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The Student Newspaper of Florida Baseball band International ignites team. 12 University THE BEACON Vol. 17, Issue 48 WWW.BEACONNEWSPAPER.COM March 17, 2005 the UNFAIR FAIR TO AFFECT AVAILABILITY OF PARKING AT UP TAXI!: (Above, left) The Miami-Dade County Youth Fair and Expo- By ALEJANDRA DIAZ UP campus. ment coordinator, Lazaro E. sition, which has made its home at the Tamiami Park neighboring Editor In Chief The fair has partnered with Rodriguez. FIU’s University Park campus for 54 years will once again open the county and FIU to design Despite the rise in visitors its doors to over 800,000 visitors March 17 through April 3. In a Students at the University and organize shared parking that will be using the garages partnership with the county and FIU, fair officials have organized Park campus will experience and the development of a closest to the fair grounds, select parking for fair patrons participating in the 18-day event. an increase in traffic and a Metro Dade bus terminal. The Parking Lot Six, located on (Above, right) Parking Lot Six will remain a residential housing limit in available parking spots terminal, which has allowed for the west side of the WPAC, has parking lot only. ALEX HERNANDEZ/THE BEACON March 17 through April 3. additional student parking, will been designated exclusively as This is because the Miami- be closed during the fair. a residential housing parking Dade County Youth Fair and “Parking Lot Five, located lot. Exposition will be taking place just east of the Wertheim Per- “Lot Six is not going to be SIDENOTE at the neighboring Tamiami forming Arts Center, will be used at all [by fair visitors]. Park, which has been home to closed and used for staging/ It is going to be used exclu- the fair for 54 years. preparation by the Miami-Dade sively by housing students,” Minimizing Fair-related traffic In a memorandum sent to all County Fair and Exposition Rodriguez said. “As a matter inconveniences FIU departments, Michael H. [throughout the duration of of fact, we are going to post a Wright, acting director for the the event],” Wright said in the couple patrollers on that site • After 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, use the Department of Public Safety, memorandum. to prevent people from parking 112 Ave./8 St. or 117 Ave./17 St. entrances to the stated that there will be certain Not only will Parking Lot in there. We will go out of our University. These entrances should be used all day on times when fair patrons will be Five be closed for the 18-day way to prevent any guests for Saturdays and Sundays. utilizing a majority of the park- event, but students who park the Youth Fair to park in Lot ing areas at FIU. in the Blue and Gold Garages Six from 5 to 10 p.m.” • The 107 Ave. entrances will be closed periodically According to the Miami- might have a hard time finding Some students see the on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to accommodate Dade County Fair Expo Center parking after 9 p.m. changes in parking during the Fair traffic. website, the fair is a major “My understanding is that fair and the use of the garages supporter of FIU. The fair not [fair visitors] are going to use by fair patrons as unfair. • Avoid mixing with Fair traffic by utilizing Parking only contributed two million the Blue and Gold garage, and “I think that it is inconsid- Lots 1, 8, 9, 10 and 11. dollars to the FIU commu- they are only going to be used erate for the students [who nity, but it also donated $1.4 after nine o’clock at night. That need to park in the garages] • If problems arise, contact the Department of Public million toward the Wertheim is what [fair officials] told us,” Safety at 305-348-2626. Performing Arts Center at the said Parking and Traffic depart- See FAIR, page 2 Poverty problem in Miami, Pg. 4 Exotic spring break locations, Pg. 6 Softball loses tournament, Pg. 12 03-17-05.news.indd 1 3/16/05 9:38:40 AM 2 The Beacon – March 17, 2005 NEWS www.beaconnewspaper.com NEWSFLASH ON CAMPUS FIU FEATURES FIU to train intelligence analysts A consortium of intelligence-gathering agen- Catholic Student Association cies in Washington, D.C., has selected FIU to lead By ANA RIBEIRO vent of the Handmaids of FIU – didn’t make it to home or to their jobs after the development of academic programs that will Staff Writer the Sacred Heart of Jesus Mass, because he was away classes. produce well-trained and more diverse intelligence in North Miami. at a retreat. He met for the Castillo said setting analysts. Not one FIU student Cooper sat alone dili- first time with members up informational tables The grant FIU received as part of an initiative attended Catholic Mass gently in the front, lis- of the Catholic Student around campus and more seeking to diversify the ranks of its different agencies Feb. 24 in the Biscayne tening to Youth Minister Association at a barbecue entertainment might also awarded by the U.S. Intelligence Community to the Bay Campus Wolfe Uni- Brandon Bach. last summer and agreed to increase attendance at Jack D. Gordon Institute for Policy and Citizen- versity Center. “I have many choices of give Mass on campus every Mass. Bach agreed and ship Studies at FIU’s Center for Transnational and Student Alan Castillo, where to go to Mass on any Thursday, which is usually said he could also bring Comparative Studies (TCS). a sophomore majoring in particular day. You know, “What we proposed is not very different from journalism, arrived after there are half a dozen classes already offered here and at every university,” Mass was already over. parishes around here with Kayjoy Cooper, club member said Ralph Clem, TCS’s director and a professor “During the fall term, I different mass times,” said of international relations. “The program would frequently attended Mass. Cooper. “But I like very I like very much to celebrate the Eucha- coordinate all these subjects and add others to “ I don’t think I missed Mass much to celebrate the rist with the people our campus minis- produce graduates who are competitive for jobs in on Thursdays, but since I Eucharist with the people Washington, D.C.” have another job during our campus minister Bran- ter Brandon Bach gathers together. The grant gives FIU $750,000 for the 18-month the morning on Thursdays don Bach gathers together pilot program, which could then be renewed over and I ride the bus, I don’t – young adults and a priest his day off. some music ministers to four years for up to $3 million. get to Mass [on time],” leader.” The Eucharist – the campus. Mark B. Rosenberg, FIU’s provost and vice said Castillo. According to Cooper, consecration of bread and On Feb. 17, Reverend president for academic affairs, added that the new Castillo is a member of young college students wine into Christ’s flesh Felipe J. Estevez from the initiative will also provide substantial scholarship the Catholic Student Asso- have dedicated much of and blood – was not given Archdiocese of Miami, funds, which will be awarded on a competitive ciation, which organizes their time to secular educa- that Thursday, because was brought in as a special basis. Those scholarships would support advanced BBC’s Mass every Thurs- tion and may have miscon- only priests can perform guest to perform Mass language and other academic training. day at 12:30 p.m. The ceptions about religion. the rites. Instead, Bach, at FIU. Only about 10 Mass is the association’s Cooper said she and other the layperson minister, people attended. Music education requirements to change only regular meeting at members of her congrega- invited Cooper to read a Bach sees the Catho- FIU. tion go to places like FIU passage from the Bible at lic Student Association Students enrolled in the FIU music education The club members also and invite young people the podium. as a community to help program have been voicing complaints after the volunteer at the Pines into their convent to be He asked for a moment students get through col- Florida Legislature asked for an increase in require- Nursing Home one Sat- a Catholic presence for of prayer. Sister Cooper lege and into adulthood, ments for all students majoring in education across urday a month, where they them. then offered a lone prayer giving them “support and the state. sing and play games like “It’s very valuable for for college students. strength in a Catholic According to the students’ complaints, the new Hangman and Trivia, with our next world leaders Bach cited some expla- way.” rule, enforced by the Florida Department of Edu- patients. On Good Friday, … to break through mal- nations for the attendance On Feb.