Miami Hurricane, March 07, 1995

              ILLINI AVOID SWEEP
The UM baseball team took two games out of three from the University of Illinois this weekend.
SPORTS, page 8
TUESDAY
MARCH 7, 1995
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NEWS
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CAREER FORUM PLANNED FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS
The Department of Career Planning and Placement will hold a Career Forum for Applied Mathematics at 3 p.m. today in the Ungar Computer Science Building, room 506.
Five companies seeking employees will be on hand to meet with students obtaining degrees in mathematics, computer science, economics and finance. The companies planned will be the National Council for Compensation Insurance, John Alden Life Insurance Company, American Bankers Insurance Group, Inc., Financial Data Planning and the United States Navy Nuclear Division.
“Math students should attend so that they have an opportunity to talk to five different employers, in a more relaxed form, about career opportunities for people with math degrees,” said Lynn Buscaglia, from Career Planning and Placement.
Students are encouraged to bring their resumes to the networking mixer that will follow the forum.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNDER ACCREDITING REVIEW
According to Roger Schluntz, dean of the School of Architecture, a team from the National Architectural Accrediting Board was on campus last week to review the School’s accreditation.
The bachelor of architecture program had its five-year review while the master of architecture program underwent its initial review, Schluntz said.
Schluntz said the results of the accreditation review will be given to the School sometime in June, after the National Architectural Accrediting Board votes based on the team's report.
“They made very positive comments on the faculty and students," Schluntz said.
UM PROGRAMS TO HOST TWO MEDICAL ETHICS CONFERENCES
Two UM programs, the Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy (FBP) and the Miami Area Geriatric Education Center (MAGEC), will sponsor parallel conferences exploring ethical and scientific issues in geriatics and topics in health care reform, relations between doctors and nurses and the role of institutional ethics committees.
MAGEC will sponsor its seventh annual "Advances in Geriatics" program March 9-11 which will focus on the biospychosocial aspects of aging.
The FBP conference, "Clinical Ethics: Practice and Theory,” will be held March 10-11.
Featured speakers include Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, of Georgetown University, E. Haavi Morreim, of University of Tennessee at Memphis and Dr. Carl Eisdorfer, chairman of UM’s Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Medicine.
Both conferences, will be held at the Sheraton Biscayne Bay on 495 Brickell Avenue.
For more information about MAGEC and its conference, call 547-6270. Futher information about FBP and its conference can be obtained by calling 547-5723.
INSIDE
NEWS
Former UM and Olympic diver, and AIDS victim Greg Louganis signed his book in Miami Beacn this weekend.
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OPINION
Abortion clinic violence must stop
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ACCENT
The Rails are a band with a bright future.
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SPORTS
The women's basketball team's season ended on a sour note against Seton Hall.
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Ryder to donate $9M for new arena
By UAM FITZGERALD and WILLIAM WACHSBERGER
Of the Staff
If you build it, they will come.
The UM Basketball program was reborn for a third time late yesterday afternoon when UM President Edward T. Foote II and Ryder Systems, Inc. chairman, president and CEO M. Anthony Bums,who is also a member of UM’s Board of Trustees, announced plans to structure a multi-puipose complex to be called The Ryder Center at the University of Miami.
“For many years now, a new convocation center has been a high priority for the University,” Foote said prior to a press conference.
The announcement took place after UM set a school-record for attendance, drawing 11,263 at the Miami Arena against UConn.
Roy Nirschel Jr., vice president for University Development, told The Hurricane that Ryder Systems has committed $9 million to the center, which will not only host Big East men and women's basketball, but student and community activities as well. The cost will be approximately $30 million.
Nirschel added that the center will be able to seat between 8,000-9,000 people.
“This will be a project that UM will develop along with the community, both locally and on campus," said Nirschel.
Paul Dee, athletic director, said the University will try to have this project done as soon as possible, although no target date has been set.
Foote said he feels that the University has a long way to go-
“The [Board of] Trustees, Paul Dee and I will do everything to make this a reality. This donation is a marvelous
initiative.”
According to Bums, the Ryder Center will be the largest facility of its kind in South Dade. He added that both the community and UM need this center.
This is one of the 10 largest gifts in UM history.
Dee told The Hurricane that most of the money has yet to be raised and will come from major gift campaigning, alumni contributions and boosters. UM does not anticipate funding from the city of Coral Gables.
Currently UM has one of the few major Division I men’s basketball programs that travels off campus to play their home games.
“I’m happy that we’ll have a facility to play basketball and promote the sport in South Florida,” Leonard Hamilton, UM men’s basketball coach, said. “The arena
See RYDER, page 2
SEAN HEMMERIi/Pboto Editor
Former Senator Paul Tsongas addresses a group of students on at the Hect Master's apartment Thursday about the national debt.
THE FEDERAL BUDGET 1994
According to Tsongas' plan, because entitlement accounts for much oFfederal expenditures, it is where cuts should be made
Entitlements
49%
Net Interest 14%
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International
1%
Defense Domestic 19% Discretionary
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SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office
MELISSA LEVINE / Graph« Artist
SEAN HEMMERLE/Photo Editor Copies of Tsongas' pamphlet on the deficit problem cur-
By KIMBERLY WEISSMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
Paul Tsongas, former Democratic senator from Massachusetts (1978-1984) and the 1992 candidate for president of the United States, spoke Thursday afternoon in the master's apartment of Hecht Residential College.
The topic of the discussion was his proposed plan, “How to Bring the Federal Deficit to Zero by the Year 2000.”
“As an early primary state, I want you to know enough about this stuff so when [Bob] Dole and [Phil] Gramm come, you can ask them, ’How are you going to balance the budget? , and hopefully you’ll know enough, so they don’t dance around you,” said Tsongas.
Tsongas and Warren Rudman. former Republican senator from New Hampshire, have formed a bi-partisan grassroots organization called the Concord Coalition, in Sept. 1992, in hopes of balancing the budget.
According to literature from the Concord Coalition, balancing the budget is important because when the government borrows so much money, fewer dollars are available for businesses to use for investment and future production, thus inhibiting growth in America.
The central element of the Zero Deficit Plan, created by the Concord Coalition, is a reform of entitlement programs. It proposes to spread the burden of deficit reduction around to those most able to afford it by basing entitlements on a "means test."
The entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, make up the largest block of government expenditures accounting for 49 percent of the budget.
“Today’s retirees get far more than [they] ever paid in, but in our times, we'll get less of retirement," said Tsongas.
The Zero Deficit Plan would cut spending by $144 billion by 2000 and raise taxes by $71 billion, cutting about $2 in spending for every $1 in tax increases, said Tsongas.
Tax increases would be made in three stages:
■	A gradual increase in gasoline tax over six years until it reaches 50 cents per gallon.
■An increase of the levied tax on alcohol and tobacco.
■	Limit the income tax reduction to $20,000 a year for home mortgage interest on high-priced homes and on second homes.
Jim\ Corey, professor of political science, said he agreed with Tsongas’ focus but disagreed on his proposed tax policies.
"The sin tax on alcohol and tobacco is not a good idea because it will hit the poor the hardest. It would be better to
spread it across a wider spectrum," Corey said.
The Concord Coalition calls for a pay-as-you-go approach to health care reform for now but eventually feels its necessary for reform to sustain a deficit at zero once it’s there.
The most powerful part of the coalition is to reach the grandparents and parents because they get more entitlements than everybody else.
"The love I had for mine [parents and grandparents], you will not have for yours today because they consumed, borrowed and dumped it on you to pay,” Tsongas said. “Students have a right to feel betrayed.”
Tsongas said that balancing the budget has finally taken precedence over the continuing want for a tax cut because this is focused more than tax cuts.
"It’s too easy for politicians to put off the day of reckoning for 20 years and when the inevitable consequences come, they’ll be gone,” Tsongas said.
Tsongas, who characterized the nation as “socially liberal, conservatively fiscal and nowhere to go,” said people need to come to grips with diversity before a community can work together effectively.
“America needs a set of values that give you roots ... we’re not there yet,” Tsongas said.
Besides being committed to cohesion and inclusion, Tsongas has taken a strong interest in the environment and is working on a future project to protect and save the Everglades from algae and sugar damage.
Approximately 75 faculty and students came to hear Tsongas’ ideas on a reduced budget deficit.
"I really appreciate the fact that he wants to help our generation," said Steve Sutton, director of Student Activities, who organized the event.
rently facing the United States.
"His plan certainly sounds ideal,” said Adam August, Student Government president.
Aureliano Sanchez-Arango, Jr., the president of College Republicans, also liked the plan as a whole.
"I still think you can reach the same goal in 2002 without raising taxes," Sanchez-
Arango said.
Tsongas’ discussion coincided with a vote in Congress concerning the Balanced Budget Amendment. The amendment had been motivated by the gross national U.S. debt which will approach nearly $5 trillion later this year. The amendment was never put to a vote.
Tsongas
Higher taxes, spending cuts are the key to cutting debt
calls for no deficit by 2000
Brown named dean of RSMAS
By LOUIS FLORES
Assistant Nows Editor
Otis Brown, a professor of meteorology and physical oceanography, was appointed dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) Thursday.
Brown joined the faculty at RSMAS in 1975. He became the chair of meteorology. a post he held for five years, until 1990, when he was named associate dean of research.
President Edward T. Foote II, Provost Luis Glaser and RSMAS faculty met Thursday to officially appoint Brown as dean.
According to Glaser, the appointment process was successful in selecting a candidate that inspires confidence in both the faculty and administration.
“This was not an instantaneous decision, but the end of a process," Glaser said. “He will do an excellent job being its [RSMAS’] dean.”
Brown, who had been serving as acting dean of RSMAS since Rosendahl's leave, helped develop an on-going satellite ocean remote sensing research program that used a satellite to research ocean related sciences in the mid-1970’s.
“At that point, not a lot was known what you could do with satellites," Brown said.
The satellite ocean remote sensing research program investigates ocean surface temperature, ocean color, measured productivity of phytoplankton, wind speed and ocean current direction. Brown said.
Rosenstiel's satellite ocean remote sensing program has been a success for both Brown and the school, Glaser said.
"It is clearly recognized as one of the most important programs in the country,” Glaser said.
Brown acknowledged the importance of Rosenstiel’s research and said that it will not go neglected, especially now that the school is reviewing its strategic plan for the next five years.
“What we are trying to do, in the current federal research situation, is to maintain the stature we have and look for new avenues that will allow us to solidify what we do well," Brown said. “I think the school is doing well. We are going to concentrate on our strengths."
According to Brown, Rosenstiel currently receives a majority of its $23 million in research funding from governmental agencies. However, some private foundations do support the school, such as the MacArthur Foundation and the Tinker Foundation.
Some major sources of research funding, according to Brown, originate from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
Faculty at RSMAS supported the appointment of Brown to the position, according to Rainer Bleck, chair of the division of meteorology and physical oceanography.
The process to recommend Brown's appointment included two votes, both of which were conducted last Thursday, Bleck said.
The first vote was whether to conduct an external search for a dean. The faculty
See RSMAS, page 2