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The Lion's Roar

The Official Student News Media of Southeastern Louisiana University

The Lion's Roar

The Official Student News Media of Southeastern Louisiana University

The Lion's Roar

The delegates for the Miss Southeastern 2024 scholarship competition.

Get to know Miss Southeastern 2024 delegates

Haley Dupre, Samantha Sims, and Dasyonne Brashear January 26, 2024

With the 64th Miss Southeastern pageant happening tonight, The Lion's Roar got to hear the contestants' thoughts on the competition, the title of Miss SLU and their candidacies. This year the competition...

Miss Southeastern 2023, Kobi Isabella Painiting showing her official sash.

A royal farewell from Miss Southeastern 2023

Samantha Sims, Campus Life Editor January 21, 2024

Miss Southeastern 2023, Kobi Isabella Painting, will pass on her crown to the 64th annual Miss Southeastern 2024 in the upcoming days.  Painting first competed on the Miss Southeastern stage in 2021...

Introducing Canvas as the new learning management system

Introducing Canvas as the new learning management system

Hydee Holsapple, Copy Editor January 17, 2024

In December, Southeastern announced the launch of Canvas via email. Canvas has replaced Moodle indefinitely, starting this semester.  Students and faculty can access Canvas in three different ways:  ...

Wainwright and Henderson sharing a heartfelt hug after Henderson finished his speech at the investiture ceremony on Dec. 1.

A look back at first investiture in 15 years

Chloe Williams, Editor-in-Chief January 16, 2024

On Dec. 1, 2023, Southeastern hosted several events leading up to an investiture ceremony, officially inducting Dr. William Wainwright as the university’s 15th president.  This was SLU’s first...

Editor-in-chief Chloe Williams pictured with Good Morning America host and SLU alumna Robin Roberts on Nov. 2, 2023.

Letter from the Editor: Chloe Williams

Chloe Williams, Editor-in-Chief January 16, 2024

As I’m entering my final semester as an undergrad student at Southeastern, I still don’t think I’ve even processed that this is reality. I’ll walk across the stage in just four months, receiving...

Dance and expression: A review of Dance Performance Project's fall semester

Dance and expression: A review of Dance Performance Project’s fall semester

Tamea Madison, Staff Reporter January 16, 2024

For the past 80 years, Southeastern’s Dance Performance Project has been an outlet for students who want to express themselves through dance. Dance Performance Project is the Department of Music and...

New year brings swift changes to coasting device policy

New year brings swift changes to coasting device policy

Sabrina Benoit, Staff Reporter January 15, 2024

On Nov. 7, 2023, the university made some revisions to the 2016 university policy on electronic coasting devices barring them from certain areas on campus. The university noticed at the beginning...

Bailey Milburn, a senior mathematics major and chief justice of SGA, poses in front of the lion statue in friendship circle.

Bailey Milburn steps up to become new SGA chief justice

Lindsay Miller, Staff Reporter January 13, 2024

Bailey Milburn, a senior mathematics major, is hard at work preparing for his upcoming semester as the Student Government Association’s newest chief justice.  After the former chief justice and associate...

Dr. Christy Montgomery, the new dean of students, finds shade under the big trees just outside of Pottle Hall.

Montgomery ready to advocate, address student needs as dean of students

Kennith Woods, News Editor January 12, 2024

When students return for the spring semester, they’ll see a new face in the breezeway advocating for their needs. Dr. Christy Montgomery, a local higher education veteran, is the newly minted dean of...

Freshmen English majors Aether Arcana, Philip Heiderick and Lilith Finnell discuss horror narratives during the Southeastern Lion Writers meeting.

Lion Writers pen new chapter for aspiring authors on campus

Kennith Woods, News Editor December 18, 2023

Southeastern’s aspiring authors now have a safe, inviting hub to hone their literary works and connect with like-minded students: the Southeastern Lion Writers. The creative writing organization met...

Attendees left flowers at the foot of the Student Union Theater during the vigil honoring SLU student Conly Asher Chavers. Nov. 30, 2023.

SLU community mourns student at prayer vigil

Kennith Woods, News Editor December 4, 2023

On Thursday, Nov. 30, Southeastern community members poured into the Student Union Theater for a prayer vigil, honoring 19-year-old SLU student Conly Asher Chavers, who passed the previous day. SLU President...

A teddy bear and flowers were placed near the scene of the incident, honoring the student's passing. Nov. 29, 2023

Student passes after falling from Thelma Ryan Hall

Kennith Woods and Chloe Williams November 30, 2023

On Wednesday, Nov. 29, Southeastern informed students via SMS text of an incident regarding a student at Thelma Ryan Hall. University Police, an ambulance and the Hammond Fire Department were at the scene....

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