Miami Hurricane, February 25, 2000

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Volume 77, Number 36	WWW.HURRICANE.MIAMI.EDU
BILL MAY / Special to the StaH
LIGHTS, CAMERA. ACTION: Cameramen Lars Sknder and John Scolaro watch as UMTV Anchor Ed Federico interviews SG President llean Espinosa live outside the Whitten Learning Center.
UMTV starts new student-run morning show
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Bv Jessica McNeill Assistant News Editor For the first time in the University’s history,UMTV has a completely student run, 30 minute morning show called UMTV This Morning, which Sophomore Al Garcia, executive producer of the show, compares to The Today Show, only “college style"
The show is broadcast live on Friday mornings from the Whitten Learning Center Patio beginning at 9 a.m.
Garcia said that if all goes as planned, starting next week they will broadcast on Thursday and Friday mornings and, by the end of the semester, they hope to be live, on location, three days a week.
Not only that, but Garcia said by next fall they hope to be on live live days a week.
Professor and UMTV advisor Susan Roumelis said she and Garcia spoke about creating the show last November.
“It was Al’s idea," she said. “He thought
the University would welcome a program like this"
The main objective of the show, according to both Garcia and Roumelis, is to keep a finger on the pulse of the University and promote activities around
campus.
“We want students, by the end of the show,to say three things,”Garcia said."We want them to say they were informed while having fun, they learned something new and that they are now a more well-rounded student."
A normal show would include a news segment relating to situations on campus, a weather report, student athletics, entertainment and possibly even a profile of a University club, Garcia said.
For example, Roumelis said if there is a band playing at the University Center Patio, UMTV will try to have them on the morning show for a short time to show people who they are and where they are going to be.
“We are basically a platform for student activities going on around campus,” Garcia said. “W>. want to increase the awareness of students through television.”
Garcia also said they can be an advocate to students who want to get their message out.
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BILL MAY / Special to the Staff
VIEW: UMTV This Morning co-executive director Jon Harper monitors the various feeds from the LC Patio cameras
Showtime WHAT: UMTV This Morning
WHERE: Live from the Whitten Learning Center Patio
WHEN: Friday mornings at 9 a m ON TV: The University's Channel 24 ON THE INTERNET: The shows can be accessed on the Internet following their TV broadcast by going to www miamiedu/ com/UMTV/videos htm
SA FAC requires workshop attendance
Workshops provide for organizations
By Ben Enfield
Hurricane Staff Writer The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee held budget workshops on the second floor of the University Center, ending today, in order to inform University of Miami student organizations on its new pro-
cedures regarding funding.
According to Heather Kellet, SAFAC secretary, one person from each organization, preferably the treasurer, was required to attend at least one of the 20 workshops offered, starting February 14, in order to submit the 2000-200I budgets for review by SAFAC. Budgets are due to SAFAC by March I0 kellet said the budget workshops are designed to give student organizations information on the new format
that’s being used for next year's budget “The workshops will also help the organizations learn how to properly register their budget requests,” she
said.
All materials needed for the budget process were given to the attendants during the meeting SAFAC liaisons were made available to assist the treasurers of the different student organizations in preparing and submitting their budgets, said
junior Cie Chapel, a member of SAFAC.
“The budget workshops will help the treasurers of the different organizations to better understand the new guidelines," Chapel said.
According to Zaneeta Daver, assistant director of Student Activities and leadership Programs, the new format is designed to make it easier for the organizations to understand SA FAC's policies.
February 25,2000
Clark sheds new light on UM diversity
MSA Director speaks of past
By Fawad M. Siddiqui
Hurricane Staff Writer For Steve Clark, director of Multicultural Student Affairs at the University of Miami, the road toward becoming one of the key figures in promoting UM’s cultural diversity was not always pointed in this direction, and also not free of its share of obstacles
“UM is one of the most diverse institutions in the United States, and our diversity helps us in many ways," said Clark last Tuesday, in the midst of MSAk wind-down of February’s Black History Month, during which it helps the United Black students and other group*
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mat ion about the month-long series of events.
The MSA provides on-campus support services for African/black, Hispanics, Asian and Native American students, who make up fifty percent of the University population.
This in stark contrast to the low minority enrollment at the predominantly white University of Central Michigan, where Clark presiviously served as assistant director of Minority
STEVE CLARK
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Affairs for eight years, he said.
“Diversity is our bread and butter at UM. I’ve seen the other side of it. I’ve seen what a lack of diversity can do, and I’ve seen what the presence of diversity can do. Diversity promotes the appreciation ot diversity. It
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different cultures and it helps to flim inate some of the problems of raciam within our university communityf
said Clark.
Born in 1964 and a native of inner city West Side Chicago, Clark grew up in a single parent, working class fam ily, raised “entirely by women"— namely his mother, grandmother and great grandmother—and was the
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Senate passes hurricane bill
Bill allows for 24-hour grace period following storm
By Jessica McNeill
Assistant News Edita Although hurricanes are unpredictable. Student Government passed a bill Wednesday, now going to the administration, to give students and faculty an appropriate amount of time to recover from possible storm damage, said Gus Gerenstein, Eaton senator According to Gerenstein, the University should allow at least a 24-hour grace period before reinstating classes after an evacuation order has been lifted, if there is an evacuation order and a cancellation of classes.
“We want commuters to be able to get to their homes and assess the damage,” Gerenstein said. “Sometimes that is hard when classes arr reinstated the day after the hurricane ends."
Gerenstein said another problem with not waiting a day after a hurricane is that students and faculty do not have time to clean up.
Although the administration has 30 days to review the bill and make a deci • sion, Gerenstein said that the faculty seems to support the bill.
“I’m not sure what the administra tion thinks," Gerenstein said,“however, I do know that some of the faculty agrees with the bill because it gives them a day to recuperate"
In other SG News:
■	A bill was passed by SG Wednesday
to extend shuttle services to Sunset Place thmugh the end of finals, starting with the spring semester.
SG President lleana Espinosa said that last semester the services stopped on Thanksgiving break and did not resume until the start of the new semes ter, and that services would stop before the end of school in May.
“Most of the time during reading days or right after finals is when students want to go to Sunset Place to gel gifts or souvenirs,” Espinosa said. “It makes sense to keep at least one bus running through finals”
■	lumor Jennifer Geer was ratified as the new associate iustice after the resig nation of Antoinette Ghalloub Wednesday
Geer had been appointed to the posi tion of clerk of court three weeks ago, and said she enjoyed that job a great deal.
“I liked being the clerk of court, but when I saw the associate justice spot open I knew I wanted to do that," she said. “I’m very interested in the Supreme Court and how it runs."
lumor Senator Theresa Therilus has worked with Greer before and said she was wry impressed by her work ethics.
“She is very dedicated and I think she would be extremely useful on the court,” Therilus said.
Geer is also involved in sewral other campus activities including Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Sigma Pi, and the Honor Society.
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