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Halloween A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 22, Issue 35 www.fi usm.com Friday, October 30, 2009 What to do for Halloween Is the Internet altering our on and around campus brains? PAGE 4 PAGE 6 SPOTLIGHT FOOTBALL AT THE BAY PAGE 4 Weekends with Paradise: Paradise gives you ideas to impersonate and Students SWEET put your characters to play during this Halloween! attending DREAMS AT THE BAY PAGE 4 Three University professors will be featured in the oldest and largest book fair in the nation. games can IS IT WORTH IT? OPINION PAGE 6 win prizes Craven’s masterpiece still JORGE VALENS chills, induces insomnia Asst. News Director DAVID BARRIOS Letter to the Editor: Housing stu- dents have advantages while living The University will be giving Staff Writer on campus. students who attend the next foot- ball home game an opportunity to The fi rst time I saw Wes Craven’s A Night- OPINION PAGE 6 win a scholarship. mare on Elm Street, I was 12 years old, fl ipping The University should make an through the wasteland of late night television eff ort to support theatre shows like During the game, three students Rocky Horror. will be chosen at random to win and saddened that I was not able to go trick-or- a $500 scholarship that can be treating with my friends during a dull LIFE! PAGE 9 applied toward college expenses. Halloween. Aside from that, four students Then I stumbled onto an older- will also be selected to win a one- looking movie with an eerie, dream- month parking upgrade, allowing like tone, with a young woman running through winners to park in a faculty/staff a dark, seedy boiler room. We’re not sure what space anywhere on campus. she’s running from but she’s Moment of Clarity: Horrorcore art- On Oct. 31, the Golden Panthers running and we care. We hear the ists aim to combine horror movie aesthetics, rap music. will be facing the Louisiana- clanging of four sharpened razors Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns at FIU attached to the hand of a large, frightening SPORTS PAGE 12 Stadium. fi gure. He attacks her, of course to decimate her. The contest will be held for each Then she awakens. The dream is over. of the two remaining home games Tina Grey (Amanda Wyss) is OK. Then being held on Nov. 14 and Dec. 5. she looks upon her nightgown to fi nd four Students can attend the game slash marks on it. The dream is over but the legend for free with a valid Panther ID. of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was born. Volleyball faces tough three games Friends and family accompanying Tina, frightened by her dream asks her friends in three-day stretch with Louisiana students can purchase an end zone Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and Glen (Johnny road trip. ticket for $15. Depp of Miramar, Fla. in his feature fi lm debut) Those interested in purchasing UPCOMING EVENTS tickets can call 305-FIU-GAME or WORTH IT, page 8 visit www.fiusports.com. House of Jigsaw Halloween Weekend, Oct. 30, 10:00 p.m. For $15, you can join in on this party for the latest Saw movie. Event will be held at Mansion, 1235 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. CNN anchor lectures WANNA PLAY A GAME? Captain Morgan’s Fantasyfest Parade, Oct. 31, 7:00 p.m. Enjoy watching 50 home- made fl oats plus Marquardt as the grand marshall for free at Duval Street in Key West. about originality Attack! Attack!, Nov. 1, 6:00 p.m. For $14.99, catch this metalcore band at the FRANCISCO MARADIAGA when educated males would leave Culture Room on 3045 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale. Staff Writer the village. Girls were typically taken out of school early on to help Soledad O’Brien stressed how in domestic jobs. To help change the WEATHER thinking differently can solve prob- tide, students were all fed at school FRIDAY lems in the community and beyond and offered food to take home Partly Cloudy during a lecture at the University. for their family. This incentive LOW: 76 HIGH: 87 “Thinking differently can have was the different kind of thinking SATURDAY massive, massive societal implica- that allowed girls to be educated, Partly Cloudy addressing the brain-drain, and LOW: 75 HIGH: 85 tions,” O’Brien said. The CNN special correspondent helping feed the populace. SUNDAY Isolated T-Storms spoke to a near-capacity crowd of “Almost over night all these kids LOW: 75 HIGH: 86 around 300 students and faculty became providers,” O’Brien said. members in the Green Library audi- “They were able to fl ip the value of torium on Oct. 28. the kids in society.” CONTACTS O’Brien told stories from Another example came by a Editor in Chief .................... 305-348-1580 Harvard professor featured in chris.necuze@fi usm.com her experience as a reporter and while working on documenta- “Black in America,” that wants MMC Offi ce ........................ 305-348-2709 BURKE HILL/THE BEACON news@fi usm.com ries like “Black in America,” and to pay kids to learn. The plan is BBC Offi ce .......................... 305-919-4722 the recently-released “Latino in to close the gap between minority GET SCARED: Freshman AJ Mayungbe (left), graduate Joel Calafell bbc@fi usm.com America,” to illustrate her point on graduation rates and those of (center) and sophomore Keanna Angquico (lying down) scare visitors Tips & Corrections .............. 305-348-2709 thinking differently. Caucasians. Some kids have found inside the kitchen at the FIJI House during FIJI’s Haunted House Oct. 28. tips@fi usm.com Proceeds raised at the event benefi ted the American Red Cross. Advertising ........................ 305-348-6994 In one example, African villages advertising@fi usm.com were experiencing a brain-drain O’BRIEN, page 3 2 The Beacon – Friday, October 30, 2009 NEWS www.fi usm.com NEWS FLASH FIU BOG appoints two new FIU trustees The Florida Board of Governors appointed Michael M. Adler and Joseph L. Caruncho, two long time FIU supporters, to sit on the University’s Board of Trustees. Adler, chairman and chief executive offi cer of Adler Group, Inc., and Caruncho, CEO of Preferred Care Part- ners, will serve fi ve-year terms on the board beginning January 6, 2010. According to the University, Adler and Caruncho will be fi lling the seats occupied by Betsy Atkins and David Parker, whose terms are set to expire on the same day. PHOTOS BY ALEX GARCIA/THE BEACON LOCAL ON THE RUNWAY: Ladies of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority put together a fashion show on Oct. 26. The show’s Sex offender arrested after release from hospital theme was “Exotique” and the funds generated will go to carbon monoxide poisoning awareness and research. A man suspected of child molestation that was assaulted by the victim’s father was booked on Oct. 28. According to The Miami Herald, Luke Petruschke Sorority organizes fashion show spent a week in a medically induced coma at Memorial Regional Hospital and was released to authorities and booths around the ballroom promoting arrested on the scene. Event raises funds for carbon their products and work. Police say two men, Krish Carter and Manuel Vega Paul Mitchell donated its stylists beat Petruschke with a cinder block after Vega learned for the event to prepare the models for that Petruschke fondled his son. The two men face monoxide poisoning awareness the catwalk. attempted murder charges. Sigma Kappa Sister Lizmarie Rodriguez, a junior nursing major, They explained that the money from LAEBONY LIVINGSTON auditioned to model along with the NATIONAL the event would go to raise aware- Staff Writer rest of her sorority. She modeled in ness on carbon monoxide poisoning the Peace Love World, Casual, Busi- Traffi c delays plague city after Bay Bridge closure and give scholarships to high school The ladies of Phi Sigma Sigma ness Casual and Edgy scenes. as well as undergraduate college sorority presented their eighth annual During the fashion show there San Francisco’s Bay Bridge has been closed indefi - students. fashion show titled “Exotique” to were two intermissions that gave the nitely after 5,000 pounds of the bridge’s infrastructure Graduate student Travis Stokes has raise awareness for carbon monoxide guests a chance to partake on the food rained down on drivers on Oct. 27. been a part of the fashion show for the poisoning. provided as well as look around the The span of the Bay Bridge affected had been under past fi ve years. The event, held on Oct. 26, began sponsor tables. repair since Labor Day. He was good friends with Janelle in 2001, but since 2004, it has been During the fi rst intermission guests According to CNN, the closure of the bridge has Bertot, and said he modeled in the dedicated to a fallen sister, Janelle were treated to a performance by the caused extensive delays for residents commuting to and fashion show “for the cause.” Bertot who died of carbon monoxide Miami Sunset High School “Golden from San Francisco and Oakland.