PantherNOW Editorial Board In a stunning turn of events, this week two senators were removed by the judicial branch, and just as quickly put back in office by student government executives. We’ll cut to the chase: this entire episode has been a fiasco. Our board has nothing against either Daniel Salup-Cid or Kassandra Toussaint: in […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Panthers, election season is here and it’s time to vote. No matter your major, year or general interest in politics, we at PantherNOW firmly stand by the sentiment that students need to vote. In 2023, then-elections commissioner Anna Meredith told PantherNOW that over 3,000 students voted in the 2023-24 elections. That was […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board As first reported by WLRN over winter break, FIU has put a freeze on hiring individuals from “countries of concern”. Stemming from new state laws and regulations, FIU’s pause is meant to work out any issues in hiring caused by those laws. The new laws are intended to put a stop to […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board During the last faculty senate meeting of the fall on Nov. 14, senate chair Noel Barengo informed senators that the senate would again not endorse the Board of Governor’s State University System Free Expression Statement. Our editorial board fully stands behind this move. It may seem counterintuitive for a student newspaper committed […]
PantherNow Editorial Board Last week, the Florida State University System issued a memo ordering the deactivation of two official chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine at Florida state universities. The reason for such timely censorship appears to be related to SJP allegedly identifying itself with Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a terrorist-led attack. PantherNOW finds such […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board The last football game was a miss. “They’re going to the Lambo’ to celebrate?” said ESPN play-by-play announcer John Schriffen after UTEP’s junior cornerback Torey Richardson picked off FIU’s quarterback. After all of the pomp and circumstance around FIU football’s “Vice Night”, the school made themselves appear as a national laughingstock with […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Most of us procrastinate on our assignments until the last hour it’s due. You can either submit a poorly-written paper or do nothing. Either way, you would later suffer the consequences of a bad grade. But, thanks to ChatGPT, you only submit a prompt and marvel at the powers of the chatbot […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board The Florida Board of Governors’ post-tenure review disappointed us when it was approved earlier this year. We had hoped that our trustees would be open to faculty concerns and explicitly supportive of protecting tenure and academic freedom. Yet, time and time again, we’ve seen little to no help from our trustees – […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hinted that he may be open to pardoning Proud Boy’s leader Enrique Tarrio, who has been sentenced to 22 years for his part in the January 6 riot. It is in his best interest to ponder on the role of the president and reconsider whether granting a […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board The hugely debated creation of a waterpark near Zoo Miami is now considering “other sites,” as per Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. We celebrate the efforts of the environmentalists who made this happen – But the fight to protect Miami’s biodiversity still rages on. Miami Wilds, the self-proclaimed “eco-sensitive” waterpark, brought many complications. […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board As a federal judge concluded that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was illegal, circumstances beyond Dreamers’ control placed them at the mercy of a divided America. On Sept. 14, a federal judge from Texas determined that revisions to DACA were illegal because they were created through the formal agency rulemaking process. […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board It was the object of FIU’s pride when the Wall Street Journal released a new college ranking that ranked the university fourth place among all other public universities nationwide. U.S. News also gave FIU its highest rank ever. These are only a few announced to students, faculty and staff recently, all celebrating […]
