FIU student allegedly shot by father
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief An FIU student was shot on the afternoon of Nov. 3 in his Westchester home, dead when officers arrived at the…
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief An FIU student was shot on the afternoon of Nov. 3 in his Westchester home, dead when officers arrived at the…
by Ashley Verdugo/Staff Writer Pro-abortion Governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed a bill legalizing abortion up until birth by lethal injection. New York legislation masked the pro-abortion…
Image by L’Amico del Popolo via Flickr Lauren Shade | Staff writer lauren.shade@fiusm.com For those of you who don’t know of the tragic event that happened…
Image by zakir hossain chowdhury “protest at Dhaka after death of US blogger Avijit Roy” via Flickr UPDATE: The Secular Student Alliance will be hosting…
A Stand-Your-Ground course may be taught at the university’s law school, in light of the new course being offered at FAU that goes over the controversial law involved in the trial of George Zimmerman. students interested in furthering a discussion about Stand Your Ground can attend an upcoming Roundtable Discussion session discussing the Trayvon Martin Verdict, organized by the African & African Diaspora Studies Program on Sept. 13 in GC 150 at MMC.
Madison Fantozzi/News Director A Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in Trayvon Martin’s death Saturday night after the six women deliberated for 16 and…
The notion that it is wholly an issue of ethics or morality to promote women’s status globally is insufficient.
Predicated on the fact that a reoccurring theme woven into all issues I’ve discussed in my columns pertain to women, it is poignant to illustrate just how essential “women’s issues” are to states’ interests and overall global well being.
But while it seems easy for the West to imagine this phenomenon as particularly barbaric and antiquated, it is worth noting that current reproductive health legislation, initiatives that seek to rescind abortion rights, is also quite barbaric and has serious potential to emotionally and physically harm women.
It’s important when we criticize the international community‘s injustices towards women that we also look at our own system of injustice.
Remember when it was cool to try to ‘save Darfur?’ Wait, where? It’s that place in Africa, the one that everyone wore the green bracelet for and felt better about our leaders not really doing anything to confront 21st century genocide. Shortly, we will experience a similar collective amnesia in regard to what Jezebel.com referred to as the “Meme Du Jour,” Kony2012
Its difficult to grasp the poverty rate, a shocking 32.4 percent. It is an obtuse concept, poverty, the word itself is as an umbrella term that a myriad of social issues fall under. If there were a philosophical synonym for poverty, the closest word would be ‘deficiency.’ Not enough money is an obvious branch of the poverty tree, but infinite other branches include a lack of educational resources, hunger, homelessness and an inability to access proper (or any) health care.