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Tuesday September 8,1998
New cable on hold
Student Government still working to negotiate new contract
By DEBORAH LOMBARDI
Hurricane Staff Writer
Many of UM’s students returned to their residential colleges this semester looking forward to an expanded basic cable TV system, only to find out that the new channels they had been promised were not yet available.
"It’s like a waiting game,” said Student Government President Andrew Paul. “We’re not optimistic... there's a very good chance we will not see a change in the cable system this school year”
Last Thursday, Paul, with Director of Residence Halls Robert Redick, Assistant Vice President of Business Services Alan Fish and a member of UM’s legal counsel, drew up the fourth proposed contract, in hopes of approval by the cable provider.
“We are exploring other options,” said Paul. “It’s not like we’ve been sitting on this; I’m not going to give up on this.”
If the most recent proposal had passed, on-campus residents would have been offered an assortment of 27 channels, including five new cable channels; ESPN2, Sports Channel, the Arts and Entertainment Network, the Weather Channel and Turner Network Television.
“The cable industry is unregulated, and they have no competitors in Coral Gables,” said Paul. “It’s basically a legalized monopoly. They hold the trump card.”
The idea of revised cable TV selection surfaced a year ago. By the end of the 1998 spring semester. Student Government had drafted three proposals to UM’s cable system provider, MediaOne. They reached a proposal that seemed likely to be approved over the summer.
“About a year now we have been working on this," said Paul. “We went to Robert Redick and Alan Fish to start the process.”
Negotiating with a local sales representative from MediaOne, they devised a proposal and wrote a contract that the sales representative approved. The representative’s superiors at the company’s regional headquarters in Jacksonville unexpectedly rejected it.
“They said a local representative had no authority to negotiate for them,” said Redick.
However, MediaOne did not pro-
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Miami opens year with 66-17 blowout of East Tennessee
ByJONATHAN 8ANTUCCI
Sports Editor East Tennessee State, Division I-AA football team. University of Miami, four-time Division I national champion. Do the math.
The Miami Hurricanes pum-meled ETSU’s Buccaneers 66-17 Saturday night in the Orange Bowl. The 66 points by the Hurricanes were the most by a Hurricane team since 1954, when the ‘Canes thrashed Fordham, 75-7.
lire Hurricanes got excellent
production from the rushing game, defensive line and special teams en route to winning their third consecutive season-opener.
“This was a nice way to start the season,” head coach Butch Davis said. “We were ready to play this game two weeks ago. We wanted to find out if we made certain improvements over last season and the only way to truly evaluate a player is to see what happens when the lights go on.” The three main running backs. Edgerrin James, James Jackson and Najeh Davenport, totaled 316 yards on 34 carries and five touchdowns. Jackson led the group with 147 yards on 12 carries with two scores, and in just one half of work, Davenport carried the ball 11 times for 92 yards and two touchdowns.
Jackson was very blunt about the backfield saying,“If the offensive line keeps blocking as well as today, we will be very dangerous.” “Those three are as fine as I’ve ever had in my 20 years here,” offensive line coach Art Kehoe said.
About the offensive line Kehoe remarked, “I’m really happy with the way our kids played. We made a couple mental mistakes, but they played as hard as hell."
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CHA FONG/Staff Photographer DINNER TIME: A ChartweHs employee serves students eating at Hecht/Stanford dining hal accxxdng to new standards.
Dining services changes hands
By CHRIS SOBEL
Assistant News Editor
The jury is still out on Chartwells, the new campus dining service that debuted this fall at the University.
Those associated with dining services said they couldn’t be more pleased with the transition from DAKA to Chartwells, while some students have serious complaints.
Chartwells is the college and university dining services division of Compass Group PLC, the world’s leading contract food service company. Compass bought out DAKA earlier this year, and Chartwells absorbed all of DAKAs clients.
“My first impression was that it was hectic but we’re making changes to provide students with a happier, friendlier dining service,” said Gerald Rogers, a dining supervisor at Mahoney/Pearson dining hall.
Mel Tenen, director of Dining and Vending Services, said the dining hall staff has had some difficulties adjusting to the new approach to serving food to students.
“We’re still in the process of transitioning from an institutional approach to service, to a retail approach,” said Tenen.
Tenen said dining on campus is moving away from the mentality of “feeding the masses” to treating students more like “individual customers."
“The program is only going to grow,” said Tenen.
What has also grown is the number of students eating in the dining halls.
Student Government President Andrew Paul said between the two campus dining halls, 700 more meals are being served a day.
Record n' mbers of students were served T1 ,«rs lay at Surf and TUrf Night, according to Tenen. He said Hecht/Stanford saw 1,450 students during dinner hours and Mahoney/Pearson saw 1,250, adding that between the two dining halls this was 1,000 more students than they are used to handling.
Tenen also said that 90% of students who are on the University’s meal plan showed up for Surf and TUrf Night.
Rogers said his main concern was getting new staff members to adjust to the Chartwells system of food service.
Paul said there were problems with executing the new standards in the first week of the semester and that changes were going on “in the back of the house,” as management refers to the kitchen.
Charles Blackwell, resident district manager for Chartwells, said one chef who worked on campus in previous years under DAKA was let go because he would not comply with Chartwells’
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Black greeks recruit new members
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By FAWAD SIDDIQU!
Hurricane Staff Writer
Community service, community history and a sense of community were the themes stressed at the 1998 Greek Panorama held last Monday evening in the Flamingo Ballroom by the Federation of Historically Black Greek Letter Organizations.
“Don’t go to a frat just for the colors, or because they can throw a hype
party,” said Andre Holmes, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. “Look into the organization, its history and what it stands for.”
Representatives of each of UM’s seven Historically Black Greek organizations spoke to more than 100 students about greek life and the misconceptions associated with it.
“Most of you are here with an open mind,” said senior Marlon Ferdinand
of Phi Beta Sigma. “Sure, there are the step shows, the automatic icebreaker when meeting a new brother, but think about yourself as a man first and see what organization will help you grow as a man.”
Antoinette Ferguson, advisor to UM’s Sigma Delta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta, attempted to dispel the myth that greek organizations are equated with heavy partying.
We do not support drinking and drugging.” said Ferguson.
Ferguson said all fraternity or sorority parties have a purpose, usually fund-raising, and that the behav ior of individual greeks are not representative of the whole system.
Ferguson, a social worker for HIV patients in Liberty City, wears myriad pins and buttons on her suit jacket supporting causes like AIDS aware
ness, the March of Dimes and organ donation.
“The greek system allows students to not just concentrate on the academic,” Ferguson said. “Some students have been here for three to five years and don’t even recognize their peers. Use this time to bond, to grow.”
“We are a service organization. That’s our main priority,” said
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