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Joint program teaches teachers in the Bahamas
By Matt Brewer
Hurricane Staff Writer
Last Monday, President Edward T. Foote II traveled to the Bahamas to be part of a recognition ceremony for a new masters program in special education by the University, in conjunction with the College of the Bahamas (CB) and the Bahamas Ministry of Education.
The 30-credit, five-semester program will be taught by UM faculty. At its conclusion, the 27 participants—all teachers from the Bahamas—will receive a UM masters degree in education.
This program is the vision of School of Education dean Sam Yarger, who is revitalizing the okl practice of off-site education programs.
However, the off-site programs in the Bahamas are not really a new phenomenon at UM.
"We havr been partners with the
College of the Bahamas for 26 years and this is a continuation of that partnership,” President Foote said.
The School of Business Administration has had a longstanding M.B.A. program offered through CB in Nassau. In the 1980’s, UM also had a similar education program to this current one at CB, but it was gradually phased out in favor of more on-site activity back in Miami.
The current program is slated as just a trial run, but if there is a high success rate and continued demand, there is a good chance it will be offered again in years to come, said administrators.
The main purpose of the special education program is to provide students with a comprehensive course, developing competency in providing intensive, systematic instruction in the general classroom setting to students with emo-
tional handicaps and learning disabilities, administrators said.
“In most school districts there is always a critical shortage of teachers in special education areas, and the College of the Bahamas does not have the resources to run a program in emotional handicaps and learning disabilities, which is why we’re offering it,” said Kathy del Toro, the director of graduate recruiting, who is responsible for recruiting the program’s 27 participants.
del Toro, Foote, Yarger, Trustee Thelma Gibson and Dr. Robert Moore, the director of the program, all had a chance to meet the students during an orientation last weekend.
“It was very interesting and fun, with probably 100 people in attendance,” Foote said. “I spoke, the president of the college spoke, the College of the Bahamas musical group played, we got to meet the students and apparently the ceremony ended up on the front page of the Bahamian newspaper the next day”
Gibson, a native Bahamian from a well-known island family, was warmly
received by the crowd when honored ai
the ceremony.
“It was a wonderful part of the trip," said Foote.
del Toro said what she remembers most dearly from the orientation was that “the students (were) extremely enthusiastic.
“There is a tremendous need for this type of program and the students were very excited about being Canes."
The courses themselves will be offered on Friday evenings from 4-8 p.m., and Saturdays from 8-2 p.m., accommodating the schedules of the students, who are all currently practicing teachers.
This schedule also allows the UM faculty, led by Moore, to commute between Miami and Nassau while still holding dasses during the week at UM. The top-
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Mixed reviews for proposed increase
By William James Gong and Gariot Louisna
Of the Staff
In addition to the chance to vote for several positions among the Student Government (SG) during upcoming SG elections—Sept. 25-27—students will also be voting on a referendum for a $2 increase in the current $82.50 Student Activity Fee.
SG is hoping voters will pass the increase, the money from which would go directly to Catagory 5, the spirit programming board, a division of Student Government dedicated to increasing school spirit.
"We pay a Student Activity Fee?" said freshman Barry Baker. “What is that?"
Baker’s comments seem to reflect a larger lack of clarity on the issue
Planned
One-man office helps raise $50 mil
By Danielle Scott
Hurricane Staff Writer Last year, the University of Miami raised $ 100 million in donations for all three of its campuses.
Half of those funds came from deferred gifts organized by the Office of Planned-Giving of UM’s Advancement Division, said Thomas Dieters, executive director of the Office.
Most philanthropists giving monetary gifts to the school do so not in
Photo Illustration by Russell Wojtusiak and Jererny Newman
for many UM students.
The Student Activity Fee is a mandatory fee for all undergraduates. The money collected from the fee is used to help fund various activities and organizations around the University. It is the only money that these groups will get from the
school.
On Sept. 13, the SG Senate passed the resolution, sponsored by SG Chief of Staff Michael Johnston, calling to increase the fee to $84.50.
According to Article One of Johnston’s proposed bill, the rise in the fee is for the purpose of increas-
ing campus spirit through pep rallies, special events and productions.
Specifically, some of the money allocated from such an increase would go toward promoting various Hurricane sports and beginning
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-Giving turns a tidy profit
cash but as deferred gifts that the school collects after a period of time, Dieters said.
“Almost all large gifts to the University have a Planned-Giving component to them,” Dieters said.
Philanthropists will organize with the Planned-Giving department when writing up their estate plans so that their funds can go to UM rather than for taxes, Dieters said.
An example of what the Office will do is to have the donor's assets transferred to UM, whereby the school invests the money and pays the donor an allowance until his or death. Upon death, the remaining funds are given to
the University.
Another responsibility of the Office of Planned-Giving is to organize the paperwork for charitable annuities, remainder trusts and gifts left for the University in wills and bequests.
One of the latest realizations of a deferred gift was the Dr. Maxwell and Reva B. Dauer Clock Tower at the Otto G. Richter Library.
The tower was built with a $1 million donation established a number of years ago by Mrs. Dauer and her sons Edward and Roger. The other half of their deferred gift went to Athletic development.
Dieters is the total staff of the Office
of Planned-Giving. He has been at UM since 1996 and was promoted a month ago from director; the executive director position is one never before held at
the University.
Before working at UM he was the assistant director of Planned-Giving at the University of Michigan for five
years.
“I plan on hiring a director soon. That is going to help immenselyf say
Dieters.
However, Dieters does work in conjunction with three other offices—the Offices of the Treasurer, General
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Meet the Candidates
Information compiled by Brian Poliakoff
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Election
Al Gore - Democratic Party
-Grew up in Carthage, lenn. and in Washington D.C.
-Graduated with honors from Harvard University.
-Was in the Army as a journalist and covered the Vietnam War.
-Elected to
Congress in 1976.
-Elected to US Senate in 1984.
-Was a Democratic candidate for President in 1988, but didn’t win the nomination.
-Wife Tipper Gore, 3 daughters, and 1 son.
-1992- Gore is elected the 45th Vice President of the United States
George W Bush-Republican Party
-Currently serving second term as the 46th Governor of Texas.
□ Grew up in Midland and Houston. Texas.
-He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School.
-He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard.
- He began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy S6H6S industry until 1986. After working on his father's 1988 presidential campaign he assembled the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989, and which later built the Ranger's new home, the Ballpark at Arlington.
-Governor Bush and his wife, Laura—a former teacher and librarian who grew up in Midland—reside in the historic Governors Mansion in Austin with their 18-year-old twin daughters, Barbara and fenna,
Ralph Nader - Green Party
-Born in Winsted, Conn, in 1934, Nader graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 1955 and from Harvard Law School in 1958.
• Nader came to the public's attention in 1965 when his best-selling book Unsafe at Any Speed exposed unsafe cars such as General Motors’ dangerously defective Corvair.
-He has fought against insurance companies,global trade arrangements that override American sovereignty and corporate lobbyists who would block safety standards and deny fair access to court few injured parties. He has also authored, co-authored or sponsored many books, including .Action for a Change, Corporate Power
in America, Taming the Giant Corporation, Verdicts on Lawyers, The Menace of Atomic Energy, Who's Poisoning America, Winning the Insurance Game, and The Frugal Shopper,
Pat Buchanan • Reform Party
-From 1966 through 1974 he was a confidant and assistant to President Richard Nixon.
-Challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination in 1992 and almost upset the future president in the New Hampshire primary.
-From 1985 to 1987 was the White House director of communications for President Ronald Reagan.
-He received his master’s degree in journalism from Columbia in 1962. At twenty-three, he became the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in America, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
-On leaving the White House, Pat Buchanan became a columnist and founding father of three of the most enduring talk shows in television history: NBC’s The McLaughlin Group and CNN’s Capital Gang and Crossfire.
•Buchanan has written five books, including two bestsellers: Right from the Beginning, and A Republic blot an Empire.
He is married to the former Shelley Ann Scarney, a member of the White House staff from 1969 to 1975.
Master teaches defense as art
Israeli tactics find home at Hillel
By D. H. Garcia
Hurricane Staff Writer
If you are attacked in an alley by five armed men, do you fight back, or lay down and die?
“Bring’em all down and live to tell about it,” said Rick Dlitstein, martial arts master and instructor at the Hillel Jewish Student Center who now offers classes for anyone who wants to become proficient in self-defense techniques.
Dlitstein teaches Krav Maga, an Israeli combat style developed for the military and law enforcement, and is now available to civilians of all ages.
“It’s composed of all martial-arts styles, utilizing the best techniques, for optimum achievement in self-defense," said Dlitstein, 43, who studied martial arts for over 20 years.
Krav Maga, the brainchild of the late Master Imi Lichtenfeld, was designed for military troops in Israel in >948. and has spread across world swiftly and with potent results.
“This military style was not offered to civilians until the last 20 years,” said Dlitstein, formerly a jeweler.
“The secrecy of this style came out 50 years ago, when it was modified for civilian law enforcement."
Haim Gideon, a military soldier and current Krav Maga Grand Master, studied under Lichtenfeld and was one of the members who, along with Dlitstein, brought the art to the United States.
“Krav Maga is an art in the essence of the word, because it gives to the practitioner ideas and feelings,” Gideon said.“It creates a competitive way of life, where the practitioner competes against himself and reaches his goals by himself alone."
Currently, outside of UM, seminars are being offered at Florida International University, the University of South Florida and Princeton University. Students range from 18 to 65 years old.
“It is such much fun,” said lessica Block, Dlitstein’» student for over four years. “I encourage anyone to take a chance at it, whether you have studied martial arts or not.”
Block, a graduate student of psychology, said she became very much interested in the practice because it stimulates the will to improve not only the physical, but all aspects of one’s well being
She said it is an eminent practical art, because through the body training, it reaches the mind, the intellect and the spiritual level.
"It is empirical because it works the body tc reach the mind,” said Block, a former black belt in Tai Kwan Do. “It stimulates the individual search. One of the main goals is
the conquest of self-confidence* “Krav Maga is an art of self-defense,” said Davy Kahn, an alumni of the School of Law, who now teaches the martial art at Princeton University and law enforcement agencies in New Jersey, Ohio and
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Courtesy of Rick DtftStein
SHOW OF POWER; Dlitstein
demonstrates a move from the Israeli martial art.
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