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The Student Sports: Newspaper Basketball of Florida International wins on University BEACON Valentine’s THE Day Pg. 8 Vol. 18, Issue 45 WWW.BEACONNEWSPAPER.COM February 16, 2006 WARM RECEPTION SGA in process of budget deliberations BY REUBEN PEREIRA organizations are given between 10 to Staff Writer 15 minutes to present their case to the voting body of the SGA and persuade The Student Government Associa- the members why they need the budget tion began conducting its annual Budget they want. Hearing process Jan. 27 and is expected Once the University-wide hearings to continue with the hearings throughout have concluded, the voting body starts its February. system of deliberations during which the The decisions are made by the voting voting body takes a look at the money the council of the SGA which include president SGA has and the money they allocated to a Alex Prado and vice president Christine particular organization during the previous Denton, who will determine how much academic year. money will be allocated to organizations “We do this to see if the organization in the upcoming academic year. needs the increase in budget or not,” During the proceedings various uni- Denton said. “Because everyone proposes versity-wide and regional University Park an increase, we have to see who needs and Biscayne Bay Campus based organi- the increase the most, who isn’t using zations will present their proposals to the the money responsibly and who will gain council. the most and who has more money than The SGA has two sets of budget required.” hearings. There are the University-wide The second set of hearings, the campus hearings – which are usually conducted – based hearings, take place once the Uni- fi rst – and then the campus based orga- versity-wide deliberations have concluded nizations. The University-wide hearings and the funds for these organizations include the cases put forward by organiza- have been allocated. During this period, tions and departments which have a single the student government of each campus budget for both campuses. independently reviews the proposals of Departments which fall under this their campus based organizations. category include the Student Alumni For example, the SGA of UP will pre- Association (SAA), the recreation center, side over hearings of organizations solely the volunteer action center, the center for based at UP, whereas the SGA of the BBC EDDIE ZENG/THE BEACON leadership, the radio station Radiate 88 will respectively preside over hearings at POLITICAL TALK: Former Vermont governor, 2004 presidential candidate and and The Beacon. the BBC. current chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean visited “It is usually the organization leaders, Organizations which fall under this cat- University Park on Feb. 14 to address an enthusiastic crowd on the future plans directors or presidents who show up to egory include the Student Organizations of the Democratic party. present their cases to the SGA along with Council (SOC), Student Programming For the full story log on to www.beaconnewspaper.com. their advisors,” Prado said. During the budget-hearing process, See BUDGET, page 2 Students petition against hate speech on campus BY ASHLEY CAPO the university. The only thing ronment of hate and intolerance, Copy Editor missing on that day, though, was but of danger. There’s a link Smock. between actual actions and what As many students at the Uni- “Even though he didn’t show you’re trying to say. That’s what versity Park campus have been up, it was still a success due to the the petition is all about,” Malik aware of since Jan. 31, cutting fact that we have gotten signatures said. across the fountain near the to prevent people from preaching The FIU student code of Green Library has been no easy hate,” said junior Ryan Jones, conduct is quoted in the peti- task, seeing as it has been the a co-founder of the Alliance of tion, stating that “students are podium for evangelist Christian Diversity. “It would’ve been more expected to conduct themselves Jed Smock and, as his companions effective [to our cause] if he was in a manner in which exemplifi es call themselves, the “Jed Heads,” here; in this case, we did, sort of, respect for people of all races, a group representing Campus get what we wanted – which was religions and ethnic groups, and Ministry USA who are known preventing him from preaching to adhere to one’s personal values for riling up crowds with their hate here on campus.” without unduly imposing them religious speeches. The petition, which was given on others.” After many angry slurs, picket to passerbys to sign, will be sent to However, Jones believes that signs and banners, the Alliance the faculty of the political science it is every students’ responsibility of Diversity, a student organiza- department to see if they can help JOHN HANCOCK: Sophmore Adriana Zambrano (middle), Senior to take action if they see indi- tion comprised of campus groups the group take action against the Muhammed Malik (right) of the Alliance of Diversity ask students like vidual rights being violated. like the National Organization speakers, who have been accused freshman (left) Francisco Surace to sign a petition Feb.14 to forbid the “I think there needs to be a call for Women and Amnesty Inter- of using hateful and discrimina- use of hateful language from Jed Smock, a preacher who comes to to action from students,” Jones national, decided it was time to tory language as attacks on the University Park representing campus ministry USA. GABRIEL CORREA/THE BEACON said.” There needs to be a sense fi ght back. religions, sexuality and race of of revolution from the students The students gathered to pro- FIU students. senior Maciel Cuellar. “They can national, took great offense to to make changes here on campus test against what they perceived “A girl next to me was accused preach what they believe in, but Smock’s demonstrations, as he if there is hate speech. You can’t as the hateful language of the of automatically having STDs just don’t go against people like that. found him to be abusive toward walk around campus and think Campus Ministry USA on Feb. because she dressed a certain way That’s not right.” another Middle-Eastern student about how much you hate it, 14, expecting Smock to use his which wasn’t even, how some Senior Muhammed Malik, by calling her “a terrorist.” you need to stand up and do permit and once again return to people say, provocative at all,” said a member of Amnesty Inter- “He created not only an envi- something.” Columnist discusses gay issues, Pg. 3 Skating on campus, Pg. 4 Softball drop three of four, Pg. 8 2 The Beacon –February 16, 2006 NEWS www.beaconnewspaper.com NEWSFLASH Akens “advocates” for students Compiled by Ana Sanchez from Beacon staff BY JACKIE DIAZ of students. and wire reports Staff Writer Akens, a native of Cleveland Ohio, came to LOCAL The new year has Miami 12 years ago when brought changes to stu- offered a job at FIU. Doral man kills wife, mother-in-law then dent affairs at the Biscayne She began her work at himself Bay Campus. In Decem- the University as an asso- ber 2005, Cathy Akens ciate director of housing The morning of Feb. 14, after shooting and kill- was appointed assistant believing she would only ing his wife and mother-in-law, a man in his 40s, vice president of Student stay a couple of years and shot himself, according to Miami-Dade police. Affairs and began her posi- has been here since. The couple’s 8-year-old son called the police tion Jan. 9. “The University has to report the death of his parents, he was Akens essential role is given me a great oppor- unharmed. to provide leadership to tunity to advance profes- When the police arrived, the husband and wife the Division of Student sionally,” she said. were already dead and the mother-in-law was air Affairs at BBC as well as DIRECTING: Cathy Akens went from being director of Her interest in pursuing lifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital were she later Residential Life on both residential life on both campuses to assistant vice president Student Affairs came when died. campuses. of student affairs at the Biscayne Bay Campus. Until the she was an undergraduate “It is my goal to ensure University hires someone to replace Akens as director of student at the University NATIONAL that the programs and residential life, Akens takes on both roles. CHRIS CUTRO/THE BEACON of Toledo. services we provide to “I was involved as a stu- Cheney cited for failing to buy $7 stamp students support their Akens also hopes to She also provides great dent and worked a couple academic success at the establish a strong relation- leadership.” of different jobs, includ- Vice president Dick Cheney was given a warn- University,” Akens said.

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