About 50 members of Occupy Ashland marched to Medford on Saturday, Oct. 15, hoping to gain more supporters with a renewed focus on their goals. Occupy Ashland is a protest that started Oct. 6, in Ashland’s downtown Plaza in response…
Day: October 20, 2011
What happened to student bus rates?
Commuter students make up approximately 54 percent of the student body at Southern Oregon University, according to SOU’s Commuter Resource Center, and most of these students spend several dollars a day using the Rogue Valley Transportation District’s bus network to…
Ashland city council organizes first-ever deer census
Nearly 80 enthusiastic Ashland residents filled the Meese Room of the Hannon Library on Oct. 11, ready to address one of the most serious problems the city of Ashland has faced to date – deer. Growing concerns regarding the city’s…
Fire in Plunkett Center
A fire broke out inside the walls of the Plunkett Center early Thursday morning. No one was in the building, according to Stephen Ross, Campus Public Safety co-director. “We were notified because of the alarms and went to the building…
Judge’s Lectures Prove Popular
Students and community members alike gathered at Southern Oregon University by the hundreds last Thursday and Friday to attend a lecture and seminar by Judge John E. Jones III. The presentations by Jones kicked off this year’s campus theme of…
UN Week to raise awareness about international issues
This Monday marks the beginning of the annual “United Nations Week,” a week-long event of films, speeches, and panel discussions on a wide variety of international issues, and features a keynote address by Will Davis, Director of the United Nations…
Cullinan remains optimistic about SOU’s future in State of the University address
Dozens of students and community members were in attendance as Dr. Mary Cullinan, president of Southern Oregon University, delivered her annual “State of the University” address last Wednesday in the Rogue River Room of SOU’s Stevenson Union. Cullinan touched on…