Miami Hurricane, February 03, 1978

              Wednesday’s rally at the Rock had little to do with the tuition increase. Answers to those questions that did have to do with the increase on the part of either the Administration or Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) were difficult to pin down.
Several students voiced confusion with the USBG program. Many more, 60 to be exact, signed up to participate.
History repeats itself. Or at least that’s what people claim. This year has many instances of historic repetition. One, of course, is the tuition increase, which has become an annual affair, like the awarding of the Oscars .
I'M professor discovers Moriartx computer treatise
By MacDONALD FELDER
Hurricane Staff Writer
“Elementary, Watson, elementary.” That, of course. Is one of the famous trademarks of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Who can forget the pipe, the hat and the deductive reasoning of one of history's greatest?
But what about Professor James Moriarty. Who? For those of you who do not recognize the name. Professor Moriarty was a well-known mathematician and the arch-rival of the great Sherlock Holmes.
Recently. Hr. Richard Goodman, a UM professor of mathematics, was invited to a "top secret" location where the Moriarty archives are located in an effort to rehabilitate Moriarty's reputation. While there. Goodman stumbled onto something he considered very interesting
"What most people don't know is that Professor Moriarty was a half-century ahead of his time in anticipating the computer revolution,” says Goodman. "A computer has only, after being set. a finite location into which a number can be put and it has a finite length, and Moriarty understood the implications to that. The usual laws of atthmetic (associative law of addition and the bino-
mial theorem) do not hold on a computer." Hence, computers can make errors.
Computers that are used to do strenuous calculations can prove to be no match for small computers (i.e.. pocket calculators) in solving simple problems in addition and multiplication. Goodman stated, this may explain the tuition increases in a more simplified manner.
Goodman is doing "more serious" studies on the reduction of errors in computers. According to Goodman, most computer manufacturers are being a little more careful in the way they design their computers to take these problems into account. There are many engineering problems that society must face each day and some calculations are extremely important. Goodman is currently teaching an introductory computer course and spends the remaining time on research in computer mathematics!
"If people complain about things which happen in a department store or bank, they often tell you that the error was committed by a computer. It is not the computer, it’s the people who program the computer," Goodman said He urges those who program the computers to take Math 120 to avoid these errors.
MS dance marathon
scheduled for Feb.26
The Fifth Annual Multiple Sclerosis dance marathon sponsored by a committee of the University students. wiil be held starting at 10 a.m., Feb. 26 and continuing through 4 p.m., Feb. 27, in the Hurricane Cafeteria.
Highlighting this year's 30-hour marathon dance is the creation of two divisions: one for couples and one for organizations.
In the couples’ division, the same couple who starts dancing w’hen the danceathon begins must complete the entire 30 hours. The couple who Itflngs in the most money, as well as "apleting all the hours of the danceathon, will win first prize: a cruise for two aboard Norwegian Carribe-an Cruise Lines.
In the organizations' division, all an organization has to do is raise
money: they don’t have to dance unless they want to (a danceless danceathon). The one organization which brings in the most money prior to the official beginning of the danceathon will win first prize.
The committee is presently obtaining numerous special prizes to be awarded to winners.
Meals will be served to those couples who will be participating in the danceathon.
The UM campus radio station, WVUM. 90 5. and the FM radio station WMJX. 96X. will donate their services and provide music for the danceathon.
Any organization that needs suggestions on raising money, has a question, or wants sponsor sheets, may call Susan Lipson at x-4351 or Jill Steinberg at x-5646.
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Campus assaults reported
By ERIC SHORE and SUSAN TROSCH
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Recent reports of coeds being assaulted in the dorms and the campus areas have prompted rumors of rapes.
For many years these rumors have been closely guarded secrets known only to the victim, UM security police, a handful of University officials and the resident assistants (RAs).
According to national statistics, for every rape reported 10 are not. City figures will indicate that of the 17,000 students attending UM, both
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on campus and off, about 136 attempts at rape occur each year. As mentioned, only one out of 10 are ever reported.
Dr. Phyllis Franklin, co-chairwoman of the Women’s Commission and the Programming Committee, said the girls involved with these types of situations are afraid to report these attacks due to embarrassment and fear. t
Fbiblic Safety Director David Wike said, “most are embarrassed, and others often know the attacker, a friend, a classmate, a guy down the hall, etc. and therefore, are
afraid to press charges."
When asked whether or not any rapes in which charges were pressed have occurred on campus during the school years 1976-77, Wike said," “We have had two, one where charges were filed and the males involved are serving terms, and one where the charges were dropped."
"There have been rapes on campus, but the number and frequency are unknown, because for the most part, they go unreported," Franklin said.
On F'eb. 16, 1977, the night before
Carni Gras, a UM girl living in the 1968 complex was on her way to Mahoney Hall to visit her boyfriend
“She called up to the room and was greeted by her boyfriend’s roommate. He told her that the boyfriend was there and that she should come up. Her mistake was that she hardly knew the roommate. She should have asked to speak directly to the boyfriend," an RA who preferred to be anonymous.
“When she arrived at the room, the boyfriend was not therg just the roommate and a male Mend from down the hall,” another Ra said.
The girl was blocked at the door when she tried to leave, by one of the males and raped, an incident that Wike confirmed.
The woman, after the attack, contacted a male friend on the fioor below, who called University police and the floor RA. The girl was taken to the Jackson Memorial Hospital Rape Clinic and the two men were arrested on sexual assault charges and are currently serving sentences.
There have also been rumors of the sexual assaults last year near the classroom area, late at night, near the Student Union, the darkened areas of the 1968 and 960 complexes and in the area of the Science and Engineering buildings.
“We had one case where a girl, walking in the classroom area was dragged into an empty classroom. But the girl did not file charges," Wike said.
A UM woman was reportedly attacked late at night near the dark-
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Jose Cantillo is employee for Huxel
Speaker of the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Senate Jose Cantillo is working full-time for the Office of Budgeting and Auditing
Cantillo said that he did not feel that holding the two offices was a case of conflicting interests. He said that he would either resign as Senate Speaker or discontinue working in the Office of Budgeting and Auditing if he felt a conflict of interest arose.
Both Cantillo and a member of the Office of Budgeting and Auditing said that “it was no secret” that Cantillo had been working there.
“I’ve been working for the students longer than I’ve been working for Huxel.” Cantillo said.
Cantillo maintained that there was no conflict of interest despite the fact that USBG Is working on plans for the student representative to the University Budget Committee.
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Sigma Chi to sponsor Derby Day
By IVONNE ROVIRA
News Editor
Sigma Chi fraternity will continue their three-day Derby Day event through tomorrow. All seven sororities are invited to Derby Day, which is a national event held at each Sigma Chi chapter.
“The main reason for Derby Day is to get to meet all the sorority girls." Dana Cuffe. Derby Day chairman, said. "The only other time we get to meet them is at mixers. Carni Gras and Homecoming, in which we’re too busy competing to get to meet them on a one-to-one basis."
Cuffe said that recruiting sweethearts for Sigma Chi was not the idea behind Derby Day. He said that sponsors were recruited at little sister rushes.
The event includes such areas as a queen's contest, in which each sorority chooses a participant from within itself; a mud bath, through which two representatives from each soroity searches for objects that add up to points — skits and an egg toss.
One unusual event consisted oi giving each sorority a duckling to train to participate in a duckling race, to be run tomorrow.
“It’s not like Greek Week and Homecoming, where you scream at the top of your lungs for your own team. It is pretty miserable with all that competition. So we got rid of all the *unfun’ aspects and kept the fun parts," Cuffe said.
The finale to Derby Day will be a luau, in keeping with the South Pacific theme, to which all the sororities and fraternities will be invited.
Evaluations
not appearing until fall T8
By SUSAN TROSCH
Hurridm $tatf writer
Faculty evaluations by the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) to aid students during both fall and spring registrations, will not be made available to the student until next fall's registration.
The evaluation project, begun in the fall of ’77, was originally intended for spring registration '78.
“Physically it could have been done, but the cost is too high," explains Alicia Cervera, USBG secretary of academic affairs. “It is much more practical to have one annual comprehensive issue made available to the students prior to each fall registration," she said.
Faculty evaluations, a relatively new Idea to this campus, have met with some resistance and skepticism. and therefore, took longer to gel off the ground.
"These evaluations have got to be perfect,The slightest mistake in processing the data could be disastrous," Cervera said.
The evaluations made last semester were made available to the faculty only. In regard to this. Cervera said, “we made last semester a sort of test case This helped to instill confidence. We’ve now met with 100 per cent cooperation from the faculty "
With the exception of the nursing school, an objective questionnaire will be given to each student attending a lecture type class. From these forms the data will be processed and put into book form. The question-
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"The evaluations will be most helpful to new and transfer stu-
dents," Cervera said’ "Last semester we had approximately 41 per cent of the classes surveyed. We hope to
have a greater cross section this spring."
Cervera said she hoped to have the
evaluations available in Room SI00 of the Memorial Building some point during registration.