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The Miami
Vol. 88, Issue 3 | Jan. 28 - Feb. 1, 2010
HURRICANE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929
United in relief
JESSE SWANSON // The Miami Hurricane
HELPING HANDS: Senior Peggy Laguerre sorts donations of food and supplies at United Way that will be sent to the survivors of Haiti’s earthquake.
WHERE’S THE CHANGE? OBAMA’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE WAS MORE OF THE SAME PAGE 5
BRING ON THE SCREENPLAYS THE WRITER OF ‘BRING IT ON’ OFFERS THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME PAGE 7
SENIORS ON THE RISE JIMMY GRAHAM AND DARRYL SHARPTON COMPETE IN THE SENIOR BOWL PAGE 9
Volunteers donate their time packaging goods for Haiti BY ANDREA CONCEPCION | CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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utside of a warehouse in the city of Doral, UM senior, Peggy Laguerre stood in front of a mountain of packages, bags and suitcases filled with donations for Haiti from toiletries to toys to spoons. On Saturday, volunteer supervisors told Laguerre and 43 other students they needed to hurry up before the rain set in. If the rain came the items would be ruined and thrown away. “I felt intimidated,” she said. “The thought of all
that stuff going into the trash was a horrible thought. All that effort to gather [the donations] would be in vain.” The student volunteers quickly had to sort and package the donations. Laguerre got a box, looked at the massive pile, then up at the sky. “Okay, let’s get to it,” she thought. Laguerre and the students worked within only an hour and a half to reduce the pile to nothing. “At the end of the day, I can’t believe we went through this whole thing,” said Sherlley Sanon, president of the Haitian Student Organization (HSO). SEE HAITI, PAGE 4