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...

SG bill shot down

The Student Government Senate overwhelmingly shot down a bill last Wednesday that proposed that the Honor Council adopt standards of precedence for sanctions of honor code violations. Twenty-four sen...

UMTV program takes national award

The UMTV news program, NewsVision, was recently awarded first prize for newscasting in the National Broadcasting Society competition. This is the fifth year the program has placed first in the live n...

Smoochy’s Death has been greatly exaggerated

It is a rare case when a major motion picture dons the gusto and audacity of Death to Smoochy, and gets past movie executives creatively intact. The new film directed by Danny DeVito, which stars Edwa...

Amount of Int’l students

A few days after Sep. 11, Sireen Karam emptied out her half of her dorm room into a couple of suitcases, bought a last-minute ticket and boarded two airplanes before arriving home. "I didn't want to ...

Intramural Sports

Hoops for Hunger 3-on-3 Tournament: Champions - Blue Devils = Jason Esteves, Robert Bolden, and Jeff Meredith Softball: ZBT- 17 Sigma Chi- 16 AE Pi- 14 Sammy- 2 Alpha Sig- 6 Phi Delta- 5 Insomni...

Naturalization ceremony shows pride

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to attend and observe the naturalization ceremony for U.S. citizenship of an extended family member at the Miami convention center. If you've never seen a photo of...

Gatsby’s offers alternative to Miami clubs

While Miami offers a wide array of places to party, from a simple beer bar like the Tavern to the morning-after dance-party of Club Space, every now and then the more mature drinker finds the need to ...

‘Panic Room’ shows smarts

David Fincher's Panic Room doesn't really bring anything new to the suspense genre, but it does bring something that many directors of this genre have recently forgot: how to keep a viewer on the edge...

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