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The Miami
Vol. 91, Issue 27 | Jan. 21 - Jan. 23, 2013
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929
PHOTO BRIEF
Annual arts festival graces campus with various collections ART IN THE AIR: The 62nd annual Beaux Arts Festival of Art took place Saturday and Sunday in and around the Eaton parking lot. The first festival took place during the spring of 1952. Originally, the festival was called the Clothesline Sale because artwork was hung on a clothesline. When the festival first began, it was meant to expose new artists to the community. Today, proceeds collected from the event help fund the Lowe Art Museum and its programming, acquisitions, improvements and capital campaigns. Visitors looked at Bryon Sutherland’s glass art at his booth near Lake Osceola. Sutherland, who came from Gridley, Calif., came to the festival for the third time this year. Nearly 230 artists were preselected to participate in the festival.
MONICA HERNDON // ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
ACADEMICS
GARDEN GLORY COMUNITY GARDEN AIMS TO EDUCATE STUDENTS PAGE 3
MAKING MUSIC SINGER-SONGWRITER MEGAN COX TALKS NEW ALBUM PAGE 8
LEAVING A LEGACY RON FRASER DIES AT THE AGE OF 79 PAGE 10
State initiative values cost over passion UM continues to emphasize humanities BY DEMI RAFULS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
As the University of Miami continues to celebrate the Year of the Humanities and the Arts, Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s higher education campaign to encourage students to major in sciencerelated fields is currently underway. Gov. Scott has proposed to freeze tuition rates for majors in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. This decision, however, would allow the price of humanities ma-
jors to rise as tuition prices increase each year. While the plan would be limited to public colleges and universities, this is another attempt to push students toward pursuing STEM careers. At UM, however, a contrasting picture is made. At the start of this academic school year, President Donna E. Shalala called for 2012-2013 to emphasize the humanities through special guest scholars and performers. Leonidas Bachas, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said that such a reform would never occur at UM. “We have a balanced approach to how we see education,” he said. “We try to educate students in creative thinking. A lot of majors cover that.”
Other university officials, like Mihoko Suzuki, director of UM’s Center for the Humanities, have expressed their discontent with the reform. Suzuki explained that emphasizing one group of majors over others based on affordability might influence undecided students. Therefore, those who are wavering between majors may sacrifice passion and ultimately base their decisions solely on price. “It is very limiting and shortsighted to separate the STEM majors from everyone else,” she said. “At the Center, there is not a division between science and the humanities.” SEE MAJORS, PAGE 5