Greek letter orgs welcome new members

Each year greek organizations belonging to the Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council recruit new members twice a year, accepting most members during the first few weeks of the fall s...

News Briefs

UMNews Momentum campaign gifts create distinguisued profs A recent anonymous gift to the Momentum campaign will help create five new distinguished professorships to commend faculty scholars in the Co...

University Village refugees: it’s not all that bad

It is 8:45 a.m., the sun is blistering, my eyes are tired, but the shuttle to campus is already happily waiting for me at the bus stop. I'm one of the many University Village "refugees," and my curren...

Calendar

TODAY SEPTEMBER 12 Today is the deadline to register for the Wellness Center's CHAMP Challenge. Participants earn "miles" every time they work out at the Wellness Center in an attempt to make it from...

INS trumps ECO in explaining free trade

Why is it that people use basic concepts of microeconomics to counter "vague notions?" How completely ironic is that? When I was a freshman, I used to talk to business majors on my hall about the Fre...

Castro brothers’ power changes

When news got out that Fidel Castro was rushed to the hospital and relinquished power to his brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, at the end of July, people realized the great historical weight the ...

don’t be afraid to explore your…everything!

Dear V, My birthday was last week, and my boyfriend bought me a vibrator because I had told him that I had never masturbated before. I am kind of upset that he did this because I think that masturbat...

‘Toast the tyrant slayers’

The ancient Greeks so despised selfish and egocentric rule that they fashioned a popular greeting to commemorate their status as free men circa 500 B.C.. With their wine cups hoisted high it went like...

School record tied, win-streak snapped

After tying the school record for best start in UM history on Wednesday, the women's soccer team failed to win their sixth game with a heartbreaking double-overtime loss to Florida Atlantic University...

The Rock returns to the U

On what condition did Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson threaten to revoke part of his family's two-million dollar gift to the University of Miami? "If they lose one more game, I'm gonna take a million dolla...

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