The Eagles’ NestHonors Quarterly Newsletter 

Florida Gulf Coast University Volume 2 • Issue 3Photo courtesy of Florida Gulf Coast University Library

Florida Gulf Coast University  1

Getting to know Honors SenateWith Honors student Lori Boegershausen

Photo by Danielle Christy

Student Spotlight Marshall Nathanson

Photo courtesy of Marshall Nathanson

Inside this issue...

Honors Spotlight Page 1

Lori Boegershausen

Student Spotlight Page 1

Marshall Nathanson

Event Spotlight Page 2

Rollerween

Student Spotlight Page 2

Continued 

Important Dates Page 2

November and December 

  Marshall Nathanson is going to change the world, and

he’s going to start with Florida Gulf Coast University. The

first-year enviromental science major has just received the

Student Associates for a Greener Environment grant from the

Center of Environmental and Sustainability Education, and

he is going to use the money to pay summer tuition at New

Mexico’s Earthship Academy.

  “Earthships are sustainable buildings,” Nathanson said.

“A crew of 30 to 40 people can build one earthship in four

weeks.” Earthships are homes made of natural or recyclable

materials such as glass bottles and tires, and they can be

heated and cooled through thermal energy and solar power.

Nathanson hopes to use the knowledge he gains from

Earthship Academy to build 6 to 12 earthships at FGCU’s

1. What is your role in senate?

I am the procedurals chair, which means I am in charge of

making sure the meetings run smoothly as well as being a

direct connection to our faculty members.

 2. What is the new senate model?

 The new senate model is more egalitarian, as we have

eradicated the position of president, vice president and

so forth. Senate is now made up of four chairs: Quality/

Assessment, Finance, Procedural and Internal Involvement,

as well as other senators who serve on at least two of

those committees. This allows for an equal flow of ideas

and participation.

3. How can other honors students get involved with

senate?

We would love for more students to serve on a committee!

 The committees meet in the off weeks of senate around

the student’s schedule. For more info on that contact:

4. What is the new service to

honors all about?

We have created what is called

Service to Honors, where if

you volunteer for the Honors

program for two hours of

approved events and the proper

forms are filled out, students can

receive honors event credit.

  Sydney Trombly for Internal Involvement

Sonny Halpin for Quality/Assessment

Lori Boegershausen for Procedural

Christina Garcia for Finance

For more information on Honors

Senate, keep your eye out for

information on the Honors Blog.

www.blogs.fgcu.edu/honors

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Florida Gulf Coast University  2

November 2014 • Honors Program Newsletter

Event Spotlight

Rollerween

 The night included games such as Twister and a costume contest. The winners

of each category were: Jacob Barrish for funniest costume, Sydney Trombly for most

original, Matthew Clerkin for scariest, Lori Boegershausen for best overall, Kimberly

Rosales for fictional character, and Carolyn Keinath, Emily Williams, and Olivia and

Courtney Sanders for best group costume.

-Allie Taylor 

Photo by Allie Taylor

Marshall NathansonContinued from Page 1...  Buckingham Complex in Lee County.

“Students can live there and we can focus on maintaining a garden, having

communal gatherings, and we can focus on artisanship.” Nathanson hopes to

eventually build facilities at Buckingham for professors to teach in.

On top of taking 18 credit-hours, Nathanson is also a member of the Food Forest

and Enlighten Us, a club he says is all about “asking important questions and living

separate from systems that harm people.”

  Currently he is doing marine research with a class at Vester Marine Field Station,

and next semester he will pursue a project about ocean acidification. “I’m going

to research the impact on marine communities, how dropping levels of acid in the

ocean will affect them.”

“All you need to survive is food, water and shelter,” Nathanson said. He sees the

earthships as an innovative way of living, and in line with positive values. Nathanson

says that people today feel forced to live in a specific system − go to college, work

for a corporation − and that they shouldn’t feel limited to that way of life.

“We have to change the way our culture perceives how you have to live.

Happiness and gratitude and success will come to you because you’re living your life

the way you want to live it.”

-Nina Barbero

Honors Events

Voices of the Black Market Generation

Monday, November 10th

5:00 p.m.

Cohen Center 213

In Living Color: Stepping Over The Color

Line

Wednesday, Novemer 12th

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Edwards Hall 112

The Struggle for LGBT Rights in Latin

America and the Caribbean

Wednesday, November 12th

4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.

AB7 114

Screening of ‘Rain in a Dry Land’

Wednesday, November 12th

6:30 p.m.-9:3 0 p.m.

AB7 114

Habitat for Humanity

Saturday, November 15th

8:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.

Location TBA

Sign-up required, sign up @

http://bit.ly/1tmciT1

Financial Health Seminar

Monday, November 17th

6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Cohen Center Ballroom

Social Science Symposium

Friday, November 21st

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Marieb 200

Honors Kickball Game

Sunday, November 23rd

12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Rec Field

November and December 

 The poster above is for In Living Color: Stepping over

the Color Line.

 The annual Rollerween party at Bamboozles

skating rink was a hit, bringing in about 75

students from the honors program at Florida

Gulf Coast University. At the beginning of the night,

students swiped in for an event credit and took to

the rink, dressed in their Halloween costumes. There

were tables that held pumpkins filled with candy and

chocolate to snack on throughout the night while the

DJ played songs like “Yeah” by Usher.

Ana Allen, sophomore, said, “I thought it was a

lot of fun, and I got honors credit, how can you beat

that?”

“It was a great time getting to see people we

typically see in an academic setting out to have a

good time,” said freshman Dan Hansen.Photo by Allie Taylor