By Melanie Chapilliquen No major is any more special than another. Listen here, folks and listen well: learning the names of every microorganism is completely irrelevant to some of us. For some of you, it might be the bee’s knees knowing how to successfully construct a bridge, but the rest of us just want to […]
Month: April 2017
On Deck
Men’s Baseball Palm Beach Atlantic NSU Baseball Complex April 7 | 6 p.m. April 8 | 1 and 4 p.m. Palm Beach Atlantic West Palm Beach, Fla. April 11 | 6 p.m. Men’s Track and Field University of Miami Miami, Fla. April 7-8 Women’s Golf Lady Panther Invitational Duran Golf Club, Melbourne, Fla. April 10-11 […]
2017 NSU graduation checklist
By: Nikki Chasteen Congratulations, graduating Sharks. It’s finally here and you are almost finished. To alleviate some of the last-minute stress, we’ve put together a to-do list to help guide you through the graduation process. RSVP for graduation If your advisor has confirmed you are set to graduate, then you received an invitation to graduation […]
Beyond the statistics: What it means to be transgender
On March 30, protesters in Boston met a large orange bus displaying anti-transgender messages and #FreeSpeechBus, according to NBC News. The bus, which was organized in part by CitizenGO, was traveling along the East Coast, spreading what supporters say is the “biological reality” of the gender binary. According to the BBC, in the wake of […]
Former Israeli ambassador stresses US leadership
Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., spoke on the relationship between the U.S. and Israel and its significance in today’s world at an address at NSU on March 28. The former ambassador opened his address by saying that education is important in the U.S. because the world needs U.S. leadership. “We need American […]
NSU relays to fight cancer
On April 14-15 from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. NSU will host Relay for Life, a community-based team fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, on the Alvin Sherman Library quad. Teams will be set up around the quad for the entirety of the event. One member of the team will walk the track the entire […]
Shark Speak: Do you feel you’re getting a quality education at NSU?
Kelly Brosky, junior exercise and sports science major “Yes, I do believe that [I’m getting a quality education]. I think that the classes are really great and with the small class sizes you can connect with the teachers. If you have any questions, you can go to them, and you get to know all […]
News Anchor
By: Kerrigan McVicker Texas crash leaves 13 dead, two injured According to CNN, a head-on collision of a church bus and a pickup truck on March 29 left 13 people dead and two injured in southwest Texas. The victims of the collision included senior citizens from the First Baptist Church of New Braunfels, Texas and […]
Athlete of the Week: Hannah Christophe
Striker on the NSU women’s soccer team, movie enthusiast and Ontario native, Hannah Christophe took home the Sunshine State Conference Freshman of the Year for the 2016 season. Christophe, a freshman human development and family studies major, started playing soccer in 2005 and has been playing ever since. One of her proudest achievements is playing […]
Tiger’s roar is gone
Growing up as a kid in a golfing family and watching the Masters, I would think of the greats like Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. But there is one name I idolized the most: Tiger Woods. I remember watching the 1997 Masters highlights of Tiger Woods dominating and winning the Masters by a […]