Working to raise awareness during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a recent Healthy Relationships Survey was conducted within the Southern Oregon University community. This survey was created to gather data and raise awareness for students to both find out about and…
Author: Reid Barbier
Base Camp
This is the first installment of Reid Barbier’s weekly column on the best hiking and outdoor adventure spots in Southern Oregon. Base camp. What an exhilarating phrase that is, bringing to mind the breathtaking potential of hiking and climbing…
Career Fair Brings Students and Employers Together
Max Brooks, SOU’s Career Guidance Counselor, is encouraging students to get excited about the upcoming annual Career Fair on Tuesday, April 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Rogue River Room of Stevenson Union. “It’s a great place…
Poets Present Emerging Forms Reading
Three accomplished poets presented their work to the public with performances in an “Emergent Forms” poetry reading at 7 p.m. on February 19th at the Schneider Museum of Art on campus. SOU hosted Clark Coolidge, Alan Bernheimer, and Brandon Downing,…
NSCS Strives to Help First-Generation Students
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) club on campus is raising money in hopes of awarding a scholarship to a first-generation college student at Southern Oregon University. The club is looking for donors to help make this scholarship a…
Short Story: “A Hole in Page Ten”
They sit at their little scuffed up table in the corner, and drown in the silence. Four old hands, scuffed up and wrinkled and spotted, a pair set down in a lap, the other pair in air, the world stretched…
Alternative Spring Break Offers Volunteer Opportunity
Spring break may seem like eons away in cold and frosty Ashland, but for Britney Depew, Environmental Coordinator and head of the Alternative Spring Break Program, the planning has already begun. The Alternative Spring Break Program is a volunteer effort…
‘Swine Flu’ hits SOU Campus
Flu season has officially arrived, this year hitting the Rogue Valley both earlier and harder than in recent years. The winter sickness has been strengthened by a reappearance of the H1N1 virus, referred to commonly as ‘swine flu’, which is…
New Dawn for SOU Housing
With wind whipping through the small crowd gathered between the new halls of Shasta and McLaughlin, college President Mary Cullinan lifted a pair of giant scissors, and began a new era for Southern Oregon University and the city of Ashland.…