At 6:30 p.m. every Friday, SOU’s very own Dance Club meets in the Stevenson Union, room 315, to schedule practices and talk about upcoming events, workshops and their end of the year performance: the Spring Showcase. Every two weeks they…
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SOU takes steps to battle food insecurity on campus
For students regularly eating at the hawk, the table set up at the beginning of every month can donate a meal to your fellow Raiders. Those people are collecting meals for the Raiders helping Raiders program, a resource to help…
Digital Cinema major to come to SOU
There is a proposal to have Digital Cinema offered as a major at Southern Oregon University starting Fall of 2019. Currently a concentration within the Communications major, the new major would focus solely on film. Having pitched to the SOU Board of…
Year of the pig: Jacksonville’s historic Chinese New Year parade
Southern Oregon’s rich history of Chinese immigration extends back to the beginning of the Oregon Gold Rush in the 1850s. To commemorate this history, the town of Jacksonville, Ore., working with Southern Oregon Chinese Cultural Association puts on a yearly…
Enrollment decrease affects funding for on-campus programs
Enrollment is down this year at SOU, and fewer students means less money on campus. Student Life is mostly funded by student fees, and that money goes to things like student government, clubs and staff salaries. Since less money went…
Commuter Resource Center to return to campus
The Commuter Resource Center (CRC), once a place that students not living on campus could use as their home-away-from-home, is now gone. Since the start of the academic year, commuter students have expressed confusion as to where and why their…
Women march for the 3rd year
“I’m very wet, but we’re here,” laughed Bersy LeClair, an Southern Oregon University student attending the third annual Southern Oregon Women’s march on Jan. 19, 2019. She arrived with her friends Karley Johnson and Cassandra McDade despite the rainy weather. McDade…
SOU faculty shares her interests in Esports
The popularity of esports, or competitive video gaming, has been growing since the early 2000’s. Around 2010, game developers started actively designing toward a professional esports subculture. The National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) formed in 2016, and since then,…
Gardening & the Green Fund: Student fees dedicated to sustainability
Tucked within wood and wire at the corner of Henry St. and South Mountain Ave, SOU’s Community Garden is a comfortable sanctuary where students and community members can rent low-cost plots to practice organic gardening. Behind the fence’s squealing gate,…
SOU basketball teams win 1 out of 4 home games
Last weekend, the SOU Raider Men’s and Women’s basketball teams hosted both Northwest Christian and Corban in back to back nights of basketball. On Friday, the women’s team beat Northwest Christian, but the men’s team lost. On Saturday, both teams lost…