Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer Gun violence has a devastating effect on our community and as politicians begin announcing their long-lasting policies that could stop it, our fears remain untouched. Disappointingly, the gun violence initiatives announced do nothing to quell the fears we have about gun violence. On March 23, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris […]
Sergey Podlesnykh/Staff Writer Americans have seen and suffered from all kinds of violence in the last few decades. Some are driven by racial, ethnic and gender hatred. Some can hardly be explained at all. We hopelessly struggle to solve different cases of violence treating them as standalone issues, but often fail to notice a common […]
Humberto Mendez Prince/Contributing Writer As journalists, among other tasks, we’re faced with the responsibility to inform the nation about the controversy surrounding political entities. That’s why, regardless of whether certain news outlets are from the left or the right, we must understand that covering sensitive topics about our president is our unwavering responsibility. This became […]
Gabriella Pinos/Opinion Director I shouldn’t have to tell you that school shooter jokes aren’t funny. If you’re in college and think it’s okay to point at someone and say, “that guy looks like he could shoot up a school,” kindly go back to middle school. I’m sure the 12-year-olds will appreciate your brand of humor. […]
Ursula Muñoz Schaefer/Assistant Opinion Director Todd Phillips’ “Joker” movie won’t be released until October and the discourse around it has already become exhausting. What opened with a fresh Rotten Tomatoes score and won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival is now getting flack for reasons more real and sinister than anything the gritty […]
Victor Jorges, Valentina Palm and Jesse Fraga/PantherNOW Staff On the second day of the semester, Isabel Alzate attended a vigil honoring the victims of recent mass shootings. On the third, she felt threatened by the warning of a potential shooter on campus. For Alzate, an International Relations senior, the first week of class was usually […]
Jesse Fraga/Contributing Writer After the recent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, members of the FIU community came together yesterday afternoon for a memorial and panel discussion about gun violence. An overflowing room of students, faculty, and government officials sat in on an informative teach-in on How to Understand and Deal with […]
Gerard Albert, Joshua Ceballos, Victor Jorges and Valentina Palm/PantherNOW Staff This morning PantherNOW received a screenshot from a WhatsApp group chat where a student threatened to bring an assault weapon to the Graham Center on the Modesto Maidique Campus. The student, identified in Whatsapp as Dillon Spangler posted a picture of an assault rifle in […]
Guest Columnist/ Freesia McKee Near the Green Library, Turning Point recently taped up a poster that featured pictures of an AR-15 and other weapons under the words, “I’m Pro Choice. Pick Your Gun.” Turning Point is an alt-right, ultra-right group with student chapters across the nation. At FIU, they distribute the “Socialism Sucks” and “This […]
Fabienne Fleurantin/ Staff Writer On Sunday, Nov. 5, 26 people lost their lives to the senseless act of a madman. The gunman, David Patrick Kelley, “dressed in all black, wearing tactical gear opened fire at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, during Sunday service,” according to CNN.com. Kelley, 26, was found dead after Stephen […]
Image by Rhonda Berglas via Flickr Meghan Maclaren | Contributing Writer opinion@fiusm.com Rest in peace to the three Muslim students shot dead near Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Tuesday, Feb. 10. I cannot begin to imagine what their families are going through right now and I’m sure I speak for all of our readers when I say […]
