Miami Hurricane, August 29, 1995

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The Miami Hurricane
TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1995
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • CORAL GABLES, FLA.
VOLUME 73, NUMBER 1
'NEWS
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ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL RECEIVES $6M NATIONAL GRANT
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) recently won a $6 million grant from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The grant is for a six-year study on South Florida's ecosystems. RSMAS will participate in a second $6 million, six-year study funded by NOAA to research the impact of restoration projects on Florida Bay.
Last month. RSMAS received $450,000 to fund the first year's research for the primary study and is expected to receive an additional $339.000 for the first year's work in the second study.
Mark Flarwell, director of RSMAS’s Center for Marine and Environmental Analyses, will be directing a group of multi-disciplined researchers for the primary project.
According to Harwell, this NOAA grant is one of many its size at RSMAS.
"There's a number of grants in the multimillion size," Harwell said. “We were pleased to get the grant. Something like 70 different groups applied for it."
According to Harwell, there are about 17 principal investigators. Graduate students will also be involved, bringing the total number of participants to approximately three dozen.
Harwell said that at any time in the future Congress may decide to eliminate the NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program, which is the agency’s division involved in the study. If this happens, RSMAS will lose its grants.
Harwell added that about $24 million out of about $34 million in RSMAS’s annual budget originate from federal sources.
"We are obviously excited that we got it. Ibis a very important projects. We are focusing on Biscayne Bay and Florida Keys Sanctuary. We look for this to be an important project that will be quite productive," Harwell said.
By LOUIS FLORES
BAND REFERENDUM APPROVED
The referendum allocating more money to the Band of the Hour, UM’s marching band, was approved by William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs.
The Student Activity fee will be increased by $1.50 from spring of 19% to fall of 1997. In the fall of 1997, Butler and Provost Luis Glaser will review the referendum and decide if the band will continue to receive the funds.
Last year the student body voted to pass the referendum, but there was some question as to whether or not it would receive final approval.
Karen Gardner, public relations chair of Tau Beta Sigma, the band's honorary sorority, said, "If the students hadn’t petitioned and written letters, the referendum would have never been approved by Dr. Butler."
Gardner also expressed the band's gratitude and appreciation for the student support.
The money will be used for the purchase and repair of instruments used by the Band of the Hour.
CORAL GABLES COMMISSION REJECTS HOUSING ORDINANCE
UM students returning to off-campus housing in Coral Gables can rest easier after the city commission rejected an ordinance limiting the number of unrelated occupants per housing unit..
According to David Russ, planning director for the city of Coral Gables, these plans were found to be too restrictive.
"The previously considered two unrelated persons regulation was rejected by the commission as too stringent," Russ said.
“The new regulation essentially allows two or more unrelated persons to live together as long as each has their own bedroom," Russ added.
William R, Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, noted that the issue is much broader in scope than students partying all night and making life unbearable for residents in the area.
"Ninety percent of the problem are with people who are unrelated to the University,” Butler said.
"My feeling is that while it is a complex issue, the city needs to modify the code and become more flexible,” Butler said.
By ARMANDO BONICHE
So long Ibis, Hello Food Court!
DUNCAN ROSS Ill/Photo Editor
Senior Cathy Serco and first-year law student Jennifer Dagdag take advantage of the new food court with seven various eateries to choose from, including popular fast food stops Burger King and Taco Bell.
By AMIE PARNES
Staff Writer
Freshmen, transfers, upperclassmen and faculty alike arrived to discover a new treat on campus this fall.
The newly constructed Hurricane Food Court opened last week housing seven restaurants, including nationally renowned food chains such as Taco Bell and Burger King.
"We chose the different restaurants based upon various surveys taken by students and another survey conducted by the Marriott," said Pam Chen, director of Dining Services.
Some students called the food court a far cry from the former Ibis Cafeteria.
"I think it’s a big improvement from what we were used to in past years,” senior Richie Cello said.
Many students were impressed with the food court’s facade and its service.
“It has a very large selection and a variety of food," said freshman Pat Rengstl, who added he will pay frequent visits to Burger King and Taco Bell. "It is also very well kept.”
Students are generally pleased with the food itself.
“It has real food,” freshman Delia Espinosa said. "My high school cafeteria was totally different."
Students also had complaints of the food court.
"I was ordering breakfast from Burger King the other day and they ran out of eggs,” freshman Guillermo Vildosola said. "They need to become more competent.”
“Now that it is raining, the food court is
leaking water everywhere," said Vildosola, who was standing near one of several leaking roofs.
Other complaints included the food court's 7 p.m. closing time, the absence of serving trays, the high prices and the slow-moving pace during peak times.
“It closes too early,” junior Alvin Nelson said. “I wish they would stay open a little later.”
Scott Ingold, registrar and associate dean of Enrollments, is pleased with the "nice atmosphere" and "good food" found at the Hurricane Food Court, but said that the service was sometimes inadequate.
“It needs to be picked up a little more around lunch time," he said. “It tends to get quite busy around that time.”
Another controversy included high
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Rainy return Tropical rain soaks Miami
• Coming this Friday: The Hurricane will report on the University's hurricane preparedness policy.
By SARA FREDERICK and LOUIS FLORES
Of the Staff
H is for Humberto, I is for Iris, J is for Jerry and K is for Karen.
Last Wednesday, Tropical Storm Humberto was upgraded to a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph while a tropical depression west of the hurricane strengthened became Tropical Storm Iris with 45 mph winds.
One day later, the National Hurricane Center upgraded a tropical depression off the Atlantic coast from Florida to Tropical Storm Jerry, the tenth named storm this season.
Rainer Bleck, a UM professor of meteorology and physical oceanography, said this busy hurricane season has been overhyped, and likewise, advises South Florida residents not to overreact to Tropical Storm Jerry.
"They should just try to stay dry. I don’t think we have anything to worry about except local flooding and getting oui feet wet," he said.
This hurricane season had been "predicted iO be slightly more active than average,” Bleck said. However, he reminded residents that, after all, Miami is located in a tropical region.
"Right now, we are making too much of these minimal hurricanes and the media is trying to latch on to these for a lack of other news," Bleck said.
“I think we need to heed [former National Hurricane Center Director Neil Frank's] advice and not go overboard spreading fear," Bleck said.
Three years ago, Hurricane Andrew delayed the start of school by two weeks and ravaged South Dade.
Just last October, Tropical Storm Gordon stormed through South Florida dumping large amounts of rain and causing the University to close for a day.
This summer. Hurricane Erin barely missed South Florida while Hurricane Felix veered north toward Bermuda after it seemed it was heading our way. After threatening the Mid-Atlantic states, Felix headed away from the mainland.
Tropical Storm Jerry, albeit a last-minute storm, caused the Jon Stewart concert to move from the UC Patio to Gusman Concert Hall as well as the postponement of Mahoney Madness and the President's Picnic. At press time, neither event had been rescheduled.
University cancels Sports Illustrated tour
Controversial article forces administrative decision
By SARA FREDERICK
News Editor
An administrative decision to not bring the Sports Illustrated Campus Tour to the UM campus was made this summer, following the publication of the June 12 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine, whose cover read, “Why the University of Miami Should Drop Football.”
"I didn’t think it was appropriate to have them on campus at this time, considering the article,” said Pat
Whitely, director of Student Life.
The article in question was written as an editorial and addressed to President Edward T. Foote II. The writer, Alexander Wolff, called for Foote to shut down the Hurricane football program for what he termed a “decent interval."
“The revelations of the past few months make it clear that the Miami football program has become a disease, a cancer that is steadily devouring an institution that you have
worked so hard to rid of its image of Suntan U,” Wolff wrote.
The decision to not bring the SI Campus Tour to UM was made by Whitely and Vice President for Student Affairs William R. Butler. The decision was made prior to the signing of any contractual agreement between the University and Sports Illustrated.
“We didn’t have a contract with them," Butler said. "There was no contract voided or anything like
that."
“I just think that in view of their severe attack on the University that it was not in the best interest of our University to invite them to our campus at this time," Butler continued.
Amy Leitman, chair of Special Events for Hurricane Productions, the organization which brings tours, lecture series and concerts to UM, said that she agreed with the decision of Whitely and Butler.
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Professors, students parade and speak on 19th Amendment’s 75th
By LOUIS FLORES
Associate News Editor Carrying yellow roses, holding signs and donned in sashes, the suffragists paraded.
It has been 75 years since the 19th Amendment to the U S. Constitution was passed, and for participants in the University of Miami’s commemoration of the amenment’s passage, interest and turnout was small to hear a portrayal of speeches and writings.
UM students, faculty, administrators, and others appeared before a crowd of about 20 in the UC International Lounge.
“This was a major event in American history,” said Peter Beilis, an English professor.
Beilis read a 1918 President Woodrow Wilson address to the U.S. Senate.
"I think it is important to have as many people involved in this as possible," Beilis said.
Organized by Marsha Silverman, a professor of political science, the commemoration involved the reading of 16 speeches or writings.
One such speech, made by Susan B. Anthony in 1873, was recited by Rita Deutsch, assistant dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.
‘“It was we the people, not we the white male citizens, nor we the male citizens, but we the whole people who formed the Union’" Deutsch read.
Silverman described Anthony legal problem caused by casting an illegal vote.
“Anthony intimidated young registrars into letting her vote in her home town of Rochester, New York," Silverman said. "Four months after her arrest, for the federal crime of voting, she was tried, found guilty, and fined $100, which she always refused to pay."
Kathy Driscoll, a graduate student read from a 1873 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bradwell v. Illinois.
’"The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the nohle and benign offices of wife and mother,’” Driscoll said.
The Women’s Resource Center’s new director, Renee Callan, read a quote made by race and gender rights advocate Mary Church Terrell.
Student Government President Monica Acquino read a speech delivered by Julia Ward Howe, president of the American Women's Suffrage Association. Acquino said she was participating in the commemoration because she feels women have been under-represented in politics.
"(I partipicated because] I thought it especially fitting since there hasn’t been a female [SG] president in 15 years,” Aquino said.
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