The Miami Hurricane -- February 18, 2010

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The Miami Vol. 88, Issue 8 | Feb. 18 - Feb. 21, 2010

HURRICANESTUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929

STANFORD VS. HECHTSTANFORD VS. HECHTSPORTSFEST CELEBRATES ITS 25TH

ANNIVERSARY PAGE 3SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 9

On a Wednesday night when the BankUnited Cen-ter was supposed to be electrifying and exhila-rating for the Miami Hurricanes, the evening ended with the sound of Duke fans cheering.

During halftime a ceremony recognized three former UM basketball greats with honorary jerseys, but the men’s basketball team couldn’t live up to their lega-cies or the sixth-ranked Blue Devils in an 81-74 loss.

The Canes (17-9, 3-9) lost just their second game at home this season and have now dropped two straight games when they have shot better than their opponents.

Duke (22-4, 10-2) used a 26-5 run to begin the second half and went on to score 56 points in the final 20 minutes for the victory.

“You’ve got to give Duke credit,” head coach Frank Haith said. “They made the shots down the stretch and we didn’t. They made big shots. We just couldn’t get stops. It was a hard-fought game.”

In the second half the Canes couldn’t stop the Blue Devils’ big three of junior forward Kyle Singler, senior guard Jon Scheyer and junior guard Nolan Smith, which combined for 58 points.

Singler, who played the entire game, set the tone with 12 points in the first five minutes after halftime and fin-ished with a game-high 22 points.

“The difference is Singler took over in the second half,” Haith said. “He made the big shots and that give them what they needed.”

But the Hurricanes had the Blue Devils exactly where they wanted them in the first half, leading 37-25. Duke shot just 31 percent from the field, while Miami made 60 per-cent of its shots.

LEAP OF FAITH: Freshman guard Durand Scott shoots over Duke Blue Devil senior forward Lance Thomas during Wednesday night’s 81-74 loss at the BankUnited Center.

LINDSAY BROWN // The Miami Hurricane

PREPARE TO BE THRILLED PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH

SCORSESE AND DICAPRIO PAGE 7

Miami’s early lead evaporates, loses 81-74

BY LELAN LEDOUXSENIOR SPORTS WRITER

Canes left blue

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2 NEWS THE MIAMI HURRICANE February 18 - February 21, 2010

Academics are more than just cracking open books and regurgi-tating ideas on a midterm.

Funded by a donation from alumna Jill Viner, the College of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring the Beyond the Book scholarship for students to execute independent research proposals.

“The scope of proposals is lim-ited only by the imagination of the students,” wrote Jacqueline Dixon, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, in an e-mail to The Miami Hurricane.

Students who wish to apply for the project must submit a document detailing an initial project idea, along with a preliminary budget for the $2,500 they would receive if awarded the scholarship.

With her scholarship, senior Kristina Astone traveled to Costa Rica to conduct research in anthro-pology. Her project included the excavation of 11 skeletons on an island off the mainland.

“It was fun to experiment and just take in the culture,” she said. “I’ve never been camping before, so it was a huge experience for me living in a tent with no running wa-ter. ”

Another student, senior Derek Freitas, who also received the schol-arship worked with Professor Nita Lewis to improve molecular wires,

or microscopic threads, that can be used to connect the components of miniscule computers or nano-sized medical devices that may, in the fu-ture, be used to fight diseases.

“Because I was given a sti-pend, research was all I did over the summer. All of my time, 40 hours a week, was devoted to just research,” Freitas said. “It was a lot of hands-on experience finding out what research was about. Just

working in the lab a lot of time.”Candidates for the scholarship

face challenges in creating a re-search project organized and perti-nent enough to merit a scholarship.

“It doesn’t have to be the most interesting thing in the world,” Fre-itas said.

Ramon Galiana may be contacted at [email protected].

Scholarship allows independent studyBY RAMON GALIANANEWS EDITOR

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Former Hurricane men’s basketball players Jack McClinton, Don Curnutt and Dick Hicox were honored during halft ime on Wednesday night’s game. Christina De Nicola has the story.

Get an update about all the changes at Toppel Career Center in Kelsey Pinault’s story.

Curious about Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album, “IRM?” Check out Sarah B. Pilchick’s review.

Wondering what Canes can’t live without? Press play to view video Speak Ups.

Lindsay Brown captured all the action of the men’s basketball game last night against Duke. See it all unfold in a photo slideshow.

Long for reviews for movies off the beaten path? Check out Thomas Prieto’s blog, The Augustan.

Subscribe for the e-mail edition of the newspaper at www.themiamihurricane.com/subscribe.

IMPORTANT WORK: Derek Freitas, a 2009 Beyond the Book winner and microbiology and immunology major, worked to improve molecular wires that may be used to fi ght diseases.

COURTESY IVETTE YEE

Giving the dogs some of her sweet timeShalala volunteers at rescue centerBY REBECCA ZIMMERCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

A longtime dog lover, UM President Donna Shalala could not resist when she saw Sweetie’s heart-wrenching story on the internet.

“She had been beaten and abandoned,” Shalala said in a recent interview.

Sweetie, a 6-year-old collie-cocker spaniel-poodle mix, ended up in the dog pound in 2003, where the staff and volunteers quickly took a liking to her. They kept trying to

find her a home.Several months later, along

came Shalala, who was looking for another pet after her 14-year-old Portuguese water dog, Cheka, had died.

She recalled the first time she saw Sweetie. When she and a friend went to visit the dog at Friends Forever Rescue, Sweetie jumped up into her friend’s lap. Shalala said at that moment she knew it was the dog for her.

“Sweetie is a street dog, a survivor, scrappy, tough and very smart,” she said. “My kind of dog.”

Now Sweetie often accompanies Shalala to work in the Ashe Building on Saturdays.

During the week, the dog stays back at the president’s residence on Old Cutler Road and hangs out with the gardeners.

Shalala’s interest in canines has led her to volunteer with local rescue organizations such as Friends Forever and the Humane Society of Greater Miami, which is hosting the 2010 Purina Walk for the Animals on Saturday morning at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. The walk will benefit the society’s Adopt-A-Pet program.

As much as she loves dogs, Shalala said in the interview that she does not recommend that students take on the responsibility of having a pet while in college.

Rebecca Zimmer may be contacted at [email protected].

COURTESY TASHA WELLSSHALALA AND SWEETIE

HOW TO APPLY

Deadline is March 8

For more information, visit: www.as.miami.edu/undergraduate/beyondthebook8

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February 18 - February 21, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE NEWS 3

Low calories, low prices

Watching your waistline? Try the new Well ‘Canes bundled meals for only $4.95 at some of your favorite on-campus dining locales.

Dining Services has partnered with the Well-ness Center to provide affordable value meals with a twist. Instead of your server asking, “Would you like fries with that?” each meal comes with an apple and a 20-ounce bottle of water.

“We have to be more aggressive,” said Norman C. Parsons, director of the Wellness Center. “We have to start taking care of ourselves.”

According to Mel Tenen, vice president of aux-iliary services, every day of the week, dining facili-ties like Niko’s, Market Square, Mango and Man-ny’s and Oasis host a different Well ‘Canes bundled meal. The dining halls are not participating in the bundled meals initiative. The first day of the pro-gram, Feb. 8, consisted of buffalo chicken flatbread from Niko’s.

Other items on the menu include Mediterra-nean chopped salad, California salad with grilled chicken and an egg and arugula salad sandwich. Each main item has less than 352 calories and less than 12 grams of fat.

According to the nutritional information on their Web site, a chicken club sandwich from Wen-dy’s has 620 calories and 29 grams of fat. Panda Ex-press’s Web site says that an order of orange chicken and lo mein has 800 calories and 34 grams of fat.

Despite the colorful signs advertising the Well ‘Canes bundled meals throughout the food court, students don’t seem to be that enthusiastic about the meals offered at Niko’s, where a toasted salad and a soda usually costs about $8.97. The open-faced vegetable sandwich offered on Monday didn’t have many takers.

“I’m not a vegetable kind of girl,” junior Lara Ryan said. “I got the gyro.”

According to Oasis employee Alonza Bryant, students have been lining up to take advantage of the meals. At Oasis, a signature sandwich with a bag of chips and a soda costs $11.33, more than double the price of a Well ‘Canes bundled meal.

“We sold out of what we made,” Byrant said. “I would rate it pretty good.”

Sarah Hartnig may be contacted at [email protected].

Meals at several locations offer healthier optionsBY SARAH HARTNIGCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

Once upon a time, at a University of Miami without SportsFest, there was an annual competition called “Budweiser Super Sports” where students could compete in sports and athletic events for gifts and prizes, among them free beer at the Rat. Student organizations and individuals would register teams and, according to old yearbooks, the event was fairly popular.

Administrators Norm Parsons and Rhonda DuBord decided to make this sports competition a bigger part of student life, and so began the legacy of SportsFest.

When Hecht and Stanford were built in 1968 they were named ‘68 and 960, the former for its construction year and the latter for how many beds it held. In the 1985-86 academic year, the residential colleges changed their names and ‘68 became known as “The Honors Residential College” and 960 known as

“The Residential College.” SportsFest was started in the spring of 1986 as a challenge between the two almost identical counterparts. These two teams, over time, would come to be named Stanford and Hecht.

Our own Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Patricia Whitely, was a Residence Coordinator in The Residential College (960, Stanford) the year SportsFest began. After that year, the program added Eaton as a competitor and then Mahoney and then Pearson to round out a 5-team, school-wide event by the spring of 1989.

Today, there is no bigger student event on the University of Miami’s campus than SportsFest, boasting over 2,300 participants.

“Nobody could have predicted the success of SportsFest, but the residential college system is one of the reasons that it has been so successful,” Whitely said. “It is a great opportunity for students to build community.”

Parsons and DuBord are largely responsible for the success that the event has had over the years and they are both still a part of the team that organizes the event today.

“Participation is essential; with this scoring system, any residential college can win,” Parsons said.

Tom Soria is the assistant director of intramurals and special events and the logistical mastermind behind the competition. Organizing an event with so many activities, participants and referees may seem like a mountain of a task, but according to Tom it’s “like seeing a masterpiece at work, almost like a symphony.”

Calvin Cestari may be contacted at [email protected].

How SportsFest evolved into today’s traditionBY CALVIN CESTARIOF THE STAFF

A celebrated rivalry turns 25

HECHT YEAH!: Participants from Hecht Residential College celebrate winning the ethics award at SportsFest last year. The ethics portion of SportsFest is a relatively new addition to the popular competition.

FILE PHOTO // CHELSEA MATIASH

IF YOU GO

WHEN: Friday- SundayWHERE: Kickoff is Friday at 5pm beginning at Stanford Circle

All the residential colleges and apartment areas will be participating.

BUNDLED MEALS

WHERE: Niko’s, Market Square, Mango and Manny’s and OasisCALORIE COUNT: Less than 352COST: $4.95 plus tax

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February 18 - February 21, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE OPINION 5

OPINION After a full day of enriching classes, will a

double-major in French and Political Science really be best off in a dorm with a boozed up partier?

-John PalowitchUM Student”

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UP!speak

What is something you can’t live without?

MIRANDA RATCLIFFESophomore

“My family. Even when everyone else turns their back against you, you

always have your family to lean on.”

KARIM TIDJANIJunior

“My mom. I love her so much- I can’t think about

living without her.”

STEPHANIE ESSENFELDFreshman

“My BlackBerry.”

KATE PRYSLAKSophomore“Coff ee!”

Check out online Speak Up at themiamihurricane.com.

Speak Up answers are edited for clarity, brevity and accuracy.

compiled byKyli Singh

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With a loss to the Univer-sity of Wisconsin in the Champs Sports Bowl, the University of Miami football season did not end the way fans wanted it to, and basketball is currently not headed in the same direction.

Thankfully, UM baseball has been a consistent strong point. Chances are that our base-ball team will be visiting Omaha, Neb. at some time in June.

The team has reached the College World Series 11 times since Jim Morris became the coach 16 seasons ago. Season 17 for Jim Morris starts this Friday.

This program has produced first round picks; recently Yon-

der Alonso and Jemile Weeks were taken seventh and 12th re-spectively in 2008.

The ability to see a program so steeped in tradition and to see such talented players before they reach the next level is a unique experience.

This year, students have an additional reason to visit the Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. Stands along the park have been completed mak-ing the experience even more convenient.

Even if baseball alone is not enough to get you to the park, there are other attractions anyone can enjoy. An Omaha

Express shake at the park is deli-cious no matter what sport you enjoy. Also, you have to love the spirit of the Sugarcanes, the team’s bat girls.

So don’t get depressed dur-ing UM’s probable absence from March Madness. Just know you still probably have a tournament to look forward to later in the year. Ours will just occur after the school year is finished as the baseball team battles through Regionals and Super Regionals to get to Omaha.

Editorials represent the majority view of The Miami Hurricane editorial staff.

STAFF EDITORIAL

A team worth watching

POLL RESULTS: What do you think of the TV show “Jersey Shore”?

Pure comedy

50%It’s disgusting

17%Total Voters: 54

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The argument in the editorial “Not So Diverse After All” published Feb. 6 stated that joining a Special Interest Housing

(SIH) floor restricts students to only one way of thinking, and it is important to be exposed to people who “do not think exactly like them” even if it means toughing out a difficult roommate.

It must be stated that contrary to this claim, SIH provides ample opportunities to experience different viewpoints. Living on a CASTLE floor, for example, are students of diverse ethnicities and political views, connected only by the goal of living a substance-tempered, community-driven lifestyle. SIH communities allow students to choose to live with students who will contribute to their success rather than detract from it.

Going through the pain of living with someone with whom you cannot reason with or relate to leaves one only with the burning resolve to find a roommate who will positively challenge him or her and provide a good friend, even and especially if the roommate has a wide palate of views.

Opportunities to acquire people-management skills are plentiful enough during the college day.

After a full day of enriching classes, will a double major in French and political science really be best off in a dorm with a boozed up partier, just for the sake of experiencing “different ways of thinking?” I say no, especially not when compared with the alternative of sharing a space with an equally driven student.

Though “situations after graduation” undoubtedly will involve people we don’t agree with, as the article correctly pointed out, when last I checked we will have the freedom to choose who to live with, a choice often made in relation to work and lifestyle. SIH communities give students the opportunity to make this choice in college, which is invaluable to the college experience.

John Palowitch is a sophomore majoring in jazz performance and mathematics.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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February 18 - February 21, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE EDGE 7

‘SHUTTER ISLAND’

STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marc Ruff alo, Sir Ben Kingsley

DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese

RELEASE DATE: Friday, Feb. 19

MPAA RATING: R

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mar-tin Scorsese and Sir Ben Kings-ley are en route- or at least that's what a group of anxious journal-ists have been told for the past 20 minutes.

Then, a development. All of a sudden, the room goes quiet. A familiar voice breaks the si-lence.

"A press conference?" Scors-ese asks while entering the room, donning his signature black-frame glasses. "I didn't know there would be..."

"Just think of it like a birth-day party," a publicist says.

It might as well be a cel-ebration. At 67, the director is promoting the release of "Shut-ter Island," his 45th film, and certainly not his first to garner critical acclaim.

The film also marks the fourth time he has directed Leonardo DiCaprio, who walks into the room with much less of an aura and entourage as Scors-ese. Somehow, DiCaprio's re-spect and idolization of Scorsese transcends the actor's individual popularity, making Scorsese's film-making- not DiCaprio's ce-lebrity- the main topic of discus-sion.

"A lot of this film is very much being publicized as a thrill-er with a surprise ending and ter-rifying elements to it; very much a genre piece," DiCaprio said. "But at the end of the day, [the film] is what Martin Scorsese does best: portraying something about humanity and human na-ture and who we are as people."

The film explores these ideas through the eyes of U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) who visits a controversial and remote hospital for the criminally insane to figure out how a patient dis-

appeared. W h i l e w o r k -ing with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffa-lo) and Dr. John Cawley (Sir Ben Kingsley), however, Daniels begins in-vestigating his own rocky past. The Laeta Kalogridis-penned screenplay stays true to the 2003 novel by Dennis Le-hane. As much as the twists and turns capti-vate the audience, they exhausted DiCaprio on set.

"It got darker and darker and more emo-tionally intense than I think we ever expected," he said. "There were a few weeks there that were, I have to say, some of the most hardcore filming experi-ences I’ve ever had."

Kingsley credits the intima-cy and eloquence of the charac-ter-driven piece with Scorsese's unique style of directing.

"Marty directs like a lover," he said. "Everything is held to-gether by affection; affection for his craft, affection for his actors, affection for his crew, affection for the material and affection for the great journey of cinema in our lives."

Scorsese expresses this af-fection by challenging his ac-tors. Case in point: scenes in which DiCaprio is in the rain, on the side of a cliff or facing Hurricane-force winds.

"By the time we got to [shoot-ing outdoors], it adds to the emo-

tion-al levels that [the actor] has to get to, that Leo had to get to,” Scorsese explained. “When you see rain and wind hitting ac-tors to the level that it's almost impossible for them to move in the frame, it was a brutalizing experience for them, for every-body, but this is the way films are made."

"Shutter Island" opens in theaters nationwide this week-end.

Nick Maslow may be contacted at [email protected].

Face to face with dark humanity

BY NICK MASLOWOF THE STAFF

THRILLER: “Shutter Island” is the story of a man who investigates the disappearance of a patient who escaped from an institution.

Courtesy Paramount Pictures

edgeLooking for a classy way to spend Sunday aft ernoon? Check out tea time at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, in honor of Presidents’ Day and the First Ladies of the past. Sunday, Feb. 21, 3 p.m., admission $27-37.

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February 18 - February 21, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE SPORTS 9

There is more than one baseball team here at the University of Miami.

The UM club baseball team is a resource for students who are highly athletic, just not quite at the division one level.

The 29-member squad began its season with a bang taking three of four from Florida Tech, who was playing in their first series as members of the National Club Baseball Association (NCBA). The home series for the Hurricanes was played at West Perrine Park with doubleheaders on both Jan. 30 and 31.

This year has begun with a strong start after the orange and green endured three losing seasons since joining the NCBA. Despite past mediocrity, the club exudes confidence and optimism for forthcoming success.

“This is by far the best team we’ve ever had,” head coach Michael North said.

Senior third baseman Josh Rodriguez said the team loves coming out and playing despite the losing tradition.

But North tends to disagree.“You can’t really have fun if you don’t

win,” he said.Billy Fuchsman, a senior pitcher who

has played with the team for all four of his years at UM, shares a similar faith with Rodriguez in the team’s potential.

“I expect us to have our first winning season,” Fuchsman said. “And make a possible playoff run.”

The Hurricanes’ club baseball team is one of the five teams in the NCBA’s Sunshine Conference along with fellow in-state rivals Florida, Florida State, Central Florida and Florida Tech. To make the playoffs they must either win the conference by finishing with the best record out of the five after the 24-game regular season or earn a wildcard spot into the regional playoffs consisting of two other conferences.

After regionals are nationals which will include eight schools from across the country and employ a similar format

to the College World Series, according to North.

The first series has club president and utility infielder junior Robbie Shiver assessing his team thus far.

“We have a real strong pitching staff, especially our starters,” Shiver said. “Starting pitching and hitting are our strengths.”

Rodriguez, meanwhile, admits that the main thing that has held the team back in previous seasons has been poor defense.

“We would probably commit 60 to 70 errors a year,” he said.

While the club played their first home series at West Perrine Park, their

remaining home games will be played at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. According to Shiver, they will be the first club team to ever play there.

Their schedule also includes road trips to Tallahassee, Melbourne and Orlando, as well as a trip to Statesboro, Ga. to finalize the regular season.

“Road trips are really what brings the team together,” Fuchsman said.

They feel the trips are essential for the development of team chemistry.

“The best way to get to know a man is to sleep with him,” North said.

David Furones may be contacted at [email protected].

CLUB SPORTS

Miami can’t get enough baseballTeam prepares for a challenging seasonBY DAVID FURONESCONTRIBUTING SPORTS WRITER

BATTER UP: Junior Mike Lawrence practices batting with the University of Miami club baseball team before facing Florida State in Tallahassee next weekend.

LINDSAY BROWN // The Miami Hurricane

BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1

Through the first 20 minutes the Hurricanes were led by fresh-man guard Durand Scott’s 11 points and senior forward Dwayne Col-lins’s nine points.

“They were unbelievably ready for us,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They outplayed us in the first half. They played their hearts out for us. I thought we beat a very good team tonight.”

Collins finished with a team-high 21 points on 5-for-6 shooting and 11-for-14 from the free throw line. Scott added 19 points.

Like most of the season the Hur-ricanes were plagued by turnovers (22) and late rallies as they failed to stop Duke down the stretch.

The Hurricanes have now lost four of their last five games and find themselves in unfamiliar waters as they might miss out on postseason play.

Miami continues to struggle in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the loss ensured a below-.500 record in conference play. The Hurricanes have never finished better than 8-8 in the ACC.

It’s been a tale of two teams for the Hurricanes: trail by double digits on road games and lead by double digits only to surrender it at home.

With four regular season games remaining and three at home, Haith will ensure that his team competes despite this season’s tough losses.

“As long as we’ve got games on the schedule, we’ve got chances,” Haith said. “I still tell them we’ve got chances.”

Lelan LeDoux may be contacted at [email protected].

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February 18 - February 21, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE DEAR V 11

dear ...Dear V: I’m ready for the next experience...

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Dear V,

The ticking of the biological clock is a funny concept. It’s commonly used to describe the feeling older women can get when they are reaching the edge of their child bearing years and still don’t have any rugrats to show for it. For me, as a 21-year-old guy, it’s the feeling of dread I get when I realize that in a couple of months I’ll have graduated college with my virginity securely locked in a vise and without the tools, confidence, or experience to ever break it out, especially outside a college envi-ronment. On one level, I know that it’s silly to get hung up on this shit, but on the other hand, I often feel like I must have the romantic appeal of a leper, and that it’s never going to change. It’s killing my confidence in myself and poisoning my attitudes towards women, love and life.

-Not ready to be a monk

Dear Not Ready,

You’re not alone in your fears, there are many others just like yourself that will also be graduating in the same situation. Many are by chance, many are by choice, but regardless the reason, there is still hope for all to find that first special partner.

I know dealing with this makes you feel less con-fident, but as you graduate and move on to bigger and better things I think you’ll find that sex shouldn’t be what defines your self esteem. The successful feeling that comes with graduation, finding a real job and go-ing out on your own will bring you a rush of new ex-periences, one of which may lead to that special first time. It’s not something that should be rushed or done just for the hell of it; if you’ve waited this long, you want it to be important and not just with the next per-son who passes by.

As for feeling like a leper, college is one of the hardest places to feel confident; it’s not easy when you’re surrounded by cliques and packs of promiscu-ous teenagers. After graduation, competition will still exist in the workplace but I think you’ll find things will get easier in other areas. Once you start finding your place, I’m sure the ladies will follow. Love is such an amazing part of life, don’t give up yet.

Hang in there,

V

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excellent written and verbal communication skills. Several job openings available at our Learning Center.

Flexible hours and excellent pay.Call (305) 233-3777 or (305) 378-8582 for more information. You may

fax us your resume at (305) 233-3777 orsend via email to [email protected].

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