In Our View: Engineering students to benefit from building change
By: [no author name found] Two months ago, Dean Vish Prasad and the students at the College of Engineering let the administration and the other students at FIU know about the conditions they had to put up with at their off campus building. The Center for Engineering and Applied Sciences, located at the corner of Flagler St. and 107th Ave., is the home for the college and lacks some of the refinements the students at University Park and Biscayne Bay know all too well. Engineering students complained of a lack of study areas, of a lack of variety in the food choices in their cafeteria, of the difficulty they experience in trying to enter and…
Gracie’s grill pond polluted cesspool
By: Javier Ruiz So, did you know that the Gracies’s Grill pond resides on the corner of Camilo and Ponce de Leon in Coral Gables? Neither did I, but it does according to the concrete street corner sign beached on the shore of the pond. There’s a stray street sign in it. Yeah, that’s how filthy that pond is. I remember a time when I sat with my friends and drank beers in the sweltering Miami heat and argued about books and movies, and Greeks. Back then you could almost see through some of that water, and gaze on the ghostly wonders of The Beacon issues past and random articles of furniture at the bottom…
New vice president, Castillo takes circuitous route to FIU
By: Chrystian Tejedor / Production Manager From the Dominican Republic to France to Miami. That was the unusual route student government’s new vice president, Omar Castillo, took to get to FIU. After graduating from high school in the Dominican Republic at the age of 16 back in 1998, Omar took part in a study abroad program that took him to Paris. “Paris is in another state of mind from the United States,” he said. “It was a whole process of adaptation.” Knowing only how to speak Spanish and English when he arrived in the City of Lights, Omar said he wouldn’t go anywhere without his pocket dictionary. “It’s not easy to establish yourself in another…
