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Among many new features on the Saint Leo campus is a group committed to students who are not from the United States. C.L.A.S.P. is a new addition to the Learning Resource Center where students from different cultures find comfort in seeking help with homework, social life, and interpreting other issues while living on campus.
It’s been a year since Saint Leo’s cafeteria switched from Sodexo. Many students and even the staff have opinions and inputs on how things progressed since then.
The year is 1659 and the Thirty Years’ War has just ended. There had not been a shred of witchcraft pandemonium in several decades, but all the years of peaceful silence come crashing to a bitter halt when a young boy is found gruesomely murdered and pulled from the river covered in the markings of witches.
Danielle Ferguson is an international student from Northern Ireland who received a scholarship from the British Consulate. The scholarship is called Study USA and is geared to give a business edge to students. Last year the scholarship offered 150 spots to fill, but this year the spots were cut down to 75 which led to Ferguson to be in a more competitive race for this scholarship. The scholarship is specifically for business, and those who receive the Study USA scholarship must take four business classes and one elective each semester so she will return to Northern Ireland with a new international edge in the business world.
The word around Saint Leo is that there’s a new coach in town. There’s a new Men’s Soccer Coach with a great history and even brighter future: Keith Fulk is a new addition to the Lions this season, looking to take over an already talented team.
Be a part of a history as Saint Leo University debuts its women’s lacrosse team in the fall of 2011. This will be Saint Leo’s 17th NCAA Division II sports team to be created, and the 9th all women’s sports team to be added to the University. After the creation of the men’s lacrosse team in 2006, the time has finally come for the competitive female team players at Saint Leo.
The world has followed the crisis in Japan with feelings of shock and terror from the initial news of the earthquake and tsunami to the growing concern of a nuclear meltdown. Crews at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor have battled endlessly to cool a reactor, hoping to prevent a major nuclear incident.
In history, there have been several incidences of women assuming positions normally held by men when the men in the society were away or unable to perform their duties for any reason. While the men in 2010’s Oscar nominated film Winter’s Bone were physically present, they were too embedded in drug culture to act as a patriarchy would deem, and so the women stepped in to fulfill their roles, but none as effectively as the film’s heroine Ree.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, three classes were assigned to research women’s contributions to society, and then students put this information on posters for all to see and learn from. Students from Art Appreciation, Botany Lab, and Organic Chemistry 2 were assigned to find either a woman in art or a woman in science to focus on. The result of the assignment was the boardrooms being full of posters created by students, and others eager to learn all about the influential women and concepts that affect women today. Dr. Anthony, who teaches Organic Chemistry 2, and Dr. Bergen-Losee, who teaches Botany Lab, assigned students to research women in the scientific world. Dr. Campion teaches Art Appreciation, and she assigned students to research women in the arts.
On Thursday, March 3 at approximately 10:10 a.m., a delivery truck transporting equipment drove over a fire hydrant near the on-campus construction, causing a pipe to break and water to flood the surrounding area. Since the hydrant was connected to the main campus water line, the water pressure for Saint Leo had to be suspended while the hydrant was capped off.
