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The Mi ami Hurricane
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Volume 79, Number 48
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Since 1927 Tuesday, April 23,2002
Ryder pulls name from UM arena
Corporations funding remains unchanged
By Daniel Boniface
Hurricane Staff Writer
The University of Miami men’s and women’s basketball teams will not play any games in the Ryder Center next year.
The convocation center currently being erected on the east side of campus will he completed in time tor the 2002-200.1 season, it will simply bear a different name, officials said.
In a joint statement first issued to The
Miami Hurricane, Ryder System, Inc. and the University of Miami announced Thursday that Ryder was returning the naming rights of the «invocation center to the university.
“They are simply giving us the opportunity to resell the name," UM President Donna Shalala said.
“The Ryder Corporation has been a tremendous supporter,” UM Athletic Director Paul Dee said. “Their stepping forward when they did I in 1994) made it possible.”
Rvder made a commitment to pay $9 million towards the construction of the convocation center in 1994.
“Ryder has paid a substantial amount of that money,” Dee said. “They will complete their obligations under the agreement that we have.”
According to the statement issued to The
Hurricane: “Ryder’s funding support to the University of Miami remains unchanged. The company, however, has shifted its marketing strategy away from a consumer audience to an approach that targets business-to-business audiences."
“The focus of their business changed,” Dee said. “It was no longer retail.”
Both Shalala and Dee said that Ryder approached the university a few months ago about the redirection of their advertising and the redirection of their focus.
“Over that time we’ve come to an agreement,” Dee said. “They were just about ready to make an announcement in a week or two, but I guess this made it come a little sooner" “|Ryder) has been among the best friends the university has ever had,” Shalala said.
Shalala and Dee said there are a few possible corporate sponsors in mind, but they are not ready to release their names as yet.
“We have some people that we plan to talk to, but those are usually kept private before we have the opportunity to contact them,” Dee said.
If any of the corporate sponsors were to say no to the opportunity to rename the convocation center, their declination might reflect poorly on them publicly, Dee explained.
The process for finding a new sponsor will remain the same, Shalala said.
“It’ll take a significant gift,” Shalala said. “It’ll be in the same range as the Ryder gift, and based on when Ryder’s gift was made, it might be a bit higher.”
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Category 5 gives sound to UC patio
By Danielle Scott
News Editor
Come next fall, UM students will be the recipients of Category 5’s generous gift to the university center a new sound system.
t.ategory S,a branch of student government and the spirit programming board on campus, began thinking about buying a new sound system after their first pep rally last year. They are responsible for putting on all the pre game events on campus for boosting school spirit.
“The sound system now is antiquated. The purpose of our pep rallies arc that they’re sup posed to be loud, fun, interactive,” said former Category 5 co-chair and current member, JD Barbosa. “We’ve been thinking about it since our first pep rally last year, but we didn’t have the budget."
Barbosa said that it is very difficult to hear anything on the current sound system.
“There is no sound system. Activities will
AKA Auction
DAVID EPPOCITO / Hurricane Staff
ABOVE: Bjorn Moncur struts his stuff for the bidding ladies aas part of Alpha Kappa Alpha's Skee Week
LEFT: Karlvin Duperval excies the ladies in order to raise his price in AKA's batche-lor auction He was sold for $110.
SEE SKEE WEEK PAGE 2
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Runner wins against adversity, amputation
By Robert Villanueva
Hurricane Staff Writ®
It all started with a soccer game, said world record-holder and UM track team member, Dan Andrews.
“There was a breakaway. A man passed our defense and tried to score. I tried to stop him by sliding out but he slid into my leg," he said.
Dan’s left leg was instantly broken broken so badly that the muscles began to swell, pre venting his blood from circulating.
Doctors were forced to amputate.
At the young age of 14, Dan Andrews knew immediately that his life would change forev er.
Doctors were initially very skeptical about
Dan Andrews the first amputee runner to race in Division I track level
Dan’s sports career. The incision they made on his leg took a long time to heal and made it difficult for him to walk about freely.
“The first two-month period was the hardest, I became frustrated at how slowly time was passing,” Dan said.
And not only was time passing, but the possibility of Dan’s future in sports was fad ing as well.
Being a true sportsman and soccer fan, Dan's first words to the doctor after his operation were: “Will I ever play soccer again?"
DAVID EPP0UT0 / Hurnc ane Staff
TRAINING DAY: Dan Andrews runs a tight race- he holds the world record for the pare#800-meter crcArt	^
He was. in fact, able to adjust to his new leg.
Instead of taking his doctor’s advice by waiting an entire year to get hack in the game. Dan only waited for a couple of months before beginning practice again.
He soon began walking, then running, and finally training, but it wasn’t until he attended the Para Pan-Am Games in Mexico City that Dan realized his track career beginning to unfold.
“My senior year in high school I had my first big international meet at the Para Pan-Am Games in Mexico City. That meet made me decide I wanted to get back into track. I had a really good time," he said.
Before that evert, Dan only ran at the local track meets.
However, since then, Dan has raked in a lot of attention.
In Sydney, Australia, Dan recently broke the world record for the para 800-meter circuit.
Soon after, he beat his time at Florida International University.
Furthermore, Dan is the only amputee that’s competed in a Division I track level.
“I race against everyone," Dan says, “not just amputees."
Most of all, however, Dan races against himself.
“I beat my personal best in two out of my last three races for the BOOM I can also run faster than what I used to, but I haven't been
able to put a solid race together yet," he said.
Because of Dan’s unwavering spirit, he's also received a lot of attention from TV networks as well.
Recently HBO hung out with Dan for the weekend at his house and followed him around for an upcoming segment called HBO Real Sports.
Dan said that he was never, “really planning on running here"
When he came back from Sydney he asked if he could train with the team.
The coaches got together and Coach Ward said he should come along.
“He gave me a chance to not only train with the team but to run with the team as well.” Dan said. “I was pretty pumped and surprised when I heard that - not many people get a chance to compete in a division one school; it’s a big honor."
“Before I met Dan the coach told me there's a new 8001 meter | guy that’s going to kick my ass," said fellow UM distance runner, Matthew Mulvaney.
“People wouldn't think you’d participate in a sport, especially running, after that. And the kid just bounced back,” he said.
“Don’s unbelievably fast. He’s an incredible athlete," said another team member, Billy Bludgus.
While Dan is receiving a lot attention for overcoming a series of adversities, he still manages to remain humble.
“I like being the underdog," Dan says,“I’m not big into the whole publicity thing. I just enjoy running with my teammates - they offer me no special treatment. I like that "
OAVID EPMH.IT0/ Hurricane Staff THE CENTER FORMERLY KNOWN AS RYDER: The construction of now-nameless the center.
‘The Vagina Monologues’ opens today at Storer
By Rebeca Oliveira
Hurricane Staff Writer
Coming to UM’s Storer Auditorium, direct tiom Brood was, is Lvc F mUr’i world
renowned play. The Vagina Monologues,’ and its anti-violence campaign, V-Day.
The Vagina Monologues’ is a play based on conversations that Ensler had with different women all over the world.
“Eve Ensler went around the world talking to women," said Becky Stead, one of the organizers. “She was moved by their experiences, so she put them in a monologue form to share their stories.”
“She (Ensler) listened to their stories and found common threads," said Farryl Rosenberg, a junior and one of the performers. “The monologues deal with all aspects of being a woman-from rape to periods ”
This year’s performance will be directed by Patricia Dolan, the same UM theater professor and BA program advisor, who directed the play last year.
“It’s pretty amazing what she does with that show," said Tricia Shatley, Director of the Women's Resource Center.
The joint venture between the Counseling Center and the Women’s Resource Center is geared towards alerting and discouraging people about violence towards women.
“It’s all about violence against women," said Shatley. "We want to educate people on campus; we want to raise awareness.”
“I saw the play on HBO and realized there was more to it than just the play," said Gabriela Guzman, a member of V-Day’s marketing committee. “Fighting the violence is really important. Women need to stop being victimized! just think this is really empowering "
The V-Day college campaign, the longest-running and most far-reaching of V-Day’s global campaigns, is responsible for hundreds of colleges and universities around the world giving benefit presentations of “The Vagina Monologues” to raise awareness and money to stop violence against women and girls.
“There’s a lot of things going on, not just this," Stead said. “We're trying to bring awareness to all types of abuse, not just against women."
“We want women to be comfortable with their own bodies; we want them to be comfortable saving‘vagina,’" Shatley said.
This year’s V-Day campaign includes a march and a letter-writing campaign to protest female genital mutilation, which is still legal in Florida, among other events.
“I think it’s important for everybody to understand what’s going on-once people know the information, it's more likely the violence will stop," said Swenson. “Once I heard the statistics, I felt like I needed to be a part of it and to inform women of what’s going on."
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