Volunteering is a great way to expand your resume and become a more well-rounded person. Doing volunteer work is very rewarding and even in the time of COVID-19, there are many opportunities to do so safely. The Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement has opportunities for students to get involved in volunteering and to […]
Author: Alexander Martinie
When will their lives be worth change?
In years past, gun control has been a contentious issue at all levels of politics. Debates over gun control have been a key fixture in political campaigns for as long as I can remember. With recent events, gun control has made its way back into the forefront of national news. So far, there have been […]
12th Annual Juried Student Exhibition opens in PVA
On March 17, the 12th annual Juried Student Exhibition opened with a virtual opening and reception held via Zoom. The Juried Student Exhibition will be open in Gallery 217 of the Don Taft University Center until April 16. Guy Harvey, a marine wildlife artist and long-time sponsor of NSU’s arts and natural sciences departments, presented […]
March Madness 2021
With March comes the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, which is also called March Madness. March Madness is a single-elimination tournament that is played between 68 Division I college basketball teams over seven rounds, and teams can earn a bid to the tournament in two ways. Thirty-two teams will receive […]
News Anchor – 3/16
Eddie Murphy next inductee of NAACP Hall of Fame The NAACP announced that Eddie Murphy will be inducted as the next member of the NAACP’s Image Awards Hall of Fame on March 27. Murphy’s induction ceremony will air on CBS, BET, MTV, VH1, MTV2, BET HER and LOGO, and Maxwell and Jazmine Sullivan will perform […]
Women’s History Month: Resources for women in STEM
Historically, many STEM fields have been heavily male-dominated. With pushes for increased equity and roles for women in STEM, we have seen a rise in the number of women pursuing jobs in these fields, for which NSU has resources. According to Kate Gittleman, the director of STEM Initiatives and Outreach, “One of the organizations that […]
A Golden Globe Nomination does not mean that a movie is good
Earlier this year, singer and songwriter Sia made her directorial debut with the release of the movie “Music,” which attempts to portray Maddie Ziegler as the titular character on the autism spectrum. Variety Magazine described “Music” as “an exceptional film with heart at its core,” but I do not think that ‘heart’ is what is […]
Staying green in the days of COVID-19
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic and much has changed in this world. At the beginning of the pandemic, some saw it as an environmental boon. Carbon emissions were down worldwide. Animals returned to places they were driven away from by crowds of people. Yet, as the world gets settled into its new normal, it […]
A year into a pandemic as a hypochondriac
I may or may not be a little paranoid over getting sick. Okay, okay. Maybe, I’m more than a little paranoid over getting sick. Even before COVID-19, I carried hand sanitizer around with me everywhere and I tried my best not to come into physical contact with anyone. I did everything I could to avoid […]
February Nintendo Direct recap
Last Wednesday, Feb. 17, the Nintendo Company premiered the first Nintendo Direct of 2021. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Nintendo Direct, it is a series of live announcements that the Nintendo Company does every couple of months to announce the release of new games or other company news. However, due to the […]