Miami Hurricane, January 31, 1997

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VOLUME 74, NUMBER 29________________________ WWW.HURRICANE.MIAMI.EDU_______________________________________FRIDAY, JANUARY 31,1997
LADY CANES FALL SHORT
■ The University of Miami's women basketball team fell one point short of defeating 19th-ranked Notre Dame at the Knight Sports Complex.
SPORTS, page 5
THE TRILOGY RETURNS
■ Turn to our special two-page spread covering the biggest film event of this century. Also read a review of this newly-re-released epic.
STAR WARS, pages 8 & 9
UM hosts first JazzFest
■ Festival at Gusman features student acts
By SHAWN MCRAE
Hurricane Staff Writer
The sounds of Dizzie Gillespie, Thelonius Monk and Cole Porter are brought together by high school and college students in the First Annual University of Miami JazzFest. The event was held Monday through Thursday.
Prior to the onstage performances, several groups, including the Al Hood and Grads Ensemble, Bop Brothers, Sax Quartet, and the JV Small Group, performed in the lobby.
The Fest began with the Grammy in the Schools All Star Jazz Choir. This select group of high school students were also chosen to play at the Grammy banquet.
Following their performance was the award-winning Jazz Vocal Ensemble I. In addition to touring in Japan and Italy, they have also won ten awards from DownBeat Magazine.
Both groups were under the direction of Larry Lapin, head of the Jazz Vocal Department.
Tuesday’s performances began with a piano and guitar duet by Vince Maggio and Randall Dollahon.
"We had played together many times in Foster [Music Hall, also on campus] but this was the first time in here,” said Dollahon.
Wrapping up the evening was the Ron Miller Ensemble.
Wednesday’s "Writer’s and Arranger’s Night" featured original pieces composed and performed by faculty and students.
For the finale, the Grammy in the Schools Band performed once more. UM’s Concert Jazz Band brought the Fest to a close under the direction of Whit Sidener.
HUNTER CAREY / Photo Editor
JAZZING IT UP: Freshmen Chandler Webber (foreground), Trevor Reuben, Mike Johnson and sophomore Aaron Sherwood, members of the Sax Quartet, play during Wednesday evening's performance.
Rachel Lebon, who has been involved with the jazz program for over four years, was very pleased with the JazzFest.
“I thought it would be good for the general community to bring music to the schools," Lebon said after Tuesday night's performances.
In previous years, jazz students held most events in Foster Music Hall, which is relatively smaller in relation to Gusman.
Lebon said she was pleased with the performances
"There were a little less then two hundred people here tonight. Which is great considering we didn't go into the red," said Lebon.
“Many organizations have already begun to ask how they can get involved with future JazzFests, which is also great.”
Although this year’s Fest included faculty and students, they hope to branch out next year.
Director Professor Larry Lapin, who started the JVI in 1980, added,
“This year it was small, inside faculty
Next year we're going to expand a little, a little more, with underwriting."	KEEPING TIME. Aaron Sherwood plays his baritone sax Wednesday.
HUNTER CAREY / Photo Editor
Council
elects
Schiller
■ IFC President has already set goals for term
By KELLY RUANE
News Editor
University of Miami junior Neil Schiller, a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, was elected to a one-year term as president of the Interfratemity Council (IFC) on Tuesday night.
Schiller, who had run in the past for treasurer and president of IFC, said he was glad to be elected.
The IFC executive board for the next year will be made up of Chaz Slane. first vice president, Paul Amelchenko, second vice president. Mike VonderAhe, treasurer and Chris Candelora, secretary.
Schiller has already set goals for himself based on his platform.
“I ran on a platform of the ‘three P’s’: power, public relations and programming," Schiller said.
His main goal is to increase the power of the IFC by working with the administration.
“[I want to] represent .• ’ 12 fraternities to the administration," Schiller said.
Schiller said a goal IFC is working on is to dispel the nega-
SCHILLER
See IFC • Page 4
CLINTON'S LAST STAND
■ Will Clinton have a traditionally lax second term, or will he take a stand to make a difference?
OPINION, page 12
news briefs
CUBAN COLLECTION DONATED TO RICHTER
The Otto G. Richter Library at the University of Miami has received a donation of important documents and other materials from the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil by Alberto Muller and Luis Fernandez-Rocha. The library will hold a reception on Wednesday, Feb. 5, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on the 8th floor of the library.
GRADUATE STUDENTS TO RECEIVE AWARDS
Graduate students will be awarded the 1997 Graduate School Dean's Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity and their faculty mentors will be announced at the Spring Graduate Faculty meeting on Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. Lunch will be provided. The graduate student award will consist of a certificate and a check for $1000. Graduate students with shared awards will receive a check for $500 each.
today's weather
PARTLY CLOUDY
Expect partly cloudy skies through most of the day. Daytime highs will hover in the mid 70s, with the wind blowing out of the north at 10 m.p.h.
- National Weather Service
This week 11 years ago, the University raised tuition 9.9 percent. The increase sparked a grassroots protest by students on the Rock.
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Black Awareness Month begins today
■ Organizers cite lack of funds
By EMILY FRIEDMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer Black Awareness Month at the University of Miami begins today with many events throughout the month to honor and celebrate the contributions of black Americans.
Steve Clark, director of Multicultural Student Affairs, said, "The purpose of Black Awareness Month [BAM] is to provide educational opportunities to the entire UM community.”
This year has a campuswide calendar of events.
"The events will give the UM community a chance to understand, experience and celebrate black Americans," Clark said.
Clark said this is the first year BAM will have a centralized, campuswide calendar.
Lisa Lee, BAM chairperson, said the other aim for BAM is to give black students on campus something to relate to.
Lee said she hopes students will come away with the sense that people have struggled and stood up for blacks in America.
“I hope that all students learn about black history and who our national heroes are,” Lee said.
Cornell West, professor of African-American history and religion at Harvard University, is the featured speaker for BAM.
West will spend an evening discussing the topic, "Race Matters...Or	Does It?” on
Wednesday, Feb. 19.
This year, BAM was allocated $7,000, Lee said. She said this wasn't enough money for all the activities they originally planned.
"We were not able to get the special lighting we wanted for the fash-
ion show because the lack of money limits what we are able to do," Lee said.
Lee also said the money allocated to BAM is less and less each year.
“We have to cut down on advertising and events due to the budget," Lee said.
Marc Jacobsen, assistant director of Student Life for student organizations, said, “In reality, BAM received $11, 480.25, which is $160 more than last year.”
According to Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) budget allocation reports, BAM received $7,022, plus $1,458 in
advertising and $4,000 for the Black Comedy Jam.
"Last year. BAM was allocated $358.25 in advertising. That budget was increased by one hundred dollars for this year," Jacobsen said.
Jacobsen said SAFAC is cautious about giving large amounts of money to BAM because organizers have overspent their budget by $9,300 since the 1994-95 school year.
"However," Jacobsen said, “we [SAFAC] are working closely with United Black Students to ensure a
See BAM • Page 4
School of Music students faced with more math
■ Faculty Senate votes to add more math requirements
By SABINA SABHARWAL
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami Faculty Senate convened for the first time Monday afternoon and voted unanimously to change the general mathematics requirement for students enrolled at the UM School of Music.
There are three types of degrees currently offered for music majors at UM: the bachelor of arts in music, a degree in music consisting of slightly greater than 50 percent music courses and the other 50 percent for general study.
The third degree available to music majors is a degree consisting of two-thirds music courses and one-third general study courses.
The proposed suggestion to change the mathematics requirement is directed at the last degree, for musical performance majors.
Chris Cosner, a professor at the School of Education, introduced and described the resolution at Monday's Faculty Senate meeting.
The current degree requirement for students in the School of Music consists of students taking Math 101 in addition to six credits in the natural sciences.
Cosner's proposal does not alter this requirement, but simply gives the students concerned an additional option.
Rather than taking six credits in natural
sciences along with Math 101. the students will have the choice of taking another three-credit math class after Math 101 and then three credits of natural sciences.
"Mathematics," Cosner said, “is the language of science.”
Cosner said he feels that taking another math class in addition to Math 101, will aid students in — obtaining a better understanding of the natural sciences.
Math 101,
Cosner said, is a basic algebra skills class, which will enhance a student's math skills.
Cosner said it is also important for students to take a math "thinking" course such as Math 103, which teaches students about the philosophy behind the discipline of mathematics itself.
William Hipp, dean of the School of Music, said the reason for the weaker mathematics requirement for the School of Music lies in the already rigorous requirements in order to ascertain a degree in music, leaving little room for electives.
This five-year exemption for the School of Music expired in 1995 and requirements now are being re-examined for revision.
“The School of Music does approve of the suggestion for students aiming for a two-third music content professional degree," Hipp said.
"Mathematics is the
language of science."
CHRIS COSNER School of Education

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Kitty Bob Collins, University alumna, supporter, dies
■ Former cheerleader and employee loved
the University
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By KELLY RUANE
News Editor
Kitty Bob Collins, 73, a former University of Miami cheerleader and nine-year employee of the admissions department, died Jan. 22 after a bout with pneumonia.
Collins was a cheerleader at UM in the 1940s. It was her idea to use the red-and-black hurricane warning flags at football games. After graduating from UM, she coached the cheerleading squad until she left to begin raising her family.
Collins was also a founding member of the First United Methodist Church in Coral Gables.
In 1987, she returned to UM to work at the admissions department, where she worked until her death last week.
Kathy Adrian, senior staff associate at the Admissions office, said Collins had major surgery before the Christmas break. She returned to work for a few days until she became ill.
Adrian said everyone who knew Collins loved her.
"We contacted people that had left this office who remember Kitty Bob who were very touched by her," Adrian said. "She was witty and with a great sense of humor."
At Collins' funeral service, the Athletic Department loaned the red-und-bluck hurri-
cane flags to be placed on the altar.
‘That’s how important UM was to her,” Adrian said.
University flags flew at half-staff Sunday in her honor.
Adrian said Collins was “one of a kind."
"That's probably a cliché but she really was well-loved by everyone," Adrian said. "If you met Kitty Bob, you would remember. She was just a blessing to us.”
Adrian said Collins was the "poet laureate” of the Admissions office.
“She was like our in-house poet laureate,” Adrian said. “If someone had a baby or something else, she would write them something.”
After Collins' death, Adrian found several rough drafts of poems in Collins' desk.
"I found some of her rough drafts that were written out," Adrian said. "She would give the person poems."
Adrian said Collins' family wants to plant a tree on campus to honor her.
"She really lived for the University,” Adrian said. "She was Ms. UM.”
Students loved Collins as well. Adrian said.
"Several students that worked in this office turned to her for advice and she was very witty," Adrian said. "She wasn’t your typical grandmotherly type."
Adrian said Collins' death has affected all who knew her.
"The bottom line is she loved UM and all the people she met,” -Adrian said. ‘To say it affected us is an understatement.”
In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to the UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Jackson Memorial/Universily of Miami Hospital and clinics.
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