Student Government has made a bigger effort to reach out to students as directly as possible with SG Awareness Week.

This Saturday, hundreds of University of Miami students will come together for one cause. National Gandhi Day of Service, UM’s largest service event, will focus on creating a larger impact on the community than it ever has before.

Over 100 friends, professors and family members gathered Friday to celebrate the life of Kelly McConnell.

A proposed referendum may require that students pay one more dollar as a part of the yearly student activities fee. The referendum states that the $1 fee be allocated to Student Government starting next June. If it were to pass, the referendum would bring in roughly $19,000 for SG.

The fire was part of a live burn demonstration of two mock dorm rooms hosted by the security office in the Department of Housing and Residence Life Wednesday afternoon on the university green. As a part of National Fire Safety Awareness Month, the office staged the burn, giving away free pizza, drinks, T-shirts and refrigerator magnets to call students’ attentions to fire safety issues.

Johnnie Mae Dawson, a cashier at Mango and Manny’s, the food court vendor specializing in Caribbean cuisine and chop chops, has been making hungry students smile for the past 15 years. As students hand Dawson their cash, Cane Cards and credit cards, she doesn’t hesitate to call them any variation of “pookie,” “sweetheart,” “mama” and most notably, “babycakes.”

Bruce J. Winick, an esteemed University of Miami law professor, passed away early Thursday from complications of cancer at the age of 65.

Marie Cushmore was walking back from filling a prescription at the CVS across from campus when a SUV struck her.

Getting to know orphans as they deal with disaster and displacement. Watching break dancers joyously hit the concrete streets. Speaking with distant relatives for a brief, heartfelt moment. Koz...

Late Friday evening, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, which opened at the start of the 2009 fall semester on Liguria Avenue, was vandalized. Obscene images in yellow paint were drawn...