Daylight saving is usually not a welcomed holiday on college students’ calendars. Though we are embracing warmer weather and longer afternoons, the hour of sleep we all lose is the painful departure of a friend we won’t see again until…
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Final Second Victory Keeps Raider Men Alive in Missouri
The Southern Oregon men’s basketball team slowed down one of the hottest teams in the nation and last season’s NAIA runner-up Midland University, winning 73-71 to advance to the round of 16 teams of the NAIA tournament in Point Lookout,…
Women Victorious In First NAIA Match
The Southern Oregon women’s basketball team trounced Robert Morris University Wednesday morning 96-61 to advance to the round of 16 of the NAIA tournament in Sioux City, Iowa. The win marks the Raider ladies first NAIA tournament win in 16…
Comm Majors Make Case to Specify Diplomas
As of this writing, just under 70 students, community members, and supporters have signed an online petition to add the words “Film, Television and Convergent Media” to diplomas. While it is easy to write this off as an irrelevant particular,…
Wrestling Continues Tradition and Returns with Titles
Raider Wrestling once again showed its dominance at the top level of competition as the team returned home second in all of NAIA lead by a pair of individual champions. “Any time you come away with a couple of national titles, it’s a good weekend,” said Raider…
Student Salivates “S” Key
A story is developing while a male suspect roams at large in the Southern Oregon community after reportedly picking up a removed key from one of the school keyboards in Hannon Library and chewing on it Tuesday evening. Around nine o’clock…
Fear of Fat is a Literal Killer
Last week SOU’s Women’s Resource Center hosted a series of events that included cozying up in the WRC to watch episodes of Degrassi, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sailor Moon; a yoga class focusing on body positivity and…
Stressed to Death; Oregon Suicides
Oregon has a unique problem which is growing–suicide rates. For years, Oregon has ranked between seventh and ninth in the country for suicides. In 2011, 685 Oregonians killed themselves, twice the number who died in vehicle…
Start running Raiders! Zombies are coming to Campus.
Ideally, we all would love to integrate all our hobbies, and interests into a career. Creating our own dream job seems like a difficult path, but it’s one that Southern Oregon University senior Chris Applegate is already headed down. Chris…
Does SOU Care?
As part of our two part story about suicide rates among Oregonians and the stresses of college aged people we began to wonder what programs exist on the Southern Oregon University campus and,…