Miami Hurricane, April 20, 2001

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Volume 78, Number 48
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Friday, April 20,2001
Going once, going twice,
RUSSELL WOJTUSIAK/ Photo Editor
TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER: Joe Cozzi auctions off Nubia Madrid Wednesday as part of the Hawaiian Hurricane Hook-up. Presented by the Association of Commuter Students, all proceeds were donated to the American Diabetes Association.
Guild hosts free exhibition
Toppel seminar unites students and alumni
‘Musical Chairs’ in Richter Library
Library renovations completes another phase
By Daniel Boniface
Hurricane Staff Writers
In an attempt to house more books and satisfy more students, the Otto G. Richter Library has completed another phase in its recent facelift, but there’s still a lot in store, said library employees.
“The main reason for the remodeling is to enhance the learning environment,” said Pat Hawthorne, assistant University librarian for administrative services. “When it’s finished, the building will look better aesthetically, be ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant, there will be more study spaces for the students and the building will be up to code.”
The library unveiled an elevator on the first floor that b available to the public, in observance with the ADA.
Hawthorne said the building was built in 1962 and was sorely in need of a remodeling.
“Libraries are designed to reach their capacity 25 years after being built,” continued Hawthorne. “We’ve been open for almost 40.”
Hawthorne is confident that the new remodeling will be a vast improvement, but not everyone shared her positive outlook.
“It’s the biggest upheaval I’ve ever seen here,”said Fiona ReUeghan.a librarian at Richter since 1989.
“| However) the primary disappointment of this cosmetic remodeling is that it doesn’t provide what students and faculty need most: more room for the materials, study space and computer stations.”
Hawthorne explained this lack of space as a domino effect. Once an area is remodeled, books and other materials must be moved around to create space for the next remodeling phase.
Clarifying the computer problem, Hawthorne explained, the number of computer stations would be greatly increased to 150 stations on the first floor alone.
The first floor is scheduled to be finished by the fall of 2002, and although not all the computer stations will contain computers, Hawthorne said ports for students to plug in laptops into will be available.
One of the biggest improvements will be the increased number of group study spaces, Hawthorne added. There will be six new group study rooms on the second floor alone.
“The new group study rooms will be wry nice,” said librarian assistant Ricky Alvarado. “Right now, students just study in the hallways.”
Once the remodeling is finished, Richter should be caught up to the ever-changing ways that students use libraries, explained Hawthorne.
Richter re-opened parts of the second floor on March 12, introducing the new Dante B. Fascell Department of Government Information and Special Formats and new offices for nearly 100 employees on the third floor.
As of now, Richter has plans to (pen a Cuban Heritage Collection thanks to a $15 million donation from the Roberto Goizueta Foundation. There are no concrete plans to remodel the stacks at this tinf.	4
Local artists work with UM’s Guild Program
By Rebecca Clero
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami Foundry Guild exhibition brings some of the best work of the Foundry Guild from the past few years to the public, said Freda Tschumy, director.
Tschumy’s work along with that of ten other artists is part of the exhibition held at the library of Florida International University.
The show itself features both display sculpture pieces and furni-turq^ast in bronze.
Other artists include Carol Cornelison, a graduate of the MSA program from UM; Maria Lino, professor of metal casting for the Art After Dark program at UM and Greg Empson, originally a wood craftsman who works now with both wood and bronze.
Being involved with other artists offers a chance for innovation and growth beyond the normal scope of metal casting, Tshumy said.
The Foundry Guild is a special organization that allows community artists who have become knowledgeable in metal casting to help run the foundry facility at UM and to control the complete processes of casting their own work.
“There ¿s great support for the
program,” Tschumy said. “I was already teaching metal casting when 1 was asked to direct the Foundry in 1993.”
It began as part of the Art Department at UM; in fact the Foundry Guild was originally part of the “Art After Dark” program that included several non-credit courses in art for adults in the local community.
The courses included painting, glass blowing and bronze casting. The Foundry Guild was formed by those amateur artists who hoped to continue their metal casting but were already too advanced to need any more preliminary classes, Tschumy said.
The exhibition is free and will be open to the public until May 5.
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Vane Connections takes place in Alumni
Appreciation Week
By Ernesto Londono
Hurricane Staff Writer
As graduation approaches, the crave for the connections that will land the perfect internship or dream job always intensify.
“Who you know really makes a difference out there in the job market,” according to Michael Gage, director of Toppel Career Center.
Seeking to simplify the process for students, the University of Miami Alumni Association Alumni Association (UMAA) and Toppel joined forces to develop ‘Cane Connections, the newest feature of MiamiAlumni.net, which was introduced last Tuesday afternoon to students and alumni at the Toppel career center.
The ‘Cane Connections seminar was the second event sponsored by the UMAA for the first ever Alumni Appreciation Week.
Students got to meet a handful of alumni during a reception held after the seminar. Susana Alvarez, a communications manager for Agilent Technologies, Stuart Debowsky from Forbes Architects and Stuart Weiss, the president of Weiss & Associates were among the alumni present,
‘Cane Connections is an online career network where University of Miami alumni can exchange information about careers and companies, share tips on special job training, and publish information on the quality of life and jobs in different geographical locations.
“‘Cane Connections is not a job
Exhibit emphasizes proliferation of signs in todays world
By Paloma Helm
Hurricane Staff Writer
“Signage,” an exhibit of photographs of signs taken by University of Miami professor and photojournalist Dr. Michael Carlebach, has been displayed in the School of Architecture for the past three weeks.
The black and white photographs all have the same subject—signs. Some sign content is humorous, such as a construction sign reading “Men Working Overhead" laying right below the feet of two statues of saints at Canterbury Church in England.
Others arc more haunting, such as an old shed in Homestead with a crude sign painted onto the side that says “Do Not Shoot or Molest This Land”.
“Many signs are intended merely to inform, and they are in |his show
bank,” said Amy Powers, assistant director of Alumni Programs. Rather, it’s a network of contacts for information purposes only, Powers said.
Volunteers are not expected to post resumes, offer internships, or serve as liaisons for job posting within their companies.
“We’re interested in more than fundraising, despite the rumor,” said Donna Arbide, assistant vice president for Alumni Relations.
“We won’t sell the list,” she said. “This is simply a service we’re offering.”
The system is expected to be up and running in a couple of months , which will allow time to feed the system’s database with approximately 500 volunteers. Currently, the system has over 100, and is not online, organizers said.
In order to access the network, students and alumni must register on the Toppel website at www.miami.edu/toppel.
Alumni in search of old pals can also turn to MiamiAlumni.net for help. The directory is available only for former students with a user-name and password that can be obtained by contacting Alumni Relations.
A luncheon served by alumni to students on Monday kicked off the celebrations for Alumni Appreciation Week. Several outstanding alumni and community members were honored Thursday afternoon at the alumni awards reception held in President’s Foote’s home.
Donors and their beneficiaries will come face to face today at the annual fund scholarship luncheon, to be held in the Business School at noon, marking the close of alumni appreciation week.
because the information they provide is slightly weird or because the message they send is inadvertently mixed or humorous or poignant,” Carlebach explained.
While some signs do get their message across, others, he said, can have a different effect.
“Some signs actually do the opposite of what they are supposed to do, such as a park with a “no swimming, no wading” sign perfectly positioned so as to discourage any human use. The message here is mostly ‘go away’,” Carlebach said.
Carlebach is the first to acknowledge that his work has its diversities.
“I had Canterbury Church, and I had Ricky Martin in LA. That’s a fair stretch,” he said.
The irony of the location of the exhibition did not go unnoticed by Carlebach; during his lecture at the opening of the exhibition he mentioned the bond between architec-
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