Dormitory Conversion Angers Residents
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FOOTBALL MAKES A COMEBACK UM TROOPS CEASE FIRE Head coach Jimmy Johnson expects great thingi Star of'Miami Vice' was honored for his role in from next year's Hurricane offense the movie Cease Fire, produced, written and di rected hy two I'M graduates SPORTS — page 8 l*J ENTERTAINME?£t_r paK° fi Hie Miami Volume 61 Friday, Number 42 March H.49S3 Dormitory conversion angers residents By DEBBIE MORGAN The remaining 450 residents will consist of 300 freshmen and 150 School of Music, music students have been housed in Walsh tower of the . tonl News Editor graduate students. Also, residents will be required to buy a 14- or 960 complex on common floors, creating what they consider a music 20-meal board plan. family. "Where am I going to live next vear?" According to Redick, the reason for this requirement is that a IVIusic students not living in 960 will be forced to live eliewhere on University of Miami student! currently living in the 960 complex- number of the programs will occur in the dining environment. Also, the the Universitv campus. One proposal is to give priority housing, have been heard asking this question lately. The plans to change the 960 cafeteria is going to be renovated and separated by a partition, with apartment buildings 34 and 35. to music students with large instrument! complex into a new residential college next semester have the building's one side for 960 residents and the other for honors residential college in order to shorten the distance to the School ol Music and to provide "<02 residents in an uproar. students. Redick said that the menu will be upgraded for residential large storage areas. The new colli ge is part e>f the 10-year strategic plan, formulated by college students. Please turn to ;>ujy 2 960 a committee ol visiting administrators, trustees, and other outside Four rooms on each floor of 960 will be double occupancy rooms, groups, whuh was approved by the board of trustees last year. The plan costing $1025 a semester; there will be two singles at $1125; and the proposes various improvement! and changes to the University. One of rest will be double single rooms at $1300 a semester. Once the student is the proposals is to raise' academic quality by improving residential life. admitted, he will be given the opportunity to choose what room he \\ licit they're sa) iii<i The committee, tollowing the examples of various Ivy League would like to live in. schools, has found that a residential college, housing only 400 students, Since only 100-125 of the students will be allowed to return, the will achieve better university living and academic progress. "This is one "It's turned into an essay contest to get back Into the complex.'' question arises of where to live if the student either does not want to George Feldner. sophomore music engineer. small part of the transfer of UM." said Dr. Robert Redick. associate participate in a residential college or does not get accepted. The director fur residence life. "We are trying to provide a high quality of Mahoney/Pearson complex, which currently houses 1,423 residents, will "We want student! who want lo broaden their base and would life " become 70-80 percent freshmen housing, allowing only 400 students to enjoy that kind of faculty interaction." 1'ai Whitely. 960 resident Eventually, the entire current residential system will he converted return next semester. Eaton Hall will be reserved for junior and senior coordinator. to residential colleges with the exception of the Mahonev/Pearson students. "We're offering wider and better programs which are reflected in complex. the price," Dr. Robert Redick. associate director of Residence 1 Ife "Everyone can be accomodated," Redick said. "No one will be "Everyone should have a roommate their first year to fight the The conversion of 960 is the second phase of this plan; the Honors turned away." Residential College was the first. The new residential college will house world with, a chum," Scott Kornspan Another change will be in apartment housing, which will open 262 "We've been living in dorms most of our college yean. We don'l faculty members and a resident master, offer education-based programs, spaces to house single students, decreasing the amount of married and have common meals, double single rooms, a computer lab, and new want to have to live in one again," Barbara Makrls,graduate student housing that is presently available. Many married students will be able "We can't please everyone all the time." Jerry Askew, ombudsman and Improved facilities. An academic supports service center which will to live across U.S. 1 in the University-owned apartments. have a xerox machine and group study is one such proposed facility. "I spend a lot of time practicing and I don't have time for Campus apartments are the least expensive housing for students, programs I like living here,'' Larry Karp. music student "We are interested in giving you [the students| programs you ranging from $925 a semester for a non-air conditioned, double want.'' said Dr. Debbie Mescon, one of the two 960 residential college "You're knocking the best department you've got It's happening occupancy bedroom to $1,300 for an air conditioned single room. I'm going somewhere else," Mark Bogan. music student masters already chosen. "We want to make this more than just a dorm However, housing costs have risen 12-14 percent campus-wide, but a residential college." "Where do you expect sophomore's to go?" David Cox. freshman according to Redick. mechanical engineer. However, only 100-125 current residents will be able to return. A International students will still have the option of living in the special application and essay about why the student wants to live in a "Why can't we wait until more facilities are built?" Brian Wuttke, International House, which has a 44-space capacity, and international music education student. residential college must be completed by the student and then reviewed apartments, which have 200 spaces on two floors. before an admissions selection committee. The student must also have a Another concern, voiced overwhelmingly by music students, is the minimum 2.75 grade point average abolishment of special interest floors. Because of the convenience to the Carni (iras IA membersrnernb say loses money meeting 'chaos By LOURDES FERNANDEZ Hurricane Editor in ( luef By PETER P. PERMUY Former University of Miami This year's Carni Gras lost about Hierrie eeeic Opinion I Jile.r faculty member and current facul $15,000, according to a source ty secretary tor Omicron Delta who did not wish to be named. Some Iron Arrow me-mhers are? Kappa heeiie>rary society, W. Is .ui questioning the integrity ot the Hoy, ctaims he raised his hand to The loss is the biggest ever for a comment, hut was not given the Carni Gras Festival. The second recent honorary society's vote to admit women. opportunity to speak. He agreed reatest loss was approximately with Sackett'i charge thai parlia 13.000. Overall, Carni Gras Members voted 71-25 to admit G women on Feb. 21 and initiated mentry procedure was overlooked grossed between $57,500 and $5S,- "The meeting was parliamentary 000. eight women 10 days later. The margin of the vote contrasted chaos," he said The Student Activities Fee Allo sharply with last year's vote The pros and cons weren't cations Committee had given the 107-9H not to admit women. discussed equitably. Hoy said, in a Carni Gras committee an emergen Some members insist that the letter t<) Quintana of which he sent cy loan of $10,000 before the vote was marred by a favoritism a copy to Houghtailing in St. carnival. Other donations included shown by Iron Arrow Chief Louis, Mo. $6,000 from Eagle Hrands, the Dagoberto towards those who Iron Arrow Chief Dagoberto distributor for Anheuser-Busch. sided with him in supporting the Quintana feels differently "The Carni Gras began on Thursday admission of women into the then vote spoke for the feelings of thi' of last week and ran until Sunday. male-onlv honorarv. organization," he said, indicating a It was the first time that Carni Dr. Walter W. Sackett, Univer desire on the organization's part to Gras had been held on the parking sitv of Miami alumnus 1932 and return to campus He alsee dis- lot along Walsh Avenue. On the oldest Iron Arrow member misses any accusations of disre previous years, it had been held on both in age s.id membership, gard for parllamentry procedure the intramural field. called the vote a parliamentary as "not at all true." adding that the fiasco. true objection was not to the The carnival is the largest of its "I slowly realized the futility of p.oceedlngi of the meeting per se kind in the southeastern United Putting on the Ritz raising my hand to be heard, even b'.t to the fact that women were States and dates back to 1951 though I was in the front row and pdmitted. He said that the com when the Chi Omega sorority held During Wednesday's UM vs. Rice baseball game, the Miami Maniac dances for within touching distance of the plaint centered on his decision not a Sun Festival. About 40 organiza chief," he wrote in a letter to to read any correspondence in the tions participated in Carni Gras. joy as UM prevails, 7-2. For more sports, see p. 8. Quintana. meeting. In the letter, Sackett outlined Hoy said, however, the voting the reasons for the unfairness of procedure was inipreeper and the proceeding.