Students encouraged to ‘get their walk on’

Tennis shoes, gym shorts and perspiration bands may be common in some closets of college students, but with the new Walking Counts initiative encouraged by the Wellness Center, every University of Mia...

Prompted by Virginia Tech shooting, Harvard buys new alert system

(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard launched a campus-wide text message alert system last month for students, faculty and staff that enables administrators to send messages to participants' cell phone...

What’s going on?

September 13: TODAY Patio Jams is hosting the band Velveteen Pink from 12 to 1:45 p.m. at the UC Patio. Velveteen Pink is a quirky, energetic synth-pop band from Athens, Ga. and was voted one of the t...

Can gay affairs be hidden from my girlfriend?

Dear V, I have been my dating girlfriend for most of undergrad. Since last semester, I have been unfaithful. During this time, I have experimented with male partners in other fraternities. I really ca...

Politically incorrect bios of the Democratic candidates

Sen. Joseph Biden-Born in Scranton, PA, and also known as Joe, Biden once said: "If I could wave a wand and the Lord said I could solve one problem, I'd solve the energy crisis." Clearly, he's quite t...

Money in a new shape aims to make a change, breaks records

Marcelo Bezos has taken the phrase "penny pincher" to new heights. Literally. For the past two years Bezos, a University of Miami facilities administrator for the Miller School of Medicine, has spent...

The Louis Vuitton Don vs. General 50

Every competition has memorable heavyweight face-offs. Tyson and Holyfield. Federer and Nadal. And now hip-hop has its own. Kanye West and 50 Cent will square off when both artists drop their third ...

Talking about the transformation from Norah to Ned

She voluntarily traded her cosmetics for faux facial stubble, necklaces for neckties, combed hair for a buzz-cut and a slim figure for 15 extra pounds of muscle. For 18 months, Norah Vincent, a freel...

School shootings are not and cannot be predictable

Four and a half months have now passed since the shootings at Virginia Tech, and eight years have gone by since Columbine. The former event is fading into history, and the latter is already there. Of ...

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