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Democrats feel the TRAIL OF THE TORCH Bern, ready for Hillary PHILIPPE BUTEAU Sanders’ College for All spending over time Staff Writer Act would provide $47 billion on higher education, [email protected] per year to states to eliminate while slowing tuition undergraduate tuition and increase. While Hillary Clinton fees at public colleges and However, the plan and Bernie Sanders dominate universities. does not require states Democratic polls, they also “For me personally that’s to set a limit. dominate the minds of the the most pressing issue,” Giovanni Fillichio, University’s Democratic said Flores, a junior political a senior in political students. science major. “I have loans science and pre-law, The candidates’ popularity and I don’t know how long it’s supports Clinton showcases how far to the going to take to pay off.” because he believes left wing of politics young In 2015, total tuition she embodies a more Democrats are willing to go at public higher education moderate Democratic to address the country’s most institutions amounts to about candidate compared to critical issues. An example $70 billion per year, according Sanders. of an issue that is relevant to to a summary of the legislation “Being a super students is whether higher available on the Sanders’ liberal person myself, Megan Tait/The Beacon education should be less senate webpage. I am able to recognize expensive or free. Under the College for All the importance of a Dance Marathon Group performs line dance at Trail of the Torch event, which ended at the Alejandro Flores, president Act, the federal government moderate for the future,” Housing Quad, on Thursday, Oct. 15. Other performances included Yardij. of College Democrats at FIU, would cover 67 percent of this Fillichio said. “Hillary’s believes Sanders represents cost, while the states would be views are exemplary of students better than other responsible for the remaining a moderate yet powerful maternity leave. These are two checks, repealing a ban on “Our best resource is candidates because of his plan 33 percent. Democratic candidate.” ideas she shares with Sanders. assault weapons, allowing people,” Valdes said. “Young to make college tuition free. “Sanders doesn’t see “It is also our nation’s time However, Feijoo disagrees people to carry concealed people have hope, but no From the 1993 to 2015, education as a for-profit to elect a female president with one of the Vermont weapons across state lines opportunity.” the debt accrued by college system,” Flores said during a in order to benefit women in senator’s main campaign and preventing the U.S. from Jennifer Mosquera, a senior graduates rose from about watch party for the Democratic our nation [after] the constant points and his history with gun entering the United Nations majoring in political science $13,000 to more than $35,000, debates his group held in the attacks at reproductive rights control. Arms Trade Treaty. and philosophy, lamented the according to data from Graham Center’s Faculty Club. by the Republicans,” Fillichio “I don’t think there should The young Democrats at chances her choice of party Edvisors.com, which is a site “It is not a system where money said. be free college for everyone,” the debate watch party stroked nominee has for a victory. dedicated to helping young is the end goal, education itself Stephany Feijoo, a senior Feijoo said. “Bernie is too on their chins while listening “I want Bernie to win,” said people and their parents figure is.” in economics, knew who she the right when it comes to gun to Martin O’Malley, either Mosquera, who also works out how to pay for college. Under Clinton’s education would vote for since the last control; I disagree with his laughing or jeering for Lincoln for the campaign of Annette At FIU, 48 percent of plan, about $175 billion in presidential election in 2012. stance on being able to sue gun Chafee and Jim Webb. Taddeo, a U.S. Congressional students who received a grants would go to states that “I’ve rooted for Hillary manufacturers.” Florida Senator Dwight candidate. “But I think it’s very bachelor’s degree in 2013-2014 guarantee students would not since 2008,” said Feijoo, a Since 1993, Sanders has Bullard, who also attended difficult for him to win. Unless graduated with debt, according have to take out loans to cover campus leader for the Hillary voted 25 times on gun control the watch party, said to there’s a very unappealing to 2015-2016 Work Plan. The tuition at four-year public for America Campaign. legislation and voted nay Student Media he believes the option [on the other side] than average amount of debt was colleges and universities. In Feijoo supports Clinton 8 times. The laws he voted Democrats have laid out more I don’t think there’s a chance approximately $18,000. exchange, states would have because of her plan to improve against include imposing definitive plans on how to for him.” to end budget cuts to increase Obamacare and institute paid waiting periods, background solve the pressing problems in Mosquera said one of the country. the biggest issues facing “Senator Sanders’ talk of the country is how political IT CAN WAIT free college tuition definitely campaigns are financed, a appeals to a lot of folks,” problem she said Sanders is said Bullard, who represents trying to change. District 39, all of Hendry “You need a super [political county, and huge chunks action committee] to win and of Collier and Miami-Dade I think that’s wrong. It’s really counties. “He alluded to good that Bernie wants to using Wall Street speculation challenge that frame of mind. economics so we wouldn’t He wants to work for people need to raise taxes.” not corporations.” Alina Valdes, Congressional John Cervera, senior in candidate for Florida’s 25th political science and a member district, acknowledged the of the College Democrats at candidates would need help FIU, prefers that his party has from members of Congress. only five candidates to choose, “I don’t think that the from compared to the 15 president that will do that,” Republicans who are running Valdes said of free college for president. tuition and the other ideas He said he likes both front the presidential candidates runners on the Democratic presented. “It will have to be side but the one that speaks to the Congress.” him me is Sanders. “No matter who is elected “He cares,” Cervera said. president they cannot do “He feels authentic. And anything without the Congress I don’t like that Hillary’s to back them.” husband was president Valdes said the country before.” needs good pieces of legislation Cervera said he feels that Camila Fernandez/The Beacon from Congress, such as ones to Bernie speaks to issues that get “money out of politics,” young people care about. Taylor Williams, a senior international business major, tries out AT&T’s Texting While Driving Simulator as part of their provide for universal health “Like being able to It Can Wait campaign Thursday, Oct. 15 at the Graham Center Pit. care and to get young people graduate,” Mosquera said. out of debt. 2 The Beacon – Monday, October 19, 2015 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD University pushes for BRIEFS language diversity CEYLIN ARIAS “Speakers will come include prizes such as files another suit in fight against bogus reviews Contributing Writer and talk about the reasons t-shirts donated by Global Amazon.com has stepped going after reviewers soliciting [email protected] and benefits of learning a Learning, water bottles and up its battle against suspected business on Fiverr, an online new language, which we coffee mugs. bogus reviewers, filing a marketplace for freelancers. The Not only do employers hope will attract students There will also be prizes second lawsuit this year against site, a hot startup that raised $30 look for internship in wanting to learn a available for students who unnamed individuals who offer million from investors last year, experience, leadership language other than ones speak the most languages $5 to submit upbeat product pairs workers with work that roles and volunteer they’re already familiar and for students who speak evaluations on the site. This initially cost $5 a job, though positions, but they are also with,” said Hammill. rare languages. Examples time, Seattle-based Amazon is prices of jobs now vary. interested in a person’s There will be various include Swahili, Hindi, knowledge of languages. speakers at the event, Greek, Romanian, Dargwa To encourage language possibly including Avar and Russian. Iraq claims to have taken key oil facility, again diversity, the Modesto A. University president Mark University cultural Maidique Campus will B. Rosenberg. clubs will also participate Iraqi security forces claimed Islamic State forces to end a long host its first Language Career Services staff at the event, including the Thursday to have taken control struggle for the town.The Iraqi Day on Tuesday, Nov. 20 members will also be Chinese Club, the Korean of most of the nearly completely government has claimed multiple from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The present at the event in GL Club, the Spanish Club destroyed oil refinery in the times before to have secured event will take place in the 220, who will be available and the Italian Club. They strategic central Iraqi city of the facility, so the substance or Green Library Breezeway, to speak with students will serve food from the Baiji, as a mix of army and durability of the gains cannot be the first floor of GL and in throughout the event. country they represent. For militias continued to battle established. GL 220. Career Services hopes to example, the Chinese club All students, faculty, help students understand will provide egg rolls. US delivers weapons to Kurdish, Arab forces in Syria staff and alumni are why they should study a Language Day will also welcome to attend. new language and how focus on FIU libraries’ In a major boost for forces started dropping the arms in Language Day they can fit it into their new resource: Mango fighting Islamic State extremists Rojava early this morning,” said encourages the FIU curriculum, according to Languages. in Syria but likely to stir Polat Can, a commander for the community to learn Hammill. Mango Languages is an controversy with NATO ally Kurdish YPG militia that, with different languages, said For entertainment, online program designed to Turkey, the United States began the help of U.S. bombing, has Sarah Hammill, a research activities such as a help students learn practical airdropping pallets of weapons pushed the Islamic State from as librarian at the main language trivia will take conversation skills in and ammunition to its Syrian much as 6,800 square miles of campus who has partnered place in the TV lounge on different languages. To use Kurdish militia and allied Arab northern Syria. with FIU Global Learning the first floor of GL. The the database for free, users forces in northern Syria. “They this year to host the event. game will be open at 11:30 must create an account During the event, a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 using their FIU email and TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE there will be a “Language p.m. password. Reunion,” which invites The game will consist Through the program, students to meet with other of 15-minute to 20-minute users can earn digital people who speak the same sessions per language, badges as proof of their CLASSIFIEDS languages as them. If they and will include questions achievement when they are from the same country, from categories such as complete a chapter. They they can also share dialects. sports and food. A possible can later post their badges NOW HIRING MODELS This reunion will take question could be: “Which of achievement to social place at the GL Breezeway. of the following dish media platforms, such as Expo Elite Models The time it will take place originated in Japan?” Facebook and Now hiring for boat show, auto show and trade shows. is still tentative, according Incentives for playing to the event’s website. the language trivia game SEE DIVERSITY, PAGE 7 GREAT PAY. FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT 954-242-9896.

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Essentially, to pass and take effect, the [email protected] in the world is necessary for stereotyped. What is lost is a student’s progression new grading scale would civilizations to move along, replaced by warped images After years of students with their studies is solely be A, A-, B+, B, B-, C, The National others are uneducated and and outdated practices. frustration with FIU’s contingent upon successful D and F. Schools such as Organization for Women disrespectful. Albuquerque, N.M., grading scale, The Faculty completion of their Florida State University, at FIU will be hosting When we think Anadarko, Okla., Senate has voted to prerequisite courses. University of South an event celebrating “native,” we think of the Portland, Ore., St. Paul, consider the motion of A C-minus Florida and University Indigenous women on Oct. first Thanksgiving. We Minn., and Olympia, eliminating the notorious automatically requires a Of Central Florida accept 22 at the Graham Center. think of baseball teams Wash. have replaced C- minus from the grading student to retake a course, the C- as a passing grade, Audrey “Drey” Aradanas, with caricatured mascots. this past Columbus Day scale once the faculty therefore putting their whereas The University of President of NOW at FIU, We think of the song with Indigenous Peoples receives more data from progression at a standstill. New Florida has adopted a described the event as “a “What Makes the Red Man Day. Many other cities the Division of Academic This can potentially pose a flat grading scale of A, B, forum for all students to Red?” from Disney’s Peter are following in their Affairs. stressful and disheartening C, D and F. attend for us to understand Pan. Society sees images footsteps. A C- minus holds situation for a student. If the change in and learn about the of of buffalo hunts, tepees, Indigenous Peoples a score between 70-72 A grading scale has the grading scale is experiences of Indigenous face paint and wild horses Day is more respectful of percent and represents a a tremendous affect on considered, hopefully women.” - a disillusioned history the native peoples than 1.6 grade point average on a student’s academic significant changes will be She said these women without much more context immortalizing in a holiday the University’s percentage experience. Although made toward continuing “face violence [and] than the invasion of the a man who accidentally grading scale. grade point averages and to better enhance the racism” among other Americas and the Trail of stumbled upon a region In addition, the C- minus academic maps are put at academic experiences of issues that “rise out of Tears. and systematically tore is deemed a non-passing risk, a student’s finances our students. both sex and ethnicity.” Many seem to forget apart its civilizations. grade. are also at stake. Not only will graduation Aradanas explains that Wilma Mankiller, the first Aradanas is extremely This requires students Grade point averages and retention rates sex and ethnicity are not female Cherokee chief, enthusiastic about who earn a C- minus have the potential to increase, but the stress mutually exclusive in who was elected in a introducing Indigenous to repeat their course not only jeopardize many students face could terms of oppression as they democratic fashion in 1987 Peoples Day and agrees or courses. Retaking a eligibility for merit based be alleviated. This will “overlap and intersect to and 1991 and later awarded “we should be honoring course not only strains a scholarships and grants, make students feel more create an identity,” thus the Medal of Freedom indigenous peoples” student financially, but but strip financial awards empowered and eager to influencing how societies by former President Bill instead of Columbus. also impedes their progress from a student. This can learn. treats minority groups such Clinton. NOW at FIU is aiming toward graduation. make it very difficult for as Indigenous women. The symbolic and to educate and empower Many, if not all majors financial assistance to be Violence has been powerful eagle feathers with the upcoming have specific prerequisite reinstated. a huge problem in the are often forgotten Indigenous Women event. female indigenous and appropriated by Hopefully, this event will community. According to non-Natives. In terms of educate those who attend NO SHOW, NO VOTE US Government statistics, representation, spiritual so that they are encouraged Native American women practices and folklore of to learn about the history of are 2.5 times more likely hundreds of tribes are the indigenous people and to be raped or sexually homogenized and stripped make a more equal world assaulted compared to of their unique attributes. with them in the present. other American women. This information is not Education is the first Native peoples – beyond brought up in mainstream step toward equality and Sacagawea – do not receive American education as support for the Indigenous the representation and much as it should. women and the Native recognition they deserve. Americans miss out community as a whole. If not ignored, they are on a lot of information met with an ignorant form when Indigenous

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Walk the Moon’s lead singer Nicolas Petricca.

COLUMNIST The Fillmore At around 9 p.m. the stage was a brilliant light show. During Miami Beach at darkly lit, soft red hues dissipating “,” different colors Jackie Gleason in the mysterious smoke that lit up the stage, flashes of red, Theater was had begun to float onto the stage. orange and purple illuminating lead pulsating with Suddenly, “Circle of Life” erupted singer, Nicholas Petricca. During energetic beats through the venue, the crowd slower songs such as “Avalanche” and dancing feet screaming as Walk The Moon and “Aquaman,” gentler, white and NADINE last Tuesday, Oct. walked out onto the stage. blue lights faded out and into one RODRIGUEZ 13. Ohio indie The energy that suddenly another. pop band Walk exploded in the cramped space What could have been the the Moon took over the venue for was undeniable and only became best part of the show was the the night, guaranteeing a great time. stronger as the first few notes of utterly professional sound quality. Surprisingly, this was the first “Jenny” were played. Although the bass could be felt in time Walk The Moon played in Other popular songs were your ribcage and the guitar in the Miami in their young career. As a played, both from the newest soles of your feet, no instrument thank you to their South Florida “Talking is Hard” and older overpowered the other, resulting fans for the feat, the band provided , such as “Different Colors” in clear sound that was easy to jam a special edition poster for sale, a and radio-hit “Shut Up and Dance.” out to. picture of Ocean Drive serving as Besides a fantastic entry and This was especially important Nadine Rodriguez/The Beacon the backdrop. lively set, Walk The Moon had when Petricca hit his well-known Walk the Moon’s guitarist Eli Maiman. EMPANADA, PLEASE Spielberg talks college, movies CAMILA FERNANDEZ space available was in the most distant News Director parking lot,” Spielberg said. [email protected] He said he felt lonely as an out-of- state student at first, but he later realized “My imagination has always been that college is about forming bonds with my best friend, especially when I was people. younger making all those early movies,” Spielberg has shifted from directing said three-time Academy Award non-fictional movies to fiction-based winning director Steven Spielberg at a dramas. “Bridge of Spies” is a historical conference call for college press. dramatic thriller about James Donovan, Spielberg created short films as a played by Tom Hanks. Donovan is California State University graduate, a lawyer from Brooklyn, New York which led to producing and directing City, who was sent by the CIA to East major motion pictures such as “E.T., the Germany during the Cold War. Extra-Terrestrial” and “Jaws”. His most Donovan was asked to defend recent film, “Bridge of Spies,” which Rudolf Abel. Abel is a Soviet stars two-time Academy Award winner intelligence officer, who was convicted

Megan Tait/The Beacon Tom Hanks, was released Friday, Oct. by the FBI for illegal espionage in 1957. 16. He was later sent to East Germany Students attend the grand opening of the Argentinian style restaurant Half Moon Empanadas, “I remember I was late for my very to exchange between Abel and two which offers desk-side delivery and catering, located in PG-6 on Oct. 14. first class [at California State] on my very first day because the only parking SEE SPIELBERG, PAGE 5 fiusm.com LIFE! The Beacon – Monday, October 19, 2015 5 Spielberg talks ‘Bridge of Spies’ SPIELBERG, PAGE 4 Committee for State Security, was the disbelief, and part of that suspension main security agency for the Soviet of disbelief means canceling what captured Americans, Gary Powers Union. you know about what really happened and Frederic Pryor. Spielberg said “Bridge of Spies” in the world to allow yourself to “Science fiction is still something is relevant to today’s news context, imagine -- Could a third World War I love, and it is still something I especially in reference to Russian result if Donovan’s negotiations are periodically return to, but when I President Vladimir Putin. He said not successful in retrieving Gary became a dad for the first time, life that a lot has happened in the past Powers?” took a very, sort of serious turn,” years that remind people of the Cold “That’s just the magic of audiences Spielberg said. War, such as Russia’s annexation of and how we couldn’t make movies, “When I started having kids, it Crimea in Ukraine. and I couldn’t be a storyteller, unless made me look [into their future] and “[The] Cold War is something I had audiences willing to allow me then that forced me to look back we’re being reminded of by Vladimir to tell these stories and to accept these because I have always loved history.” Putin and the strained relations we’ve stories.” Spielberg excelled in history experienced the last seven or eight Spielberg also said that an and biography in school because years, maybe even over a decade,” he audience has to trust a film’s actors “people can’t go far unless they know said. and that people trust Tom Hanks where they have collectively been.” Putin became a KGB intelligence because of his versatility and honesty However, he said it’s easier to direct officer in East Germany after as an actor. Hanks has also worked for fiction stories and that history limits graduating from Leningrad State Spielberg in “Saving Private Ryan,” his imagination. University in 1975. Putin said the “The Terminal” and “Catch Me If You Spielberg also said that he is collapse of the Soviet Union was “the Can” with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. interested in movies that focus on greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of “[Hanks and I] worked together interesting characters rather than a the 20th century, according to the almost like we’re sharing a brain,” film’s concept. He said people care British Broadcasting Corporation. Spielberg said. “When Tom knows about human beings like Rudolf “We can go back in time if we’re a character, he becomes that person. Abel and James Donovan because interested enough, to see what might I’ve been blessed to work with actors they make stories believable and have led to Vladimir Putin because that can completely drop who they are successful. he did grow up in the Cold War. He or who we think they are and become “Dinosaurs, aliens landing in was influenced by all of the leaders in totally different people.” Wyoming, sharks haunting the waters Communist Russia in those days.” He said the most difficult scene of Amity Island. Those were big, According to Spielberg, the in “Bridge of Spies” was when the broad movie concepts, but none of movie is about spycraft, the art exchange takes place on the Glienicke those films would have succeeded of conversation and negotiation. Bridge. There was a lot of pressure to without the characters that populated Spielberg says that countries continue make it the best scene in the film, he them.” to spy on each other just like they did said.

Spielberg said he had never 50’s and 60’s. The difference is that “Not just because it was so Romina Angelelli/The Beacon heard of Donovan or Abel until Matt today, countries spy on each other cold, and we were all freezing, but Charman, a British screenwriter and through cyber hacking and drones. because there was a lot of weight on Humans of FIU is a photography project that aims to expose the the writer of the film, spoke to him However, Spielberg said that when all of us to make that the best scene variety of personalities and stories of students, faculty and staff of about the two men. people get involved with a movie and in the movie… Whenever I’m faced the University. “I knew about Gary Powers, its characters, they forget the historical with a scene, it must pay off. It must but I knew nothing about the spy context. To Spielberg, this means that culminate in the drama of everyone’s Christian Ilarraza Colon, International Relations junior swap or about what was happening movies cast a spell that can cloud what stories, especially on one location, during this almost-secret history of really happened in the world to allow which happened to be symbolically, “I’m worried about whether I’ll get a job after this (college). There’s the KGB versus the CIA in those people to use their imagination. a bridge.” so many of us (IR majors). There’s like 30 people with my same days.” The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy “If they get involved enough in the credentials. So who’s to say I’ll get the job over them. It’s hard.” Bezopasnosti, which translates to characters in the story, they suspend a Contact Us Alejandro Aguirre Sports Director [email protected] SPORTS The Beacon – 6 fiusm.com Monday, October 19, 2015 BASKETBALL FIGHT FOR IT Age and change, Dwayne Wade’s 2015-2016 season GIANCARLO NAVAS most in the NBA behind All that said, Wade Staff Writer Russell Westbrook at his advanced age and giancarlo.navas@fiusm. (unleashed Westbrook, I creaky knees was still com might add). putting up a league average For those who don’t true shooting percentage. At 33 years old with know USG percentage is What is important to note decomposing knees and a number which calculates about his TS percentage hamstrings that seem to how much a certain player being at 54 is that few have pull every other month was used in an offenses ever had such a high USG Dwyane Wade is still, which takes into account percent and have posted somehow putting up how often a posses- such a high TS percent. numbers comparable to sion ends in that player In NBA history only other stars in the league. committing a turnover or three players have posted With his 13th year in the attempting a field goal or a TS percent over 54 and NBA looming, the question free-throw ect. have USG percent over 34 once again arises, can he So, at 32 years old that are also over 30 years keep doing it? Wade was being used at old -- Kobe Bryant, Allen A big area of the Miami the second highest rate Iverson and Wade. Heat’s offense in the 2015- in the league. With Bosh Now, given those 2016 NBA season will back, Hassan Whiteside numbers let me explain the be attacking the rim and fully integrated into the relationship of TS percent getting off the ball cuts for offense and Dragic doing and USG percent. The idea looks near it. With point the ball handling, Wade’s is that the more a player guard Goran Dragic doing USG percentage will likely shoots the less efficient he much of the ball handling plummet, which isn’t a bad is. this season it will give thing. Imagine, if a player is Megan Tait/The Beacon Wade room to operate in Enter true shooting leading a team and has to similar positions as he did percent, or the field goal take 20 shots a game how Steffi Reischmann fights for the ball during the game against Louisiana Tech in the Big 3 days. percentage that accounts many of those shots are on Sunday, Oct. 11 at the FIU Soccer Stadium. contested looks that they might not need to take if they had more help on offense. Not to mention the fatigue and tax on the Wade is shooting a higher field goal body being such a featured percentage at the rim then Timofey Pavlovich part of the offense has on a Mozgov, Nikola Vucevic, Brook Lopez and Enes player through the course Kanter, all centers in the NBA of a game. Now with Bosh, Dragic and Whiteside that offen- sive load will be lifted off Wade allowing him to take better shots and become an even more efficient player. What should the Heat Last season Wade shot for the value of 3 pointers expect from a Wade that 69 percent from 0-3 feet and free throws, and is a is once another year from the rim. That ranks better indicator of a play- older? It is difficult to say, #2 for guards in the NBA er’s efficiency on offense. despite all the data avail- behind his backcourt For example, James able, as things change partner Dragic (70 percent). Harden shot 44 percent very quickly with age in To put it into context, Wade from the field last season basketball. Those legs is shooting a higher field and that is an inefficient that shot 69 percent at the goal percentage at the rim number. However, that 44 rim last season will be a then Timofey Pavlovich percent doesn’t take into little slower and the guys Mozgov, Nikola Vučević, account the difficulty of defending the rim get a Brook Lopez and Enes three pointers (which he little faster. Kanter, all centers in the was attempting 6.9 per You can even see in NBA. game last season) or how the preseason how Wade’s A lot has changed many free throws he took left side turn around fade- since Wade put up those (10.2 good for first in the away has been failing numbers near the rim last NBA). him. He shot that shot at year. Chris Bosh will be In reality James Harden a 68 percent clip. Let that a full time player again is scoring more points number sink in. The sepa- and he will provide much than most of the league ration he would get from needed space for Wade and needing fewer shots the quick turnaround is a in the paint helping his than his competition bit slower and those young finishing numbers. Not because of the lopsided defenders come at him just only does the spacing get number of free-throws a little bit faster. better with the re-addition and 3 pointers he makes. Thankfully for Wade of Bosh into the lineup, He had a TS percentage though, he will be playing but so does the Wade shot of 60 last season; Wade with people to maximize selection. had 54 percent, despite his skill set of playing near Wade led the injury Wade shooting nearly 50 the rim and shooting open riddled Heat in the 2014- percentage from the field mid range jumpers. He 2015 NBA season, and overall, he makes fewer might just prolong father posted a usage percentage 3’s and free-throws than time another year. of 34.7 which was second Harden. 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NICHOLAS OLIVERA “Roary is the spirit of this Panther Power is working in According to Ramirez, Panther students are more proud of their Staff Writer university,” said Rogihanne Avin, junction with FIU Athletics. Power is dedicated to getting mascots than we are of Roary, [email protected] a senior majoring in English The athletics department will students more involved with which is a shame,” said Aisha A cat may have nine lives but education and the president of be providing the committee with the University’s homecoming Akter, a junior pre-med student. Roary’s got 28. Panther Power. “I get excited two shuttles to transport students activities. “Some students sound like they The FIU mascot will be when I see Roary because he’s from the Biscayne Bay Campus “Our organization wants were forced to come to this celebrating his 28 birthday at there to bring up the spirits of to the Modesto Maidique Campus students to feel proud about school, but I wanted to come to BBC. the students and that’s something for the homecoming game. It going to FIU. Roary’s birthday FIU.” The event is promoted as we need to recognize with this will also take students back to is a celebration of our mascot The committee emphasized an “extravaganza” by Panther celebration.” BBC after the game has ended. as well as a celebration of the the need for students to Power, the official committee More than 400 students The first shuttle will depart FIU community,” he said. “This participate in the event’s for promoting athletics at BBC. attended last year’s celebration, from BBC at 1:30 p.m. for the isn’t high school, where you festivities, specifically the talent Roary’s birthday will feature a but the committee wants to FIU parade, which will begin were possibly forced to go to a exhibition and the dessert- talent show open to students of the exceed that amount. at 3 p.m. and the second shuttle specific school. You chose your making competition. University, as well as a dessert- “Every year it gets bigger and will depart at 3:15 p.m. for the university. You should take pride Roary’s Birthday making contest sponsored by the it’s really our outreach to the homecoming game, which starts in that choice.” Extravaganza will be held Chaplin School of Hospitality students,” said Oscar Ramirez, at 6 p.m. Panther Power thinks that at BBC’s Panther Square on and Tourism Management. senior education major and The service will be free for an event like Roary’s birthday Thursday, October 22 from 11 Panther Power has expressed treasurer of Panther Power. “It’s Panthers. should bring out the proud FIU a.m. to 2 p.m. their desire for Roary’s birthday also our way of encouraging Further information about students of this university, which to mean more to students than students to come out for the the shuttle service will be made some students believe there simply an excuse to stand in line homecoming game that same available at Roary’s birthday should be more of. for free food. weekend.” celebration. “I feel other University University pushes Panther Caribbean for global languages Fest to represent on your mobile device. It includes audio, typing, DIVERSITY, PAGE 2 dictation and I think it’s fun,” Hammill said. students at BBC “Unlike other programs, such as Rosetta Stone, KAITLYN ALEXANDER-TITUS and Twitter, with the hashtag “fiumangolingo.” this database is free for all too.” ContributingWriter Biscayne Bay and SPC BBC have Badges can also be posted on Linkedin The database can be found through the Mango [email protected] to offer for this event. accounts and resumes by emailing hammills@fiu. Languages app, which can be downloaded for free “It [Bayfest] was a very edu. in app stores for iPhones and Androids. It can also good experience...our group According to Hammill, these formal or be found through the library’s website. In 2014, FIU’s International Karma got to perform and we “professional” badges look good on resumes Hammill said the Mango Languages program Student and Scholar Services got all the insight and backstage to potential employers interested in someone is made available free to the FIU community records shows that 7.3 percent out access and it was just an overall bilingual. The badges serve as an indicator on when the University applied for a technology fee of 3,483 registered international fun experience.” said Melissa how well someone knows a particular language grant. Money for the grant came from the tuition students at FIU come from the Horenstein, senior, chemistry and how successful they have learned it. technology fee, which is $5.25 for undergraduate Caribbean. major. “The language-learning app allows you to students and $18.99 for graduates. With those numbers stemming “The Caribbean events hosted choose from over 60 languages and can serve to To RSVP for the event, students must register from just one region, FIU tries by the University have been supplement what is being learned in a classroom,” at libguides.fiu.edu/fiulanguage; however, to cater events towards the an enjoyable experience,” said Hammill said. walk-ins are welcome. Caribbean population. Kimone Murray, President of the If students choose to learn Spanish, for example, “Overall, language day will promote the FIU made its first moves Caribbean Students Association they can skip through different categories to learn benefits of learning a second, third, fourth or fifth towards engaging Caribbean on the MMC and a senior studying about “Text Talk.” “Text Talk” teaches users how language,” said Hammill. “Hopefully this creates students in 2014 with public administration. However, to ask someone a question through text messaging a collegiality among students, staff, faculty Homecoming’s Reggae Fest he believes that the University in the language. and alumni who wish to share their culture and featuring Kes. Earlier this year, can do more. “If you’re going on a trip, you can also use it language.” FIU SPC BBC’s Bayfest also “We [Caribbean people] do featured Kes as well as August get a little bit of representation, Alsina, Trick Daddy, and Carimi. which I appreciate a lot, but I Now, the Homecoming feel like at BBC they probably Council and SPC BBC are at it get more representation,” said again. They have joined forces to Murray. “For example, they could bring “Panther Caribbean Fest” to do a lot more at MMC, when they the Homecoming week lineup of have the homecoming concert events. interpret some type of Caribbean Homecoming week will run [artist].” from Friday, Oct. 16 to Saturday, This year’s special guest is soca Oct. 24, kicked off by the annual artist Ricardo Drue, who is known event “Kickoff by the Bay” at the in the Caribbean community for Biscayne Bay campus. his hit song “Vagabond.” “Panther Caribbean Fest” will “My expectations of ‘[Panther] take place at the North Campus Caribbean Fest’ are to have a on Tuesday, Oct. 20th from 4-8 pretty solid representation of p.m. at the Lawns by the Bay. the Caribbean community and This event will provide the FIU also show, what our heritage community with a night of live and culture has to offer to this Caribbean music, DJs, kayaking country.” stated Jonathan de on the bay, Caribbean art and Lavelanet, senior studying cuisine. recreational sports management. 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