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.
Alpha Phi Delta music festival for charity
J’Mari Hughes—Reporter Local performers with thousands of followers on social media and Soundcloud performed in the Lyman Center auditorium for Southern students and the New Haven community. On April 16, Alpha Phi
Annual Spring Concert canceled
Tamonda Griffiths—News Writer Student Government Association President Alexis Zhitomi announced at an SGA meeting that the Spring Concert has been canceled for this semester. “We’re sad that we couldn’t make it happen,”
National Poetry Month celebrates diverse poets
J’Mari Hughes—Reporter April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate Buley Library has a display on the first floor featuring dozens of famous books from poets like Langston Hughes and Stephen Fry.
Students learn to merge their career aspirations with community outreach
Haljit Basueljevic—Reporter During a roundtable discussion between seven community leaders called Transformative Careers in the Public Humanities, students learned to bridge the partnership between their aspirations and community outreach. The discussion took
Bronze owl statue commemorated
August Pelliccio—Photo Editor With its wings spread and eyes focused ahead, the bronze owl in front of Engleman Hall has been installed for months with no identifying plaque or installation celebration. Until
Project Gear program popular amongst students
August Pelliccio—Photo Editor Dave Bakies said he could not believe how well a community powered bike-sharing program took off on campus. Bakies, a senior and geography major, is the hands-on mechanical leader
Compost bins tested in student center
Tamonda Griffiths—News Writer & August Pelliccio—Photo Editor Sustainability Coordinator Suzanne Huminski said food scraps from Connecticut Hall have been sent to a composting facility to be turned into energy since 2017. “In
Behind the camera lens: Amber Frank shoots nature
Jacob Waring—Opinions & Features Editor With her Cannon EOS Rebel T6 in hand, Amber Frank aimed the lens at the fauna around Southern’s East Campus, intensely focusing on the trees, shrubbery and
A push to share the lime light
Hunter O. Lyle—Sports Editor During my year-long tenure as a reporter on Southern’s campus, I have covered a wide variety of sports. From sitting at the courtside press table during a playoff
Baseball’s late push for NE10 Tournament
Matt Gad—Sports Writer Needing a top-four finish in the Southwest Division to qualify for next month’s NE10 Tournament, the Owls took the back end of a doubleheader on Friday with second place