Valencia Lusk, a theatre arts major, enjoying her free time by listening to her favorite artist Prince before she has to study for her Shakespeare Performance midterm test.

Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim, a sophomore Contemporary Music Program major, puts her make up on to get ready to film her up-and-coming music video. The music video is going to feature her most recent song. “Spell,” produced by Josiah Noray. She is extremely excited about this music video and can’t wait to make more music....

SFUAD’s Information Technology department is as active as ever in ensuring the student body has all they need. Jeff Pearce, director of IT, sat down with Jackalope to reveal the new technology administered to the school, and to share some of the astounding data the department has collected.

Jacinda Smith is a sophomore Contemporary Music Program major, shown here practicing during her Rock ensemble class. She came to SFUAD to sing and play bass and was inspired by her favorite musician Tyon Ritter of All American Rejects.

Pablo Mendoza cleans the milk dispenser in the cafeteria. He is a full time employee with Bon Appetite. He has been an employee for the past five years and is also a full time student at the Santa Fe Community College studying Exercise Science.

In the last two weeks, a new student group has popped up that is trying to make a change on campus, with both a public forum and rally on March 3 and 4, respectively. The ColleXion is “an organization of people who are trying to find the “X”; they’re trying to find what they’re purpose is.” Jackalope Magazine sat down with The ColleXion founder Marcus Lee Banafrit to talk about what The ColleXion has planned for SFUAD. Jackalope Magazine: What is The ColleXion trying to do on campus? Marcus Lee Banafrit: The ColleXion is trying to do two things. They’re trying to bring together artists to collaborate and they’re also trying to make sure that the rules that are set in place to help campus life and help things run smoothly aren’t being stepped over and abused. JM: What rules in particular? MLB: Rules regarding privacy and the rules against discrimination. Things of that nature. JM: How was The ColleXion formed? MLB: I formed it back in 2013 [outside of SFUAD] as my own personal way of getting through life and following my dreams. I wanted to make it fun for myself and I also wanted to have a message behind it. For The ColleXion AT SFUAD, I saw that there were a bunch of students that felt like they were being wronged… I saw a lot of students who had to deal with things at this school that they shouldn’t have had to deal with. I saw myself in a lot of the people that were telling me their problems and I figured that I could use The ColleXion to help fuel them in helping them… find their “X” without things getting in the way. JM: What are The ColleXion’s goals? What is their...

Jackalope Magazine interviews Black Student Union founder Charles Simon on his impetus for a recent seminar on white supremacy, as well as Simon’s philosophy of how to bring about change.

Underwear Society, SFUAD’s resident sketch-comedy group, has just moved into the callbacks phase of auditions for its spring 2016 cast, and writing the show is under way.

Brendan Boyle, a sophomore film major, enjoys his lunch after class.