Category: 2010-03-25

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—Just hours before the Valdosta State Blazers saw the best season in school history come to an end with an 80-64 loss to Indiana University (PA), two players were dismissed from the team.
The call to dismiss the two players, All-American Tyrone Curnell and Marvin “BJ” Dibble, came from head coach Mike Helfer and VSU [...]

The Faculty Senate meeting today will discuss the proposed policy to limit the number of classes from which a student may withdraw to five.
According to the March 25 agenda, the Education Policy Committee believes this policy should address the problem of “course shopping.”
Course shopping occurs when students overload themselves with hours, and in the beginning [...]

The 2010 national census was mailed out by the National Census Bureau on March 15, the results of which will determine the amount of House of Representatives seats each state gets in the 2012 elections. Although April 1 is National Census Day, the census form encourages citizens to return the form the day it is [...]

Foreign exchange opportunities in Japan are available through the Office of International Programs.
For students who wish to take advantage of the summer to do study abroad, a program in the Osaka region of Japan is ripe for the picking. The duration of the trip is roughly 35 days, or five weeks, from mid-June until late [...]

Former NASA employee Dr. Cherilynn Morrow is coming to VSU on March 26 to speak for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Club. Morrow, currently a professor of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University, has been speaking to people about the importance of art and religion in science. This is not the club’s first event, [...]

American Idol Lauren Sanders and Carmen Turner Audition
Those of you who watch “American Idol” may have seen a familiar face on camera this season.
Sophomore nursing major Lauren Sanders auditioned for Simon, Randy, Kara, and celebrity judge Mary J. Blige at the W Hotel in Atlanta to be the next American Idol.
The 19-year-old [...]

Haiti
This spring break, from March 13 to March 20, a mission team from Crosspointe Baptist Church went to Haiti to aid in disaster relief. Nineteen of the 24 team members were VSU students.
According to Jason Van Nus, college pastor at Crosspointe, the group was comprised of three of teams: a medical team, a construction team [...]

It’s well known that breast cancer is the No. 2 cancer killer of women, with over 1.3 million cases worldwide in 2007 and 40,170 deaths last year in the U.S. However, the lesser known tragedy is the staggering number of breast cancer cases among men. There were 1,910 men diagnosed last [...]

If the international community is running low on reasons to sustain their contempt for American culture, they are about to hit the jackpot—thank MTV and the guidos and guidettes of “Jersey Shore.”
This week the New York Times informed us that MTV has begun airing [...]

According to the U.S. Bureau for Labor Statistics, the United States unemployment rate reached 10.4 percent in February. Not the ideal economic condition for our future alumni. Just a college degree might not be enough to score you a good job these days.
Doing [...]

Sam Raffield
sophomore
English major
“I had to sit through New Moon with Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson with their shirts off. ”
Stephanie Cooper
senior
English major
“My boyfriend got pulled over in Panama City and got eight tickets in one stop.”
Ansley Fender
junior
English major
“We were in PC and there was a drunk girl in the bushes screaming about needing to [...]