The Miami Hurricane -- February 22, 2010

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The Miami Vol. 88, Issue 9 | Feb. 22 - Feb. 24, 2010

HURRICANESTUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929

HowHow sweep sweep it isit is

The opening weekend for the Miami Hurricane baseball team started and ended in style.

Facing his first batters since returning from Tommy John surgery, Miami ace redshirt junior Eric Erickson, struck out the side to open up the

season Friday night and, with that, the Hurricane baseball sea-son was underway.

On Sunday, with the Hurricanes trailing 7-6 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, freshman centerfielder Zeke DeVoss hit an opposite-field walk-off three-run home run to

give UM a 9-7 victory and the Canes (3-0) ultimately swept the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (0-3).

“I don’t know how many times in 17 years I’ve seen us do something like that,” said head coach Jim Morris referring to the Sunday come-from-behind victory. “[We] pulled a game out late... that’s just been Miami baseball for many, many years.”

Erickson was terrific opening night; tossing 5 and 2/3 in-nings, surrendering just one unearned run and while striking out six. Needless to say, the southpaw was happy to be back on the mound pitching for the Canes.

BY ADAM BERGER | CONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

GET OUT AND VOTEGET OUT AND VOTECATCH UP WITH THE SG CANDIDATES AND

THEIR PLATFORMS PAGES 4 AND 5

WRITE WITH INTEGRITYWRITE WITH INTEGRITYACADEMIC EXCELLENCE COMES WITH

PROPER CITATIONS PAGE 6

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THE MAGIC CITY PAGE 11 SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 8

Baseball season starts off with a bang, Canes down Rutgers

VICTORY: Freshman center fi elder Zeke DeVoss (far left ) gets mobbed by his teammates Sunday aft ernoon aft er his three-run walk-off homer for a 9-7 win.STEVEN STUTS // Assistant Photo Editor

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Missed this weekend’s baseball season-opening series? Watch Steven Stuts’s photo slideshow.

Kelsey Pinault writes about GAMMA, a student organization of “Greeks advocating the mature management of alcohol.”

Wish you were in New York City for Fashion Week? Nicole Adlman recaps the latest fashions.

Sarah B. Pilchick thought that Mel Gibson’s “Edge of Darkness” was a disappointment. Read more in her review.

Find out how the swimming and diving team did at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in Calvin Cestari’s sports briefs.

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If one took a stroll through the UM School of Communication (SoC) courtyard in the past month, a giant hanging countdown was a sight that couldn’t be missed.

This banner was one way in which the SoC and its organizations, the Ad Group and Public Relations and Advertising University of Miami (PRADUM), anticipated their first an-nual PhilADthropy.

The event began last Friday at the end of Communication Week 2010, a series of events by the SoC that hosts special events relevant to the communication field.

PhilADthropy combined community ser-vice and advertising in a period of 25 consecu-tive hours, a number chosen in celebration of the SoC’s 25th anniversary.

“I thought it would be something really cool to bring to UM [because] I know that it’s

something that hasn’t been done before,” said advertising professor Meryl Blau, who initially proposed the idea to the Ad Group.

With over 65 volunteers signed up, the project allowed students to develop advertis-ing concepts for 12 non-profit organizations.

At the end of the 25 hours, the students delivered presentations to clients and received feedback; the organizations were not required to use the students’ work so no one loses any-thing, Blau said.

“Everyone got to walk away with some-thing, whether it was a new Web site, a logo, print ads, new friends or things to add to our portfolios,” said junior Jackie Churgin, the president of the Ad Group. “I hope [the volun-teers] took away a sense of pride because they helped the community and a sense of celebra-tion because the SoC has come such a long way in 25 years.”

Blau hopes to continue the effort next year after receiving praise from participating orga-nizations.

“We received an e-mail from one of the clients congratulating us on the success and professionalism of the students,” she said.

For the full version of the story, check out themiamihurricane.com

Alexa Lopez may be contacted at [email protected]

Communication and community

Advertising event helps non-profit organizations BY ALEXA LOPEZOF THE STAFF

I want to begin exercis-ing but I just can’t get myself to start…

So you are coming to the “dreaded” realization

this whole working out thing might be im-portant. You have seen some of your best friends who weren’t in that great of shape dedicate a few hours a week to the gym, a slightly healthier diet and BAM! They look good, feel good and you want that too…

Step one is to get yourself some sneak-

ers and work-out attire. You don’t want to be like that 80-year-old man at the gym who’s wearing his boat shoes and khakis with his Polo still tucked in. Being comfortable is im-portant because when you first start out, you will be looking for any excuse.

Step two is to ask any of your friends who go to the gym to go with them to learn a few exercises and how the cardio equip-ment works. Your best bet will be to start out on the treadmill or elliptical machines and get your aerobic capacity up so you have some stamina to perform more complex movements. Slowly start adding intervals of increased intensity (jogging if on the tread-

mill) for 30-60 seconds to help progress your fitness level. Just remember, you didn’t learn how to walk in a day, so take your time and be patient.

The golden rule to any exercise routine is going to be a progressive overload, mean-ing you need to slowly add on to what you’re doing. If you stick to your guns and tell your-self it’s time to change, then you can do this. So get excited, and get moving!

Jeremy Albelda is a senior exercise physiology major and a personal trainer. E-mail health questions to him at [email protected].

How to get that workout going...The healthy life

JEREMY ALBELDAHEALTH COLUMNIST

STACEY CARRILLO // The Miami Hurricane

TEAMWORK: Senior Collin O’Brien, senior Janessa Gomez, and alumnus leader Khien Nguyen redesign the Web site for the Florida Grand Opera as part of PhilADthropy.

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The ocean will garner the support of nearly 50 University of Miami students this week when Rho Rho Rho, the marine and atmospheric science honor society, hosts its second annual Ocean Awareness Week.

The event will run from Monday to Saturday and feature a variety of events, including a concert, a climate change panel and Sea Service Day all on UM’s campus.

Ocean Awareness Week co-chair Maria Rodgers, a sophomore majoring in marine science, has been involved in planning the event since last November and hopes to attract more students this year than last year.

“We’re really just trying to educate people about the ocean,” Rodgers said.

This year, the marine issue the organizers of Ocean Aware-ness Week have deemed most important is overfishing. Over-fishing occurs when a specific species of fish have been fished nearly to the point of extinction, usually for human consump-tion.

“It’s one of the issues at the forefront of marine conserva-tion,” said professor Jill Rich-ardson, who works with Rho Rho Rho. “Fish are not renew-able.”

To kick off events on Mon-day, there will be a screening of the film “End of the Line”, a documentary that examines

diminishing supplies of bluefin tuna. It will be followed on Tues-day by a lecture on overfishing.

Rodgers says she’s most ex-cited about the Ocean Carnival, which will be held on the UC Pa-tio from noon to 2 p.m. on Tues-day. The carnival will feature a touch tank, a mock stranding put on by the Marine Mammal Stranding Team and a scuba demonstration by Scuba Club. The touch tank will be provided by the Miami Seaquarium and will feature a variety of ocean creatures.

“It’s going to be a really in-teractive thing,” Rodgers said.

Ocean Awareness Week is particularly exciting for students in the marine sciences because this year it will feature a Marine Science Career and Internship Fair on Thursday.

“The career fair is really great for marine science stu-dents because we can really get our resumes out there and learn what kind of careers there are in marine fields,” said freshman Lindsay Wickman, an Ocean Awareness Week volunteer.

Still, the primary goal of this event is teach students in other disciplines more about the ocean.

“I think it’s important be-cause it raises awareness for stu-dents outside the marine school who wouldn’t normally be ex-posed to the information we have about the ocean. Through Ocean Awareness Week they can gain an understanding of the importance of the ocean to our world,” Wickman said.

Savanna Stiff may be contacted at [email protected].

While weekends in college usually consist of relaxation and freedom, last weekend, four UM students instead traveled to Haiti as a relief effort.

After congregating under the leadership of UM alumnus, Peter Groverman, 120 people made the decision to travel to Haiti on Fri-day in order to help the victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake. Among these 120 were four UM students, as well as Coral Gables Mayor Don Slesnick, II.

Groverman is no stranger to organizing relief efforts. He first extended a helping hand when Hurricane Katrina hit Biloxi, Mis-sissippi in 2005 with the help of fellow UM students, now alumni, Armando Gutierrez Jr. and Lori Bailey. Groverman, a law student at Villanova University, Gutierrez

and Bailey founded the RELIEF Foundation, which stands for “Relieving and Embracing Lives Interrupted by Earth’s Forces.”

“As soon as the earthquake happened, I started receiving text messages from people with ideas that wanted to help,” said Grover-man of his team.

He then reached out to members of the UM community including those of his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Four mem-bers of SAE answered the call for service and have been preparing for the past three weeks. Evan Gallo is one of those members ea-ger to help.

“I was truly excited to go to Haiti and help out the members of their community. I’ve always been involved in service, but this was definitely a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to be a part of a hands-on experience that means a lot to me,” he said.

Over the past three weeks, Gallo, as well as three other SAE members, Michael Eisenstein, Elias Hionides and Joey Rappa-

port got vaccinations, packed up supplies and contacted friends and family for donations to sup-port their trips.

The crew left Friday morn-ing at 8 a.m. out of Miami and returns Monday afternoon. Gallo was excited for their arrival in Port-au-Prince because Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bel-lerive greeted them.

The final plans for the four-day mission included loading up a 737 airplane and a chartered boat with as many supplies as possible including food, water and build-ing supplies.

“Our main goal was to help rebuild an orphanage in Port-au-Prince by setting up a tent and de-livering supplies to those in need and then by just being there for these people,” Gallo said of the trip.

The RELIEF group will be holding a follow-up mission in roughly six weeks.

Colleen Dourney may be contacted at [email protected].

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Four Canes help in Haiti

SAE brothers rebuild orphanageBY COLLEEN DOURNEYCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

JESSICA HODDER // The Miami HurricaneRELIEF: UM students and SAE members (from left to right) Joey Rappaport, Elias Hionides, Michael Eisenstein and Evan Gallo with the Mayor of Coral Gables, (center) Don Slesnick, II.

IF YOU GO

Mon.: ‘End Of The Line’ screening, Shoma Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Tues.: Ocean Carnival, UC Patio, 12-2 p.m.Wed.: Climate Change Panel, LC, 6 p.m.Thurs.: Marine Science Career and Internship

Fair, UC Lower Lounge, 6 p.m.Fri.: Benefit Concert, UC Patio, 12-2 p.m.

Promoting marine science issuesBY SAVANNA STIFFCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

Dive into Ocean Awareness Week

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4 NEWS THE MIAMI HURRICANE February 22 - February 24, 2010

The issues at stake

This week, the three candidates running for Student Government (SG) President will battle it out at the polls. Unlike last year when the current president, Lionel Moise, ran unop-posed, this election cycle has given the student body more candidates to choose from, but the issues that matter most remain the same.

The platforms of all three tickets attempt to address concerns many UM students care about, including parking, transportation ideas for freshmen, and general outreach. Though the candi-dates Aaron Esman, Christina Farmer and Shahzam Malik all attempt to solve these problems in slightly different ways, it’s clear that something different must be done to accommodate the needs of all students.

“People are often resistant to change,” Moise said.

He believes that in order to solve big problems like parking and transportation, SG must think outside the box.

“We all need to be more open-minded, willing to be more creative and open to change,” he said.

All three candidates have based their platforms on what they believe are creative so-lutions to problems that students have brought to their attention. From reaching out to inter-national students, to revamping myUM and even providing a new slushie machine at the C-Store, Esman, Farmer and Malik are full of original initiatives.

But no matter what the results of this year’s election, in order to have a successful term in office, the new president will have to overcome an enormous problem recurrent throughout every SG administration: a lack of student body interest.

“A lot of times people get elected on a platform and only work on that for the whole year,” said Esman, who is currently Speaker Pro-Tempore of the student Senate. “You have to continue listening to students in case some-thing comes up. We’re not waiting around for students to come to us, we’ll go out of our way to talk to them.”

Each candidate this season has recog-

nized that student interests are vital to an ef-fective SG and have tailored their platforms to appeal to a wide variety of groups, thus offer-ing something to everyone.

“My number one goal is to reach out to students,” Farmer said. As current Speaker of the Student Senate she understands that tradi-tional meetings and forums don’t always at-tract student involvement.

“In SG we currently ask people to come to us but we don’t always go to them,” she said. “It’s not always holding a meeting, sometimes its just talking, having a conversation. SG has great ideas but we sometimes don’t listen.”

One of Farm-er’s initiatives is an online idea generator where students could submit suggestions to SG.

Moise believes that one of the rea-sons why students are often uninterest-ed in SG elections is because they do not understand how spe-cific goals and initia-

tives pertain to them. He said that a successful candidate must have a mixture of specialized and generalized goals.

“You want to reach as many groups as you can, but still work in the best interest of all students,” he said. “Like the case of the shut-tle to Key Biscayne. It is tailored to a specific need, but really it benefits everyone.”

Malik and his running mate Christine Nanan understand that it is important for can-didates to step outside of their comfort zone and appeal to a wide variety of students.

“Even if you’re uninvolved you’re still a student here,” Nanan said. “You’re paying your student activity fee, you should get some-thing out of it. You’re paying these people to work for you.”

No matter what their goals, each candi-date wants to be the one that is put to work for the student body. But in order for them to solve problems like parking, provide more shuttle options and introduce more delicious dining options, they need the input of an ac-tive electorate.

“Not everyone has to be involved in SG, but the entire student body needs to be rep-resented,” Moise said. “So while those palm cards and T-shirts might get a little annoying, it’s important to take a glance at them. It’s im-portant to be informed and to have your voice heard.”

Laura Edwins may be contacted at [email protected].

Student outreach vital to successful campaignBY LAURA EDWINSOF THE STAFF

ELECTION DAYS

Mon.- Wed., UC Breezeway, from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Mon. and Tues., in Mahoney, Pearson, Stanford and Hecht from 6 p.m.- 9 p.m.

Talent show lends a hand

ALEX BROADWELL // The Miami HurricaneMUSICAL MISSION: Sophomore songwriter Kailey Billings auditioned for Applause for a Cause, which takes place March 22. Her chosen charity for the fundraising talent show is Camp Kesem, a college student-run summer camp for kids with a parent who has (or has had) cancer.

LOG ON TO THEMIAMIHURRICANE.COM ON WEDNESDAY EVENING TO VIEW THE ELECTION RESULTS.

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Parking zone reformWednesday off before ThanksgivingTwenty-four hour printers and scannersGrocery delivery serviceFree door-to-door shuttle serviceAdditional shuttle stops at Red Road

Commons and other locations such as Dadeland Station and Mall

Laptop and phone chargers in the library

Refrigerator, TV and game console rental service in residential colleges

Facebook group: ALL FOR U!

Fresh farmer’s marketImprovement of pre-professional tracksDining improvements: credit card use at food

kiosks, calories on menus, slushy machine in C-Store, 24-hour C-store during finals.

Student legal aidTextbook rental serviceCampus-wide access to software through the

internet- SPSS, Adobe Photoshop and Final CutUPlanner that syncs to phones and computersRent a Bike programFacebook group: U First!

Aaron Esman, the face of “Best U Ever Had,” is a junior from Pound Ridge, N.Y. ma-joring in marketing and media management. He is running with Molly Piccione as his Vice President and Sabrina Bunch as his Treasurer.

“I think I’d make a good president because I really know what it’s like to be a student of the U,” Esman said. “I’ve seen all the school has to offer each student and I want to make sure all students take advan-tage of it. It’s my chance to give back to them.”

Esman is the Speaker Pro-Tempore of the Student Sen-ate and the president of Spec-trUM.

“Running for president is something I found myself gravitating towards during my time here,” he said. “When I first got to school I was re-ally just interested in making friends, but through friends I joined organizations. Through organizations I took on more responsibility, and through re-sponsibility I gained leadership positions. I feel like this is the next step.”

Shahzam Malik from Lahore, Pakistan is a junior major-ing in entrepreneurship. He is running with Christine Nanan as his treasurer under the slogan “All For U.”

“I would make a good president because I have a lot of experience and I actually enjoy doing it,” Malik said. “It’s my passion and it’s something I excel at.”

Malik describes himself as loyal, hard-working and di-verse. He is a member of the Student Government Cabinet and the Council of International Students and Organizations Cabinet. He is also the United Nations Day Chair and the Vice President of Strictly Business, an association that helps prepare students for the business world.

“I truly like diversity and I want to stress the fact that we have students from all across the world. I think they should be represented. I just want to make the school a better place,” Ma-lik said.

Mike DeMasco and Zach Hill of the “Help Us Help U” ticket have dropped out of the formal race.

Nina Ruggiero may be contacted at [email protected]

Christina Farmer, running with Valentina Lamas as her Vice President and Nick Cote as her treasurer on the “UFirst” ticket, is a junior majoring in international finance and market-ing and minoring in business law. She’s from Pensacola, Fla.

Farmer is Speaker of the Student Senate, a Resident Assistant in Hecht and a member of the Tri Delta sorority. She is also on the Home-coming Executive Committee and is a P100 and a UM Ambassador.

“I’ve had such a wide range of experiences on campus,” Farmer said. “I have such a strong desire to reach out to students, listen to their needs and ideas and find and create the best possible solution to their problems.”

Farmer said her team’s goals were com-piled after speaking to the students and finding out what their needs really were.

MAJOR PLATFORMS:

Shuttles to Orlando/Tampa for Thanksgiving

Monthly town hall meetingsGender-neutral housing in University

VillageRevamped Off-Campus Housing

FairImprovements to myUM: search for

classes by time and a GPA calculator24-hour practice rooms in the music

school for reading days and finalsFacebook group: Best U Ever Had

MAJOR PLATFORMS:

Before U vote, find out about the candidates behind this year’s campaign platforms BY NINA RUGGIEROASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

A look at the SG election tickets

U First

All For U

From left to right: Molly Piccione, Aaron Esman and Sabrina Brunch

STEVEN STUTS // Assistant Photo Editor

From left to right: Valentina Lamas, Christina Farmer and Nick Cote

STEVEN STUTS // Assistant Photo Editor

MAJOR PLATFORMS:

Best U Ever Had

From left to right: Shahzam Malik and Christine NananSTEVEN STUTS // Assistant Photo Editor

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6 OPINION THE MIAMI HURRICANE February 22 - February 24, 2010

The University of Mi-ami Undergraduate Honor Council,

like many similar orga-nizations at universities around the country, an-nually hosts a number of events to raise aware-ness of the importance of academic integrity and the consequences of cheating.

While the focus of these events is to dissuade students from plagiarizing, they also encourage proper ci-tation and discourage academic sloppiness.

Occasionally, cases are brought before academic integrity councils that involve carelessly cited references that are incorrect or incomplete rather than merely missing.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult for judiciary panels to ascertain whether an honest mistake has been made or whether a student has provided random citations in or-der to make a paper appear more complete.

Because of this ambiguity, an incau-tiously cited paper can result in a student receiving an official academic warning or probation ruling.

A recent high-profile example of the importance of correct and careful citations

occurred in President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Obama made the follow-ing statement regarding the strengths to be found in America’s diversity by referencing “the promise enshrined in our Constitution, the notion that we are all created equal.”

Almost any middle-school civics stu-dent could clarify that the principle that “all men are created equal” is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, not in the Constitution.

Perhaps, Mr. Obama was referring to “equal protection of the laws,” which is guaranteed, not in the body of the Con-stitution, but instead in the 14th Amend-ment? Either way, by the standard of strict academic scrutiny, this was an ambiguous reference.

It is unfortunate that such examples are set by character models, especially by a trained attorney and former college instruc-tor. It was, however, not the first error of its kind in a State of the Union address.

In President Clinton’s final State of the Union Address he made the following asser-tion in regard to a list of goals: “And we will become at last what our founders pledged us to be so long ago- ‘one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’”

Like President Obama, President Clin-ton did provide an attribution for the quote.

Also like President Obama, however, he misattributed it, in this case to the found-ers (presumably, of the United States). The quote is from “The Pledge of Allegiance,” written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and modified by Congress in 1954.

Since the United States was founded in 1776, Reverend Bellamy would not qualify as a “founder.” Further complicating this misattribution is the fact that Bellamy’s be-liefs (he was both a nationalist and a social-ist) were antithetical to those of the found-ers.

All things considered, many academic judicial boards would most likely find both President Obama and President Clinton guilty of some degree of academic miscon-duct if such misattributions were to be found throughout their submitted class materials.

Academic integrity means more than simply not stealing someone else’s work. It also means getting the facts correct, and not randomly filling in the blanks with attribu-tions to support whatever point you wish to make.

Stephen Bone is a 2001 graduate of the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. As a student, he was a member of the Undergraduate Honor Council. He may be contacted at [email protected].

As a university, we face a multitude of important issues. Parking is still a chal-lenge, freshmen transportation is lacking and several other issues plague our student body.

For student government, the challenge is having goals that alleviate the problems we face. Platform ideas must be agreeable with administration, and cost is always an issue. The difficulty is increased for mem-bers of the student government executive board because they only have a one-year term to accomplish all of their promises.

For these reasons, The Miami Hurricane endorses the “Best U Ever Had” ticket for the 2010 campaign season. From buying a new f lagpole for the ROTC program to 24-hour practice rooms for music students during finals, their ideas are practical and reach out to a variety of students.

Many of their goals could be achieved easily and be immediately beneficial to stu-dents. A GPA calculator on myUM and a gender-neutral housing option will be rela-tively free for the university.

They also have broader initiatives that appeal to the entire student body. A class roster with everyone’s contact information will allow for more communication to oc-cur between students facilitating group projects and studying.

This ticket has members on it that get tasks done. According to Aaron Esman, they were involved with the committee that brought back the Ibis Ride. All of their goals can be achieved in their one term. The next president who may not be as excited about their predecessor’s goals will not have to finish their tasks.

The development of transfer assistants for new students is also appealing. It coin-

cides with the university’s “First Year Ex-perience” push and is a great way to make this group get more involved on campus and help them develop friendships.

Life off-campus would also be en-hanced if their platforms are achieved. Re-vamping the Off-Campus Housing Fair to include more companies that rent furniture makes sense at UM, since we have a diverse student body from around the world. Not having to move a couch back home after only two years of use would help avoid back pain thanks to these increased options.

This ticket represents the best leader-ship for the university for the upcoming year, and we believe they will most advance our student body.

Editorials represent the majority view of The Miami Hurricane editorial staff.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Next year should be the Best U Ever Had

Proper citation a must at all levels

STEPHEN BONECONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

UP!speak

If you could travel anywhere, where would

you go?

MATTHEW TOWSenior

“Hogwarts.”

CARLY MILLSJunior

“To the moon because it would be so cool to go

into space.”

TAVIS GOODNIGHTSophomore

“Milan, Italy because that’s where my family is

from.”

PATRICK SHEASophomore“Kansas.”

Check out online Speak Up at themiamihurricane.com.

Speak Up answers are edited for clarity, brevity and accuracy.

compiled byKyli Singh

OPINION

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February 22 - February 24, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE OPINION 7

Many opponents of the living wage campaign

state that such an idea is unjust. They believe people should earn whatever they can, and that the subsidiza-tion of a living wage through progressive taxation is wrong.

Is such a view in-deed the just position?

The 'injustice' of a living wage would, of course, not need to occur if it weren't for the prior injustice of disparities of wealth. However, are the concentrations of wealth indeed unjust in the first place?

Calling in the army to protect wealth (as the robber barons did) or allowing the rich to control opinion and government policy in order to protect wealth can only be considered just if their gain of wealth is

just in the first place.Unfortunately, this is rarely true. Luck

and early advantages (such as training or talent) are usually the reasons for gain of wealth within one generation. Are these reasons just?

If one person takes their savings and buys one plot of land and another buys a second plot of land and then oil is discov-ered on one and the other turns to desert, then is the resulting disparity of wealth just? Did they earn it? Surely not.

Indeed, if a person inherits a billion dollars and never works a day in their life, but their fortune accrues interest from the labor of others, is that income just? Did the person earn their wealth or their income? I think not.

However, is it possible in our system to earn a million dollars by simply working harder than everyone else? Of course not.

If my parents pay for Harvard Law School and I work 60 hours a week and

become a millionaire, a disadvantaged per-son who works 100 hours a week will never earn what I earn, no matter how hard they work. Therefore it is clearly not a differ-ence in effort that produces the disparity, and so it cannot be that any such person earns their huge concentration of wealth.

In other words, a rich man can claim to be against a living wage (paid for by pro-gressive taxation or an inheritance tax) but they simply cannot claim that their reason is due to its injustice.

Justice is clearly not a factor in their world view since, if it were, wages would be based on effort or sacrifice. They would not allow such wealth to accrue to them-selves in the first place, in which case a legally-required living wage would not be necessary.

Adam Bird-Ridnell is a sophomore majoring in history and philosophy. He may be contacted at [email protected].

Disparity in wages is not just

ADAM BIRD-RIDNELLCONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

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Academic integrity means more than simply not stealing someone else’s work. It also means getting the facts correct, and not randomly fi lling in the

blanks with attributions to support whatever point you wish to make.“

”-Stephen Bone,Contributing Columnist

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February 22 - February 24, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE EDGE 11

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Specific to major cities, the popular Daily Candy blog saves a seat for Miami, fea-turing “hand-picked” content ranging from cuisine to culture in the area. By using the “Find By Neighborhood” feature, visitors can keep track of upcoming cultural events and major brand name sales in Wynwood or South Beach, for example. But perhaps the best feature is the Weekend Guide, a quirky, weekly recommendation for unique events,

such as a f lapper performing at the World Erotic Art Museum.

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Nightlife’s the word when it comes to nefariousgirl photography by local photographer Jipsy. The alternative girl taking snaps at Poplife has maintained a multimedia photo journal that captures the underground music scene in Mi-ami. Turn to her blog for upcoming music events at hipster venues, but beware the unforgiving lens! As the blog greeting suggests, “Some images have been edited to protect the guilty.”

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edgeCheck out the animated and live-action Academy Award-nominated short fi lms at the Cosford Cinema on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., free for students.6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., free for students.

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12 EDGE THE MIAMI HURRICANE February 22 - February 24, 2010

This semester, QuantUM En-tertainment, a student-run theater group, will bring three new plays to the University of Miami free of charge.

The organization, part of Hur-ricane Productions, puts on several plays and musicals throughout the year, and students are in charge of every aspect of each show.

“All positions- designers, crew, actors, directors and producers- are students,” said Joanna Lamb, vice chair of QuantUM. “Students who participate in QuantUM can come from any major, and there are no prerequisites for participation.”

Technical director Katie Siko-ra is the perfect example.

“I was a theater nerd in middle school and high school and didn't have that outlet when I got to col-lege as a marine affairs and visual journalism double major,” Sikora said. “So my second semester of freshman year, one of my friends put me on the listserv for Quan-tUM, and I ended up as co-produc-er of the last two productions of the spring semester.”

"Songs for a New World" is scheduled to hit the stage Wedne-day, Feb. 24-Sunday, Feb. 28 at the School of Communication Court-yard. "Fat Men in Skirts" will be appearing April 16-18, and "Ben" on April 28 to May 2. The venues for these two shows have yet to be determined.

The musical "Songs for a New World" features works written by composer Jason Robert Brown. The musical includes a variety of unique characters linked by one common theme.

Lamb feels very passionate about the showing of this musical at UM.

“I think this show is espe-cially relevant for college students because it addresses the pivotal moments in life when one decision can change everything,” Lamb said. “Everyone who comes to the show may take a different message away from it, but I know that ev-eryone will enjoy the beautiful mu-sic and phenomenal acting of our great cast.”

Lamb also said that this is a show that most UM students have never seen before and that she is excited to bring something new to the UM scene.

“Since those working on the

show are entirely students, the shows themselves are always fresh and innovative because it is your fellow students with the vision,” QuantUM treasurer Kathleen Mo-linaro said.

All students, faculty and staff may attend QuantUM productions for free with their Cane Cards.

“Our shows are free for UM students because our funding comes from the student activ-ity fees that every student pays,” Lamb said. “This enables us to cre-ate high quality events, and if you come to a QuantUM event, you're getting use out of your own student activity fee!”

Brooke Burgstahler may be contacted at [email protected].

QuantUM plays to look out for:

’Songs for a New World,’ to be performed Wed.,Feb. 24-Sun., Feb. 28 at the School of Communication Courtyard

’Fat Men in Skirts,’ to be performed April 16-18

’Ben,’ to be performed on April 28-May 2

For students, by studentsBY BROOKE BURGSTAHLERCONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

A WHOLE NEW WORLD: Junior Anna Clausen rehearses her solo for QuantUM’s new musical “Songs for a New World.”

CAYLA NIMMO // The Miami Hurricane

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February 22 - February 24, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE SPORTS 13

SPORTS 7the number of

combined errors between Miami and Rutgers on

Sunday aft ernoon 3-run walk-off home

run by freshman center fi elder Zeke DeVoss on Sunday

aft ernoon

Not once but twice the No. 19 Georgia Tech Yellows have stung the Miami Hurricane bas-ketball team this season.

This time, the Yellow Jackets (21-7, 7-5) came in the BankUnited Center on Sunday and defeated the Hurricanes (16-11, 3-9), 77-73.

The Hurricanes found themselves down by nine with less then three minutes remain-ing and fought back but fell short.

“It was a heck of a come-back,” head coach Katie Meier said. “We found ourselves down. It was discouraging. It was a heck of an effort from my team. Many teams would have thought they were dead in the water, down nine.”

The Canes tied the game at 73 when sophomore guard She-nise Johnson nailed two free throws with 49 seconds remain-ing.

But two free throws by Aus-tralian senior Brigitte Ardossi gave Georgia Tech the lead for good.

On the following posses-sion, a turnover by freshman Stefanie Yderström sealed the victory for the Yellow Jackets.

The Hurricanes had hope of tying or winning the game on their final possession but they couldn’t get off a single shot.

“It comes down to lack of execution on our last possession on our half,” Meier said about the last possession. “I was re-ally disappointed on what we wanted and we missed it. It was for Shenise. In the end we have to get her the ball.”

Johnson showed why she is an All-American candidate as she dropped 28 points on 10-of-18 shooting in 39 minutes of action.

In her second game off the bench, sophomore guard Riquna Williams scored 15 straight points for the Canes but struggled in the second half with three points. Williams fin-ished with 18 points on 6-for-14 from the f loor but was 2-for-5 from the free throw line.

For nearly 10 minutes, the Canes were held without a field goal and they found having to battle uphill again. During that time, Georgia Tech went on a 19-5 run.

“We lost our focus. We hit a wall,” Meier said. “I had to call a timeout just to wake us up. We were not ourselves there and we had no energy at all.”

Earlier this season, Geor-gia Tech defeated the Hurri-canes, 80-73 in overtime. Ar-dossi scored 29 points and had 17 rebounds in that win and on Sunday she had 27 points.

The Hurricanes have two remaining games.

They will face a dominat-ing Florida State next, a team

that the Canes defeated earlier this season. Miami will end the regular season at home this Sun-day against Boston College.

Miami only has three ACC wins. The Hurricanes need to win their last two games and a few games in the ACC Tour-nament just to be considered a bubble team for the NCAA Tournament.

Meier is banking on fortune to return back to her team.

“I don’t want to say this

team has had hard luck,” Meier said. “Obviously we haven’t had fortune go our way a lot. We have to generate a new attitude. We still [have] a chance.”

The Canes face No. 10 Flor-ida State on Thursday night at 7 p.m. That game can be heard on 90.5 FM or wvum.org.

Lelan LeDoux may be contacted at [email protected].

Another last-second defeat for the CanesWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Miami falls 77-73 to Georgia TechBY LELAN LEDOUXSENIOR SPORTS WRITER

ON THE REBOUND: Freshman guard Stefanie Yderström attempts to regain possession aft er a Georgia Tech steal.

ALEX BROADWELL // The Miami Hurricane

CLOSE CALLS AND NAIL BITERS

Feb. 11 Loss to Virginia 69-63 (OT)

Feb. 14 Loss to N.C. State 66-64

Feb. 18 Loss to Clemson 73-72 (OT)

Feb. 21 Loss to Georgia Tech 77-73

BREAKING THROUGH: Sophomore forward Shenise Johnson attempts to drive through two GT defenders in the second half.

ALEX BROADWELL // The Miami Hurricane

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14 SPORTS THE MIAMI HURRICANE February 22 - February 24, 2010

The University of Miami (3-2) won a tough match 6-1 over instate rival Stetson (2-2) Friday afternoon in a competition tougher than the final score portrayed.

“Stetson was really tough today and gave us a challenging match,” head coach Mario Rincon said. “We haven’t played in a couple of weeks, so it felt good to get out here and see the guys compete.”

The Hurricanes got their first point from doubles play. Juniors Hector Nieto and Keith Crowley remained undefeated in doubles play (3-0) with an 8-7 (7-4) win.

No. 90 junior Carl Sundberg and sophomore Ignacio Taboada breezed to an 8-3 win their match while junior Christian Blocker and senior David Simon earned their seventh win of the season 8-5.

Sundberg got off to a slow start in his match but was able to recover for a 7-6, 6-4

victory over Maksim Levanovich. Also winning in straight sets was Taboada 6-3, 6-4 over Aleks Hacket and Crowley 6-4, 6-3 over Didrik Berg.

Blocker needed three sets to defeat Mark Mestan 6-3, 2-6, 7-5. Simon won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

The only loss of the match came in a heated battle between junior Waylon Chin and Cesare Gallo. Chin fell to the Stetson player 6-4, 7-6. Chin was penal-ized after the game for refusing to shake hands with his opponent.

“Some of our guys didn’t handle themselves very well,” Rincon said. “It’s something we can’t afford as the competi-tion gets better.”

On Sunday, Miami hosted the Uni-versity of Central Florida at the Ashe/Buchholz Tennis Center at Moore Park in to promote tennis to socially and eco-nomically challenged youth with the City of Miami Parks and Recreation Depart-ment and the Greater Miami Tennis and Education Foundation.

The No. 31 Hurricanes were able to sneak past the Knights 4-3 with Taboada

clinching the winning point with a 6-7 (7-4), 6-2, 6-3 win.

The Hurricanes won the doubles point with Nieto and Crowley’s fourth win of the season, 9-7, and Blocker and Simon’s eighth win of the season cruising 8-4.

After getting a 2-0 lead with a singles win by Blocker 6-1, 6-2 the Knights won two games against Chin and Simon to tie the match 2-2.

Sundberg gave the lead to the Hur-

ricanes with a 7-5, 7-5 win. Crowley fell to Claudio Romano after Taboada had al-ready clinched the fourth decisive point.

“I think we improved in a lot of areas but still we need to overall be mentally tougher,” Rendon said.

The Hurricanes host the University of South Florida on Feb. 28 at noon at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center.

Debora Rubi may be contacted at [email protected].

MEN’S TENNIS

Canes overcome Hatters in tough matchTeam improves in both doubles and singlesBY DEBORA RUBISENIOR SPORTS WRITER

SINGLES

CARL SUNDBERG - 9-9

CHRISTIAN BLOCKER - 10-5

DAVID SIMON - 10-6

WAYLON CHIN - 7-6

KEITH CROWLEY - 4-5

IGNACIO TABOADA - 6-1

DOUBLES

BLOCKER/SIMON - 8-4

CROWLEY/HECTOR NIETO - 4-0

SEASON STATISTICS

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February 22 - February 24, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE DEAR V 15

dear ...Dear V: That’s gonna hurt...

,

Dear V,

My girlfriend is getting her clit pierced. Is there a danger of injuring her (or myself) during sex? Will I have to do anything differently to please her? Please advise!

Sincerely,Danger Down There

Dear Danger Down There,

What a brave woman! First you should clarify if she is actually getting the clit itself pierced or the clito-ral hood. Lots of women don’t want to get their clitoris pierced directly, because it may cause her lack of orgas-mic sensation, pain or even nerve damage. As another option, most women choose the safer piercing of their clitoral hood, the skin that covers the clitoris. There are two options to go for here: the horizontal clitoral hood piercing and the vertical clitoral hood piercing, which is the more popular. With this piercing, the jewelry rests directly on her clitoris and may enhance orgasmic feeling for your girlfriend.

While this will be exciting for both of you, you’ll probably have to wait at least a few weeks for action be-tween the sheets to start up again. The piercing will need some time to heal and will most likely be very sensitive (i.e. too sensitive for sex). When all is good and healed, however, I’d prepare for quite a bit of action. Studies have

shown that after getting a vertical clitoral hood piercing, women had higher sexual desire and more fre-quent intercourse than before, woo hoo for you!

Now that she’s got some bling down there, you’ll have to figure out together the best ways to pleasure each other. The piercing should only make it easier to please your girlfriend because of her new heightened sensitivity to any kind of touch. Different types of jewelry, (bars, hoops, balls, etc.) will give you both different sensations during sex, so get excited for some awesome new experi-ences in the bedroom.

Good luck conquering this new obstacle,

V

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Congratulations Hecht, SportsFest Champ!

OFF TO BATTLE: Eaton’s “Warriors in Pink” march to the IM Fields (left ). The SportsFest fl ame burns strong at the closing ceremonies on Sunday (above).LOPO DE CASTRO // The Miami Hurricane

STROKE!: Freshmen Matt Corrigan and Russell Saltzman from Hecht team McDonald one and two, “2 fl oors 2 furious,” get ready to canoe on the course.CAYLA NIMO // The Miami Hurricane

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