Miami Hurricane, November 12, 1982

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Volume 59 Number 22 Phone 284-4401
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1982
Athletics In Violation Of Title IX
Miami Hurricane/BILL URQUUART
SEC candidate Laurie Cohen, a member of the Performance ticket, campaigns on the Pock Wednesday afternoon. Unity Party candidate Oliver Morales (background) also campaigned from the Rock.	______________________________________
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Hurricane editorial Heard
The UM athletic department is in violation of federal sexual discrimination statutes, according to a confidential U.S. Justice Department report Obtained by The Miami Hur ricane.
The report, which was given to the university this week by the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), details numerous athletic department violations of Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments.
The report's findings are not final, according to UM General Counsel Paul T. Dee.
Dee refused to discuss the details of the case because of client confidentiality.
However, UM Director of Athletics Harry Mallios said that the report simply points out where the university may need to work in strengthening its non-discrimination policies.
“Four years ago, the Justice Department would usually take you to court," Mallios said. "But now all that is required is that you present them a program that shows you are working on solving the problems."
The central provision of Title IX states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex. be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
There are five exceptions to the provision, none of which applies to the University of Miami.
Citing violations ranging from unequal budgets to unequal meeting facilities, the report says that women's athletics at the university are not treated on par with the men’s programs, as required by law.
• “Women’s coaches have inadequate resources to effectively recruit," the report says. "The 1981-82 expenditure record shows that a total of $183,035 was spent on recruitment. Of that amount, women's sports spent $2,640 or one percent of the total expenditure."
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By SALLY SPITZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
In the past, students may have been a little upset with the financial aid office because of its late notification of financial aid awards. In the future, the office will be trying to alleviate this problem, according to Ronald Hammond, director of the financial aid office.
Associate Provost George Gilpin has approved USBG external response legislation which states that next year students who apply for financial aid on time will be notified no later than July 15.
The resolution states:
“That the Financial Aid office of the University notify all students who timely apply for financial aid prior to July 15, of each academic year. That if the Financial Aid Ofice
can make notification earlier, they shall, and if major changes are made in the federal financial aid disbursement as in this summer, the office will notify students prior to July 15 of the changes and their inability to send out award letters, and will give notification no later than two weeks prior to registration.”
Hammond explained that the office was late in sending out notifications this year for many reasons. Unlike in the past six or seven years where the old data system gave automatic packaging of the award identification, a new data system was used this year Hammond said that the office could not completely rely upon the new system.
In addition they were delayed on
Burns Reelected Hurricane Editor
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
Howard Burns, editor-in-chief of The Miami Hurricane, was unanimously reelected to the post by the Board of Student Publications in its meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Burns is a senior majoring in communications. He was elected to the post last spring and has served as editor-in-chief since the beginning of the summer. He has served as assistant editorials editor, editorials editor, sports editor and contributing editor during his four years on the Hurricane staff.
Burns said of his reelection: "The board's vote of confidence leads me to believe that they feel that the Hurricane is well on the way to bringing to the University of Miami the coveted Pacemaker award.”
The Pacemaker is the highest award available for collegiate newspapers.
The Hurricane has made several changes in many areas of the newspaper, changes which Bums said improve the quality of the newspaper. “We have made significant strides in upgrading the quality of the Hum cane and next semester we will do even more,” he said.
Burns
"We will now do a complete réévaluation of the total newspaper so that we may improve upon the improvement we’ve already shown this semester."
Burns concluded that "many have tried to affect the policy of this newspaper, and they have failed. We will continue to retain our independence and serve the university community in the best ways possible."
starting the process because of “so many of the indecisions in the funding from the federal government and in some of the policy and procedural regulations,” Hammond explained.
He said that all of these things created a “backlog” and the financial aid office "felt very badly about this.”
Hammond was approached by an officer of USBG about the office’s ability to get out a notice to the students, in reference to their awards, no later than July 15. Hammond told them that this was a “very realistic time" and he committed himself and the department to reaching that date.
Hammond hopes that these notices can be sent out even earlier than that, unless unforseen problems arise. If problems do exist, Hammond said "We’re |the financial aid office] prepared to communicate to all students, in some way, that there will be a delay and that problems will be worked out.”
In the past several years, and in the present, Hammond’s personal goal has been to get out notifications by the end of June. However, he explained that this is very difficult to do because they must wait for the student's grade report from the spring semester, which usually doesn’t get out until the beginning of June.
Hammond also expressed his opinions about the new law which has been recently enacted in Congress. This law states that all male students must show some proof of their registration to the draft before they will receive financial aid.
"This is just another move in the direction of complete control by the federal government over all facets of the students," Hammond said. He said that this control does not end with financial assistance, but that this is just a "vehicle by which they can exact this control.”
“It’s a technique that the federal government is using to assume leverage upon the students to force them into registering,” Hammond added
The fact that this law only applies to males, and not all students, suggests to Hammond a “degree of illegality.”
Although the financial aid office has not received any specific procedures on implementing this law on campus, Hammond said that they will require some kind of confirmation from the student that he has registered for the draft. This confirmation will be placed in the student’s file.
Hammond foresees many problems that will arise from this law. “It will only add to the problem of timely aid service to the students.” he said.
Pre-Law Honor Society
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Looks Towards Expansion
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
The Pre-Law Honor Society, now-in its second year on the University of Miami campus, tapped two new members last week. In addition. Jeanette Hausler, dean of admissions of the UM Law School was tapped as the Society's first honorary member.
The two students just tapped are Sandra Van Dine and Lawrence Signori.
The Pre-Law Honor Society constitution states that the organization exists to “recognize those undergraduate students who have demonstrated exceptional aptitudes in leadership, character, and contributions to the University of Miami community and have demonstrated a highly vested interest in the pursuit of the U.S I égal System
According to Gina Rodriguez, the Society’s president, UM is the first university in the nation to have such an organization that recognizes students interested in pre-law The Pre-Law Honor Society differs from the Pre-Legal Society in that the Pre-Legal Society is a service organization, while "we just honor those students who have demonstrated an interest in pursuit of legal studies. We are strictly an honorary," Rodriguez said
Rodriguez said the organization is seeking to expand to other campuses. not only in the state of Florida. but throughout the country. That will be one of the Society’s major projects next semester, she said
The Pre-Law Honor Society will honor its members and new tappers at a banquet this Sunday at Victoria Station.
Findings Of The Report
•	Athletics spent $183,035 on recruitment: only $2,640, or one percent, was spent on women's athletics.
•	Eleven percent of all athletes are female, while women make up 44 percent of UM’s enrollment.
•	UM failed to provide competition for women’s sports teams equal to their ability. The softball team, for example, played 10 of its 13 games against junior colleges.
•	Of six people working out of the sports information department, only one is assigned to work with women's athletics.
• "The university is not providing participating opportunities for men and women in numbers sub-stantianlly proportionate to their respective enrollments,” the investigators say.
"The university cannot show a history and continuing practice of program expansion which is demonstrably responsive to the developing interests and abilities of females.”
Non-discriminatory law states that schools must provide a proportionate number of recreational and varsity sports for men and women.
The report notes that while the 16 1981-82 varsity teams included seven female teams and one coeducational team, men athletes outnumbered the women 2-1.
According to statistics provided by the university to OCR, there were 10,724 undergraduate students registered, 56 percent of which were male. However, 77 percent of UM's athletes were male
The report goes on to state that the figures are even lower this year by at least 12 percent because the university disbanded the women's volleyball team and did away with the rifle team, which was coed
That means that roughly 11 per cent of the athletes are female, while women make up 44 percent of the enrollment.
• The university failed to provide competition equal to the ability of the women’s teams while providing quality competition for the men’s teams.
The baseball and football teams played all of their schedules against Division I opponents, while the women’s basketball team played 77 percent of its programs against similar opponents, and "the women's softball team played only a marginal schedule, playing 10 of its 13 games against junior colleges," the report says.
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USBG Election Attracts Large Student Turnout
By GEORGE HAJ
Hurricane News Editor
The Undergraduate Student Body Government elections, held Wednesday and yesterday, attracted over 1,200 students in one of the heaviest turnouts in recent years.
The high turnout was attributed to the controversial Campus Sports and Recreation expansion referendum, which attracted a large number of students both for and against. Also helping the turnout was the large number of Unity Party candidates and supporters who campaigned, despite most of the seats being uncontested.
As of late Thursday afternoon, the results of the election were unknown.
Twelve candidates from the Unity Party ran unopposed and thus automatically won seats in the Undergraduate Student Body Government Senate. They are:
Simone McDonald — 1968 Complex
Oliver Morales — 960 Complex Kelly O'Shaughnessv — Eaton Hall
Mark Linde — Mahoney/Pearson Matt Pompeo — Art Area Annie Ortega — Freshman Jodi Wein — Freshman Maricel Gomez — Sophomore Karen Morad — Sophomore Angela Vazquez — Central Jose Martinez — Central Bill Dooley — Frat Row A few seats, both in the Senate and in the Student Entertainment Committee, were contested. The most hotly contested race was that for the two open seats on the SEC.
Competing for those seats were Unity Party candidates Hilda Mitra-ni and Darryl Holsendolph against Performance Party candidates Laurie Cohen and Leigh Schnabel The off-campus north and off-campus south seats were never a real factor in the races, as the two independent candidates, Jeffrey Steinsnyder and Patrick Lepore, did very little campaigning.
The Campus Sports and Recre-
ation Center referendum was hotly
debated throughout the two days ol voting. Although the Unity Party as a whole did not take a position either way on the referendum, several candidates were giving their personal views, and urging students to vote against the referendum
Campus Sports and Recreation personnel appeared with literature approved by the Election's Commission that supported the referendum This literature, however, was criticized by several students opposing the referendum, as the posters did not mention any fee increase — they only asked students to vote for a CSR expansion.
On Wednesday morning, the first day of actual voting, posters appeared all over campus urging students to vote against the CSR referendum proposal. There were three different types of posters put up No student or group ever took responsibility for putting up the literature.
The literature was put in several dormitories, as well as across the Student Union and Memorial buildings. The posters that were put up in the dormitories were never approved by the resident coordinator or any residence hall official before they were distributed.
As there was never official permission given to put up the posters, several students took to tearing them down.
The CSR referendum would add $30 to the Student Activity Fee for the purposes of expanding the Lane Recreation Center. The center was originally funded by a $1 million donation from William Lane $1 million more is needed to complete the plans for the center The expansion plans call for indoor racquet-ball courts, a Nautilus work room and expanded general purpose rooms and facilities for students to use.
CSR Director Norm Parsons predicted that three times the number of students who use the facility now would use it if the center were expanded
Index
H.K.A.R.T.
Lifelines sponsors a week long program of events emphasizing health and fitness /PACK >
‘Here and Now’
Maxwell Glen and Cody Shearer report from Washington on how Election Day 1982 might be considered a turning point for women’s campaigns /PAGE 6
‘Letters To The Editor’
Students voice their opinions /PAGK 7
‘Entertainment Slate’
The Miami Hurricane opens a new feature which highlights developments in the entertainment, industry /PAGE 8
Facing A Tough Road
A preview of the upcoming Hurricane women's basketball season /PAGE 11
Opinion /PAGE 6 Sports /PAGE 11
Entertainment /PAGE 8 Classifieds /PAGE 13

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