I-Week seeks to educate students

'United We Stand' is the theme for this year's International Week (I-Week), which kicked off on Friday with Asia Day. The event is annually sponsored by the Council of International Students and Orga...

An ode to alternate transportation

My car died. When I say that, I don't mean she broke down on the side of the road and I had to get her towed to a mechanic's shop; I mean she died. Gave up the ghost. Went kaput. Keeled over. Kick...

Campus Calendar and News Briefs

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD GIVEN TO SUSAN HAACK All faculty are invited to join the Faculty Senate in honoring Professor Susan Haack as the recipient of its 2002 Distinguished Faculty Scholar Awar...

Venturing into the Everglades

Crocodiles have a clean record. Alligators would too, had it not been for a minor incident a few years back when one nibbled a swimming lad who got too close, prompting the child's mom to come to the...

Kudos to ABC for exposing the issue of gay adoptions

There has been some controversy lately over ABC's recent Diane Sawyer interview with talk show host Rosie O'Donnell. You know, the one where she finally "came out," while simultaneously advocating he...

Campus Living: should you stay or should you go?

As the semester creeps to an end, the debate continues: is it better to live on campus or off campus? According to Patrick Dupree, a senior residing in Nob Hill, an off campus apartment is "the only ...

On the way to glory Small-time

Crashing Tide. Sounds ominous, no? A New Drowning Method. Sounds like a morbid way to have fun. Maybe not. Crashing Tide is an alternative/punk/rock band, formed by teenagers, twin brothers Chris and...

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 ...

‘A Lesson Before Dying’

White jurors say he did it. The long-time schoolteacher is not so sure. The prison warden -who arrived at the scene shortly after the murder- believes the boy is innocent. His godmother doesn't seem t...

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