University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Overtown rocked by rioting It was the national celebra- tion of Martin Luther King Jr. ' s birthday. During the day, some Miamians walked in pa- rades or delivered speeches. At night, others burned and looted buildings in the city ' s predominately- black Over- town neighborhood, just north of downtown. Race-motivated violence During the second night of rioting, police in riot gear ar- rest four men for hurling rocks and bottles at officers trying to maintain the hostile crowds. appeared again in this steamy, palm tree-studded microcosm of American ethnicity. Echo- ing the tragic death of insur- ance man Arthur McDuffie in 1979, another white police of- ficer killed another black mo- torcyclist racing through Overtown ' s streets. The 1980 acquittal of four white officers charged in con- nection with McDuffie ' s death initiated several days of rioting, leaving 18 dead and $100 million in damages. 1989 ' s clash began after an off-duty cop shot a speeding black youth. Clement Lloyd died soon after officer Will- iam Lozano shot him. Allan Blanchard, Lloyd ' s passenger, died later from injuries he re- ceived when the motorcycle crashed. January ' s riots were less costly — three dead, $1 mil- lion property damage — than 1980 ' s, but local officials say Miami ' s racial problems re- main deep-rooted and unlikely to be eased soon. Community leaders say local blacks were concerned by the money and attention given to the city ' s Latin American refugees, such as the 100,000 Nicaraguans expected to seek refuge in Miami this year. According to Marvin Dunn, a black psychologist who co- authored a study of the 1980 riots: A larger and larger seg- ment of the black community is falling farther and farther behind the rest of us in income and in quality of life. 104 Headlines

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America returns to space Although the day was warm, many University of Miami students stayed away from the beach one morning last September. They watch- ed television. It was Discov- ery day, the long-awaited moment when the first space shuttle would fly since the Challenger exploded Ameri- ca ' s belief of space superi- ority. Two and a half years after more than 200 students gath- ered at the Whitten Center ' s rock to mourn the lost Chal- lenger and its crew of seven, a revitalized NASA launch- ed a redesigned space shut- tle. NASA and, to a lesser ex- tent, the entire United States had experienced a period of demoralization after the Challenger crash. For years NASA had publicized itself as an organization which re- warded initiative. According to Newsweek magazine, however, The picture most people took away from the report was of a space pro- gram where the spirit of ' can do ' had undergone a trans- formation to ' whatever you say, boss. ' While American astronauts were grounded, Soviet astronauts broke their own records of time spent in space. The new space shuttle, Discovery, was arguably the world ' s most rigidly-tested piece of machinery. Many of its design changes were sug- gested by astronauts who had flown on earlier mis- sions. NASA completely re- designed the rocket-booster joints, whose failure caused the Challenger tragedy. Oth- er major changes included better landing gear, modified fuel valves and an escape system — the effectiveness of which remains controver- sial. Making its first move into space since the 1986 Chal- lenger tragedy that claimed the lives of seven astronauts, NASA sends the space shuttle Discovery into orbit from Cape Kennedy in September.

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Tuition increased by administration Citing the need to raise [faculty salaries and finance short-term construction costs of the James L. Knight I physics building, University (administrators announced in • January that undergraduate 1 tuition for 1989-90 will be !$ 11,860, a 9.8 increase over I the previous year. Provost Luis Glaser said lUM professors earn less than tthe national average and that ito remain competitive the I University will have to pay pthem better. Additionally, the money I from newspaper magnate Knight ' s $56 million gift will mot start flowing for about two years, Glaser said. UM iwill use its own money to ;begin construction of a phys- ics building the gift will help finance. Student reaction to the tu- ition hike ranged from mixed to apathetic. Said Freddie aid. Stebbins, president of Stu- dent Government: At best we view it as a necessary evil. The Miami Hurricane criticized SG for what the newspaper claimed was a lack of leadership in protest- ing the increase. Raising tuition has be- come a trend (some students would say a hobby) among UM administrators. The past several years have seen hikes hover near 10 percent. Glaser promised that trend will change in 1990, when administrators plan to lower the rate at which tuition increases. He predicted the increases will stabilize at about 7.5 percent by 1995. The University also raised its cost for housing in 1989-90 by 8.5 percent, but tempered both housing and tuition hikes with a 14 per- cent increase in financial Sparked by the shooting of a black man by a white, off-duty police officer, rioting began in Overtown on the holiday com- memorating Martin Luther King, Jr. ' s birthday. Architecture student wins lottery Winning an $8.3 million lottery jackpot wouldn ' t change a thing, thought Car- los Sanabria. He could fly up to Tallahassee, pick up his check and make it back to campus in time for class. Sanabria, a fifth-year Uni- versity of Miami architec- ture student, won the Florida state lottery November 19. He was Florida ' s youngest lottery winner. He may also be the humblest lottery win- ner ever. I won ' t change any goals, but it will be a stepping stone, Sanabria said of his new-found fortune. Every- thing will go on as planned. Now I can dedicate myself to school. Sanabria ' s randomly se- lected numbers, 7-15-24-30-31-49, would fet- ch him a yearly check of $419,000 for the next 19, before taxes. Professors and friends characterized Sanabria as someone whose feet were planted firmly on the ground, and they say they were glad to see him win the lottery. He ' s a real cool custom- er, said Michael Stanton, an architecture professor who was working with Sanabria on his final exam project. Sanabria and Stanton work- ed together two days after Sanabria learned he had won, but Stanton had no clue of the windfall. He ' s not a flighty guy, Stanton said. If I know Car- los, he ' ll finish school and become an architect. That was exactly what Sanabria planned to do. He hedged speculating too far into the future because he was focusing his attention on his final exam-a theoretical rendition of a 70,000 square- foot Pan American Art Insti- tute. After graduating in May, he planned to complete his internship with The Russell Partnership, an architecture firm where he had been working part-time for the last three years. It couldn ' t have hap- pened to a nicer person, said Daniel Tinney, Sanabria ' s boss and part-time architect professor. Tinney said he went into the office Saturday and found Sanabria working. He ' s handled it so well, Tinney said. That says a lot for a 22-year old. He ' s a real asset to the University. Sanabria couldn ' t say if the money would change his life. A week after collecting the first installment of $427,000, Sanabria said, I ' ve been too busy for it to sink in yet. Caren Burmeisler Miami Herald Brtan Smith Headlines 105