Tuesday, October 18, 1988 The University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Volume 33, Number 11 Employed students increased at UWM takes time away from classwork, by Gregg Wirth most students prefer working to borrowing. lthough the number of The number of minorities at­ students attending UWM tending UWM also has risen A changed little since last since 1987, with 87 new minority fall, the number of students who students enrolling this semester. work 20 or more hours a week The University's minority pop­ and the number of minority stu­ ulation increased to 3,399, with dents enrolled has increased, ac­ Asian and Hispanic students cording to enrollment figures re­ showing the largest increase. leased Monday by the Office of There were 45 new Asian stu­ Institutional Research. dents and 44 new Hispanic stu­ The number of students who dents enrolling this fall. work 20 or more hours a week UWM Chancellor Clifford has increased from 10,389 to Smith attributed the increase of 10,425 since the 1987 fall se­ of minorities to improved distri­ mester, according to the figures. bution of information about the The increase is due to new University to the right areas. guidelines for determining finan­ "UW-Madison and the UW cial need that place more of the System may get all the headlines burden of tuition and living costs and the publicity surrounding mi­ on students, said Jim Hill, associ­ nority recruitment but at UWM ate director of the UWM Finan­ we're getting the job done," cial Aid Department. Smith said. —Post photo by Tony Garza "With the new financial aid re­ The number of students en­ Tracy Felde (left) and Sharon Kothe served a non-alcoholic cocktail to Tim Trescott. Students strictions, there is more of an rolled this semester at UWM is wereable to sample non-alcoholic drinks Monday at the start of alcohol awareness week, and expectation for the student to 25,212, down only one student then vote for their favorite. contribute more to his educa­ from the 1987 fall semester. tion," said Hill. A four-year plan aimed at Alcohol Awareness Week Under the new guidelines, set limiting enrollment enacted by down in the State's 1987-'88 the UW System in 1987, kept the biennial budget the Financial total enrollment at UWM from Aid department now uses a new showing an increase. SA left out of campus event method developed by Congress The plan, proposed by UW in 1986 to estimate financial denied SA a booth on the basis booth, SA wanted to show its System President Kenneth Shaw by Renee Deger need. to reduce System population by that supporting a 19-year-old support of United Council, the state student lobby, which sup­ Under the new method, if a 7,000, is currently in its second drinking age would condone ir­ ports lowering the drinking age student was to earn $3,000 a year, according to System Ad­ everal student organiza­ responsible drinking habits. to 19. year working part-time, only 70 ministrator Harvey Breuscher. tions sponsored booths "But SA endorsed the moti­ percent of his earnings would be Sand events in the UWM U- vation of the events so we were Judle Papadakis, president of considered when determining Breuscher said the enrollment nion Monday to promote Alco­ clearly on the same side, at a group co-sponsoring the e- need. caps were necessary to reduce hol Awareness Week on cam­ least I thought" Beecher said. vents, said she felt the theme of The new method, he said, the student population to a level pus, however, the Student As­ "Raising the drinking age to SA's proposed booth was too takes total earnings into consid­ the System can support. sociation was denied permis­ 21 does keep alcohol out of the political and not in sync with eration when determing need. sion to sponsor a booth which hands of high schools students, the goals of Alcohol Awareness "This method reduces what "Though currently the number would have supported a 19- but it forces the 18-, 19- and Week. students get from us, and forces of students at System schools is year-old drinking age. 20-year-olds into hiding and Papadakis, president of them to work or borrow to sup­ more than 165,000, the State Victor Beecher, SA pres­ that usually means into cars," Boost Alcohol Consciousness port themselves and their educa­ only gives us enough money to ident, said he believed the he said. tion," Hill said. support about 158,000 stu­ groups sponsoring the events Beecher said that with the Alcohol, page 3 Hill said that though working dents," Breuscher said. Panel urges better awareness of date rape at UWM creased awareness, many people Halls, said in an earlier interview lieve they may be partly responsi­ specialists on sexual assaults who by Renee Deger would have a clearer idea of that although none were re­ ble. not only look for violations of the what rape is. ported in the last two years, she Feyerherm, who attended the law but also provide counseling," tudent Association Women's She added that by better in­ believed "a handful" of date discussion, said because of the he said. Affairs Director Mary Anne forming students about rape, rapes had occurred at the dorms common portrayal in the media Smith met with community many myths that are generated but have gone unreported. of victims of date rape, many vic­ Smith said she believed con­ S duct codes specifically address­ and campus experts Monday to by society could be refuted. tims are going to question wheth­ Smith said that many victims discuss counseling of date rape er they were responsible. ing date rape and sexual assault "Many think of it as a stranger felt uneasy about prosecuting victims on campus and increas­ should be incorporated into cur­ grabbing a woman from the someone they knew. ing awareness of victims' rights. bushes, beating her and raping "There is also the fear that po­ rent codes that govern non-aca­ Smith said she believed the her," Smith said, adding that in William Feyerherm, a UWM lice will believe the victim was demic student behavior. number of date rape occurrences many cases, the rape involves criminal justice professor, said partly responsible. at UWM is no greater or less than someone the victim knows. many rapes go unreported be­ "But the criminal justice sys­ Feyerherm said that any time a at other urban campuses and Pat Prischman, director of cause victims do not believe any­ tem has changed a lot and now «• added that she wanted to in­ Housing at Sandburg Residence thing can be done or falsely be­ most police departments have Assault, page 12 WSA cancels annual Madison Halloween party INSIDE Party: citing drop in revenues, drinking age increase \~~~-~ Radomski said WSA made $14,000 last year alone. by Peter Hansen their decision in July partly due The present construction work asm to an increase in the number of on the Memorial Library on State in a he Wisconsin Student Asso­ underage students caused by the Street would also "get in the more pos ciation at UW-Madison has 21- year-old drinking age law. way" of the party, and would Trefused to sponsor the an­ Radomski said it was unfair to raise WSA liability and insurance nual Halloween party on State sponsor beer gardens and dis­ costs, Radomski said. Street in downtown Madison, criminate against so many stu­ JIU- Madison police spent about atch said WSA president Noel Ra- dents by not allowing them to en­ $35,000 last year on special domski. ter. He said 50 to 60 percent of Friday. forces for the party, according to e7 Without WSA sponsorship, Madison undergraduates are a Madison police spokesman. beer gardens will not be set up underage. The Madison Police Depart­ on State Street nor will Madison Radomski also said the State ment estimated the total cost of won police close portions of the street Street party had been a "big rev­ overtime and sanitation last year over to traffic. Drinking on the street enue loser" in the years since the between $30,000 and $40,000. will be prohibited this year also, raising of the drinking age, with • 7 unlike previous years. estimated- losses of about Halloween, page 12 Page 2 The UWM Post Tuesday, October 18, 1988 University Briefs records is not its priority right travel to South America to get Friesch must re-create the Kenwood Inn night hours sought there. colors they had when they were now. Friesch is an exhibit living. Student government and section of the Kenwood Inn preparator at the Milwaukee Union administration are ex­ and turn that area into a lounge Student constructs Public Museum, which is So far, he said he has ploring the option of re-open­ where bands could play. If only creating a new, $2.5 million prepared about 87 frogs, 20 liz­ ing the Kenwood Inn at night, a portion was used for a lounge museum exhibits rain forest display. ards, four turtles and a couple of snakes. possibly with live music, Union it might cut costs enough to re­ The exhibit will be open to Director Tim Wilmot said Mon­ open in the evening. Almost every day, Joel the public on Nov. 12. day. Friesch, a UWM fine arts stu­ Friesch, 22, spends about 40 He said he likes the sense of The Kenwood Inn, located dent, works amidst the beauty hours a week painting once- permanence he gets from his on the third floor of the Union, Probe of last year's of a tropical rain forest, with its living reptiles and amphibians.