Miami Hurricane, March 10, 1989

              Do unto others	
Kindness is often the missing link in our relations	
with others.	Opinion — page 4
Making the grade
Deja vu
How do students with high grade point averages combine academics and social lives?
Accent — page 5
The baseball team was unable to avenge the football team’s earlier defeat to Notre Dame.
Sports —page 6
SG race over for candidate
By LAURIE MUCHNICK
Staff Writer
Eastern collapse hits UM
Black law
By CAREN BURMEISTER
Contributing Editor
Charges that a black law student organization discriminates against non-blacks and the organization’s failure to register with the Committee on Student Organizations may bring the group into conflict with University of Miami policies.
According to Associate Dean of Law Students Jeanette Hausler, the Black Law Student Association, BLSA, registered with COSO in 1984 after notification of a new policy requiring it. All law school organizations have to be registered with COSO to be eligible for allocations from LA-FAC, the Law School Activity Fee Allocation Committee, Hausler said.
group called discriminatory
But an allegation that the organization discriminates against non-blacks conflicts with University policies that COSO promotes, said one law student.
“I asked Parren ¡Shannon, BLSA’s president! if I could join, and he said we would have to submit an application to the national organization for approval,” said Alex Pezon, a Hispanic law student. "He didn't tell me no, but I'd have to go through a screening process, and I think that’s unfair.”
Shannon, president of BLSA, said “white names have to be submitted to the national chapter” for approval. Black law students, however, are automatically considered members of BLSA, he said.
Shannon said he will raise the issue that
whites must submit their application for aproval at BLSA’s national convention to be held next week in Miami.
Section A of COSO's sample constitution in the Student Life Handbook states membership in organizations “shall be open to all University of Miami students, staff, administrators and alumni who unite to promote their common interests.”
Shannon said the submission of a white student's application to the national chapter is not a screening process. He added no white person had ever challenged the issue.
“If their application did go through national and they were rejected, that would be discrimination,” he said. "But no white person has applied.”
Pezon said the screening process itself is discriminatory and may deter whites from applying to the organization.
The issue raised a question as to how BLSA defines who is black. “Just recently two Hispanics had automatically become members of BLSA because they each had a black parent,” Shannon said.
William Sandler, acting dean of students, said he had never heard of an organization requiring approval of some but not all of its potential members.
In fact, he said he hadn’t heard of BLSA at all and didn’t believe they were registered with COSO.
Please see page 3/LAW
The University of Miami Elections Commission Wednesday disqualified John Hudert, the Synchronicity ticket’s presidential candidate in the Student Government race, for conducting early graphic campaigning.
Hudert was assessed a total of 30 points for two separate violations of the early graphic campaigning rule. Twenty points are required to disqualify a candidate.
Hudert appealed the commission's decision to the Supreme Court, which heard the case that night and upheld the ruling.
The complaint, filed by Ken De-Moor of the Impact ticket, alleged that a letter to the editor written by Hudert and published in the Feb. 24 issue The Miami Hurricane was a violation of the election code.
The letter criticized the current SG leadership and contained the phrase “If I were running for president...”
Hudert said he had not seen the campaign regulations until it was too late to pull the letter.
Two more candidates warn disqualified Monday whan the Supreme Court overturned an earlier Elections Commission ruling.
Stacey Belfer, vice presidential candidate for the Liberty ticket, and Kathy Balzola, education senator candidate for Liberty, were both found to be ineligible for candidacy because their applications had been filed past the 3 p.m. deadline Feb. 23.
Ten points were also assessed against the Liberty ticket Wednesday for the forgery of signatures on filing forms.
DeMoor filed the charge, saying Carlos Careras, Liberty's candidate for treasurer, had not actually signed his name to the forms.
Troy Bell, presidential candidate for Liberty, said he would appeal the decision.
In other election news, SG officers have asked the Supreme Court to decide several questions regarding a proposal to add an anti-ticket referendun to the spring ballot.
The proposal is in the form of a petition, organized by Carolyn Salisbury, Roadrunners senator, asking that students be allowed to vote whether or not to continue the current SG ticket system.
According to Marc Oster, speaker of the senate, the officers are asking the Supreme Court to decide:
•	Whether an anti-ticket ruling would violate students’ right to free association.
•	If the gathering of the names violated UM’s policies about solicitation.
•	If the wording of the proposal is biased or vague.
Strike hurts travel plans
By AMY ELLIS
News Editor
The strike by 9,300 Eastern Airlines machinists and the resulting cancellation of flights has weighed heavily on many members of the University of Miami community.
Student and faculty travel plans have been affected, and the jobs of several UM students and their families are at stake because of the strike, which began Saturday.
Throughout the week, the Eastern-Continental ticket office located in the Ashe Building has been packed with students and faculty attempting to transfer to other airlines or get their money back for useless Eastern tickets, said Lourdes Garcia-Vidal, a sales representative for Continental-Eastern Sales who works in the Ashe office.
To meet the demand, Garcia-Vidal said the office stayed open over the weekend.
“We feel uncomfortable that the students are being inconvenienced because it (the strike) coincided with their spring break," Garcia-Vidal said. “But the only thing we can do is try to get them on a flight on Continental.”
Continental, Eastern's sister airline, is the only airline still accepting Eastern tickets, Garcia-Vidal said. Yesterday, Eastern owner Frank Lorenzo at a press conference announced the company had filed for bankruptcy.
Garcia-Vidal said most students and faculty remained calm about the airline’s upheaval.
“With one or two exceptions,
the students have been very cooperative and understanding,” she said.
Sheila Smith, a junior holding an Eastern ticket to San Francisco, said she did not have much trouble getting on a new flight.
“They arranged a similar flight on Continental and basically treated me very well,” Smith said.
Freshman Brad Meinders had a different experience.
“They lied to me,” Meinders said. “I called Eastern when I learned that my flight had been canceled, and they said they'd book me on a Delta flight. I called the next day to confirm, and I was told that that flight had been full for two weeks.
“If I had waited to pick up my ticket at the airport, I would have been stranded,” he added.
Ticket problems and travel delays are not the only effects of the strike. The struggling airline is the second largest private employer in the Miami area and, with over 10,000 local employees, many jobs are in jeopardy.
Senior Katrinka Ligon’s husband is a member of the striking International Association of Machinists. The Ligons have four children, two in college.
“It’s a big responsibility having a family with no income, but we’ll make it,” Ligon said. “We’re not in any desperate situation, but in the next couple of months, we’ll start worrying.”
Donna Harris, a senior majoring in English, is a flight attendant at Eastern.
“Because of the strike. I’m not working at the moment,” Harris said. “But I have two part-time jobs, so it’s not that much
Sales representative Lourdes Garcia-Vidal reschedules a flight for freshman Jack Miller on Wednesday in the Ashe Building after his flight home was canceled.
of a problem.”
The Transport Workers Union, of which Harris is automatically a member, is striking in support of the machinists.
Security measures have been taken in some University areas to prevent any conflagrations from arising.
In the Ashe ticket office, a se-
curity guard has been present all week, Garcia-Vidal said, although there have been no conflicts.
In addition, students at Eaton Residential College say UM police officers have been hired by Eastern to protect the residence of ERC Master Dr. Pamela Ferguson and her husband who is
an executive with Eastern.
Timothy Mannix, a junior who lives at Eaton, said he saw police officers monitoring the Ferguson’s apartment by a remote television located in the lobby two nights this week.
In addition, he said three police cars were outside of Eaton the first night of the strike.
Need a Job?
Monday, April 3, the University of Miami Board of Student Publications will elect next year’s Miami Hurricane and Ibis editors in chief and the business managers for both publication.
The positions carry full tuition remission and a $400 per semester stipend. People interested in the jobs must be full-time undergraduate students at UM.
Applicants should make plans to meet with the publications' senior and financial advisors by Friday, March 31.
Students interested in one of the three jobs should obtain applications from Pam Hernandez In Universityy Center 221.
Roach hunt is on as SG tours dining halls
By MAUREEN McDERMOTT
Contributing Editor
Efren Gort, general manager of University Dining Services, told a group of students Tuesday his staff is doing everything it can to reduce or possibly eliminate the number of roaches in the University of Miami dining halls.
Three Student Government members and The Miami Hurricane spent an hour and a half touring the Hurricane, the Ibis and the Hecht/Stanford cafeterias.
Gort said UM employs an independent company to spray dining establishments twice a month. In addition, UDS sprays every dining hall up to three times a week. Gort explained the amount of times a dining hall is sprayed depends on what is observed.
"We will spray day in and day out if we have to,” Gort said. “If only one room is sprayed, they |the roaches! all come back. i
Gort also said UDS and the administration are looking into the possibility of tenting.
“I was impressed with the small amount of problems that I saw,” said C. Dean Furman, speaker pro-tempore of the SG Senate. “They seem to be doing a good job with the roach population.”
Only four roaches were spotted on the tour — two in the Hurricane, one in the Ibis and one on the floor in the kitchen where food for both cafeterias is prepared. No roaches were found in the Hecht/Stanford cafeteria.
Furman said the tour was a prelude to the proposed UDS review board, which will review food variety, quality, sanitation and service in all campus dining halls.
Furman emphasized the tour was not a direct result of law student Kevin Pally ingesting a
Please see page 3/ROACHES
Spring Break Hours		
Facility	Dates	Hours
Whitten University Center Recreation Area and Lounges	All Break (3/10-3/19)	Regular Hours -i- Close at Midnight Fridays and Satur-
		days
Mac Lab and Swimming Pool	All Break (3/10-3/19)	11:00 AM -7:00 PM
Dining Services Cafeterias	Friday March 10	Close after dinner
	Saturday March 18	Reopen
The Rathskeller	Friday March 10	Closes at midnight
	Saturday March 18	Reopens
The Ibis	Mon. 13 - Fri. 17	7:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Public Safety	All Break (3/10-3/19)	Student escorts until 1:30 AM
Library	Sunday March 12	1:00 PM-7 PM
	Mon. 13-Fri. 17	9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
	Saturday March 18	Resume Regular hours
Ashe Building	All Break (3/10-3/19)	Regular Hours
Health Center	Monday March 13-Friday March 17	8:30 AM-4:30 PM
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