By: Kaytlin Thornton | Contributor Photo credit: Stokes Center for Creative Writing April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate, the Stokes Center for Creative Writing held a reading at the Faculty Club last Thursday featuring the poets Chelsea Rathburn and James Davis-May. Chelsea Rathburn is the Poet Laureate of Georgia and is the author of three books of poetry. During the event she read … Continue reading Stokes Center Hosts Poetry Reading
By Conor Merrick | News Editor | cpm2022@jagmail.southalabama.edu A business professor at South Alabama has been cleared to teach again after being suspended for appearing in a racially insensitive photo which circulated back in 2021. The university sent a statement to all students’ JagMail accounts with an update regarding the photographs, which showed three south employees, including the dean of the Mitchell College of Business posing … Continue reading Suspended Business Professor Cleared To Teach
By: Gracie King | Feature Editor | mhk1724@jagmail.southalabama.edu Photo credit: CNBC After her confirmation hearing, Ketanji Brown Jackson has been officially confirmed to be America’s first black female Supreme Court Justice. At the end of the court’s term this summer, Jackson will be sworn in, filling Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat. According to CNN, the final count of the confirmation vote yielded 53 yeas, three of … Continue reading Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed to the Supreme Court
By Kaytlin Thornton | Contributor Photo credit: Mirko Fabian via Pexels Will Smith won an Oscar at the 94th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 27, for his portrayal of Richard Williams in “King Richard.” Shortly before that, he smacked Chris Rock in the face on national television for making a joke about his wife’s lack of hair and no one has been able to … Continue reading South Students Discuss the Incident at the Oscars
By Milena Mata | Contributor | mm1934@jagmail.southalabama.edu Photo by: Michael Dunn | Photographer There are 21 million tons of coal ash surrounding areas of Mobile Bay that can be damaging to the environment, according to Cade Kistler, program director of Mobile Baykeeper. “Protecting Mobile Bay: Our Story” was the third event in the Spring 2022 ecology series held by the Department of English at the … Continue reading Mobile Baykeeper Fights Against Pollution
Article and photos by: Gracie King | Feature Editor | mhk1724@jagmail.southalabama.edu Picture this: you’re right in the middle of wedding and grad season, with new trends emerging after every high-end fashion show. You get an invitation to an event and realize you don’t really have anything spectacular to wear. Sure, you could go with the same printed floral dress or pressed khakis that you always … Continue reading Curating an Outfit for Under $30 101
Article and photo by: Brandon Clark | Contributor | bec2022@jagmail.southalabama.edu As we get closer to summer and the seasons change, so do our schedules. Summer is the perfect time to pick up a job, whether part time or full time. To prepare the students of South, USA’s Career Services put on a Part-Time & Summer Job Fair in the Student Center ballroom on March 30th. … Continue reading Career Services Hold Part Time and Summer Job Fair
Article and photos by: Stephanie Huynh | Contributor | smh2026@jagmail.southalabama.edu There’s something special about having light conversations over a cup of warm tea; now it makes sense why ladies of the royal court regularly enjoyed afternoon tea. As part of the celebration of Women’s History Month, Jaguar Productions hosted a Women’s Tea on March 23. Students and faculty gathered in the Ballroom for light lunch, … Continue reading Celebrating Women’s History With Tea
Conor Merrick | News Editor | cpm2022@jagmail.southalabama.edu Photo by: Michael Dunn | Photographer South students rang in the start of spring with South’s Indian Student Association (ISA) by celebrating Holi on March 26. Students and locals gathered at South’s intramural fields, laughing and throwing colored powder made for Holi onto friends and strangers while Indian pop music played on large speakers. Food and henna tattoos … Continue reading South Celebrates Holi For A Good Cause
By Gracie King | Feature Editor | mhk1724@jagmail.southalabama.edu Grab some popcorn and find your seats – it’s movie time! This past Wednesday, March 23, the Animation Association at South presented the Oscar-winning Disney original animated feature film, Encanto, at the Visual Arts Complex. With a total run time of an hour and 39 minutes, both students who had seen the movie and those who hadn’t … Continue reading USA Animation Association Hosts Encanto
Article and photo by: Danni Black | Contributor South Alabama’s First Year Council (FYC) and the Student Government Association (SGA) hosted a Spring Luau at the Student Rec center on Thursday afternoon. The FYC wanted to continue the tradition of hosting a big event, but due to Covid-19 FYC has not been able to host any spring events for the past two years. When arrived … Continue reading FYC Hosts Spring Luau
Article and photos by: Conor Merrick | News Editor | cpm2022@jagmail.southalabama.edu Traveling preacher Luke Beets held a banner in front of the Student Center declaring those in the LGBTQ+ community, Catholics, Muslims, addicts, alcoholics and more were all going to hell. After news of his presence on campus spread, Beets was confronted by a diverse collection of South Alabama students who thought his message was … Continue reading South Students Clash With Traveling Preacher
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