Melissa Nunez – Opinions and Features Editor In the bustling cafeteria at Conn Hall, hungry students line up between their classes to fuel up for the day—behind the counter is Executive Chef, Earnest Arroyo, who oversees food service operations. Arroyo began working at Southern in November 2016. Since then, he has established gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian stations at Conn Hall.
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Melissa Nunez – Opinions and Features Editor A keen third grade girl comes to Southern with her older sister and sits with a DVD player watching movies, her sister listens to her professor lecture her education class. The next day the third grade girl goes to school eagerly bragging to her friends about her day as a college student. Anna Plasky,
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Adrianna Rochester – General Assignment Reporter English professor, Andrew Smyth teaches secondary English education where he specializes in grammar, linguistics, writing and fieldwork supervision. Smyth’s main goal in the secondary English program is to train students into becoming future teachers by enabling them with skills needed to not only understand the English language, but to also translate their interpretation in a
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Melissa Nuñez – Opinions and Features Editor Michelle Johnston, director of alumni relations, said before her start at Southern ten years ago, oftentimes students and the alumni office would not cross paths, but she saw what a difference it could make for future alumni if they were included in the process long before they accepted their diplomas: that the chance
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Maya Obeid – Special to the Southern News Jonathan Wharton has been a political science and urban affairs professor at Southern for the last three years. He specializes in state and local government. After graduating from Howard University in 1996 with a bachelor’s in history, he continued his education at Rutgers University. He finished with his Ph.D. in political science
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Alex Palmieri – News Writer Walking to a shuttle to give their legs a break, students are joyful and happy to see Atara Grant, a SCSU shuttle driver. Grant said there are a few things in her life that brings her happiness, and one of those things is interacting with the students on a daily basis. “I love dealing with
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Maya Obeid – Special to the Southern News Mathematics professor, Emmett Dennis, has been teaching for 40 years, and has been working at Southern for 16 years. Teaching, he said, is “my passion, my love” and he has had a love for math since high school, and through that love, he found his career. “I just love math from when I
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