Category: 2006-04-27

Dustin Swedelson
dmswedelson@valdosta.edu
The race for VSU’s next National Championship will continue even as the dorms are emptied in the next coming weeks.
Whether or not you are here isn’t a big deal, but whether or not the Blazer Softball team, and both Tennis teams are still playing at the end of the coming days is. Last year [...]

Kerry Laster
kmlaster@valdosta.edu
VSU rolled out the red carpet for the new Chancellor. Erroll B. Davis Jr., chancellor for the university system Georgia, met with President Ronald Zaccari, SGA and the faculty senate Monday as part of a state wide tour of all 35 institutions in Georgia. “He wanted to know where we thought the school was [...]

David S. Rodock
dsrodock@valdosta.edu
To help raise awareness about and money to fight cancer, the American Cancer Society will be visiting Valdosta Middle School on May 5 for its annual “Relay for Life.”
The Relay for Life is a 12-hour walkathon in which cancer patients, survivors and friends create teams to participate in an all-night vigil. Each team [...]

Jobeth Malone
jamalone@valdosta.edu
This past week the chancellor announced that beginning in 2007 there will be a tuition guarantee for students. This means that for all regional and state universities in Georgia, freshmen who stay in school and on track, with all their requirements to move forward, will have their tuition locked in.

Karah-Leigh Hancock
kphancoc@valdosta.edu
The end of the semester is here and while some students will still be spending their summers hustling between West Hall and Nevins Hall, others will be spending their summer break spending more money than they can count on trips to baseball games or NASCAR races, following their favorite singer or band on tour [...]

VSU mourns former Spectator editor and 40’s enthusiast Jorge Eduardo Ramirez Trejo IIICommemorative Article
Darkside Reports
The Spectator’s Darkside and Opinion editor Jorge Eduardo Ramirez Trejo III died last night at 11:35 p.m. of complications due to a 40’s-related accident.
Ramirez was celebrating his 21st birthday with some of his fraternity brothers at the Kappa Sigma house where [...]

Adam MacDonald
armacdonald@valdosta.edu
The VSU football team has played 274 games since its creation in 1982. Steve Roberts, VSU’s sports information director, has been there for every one of them.
And now, after 24 years of service as VSU’s director of sports information, Roberts will retire at the end of May.
“We’ve expanded and we’re very successful and [...]

Shrika Williams
sjwillia@valdosta.edu
“She’s the embodiment of ideals for social justice and activist in this community are very pleased to see her win this award,” said Dr. Matthew Richard, associate professor of anthropology, sociology and criminal justice.
Dr. Richard nominated Dr. Susan Wehling, associate professor of modern and classical languages, for the Georgia Humanities Council’s “Humanities Heroes” of [...]

Chelsie Plott
ccplott@valdosta.edu
The end of spring semester is almost here, and there are a few things you need to know.
First of all, dorms will be closing on May 6. Students in the dorms must be out by 5 p.m. Centennial, Converse, and Langdale will all remain open for those taking summer classes who would like to [...]

Student films, prizes and food
Jonny Lupsha
jtlupsha@valdosta.edu
Friday night at 8:30 p.m., student-fronted film troupe Chamber 525 is bringing its recent works, ChamberMania, to the Centennial Hall courtyard. Kody Wynne, a junior mass media major, is the co-founder of Chamber 525 with friend and VSU student Jason Geigerman after the two had joined and attended meetings of [...]