Alternative R&B artist Steve Lacy came out with his newest album Gemini Rights in July of this year, but it’s still a staple in many listeners’ playlists. Gemini Rights deals with the duality of his personality and includes some of the biggest hits from last summer.
Saint Leo University first opened its doors to students in 1890 and was Florida’s first-ever Catholic institution. Because of its historic past, there are different stories about what could have occurred in the past hundred or so years… specifically, ghostly activity on campus and beyond.
October is nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer forms in the cells of the breasts of both women and, rarely, men. According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. Next year, new breast cancer diagnoses are expected to number more than 200,000 for women and more than 2,000 for men.
Multiple campus organizations have planned events for students to get together and learn from valuable experiences to alleviate the stress of midterms. One of these groups is Saint Leo’s University Ministry. The Ministry leaders planned a multi-day off-campus retreat during which students journaled, learned from guest speakers, and participated in fun activities.
Alarms were set for 12a.m. Pajama parties were held. Social media was raging. Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift watched as the affectionately coined “Swifties” lost their minds over her brand-new tenth studio album, Midnights. Millions enthusiastically canceled their plans on Oct. 21, 2022, to listen to Midnights at, you guessed it, midnight.
For such a sunny, tropical city, Tampa Bay certainly has a large following of ice hockey fans. The Tampa Bay Lightning won back-to-back during the Stanley Cup Championships in 2020 and 2021, and you would be hard-pressed to find a car in this city without the signature lightning bolt decal on the back.
Saint Leo University joins other universities including Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, Georgia State University in Atlanta, and the University of Wyoming with their recent rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot “Leona.”
On September 6, Saint Leo University launched their newest program—a chatbot named Leona—as an alternative way of interacting and communicating with students on campus.
National Arts and Humanities Month is an annual celebration held every October that celebrates the different kinds of arts. Those arts include writing, painting, dancing, and many other unique forms of expressing creativity. One of these forms of creativity is theatre, a performance art where characters, played by actors, perform in front of a live audience. Saint Leo University is home to a chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, better known as the National Theatre Honor Society.
Saint Leo University celebrated community, family, the future, and the accomplishments of the university’s many distinguished alumni during the Homecoming 2022 weekend. Notably, however, the morning of October 22 opened with the Presidential Brunch and presentation of the ’21 and ’22 Alumni Awards.
