Written by Claire Booher
Megaphone Staff Writer
Each year two student athletes are awarded for their hard work on and off the field. The Anchor Award is given to the students who show exemplary academic and athletic skills. They have the fortitude to go above and beyond with their physical and mental skills.
The student […]

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Written by Caitlyn Buckley
Megaphone Staff Writer
I am someone who tends to buy into fads that make me feel good about myself and my contributions to society. I jumped on the volunteering bandwagon in high school because it let me feel like I was actually accomplishing something that was good for someone besides me. Besides that, […]

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Written by Rachel Rigdon
Megaphone Editor in Chief
When you look up the definition for “offend” in a dictionary, a number of entries pop up. The top one, in the Oxford English Dictionary, is “hurt someone’s feelings” and later on one of the meanings is to “ruffle someone’s feathers.” I would like to take this opportunity to […]

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Written by Alma Aguilar
Megaphone Staff Writer
[Editor’s Note: We, at the Megaphone, apologize to Alma Aguilar for the printing error in the textual version of the Megaphone. Due to a printing error, a whole column was lost and never found.]
The Latino Heritage Symposium will take place at Southwestern University in the McCombs Ballroom April 25-26. […]

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Written by Giulia Giuffre
Megaphone Staff Writer
The 30th annual Brown Symposium, “Umwelt: Exploring the Self-Worlds of Human and Non-human Animals,” was hosted April 3-4 in the Alma Thomas Theater of the Sarofim School of Fine Arts.
The Brown Symposium was established and funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Every year, one of the Brown chair holders […]

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Written by Meredith Orf
Megaphone Guest Writer
[Editor’s Note: This is the full version of Meredith’s article about the SU Budget. If you wish to continue where you left off in the text version of the Megaphone, please click here.]
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Tuition/Room & Board Questions
3. Endowment Questions
4. Budget Questions
5. Cost-Cutting Questions
6. Comments
Introduction
Like most students here, […]

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