Miami Hurricane, January 23, 1996

              1995 MOVIE WRAP UP
Film Critic Ruben Rosario looks back at films released in 1995. See if his Top 10 list matches yours.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL ENDS SKID
The Hurricanes defeated the Pittsburgh Panthers Saturday night, 66-57, snapping a three-game conference losing streak.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1996	UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • CORAL GABLES, FLA.	VOLUME73, NUMBER 28
NEWS
LITERACY TUTOR CROUP TO HOLD TRAINING
The Florida Student Literacy Network (FSLN) will be holding training for students interested in becoming literacy tutors. The training will be held Feb. 3 at Eaton Residential College Room 148.
Students who went through training last semester will have a follow-up session at 10 a.m. Breakfast foods will be served afterward. New volunteer training will begin at noon.
This literacy program is called Time To Read. Sponsored by Time-Warner, Inc., the program incorporates magazines, music videos and training manuals to help improve learner literacy.
Materials and T-shirts will be provided for volunteers. For more information, contact Volunteer Services at 284-GIVE.
PICNIC TO BE HELD AT GIFFORD ARBORETUM
The John C. Gifford Arboretum will hold its annual picnic Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The Arboretum is a collection of native and exotic trees, established in the 1970s. Recently the Arboretum has been experiencing a rebirth.
Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are invited to tour the Arboretum. The new plant checklist is available for purchase and free baked goods and drinks will be provided.
The day’s events are co-spon-sored by Earth Alert, Friends of the Gifford Arboretum, Master Gardeners and are supported by the City of Coral Gables.
For more information, call 284-5364.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SUPERWALK '96
Dade County elementary and middle school children will walk through Metrozoo to benefit the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation Friday.
The SuperWalk registration begins at 9 a.m. The walk itself begins at 9:30 a.m.
Volunteers are needed to assist SuperWalk organizers and participants. For information on how to help, contact Luis Suarez at 477-1192.
SHUTTLE BUS BEGINS TRIPS TO RSMAS
A shuttle bus running to Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences began running yesterday.
The shuttle will meet the Metrorail at the Museum of Science station every 20 minutes between 9 and 11:30 a.m. and between 2:30 and 5 p.m.
Free Metrorail tokens will be available at the Marine Science office during January.
QUICK FACT
A host of personalities have received honorary Doctorate degrees from the University of Miami. Here's a list of some of the most recognizable ones:
1930 Glenn Curtiss 1941 Edward Rickenbacker 1946 Winston Churchill 1952 Marjory Stoneman Douglass
1963 Arthur Fiedler 1970 Yitzhak Rabin 1974 Claude D. Pepper 1976 John D. Pennekamp 1988 DanteFascell H. Ross Perot
1993	Gloria Estefan
1994	Janet Reno Wynton Marsalis
ARMANDO BONICHE/Hurricane Stati
Law school
professor
recognized
Endowed chair named after Richard Hausier
By SUZY BUCKLEY
News Editor
The University of Miami School of Law celebrated the creation of its first endowed chair by honoring a longtime professor Friday night at the Biltmore Hotel Country Club in Coral Gables
About 575 people attended the dinner held in honor of Professor Richard A. Hausler, who has taught at the UM School of Law for 47 years.
“He is an outstanding, gifted teacher ... a legend in his time," said President Edward T. Foote, one of many dignitaries present at the awards dinner. "Hausler has touched the lives of many thousands of lawyers and judges and has made a difference in the law. I hope he will continue to do so for a long time to come."
Those also attending the program included UM School of Law Dean Samuel Thompson, Marshall Shapo, law professor at Northwestern University and Samuel Smith, secretary of the American Bar Association.
Joseph P. Klock, chairman of the Richard A. Hausler Endowed Chair
Committee and chairman/man-aging partner of Steel, Hector and Davis, gave an opening speech followed by dinner, remarks by Foote, a video tribute to Hausler and comments from his peers. Hausler him-	EMILY KEHE/Staff Photographer
self concluded the program UM School of Law Professor Richard Hausler had
with his “Rebuttal."	the school':
"I’m delighted that we could somehow help the university and have people contribute to this worthy cause,” Hausler said. “It is extremely important that we find ways to ensure UM’s continuing accomplishments into the next century"
Thompson said the night’s event celebrated the completion of fundraising for the endowed chair and was one of the largest gatherings of Miami law alumni he can recall.
John Ely Hart, who has taught law at Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities, was named as the first recipient of the endowment.
Hausler said he was most honored
; first endowed chair named after him,
because it meant that his students have appreciated the unique role law plays in democratic institutions.
“Somehow, some way, the students have understood the worth of making contributions,” he said.
Hausier’s former students include Roy Black, defender of William Kennedy Smith, and U.S. District Court Judge Lenore Nesbitt.
“He is a thespian at heart ... he belongs on stage,” said T.J, Sabo, a third-year law student. "He has a style of his own—it’s progressive, it’s demanding, but at the same time you realty come out knowing what you’re there to learn.”
AN ARTISTIC DAY
Rebecca Barbot Perry (above) gazes at the paintings, pottery and tiles of Tandy Miles Riddle of Livingston, Mont, at the 45th Annual Beaux Arts Festival this weekend. Riddle (left) discusses the meaning behind her art with a customer during the event.
Photos by FAYE CAREY/Photo Editor
Partial
power
failure
strikes
By KELLY RUANE
Associate News Editor
For about five hours on Sunday, residents of Hecht and Stanford Residential Colleges were in the dark after a power shortage was caused by a fuse blown from the main wire.
“It was a process of elimination to determine where the problem existed,” said Wayne Hart, assistant director of Utilities and Energy of UM Physical Plant.
Florida Power and Light connected the problem to a main wire.
“We didn’t find any problem. All it was was a lateral, the main wire that connects from the substation,” said Ed Duchane, emergency services coordinator for Florida Power and Light.
Duchane said the power went out at 4:30 p.m. Some residents said they thought they heard a loud, booming sound.
"I was in a friend's room and we were watching TV and all of a sudden I heard a boom, and you could hear all the car alarms going off,” said freshman Matthew Center.
Center said when he returned to his room, he found
that his lights worked, but his television did not. He had power on only one side of his room, and he had no air conditioning.
Kelly Gajewski, a resident assistant at Hecht, said the buildings were able to operate on half-power because of a generator.
“We were running on a generator. Some rooms had no air conditioning and the elevators were not working,” Gajewski said,
Gajewski said residents at Hecht complained about the elevators not working. Other complaints came because the smoke detectors kept sounding.
Emily Turner, a customer service representative at UM Physical Plant, fielded calls about the smoke detectors after the power went out.
"The smoke detectors and the fire alarms were working. People were calling to complain because they keep beeping," Turner said.
The shortage also affected the Hecht-Stanford Dining Hall.
"The food was already cooked [when the power went out). The only reason we stayed open was to make sure people were fed,” said Nicole Hume, a DAKA employee who works at the dining hall.
"We let people take the food with them in case they [didn’t] want to stay, because the air conditioner vents aren’t working," Hume said.
Employees at the George A. Smathers Student Wellness Center vacated the building at 6:30 p.m. as a safety precaution. About half an hour later, the Wellness Center's power was shut off.
“I’m not sure how the circuiting is, but some problem in the Wellness Center vault caused the power loss in the high-rise towers, so we had to shut the power off there so they could isolate the problem,” Hart said.
FPL checked the transformers and main fuses.
"The service was out for two hours and 45 minutes. The power was turned back on at 6:45 p.m.,’’ Duchane said.
Even though the power was officially on at 6:45 p.m., power was not fully regained in the residence halls until about 10 p.m. Sunday. The Wellness Center did not regain power until Monday morning, Hart said.
However, the Wellness Center was not open at press time after it was learned the ventilation system suffered damage from the power outage, said A1 Rose, assistant director of Campus Sports and Recreation,
Managing Editor William Wachsberger contributed to this report.
Honor Council hears record number of cases
Nine cases will be heard this semester
By MADELINE BARO
Assistant News Editor
The Honor Council heard a record number of cases last fall.
Since the beginning of the 1995-96 academic year, 16 honor code violations have been reported to the Honor Council. Thai equals the number of cases the council heard in the record-setting ’94-’95 school year.
“Last semester was the most productive for the honor council,” said Dave Steinfeld, graduate assistant in the Dean of Students office. “It's
going to be the most cases received in a year, two years in a row.”
Steinfeld said the increase is due to a program the council started in the fall of 1994 to increase awareness of the Honor Council and its procedures.
"It really was underutilized by faculty," he said.
Steinfeld said althouth there was an increase in cases, it does not signify an increase in cheating at UM.
"We can assume that the dramatic number of cases is merely an increased response by the faculty,” he said.
Seven of the 16 cases were heard by the council last semester. The rest will go to a hearing this semester.
The latest case heard involved a student who
had someone impersonate him in order to take the CLAST test. The student was originally expelled, but the sanction was reduced to suspension by the Selection and Appeals council.
Other cases included one where students in a biology lab were collaborating on lab reports and copying from other students. In another case, a student wrote formulas on the palm of her hand for a math examination.
“We always have some really good ones,” Steinfeld said.
Sophomore Cerise Mullings said she thinks that students will cheat whether they sign the honor code or not.
“I’m sure a lot of people who sign it don’t give it much thought,” she said.
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Case Log
Here's a breakdown of the 88 cases the Honor Council has heard since 1986:
Type of violations:
Cheating	38
Plagiarism	17
Collaboration	10
Academic Misconduct 24
Results of violations:
Suspension	32
Probation	43
Reprimand	6