the miami hurricane -- november 2, 2009

CRUISIN’: Students Josh Lopez, Monica Aguirre, Rick Gusmano and Ryan Simone are Student Patrol employees who work for UMPD to monitor campus. BRITTNEY BOMNIN// Photo Editor

Over the last year, students with bright or-ange shirts patrolling University of Mi-ami’s campus on segways have become a consistent sight.

However, riding around campus is only one aspect of the job responsibilities of a Stu-dent Patrol aide.

A division of the University of Miami Police De-partment, these patrol aides are student employees who are paid to perform low-risk duties which do not require a police officer.

Some of their job responsibilities include staff-

ing fixed posts, patrolling the Coral Gables campus, acting as a security escort for other students and re-porting suspicious persons and vehicles to UMPD.

“The Student Patrol Aides are the additional eyes and ears to assist the police officers with the safety and security of campus,” said Barbara Reed, the security manager of UMPD. “The students take pride in protecting what they consider as their own home.”

The Student Patrol Program was launched by UMPD in August 2008. Currently, there are 18 Stu-dent Patrol employees.

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2 NEWS THE MIAMI HURRICANE November 2 - November 4, 2009

A six-foot-eight-inch ham-merhead shark skims the surface of the ocean, lurking closer and closer to the stern of the boat and its 22 passengers.

This is not a sequel to the 1975 shark attack thriller Jaws. There is no ominous song playing in the background, foreshadow-ing a brutal attack on the unsus-pecting victims.

The hammerhead, hook in mouth, is merely the catch of the day.

“Guys we have to act quick-ly on this one,” shouts Neil Ham-merschlag as he ropes in the fish-ing line, hauling the shark nearer to the boat. “This guy can be tem-peramental.”

Hammerschlag is a shark researcher and doctoral candi-date at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. His current research focuses on predator-prey interaction. More specifically, he is examining how sharks control the behaviors of fish through the element of fear.

“The reason that it’s impor-tant is because shark populations are declining worldwide,” Ham-merschlag said. “We’re not quite sure what the effects are going to be on the ecosystem without sharks.”

As founder and co-director of the South Florida Student Shark Program, Hammerschlag accompanies high school and college students on trips to cap-ture and tag sharks several times a month, eight months out of the year. He uses the data collected by students to write and publish scientific reports and further his dissertation research.

“The students feel good help-ing someone with real life data,” said Ted Davis, director of South Broward High School’s maritime magnet program. “They love it, but it’s also more than that. It gives them a reason to pursue maritime careers. You can’t get a feel for marine culture unless you go out and experience it.”

On one trip taken on Oct. 9, 10 students and two faculty

members from South Broward High School’s marine magnet program joined Hammerschlag and five college volunteers on a boat trip out of Islamorada. Ten sharks were captured, tagged and released in the waters off of Florida Bay.

“I love the hands-on contact with sharks,” said Tallulah Orcel, a junior at South Broward High School. “It motivates me so much to pursue what I want to do. You know sharks exist, but you don’t realize they are only a boat ride away. It really opens my eyes.”

With 10 fish in hand out of 20 lines cast, most fishermen would declare the day successful, proud to put dinner on the table for the wife and kids. But Ham-merschlag doesn’t get to bring home his prized catches. He re-leases the sharks back into the ocean and brings the data he col-lects back to the lab for research.

That doesn’t mean, howev-er, that his wife isn’t just as im-pressed. Hammerschlag recently

married fellow marine biologist Caroline Peyer in Toronto last month. The two newlyweds spent their honeymoon in French Poyl-nesia by taking a romantic dip in shark infested waters.

“I think a world without sharks would be probably a lot more boring and just, you know, drab,” Hammerschlag said. “I like to live in a world that con-tains sharks, just for the mystery and the richness they add to the planet."

Hammerschlag’s interest in sharks stems from his childhood in South Africa, where shark nets are often submerged near coastlines in order to reduce the number of shark attacks and pro-tect swimmers. As a boy, he wit-nessed the dissection of sharks on the beaches near Durban. Fasci-nation took root and he charged full steam ahead, creating a ca-reer out of curiosity.

After receiving his doctor-ate in December, Hammerschlag says he plans to continue his work

with the student shark program. He hopes to land a faculty posi-tion at a university.

Hammerschlag is also the co-founded the nonprofit orga-nization Save the Blue, which promotes ocean awareness. The organization’s current crusade is against shark finning, a practice in which fishermen cut off sharks’ fins for commercial sale.

The fins are used in shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy that often denotes wealth. A major factor in the worldwide decline in shark populations, shark finning kills 70 to 100 million sharks a year, says the researcher.

“Our life depends on the oceans and since the sharks keep the oceans in check and are at the top of the food chain it would be wise not to start destroying some of those important elements,” Hammerschlag said.

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LEANNE COMEY // The Miami HurricaneTAG, YOU’RE IT!: Neil Hammerschlag and students hold a blacktip shark before releasing it back into the ocean. This trip is part of Hammerschlag’s South Florida Student Shark Program.

RSMAS student tracks marine lifeBY LEANNE COMEYCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

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November 2 - November 4, 2009 THE MIAMI HURRICANE NEWS 3

UM's Center for Urban and Commu-nity Design is hosting a "Canstruction" competition on Friday afternoon, pitting teams of students, faculty, staff and alum-ni against each other to design and build structures out of full cans of food.

When the contest is over, all cans will be donated to needy local families before Thanksgiving and the Coral Gables Mu-seum will exhibit some of the pieces.

“There are more needy people nowa-days,” said Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, dean of the School of Architecture and one of the event judges. “This is the second year we are involved and I hope this year will exceed last year’s success."

The UM event is one of about 130 Canstruction competitions taking place in North America, Australia and other coun-tries around the globe as part of a world-wide fight against hunger.

For the UM competition, the total number of cans will be distributed equally among the teams. The building will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Friday in the School of Architecture Courtyard and the judging will take place immediately after-ward.

Brian Lemmerman, a graduate of the architecture school who is working on the competition, encourages all UM students to participate by donating at least three cans of food.

“It’s available to everyone and we need to know how many people are going to join so the dean can bring pizza,” Lemmerman said. The competition is not just for archi-tecture students.

“Hopefully it’s going to be better than last year,” said UM fourth year student Mi-chael Geller.

Nikolaus Rizos may be contacted at [email protected].

Competition cans hungerCommunity donates food to the needyBY NIKOLAUS RIZOSCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

From making coffee to keeping swimming pools clean, filters are constantly used in everyday life.

However, two researchers from the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, Dr. Richard J. Cote and Dr. Ram Datar, who are co-directors of the biomedical nanoscience program, are now using filtra-tion to detect cancer cells in a breakthrough test using nano-technology.

Although there are other technologies and methods used to detect circulating tumor cells in the blood of cancer patients, they involve multiple steps, re-quire a large amount of blood, and are not very sensitive. Since 1999, these doctors have been working to change this.

With assistance from UM graduate student Anthony Wil-liams, they eventually created a microfiltration test where cancer cells, which are slightly larger than regular blood cells, get trapped in the fine filters that they pass through.

“These are very very sub-tle differences but they’re real, and they’re consistent, and we have taken advantage of this to create these devices which can actually catch these tumor cells; very very rare tumor cells in large quantities of blood,” Cote said.

Aside from using this test to detect cancer cells early on, it is also used to test present cancer cells.

“This is actually to see if the cells are there and how many are there,” Datar said.

By analyzing the cancer cell count over time, they are able to conclude whether the patient’s current cancer treat-ment is working and the rate it is working at.

The test is given over a certain period of time to pa-

tients in the Southwest Oncol-ogy Group, a cancer clinical trials cooperative group in the U.S. The blood is sent to Cote and Datar’s lab overnight from different institutes across the country.

“We see patients from Arizona, from Colorado, from Texas, all the way from Or-egon, and some patients in Alaska,” Williams said.

To identify the cancer of the trapped cells, they use nano-crystal quantum dots made by dissolving metal ox-ides. The cancerous cells are then colored in different f luo-rescent shades depending on their sizes. The sizes are usu-ally 10 to 15 nanometers.

“Consider a grain of rice to be one millimeter, which is a million times bigger than a nanometer, and so that’s the kind of scale we’re talking about,” Cote said.

From filtering the blood to placing the cells on the slide, the entire microfiltration test takes only a few minutes. They have been testing for four types:

breast, prostate, lung and blad-der.

“We will catch every can-cer type so we can do our anal-ysis later based on what type of cancer we want to look at,” Williams said.

Recently, the National In-stitute of Health awarded them a $3 million grant for their first clinical trial on microfiltration and the capturing of CTCs. They also received a $16 mil-lion grant to create a center at UM for nanotechnology cancer research in collaboration with the University of Southern California, Oakridge National Labs and the California Insti-tute of Technology. The test is expected to be approved by the FDA in three to five years.

“It’s a very sensitive and very powerful technique to detect tumor cells in the blood and it has enormous implica-tions for making the diagnosis of cancer,” Cote said.

Analisa Harangozo may be contacted at [email protected].

Blood filters catch rare cancers

BRITTNEY BOMNIN // PHOTO EDITOR

CAUGHT!: Graduate student Anthony Williams assists two UM Miller School of Medicine researchers in creating a microfi ltration test that traps cancer cells. This new test detects cancer cells early on and counts existing cells.

Breakthrough method traps tumor cellsBY ANALISA HARANGOZOSTAFF NEWS WRITER

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4 NEWS THE MIAMI HURRICANE November 2 - November 4, 2009

For all students with unstoppable spirit and unwavering UM pride, the homecoming king and queen competi-tion is an utopia.

Last year's winners, senior Jaife Calil and senior Tom Dempsey, com-peted two years prior before finally taking the crown as UM's 2008 king and queen. Dempsey performed celeb-rity impressions for the preliminaries while Jaife displayed her dance skills.

After their talent and answers pulled them through to the finals, both Calil and Dempsey partnered up with a student of the opposite sex for the anticipated spirit round.

Jaife and her partner performed an altered version of the famous Satur-day Night Live Spartan's cheer, while Dempsey and his partner created a spin off of Little Red Riding Hood.

"I think the spirit round is the tie

breaker," Calil said.The spirit round is followed by

the poise round and subsequently the crowing of the homecoming prince and princess and king and queen.

Calil and Dempsey were the first king and queen to stand at the center of Land Shark stadium.

"It was cool, the stadium is a lot bigger [than the orange bowl]," Dempsey said.

Homecoming king and queens are responsible for attending the homecoming game and earn bragging rights for an entire year.

"That same week, I turned 21. I said if I turned 21 wearing a king's crown it would be really cool, and it came true," said Dempsey, who keeps his velvet jeweled crown perched atop his homemade bar.

Calil won another crown as Miss UM and was a finalist in Miss Florida.Though they can technically compete again for the crown, both Calil and Dempsey will be on the other side of the stage this year.

"It will be weird not being in the contest this year for the first time. If I

tried again I would pull a Brett Favre," Dempsey said.

To this year's contestants, Calil and Dempsey offer some veteran's ad-vice.

"Have fun because there is no control over who wins, and the spirit round counts the most," Calil said.

This year’s finalists will com-pete tonight at the Rock n’ Roll Roy-alty ceremony at the UC Patio, but only two will be crowned UM’s 2009 homecoming king and queen. There are eight couples competing.

Before making it to the Rock n’ Roll Royalty ceremony, these 16 con-testants, beat out their fellow class-mates in the preliminary round, where they showcased their talents and an-swered questions related to UM.

This year Dempsey and Calil want to see two spirited students take the crown, although they won’t be turning theirs in.

"I'm keeping mine forever," Dempsey said.

Elena Schmidt may be contacted at [email protected].

UM royalty bejeweled at crowningFinalists compete for king and queenBY ELENA SCHMIDTCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

FILE PHOTO // ZACH WOODWARDSHOCKED TO TEARS: Last year’s Homecoming king, Tom Dempsey, is in awe aft er being crowned.

SEGWAY FROM PAGE 1

Josh Lopez, a senior at UM who spent many years in the military, has been involved with the Student Patrol Program since its start. He now serves as the supervisor of the program.

“My vision is to make this a pro-gram that’s still going to be here when we’re gone,” Lopez said. “We’re de-veloping the building blocks that will continue to grow until UM is one of the safest campuses in the country.”

In addition to being the Student Patrol Supervisor, Lopez said that he oversees 90 percent of the hiring pro-cess of all of the Student Patrol Aides and also developed all of the training that each patrol has to go through be-fore going out into the field.

The Student Patrol Aides are thor-oughly trained so that they are pre-pared for all types of situations that could occur during their active patrol duties on campus. This past summer, all of the new hires went through two days of extensive training. This train-ing included instructions in commu-nications, using the Automatic Ex-ternal Defibrillator, and performing CPR. They also learned how to use the segways and gym cars.

Afterwards, all of the new em-ployees took four tests to make sure they had a full knowledge of every-thing covered during training.

The Student Patrol Employees are meant to stand out on campus and that means wearing a reflective orange shirt and riding around on segways.

“Everyone has been positive

about using [the segways],” Lo-pez said. “They’re a little high up so you can see things while riding around that you might not normally be able to see.”

Another advantage of the seg-ways is that they are environmentally friendly. Segways have an electric motor and are battery powered. They can reach speeds of up to 10 miles per hour.

While UMPD is not currently looking to hire any more students,

those interested will have a chance to apply for the position at the end of the spring semester. The application pro-cess for the Student Patrol, available on the UMPD website, miami.edu/police, is extensive.

Once a student is hired to be part of the Student Patrol Program, they usually work 16-20 hours every week, in four-hour shifts to accommodate their academic schedules.

The starting pay for the position is $10 per hour. Students applying for the open positions at the end of the school year have to maintain a 2.5 or higher GPA, be of high moral character, suc-cessfully pass a background check and pass a departmental interview.

According to Lopez, manning the Stanford Drive entrance gate is one of the most important responsibilities of the Student Patrol Aides, because they are able to provide valuable informa-tion to visitors about the Coral Gables campus and the area surrounding the university.

Meredith Reilly may be contacted at [email protected].

My vision is to make this a program that’s still going to be

here when we’re gone.

- Josh Lopez,Student Patrol aide

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November 2 - November 4, 2009 THE MIAMI HURRICANE OPINION 5

The lovely road that runs parallel to our beauti-ful campus, none other

than U.S. 1, makes me ques-tion whether kindness ex-ists.

Last semester, my class-es started in the late after-noon and early evening, so I would prowl for food and other items during non-peak times. I quickly learned that with U.S. 1, there is no such

thing as “off peak times.”If you find yourself unable to change lanes

or get to where you need to go, fear no more. Do a quick calculation of the MSRP of your car, and if that’s not possible, properly gauge which cars on the road are of significantly more value than yours. When you do so, feel free to pull out in front of any one of these cars; chances are, they will let you through (don’t hold me accountable), but typically not because they want to.

It still baffles me that when I’m at the stop-light of an intersection, people next to me take

offense that I have acknowledged their presence by looking at them. Tinted windows avoid this awkward encounter.

The best way to avoid the traffic of U.S. 1 is to drive during the wee hours of the morning to get what you need at 24-hour spots, like CVS and Walgreens. If a business is close to campus you’re much better off walking or biking there.

But be careful when bike riding too. I rode from the University Village to a local barbershop near Sunset Place last week, and after giving a man in front of me fair warning that I was ap-proaching, he let me pass. I gave him my thanks but regretted it.

Offering “thanks” in Miami gives locals cause to raise eyebrows and sometimes has the opposite effect. Even though it was deserted, the man raised his fist and replied, “This is a side-walk, not a bike path!” I kept peddling with a grin and pretended not to have heard his primi-tive epiphany.

Evan Seaman is a junior majoring in marketing. He may be contacted at [email protected].

EVAN SEAMANCONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

UP!speak

“What were you for Halloween?”

MARTA TOBEÑASSenior

“A super sexy lady cop.”

MAGGIE GOLDBERGSophomore

“A Hooters girl.”

NICK COTEJunior

“Soccer hooligan.”

PATRICK SHEASophomore

“Wolverine.”

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

compiled byKyli Singh

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U.S. 1 makes me question whether kindness exists. Evan Seaman, contributing columnist

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STAFF EDITORIAL

The swastika drawn last week in the men’s restroom of the Miller Center for Contempo-rary Judaic Studies in the Mer-rick Building is a sickening re-minder of how far we still have to come towards tolerance and understanding the differences of our fellow students.

The hooked cross hearkens to a time of atrocity and pain-ful memories. Why someone would feel the need to leave this mark on a university building is unfathomable. It is symbolic of hate, violence and intimidation, values that should not be tolerat-ed or promoted at the University of Miami.

One of the most disturbing parts of this act is that whomever left the marking walks among us. It could be a fellow student, university employee, professor or even a member of the Coral Gables community since our campus is generally open to the public. Hopefully, with the large number of security cameras monitoring the campus, the per-

petrator will be identified.This is not an issue on our

campus alone. In early April, a swastika was painted on Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi’s newly built fraternity house at the Univer-sity of Florida. In recent years, incidences occurred on college campuses across the country, including the University of Rich-mond and Columbia University.

While it is offensive, the drawing of the swastika could also be considered an exercise of free speech. The First Amend-ment entitles everyone, even neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic groups, to express their views.

For example, this fall Brad-ley Smith, a Holocaust denier who questions the use of gas chambers in killing much of Eu-rope’s Jewish population, solic-ited ads to student newspapers nationwide, including The Mi-ami Hurricane. Smith expresses his ideas in a full page ad and it is up to the individual newspa-pers to decide whether or not to run the ad. The Miami Hurricane

chose not print this ad, while The Harvard Crimson actually did, al-though they later claimed it was accidental.

Freedom of speech is an important guarantee of the First Amendment, allowing those in the U.S. to express their beliefs. However there is a proper time, place and manner to do so. The swastika on campus was drawn anonymously in a location that was chosen specifically to target the university’s Jewish popula-tion, and destroyed school prop-erty.

If this person really want-ed to express their views, they would do so in a more appropri-ate, open and peaceful manner, not one intended to intimidate.

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Swastika in Merrick Building wrong, hateful

U.S. 1 the battle, but I won the war

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6 ADVERTISEMENT THE MIAMI HURRICANE November 2 - November 4, 2009

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November 2 - November 4, 2009 THE MIAMI HURRICANE EDGE 7

It’s a beautiful day in South-ern California and Mute Math has a day off from its U.S. fall tour. The band is goofing around and playing a round of golf while giving phone interviews from the green. As the break ends and the tour continues, the alternative quartet will make a stop in South Florida, bringing its bassy rock to Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution on Wednesday.

It was a rough road for Mute Math to get to the point of golf courses and national tours, though. The New Orleans-based group originally started as an electronica/experimental duo between singer Paul Meany and drummer Darren King under the guise of the name Math. Later,

they adapted King’s e-mail ad-dress to form the group and the name, Mute Math.

The current line-up, includ-ing guitarist Greg Hill and bassist Roy Mitchell-Cardenas, was so-lidified in 2005 and the foursome released its self-titled debut album in 2006. Although Mute Math re-ceived critical acclaim, the band struggled with its sophomore ef-fort, Armistice.

In an interview with The Miami Hurricane, lead singer and co-founder Paul Meany divulged Mute Math’s internal conflict over the new album.

“We came off the road after three years and when we got into the studio, we didn’t like anything that we had,” he said. “We had to swallow that pill, but now I can listen from song one to 12 and I

really enjoy the record.”Turns out, the fighting re-

sulted in a 12-song powerhouse of head-bobbin’, bass-throbbin’ alternative rock. Released in mid-August, Armistice even debuted at No. 18 on Billboard‘s Top 200 chart.

Though the band’s sound clearly changed between albums, its style matured and expanded for the better. Transfer freshman Brianne McKay describes, “Mute Math blends several different styles, infusing alternative with some unexpected little twists. There are a lot of musical layers involved. It's like a sonic jour-ney.”

Having bought her tickets to the show when they first went on sale, the motion pictures major plans to attend the show with her

sister Heather, a 2009 graduate.“[Heather] discovered Mute

Math a few years ago when she was a student at UM and intro-duced me to their music,” McKay said. “It will be awesome to see them translate that energy and passion into a live performance.”

Mute Math played on campus at the BankUnited Center in 2006, opening for piano-rock group The Fray, and Meany said the band is excited to come back to the greater Miami area.

“Our bass player lives in Mi-ami and I’m looking forward to the Cuban food,” he said. “I can’t wait. Every tour we do, Miami always ranks in our inner band circle in the top three sets.”

Hilary Saunders may be contacted at [email protected].

IF YOU GO

WHO: Mute Math with As Tall As Lions

WHEN: Wednesday at 7 p.m.

WHERE: Revolution Live, 200 West Broward Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale

COST: $21

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Mute Math brings bassy rock to Revolution

edgeSmoke Signals, the fi rst feature fi lm written, directed, co-produced and performed by Native Americans, plays Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Cosford Cinema.

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On Friday night, the University of Miami campus experienced not only the kick-off of Homecoming Week, but also the close of another festival. In the grand finale of Festival Miami, jazz greats Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton played alongside the University of Miami Con-cert Jazz Band (CJB) and UM’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.

Festival Miami, which completed its 26th season, is an annual music fes-tival that brings top-notch musicians to UM to instruct and play alongside Frost School of Music students and faculty. The month-long festival featured events along four basic themes: Great Perfor-mances, Creative American Music, Mu-sic of Americas and Jazz and Beyond.

The final two concerts of the series featured Hamilton and Clayton, first with Frost faculty and then with music students, and took place Thursday and Friday nights, respectively. The concerts attracted jazz fans from throughout the Miami community as well as UM stu-dents.

Hamilton is “the quintessential

drummer’s drummer,” said Shelton Berg, the dean of the School of Music.

Clayton, who composed and ar-ranged the scores for all of the Henry Mancini Institute pieces performed Fri-day, is a multi-Grammy nominated and winning double bass player, composer and arranger.

While many of the Festival Miami concerts carried a hefty price tag for patrons ($25-$85 for Friday night), UM students were offered an even better op-portunity, learning from Festival Mi-ami musicians directly through master classes and rehearsing with artists them-selves.

Hamilton and Clayton were each featured in their own master classes Fri-day afternoon.

“They’re not just great musicians, they’re great educators,” junior Seth Woods said. According to Woods, Clay-ton discussed a lot more philosophy than chops in his class. “You usually don’t get that in a master class,” he said.

Frost students were equally im-pressed with Clayton and Hamilton in their rehearsals.

“They talked a lot about the soul ... playing for the joy of the music,” said

Paul Deemer, a second-year graduate student and member of the CJB.

All of the work and passion these musicians put in truly came across in their performances.

Simply stated by CJB junior Scott

Rowell during intermission, “They’re killing it.”

Kelly Fitzpatrick may be contacted at [email protected].

Jazz greats close Festival MiamiBY KELLY FITZPATRICKCONTRIBUTING EDGE WRITER

LEARNING FROM THE BEST: Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton teach master classes to Frost School of Music students as a part of their visit to UM for Festival Miami.

KELLY FITZPATRICK// THE MIAMI HURRICANE

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November 2 - November 5, 2009 THE MIAMI HURRICANE SPORTS 9

An ugly win is still a win.The No. 16 Miami Hurricanes showed

why they hold up four fingers for the critical fourth quarter as they rallied from a 13-point deficit to defeat Wake Forest, 28-27, at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, N.C.

It was a frightening game the Hurricanes (6-2, 3-2) did not need on Halloween.

“It was a kind of scary win,” said sophomore wide receiver Travis Benjamin, who caught a diving, game-winning 13-yard touchdown pass with 1:08 left. “But a win is a win. It doesn’t matter if it’s one point, two points or 80 points.”

Benjamin’s touchdown never would have happened if it weren’t for a catch two plays before. Facing a fourth and 16, sophomore wide receiver Aldarius Johnson came up with a leaping 25-yard reception.

“I already knew Jacory was going to come to me,” said Johnson, who caught three passes for 74 yards and collected his first touchdown of the season. “I just knew I had to make the play.”

It wasn’t Harris’s best day, but he did his part in engineering the final drive. The sophomore quarterback finished 22-for-43 with 330 yards, three touchdowns and an interception.

Heading into the final drive, the Canes offense accounted for just 10 total yards in the second half.

Junior defensive lineman Allen Bailey picked up two sacks, while junior kicker Matt Bosher downed four punts inside the 20-yard line. He averaged 43 yards and now ranks second in the ACC in punting.

One huge problem was a Canes defense that gave up 555 yards to Wake Forest, 408 yards of which came through the air.

It was the third-most passing yards ever against Miami.

Former Hurricanes coach Butch Davis and his North Carolina Tar Heels shocked then-No. 14 Virginia Tech at Lane Stadium,

20-17, Thursday night. Miami needs a Georgia Tech conference loss to control its own destiny in the ACC Coastal Division.

The Canes return to Land Shark Stadium for their homecoming game against Virginia (3-5, 2-2) at 12 p.m. on Saturday.

This football team does not quit,” head coach Randy Shannon said. “Three years ago when I became head coach, we would get down and the game would be over with. Slowly the culture is changing, developing. We believed in what we can get done.”

Lelan LeDoux may be contacted at [email protected].

TRICK OR TREAT: Junior running back Graig Cooper handles one of his six carries during Miami’s 28-27 comeback victory over Wake Forest on Saturday at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, N.C. Cooper fi nished the game with 27 yards rushing.

COURTESY OLD GOLD AND BLACK

Wake Forest fails to hold its early leadBY LELAN LEDOUXSENIOR SPORTS WRITER

FOOTBALL

Canes eke out a win in the final quarter

ACC Standings

SPORTS 555The number of

yards Miami gave up to Wake Forest

on Saturday 16New ranking for Canes in

the Associated Press Poll

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ACC hopes dashed

The Hurricanes lost 2-0 to the Virginia Cavaliers on Sunday in their last game of the season, effectively ending all hopes of making the ACC tournament.

The Canes had been only one point behind Virginia for the No. 8 spot in the ACC, making the game a must-win in their efforts to reach the ACC tournament in Cary, N.C. Instead, Duke eked into the eighth spot in the ACC with 14 points compared to UM’s 10.

“I do not believe that our overall record reflects on what we have accomplished this season,” head coach Tricia Taliaferro said. “We played the third strongest schedule in the country. Our expectations are very high at Miami and the things we learned this year will help us in reaching our goal of winning a national championship.” The Hurricanes were able to survive the

first half 0-0 despite being outshot 11-1. They were outshot 24-5 overall for the game as the Cavaliers pushed forward the entire game and were not afraid to shoot on Alonzo who recorded four saves in the game.

The first goal did not come until the 53rd minute when Sinead Farrelly kicked in a rebound off the post that came off a shot by Cavalier Lauren Alwine.

In the 80th minute Lauren Alwine buried the Canes’ hopes further with a kick from 12 yards out off an assist from Kika Toulouse. In the 87th minute Danielle Griebel had a header shot on goal that was blocked by the Virginia goalie, Chantel Jones.

The Hurricanes showed their frustration throughout the game with three Canes getting yellow cards in the second half.The Hurricanes had another heartbreaking loss on Friday against Virginia Tech falling 2-1 in the last seconds of the game.

Brittney Steinbruch led the Canes with two shots while Senior Beverly Goebel and Jordan Roseboro each had a shot as well.

Debora Rubi may be contacted at [email protected].

Two heartbreaking losses in one weekendBY DEBORA RUBISTAFF SPORTS WRITER

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November 2 - November 5, 2009 THE MIAMI HURRICANE DEAR V 11

dear ...Dear V: I found a shocker in the shower...

,

Dear V,

Last night, I went to take a shower a short while after my roommate finished taking his shower. When I entered our shower, on the walls and floor I noticed what was quite appar-ently the fruit of some self-indulgence. As you can imagine, my stomach turned a bit upon seeing this. Now I can’t say that I’m not guilty of some self-indulgence there myself, and I know that asking him to not do it there really isn’t an option, but how can I ask him to at least clean up after he’s done, without sounding too weird?

Sincerely,WTF?????

My dear, confused friend:

I have noticed that discretion is not a recurring theme amidst the UM community this semester.

While your roommate’s remnants have left you seemingly baffled, I find that you are actually thinking quite clearly. You are absolutely right—“self-indulgence” is perfectly fine, but what your roommate is doing is pretty inconsiderate—not to mention, it’s gross.

Was last night an isolated incident? If so, my prayers go out for you that this never happens again. If not, let’s discuss.

Because your randy roommate has chosen shame-lessness over subtlety, I say you do the same (no, you do not have to leave him a mess of his own to discover). That is, he doesn’t feel weird about adorning your show-er walls with his stains of self-love, so you shouldn’t feel weird about calling him out on it.

In fact, one could argue that the more pecu-liar option would be if you were to continue showering with his secretions.

Confrontation isn’t easy, but in this case it’s neces-sary. Simply tell him that if he insists upon spilling his own conditioner in your shared shower, he’s going to have to clean it up. Follow it up with a sharp, “seriously, dude.”

Also, if you are not already showering with flip-flops on, I suggest you start doing so.

Best,

V

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