Lifestyle

https://youtu.be/9xMe26aBCEQ There are two minutes on the clock. The skaters are jamming and blocking while trying to make their way around the track. It’s a typical bout of roller derby for the Iron Angels at Roller Magic in Waterbury.  Southern student Mary Pelkey, known as Claire Voyant for the Iron Angels, has been skating with the team for...

Giuseppe Rositani packs parachutes, life rafts and prepares oxygen masks for the airplanes as part of his duties in the Connecticut Air National Guard.   Rositani is stationed at 103rd Airlift Wing, a unit of the Connecticut Air National Guard based in Windsor Locks. “I work in aircrew flight equipment. Anything that goes into safety on a plane, I...

From superheroes to anime characters, cosplayers use makeup, wigs, clothes, props, masks and more to become these people. “You can make that stuff from basically just cardboard. It isn’t as expensive as it looks like,” says Jacob Davila, senior psychology major. “You start to really figure out how to break down certain pieces, what parts of a character’s...

Wilson Valois working behind the camera. Wilson Valois has been creating and editing videos on YouTube since he was 12 years old.  Valois , a senior communication major, is focusing his studies on the film, television and production concentration in the department. “I was first going to be a graphic design major, but then I really just enjoyed...

Students that went abroad in front of Machu Picchu with Dr. Krol. Nursing students, who are facing a career of serving the public, are taking their campus education to people in need of health care in the villages of the South American country of Peru. The trip abroad was conducted in late fall as a mission to learn...

https://youtu.be/N24-EJFWzbQ Phoebe Schechner has participated in a polar plunge. Submerged her body into the Arctic Ocean. Slept in Tanzania’s Serengeti while lions roar throughout the night. Kayaked with humpback whales in Australia. And has lived to tell the tale.  Schechner, a sophomore sociology major, was assigned a project in her middle school art class which had asked her...

https://youtu.be/m4yfsrYC13s The possibilities for knitting and crochet artists are endless, from making multi-colored tote bags to winter scarves, hats and even teddy-bear sweaters.  Aedy VanHouten has hand-crafted each of these items, and has taken on an even bigger project creating a fiber works club called SCSU Yarns.  VanHouten, freshman studio art major in the Honors College. Despite being...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYQPp4mPco When faced with a challenge, many people might try to take the easy way out. There are a select few, however, that not only meet these challenges head-on, but also actively seek them out. Diana Adams, an avid rock climber, is one of those select few.  When Adams, senior studio art-graphic design major, isn’t hard at work...

Miles Bagoly, eSports club president eSports is on a fast rise in interest on campus. In four years it has grown from casual meet-ups in the dorms, to winning a regional competition.   The club finished first-place in the ECAC Fortnite tournament last spring.  The popularity of the sport led to construction of a new game room in the...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall, the Southern Educational Opportunity Program has been heralded for its many years of dedicated service to helping students in underrepresented communities.   The program offers many services including academic enhancement, counseling and advocacy, social-emotional learning, diversity recruitment.   SEOP is part of the Universaity Access Programs.   “In 1972, the Southern Educational Opportunity Program was...