After coming to college, I can safely say that my “only getting sick once a year” streak has long been broken.
Opinion
What kind of impression has this first semester left on the Class of 2021?
// We learned, most importantly, that “your education belongs to U.” //
Cover, Opinion
Dining hall disappoints vegetarians
Three months after coming to college, the lack of options in the dining hall makes me reconsider to a meat-based diet.
Opinion
Culturally-appropriated costumes offensive, immoral
Americans have associated Halloween with evil witches and spooky skeletons for years. Recently, however, historically oppressed groups have brought to light the issue of cultural appropriation, which might be scarier than any supernatural creature. Cultural appropriation takes many forms, but its most basic comprises members of a privileged group mimicking select aspects of an oppressed…
Culture, Music
Frost musicology lecture series highlights muses
The University of Miami is always hosting lectures and performances about the great works of art through the centuries, but Frost School of Music professor Frank Cooper finds the muses who inspired those great works just as interesting. So he created a new musicology series, called “Music, Art, and the Muses Behind Them.” Students, faculty…
Culture, Music, Reviews
Dashboard Confessional and The Mowgli’s liven up South Beach’s Fillmore Theater
The Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theater in the heart of South Beach was packed with young-spirited adults with a shared passion for indie rock music Aug. 29. The Mowgli’s welcomed the crowd and began its performance with one of the band’s older songs, “Bad Dream.” Multicolored lights illuminated the stage as the California-based group…
Opinion
UDreamers embodies the U’s devotion to the value of diversity
Each year, countless people flee from their home countries and migrate to the United States with the illusion of fulfilling the American Dream – one of freedom and opportunities – which are not always readily available in other countries. Unfortunately, this dream is not legally accessible to all of these aspirants, some of whom experience…
Opinion
Protests in Venezuela are an act of patriotism against dictator Maduro
Whenever I hear about Venezuela’s “recent” state of affairs, I think about how this country’s political crisis has lasted for as long as I can remember. Being born two months before the late dictator Hugo Chavez became president, I grew up with the sound of news programs playing in the background of our home and…