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…
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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…
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…
Whooping Cough Found In Ashland School
John Muir Magnet School in Ashland, Oregon has one confirmed case of whooping cough otherwise known as Pertussis. The school sent out a letter to parents warning of a case of the potentially serious condition last Friday. John Muir Magnet…
Softball Splits Series With Corban On Rainy Weekend
Raiders Softball Battle to Make Playoffs The Southern Oregon Softball team took on the 23rd ranked Corban University Warriors this weekend in a double header game to fight for a place in the playoffs. Due to rain, the doubleheader was…
Southern Oregon University Becomes Bee Campus USA
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. ~ Emily Dickinson This past week, Southern Oregon University reached a milestone–the nation’s first “Bee Campus USA.” Bee City USA has recently launched…
Suicide Attempt Prompts Campus Response
We would like to clarify a fact error in this story we published yesterday regarding an ROTC student’s attempted suicide with a firearm. In the story we reported: “SOU has a strict policy of not allowing guns or other weapons…
Local Hawaiians Weigh in on Thirty Meter Telescope
Construction of what is to be, the worlds most powerful telescope, is in the middle of a time-out after Hawaiian Governor, David Inge, called for a halt in progress to further discuss conditions of the 1.4 billion dollar project. The…
Mushroom Madness Sweeps Market
The annual outbreak of mushroom madness spread throughout Southern Oregon’s outdoors earlier than usual this year. Hunters began hitting the public and private trails as soon as February, in search of the area’s most seasonally in-demand species: the Morel. With…