Ex-reporter shares experience of Taliban capture with students

Yvonne Ridley, a former chief reporter for the British Sunday Express who was captured for 10 days by the Taliban while undercover in Afghanistan in 2001, recently spoke at UM as part of Islamic Aware...

CALENDAR

TODAY The Academic Development Center is hosting a Brown Bag Workshop on issues surrounding plagiarism and cheating at 12:30 p.m. in UC 241. Kaplan Test Prep will be hosting "Law 101- Secrets to Firs...

SG UPDATE: Tough competition for positions of Speaker, Speaker Pro Tempore

Elections for Speaker of the Senate were held during the SG meeting before Spring Break. The Speaker's job is to govern meetings, keep order, and form a creative environment in which the Senators can ...

Briefs

Swimming and Diving University of Miami junior Miguel Velazquez finished third with a score of 533.55 and freshman Derek Starks finished fifth with a score of 498.75 to earn All-America honors in the...

Measles Initiative hopes to raise awareness of children’s plight

A fund-raising campaign for measles relief was launched as International Week began last Thursday. Measles Initiative Week, in conjunction with the UM Red Cross, seeks to raise awareness for the chi...

I-Week brings seven wonders to campus

Around the world in 80 days? Nix that. The international student organizations and clubs of COISO will be taking you through a journey around the world in a record-breaking seven days, and you won't e...

EDITORIAL Girl Power?

Tomorrow marks the end of Women's History Month. Now, let's face it: how many of us were even aware that March was a month to celebrate women? And, more importantly, why do we even need a national wo...

Women’s tennis remains perfect at home

The women's tennis team remained perfect at home after defeating Marquette University and the University of Central Florida this past weekend. The No. 15 Hurricanes remain 11-0 season at home and 13-2...

KEVIN SMITH gets sentimental about Jersey Girl

Kevin Smith startled his fans a few years ago when he announced that his sixth film would be a romantic comedy void of stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob and lacking the witty monologues that made him fa...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

To the editor: This is in response to Mr. Arauz's article, "Crickets, Coffee, and a Side of Cockroach." The thing that I found most surprising about it was the fact that everyone said it was the firs...

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