By Andres Davila | Assistant News Director The ongoing debate about DeSantis’ attempts to reduce free speech in Florida has been an influence on March 7th’s Tuesday Table Talk about students’ free speech rights. FIU’s adjunct professor for the school of criminology and criminal justice, Dr. Allison Matulli, is the founder of Little Lawyers, an […]
Emiliana Fawley-Puello / Staff Writer A U.S. district judge blocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-riot law on Sept. 9, five months after being signed into law. One student is ready to make her voice heard without repercussions. Judge Mark Walker found the law – signed on April 19 – unconstitutional as it contradicts the First Amendment […]
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 […]
This week on the Golden Hour we talked about affordable housing, revisited our sports editorial, and a rundown of FIU sports. Ned Murray, associate director of the Metropolitan Center, talked about the “brain drain” phenomena, in which an area loses its most talented and educated workers to other areas. He also talked about being […]
Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director Under the First Amendment, the rights of all Americans to express their thoughts are protected, even if the nature of those thoughts are discriminatory or hateful. In a poll conducted by Student Media on Twitter asking followers about their feelings towards the protection of prejudiced speech, 95 percent agreed as of […]
Joshua Ceballos/Assistant News Director UPDATE 10/03/17: The Miami-Dade Board if County Commissioners has turned down the Ordinance Banning Conversion Therapy in a four to seven vote, citing overly broad language conflicting with parents’ rights. You can find the original article below: Miami-Dade county legislators have proposed an ordinance with the aim of controlling the […]
Isabela Vanga/ Contributing Writer Among the most followed celebrities like Kendrick Lamar with an instagram fan base of over 7.7 million, Shakira with over 45.2 million and even rising star Logic with over 3.3 million fans. The human voice can be the most powerful instrument of all, especially when having acquired the attention of such a […]
Ashley Verdugo/ Contributing Writer Freedom of speech sets apart America as a nation. The foundation of our liberties is found within the First Amendment. We have the right to hate, love, offend, take offense and agree or disagree. But freedom of speech isn’t as popular as it once was. Forty-four percent of college students say […]
Image by Daniela Vladimirova via Flickr Joshua Corvington | Staff Writer opinion@fiusm.com Free Speech has often been manipulated to hide bigotry under the guise of protecting oneself against censorship, especially in political arguments, debates on websites and even among common people. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States lays out the basic […]
