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. National Poetry Month began in 1996 and was founded by The American Academy of Poets to help people appreciate poetry and get support for it, according to Winnie
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Josh LaBella – News Writer For most of the day last Thursday, arguing could be heard in front of Buley Library. A small group of religious people came to speak in front of the library. They carried signs saying “Evolution is a lie” and “You’re all sinners.” Bobby McCreery, who was one of the speakers, said they were there to
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Josh LaBella – News Writer Southern Connecticut State University President Joe Bertolino made his first university address to a crowd of faculty and students this Monday in the Adanti Student Center Ballroom. The event, which took place at 1 p.m., opened with the video of the Convocation of the class of 2021. The video ended with the flash mob in
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Sidney Jones – Special to the Southern News With only two weeks before finals commence, Sandra Gomez-Aceves, a senior journalism major, has only worked on assignment-based finals. “I haven’t started studying for finals yet,” said Gomez-Aceves, “but I have been working on two final projects for about three weeks now.” Because of her major, Gomez-Aceves said the type of finals
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Dylan Haviland – Managing Editor Haroon Chaudhry, the president of the Muslim Student Association, with a sign in hand, conversed with his peers in front of Buley Library as students and faculty gathered together on a cold evening. The rally held on Feb. 2 was meant to protest the various policies of the Trump presidency. “We just want to get
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Melanie Espinal – General Assignments Reporter The grand opening of SCSU’s lactation room will be held Wednesday on the Sept. 28th, in room 104 of the Hilton C. Buley Library. This room was given the greenlight by former SCSU president Mary Papazian to accommodate those who might have to pump breast milk in between classes, said Michele Vancour, a professor of
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Melissa Nuñez – Opinions & Features Editor Kim Wilk, Hilton C. Buley Library’s reserve circulation supervisor, said she started working in the Registrar’s office 31 years ago. Before the ease of helping students online or over the phone, lines would stretch all the way out the door. Twelve years later, Wilk said she got a promotion and began working at the library.
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