The Miami Hurricane - April 23, 2015: The Shalala Issue

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Term leaves multifaceted legacy

Personal approach enriches individuals

Student Activities Center holds more than 8,000 events per year.

Inside this special edition

Graduation rate has increased from

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buildings renovated or constructed with Momentum 1 and 2 money.

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Premed411.com provides science exam database Lecturers deem website unethical

BY WILLIAM RIGGIN STAFF WRITER

The tutoring service Premed411 has raised eyebrows at the University of Miami. The service shares graded exams, but whether or not students should be using it is not a new dilemma.

Rich Hochstim began the tutoring service in 1984, and he hasn’t worked another job since. His accumulation of old exams for the pre-med science courses offered at UM is widely used by students, but at the same time, the ethics of the service have been questioned by some professors.

When Hochstim graduated in 1983 with a degree in chemistry, he was already tutoring other students because he says there was no one else doing it. The Academic Resource Center wasn’t created until 1997, meaning the school offered no official tutoring services.

Hochstim charges $80 per hour for one-on-one sessions. Groups of two and three are charged rates of $40 and $30 re-

spectively per person, while groups of four or more pay a rate of $25 per hour.

Matthew Ishahak was tutored by Hochstim in the fall semester of 2013. He is now in his fifth year of the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science program offered in the College of Engineering. He says that he used the service with a friend to prepare for the MCAT and that he went twice a month for tutoring.

“It wasn’t worth the cost and it wasn’t too effective ... the sessions did very little to motivate me,” Ishahak said via text message. “We would show up to our session and he would ask us what topic we wanted to cover, then he would just tell us the basics about that topic.”

Hochstim began accumulating old exams that were released to students before he graduated because some students reap the benefits of knowing older members in student organizations who provide study materials.

“I took a history course, and I was making all As in science, but I got a C in that course, and the reason I did was because I didn’t realize everyone had the old tests and I didn’t,” he said. “And when the next semester I took the test again and got

an A, it occurred to me that if people had the tests and other people don’t, it’s grossly unfair.”

He says he brought the exams he had collected to the students he tutored and let them photocopy them free of charge. It became easier for him to accumulate the exams when he could get the graded exams of students he tutored.

The popularity of the Internet brought about the creation of Premed411.com.

Hochstim started to scan his tests onto the website where the exams are protected by passwords that can be received by signing up for a mailing list. He started producing video tutorials on the website in 2010.

Jen Rodriguez, who studied biomedical engineering and is now a student at the Miller School of Medicine, said she used the exams because they’re the best way to prepare for tests. But she also recalls knowing professors who were mad that their exams were leaked online.

Barbara Colonna, a senior lecturer of organic chemistry, is one of them. Exams from her classes have been published on the website, and her name can be found on the site for video reviews that Hochstim sells.

One video tutorial for her class is titled “150 Shades of Colonna.”

“He should not have any access to those [exams] because it’s material that is not distributed,” she said. “I go over the tests during review time, but I never release the tests, so there are actually no legal copies that I distribute ... I don’t know really know the legality of it, but it for sure isn’t ethical.”

It also creates additional work for Colonna, who says she has to write new tests every semester so that students using the website don’t have an advantage. She also says she feels sorry for those students who use the website.

“I usually tell them at the beginning of the year that I don’t think it’s a good way to get a good grade in the class. It’s like looking for shortcuts, where there is a lot of support that is given from me and also from peer-led workshops,” she said.

Hochstim, who plans on calling it quits in eight or nine years, said the tests he posts on his website are ones that have been released to the student population and that students aren’t getting access to anything they shouldn’t have.

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Hug the Lake advocates preserving environment LAKESIDE LOVE: During Hug the Lake on Wednesday afternoon, students joined hands around Lake Osceola in celebration of Earth Day. The annual event organized by Random Acts of Kindness recognizes the importance of preserving the unique environment of Coral Gables. This year, President-Elect Julio Frenk, his wife Dr. Felicia Knaul and their daughter Mariana joined President Shalala in “hugging” the lake.

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UM first lady embraces campus

Petition seeks justice

Knaul up for faculty spot

BY ERIKA GLASS MANAGING NEWS EDITOR

At Wednesday’s Hug the Lake event, Felicia Knaul embraced Lake Osceola and campus traditions alongside students, her husband, UM President-elect, Dr. Julio Frenk and President Donna E. Shalala.

Knaul is expected to join the faculty at the Miller School of Medicine. She will give a talk on Mexican reform, global cancer and global health at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the medical school. After that, she says, she will share where she will work.

“The idea is that I’m up for faculty review at the medical school and I believe I’ll be contributing to the Center for Hemispheric Policy here in the main campus,” Knaul said.

Knaul’s work with cancer includes a more personal backstory. About four years ago, she wrote a book titled “Tomatelo a Pecho” or “Beauty Without the Breast,” which focused on her experiences as a mother

with cancer. She says the inspiration for her book came when she realized that this was an unforeseen threat for women in Mexico and that she saw a need for a book in Spanish that discussed personal experience with this disease.

She also noted that including Dr. Frenk and the family’s experience with her illness in her book was a way to help combat the fear of abandonment that some women face when seeking treatment. She says she wanted to show that a woman can make it through the disease and continue with her life.

“I thought that our story, particularly Julio’s story, would help to break down and fight against some of those taboos,” she said.

When faced with the challenge of coming up with an English title for her book, she says it was her daughter, Mariana, 10, who gave her the inspiration. The title “Tomatelo a Pecho” is a Spanish idiom and has no real translation in English, Knaul says.

The couple has two daughters, Hannah, 18 and Mariana. As a working mother, she notes that it can be diffi-

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Canes Consent inspires action

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cult to juggle her work and home life but thinks it’s important for women and men to have a life where they are able to balance different roles.

“Societies, however, can do a lot to make that easier,” she said. “We need to promote education that has gender-equity built right into it.”

Knaul also mentioned that she is looking forward to bringing her family and two dogs, Tikvot and Lupi, on campus and to keeping a close connection to the UM community.

“I enjoy being able to speak to people,” she said. “A couple times I’ve gone down to the Starbucks and talked to people who are getting their coffee, which I like doing very much and hearing from the students and knowing a little bit more what they need.”

KAOS SPRING SHOWCASE The University of Miami’s first co-ed hip hop dance team, KAOS, will be having their spring showcase. The showcase will exhibit performances that the team has practiced all semester long. Free for all students and open to the community, the show begins at 9 p.m. Thursday, April 23 on the Rock.

FLIP A TABLE FOR FINALS VICTORIA MCKABA // STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER PUPPY LOVE: Freshman Maya Lubarsky holds an American bulldog puppy while senior Sophia Bernstein pets it during the UM Pre-Veterinary Society’s annual Puppies on the Green Monday afternoon. One by One Dog Rescue brought the puppies in hopes of finding them permanent homes.

The Transfer Student Association is helping students de-stress by providing tables to flip over. The free “group therapy session” is open for anyone stressed by finals from 12-2 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 on the Rock.

Professor Katharine Westaway’s women’s and gender studies class hosted the once-a-semester Canes Consent event in the University Center on Tuesday. The event aimed to bring awareness to sexual assault on college campuses and featured free pizza, tank tops and various speakers.

One of the speakers was junior Angela Cameron.

“You could hear a pin drop,” recalled Westaway about Cameron’s speech.

Cameron described her violent rape in April of last year – which left her with a cracked vertebrae and other injuries – and detailed how she sought help from the university and the criminal justice system to no avail.

After reporting the attack to the university and UMPD, Cameron chose to go ahead with a disciplinary hearing. Her aggressor was charged with relationship or intimate partner violence and sexual assault and battery. Despite this charge, his sentence was a one-semester suspension from UM. He returned to school this spring and is set to graduate at the end of the term.

Cameron’s story struck a nerve with Westaway and the students in attendance at Canes Consent. Immediately following the event, Westaway approached Cameron

‘OSMOSIS JONES’ The Center for Student Health and Counseling and the Cinematic Arts Commission are providing a study break for students to watch ‘Osmosis Jones’ and enjoy free food. The movie follows Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell, who teams up with Drix, a cold pill, against Thrax, a deadly virus who plans to kill Frank (Bill Murray) in 48 hours. The event is free for all students from 8-10 p.m. Monday, April 27 at the Lakeside Patio.

STUDY BREAK Several organizations on campus are providing study breaks for students during finals week. Commuter Assistants is giving out free finals survival kits from 1011 a.m. Tuesday, April 28 on the Green.

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with the idea of a petition to get her rapist expelled from the university.

Just hours after the petition went live, it had over a thousand signatures. At press time, it had well over 2000.

Westaway started Canes Consent in December of 2013 after several of her students went to her with their experiences of being sexually assaulted. More than a year later, she said she is still stunned by the stories of students who come to her.

Westaway said she was furious with how UM handled Cameron’s case. She noted that Cameron came forward with her story shortly after her rape – reporting it to a Resident Assistant just one week after it happened and to UM Police two weeks later.

Still, she received no help from the police and the university gave her rapist a minimal sentence.

“She did everything right, but the system failed her,” Westaway said. “That’s the story here; the system failed her.”

With that in mind, Westaway and her students focused all their energy on getting justice for Cameron. The students, still wearing their Canes Consent tank tops, sat with Cameron in their usual classroom and brainstormed strategies to get the university to expel Cameron’s attacker.

Westaway said she and her students hope the petition will be enough to get the university to act, but that she will do whatever is necessary to help Cameron.

“This is a campaign,” Westaway said.

“It is already in motion, and until we get justice, we will not stop.”

Cookies and milk from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 on the Green. Student Health Advisory Committee will be handing out study kits from 12-2 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 on the Rock. Greek life will also be hosting a study break on Monday, April 27 from 6-8 p.m. on the Rock.

NEW WEBSITE The University of Miami’s new website will debut Friday, and it will focus more on a student perspective. It will include an opportunity for students to submit their own photos to be used on part of the site. The site’s address will continue to be miami. edu.

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School honors LGBT graduating seniors

Student-athletes showcase talents

Event result of task force

BY ISABELLA CUETO STAFF WRITER

The University of Miami will be hosting the first Lavender Celebration, a graduation celebration for LGBT seniors, on May 6 in the Newman Alumni Center. The event is organized

by UM LGBTQ Student Life and sponsored by the Toppel Career Center.

Lavender graduation was started in 1995 at the University of Michigan to honor LGBT students’ and allies’ contributions to their respective universities, according to information compiled by the Human Rights Campaign.

In 2013, a task force was created to evaluate the needs of the LGBT community at UM. Part of their job, according to planning subcommittee member Brian Reece, has been to look at nationwide benchmarks and translate them to UM-spe-

cific events and policies for the LGBT community.

Lavender Celebration is just one of those, said Reece, who is also the associate director of assessment and communication at the Toppel Career Center.

“We want to send them off feeling like they’re appreciated and always welcomed here at the U,” he said.

Attendees will have a chance to listen to an alumni speaker, be recognized for their achievements, receive a rainbow graduation cord and mingle at a reception after the ceremony.

According to Reece, those schools that are top-rated for being LGBT-inclusive all have programs at the end of the year for graduates. He has worked at several institutions that host Lavender graduation events annually, and the overwhelming sentiment from attendees has been of happiness.

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Canes on Stage supports charity

BY ELENA TAYEM CONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

Playing a sport at a divisionone level is already a huge accomplishment. Monday night, University of Miami studentathletes proved that their talents go beyond the fields, courts and classrooms. Instead, they shined in a different type of competition: a talent show.

Tonye Jekiri may be known for being the ACC’s leading rebounder this season, but this basketball player can also dance and lip-sync. Fullback Walter Tucker may be known for his outstanding blocks, but this junior also has some killer dance moves.

Hurricanes punter and kicker Ryan Holowesko not only can play the piano, but he also writes his own original songs.

It was all for a good cause.

The first ever Miami student-athlete talent show, Canes on Stage, served as a fundraiser for the Debbie School in the pediatrics department of the Miller School of Medicine.

ERIKA GLASS // MANAGING NEWS EDITOR TRIPLE FLAIR: Senior Nantambu-Akil Fentress, a defensive back on the Hurricane’s football team, competes in Monday’s student-athlete talent show. His winning performance included spoken word, singing and trombone playing.

The department helps children with disabilities.

Football, basketball, crosscountry, track, swimming, volleyball and rowing were all represented in the show, which was standing room only in the SAC Grand Ballroom with hundreds of people in attendance.

The winner of the competition, senior defensive back Nantambu-Akil Fentress, truly stole the show when he played the trombone, sang and performed spoken word poetry.

He admitted that he actually doesn’t like to sing in public, but his teammates in the crowd helped him get through it.

“Just seeing all those guys come in to support all of us, it gave me a little kick, tighten up, go out there, have fun and just enjoy,” Fentress said. “…I knew the squad was behind me, so I was like, let’s do it.”

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

RSMAS aims to enhance process of fish farming Goal to allow yearround reproduction

BY S MOLLY DOMINICK STAFF WRITER

The Experimental Marine Fish Hatchery at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), otherwise known as “the hatchery,” is conducting influential research to optimize the production process of fish farming for a more efficient industry.

According to The World Bank, nearly twothirds of all fish sold in stores will be grown on fish farms by the year 2030.

The director of Aquaculture at RSMAS, Daniel Benetti, said that working toward the profitability and sustainability of fish farming are goals that operate hand-in-hand.

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“We work with science and technology to optimize ecological and economic viability of fish farming,” he said, “Ultimately, we have to meet the bottom line which is to make money – business – but with an environmentally conscientious mind.”

The hatchery currently works with species of fish such as pompano, mahi mahi, grouper and cobia. Ongoing research is trying to find conditions that allow these fish to be available in markets year-round and grow to market-size as quickly as possible.

Some species of fish, such as cobia, naturally spawn only during warmer summer months.

But a group of researchers including Benetti and John Stieglitz, who works at the hatchery, are working to induce cobia to spawn year-round.

Stieglitz explained that having year-round spawn is important in running a business. “[Seasonal spawning] restricts the availability of eggs to only certain seasons, so there’s a

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seasonal break in your production cycle,” Stieglitz said. “So for a commercial facility, where markets would like to see product delivered on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, you want to have fish coming to market size, and ready for harvest on a steady schedule throughout the year.”

The researchers found that adjusting water temperatures can induce spawning even during the colder months, with warmer temperatures sending signals to fish that it’s time to reproduce.

“When the water temperatures rise, that puts them in the mood, so to speak,” Stieglitz said. “All of the animals are very in tune with these things in their environment, so these will trigger cascades of hormones inside their bodies that tell them this is their reproductive season.”

Once fish release their eggs, the hatchery sends their cobia eggs to Open Blue Sea Farms.

This company is located in Panama and is the largest producer of cobia in the world. Here, the eggs are grown into market-size fish and made ready for sale.

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OPINION

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HURRICANE Founded 1929 An Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame Newspaper

Embrace challenges wholeheartedly .S. Eliot and I have something in common. We’re not big fans of April.

I didn’t think my final issue as editor-in-chief would arrive this quickly.

These four years at the Hurricane have been crazy and exciting. Rather than write a heart-wrenching goodbye, I’ll depart with a snapshot of what I’ve learned after more than 100 deadlines spent aching over countless stories.

ALEXANDER GONZALEZ First, I’ll admit that breaking news can be your best EDITOR-IN-CHIEF friend, or rather, a frenemy whom you occasionally grab a cup of coffee with.

It’s been a particularly amazing year for breaking news: President Shalala stepping down, the president-elect Dr. Julio Frenk and, of course, football players and their shenanigans. These have made our jobs easier and more fun.

Additionally, this commitment to the 24/7 news cycle wouldn’t be possible without an amazing staff and incredible faculty adviser, Ileana Oroza.

This year’s team has been top-notch in its commitment to fully embrace the Web.

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However, this transition was definitely a challenge. We now publish stories daily and aggressively live-tweet during football games and big announcements.

I’m glad I played a role in this transition. It’s been a blast.

But above all, a newsroom staff is a home away from home. When we’re not editing stories or planning rundowns, we’ve quipped about Broadway musicals, obsessed over funny tweets and imagined ourselves in a mockumentary titled “#Journalism.”

The pilot episode is in the works. Check it out on a major premium cable channel.

Regardless of any hurdles we faced, the Hurricane is one of the best experiences of my undergraduate career. I have the utmost faith in next year’s staff to continue where we left off.

Keep up the good work. Savor every moment, even when the going gets tough and classes forget that you’re a journalist. And remember that when the news gods bless you, tweet, report, publish and repeat.

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modate the burning desire for more caffeine and have always ended back up at a venti passion tea, unsweetened with no water ... go figure.

But most importantly, I’ve learned more from the students with whom I’ve shared these experiences than I ever expected to, and I hope I’ve helped shape their time here as much as they did mine.

I don’t know who I would be without the people I’ve met and worked with at UM, and I thank each person that has had a part in my experiences for pushing me to be better.

So to all of you that are fortunate enough to have more time here – take advantage of it. This is the time to try things out and make mistakes.

Some talk of their legacy at this university – what they will do to leave a mark on UM. I think the way we do that is by focusing on the experiences we have and the friends we make. Take the time to be creative and explore different aspects of your career. Do the things that make you happy and the rest will follow.

I can’t fully articulate how much I’m going to miss this place, but be that as it may, I think it’s time for all us seniors to accept defeat, grab hold of that diploma and take our first steps into that big, scary place they call “the real world.”

Erika Glass is graduating with a major in broadcast journalism.

Personal, academic growth intertwine f there’s one thing I learned in four years, it’s what makes a good story. As I’ve worked on more than a hundred stories ASHLEY MARTINEZ through The EDGE EDITOR Miami Hurricane, I’ve seen my share of articles and experienced the thrill and angst of working on deadline.

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As much as I’m aching to quote a musical or joke about our hit mockumentary about the TMH Newsroom, I feel a rush of emotions knowing that this chapter of my life is coming to a close.

For someone who is used to getting lost in books and pages, I’ve found myself working on the inkstained newsprint. Behind the stories in these pages are countless drafts, in the same way each year at UM I’ve been drafting a version of myself.

With each story I’ve written, my personal narrative has devel-

oped, challenging me to seek truth, explore different perspectives and embrace the unconventional.

I feel blessed knowing I found something I’m passionate about and even more grateful about finding a group of people who share that love. What’s a story without a great cast of characters? My newsroom family has been there to celebrate (or have meltdowns) with, break out into Broadway songs and make “Gilmore Girls” references. This newsroom has been the backdrop of my favorite memories at UM and

when we’re not driving each other completely insane, we’ve challenged ourselves to be better, write harder stories and create strong content.

Beyond working on a biweekly tabloid, we’ve been working on ourselves and shaping our identities. I’ve learned you have to take a page out of Natasha Bedingfield’s book and embrace the fact that your story is still unwritten – and revel in the freedom that presents.

Ashley Martinez is graduating with majors in journalism and psychology.

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Focus on finding positive experiences ’ve never been very good at saying goodbye, but as I sit here at my last deadline, I realize just how much I’m going to miss being here every Sunday and Wednesday.

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he first presidential debate in 2004. The Student Activities Center in 2013. $3 billion raised over 14 years.

The list goes on and on.

President Donna E. Shalala placed the University of Miami in the national spotlight. Her rock star status transformed the campus’s landscape and culture, leaving UM a top 50 institution with more new buildings and facilities than when she arrived in 2001.

Her farewell tour has been busy. This past year, Shalala has been prepping for the next stage of her career as head of the Clinton Foundation located in New York City.

She officially steps down at the end of the academic year.

Still, she has some unfinished business to take care of before an Empire state of mind sets in.

“I’m so jammed up with things to do that I’m sort of in my zone,” Shalala told The Miami Hurricane in an April 6 interview. “So I’m not thinking about very much except that I have got to do about 20 appointments a day because everyone wants to see me before I leave.”

Shalala plans to return to the faculty as a professor of political science and health policy. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from Western College for Women, which merged with Miami University in the ‘70s.

HALLEE MELTZER // ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR PARADE PARTY: President Donna E. Shalala throws beads to parade-goers during the fall 2014 Homecoming Parade. At the parade, Shalala was recognized for her service in enhancing the Homecoming program during her tenure at the university.

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THE RATHSKELLER favorite school color PHOTO COURTESY JENNY ABREU ICE, ICE BABY: President Donna E. Shalala completed the ALS ice bucket challenge during Cane Kickoff held fall 2014 at the BUC.

She also earned a doctorate in public affairs from Syracuse University in 1970 and has honorary degrees from schools including New York Law School, Princeton University and the University of Michigan.

“A long time ago a friend advised me to always leave a job when you still love it,” Shalala wrote in her email announcing that she would be stepping down, sent university-wide last September. “That is certainly the case here.”

Shalala wasn’t new to what it takes to run a university. Prior to arriving at UM, she was chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993 and president of Hunter College of the City University of New York from 1980 to 1987.

In November 2000, fresh off her term as former Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Clinton administration, Shalala was then named UM’s fifth and first female president. Aileen Ugalde, Shalala’s former chief of staff and UM’s current general counsel, was part of the 2000 presidential search committee that ultimately selected Shalala.

“Whatever room she’s in, she always struck me as being the smartest, the shrewdest, the bravest. She sees opportunities before the rest of us do,” Ugalde said. “That’s what I think people refer to when they say a ‘visionary leader.’”

Although her tenure lasted 14 years, Shalala almost decided to leave after 10 had it not been for the economic downturn.

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Regardless of how long she stayed, Shalala has left her mark on the academic, social, and economic fabric of campus.

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he 2015 campus is vastly different from what it looked like when Shalala took office in 2001.

Pat Whitely, vice president for Student Affairs, said that the campus culture now puts students first.

“President Shalala has transformed the U and the student experience as a much more student-centered, much more comfortable place and environment,” she said.

Janet Gavarrete, the associate vice president of campus planning and development, says that Shalala’s vision has made an impact that will continue after her time at the university ends.

“If you wanted to measure her impact by what you can see, then you can see a lot and it’s a good lot,” Gavarrete said.

Gavarrete also mentioned that, though Shalala’s impact on the campus landscape is visible, it’s the intangible things that will make a lasting difference. “[The Student Activities Center] represents the body of where the student soul is, and that’s very big. It’s a lot bigger footprint than just the building,” she said.

The SAC is Shalala’s most recognizable contribution at the university. The center, which hosts more than 8,000 events per

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year, houses the Rathskeller and student organization suites.

Whitely often tells the story of how one day in 2003, she and Shalala were walking around Lake Osceola near the SAC. The president proposed building a new student center in place of the previous Rat. According to Whitely, the president made it a point to make sure the Rat was included in the plans for the building. The Rat happens to be Shalala’s favorite spot on campus.

From that point, Whitely says her staff took it from there. They presented their plans to Shalala and the Board of Trustees in 2005 and moved forward with the plans for the building.

“It was her vision that we took and made reality, and you look at what a difference that Student Activities Center makes each and every day,” Whitely said.

According to Gavarrete, along with the creation of the SAC, Shalala pushed for the renovations of the Hecht Athletic Center, Wellness Center, the dining halls, the Memorial Building and Learning Center classrooms, the Cox Science Plaza, and the alumni building, among others.

Another notable contribution to the university under Shalala’s leadership was the construction of the University Village apartment complex in 2006. Before the completion of the UV, the university was only able to house about 27 percent of students, according to a report in The Miami Hurricane.

Given these noticeable improvements to student life, Shalala has often been regarded as being a “student-centered president.” Those who work closely with her marvel at her dedication to teaching.

Aileen Ugalde, Shalala’s former chief of staff, mentioned that Shalala cherished the time she spent preparing for and giv-

ing her lectures. Shalala joined the political science faculty in 2001 and has taught a course in health care politics for more than 10 years.

“She dreamed big, but at the heart of almost everything, was always the kids,” Ugalde said. “That’s why she insisted on teaching.”

Though her accomplishments showcase her dedication to elevating student life, Shalala doesn’t agree with the student-centered label. She says that while it’s important to listen to the students, her focus has been hiring top faculty to provide the best education and collegiate experience.

“That’s a term that someone invented, and I think it’s very nice and I certainly paid attention to the students and to their needs, but I also paid a lot of attention to what we needed to do on the research side to UGALDE build a great research university,” she said.

Shalala also took on the project of revamping the commencement ceremony.

Ugalde said graduation used to be a mass ceremony on the Foote Green.

“The whole tradition of the graduation, that every single person who’s receiving a degree of any kind from the University of Miami, would walk across the stage, be projected onto the screens, and shake the hands of their dean and their president, that was all an idea she had for us,” Ugalde said.

But Shalala’s dedication to students doesn’t end when they receive their diplomas. The president also made an effort to actively include the alumni community.

“We made a conscious decision in 2001 to make major investments in alumni and raise the money for an alumni center, and we were single-minded about that because our alumni weren’t really bonded to the university,” she said.

Alumni, especially former Student Government presidents who work closely with university administration, say they remember her for her drive and passion for the university.

Brandon Mitchell, 2011-2012 Student Government President, recalls that Shalala was dedicated to persistent campus improvement.

“Our campaign was based on ‘Taking U Forward’ and that really resonated with

Presidents to president Brandon Gross 2008-09 The one thing that you notice most about her ... is that she puts students first. I got to see that when I was a student leader. And now that I’m an administrator, I get to see it from an administrative role.

her because that’s what her goal was,” he said.

Bhumi Patel, 20132014 SG President, shared similar sentiments.

“Through her leadership, the university came together as a community to share in joyous moments and support each other in difficult times,” Patel said. “In excitement and in tragedy, President Shalala’s dedication to the University of Miami – and to the students – never faltered.”

Brandon Gross, who is the associate director of the Student Center Complex and served as SG president in 2008, says that seeing the growth and evolution of the university since his time as a student has been exciting to watch.

“My degree has continued to be worth more and more each year because of the types of students we’re bringing in,” he said.

Brianna Hathaway, SG presidentelect and one of the program coordinators for Orientation, believes that Shalala’s approachability is what will make her a memorable president.

“I think the fact that President Shalala is extremely student-centered is what makes such a remarkable impact on new students during Orientation,” Hathaway said. “Whether it is the President’s Picnic or any other orientation event, she is always approachable and willing to interact with students.”

Ugalde attributed the university’s growth to Shalala’s “big” dreams for UM. “So it was us seeing ourselves through this kind of over-the-top vision of the world and our place in it that really prompted the university to rise to the occasion,” Ugalde said.

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So what I’ll always remember about President Shalala is how focused she was on always improving.

In excitement and in tragedy, President Shalala’s dedication to the University of Miami- and to the students- never faltered. It was an honor to have the opportunity to work with and learn from her throughout my year as president.

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could get in [to UM]. The rest of us couldn’t get in,” Shalala said.

Thomas LeBlanc, who became UM’s provost in 2005, says the numbers only tell part of the story. He stressed that Shalala’s student-centered approach helped put the university in the academic spotlight.

As provost, LeBlanc oversees all academic affairs for the university. He will serve as interim president after Shalala steps down at the end of the academic year and before Dr. Julio Frenk begins his term as UM’s sixth president Sept. 1.

LeBlanc is especially proud of the rise in the university’s graduation rate, which has increased from 63 percent to 81 percent since 2001.

“We care about the graduation rate. It’s a measure of our student success,” he said.

He says that a major reason students didn’t graduate was because they couldn’t afford it.

side from her contributions to campus life, Shalala improved the university’s academic standing.

The clearest measure of this improvement is the annual Best Colleges rankings list from U.S. News & World Report. The university jumped from No. 64 to No. 48 over Shalala’s 14 years.

In 2012, the university achieved its highest ranking ever at No. 38.

She attributes this astronomical increase to the quality of the students, faculty and “world-class scientists and clinicians” at the Miller School of Medicine.

“This made a huge difference in terms of our national reputation,” Shalala said.

U.S. News generates this numerical ranking by entering certain values into a formula that changes every year. These values include mean SAT scores, the quality of the freshman class and other measures, such as retention rates.

We have a joke that we Between 2001 and 2013, have raised standards so the mean SAT score of the inhigh that only the provost, coming freshman class rose Thomas LeBlanc, could get from 1190 to 1325. Additionally, more than 70 percent of in [to UM]. The rest of us incoming first-year students couldn’t get in. ranked in the top 10 percent - Shalala of their high school graduating class. This increased from 51 percent in 2001 when Shalala began her tenure.

According to Shalala, “We have a joke that we have the Momentum campaigns have raised standards so high that only helped generate more scholarthe provost, Thomas LeBlanc, ships to alleviate students’ debt.

UM does not provide 100 percent need-based aid, but offers meritbased aid that is not based on students’ financial situations.

LeBlanc also emphasized Shalala’s concern for students at the most intimate level: in the classroom.

Unlike LEBLANC most college presidents who may not interact directly with students, Shalala has taught her politics of health care class once a year for more than 10 years.

It was during this class when Shalala began addressing premedical students’ concerns about applying to medical school, LeBlanc said.

“She’s been down in the trenches,” he said. “She’s interacting with them and seeing what the problems are.”

Some of these problems included students not performing well on the MCAT, the standardized exam required for admission to most medical schools, as well as offering advising for students who decided they do not want to become medical doctors.

The pre-health advising office was expanded and now provides counseling in other health care-related careers.

While some students realized they did not want to become doctors, medical student Sabrina Taldone had the opposite reaction as an undergraduate at UM.

During her junior year, Taldone, now in her fourth year at the Miller School of Medicine, affirmed her inkling to pursue medicine during Shalala’s course.

A biology major, she enrolled in the class because she was interested in the nuts and bolts of maintaining a health care system, and who better to learn this from than a former secretary of health and human services?

Taldone recalls one moment when class was a little delayed because Shalala was finishing a phone call with either President Obama or former President Clinton.

“Everyone started laughing at how surreal it is to have someone who has had such an impact and takes time out of her busy schedule,” Taldone said.

Although not many college students can brag that they’ve taken a class with their college president, Taldone said the workload was rigorous.

“She was a tough professor,” Taldone said. “Everyone walked out feeling challenged. They had a good grasp on something so complex: health care politics and policy from someone who had firsthand experience.”

Taldone, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Tampa, applied to the dual degree program at Miller. This allows her to earn an MD and an MBA. Since Shalala’s class, Taldone realized that she enjoys learning about health care from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws from

politics, public health and business.

She has been accepted for a residency in internal medicine at UM and Jackson Memorial Hospital health system.

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halala’s expertise as former Secretary of Health and Human Services expanded the university’s medical school and clinical delivery services.

She said that great universities are formed in large part because of funding for research in medicine and science. Of the $3 billion raised in the Momentum campaigns, about $2 billion went toward the Miller School.

This isn’t as shocking a number when one considers that two-thirds of UM’s revenue and expenses come from the medical campus, according to UM CFO Joe Natoli. He also served as interim COO from 2013-14 for the Miller School and UHealth system.

In the 2014 fiscal year, the Miller School of Medicine was ranked No. 42 in National Institutes of Health funding. NIH funding reached more than $96 million in 2014.

Aside from these financial contributions, Natoli said that Shalala envisioned “bringing the best doctors to the community.”

“We have tripled the size of our clinical services during her

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viding the best health care to people whether they can pay or not,” Natoli said.

According to Natoli, this was thanks to the the more than 60-year partnership with Jackson Memorial Hospital. Jackson has worked in affiliation with the Miller School to teach medical students, train residents, and provide a clinical setting for research.

This partnership is one of the reasons Taldone is looking forward to continuing at UM-Jackson as a resident in internal medicine. The Miller School ranks No. 45 in the latest U.S. News and World Report Best Medical Schools list.

“That’s crucial to the educational experience at Miller,” Taldone said.

GOLDSCHMIDT She was also interested in Miami because it’s an “icon not only for Latin America but also the U.S.” UHealth also doubled in size during Shalala’s tenure, according to Dr. Pascal J. Goldschmidt, dean of the Miller School. The University of Miami Hospital was founded in 2007, and research-heavy institutes in

Shalala pointed out that “layers of administration” that were not directly involved in patient care were eliminated.

“Every single one of those employee was given a nice package, found other jobs. … It was shocking to the system but we had to do it,” she added.

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hen Shalala began at UM, she wanted to elevate the university’s fundraising outreach with alumni and the South Florida community. The two fundraising campaigns she has overseen, Momentum and Momentum2, have done that and more, accumulating more than $3 billion in donations and gifts.

Sergio Gonzalez, senior vice president for University Advancement and External Affairs, was hired in December of 2001, just a few months into Shalala’s presidency. He said that, at the time, he had never worked in such a role.

As a self-described “non-traditional candidate” for the position, Gonzalez’s career in the Miami-Dade County government fit ShaGONZALEZ lala’s vision of We have tripled the size of our intertwining the clinical services during her community and its leaders with the tenure, but integral to that is school.

The first Momentum campaign providing the best health care began with an ambitious goal of $1 to people whether they can pay billion in 2001, during Shalala’s first or not. year as president.

When that goal was reached, - UM CFO Joe Natoli Gonzalez says no university in Florida had ever reached the billion-dollar benchmark in a single campaign. Acareas such as stem cell, biotechnology and cording to him, UM was also the first nanotechnology were also added. private university in the country that was “I can tell you without the president of created in the 20th century to do so. The Shalala that would have never happened,” campaign was so successful that the goal said Goldschmidt, a renowned cardiologist was raised to $ 1.25 billion and ended at $1.4 and cardiovascular researcher who joined billion.

UM in 2006.

According to Shalala, avoiding a feelUHealth will also be making its way to ing of desperation and being patient with the Gables campus in 2016. donors gave those donors a confidence that The Lennar Foundation Medical Cen- their money would be well used. ter, which broke ground in fall 2014, will be “People like to support winners. You a 206,000-square-foot medical center offer- can’t go to them and say, ‘If you don’t give ing a closer healthcare option for residents us money we’re going to collapse,’” she of Coral Gables, Kendall and other parts of said. “We had to turn ourselves into a winsouthern Miami-Dade County. The project ner on more than just the sports fields, and is scheduled to be completed in the fall of once you have the smell of a winner, people 2016. come and want to make investments, and we Despite this immense growth, UHealth could constantly show them that making an and the medical school had some setbacks. investment made a difference in terms of our In 2012, the Miller School laid off more quality.” than 900 full-time and part-time employees, When the first campaign ended and according to local news reports. they prepared to start anew with a goal of Shalala said this was not uncommon $1.6 billion in January of 2008, Gonzalez for medical systems at the time. and others pondered what they would name “Every medical system had to slim the new campaign. When they went to Shadown during the economic downturn,” she lala, she told them to keep Momentum. said.

“There was no stopping the momentum that President Shalala’s leadership was

bringing to the university – that fast climb in the rankings and fast climb to another level of institution from a research and academic perspective,” Gonzalez said. “At that time it was the recession, and there were a lot of folks questioning, ‘Are you sure you want to enter into a $1.6 billion campaign now, given the economy is down?’ But we decided we’re going to move forward, we cannot stop because we need the resources.”

There was $250 million left to reach the goal when Shalala announced this September that she’d be retiring after the academic year ended. While the original target date for the campaign’s completion was 2016, Gonzalez said they wanted to reach their goal before Shalala left and made a final push to do so in the last few weeks.

He added that Momentum2 would end in the next couple of months due to Shalala’s departure and so that President-Elect Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of faculty at Harvard’s School of Public Health, can create his own vision for fundraising.

In total, the campaigns’ impact is astounding: 55 buildings have been renovated or constructed with the help of money from the campaigns; $308.8 million has been used for student support and scholarships; $489.3 million has been added to the university’s endowment.

According to Shalala, about $2 billion of the more than $3 billion raised went toward the medical school.

“You can get lost in big numbers but at the end of the day, whether it’s for scholarships, student support, clinical work at the medical school, or research. But when you think about it, it touches lives everyday and that’s what’s really rewarding,” Gonzalez said.

So far, Momentum 2 has received donations from over 127,000 people, and it takes a large team to accomplish that much outreach. But Shalala still uses a clear handson approach, getting involved and making herself available to donors throughout her tenure.

Gonzalez said she’s never denied a request by his department for help in soliciting a donation, and that she is usually taking the lead when it comes to building relationships with their donors.

“Our best prospects are our existing donors,” he said. “If donors see their philanthropy making a positive difference on campus, they’re more likely to give again. We owe it to them to make sure their donations are improving the school.”

The Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Alumni Center is a testament to the value put on honoring those who have made gifts to the school. According to Gonzalez, the large building with the famous statue of Sebastian acts as an “entry point” to the campus, and donors funded 95 percent of its construction costs.

Long-term prospects are also the students attending classes, and the improvement of student life comes with the hope that students might remember their time in Coral Gables fondly come the time when a student October 6 - October 9, 2010

at the Calling Center gives them a call.

Each year the Scholarship Luncheon brings the donors who are behind scholarships together with students taking advantage of the scholarships. At the end of the luncheon, Gonzalez said that Shalala makes all of the students stand up and pledge to support the university throughout their lifetime.

S. Molly Dominick and Sherman Hewitt contributed to this report.

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OPINION STAFF EDITORIAL

Contributions extend further than fundraising Before President Donna E. Shalala, the University of Miami had largely been a local commuter school whose claim to any larger fame was through its athletics program. While her predecessors set the ball rolling for change, Shalala launched both the school’s academic reputation and student experience to new heights.

Shalala’s biggest asset to UM was her fundraising capacity, and the $3 billion raised by the Momentum campaigns will forever be her biggest mark on the school’s history.

However, beyond the large-scale structural changes that have resulted from these funds, Shalala’s personal attitude and determination have left equally tangible impacts on campus.

Hailed as one of the most studentcentered presidents in the nation, Shalala’s care and attention to the undergraduate experience is palpable in our everyday lives.

Campus life is vibrant and diverse, with new student events occurring every day. Renowned speakers from all backgrounds, from President Obama to Maya Angelou, have been brought to campus as educational opportunities beyond the classroom.

The grounds are more livable, filled with gliders, student lounges and finals hammocks where students can convene and relax. Years after Shalala is gone, incoming freshmen will enjoy new, community-oriented residential colleges made possible by her initiatives.

Shalala listened to student concerns. She joined protests, proudly attended organizations’ events and cheered louder than anyone at athletic games. Shalala was a president that did not lead from above us, but rather among us.

Half a century after serving in the Peace Corps, the civically-minded academic and public servant is still comfortable getting her hands dirty in order to connect with people on the ground.

Her commitment to service served as an inspiration for her students; the increase in student civic engagement through the Butler Center is a testament to that.

While not all of Shalala’s decisions during her tenure have been popular, the long-lasting positive impact she has left on the U should outweigh perceived missteps.

Making necessary and tough choices entails sacrifices and ruff led feathers. Yet, the bigger picture Shalala has skillfully crafted is a masterpiece for the ages, even with stains on the canvas.

For these past four years, we have admired Shalala closely and are grateful for the time and effort she has invested in us. The other lives she has touched can speak for themselves.

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

VP for Student Affairs reflects on colleague’s legacy n June 4, 2001, I was privileged to join President Shalala on her first tour of the University of Miami. We were joined

by José Pepe Diaz, then president of Student Government and now Florida State representative, and Cie Chapel, then president of the Graduate Student Association and longtime PAT WHITELY GUEST staff member in Alumni Relations.

COLUMNIST On that tour, as I have shared many times, President Shalala asked me, “Where does everyone sit?” I replied that we had a few benches, but President Shalala said quickly, “Call Home Depot and put out some tables and chairs; this place needs a little ‘messing up!’”

Subsequent actions, of course, immediately led to lots of green tables and chairs, gliders, hammocks and, most significantly, a feeling communicated that day that “UM students mattered to her.”

President Shalala has been our own rock star, leading UM to becoming a nationally ranked academic institution and, in doing so, vastly and permanently improving the UM student experience. During Shalala’s tenure, students have been exposed to nationally renowned and inspiring leaders such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou, Chief Justice John Roberts, Malcolm Gladwell, George Will, Tim Russert and Tom Friedman, to name only a few. They also witnessed a presidential debate, two visits by the 14th Dalai Lama and the Clinton Global Initiative University, virtually every national presidential candidate in every election, and two visits by President Obama during an eight-

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month period. She also taught the largest section of UM students in her health policy course.

President Shalala redesigned commencement exercises to allow her to personally congratulate every graduate who crossed the stage and to insure that everyone could bring their entire extended family to the ceremony. She has insisted that activities occur on campus after dark by providing resources for late night programming and, thankfully, it was her vision and fundraising that led to the opening of the Student Activities Center in 2013, insuring the Rathskeller’s survival. Undoubtedly, the Student Activities Center will

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always be one of President Shalala’s legacies and serve UM students for many generations.

Candidly, I could add many more paragraphs about President Shalala’s accomplishments and contributions, but I want to share most importantly, that above all, and in spite of an overwhelming schedule, President Shalala always cared deeply each day for every UM student, undergraduate or graduate. She always tried to offer assistance, whether it be providing career advice, cutting through “red tape” with three-word answers in an email reply: “We will help,” or attending a multitude of student and athletic events. In fact, just last Saturday night she stopped by the Relay for Life fundraiser at 10 p.m. to support the efforts of our amazing students.

Personally, I have been honored and humbled to work closely with President Shalala for the last 14 years.

Like everyone, I will miss her as our president, but we have been blessed and fortunate to have witnessed “up close and personally” her transformational leadership, relentless spirit and energy, innovation and the many ways her daily actions inspired all of us to create a caring UM community.

Luckily, after a year in New York leading the Clinton Foundation, President Shalala will return to the faculty to teach future UM students and remain active in the Miami and UM community. In closing, I ask each of you to salute Shalala and thank her for “messing up” our campus. She has changed the student experience at the U and we will always be grateful.

Dr. Whitely has been Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Miami since 1997. She has worked closely with Dr. Shalala during her entire 14 year tenure as president.

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Inauguration marked university’s true beginning ommon knowledge would say that the University of Miami was established in 1925 – I disagree.

While a lot has happened on this campus over the dePATRICK QUINLAN cades since then, the SENIOR University of Miami COLUMNIST from which I will graduate next year was announced on Nov. 2, 2001, when newly inaugurated President Donna Shalala outlined her standards clearly and boldly.

“Excellence in the university… must be our only goal,” Shalala said in her address to the campus.

Titling her speech “Miami es el Mundo,” she declared that the university “will attract the most promising students and gifted teacher-scholars and clinicians from every corner of the globe, and the university will be a place of international citizenship.”

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The notion that our school could be globally reputable dates back to Shalala’s predecessor Tad Foote, who wanted UM to become “The Stanford of the South.” But Shalala didn’t see this ideal as an ambitious dream. Rather, academic excellency was a standard to live by.

It’s easy enough to go through a handful of the school’s notable transformations since 2001.

Freshman SAT scores are up 125 points between math and reading sections. Research grants have increased by more than $100 million a year. The school has led not one, but two separate billion-dollar “Momentum” fundraising campaigns, and total endowment has doubled.

All of these numbers elucidate a larger narrative.

In 2001, President Shalala could have taken any job she wanted, and she turned down offers at different schools, private industries and even a gig as a New York Times columnist to come to the University of Miami. This was a

Shalala will leave this campus enormously enriched, not only with funds, but also with talent and academic potential.

PATRICK QUINLAN SENIOR COLUMNIST small, unambitious school in a tropical, upstart city.

But Shalala saw the positive potential in that.

This narrative is ref lected by individual students as well. I know veritable geniuses that chose UM over Ivy

League schools because the university was willing to invest financial aid in potential leaders. I know students who never thought they had a chance to graduate from UM, but the school still took a chance on them.

Shalala will leave this campus enormously enriched, not only with funds, but also with talent and academic potential.

As Provost Thomas LeBlanc once explained to me, a university is nothing else if not a collection of its talent and intelligence.

While Shalala is often regarded as a successful fundraiser for our school, money is only a part of a wider vision, one that can be summed up best through one word – excellence.

The word Shalala chose during in inaugural speech suitably describes both her ability as a leader and her legacy at UM. Thank you, President Shalala.

Patrick Quinlan is a junior majoring in political science and international studies.

Pine rocklands issue may taint president’s reputation resident Donna Shalala’s career at the University of Miami has received largely positive reviews. Her many accomplishments over the last 14 years include impressive fundraising campaigns, new efficiency standards for university administration and even the addition of state-of-the-art facilities to the Coral AMANDA WOOD ENVIORNMENTAL Gables, Rosenstiel and medical camCOLUMNIST puses.

But the Shalala legacy also includes a glaring blemish: the management and recent sale of the pine rocklands ecosystem.

In case you missed it, in 2014 UM sold over 80 acres of protected pine rocklands to Palm Beach County developer Ram Realty Services. The land is just a fraction of the original pine rocklands, which once spanned 185,000 acres of Southeast Florida. Only 3,000 acres of the unique ecosystem remain intact outside of Everglades National Park.

The sudden sale threatens to further degrade the shrinking habitat and could tarnish the university’s reputation for sustainability. Shalala and her administration should have considered these potential impacts before selling the land.

And the price of destruction? A $22 million check from Ram. The developer plans to build a Wal-Mart, LA Fitness, apartment complex and chain restaurants in the area.

Though Ram and UM have included a 40-acre wildlife reserve in the sale negotiations, biologists are unsure this

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concession will save the many unique and endangered species that call the area home.

The costs – both literal and figurative – seem to outweigh the benefit.

The sale of the pine rocklands undermines the hard work of countless faculty, staff and students who are trying to make UM more environmentally focused. Programs like Green U, which President Shalala enacted in 2005, were meant to encourage sustainability at UM. The university also established an environmentally focused division of Student Government in 2012, known as the Energy Conservation and Organization (ECO) Agency. The ECO Agency focuses on environmental awareness and sustainable initiatives on campus.

Despite these efforts, it seems that the university chose profit over responsibility by selling the pine rocklands.

Not only does the management and sale of the pine rocklands contradict the values of on-campus environmental initiatives, but the sale also threatens the credibility of UM’s environmentally focused academic programs, like those offered by the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and RSMAS. With the pine rocklands sale, potential students may doubt the integrity of these programs.

Margot Winick, assistant vice president of University Communications, maintains that the university is “committed to the protection and preservation of our community’s natural and historic resources.”

Yet the decision to sell the area suggests the opposite.

Many opposers of the sale have admitted to feeling blindsided by the decision. Some have even accused Sha-

lala and UM of negotiating the sale behind closed doors, ignoring potential community concerns.

In response to this accusation, Winick said that the university held several public meetings and hearings before finalizing the sale, and worked with the Department of Environmental Resource Management in a “transparent, public process.”

However, the university declined to comment on the locations, times and modes of advertising of these meetings to the public.

Despite several protests, petitions and even a request for buyback funds by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez, it is unlikely that the pine rocklands will be rescued from Ram’s bulldozers.

In an interview with The Miami Herald, Ram founder Peter Cummings asserted that his newly acquired pine rocklands property is not for sale.

The future of the pine rocklands may be settled, but the full impact on the UM community is unknown. The sale illustrates a lack of consideration for both the environment and the university’s own values.

Shalala neglected the students and faculty members working to build UM’s environmental reputation, and the vague responses from her administration fail to address their concerns.

Considering this, the protest slogan “Shame On U” seems more than appropriate.

Amanda Wood is a senior majoring in ecosystem science and policy.

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MAYA ANGELOU In 2004, poet Maya Angelou visited the University of Miami to speak to graduating seniors at the first-ever graduate convocation. Angelou, author of 12 best-selling books, including “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” rode down to Miami from Winston-Salem, North Carolina to talk to students about the rainbows in life, her greatest influences and the dreaming that comes with life’s experiences.

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ANDERSON COOPER CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper, a journalist who has covered hurricanes, presidential debates and war zones, paid a visit to UM for the 2008 senior convocation. He was welcomed to the BankUnited Center by UM President Donna E. Shalala as a “storyteller of the 21st century.” He spoke to students on “A 360-Degree Look at World Events” and shared his experience as a journalist from beginnings to hardships to stories of success.

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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Arianna Huffington, chair, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, visited UM in April 2014. Huffington shared insight on her 14th book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder” as well as success tips for graduates, from nurturing your human capital to adapting to the ever-changing professional industries.

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President Barrack Obama has visited campus on several occasions, from the “Meet the Candidate” forum hosted by Univision in 2012 to a visit with the College of Engineering in February 2012 to discuss his energy policies. He then spoke to a crowd in the BankUnited Center about his administration’s plan for a more energy-efficient nation that is less dependent on foreign oil. Later in the year, Obama made another stop at UM as part of his campaign trail and hosted a rally at the BankUnited Center in October.

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LISA LING Journalist Lisa Ling delivered the fall convocation address in September 2013, when she discussed her story from her beginnings as a young journalist to becoming the executive producer and host of “Our America” on the Oprah Winfrey Network. In her talk at the BankUnited Center, titled “Open Heart, Open Mind,” Ling shared her experiences about covering stories such as the civil war in Afghanistan and sex trafficking in the U.S. She also discussed her work as a field correspondent for National Geographic’s “Explorer.”

President Shalala spent nine years serving as Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, from 1993 to 2001. President Bill Clinton has been no stranger to campus, making surprise visits during Shalala’s class on the U.S. Healthcare Crisis. Hillary, Chelsea and Bill Clinton also hosted the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) in 2015.

UM was the first school to host CGI U twice in 2010 and 2015.

The event encourages students leaders to make “Commitments to Action” in one of five focus areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. During the weekend-long event, President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton took the time to announce their hopes for Shalala’s position as the future president of the Clinton Foundation.

“It’s a very energetic group of international college students that come together to talk about, basically, making the world a better place,” Shalala told The Miami Hurricane in August 2014. “It’s a training ground for the next generation of leaders in the world.”

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, visited the university twice in 2004 and 2010. In his 2010 visit, he shared his message in “The Quest for Happiness in Challenging Times.” He spoke of the responsibility students have in creating a more peaceful and compassionate world. As armed conflict takes place in many areas around the globe, the Dalai Lama noted that the “concept of war is outdated” and said “we’re all part of humanity.”

“We are honored once again to host His Holiness the Dalai Lama on our campus,” Shalala said in a statement in 2010.

“His Holiness teaches us all an important lesson in hope, compassion and humility.”

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In 2004, UM hosted the first presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. Approximately 63 million people watched the debate on television and 250 students attended the debate and watched it live – the most students to ever watch a live debate at a college campus at that time. To enable one more person to attend, Shalala gave up her ticket to UM senior and Olympic silver medalist Lauryn Williams.

“I’m thrilled that such a large cross section of our student population was able to attend in person. This election is, after all, about their future,” Shalala said in a statement in 2004.

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Shalala inherits strong football program COURTNEY FIORINI SPORTS EDITOR MARK SINGER STAFF WRITER

Reflecting on a university president’s tenure without looking at athletics is an impossible feat, especially at a school with an athletic history like UM’s. President Donna E. Shalala stood by the university amid controversy and difficult times in the athletic department.

Men’s and women’s basketball along with football get the most media attention, so their success could mean more funding and bolster support. While the basketball programs have taken an upward turn, football has struggled during Shalala’s tenure.

In her first year as president, Shalala inherited a national championship-winning football program. The Canes won their fifth national championship shortly after her inauguration.

In 2004, the university left the Big East Conference and joined the ACC which changed the competition. In another big move, the Canes left the crumbling Orange Bowl in favor of playing at SunLife Stadium.

The stadium was in need of renovations, and when the plans to fix it up fell through, Shalala was forced to make the executive decision to relocate, leaving behind a major part of UM history. The Orange Bowl was demolished in 2008 and replaced by Marlins Park.

The football program has been shaking off the stigma from the NCAA investigation that went on for over two years when former booster and convicted felon Nevin Shapiro decided to go public about Miami’s violation of NCAA rules.

To lessen the NCAA punishment, the university self-imposed bowl bans from 2011 to 2013.

Billy Corben, director and producer of ESPN films 30 for 30 documentaries “The U” and “The U: Part 2,” does not feel that Shalala fully took responsibility for protecting students during the Shapiro scandal.

“In their shameless fundraising zeal, they first exploited the student-athletes and then, when time came for accountability, scapegoated them,” Corben said. “I think history will still be quite kind to her tenure, which began with a national championship in football and ended with a multi-million dollar real estate scheme to build a

Walmart on endangered forest land. What could be more Miami than that?”

When it was revealed that the NCAA had improperly handled the investigation, Shalala felt that the university was being bullied and stood up in defense of Miami.

“Many of the charges brought forth are based on the word of a man who made a fortune by lying,” Shalala said in a statement in 2013.

“The NCAA enforcement staff acknowledged to the university that if Nevin Shapiro, a convicted con man, said something more than once, it considered the allegation ‘corroborated’ – an argument which is both ludicrous and counter to legal practice.”

After the investigation and subsequent loss of scholarships, the football program has struggled. Fans who were frustrated with the lack of success and entire scandal were calling for head coach Al Golden to be fired.

Even with this setback, football program dies have a winning record of 116-60 since Shalala took the job.

Though football was a source of unrest in athletics, the basketball programs have both improved.

Men’s Basketball coach Jim Larrañaga took his team to the NCAA tournament in the 2012-13 season and made it as high as No. 2 in the country, giving fans something to root for after a lackluster football season. It was at this time when the news of an improper investigation came out and Shalala released her statement.

Of the field and court, Shalala has supported athletics in other ways.

In raising money for the athletic program over the years, the Schwartz Athletic Center was opened in 2013 to provide academic and personal help for athletes.

Shalala is also known for her presence at sporting events. Earlier this month, she supported the women’s tennis team against UNC. According to Athletic Director Blake James, Shalala has been the UM Athletics’ biggest supporter.

“Though her departure will be a loss, we are a better university because of her,” James said in a statement.

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NCAA scandal tests leadership style

BY MARK SINGER STAFF WRITER

On Dec. 13, 2010, Miami announced that Al Golden would be the next head coach of the football team. The 2011 preseason was a time of great enthusiasm for the program after enduring a string of disappointing seasons under coaches Larry Coker and Randy Shannon.

Eight months after the signing of the new coach and less than three weeks before Golden coached his first game for the Hurricanes, Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports shredded any trace of optimism with a scathing report outlining years of illicit behavior by Miami players, coaches and employees on the football and men’s basketball teams.

The NCAA scandal, which lasted from the summer of 2011 to the fall of 2013, will forever be linked to outgoing UM President Donna Shalala. The indelible image of Shalala grinning at a $50,000 check from booster Nevin Shapiro in a bowling alley in 2008 symbolized the university’s desire for money at the time, regardless of the source.

The trouble for Miami began in 2001 when Shapiro became a “living scholar” for donating $12,000 to the athletic program. Shapiro gained intimate access to players on the football team and showered scores of players with impermissible benefits, until he was charged with securities fraud and money laundering in 2010 for his role in a $900 million Ponzi scheme.

According to the Yahoo report released on Aug. 16, 2011, Shapiro paid for players to sleep with prostitutes, threw lavish parties on his yacht, offered bounties for big hits, gave cash to players and bought them jewelry in a nearly 10-year span.

“I became a booster in late 2001 and by early 2002, I was giving kids gifts,” Shapiro said in the Yahoo story. “From the start, I wasn’t really challenged. And once I got going, it just got bigger and bigger. I just did what I wanted and didn’t pay much mind toward the potential repercussions.”

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as ineligible for committing NCAA violations by associating with Shapiro. The university self-imposed bowl bans over the next two years while waiting for the penalty handed down by the NCAA. Shalala didn’t hesitate. She swiftly responded to the allegations made in the Yahoo report with a statement to the university community the day after the story was published, releasing four total statements in the first two weeks after the news broke.

Shalala faced such intense backlash from the University of Miami community following the report that Leonard Abess, chairman of UM’s Board of Trustees, released a “vote of confidence” statement urging the community to support the president and the rest of the school’s leadership.

For nearly two years, Shalala had to remain on the defensive as the NCAA’s investigation into Miami was ongoing. That changed in early Feb. 2013, when the NCAA revealed information gathered in its investigation had to be thrown out because it was improperly obtained.

NCAA officials paid Shapiro’s attorney, Maria Elena Perez, to depose members of the university that allegedly received improper benefits from Shapiro. That didn’t prevent the NCAA from accusing the university of “a lack of institutional control” in its Notice of Allegations sent to Miami on Feb. 19, 2013.

Shalala responded later that day with a statement of contrition and defiance. In the letter, Shalala admitted the university regretted committing any violations, but she also attacked the NCAA for its faulty investigation.

Shalala ended the letter saying, “We trust that the Committee on Infractions will provide the fairness and integrity missing during the investigative process.”

On Oct. 22, 2013, three years after launching the investigation into UM, the NCAA Committee on Infractions made its decision.

Miami was placed on probation for three years and lost nine football scholarships over three seasons as well as three basketball scholarships over three seasons.

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Center enhances athletics

BY ALEXA PAPPAS STAFF WRITER

Nestled between the Wellness Center’s outdoor basketball courts and the Hecht Athletic Center stands a modern piece of architecture that services the University of Miami’s 400-plus student-athletes.

Kicked into action by a lead donation of $5 million by Theodore and Todd Schwartz, a design team composed of Moss Construction and AECOM, and nonstop planning by President Donna Shalala, the Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence is one of the newest buildings to grace UM’s campus.

Opened on Oct. 4, 2013, the $14.7 million Schwartz Center encompasses 34,000 square feet, two floors and countless individual and team athletic titles. The first floor is home to the Paul J. DiMare Gallery of Champions, which holds awards and memorabilia earned throughout the years by UM’s talented athletes – anything from Vinny Testaverde and Gino Torretta’s Heisman trophies to the five football national championship trophies.

The second floor includes a brand-new football locker room donated by Dwayne “The Rock”

Johnson as well as a state-of-theart academic center that includes computers, study rooms and a 140-seat auditorium. An academic office and compliance office are also on the second floor.

“I like working for Schwartz because athletes have unpredictable schedules, and I feel like I’m making a difference when I meet up with them,” said Soomin Cho, a student tutor. “For student athletes who have so much to balance, the tutoring service helps them a lot and they really appreciate my help. Tutoring them also encourages me to be more productive.”

According to the Schwartz Center’s website, the facility’s main goals are “Enhanced Football Facilities, Student-Athlete Academics and Student-Athlete Wellness.”

The Schwartz Family has had a consistent relationship with UM for years – Theodore and his wife Christine Schwartz, a UM trustee, were also the lead donors in the building of the M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies.

The reasoning for the Schwartz Center’s physical placement is twofold; it not only resides near the rest of the athletic

facilities, but it is also an expansion of the Hecht Athletic Center. The expansion part includes sports medicine and sports training areas, which contain an antigravity treadmill to rehabilitate lower extremity injuries, according to its website. It is attached to the north side of the Hecht center, as the Hecht donors dedicated the area in 1979 as a “new era for Hurricane athletics.” “[We] are so lucky to have the Schwartz Athletic Center,” said Julia Koch, a senior on the track and field team. “We have amazing trainers, doctos offices, Jacuzzis, ice tubs and an underwater treadmill … the center inspires us to represent the U in both the classroom and on the field.”

Even long after the Schwartz Center closes for the day, it can be seen by passersby because of its giant green and orange “U” emanating from the back wall of the entrance through the glass front. The building’s modernity will hopefully be a beacon for continued athletic excellence in the future.

The Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence is open to the public from 8 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday.

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Professor wins book award

BY JACKIE YANG OPINION EDITOR

Viviana Díaz Balsera points out the map on the cover of her book, “La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence.” The surprisingly accurate sketch is thought to be the first map of Florida’s coastline created by European explorers.

“When you think about the types of instruments they were using,” she said, “they did a pretty good job.”

DÍAZ BALSERA Balsera, a Spanish professor at the University of Miami, and University of South Florida (USF) language professor Rachel A. May co-edited “La Florida,” a collection of essays about Florida’s history.

It was published in November 2014 to commemorate the 2013 quincentennial of Juan Ponce de León’s landfall in the peninsula.

The book received the gold medal for Florida nonfiction in the 2015 Florida Book Awards. The awards reception was presented by the Florida State University Library on April 9 in Tallahassee.

“The gold medal was a surprise, but at first it didn’t seem like that big of a deal,” Balsera said. “The event went way beyond my expectations. It was an amazing get-together, meeting all these writers. I was really impressed by their creativity and intelligence.”

This year, more than 200 books competed in the nine different categories of the book awards. Balsera and May joined good company: past winners of the Florida Book Awards include “Hoot” author Carl Hiaasen and “Harry Potter” series illustrator Mary GrandPré.

Balsera emphasizes that the honor of the award is shared among the dedicated contributors to the essay collection.

“I was the director of the orchestra,” she said. “But they were the great players.”

A series of conferences on Florida history catalyzed the creation of the essay collection. In the years leading up to the quincentennial, USF and UM both received grants to host Florida scholars from around the state to discuss the historical event.

The exchanges that occurred during those conferences pushed Balsera to make her idea a reality.

“The synergy, the willingness of the stellar figures was incredible,” she said. “Immediately after the 2012 conference, I thought, ‘This is something that has to happen.’”

Balsera and May joined forces and immediately contacted the University of Florida Press, which quickly expressed interested in the idea.

Though Balsera is an author of several works, “La Florida” is the first book she has edited. The incredibly quick turnaround between conception and publication, a period of less than two years, was caused by the interest and passion of the contributors.

“They were very interested in participating in marking this historical event,” Balsera said.

Balsera describes the book’s approach to Florida’s history as both chronological and multidisciplinary, covering topics from architecture to politics. While other works in the field tend to focus on either early Spanish Period history or the modern era, “La Florida” provides a more holistic, continuous approach.

“I’m happy that our book was one that gave testimony to the memory of the quincentennial,” Balsera said. “It’s something that needs to be remembered, for both the good and the bad.”

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Frost pianist to perform on NPR

BY ASHLEY MARTINEZ EDGE EDITOR

Practicing in a run-down hostel in a small Ukranian village, 8-year-old Dasha Bukhartseva had no other dream for her future besides playing piano.

Now, as an up-and-coming pianist, Bukhartseva, 22, a second-year master’s student at the Frost School of Music, will be featured on NPR’s “From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley,” a program dedicated to showcasing the stories of classically trained, young musicians.

“I’m so excited, I can’t breathe,” Bukhartseva said. “They’re doing such a great thing of spreading this love for music in all generations.”

NPR will host a private recording on April 29 at the Gusman Concert Hall and will include performances and stories from young, classical musicians.

Bukhartseva will appear as an alumna of the show, having previously been profiled in 2008 after participating in the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. She was also featured on the show in 2009 as part of the “Shapka Trio,” alongside Christopher Pell and Madeline Fayette to represent the Juilliard Pre-College Division.

She has performed in prestigious venues such as Merkin Hall, Paul Hall, Millenium Hotel Hall in New York City, National Opera Theatre, the Odessa Philharmonic in Ukraine and the Kremlin in Moscow.

Bukhartseva has competed in more than 40 national and international competitions. Among them, she has placed in 35 and won 30.

“When you’re on stage, you finish playing, and people are applauding and seeing that,” she said. “I mean, it’s really difficult to talk about these things, especially about response. ... It’s all about doubt. Am I doing something right? Are they going to like it?”

Bukhartseva’s journey began when she enrolled in her first piano class at 8 years old. She instantly fell in love with piano and knew this was what she wanted to do with the rest of her life.

Later, she began to compete and gain national and international recognition.

She has been referred to as a prodigy, but she does not like this label.

“When someone says prodigy, it doesn’t mean hard work, it’s just like it came upon you, and it really doesn’t,” she said. “It really takes a long time to make it work, musically and technically, and you sit and you have ideas and you try to make this world a better place with your music.”

While Bukhartseva faced her challenges practicing her music, she and her mother also had a difficult situation, at one point living in a music school because they were homeless.

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mance and skill they helped her come to the U.S. They were later joined by Mieke and Hendrik Smit, and together they refer to themselves as “Team Dasha.”

“We invited the head of the Aspen Music School to watch a DVD of her playing piano, and she was offered a full scholarship for the summer,” Dan Levinson said in an interview with NPR. That moment was life changing, according to Bukhartseva, who had never dreamed such a trip would be possible. She then performed at the Apsen Music Festival and later attended the Juilliard Pre-College Division at 16. She attended the Peabody Institute, a conservatory in Baltimore, for her undergraduate degree.

“I am probably the luckiest person in the world, and they’ve been always helping me and I get so much, I mean, it’s something so many people believe in you,” she said.

She is pursuing a degree in piano performance and pedagogy at UM under the direction of Associate Professor Tian Ying. She will attend Stony Brook University in the fall to pursue her doctorate of musical arts.

“She is incredibly talented,” Ying said. “She worked very hard. You can have the talent, but if you don’t have the discipline, nothing’s going to work your way. So she really has both, extremely diligent and determined.”

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PHOTO COURTESY HURRICANESPORTS.COM IN-STATE FACE OFF: The Hurricanes played FSU in Tallahassee last season Feb. 28 to March 2 in a threegame series. Miami will play the Seminoles at home Friday.

Canes to face Seminoles at home on Wednesday

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The Hurricanes have a long weekend ahead of them with No. 12 Seminoles in town for a three-game series at the Light.

The Canes dropped four spots in the rankings to No. 13 in the country after losing two out of three against the Cavaliers last week in Virginia. Florida State is riding a five-game wining streak into Coral Gables.

The Hurricanes need sophomore Willie Abreu to continue his recent hot streak at the plate in order to take down the rival Seminoles. Abreu led all Miami hitters over the weekend with seven hits in the series against Virginia, including a career-high tying performance with four hits in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the Cavaliers.

Just playing at home might be enough to boost the Canes ahead of the Seminoles. Miami is on a nine-game home winning streak and hasn’t lost at

The Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball Coach Jim Larrañaga announced Wednesday the hiring of Jamal Brunt as assistant coach for the Canes.

“Jamal is smart, hard-working and skilled in every aspect of college coaching,” Larrañaga said.

“He is an outstanding recruiter, communicator, teacher and great role model for our student athletes.”

He was formerly the associate head coach at the University of Richmond for the past 10 years.

He started out in 2005 as director of operations for the Spiders, was promoted to an assistant coach in

2007 and then became associate head coach in 2013.

“I am extremely excited to be joining Coach Larrañaga and his staff at the University of Miami,” Brunt said in a release. “The opportunity to learn and grow under one of the best coaches in the country and in the best college basketball conference in the country was too good to be true. I am looking forward to help[ing] continue building on the success that Coach L and his staff have already established.”

He helped lead the Spiders to six postseason appearances and five 20-win seasons. In 2015, Brunt helped Richmond earn a top-four seed in the NIT where they lost to Miami in the quarterfinals.

Brunt is a Baltimore native and became an assistant coach at his alma mater Randolph-Macon for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons before joining the Spiders.

Mark Light Field since March 25, while FSU has lost its last four games on the road.

Miami currently sits atop the ACC Coastal division at 30-11 overall and 15-6 in conference play.

With an overall record of 31-12 and 14-7 in conference play, FSU is second in the Atlantic division just behind Louisville.

The Seminoles are the eighth and final in-state team on Miami’s regular season schedule this year.

The Hurricanes are 8-4 so far against Florida schools.

Miami was slated to play Florida Atlantic on Wednesday night, but the game was postponed due to inclement weather. That matchup will take place at 6 p.m. on May 12 at the Light.

HURRICANES V. SEMINOLES WHERE: Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday The Ron Fraser statue will be dedicated and unveiled before the game at 4 p.m., followed by an autograph session with the 1985 championship team.

PHOTO COURTESY HURRICANESPORTS.COM ADDITIONAL ASSET: New assistant coach Jamal Brunt was hired by Jim Larrañaga for next season announced Wednesday. Brunt previously coached at the University of Richmond.

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SPORTS BRIEFS WOMEN’S TENNIS Miami Hurricanes women’s tennis had two players recognized by the ACC for postseason awards on Wednesday morning.

Sinead Lohan is the first player in program history to be honored as ACC Freshman of the Year and was named Second Team AllACC. Junior Stephanie Wagner received her third career All-ACC honor and was chosen as a First Team All-ACC member for the second season in a row. Lohan has a 17-2 singles record this year and 14-2 in dual matches. Wagner has consistently been ranked top 10 this season. Miami will begin postseason play Friday at the ACC Tournament in Cary, North Carolina.

MANU LECOMTE Former Miami Hurricane Manu Lecomte has committed Baylor to transfer.

He sit out the 2015-16 season as per transfer rules and will still have two years of eli-

gibility starting in the 2016-17 season. With the Canes, Lecomte averaged 7.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists this season.

TRACK AND FIELD Miami Hurricanes Director of Track and Field and Cross-Country Amy Deem announced the addition of Anna Sjoukje Runia to the 2014-15 signing class. Runia, a Netherlands native, is the eighth member of the 2014-15 signing class. She was the Dutch National Junior Champion in both the 100m and 100m hurdles, and she competed at the European Junior Championships in 2013 and the World Junior Championships in 2014. Runia will be joining sprinters Carolyn Brown, Brittny Ellis and Erin Ford, as well as hurdler Samantha Gonzalez and throwers Zakiya Rashid and Edie Svonavec in the new signing class. Sprinter Isaiah Taylor is the only men’s signee in the class.

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I’ve been talking to a guy for a few weeks. We’ve only spent time together in groups with our friends, but he asked me out on a date this weekend. We’re both very attracted to each other, so I’m scared things will immediately become physical. I want to wait long enough to make sure sex isn’t all he’s planning. How do I figure out what he wants without asking directly?

Sincerely, Tired of Hookups

Taylor Swiftinspired tips for gauging guys

Dear Tired of Hookups, It can be frustrating to not know what someone’s intentions are when you’re first getting to know them. You don’t want to send your man running for the hills by dropping the infamous “What are we?” just yet.

Let’s find a more subtle way for you to find out what he’s aiming for without ending up feeling burned.

Guys aren’t that hard to figure out. Just ask Taylor Swift – she can read them “like a magazine.” Here are some Swift-inspired guidelines to follow that will help you gauge your guy’s intentions: “White Horse:” Avoid guys who want to be your everything. A genuine guy will treat you as an equal, not as a damsel in distress who he can sweep off her feet. Smooth talkers tend to convince you they’re perfect, but in reality, they’re just as flawed as everyone else.

“Our Song:” Look for a guy who will introduce you to his friends, interests and hobbies. If he’s interested in showing you who he really is instead of keeping you at arm’s length, you’re in the clear. Guys who

only want sex won’t take the risk of letting you get to know them.

“Mine:” If your guy starts throwing around words that are heavy handed, he might be serious. “Honey,” “sweetheart” and the infamous “bae” all suggest he’s planning more than just hooking up.

“I Knew You Were Trouble:” If your best friends are telling you that the guy you’re seeing might be a bad boy, they might be right.

Odds are, you’re too excited to realize you’re opening yourself up to someone who isn’t right for you. Don’t be afraid to listen to advice, so long as you stick to your gut.

“Blank Space:” If a guy is suddenly inviting you out and going somewhere wouldn’t feel right without him, you’re both probably feeling some type of way for each other. If it’s hard to go a day without talking, listen to that intuition.

Ultimately, keep Taylor’s tips in mind when you decide if this guy is the real deal, and you’ll end up with your own unique “Love Story.”

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‘Canes Calendar

'SJEBZ "QSJM t Q N B N t 7BSJPVT -PDBUJPOT Join Hurricane Productions on the last day of classes for a daylong event filled with fun, food, giveaways, rides, musical performances, tank tops, plush bananas, comedy, trivia, and Timeflies. Be sure to check out Hurricane Productions on Facebook for a full list of all the great activities we have planned for you all day and night!

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Hurricane Productions Presents: Canes Carnival ft. Timeflies

miami.edu/calendar Start a legacy and learn more about ways you can give back by looking at www.iloveshalala.com.

Thursday, April 23 Patio Jams ft. Daily Grind Q N t 4"$ -BLFTJEF 1BUJP It’s the LAST week of Patio Jams for the year, and classes are almost over! Come celebrate by listening to Daily Grind, a soulful rock band who will be sure to keep the energy going during this last week of school. It’s your last chance to grab free merch, snacks, and coffee!

WVUM Sports ‘Cane Talk Q N t 3BUITLFMMFS Catch up on Hurricane sports news with WVUM live from the Rathskeller every Thursday from 1-2 p.m.

Finals Fiesta/Thumpin Thursday: Glow Party Q N t )FDIU 4UBOGPSE #SJEHF Join Multicultural Student Affairs and the United Black Students as we celebrate the end of the spring semester. There will be free music, food, games, and live performances from a number of student organizations. For more information, contact the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at 305-284-2855.

Friday, April 24

Senior Day #ATTHERAT

HP Canes Carnival: BBQ

Q N t 3BUITLFMMFS Catch up on Hurricane sports news with Calling all members of the Class of 2015!

Whether you’re an undergraduate, graduate, medical or law school student, this day is for you! You can purchase a custom “Class of 2015� Rathskeller pitcher for $10 (cash only), get an extended happy hour, take plenty of pictures in our the photo booth and learn how to spin live tracks with a special guest DJ.

Q N Q N t 4"$ -BLFTJEF 1BUJP Join Hurricane Productions and Daytime Programming & Special Events for a free BBQ from Shorty’s and giveaways!

Not only will you be part of the new tradition, all of your proceeds from the pitchers and 25% of anything bought at the Rathskeller during that time will be going to a very special President’s Book Scholarship Fund.

HP Canes Carnival: Patio Jams Q N Q N t 4"$ -BLFTJEF 1BUJP Join Hurricane Productions and Patio Jams for an afternoon of live music. Artists will include Mel Bryant, Liam O’Brien, Paola Marrero, and Vivid Illusion.

HP Canes Carnival: Carnival Games Q N Q N t 4"$ -BLFTJEF 1BUJP Join Hurricane Productions and the Cinematic Arts Commission (CAC) for watergun midway games and free popcorn.

HP Canes Carnival: Think Fast Trivia Q N t 3BUITLFMMFS Join Hurricane Productions and the Rathskeller Advisory Board (RAB) for a special edition trivia with one lucky team walking away with a $200 cash prize!!

HP Canes Carnival: UProv Live!

Q N t $PTGPSE $JOFNB Join Hurricane Productions and QuantUM Entertainment for a live UProv performance!

Canes Carnival ft. Timeflies Q N t 6$ 3PDL 'PPUF (SFFO Join Hurricane Productions as Canes Night Live and the Concerts Committee present Canes Carnival featuring Timeflies. Celebrate the last day of classes with carnival rides, inflatables, an old fashioned photo booth, balloon artists, airbrush tattoos, food trucks with free vouchers, smoothies, and DJ Push Play.

Timeflies concert begins at 9pm! You won’t want to miss this event.

Baseball vs. FSU Q N t .BSL -JHIU 4UBEJVN Come cheer on your ‘Canes as they take on the rival Seminoles from Florida State University. First 250 fans will receive foam baseball gloves.

CAC Presents: AMERICAN SNIPER Q N t $PTGPSE $JOFNB From director Clint Eastwood comes American Sniper starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. But there was much more to this true American hero than his skill with a rifle. U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and, as stories of his courageous exploits spread, he earns the nickname “Legend.� However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, becoming emblematic of the SEAL creed to “leave no man behind.� But upon returning home, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind. Free with your Cane Card.

Sunday, April 26 Baseball vs. FSU Q N t .BSL -JHIU 4UBEJVN

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Final Exams April 29 - May 6

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PIER 21 Presents: Study Break for Finals 2015 .POEBZ "QSJM t Q N t 'PPUF (SFFO Join PIER 21, COPE, HOPE and the Honor Council and take a break from studying! Relax with us by enjoying a free massage and grabbing a snack. Study kits will also be available for students; while supplies last.

.POEBZ "QSJM t Q N t 4"$ -BLFTJEF 1BUJP Join us on the Lakeside Patio and take a break from studying to watch Osmosis Jones and get free food! Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell, teams up with Drix, a cold pill, against Thrax, a deadly virus who plans to kill Frank (Bill Murray!) in forty-eight hours and other characters living within him.

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