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F ences enclose work zones full of dirt and concrete. A crane is towering over Ponce de

Leon Boulevard. A bridge stretches far-ther across Lake Osceola each day. The University of Miami’s physical makeup is being reshaped and augmented in all corners of its 239-acre campus in Coral Gables.

While none of these changes alone will impact student life as pro-foundly as the Donna E. Shalala Stu-dent Center when it opened in the fall of 2013, the brand new buildings and bridges combined with count-less renovations are part of one of the most significant waves of phys-ical change in the university’s 90-year history.

The largest and most ex-pensive of the construction projects is The Lennar Founda-tion Medical Center, home of UHealth at Coral Gables, on the southern part of the cam-pus. The 206,000-square-foot ambulatory care and outpatient center had its ceremonial groundbreak-ing in September, 2015 and has risen quickly. Its con-crete and steel skeleton

already casts a large figure between the Flipse Building and Dickinson Drive.

“It’s moving along at a very nice clip,” said Janet Gavarrete, associate vice president of campus planning and development. She said completion is scheduled for November 2016, as was originally planned.

The newest member of the UHealth system was given the Lennar name following a $50 million lead gift from The Lennar Foundation, the charitable arm of The Lennar Corporation. At the time of the groundbreaking, UM Senior Vice President for Business and Finance and Chief Financial Officer told The Miami Hurricane that the lead gift offset enough of the project’s $145 million

total cost and that it could be done in one stage rather than in phases.

The building is LEED-certified and will provide the services of the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and University of Miami Health System, including outpatient surgery and urgent care. Cancer care, including chemo-therapy and radiation oncology, will also be available. The center will also operate branches of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. The school plans on moving student health ser-vices over to the new center.

Construction builds better campus future

Shreya Chidarala Shreya Chidarala // Staff Photographer

MODERNIZING MEDICINE: Construction of the Lennar Foundation Medical Center, located on the Coral Gables campus, makes headway as completion is projected for fall of 2016.

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Page 3: Protesters return to address sale of pine rocklands.

Page 8:Students study the chemistry of food.

Page 9:Backup running backs show promise for Hurricanes football.

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Wednesday morning US News World & Re-port released 2016 Best Colleges List and the University of Miami landed at No. 51, falling three spots from last year’s ranking. It is the f irst time the school has fallen out of the top 50 in the rankings since 2009. UM was tied at No. 48 with the University of Florida, which moved up a spot to No. 47 and is now the top-ranked Florida school. In a statement, UM said:

“The 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges ranking continues to affirm the value of a University of Miami degree among the top re-search universities nationally, while recognizing our ongoing focus on student retention, gradu-ation rates and fundraising. The University of Miami’s graduation rate is 81 percent and fresh-man retention rate is 92 percent. Additionally, alumni giving improved this year and is ref lected in the ranking. Our unprecedented $1.6 billion Momentum2: The Breakthrough Campaign for the University of Miami reached its goal in May.”

Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Colombia made up the top four spots in the rankings, respective-ly.

O n Tuesday a jury awarded $8.6 mil-lion in damages to the families of two international students from China who were attending UM when they

were struck and killed by a car on Oct. 16, 2013.Ying Chen and Hao Liu were crossing Kend-

all Drive and Southwest 68th Court in Pinecrest on the way back to their apartment when Milady Pequeno struck the students with her Porsche. In 2014, Pequeno was found guilty of careless driv-ing and had her license suspended for two years.

“Even though there are verdicts, the charges are fair and just, the family is kind of upset be-cause their two young lives have gone and their children will never come back,” family-friend Kai Zang said, according to WSVN.com.

UM falls in national ranking

Families awarded damages after death of

two students

“For our UM community – students and faculty and staff – having a facility like this will be a game changer as it relates to how easy it’s going to be to get to cutting-edge healthcare,” Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Miller School of Medicine Dr. Pascal J. Goldschmidt told The Miami Hur-ricane at the time of the groundbreaking.

Connecting the medical center to the adjacent Ponce de Leon Garage will be two vehicular bridges and one pedestrian bridge over the canal that separates the garage and medical center. One vehicular bridge and the pedestrian bridge will span the canal in front of the center and garage, while another will span the canal behind the buildings. The permit ap-plication for the construction of the bridges showed a total cost of over $1 million.

Patients and staff of the medical center will park in the Ponce Garage, so student park-ing will be moved to the under-construction Merrick Garage that will mirror Pavia Garage between Pavia Street and George E. Merrick Drive. Upon completion, which is supposed to be by fall of 2016, the garage will have about 860 parking spaces, bringing the total number of parking spaces in the two garages to around 1,700. Although they have separate names, the two garages will be connected.

“It really will be a very large parking re-source. It is not like you go in it and you can only go up and down, you can also go across

on the first and third floor, making it very ap-pealing to manage,” Gavarrete said.

Just north of those garages, past the Ea-ton Residential College parking lot, the new Lake Osceola Bridge will take students across the lake in front of the Whitten University Center. The 210-foot bridge is slated to finish construction by homecoming on Nov. 5 and has a cost of $1 million according to the origi-nal permit application.

“The reason why we did it is because it makes a really direct connection into the heart of the campus,” Gavarrete said. “When I stand out there and look at it, it is like this belonged here all along. There are some things that happen, and they fit so well.”

The bridge allows for a quicker walk to the north side of campus, eliminating the need to go through or around the Whitten UC to get to the Donna E. Shalala Student Center.

Next to the Lake Osceola Bridge, the Whitten UC pool is being renovated with new plumbing, a new deck, new lounge furniture, new starting blocks and slightly redone locker rooms. The renovation will cost more than $1 million, according to Executive Director of the UC Daniel Westbrook, who said they hope it will be reopened in late October, before homecoming.

“That has been given the highest prior-ity,” he said. “We realize how badly students need that back and we promise that will be open as soon as possible.”

According to Gavarrete, the other reno-vation happening on campus is at the Ungar Building, which is “getting a new skin,” a hurricane-resistant glass that is still being in-stalled now.

At the intersections of Dickinson Drive and Ponce de Leon Boulevard., and Merrick Street and Ponce, traffic signals were recently installed.

The Braman Miller Center for Jewish Student Life and Sigma Chi Fraternity house are among renovations that are on campus yet not under the school’s administration. The Braman Miller Center renovation is the first major renovation to any religious house on campus, according to Gavarrete. The Al-pha Sigma Phi fraternity house, which was originally under construction for the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, is also still undergoing work.

Future construction is planned for the Tom P. Murphy Design Studio Building at the School of Architecture, and a simulation hospital for the School of Nursing is going through permitting as well. Gavarrete expects to have a better idea of the date for the simu-lation hospital’s groundbreaking by January 2016.

New housing next to the Pavia and Mer-rick garages won’t start construction for at least another year, though it does have a name: Ibis Village. The establishment will feature two halls called Gables Hall and Merrick Hall.

As for the U.S. 1 pedestrian overpass that had its own groundbreaking on April 24, the pile of dirt from the ceremony still remains with no construction. According to Monica D. Cejas, senior professional engineer at Mi-ami-Dade Transit, the overpass is officially in the construction stage and “contractor site mobilization is pending ‘Maintenance of Traf-fic Plans’ approval.” Once that occurs, con-struction will begin.

Bridge, UC poolnear completion

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Nick Gangemi Nick Gangemi // Editor-in-ChiefCONNECTING CAMPUS: Construction of the new 210-foot long bridge, connecting Eaton parking lot to Lakeside Patio, is slated for completion next month.



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E nvironmentalists and members of the local community continue to protest the University of Miami’s handling and sale of land containing an endan-

gered pine rockland habitat. They rallied in front of the university’s main entrance on Stanford Drive this Tuesday from 4-7 p.m.

Protesters gathered facing U.S. 1 wearing but-terfly wings as a reminder of the endangered and rare Florida Atala butterfly species that lives in the habitat. Other endangered species like the bon-neted bat call the habitat home as well. They held signs, some reading “Shame on U” and others with depictions of the U logo holding a bag of money. They chanted “Save it, don’t pave it” to the sound of a trumpet in a continued effort to encourage UM to buy back the land.

UM sold 88 acres of the habitat to Ram Re-alty Services (Ram) for about $22 million in 2014. Ram plans to develop establishments like a 158,000-square-foot Walmart, a Chili’s restaurant and about 900 apartments on the land.

“I think UM as an institution has a respon-sibility to sustainability,” said Rebecca Garcia, a UM student who attended the protest. “They sold it. So, they should be responsible for whether or not that will impact the environment.”

The protest was organized by the Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition (MPRC), an organization dedicated to preserving the pine rockland habitat.

Al Sunshine, president of the MPRC and a UM alumnus, said the university has made three land deals but it has not sold all the land needed for development yet. He said he hopes to prevent these sales and to encourage UM to buy back land it has already sold.

Sunshine will also hold a meeting with Presi-dent Julio Frenk to discuss the issue, joined by oth-ers involved with opposition to the land sale like Timothy Watson, an associate professor in the Eng-lish Department who circulated a petition to stu-dents and staff opposing the sale that was delivered to former UM President Donna Shalala last year.

Sunshine said he has “no expectations” for this meeting, but “just want[s] Frenk to know our side.”

The university released a statement maintain-ing that “the University of Miami is committed to the protection and preservation of our commu-nity’s natural and historic resources,” and that it “has acted in good faith and in compliance with all rules and regulations in its handling of the South Campus property.” According to the statement, UM also “jointly submitted a Habitat Conserva-tion Plan for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”

The MPRC organized a similar protest in the same location last February. According to Cully Waggoner, board member at large for the MPRC, the protest continues this academic year because the group has not yet succeeded in their mission.

“The job’s not done,” Waggoner said. “Until the land is saved, we’ll be out here as many times as we need to be.”

ENVIRONMENT

Pine rocklands protests resume

By S. Molly DominickS. Molly DominickMultimedia Editor

Giancarlo Falconi Giancarlo Falconi // Assistant Photo EditorROADSIDE RALLY: Students, faculty and the local community continue to rally against UM’s sale of the pine rocklands. The land, which houses endangered fl ora and fauna, was sold to a development fi rm in 2014.

SPLASH DOWN:Freshmen Chris Coyne and Mi-chael Goldstein ride the water slides on the Green at this year’s Wet N’ Wild event hosted by Hurricane Produc-tions (HP). In ad-dition to the water slides, HP provided a dunk tank, surf board riding ex-perience and free smoothies from

Smoothie King on the Rock. HP hosts a variety of events throughout the semester including Thursday’s Patio Jams, Cosford Cinema screenings, Canes After Dark and Canes Night Live. Their next event is a football watch party Friday at the Rathskel-ler as UM takes on FAU.

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T oppel Career Center (TCC) and Macy’s held the first “Dress For Suc-cess” fashion show, com-

plete with music by WVUM, free ice cream and a business suit giveaway, Wednesday at noon on the Lakeside Stage. The event celebrated TCC’s 20th anniversary and publicized the Career Expo on Sept. 18.

Joy Taylor from 790 AM’s “The Ticket,” hosted the show as six mod-els walked across the stage in profes-sional attire, courtesy of Dadeland Mall’s Macy’s.

Betty Zambrano, assistant di-rector of career events at Toppel, said working with the Macy’s events team was an ideal partnership be-cause of their interest in attracting University of Miami students to the stores, specifically at the Dadeland location.

Macy’s offers affordable fash-ion, such as the ones worn in the show, as well as other complemen-tary services for students to take ad-vantage of.

“They have a free styling ser-vice they offer for professional looks, so it just seemed like the per-fect partnership,” Zambrano said.

According to Zambrano, Top-pel directors brainstormed ideas for promoting the Career Expo and Graduate School Fair, and she thought of arranging a giveaway. Toppel kept boxes in its office for students to enter the suit giveaway and about 200 entries accumulat-ed before the “Dress For Success” event.

Ikem, who is an international business major, emphasized the im-portance of taking advantage of the resources the university offers be-fore entering the job market.

He graduated from the Univer-sity of Central Florida and faced dif-ficulty finding a job once he gradu-ated, which brought him back to graduate school. Now, however, he said he knows better.

“With the job market how it is in this day and age, you really want

to make sure that you’re doing what you have to do so you have a job,” Ikem said.

Learning how to dress profes-sionally is of utmost importance, according to Toppel’s Director of Career Education Edward Cruz, be-cause it plays a critical role in shap-ing a first impression.

“You can make a first impres-sion, but it can be positive or nega-tive,” Cruz said. “We provide these guidelines so that when a student comes through, when they walk away from that employer that they’re talking to, they’re being re-membered for the right reasons.”

The fashion show was de-signed to give job seekers outfit ideas depending on their prospec-tive careers. Similarly, Toppel offers resume critiques, workshops and events, advising and other resources to empower students to network and pursue their ideal job or internship.

Together with Student Gov-ernment, Toppel recently launched Sebastian’s Closet to offer rentals of professional clothing to degree-

seeking students for use in career-related events such as job fairs and interviews.

Cruz said many students think career events are only for juniors and seniors, but he challenged stu-dents to plan career goals and start working toward them as soon as possible.

“Outside of our fun T-shirts, outside of our fun events … we want students to engage with us so that they can start thinking earlier on about what their career is going to look like,” Cruz said.

By Isabella CuetoIsabella CuetoAssistant News Editor

CAMPUS LIFE

Show spotlights business style

Isabella Cueto Isabella Cueto // Assistant News Editor

BUSINESS MODEL: Tedley Joseph models professional attire at the Macy’s “Dress For Success” fashion show, hosted by Toppel Career Center Wednesday afternoon.

I n President Julio Frenk’s inaugural first-year students’ address on Aug. 19,

he told students that “these are the sorts of values we want to model for the larger society: learning to listen, learning to engage and learning to be re-spectful of each other.”

On Thursday night, he will put those into practice as he takes part in a historic town hall event at the BankUnited Center (BUC) that will in-clude an introductory talk from the president as well as a question and answer session that will last around an hour.

President Frenk officially began as president on Aug. 16 and said he would spend his first 100 days in office listen-ing to the UM community. This event, expected to last slightly over an hour, is his biggest chance yet to hear from the community.

The president’s Chief of Staff Rudy Fernandez said on Tuesday that the event will be President Frenk’s first intro-duction to the UM commu-nity.

“President Frenk is look-ing to listen to the UM com-munity,” he said. “What chal-lenges do students, faculty and staff feel they are facing? He also wants to hear what they think makes UM the great community that we all love.”

Fernandez said that the section of seats closest to the stage would be for students in order to give them the first opportunity to get up and ask questions. Along with ques-tions from the audience, the school has been accepting questions over social media with the use of #AskFrenk.

The BankUnited Center will be at half capacity, ac-

cording to Fernandez. The mod-erator for the event will be Fox News cor-respondent and 2010 UM gradu-ate Bryan

Llenas.“I was kind of surprised

when they asked me,” he said. “To be a small part of a histor-ic moment for a school I love is an incredible opportunity. I think this is a smart, fantastic way to do it; [Frenk] is new to the family, and in order to be-come acquainted, he needs to listen.”

Both Llenas and Fernan-dez said that President Frenk views the event and his “lis-tening tour” as an important aspect to approaching the last decade of the school’s first 100 years. He has taken over in the school’s 90th year and views this decade as crucial to advancing the school into its second century.

“When I spoke to him, I got a sense of what makes him tick … I love that he sounds re-ally excited about the school’s future; he doesn’t want us to rest on our laurels.”

Tickets for students are free and must be picked up on a first-come, first-served basis. Using a valid Cane Card ID, students can get one ticket per person at the Whitten Univer-sity Center and Student Cen-ter information desks from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. At the Rosen-stiel School campus, tickets can be acquired at the gradu-ate studies office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On the Miller School of Medicine campus, students can pick up tickets in the Of-fice of Student Activities and Student Organizations or Of-fice of Graduate and Postdoc-toral Studies in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building.

Faculty, staff, alumni and members of the community can acquire tickets online at Miami.edu/frenktownhall.

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I nnovation lies in the gray area between technical facility and passion. Many of us see artistic mastery as the end product of intense practice, which is widely true.

However, creativity is entirely different. It is both emotional and intellectual, spontaneous and well-developed. But more than anything, creativity is raw, unpolished expression. It often shows up in the most unexpected places.

In jazz music, innovation is a product of impro-visation – “soloing,” or making up notes and phrases that work within different chord progressions. This concept isn’t specific to jazz, however, or even to

music in general.I recently saw a video that challenged my understanding of how cre-

ativity manifests itself in our everyday lives. Blue Note Records, arguably the most significant jazz record label of all time, collaborated with New York footwear chain DQM for Vans to make a line of shoes that celebrate the conjunction of two art forms: jazz music and skateboarding.

In the project’s short promotional film, President of Blue Note Re-cords Don Was says, “What the skateboarders are doing is exactly what the musicians are doing. It’s raw. Raw emotion.”

This obvious similarity can be lost in the sea of discrepancies be-tween these two different art forms. One is seen as intellectual, even in-accessible, while the other is often stigmatized for its burnout “punk” culture. What these two disciplines share, however, is a crucial reliance on the artist’s technical skills, not only to achieve a finite goal, such as playing a melody or getting to the store, but also to engage in culture.

We do not often consider human interaction to be “improvisation,” but this kind of casual collaboration truly is the root of the creative pro-cess. In Was’s words, “It [doesn’t] matter if your instrument is a skate-board, or a bass, or a drum set … you go with what you can do, and you make that something new.”

What came from this project are two styles of shoes: “The Blues” and “The Colors.” Each shoe sports the Blue Note label and images of landmark albums by artists such as Kenny Dorham, Sonny Clark and Art Blakey. What’s more than the aesthetic appeal of the shoe is the symbol-ism of the article of clothing.

Shoes facilitate action. We create rhythms with them. We use them as a medium of expression. They grip the surface of a skateboard and amplify the sound of one stomping on the ground. Discipline, movement, productivity, expression – conceptual elements that shape both the realms of jazz and skateboarding – share one common, physical characteristic: the use of shoes. They are the instrument of the non-artist, the everyman’s “ax.” They accompany us through our endeavors like an extension of our own bodies.

Only by disregarding the constructed differences between various cultures and instead building upon their shared characteristics can we begin to create great art – art that defies categorization and compartmen-talization by forcing us to expand the limits of human expression.

Mackenzie Karbon is a freshman majoring in jazz performance.

True art requires breaking of cultural barriers

By Mackenzie KarbonMackenzie KarbonCulture Columnist

CULTURE

The 2016 U.S. News & World Re-port’s National University college rank-ings were published Wednesday morning, and the University of Miami has experi-enced a disappointing slip. We have long prided ourselves as the best university in the state after consistently ranking above other Florida schools, but that reign end-ed today as the University of Florida rose to a three-way tie at 47 and UM fell from 48 to 51.

The school’s ranking has steadily been dropping since its peak position of 38 in 2011. Now, for the f irst time since 2009, UM is no longer among the top 50 national universities. This decrease will

no doubt be a challenge for the school’s public relations and admissions. Many students and families rely heavily on college rankings when making decisions about where to apply and where to enroll, and the seemingly small decrease that places UM just outside the top 50 could make a world of difference to prospective applicants.

Yet the ranking, which was heavily based on perceived academic reputation, student retention and graduation rates, and faculty resources, seems at odds with the changes happening on the ground here in Coral Gables.

In these past two years, the new Frost Music Studios have been opened, another $1.6 billion has been raised through the Momentum2 fundraising campaign, a new president has been recruited from the nation’s best school of public health,

and the new UHealth Lennar Founda-tion Medical Center is scheduled to be f inished by next year. In addition, higher-quality student housing is in the works, and improved residential colleges will no doubt attract more students and increase student satisfaction.

The university has clearly built a strong foundation for long-term improve-ments in academics and student life, and perhaps this underlying trajectory cannot yet be ref lected in short-term rankings. However, if these many investments do indeed pay off, we can expect to see UM’s ranking rising once again in the coming years.

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

Ranking not reflective of campus reality

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nomenon rocked the na-tion during last week’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). Ever since then, Kanye West has been consistently trending on Facebook

and Twitter. Meanwhile, Yeezus himself has been flying under the radar after his big announcement, besides the beautiful flower bouquet he sent to Taylor Swift. However, it’s never too soon to start seriously consider-ing what a Kanye candidacy would look like.

Though 2020 is still five years away, Mr. West has actually articulated some more cohesive policy positions than many of the 2016 candidates.

First off, Yeezy sticks to his liberal roots when he tells this parable about the ineffectu-ality of charitable giving: “The church want tithe, so I can’t afford to pay/Pink slip on my door, cause I can’t afford to stay/My fifteen seconds up, but I got more to say/’That’s enough Mr. West, please, no more today.’”

Here, Kanye takes on the role of his younger, struggling self reaching out to a pastor for help. West seems to be saying that poverty is a systemic problem best dealt with at a causal level rather than having churches and private charities bandage the symptoms.

On the other hand, he has some pretty conservative messages on making college tu-ition more affordable. In his 2004 track “We Don’t Care,” ‘Ye rapped the lines, “Cause ain’t no tuition for having no ambition/And ain’t no loans for sittin’ your ass at home.”

It should be noted that over a decade has passed since that song dropped, so may-be West has evolved on this individualistic stance.

He may not have a lot of political ex-perience, but ‘Ye has proven to be a renais-

sance man in other areas, taking on the fash-ion industry in addition to his thriving music career. With candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson polling so well, West’s lack of political experience may be a boon.

I predict Mr. West would gain wide-ranging support, from the religious folks he won over with his insanely popular ode, “Je-sus Walks,” to the Black Lives Matter move-ment with his frequent criticism of race rela-tions in his song “New Slaves.”

He definitely already has the endorse-ment of rapper Big Sean, who once dropped the line, “’I know Kanye a jerk,’ how could you say that?/He rode me and my mama ‘round in his Maybach.”

A lot can happen between now and the 2020 race. Either way, the 2015 VMAs will go down in history as the point Kanye West eclipsed the reputation left behind by his 2009 VMAs outburst and becomes an icon of thoughtfulness, creativity and the American spirit. The real question is: what will be his campaign anthem?

Annie Cappetta is a sophomore majoring in politi-cal science.

Kanye sees presidential vision in 2020

By Annie CappettaAnnie CappettaPolitical Columnist

POLITICS

I n recent weeks, a blog created by actor Dylan Marron has been making waves in the online film community. The blog, titled

“Every Single Word” (ESW), features major films edited down to only the mo-ments when non-white actors speak.

The edited films clock in around 30-40 seconds when edited down, exhibit-ing just how consistently actors of color are pushed to the sidelines and denied substantial roles in film.

While many notable big-budget blockbusters made the list, like the Harry Potter movies and “The Lord of the Rings” (the edited version of which is a brief and embarrassing montage of POC actors in gro-tesque monster makeup snarling and howling), the videos really start to get interesting when they scrutinize popu-lar independent movies.

While the big-budget studio offerings still had small-er roles for actors of color, the independent films fared just as badly, if not worse. Sometimes, independent mov-ies did not have one single line delivered by a non-white

actor, even when the stories took place in locations and time periods in which a racially diverse cast would be re-alistic.

Now, amidst recent racially oriented debate sur-rounding the big summer tentpole franchises, most notably the films of Marvel Cinematic Universe such as “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (where the lead cast was uniformly white and the supporting cast uniformly non-white), and, recently, Warner Bros. Picture’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (a completely white cast), it’s easy to see this issue through a purely studio-oriented lens. The race disparity in Hollywood has long been chalked up to money-grubbing studio executives re-fusing to cast anybody but “attractive” and “marketable” (read: “white”) actors in leading roles.

But what ESW’s treatment of notable indie movies reveals is far more foundational. The analysis shows an uncomfortable but self-evident tendency of the film in-dustry: even when granted the complete creative control of independently produced cinema, the overwhelmingly white creatives behind the camera are more likely to ex-clude actors of color than they are with studio oversight.

Say what you will about Marvel (and I could say a lot, because I’m not a huge fan), but those in power at Marvel Studios make it a point for each of their movies to have at least one memorable role for an actor of color. The same cannot be said for undeniably talented indie direc-tors such as Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky.

Now it’s easy to vilify these artists for being racially exclusive, and there’s no doubt that their films deserve scrutiny, but the solution to this racial homogeneity may not be so simple as forcing white directors to hire actors of color. One of the worst grievances an artist can endure is being forcibly pressured to accommodate a social agen-da that is removed from his or her personal priorities.

Art, of all kinds, is self-expression, and if racially di-verse casting isn’t part of an artist’s film, forcing a race or ethnicity quota onto a director will not only harm the quality of their work, but it will also surely not bode well for the quality of roles and direction that actors of color would receive.

The change that needs to occur is not a concentrated effort to change existing director’s voices, but to add more voices to the table. We don’t need all the white directors to hire more black, Asian or Latino talent, though that would be nice. What we need is more directors of color telling stories that matter to them.

Diversity in art is, first and foremost, a concern of racial minorities. It hurts to see ourselves largely exclud-ed from stories that we love, which can result in a low sense of self-worth when exposed to whitewashed media from a young age. Since diversity is more important to us than anyone else, we need more of us making stories for the screen. If we want to see a more diverse array of people gracing our TV’s, we need more diversity behind the scenes among those writing, directing and producing.

Andrew Allen is a junior majoring in communications.

Film industry needs diverse voices behind camera

By Andrew AllenAndrew AllenStaff Columnist

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B eakers, test tubes, chemical pro-cesses and food may sound like a questionable combination, but Professor Barbara Colonna

brought them together in a tasty class stu-dents can’t get enough of.

The Chemistry of Food and Taste (CHM 317) combines four semesters’ worth of knowledge of chemistry and the love of eat-ing for a learning experience that’s gaining

popularity on campuses across the nation.Colonna’s class is structured around a

“play with your food” method in which a new topic is explored and experimented on each week using recipes and, of course, taste buds.

Students said they love the class because it’s a new way to go about the traditional chemistry education.

Senior David Song said the course is a breath of fresh air from his other more stress-ful classes.

“The teacher is an amazing teacher and this is a non-hostile environment, so it’s re-ally the best of both worlds,” Song said.

This week’s class focused on the changes of the pH balance in fish and eggs. Ceviche, century egg and lutefisk recipes were the three used in the research. The dishes were created using low pH solutions like lime juice and higher pH solutions like sodium hydrox-ide.

Students are looking forward to many upcoming recipes including liquid nitrogen ice cream, homemade bread, pasta and mol-ten chocolate lava cake.

Junior Doug Nguyen said the new ap-proach to chemistry has been very beneficial.

“In a lot of classes you just learn about concepts, but in something like this, you really get to apply practical applications,” Nguyen said.

Before the students start cooking, Col-onna leads a discussion on the chemical pro-cesses that will ensue and how slight changes in the recipes could ultimately affect the en-tire dish.

“I had students who could not break an egg and they end up doing complicated dish-es,” Colonna said. “If you understand what goes on scientifically, you can really change the game.”

Before becoming a professor six years ago, Colonna earned a supramolecular or-ganic chemistry Ph.D. from UCLA and later worked as a professional baker at Lyon Freres, a local high-end restaurant in Miami.

Nearly two decades ago, Colonna came up with the idea to combine her two loves of chemistry and food for the course. After talk-

ing it over with her friends, she finally gath-ered the courage to pitch it to UM.

For some students like senior Maria Te-resa Gallin, Colonna’s class has sparked a new interest. Gallin said after taking Colon-na’s class and becoming a teacher’s assistant, she is unsure whether she still wants to attend medical school.

“My mother always made really good bread, but after I had my experience in her class when she brought a professional baker, that’s when I became really interested,” Gal-lin said.

She has since competed in competitions as an amateur baker.

Students in the course also have multiple chances to create their own experiments as part of a “Go Well Together” lab and the final project in which they form their own recipe.

The “Go Well Together” lab encourages students to create food pairings based on mo-lecular similarities and not traditional reci-pes. Each semester, students have to choose something that has not been created in the past.

Dark chocolate and cauliflower, straw-berries and cilantro, lavender and apple, and smoked salmon and dark cocoa are some of the pairings students have created in the past.

In order to take the course, students must first pass six credits of organic chemis-try, and the course counts towards the chem-istry minor.

Colonna hopes that the course will con-tinue to grow and is excited that her dream of combining her two passions has been so successful.

CUL INARY CONCOCT ION: Sen ior I rene Cho i b lends ingred ients to prepare cev i che in the Chemis t ry o f Food and Tas te c lass taught by Professor B arbara . Co lonna .

EDIBLE EQUATIONS: Chemis t ry s tudents combine rec ipe ingred ients wi th vary ing pH so lut ions l i ke l ime ju i ce and sod ium hydrox ide. Th i s week ’s lesson focused on the changes in pH ba lance o f f i sh and eggs to c ra f t cev i che, century eggs and lu te f i sk .

Coursesatisfi es taste buds, brain

cellsBy Nadijah CampbellNadijah Campbell

Staff Writer

EGG-SPERIMENTING: Food chemis t ry s tudents work wi th unusua l ingred ients l i ke th i s century egg . DESIGN BYDESIGN BY AMY MELTZER AMY MELTZER

PHOTOS BYPHOTOS BY NADIJAH CAMPBELLNADIJAH CAMPBELL

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Miami football players who made their Hurricane debut on Saturday night 26SportsSports

W hen asked to de-scribe outside hitter Kelsie Groot in one

word, coach Jose Gandara re-sponded with “worker.” Groot’s teammate and good friend Ka-lysta White said “hilarious.”

Evidence supports these two descriptions. During high school, Groot says she had practiced and played volleyball four times each week. She was voted the team’s most valu-able player during her sopho-more, junior and senior years at Northwood High School in Irvine, California, and the f irst thing teammate Haley Temple-ton said about setting for Groot was, “Kelsie is fun to play with.”

Groot has already proven she is a player to watch this sea-son. The redshirt junior record-ed 19 kills in the f inal match versus Kansas State at the Hur-ricane Invitational, which the Canes swept on Aug. 29. Along with demonstrating her offen-sive skills, Groot showed that she is also a valuable defensive player, f inishing the game third on the team in digs.

“Kelsie is an all-around player,” Gandara said. “She can play outside and opposite. She is a good passer and server,

and she can defend at the net.”

Not only are Groot’s skills essen-tial to the success of the team, she also brings a positive atti-tude to the court that spreads to her fellow Canes. Temple-ton, White and Gandara all describe Groot as a great team-mate.

“She’s always excited for everybody else when they do something well,” White said. “I just really love having her on the court next to me.”

Groot’s contagious energy on the court is something all her teammates recognize. It’s no surprise that Groot’s favor-ite volleyball player is Olym-pian Kerri Walsh Jennings, a three-time gold medalist for the U.S. who competes with an endless supply of energy.

While Groot says she would love to play volleyball after college, she has other am-bitions as well.

The California native is a physical therapy major with an interest in working with elderly rehabilitation facilities after her volleyball career.

For now, Groot is focused on her performance this sea-son. “I want to play with con-fidence, especially with my hit-ting,” she said. “Even if there is a huge block in front of me, I want to take big swings as if no one is there.”

If the Hurricane Invita-tional is any indication, Groot and the team have a fantastic season ahead of them.

The Canes (3-3) play Pur-due next in the LSU Tourna-ment 6 p.m. on Saturday in Ba-ton Rouge, Louisiana.

E ach time a f lash of lightning strikes, a crack of thunder fol-lows.

While Saturday night’s storm brought some inclement weather to Sun Life Stadium, the one-two punch of running backs Mark Walton and Tray-one Gray were the “lightning

and thunder” that knocked out Bethune-Cookman.

After the season-ending in-jury to presumed starting run-ning back Gus Edwards, ques-tions began to surface regarding who would take control of the position. While sophomore Jo-seph Yearby got the start, it was the two backups, Walton and Gray, who showed promise in the season opener.

Walton, a highly touted freshman from Booker T. Wash-ington, rushed for 85 yards on 10 carries, including a f ive-yard touchdown run in the third quarter for his f irst score as a Hurricane.

“It was something that I was waiting on,” Walton said about his f irst career touchdown. “It was going through my head the

whole time, trying to get into the end zone. But when

I got in there, it was unbelievable.”

With his e l u s i v e n e s s , speed and vi-sion, Walton has already been compared to some of the Miami greats at the running back posi-tion. While it’s still early to say the Canes have the next Clinton Portis or Duke Johnson on their hands, the freshman looked ex-tremely poised in his f irst col-lege action.

“Coach [James] Coley and [the other coaches] did a great job of preparing me during camp,” Walton said when asked of his comfort level for the sea-son opener. “I just trust my abil-ity and trust my o-line’s ability and run behind them.”

While Walton showed off his impressive speed and agil-ity against Bethune-Cookman, Gray simply bulldozed over the smaller Wildcats.

The six-foot-two, 216-pound sophomore from Carol City High displayed his power and strength in the season opener as he rushed for 77 yards and a touchdown on eight carries.

After rushing for just 24 yards on six carries last season, Gray has already more than tripled last season’s total and shown he will be featured heav-ily in the backfield this season.

All together the Canes rush-ing attack racked up 195 yards in a game shortened by ten minutes due to the delay. It’s too early to tell whether Walton and Gray will eventually be added to the list of Miami’s running back legends, but what’s safe to say is you better keep an eye out for “lightning and thunder.”

Hurricanes running back duo storms field

Redshirt junior volleyball player shares positive energy with teammates

By Austin SapinAustin SapinContributing Sports Writer

By Rachel Cox-RosenRachel Cox-RosenAssistant Sports Editor

FOOTBALLVOLLEYBALL

Hallee Meltzer // Hal lee Meltzer // Photo EditorPhoto Editor

PUSHING AHEAD: Freshman running back Mark Walton breaks through a wall of Wildcats for a first down during the second quarter of Saturday’s home game against Bethune-Cookman. Walton rushed for 85 yards on 10 carries in his first collegiate game.

GROOT GRAY

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National Day of Service and Remembrance Event 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. The Rock Plaza

Following the Remembrance Memorial:

Beta Theta Pi will be collecting toiletries and personal hygiene items*National Pan-Hellenic Council will have a table where students can write messages of thanks and appreciation to veteransThe Veteran Students Organization will have a poster that will be sent to FDNY that students can sign to show their support

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September 10 - September 13, 2015 THE MIAMI HURRICANE DEAR V 11

Dear V, Dear V,

My best friend and I have been close since middle school and are like sisters. I’m starting freshman year at the college she’s now attended for two years. However, we’re not going to be roommates – I wanted to experience campus life my first year, while my bestie is avoiding communal showers and lofted bunks, so she’s living in an apartment with her boy-friend. I’m happy for her, but

I feel like something’s wrong. Her boyfriend has been hanging around the freshman dorms a lot – the other night, I saw him sneak out of one of my friend’s rooms. I’m not saying guys and girls can’t just be friends, but something is telling me he’s cheating on her. What should I do?

Sincerely,Sincerely,Suspiciously SallySuspiciously Sally

Dear Sally,Dear Sally,

This is the kind of case that takes a true detective to crack.

For all we know, your bestie’s boyfriend could’ve been picking up homework from a girl in her math class to take home to your best friend while she was sick with the sniffles, or he might’ve been borrowing the boxed set of the third season of Grey’s Anatomy to binge

watch with his girlfriend later that evening.

Don’t point fingers just yet. Assuming makes an “ass” out of you and me (just you, really). If you start drama and accuse your bestie’s boyfriend without any evidence, you’ll be seen as the jelly third wheel – or worse, you might get friend-dumped yourself.

Let’s solve this mystery without it turning on you.

You have to find evidence. This involves being sneaky without leaving fingerprints behind, Nancy Drew-style.

Whether it’s through Snapchat or wooing the dude in the security room, you’ll have to catch her beau on candid camera – your bestie can deny a witness account, but she can’t deny it if she sees it for herself, albeit pixelated and perhaps with a tacky geofilter added.

Swipe some snaps of the cheat-ing convict getting freaky with your

classmates and show them to your homegirl.

What comes next? You’re not going to drop this bomb and peace out. Support her no matter whether she decides to dump her dude or to try to work things out. Odds are, she’ll want to put the nix on the whole thing.

If you do catch your best friend’s guy cheating, inflate an air mattress for her to sleep on in your dorm while she sorts her living situation out, grab some ice cream and rent some guilty pleasure cheesy movies for you two to binge watch while she gets over the split.

Remember, guys may come and go, but best friends and Ben & Jerry’s will always be there for you.

V

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Patio Jams ft. Keith Johns12:15 pm • Lakeside Stage andPatioCome out to the Student Center Com-plex patio this Thursday from 12:15-1:30pm for live music from Keith Johns! As always, there will be free snocones and iced coffee as well to beat the Mi-ami heat. See you there!

Civic Scholars Coffee Hour3 pm • SC Vista RoomAs part of ‘Canes for a Change Week” hosted by the Butler Center for Service and Leadership, come mingle with cur-rent Civic Scholars over light refresh-ments. Come learn about the benefits of the Civic Scholars program and the steps that you can take to become in-volved.

Ibis Ride Kick-off Celebration 9 pm • Stanford Circle and Coconut Grove The Ibis Ride shuttle system will trans-port University of Miami students from the Coral Gables campus to Coconut Grove and back. The shuttle pick up point is located at Stanford Circle and a valid cane card is required for use of this service. The last bus leaving Stanford Circle for Coconut Grove departs at 1:40 AM

National Day of Service and Re-memberance12 p.m. • UC Rock PlazaJoin the University of Miami community for a day of remembrance and service as we honor those affected by the attacks of September 11th.

UM vs. FAU Football Watch Party8 p.m. • RathskellerJoin the HP Rathskeller Advisory Board and Category 5 “The Spirit Programming Board” as they cheer our ‘Canes onto vic-tory! Free wings for the first 50 students, a halftime competition, and giveaways are also included!

“UProv” Improv Auditions 11 a.m. • Dooley 103 Come audition for University of Miami’s one and only improv group! Make sure to wear comfortable clothing and be pre-pared to play a series of improv games!

CaneStage Fall Show Auditions2 p.m. • Dooley 103Come audition for HP CaneStage’s Fall Shows: 13! and Rocky Horror Picture Show! For 13 please prepare 16-32 measures of a song, for Rocky Horror Picture Show please prepare a 1 minute dance to a song from the show.

CAC Presents: MAD MAX Fury Road 9:30 p.m. • Cosford CinemaJoin the Cinematic Arts Commission of Hurricane Productions for an evening of action, fun, and adventure. Furious (Charlize Theron) rebels against a tyrannical ruler in post apocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with the help of beautiful tormented prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.

Cosford Cinema Presents:PHOENIX1 p.m. • Cosford Cinema

Cosford Cinema Presents:MERU3p.m. • Cosford Cinema



Cosford Cinema Presents:MERU9 p.m. • Cosford Cinema

Monday, September 14RAB & Athletics: Hurricane Hotline6 p.m. • RathskellerThe Rathskeller will host 560 WQAM’s Hurricane Hotline for the 2015 football season. Fans are encouraged to join fifth-year head coach Al Golden, various assistant coaches and players each week during the 2015 football season. The Hurricane Hotline, hosted by Joe Zagacki and Don Bailey Jr., will air from 6-8 p.m. on 560 WQAM and WQAM.com.

Please submit your information at least two weeks in advance to [email protected].

UM vs. Nebraska Football Pep RallyThursday, September 17 • 6:00 p.m. • Lakeside Patio and StageCategory 5 and Hurricane Athletics are hosting a Beat Nebraska pep rally in preparation for the football game against UM’s rival the Nebras-ka Cornhuskers. The pep rally will also feature performances from the Band of the Hour, cheerleaders and Sunsations dance team. Conclud-ing the pep rally, Category 5 will be distributing free #BeatNebraska T-shirts to students!

Saturday, September 12

Friday, September 11Thursday, September 10

Town Hall Meeting with President Juilo Frenk #AskFrenk Thursday, September 10 • 6:00 p.m. • BankUnited CenterPresident Frenk will host a special Town Hall meeting for the UM community followed by an exclusive reception where the first 500 student attendees will “Taste the Globe” and sample small bites from different cultures. It is impor-tant for all students to attend if they can as you will hear firsthand President Frenk’s ideas and vision for the next 10 years as he leads us to our centen-nial and have the opportunity for your voice to be heard when he answers your questions. You can even ask the President questions right now using

the hashtag #AskFrenk on social media!

Sunday, September 13

Career Expo and Graduate School FairFriday, September 18 • 6:00pm BankUnited CenterThis Career Expo is a signature recruiting event of the Topple Career Center which allows students to meet recruiters from a variety of industries. Explore internship options and full-time job opportunities both locally and nationally. Students from all majors and class levels are encouraged to attend. Profes-sional dress is required for entry and students are encouraged to bring at least 20 copies of their resume.

Sunday, September 13

Game Day Shirt Sales$3

All proceeds to the United Way!

Available at the UC Info Desk and SC Suite 206.

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