Students petition for Village approval

UM officials and student leaders are in the process of gaining support from the student body via a petition and personal testimonials for University Village, scheduled to open in August 2004 and pendi...

Lack of interest moves Cane Craze to spring

For the first time in Cane Craze history, the two-day sports event that was to be held this past weekend was postponed because an insufficient number of teams signed up to participate. "I'm very disap...

Value of learning is lost in minimum requirements

Students beware: Some of the courses that you are taking may not count towards graduation. In recently selecting an intersession course, I have discovered an entire list of courses that do not count ...

UM chooses winner of UM Idol

UM students and Cane Records voted Matt Feld as their choice for the UM Idol winner this past Wednesday. Feld was voted into the top spot after weeks of competing with over 50 singers who auditioned. ...

In this competitive world, attitude is everything

Here we are, preparing to graduate from a great university with all our GPA's, Dean's List certificates, club memberships and other such accomplishments, but does it ever occur to anyone that about a ...

Fourth graders take field trip to UM

The UM campus was filled with the sounds of frolicking fourth graders from Little River Elementary School of Liberty City last Friday. The students visited UM after five weeks of learning about the b...

Less oil use means greater national security

Recently it was announced that the Bush administration was considering reversing course and supporting an increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards by 1.5 miles per gallon by 200...

New editor-in-chief to take over the Hurricane

Brian Poliakoff, a junior majoring in media management and political science, has been elected the new editor-in-chief of The Miami Hurricane by the Board of Publications Committee. "Brian is going to...

Barely Legal

Looking through the limelight NYC rockers The Strokes paint "The Modern Age" Somewhere in between the shimmering lights of Gotham City at night and the smoky, penumbral basement bars of Manhattan's h...

SUVs clog the roads and the air

Americans like big things. Whether you look at our obesity rate or the amount of food in a McDonald's super-sized meal, it is obvious that we just won't settle for anything less than the best and the...

The Miami Hurricane

Student newspaper at the University of Miami