If you’ve recently walked through the SOU campus, it’d be difficult not to notice the promotional posters of the upcoming International Week celebration hosted by the International Students Association (ISA) of Southern Oregon University (SOU). This years International Week: A…
Month: April 2015
Weed and You: SOU Experts Weigh In
Marijuana has effectively been illegal for recreational use in the United States since the Marijuana Tax Act was passed in 1937, and although federally illegal, Colorado and Washington have passed laws making it legal to grow, sell and use marijuana.…
Track Plays Host For First Time In Years
The sun shone bright this weekend on Raider Stadium as temperatures rose up near eighty degrees for the SOU track and field team to debut its new track. For most members of the team, this will be their first time…
Cocoa
There was always something with her. If nothing made her pace back and forth I’m not sure she’d know what else to do. But I guess this is something worth worrying about. “It’s gonna be fine,” I told her. She…
The Run for Office at SOU–Who is on the ticket?
Outside of the library and around campus, the letters “TJ” can be seen drawn in chalk and on signs lining walkways. These are advertisements are for the Presidential and Vice Presidential running mates, for the upcoming year at Southern Oregon…
SOU’s Second Annual EMCon
Students have been preparing for months, crafting video games in SOU’s computer labs, imaginative new art pieces in their own studios or focusing on entirely original presentations, all for one event. EMCon. The Emerging Media Convention (EMCon) will stretch over…
SOU Women’s Resource Center: End Rape Culture
With Sexual Assault Awareness month underway at SOU’s Women’s Resource Center, the education and activities are just beginning. Among the events is the “Carry That Weight” campaign by ASSOU, managed by Emily Pfiffer. “It’s a survivor’s…
Campus Film Maker Wins Launch Award
Add award winning filmmaker to the list of achievements by Southern Oregon Senior Angelica Crimmins. We first met her as a Staff Writer for The Siskiyou and then again as she launched her online campus literary magazine. Then on Monday…
SOU Powwow
The United states is home to approximately 5.2 million Native American people according to 2010 census and Oregon has more than 70,000 of those. In Southern Oregon, Chinook, Coquille, Umpqua, Chetco, Tututni, Tolowa, Takelma, Klamath, Modoc, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone…
SOU Says Goodbye To Coach Kennedy
When college teams and coaches are successful, coaches often receive offers from other schools, and sometimes the offer is too good to pass up. Southern Oregon University is learning this the hard way. Head women’s basketball coach Lynn Kennedy, who…