Faculty and administrators at NSU regularly are sought by national media for comment on the issues of the day. Here's a sample.
“Former ABC News Supreme Court correspondent Tim O'Brien is hopeful about television access for the simple reason that two of the most vocal opponents of cameras — the late William Rehnquist and soon-to-be-retired Souter — won’t be part of the internal debate. ‘It's so ludicrous not to have cameras there,’ said O'Brien, who teaches law at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. ‘Even if only one in a hundred of our fellow citizens were to watch, that would be 3 million of us who stand to be enlightened and enriched.’” – First Amendment Center (website), May 12, 2009.
“Examining change is a dicey pursuit. The word itself is at once empty vessel,vague mantra and truism. ‘Every administration says we're going to change things. It just becomes a question of what,’ says Tim Dixon, a historian at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. ‘Everybody spouts it, some accomplish. Ask yourself: What can you look at and say, 'This is different?'’” – The Associated Press, April 27, 2009.
“If you use Wikipedia for health information, be careful. In a recent study, pharmacists from Nova Southeastern University looked up 80 drug-related questions on both Wikipedia and Medscape Drug Reference, a pro site where editing changes undergo thorough review. While no Wiki responses were wrong, researchers didn't find answers to 60 percent of their questions, compared with only 17.5 percent on Medscape.” – Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 19, 2009.
“Craig Marker, director of the Anxiety Treatment Center at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, has seen an increasing number of clients who are fretting about matters economic, even if they’re not directly affected. But many are coping, and Marker describes the response he’s seeing as the ‘psychological immune system’ kicking in.
In other words, mental antibodies are attacking the sense of economic vertigo.
‘The initial worry came from thinking of the Depression, people out on the streets — “I don’t want to lose everything I have,”’ Marker says. ‘But the worst-case scenario didn’t happen immediately. So we bounce back.’” – The Associated Press, April 13, 2009.
“ ‘The difference between responsible monitoring and spying is the “gotcha” factor,’ says Nurit Sheinberg, Ed.D., director of research and evaluation at the Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL.” – Parenting Magazine, March 2009.
“Research shows that violence shows up in about one in four teen relationships, a figure that hasn't changed much in the past 30 years, says Lenore Walker, a psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, and the author of 15 books, most of them about violence against women and children.” – USA Today, March 9, 2009.
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