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Communication Week draws ‘best TV interviewer ever’
EMILY NEALE / Hurricane Staff
60 MINUTES: Mike Wallace spoke Tuesday night at Cosforcl Cinema as a part of Communication Week
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CBS’s Mike Wallace speaks lo students
By Ana Maria Colmenares and Isabel Paez
Of the Staff
60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace described to University of Miami students Tuesday night at Bill Cosford Cinema how longtime friend Nancy Reagan became angry and refused to talk to him after an interview.
The interview, which took place after she published her 1989 book My Turn, went sour when the discussion turned to her husband’s role in the Iran-Contra affair.
“That’s the price you have to pay when you have a job to do," Wallace said.
Samuel Roberts, a broadcast )ournalism professor who joined the School of Communication in the fall, introduced Mike Wallace as an 81 -year-old man full of energy, a "legend in broadcast journalism.
Roberts said Wallace was “the very best interviewer that has ever been on television "
Roberts was a former CBS News executive and worked with Wallace on shows such as 20th Century.
Wallace showed clips of his inter views with people such as pianist Vladimir Horowitz, first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosaiynn Carter, and presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.
In the interview with a pre-Watergate Nixon, who was then running for president in 1968, the candidate talked about restoring respect to the presidency. After the clip, Wallace laughed and said, “Another Bill Clinton.”
Wallace also showed tootage of his interview with political columnist Drew Pearson who said that John F Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning 1955 book Profiles in Courage was written by a ghost writer.
Wallace explained that the Kennedys were angry and called CBS protesting the 60 Minutes interview.
Wallace also discussed his emotionally-charged interview with Clint Hill, one of Kennedy’s secret service agents who walked beside the president’s car when he was assassinated in Dallas. Wallace said it was one of the hardest experiences he ever had.
“This man felt guilty for what happened to President Kennedy Can you imagine that this man had to fight depression and alcoholism This was the only time he talked in public about that,” Wallace said
Wallace also showed footage of his interview with Malcolm X in which the Civil Rights activist criticized Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslim movement, saying that seven different women were having Muhammad’s children.
Wallace graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939 and started as a radio announcer for WXYZ Radio in Detroit, Michigan. He later became a news reporter for the radio station WMAQ Chicago, Illinois. In 1951 Wallace )oined CBS.
In 1956 he became involved in television on a program called Night Beat and the following year the Mike Wallace Interview.
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Parking costs on rise
Master plan seeks
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By David Anesta
Hurricane Staff Writer When the current freshmen class starts it senior year fall 2002, they will be paying $90 more to park than when they entered the University of Miami.
Parking and Transportation Services presented a new Parking Management Plan Wednesday to Student Government Senate that will raise the annual rate of increase for the cost of parking permits during the next five years.
Next year, the cost of standard parking passes will increase 16.5 percent, and from 2002-2005, the cost will increase another 8 percent each year, said Sandra Redway, director of Parking and Transportation Services.
The plan will increase the total number of parking spaces on campus from 7,054 to 8,267, said Redway. The total cost of the
project is $15.6 million, with an annual operating cost of $2.16 million once complete, she said.
“Parking is terrible on this campus,” said Alan Fish, associate vice president of Business Services. “We are trying to be proactive.”
In addition, to give permit holders more options when choosing what type of permit to purchase, the plan will increase the number of available discounted parking spaces from 194 to 1,578 by 2004, said Rcdway
This year only 42 people purchased discount parking passes, said Fish.
New discounted spaces will include the existing parking garage, which now has commuter lot status, and two new areas underneath the Metrorail, one adjacent to Stanford Drive, and another near the Plummer Building, said Redway.
After 2005, the rate of increase for parking passes will return to the current rate, which is the same as the annual increase of tuition, said Fish.
The plan’s proposal will create 331 spaces with the new lots underneath the Metrorail,and 800 spaces with a new parking garage located on Pavia Street near the
Health Center, said Redway In addition, Redway said the plan will add 232 spaces to the existing parking garage, and take away 150 spaces near the music school and Ring Theater.
The University of Miami Campus Area Development Plan, which the city of Coral Gables uses to govern any UM expansion projects, requires that the University have at least 8,200 spaces by 2005, said Redway.
The administration created a committee more than a year ago to create the Parking Management Plan, said Fish The plan must pass through the University of Miami Executive Committee as well as the city of Coral Gables before any construction takes place, he said.
Fish said the plan is not complete, and wants feedback from students concerning the location of the new lots, security, and improvement of the shuttle system
The new parking garage will have 24-hour security, blue light phones, video sur veillance, and an information booth, said Redway. Also, she said, the plan will install 12-hour security, enhanced lighting and blue-light phones to the Metro North and Metro South parking lots located underneath the Metrorail.
PARKING COSTS
Sandra Bedway director of Parking and Transportation Services, presented the following figures Wednesday that show the increasing costs of a standard parking permit.
1999: $193 2000: $225 2001: $262 2002 $283 2003: $306 2004: $330

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“The major challenge is still going to be equal acceptance by businesses that are hiring."
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By Becky Clero
Hurricane Staff Writer
Gov Jeb Bush’s controversial One Florida plan, which would abolish Affirmative Action, in among other places, the education system, has many people in the state talking.
One member of the University of Miami community who is most certainly following this issue is Dr Roosevelt Thomas, vice president for Human Resources and Affirmative Action.
Through his dedication to Affirmative Action issues and his workshops for students, Thomas, 55, has helped many minority students at UM as they prepare for life after college.
In his 21 years at UM, Thomas has held a variety of positions, including executive director of Personnel, assistant vice President of Personnel, assistant vice president for Human Resources and Affirmative Action.
Thomas was born in the small Texas town of Sulphure Springs He received his bachelor's degree at Texas College, his masters from the University of Massachusetts
and his doctorate from the UM
Although UM is a private institution, it receives federal funds and must therefore implement affirmative action plans.
“It gives an avenue for inclusion to those that have been excluded,” he said.
Thomas said he is very proud of the program at UM One of the goals of the program has been to increase the number of minority students on campus The program has done this effectively, he said, pointing to numbers that show 40 percent of the campus population to be minority students.
Thomas also believes that the number of minority staff workers is also very high at the University. Minorities make up 60 percent of the staff and women make up 62 percent, but it is important to note that instructors are not included in these numbers.
Thomas’s department offers workshops for student groups interested on the subject
The workshops and educational programs cover topics such as recruitment, benefit, affirmative action general guidelines, diversity issues, working in a multicultural workplace and employment policies. The programs also focus on helping students develop “employability" skills.
Willhemena Black, director of Affirmative Action, said Thomas and his staff give workshops on what skills employers are looking for. The programs can adapt according to the needs of each student group, she said.
“He and his committee were instrumental in implementing the sexual harassment code used in the university, and he has developed several policies referring to university employees," Black said of Thomas.
Some other topics include hints on how to develop these “employability” skills and
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Date set for spring patio concert
By Jennifer Miller
Hurricane Staff Wnter Hurricane Productions has set the date, Saturday, April 8 for the spring concert, but has yet to book an act.
“We are submitting offers as we speak,”said Melissa Sturm Smith, HP advisor and assistant director of Student Activities.
Smith said she could not comment on whom HP was trying to procure until a contract has been signed She has been working with the concert planning committee, an eight-member team, to secure this year’s musical group.
“Hypothetically, we could go through eight bids, which all get rejected,” she said. “We take whatever is pretty much available.”
Last year, HP was planning to bring Busta Rhymes to campus for a March 26 performance, but he canceled so he could be at the Soul Train Awards. A month later, over 2,000
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students got to see Andre and Big Boi, of the rap group Outkast, perform at the University Center Patio in Busta’s place.
“Outkast was a challenge, and they came through at the last minute,” she said.
Smith and members of the concert committee say bringing acts to cam pus is troublesome because of the cost and the University's location.
“It can take anywhere between $I5,000-$25,000 to pay off the band alone," said Smith. “That does not include sound and lighting, hospitality or ground transportation."
“It is difficult to get performers to come to UM because the campus is located too far south," said sophomore Graham Micone, a committee member “Many bands will stop their tours in Orlando.”
This year the committee said it is
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IN DEMAND: Students waited through long lines to get Outkast tickets last spring
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