Miami Hurricane, February 18, 1994

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VOLUME 71, ISSUE 33
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1994
Law School library expansion scheduled to open in May
By A8HLEY RAMSEY and CAROLYN GONZALEZ
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Construction at the UM Law School Library is scheduled to be completed by early May, said Patrick Gudridge, associate dean.
With approximately 1,300 full time students in the Law School and an incoming class of about 400 students, Dean Gudridge said it was time to expand the facilities.
"It will be a more attractive, multi-purpose facility,” Gudridge said. He said when the renovations are finished, "this will be one of the best law libraries in the country.”
The new facilities will double the stack
space to accomodate the school's growing library. Faculty will move into the perimeter of new additions and 13 new study rooms will be included in the building.
"We need the book space and the students need the studying space,” said UM law professor Dr. Steven Winter. “We’ll have a much better facility after it is completed.”
There will also be two computer labs, complete with a facility-wide networking system.
“We want to make it a comfortable place in which to work,” Gudridge said.
Some law school students said the continuous construction has caused some inconveniences.
“It can get annoying. Sometimes we are driven to the undergraduate library,” said Jim Sallah, a UM law student.
The general consensus among the law students though is one of relief that something is finally being done.
"The library is dingy and crowded,” said Joseph Lallouz.He added it was "absolutely necessary that the library be updated.”
Work on the South wing, which will be the permanent location of the library, is scheduled to begin next summer and last about six months. Renovations to the North wing are included in the the last stage of the project.
SEAN HEMMERIE/Staff Photographer
■ MAZE OF CONSTRUCTION: Charlie Trinkle helps construct the new law library.
Speakers urge end to genocide in Bosnia
By SHAUN WILEY
Hurricane Staff Writer
Ten years ago, all eyes were on Bosnia for the 1984 Winter Olympics games held in Sarajevo.
What a difference a decade makes.
Now, 140,655 people are dead, 155,839 are wounded and 200,000 suffer from malnutrition.
"History is repeating itself,” said Brian Becher, senior and secretary for UM Amnesty International. "No one is learning the lessons of the past.”
A candlelight vigil to express student's desires to stop the
¥enocide in Bosnia was sponsored uesday night at lake Osceola as part of national “Night of Hope for Bosnia Aid.”
The Hillel Jewish Student Center and UM Amnesty International sponsored the vigil. More than 100 campuses nationwide took part in vigils.
The vigil’s goal was to raise student awareness of the situation in the former Yugoslavia.
Becher said Hillel hoped to start a campus wide coalition of six student organizations for UM monetary and clothing aid to Bosnia.
"People need to know this can happen to anyone, anywhere, even here," Becher said.
About 16 students and faculty members held small white candles, four speakers read short statements detailing the horrors of the Bosnia situation and urging people to care and not be silent.
At the vigil, participants watched films of the horrors in the territorial dispute between the Serbs and the Croatians. A banner and petitions to be sent to President Bill Clinton were signed by more than a dozen students urging the genocide to stop.
Laura Zel, director of Student Activities for Hillel, said she was disappointed at the small student turnout.
"I’m disappointed that more students didn’t come. It would be sad to think that the students did not care. I’m hoping that it was a case of having late classes,” Zel said.
Zel urged students to step up and be heard.
“Students need to know that they can make a difference,” she said. "They need to get involved."
The 20th century was certainly the bloodiest with two world wars. But I’m not at all sure that the 21st century is going to be better.”
STETSON KENNEDY Journalist
CHRIS BERNACCHI/Photo Editor
■ SIGN FOR PEACE: Tom Cordaro, director of the campus ministry at St. Augustin’s, signs a banner calling for an end to the genocide in Bosnia at a Vigil at Eaton on Tuesday.
Police: fine for driver who killed student
By LISA J. HURIASH
Associate News Editor
The driver who killed UM sophomore Mark Spiegel in a head-on collision on Dec. 3 won’t pay more than a $500 fine and won't serve any jail time,
Marathon Police said.
Edgar Napoleon Rivas, 27, of Miami, was cited with improper lane change for crossing over the two-lane highway into Spiegel's southbound lane on _ „ ,	.
U.S. 1. The ■ Spiegel charge is a civil infraction with a penalty of no more than a $500 fine, said Corporal Michael Long, of the Marathon Police Depart-
“My wife wants this guy prosecuted. This is crazy justice. An honors student at [UM] gets killed and nothing is going to happen. That’s what it boils down to.”
DAVID SPIEGEL Mark Spiegel’s father
ment.
“There was nothing else technically wrong,” Long said. "[Rivas] wasn't drunk or on drugs. He had just finished eating at a local restaurant and just went into a daze.”
Rivas will appear at the Marathon Courthouse at 1 p.m. March 3 for trial. Craig Kaiser, a UM junior and Spiegel’s Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity brother, was in the Ford Escort with Spiegel on the way to Key West for winter vacation. Kai-
ser and other witnesses to the accident have been subpoenaed to testify.
Police say Rivas left 47 feet of skid marks and Spiegel’s car was dragged 7 to 10 feet and rotated one turn clockwise.
Spiegel, 19, a sophomore from Stamford, Conn., was taken to Fisherman’s Hospital in Marathon and then airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center two hours later.
He was suffering from head injuries, broken legs and a broken jaw.
He died two days later.
Corporal Dan Roddenberry, of the Marathon Florida Highway Patrol, said Kaiser and Spiegel’s parents could file civil litigation suits against Rivas. Neither Kaiser or the Spiegel’s have decided to file a suit to date.
"We can’t show criminal negligence,” said Roddenberry. "So we can’t send him to jail. Isn’t that a shame?”
David Spiegel, Mark’s dad, said in a telephone interview from his home in Stamford that he and his wife Sylvia, will appear in court March 3.
“My wife wants this guy prosecuted,” David Spiegel said. “This is crazy justice. An honors student at [UM] gets killed and nothing is
going to happen. That's what it oils down to.”
AEPhi chapter may become inactive
From stiff reports
After 56 years at the University of Miami, the Alpha Eta chapter of Alpha Epsilon Phi may cease to exist as an active chapter on campus.
“AEPhi is the oldest existing sorority at UM, but for the last 15 or 20 years, it has also been the smallest sorority,” said Ann Kow-ell, president of AEPhi.
“We have not been failing, but last year, we asked nationals to help us with rush,” Kowell said. “Nationals did not do this effectively."
Nobody was available from the national headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, to comment.
AEPhi didn’t have spring rush and is in good financial status, said Kowell.
"Because in the past three years, two new sororities have been established, it has made the situation for a small sorority worse,” Kowell said.
"Every chapter goes through this at some point, it is just now for us,” Kowell said. "We outsmarted ourselves. A year ago, we decided to reorganize by strengthening our leadership." She said when the national organization helped the chapter reorganize last year, all but 10 sisters either graduated or were placed on alumni status.
AEPhi got 17 pledges during fall rush, however all but seven of them eventually dropped out, including the pledge class president. Only two pledges decided to be actually initiated into the sorority.
All active sisters are submitting letters to their national organization to request alumni status.
The national organization will discuss the problem on March 3.
“They would not be pulling the charter,” said Ann Kowell. “The sisters in the chapter may decide to ask for alumni status. Whether the chapter closes or not has nothing to do with the sisters.”
An anonymous source, who left AEPhi last spring, said the morale in the organization dropped after more than 15 sisters were kicked out of the group by the national chapter.
"Nationals say they did it to improve the sorority’s image,” she said. “But the people they took were worse than the ones they got rid of. They got rid of the good people and kept the snotty little nerds. The sorority fell apart.
“The relationship between the sisters and the alumni was terrible,” she said. "The alumni didn’t want to help. They felt they were given the boot.”
Candidate interviewed for general counsel
By CHRIS CLARK
Hurricane Staff Writer
Student leaders representing Student Activities, Student Government and honor students met with University of Miami Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler Wednesday to interview the first of four candidates being considered for appointment to UM General Counsel.
As part of the selection process, student leaders are invited to interview and evaluate these candidates on their character and achievement, and aid President Edward Foote II in his decision.
Names of the four candidates will not be released until all have been interviewed and Foote has made his decision, which will most likely be in a couple of months, said Butler.
The student leaders are working
along with faculty and a selection committee headed by Vice President for Government Relations Cyrus M. Jollivette to provide valuable input for the decision, said Butler.
Over 350 hopefuls from around the country filed applications, and, after months of investigation, the field was narrowed to four, said Butler.
Butler said receptions hosted by the selection committee are being hosted for candidates to provide insight on the qualifications and character of each.
Other interviews for the remaining three candidates are scheduled for late February and March.
UM Athletic Director Paul Dee, former General Counsel, is still acting as General Counsel and will remain so until a candidate is selected.
■ BEAUTY QUEEN:
Felicia Branch was a contestant In the 1991 Ms. Black UM competition. The 1994 pageant is tonight.
8m Accent, page 6.
■	DOCTOR K: Hurricane pitcher J.D. Arteaga strikes out 10 In first win, 4-0 over FlUon Tuesday.
See Sports, page 10.
■	Should the US reform their immigration policies?
8m Opinion, page 4.
■	Was Lorena Bobbitt's sentence based on excuses?
See Opinion, page 4.
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