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Vol. 26 Issue 88 fiusm.com Wednesday, April 22, 2015 THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY DIEGO SALDAÑA- ROJAS/THE BEACON LEFT PHOTO COUrtESY OF MEDIA RELATIONS, RIGHT PHOTO BY MARIA SOLEDAD LORENZINO/THE BEACON (Left) Students celebrate in the Graham Center Pit in 1972. (Right) Students celebrate in the Pit on Friday, April 17, 2015. The university celebrates its 50th anniversary this academic year. A look into the past and future of the University MARK B. ROSENBERG Three days before the deadline MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE (2009-PRESENT) to submit candidates to the (1986-2009) Presidential Search Advisory For Mark B. Rosenberg, a Committee was when Rosenberg Modesto A. Maidique was pivotal part of his career was on was added to the final group of 34 appointed as the fourth president April 25, 2009, when, at an 11:30 potential candidates. of the University in 1986. a.m. meeting, the University’s Before the official During his time as president, Board of Trustees met and named announcement of Rosenberg’s the University grew to house over him the fifth president of the appointment, then-vice president 38,000 students, which earned University, according to previous of Academic Affairs and University the school the chance to rank reporting. Provost Ronald Berkman, and among the 20 largest universities When appointed, Rosenberg Carlos Santiago, chancellor of the in the country. became the first University faculty University of Wisconsin, dropped Also during his administration, member to climb the ranks and out of the race for the position. the University grew from 54 to serve as president. Under Rosenberg’s leadership, 109 buildings. Holding a tenure the University has increased Modesto A. Maidique, was a of 23 years, Maidique saw the enrollment to over 54,000 master at turning the impossible opening of the College of Law, world. students. The graduation rate into the inevitable, saying that the College of Engineering, Despite these achievements, My vision is really has also improved by almost 10 he deserves a lot of the credit for the School of Architecture, Maidique faced some conflict an extension of what percent. Rosenberg shared his being able to do that. the Wertheim Performing Arts nearing the end of his term. the faculty wants. thoughts on his administration. When asked why he believed Center, the Green Library and the When University The faculty wants a He cited that being able to the University should be on the Frost Art Museum. administration initiated high impact research get both the College of Law and map, Rosenberg said, “Because It was Maidique who launched discussions of renaming the university that cares the Herbert Wertheim College of of our mission, because of our the opening of the Herbert then-known-as University about its students. Medicine in a short period of six commitment to our students, Wertheim College of Medicine. Park Campus to the Modesto years was a pivotal moment for because of our critical role in job The College’s inaugural class was A. Maidique Campus, some his presidency, adding that both creation in South Florida, because welcomed on Monday, August students took to social media to Mark B Rosenberg schools are the types that give a of the cutting edge research that 3, 2009, Maidique’s last day as express their lack of support for President university added impact in the our faculty are doing, because of president of the University. the decision. FIU community. the fact that we’re the country’s Prior to his position as According to previous Despite this, Rosenberg was “Those are things that we said largest majority/minority president, Maidique co-founded reporting, over 1,400 students initially not even considered as could never be done,” Rosenberg university.” Analog Devices Inc., joined a Facebook group against one of the top contenders for the said. “I think the quality of FIU He stated that his desired vision Semiconductor Division. He also renaming the campus. Despite position. that’s very, very important is that for the University is whatever served as the chief executive student disapproval, on June 12, Having shown interest in we’re at times naively optimistic the faculty wants, adding that he officer of Collaborative 2009, the University’s Board of the position in November 2008, so we believe in ourselves, we believes the faculty want a high Research, which is now known Trustees renamed the campus Rosenberg was not among the 15 believe in our students and in our impact research university that as Genome Therapeutics, and as from University Park Campus chosen individuals who submitted community, we believed we could cares about its students. a senior partner in Hambrecht to the Modesto A. Maidique their qualifications for the get done and we did it.” & Quist Venture Partners, the Campus. presidency. He added that his predecessor, SEE ROSENBERG, PAGE 2 largest venture capital firm in the 2 The Beacon – Wednesday, April 22, 2015 NEWS fiusm.com CHARLES E. PERRY president, he had to take NATION & WORLD (1969-1976) charge of the decision- making process that would When the University mold the future of the was founded in 1969, 344-acre plot of land that BRIEFS Charles E. Perry took the was the University at the reins as president at the time. Bombing is first attack on US in Iraq since Islamic age of 32, according to the It was through his State took Mosul University’s Office of the administration that the President website. University’s master plan A suicide bomber struck the assistant secretary of state for Iraq In fact, at such an age, was created. Within the U.S. consulate building in the and Iran, said in a post on Twitter Perry was the youngest first three years of his northern Iraqi city of Irbil on that all consulate personnel had individual to assume administration, Perry and 14, 1972, the nation’s Friday afternoon. been accounted for and that there the position of president his colleagues managed to higher education industry Kurdish authorities said that were no reports of injuries among at a public university transform what was once saw the largest enrollment at least three people were killed them. He included the hashtag in the United States. an abandoned airport into a of first year students with -- a Kurdish security official VBIED, short for vehicle-born Before becoming the first university comprised of six 5,667 students entering the at the scene said the dead were improvised explosive device. president of the University, schools and colleges, with University. the three attackers -- and five The Islamic State, which Perry was the vice a faculty of around 300 During his seven- wounded. Among the wounded is also pressing offensives in chancellor of the Florida individuals. year administration, the were two Westerners who were the cities of Ramadi and Baiji, Board of Regents, a body His administration University grew to housing in a restaurant across the street, claimed responsibility for the charged with supervising also saw the making of over 10,000 students and witnesses said. explosion in an Internet post. the university system of history when, on the 134 degree programs in a Brett McGurk, the deputy the state. University’s opening day campus worth around $50 Iraqi security forces report killing long-sought In his first year as on Thursday, September million. HAROLD CROSBY Saddam Hussein aide (1976-1979) Prior to his position as Iraqi security forces on Friday next few days, the Salahuddin president, Crosby served killed Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, the provincial governor’s office told When Harold Crosby as an attorney as a state highest-ranking member of the McClatchy. was appointed as president circuit judge for five late Saddam Hussein’s regime to A Kurdish security official of the University in January years before assuming escape the U.S.-led invasion and who knew al Douri agreed the of 1976, he intended to only a professorship in the occupation, Iraqi officials said. photo looked like the man he’d serve on an interim basis as University of Florida. A photo supposedly taken of known, but he added that in light the University’s screening It was in 1964 that the dead man by soldiers involved of past rumors of al Douri’s committee undertook a he decided to leave UF in the operation and distributed death in combat or from illness, nationwide search to find a in order to travel to the on Twitter closely resembled al DNA testing would be necessary new president. University of West Florida Douri, including notable red hair to confirm his identity. However, by August and became its president, and a red beard. But the final No official photo was of the same year, the a position he held for 10 confirmation of his identity will released. screening committee had years. It was under his come from DNA testing over the not succeeded in finding While at our University, administration that the a suitable candidate, and Crosby founded the University managed to instead recommended that Division of Student Affairs get its hands on a 1,700- TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Crosby take over, which and created the School acre plot of land in North he decided to do for three of Public Affairs and Miami, which we know years.