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Vol. 27 Issue 76 fiusm.com Thursday, March 24 , 2016 FIU N.O.W. to host Annual Slut Walk ERICA SANTIAGO it’s asked ‘What was she personally, ‘slut’ means event meaning those gender studies who is also students, faculty and staff, News Director wearing? What was he someone who practices outside of the FIU a member of NOW. “But don’t know how to address [email protected] wearing? What were they their own sexuality.” community can also I’ll think ‘why aren’t you sexual assault,” she said. doing?,’” she said. “The A forum will take place participate. This year’s here?’ Are you shy?” Student can get FIU’s National [blame] is always placed after the Walk and will event is expected to attract There will also a be a involved by reaching out Organization for Women’s upon the victim and not on around 300 participants. police presence following to NOW or by showing fourth annual Miami Slut the perpetrator and that’s “The first year that the walk as it makes its up on the day of the Slut Walk will take place April something we want to NOW hosted the Slut way around the perimeter Walk. 8 starting at 3 p.m. in front change.” For me personally, Walk, there were 100 of the school before According to Aradanas of the GC Lawns. This tendency to blame ‘slut’ means to 150 participants, the culminating in front of the and Milfort, NOW hopes According to Drey the victim is a product second year there were Parkview dorms. the event will raise someone who Aradanas, president of of rape culture and the around 200 and the third “We want the police awareness about rape NOW, the Slut Walk is a annual Slut Walk is meant practices their own year there saw 250. So to see the Walk. We want culture, encourage the national movement and is to combat this culture sexuality. there’s been a steady them to be educated community to rethink in reference to a Canadian through education as increase.” she said. “This because often victims will the word ‘slut’ and the police officer’s statement well a reclamation of the Drey Aradanas year we’re predicting report [sexual assault] and way women express their on sexual assault. word “slut,” according to President around 300 people to they’ll feel discouraged sexuality. “In 2011, a police Aradanas. National Organization for Women participate.” because the police are “Some people are officer said in order for “Some people want to “Some bystanders unsupportive or say empowered naked women to stop being take back the word ‘slut’ will show support and the wrong thing,” said and some people are victimized they should and some people don’t, shout things like ‘I’m so Aradanas. empowered with more stop dressing like ‘sluts,’ and that’s subjective. proud of you! I’m so glad “I don’t want to say that clothes on. It should be said Aradanas. It’s up to what that serve as the educational you’re doing this!’” Said administration doesn’t okay, no matter what,” “Often times when particular person wants,” component to the event. Rayna Milfort, a junior care, because they do. But said Milford. sexual assault occurs, said Aradanas. “For me The Walk is a public majoring in women and a lot of people, including Lawmakers against STAR STRUCK deportation intervention JAMES ROSEN The Supreme Court on “All amicus briefs McClatchy Washington April 18 will hear the case should carry the same Bureau brought by Texas arguing weight, and beginning TNS Staff that Obama’s bid to shield this pattern may signal to from deportation about 5.2 the Supreme Court that million immigrants who Congress is prioritizing Three Republican are in the U.S. illegally certain cases over Cuban-American imposes unaffordable others,” the two Miami lawmakers from Florida health care, education, Republicans said. usually oppose President law enforcement and Curbelo, a first-term Barack Obama’s other costs on them. Republican from Kendall, immigration policies, but Texas has been joined by went further. He accused they’re now among just Florida, North Carolina, Republicans of playing five GOP lawmakers who South Carolina, Georgia, politics with the important opposed unprecedented Mississippi, Kansas, Idaho issue of immigration. House of Representatives and 18 other states. “For too long, both CHARLOTTE ALBA/THE BEACON involvement in a key Ryan, the Wisconsin parties have preferred to Actress Eva Longoria discusses climate change at the “Young Hispanic Voters: U.S. Supreme Court case Republican who replaced score petty political points Climate Change and Economic Opportunity” hosted by NextGen Climate and challenging Obama’s Ohio Republican John using the immigration Latino Victory Project. deportation decisions. Boehner as speaker last issue rather than passing Last week, the House October, acknowledged meaningful reform to overwhelmingly approved that House intervention in secure the border, reform allowing Speaker Paul a case before the Supreme our visa system and find Ryan to file a friend-of- Court was virtually a fair solution for the the-court brief opposing unprecedented, but he said undocumented,” Curbelo Universities address Obama’s decision to it was necessary to prevent said. withhold deportation what he called executive “The surest and most for more than 5 million overreach by Obama. constitutionally solvent immigrants who are in the controversal namesakes Ryan and other way to end the president’s U.S. illegally. Republicans said Obama’s executive overreach KATY MURPHY South Florida a student campaign is taking aim at executive orders dating is to pass meaningful San Jose Mercury News Republicans accounted Father Junipero Serra. The 18th-century to 2014 amount to the immigration reform, not TNS Staff for three of the five Spanish missionary’s name is ubiquitous president legislating by employing empty Republicans voting At universities across the country, on campus, but his detractors, backed immigration restructuring tactics that ignore the root no: Reps. Ileana Ros- centuries-old names that adorn buildings, by the student government, argue the without going through cause of the problem,” he Lehtinen, Mario Diaz- streets and squares are under siege, from newly sainted Serra, whose role in the Congress. said. Balart and Carlos Curbelo. Stanford’s Serra Mall to the University assimilation and exploitation of Native In a joint statement, Two lower courts The other two were Reps. of California, Berkeley’s Barrows Hall to Americans added controversy to his Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz- have ruled in favor of the Richard Hanna of New Yale’s Calhoun College. canonization last year, should not have Balart said that although states, most recently the York, who frequently Once widely revered in a different era, dorms, halls or streets named after him. individual members of Fifth U.S. Circuit Court bucks GOP hard-liners in a priest, anthropologist, vice president and It is “important for the university to Congress had the right of Appeals, based in New Congress and is retiring dozens of others whose names are etched recognize that we need to reinvest and to file briefs supporting Orleans. after the current term, and on college campuses have become the re-appropriate these spaces in the names court cases, the House as With only eight justices Robert Dold of Illinois. subject of a historical autopsy. Students, of indigenous people,” said Leo John a whole should not do so. on the Supreme Court since Five other Cuban- inspired in part by the Black Lives Matter Bird, a Stanford junior from the Blackfeet Last week’s vote means Antonin Scalia’s death Americans voted for movement, are calling for the removal of Reservation in Browning, Mont., who has that the brief filed by last month, a 4-4 decision the measure, which symbols honoring people connected to pressed for the changes. Ryan will have the weight after the oral arguments passed 234-186. All 181 slavery and colonialism. Students from UC Berkeley, Amherst, of representing the entire Democrats who cast votes This month, the renaming movement body. opposed it. SEE LAW, PAGE 2 is gaining momentum at Stanford, where SEE NAMES, PAGE 2 2 The Beacon – Thursday, March 24, 2016 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD Lawmakers adress BRIEFS Cuba-US relations At least 30 killed in Brussels terrorist attacks LAW, PAGE 1 disingenuously tried to immigration advocacy distance themselves from group, said the vote last A series of terrorist attacks in and Syria, said a group of its next month would Trump’s hard-line stance Thursday was the eighth the Belgian capital left at least “soldiers” had attacked “carefully uphold the lower courts’ on immigration. “anti-immigration” vote 30 people dead and 230 injured selected targets” in “crusader rulings and overturn “They keep saying, taken by Republicans on Tuesday, with the Islamic Belgium, which has not stopped Obama’s executive orders ‘Well, Trump doesn’t in the current session of State extremist group claiming attacking Islam and its people.” protecting millions represent us.