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A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University SUMMER FINALE Vol. 26, Issue 6 fiusm.com Wednesday, July 30, 2014 New master of ALTERNATIVE BREAKS BBQ laws program launches in the fall CAMILA FERNANDEZ based on 24 credits. Asst. News Director The program is a postgraduate [email protected] course in law for lawyers who have completed their first law degree in Prospective foreign attorneys from another country. It allows foreign countries like Nigeria, El Salvador, attorneys to have a year of expo- Italy, New Zealand, Argentina, sure to U.S. culture and its system of Vietnam, France, Belgium, Costa common law. Rica and Croatia will soon set foot at Students can choose courses FIU’s College of Law. following their interest or required These are the incoming students courses for the New York bar exam. for the newly instated Master of Laws According to Associate Dean of program for the fall 2014 semester. International and Graduate Studies With an annual tuition fee of Matthew Mirow, the program will OSCAR LIN/THE BEACON $19,734, FIU is the first public univer- promote diversity and an international Erick Ramirez (left), a junior in chemistry, offers free burgers and hot dogs to students sity to offer an LL.M. degree in South projection for the students and faculty. who completed the Alternative Breaks Scavenger Hunt. Alternative Breaks recruited and Florida. It is a nine-month program informed new students of the experience. that runs from August to May and is SEE LL.M., PAGE 2 Medical marijuana bill up to vote in November DESTINEY BURT Drug Free Florida, a committee chaired is an oil based extract, which is placed Department of Health would register and Staff Writer by Carlton Turner, funded a website under the child’s tongue. regulate production and distribution. [email protected] making false accusations about medicinal This strain was made to help chil- However, some Florida residents are marijuana in hopes of turning away voters dren, however, Doss believes it to be “a concerned there has not been enough Though there has been much contro- from Florida’s Constitutional Amendment gimmick and mere attempt to derail the research done to distribute medicinal versy, the medicinal marijuana bill has 2. medical marijuana amendment being marijuana. cleared the Florida senate and will be put United for care, Florida’s largest orga- voted on in November.” “While a single strain may be used to a vote in November. nization supporting the legalization of to treat or pacify certain ailments or The bill would only allow those with medicinal marijuana, is doing all they diseases, there is a significant lack of debilitating diseases to have access to a can to defend the approval of the Florida The fear within many is that medical research on the remaining strains, specific strain of marijuana called Char- Constitutional Amendment 2. [the bill] could constitute the said Ayres. lotte’s Web. “I believe the state will pass the amend- beginning of a shift towards the If all strains were released for medical This strain is high on non-euphoric ment on medical marijuana because the complete legalization use, Ayres said there would be a consider- cannabidiol and low in the high-inducing ‘United For Care’ campaign is pushing of the drug. able blowback in the long run. chemical tetrahydrocannabinol. hard to get the facts correct from the “Broad spectrum tests have not yet Some of the controversy among Florida opposing campaign ‘Vote No on 2,’” said Gregory Ayres been adequately performed,” he said. residents stems from fear for the future. Damian Doss, a senior political science Senior Though there are many on the fence “The fear within many is that [the bill] major and treasurer of Students for Political Science about the legalization of Florida’s Consti- could constitute the beginning of a shift Sensible Drug Policy. tutional Amendment 2, the choice lies in towards the complete legalization of the Recently, Florida senators approved the hands of the voters. drug,” said Gregory Ayres, a senior polit- a measure that would give children who Though more than the Charlotte’s Web “What will actually happen is down to ical science major. “In the eyes of many, suffer from seizures access to Charlotte’s strain of marijuana would be available to the voters and a clearer picture of public this would be an undesired long-term Web. those with debilitating diseases if Flori- opinion will be gained after this falls votes consequence.” The legal medicinal strain of cannabis da’s Amendment 2 is passed; the Florida have been counted,” said Ayres. Fair says ‘NO’ as relocation initiative gains momentum REBECA PICCARDO for the first time in 30 years, adding a fourth weekend. and could not be reached for comment. Media Rela- News Director While the University has appraised the relocation tions directed Student Media to his statement released on [email protected] efforts to be within $50 million, the fair says it could be July 22. In his open letter to the community, Rosenberg over $250 million. Due to this disagreement in value, the said this University expansion will create jobs and allow Despite the recent county support for the University’s fair says that the University still does not have the funds student enrollment to continue increasing. efforts to acquire the fairgrounds, the fair has shown it to relocate the fair and the county will not spend taxpay- With the smallest main campus out of all the state will not go quietly. er’s money towards this initiative. universities, Rosenberg said that without this expansion, Now that the Miami-Dade Commissioners instructed However, the University recently received $10 million the University soon run out of space for growth and “lose county mayor Carlos Gimenez to provide a referendum to in support from the State Legislature for the land acqui- momentum for our community.” put to vote the University initiative to expand into the 86 sition initiative. Hohenstein states that “FIU’s plans could turn public acres of land adjacent to Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Another objection Hohenstein mentions in his e-mail park land into private for-profit development.” the fair has responded by lobbying to members of the to fair members is that the county still hasn’t identified On Sept. 3, the commission will meet again to discuss community. a new site. the University’s land acquisition initiative and all parties At the memorandum from Miami-Dade County Fair However, after years of back and forth between the involved will present a final recommendation for the and Exposition Inc. on July 24, CEO Robert Hohenstein University, the fair and the county, 24 sites have been fair’s new site. said the fair “has no need or desire to relocate,” citing a recommended, of which only three sites have been Additionally, the relocation of the fair will be 22 percent increase in attendance as a sign that fairs are studied by the fair and the University. presented in a countywide voter referendum during the growing in popularity. As previously reported, the fair showed favoritism General Election on Nov. 4. Due to this increase in attendance, the fair’s board of towards a site west of Miami Lakes. directors voted to extend the run time of the Youth Fair University President Mark B. Rosenberg is traveling 2 The Beacon – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 NEWS fiusm.com WORLD NEWS SGC-MMC discusses graduate funding and town hall meetings Russia finds friend in China as ADRIAN SUAREZ AVILA ence with budget and his latest for travel and other expenses accompany SGC-MMC Vice world focuses on blame for Staff Writer on the budget hearings,” said associated with attending President Tiffany Roman- Ukraine crash [email protected] Nico Pasquariello, FIU Honors research conferences. Biffa in Washington D.C. next College senator. “That’s just Williamson also informed week to discuss the importance Russian President Vladimir Putin may feel Student Government one thing that Senator Recuset those in attendance that the of Pell Grant awards to the increasingly isolated after the downing last week Council at Modesto A. Maid- lacks that Alcala has.” GPSC’s web page has been community in meetings with of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, but on the world ique Campus’s final Senate After deliberating, the updated with the new funding South Florida congressmen stage he knows he has at least one reliable friend: meeting of the summer majority of the senators voted application, which removes and women. China’s leader, Xi Jinping. Putin and Xi have semester ushered in a new in favor of Alcala as the new the requirement of having to “I’m looking to meet with spent lots of time together in the last 18 months, beginning for FIU’s College speaker pro-tempore, with the complete a Moodle workshop. some congressional staff to and over the past week the Chinese media that of Architecture and The Arts exception of Speaker of the SGC-MMC President share student perspectives and Xi controls have blasted the West for suggesting that Putin bears responsibility for the downing senator and finance chair, Senate Charles Perretti, who Alexis Calatayud announced students’ legislative needs to of MH17.