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Vol. 87, Issue 5 | Sept. 10 - Sept. 13, 2009

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Enrollment in ROTC surges in South Florida

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rmy ROTC programs in South Florida have seen a jump in enrollment in the past few months.

The Army ROTC program at UM has doubled its size - now having roughly 24 to 30 cadets enrolled each semester from its previous 12 to 15.

Florida Atlantic University’s Army ROTC program jumped from 26 to 56 within the last year alone.

FAU also serves much of the upper South Florida campuses, including Broward College and Palm Beach Atlantic University.

Florida International University hasn’t seen as big of an increase as UM and FAU, but has still seen steady growth. FIU is the main ROTC school

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Study: many women have “rape fantasies” Females find pleasure in the forbidden

BY IRENE DABOIN CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

A recent study published in the Journal of Sex Research considered the contents, prevalence, and frequency of a very particular kind of sexual fantasy in women: “rape fantasies.”

As surprising as it may seem, the study’s results indicated that 62 percent of women have these “rape fantasies,” with these varying on a continuum from “completely aversive” to “completely erotic.”

Those labeled as “completely aversive” (9%) would probably fit the general public’s label of “nightmares” rather than that of “fantasies.” The rest were dreams that were, in one way or another, sexually arousing.

“Fantasies that apparently involve rape are not uncommon among women. This study did find a higher prevalence, probably due to their extensive use of prompts [suggestive survey questions] and the fact that some prompts were stated with [careful] wording such as ‘overwhelming’; which is much less emotionally charged than [the word] rape,” UM Professor Franklin Foote, sex therapist, lecturer and licensed psychologist, said.

The study evaluated 355 female undergraduates through fantasy logs, questionnaires, and self-

ratings, and found that this high frequency of “rape fantasies” in their findings was probably due to the age bracket of their research.

“Rape fantasies” have always been a tricky issue for researchers given the particular nature of their content. In truth, most of what falls under this category of fantasy is far from corresponding to what we call “rape” in real life.

From what has been the social example in traditional romance novels, the heroine runs away from the hero and tries to avoid his seducing ways until she just cannot resist him any longer.

Pretty much the same has been described by most women who have reported having “rape fantasies.”

“Erotic rape fantasies often included feigned non-consent,

low levels of verbal or physical resistance, and … positive emotions for the fantasizer,” according to this study. “[Erotic rape fantasies] contain minimal to no violence, the perpetrator tends to be overwhelmed by his desire for the target, he typically has no hostile intent but cannot control his need for her, and the victim often resists only because she believes sex is inappropriate in the situation but she really has a great desire for him as well,” Foote said.

“Such fantasies, of course, are very far from what a rape experience is like; the reality of rape is not viewed erotically by women.”

Irene Daboin may be contacted at idaboin@themiamihurricane.com.

Indian frat gives back to world Group repairs computers, issues vaccines

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Camels visit campus! Check It out online wih a slideshow of photos.

Are you proud to be a Miami Hurricane? So is Christina De Nicola.

Check out her commentary online about school pride.

Thinking about seeing the movie Extract? Think twice. Read Sarah B. Pilchick’s movie review online.

Meredith Reilly has the scoop on a new advising contract in the works.

Check it out at www. themiamihurricane. com.

BY NATALIA V. MARTINEZ CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

A University of Miami Southern Asian fraternity aims to set an example for others through philanthropy and academia.

Members of Delta Epsilon Psi have a minimum grade point average of 3.0. They voluntarily seek, repair and donate old computers to underprivileged countries through a program called Project PC Hookup.

“I was given so many opportunities,” said Ashish Shah, a junior and founding member.

“Here in the US we have so many resources. By giving my time somehow, someway we can make things happen.”

Last spring, two members of the fraternity traveled along with students from UM’s Medical School to Haiti through Project Medishare, a nonprofit organization aimed at providing vaccines, screen tests and other health care needs to underprivileged nations.

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DOCTOR MY EYES: The brothers of Delta Epsilon Psi traveled to Haiti with students from UM’s Medical School through a nonprofit organization aimed at providing vaccines, among other things.

Instead of carry-on luggage, they brought on board four newly repaired computers that would serve Haitian health care workers.

This academic year, the seven-member fraternity wants to donate at least 25 computers to help Project Medishare set up a classroom in Haiti for children.

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Along with the help of a computer savvy fraternity brother, junior Emmanuel Berchmans, the members spend four to five hours a week fixing the modems.

One of the challenges the project faces this year is finding 25 monitors to go along with the repaired modems, according to Shah. But members of the frater-

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nity hope to gain the support of the university as well as the student body.

For more information about Delta Epsilon Psi visit their website: www.depsinu.org.

Natalia V. Martinez may be contacted at nmartinez@themiamihurricane. com.

On the Cover The Army ROTC practices physical training at 6 a.m. as a part of their regular regiment.

Exercises include sit ups, push ups, planks and a two-mile run before the sun even comes up.

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Parking problems abound

ILLUSTRATION BY: SHAYNA BLUMENTHAL. MAP SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

BIRD’S-EYE VIEW: The colored areas show the different designated parking lots on and around campus. Students are frustrated and outraged over the perceived lack of parking on campus, while university officials and administrators insist that students have ample parking available every morning and all through the day.

Students frustrated by parking woes

BY LILA ALBIZU ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Class starts at 9:30 a.m.

It is now 9:15 a.m. and the parking lot in the School of Communication is completely full.

Parking at the Ponce de Leon and Pavia garages and riding the Hurry ‘Cane shuttles can take up to another half an hour. Walking is even longer.

Many commuter students face this same scene every day as they compete with others to park closest to the Memorial Classroom Building and the Whitten Learning Center.

According to Janet Gavarrete, associate vice president of campus planning, there are more

than enough spaces to park on the Coral Gables campus.

“There isn’t parking when you want it to be and where you want it to be to just get out of the car and go to class,” Gavarrete said.

She said that parking is monitored daily and there are 500 spaces open at any given time of the day. Richard Sobaram, director of parking and transportation services, said that 1,200 parking spots go unclaimed on campus every day.

“The parking spaces are there,” Sobaram said. “They’re definitely available. Students just have to plan ahead.”

Earlier this year, the parking lot by the School of Business closed and was reassigned as green space for the university until construction for the Miguel B. Fernandez Family Entrepreneurship Building begins later this year or

early 2010. This parking lot was made temporarily available in 2006 while construction for the 400-space Serpentine Parking Lot in front of the BankUnited Center was underway until the summer of 2008.

“I think it’s a good thing that the university is trying to go green,” said Constanza Covarrubias, who started a Facebook group and an online petition to reopen the School of Business parking lot. “But it puts all the students at an inconvenience and makes parking and going to class almost impossible. There’s more need for parking than there is for a green area, in my opinion.”

Covarrubias started the Facebook group “Let’s do something about the parking situation at UM...at least complain” the second week of class. The group boasts 640 members and 45 comments. She also began an online

petition that currently has more than 250 signatures.

“I want to be prepared with a formal letter of complaint and 400 signatures,” she said. “Have something big prepared and be taken seriously by parking and transportation.”

Students’ complaints revolve around the fact that while parking may be available, it is on the periphery of campus and not close to the main classroom buildings.

“The BankUnited Center is at least 15 minutes away from everything else,” Covarrubias said.

“And then there’s walking to class in the Miami heat and rain.”

Sobaram said that students face a variety of options to find parking. In an e-mail to The Miami Hurricane, he advised students to get to school early, park at the Ponce de Leon Garage, take the shuttle to campus and hang out at

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the library until the beginning of class.

“Catch up on your homework,” he said.

According to Sobaram, the surface lot in the Mahoney/Pearson residential complex is available for commuters. He also emphasized that the first few weeks of the semester are not indicative of the usual parking situation on campus. Parking permit enforcement started this past Monday.

Until that day, cars were allowed to park on campus indiscriminately without getting a ticket.

“I personally went out because I wanted to see what the first day of real parking would be like and I found around 200 parking spots across campus,” Sobaram said.

Lila Albizu can be contacted at lalbizu@themiamihurricane.com

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Cadet earn credits, free tuition with participation ROTC FROM PAGE 1 in which “accompany” schools like UM, Miami-Dade College, Florida Atlantic and Barry fall under.

“We interact with them all the time every Thursday. We have a lab, which means we can go down for application skills… going through the woods and finding points…or doing little missions in the woods,” said Melinda Jeudi, a senior and cadet of recruiting at the University of Miami.

“So every week it’s something different, and we get to interact with the other students from the other schools so it’s not only UM. It’s all the other schools together.”

According to enrollment officers at UM, FIU and FAU, the economy seems to be a big factor in students’ choices to enroll in the Army ROTC program because of the generous scholarships offered.

This money helped Jeudi stay in school.

ROTC students can now receive military minor Specialty consists of 23 credits

BY COLLEEN DOURNEY CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

CHELSEA MATIASH // The Miami Hurricane

ARMY OF ONE: Angela Jung holds a plank position during early morning training. The members of ROTC complete exercises on the Cobb Stadium fields at 6 a.m. most mornings.

“I was going to drop out and I found out there was Army ROTC so I joined the program, and it’s the best thing I did in my life,” she said.

Second Lieutenant Gabriel Gonzalez of the UM Air Force ROTC program said that recruitment techniques have also

been changed to reach out to minorities at area high schools.

“That’s how I got here; that’s how a lot of other people in our detachment got here, and we’re grateful,” he said.

Colleen Dourney may be contacted at cdourney@themiamihurricane.com.

Camels take The Green by desert storm

University of Miami students can now receive a minor for completing the Army’s ROTC requirements.

With this change, the Army ROTC program joins the Air Force as military programs that allow students to achieve academic credit at UM. The Navy has no branches on campus.

“With ROTC we do a lot of physical stuff. I got more fit and so I’m more happy and active physically,” said Melinda Jeudi, a senior and cadette of recruiting at UM. “I gained some friends. We don’t only hang out during ROTC. It’s building me up for my future as an officer in the army.”

Master Sgt. Patrick Miller, one of the main catalyst behind this new effort, sees this as an opportunity to reward students for their work.

“The minor is not designed to replace any student’s choice, but rather to give them the option to minor in military science and to recognize those working hard,” he said.

According to Miller, students need to be enrolled in the ROTC program in order to obtain the minor, but anyone can take a military science class.

ROTC for freshmen and sophomores does not require a participant to become a member of the Army. However, two years of completion makes a candidate eligible for the advance program in their final two years at UM. If students enter this course then they either commit to eight years in the army reserve or four years of active duty with an additional four years as part of the Individual Ready Return, IRR. Students can still join the advance program even if they do not complete the ROTC training in their first two years at the University of Miami. However, they will need four years of JROTC or prior service, or go to a leadership training course over the summer.

Full-tuition scholarships are available for students that enter the advance program. Underclassmen can also get a scholarship if they commit to the advance program early.

Miller encourages students to take even just one class for a semester. He thinks they will not only get in better physical shape but learn leadership and other skills that are rarely found elsewhere.

“We teach leadership skills, and wherever you go, those skills are important foundations of what you need to operate in any day to day jobs,” Miller said.

Colleen Dourney may be contacted at cdourney@ themiamihurricane.com.

ROTC Locations and Contacts Army ROTC Panhellenic Building, Room 108 Phone: 305-284-3329 MARISSA FERGUSON // The Miami Hurricane

RIDIN’ DIRTY BETWEEN TWO HUMPS: Bea Sagarduy and Nadia Akhiyat ride camels Shorty and Bart during Israel Fest, hosted by Hillel, yesterday on The Green to promote different Jewish and Israel-advocacy organziations and ways to get involved.

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Air Force ROTC 1204 Dickinson Drive, Building 37W Phone: 305-284-2870

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Toppel director relates to students Garcia manages school, work, fun

BY BEN CATHEY CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

Christian Garcia started school in the first week of September. That may seem late, considering that many of us by this time have already readjusted to Lake Osceola and, well, class.

The feeling is not lost in Garcia. After a 12-year hiatus, he returns to class, as he pursues his doctoral degree in education. Oh yeah, he already has a full-time job.

Garcia was appointed the director of Toppel Career Center in June. While many of us were doing internships, studying abroad, or enjoying the last vestiges of high school, he was busy training his staff and teaching himself the new job.

“We do a lot of education amongst ourselves,” Garcia said.

Formerly an associate director at Toppel, he was charged with handling employer relations. Garcia now oversees a full-time staff of 12 at Toppel, along with numerous student employees.

“Part of me misses being in the trenches,” Garcia said. “But I don’t really get involved in their day-to-day work.”

The staff sees him as a different type of boss, one who can employ the enthusiastic resolve of a new director with the wisdom of a veteran employee.

“The transition has been challenging but easier than I expected,” Garcia said.

Lili Jimenez, “the office assistant” and “Mother Hen” at Toppel, has known Garcia for years.

“We all like him, because even before he was our boss, he was our co-worker,” Jimenez said.

“He is a perfectionist.”

This attention to detail will be necessary as he takes classes at Nova Southeastern University.

On a typical weekday, Garcia pulls a 10-hour shift in his corner office. Adding classes on top further taxes his time, but he is excited to get started.

“It was always part of my plan to get my terminal degree,” Garcia said.

He spends much of the day answering mail and attending meetings, but his big goal this year is reaching out to alumni.

“Are we doing as much as we can?” Garcia asks. “Alumni don’t have the flexibility of coming on campus.”

By the time he gets home, he is ready for takeout and his new favorite show, True Blood.

“I like to keep work at work,” Garcia said.

Ben Cathey may be contacted at bcathey@themiamihurricane.com.

KATIE SIKORA // The Miami Hurricane

KING OF TIME MANAGEMENT: Christian Garcia is going back to school while working as director of Toppel Career Center.

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OPINION Legalize the organ trade to save lives

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t’s your worst fear— waking up in a bathtub full of ice and discovering one of your kidneys is missing. You start piecing the night together bit by bit. You remember feeling a little out of your league when TIMOTHY HEACOCK that gorgeous Russian CONTRIBUTING girl walked up with a COLUMNIST crantini, your favorite drink.

Not a word of English but she was awfully cute trying to hide that bump on her throat. Before you completely lost consciousness, you realized this girl was packing more than an Adam’s apple – she had a complete surgical toolkit in her purse. Finally you recognize that you have fallen victim to a human organ trafficking operation and do some research into this horrible practice.

In the US there are over 100,000 people on the waiting list for an organ. Eighty thousand need a kidney and 15,000 a liver. Gee,

over 90% of the people on the waiting list need either something that everybody’s got two of, or something that is self-regenerating.

It is unthinkable that there are not enough donors to satisfy this small demand.

You find a seemingly good idea: compensate the families of deceased donors and start a business that buys kidneys from living donors.

This was publicly suggested to the U.S. government in 1983 to incentivize donation, thereby increasing it.

But we can’t let money replace altruism, cheapening those warm and fuzzy feelings obtained by doing something so selfless.

Anyone who has no moral qualms about buying or selling organs can just go to hell – literally.

Ah no worries, our well-intentioned politicians are on the case. They’ll get those greedy bastards who want money for organs!

Reps. Henry Waxman and Al Gore headed the effort to hurriedly pass the National Organ Transplantation Act in 1984, which banned the sale of human organs from dead

and living donors.

Yes, Al Gore, the man who lives an extravagant yet “carbon neutral” lifestyle by purchasing carbon offsets…from a company he partly owns.

So now the free exchange of goods between two desperate people – one for life and the other for money – has been turned into a crime and forced underground.

Organ traffickers fill the void created by prohibition just as with alcohol in the 1920s and drugs today.

The black market is simply the free market working around legislation that attempts to repeal the immutable laws of human action (economics).

Condemning tens of thousands to suffering and, on average, 18 people per day to death just to impose their moral views upon everyone? Organ traffickers can’t hold a candle to the gang of thieves called Congress.

Timothy Heacock is a senior majoring in finance and economics. He may be contacted at theacock@ themiamihurricane.com.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Stay Classy, Miami On Monday night Canes showed their support as the Hurricanes faced long-time rival Florida State for the 54th time.

The game, aside from a celebratory occasion, showed us why FSU is our rival. We are all familiar with the jeers and cheers of both teams that come with the territory of sports, alcohol and competition.

However, the Noles took good spirit and fun above and beyond to a level of vulgarity and bad sportsmanship.

Witnessing this outward display of embarrassing conduct makes you consider what is in good fun, and what is downright trashy.

Canes fans were decked in orange and green from head to toe, as one would expect as a show of support.

Seminoles, too, sported shirts featuring the “U.” Rather than support their team, they focused on demeaning ours with slogans such as F*** U, thUgs, scUM and Muck Fiami. An overwhelming display of Miami’s colors in crude context cropped up on every turn.

This, however, is not even the worst. Hurricanes visiting the campus would inevitably get lost in Seminole territory. On several occasions, FSU students would happily direct them - the wrong way.

This intended malice exceeded supporting their school and focused energies on degrading ours. Noles crowded around the bus chartered for the Miami football team to welcome the players with crude gestures, signs and chants.

Rivalry became an onset of poor taste and despicable behavior.

Keeping this in mind, we call on all Canes to maintain a level of dignity and respect. When Georgia Tech visits us at the first home football game a week from today, make everyone proud to be a Miami Hurricane. Act with a level of dignity that demands respect and dispels any misconceptions of Miami as a “thug” or “scum” school.

And for goodness sake, please give people the right directions.

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

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COLBY UVA Freshman “It was the most intense 19 seconds I’ve ever seen.”

ISRAEL MOLL Freshman “I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.”

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osta Rica, Germany, Japan, Australia. The list goes on. Each year, dozens of international students come to the University of Miami to spend anywhere from a semester to four years EVAN PESKIN CONTRIBUTING at the school, bringing COLUMNIST with them their customs, foods, music choices, and more.

This melting pot adds a great international feel to our school, and I, for one, love it. It lets all of us who haven’t had the opportunity to travel overseas and around the world to experience some global culture. Not to mention, there are quite a few female exchange students that really make me want to renew my passport.

This year, as I looked over my housing agreement in Pearson, I noticed that next to one of my suite mates’ name was, in italics, Great Britain. I took it as my duty to show the ‘bloke’ around, introduce him to my fraternity and my friends, and make him feel at home.

Everyone loved him immediately, and I realized all my intentions, while good-natured,

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weren’t needed. I did, however, think that I probably should help him meet some girls while he was here. After all, UM does boast some of the most gorgeous girls in the country, and as an exchange student, didn’t he deserve to meet some of the best the United States had to offer?

As we got in the dining hall, I told him to hold on a second, as I approached a table of a couple female friends, trying to ask them to be sweet to him. I motioned him over, and what happened still manages to blow my mind. All it took was a heavily accented, charming, JamesBond-esque “Why hello lovelies, how are we today,” and every girl in a 10-foot radius was smitten.

The moral of this story? Three things.

One, international students are great, and they come here to get a good education, have fun, and meet some Americans. Two, ladies, get prepared to fall head over heels in love after a “G-day” from an Australian or a “Hows it?” from a South African. And three… I need to work on my accent.

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AUDREY CHEN Sophomore “It made my heart stop, but it was definitely worth the heart attack.”

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s a graduate of the venerable School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I take my role as a trained observer very seriously, and my responsibility as a grammatical invigilator no less so.

Last week, I arrived at the University of Miami to begin work toward a master’s degree in multimedia journalism in the School of Communication.

I was immediately provoked by a prodigious punctuation error that is disturbing not only in its grammatical magnitude (really bad), but also in its physical dimension (in letters about five feet tall) and geographical reach (all over campus!).

I am writing, of course, about the greenand-orange Hurry ’Canes shuttles that ferry students and faculty about campus. Even the casual observer would note that a comma must appear after the word “hurry.”

The phrase “Hurry, ’Canes” directly addresses the campus community of “’canes,” imploring us to “hurry.” Thus, a comma is

required before the name of the person(s) to whom the admonition is directed.

With the comma, “Hurry, ’Canes” is grammatically correct. (That bothersome capital “C” and the purloined period at the end are matters for another discussion.) Without the comma, “Hurry ’Canes” means…well, I don’t think it means anything at all.

I have read that our school is now No. 50 in US News and World Report’s annual ranking of universities.

I trust that action will be taken to correct UM’s glaring grammatical gaffe; hopefully before the editors at US News find out about it.

-Charles “Stretch” Ledford, Multimedia Journalism Graduate Student EDITOR’S NOTE: While it may seem grammatically incorrect in other circumstances, the Hurry ‘Canes shuttles are a play on the word “hurricane,” in reference to our sports teams.

Therefore, “Hurry ‘Canes” is intended to be read as one word, not a sentence.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band @ BankAtlantic Center Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

UM’s newest

hip-hop star

BY CAMRON GHORBI CONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

The University of Miami is well known for its association with some of the most accomplished artists in today’s music industry.

Enrique Iglesias, John Secada and Gloria Estefan are just three of the many Grammy award-winning artists who have graduated from UM before achieving commercial success. With a musical style described as “fun, thought-provoking and relatable,” junior Miles Dotson hopes one day to add his name to that list of prominent Hurricanes in the music industry.

Dotson, who goes by the stage name of Mobbs Juice, said music was a big part of his childhood in Houston, Texas. Baptist-style worship and piano lessons helped Dotson realize his dream of becoming a musician.

“All I ever wanted to do since I was a kid was make music,” Dotson said. “It goes back as far as I can remember.”

As for his stage name, the 20-year-old Dotson said that it, too, came from his childhood.

“Juice was always my nickname. My friends used to call my god-brother ‘Sauce’ and they needed a nickname for me,” he said. “It wasn’t until I got to Miami when I added the ‘Mobbs’ part.”

Dotson feels that coming to UM has provided him with connections that were crucial to his early musical success. His motivation behind majoring in electrical engineering was

based on becoming a well-rounded musician.

“The industry is calling for a more qualified and skilled professional nowadays. Basically, I want to be the vocals going into the mic and the engineer on the other side of the glass.”

In addition to his studies and his music, Dotson worked as a resident assistant in Stanford Residential College last year. Marlow Svatek, a junior who worked in the Towers with him, certainly recognized his passion.

“His music has really flowed over into his life,” she said. “ It’s hard to distinguish Miles with his music and without it. I’ve seen him live, and I’m hoping he makes it big!”

After beginning production on his second mixtape this past April, Dotson finished the album, called ChallengHER, over the summer and re-released it on Sept. 8. His sophomore effort has a defined hip-hop feel to it, as Dotson listed Notorious B.I.G, Tupac Shakur and Nas among his biggest influences.

“I’m not just a rapper, though. I present all brands of music. Listen to the album, and you’ll see for yourself,” Dotson said.

Dotson posted ChallengHER to the popular mixtape site www.DatPiff.com, but believes that it is through his live shows where he will gain more notoriety. He is already planning his first tour, set to kick off the summer of 2010.

Camron Ghorbi may be contacted at cghorbi@ themiamihurricane.com.

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N.E.R.D. to headline the Future Classic Festival in Miami

BY NICOLETTE ROQUE STAFF EDGE WRITER

DANNY BULL // The Miami Hurricane

GUESS WHO’S BACK: N.E.R.D., last year’s Homecoming performers, is at Future Classic Festival.

IF YOU GO WHO: N.E.R.D., Awesome New Republic, Spam All Stars and many more WHAT: Performances and other cultural exhibits all in one night WHERE: Soho Studios, Miami Wynwood District at 2136 N.W. 1st Avenue WHEN: Saturday GET TICKETS: www.wantickets.com/futureclassicfestival

Miami’s industrial Soho Studios will be the lucky venue of this Saturday’s Future Classic Festival, a culmination of underground culture and unique Miami style right in the heart of the city’s artsy Wynwood District.

With an audience anticipated to be in the triple digits, national artists like N.E.R.D. will join local favorites like Awesome New Republic and Spam All Stars for a night of music, art, and culture.

Fashion, visual art, dance, electronic gaming, action sports, and ecoconsciousness exhibits will all be represented in the art complex. Features like art installations and live graffiti might attract the visually inclined, whereas a skate ramp used by top skateboarders can attract those who crave adrenaline in not-so-moderate doses.

Fans of fashion and electronic gaming might find their own niche in the festival, as the fair promises to provide a formidable fashion show by SoMe Designs and a video gaming area with 20 gaming stations where guests can compete with professional gamers.

The focus of the Future Classic Festival is really

on the music, though. The event boasts an eclectic combination of artists, including the Grammy-nominated Locos Por Juana as well as Afrobeta, Soniko, Suenalo, Mayday, Elastic Bond, Artofficial, Fusik, Bachaco, Buttaverses, and The Morning Flesh Project—most of which sound like a fusion of progressive rock, reggae, and electro-pop.

The Future Classic Festival also includes a focus on environmental awareness, including a special Eco Village produced by Miamibased green enterprise, Rescue Earth. This non-profit organization consists of a coalition of Miami-Dade schools and local Environmental Protection Agency officials who seek to educate South Floridians about the environment and our impact on it, and will be exhibiting their sustainable architecture at the festival.

“The concept of the festival is to bring together many subcultures in one event,” said event organizer Mihai Crisan. “For example, you might be a fan of N.E.R.D. and at the same time love to watch break dancing. All these things can be found at one event.”

Nicolette Roque may be contacted at nroque@ themiamihurricane.com.

USpeak your minds OPEN MIC NIGHT: Junior Asia Davis takes the microphone at USpeak, an open verse and short story performance series held in the Oasis Deli Cafe last Friday night.

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The ranking of the Canes in the Associated Press poll

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What’s left to Ponder? Harris saves the day Quarterback leads Canes to last-minute win

BY JUSTIN ANTWEIL SPORTS EDITOR

Apparently Jacory Harris reads The Miami Hurricane.

The 6-foot-4-inch, 190-pound slender hometown hero proved he has the intangibles to lead UM back to its glory days.

Dubbed “the Savior” who will revive a formerly-mediocre UM football team, Harris showcased his playmaking abilities in the national spotlight Monday night.

In one week he has already put Miami back on the map as the Canes are ranked No. 20 and No. 22 in this week’s Associated Press and USA Today coaches’ polls respectively. The No. 20 ranking is the highest Miami has been rated since being tabbed No. 17 in September of 2006.

His near 400-yard passing performance earned him ACC Offensive Back of the Week honors.

Quarterbacks are always judged on two key ingredients: wins and ability to execute in the fourth quarter.

After Monday night’s 38-34 victory over the Seminoles, Harris improved to 32-1 as a starting quarterback at any level. His 99 yard game winning drive in the final possession of the Class 6A Florida Sate semi-finals against Deerfield Beach in 2007 was a microcosm of Harris’ innate

ability to be a leader and perform under the bright lights.

“Being at Miami Northwestern is a difference,” Shannon said of his star quarterback. “You are held to a higher standard and everybody is going to be on you.

“He came to Miami his freshman year and got some wins for us and never panicked. If you look at [Ken] Dorsey’s, [Steve] Walsh’s and Jacory’s bodies they are all fragile guys. But their mindset and mentality was ‘We’re not going to panic, we’re not going to get frustrated.’ When they make mistakes they learn from them.”

Heading into the fourth quarter, the Hurricanes were just 1-for-8 on third downs, but in the final frame they were 4-for-5.

On the ensuing drive after Harris injured his funny bone, he converted on three straight third down conversions to ultimately set up a 25-yard touchdown pass to Graig Cooper.

After the Noles would respond with a 45-yard field goal with just over four minutes left, Harris countered with a 40 yard strike to Travis Benjamin as he hit his receiver in stride while in double coverage as Benjamin ever so slightly dragged his back foot as he maintained passion. That set up the go ahead touchdown as Cooper scampered up the middle for a three yard score.

Jacory Sherrod Harris may just be “the Savior” UM has been searching for since its golden years.

Justin Antweil may be contacted at jantweil@themiamihurricane.com.

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SUPERMAN: Harris looks to connect with his teammates during Monday’s game against FSU.

Five biggest plays from the season opener 1st Quarter with 12:38 left: Miami converts on a 4th and 1 in its first possession.

3rd Quarter with 1:32 left: The Canes trailed 23-17 when Marcus Robinson stripped Christian Ponder and Josh Holmes recovered on UM’s 29 yard line.

4th Quarter with 10:31 left: On 3rd and 15 Jacory Harris connects with Leonard Hankerson for 16 yards to keep the drive alive.

4th Quarter with 1:56 left: Harris throws a 40-yard strike to the back shoulder of Travis Benjamin, who mantains possession that leads to the go-ahead touchdown.

4th Quarter with 0:05 seconds left: Ponder scrambles right but pass is low as time expires and UM shocks the Noles 38-34.

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Secondary pulls through Epic win over FSU attributed to secondary

BY LELAN LEDOUX SENIOR SPORTS WRITER

The University of Miami secondary had been maligned the entire game until the waning seconds of the epic clash.

In a showdown that featured eight lead changes, the Canes were not about to make it nine.

“I can’t even remember the last five seconds,” head coach Randy Shannon said. “[Florida State] didn’t have a chance to call timeouts. They had the one run, had to call a timeout, then that was the last one. When it came down to those last seconds we knew they had to throw it.”

The UM defense rose to the occasion as the Noles had three opportunities to score from the two-yard line with 14 seconds left but were unable to prevail. The garnet and gold at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium were left speechless.

Even though the Canes gave up 404 total yards, 294 passing yards from Florida State junior quarterback Christian Ponder, the orange and green secondary catapulted the Canes to victory when it mattered most.

“We played like men when it mattered,” said senior safety and captain Randy Phillips, who had six tackles and an interception in his return from tearing his lateral collateral ligament last year. “We

didn’t change anything on defense [late in the game]. We just settled down a little bit.”

On first-and-goal with 14 seconds left from the two yard line, Ponder lofted a fade over sophomore cornerback Brandon Harris in the back left corner of the end zone but Harris reacted to swat the ball away.

“That’s what I mean by maturity factor,” Shannon said, referring to Harris’ goal line break up. “He was in the same situation last year [against FSU] and was nervous. They attacked him and he made a great play.”

In the final play Ponder rolled right and found receiver sophomore wide receiver Jarmon Fortson open but the off-balance throw was low and hit the turf as time expired.

Harris was awarded ACC Defensive Back of the Week after tallying a career-high nine tackles and deflecting two passes.

“Like they say, defenses win games,” said Graig Cooper who had 232 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns. “I’m sure everybody was nervous when they were inside the five, but they pulled it out for us.

I’m proud of the defense.”

“We had a great goal line stand, which shows you where we’re at last year to now,” Shannon said. “North Carolina last year, Florida State, games like that when we had chances and didn’t capitalize. That gets the players to understand how important it is that we keep working to get better each week and not rely on what we did in the past.

Lelan LeDoux may be contacted at lledoux@ themiamihurricane.com.

Prof. Antweil’s Report Card

Miami vs. Florida State QUARTERBACKS: A+ Jacory Harris simply has ice water in his veins. He threw for a career -high 386 yards and was 21-for-34 with two touchdown tosses and a one yard rushing score.

B

RUNNING BACKS:

With Whipple’s aggressive offense, the running game was not the focal point. There were no eye popping runs but Javarris James totaled 38 yards on 11 carries.

WIDE RECEIVERS/ TIGHT ENDS:

A

Travis Benjamin snagged four balls for 128 yards and a touchdown.

Leonard Hankerson had two early drops but ended up with four catches for 72 yards.

B+

OFFENSIVE LINE:

The pregame talk centered on the inexperience of the offensive line but the unit as a whole played very well. Matt Pipho missed a block that allowed a freshman defensive back to hit Harris.

A-

DEFENSIVE LINE:

The key play of the game occurred with 1:30 left in the third quarter. The Canes trailed 23-17 and on third down and 10 Marcus Robinson swatted the ball away from Ponder and Josh Holmes recovered.

B

LINEBACKERS:

Sean Spence struggled, but if Spence is the Canes’ biggest worry then the orange and green are in great shape. Colin McCarthy recorded seven tackles.

B+

SECONDARY:

Ponder picked apart the UM secondary but the Canes goal line stand was epic and will be saved on everyone’s DVRs for quite some time.

SPECIAL TEAMS:

C

Matt Bosher executed perfectly on punts but struggled mightily on kickoffs. The Seminoles began drives with great field position. He committed an unnecessary roughness penalty to open the second half.

COACHING:

B+

Time management continues to be a cause for a concern. UM burned its timeouts early. Miami committed nine penalties that resulted in 74 yards but they got the win.

CHELSEA MATIASH // The Miami Hurricane

SHIELDING THE OFFENSE: Sam Shields defends Bert Reed as the Canes prevail 38-34 over the Seminoles in a decidedly hostile environment.

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CLUB SAILING

Club team sails to the top of the ranks Now ranked in top 24 in country

BY RAMON GALIANA ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

UM’s sailing team is not a varsity sport; it’s a club sport that has reached elite status. It became ranked in the top 24, and is considered a powerhouse across the country.

Now in its third year of competing at the national level, the team has been ranked by Sailing World, a magazine that specializes in the sport. They received 13 votes from sailing coaches from different schools.

“I think [being ranked] is really exciting for the new members,” said sailing club president Hannah Mashburn, a senior. “It also makes the people who made the team last year feel really good because all

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of their hard work and time spent paid off.”

Sophomore club treasurer David Hernandez echoed the same sentiments.

“It certainly gives us a lot more confidence. We start the season up in South Carolina, and all the other schools are going to see us as a big threat just as we see ourselves as a big threat to other competitors. Our name is being known and more people want to come to UM for sailing.”

Sailing is not an NCAA sport.

Rather, it is governed by the InterCollegiate Sailing Association.

The club practices out of the Coconut Grove sailing club Mondays through Thursdays. Each practice consists of approximately two hours of sailing. They utilize flying juniors, a specific type of vessel, for its practices and races.

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in the World Championship in San Diego, Calif. A “snipe” is the specific kind of boat used for long distance races This past summer, Voss was ranked fourth in the country for the Junior World Championship of Sailing.

The club encourages any student interested in racing to attend their occasional weekend sailing workshops, taught by a hired instructor and aimed at new students wanting to learn the basics of the sport.

Because of its club sport status, the team does not receive the same funds as a varsity team.

Although they do receive some funds from the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee, they still try to raise money to help with their traveling costs.

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Two’s company - three’s a crowd Dear Maneater, , I have recently been seeing two guys at once. Things were never exclusive with either one, so I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong up until this point.

I’ve decided to take things to the next level with one, which means I have to end it with the other. Not only do I feel guilty, I feel like a complete bitch.

Why do I feel like this? Is there a good way to tell this perfectly nice guy (who really likes me) that I no longer want to hook up with him in a nice way?

Sincerely, Maneater

You feel this way because you are a compassionate person, not a bitch. This is the good news. There is no guaranteed “good” way to dump someone. This is the bad news.

However, I can guide you in a more tactful direction, which will make the dumpee more likely to handle the breakup well.

Be honest. Tell him that you can no longer date him because you’re seeing someone else. It would be unfair to all three parties involved if things were to continue the way they are going.

Be concise. The more you sputter away during uncomfortable situations (such as breaking up with someone), the less sure of yourself you sound. This leaves more room for the dumpee to try

dear ... and negotiate or argue with you. You made your decision. Make it clear. There is no need to whine about your innermost feelings or delve into long narratives about how you fell for one guy over the other.

It’s simply not necessary.

And finally, DON’T APOLOGIZE. It is one thing to be mindful of the guy’s feelings, but it is quite another to be self-incriminating. Remember: you’re no longer going to hook up with him because you know that it is the right thing to do, even if he walks away from the conversation a little sore.

Heartache is a part of life. We all experience it at one point or another… and then maybe another. We all cause it at some point, too. An important lesson to take from this is that you don’t need to be a bad person to perceive it, or provoke it.

It’s alright to end what you feel is

not meant to be with this former suitor. If everyone were afraid to walk away from an undesirable romance, simply to spare the feelings of their partner, could you imagine how miserable we’d all end up?

Besides, he might take things better than you expect.

Best of luck!

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