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Vol. 26 Issue 49 fiusm.com Monday, January 12, 2015 FIU alumni celebrate in matrimony ruling for legal same-sex marriage AMANDA RABINES difficult to do otherwise.” Multicultural Programs and to LGBTQA initiatives, such sign that read: “IT’S TIME FOR Staff Writer In 2008, Florida passed a Services at FIU. “We [LGBTQA] as promptly supporting and MARRIAGE IN FLORIDA.” [email protected] constitutional gay marriage ban knew it was a matter of time preparing for the ruling on Jan. 5. To be involved with FIU with the support of 62 percent before the Florida ban was It was that afternoon, Pareto LGBTQA visit their “Welcome FIU alumni and former student of voters. Nearly seven years overturned.” and Arguello became the first Reception,” in MMC Jan. 14, in editor for The Beacon, Andrea later, same-sex couples are Two FIU alums from the same-sex couple married in GC 243, from 4-6 p.m., or Jan. Vigil and her partner Rebekah able to marry in 36 states and LGBTQA community, Cathy Florida. 15, at BBC, WUC 157, from 12-2 Monson always considered Washington D.C., now including Pareto and Karla Arguello, agree. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge, p.m. Florida to be their home. Florida. Last fall, the couple of 14 Sarah Zabel, wedded the couple It was where they met almost “It’s a wonderful experience years were guest speakers during and after the ceremony they nine years ago at the Sun Sentinel to finally be able to have my National Coming Out Day at stood outside in their cream and it is where they knew they relationship with this person be FIU, and have been committed colored dresses and held a green wanted to get married. recognized by everyone,” Vigil “We’ve never wanted to go said. “We thought it was going somewhere else to do it, we to take many more years for it to wanted to wait until it was legal happen.” in Florida,” said Vigil, who For years, South Florida gay graduated in 2013 with a degree rights advocates groups like in Liberal Studies after taking a SAVE, have been fighting for hiatus from school to focus on equal rights, including rights to work. “This is our town; it doesn’t the same marriage benefits given make sense to go elsewhere.” to hetero-sexual couples. After same-sex marriage Now, since the ruling in became legal in Florida on Jan. Florida, LGBT couples may 6, the couple joined other eager- qualify for state’s coverage for to-marry lesbian, gay, bi-sexual health insurance and retirement and transgendered couples benefits. in a marriage license bureau Last week, FIU‘s Division downtown, at midnight, to tie the of Human Resources notified knot. FIU employees that the Division The couple flew in Monson’s of State Group Insurance mother from Alabama, filled out (DSGI) will recognize any legal marriage license forms and were marriages as of Jan 6, and will married by an efficient, an hour open a chance to apply for state’s and a half later. benefits programs and family “It’s nice to have it be plans through Friday, March 6, recognized legally,” Vigil 2015. said. “You know, if god forbid “I’m glad to see FIU’s HR PHOTO COURTESY OF BRUCE PINCHBECK. something happened to Rebekah, moving forward,” said Gisela FIU alum Andrea Vigil(left) and partner Rebekah Monson(right) celebrate in matrimony Florida I want to be by her bedside in a P. Vega, Associate Director overturning gay marriage ban. hospital, which would have been for LGBTQA Initiatives and “Argosy” sculpture to be returned after renovations REBECA PICCARDO Marty’s Cube, however, had been donated Staff Writer to the school around 2009 and the [email protected] University chose to return it after housing it for 16 years. The traffic circle at the 16th Street In May, President Mark B. Rosenberg entrance of the made the decision University was to return the cube to blocked off Martin Margulies as Saturday, Dec. a safety measure. 20 by a crane Hinds said back that lifted the red Universities make budgetary in May that over towering sculpture decisions. a period of time that is placed Katherine Hinds outdoor sculptures there, similar to Curator tend to have how Marty’s Cube Margulies Collection maintenance needs. was lifted from “Universities its spot in front of make budgetary Deuxieme Maison decisions,” said in May. Hinds, who was glad The sculpture, that the University owned by the same collector that retrieved gave her the opportunity to take back the the 15-foot spinning cube, was returned once cube to renovate it and bring it back to the base of the sculpture was renovated. top-notch conditions. The Margulies Collection curator, After receiving renovations, the cube Katherine Hinds, said the University will not return to FIU. informed her that “Argosy,” a sculpture “We will then decide where to re-donate by Alexander Liberman, would undergo the work,” said Hinds. renovations in December. Hinds said the cube will be donated to The sculpture is part of the Margulies and maintained by another educational Collection and on loan to the University. institution in Florida. MARIA SOLEDAD LORENZINO/THE BEACON a sculpture by Alexander Liberman, is lifted and removed to allow renovations “Argosy,” of the base. The sculpture will returnto the University once renovations have been completed. 2 The Beacon – Monday, January 12, 2015 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD Women are at forefront of BRIEFS 2 hostage dramas unfolding as China’s anti-smoking crusade French police close on terror suspects TNS STAFF researcher Cheng Li said frowning on women who smoking-related diseases French security forces were locked in standoffs Yang “has played a crucial smoked. According to and other preventable Friday with two sets of hostage takers who appear Nearly every day in role in China’s anti-smoking Carol Benedict’s book illnesses while attending to be part of a single terror cell responsible for the China, women go to work campaign,” particularly by “Golden-Silk Smoke: medical school in Chengdu murders of 12 people at the offices of a satirical Paris newspaper. in smoke-filled offices, co-authoring an influential A History of Tobacco in the early 1980s. Early in The first case was unfolding at what was described exposed to the fumes of 2011 report that documented in China, 1550-2010,” her career, she studied at as the offices of a business not far from Paris’ Charles cigarettes smoked mainly the health effects. society started to describe Harvard School of Public de Gaulle Airport, where the men, believed to be Said by male colleagues. After Other top anti-smoking female smokers as “modern Health and worked on and Cherif Kouachi, had taken a hostage and had told work is over, many go home advocates include Wu women,” a label also given health projects for the World authorities they were “willing to dies as martyrs.” to breathe secondhand Yiqun, the founder of the to the promiscuous and Bank and the World Health As police surrounded that site, a third and possibly smoke created by husbands ThinkTank Research Center unpatriotic. Organization. Because of a fourth suspect – believed to have killed a police or other family members. for Health Development, As a result, women her WHO experience, she woman Thursday morning in a Paris suburb – appar- China is known as the and Xu Guihua, vice chair quit smoking, even as became part of the Chinese ently took five hostages at a Kosher grocery store on Smoking Dragon, but its and secretary-general of Chinese leaders such Mao delegation that worked on the eastern side of the city. addiction to tobacco isn’t the Chinese Association on Zedong and Deng Xiaoping the Framework Convention Television reports showed anti-terror police franti- cally moving into position at both standoffs. shared between the sexes. Tobacco Control. smoked openly in public, on Tobacco Control, which Police had initially said that the Wednesday attack According to the most Angela Pratt, who encouraging the habit China ratified in 2005. on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper was carried out recent national survey, leads the World Health among men. China’s signing of by three people. But authorities had focused on the 288 million men smoked Organization’s anti- Today, China is the that treaty was a triumph Kouachi brothers alone after an 18-year-old initially regularly in China in 2010, smoking efforts in China, world’s biggest consumer of for the global tobacco- identified as a suspect was found to have been in compared with 13 million said Yang, Wu and Xu tobacco. It’s also the largest control movement, but school during the Wednesday shootings. women. had played crucial roles in manufacturer, producing expectations quickly But on Friday, authorities said the Charlie Hebdo Lately, the women are elevating the issue.