Alexander Sutton | Student Body President Kaily LaChapelle| Pride Student Union President Grace Biggers | Black Student Union President The Student Government Association is saddened to see the closure of FIU’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Office of Social Justice and Inclusion. Although we recognize that FIU’s administration had no choice in […]
Priscilla Pozo | Assistant Entertainment Director Students contestants embodied resistance and strength with their creativity in the Nova Star Scholarship Competition. Marking the beginning of FIU’s Juneteenth celebrations on June 10, the annual event honors students who display leadership, confidence and who are overall exemplary representatives of FIU’s student body. The six contestants were Amelia […]
Alexander Luzula | Asst. News Director Cultural erasure, violence and sex trafficking were all topics of discussion during Vacation Violence, a virtual panel hosted by the Office of Social Justice and Inclusion. The June 8 event focused on the negative impacts of tourism on local populations throughout the world, emphasizing what tourists can do to […]
Yansall Rasquides / Staff Writer Black women are often left out of conversations affecting politics, business and social justice industries. The FIU Women’s Center welcomed these voices in a recent panel discussion. The first annual Black Women Speak webinar, held on July 28, gave four Black women five minutes to share their triumphs and challenges […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Voting is obviously a hot topic right now because of the incoming Presidential election. All anyone talks about is the importance of voting. Of course, it’s a very important process of our government, but participating in voting is the bare minimum we should be doing. If we really want to see a […]
Frederic Aurelien/Staff Writer Everything there was to say about the murder of George Floyd has already been said, not only through words but through actions. That is, the actions of the people and the actions of the institutions that govern them. Now the urgent question remains what steps must we continue to take in order […]
Erik Jimenez/Staff Writer The rise of “woke” politics will cause the increasingly fiery conflict between left and right-wingers to escalate in the United States. Despite starting off as a political term referring to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social and racial justice, the definition of woke has expanded. Nowadays, it essentially means that these […]
Image by Spiritual Enlightenment via Flickr Stephanie Piedrahita | Opinion Director steph.piedrahita@fiusm.com I am tired of hearing about another friend of mine getting arrested for a small bag of weed. I’m even more exhausted to hear about the ridiculous sentences weed smokers get that sometimes surpass the jail time of convicted rapists and murders. It’s time to […]
