Miami Hurricane, September 28, 2015

              As the fall semester reaches its
midpoint, seats for the senate
board of Student Govern-ment
are open. Elections for
new senators will take place from Monday
to Wednesday, when students can vote
for who they feel will represent their best
interests.
With 27 seats open, numerous repre-sentatives
of houses, classes and colleges
will be running to help serve their constitu-ents.
Leading up to the elections, the can-didates
are using various methods to reach
out to their voters and raise awareness of
themselves and their proposed policies.
On social media, faces of candidates
are abuzz. Candidates have handed out fli-ers,
sent emails to different Listservs and
spoken in organizational meetings to pub-licize
themselves.
Students can also vote on a referenda
proposed by Distraction Magazine and the
Ibis Yearbook. The proposal states that the
Student Activity Fee be raised by $1 each,
with the proceeds going to their respective
organizations.
“We decided to go out for referen-dum
because we believe the yearbook is
such an important staple on campus,”
said Emily Eidelman, the editor-in-chief
of the Ibis Yearbook. “The small raise in
the student activities portion of tuition will
go such a long way for us. We document
the history of the year for students 50, even
100 years from now to look back on. With
the help of current students, we can keep
our tradition of the book going for years
to come.”
For the last elections in the spring se-mester,
30 percent of students voted with a
total of 2,934 votes. This was 1,000 votes
more than the previous election.
How to Vote
Sept. 28-29: Voting will be open on
OrgSync from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sept.30: Voting will be open from 10
a.m . to 4 p.m. on OrgSync.
The Breezeway will also have a voting
station for students to vote from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m., Monday to Wednesday.
Students can vote on any device that
has access to the OrgSync website.
Voting to open
for senate
seats, referenda
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
By Marcus Lim
Staff Writer
The most popular game in the wizard-ing
world transcended fiction and
materialized on the Intramural fields
Saturday. Hooped goal posts on oval
pitches awaited players arriving to participate in
the second annual Canes Classic Quidditch Tour-nament
hosted by the University of Miami Quid-ditch
Team.
The tournament featured nine teams and was
scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Originally
supposed to include pool play followed by single
elimination, the tournament only consisted of pool
play due to heat, injuries and time constraints.
The Canes, who are four-time South Region-al
Champions and have been ranked in the top 25
teams for the past five years, upheld their competi-tive
reputation by obtaining a record of 3-1 during
the tournament.
Miami started the tournament strong, win-ning
its first game of the day 120-50 against Florida
International University (FIU) and then claiming
another victory against Florida Gulf Coast Uni-versity
(FGCU) 150-50. The Canes played a close
game that went into double overtime against Flor-ida’s
Finest, a team of non-college players, but lost
160-150. They quickly recovered, however, win-ning
their last game against Florida State 110-50.
Nine teams including Miami, FGCU, FIU,
South Florida, Central Florida, Florida State, Roll-ins
College, Florida’s Finest and an unofficial team
for unaffiliated players known as the Friendly
Rainbows, assembled on the field to battle it out.
As hosts of an official U.S. Quidditch tour-nament,
the Canes diligently prepared to achieve
success on their home field.
“All we did was practice, practice, practice.
We make sure our players are conditioned and
have all of the plays down,” Club President Sa-mantha
Kanterman said.
For the teams playing in the official pool,
the tournament was crucial in establishing their
record.
Canes reach 3-1 record in
shortened Canes Classic
Quidditch Tournament
By Alyssa Cruz
Contributing Sports Writer
FANTASY ON THE FIELD: The UM quidditch team plays in the second annual Canes Classic Quidditch Tournament at the Intramural fi eld Saturday. The tournament featured nine different quidditch teams from
across the state.
Kawan Amelung // Staff Photographer
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