The World Cup to be held in Brazil next summer promises to be a great spectacle. After all, Brazil is a nation where soccer is not just a game but a way of life. I’m also optimistic about the 2018 World Cup in Russian. While Russia isn’t a place we would normally associate with soccer, […]
Month: October 2013
Dodgeball for breast cancer
As Rip Torn said in 2004’s “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”, “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.” And if you can dodge a ball, why not dodge a ball for a good cause like breast cancer awareness? The College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Student Government Association (COM-SGA) will hold its annual […]
Why write a cover letter?
For some aspiring professionals, how to write an effective cover letter may seem like a complete mystery. Many people even wonder why a cover letter is important. When written correctly, a cover letter can help connect the dots between your resume and the job description, while providing additional details on what makes you the right […]
Celebrate the Hindu festival of lights
Everyone knows about Halloween and Thanksgiving, but there’s another fall holiday celebrated by 2.2 million people in the U.S. every year. It’s Diwali, the five-day Hindu festival of lights. This holiday is filled with fireworks, good food, music and plenty of celebration to ring in the Hindu new year. The name “Diwali” translates into “row […]
Sharks and Tiaras: Register for Flight Deck Follies
Students can now apply to be contestants in NSU’s annual male beauty pageant, Flight Deck Follies, a Homecoming event sponsored by the Office of Student Activities, which will be held Nov. 11 in the Don Taft University Center pit, from 8 to 10 p.m. Male students will dress in drag to complete for prize money […]
Campus walk to raise suicide awareness
Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. and The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will host a kickoff event for the Broward County Out of the Darkness Walk on the second floor lounge of the Don Taft University Center from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 28. Retention and Recruitment Chair for Lambda Theta Alpha Lauren […]
NSU’s own “Extreme Home Makeover”
On Oct. 23, NSU’s Cozy Corners will host a silent auction in the Don Taft University Center to raise funds to remodel the bedroom of a Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital patient. Cozy Corners is an NSU student organization that, in the words of Co-founder and President Gaby Teixeira, junior biology major, does “extreme home makeovers” […]
Diary of…A Playwright
Alexa Laiacona is a freshman theater major who loves reading plays and belting out show tunes. She hopes that with her story gives readers an inside look into the life of a playwright. For Alexa, playwrights are not just 1,000 year-old poets writing in modern English about two-star crossed lovers; their stories are much more […]
Athlete of the week: Ricardo Celia
Ricardo Celia, senior, came to NSU in the fall of 2010 to play golf and study business. Hailing from Barranquilla, Columbia, Celia has been playing golf since he was 6 years old and credits his father for getting him started in the game. “My father used to play golf every Saturday and he would take […]
Faculty Spotlight: Jason Gershman
To many people, math seems like a complicated mix of numbers and symbols that only Albert Einstein could understand. But Jason Gershman, associate professor and coordinator of mathematics in Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, feels differently. Math was something that always interested him. In high school, Gershman studied equations for fun. He competed in […]