Shark jam hopes to be a grand slam

Local artists DJ Laz, DJ Luga and DJ Cato K will perform alongside Radio X’s DJ Baelfire at the third annual Shark Jam concert on March 22 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the Arena at the Don Taft University Center. The DJs will play a variety of music genres, including reggae, hip-hop, Latin, […]

Bestselling Author Rebecca Skloot to speak at NSU

Rebecca Skloot, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” will speak at NSU on March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center. The lecture is the last of the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ Distinguished Speakers Series for the 2013-2014 school […]

Big Thank You Scholarship Luncheon

On March 24, from noon to 3:30 p.m., NSU will host its third annual The Big Thank You, a luncheon for students who have received merit or need-based institutional scholarships to meet and thank their benefactors in person. President George Hanbury said the main point of the luncheon is for the students and the donors […]

Undergraduate Student Government candidacy open

Undergraduate students can apply for candidacy for Undergraduate Student Government positions until March 24. SGA President and member of the Elections Commission Daniel Brookins, senior legal studies and philosophy major, said students who want to run for SGA positions should fill out the 2014 Elections Candidacy Packet on OrgSync or visit the Office of Student […]

“Pompeii”: one entertaining eye roll

All damsels in distress beware; you will be swept off your feet.  Just wait for the cute gladiator to ride in on a white horse to rescue your honor. It all happened in the new movie “Pompeii.”  Every clichéd second, every out of place dialogue and every love struck glance was caught on camera by Paul W.S. Anderson, director […]

Scraps from the master’s table: Minimum wage

When President Barack Obama used his executive authority to raise the wages for Federal Contract workers, he said, “No one working full-time in the world’s richest nation should be poor.” Minimum wage has to be raised because hard-working people are kept in poverty as a result. History proves this and, as a man who lives […]

The hidden ingredient at JuiceBlendz

How would you feel if you knew you were ingesting a chemical that is toxic to the environment and potentially harmful to your health? Unfazed? Nonchalant? What if I told you that this was the case anytime you reached out to JuiceBlendz to buy a delicious smoothie? It’s not the fruity ingredients that pose the […]

Chatting with a Viking

You wouldn’t want to work with Katheryn Winnick when she’s dressed for battle. Winnick plays Lagertha Lothbrok on The History Channel’s “Vikings,” a show that follows the lives of a family of Vikings during medieval times and is based on historical figures. Her character, a wife and mother, is based on a shieldmaiden, a woman […]