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Staff editorial: Clicking into class

Skipping class just got a tad bit harder for more than a half-million students on thousands of college campuses. Or not?

Staff editorial: Effects of the texting generation

According to a report from the Nielsen Company last year, American teenagers send and receive 3,146 text messages a month, which translates into more than 10 messages every hour of the month that they are not sleeping or in school.

Letter to the Editor: The Old Art Rooms

It was a fine building with a heart that the promised us the future. It wasn’t especially fancy, just a two story barrack that silently begged for another coat of paint across its clap board walls.

Staff editorial: Haiti should remain in our hearts

However, reconstruction is only the beginning. Today, Haiti is still in the process of digging out from under the rubble. Despite the world’s immediate aid and help, there are still more than a million displaced people living in tents and under tarpaulins. Additionally, Haitians are dealing with a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 2,000 people.

Letter to the Editor

It may not be the University’s job to answer the concerns of every individual student, but it definitely has the responsibility to do what is best for the health of our students, faculty, and staff. And there is no clearer way than to advocate for a stricter campus smoking policy.

Staff Editorial 11/22

Following a four-year legal battle against the record industries, Limewire was officially shut down at the end of last month. Limewire, like many before it, was charged with “massive scale of infringement” by purposely allowing users to share millions of unauthorized music tracks and movie clips.

Staff Editorial 11/18

Trojan Brand Condoms released its fifth annual Sexual Health Report Card last month, placing University of Miami 56th among 141 schools across the country.

Staff Editorial: The designated friend

When your friend gets kicked out of a bar for being too drunk, do you walk back home with him or her or do you stay and continue to have a great time? Or what if you get into LIV with your ID and y...

Letter to the Editor: “And I should care because..”

Last week when I was sick, everyone seemed too “busy” to notice. Then, I went to a meeting in Overtown, and I mentioned I had a headache.

Honesty is the best policy

Some students find themselves buried and living in their school work, without allowing themselves time to just relax. Others tend to respond to this kind of stress by trying to trick their teachers, or at least thinking that they can get away with fooling them.

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