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Vol. 27 Issue 89 fiusm.com Monday, April 25 , 2016 FIYOU candidates elected president and vice president SGC-MMC CAYLA BUSH said. “You don’t know hard work had paid off,” Student Media. “They also Editor in Chief until they call your name she said. have fiduciary oversight [email protected] if you won or not, and it’s “We have high for over $16 million in something that builds up expectations for the new student fees. We have an Student government excellent working relation starts and ends with with both groups, and I advocating for students, look forward to an active said Alian Collazo and We have high expectations for the new SGA and productive year Michelle Juarez, the officers at both MMC and BBC. They represent their ahead.” newly elected SGC-MMC fellow students to the administration, and this is an After an extended president and vice elections cycle, both important responsibility. president. Collazo and Juarez say Thursday, April 21, Larry Lunsford they’re glad it’s over. Larry Lunsford, vice Vice President “Whatever the outcome president of Student Student Affairs would have been, I Affairs, announced the would’ve been glad it was winners of the 2016- anxiety within yourself up SGA officers at both MMC just done. Because it was 2017 SGA Elections to an to that moment.” and BBC. They represent one of the longest elections anxious group of students, Juarez said she was their fellow students in the time that I’ve been faculty and staff. happy, relieved and to the administration, here,” Collazo said. “It was a lot of emotions. ecstatic for what’s to come and this is an important FIYOU was voted into It was, first of all, just a during the upcoming year. responsibility,” Lunsford office over Access FIU, a sigh of relief,” Collazo “I felt fulfilled, that our wrote in a statement to new party created under Jose Sirven and Devondra Shaw. “What we were trying CAYLA BUSH/THE BEACON to accomplish, and what I Thursday, April 21 Michelle Juarez and Alian Collazo hope the other party will are elected vice president and president of SGC- attempt to do, is to involve MMC, respectively. more student voices, more diverse voices in that inform students of the role Service fees students pay process, to make sure that of student government. in tuition, was the largest the needs of only a select “Right out of the misconception during the group of students aren’t gate, I think that it’s elections cycle Collazo and being advocated for,” important, and myself and Juarez said. Shaw said. Michelle are going to start This, they said, will be “We opened people’s meeting up with student the hardest challenge they minds. We shed light on organizations and student face in the upcoming year, and started conversations organization leadership as but it’s not stopping them. that hadn’t been started. well, to let them know and “The growing I think people woke up,” explain to them the Student community doesn’t really Sirven said. Government budget, and reflect on the budget,” During the campaigns, how it works, how it’s Juarez said. “That’s always Collazo and Juarez, allocated. For them to a challenge, but as for members of the FIYOU know exactly all the details everything else, there are political party at MMC, about it,” Collazo said. things we can change, made an emphasis The SGA budget, tackle and overcome.” on being visible and which is over $18 million Read the full story at CAYLA BUSH/THE BEACON transparent in an effort to made of the Activity and fiusm.com Hillel lecture educates students on Jewish identity ERICA SANTIAGO Ethiopian immigrants to Israel, we might encounter on the way,” faceted identity, as many students once,” she said. “Her community News Director says she spoke to students about said Neti Shkori, a sophomore also occupy various identities, is a minority in Ethiopia and a [email protected] “the origin of Ethiopian Jewry majoring in management and according to Hertzmann. minority in Israel. I think it’s the as descendants of the Queen of same for our students, and made Sheba and the Dan tribe, one of them connect to her story and Students were given an the 10 missing tribes.” understand the complexities of intersectional look into the Avera also shared her having multiple identities.” Jewish diaspora Wednesday, experiences as an Ethiopian Shkori says, “Rebecca also April 20 when Hillel at FIU Jew and how her family was set a primary example of self invited Rebecca Avera of Hillel Now I’m proud to say I’m Black, Jewish, Ethiopian persecuted. acceptance.” at Stanford to lecture students and Israeli. It confuses people and I’m happy to tell “I told the story of my mom’s “She spoke to us about how about the Ethiopian Jewish escape from Ethiopia in 1984,” them my story. she didn’t want to have anything community. she said. “She walked all the way to do with her culture growing Michal Hertzmann, one of from her village to Sudan, where up and then when she ended up the coordinators for Avera’s Rebecca Avera airplanes from Israel came to being around other Ethiopian lecture and a Jewish Agency Speaker the refugee camps and airlifted people her age she realized the Israel Fellow to Hillel at FIU, Hillel everyone to a new life in Israel beauty of her uniqueness and her says, “We wanted to expose (Operation Moses).” background,” said Shkori. the students to something they “[Her mother’s story] showed human resources and board “That’s actually one of the Avera says, “It took me time to know little about - the story of me that it’s better to focus on the member of Hillel at FIU. reasons we brought Rebecca - She embrace the different identities I the Jewish-Ethiopian community positive outcome of situations Students at the lecture also has many identities: Jewish, both in Africa and in Israel.” rather than the negative things connected with Avera’s multi- Black, Ethiopian, Israeli - all at Avera, the daughter of SEE HILLEL, PAGE 2 2 The Beacon – Monday, April 25, 2016 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD MUSLIM INITIATIVES BRIEFS Kansas State University is sued over alleged frat house rapes Two Kansas State University law that protects students against students are suing the university sexual violence and harassment. claiming it failed to investigate The suits also accuse Kansas after the women reported being State of negligence in failing raped at campus-recognized to warn and protect the women fraternity houses. against a “foreseeably dangerous In separate lawsuits filed environment” at the university, Wednesday in U.S. District Court and of falsely promoting Greek in Kansas, the women accuse the life on the Manhattan campus as university of violating Title IX, “fun and safe.” the federal gender-discrimination NICOLE MEZA/THE BEACON Aslihan Akkay, instructor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural studies, Microsoft axes production of Xbox 360 consoles speaks on the panel for the Initiative for Muslim World Studies. Microsoft will stop producing a product over a decade old are the Xbox 360, the decade-old starting to creep up on us.” The video-game console that Xbox 360 sold neck and neck cemented the company’s place in with Sony’s rival PlayStation Lecture discusses Jewish the living room. The Xbox 360, 3, and eventually outsold the the second version of the device Japanese conglomerate’s device aimed at extending the company’s in the U.S. At the peak of that Ethiopian community reach beyond personal computer generation of consoles in 2012, gaming, debuted in 2005. “Xbox consumers were using about 57 360 means a lot to everyone million Xbox 360s, compared HILLEL, PAGE 1 “The reality is that the Jewish community is very diverse - and because in Microsoft,” Xbox chief Phil with about 65 million for the have. Now I’m proud to say I’m Black, I’m black that stands out even more,” Spencer said in a blog post. “And PS3, according to a report from Jewish, Ethiopian and Israeli. It confuses she said. “My parents only ever knew while we’ve had an amazing run, Barclays, citing NPD Group data people and I’m happy to tell them my black Jews until they came to Israel in the realities of manufacturing and company reports. story. Being a minority is complex - there the 80’s and saw Jews from European, are challenges and successes and I think Oakland drawing more tech startups Arabic and Asian origin countries. Then it’s important to talk about it.” they understood the Jewish world is much The lecture also coincided with the When Uber opens its massive the city may be on its way to larger than they thought.” Jewish holiday of Passover.