The University of Miami Hurricanes left the University of Florida Gators stunned and defeated on the football field Sunday, but the school’s academic competition got a bit closer today. U.S. News & World Reports released its annual college rankings today. While UM fell three spots, UF rose five spots, leaving…
Local students are just in their third week of classes for the year, but one local 12-year-old has already found himself expelled and his family is none to pleased. So as punishment, the boy’s mother made him stand outside alongside a road holding a sign touting the fact…
Carme Chacón, one of Spain’s most high-profile female politicians, threw the country’s capital a curveball today by announcing that she will be giving up her parliamentary seat to come teach for a year at Miami-Dade College of all places. Chacón served as Spain’s Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2011,…
Earlier this week the Princeton Review named, of all colleges, the University of Iowa as America’s most party happy school. While Florida State and University of Florida made the top 10, the University of Miami, once the undisputed party school champion of the world back in the ’80s, was no…
It wasn’t just major MLB players Tony Bosch was supplying to from his Biogenesis clinic. There’s new allegations that he might have counted high school athletes as clients. So now the Florida High School Athletics Associations promises to review its rules related to PED use and may even institute random…
Colin McGinn, a high-profile philosophy professor at the University of Miami and author of a book called Mindfucking, was forced to resign from his post earlier this summer after a female doctoral student accused him of sexual harassment. McGinn has since tried to downplay the incident by trying to philosophically…
Every incoming University of Miami freshmen must either pledge their allegiance to the studious kingdom of Stanford where they will be surrounded by intellectual nerds who do nothing but study or the wild land of Hecht which is home to drunken hedonists. Just kidding. Their identical (and quite ugly) pairs…
Project MPACT was supposed to keep Miami-Dade students from dropping out and joining gangs by paying them to build affordable, energy-efficient homes. You know, teaching them the value of good, honest work, like in “Stand and Deliver” or “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.” Instead, auditors and criminal investigators…
Last week, St. Theresa Catholic School crushed cross-town rivals Coral Gables Prep to win the Miami-Dade Geography Bee. Yes, we know, this news does not make up for the Pacers edging out the Heat last night. But before you go back to sticking pins in your Roy Hibbert voodoo doll,…
Miami’s School for Advanced Studies has finally cracked the top ten of Newsweek’s annual America’s Best High School list, coming in at sixth this year. That would make it Florida’s second-best public high school amongst a top ten list that is surprisingly Sunshine State heavy…
Someone contact Cedric Gervais, because molly was found at the Feinberg Fisher K-8 school in Miami Beach this afternoon. Two 14-year-old students were apparently experimenting with the drug and had to be rushed to the hospital after complaining about a rapid heartbeat…
Beach High has lost its greatest “mom.” The school’s longtime principal, Rosann Sidener, lost her 13-month battle with cervical cancer this week. Students and staff are dealing with the difficult loss. Last night, more than 300 mourners showed up for a candlelight vigil on Dr. Rosann Sidener Way…
Florida’s Lake County School Board might ban all extracurricular clubs as a way to avoid having to approve the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance. Yes, students may have to say bye-bye to their FCA, 4H, and Drama Club membership cards all because some school board members are stuck in the…
Charles Hurley, the former head of the Miami-Dade Schools police force, has been hit with a lawsuit by two female officers who say the chief sexually harassed them. One of the women claims that Hurley was brandishing his boner around in front of her, while another claims the chief forced…
Sorry recent University of Miami Alums, The Onion really doesn’t understand why even though you owe the school at least five figures in student debt, you still love it so much.In traditional satirical style, the paper introduced us to “Mark Felder,” a fictional ’07 grad who owes the school $50,000,…
Up at Florida Atlantic University, communications professor James Tracy has been regaling students for a decade with his thoughts on 9-11, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Kennedy assassination. He’s basically that uncle who spends all week reading Infowars so he can corner you at Thanksgiving to tell you how…
