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Southern Oregon University Basketball player Alexi Smith goes to the hoop as the SOU cheerleaders look on
Tonight and tomorrow night the men’s and women’s basketball teams will be playing at home. The Lady Raiders play at 5:30 each night and the men start at 7:30. The opponents are Warner Pacific tonight and Concordia on Saturday night.
In today’s photo, Alexi Smith (averaging about 16 points a game, good for second on the team and fifth in the conference) is sporting a simplified Chinese character for love tattooed on her left arm. 愛 is one of the few characters that can have fewer strokes in Chinese than in Japanese.
I just returned from the 2013 celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday in the Ashland Armory and wanted to get this first photo up in case anyone was interested in attending The Bridges Forum at SOU tonight. This will be a panel discussion happening at 6 p.m. in the Rogue River Room in the Stevenson Union Building on campus about accepting and embracing diversity in America. The panel will be composed of SOU Communication Instructor D.L. Richardson, Rabbi Joshua Boettiger, Pastor Kurt Katzmar, Social Sciences Instructor Flamur Vehapi, Philosophy Professor Prakash Chenjeri, and Dr. David Young, member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Baha’is of the United States.

SOU Communication Instructor D.L. Richardson MCing the 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration in the Ashland Armory
More photos from today’s events coming soon…
Southern Oregon University’s basketball teams head out on the road for this weekend’s games. Tonight they play the College of Idaho and tomorrow night they play the NAIA #1 ranked team, Eastern Oregon University, who the Raiders beat at home recently.
Today’s photo is from last week’s win against Evergreen State College in Ashland.
Southern Oregon beat Concordia in women’s basketball last night (an away game for the Raiders so today’s photo is actually from last weeks’ game against College of Idaho). Melissa Sweat scored 28 points to bring her average up to about 20 points a game. The Raiders play at Warner Pacific today in a few hours.

SOU’s Bubba Owens about to hit the mat courtesy of Menlo College’s Justin Harrison. Bubba did win this heavyweight match in a rather dominating manner.
The Southern Oregon University wrestling team will be hosting MSU-Northern tomorrow night beginning at 7 p.m. in Ashland.
Today’s photos are from an SOU victory a couple weeks ago against Menlo College.