Crimes, storm mar Florida's gleaming image
MIAMI (AP)—Up near Orlando is a Magic
Kingdom. Down in Key West shimmers the
balmy otherworld of Margaritaville. In be
tween lies Miami, “where summer spends the
winter,” neon capital of a playground called the
Gold Coast.
The sloganeers and image makers never let
up after christening this sandy peninsula
“America’s sunporch” in the 19th century. It
worked because the nicknames had something
behind them. They still do.
Consider this highrise view at 11 a.m. one
recent weekday: In the distance, traffic surges
toward the gleaming Miami skyline while, in
the foreground, a speedboat towing a tan skier
scratches a hite wake across a lagoon. Every
wavelet winks in the sun.
“This is the ideal place to do nothing without
having a bad conscience,” says Anouk Linder,
a German tourist sunning herself on Miami
Beach. Reflected in her irridesccnt sunglasses
are sidewalk cafes, a row of pastel Art Deco
hotels and, always, the Coke-bottle-green At
lantic.
But other images never make the handsome
brochures distributed by travel agents and re
tirement communities.
Like the crumpled body of an earlier Ger
man visitor who lost her way between airport
and beach and was robbed and killed in the
blighted Liberty City neighborhood.
Or the destruction and death that filled TV
screens after Hurricane Andrew struck last
August, leaving a hot, slow cleanup job that
drags on still.
On Florida’s shiny surface, these and other
incidents — from a racially tinged police bru
tality case here to highway snipers near Jack
sonville to ever-present drug crime — may be
only nasty scratches. But they have allowed the
world a peck through this much polished look
ing-glass, and made Floridians look, too.
There is no rush to abandon a land many
residents saw as the Great Escape — from
snow, from communist Cuba, from the ordi
nariness of places lacking the pace and style of
“Miami Vice.” Florida’s population still grows
by a net 600 a day, and jumbo jets at Miami
International still disgorge some of the 42
million tourists Florida expects this year.
Still, recent events have made many recon
sider their state’s image.
“Florida, South Florida especially, has al
ways attempted to project itself as a paradise,”
says Arva Moore Parks, a local historian and
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Nicole Ries, a senior speech pathology major, helps Brad clean up after he decided to color
himself with a marker.
Barkley
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“Early intervention is proven to
be effective to decrease the sever
ity of the problem,” Morehouse
said.
When children struggle to com
municate, adults arc often the only
people to pay attention to them
because they arc ignored by other
children, Morehouse said. At
Barkley Center, children work with
peers that have similar challenges.
“Kids only communicate with
adults, because they are the only
ones that listen to them,” she said.
Although the activities and
games that arc played make the
therapy sessions look fun, there isa
serious purpose for it.
“Making signs isn’t the main
activity,” said Mary Carlson, a se
nior spccch-palhoiogy major. “It
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helps them interact with peers
more."
The student clinicians work in
dividually with children before the
group meets for the daily fun activ
ity. Clinicians do activities that
require children to use “cluster"
words, which have a group of con
sonants that often cause speech
problems.
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sen because of the makeup of the
word. The “sc” and “cr” combina
tion often cause pronunciation prob
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lems, Morehouse said.
“Il reinforces correct pronun
ciation,“Carlson said, “Rather than
saying ‘OK Bobby, repeal scare
crow.
Being a speech pathologist is
often a challenge, said Tracie
Spoencman, a first year graduate
student.
“Sometimes having a good atti
tude every day (is hard), she said,
“Itdcpcnds on childrcn’salliludcs.”
Although children arc the focus
of this communication group clinic,
students also have to work with
adults affected by various injuries,
including strokes and head inju
ries.
Meredith Lugcrt, a second year
graduate student, said she espe
cially enjoys working with chil
dren in a clinical environment.
“I think I relate better to them,”
she said. “Working with children, I
feel more comfortable.”
Halls
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campus students to live in the resi
dence halls next year.
• an $80 reduction on next year’s
housing bill for residence hall resi
dents who return to the residence halls.
• an $80 reduction on next year's
housing bill for "recruited” students.
• a free room-and-board contract
for the person who recruits the most
ofT-campus students to live in the
halls.
' It may be too early to tell if the
campaign has had a big effect on
students’ housing choices, Schumann
said.
But Schumann said the number of
uppcrclass applications for residence
hall contracts was up 138 from this
time last year.
The department's "hard-sell” cam
paign was an attempt to counter a
trend of declining upperclass repre
sentation in residence halls, he said.
"The reason we're doing what
we’re doing is because we're losing
uppcrclass students,” Schumann said.
To counter the trend, he said, the
housing department has decided to
listen to what students in the resi
dence halls want
“At this point we’re Uying to lis
ten to students,’’ he said. “We need to
listen to what they’re asking for.”
One request has already been filled.
Cathcr Hall will be transformed into
an uppcrclass hall, with single or
double room options and computer
labs on every floor, Schumann said.
The housing department also will
distribute surveys and Questionnaires
to future residents to discover what
the residence halls need most he said.
Schumann said upperclass resi
dents also would be surveyed to deter
mine why they signed up.
Chad Conklin, a freshman busi
ness administration major and Harper
Hall resident said the incentives still
weren’t enough to keep him in the
residence halls.
“(The incentives) might work for
some people,” Conklin said. “It would
be kind of cool, but I’m tired of the
dorms."
Conklin said he had entertained
briefly the thought of reluming to the
residence halls, but decided toTivcoff
campus next semester.
“My roommate had mentioned it
once," he said. “But I’m pretty set on
getting out of the dorms.”
Tyler Frost, a sophomore math
ematics major and Harper resident,
said he planned to return to Harper in
the fall.
“I’d rather live in the dorms,” he
said. “Thecon venicnce outweighs the
disadvantages.”
He said living in the residence
halls helped to spur student activity.
“You can still gel involved when
you live in the dorms,” he said. “Resi
dence hall government is one way."
Schumann said the aim of the cur
rent ad campaign was to emphasize
the residence halls’ advantages.
“Obviously, there are some things
that students want that we just can't
Set them,” he said. “Many want to
ave alcohol and parties.
“We’re putting the accent on what
we do best,” he said. “We want to be
as convenient and cost-effective as
possible.”
Schumann said the housing
department’s involvement had an
impact.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say it's all
from the ads or from incentives,” he
said. “It’s a combination of things
we’ve been working on for some time
now.”
Death toll hits 7
at Ohio prison
LUCAS VILLE,Ohio(AP)—The
inmate death toll rose to seven Tues
day at a maximum-security prison
where eight guards were held hos
tage, and rebellious convicts yelled to
other prisoners to join them in the
siege. Guards fired tear gas to restore
order.
The prisoners barricaded inside the
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
also rigged a loudspeaker to complain
about negotiations. Negotiators said
they too weren’t encouraged by the
progress of the talks.
The prisoners have been denied
food, heal, electricity and water since
the riot Sunday.
A guard on patrol at the prison
found the seventh body in a cell of the
K ccllblock. The unit is linked by a
corridor to the L ccllblock, where 450
prisoners have been barricaded since
a scuffle among a few prisoners esca
lated into a riot.
Investigators didn’t know if the
inmate, Dennis Weaver,43, was killed
or committed suicide, said Tessa
Unwin, a spokeswoman for the Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation and
Correction. She said he was not alone
in the cell but would not say how
many other prisoners were inside at
the time.
She wouldn’t say what caused
Weaver’s death, but said “it wasn’t a
natural death,” and he hadn’t been
dead long.
Prison officials said the six other
inmates killed had been severely
beaten and slain by fellow convicts.
Late in the day Tuesday, prisoners
in the L cellbiock yelled to inmates in
the K cellbiock to join the standoff,
Ms. Unwin said. Guards fired one tear
gas canister into the corridor connect
ing the ccllblocks and regained order,
she said. No injuries were reported.
Talks about the inmates’ list of 19
demands were “at a lull,” Ms. Unwin
said.
Shealso said little was known about
the welfare of the eight guards being
held hostage in the prison about 70
miles south of Columbus.
Officials believe the rebelling in
mates have been monitoring broad
casts about the siege with battery
powered radios. On Tuesday, the in
mates rigged a loudspeaker and an
nounced from a cellbiock window
that they weren’t satisfied with the
negotiations.
“I’m telling you that you got prob
lems,” a voice over the loudspeaker
said. ’They can give us what we ask
far. It’s well within our rights. Then
you will have someone back. Why
don’t they want to do this?” The
voice continued, but was drowned out
by police helicopters overhead.
Corrections spokeswoman Sharron
Komcgay said she hadn’t heard the
statement and couldn’t comment.
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