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Vol. 27 Issue 34 fiusm.com Thursday, October 29, 2015 PANTHER PRESERVATION University brings cancer awareness ending a month’s worth of YURIELLE MENARD events. Staff Writer In addition, the [email protected] Residence Hall Association, Housing and Cleophina Raymond Residential Life and the said she walks for her Women’s Center hosted Sunday school teacher the second annual Roar who was diagnosed for the Cure 5k Run on with breast cancer and Oct. 14 at the University’s survived. Nature Preserve. “She was one of the Raymond represented lucky ones who was able her teacher and the Black to obtain such a terrible Student Union at the 5k disease and persevere Run. This was her first through it,” said Raymond, time participating in the a senior biology major. event. On Oct. 31, Phi Beta More than 100 students NICOLE MEZA/THE BEACON Sigma will host Night participated, which Under the Blue Moon at included about 15 different Sophomore finance major Gabriel Garcia and freshman marketing major Zara Biggs participate in Volunteer Everything Entertainment, student organizations and Day at the Nature Preserve at Modesto Maidique Campus on Monday, Oct. 26. a costume party to collect departments, according proceeds for donation to breast cancer awareness, SEE CANCER, PAGE 2 3D printers FICuba a possibility if available at island is more democratic PHILIPPE BUTEAU controversial,” said Jorge Duany, Havana, hosts one of the nation’s Urban Studios Staff Writer director of the University’s Cuban leading centers for Cuban studies, SUDYEN NAVARRETE [email protected] Research Institute. and academic work on the island Staff Writer The interest, however, is there. has long been an attractive [email protected] When the Obama administration Some 375 American students prospect. removed Cuba from the list of state were in Cuba during the 2010-11 Its ultimate goal is to build New MakerBots 3D printers were installed at the sponsors of terrorism, that was the school year when President Barack a campus there, although FIU College of Architecture + The Arts Urban Studios to green light for FIU to consider how Obama eased travel restrictions to President Mark Rosenberg told the bring computer-made designs made by students and it could have a “presence” on the allow academic work. During 2012- Miami Chamber of Commerce in professors to life. island. 13, there were 1,633, according October 2015 that a Cuban branch The Urban Studios Innovation Lab was launched What that presence would be, the Institute of International is “a long way off.” Tuesday, Sept. 29, bringing with it Makerbot 3D however, is yet to be determined, Education. For now, the school is focusing Printers for students. according to Francisco Mora, Obama further loosened the on technical fields, such as Brian Schriner, dean of CARTA, said that they director of the Latin American and rules earlier in 2015, allowing computer science, business are the first arts college in the country to work with Caribbean Center. more expansive work, and several administration and architecture, MakerBot, the 3D printing company. The University is waiting for universities have begun formal disciplines less likely to trigger The significance of the innovation lab that has Cuba to be a “more democratic research and teaching partnerships politically charged questions of brought 3D printers to Urban Studios lies around state that respects human rights” with their Cuban counterparts. free speech and academic freedom. global innovation for future CARTA students, said before the idea turns into a full- The new rules let authorized The U.S. embargo on Cuba and Schriner. fledged plan, said Mora during an U.S. companies set up stores, ban on U.S. leisure tourism to the “This new creative space can prepare students interview on The Claw & Growl, warehouses and offices in Cuba island remain in place and can be for tomorrow by exploring the arts, design and an FIU Student Radio talk show. without prior U.S. approval; permit changed only by Congress. technology,” said Schriner. “Our students are highly “It’s a slow process,” Mora said. U.S. telecom companies to partner The U.S. still cannot trade with skilled and are fully prepared with the technical and “But we will begin engaging with with Cuba’s state phone company; Cuba nor can it offer lines of credit creative skills that are needed to be competitive in the the island.” and let authorized U.S. travelers set to its government, businesses or 21st century’s global, creative economy.” He said through possible study up bank accounts in Cuba, among people. “I believe it’s a great opportunity for architecture abroad and research trips to Cuba many other changes announced on Yet the administration is easing students, we sometimes forget that there is a whole the University will be “engaging Sept. 19. rules “to empower the Cuban technology wave going on,” said graduate architecture the island.” The rules build on Obama’s people,” senior officials said to student, Sharit Ben-Ahser. “Three years ago, it was Mora said University President announcement on Dec. 17 that reporters during conference call on harder for students because we had cut cardboards and Mark Rosenberg, who established Washington aims to engage with Sept. 19. glued things together.” LACC 35 years when he was an Cuba, not isolate it – reversing “There is only so much Obama With this new innovation, students will struggle assistant professor, proposed the more than 50 years of Cold War can do to chip away at the less on their designs. idea of FIU being on the island policies against the communist-led embargo,” said Mora, the former Amanda Guyah, a graduate architecture student somehow in the future. island. The administration since deputy secretary of defense for the that works for Urban Studios, learned to use the 3D But amid the sensitive politics then has eased U.S. travel and trade Western Hemisphere. printers and constantly checks on them to make sure of the U.S-Cuba breakthrough and rules with the island, taking Cuba they’re running properly. the gulf between the countries over off the list of state sponsors of Additional reporting from the She said it has helped her in her design projects. questions of academic freedom, terrorism and restored diplomatic Tribune News Service. American colleges and universities relations with Cuba, among other SEE CARTA PAGE 2 must tread carefully. changes. “Anything with Cuba can be FIU, less than 250 miles from 2 The Beacon – Thursday, October 29, 2015 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD CARTA Urban Studios BRIEFS provides 3D printers Budget deal previews more tests for retirees CARTA, PAGE 1 cultural and community engagement and the executive director of Miami Beach “I began using the printers at the main A two-year budget deal in House and departing House Urban Studios. campus, and it’s pretty easy after getting the nation’s capital foreshadows Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, CARTA’s Urban Studios applied for used to them,” said Guyah. the uncertain future for retirees would raise federal government a grant from the John S. and James L. In order for the printers to build a as lawmakers face choosing spending by $80 billion over the Knight Foundation. After receiving the specific design, it must contain plastic -- between benefits promised to the next two years. It would offset grant, it made it possible to purchase the which slowly melts inside the machine. elderly and a shortfall in funding. some of that spending with tweaks printers and prepare the innovation lab. “It’s called PLA filament,” said If approved by Congress, the deal to Social Security, Medicare and Makerbot employees were present to Guyah. “The printer reads it and melts it hammered out between the White the Affordable Care Act. help train professors on how to use the to create a model. We use a 3D software printers. program to design the model and we send According to Thompson, faculty were Carson now leads in one nationwide poll it to the printer.” taught on the basics of the printers, Through this innovative technology, Donald Trump is no longer The October 21-25 survey found changing filaments and timing process -- students have been able to present their the undisputed Republican front- 26 percent of Republican primary such as waiting for plastic strings to melt models to professors and interested runner anymore. As Republicans voters were backing the retired and to change or install another one. clients. head to Colorado for their neurosurgeon, while Trump had The innovation lab had a positive “Professors invite people from the Wednesday debate, Ben Carson’s 22 percent. The new survey is the response and was launched with a grand community, mostly firms, and we present ahead nationwide, says a new first major poll to show Carson opening. to them our models,” said Guyah. CBS News/New York Times poll.