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Volume 59 Number 9 Phone 284-4401
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1982

Foote: Iron Arrow Should Admit Women
SJL4 Sponsors Rape Prevention Speaker
Opinion /PAGE 6 Sport* /PAGE 10
Entertainment /PAGE 8 Classified* /PACE 12
By AMY MURSTEN
Hurricane Staff Writer
This week the Student Rights Agency, the USBG Public Safety Committee, and Public Safety bring you the third annual "Student Rights and Crime Awareness Week.” This year’s events are larger and more informative than ever.
One of the highlights of the week will be the lecture on October 4 by Fred Sto-raska, author of “How To Say No To A Rapist And Survive." In the past fifteen years, Storaska has presented his program through lectures to over a million students at over a thousand colleges and universities. Storaska will speak Monday night at 8 p.m. in the Ibis Cafeteria.
He has authored a book and a movie that have become authoritative sources of rape prevention for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Justice Department, the National Crime Prevention Institute and hundreds of law enforcement agencies throughout the world.
Combining his karate and psychology background, Storaska developed a unique methodology of rape prevention. He replaced fear with knowledge, guilt with understanding, and doubts with alternatives. He even developed an approach to teach these skills and attitudes, which has been enthusiastically received by audiences everywhere.
His film has been shown at UM in past years as part of the Crime Awareness Week and has been enthusiastically received. His appearance this year is
through the efforts of the Student Rights Agency and the UM Lecture Series Committee.
Other events begin today. They include the following speakers:
Tuesday: Leonard Elias of the attorney general’s office will speak on “Consumer protection and Fair Trade Practices" at 7:00 p.m. in the International Lounge.
Thursday: Dr. Charles Wetli of the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office will talk on “Sex, Drugs and Cocaine Deaths" at 7:00 p.m. in the International Lounge.
Monday, October 4: Fred Storaska will speak on “How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive"at 8:00 p.m. in the Ibis Cafeteria.
Another higlight of the week will be at Happy Hour on Friday at the Rathskeller. Breathaiizer tests will be given.
Other events include bicycle registration, a lighting tour by Public Safety, and booklets on student concerns.
The booklet, a new S.R.A. project for this year, covers ail areas of concern to students. Some of the areas covered include drunk driving, search and seizure, traffic laws, and crime on campus.
Stacy Llpner, chairwoman of the Stu> dent Rights Agency, says: “The university has wanted to compile a book like this for years but no one has taken the initiative to actually put together an informative booklet like this one.”
The booklet will be handed out in the Student Union Breezeway during this week. They will also be available in the Student Rights Agency Office, Room 244 of the Student Union.
Index
Iranian Civil War On U.S. Campuses
Violent clashes between pro- and anti-Khomeini students have investigators believing that there are pro-Khomeini Iranians roaming U.S. campuses to intimidate dissidents /PAGE 4
Crashing The Party
Honors students are complaining about the interference they received from officials at the Department of Residence Halls /PAGE 5
‘Letting The Days Go By'
The Hurricane reviews the Students' Entertainment Committee concert featuring The Talking Heads PAGE 8
The Boss Is Back
An album review of Bruce Springsteen’s latest PAGE 8 Down To The Wire
The Hurricanes pull c ot a squeaker in their last-minute victory over Michigan State PAGE 10
Fred Storaska Will Speak On Rape Prevention Monday Night
Years
Clasby Reviews
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
The following is an interview with Professor Eugene Clasby, who has held the post of chairman of the Faculty Senate for the past four years. He has decided not to run for re-election, and the new chairman will be elected Friday. The duties of the chairman include presiding over th* Faculty Senate and -the Faculty Senate Council.
QDr. Clasby, you’ve been chair-• man for four years. Why is it that you are not running for another term?
Alt’s a time of change and it’s • probably appropriate for someone else to take over. I also have some things I want to do in my professional life. The chairmanship is a very time-consuming thing. I want to make some progress on a book I’m writing [on Chaucer).
QWiU you be serving on tbe • Faculty Senate in some capacity?
A Yes, I will be serving as a sen-• ator representing the language department. I was just re-elected.
QHow will you feel serving as a • senator after being a chairman for four years?
A I was a senator before I was a • chairman and in some ways it's been exciting and challenging in the position of chairman, but I expect to be able to serve the Senate without some of the restraints and constraints the chairman has. When you’re a chairman you can't really join the debate; you chair it. And I enjoy discussing with my colleagues. I'm looking forward to that.
QWhat is your opinion of the • two candidates for chairman (Robert Zaller, history professor, and Charles Calhoun, chairman of the accounting department]?
A I think they both have excel-• lent qualifications for the job. I would feel quite comfortable with either of them. I think we would be in good hands in either case.
QWhat is yonr opinion of each • of the candidates individually?
A I don't think I want to go into • that; it’s a judgment the Senate has to make. They've both got very good gifts and it’s a question of which is the most appropriate to the situation.
QDo you forsee any problems • because of the change in chairmanship?
A I think we have the opportuni-• ty now to establish an even better relationship among the various elements of the university — the faculty and the students. We have new leadership in places. And I know they are dedicated to the kind of mutuality that I think characterize our future relationships.
I think that one of the things we have not done in the past concerns our relationship with the students and student body government. I think we need better communication with the students. It's difficult to establish that sort of thing, but it needs to be done. It's one of the regrets I have — that I didn't do a better job keeping contact with the students.
QDo you have any other re-• grets?
A Well, we all make mistakes • and I hope that mine have
The Rock Was The Scene Of Iron Arrow Tappings Until 1976
By HOWARD BURNS
Editor-In-Chief
University of Miami President Edward T. Foote has sent a letter to Chief C. Rhea Warren, of the Iron Arrow Honor Society, asking that the group alter its current position and admit women as members to the honorary society if it is to become a campus organization again.
Foote’s letter comes on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this past summer which rebuffed a lower court decision that instructed Iron Arrow to admit women.
In 1976, Henry King Stanford, then presiding as University of Miami president, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), gave the Iron Arrow leadership an ultimatum telling them to either admit women or lose their affiliation with the university.
HEW found the university in violation of Title IX of the Education Acts because it supported an organization that it found to be discriminating against women.
At that time, the university faced the prospects of losing an estimated $40 million in government aid if it did not adhere to HEW’s request.
Iron Arrow was created in 1926 under the suggestion of the university’s first president, Bowman Foster Ashe. The concept was that al a men’s honorary and service fraternity that would be exclusive to the University of Miami.
The Iron Arrow ritual is based on Seminole Indian practices and all members of the honorary are furnished with Seminole jackets, which are woven by actual tribesmen.
When members of Iron Arrow came together for a vote on whether or not to admit women back on November 23, 1976, 75 of the 144 members present voted against the proposal. This was considerably short of the two-thirds vote needed for passage.
The Supreme Court ruling, in effect, says that the university could conceivably allow Iron Arrow back on campus without monetary penal-
‘ Regardless of laws or customs of the past, it is time, I respectfully urge, that Iron Arrow change its policy of limiting membership to men only.’
UM President Edward T.
Foote
ization from the government.
Foote's letter, however, makes clear the university’s current policy by stating that despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, Iron Arrow will not be readmitted into the campus until women are incorporated into the honorary.
In his letter to Warren, Foote says: “You will recall ... that before my time here, the Board of Trustees of the University adopted a resolution requiring that Iron Arrow comply with generally applicable non-discrimination policies if the organization were to return to campus.
“The University’s position has not changed. I agree with it. I continue to believe . . . that Iron Arrow should not exclude women from membership if it is to become again a campus organization.”
Foote went on to say: “Times change. The 1980’s are not the 1920’s when the University and Iron Arrow began. Regardless of laws or customs of the past, it is time, I respectfully urge, that Iron Arrow change its policy of limiting membership to men only.”
When contacted by The Miami Hurricane, Warren said that he had not yet received the letter. He declined to comment on the issue further until he had seen the letter and spoken to counsel.
Foote has instructed University of Miami Counsel Paul T. Dee to notify the courts of the institution's decision.
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been of omission rather than commission. But, I guess the chief of those is I wish I’d been able to establish a wider acquantaince in the faculty as a whole with the operations of the Faculty Senate — the importance of the business that it undertakes and the significance of that business for the life of the faculty, as well as the life of the university as a whole.
QWhat were the major prob-• lems the Faculty Senate has had in past years?
A I think I’d like to let the prob-• lems be bygones. We’ve survived. Sometimes, after a perspective of time, certain issues that seemed very important at the time fade. I feel very optimistic about the future.
QWhat are your reflections • about your years as chaiman?
A Well, I think we've made a • great deal of progress in a number of areas. What I’m particularly happy about is the improvement of quality we’ve seen in the entering class of freshmen and I'm pleased by the quality of faculty. We have some very, very accomplished faculty members joining us and some outstanding new chairpersons.
I guess I’d like to say that as I look back over at when I first came in and look at where we are now and I look at the possibilities of where we're going, I’m encouraged by the progress and excited by the possibilities of the future of this institution.
We’re a very young institution and we've done a great deal in a very short time. We have a golden opportunity in the next few years to set a course that will bring us into the front ranks of private universities.
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
The University of Miami College Council will soon be receiving the final proposal recommending that the department of communication become a school.
According to Communication Department Chairman David Gordon, representatives from the department met with Arthur Brown, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, on September 14 to discuss the procedures for submitting the proposal. The College Council is the first step in that procedure.
If the proposal is approved by the university, Gordon sets the timetable for becoming a school at two years. Gordon said he was fairly confident the proposal would be approved.
According to the report, the proposed School of Communication will be composed of three departments: the Department of Journalism, Public Relations, and Photo-Communication; the Department of Telecommunications and Film; and the Department of Speech Communication. Each department chairperson will able to appoint sequence coordinators for discrete academic area within the chairpersons’ respective departments.
He added that there is no prime candidate yet for director of the school, which would be under the auspices of the College of Arts and Sciences — though probably not forever.
“I think the proposal says that [the school will become separate later on) between the lines,” Gordon said. “We really don’t know yet, though. We’re walking before running. We can’t afford it now, though we’ll certainly consider it later."
The curricular ties with the College of Arts and Sciences are very important, Gordon said. Also, he believes the students should have a liberal arts education.
However, the arts and sciences requirements might be tailored, Gordon said. “The change would not be in a major way. We'd like to mantain strong ties with liberal arts," he said.
“The communication professors agree that the ratio should be three to one on outside courses. We don't want our students to be ignorant of the society.”
Gordon said the most advantageous part of becoming a school would be “the identity it would give us as faculty, students, and staff, and the visibility it would give us outside — also, the added flexibility it would give us to meet specific needs (such as) curricular [and) staffing."
The communication department, which is the fastest growing department in the College of Arts and Sciences, needs to expand its faculty, Gordon said.
“If we can’t expand our faculty, we’ll have to tell some of the students that they can't take certain Please turn to page 3/GORDON
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