I’m horrible at eloquent goodbyes, but I’m great at making points. So if I have a whole column to ramble, let it be to make a point: If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from college, it’s that passions bring people together. Freshman year, I struggled. I had come from a tiny, geeky high school,…
The time of year is finally upon us. It’s after spring break, and mustering up the energy to get anything done seems impossible. Worse still is the plight of the Second Semester Senior, who is a mere five weeks away from graduation and leaving the cradle of Miami undergraduate career forever. As you cling to…
University of Miami’s General Honors Program will be eliminated over four years. It will be replaced by a program that is more targeted toward student needs. Faculty Senate’s academic standards committee made the decision to phase out the program after reviewing it, according to a report from the Nov. 20 meeting. The decision was based…
A woman was robbed on San Amaro Drive along the Intramural Fields on Tuesday afternoon. A man approached the woman with friends when a man approached her, grabbed her phone out of her hand and ran into the passenger side of a dark car that was parked nearby. The man was 20 to 30 years…
Halloween is usually about candy overdoses, cheap costumes and crazy nights. But for some people, the holiday means something more. From haunted houses to elaborate homemade costumes to running parties, these Canes take Halloween a little more seriously than most. Spooky spaces Every year at senior Jennifer Castellani’s house, her family hosts a miniature haunted…
Two University of Miami graduate students were killed by a car in Pinecrest Wednesday night. Hao Liu and Ying Chen were in their first year of studying electrical and computer engineering. Both were international students from China. There is an ongoing police investigation surrounding the events. The counseling center is available for any students who…
University of Miami student Andy Melendez died Saturday in a canoe accident while in Arcadia, Fla. Melendez was a second year, pre-med student from Astoria, NY and a member of the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha. A memorial service will be held 8 p.m. Tuesday on The Rock. Melendez was reported missing Saturday night after one…
Two years ago, two Syrian teen boys missed their bus to school. That same bus was later overtaken by Syrian rebels, who took all of the males on the bus and forced them to fight for the rebel army. Had the boys not missed their bus, they would have been captured, too. Such was the…
Buildings near the University of Miami Business School were being evacuated as of 7:27 p.m. Tuesday night due to a suspicious package found on the adjacent bridge, according to a text from the UM Emergency News Network. The message said that UMPD was on the scene. This story will be updated as more details become…
Chris Ryan poses in front of the sound-editing station in the Protools Lab at the School of Communication. Ryan was able to meet his idol, Michael Giacchino, at the end of January. Cayla Nimmo // Photo Editor Lately it seems like if you don’t have a viral YouTube video, you won’t make it in the…
Megan Cox While touring with musical theater company Starkid and singer Charlene Kaye, singer-songwriter Megan Cox worked on her debut album, “W.” Thanks to the Internet, Cox’s music was met with excitement by fans around the world instead of just her local New York crowd. “W,” which dropped Jan. 8, has a warm sound and…
Jane Goodall, the British primatologist and anthropologist, is best known for her study of social interactions between chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. Since first entering the Gombe in 1960 as a young woman with no collegiate training, Goodall has become a leader in the field of animal behavior and an advocate for environmental conservation….