November 8th, 2022 was the day the US held its midterm elections. These elections would help enact new laws and determine who controls the house of representatives and the US senate. All of this comes after this past summer when…
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ASSOU Meeting 4/5/2022 Recap
Image Credit Southern Oregon University The meeting started at 6:02 PM with no objections to the agenda. Speaker of the Senate Keeley Reiners had mentioned that on April 6th, ASSOU would be walking with campus security at 8:00 PM to…
History in the Making: Trump’s Second Impeachment
Photo copyright The New York Times In the days following the violent riot at the Capitol on Wednesday, January 6th, President Trump faces the consequences of impeachment once again. Trump was the third president to have been impeached, and is…
The speaker behind the senate: Britney Sharp
Just a Sophomore, and Senate Speaker, it looks like Britney Sharp has a bright student government career ahead of her for the remainder of her undergraduate degree. “I do not like it when people say, ‘you cannot change the world,” she…
Passing of senate bill gives a more equal opportunity for LGBTQ
This week, in Washington D.C, the senate passed a bill, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA), that makes a federal law that does not allow discrimination based on sexual orientation within the workplace. The bill ENDA prohibits employers from firing,…
New ASSOU budget increases student government pay by 74%
(Retraction: the original article read that the ASSOU payroll budget for this academic year increased by 174 percent. The correct number is 74 percent) The Associated Students of Southern Oregon University revealed their updated payroll budget for the 2012-2013 academic…
Tuition equity bill gains momentum
On March 29, the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 742 by a vote of 18-11, a crucial step in an attempt to allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates if they met certain selection criteria. The Oregon House of…