Miami Hurricane, February 03, 1995

              BLACK PRIDE
Black Awareness Month kicked off Wednesday, fashion show tonight.
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ACCENT, page 6
MEET THE COACHES
New Head Football Coach Butch Davis was on hand to help begin baseball season as UM beat FAU 5-2.
SPORTS, page 8
FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 3, 1995
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 30
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CENTER OF EMPOWERMENT NAMES BOARD MEMBERS
The Center of Empowerment has appointed the members of its executive board, who will hold their positions until January of 1996.
They are Tim Morrison, Director of Communication; Heather Thompson, Vice-Chair of the Peer Education Consortium; Gisela Munoz, Vice-Chair of Training and Development; Amy Howard, Director of Funding; and Cristina Manartcua, Director of Public Relations. The Chairperson and Founder is Andrew N. Odze.
“I’m encouraged by the leadership I see in the new executive board, and I’m looking forward to working with them, said Odze.
The Center, formed in the summer of 1996, was created as a response to cult recruitment on campus. In addition to cult awareness, the Center educates students about HIV/AIDS education, alcohol abuse, self-esteem, relationship issues, sexuality, and personal development issues including time management and values clarification.
One of the objectives is to start a series of educational programs which would center on giving students a sense of control and responsibility over their lives.
The goal of the Center is to become a peer education resource center, offering peer education groups the services that the Volunteer Services Center offers service organizations.
COMMUNICATION LAUNCHES FELLOWS PROGRAM
The UM School of Communication, with support from a grant from the North-South Center, has begun the North-South Journalism Fellows Program.
The program will bring three mid-career journalists to UM for six months, during which time they will participate in forums examining American journalism, culture, government, and economics.
The program is directed by Professor James L. Goodsell, holder of the School of Communication’s Knight Chair.
The initial three fellows are Ediana Alice Belleroni, economic editor of Brazil’s leading newspaper; Myma Stark Leader, a reporter for CKCK Television in Regina, Saskatchewan; and Patricia Verdugo, a freelance journalist and television reporter for Television Nacional de Chile.
—T.J. KATZ
CORRECTION
Aureliano Sanchez-Arango was incorrectly identified in the Jan. 27 edition of The Miami Hurricane. He is a member of the UM College Republicans.
INSIDE
NEWS
No timetable has been set for WVUM's move to the site of the old Force Five Convenience.
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OPINION
Speak Up explores UM's African-American heroes.
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ACCENT
Jerky Boys live up to their name during an interview with the Hurricane.
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Students film special Bimini project
By KIMBERLY WEISSMAN
Hurricane Staff Writer
A student documentary unit, introduced to the School of Communication last fall, has spent the past semester filming local high school students and sharks in Bimini as their first quality project, said Sanjeev Chatterjee, professor of broadcasting.
"I only provided the leadership and environment for the students to do it,” said Chatteijee.
The first documentary is based on a project by Samuel Gruber, professor of marine science at the Rosenthiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, where he takes Dade County high school students to a biological field station in Bimini to experience first-hand research about lemon sharks.
The purpose of Gruber’s program is to clear up the myths and misconceptions of how sharks have been portrayed in the media.
Gruber contacted various high schools and explained his research project to the science coordinators, who then select the interested students who may not have had
such a unique opportunity otherwise.
The documentary will include the process of selection to the actual underwater research in the Bahamas.
Overall, about eight to 10 UM students have helped create the final product.
Three students accompanied Chatteijee to Bimini and are scuba-certified, which helped in taking the underwater photographs.
Mike Trebilcock, a motion pictures graduate student who is the producer of the documentary, assigned the various jobs on the project and shot some of the underwater shots.
“It was essential to be comfortable in the water with the camera so the underwater shots would be taken relatively smoothly,” said Trebilcock.
Jeff Corpening, a motion pictures/sociol-ogy major, directed and filmed shots on the scene and made sure the proper equipment was used when necessary. He was given full control on the project while Chatterjee was on hand only to advise and offer helpful suggestions, such as in lighting matters.
“Professor Chatteijee gave us the chance to make this documentary what we wanted it to be,” said Corpening.
Kim Moffie, motion pictures major, assisted with the overall project and shot some of the underwater footage.
Chatterjee, who came to UM last fall, taught five years at Emerson College in Boston, made documentary videos in Delhi, India and produced documentaries for national TV and networks.
However, the fact that Chatterjee plans to show the documentary to audiences beyond the campus such as network and cable outlets was the main reason Corpening says he got involved.
"His striving for such a goal grabbed my interest more than anything,” said Corpening.
The major filming has been completed, but the crew plans to head back to Bimini this weekend for more underwater shots due to bad weather on a previous trip.
The documentary’s scheduled viewing is April IS on the campus cable station UM Vision.
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COISO
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resigns
By KEVIN D. FERNANDEZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
Following their unsuccessful attempt to impeach Michael Inniss, president of the Council of International Students and Organizations (COISO), the COISO executive board submitted a letter of resignation to Inniss Tuesday.
In the letter, signed by Vice President Anne George, Treasurer Reno Matthews and Secretary Adela Fernandez, the executive board described the circumstances and motivations which prompted both their earlier decision to proceed with the impeachment of Inniss and their decision to resign.
“Throughout the semester we have tried to resolve the problems and reach reconciliation by calling several emergency meetings,” stated the trio in the letter to Inniss. “In the end, we had no recourse other than to call the General Assembly [meeting].”
On Wednesday, Inniss replied to the board’s letter with a letter of his own, in which he detailed his regret that the board had made the decision to resign.
“It is extremely unfortunate that you [three board members] feel compelled to follow through with your decision to resign from the Executive Board of COISO,” stated Inniss in his letter to George, Matthews and Fernandez. “1 consider it a personal failure that I was not able to reach common ground with you in order to resolve the problems which arose, and share the distress that this has obviously caused.”
The board not only described the circumstances motivating the impeachment in the letter, but also alleged that Inniss may have spoken with other COISO members to suggest the decision to impeach Inniss had been racially-motivated.
"After the Assembly, we were disheartened to discover that you [Inniss] had personally contacted leaders of organizations and insinuated racial bias was a factor of our decision,” the board stated in the letter.
Calling these allegations "totally false.” and claiming that all contact with other COISO members was on an informational level only, Inniss attempted in his letter to dismiss the charges.
“I attempted to inform [the members],..about the Assembly, and the item to be discussed as indicated in your letter to me on Jan. 9: concern about my ’leadership style.’ This was the only information conveyed in those conversations,” stated Inniss.
With the resignation of George, Matthews and Fernandez, Inniss must now present suggestions for replacement officers to the Council of Presidents, a COISO body formed from the presidents of the 28 individual COISO organizations.
According to Inniss, Geraldine Dick, a former COISO cabinet member and two-time president of the Caribbean Student Organization, will be his recommendation for ratification as COISO Vice-President.
Inniss will recommend June Ohata, currently the COISO SAFAC representative, for the position of Treasurer, and Birame Sock, the United Black Students International Student Liaison, for the position of Secretary.
However, members of the old executive board have said they wish to continue to stay involved in COISO, if only in an indirect manner, as members of COISO’s individual organizations.
“We may not do anything directly with COISO, but we may continue to be active with the satellite organizations,” George said. “I’m pretty much just tired of the whole situation.”
Inniss said he plans to answer questions regarding the General Assembly and the executive board's subsequent resignation at 12 p.m. Feb. 5 on 90.5 (WVUM FM).
SG ratifies new chief justice
By AHMED SYED
Hurricane Staff Writer
Sophomore Karen Ell was ratified as the new Supreme Court Chief Justice with 26 out of 27 votes with one abstention at the Student Government Senate meeting held on Feb. 1.
“I am very excited and look forward to putting lots of energy and time in my job,” Ell said.
Upon the resignation of the last chief justice, fliers were sent out for applicants for the new post.
The application process involved an initial interview with SG President Adam August.
August, when asked about the new chief justice, said he supports Ell in her new position.
“In my two-year tenure as president, she has been the best candidate for this post, and there is no doubt that she would be the best chief justice,” August said.
After the initial interview, August referred the prospective applicant to the Council of Chairs who rated the applicant on a scale of zero to five.
According to August, Ell received a rating of five.
Once rated by the Council of Chairs, the applicant was interviewed by the Steve Sutton, direc-
tor of Student Activities.
The next part of the application process involved August requesting feedback from sophomore Kira Brenman, SG Speaker Pro Tempore.
The final process was the introduction of a bill to ratify the Supreme Court chief justice at the Senate meeting.
Ell previously served one year as an SG associate justice.
Ell's main objectives for the Spring ‘95 elections included organizing a well-publicized campaign and she hopes to make the election more accessible for the general student body.
Stanford recycling 'simple, effective'
By AHMED SYED
Hurricane Staff Writer
Although campus-wide recycling has been less than sufficient, Stanford Residential College and the Physical Plant have joined efforts to motivate students and bring recycling levels above status quo.
Ash Rothlein, associate master of Stanford, said the new recycling program is “simple, organized and effective.”
“Each room has a desktop office paper container and three baskets for aluminum cans, newspapers and garbage,” Rothlein said.
When the containers fill up, the Stanford residents carry the trash to the hall chute and the recyclables to the storage closets, where three specially-marked recyclable bins sit on a trolley, Rothlein said.
As those bins fill up, the residential assistants (RAs) take the
See RECYCLING, page 2
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