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Around the world on 15 credits Here's the scoop Canes crush Cats A three-part series on the Office of International Ice cream entrepreneurs Ben & Jerry discuss busi Miami raised its record to 5-1 by thrashing Cincin Programs begins with a look at studying abroad. ness ethics and social reform. nati, 57-3, Saturday at the Orange Bowl. News — pege 5 Accent — page 8 Sports —pageB 1 XJ THE MIAMI URRIC Volume 66, Number 16 University of Miami Tuesday, Oct. 25,1988 Apartment Students claim renovation planned 'Rat poisoning' By LISA FRANKEL Bar tightens alcohol policy and PAT McCREERY Of the staff By AMY ELLIS that are very angry about It, but Assistant News Editor the ABT doesn't care whether we The University ol Miami is go out of business or not," Wy planning to improve its on-cam After a series of weekend in gand said. "They're here to en pus apartment area by adding spections by state officials, the force the law. We have to play by new sidewalks, volleyball courts, University of Miami's Rathskel their rules or not play at all." cod and sprinklers. ler has enacted tougher measures Student Government President "We want to enhance the living to keep underage students from Freddie Stebbins said the meth environment of the 900 students drinking. ods used by the ABT are not going who live in that area," said Dr. "The state of Florida has de to solve the problem of underage William Butler, vice president for clared war on underage drinking drinking. student affairs. on college campuses," said Don "Arresting freshmen who real UM has allocated $95,000 for Wygand, general manager of the ly have no idea what the conse the project. UM bar. quences of being arrested are is "It's money that we've been At selected times of the day, the not going to stop alcohol on cam able to husband from savings in Rat will sell alcohol only on the pus," he said. "The correct way the apartment area and the resi second floor and allow only those to solve the problem is through dential colleges and that we feel 21-years-old or older upstairs, ac education." should be put back in," Butler cording to William Sheeder, dean In addition, Stebbins said the said. of students and vice president of new policy might force students Improvement will be worked in Rathskeller, Inc. to go off campus and drink and two phases — landscaping and The new policy was instituted drive. interior work. Landscaping will after the State of Florida Division Students who regularly visit begin almost immediately and of Alcoholic Beverages and To the Rat say the new policy will should be completed by the end of bacco cited the Rat on Oct. 14 for adversely affect the Rat's busi the semester, Butler said. selling alcohol to minors. Sheeder ness. The work will involve digging said ABT officers identified five John Hudert, a sophomore ma trenches for a sprinkler system, underage UM students who were joring in video film and graphic laying sod and pouring cement consuming alcohol, but did not design, said the effects of the new sidewalks. arrest them. The University policy are already evident. "I don't want to say that we are agreed to take follow-up disci "The Rat is dead," Hudert said. going to redo every square inch of plinary action with the students, "People now go there to buy land out there because that may Sheeder said. food. The underage people who just not be the case," said George In a similar raid conducted went to the Rat tor be«r will find Shoffner. director of residence Thursday, one day after the new other ways of getting It." halls. policy took effect, no evidence of Despite this, Hudert said the Administrators are still dis underage drinking was found. new policy is "probably the best cussing what interior work will Sheeder said the Rat could be thing the Rat can do to save itself be done. fined and prohibited from selling from going totally dry." The University is trying to be alcohol for 20 days if two more According to Dr. William But conservative about the amount of citations were made against it. ler, vice president for student af money it spends on the area, both "The Rat needs to be operated fairs and president of Rathskel officials said, because it has slat in compliance with the law, and ler, Inc., the new policy will not ed the apartments for demolition this is the best way to do it, at keep students from going to the within five years. least for the immediate future," Rat. However, the apartments are Sheeder said. "The word has obviously been According to Wygand, the raids communicated that the Rat is no needed during UM's current at UM are part of a state-wide ef housing crunch, Butler said. The ERIK COCKS/Hurricane Statf place to go for underage drink student apartments the Universi Animal magnetism fort to crack down on underage ing," Butler said. "I think the drinking. Similar raids have oc challenge of new programming in ty wants to build along Red Road Hurricane cheerleader Jennifer Smith and a cheerleader from the opposing curred at Florida International within two years will not provide University of Cincinnati Bearcats were brought together at Saturday's football the Rat will keep the students University, Florida State Univer coming." any excess housing, he said. game by a kitten that wandered onto the field. sity and the University of Florida, Even after those apartments Jeff Jacobs, a senior majoring resulting in 47 arrests state-wide, in biology and math and a Resi are completed, UM will have to Wygand said. build more housing before it can dent Assistant at Pearson Resi "Students don't recognize the dential College, said he thinks the afford to tear down many of the ramifications of underage drink current apartment buildings, Rat will lose most of its patron Foote: No plans to leave UMing, " Wygand said. "It's a misde age and possibly go out of busi which date from the 1940s. meanor, a criminal record, and ness. In addition, Jacobs said the Although administrators are University of Miami President Edward T. Foote Foote also addressed: you could go to jail. In order to new rules will create problems in not tackling major interior reno II on Friday quashed speculation that he is seeking a • student drinking, pointing out that state protect ourselves and our stu the residence halls. vation, they are insisting that stu position in the next national administration. officials could close the Rathskeller if they found dents, we've had to make some "There's going to be a lot more dents remove tin foil from win "I have no plans to leave the University of underage students drinking there. Additionally, adjustments." drunkeness and irresponsibility dows. Miami," Foote told a group of Foote emphasized once again that he wants the city According to Jared Robinson, a in the residence halls," Jacobs | Miami Hurricane editors. "I have of Miami to stop selling beer at Orange Bowl games. doorman at the Rat and a member said. "It's going to make life diffi Junior Andy Zimmerman lives • fraternities, saying the University has no of the Rathskeller Advisory in an on-campus apartment now, the best college presidency in cult for the RA's and miserable America," he said. plans to allow fraternities to build more houses, Board, students are frustrated for residents who do not take part and lived in one last year also. He although that may become a future option. with the new policy. said students put aluminum foil For years student leaders have in that kind of activity [drink traded rumors alleging Foote • the Otto G. Richter Library, saying that the "The fascist (Bob| Martinez re ing]." on the windows to block out UM is seeking a donor for a planned multi-million light. "These little drapes are to would give up his presidency for a gime has taken over the gover Sheeder said he thinks the Rat national appointment — probably dollar expansion. nor's office," he said. "They're will continue to be an attractive tally transparent," he explained. • UM's department of Public Safety, explaining "When I put it |tin foil) up last an ambassadorship or cabinet going after college kids and forc site for students at the Universi | position. that campus police officers must graduate from ing us to do childish things like ty- year, they made us take it down." Miami's police academy in order to be fully harass our fellow students." "It does run contrary to all of Foote said he would have to "What happens at our Rat is I consider an offer to serve the accredited as officers. Wygand said the new policy is different from what happens our University policy on outside Police academy courses last several weeks, treatment," Shoffner said. "We country, but that he did not think an unpopular but necessary deci elsewhere," he said. "I would any offer would be forthcoming generating a time lapse between when officers sion the management of the Rat hate to think that the only way are asking students to take it Foote leave UM and when new ones can be hired, Foote down." from a President Bush or a had to make. we can have a Rat that is support President Dukakis. said. "It's a Gestapo-style approach, ed by the students is to violate the Zimmerman said he received a he said.