By Leeann Sanon | Staff Writer Walking through gate three to enter the First Night event was like walking through a stampede of animals; The energy was high and contagious. Once you enter and walk towards the tables, the high is warned off and it is as if we’re reminded this is another hot summer […]
Cosette Lipscomb | Opinion Director Starting freshman year at any college can be a struggle. Although everyone’s experience at FIU will be different, here are a few things I wish I knew before starting college. My first semester at FIU was very simple: Go to class, eat, and go back to my dorm. I wasn’t […]
AI data centers can do more harm than good | Mariana Castillo, PantherNOW Cosette Lipscomb | Opinion Director Data centers, whether you know it or not, may be a common sight on your drive to FIU. In the Miami-Dade area alone, there are 41 data centers already built. And more are on the way. South […]
We’re always being watched |Photo from Heidi Cuevas, PantherNow Leeann Sanon | Staff Writer Artificial intelligence is when computer systems have the ability to replicate human cognitive processes. AI cameras are real time recording used simultaneously with automated functions. These AI cameras can implement facial recognition software to track the whereabouts of people, cars, and […]
Leeann Sanon | Staff Writer The transition from living on campus during the fall and spring at FIU to then moving back home during the summer is surreal. Going from being independent of my parents to returning home creates a distorted sense of reality and control. Being an on campus resident at FIU brings out […]
Contributing Writer | Andres Sanchez For Florida International University, a school with over 50,000 total students, the establishment and continuance of student resources, both personal and academic, is essential to sustaining strong graduation and retention rates. Yet, FIU’s most essential vehicles for providing student resources, the Dorothea Green Library and special collections, continue to be […]
Staff Writer| Alexandra Perez In today’s world, all roads lead back to AI. And while that might make sense in a rapidly evolving era, it has also made something else exponentially clear. Every conversation about college somehow ends the same way: AI. It really doesn’t even matter where the dialogue starts… learning, cheating, the future- […]
Kendall Moffett | Staff Writer Students are not being prepared enough to enter a growing AI-driven job market, leaving many of us to navigate its use and ethical implications on our own. A recent Gallup study evaluating how public universities prepare students for artificial intelligence in the workforce confirms what many of us are already […]
Sonia Stolar | Staff Writer As an international student, airport visits are second nature to me. I have mastered the art of packing for a trip that could last up to four months, memorized my way around Miami International Airport, and have accumulated passport pages filled with stamps from layovers and final destinations. While I […]
Contributing Writer | Andres Sanchez On July 4th 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which, among a wide array of other new tax and spending legislation, made broad changes to federal student loan programs. While no federal student loan programs were changed immediately after the bill […]
Sonia Stolar | Staff Writer I’ve never been much of an academic, yet before coming to college, I’ve had this perception of mahogany interiors and elongated bookshelves in classrooms, students hunched over notes from lectures and sleepless nights spent studying. My imaginary world of future collegiate years was not the most realistic, nor an exhilarating […]
