Hurricanes complete three-game sweep of Penn State

The baseball team rebounded from a Wednesday night loss to cross-town rival FIU in a big way by sweeping their series with the Penn State Nittany Lions, thanks to an 11-3 win in front of 1,528 fans Su...

UM visitors find a surprise in the vending machines

A group of friends who were visiting UM for a quick tour stopped to grab some coffee and ended up finding roaches and crickets laden with feces floating in their coffee cup. Vikas Johari, a former in...

ISA hosts dance competition on SoBe

Over 1,300 people attended Florida's first-ever intercollegiate bhangra dance competition, South Beach Bhangra, hosted by UM's Indian Students Association over spring break. College teams from throug...

National rise in college suicides sparks local concern

The rising cases of suicide in college campuses across the nation have recently sparked concern at UM. In a powerful effort to stop troubled students from committing suicide, the UM Counseling Center ...

Hurricane tries out to be a Playboy bunny

I heard Playboy was searching for UM girls Mar. 22-23 for its Fall 2004 "College Girls of the ACC" spread. After convincing myself that this would make a good newspaper story and mustering up some cou...

Spain gives Al-Qaeda terrorists just what they want

On March 14, the Spanish people handed over their government to a Socialist Party against combating terrorism with military action and rewarded Al-Qaeda for slaughtering around 200 innocent Spaniards....

Asian influence bringing new courses to campus

In the post 9/11 world, members of the academic arena have become increasingly fascinated with Eastern domestic and foreign policy. Global issues in the Middle East and Asia have become key components...

Madrid bombing shows world that terrorism works

Recently we have witnessed the worst terror attack on Spanish soil. In this attack around 200 innocent men, women and children were needlessly and brutally murdered. This attack is already being calle...

A moment of silence

March 11, 2004, will be remembered in infamy. Exactly 911 days after 9/11, 10 bombs exploded in four trains in Madrid, killing about 200 people and injuring over 1,400 more. They were the worst attack...

Ralph Nader: Undisputed king of ‘bratty indulgence’

Well, here we are kids: Ralph is in the running. He's thrown his hat in the ring and he's coming to take on a big corporation near you! Yeah...right. A few weeks ago, Bill Maher, the perpetually imp...

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