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...

album reviews: Badly Drawn Boy leaves Donnie with a Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead Beautiful Mind ** 1/2 Descending into the obscure and murky dungeon of Brooklyn's underground across the shadowy figures of the Def Jux family spitting their cryptic philosophies and ar...

Maybe we Americans aren’t so stupid after all

Apparently the American people are not quite as dumb as I thought. Granted, they did elect President Bush, but it seems that with the dawn of a new year, many Americans are finally realizing what I h...

Swimmers struggle for wins over break

Winter break may have been a nice vacation for students at the University of Miami, but it wasn't much of a vacation for Miami's swimming and diving team. The Hurricanes fell to Harvard on January 2 a...

Gen Art hosts a fashion/video event at Oxygen

The Gen Art session that was held at Oxygen Lounge in the Grove on Friday seemed, at first, to be everything it should have been - a hip venue for new artists of different mediums to showcase their ta...

JOSE BEDIA: Edging on unsettling existentalism

You loom towards five three-dimensional, towering black figures draped in all black, complete with cowboy hats and masked faces in the dark cloaks, all holding a red flag with a cross in the upper cor...

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