Miami Hurricane, October 27, 1995

              HOMECOMING GAME '95
The Hurricanps prepar° for Homecoming '95 at the Orangp Bowl against the Temple Owls
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MR. UM CROWNED	SEX ON CAMPUS?.
	NEWS Page 2
Ihe Mr. UM Pageant was held on	
Wednesday night on the UC Patio as part	
of Homecoming.	PICTURE PERFECT?
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The Miami Hurricane
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1995
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • CORAL GABLES, FLA.
VOLUME 73, NUMBER 18
NEWS
BRIEFS
LSIAN DAY CELEBRATES CULTURE, FUN
UM’s six Asian organizations vill gather at the volleyball courts >y the Apartment Area Office, Building 35-D, to celebrate the liversity represented among the irganizations.
Asian Day, which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 18 at 3 p.m., will iring together the Japan Club, the Korean Student Association, the Indonesian Student Association, the Vfalaysian Students Association, he Chinese Student Association, ind the Vietnamese Student Association. This is the second Asian Day. The first was held two /ears ago. Planners say that this /ear’s will be much bigger.
"All the Asian Clubs [are] ogether, and have a fun time,” said 3erald Psie, president of the Chinese Student Association. ’[Students] get to know each other from all Asian countries."
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Bowing to the Homecoming God
EMILY KEHE/Staff Photographer
Brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha perform during Monday's Organized Cheer on the UC patio. Organized Cheer is one of the activities ■ sponsored annually as part of Homecoming Week.
Callan: Miss UM contest is a scholarship pageant
DUNCAN ROSS Ill/Photo Editor Contestant Amanda Skocopole models a bathing suit during the 1995 Miss UM competition.
By LOUIS FLORES
Staff Writer
UM may have two beauty pageants, but in only one do contestants compete in swimsuits.
Miss UM contestants must compete in a bathing suit competition, in addition to talent and interview competitions.
“The Miss University of Miami pageant is not a beauty pageant. It is a scholarship pageant,” said Renee Dickens Callan, director of the Women’s Resource Center.
The swimsuit portion is not sexist, Callan said.
Mr. UM contestants also compete in talent and interview, but they have a choice between wearing a bathing suit or pajamas. This year, all the contestants wore pajamas.
It’s just fun, Callan said.
"It is an opportunity for the guys to showcase their talent, to gain experience in public speaking and mostly to have fun," she said.
Christina Willis, a junior, said she thinks there is nothing wrong with a woman competing in a bathing suit when compared to dancing nude'
"What does looking good in a bathing suit have to do with whether you deserve a scholarship?"
Georgia Woerner _____________________Senior
“The women in a competition have clothes on," Willis said.
Sophomore Carrie McDonald agreed with Willis.
"There’s more to a pageant than just a bathing suit," McDonald said.
Steven Handley, an exchange student from Australia who attended the Mr. UM pageant, said there is a difference between a pageant and a strip club.
“I don't think you can compare a UM pageant and a strip club,” Handley said. "I don’t know if a pageant makes women objects. UM pageants are a part of school spirit.” McDonald called the swimsuit and pajama contests similar “They [Mr. UM contestants] treat the pajama contest just like a swim-
suit competition," McDonald said.
Willis added she thought Mr. UM contestants were going to compete in swimsuits. When she learned the closest the contestants were coming to that was wearing pajamas, she was disappointed.
“That is discrimination,” Willis said. "That is what I expected to see when I came out tonight."
Marcus Geibel. an exchange student from Germany, said different motives encourage women to dance nude vs. entering a pageant.
“I think the big difference is that there is no money [in pageants]," Geibel said.
One dissenting student said there is money involved, and she did not understand how a swimsuit competition belongs in any type of pageant.
Georgia Woerner. a senior, said that some people may assume that a swimsuit competition is okay because of national pageants that award winners scholarships.
“What does looking good in a bathing suit have to do with whether you deserve a scholarship?” Woerner asked.
End of Public Safety?
By WILLIAM WACHSBERGER
Editor in Chief
Once again The Miami Herald has reported a flaw within UM athletics, but this time revolving around UM Public Safety.
The Herald reported Wednesday that Coral Gables Police Chief James Butler and City Manager Jack Eads are contemplating whether or not to eliminate UM Public Safety or increase Coral Gables' control over the department.
One reason cited by The Herald is UM Public Safety officers give preferential treatment to members of the University’s football team, most recently to running back Danyell Ferguson and to linebacker Ray Lewis.
Ferguson was reported to have assaulted and threatened 20-year-old Lashevia Miller. Miller told The Herald that UM Public Safety Officer Manny Montalvo attempted to dissuade her from reporting the alleged crime. Coral Gables Police had an internal investigation that showed no wrongdoing.
UM senior Kimberlie Arnold accused UM Public Safety Officer Andrew Allocco of discouraging her from filing a battery report on Lewis.
An administrative report was filed by Allocco on the Lewis matter, specifically due to the fact Arnold is pregnant and state law mandates a report be filed. However, charges have not been filed.
A source within the Coral Gables Police Department said that an investigation in the Lewis case is being pursued.
Both Allocco and Montalvo were unavailable for comment.
End of UM Public Safety?
UM President Edward T. Foote II said UM Public Safety consists of police officers deputized by Coral Gables Police but paid by the University.
“They [UM officers] ultimately report to the Coral Gables police chief," Foote said.
The working arrangement between UM and Coral Gables has been in effect and "worked for the last 25 years," he added
The report of the possible future facing the UM branch is nothing new.
"Discussions have been going on long before the Herald article,” Foote said.
As for the alleged special treatment to football players, Foote said, “Neither Chief Butler, our
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Stolen laptop saga ends in arrest
By RICK GOLD
Associate News Editor
A string of robberies at the University of Miami School of Law came to an end with the arrest of a man in the law library on Oct. 16.
Pablo Perez, 37, of Hialeah was charged with grand theft and linked with several incidents in the law school involving stolen laptop computers and other materials.
Perez is a certified paralegal that was working for a criminal defense lawyer at the time of the arrest. He was recently released from prison and was on probation, according to Coral Gables Police Department Detective Mac McLane.
“This individual has been positively identified as being around the law school at the time of several of the incidents," McLane said. "This guy is a career criminal, and apparently he was just hanging around the law school pretending to do research and stealing everything that wasn’t tied down.”
The laptops and other items had been disappearing for the last two months. McLane said that a few weeks ago, a law student saw Perez >wice with laptops in the law library and after the second time drew a sketch of Perez.
The sketch was enhanced by an art professor at UM and distributed to campus security. In addition, an extra guard was placed at the front door of the law library and the sketches were passed out to the rest of the library staff.
On Oct. 16, Perez entered the law school and was immediately identified by UM security guard Jimmy Crespo, who called the Coral Gables Police Department for support, according to the incident report. The library was then sealed off and backup arrived.
McLane said that Perez was in the library for about five minutes, und in that span took an unattended laptop computer belonging to law student Joy Ryan. Perez was then attempting to leave the library when he saw Crespo at the front desk talking to someone on the phone.
"When he saw the guard he basically freaked out," McLane said. “He ran upstairs, ditched the
computer and hid in the bathroom. We then found him in the bathroom and interviewed him before making the arrest."
Library employee Michael Sylver stated in the report that he saw Perez with an attache case with the laptop hanging out of it while Perez was upstairs. The attache case and laptop were then found on a bookshelf around the comer from the restroom and Ryan identified as hers.
"I was very happy to get the computer back," Ryan said. "I have insurance and 1 wouldn't have had a problem getting the computer replaced, but I had a lot of notes and resumes and other important things on there, so it would have been a tragedy to lose all of that. Security responded very quickly and sealed all the exits and 1 was pleased with the way they were all over everything."
McLane said that the arrest was the result of great teamwork by the Coral Gables Police Department and UM public safety, and that he is certain Perez will end up behind bars.
“Much of the investigation is still underway,” McLane said. “But we know he stole at least one laptop while under probation, so this guy's going away for a long time.”
Panel discusses future technology in media
By LOUIS FLORES
Staff Writer
Success in reporting news is now being judged by balance sheets and focus groups, and with the advent of technology, the collection and distribution of information is becoming more complex.
That's what a panel of experts said at “Media 2000," a forum sponsored by Miami Book Fair International. The televised press conference was held at UM Cablevision Studio C Wednesday. The future of old and new information delivery systems was discussed.
A panel of six journalism experts discussed the impacts of technology and ethics in journalism mediums before an audience of approximately 35 students from UM and area high schools.
On the panel: Alejandro Aguirre, deputy editor of Diario Las
Americas; Joseph Angotti, a professor of broadcasting and former senior vice president of news for NBC: Tsitsi Wakhisi, an assistant UM professor of journalism: Bruce Garrison, a professor of journalism and an author: Tom Fiedler, political editor for The Miami Herald-, and Michael Woulfe, operations manager for WINZ-940 AM.
Topics raised during the discussion included the steady increase in newsprint costs and the profit conflicts that exist in news reporting.
“Most media companies are public corporations, and there are a lot of economic pressures on them," Aguine said.
Angotti spoke of the possible danger of turning over control of news organizations to focus groups that rule which stories readers prefer and which do not.
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