Miami Hurricane, April 26, 1994

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VOLUME 71, ISSUE 49
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26,1994
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Trustees issue statement: Hateful ads will not run
By DARIN KLAHR
Contributing Editor
With another University of Miami supporter threatening to pull back a significant donation to the University, the UM Board of Trustees condemned the Miami Hurricane’s decision to publish an April 12 advertisement that questioned evidence of the Holocaust gas chambers in Washington’s U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
At their annual retreat in Boca Raton, Fla., the trustees unanimously adopted a statement that reaffirmed "the premise that freedom of thought and expression must be protected,” and then directed UM President Edward T.
IN OUR OPINION
Editorial decisions must rest with staff
The University has not officially said they will begin censoring decisions made by the editorial staff of The Miami Hurricane. They are going to review current policies.
Legally, President Foote and the Board of Trustees can do this. As a newspaper funded bv the student activity fee and a newspaper at a private university, President Foote is the publisher.
A statement was issued by the Board of Trustees on Saturday stating "We also reaffirm the premise that freedom of thought and expression must be protected, especially at a university."
They continue, "we endorse the President’s efforts already underway to develop new guidelines for advertisements in student publications according to accepted standards of media ethics and professionalism. Hateful and misleading advertisements should be rejected.” These statements are in direct contrast. Making rules which disallow ideas, even hateful ones does not allow for freedom of thought.
Resolved: The current staff of The Miami Hurricane will not work for a paper for which we are not allowed to make our own decisions. The paper cannot be dictated or even approved of by the Board of Trustees. When what a newspaper can do is controlled from the outside, it ceases to be a newspaper — it is another division of public relations.
There is a division between advertising policy and the editorial side of any paper; rules exist on both sides. These rules can not and presently do not reject any idea. They guide editors in judgement - as they always hare.
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Foote II to initiate a review into The Hurricane’s editorial and advertising policies. He spoke about the review and possible changes Sunday to The Hurricane editorial staff and its business manager.
The review could amount to sweeping changes in the process of how The Miami Hurricane is published.
“[The trustees’] concern was about the advertisement, about the degree of freedom given to students, about the impact on the community and the importance of maintain an open and free atmosphere for full, free intellectual discussion but not one that is perme-
ated by hatred and mean-spirited kind of discussion,” Foote said.
Robert Ewen, son of the late musicologist David Ewen, wrote a letter to William Hipp, dean of the School of Music, asking to revoke his father’s endowed scholarship because of “the Anti-Semitic trash that appeared in The Hurricane,” referring to the revisionist Holocaust ad.
“I’m thinking about withdrawing my support over what happened because I don’t see any sign of change from whatever happened," Ewen, who lives in Miami, said Friday. Although Ewen wrote in his letter that he was the legal executor of his father's estate, he
refused to comment further on the matter in an interview.
‘Long-term effects'
Hipp said Ewen was the only person he was aware of who wanted to withdraw an endowed scholarship. Previously, Sanford Ziff, founder of Sunglass Hut, had said he would cancel a $2 million donation to the Lowe Art Museum and Sylvester Cancer Research Center. Foote said he has tried to contact Ziff but they have not talked. The donation, Foote said, has not been officially withdrawn.
Music students have been receiving the Ewen scholarship since 1986.
David Ewen was a renowned musicologist who wrote over 85 books, including biographies and criticisms on music and received a honorary doctorate from UM. He died in 1985 and in his will, set up a trust fund to be used for a scholarship to be given annually to School of Music students based on talent and need.
"This is a major blow,” School of Music Assistant Dean Jo Faulmann said. "This has hurt us a lot. Legal action will have to take place to revoke that.” Faulmann administers the scholarships and said the Ewen scholarship is awarded in varying amounts based on an indefinite trust fund. Faulmann said it
was one the eight richest scholarships that the school awards, usually to two students with amounts ranging $1,000-2,000 a student.
“This could have long-term effects on the University," Faul-mann said. She said she feels The Hurricane is “solely responsible for this.”
The fundraising consequences, she said, are already evident.
"There were some things in the works, that I'm not free to disclose, that may have been put on hold or canceled,” Faulmann said.
Foote said Sunday while the board discussed the repercussions
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Braving the elements
New General Counsel found in Dade County
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■ CONSTANT CRAVING: Adjunct professor Elaine Goncalves braves Friday’s storm for a slice of pizza. Storms have assaulted the University ot Miami (or days, causing flooding in School of Communication offices and in other areas around campus.
By CHRIS CLARK
Hurricane Staff Writer
Robert L. Blake, Division Chief in the Dade County Attorney’s Office for Health and Human Services, was appointed vice president and general counsel at the University of Miami Friday by President Edward T. Foote, ending a yearlong search to fill the seat vacated by Athletic Director Paul Dee.
Blake, who is also an Assistant County Attorney of the Public Health Trust Division and a Howard University graduate, has handled thousands of legal matters involving the UM-Jackson Memorial Hospital. Blake's appointment is effective June 1.
“[UM General Counsel] is a new challenge,” said Blake. “You need technical competence. You need to know the law and interpersonal ability.”
Blake said he liked the Miami community because it is a "crucible of cultures” and a “very interesting mix.”
“1 see my appointment as a tribute to the quality of attorneys in the County Attorney’s Office,” he added.
"We are fortunate that Mr. Blake will be joining the university’s leadership team,” Foote said. “Mr. Blake’s qualifications and recommendations are exceptional.” Lourdes F. La Paz, associate general counsel of UM, has been promoted to deputy general counsel and named a corporate officer as secretary of the university, Foote also announced Friday. She will oversee the UM legal staff.
Blake was one of five hopefuls the University has interviewed over the past three months in its search to fill the seat.
Over 350 candidates from around the country applied before the field was narrowed to five, said Vice President of Student Affairs William Butler. Student leaders representing Student Activities, Student Government and the Honors Program met with these five finalists both interviewing and evaluating them as part of the selection process.
These evaluations were sent to President Foote to aid him in his decision.
Other candidates interviewed for the position include:
■ Neil J. Hamburg, the Associate General Counsel of the University of Pennsylvania. Hamburg,
"(DM General Counsel] is a new challenge. You need to know the law and interpersonal ability.”
ROBERT BLAKE new General Counsel
UPenn’s Associate General Counsel since 1986 and a graduate of its law school, said he would love the opportunity to move up the legal ladder and become UM’s number one man. He has never lost a case for the University, he said.
In the interview, Hamburg was honest in answering student questions and said he read many previous issues of The Miami Hurricane to get a feel for recent campus issues and occurrences.
■	Thomas Mead Santoro, Associate Counsel of Cornell University, was the first candidate to be interviewed. Santoro has been a university lawyer for 16 years and said he saw UM and South Florida as a positive career move.
"South Florida presents tremendous opportunities and challenges for someone who wants to have the tremendous opportunities and challenges,” Santoro said. "This is an opportunity to be the General Counsel at a place that is very much the 21st century."
Santoro is an ex-Lieutenant of the United States Navy and a graduate of Colgate University and Albany Law School.
■	Becky Russell French, General Counsel at North Carolina State University and a graduate of Southern Illinois University, was also interviewed. She said she thinks one of the General Counsel’s main concerns is with student affairs. She cited her reasons for wanting to work at UM to the student interviewers.
"It will be new and it’ll be a real challenge for me,” she said.
■	Rounding out the candidates was Frederick G. Savage, Associate General Counsel at Johns Hopkins University.
Savage, a graduate of Princeton University and Georgetown University Law School, has worked in cases involving AIDS, racism, rape and assault. He told interviewers he has had limited contact with students, dealing more with the corporate side of the university.
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■ SNAKE CHARMER: Frank Rodriguez shows off his slithering friends at a damp Earth Day celebration Friday on the University Center patio.
By CATHERINE J. CALLENDER
Hurricane Staff Writer
It was a sad Sunday as the students of UM, as well as the public, gathered to hear the disturbing story of a young girl who suffered the consequences of war in Bosnia.
The war, which began in April, 1992, in the former Yugoslavia, has claimed thousands of lives.
Edina Hidicj now 15 years of age and originally form the city of Dobog, was a victim of a Serbian bomb which landed directly on the bunk, in which she and a few of her friends were hiding.
Hidic cried as she told her story to Channel 7 news and more than, 40 UM students. She expressed her pain as she mentioned the loss of her friends as well as her limbs. While wiping her eyes, she explained that it was those same eyes which opened immediately after the hit and revealed the horrible fact: her legs were gone.
Saban Basic, executive director of Bosian Children Relief, said she thinks the Serbs knew that children were hiding in the targeted building.
Sunday’s program opened with some verses read from the Koran, followed by the first speaker, Aqueela Khuddus, the Florida representative for the Bosnia Children Relief. She addressed the young people, stating that the youth of today must examine their lives and priorities.
“Don’t take your life for granted," Khuddus said.
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■ Is the Board's decision to review advertising policy of The Hurricane censorship? One student thinks so.
See Opinion, page 6.
■	Baseball's winning tradition continues.
See Sporta, page 10.
■	The new recording studio In the Weeks Center is complete.
See Accent, page 8.
■ What separates us from the rest of the apes?
See Opinion, page 5.
■ Puzzled? Check out our crossword puzzle.
See Accent, page 9.
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