Campus News

When students returned in Fall 2020, the lively campus, usually full of students, exciting events and social opportunities, was gone. Masks, plexiglass and online classes had become a new reality—one which everyone had to adapt.  “It’s asking a lot of college students to suspend their social lives, to suspend their recreational lives, to suspend what they imagined about...

As Southern embarks on the continued adventure of online learning, the student body transitions with it, most clearly in the Feb. 3 Virtual Club Fair.  Members from over 170 clubs representing a wide range of skills and interests gathered online to introduce students and incoming freshmen to organizations which focus on religion, social activism, sports, Greek life, personal...

Social media is a double-edged sword: connectivity, entertainment and inspiration vs. insecurity, anonymity and judgments.  Students still spend hours of their day glued to a cell phone screen.  “I like viewing content,” says Nicholas Vollero, a freshman nursing major, “but I know it holds an underlying power that affects my choices and judgments. This could be seen as...

By Jacob Waring The striped bass, mouths wide open, anticipate their food.  Each fish crowds around the top of the tank, aggressively vying for the prime position to devour their meal: a mixture of shrimp, scallops and fish bits.  As the food is dropped into the tank and a mini-cascade of water erupts as the fish eat their...

Birds flutter about against the backdrop of a clear blue skies of the university, while the springtime tunes are heard by their avian counterparts. Bees and wasps could be zigzagging around students in search of their preferred vegetation. Squirrels frantically search for nuts while their tiny counterparts, chipmunks, nervously run from point A to point B. Countless six-legged,...

1. Week of Welcome Week of Welcome, or W.O.W., is a way for new students to get acclimated to their new classes, peers and surroundings. This weeklong event happens the first week of the school year and is filled with events catering to freshmen and transfer students helping them feel more comfortable on campus.  2. Student Involvement Fair...

Flash flooding. Mass extinction. Extreme heat waves.  Every day new alarming stories about the impact of global warming are broadcasted around the world. Students are demanding their institutions take proactive measures against climate change. Southern says it is dedicated to lead and adopt sustainable practices and green building among colleges in Connecticut. Green Building Within the next five...

Southern has a large population of immigrant and first generation American students, mirroring the population of its home in New Haven, a sanctuary city.  The first steps of leaving one’s home country are usually difficult, but all immigrants have a different story to share about their journey. Accounting major Sameed Iqbal, a senior and immigrant from Qatar, says...

https://youtu.be/DMRRZiPoEYY By August Pelliccio and Izzy Manzo Speech is taken for granted, says Alexis Negron, a communication disorders major. For some, day-to-day speech is impaired in a sometimes debilitating way, says Negron, vice president of the university’s chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. “With a communication disorders major, you work alongside a lot of people...