Miami Hurricane, January 29, 1991

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Lake Osceola may become manatee haven
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UM recognizes Hispanic educators
History professor Jaime Such-licki and Elina Artigas, Career Planning and Placement director.
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Students and faculty in the University of Miami’s undergraduate marine science department are studying the feasibility of transforming Lake Osceola into a manatee preserve in response to a growing awareness of the plight of the endangered mammals.
The unnamed project is still in its infancy, Kathleen Sullivan, UM assistant professor of biology, who is heading the program, said.
The manatee has become an endangered species due to its high mortality rate, which is attributed to boating accidents, a low reproduction rate and the loss of the animal’s natural habitat.
After implementation of the plan, manatees, which enter the sanctuary of Lake Osceola, will be free from the harm of boats.
Any student caught harassing the manatees would be charged with violating state law, Dean of Students William Sandler said.
Manatees are protected on the state level by the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act and on the federal level by the Endangered Species Act. Violation of these acts can result in fines of up to $20,000 with the possibility of one year imprisonment.
According to Sandler, Lake Osceola is rarely used, with the exception of several Homecoming, Greek Week and Sports Fest activities. If the project is implemented, these activities would have to stop, Sullivan said.
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are not graduating until the summer session msy still appear in the commencement book if they fill out an application by April 1.
This year’s commencement book will be different from previous years because it will include last summer’s grsduates along with December graduates and May candidates. Next year’s and all following year’s books will only include December graduates, May and summer candidates. It will not include the previous summer’s graduates.
Caps and gowns for those graduating in May can be picked up at the UM Bookstore for free during the first week of May. Seniors must present their Cane Card as identification.
Florida approves plans to build tenth university
Dean: UM enrollment will not be affected
By ERICK JOHNSON
Assistant News Editor
The Florida Board of Regents voted Friday to build a public university in the Fort Meyers area. The decision was one of two actions taken by state politicians to ease enrollment problems at the state’s nine universi-ties.	. _
In a second development, Florida House speaker T.K. Wetherell proposed to the board Thursday that out-of-state students be barred from attending Florida universities for at least one year.
According to Deborah Triol Perry, UM dean of enrollments, neither of these recent developments will affect enrollment at UM.
Perry said she does not expect the number of students applying for admission to UM to alter.
According to Perry, although more out-of-state students will be seeking alternative schools, UM will not be their top choice.
Perry said most out-of-state students who apply to UM also apply to the University of Florida and Florida State. If they are rejected by these two universities, they usually do not come to UM, Perry said.
State Chancellor Charles Reed has said about 2,000
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Students protest Playboy recruiting
Last semeseter, students from several Massachusetts women’s colleges demonstrated in downtown Boston against efforts by Playboy magazine to recruit their classmates to pose nude for an upcoming edition.
Playboy, which publishes an annual college edition featuring nude photographs of women students from schools in different sports conferences, will this year focus on all-women’s institutions. Protesters say the magazine’s effort to recruit students to model is insulting and damaging to the schools’ image.
“Magazines like Playboy are pom,” says Ilona Metell, a sophomore who attended the rally. "They are degrading and dehumanizing to women.”
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RED, WHITE AND BLUE: The Miami Maniac displays his patriotism Saturday at the University ot Miami men’s basketball game against Penn State In the Miami Arena. The Canes lost their fifth game in a row, 69-57. For more on the game, see SPORTS page 10.
tinued. "It’s not something to be surprised about.”
Mark Thieroff, a junior international studies major, agrdfed with Krenn’s assertions.
“There is much more to the problem that doesn’t get broadcast by the media,” Thieroff said. “It’s not simply America vs. a madman.” Since the beginning of the war in the Middle East on Jan. 16, collegians around the country have participated in a variety of similar events aimed at education about the crisis and responses to U.S. involvement in the developing war.
Students at a number of universities have attended speeches, discussions, lectures, marches, sit-ins and even die-ins and have boycotted classes in an effort to both protest the United States' apparent willingness to go to war and to support the president’s decision to uti-
By BETH JAHREIS
News Editor
Students were introduced to a lesson in foreign policy leading to U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf war at a presentation by University of Miami history professor Dr. Michael Krenn on Thursday evening.
The event, held in the University Center International Lounge, was sponsored by Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and attended by more than 50 students and faculty members.
“I took a historical perspective, whereas the media is concerned about the present,” Krenn said. "For them, the Gulf crisis started in August. But really there has been an ideology in the United States since World War II leading up to the war.
“The war in the Gulf is part and parcel at U.S. policy,” Krenn con-
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The war may be miles away, but it will still affect University of Miami students both emotionally and economically, according to a UM professor of economics.
Pat Fishe said although the war does not help the economic picture, the country was in a recession before the conflict began.
He said students wno are dependent on their parents will feel the economic effects of the war through them.
nia-Santa Cruz who helped organize mcnssge to our elected officials in a protest Jan. 13, said. Between Washington, [D.C.j: nothing less 3,000 and 4,000 people attended than a peaceful, diplomatic, noo-the event.
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“We have a responsibility to let Bush know that we do not support his actions,” Julie Marten, a student st the University of Califor-
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