Miami Hurricane, February 24, 1995

              BULLS NEXT FOR UM
Two-game series at University of South Florida next for surging Hurricanes after 7-4 victory over FIU.
SPORTS, page 8
FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 24, 1995
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 36
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AN ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS HALL OF FAME NEWSPAPER
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AIDS WALK TO RAISE FUNDS, AWARENESS
The annual AIDS Walk Miami is from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. It begins at South Pointe Park on South Beach.
All students, faculty, staff, friends, and family are invited to participate. Participants should look for the “A Week for Life” signs and t-shirts at the park to find out where to sign up.
Last year, UM won a trophy for the most walkers from a college or university, beating out rival Florida International University.
TSONGAS TO SPEAK ABOUT DEFICIT
Paul Tsongas, former senator from Massachusetts and presidential candidate, will be giving a talk about the federal deficit and his ideas on how to reduce it. There will be a question and answer session, as well as an opportunity to meet the senator following his talk. He will be speaking from noon to 2 p.m. on March 2 in the Hecht Residential College Master’s Apartment.
The program will be informal. Beverages and dessert will be provided. The program is sponsored by Student Government, the Department of Student Activities, and Hecht Residential College. For more information on the program, contact Kim Mallery at the Department of Student Activities at 284-5646.
LEGAL SOCIETY PLANS "FIVE ALARM BASH"
The Five Alarm Bash is the Cardozo Legal Society's annual benefit for the United Jewish Appeal. This is the sixth year of the event. It will be at 9 p.m. on March 2 at Tobacco Road, 626 South Miami Ave. in downtown Miami. Free parking will be available.
A rock band will provide the entertainment for the evening. The name of the group is the RemainderMen, a pun on a legal term. The band is made up of attorneys, mostly UM School of Law graduates.
Cardozo’s Vice President of Membership Laura Weinfeld said, ‘‘There are two main reasons [to attend]. It will be a lot of fun, and it's for a good
cause.”
Tickets may be purchased for $5 in advance at Hillel Jewish Student Center, 1101 Stanford Dr., across from Mahoney/Pearson, or $8 at the door. All proceeds will be donated to the United Jewish Appeal.
The benefit is only open to those 21 and older.
IBIS EDITOR POSITION OPEN FOR ELECTION
Students interested in the editor in chief position for the Ibis Yearbook must attend the Student Publications Board meeting at 7:30 a.m. an March I is UC 211. Candidates must have a minimum 2.75 guide point average and be full -time undergraduate students. For more information, contact *• Raymonde Bilger at 284-4922.
NEWS
Dr. Ruth speaks to UM students about AIDS.
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OPINION
SAT's are not the best way to test scholastic aptitude.
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ACCENT
Flesh to play Button South tonight. The metal band opens for Extreme.
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SPORTS
Hurricanes improve to 12-10 by shocking Seton Hall 61 -57 at Miami Arena.
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SG candidates present platforms on WVUM
By SARA FREDERICK
Assistant News Editor
The 1995 Spring Student Government Presidential Debate was held Tuesday afternoon on (WVUM 90.5 FM) junior Cris Pellerano, public relations director for WVUM, mediated the debate, in which all four presidential candidates participated.
In the debate, candidates answered questions about topics such as their platforms, how they felt SG represented the student body, why they wanted to be SG
president and how they would implement programs described in their platforms.
Junior Monica Aquino, representing the Your Voice platform, said she felt that she and her running mates had the experience in SG needed to implement ideas, as well as the diversity to fully represent the student body.
“My ticket has already gone out there. Our platform ideas are not our own ideas per se, but the ideas of the students," Aquino said.
Jonny Becker, a senior running
for SG president on the Women and Children First ticket, said campus activities are not publicized well enough for students to become interested.
“I never hear about anything that happens on campus, and it’s a real shame because I really have nothing to do,” Becker said.
Junior Randy Gilbert, who is running for SG president on the ForUM ticket, named safety as being one of the biggest concerns on campus.
“Students are not going to come
to classes here if they’re getting raped," Gilbert said. “There should be 24-hour security.”
Junior John Rondinelli, who is running for SG president on the Students’ Choice platform, referred to students' general lack of interest where involvement in student organizations is concerned.
“Students just don’t have any reason to be motivated to get involved to do things for Student
See SG, page 2
FOR MORE ON SG ELECTIONS
^ VP candidates debate at Rat, page 2.
^ Meet the candidates for SG president and vice president, page 3.
^ Overview of referendums on the ballot, page 3.
^ The Hurricane recommends, page 4.
Louganis admits he has AIDS
WIUJAM LAI /Assistant Photo Editor
■ Michelle Weaver is treated by Coral Gables Fire Rescue personnel following a car accident at Ponce De Leon Boulevard and Stanford Drive involving Mercedes Weaver, UM freshman Lawemce Newman, and a UM Hurry Canes Shuttle.
Lack of traffic lights leads to accident
■ The Olympic champion
will discuss his illness tonight on ABC's 20/20.
By FERNANDO BATTAGLIA
Editor in Chief
A non-functioning traffic light led to a three-car crash Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Stanford Drive and Ponce de Leon Boulevard.
The accident involved a UM student in a Toyota and a Hurry Canes Shuttle bus. Neither vehicle was charged with the accident, which occurred at about 2:15 p.m.
Freshman Lawrence Newman was driving north on Stanford Drive crossing Ponce when a 1991 Nissan Stanza driving west on Ponce passed through the intersection without stopping. Since the traffic lights weren’t working, the drivers should have reacted as if there was a four-way stop sign.
Newman said he hit the back of the Stanza, which spun around and hit a Hurry Canes Shuttle which was making a left turn onto Ponce.
“She just came flying, doing like 45 or 50 [miles per hour],” said Newman.
According to Newman, the driver of the Stanza claimed she did not notice the signals were out, mistaking the sun’s glare for a green light.
Mercedes Weaver, 6570 S.W. 77 Terrace, was the driver of the Stanza. She could not be reached for comment at press time. She is being charged with the accident according to police reports.
No major injuries were repoted. Weaver and her daughter, Michelle, 10, were both taken to Doctors’ Hospital, 5000 University Drive, by Coral Gables Fire Rescue. Neither one is still in the hospital, according to the emergency unit at Doctors’.
Newman said he has experienced headaches and backaches since the crash and went to see a doctor yesterday.
The driver and passengers of the Hurry Canes Shuttle were treated at the scenes by Gables Fire Rescue.
Rosa Pietro, of Florida Power & Light said the non-functioning street lights were not related to recent power outages at the University.
DUNCAN ROSS III /Assistant Photo Editor ■ The Nissan Stanza driven by Mercedes Weaver lies against a Hurry Canes Shuttle following the accident in front of Mahoney Residential College.
By WILUAM WACHSBERGER
Managing Editor
Tonight on ABC’s 20/20 news-magazine show, four-time Olympic gold medalist and former UM diving team member Greg Louganis will discuss how he has been coping with the fact he is a person living with AIDS.
Louganis, who was on the UM dive team in 1980, revealed to 20/20 reporter Barbara Walters he was diagnosed HIV positive six months prior to winning the gold medal in the three-meter platform competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul,
Korea.
The 35-year-old LOUGANIS gold medalist is the only diver to ever capture both platform and springboard gold medals in consecutive Olympic games, in 1984 and 1988.
In Seoul, viewers may remember Louganis striking the back of his head on the diving board in the middle of the three-meter contest. He had cut himself, got stitched up and returned to win a gold medal.
However, Louganis did not inform doctors or officials of being HIV-positive. He says he was concerned about revealing his illness at that time because of repercussions that would follow.
At the 1994 Gay Games in New York, Louganis revealed he was homosexual, and in his interview with Walters, he tells of how a close friend died of the killer disease that caused him to worry.
Besides four gold medals, the diver won many championships during his career including five world diving championships (the 1978 platform title, the 1982 and 1986 platform and springboard titles), three Pan American championships, 48 national titles (including UM’s first national titles in both 1- and 3-meter springboard diving events) and the Sullivan Award in 1984. The Sullivan Award is given to the number one amateur athlete in the nation.
Louganis is one of many athletic super-stars who have contracted HIV/AIDS, including former Olympic basketball “Dream Team” member and former Los Angeles Laker Magic Johnson as well as the late tennis legend Arthur Ashe.
FPL snag leads to blackouts
■ FP&L	WILUAM WACHSBERGER
Managing Editor
and UM	The wind was calm. The skies were clear. The air
was a cool 55 degrees. Then, the lights went out. officials	The University suffered a partial blackout twice in
the early morning hours Wednesday, thus causing SOY DOWer confusion and a bit of pandemonium amongst resi-,	dential students.
will be	“No one knew what was going on when the emer-
■ rr	gency lights turned on,” said freshman Angie Myer,
turned ott	who was in her dorm room at Mahoney Residential
College when the power went out at approximately
one more i2:i5a.m.
..	. What was going on, according to Michael White,
Time next	director of the Physical Plant, was that Rorida Power
i	and Light was scheduled	to	have	a	five-minute elec-
WeeK.	trical shutdown at	midnight,	but	hit	a snag.
“While FP&L was in the electric vault getting set to run a new electrical feed to the Law School, a fuse
blew," White explained. “They had to go to an auxiliary feed to restore power
“What was supposed to be a five-minute shutdown became a 30-minute power outage,” said White.
Then, at approximately 2 a.m., FP&L and Physical Plant personnel attempted to switch feeds again. However, they hit another snag, causing another outage.
White said that “a significant part of the campus was out of power until 3 a.m. And, the power was turned off again from 7-8 a.m., Thursday morning for more work."
Rosa Prieto, FP&L representative to UM, confirmed that the construction at the Law School forced FP&L to reconfigure the electrical system.
Senior Patrick Szutar, a resident assistant for Building 36 in the Apartment Area, 1218 Dickinson Drive, said that he and his residents in his building seemed worried when the lights went out.
“I was on my computer working on a project when the lights went out. Fortunately, I have an auto saver,” he said. “I immediately went out to talk to some of the residents to see what was going on.”
Across the street at Eaton Residential College, sophomore A.J. Dickerson was visiting a friend during the first power failure.
“As the lights went off, I went out in the hall where this guy came out of his dorm screaming ‘No! No!’ as if he had lost something he was doing on a computer,” said Dickerson.
White said that the power failures Wednesday morning caused minimal damage, including to a chilled water pump for air conditioning for the third floor and up in the Ashe Building.
There is another power shutdown planned for some time next week during hours not many people could be affected. The day and time, however, has not been decided.
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