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M ore than 100 University of Miami students and faculty gathered at the Rock Friday afternoon and stood in silence for 30 minutes to

show their solidarity with students who have faced racism at the University of Missouri, Yale and other universities across the nation. The demon-strators dressed in black and brought signs showing support for students, such as “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” which was the key message they hoped to get across. To ensure that message was heard, Senior Hülya Miclisse-Polat, who assisted in organizing the event, periodically broke the silence and made it clear as to why the demonstration was occurring. “We are against racial injustice,” she said. “We are against racial threats, and anything that happened at Mizzou can happen at any campus and we are watching. UM to Mizzou.”

In addition to the demonstrators, there were a number of supporters standing on the side and giving hand-outs to further explain the situation to people passing by.

The handouts described how, on Oct. 20, black students at the University of Missouri sent a list of demands to the school administration. The students claimed that the administration had failed to properly address daily racial slurs and micro-ag-

gressions. There were protests, a hunger strike and a boycott of all football games by members of the football team.

Many students who walked by said they hadn’t really paid attention to the news and were unaware of the situation at Missouri. The demon-stration worked to call attention to the issue.

Professors who came out to show support said it was important that the university recognized the seriousness of what’s happening across the na-tion.

“I want to make sure everybody understands that one can only learn in an environment condu-cive to respectful sharing of opinions,” said Maria Stampino, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Without that I cannot do my job.”

Stampino said what’s happening shows that oppression is not in the past, and it needs to be ad-dressed over and over again until it no longer ex-ists. She said students have come to her multiple times in her career to discuss options for how to deal with some of the racial discrimination they have faced.

“We can’t just be complacent and say we’re so diverse here it won’t happen here,” she said. “Even just a couple of weeks ago… I know people who were verbally attacked.”

At the end of the demonstration many were drenched in sweat and said they felt dehydrated, but were happy that they came out to support.

“A lot of people honestly don’t know and a lot of people don’t want to know and putting on this demonstration in the center of campus as people walk by, it brings a sense of curiosity,” said sophomore Antonio Mercurius.

There may be a commemorative event or fo-rum to continue the dialogue about what’s going on, according to Miclisse-Polat.

A ll 10 of the Uni-versity of Miami students study-ing abroad in

Paris have been reported safe following the attacks, accord-ing to Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs Patricia Whitely.

Gunmen and suicide bombers coordinated attacks throughout the City of Light on Friday, setting off bombs and shooting hostages. Targets included restaurants, a soccer stadium and the Bataclan, a theatre and national heritage site where a concert was being held. More than 120 people were killed.

Two UM students, junior Jorge Alvarez and senior Jorge Dominicis, were in Paris when the shootings occurred. They learned of the shootings while eating at a restaurant close to the violence. Neither is part of the study abroad group in Paris.

“I went on CNN, and it started off like, ‘Two Dead in Paris,’ then it went to, like, ‘Bombings Next to Soccer Game’ and then it just kept flowing and flowing,” Alvarez said over the phone. “‘Two dead,’ ‘Sixteen dead,’ ‘Forty dead with 60 hostages,’ So we looked to see where it is and we realized we’re literally down the street. We were no joke one block away from one of the cafes that got shot up. We were just kind of freaking out, panicking – I was, at least – and you could just tell that every-one was super tense in the res-taurant.”

The duo didn’t want to leave the restaurant amid the

violence, but the establish-ment legally had to close by midnight. They had to take a cab in order to get back home.

“That’s when I really started freaking out because we were in the area,” Alvarez said. “And the weird part was, every guy I walked by, you just didn’t know because you knew there were people at large. So you would turn your head and look back and they were looking back at you and everyone was just really freaking out.”

UM President Julio Frenk took to Twitter Friday to condemn the violence.

“The attacks in France are an assault on all we uphold,” Frenk said. “The UM family affirms the dignity of all people and stands in solidarity with France.”

Students at the Univer-sity of Miami expressed their concern toward the incident. Areeba Imam, a junior and president of the Muslim Stu-dents of the University of Mi-ami (MSUM), shared how her heart sunk upon hearing the news.

“My immediate reactions were disgust, alarm and sor-row,” Imam said. “Yet another inhumane act had taken the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians.”

Lander McGinn, a senior and president of the Franco-phone Association of Ibis Stu-dents, reacted to the killings with “complete shock,” but also worried about future study abroad opportunities.

“I’m very nervous actu-ally, because I am planning to study abroad in Paris next se-mester,” McGinn said.

According to Devika Milner, director of UM Study Abroad, the school has a sys-tem in place that helps main-tain student safety. A software called red24 logs the itiner-ary information – like current country, length of stay and re-turn date to the U.S. – of every student, faculty and adminis-trator who goes abroad.

Every UM-affiliated per-son going abroad is required

to register with red24. This way, the university can contact people in specific regions. Only certain UM administrators have access to the information in red24.

Despite the happenings in Paris, Milner says that studying abroad is a worthwhile experi-ence.

“I believe it’s more im-portant than ever for students to study abroad,” she said. “It is how we eliminate prejudice and hate, learn to coexist with other cultures, respect different beliefs, and uphold important human values. For our stu-dents who are abroad in France now, we are glad they are safe. Together with our French uni-versity partners, our priority is to provide our students with the support that they need during a stressful situation.”

McGinn, aware of ten-sions between the Muslim and French communities, worries about the potential backlash.

“I’m concerned this will only dig the hole deeper, so to say,” he said. “I’m concerned for French backlash against Muslim citizens not associated with the atrocious acts of the terrorists.”

Imam also fears the back-lash against Muslims, but on a global scale. Regardless, she said MSUM condemns the acts committed in Paris and will express support for the in-dividuals who have suffered.

“As a community of Muslim students, we will also actively engage in alleviating misconceptions about our faith by educating those around us and by allowing people to get to know us personally,” she said.

To the families of victims, McGinn expresses his sincerest condolences.

“The French people are strong and will find comfort in each other and in the three ten-ants they have built their coun-try: liberté, égalité, fraternité (freedom, equality, fraternity),” he said.Julie Harans contributed to this report

By Sherman Hewitt Sherman HewittOnline Editor

By Nadijah Campbell Nadijah CampbellSenior News Writer

Canes in Paris reported safe after terror attacks

Silent demonstration spreads awareness of race relations at Mizzou

INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS LIFE

NO WORDS NECESSARY: In support of students combating racism at Mizzou, Yale and other institutions throughout the nation, more than 100 members of the UM community dress in black and gather at the Rock for a silent protest Friday afternoon. The 30 minutes of silence aimed to raise campus awareness of the issue.

William Riggin William Riggin // News Editor

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F ifth graders f locked from Nova Blanche Forman El-ementary School to the Uni-versity of Miami campus to

learn about robotics and engineering on Thursday.

Ubbo Visser, an associate professor of computer science at UM, presented his two-foot companion, an autonomous, hu-manoid robot that played soccer in front of the students. He gave a general over-view of all the complex systems that make the robot work. The kids were engaged throughout the presentation and eagerly asked questions.

“I had the feeling they really enjoyed it,” said Visser, who was relieved that the demonstration was completed with-out major issues. “Real-time robotics is

always tricky; something can always go wrong. In this case, it worked quite well … I was happy that the robot could see the ball, which is not trivial at all.”

Visser’s team of animatronic soccer players f lew to Brazil last year to com-pete in the RoboCup Open, a huge World Cup-styled robot soccer tournament in which 358 teams from 45 different coun-tries competed for robot glory. Robo-Canes Miami took an impressive second-place f inish.

The RoboCanes team also chal-lenged the two world-record-holding fast-est robots to a race and won. UM’s robot managed to outpace the robots from the Technical University of Dortmund and the Leipzig University of Applied Sci-ences in impressive fashion.

Visser said that their success wasn’t easy to achieve.

“The number of daily challenges we have is really large, and I’m enjoying hav-ing that challenge. There’s nothing else more satisfying than seeing something on a real, physical, embodied system work-ing in a robust manner … It can be very stressful, but very, very rewarding as well.”

The fifth graders from Broward County also watched a presentation by UM’s Society of Women Engineers. The

organization’s president, senior Amanda Klaristenfeld, enjoyed teaching the young students.

“It’s great to be able to put engineer-ing into a perspective where students that young can understand it. So we related

each discipline of engineering to how chocolate is made.”

Before going home after their f ield trip, the students were given a tour of UM’s campus.

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professor and chair of the Department of Marine Ecosystems and Society, moder-ates Friday’s panel discussion on climate change with local practitioners and stakeholders from South Florida and Ca-ribbean Islands, along with the Intergovern-

mental Panel on Cli-mate Change (IPCC) and UM authors.

The panel con-cluded a two-day conference on climate change and its impli-cations for sea-level rise and South Florida that was hosted by the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) and IPCC.

CLIMATE CHANGE SPARKS CONVERSATION

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S tudents inclined to proactive aggression, as opposed to stu-dents inclined to reactive ag-gression, often see little reason

to change their ways due to this goal-orient-ed aggressive behavior. According to Jim Larson, professor emeritus of psychology and former director of the School Psychol-ogy Training Program at the University of Wisconsin, these students are belligerent because of their desire for something more.

Larson presented his studies on ag-gressive youth to an audience of educa-tional professionals, teachers and other professions as the keynote speaker for the conference on School Safety and Violence Prevention, an event held by the University of Miami School of Education and Human Development and The Melissa Institute Friday morning.

“Proactive aggression is any aggres-sion, whether done by a child, teenager, or adult, that is planned, has a goal to it, tends to be not anger-reactive, but simply aggres-sion that is looking to obtain something. That’s instrumental aggression,” said Lar-son.

When it comes to college students, Larson said they are less aggressive than their counterparts who are not in college.

“There’s something to be said about somebody who has the self-control to go to college also has the self-control to avoid fighting, if they stay sober,” Larson said.

Along with this presentation, other speakers presented how these studies ei-ther influenced or directly affected the transitioning procedure for dealing with disciplinary issues in Miami-Dade public schools, which was the main focus for the conference.

Executive Director of the Division of Educational Opportunity and Access

Deborah Montilla spoke about the current perceptions of handling disciplinary issues with students. Of the many procedures, Montilla’s focus was on the use of Outdoor Suspension and how alternatives to suspen-sion provide opportunities to identify and eliminate root causes of behavior.

“[Our goal] is to lead these off-track students with high-promise toward safety, health and well-being,” said Montilla.

Another topic of discussion came from Frank Zenere, department head of the MDCPS Crisis Management Program. Zenere spoke of youth who have been im-pacted by childhood trauma. He compared the trauma to a snow globe; when the snow globe is shaken, there’s chaos within, simi-lar to childhood trauma being the leading cause for psychological issues.

“Things will forever be different [after the initial shake of the snow globe]” said Zenere.

Although the conference was geared toward students of Miami-Dade Public Schools, Larson assured that these issues are also present in adults both in college and in the workplace.

T he School of Nurs-ing and Health Stud-ies (SONHS) broke ground on construc-

tion of one of the nation’s first edu-cation-based simulation hospitals Thursday afternoon.

The five-story, 41,000-square-foot facility will allow students to practice their skills in an im-mersed environment. University of Miami trustees, administrators, students, faculty, staff, donors and other guests gathered for the cer-emony next to the M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies.

“The simulation hospital will be a destination center for cut-ting-edge education,” said Nilda Peragallo Montano, the Dean of SONHS. “I hear from community partners that they love hiring our graduates, and that is because of the preparation that each of them undertake in their course. This will redefine excellence in health-care education.

Members in the audience were taken on an interactive tour of the numerous cutting-edge and up-to-date departments and fa-cilities that will be featured in the new hospital. Each department will be outfitted with standard-ized patient actors -- human actors who portray patients with real life symptoms -- and have a designed purpose to familiarize nursing students with different scenarios.

The emergency department will have six Emergency Re-sponse (ER) bays where students can tackle a range of real-life situ-

ations, from caring for trauma at-tacks to treating chemical attacks. Even the simplest procedures such as patient transport and hand-offs to different rooms will be taught.

The simulation hospital will also include intensive care units with the same high-tech equip-ment found in hospitals, labor and delivery rooms to simulate birth, and what-if scenarios for situa-tions like a sick newborn baby.

The new construction was met with delight from President Julio Frenk, who has an exten-sive background in the healthcare field.

“I am a strong believer in using simulation as education,” Frenk said. “We can profit and exploit human errors, which will teach humans to learn from their mistakes.”

With $7 million at its dispos-al, the hospital’s fundraising has been led by Pamela Garrison, the co-chair of the simulation hospital campaign. They are still seeking donors, as construction costs are expected to reach $12 million.

“As our country faces a short-age of nurses, it is more important to invest in innovation in the fu-

ture of healthcare,” said Garrison, who is a retired nurse with over 50 years of experience in the health-care field. “Simulation saves lives. I am sure many of you had [new] nurses practiced on you and you wish they had more practice be-fore.”

The idea for the simula-tion hospital was conceived at the SONHS’s 65th anniversary two years ago. While the nurs-ing school currently has a 5,500 square-foot simulation center, a simulation hospital is thought of as a huge upgrade.

Luis Diaz-Paez, an alumnus of the SONHS, spoke about how his experience in simulations helped him as a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

“Some new graduates have limited experience to life-threaten-ing issues. For me, I was exposed to stressful life-threatening issues during simulation that helped me be confident to care for those criti-cally ill patients,” he said. “Simu-lation provides the students with a flight-or-fight ambiance in a safe, controlled environment, without the risk of losing a life.”

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REVEALING RESEARCH: Jim Larson, of the University of Wisconsin Psychology Department, presents studies on youth aggression Friday morning at the Alumni Center. Larson was the keynote speaker for the conference on School Safety and Violence Prevention.

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REVOLUTIONIZED RESOURCES: The School of Nursing and UM administration commence the construc-tion of one of the nation’s fi rst education-based simulation hospitals Thursday evening. The new, 41,000-square-foot facility will be equipped with six Emergency Response bays and multiple intensive care units to familiarize nursing students with different scenarios.

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We reserve this Monday’s editorial to ex-press our deepest condolences to the lives lost this weekend to hateful, meaningless acts of terror.

On Friday evening, scores of Parisians and visitors kicked off the weekend with a night of music, a game of soccer or dinner and drinks, with absolutely no inkling of what was to come. Within an hour, 129 people were dead and more than 300 injured by suicide bombings and shoot-ing rampages that occurred at multiple locations throughout central Paris. Since then, the fatalities

have risen to 132 with the deaths of seriously in-jured victims.

Less than a year after the January terror at-tacks on Charlie Hebdo, yet another pall of death has fallen over the city beloved for its dazzling sense of life and love. Around the world, people have wept for Paris, for Beirut and for Baghdad. These lives have been lost at the hands of militants with no purpose other than to instill fear and ter-ror.

Yet in spite of these terrible attacks, human-ity has still managed to shine through.

Reports and videos are surfacing of the con-certgoers dragging injured victims out of the path of gunfire and helping each other escape. As the attacks unfolded, Parisians began to offer shelter to those in need by using the hashtag “#PorteOu-verte” on Twitter. Isobel Bowdery, a concertgoer from South Africa, reported on Facebook about the courage she witnessed while lying on the ground of the Bataclan. She thanked a man who had reassured and covered her head while they were both pretending to be dead and strangers who had given her a ride and comforted her while

she was waiting to hear news about her boyfriend, among others.

In Beirut, Lebanon, the day before, Adel Termos was spending time with his daughter in a commercial area of southern Beirut when he witnessed the first of two suicide bombings near a Shia mosque. He then noticed the second suicide bomber and tackled him to the ground, causing the vest to detonate prematurely, an effort that cost him his life. Dr. Elie Fares, a blogger and physician living in Lebanon, said, “There are many, many families, hundreds of families proba-bly, who owe their completeness to his sacrifice.”

Undoubtedly, the airwaves will be taken over by talks of tactics and strategies, of alliances and summits, and of immigration policies and security crackdowns in response to these events. But let us take this moment to quietly grieve these terrible attacks on humanity.

We mourn the lives that were interrupted too early; we commend the bravery of the victims and survivors, and we admire the world’s immense capacity for love and solidarity in the face of hate.

Terror attacks rivet eyes of world, inspire acts of humanity

A s registration rolls around, students are faced with the stressful situation of deciding which classes to take. While enrolling for classes is annoying at uni-

versities everywhere, the registration process at the University of Miami continuously proves to be unnecessarily problematic. Creating next semes-ter’s schedule should not be more stressful than a 300-level class.

For the fourth semester in a row, I have franti-cally had to rearrange my entire, carefully thought-out schedule because the day before my registra-tion appointment, the classes that I needed to take

filled up. This semester I had no choice but to take a bunch of random electives strictly because of scheduling issues.

The scheduling system here at UM makes no sense. Why are busi-ness school students allowed to sign up for communication school classes before the communication school students? Each student should only be allowed to sign up for classes for his or her major at

first, and when everyone is registered for their required classes, then they should be able to enroll in classes in other schools.

I am not just speaking from personal experience. This week I have talked to numerous people of various majors who have found themselves in the same situation: being locked out of a class that is required for their majors.

This is not the only issue when it comes to scheduling. There are so many classes that only have one section scheduled. For a university that has over 10,000 undergraduate students, it doesn’t take someone smart enough to be one of those students to realize that one section of a class is not enough.

It is not only the limited amount of sections that prove to be prob-lematic, but also the number of spots available for each class. If a class is only going to have one section, then maybe there should be more than 18 available spots.

I don’t know, just a thought.I was hesitant to write this letter because I thought it may not

make a difference, which may still be true, but after having to put off required classes for both of my majors semester after semester and seeing my classmates experience the same frustration, I had to say something.

The system is clearly not well thought out and needs to be changed.

Lizzie Wilcox is a sophomore majoring in French and media management.

Signing up for classes creates myriad of scheduling issues

ACADEMICS

By Lizzie WilcoxLizzie WilcoxGuest Columnist

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L ately, I have been medi-tating on the meaning of words. I’m not talking about dictionaries and

flashcards, but rather the silent, of-ten profound implications that our words carry.

When I first read about the har-rowing string of hate crimes happen-ing at the University of Missouri, my initial reaction was one of vague and profound unsettlements. That was all I could say – it was unsettling.

But “unsettling” is a cop-out word. You say it when something horrible happens to somebody else, and you need to convey some form of ground-level sympathy to avoid being labeled by society as cold and unfeeling. “A police officer mistook his gun for a Taser and killed an unarmed black man? Oh dear, how deeply unsettling.” There. Now your debt of sympathy has been paid and you can walk away feeling good about yourself for possessing such unbearably low standards of understanding.

As much as people want to believe that merely ac-knowledging the existence of discrimination is in itself a means of dispelling it, that’s just not how the world works. And in case you were wondering, flat-out denying that racism is alive and well in today’s society is not ac-ceptable either.

Hell unraveled at the University of Missouri through the promise of a school shooting, anonymous death threats to black students, student arrests, an eight-day hunger strike, public protests and a volatile atmosphere indicative of an extreme level of social unrest. In his let-ter of response to Missouri students, Chancellor Richard Loftin alluded to the university’s core values: respect, re-sponsibility, discovery and excellence, stating that these values “leave no room for bias and discrimination.”

While it’s nice to think that carving big, progres-sive terms into stone and calling them “core values” will cause any brazenly bigoted students to take a step back and immediately reject the centuries-old notion of white supremacy, the chancellor’s response more closely resem-bles what one Mizzou student called a “polished piece of politically correct garbage.”

Also, let’s be clear, chancellor: calling repulsive hate crimes “acts of bias” is like calling Watergate a little white lie. So strap on your big boy shoes, take the silver spoon out of your mouth and start treating this situation and the students you are meant to represent with the proper level of respect.

This pattern of behavior – also exhibited by the Uni-versity of Missouri’s now-former President Timothy M. Wolfe, who resigned on Monday amid protests spurred by his gross inaction following reports of intolerance on campus – is nothing new. In fact, the United States has been systematically degrading black individuals for cen-turies.

Knowing this, the question that burned in my mind was: how? How have we as a nation allowed such blatant racism to persist for so long? Why do we condone rather than condemn inaction on the part of the people who are meant to protect us?

The answer is that racism eludes lawfulness and, of-ten, our consciousness of it. Racism is the undying and amorphous cancer that lives in legal loopholes, ousting all attempts to hinder its influence and thriving on the ig-norant minds of those who have mouths but no thoughts. We see it in the act of gerrymandering – redrawing district lines to discriminate against a group of people – that, de-spite its illegality, is a favorite pastime of politicians. We see it in our prisons, in which 60 percent of incarcerated individuals are people of color, even though only 30 per-cent of our nation matches that demographic. We see it in the continual slandering of our president, who – despite disproving all of the insane accusations regarding his reli-gion and country of birth – will never stop being called a Muslim foreigner. This story has roots in the very begin-nings of our country.

As the Civil War came to a bloody close and the in-stitution of slavery was thought to have met its end, the Jim Crow laws were right there to knock equality off of its pedestal and to introduce black Americans to a new brand of derision – one that spoke not through procla-mations and legal jargon, but through the subtle torture of insistence. Law is secondary to belief, and when the overwhelming majority of Southerners were set on keep-ing their former property in their place, equality was im-possible. Slavery withered and gave life to its posterity, segregation, which reigned with the same cruel spirit.

When the Civil Rights Act stomped that out in 1964, racism was weakened but in no way defeated and learned to persist in the silence of others. Today, it lives behind the closed lips of Congress, which never succeeded in passing any of the 200 anti-lynching bills that came its way. It lives inside the bullets that fly through beautiful black kids playing with small plastic guns in the park. It lives in the employment disparity between Joshua and Ja-mal. It lives in the potency of the racial slurs hurled at Payton Head and it thrives in the debilitating silence that

has suffocated the bemused President Wolfe and Chancel-lor Loftin.

Simply stated, racism exists because, too often, we reject the idea that breaking the silence can make a differ-ence. Because we refuse to confront our own prejudices. Because doing nothing is easier than doing something. It is time for this kind of thinking to end.

Concerned Student 1950 – an activist group spear-heading the fight to end racial hostility on college cam-puses that is named after the year in which the first black student was accepted into the University of Missouri – has stood strong all the while, protesting peacefully and effectively to make their message heard. Currently, stu-dents of color and student allies across the United States are declaring their solidarity with Missouri students on social media, adding: “To those who would threaten their sense of safety, we are watching.”

While students, administrators and police attempt to quietly pick up the pieces and bring solace and dignity back to Mizzou’s flagship campus in Columbia, a group of students can be found huddled in a field, linking arms and swaying as they sing “We Shall Overcome” – the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s – a haunting declaration of the distance we have yet to con-quer and a beautiful emblem of the direction in which we are moving.

Mackenzie Karbon is a freshman majoring in jazz performance.

Intolerance furthered by our silence

By Mackenzie KarbonMackenzie KarbonStaff Columnist

AROUND THE NATION

SIMPLY STATED, RACISM EXISTS BECAUSE, TOO OFTEN, WE REJECT

THE IDEA THAT BREAKING THE SILENCE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

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Creative ideas pushed to limit in 24 Hour Play Festival

By Madelyn PaquetteMadelyn PaquetteStaff Writer

P utting on a play is a drawn-out, complicated process. First, a produc-er must choose the show

and fund it. Then, the director has to cast the play and create an artistic vi-sion for the production. The actors rehearse for weeks; the technical team constructs the world of the play and the stage manager keeps the whole affair running smoothly. Finally, all of this culminates in the performance itself. This timeframe doesn’t even in-clude the months or even years that the playwright spent on the script.

What happens when all that work is condensed into a single day?

This is the idea behind the 24 Hour Play Festival that will take place at the University of Miami in January.

Theatre professor and Jerry Her-man Ring Theatre Interim Artistic Director Peter Ellenstein was the driv-ing force behind bringing this event to campus. The festival will give students the opportunity to execute a play in only 24 hours.

“It’s one of the most creative, combustible events that I can think of,” Ellenstein said about the en-deavor. “It also allows people to do things they don’t usually do and take chances.”

Ellenstein’s experience with the 24 Hour Play Festival stretches back two decades. In 1995, his friend Tina Fallon called him with the initial idea.

“I was one of the first people she called about it,” Ellenstein recounted. “She explained it to me and I said, ‘That’s, like, the worst idea I’ve ever heard.’”

However, after Ellenstein worked on the show at the New York International Fringe Festival, he changed his mind.

“I realized while doing it that it’s not about the perfection of theater; it’s about this explosive, creative event that makes you make fast and [make] hard choices and embrace your creativity in a different way,” he said. “The audi-ence had a blast.”

UM’s festival will begin on the night of Jan. 22, when everyone in-volved will gather in the Ring Theatre with a prop or costume for potential inspiration. The 24 actors will then introduce themselves to the six play-wrights before going home to rest for a long day ahead. The playwrights will pick their casts and then spend all night working to produce a short script with the help of faculty advisors. At 6 a.m., they will finalize their drafts and sleep off the long night.

Then, the directors, stage manag-ers and actors will gather for breakfast and a day of rehearsals, all taking turns in the actual performance space. The 24 Hour Plays are set to be directed by theatre department faculty, but all oth-er participants will be students. Finally, at 8 p.m., the curtain will go up. The plays will be performed to the public just one hectic day after they were first written.

“Some of it will turn out wonder-ful art, some of it will turn out well-intentioned disaster, and that’s all part of the fun,” Ellenstein said. “It gives you a chance to just try and be in an in-tensely collaborative experience. It’s an adventure that will only happen once, never again.”

Interested students can fill out applications before Dec. 4 to be con-sidered to participate. The final perfor-mance is open to the general public. To sign up for the Hurricane 24 Hours Play, visit http://bit.ly/1PI95HS.

‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ covers all bases

By Jackie YangJackie YangOpinion Editor

D uring a pre-screening of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” at Sunset Place AMC Theatre on Thursday, the film followed a surprisingly thrilling plot. Based on the popular 2009 mash-

up novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith inspired by Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” combines two unlikely premises into one deftly-scripted, entertaining and fast-paced film: the beloved romance between Mr. Darcy and Lizzie Bennet, and a British war against the undead. The genteel Regency era is married with the gun-slinging, zombie-killing world of “The Walking Dead.”

“Zombies,” set to release in early February 2016, is based off of the original Austen storyline: it follows the trials and tribulations of the five Bennet sisters as they grow up in the gentry of 19th-century England. A young Mr. Bingley (Doug-las Booth) and Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) move into the neigh-borhood and stir the small town’s rumor mill with their good looks and equally handsome fortunes. The eldest Bennet sis-ter, Jane (Bella Heathcote), falls in love with Mr. Bingley, who also falls in love with her. Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James), the headstrong second-oldest sibling, instantly detests the snooty Mr. Darcy, who can’t help but fall in love with her.

However, the plot is a bit different in this version of events. Not only are the Bennet sisters worried about their love lives, but they are also worried about surviving the zom-bie apocalypse. Instead of getting a home education in sewing or drawing, the sisters are sent off to China to train in the mar-tial arts. Mr. Darcy is no longer a landlord who otherwise sits on his bum all day, he is formidable zombie hunter who goes around Britain to sniff out (and snuff out) the freshly-bitten undead.

“Zombies” closely parallels Austen’s original plot for the first half of the movie, then turns the novel on its head. Some of the most beloved parts of the original novel are set aside to make room for more urgent and gripping plot points such as the schemes of a certain Captain Wickham (Jack Huston). Surprising alliances are formed between characters who would otherwise detest each other in Austen’s version of events.

While the combination sounds like a train wreck at first glance, similar to how Grahame-Smith’s other mashup, “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” turned out on the silver screen, what saves “Zombies” from inanity is that the zombie plot is not just an embellishment for additional excitement. Rather, it is thoughtfully incorporated to amplify Austen’s original commentary on the subjects of marriage, greed, lust,

the role of women, societal norms and, of course, pride and prejudice.

The impending zombie war transposed over Austen’s original plot serves to add an additional pressure, showing just how ridiculous some human and societal concerns can be when put in the context of life or death. At the end of the day, no matter what goes wrong, the worst that could ever happen in the world of “Pride and Prejudice” is a broken heart or a ruined reputation. Grahame-Smith, among other writers like P.D. James, author of spinoff murder mystery “Death Comes to Pemberley,” raised those stakes for us, leaving audience members on the edge of their seats.

“Zombies” is a “Pride and Prejudice” reimagining that is just as romantic and witty at the original but is also deadly and dangerous. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as seeing Lizzie and Darcy reenact Austen’s proposal scene while engaged in fierce hand-to-foot combat.

Do not be fooled by the connection to Jane Austen. This movie is not for the faint-hearted. While many scenes are as delicate and rose-tinted as any other rendering of “Pride and Prejudice,” when it’s zombie time, the fear factor is no joke. Director Burr Steers employs suspense masterfully. While “Zombies” is far from a horror film, this is not a movie to watch alone.

Yet “Zombies” doesn’t take itself too seriously. Steers leaves plenty of room for humor and self-mockery. Matt Smith of “Doctor Who” makes a lovable cameo as Mr. Col-lins, Lizzie’s cousin and undesired suitor. “Game of Thrones” fans will rejoice at seeing Lena Headey assume the role of an over-the-top, catsuit-wearing, eye-patched ninja version of Lady Catherine de Bourgh that is nearly unrecognizable from the traditional stuffy, grandmotherly character that readers have come to hate so well.

Austen’s own razor-sharp wit is met with the film’s fierce action. “Zombies” is an unexpectedly multifaceted storytell-ing success that will be a treat for Austen fans and thrill-seekers alike.

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T he Hurricanes’ embarrass-ing 59-21 loss to No. 23 University of North Caro-lina (UNC) was a brutal

learning experience. The blowout put Miami’s dreams of an ACC Coastal title to rest and handed the team its first defeat under Interim Head Coach Larry Scott. Much like the game against Clemson three weeks ago, the Tar Heels got off to a fast start while the Hurricanes came out completely flat. To put it bluntly, Miami (6-4, 3-3) was outplayed in every aspect of the game.

Here are a few things we learned on Saturday.

Miami can be its own worst enemyThe Tar Heels certainly deserved to win the game on Saturday, but if any-thing, the Hurricanes’ wounds were self-inflicted. Miami had three costly turnovers in the first half: the first was a fumble recovery from a bad snap that flew over sophomore quarterback Brad Kaaya’s head, the second was an inter-

ception that was returned for 60 yards deep into Miami territory and the third was a Kaaya fumble deep in UNC terri-tory. The Tar Heels capitalized on those opportunities, scoring two touchdowns off the takeaways.

Turnovers weren’t the only prob-lem that plagued the Hurricanes on Sat-urday. As a team, they were flagged 12 times for 103 yards. The negative yard-

age cost them field position and ruined drives. Although turnovers were not an issue earlier in the year for Miami, pen-alties have been a nagging problem for the Hurricanes all season, as the team leads the nation averaging 84.9 penalty yards a game.

The offensive line is a major weakness

The Hurricanes knew the young offensive line was going to struggle this season with four new starters. Junior guard Danny Isidora is the only starter to return from last year’s team and the group as a whole entered the first game with 22 combined starts. The line has consistently failed to protect Kaaya or to create holes for running backs Joe Yearby and Mark Walton.

Clemson only rushed two defend-ers on the Shaq Lawson sack that gave Kaaya a concussion three weeks ago, which resulted in redshirt freshman Ma-lik Rosier starting against Duke. Rosier got injured in his first series against the Blue Devils and was evaluated in a Durham-area hospital after the game. Then on Saturday, Kaaya was sacked twice – one leading to a fumble – and

received a high snap from sophomore center Nick Linder that North Carolina recovered. Kaaya and Yearby have still had solid seasons, but the offensive line needs to improve for the offense to fire on all cylinders.

North Carolina is for realMuch like the Clemson game

showed the nation that the Tigers – now the consensus No. 1 ranked team – were playoff contenders, North Carolina’s drubbing of Miami proved that the Tar Heels are an elite team. North Carolina (9-1, 6-0) can even be a dark-horse can-didate for a playoff spot if the team takes down Clemson in the ACC Champion-ship. They have a complete roster full of talent and experience. Offensively, senior quarterback Marquise Williams can make plays and has a stable of skilled players to distribute the ball to.

On defense, the Tar Heels excel at stopping the pass. North Carolina only allows an average of 176.1 passing yards per game, 11th best in the country out of 128 teams. If the Tar Heels win one of their final two games to clinch the Coastal, they will pose a serious threat to Clemson in the ACC Championship.

Number of penalties called on Miami for 849 yards this season. Both figures are the highest in the country out of 128 teams.96SportsSports

COMMENTARY

Loss to North Carolina lends 3 lessons

By David ClineDavid ClineContributing Sports Writer

T he Hurricanes defeated ACC foe Notre Dame 3-1 at the Knight Sports Complex on Sunday. It was a much-needed win going into the final stretch of the season, especially after Miami (18-8, 11-4) lost at home for the

first time this season Friday night to Louisville.“Friday was such a close game that we talked a lot about find-

ing a couple points and minimizing some errors,” Head Coach Jose Gandara said.

Sophomore setter Haley Templeton did well distributing the ball, tallying 51 assists for the match. Her efforts allowed three hit-ters to tally more than 10 kills each.

“We didn’t have a bad hitter today,” Templeton said. “All of our hitters stepped up today.”

Senior outside hitter Alexis Mourning finished with 13 kills while outside hitters redshirt junior Kelsie Groot and sophomore Olga Strantzali both recorded 14.

“It was a good matchup for me,” Mourning said. “They only had one blocker, so I had a lot of opportunities.”

The Canes beat the Irish 25-16 in the first set after taking a 5-0 lead thanks to Strantzali’s serving and kills from Mourning. The Irish offense never got going due to poor passing and hitting errors. However, Notre Dame rebounded in the second game, winning 25-21.

The teams traded points throughout games three and four, and Miami suffered from unforced errors as well as a few question-able calls from the referees. Despite this, the Canes came back and won both games 25-18, 25-18.

“Notre Dame (6-22, 1-15) is a team that doesn’t make a lot of errors, so that puts pressure on you to perform and execute,” Gan-dara said. “The lesson is that we can’t control what they do. We just do what we do.”

The Canes, now 11-1 at home, have four more regular season games before the NCAA Tournament starts on Dec. 3. The team next plays Duke at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Knight Sports Complex.

VOLLEYBALL

Canes bounce back with 3-1 win over Irish

By Rachel Cox-RosenRachel Cox-RosenAssistant Sports Editor

READY, SET, H IKE : Sophomore quar terback Brad Kaaya ( 15) l ines up beh ind sophomore center N i ck L inder (68) dur ing the f i rs t ha l f o f the game aga ins t C lemson on Oct . 24 . The o f fens ive l ine cont inued to s t rugg le in protec t ing Kaaya dur ing S aturday ’s 59-2 1 loss to Nor th Caro l ina in Chape l H i l l .

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Evelyn Choi // Evelyn Choi // Staff PhotographerStaff Photographer

SOARING SCOTT: Senior outside hitter Taylor Scott (22) reaches for the ball during Sunday’s 3-1 win over Notre Dame. The Canes bounced back after a 3-1 loss to Louisville on Friday.

10 SPORTS THE MIAMI HURRICANE November 16 - November 18, 2015

T hird-seeded junior Max Andrews won the singles bracket of the Dick Vitale Lakewood Ranch Intercol-

legiate Clay Court Classic on Sunday in Sarasota. He defeated Minneso-ta’s Ruben Weber, the tournament’s fourth seed, in two sets 6-4, 6-4.

On his way to the finals, An-drews topped Princeton’s Benjamin Tso in the quarterfinals in two short sets, 6-3, 6-1, and bested fellow Hur-ricane sophomore Christian Langmo in the semifinals on Saturday.

The match was close as they split the first two sets, but the second-seed-ed Langmo was forced to retire in the third set with an injury, giving An-drews the victory.

Earlier on Saturday, Langmo and Andrews played together as a doubles duo. They reached the doubles semi-finals, where they lost to Florida Gulf Coast’s tandem of Andres Alfonzo and Oliver Landert.

Sophomore Niclas Genovese also saw action in the singles bracket. He was able to the push top-seeded Tom Colautti of Princeton to a close match before eventually falling in a third set.

Members of the women’s tennis team competed as well this weekend. For the second consecutive year, se-nior Stephanie Wagner reached the semifinals of the USTA/ITA Na-tional Indoor Intercollegiate Cham-pionships (NIIC) in Flushing, New York. Wagner, the No. 6 player in the country, lost to the top-ranked fresh-man of the tournament, Ohio State’s Francesca Di Lorenzo, in straight sets on Saturday.

Early on in the first set of the match, Wagner fell behind, dropping four of the first five games. After win-

ning three of the next four games, she drew within one point of ty-ing the set at five a piece, but was unable to score at the critical junc-ture. Wagner lost both sets 6-4, 6-4.

“Steffi strug-gled today with putting a complete match together and recognizing the way she was winning point[s],” As-sociate Head Coach Laura Vallverdu said to HurricaneSports.com.

En route to the semifinals, Wag-ner defeated two top-ten ranked oppo-nents, upping her total to six top-ten victories all time.

Wagner took down No. 2 Brooke Austin of the University of Florida in three sets in the round of 16. Wagner struggled in the first set, as she got down early and eventually lost 6-3. Bouncing back in the second set, Wag-ner went up 5-3, but Austin would not allow Wagner to completely reverse the momentum of the match. Austin won the next two games, bringing the set to an even 5-5 score. Wagner recovered to win the next two games for a 7-5 win. The third and final set belonged to Wagner, as she was able to put away Austin 6-4.

After defeating Austin, Wagner advanced to the quarterfinals to face Vanderbilt’s Sydney Campbell. Wag-ner easily advanced past the seventh-ranked player in two sets 6-3, 6-4.

Vallverdu attributes Wagner’s success not only to her physical game, but also to her improved mental com-posure.

“Steffi has improved her mental side of the game, which makes her really dangerous,” Vallverdu said to HurricaneSports.com.

No. 13 sophomore Sinead Lo-han also was in action in the NIIC. She lost in her first round matchup in two sets to No. 11 Joana Eidukonyte of Clemson. The first set was closely contested, as it went to a tiebreaker with a final score of 7-6, but Lohan lost control of the match in the second set, losing 6-1.

The NIIC and Dick Vitale Clay Court Classic were the Hurricanes’ last tournaments of the fall season. The teams will return to the court in January 2016.

T he Hurricanes took down Bethune-Cookman 55-47 at the BankUnited

Center on Sunday to go to 2-0 this season.

The Canes out-rebounded the Wildcats 43-26 and controlled the pace of the game, taking 17 more shots. The team struggled from behind the three-point line in the first half but got it together in the second half, shooting 6-of-13 from range.

Redshirt senior guard Mi-chelle Woods led the team in scoring with 17 points, includ-ing four three-pointers. Redshirt junior forward Keyona Hayes recorded a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Sopho-more forward Erykah Davenport had six key points in the third quarter and added six rebounds.

“I thought the post players in the second half really, espe-cially Erykah and Key, just got in there and they did the adjust-ments and then that freed up [Woods],” Head Coach Katie Meier said. “Then she really changed the game.”

The Canes got off to a slug-gish start, only shooting 36 per-cent from the field in the first quarter. The team was able to get open shots but could not convert on them. Miami shot a miserable 1-of-8 from three in the opening 10 minutes while Bethune-Cook-man went 4-of-5 from distance.

The Wildcats (0-1) contin-ued to play sound defense against the Canes in the second period. They clogged up the inside us-ing an effective 2-3 zone that forced Miami to settle for jump

shots. The Wildcats consistently switched well on defense, causing the Canes to struggle on offense.

The Canes created turn-overs against the Wildcats toward the end of the second quarter, but it was not enough to gain the lead as Miami trailed 21-19 at the half. Miami out-rebounded Bethune-Cookman 21-10 in the first two quarters, which normally trans-lates well to the scorecard. How-ever, the Canes only converted six second-chance points from 12 offensive rebounds.

Miami started the second half on a positive note with Woods hitting three straight three-pointers to put the Canes up by five with 7:37 left in the third quarter. The team’s ball movement vastly improved in this period, suddenly finding holes in the Wildcats’ defense.

The Canes made a con-certed effort to get the ball inside to Davenport in the third. She

made effective moves in the post on three straight offensive pos-sessions and converted on all of them. The team led 39-33 going into the fourth quarter.

Although still not shooting a great field goal percentage, Mi-ami continued to control the pace of the game for the entire fourth quarter to pull off the eight-point win.

“Obviously we are search-ing for our offense and I think Bethune-Cookman did a nice job in their zone [with] changing their defenses and taking things away that we need in order to be successful,” Meier said. “I also think that the shots that we got early, they were good shots, but when they don’t go in we have to make an adjustment.”

The Canes next face Old Dominion at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in Norfolk, Virginia.

BASKETBALL TENNIS

By Tej JoshiTej JoshiCopy Editor

By Isaiah Kim-MartinezIsaiah Kim-MartinezContributing Sports Writer

Canes improve to 2-0 after beating Bethune-Cookman

Andrews cruises to victory, Wagner falls in semifinals

Shreya Chidarala // Shreya Chidarala // Assistant Photo EditorAss istant Photo Editor

VICTORY STRIDE: Junior guard Adrienne Motley brings the ball up the court during Sunday’s game against Bethune-Cookman. Miami moved to 2-0 with a 55-47 win at the BankUnited Center.

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We’ve been together for a while, so we’ve tried almost everything in the sack at least once. I thought it would be fun to introduce somebody new to the bedroom, but I’m not totally sure if I’m comfortable with it.

We talked about having a menage a trois once in the past, but I started to look for a girl on the Internet and got cold feet. My boyfriend dropped the idea for a while.

A three-way has always been one of my boyfriend’s fantasies. I’d love to do some-thing special for him, but I’m not sure that I’ll be okay with it. I think I might get jealous or insecure afterward.

Should I go ahead and arrange the rendezvous, or should I find another birthday gift?

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Dear Two’s a Party,Dear Two’s a Party,

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with. Your boyfriend shouldn’t expect you to do things you’re un-sure of, but it doesn’t sound like he does. It sounds like you’re putting the pressure on yourself.

If you’ve always wanted to experiment with a three-way as well, maybe you should talk it out with your boyfriend first. Planning it in secret as a surprise might catch him off guard and make you more anxious – but if you plan it together, you can pick someone you’re sure you’ll both have fun with.

If you do choose to follow through with the plan, make sure to pick someone you and your boyfriend don’t know personally. If she’s a friend of yours or his, it’ll only make things awkward for everyone and create jealousy.

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UC Hurricane Food Court Will Close in November for Thanksgiving Break; Alternatives Will Abound

The UC Hurricane Food Court, with the ex-ception of Outtakes, will be closed over Thanksgiv-ing break from Saturday, November 21st through Sunday, November 29th in order to accommodate maintenance repairs. There will still be plenty of convenient dining options available across campus.

On the UC Patio, Lime Fresh Mexican Grill will open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sun-day, November 21st and 22nd, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, November 23rd and 24th, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, No-vember 25th, and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday November 29th. Starbucks at the Shalala Student Center will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Satur-day, November 21st and Sunday, November 22nd, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, November 23rd through the 25th, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 28th, and from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday, November 29th.

Einstein Bros. Bagels at School of Law will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, No-vember 21st and Sunday, November 22nd, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, November 23rd through Wednesday, November 25th, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, November 27th, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 28th and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday, November 29th.

The Courtside Eatery at the Patti and Allan Herbert Wellness Center will also be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 21st and Sunday November 22nd and from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, November 23rd through Wednes-day, November 25th.

The University Village Market will be open from 12 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sunday, November 29th.

To further supplement these venues, a variety of lo-cal food trucks will be made available at the Rock. Hecht-Stanford Dining Hall will be open 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the Thanksgiving break for Brunch on November 21st through November 29th; from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday Novem-ber 21st through Wednesday, November 25th and Friday November 27th through Sunday November 29th for afternoon service; for dinner service on the same days from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dinner will be served at both Hecht and Mahoney Pearson dining halls on Sunday November 29th from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Late night service will be available on Sunday, November 29th from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Hecht.

Normal hours of operation will resume on Monday, November 30th.

For additional information, please follow Dining Services on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @UMdining. You can also visit www.dineoncampus.com/miami, email us at

diningservices@miami.edu , or call our offices at (305) 284-3584.