Trinity Velazquez Editor in Chief Bayli Quick is soft spoken as she sits on the couch in The Current Sauce office. She has just gotten off from working in the Narcotics Division at the Natchitoches Sherriff’s station and looks tired. “Initially, I wanted to be a biology major, and I was for the first twoContinue Reading
Tyrenisha James Reporter Originating from Port Allen, Louisiana, senior social work major Makayla Lacy was able to find a similar small-town feeling at Northwestern State University. Lacy said she had not heard of NSU until she met a recruiter. “Based on everything she was telling me, it just seemed homey,” Lacy said. “Then I went to N-Side view andContinue Reading
Carly Chandler Contributing Writer Dr. Sarah McFarland is an undergraduate professor of English and is on the graduate faculty at Northwestern State University. I’ve had the pleasure of being one of Dr. McFarland’s undergraduate students since the spring of 2020. In that time, she’s not only shown me that she’sContinue Reading
Trinity Velazquez Viewpoints Editor “I really wasn’t expecting to be (general) manager,” Player said. “Through all the semesters that I was with KNWD, I wasn’t expecting it.” Player has been with KNWD since her freshman year, starting as an unpaid intern. When she first came to NSU, she was aContinue Reading
Trinity Velazquez Viewpoints Editor Lots of students may only know Christian as the guy who takes RSO photos, but anyone in new media knows that he is so much more than the man behind the camera. Christian Boudreaux is a senior communications major concentrating in broadcast and digital media whileContinue Reading
Dr. Kristine Coreil is a Professor of Music and has been with Demon family for 25 years. She mostly plays the French horn. Coreil is the sixth kid out of seven and is from in a small town called Jackson, Louisiana. “My older sisters and brothers were all in theContinue Reading
Mekayla Jenkins Photo Editor On Sept. 27, eight women competed for the honorable title of Miss Northwestern Lady of the Bracelet. As Jourdan Waddell took her final bow as Miss LOB, she crowned NSU’s new Miss LOB, Madeline Grace Hensley. Hensley is a sophomore health and exercise science major.Continue Reading
Over the next month, meet your student media leaders will be a recurring feature section highlighting the editors and general manager of NSU’s media outlets. Megan Palmer is a senior and second-year editor in chief of NSU’s official yearbook, the Potpourri. When she first joined the Potpourri in fallContinue Reading
Dr. Dominique Taylor loves being at NSU is because it reminds him of home. “I love the area, and I found that here people come together to work together to build something that is bigger than themselves,” Taylor said. “That was true down in South Texas. It’s part of theContinue Reading
Melody Gilbert started her career as a broadcast journalist, but she decided to leave broadcast for good to teach. She doesn’t really know how it happened, but she’s now been teaching for over 20 years. “Someone invited me to come speak to their class,” Gilbert said. “Then I went fromContinue Reading