” Diamond said.
What Cohen and Diamond do disagree on is exactly whose fault it is that the seats are still vacant.
Cohen, however, said, "If the deadline isn’t met, it would mean that Diamond isn’t doing his job. There’s very little we can do besides pass the people that he nominates. What kind of statement does it make if he can’t find 12 people?"
Diamond claims that the lack of applicants has been the main obstacle to filling the seats.
I "I’d like to have (the commission] full by Feb. 24, but without applicants I don’t think that it’s likely,” Diamond said.
The entire nine-member Elections Commission resigned last semester when the Senate passed a bill affirming its right to regulate the commission.
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