The first presidential debate in 2004. The Student Activities Center in 2013. $3 billion raised over 14 years. The list goes on and on. President Donna E. Shalala placed the University of Miami in the national spotlight. Her rock star status transformed the campus’s landscape and culture, leaving UM a top 50 institution with more…
T.S. Eliot and I have something in common. We’re not big fans of April. I didn’t think my final issue as editor-in-chief would arrive this quickly. These four years at the Hurricane have been crazy and exciting. Rather than write a heart-wrenching goodbye, I’ll depart with a snapshot of what I’ve learned after more than…
Coming to the University of Miami alongside Dr. Julio Frenk, who will be UM’s sixth president, is his wife, Felicia Knaul. She is expected to join the faculty in fall 2015. She says she is applying for a position like any other candidate. “No one should have a faculty petition without having a proper review and…
UPDATE: This story was updated on Wednesday, April 15 at 8:25 p.m. Dr. Julio Frenk was confirmed as the University of Miami’s sixth president and first Hispanic president on Monday. Soon after the press conference, the current dean of faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health was given a Hurricanes welcome by the UM band, dancers dressed in…
Dr. Julio Frenk is expected to be named the sixth president of the University of Miami on Monday. Frenk, dean of faculty at Harvard’s School of Public Health, would be the first Hispanic president of UM. SEE ALSO: Presidential Search Committee’s 13 members will select Shalala’s successor After the UM Board of Trustees takes a vote…
Barrett Dennison once thought a graduate degree in film would be his golden ticket to becoming a producer. “I wanted to be the boss who wears the suit and gets to throw the money around,” Dennison said in a Kentucky drawl. This soon fell to the wayside as Dennison, 25, sharpened his writing, directing and…
About 240 people sporting golden paper crowns filled Cosford Cinema Thursday for the anticipated pre-screening of the first episode of “Game of Thrones” Season 5. The hit HBO series officially airs Sunday, April 12, but the University of Miami was the first of 20 schools to host a pre-screening thanks to HBO College, a marketing branch…
On Thursday, the University of Miami will host a pre-screening of HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones” Season 5 Episode 1 before the global broadcast Sunday, April 12. “Game of Thrones” is best known for killing off beloved characters, inappropriate sibling relationships and incredible scenes of battle. This playlist is inspired by the show’s characters…
Senior Stephanie Erichsen stared at her brother Joe as they watched the next-to-last episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” season 3. Since she had already read the books that the series is based on, she anticipated her brother’s shocked reaction to the story’s most heart-wrenching and violent moment: the Red Wedding. “I kept telling him…
It’s 1995 in Buenos Aires, and a group of women who share a salsa class sunbathe at a terrace of a building, dreaming of a vacation in Cuba. Gustavo Taretto, originally from Argentina, delves into this reality in “Sunstroke,” which had its North American premiere at Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival. This is…
In “The Strongest Man,” Kenny Riches tells an unconventional story that has the makings of a cult classic: idiosyncratic images and characters along with good chemistry among the actors. The film achieves some of these but drags out too long and could have benefited from a more defined plot. “Man,” which made its world premiere…
The last traditional fisherman; a supernatural tailor; and a fame-obsessed adolescent. These were some of the characters featured in the From a Distance Shorts series screened Sunday at the Tower Theater as part of Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival. The five short films, which came from all over the world, tell stories about…