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Student Academic Excellence Awards 2024

By Walter Villa, Special to STU It is a happy dilemma. The talent on display at St. Thomas University’s Student Academic Excellence Awards Brunch on Monday was so inspiring and vast, that it is hard to know where to begin. This year’s…
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Poetry Contest and Inaugural Poetry Festival

by Zoraida Pastor This semester St. Thomas University had its inaugural poetry festival that culminated in a college-wide poetry contest. The festival began by giving students a “poem in (their) pocket.” Students received poems in scrolls,…
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Golf Tournament Promotes Fun and STUdents

By Walter Villa, Special to STU Jacksonville has “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” with the annual Florida-Georgia college football game. Louisville has “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports” with the annual Kentucky…
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STU Law Takes on Crime Sentencing

By Walter Villa, Special to STU Rosanne Sherman had delayed, demurred, and doubted for too long. After months of thinking about it, Sherman waited for her Wills and Trusts class to end before sprinting up to talk to St. Thomas University…
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FAME

“I can catch the moon in my hands. “Don’t you know who I am? Remember my name.” By Walter Villa She has her sights set on studying the culinary arts in Paris within two years. She already runs her own direct-to-consumer…
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“SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR BOBCAT ATHLETICS” SOARS PAST GOAL – Annual Day of Giving to support athletics program sets records for donors and dollars

MIAMI GARDENS, FL – Thanks to more than 1,100 donors who collectively contributed nearly $180,000, the annual “Show Your Love for Bobcat Athletics” giving campaign to benefit the St. Thomas University Department of Athletics shattered…
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Girls and Women In Sports Day

By Walter Villa, Special to STU Serah Khanyereri was 13 when she saw her first golf course back home in Kenya – and she was shocked. Hilariously so. “When I got to the putting green, it was very pure – like a carpet,” Khanyereri…
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Words Matter! Navigating Faith, Media and Fashion in the Shadow of Anti-Semitism

By Walter Villa, Special to STU Anti-Semitism is raging, and we no longer have the luxury of looking away. There is the obvious physical war in the Middle East, but there is also a much more nuanced, yet deadly public-relations battle,…
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The Heartbeat of STU – Biscayne College

By Walter Villa, Special To STU What is old is new again. Colin Roche, Ph.D., the Dean of Biscayne College for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, has made sure of that fact. The two-story building that houses his and other offices as…
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STU Trial Team Eyeing the Threepeat

By Walter Villa, Special to STU Breaking curfew Talking back. Perhaps a fib or two. As a kid, Valentina Grizales watched her two younger siblings occasionally get in trouble with their parents. Grizales would always come to the aid…