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MHMC- Commercial Template Doc Size 11.25” X 14” Image Area 10.375 x 11.75 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 1 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY T.J. EISENSTEIN // HURRICANE STAFF February 11 - 13, 2008 THE MIAMI HURRICANE NEWS 1 MHMC- Commercial Template Doc Size 11.25” X 14” Image Area 10.375 x 11.75 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 2 pagetwo information you need what’s going on? newsbriefs FEB TODAY Feeling overwhelmed? Today is the Study shows time spent at the beach may increase risk of illness 11 kick-off of Anxiety 101, a new weekly event designed to teach skills to cope A beach study reports that the more conducted studies at Fort Lauderdale Beach, vironmental engineering at the University of with anxiety and stress. The group time a beachgoer spends in the water or Hollywood Beach and Hobie Beach during a Miami, is conducting further research related is free and will take place from 4 to wet sand, the higher their risk is of acquir- two-year period. to Bonilla’s fi ndings. 5:30 p.m. at the UM Counseling Center ing gastrointestinal illness, said Jay M. “When one considers how many people Solo-Gabriele and her research team (building 21-R). Call 305-284-5511 to Fleisher, associate professor in the College of use this beach in the course of a year, we are in the process of learning about the rela- enroll. Osteopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern can end up with a substantial public health tionship between water quality and human University. problem,” Bonilla said. health effects. Susannah Heschel, daughter of Beach sand may become contaminated Bonilla’s fi ndings suggest that water “We started our study in December Dartmouth professor of Judaic Studies by gull droppings and other sources of is an important factor in the transmission and hope to fi nish up by June,” she said. “By Joshua Heschel, will present “Moral fecal-derived organisms that then diffuse of pathogens, or disease-causing bacteria, then, we’ll have some better ideas as to the Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity – Celebrating the Centennial of Abraham into wet sand and water, said Tonya Bonilla, but to confi rm it, “a more comprehensive results.” Joshua Heschel.” This event will begin a doctoral student in the University of Florida and targeted epidemiological approach is at 8 p.m. at the Miller Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department needed,” she said. –Chelsea Kate Isaacs Merrick Building. Light refreshments of Infectious Diseases and Pathology. Bonilla Helena Solo-Gabriele, professor of en- will be served. FEB TUESDAY The Abess Center for Ecosystem Sci- University wants millions for hospital construction, renovations 12 ence and Policy will present a seminar titled “Energy Choices, Energy The University of Miami wants up to renovate facilities on its 67-acre medical Futures,” featuring guest speaker Rich $385 million in bonds to support its hospital campus, the South Florida Business Journal Sears from Shell Oil. This event is free and medical campus. reported. and open to the public and will take According to a county memo, UM would The bonds, which would be issued in place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Shojaee use the tax-exempt revenue bonds from the April, will have no fi scal impact on Miami- Hall in the School of Communication. Miami-Dade Educational Facilities Authority Dade County because the university plans to to fi nance or refi nance the cost of its acquisi- take care of the liability through its revenue. Come watch “Charlie Bartlett,” a witty tion and renovation of Cedars Medical Center. Miami-Dade’s Budget and Finance Com- comedy about a wealthy teen strug- The university acquired the property for mittee will hear the motion on Feb. 12. The gling to fi t in at his new public high $260 million in November and merged it into full board of county commissioners may then school, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Cosford Cinema. its University of Miami Hospital. The bonds hear it on March 4. would also be used to construct, renovate University of Miami Hospital and equip the hospital, and to construct and –Chelsea Kate Isaacs FEB WEDNESDAY Hang out at Spoken Word Wednesday, featuring Sonni Paterson & Random 13 Wright, from 8 p.m. to midnight at CLARIFICATION the Rat. The graphic on page 3 of the Feb. 7 issue should have said that the data was from June 30, 2007. Catch a mid-week movie tonight. “Aladdin” will be showing at 8 p.m. and at 10 p.m. in Cosford Cinema. ETC. 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Bougainvillea’s by Sunset Place: 3 a.m. on Miami city commissioners voted 4-0 to Friday and Saturday cut off alcohol sales in downtown Coconut Grove at 3 a.m., as opposed to the current “Of course the new cutoff is going to cutoff time of 5 a.m. affect us,” said Mike Pemberton, a bouncer Commissioner Marc Sarnoff told his at a bar that UM students frequent. He asked fellow commissioners that the new cutoff that the bar not be named. “To make a long time was to change the cultural landscape of story short, it’s going to kill the Grove.” the Grove. He also cited increased incidents Even venues that close before three are of crime during this time, The Miami Herald confused about the reasoning behind the reported. change. Sarnoff said the Grove should no lon- “What wealthy people go out at 3 a.m.?” ger serve as a late-night retreat for the college CHELSEA MATIASH // Hurricane Staff said Manny Hernandaz, a waiter at TuTu students who fill up its bars and restaurants. SCREWDRIVER: The Miami city commission will consider a measure on Tango’s. “If they drive the UM students out Thursday that would make last call two hours earlier in Coconut Grove.