Miami Hurricane, November 04, 1994

              Christian Coalition as some radical group is unfair,” Tilley stated.
As a member of the Florida
popularity, and now [Chiles] wants to attack the lieutenant governor candi-
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SPORTS
■ Miami returns to the Carrierdome to face No. 9 Syracuse and one of the noisiest crowds in college football.
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ACCENT
■ UM students showed off their entertainment skills at the Mastercard American Collegiate Talent Search for the $250,000 grand prize.
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NEWS: Prosecuting attorney speaks out on the evils of hazing. Page 2
OPINION: Women who go out with the men who hate them. Page 4
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STUDENTS CHALLENGED TO CREATE AD
College students too young to remember “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz" and the “Ho-no-ho, Green Giant,” are now encouraged to create their own generation of memorable ads.
For the fifth year, the Citibank College Advertising Awards competition is seeking the best multi-media campaign produced by a college student. Students are asked to develop a television spot, a print ad and a direct mail package to promote a product.
The winning students will receive $5,000, plus a matching grant to their school and a shot at a summer internship in advertising in New York. Second place is worth $2,500, and the third place prize is $1,000, in addition to matching grants.
Students can participate alone or in teams of up to three. For program information, college instructors and students can call the Citibank College Advertising Awards hotline at 1-800-866-5580.
FREE GOODIES GIVEN BY RADIO STATION
90X WVUM FM, in association with Atlantic Records, will give away more than 2,000 free posters, compact discs, bumper stickers and baseball caps today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the UC Breezeway.
New 90X T-shirts will also be on sale for the first time.
Students can pick up CDs and fill out a survey, describing their opinions of WVUM.
“Besides being played at the pool, Rathskeller, and soon in the cafeterias, this is another great way for WVUM-90X to show the students that we are out there,” said Randall Gilbert, director of WVUM underwriting and promotions.
WEBSTER MEMORIAL CONTEST ANNOUNCED
First-semester students enrolled in English 105, 106 or 107 are encouraged to enter the first annual Audley Webster Memorial Essay Contest. The contest is named in honor of Webster, who taught composition at UM.
Tne 500-word essay must explain a particular insight about the writer’s culture or about another culture experienced as the result of working with an English teacher. The essay should also focus on the influence of one teacher’s method or attitude of emphasizing writing as a cultural discovery.
Essays must be submitted to the Ashe Building, room 327, by 3 p.m. on Nov. 21.
Winners will be announced on Nov. 23. First prize is $150, second is $75 and third is $25. The top essayist’s name will also be inscribed on a plaque at the entrance to the composition office.
FACE THE FACTS
Basic research accounted $1.1 billion of all NIH spending on AIDS research for fiscal
Following Is the breakdown of that spending.
Biomed research	Therapies |
28%	33%

Vaccines
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HOMECOMING PREPARATIONS
Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Sigma Phi joined forces to build their float for com-
Katition in the omecoming Parade. Last Year, the Alphas placed second in the float-building contest.
From left, senior Iggy Segurol, alumnus Ren Ruiz and junior Gerry
Mujica finished taking measurements Wednesday afternoon from a “secret” location.
Shown below, Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Sigma Phi took their hats off to a possible winning combination in this yearis parade. Homecoming festivities begin today with Opening Ceremonies ar 4 p.m. on the University Center patio.
Photos bv FAYE CAREY/Staff Photographer
Students fail grammar tests
By CHRIS MERRITT
Hurricane Staff Writer Forty percent of all communication students are not able
to pass a required grammar ana typing test needed to graduate from the School of
Communication.
After two more attempts on the same tests, 21 percent pass.
The school requires all students majoring in Communication to pass both tests before taking certain classes or before they become juniors.
To pass, students must type 25 words per minute and correctly answer 50 out of 100 grammar questions.
Journalism lecturer Alan Prince, who proctors the typing tests, said he does not make excuses for the failing students, but there are often mitigating circumstances.
“Part of the reason for the pass-fail ratio is probably the incoming stress of the freshmen. They are encouraged to take the test shortly after arriving at UM and it is a stressful time to be taking a test,” Prince said.
Overall, 81 percent of communication students pass the tests within three tries.
This pass-fail ratio has remained constant over the last few years, Prince said.
“Over the course of a jour-
nalism] class, the students improve simply by necessity,” Prince said. SA student who is able to type 25 words per minute shouldn’t have any trouble during the class with immediate deadline assignments. However, if they can only type around 10 words a minute, they will have trouble finishing their assignments before the end of class.”
Senior Emily Hackmann took the test as a sophomore. She passed the grammar test, but tailed the typing test and had to retake it.
“I felt the test was not necessary because you learn typing skills from practice in class. And the grammar test doesn’t reflect realistic grammar that you really need,” Hackmann said.
If a student is unable to pass the grammar test after three attempts, he or she must practice at the Writing Center.
“We give the student a diagnostic test which identifies the areas in grammar where the student is weak and where we need to concentrate our efforts," said Charlotte Perlin, director of the Writing Center.
Once the student has worked on his or her problem areas, he or she can take a 50 question test that counts towards the School of Communication, Perlin said.
Running mates vie for number 2 spot
MacKay emphasizes reputation
By KEVIN 0. FERNANDEZ
Assistant News Editor
Democrat Kenneth “Buddy” MacKay, running mate of Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles, has been emphasizing his reputation as a strong leader in an attempt to contrast his opponent, Republican Tom Feeney.
“[MacKay] is the standard of what the Lt.
Governor should be,” said Todd Wilder,
MacKay’s chief of staff.
“He heads up the growth management agencies in Florida, and provides an UAp|/>y environment conducive NIALAAT to business, without destroying the environment.”
The growth management agencies currently headed by MacKay include the Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce.
Although the Bush/Feeney campaign charges statewide bureaucratic waste,
Wilier was quick to point out that MacKay was instrumental in eliminating excess on the state governmental level.
“The lieutenant governor has shepherded through legislation, merging the
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Department of Natural Resources with the Department of Environmental Regulation, to form the Department of Environmental Protection. This ensures that efforts are not duplicated,” Wilder said.
MacKay, 51, served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being chosen by Lawton Chiles in 1990 to run for the position of lieutenant governor.
“The 1990 campaign was the bringing together of a Democratic ‘Dream Team,’” Wilder said. “MacKay was an eight-time legislator of the year and won acclaim as a maverick on budget issues.”
During the campaign, MacKay has charged opponent Feeney with gross manipulation of facts, and accused the Bush/Feeney campaign of using negative ads to attack Gov. Chiles.
MacKay did admit in The Miami
Herald that the strong Bush campaign caught the Democratic party off guard.
“They say that seeing the shadow of the hangman’s noose tends to concentrate tne mind,” MacKay stated. “Perhaps that’s what we i MacKay has been offic by The Miami Herald.
Feeney identified with far right
By KEVIN D. FERNANDEZ
Assistant News Editor
Tom Feeney, Jeb Bush’s running mate in the Nov. 8 elections, has established himself as a prominent conservative in the lieutenant, governor race.
Feeney, 36, has been I serving as a member of I the Florida House of I Representatives since [
1990.
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Coalition Legislator of the Year, and will FEENEY attract members of the “lunatic fringe” of the radical right.
Cory Tilley, Bush’s campaign press secretary, calls the criticism of Feeney a small piece of the Democratic smear campaign.
“Tnis whole issue of the Christian Coalition gets a lot of attention in the press, and it’s nothing but a scare tactic from the Democrats and liberals. To define the religious right or the
Legislature, Feeney has tried to push through his own school choice bill, which would have allowed parents to choose among public ana private schools for their children, and opposed legislation that protects abortion clinic access.
Graduate student Katherine Driskell said she thought Feeney was a poor choice of a running mate for Jeb Bush.
“The problem is that Jeb had a chance to make a good decision, and he failed,” Driskell said. “He should have chosen a well-respected politician, but instead, he chose Feeney.
However, some students disagree with this view.
“I honestly can’t find anything objectionable about [Feeney], said junior Aureliano Sanchez-Arango. “I do find it disturbing that Tom Feeney has gotten such a bad rap as a member of the ‘Christian right.
During tne lieutenant governor debates, Feeney blasted the Chiles/MacKay campaign for its “Feeney fetish.”
“He [Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles] hasn’t been able to make a dent in Jeb’s
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By EVELYN AMAYA
Hurricane Staff Writer
A new student-produced newspaper. The Warped Zone,, seeks to inject a dose of humor into UM college life.
According to -founder and writer Jason Leshowitz, the newspaper hopes to be UM’s version of the Harvard Lampoon, a humor newspaper at Harvard University.
“UM is one of the few universities that doesn’t have a humor newspaper and we wanted to put it out there to make people laugh,” said Leshowitz.
The project began when Leshowitz and a few friends received approval for their organization, the Comedy Club, last May from the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC).
They distributed fliers arouna campus advertising for writers, “who [knew] what made Lorena Bobbitt tick.”
The attempt prompted 15 responses, but most of the volunteers were unable to commit to the paper this fall.
The Warped Zone plans to contain articles, parodies and cartoons about mishaps of col-
lege life and news events.
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The inaugural issue of The Warped Zone is due out in late November with 6,000 copies distributed as an insert in The Miami Hurricane, pending fund allocation from SAFAC.
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WARPED MIND: The Warped Zone co-founder Jason Leshowitz hopes to bring a little humor into the lives of University of Miami students and faculty by producing UMs first humor newspaper, due out in laf November._______________________ ___________________________________________________ _______