Photo Courtesy of ASSOU The ASSOU Senate met at 6 pm on November 4th to discuss different events and updates at Southern Oregon University. The meeting started with updates of several events at SOU, like the Election Connection, which encouraged…
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ASSOU Discusses Recent Election Grievances and Clubs
Photo courtesy of ASSOU On Tuesday, October 6th, ASSOU held its second official meeting of the fall term. Discussed first in the meeting was the decision to pause the hiring of Director of Finance and Administration and Director of External…
Meet the New ASSOU Officers for 2020
Photo by ASSOU With the start of the new school year underway and classes resuming, many students feel lost or uncertain about where these unique challenges will take them. Luckily, SOU students are represented by the Associated Students of Southern…
ASSOU Goes Live to Help Students in Need of Food
Photo and caption by Danielle Weston: Covid-19 has forced families all across America to change their lives and make drastic changes to little everyday things like grocery shopping. Sometimes a home cooked family meal is just what the doctor ordered.…
Congress’s COVID-19 Relief and Higher Education
Photo of Oregon State Capital, photo by Andreas Pagel licensed under Creative Commons The American Council on Education has analyzed that Southern Oregon is expected to receive over $3,000,000 after Congress passed the “largest federal emergency package in history,” according…
Period Supply Dispensers: Locations, Costs, Stocks, and More
Photo taken by Autumn Micketti Four SOU students spoke about birth control and menstrual products in India for their Global Gender Movements class presentation in late November. During a brief tangent, the four women discussed issues they had with finding…
The Human Cost of SOU’s Rising Tuition
Photo ©Southern Oregon University As tuition and the student incidental fee continue to rise, the time has come to consider the impact of SOU’s rising costs. With anything as expensive as a college degree, there will always be people who…
ASSOU elections applications to close this week
The Associated Students of Southern Oregon University (ASSOU) ordered an emergency election committee meeting in Feb. last term. There, they considered the possibility of changing the required GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 in order to run for President, Vice President…
Letter to the editor: ASSOU shouldn’t cut campus organizer
The following is a student Letter to the Editor piece. It does not reflect the position or views of the Siskiyou editorial team. My name is Johanna Pardo and I am currently the ASSOU Director of Governmental Affairs. I’m writing…
President Phillips: Fighting for marginalized communities
When she was the Director of Multicultural Affairs in the Associated Students of Southern Oregon (ASSOU) Executive Branch, Alexis Phillips was one of four members of color in all three branches of student government. Today, Phillips is All-Student-Body Vice President.…