Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief Update: The new constitution was voted in as of April 4, with 299 “yes” votes and 151 “no” votes. The story below provides links to the new and old constitutions, as well as changes. Tomorrow, students can vote yay or nay to a series of changes to the student government constitution, […]
Alexander Luzula | Assistant News Director The Student Government Association is one step closer to simplifying its own constitutional processes and making it easier to amend the SGA Constitution. On Monday, Nov. 6, the SGA Senate passed Bill SB 04 006, known as the Amendments Streamlining Act. If enacted, the new legislation would repeal Article […]
By: Gerard Albert III/Assistant News Director Students at the Biscayne Bay campus doubt the effectiveness and level of representation the merging of the Student Government councils will bring. The merger was mandated by former vice president for Student Affairs Larry Lunsford last year, bringing the Student Government Councils at the Modesto Maidique and Biscayne […]
Eduardo Alvarez/ Asst. Opinion Director It’s frustrating, it’s grueling and it’s unpopular. But originalism is what the country needs. Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings have rekindled old debates between the two mainstream views regarding constitutional interpretation: one says that the meaning of the text ought to change with the times, and another; originalism, says that we […]
Feeling patriotic in the month of BBQ and bottle rockets, an 18-year-old girl tries enlisting in the Selective Service, but enters into a legal battle with the Supreme Court after gender-based denial. By filing a class action lawsuit, the young woman referenced as E.K.L. questions the constitutionality of the obligatory defense of Old Glory. Sexist […]
