Miami Hurricane, October 07, 1994

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ACCENT
■ The UM Scuba Club plunges into the depths of South Florida beaches.
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SPORTS
■ UM will not only face FSU this weekend in "The Game," they must also try to avoid losing consecutive games in the Orange Bowl in a decade.
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INSIDE
NEWS: GLBC newsletter informs UM on homosexual issues. Page
OPINION: UM-FSU: columnists debate who will be victorious this Saturday. Page 4
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VOLUME 72, NUMBER 11
CORAL GABLES, FLA.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1994
MAKE MONEY WITH MESSY DORM ROOM
M
ilton Bradley, in honor of their game Pass the Pigs, will give $1,000 to the the biggest pigsty on
student with college campuses.
The contest, open to college students across the country, will reward the student with the messiest room. Entrants must be nominated by their resident assistants.
Mark Morris, public relations manager of Milton Bradley, said, “We really want (students] to have a lot of fun with the contest.”
The winner of the contest will also receive a professional room cleaning and a Milton Bradley prize pack.
The person who nominates the grand prize winner will receive $1,000.
To ensure that no intentional damage is done to dorm rooms, resident assistants sign their nomination. Any sign of intentional damage will result in disqualification.
To participate in the National Pigsty Search, contestants must send a 4-by-6 inch photograph and a paragraph describing why they are proud of their "pigsty.”
Entries must be postmarked by Oct. 10 to Pass the Pigs’ Pigsty, c/o Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.
FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT GOES TO TABLE TOP
The “Finger Flick Football” game that started at the cafeteria lunch table has now advanced to a competition among 50,000 students at 200 colleges and universities, including UM.
Finger Flick Football used to be played with homemade paper balls and thumb and forefinger goal posts. However, this is not the case anymore.
The Ocean Spray Table Top Football game includes authentic goal posts, a miniature football, and a playing surface complete with yardage and team logos.
Teams of three players will answer 200 NFL trivia questions for the chance to play flick football. Winners receive NFL T-shirts and caps and the opportunity to represent their school at one of eight regional tournaments.
Regional winners advance to the national championships in Miami, and tournament champions win tickets to Super Bowl XXIX.
The competition will be held at the Rathskeller during selected Monday Night Football broadcasts on Oct. 10, 17, 24 and 31.
For more information, contact Rhonda DuBord at 284-3253 or Scott Carter at 284-5646.
FACE THE FACTS
Following Is the increase in the cost of tuition, fees, charges and expenses over the past five ^ years.	&
90-91	92-93	94-95
91 -92	93-94
SOURCE: UM Fact Book
Textbook selection process begins
New additions cost students
By PHILIP BARNES
Hurricane Staff Writer
Professors are currently in the process of selecting books for spring semester, and their decisions may affect student checkbooks.
Keith Wellman, former chairman of the Department of Chemistry, said the texts are chosen by both groups of teachers and individual professors.
“The texts are chosen by the people who teach the class,” Wellman said. “If several people teach the same course they choose as a group.”
To sell texts and new additions, publishing companies send professors promotional packages.
“Other times we’ll go to conferences or look through mailings and catalogs,” said Jonathan West, chairman of the Department of Political Science.
Tony Expósito, book department manager at the UM Bookstore, said publishers try to update the books often so they can get more royalties.
“They used to update them every four to five years, but its been every two and a half to three years more recently,” said Expósito.
When textbooks are re-released with updated versions, students are unable to sell their old editions back because they are no longer useful.
But Darlene Pederson, senior vice president and editorial director of the book division at Saunders College Publishing Company, said
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SEAN HEMMERLE/Photo Editor
I TEACHERS WITH TEXTS: Many UM professors use their own textbooks to instruct their classes.
Run-off tainted by dirty politics
Professors teach from own texts
By PHILIP BARNES
Hurricane Staff Writer When students purchase books, the author of the text goes virtually unnoticed. If they paid more attention, students would realize that several UM professors write their own textbooks, and make money when they are sold.
Maryann Barber, lecturer in the Department of Computer Information Systems, co-wrote a textbook with associate professor Robert Grauer that they use for several different computer classes.
“Teaching and writing feed on each other. The more you, teach you see where students have difficulties,” said Barber.
“If you write the right way, you use what you’re going to use [in class],” Grauer said. Grauer has written several texts for different computer programs. One is used at more than 400 universities and translated into three foreign languages.
Sophomore Justin Merritt questioned the motives of professors who use their own texts.
“Those who require their students to buy books for extra money from royalties are using unethical judgment,” said Merritt.
Grauer said he does not write just so his students are forced to use his textbooks. He writes for the enjoyment and to aid his teaching.
“The book makes the class better and the class makes the book better,” said Grauer.
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By KEVIN D. FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
Amidst accusations of campaign smear-tactics, the polls closed Tuesday night in the run-off election for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat
race.
Hugh Rodham, First Lady Hillary Clinton’s little brother, won a solid victory over Mike Wiley, former radio talk show host.
“We were all intensely happy (with the election results],” said Katherine Driskell, a UM graduate student and Rodham volunteer. "Hundreds of people showed-up [at the Rodham victory party]. It was really fun.”
The mood at the Wiley headquarters, however, was not as enthusiastic.
"I knew in my heart that we couldn’t win, but just like the colonials at Lexington, we knew we had to make a stand. Tomorrow will be their Concord,” Wiley said.
Before the elections, however, accusations of improper campaign conduct by both candidates dominated media coverage.
First, Wiley criticized the media coverage of his candidacy, saying it
had ruined his chances for victory at the polls. When The Miami Herald officially endorsed Rodham, it also accused Wiley of alleging “a U.S. government cover-up of UFOs.
"I believe in UFOs. There’s a government base out in the desert and they’re not admitting that it exists. For that, the media painted me as a bumbling fool,” said Wiley, denying The Herald’s claim. “It was the newspapers who brought up the UFO crap [as a campaign issue].”
Wiley also accused the Rodham campaign office of trying to pressure him to abandon the primary by offering him a job with the Rodham office.
When Wiley refused, Wiley said the Rodham office also contacted elections officials to falsely report that he was pulling out of the pri-
RODHAM WILEY
The Rodham office countered with attacks on Wiley saying he abused campaign funds to pay his
marjr.
That is just not true,” said Tasha Joseph, Rodham’s press secretary, who further denied the Rodham office tried to pressure Wiley out of the election. "We did not offer him a job.”
mortgage and his wife’s salary.
Wiley admitted he paid his mortgage with campaign funds, but said it was "perfectly legal.” He also denied paying his wife’s salary, saying she was only reimbursed for campaign purchases.
EUis Rubin, the Miami attorney who placed third behind Rodham and Wiley in the Democratic primary, also accused Wiley of unethical behavior, claiming Wiley had changed his name to mask his Jewish heritage.
Wiley, whose original name is Schreibman, legally changed his name on March 17 in Seminole County, but denied his Jewish heritage was a motivating factor.
"I was a radio talk-show host, and people knew me as Mike Wiley,” said Wiley. “It was my stage name.”
"Tony Rodham is full of shit. I haven’t met a Rodham who could tell the truth. Their lies are documented - it’s a family trade and problem, and as long as they’re in power, it’s our problem too,” Wiley said. "I’m not a wealthy man, and I don’t have a relative in the White House, but I’m going to stay in the political arena - we need this country back up and running.”
Rodham will face Republican U.S. Senator Connie Mack in the statewide elections on Nov. 8.
ELECTION
RESULTS
Follwoing are the election results for Dade County and Florida in this past Tuesday's run-off election.
Dade
FL
Hugh Rodham 29,288 220,187 Mike Wiley 9,670	157,968
'Compiled by The FL Election* Commission
“The average voter does not know how Connie votes,” Joseph said. "He lives on Connie Mack Island and is completely out of touch with the Florida voters.”
Student still missing after search
By RICK GOLD
Assistant News Editor A week-long search was unsuccessful in turning up the body of fourth-year UM medical student Tod Gassen, who disappeared in the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet while on an mountain climbing expedition two weeks
JEFFREY M. BROOKS/ Graphics Editor
ago.
Gassen, 33, is presumed dead after vanishing during the final days of a climb on the peak of Shisha Pangma, GASSEN which at 26,397
feet, is the 13th tallest mountain in the world.
According to The Miami Herald, Gassen had been lagging behind his hiking party. But the other hikers in the expedition did not realize he was missing until a hiker from another team fell into a
75-foot crevice and discovered Gassen's sunglasses and ski pole.
During the search for Gassen, his backpack and other belongings were found at the bottom of the crevice, but his body is still missing.
For the past three summers and last winter, Gassen trained at the Colorado Mountain School in alpine mountaineering and ice-climbing techniques. In 1988, he climbed several peaks in the Kumbu Himal Himalayan Mountains in Nepal by himself over a period of six weeks.
"He was obviously enthralled with climbing, but not just for the mountain itself but for the countries he went to and the people in those countries,” said Chris Cobb, a friend of Gassen’s since high school.
A Miami native, Gassen attended Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove, and was All-County and All-State in both cross country skiing and track.
Gassen’s mother, Phyllis Gassen of Coral Gables, remembers her
son with great pride and admiration.
"Everybody loved him. He was, without a doubt, the kindest, most amazing man I’ve ever known,” Gassen said. “He always went out of his way to be kind to people. He loved everybody and he loved life. I am so proud of all he accomplished, and it’s a shame he didn’t get to accomplish more.”
Among Gassen’s surviving relatives are his mother, sister Pam Gassen Alonso, and grandmother, Ruth Gassenheimer. He was the son of the late Joseph Gassen, a former Miami federal bankruptcy judge.
A memorial service will be held on Oct. 15 at 11 a.m. in Swenson Hall at Ransom Everglades Middle School. The service will be open to the public, and the family encourages anyone that knew Gassen to attend.
A memorial fund for Gassen has been established by the UM Medical School. Any contributions should be sent to P.O. Box 016960-R100. Miami. Fla. 33101.
SEAN HEMMERLE/Photo Editor ■ LOOK OUT BELOW: Senior Len Feuer, a Scuba Club member, prepares to take a dive.___________________________