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The Student-Run Newspaper of Nova Southeastern University • January 12, 2015 | Vol. 26, Issue 15 | nsucurrent.nova.edu Stay organized with these Sports news you missed What we’re looking forward to New year, same you apps over winter break in 2016 P. 8 P. 10 P. 12 P. 15 By: Li Cohen NSU takes pledge for sustainability @Current_Yakira In response to the United Nations Climate partnership with Waste Management to use what sustainability is. Negotiations in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. a single-stream recycling, participation in “A lot of people don’t know what 11, NSU signed the American Campus’s Act the annual national recycling competition, sustainability is, and they don’t really understand on Climate Pledge on Dec. 16 to transition to RecycleMania, reducing water dependency it,” she said. “I think that education is really low-carbon energy and to enhance sustainable by incorporating low-to-no maintenance important. Not just for third-world countries practices on campus. landscaping material and using reclaimed who are really going to be affected by climate The White House created a generic pledge water from the Town of Davie and normalizing change, but also big countries and people like for colleges and universities to base their personal temperature ranges and replacing lights with you and I who have an impact.” pledges from. According to whitehouse.gov, the LED fixtures as part of the building automation More than 300 colleges and universities official pledge states that the institution signing system. in more than 40 states signed ACACP. It was the agreement wants a comprehensive and In an interview, Travisano said NSU created to gather support for environmental ambitious agreement to stem from the climate is known for leading the way with energy changes at the United Nations COP21 climate negotiations. conservation, water usage reduction, waste negotiations, which was the first global climate It reads, “We recognize the urgent need to stream diversion and greenhouse gas emissions deal. act now to avoid irreversible costs to our global reduction. The international agreement aims to reduce community’s economic prosperity and public “This particular pledge compliments emissions and stated that governments will health and are optimistic that world leaders will our efforts, and I hope it will encourage more reconvene every five years to update goals, stay reach an agreement to secure a transition to a student engagement as we work together as a in continuous contact and provide international low carbon future.” community to steward our environment for the support for climate adaptation. Jacqueline Travisano, executive vice future,” she said. Travisano said that the pledge reinforces president and chief operating officer, expressed The pledge was brought to the attention and highlights some of NSU’s efforts to be a in an official letter that as an extension of NSU of the Office of the President after Green more sustainable, green campus and that it is Vision 2020, the university will educate students Sharks President Cassilly Lobaugh, junior even more special because it was learned about and the local community about renewable environmental studies major, approached the after a student leader recognized the opportunity. resources and low-carbon footprints. Office about the opportunity. Lobaugh found “The campus, as a whole, benefits by The initiatives created as part of the out about the pledge while interning at Broward having more students actively involved in green extension include campus vehicle reviews to County’s Office of Energy and Sustainability. initiatives and assisting in the implementation of reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution Lobaugh said that signing the pledge sustainability plans because it creates a sense of and carbon footprint, emphasis on the Green makes NSU nationally-recognized and holds campus ownership and pride,” she said. Driver Program – a speed, acceleration and the university accountable for its actions, makes Jessica Brumley, vice president of idle time-monitoring program, furthering the people aware of its initiatives and educates about Facilities Management, agreed with Travisano SEE SUSTAINABILITY 3 Learn to lead at NSU’s Leadership Conference By: Grace Ducanis @GraceDucanis The Office of Student Leadership and Civic better. increasing her effectiveness as a student leader. student at the University of Illinois. He has Engagement will host its annual Leadership “Making NSU better might be helping out “Leadership isn’t just about managing also been the leader of nine different student Conference for students to participate in other students, helping out their organizations people,” she said. “It’s about connecting with organizations. He will speak on how students workshops designed to define and refine their or something bigger,” she said. “Also, I want them, getting on their level and influencing can achieve higher levels of involvement in leadership skills on Jan. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4:15 students to do that self-reflection and see who them. If you can’t connect with someone, you student organizations in a single year. p.m. in the RecWell basketball courts in the Don they are as a leader and grow from that.” can’t lead them.” The Leadership Conference is only Taft University Center. Ujala Ahmed, junior finance major, has Schoeder said that leadership goes beyond open to NSU students. Students can sign up The workshops will cover diverse attended the Leadership Conference since her organizations and is the number-one skill that online at orgsync.com/45785/forms/168459. subjects, including interpersonal dynamics, freshman year. She took what she learned from employers look for in job applicants. The registration deadline is Jan. 15 at 5 p.m., communication, leadership styles, the conference and applied it to Relay for Life “You should know how to be a leader, and check-in begins on Jan. 23 at 9 a.m. at personality types, learning teamwork through at NSU, which raises money for the American so that you can use that to improve your the RecWell basketball courts. Snacks will improvisational comedy, using leadership skills Cancer Society. employment prospects,” she said. be available for breakfast, and lunch will be through dance and how communication leads to “I was having trouble getting people President Hanbury will welcome students provided. Business casual attire is required. feng shui. Students can choose workshops based involved,” she said. “But I got my members to the event, and the keynote speaker, author For more information, contact the Office on their interests. involved because I helped them connect to Pete Mockaitis, will close the conference. of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement at Stephanie Schoeder, graduate assistant for a cause and made it personal for them. That’s According Mockaitis’s biography on 954-262-7195 or [email protected]. Leadership and Civic Engagement and organizer something I learned from the conference.” CAMPUSPEAK, an agency that represents of the Leadership Conference, said she hopes the Attending past conferences expanded college speakers, he wrote “The Student conference will motivate students to make NSU Ahmed’s definition of leadership, as well as Leader’s Field Guide” during his time as a Download The Current Newspaper’s app to stay updated on the go! 2 News FebruaryJanuary 12, 17, 2015|2015 |nsucurrent.nova.edu nsucurrent.nova.edu NEWS ANCHOR Stay up to date with international events. 3301 College Avenue Japanese researchers to give official name to France passes law banning excessive skinniness in Student Affairs Building, Room 310 element 113 modeling Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796 The International Union of Pure and Applied Modeling agents could face six months of nsucurrent.nova.edu Chemistry announced that scientists from RIKEN, a imprisonment and a fine of up to 75,000 euros, or more large research institute in Japan, will name element than $80,000, for violating new legislation prohibiting NEWSROOM BUSINESS & ADVERTISING 113, currently under the placeholder name ununtrium, the hiring of excessively skinny models. The law Phone: (954) 262-8455 Phone: (954) 262-8461 due to research studies published between 2004 and maintains that models must provide medical proof of Fax: (954) 262-8456 Fax: (954) 262-8456 2012. The studies prompted IUPAC to credit the good health and an appropriate Body Mass Index (BMI). [email protected] [email protected] Japanese scientists at the institute with discovering the Along with the new law, deputies in France’s National synthetic element. Japan is the first Asian country to Assembly agreed to an article requiring that photos of give an official name to an element, and one possible models that have been digitally edited to be identified as Nicole Cocuy Co Editor-in-Chief [email protected] name is “japonium.” Ununtrium is one of four newly such. Violators will face a fine of at least 37,500 euros, Li Cohen Co Editor-in-Chief [email protected] discovered elements, and their discovery completes equivalent to more than $40,000. In April 2015, France’s Jazmyn Brown Copy Editor [email protected] the seventh row of the periodic table. Teams of Russian Parliament passed a bill requiring models to provide Grace Ducanis News Editor [email protected] and American scientists discovered the remaining medical proof of a BMI of at least 18 before they are able three elements, which have atomic numbers 115, to work.