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Over this past winter break, the Saint Leo community lost two students, Jamie Helbling and Luigi Leroy. They were two very different students, each with unique and distinctive personalities, but each was taken too soon.
Junior Amanda Cassar, president of the SGU, has made this year’s administration’s goal to be not only more accessible to students than prior administrations, but to change the way the students view their peers in government.
Recently, a rumor went around causing many people to post upset statuses on Facebook, to check out the prices of tattoo removals, and to question the very meaning of their lives. Is the zodiac rumor true? The answer depends on which zodiac system each person follows.
Zvosec, referred to as Coach Z, has an impressive resume. At 27, Zvosec became the country’s youngest head men’s Division I basketball coach at Saint Francis University in New York and soon after starting was named Northeast Conference Coach.
Senior swimmer Thomas Rey was born in Tampa, Fla. and is majoring in Communications at Saint Leo University. He has been committed to the Lions’ swim team all four years of his college career.
On Dec. 8, 2010, Paul Mangen and Melissa Miller-Mangen welcomed their first child into the world. The proud parents named their son John Michael Mangen and are nicknaming him Jack.
Despite the many struggles of being in college, the Saint Leo University Women’s Basketball team brought only their game with them when they stepped on the court to play against Eckerd January 19th.
Wooden tile floors had been laid, and the black, gooey adhesive was coming up through the cracks of each tile, making the otherwise pristine brown flooring dingy and black. The walls of all four hallways were in need of dusting, and a large, wonderful plaster tree needed a thick coat of brown paint.
From afar, the new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg looks like any other concrete building. However, upon closer inspection, one may observe a unique work of art that can only be described as a true representation and tribute to the artist.
It was a teenage dream, but not in the sugary sweet Katy Perry sort of way: This dream was more realistic-or at least more pessimistic-than most. On November 17 at the House of Blues in Orlando, alternative scene favorites Saves the Day, Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack performed.
