Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The urC rent NSU Digital Collections 8-1-2003 The Knight Summer Orientation Issue Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper NSUWorks Citation Nova Southeastern University, "The Knight Summer Orientation Issue" (2003). The Current. 207. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper/207 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]. Summer 2003 1 Summer 2003 Orientation Edition ORIENTATION 2003 A Special Welcome A new year, a new start! Welcome to all of our new freshmen and transfer students. I hope I have already met some of you during our Campus Visitation Days, and that I will get to meet all of you dur- ing orientation sessions and throughout your academic career here at Nova Southeastern University. We have an exciting array of academic programs and co-curricular activities. I From right to left: Lora Reyes, Valerie Marcel, Micaela Mercado, Matt Boddy, Rovin Narine,Ryan Iosco, Rene Griffith, Chrissyl Shaw, Joycelyn McGlothlen,Photo By Kevn Lisa Billings Ally encourage you to take advantage of our small classes, which allow you to develop a By Jennifer M. Miles, Ed.D. During Transfer Orientation, NSU community. Our parent orienta- relationship with your professors and your Director of Student Development and transfer students quickly connect to tion is completely separate from the peer students. I also suggest that you se- Retention the resources and people that become student orientation, but is held on the lect elective courses that will round out your an important part of life in the NSU first day of each first year orientation general knowledge and skills and that reflect Success in college is not only de- community. The one-day program pre- session. your interests. Get involved with leadership termined by the quality of your aca- pares transfer students for transition to For a minimal investment of time, and co-curricular activities “beyond the demic work, but also by how quickly NSU. you’ll leave orientation with an un- classroom” as well. Always know that the you can make connections and access Orientation sessions for Career De- derstanding of how to maximize your services. Nova Southeastern Universi- velopment students are designed for the time at NSU to reach your academic, Academic Support Center is there to assist ty’s orientation programs are designed working professional. The programs personal, and professional goals. These you. Great opportunities are yours for the for you to begin your collegiate career will include opportunities for Career programs have been designed to ad- taking. successfully and quickly. The Office of Development students to meet other dress your needs as a new student. New Student Programs and Orientation new students and members of the uni- Please take advantage of everything As you may have heard me say, I am has developed Orientations for first versity administration and staff. Stu- orientation has to offer. The Office of glad you are here and that we are here for year students, transfer students, Career dents also learn about campus activities New Student Programs and Orientation you. Development students, and families. and services. The brief time spent at can be reached at 1-800-338-4723, Our two-day overnight First Year orientation will greatly enhance each ext. 8050 or at [email protected]. Dr. Norma M. Goonen Orientation programs are designed to student’s NSU experience. Please contact us with any questions. Dean, College of Arts and Sciences help new students succeed at NSU. Parents and family members are Welcome to NSU! During a brief overnight stay, first year important resources for our new stu- students experience an intensive, excit- dents. We have designed our Parent and ing, informative, and enjoyable intro- Family Orientation to assist families duction to life at NSU. and to provide information about the NSU RECEIVES $500,000 GIFT FROM LORRAINE INDEX: THOMAS School to NSU’s 250-acre main cam- her as Humanitarian of the Year. pus. In accepting the gift, Dean Pohl- Nova Southeastern University’s H. NSU AFFAIRS 2 FORT LAUDERDALE, FL- Lor- man said, “Loraine Thomas is one of Wayne Huizenga School of Business raine Thomas, wife of the late Dave our community’s greatest assets. She and Entrepreneurship, which feature RADIO X 3 Thomas, has given Nova Southeast- and Dave have always been very gener- both undergraduate and graduate pro- ORIENTATION LEADERS 4 ern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga ous and supportive of NSU.” grams, is taking the lead in developing CLUBS 5 School of Business and Entrepreneur- A Fort Lauderdale resident for an integrated philosophical framework ship a gift of $500,000, Dean Ran- more than 20 years, Thomas and her that can help place its graduates in the ACADEMIC DIVISIONS 11 dolph A. Pohlman, Ph.D., announced. late husband-Wendy’s Old Fashioned forefront of management theory and GREEK ORGANIZATIONS 16 Thomas’s gift will lend her name to Hamburger Restaurant founder Dave practice in the new millennium. It pro- the R. David Thomas and I. Lorraine Thomas-have been supporters of Nova vides quality business and management SPORTS 18 Thomas Dean’s Suite of NSU’s soon- Southeastern University for more than education to students across the nation CLASSIFIED 23 to-be-completed 261,000 square foot 10 years. In fact, NSU’s Center for Psy- and world. facility that will bring the Huizenga chological Studies recently honored 2 Summer 2003 THOMAS DIETERS NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT FORT LAUDERDALE, FL- paign and meet the fundraising goals of rector of Planned Giving at Michigan brings to this position,” Ferrero said. Weston resident Thomas E. Dieters, has NSU university-wide. As such, Dieters State University, to working at the “His experiences in higher educa- been named executive will provide leadership University of Miami as its Director of tion with regard to development and director of develop- and management of the Regional Development and Executive planned giving are a perfect fit in the ment at Nova South- fundraising activities of Director of Planned Giving. direction that NSU is going.” eastern University, NSU, while developing He began his career as a Registered President Ray Ferrero, and implementing a com- Representative with Equitable Finan- For more information, contact Jr., announced. prehensive decentralized cial Companies in Troy, Michigan, NSU’s Office of Public Affairs at (954) Dieters will take development plan to in- working in the areas of retirement, 262-5353. on the newly created clude campaign activity, estate planning, and charitable giving. post that will take ad- gifts-in-kind, scholar- Dieters has a master’s of public admin- vantage of his higher ships, endowments, and istration from the University of Miami, education develop- planned gifts. and a bachelor’s in both employment ment experience. His Dieters has already relations and psychology from Michi- primary responsibility spent 12 years in higher gan State University. will be to oversee NSU’s capital cam- education, from being Associate Di- “We are excited at what Thomas Warriors, Terrorists, Peacemakers careful reading to the end of the article tainly not as a terrorist. Mohammad that the more people know about Islam, By Dr. William Hammack showed the difference was really more was known as a peacemaker. Someone the higher their opinion of it is. If you Teacher of mathematics in the of that between the industrialized West who could bring two sides together, get would like to learn more, feel free to Undergraduate College and much of the rest of the world. them talking, and come to a solution contact the local Muslim Student As- [email protected] There is no question that there both groups were happy with. When sociation, IMAN. They will welcome Since 9/11, Muslims and Islam are vicious thugs who call themselves those in power in Mecca grew annoyed you gladly as they have this old druid have been regular staples of news ar- Muslims, just as there are vicious thugs with this kid urging folks to abandon whom they even allow to serve as ad- ticles and television shows. Right-wing who call themselves Christians. But the old polytheism and adopt the God visor to the club. If you would like to preachers such as Franklin Graham just as the Aryan Nations groups, the of the Jews and Christians, the folks learn more about the part of the world have regularly inveighed against the Klan, and Timothy McVeigh clearly in Medina invited the young man up where Islam got its start, we also have tenets of Islam and Mohammad, de- have no understanding of the Gospels, to help settle some disputes disrupting an Arabic student association, OASIS scribing Islam as a religion of terrorists it is clear that the Taleban and Al Qaeda their town. Mohammad turned to war composed of very friendly, outgoing and child abusers whose favorite hob- have no understanding of the Koran. only much later, after his followers had students [not all of whom are Muslim, bies are bomb making and oppressing As with many Christian sects, been repeatedly attacked. that part of the world gave rise to many, women. In this they show their com- primitive tribal beliefs have been There is as little in common be- many religions]. plete ignorance. It is not just individu- forced onto the basic teachings of Is- tween Mohammad and bin Laden as als in the extreme right who show this lam. To fully understand Islam, one there is between Jesus and Timothy ignorance: a recent issue of Foreign must look back to its earliest days.