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Hurricanes football fans have been disappointed with Head Coach Al Golden’s per-formance for some time. The Miami Hurricane ran a story Thursday about fans’ discontent with Golden, spefically the con-troversial social media hashtag “FireAlGolden.”

A key player in the midst of these reactions is se-nior William Herrera. Thursday’s story mentioned an incident at the BankUnited Center (BUC), when signs reading “Fire Al Golden” and “Bring Back Butch” were confiscated from Herrera and his friends during the men’s basketball game against Virginia.

Herrera says that when he questioned why their signs were being taken away, he was told such signs could not be displayed at “our home court.”

“I know a lot of fans who tweet, email and are canceling season tickets and donations. Still, the ath-letic department ignores it and sweeps it under the rug as if it is a non-issue,” Herrera said. “I chose to bring the signs because I knew the decision makers in athlet-ics would be there, and they should not ignore the fans anymore.”

He says he also brought smaller signs to a game a week later. That day, a BUC employee took his sign from his pocket and later alerted an usher of his loca-tion.

Herrera says these interactions garnered media attention when a “very prominent former player” reached out to Herrera via Twitter. He says he was then contacted by the Miami Herald.

“In the days that followed, I realized why people were making a big deal, and I became angry with the fact that they took my sign and not other people’s signs,” he said.

He also mentioned that when he heard that Ath-letic Director Blake James said that signs were not al-lowed at the BUC, he became upset.

Given that collegiate a cappella groups have been around since the 19th century, it’s surprising that at the Uni-versity of Miami – which includes the renowned Frost School of Music – a cappella was only born in 2009.

That’s when UM’s all-male a cap-pella group, Above the Keys (ATK), was formed. Since then, UM Tufaan, a South Asian-turned-fusion a cappella group and BisCaydence, UM’s most “traditional” coed a cappella group, have also taken the stage.

“We all cater to different people and different styles of music,” said Bis-Caydence member Mattan Comay.

Although the a cappella scene on UM’s campus has not been as promi-nent as one would expect, according to Tufaan president Neil Kumar, that

is beginning to change. Voices of UM emerged last year as a union of the uni-versity’s three groups, and it has helped foster a cappella on campus.

In addition, BisCaydence made UM a cappella history Saturday when it placed second at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) regional competition. Junior Alex Sommese of BisCaydence was also named Best Soloist out of all nine com-peting groups’ vocalists.

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A CA-MAZING: The a cappella group Above The Keys performs its International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) set to attendees at the UM Wesley Foundation Building Thursday night. Above The Keys performed the set Saturday at the ICCA South Quarterfi nal competition in Orlando, Florida.

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A cappella scene grows on campus BUC sign policies stir discontent

ATHLETICS

Al Golden controversy leads to larger discussionBY ERIKA GLASSMANAGING EDITOR

BisCaydence places second in competitionBY LYSSA GOLDBERGONLINE EDITOR

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ACADEMICS

Fracking may

be bannedLanguage class draws medieval enthusiasts

Last year, it was revealed that the own-ers of an oil well in Florida’s Collier County were using techniques associated with hy-draulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to increase production. Fracking involves drilling deep into the earth and injecting fluids to create fractures in the rock to eventually release natural gas.

This issue was discussed at Wednes-day’s Miami-Dade County Board of Com-missioners meeting. After presentations, including one by Harold Wanless, chairman and a professor in the Department of Geo-logical Sciences at the University of Miami, all 11 commissioners present at the meeting voted in favor of adopting the resolution.

Senator Darran Soto, D-Orlando, and Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, recently filed legislation (SB 166) that would ban all fracking activities in the state. The resolution encourages passage of the bill.

“Florida is home to scenic beaches, wonderful springs and the legendary Ever-glades. This natural beauty, in turn, fosters a strong tourism industry, annually attracting many new residents to our shores. It must be preserved,” Soto said of the bill, according to a press release from the Florida Senate.

The press release also said the bill “would apply to all hydraulic fracturing activities. The legislation has been filed for the 2015 legislative session, which begins in March.”

Wanless’ presentation argued his case for prohibiting fracking in Florida.

“Fracking, in a certain sense, has changed the game,” he said. “We are less dependent on foreign oil, we have a much greater projected oil reserves and gas re-serves than we did 10 years ago, but coming with that is a huge risk.”

The fracking process has been criti-cized across the country due to its potential effects on drinking water in the areas around fracking sites, according to Wanless.

Many who support the banning of fracking are concerned about potential con-tamination of the Florida Aquifer, which provides drinking water for over 10 million Floridians, according to the resolution.

While most students dread the thought of a Friday afternoon class, eight head to the Oscar E. Dooly Memorial Building to learn Old Icelandic, or Old Norse, the language spoken by Vikings.

Taught by professor Thomas Goodmann, this class serves as an elective option to a literature class titled “Viking, Myth and Saga,” an upper-level course in which students read translations of Old Norse stories about gods and god-desses, or sagas.

Students learning the lan-guage earn one credit in addition to the three-credit English class. Old Icelandic is a Germanic-based dead language, according to Goodmann, who specializes in medieval studies.

For Goodmann, learning a language, even a dead one, is a worthwhile pursuit.

“It’s kind of intellectually and ethically incumbent on us to understand cultures and identities different from our own,” he said. “Some of those cultures happen to be dead ones.”

More than half of the stu-dents taking the Old Icelandic class already have knowledge of other languages.

Senior Beatriz Barros is adding Old Norse to her long list of languages, which include flu-ency in Portuguese and English, proficiency in Spanish, and some working knowledge of German, French, Japanese and Chinese.

“Language helps me think in different ways,” she said.

Barros, a double major in his-tory and biology, also gravitated toward the language class because of her interest in the medieval pe-riod. She dreams of becoming a medieval historian some day.

A main challenge in learning Old Icelandic is that the pronuncia-tion of a word is not apparent from the spelling, according to Good-mann. In some cases, the sound of a word can change its spelling.

“It’s a bit of puzzle solving,” Goodmann said.

Many of the students taking the Old Icelandic class also meet with Goodmann on Thursdays to read and practice Old English as a reading group.

Old English is a Germanic-based dead language, too. Despite its name, Old English is far re-moved from modern-day English and has to be studied as a foreign language, according to Goodma-nn.

Students like sophomore Nick Bej participate in the reading group for no credit to continue hon-ing their skills. The group serves as additional practice for those who enrolled in Goodmann’s Old Eng-lish language class during fall 2014.

“After the class was over, I wasn’t quite satisfied,” Bej said. “I wanted to keep on reading.”

According to Goodmann, it takes about eight weeks before one starts to feel comfortable reading Old English, which he describes as a “simplified German.”

Junior Nicole Torek, who participates in the reading group and is enrolled in the Old Icelandic

class, found Old English difficult at first.

“The word order was chal-lenging, much looser than our English today,” she said.

Regardless of the challenge in learning these languages, Torek, Bej and Barros have taken multiple classes with Goodmann. Barros says that Goodmann’s dedication is a major reason to keep enrolling in his sections.

“He is willing to go as far as his students are willing to go,” said Barros, who took an honors Eng-lish class with Goodmann where he allowed students to select the semester’s readings.

Goodmann hopes to offer the Old English class again next year and possibly make the Old Norse language class into a three-credit course that encompasses literature and culture.

Oil drilling could harm environmentBY WILLIAM RIGGINSTAFF WRITER

Professor revives Old IcelandicBY ALEXANDER GONZALEZEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

GOING GREEK: Current members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity welcome new members during Bid Day at the Lakeside Patio Stage Friday aft ernoon.

Bid Day concludes Rush Week, when students interested in joining a fraternity participate in various events with current brothers. During this event, each fraternity extends bids to students whom they wish to invite to join their brotherhood.

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Fraternity Bid Day takes over campus

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COMMUNITY

Surplus department turns trash into treasure

Rows of filing cabinets, a sea of chairs, couches, elliptical machines, armoires, cameras, high-tech microscopes, medical supplies, a wall of forgotten paintings and even an old telegraph machine are housed in a university warehouse, waiting to be sold at low prices.

Advertised only by word of mouth, the Sur-plus Property Department of the University of Miami has a warehouse in Miami Lakes where property no longer wanted by the university is stored and can be sold to the public for below-market prices. The warehouse is roughly 70,000 square feet, storing property from all campuses.

Alberto Ramon has served as the manager of Surplus for 19 years.

“We have all kinds of stuff, things you wouldn’t believe come in here,” he said. “You name it, we’ve come across it.”

His job is to take this property and make it profitable for UM.

“Everything the university owns comes through us,” Ramon said. “Our job is to try to generate funds from it and try to do this as eco-nomically and beneficial to the university as possible. You’re going to see a lot of stuff here where, although it doesn’t look high-tech for us anymore, it’s still very useful.”

When a department no longer wants a piece of property, staff must fill out a surplus transfer form. Then the property is picked up and brought to the Surplus warehouse. From there, Surplus staff sorts the property, checks its condi-tion and determines what can be done with it.

Ideally, the property can be reused some-where else within the university to save UM the most money. If not, property can be sold to mov-ing companies or the general public, including students and staff. If the property cannot be sold this way, it can be scrapped for parts and sold to vendors.

Sometimes, non-functional items can have creative uses.

According to Ramon, items from Sur-plus have been used as props on television and in movies, including “Burn Notice,” “Miami Vice,” “Bad Boys” (I and II), “The Specialist” and “Magic City.” Some items have also been featured in commercials.

A local artist made creative use of outdated televisions from Surplus, according to Ramon.

“One time, someone at the beach did a sculpture with CRT monitors that we needed to get rid of,” he said. “He put them all together, plugged them in, and put something different on each monitor. It was pretty cool!”

As a byproduct of recycling property, Sur-plus serves the environment in addition to its customers.

“We reuse and find avenues for stuff that would end up in the dumpster and a landfill, be-cause that costs money,” Ramon said. “But it’s also green and environmentally friendly to do so. It’s probably a 50/50 now. Sometimes we won’t

make as much money just so that we can put it somewhere other than a landfill.”

Because Surplus only advertises by word of mouth, it is not generally well known. But upon being informed about it, students and staff expressed interest in using the service, such as Dezare Sellers, a resident assistant in Hecht.

“The prices for things when you go off-campus ... it costs real money, and most people in college don’t have real money. This is nice to know,” she said.

Senior psychology major Jared Koch said he might be “a little discouraged” to visit Surplus because it is 30 minutes from campus by car, but would consider it as a future option.

“If the prices are low enough, definitely,” Koch said.

Surplus is open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, the operation itself runs nonstop. The warehouse receives deliver-ies everyday, sometimes making for a crowded warehouse.

“People come, and they think, ‘Oh, this place is packed,’” Ramon said. “But that’s be-cause we’re always getting stuff. We could sell half of this to somebody, and tomorrow, half more would come in from somewhere else.”

Even with the consistent influx of prop-erty, Ramon is not worried about running out of space.

“We will have space, always,” he said. “We just haven’t pared down because I don’t want to throw this stuff away. Some of it is still good, so we’re trying to find ways of disposing of it and still generating an income from it.”

For more information about Surplus, visit http://facilities.med.miami.edu/divisions/administration/surplus-property-and-storage.

Little-known office recycles old propertyBY S. MOLLY DOMINICKSTAFF WRITER

RETRO RECYCLING: An old polygraph machine stands amongst other out-of-use property from all of UM’s campuses. This warehouse, owned by the Surplus Property Department of UM and located in Miami Lakes, collects and sells these objects.

S. MOLLY DOMINICK // CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING

In an effort to generate solutions for human traf-fi cking in Miami, the School of Education and Hu-man Development will be hosting three forums on campus. Hosted by President Donna E. Shalala and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernan-dez Rundle, the fi rst forum will begin at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the Newman Alumni Center. To RSVP, contact Barbara Pacheco at 305-547-0749 or [email protected]. The second forum will focus on advocacy practices of sex traf-fi cking. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Jan. 30 at the BankUnited Center Hurricane 100 Room. To RSVP, contact Ivon Mesa at [email protected].

FOOD COURT, DINING

HALL GRAND OPENING

With construction fi nally complete, the Hurricane Food Court and Hecht-Stanford Dining Hall will be introduced to campus. The Hurricane Food Court was renovated to include Tossed, a salad bar that includes salads, crepes and soups, and Built, a make-your-own burger concept. The Hecht-Stan-ford Dining Hall opened several new food stations. A grand opening celebration will take place with President Donna E. Shalala at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27 in the Whitten University Center Hurricane Food Court.

SOCIAL JUSTICE WEEK

Sponsored by the Butler Center for Service and Leadership, Social Justice Week is a student-led initiative to bring awareness to the numerous is-sues impacting campus and to bring together students, organizations and the greater Miami community.

MONDAY: Art for Kids Presents: Social Justice, A Collaborative Art from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Lakeside Patio and Stage.Students for Education Reform (SFER) Presents: U Reform from 6-8 p.m. in SAC Ballroom East.

TUESDAY: National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Presents: Trouble in Paradise, a Conversation on Domestic Violence from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in SAC

Ballroom East.

WEDNESDAY: Green U and UM Law School Present: Environmental Law and Justice, Taking a closer look at the Miami Environmental Move-ment from 5:30-7 p.m. in SAC Ballroom East.UPride Presents: Speak for the Streets, Social Jus-tice Week Open Mic from 7-9 p.m. on the Lakeside Patio and Stage.

THURSDAY: UGenerations Presents: Growing Up from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Lakeside Patio and Stage.SPARK Presents: Face-BOOKED from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in SAC Ballroom East.

Alina Zerpa may be emailed at [email protected].

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NATIONAL NEWS

Florida’s marriage decision sets stage for South

During Pride Awareness Week in April, UPride, the on-campus LGBTQ student orga-nization formerly known as SpectrUM, hosts Marriages on the Rock, an event that allows for students to “marry” their friends regardless of sexual orientation. On Jan. 6, the state of Florida legalized same-sex marriage, making the idea of marriage equality a reality.

In the weeks since the freedom to marry was added to the Florida Statute, students and staff at the University of Miami remain enthu-siastic.

“This ruling will help Florida lead the South in becoming a more fair and inclusive society,” said Jacob Rudolph, president of UPride. “Tens of millions of dollars will be added to the Florida economy from same-sex

couples honeymooning and marrying in our state.”

Rudolph’s analysis appears true in light of a story published in the Huffington Post on Jan. 6. Florida has become a prime wedding destination for many same-sex couples, and people have been flooding into the state since the law was announced.

In 2008, Florida passed an anti-marriage constitutional amendment denying same-sex couples the right to marry and prohibiting same-sex couples from attaining any form of legal family status. For years, all across the country, people have been lobbying, protest-ing and marching to grant all individuals the right to legally marry.

“This was a major policy decision, right under the federal level,” said Katharine West-away, a professor in the Women and Gender Studies department. “But even then, this is a fight that has been fought for a long time. It took way too long to come to all of the states.”

As of Jan. 6, 36 states have marriage equality, but same-sex couples are still denied

marriage rights in a states including Texas, Ar-kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee.

“By the withholding of marriage equali-ty, same-sex couples have missed out on 1,138 benefits and protections under federal law,” Westaway said.

These benefits include that the surviving spouse and surviving parent rights granted under Social Security laws are denied to those who are not legally married; certain provi-sions of the tax code defining “child” base this definition on the marital status of parents and caregivers, and the Family and Medical Leave Act does not provide leave for domestic part-ners or the parents of domestic partners.

“Marriage is a foundational institution that everyone should be able to participate in,” said Westaway. “This affects the children of couples as well.”

Louise Davidson-Schmich, a professor at UM who is teaching a course on LGBT politics this semester, explained that the Su-preme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hold a ruling on same-sex marriage in the spring.

“After the court rules it will become clearer what options are open to opponents of same-sex marriage,” Davidson-Schmich said. “However, the tide of public opinion makes clear that citizens of your generation are in fa-vor of marriage equality, so in the long run I think opponents are going to have a difficult time gaining support for their ideas.”

Despite a success in Florida, Rudolph hopes the SCOTUS ruling “will bend in our favor.”

“All we can do now is wait and see,” he added.

UPride is hosting “Speak for the Streets,” a Social Justice Open Mic from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the Lakeside Patio Stage.

Supreme Court ruling to come in near futureBY BRIANNA HERNANDEZCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

MORE ON THEMIAMIHURRICANE.

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Catch up on what Student

Government’s up to with Alina Zerpa’s Senate Recap.

Read about how the Butler Center received a

disinction from the Carnegie

Foundation. Check out Isabella Cueto’s story.

Learn about an alumnus’ healthier sports drink in Jori

Grossman’s article about Chris Ferriter’s Coco5.

Check out Alexander

Gonzalez’s review on comedian Seth Meyers’

performance Friday.

SPEAK FOR THE STREETS

WHERE: Lakeside Patio Stage

WHEN: 7-9 p.m. on Jan. 28

SIGN UP: http://bit.do/UPrideOM.

PROFILE

Sophomore expands arts scene on campus

A freshman’s first class can feel thrilling, but for Tyler Felts, a screenwriting and theatre arts major, his first motion pictures production class felt intimidating.

“The teacher came in, and it was so in-tense,” Felts said. “I was freaked out. When class was over and everyone left, I went up to him and said, ‘Look, I’ve never held a video camera in my life. Can I take this class or even do this?’”

Felts answered his own question as time went on. Now a sophomore, he is the chair of QuantUM Entertainment (QE), the Univer-sity of Miami’s student-run theatre production program.

As chair, Felts decides whether direc-tors can do, buy or use certain things for their shows. Shows produced under his tenure in-clude “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Little Shop of Horrors” from the fall 2014 se-mester. Felts oversees other productions such as talents shows, poetry showcases and shows by UM’s improv performance group UProv as well.

“He has incredible ideas that have taken us very far,” said Rachel Barrales, QE’s vice chair. In particular, she mentioned how Felts

works to broaden the choice of UM-approved vendors, potentially al-lowing QE to buy more diverse props for differ-ent shows.

Outside of QE, Felts follows his pas-sion for theatrical thrill through Delta Kappa Alpha (DKA), a cine-

matic-art-focused fraternity whose UM chap-ter he co-founded in 2014. Felts acts as the scholarship chair and the showrunner chair. As showrunner chair, he heads the screenwrit-ing branch of the fraternity.

“Tyler is one of those people who came into UM and immediately started getting in-volved on campus,” said Josh Strone, presi-dent and co-founder of DKA. “To me, his tenacity really goes underappreciated. It’s something that really pushes him forward.”

According to Felts, his foray into theatre began in high school. One play in particular, “Laramie Project” by playwright Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic The-ater Project, left a lasting impression on him. The play portrays the reaction to the 1998 murder of a University of Wisconsin gay stu-dent in Laramie, Wyoming. Felts played the victim’s father.

“That was the hardest, emotionally draining performance I’ve ever done,” Felts

said. “That’s what theatre was all about to me. It’s that emotional catharsis. This can truly be powerful work. You can use it to try to change the world.”

Felts’ involvement on campus is driven by his own curiosity of new environments. For Felts, coming to Miami “wasn’t a huge culture shock” as some may think of a person from northern Kentucky.

“There were so many new opportuni-ties,” Felts said. “I wanted to try this, and I wanted to try that. I just want to go out and try a bunch of things. I’m going to go skydiving with one of my friends, and I’m actually ter-rified of that, but I’m going to go do it. I want to try all the new foods and experience all the different cultures.”

That love for doing new things was a boon for Felts in his production class fresh-man year. His final project, a three-minute long musical movie, involved direction, cin-ematography, editing, writing, lighting, sound design and choreography – all done by Felts in 24 hours, alongside “wonderful actors with amazing talent.”

“I decided to prove to myself and my teacher that I could do lighting, sound, direc-tion, shooting, writing and everything,” Felts said. “I’m never doing that again, but that was one of my most rewarding experiences. I actu-ally made something that was decent. I did it to prove that I could do it and that I belong in this major.”

Passion for theater behind new fraternityBY SHERMAN HEWITTASSISTANT ONLINE EDITOR

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STAFF EDITORIAL

The childhood school cafeteria has been a haven for oil-laden pizzas, butter-infused hamburgers and cookies dripping with grease. Despite their artery-

clogging properties, children accept these nutrient-de-pleted choices with open arms. However, this ready ap-proval has created a drastic rise in obesity and diabetes, elevating these diseases to the level of epidemics. In an attempt to reverse this dismal fate for America’s future, Michelle Obama instituted the School Lunch Program in 2012.

The program is geared toward lowering overall caloric intake and increasing whole grain, fruit and veg-

etable consumption, primarily in low-income communities. An article pub-lished by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine states that in schools fruit selection has risen 23 percent and 16.2 percent more vegetables have been consumed since the implementation of the School Lunch Program, indicating a push in the right direction. Nevertheless, the program has many flaws in its fabrication.

The options schools are now providing have deterred students from pur-chasing school lunches, significantly decreasing revenue within schools that already have trouble making ends meet. It has also increased the amount of food wasted each day due to the rising number of students eating out or bring-

ing lunch from home. Furthermore, the program does not cater to student ath-letes who require more calories than the average population, generating strong animosity toward the altered menu. As a result, the hashtag #ThanksMichel-leObama has swept Twitter, illuminating the distaste students feel towards this program.

This harsh response may be due to the swift change in what food is provided. One cannot simply transform ingrained habits in one day. Rather, habits need to be changed slowly. As with adults, children and teens become trained to eat a certain way, and a shift that occurs too quickly could ignite negative reactions. Certain schools that gradually implemented the program seemed to have a higher satisfaction rate from the student body than those that introduced the novel menu abruptly.

The school lunch initiative has many negative consequences that have outweighed the resulting benefits. Yet the vision of a healthier path is still pursued. Although there has been a backlash from the schools as well as the students, the changes the USDA is attempting to implement are well-founded in their mission. Its delivery to an audience that has been eating a certain way for years, however, is the flaw that has held back its widespread success. By re-evaluating the logistical structure of the School Lunch Program, the potential within its model could be tapped, driving the U.S. down a healthier road.

Faizah Shareef is a senior majoring in exercise physiology.

FAIZAH SHAREEFHEALTH COLUMNIST

Unhealthy habits can’t be broken overnight

Guns may fi nd their way to campusesFor its first bill of the term, the Repub-

lican-majority Florida House of Representa-tives decided to tackle a rather contentious issue.

The bill, named HB 4005, would allow people with the appropriate licenses to con-cealed carry their guns in public school col-lege campuses. In light of the recent Florida State University (FSU) shooting, which left three students injured, this bill would repre-sent a marked shift in the environments at the schools it affects.

Although passed by the House, the Sen-ate and the governor’s office still need to ap-prove the bill before it can become law. This gives us time to consider the benefits and drawbacks of such a measure.

Perhaps more obvious are the potential problems that concealed carry weapons can cause.

College is a time of many firsts. These experiences can lead students to make mis-takes that they probably wouldn’t have made otherwise. The stress of full course loads and new relationships already brings friction to students’ lives, not taking into account the constant exposure to drugs and alcohol.

College students have already earned a reputation for being reckless. With the abil-ity to carry a gun on campus, mistakes that are so common during this time in our lives could balloon into serious (or even fatal) crimes.

This bill has the potential to foster fear among college students as well. By the very nature of concealed weapons, it is impos-sible to know whether someone is carrying a gun. This could cause students to be dis-tracted by the possibility that anyone around them could use a weapon at any time.

However, allowing concealed carry weapons on campus could have benefits. The specific justification used to promote this bill was safety. Many people feel safer when they have the ability to defend them-selves.

Additionally, it could be a crime deter-rent. College students sometimes present an attractive target to criminals. If it is impos-sible for a criminal to know which individu-als carry weapons, they would be less likely to target anyone in that population.

This bill would also only cover a sub-set of all people who own guns. To receive

a concealed weapons permit, an individual must undergo background checks and a 90-day waiting period. They must also be 21 years of age or older, meaning the overlap between them and the stereotypical student is not as large as it may appear.

Though the bill only applies to public universities, students at UM could still be affected. Whichever final policy is chosen would be felt any time students visit any public Florida school. As a result, students should practice their civic duty and play a part in this discussion.

Whether or not you agree with the bill, participate in discussions and send letters to county representatives. If there is one time to get involved and avoid apathy, it’s this one.

This issue is not black and white. The discussion must extend to the larger student body to reach a consensus that best serves the students as we navigate our college ca-reers.

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

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6 OPINION THE MIAMI HURRICANE January 26 - January 28, 2015

This past s u m m e r , I spent

two weeks in Costa Rica on a volunteer trip without elec-tricity or my cell phone. I learned about beingcomplete-ly off-the-grid during this

time, realizing how much I relied on my phone.

That scared me. Our cell phones have become

our social crutch and an excuse to exit any uncomfortable situation. Next time you’re in an elevator, notice how everyone is simultane-ously engrossed in their phone. It’s a little disturbing.

Unfortunately, I believe this crutch is preventing us from devel-oping genuine relationships with our peers.

During the week, I work at the Rat as a server. I serve a lot of different types of cus-tomers at my tables: frats, sororities, clubs, parents, kids and awkward first dates – my personal favorite.

All too often, I find everyone at my table with their heads down looking at their phone. Sometimes, I even encounter customers that are perplexed when I drop their food off, waking themselves from the coma that a Wikipedia search wormhole has created.

I would be lying if I said I was guiltless. I also love Buzzfeed, Twitter and Instagram, but I still try my hardest not to check my phone around my friends. As much as I love Trivia Crack, I love my friends more.

It may sound crazy, but dis-cussing your favorite television show with your friend is far more entertaining than every Buzzfeed post on the topic.

So, before our ability to com-municate disintegrates completely and we all use Stephen Hawking’s computer program to talk, let’s put away our phones.

When you’re out with your friends, actually spend time with them. Talk to them about the things you want to Google, be-cause we need to value this time with our college friends.

After we graduate, some of us will head to law school or medical school and find jobs far away from Miami. Save your phone for com-

municating with the people whose beautiful faces you can’t see in person. If you can’t get through a conversation with your friend without using your phone

as a crutch, then maybe you should find yourself a better friend or work on your social skills. The best relationships can stand up on their own.

Rachel Berquist is a junior majoring in English and psychology.

RACHEL BERQUISTCULTURE COLUMNIST

Choose face-to-face over Facetime interactions

ILLUSTRATION BY // SILVANA ARGUELLO

The most common complaint that I hear about the current political climate is that it is too stagnant or

too polarized. This is a fair complaint. From the constant filibustering in

the Senate to the endless list of bills that die well before they get to a floor vote, not much of anything is getting done in Congress. It is easy to blame the stagnation on the politicians them-selves or the culture of partisan bick-ering on the Hill. However, I’d like to suggest that the inaction has nothing

to do with Congress itself, and much more to do with the election laws of the state legislatures.

Every decade, after the census, state legislatures are given the opportunity to redraw the congressional dis-trict maps in order to reflect the changing demographics of their states. It sounds fairly innocent on paper, but in practice, it’s what’s causing the paradoxical lack of legis-lating by our legislature.

In 2010, Republicans controlled a majority of state legislatures when it came time to redistrict. They drew district lines in a way that would make it nearly impos-sible for Democrats to control the House until the next census.

This became painfully real for Democrats in the 2012 elections. In the fallout, then Washington Post colum-

nist Ezra Klein pointed out, “Democrats got 54,301,095 [House] votes while Republicans got 53,822,442. That’s a close election - 48.8%-48.5% - but it’s still a popular vote win for the Democrats.”

In terms of seats won, however, there were 234 Re-publicans and 201 Democrats, all thanks to redistricting. In a climate like this, where districts are so obviously meant to favor one party, politicians can only be chal-lenged by a more extremist candidate within their own party. This leads to the extreme polarization and stagna-tion.

What we need to do is create nonpartisan primaries, which force candidates to the middle, and dismantle the system of gerrymandering.

However, this is much more easily said than done. No party wants to relinquish the control that they have in the legislatures at the risk of losing its next election. Until there is a cultural shift and politicians confront the fact that they are meant to represent the people rather than their own interests, change is unlikely to come.

There is some hope, though. This cultural shift may be happening already. People

are complaining about stagnation in Congress. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is writing a book that calls for an amendment to the Constitution to end gerrymandering. The state of Iowa decided to have nonpartisan district drawing. We just have to reengage

and elect the people that will get it done, and if they don’t, hold them accountable.

Annie Cappetta is a freshman majoring in political science and ecosystem science and policy.

ANNIE CAPPETTAPOLITICS COLUMNIST

Gerrymandering causes legislative stagnation

What we need to do is create nonpartisan primaries, which force candidates to the middle, and dismantle the system of gerrymandering.Annie Cappetta,Staff Writer

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On-campus a cappella groups hit high note“I definitely did not expect to get that

award at all,” Sommese said. “I was extremely honored and so proud of BisCaydence for what we accomplished at ICCAs.” If you recognize that acronym, you can thank the hit film “Pitch Perfect.”

BISCAYDENCEThe men and women of BisCaydence per-

form a range of popular music in the pop, rock and R&B genres.

“We like to do a lot of throwbacks. We also did ‘Let It Go’ before it got done to death,” Comay said.

They please audiences and judges with their vocal talent and creative arrangements. At the ICCA Quarterfinal on Saturday, BisCay-

dence performed tidbits of several songs, earn-ing the group second place and sending them to regional semifinals in March.

“The judges like being surprised or when you do things that are out of the norm,” Comay said. “They like when you take an upbeat song and turn it into a ballad.”

Saturday’s out-of-the-norm set included Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar We’re Going Down” performed to a swing back.

“Since the line is ‘Sugar, we’re going down swinging,’ we decided to do a swing jazz rendi-tion,” Comay said.

ABOVE THE KEYSFor the men in Above the Keys, a cappella

is more about fun than formality.

“We make sure we’re putting on a good performance, we use gimmicks, we play to the audience. That’s always how it’s been,” said ju-nior Nate Ward, who has been in ATK since his freshman year.

ATK competed alongside BisCaydence at the ICCA regional competition in Orlando. The ATK performance formula involves starting off with a crowd-pleaser, transitioning into a slow, sensitive song and ending with a big contempo-rary hit.

In the past, those big hits have included “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus and “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore.

“We don’t take it as seriously. We focus mostly on our audience,” Ward said.

At Saturday’s competition, ATK per-formed “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys,

John Mayer’s version of “Free Fallin’” and “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars.

ATK also performs in the community and likes to surprise people on campus, too. The group once rode the Stanford Residential Col-lege elevators and then sang to whoever walked in, according to Tufaan’s Kumar, who was also in ATK for two years.

TUFAANAs a fusion group, Tufaan carefully com-

bines songs of different languages — from Eng-lish and Spanish to Hindi and Tamil — whose chord progressions blend together and whose lyrics tell a cohesive story.

PITCH PERFECT: BisCaydence rehearses Tuesday night for the ICCA regional competition held in Orlando on Saturday. BisCaydence is one of three a cappella groups at UM. LYSSA GOLDBERG // ONLINE EDITOR

A CAPPELLA FROM COVER

SEE VOICES, PAGE 9

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8 EDGE THE MIAMI HURRICANE January 26 - January 28, 2015

Yesterday’s architect, today’s playwright

Oscar winner to visit Cosford

Producer stresses media experience

Playwright Oren Safdie, a faculty member in the Univer-sity of Miami Department of Theater Arts, warns that everyone around him is “pretty much fair game” for his writing.

“Who knows?” he joked in an interview with The Miami Hurricane. “Maybe there’s a new play percolating about aca-demia at the University of Miami.”

Safdie has worn a number of hats throughout his career, in-cluding those of a playwright, architect, student, teacher and di-rector. Last semester was Safdie’s first time teaching playwriting and play analysis in an academic environment. Before UM, he had spent a year teaching architecture at Iowa State University.

“[The experience has] been all positive so far,” he said. “You never know what you’re going to get with the students. Students might come in with some first scenes that aren’t really going anywhere, but then they’ll bring something in that will just knock you off your feet.”

Safdie also wants to create a synergy for playwrights, ac-tors and directors at UM. Safdie advises Astonishing Idiots, a new student-run theater company that hosted two shows during the fall semester.

“I’ve been trying to make my instruction much less aca-demic and more practical,” Safdie said.

He emphasized the importance of versatility and experi-ence in playwrights, hoping that a theater company would help students gain hands-on experience in the process of bringing their scripts from the “page to the stage.”

“He gave us huge amount of freedom in our writing, so he would tell us what worked and what didn’t, without telling us what to write,” said sophomore Liam Allen-McGoran, a mem-ber of Astonishing Idiots.

Safdie originally planned to follow the footsteps of his fa-ther, architect Moshe Safdie. At first, he pursued a master of ar-

chitecture degree at Columbia University in the City of New York. Although he was not considering playwriting for his future at the time, the insulated, cutthroat culture of the architecture world would later return in several of Safdie’s plays.

He was on track to become another family architect until things took a surpris-ing turn. During his last semester of archi-tecture school, Safdie took a playwriting course as an elective and was hooked after

winning a competition run by the Columbia Dramatists. Safdie decided to stay another four years at Columbia to complete an MFA in Fiction Writing. He had “never looked back” ever since.

Safdie then received a Woolrich Fellowship at Columbia University School of the Arts. During his time there, he founded the West End Gate Theatre Bar, a student theater company that included names like Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and “The Whole Nine Yards” actress Amanda Peet.

Over the years, Safdie has written more than 10 staged plays, films and scripts for television. Safdie most recently was the artistic director of the Malibu Stage Company. Currently, he resides in Los Angeles with his wife, actress and playwright M. J. Kang, and their six-year-old daughter. He commutes to Miami every week and returns home for the weekends, where he is currently developing a television series based on his 2014 play “Unseamly.”

“Unseamly” is the first of Safdie’s plays that is set in his childhood home of Montreal. The storyline is loosely based off the allegations of sexual assault against clothing brand Ameri-can Apparel, of which Safdie’s cousin, Dov Charney, is CEO.

Safdie said he is most motivated to write when he needs to “set the picture straight,” whenever a sense of injustice bothered

him enough to spark his writing. He cited Middle Eastern poli-tics and hypocrisy as other examples of inspiration.

Safdie characterizes his work as satiric with tinges of irony and dark humor.

“I don’t set out to write comedies, but people label them as comedies,” he said.

Safdie also acknowledged a recurring theme of sexual poli-tics and power struggles within his plays. “Private Jokes, Public Places,” Safdie’s best-known play, illustrates the struggle of a female architecture student defending her project against a vi-cious jury of architects. It draws from both Safdie’s extensive knowledge and criticism of architectural movements as well as his intrinsic fascination with such power relations.

Another Safdie’s play, “The Bilbao Effect,” explores archi-tecture ethics. Safdie is now working on a new play based on a real-life personal dilemma between two well-known New York architects. Safdie hopes he will develop a series of plays based on different architecture-related themes.

“I actually think they’re quite different because the only thing that’s in common is you have to work in coordination with other people,” he said. “But architecture is all about build-ing up, and I see playwriting, the writing of a play, is about strip-ping down – you start with an idea and you strip it down to its essence.”

Academy Award winner Jon Landau, pro-ducer of the films “Ti-tanic” and “Avatar,” will host a discussion from 1-3 p.m. Monday at Uni-versity of Miami’s Bill Cosford Cinema.

The master’s class will be moderated by as-sociate professor John Soliday. The event is open to all university stu-dents.

Landau visited the university in 2012, ac-cording to an article in E-Veritas. He surprised students by bringing his Oscar Award and in-viting student to take pictures with it.

Landau was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010 for “Best Motion Picture of the Year” for “Avatar.” In 1998, he won the “Best Picture” Oscar for “Titanic.”

Flourish Klink is a writer, producer and self-proclaimed fangirl who is now working as a transmedia producer and writer for the Hulu original series “East Los High.”

On Thursday, she spoke with students at the School of Communication about her work in the transmedia field, which she described as storytelling “across multiple delivery channels” where, ideally, “each medium makes its own unique contribu-tion to the unfolding of the story.”

“East Los High” was created with the motive of exploring the range of possible Latino characters stepping away from the traditional house maid, gardener and gang-ster roles.

Klink graduated from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion, then from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology (MIT) with a master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies.

She now invests most of her time in “East Los High,” but she spends some of her free time giving lectures at MIT in

transmedia, storytelling, fan culture and media studies.

In an interview with The Miami Hur-ricane, Klink described how she started working in transmedia. She offered advice for students looking to go into the field.

THE MIAMI HURRICANE (TMH): How did you get started as a transmedia producer?

FLOURISH KLINK: I had no idea what this was, and I didn’t have any intention of going into the media industry. I ended up in grad school at MIT through weird con-nections and coincidences. I had no idea what I was doing. It sort of fell into my lap, and there I was in comparative media stud-ies.

That’s where I met my business part-ners, and they were working in transmedia and they needed a fan specialist who knew about fan culture, and so I was like, ‘great, I can be a professional fan.’ And so that sort of turned into transmedia producing.

TMH: What is your favorite aspect of your career?

FK: I get to do basically everything. And because I’m not working for, like,

ABC or whatever, I don’t have to go into an office everyday. I have work that I have to complete and it’s very project-based and it’s always different. So, like sometimes there’s the social media and sometimes there’s the website and sometimes I’m on set directing someone. It’s sort of a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none thing. It’s really fun.

TMH: What advice do you have for students who want to get into this field?

FK: I think my major advice is to work. Work. Work. Work. Work. It’s re-ally important that you get a good educa-tional foundation, but fundamentally, for working in television, it’s jobs. You really have to hustle, and you have to take any-thing that’s offered and you have to work your way up there.

So if you’re not already producing something right now, then produce it. Make some student films. Create a reel that you can show someone. Create some writ-ing. Get a portfolio going, and as soon as you can, get staffed on anything that will take you at any job and work your way up as best you can.

BY JACKIE YANGCONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

BY ASHLEY MARTINEZ EDGE EDITOR

BY ANDREA CESPEDESCONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

IF YOU GO

WHAT: Astonishing Idiots show

WHERE: Open Stage Club at 2325 Galiano St., Coral Gables, FL 33134

WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 24

CONTACT: [email protected]

SAFDIE

LANDAU

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LOWE EXHIBITThe Lowe Art Museum will present “Weavers’

Stories from Island Southeast Asia,” an exhibition where weavers and batik artists speak for them-selves in videos produced at eight sites in Indone-sia, Malaysia, the Philippines and East Timors. The exhibit’s opening reception will take place 6:30-9 p.m. Friday at the Lowe.

FROST COMPETITION The Frost Symphony Orchestra Annual Con-

certo Competition Winners Concert will take place 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Gusman Concert Hall. The event is free for students with a Cane Card.

RITA DOVE VISITAs part of the 2014-15 Henry King Stanford

Distinguished Professors Lecture Series, former United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author Rita Dove will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

Ashley Martinez may be contacted at [email protected].

EDGE BRIEFS

“The whole process of mixing two languages is all about the meaning,” Kumar said.

In the past, Tufaan has performed “Killing Me Softly” blended with an Indian song called “Tum Hi Ho” – both about an impossibly strong love.

“Their arrangements are exhilarating,” BisCaydence’s Comay said. “They use mel-ody lines and rhythms you’re not used to.”

A little less than half of the group members are South Asian, and the rest of the members represent a diverse sampling of cultures from Chinese to Italian. That means everyone gets to learn from one an-other.

“No one really understands how re-warding it is to learn about all these other cultures until you’re in Tufaan,” Kumar said.

This semester, Tufaan is aiming to make a name for itself across Florida, start-ing with touring the state and recording mu-sic for iTunes and Spotify. Last semester, they sang at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale and University of Flori-da in Gainesville.

“‘Señorita’ by Justin Timberlake is a song we’re working on now … Hopefully we can record that and the world can hear it,” Kumar said.

A CAPPELLA EXPANSIONAll three UM a cappella groups have

always had a working relationship with each other, according to Ward. However, Voices of UM has helped unify the three groups.

“For a long time, we were really sepa-rate, all doing our own things with our own informal advisers,” Comay said.

A representative from each a cappella group sits on the Voices of UM board, and they now also have the advantage of official recognition as a student organization and the ability to apply for funding.

Voices of UM has organized single concerts with all three groups. The first was held last spring and has even sparked inter-est in creating a fourth group for Jewish a cappella.

Freshman Eitan Snyder, a member of ATK, is leading the effort to start up a Jew-ish a cappella group at UM. With the back-

ing of UM Hillel and interest from several Jewish students in the Frost School, prog-ress is already underway.

Jewish a cappella groups generally per-form a blend of American pop music, Jew-ish religious music and Israeli pop music. But Snyder envisions it being a group that also caters to Miami’s unique audience.

“Since we are a group from Miami, I think we should incorporate more Spanish into the mix,” he said.

Auditions are being held Feb. 1, and Snyder’s aim is to debut the group at the final Shabbat Shalala at Hillel, an annual Friday night dinner with President Donna E. Shalala as a special guest.

After six months of being active on campus, the Jewish a cappella group will be able to apply to be a branch of Voices of UM.

“Our ultimate goal is that when my freshman friends and I graduate in three or so years, the group will be stable and strong enough to continue and become a mainstay of not only the a cappella world on campus, but also the Jewish a cappella world across the country,” Snyder said.

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BASKETBALL

Miami trumps Syracuse, rises in ACC

Angel Rodriguez found himself in familiar territory Saturday night as he stood at the free-throw line in front of a roaring crowd, calmly in control of the fate of the game. He sank both of his shots effortlessly, much to the dismay of the NCAA season-high crowd of 30,677 at the Carrier Dome. The Canes beat Syracuse 66-62.

It was a historic night for Coach Jim Larrañaga and Tonye Jekiri, center.

Larrañaga picked up his 550th ca-reer win and 301st conference win, while Jekiri had the night of his career, sealing a double-double in the final few minutes of the game, which included 13 points, 3-for-4 free throws and 15 rebounds. He leads the ACC with 10 average rebounds per game. He also picked up three blocks, the same amount that Syracuse had as a team.

Despite Syracuse going on a 12-2 run right before the half and cutting Mi-ami’s lead to one with only a few min-utes left in the game, the Hurricanes tamed the Orange with strict coverage of senior forward Rakeem Christmas. With double coverage on Christmas, they were able to hold him to only five points in the first half.

In a game where momentum shifted greatly over the course of 40 minutes, the Hurricanes were able to cling to a lead for nearly the entire game, thanks to bench points and free throws.

Miami had four bench scorers who totaled 15 points, including a clutch 3-pointer from point guard Manu Lecomte in the last 23 seconds of the game, compared to Syracuse’s three bench points. Also, Syracuse’s abysmal 42.1 percent free-throw shooting proved to be a major problem when Christmas missed a game-changing two free throws in the final 10 seconds.

Miami has improved to sixth place in the ACC with a now 4-2 conference record while snapping a four-game los-ing streak against the Orange. The Hur-

ricanes have shown their ability to play up against top-ranked opponents, as both ACC losses were to No. 2 Virginia, which went into double overtime, and then No. 12 Notre Dame after leading for 29 minutes.

They now must focus on the chem-istry between transfers Rodriguez and McClellan, who teamed up for two SportsCenter-worthy alley-oops in the second half, as well as consistency be-hind the arc.

Free-throw and three-point consis-tency must be improved, as Miami can be a team that lives and dies by the three-pointer. No Hurricane shot from the line until 18:13 in the second half, so they must be more proactive in drawing fouls.

With ACC play in full swing for the Hurricanes, they look to continue to climb the ladder against Georgia Tech, Florida State, No. 10 Louisville and Clemson in the next two weeks.

The red-hot 14-5 Hurricanes will take on Georgia Tech, who has yet to win an ACC matchup, at 9 p.m. Wednesday in the BankUnited Center.

Consistency key to keep winningBY ALEXA PAPPASCONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

PHOTO COURTESY HURRICANE SPORTS

Social media users weigh in

“Everyone knows that is not true. In fact, earlier this season, there were an-nouncements made at the BUC about the size limits allowed for signs,” he said.

Screenshots from Billy Corben’s Twitter show that the no-sign policy did not show up on the venue’s website until Jan. 14, three days after the signs were confiscated.

The BUC declined to give an official comment on the policy.

The Miami Hurricane also ran an online poll of 398 people asking what fans think is most likely to happen as a result of Golden’s performance.

As of Sunday afternoon, 51 percent (204 votes) believe that it is more likely for Golden to stay as coach, opposed to the 33 percent (131 votes) who believe he will be fired. Twelve percent (47 votes) believe that Golden will be fired and Butch Davis will be brought back, and four percent (16 votes) believe that Golden will stay and Davis will return.

The Miami Hurricane’s article also met several online responses.

“I see the athletic department cen-sors decided to allow a modicum of dissent through,” wrote Reddit user ThaCarter. “Just to be clear though, it was Golden that put Golden on the hot seat. The state of the program is the fault of the administration and coaching staff; blaming the players or fans is just another in the endless run of ex-cuses.”

There were similar responses to The Mi-ami Hurricane’s online post.

“I hope that the same jack-booted thugs that confiscate legitimate signs at basketball games don’t close down this newspaper,” wrote Tony, a WordPress user.

Herrera says that above all else, it boils down to winning.

“He has found a way to do less with more talent,” he said. “It’s okay to be wrong; it’s not okay to be wrong, refuse to admit it and refuse to change. Mr. Golden, this is not personal, we just want to win.”

For more about Golden, visit themiamihurricane.com.

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Four-team meet a success

The Miami track and field team had a strong showing in a loaded field at the Rod McCravy Memorial Track and Field Meet in Lexington, Ken-tucky this weekend. It was a surpris-ingly talented field for the second week of the indoor track season.

The Hurricanes faced a 15-team field featuring defending men’s and women’s indoor NCAA champion Or-egon, SEC women’s champion Florida, SEC men’s champion Arkansas, Big XII women’s champion Texas, and ACC men’s and women’s champion Florida State.

Sophomore Shakima Wimbley broke the Univeristy of Miami record in the women’s 400m, posting a time of 51.82 seconds. Wimbley, who finished second, ran the second-fastest time re-corded this NCAA season.

The women’s 4x400m team, which won last week at the Nittany Lion Chal-lenge in State College, Pennsylvania, again performed well. The experienced combination of Wimbley, senior Ta-neisha Cordell, redshirt junior Kelsey Balkwill and redshirt senior Thandi Stewart finished fourth but motored to a season-best time of 3:34.88.

Talented junior jumper John-Pat-rick Friday broke his own school re-cord in the indoor triple jump over the weekend. Friday jumped 15.77m, best-ing his previous mark of 15.47m. Friday finished third overall in the triple jump, behind two jumpers from the Univer-sity of Florida, and also placed fifth in the high jump with a mark of 2.04m.

The men’s 4x400m team, which also won last week, ran a season-best 3:12:78. Junior Joseph Ryan, freshman Robert Grant, senior Anthony Wollis-ton and freshman Henri Delauze ran a time that is fourth-fastest in UM his-tory, and look to be a unit that can im-prove as the season progresses.

Sophomore shot putter Gian Pie-ro Ragonesi, who placed second last

week, set a season-best with a throw of 17.05m. Rago-nesi finished 17th. Miami’s defending ACC shot put cham-pion Isaiah Simmons has not thrown this year.

Several mem-bers of the Hur-

ricanes football team competed this weekend in Lexington as well.

Junior cornerback Tracy Howard ran in the 60m dash. Howard finished 36 out of 37 competitors in the prelimi-nary rounds with a time of 7.29 seconds in his first competition of the season. Five-foot-5 redshirt freshman defensive back Josh Johnson finished 26th in the men’s 200m, covering the distance in 22.17 seconds.

Freshman wide receiver David Njoku, sophomore cornerback Artie Burns and sophomore running back Walter Tucker have yet to compete.

The Miami Hurricanes swimming and diving team won its third head-to-head event this weekend in Blacksburg, Virginia at the Christiansburg Aquatic Center.

This four-team meet hosted by Vir-ginia Tech provided Miami with a win over UNC-Wilmington with a score of 208-88; however, the Canes came close to topping Georgia Tech, only missing them by three points with a score of 148-151.

The Hokies emerged victorious by topping all three visiting teams, giving them a good home win.

Sophomore Cameron Davis opened the meet with great form, capturing first place in the 1000-yard freestyle and top-ping Virginia Tech’s Laura Schwartz by nearly eight seconds with a time of (10:25.63).

In the 1-meter, Miami dominated, taking three of the top four spots. Seniors

Thea Vock and Cheyenne Cousineau teamed up with Wally Layland to earn respective scores of (316.75), (295.35) and (285.10).

Vock followed up her second-place finish with top honors in the 3-meter, while senior Heather Arseth took her second top finish of the day in the 100 freestyle with a time of 52.14, just bare-ly catching Adriana Grabski of Virginia Tech with a time of 52.17.

Another noteworthy performance in the 1-meter was delivered by fresh-man Briadam Herrera, who set a new pool record and took first with a score of 396.20.

Concluding the meet, Arseth, se-nior Amy Wiley, freshman Julie Suarez and freshman Rebeka Repman captured third place in the 400 free relay entry.

Hurricanes return to the pool for a dual meet at noon on Jan. 31 for Senior Day to face FIU.

Kentucky hosts early season meetBY MARK POULOSECONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

Canes make waves against UNCBY MAX SANCHEZCONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

WIMBLEY

For the full swimming and diving schedule, visit hurricanesports.com.

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three’s a crowd

V,My boyfriend and I have been to-

gether for almost two years. Recently, I started worrying that he was getting bored in the bedroom. So, to spice things up, I asked an acquaintance from my acting class to, er, join us.

But as soon as things started getting hot and heavy, I felt like my boyfriend was paying way too much attention to her. I talked to him about it and he promised he wasn’t inter-ested in that girl, but now I feel awk-ward every time I see her in class. I’m scared my boyfriend is going to leave me. What should I do?

Sincerely,Three’s Company

Dear Jealous Janie,

First of all, I have trouble feeling too sorry for you, consid-ering you broke the golden rule of threesomes: the third person should never be someone either of you know – especially some-one you have a class with. It’s bad enough you have to listen to her crappy monologues without watching her play MiMi to your boyfriend’s Roger. I mean, haven’t you ever seen the crash-and-burn results of the Dan-Vanessa-Olivia ménage à trois on “Gossip Girl?”

It can be awkward enough hooking up with a classmate and then having to face her after she spent the night on your bright pink sheets from freshman year. Have you noticed that she not only saw your goods, but your man’s as well? That’s enough reason right there for you to skip class in the foreseeable future

However, unless you plan on pulling a Marty McFly and slap-ping some sense into your pre-threesome self, my suggestion is simple: move on. If you’re still worried that your man’s getting bored, maybe it’s time to hit Spen-cer’s and see if you can find some fun toys for two. In fact, I’m sure you could get a few fun tips from the soon-to-be-blockbuster “Fifty Shades of Grey.” If Rihanna likes whips and chains, maybe your sweetie will too.

As for your leading lady, I think it’s safe to say that the clos-est the two of you should get from now on is painting the same set piece. Jealousy isn’t pretty on anyone, so put those Theater 101 skills to good use and act like you don’t care. If that fails, avoid her at all costs, and the next time you decide to spice things up, pick a chick off Tinder like the rest of us.

V

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