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The Miami
Vol. 87, Issue 9 | Sept. 24 - Sept. 27, 2009
HURRICANE STUDENT NEWSPAPER O OFF TTHE HE H E U UNIVERSITY NII V N VE ER RS S IITT Y O OFF M MIAMI IIA AM MII IIN N CO C CORAL O RA RAL G GA GABLES, A BLES E S , FL ES FFLORIDA, LO OR R IID DA A,, S SINCE IIN NC CE E 1 1929 9 9 92
From pliés to poles
BY ED S. FISHMAN | NEWS EDITOR
W
hen University of Miami alumna Susan Hilferty saw a segment about pole dancing on Oprah, she immediately called her friend to visit featured dancer Sheila Kelley’s studio in California. Hilferty, who came to UM on a dance scholarship in 1985 and was on the first Sunsations Dance Team, was interested in this new form of dance. “It was just like ballet,” she said. “But now the bars were vertical not horizontal.” From the first time she walked into Kelley’s studio, she felt a change within. Her engagement had recently been called off and she saw this hobby as something she could do for herself.
TANYA THOMPSON // The Miami Hurricane
Alumna opens pole dance studio
“As girls we are socialized on this promise of marriage and if we don’t get married we feel like we failed,” she said. For the next two years, she went to five different studios for weeks at a time trying to get a complete knowledge of this form of dancing. She opened Miami’s first stripping exercising studio, Pole Fitness Miami, in 2006 while simultaneously working at Taro Pharmaceuticals. “I did use the degree I earned at UM,” she said. A year ago she left her pharmaceutical job and decided to turn her attention solely to her studio. The Coral Gables location is located minutes away from the university on 4018 Aurora St. SEE DANCING, PAGE 4
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HOW TO DEAL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL OVERLOAD PAGE 6
LIKE THE FOOD? YOU MIGHT LIKE THE BAND TOO PAGE 9
SOCCER PLAYER CONTINUES FAMILY TRADITION PAGE 12
September 24 - September 27, 2009
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