Lena Dunham hosts slumber party at Lyman
The John Lyman Center became the host of a teenage sleepover as Lena Dunham, a writer and director, took the stage on Saturday, May 1, for an evening of storytelling, conversation and
Town Hall meeting confronts growing deficit and budget
The highest cost is expected to be the upcoming faculty raises, estimated at around $6 million.
Students sew reusable pads for girls abroad
Students are creating Reusable Menstrual Pads, RUMPS, to address a critical barrier that prevents many girls in parts of Africa from staying in school: limited access to menstrual products.
Tie-Dye Party helps Chemistry Club raise money
Sofia Rositani – Reporter The chemical reaction that comes with tie-dying is a whirlwind of colors — it can be a spiral, it can look like many blotches of color, and it
Students share concerns about tuition increase
Tamonda Griffiths – Editor-in-Chief Sofia Rositani – Reporter Recently, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities’ Board of Regents announced an overall 3.8 percent tuition and fees increase to the 2020 academic year.
Nursing forum from Katherine Tucker answers students’ questions
Joseph Vincenzi – Reporter She worked full time in a nail salon while attending school and raising a family. Now, she works in management at Yale New Haven Hospital. Katherine Tucker came
#MeToo Healing Quilt and ‘The Hunting Grounds’ film
Alexandra Scicchitano – Opinions & Features Editor The event, The Hunting Ground to the Healing Ground unveiled the finished #MeToo SCSU Healing Quilt, showed the film The Hunting Ground and held a
Drivers should not be confusing parking lots with race tracks
J’Mari Hughes – Copy Editor Every weekday morning I leave my home at 7:30 a.m. and venture off to another day of school. I cruise, at a decent speed, towards the Davis
America was not ready for Pete Buttigieg to be president
Sofia Rositani – Reporter Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the race on Monday. His announcement came as a surprise, as Buttigieg had become a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community, as a veteran
The college education is not prepared to go online
Tamonda Griffiths – Editor-in-Chief As the number of cases for coronavirus or COVID-19 continue to rise here on the east coast, Connecticut now experiencing its first case, and spring break just a
‘Swipe It Forward’ merges with ‘Swipe Out Hunger’
Sofia Rositani – Reporter Swipe It Forward is a meal swipe donation initiative on Southern’s campus that is now going to become a part of a national organization called ‘Swipe Out Hunger.’
Merit discussed at lecture series
Abby Epstein – News Writer “Merit is a sham” is the first sentence in the book “The Meritocracy Trap” by Daniel Markovits. Markovits came to Southern to discuss his book about economic
Neil Thomas Proto shares his new book
Tamonda Griffiths – Editor-in-Chief During his reading and brief discussion of his new book, “Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America,” Southern alumnus class of 1967 Neil Thomas