After dropping the three-game series against the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas last weekend, the Nicholls State University baseball team begins an eight-game streak in Louisiana starting tonight at Ben Meyer Diamond at Ray E. Didier Field. GAME RECAPS Despite maintaining the lead through the seventh inning, the Colonels ended up dropping the first game to the Cardinals 7-6 in fifteen innings. A few Cardinal errors early...

The Student Programming Association announced that rapper Sage the Gemini is set to perform at this year’s Crawfish Day on April 27. SPA Special Events Coordinator and President-Elect Caroline Jacobi said that the organization chose Sage after polling students to find out what genre they would like to see at Crawfish Day. “We did a poll in September…and we surveyed like certain types of genres and pop and rap/hip-hop were tied kind of,...

The Student Government Association is set to purchase new fencing for the softball field at a total of $5,373.49 through the passing of one of 19 motions discussed at its meeting. The fencing will cover the area from the dugout to the outfield. The current lack of fencing is proving to be a safety hazard and is failing to meet field standards, said Senator Markaylen Wiltz, the motion’s author. “Right now we have a makeshift fencing of a...

As we all know, the end of the semester often proves to be the most stressful and busiest time of the school year. All of your time to bring up your grades has vanished, and you’re wondering where the entire month of March went as finals creep up on you. Panicking is not the only thing you can do as you trudge on through the rest of the semester. Here’s some solutions to your seemingly unsolvable problems. 1. Drown yourself in coffee- Coffee makes the world go...

Harassment. It sounds like a harsh word, and people of the 21 st century flinch at the sound of the word, but it’s the harsh reality people experience everywhere. People of all sexes experience all forms of harassment: from sexual and emotional to street harassment. Although street harassment seems insignificant compared to the latter, 65% of women and 25% of men experienced some form of street harassment in 2014 (Huffington Post). To make matters...

Students and faculty represented Nicholls by supporting higher education alongside several universities at the University of Louisiana System Day held on the State Capitol lawn in Baton Rouge on April 11. Grant Henry, Student Government Association president-elect, said that there was a great turnout from all nine UL System schools, with around 1,300 people in attendance. “My role throughout the day was to just be a representative of Nicholls. I was th...