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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The urC rent NSU Digital Collections 1-15-2019 The urC rent Volume 29 : Issue 17 Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper NSUWorks Citation Nova Southeastern University, "The urC rent Volume 29 : Issue 17" (2019). The Current. 692. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper/692 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Current by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Student-Run Newspaper of Nova Southeastern University January 15, 2019 | Vol. 29, Issue 17 | nsucurrent.nova.edu Features Arts & Entertainment Sports Opinions That Time I… Found Myself in the Crowd Recipes for on the go This week in sports history Tea or coffee? Only one can win. P. # P. # P. # P. # NSU presents first screening of Rubber Jellyfish By: Christina McLaughlin Co-Editor-in-Chief On Jan. 17 at 7:30 pm, NSU’s source of food,” Students can come painted by Together In Art, a MEEC basket, a Oceanographic Campus will host the first said Danielle early for tabling Free Our Seas and Beyond Sustainability Basket screening of the feature-length documentary Vosburgh, co- ocean conservations or a Karen Bees Honey Basket. Rubber Jellyfish in the United States. founder of groups like Surfrider Following the screening, the co-founder The film follows director and mom-to-be Balloons Below. of Broward County, of Balloons Below, Danielle Vosburgh who is Carly Wilson on a personal journey as she meets There are Saving Ocean Life, featured in the film, will facilitate a Q&A session other notable people involved in the fight to ban also cases of Sereia Films, Broward for audience members interested in learning balloons and expose the marine danger behind misinformation county parks and more about this issue. the common party decoration. when it comes Sirenian International. “By starting Balloons Blow, I’ve found Proceeds will benefit Balloons Blow, a to selling this “When we have that people don’t really make the connection non-profit organization, and NSU’s Marine product to events, it’s important [between balloons and sea turtles]. But once they Environmental Education Center or MEEC. In consumers. to have other people realize how easy it is to avoid balloon pollution, partnership with the MEEC, Balloons Blow and “A lot of who share the same then they start to think about the other things in Free Our Seas and Beyond, this event plans to these balloon mission of saving the their lives they can avoid by choosing reusable bring awareness to balloon pollution and how it companies earth to be a a part of alternatives,” said Vosburgh. affects the environment. [represent their it. That way we can Organizers of this event encourage students “With students studying at the Ocean products] as [interact] with more and members of the community from all Campus and many majors at NSU focused on biodegradable people so more people backgrounds to come participate in this event. the ocean and the environment, this film fits when they are can learn,” said Weise. “It’s just not scientists and ocean right in. It may even highlight a problem that actually not. “It’s a great way conservationists, everyone should know what some students aren’t aware of,” said Amy Hupp, These balloons to bring awareness to impact these balloons have on our planet,” said program coordinator and carekeeper at the will pop, float in the community. We are Wiese, “Maybe it will help change the way of MEEC. our waterways all working together to how [people] celebrate or release balloons and When a balloon is let go in remembrance of and sea turtles help the environment see what effect it has on our sea life, oceans and a loved one or escapes a party, it will blow away think they are and this [tabling beaches”. into sky, only to burst or deflate and return to jellyfish,” said experience] gives us Students interested in this event can visit Earth as a form of pollution. Manon Weise, the opportunity to www.eventbrite.com/e/rubber-jelly-fish-movie- “We find about 1,000 balloons every year. executive bring that information tickets-53015587048 to purchase tickets online Balloons are a threat to animals on land and sea, director of Free Our Seas and Beyond. to folks who maybe aren’t aware of [the issues or at the door the day of the event for $10. wild and domestic. Since we are coastal we are With a ticket purchase, students will be able the environment is facing],” said Hupp. Those interested in learning more about balloon concerned about the sea turtles as they often to enjoy light refreshments, snacks and catering There will also be a raffle available where pollution can visit balloonsbelow.org or contact confuse balloons as jellyfish which is their main provided by Bodhi’s Brew, a local vegan deli. students can win gift cards, a reusable bag the MEEC for more information. NSU to honor Rita and Rick Case at 21st Annual Celebration of Excellence By: Madelyn Rinka Co-Editor-in-Chief NSU’s 21st Annual Celebration of scholarship recipients are attending NSU. Excellence will be held on Feb. 2, and will bestow “If you’re looking for a great example of the 2019 President’s Award for Excellence in what it means to give back to the community, Community Service upon Rita and Rick Case. look no further than our backyard. The impact The award is given annually at the celebration, from Rita and Rick Case can be felt here at NSU, which is meant to invoke the “community” core the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County, value of the university. American Heart Association, Cleveland Clinic, Previous honorees include The Miniaci Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Habitat Family, David Horvitz & Francie Bishop for Humanity and many other organizations Good, Guy Harvey, and last year’s recipients, throughout South Florida,” said President Drs. Kiran C. and Pallavi Patel. The Patel’s George Hanbury in an NSU news brief. gift renamed the Colleges of Osteopathic and Beyond the President’s Award for Allopathic Medicine, as well as the College of Excellence, the Celebration of Excellence also Healthcare Sciences, which was announced at honors donors whose cumulative donations to the 2018 celebration. NSU reached $1 million. This year, benefactors Rita and Rick Case, of the Rick Case Arena Michael Dezer, William J. and Susan M. Gallo, in the Don Taft University Center, have had a Jerry W. DuBois, Gallo Herbert Architects, The strong relationship with NSU. In Jan. 2017, Estate of Conni Gordon, Mary Jane Harlow the university renamed the recreational arena Charitable Trust/Mary Short, Tropic Star after Mr. Case, who has also served on NSU’s Lodge and Adolfo and Marisela Cotilla will be Board of Trustees since 2002, and has helped welcomed into the “Shark Circle.” direct funds to develop and improve university The black-tie optional event is invite only, grounds. Additionally, Mr. and Mrs. Case created and will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. an endowed scholarship under their names, 2, appropriately in the Don Taft University which provides undergraduates and alumni of Center’s Rick Case Arena. PRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM J. SPECHLER the Boys & Girls Clubs with the opportunity to Rita and Rick Case have been announced to be this year’s President’s Award for Excellence in Community attend college. This academic year, three of the Service recipients. 2 News FebruaryJanuary 17, 201515, 2019 | nsucurrent.nova.edu | nsucurrent.nova.edu 3301 College Avenue Student Affairs Building, Room 310 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796 nsucurrent.nova.edu NEWSROOM BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Apple will release three new Missing 13 year old girl found after held Phone: 954-262-8455 Phone: 954-262-8461 iPhones in 2019 captive for 3 months Fax: 954-262-8456 Fax: 954-262-8456 On Jan. 11, The Wall Street Journal On the late afternoon of Jan. 10, Jayme Closs, [email protected] [email protected] reported that Apple has plans to release three a 13-year-old girl from northwestern Wisconsin new iPhone models this year. The models will was found alive after going missing on Oct. 15. Her Madelyn Rinka Co-Editor-in-Chief [email protected] include improvements and changes to the parents, James and Denise Closs, were both fatally Christina McLaughlin Co-Editor-in-Chief [email protected] camera and display. According to the Journal, shot in their home the same day that she disappeared. Aaron Banyard Copy Editor [email protected] higher-end models “will be fitted with a triple Jayme was discovered in Gordon, Wisconsin when rear camera,” and the lower-end models “will she asked a woman walking her dog for help. The Krysyan Edler News Editor [email protected] have a double rear camera.” One of the models is woman, Jeanne Nutter later revealed that when the Emma Heineman Features Editor [email protected] expected to have the same liquid-crystal display missing girl approached her, she said “I’m lost, and Alexandra Herlihy Sports Editor [email protected] as the iPhone XR, a lower-end model that has I don’t know where I am and I need help.” Jayme’s Kelsey Bruce Arts & Entertainment Editor thecurrenta&[email protected] “reportedly struggled to win over Chinese kidnapper and the suspected murderer of her consumers,” according to CNBC. Apple is also parents was driving around looking for her when he Alexander Martinie Opinions Editor [email protected] considering dropping LCD displays completely was apprehended 10 minutes after Jayme was found Skylyr Vanderveer Multimedia Manager [email protected] and replacing them with organic light-emitting by authorities.