Miami Hurricane, November 01, 1985

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News — page 3
Mama Mia
The Eye restaurant gets into the pizza business
Entertainment — page 6
It’s No. 10 against No. 11
The 11th-ranked Hurricanes travel to Tallahassee on Saturday for an important game with the 10th-ranked Seminóles of Florida State
Sports — page 8
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Volume 63 , Number 16
University of Miami
Friday, Nov. 1, 1985
Magic ticket unopposed in USBG fall elections
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane News Editor
Fall elections for the Undergraduate Student Body Government will be held Nov. 5 and 6 All candidates are rutnning on the Magic ticket, at the moment still unopposed by any other platform or ticket. Seventeen students will be running for the seats presently open on the Senate.
Magic's platform includes bringing back legislation that will provide students with bikes and boats for rent, support of the food service review committee recently established and official recognition of fraternity row.
Other suggestions include improvement of road
conditions by the University and the Coral Gables community, a change in food times from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. to 5 to 7 p.m., and the establishment of a central pre-law office.
According to campaign manager, Izhar Haq, also Speaker Pro-Tempore of the Senate, the fact the ticket is unopposed will not deter the ticket from working to obtain its goals.
"New people usually have enthusiasm and its usually contagious," said Haq. “They’ll help increase the enthusiasm that the Senate presently has."
Four of the seventeen candidatesv, Scott Swafford, Nely Fernandez, Maria Lorenzo, Raj Agarwal, are currently USBG senators are currently USBG senators. One other candidate,Paula Anderson is also a member of a USBG Cabinet committee.
Graduate stipends fail to rise with UM costs
By LISA GIBBS
Hurricane Editor in Chief
This is the second of a series on the University of M’ami Graduate School.
Stipends tor graduate assistants, who chiefly teach introductory undergraduate courses at the University, have not been increased in three years, according to officials from the Graduate School.
In addition to tuition remission for up to nine credits of course work, which counts as income to
the Office of Financial Aid. approximately 560 graduate assistants receive annual stipends, fixed amounts of money received for expenses.
Stipends range from $3,000 in the School of Business Administration to $8,000 in the department of biology.
While stipend amounts have remained the same, room and board costs have almost doubled since 1980 to a current $l,950-$2,600 for room and up to $1,600 for board (for a 20-meal-plan) per year.
The praoblem is even more severe for approximately 175 international graduate assistants who are not allowed to get another job. according to rules carried out by the International Student and Scholar Services.
"Stipends have not been increased in accordance with living costs at the University," said Esther Sterental, president of the Graduate Student Association. "It is practially impossible for international graduate assistants to survive on a stipend of less than $6,000 per year ”
"They’re starving to death, not quite literally of course, but there’s a definite problem," said Jane Whitehead, secretary of GSA. "Since international students can't work, foreign teaching assistants are In a whole different ball game.”
In a letter to interim Dean of the Graduate School Sidney Besvinick, Sterental suggested a committee be formed to examine the current stipend situation
So far, she has received no response Professors also recognize the problem.
"Their situation is pretty tight,” Dr. Eugene 'lasby, a graduate advisor and English professor, aid. "Housing fees went up, stipends didn’t, and it s
luite a crunch."	. .
Clasby plans to suggest that stipends be increased it his department's budget meeting next month.
Iranian-born Professor Reza Peyrovian of the lepartment of math and computer science was a graduate assistant at UM from 1977-83. “It's a very tight life," he said. “The stipend was not enough to live for ad whole year.”
Peyrovian, who lived on campus, said he received funds from home which helped him live more comfortably.
Associate Dean of the Graduate School Jo Anne K. Hecker feels that financial problems are not limited to international graduate assistants.
“I don’t have that much sympathy for the foreign graduate assistant being poor because I see it so much among the American students," Hecker said. “Stipends have never been high, and the students have always just surevived.
"International students see Americans with cars and such, and they all want these things," 6he said. “Foreign graduate students get the idea from America that graduate students are rich. The graduate student is a poor student.
"If the assistant, foreign or not, is a serious student, he doesn’t have time to go out and work 15 hours a week to supplement his income. He has studying to do of his own, and the ability to work shouldn't mean much,” said Hecker.
“But the American GA has the choice," said Nancy Ortiz, advisor to international graduate students. "The foreign GA does not."
The Graduate School, said Ortiz, provides financial services to all graduate assistants including deferred payment on housing, board costs and small, short-term loans.
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Beautiful balloons
Ricky Kopituk places a warning flyer and balloons on a car in the Memorial parking lot as part of an effort sponsored by Public Safety, and Roadrunners to raise crime awareness on campus. Volunteer students put flyers listing preventive measures concerning car thefts on all cars, while attaching balloons to cars that were left open, had some windows ajar or displayed valuables in visible sight "It’s a great idea," said Jill Weiss who found some balloons on her car. “as Iona as they don’t give me a ticket.
USBG allocates savings card
By ELLEN WEISBERG
Hurricane Staff Writer
Distribution of the “Cashbuster Card," a new student savings card put out by the Undergraduate Student Body Government, began this week in all the residence halls
A card was put in each resident's mailbox. Students living off campus can pick up a card in Room 240 of the Student Union.
Discounts at 23 local businesses can add up to valuable savings through next August when the card expires.
All Sports, which has been on various University of Miami discount cards for several years, is again offering students a discount through the "Cashbuster Card.”
“Offering a 10 percent discount is a goodwill type of thing." said Brian Maloney, All Spe'ts store manager. "And, of couru w e get better business because people keep coming back "
Maloney complained, though, that many students expect the discount by just using their UM ID cards instead of the USBG discount card.
"It costs money to be on the card,” Maloney said. “In the past. I have accepted IDs from students, as long as they asked. But I don’t like to do that. For people not to use the card, it's costing us money ”
Maloney said students will now have to show the “Cashbuster Card” to get the discount.
Mr. I’s Optical is also offering special student discounts through the "Cashbuster Card.” Edward Beiner, owner of the store, said offering discounts on glasses and sunglasses brings in more customers. He said many of his customers are UM students or staff
Beiner said he still gives the discount even without the card. "You figure that they’re giving the cards out for free, and a few students didn’t get them for one reason or another," he said
Aamco Transmissions is also a "Cashbuster Card" member" We're in the area, we get extra business and we like to help kids," said one employee Aamco Transmissions requires that you shew your"Cashbuster Card" and your student ID for the discount.
And, Allegro Music House, which has been on UM student discount cards for the last three or four years, decided to continue to offer discounts because, according to one employee, it is an efficient advertising and because it brings in better business.
If pocketing a little extra cash sounds enticing, the "Cashbuster Card" may be just what you are looking tor.
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Defense spending wasteful — Korb
By ERICK JOHNSON
Hurricane Staff Writer
"First of all, you have to reduce the deficit,” said F'ormer Assistant Secretary of Defense Larry Korb. “We’ve got to cut back on our defense budget in order to reduce the deficit."
Korb spoke to nearly 30 University of Miami students at the 960 residential college Wednesday
Sister pledges parody musicals
As part of the annual Pledges on Parade show, rushees from the six campus sororities participated Wednesday in skits promoting Greek life.
Sponsored by the Panhellenic Council, the pledges performed parodies of the hit musicals Sound of Music, Annie and West Side Story in the Student Union's International Lounge
"Basically, the event promotes Greek spirit, promotes unity among the pledges, and introduces the pledges to sisters in other sororities," said Andrea Goldblum, president of the Panhellenic Council.
Tonight, all the pledges and sisters will attend a formal ball at the Radlsson Hotel in honor of the pledges. The ball will be the formal debut for new sisters.
—TONY HNS
about the Department of Defense and the realities and myths that surround it.
Korb is presently vice president of Washington Operations for Raytheon Corporation — a corporation that designs military equipment for the United States.
According to Korb, the United States has a $300 billion deficit — a deficit Korb attributes to abuses that the government imposes
“Where is the waste?," Korb asked and answered his own question. “First of all. the Department of Defense owns a lot of real estate, which is wasted money because it costs money to operate the area and they don't need it."
Korb feels that the United States is not prepared to go to war “The main problem with the Department of Defense is that they are not organized to fight," he said.
For example, said Korb, "The Russians could fight a war for six months because they have a sufficient amount of ammunition We Americans could fight a war for about a month We could throw coal at them for two years."
Korb also said the United States would like to convert their coal furnaces to oil, but according to U.S. law, no coal furnaces could be converted to oil.
Sororities members from Delta Gamma, with a theme of “Greek is the world” mimic a hit musical as they take part in the annual Pledges on Parade held Wednesday at the International Lounge
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