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STEPHANIE PAULINO, MANAGING EDITOR: Being known as “Rally Ron” by students on campus, the outgoing vice president of student affairs, Ronald Herron, couldn’t have guessed that his own rally of excited students

MICHAEL BELLMORE, STAFF WRITER: In a page long press release, Mark Ojakian, the deputy secretary of the Office of Policy Management, and Roberta Willis, state representative and Higher Education chairman, announced that

MONICA SZAKACS, NEWS WRITER: The winners of the Southern Fiction Contest read their work in front of 32 people last Wednesday in Engleman’s English Common Room. Writer of fiction since he was

JONATHAN BURTON, BUSINESS MANAGER: In a world plagued with a national budget crisis, wars on terror, fights and a new found fear placed in the minds and hearts of many Americans because

JESSICA GIANNONE, GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER: In the heart of much-expressed reflection and mixed emotions, Southern’s vice president of Student and University Affairs Ronald Herron will be resigning from his position, effective July

JESSICA GIANNONE, GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER: The Faculty Senate’s request for a faculty referendum of the LEP expresses three main concerns, among the many others faculty have noted. The petition states concerns for

JESSICA GIANNONE, GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER: Polly Beals, the director of LEP, said there is the idea that students will be more successful in their college career if they take certain courses early

JESSICA GIANNONE, GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER: With any new program, there are “ups” and “downs,” as faculty agree. Southern’s new Liberal Education Program, which will be initiated in the Fall 2011 semester, has