Students dive head-first into scuba instructor certification
Several semesters and more than 250 open water dives later, four students from the University recently became certified scuba diving instructors.
Student uses clubbing to to aid Haitian relief effort
Newly appointed Clerk of Council Mawou Francois of the Biscayne Bay Student Government Council began a fundraiser for Haitian earthquake survivors that include selling campaign buttons, dinner, and free admission at Miami’s nightclub Karu and Y.
Guest organist’s diverse talents shine through playful performance
By: Adriana Rodriguez/Staff Writer Robert Heath is acclaimed for his work as a classical music performer across the United States. On Jan. 31, he brought his talent to the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. The concert organist used his charming personality and incredible talent to entertain. Unfortunately, few University students were in the audience. It was a sea of sports jackets, khaki slacks and sweater sets. Maybe the harpsichord isn’t very appealing to college students after all. If you’re more of a GaGa or BeyoncĂ© fan, you still could have gotten a kick out of watching Heath play – he’s a showman. With the tiniest movement he could make so much happen on…
Spider-man to get cinematic do-over
By: Pablo Penton/Columnist It seems like the only constant in Hollywood is change. Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced that Marc Webb will be taking over Sam Raimi’s role as director of the next Spider-man movie. While no actors or concrete details have been given, Sony has offered vague details of what we can expect. Similar to what was done with *The Incredible Hulk*, Sony is starting from scratch with the next Spider-man movie, as if the previous three movies with Tobey Maguire never happened; something I’ve been trying to do for years. The movie series is being relaunched in 2012, with the “second volume” being based off of Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-man comic book series. Ultimate…
New Pumpkins tracks disheartening
By: Hector Mojena/Contributing Writer On June 21, 2005 Billy Corgan, vocalist and lead guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins, announced he was reforming the band. I knew at that moment that things would never be the same again. The new group released *Zeitgeist* in 2006 and it went over about as well as one could hope for a pretentiously titled album by a band whose tyrannical songwriter lost his ability to write worthwhile music the moment he discovered the Bible – so, not too well. Now, Billy and his hired hands are turning out a 44-track (quadruple album?) opus called *Teargarden by Kaleidoscope* whose release looks to revolutionize (read: ugh) the very album format by trickling…
