Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer Universities across the country should be paying attention to the University of California, which recently decided on suspending the SAT and the ACT until 2024. This will create a ripple of change in the admission process for undergraduate students who are in the midst of applying to universities while experiencing a pandemic. […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer A couple of months ago, my boyfriend of two years bent down on one knee and proposed. I said yes, and since then, we have been planning a huge, international wedding. His family lives in France and mine lives in Argentina. Everyone would meet in Miami, and the summer would be spent […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer For many people, one of life’s biggest accomplishments is having finished their degree after four years of hard work. With this year’s spring graduation taking place tomorrow, many students are voicing their sentiments about not being able to attend their commencement ceremony in person. For many Jewish students however, this feeling is […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer During this global pandemic, new and alternate ways to learn have appeared. Many students are doing school online, attending video chats and organizing themselves with outlines and lists of work. People have realized that some of the contrivances we had in place aren’t as necessary as they may seem. The SAT is […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer On Thursday, Jan. 31, men and women walked around our university’s main campus dressed in white clothes with bloodstains on the groin area, and holding picket signs reading, “I want my foreskin back.” Despite the protesters’ concerns about the supposed inhumanity of circumcision, the positives outweigh any concerns when it comes to […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer Anti-Semitic attacks have been stacking up against the Jewish residents of New York. To the many Jews keeping up with these events from different corners of the world, communities like the one in Crown Heights are becoming a symbol of the discrimination we still face globally. On Tuesday, Dec. 28, Jews were […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer College obesity has been rising in the past couple of years, but rather than blaming their university, students need to start making health-conscious decisions themselves. To be clear, FIU doesn’t exactly help manage the growing obesity rate, even if it’s not to blame for our bad eating habits. Many students at the […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer Halloween is behind us and November has begun. But while some families prepare for Thanksgiving and the following holidays, other families lie in shock in the aftermath of a string of Halloween shootings. Halloween in all its horror has met another of its monsters: the culture of fear and violence in America. […]
Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer Even though student loans are one of America’s biggest crises, they should not be forgiven. However, they should also not be forgotten. The issue has been at the center of debate between the 2020 Democratic candidates, who are either offering tuition-free college or forgiving student loans altogether. Candidates like Reps. John Delaney, […]
Melanie Arougueti/ Staff Writer There were 3,500 Jewish students at FIU in 2015, according to the Miami Herald. They are a minority in FIU’s grand student population. They are not being represented. The school year is drawing to an end, but as many prepare for Summer, many Jewish students are preparing for Passover, a Jewish […]
Melanie Arougueti/ Staff Writer Many are being promoted without raises, and it’s wrong. When being offered a promotion, one’s first instinct is to accept and then, of course, celebrate. One expects the bigger check at the end of the month. However, promotions without raises have been increasing in the workforce. According to career reporter Courtney […]
Melanie Arougueti/ Staff Writer The Wall Street Journal reported at the near end to 2018 how the teachers have quit at alarming rates. Yet, this is not a surprise. It has been reported that during the first ten months of 2018 more and more public educators have been quitting their jobs, according to the Labor […]
