Miami Hurricane, October 26, 1982

              Volume 59 Number 17 Phone 284-4401
ROCK RmmCENCES — SEE PAGE 6
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1982
Miami Humcoro/SKJP ULLtSTON
Jo Lynn Burks Is Crowned Miss University Of Miami By Last Year’s Winner Nancy Liu
Burks Crowned UM
Homecoming Queen
By DEBBIE CICHAN
This was a tough pageant for both the finalists and the judges, and many of the girls were crowd favorites.
"And Miss University of Miami 1982-83 is .. contestant number four, Jo Lynn Burks!”
Those were the words spoken by emcee Marcia Bell Postel, when UM
chose its new homecoming queen Friday night.
The capacity crowd at Gusman Hall roared with delight as the crown was placed atop Burks' head.
This was a very tough pageant for both the finalists and the judges, and many of the girls were crowd favorites. But Burks was enthusiastically welcomed as the new Miss UM.
“Before I was chosen, I felt excited and relieved that the hard part was over," Burks said. “I felt joy in being a part of it alL”
Burks described herself as being "in shock, speechless," while being crowned.
"At dress rehearsal, I was really down,” said the new queen. “The gowns that I wore for the talent and evening gown competitions weren’t the same ones I wore last night at dress rehearsal.
“After a talk with my roommate and some other friends, I felt better,” she said. “I also rehearsed several times.”
When asked what she looks forward to most, the exuberant Burks said, "Everything. I want to participate in everything this university has to offer.”
She also expressed excitement about representing UM in the Miss Florida Scholarsip Pageant.
Burks’ aunt and uncle were present to watch their niece win the title of Miss University of Miami. “My parents live in Alabama, so they couldn't attend the pageant,” Burks said.
However, the parents of the chestnut-haired, brown-eyed opera singer did have the opportunity to see their daughter win the title of Miss University of Alabama in 1980.
Burks also participated in the Miss Alabama Scholarship Pageant, for which she won a talent scholarship.
During Friday night’s talent com-
petition, Burks wore a white gown with a rhinestone bodice and sang the Habanera Aria from the opera Carmen.
Burks explained thkt she rehearsed the number, which she sung in French, several times with her voice teacher and vocal coach.
The new queen said that she knows French well enough to sing it, and can understand it when it is spoken slowly.
Burks fared just as well in the swim suit competition. Her one-piece fuchsia swim suit complemented her trim figure and healthy complexion.
The new Miss UM is also a cast member af Brigadoon, in which she plays the role of Maggie, the lead dance role in the production. Burks has been a dancer for 14 years.
The Hurricane will have complete coverage of Homecoming 1982 in this Friday’s edition. Included will be reports and photographs of all the festivities of the week
Book Spoofs All-Girl College
‘Obviously it’s spoofing the kind of institution we are. But it’s not viewed as
Tom Frazier
Mount Mary Director of College Relations
anything awful.’
By DAVID GAEDE
MILWAUKEE. Wi*. (CPS) — In addition to their usual armful of textbooks, course catalogs, and new class schedules, students at Mount Mary College are also toting around a curious little red book these days.
Poet Booth To Speak
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
He is a nature lover, an amateur anthropologist, a journalist, a lover of history, and a poet. He Is Martin Booth, a British poet who will speak at Brockway Hall tomorrow at 8 p.m.
His lecture begins the third year of the Richter Library Poetry Series. The lecture is being held in conjunction with the communication department.
In an interview with the Hurricane, Booth spoke of his life in England. Until he was 20, he resided in Hong Kong, where his father worked as a senior government official and his mother as a banking official. He went to England to study because he had “had enough of colonialism.”
“It was the swinging sixties and the Beatles and everything was cool,” said Booth of that period in England. “I got the hell out of there and went to live in the countryside.
I like the peace and quiet.”
He now lives in a small, rural village that he said existed during the year 1,066 and maybe before that. The house he now lives in is about 500 years old.
He described the country as a “rural and backward” region that “hasn't been raped yet. It's very fortunate in that respect.”
Booth also said he enjoys the village because he is able to grow a fig tree and a grapevine in his yard. Also, there is no need to fear crime. He never has to lock his house or car.
One reason Booth prefers to live in England rather than in America is because of his fear of poisonous snakes.
In England, he said, there are not too many poisonous snakes, and his two children — ages three and six — have more “natural freedom."
"It is a very tame countryside," said the poet. “And concentrated in history. In America, you can’t come to grips with ancient history.”
He added that he would also miss his freedom to travel where he wants. He live* 50 minutes from Bristol, where he works for the BBC, and a few hours from Scotland.
He also travels frequently to Italy, where he and some friends found a monastery that had been used by witches In the early 1200s and had later been closed by the Pope.
The monastery is not owned by anyone and Is abandoned, though it is full of art artifacts. Booth added that it is located in the mountains and somewhat inaccessible, but has peen untouched mainly because It "?tm.agical connections and is said to be haunted.
®ooth claims to have seen a ghost either a Cistern monk or nun. He and his associates have been given permission to excavate part of the monastery, which is believed to be the catacombs of Knights Templar.
He hopes to return and film the monastery, either for the BBC or independently.
Booth, who has published nine volumes of poetry (two in the United States), began working recently for BBC television and radio by “a string of the most incredible coincidences."
He was invited to do a film for BBC, but first wrote a documentary on the ability of dolphins to communicate with humans. The show received top ratings for that week.
He has been commissioned to write a poetry documentary for BBC radio and is working on a film for BBC television. The film is to be about Jim Cobert, a man who became famous for his work with man-eating tigers in India.
"I’ve been tending to work more for TV," Booth said. "It just sort of came about.
“Many of the disciplines one needs to know for poetry are need-ed for TV, such as the need to say a
lot in few words.”
Booth also has published two novels and edited the Book of Cats, which has sold half a million copies.
“It made a fortune and didn’t deserve it,” Booth said of the Book of Cats. “It was crazy, really.”
By next year, he will have come out with another novel and a critical book. Also, he is poetry critic and rock music critic for the Tribune, the English socialist newpaper. Booth also describes himself as a “political journalist.”
This is not the first time that Booth has come to America, though It is his first time in Florida. He did a reading tour some years ago, during which he visited five universities. In 1975, he was a visiting professor on Long Island.
He said he likes Miami because it is tropical and said that the UM campus is very beautiful.
“I like to be somewhere that is tropical," he said. “Somewhere where I can take the oranges off a tree.”
The admissions office at the private, all-woman, Roman Catholic College also keeps several copies of the small paperback os hand, as does the campus minister.
But the book. Welcome to Mount Merry College, Is hardly official. Outlining courses ranging from Gastronomical Geometry to Playboy Philosophy and describing a faculty made up of burned-out academicians and sexual deviants, it isn’t exactly something the ML Mary’s staff ordinarily uses to guide the students.
In fact, the book comes from faraway New York, and its authors, trying to produce a parody of college catalogs, had never heard of the real Mount Mary College.
The authors — two of the original people who started to write The Official Preppy Handbook but who early on sold their interests in the project to Lisa Bimbach — concocted their Mount Merry College as a private, eastern school. But the fictional campus, all concerned note, is not unlike the real, small Wisconsin private school whose name is mocked in the title.
Proposed Change In Doctrine May Affect Catholic Colleges
(CPS) — A proposed change In Catholic Church doctrine is bringing about a showdown between church officials and, on the other hand, administrators and faculty members at the nation’s 237 Catholic colleges, many of whom claim the church is unnecessarily challenging their freedom to teach students
At issue is a proposed canon Uw which would stop anyone without official church approval from teaching theology at a Catholic college.
Pope John Paul II is currently reviewing the proposal. Church officials expect him to approve it in some form in the near future.
Just the prospect of approval has frightened many teachers, who claim they’d be forced to choose between teaching theology and Imparting church doctrine in class.
“I am a full professor and have my tenure," said John Connolly, theology department chairman at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. “Now the suggestion is that in order to continue teaching, 1 might need some kind of mandate from the church.”
If church officials do gain de facto control over theology teaching hiring decisions, "We cease to be a university and instead become a seminary,” complained Edmond Fitzpatrick, religious studies director at DePaul University in Chicago.
"Basically, the law proposes that theology faculty at all Catholic colleges and universities would have to have some kind of mandate by the competent ecclesiastical authority in order to teach,” said Father Donald Heint-schel of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
In most cases, he said, that means the instructors would have to be approved by their regional bishop or archbishop.
“Many people are confused about what the law means, and how it will affect our schools," said Father James Provost, associate professor of canon law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
“It will no doubt affect the teachers of theology directly " he added, but it's still unclear just what criteria the church will use to approve or disapprove of teachers.
“In countries where the Catholic Church has a treaty with the local governments, like West Germany, it means church officials will also have legal authority to approve faculty." Provost said.
In this country, he added, the issue is whether university administrators will give up their academic authority to church officials.
The issue isn't debatable at Catholic University. As a pontifical university — one officially sanctioned to grant degrees in the church's name — the school Is obligated to follow all church doctrine precisely.
Most Catholic schools have more leeway in implementing doctrine, and it is among them that the new law would cause the most trouble.
“U.S. Catholic colleges are not enthusiastic at all about |the proposed canon] because it comes too close to mixing church and state,” Fitzpatrick said.
"We are a little bit afraid that government support and the support we have from other private colleges will be eroded,” he said.
DePaul. he explained, “has always seen itself standing under the umbrella of Catholicism and on the other hand sees Itself as academically Independent, even in the area of religious studies."
For now, DePaul said, it will let the individual professor decide whether to submit to church approval.
“But that could always change,” a university official added.
At Marquette, things are more uncertain.
“In so far as the new canons can guide us, we welcome them," said Quentin Quade, executive vice president. “But in so far as those canons violate university regulations, we'd have to set them aside.”
Marquette, he contended, is not “legally bound to canon law.”
But Milwaukee Archdiocese Chancellor Mike Newman disagreed.
"The university staff will have to correspond with the directives of the church,” he said.
“Academic freedom,” he said, “has limitations "
The prospect of a showdown between campus and Vatican over the rule has made Loyola’s Connolly, a layman like many of the theology instructors at Catholic schools, unsure about his career.
“I would hate for us. Catholic and lay instuctors alike, to be in a position where our jobs would depend on receiving or not receiving an ecclesiastical mandate.” he said. "If that happens, it would clearly be an infringement of our academic freedom, and I think I would be reluctant to even accept that as part of my contract.”
“We just decided to set out and do a spoof of the traditional college catalog," said coauthor Mason Wiley. "We read through every college catalog we could get our hands on, looked at course titles and descriptions, and then just went crazy creating something of our own.”
Coauthor Carol Wallace remembers “really getting into the swing of it” when she read through the catalog for Brigham Young University and spotted some courses on “the selection of large and small appliances and choosing the right cookware."
Sometimes, Wiley explained, writing a satirical course title was as easy as changing a word in the original version. One school, for instance, “offered a course titled ‘Women In Antiquity,’ and all we did was come up with a course titled ‘Women And Antiquity' — an examination of the causes and dynamics of the affinity between women and antiques.' ”
"After we got some ideas for courses," Wiley said, “we decided to create a model college to build the catalog around. It seemed a private, Catholic school that took itself too seriously would be perfect."
The authors picked the all-too-real name for their book "because we wanted something that had sexual connotation, something a little religious, and something humorous,” Wiley said. “So we named it Mount Merry College. It’s a school that prides itself on that old, puritanical, strict image, but has absolutely no justification for doing so.”
Peppered with black-and-white snapshots of students making out, nuns playing guitars, and physical education teacher Mary Dyche nonchalantly massaging a female student's breast while pinning a medal on her, the book lampoons just about everything that private, reli-
gious colleges have always held sacred.
“In a way.” Wiley admitted, “the book became not so much a parody, but also a small little novel about this mythical college somewhere. We try to suggest a relationship between the instructors and their classes. It seemed appropriate to have a lesbian teaching physical education, or to have the campus chaplain having an affair with the president."
Wiley said college officials are typically "a little intimidated” when they first look through Welcome to Mount Merry, but most “end up chuckling after they really get into it.”
“We've looked at It and discussed it," said Tom Frazier, Mt. Mary's director of college relations. “Obviously It’s spoofing the kind of institution we are. And unfortunately, they used Mount Merry as the title. But it's not viewed as anything awful.
“Actually," Frazier continued, "it might enhance our publicity a little if we could use It somehow as a marketing tool. It's cleverly done, and unfortunately a lot of the book is pretty representative of the way private colleges used to market themselves."
“I know I've seen a lot of the girls with the book," reported Mary Jane Riley, director of admissions. “We've had faculty and students bring it by. Really, we've all enjoyed it immensely.”
But out of a half-dozen schools with similar names, Mt. Mary College seems to be about the only one where the book has made its way onto campus. Administrators at three other Mount St. Mary colleges said they hadn't even heard of the publication spoofing their names.
Index
"The Devil’s Advocate’
The weekly column by de la France continue*, with another in his series on the parking dilemma at UM /PAGE 4
'Here And Now’
Maxwell Glen ami Cody Shearer report from Columbus, Ohio on the make-up of two candidate* involved in an interest ing midwestern congressional race /PAGE 4
Queen For A Year
The Hurricane introduces you to Jo Lynn Burkes, the reign-' inr Mias UM for 1982-83 /PAGE «
‘Monsignor’	,	‘
The Hurricane reviews the new motion picture starring Christopher Reeve /PAGE 8
Football Flashback
A look back at the 1950 Purdue-Miami football game that put the Hurricanes on the map as national contenders /PAGE 9
Opinion/PAGE 4	Entertainment /PAGE 0 *
Sports/PAGE 9	'	Classifieds/PAGE 1ft