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 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 Caitlyn Buckley
Megaphone Staff Writer
According to a chart at the bottom of SU’s Pirate Card webpage (https://piratecard.southwestern.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp), the average amount spent with Pirate Bucs is $800. This figure seems higher than one might expect, so a survey was conducted polling students about the amount they spent.
The largest grouping of respondents in the survey, 44.1 […]

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Written by Meg Susong
Megaphone Staff Writer
Environmentalism being the new “in” movement (not that being “in” is a bad thing), the current bout of election candidates have been faced with tough questions on such. From being questioned by the ‘average Joe’ to the concerned snowmen on the topic of global warming, the issue has certainly been […]

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Written by Mariah Arispe
Megaphone Staff Writer
Plastic. It is everywhere; in stores, homes, schools and businesses.
The American public, including SU (no matter how much we may want to disassociate ourselves from it), cannot seem to get away from I – most specifically when we buy groceries from places like H-E-B, Target, Wal-Mart or Kmart.
It is well […]

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Written by Claire Booher
Megaphone Staff Writer
McDonald’s has been a USA fast food phenomenon that has been taking over the international market. With millions of restaurants all over the world, Ronald McDonald House charities and more and more community activities being developed, you can not walk down the street without seeing its influence.
McDonald’s has recently changed […]

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Written by Claire Booher
Megaphone Staff Writer
In our world, with all the violence in everyday life, it is difficult for the average person to find a way to help those in need or to determine whether or not his or her money is being put to good use. Oxfam International is an organization that for years […]

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Written by Mariah Asipe
In July 1984, Congress passed a bill that required all states to implement a minimum drinking age of 21, or they would lose their federal highway funding as retribution. Needless to say, every state rapidly complied with this financial tribulation, even if it was entirely against what state lawmakers believed.
Ever since that […]

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Written by Megan Metzger
On Tuesday, November 20 the Kappa Sigma Fraternity will be hosting Lama Ole Nydahl. He is a world renowned, fully qualified, meditation master of the Karma Kagyu Buddhist tradition.
Nydahl’s education in Buddhism began when he and his wife met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa on their honeymoon in Nepal in 1968. […]

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