Miami Hurricane, September 02, 1983

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Volume 60 Number 2

Friday, September 2, 1983
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By LOURDES FERRER
Hurricane Associate News Editor
Undergraduate Student Body Government President Mark Ches-kin Wednesday announced the resignation of Vice President Marilu Madrigal and the nomination of Suzanne Graham to take her place.
However, exactly when Madrigal made her decision known to Ches-kin is unclear.
Cheskin said that shortly after USBG elections last April, Madrigal told him she was thinking of resigning.
Cheskin suggested she give her decision caretul consideration during the summer.
According to Cheskin, Madrigal's resignation letter was submitted to him on Aug. 26.
However, Madrigal said she submitted her resignation letter "about a month ago" to Cheskin.
"This vice presidency came in a very hard time in her |Madrigal’s| life,’’ explained Cheskin in his announcement during a USBG Senate workshop.
“1 have tried very hard to arrange my life to be able to handle the great responsibilities of the vice president of USBG ... I am very sorry that under the present circumstances I cannot do what I feel would be a good job as vice president," wrote Madrigal in her resig-
nation letter
All Madrigal would comment on was that she resigned her position “for personal reasons"at home After hours of consideration by USBG Treasurer Angie Vazquez, Senate Speaker Sue Jean and Cheskin, Graham was chosen overwhelmingly as the nominee.
“We didn't have an active vice president ¡Madrigal] during the summer,” Cheskin said. "Marilu was not in the office enough " During the summer, Graham supervised the USBG Cabinet — the vice president's most important job — and took part in USBG programs. The Cabinet is the USBG committee which plans most of the
events on campus
“I'm ecstatic," Graham said. "This is a good opportunity for me to be even more involved in student
government."
Said Cheskin: "Suzanne has proven herself in student government. She is extra-reliable, no one dislikes her and she is respected by the administration."
On Wednesday. Graham will appear before the USBG Senate for ratification of confirmation of her nomination. A wine-and-checse social will follow the meeting.
Although a two-thirds ratification is needed by the Senate, Cheskin said he sees no obstacles.
“Suzanne knows what a vice
president has to do." said Cheskin. "She knows her stuff "
Cheskin sees Graham as the “mechanism to get students involved in the university "
As vice president, Graham s responsibility will be to chair ail Cabinet meetings and fill in for and help Cheskin
"I'm confident she'll do a good joh," said Vazquez "She's a hard worker."
Graham, who is president of Circle K, said her responsibilities with that organization will not interfere with her new duties as vice president.
Graham, 19, is a junior majoring in chemistry: she plans to attend medical school. Originally from Jamaica, she is the director of the USBG University Information Service, which publishes the USBG Encounter newsletter.
She has already published two Encounters, one for the New Student Summer Orientation Program (NSSOP) and another for the beginning of the fall semester.
Graham is also a member of the Honors Student Association, the Student Union Program Council, Student Orientation Service and the Organization for Jamaican Unity.
Also discussed at the workshops were the 15 open Senate seats.
The School of Music, Senior at Large, Sophomore at Large and North Residence seats are open for petition — 80 signatures or eight percent of constituency (whichever is lower) is needed before a student is reviewed.
Suzanne Graham
The petition period runs for two weeks starting last Wednesday until Sept. 14
Those interested must be a fulltime student, have at least a 20 gpa. be involved with their constituency and show leadership qualities.
The following seats are by appointment only: 960 Residence. Ma-honey/Pearson Residence Hall, Eaton Hall Residence.Fraternity Row Residence, Central Residence, South Residence. International Council, United Black Students and Federation of Cuban Students
UM bans individuai
selling class notes
Miami Hurricane/BILL SCHERER
By RONNIE RAMOS
Hurricane Editor in Chief
Sorority Rush
These girls participate in one of the many rushes held during the week of registration. Most fraternities and I sororities had similiar activities.	_____________I
Professor’s rights were violated, concludes philosophical group
By LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Hurricane News Editor
“Another Foote screw-up.”
Those are the words of Richard Sharvy, a former UM philosophy professor. According to a committee of the American Philosophy Association, the UM administration "grossly violated his [Sharvy’s] professional rights” when it declined to reappoint him for the 1983-84 academic year.
This — the conclusion of a six-month APA investigation — could cost UM several hundred thousand dollars because philanthropic institutions and individuals will not give gifts to a university on the APA’s blacklist, Sharvy speculates.
Sharvy, whose two-year appointment was probationary, was not rehired this fall after several disagreements with the administration.
One of these was a direct encounter with President Edward T. Foote. Walking through campus, Sharvy spotted Foote and “chewed him out” about the campus beautification plan.
Then there was the time janitors disposed of boxes Sharvy had placed in the hall outside his office. So he sued UM for $500, settled for $200.
Another time he derided a UM alumnus — Circuit Judge Ellen Gable — in a letter mailed to the press concerning one of her decisions.
In a letter to Foote, Gable responded: “What is important to me as an alumnus of the University of Miami is that the university's name is being used in this ridiculous manner."
In frequent letters to the Hurricane, Sharvy has complained about a number of issues. In the Sept. 10, 1982, issue, he stated that the drop-date be changed to four weeks instead of the proposed eight.
He added that in order for “Sun Tan U.” to shed its image of a party school it must have stricter academic requirements.
In another instance, Sharvy sat in on what he called a “Mickey Mouse course" to see first-hand how the professor taught.
When it came time for reviewing Sharvy for reappointment, Ramon Lemos, chairman of the philosophy department, recommended dismissal. A group of faculty members voted in favor of Sharvy, but he was not hired.
According to Dean Arthur Brown, the UM faculty manual states that the administration need not give a reason for any dismissal
in a reappointment case.
“The case ran through the normal procedures and appeal procedures," Brown said. "It went from the department to the College |of Arts and Sciences! to the provost to the president’s office."
He added that the case was "not publicly discussed in the interest of the individual."
The matter also came up before the Faculty Senate, which ultimately recommended to rehire Sharvy, said Faculty Senate Chairman Robert Zaller.
Zaller said he did not know on what basis the APA report was done and therefore he could not comment, but he said that if the report were published, “it certainly could affect the philosophy department."
The APA committee found that Lemos did not violate Sharvy’s rights, but that Brown did — “in so brutal a manner as to be without precedent as far as the Committee’s
memories reach.”
It also stated that Provost William Lee and Foote "compounded the offense by further disregard for informed and virtually unaminous faculty opinion, by supression of the report of a serious internal investigation of the matter, and by furnishing Professor Sharvy with a distorted and incomplete statement of the reasons for his dismissal.”
Brown, however, said the APA report is “wrong."
“It’s not justified,” he said “The university has acted properly. That’s the facts of the matter."
UM President Edward T. Foote II said that the case was reviewed in a variety of ways and that independent investigations found no violation of Sharvy's rights.
"Nobody from the philosophy association came to this campus," said Foote.
Next month an APA Board will discuss the committee’s recommendations.
Inside
Pay before you cash
The university has passed new regulations on check cashing, instituted mandatory check cashing cards and upset the USBG president. /PAGE 4
‘A homecoming of sorts’
The Miami Hurricane takes a new editorial approach and
begins a new process for selecting the house editorial- /PAGE 8
Madness at UM
The Hurricane interviews Chris Foreman, founder of the group Madness, which api>eared at UM last night. Britishly off-beat. /PAGE 10
Showdown ’S3
UM lakes on the Gators tomorrow in Gainesville. See our special section lor a complete preview and a guide to Gainesville Special Section
Acquisition of Inn discussed by Foote
By PETER PERMUY
Hurricane Staff Writer
Discussion about the acquistion of the University Inn and the extension of the repeat rule took place at the Senate Faculty Tuesday
Foote spoke on the purchase of the University Inn across from UM on South Dixie Highway, saying the deal is subject to closing and will be financed through its own means.
He added that estimates dictated no loss of income from the venture and possibly some profit. The deal was made in order to preserve the option for UM to expand across the street and provide up to eight acres for future development, said Foote
He also mentioned that UM’s budget last year ended barely in the black. With regard to the current situation, he said the university needs a registration figure
"Students pay their bills and all else flows from there,” he said He cited the major work of the summer as the reorganization of the Provost's Office and the acquisition of new faculty members.
The June 20 resolution about the extension of the repeat rule was brought forth. According to the resolution, the repeat rule expiration date has been extended from May 1983 to May 1984 for graduating seniors, only for courses taken prior to June
A presentation of the new $250-$300 million dollar fund raising campaign was given by Dr. Cyrus Jollivette, Dr. Rita Bornstein and James P. Seymour. Seymour said a highly qualified staff will ensure a successful campaign
Dr. David Wilson of the graduate school followed with a report on the status of the graduate studies program He stated that weaknesses in graduate programs and in teaching assistants are being singled out and reviewed High standards are being enforced
Schroth went on to say he had obtained Associate Biology Professor Charles Mallery's approval and A former University of Miami Sandler's go-ahead, student who claimed to have the “He (Sandler] said I had no real Bookstore's and Dean William San- reason to get the professors' ap-Uler’s approval has been denied per- provai,” Schroth said, "because he mission to sell class notes on cam- didn't see any recourse they would
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have it they disagreed."
Repeated attempts to reach Sandler for comment failed. *
Mallery said he never gave Schroth permission for selling the notes. “He asked if a student could come in and take notes, and I said fine,” Maliery said. "He was one of What am I
Martin Schroth, a former biology graduate assistant and current science teacher at Miami Killian High School, had set up a table outside the UM Bookstore during registration last week and was soliciting subscribers.
In Schroth's business, students our former students, who are enrolled in five selected going to say?"
classes would be paid $100 to take Mallery said he didn't know notes for the semester. These notes 'Schroth intended to sell the notes, would then be sold through the Associate Dean Richard Pfau of Bookstore and by mail subscription the College of Arts and Sciences for $1.25 per every week’s worth of said no one in the College gave notes.	Schroth permission, “The faculty
However. Schroth was ordered members in the College of Arts and to fold up his table last Thursday Sciences prefer that this not take because of failure to acquire a per- place," he said mit of solicitation. He was asked to Pfau went on. "Taking notes is a leave by Jerry Askew, assistant to very important part of the intellec-the vice president for Student Af- tual process. Also, purchased notes fairs, and Jeff Zirulnick. assistant should not replace class notes." director of the Student Union.	Scroth said he did not intend to
Ironically, Zirulnick, a UM grad- have the notes replace class attend-uate, once studied in a biology lab ance
in which Schroth was a graduate "It is not for students not to go to assistant.	class,” he said. "There are a lot of
Schroth said he had the approval foreign students, for example, who of UM Bookstore manager Chuck have problems taking notes
Canfield. However, Canfield said he never gave that approval.
”1 told him he had to get the university’s approval, and he told me had talked to the provost's office," Canfield said.
Canfield said he told Schroth he had to get the instructors’ approval "He told me already had five instructors’ permission,” Canfield said.
But Schroth said he never gave Canfield a specific number. “I told him I was working on it," Schroth said.
Schroth had placed two adverti-semrents in the summer mailaway edition of the Miami Hurricane. One stated the notes would be available through the Bookstore.
The other ad solicited students registered in the five classes — Biology 111, Chemistry 111, History 131, Music Lit 131, and Introduction to Politics 211 — and asked students to call if they "wanted to earn extra cash."
As far as the Hurricane could determine at press time, the class notes were still available by subscription.
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