President Biden After One Year: What’s Good and What’s Bad?
Written by Robert Crohan/ Staff Writer After one year in office, President Biden has much to be proud of but must own up to atrocious…
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University requests over $35 million in funds on FIU Day
By: Valentina Palm/Staff Writer Students, faculty, and administrators visited Tallahassee on Tuesday, March 19, to lobby Senators and Representatives for over $35 million in…
Student government faces old problems
By: Gerard Albert & Valentina Palm/PantherNOW Staff The Student Government Association held Week of Welcome events to engage students during the first week of…
Alumni rise in state government
By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director University alumni have taken big leaps into the political sphere in the first month of 2019. Two FIU graduates, Jeanette Núñez …
Speakers at GC security conference comment on state of affairs in Venezuela
By: Jasiel Lopez/Staff Writer A combination of academics, policy advisers, and officials at the State Department and the Department of Defense discussed security issues…
University members discuss proposal to decrease SNAP
By: Gerard Albert/Contributing Writer The proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will affect approximately 16.4 million households. That is, if…
EDITORIAL: Civic engagement should extend beyond protests
Just a few months prior, FIU welcomed U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for a roundtable discussion on the current and future state of education,…
Early childhood education needs improvement
Who should be taking the initiative in order to ensure America’s youth have the best early childhood education possible in order to set a solid educational foundation for the future of America?
Big government is a part of capitalism
Government intervention in the economy is inefficient, coercive and, worst of all, it rewards the lazy while punishing the industrious. Thus, the argument goes, government ought to exist solely to enforce contracts and defend the country. In the Tea Party narrative, big government is the villain that must be defeated at all costs.
Editorial: Is there a need for two separate SGA branches?
One single student government organization branch should be enough to govern a student body. With a small number of students at the Biscayne Bay Campus compared to the Modesto A. Maidique Campus, there should not be a need for a BBC Student Government Council.
