Communication Wants to Be a School
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' TAKE A SEAT AT THEATER OPENING—SEE PAGE 8 Volume 59 Number 6 Phone 284-4401 ®fjp iEtamt l^urrtrattp FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1982 Communication Wants To Be A School By LOURDES FERNANDEZ time soon, states that as one depart Hurricane Assistant News fJUejr ment among 19 in the college, the department of communication is The UM department of communi "too unwieldy, too constrained by cation has put together a report inappropriate academic require which is to serve as the ground ments, and too low in profile to work for the department to be con function effectively and to attract verted into a School of Communica the best quality students and the tion. sources of funding " The 45-page proposal is the cul mination of the efforts of a five- man committee of communication 'We have always professors that has studied this supported it |a School ideas since fall of 1980. The reason that i School of Com of Communication). munication is needed ll that n would result in better quality edu We've had it in mind cation for students, said Professor Steven Beebe. who headed the com lor live years and we're mittee. moving right ahead.' The school would still be under the jurisdiction of the College ol Dean Arthur Brown Arts and Sciences and would not have a dean, but a director Such an arrangement would be the only one Said Brown "We have always of this kind at UM. Other schools, supported it |a School of Communi such as the School of Music and the cation!. We've had it in mind fnr School of Education, are headed by five years and we're moving right deans, who report directly to the ahead " provost. "Philosophically and theoretical The report states thai "A multila- ly, we [the department and the Col- ceted school with appropriate an lege| have the same goal." Beebe tonomy in its professional-academu said. "We believe in the importance concerns is essential fnr real prog of a liberal education " ress in the communication field " Beebe said that students in such a A major change would be thai _. ,,, . ,,., .... _ _. _ Miami Hurricane/STU BAYER school would have the same re students would receive a degree quirements as the College of Arts from a school, not a department It The Shack Which Houses The Photo-Communication Department Was Described As 'In A Bad State Of Re- and Sciences. He added that the de would also help in accreditation ol pair'In The Com Department Report partment of communication wants programs, the report said. to continue under the College be cause it would assist them economi "We're just in the beginning slat; cally. "We would still rely upon the es of seeking accreditation." Beebe resources of the College, in such said. "The rules state that we need Costs Cause Enrollment Decline areas as student operations and 51 percent of the students majoring other support services." Beebe said in communication to belong to the sequence we want accreditated It's Provost William Lee, who sup difficult to do that now because wt Aid Cuts ports the proposal "enthusiastical ""H T have nine sequences and the stu Total Costs YEARLY COLLEGE ^9^\C* r '"" ly." said the school would be under dents are spread out " the College of Arts and Sciences for Hurt Private some time, but may then become an Those nine sequences are news Of College "*«"« «•., independent school paper-editorial journalism. hTn.irt Universities 'A School of Communication will cast journalism, public relations WASHINGTON, D.C (CPS) — The help them gain national recognition broadcasting, motion pictures, tele long-expected, forced student mi and benefication consistent with vision and motion pictures, photo Keep Rising ' ._. gration from expensive private col their quality work." he said communication, speech commiinu a- leges to cheaper four-and two-year tion. and organizational communi The report, which will be pre cation campuses may have finally begun, sented to Dean Arthur Brown of the NEW YORK, NY (CPS) - The two just-released studies suggest. College of Arts and Sciences some Plea.se turn fo peine 3/KHOOI total cost of going to college — in The primary cause of the forced cluding tuition, room, board, sup march, the studies say. are the cnts plies, transportation and personal in federal student aid programs. expenses — has jumped by as much According to a study by the Na as 13 percent this (all, according to tional Institute of Independent Col a survey by the College Board's Col leges and Universities, as many as lege Scholarship Service. 200.000 students have dropped oul NCAA Contract The survey of some 3.300 col of private colleges and universities leges predicts students at four-year this year. public institutions will spend an av The exodus of low-income and erage of $4,338 to go to school this minority students is "much more year, a 13 percent increase over last dramatic than we expected." and On Television year's expenses. may broaden as this year's cuts in Private college and university federal financial aid programs exac students will spend an average of erbate student money problems, $7475 to make it through the says Julianne Still Thrift. NIICUs 1982-83 academic year, an 11 per executive director. Though no one can say definitive Declared Void cent hike over 1981-82, the study ly where these students are going found. At the University of Miami, By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE their programs." he said expenses rose 14 percent over last USBG Considering — to other schools or simply out of Under current NCAA rules, uni Hurricane KeiiEe-erial Hoard year. the educational system — another versities are limited to six television study released last week predicts Soaring tuition rates are the main appearances every two years, with community college enrollment will A federal judge in Oklahama City a maximum of four in any given reasons. Tuition is up an average of increase by four pecent this fall. declared void contracts between the 20 percent at public colleges, and 13 year, bowl games notwithstanding A Sunshine Bill The American Association of National Collegiate Athletic Associ percent at private colleges. ation and three television networks. Schools receive $310,000 lor a re Community and Junior Colleges gional telecast and $500,000 for a The average public college tui (AACJC) expects two-year college In a ruling handed down late another, was proposed at the USBG Wednesday, District Court Judge national broadcast The Universitv tion this year will be $979, com By GEORGE HAJ enrollment to surpass five million of Miami recieved $2,5 million over pared to $815 in 1981-82. Private Hurricane News Ediior Senate meeting Wednesday after nationwide. Juan Burciaga voided contracts noon. signed by the NCAA, ABC, CBS and the past five years from television college tuition has hit $4,021 this A proposed amendment to the The reasons, according to the revenue. year, up from last year's $3,552. In The first amendment, called the AACJC, include an influx of un- and Turner Broadcasting System, be Undergraduate Student Body Gov Sunshine Bill, and patterned after cause they violate antitrust laws "If the decision is not overturned, comparison. UM's tuition is now ernment constitution proposed underemployed people returning to similar federal and state laws, The NCAA will appeal the deci this will put things into total $5,750, up from $5,000 last year. Wednesday would grant students school and a significant number ol chaos." said television sportscaster would prevent USBG from exclud students who choose two-year col sion, which was brought about access to virtually all areas of ing "any undergraduate student at Tony Segreto. of Channel 4. the Please turn to page 4/MONEY USBG. This amendment, along with leges at least temporarily for finan when the University of Georgia and the University of Miami, or prevent the University of Oklahoma chal CBS affiliate in Miami cial reasons. "The networks will only sched access to their documentation." In some states, as much as ten lenged a recent NCAA legislation The Sunshine Bill would open This decision may have long ule top ten teams week in and week percent of the students who ordi out." Segreto said USBG, with certain exceptions, to narily would have gone straight reaching ramifications at UM. "A complete access by undergraduate decision of this caliber would great The dispute between the univer UM Outpatient Clinic from high school to a four-year col sities and the NCAA arose in St. students. The exceptions cover per ly affect the University of Miami lege have chosen to live at home an Louis, Missouri on Dec 4. \W\ at sonal correspondence, informal other year, and attend cheaper local and college football in general." meetings, screening committee said UM Athletic Director Harry the NCAA's meeting on restructur two-year campuses, the study re ing, Mallios said meetings, the deliberations of the ports. Mallios shortly after the decision. To Be Reconstructed USBG Supreme Court, and names of Mallios cautioned, however, that The UM athletic director, who Such movement suggests the participated in the meeting, said the By JAENE GARCIA be made in person). Cost is $15; those who use the Student Rights onset of the massive "stepladder ef "On something like this I would Agency. have to wait and look over the deci two schools tried to bring the mat Hurricane Staff Writer • the dermatology clinic. Only fect" educators began forecasting ter up but the chair of the meeting open on Wednesday afternoons An additional controversial ex when President Reagan introduced sion." The UM Health Center, which ception, immediately suggested by ruled the issue out of order because (appointments must be made in his first federal education budget in Mallios pointed out that this is it did not deal with restructuring.