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Tuesday, October 3,2000
Candidates face off on the issues
Month of events to honor Generation ñ
Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations begin Thursday
By Matt Brewer
Hurricane Staff Writer The University of Miami’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) kicks offThursday at II a.m. at the University Center Patio with food, live music, dancing and an interactive painting session with renowned Dominican artist, Maximo Caminero.
The colorful opening ceremony is only fitting as an introduction to a month that celebrates one of UM’s most vibrant ethnic groups,
HHM is a national and campuswide celebration, with its main goal being “to help educate the University community about the contributions made by Hispanics in the United States,” said Steve Clark, director of Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA).
"UM is a very diverse institution,” Clark said. “A major part of that diversity is our Hispanic community"
Hispanics make up 32 percent of the student body at UM, according to the most recent statistics.
"Sometimes the introduction and the education is not only between the Hispanics and other groups, but it is also between ourselves," said Gladys Blanco, advisor for both the Federatiort of Cuban Students (FCU) and Mexican Student Association. “Yes, we all speak Spanish,but we are so different when you get to know us. Our foods, our ways of living, our cultures, are all so different.”
HHM provides everyone with an opportunity to celebrate and learn about different cultures, sometimes even their own, organizers said.
“It is a great way for us to show our heritage, and learn about ourselves," said Mileykah Burgos, presi-
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Series
A! Gore - Democratic Party
Abortion: Gore is “committed to making abortion safe, legal and rare.” Defense/Foreign
Policy: Gore opposes KKi JG	trade sanctions
I	oj	against China. He sup-
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markets. He supported use of military force against Yugoslavia. Gore favors ratifying the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Drugs: Gore favors decreasing the disparities in sentencing between powdered cocaine and crack offenses.
Environment: Gore has worked to combat global warming. Gore favors providing business incentives for energy efficiency. He favors increased fund ing and use of mass transit to combat urban sprawl. Gore also supports increased funding for national parks.
Education: Gore opposes using federal tax dollars to help parents send their children to private schools. He believes vouchers steal necessary funds from the cause of reforming public schools. Gore favors providing parents with more public school choices. Gore supports reducing class size and increasing funds available for grants and student loans.
Farm Policy: Gore favors continuing ethanol tax breaks. He supported farm subsidies as a senator, including subsidies for tobacco. He favors open ing more foreign markets.
Medicare and Medicaid: Gore opposes cuts in Medicare and Medicaid and favors increasing the scope of both programs. Gore desires expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The CHIP initiative provides health care for families with too much income for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance. Gore also supports setting aside 15-16 percent of the budget surplus for Medicare.
George W. Bush - Republican Party
Abortion: Bush is against abortion except in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother. He also takes the posi tion that “instead of arguing over Roe v. Wade, what we ought to do is promote
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governor, Bush signed a Texas law requiring parental notification for underage abortions.
Defense/Foreign Policy: Bush supports an expanded military, increasing military pay by $1 billion per year for five years and increasing spending for military housing. Bush favors “a very aggressive program to deploy a strategic missile defense system as soon as possible.” He advocates a cooperative trade relationship with China, but at the same time calls China a “competitor" that does not share our values. Bush supported intervention in Yugoslavia.
Education: Bush favors procuring funds from schools with inadequate performance and making the funds available for tutoring, private schooling or “whatever offers hope.” He believes vouchers are a priority.
Environment: Bush favors voluntary toxic waste cleanup measures. Bush favors increased oil exploration, recycling efforts and use of natural gas.
Farm Policy: Bush favors continuing ethanol tax breaks. Bush favors opening markets for agriculture abroad.
Medicare: Bush will not strongly advocate tax reductions until Medicare is saved.
Ralph Nader - Green Party
Agriculture: “To improve the agricultural system, federal policy must accord with iB	consumer, environ-
F	m .	mental, worker and
family farm stan-
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America should take a ‘multifunctional’ view of agriculture, recognizing the value not only of economic and nutritional benefits, but also environmental stewardship, beautiful landscapes and stable communities We must stop the mis-ailocation of resources caused by the growing concentration of power over the food and fiber economy by agribusiness, chemical, biotechnology and financial corporations. This entails shifting government policy to provide research and information relevant to independent food producers: ensuring open and competitive markets: promoting new food infrastructures: and preventing pollution and degradation of natural
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ILLUSTRATION BY JORGE GALVEZ / Photo Editor
MAN BEHIND THE IMAGE: President Edward T. Foote, driving force at UM for 20 years, will be keeping his Coconut Grove home—provided by UM—as he stays on as chancellor until 2003. His office is in the Ashe building (shown).
No address change in Foote’s future
New president to live on mango farm
By William James Gong and Chris Perret
Of the Staff
When President Edward T. Foote II steps down as the chief administrative officer of the University of Miami at the end of this academic year, he may not loose the presidential	estate—provided	by the
University for use by him and his family—in Coconut Grove, right off.
It appears that the new president of the University will move into Four Fillies Farm, a property donated to the University, while Foote will stay in the house for two more years as the acting Chancellor, sources said.
“Plans are still being worked out, but this is where we expect the new president to live,” said Dan,
Kalmanson, director of University Media Relations of Four Fillie Farm.
In order for these plans to go through, legal issues surrounding the estate must first be finalized, said Kalmanson.
Four Fillies Farm was the property of Frank Smathers Jr., brother to the Wellness Center namesake George Smathers, who passed away in 1998.
With his death, the estate was given to Northern Trust, at which point it was to be given over to UM. This process has been delayed due to complications over who the property actually belongs to.
Along with being a prominent South Florida banker, Frank Smathers Jr. was an UM alumn, law school graduate, and member of the board of trustees at the University.
Smathers' greatest passion was the raising of mangos, which can be seen all over his former 32-acre property, Kalmanson said. The Fairchild
Tropical Gardens uses the property for research, and with the many different species of mangos on the farm, it has become one of the top places in the world for the researching the fruit.
Since Smathers’ death, the University has taken over caring for the property, even though Smathers’ widow still lives in the house on the estate, Kalmanson said.
The new president should be chosen by the beginning of the spring semester.
While housing for the next president is settled, questions of who will replace Foote come May 2000 are still up in the air.
The level of success that President Foote has set as a standard for the future president is seemingly overwhelming, according to the advertisement titled “President, University of Miami*” posted on the Presidential Search portion of the UM Website.
“The successful candidate f president will be an individual wi can build upon President Foote's co siderable accomplishments and pr vide leadership that will expand t vision of the future of a dynam emerging, urban research univer ty,” says the advertisement.
Foote has agreed to stay on car pus as chancellor until 2003, wh< he will work alongside the new pr« ident providing help and advice f the many tasks a president required to do.
The Presidential Sean
Committee, which consists of ni Board of Trustee members and s faculty members from a wide varie of fields, continues to conduct i confidential search for Footi replacement.
The head of the committee Ambassador Charles E. Cobb Jr., wl is coordinating every part of tl selection process.

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THE SEARCH CONTINUES