Coming to you live, the University of Miami’s Jerry Herman Ring Theatre presents “The Rover.” Written by England's first professional female playwright Aphra Behn, the two-part Restoration play is a non-stop party filled with masked revelry and scandal. The play opens on Wednesday, March 1.

Marlee Matlin, an Academy Award winning actress, will be participating in a moderated discussion at the University of Miami on Thursday March 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the Shalala Student Center Grand Ballrooms. What Matters to U (WMTU), a Student Government agency created in the spring of 2019, welcomes high-profile speakers to campus for conversations with students and faculty that would not ordinarily occur in a classroom. At a typical WMTU event, students have the opportunity to hear wisdom and experiences from accomplished individuals of various backgrounds. Student and faculty moderators also can ask hard-hitting questions about how students can take what they learn and apply it to their current journey.

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The University of Miami Department of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) announced a new application process with hopes of smoother room selection for those seeking on-campus housing in 2023. With no guarantee of accommodation, many students are gearing up for another battle for on-campus housing. When the application opened on Feb. 3, the application website crashed, creating a long line of anxious in-person visitors at HRL’s office on the first floor of Eaton Residential College. Most students who came in-person were looking to resolve an issue regarding their roommates. For some students, there was a glitch in the application that switched their gender, resulting in an incorrect list of roommates.

More than 200 classrooms in Miami Dade County Public Schools began the 2022-23 academic school year without an assigned teacher. The University of Miami, in partnership with Achieve Miami and Teach for America, developed the Teacher Accelerator Program to combat the teacher shortage by guaranteeing undergraduate seniors a teaching position in Miami Dade Public Schools after a one semester course and summer internship. “If you are living in this country, any child, every child should have access to a quality education, no matter their background, no matter their zip code.” Leslie Miller-Saiontz, founder and president of Achieve Miami and the TAP program, said.

“Black people are innovating in terms of their sense of self. We are no longer letting society define us,” Sydnae Becton, a fourth-year psychology major, said. “We are expressing ourselves in a beautiful and colorful way for future generations to come.”

On Tuesday, Feb. 7 rumors spread across the University of Miami of a possible roofying incident at a fraternity event that resulted in Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) being temporarily placed on cease-and-desist order. Sources informed The Miami Hurricane that several party-goers believed they had been roofied at a fraternity event but had either not received medical testing to confirm their suspicions or did not want to report tests.

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With hints of suspense, drama and humor in expected places, “M3GAN” did the job of entertaining her audiences without taking her job too seriously.