Ever since the first Super Bowl 47 years ago, there has been one thing that has remained constant each game — it has never snowed. The average temperature at kickoff is 66 degrees, but the coldest outdoor Super Bowl temperature recorded at kickoff was 39 degrees, back in 1972 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. […]
Month: February 2013
Coach’s Corner: Michael Coleman
Most people do not enjoy their job as much as Head Tennis Coach Michael Coleman. For Coleman, coaching the NSU women is more than just a job.
Athlete of the week: Laura Saladrigas
Saladrigas is a Florida native who was born in Hollywood and raised in Cooper City. The 21-year-old biology major was introduced to the sport at the age of 6, when she was on the local children’s tee ball team.
Fishing for love online
Online dating has become more popular now than ever thanks to social media. But can you really find your soulmate on Facebook? And if so, are they really who they say they are?
Athlete of the week: Amanda Burakoski
Amanda Burakoski, junior and guard for the women’s NSU basketball team, has had a very eventful basketball career. She began playing the sport as a young girl and eventually played for recreational leagues and high school, along with Division 1 and Division II universities. Even though basketball has been a major part of her life […]
Diary of… a beatboxer
What in the world is beatboxing, you may ask? It’s pretty simple — I make percussion music, but I do not use any instruments. I make all of the sounds using only my mouth.
First African-American woman to earn Harvard MBA to visit NSU
The next speaker for the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Distinguished Lecture Series will be Lillian Lincoln Lambert on Feb. 21 at 10:30 a.m. in the Carl DeSantis Building’s Grand Room.
Why Valentine’s Day is special to me
From kindergarten to 5th grade, Valentine’s Day was about love — a love of candy, that is. Which classmate brought the best goods? Whose mom was making the whole class go on a diet and only sent her son with mints? Seriously, Justin, Pokémon cards again? These were the questions that filled my mind and […]
A quirky way to celebrate Valentine’s Day
It seems that every Valentine’s Day, there are groups of single people who choose to spend the day filled with anti-valentine sentiment and overall bitterness toward the occasion. But, what about people who are single, but not at all bitter, on Valentine’s Day? What of people who aren’t anti-relationship, but rather anti-compulsory relationships? Well, according […]
The Trojan War, with a twist
The complicated words, tragic stories and antiquated acting techniques of ancient theater have little appeal to many people. Although theater of ancient societies is truly the ancestor of modern movies, like “Gangster Squad”, audiences have a difficult time connecting with “fossil” dramas.