Miami Hurricane, September 22, 1995

              UM TRAVELS TO VT
The No. 17 ranked Hurricanes head to Virginia Tech , for their first Big East match of the season.
SPORTS, Page 4
SAILING AWAY
Biology student Katie Pettibone returns to UM after sailing with America3 in the Americas Cup.
ACCENT, Page 6
SOUL ASYLUM INTERVIEW
ACCENT, Page <i
EDUCATION THREATENED?
PERSPECTIVES, Page 8
The Miami Hurricane
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1995
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • CORAL GABLES, FLA.
VOLUME 73, NUMBER 8
NEWS
BRIEFS
PUBLIC SERVICE CAREER FORUM COMES TO UM
A Public Service Career Forum will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Mahoney-Pearson Residential College classrooms.
Co-sponsored by the Toppel Career Planning and Placement Center and the University of Miami School of Law Placement Center, representatives from various agencies will present information on internship and employment opportunities in government and politics.
Participants will include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of State, Peace Corps, the Central Intelligence Agency, Metropolitan Dade County Government, and the offices of Dade County Commissioner Alex Penelas, U.S. Senator Connie Mack, U.S. Senator Bob Graham, and U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
All students are invited to attend.
For further information, contact the Department of Career Planning and Placement, 1306 Stanford Circle, 284-5451.
SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE TEAM NEEDS VOLUNTEERS
UM is in the process of re-organizing its Sexual Assault Response Team (SART).
The team needs warm, empathie, and mature male and female faculty and staff members to be service advocates for victims of sexual assault. SART is organized under the direction of the Student Counseling Center.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer member of this important team, or for more information, call 284-5511.
OPEN POETRY CONTEST TO BE HELD
The National Library of Poetry has announced that $24,000 in prizes will be awarded this year to over 250 poets in the North American Open Poetry Contest. The deadline for the contest is September 30. The contest is free and open to everyone.
Any poet, previously published or not, is eligible to win. Every poem published also has a chance to be published in a hardbound anthology.
To enter, send one original poem, any subject and style, to The National Library of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Dr., P.O. Box 704-1985, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The poem should be no more than 20 lines. The name and address of the poet should appear on the top of the page.
CHANGE:
The Florida Student Literacy Network's ‘Time to Read" training will not be held in the Eaton classrooms, as reported in the September 19 Miami Hurricane. The training has been moved to the Hecht Classrooms.
SERVICES OFFERED FOR JEWISH HOLIDAYS
Rosh Hashana services will be held at the Hillel Jewish Student Center, 1100 Stanford Drive Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Monday at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Tuesday at 9 a.m.
Yom Kippur services will be held Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 4 at 9 a.m. Memorial services will be held at 5 p.m. on that same day. Also, at 5:15 and 6:15 there will be services with a breaking of the fast following.
For more information, contact the Hillel Jewish Student Center at 665-6948.
The University receives record donations while Princeton Review gives UM poor grades.
PASS AND FAIL
THE POSITIVE Donations will aid in expansion
By AMIE PARNES
Staff Writer
Imagine what you could do with $67.8 million. UM had the opportunity to ponder this point this past year, when they received that record amount in donations.
Over the past five years donations to the University have increased by 35 percent.
“This was our best fundraising year ever," Vice President for University Advancement Roy Nirschel said. “It put us in the top 20 for total private giving to private research institutions.”
According to the department of University Advancement, alumni giving has increased by over 400 percent during the past 20 years. In 1974, UM had 6,008 alumni whose donations reached a total of $1.7 million. In 1994, UM had 14,136 alumni donors totaling $9.1 million.
“Most of our donations from our alumni come from South Florida " Nirschel said. “This year, 40 percent came from outside of Florida.”
William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, is pleased with the alumni donations.
“I'm very proud of the fact our alumni giving has increased so dramatically,” Butler said. “This not only reflects the hard work of the department of University Advancement. This can only reflect well in future years when so many of our graduates will be in a position to give financially to their alma mater.”
The recent success of fundraising has resulted in the construction and planning of approximately 20 new buildings for the University.
These buildings include the clin-
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,	DUNCAN ROSS Ill/Photo Editor
Bonnie Levengood, junior, reads up on what The Princeton Review had to report in regards to what was reported about the University of Miami as an institution.
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SUNE' WOODS/Staff Photographer Donations to UM have made many of the buildings possible including the soon-to-be-built Storer Auditorium.
GOOD NEWS
Private donations have flooded the University recently. The monies totalling $67.8 million this year will advance UM to the 21st century.
BAD NEWS
The Princeton Review feels UM lacks substance, calling the administration a "larger bureaucracy than Congress, but with less freedom."
THE NEGATIVE
‘Princeton’ gives UM low rating
By AMIE PARNES
Staff Writer
Here is what’s hot at UM: a diverse student body, class discussions, politics, intercollegiate sports and different students being able to get along.
Here is what's not: academics.
These ratings were made by UM students and faculty for the 1996 Princeton Review Guide to the Best Colleges.
Under the Student Life category, one student told the Review, “There is little on-campus entertainment, just bowling (which no longer exists) and pool.”
Another student said the greek system “is not huge, but the spirit of the members compensates for the size.”
The Princeton Review wrote "all students agree that honors students receive both priority treatment from administration and the most lavish attention of their professors.”
Sophomore Alex Lopez agreed with the Review. “Although honors students receive certain privileges, everyone should be on the same level,” said Lopez.
But some UM students said these Review quotes did not speak for them.
“Leadership-wise, the greek system does dominate the campus,” senior Mindy Young said. "Almost all organizations have greek members on them.”
Other complaints students told the Princeton Review included:
•	Under the academic category, students said “the administration is a larger bureaucracy than Congress but with less freedom.”
•	“Professors seem to be more worried about research than about teaching," one student said.
‘Times,’ ‘Post’ publish Unabomber’s manifesto
Carter takes on Cuba, meets with Mas Canosa
NEWS ANALYSIS
By LOUIS FLORES
Associate News Editor Exactly what kind of news is fit to print? And, who decides it?
Last Tuesday, The Washington Post and The New York Times decided to publish a special eight-page insert in the Post’s Sept. 19 edition the Unabomber’s 35,000 word manifesto.
The Miami Herald reported that the publishers reached their decision only after meeting with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh.
Sigman Splichal, assistant professor at the School of Communication and faculty adviser to The Miami Hurricane, said that the government's involvement is obvious.
“Based on some of the discussions that I have heard, officials with the newspapers met with government officials," Splichal said. "After that discussion, they decided to run it. That implies information was exchanged. The government asked them to do it.”
Marsha Silverman, a professor of
political science at the UM School of Business, said the federal government should not have intervened in the newspapers’ decision to run the manifesto.
“I think Janet Reno should not have requested that. It was a mistake,” Silverman said. “It gives any future terrorist a forum in national newspapers. It holds the press hostage."
Exactly what kind of duties do newspapers owe the public when it comes to protecting or preserving the public's safety? Should independent newspaper editors turn over control of their pages to domestic terrorists?
Deputy city editor Rick Hirsch of The Miami Herald said he would have done exactly what the Post and the Times did on Aug. 2 when both newspapers published excerpts of the manifesto.
“If we were to do a story about a demand such as that, publishing an excerpt from a letter would be appropriate to give readers knowledge of what was going on," Hirsch said.
“The fact that he made the demand, that’s news,” Hirsch
UNABOMBER
added.
Splichal said that there is no precedent for the actions taken by the Post and the Times.
“It poses a classical dilemma. There are two choices, both of which are bad. The first is to run it and capitulate to a terrorist for the purpose of protecting lives,” Splichal said. “And the second is not to run it, resulting in people getting killed.”
Besides trying to protect the public's safety, Splichal said that the Times and the Post are also doing something else.
“You have the press acting as a de facto form of law enforcement," he said. I But,] my gut reaction is that you don’t deal with terrorists."
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By AMELIA ESTRADA
Staff Writer
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has initiated another goodwill mission. This time it is not in North Korea or Haiti but in Cuba.
Carter met with different sectors of the Cuban community this week. Later this month, he will meet with Cuban government officials in Atlanta to begin what some are calling the “final chapter in Cuba's democratization.”
According to Jorge Camino, member of UM’s Federation of Cuban Students, Carter's mission will not be enough for a peaceful democratic transition in Cuba.
“Castro is too powerful and has too many people surrounding him,” Camino said.
Camino believes that Castro will not be willing to trade his newly acquired “socio-capitalistic" economy just for the love of democracy.
“Castro will not be willing to reject all the new income for something his hated enemy represents: democracy,” Camino said.
Another issue that has divided the Cuban community is the selective invitation of the political
groups that met with Carter. On Sept. 20, Carter met with Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the Cuban-American Foundation. He has also met with Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alfredo Duran and Ramon Cemuda.
“The exiles' viewpoints will not be represented because they only represent one-third of the Cuban community, due to that not all are involved in these organizations,” said Dori Alas-Guerra, a member of the Federation of Cuban Students.
Alas-Guerra believes it should be an open forum and that the exiles should have been consulted before Carter's mission.
However, Carter’s aim has not yet been clearly stated. Juan Carlos Espinosa, president of Cuban Studies at the UM School of International Studies, believes that Carter's only aim is to open the bridges of communication between “two out of the three parties that will have to be involved in any discussion about Cuba’s future."
Espinosa believes that in order for these talks to be aimed specifi-
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