Todd Widom shines despite team’s poor play

The University of Miami men's tennis team has had a tough season. Coming into this weekend, the Hurricanes sit at 8-8 overall, but they have had one bright point -- the play of freshman Todd Widom. W...

Registration priorities change

Registration for fall classes began on Monday, but this time it started without athletes, honors students and other special group members getting priority treatment. A committee of deans chaired by V...

School of Music’s new facilities to open by Spring 2004

"'If music be the food of love, play on - William Shakespeare,'" quoted Marta Week, namesake of the latest addition to the School of Music. April ninth 2002 marked a historical day for the School of ...

Student ‘reject’ art show debuts

Salon des Refuses was the place where late 19th century Impressionist painters exhibited their works when they were rejected from The Academy, according to art student Marc Johnson. The Alternative o...

News Briefs and Campus Calendar

YEAR BOOKS To the graduating seniors of 2002, To cover significant spring events and sports, including commencement, the staff of the IBIS in conjunction with the Board of Student Publications has dec...

The idiot’s guide to Spanish

A four-part formula for learning Spanish in Miami: A study abroad student who recently arrived at UM from Singapore walked in the study abroad office and asked, "Is the native language in Miami Spa...

Equal rights for all sexual orientations

In September, registered voters in Miami-Dade County will vote on a controversial no-brainer: whether or not to repeal the county's 1998 Human Rights Ordinance. The county mandate prohibits discrim...

Green fundamentalists

Two weeks ago the University Center Breezeway was filled with the sounds of true believers, gesticulating wildly and chanting a mantra that has become the lingua franca of the latest version of the mo...

UM loses series against Florida St.

The Miami Hurricane baseball team continued their inconsistent play losing two of three to the No. 10 Florida St. Semillons last weekend. In the final game of the series, Seminole freshman shortstop ...

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