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THE GRADUATES

SENIOR SANITY

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FINANCE

PROFILE UPDATE

Momentum 2 raises contributions

Online petition fosters support

Campaign advocates alumni donations for scholarships

BY LYSSA GOLDBERG OPINION EDITOR

President Donna E. Shalala stressed the importance of alumni donating to their alma mater in her feature on the Humans of UM Facebook page.

The feature was posted on March 17. “... the average student takes out about $25,000,” she said of student loans.

The page’s administrator, Collin Li, responded with a question.

“What do you suggest we do about that?” Li asked.

“Well when they get to be successful, they should give back so other students get to go to school,” Shalala said, according to the Humans of UM page.

Since Momentum 2 began, more than 38,000 alumni have heeded Shalala’s advice by contributing to the University of Miami’s second billion-dollar fundraising campaign.

With their help, the university has already reached about 80 percent of its goal, according to Sergio Gonzalez, the senior vice president for university advancement and external affairs.

The campaign aims to raise $1.6 billion by 2016. The university has amassed $1.27 billion as of early March, according to Gonzalez.

When the Momentum 2 campaign was publicly announced in February 2012, $906 million had already been raised. This means that about $370 million has been raised since then.

Alumni have donated a total of $219 million to Momentum 2, and the 38,657 alumni that have contributed so far exceeds the total number of alumni that contributed during the first Momentum campaign.

Gonzalez said this has had a lot to do with the university’s effort to connect its alumni to UM and to bring back those who have left Miami.

“It’s very important to us that our alumni give back,” he said. “It’s the beginning of hopefully a lifetime of giving.”

College rankings by the U.S. News and World Report take into account the total number of alumni who donate money to their alma mater. UM has focused on boosting this number in a variety of ways.

Banners with the “faces of scholarship” highlight students who agreed to share their stories about how receiving a scholarship helped them attend UM. The goal is to demonstrate the power of philanthropy, Gonzalez said.

Additionally, at a recent scholarship luncheon held for the university’s donors and attended by students on scholarship, Shalala asked all of the students to stand up and raise their right hands to pledge that they would support scholarships in the future.

“We’re trying to create the kind of consciousness about giving back to the University of Miami to our young alums and our students now who become seniors,” Gonzalez said.

Aside from alumni donors, individual donors such as Swanee and Paul DiMare have contributed to the Momentum 2 campaign. The DiMares are local philanthropists and vice chairs of the campaign. Their giving totals $12.5 million. Paul DiMare is also a member of the Board of Trustees.

“They’re wonderful donors who believe in really impacting the lives of our students and particularly the University of Miami community,” Gonzalez said.

The DiMares made a $2 million gift to the Frost School of Music to build a 200-seat recital hall. In December, they also pledged $6 million to the Miller School of Medicine to fund scholarships for recipients who will be known as DiMare Medical Scholars.

“They wanted to make sure that talented and qualified students who want to come to our medical school could afford it,” Gonzalez said.

The remainder of their contributions have gone toward the Gallery of Champions at the Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence, the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the Miller School’s UHealth Sports Medicine Division, and the School of Education and Human Development.

Additionally, the Student Activities Center, Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence and the new Toppel Career Center – all completed this academic year – are being used by students today because of funds from Momentum 2.

MOMENTUM 2

Momentum 2 is the University of Miami’s major fundraising campaign that aims to raise $1.6 billion by 2016. As of early March, the university has already raised $1.27 billion. Though more than 38,000 alumni have contributed, parents, faculty and staff have also donated. Momentum 2 helps fund student scholarships as well as on-campus renovations.

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Audrey Winkelsas removed from Medicaid waiver waitlist

BY EMILY DABAU COPY EDITOR

Audrey Winkelsas, who was denied Medicaid after turning 21, was relieved to find out that she was taken off the waitlist for a Medicaid waiver program.

“I was so excited and relieved that we were making headway,” she said.

Winkelsas’s situation became known throughout campus because of a Change. org petition, which has garnered more than WINKELSAS 7,000 signatures to date. The petition is helping raise awareness about Winkelsas, who had lost her home healthcare services.

Representative Bryan Nelson of Florida, who originally helped Winkelsas apply for Medicaid her freshman year, contacted her, telling her to expect a call with updates on the waitlist status. On Monday, she received a call from the Alliance for Aging about her release from the waitlist.

The Alliance for Aging is a private, nonprofit agency that provides a range of healthcare services primarily to senior citizens living in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. Through this organization, Winkelsas hopes to qualify for a Medicaid waiver that will reinstate the 24-hour care she once had.

To qualify for this waiver, a nursing assessment still has to be completed to determine how many hours of care Winkelsas will be provided.

“We’re not there yet, but it’s a step in the right direction,” she said.

On Tuesday, a form was sent to Winkelsas’s doctor to be completed and sent back to the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Long-Term Care program, which provides additional services beyond standard Medicaid. The program will review her case, and it will then be sent to a nurse who will complete the necessary assessment.

Upon completion of all the appropriate paperwork and assessments, she will be told how many hours of care she will be provided with.

“Hopefully it won’t be too much longer, but we don’t know for sure,” Winkelsas said.

Although Winkelsas was initially resistant to create the petition and wasn’t hopeful about regaining Medicaid, she is thankful for the support she has received through Change.org.

“I never imagined my petition would receive the amount of support it has,” she said. “I think it shows the amazing spirit within the UM student body, and the care students have for their fellow Canes. I am so appreciative of the support.”

In addition to the support shown online, Winkelsas has also received the support of UM students and administration.

Student Government passed a bill on March 5 that encourages the university to provide the necessary assistance for Winkelsas to continue her education. The bill passed with 34 SG senators in favor, while none opposed or abstained, according to SG Speaker William Herrera.

“We do it because that’s why we’re elected, to look out for the students,” Herrera said. “That’s what reaching out for Audrey is about.”

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PHOTO BRIEF

DANCING THE COMPETITION AWAY YINGHUI SUN // STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

BALLROOM STARS: Junior Dykisha Potter and sophomore Deandre Tate-Drummer perform the tango during the Dancing with the UMiami Stars competition Friday at the Rock.

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Overpass construction process continues County officials push for quicker completion

BY OLIVER REDSTEN CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

Freshman Bobby DiLorenzo was heading to Shake Shack for lunch with friends in October. As he attempted to cross the intersection of U.S. 1 and Ponce de Leon Boulevard, a Toyota Prius came careening around the corner, knocking him onto the windshield. Before any of the students got a good look at the driver, the vehicle sped off down the busy highway.

While DiLorenzo walked away from the incident unharmed, other UM students have not been as fortunate. Since 1989, three students have been killed while crossing at this intersection. Five others have been critically injured.

In response to this problem, UM’s administration, in collaboration with Student Government (SG), launched a campaign early last year calling for a pedestrian overpass across the intersection of U.S. 1 and Mariposa Court to prevent future accidents. The Miami-Dade County Commission approved the measure in a unanimous vote in July of 2013.

Currently, however, more than six months

after the approval of the overpass, the project is still in the planning phases. According to MiamiDade Transit’s official timeline, construction of the overpass will not begin until March 2015.

Plans to build an overpass have been in the works since 2003, but they have been halted repeatedly for various reasons, including budget issues.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Xavier Suarez, who represents District 7 – where UM is located – says the wait to start construction is too long.

“I will not accept waiting a year for this overpass to be built,” said Suarez, who is also the sponsoring commissioner of this legislation.

In a memo to Miami-Dade Transit Director Ysela Llort and Florida Department of Transportation Director Gus Pego, Commissioner Suarez called on government officials to “expedite, fast track, or do whatever it takes” to shorten the gap between completion of the overpass’s design and the beginning of its construction.

“We cannot afford to have another serious accident in this important thoroughfare, which is traversed by thousands of students, teachers and staff,” Suarez said in the memo.

SG President Bhumi Patel was active in the campaign for the overpass. She says the project that she helped to pass is now out of her hands.

“Our role in Student Government was to

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get the overpass proposal passed,” Patel said.

“Now it’s in the hands of Miami-Dade County.”

Despite frustrations, the project is not delayed. Irene Ferradaz, Miami-Dade Transit’s spokesperson, says the project is running right on schedule.

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ing permission to place the overpass over U.S. 1.

In October, Miami-Dade County will begin accepting bids from contractors. It will take five months to evaluate bids and award a contract, Ferradaz said.

In the meantime, Michael Colombo, a lieutenant in the UM Police Department, stresses that pedestrian safety is “absolutely” a major concern for university officials.

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CAMPUS LIFE

Newman Fellow reaches out to children in Haiti Haiti-based project recognized for success, potential

BY CHLOE HERRING STAFF WRITER

When Guerdiana Thelomar planned to start her summer camp in Haiti, she never expected to be selected as the University of Miami’s 2014 Frank Newman Fellow.

The award recognizes students working toward social change. Her summer camp will begin this summer.

“I submitted my application, Friday, February 28 and the following week I found out. I was like ‘woah, didn’t I just send this yesterday?’” she said.

Thelomar, a double major in human and social development and visual journalism, found out about the award March 5. The selection of the Newman Civic Fellow is part of a national initiative by Campus Compact, an organization dedicated to strengthening the connection between higher education and effective community engagement.

According to Vanessa Navarro, a member on the selection committee of the civic fellow award, Thelomar was recognized for her project called Generation Hope: Haiti Summer Camp, which is a three-day program for children in Haiti that will seek to foster self-esteem, explore passions and teach skills to gear youth to create change.

Thelomar’s project also landed her a spot in the Clinton Global Initiative that hosts an annual meeting to affect world change.

“Thelomar’s current project was inspired by a conversation with a young man living in the Haitian village from

where members of her family immigrated, in which he expressed to her an almost complete lack of hope for his future,” said psychology professor Laura Kohn-Wood, who wrote one of Thelomar’s recommendation letters.

Thelomar met the person who inspired her project in Port-au-Prince and was moved by what he had said to her.

“There was one kid, and I asked him what he wanted to be and he said ‘in Haiti you don’t dream,’” said Thelomar, who admits that the environment she witnessed in trips to cities in Haiti, such as St. Marc, Cange, Gonaives and Portau- Prince, shapes youth to lack ambition.

Including Thelomar, a group of six UM students, comprised of sophomores and juniors, applied for the fellowship.

They were looking to join the other 196 students chosen as Newman Civic Fellows from colleges across the nation.

The award specifically honors individuals who show leadership potential that is assisted by their college education.

At UM, a selection committee from the Butler Center and the Office of Civic and Community Engagement evaluated the applications.

Navarro said she was impressed with Thelomar’s involvement.

“The work she’s doing is a reflection of what the university can offer to students who are dedicated and focused,” Navarro said. “She’s using the resources of the university to their full advantage and on multiple levels she does so much.”

Thelomar believes Haiti’s youth is capable of improving their situations.

“I want to empower young Haitians to have the courage to dream,” she said. “If you put them in a context where they have the freedom to discuss solutions to problems in their community great things will happen.”

YINGHUI SUN // STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

SPECIAL EVENT

Journalist shares experience, advice for next generation Writer discusses future of journalism

BY ALEXANDER GONZALEZ NEWS EDITOR

Alma Guillermoprieto, an acclaimed Mexican journalist, will give her second lecture Thursday night on the paradoxical relationship between the “War on Drugs” and the expansion of the drug trade.

GUILLERMOPRIETO She gave her first talk Wednesday on creating an online altar for the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead.

The Center for the Humanities invited Guillermoprieto to speak as part of the 2014 Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors series. She has written articles for publications such as the New Yorker, The Guardian and The Washington Post throughout her 30-year career 4

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as a journalist. She also received the George Polk Award for her book “Looking for History” and the MacArthur Fellowship.

Before her lecture, Guillermoprieto sat down with The Miami Hurricane to talk about writing, reporting on Latin America and the future of journalism. She met with journalism professor Bruce Garrison’s class earlier as well.

THE MIAMI HURRICANE: How would you describe your writing style?

ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO: When I sit down to write, I write what I know in a way that is satisfying to me aesthetically. I write thinking that it should last and that you should be able to read it with pleasure. You should be able to read it and learn something about that time that’s still valid 20 years later. This approach has served me well.

TMH: What considerations do you make when you write?

AG: I focus a lot on character. I focus a lot on having my own voice. I would like to be able to think that when you read a story by me, you know it’s by me. And I try to achieve that voice by working carefully on language, and letting my personality express itself. I think when March 24 - March 26, 2014

you do long-form narrative journalism, your individuality is present in the story. A big part of the objective is putting your own sensibility into the story. It’s a different way of approaching the story. ... I work in a specific genre, and that genre is long-form narrative journalism. We tell a story using the techniques of literature. That’s how you define the genre.

TMH: How did you arrive there?

AG: I really like telling stories. So I think it was natural for me. When I started writing news stories, when I was very much a news reporter for The Guardian and The Washington Post, my poor editors would take my stories and take a pair of scissors and do this [Guillermoprieto demonstrated a cutting gesture]. I was too busy telling a story and setting an atmosphere. …

You get more facts with long-form narrative journalism. I like that. I have always liked that.

TMH: What’s the benefit of news journalism versus long-form narrative journalism?

AG: It’s indispensable. There’s too much feature writing in the daily papers. When I look at the front page of the daily newspaper, I want to know what happened yesterday. As a citizen, what happened yesterday in the world? That’s

news. It’s not a lesser or superior genre. It’s just a different thing. I read five papers everyday to get that, though I’m not the news junkie I used to be.

TMH: What would you tell the next generation of journalists?

AG: If you’re starting out to be a journalist today, first of all, you have to be brave in a different way. You have to be brave about not knowing how you’re going to make a living. Second, you have to invent your own form of intermedia communication because it doesn’t exist yet.

Third, it’s very exciting to be part of a generation that’s making it up as they go. And fourth, storytelling is going to be even more important in the new media.

I think people of my generation tend to get very annoyed, and they say “well people are getting their news from Twitter, and that doesn’t allow you understand anything,” which is true.

But Twitter is not about that. I think Twitter is about getting very essential information out there very fast from a journalism point of view.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

State of the U addresses past year’s accomplishments SG President discusses goals met, future plans

support fellow SG representatives and was encouraged by this year’s advancements.

“It’s really nice to see how this year has shaped out to be as far as the new Student Activities Center opening, and we had an amazing pep rally as far as the UF [University of Florida] game goes,” she said. “I know Student Government has made very big strides towards the future, and I hope that people recognize that.”

Academics have seen adjustments as well, like the eventual elimination of the Honors Program to make room for the development of a more effective option and the addition of cognates for freshman instead of general education requirements, which allows students to explore a broader range of interests.

“These cognates demonstrate to graduate schools and employers that students were focused and deliberate when selecting their classes,” Patel said. “Our deans, faculty and academic officials are always looking for ways to improve the student experience in UM’s classrooms.”

Patel then recognized student organizations for their efforts to put together a diverse range of on-campus activities, like the monthly Canes After Dark events.

Other on-campus events connected students with well-known speakers such as Lisa Ling, Malcom Gladwell, George Takei, Juan Santos and Hillary Clinton.

This year’s changes will only be expanded in the coming years, as more plans are developed, Patel said.

BY EMILY DABAU COPY EDITOR

Student Government President Bhumi Patel delivered the State of the U address Thursday at the Rock. She discussed the progress made during the academic year and the various accomplishments of student organizations.

Two of the most significant projects this year were the approval of the Ashley Kelly Memorial Pedestrian Bridge that is to be completed in 2015 to provide a safe crossing of U.S. 1 from campus, and the opening of the Student Activities Center (SAC) in August, including the development of a 24-hour study lounge and a second Starbucks.

“This building is the culmination of years of hard work and collaboration between UM students and administration,” Patel said.

“The Student Activities Center has taken campus life and campus programming to new heights.”

Additional campus changes included renovations to the Mahoney-Pearson Dining Hall and the opening of Lime Fresh Mexican Grill in the University Center. The Wellness Center’s fitness rooms and outdoor basketball courts were renovated, and the Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence was opened for student athletes.

Sophomore Shelly Morse, marketing chair for Category 5, attended the event to

BECCA MAGRINO // CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER A LOOK AT UNIVERSITY GROWTH: Student Government President Bhumi Patel addresses the UM community on Thursday afternoon during the annual State of the U address.

“Our university is ever-evolving and opportunities surround students,” she said.

Upcoming projects include a renovation of the Hecht-Stanford Dining Hall, Hurricane Food Court and other food locations on campus. The new music studio at the Frost School of Music and the new Gables UHealth facility will be opening in the next few years. Campus housing will also be changed to better accommodate students’ needs.

Recently-elected SG President Alessandria San Roman appreciated hearing this

NEWS BRIEFS DAY OF SERVICE The Toppel Career Center will be hosting its first Day of Service from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Participants will include local employers, Toppel staff members and students. The group will travel to Key Biscayne for a beach clean up.

To RSVP, email alrodriguez@miami.edu.

THE WOMAN IN U Multicultural Student Affairs, the Office of Academic Enhancement and the Office of Alumni Relations will present “The Woman in U” at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Student Activities Center (SAC) ballrooms. The event will provide UM’s female population an opportunity to learn about leadership, commitment and character

in fulfilling the many roles involved in being a woman today. For more information or to RSVP, contact the Office of Academic Enhancement at 305-284-3187.

LAW SCHOOL PLAYHOUSE The School of Law’s Equity Playhouse will present its production “1L in Wonderland: Fairy Tales Gone Law School” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Storer Auditorium. The play tells a law school story about final exams in the context of fairy tales.Tickets are required for admission. Student tickets cost $5, and general admission is $10.

Tickets can be purchased at the School of Law courtyard near the brick wall. All ticket proceeds will be donated to Project Knucklehead and Hilarity for Charity.

year’s accomplishments and is looking forward to continuing the success during her term in the next academic year.

“It accurately reflects what has been going on in our campus, and really highlighted all of the success that organizations have had,” she said. “I’m very excited to work with student organizations next year and see how we can change to better our campus. We really want to highlight working with students and really listen to their concerns.”

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SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT The Miss University of Miami 2014 Scholarship Pageant will take place at 7 p.m. Monday in the SAC ballrooms. The pageant is a local qualifier for the Miss America Pageant. The competition will feature 11 women participating in five categories for the chance to then compete in the Miss Florida pageant in June. Tickets purchased in advance cost $7, and they are $10 at the door. To purchase tickets, or for more information, email missuniversityofmiami@gmail.com.

Ashley Martinez may be emailed at amartinez@ themiamihurricane.com.

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Student Government President Bhumi Patel addressed students in the annual State of the U speech Thursday.

Highlights from the speech is available online at themiamihurricane.com/ tmhtv.

Audrey Winkelsas was denied Medicaid after turning 21. To learn more about her story, watch Christian Smith’s video package.

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OPINION speak UP WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT GRADUATING SENIORS?

“I know four seniors, and they’re really involved.

They’ve been a big help to me.”

MATTAN COMAY JUNIOR

VICTORIA MARKS FRESHMAN

“I get the struggle of not knowing what to do after college.

My sister is a senior at another school, but the seniors that I know here are super capable.”

The Miami So, underclassmen and members of our fellow student organizations: Appreciate your graduating seniors.

Have some sympathy.

Staff editorial, The Miami Hurricane

We know how you feel … there are eight of us on this staff graduating on May 9.

When people ask us what we’re doing after graduation, we cringe. If we knew, we would probably be singing about it from the top of the Student Activities Center. So, please, stop asking us about our plans, lest you end up the topic of a BuzzFeed article.

Even though some seniors already have their plans squared away, some of us aren’t so lucky yet. Once we figure out all the details, we’ll be sure to send a memo by carrier pigeon to all parties involved. Rest assured, you’ll be the first person to get your letter. We know, you’re waiting with bated breath.

So, underclassmen and members of our fellow student organizations: Appreciate your graduating seniors. Have some sympathy.

There’s a lot going on for us right now, and some of us may not want to discuss it yet. In a year or so, you’ll be in our shoes. Until then, be patient, and maybe karma will send you your very own underclassmen to help you pick up the slack next year.

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

NFL culture sports exclusionary image “I wouldn’t say there’s a stereotype of them being lazy or hard working. It just depends on the person.”

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timately taken off the table last week) was meant to “save” the league’s image, but a closer look shows that the rule would have unevenly addressed other elements of racism in professional football – a league that uses its athleticism to distract paying customers from its intolerance.

NFL executives say the league “isn’t ready” for Michael Sam, a football player hoping to become the league’s first publicly gay figure – homosexuality is too problematic for the dynamics of a locker room.

Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins franchise, calls his racially charged team name a “badge of honor” that would “never” be changed. Historical subjugation of Native Americans is a sign of “strength, courage, pride and respect,” he said.

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Show seniors some sympathy

ast fall, the NFL became embroiled in a public bullying controversy.

The league’s news made the jump from COREY JANSON SPORTS ESPN to CNN, COLUMNIST and for a few weeks, the product on the field was overshadowed by the culture off the field.

The Dolphins locker room, a haven for bullies and racists (the media said), plagued the league’s image. The once-gleaming NFL shield was fractured as it defended football’s culture from accusations of barbarism.

A proposed rule banning the use of the n-word in games (which was ul-

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STAFF EDITORIAL

The following is an open letter on behalf of the seniors on the staff of The Miami Hurricane: Seniors: Think back to your days as a freshman. As a sophomore. As a junior. You’d look at the sleep-deprived seniors with disdain. You’d see the bags under their eyes and their lack of effort and wonder why they had gotten so … lazy. And boring. And just plain sad.

As we write this letter, there are 46 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 53 seconds left until graduation at noon on May 9. If you calculate the amount of days remaining until classes end on April 25, there are approximately 32 days left.

The light at the end of the tunnel is near.

Graduation is so close. Still, seniors, we have countless job applications to submit, graduate school decisions to make, tests to study for and papers to complete. Forty-six days seems like such a small amount of time to make decisions that will affect the rest of your life.

Having to complete all these tasks, at this moment, seems like a form of cruel and unusual punishment. The end is just not close enough.

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And the NFL’s governing board, composed of a white commissioner and white majority owners, wants to wield its white-paternalistic power to tell its league of mostly black players what words they can’t say because it offends them.

The NFL’s moralizing effort is merely self-serving. Its exclusive focus on the n-word implicitly condones other racial epithets and discriminatory language that falls outside the parameters of the new rule.

Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman called the proposed rule “almost racist.” Maybe he’s right – because what the NFL’s rule doesn’t say speaks much louder than what it actually does.

Corey Janson is a senior majoring in psychology and political science.

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New food label showcases health facts Nutrition label alteration A The Food and Drug Administration proposed a new label for nutrition facts on foods and drinks.

Proposed label

obesity and metabolic disorders as they depend on nutrient surplus. For example, in cancer cells the main source of energy is sugar, and when the body has calories to spare, it can expend that plethora of resources to grow those cells into malignant tumors.

These avoidable health issues have grown in number within this society and even with these telltale signs, the FDA has not considered changing the emphasis from the misunderstood fats to the true culprits of the obesity and malnutrition epidemic until now.

The newly proposed FDA nutrition label has come to recognize the transformed eating habits of Americans and places a new light on the sugars added to foods through processing, the serving sizes within each package and the amount of sodium, potassium and vitamin D in the foods (research has indicated def iciencies in the latter two result in hypertension and increased blood pressure). It has removed prominence from calories from fat in foods and replaced it with a greater emphasis on the types of fats within the foods.

This simple yet effective alteration to the little box on the side of our food has the potential to wholly redef ine the perceptions of sustenance in America and bring cognizance about the previously hidden perpetrators of the metabolic epidemics within our society.

Current label

mericans have been looking at the same nutrition label since 1993.

Meanwhile, eating habits have morphed drastically since we’ve entered the new millennium.

A steep increase in FAIZAH SHAREEF NUTRITION obesity, diabetes and COLUMNIST chronic heart disease have resulted from the calorie and sugar surplus of the newly def ined American diet. In response to this proliferating dilemma, the FDA has now decided to revise the nutrition label to ref lect the new vices of the energy sources we use.

For years, the nutrition label has placed a taboo on the amount of fat in our goods due to the perception that less fat equated to a more nutritious diet. But as trends now indicate, healthy fats are necessary for vital body f unctions and, without their support, our cell membranes would disintegrate.

In addition to the nebulous understanding behind fats, the current nutrition label fails to indicate the changes that have swept the American diet. Sugar intake has increased from 10 to 20 pounds to 100 to 200 pounds over the last century, and this era has been signif icantly marked with fast food and packaged meals. In many cases when individuals eat those meals, they fail to recognize that the entire box they ingested in one sitting was actually four servings too much.

Both increased sugar and caloric intake are directly linked to elevated cancer risk,

Faizah Shareef is a freshman majoring in biochemistry and nutrition.

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Piling peer pressure ruins recent research findings e often take the truth for granted when we read science news.

Straightforward and forceful, the matterof-fact headlines can be misleading when LOUIS CAI SCIENCE it comes to cuttingCOLUMNIST edge science – a soap opera filled with ambiguity, contradictions and even deception.

There’s a rising trend of published scientific research papers with findings that can’t be easily reproduced. In a related and recent controversy over making stem cells by dipping adult cells into acid, it took only a month for this scientific breakthrough to become a scandal.

This event reminds us that science is not the perfect process of unmasking

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truth, but rather a faulty human endeavor – biased and subject to peer pressure.

Earlier this year, Nature Magazine proclaimed, “Acid bath offers easy path to stem cells – Just squeezing or bathing cells in acidic conditions can readily reprogram them into an embryonic state.”

However, now the two papers by Haruko Obokata and co-authors that reported the possibility of these stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells have come under fire for allegations of scientific misconduct. Dipping adult cells into acid would drastically simplify the process of creating stem cells, but it has yet to be successfully replicated.

It would make sense that replicating the results would be difficult; it took Obokata herself many years to perfect the conditions. However, leading scientists are further questioning the validity of the study because of inaccuracies,

inappropriately included figures and reports of plagiarism. One of the coauthors has already requested that the papers be retracted, which would only add to the tenfold increase in retractions science journals have seen this past decade.

Retractions are still rare, making up only 0.02 percent of published papers, but irreproducible results are slowly becoming the norm, according to researcher John Ioannidis. His highly cited 2005 paper, “Why most published research findings are false,” inf luenced even Nature to create a special “Challenges in Irreproducible Research” section.

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to be more open to fundraising, more publishable.

Additionally, the livelihoods of scientists rest on their publications – a pressure students also feel, since being published makes applicants look more legitimate. These factors, along with the very human desire to do something important, push scientists to develop unusual hypotheses, which have a higher chance of being wrong.

As consumers and producers of science, we must realize that research is never just about the science. Money and interest direct scientific trends, which predictably leads to wasted resources and bad science. Yet we will never shed science of its human fallibility, for it is our very inability and lack of knowledge that motivated us to create science in the first place.

Louis Cai is a senior majoring in biology.

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Minimum wage needs raise ecently, President Barack Obama addressed a crowd at a fundraising event hosted at the Miami mansion of NBA legend Alonzo MournMATT ing: “How do we PONTECORVO make sure that folks POLITICS who work hard and COLUMNIST are taking responsibility for themselves and have dreams about something better for their kids – how do we make sure that hard work pays off?” According to the president, raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 is an important step toward achieving this goal.

While right-wing politicians advocate abolishing the minimum wage, the debate over its merits was settled decades ago. Since its creation in 1938, the minimum wage has been raised 29 times, including in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Every time, critics argued the legislation would hurt our economy and cost jobs. The fact that Americans are still having this debate is absurd.

Until the 1970s, increases in worker productivity have been matched by equal percentage increases in the minimum wage. Then conservative economic theory hijacked American politics, and wages have stagnated. Today, an American minimum wage worker earns 30 percent less than they would have in 1968. Had it continued to correlate with worker productivity, today’s minimum wage would be over $21.00.

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people working summer jobs is false, as the number of teenagers that fill these jobs is dwindling. In 2013, these people saw their earnings drop in value by 12 percent due to inflation while the average CEO (whose earnings have increased by 875 percent since 1978 alone) got paid 12 percent more.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle understand the need for an increase.

Wealthy conservative political activist Ron Unz is pushing for a $12 minimum wage in California. “Why should all taxpayers have to pay for massive hidden government subsidies?” he asks.

The massive subsidies he refers to are made to major corporations like McDonald’s and Walmart, which pay a majority of their employees the minimum wage.

Last year, employees at major fastfood chains received nearly $8 billion in taxpayer-funded welfare because their employers don’t pay them enough money to feed themselves. McDonald’s alone netted more than $7 billion in profits. So on top of allowing them to sell us inedible food, which ultimately is responsible for billions of dollars in public health care costs, Americans now pay their employees’ salaries. Clearly, these companies can afford to pay their workers more.

In the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”

More importantly, a small increase would mean more cash in the pockets of an estimated 27.8 million Americans, all of which would end up being pumped back into our struggling economy.

A visual commentary on what’s happening during March Madness.

Matt Pontecorvo is a sophomore majoring in political science.

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BY NADIJAH CAMPBELL CONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

It’s that time of year again, when the rest of the country is experiencing a thaw and you haven’t seen your floor since before Christmas break. Even though we live in a place of endless summer, it’s time to do some spring clean-

“DIRTY LAUNDRY” KELLY ROWLAND

Start by washing all of those clothes, rags, sheets and towels (not to mention dishes) that have piled up around your room.

ing – dorm style. Pretty soon, you’ll be packing up your things and moving out, so try to make this cleaning count. Trust us, it’ll save you time later.

To help keep your energy up during this year’s cleaning binge, The Miami Hurricane has created a playlist to take you through all the ins and outs of spring cleaning. So turn up the tunes and let’s get started.

“PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME” (ANY REMIX WILL DO)

Next is time to tackle the great unknown: your fridge and microwave. Throw out everything that is old and that you know you won’t eat. That means all the take-out containers and the half eaten pizza that’s been there since finals. Make your roommate do the same, then wipe down the inside and outside of both the fridge and the microwave. If you do this now, hopefully when move-out arrives they’ll still be clean. Or at least not quite as scary.

“CLEAN SHEETS” THE DESCENDENTS

While your clothes are in the washer, jam out to this old school tune and make your bed with fresh new sheets. Not only will it give your room a new look, but falling onto those fresh sheets after a long day of cleaning will feel so great, you’ll think you’re back in your bed from home.

Just kidding. But it will feel better.

“ONE STEP AT A TIME” JORDIN SPARKS

If you’re too busy to get everything done in one day, then break it up! Listen to Jordin and take it one step at a time – each section of your room can be tackled on a different day.

“CLEANING OUT MY CLOSET” EMINEM

Take Eminem’s advice and dig through your closet. If you have items of clothing you haven’t touched since move-in, it’s time to donate them, trash them (only if they’re in bad condition) or pack them up and send them back home.

Don’t hold on to things you haven’t needed all year “just in case.” Chances are, if you’ve made it this far without them, you’ll last until May. DESIGN BY SARBANI GHOSH

“THROW IT IN THE BAG” FABULOUS

Go through your desk space and shelves and trash everything you don’t need. Close all your bottles and jars.

Again – if the food is old, throw it out. Sort through papers, organize them by class and put them in folders.

Or, realize that it’s time to part with last year’s chemistry notes and toss them. When this is finished, wipe everything down.

“BYE BYE BYE” ‘N SYNC

Last but not least, sweep the floors, vacuum your carpets and take out the trash. Voila! You’re finished. Say “bye bye” to the mess and “hello” to your newly cleaned room.

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Top tips for graduating seniors to remain sane

BY MARGAUX HERRERA MANAGING EDITOR

The time of year is finally upon us. It’s after spring break, and mustering up the energy to get anything done seems impossible.

Worse still is the plight of the Second Semester Senior, who is a mere five weeks away from graduation and leaving the cradle of Miami undergraduate career forever.

As you cling to your last shreds of sanity, keep in mind The Miami Hurricane’s tips for surviving as a second semester senior.

MAKE TO-DO LISTS. SO MANY TODO LISTS. There are a lot of things lefts to do before graduation. So many things, in fact, that it makes your brain go blank when you try to count them. So do yourself and everyone around you a favor and make a to-do list.

Or six. Whatever it takes to organize your

thoughts on paper, so that they don’t have to stay in your head. Just like you’ve got that graduation countdown on your phone, use the lists to help you get through the night without cradling the bottle of wine to your chest too hard.

DOUBLE-CHECK THAT EVERYTHING IS IN LINE FOR GRADUATION Is that incomplete from junior year taken care of? Have you paid your tuition bill? Are you going to pass all your classes this semester? Now is the time to make sure you have all of your ducks in a row. Because as much as you don’t need another thing to worry about, the panic will be horrendous if, come May, you find out you have a minivan filled with relatives driving down and you won’t even be allowed to graduate.

your dream job with a resume that said “ass” instead of “as.”

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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE RESOURCES As a second semester senior, you realize one massive flaw in our $120,000 education — no one taught us how to apply for jobs. Sure, Toppel has resume critiques, but where were the lessons on writing cover letters for non-traditional companies? What about classes on when it’s all right to message a hiring manager on LinkedIn, whether you should paint your nails for a Skype interview or how long you should wait to send a follow up email after an in person interview?

We’ll have to Google the answers to these questions for the most part, but while you only have a few weeks left, make the trek over to Toppel and make uses of the resources while we still have them. Set up a mock interview to calm your nerves, or have them go over your resume, at the very least. Because even though more work sounds counterintuitive to lowering your stress levels, it sure beats realizing at 3 a.m. that you applied to

PARTY LIKE YOU’RE A FIRST SEMESTER FRESHMAN Forget the final papers, forget the ninehour job interview, forget the eight years of medical school and residency looming in your future, and party away your last breath of freedom like it’s your first taste all over again. But this time, it’s legal.

The stress of the imminent future may have made you hunker down and spend your nights writing papers and applying for jobs, but that is your mistake. You’ve spent four years perfecting the art of balancing partying and school work, and now it’s time to put those skills to good use. So spend your weekdays selling your soul to the homework and unemployment gods. But the weekends?

Baby, those are all for you.

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DJ pursuing musical career lands spot in Ultra

BY EMMANUEL LAVEAU CONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

From mixing homemade beats in his father’s studio to performing on Ultra’s Main Stage, Michael Brun, a Haitian-born DJ who lives in Miami, stands out for not only for his quality music, but as a testament to how far hard work can take you.

In just two years, Brun skyrocketed from a small-time DJ to a notable artist, remixing the work of artists like Tiesto, Alicia Keys, Calvin Harris and Armin van Buuren and working with big names such as Dirty South, the Serbian-Australian DJ and producer.

In fact, Brun described to The Miami Hurricane how he received an email from Dirty South inquiring about getting him signed. At first, Brun did not reply, thinking at the time that it was some sort of joke, that there was no way Dirty South would show interest in him.

It was only after receiving another email that Brun finally realized that it was a real offer.

For Brun, the music is always his priority.

“My focus is on delivering really quality music, and stuff that I love and believe in that has soul,” Brun explained. “Kind of different from electronic music right now.”

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lings were all brought up learning to play instruments.

“My brother plays the piano and violin, and my sister the violin,” said Brun, who began learning violin and guitar at age six BRUN to supplement his singing.

“Yeah [we’re a] musical family, always been; [that’s] the way we grew up.”

Both his parents enjoyed playing music in the house. His father even had his own studio.

It was in that studio that Brun got his start, using the program Virtual DJ. Two years later, 16-year-old Brun began performing live. His first show was a benefit thrown by some friends called Wild Obsession. Brun estimated that there were between 400 and 500 people in attendance. He played the entire show off his laptop.

That same year, he left Haiti to attend a military boarding school, and from there he earned a scholarship to Davidson College in North Carolina where he studied as a pre-med student.

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was getting the worst of both worlds. He decided to take a year off so he could dedicate his full attention to his music.

Brun is putting the time off to good use.

In 2013, in addition to remixing several notable artists, he also released an EP, entitled “Gravity.” His tracks “Rift,” an original mix, “Your Heart” and “Burn Forever” topped the Beatport Chart, a website dedicated to DJs worldwide.

At just 21, Brun is already playing steadily at notable venues, such as the club LIV. He will also be performing on Ultra’s Main Stage this year and was recently announced for Coachella.

He explains that his work ethic and consistent focus on goals have helped him not only to achieve success, but to stay grounded.

“To get results you really have to work hard,” he said. “I didn’t get into the career to get acclaimed, I didn’t do it for people to tell me good job, I did it because I wanted to do it and I wanted to produce music. I enjoy it, but it’s not my focus. I focus on getting the music as good as possible. You put in the work, making songs that you hope will resonate with others.”

However, Brun wants to be seen not only for his music, but for the causes he advocates.

Volunteering in Saint Damien Pediatric Hospi-

tal, the only pediatric hospital in Haiti, played an integral role in shaping Brun into the community-conscious man he is today.

He was particularly touched working with children whose parents had abandoned them due to economic circumstance. These circumstances forced parents to leave their kids for anywhere from one month to indefinitely.

Yet Brun saw working with these kids as a true gift.

“I got to be a friend,” he said.

Brun sees himself in the Haiti’s pediatric field, giving back to his home country. When asked what one of his goals was, he said he wanted to create a better image of Haiti.

“I realized that so much good has been in my life,” Brun said. “I believe that when you receive, you can’t just keep, you have to give what you’re getting. It’s a constant flow.”

Despite his increasing notoriety, Brun knows that he has a lot more to offer than just his great music.

You can check out Brun’s EP, “Gravity”, at soundcloud.com/michaelbrun/sets/gravity-ep-1.

Brun will be playing at Ultra’s Main Stage on Sunday.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW

Kyojin features unlimited sushi

HALLEE MELTZER // CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER SERVING SUSHI: Kyojin serves endless amounts of fresh sushi each day. Customers can pay just $18 for an unlimited supply.

BY BLAKE WEIL SENIOR EDGE WRITER

When you first walk into Kyojin Japanese Buffet, your expectations are immediately lowered. In the outdated, poorly lit, dingy dining room, you notice only a few customers. And then the big question hits you – was this a mistake?

Perhaps you try to calm yourself and start off with soup. How bad could soup be? And lo and behold, the soup is good. It’s rich and filled with seaweed and tofu, exactly how you like it. You start to relax. Maybe you judged too quickly.

But then, you try the clams. Immediately, your mouth is assaulted by grit and sand. You think maybe it was just a bad clam, but no, all of them are like that.

The spare ribs offer you some small comfort, their sauce flavorful and sweet, but scant, and the ribs themselves dry.

Any kind of dumpling is undercooked and doughy, although there is a brief

moment of joy when you try the excellent tempura.

You also realize very suddenly that everything is over salted. For a cuisine like Japanese that prides itself on subtlety of flavor, Kyojin really has a love affair with sodium.

The sushi is better than the appetizers, but only marginally. While it doesn’t sit on the bar very long, all of it lacks flavor. It tastes generally fishy, as opposed to having the individual flavors you normally seek in sushi. The tuna is especially disappointing, as it is more brown in color than the bright pink it should be.

Then, it’s done. You can finally relax. You see the chocolate fountain, sitting in the center of the buffet, shimmering under the fluorescent lights. You take a bite, hoping for one final bright spot, only to be met with what is possibly the biggest disappointment of the evening. The chocolate fountain, instead of being filled with hot melted chocolate, is filled with ice cold watered down chocolate syrup. In addition, the selections for dipping are minimal.

You try the other desserts – cakes, cookies, pies – but all of them are grainy and have a vague chemical taste. You give up and go back to your table, downing another glass of water to drown out the flavor.

In short, yes, this was most likely a mistake. Eating well at Kyojin requires very careful selection of buffet items, to the point where you may not even be able to get full off the good items.

Perhaps it would be nice for a quick lunch if you wanted something out of the ordinary, but at an $18 price tag for dinner, you can do far better.

KYOJIN Kyojin Japanese Buffet is located at 6212 S. Dixie Highway, South Miami, FL 33143.

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Miami scorches No. 3 Virginia with 7-1 win Canes hand Cavaliers’ ace his first loss

BY SPENCER DANDES SPORTS EDITOR

Jim Morris’s 900th win at Miami was a memorable one.

The Canes put together their most complete game on both sides of the ball, stunning No. 3 Virginia in a 7-1 upset on Saturday.

Freshman Zack Collins had the goahead score, a two-run homer in the sixth inning that broke a 1-1 tie.

“It’s an amazing feeling every time you hit a home run. For a guy to be out there pitching his butt off trying to win this game – he’s out there for six innings and we haven’t scored a run. To pick him up like that, it felt amazing,” said Collins, who took pride in being able to give run support to starting pitcher Chris Diaz.

Diaz went head to head with the Nathan Kirby, Virginia’s premier lefthander on the mound.

Kirby was 5-0 this season with a near-perfect 0.59 ER A before Saturday.

Miami handed him his first loss, and Diaz improved to 5-0 himself in the process. He lasted 7.1 innings, allowed five hits and a single run.

“In the bullpen, I felt all my pitches were working,” Diaz said. “I went into the game confident that I could throw every pitch for a strike, and that’s what happened tonight.”

His skipper praised the solid allaround performance that backed Diaz up.

“I thought it was a complete team effort,” Morris said. “Our team played exceptional defense, we got really good pitching, and of course we scored some runs.”

Morris was not overstating the Canes’ performance in the field. The defensive highlight came in the eighth inning when Virginia had a scoring opportunity.

Centerfielder Dale Carey made the catch of a lifetime on a full sprint toward the outfield wall, which saved

NICK GANGEMI // ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR CRUCIAL SERIES: Junior Andrew Suarez throws a fastball Sunday night during the second game of the three-game series against Virginia.

two runs and landed the No. 1 spot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays.

“I just remember he hit it, I was running, and at the last second I realized I had a chance,” Carey said. “Me and Willie [Abreu] were both going into the gap at the same time, I called ‘ball’ and I laid out.”

Morris summed it up well.

“That catch might be the best catch I have ever seen. That was huge. If that ball drops, the game is tied,” he said.

The win moved Miami to 13-10 (5-2 ACC) this season, while the Cavaliers fell to 17-4 (5-2 ACC).

Having lost five of their previous seven games, the Hurricanes are barely holding on to a spot in the polls.

Miami came into the series with Virginia at No. 25 in the nation.

Sunday’s matchup featured junior lefty Bryan Radziewski on the mound.

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Student-athletes excel under longtime track coach Deem among few women to lead program

BY ALEXA PAPPAS CONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

She sits at her desk, twisting and twirling a plastic spoon filled with a chocolate Frosty from Wendy’s as her ample awards and medals gaze proudly at their coach from atop her armoire.

DEEM Her business cards are colored with hints of white, green and orange and are emblazoned in bold letters with “AMY DEEM.” They aim straight at the door, welcoming anyone who comes to sit in the cozy and homey office that overlooks San Amaro Drive.

Amy Deem hardens her gaze and ponders for some time before starting to reflect on her success.

“You always have great pride when your student-athletes excel, not only in athletics but just in life,” said Deem, a Hurricanes track and field coach for 24 years. “After this year we’ll have two student-athletes in med school. So for me, it’s not just even Olympic sports, but to see our athletes excelling post-college in whatever their endeavor – whether it’s their job or it’s sports – to feel like you had a little part of that … it is very rewarding.”

Deem has seen it all. She coached the USA women’s track and field team at the 2012 London Olympics and became one of the first women in the country to serve

as head coach of both men’s and women’s track and field programs. Deem has sprinted through the barrier of women as a minority in sports and has proved to be a compassionate coach and a proud leader.

With athletes such as Olympic gold medalist Lauryn Williams and up-andcoming freshman sensation Shakima Wimbley under her wing, Deem has coached all sorts of talent in her years at UM. Before she was elected head coach in 1990, the Hurricanes had never sent an athlete to a qualifying round. Now, Miami is one of the ACC’s stronger teams, having sent 43 students to 12 different national championships.

When Deem was named program director in 2008, she was one of only six women in that position at a Division I school. Deem was excited about the opportunity to coach both men and women, in addition to becoming a part of the growing number of women in sport leadership positions.

“There’s just not a lot of female athletes in our sport, so for me one of my focuses was to be more available to our young female coaches,” Deem said. “I can coach Artie Burns as well as a guy can, and I think there’s still a stigma out there for girls. For me it’s really about being able to be successful so that people can see that gender doesn’t matter with coaching.”

Her passion for the sport and for her peers bleeds past the athletes on the track.

David Villavicencio, assistant director of athletic communications at UM, works with Deem directly every day to set up meetings and organize schedules.

“Working with Coach Deem is an interesting opportunity. She has helped

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I can coach Artie Burns as well as a guy can, and I think there’s still a stigma out there for girls. For me it’s really about being able to be successful so that people can see that gender doesn’t matter with coaching.

Amy Deem, Director of Miami’s track and field program

mold so many successful athletes that she seems to know what it takes to make anyone successful. She repeatedly makes the good ones great and the great ones champions,” Villavicencio said.

A few years into her head coaching tenure, Deem led Miami’s first-ever track athlete to win at the 1997 NCAA Championships. 2005 was a shining year for Deem, as the team made program history twice by placing third at the NCAA Indoor Championships and ninth at Outdoors.

Her champions speak highly of her, including Williams, who thanked Deem on national television as Williams announced that she would donate her 2014 Winter Olympics silver medal to the UM Sports Hall of Fame. Deem’s student-athletes come to appreciate her not just for her expertise, but for her emphasis on making track a team sport rather than individual.

“This year at the NCAA Regionals, we ended up finishing up the best we’ve

PHOTO BY VICTORIA MCKABA // CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER HOT STREAK: Monique Albuquerque teamed with Clementina Riobueno to score an 8-4 doubles win, helping to lead Miami over Syracuse on Friday at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center.

WOMEN’S TENNIS Miami had a big weekend as it extended a long winning streak against two ACC opponents.

The No. 13 Hurricanes first took down Syracuse 7-0 at home on Friday, and then traveled to Winston-Salem, N.C., to face Wake Forest on Sunday. Miami won that battle easily, 6-1.

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ever had in a while,” senior long distance runner Luke Fontaine said. “It was cool for once to have a full team showing, and it was my last-ever cross country race so that was really cool to experience.”

Fast-forward 16 years from the first track athlete to win a championship: Deem led 13 students to qualify for the NCAA Division I Championships just last season.

Deem ran hurdles and did long jump in high school and at Ohio University. A knee injury took her out during college and she wasn’t able to run competitively again.

Her outlook remained positive when she realized that she had never planned to use her running for fame or to break records.

Deem always dreamed of being a coach.

“Even though my college career was cut way short, the ultimate goal was never to be an Olympian,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to teach and coach, so it was difficult for my competitive nature, but it just took some refocusing.”

Even directly after her knee injury, Deem volunteered as an assistant coach for Athens High School, a small public school near Ohio University.

It did not take long for Deem to become a successful leader, and she quickly made a name for herself with the Hurricanes. She was inducted into the UM Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

The women’s team improved to 14-2 overall, with a perfect 8-0 conference record. They will carry their 10-match winning streak into an April 5 matchup with North Carolina.

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7-6 (7-5) to secure the victory.

TRACK AND FIELD Miami turned in a strong performance at the Hurricane Invitational, the first of three track and field meets at home this season.

The Canes played arguably their best match of the season and earned a hard win over No. 18 Wake Forest on Saturday.

The Canes notched 11 wins on the second day of competition.

“I am so proud of the guys,” coach Mario Rincon said. ”They have worked so hard for this in practice and in their conditioning.”

“It was a very good start for us,” coach Amy Deem said. “We’re still training through these meets, but I thought the effort was there.”

Of note: Gabriel Flores cruised past Adam Lee 6-1, 6-0 and Omar Aly took care of No. 20 Romain Bogaerts 6-3,

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V,

Dear Sally Field,

I‘m dating a girl that likes to wear a monocle, and it kind of creeps me out. She wears a monocle because she likes to think she’s an old-fashioned detective, and she likes to think she’s a 60-year-old man when she’s having sex with me.

She wanted to try role-playing recently to spice up our relationship, and now I’m creeped out by how much she’s dedicated to her role. Either I’m sleeping with an extraordinary actress or a sociopath. What should I do, V?

DEAR V

I think I’m dating Albert Nobbs

Man, she’s not feeling like a woman ...

Wow. Your situation exists in one of two scenarios: Your girlfriend has either seen “Mrs. Doubtfire” too many times, or she’s psychologically damaged and needs to be helped.

I’m not one to judge a person’s personal preferences, and I don’t think I’m the ultimate judge of what gets someone off, but crossdressing to the point where you turn into a grandfather in the bedroom sets off lots and lots of red flags. This chick has daddy issues that not even Freud himself could decipher.

It could be that she’s one of those artsy types that just likes to experiment with herself and the concept of fluid sexuality. If we take a step back and look at this in a larger sense, this experience could prove really beneficial for your sexual repertoire. This girl could be the one to expand your horizons, and no matter what any other woman throws at you in the future, you’d be able to handle it because when you were in college, you were hooking up with a girl who wanted to dress like a 60-year-old dude in the sack.

If I were you, I’d suggest some other role-playing options of your own, and if she’s receptive then knock yourself out.

But, we also have to remember that not every sexual encounter is going to be an extravaganza. You all are so concerned with “spicing up” your relationships, but how much spicing up do you need? We’re all in our 20s and have libidos like wild animals.

Tread carefully and make sure she’s not going to kill you in your sleep. But before then, have a conversation about what your sexual relationship is really about. If you only want to see this girl for kinky sexual encounters, then a conversation isn’t needed.

Maybe if you dress up like a 60-yearold lady, you’ll balance each other out. Just make sure your prosthetic nose doesn’t fall off.

V

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