Hope for Life, a new student organization dedicated to advancing organ donation, will have a party from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Wednesday at The Rock with free food and giveaways.

The University of Miami’s Launch Pad team won the Budgetball tournament held Saturday and will be traveling to Washington, D.C., in June for the Budgetball Championship. Thirty-two teams with up to 10 students on each team participated in the single elimination tournament.
Budgetball, similar to Ultimate Frisbee, is a new sport that combines not only physical [...]

For the past three years, red-shouldered hawks have nested behind the Mahoney-Pearson dining hall, making it clear that the space is reserved only for them. And they’re back, just in time for nesting season.

It’s the youth of the nation, like students at the University of Miami, who will be left to face the growing debt of America.
As the national debt approaches $11 trillion, the outlook seems grim. But when panelists from The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a nationwide series of forums to discuss America’s fiscal future, came to UM on Monday [...]

Chabad at the University of Miami presents “Purim Concert on the Patio” in celebration of the Jewish holiday Purim this Tuesday on the UC Patio. ChabadUM is sponsoring the free event. Organizations including Hillel, Zeta Beta Tau, Sigma Delta Tau and Sigma Alpha Mu will be participating in the event. Live music will be played by Hasidic rap star Dr. Laz.

UM’s Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc has been named the third highest paid chief academic officer at a private institution, raking in more than $600,000 for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Ruckus, an online music service geared towards universities including the University of Miami, closed its virtual doors on Feb. 6. The site, which allowed students to stream an unlimited amount of music, was designed to appeal to college students, offering a legal alternative to the piracy that can be found on many campuses.

University of Miami student Wascar Payano, 26, was charged with battery and false imprisonment after allegedly keeping a female student against her will in his Coral Gables off-campus apartment Jan. 22.

Though salmonella spread via peanut butter is taking the nation by storm, the University of Miami sees no reason to worry.

UM’s resident Cabinet member and president Donna E. Shalala answers questions about President-elect Barack Obama’s selections thus far.