Written by Giulia Giuffre
Megaphone Staff Writer
Operation Achievement (OA) is an after-school mentorship and enrichment program that assists selected sixth through eight grade students in the Georgetown Independent School District (GISD). Southwestern University and GISD jointly run the program.
Operation Achievement is a mentor partnership between the GISD and Southwestern University. Southwestern students volunteer time to […]

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Written by Audrey Olena
Megaphone Staff Writer
On December 10, 1999, the Southwestern University Board of Trustees voted to change the name of Southwestern’s School of Fine Arts to “The Fayez S. Sarofim School of Fine Arts” due to the generous donations of Mr. Fayez Sarofim, a native of Egypt who founded Fayez Sarofim & Company, a […]

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Written by Claire Booher
Megaphone Staff Writer
Many students go through college wishing that they had no work to do. They would love to be able to just sit in their rooms all day and play their favorite video games. Wouldn’t it just be easy to major in Halo and never have to step inside of a […]

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Written by David Squires
Megaphone Staff Writer
The importance of higher education is perhaps clear to many of us that attend this outstanding university. A college degree can still be just one more stepping stone in the endless pursuit of a job.
For many, work after college seems great. For the rest of us, however, we still […]

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Written by Caitlyn Buckley
Megaphone Staff Writer
As we all know by now, much to the dismay of whoever is paying for our education, tuition is increasing again by 7.7 percent. We are reminded by the administration that our tuition dollars have not gone and will not go towards the renovation of buildings like the Fine Arts […]

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Written by Jim Surface
Megaphone Staff Writer
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament did not treat either the men’s or women’s basketball teams well this year.
After the men split conference games at home against Hendrix and Millsaps, they needed two consecutive victories to insure a berth in the conference tournament.
On Friday, Feb. 22 the Bucs […]

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Written by Alma Aguilar
Megaphone Staff Writer
The preacher’s daughter gone wild, Kristin Key, performed on Friday, March 7 in The Cove. After being a finalist from season four of Last Comic Standing, she has been performing across the nation. Thanks to the University Programming Council (UPC), she was able to perform on campus.
Before she took on […]

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Written by Audry Olena
Megaphone Staff Writer
College campuses nationwide are always eager to put on a showing of Eve Ensler’s trailblazing theatrical work, “The Vagina Monologues.” Chronicling the lives and experiences of real women whom Ensler interviewed to create her piece, “Monologues” has made a huge impact on the lives of everyone who has experienced it.
At […]

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Written by Giulia Giuffre
Megaphone Staff Writer
This weekend, Williamson County’s Habitat for Humanity will begin construction on its first Women Build home. The home will be built on Lasso Drive in Round Rock.
The Women Build home is an international project of Habitat for Humanity. The Women Build encourages women and women groups in the […]

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