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The Beacon, April 18, 2005 Florida International University Florida International University FIU Digital Commons The aP nther Press (formerly The Beacon) Special Collections and University Archives 4-18-2005 The Beacon, April 18, 2005 Florida International University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Florida International University, "The Beacon, April 18, 2005" (2005). The Panther Press (formerly The Beacon). 84. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper/84 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and University Archives at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aP nther Press (formerly The Beacon) by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Student BBC News: Newspaper Promotional items of Florida International inspire students to University vote. 3 THE BEACON Vol. 17, Issue 53 WWW.BEACONNEWSPAPER.COM April 18, 2005 25 YEARS LATER Mariel influence still felt throughout Miami community This is part one of a two-part series on the 1980 Mariel boat lift and its effects on the South Florida community 25 years later. By GIOVANI BENITEZ Staff Writer As dawn broke over the Port of Mariel in northern Cuba 25 years ago, Cubans from all over the communist country knew their lives were about to change. For over 125,000 Cubans, a historic five-month mass exodus began on April 20, 1980. Just two weeks prior, thousands of Cubans stormed into the Peruvian embassy in Havana to seek political asylum. It was then that Fidel Castro opened the Port of Mariel to Cubans who wanted to leave. Author Mirta Ojito, who recently pub- lished Finding Mañana, a detailed book on Mariel experiences, was just 16 years old then. She came to the United States on the Mariel boat lift and a quarter-cen- tury later, understands what the boat lift represents to the community. “It means that we have a responsibil- ity, and we are marked by an exodus that changed Cuba, changed Miami, changed THE ARRIVAL: Mariel refugees arrived at Key West Harbor on April 23, 1980 aboard U.S. vessel “Big Baby,” just days after South Florida, and in the end, ended up Fidel Castro opened the Port of Mariel to Cubans. That day, over 4,500 refugees arrived in South Florida. MURRY SILL/THE MIAMI HERALD changing U.S. immigration policy toward Cuba,” Mirta Ojito said. I had my eyes checked, so I had been May 11, when some 4,500 refugees them. I stayed for 17 days in the Mariel For Mirta Ojito, it was April 23, 1980 given a drug to dilate my pupils and I arrived in South Florida. It was her bay waiting for the Cuban authorities to when Mariel became a personal issue. could hardly see,” Mirta Ojito said. “I uncle, FIU Accounting Coordinator let me bring the family over,” Oswaldo “You are going to el norte,” a sobbing didn’t know if it was the tears, or the fact Oswaldo Ojito, who made her destina- Ojito said. aunt told her that morning. that I couldn’t see, but I do remember, tion a reality. The boat he acquired for the trip was Sadness overcame her. almost immediately, that my vision was “I said, ‘This is the time to get the called Valley Chief. On the day Oswaldo “It was a terrifying moment. I had blurred.” family out.’ When the opportunity came gone to the doctor the day before and Mirta Ojito did not leave Cuba until with the Mariel, I went in a boat to get See MARIEL, page 2 New BBC gym on pause due to erroneous design By ANA RIBEIRO painted facility with 45 machines, six Staff Writer Elias Bardawill, Assistant Director offices (including one exclusively for the swim team), locker rooms, a conference In September 2004, FIU’s Student “Our usage is going to skyrocket, based on the connec- room and a separate adjoining aerobics Affairs announced the construction of a tion with the aquatic center. You can’t only think of it as room and dance studio. Bardawill said new gym, set to stand at 10,000 square Campus Recreation intends to extend its feet between the Wolfe University Center a [new] gym – it’s a mega recreation center.” operating hours and the number of fitness and the Olympic-size pool at the Biscayne classes available. Bay Campus. of its property or capital improvement. the Wolfe Center and has 33 machines. Recreation team leader Joey Casanova It was scheduled to open the following Olson said the construction of the Fitness clerk Nancy Audain compared said they plan to add mostly cardio, resis- August as an easy-access fitness center facility could begin as soon as April, the gym to an office and said that, during tance and free-weight machines because connecting both facilities. However, but he could not give an estimate as to her four-hour, three-day weekly shifts, at of the high demand by students and there’s still no semblance of a new BBC the completion date. Meanwhile, Elias most only 30 people come in to use it. faculty. gym. Bardawill, assistant director for BBC’s With the new BBC gym, Audain said Among the machines available at the According to Greg Olson, director for Campus Recreation, said the gym could she hopes comparisons to the University current gym, some will be refurbished Student Affairs at BBC, demolition on the be ready as early as January 2006. Park campus gym will subside. for use at the new gym. The old space in future gym’s site along with underground Bardawill said his department has Bardawill said that while UP’s new the Wolfe Center will then be vacated at work began in August 2004 and has just no control over the starting date of the gym will have 40,000 square feet, BBC’s FIU’s discretion. ended. He said the reason for the delay in construction, although it is very excited will be 20,000 square feet larger, includ- The new BBC gym won’t come too the construction was an erroneous design about it. ing the aquatic center. soon for some students, who have been for BBC’s underground structure of pipes “This is definitely a step forward in “Our usage is going to skyrocket, demanding improved facilities. and communication lines, which had to campus development,” Bardawill said. based on the connection with the aquatic “Come on now. We have such a lame be corrected before work could begin. “The campus is in great need of its own center,” he said. “You can’t only think of gym compared to [UP’s]. We need The budget for the construction fitness center – it’ll help foster campus it as a [new] gym – it’s a mega recreation more cardio machines, more space [and] remains the same at $1.7 million, which life.” center.” more of everything,” said junior Jennifer comes from the portion of the university’s The current BBC gym, a 2,400 square The blueprints for the future fitness Rodriguez, a frequent user of the current trust fund reserved for the improvement foot facility, is located on the third floor of center reveal a modern-looking, brightly BBC gym. Healthier school lunch menus, Pg. 4 Tips on turning 21, Pg. 6 Report card for FIU baseball team, Pg. 12 04-18-05.indd 1 4/15/05 11:39:42 PM 2 The Beacon – April 18, 2005 NEWS www.beaconnewspaper.com Mariel served as turning point for many THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS MARIEL, from page 1 Ojito was given permis- MONDAY • APRIL 18 sion to take his family to the United States, the Artful Citizenship – Student Exhibition: All engine on the Valley Chief Day, The Wolfsonian Museum wouldn’t start. Frost Art Museum: BFA Spring 2005 Opening Just when the Ojito Reception: 8 p.m. PC 110 family thought their jour- Panther Rage Meeting: 4 p.m., GC 140 ney was over, they came SPC American Heritage presents Promo/ across another boat with Games: 2 p.m. GC Pit a generous captain. This vessel was appropriately TUESDAY • APRIL 19 named Mañana. Ojito used that name Artful Citizenship – Student Exhibition: All for the title of her book. Day, The Wolfsonian Museum She describes the boat lift Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights through her own eyes, SORORITY SUPPORT: Christine Denton was congratulated by her Alpha XI Delta but provides an in-depth (SUPER) and Muslim Student Association sisters after she and Prado were announced the winners. ALEX HERNANDEZ/THE BEACON present film “Peace Propaganda & The Prom- look at what Cuba was like ised Land.” Mid-East Food served. Donations to before Mariel and what women’s Internet Community Center in Balata other Marielitos experi- Refugee Camp (West Bank, Palestine): Food, 6 enced in 1980. THE JOURNEY: A Cuban immigration official stands guard next to a U.S. vessel filled p.m. Film, 7 p.m. GC 140 “I’m trying to show with Cuban refugees before leaving the Port of Mariel. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE MIAMI HERALD SPC American Heritage presents “Meet and what life was really like Greet Disney Characters”: 12 p.m. GC Pit in Cuba in the 1960s called sin of wanting to the way was opened once reflection for Marielitos, SPC American Heritage presents “Mad and 1970s, which is leave their country, that again today, half of the many of whom work as Hatter’s Tea Party”: 6 p.m. Gracie’s Grill the reason why, all of I was ready to go myself. Cuban population, if not lawyers, doctors, journal- a sudden, in a span of I no longer wanted to more, would flee to the ists and psychologists.
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