Category: Lectures

Today at 6 p.m., the VSU branch of the NAACP will have their biweekly meeting on the third floor of the Student Union in Meeting Room 2.
According to VSU NAACP president Kim Tucker, various topics will be discussed, including the 2010 census and upcoming community service events. The NAACP is an organization that involves itself [...]

Attorney James Alexander spoke to students and alumni about his books “Halfway Home From Kinderlouâ€� and “If I Should die before I Wake…What
Will Happen to My Stuff?�
In these books Alexander discusses his happy childhood and growing up in Valdosta.
In his lecture, Alexander discusses living in Valdosta in the 1930’s and learning from the people [...]

Dr. Robert Morgan did the math. Then the science. Then the writing.
He’s excelled at all three.
Dr. Morgan, a poet and professor, brought his words and wisdom to the students, faculty, and fans who filled the University Center Theatre at 7:30 p.m on Jan 28. as part of Georgia’s Poetry Circuit.
On one occasion, Dr. Morgan [...]

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 VSU students, faculty, staff and other members of the Valdosta community joined together last Thursday night in celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “The Next Food Network Star� 2008 season four winner, Aaron McCargo Jr., spoke as this year’s guest speaker.
 The annual commemorative celebration was held in the University Center [...]

     In 1993 Roy Kirkland woke up to find a cross burned on the front lawn of his home in Willacoochee, Ga. After 16 years, Kirkland and his partner at the time, Doug Sebastian, began compiling interviews and newspaper clippings to tell the story of the cross burning and progressively worse threats and attacks in [...]

 Some VSU students  listened to Chris Sandy’s story, a Georgian man convicted of two counts of vehicular homicide by DUI.
 Sandy explained how one mistake ended the rest of his life.
 On April 11, 2000, he was at a party and had four mixed drinks; a friend called him and told him to come to another party.
 He [...]

 Picture an old, historic building, lit by candlelight, and a winding staircase with a bow overlooking the common area. Kind of screams “eerie,� doesn’t it? Glancing downwards you might notice an array of individuals dressed in costumes, sipping on apple cider, surrounding around a microphone. This type of setting seems to be just the right [...]

S.U.R.G.E. (Students United for Real Gender Equality attended Spellman College in Atlanta, Ga, for the Third Annual Women of Color Conference on Oct. 9 and 10. The confrerence focused on all aspects of feminism, how society acts towards women’s issues and what students today can do to educate others on these issues on their campuses.
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Amanda Blank
Staff Writer
alblank@valdosta.edu
Francesca Zagami
Staff Writer
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On March 26, at 7:30 in the evening, students and faculty ventured out into the wind and rain to listen to novelist Tom Hazuka read selections of his writing in the UC Theatre.
Hazuka set the audience at ease with jokes about hurrying up so everyone could leave early. Hazuka sipped clear [...]

Ashley George
Opinions Editor
ajgeorge@valdosta.edu
About 60 students attended the Works in Progress poetry reading Tuesday evening in the Ashley Hall Rotunda.
This was the Works in Progress poetry club’s first meeting. The club is meant to be a place students can meet , share their poetry and express themselves.
“It’s free speech at its best.� Terrence Taylor, creator of [...]

On Jan 1 Barbara Warren, VSU lecturer received a 12-month state grant, funded by the Georgia Humanities Council, to conduct a project recording the stories of World War II veterans from South Georgia.