Miami Hurricane, November 14, 1995

              BIG EAST TITLE CHASE
The Hurricanes squeaked by the Boston College Eagles 17-14 Saturday in pursuit of a Big East title.
SPORTS, Page 4
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CAMPUS UNITY CELEBRATION
Black Greeks host a week of various activities to foster awareness within the community and campus.
ACCENT, Page 6
NATIONAL DIABETES MONTH
NEWS, Page 2
SC, ELECTION APATHY?
PERSPECTIVES, Page 8
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1995	UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • CORAL GABLES, FLA.	VOLUME 73, NUMBER 23
Rapper denies pay-for-play
‘Searching for Solutions'
Program
educates
students
By TERE FIGUERAS
Staff Writer
Amid the frenzied rush to prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, a group of concerned students are taking time out to care.
These volunteers are participants in the fifth annual Hunger and Homelessness Week.
This week, UM will host “Searching for Solutions,” a program designed to educate and encourage awareness of poverty within the campus community.
“People don’t consider homelessness and hunger a problem unless they are faced with those issues every day,” said sophomore Chris Candelora, public relations director for the activities. “Hopefully we will be able to make people aware of these problems. '’
Organized by the newly-formed National Hunger and Homelessness Week Executive Committee, “Searching for Solutions" provides students with an opportunity to experience realities of hunger and homelessness. Activities include volunteer work at homeless shelters, participation in the Walk for the Children and Habitat for Humanity, and lectures by homeless and formerly homeless people.
Another event is the two day “Sleep Out.” Participating students pledge to give up the comforts of home and sleep in cardboard boxes on the UC patio, eating in food lines, using public restrooms and begging for food.
“Our goal is to raise awareness and get people motivated,” Candelora said.
Karen Gardner, a senior and executive committee chairperson, encouraged people to look beyond the stereotypes of poverty.
"Not all homeless or hungry people are lazy freeloaders, but victims of circumstance,” Gardner said. "The University of Miami community should challenge their stereotypes of homelessness and should try to understand the underlying issues.”
Students agreed that homelessness was a serious problem.
“Poverty can affect anyone,” said junior Christopher Cote. “Some people are just one paycheck away from being homeless themselves.”
“It is so sad, so we try not to think about it,” said Ruchy Garg, a freshman. “Most people have personal problems to deal with and don’t really pay attention.”
"Most people don’t realize that by the year 2000, the ‘average’ homeless person will be twenty years old,” Gardner added.
HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS WEEK
Schedule of Event»;
November 13-14:
"Sleep Out" on the UC Patio November 13:
Panel of speakers - 8 p.m. on the UC Patio November 14:
Jeffrey Grenberg of Grand Central Pamership - 8 p.m. on the UC Patio - Discussions of job programs for homeless people November 15:
"A Call To Action" 10 a.m. - 3p.m.
at the UC Rock. - Agencies and campus groups will distribute information of poverty November 16:
"Skip a Meal" - Students ate encouraged to miss a meal and donate the money to Pass it On Ministry November 17: Volunteering at The New Life Family Shelter 10 a.m. -1:30 p.m. and Miami Rescue Mission 2 p.m.
- 5 pm.
November 18: Participation in: Habitat for Humanity and Walk for the Children
| CHRISTINE KINSEY/Graphics Editor
Luther Campbell spoke about allegations surrounding him and the UM football program.
By WILLIAM WACHSBERGER
Editor in Chief
One of the four NCAA allegations being disputed by UM is the possibility that extra benefits were given to football players between the 1988-93 seasons by rap star Luther Campbell.
The Univetsity of Miami contested four of 10 possible violations to the NCAA’s Infractions Committee Friday in Kansas City, Mo.
The NCAA’s official inquiry reports “a representative [Campbell] of the University’s ath-
By MARK PEIKIN
Staff Writer
Eaton Residential College residents are still questioning their fire safety since an Oct. 27 fire that occurred on the fourth floor of the building.
Roommates Ayana Harris, Tinika Solomon and their suitemates Kori Duffy and Wendy Bolly say their smoke detectors did not sound during the fire, which began in their bathroom.
According to the incident report, the fire was caused by an overloaded electrical cord.
After waking up to the smell of smoke, Solomon found plastic crates and various aerosol cans under her bathroom sink in flames. She woke up Harris, and proceeded to pull the fire alarm box in the hallway. Solomon then went to inform Resident Assistant Denise James of the fire, while Harris put out the flames.
“All there was up there was a lot of smoke,” said Lt. Daniel Thornhill of the Coral Gables Fire Department.
One smoke detector is located in each of the residential college's 400 rooms. The detector is wall-mounted on the bathroom's exterior wall, six inches above and seven inches to the left of the door leading into the bathroom.
Metal encased electrical wire
letic interests ... provided extra benefits to football athletes by waiver of admission charges to a nightclub, payment of an unspecified sum to a player for a good game in 1989 and through the payment of a bar tab of a value of approximately $100.”
The University denied Campbell is a representative of UM’s athletics interests or has any connection to the University.
How did the NCAA learn of this alleged violation?
Campbell’s longtime foe, Miami attorney Jack Thompson, contacted NCAA Executive Director Dick, Schultz via memorandum dated April 8, 1992, shortly after informing then-UM Athletic Director Dave Maggard.
Thompson wrote, “Please consid-
leads to a light box approximately three feet below the detector. Directly opposite this light Eiox, in the bathroom’s interior, is an electrical outlet.
In this case, the electrical outlet was destroyed when an adapter plugged into it overloaded. Three curling irons were plugged into the adapter that converted a single, two-prong female outlet into a three-prong female outlet. One of the curling irons was accidentally left on, possibly instigating the overload.
The overload caused a power outage in the suite. According to Firex, the manufacturer of smoke detectors, the “units will not operate during loss of power.”
Associate Director of Physical Plant Mike Baroviak said the smoke detectors could have been activated anyway if “smoke developed to a significant level where it would have affected the student living area.”
Following the fire, “the detectors were tested and found to be functional,” Baroviak said.
Harris, who had been suffering from bronchitis at the time of the fire, was treated for smoke inhalation.
Duffy and Bolly were moved to emergency housing in Hecht Residential College. They describe their room in Eaton as unsuitable
er this my formal notice and complaint of the following: [UM] athletes under the legal drinking age of 21 years have been frequenting an establishment on Miami Beach known as Luke's on the Beach.
“They have been provided free admission into the club by a supporter of [UM’s] athletic program — pomographer Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew — because of their athletic status with the University.”
It was reported by The Miami Herald that several players admitted they were permitted free entry to Luke’s.
Thompson has been feuding with Campbell since the rapper’s release of As Nasty As They Wanna Be. Thompson said it contained lyrics which offend women and children.
because of soot in their living area and a lingering smell of smoke.
Some residents took the fire seriously.
“People weren’t fooling around. They were actually taking it seriously,” said Maria Hernandez, a fourth-floor Eaton resident.
Tracy McPartland, Eaton desk assistant and resident, disagreed.
’There is a lot of resident apathy due to the numtier of false alarms and system malfunctions,” she said.
“ft is impossible to tell if there is really a fire because an alarm seems to always be going off,” added Melissa Nicholes, an Eaton resident living on the third floor.
Robert Redick, director of the department of residence halls, is aware the fire safety system in Eaton is old, but doesn't think that’s the problem.
“Old systems don’t mean they’re necessarily bad systems," he said.
The alarm is checked on a yearly basis by Coral Gables Fire Marshal Tom Allison. Each evening, resident assistants conduct “tower tours,” which evaluate the residential college’s fire alarm system. Any deviations from the University's fire safety standards are reported to the Physical Plant the following morning.
“Anything that is a life safety issue is taken care of right away," Baroviak said.
Thompson, who is an attorney defending sexually abused women and children, feels Campbell is a “pomographer.”
His fight to censor Campbell made national news and talk shows.
Campbell responds
In an exclusive telephone interview with The Hurricane, Campbell spoke about the NCAA inquiry.
“[The inquiry] asked me a bunch of questions based on hearsay,” Campbell said. “I told them my side of the story. They asked about things printed in the newspapers.”
Campbell said the NCAA wanted him to sign a letter of confidentiality, but he refused because he “had nothing to hide” about the pay-for-play accusation.
Emerson incites debate at lecture
AMELIA D. ESTRADA
Staff Writer
At what was supposed to be an informative lecture about the difference between Islam and the radical factions in the Middle East, a debate broke out as to the credibility of one of the featured speakers.
Steve Emerson, a journalist and renowned expert on terrorism, spoke about militant Islamic factions in a lecture that included a question and answer session.
During the question and answer segment of the program controversy began based on a letter sent by the Islamic Students of the University of Miami (ISUM) to the Middle East Studies Institute expressing the ISUM’s disapproval of Emerson's invitation to speak at UM.
The letter described the contempt toward Emerson's “sensationalism, blatant anti-Muslim stereotyping and irresponsible journalism” and defended some Islamic figures included in Emerson's list of radicals. To this accusation, Emerson responded by quoting one of the figures the ISUM defends in its let-
See EMERSON • Page 2
“Did 1 pay the players? I never paid money to players or knew about a cash pool,” Campbell said.
Campbell was also questioned about his accessibility to the sidelines during games in the Orange Bowl.
“I just walked through security. Gloria Estefan can walk through. Burt Reynolds walks through to the Florida State sidelines,” Campbell said. “I did not go through administration because I didn’t need to.”
Campbell admitted to one thing, however:
“I am a fan of the Miami Hurricanes and proud of it,” he said.
As for his rivalry with Thompson, Campbell said, “People shouldn’t consider his opinion and it’s a shame people listen to him.”
Toppel
Center
director
resigns
By AMIE PARNES and LOUIS FLORES
Staff Writers
Shirley Good Ingold has resigned as director of the Patricia and Harold Toppel Career Planning and Placement Center.
William R. Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, made the announcement on Thursday.
“I’ll be very sad,” Ingold said about leaving. “I have a wonderful staff that I am going to miss dearly, and I love the students at the University and I loved what I was doing.”
T o p p e 1 ’ s career fair Sept.
28 attracted 90 employers and 900 students,
The Hurricane reported Sept. 29. This kind of success, Ingold said, will continue because she is confident her staff will be able to continue placing students in jobs without her.
"My staff will just pick right up,” Ingold said. “1 can’t take responsibility for tjte success we had here."
Ingold described her staff as proactive.
“I have four full-time professionals that are wonderful. 1 have four [in my] administrative staff, 10 student assistants that work here. The success that we’ve had is a result of all of us working together,” Ingold said. “Hopefully, students in the University won’t see any changes in service because the people that work here are the ones that really take responsibility of all the past successes.”
Ingold said during her directorship, Placement Partners, a program in which students are hired as interns with alumni, has been created. Registering students with Resume Expert and the Hurricanes Jobs Line were other programs started during her tenure.
“Our goal is to help students as soon as they walk in the front door,” Ingold said. “We used to have to make an appointment for Istudents] to see one of us, and now we just position ourselves in the [Toppel] library so anytime a student comes in, we are here to help you.”
Butler said he tried to persuade Ingold not to leave UM.
“I regret very much that we are losing such an outstanding professional at the University,” Butler said. “She has done a superior job over the past two years in her capacity as director. I tried to find a way for her to continue her
See DIRECTOR • Page 3
The Klan rallies on Miami Beach
FAYE CAREY/Assistant Photo Editor
Mikki Blanchard, 17, stands in front of the confederate flag and fellow Ku Klux Klan members at a rally at the North Dade justice Center Saturday. Police from both the North Miami Beach Deoartment and Metro-Dade were present in case violence erupted. KKK support came if the form of 8 clan members.
Fire safety looked at after October incident in Eaton