New president sold for record-breaking ACS auction bid

What's the going rate for a Student Government president these days? Apparently $500. That was the amount Danny Carvajal sold for Tuesday, the night before his inauguration, during the Association of...

UM students contribute to new Herald videocasts

Daily video podcasts, or VIDcasts have become a new feature of The Miami Herald. What the 5!, the name given to the VIDcast, provides a daily dose of stories South Florida is talking about and access...

Police Beat

Pick up The Hurricane every Friday to read the Public Safety call log. For further information on any of safety services, visit Public Safety's website at www.miami.edu/publicsafety, or contact the C...

News Briefs

UMNews Educational Testing Service cancels GRE changes The Graduate Record Exam changes, two years in the making, have been cancelled by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The changes were schedul...

What’s going on?

TODAY (Apr 6) The Phi Mu Alpha fraternity will host an All American Concert featuring classical, rock and jazz music by American composers. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. at Clarke Recital Hall. St...

Letter to the Editor: The government has a huge double standard on drugs

Regarding Patrick Gibbons' Mar. 30th column, alcohol kills more people each year than all illegal drugs combined. Prescription overdose deaths are now second only to motor-vehicle crashes as a cause o...

Republican redemption possible

As you all know, the Democrats swept the National Congress last November, taking from the Republicans the majority control they held since 1994. Throughout the last few years, the Republican Party has...

does he have hoes in every area code?

Dear V, I've just found out that my (very) recent ex-boyfriend was probably dating a girl from his hometown at the same time we were dating, and is probably the reason we broke up. He obviously did no...

Letter to the Editor: Chartwells options decidedly un-kosher

After attending a Seder at my friend's grandparents' house in Boca on Monday night, I returned to campus the following day and was brave enough to enter the ever-treacherous Chartwells dining hall to ...

Baseball: Newly confident ‘Canes take on GTech

The murderous stretch of road through Atlantic Coast Conference play continues this weekend for the Miami Hurricane baseball team, as the 'Canes begin a conference home stand against the Yellow Jacket...

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