Miami Hurricane, February 24, 2013

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BATTLE ROYALE: Senior Rachael Bobman prepares to toss a tomato in retaliation of her recent hit during Saturday’s second annual
Tomato Smash and Bash at Tobacco Road on South Miami Avenue. The venue is Miami’s oldest bar, recently celebrating its 100th year.
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COMMUNITY
If you went to Tobacco Road in Brick-ell
on Saturday and weren’t armed with gi-ant
scuba goggles or a mask, you ran the
risk of being splattered by a flying tomato.
Hundreds of people gathered at Mi-ami’s
oldest bar for two very crucial things:
an open bar of draft brew and permission to
chuck 20,000 pounds worth of left-over to-matoes
at just about anybody around them.
“It was chaos. Just pure chaos,” junior
Chelsea Gobes said. “We wore masks, but
within two minutes still couldn’t seen any-thing
because there was tomato sludge cov-ering
the lenses.”
Held right in the middle of the Road’s
parking lot, the tomatoes were separated
into piles around the designated “food
fight” boundary so that participants could
position themselves strategically and have
fair game to a worthy amount of battle veg-gies.
The idea comes from an annual tradi-tion
in Spain named “La Tomatina,” dur-ing
which locals throw tomatoes at each
other in the middle of the streets, just for
fun.
“My memories are being worn in the
form of a bruised jaw and rib,” junior Kelly
Smith said. “But in all seriousness, I am re-ally
glad I went. I love living in Miami just
for events like this that we’d never have up
north.”
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NEWS BRIEFS
UHACK
Senior Oscar Sanchez, president of
UM’s branch of the Institute of Elec-trical
and Electronics Engineers, or-ganized
the second annual UHack,
a coding marathon that began on
Saturday and continued into Sunday
afternoon.
UHack was centered on a theme
of the arts. Winners were awarded
based on their creativity, adherence
to the theme and the polish of the
design.
The first prize of $1,500, a one-year
subscription to a coding service Code
School and three months of coding
work in The Lab at the Wynwood Art
District went to the app SoundCom-pass.
SoundCompass is made for the
iPhone and helps users discover local
music and talent in any city. The app
also features a listing of local music
events in Miami and will branch out
to other cities.
GREEK WEEK
The University of Miami PanHellenic
Association aims to raise $30,000 for
United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) during its
annual Greek Week programming.
All week: A blood drive will be held
until 6 p.m. Thursday on the second
floor of the UC. Students can donate
in support of a specific fraternity or
sorority.
Monday: There will be fundraisers
benefitting United Cerebral Palsy at
Shake Shack from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
and TCBY from noon to 11 p.m.
Tuesday: A fundraiser will be held at
the Bagel Emporium from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. The Greek God and Goddess
event will take place starting at 8 p.m.
Wednesday: The Greek Bazaar will
feature a carnival on the Rock and
Green, with each competing team
hosting a different carnival game.
Alexander Gonzalez may be contacted
at agonzalez@themiamihurricane.
com.
Tomato toss takes over Tobacco Road