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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The Current NSU Digital Collections 9-29-2020 The Current_Volume 31_Issue 08_2020 Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper The Student-Run Newspaper of Nova Southeastern University September 29, 2020 | Vol. 31, Issue 8 | nsucurrent.nova.edu Features Arts & Entertainment Sports Opinions The history of coffee: How it may Staff Picks: What is your favorite fall An athlete’s perspective on Hispanic Tea, please have started with energetic goats activity? heritage P. 4 P. 7 P. 9 P. 11 Rick Case, member of NSU’s Board of Trustees, dies at 77 By: Madelyn Rinka Co-Editor-in-Chief PRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM NSU ARCHIVES The NSU community mourns the The SunSentinel. The couple was honored at “If you’re looking for a great example of Current. loss of Board of Trustees member and NSU’s 21st annual Celebration of Excellence what it means to give back to the community, As stated in an email sent to the NSU South Florida philanthropist, Rick Case. with the 2019 President’s Award for Excellence look no further than our backyard. The impact community from the Office of the President Case died on Sept. 21 at the age of 77 after in Community Service, an award given to from Rita and Rick Case can be felt here at on Sept. 23, there will be a private ceremony a brief battle with cancer. Case is survived celebrate the core value of “community.” The NSU, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward held for Case’s immediate family and a by his wife, Rita, and his children and university renamed the arena in the Don Taft County, American Heart Association, memorial service in the future. Messages grandchildren. University Center to the Rick Case Arena in Cleveland Clinic, Joe DiMaggio Children’s can be sent to the family by contacting Case, founder and CEO of the Rick 2017, although Case had served on NSU’s Hospital, Habitat for Humanity and many [email protected]. Case Automotive Group, along with his Board of Trustees since 2002. The Cases’ other organizations throughout South Florida,” Read more about Rick Case’s wife, are known for their philanthropic generosity towards NSU has benefitted the said President George Hanbury in an NSU philanthropic legacy in The Current’s article contributions to charitable and university in many ways, including grounds news brief about the 2019 Annual Celebration about NSU’s 21st Annual Celebration of educational organizations, according to improvement and scholarship funding. of Excellence in Dec. 2018, as covered by The Excellence. 2 News SeptemberFebruary 29, 2020 17, 2015 | nsucurrent.nova.edu | nsucurrent.nova.edu 3301 College Avenue Don Taft University Center, PVA Room 328 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796 nsucurrent.nova.edu Global news, NEWSROOM BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Phone: 954-262-8455 Phone: 954-262-8461 courtesy of [email protected] [email protected] the current Madelyn Rinka Co-Editor-in-Chief Christina McLaughlin Co-Editor-in-Chief Flor Ana Mireles Copy Editor Rick Esner News Editor Emma Heineman Features Editor Siena Bieradi Sports Editor Sofia Gallus Arts & Entertainment Editor Kim Jong-un apologizes Rat receives award for sniffing Alexander Martinie Opinions Editor for killing official out landmines Farhan Shaban Chief of Visual Design North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant Erin Cowan Visual Design Assistant apologized to South Korea on Friday for pouched rat, was awarded a gold medal from Rey Perez the death of a South Korean government the British charity People’s Dispensary for Sick Contributing Writer official at sea by North Korean soldiers. Animals on Friday. Magawa was recognized Daniella Rudolph Contributing Writer This apology has been the first apology for “‘lifesaving bravery and devotion to duty’ Nyla Wyte Contributing Writer issued by the government since Jong- for work detecting land mines in Cambodia,” Chole Rousseau Contributing Writer un took power almost a decade ago. according to The New York Times. The brave Briana Ramnauth Contributing Writer According to The New York Times, Jong- rat discovered 39 landmines and 28 items of Ana Maria Soto Contributing Writer un was quoted in a message from his unexploded ordnance. Jan McLoughlin, the government saying, “I am deeply sorry director general of the charity, said, “Magawa’s Blake Malick Contributing Writer that an unexpected and unfortunate thing work directly saves and changes the lives of Gabriel J. Stone Contributing Writer has happened in our territorial waters men, women and children who are impacted Isabella Gomez Contributing Writer that delivered a big disappointment to by these land mines. Every discovery he makes Aliyah Gomez Contributing Writer President Moon Jae-in and the people of reduces the risk of injury or death for local Veronica Richard Contributing Writer the South.” people.” Megan Fitzgerald Faculty Advisor [email protected] Worst mass stranding in China lifts pandemic bar, Jarrod Bailey Staff Advisor [email protected] Australia’s history letting in foreigners In the beaches and sandbars west On Thursday, Chinese officials lifted of Tasmania, an island state south of the pandemic bar, stating “Foreigners holding The Current serves Nova Southeastern University from its location in Room Australia, an approximate 500 pilot certain types of visas and residence permits 328 of the Don Taft University Center. The Current is NSU’s established vehicle whales were discovered stranded between will be permitted to return to China as the for student reporting, opinion and the arts. All community members are invited Monday and Tuesday. According to The threat of the new coronavirus continues to to contribute. Washington Post, “Some 380 died, in recede,” according to the Associated Press. Editorials, commentaries and advertisements in this publication reflect the opin- Australia during the past week [and] so Beginning Monday, Sept. 28, foreigners who ions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the far, rescuers have been able to free around meet the qualifications will be allowed to University or its officials, The Current staff or other advertisers. The Current 90 pilot whales.” The social bonds that return, undergoing two weeks of quarantine will not publish unsigned letters except under special circumstances at the dis- pilot whales have with one another have and following other pandemic measures. Not cretion of the Editor-in-Chief. The Current reserves the right to edit. posted a challenge for rescue operations including imported COVID-19 cases, China as the animals are sending out distress has had 39 consecutive days without a domestic Contributing writers must not be directly involved with their coverage. calls. While the reasons these animals case of the virus. Coverage by contributing writers must be meaningful and of interest to the NSU have been stranded is still unknown, community. The Current reserves the right to edit, publish or deny submitted works as it sees fit. The Current shall remain free of associations and researchers and rescuers believe shallow activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility or otherwise cre- coastal waters may play a role. ate a bias, real or perceived. Kenosha shooter challenges Federal judge extends 2020 Disney sued over Toy Story 4 Mary Trump sues Trump extradition census deadline for one month character family Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney, Lucy Koh, a U.S. district judge in Kelly Knievel, the son of Evel Following the release of her book, John Pierce, intends to challenge his California, granted an injunction claiming Knievel and head of K and K Promotions, Mary Trump has filed a lawsuit against client’s extradition from Illinois to that the Trump administration’s shortened has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit President Trump and his siblings, Robert Wisconsin, who has been charged schedule would produce inaccurate data. against Disney-Pixar for modeling a Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry. with the death of two protesters According to Koh, “An undercount in character after Evel Knievel. The character Mary Trump claims that she has lost following the shooting of Jacob Blake any locality matters greatly. Even a small Duke Caboom in Toy Story 4, while never millions of dollars after the three pushed in Kenosha, WI. Rittenhouse claims undercount of a subset of the hard to directly mentioning Knievel, is portrayed her from the family business and real self-defense to the charge of two counts count population would result in the loss as a 1970s daredevil toy of “Canada’s estate holdings. President Trump and of intentional first-degree homicide and of federal funding.” The census, which greatest stuntman,” claims Disney, while his siblings, according to Mary Trump’s an attempted third, along with a charge is only held every 10 years, determines Knievel remarks that it is reminiscent account reported by the Associated of underage possession of a firearm used the distribution of a $1.5 trillion of the 1973 Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle Press, “Pressured Mary Trump to accept in the previous charges. If convicted, federal budget as well as each state’s toy. According to K and K Promotions, a settlement and relinquish all interests Rittenhouse will face a mandatory life congressional representation. This is the Disney-Pixar intentionally modeled the in the Trump businesses, the uncles and sentence. Rittenhouse’s claim of self- second extension for the census, with the Caboom character on Knievel and did aunt provided fraudulent accounting and defense comes after a protestor, Joseph first scheduled to have ended in late July. not acknowledge any connection between financial statements that misrepresented Rosenbaum, threw a plastic bag at their character and its inspiration, Evel the value of their father’s estate at $30 him, and Rittenhouse proceeded to fire Knievel. million or less.” five shots.