SU officials work to open the discussion on sexual abuse on campus
By Laura Cohen
April 2, 2013 - 12:54pm
Faculty members weigh in on the issue of sexual abuse on campus and work to get more of the campus involved in combating this issue.

Young women are often told: Don’t walk alone at night. Always keep an eye on your drink at a party. And please, don’t dress too provocatively. These tips are for women to avoid being attacked, assaulted or raped by men. But, SU officials are working to get everyone involved in the preventative measures.

Korean drum club member rises in the ranks to musical leader
By Joe Diglio
April 1, 2013 - 9:24pm
As Carolyn Kim prepares for her Korean drumming group's campus performance Sunday, she also prepares to become the group's new leader.

As a member of Cheon Ji In, a traditional Korean drumming group on campus, Carolyn Kim has found herself in a peculiar position.

The chemistry and forensic science sophomore is currently the sub-musical, which is second in command of the group. However while filling this role, she is simultaneously being groomed for the musical leader position she will fill next year when her predecessors graduate.

“It’s been pretty rough, but I’m getting used to it now finally,” Kim said of the transition. 

The Black Reign Step Team to showcase Harlem Renaissance-themed performance
By Gwendolyn Craig
March 25, 2013 - 5:27pm
The campus club step team will hold its seventh annual performance, inspired by a cultural movement that changed African American identity in the United States.

Stepping and dancing are not the same.  With dance, you move your body to music.  With stepping, you are the music. 

Ashley Holland, a Child and Family Studies junior, spends her free time stepping, making her body into a musical, percussive instrument along with dozens of other students.  Together they make rhythms and beats, moving in synch to a pattern only they know and feel.  They stomp, clap, slap, click.  The rhythm is contagious.

National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson discusses light pollution
By Jingnan Li
March 19, 2013 - 10:01pm
The veteran photographer spoke in Hendricks Chapel Tuesday about potentially harmful effects related to "vanishing nights."

Jim Richardson, National Geographic photographer since 1984, spoke to a full house at Hendrick's Chapel Tuesday night, to express his concern about light pollution through his lecture, “Our Vanishing Night: Light Pollution.”

Conor Grennan speaks on changing the world through volunteering
By Heather Norris
March 6, 2013 - 3:08pm
As a part of SU's Lecture Series, Conor Grennan spoke to students and members of the community Tuesday about the impact of volunteering and storytelling.

Conor Grennan didn't even like kids when he flew to Nepal in 2004 to work for a few months in an orphanage. The idea only came to him, he said, after friends kept asking about why he wasn't planning on including some volunteer work in the year-long trip around the world he had planned.

"I didn't go to Nepal to kind of save the lost children of Nepal," said Grennan. But after bragging to a girl in a bar about his plans to volunteer, that's exactly what he ended up doing.

Larry Flynt speaks on First Amendment issues
By Hani Taha
March 5, 2013 - 8:54am
The controversial publisher and First Amendment advocate speaks about free speech, and the 25th anniversary of his most influential Supreme Court case.

Pornographer and publisher Larry Flynt spoke about his experiences in media and the importance of free speech to the campus community Tuesday night.

It’s one thing to create a legacy of porn but quite another to go down in history…and law books. From being condemned, censured and practically killed, Flynt’s entire life is a grand testimony to the First Amendment and it was apt that the talk organized by SU’s Tully Center for Free Speech was titled, “Fight for First.”

Religious groups weigh in on the issue of gun control in the United States
By Taylor Procopio
March 4, 2013 - 1:07pm
A recent poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute suggests that in light of this year's mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, most religious groups are in favor of stricter gun control laws.

Religious institutions are expressing their opinions on stricter gun control in light of the Newtown, Conn. shooting on Dec.

Roz Savage shares her experience rowing across the Atlantic Ocean
By Gwendolyn Craig
February 28, 2013 - 11:16am
The 2010 National Geographic "Adventurer of the Year" spoke in Hendricks Chapel about the 103-day journey at sea.

Life can seem pretty bleak when you’re in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and all four of your rowing oars are broken.  And you’re alone.  And you don’t have a motor. 

That happened to Roz Savage, an environmentalist and the first woman to row across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

SU graduate Stephen Barton and a panel of experts discuss gun control in the United States
By Taylor Procopio
February 20, 2013 - 12:29am
In lieu of the recent mass shootings, a panel was held Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel to discuss the issue of gun control.