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 […]

[Read more →]

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, […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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, […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]