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The Miami Hurricane
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1996
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • CORAL GABLES, FLA.
VOLUME 73, NUMBER 31
domestic violence
Last Sunday, when the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburg Steelers, four cases of domestic violence were reported to the City of Miami.
Miami domestic violence Del. Jose Rodriguez said two incidents involved felony charges while two others involved misdemenors.
Rodriguez added that four cases is “not really" a signifigant increase over an average day.
Renee Dickens Callan. director of the Women's Resource Center, said that just because four cases were reported, there are more incidents that were not.
“There are women who are afraid to report it, or have been threatened if they report it," Callan said. “I can't believe that people can get into any sporting even so much that they would hit another person. It's very sad people can't control their tempers."
MEMORIAL CONCERT TO BE HELD FOR GUITARIST
The UM School of Music will hold a concert in memory of the late classical Cuban guitarist, Jose Rey de la Torre (1917-1994), at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall.
General admission is $10 and is available at the door. For more information call 284-4940 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PHI BETA LAMBDA WILL HOST BUSINESS MEETING
Phi Bela Lambda, a national business organization devoted to developing competent business leaders, is hosting a week of programming from Feb. 12 to Feb. 16.
On Feb. 13, Phi Beta Lambda is hosting a resume writing workshop at 10 a m. in the Toppel Career Center. For more information contact Jose Concepcion at 844-8982.
OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER AVAILABLE
•Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is having a Walk-N-Roll-A-Thon. Walk, blade, or run for a good cause. Contact Eileen Taulbee at 279-7337 or 663-4289.
•Florida Student Literacy Network Training is Saturday at 10 a.m. for returning tutors and noon for new tutors. The location has been changed to the Hecht Classrooms. For more information, contact Migali Brignoni at 689-6487.
APPLICATIONS FOR SG ELECTIONS AVAILABLE
Applications for Student Government elections will be available beginning at 9 a.m. today at UC 209.
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Drugs seized at Stanford
UM Public Safety finds pot, pills
By LOUIS FLORES
Staff Writer
On the day The Miami Hurricane reported that drug use existed on campus. UM Department of Public Safety confiscated 19 pills of Matema, 14 pills of Solway, 26 crystals of possible crack cocaine and 131.5 grams of marijuana from a room on the all-female 12th floor in the Walsh Tower in Stanford Residential College.
A one-inch Zip-Lock bag containing marijuana seeds was taken from another 12th floor room in Walsh.
No names of the individuals who reported the incident to Public Safety were listed, nor were any suspects or arrest reports attached to the police report.
"There were no arrests made because this was an administrative search," said Public Safety Major Henry Christensen.
Residents of the 12th floor in Walsh would not comment on the search, and the students who live in the rooms where the narcotics were found could not be reached for comment at press time, Wednesday evening.
Ken Smith, resident master at Stanford, also refused comment. Keith Meadows, residential coordinator at Stanford, deferred comment to the office of the Dean of Students.________________________
See DRUGS • Page 2
Student leaves heroin behind
By WILLIAM WACHSBERGER
Managing Editor
Part two of a series
“Kris" is 23 years old. She is an alumna and is continuing her graduate studies at the University of Miami.
She is also a rehabilitated drug user.
Kris was 13 years old when she first experimented with drugs by smoking marijuana. At 16, she became a student-athlete at a Miami-area high school.
"I didn't smoke then because of being an athlete,” Kris said. "Bui, there was plenty of coke around."
After competing for her high school she tried cocaine. She didn't like it.
Once she began attending UM, she delved further into smoking pot.
"The pot subculture gives those of us in Generation X something in common to talk about," she said.
Kris was a “hard-core pot smoker," but last year a
new drug entered her
lifestyle.
Heroin.
A year ago, Kris snorted some heroin while hanging out with some friends from school on South Beach.
‘‘[The heroin] was mediocre," Kris said of the quality of the heroin.
It was six months later when she tried it again on two separate occasions.
She had just graduated school. She tried to make new friends, but decided to continue to hang out with her local friends - the ones she tried heroin with.
“It's not an addictive situation," Kris said.
She found a dealer she could buy heroin from.
See STUDENT • Page 2
DRUGS:
A PART Of CAMPUS LIFE
ALASTAIR HEBARD/ Staff Photographer
Willy Sions, Sr. of the UM sponsored Skate Club practices jumps on the patio.
University allows Skate Club to use UC Patio as arena
By AMIE PARNES
Staff Writer
A year and a half ago, members of the UM Skate Club didn't really know what “free-falling" meant. The University had banned skaters from campus.
Today, the skaters still don’t have the freedom to skate as they please when they please, but they do have an agreement with UM administration that allows them to reserve time on particular days and skate in the UC patio.
"We're trying to be sensitive to all students. This is something they wanted to do, and we want to meet all their needs,” said Patricia Whitely, director of student life and (he University Center. "If they skate properly, why shouldn't they be allowed to do it?”
Senior Ben Sell said he appreciates what the University has done for the club.
"In the beginning, the administration acted like a bunch of crybabies," Sell said. "They finally
allowed us to use the patio when we reserved the space. Now I can hang out with my buddies and have a good time.
"We're not out there doing drugs or defacing schwil property We're just out there having fun."
But. like in any sport, injuries can occur, even though all members in the Skate Club are required to wear helmets, elbow pads and knee pads while skating.
"Every day people gel injured playing football and soccer — (that's] socially accepted," Sell said. "Skating is looked down upon, so it seems like the injuries are more severe."
Freshman Lee Ernst has been an eyewitness to these injuries.
"Tve seen some people have some really bad falls," Ernst said.
Some administrators believe that some of the problems are that skaters who do not attend the University still continue to skate on campus. UM plans to cut down on the trespassers.
Under-age UM students attempt to become 21 at license office
By CRISTINA ORTEGA
Staff Writer
Can I see some ID?
These are the words most dreaded by those under 21 years old who want to go to clubs in Coconut Grove and South Beach.
“If you want to go out and have a good time in Miami you need to be over 21," sophomore Camille Tie-Shue said. "Miami doesn't really cater to the l8-to-20 year old crowd."
To the under-21 crowd at the University of Miami is finding ways
to become of age.
James Ellison, the supervisor at the Division of Driver Licenses, 4520 Ponce de Leon Blvd., said last year 15 UM students, equipped with borrowed birth certificates, social security cards, voter registrations or 'Cane Cards, tried to obtain a driver’s license or a Florida Identification card and were caught. This year seven UM students have been caught, and three have been arrested.
"People get fake IDs as an attempt to become older," sophomore Jeff
Architecture school
Colagross said. "You age from 18 to 21 in a matter of hours. Most people when they come down here they want to experience college life to the fullest.
"You need an ID to get in anywhere.”
Ellison said his office gets about 50 cases of fraud a year. Most of the fraud is committed by college students trying to get fake IDs.
"The main reason they want ID cards is so they can go to a bar or club," said Ellison, who has worked
Photo illustration EMILY KEHE/rhoto Editor
See Under-age • Page 2 Fake ID's at the Rathskeller are a common occurrence.
teams succeed in competition
By ELAINE HEINZMAN
Staff Writer
A University of Miami School of Architecture team won a first place in the Williamsburg Design Competition.
The teams contended with others nationwide for an architectural contract in colonial Virginia. One team won the Courthouse design division and the other placed second in the Town Plan competition.
Four other UM teams received honorable mentions in the preliminary round of competition.
The winning Courthouse team consisted of UMSA Associate Dean Jorge Hernandez, alumnus and adjunct professor Francis Lyn, and alumni Mohamed R. Abdul Razak, Simone Chin and Christopher Ritter.
Town Plan finalist team members were adjunct professors Charles Barrett and Andres Duany, professor Galina Tahchieva and alum-
ni Juan Caruncho. Frank Martinez, Mario Ahanto, Ana Alvarez, David Celis and Iskandar Shafte.
Of the four honorable mention teams, three earned honors for Town Plan design and one for Courthouse design.
The finalist teams flew to Virginia last week for the second round of competition. In Williamsburg, the finalists received additional information so they could refine their schematic designs for the final phase of judging.
Courthouse architects Lyn and Hernandez returned to Virginia for a press conference Wednesday with the principal architects from the winning Town Plan team, a group from New York.
The designs of both teams were commissioned to provide Williamsburg and James City County, VA, with a new courthouse and surrounding town plan.
“It’s treated as if it were a regular job," Hernandez said. "Williamsburg used the vehicle of competition to select the architect.”
International jury panels of architects, design journalists and other related professionals critiqued the work of over 200 teams and narrowed the field down to four finalists for each category. Over the weekend, jurors selected one winner for each competition.
The finalists’ designs focused on architecture and land planning that will provide the area with the best urban design as an addition to the existing community while creating an atmosphere in keeping with, but not replicating, colonial Williamsburg.
According to Lyn, the teams pulled long work days, sometimes until 4 a.m., trying lo polish their designs.
"We keep working," Lyn said. "It’s very exciting, and it’s good for the morale of the communily-at- large.”
"This is a true honor and a boost for Miami architecture,” added School of Architecture Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
Hernandez said the school stresses the importance of a community’s culture in architectural design. According to Hernandez, the school teaches a "regionalist methodology toward design that is not about imposing your own self-aesthetics."
"Buildings collaborate to form a community rather than act as individual art objects or islands," Hernandez added.
Hernandez and Plater-Zyberk credited professor Vincent Scully’s advocacy of the school's community-based, culturally-acute curriculum as one reason for UM’s success in the Williamsburg Design Competitions.
"As an architectural historian, Scully has redirected the focus of American architecture by making our history meaningful to us,” Plater-Zyberk said.