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The Student Baseball: Newspaper Team struggles of Florida International against South University Alabama. 8 Vol. 17, Issue 52 WWW.BEACONNEWSPAPER.COM April 14, 2005 GRAPHIC BY LUIS NIN SPY iFIU receives grant to train future intelligence analysts By ANDONI GONZALEZ-RUA and Department of Homeland Security, were the Georgia Institute of Technol- tive will also provide many scholarships Staff Writer gave the grant to the Jack D. Gordon ogy, Clark-Atlanta University, Tennessee which will be competitively awarded to Institute for Policy and Citizenship stud- State University and Trinity College in students who apply and meet the mini- The early part of this month marked a ies at FIU’s Center for Transnational and Washington, D.C. mum standards. dramatic change in FIU’s image nation- Comparative Studies. Georgia Tech and Clark-Atlanta are Students could use the scholar- wide. According to Caryn A. Wagner, execu- participating under the same grant. ships to pursue the advanced study of On March 10, FIU received a grant tive director for the U.S. Intelligence Classes will be open to any interested languages as well as other academic from the federal government worth over Community Affairs Office in Washington, FIU student and could be compared training. $750,000 for an 18-month pilot program D.C., the program is part of a legislative to programs such as ROTC or security “We have a strong track record of to train future intelligence analysts. initiative to diversify the ranks of intel- studies – two programs already available educating students for public service in The United States Intelligence Com- ligence analysts. on campus. fields such as nursing, education, public munity, which is made up of a consortium Five schools were awarded money Initially the programs will offer only health and the military,” Rosenberg of 14 agencies that include the CIA, FBI throughout the country. The other four a certificate, but the goal is to develop said. “The Center for Academic Excel- a graduate degree. lence Program will extend this to the After the 18-month pilot program national security professions.” draws to a close, the consortium may Ralph Clem, director for the Center choose to renew the grant for over four for Transnational and Comparative years, which would award the university Studies and an international relations up to $3 million. professor, acknowledged that the classes FIU’s Provost and Vice President, proposed by the program were not very Mark B. Rosenberg stated that the uni- different from those already offered at versity has shown that it can compete the university. nationwide for federal resources. “It’s subjects and skills [are those] “We have shown we can compete such as political science, geography, sta- nationally for resources that ultimately tistical analysis and foreign languages. enhance the value we provide the The program would coordinate all these nation, the state and the community,” subjects and add others to produce he said. graduates who are competitive for jobs Rosenberg added that the new initia- in Washington, D.C,” he said. Students learn anatomy by dissecting human corpses By C. JOEL MARINO According to Gomez, the department Senior Staff Writer has been using donated bodies since the mid-1980s. FIU is one of the few univer- The two corpses lie on metal gurneys sities in the state to allow undergraduate at the end of the room, both half-cov- students to use cadavers. ered and in blue body bags. Their skin The University of Miami’s School is leathery and peeled back, revealing of Medicine supplies the dried and the dried remains of sinews, organs and preserved corpses, which are a part of a bones. One face is partially concealed. donor program approved by the Florida The other face is in plain sight, its eyes Anatomical Board. milky white, the mouth gaping wide and Florida Funeral Homes deliver the twisted slightly to the side. bodies to FIU at a cost of $1,000 each. Stored in a Health Life Sciences class- The funds for the bodies come from stu- room at the University Park campus, the dent lab fees and funds from the College bodies are probed each week by students of Arts and Sciences. of various majors who take part in ZOO “All the work is taken care of before 3731L, the human anatomy course for the specimens arrive,” Gomez said. “All the Biological Sciences Department. we have to do is perform maintenance by RELAXATION: Masseuse Dave Morena of Santi Salon is a regular in the “Yes, we do use cadavers, and stu- spraying them with preserving fluid. The Graham Center at University Park. Above, he performs a chair message on dents get to interact with them,” said students take care of that, and it helps freshman Jamie Blanco. Chair messages are $1per minute, and table mes- Ferdinand Gomez, coordinator for the prevent mold or excessive drying.” sages are $10 for ten minutes. ISIDRO PENTZKE/THE BEACON anatomy demonstration labs. “It’s a very hands-on type of class.” See ANATOMY, page 2 Dynamite role model, Pg.3 Women composers thrills audience, Pg. 5 Softball player breaks pitching records, Pg. 8 04-14-05.indd 1 4/13/05 11:52:31 AM 2 The Beacon – April 14, 2005 NEWS www.beaconnewspaper.com NEWSFLASH Morgue rumor scares students ON CAMPUS ANATOMY, from page 1 MUN team wins awards at United Nations Conference in New York Though the lab once made use of 10 to 12 FIU’s Model United Nations team returned bodies per semester, from the National Model United Nations Confer- Gomez says the classes ence in New York with awards for the 13th year now make do with only in a row. two to five bodies per An “Outstanding Delegation” first place award calendar year, because for excellence in position papers and a “Distin- requirements for biol- guished Delegation” second place award for per- ogy changed and various formance were awarded to the team. This marks specimens were no longer the fifth consecutive year the team has received an needed. “Outstanding Delegation” award. “The [human anatomy FIU’s delegation represented Estonia at the and survey of regional conference. anatomy] classes that use The UN competition is one of the oldest and the cadavers share [the most prestigious for college students, having been bodies], and they last created by the UN in the late 1940s. More than throughout the year,” said 3,500 college students from 150 universities from Gomez. the United States, Europe, Africa, South America The fact that there are and Asia participated, according to Jeanne Kates, corpses on campus – how- political science instructor and director for FIU’s ever, few – has made stu- MUN program. dents nervous. “I am particularly proud of the position papers “I’ve always heard that award because, to me, that represents a high degree there was a morgue at UP of academic achievement,” said Kates. and that they kept frozen GRAPHIC BY LUIS NIN/THE BEACON Model United Nations (INR 4926) is a three- bodies,” said junior Dan credit course offered each Spring semester by the Streiden. “I don’t know initially scared by the pros- know what to expect,” who nicknamed one of the Department of Political Science in conjunction if that’s just a rumor or pect of handling corpses. said Brenda Piantini, a subjects “Apollo.” with FIU’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public not, but if they do have “Before I got into the sophomore majoring in Though most of the Policy and Citizenship Studies. a morgue, that can’t pos- class, I knew that this was nursing. students in the class are The program is also supported by the FIU Stu- sibly be sanitary.” going to be very different However, the stu- studying science or medi- dent Government Association and the College of Gomez believes the from anything I was used dents stated that after cine related fields, Gomez Arts and Sciences dean’s office. rumors are fueled by mis- to,” said senior Adam a semester of working encourages students from understandings among Leisy, who is majoring in with the bodies, all nega- all majors to take part students and by campus biology. “I had dissected tive reactions faded, and in the course if they are gossip. cats before, but a human they became comfortable interested in enhancing “There are probably corpse was a totally new with the idea of handling their learning experience. many misconceptions ballgame.” human remains. “We are all essentially about what goes on in Though students are “I think at this point made of the same things here,” said Gomez. “This told that the class will in the semester, our class, – skin, muscle, organs, EDITORIAL BOARD isn’t like an autopsy room involve interaction with including myself, [has] bones. This class shows where the bodies are still corpses before signing become a little more us this and how we can ALEJANDRA DIAZ EDITOR IN CHIEF JOHN LOVELL MANAGING EDITOR fresh.