Treatments toward mental health and those with mental illness have come a long way over the centuries. From drilling holes in patients’ skulls to gaining an understanding of mental disorders at a cellular level, attitudes toward mental illnesses have changed greatly over the years. The treatment of mental disorders dates back to around 5,000 B.C.E. […]
Author: Alexander Martinie
The Frank host “Art for the Earth: Artists on Climate Change”
On Thursday, Oct. 17, between 6 and 8 p.m., The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, the Broward County Cultural Division and the Broward County Environmental Planning and Community Resilience Division will host “Art for the Earth: Artists on Climate Change.” Taryn Möller Nicoll is the chief curator of The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery and […]
Water You Thoughts: Why are we not talking about the Ebola outbreak?
Sourced: Pranidchakan Boonrom I really don’t know why this is still an issue, but why is no one really talking about the Ebola outbreak that is spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo? I have written a lot about outbreaks of diseases in the last year, but I guess that I need to keep writing […]
Athelte of The Week: Jan Luca Ahillen
PRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM JC RIDLEY Jan Luca Ahillen is a graduate student in the masters business administration program and plays for NSU’s men’s soccer team. Last season, he was named to the 2018 Fall SSC Commissioner’s Honor Roll and logged a team-high of 1,505 minutes on the field What made you choose NSU? So […]
Safer than cigarettes? Uhh that is incorrect…
Lying in marketing is pretty common. Stickers on products that claim to be environmentally friendly may be misleading. If you read the fine print, you may learn those products actually use sulfates that destroy the environment. But companies wouldn’t lie about products that go into people’s bodies, right? Well, that couldn’t be further from the […]
Athlete of the Week: Nicole Staley
What made you choose NSU? When I was choosing schools, I was looking for a combination of I wanted to stay in Florida, obviously I wanted an engineering program and I wanted to play soccer. So, I was just looking for a school that fit all those criteria, and I narrowed it down to here. […]
Smoking kills and the lungs of the Earth are burning
The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on Earth. This broadleaf tropical jungle covers close to three million square miles across nine different countries in South America. The Amazon rainforest has had a long history of using deforestation to clear land for farming, building and the major sale of the native woods. Along with deforestation, […]
Let’s talk about mental health
Mental health is a topic that is discussed pretty frequently in the media nowadays, but it is not talked about in the right way. The way that mental health and mental illnesses are talked about today is, in its own right, inherently stigmatizing. This week is suicide awareness week and stigmatization of mental health is […]
Renovations to the library coming to a close
Last semester, it was announced that the Alvin Sherman Library would be building new study rooms and rearranging the second floor to feature more seating and study areas for students. Students requested additional study space and, after months of renovations, the library is nearing the end of its construction. According to Jim Hutchens, the vice […]
Water your thoughts: Stop polluting the ocean
With the majority of Earth being covered by the ocean, you would think that people would go the extra mile to protect marine organisms and to keep the oceans clean. But no, why would anyone ever do anything to help the ocean when it would be easier for them to just keep polluting the ocean […]