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‘Versatile’ program can open more doors

The Master of Business Administration program at Southern Oregon University is looking for working professionals and students from all academic areas for their upcoming year. The MBA program is offered in two formats designed to meet the needs of busy working professionals. Full story

Softball sweeps on final day of SOU Invitational

The Southern Oregon University women’s softball team capped off its three–day tournament at U.S. Cellular Community Park in Medford with a bang Saturday. The Raiders (4-8), avenged a close loss from the second day of the tournament with a 4-3, nine-inning win over No. Full story

“Shutter Island”

Movie Review

“Shutter Island” is one of those movies that has way too much fun playing with your head, and does it with a level of technical expertise and precision that you allow it to do just that. Martin Scorsese generally does not make the movies that a more experimental director, like David Lynch (“Mulholland Drive”) or David Fincher (“Fight Club”) might, but here he shows he has an uncanny ability to suck his audience into the film and be entertained by its mysterious and deceptive qualities for its entire length, and possibly by the end be asking for more. Full story

Editorial: As Term Completes, We Weigh In

It’s finally over! With two weeks left until the end of the winter 2010 term, students are in crunch mode as they hurry to complete overdue assignments and prepare for upcoming finals. Here at The Siskiyou, we’re in celebratory mode as well. Full story

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Some Shoppers Go Green

Independently owned grocery store, Shop n’ Kart is the only store of it’s kind on the City of Ashland’s list of green businesses. The store features more organic and natural ingredients than many of the other grocery stores in Ashland; and provides a large selection of bulk food as well as other products.

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Free Agency Future Depends On Success In NBA Playoffs

Is it ever too early for playoff talk? I think not. It starts when the season starts. Heck, for some of us it starts when the previous season ends. When the summer draft formulates the many scenarios of the upcoming season. This season so far has been one of the best in ages.

Entertainment

SOU Gets in Step

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brittany Dixon learned her first simple steps at a very young age. Dixon is a 21-year-old ethnic studies student at SOU, and current director of communications for the Black Student Union on campus. “Your older peers will teach you simple steps when you’re really young, either at school, on the playground, or just in your free time,” she said.

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No Trays Equals Less Waste

The results are in from the Trayless initiative at Cascade Dining and frankly, the results reveal a disconcerting culture among campus diners. The trial run going trayless at Cascade Dining began with breakfast on February 8 and was completed with dinner on February 11.