Category: 2007-08-30

Quinten Plummer
qlplummer@valodsta.edu
Talk to any member of the VSU blazer’s special teams unit and the general consensus is that team chemistry is a big part of the unit’s past success, and a good reason to expect continued success.
Chemistry will be a part of this year success with many veteran special teams players returning. With the [...]

Micheal Varnum
mmvarnum@valdosta.edu
The 2007 Blazer football season is getting kicked off this Saturday at 7 pm at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium against one of our biggest rivals, the Albany State Golden Rams. The Rams haven’t beaten the Blazers since the 2004 championship season, when they handed the Blazers their only loss of the season. Many wonder why the [...]

Loren Bass
This week marks the first week that football walk-ons will hit the field as Blazers. Graduate assistant safety’s coach, Brian Simmons, advises current college students to “work out at the campus recreation center about two or three times per week, run, and [just] get in overall good condition.” The first two days [...]

Danielle Everson
David Dean took over the head coaching job at VSU last spring after spending seven years as VSU’s Offensive coordinator.
Coaching football runs in the Dean family, as Dean’s father and older brother also coached football. Dean credits his father as his inspiration for becoming a coach. The two have kept him around football [...]

Dustin Swedelson
Check YouTube. Type in Valdosta State. A video pops up twice, with well over 2,000 views. To the theme of Mike Jones’ “Mr. Jones” you can watch the Gulf South Conference’s Freshman of the Year last season’s highlight reel. Cedric Jones is a name that will become synonymous with Valdosta State football by the [...]

Angel Bass
apperson@valdosta.edu
According to the U.S. Department of Labor Website, minimum wage was increased in July to $5.85. This is the first increase in more than 10 years. From 1991-1996, the minimum wage was $4.75. Some people may think: “How can I live on this?”
“I think it is a sign that the government is addressing [...]

Mandy Kelley
ajkelley@valdosta.edu
Registering for classes is hard for everyone, especially first time transfer students. These students arrive at VSU with no idea if the credits they received from their previous school will transfer, thus causing complications as to what courses they should plan to register for now.
“Transfer students who have graduated with a degree shouldn’t find [...]

Jessica Davis
If you are not guilty of being addicted to American Idol , you have more than likely caught of glimpse of this popular show. Singers from all over the country compete vocally, are judged by a tough panel and then move on with the popular vote of the audience.
On August 23, the Campus [...]