Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer Students depend on financial aid to pay their way through college, but lately it’s been a nightmare. FAFSA has been hitting the wall with multiple glitches, making students wonder if it’s even worth it to submit it. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA is an application the […]
The Student Government at Florida International University has once again proven that they dont give a damn about students’ free speech. Or the rest of the First Amendment for that matter. For the fourth straight year, SGA cut Student Media’s budget to below our operational expenses. In other words, we’re losing money just by existing. […]
Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor The FIU Student Government slashed the budgets of some student organizations last night, including Student Media’s. The University-Wide Committee, made up of members from the Student Government Councils at the Modesto Maidique and Biscayne Bay Campuses, voted this Tuesday to approve the 2020-2021 Activity & Service Fee allocation budget. To put things […]
Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor Some members of the Student Government want to change the constitution to remove a rule that nobody follows, but the move has been laden with controversy before it even reaches the ballot. The two Student Government Councils, one at the Modesto Maidique Campus and the other at the Biscayne Bay Campus, receive […]
By: Gerard Albert III/Editor-In-Chief The senate of the Student Government Council at Modesto Maidique Campus voted overwhelmingly, Monday, to add more accountability to their funding process. Graduate senator Angel Algarin penned a bill to increase contingency funding oversight after University President Mark B. Rosenberg asked SGC-MMC President Sabrina Leeloo Rosell last month for $4,000 to […]
Members of the Student Government Council at the Modesto Maidique Campus are getting raises while their Biscayne Bay Campus counterparts are having their budgets cut. As of press time, the budget proposal that would wither BBC senators’ pay and boost that of MMC senators has not recieved final approval by the Vice President of Academic […]
Image by Matthew Youngberg via Flickr Amid Bennaim | Staff Writer opinion@fiusm.com Aside from the obvious benefit of paying less at the pump, many FIU students will feel the effects of lower gas prices in ways that they perhaps did not expect. While the President and many politicians on both sides of the isle rush […]
