PantherNOW Editorial Board When you log onto LinkedIn nowadays, you’re flooded by thousands of job postings. Unfortunately, even if you apply to every single one of them, the chance you’ll be offered an interview is scant at best. Following that logic, the chance of actually finding a job is even thinner. It’s become a fact […]
“FIU is drifting toward right-wing political dominance. Unfortunately, most students and faculty won’t notice until it’s too late.” | Courtesy of Conor Moore, PantherNOW PantherNOW Editorial Board FIU is drifting toward right-wing political dominance. Unfortunately, most students won’t notice until it’s too late, despite the faculty’s continued efforts to raise awareness of the issue. Two […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board FIU is one campus in many ways, including how we pay our tuition and fees. Despite 92 percent of FIU’s students living off campus, the majority of whom attend classes at MMC, students still pay thousands in fees for services many of us will never use, including transportation, health, PantherExpress and more. […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board After a fairly benign, apolitical presidency under Kenneth Jessell, our university capitulates, just like the rest of America, toward Trumpist whims by appointing Jeanette Nunez, someone who’s only qualification to run a university is that she was an FIU student…30 years ago? While there’s obviously nothing wrong with appointing a new president, […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Football Head Coach Mike MacIntyre has been fired from the team. This is after Macintyre finished the season with a third consecutive 4-8 record and accusations were made by several former players of verbal abuse and throwing a chair that hit a player. Former team captain Reggie Peterson made the allegations against […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board PantherNOW has published its investigation into Global First Year, a partnership between FIU and the higher-education company Shorelight— and the results are alarming. The program allows international students to take courses at the university as non-degree-seeking students and then transfer to FIU once they’re done. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board It’s becoming more and more dangerous to hold an opinion and voice it in Florida. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Health have been threatening criminal prosecution for local TV and radio stations for running an ad in support of Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion rights into the […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board For students, staff and faculty riding our elevators in recent years, the experience has gone down, down, down. FIU needs to be more transparent with students regarding the safety of its elevators. Elevators in areas with prominent student foot traffic like the Graham Center, Green Library and Deuxieme Maison each have certificates […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board On June 12, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed the state’s $32 million art funding from the legislature-approved 2024-2025 budget. Nearly two months later, hundreds of organizations across Florida are still struggling, looking for money to stay afloat. His justification for cutting the state art budget? Two Fringe Festivals in Orlando and Tampa […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Despite its significance and recognition at the federal level for the last four years, Juneteenth is not an official holiday in the state of Florida. Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. More broadly, the day celebrates African American resiliency and independence. It’s no surprise […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Hogtying is the practice of tying together the hands and feet of a person or all four legs of an animal, rendering them immobile. Looking at it, it’s not too far off from being mistaken for some medieval torture. Matteo Falcinelli, an FIU graduate student was arrested by North Miami Beach police […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board In a stunning turn of events, this week two senators were removed by the judicial branch, and just as quickly put back in office by student government executives. We’ll cut to the chase: this entire episode has been a fiasco. Our board has nothing against either Daniel Salup-Cid or Kassandra Toussaint: in […]
