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A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 22, Issue 79 www.fi usm.com Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Lack of communication ‘Be Seen Being Green Football preview of shows system fl aws College Music Tour’ the upcoming year EDITORIAL: PAGE 6 LIFE!: PAGE 7 SPORTS: PAGE 10 SPOTLIGHT ‘Worlds Ahead’ makes mark SGC-MMC SENATE AT THE BAY PAGE 4 SGC-BBC: Vice President Christin “Cici” Battle debuted a new senate what FIU means. Reform of handbook. New campaign plans to “This is actually something AT THE BAY PAGE 4 that the University has been on The 7th Annual SAGE Fundraising for at least four or five years,” reception sets to raise scholarship put University on the map said Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, governing funds for deserving international and transfer students. senior vice president of External MELISSA CACERES sity members to the Graham Relations. “We’ve been trying to OPINION PAGE 6 Staff Writer Center Ballrooms during early put something like this together, March to provide and cement a and it seemed like now was the councils After answering the question concise definition of FIU; one time for it.” of “What is FIU?” the Univer- that focuses on its diversity, Throughout the University, sity Division of External Rela- location and innovation. Now Worlds Ahead is becoming a tions continues to develop ways as the campaign takes its first part of the landscape as the delayed The 3-D craze has hit Hollywood. to expand the new long-term steps in the open, the External metal map of the world at the What happens when business col- marketing campaign, Worlds Relations team is looking into entrance of the Graham Center lides with art? PHILIPPE BUTEAU Ahead. its year-long research to decide was moved and placed above Senior Staff Writer OPINION PAGE 6 The launching of the initia- the best ways to approach the Dean examines the labyrinth of tive brought together Univer- community and the world on CAMPAIGN, page 3 After postponing the reorganization CSO and how clubs within FIU are dealt with. of the structure of governing councils for an additional week, the only form of LIFE! PAGE 7 legislation discussed by the senate of the STEPPING STONES Student Government Council at Modesto Maidique Campus was an appropriation. The April 5 meeting made three weeks that the reforming was postponed. Engi- neering senator William Jose-Velez The FIU Auto Club’s upcoming car was the one who motioned for the show is being held in the name of charity to raise money for the Miami postponement. Children’s Hospital Foundation. Velez said to Student Media after the meeting that the reason he postponed it SPORTS PAGE 10 was because the authors of the resolution Raiko Alfonso hits two home runs to help propel Golden Panthers in come- are “working on some details of the bill.” back victory of UL to win the series. One of those details was fine-tuning what oversight Student Government Associa- SPORTS PAGE 10 tion will have over governing councils. Sigma Phi Epsilon blows out Phi Sigma Kappa while Alpha Xi Delta defeats Dealing specifically with the Graduate Sigma Kappa in intramural basketball. Student Association, Velez said another detail is working out how the Graduate Student Advisory Board will work. UPCOMING EVENTS The new SGA constitution proposed UPROAR Concert, April 7, 8 p.m. Pitbull by the SGC-MMC judiciary, revised by and Kid Cudi headline the annual concert. Doors open at 7 p.m. a the U.S. Century the University-wide Council and not on Bank Arena. the ballot during general elections has LGBTQA Pride Week, April 8, Join the an article that details the new structure LGBTQA community in Day of Silence, from of governing councils. However, as it 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the GC Pit and the BBC wasn’t on the ballot, the current consti- Wolfe Center’s Panther Square. CHRIS ADAMS/THE BEACON tution still stands as the authority within Mayday! at The Vagabond, April 8, 10 Arthur Affl eck (left), Ronald Henri (center) and Shawn Daniel (right), Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity mem- SGA. p.m. Miami New Times’ best hip-hop artist winner performs at The Vagabond. bers, perform a step routine in front of the GC Pit to showcase tradition of stepping, their history and Velez said that because of this, if Entrance is $5. to educate onlookers about their fraternity. -For more events, look for our calendar in SGA, page 2 the Life! section on Mondays and Fridays. WEATHER Seminar focuses on special needs children WEDNESDAY Sunny LOW: 67 HIGH: 84 MEENA RUPANI this event. The audience ranged THURSDAY Staff Writer from attorneys to law students and Th is seminar [was] especially useful to Partly Cloudy parents with children who have LOW: 68 HIGH: 83 On March 27, the Education special needs. parents because many of them cannot FRIDAY Clinic at the College of Law held “The speakers at this event Isolated T-Storms its first major event, the “Legal [addressed] a number of issues aff ord private attorneys ... LOW: 64 HIGH: 84 Rights of Children with Special including state custody, life insur- Laverne Pinkney, Director, Education Clinic Needs Seminar,” planned by the ance, ensuring secure placement College of Law CONTACTS director of the clinic Professor for them in schools. 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One of the many lecturers to foster youth transition into “There is a set amount of social Advertising ........................ 305-348-6994 According to Professor present at the seminar was attorney adulthood. advertising@fi usm.com Pinkney, 130 people registered for Champagne Girten who currently LAW, page 3 2 The Beacon – Wednesday, April 7, 2010 NEWS www.fi usm.com Mexico/California border hit Senate funds CPR by earthquake Easter Sunday training program JULIE WATSON including someone who was hit in The U.S damage appeared to SGA, page 1 unanimously at the March 29 Associated Press the head by a sign at a carwash in be limited to California’s south- senate meeting. the California town of El Centro. eastern Imperial Valley in what the restructuring had passed, The appropriation passed Police patrolled streets Scientists measured about was one of the strongest earth- it could have been deemed was $450 for a Clinical Volun- littered with shattered glass 100 aftershocks early Monday, quakes to hit the region in decades. unconstitutional. teer program to pay for CPR Monday morning and closed off said seismologist Kate Hutton at The shaking was felt hundreds of “If we pass that bill without classes for a maximum of 20 several blocks of historic build- the California Institute of Tech- miles away in Phoenix and Las specifying that it is subject to students. ings damaged in a deadly Easter nology in Pasadena. Statistically, Vegas. the new constitution, it would According to the appropri- Sunday earthquake across the there will be one aftershock of Media outlets have been have been in contradiction to ation, which was originally border in Mexico. around 6.0 and perhaps 10 of 5.0 reporting on the possible links the [current] one,” Velez said. on the agenda for the March No injuries were reported in or larger, she said. between this earthquake and the The restructuring could theo- 22 meeting, University Health Calexico, the U.S. area hardest hit The initial earthquake downed ones that occurred in Chile and retically be passed at next week’s Services will host “the Clin- by the 7.2-magnitude quake. A 3- three power lines, a gas leak Haiti. senate meeting but there would ical Volunteer Program that will block-by-4-block area containing forced a brief evacuation of about However, Professor Gren- have to be specific wording, a give students training in CPR, prewar buildings housing busi- 30 homes, and residents were ville Draper, associate director of proviso, which states it is subject immunization shots, etc.” nesses was closed because of removed from a senior living the liberal studies program and to the new constitution.