MLK legacy lives on

This week students from every background celebrated the life and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., along with UM's United Black Students . "All I hope is that no one forgets what everyone in the...

Some people in this world are worth hating

Damn that old-time jazz exhorting us never to hate. Parents and preacher men are quite right to inculcate in us the will power to transcend racial, social, and sexual barriers, but they are quite wro...

Campus Calendar And News Briefs

TODAY Come learn about the Peace Corps in an information session and video presentation, from 12 to 1 p.m. in UC 241. Contact Erin Seiler at 305-284-5398 for more information. Metropolis will be sho...

An Alien Diet Leads to the Generation X Files!

I was out to dinner with my sister and her son over break. He's only four and over three feet tall; when I visited my old elementary school, the kids on the playground looked old enough to be throwin...

UM ranks high on The Princeton Review’s list

The Princeton Review recently ranked UM fifth in the nation for "Great College Towns" and sixth for "Most Students From Different Backgrounds Interact" in a nation-wide ranking of colleges. UM was t...

Iron & Wine: Ballads for Miami boondocks

When you're young, it's easy to knock the South for its vast undeveloped pastures, cultural ineptness, and the backward, apostle-quoting sensibility of elders you haven't met, but exist nonetheless. A...

Buying and selling textbooks on-line saves money

UM students are always complaining about the cost of the UM Bookstore and about the lack of buy-back potential of the books they buy. However, several options are becoming increasingly popular among ...

Bookstore should kiss us before stealing our money

There are at least three enduring constants in the universe. One is death. Unless you're one of Tolkien's elves, eventually everybody shuffles off this mortal coil. Another is taxes. Everybody has to ...

Chartwells brings the Crepemaker to campus

The Crepemaker, the new crepe stand between the UC and the Rock, near the convenience store entrance, has attracted hundreds of students in its first week of operation and its popularity is expected t...

Calendar

Tonight Hit up the Revolver party at Soho Lounge, 175 NE 36th St., Miami, and watch Kid 606, with Needle and Sony Mao, take over the stage. Doors open at 10 p.m. and it's $10 to get in. Call 305-576-1...

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