Miami Hurricane, January 21, 2010

              1
MHMC- Commercial Template Doc Size 11.25” X 14” Image Area 10.375 x 11.75 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
UNITED IN GRIEF: President Donna E. Shalala joins the university community to show respect for the crisis in Haiti at Wednesday’s candlelight vigil.
JESSICA HODDER // The Miami Hurricane
Light a candle
for Haiti
Senior Kristina Rosales and other members of
Soley Ini arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on
Jan. 9, to work in the slum community known
as Cité Soleil.
The university-based project has sent students
to the island nation for two years and works to es-tablish
community centers for the youth.
On Jan. 12, she and senior Austin Webbert had
just left a restaurant and had gotten into a car when
the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck shortly before
5 p.m. 10 miles southwest of the capital city.
“I felt this thing, I’ve been in a couple of car
accidents, and that’s what it felt like immediately,”
Webbert said. “We looked around and the whole
earth was moving like jello and the building we
had just left was collapsing. After the initial shock,
the driver stepped on the accelerator and imme-diately
after that the next building down had just
collapsed.”
According to the Haitian government more
than 200,000 perished, and 80,000 were later bur-ied
in mass graves.
BY CHRISTINA DE NICOLA | OF THE STAFF
WEARY OF WAR
CAN OBAMA’S SURGE REALLY MAKE A
DIFFERENCE IN AFGHANISTAN? PAGE 10
LAUGHING IT UP
COMEDY FESTIVAL BRINGS GIGGLES TO
SOUTH BEACH PAGE 11
ON THE REBOUND
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STARTS THE
SEASON OFF STRONG PAGE 16
SEE HAITI, PAGE 7
Students gather to show support for earthquake victims
The Miami Vol. 88, Issue 1 | Jan. 21 - Jan. 23, 2010 HURRICANE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929