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 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 Courtney Stoker
Megaphone Staff Writer
An article in the last issue of “The Megaphone” suggested in the sub-headline that the Mississippi House Bill 282, which would not allow restaurants to serve people considered “obese” by the State Health Department, had merit despite its grievous disregard for bodily autonomy.
Bills like this are often introduced to […]

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Written by Kassie Juenke
Megaphone Staff Writer
As season four of America’s Next Top Model comes to an end, fans tune in Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. to see who will be “in” and who will be “out.” The season started with 15 designers competing for the coveted runway shows at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park […]

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Written by Alma Aguilar
Megaphone Staff Editor
Earlier this semester, Southwestern received a $66,000 grant from the Verizon Wireless Foundation in order to fund a summer internship program on campus.
Students who participate in the internship program will become more familiar with the issues that surround people who suffer from domestic abuse.
Ten students from the application […]

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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 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 Caitlyn Buckley
On November 1, the Writer’s Guild of America began a strike. This is the first large-scale strike by writers since 1988, when the strike lasted 22 days and cost the television and film industries more than $500 million.
In the wake of DVDs and online movie and T.V. show purchase becoming popular, […]

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Written by Vickie Valadez
This morning, on the day that I intended to write this story about dominant Eurocentricity on campus, I woke up with Alanis Morrissette’s “Ironic” playing in my head.
Not really related to the subject matter at all, but I thought it would serve a good introduction;
Isn’t it ironic that we support multiculturalism, but […]

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