FIU Online Find Your Roar Augmented Reality Book

AN AR LEGACY BOOK

Look out for these for an
augmented experience.
IN YOURS HANDS IS A CHRONICLE
OF YOUR PLACE IN FIU’S HISTORY.
Experience FIU’s heritage with this augmented
legacy book – anytime, anywhere.
Download the QuiverVision ‘Spectacular’ app onto your
phone in order to enjoy the augmented experiences.

It’s about the JOURNEY
1965
Florida Senator Robert M. Haverfield introduced Senate Bill 711,
which instructed the state Board of Education and the Board of
Regents (BOR) to begin planning for a state university in Miami.
1971
Groundbreaking Ceremony for
University Park (now known as
Modesto Maidique Park) held
1977
FIU’s North Campus (now the
Biscayne Bay Campus) opened
1972
FIU’s opens its doors to 5,667 students,
making it the largest opening enrollment
in U.S. collegiate history

1998
FIU Online
established and
the first online
course is offered.
2017
Over 1000 instructors teaching online
3699 unique online sections offered
60% of FIU students are taking at
least 1 online course
2002
FIU’s College of Law opens –
the first public law school in
South Florida
Golden Panthers began
competing in intercollegiate
football
2019
FIU Online Celebrates the
milestones of 100 academic
degree programs
offered fully online
42,000 students take online
courses each year
2008
38,754 enrollments
in online courses
2011
38,754 enrollments
in online courses
2009
Herbert Wertheim College of
Medicine– South Florida’s only
public medical school & opened

We all start
SOMEWHERE.
An abandoned airfield is an unusual place for the
birth of a university. But in the summer of 1969,
founding FIU president Chuck Perry set up shop
in the former air traffic controllers’ tower. The
tower had no phones, no drinkable water and
no furniture. President Perry decided that the
control tower should never be destroyed and so it
remains standing today at the center of campus,
as FIU’s Ivory Tower.
Our beginnings were unconventional; our
opening day in 1972 continued that trend.
With 5,667 students, it was the largest opening
enrollment in U.S. collegiate history.

1 ST DAY
selfie
#FIUFIRSTDAY
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#FIUFIRSTDAY selfie.

The Torch Run was created as an Olympic-style
relay that began at the North Miami Campus
(BBC today) and concluded at the University Park
Campus (MMC today) with the lighting of the
Torch of Knowledge, Service and Understanding
which has served as a symbol of FIU’s mandate to
serve the community since the university opened
its doors in 1972.
In 2004, the Trail of the Torch was established
and has become one of the university’s largest
traditions with more and more students taking
part in the annual event.
Like its predecessor, the new incarnation of the
Trail of the Torch procession involves students
carrying a flame relay-style, this time from the
housing quad to the Torch site in front of PC
(Primera Casa).

Don't step
ON THE SEAL.
The Graham Center serves as the center of
student life at FIU. At the front of this building,
one can find the great seal of our university.
Legend has it, one of the men who engraved
the seal jokingly said to his friend, “Imagine if a
student steps on the seal and doesn’t graduate on
time.” They all laughed and continued working.
Little did they know how powerful those words
would be. Two years later, Javier Lopez came
into FIU as a freshman with big dreams and the
hope of completing college within three years.
He always wondered why the seal was engraved
on the floor, instead of on the wall. He had little
respect for it and frequently stepped on the seal
as he walked by. Javier took him nine years to
complete his degree.

Spinning the cube is a Panther-tested #TBT [Throwback Tradition]
of catching good fortune before a midterm or final.
DIRECTIONS
1 . Study
2. Open the app
3. Scan Marty’s Cube
4. Spin the cube!

LEGEND HAS IT...
Installed in 1998, the cube
made its home outside the
library and DM (Deuxieme
Maison) for 16 years. According
to legend, the tradition
was started by a group of
chemistry students that first
spun the cube for fun.
The kicker – they all started to
ace exams. Coincidence?
We think not.
MARTY’S CUBE
Created in 1983
Artist Tony Rosenthal
Painted Steel
Unique
175 x 175 x 175 inches
Collection: Martin Z. Margulies
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
© Estate of Tony Rosenthal /
Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights
Society (ARS), NY

Kissing
BRIDGE
Behind the Ryder Business Building is a
pond shaped like a heart. As time passed,
more and more couples began to visit the
area around the pond, and it soon became
known as the Kissing Pond. It is said that
any couple who kisses on the bridge over the
heart-shaped pond will be together for life.