Pick up your trash and keep our campus beautiful

NSU community, this is your wake-up call. We have, by far, one of the most beautiful campuses in the state and it is being tarnished by lazy community members who leave behind their leftover utensils, dirty plates, crumpled up napkins, empty soda cups and the lists go on. Clean up after yourselves people. You are not children. The staff who do clean the UC are not your parents. They are not there to pick up after every crumb from your pizza crust.

Dear NSU students: Want change? Make change!

When I transferred here last year from FIU, I was disappointed to find that students here didn’t hold student involvement and student leadership in a high regard. As I began to become involved at NSU, I learned more about the university system and began to understand the uniqueness of the NSU student experience. Here are six conclusions that I have reached in my two semesters of being a Shark:

America’s prisons: They want you

It is really despicable what U.S. prisons have become. Prisons, which I will remind you, are built with federal money — your money — are not interested in saving tax payers anything. Instead, they are more interested in funneling the cash right into your pockets. Why would prisons want to rehabilitate repeat offenders? They are repeat business.

Wal-Mart: The Holy Grail of the free market system

Enter Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart is the paradigm of what success in corporate America is. Wal-Mart is often targeted as aggressive in its approach, but the truth is, Wal-Mart has been able to maximize profits while serving a demographic that a vast majority of corporations exclude: the working class.