Christian Gonzalez/ Staff Writer At FIU, students are charged extra for each credit hour taken in excess of the total required for completion of their degree. This is called the excess credit surcharge (ECS), which is mandated by Florida law and applies only to public universities. To finish a degree, students must complete 120 credit-hours, […]
Christian Gonzalez/ Staff Writer It was my junior year of high school. As I sat in art history class, bored to oblivion, one of my friends leaned over and whispered, “I’m gay.” My first reaction was to laugh. I thought “John” was joking. At Belen Jesuit, the Catholic high school I attended, the word gay […]
Christian Gonzalez/ Staff Writer Legally becoming an adult is a mixed bag of benefits and costs. Perks include the capability to sign contracts under your own name, buy tobacco products and imprint tattoos upon your flesh. At 18, you are required to occasionally attend jury duty and, if male, sign up for the draft. […]
Christian Gonzalez/ Staff Writer The United States and Russia have proved utterly incapable of getting along ever since the defeat of Hitler’s Germany. Tensions between the two arose almost immediately following World War II, when disagreements about distribution of Marshall Plan aid to Eastern Bloc countries turned sour. By 1950, America and the Soviet […]
