Stetson University is a private, co-educational university in DeLand, Florida. The university has about 2,200 students. It was founded in 1883. The current president of the university is Wendy B. Libby.
The athletics teams of the university are called the Hatters. They compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Atlantic Sun Conference
The Atlantic Sun Conference, branded since the 2016–17 school year as the ASUN Conference, is a NCAA conference whose members play in the NCAA Division I. The conference is headquartered in Atlanta and mostly features universities and colleges from the southeastern United States. The ASUN does not play football, but plans to add that sport, most likely in 2022.
The ASUN began in 1978 as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC). It became the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2001.
As of the 2020–21 school year, the ASUN has nine full members, or schools that play almost all of their sports in the conference.
The most recent membership changes took effect in July 2020 with the arrival of Bellarmine University from the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference and the departure of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for the America East Conference.
The ASUN will add three new members in July 2021, all of which play football in Division I FCS, the second level of the NCAA sport. While four current ASUN members play football, two will not play in any potential ASUN football league. Stetson plays in FCS, but does not award football scholarships, unlike all other present and future ASUN football-playing schools. It will continue to play in the Pioneer Football League, a football-only conference that does not allow its members to award football scholarships. Liberty plays in the top tier of NCAA football, Division I FBS. Also, another ASUN member with football, North Alabama, is currently moving from NCAA Division II and will not be eligible for the FCS championship until 2022. Even after North Alabama completes this move, the ASUN will have only five members for its future football league—one shy of the six needed to earn an automatic place in the FCS championship tournament.
At a February 23, 2021 press conference, the ASUN and Western Athletic Conference (WAC) jointly announced that the two conferences had entered into a football partnership. The WAC had announced plans to restart a football league at the FCS level starting in the 2021 season, but lacked enough football-playing members to receive an automatic FCS playoff berth. The three incoming ASUN members will play in the WAC football league until the ASUN starts its own football league, most likely in 2022.
The ASUN also has three "associate members" that play one or two sports in the conference while being full members of another conference. While one of these schools will leave in July 2021, five new schools will join at that time when the ASUN restarts a men's lacrosse league, which it had shut down when it began a lacrosse partnership with the Southern Conference (SoCon).
The "Joined" column shows the year in which a school joined the ASUN. Since all ASUN sports that have, or will have, associate members (beach volleyball and men's and women's lacrosse) are spring sports, this means the year of joining is the calendar year before the first season of ASUN play.
Higher Learning
Higher Learning is a 1995 American drama movie directed by John Singleton and starring Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Tyra Banks, Jennifer Connelly, Kristy Swanson and Omar Epps. Its subjects include racial prejudice, crime and struggles with sexuality taking place at a fictional university.
Oomycete
The Oomycota are a class in a huge phylum of eukaryotic microorganisms called the Heterokonts. Oomycetes are a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like microorganisms.
They are not actually fungi, though some have filaments as fungi do. Like fungi, they are saprophytic and pathogenic. also like fungi, oomycetes rarely have septa, and if they do, they are scarce.
They are microscopic organisms that reproduce both sexually and asexually. Oomycetes are some of the most prolific pathogens of plants, causing devastating diseases such as potato blight and sudden oak death.
They are often referred to as water moulds (or moulds), although the water-loving nature which led to that name is not true of most species, which are terrestrial pathogens.
Most oomycetes produce two types of spores. The main dispersing spores are asexual, self-mobile spores called zoospores. These do chemotaxis (movement toward, for example, a food source) in surface water. A few oomycetes produce asexual spores that are distributed by wind. Oomycetes also produce sexual spores, called oospores. These are translucent, double-walled, spherical structures which can survive adverse conditions.
Hurricane Helene (1958)
Hurricane Helene was one of the most powerful Atlantic storms of 1958. The storm's peak winds were 135 miles per hour. This hurricane moved north of the West Indies and brushed the United States' east coast. Helene was the only hurricane to affect the United States in 1958.
Garter snake
The garter snake ("Thamnophis sirtalis") is a Colubrid snake.
It is common across North America between Alaska/Canada and Central America. It is the single most widely distributed genus of reptiles in North America. It is famous for its resistance to the poison produced by the rough-skinned newt. Garter snakes are actually venomous, just not to humans, since the amount of toxin in their saliva is too weak to really cause damage to a human. The worst they could do to you is musk on you or bite you and leave a harmless rash. In fact, cat bites are probably more serious than garter snake bites. They prey on rodents, small fish, small birds, salamanders, earthworms (not red wigglers, as they are bad for them) insects, and insect larva. They are attracted to water sources and hiding spots. You can identify a garter snake because almost every species has a stripe running down its back, the color varying and depending on the species, as there are many different species of garter snakes. They are incredibly common animals, settling in backyards and local woods. As you read this, there is probably at least one garter slithering in the nature-filled area behind you, whatever that may be. All snakes like to hide, and garters are no exception, even if they are incredibly common and small. They hide under leaves, trees, bricks and rocks stacked up, plants, sticks, and anything they can find. If you are trying to "catch" a garter, look for them under these places, and you just might find them. Like most snakes, female garters tend to be longer than the males, so that's one form of sexing them.
James Storm
James Allan Black (born June 1, 1977 in Franklin, Tennessee) is an American professional wrestler who is better known by the ring name, James Storm and is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he was once one-half of the wrestling stable, "Beer Money, Inc." with Robert Roode. Storm is a six-time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Chris Harris (six) and Christopher Daniels (one), five-time and current TNA World Tag Team Champion with Gunner (one and current) and Robert Roode, two-time World Beer Drinking Champion. Storm also won the Asylum Alliance Tag Team Tournament in 2003 with Harris, the Team 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament in 2009 with Roode and the TNA Tag Team Championship Series in 2010 with Roode.
Hernandez (wrestler)
Shawn Hernandez (born February 11, 1973 in Houston, Texas) is an American professional wrestler who is better known by the ring name, Hernandez and is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Hernandez is also known for forming the tag team stable, The Latin American Xchange with Homicide which ended when he was betrayed by Homicide and was attacked by him on the September 10 edition of TNA Impact!.