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City parade honors football champions
By Dana Szpunar
Hurricane Staff Writer The busy metropolitan streets of Miami came together in honor of the undefeated Miami Hurricanes football team
Beginning promptly at noon on Friday, over 10,000 fans took time off from work or school to enjoy a tick-ertape parade on a day proclaimed by local Miami politicians as “University of Miami Hurricanes Football Day."
From buildings’ rooftops over six tons of shredded paper fell onto the streets packed with cheering fans.
COSO
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students
By Valerie Ramos
Humcane Staff Writer While the University of Miami has set a goal of $1 million for this year's philanthropic contribution to the American Red Cross of Creater Miami and the Keys, many student organizations have taken the initiative to try to meet and beat this target amount.
COSO, the Committee on Student Organizations, launched the first COSO Challenge last October Created as a competition between all the student organizations on campus to see which could raise the highest amount of money to give the most back to the community, the COSO Challenge made a promising start.
“The winner of this years COSO Challenge gets the privilege of selecting a charity to be the beneficiary of next year’s COSO Challenge,” said Andy Hooper, COSO Ombudsperson In addition, the highest contributing student organization of each month will receive a prize of $40 from SAFAC, the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee, given with the intention of being used toward a pizza party, or similar celebration. SAFAC has also agreed to match the amount raised by the largest contributing organization, up to $1000.
The goal tor the Challenge is $5000, though to date, only about $1000 has been raised. Hooper informed the Miami Hurruatte of the waning support for the challenge in the past couple months.
Competition was hard-tought between the different clubs at the Challenge’s inception in October, Hooper said. November met with similar results, the Graduate Student Association having contributed the highest amount during both initial months.
But the competitions during the months of December and lanuary have sadly shown a marked loss of interest by contributing student organizations,
according to Hooper.
Even so, there will more than likely he another COSO Challenge next year, and hopefully many more to come in subsequent years, organizers said.
The final dale to be eligible for the COSO Challenge is fast approaching. For those interested in getting involved, collection cups.mav be picked up in the student Activities Office during office hours. Collection cups may be turned in at any time, with no limit to tnequen cy.
Although the money will be donated sometime in mid March, COSO has set its deadline for the challenge at )an.
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Excited fans fill metropolitan Miami from Bay front Park to courthouse
The celebration started at Bayfront Park, and traveled down Flagler. The procession continued until it reached the county courthouse.
The parade caravan consisted of convertibles, pick-up trucks, and fire trucks. Each vehicle was heavily covered with mounds of shredded paper and filled with massive football play ers, their coaches, and their families,
Head Coach Larry Coker and his wife Dianna rode in a 1959 canary-yellow Dodge Custom Royal, providing one of many highlights of the day's festivities.
“|The parade) was like a movie. 1 thought I was a gladiator coming back from Rome," said offensive lineman (oel Rodriguez. Awestruck players like Rodriguez took in the excitement and waved to their fans.
Meanwhile, other players went one step further, dancing in the streets and hurling piles of the tick-ertape paper at one another, and any fans willing to participate in the melee.
Riding together, team leaders quarterback, Ken Dorsey, and safety, Ed Reed, took turns displaying the national-championship trophy to the crowd.
When the parade came to its final destination, the players hopped out of their vehicles and made their way to the main stage which was set up on the steps of the county court-
house. While walking the short distance from the cars to the stage many players stopped occasionally to sign autographs and take pictures for fans
Once everyone from the parade was properly seated on stage, the next event of the UM Football Day began.
Speakers at the courthouse rally included Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas, Miami commissioners, |oe Sanchez and (ohnny Winton, University of Miami President Donna Shalala, Athletic Director Paul Dee, Head Coach Larry Coker,
and trophy bearers, Dorsey and Reed.
Although city politics came into the picture at one point when the crowd booed Alex Penelas. The attention was mostly focused on the team.
The crowd gave their loyalty and complete support for rookie coach, Larry Coker. Coker had to wait until the cries or “Larry! Larry!" died down, just to be heard. In his speech Coker had nothing but good things to say about the City of Miami and
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Party continues on UM Green
RUSSELL WOJUSIAK / Photo Editor
NUMBER ONE Covered in bekertape, Sebastian the Ibe lets it be known the Canes are champs.
President Bush congratulates team on victory
By Jorge Luis Arauz
Hurricane Staff Writer
Rounding off a full day of parad ing through the streets of Miami for the Hurricanes Rosebowl Championship was the official University of Miami celebration. The festivities were held at the University Green located between the University Center and the Richter Library, Friday night.
The celebration included food, a fireworks display, and a live music performance from Libido.
According to local news reports, an estimated 1500 hardcore fans were present to cheer on the hometown heroes.
“The ticker-tape parade just wasn’t enough for me,” said lose Davila, a fan from Florida International University. “This [championshipl is too big a deal to celebrate with just one party.”
In honor of the event, a stage and television screen were set up to introduce the players and show video clips of the football season’s greatest plays.
A special message from President
George W. Bush was also presented to the audience.
In his message. President Bush
commended the Miami Hurricanes football team for being a positive influence on the youth of America and for pulling off a perfect season. He also acknowledged the diffi-
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result of having to balance athletics with academics.
“1 agree with the President,” said sophomore Lacey Hickle. “It takes a lot of self control and discipline to accomplish what these players have
attained”.
“I was very surprised at the President Bush's speech,” said Maria Gonzalez. “I didn't expect him to take the time out of his busy schedule to congratulate our school-wait! Now that I think about it, we deserved that!
‘Hell, this team deserves to run the whole country them-JOSC Davila selves!" Gonzalez said.
Among the guest speakers at the event were the mayors of South Miami and Coral Gables, UM alumnus Roy Firestone of ESPN, The Voice of the Hurricanes, Mark Vandermeir, and President Donna E. Shalala.
President Shalala thanked the
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“This is too big a deal to celebrate with just one party”
Enrollment to increase as a result of championship?
RUSSELL WOJUSIAK / Photo Editor SOUNOWG OFF: N^eh Davenport thanks the cheering crowd.
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By Sam Lockhart
Humcane Staff Wrtier
With the recent Diamond Anniversary, Presidential Inauguration, and an increasingly competitive student body, can the University erf Miami hope to reach a new plateau in applications and enrollment, as a result of the freshly gained Rose Bowl National Football Championship?
“I don’t think it is going to impact it,” asserted Vice Provost and Dean of Enrollments. Paul Orehovec “Winning a National (Jiampton.ship is great lor name recognition—a great value added to the University. Everyone likes to be associated with a winner. And it’s ternfk press with respect to the character of the student athletes ”
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cation to the academic core of the University, which he believes is the major attraction here in Coral Gables: “None of our top 5 or 6 years |with respect to enrollment | was a National Championship year The University’s just hot!” Orehovec said.
Dean Orehovec lauded the academic virtues of the UM. He expressed hts deep esteem tor the school’s escalating scholastic accomplishments and stan dards
“Last year, more than half of our enrolled students were in the top ten percent of their high school classes, and it’s getting higher. That’s exactly who we’re marketing tic” said Orehovec.“The last few years, we've been on a roll" “Top scholars don’t only look at a competitive sports program for
encouragement when applying. They compare the combination of qualities like academics, community, student life, athletics, and more,” stressed
Orehovec.
Orehovec sees the National Championship as a "rallying point,” -lust like the additions of the Wellness Center and the upcoming Ryder Center-“which will help build a stronger sense of community at the University, another reason to come together."
Orehwvet also noted that, as a consequence of surprisingly high enrollment last year which also caused problems with housing. It is possible that the University may reduce acceptance levels to readiust student body sue in the coming semesters.
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