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Volume 76, Number 10
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Tuesday, October 6,1998
Barnett merger
By KAREN SLOAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
Barnett Bank, the leading financial institution in Florida, will permanently dose its doors on Oct. 9.
NationsBank acquired Barnett in late August, at the price of $15.5 million. After Friday, NationsBank will handle all Barnett accounts.
“Barnett customers will have more locations to do their banking,” said T.L. Brown, marketing support manager for NationsBank. “When students go home, chances are they will be close to a NationsBank or ATM.”
According to Barnett Customer
Service Agent Freddie Pina, some Miami branches will be consolidated, dosed, or changed to NationsBank locations.
The Barnett branch located across from the campus on U.S. 1 will be turned into a NationsBank, thus retaining convenient access for students, he said.
Student reaction to the merger is varied. Some students say they believe that the larger banking corporation will overlook customer service, while others say the look forward to fewer fees.
“1 have a feeling that the service will go down,” said senior Chris
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Anderson. “It is just the whole idea of the big corporation swallowing up the little one ”
Sophomore Joseph Aponte sees the merger as a positive mow. “There will be more ATM machines, and more ways to access your money. My account fees will even go down,” he said.
No fees will increase for Barnett customers after the merger, according to Brown. Fees have been frozen until the year 2000, he said.
Brown said Barnett checks will still be valid, until they run out. Then they will be replaced by NationsBank checks.
Barnett ATMs will convert to NationsBank, according to Brown, induding the Barnett ATM on campus located by the University Center. He said all Barnett ATM cards will still be honored until they are replaced.
“Throughout the fall, we will start mailing out new NationsBank ATM cards in phases. Until then, people can still use the Barnett cards,” Brown said.
According to Alan Fish, UM’s assistant vice president of Business Services, the University intends to continue the business relationship with Barnett after the merger.
ATM:
Students use the ATM for fast cash and quick banking at the University Center ATM.
Project displayed on Rock
Clothesline Project
recognizes suffering of battered women
By CHRIS SOBEL
Associate News Editor
The annual Clothesline Project will be on display all this week on the Rock, an event that organizers say personalizes the issue of violence against women and brings it home to students.
Participants decorate T-shirts describing their own experience or the experience of a loved one. Different T-shirt colors represent different experiences induding battery, rape, assault and murder.
Red shirts represent rape or sexual assault; green and blue represent incest or child sexual abuse; yellow or beige represent battered and assaulted women; lavender or purple represent lesbian or bisexual women; white represents women who have been killed.
“It makes it tangible to students. People hear statistics and they’re amazed by them but the amazement wears off really quickly,” said Tiffany Johnson, president of United Black Students and one of the students involved in organizing the Project for UM. “When you see a T-shirt that «presents a person, you appreciate what that woman has gone through.”
The Project is a national event but is organized at the University of Miami by the Women’s Resource Canter.
Renee Callan, director of the Center, described how she thinks students might feel when they read the T-shirts.
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EMILY NEALE / Hurricane Staff Photographer
WATER SPORTS: Team Unity participates in the surprise canoe race and the water polo game this weekend during Cane Craze.
EMILY NEALE ! Hurricane Staff Photographer
By SCOTT HOMA
Hurricane Staff Writer
‘Before the start of Cane Craze, Intramural Supervisor Courtney Watkins said that she hoped the event would be an opportunity “for students to learn, have fun, and use the opportunity to get involved and find out more about wellness.” judging from participation on Friday night and Saturday morning, the event was a success.
The events began on Friday night at the Rathskeller, where the teams took part in a country line-dancing competition. The dining room inside the Rat was filled to capacity.
Participants on Saturday morning played a game of flag football. Events continued throughout the day with golf, Frisbee, and an 880-yard relay race.
A surprise event on Saturday was the timed canoe race around the fountain in Lake Osceola.
The event provided an opportunity for many students to work together as a team and meet new people. With 15 teams, ranging from 15-27 students on each team, the groups competed in every activity throughout the day as one.
“It was very competitive, yet a lot of it
was fun at the same time,” said Katie Lane. “Cane Craze was a great way to get people from all over campus together.”
Individuals received participation points, and event winners received more points. The team with the most cumulative points was named the winner at the end of the day.
Many teams wore their own set of uniforms, and even the participants on the sidelines were just as into the game as those on the field.
Since the majority of the players were not serious athletes, Cane Craze allowed them the chance to get feelings of teamwork, sportsmanship and accomplishment.
The winning team was awarded T-shirts and a prize, but all participants finished knowing more about fitness and the various activities open to them on campus. Since some events took place in the Wellness Center, participants got a chance to learn more about what they can do at the Center.
Wellness Center staff members served as referees at the various events.
When the day was over, the participants in Cane Craze learned about fitness, played hard and had fun.
Cane Craze offered students the opportunity to partake in sporting activities over two days
■ Storm causes event changes
When the University shut down for Hurricane Georges, the scheduling of several events was affected Family Weekend 1998 was cancelled entirely and will be held hi the fall of 1999 The last day for students to drop
classes has been moved to Thursday, Oct. 22,1998 The Career Expo has been rescheduled for Fab. 4,1999, during the spring semester The fall break will occur as scheduled on Friday October 16,1998
The UM-UCLA football game has nut yet been rescheduled
All other events wiH occur as scheduled and planned
■ FBI Interns Wanted
Information sessions about the FBI Summer Honors Internship Program will be held Thursday. Oct. 8, at 10 a.m. and 11 amattheToppel Career Center
Outstanding undergraduate and graduate students are selected nationwide to parbe
ipate in the program Qualifications include junior status tor undergraduates, full time status for graduate and law students, a 3.0 GPA and U.S. citizenship The application deadline is Nov 1. To sign up for one of the information sessions, stop by Toppel or call (305) 284-5451.
■ RSMAS holds cloning lecture
The University of Miami Rosenstiet School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is holding a lecture titled 'Everyttung You Ever Wanted to Know About Cloning’' in its auditorium on Thursday, Oct 15.
A reception will be held at
5:30 p.m followed by a panel discussion at 6.15. The panel will be moderated by Patrick Walsh, a professor of marine biology and fisheries.
The panel wiH discuss common myths associated with this research. The lecture is free and open to the public. For mors information call (305)361-4061.
■ Course materials offered on CO
Oskar Hannon, an associate professor of economics at the University of Connecticut's Stamford campus, produces CDs containing class notes, active spreadsheets, graphs, charts, mulbmedia presentations of topics aid links to web sites to accompany his
Principles of Economics course.
Students receive the CDs on the first day of class and use it throughout the course. Students receive a hands-on learning experience and aU the material they need to master the subject In a simple, easy to use form.