Gabriela Enamorado/Opinion Director Being back at FIU has been great. The campus is bustling with life again and things are starting to feel slightly better. Homecoming is something we missed out on last year, for obvious reasons. Many of us are excited to experience homecoming week for the first time since the pandemic hit, especially […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Opinion Director Being back at FIU after a year and a half of this pandemic is odd. I’ve gone through several transitions since I last was on campus taking an in-person class. I went from a staff writer to the opinion director of PantherNow while being at Zoom University. I discovered new passions and […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Reproductive rights have never been more in danger than now. After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away in September, many were afraid of an ultra-conservative taking her place. Our fear came true when Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative jurist and lawyer, was appointed to the Supreme Court in October. If you care […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Voting is obviously a hot topic right now because of the incoming Presidential election. All anyone talks about is the importance of voting. Of course, it’s a very important process of our government, but participating in voting is the bare minimum we should be doing. If we really want to see a […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Being a journalist requires lots of talking to strangers and making sudden phone calls. I’ve never been good at those types of things. I have bad social anxiety. Social anxiety is a mental health condition in which social interaction causes irrational anxiety. The thought of talking to a stranger fills me with dread […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Growing up Latina came with a lot of great things. Culture, strength, resilience. It’s who I am and I’m proud of it. When I was about 16 I discovered I’m also bisexual. This added a whole other complicated layer to my identity. Being queer and Latinx is hard. As a queer Guatemalan-American […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Since quarantine began, multiple universities across the country have decided to adopt a “test-optional” policy for standardized college admissions tests, such as the SAT and ACT. The University of California was one of the first first to make those tests optional due to the pandemic. Florida always likes to stand out and […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Filling out any paperwork can be confusing as a Latinx. You mark your ethnicity as “Hispanic/Latino” and then they ask you for your race. You think “wait, isn’t my race Hispanic?” This is a common misconception. The terms “Hispanic” and “Latinx” refer to an ethnicity, not a race. Once we recognize this, […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer School is back in full swing, once again making our schedules jam-packed with course work, internships and other academic commitments. For many of us, that means our creative and artistic pursuits will have to take a back seat. There’s just no way you’ll be able to fit writing, drawing or whatever else […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer I come from a family where talking about social issues like race is deemed impolite. “Now is not the time,” is something I’ve often heard. “Don’t talk about it at dinner.” “Don’t talk about it in the living room.” “Don’t talk about it at all.” But I’m opinionated and passionate about racial […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Each generation has its defining moments. Baby Boomers have the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. Generation X had MTV and the Reagan era. Millennials witnessed 9/11 and the 2008 recession. For Generation Z, the global pandemic is our defining moment. Before the pandemic, I viewed the future for Generation Z […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer When I think of public schools reopening in the fall, I can’t help but think about all of the sneezy children and unsanitary conditions. Schools are a hotbed for germs. Growing up, whenever I started a new school year I would almost immediately catch a cold. So last week, when I heard […]
