Bryan Baste | Staff Writer Last Tuesday, March 18, 2025, from 7 to 10 p.m., the Graham Center ballrooms hosted an extravagant event presented by the Phi Mu Theta Gamma sorority. Casino Night, which took place from 7 to 10 p.m., was a fabulous event benefiting different casino games like poker, roulette, blackjack, craps, and […]
Emilie Gonzalez | PantherNOW Staff Have you ever seen the architecture students outside of the studio? Figures, it is a delicacy to not see them in the studio for almost the whole day and night. However, the night of Wednesday, Mar. 19 was different. Students in Communication, Art, and Architecture or CARTA could be found […]
Ana Mancebo | Contributing Writer Week of Welcome had a lot of loud events, like UPROAR, Aux Cord Wars and more. But Thursday night in the Graham Center pit featured something a little different: stress balls. At 6:30 pm, on the first Thursday back from winter break, the Multicultural Greek Council collaborated with FIU’s Healthy […]
A copy of the drafted Senate Resolution provided to PantherNOW via a confidential source. Michael McEwen and Elise Gregg / Assistant News Directors An anonymous source leaked a drafted resolution by Student Government Association Senate members condemning PantherNOW, claiming it could possibly be in violation of SGA statutes and may have been used to influence […]
Kali-Ray Skinner / Contributing Writer. Down the hall of the Graham Center, bright colored t-shirts with the names of newly initiated young men and women, signify the start of the fall semester and more notably the start of Greek Life recruitment. Only this year, one thing is different: recruitment is solely online. With over 1300 […]
Victoria Abella/Staff Writer National Pan-Hellenic Council Week 2019, Divine Magic, featured social gatherings and forums from Monday, April 8 through Friday, April 12. Social events including Black Wall Street were held on both campuses. NPHC President Ron Ulysse, and brother of Phi Beta Sigma’s Lambda Tau chapter, spoke to Student Media to reflect on how […]
By: Alejandro Gonzalez/Contributing Writer From 6 a.m. practices, competitions, academic and sorority activities, track and cross-country runner Lauren Garcia does her best to balance it all. While running for the FIU women’s cross-country and track team, Garcia is a member of the on-campus sorority Alpha Xi Delta. Garcia joined the sorority almost two years ago […]
Nayeli Lomeli/Contributing Writer At the beginning of the semester, various fraternity and sorority members spoke about their experiences during “rush week,” what they were looking for when they decided to go Greek, and why anyone should do it. FIU currently offers 31 fraternity and sorority chapters composed of nearly 1,300 members, each part of one […]
Melanie Rodriguez/Contributing Writer For the first time in three years, Beta Theta Pi fraternity’s dance competition “Beta Breakdown” returned to the University on Friday, Jan.18. For this event, Beta Theta Pi partnered with Relay for Life, one of the fraternity’s two philanthropic association for the event, with all of the proceeds benefiting the American […]
By: Alejandro Gonzalez/Contributing Writer From 6 a.m. practices, competitions, academic and sorority activities, track and cross-country runner Lauren Garcia does her best to balance it all. While running for the FIU women’s cross-country and track team, Garcia is a member of the on-campus sorority Alpha Xi Delta. Garcia joined almost two years ago in the […]
Tamica Jean-Charles/Entertainment Director The Greek pause may be long over but the fate of the two Greek houses on campus still remains. Located at the southwest corner of the Modesto Maidique campus lies the vacated houses of suspended fraternities Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Kappa Phi. FIU took custody over both houses right after […]
Gabriella Pinos/Assistant Entertainment Director When Valeska Pella was invited to the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at FIU in 2016, she did not know what to expect. After the reunion, she left with a ZBT shirt and dozens of new fraternity brothers. “They said, ‘we have a surprise for you,’” said Pella. “And they gave me […]
