Miami Hurricane, April 5, 2012

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MADE FOR WALKIN’: (above) Junior
Shelby Juarez helps senior Gustavo
Lang walk in high heels. (left ) Junior
Cody Helman kicks off the comfort
of his sneakers to don heels. On
Wednesday, several male UM
students strolled around campus in
red heels and took a pledge against
sexual assault.
The second annual “Walk a Mile
in her Shoes” event was hosted by
No Zebras to honor Sexual Assault
Awareness Month.
The public event encourages men
to participate and learn about the
social struggles that women face. The
participants walked in their heels from
the Merrick Building to Memorial to
symbolize the awareness they hoped
to raise.
“I didn’t realize how diffi cult it
would be,” sophomore Todd Herbert
said. “I have full appreciation for
women in heels now.”
On April 19 at 7 p.m., No Zebras
will host “Take Back the Night,” an
open mic night followed by a walk
around Lake Osceola starting at the
Hecht-Stanford Labyrinth.
STUDENT PROFILE
At first, Nawara Alawa felt she was
forced to be a Hurricane.
She was raised by conservative
Syrian parents who expected her to at-tend
a university near her home in Miami
Lakes. Hoping for more of a college expe-rience,
Alawa applied to 15 out-of-state
schools. She planned to use an acceptance
to an Ivy League as a bargaining chip.
This same reluctant girl is now proud
to have been inaugurated as Student Gov-ernment
(SG) president on Wednesday
night.
“Look at me now, I’m that girl that
has half-orange, half-green Converse that
say Canes on the back, and I’m screaming
at every game, and I’m Student Govern-ment
president,” she said. “It’s such a ‘180’
from where I started.”
This change came after Alawa unen-thusiastically
succumbed to her parents’
wishes. She decided to attend UM’s Great
Start, an overnight pre-orientation pro-gram
where commuters stay in the dorms
– just to spite her parents.
There, Alawa heard an alumna speak
about making the best of the commuter
experience. Alawa realized that getting
involved on campus while living at home
was a possibility.
“She found a way,” Alawa remembers
telling herself. “I’ll find a way.”
Alawa quickly fell in love with the
University of Miami, first by joining her
Association of Commuter Students fam-ily.
She also was drawn to participate in
the Butler Center for Leadership and Ser-vice.
Commuter Nawara Alawa
was reluctant to attend UM
BY LYSSA GOLDBERG
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Newly inaugurated
president finds
niche on campus
STUDENT ORGANIZATION
PHOTOS BY CAYLA NIMMO // Assistant Photo Editor
High heels heighten awareness
SEE PRESIDENT, PAGE 3
GOOD TO THE CORE
STUDENTS NOMINATE THEIR
FAVORITE PROFESSORS PAGES 8-9
Vol. 90, Issue 46 | April 5 - April 8, 2012 THE MIAMI HURRICANE
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