A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 23, Issue 42 www.fiusm.com Wednesday, November 16, 2011 CLASS REUNION DJ Irie feels connected to the FIU community ESRA ERDOGAN event that celebrates student life. It Life! Editor is not about the most beautiful or pretty student, it’s really about show- As the official DJ for the Miami casing and highlighting a particular Heat, former University student student who not only excels at their DJ Irie will never forget his roots. education but also is very active in During the years 1995 through 1999, school, works very well in groups Irie was very involved on campus and is active in their community. and held the positions of Vice Pres- We’re in talks with Student ident of Student Government and Government and other levels of General Manager of WRGP, Radiate administrations to launch this at FIU. FM. Irie feels so connected to the We would like to take it to different University that he continues to stay universities but for the initial one it involved today, and took a moment would be strictly an FIU event and to speak with Student Media. would have students’ say on the vote. It’s going to be a great thing SM: How are you involved with for the school because PR would the University? say this thing was birthed at FIU. DJ Irie: One of the things I have SM: What would you like to been consistent with is Homecoming see the school improve on in the and the Ultra Fest [in previous future? years]. The First Generation event came about because I keep a good DJ Irie: I’ll say this — it’s a hard dialogue with all the administra- MANNY HERNANDEZ/PICTUREGROUP VIA AP IMAGES question because being someone that tors and even though we have a lot DJ Irie, who attended the University from 1995 through 1999, is currently the official DJ for the Miami Heat. isn’t a student. Students may feel a going on, if there is anything I can little differently but I can speak as help them out with that is possible [academic] experiences have shaped University, then I’m in. University event at FIU next year. someone from the outside. on our end, we are in. Really, it’s a me today and I don’t feel like those My partner, Carlos Arias, and I I read what’s going on in the SM: What is your next big matter of me just wanting to say that are experiences that I can say ‘Oh, took Donald Trump to court and papers and FIU is really on fire. project that you’re working on with [the University] wasn’t a place I just that’s cool and it’s a thing of the finally won exclusive rights to Miss Great things are happening in the University? went to get a higher education. past.’ Education is a huge, huge University. athletics with Miami is where I grew up from thing for me and if I can help out DJ Irie: The big project we What we wanted to do is build high school to college. All those and do anything that advances the are trying to do now is the Miss a cool and fun anti-pageant. It’s an DJ IRIE, page 6 SGA looks into formation ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Ozone depletion remains of student political parties PHILIppE BUTEAU the necessary rules will be. or reject. an issue in South Florida News Director The plan is to have some- “We’ve done the legwork thing finalized in time for and now the senate will fill MEL ALVAREZ currently being reported in the Arctic, according While Republicans figure spring 2012 elections. in the gaps,” Castro said in an Contributing Writer to Parker. who will face off against Jose Toscano and Michelle interview with Student Media. “It’s going to take a long time for some of Democratic President Barack Castro, assistant directors of The legwork was nation- Last winter, atmospheric scientists discov- these chemicals to be low enough in the atmo- Obama for the White House wide research on how political ered what is now being described as the “first sphere to say that we no longer have a hole in next year, student government parties operate at other univer- significant ozone hole ever recorded over the the ozone in the Antarctic area. It doesn’t happen at the University is figuring sities such as Auburn, Ohio high northern regions” by the science journal, right away because some of these chemicals out how political parties will State, and Florida. One of Nature. last for hundreds of years. [The hole is] prob- operate here. That cannot work their discoveries is two possi- Though this ozone depletion is temporary, ably temporary in the Arctic because it has to Political parties are already here. [You’re] only bilities under which polit- unlike that of the Antarctic discovered in the have very special conditions in order to be cold accounted for in SGA’s stat- going to see people ical parties would fall – either 1980s, it demonstrates the lasting effects green- enough.” utes because of an amendment under student government or Depletion is measured by the reduction of of wealth being house gases have on the planet. in April 2011, but procedures the Council of Student Orga- Jack Parker, professor of environmental ozone concentration in a particular area. on how to create party rules able to [run]. nizations. Political parties at science and chemistry at the University, explained Furthermore, chemical ozone destruction in dictating how much they can UF fall under their version of the differences and causes of atmospheric holes the Arctic has been known to occur in winter and spend and, among other things, Patrick O’Keefe, CSO, according to Toscano. over the Arctic and Antarctic regions. spring; this is due to atmospheric chemical reac- President how they will campaign, Another consideration for “The difference is [this hole is] in the north tions with local hot or cold air. However, never SGC-MMC haven’t been defined yet. the senate is whether parties pole not the south pole; we don’t have anywhere had such a significant depletion occurred as was So, to prevent the possi- will be active year-round or near the same level of an ozone hole in the north the case in February 2011 when the northern bility of a political party only during elections. pole because it’s not anywhere near as cold as ozone hole reached southward into Russia and spending $10,000 or more on “My hopes are that parties the south pole,” Parker said. “One of the charac- Mongolia. a year-round campaign, the Campus Life, and Carlton Ng, are year-round and registered teristics needed for the chemistry to take place, Though ozone depletion and global warming senate of the Student Govern- graduate assistant for Campus through SGA,” Toscano said that is depleting the ozone, is that it has to be are generally separate topics in the scientific ment Council at Modesto Life gave a presentation to the in an interview with Student very cold in the stratosphere.” community, in the present case, a link can be Maidique Campus are in the senate which included ideas Several factors need to exist before the midst of discussions on what the senate could use, modify PARTIES, page 2 Antarctic ozone improves similarly to what is OZONE, page 2 COMING UP News ONLINE www.fiusm.com RADIO Radiate FM Check out the Nov. 18 issue for an Follow us on: Tune in to Radiate FM from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. on article on the $600,000 scholarship Twitter - @FIUSM Mon., Wed. and Fri. for our Opinion, Sports donation to the University by the Facebook - FIU Student Media: News, and News shows. 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FIU Student Media: Sports The Radioactive Underground: 88.1 - 95.3 - 96.9 2 The Beacon – Wednesday, November 16, 2011 NEWS www.fiusm.com NEWS FLASH Chevrolet partners with FIU AMA LOCAL Aura ALtamiranda with the ideas,“ said De Leon. showing, a teaser was aired AMA FIU’s Rosanne Cash opens Miami book Contributing Writer The program offers prizes for the campaign. fair with songs most successful campaign, including AMA FIU’s grand event will take The collegiate chapter of the Amer- Flip camcorders, GPS systems, and place on Wednesday, Nov. 16 and exhibit Singer Rosanne Cash opened the Miami Book Fair ican Marketing Association at the Univer- netbooks; AMA FIU’s additional incen- the three cars they have been assigned to International with an impromptu performance. sity took on the task of participating in the tive for participating is the opportunity to promote as well as slogans and personas Cash read from her memoir “Composed” and sang Chevrolet Campus Promotions Program network, use a number of resources, and for each that will help their target audi- several songs on a borrowed blue guitar on Sunday during fall 2011. AMA FIU was hand- steer a campaign in a professional envi- ence identify the vehicles in the future. night. Cash said she finds melody in prose and tried picked by Edventure Partners, an organi- ronment that attends to its client’s needs. The students unveiled their plans in a to emulate her favorite writers as she worked on the zation that specializes in fostering educa- Ultimately, the program is geared to presentation to their client and Edventure book. tional and professional partnerships. heighten the success of Chevrolet, while Partners prior to initiating their campaign.