Miami Hurricane, April 11, 1986

              Students face terrorism
In the first “Face the Students" debate, UM student discuss terrorism with two editors-in-chief of political journals
News — page 3
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Inspiration for the page
Isaac Bashevis Singer: a legendary author whose knowledge spurs on UM’s creative writers.
_________ Entertainment — page 6
Swim coach Hodgson resigns
Limited funding and a lack of departmental support prompted Coach Charlie Hodgson to resign Monday
Sports — page 8
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Volume 63, Number 45
University of Miami
Friday, April 11, 1986
Rathskeller’s\ future uncertain
By MARILYN GARATEIX
Hurricane Contributing Editor
The future of the University of Miami Rathskeller is being debated by the administration and student leaders.
At the Undergraduate Student Body Government Wednesday, Dr. William Butler, vice president of Student Affairs, explained the three options open to the Rathskeller Board of Directors.
One is to bring the food management of the Rat back under control of the corporate board, University Rathskellar, Inc., a non-profit organization, in conjunction with the Rathskeller Advisory Board as it was done last year and in previous years.
The other option is to renew the existing contract with Mariott food services, which is now responsible for food management. The contract was approved by the corporate board and RAB at the beginning of the fall semester.
The final option is to close the Rat down. At this point it will be used for other University purposes. In fact, the School of Law has already made an offer to buy the Rat.
The Rat's contract with Mariott runs out May 31 and is renewable based on satisfactory evaluations conducted by Mariott and the Rat of each other.
According to Butler, he will ifc meeting with representatives from Mariott in thAcomlng weeks.
If the contract is signed, then it will be business as usual for the Rat during the next arademic year.
The Rat is a corporation within \he University, with Butler as president and WilliamVSheeder, dean of students, as vice president. Three members from the UM board of trustees make up tLAe rest of the corporate board.	\
The board has the legal responsibility for overseeing the running of the Rat.
If the Rat does not renew the contract with Mariott but instead chooses to return control of the food management to Rathskeller. Inc., Butie- said, the Rat cannot be run without additional funding.
Between $75,000 to $100,000 would have to be provided next year so the Rat could operate without a deficit. The reserves, Butler said, to prevent this, have all been used up.
“There is a gap between anticipated revenue and expenditures," Butler said. "It's painfully clear In the last two years that it can't be generated through the clientele/'
Since 1969 when the Rat was first built, $1.50 of each student's Activity Fee has gone to the Rat. The rest of its funding has come from money generated through food and beverage sales.
Kevin Dillon, newly-elected RAB chairperson, said RAB is in the process of coming up with plans to deal with the Rat's situation.
One of the ideas Dillon said he plans to present before the entire board is to “ultimately petition USBG to hold an emergency election to increase the activity fee or the Rat will be closed.”
RAB is responsible, under the coporation's bylaws, for initiating formal policy except in emergency cases when the corporate board has the power to do so.
Inflation, the decrease in student population and the raising of the drinking age have brought the Rat to its current status, Butler said.
The law was raised from 19 to 21 last year in Florida with the grandfather provision that those born before July 1, 1966 will still be eligible to drink.
Sheeder added that the development of the residential college system and the increased programming has also contributed to the decline in students using the Rat.
The Rat, he said, is not being used to its full potential. "It's underutilized from a business prospective, " he said.
It is only fully used during lunchtime, Sheeder said, and when students go at night, most have already eaten, so very little is made from snack and beverages.
In 1984-85 the Rat lost $71,000, a good portion of it during the summer when they remained open, Sheeder said. According to Sheeder, they would have lost more if they had closed because the Rat would have had to pay the government the actual rate of unemployment rather than a fixed rate as other corporations do.
Expenditures for the Rat during 1984-85 included $230,000 for food costs, $200,000 for labor, $42,000 for utilities, over $30,000 for maintenance. $20,000 for paper products, $10,000 for insurance, $2,500 for telephone and $2.000 for extermination.
Figures for 1985-86 are not yet available. Sheeder said.
“If you could run the Rat from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the school year only, it would make money,” Sheeder said.
However, both Butler and Sheeder told USBG that they do not see the Rat as "just a campus bar. but a social center."
Butler said right now he’s mainly looking for student input on what should be done about the situation and wants to know how important is the Rat to students.
"Students need to speak," Butler said. "They need to be a major voice in its jthe Rat’s| direction.”
Miami police mistaken in Contra riot: mayor says
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Xavier Suarez, mayor of Miami, advocated an involved mayoralty affecting state and national issues during an "open subject" speech at
the University of Miami'« Learning Center Wednesday evening.
Suarez’s speech, sponsored by UM's Pre-Legal Society, was a loosely structured call for more legislators who "really want to change the system" and new election rules that would make it easier for a person to challenge, and beat, an Incumbent.
After his presentation, Suarez opened the floor to questions and was asked about what actually happened in the March 22 clash between anti-Contra and pro-Con-tra demonstrators in downtown Miami. He admitted police had allowed each group to be too close to the other.
"IThe police] thought the confrontation would not result in anvthing." Suarez said.
The March 22 demonstrations, he said, illustrated how volatile a community Miami is because “communism had been seen first hand” by many of its inhabitants.
Architecture professor dies in plane crash
By JOAN KITE
Hurricane Staff Writer
Classes were cancelled Thursday for the School of Architecture In memory of Robert Vagner a part-time professor who died this
WVaEner, 38, was killed instantly when his private stunt plane took a nose dive near Tamiami airport. He was practicing stunt maneuvers at the time.
School of Architecture Dean John Regan said classes were cancelled so students and faculty members could attend the memorial service at Coral Gables Congregational Church. 3010 DeSoto
A*black banner two stories high was draped from the roof of the school. The UM flag flew at
h8VaTner taught an Integral course in design studio, also chief of design for the Metro Dade Parks and Recreation Department.
"We are going to establish a memorial fund in his Regan said “He was a ternfic teacher, very knowledgeable. And he was dedicated to helping his students.”	. .
All 330 architecture students are required to take design studio.
The School of Architecture is contacting Vagner's former students and other qualified people to fill his position for the rest of the
^Vagner is survived by his wife Lorraine and a 2-year-old daughter.
Suarez
Suarez said, though, that reports in The Miami Herald and The Miami News were inaccurate about what happened at the rally.
He said he did not see any rocks or bottles thrown by demonstra-
Suarez said he has asked the Latin community to "stay at home," away from an anti-contra rally to be held tomorrow by pacifists.
The mayor said his request is not an attempt at denying people their freedom of speech, but rather of trying to protect the city from forces that might tear it apart.
In answer to a question about
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probably would endorse a candidate — the one who would best help Miami — in the gubenatorial race.
He would not be more specific except to say a Republican might win the election and his endorsement would probably come before the primary.
The mayor said that he “might sit the Senate race out," In regards to his endorsing either Governor Bob Graham or Senator Paula Hawkins for the Senate seat that the two are fighting over.
In response to a question about corrupt Miami policemen, Suarez said there is no excuse for the number of corrupt policemen — 2.5 percent of the force — the city employs.	. .. „	.. .
He said the city is finding that many of these policemen were hired during the 1982-83 year, when the city took “anyone it could get.”
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Because rooms in the apartments are scarce this year students beaded Wednesday evening to make the hallway outside the Residence Halls Office m Pearson Hall a campground In order to be the first ones in the door to sign up a room Thursday morning
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Copy Center employees investigated
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Ashe Copy Center employees did not follow correct procedures April 3 when they allowed Dr. Frank Stuart, history professor, to leave the Center while the third History 132 exam was being printed, according to Alan Fish, director of Business Services.
“There was a breakdown in operations,” Fish said. They should have had Dr. Stuart stay
and physically watch the test being run off. Then there would have been no doubt."
Copy Center employees are among those being investigated by Fish and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Charles Mallery after the History 132 test, to be given April 4, was leaked prior to the 4 p.m. examination.
So far Fish is satisfied that the two Center employees working April 3 are not involved.
Procedures for copying an exam in a Copy Center are as follows. Fish said: the department makes an appointment with the Center to copy the test; only an administrator or faculty member can bring the test to the Center, and that person is requested to wait inside
the Center and watch the test being copied.
If the person cannot wait, Fish said, the employees should return the test.
Meanwhile, the investigation being conducted by Mallery and the history department is “going very well,” Stuart said.
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New Carni Gras chairperson named
BETH KElSERJHurricane Staff
UM flag flies at half-mast in honor of Vagner
By PATRICK McCREERY
Hurricane Assistant News Editor
Anthony Cioe, the security chairperson of this year's University of Miami Carni Gras, has been named chairperson forthe entire 1986-87 festival by the Carni Gras Selection Committee.
Cioe, a marketing major, defeated Andrew S. Parker V, editor in chief of the Ibis yearbook, for the title.
Since Carni Gras is 11 months away, Cioe said he
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what form the festival would take.
“I'm sending a letter to every organization to see what they re looking for,” he said. "I don t want to do something I like, out of my head, that other people might not like.”
Many decisions, Cioe said, should be made with his. as yet unnamed, Carni Gras Committee.
This year's Carni Gras chairperson, Clayton Randall, and associ-
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ate chairperson, Laurie Mervis, both said that a large committee was not needed because there was not something for everyone to do.
“You can’t let everyone do everything,” Cioe said. “I don't want any lollygaggers around.
In his written presentation to the selection committee, Cioe outlined the form his committee would take.
Immediately beneath him in rank will be an associate chairperson and below both of them would be a publicity chairperson, organizational liaison, field chairperson. Student Entertainment Committee liaison, security chairperson and finance chairperson.
Each of these people would head their own committees, under the plan.
Cioe said he was looking into furthering the cooperation that exists between the Carni Gras Committee and the leaders of UM's Lowe Art Museum Beaux Arts Festival of Art.
"My main concern is to see whether the students are interested in what they (people involved in the art festival] have to offer, Cioe said.
The two festivals, both held on the weekend of March 6, were not
as helpful to each other as they could have been, Randall said.
Booths sold identical types of ethnic food at both festivals, for instance, which is something Cioe said he plans to address as chairperson.
The idea of two stages used for concerts started at this year s festival will continue, Cioe said.
This year, music alternated from one stage on the University Center Patio to another as one band set up while another played.
Talk show host to hold world hunger programs
The host of an award-winning radio talk show in New York will be the guest at two dinners and programs to be held April 16 and 17.
Bill Ayres, host of the weekly late-night “Bill Ayres Show," will speak in the Residential Colleges Cafeteria at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and in Dr. Tim Mescon’s apartment in the Residential College at 6 p.m. on Thursday.
The topic of the first of the audience-participation programs will be world hunger. The second program will center on the subject of personal development, particularly involvement on campus, relationships and career options.
In addition to his talk show, Ayres' accomplishments Include co-founding and directing World Hunger Year and creating the New York Food and Hunger Hotline — the first hunger hotline in the country.
Ayres also hosted numerous radio “hungerthons" with the late singer Harry Chapin and aided Chapin with his work on the Presidential Hunger Commission.
The dinner and program is sponsored by The Residential College and the Department of Student Development Services.
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