NEWS BRIEFS

Holiday Hope Tree seeks donations The Butler Volunteer Services Center is celebrating all the holidays by giving you a chance to buy a disadvantaged child a gift. Holiday Hope Tree information can be...

How the University can raise a Billion dollars

Donna Shalala is doing her best to act like a car salesman when it comes to bilking prominent residents and alumni to build futuristic looking buildings for a university that his too little space to e...

Miami suffers home defeat

How did Miami respond to last week's humiliating loss to Virginia Tech? By doing much of the same against Tennessee, shooting themselves in the foot once again. Costly turnovers and penalties tarnishe...

THE ADVENTURES OF TWIGGAR – volume 1

Life & Art Writer 4 Life GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS Screensize: titanic *** I will admit that I have seen this large format film about James Cameron's exploration of the ruins of the real Titanic befor...

New York cooties by-way-of Miami

Life & Art Writer UM Surfrider Prez ++++++++++ AVENUE D ARE WHORES +++++++++++ "Big booty hoes hop wit it! Hoochie mamas hop wit it!" Cali rappers 2 Live Crew love their asses...

Men’s basketball shows promise

Darius Rice scored 34 points and Robert Hite added 17 as the men's basketball team lost to Nike Elite 88-86 Sunday night in the 'Canes' first exhibition game of the season. Despite blowing a 13-point ...

Rich kids on A.R.E. and the drunken, cool NYC hipsters who love them

Life & Art Bruised Editor People talk shit, people talk trash, when people talk about me I just have to laugh (or throw their punk ass over a couch). Wordicus. For some reason, I've seen the Wea...

Women’s basketball suffers tough loss to Mike Ward All-Stars

The women's basketball team came into their first exhibition game Monday with high hopes after an NCAA Tournament appearance last season. Their loss to the Mike Ward All-Stars was disappointing, but i...

New Miss UM to tackle childhood obesity

Melissa Marcus, sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha, is the newly crowned Miss UM. She is now on her way to the Miss Florida pageant. "I don't really know why I won, but I did have a very good interview and ...

BCS gives Hurricanes a fighting chance

Now that it has been announced that after Miami's 31-7 loss at Virginia Tech last Saturday the 'Canes are ranked fourth in this week's BCS rankings, it's time for all of the experts to weigh in on who...

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