Escape from Mr. Piguin

The School of Music exposing Panthers to a wide range of electro-acoustic music

This year, music enthusiasts can listen to student’s electro-acoustic music pieces on Nov. 15 and 16 at the Electro-Acoustic Research Society’s two-day Florida Electro-Acoustic Student Festival at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Explanation for Jan. 12 arrests from President Rosenberg

I know that many of you have heard that two students and five individuals who are not students were arrested on Thursday, January 12 for disrupting school functions. One of the most fundamental characteristics of the academy is the free and open expression and discussion of all points of view and FIU has a rich history of allowing and supporting individuals and groups to express their beliefs and opinions without hindrance.

Occupy FIU: reevaluate message, strategy

By: Philippe Buteau / Staff Writer The FIU offshoot of the Occupy movement needs to chill and fall back for a bit. By that I mean the group’s members need to be very careful with what their overall message is, including what they say to the media, and it needs to stop with the rallies, teach-ins and anything else they plan on doing on campus until they get a more realistic set of grievances for occupying. The Jan. 12 arrest of seven Occupy FIU members did more to delegitimize the group than legitimize them. On that day, FIU Police officers arrested members of the group for unlawful assembly. The members said what they were doing was not a protest but

Occupy FIU Members waiting for response

Occupy FIU members were planted in the GC lawn on Thursday, January 19th, with a sign reading, “Students await response from Rosenberg.”

Seminar targets importance of activism in universities

Whether peaceful or violent, civic displays of objection surfaced globally in the past year as protesters brought their causes to the public eye. Local displays such as Occupy FIU are bringing a national sense of protest to FIU's campus.

Members of Occupy FIU request meeting with University president

A week after seven of their colleagues were arrested, members of Occupy FIU delivered a three page letter to University President Mark Rosenberg condemning the arrests that were made on Jan. 12.

Occupy FIU members charged with ‘unlawful assembly’

Seven participants of the Occupy FIU Art & Music Festival were arrested around 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, on the Modesto Maidique Campus near the Deuxième Maison pit.

Seven arrested at Occupy FIU Music Festival

Earlier today around 5 p.m., seven arrests were made on the Modesto Maidique Campus at the Occupy FIU Music Festival near the Deuxième Maison pit.

Occupation of University stalled until permit clears

The Occupy FIU movement shares a similar belief with one of the nation’s founding fathers Thomas Jefferson: a little rebellion every now and then was a good thing.

Occupy FIU teach-in discusses rising University tuition, fees

The year-to-year tuition increases and fees students must pay have frustrated a University professor and he gave his opinions of them at a recent event.
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