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ACA repeal could alter professional landscape for students entering health care industry

By Amanda Herrera Assistant News Editor

Students graduating with degrees from the Department of Nursing and Health Sciences will be faced with a health care system in potential transition as a result of the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

According to the University of Miami’s Fact Book, as of fall 2016, there were 912 students in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, 589 of them undergraduates.

For Miguel Hernandez, a sophomore public health major, the repeal and replacement of the ACA is an opportunity to modify some of the law’s requirements, an effort he hopes to be part of upon graduation. The son of a mother insured through the ACA, he said a repeal would give him more drive.

“I want to improve health care, so I definitely think it would motivate me more,” Hernandez said. “I’d want to bring it back or do something more to improve the system.”

The ACA, a health care reform plan conceived and signed into law in March 2010 by former President Barack Obama, has been locked in the sights of Republicans for a repeal since its installment. President Donald Trump has promised to repeal the ACA, nicknamed “Obamacare,” within the first 100 days of his presidency.

Under the ACA, an estimated 20 million Americans have obtained health insurance coverage since 2010.

More than 1.6 million people enrolled in Florida, with 600,00 enrolling in Miami-Dade and Broward counties alone. In Hialeah, a city in northwest Miami-Dade County, a total of 12,330 residents signed up; this was the largest number of registrations through the Healthcare.gov website in a single ZIP code.

However, the number of people insured throughout the United States is not the only variable the ACA has increased exponentially. According to the Pew Research Center report in 2015, job growth in the health care sector since the implementation of the ACA has spiked, with over 1 million new jobs created. Some of those jobs created could be at risk of being lost if the ACA is repealed.

Karoline Mortensen, an associate professor in the School of Business Administration who specializes in Health Sector Management and Policy, said a large component of the ACA was the expansion of the health care system as a whole – the ACA gave “hundreds of millions of dollars” to federally qualified health centers to increase the number of centers and providers.

If the Trump administration repeals the ACA but does not replace it with a similar comprehensive alternative, job losses in health sectors could be as high as 2.9 million, Mortensen said.

“They have to be very careful in how they disrupt the system,” she said.

Though Hernandez said he knows there will be job losses upon a repeal, he said he isn’t fearful of unemployment because a repeal would give him more to do as a future policy maker.

“It wouldn’t really affect my career or future. I’ll have a job. Repealing it will give me more jobs,” Hernandez said.

For Alyssa Mirante, a nursing school senior who will be graduating in May 2017, a repeal could complicate her goal of working in an emergency care unit. She said the increase in medical coverage around the country has

Amanda Prats // Senior Photographer READY TO WORK: Sophomore Miguel Hernandez is particularly interested in the possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act, given his background in public health.

those insured, hospitals would be able to afford to take better care of their staff and employ more people, Mirante explained.

“The more people who have insurance, the more likely I am to get paid and not overworked and overstressed,” she said.

Since the ACA’s implementation, Republicans in Congress have tried to repeal portions or the entirety of it more

“I don’t think it will be a catastrophic meltdown; we’ll just go back to old patterns.

I am more hopeful than scared.”

Alyssa Mirante, nursing school senior encouraged more and more people to schedule preventative visits with their primary doctors to avoid trips to the emergency room.

Mirante said, with a repeal, emergency rooms would have an increase in patients with non-life threatening illnesses because more people would avoid regular doctor visits. She said having more people insured is beneficial for both medical practitioners and their employers.

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than 60 times during Obama’s presidency. In January 2016, one of the bills to repeal the act passed through Congress and ended up on Obama’s desk.

He vetoed it.

“Because of the harm the bill would cause to the health and financial security of millions of Americans, it has earned my veto,” Obama explained in a video following the decision.

Now, with a Republicancontrolled White House, House and Senate, a repeal is likely to happen

within the first two years of the Trump presidency, before some senators and representatives are up for re-election in November 2018. However, a repeal does not mean that the law will necessarily be replaced.

Despite a potential repeal affecting the job field she will be entering in a few months, Mirante said she’s interested to see what lies ahead for the health care system and her employment.

“I am hopeful that we are going to reach some form of health care in the future, I don’t think it will be a catastrophic meltdown; we’ll just go back to old patterns. I am more hopeful than scared,” she said.

Associate Professor of Political Science, Gregory Koger, who specializes in legislative processes and political parties, said, though it would be hard to predict what Republicans will do with their current leverage, a repeal without a replacement is not out of play.

“For six years they promised to repeal and replace. They never figured out what they wanted to replace it with and that was fine, as long as Democrats were always allowed to block them,” he said. “Now that it’s actually a reality that they have the power to repeal and propose a substitute, they have no idea what they want to do.”

In a recording leaked to the Washington Post, Republican Congress members are heard discussing

their concerns regarding the repealing of the ACA and its repercussions despite vowing for years to do so.

Members also seemed worried about how a repeal and replacement could affect their chances of winning in the mid-term elections.

“We’d better be sure that we’re prepared to live with the market we’ve created,” said California Congressman Tom McClintock in the recording.

Koger said Congress is able to pass portions of a repeal, which could include a termination of the expansion of Medicaid, the Federal-state health insurance for lower-income individuals, through a simple majority.

The ACA required states to provide coverage to those making significantly less than the Federal Poverty Line.

Depending on income and number of members in a household, individuals could be eligible to obtain coverage aimed at being affordable.

Koger said repealing the ACA and removing these requirements could lead to problems for many, including hospitals that serve lowerincome patients.

“There will be chaos for patients, hospitals, doctors if you take all these people out without a replacement,” he said.

The most recent step by the new administration to repeal the ACA came hours after Trump was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. The newly-installed president signed an executive action instructing federal agencies to waive regulations associated the ACA to the fullest extent allowed by the law.

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Liz Rothlein held many titles throughout her life: educator, author and overall leader. Rothlein dedicated 25 years of her life to teaching at the School of Education and Human Development, including 13 years as associate dean. She died on Jan. 6 at her home in Warne, North Carolina. She was 80 years old.

On Feb. 4, a memorial was held at the Watsco Center to celebrate her life. A crowd of about 50 family members and friends gathered in the Hurricane 100 room, perusing photos of Rothlein from her teenage years in Ohio to her time at UM. Attendees had tears in their eyes but smiles on their faces as they remembered the life of a woman who impacted their lives.

Her impact even reached a man serving drinks and catering for Chartwells at the memorial, David Canepa. He met Rothlein 16 years ago at another event he catered.

“She always seemed happy and happy to see everyone around her,” Canepa said.

Rothlein dedicated her life to teaching while inspiring others to follow in her footsteps. Throughout her life, she authored or co-authored about 30 books, books filled with activities and stories meant to instill children with a love for reading.

Kimberly Brandt, Rothlein’s daughter, welcomed people as they entered the memorial. She said she remembers her mother being project-oriented, always ready to move on to her next goal.

“It was important for her to make a big impact on the educational world, that she wanted to leave her mark,” Brandt said.

“She wrote books, she did lectures, she always aspired to touch as many people as she could in the educational realm.”

Rothlein was awarded Teacher of Year at the university and listed as an outstanding Teacher of America, a national honor given to educators who demonstrate commitment to students’ successes.

Students weren’t the only ones to benefit from interacting with Rothlein; her influence extended to co-workers and peers, as well.

Rothlein hired Marilyn DeNarvaez in 1993. DeNarvaez has been at the university

ever since and is now a senior administrative assistant in the School of Education.

“She was so kind-hearted and soft spoken and yet she stood up for you if you needed it. She LIZ ROTHLEIN had your back. She always had your back,” DeNarvaez said.

Valeria Giroux, a professor in the School of Communication, remembers being under Rothlein’s mentorship while receiving her PhD in Educational Leadership/Administration. Rothlein was hands-on in each of the courses she taught and worked as a mentor for PhD students in the School of Education.

“She was a good leader. She took a number of us PhD candidates under her wing,” Giroux said.

Giroux recalled being told she could never become a high school principal because she was a woman. When she had Rothlein as her mentor, Giroux would be allowed to teach some of Rothlein’s classes in the School of Education, a practice rarely done at the time.

“It meant a lot to me that she trusted me with her classes. It was good back in the day to have a strong woman leader. She inspired me. She was totally inspirational,” Giroux said. “I’m still here, 26 years later.”

Rothlein’s love for UM was rivaled only by her love for her family and friends.

Married to Ash Rothlein for 40 years until her death, Rothlein traveled abroad often with her husband, some summers even traveling to Switzerland and staying the duration of the season in a chateau.

“We took risks, traveling, doing anything. We never went on tours, we always went in a car, sometimes a two-cylinder car. We were always excited wherever we went,” Rothlein said. “We were never separated for forty years more than three or four days.”

Liz Rothlein is survived by her husband, her two daughters Terri Wild and Kimberly Brandt, two stepsons Jay and Steve Rothlein, four grandchildren Amanda, Jason, Tyler and Sophie, sister Linda Foley and brothers Jim and John Brandt.

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Friends, twin brother reflect on Lin’s legacy of kindness, involvement

Photos courtesy Lin Family UNFADED MEMORIES: David Lin, the student leader who died on Jan. 7, poses with family and friends. Lin had been battling leukemia since August 2016. A memorial in his honor will be held on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Lakeside Patio.

By Marcus Lim Assistant News Editor

Coming back to campus has been extremely difficult for Rick Lin. He lost his brother, David Lin, barely a month ago, and the campus is still alive with all the memories they shared. Everywhere Rick Lin goes, he is reminded of his brother.

David Lin died on Jan. 7, after being diagnosed with leukemia in August 2016. A memorial will take place on Thursday to commemorate him as a passionate, selfless and caring person. No one is able to do so more than Rick Lin. The twin brothers were inseparable. Rick Lin said that they did “nearly everything in their life” together. They were roommates as freshmen, leaders within the Council of International Students and Organizations (COISO) and became First Year Fellows (FYF) together. They both had aspirations to graduate and attend medical school, a dream Rick Lin will carry on without his other half.

David was confined to his hospital bed for the entire fall semester as he battled cancer. Though he was sick, he was resolute that he would be discharged, graduate and carry on a full, normal life.

“Even when he was sick, he was literally the most positive patient that I saw in the hospital. The nurses felt the same way.

They shared stories to me that David was the best patient, never mean to them, even when he was in so much pain,” Rick Lin said. “I have so many videos on the phone where it was literally David doing random things and goofy even if he was in so much discomfort.”

Vivien Chen and Jake Kaplan, close friends of David Lin, said he was not afraid to have fun and had a great sense of humor.

“I do remember that, upon first impression, I never pictured him to be that sassy,” Chen said. “I remember last year where he liked using silly string, where he would like to spray people to surprise them.”

Rick Lin took the first two weeks of the spring 2017 semester off to be with family at his brother’s funeral in their home in Taiwan. He said it was easier to handle his emotions when he was with his family, so being back on campus and remembering his brother all the time has been a difficult adjustment.

The Lakeside Patio is where memories flood Rick Lin’s mind with the most force. Rick Lin said he can still see his brother onstage speaking about International Week, which he helped organize with COISO in 2016.

“He had a big impact on campus and poured his heart and soul into it,” Rick Lin said. “This was the place where he felt most at home since moving to America from Taiwan.”

Chen took over David Lin’s position as COISO vice-president of internal affairs in the fall semester and marveled how he stayed plugged into the day-to-day leadership.

“He was always curious to know updates on COISO throughout the entire semester and would share social media posts about our events,” Chen said. “He would always talk to us in group chats and would join in our executive board meetings through the phone.”

Chen worked with him on many events and praised his leadership skills, his passion for COISO, and his friendliness – she said he would reply to her messages within “seconds.” Even though David Lin wasn’t on campus physically, Chen said his presence could still be felt.

“For COISO, he was a guardian angel,” Chen said. “He was always here in spirit and always cheering us on. He was just reliable and dependable.”

While some peers struggled to tell the Lin brothers apart, Chen had no problem differentiating the twins after spending more than two of her college years with them. When she found out David Lin had died, she was heartbroken.

“The first thing that crossed my mind was disbelief. It never hit me that he was gone,” Chen said. “It happened so quick ...

Guilt, in a way, because I wish I had done more for him and been

there more for him. A little frustrated, too. He had his whole life planned ahead of him; he was going to medical school.”

The Lin brothers became FYFs at Stanford Residential College to help smooth out other students’ transitions to college life.

That was where the twins met Kaplan, a residential assistant who would become a close friend.

“When I walked around campus with either David or Rick, we would inevitably run into one of their residents and I would always laugh when one of Rick’s residents would say to David, ‘Hi Rick!’” Kaplan said. “David would, of course, be cordial and smile since the freshmen may not have known he had a twin, but I could never hold back my laughter.”

Kaplan will always remember David Lin’s infectious laugh and cheerfulness.

“David was the kind of friend that everyone should aspire to be,” Kaplan said. “Campus isn’t the same without him and I miss him very much.”

As Rick Lin eases his way back onto a campus riddled with bittersweet memories, he said he doesn’t know when he’ll be able to feel happiness again or regain a sense of normalcy. The only thing that can help, he said, is time and friends.

“I will never be able to go back to how it was before,” Rick Lin said. “But time is the biggest factor that is helping me. Over time, I will learn to live a new life.”

Rick Lin now wears a strand of orange “Fo Zhu,” Buddhist praying beads, which belonged to his brother. He has pictures of his brother in his wallet and looks at them to give him a sense of peace. Having pieces of his twin nearby reminds him to study hard so he can make it to medical school and fulfill their shared dream.

“David is my biggest motivation to stay strong. He was so strong during his treatment and I have to stay strong for him as well,” Rick Lin said. “I’m trying to have that mindset. It’s hard, but I know I have to do what I have to do to achieve my ultimate goal – being a physician. For me and for him.”

A memorial for David Lin will be held at the Lakeside Patio at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9.

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In 2008, both of Julia’s* parents lost their jobs during the Recession. She was 13 at the time and remembers her family monitoring how much they were spending, even on food.

When she came to the University of Miami from New Jersey and began to realize how the cost of Uber rides and weekend outings add up, she needed extra money. So she turned to what her friends were using, something she was “very morally against” but now considers a worthwhile opportunity: sugar dating.

Julia was just one of over a million college students in the United States seeking sugar daddies on SeekingArrangement.com (SA) – the most popular site for finding this kind of relationship – as of January 2016, according to data from SA. Florida has one of the highest concentrations of “sugar babies” in the country. The state sits at No. 5 nationally, with about 21 sugar baby females for every 1,000 adult females. The concentration of sugar people is especially high in South Florida, where the lure of wealthy men appeals to debt-ridden college students, such as those at UM. However, at a university known for its workhard-play-hard attitude and rich kid culture – 13 percent of UM students come from the top 1 percent of wealthiest households, according to a recent study by The Equality of Opportunity Project – some students have taken to finding sugar daddies in order to maintain a certain appearance.

SA gained visibility in connection with college students around the same time that it was featured on “The View” in February 2014, when it featured two college-aged sugar babies, including one from UM, alongside SA founder Brandon Wade.

Katherine, a bright-eyed 20-year-old who went by her first name on the show, hadn’t told her friends back at UM what she was up to, but she had been using SA for years to pay for her expenses.

When approached by The Miami Hurricane, Katherine said she was not a sugar baby and did not want to be interviewed.

As for Julia, SA was a way to afford the expensive habits of her new college friends.

“One of my attractions to using the app was keeping up with those people who come from very

welloff families,” she said.

Julia’s first job was at an ice cream parlor when she was 14 and she worked up to three jobs at a time throughout high school. After seeing her family struggle through the Recession, she made sure to earn disposable income for herself.

“I had a lot of money to spend and not really thinking about it and then coming here and having to cut back my lifestyle so much, that was probably the most difficult transition into college for me,” she said.

Over the summer before college, Julia said she saved money, but “it’s not really lasting me all that long.” She already cut back on luxuries she used to enjoy at home – fresh acrylic nails, professional full-body waxes, shopping sprees, expensive makeup – but money was still tight because of the constant partying and social expenses that filled her weekend.

A typical Friday night may involve a walk to nearby fraternity houses for free beer and entertainment, or it may involve a pricey Uber ride to a South Beach club, a $20 tip for the bouncer to let her in without a hassle and drunken food runs in the early-morning hours.

“Then, the next morning, it’s like, ‘Oh, let’s go get food again,’ or ‘Oh, let’s go to the beach,’” Julia said.

One night, she was lying in bed and realized, “Wow, I’m really broke, I need to do this.” She immediately downloaded the app her close friends had been using on and off for months to make

precedent before they even get involved.

Julia set hers at “moderate.” For sugar daddies (and mommies, though less common overall), the lifestyle field asks instead for their net worth. Daddies and mommies have to pay a membership fee to join and those who pay more boost their visibility on the “service.” Babies join for free and even when SA was charging them, the site offered discounts to those who registered with university email addresses.

“I basically wanted to make it so that my profile was the least sexual as possible,” Julia said.

“I was looking for the men that I could just finesse their money and not sleep with them.”

On her profile, she put a photo of her face and shoulders, modest, smiling. Members also have the option to set private images. These two photos of Julia were slightly sexier, showed more skin, gave off more of a sugar-baby feel.

“Seeking someone I can get to know and enjoy my time with. Love going out for nice dinners and having intellectual conversation,” she wrote as her description.

Her inbox, she said, was immediately flooded with messages.

“You get so many messages all the time and I haven’t used the app recently, but if I opened it right now, I’d probably have so many messages in there,” she said. When she did open the app, she had 19 unread messages.

“It’s empowering in that way, but also kind of does the opposite when you realize men will pay that much just for the sexual pleasure you can pro-

“I consider myself a feminist and I’m just working a system.” money.

“I feel like girls are a lot more accepting here, so for that reason they are pretty open about it,” she said.

One friend told her she was earning $500 to $1,000 per date. Julia was sold.

She filled out each required field to create a profile: screen name, location, age, ethnicity and “lifestyle,” the word sugar people use to set the financial

vide for them,” she said.

After a few failed attempts to set up lucrative and non-sexual first dates with several men – none of them would follow through without the promise of “something more,” Julia said – she decided the app wasn’t worth her time.

One man in particular, a man who told Julia to pick any place and he would show up for the date, agreed to pay $400 for a first date. They had

planned to make it seem like a job interview – Julia would dress professionally and bring a binder.

She thought she had solidified her platonic approach and would finally earn some cash, but an hour before the date, Julia said the man clarified he would need a sexual incentive to pay her for lunch.

“I can’t give you money for having lunch,” he said to her in a text message. “It has to be more.

Have you had an arrangement before?”

This was exactly what she was trying to avoid.

She fired back, frustrated and still broke.

“I suggest you go to a corner in South Beach and find a hooker if that’s what you want,” she replied to him.

Because many of the arrangements through the site are sexual in nature, Julia said she didn’t want to “prostitute” her time any longer. She deleted the app shortly thereafter.

“It would probably be easier for me to use it if I was a girl who was willing to have sex with these men, because that is what most of these men are looking for,” she said. “So if that’s the case, then there are plenty of girls like that. They don’t want to stand on a corner and be a prostitute, but they’ll be a prostitute behind closed doors.”

Alex, a 22-year-old who attended UM from his freshman to junior year and asked to be referred to only by his first name, got his start as a “rogue sugar baby” prostituting at nightclubs.

He first learned about SA from his group of friends. One young woman he knew was seeing an older man who flew her out to his home in Colombia every weekend. Another was gifted a $50,000 car from a sugar daddy in his late 70s who died a few months later.

Alex started clubbing at 16 years old and by the time he was 19, he was a club promoter on South Beach – an environment rife with men in search of quick sexual favors. He earned between $50 and $500 during his “short phase” as a prostitute, and he learned the tricks of the trade quickly.

“The older, the more they pay,” he said in a phone interview. “The more desperate they are, the more they pay.”

The only difference between sexual relationships through SA and point-blank prostitution, Alex said, is legality. SA justifies the service by claiming – in the extensive terms of service page – to partner members up for “companionship.”

“The website may be used only for lawful purposes by individuals seeking friendship and love,” the terms and conditions page says.

February 9, 2017 - February 15, 2017 Alex would also use the gay dating app Grindr to find sugar daddies.

The secret code words, well-known by the sugar community, would be on the man’s profile: ‘I’m generou$.’

However, the “boyfriend experience” was not something Alex was interested in. He just wanted money, which he would mostly use on drugs and clothes, he said.

“I didn’t want to wait for the money ... I don’t want to even pretend that I was in a relationship with those people,” he said.

In total, Alex said he knew about four women and two gay men at UM with sugar daddies, and the men made more than the girls. But all the sugar babies could make anywhere between $2,000 and $10,000 a month in “allowance,” not including gifts and travel.

Aside from clothes and club money, these sugar babies were using the cash for drugs. Cocaine was particularly popular, he said. Only one woman Alex knew was using the service to pay for her tuition, but she was the one least likely to ever admit using SA. “At Miami, it’s such a stigma to not have money,” he said.

Alex’s friend Taylor* said she felt the pressure of maintaining an expensive lifestyle at UM, but didn’t experience the stigma she expected – surrounding sex work – when she told close friends about her side job as a sugar baby. She recently told her new boyfriend about it.

He didn’t criticize her for it, Taylor said.

“I consider myself a feminist and I’m just working a system,” she said. “I don’t think I would’ve gone into this if I wasn’t already freaky and open-minded.”

Unlike Julia, Taylor started the using the service with the assumption that men would want more than a dinner date in exchange for money, and she was willing to do what she considered sex work.

Although her first sexual experience with a sugar daddy was “easy” – she was drunk, a man in his 60s offered to give her a massage, then took off her clothes and eventually they had sex for about 10 minutes – subsequent arrangements pushed the boundaries of what Taylor was okay with.

She saw one man for a while, a South-American political advisor, who would make her crawl on her knees from the time she got into his apartment at the top of a Brickell high-rise and submit to him and his interest in BDSM, the overlapping of bonding and and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism.

Given that Taylor is “totally into” BDSM in her regular sex life, she didn’t see a problem with the arrangement

She’s been paid for sex by about nine men on the service, she said, and has used the money mostly to buy weed

until her sugar daddy tried to break her “hard limit,” a boundary set between partners before engaging in BDSM. The last time she saw that sugar daddy, he tried to force her to have anal sex with him, she said. That was when she ended it.

“I had already had a threesome, which I didn’t want to do but I just did it,” Taylor said.

and follow around her favorite band’s tour.

“I don’t need money to pay my bills. My parents help me out with that,” she said. “It’d really just be in times of desperation that I’d go on the site and hit up a bunch of guys and see what was worth my time.”

Taylor’s time on the app came to a halt shortly after she made her ac-

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count, when her dad found a confirmation email on her computer. Her parents wrote her “a whole 10-page contract” of what they would do to her if she stayed on the service, Taylor said. They would cut her off financially, and sever family ties. Even after she temporarily deleted her account, her parents made her see a therapist before returning to the university.

“They were taking it as a wider thing of me being crazy in general, not just...trying to not make me a slut,” Taylor said.

After using SA for several years behind her family’s back, Taylor said she learned to get more out of her arrangements by asking for a “bottom line” upfront: at least $500 for sex.

“I learned to work it a lot better for myself. I used to get more upset. It would wear on me for a lot longer,” she said.

Taylor has made more than $2,000 from one daddy, a 27-year-old graduate student at Florida State University who she said took the girlfriend experience “above and beyond.” Because he was younger and more tech-savvy, she could get instant transactions through money apps such as Venmo, a major advantage. If she had a bad day, she could pull some money out of him for a treat.

Now Taylor has a boyfriend, so she told all her sugar daddies to stop reaching out to her. She said she hopes she won’t be back on the service, but the draw of easy money is strong.

“I thought of myself and my family as pretty freaking wealthy, and then coming to UM you feel like, ‘Damn, here are heiresses and oil billionaires in class with me and I still have the same laptop from 2009,’” she said.

Yet despite the pressures and the financial benefits of being a sugar baby, Taylor said she would discourage anyone from using the service.

“I want to get off of it. Every time I want to say it’s the last time,” she said.

“I don’t know, honestly. I would hope to stop doing it once I graduate.”

The site functions through the “companionship” loophole, but the terms and conditions of SeekingArrangement.com leave users on their own if anything criminal were to happen. No class actions can be brought against SA; users assume all risks “associated with any online or offline interactions;” and SA has perpetual rights to use anything posted on the site.

And at the very end, “Under no circumstances will SeekingArrangement.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or

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death, resulting from anyone’s use of the website or the service.”

Samantha Topchick, a UM senior, came face-to-face with the unglamorous side of sugar dating in December 2015, when her sugar daddy, 36-year-old businessman Brandon Call, flew her out to his home in Chicago.

The pair had met virtually two weeks earlier and been texting, but Topchick quickly felt uncomfortable when she saw webcams in Call’s bedroom and Call made a sexual advancement, according to a Coral Gables Police Department report.

“She told him she didn’t fly to Chicago to have sex with him,” the police report said. “He got upset at that and said, ‘If we are not going to have sex then I have to listen to happy music to calm my body down.’ When he went to his room, he started talking to himself ‘hysterically.’”

Topchick texted her friend, who booked her a flight back the next morning and ordered her an Uber to leave the apartment. She left around 4 a.m. and received nonstop text messages from Call on her way to the airport. When she boarded, she told him she was never interested in having a sexual relationship with him and blocked his number, the report said.

A few days later, however, Topchick received threatening text messages from an unknown number.

“You don’t know me but you gotten yourself in a lot of trouble. You have a chance to make it right. My meeting is not something you want. I am not coming your way. I promise I will find you and I promise that you will not like what happens,” the initial text message said, according to the report.

Topchick said she was afraid Call was capable of hiring a hitman because he was very wealthy. Coral Gables Police Department put a precautionary watch on her residential building.

When approached by a Miami Hurricane reporter, Topchick threatened legal action. She did not respond to subsequent emails.

For Taylor, it all comes with the territory of sugar dating. She said sugar babies need to be realistic about what they are entering into, because there are potentially serious consequences.

“It’s definitely sex work. Anyone thinking it’s going to be be PG and you’re not going to have to take your clothes off, you’re wrong,” she said.

“You cant really be like, ‘Oh, this old man violated me.’” *Names have been changed

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Opinion

Intimacy versus isolation: balancing the benefits of both good place to work on preparing for more serious romantic commitments.

However, readying ourselves for these commitments doesn’t require actually being in a long-term relationship.

The thing about a little bit of isolation, a little space away from the chatter and the personalities of others, is that it can bring about more introspection and awareness of one’s priorities and values.

This mature sense of self, or “ego identity” as Erikson called it, is necessary for having healthy functional relationships. Relationships come in many different shapes and sizes and involve deeply personal decisions – about sex, marriage, professional sacrifices and family relationships. How individuals go about accommodating others in their lives rests on their knowledge of what they want to get out of a relationship. In addition, being comfortably independent can prevent a

relationship being strangled by over-reliance.

Even so, focusing on oneself can still leave room for meaningful friendships and relationships that in turn help us grow.

There is a lot that can be learned from relationships, whether it’s a romance, a friendship or a series of casual relationships. Others can introduce new outlooks and model positive characteristics. Isolation can be easy, because an individual has complete control. However, friends and significant others can enrich development in ways we would never be able to do by ourselves.

In college, whether a person decides to enter into a committed relationship, a bunch of noncommittal ones or just a deeper relationship with oneself, balance is key.

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POLITICS

Potential demise of the filibuster threatens proper Senate function The United States Senate is frustratingly slow. Nominees to various offices take months to get confirmed, and other issues are considered for weeks and still not sent to the House or to the president’s

By Drew Maggelet desk. Essentially nothContributing Columnist ing gets done, but that is by design. The founders intended for the Senate to act as a place where hot topics could go to get cooled off, debated and discussed in a slower, less reactionary environment. Of all of the rules of the Senate, no rule has played a bigger part in creating this glacial environment than the filibuster.

The filibuster, a prolonged speech or series of speeches intended to delay a vote, is a method

of ensuring agreement and compromise by forcing three-fifths of the Senate to vote on a “cloture motion” to end the filibuster. These requirements have been a major boost to the minority party, as it requires bipartisan support to end a filibuster and advance nominees, bills and resolutions that have been proposed.

The filibuster is at risk of becoming another casualty of the increasingly partisan era in which we live. Senate rules were changed in 2013 by the Democrats to require only a simple majority to vote on all executive branch nominees, except Supreme Court justices. While the rule change sped up votes on many important nominees, it also hurt the ability of the Senate to deliberate. The inability to slow things down has only made partisan bickering worse as the Senate changes from a bipartisan institution to another majority-rules body like the House of Representatives.

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Young people in their late teens and early 20s enter a critical window of developing intimacy or isolation.

So claimed psychologist Erik Erikson, whose proposed stages of human development stated that, at each stage in life, we are faced with a central challenge.

The challenge for those between 18 and 40 years old, Erikson said, was to form honest, real relationships with others. If we overcome this challenge, we achieve intimacy. If we fail, we are stuck in isolation and will indefinitely have trouble connecting with others.

As Valentine’s Day rolls around yet again to remind us of the importance of intimacy, Erik Erikson got the newsroom thinking – is there a benefit to isolation?

College is certainly an important time to branch out and meet new people. As we transition from adolescence into some sort of adulthood, this environment is a

The Miami

According to Time Magazine, Republicans are openly considering getting rid of the filibuster to make the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch quicker.[1] The loss of the Supreme Court filibuster would be a huge blow to the Senate. In addition to making partisanship worse, the previous rule change also ensured that nominees need fewer votes to get confirmed. This paved the way for controversial nominees like Rex Tillerson or Betsy Devos to get Senate approval without much bipartisan agreement; senators no longer have to reach across the aisle to get things done. With Senators reaching across the aisle left often, the Senate becomes more tribal and reactionary. Cooperation between Republican and Democratic senators has been a cornerstone of the Senate. Without the filibuster, it could disappear entirely.

Drew Maggelet is a senior majoring in Political Science.

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CAMPUS LIFE

UM must ensure housing expansion does not alienate commuters The City of Coral Gables’ Development Review Committee is currently considering UM’s proposed plan to build new on-campus student housing. This plan aims to create

By Nicole Macias Contributing Columnist a stronger sense of campus community life and activity for the residents of the university and interest more students to live on campus.

Expanding housing on campus will be beneficial for the university by making UM more appealing to prospective students and help grow our Cane family. The amenities that this new facility will include will foster an environment that will help students become more involved and engaged with their classmates and fellow residents.

However, this proposed plan left some commuters like myself wondering if this was the start of UM’s push toward being a traditional non-commuter school in the future. As a commuter, one of the most attractive aspects of UM is its ability to mix students from different places and walks of life in one thriving school.

The combination of commuters and non-commuters is very important to our intellectual and social growth as a community, and it helps to set us apart from other universities across the country. This mix allows for Miami natives to show other students all that this ethnically diverse city has to offer. Additionally, the noncommuter students teach us about their own campus cultures and customs as well.

The university’s unique blend of students shows that we are an inclusive, accepting group of people looking to learn from one another, and this is only possible when we give importance to the entire student body. I believe the expansion of on-campus housing will have pos-

itive effects on the university as a whole, but the university needs to make sure it does not isolate its commuter students.

My hopes are that a new parking lot will be constructed for commuters, and that a new connection will be made between Merrick and Dickinson Drive to allow for a smoother flow of traffic that commuters have to deal with on a daily basis. I hope that these new plans for the campus will not drastically change our commuter and non-commuter dynamic, and perhaps even strengthen it by promoting the prosperity of both student communities.

Nicole Macias is a freshman majoring in English.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Chimera experiment raises benefits, concerns for stem cell research In a recent scientific breakthrough, U.S. researchers have managed to create chimeric human-pig hybrids using humaninduced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

The research team

By Israel Aragon published its work in Staff Columnist Cell journal, describing how the team inserted human stem cells into early-stage pig embryos and implanted the embryos in surrogate sows to develop.

Scientists were astonished to find that they had generated human cells in the embryos. Scientists involved in the chimera experiment believe that further research can lead to lab-grown human organs – a potential boon to patients awaiting organ transplants.

However, because of ethical concerns, the embryos were terminated after 28 days.

Stem cell research has long been a controversial subject in U.S. politics. Despite the existence of stringent guidelines, many politicians have openly opposed the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, which can divide indefinitely and are pluripotent, meaning they have the potential to divide into many different types of cells. This includes growth in critical organs like the heart or the liver.

Just as a government operates on a system of checks and balances, the scientific community is kept under scrutiny by ethical norms that are largely influenced by an ever-changing political agenda. As a result of the embryonic stem cell controversy, scientists have turned to

amniotic fluid and iPSCs, a form of adult stem cell that has been reprogrammed to become pluripotent, circumventing the need for embryos. iPSCs were used extensively in the chimera experiment, and yet, despite all the potential good that further research can bring, the ethical concerns surrounding the chimera experiment still stand. We now know that iPSCs can be used to grow human tissue in a non-human organism, which to some people may sound like something straight out of a creepy sciencefiction movie. Just the mere thought of hybrid human-pig hybrids developing more human brains is enough to make someone cringe or panic (Animal Farm, anyone?).

That is why any future experiments must be carefully thought out and well-regulated.

The National Institutes of Health is planning to lift a moratorium on human chimera research, which could allow increased federal funding for these types of experiments. Any benevolent scientist who dreams of benefiting mankind must first have the support of mankind. For the chimera research team, this means minimizing public concern while respecting ethical boundaries.

While the scientific community is far from achieving its end goals with these chimera experiments, it must proceed with great care, diligence and caution. Pluripotent stem cell research could very well hold the key to labgrown organs or a cure for cancer, but scientists must tread lightly as they wander into uncharted territory.

Israel Aragon is a sophomore majoring in psychology.

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VANTAGE POINT

DeVos an unqualified appointee, proposes solutions shown to be impractical In eight years of being vice president, Joe Biden never cast a tie-breaking vote. Mike Pence has done so in his first month. The vote confirmed the nomination of incoming Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. DeVos is, in short, a disaster.

You may have noticed this

By Annie Cappetta from the viral clip of Sen. Bernie Senior Columnist Sanders asking her if she would be up for this position had she and her family not donated billions of dollars to politicians, 20 of which hold Senate seats with the power to vote on her confirmation. Her vague lack of a justification seemed to only further Sanders’ point.

If it wasn’t clear from that clip, you might have seen a second gaffe where she tried to justify allowing guns in schools to protect students from bears. There are several layers of absurdity here. First, schools tend to have fences, a solution to bears that doesn’t require keeping deadly weapons around children. Second, one of the two Republicans who have defected from their partyline to vote against DeVos was Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the state with the highest population of grizzly bears.

The last and most horrifying part of this answer is that she was responding to a question to a question from Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who represents the families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. This utter lack of rationality and sensitivity demonstrated that, in addition to having no professional or personal experience with public education, she is devoid of the leadership qualities it takes to hold a cabinet position.

Some may find it possible to ignore her lack of familiarity with the education system because she has been involved as a donor and advocate for vouchers.

The voucher system uses government funds, taken out of public education, and gives it to families to pay for private schools.

Defunding public education in order to give money to private and for-profit schools makes no sense as a government program. The solution to public education is not its destruction, it’s provide public schools with the same resources as private schools. Education should not be treated as a commodity and has consistently failed when it becomes one – have you heard of Trump University?

Vouchers are ridiculous in conception and worse in execution.

A 2012 Louisiana law was supposed to be full, blueprint implementation of the voucher idea. It ended up

leading to students with special needs to be denied access to private schools. For-profit schools popped up and were held to little accountability with regard to student progress (measurement of student progress was another question DeVos on which seemed to lack basic understanding). Schools began to re-segregate, and the Louisiana Supreme Court firmly ruled the law unconstitutional.

I spent 12 years in some of the best public schools in the country. They were funded by local property taxes in a fairly wealthy area, but our community also believed in public education, investing in it by democratic choice. I’ve personally seen and benefitted from the capacity that public education has when it is given the resources it deserves.

The voucher program is the only education program in which Betsy DeVos has been especially involved, and it’s not the solution to the American education system.

Now that she is confirmed, it’s time to stop lamenting her confirmation and start calling for her resignation.

Annie Cappetta is a junior majoring in ecosystem science and policy and political science.

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Prepare home-cooked Valentineʼs Day dinner for special someone

By Andreu Silverman Contributing Edge Writer

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching.

One of the best ways to reward your significant other for putting up with you is a home-cooked meal. While cooking can be time consuming, the extra effort will show your special someone that you care, and it will mean more than dropping big bucks at a local restaurant.

Here’s a sample meal with three courses – baby greens salad, risotto with mushrooms and chocolate chip cookies – that you can easily prepare in a college apartment. Prepare your ingredients, invest in a fat chunk of quality parmesan – not the cheap kind –ß and get your culinary weapons ready.

Baby Greens Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette - 2 cups baby greens (we used a mix of baby spinach and baby kale) - 3 thick bacon strips, cut into small strips - 1/3 cup almonds, roughly chopped - 1/4 cup olive oil - 1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar (roasted garlic variety is best) - Parmesan shavings - torn basil leaves - salt and pepper

Fry bacon over medium heat until crispy and reserve rendered fat.

In a bowl, mix vinegar, oil and bacon fat.

Mix arugula with torn basil leaves and bacon bits.

Dress with bacon-fat vinaigrette and top with shaved parmesan and almonds.

Mushroom Risotto

- 1 pack of oyster mushrooms, torn - 1 pack shiitake mushrooms, sliced - 1 stick butter (garlic and herb butter is better, plain is still good) - 1 1/2 cup Arborio rice - 1/4 cup grated Parmesan, plus some shaved for garnish - 4 cups chicken stock - 1 cup water - 2 shallots - 1/4 cup Mascarpone - Truffle oil (optional)

Bring the chicken stock and water to a boil.

In a separate pot, cook the shallots in butter until translucent, aromatic and tender.

Add the mushrooms and lightly brown them.

Add the rice, season with salt and pepper and stir. Cook without adding liquid for a minute or two.

One ladle at a time, add the stock and stir constantly. As the rice absorbs the stock, add more. Every couple of ladles, taste your rice for salt and tenderness.

Once you’ve used up all your stock and the rice is tender (should still be a touch soupy, if not add a bit more water), stir in the mascarpone and the parmesan.

Serve on a deep plate or shallow bowl, garnished with shaved Parmesan and truffle oil.

FRESH START: Baby greens salad with bacon vinaigrette is the perfect first course for a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner.

Chocolate-Chip Cookies

- 2 cups of chocolate chunks or chips (we used Ghirardelli semi-sweet) - 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, plus some to sprinkle - 2 eggs - 3 cups flour - 1 teaspoon baking soda dissolved in 2 teaspoons hot water - 1 cup softened butter (2 sticks) - 1 cup white sugar - 1 cup brown sugar - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Cream sugar and butter together until smooth using a hand mixer at medium speed.

Add eggs one at a time until fully incorporated.

Add dissolved baking soda and vanilla extract.

With the mixer running on low speed, gradually incorporate flour.

Finally incorporate the chocolate chips until well-mixed.

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and, using an ice-cream scooper, spoon the batter onto the sheet in portions that are two inches apart. Don’t press them down; the cookies will do that on their own as they bake.

Sprinkle with salt and bake 10 minutes until golden brown.

SHROOM SUPPER SUPPER:: As the main course for your Valentine’s Day meal, serve mushroom risotto with shaved Parmesan.

HOMEMADE DESSERT: End the night with chocolate-chip cookies for a sweet treat made with love.

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UM theatre students grace Arsht stage in ʻSunday in the Park with Georgeʼ

By Madelyn Paquette Staff Edge Writer

UM theatre students dream of performing on a professional stage after graduation, but some lucky Canes didn’t have to wait to finish school to reach that goal.

Thanks to Zoetic Stage’s Young Artists Program, juniors Shannon Booth, Bennett Leeds and Jonah Robinson and seniors Kelly Murphy and Jayne Ng, all musical theatre majors, are in the company’s production of “Sunday in the Park with George,” running through Sunday at the Adrienne Arsht Center.

After auditions last fall, these five actors were selected to play small roles and understudy the leads in the production. Rehearsals began in late December, and the students had the chance to work alongside professional performers.

“When you’re a student in a situation like this, you try to learn a little from everyone you work with,” Leeds said. “Both the local Miami actors and the talent hired out of NYC set an example of the working actor being someone who is driven and dedicated to their craft.”

“This show connects personally with all of us because

it’s a show about creating art, and that’s what we try to do each day,” said Robinson, who plays Soldier and Alex and understudies George. “Being able to watch and work alongside these professionals who have been making art all around the country for years is inspiring.”

Two of the student performers, Leeds and Booth, had the challenge of serving as “swings,” actors who memorize every part onstage in case of an emergency. Swings also fill in the regular roles of understudies if an understudy fills in for a lead role.

“People like me and Shannon need to be able to fill in and maintain the integrity of the show,” Leeds said. “Rehearsals for me were a lot of watching, listening and writing vigorously in a master-notebook.”

The play’s music and lyrics are written by theatre legend Stephen Sondheim, who is known for the complexity of his compositions.

“Having the privilege to sing this score every night is pretty incredible,” said Murphy, who plays Celeste #1 and Elaine and understudies Dot and Marie.

“This music live is something spectacular. You can’t really begin to grasp how genius this score is

until you hear it live.”

Unlike shows at UM’s Ring Theatre, which run for only two weeks, “Sunday” is being played at the Arsht for a full month.

“It is great doing a monthlong run because we get a chance to really settle into the show and have the show grow and shape over time,” Robinson said. “Even three weeks in, we are finding little moments that we didn’t see when we opened.”

There are eight shows a week, with Monday as the dark night and two shows on Saturdays and Sundays. The students began rehearsals over winter break and missed a couple weeks of afternoon classes as the show finished rehearsing. Now that the show is playing, the students simply travel downtown each evening after class.

All of the student performers expressed how meaningful this show and experience have been to them as artists.

“Marie says in the second act, ‘You know, Miss Daniels, there are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when you depart this world: children and art,’” Murphy said. “That hits me every night in the show. That message resonates deep within me.”

Jayne Ng

Kelly Murphy

Jonah Robinson

IF YOU GO: Shannon Booth

WHAT: “Sunday in the Park with George” WHERE: Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts 1300 Biscayne Blvd.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8-11, 4 p.m. Feb. 12 COST: Tickets start at $50 CONTACT: 305-949-6722

Bennett Leeds

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The Adrienne Arsht Center will host the Miami City Ballet.

They will perform three acts: Walpurgisnacht, Polyphonia and the Fairy’s Kiss, choreographed by the famous Alexei Ratmansky.

Students can purchase tickets through the UTIX program for $20.

For the 18th year, John Prince Park will hold its annual Garlic Fest, the “best stinkin’ party in South Florida.” The festival has a main stage where artists will perform throughout the weekend, as well as a Gourmet Alley, where guests can try different foods and drinks. Advance prices are $10 for Friday or Saturday, while gate prices are $20. Sunday tickets are all $10.

The Wynwood Music and Art Festival includes music, artwork, food and entertainment. DJs will play live music at the Wynwood Yard until 2 a.m. Admission is free.

Festival Miami ends this weekend. The Frost Symphony Orchestra will perform new music for the very first time during the concert, “Firsts!” Tickets for the Frost Symphony start at $20.

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DAVE CHAPPELLE Dave Chappelle, famous comedian and creator of the “Chappelle Show,” will perform at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts.

Chappelle will be performing never-before-seen material to ring in Valentine’s week. Tickets are $71.20, for mature audiences only.

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The Hurricanes set the program record for fielding percentage with a mark that ranked No. 1 nationwide in 2016.

BASEBALL

Hurricanes baseball prepares to utilize different strategy, new faces for upcoming season

By Josh White Senior Staff Writer

For most baseball programs, a trip to the College World Series constitutes a successful season. But for the fourtime national champion Miami Hurricanes, just getting to Omaha isn’t enough.

Miami won the ACC Coastal Division title and the ACC Regular Season Championship last year. However, after advancing as one of the NCAA Tournament’s final eight teams, the Hurricanes struggled to find their way – going 0 –2 and ultimately getting eliminated early on.

Preseason All-American Carl Chester talked about how the performance in the series affected the team.

“It was a real teaching moment for us,” Chester said at the team’s first media availability of the season. “We need to buckle down this year and get ready to go. There’s a bitter taste in our mouth. As soon as we got off the plane, we were already thinking about this year.”

With the start of the season just about a week away, the junior outfielder isn’t the only Hurricane geared up for another year of success. Coach Jim Morris led his team to its second-straight 50-plus win season in 2016. Can he do it for a third?

“Every year is exciting, and every year is different,” said Morris, who is entering his 24th year as a head coach.

“We’ve lost a lot of guys to professional baseball. We have a lot of question marks, but we have some guys to build around.”

Josh White // Staff Photographer RETURNING TO PLAY: Junior outfielder Carl Chester discusses the upcoming season with members of the media at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field in January.

While the Canes lost sluggers Zack Collins and Willie Abreu to the MLB, they have two vital players returning: Chester and senior infielder Johnny Ruiz. Both are efficient hitters, batting .336 and .342 last season, respectively.

Despite their effectiveness, Chester and Ruiz are not power hitters. UM will have to manufacture runs differently this season and not be as reliant on the long ball.

“I think we’re going to have to run more,” Morris said. “I don’t think we’re going to have as much power given the mid-

dle-of-the-lineup guys we lost.

I think we’re going to have to pitch again, which is the name of the game, play really solid defense and play small ball.”

Miami will rely heavily on junior pitchers Michael Mediavilla and Jesse Lepore to lead the team on the mound.

Last season, Mediavilla was the Hurricanes’ best weekend pitcher, going 11–2 with a 3.40 ER A in 18 starts and leading Miami in strikeouts and innings pitched. Lepore, who served as the Canes’ midweek starter in 2016, is slotted for weekend series this season af-

ter finishing last year with a perfect 9– 0 record on the hill.

Lepore struck out 57 batters in 73.2 innings a season ago, posting a 2.20 ER A and six shutout innings in his lone ACC start against Georgia Tech in the ACC Baseball Championship.

Sophomore right-hander Frankie Bartow will step into the closer’s role, replacing 2016 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Bryan Garcia. Bartow finished 6 – 0 with a 2.72 ER A in 56.1 innings pitched in his freshman campaign.

The Hurricanes are ranked No. 21 in D1Baseball’s pre-

season poll, and the goal for the season is just the same as any other year.

“Omaha is instilled everywhere – into our shoes, into our hats, into our brains,” said Mediavilla, who was among a trio of Canes named to the NCBWA Preseason All-America Third Team alongside Lepore and Ruiz. “It’s everywhere in the locker room. It’s something we always go to work towards.”

Miami opens up the season with a three-game series against Rutgers starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 at Mark Light Field.

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CLUB SPORTS

Ultimate frisbee provides UM with competitive college experience

By Isaiah Kim-Martinez Sports Editor

Seven players stood parallel to each other on the painted white line. They pointed their index fingers to the sky and charged down the field as one of them launched a thin, white disk through the air.

One of the seven athletes running on the opposite side of the field caught it, and the game commenced.

This sport may sound familiar – maybe even a little bit like football. As it turns out, it’s a mix of football, soccer and even basketball. We are talking about ultimate frisbee, or just “ultimate,” as it’s often called.

Four to five times a semester, the University of Miami club ultimate team travels all across the state and country to compete against some of the best teams from other colleges. To prepare for these tournaments, the team meets four times a week on the campus intramural fields to practice, which entails drills and scrimmages.

The players spend nearly an hour and a half working on the fundamentals, including individual throws, cutting (making quick moves with the feet to create space from defenders) and running specific routes.

“Our most important drill is probably the dump-swing drill – someone throws it to the sideline and you need to get it off that sideline,” junior President Joachim Lopez said after practice Monday. “It’s one of the most important parts of ultimate because it works on us moving the disk across the field and we’re not jammed up on the sideline.”

After running drills, the team scrimmages for an hour, either against each other or against local club players who have competed on the national and international levels. Many UM players hadn’t been on an ultimate team in high school, so this is a consistent way for them to get better.

“It’s a new game for a lot of these guys, so we like to expose them to different styles of play,” said Assistant Coach Connor Smith, who is an alumnus of Miami. “Only a third of us played in high school. A lot of our guys have played different sports, but there is a unique men-

tality for this sport. We just need to help them transfer [the skills] over.”

Even those who haven’t played in high school can become good at the sport with practice – Smith being a prime example. There is often a misconception about its difficulty.

“A lot of people come in and say ‘Hey, I can throw a disk,’” Smith said.

“Well you can throw it one way out of the two main ways, but there are probably around 12 ways to throw a disk.”

Ultimate requires players to not only know how to throw a Frisbee while standing still, but to also hit others in stride while under pressure and on the run. Stamina is vital in this situation, with the athletes sprinting 70 percent of the time.

UM isn’t the tallest team, but what it lacks in height is made up by its work ethic and speed – what Smith calls its biggest strength.

Regardless of tournament results, what the players gain from the sport goes beyond just the logistics. They become a family, both on and off the field. The relationships grow to a point where the athletes can work together to achieve a common goal.

“With this sport more than others, you really need to rely on your teammates,” sophomore Jordan Hill said.

“You have to anticipate what your teammates want to do. It’s difficult and it takes a lot of time to master, but once you do, it’s a lot of fun.”

As physically demanding as ultimate can be, members of the club team enjoy it so much that they don’t find it grueling.

“It’s a fun way to stay fit,” junior captain Ben Caplan said. “It’s a lot of work and a lot of running. But, when you’re playing with the guys you’re close with, just chasing a disk around, it’s no work at all.”

The team looks forward to playing its next tournament, hosted by the University of South Florida in Tampa on the weekend of Feb. 17, and awaits its biggest trip of the semester when the players travel to Austin to participate in an ultimate tournament sponsored by Centex and hosted by the University of Texas on the weekend of March 10.

Matt Bernanke // Staff Photographer WINDING UP: Sophomore Aaren Sirak flicks a Frisbee to a teammate during club ultimate frisbee practice Monday night on the IM Fields.

February 9, 2017 - February 15, 2017

Dear V, I’ve been dating a guy on and off for a few months, and I really like him. We just click. The vibe is natural, and I feel a spark between us. That being said, he keeps giving me mixed signals.

He’s been asking me to hang out for about a few weeks now, but our schedules don’t mesh well. Finally, I was available, so I asked him

if he could hang out the next day. He said yes, but then proceeded to ignore my texts the whole day we had plans.

I was left just sitting around waiting for a reply. Later that night he sent me a half-assed excuse about being busy with an overtime shift at work.

I’m not too concerned that he’s lying – frankly, he’s a workaholic and would jump at the chance of extra shifts – but he didn’t care at all that he left me hanging all day, and he didn’t care at all that he’d hurt my feelings by bailing like that.

It’s just confusing. He checks in with me all the time and talks on the phone for hours. Would someone really put in that much effort just to bail?

I care about this guy and feel there’s something between us, but I don’t want to date

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a guy that’s a total no-show either. Please help!

Sincerely, Ditched Diana Dear Diana, He probably does like you, and he probably does want to meet up. You’re right – there’s no reason to put in that much effort unless he does want to see you in person.

That said, some people are only capable of thinking about themselves. If he never intended to hang out that day, he shouldn’t have agreed to plans with you. Or, if something came up, he should have just taken five seconds out of his day to text a simple “Sorry, can’t make it.”

Instead, he intentionally ignored you and left you hanging.

Whether he likes you or not, why would you want to date someone

DEAR V

like that? Sure, if he had an emergency or change of plans that’s understandable, but he should have let you know. That’s just common courtesy.

My advice? Ditch the guy.

He sounds like a flake, and he doesn’t respect you or your time. If he did, he would have given you a heads-up.

This might have even been a power play. He stood you up, so you’ll feel down and come running back the next time he wants to hang out – on his terms, of course.

Don’t play childish games like that. Move on to an adult.

–V

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This year will be hosted once again by the fabulous Tiffany Fantasia and feature Tlo Ivy and Missy Meyakie LePaige, who are professional drag queens from Miami Beach. Additionally, UM students and staff will compete in drag for our grand prize of a $100 Rathskeller giftcard.

Greek Extravaganza serves to showcase one of the most prominent cultural aspects of Black Greek Letter organizations outside of community service – Stepping and Strolling. Both of these forms of artistic expression pay homage not only to our organizations’ historical roots in African American culture, but also allude to roots that reach deeper throughout all aspects of the African Diaspora.This year we plan for the presentation of Greek Extravaganza to be unprecedented in every aspect of its conception!

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