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Students sing the Alma Mater at the opening ceremonies at the Rathskeller Thursday.

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United Black Students (UBS) advanced to the Alma Mater Finals, to be held Thursday, along with FEC and the Association of Commuter Students.

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CAMPUS LIFE

Three teams move on to Alma Mater Finals

Federacion de Estudiantes Cubanos (FEC), Association of Commuter Stu-dents (ACS) and United Black Students (UBS) have moved on to perform in the Alma Mater Finals in which competing organizations perform creative versions of the alma mater Thursday.

One of the most popular events dur-ing Homecoming Week, the prelimi-nary round of the Alma Mater Competi-tion was held in the Student Activities Center ballrooms Friday night.

Each organization sang the tradi-tional alma mater and then changed the lyrics to popular songs to relate to cam-pus life and the upcoming Homecoming football game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Before the event began, partici-pants sang and danced to popular songs including Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and Migos’ “Fight Night.”

“Our alma mater is a tradition,” said senior Sabina Szczepaniec, who sits on

the Homecoming Executive Committee. “Being able to see what organizations can do with it is pretty cool.”

Szczepaniec has attended the Alma Mater Preliminaries every year she has been at the University of Miami.

The Chi Omega sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity performed togeth-er as the f irst team, remixing Beatles’ songs and the theme from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” television show. The Greek organizations performed in pairs of a fraternity and sorority.

They were followed by UBS, who gave a rendition of Beyonce’s “Drunk in Love.”

FEC and ACS each had a large turn-out to support their teams’ performers.

Sophomore Beja Yman Turner co-chaired the event and helped with the organization and logistics. She stressed the important role Alma Mater plays.

“I always think that Alma Mater is one of the biggest homecoming events because it is the culmination of school spirit,” Turner said. “Everyone enjoys song and dance. Everyone can incorpo-rate their own spirit in their own style.”

The Council of International Stu-dents and Organizations (COISO), Al-pha Delta Pi and Kappa Sigma, Hecht Residential College, and Beta Theta Pi and Delta Phi Epsilon also performed.

In addition to the three groups that moved on to the f inals, Hecht Resi-dential College was selected as Judge’s Choice and will perform Thursday as well.

Alma Mater Finals will be held at 10:45 a.m. Thursday on the Rock.

For more on Homecoming 2014, visit themiamihurricane.com/section/homecom-ing2014.

Organizations combine tradition, pop cultureBY VIVIAN GARCIACONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

SINGING WITH SPIRIT: Last to perform, the Association of Commuter Students (ACS) placed in the top three at the Alma Mater Preliminaries competition Friday night in the SAC.

HALLEE MELTZER // ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

COMMUNITY

Homecoming service day proves fruitful

After making it through a week of classes, about 200 students from various campus organizations spent their Sat-urday morning participating in Hurricanes Help the Home-town (HHTH), a Homecoming event that happens to be one of the longest-standing service days at the University of Miami.

This annual event was planned out six months ahead of Homecoming Week by Hannah Abel, Jackie Safstrom and Sapan Parikh, the chairs of HHTH.

“We go into the community and see which sites are more responsive to student volunteers,” said Parikh, a se-nior majoring in economics and finance.

Students were welcomed with a T-shirt, a water bottle and bagels before they got on buses that drove to volunteer sites such as the Tropical Audubon Society and the Fruit and Spice Park.

The largest group of students, numbering 102 volun-teers, went to the Fruit and Spice Park, a roughly 40-acre garden in Homestead.

Founded in the 1940s by Miami-Dade County, Fruit and Spice Park was originally created to showcase Floridian agricultural crops such as citrus fruits and mangoes. How-ever, in the 1980s, a new park manager decided to diversify the park with tropical plants from all over the world. Today, the park boasts more than 2,000 trees, including 120 variet-ies of mangoes and 60 varieties of bananas.

Guiding the students was Louise King, a park horticul-turalist who expressed her gratitude towards the volunteers.

“It’s hard to keep up with 40 acres of plants with a small staff, so when UM volunteers come to help us, it frees our garden staff to do horticultural tasks that involve more skills and knowledge,” King said.

Volunteers marched across the park and pulled out possum vines and air potatoes, plants that compete with trees for sunlight and nutrients. If left unchecked, these plants would grow to cover the canopy of the trees and pre-vent the trees from obtaining sunlight.

After four hours of hard work, the students gathered around in a circle to discuss how they felt about the ser-vice day. Aalekhya Reddam, the Homecoming chair for the Council of International Students and Organizations (COISO), was impressed with the park’s variety of foreign plants, many of which UM’s international students could recognize.

“It was like the whole world condensed in Fruit and Spice Park,” she said.

Volunteers lend hands at Homestead, Fla. parkBY ZISHI WUCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

HOMECOMING 2014BLOOD DRIVEMonday, Oct. 27 and

Tuesday, Oct. 28SAC Ballrooms

ORGANIZED CHEERMonday, Oct. 27

SAC Patio (Rain Location: Fieldhouse)

ON CAMPUS SERVICE PROJECT

Tuesday, Oct. 28SAC third fl oor, Activities Rooms North and South

HOMECOMING KING & QUEEN

Wednesday, Oct. 29SAC Ballrooms

ALMA MATER SINGING

COMPETITIONThursday, Oct. 30

The Rock (rain or shine)

SPIRIT TREEThursday, Oct. 30

immediately following Alma Mater

Spirit Tree at Ashe Building (rain or shine)

HP HOMECOMING CONCERT

Thursday, Oct. 30BankUnited Center

PARADEFriday, Oct. 31Stanford Drive

HURRICANE HOWLFriday, Oct. 31 after the Parade

Lake Osceola/UC RockFood Trucks @ Stanford DriveHurricane Howl/Block Party

@ Merrick DriveBoat Burning/Fireworks

@ Lake Osceola


October 27 - October 29, 2014 THE MIAMI HURRICANE NEWS 3

MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

HEALTH

Steps taken toward Ebola preparedness, education

Planned Gables UHealth facility named at groundbreaking

As hospitals and communities around the world take action against the possibility of Ebola, the University of Miami is also taking preventative measures.

The Miller School of Medicine issued an Ebola preparedness manual and organized an information session Friday at the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education.

Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the de-partment of neurological surgery at the Miller School and a speaker at Friday’s session, said the issue needs coordinated action.

“Everyone says it’s a state problem or it’s a county problem or it’s a hospital problem,” he said. “But the truth is this is a federal issue, it’s a national issue and it has to be dealt with rapidly, with coordinated effort that’s very feasible and practical.”

Green also added that UM-affiliated hos-pitals Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Hospital, the Sylvester Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center are all undergoing educational training, equipping and supplying. The medical complexes have also designated reception areas for screening and testing agents that could be at high risk.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this year’s Ebola epi-

demic is the largest in history. The disease be-gan in West Africa, mainly affecting Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. So far, according to the World Health Organization, there have been 10,141 cases in the world, 4,922 of which resulted in death.

While the event was mainly geared to-ward public health students and faculty, Julie Kornfeld, assistant dean for public health at Miller, hopes to organize more information sessions for the rest of the Miller school and other UM campuses.

“We wanted to make sure that we brought together people who are experts on infectious diseases and Ebola in one room so that our students and our department can be very well informed,” she said.

Sam-Mosley Ayuk, a second year pub-lic health graduate student who attended Friday’s session, expressed the importance of community awareness and education to lessen the fear of Ebola.

“The community has to put a lot of effort in letting people know about Ebola to make them lose that hysteria,” he said. “There’s a lot of fear and stigmatization, so people have to be really enlightened about what’s going on, both here and in the source in West Africa.”

In addition to discussing the transmis-sibility of the virus and the measures being taken both locally and globally, speakers discussed the negative magnification of U.S. Ebola cases in the media.

“The media has caused fear to spread due to a pinpoint number of cases in one hos-

pital in Texas,” said James Schultz, director of Miller’s Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness, during the session. “The psychological footprint is much bigger than the medical footprint.”

Nevertheless, UM health officials rec-ommend that people remain aware of the situ-ation’s developments.

“We all need to be informed because an educated community is one that can pre-serve health,” Kornfeld said. “So if everybody knows about it and people are connected to the right information, then we can all under-stand what role we can play.”

The University of Miami Health System site that will be lo-cated on the Coral Gables campus near the BankUnited Center was named The Lennar Foundation Medical Center during a ceremonial groundbreaking event held Thursday afternoon.

The Lennar Foundation, the charitable arm of The Lennar Corporation, donated a $50 million lead gift to name the new four-story, 206,000-square-foot medical center that will offer a closer healthcare option for residents of Coral Gables, Kendall and other parts of southern Miami-Dade County. The project is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2016.

Stuart A. Miller, chairman of UM’s Board of Trustees and CEO of The Lennar Corporation, felt “proud” about his fam-ily’s new contribution toward advancing the university’s health system.

“We are on a mission to transform lives through teaching, research and service. That is our core mission, and I’m so proud to be a part of it,” he said. “I’m also proud in my other job as CEO

of Lennar to be a part here today of building community as well. I’m also proud to be a part of the Miller family that thought it was important to name and advance the mission of our medical school under Goldschmidt.”

Dr. Pascal J. Goldschmidt is senior vice president for medi-cal affairs and dean of the Miller School of Medicine.

The ceremony took place near the facility’s future home at 5550 Ponce de Leon Blvd., which is close to the Metrorail station and Ponce de Leon Garage by the Flipse Building.

Joe Natoli, interim chief operating officer of the Miller School of Medicine and UHealth, as well as President Donna E. Shalala and Goldschmidt, also CEO of UHealth, gave opening remarks.

“Today, we celebrate a giant leap in UHealth’s commitment to South Florida,” said Shalala. “Our presence in Coral Gables is more than location, location, location or access, access, access. It’s excellence, excellence, excellence. It’s a solid promise to care for our neighbors and friends in South Florida.”

The total cost of the medical center is $145 million, accord-ing to Natoli. In an interview with The Miami Hurricane, he said that the Lennar donation will allow the facility to be opened in one stage rather than in phases.

The Lennar Medical Center will feature medical services, such as urgent care, outpatient surgery and cancer care, such as radiation oncology and chemotherapy. It will also offer interven-tional radiology and diagnostic imaging, including X-rays and CT, MRI and PET scans.

UM-affiliated hospitals undergo trainingBY SOPHIE BARROSSTAFF WRITER

$50 million gift ensures project is completed in one stageBY ALEXANDER GONZALEZEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

EBOLA EDUCATION: Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the Miller School of Medicine, gives an update on the status of the Ebola virus. The gathering took place Friday at Miller in the Gordon Center for Research.

SOPHIE BARROS // CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

RENDERING COURTESY UM MEDIA RELATIONS

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Known by friends and colleagues as an eccentric instructor and skillful storyteller, the late Lester Goran was remembered last week during Goran’s Gifts, a two-day celebration of his legacy.

Goran, who passed away earlier this year, founded the creative writing department at the University of Miami in 1965 and pushed for the creation of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing in 1991.

Goran’s Gifts consisted of a recent alumni reading, a publishing panel and a memorial celebration sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Creative Writing and Mangrove, UM’s under-graduate literary journal. Mangrove also launched a special tribute issue including works by Goran’s students, as well as several of Goran’s pieces.

Old friends and acquaintances, traveling from as far as Ireland and

Australia, reunited in Coral Gables to honor his legacy.

Books & Books hosted the event Thursday evening, which featured readings by published UM creative writing alumni, among them poet Jason McCall and memoirist Daisy Hernandez. Also present at the event were members of Goran’s family, including his children and grandchil-dren.

Friday’s events, held at the Wes-ley Foundation CAS Gallery, began with a publishing panel in the morn-ing. Goran himself had published over 12 books and short story collections.

His most well-known work, “Tales From the Irish Club,” depicts the working-class Irish-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh in which he spent his childhood. Other works include his memoir, “The Bright Streets of Surfside,” an account of his sometimes tenuous friendship with Nobel laureate and former UM fac-ulty member Isaac Bashevis Singer. Goran scholar Chauncey Mabe, also present at the events, has called Goran “the most underrated novelist of his generation.”

TOUCHING TRIBUTE: Professor Eugene Clasby of the Department of English holds up a copy of the Mangrove Literary Journal’s special tribute issue, Goran’s Gift s, at the memorial celebration held at Books & Books Friday night.

PHOTO COURTESY JENNY ABREU PHOTOGRAPHY

CAMPUS LIFE

U.N. Day sparks conversation

Model U.N. and the Council of International Stu-dents and Organizations (COISO) threw a celebration for the United Nations’ (U.N.) 69th birthday in the University Center Breezeway Friday afternoon.

The celebration featured a few of the U.N.’s mil-lennium goals, including universal primary education, hunger and poverty, sustainability and gender equality. Each goal had its own station, where students tested their knowledge through games and quizzes.

“Our goal is really to promote the values of the U.N. and the work the U.N. does around the world on campus,” said Perry Elbadrawi, Model U.N.’s public relations outreach chair.

Students could plant and take home potted flow-ers from the station representing the environmental stability goal.

Other stations included donated canned goods and a photo booth to keep the #yesallwomen – a hashtag that raises awareness on women’s issues – trend going.

After the celebration, there was a more formal dis-cussion in the Student Activities Center East Ballroom with Laura Giroux, a United Nations Association rep-resentative. It focused on the issues students felt were more important for the U.N. to focus on.

“This is about you talking to each other and tell-ing the U.N. what you think should replace the mil-lennium development goals,” said Giroux during her speech.

This question ignited debates on the importance of education and action on climate change.

“For me, the most pressing issue happens to be access to education,” said senior Sajan Patel, a Model U.N. member. “It would seem as if the basis of the so-lution for all of the other issues that we face would be a well-educated global population.”

After the debates settled down, students were asked to choose the six most important issues to them from a list of 17. The live voting was a tactic by the U.N. to get conversations started and to give a way for people to voice their opinions before final decisions are made for the next plan.

The top three choices were having an honest and responsive government, better healthcare and access to clean water and sanitation.

In an interview with The Miami Hurricane, Gi-roux explained her reasons for having UM students participate in the voting process.

“UM has a diverse and vocal student population,” she said. “Their part in the post-2015 development goal discussion is critical. The world is putting together a vi-sion of what it will look like in 2030, and it is important for the UM students to be a part of that discussion.”

To join the discussion and to cast your vote, visit my-world2015.org.

Participants discuss world’s most pressing issuesBY NADIJAH CAMPBELLSENIOR NEWS WRITER

COMMUNITY

CAMPUS LIFE

Pedestrian safety measures taken in Pinecrest

Colleagues honor life of writing professor

Nearly a month ago, a traffic sig-nal was installed at the intersection in Pinecrest Village where a car fatally struck two doctoral students from the University of Miami one year ago. On Oct. 17, a memorial was held at which friends, neighbors and village officials crossed the intersection together in honor of the students.

On Oct. 16 of last year, Hao Liu, 26, and Ying Chen, 27, were crossing the in-tersection at Kendall Drive and SW 68th Court in Pinecrest when they were struck and killed by an oncoming car. Accord-ing to Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner, the intersection lacked both traffic lights and a crosswalk.

“There was no traffic light, there was no crosswalk either, there was abso-

lutely nothing,” Lerner said. “Two weeks after the accident, they had a memorial … While I was there, many of the stu-dents and some residents who lived in the homes behind the apartments took me aside and said, ‘We need to have some protection here; there has to be a crosswalk or a light so this doesn’t hap-pen again.’”

Students living in that area who take the Metrorail to school or work must cross the intersection to reach the nearest station. Since Kendall Drive is a county road, Pinecrest couldn’t simply decide to install a traffic light.

“It was actually the neighbors and students who made the initial outreach and request to the county,” Lerner said. “And we just followed up and said, ‘Yes we want it.’ We all kind of stayed on top of them until they made the decision to install a traffic light and a crosswalk.”

Liu and Chen were only two months into their pursuits of doctoral degrees in engineering. Both attained their bache-lor’s degrees from prestigious universities

in China before deciding to pursue their doctoral degrees at UM.

Yunqiu Wang, an adviser to the Chinese Students and Scholars Associa-tion, said that the mood was bittersweet as friends and neighbors honored the stu-dents during the memorial.

“We still remember them vividly, their face, their smile, and yet we also see something positive coming out of it,” Wang said. “And so it was bittersweet for everybody, from the councilman of Pinecrest, to the undergraduate and graduate students and the neighbors who came out to remember them.”

Meanwhile, the long-awaited pedes-trian overpass over the dangerous US-1 intersection near the University Metro-rail station is closing in on the start of construction.

According to spokeswomen Irene Ferradaz, Miami-Dade Transit expects to obtain the Building Department permit for the overpass by the end of the month. Construction would then begin in April 2015 and take one year to complete.

Traffic light, crosswalk installed at accident siteBY WILLIAM RIGGINSENIOR NEWS WRITER

Mangrove journal recognizes legacyBY JACKIE YANGCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

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October 27 - October 29, 2014 THE MIAMI HURRICANE OPINION 5

One ben-efit of coming to college is that

people treat you like an adult and allow you to dress yourself. There is no formal dress code, and students are allowed to wear what they please.

While a person has the right to express his or her individuality, some people take the lack

of a formal dress code too far. There are standards of decency that need to be upheld when going to class, and students should dress tastefully and appropriately for the task at hand, which is learning.

You wouldn’t show up wearing just any-thing to work or to an important on-campus meeting. School is our job right now, and we should dress like we are aware of that. We should not reserve putting thought and effort into what we wear for special events.

No, there is no need to come to class in a suit every day, unless that’s your thing, in which case, more power to you. However,

you should at least come clothed. Many girls like to wear shorts, which, in Miami, is un-derstandable. But if you are wearing the type of shorts where your pockets are longer than the pants themselves and a good portion of your butt is hanging out, why bother putting on pants at all?

The same thing goes for guys who sag their pants. If your pants are sitting below your butt and we can see 90 percent of your underwear, why not just walk around in your boxers, since you are so eager to show them to the general public? Neither of these “styles” are appropriate for the classroom setting, and they make you look sloppy and unprofessional.

You may be thinking that it doesn’t mat-ter if you look unprofessional because you are not a professional yet. While that may be true, you will be one sooner than you real-ize, so it never hurts to start carrying your-self like one. As the old saying goes, “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” If you start learning how to dress appropriately now, it’ll be a lot easier to adapt when you get into the workplace.

How you dress can also impact your relationships with your professors. First impressions matter, but so do subsequent impressions. Your professors may be writ-ing your letters of recommendation at some point. You want them to remember you for the merits you brought to class and your academic performance, not the distracting clothing that you decided to wear.

Dressing appropriately is also a sign of respect. If most professors come to school in business-casual attire, the least students can do is throw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Everyone runs late sometimes, but showing up to class in your pajama pants is not okay. It shows that you don’t have any regard for the professor or for the class.

Express yourself, and wear the clothes that you like, but keep it classy. Take some time in the morning or the night before to ac-tually think about what you are going to put on and what type of impression it’s going to leave. Be remembered by the value you add, not the outlandish and inappropriate things you wear.

Taylor Duckett is a senior majoring in economics.

TAYLOR DUCKETTSTAFFCOLUMNIST

Millennials should express style with class

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Take South Florida’s proposed split seriouslyAs election season begins to kindle

patriotic sentiment, keep in mind that our beloved national flag may soon be imprint-ed with one more star.

In a resolution that passed 3-2 among the city commission and the mayor, the city of South Miami recently proposed that the region of South Florida break away and form its own state.

With some possible revision, this reso-lution has enormous potential to succeed and should not be written off as just another misguided secessionist movement.

According to the resolution, southern Florida is only 15 feet above sea level on av-erage, and the region will be one of the first to disappear as a result of ongoing climate change. Northern Florida, on the other hand, is about 120 feet above sea level.

The resolution argues that this discrep-ancy renders the state government, located in Tallahassee, insufficiently sympathetic to South Florida’s plight, and to avoid political

deadlock and most effectively address the immediate dangers it faces, South Florida must form its own state.

Similar secessionist campaigns have punctuated United States history, but all have failed. This one, however, is different. It centers not around political disputes, but on the debilitating effects of climate change.

Of course, the road to statehood is cluttered with obstacles. The resolution would claim crucial economic areas for the state of South Florida. The 24 counties that would compose it currently generate about 69 percent of the state’s revenue, and the government in Tallahassee is unlikely to let these areas simply slip away.

Perhaps the exclusion of Disney World from the new state would grant the resolu-tion a greater chance of success.

In addition, it is unclear what specific policies only statehood would permit South Florida to undertake. The proposal might appear less outwardly farcical if examples

were made public of the Tallahassee legis-lature blocking measures against climate change.

At any rate, South Florida is doomed to disappear from the U.S. in one way or another; whether it does so by becoming its own state or by being swallowed by the rising ocean remains to be decided.

The issue has not yet been put to public vote, but it is not too early to begin spreading awareness about the proposal. A possible revision to America’s fundamen-tal structure deserves attention, at least by those whom it would most affect.

So as you navigate the streets of Miami, consider whether or not you would prefer to do so in scuba gear, and translate your conclusion into active advocacy of the methods that could prevent Miami from turning into a barnacle-encrusted ruin.

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

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October 27 - October 29, 2014 THE MIAMI HURRICANE EDGE 7

A Miami fall is more like an ex-tension of summer than a separate season. While you might want to get your pumpkin spice latte iced, you don’t have to opt out of fall fashion. The UM campus, a virtual universi-ty-sized runway, is teeming with fall looks tweaked for the heat.

Upgrading your hot weather ward-robe for fall can be as simple as switch-ing color: students are spotted in royal blues, burgundies, greys and mustards this season. And there’s no need for a full peacoat; a jewel-toned tank works just as well for a fall ensemble.

When it comes to shapes and tex-tures, lightweight knits are a great alternative to chunky wool sweaters, and a cardigan popped over a crop top counts as fall layering in the South Florida heat. Instead of head-to-toe coverage, mix in fall pieces with sum-

mer ones, like a sweater with shorts or boyfriend jeans with a tank.

For prints, look for dark-colored plaids, leopard print and window-pane pieces. Leopard print is great for smaller items like shoes and bags, whereas windowpane and plaid lend themselves to larger pieces like a dress or a top.

If you can’t bear to pile more clothes on your body, pair fall shoes and accessories with a summer out-f it. Switch out your sandals and tote for an oversized leather bag and ankle boots. Invest in gold statement pieces like a chain necklace or headband– but don’t worry, cost-conscious students, it doesn’t have to be real gold.

Whether it’s a plaid tank or ankle boots with shorts, there’s always a way to incorporate fall fashion in nearly unbearable heat. But don’t just take our word for it; stroll by the SAC or through the Green and you’ll see that fall –at least when it comes to fashion– really is Hurricane season.

European Wax Center offers all types of waxing services from bikini Brazilian to a simple eyebrow waxing. They offer waxing for males and females and have an upper-lip waxing for $12 and a bikini waxing, the most expensive service, for $47. EWC operates on appointment basis, which prevents customers from waiting too long for their service.Located at 1212 S. Dixie Hwy., Coral Gables, Fla. 33146.

BY HALEY WALKERCONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

Best off-campus spots for pampering

DESIGN BY EMMA DEARDORFF

BY ALEJANDRA MENESESCONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

The University of Miami’s campus does not only offer a beautiful outdoorsy ambi-

ance, but it also provides students with a great variety of amenities. However, a beauty salon

is not one of them. In a city obsessed with looks, students often struggle to find shops around campus to cut their hair or prepare for a nice event. Fortunately, UM is a relatively short

walking distance from several beauty salons, nail places, barbershops and

tanning salons.

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One of the most visited salons in the area is Beyond Nail, located in the Red Road Commons. This salon is not only extremely close to the university’s

campus, but is also part of a residential complex that is mainly inhabited by UM

students. Beyond Nail is not only a nail sa-lon, it also offers waxing, makeup, eyelash extensions, thread-

ing and nail enhancement. A manicure and pedicure together cost $30. Upper-lip waxing costs $6, and bikini waxing costs $25.

Located at 6600 SW 57th Ave., South Miami, Fla. 33143.

If you have not had time to go to the beach, but still want to rock a fabulous tan, Boca Tanning Club is the favorite among students on campus. It offers a variety of tanning options, ranging from tanning bed to spray tan or tanning booth. A bed-tanning session costs $25, and a spray tanning session costs $30.

Located at 5600 Sunset Dr., Miami, Fla. 33143.

Rainbow Nails is located right by Sunset Place, making it a perfect pit stop after running some errands. The pric-

es are a little more expensive, but the service is eff icient and quick. Manicures cost $14, pedi-

cures cost $23 and both services together cost $35. Rainbow Nails also offers Shel-

lac manicures, UV gel manicures and acrylic manicures.Located at 5849 Sunset Dr., South Mi-ami, Fla. 33143.

One of the most frequented barbershops around campus is Razzledazzle Barbershop. Located on Miracle Mile, it is a convenient spot just a few minutes away from campus. The basic haircut costs $25, and a beard shaping costs around $10 to $20.Located at 224 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, 33134.


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Annual songwriting competition showcases talent

It is not often that you see a concert that opens with a country love song, seg-ues into a heartfelt piano ballad and closes with unadulterated pop-rock.

But eclectic was the name of the game at Festival Miami’s seventh annual Song-writer’s Showcase, held at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall. Ten University of Miami students took center stage on Thursday night with their compositions for a night of critique, competition and most of all, catchy tunes.

The Songwriter’s Showcase has grown exponentially since its inception, seeing a jump in submissions from 12 songs sub-mitted by 10 songwriters in its first incar-nation, to more than 110 songs from more than 65 students this year. From this pool of submissions, 10 are selected to perform on the Gusman Concert Hall stage.

Prizes are awarded to the top three musicians, as determined by a panel of expert judges, including the opportunity for the winner to open for a later Festival Miami performance.

The event is entirely student-run, from the organization to the emcees to, of course, the performers, made up of mem-

bers of the Frost School’s American Music Ensemble.

This year, the members of the three-judge panel were Jonathan Brielle, a writer for acts as diverse as Jay-Z and Broadway shows; Laz Hernandez, senior manager of Latin American music at War-ner/Chappell Music Inc.; and Cris Zalles, a songwriter with more than 120 credits, including Santana and Disney.

The show operated in the style of “American Idol” or “The Voice,” with a video package featuring the songwriter giving some background about their com-position, a performance and then feedback from the experts about topics like instru-mentation, thematic clarity and song titles.

The judges picked senior Jess No-lan’s composition “Burn,” an empower-ing rhythm and blues song about burning bridges with a cheating lover and rising stronger from the ashes, as the champion of the night.

Nolan is a veteran of the Songwriter’s Showcase, reaching finalist status all four of her years at UM, including taking sec-ond place in 2011 with “Turn the Wheel Around,” co-written with another of the night’s performers, Adam Grossman.

Nolan was a constant presence throughout the night, not only perform-ing her own song, but also singing backup for many of the other artists, including a duet with Grossman on his submission, “Hide and Seek.” Nolan won the opportu-nity to open for Jefferson Airplane found-ing member Jorma Kaukonen on Friday night.

The judges had a penchant for the cinematic in their silver and bronze medal recipients. In second place was “Outer Space,” a quirky indie-pop tune by senior Justina Shandler, which Laz Hernandez described as a pitch-perfect “sitcom theme song.”

Rounding out the top three was ju-nior Bonnie Dymond, whose lush, heart-felt ballad “Colorblind” was praised by Cris Zalles as “a song that should be in a movie.”

More than anything else, this evening of riveting performances displayed the tal-ent of the songwriters among UM’s stu-dent body.

As Bruce Hornsby Creative Ameri-can Music Program Director Ray Sanchez said at the end of the night, “these kids are the real deal.”

BY MADELYN PAQUETTE SENIOR EDGE WRITER UPCOMING FESTIVAL MIAMI EVENTS

�”Emerging Composers” 8 p.m. Monday at Clarke Recital Hall. Admission is free, and a ticket is required.

�”Frank Cooper interviews Geno-va and Dimitrov” 11 a.m. Tuesday at Clarke Recital Hall. Admission is free.

�”Jazz guitar summit – Guitars, guitars, guitars!” 8 p.m. Tuesday at Gusman Concert Hall. Tickets range from $20 to $35.

�”Genova and Dimitrov – Two piano favorites” 8 p.m. Wednes-day at the Gusman Concert Hall. Tickets range from $20 to $35.

�”Frost Band of the Hour Home-coming Parade” 7 p.m. Friday at the Eaton Lakeside Lot. Admission is free.

�”Emilio Estefan Presents– Fan-tine!” 8 p.m. Saturday at the Gus-man Concert Hall. Tickets range from $25 to $45.


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UM’s cross country team ran in the Western Academy Invitational in Lauderdale Lakes this weekend.

Freshman Gabrielle Hesslau won the women’s five-kilo-meter race with a time of 19:40.75, her second-best time of the season. Seven other women represented the Hurricanes in the run. Sophomore Frida Carlsson finished sixth with a time of 20:22.42. As a team, the women finished in second place. Nova Southeastern won the team score with 25 points.

The men did not place, but were led in the 5-kilometer race by senior Douglas Dourado. He finished third with his season-best time of 16:23.79. Sophomore Jon Keller followed Dourado and placed ninth.

Freshman Sean Grossman and senior Anthony Ricketts placed 11th and 15th with times of 17:15.29 and 18:08.89 to fin-ish the race for the Hurricanes. Jacob Alplund of Northwood took home the victory with a finish of 16:07.11.

The Canes women’s soccer team lost to No. 5 North Car-olina 3-0 on Sunday afternoon at Chapel Hill.

The loss to the Tar Heels caps a disastrous season on the road for the Hurricanes, who finished the regular season 1-8 away from Coral Gables.

Miami is now 1-7-1 in the ACC and 3-13-1 overall. The Canes are 13 out of 14 teams in the ACC, dangling at the bot-tom of the rankings. North Carolina continues their ACC suc-cess, second only to Florida state, 8-0-1 and 11-2-2 overall.

The Hurricanes hung tough with the fifth-ranked team in the nation for the first 28 minutes of the game until junior forward Paige Nielsen scored on a penalty kick to put the Tar Heels up 1-0.

The Hurricanes have now been shut out in five of their last six games and seven times overall this season.

The Canes finish their season against Wake Forest 1 p.m. Sunday at home.

CROSS COUNTRY

SOCCER

Women’s team wins

Team loses to UNC

Canes participate in Lauderdale Lakes runBY VICTORIA HERNANDEZCONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

Season to end with Wake Forest game SundayBY MARK SINGERCONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

Miami’s women’s swimming and diving team was defeated for the second consecutive year Saturday against Florida Gulf Coast University. The team lost 194-104, despite strong showings from some younger swimmers and divers.

Sophomore Cameron Davis was once again a top contributor, as she also racked up points for the team in its first two competitions of the season.

“Davis certainly led the way on the swimming end,” said Head Coach Andy Kershaw. “She swam the races exactly like we talked about and like we’ve been work-ing on. I was very proud of that.”

Davis impressed at the meet, finish-ing in first place in both the 1000-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle. She defeated FGCU’s second place finisher, Nina Schiffer, by over five seconds with her time of 10:14.71.

In her 500-yard win, she also got the best of Schiffer, this time winning by less than two seconds with a time of 5:01.95.

Davis also came in sixth place in the 200-yard butterfly (2:15.84), and swam in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Freshman diver Wally Layland, whose father is a University of Miami Hall of Fame diver, was also a key con-tributor to the meet, which happened to be her first.

“This was her first chance to repre-sent the U, and she made us very proud,” Kershaw said.

She was awarded first place in both the one-meter and the three-meter com-

petition with scores of 289.35 in the one-meter, and a staggering 314.85 in the three-meter. Other notable performances came from freshman Julie Suarez and junior team captain My Fridell.

Suarez stole first in the 200 freestyle and came in third in the 200 backstroke, with scores of 1:54.16 and 2:08.72.

Kershaw said of Suarez, “It’s great to get that kind of contribution from a fresh-man.”

Fridell took first in the 100 butterfly, her signature stroke, with a time of 56.14.

“We always know we can count on Fridell to get to the wall when the 100 fly comes around,” coach Kershaw said.

Miami has almost two weeks to re-group from this loss before their next dual matchup and first home meet, scheduled for Nov. 8 versus Illinois State.

SWIMMING & DIVING

Despite loss, young members shineTeam prepares for first home meetBY RACHEL COX-ROSENCONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

STAYING STRONG: Virginia Tech (VT) defender Derek DiNardo (No. 41) fails to stop Duke Johnson (No. 8) during Thursday’s game at VT. The Hurricanes defeated the Hokies 30-6. To read more about the game, visit themiamihurricane.com.

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After last week’s heated debate in Jack-sonville between the candidates for Florida governor, Charlie Crist and Rick Scott, I de-cided to host my own debate to cover all of your relationship issues.

There’s nothing more triumphant than earning your desire’s phone number, espe-cially when you’ve been pining for her since the start of the semester. The question of how to earn it, however, is still a touchy subject.

In this regard, I will simulate a debate between two guys trying to ask for a girl’s number. There have been enough romantic comedies that have given us mixed messages of what works and what doesn’t.

IN ONE CORNER: We have “tall, good-looking frat guy” who goes by Todd. Standing proudly at six-feet and sporting boat shoes, he loves lifting only his upper body, tanning at the pool and pretending he likes romantic comedies.

IN THE OTHER CORNER: The “lonely try-hard” named Matthew. Wheez-ing at about five-feet-eight-inches and wear-ing a flannel button-down, he likes to sit at the Rathskeller’s gliders, offer the waitresses bev-erages, open the door for girls and ask what their mom’s maiden name is. He also owns

the Nicholas Sparks collection.V: All right, guys. Here’s the big ques-

tion: When you want a girl’s number, should you ask for it, or tell her to give it to you?

TODD: Hold on one second, let me finish copying someone’s Yik Yak and pre-tending it’s mine. Okay done. All right, listen dude, you just tell her to give it to you. After a few minutes of flexing at her from across the party, you just go up to her and say, “Hey babe. I see you looking at me looking at you looking at me, and I know you’re down. Gimme yo’ digits.”

MATTHEW: My competitor here clearly doesn’t know how to approach wom-en. Girls are delicate, intricate math problems that you have to peel back like a DVD box that is wrapped too tightly. You have to ask for their numbers and give them the oppor-tunity – and the leverage – to grant you ac-ceptance into their life.

TODD: That is so lame. Chicks like confidence, man. They want the guy to make the first move and guide her back to his room.

MATTHEW: No, those are insecure girls with daddy issues. I’m in it for the real deal. I want to earn a girl’s trust so we can keep a conversation and take it to the next

level.TODD: Who wants a relationship in

college? That won’t go anywhere.MATTHEW: Neither will your degree,

but you seem to still be trying. You’re major-ing in political science, but you thought the Gulf War was Tiger Woods versus Happy Gilmore.

V: You’re both wrong and you’re both right. Sure, girls like confidence, and they also like being given the opportunity to grant you permission to call or text them. How-ever, they don’t just want to be taken back to their rooms, and they also don’t want to be thought of as delicate arithmetic either. All you have to do is ask her out on a date – obvi-ously in person – and that’ll tell you whether you’ll score that number. If she says yes, you just smile, look her in the eye, hand her your phone and say, “I’d like to be able to call you sometime, too.”

Unless, of course, you only want the girls with daddy issues. Then, by all means, continue being the kind of person who ruins it for everyone else when decent men actually try to earn that big “T” word: trust.

V

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