#nova southeastern university

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Nova Southeastern Soccer

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Harrison Peters - An Elementary School Teacher

Harrison Peters is the co-founder of MCEL—Men of Color in Educational Leadership. As a former school administrator serving in various roles, he has devoted his career to reducing student achievement gaps and facilitating learning space that encourages growth. Peters has worked in large districts throughout Florida, Illinois, Texas, and Rhode Island. He is a veteran of the United States Navy and holds a master’s in education leadership from Nova Southeastern University.

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Book Sale! | Book sale proceeds support the Donald E. Riggs Library Education Assistance FundBook

https://libguides.nova.edu/booksale

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Nova Southeastern: 2022-23 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Champions

Finally. After years of coming close, coach Jim Crutchfield is a DII men’s basketball national champion as the Sharks are champions for the first time in program history. Nova Southeastern defeated West Liberty, 111-101, in the highest scoring championship game in history and one of the more memorable title games in the history of the division.

Nova Southeastern becomes the sixth undefeated champion in DII men’s basketball history. The Sharks also became just the second team to score 100 points in the championship game, joining Virginia Union’s 1992 championship team. The 111 points are not only the new DII championship game record, but the most points scored in any college basketball championship game, men's or women's.

The storylines heading into this game were bountiful. Nova Southeastern head coach Jim Crutchfield became just the third DII men’s basketball coach to take two different programs to the championship game. The other team? The squad staring him down on the other side of the court. He led West Liberty to a national runners-up finish in 2014 when current head coach Ben Howlett was his assistant.

This was the first time the two top scoring teams faced each other in the DII men’ s basketball championship game. And the two teams certainly filled the bill. The first half went to Nova Southeastern, which came out of the high-scoring half with a 55-48 lead, the most combined points in the first half of a DII men’s basketball championship game. Bevo Francis finalist RJ Sunahara came out on fire, scoring nine of the first 15 points of the game and finishing the half with 20 as the Sharks set the DII championship game record for most first half points.

West Liberty was a bit apprehensive at first and it took about 10 minutes to get comfortable and knock the jitters out. Bryce Butler, another Bevo Francis finalist, was held to just one shot in the first 10 minutes of the game, and the Hilltoppers need him going to get that high-octane motor rolling.

Dallas Graziani provided a spark for the Sharks when West Liberty pulled it close, hitting a pair of big 3s and getting fouled on a third attempt. A pretty lob that Sunahara finished off with a dunk certainly helped keep the momentum going. But the half ended in a scoring flurry from the suddenly hot Hilltoppers and Sharks. Step back 3s that hit nothing but net from Zach Rasile and Will Yoakum — who had a monster first half himself — were exchanged like blows in a heavyweight match to close the half in one of the most exciting minutes of play all season. The two teams combined to go 13 for 26 from behind the arc in the first half.

And that was just the first half. Act II was equally intense.

The second half was much more physical, with a pair of flagrant fouls from West Liberty in about four minutes to start the half. Every point was earned, as bodies hit the floor on every drive, with neither team wanting to relent and more than 50 combined fouls between the two teams.

But even that couldn’t stop these high-flying offenses.

Butler was sensational in the loss and played hard to the final whistle, almost single handedly keeping the Hilltoppers in the game. He sparked a late 11-2 run that brought the Hilltoppers in striking distance. He finished with 32 points on 11-for-19 shooting and nine rebounds. Chris Montague had a big day from 3, going 5 for 7 from behind the arc and finishing with 19.

Inevitably, there was too much foul trouble for West Liberty to overcome. Yoakum, who found himself in foul trouble early in the second half, was used as a free throw specialist, and finished with 31 points, capping a brilliant postseason with his third 30-point game in his final four tries. Sunahara fouled out, but still finished with 28 points and nine rebounds. Graziani’s engine never stopped, finishing with 24 points and nine assists.

It was a thrilling game from start to finish, one that there were no ties or lead changes. The top two offenses in the land delivered one of the most memorable performances in DII Men's Elite Eight history, and the Sharks walk away the winners of the 2023 national championship.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 - Kamala Harris

Vice President Harris alongside Secretary Buttigieg, Congresswoman Plaskett, and Congressman Frost focused on Florida and will on the first as well. The schedule of events is below:

Miami, FL Event Location: Miami City Hall Event Type: Policy Announcement Event Time: 9:00 - 10:30 ET *Full-text of the speech to be shared shortly.

Fort Lauderdale, FL Event Location: Nova Southeastern University Sherman Library Event Type: Listening Tour Event Time: 12:00 - 15:00 ET *This event invited Assistant US Attorneys, Assistant District Attorneys, Assistant Attorneys General, and County Sheriffs to come and share ideas for how a Justice Department under a Harris-Walz could help them in their efforts to carry out justice. Many local and national laws were discussed as were some problematic cases from prior years. A big focus of this event was also about pressure from executive branch, due to some issues in Florida.

Fort Meyers, FL Event Location: Florida Gulf Coast University Event Type: Get Out the Vote Event Time: 18:00 - 22:00 ET *This event was kicked-off by each of the campaign surrogates and various university clubs at FGCU. They took a divide and conquer approach. Vice President Harris focused greek organizations NPHC, NPC, and IFC organizations were included in this kick-off meeting and volunteers were encouraged to join in door knocking after. Congresswoman Plackett focused on meeting with Faculty groups. Congressman Frost focused on meeting with various progressive groups. Again all volunteers were encouraged to join in the door knocking starting at 19:30. On the flip side, Secretary Buttigieg hosted a conservative townhall event where he was questioned by conservative students on campus—the secretary viewed this as an important value add for the campaign.

~BR~

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Lynching victim Rubin Stacy’s story being told by his family in film screening at NSU

Anne Naves knew something bad had happened to her uncle when her male relatives came home from fishing, each wearing a pall of silence. Dad wasn’t cracking jokes like usual. Grandfather looked grave. And her uncle, Rubin Stacy, hadn’t come back. The next day, someone from the funeral home said a body had been dropped off.

Naves, 8 years old at the time, only discovered the full gruesome truth about her uncle years later. On July 19, 1935, acting on an unproven accusation from a white woman, a masked lynch mob strung up Stacy under a Fort Lauderdale tree, hanged him and shot him 17 times as spectators gawked and children laughed.

The brutality and silence of Stacy’s lynching is revisited in the new documentary, “Rubin,” which will screen on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at Nova Southeastern University. In the hourlong film, the farmhand’s death is recounted through the eyes of his surviving descendants, but mainly through Naves, who was the last living eyewitness to the trauma — and to the secrecy — that followed.

The film, the first to be made by relatives of Stacy’s family, also chronicles the history of lynchings in America, used as a tool of punishment and to foster silence.

“I think (my family) knew that, without telling us (kids) what really happened, they would save us a lot of trauma,” Naves says in the documentary. “The neighbors and our church members respected our silence, too, because they knew that if it could happen to our family, it could happen to theirs.”

For “Rubin” director Tenille Brown, who is a cousin of Rubin Stacy, the film has in recent weeks also morphed into something else: a posthumous tribute to Naves. After filming her interviews for the documentary, she died on Sept. 18 at age 96, leaving behind a strong legacy: She was a Broward County educator for 25 years, teaching at Pines Middle and other schools.

“The biggest piece of the film was Anne,” Brown says in an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “Without her, there’s no story. She’s the driving force. She was ready to talk. She told me to record her. She really pushed me when I didn’t feel confident and said, ‘Record me anyway. Just go.’ ”

The rest of America witnessed the cruelty of Stacy’s lynching long before Naves did. A series of photos immortalize the moment when a white crowd gathered around Stacy’s body hanging from a tree. These images ran in newspapers nationwide, were published by the NAACP, Life magazine and National Geographic, and are now archived in the Library of Congress.

It was a tale of Jim Crow-era racism that Fort Lauderdale would’ve rather forgotten — the brother of a corrupt Broward County sheriff participated in the lynching — but city officials have made strides in recent years to acknowledge the tragedy by placing memorial markers around Fort Lauderdale. One is on Davie Boulevard and Southwest 31st Avenue, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, near where Stacy took his last breath. There’s another on the 800 block of Northwest Second Street, where he lived, and a third at Woodlawn Cemetery, his final resting place. In February 2022, a section of Davie Boulevard was renamed Rubin Stacy Memorial Boulevard.

“I’m glad they acknowledged it,” says Brown, of Pompano Beach. “These stories make some people in the state uncomfortable, but if they are based on fact, we need to tell the truth. You can’t turn your head. These are things you can’t ignore.”

For Brown, it was these memorials — and Naves’ willingness to break her silence — that motivated her to reconstruct Stacy’s story. To do so, she also interviewed Ken Cutler, Parkland commissioner and historian, and Tameka Bradley Hobbs, library regional manager of Fort Lauderdale’s African American Research Library and Cultural Center.

“My family didn’t want to talk about it out of fear for years,” Brown says. “There was shame. There’s an element of hurt, and you can hear that emotion in Anne’s voice. Now it feels freeing. This is a story that was suppressed for years and by sharing it, this is how we overcome.”

Michael Anderson, a producer for “Rubin,” says the film also tackles what too many school textbooks don’t stress enough: the history of Black lynchings.

“For Black youth to know their stories, they have to know the history of lynchings,” Anderson says. “They still don’t know how lynchings were used as a weapon to keep a community quiet. That’s exactly what it did to Rubin Stacy’s family.”

IF YOU GO

WHAT: “Rubin”

WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3

WHERE: NSU’s Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd., Davie

COST: Free, but tickets must be presented for entry

INFORMATION: 954-462-0222; MiniaciPAC.com

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Obesity was more common in those with celiac disease compared to those without celiac disease, analysis of a large national database of health information found in a study presented recently at Digestive Disease Week (DDW).

About 33 percent of people with celiac disease were obese compared to about 18 percent of those who do not have the condition, researchers from Florida’s Nova Southeastern University found in a study based on the All of Us Research Program. Run by the National Institutes of Health, the program aims to enroll one million participants who volunteer to contribute health data over many years.

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So what does white passing look like in America today? I have largely switched to saying white-presenting as opposed to white passing. The historical context of white passing is rooted in violence and disenfranchisement of fair-skinned Black Americans. However, we cannot acknowledge this without mentioning colorism, when light-skinned Black people and white Americans tend to turn their internalized racism towards darker-skinned Black people. For example, there was a higher monetary value set for enslaved people who were light-skinned, and even historically, Black sororities and fraternities have been known to show colorism in member selection. (Nova Southeastern University). Even today, light-skinned Black Americans are less likely to encounter the same barriers as their darker-skinned counterparts (Time). 

Why I Shifted from Saying “White Passing” | Nia Norris | Anti-Racism Daily

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Pastor Grant Reynolds (July 29, 1908 - August 30, 2004) was a civic leader, civil rights activist, WWII chaplain, attorney, and educator. He was known as a leading force in ending segregation in the US Armed Forces.

He was born in Key West, Florida to Emma Flowers and Frank Reynolds. He attended the Eden Theological Seminary and became the first African American to receive a B.Div. He became pastor at Mount Zion Congregational Temple in Cleveland and was ordained as a minister. He served as president of the local branch of the NAACP.

He became an Army Chaplain, serving at several bases. He resigned in protest of the brazen racism he had encountered during his service. He was appointed New York State Commissioner of Correction and enrolled in Columbia Law School. He ran against Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in Congress. He won the Republican nomination, he was defeated in the final election.

He and A. Philip Randolph organized the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training. He acted as the committee’s national chairman, campaigning with Randolph to defeat a peacetime draft bill that failed to end racial discrimination. He and Randolph threatened to organize a civil disobedience campaign in which African Americans would resist the draft law. Truman responded by signing Executive Order 9981, which mandated “equal treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.”

He became a private practicing attorney and moved to White Plains, where he was elected president of the local branch of the NAACP. He was appointed Counsel to the Chairman of the RNC. Opposing Barry Goldwater’s candidacy for president, he lost his position as Counsel. He continued to practice law in White Plains and taught as a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale.

He was a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #sigmapiphi #omegapsiphi

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Nova Southeastern Track & Field

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Watch the world’s fastest fish on an epic tuna hunt

The new study comes as scientists work to better understand the feeding patterns of the sailfish.

A team of researchers has captured some epic footage of a sailfish hunt—from the perspective of the sailfish. The researchers from Nova Southeastern University Guy Harvey Research Institute designed a tag with high-tech sensors and a Go Pro-like video camera. After catching sailfish while fishing from Tropic Star Lodge in Panama, they tagged and released their catches. 

The research was initially meant to show how sailfish recovered from being caught by fishermen but instead, the researchers shifted their focus to sailfish predation.

According to the study’s authors, relatively little is known about the hunting patterns of sailfish, which are considered the fastest fish on the planet. The most commonly-known type of sailfish hunting occurs when the apex predators group up and attack baitfish, using their sharp bills to slash and stun their prey. 

These predation events are easily seen by people because they occur entirely at the surface level of the ocean. But the recent research looked at what happens when sailfish hunt alone...

Read more: https://www.popsci.com/environment/sailfish-tuna-hunt/

Photograph by CFOceanimages | Flickr CC

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When do people find out if they got PhD interviews? Because I see people getting emails about them, and I haven’t gotten a single one and it’s making me nervous.

(For reference, I applied to clinical psych PhDs at Wayne State University, East Carolina University, Nova Southeastern University, University of Florida, and University of Utah.)

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Game Notes from Saturday, January 21

A few notes from yesterday’s games....

There were really big wins for Wheeling and Flagler, as Wheeling (coming into the game with a 3-14 record), defeated West Liberty (who came into the game 15-2) 114-107, as John Forte went for 40 points.  Here’s the game story:  https://wucardinals.com/news/2023/1/21/mens-basketball-forty-for-korte-korte-leads-the-way-as-mens-basketball-takes-down-west-liberty.aspx

Flagler (8-10 coming into the game - against a really good schedule) defeated #6 Augusta (16-1 coming into the game), 89-75.  Here’s the game story:  https://flaglerathletics.com/news/2023/1/21/MBB_012123_atAugusta.aspx

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The three undefeated teams in men’s college basketball all rolled yesterday.  In NCAA Division III, the University of St. Joseph (CT) ran away from Norwich for a 97-50 win.  The Blue Jays held Norwich to 15 first half points, and held them to 30.8% fg.  The Blue Jays are now 18-0.

Nova Southeastern ran away from Lynn for a 132-82 win....a 50-point conference win.  Nova is now 18-0, and the Sharks have now won 34 consecutive home games, 31 consecutive conference games overall, and are now 49-1 since the start of the 2021-22 season.  It’s just remarkable what Coach Jim Crutchfield has done at Nova Southeastern (and previously at West Liberty).

IUP downed Cal (PA), 87-70, to move to 17-0 on the season.  Here’s the game story:  https://iupathletics.com/news/2023/1/21/mens-basketball-number-one-iup-knocks-off-cal-u-in-saturday-slugfest.aspx  

[harrisonpeters]

Harrison Peters practices what he preaches in the realm of education. He graduated from the University of West Florida with his bachelor’s degree before continuing at Nova Southeastern University where he received a master’s in educational leadership.

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Jennifer Olson, a former Charles W Flanagan high school student from the years 2002-2005 and family relative of Certified Public Accountant “Josepha” “Josephina” Josephine Fify Viera, is an Obese Psychiatric outpatient and member of the Fat Mafia and Cannibalistic Pedophilia Ring of Julio Hurtado of Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, and New Jersey as she has studied in Louisiana State University and is possibly a Cuban-American descendant of Gulf of Mexico Pirates, causing thin boys, girls, women, and men into becoming Schizophrenics like her and Josephine Fify Viera in order to turn their victims Fat and Obese, causing autoimmune illnesses through waste sites and Nuclear Power Plants that cause the victims’ immune systems to attack the victims’ pancreases and thyroids, by first labeling a girl a boy’s name like Yuriko, a Spanish name, in an English-speaking nation like the United States of America, Canada and England, to then have the girl with the boy’s name misgender and transexualize the 5-year-old to 7-year-old boys with her boy’s name, facial makeup disguises hiding their Criminal Motives, and name-calling the boys “faggots” and “Fruit Cakes” such as “marícón” in order to cause the confused boy to smack the girl, push the girl or hit the girl with a balloon at age 6, to then be bullied by Corporate MBA Queen Accountant graduate of Nova Southeastern University so that she gets the response she loves most from boys in which the boys, too young to know words and language, make fun of her Fatness and Obesity in order to avoid Anger or Aggression from the girls and women. The scheme from Jennifer Olson and Josephine Fify Viera involves blocking boys into becoming heterosexually Straight so that the boys as Future men cannot reproduce with their woman as Jennifer Olson and Josephine Fify Viera get to be friends with children’s female and male Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners such as Svetlana “Lana” Schwartz and Cuban Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Anthony Barrios, as Josephine Fify Viera has openly expressed favor for children getting killed in their mothers’ wombs as fetuses in Abortions. Josephine Fify Viera has her son, Alexander Viera, an abusive, aggressive and masculinely Tall (Josephine Fify Viera is also Tall) man, as a Womanizer, Misogynist and Chauvinist — despite the boys she wrongfully accused of being bad men at ages 5 and 7 being flamboyantly feministic Gay men who Josephine Fify Viera’s son Alexander Viera picks on and bullies with her in MY HOME! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! I AM DISABLED AND THE VIERAS POISONED ME IN MY FOODS WITH DRUGS BEFORE I GOT SICK! JOSEPHINE FIFY VIERA, ALEXANDER VIERA AND MARCELO VIERA II INTIMIDATED MY MOM INTO LETTING THEM INTO MY HOME AFTER I ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THE FIRST TIME AND BEFORE MY SECOND SUICIDE ATTEMPT!