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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The urC rent NSU Digital Collections 1-23-2018 The urC rent Volume 28: 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 28: Issue 17" (2018). The Current. 658. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper/658 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 23, 2018 | Vol. 28, Issue 17 | nsucurrent.nova.edu Features Arts & Entertainment Sports Opinions ‘Amaize-ing’ delights await you at this Grab your slice of the pie in time for Instant replays are ruining How low will Trump go? P. 5 Gill Out gem P. 7 this holiday P. 8 the game P. 11 President Hanbury discusses hurricane relief, student concerns at town hall By: Skylyr VanDerveer Multimedia Manager President Hanbury hosted a student spaces,” said Hanbury. “To give you some idea, town hall on Jan. 19 in the Steele Auditorium that’s more parking spaces than downtown Fort in the Health Professions Division. Students Lauderdale.” and faculty gathered to listen to the latest In addition, a student from NSU’s Puerto accomplishments at NSU. Students were also Rico campus asked about the possibility of the able to ask Hanbury questions. Office of Housing to help provide students more Questions addressed study space in HPD, affordable housing after a major storm, such as student parking, housing issues and HPD AV Hurricane Maria. Hanbury said that with the carts. help of NSU Cares, there is a possibility of the When a student brought up the lack of study housing office helping students in need. space in HPD due to the increasing number of “We have established NSU Cares after students, Hanbury stated that he is working on Irma and Harvey in Houston, but it was even getting more study carrels in the HPD Library as more important to promote NSU Cares for the well as the Alvin Sherman Library. students in Puerto Rico,” Hanbury said. During a short video at the beginning of When asked about AV carts, Hanbury the event, Hanbury talked about the construction stated that many of the old carts were recently of the new hospital in the University Park Plaza PRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM S. VANDERVEER improved Students and faculty gathered to address their concerns to President Hanbury. to allow students hands-on experience in the within the last few weeks. The new carts medical field. He also addressed the expansion he planned on updating the parking garages as Alfonso, also plan to add new technology to the were updated with the newest equipment and of the Health Professions Division with the well as building a new parking garage alongside structures to let students and faculty know where technology, and should no longer have problems donation from the Patel family. Other topics the new residence hall building. Hanbury also spots are open. broadcasting for students. addressed were hurricane relief, the growing said he would have the speed bumps fixed in the “Now that we’re building a new parking If you have comments or questions for undergraduate population and the many parking garages that students were fearing may garage, we have about 8,000 parking spaces President Hanbury, email askthepresident@ accomplishments of the students. damage the undersides of their cars. Hanbury on campus [without the new garage]. The new nova.edu. On the issue of parking, Hanbury said that and the Vice President of Facilities, Daniel parking garage will give us 9,200 [total] parking Undergraduate Student Symposium open for 2018 applicants By: Christina McLaughlin Opinions Editor Applications for participation in the 2018 has participated in USS for the past two years completion of CITI training, which is important Undergraduate Student Symposium (USS) are and gained experience outside the classroom to the research process, especially when open for interested students in any discipline. “The experience at USS through this unique opportunity. involving human subjects. The CITI training This annual event was created 18 years ago by is often a precursor Thallapureddy said, “For me, I participated program is built to protect and demonstrate faculty to encourage undergraduate students to an interview for in [USS] when I was a freshman and a professor that research has followed the permissions and to participate in research and showcase work medical school or an who attended reached out to me in class the adequate protocols required for accurate and they were doing outside the classroom. The interview for graduate following year. She recommended [I] apply to verifiable research. USS is designed for students of all majors and studies. It builds a a summer research program at MD Anderson “Part of USS is to showcase what they are disciplines and offers a variety of mediums to sense of confidence Cancer Center. Because of the symposium, I doing in their research, but it’s to also teach them present their work. and [students] learn to was able to apply to the program and I learned a how to be researchers,” Rosenblum said. “These Don Rosenblum, dean of Farquhar Honors articulate succinctly, lot while I was there. It prepared me for another protocols are used to protect how this research College, said, “Students can [present] research which is an incredible presentation at MD Anderson. It helped me is done.” through an [oral] presentation, through a poster skill.” learn how to build confidence and learn how to This year’s keynote speaker is Daniel ... a paper they’ve written. The film festival translate your research to a wider audience and Dawes, a health policy lawyer. Dawese will is the third dimension of that. As part of the Don Rosenblum, dean of that’s exactly what the symposium does.” speak about his experiences in the field and in symposium we recognize student scholarship in Farquhar Honors College Rosenblum added, “The experience at USS college as he was once an undergraduate at NSU. the arts and other fields. Any kind of knowledge is often a precursor to an interview for medical The symposium will be held on April 6 in any of these disciplines is celebrated.” school or an interview for graduate studies. It in the Alvin Sherman Library. All student and According to Rosenblum, as students builds a sense of confidence and [students] learn faculty are welcome to attend and experience present their research, they often interact and to articulate succinctly, which is an incredible this opportunity to learn about research and make connections with professors, and create and internships. Keerthi Thallapureddy, senior skill.” other works that students have been involved in. new relationships for possible future mentors biology major in Farquhar Honors College, Part of the application process involves 2 News FebruaryJanuary 17, 201523, 2018 | nsucurrent.nova.edu | nsucurrent.nova.edu 3301 College Avenue Student Affairs Building, Room 310 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796 nsucurrent.nova.edu Thirteen children freed after being held announced. Skiers will train together at a resort in captive by their parents North Korea and perform a joint cultural event. NEWSROOM BUSINESS & ADVERTISING According to BBC News, 13 siblings from The North will send 230 supporters along with the Phone: 954-262-8455 Phone: 954-262-8461 ages two to 29 were found in their home in Perris, athletes to cheer. Fax: 954-262-8456 Fax: 954-262-8456 California after police got a 911 call from one [email protected] [email protected] of the victims, saying her parents were holding Britain appoints first minister for loneliness her 12 siblings’ captive at home. When police Prime minister Theresa May announced in a Jenna Kopec Co-Editor-in-Chief [email protected] arrived at the house, they found “several children statement that Tracy Crouch will be the first minister Michaela Greer Co-Editor-in-Chief [email protected] shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks to combat loneliness, according to USA Today. May Nicole Chavannes Copy Editor [email protected] in dark and foul-smelling surroundings.” Police said, “For far too many, loneliness is a sad reality were shocked when they realized seven of the of modern life,” adding, “I want us all to confront Madelyn Rinka News Editor [email protected] children were adults, ranging in age from 18 this and take action to address loneliness endured Open Features Editor [email protected] to 29. The victims’ parents were arrested and by the elderly, by carers, those who have lost loved Diego Galvez Sports Editor [email protected] charged with multiple charges of torture and ones — those with no one to talk to or share their Open Arts & Entertainment Editor thecurrenta&[email protected] child endangerment. The parents have plead not thoughts and experiences with.” According to the guilty and face up to life in prison if convicted. British government, more than 9 million people in Christina McLaughlin Opinions Editor [email protected] the county are always or often affected by isolation Skylyr Vanderveer Multimedia Manager [email protected] Bannon to interview with special counsel and loneliness. Crouch said that a multimillion- Carli Lutz Chief of Visual Design [email protected] regarding the Russia investigation dollar fund is going to help her create a framework Sydney Stoneback Visual Design Assistant [email protected] According to CNN, Steve Bannon made for the future. She also stated she is going to look a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s into funding cuts that have caused the closures of Simone Veira Business Manager [email protected] team and he will be interviewed by prosecutors libraries and day centers.