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A graphic reading “My spring break of horror movies”

My Spring Break of horror movies

Tegan Ruhl, Assistant Lifestyle Editor March 20, 2023

Full disclaimer, I do NOT like horror movies. However, I was convinced to watch some over Spring Break, and my experience was not terrible. Here are the movies I watched over break from best to worst.  “Candyman”...

A sign sits on the doors outside of the fourth floor reading room. After an evaluation on Tuesday, faculty and contractors have deemed the room safe for people to be in.

Library fourth floor reading room closed due to water leak

Uday Lomada, Managing Editor March 24, 2022

The Kleymeyer Hall of Presidents on the fourth floor of David L. Rice library closed after a water leak was discovered in the ceiling and a patch of the ceiling came down.  Marna Hostetler, director...

Micah Ellyson, freshman nursing major, and Anna Kegeris, freshman exercise science major, meet with Campus Outreach staff member America Sons (middle) in the Jazz Lounge.

Students return from Spring Break maskless and feeling recharged

Sydney Lawson, Lifestyle Editor March 17, 2022

It’s sixty degrees and the sun is shining down on the university. Students fill campus Monday after returning from Spring Break. The maskless masses smile as they walk into class for the first time since...

Eleven students hike over Spring Break 2022 on a free hiking and camping trip hosted by the Recreation, Fitness and Wellness Center.

REC holds a free hiking trip for students during Spring Break

Ian Young, Staff Writer March 17, 2022

The Recreation, Fitness and Wellness Center hosted a free hiking and camping trip for students to North Carolina over Spring Break. Mark Gregory, program director of outdoor adventures, and eleven students...

Students upset over loss of spring break

Students upset over loss of spring break

Mohammad Albazzaz, Staff Writer October 1, 2020

Students have mixed feelings about spring break 2021 being canceled and some didn’t know at all. Last year Dylan Murphy spent spring break in Orlando with his family, watching his brother play baseball....

‘It doesn’t matter how we started, just how we end’

‘It doesn’t matter how we started, just how we end’

Nik Cunningham, Sports Editor March 12, 2019

Caitlyn Bradley and Haylee Smith agree: having multiple softball games, one after the other, over spring break, is tiring, but it is too much fun to complain. The USI Softball team played twelve games...

Your spring break reading list

Darrian Breedlove, Staff Writer February 28, 2018

Creative Commons “An Enchantment of Ravens” by Margaret Rogerson For those looking for a humorous, action-packed and sweet read, this novel is definitely recommended. This novel is set in a fantasy...

Spring break at home

Maxywell Carlton, Staff Writer March 1, 2017

Next week everyone here at the University of Southern Indiana gets to take the week off. No studies, no exams and even no time-consuming trips around the parking lot looking for a parking spot. Its...

Keep it Calm

Jimmy Pyles March 6, 2013

Spring Break is when students travel to the promised lands known as Panama and Mexico to get so drunk they forget everything they have been taught this semester. Take it easy, guys. Spring Break is...

Seize the Break

Jake Tapley March 6, 2013

Spring Break is often characterized as being the week where college students let loose and go wild. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Taking a trip to Panama is frequently given a bad reputation...

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