The Miami Hurricane -- March 26, 2012

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Vol. 90, Issue 43 | March 26 - March 28, 2012

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THE MIAMI HURRICANE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ultra brings color, chaos, crowds

SCHOOL OF LAW

UM among 20 schools under fire for misleading stats Attorney claims inflated job numbers are deceitful BY LYSSA GOLDBERG ASSISTANT EDITOR

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MARLENA SKROBE // Photo Editor

HANDS UP: Throngs of people dance as confetti swirls around them during DJ Steve Aoki's set at Ultra Music Festival on Sunday. The Miami Hurricane scored an exclusive interview with Aoki before his performance. Read that story and a Q&A with WVUM’s Laura of Miami, and check out photos from Ultra on pages 7-8.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Kony 2012 explodes in popularity UM Invisible Children club to hold screening of powerful video BY DANIEL CEPERO MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

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ver three weeks, Invisible Children ’s “Kony 2012 ” video has gotten more than 85 million views and sparked massive discussions across all social media platforms. Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to bringing Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony to justice, posted the 30-minute video on March 5. “Kony 2012 ” offers a simple breakdown of Kony, his Lord ’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the more than 30,000 children who have been abducted and

forced to serve as child soldiers. #STOPKONY was consistently in the top five Twitter trending topics during the first week the video was online. Invisible Children also reached 3 million Facebook “likes ” and 415,834 followers on Twitter. The Kony 2012 campaign advocates a two-step process that asks young adults to spread the word, first to celebrities, or “culturemakers, ” and then to politicians, the “policymakers. ” “I think it ’s incredible how the younger, more technologically-savvy generation is able to create movements

so quickly using tools like social networking, ” sophomore Gabrielle Roland said. A screening of the video will be held on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in UC Ballroom B, followed by a discussion. The campaign will culminate in a national Cover the Night event on April 20. On that night, supporters will be encouraged to plaster their respective cities with posters of Kony and Invisible Children. Cover the Night events have been planned in Coral Gables and the surrounding Miami area.

SEE KONY, PAGE 3

he University of Miami School of Law, along with 19 other law schools around the country, is under scrutiny for inflated job placement and salary statistics shared with incoming students. A New York attorney, David Anziska, is heading the initiative to sue the 20 schools, arguing that law schools have misled prospective students, The Miami Herald reported. The UM School of Law chose not to comment on the matter. Law schools ’ posted graduate job placement rates include not only part-time and temporary work, but also work unrelated to a law license, Anziska told The Miami Herald. For law school graduates who rack up hundreds of thousands in debt and remain unemployed, this misrepresentative data can be an issue. UM ’s website advertises that 83.5 percent of all 2010 graduates are employed, but 17.1 percent of these employed graduates hold short-term positions. Marla Neufeld graduated from the UM School of Law in 2007 and has been with the same law firm ever since. She was able to find a job through family connections in the legal community, but not all of her classmates were as fortunate. “I still have friends looking for jobs that have availability to keep them, ” Neufeld said. “You ’d think being a lawyer, you ’d have some security, but it doesn ’t feel that way at all. ”

SEE STATS, PAGE 4

READY SET AT THE FAIR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DO-IT-ALL MUSICIAN FROM THE READY SET PAGE 8

BACK ON THE GRIDIRON NEW FACES DEBUT AT FOOTBALL TEAM’S SCRIMMAGE PAGE 10


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