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Amanda Blake

Amanda Blake is editor-in-chief of the Southern Accent. She is a senior journalism major who has been published in the student newspaper over 60 times, a record she began as a reporter her freshman year. She has also served as news editor and managing editor. Passionate about storytelling and in-depth reporting, Amanda strives to use her writing talents to help others. Writing and publishing a book is a pinned ambition on her bucket list.

Update: - In an email sent to campus this morning, it was announced that on Friday, April 16, Southern Adventist University will be providing COVID-19 vaccines for any Southern student, employee, or their immediate family members, age 18 and older, who would like to be vaccinated. The Hamilton County Health Department is providing Johnson & …

Southern’s School of Journalism and Communication (SJC) is in the process of partnering with Universidad Adventista de las Antillas (UAA) in Puerto Rico. UAA does not offer degrees in communication, but this partnership will allow UAA students to transfer to Southern to obtain a communication degree after taking general classes for two years in Puerto …

Like most Southern students, Chris and Kyla Slaughter have faced their fair share of struggles navigating college life. But for them, the term “navigating” takes on a much more literal meaning. Chris, 43, and Kyla, 45, are both completely blind.  Unlike his wife, Chris was not born blind. In fact, he served in the United …

After months of searching, the Southern Adventist University Board of Trustees voted unanimously for Ken Shaw to become the 27th president of the university. The decision came two days after Shaw visited Southern. He will step into his role as president on June 1.  Southern students and employees first learned that Shaw was the top …

According to the Tennessee State Government’s COVID-19 website, COVID-19 vaccines are available in all 95 counties. Currently, frontline healthcare workers, dependent disabled adults, outpatient healthcare workers with direct patient exposure, K-12 child care staff, first responder operations personnel and anyone aged 65 or above are eligible to receive the vaccine.  Individuals living in college dormitories …

Graduating amid a pandemic was described as a “total upheaval” for graduating college seniors in a Time magazine article published last May. According to the article, COVID-19 disrupted more class time than almost any other event in U.S. history and will have long-lasting effects on the Class of 2020’s memories, earning power and “view of …

In a live Zoom session conducted on Jan.14, President David Smith and other administrators at Southern Adventist University addressed students’ questions about the upcoming winter semester. While responding to a question concerning the administration's revised academic attendance policy, discussed in a previous Accent article, multiple administrators revealed that students’ academic performances last semester were significantly …

As published in a previous Southern Accent article, Southern’s enrollment projections for returning students in the Fall 2020 semester were exceeded. Despite the continuous COVID-19 pandemic, Southern’s enrollment projections for both returning and new students for the Winter 2021 semester are also high, and many students who took only online classes this fall are expected …

Americans aged 18 to 30 were more excited about voting this November than they had been in decades, according to a Washington Post article published on Oct. 5. However, this article also pointed out that the COVID-19 pandemic created numerous challenges for college students who wished to vote, such as schools sending students home who …

COVID-19 has caused substantial financial setbacks at numerous schools across the nation. According to a recent New York Times article, the pandemic forced American universities both large and small to make deep cuts in their budgets and has cost them at least $120 billion. Southern Adventist University, on the other hand, has been able to …

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