Healthy and happy Bowling for points Nightmare at South Bend The UM Lane Recreation Center plans to expand College Bowl Miami has selected its varsity team Miami lost to Notre Dame Saturday, 31-30, thus re­ with Nautilus, floor hockey, a juice bar and more. for a regional tournament linquishing its No. 1 ranking. News — page 3 Accent — page 6 Sports — page 8 1 UJ THE MIAMI ' W * MIAMI OCT 1819^ l 1 • **A* ____________" __E Volume 66, Number 1O4 UMl-CAN University of Miami E m**i******f*****f r<; Tue9dav,-Q.c,t--1-L *|fjgj Welcome to reality Miami's winning streak ends with 31-30 loss By DAN LE BATARD a national championship was to reality. Don't bother grabbing .S'eferl.s tlllltir Thank you, Hurricanes, for swatted away. After trying to es­ a seat, though. Allow me to be a tour guide for continuing to be the Team of the cape from here earlier this sea­ We won't be staying long. a moment Let me escort you son, FSU was caught and pun­ '80s. through a place where Hurricane The University nf Miami Hurri­ Thank you, Hurricanes, for rep­ ished, 31-0. canes, a fabulous team which had football fans haven't been in re­ Directly below you, in a sym­ resenting UM with class Satur­ cent years, a heen making the miraculous seem day, for stopping all the self- bolic position it has become ac­ routine, made some mistakes Sat­ place where customed to, is the University of serving babbling of past years, mortality is a urday and, for once, couldn't re­ and for letting your bone-snap­ Oklahoma. After several years of cover. The Hurricanes were beat­ permanent res­ being able to avoid this place, the ping play speak volumes for you. ident and en Saturday by the only Sooners fell victim to a neat little Thank you, Hurricanes, for put­ where pain and collegiate team in the universe football invention called "the ting forth an effort Saturday that failure often that could possibly have defeated pass." They'll be here for a while. ?ven the most avid of Hurricane- make guest ap­ them: Just behind you i.s the Universi­ The Hurricanes were beaten by tiaters had to respect and admire. pearances. ty of Michigan. They just got here Welcome, la­ the Hurricanes. Thank you, Hurricanes, for last month. If you listen carefully But please understand that this dies and gentle­ enough, you can hear their leader, fielding a team that can make men, to reality. is not a time to talk about turn­ seven turnovers and still come Coach Bo Schembechler. overs or missed opportunities. Please wipe What's that? Speak up, Bo. within two points of beating the ERIK COCKS/Hurricanp Staff your feet be­ Our focus shouldn't be on penal­ nation's fourth-best team. "We had that game. We had ties or unsuccessful fake punts. Miami Head Coach Jimmy Johnson signals to fore entering, that (•ame." Thank you, Hurricanes. because Oklahoma fans and play­ This isn't a time to discuss fum­ quarterback Steve Walsh to watch his receivers. You'll have to excuse Bo. He's bles or blown calls. ers have been trying to keep this been mumbling that since he got Yes, Hurricane fans, the streak This, believe it or not, is a time is over, but the season is not. Mi­ place tidy while awaiting our ar­ here. at USC, and USC still ha.s to slug control its destiny? Aside from rival Oklahoma, like the rest of for congratulations. ami will probably fall to fourth in Up on your right, cowering and Thank you. Hurricanes, for that the rankings, but oodles of teams it out with UCLA later this sea­ pre-season rankings, when was lhe nation, knew we would even­ quivering in the corner, is the son. UCLA, meanwhile, must still the last time Miami wasn't stand­ tually arrive here. They just incredible winning spree encom­ have won the national champion­ University of Florida. The Gators, passing 36 regular-season games. face most of the tough Pacific 10 ing at the top of the polls? doubled (and rightfully so) that unlike the other residents, ship with a loss and oodles more Thank you, Hurricanes, for the have won it when ranked as high Conference. we would arrive before the turn checked in here voluntarily. They Welcome, ladies and gentle­ ol the century. figured this was a great hiding way you continue to play like na­ as fourth after only five games. Does all this speculation sound men, to reality. I et us begin. place, a place where they could tional champions. If Miami can win the rest of its odd and confusing? It should. You On your left is a vindictively avoid confronting the University Thank you, Hurricanes, for games, a distinct probability, the haven't had to worry about it for smiling Florida State University, of Miami (again). consistently fielding a team that other three teams ahead of the a while. contends for the national title, a Dun Le Bulurd. u junior major­ Buffering here since last season Th.it concludes our brief tour. Hurricanes (Notre Dame, UCLA When was the last time Miami ing in news-editorial journalism feat only a handful of proud and USC) can easily lose at least after a two-point conversion and Our team i.s human. Welcome needed other teams to lose? When and politics, i.s the sports editor of schools can boast. once. Notre Dame still has to play was the last time Miami didn't The Miami Hurricane. ••• Exam '*•' ... Crew van flips; W .'•'] . schedule i / *-;•• few rowers hurt ti V • :** revised 1 _•_.-..__________ ** < 4>y * • Wind, load cited as reasons %. __»•**•» for accident on Rickenbacker By LISA FRANKEL %> 'jn News Editor • 1 tm\ 2_ffcfe*>^ By AMY ELLIS on its side and finally came to rest University of Miami students ffi "H^ \ e t_*l -SM Assistant News Edilor at the bottom of the bridge, in be­ who were scheduled to take three tween the far left and middle ____[ B l' i^N. ___9 '-•'"•'• Har _____BPw _________ final exams in one day may find f A van carrying 17 members of lanes. relief in the newly revised final __r _. _ the University of Miami men's "It was very windy, and we • ' ^m W ' Q^00 exam schedule being released this EHW A'?R3^__#ffl novice crew team turned on its were overloaded," the student week. efK^ffr. %tM^_t_^mm^_m side and slid down the William said. "It |the wind| nailed us at The Student Government Sen­ **/ 1 Power Bridge of the Rickenback­ the top of the bridge, and he [the ate addressed this issue last year ' !____£ v ' > f^- /Jm er Causeway early Friday morn­ driver | lost control." with legislation and a series of 1 ing, according to a report filed by The student also said that a meetings between Speaker of the mfctM ________E^ t m^^l**** **^^'*^ '••*_rffi_P's_f ______l Officer George Roschel of the Metro-Dade police officer who Senate Marc Oster, SG President City of Miami Police Department. witnessed the accident said the Freddie Stebbins, Vice Provost According to the team's head driver did not appear to be at for Undergraduate Affairs Dr. • •''•/-ami coach Joe O'Connor, one student fault and actually may have saved James Ash and Associate Dean of WW Wa\'fti the occupants of the van by I -A v^B e_________r Ml ^B_______ was treated for shock, another Fnrollments Dr. Thompson Big­ 1 ill m\ suffered a strained neck and two avoiding the other cars on the gers, t solution was worked out. f *»\nfl mi _•__________-. W_ students had lacerations on their bridge and slamming into the "We wanted to take some of ; fe^ii hands. wall, rather than going off the the pressure off students who had O'Connor said the team mem­ bridge into Biscayne Bay. to take three exams in one day," fv * n bers were on their way back to O'Connor said, "It could've Stebbins said. If *^_m UM from practice on Virginia been real serious if other cars had Stebbins said he thought one of Key when the driver of the van, a been involved." the motivating reasons the ad­ member of the crew team, lost Once the van came to a halt, the ministration had for changing the I' • 1contro l and hit the bridge's re­ student said they had to push the schedule was the percentage of taining wall. back window out and climb ^^•^T^mr^m _R fl freshman taking three exams in , Police said the driver, Javier through because the side door one day. Fraixa, was not charged with the was beneath the van and the back When enrollment services ex­ Wt-- ' ml ' M *" .**. tegjSfS < 1 accident. doors were crushed and would amined the statistics, they found ___ 1 mkm O'Connor said the driver may not open. that 28 percent of the freshman 1 m iASi :...- - -•• have been moving too quickly as According to O'Connor, the van class was scheduled for three fi­ s s he was trying to change lanes. was very badly damaged but nal exams in one day, Stebbins [J^M!Spfl-flBC __¥\ *' \ •'»{*-'•- wr <11*H W 9 < fl That, combined with strong could possibly be repaired. UM's said. Ig^•._ « e^n: ^-^wyB: - y£&- . s W-fjf ,!•• -Jar*• .-*»-*• __• winds on the bridge and a heavy liability in the matter is not Director of Academic Services 1 , load in the van, may have caused known at this time.