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A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 24, Issue 78 www.fiusm.com Friday, March 29, 2013 Rising sea levels Hi-Ya! a major threat to Miami area JUNETTE REYES and economic components of Staff Writer managing South Florida’s water in order to understand how plans Forget about Atlantis; give can be formulated when it comes South Florida a few more years to decision-making for water of sea-level rise and Miami will management. definitely be the new “Lost City” “We can’t come up with any of the world. Only this time, it kind of definitive, binding plans would not be as mythical but as for people to follow but we can serious as finding our very own come up with strategies and try to FIU to be the new underwater understand the whole process,” university of the future. said Sukop. This predicament of the rising Miami is ranked first in a list ALFONSO YEC/THE BEACON sea-level is the focus of the South of 20 cities worldwide as having Florida Water, Sustainability and the most infrastructures exposed Senior Sky Hanul Choi (center), Asian studies major, performs a Tae-Kwon-Do demonstration during a Climate project, led by FIU’s to the sea-level rise and coastal Korean-themed Asian Student Union meeting. Choi, a TKD black belt, successfully managed to break Dr. Michael Sukop, associate flooding. The value of these through four concrete blocks in a single strike. professor in the Department of economic assets are estimated to Earth and Environment. The be $416.29 billion as reported by SFWSC study has been recog- the Cities and Climate Change there to the point of year 2070 saltwater from the ocean comes engineers, behavioral scientists, nized by the National Science project of the Organisation for seeing a little over $3 trillion underground into the wells that economists, ecosystem scientists Foundation as part of their Water, Economic Co-operation and worth of infrastructures and a supply our water and sea-level and landscape ecologists. Sustainability and Climate Development. population of nearly 5 million rise will make this problem According to Sukop, ecol- Program, who has awarded the A currently exposed popu- exposed to the sea-level rise. worse,” said Sukop. ogists are focusing on the project a grant of $5 million. lation of 2,003 puts Miami in “Sea-level rise is an issue The SFWC research team is mangrove forests which are The SFWSC is using an inte- ninth place in an additional list for us in the sense that there has made up of a group of diverse collecting a lot of peat, an organic grative approach to do research of 20 cities. The estimations are always been seawater intrusion; and multi-disciplined scien- on the hydrologic, ecologic, projected to only go up from seawater intrusion means that the tists, including hydrologists, SEE WATER, PAGE 2 Law professor writes article on straight supremacy VICTORIA RONDEROS Práctica Jurídica, or, the Gender Discrimi- California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense Gabilondo, who is gay himself, has Contributing Writer nation in Law and Its Expression in Legis- of Marriage Act, two landmark same-sex been studying the heterosexual and homo- lation and Legal Institutions, by the Asso- marriage cases. Proposition 8, which has sexual culture and gay rights movement Last week, law professor Jose Gabi- ciation of Cuban Jurists in Havana. been on the California ballot since 2008, for about 20 years now. He has published londo’s essay, “Los Fueros de la Hetero- Gabilondo’s essay describes the fear proposes the ban of same-sex marriage in a plethora of articles regarding the hetero- sexualidad en Su Ocaso” (The Twilight of the heterosexual identity has over the California. The second, DOMA, which sexual identity in various law journals. Straight Supremacy), was published in “La current gay rights movement. His article has been around since 1996, has been “Activism, on behalf of the gay commu- Discriminación de Género en el Derecho y also happens to be published on the same giving unequal federal rights to same-sex nity, has always been a very [big] part of Sus Expresiones en la Legislación y en la week of the Supreme Court’s hearings of married couples. my life,” said Gabilondo. “That was a complete coincidence,” “The problem has never been homo- said Gabilondo, “that essay was for a book sexuality or homosexuals. Instead, the Remembering Waugh that was published in Cuba.” problem has always been the heterosexual “But it was a very timely coincidence. condition. What I mean by the hetero- Although to tell you the truth, there’s so sexual condition, is I mean that, at least in much going on now, in terms of gay issues the recent past, when heterosexuals have generally in this country, that I think it understood who they were, their self-con- seems that not a week goes by that you cept was based on excluding homosexu- don’t see a headline involving it,” said ality, and considering it an inferior form Gabilondo. of being,” said Gabilondo. Born in Cuba and raised in Boston, “It’s turning out to be harder for the Gabilondo, with the help of a tutor, decided heterosexual male identity to adapt to the to write his essay entirely in Spanish. gay rights movement, than it has been for “I’ve always made serving the Spanish the heterosexual female identity, for a language media a priority, because what variety of reasons, and I think that’s still I saw, was that, even here at FIU, the going to be the case for a while.” Spanish media was discounted, and people Gabilondo will also speak at the 10th wouldn’t take it as seriously as the English Annual Florida Collegiate Pride Coali- language media. That drove me crazy, tion Conference, which will be from because I thought that was unfair,” said April 5-April 7, here at the University. Gabilondo. “I wrote it largely for a polit- The FCPC is a three-day conference ical reason, because what I was saying is where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, that, it’s as important to write a serious queer and ally college students can come legal work in Spanish as in English. Even together and network, share experiences, ROBERTO JIMENEZ/THE BEACON though, a lot of the faculty here, don’t and educate themselves on issues of the [take] that work seriously, and have said current gay rights movement. Gabilondo Past and present members of the University community gathered on March 26 to so openly, I do think it’s a central part of will speak on Friday, April 5. celebrate the life of Butler Waugh, who died on Nov. 7, 2012. Waugh was the who we are, as a law school and an insti- founding dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1969. tution, and it’s certainly a central part of [email protected] my identity.” 2 The Beacon – Friday, March 29, 2013 NEWS www.fiusm.com Decisions, decisions WORLD NEWS Striking Guantanamo prisoners say water denied Prisoners taking part in expanding hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay leveled new complaints about their military jailers Wednesday as a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross made a fact-finding trip to the U.S. base in Cuba. In an emergency motion filed with a federal court in Washington, lawyers say guards have refused to provide drinking water to hunger strikers and kept camp temperature “extremely frigid,” to thwart the protest. A spokesman for the detention center denied the allegations. Pope Francis forces Argentine ALFONSO YEC/THE BEACON political about-face At a hearing that took place on March 27, plaintiff Richard Moran, sophomore in political science, held the position that each political party should have the opportunity to put up a candidate for each seat. However, Catholic doctrine considers the pope to be defendant Charles Perretti, elections commissioner for the Student Government Council at the Modesto Maidique God’s delegate on Earth. That alone might explain Campus (left), contended that particular circumstance is unjust and would be jamming the ballot. the remarkable about-face that Argentina’s popu- list president Cristina Fernandez and most of her followers have managed to pull off in the days since the cardinal she treated as a political arch-enemy became Pope Francis. Teen indicted in Ga. baby slaying For more world news, check out RUSS BYNUM www.FIUSM.com. nique Lang, was indicted on seven counts before the baby was slain. On March 11, AP Writer including felony murder. But the indict- according to the indictment, Elkins tried ment specifies that authorities believe to rob a person identified as Wilfredo A Georgia teenager shot a it was Elkins who shot the child and Calix-Flores, pointing a gun at him while 13-month-old baby in the face while wounded his mother with a .22-caliber demanding his cellphone and wallet.