Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The Current NSU Digital Collections 1-18-2011 The Current Volume 21 : Issue 17 Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper NSUWorks Citation Nova Southeastern University, "The Current Volume 21 : Issue 17" (2011). The Current. 410. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper/410 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]. College of Dental Medicine makes children smile Written by: untreated, it can affect the child's Annarely Rodri ez gu performance in school and the child may have difficulty in eating, chewing and swallowing," Last fall, the College of Dental said Heintskill. Medicine received a $58,000 grant For the dental students, this from the Dr. John. T. Macdonald program provides an. opportunity Foundation Inc. to work with children. Vianca The grant allows the North Cabrera, fourth-year dental student, Miami Beach dental clinic to provide who participated in the program free dental care to hun-dreds of during her second year, -said the underprivileged elementary school children were the first patients children each week. she's treated. This is the fourth year the Heintskill said the majority of university has received this grant. the children are minorities and some "Everyone benefits from rthis of them have never been to a dentist program," said Lisa Gacia- before or owned a toothbrush. Heintskill, R.D.H., D.H.S., project Cabrera said, "We got to give coolidinator., them their first impression about Through the program, the what going to the dentist•is like." children receive preventive oral The clinic is exclusively health care services by pre-doctoral dedicated to the children on dental students. Services include Wednesdays from 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. dental cleaning, x-rays, polishing Heintskill said that during that time, and dental sealants. If follow-up care dental students examine about 20 is needed, Heintskill sends a letter children per session. to the parents informing them that Karen Zagar, fourth-year den- COURTESY OF LISA GARCIA-HEINTSKILL follow-up care is needed by a family tal student, said the experience A student from the College of Dental Medicine performs a procedure on a child. The College recently received a $58,000 grant from the Dr. John T. Macdonald dentist. was rewarding. SEE DENTAL2 Foundation Inc. that allows NSU dental students to provide free dental care to underprivileged elementary school children . "When dental decay is left .Millenials enter The Inte·rnet makes .the workforce with private life public Written by: 1"'...,-f"""• ll6!'"Jl-l.....,l Annarely Rodri ez an advantage gu Written by:_ Last month, a Ft. Myers man Annarely Rodriguez so employers have to offer them reunited with his five children after those opportunities and get them they found each on www.mylife. · com. However, sites like the one involved with projects or they won't used for the reunion also buy and sell The workforce is adjusting to have fun and leave the company," people's personal information. meet the needs of millennials. he said. Sites such as www.MyLife. •=-- Members of this group of 70 to With so many millennials com and www.spokeo.com search ii ·· 80 million people, born from 1977 entering the workforce, it will have databases and social networking sites ••"t• to 1997, are entering the workplace to adapt to their needs, Mujtaba said. for people's personal information with something past generations "Millenials are more loyal [to and compile them for buyers. did not have: a great knowledge of companies] than Baby Boomers and Michael Richmond, professor technology. Generation Xers if they're correctly of law in the Shepard Broad Law Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, associate stimulated and having fun," he said. Center said this practice is not illegal. -=--...---.ae1c:s•-•.l:Xt "Anything that's public infor- -Ma\.tifl-.1.......; '----u;.W-..C..t-..r...1---.l ltau.aa!--IS professor of management in the H. However, millennials' know- mation is [fair] game," he said. "And COURTESY OF WWW.MYLIFE.CO Wayne Huizenga School of Business ledge of technology may come with as long as you have put it on the net, Web sites like www.MyLife.com (pictured above) search the Internet for people's public information - disadvantages. ·and Entrepreneurship and author it is public." including full name, address, birthday, etc. - and sell it. of a book on mentoring diverse Lisa Fuller, Ed.D., professor in When accessing these sites, professionals, said that in addition the Fischler School of Education and users have access to a person's to being more technologically-savvy, Human Services has worked with information including their full Dan Goldring, senior sports and than that, there's too many weirc millennials are more optimistic, several millennials at the university name, address, birth year, names recreation management major, said people out there and I don't wan- pos1uve, diverse, open-minded and has noticed that they depend on of family members and past living he did not like the idea of people them stalking me," he said. and work better in teams than technology a great deal. locations. Some people's profile accessing his information so easily. But Richmond said that thes1 past generations. SEE MILLENIALS 2 includes their picture as well as a "If I'm looking for a job maybe sites are not requiredSEE to verifyPRIVACY: th1 "They also like personal growth picture of their house. it's OK they look me up but, other 2 News I DENTAL MILLENIALS from 1 January 18, nsucurrent.nova.edu from 1 "It was nice to see kids who NSU partnered with the can't get treatment and give them University of Miami Leonard M. something they wouldn't get Miller School of Medicine for this otherwise," she said. program. The patients, who are all J-{owever, Heintskill said most second graders, are picked up in of the dental diseases that affect buses from Fulford Elementary, children's dental health can be Greynolds Park Elementary and prevented. She said people should Sabal Palm Elementary, which take children to get their teeth were chosen by the Macdonald checked after the child turns one. Foundation. Heintskill said there "Even a limited exam could are plans to expand this model prevent early childhood caries," throughout the state. she said. PRIVACY from 1 information they provide users. So, if Some of these Web sites, such a prospective employer looks some- as www.spokeo.com, allow you one up, they might have incorrect to remove a listing by entering the informatj_on. URL of the person's profile on their Ana Cuccurullo, freshman com- privacy page. However, the removal munication studies major, visited process depends on the Web site. the Web site and thought it was The sites advertise themselves "horrible." But, she said, there could as a service to buyers, but Manning be a positive aspect to it. said he did not see anything positive "If you're from the government that could come from these sites. and have to find someone to protect "If you want to find another Millenials, people born from 1977-1997, are entering the workforce with more knowledge about technology than past generations. people, that's fine," she said. friend, there are other ways of doing Richard D. Manning, Ph.D., that more cheaply," he said. visiting professor in the Graduate He also said · that putting School of Computer and Information information such as your birthday . Sciences, said these sites not and hometown on Facebook was "I don't think they have the skills etiquette as it relates to technology. Whitney Walters, freshman only obtain their data from the not recommended since banks' Web to communicate outside technology, "I don't think education has biology major, said this was not a information people post online but sites often ask for that information to but I think that it's because they're kept up with the trends. Therefore, bad thing. also from people's friends. verify users' identity. so technology-dependent that they these issues are not being addressed," "The faster we get the inform- "A colleague of mine, from a "Be very careful. Your personal haven't needed to do so," she said. she said. ation, the faster whatever you need long time ago, released my name information has value to all kinds of She said the dependence is Fuller said that millennials not gets done," she said. "And in this day and affiliation," he said. 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