Danette Heredia and Elise Gregg | PantherNOW Staff Following the failure of “Ceasefire Now!” to pass in student senate, members of Students for Justice in Palestine at FIU organized a protest which ended in the arrest of a protestor. On Feb. 8, students from SJP-FIU, and Young Democratic Socialists of America FIU, Muslim Students Association […]
Abdul Malik | Contributing Writer Lubby Navarro, a former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair and FIU alumni, is accused of two counts of grand theft and organizational fraud. Navarro graduated from FIU with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, as well as being a Leaders of Excellence program of the Good Government Initiative graduate […]
Ram Praneeth | Contributing Writer Following the January 6 riots, Barbara Balmaseda, former vice president of FIU GOP, a notable GOP strategist, and former student, finds herself in legal jeopardy. At just 23 years old and hailing from Miami Lakes, Florida, Balmaseda is now facing a felony charge for obstructing an official proceeding, along with […]
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief What started as a prank went south for a pair of YouTubers, ending with an arrest by FIU police this week. According to police, on Thursday, Sep. 7, two non-students were caught impersonating Housing inspectors at Lakeview North on FIU’s Modesto Maidique Campus. FIU Police Chief Alexander Casas called them “the […]
