Michelle Marchante
Dueling Column: Students living in pro-expansion bubble
Michelle Marchante/ Opinion Director The bubble we live in makes it almost impossible for us to consider that FIU’s expansion to the...
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Michelle Marchante
- Mar 3, 2017
- 1 min
Disney has failed Hispanics
Michelle Marchante/ Opinion Director Disney has failed Hispanics. Last year, Disney debuted their first Hispanic princess, Elena of...
Michelle Marchante
- Nov 15, 2016
- 1 min
Budgeting can minimize your student debt
Michelle Marchante/Opinion Director Debt is every student’s worst nightmare. It’s the monster that hides under your bed —the Chuckie of...
Michelle Marchante
- Nov 2, 2016
- 1 min
FIU can help students find jobs before graduation
Michelle Marchante/Opinion Director Internships are what open the door to career “heavens” for students and is something that can...
Michelle Marchante
- Oct 18, 2016
- 1 min
WikiLeaks has become the new whistleblower
Michelle Marchante/ Opinion Director WikiLeaks has done it again, doing what American journalism has failed to do this election season:...
Michelle Marchante
- Apr 26, 2016
- 1 min
America looks to superheroes for hope
Michelle Marchante/Assistant Opinion Director Superheroes appeared around the 1930s when America had just come out of the Great...
Michelle Marchante
- Apr 13, 2016
- 1 min
Humanity to be unplugged in 2022
Michelle Marchante/Assistant Opinion Director How long do you think you could survive without technology? A week? A month? How about...
Michelle Marchante
- Mar 25, 2016
- 1 min
NASA’s Kepler Telescope discovers possible extraterrestrial life
Michelle Marchante/Assistant Opinion Director When it comes to extraterrestrial life, many would argue it means leaving the factual realm...
Michelle Marchante
- Feb 15, 2016
- 1 min
Print books claim victory over electronic books
Michelle Marchante/ Assistant Opinion Director According to the New York Times, e-book sales skyrocketed up 1,260 percent between 2008...
Michelle Marchante
- Jan 26, 2016
- 1 min
Creativity holds value in this Digital Age
Michelle Marchante/Asst. Opinion Director One of the great things about attending a university is that even if you’re unsure of what you...
Michelle Marchante
- Dec 1, 2015
- 1 min
The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Michelle Marchante/Staff Writer “Only his sight beat me,” Arnold Schwarzenegger said in the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition of 1969...
Michelle Marchante
- Nov 19, 2015
- 1 min
Companion app can make students feel safer
Michelle Marchante/Staff Writer Have you ever walked alone late at night on campus and have passed by a suspicious person or heard a...
Michelle Marchante
- Oct 23, 2015
- 1 min
“Lack of time” mentality forces children to grow up faster
Michelle Marchante/Staff Writer It seems that no matter where you look, people are always in a rush and are never satisfied with just...
Michelle Marchante
- Oct 16, 2015
- 1 min
We do not need a ‘Yelp for humans’
Michelle Marchante/Staff Writer Social media is a double-edged sword. It’s a great tool for communicating with others, but if used in the...
Michelle Marchante
- Oct 9, 2015
- 1 min
It’s in our DNA: social circles ‘genetically similar’
Michelle Marchante / Staff Writer How boring would life be if friends didn’t exist? They’re like your unofficial family who happen to...
Michelle Marchante
- Jun 19, 2015
- 1 min
Dueling Column: No guns is not the answer
Michelle Marchante / Staff Writer Looking through FIUSM, I came across an article questioning the Second Amendment. While I respect the...
Michelle Marchante
- Apr 14, 2015
- 1 min
Films of all kinds reflect women’s empowerment
Michelle Marchante | Staff Writer Strong women have played leads in film for a long time. Just look at the 1979 movie “Alien” starring...
Michelle Marchante
- Apr 1, 2015
- 1 min
Superman’s Future (Part 1)
Michelle Marchante | Staff Writer There are a lot of similar superheroes, so what makes Superman’s character and story better than the...
Michelle Marchante
- Mar 25, 2015
- 1 min
Nerd culture is fake
Michelle Marchante | Contributing Writer Celebrities walking around wearing shirts with comments such as, “I Love Nerds” and stating in...
Michelle Marchante
- Mar 17, 2015
- 1 min
Man’s best friend might just outsmart us one day
Michelle Marchante | Contributing Writer The idea that animals, like dogs, while indeed having thoughts and emotions of their own, are...
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