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FunDay comes to campus YINGHUI SUN// STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MAKING MEMORIES: (Top) A music therapy group sings songs with FunDay attendees on the Green on Saturday.

(Bottom left) Freshman Adam Levine (right) helps Erica Rafalowski do arts and crafts in the Flamingo Ballroom during FunDay on Saturday. (Bottom right) Eileen Pierre Louis plays a game with the music therapy group at FunDay on Saturday.

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ENVIRONMENT

Ungar houses sustainable vertical garden Project works to preserve native plants

BY LAURA VANDER MEIDEN SENIOR NEWS WRITER

The Green Wall, a vertical garden planted last August inside the Ungar Building, was once green and flourishing.

Over the course of the last semester, however, difficulties with lighting and irrigation led to many of the wall’s original 110 plants dying out. This semester’s Green Wall Stewards, a pair of student volunteers, are working to revitalize the wall.

The Green Wall, which was planted with native Florida plants by Ecosystem Science and Policy (ECS) students and faculty, stretches from floor to ceiling between two windows of the Abess Center for ECS lobby in the second floor of Ungar. Rows of plants including wild coffee, oxalis and mother-in-law tongue are anchored into the wall.

The wall was implemented as a teaching tool and a way to create a more natural indoor environment.

“There is a real psychological boost from having growing things around,” said Gina Maranto, director of the undergraduate ECS program.

Since the beginning of the semester, Terri Hood, the faculty adviser for the project, and the Green Wall Stewards have been using innovative methods to identify and resolve problems the wall faces.

“It has been a learning experience,” said Hood, who is also the assistant director of the ECS program.

To see the progress of the plants, the stewards have begun to compare the color of the plants’ leaves to various shades of green paint chips. By doing so, the stewards can see if the color of the leaves darken, which is a sign of the plant’s health.

This technique will be useful in analyzing the effect of a recently added grow bulb, a light that simulates sunlight.

“It is very rewarding to watch the plants grow and respond to what we are doing,” said sophomore Agustina Cortina, a Green Wall Steward.

In addition to biweekly watering, once a week Cortina and fellow steward Derek Sheldon meet with Hood to strategize and evaluate the progress the wall has made.

This can be difficult because the different plants have varying water, light and nutrient requirements.

“It has been very trial and error,” Sheldon said. “Responses to changes have been highly variable, even within a plant type.”

HALLEE MELTZER // STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER LIVING GREEN: The ECS department installed a living “Green Wall” in the lobby of the Ungar building last semester.

As the wall continues to improve, the stewards have began to make the wall more self-sustaining by adding yard collected and more useful plants.

“We would like to put an emphasis on native and strategic edible plants,” Hood said. “It’s the whole concept of pushing people’s minds a little further on the subject of sustainability and the different ways it can manifest in aspects of daily life.”

PROFILE

Entrepreneur manages start-up real estate office Company reaches out to university students

BY MEGAN MCCRINK SENIOR NEWS WRITER

Sophomore Kyle Ditto manages not just his classwork, but a newly opened real estate office as well.

Ditto runs Flatbook Miami, a real estate services company based in Montreal. Ditto convinced Flatbook cofounder Francis Davidson to open an office in Miami earlier this year. The company helps leaseholders rent out their apartment to travelers who prefer the advantage of an apartment rather than a hotel.

Davidson and his partners Lucas Pellan and Olivier Gareau were initially hesitant to open the Miami branch.

“We decided last minute we didn’t want to go because of lower occupancy 2

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rates over the summer [in Miami],” Davidson said.

“Kyle had applied for the position and convinced us that the model could work out in Miami.”

Kyle hooked the founders by arguing for Miami’s booming tourism

industry.

“I told them I was the man for the job, especially because Miami’s tourism never dies,” he said.

Ditto, who has been the manager since January, takes applications, looks at potential apartments and negotiates with landlords before putting the apartment up for sublease.

An interior designer and photographer also work with Ditto to assist in

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finding potential renters for the apartment during the sublease period.

“Once the students are off at home and on vacation, we start renting the apartments out to short-term tourists,” Ditto said. “Since it’s shorter term, we can charge a price per night, and because of that we can afford to pay the student’s rent and make a profit.”

While looking for leaseholders, Ditto promotes Flatbook on campus, reaching out to the Office of Housing and Residential Life. He has contacted the off-campus housing department to integrate Flatbook into its system.

“I’m hoping to use that channel to make it more school-approved,” he said. “It’s just a whole mixture of [public relations] and marketing. The actual managing hasn’t come yet.”

Flatbook Miami is taking applications until April 1 from leaseholders to sublease their apartments over the summer. They provide insurance, storage,

cleaning and rent negotiation for the leaseholder at no cost.

“In reality, there’s really nothing to lose and a lot to gain with Flatbook,” Ditto said.

Ditto also does not lose any time between school and work. He merged his student and manager lives together by “keeping a good schedule” and “writing everything down.”

“I wanted to join Flatbook because I’m really interested in entrepreneurship and start-ups,” he said.

Since its establishment in 2012, Flatbook has expanded to cities such as Toronto, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Munich.

“All the sudden, they got super ambitious and wanted to expand all over North America and Europe,” Ditto said.

“They found out I was studying in Miami, and they got in touch with me.”

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CAMPUS LIFE

Engineers Week to promote appreciation, involvement Events to include concrete canoe races

BY LYSSA GOLDBERG OPINION EDITOR

National Engineers Week kicked off Friday with the Fall in Love with Engineering involvement fair for Valentine’s Day, and the events will continue Monday through Sunday to celebrate all that engineering has to offer.

“Every day we’re open to discussing what we do with anyone, but Engineers Week is a time to show that off because a lot of things you have today is because of engineers,” said sophomore Athena Jones, president of the Engineering Advisory Board (EAB).

The EAB committee in charge of E-week, as it’s called for short, hopes to promote engineering to the greater University of Miami community in order to dispel misconceptions.

“There’s what other people think engineers do, and there’s what engineers think that other people think engineers do,” Jones said.

E-week happens every year during the week of Presidents Day because the nation’s first president, George Washington, is considered an engineer for his work as a land surveyor, according to Jones. But some changes are in store for the university’s annual event.

The engineering involvement fair held outside of the McArthur Engineering Building on Friday was made a part of E-week for the first

time to help freshman engineering students who are still deciding on organizations in which to get involved. Beyond that, Jones said it’s important to share engineering with a greater audience on campus this year.

“We’re trying to make our events a little more public by making them central events on campus,” she said.

This includes the Innovation Expo on Tuesday, which is taking place in the UC Lower Lounge. General Electric, the U.S. Air Force and engineering graduate students will show off their latest work.

“They’ll get to see some really cool technology,” Jones said. “GE still won’t tell me what they’re bringing. In the past, they brought a liver scanner.”

Even more central to campus, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) are holding concrete canoe races in Lake Osceola.

Senior Zak Seed and a team of ASCE members are still working on a concrete canoe for their upcoming regional conference in March, but three canoes from past competitions will be available for students on Wednesday.

“In the past, it’s been difficult because the SAC has been under construction,” Seed said.

“This year, we have a huge opportunity to promote the organization and promote engineering in general, with the ease of access, where students can literally go from the Rat and into the canoe and sail around Lake Osceola.”

Engineers are usually associated with being anti-social and not really engaging with the com-

munity, Seed said. But he wants his fellow engineers to get more involved around campus rather than centralized at the McArthur Engineering Building. That’s part of why ASCE has decided to take a different approach to the concrete canoe event this year.

“We thought it would be cool to carry the canoes across campus to the lake so everyone can see us,” Seed said. “They weigh about 120 to 150 pounds.”

Jones is particularly excited for Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. The Society of Women Engineers will host more than 150 high school girls to open their eyes to the engineering field.

At UM, about 30 percent of students in the College of Engineering are women, which is double the national average. And the push for more female engineers is happening around the country, according to Jones.

“Look at Goldieblox, the engineering toys for girls,” she said. “There’s definitely a big women’s movement going on today in the STEM fields.”

E-Week will conclude with the third annual UHack, a 24-hour hackathon that lasts from Saturday to Sunday. Students from South Florida universities build apps or websites that help make life easier and compete for a grand prize of $1,000.

Senior Marc Messier, president of UM’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers chapter, is most looking forward to the number of students attending this year.

“We have over 100 RSVPs for the event, our largest number in all three years that UHack has existed,” he said. “One of the things that’s different about this year is that we have a 3D printer and electronic equipment and hardware available to hackers, which should be awesome.”

In addition to prizes being given out by sponsors, participants also get to partake in an overnight raffle with giveaways including a Kindle, Chromecast and portable Bluetooth speaker systems.

ENGINEERS WEEK EVENTS Innovation Expo 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tuesday in UC Lower Lounge Build It Competition 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday in the SAC Ballrooms Concrete Canoe Races 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday in front of the Rathskeller Lego Buildings noon to 3 p.m.

Wednesday in UC Breezeway Happ-E-Hour 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Rathskeller Domino Challenge 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Engineering Breezeway UHack 11 a.m. Saturday at the UC. To register, visit uhack.us.

For more information about E-week, visit umeweek.com.

COMMUNITY

Fellowship experience connects students to local government City of Coral Gables partners with program

BY KENIA VASALLO CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

Recent University of Miami alumna Adaeze Ajoku, a math and anthropology major, never dreamed she’d get the chance to work with a local government while studying in school. But thanks to a UM program, Ajoku was able to intern with the city of Coral Gables.

Since 2011, the University of Miami’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement has been offering a paid internship with the city called the Gables Fellow Program. It was designed for undergraduate students who are interested in public service, government, architecture, arts and culture, nonprofit management and economic development.

“I definitely want to go into local government or work with a nonprofit after the Gables Fellows experience,” said Ajoku, who interned last spring before graduating. “The fellowship has helped me to solidify my career plans. I learned more about municipal government during the internship, and I gained a better understanding and have more of an appreciation for the city of Coral Gables.”

The program started because of UM’s working relationship with Coral Gables to create a link between students and the city where UM is located. Those who are chosen get to rotate through several city departments such as procurement, Coral Gables Television, historic preservation and more.

“Students have really enjoyed working with the city of Coral Gables and learning about the opportunities that the municipal government presents,” said Ashley Arostegui, associate director of the Office of Civic and Community Engagement. “It’s a way to put

in practice what they’re studying, a hands-on project.”

The office accepts applications during the spring semester, and then two students are chosen for the next academic year, one for each semester. The program does not offer academic credit.

This semester’s intern, senior Lilia Hoberman, says she loves being a Gables Fellow.

“Being implemented into a department of my choosing has been a great way to see how municipal government really works firsthand,” she said.

The office encourages sophomores and upperclassmen to apply. The Coral Gables staff will bring the top candidates in for interviews and then select the two interns for the 2014-15 school year. For fall 2014 and spring 2015, students need to apply via e-mail to civicengagement@miami.edu by the March 3 deadline.

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plete. For more information, contact Crystal Godina in the Office of Civic and Community Engagement at cgodina@miami.edu.

Applicants must attach a completed copy of the application. They also need to attach files for a one-page resume, current academic transcript and a 500-word statement that describes the student’s background in leadership and community development, how the internship will enhance the undergraduate experience at UM and how it will help advance future career goals.

FOR MORE INFORMATION The deadline is March 3.

The application must be emailed to civicengagement@miami.edu.

To download the application, visit miami.edu/index.php/civic.

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HEALTH

Partnership aims to aid health problems in developing countries InnovAid plans for three events in spring

BY BRANDON MICHAELS CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

InnovAid, a new student group based out of the Miller School of Medicine, is teaming up with other University of Miami organizations to tackle critical healthcare-related problems in the developing countries through innovation and technology.

“We want to combine the various entities at the university, [such as] CaneShare, the International Medicine Institute, Engineers Without Borders and the College of Engineering, to not only identify the issues facing clinical staffs in [those] countries, but also to

develop unique, innovative prototypes and solutions,” said Sharon Wolfson, a second-year med student and co-founder of InnovAid. Wolfson and co-founder Carlos Oliu, also a second-year medical student, realized this is not a task that they could do alone. So while they focus on the medical side, they are reaching out for help with ways to deliver medical supplies, medicines and immunizations to residents around the world.

“We can identify the clinical situations faced in low-income and low-infrastructure environments, but we need to work with engineering students to develop practical, workable solutions to [meeting] these challenges,” Oliu said.

They already have a basic concept of how they would like to run InnovAid.

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They will start by informing interested audiences of the medical needs and partnering with prospective companies and groups to fund their research.

In only its second semester of activity, InnovAid is planning three events this spring. They will start with holding informative lectures from medical professionals talking about those type of needs in third-world countries.

They also plan to host a hands-on workshop to simulate the types of devices that would be used, and then discuss with engineers and others how to get the equipment there.

“We are thrilled to be working with such an amazing cause,” said Joshua Furtney, president of the Biomedical Engineering Society.

SASSY SWEAT A 60-minute dance workout, “Sassy Sweat” will take place from 9 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, in Multi-D at the Patti and Allan Herbert Wellness Center.

This program is only for women and is on a first-come, first served basis.

9TH CENTURY SHIPWRECK Victor Mair will be hosting a public lecture at the Lowe Art Museum, “A 9th Century Shipwreck and its implications for the History of Tea” on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. The lecture will be about a shipwreck from around 830 A.D. that provided the most significant collection of archaeologically recovered materials from the Tang Dynasty.

YEARBOOK PHOTOS Students can take their yearbook photos at the UC Lower Lounge from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Portraits for freshmen, sophomores and juniors are free, and appointments are not required. Graduating seniors need to sign up online at ibisyearbook.com/senior-portraits.

Walk-in appointments for underclassmen are welcome. For more information, call 305-284-2005.

PHOTO BY HOLLY BENSUR // STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BE MINE: Near the end of their singing shift on Thursday afternoon, brothers of Phi Mu Alpha publicly serenade Rathskeller waitress Kandice Calvete. The brothers sang “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz.

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Finally, they want to visit local medical industry facilities to see what technology is already being used.

Oliu stressed that while their role as medical students is to identify the issues, they want to involve anyone interested in helping people who don’t have the same access to quality medical care as those in the United States.

“We’re really trying to bring everyone into the fold because part of our goal here is to educate people on how to participate in this kind of a movement,” Oliu said. “It doesn’t have to be engineers coming up with ideas and doctors coming up with problems. The goal is creativity and bringing people together to approach problems that we can all break down and understand.”

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS Student Government (SG) elections will begin on Monday and continue through Wednesday. Polling stations will be available in the University Center Breezeway and any undergraduate student can vote via any computer, tablet or smartphone through the Student Government Elections OrgSync portal from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1. To access the SG Elections Orgsync portal, visit orgsync. com/81696/forms.

2. Students must log in with their CaneID and will then see up to three ballots: one ballot for Executive candidates and one or two ballots for Senate seats a student is eligible to vote for.

3. Click on the Executive ballot and follow the prompts to enter a vote.

4. Click submit to record the vote.

5. Click on the “Forms” link found on the left of the screen to the other ballots.

6. Complete all remaining ballots.

For more information, email sgelections@miami.edu.

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

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OPINION speak UP WILL YOU VOTE IN SG ELECTIONS? IS SG’S ROLE IMPORTANT?

“Probably not.

They’re pretty annoying. You can’t even walk across campus without somebody yelling at you. No, I think it’s a bunch of people that want to feel important. I don’t know what they actually do.”

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“Yes, I do. Yes, I think that they do a lot for our school and we may not see it, but they do do things.”

CHRISTINE LENKEIT FRESHMAN

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stephanie Parra

Transparency would improve SG Flocks of students in pink and yellow shirts are a sign that it’s Student Government (SG) election season. These weeks in February are one of the few times that SG has a strong, visible presence on campus. But once election results are announced and the State of the U address has come and gone, this illusion of transparency fades away.

SG announced on Feb. 10 that it would change the way it communicates with students. In the past week, it has shared videos and photo stories about SG leaders, but the most valuable idea was an end-of-week recap on what all five branches of SG have accomplished.

This is the first step in open communication between SG and students.

Still, social media should not be the extent of SG’s communication. If used improperly, it can be a crutch. The best way to let students know what SG is up to is for elected

leaders to actively engage with student constituents – with the same kind of attention and reach that they have during election season.

SG should not feel the need to shy away from talking to student media for the sake of protecting their image. The point of these media outlets is to inform students of what is happening on campus. SG cannot complain about students being disinterested if they are not willing to talk about their work in an open manner.

As it stands, the lack of clear and continuous communication makes it seem like SG administrations are not effectively following through on the platforms on which they are elected. Students are in the dark, which perpetuates apathy.

SG has brought a handful of wide-reaching programs to campus, such as take-out and late night dining. But take a look at recent

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accomplishments of this SG administration: smoothies served in the dining halls and a school supply vending machine in Richter Library. What happened to the fifth year scholarship program we were promised during the election two years ago? Why is a shuttle to Dadeland still not operating regularly?

Communication helps students understand why expected projects have hit roadblocks. It could also put pressure on the university to move initiatives forward.

Transparency in SG comes from being a known and approachable face on campus; disseminating updates on social media, through the SG website, or in an email newsletter; and sharing information with student media rather than seeming scared of reporters.

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“I do plan on voting. Yeah, I think they bring good school camaraderie, they bring the school together, and it’s good for school spirit.”

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SG should not feel the need to shy away from talking to student media for the sake of protecting their image. The point of these media outlets is to inform students of what is happening on campus.

VS Caremark made a groundbreaking announcement on Feb. 5 when it decided to become the first national pharmacy to stop selling tobacco products.

I wouldn’t doubt that as a huge chain with three locations within a mile of campus, CVS is a frequent stop for student smokers looking to purchase their ALYSSA JACOBSON tobacco products. But now if STAFF COLUMNIST people can’t buy their cigarettes at CVS, they will just purchase them elsewhere.

The CVS decision alone will have little effect on changing habits, but my hope is that this is the beginning of a movement for other pharmacies around the country, as well as on our own campus.

Similar to the campus’s new smoke-free policy instituted in the fall – which has triggered heated debate, blatant ignoring of the policy and even protests – the decision of CVS will not change people’s habits.

I, and many others, unapologetically despise smoking and the tobacco industry in general. I am glad CVS is taking the initiative to preserve the health of its custom-

ers and to stop supporting an industry that has targeted teenagers and college students for years.

The dangers of tobacco products, including preventable lung cancer and its addictive qualities, as well as the effects of second-hand smoke, have been public knowledge for years. And while for a period of time individuals had resigned to accepting that people will smoke despite all of these issues, evidently there has been a recent resurgence of fervor in the anti-smoking movement.

I admire the company for positioning itself as consistently dedicated to health and for being willing to suffer losses for the sake of sending a message about the dangers of the tobacco industry.

If more chains follow suit, people will start to take notice. And one person who has taken notice is President Barack Obama, who praised the pharmacy chain.

CVS also plans to launch a national anti-smoking campaign, mirroring our campus’s Be Smoke Free program and the Quit Smoking Now classes. Ultimately, CVS Caremark’s dedication to customer health and ethical positioning of its company are admirable – especially for such a widely known drugstore.

Alyssa Jacobson is majoring in advertising and political science.

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Student-athletes union defends players’ rights to stipends efore the 1995 college men’s basketball tournament, a growing sense of disillusionment with the NCAA’s practice of amateurism – that is, not paying student athletes – had spread across the country. Fed up, members of the UCLA, Wake Forest and UMass basketball COREY JANSEN teams planned to boycott the tournaSPORTS ment to affect change, a move that COLUMNIST would have shaken the system to its core and changed the future of collegiate sports.

Out of fear from being blackballed, the strike never happened, and the inequality has only grown since. Recently though, football players from Northwestern University rekindled this movement for change, but with a different tool: unionization.

Immediately the players were condemned—how could they want more than a free education? Ironically, this criticism best reflects why their union, the National College Players Association, is needed, and now more than ever.

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For too long, the NCAA has used a veil of amateurism to obscure its underlying commercialism. Players have stood by as fans have bought their jerseys, as wallets of executives have bulged, and as enrollments in their universities have skyrocketed.

What was a multimillion-dollar industry is now a multibillion-dollar industry. The coaching salaries are now higher than ever, the TV deals are more lucrative than ever, and the players are still as suppressed as ever.

This all in the name of amateurism, shrouding the truth while reaping profits from an industry built upon the players’ backs.

Through Donald Remy, the NCAA Chief Legal Officer, the association has shunned the proposal. “Student athletes are not employees,” he declared.

Well, Donald Remy, student athletes are currently not considered employees only because your organization refuses to pay them. In fact, they meet the criteria quite well: “A person in the service of another, under any contract of hire, express or implied… where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed.”

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early everyone has thought about morality before; from infancy, the concepts of “right” and “wrong” are hammered into us by our parents and society. However, most of us only have a very JOSHUA MYERS fuzzy sense of what PHILOSOPHY these concepts actually COLUMNIST mean.

We know that things like lying and stealing are wrong, but why? I don’t claim to answer this question here. However, I would like to draw attention to the importance of this question by proposing some alternative solutions.

Utilitarianism has a simple and intuitive premise: actions are good if they result in a net increase in happiness and are bad if they result in a net decrease in happiness. This is notable because it pins the morality of an action on its consequences. For example, lying can either be good or bad; it depends on if it happens to increase happiness in those specific circumstances.

To most people, myself included, judging morality based on consequences seems to make sense. However, sometimes utilitarianism yields counter-intuitive results.

For example, imagine someone who gets pleasure from someone else’s pain. If the pleasure outweighed the pain, then this action is morally “good”. Utilitarianism runs into similar problems with victimless crimes.

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If someone were to cheat off of your test in class, they would not be decreasing your happiness. If anything, they would be increasing their own. Utilitarianism leaves no room to condemn apparently “wrong” things like these.

Kant tried to solve some of the problems found in Utilitarianism by placing more of an emphasis on an action’s intentions than its consequences. Kant proposed a tool for determining the morality of an action called the “categorical imperative.” One should only perform an action if they would also will that everyone would perform that action in similar circumstances. For example, one should never break a promise because no one would want to live in a world where no one keeps promises. However, morality should actually be useful in determining the correct course of human action, and the categorical imperative is nearly impossible to use in a practical situation.

Naturally, philosophical consistency doesn’t matter to the average person. However, a systematic approach to morality is important because it allows us to examine difficult moral situations in a way that lets us arrive at definite answers. We may not have those answers now, but if morality were an easy nut to crack, then philosophy wouldn’t have lasted more than two millenia. How we live our lives has profound consequences, and each of us should use moral philosophy as a means to be the best we can be.

Joshua Myers is a freshman majoring in philosophy.

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Realizing the potential influx of athletes’ workers’ compensation claims, the NCAA conjured up the term “student-athlete” as a legal fiction in the 1950s solely to skirt its responsibility of paying the players who were injured in competition.

And now the NCPA seeks to cast off this legal fiction – this moral justification for the status quo – recognizing athletes as what they are: employees, in every sense of the term.

The NCPA does not seek payment, but only to be heard, to “have a seat at the table,” so that the well-being of college athletes is safeguarded by college athletes. Their demands? Health insurance, irrevocable scholarships and stipends that help to cover the costs of living for all athletes.

“All Players United.” That’s the NCPA rallying call.

Because in an age where the NCAA itself “denies it has any legal duty to protect student-athletes,” the time has come for ‘student-athletes’ to protect themselves.

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

Microsoft works to stay icrosoft is on its way out. That’s what Apple and Google investors are praying for, given that the two companies’ stocks are currently valued at more than ten times Microsoft’s RAVI JAIN peak in the early TECHNOLOGY 2000s. It’s no secret COLUMNIST that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 were both miserable flops in the 38-year-old company’s attempt to regain consumer interest.

That’s why Microsoft just brought in a new CEO, Satya Nadella, to re-inject some life into the aging behemoth. Critics claim the only reason Microsoft hasn’t begun digging its own grave is that enterprise customers are too lazy and cash-strapped to make the switch to Apple. They’re stuck on Windows XP and the Exchange email protocol they’ve been using for the last decade. But there is still hope for Microsoft, which has established a lasting reach around the world.

The overwhelmingly negative response to Windows Phone 8 is indicative of Microsoft’s inability to understand exactly what makes Apple so successful in the cell phone market. Microsoft acknowledges that Android and iOS currently dominate the phone and tablet arena, but blindly believes that its own devices are revolutionary and will convert devout Apple and Google fans.

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The truth is, students and professionals wielding clunky Dells and Toshibas still often ache for a MacBook to relieve them of the stress caused by the often unreliable, glitchy and bloatware-ridden software that plagues PCs. But while Apple may have the current hipster, simple and clean image associated with its products, Microsoft has sheer volume to compete. Though consumers may spurn new Windows devices for Apple or Androids, Microsoft isn’t going away anytime soon.

In fact, Microsoft Office is probably what prevents us from ridding Microsoft from our lives entirely, and still tethers the company to existence. It’s the only software that Google and Apple haven’t technologically surpassed with Google Docs and iWork.

But the ensuing false sense of security is what makes the Redmond, Wash. engineers reluctant to overhaul the current systems in place. Microsoft needs to take advantage of the fact that almost 90 percent of computers worldwide have Windows installed; otherwise it risks sinking into that weird place where it’s not going away, but it’s not at the center of News Feed either.

Microsoft’s failure to get with the program (pun intended) is exemplary of what happens when a company gets too big. While it is certainly on the downward phase of the corporate cycle, there remains hope that it will return with impressive products that will make shopping in the technological world interesting again.

Ravi Jain is a freshman majoring in chemistry.

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BY LUISA ANDONIE SENIOR EDGE WRITER

For most seniors, a thesis requires hours of sitting in the library, researching and writing up their findings. But for senior Lauren Coghlan, it meant constructing a cave inside the Ring Theater for the production of “Floyd Collins.”

Based on the true story of a man trapped in a Kentucky cave which led to extensive media attention, “Floyd Collins” captures the irony and truth of the American dreamer. Coghlan expertly concretized these broad textual themes, shaping them out of clay and Styrofoam. Emptying soda bottles and relabeling them, sewing a tent together and carving foam are all part of her daily duties.

The scenic design student has had a role in every single production for the last four years, but “Floyd Collins” is the first time she has designed a set for a main stage show at the University of Miami.

“The show that we gave her is not an easy show to do as a thesis project,” explained her professor April Soroko. “It’s one thing to do something in the round, than to tell somebody ‘Oh by the way,

we have to make a cave.’ How do you deal with the configurations of the space?”

C o g h l a n started the project months ago with sketches and elevation models. Planning began in July, COGHLAN and discussions with the creative team started in November. With these painstaking projects, Coghlan says the most important quality, more than drawing skills, is a good attitude.

“You need to be positive. This is a hard process,” said Coghlan. “It can be really stressful, and you need to stay calm.

And the second most important thing is being able to communicate with people.”

Coghlan, who discovered her artistic penchant in high school, knew this was her vocation.

“I wanted to be an artist, but I also wanted to be employed,” she said. “I felt like theater was a good opportunity for me

to do that. You can make a good living out of doing this.”

Though her bachelor in fine arts focuses in scenic design, she also explores other mediums. She collaborates as an art director with graduate film students, completing the art direction for two short films, one of which won the UM Canes festival and will show at the Miami International Film Festival in March.

Compared to film, Coghlan says theater is harder because of the restrictions of space and the variations in visibility due to each seat’s unique line of sight.

A theater audience “can look anywhere on stage at any point. In film, you can create a very beautiful individual picture in just one space and that’s all you have to worry about,” she said.

What she loves from both is the collaborative aspect.

Though her degree in scenic design affords her extensive in-class learning, she says some things must be learned by doing.

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lighting designer and the director and the choreographer. That’s a learned skill.”

Her dream job is to be a concept artist in the art department of a film, in what she calls “designing smaller parts of a bigger film.”

She also continually returns to the base, which is painting and graphic design work outside of theater.

She is thankful that UM’s theater program is small, allowing for a tight-knit group.

“I get to understand the actors difficulty. They are running the same scene for two hours now. It’s really difficult, but you don’t understand that until you’re part of the process.”

Soroko boasts Coghlan as a triple threat.

“She drafts beautifully, draws beautifully and can do all the hands-on stuff to realize those designs.”

But what separates her, Soroko says, is her desire to learn and her initiative to acquire new skills, such as face casting for statues.

“She has no fear,” Soroko said.

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THEATER REVIEW

‘Floyd Collins’ traps audience with heavy drama

BY NADIJAH CAMPBELL CONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

College students and residents of Coral Gables braved the storm Wednesday night to watch University of Miami students yodel, squeeze into tight spaces and define the American Dream at the opening night of the Ring Theatre’s production of “Floyd Collins.”

The musical made its original debut at the American Music Theatre festival in Philadelphia in 1994. Written by Tina Landau and with music composed by Adam Guettel, it quickly flourished and became one of the most notable plays performed in America and London.

“Floyd Collins” explores 15 days in the life of an optimistic young man with dreams of finding the perfect cave, but his world is rocked when he finds himself trapped in one. Directed by J.V. Mercanti and NDavid Williams, the musical is staged in Cave City, Ky. during the winter of 1925.

Warning: If you are sensitive to profanity, bad grammar, or if you dislike trying to solve riddles, this is not the play for you.

At the beginning of the first scene, actors dressed in country attire beautifully sang the “Ballad of Floyd Collins.”

Afterward, the audience was introduced to the adventurous main character, Floyd Collins, who liked to constantly swear that he “ain’t a crazy caving fool” as he slid and wiggled across the stage, or rather, the cave’s floor.

Using the echoes of his voice, Collins (Adam Maggio) goes on a hunt to find his dream sand cave to turn into a tourists’ attraction. In the dark, he wriggles his way through the tight entrance of the cave and confirms that this is what he has been searching for all of his life.

However, when it’s time for him to get out of the cave, a rock falls on his legs, trapping him inside.

The first to find him is his brother, Homer Collins, played by Luke Hamilton, who is full of energy and determined to set his brother free. His desperate attempts to claw through limestone are believable and his decision to sleep overnight in the cave with his brother is touching to behold. As the days go by, Homer and the rest of the Collins family are forced to face the reality that rescue may not be possible.

Perhaps the best part of the play is the reporter, Skeets Miller, played by Josh Jacobson. He is the only character small enough to fit into the hole that Collins is trapped in. Jacobson’s performance as a geeky journalist had the audience giggling at every line.

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PHOTO COURTESY LAUREN COGHLAN MANEUVERING THE CAVE: Actors perform “Floyd Collins” at the Ring Theatre on a set designed by Lauren Coghlan.

Another star performer was Alanna Saunders, whose performance as Nellie Collins left audience members hopeful. She was the only one who remained focused on helping her brother escape when the reporters and tourists visited their town.

The live orchestra helped bring each scene to life, and when combined with the impressive performances delivered by the cast, kept audience members at the edge of their seats.

“Floyd Collins” is an ideal show for music lovers and fans of dramatic comedies. The dark and heart-wrenching plot line forces audience members to come to grips with the dark side of fame and leaves them with the realization that sometimes fame distracts from more important things.

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Celebrate Peace Corps Week with currently serving Volunteers.

February 25, 2014 | 7:00 p.m.

University of Miami | Toppel Career Center The best way to learn about Peace Corps is to hear from those who are serving and those who have served.

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Student tickets: $10 4For more information visit, as.miami.edu/ringtheatre/.

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number of basesloaded walks in the first inning of Friday night’s game, which gifted Miami a 4-0 lead over Maine.

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points for Keyona Hayes in the Miami women’s basketball team’s 76-73 win over FSU on Sunday.

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Canes win two of three to open season Bats quiet until Sunday, when Miami scores 11

BY SPENCER DANDES SPORTS EDITOR

It took two games for Miami’s bats to truly wake up, but the Canes did just enough to clinch their first series of the year.

The No. 13 Hurricanes took two of three games over Maine this weekend at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.

During Opening Night on Friday, the Canes plated four runs in a wild first inning. Maine starter Tommy Lawrence loaded the bases and then surrendered four walks, which ultimately was all Miami needed to secure win No. 1.

Junior left-hander Chris Diaz (10) threw five strong innings to guide the Canes past the Black Bears, 6-3.

Tyler Palmer added a solo home run in the second inning, part of his 3-4 night in which he scored twice and had two RBIs. “I’ve been hitting the ball well, seeing it well, and I took advantage of some of the counts I had,” Palmer said. “[Lawrence] had a 1-1 count when I hit the home run. He missed with a slider, came back with a fastball, and I got a good pitch to hit.”

Saturday was a different story.

The Black Bears evened the series with a 3-1 win, holding Miami to just two hits in the process.

Bryan Radziewski, the Canes’ All-American starter, blew through the lineup his first time around. The junior struck out seven of the first 10 batters he faced.

But Radziewski (0-1) ran into trouble when he was charged with two errors in the third inning. Maine capitalized with two runs on another error, this time by third baseman David Thompson.

Miami’s hitters were nearly silent, scoring just once on a double steal after freshman Laz Rivera was hit by a pitch.

“We have to swing the bat better,”

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ROUNDING THE BASES: Senior Tyler Palmer slaps hands with coach Jim Morris as he heads for the plate after his secondinning home run on Friday. Miami, ranked 13th in the nation, won its first series of the 2014 series over Maine. coach Jim Morris said. “We can’t expect Radziewski or any of those guys to shut them out and we only score one run. We have to score some runs.”

Scott Heath tossed seven dominant frames for Maine to earn the win. Jacob Gosselin-Deschesnes closed the door with a six-out save.

The rubber match played out Sunday afternoon, and 2,726 fans were in attendance for the first pitch at noon.

The Hurricanes erupted early on, plating eight runs in the first three innings alone.

Miami’s young lineup – four freshmen recorded their first career hits on Sunday – had six extra-base hits and showed a lot of promise during the 11-2 win.

“That’s the way I expected this team to play,” Morris said. “They practice as hard as any team I’ve had at Miami, and we were as well-prepared coming into the season as anyone.”

Andrew Suarez (1-0) held the Black Bears at bay during the series clincher.

He struck out a career-best 10 batters in five innings of work.

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“I felt like [Maine] wasn’t catching up to my fastball,” Suarez said. “I threw a lot of fastballs and mixed in some sliders because they have a lot of lefties.

I worked on keeping the ball low and trusting my defense.”

On Wednesday, Florida Atlantic will be in town for a midweek game at 6 p.m.

Then, the 23rd-ranked Florida Gators will visit Mark Light Field for a crucial rivalry matchup with the Canes.

That series begins Friday at 7 p.m.

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Indoor courts open after restoration

Slogans denied; interest declines

Weeklong maintenance helps restore traction

BY JAKE HAKANSON CONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

The Wellness Center’s indoor basketball facility has been reopened, and the usual crowds have returned to the courts after a brief hiatus.

Last month, the gym closed down the courts for a weeklong restoration. So many students were playing basketball that the wood courts were getting worn down.

The courts underwent a resurfacing in order to keep them in optimal condition, said Norm Parsons, director of the Wellness Center.

“The 18-year-old courts take a constant beating from students and faculty,” Parsons said.

He explained that the restoration will help keep them in good condition for the constant foot traffic.

“The courts were resurfaced due to overuse,’’ Parsons said. “It has to be done in order to keep the courts in playable condition.”

The courts were first sanded and other minimal fixes were made before a new wax was reapplied.

More severe wear and tear would have necessitated sanding the courts down to a bare minimum to remove the lines before applying a coat of polyurethane.

“Luckily for us, we only needed the first type,” Parsons said.

The indoor courts were becoming rundown and students were starting to feel it, with traction on the courts becoming an issue.

More and more players were losing their footing while trying to compete.

The wellness center is an 1,800 squarefoot gymnasium with basketball courts on the upper level. Three courts – each 75 feet long by 50 feet wide – lay side by side. On average, 3,500 to 4,000 people attend and use the facilities every day, Parsons said.

During the time when the courts were closed, basketball enthusiasts were forced to play elsewhere.

Many went to the outdoor courts, but players say they prefer to stay inside because of the heat outside on the asphalt courts.

The outdoor courts also became crowded, discouraging some from playing.

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Tradition of raunchy SportsFest T-shirts no longer in play

BY AISLINN McMANUS CONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

SportsFest, the popular University of Miami competition where the university’s five residential colleges and commuter students face off, was plagued by declining interest this year.

The University Village took home the title for the first time when the games were held last weekend.

Freshman Maggie Dickey, who lives on the seventh f loor of Stanford’s Walsh Tower, noticed a lack of commitment even though students were initially excited.

“On my f loor, everyone is dropping out of the events they first signed up for,” she said during the competition.

The resident assistant on Dickey’s f loor, Ryan Finkelstein, has identified a big change during her three years as an RA. For one thing, she said, “faculty directors are not allowing certain things.”

Each f loor functions as its own team, and typically students choose a team name or humorous mascot to distinguish themselves during SportsFest.

They wear T-shirts with their slogans throughout the games.

“The shirts are always raunchy and inappropriate, and it’s everyone’s favorite part,” Finkelstein said.

But this year, her f loor submitted 10 possible

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SportsFest designs and only one was approved. Finkelstein said the types of T-shirts that were once approved by faculty directors were rejected for this year’s competition.

Students living on the eighth f loor of Stanford-Walsh said none of their shirts got approval from Chris Hartnett, director of Residence Life.

One idea they submitted was “The Walsh 8 Potatoes – we’re better baked.” It was quickly denied.

Instead, the f loor decided on T-shirts that read “WALSH 8, ALL OF OUR IDEAS GOT REJECTED.” Freshman Holly French, the SportsFest captain for the ninth f loor of Walsh Tower, said her team was far less excited to compete after being similarly turned down.

“We were really looking forward to being ‘The Walsh 9 Farmers – grab your ho and plant your seed,’” French said. “Now that we had to wear a shirt none of us really like or want to wear, SportsFest just does not seem as fun.”

Aside from the lack of coarse T-shirt slogans, there were changes made to the schedule of events.

“This year, we created a new section called Mind Games,” said senior Jaime Ceron, a three-year RA who served on a committee to determine the events played.

“There’s rock, paper, scissors, Sudoku, and Connect 4.

We also added more team sports and eliminated more individual games.”

The shift did not go over well with all participants.

“We had to beg someone to play rock, paper, scissors,” freshman Lizzie Horn said last weekend. “When we first heard about SportsFest, everyone was pumped. Now that it is actually here, it’s a different story.”

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past weekend. Burns ran the 60m hurdle in 7.68 seconds, which ranks fourth nationally this year.

Miami traveled to Blacksburg, Va., with a chance to avenge an earlier loss to the Virginia Tech Hokies. Instead, the Canes struggled mightily on offense and fell 52-45 on Saturday.

“Artie is just touching the surface of what he is capable of in the hurdles,” director Amy Deem said. “He is getting better each practice and it is showing in the meets.”

Virginia Tech had lost 10 straight games prior to the win. Miami dropped to 12-13 overall, and 3-9 in ACC play.

The Canes shot 5-for-27 in the field during a brutal first half, and followed that up by missing 10 of their first 11 shots after halftime.

Miami next faces Notre Dame at home.Tipoff is at 9 p.m.Wednesday.

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ONE-HANDED: Tonye Jekiri shoots a jumper during a game in February. The Canes played at Virginia Tech Saturday, losing 52-45.

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Artie Burns led the way during a strong showing for Miami’s track and field program at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in New Mexico this

Shakima Wembley won the women’s 400m dash and set a new personal best (53.68 seconds).

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Hurricanes notched a big conference road win on Sunday, holding on to beat Florida State 76-73.

Miami had four players score in double figures, led by Keyona Hayes’ 21 points. Syracuse visits the BankUnited Center on Thursday for a 7 p.m. ACC matchup.

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V, My dad remarried three years ago, and my stepmom has a hot daughter. I found out she is coming to UM next fall as a freshman.

I don’t know what to do. Should I avoid her?

Should I pretend I don’t imagine us having sex?

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I’m falling for my stepsister ...

Dear Karen Smith, While I can understand the allure of a younger mate, you should set your sights on someone who won’t be sitting across the table from you at Thanksgiving dinners.

Let’s visualize this situation for a moment: You get with her, and it’s awesome so you keep doing it. It’s tons of fun, because let’s face it, anything that’s even slightly illicit seems fun. It’s all very exciting and erotic, and you play footsie during your weekly family dinners.

But then your parents find out.

And then what happens? I’ll tell you: Your parents get really freaked out and look at you like you’re aliens.

They will tell you that you should move to Podunk, Ky., because who marries their sister in Miami?

You then go on to answer that you’re not getting married; you’re just having fun. They later freak out some more because ew, you’re their

children. It’ll just end up being a sh*t show.

However, I do think it’s worth giving into temptation. We’re all entitled to our guilty pleasures every now and then.

Show her around town and hang out with her. Maybe being with her for prolonged periods of time and in social settings makes you realize how annoying she actually is. Or maybe you’ll just fall madly in love with her.

Just play it by ear. If you need a reference on stepbrother/sister relationships, check out some Italian films. Those crazy Europeans are chock full of racy information.

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