Combating winter blues during the spring semester
Linette Garcia | Staff Writer The holidays are over and we’re supposed to revitalize ourselves for this new year. But yet I have this lingering…
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Baseball looks to open a three-game win streak vs. Bethune-Cookman
Will Duval | Sports Director The FIU baseball team is playing the final game of their nine-game homestand against the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats on Tuesday, March…
Panther Feud unexpectedly draws crowd during Blue and Gold Week
Ana Mancebo | Contributing Writer It’s only the first month of the year and Panthers are already feuding. On January 24th at the Graham Center…
Almond Vibes Deep House
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Stay stylish this spring
Contributing writer Rebekah Keida gives some tips on the new trends for this spring.
Books to accompany you through spring
Contributing writer Laura Caldera gives some books to read during spring.
Summer graduation now a “hot” commodity
Typically, there are six summer graduation ceremonies that occur. According to the Sun Sentinel, 3,500 students graduated this past summer, as opposed to 4,000 last winter and 4,300 last spring. Ivette Duarte, the interim director of Career Services, said seniors enrolled in summer A, B and C term that graduate in August face a better job market.
CLASS DISMISSED: Web-based sex education worthwhile
While some students are genuinely looking for factual information, others are turning to pornography, Wikipedia and other unreliable, unrealistic portrayals of sexual behavior. In general, when students take to the Internet to find out more about sexual health, they are subject to misinformation distributed by unqualified sources.To alleviate the latter issue, colleges and universities should consider creating scholarly sex ed websites for their students.
CLASS DISMISSED: Abstinence-only sex education futile
In October 2010, journalist Evan Smith asked Texas Gov. and current presidential hopeful Rick Perry about the effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education. Although the footage of this video is a bit old, renewed interest in Perry after his announcement of entering the 2012 presidential race has caused it to become popular again. Perry’s difficulty in justifying abstinence-only sex education in Texas points to a larger struggle to reconcile the merit of this method in our country overall.