The Lion's Roar

REC prepares to welcome new management

Austin O’Brien, Staff Reporter • February 22, 2022

With the beginning of the new semester, the Pennington Student Activity Center on campus, commonly known as the REC, is undergoing staff changes. The REC’s former Director Seth Thomas and former Assistant...

Dean’s Corner: Meet Police Chief Michael Beckner

Dr. Gabe Willis, Dean of Students • July 21, 2020

Bridging the gap between the Division for Student Affairs and the numerous departments and offices across campus can be difficult to accomplish. After all, we are all busy doing our best to serve our amazing...

University unveils revisions to the alcohol policy

Jacob Lofton, Staff Reporter • December 4, 2019

On Oct. 1, 2019, the university made a few changes to the 2018 University Policy on Alcohol Use. The current university alcohol policy was released on Sept. 27, 2018 and was recently revised by the...

Hundreds support call for change

Jacob Summerville, Opinions Editor • May 7, 2019

Hate speech and a concern for the campus community strikes the heart of a recent petition. Canese Jarboe, instructor of English, created a petition on change.org last month titled “Protect Southeastern’s...

Office of Student Engagement still looking for a director

Madeline Cancienne, Staff Reporter • February 5, 2019

The Office of Student Engagement is currently searching for a permanent director. When Pam Rault, the previous director of OSE, moved to University Housing, Angela James served as an interim director...

Conversations with Dent and Willis

Zachary Araki, A&E Editor • November 27, 2018

2018 Homecoming King Cedric L. Dent, a senior social work major, and Interim Dean of Students Dr. Gabe Willis spoke about their life experiences in "A Real Talk Conversation with the King." The talk...

Willis is interim dean of students

Prakriti Adhikari, Staff Reporter • September 19, 2018

Dr. Gabe Willis has recently been promoted to interim dean of students. Willis joined the university in the fall of 2014 as an instructor of Southeastern 101. Training with, what was then, the Office...