The Fair

Fairgrounds should be used to expand FIU

Amanda Jung/ Staff Writer I think that the idea of Miami Youth Fair coming around is something that gives us a warm and fuzzy feeling. We have all gone to the fair with our families, pigged out on all the different foods that they offer and of course, rode the rides until we felt like […]

Dueling Column: Students living in pro-expansion bubble

The bubble we live in makes it almost impossible for us to consider that FIU’s expansion to the fairgrounds might not be as beneficial to the Miami-Dade and University communities as it seems.

Dueling Column: Our destiny: take over the fairgrounds

Fabienne Fleurantin/ Staff Writer I’m pro #ExpandFIU. Even America had their own Manifest Destiny and had to expand all the way to the west. If not, where would California and Nevada be? Non-existent. But in all seriousness, there are many benefits to expanding Modesto Maidique Campus. You know all those parking complaints that students have? […]

Housing students face dilemma with Fair

Anyone who has been on the MMC campus during the month of March is sighing heavily because of the horror of the Miami-Dade Youth Fair – a horror that is on par with finals week.

Students ‘freak out’ over funnel cake

The Fair opens on March 23 and after recent polls, 49 percent of students surveyed voted Freak Out as their favorite ride and 45 percent of students voted funnel cake as their favorite fair snack.

Radio staff brings ‘roar’ to the fair

The Fair is arriving soon to MMC, and one of our own is helping to ensure that it gets up and running, and that the music stays pumping. Quiana Major, junior mechanical engineering student and assistant engineer at “The Roar,” is currently working in tech services for the upcoming Miami-Dade County Fair.

EDITORIAL: The battle with the Fair needs to end

Every year there are handful of articles and op-eds covering the great battle between FIU and the Youth Fair, and each story uncovers more details that prove it to be an even messier situation with no determinable outcome.

SGC-MMC Senate convenes on University expansion and other issues

The Student Government Council at Modesto A. Maidique Campus Senate voted in favor of a resolution supporting University expansion during the general meeting on Oct. 20.
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