Jessica Guerrucci—Reporter A sea of empty chairs filled the Academic Quad last week. Although the meaning behind them was grim, it held a powerful message and inspired students to share words of encouragement. Active Minds, a club that focuses on mental health issues on campus, set up 1,100 empty chairs in the quad, each one representing college students in the
Read moreHaljit Basuljevic—Reporter Five small dodgeballs were lined up in the center court, in the Moore Field House, perched on top of the same number of colored plastic cones. At the start of the whistle, players had to jet to grab the balls before the opposing team could get a grip on them with play. With players rapidly backpedaling to avoid
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Jessica Guerrucci—Reporter When it comes to being a nurse, Steven Jacobs said the job can be stressful, but the fact that nurses are pulled in many different directions does not excuse them when they make a mistake. On April 15, Southern’s National Association of Hispanic Nurses invited Jacobs, a Jacobs & Jacobs attorney, a law firm that handles injury cases,
Read moreHaljit Basuljevic—Reporter When Co-Founder Joseph Amarante, a graduate student with a degree in business management, first discovered the concept of Conscious Capitalism, he found it to be a perfect fit for what he was looking for. He said that, in addition to complimenting what he was researching and studying, he found the philosophy behind the movement to be trendsetting in
Read moreHaljit 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 place last Wednesday, in the Adanti Student Center’s theater which was almost at full capacity. English major, Emily Wolfe, a senior, asked the guests what the best approach
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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 the pond near the baseball fields. She was not photographing for a class nor as an occupation. For Frank, a senior sociology major, this is her hobby. Evidently,
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Jessica Guerrucci—Reporter While looking through the eyes of an animal, students were given the chance to engage in a virtual reality simulation to help build a better understanding of where their food comes from. The Humane Society collaborated with Vegan Outreach to provide students with an informative virtual reality experience in the academic quad to show how their food is
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