Miami Hurricane, February 25, 1994

              UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1994
UCLA professor named dean of UM School of Law
’’One of the things I want to do is to maximize the opportunities of the students who graduate from the law school. I just want to make sure we at UM are doing everything we can to put students in a position where they can comi»)' i. 11» wort-place to jobs.”	samuel Thompson
Dean of UM School of Law
By JENNIFER RAMACH
News Editor
Going from earthquakes to hurricanes may seem pointless to some people, but Samuel Thompson, the new dean of the University of Miami School of Law, said he is looking forward to it.
“I like the people. I like the students. I like the faculty,” Thompson, 50, a former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. "The faculty at the University of Miami is probably very similar to the law faculty at UCLA."
President Edward T. Foote II announced Thompson’s appointment Tuesday. Thompson is taking over for Dean Mary Doyle on July 15.
“Sam Thompson has a tremendous amount of experience and insight and ambition and heart and this will help him do well at the law school,” said Doyle, who said she plans on taking a year sabbatical before returning to UM School of Law as a professor in the 1995-96 academic year.
"I’m absolutely enthusiastic about becoming dean at the University of Miami law school,” said Thompson.
He will be the only black dean at UM and one of only six black deans of predominantly white law schools in the country. Law students at UCLA voted him 1993 Professor of the Year
Thompson, who is divorced and has no children, is a Vietnam veteran and a former U.S. Marine Corps captain. He graduated in 1971 with a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also has a master’s in taxation and in business and
applied economics. His undergraduate degree in social studies and secondary education is from West Chester University.
Thompson said he doesn’t have any specific plans for the law school yet.
"I don’t have a ten-point plan, but I can tell you this — I’m going to be working on it every day I’m there,” he said.
“One of the things I want to do is to maximize the opportunities of the students who graduate from the law school,” Thompson said. “With the declining demand for lawyers ... I just want to make sure we at UM are doing everything we can to put students in a
position where they can compete in the workplace for jobs.”
Thompson has taught at the University of Virginia School of Law, Northwestern University, University of Chicago Law School, University of Pennsylvania and UCLA. For eight years, he was a partner and head of the tax department at Schiff Hardin & Waite in Chicago.
"I've seen a lot of different law schools and I have a sense, or at least I think I have a sense, for assessing strengths and weaknesses,” Thompson said.
He said his experience as a partner in a major law firm and his background in business or tax law will help him with the business aspects of being a dean.
As for the student side, Thompson said he realizes he won’t be available to students every hour of the day, but said he will try "to spend as much time with students as possible. Let’s face it — law school exists for the law students.”
■ THOMAS: Samuel Thomas is the new dean at the UM School of Law.
SEAN HEMMERLE/Statt Photographer
■ CLEANING UP: Mary Collier cleans up outside the women’s locker room after the toilets and drains overflowed into the lobby area
Sewage water runs into University Center
By JENNIFER RAMACH
News Editor
Students walking through the Whitten University Center Wednesday were greeted by the smell of sewage after drains and toilets backed up in the women’s locker room at the University Center pool for the second time this week.
By noon, water had seeped out of the locker room into the main hallway of the University Center.
Ron Milner, the University’s plumbing leadman at Physical Plant, said he thought the drain was clear after plumbers "snaked,” or cleared it out, Monday. Water had also leaked into the hallway Monday morning.
“We cleared or partially cleared it out,” Milner said. "It’s possible it was something else put in the drain since Monday.” Mil-
ner said plumbers pulled tampons and hair from the drain on Monday.
“It's my opinion that they need to clean out the main drain from the building on a timely basis,” Dan Westbrook, the UC’s interim director, said. He said in two years, the sewage has backed up the center’s plumbing seven times.
Milner said the main drain was replaced last summer, so it should not be backed up. However, he said cleaning the main drain will be put on a regular maintenance list from now on.
"It’s been done on a regular basis, but not on a regular maintenance schedule,” Milner said. He said now a work order will be filled out, instead of workers just dropping by occasionally.
"We get a lot of things put
down the drain that shouldn’t be,” Milner said.
Milner said the water from the showers upstairs in the men’s locker room runs through the same pipes.
"So if you have a couple men taking showers and a couple of women taking showers at the same time, it causes more problems,” Milner said.
Westbrook said he called maintenance workers around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and told them that the drains in the floor of the women's locker room were “gur-ling” and seemed ready to over-ow.
Milner said a maintenance worker, who was sent to the locker room around 10 a.m., said there was no overflowing and the problem was not urgent at that time. Around noon, an Ogden
worker came to vacuum up the water.
"The guys were on other projects and because the maintenance worker said he didn’t think it was a problem yet, it wasn't handled like a top priority situation,” Milner said.
Beside the inconvenience of not being able to get their clothes or bathing suits out of the locker room, patrons, lifeguards and other workers said tne situation was intolerable.
"There was toilet paper in the water and people were walking through it (on Monday],” said Michelle Radice, junior who works in reservations. “You can catch diseases from that.”
Milner said the women's locker room, the desk area and wherever else the water went was disinfected both times.
’Week For Life’ promotes AIDS awareness at UM
By KIMBERLY WEISSMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
For the second year, an AIDS awareness organization entitled "Week For Life," will be hosting several AIDS related events and programs on campus from Feb. 28 to March 6.
Andrew Odze and Jeff Fortunato, co-chairmen of the events, both said their objective is to educate students about HIV and have incorporated opportunities for student participation.
Two hundred invitations have been mailed to academic departments, residential halls, administration and student organizations, encouraging maximum support and involvement for the fight against AIDS.
Main events include making 25 panels for an AIDS quilt and a 10K Aids Walk from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 6 on South Beach.
The quilt panels will be displayed in the International Lounge from
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■	4 p.m., UC 237- HIV, The Facts and Figures of an Epidemic ■	8 p.m., Eaton Master's apartment -Empowering Ourselves	■	4 p.m., UC 233 - AIDS and the Law ■	7 p.m., Lewis Room at Rat -Living with HIV, It is not the endl	■	11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Rock -AIDS lair ■	1 p.m.. patio -Step for Life aeroblca class ■	6:30 p.m., St. Augustine’s Church - The Human Face of AIDS panel discussion ■	7:30 p.m., Mahoney Master's Apartment -Finding Mr./Ms. Right!	■	9 a.m. - S p.m., International Lounge - Art exhibit ■	3 p.m., patio - Step tor Life aerobics class ■	4 p.m., UC 233 - AIDS, Who is to Blame? ■	8 p.m., Stanford Master’s Apartment -Creative Sex, You can have It Y9Uf YY9Y		■ 6 p.m. -12 a.m., RAT -The White Party	■ 9 a.m. -2 p.m., Lummus Park -AIDS walk Miami
The AIDS Quilt will be on display Mon. thru Fri. in the International Lounge
Minorities encouraged to pursue research
By DEBORAH FIGUEROA
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami has a new coalition with Miami Dade Community College which is expected to begin this fall. The program will bring minority students from the Miami area into the science research field.
The program starts the summer before students enter college at MDCC. About 40 students will enter MDCC at the Kendall Campus while gaming experience at the research laboratories at UM. The students will be go to MDCC tuition free, said Michael S. Gaines, chairman of the biology department and co-director of the Partnership for Biomedical Careers.
Gaines said the partnership is
«eared for African-Americans and lispanic students.
"People need emotional and financial support so that they can succeed,” said Gaines.
After MDCC completion, the students would automatically
transfer to UM with their Associates Degree.
“We're looking for students who are hard-working and have potential. This does not necessarily have to be reflected in their SAT scores,” said Gaines. “UM needs to be more involved with the community and this is one way.’
Gaines's co-director is Robert L. Pope, chairman of the earth science department at the MDCC Kendall Campus.
Gaines and Pope have solicited help, $314,000, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute so students could come to UM tuition free, but are waiting for the response.
Gaines said several UM classes will be free.
"This is a chance for minority students to be competitive at Miami-Dade so they succeed at UM,” Gaines said.
"More people will be less intimidated to come to UM because it will open up doors for them,” said junior Chad Suite.
Election codes provide campaign guidelines
By LISA J. HURIASH
Associate News Editor
With Student Government elections at the Memorial Building and University Center Tuesday and Wednesday, candidates are gearing up with signs and pamphlets. But they can only do it within Election Commission guidelines.
Presidential candidate Jason Gordon of the Wake Up ticket said he thinks the rule against campaigning in the Rathskeller, one of the guidelines, is wrong.
“The rules are a little extreme and need to be changed," Gordon said. “The codes make it difficult to get out there as much as you want.”
Gordon said as a result of the guidelines, many students are not aware of the elections or the candidates platforms.
The Elections Commission administers and conducts the publicity, coordination and operation of the SG spring election.
The rules include: expenditures must not exceed $1,000; there may be no graphic, verbal or audio campaigning within 100 feet of any polling place.
In addition, there may be no campaigning in any form in the University Center during polling hours with the exclusion of the pool area, patio or cafeteria areas.
No graphic campaigning may take place at the Rathskeller and candidates and their supporters may not campaign door-to-door without the prior written approval of the Residence Hall Coordinator.
Posters may be posted on bulletin boards only in the Residential Colleges and distributing graphic campaign material under the Residential College doors is strictly prohibited.
Students must have written approval from the Residential Coordinator to put material on his/her door. Graphic campaign material shall not be placed in mailboxes in the Residence Halls, Apartment Area, Fraternity Row and various other offices.
Election Commission Vice Chairperson Brian Olin said changes in the codes will be decided after Spring Break.
He said the proposed changes will make it “a bit easier to cut down the regulation” and have “fewer regulations.”
■ HOME FREE: Miami third baseman Mike Torti scores on a sacrifice fly by James Gargiulo in the third inning.
See Sport», page 10.
■ OSCAR GOLD:
Director Steven Spielberg may finally gel his shot at best director See Accent, page» 8.
Seepage 3/ AIDS