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' ': I, ......'I ' :- 1: ' ,,f• ' H • I NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY NOVEMBER 21, 2005 HTTP://WWW.KNIGHTNEWSONLINE.COM VOLUME 16, ISSlJI:: 11 A Taste of Spain Flamenco, Spanish Cuisine Highlights of Spanish Club's Annual Dinner By Rafia Chodhry ( "We had such a News Editor wonderful experience More _than 50 students and a we had to share it with handful of faculty members enjoyed everyone through the Spain's traditional dishes, dancing, club," Borrego said. and music at the Spanish Club's Nov. The highlight .-~ 10 annual dinner. of the event was. the Copies of Miguel de Cervantes flamenco dancing. Saavedra sDon Quixote were displayed Professional flamenco on tables, commemorating the 400'h dancer Vanessa taught anniversary of its publication. Also the attendees a few steps on display were statuettes of Don before performing her Quixote and a flamenco dancer routine. dancer Vanessa offers wearing a red and black dress. Spanish "I think it's a great opportunity some tips to mastering music streamed from a boombox. to bring culture, taste, ideas, and her routine. Right: Risel Borrego, the club's vice­ flavors to the university," said Demi Vanessa with Risel president, and Giselle Gaviria, Martizez, the club's advisor. Borego. Photos by treasurer, said they were inspired to The event was originally planned Rafla Chodhry pay homage to Spain's history and for a much earlier date, but Hurricane Latin America. bread and olive oil. culture after spending a summer Wilma pushed it back to Nov. 10. Students and faculty alike also "I got way more out of this than abroad in Spain and staying at This is the second year the club has . got to experience some of Spain's I probably would have in a regular the Universidad Complulensa de hosted an event designed to celebrate native dishes such seafood paella, lecture," said sophomore Patricia Madrid. the history and culture of Spain and tortilla Espanola, and pan con aceite: Jospeh. Students Upset by "Necessary" Possible,Academic Schedule Parker Microlab Closures Changes Prompt Open Forum By Greg Kyriakakis Media Services, echoed Rosenblum's StaffWriter for All Students concerns, saying "even though we hated to close the Parker labs, it was By Alisha VanUoose The removal of the public representatives, Peebles "invited the for a good reason;" the needs of an Editor-in-Chief microlabs from the Parker Building club senators to open the meeting to expanding student population had to is forcing some dismayed students to All undergraduate students the entire undergraduate population." be met. go elsewhere for their technological are invited to attend the roe The senators agreed. Some NSU students, however, needs. meeting in the Goodwin Classroom Rumors had been circulating are dismayed that they no longer According to Don Rosenblum, at 5:15 p,m. on Nov. 21 .to hear earlier in thesemesterthatacomminee · have a lab close to where a majority Dean ofFarquhar College ofArts and Dean of Farquhar College of Arts had been sec up to develop the new Sciences, the decision to remove the of their classes are held. and Sciences Don Rosenblum speak schedule, but Dean Rosenblum Damian Black, a junior with a labs and. make room for additional on the proposed new academic asserted at the SGA meeting on Sept. busy schedule that includes tutoring offices and classrooms came from schedule. 21 that "the academic calendar is not students between class hours, found the President's office. Additional The proposed schedule, going to be changed any time soon ... that this schedule makes traveling microlabs are open throughout which cuts 16-week classes to ) 4 a committee has not yet been forme! from Parker to the Alvin Sherman campus, according to university weeks and 8-week classes to 7 weeks, to discuss the topic. Discussion has Library, Research, and Information officials. will mean the semesters begin just opened and will not continue Technology Center to complete As more students enrolled at later and end earlier in the year. If without student and faculty input." computer work difficult. He believes NSU, the need for more classrooms approved, the schedule will go into others share his concern. prompted the decision to convert the effect Fall 2006. "I think that a lot of students Parker microlabs into classrooms and "I would strongly urge any would appreciate having the offices, said Rosenblum. The dean student that does not have class co microlabs back in Parker where most explained that "nobody was excited" make this meeting a priority," said of their classes are," said Black. to remove the labs, bur added that SGA President Jason Peebles, "as Jason Lakritz, a senior, was FEATURED a "question of priorities" existed it could affect your entire future upset "because all of my classes are and the conversion "was a necessary here." This meeting will be the first SECTIONS in Parker and it was very convenient decision to provide reaching time the , proposed schedule will to have a lab in the same building." KNIGHTLIFE .. 3 space." Rosenblum noted that in be presented to the student body; Now, students muse travel to another SPORTS ... .. speaking with students, he has nor sources said chat the schedule should 4 lab on campus in order to use a encountered many concerns with the be either approved or denied by A&E . ...... 7 labs' removal. Please See UPSET Thanksgiving. ToniMcLeod,ExecutiveDirector While the I OC meetings for Educational Technologies and Page 2 are usually open only to club 2 THE KNIGHT News from Around th·e World Compiled by Paul Saneaux Compiled by Greg Kyriakakis North America Birth control patch causes health risks Gravity Defying Spacecraft Patented, Yet According to the Associated Press, Ortho McNeil, the maker of the Impossible to Build birth control patch Ortho Evr.a, announced. last Thursday that "women Despite concern from scientists that such a device will not exist for some using the patch will be exposed to about 60 percent more estrogen than ! time, Indiana inventor Boris Volfson had his "antigravity space vehicle" patented , those using typical birth-control pills." Dr. Leslie Miller, an associate by the U .S. patent office. According to National Gengraphic News, the spacecraft, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan, said considered by scientists to be impossible to create, "is theoretically powered by elevated lev<:ls of estrogen ''may be high. enough to increase some women's a superconductor shield chat changes the space-rime continuum in such a way risk ofblood clots," Several lawsuits have been made against Ortho McNeil that it defies gravity." A consultant with the American Physical Society warned due to suffering and death by users ofthe Ortho Evra patch. Ortho McNeil that "(Approving these kind of patents can] make it easier for scam artists -to con people if they can get patents for screwball ideas," since investors can be conned spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs said the company is working closely with the into thinking that such a creation is possible. Starci~g in 1911, those applying for Food and Drug Administration, which issued the warnirtg to health care a perpetual-motion machine patent had to show a model to the patent office that providers. would run for one year, but that provision has since been scrapped. For more information visit www.cnn.com. al-Zarqawi-The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Middle East In an attempt to create a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida leading Palestinians ask UN to investigate Arafat's death up to U.S. military action in Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell exploited Farouk Kaddoumi, head ofthe Palestinian Liberation Organization, Abu Musab Zarqawi to make a case. UPI reported that terrorism export Loretta Napoleoni believes chat "he became what we wanted him to be. We put him there, has asked for a United Nation's investigation into rhe death ofYasser Arafat. not the jihadiscs." That is, Zarqawi, through a self-fulfilling prophecy instigated by Kaddoumi claims that Israel poisoned Arafat "because he was a stumbling U.S. officials, became a myth that helped transform al-Qaida "from a small elitist block to Israeli plans." Similar claims have been made before, and Israeli i vanguard to a mass movement." Napoleoni argued chat "With Bin Laden crapped officials have continuously denied them. Kaddoumi told Associated somewhere in Afghanistan and Pakistan, al-Zarqawi fast became the new symbolic Press reporters that he will ask the U .N. Security Council "co forfl'!. an leader in the fight against America and a manager for whoever was looking to be international investigating commission" for the supposed "assassination." part of chat struggle." Arafat died on Nov. 11, 20'04, and clre medical reports from Percy Military Hospital in Paris were inconclusive as to the cause of death. Virtual Real Estate Boom For more information visit www.guardian.co.uk. Selling virtual property on the internet can earn gamers real money. Deathifer, a 23-year-old Project Entropia player, spent £13,700 on a virtual island in the role-playing game, which allows gamers to buy and sell items using real money. Europe According to BBC News, he has since recouped his investment.