Miami Hurricane, September 24, 1996

              GLBC fights for a seat in the Senate
Vote to be taken on Wednesday
By KELLY RUANE
News Editor
The University of Miami Student Government Senate will vote tomorrow on whether or not to grant the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Community (GLBC) an organizational seat in the Senate.
GLBC has 180 members who participate in different activities to educate the entire UM community on sensitive issues affecting the gay/bisex-ual community.
Members of GLBC met over the summer at a retreat to set their goals for the 1996-97 school year. One of their goals was to obtain a Senate seat, because members felt they were not being properly represented in the SG Senate.
'We believe as an organization that as other student groups on campus Ido), we wanted to clearly articulate our needs " said Kent Thompson, spokesman for the GLBC "[We want) to be able to initiate bills and noi have to have [other] senators sponsor us.”
Thompson said having to go through another senator with a larger constituency does not always give GLBC a voice that understands its needs.
"Right now [we don't have] a clear voice," Thompson said. "It gi-ts filtered. Why should we have to have somebody represent us? This way [a Senate seat], people won't misinterpret what we want.”
Commuter Central Senator Alexander Llossas
agreed that GLBC deserved a Senate seat, and drafted the proposed constitutional amendment. Llossas said a Senate seat for the GLBC is important.
"Not all members of GLBC are on an equal level of comfort about their sexuality, and aren't really getting represented in the Senate," Llossas said. "It would be a major step for the GLBC and the rest of the gay and lesbian community at UM to get organizational representation."
Llossas said a GLBC seat on the Senate would benefit the entire UM community.
See GLBC • Page 2
University Center wired for Internet access
Organizations will soon have web sites
BY SHANNON LONG
Staff Writer
The Internet is becoming a popular and widely-used source of information for people all over the world and also for our campus. But student organizations based out of the University Center cannot get Internet access vet.
The problem lies with the wiring of the UC and also
with the lack of equipment that is necessary to be able to get Internet access, said Pat Whitely, director of the UC and Student Life. Whitely and the Telecommunications Department are in the process of resolving this problem.
Whitely said the University invested $7,000 toward the wiring of the UC in August.
The Telecommunications Department now is waiting to purchase some additional equipment that is necessary for the organization's computers to be capable of getting on the Internet. Once the Telecommunications Department has purchased the necessary equipment, it will be up to the University administration as to who will be able to access the Internet and to what extent
those who do will be using it.
One of the pieces of equipment that the department is waiting to buy is a "bridge”, which would separate incoming information into what stays in the building and what belongs outside the building.
At the moment, the University Center is financing the project independent of student funds. Whitely said eventually the UC may ask student organizations for help.
"The project is in the process [of being completed]," Whitely said.
Dan Westbrook, associate director of the University Center, described the project as being divided into three phases. The first phase is modernizing the wiring, so
that it will be capable of being hooked up to the Internet, which has already been completed. The second phase is getting the right equipment so organizations are able to connect the computers in the UC to the University back bone, which is necessary in order for the UC to havi internet access. The third and final phase is making thel provisions necessary for the students to access the Internet, which is more an administrative decision than
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Read a feature on Luis Miguel on page 8.
What do SoBe and life have in common? Find out on page 10.
See page 6 for an interview with Head Football Coach Butch Davis.
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Celebration to feature UM alumni, jazz band
By CRISTINA ORTEGA
Staff Writer
t The Concert on the Green, featuring Dawnn Lewis, Lisanne Lyons and the University of Miami Concert Jazz Band will commemorate UM's 70th anniversary Oct. 17 on the lawn in front of the Otto G. Richter Library.
Lewis—who played Jaleesa Vinson on the TV show A Different World—graduated magna cum laude in 1982 with a major in voice and musical theater. Lewis has written television themes, composed with saxophonist Grover Washington and performed on Broadway.
Lyons, who received her bachelor's and master'degrees from UM's School of Music, just finished a tour of the musical City of Angels As a student, she performed with UM's Concert Jazz Band.
The band tours nationally and recently received an award for a student recording from Downbeat magazine.
"The concert is going to be fabulous. It's going to be great. People can take blankets and food and sit under the stars to listen to great jazz
See 70th • Page 2
For 70 years, University of Miami students have celebrated their school.
The University is preparing to honor its anniversary in October, with a concert and other events to keep the spirit alive.
EMILY REID KEHE/Art Director
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Photo courtesy of the IBIS Yearbook.