Robert Crohan/Staff Writer A surprise I never expected from the 2020s is a nor’easter-style winter blast in Texas. The land of God, guns, and pecan pie got pummeled this month, to the point where pipes were frozen, roads were slippery, and power was unattainable for days on end. Texans were under boil water orders when […]
Judith George/Staff Writer I have a lot of love and respect to have for Caribbean parents. They’ve left their homeland and immediately set out to create a new life in a new country for themselves and their children. They may not know the language well and have a college education, but they did everything in […]
Valenti Govantes/Staff Writer Of all of the genres in fiction, horror is arguably my favorite, with science fiction at a close second. Taking away the corn syrup blood and obnoxious jump scares associated with it, there is something about the genre that makes it more intertwined with basic human nature compared to others. What’s more […]
Julian Michanie/Contributing Writer On Sept. 20, President Donald Trump announced plans to ban TikTok, to the dismay of fans everywhere. With the Chinese video-sharing application pinned under the microscope, it’s crucial to understand how banning or restricting the app would promote better mental health for young adults and limit the growing problem of the over-sexualization […]
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, […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer In early August, the first of what would soon become thousands of dead fish shored up next to FIU’s Biscayne Bay campus. Large numbers of our most precious ecosystem contributors seemed to have been systematically killed by some invisible culprit. These dead fish are just the most recent in a long chain […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer Across the United States and its territories, Labor Day is being celebrated and remembered today. Excluding Canada and a few other countries, Labor Day is the only work-related holiday in the world that is celebrated in the month of September instead of the customary month of May. I feel it is important, […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer In 1492, Christopher Columbus’ fateful voyage marked an endless stream of cultural, social and economic diffusion between the “Old World” of the East and the “New Western World”—two landmasses that were previously unaware of each other’s existence. Yet, cultural and socioeconomic structures were not the only things transferred during the early 16th-century […]
Robert Crohan/Staff Writer Dear Governor, I must confess that I was not looking forward to writing this. For the most part, politics has not been a direct concern of mine, but recent events have opened my eyes up to just how crucial it is for people, and how lucky I am. We cannot treat voting, […]
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 […]
Julia Gomez/Staff Writer People everywhere have lost their jobs due to COVID-19. Many are scrambling to pay bills and make ends meet. Those who have already applied to receive unemployment benefits have faced the harsh reality of how unprepared our government has been for this catastrophe. On Tuesday, June 30, my bank account rejected my […]
Milena Dupuis/Contributing Writer Whenever Americans are asked where they come from, their response tends to be their state rather than the USA. This has led some to make the assumption that we do this because we lack a sense of pride in our country. It has also been believed that Americans’ tendency to cling to […]
