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WWeekendeekend A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 22, Issue 37 www.fi usm.com Friday, April 15, 2011 JAPAN IVORY COAST ROMANIA Japan determined to reopen schools Generals pledge loyalty to president Romanian teens rampantly intolerant All along Japan’s battered eastern coast, schools have been heav- Five generals pledged their loyalty to President Alassane Ouat- Teenagers in Romania are widely intolerant of Gypsies, gays and ily damaged or converted to shelters, and families are without tara on Tuesday following the capture of the country’s strongman people with AIDS, according to a new poll that called the results jobs, permanent homes or cars. leader after a four-month standoff. “extremely worrisome.” Center faces dire JIMINY CRICKET renovation needs ELIZABETH BRUNA PINEDA Modesto Maidique campus, I’d BBC Photo Editor have to say that they are insig- nifi cant,” said Jose Cobian, a Ceiling tiles are falling and civil engineering senior. the air conditioning system “They (renovations) are the doesn’t work properly. fi rst I’ve seen in the past three Students have to stand in labs years that I’ve been here.” because of a lack of chairs. The building itself wasn’t The elevator is too slow and built by the school, but purchased the bathrooms are in dire need of from a medical company, and renovations. FIU’s Engineering when that occurred the place Center has its share of student was completely bare. It is complaints. located about two miles from “I was really embarrassed main campus, yet with traffi c when the MIT recruiter for the it takes about 15 to 20 minutes summer program came over and to go back and forth (without the classroom that I obtained parking time). for her had duct tape,” said There is a CATS shuttle bus that is free for students, Janet Reyes, Student Govern- SANA ULLAH/THE BEACON ment Association senator for and thanks to the last SGA Senior Salman Hussein, studying fi nance, and freshman Saad Munaf, who is majoring in accounting, play the College of Engineering engineering senator, William- cricket in front of Gold Garage to release stress before fi nals. and Computing and a senior Jose Velez, the schedule has mechanical engineering major. improved. However, in its peak “The sides were held up hours the shuttle gets so packed by duct tape, the chairs were that students have to stand up horrendous, there weren’t during the ride. Athletics fee increase considered enough of them and they were In the long list of student all mismatched.” complaints, the lack of campus JORGE VALENS most of whom were from the Student Beesting, associate dean for undergrad- Although renovations have life and events particularly Editor in Chief Government Association and the Black uate education. been done in the past year or bothers students. Campus Life Student Union, were how this fee The University currently ranks fourth so, students say that some of the didn’t know until this past With tuition increases on the horizon, increase would affect students dealing in the state in terms of Athletic fees conditions have been so bad for year that the center is a part of students gathered in the Graham Center’s with a rising tuition costs and access to according to a 2010 report of system- so long that there still is much to Modesto Maidique campus. Ballrooms to discuss a fi ve percent Athletic facilities like the FIU Stadium wide fees conducted by the Univer- do. Reyes says that in her two increase of a fee that provides Athletics and the US Century Bank Arena. sity analyzing fees based on a 15 credit “I think that the recent reno- years at the school, she has with over 70 percent of its funding, Currently, students pay $14.51 per hours. vations are great and rather never seen SGA representatives, about $16.2 million. credit hour with an additional $10 fee Florida Atlantic University comes in helpful, but compared to every- Some of the topics on the minds of that is added per student, according to a thing that has been done in ENGINEERING, page 2 the roughly 25 students in attendance, committee report read by the chair, Bill ATHLETICS, page 2 HEAT OF THE MOMENT Student attains exclusive fellowship NICOLAS SARAVIA through Professor Hilarion of undergraduate education have underscored the fact that Staff Writer Martinez. The program seeks and diplomat in residence, is a large percentage of FIU to attract outstanding young looking to create a center to undergraduates are “highly Making up to $90,000 people from diverse back- provide coaching for students, desirable but either fail to for a master’s degree and grounds to careers in the like Garcia, interested in apply, or cannot produce two internships in the United Foreign Service and as a having a career in the world winning applications, States Foreign Service, Latino FIU student, Professor of international affairs. essays and polished oral Senior Raphael Garcia is the Martinez thought I would be “I am determined to use interviews.” fi rst FIU student selected for perfect for the program,” said my experience with global “Improving this situation is the competitive Charles B. Garcia. opportunities to convince crucial not just for our under- Rangel International Affairs The Rangel Graduate FIU students that, just as we graduate students. Raising Graduate Fellowship. Fellowship is character- can win the Little Caesar FIU’s competitiveness in After submitting his appli- ized by its competitiveness, Pizza Bowl, we can coach these prestigious awards will cation, Garcia was selected because of the opportunity to our academic athlete students bring broader national recog- as one of the 40 fi nalists. work in one of the country’s to win nationally competi- nition for FIU’s academic The program fl ew him to the most exclusive careers. tive awards that pay for our excellence in undergraduate nation’s capital to be inter- “It was a very competitive students’ graduate education, education. Award-winning viewed by a panel involved process but the entire Rangel provide global internships, students enhance their own with Foreign Service. After staff made us feel right at and launch global careers,” professional possibilities as that consultation, Garcia was home,” said Garcia. said Martinez. well as the future economic accepted as one of the 20 Aside from attending “Professor Martinez has viability of our community,” fi nalists—making FIU one graduate school this summer, done a tremendous job of said Martinez. of fi fteen national universities Garcia will work as an intern trying to ‘Pantherize’ the “In creating and nurturing ALEXIA ESCALANTE/THE BEACON with a Rangel Fellow. at the House Foreign Rela- US Department of State and a system to assist worthy Noah Maas, a junior seeking a BFA in sculpture, is in the “I’m extremely honored tions Committee and next other federal agencies,” said students to win these national process of casting aluminum pieces for a class taught by to have been chosen as a 2011 summer at a US embassy Garcia. awards, we can play a vital Professor Ralph Buckley from the art department. Rangel Graduate Fellow. I abroad. Martinez highlights that role and ensures that FIU found out about the program Martinez, associate dean directors of national programs remains Worlds Ahead.” 2 The Beacon – Friday, April 15, 2011 NEWS www.fi usm.com Engineering Center classrooms not likely to be fi xed soon ENGINEERING, page 1 the state is then distributed to facili- hold for now. Jacomino says that this ties management who later manages year the focus will be on classrooms apart from the engineering senators, at it, depending on the requests by each at the Charles E. Perry building in the The state some of the classrooms are the Engineering Center. school,” Paz said. main campus. “Everything is completely different However, academic spaces that are “The remaining classrooms at the in is very discouraging and I honestly from the main campus. It’s almost like not considered general-purpose class- Engineering Center are not in bad the Engineering Center is its forgotten rooms become the responsibilities of shape. Some have overhead projectors feel that if it wasn’t for their love of en- step-child,” Reyes said. “We get the each college. and the furniture is not in poor condi- gineering, a lot more students would be bone out of the big huge turkey.” The amount of money that each tion…The classrooms in Charles E. When she was president of the college gets from the university Perry need a lot more help,” Jacomino dropping out. Society of Engineers, Reyes pushed depends on the base budget of the said. “We are hoping to continue the Jose Cobian, Senior for an initiative to put feminine prod- previous year. renovations next year.” Civil Engineering ucts in the bathrooms because there’s According to Paz, these base Yet student opinions differ. no place to purchase them at the center.

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