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OASIS• Office for Academic

Support and Institutional Services

Office for Academic Support and Institutional Services

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• OASIS

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Support Services for AIM Students

• Career Exploration

• Cultural Enrichment Activities

• Individual and Group Counseling

• Student Advocacy

• Tutoring

Student Enrichment Student Enrichment Services Program Services Program

Administrative StaffAdministrative Staff

• Dr. Betty Stewart-Dowdell, Director

• Mrs. Bernice Pruitt-Wilson, Program Assistant

• Ms. Natalie Fouron, Counselor Assistant

Dr. Betty J. Stewart-Dowdell

Natalie FouronNatalie Fouron Counselor AssistantCounselor Assistant

• Graduate Student

• Marriage and Family Counseling

• Activities: A little of everything!

• Best Advice: The only thing in life that will never give out beneath you is having nothing to stand on.

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? Living in a town where everyone thinks all UF students are intellectuals.

• Only from nothing can God make something out of you.

OASISOASIS

Student Enrichment Services Program

Peer Counselors 2000-2001

Shannon BarrShannon Barr

• Sophomore

• Telecommunication

• Activities: listening to music and creative writing

• Best Advice: Wear clean underwear at all times. You’ll never know what may happen to you

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? Because UF is a wonderful learning facility and being a Gator represents the excellence

Traci BellTraci Bell

• Senior• English/Pre-Law• Activities: Delta

Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., BSU, Beta Eta Sigma

• GO GATORS!!!

Alicia Marie BennettAlicia Marie Bennett• Sophomore• Rehabilitative Services• Activities: MAPS, CARIBSA• Best Advice: What does it profit a

man to gain the world but to lose his own soul (mark 11:26)

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? Being able to say “Ohh, what school do I attend, I go to the University of Florida!!

Nadia CastaingNadia Castaing

• Senior• Anthropology• Activities: Reading,

studying, sleeping, hanging with friends

• Best Advice: Study don’t sleep

Jacques R. ClervilJacques R. Clervil

• Sophomore

• International Business Marketing

• Activities:Student Government, Club Creole, basketball, dancing, running

• Best Advice: The moment is a gift that’s why it’s called the present --treasure every moment.

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator?: It “beats” being a Seminole

Stella DaCruzStella DaCruz

• Sophomore• Telecommunication-

Production• Activities: reading,

dancing, chillin’• Best Advice:

Proverbs 18:24

Charlene D. DanielCharlene D. Daniel

• Senior

• Rehabilitative Services

• Activities: URA, Project Sea World, Beta Eta Sigma

• Best Advice: To thy self be true

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator?: Because Orange & Blue look better than garnet and gold

Keri DaCostaKeri DaCosta

• Sophomore

• Speech Therapy

• Activities: Dance

• Best Advice: The west Oaks Mall is not as crunk as it looks from the outside

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? You get to live away from your parents and get a good education all at the same time

Miranda GilchrestMiranda Gilchrest

• Sophomore• Liberal Arts and Science• Activities: Everything fun• Best Advice: “Always be

Real”• Why is it great to be a

Florida Gator?: Why not?

Nichole HarriottNichole Harriott• Senior

• Education

• Activities: Volunteering at various school, reading, exercising, CARIBSA, NPHC, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

• Best Advice: Remember what you are here for!!!

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? Because the academic programs here are some of the best in Florida

Federico HudsonFederico Hudson

• Junior

• Health Science Education

• Activities: IBC Emissary, Phi Beta Sigma, Caribsa, CHAMPS Volunteer

• Best Advice: Any event which says free food means “free food.

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator?: Because opportunity always knocks at my door.

Jeff HyacintheJeff Hyacinthe

• Sophomore

• Speech Pathology

• Activities: Party promoter, Intramural basketball, writing

• Best Advice: Life can be studied backwards;but only understood forward

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? The true question is “Why isn’t it great to be a Florida Gator?”

Jermaud JacksonJermaud Jackson

• Sophomore• Public Relations• Activities: eatin’,

chillin’• Best Advice: Stay

ready for anything and everything!

• Holla at me if you need something. My name is Maud!

Janelle Nicole RahynsJanelle Nicole Rahyns

• Sophomore• Journalism• Activities: IRHA, Minority

Business Society• Best Advice: Limits are just a

figment of our imagination• Why is it great t be a Florida

Gator?: You can have fun in the sun

Deron PersaudDeron Persaud

• Senior• Food Science and Human Nutrition

Minor Business Administration• Activities: Basketball, weightlifting,

Caribsa• Best Advice: Everyday has a game

plan, put your books before your game.

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator?: You are among the best.

Dennis RoseDennis Rose

• Sophomore • Marketing• Activities: Promoting for big

events• Best Advice: Strive for what

you want in life• Why is it great to be a

Florida Gator? Because the Gators are “Off Glass”

Monique SmithMonique Smith

• Senior

• Telecommunications-News

• National Pan Hellenic Council, Association for Black Communicators, Beta Eta Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

• Best Advice: Don’t eat before class!!!

• Have Fun!!! Go GATORS!!

Rose SterlingRose Sterling

• Junior• Psychology• Activities: stock investing,

economics researching• Best Advice: Party hard,

study later• Why is it great to be a

Florida Gator?: You get your financial aid on time.

Vernon WrightVernon Wright• Junior

• Business Admin./ Sociology• Activities: Phi Beta Sigma,

CARIBSA, BSU, NPHC, basketball, football, chillin’, volunteering

• Best Advice: Believe in the individual, not the people who surround them

• Why is it great to be a Florida Gator? We’re the best of the best in Florida

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