Miami Hurricane, April 21, 1995

              SPIRITUAL SINGING
The Inspirational Concert Choir bring spiritual music to UM students.
FRIDAY
ACCENT, page 8
APRIL 21, 1995
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 48
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AN ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS HALL OF FAME NEWSPAPER
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HURRICANE EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER NAMED
The Student Publications Board elected the Editor in Chief and the Business Manager of The Miami Hurricane for the fall 1995 semester on Wednesday.
William Wachs-berger, a junior, will be the Editor in Chief. Wachsberger is a double major in news-editorial journalism and political science.
The Business Manager will be Robert Kerr. Kerr, an architecture major, is also a junior. Next year will be Kerr’s third semester as Business Manager.
According to Wachsberger, “Our big plan for The Hurricane is going to full pagination, meaning that all production work will be done here on campus, except for the actual press run, which will be done elsewhere. We also want to promote the newspaper by recruiting heavily in both journalism and advertising.”
NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY CELEBRATED NEXT WEEK
April 25 is the National Youth Service Day, and to celebrate, UM students are having a “Peanut Butter and Jelly Extravaganza.”
The Extravaganza will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Lower Level Lounge of theUC.
Student volunteers, in teams of up to six members, will attempt to set a world record for the greatest number of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made within a one hour time limit.
The sandwiches will then be donated to Camillus House, which will distribute the food to the homeless.
Jeffrey Fortunato, Recruitment Coordinator for the Extravaganza, is a driving force behind the day. Says Fortunato, “It’s only two hours of your time, yet it makes a big difference in someone else’s life.”
Sign-in is at 6 p.m. Kick-off, including a guest speaker, is at 6:30. The peanut butter sandwich-making commences at 7 p.m.
The National Youth Service Day was created to document the scope and value of the youth service movement at both the local and national levels. For more information, contact the Volunteer Services Center at 284-GIVE.
IN MEMORIAM
The Miami Hurricane dedicates this issue to the innocent lives lost in the Oklahoma City bombing this Wednesday.
INSIDE
NEWS
Music diva Gloria Estefan and five others were appointed to the UM Board of Trustees.
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OPINION
Members of the UM community don't appreciate freedom of expression.
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ACCENT
AGIO names the annual greek award winners.
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SPORTS
Hurricane sports editors evaluate UM prospects in the NFL draft.
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Meal plan changed once again
WILL THE BAND PLAY ON?
Butler to decide fate of band referendum
By SARA FREDERICK
Assistant News Editor
The $1.50 increase in the student activity fee, which voters approved during last month's Student Government elections to give to the Band of the Hour, has been placed on hold by Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler.
According to Butler, no decision has been made about whether or not the referendum money will be given to the band.
“I will take action as soon as I get sufficient information and facts,” Butler said.
Butler said the reason the referendum was being held up was because of a stipulation added by the SG Senate.
The stipulation stated that if funding of the band from either the School of Music or the Athletic Department was cut, SG would not support the referendum.
Butler said that with budget cuts being planned in many different University departments, he wanted to find out if cuts in the band’s funding by either the Athletic Department or the School of Music would be made.
"Student leaders and the Senate don’t want the student activity fee paying for things that have, in the past, been funded by the School of Music or the Athletic Department,” Butler said.
According to Michael Mann, director of the Band of the Hour, the band needs these funds to function.
“My feeling is if we are going to have a band, let’s fund it,” Mann said.
“The concern is that the band is supported — it doesn’t matter how it gets done.”
Mann said that participation in the band is important to a great number of students.
"There are music education majors that are in the marching band because that is a requirement, and it is part of their profession,” Mann said.
Junior Jennifer Gustafson, who has been actively involved in trying to make sure the band receives the referendum money, said it was not intended to be spent on anything already covered by either the School of Music or the Athletic Department.
“The sole purpose [of the referendum was] funding some things that were not being funded by other means,” Gustafson said. “We couldn’t even come close to funding the entire band on just the referendum money,” Gustafson said.
According to Gustafson, the money gained from the referendum was intended to be spent on the purchase of new instruments and uniforms, as well as the repair of old instruments and uniforms.
Junior Karen Gardner, who helped put the referendum on the ballot this year, said she understood the stipulations placed on the referendum by SG.
“I understand their concern about the students not paying for the entirety of the band, but I think the whole thing’s gotten out of hand,” Gardner said.
Both Gustafson and Gardner are
members of Tau Beta Sigma, the honorary band fraternity. The fraternity has been actively pursuing the referendum issue for several years.
“This is not the first time students have passed this referendum,” Gardner said. “It’s been vetoed one time before.”
According to Butler, the circumstances around the band referendum were much different when it was passed two years ago.
At that time, concern for the Wellness Center referendum superseded that of the band.
“It’s a different scenario today,” Butler said. “There’s nothing like that on the horizon.”
SG President Monica Aquino said the SG Senate wanted to make sure that the responsibility the Athletic Department and the School of Music have toward the band is not forgotten by them.
“We want to help the band, but we don't want [the School of Music and the Athletic Department] to forget their obligation,” Aquino said.
Sophomore Erica Chaplin said she felt the band deserved the money from the referendum.
“I think it’s unfair that the money might be held because it’s the students’ money and they should be able to decide what happens to it,” Chaplin said.
Butler said he expected to make a final decision on the referendum issue within 10-14 days.
By SARA FREDERICK
Assistant News Editor
The meal plan offered to students for the 1995-96 academic year has been amended to conform with students' wishes, according to Student Government President Monica Aquino.
Although the plan will not bring back cash equivalencies at on-campus eating establishments, it will increase the number of dining dollars allotted to each of the meal plans students may purchase.
“We went through four different plans until we found one both the administration and students could be happy with,” Aquino said.
The decision to change the meal plan was made after SG officers learned that students were unhappy with the meal plan proposed for the 1995-96 academic year.
The 1994-95 and 1995-96 SG executive officers held meetings with Director of Dining Services Pamela Chen, Vice Provost Steven Ullmann, Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler, Assistant Vice President of Business Services Alan Fish and Director of Student Life Patricia Whitely to find a plan that would better suit students’ needs.
“I think [the new plan] creates more flexibility, more variety — more ability for the students to eat on campus," Chen said.
The amount of dining dollars included with the meal plans was increased so that students with the 20-meal plan or the five-meal plan will receive 50 dining dollars; those with the 14-meal plan will receive 150 dining dollars and students with the eight-meal plan will get 200 dining dollars.
Aquino said the reasoning behind giving students with the eight-meal plan more dining dollars was because students with the smaller meal plans typically eat at campus cash operations.
A major difference in the newly-revised meal plan will be where the dining dollars are accepted.
Aquino said all of the cash-operated eating establishments on campus will redeem the dining dollars, including the convenience store. Pizza Hut, the food court and the new Wellness Center, which is currently under construction.
The Rathskeller, which does not accept meal cards, will also accept dining dollars, Aquino said.
“They realized how much the Rat meant to the students, so they brought [meal card purchases at the Rathskeller] back,” Aquino said.
Other changes were also made as a result of the meetings, Aquino said. They include an increase in the number of meals students are allowed to purchase per day.
Under the current system, students may use their meal cards three times per day; under the new plan, students may purchase meals with their meal cards up to five times daily. The dining hall system will also provide “all you can eat” food carts outside the resident cafeterias from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., Aquino said.
“The actual logistics of this have not been worked out yet,” Chen said. “It’s something we’re working on.”
Aquino said SG officers worked hard to get what the students wanted. She said that although the students did want to bring back meal equivalencies at first, it was not a feasible option.
If equivalencies were used, students would only get $2.83 per meal, and they would be able to use the equivalency four times per week. “The only way we would compromise was if dining dollars could provide something that meal equivalencies couldn’t,” Aquino said.
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UM asbestos findings not disclosed
Changing of the guard
New 'Hurricane' adviser named
From The Hurricane Staff
Not only is there a new Editor in Chief at The Miami Hurricane next term, but there will also be a new adviser.
Bruce Garrison, journalism professor, announced he was stepping down as adviser to The Hurricane after publication of this term’s final issue on April 28.
Taking Garrison’s position will be Sigman Splichal, an assistant professor in news-editorial journalism at the School of Communication who specializes in media law and ethics.
Garrison, who has been Hurricane adviser for 10 years, is leaving the post to pursue personal interests and put more attention in his classes and research in the field.
“We hate to see Garrison go, but I'm sure Splichal will do an excellent job," said Editor in Chief Fernando Battaglia. “He was widely considered as one of the best candidates for the position.”
Incoming Editor in Chief William Wachsberger said he is looking forward to working with Splichal and expects the transition to be a smooth one.
By LOUIS FLORES
Assistant Nows Editor
In the past eight years, 25 asbestos abatement projects have been conducted at UM, and among them was the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the School of Medicine campus.
This building, which was opened in May 1992, contained asbestos, that needed to be removed last November.
A control room on the first floor, a corridor on the second floor and a construction area on the third floor of the center were named as sites of asbestos removal in a Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management notice.
Dean Banks, vice president of marketing for Federal Construction Company, the Center’s contractor, said he does not know of asbestos being found in the center.
“We would have no knowledge categorically that asbestos was used in the building," Banks said. “There is no specification in any building that we do that calls for asbestos.”
Banks said although the DERM notice names the site as the "University of Miami - Sylvester Cancer Clinic,” if asbestos was found in the newly constructed center, as general contractor. Federal Construction would have been notified.
“The installer would be notified of asbestos. We have never been notified,” Banks said. “That does not mean it was not there. Typically, in an instance when a fault is found, the owner notifies the installer because of liability and warranty reasons.”
Banks said he could not imagine asbestos still being used today in building construction.
“It boggles my mind that asbestos would have been put in recent construction, especially in a health treatment center,” Banks said. “Our firm would never allow asbestos to be used in a building construction."
According to Paul Woodbury, a project manager for UM Facilities Planning and Construction, on-going abatement projects pose no harm to students.
However, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) suggests that students need to educate themselves on asbestos-related health concerns.
Steve Jones, a cancer information specialist with the regional office of the NCI’s Cancer Information Services at the School of Medicine, said that asbestos has been classified as a carcinogen by the NCI.
In referring to a fact sheet published by NCI, Jones named five major illnesses associated with exposure to airborne asbestos.
See ASBESTOS, page 2