Miami Hurricane, August 23, 2012

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Twenty years ago Thursday night,
Patricia Whitely, vice president for
student affairs, slept on a mattress
on the floor of her office. She lived on
campus for three weeks.
Orientation, scheduled for the
fourth Sunday in August, was canceled,
and classes, scheduled to start Monday,
were postponed two weeks.
“I remember walking along the lake
at 7 p.m. on Sunday night, and saying
that the lake will probably never look the
same,” said Whitely, who was the asso-ciate
director for residence life and staff
development at the time.
Hurricane Andrew hit on Aug. 24.
Winds reached 145 mph and the univer-sity
sustained $13.7 million in damages,
which included the loss of 52 roofs, 80
windows and 1,300 trees. Some 400 fac-ulty
and staff members lost their homes.
Miami-Dade had not been in the direct
path of a hurricane for 32 years, and
the university community expected the
storm to turn north.
During the storm, more than 4,000
students and parents stayed on campus.
In the Hecht and Stanford residential
colleges, those residents and their par-ents
moved to the first through sixth
floors and all slept in common areas.
SWEET TOOTH: SATISFIED
RED MANGO CHAIN, HIP POP TRUCK
NOW ON CAMPUS PAGE 5
ON JUDGING JOURNALISTS
THE MIAMI HURRICANE IS A FORUM
FOR STUDENT OPINION PAGE 8
BENCHMARKS
CANES FIGHT FOR STARTING ROLES
AS SEASON OPENER NEARS PAGE 12
UM community overhauls storm preparedness plan after ‘92 disaster
SEE ANDREW REVISITED, PAGE 3
BY ALLISON GOODMAN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF