The 24th annual Student Life Achievement Awards, or STUEYs, honored notable students, staff and faculty on April 12. The ceremony took place in the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center and recognized many but just a few went home with a STUEY. Although 15 were nominated for Overall Student of the Year for 2022, […]
Author: Rei Perez
The push for preferred names and pronouns at NSU
As schools across the country adopt accommodative efforts for trans and non-binary students, Nova Southeastern University has begun considering its options as well, most notably through preferred names and pronouns on school IDs; but it has also raised questions about how this can be done. University President George Hanbury held a town hall in the […]
Trans on the ballot: The 2022 midterms focus on culture wars
As of April, there have been roughly 267 anti-LGBTQ+ pieces of legislation introduced across the U.S. according to Freedom for All Americans, a campaign for LGBTQ+ rights. The majority of those bills target trans people. GOP members around the nation have continuously gone further in limiting LGBTQ+ people’s civil rights and copying each other when […]
Shark Speak: What are you doing over the summer?
“I have plans to travel, but I don’t know to where yet. I’m a substitute math teacher so I teach over the summer, anything from kindergarten to calculus,” said Travis Roberson, junior secondary mathematics education major. “I’m going back home to central Florida where I’m going to hopefully be finding a summer job in education […]
STUEYs returns in person for first time since 2019
Editor’s note: This issue of the newspaper was written prior to The STUEYs. A list of winners will be published in issue 24. Faculty, students and staff gathered for the 24th annual Student Life Achievement Awards, known as the STUEYs which were held in person for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 […]
Water your thoughts: Not right or left is still right
We’ve all heard it before: “I’m not on the right or the left” or “both sides are wrong” or “let’s hear both sides.” These statements may seem like they are a valiant plea for bipartisanship and pragmatism, but these fall flat when “both sides” are considered for various social issues in the U.S. today. Let’s […]
Lijo Andrews and Tassnime Sebai: New USGA leaders discuss future
A modest crowd filled the Miniaci Performance Theater on March 23 but the topic at hand was no small matter: USGA Internal Affairs Director Lijo Andrews and Chief Financial Officer Tassnime Sebai answered questions from a moderator and the crowd regarding their plans for next year and why they should be voted for in the […]
‘Don’t Say Gay’ inspires backlash and debate across Florida
The rain did not quell the crowd during the “Don’t Say Gay” bill protest in Ft. Lauderdale on March 7. Esplanade Park held around 50 people who were there to show support for the LGBTQ+ community and protest the Parental Rights in Education bill, also known as “Don’t Say Gay,” a bill that critics say […]
Trans students find gender-affirming housing at NSU
Every fall, Nova Southeastern University fills its halls with students returning from their summer vacations or entering its classrooms for the first time. Although this time is already stressful for many students who are moving in, the process is even more nerve-wracking for transgender students. These students have an extra hurdle to the awkward first […]
Ukraine and Russia: A tale of two countries
In late February, when Russian artillery was rolled into eastern Ukraine, people around the world reacted with shock at the invasion and heartache for the Ukrainian people. The question on many of the world’s mind: why Ukraine and why now? As noted by National Geographic, the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, was once a prominent city […]