On the Bench: No need to hide your NSU pride

Imagine 4,000 passionate fans screaming their lungs out, cheering on the NSU men’s basketball team. Are you having difficulty picturing this scene? Well, that’s no surprise considering the highest attendance for a home basketball game this year was 708. Oh, and that was our homecoming game. So, I ask the NSU community: Where is the […]

FACEOFF: All you need is love

Anti-Valentine’s Day: Written by Annarely Rodriguez The Beatles did a lot of things right. One of them was saying “All you need is love.” You don’t need a cheesy greeting card or an expensive bottle of perfume. You just need each other, right? But it seems we have lost track of that. Every year, February […]

On the Scene: Do you think this is a form of segregation and why?

Students at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pa. are part of a project, which separates students for six minutes each day, by race, gender and language. School officials initiated the pilot program to support school research that reported that black students who are grouped by gender with a strong role model, have higher self-esteem and perform better academically. Critics oppose the plan, calling it segregation. Do you think this is a form of segregation and why?