While many University of Miami students spent their fall break weekend lying on the local beaches or taking brief trips home, three students came up with a plan to tackle the poverty and lack of education in an under-served community of Haiti.

Random Acts Of Kindness, a student organization, spreads a positive message on campus with “random” hugs and flowers to strangers. The group expands its message this year with plans for a Peace and Love concert.

Rho Rho Rho, the University of Miami’s marine science honors fraternity, is working with the Future Interests in Nature and the Sea (F.I.N.SEA) Foundation in conjunction with the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric science to plan a “fin-tastic” Ocean Kids Day on campus.

It was a bittersweet Saturday morning at Miami’s Tropical Park, as the Out of the Darkness Community Walks for the prevention of suicide took place.

Adrienne Arsht, philanthropist and University of Miami trustee since May, is donating a $5 million gift to be used for university-wide ethics programs, eye research, athletics, the music school and more.

While the act of kissing may have a plethora of beneficial effects, doing so can actually help save lives at pop artist and gallery owner Perry Milou’s Pucker Up Project, an interactive art exhibit in Miami’s Design District. The project, launched last month, lets gallery visitors literally “pucker up” and kiss one of several canvases painted by Milou, in exchange for a donation toward cancer research at the University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center at the Miller School of Medicine.

Dance Marathon, an event to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network at Miami Children’s Hospital, will take place next Saturday, Nov. 1, not this Saturday. The event will take place from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Hillel Center, located on Stanford Drive on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables Campus.

South Miami Police to carry tasers, Footworks to host charity events, Construction of “green” branch of Baptist Hospital begins, Splitsville to open next week.

Dance Marathon, a charity event to benefit ill children that sprouted at Penn State University and has spread to over 80 universities across the nation, will take place at the University of Miami for the first time this Saturday, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

In the Oct. 9 issue of The Miami Hurricane, in the ”Events Beats,” Surfrider UM was cited as having held a benefit concert last Tuesday.  However, the benefit concert is actually this Tuesday, Oct. 14., at the UC Patio.