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Democracy isn’t dead, it’s waiting for students to show up

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Although ranked third in College Football rankings, The University of Miami is ranked one of the lowest schools in free expression. With harsh limits of free speech, the last time University of Miami ...

Hey Cornell, take better care of your students

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Seven fraternity men at Cornell University were accused of participating in the gang rape of a female student in 2024. Two years later, these men have not been charged for their alleged crimes. The...

Florida’s hypocritical laws of life

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Florida carried out its 13th execution of the year on Tuesday, August 18, putting 61-year-old William Silvia to death by lethal injection. Florida accounts for almost half of all executions carried...

The future of ecotourism

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“Protect our oceans” has become a global rallying cry, but the debate over how to actually do it is reaching a boiling point.  For decades, humans’ relationship with the sea has been defined by wha...

The Daily Tar Heel’s mistake highlights our responsibility as student...

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April Fools Day is a day of laughs and fun to play harmless jokes on your friends and family. Jokes should never have to end in unsettling fear and uncomfortable punchlines that, well, never get to th...

What UM can learn from Boris Johnson’s leadership style

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Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not deliver a conventional policy lecture on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 19, at the University of Miami. Instead, he offered something closer to a politica...

Advocating for life should include more than just abortion

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As single-digit temperatures settled over most of the country — except Miami — I bundled myself in scarves and layers of clothes among hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C. attending the annual Ma...

AGLO: The foundation of UM’s Greek life

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UM’s recruitment season is not something you want to miss as a student. While many potential new members (PNMs) focus on which sorority will be their new home or what fraternity brothers they match be...

Abortion through a philosophical lens: immoral

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At its core, abortion is a philosophical conflict where the values of bodily autonomy and the dignity of human life clash. Understanding the moral weight of abortion requires us to examine a harder qu...

Campus ducks are our neighbors too

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A common experience living on campus is encountering animals in their natural habitat. If you go for a run, you'll have to be sure to weave in and out of a family of ducklings, avoid stepping on the t...
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Paulina Barnjak

Paulina Barnjak is a junior from Long Island, New York, studying Political Science and Journalism. She joined TMH as an opinion writer and is thrilled to start her second year as editor for the section. As of recent, she interned on Capitol Hill for the summer, and dreams of going back to Washington DC for law school. If you can’t reach her, she’s probably refueling with a cortado at Vicky’s.